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r. -V * VOL. XXXI BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY23, 1908 mysterious death. I'OLK’E OFFK'FTIJs AT TROY, N V., ARE BAFFLED. to Fi,,<1 Slayer of NiDetaeu- L Vear-Old Girl, Whose. Body Whs Found Sunday, Unrewarded A dispatch from Troy, N. *TT7 says out of a ^ a ?.e of the theories which .-confront the authorities who arre trying to lift the cloud of mystery surrounding the death of 19 year rdd Hazel I. Drew r Hho^e luidy was found In-an old milLpond near Ave- - /rett Park^last Sunday, nothing taugi- dov'eloped so far that points to • the murderer the motive for the ~ arrests have been made, although the police have closely < rues tinned several persons whom it was thought might throw some light on the case. That the girl was assaulted l>efore she was murdered and thrown into the pond. Is the generally aecepted theory, hut the body was in such a ^taje of decomposition when found h* to make it practically impossible loi the physicians to determine that fact - Theories hiultfp|y_ns to the motive f>r the murder. The girl, was not Jtnown to have an enemy or sweet heart. and the baffled authorities were < V. li wiilin K to take up the |Missibili- • ' <»f suit ide The phyaciaa’s state ment. however, to the 'effect that »here was no water in the lung was as proof that the girl was dead before her body was thrown into the (Kind. At the church yard at Poesteukill. where Hazels life l»'gan, her body »<ts laid to rest; A bunch of roses adorned the casket, while the Rev. W. H. E Richards, of the Methodist Phiirch. offet4*d prayer. Only a few • friends and relatives were present. What the till did from the time whe left'her aunt on Monday, July 6. until the t»o'iy was found, remains untold. R^iody Gunderman and trank Smits toil of having seen Itazel mi Tii" da leading from • Averill Park to Taber ton They met her. they say,.at a |>oiiit In the read ca.ted "The 'ffol- Itvs. 1 A little father along'another road branches off to the left and leads to the home of Win Taylor, an un cle of the girl. She may have been on her way to visit some friends in Taberton or her destination ma> hav*> he: uncle's h >nie. Aci'ord- ing to fiunt'erniau's story the girl was carrying her hat In her hand One of the numerous theories that developed suggested that a voting woman living at Taberton closely re- K1LLER BY ENGINE. Y Horrible Accident Occurred in Co lumbia Tuesday Night. At Columbia Mr. James E. Mikell met a horible and almost instant death Tuesday night just a few minutes befdire the hour of midnight at the corner of Gervais jujAiLtncoli streets. He was struck by a Seaboan paasenggfr engine at the point where the tracks of the Seaboard cross Gervais street and his .body was drag ged about 100 feet north before the engine pased over it Mr. Mikell has been employed for several weeks by the Seaboard as a. substitute watchman, and Tues day night he was on duty at the Gervaie-street -crossing; next to tfig Seaboard station. When the south bound passenger® train arrived at 11. 45 p. m., ire was at bis post and readily gave the proper signals. The engine which brings this trajn t<J Co lumbia from Portsmouth is relieved here by another engine and crew. The engine which brought the train into the station had transferred to. the siding and was backing, going north to the Sydney park yards, when it struck Mr. Mikell. The engineer. Mr. Jas Horton evidently failed to observe that his engine had struck any object, for he made no stop after striking the man and was not aware that he had run over and killed a man until some 20 minutes afterward when the agent called him over the telephone and so informed him. BODY ON MARKET FOR $30. lohn Barrett, 70 Yearn'bid. Wants to Sell His Body. Deserted by his fortune, which once smiled upon him. John Barrett, of Middleton. Conn., offers to sell his body for (50. The offer has l>eon refused by the George Washington hospital, at Washington, D. C. C., to which It was made, but the offer is still open. Barrett is about 7ft yeary old. and although apparently hale and hearty and likely to live many years more, he feels that his days are numbered, and rather than live want he mi the mad I wmuIi! raise the-1Vft- which will chase HTS campaign is under more auspi cious circumstances for the Demo erdts than at any period of the party’s history since 1892. No one attempts to account for the fact that harmony seems to have prevailed at Denver to an unusual extent, and that the whole party machinery seems to have been better