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*,• / imr; •v ^ > L '— y". VOL. XXXII BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER4T, lfK>8 MAKES GREAT FUGHT WH1GHT KKEI’S his .MACHINE IX. AIK I-X>K OVEK AN HOVH. Ohio A«‘i-ouaut Coutinue« to BreAk Worhl IWcords EAtAMiAhw) 'b)- Himself. A dispatch from Washingtou, D. U., saj-s Orvill Wright Thursday broke The world’s record for time and dis tance for a heavier than air flying machine, which he established Wednesday in a flight requiring great skill on account of a ten-mile wind. He circled around the drill grourtds at Fort Myer 58 times in 65 minutes and 52 seconds, exceed ing the time of Wednesday's record flight by three minutes and ten sec onds. The flight was witnessed by nearly a thousand people. Through out the day the weather was threat ening and Mr. Wright did not arrive at the field until after 4 o'clock. At 5 o'clock Mr. Wright announced that he was ready. “Are you going to try to break the record which you made yesterday?" he was asked. “No." he replied, "I am golng.«up just for a little practice. I may malte a flight of ten minutes in order to determine at what rate of speed 1 have been flying." The aeroplane rose from the ground almost immediately after leaving the single starting rail. It continued to climb higher with each successive round of the field until It reached an altitude of 75 fe*t. For the first 30 rounds the machine tlcw,as smoothly as on its previous flights, but. from that rime on it was aeon to pitch at the turns as the stifl- ciiing brci-ze from the west struck H. As the machine moved irom the northern end of the field to the south ern end. where the “aero-garge for klorlng the aeroplane Is looted, Mr. Wright kept It several points tn the wind. A gust of wind unusuauy strong struck the serial flyer, during the 42d round and It plunged sharp ie. Mr. Wright then brought his machine lower, but In the 53d round hi' had recahed an altitude of, 200 -rm- Mr Wrlgh* ranif At tt><1 of the 5Hth round, landing easily "I encountered a stiff tore***, were Mr Wright's first worda. His eye* were blood-shot and caused him con siderable pain. "I don't know whether the wind or duet causes the irritation of my eyes. 1 had ou.a pair of goggles, too. f'riing In a wind at- I did to-day is lots^f fun. It s more sport than flying in a calm as on yesterday The wind must have been blowing fifteen or more miles an hour, as I oould tell by the quarter ing of the machine. I kept much higher; than usual on account of Un wind." Signal corps officers of the war department exV-Tsaed the belief that Orville Wright Will make a speed of at least forty-two miles an hour with his heavier than air machine, which did such excellent work at Fort Meyer. It he does make forty-two miles an hour he will he entitled to a l>onus of 20 per cent, over the contract price, which would net hln for his machine $30,000, the con tract prtco being 325,000. The o.u- rial trials will fie held as soon as Mr Wright announces his readiness. * A STRANGE IHSAlTKARAXCE-y TnckAge Lost by Express t'oni|N«y Worth Oter •50,000. A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says a package entrusted to the care of Wells Fargo Express Company at Salem, Oregon, by J. R. Albert, tin president of the Capital National Hank of that city and addressed to Joseph M. Meyers at the Portland Hotel In this city containing notes $lid other valuable papers represet- Ing over 350,000 Is strangely miss ing. As soon as the robbery was reported to the express company, de lectives were put to work. BATHER DROWNS AT SAVANNAH His Cries for Help Cnheard by Dane ers at Isle of Hope. KERN COMING SOUTH. Democratic Vice-President t’amiidate to Tour Southern States. John W. Kern, Democratic VJce- Presidential candidate, will make a speaking trip in the - South in Oct ober, and the national committee is now arranging the itinerary. He will deliver one ot two speeches in Mary land. and will speak in all probabi lity in West Virginia ifnld Delaware the first week in October: Mr. Kern will speak in Winston-Salem, N. C., October 7, when the State Fair d*ill be in progress. The Vice Presidential candidate has also been urged to make speeches in Georgia and Tennessee. Senator Gorg.