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VOL. XXXII BARNWELL. 8. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29. 1908 BRYAN WILL WIN M Lust That Is ths Way It looks Now. Kept Prisoner in a Stvaiip, Enduring y||JY0PY |^| AIR Maltreatment and Finally Return* All Signs Point to a Democratic Land slide on Tuesday, November ft, f When the People will Win Not Only the Presidency, but the House as Well. ^ ' All the forecasts of the election indicate a sweeping victory for the Democracy by the election of Bryan and Kern. The New York HeralJ and The New York World have been conspicuous agencies of a serious at tempt to arrive • at some reliable judgment of the conditions, and their KIDNAP YOUNG WIFE TWICE CARRIED OFF STRANGERS BY. TWO V lug to Her Home. After spending a night of terror, hiding in a barn from friends, who were searching the woods for her, reports and conclusions are very in teresting, and, to the Democrats, more than Important. In last Sunday's issue these great newspapers each presented the re sults of a careful and extended can vas of popular disposition toward the candidates, made in coujunctioi with other newspapers in various sec tlons of the country, and they botn reach the conclusion tha*t ihe lust few days of the campaign may de termine the issue, while they agree that there are strong evidences of an undercurrent that may develop into a Democratic landslide. The Herald, which is supporting the Republicans, thinks*that Taft ii within 38 votes of his goal, while Bryan' needs 81 more electoral vot»s to agsure him of -victory. "Ther • gre political conditions in the \Ye»t.' says The Herald, "indicating a Wm- ocratic landslide. There are signs in New York, presaging political chaos." Obviously tnat means uti-1 brush, while her captors were playing rest and uprising of the people an i a game of cards. The kidnappers dissatisfaction with the party in ( gave battle to the police, but were power that must promise brfiliantlv overcome and arrested. Alarme.i Mrs. Abbie Meeriongola, who twice kidnapped 'by two men and kept a prisoner- Th^-tho woods, rj- turned to her sister's home, in Huntington, L. I., Monday . She was so frightened and dazed by her ex perience at the hands otthe kidnap pers that she co.uld tell no connected story of her ill treatment. Mrs. Meeriongola is 17 years old. the daughter of a well-to-do farmer and the wife of a contractor, to whom she was married six months ago. She was first dragged from her»home on October 10. A neighbor saw he 1 ' being led to the woods between two armed men. Three days later, after her father and husband had sought for her in vain, she staggered into her father’s home and said that she could re member'Tittle that had happened during her absence except that sue had been kept a prisoner in a swamp by two men. A few days later anotner attemrt to kidnap her from her father’s house was made, but was frustrated by the appearance of her husband. Again last Saturday afternoon the two kidnappers raided her fathers home. and. frightening her.mother with a revolver shot, again draggel the young wife away. The help of the police again was summoned, a'b 1 Sunday afternoon two offire.s found her in the custody of two men in the woods near Huntington. The girl^was lying on a pile of for the Democrats. and apparently half crazed the girl The World thinks the result de-1 fled into the swamps. The polic* pends upon the vote of New York State, and in that State it figures out a plurality of less than ten thous and for Taft, while it estimates that the He tn nr rata will elec* their S* at - ticket by 184,000 majority. A tre mendous majority such as that for)* the Stajte ticket could not be re corded wRhiut material effect upon the national ticket, and If Chanlej is elected Governor of New York by anything approaching the indicated figures. Brysn will surely carry the State and win. * pursued her for a shod distance, but soon lost trace of her. NEGROES HYM’OKP. -V COMMIT8 SUICIDE. Stole Mon«*f~iVom Father and Rc- Morwe Overtook Him. / A special to the Augusta Chronic] from Atlanta says remorse over hav ing taken of his father’s mon ey to satisfy a longing for a blcycl led John Arthur Hiburn, a 12-yea •- old boy. *ti commit suicide Tuesday. The lad lived with his paretns ot 288 Waldep street. He left home Sunday afternoon and went to th< house of a neighbor, where be spent the evening. He left at s> p. m. He was seen no more until when found early Tuesday suffering terrible agot. from the effects of his dose of i*r belle acid. The discovery was made bv An Old Flim-FInm Game Being Worked