oiled than at any.time for sixteen years. The only explana tion offered is that the hand of the man at the throttle was that of a more seasoned engineer than in past years. Mr. Bryan, according to shrewd observers, has learned some things. Years have brought with him the knowledge of placating op posing elements, instead of putting them at each others' throats Men who were ten days ago declar ed that Bryan had no earthly chance of; election in Novemlier now admit that the iK-ginning nmtltr—at-fjen- ver is such as to ensure a rattling campaign ami - possibly, IXmoeratlc victory. It all depends, they Iwlleve. upon whether I he Democratic cam paign is smoothness as the preli/ui- he same smoothness as the prelimi nary stages. If It is November may bring tidings of a change in govern ment control. There is little question, in the minds of politicians that the tight to be made by Mr. Bryan will be in the West and Middle West That, it is pointed out. is plainly shown in ne platform. Mr. Bryan went out of his way to put up a platform that would catch the Western people, and as plainly as If he had said it hlm&elf the declaration of principles Ml E 1, xetnhles the murdered girl and that Gund.erman and Smith might have been mistak. n in thinking that she was Hazel. The girl, however, wheif questoned, said she was not on the road on Tii' -day night, althongh she had been that way on foot on other fights jh The authorities are endeavoring to find the ‘ *oiit rase and handbag which the gi'l carried when she left Troy. The fact that she did not • have th< m w h'en she met, Gunderattln and Smith i taken to Indicate that she niH' have left them Where sl)e has sp*MH th‘ 'pi cedirtgTiiight. Thowpossioility that the hag and suit ease may have he'yr" thrown Into the mill |HUid-led the nuthqcllles to open the yite of the TJa’tn for the purpose of d;Jining. After about tw'o feet of v ah r had been let out a heavy thunder storm came up and further ope'atk :s were postponed until Thursday. ' The girl's hgt. gloves ar\d eyeglasses were found on ftn'"tvnn* was mi indtra f • tir.n of a st; aggie, although a suffi dent time had elapsed since the girl met her death to have permitted the traniplqd grsos to revive. The theory that the girl died from strangulation as the result of a corset string tied about her neck, 'and which Is said to have been cut at the time of 'he autopsy, is not givetr lunch ciedei'ce b>^ the authorities. The string apparent.y was one that the Kir]_JKPje about her neck and li brake w him the body became swollen by being in the watqr ko long. The authorities do not place much credence—tn t ho story that the girl was taken to the lonely by a party in an automobile. PLEASURE LAUNCH LOST. the wolf away for a while by giving lien on his body, ‘ He came to Washington in search of health, hop ing to benefited by the climate. “I ‘don't think there is anything so unusual in my offer,” he said.. "I have heard of such cases before, and I know that hospitals pay $51) for iKidies for dissecting pur|>oses. By getting this money I can live a little easier for a while, hut 1 be». Ileve that my days are not very long, and I fear the time when T will not have a penny. I have been able la tbo past to pay my room rent promptly and purchase the food that I need, but my-money Is very low new.” FIRE. ANSWERS PRAYER Blaze Consume* Park Preacher Pray ed .Might l»e Removed. Twelve hours after the. Rev, Geo. Edward Lewis, vft^ a public prayer asked that the amusement resorts of Irving park. Clncago, where liquor Is sold, "might be burned to the ground." Excelsior park was consum ed by fire. The prayer was offered wPhin three blocks of Excelsior nark in a revival meeting lu the Emman uel Congregational church. Proprietors of the park state their Io»-b will reach $50,000 and that thev had taken extra precautions agatrtsi fire, owing to the preacher’s prayer, it is believed the blaze wus caused by crossed w’ires. The police are kxikittg.nlQZ.Jan llU'.Il MfcQ were. in the park just before the fire. AFTER REEF TRUST AGAIN. New York D««Hdcs to Investigate High Price of Meat. Twenty-Five of It Seventy-Five Pas- sengei s are Drowned. A pleasure launch, bound from Manila to Correligdor Island, carry ing alwut seventy-five passengers, was caught in a typhoon Thursday and foundered. It is believed that twenty- five of v the passengers, including three Americans, were drowned. The oth- numbering about fift>, were pitted .up by the British steamer BuVerie, which was passing close to ' the launch when it foundered. The Sitverie lowered its boats im- morttatetv~imd- t-hose, together w t t ,he bon* from other e£aft that came to the rescue, picked up the fifty passenger* with much difflcul J£ It is reported that an arn . surgeons * among the lost. De tails of the disaster have not yet re- '^“dor I.Un' * ce of Manila Bay. thirty miles from the eUr ^ * — The transactions of the Beef trust tn New YorkTstate is to be examined by Attorney General Jackson, of that c("nmnnweaith A>! ,_Tired of _the con stant rile fiT the price of meats, the people of the state have revolted, and Gov. Hughes has heard the pul>- llc clamor. “I aqi glad this matter has been called td my attention.