^of Oklahom.a and G6o. Fred Williams, of Massachuseetts. are to stump the Western States. Col. Moses C. Wetmore, of the finance bureau, announced that 1,500 Demo cratic newspapers had joined in the movement to raise a popular sub scription fund with which to run the Democratic campaign. He says that BUBONIC PLAGUE AND ITS SPREAD IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES Paper Prepared by Assistant Surgeon General T. M. E a get Thereon 1*» sued In Pamphlet Form. Surgeon General Wymauu, of the public health and marine holpltal sen-ice, has issdbd in pamphlet form geon J. M. Eaget giving a history of the spread of buboni^ plague during the last 14 years. Xu study presents, more important Eaget says, than the lines of march taken by bubonic'plague during the period mentioned in its advance from the remote endem ic focus of the dis ease in the province of Yunnan, WANT’S TO WED RICH WIDOW. Vi.mig Athlete Furnishes New York China, to the numerous countries in in his opinion every Democratic news-; H || q uar ters of the globe wherein paper in the country wilt join in this , uan y j ns t a nces it has established it- movement. "The Democartlc press is doing a great work, said Col. Wetmore, and if all the papers that favor the election of Hryan and Kern would go to work In yarnest in this matter of collecting funds I believe we would get the biggest part of the money necessary to successfully con duct our fight. This is a real contest, and all our resourqeis will be taxed to. combat the Republican party. hich will secure the money it needs through Its' rich agencies that have derived legislative protection from • it." COTTON CROP OF 1WO7-Oft. Secretary Hester Completes HI* Art* ntial Report <»n the Crop. In his annual report On the cotton crop of 1!**>7-o8. issued/-Thursday night. Secretary Hester, of tl|e New Orleans Cotton Exchange. quotes some very interesting figures In con nection with the shifting of the seat of the American cotton milling irf- dustry to Mie States of the cotton ’>elt. He says that those conditions have northern end of the field at thr^urliTTIt mult In ■'ihleii.T during l!l£ season just closed than ever before. The consumption ot American cotton in the South evm under the most un favorable conditions having been in round figures -.193.00*. while the North totalled but 1.975.000 or 220.- 000 bale, in the increase in the consumption of cotton Virginia comes first. Oklahoma second, and) Georgia .third Mr. Hestor's 'rei'ort of crop of different Statea is given as follows in thousand* of bales, showttig a de crease under 1906-07 of 1,939.016 bales, and an Increase of 225.978 over that of 1905-06: Alabama 1.- \. against 1.289 last year; Ar kansas 787, against 940 last year. Florida 60, against 65 last year: Georgia 1,964. against 1.695 last year: Louisiana 673. against 995 last year: Mississippi 1,496. against 1,541 last year'. North Carolina 689. against 663 last year: Sputh Carolina 1.226. against 657 last year; Tennes see 335. against 372 la** V*kt'. Tex as 2,221. against 4.050 last year; OklahOtna 950. against 9 44 last year. Total crops 1 1,572. against ,5H last year. Mr. Hester put, the spindles In the South at 10.66h* 308. including old. Idle and not com- plete, against 10,589,093 laM year. , - aw ' R and remarks that this is the smallest Intwease reported in twenty years. * DR. UNDER ACVUIiaED. self In defiance of the most carefully planned preventive measures. The revival of the plague, Dr Ea get says, dates from 1 894, when es caping from the western Chinese pro vince of Yunnan, it reached Canton. Between .March and August, .1894. the