Again. The Columbia State says It has PADDING ROLLS Netf York Demicratic State Chairman W. J. Connors Declares that Republicans are Pre paring to Steal Election in New York, but That Dead Men AYill Not Be Permitted to Vote and Law Committee is Named. * A dispatch from New York savs charges were made Thursday by W. J. Connors, chairman of the Demo cratic State committee, that the Re publican organizations in up-State counties had padded the regulation rolls with from 10,000 to 20,000 names, atwCiA prevent the casting of a fraudulent vote the executive com mittee had appointed a State law committee with former Judge A.B Parker as chairman. Mr. Connors said that the law RUINED BY COCAINE * ■ SAD FATE OF A MAN Wife. AND H.S '( > Blighting Ktfecte of the Drug Vivid- - ‘t——— —- ly Illustrated in the Case of' Two Young People. The blighting powers of cocaine, says The News and Courier, we’*! vividly demonstrated when Louis Malone and his wife, Rosa, a young white couple, were arrested an 1 hailed before Magistrate O Shaugb nessy’s Court on a warrant ^erferr- ed against them by Mr. Elias S. Win- -gaist. charging them with malicIquh A FOUL TRAGEDY Band of Mask Men Lynch Two Prominent Men. CAUSEJJLTHE CRIME mischief in cutting up and otherwise demolishing an old schooner belong ing to him, lying at Pottpr’s ‘wharf. In which he allowed them to livv through compassion excited by thei: destitute and desperate condition. Both persons appeared before the magistrate in an almost starviirg condition, clothing in rags, neither of them weighing over 75 pounds and frankly attributed their condi - ion to the use of the devastating Was a Law Passed by the Legisla- ture in Kvfcrence to Fishing in a Certain Lake Near Where the Two Men Were 1^1 Ljed by the Ruf fians. .Col. R. Z. Taylor, aged 60 years, committee would be composed OI ']drug.—Tlieli metched and skelolo t about 500 attorneys, and that on election day these attorneys would and Captain Qulnteft Rankin, bolh prominent attorneys of Trenton. Tenn., were taken from Ward’s Hotel at Walnut Log, Tenn.. Monday night by- masked night riders and murder ed. Captain Rankin’s body was found Tuesday morning riddled wl’h bullets and hanging from a tree on • mile from the hotel. Efforts to locate the body of Col- onel Taylor tm\e—been futile- t- DARING ESCAPE saw mcHt riders kill FRIEND. IIIH Jmlice Tailor Broke Awai ami Ran " '”•%**£ I)a4o the Woods, Suffering Great Hem-ships. WILL WIN OHIO Results of ,i. ? ■ , . . . . quirer’s Poll Intflcitt $ A BRYAN LANDSLIDE Judge Taylor,—who was suppose I The Courtis Was Accurately to have been killed by fishermen night riders-with Quentin Ranklu, turned up near Tiptonvllle, Tenn.. 30 miles from the scene of where be was abducted. at 8 o'clock Tut the Election of Bryan Beyond Wednesday morning Judge Taylo- telling his story of the affairs," say*, j ‘^The night riders-forced Jn ou door at the hotel and at the point . . TH-revolvers. the drift of Politic! sentiment in be assisted by special deputies to each election district t osee that ballots were honestly cast and count ed. Mr Connors said: "There will be no voting of dead men by the Republicans in this elec tion, and the State committee will see that our opponents are not per mitted Jto run ovpr from Pennsyl vania and Canada to vote them In this State. Already we have dlscov- gred hundreds of cases of fraudulent registration up State and have suc ceeded in having the names strick -n from the lists. ’ We want a square deal. We are not going to buy the election, and we have not got the money to buy it with anyway. We don't propose to have the ItepuWicans rob us as they have done In the past.” National Chairman Mack declared Thursday night that the change In Mr. Taft's plans by which he will sppak in thirty-five cities and towns in this- State instead of. speaking In only a few of the larger cities as previously announced, indicate that like appearance excited so much pi;y, . , .v. , . , far, but it is believed ihat ye wa-< uls'. in the breast of the prosecutor dur _ ___ r ing the course of the trial that h suddenly resolved to dismiss the tbe UepuldHau inanagwrs Xh* story, was tooth to-eject them -fmtw nertpssity wf carrying this tSate, which was virtually acknowledging that they felt they were losing Ohio. Indiana. Wisconsin and Kansas. Mi. Mack said that if the Republicans were certain of the* middle Western States they iqoiild not need New York. leaking of the letter of President 1 ^ Koosevelt denanding that Mr. Bryan colored race also and tboygo alioui m^jare hinuelf on the labor question l»een reported that there are a