^ declares At torney Jackson, “as I can not see why. at this time of the year, when R costs less to keep cattle than at a»y other season, the trust is charging the consumer three and three and a half cents a pound more than it did three months ago. If 1 can fln^any trust officers within this state'who can be proceeded against, I intend to get after them.” Kills Hi* Wife. Robert Wright, aged 32. cut his wife's throat and then attemptedfto commit suicide at their home, four miles west of McKinney. Tex.. Tues day. When discovered his wife was lying dead on the floor with her windpipe severed, and Wright, with several gashes in his throat, was wandering about the house, begging for-ome one to kill him. The couple are survived by a three-year-old child, who was found hitting on the bed near where Its dead mother was ly ing. > Fleet Near fToimluln. The American fleet of battbshlp* arrived at Honolulu about- 1 o clock Thursday a'fternoon. according to a late wireless dispatch. VICTORY FOR BRYAN REPUBLICAN LEADERS ADMIT DEMOCRATS HAVE CHANCE. Hand a TlmqzJe of Party Machinery is Hand of More Seasoned Engi- ■ t beer—Attention to New York .. In the view of practical .politicians in Washington the Democrats- have started well at Denver. It is candid^- ly admitted by 'prominent Repub- licans there that the beginning of the Democracy appeals to Wesf- eru sentiment and thought. Mr. Bry an will depend for his election upon the South, with Nebraska. Kansas. Wisconsin. Minnesota. Illinois. India na add the Dakotas, and he expects to gtve Mr. Tuft a great fight In Ohio, where the Republican party is still torn with dissension. It is doubtful, according to political reasoning, if he .Democrat* wttf give the slightest attention to a single Eastern State, unless It is New York. And whether theyrwill do that will de|H-nd uiwn the developments in the entire State. Mr. Bryan plainly says to the eoun- ry that he has studied sentiment in RAILS CAUSE WRECK. One Woman Killed and Several Other Passengers Hurt. One woman was killed, two were perhaps mortally injured and nearly a dozen persons were seriously hurt when the White Mountain express, of the New. York, New Haven and Hartford was wrecked 100 feet west of Greenwich, Conn., Thursday. Spreading rails caused the ten-car Jrain to leave the tracks while it was crossing a bridge over a steamboat roj^d, and five of the passengers cars, 'Including four Pullmans, were hurled into a ditch, where they col lapsed like paper bboxes. That less than fifteen of 180 passengers were injured -seems—ItHto—short DISGRACE IN OLD AGE VENERABLE OREGON POSTMAST ER EMBEZZLED FOR FAMILY. of miraculous, as the train was going fifty miles an hour". The most Lrj^glc ^incident of tl\e wre,ck was the death of Miss Mar garet Armstrong, of Wayne, Pa., who was .seated beside her mother to one of the Pullman coaches when the train left the tracks. Miss Armstrong sprang from her seat and leaped out of a window just as the car toppled over and she was ground to death as her mother looked on. Mrs. Arm strong fainted from the shock, and when she recovered consciousness in the hospital she was out of her mind Tht doctors administered opiates to qpiet her. They say her condition is serious, and that she may die, aunough she was not in jured to the wreck. . “ The other woman who may die is Mrs. A.W. Drake of 17 East 8lh sifter, now Torr ciry. wno—was crushed in one of the cars. An im mediate Investigation as to the ratrer of the wreck Is to be made. The •oroner has had the engineer and both conductors of the train placed under arrest, and he is having tht work of moving the wreckage watch ed. This action was taken because of a report that reached the corner that a rotten tie on the bridge caus ed the accident. There (s' evidence alleged that the tie was In such a worm-eaten condition that the spikes holding the rails were pulled out. * ROOSEVELT’S FRIEND KIXJPES. Oklahoma Marshal Stole Bride He Ifaiff Determined to Marry. he West, and that he believes it will be with him in Novembers., HURT IN FIRE. Woman Jumps From Second Story • « Witii Fatal Result. Ip a fire at Memphis. Tend.. Tues day which destroyed the fashionable Jefferson flats. Mrs. F. B. James, formerly of Chitngo. jumped, from a second story window and Is now’^iu critical condition at the Presby terian hospital. Mrs. J. J. Stein was carried from the building by fire men. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, living on the fourth floor, did not awake until she was hemmed in on all sides by flames. Her cries attracted firemen w'ho carried her through a window and down an extension lad- • John R. Abernathy, former Rough Rider, and United States marshal for Oklahoma under appointment from President Roosevelt was married In Oklahoma City, after an elopement in which an angry father was evad ed. The bride is Almira Pervianee. 19 years of age.of near Guthrie. Ab ernathy i* a widower of a year, 32 years of age and has six rhildren. His first marriage was an elopmsnt from Galveston, Tex. Mr. Pervianee ol>- e< ted to the mariage ou acount of the disparity of age. Abernathy entertained the Presi dent at. his ranch, then in Coman- he county in 1905, and took him on some famous wolf chases In the following year he was appointed mar shal, despite charges that he was unfit and which were reported to the .PretddtuR as untrue, the investi gator being Gov. Frantz, another Rough Rider. A few minutes lateT^Tfie roof fell in over her room. A number of other ocupants of W. E. Gonzales,' editor of the State, of Columbia, S. C., and one if Mr. Bryan's lieutenants, after a visit with Mr. Bryan and Mr. Kern at Fairview, Lincoln. Neb., Tuesday said: $ “The statement that Mr. Bryan will not make a canvass is incorrect, it is his present purpose, however, to -ds+tver Tm-pi at form gpcei'tie*. mak«5 tito or a dozen political ad he building were rescued by firemen, -nest of them clad in their Tiight gar- meats. Diamonds valued at $10,000 were recovered from Mrs. James' room dnrng the progress of the fire by Policemen Crosby, and Smith. Loss, $25,000, covered by insurance. • SHOT THROUGH WINDOW. Son of Superintendent of Methodist Orphanage in Georgia Radiy Hurt. At Atlanta, Ga., Hlrmau Jamieson, the eight-year-old son of Superinten dent Jamieson, of the Decatur Me thodist Orphans’ Home, and Mrs Jamieson were perhaps fatally wound ed late Tuesday while on a suburban ear - returning to their home after an outing given to the orphans of Fulton County. As the ear was speeding along a shot was fired from a passing freight train on the Georgia Railroad, which parallels the trolley line, the ballet passing through the head' of the boy and entering his mother's neck. Who fired the shot is not Known, but later the entire crew of the freight tfain was placed under arrest. At tending physicians say the boy can not recover and lhat Mrs. Jamieson's condition ' is critical; Brick Mason Kill* Himself. Pan! Bichelberger. brick ma son. committed suicide at Orlando Fla.. Tuesday by taking poison. His body was found in an alley. Eichel- berger was recently sentenced to the penitentiary for ernei treatment to his wife, and the humilation is evi dently what caused him to take hit life. lamPahd to pay a fine of $3,261.76. Grant had pleaded guilty to a charge Of embezzlement of Government funds through the’ conversion of money orders to his private use. For more than 25 years he had been a highly respected citizen of Cook coun ty. and had for years l»eenpost master at Hay Creek. Five years agf> he w’as promoted to the more important office at Bend and despite the increase in business which enabled him to embezzle over $::,000, Grant was so trusted that his bond had not been raised above $1,000. Jt does not ap pear that he use<j a rent of the stolen money on himself .or spent It extrava gantly. He stole first to pay a mor- tgage on his home, then to furnish iis house and make his wife and only child comfortable. Living be yond fils income opened the down ward path to ruined character and to prison in shame and disgrace. It was about 10 a. m. when Mr. Grant was brought bef.