number of deaths from plague in Canton is estimated at 120,000. All >'lasses among the population suffer ed and rats were found to be affect ed. but Id the foreign quarter of Canton, with a population of about 3^00. not a single case occurred. During the next year cases . of plague were reported in Hong Kong. Amoy. Macao and Foochow, and iu 1896 sanitary attention throughout the world was forced on the threat ening epidemic by Its appearance in Bombay. Starting In August the dis ease spread throughout the whole vast territory of the Bombay presi dency and before the end of the year Showed a total of 2.980 cases and 2.288 deaths. During that year plague reappeared in Hong Kong where it has been epidemic ever since. In China th»-re were epidemics at Amoy and Swatow wtth many deaths in other sections bt the empire and tTr-rtie-fwIlawina vaar Hiere were over 150,000 cases in India with a mortal ity of 117,0"" In 1900 plague Was present iu every quarter of the Aorld. The Philippine island wereMncludod iu the march of the disease. 150 deaths occurring tn Manila. The most notable fact In the his tory of the plague in the western world wa, the nppeafaucP Of 22 fata! cates In Sait Francisco, hi 1901 In India a great augumentatlon took l lace, until In 1904. the plague caus ed the death of over 1,000,000 per sons in India alone and epidemics prevailed to a greater or less degree iu nearly all parts of the world. India, the great center, suffered terribly In the year -19-Uu but in the year 1906 there was a great decrease, the number of deaths being about 332.000, bur again In 1907 there was a great li-irrase. the deaths number ing 1,200.000 ^8r ftine years. Dr Eaget says. Hawaii in 1907 had not been free from plague, but the Phil ippine Island now seem to be clear of the disease. During the year 1907. 156 cases of plague with 78 deaths occurred in Can Francisco. Ttlerb were aftb a few at Oakland and other cities neighbors jf San Francisco. At Seattle. Wash., three cases occurred last October. fatal With Latest Romantic Rumor*. Fashionable sqjourne/s at Sayvllle, L. I., a resort for the wealthy of New York, say no one will be in the least surprised at any time to see an an nouncement of tlYe marriage of Mrs. Edward Kelly, rich widow of the sou of Eugene Kelly and mother of Mrs. Frank Gould, to Ralph Craft. 2 4 year old. athlete, yachtsman and prime favorite all along the shore of the. Great South bay. He Is an in surance broker. . Mr. Craft has been paying Mrs. Kelly very- marked attention for a year, has visited often at her home and has taken her on automobile trips to Sayvllle. When the subject was broached to Mr. Craft that gentleman did not seem in the least surprised. And. w hat is more to the point, he did not deny that he hoped to -make Mrs. Kelly his bride. He did d^y that there Is a formal engagement of mar riage. , "It's all rot," said Mr. Craft at first, but he said it in a curiolis tone, and when the name of one of Mr. Craft's friends was mentioned as an authority for the rumor that the mat ter was being kept/secret because Mr. Craft. Sr., did not frnow of it. the young man, a little off his guard, replied; "My father knows all about it. He objects to It. But I don't see what difference that makes.'' . * - Ho STARS I,EFT BEHIND. BLAZE COST UVES TOUCHED OFF BY TH£ CARELESS . STRIKING OF A 5»ATCH. SAVED FROM-THE NOOSE. Too Much C'oufjfslow tn Wltne****' Three People Were Killed and an Entire Block Threatened With De struction. • - - / __ A dispatch from Pittaburj;. Pa.. says a volcano of escaping gas. torch ed off by the careless snaring of a match, hearty wiped out tM family of Rev. George Mtsquei, pastor of St. George’s Syrian Greek church on Seventh avenue,wcollapsed an ad joining dwelling, burying its Inmates under the debries of falling watfS? Gives Murderer but *JO Years. I I o the Crl min a I court, at West Chester, F'a.. Angela DTOnneneglldo. the youug Philadelphian, who