couple of "smooth crooks’’ In town who work their game on unsuspecting ^ _ a>ea negroes. The two artists arp of the Ro^sov theta work'in a hacknfyed manner which, like other time-honored gags, lands a "sucker" occasionally. The two walk in among a crowd of negroes, and'drop an old, worn pocketbook in the crowd. Then one of them stoops and picks up the pocketbook, which contains a $20 bill. The- negr'oes who are In jhe immediate vicinity of ihe pocket- t>ook have their attention then called to the "find."' The artists then pro ceed to tel ithe two or three, negroes that they will "divvy” the money il there is nothing said about the find ing of the pockefbOok. The unsus pecting negroes agree to tlflsT of course, and tbew-comcs the division of the spoils. After some’figuring the exact amount due each is obtained. The John W. Henley, assistant United! $200 bill, which, of course, is “fake' States district attorney.' .As Mr. Henley was going ti wlrk he heard the cries of two boys, and on investi money, is handed over to one of tho victims. He has to give back $15 change and this is where the crook ; gallon found them carrying a third, finish their work. They pretend who was in the clutches of convul i that they are going to a store to slons. Young Hllburn was carried lute the 1 home of Alderman rrank Pitt man on Park street, in front of which the acid had been drunk, but dlnl twenty minutes later without speak ing. half emptied bottle fold th< story. The parents were prostrated b> news of their child’s death and can not account for the same except on the theory that such was brought about by remose over having taken $25 the elder Hllburn had left lying around carelessly. AVARXNG TO MILLINERS. get the rest of the money changed The victims never see the men again. It is said that several negroes who have come to town and sold cotton have-lost much money in this way. PREFERRED DEATH TO TRIAL charges against Jhe two and praye i the Court to turn the prisoners loose. Malone has since been arrested by the police on a charge of vagrancy and sentenced to a fine of $5 or to ten days In the County Jail. Before becoming addicted to the use of cocaine Maljfrflg^wjio was born in this"city, is. sjBlflMfai'e been n first-class carpent^^^WNNie evil in fluence of the drug soon sapped ni- vital powers, and this is t'he non pitiful because of the fact that he married, and through his influence his young wife also became addicted to its use. About a year ago th couple came here to live, but weM from bad to worse, and it eventual^ came about that the two had no place to call home. After wandering about for sever ’ months tb#y at length picked out tn old dismantled schooner "Maggie ’ moored at Potters wharf, as a plac- of residence. The owner. Mr. Elia- 8. Wingate, hearing the deploraiie killed. The trouble which result ed in the death of Captain Rankin of the day. Mr. Mack said that if there was any labor man in doubt about voting for Bryan the reading of the President s letter would con vince him that he should cast his vote for the Democratic ticket. Mr. Mack said he had received reports from Ohio that the reception tenl- Mr Bryan in the Buckeye State was the greatTst''^demonstration ever given a Presidential candHlate Mr. Bryan s meeting in the city- next Tuesday nightT when he wi t speak at Madison Square Garden, is to be made the occasion of a Demo cratic rally in every Assembly dii-. trlct in Xc.*’ York. Not only as Tammany Hall arranged for over flow meetings at the Garden, btft there will be mass meeiings in Coop er Union. Hamilton Fish Park and in scores of halls ^throughout the city. The demand Jor tickets to the Madison Square Garden meeting quickly exhgusted the supply and stands will be erected outside the amphitheatre for overflow assem blages. Besides Mr. Bryan. Governoi Hoke Smith, of Georgia; Congress man R. D Clayton, of Alabama, and former Congressman John L. Lentz, of Ohio, will address the meeting. * the sorry shelter as long as they, behaved themselves, but the twit soon made themselves objectionable by tearing and cutting off the wood work of the vessel to use as fu**i with which to keep warm on cold nights. Mr. Wingate personally trie I to induce them to leave, but had to resort to the law, as. the Malone positively refused to leave peaceably Constable William R. Way states tha*^(he condition of the two cocalr and the probalbe murder of Colonel Taylor was caused by the passap.r of ah Act by the Legislature regulat ing fishing in Reel F ot Lake, a short distance from Walnut Log. A night rider disturbance over the same matter occurred over^a year ago. Ever since then Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin hav« been in constant receipt of threaten ing letters, to which they paid little heed. Mr. Ward, the manager of the Ward House, at Walnut Log. telephoned Sid^.Whdell, a stockhojd tu- in the ^’est TVrfneswe Laud Com pany. stating that al»out 25 iraskeri night riders came to jD* hotel at midnight la’st night. Accordl£g , 'T<r this report the night riders lined up cutside the hotel, pulled out their revolvers and called Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin The two men did not suspect troub le and came down Immediately. A.