*re Judge Wolvert >n. As his name was called a pathetic figure, rrnui-hing as murh as it could in the shadow of a huge. eputy -marshal, arose and walked hestitatingly toward the center of he rhamitcr. His face was bronzed, and his whitening Imard emphasized the darker., lines of his seamy face: The man had always Imrhe a good reputation and showed no trace of anything that would arouse a susp! ion to the contrary. Grant Imwed he might hide his eyes that were red with weeping. The district attorney explained the extenuating clrcnm- tances. It was with some difficulty that Judge Wolverton passed sentence on the man who Is a few years his unior. • "It is the judgment of thi*\rourt," ft continued Judge Wolverton in low and measured tones, "that you pay fine of $.1,118.54 and Is- confined in the |>enitcntlftFy on McXHIis Island for a |»eriod of two years and six months on the first count: that you be con- GONZALKS VISITS BRYAN. 'olumbia Editor Say* the Commoner -Will Make a Few Speeches. ftrcsyensr, dealing with the%more vita! issues as presented in the platform Mr. Kern will make a more coninu ous campaign, and I was assured In Denver that Mr, Towne will be no less active than if he hud been the Vice Presidential nominee.” Mr. Gonzales said that campaign contributions will be invited by newspapers in his State, and he be lieved every Demoeratic paper in the South would do likewise. GOES FROM ASYLUM TO JAIL. Alleged Embezzler in Florida Arrest ed and Will be Tried. G. C. Scudamore, former cashier of the Pensacola Bank and Trust Co-, and charged' with embezzling large sums of money from that institution, was brought to Pensacola Tuesday and placed to the county jail, being arrested^ by a deputy as he walked from the grounds of the Florida In- sane Asylum at Chatahoochee. He will be arrainged for trial at an early date. Scudamore, when arrested a month ago o«y the charge of embezzling and set free on the plea of insanity, and after many commis sions had passed oh him he was de clared to be insane and committed to the asylum. The asylum authori ties recently decidbd that he was sane and his discharge followed. Difficulty About a Cow. At Lancaasfer tm Wednesday difficulty occurred between two ne groee. Bart Frazier and Harvey Massey, on the Witherspoon planta tton. on Catawba river, in which Fra zier was shot In the abdomen Mas sey jaing a shotgun. The attending physician says the wounded man will die. The trouble was about s cow Stole First to Pay Mortgage Then He Stole That He Might Live Be yond His Income. Witnesses, sspectators. lawyers qnd Others drawn to Bend, Ore., l?y (he SEVEN MINERS KILLED, Terrific Explosion of Ga* in Penn sylvan!* foal Mine. ‘ seVen mine workers were killed and At Pottsville, Pa., on Thursday recent land fraud cases were called upon to witness an unusual spectacle when Federal Judge Wolverton sen tetTCTm-AtrPStnr Grant, the vener able postmaster of that plaee. to serve three years and six month in Federal prison on McNeill's Is ten others injured by a terrific ex plosion of gas in the Williamstown colliery of the Summit Branch Min ing Company, in the lower part of the anthracite coal fields. Th# min# was wrecked and set on lire The dead are: John Riley. Ar thur Hawk, Charles Il'lcourt’, 'John Whttle, Anthony... Frelas, James Bowman. Michael Stakum. The explosion occurred in No. shaft of tlic-jaxlUory and Is believed to have been caused bv o»e nt the men lifting the gaze of his safety lamp just after an explosion of a shut—w hich hrought down - a -large body of coal. ’ The explosion \shook the entire colliery. The work of rescue’ was iiiimediately begun and when’volun teers were called for almost every man at the workings offered his ser vices. which meant a hazardous trip Into the burning mine. . Near the foot of the shaft the in jured were found, they having rush ed toward the entrance only to fall over unconscious, All of the dead were found a short distance from the shaft battered and burned into an almost unrecognizable mass. Physicians from Williamstown and nearby villages treated the injured while a number of women volunteer- od their services a* nurses Beveral of the injured were removed to their homes, after receiving temporary treatment; but others were In too serious a condition to tie moved un til night, and rots were provided for them. The doctors say three of tbe Injured may die. One of the Injured was taken to th** morgue, and it was not until an identification of the bodies was made that it was f£»p<l that he was living. He was. badly burned and batter- ed, but probably will recover. The fire in the mine probably will Ite extinguished before more damage Is done. The WHIiamstown colliery Is operated b> the companies controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad Cont- To manifest his deep Interest in the success of the party and tbe triumph of Demoeratic principles he made this free will offering to the campaifa fund. —*--- “It is very appropriate that this first contribution should come froaa that great liody of our population known as agriculturists. The fann er has nothing to gain by privilege am) favoritism; hishnpe is tn tbe application of the doctrine of ‘equal rights to all and special privileges to none.