was | charged w ith the shooting to death of Passuule deFelico and his sou, Ales sandro. on'the streets of that'tr ough. one Sunday evening a few weeks ago, entered a plea of murder In the second degree. The plea was accepted in view of conflicting testi mony as to the facts of the crime. The testimony was to tae effect that Beneminio DcGildo. w - ho epm- mlted suicide and was an uncle of the prisoner, had fired several shot at Alessandro, the young shoemaker, and then, when pursued by the mob, believing that he had killed Alessan dro, tired a bullet j^Uo nis own brain, dies on Scaffold. and kindled a fire thof threaten^ i a,1,id lhf ‘ on ^ Veit lawn, an entire block on Bedford gyenuej Butlei sentenced D Ermeno- near Washington street at 9:30 o’clock Thursday night. The dead: Mrs. George Misquel, .aged 3 2, 922 Bedford avenue, found In upper room burned to a crisp. Jacob, her son, 4 years old. died ai Pasbav&nt hospital. Annie Magel, 17. servant at,the Misquel home, died at 1:15. at the hospital. The injured: Rev. George Misquel, aged 35. burned about head and arms; thought to have inhaled flames: con dition serious. , Isaac Misquel,,aged 11. burned about face and arms. . Amelia Misquel, 6. legs and arms badly bu EighteenLMtohrivs old baby of^the Misquel, scorched in'Its cradle, over looked by rescuers, but carried out gildo to serve 20 years in the Eastern penitentiary, only one marge being pressed by the commonwealth, tlxfugh it was claimed that the con victed man had killed the two deFe- liqos, and had wounded Patrie* phy In the leg and Mike Saraceni on the elbow. ' • LARGEST TURTLE CAPTURED. Detachment From Battleship Fleet . liooking For Stragsl^r*- A patrol from the American bat* tleshlp fleet Is still searching for the | a|sf jjj practically uninjured men who failed to go aboard their - — ships when they sailed from Mel bourne, Australia. These number 85. Nearly all the stragglers left be hind at Sydney returned to the fleet. A wireless message from the flag ship Connecticut says that every one aboard, from Rear Admiral Sperry- down. gratefully remembered Mol- borune, and'that all considered thoj Australian visit the greatest demon stration of International friendship In American hlstofy. The Argus, reviewing the visit of ^ tli6 neef to Australasia, «sa>4 In 80 n f thr Mltqnrl ivas responsible for the editorial: “A more orderly body ot men never landed. Officers and men alike Inspired sincere regard and es teem Never In history have two countries of different flags found such immediate and deep sympathy.' * ffoney Was Melted, But Not 111 Value.' While Frank Marks and 111* wife, of Btrongville. O.. were awa^frOm home, recently, robbers soSrched the premises for the money which he was know n to possess, as hf was dis trustful of banks. IncldentABy. the thieves fired the baru and the pig pen. When Marks returned home he searched the ruins of the pig pen and adfprlied his friends by unearth ing a lump of gold, fie had hidden ms money, in gold coins, beneath the pig pen floor, arid the iritese heat bad inelted It. The lump wa* w0rtli sev eral thousand dollars. TEN TIMES NEAR DEATH. Jury Conclude* That ho Acted in Self-Defence. In the Court of Geubml Sessions at Union Thursday, Dr, W.-L Lind er was tried on the rhal’ge of murder and found hot guilty. Iu October last Dr. Linder shot Lucy Upsey, a negro woman, three times, and the woman died two days later. It was proved in the ease that the Upsey wo man had several monhs before shot \ I.ullauA Man Show* More Vitality Tlia 11 the “Nine*Lived" Urft. llaving passed the danger point in his latest nearly fatal venture. John -M. McMahon, of Crawfordsvllle Ind., holds the record for nearly- fatal acchlets. About a month ago he fell Into a vat of boiling water His'skin peeled rtff but grftftitlA sav ed Ills lift?. McMahon is 35 years of The Swede Was Innocent. While Waldeman Epstrand. s6n of a wealthy banker, of Gutborg. Sweden, wag being photographed at police headquarters f 'Poughkeepsie, N. Y., as the murderer of Fred ltdkail son. a companion, word w-as received which set him free. The news stated that Hokanson had been shot by a fish peddler, who he tried to hold up. Epstrand has roved all over the w-orld, and bis fund having run short, has been working an s farm hand at East Fishkill, X. Y. • Margaret and Mary McKenna, of 920 Bedford avenue, caught in bed under collapsing roof and debris, dragged out by firemen: legs and back sprained. Mrs. Mary Mulligan. 