- Ttre—attorneys passed—into 'the—fruit'. and Lite Figures Show Big Demo* crutic^Gaiua, and Are Such m to "Any Doubt. - - . /■ With the view of getting a line oa They then took us oh horseback to the edge of Reelfoot Lake. Here . I watched them hang .poor Captain Rankin and the'fire into his body! After they weVe satisfied that he was dead, they discussed my fate .and i had to stand by while they debate 1 whether^to hang me or keep me cap tive. hoping to force the Reelfoot fishing company stockholders to-con cede free fishing on the lake. But those who favored hanging seemei to be winning the day when 'they pointed out that they could not keep me prisoner without my know ing my prison, and that this would lead to their being taken captive when I was freed. When 1 saw the day was going against me. 1 deter mined to try for liberty. I broil.• )*«* concerns of its kind in the ooua- from the two men who were holding j Ri'- me and ran. They followed slowly! Out of those in the establishment for they thought they could easily catch me. It wiifc growing daylight and I knew that 1 made a fair;;: •good 'target So I surprised them b; plunging Into the bayou that run.- from the lake. these Tasr weeks berbre election, the Cincinnati Enquirer has been taking a secret ballot. The canvas is Ac curate, the results being ascertained and verified by mathematical experts. The figures show big Democratic gains and are sn^h 'as to put the election of Bryan beyond any doubt. Mfst interest'ng are figures from Taft's own State, Ohio, and hlk own city,. Cincinnati. They show a state of affairs which admits of only one interpretation—that Bryan will carry Ohio by many thousand plurality. For example, the Enquirer made a canvass of the Lunkenhelmer Brave works in Cincinnati, one of t|te larg* who voted the Republican ticket in 1904, forty-nine will vote for Bryan in 1908. Only sixteen who voted Democratic in 1904 will vote for Taft this year, wl^ile eight Republicans will' vote for Debs, one Republican "I used to be a good swimmer ah 1 ; for Prohibition, one Republican will I stayed under water as long as l | v o* e Socialist and three Socialists could. ■ When I came up they shot ' '*'1U vote Democratic, at me. I cohid not stay in the wa The canvass made in the First Nat ter longer, and jumped on the bank ; 10,11,1 n, ‘ nk building showed thirty- 1 here came a volley oj shots God "fa* Republicans who will shift to was with me. and 1 was,not hit, but I straighten,ed, threw up both dands reeled and fell face-downward. i Bryan””cngalnst nine voters who wilt shift to Taft. In the Fourth National Bank building eleven Ri vard of rhe hotel the night riders covered them .with revolvers. Before Captain Rankin and Colonel Taylor had an opportunity to retire they were surrounded and seized. They .were put on horses behind night riders ami Carefully guarded. The night riders then quietly took up their march from the hotel, turn ing down the road toward Reel Foot Lake. Proceeding to the edge of Reel Foot Lake the night riders pull thought my rUse had failed u hen ! l ),,bl K* n * for An'™. whHe ou’y they fired at my prostrat^lmdys but ! ,wo who voted Democratic in 1904 they missed me. Thinking they had i w111 "hHl f° Taft this year. In,the Hilled me. they . departed without Mercantile Library skyscrapeY is crossing the^bayou. yv ,-.hown this extraordinary change. m^tjf» |r l^utb.usly inov>-.i Republican to Democratic, SI; Dem and then go^m^afffT walked throughT"*'^^ 10 R^Publhiga, er- 1 -!