* He has been tbe letlm of all special legislation and has suffer ed from control of politics by the great predatory corporations. Now that the Democratic party has an nounced its determination not to ac cept contributions from corporations and not to accept excessive contri- bntiows—even GIVES JOY TO HRVAN. pay a tine of $143.22 and fined for a period of one year ii|>on the second count.” This made the total fine $3 161.- 6. the amount of the embezzVment. and the Imprisonment 4 2 months The imprisonment mf% - be reduced three months, upon good l>ehavioi And then after this time has expiree a!>oqt 15 months, or to two years and Jrant can, after further conflue- ment of 30 days, take the pauper’s oath and be released. The sentence was a comparatively light one as the limit on each count is ten years. POWEDER MAGAZINE EXPLODES. Nine Lives Snuffed Out Suddenly in * a Washington Town. At Cleelum. Wash., an explosion Thursday in the powder magazine of the Northwestern Improvement Co., killed nine persons and seriously in ured a number of others. r»f Northwestern Improvement Cos storei Gilford MoDonfieil*, clerk; Andy Grill, clerk Mrs. Perry Mof- fatt. wife of lirickmaker; Infant child of Mrs. Moffatt. Joe Rossle. miner Joseph Pogriaphl, miner; two min ers. Shortly before 5 o’clock Manager ^lead and the two clerks from thf® store went to the powder house to assist in unloading, a carload of pow der. How the accident happened is not known. A STRANGE ANIMAL. Stirml Up People of Cottagevlilt Over Nature Freak V dispatch from Walterboro says foi some days past the people of Cottageville Jiave been very murli ext rcised ov*\ the appearance ih that neighitorhod of a strange ani mal. ft is described by those who have seen It as l>etog entirely dif ferent from anything they have^ ever seen before in the animal kingdom U is altout the size of a yearling calf has a head shaped like a dog screams like a peacock and leaps like a kanagroo. Some persons Defeat of Taft Man iu Western T«*»n Causes Satisfaction. The defeat Monday of a Taft man or Mayor of Walla Walla, Wash., a Republicaustronghold. was the cause >f much juhilhtion at Fairview, Neb. With unfeigned delight. Bry- in Announced the receipt of this elegram from W. II. Murphy, De- ff.ocriflc leader of (hat city. "The Democrats of Walla Walla. Wash., send greetings. As the tlrst favor able augury of victory at Monday's election, the home of*United States 8i:natnt_-Ankeny, heretofore a Re- ubllean stronghold, elected Eugene raustle. Democrat, Mayor over W. ». McKean—Kepublican, by a ma jority of,nine hundred and forty- two Mr. McKean is president of tie local Taft Club.” ' r . Bryan declared that the election was sigpttlcanU in that it showed to the country that Uie Democrats have been justified in their forecasts, of the trend of |>olltical sentiment throughout the country. fell i*to deep well Gaffney l^id Ha* Thrilling Experience Wliile at Play. For remarkable occurrences Gaff ney is still to tbe lead. A lad five vear-old son of Mr. Boyd Sarratt who lives near Limestone College was playing over an oldT well with bis little brother Monday afternoori^ when the covering, which was rotten broke through, with the result that the boy went to the bottom, a dis lance of seventy-five feet, Into seven feet of water. The younger child at once gave the alarm, but It was some three hundred yards to the house. The father immediately started for the well, expecting to find his son at the bottom, but before he reached the scene of the accident he met the Iwy comififto tii house. The little fel low, who was barefooted, had ciimed out- wlthent assistance none the worse- for his thrilling exi-eriener except a sligh abrasion on the back of his head. • DROVE NEGRO FROM COUNTY. )'Ork\ ille Black Given 100 laisbes and Told to Ix*axe. About ten days or two weeks ago who have seen it say that it is affrighted, others that it is vicious and show* signs of attacking them. On the whole it is a most peculiar animal. * White-Haired “Tiger” Convicted. D. Parker, acr" old white-haired. Kray-bearded man, pleaded guilty the Court of Seazions at Spartanburg Tuesday morning on fhe charge of selling liquor. He looked like Alex ander Dowie Judge Hydrick en- deadbred to get the de^ndant to pro mise that tie would not sell any more whiskey, but the* old man would qot promise. He was sentenced t$> serve three month or pay a fine of $100. a report gained currency in a neigh borhood about seven miles northeast of Yorkville, near Clover, that a horrible assault had been made bn the perst n of a little white girl. An immednt* investigation proved it tc tie utterly false and without founda tlon. Citizens of the neighborhood made careful inquiry as to the au ASK CONTRIBUTIONS BRYAN AND KERN ISSUE APFEAli -»“■ . . 