920 Bedford avenue; face cut and back Injured. Policeman Peter Hanrday. hands and face burned in rescue work. Policeman W. H. Larkin, hands burned, wrist cut. Assistant Fire Chief Robert Mc Kinley is convinced that a leaking gas pipe in the attic of toe residence Monster Weighing H-4U Found* I* to Be Seen at Battery Aquasiuui. A dispatch from York, say* there is on exhibition at the Aqu arium at the Battery the largest turtle ever heard of by the Aquarium authorities. It Is of the leather back variety, the largest known sea turtles. ' . It weighs 8 iu pounds and was captured in a fishermans net off Belford. N. J. The director of the Aquarium. Dr. Townsend, secured the turtle from Its captor and shipped it to the Aquarium. Eight men wese required to lift the turtle into the large tank In the middle of old castle garden building, where the Aquarium is located. Dr. Linder in the back w hll^ ifi his i age. His left eyesjs gone, his left . A says and dispatch from Savannah. Ga., Ernest Roberts, ..for ten years John’p Church, a well known cnurch wrorker, was drowned at Isle of Hope late Thursday night while In bathing. On a pavilion fifty yards away music for dancers drowned his cries for help. His wife and children were in their home a -few feet -from the river banks. Good Horse Sense. Only the fastidious sense of taste of his horse, saved Robert McCor- raick_QX Eat Mountain. Conn., from TosTng flrSfiO itrrbanir bills, witich he bad secured on selling his property, a few days. McCormick, on return ing from the bank, put the bills In s sack of feed In the barn, thinking the money safer there. The next morning he fed the horse from the sack of feed which contained the bills, and forgot all about the money, until his wife asked him. later, where It was. He rushed to tie barn, rem Santa Barbara, Cal., Deputy United Umbering, but to his .great joy found; gtates Marsha] Lee McFe. on Thurs- that the horse bad »ot eaten the money. He ha4 cleaned up hi* feed but the roll.cf Mila lay Intact in the nianfer. office: that sh" was tried for tbli- assault and convicted. She appeal ed to the Supreme Court, and was out on l>ond ponding the appeal, when she was shot. The evidence established a clear case of self-defence. IN HARD LUCK. e.ar. right toot and^a little finger are .he only evidences of his narrow es capes. The career of accidents to a man who has. more lives than any cat and convincing j can boastxj.egan when he w aa Only c-^ 0 ’ seven years of age. He came near being drowned while swimming. A* Furcweil hide fcnd* to tWgedt:. Murder and suicide ended tbe faie- well ride of Joel F. Baker, a carpen- ter. and Mrs. Sylvia Hcrnice, a wid ow, of Wabash, Ind., on Thursday. It is said Mrs. Herluce had planned F»ave for Benton Harbor, • Mich., where ahe h aft td haf¥ beeri idafried. and her <mve with llaRdr, afl atow- _ed admirer, was to tell hlm his fate. Investigation showed that Baker had killed his companion while both were out of the buggy. He then loaded her lifeless, form into the vehicle and started to drive back to Wabash. On the w-ay he killed hlmsblL V Clerk in City Treasurer's Office Ar rested for Embezzlement. Chief Clerk Vital Tujague, of the New Orleans city treasurer'* office, was placed in the parish prison Thursday night on a charge of hav ing embezzled a!>out $30,000 In city funds. Tujague was lormerly city comptroller and has been actlx-ely Identified w ith local politics |or many years. The alleged embezzlement of Tujague makes the fifth shortage of a public official in New Orleans dur- ing'Thw last 18 months. .• —Got Him at Last. Alleging that he is-Jamea C. Dun ham. who 12 years ago. It is charged, killed three mon and three women at *en he tried to hop a train arid lost bisTrlght fefit. Ho Cattle float- hi ced ing to death? While still on crutch es while watching the construction of a stone building the clamps on a lifter slipped and his shoulder bone was splintered by the falling rock At 14 he fell from the top of a tre*. and fractured his skull. At 18 he lost his eye and part of his ear through a shooting accident. He tried.football 13 years later and was injured in a train wreck. An acci dent irt a foundry'and the explosion the powder mill at Fontanet. Ind., this spring, brought the number ot and .difficult sanitary ^problems, Dr lives to nine and three weeks ago dame the tenth. McMahon dactare* life is worth living whatever the cost. Heavy Weight Sheri#. Anderson County baa nominated a - |man for Sheriff, ’who weighs 125 day. raused' the arreat of a. man . poun d;/"tti:^TmM‘ te-b« ae heaviest known in the community in which j man In the South. The Anderson he had resided for a year. Whitnlore. jp^op,^ htd better be on their good Texas, as Bill' Hatfield. I' vH* • l bebaviv * . . v explosion and fire. Bedtime had come. Rev. and Mrs. Misquel with their four little ones went to-the rooms on the second floor where were the sleeping quarters of the family. The domestic. Annie Ma- gel, a 17-year-old girl of the same na tionality as the priest, followed them up the stairway Just In time to catch the force of a blinding explosion a* a match was struck Id the darkened sleeping room. The greater part of the escaping gas seemed to have ac cumulated in the mansard floor about the secoud room, however, for a min ute after the first flash there came a shock that rocked the entire blpck. The-fsllihg debries crashed through the'toof and burled Margaret and Mary McKenna, who were sleeping on the second floor of the adjoining building. This floor in turd partially gave way arid Mrs. Mary Mulligan, living below- the McKennas, was buried. The rescuers of Jhe \-letlms were thrilling and were effected under most exciting conditions. The prop erty loss was comparatively small. * GOMPERS FOR CANNON. Child Besoued From High Wife. Llut* Sopht* MtfTagnWr*! Skriith Omaha. Neb., was playing on the ro<M of a three-story building, last week, when she cflmbed onto the coping and fell off. Ted (eet below her Was a mass of telephone wires. On these she struck, gfabbbd them in her little hands and held on tightly, yelling as she dangled 30 feet , above the street. The child's brother leaned far out of a window just by the wires, grabbed the little one's clothing and dragged her info the window Injured. “ Say* He i* the Worst Enemy of Eco nomic neforul7~7 **T Pieeider.t Samuel Oourpers. of the Alnerlcah Federation of Labor, at tacked the record of Speaker Catreov in thC latter * own home tdwn o* Dfirivfilf, Illinois. Before an enthus iastic audience fcf 3,000 labor men in Lincoln purity Mr. GUmpyrs said some might uncomplimentary things about the speaker. He caiue fo Danville for the purpose of making a speck to the laboring men of the plsee. hoping in this way to defeat Untie jPe fbf congress in November Among other tfiltigi h* said: "Uncle Joe Cannon stands Ifi this country as the worst enemy of econo mic and social and political reform that the people have. ' Ms. Gompers read and^indorsed an editorial which appeared in’ thr cur- r-nt. issue of a weakly magazine, which declared that of the two men- acirig frvila to this eountfy Rocke- Toolt fT.VOOO From Mi»»v*. Six fvet tall, handsome, well dress ed and highly educated. Wilhelm Ik' Revy ha* been arrested at Cincinna ti, O.. and locked up on the charge of embezzling I76.00U from three