6 TO FARMERS. lowiy Farmer, Formerly a Republi can, Give* $100 for Campaign Fund. Which Is First Ooatribwtkm. Tbe first appeal for campaign con tributions by the Democratic candi dates for the presidency and the vlce-prqpidency was 'Issued Friday, dlrecfed ttTThe farmers of the coun try. It is gs follows: "Tb the Farmers of tbe United State: "The first contribution made to the Democratic campaign fun<| this year, so far as we know, was made by an Iowa farmer. Just before the Denver convention $iet (this man. who modestly prefers not to have hit name mentioned, journeyed more than 100 miles to Lincoln with his contribution of $100, which he left with Mr. Bryan to be given to the committee when organized for the campaign. "This ffarmer was born in Sweden ind for some time after be waa nat uralized^ was a member of the Re publican party. But he waa a stu dent of public questions and in the course of time became a Democrat. to publish all fontributions when over a reasonable minimum, it ought to lie able to secure a sufficient snm from the citizens who ask from Mm government nothing but proteatKfa of their rights and consideration for the general welfare. There are hundred of thousanda of fiaroMn who are abundantly able to ooatribu- ts the campaingn fund. There are thousands who could give $100 apiece without feeling It; there are tens of thousands who could give $5$ apiece without Karri flee and still more who could give $25 or $10 or $5. ‘A* the national committee has not yet been organised we will aek The Commoner to call for subscrip tions to this farmers’ fund. These giving may Indicate whether they are willing to have their names mentioned and If the contrbutkm is not more than $100 their wishes will lie complied with. All contributions altove $100 must be made known no , matter from whom they come. "The farmers fund will be turned over to the national committee as soon as Its permanent officers have been selected. Who will be the ffret to respond? The Denver conventJQk # was a people's convention; It adop ted a strong, clear, honest platform and Its nominations were made with practical unamlnlt/f 7 Our light' U fight for the whole people. Oar aim is equal and exact justice to all; our purpose is to restore the govern ment to the hands of freely chosen represeatattvee of the votm»- Haw ~ rtianr' farmere wHl Join in furniah- ,ng th? fund necessary te present the isgues? — *— ‘ (Signed) 'William J„. Bryhn.X “John W. Kern.” PRESIDENT PLANS. ItooM-velt Getting Ready for His Hunting’Trip Next Year. There is very little Government business being transacted these Ararm days at Oyster Bay. On the broad - veranda' of his home at Sagamore Hilk President Roosevellt sits with books to the right of him and books to the left of him, books in front of him and a b6ok In his hand. He Is not studying catnpagn literature nor economic methods of government either, but examining charts of the wilds of Africa and reading treatises on how to shooting big game. In deed, these seem to be the President’s happie Ht Q»y«, nitring in a big chair* examining a big album containing phr tographs of scenes In British Africa or 'the Congo, and forming C r -Y1 plana, for his great hunting trip to the dark continent next year. During the week the President has had a number of callers who, from experience, weVe, able to giv# him In teresting details of the manner of hunting in Arica. Among these visitors were Mr. and Mrs. A. Saund- ereon, who recently returned from ^o Tton-cnbs-vphich t*«L.llflrSLto the Neh York Zoological siclety. • ed guilt on Bob Howard, a negro On Monday pight a number of men visited his home, look him out. ap-, plied 100 lashes to his back and ad vised to leave the Stafc* never tc return, by noon. He went. It is Claimed that he t tar ted similar re ports in several o*her neighborhood* ,ln which he had lived In the county. ’ V**' • •*1 Etna Again In Active Mount Etna is In acu sod lava la flowing Earthqnake shocks the Vicinity of HU© Italy. 1 •s V