bank* rninntQwn- Fa. Warrants for the man's arrest had been mailed to Cincinnati authorities. It I* alleged that the man wa* a bank cterk and that he failed to deposit large sums that foreign-born miner* in Pennayl- vauia gave him for that purpose. • Roma nee of Charity Worker. Niue years ago Mrs. Anne Dewees, of Anderson. InfJ^ then an agent for the ludlana Children's Home society, took an orphan for’adoptlon to Farm er R. W. Morrison's family, near Mo doc. Ind. Five years late? Mra. Mor rison died. Recently Mr. Morrl»ou met Mrs. Dewees, still In charity work and proposed to her to take charge of hi* home. As a result, the two will marry soon. A Fatal Apple Hunt. Daniel McKeever, 17 years old. residing near London, Ont.. was kill ed near Pottersburg. He waa out shooting with acme companions, and. seeing an apple tree in a field. Jump ed a fence, and using hi* rifle as s cluli. tried to kock theapplea down. The gun exploded, the shot entered his body above the heart, tearing a gaping wound, eons- Death was instantan- un- • - feilfcjt and Cannon—the speaker is Tfiegreater evil." The speaker whs pictured nj' Gtmi- pers,as an obstructionist of the deep est/most corporation-bound type. Mr. Cannon was a hide-bound-nar row, old politician who seri|no good in any reform, according to the labor leader, who .berated the people for going sheep like" to the polls every election and sending tbl« man to congress Chicken Thief Killed. Shot by a watchman. Peter Klossen, at the poultry farm of W. S. Qlnnell, Garden City. L. I.. Andrew Heinz died, ttnr next.day. In ajiospltal from his wound*. Hein* w-’a* *hot about midnight and had nine hen* In his hands when found by the, watchman, who had been given a gtAx to ward off intruders. Mr. Glnnell had been missing choice hens for some time past. _ Thieves Hid Victim’* Woodert Leg. flobbar# who entered the house of Oscar O’Harrah. railroad ticket agent at Cdlifers. W, Va., hid his wooden leg. and wfi*di he swakened he had to lie. helpless, on hii bed, and watch them go through his clothe* and steal $125 In money and other valuables Whea they had finished, the burg- lars<i>M their victim that he would! find his leg d5%n»taira. Five Children Are Suffocated. Five children of J- C. Burdette were suffocated Thursday night in a farm house near New Brighton, Minn., while the neighbors, ignorant that the little ones were in the place, were endeavoring to save the house hold effects. The parents had spent NfXVBO ASSAILANT LEGALLY PUT TO^ DEATH tS A*He*etA^ strain Inci-eAned thf Longer Me fto- maiited Under rite Eye* of the Law and He Trembled Violently. A dispatch from Baxley, Ga., says Neal Ryals. the negro asaailMt of Mrs. Lizzie Overstretet, was executed Friday morning at 11.35 o clock. Deputies brought the negro from Macon that morning, arriving at 7 o'clock. From that--hour until the execution Rytls waa in consultation with a mlnliter. taking part in a religious service. During the morning large crowds of citizens constantly poured into the town to witness as aiucfl of the exe cution as uoydble. The crowd of people was^dfderiylhid^nothln^ hap pened thsn wag, unni ^ At J/F o'clock the dedthNenteoce was read to Ryals by the Sheriff aud he wa* immediately cont .to the scaffold. Just before execu tion Ryals was permitted to makeN statement to th> crdVd. He talked a clear voice and stead nerve. Ha gave in detail wherk he waa on the -morning of tfre crime. He anM he had always' flared the taw and had never had a fase In couH before la hi* life, being 42 years old. Ha pro claimed his Innocence to the Inst. He praised the sheriff and others for their klndt^ess to him. and nak ed God to holt no charges against them. He war^kd hit colored friewds. He said they didn't Kave to do any thing to get info trouble. He said H was a matter of lot or accident. \Yh?n asked if he knew who com mitted the crime, he said he did not. Rev. John Morris, hi* spiritual ad viser. thanked the people of Baxley for permiutnl the law to Uke IU courae. The prisoner then offered a long and fervent prayer and then began singing a* thh float, prepartlon wa* made for hi* eitecutlow. and con tinned to sing up to the Mat. He stopped singing long enough to bid every body good-bye. He dropped at 11.85 and waa pronounced dead In 16 min ute*. * FOUND NOT -GUILTY. Jury Returned Yerdlct iu Case of Dr. Linder. A dispatch from Union says that the case of Dr. W. L- Linder, n prom inent young physktin of thnt city, charged with killing Lucy Lipeey. n nogress, wns given to the Jury ot noon Thursday and they returned n verdict of not guilty. Dr. Mn dcr 1b hit tee- timouy told of various threatMtag letters he had received from the wo man and that he dig not shoot her until he sew ter regcli for her hand satchel, in which he shppoeed she had a pistol. The woman's dying state ment was put in evidence by state, in which she declarfd she had not threatened, him. bntJoved him onto death, would forgive; hi* everyth*** and did not waat him hurt. * GETS TStf J- •X# YEAR A 4— Young White Man of Union Who At* tempted Assault Goee to Pea. Arthur Beckneli. a young white man who last December attacked and attempted to criminally assault a young white girl of teapectable fam ily and who waa tried at Ualon kat week, w as on Friday sentenced by' Judge Klugh «o 16 rear* in the State penitentiary’ at hard Ihbof. i Roy Murder* Woman. Mayme Elroad. a white woman about forty years old, waa shot and killed by Calhoun Donald, a yoath of eighteen years. The shooting oc curred near TQwnville la Ocoaea County while the woman arts in the Held picking cotton. The tragedy was brought about by the crlmtaa) intimacy of the wokan and the boy z father. Many Return to Weak. A large number Of men retorted to work in thd minfog district, kat week. The etfort Mr a genert! re sumption of operatlods in the Alaba ma coal mines k now on. and K k estimated that during the week •• less than 10.000 dteo returned to work after an idleness of trrtT months. ^ € , J' Abernathy May Die of Wound* With both hands and arms swath ed, a victim of blood poisoning, from being bitten by Wolves several tiroes during his recent hunt in Wichita mountains. United States Marshal John R. Abernathy, of Guthrie. Okla.. President Roosevelt’s guide, who "catcljfcs ’dm alive." has returned to bis fathcr-ln-law’* bomd. n*av Guth rie. with his oh 114-bride, with whom be recently eloped.'* Abernathy may develop hydrophobia at a .reault of hit wounds. Negro fjanged * n Virginia.. Bank Wrecker Kfceade Dwns#- "Billy" Montgomery, former cnih- nuiu *>“■>-— -- - i~- v <nr the ier of the Alkfhenjf National hand, the evening with friends, leaving tba,^ pittgburg# * ho r< &bed the InaOU- children at home. The A*me OM Story. Carroll Hall, aged 14. of dcn prides hliiself dt bis J<*k# U, Strother. . ne«ro «. h.o«ed s. H.. on ntmtorj** ,t M-htnon court hourt. y.. Krta.r hi. tl.ter. Howie. **"«.>.«•_ , " t, ‘ for' attempted criminal- assault on Leola Frye, a young white woman. He made a full confession an<LStated that the crime was his second one. • Flvo Men Burned to Death. Five men lost their lives and a score of person* were injured, several of them seriously, in a fire that gut- shotgun. The charge entered the neck and death resulted almost In stantly. Young Hall wa ft yrmtod- He says he did not knew the gun was loaded. -4 tlon of $2,006. isJagaged In ttk prison bakery and «< at kneading bread /[*• Bud Anb» "Loo# Urn Lwe#»~ 7 Their automobile tnrttng turtle- Faria Fletcbir. a ewnl dto*e St. Paul. mnn. w< wife waa aeripualy I ww— To Starve Them Out. .lofeph Briurba. wanted Black Hand aa a criminal, ta besieged tod the Belmont Motel, at Denver, in • coal mine at Seottabarg, IlL. end Colo., a three-atory Villding at 17|J the police purpose to starve him • Stout afreet Thjffrtdav morning [out. .. , _ • ' • - ? i . . , vC - f Vv ■ ma*. The ♦ • Uni^^aiUgdAiBBfl • garrkon o4 H#'