•- the forest. i uesday night in the ; 11110,1 Trust building, among bankers, woods and Wednesday morning 1 1 lawyers, doctors and Insurance men, vehtured on a public road. 1 wj- 1 forty-three shift to Bryan as against afraid to go into a farm house. f or '•'♦•nty-two to Tsft. fear of meeting enemies, but I had : ca,1 ' a,M, plant of H- l- not eaten since Monday night, an 1 i mer8, Bettmann & Co., one of ths the ravages of hunger became too ’ a, ® e,il shoe factories of Cincinnati, strong, and I went into a farm house ' s *' vpnlt ' cn R^PUblicana *'ent over to at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning ana! * ,,<1 not 8 ^faR 1 * Democrat wi.l was fed. The occupants telephoned'! ' 0, ‘* fa r Taft, this being especially to Tlptonvllle that I was safe. Then t K, * nlflcan, ai ' ihow fa« th * Br 7 a » Bends in their "home” was almost ol ,t a rope and placed the noose j | waH dr |Voi) here and here I am." | t r ‘*nd of the labor vote. unbelieveably bad. They slept in^a ' place barely eighteen InchestJwgn in They slept in^a | Captain Rankin's neck. Captain Rankin was strung u»> the hold, because the other parts o' j f rom a jjinb on the bank of the Ink* the vessel were too uncomfortab’y ! f or the fishing privileges of which cold for them in their drugged con ; |, e | ia( j contended w ith the night-rid- DONT WANT BRYAN. ora. The masked men then stepped i back and opened fire on the swing ing body, riddling it with bullets j Leaving the corpse of Captain -Ran * kin hanging on the bank of Uee> I Lake, the night riders took Colonel Taylor Vo another sp'jt. Search neai-. Captain I Rankin's, body has failed to reveal jvjraee bf the murderers '■’fhe t r^ui'filc between inhabitant - on the banks of Roe! FooiftS^-Vu-l Governor Patterson has ordere 1 i The decislxeness of Democrat!- soldiers to the nelghliorhood where K #lllH ls brought out with startling the outrage took place, and the ta- j ward for tin increased from $10.0n(t to o-oo Of t clearness by analysis of there figure*, guilty one has be-*n| Anion * the profeasional and mecaa- 112 .1 tile classes, aa represented tn the * big office buildings, there la a Re- j publican sbtff of 17 per cent, wklla (the Democratic shift to Taft ia only 8 per cent. Among the laboring peo ple..'as shown Ly the canvaaa of the FOUND HIM GUILTY iiru dition. The officer had hard work to find out this sleeping room, but wa finally attracted by the groans ami mofins of the. woman, wh ohad just previously taken a stiff dose of the poison and was under its influence The deck of the schooner was d-- scriWed as being literally covered by- the little white pill boxes w hblr had once contained the cocaine. Offers of- help were made to tin „„ v ,.^, Malones by Magistrate O Shaughnfis- (' 0 | O nel Tayhor a.nds^A|(l«ajn, Rahkin j sentenced by fudge Grq' Monday to 4 *he country sy and-several other people present j organtxeih^'keveral years ago. whoe l ^erve a period of t* n years at ha r rt 'Now- the total Republican vota of the’two latter me if organized tin-[labor in tbe 8ta*e' pefiiteflrtnrr— Tenitesse*‘\_Laud Company. The grand iury returned a true \Ueinpting t<i_Jiuru HUj Store Reimeit-Hettniann concern. tb«r« „ ,, ... a Republican shift to Bryan of $3 1-1 l»er cent-and no shift to Taft at all. \ dispatch from Bennettsville to j It Is fair to assume that workan Tho-State says Zephry !’. Wftght and salaried people repreaant *t chcgred with bti.-niug hi- store, was | least two-thirds of the entire vote of at the trial, with a view of relieving their destitute condition, but these kind offers were bruskly brushed aside by the man, who stated tha they were too far gone already in their indulgence of cocaine to care for assistance. When Louis was ar rested by the police on a charge Oi vagrancy Friday afternoon he gave West bought Reel Fooj/ Lake from not resident property owners and made bill. The solicitor empaneled a trill jury, put in the evidence for tl'.e regulations or uiyir own concerning State and then announced that *h- fishing privilege^ j State would be satisfied with-a ver- Total Republican Colonel TaylotCalso. secured th • j diet of guilty with .recommendation Bryan 186.333 passage in the Legislature of an Act ; for mercy. * 1 ..Ohio In 1904 was 600.059. The total Ivemocratlc vote was 344,674. Ap- plying the canvass in Cincinnati to general conditions throughout th* State of Ohio, we have: shift to Attorneys announced ! Deduct Democratic shift of 8 making it a misdemeanor to fish In the officers a terrible fight for thi+rhe lake without paying a heavy fee possession of .the-cocaine syringe and Kearlng trouble Captain Ransin and Columbia Merchant Fined for Vio lating Game Law. Mr. A. G. Douglass, president if the A., G. Douglas Company, which conducts a fashionable dry golds and nAll lner y establishment in Colum bia, was fined $2 Thursday by Mag istrate Fowles on a charge of violat ing the game laws of the State The warrant was sworn out by Secre tary Rice, of the Audubon Society, under the Act of 1905, and stateo that Mr. Douglas has in his posses sion and offers for sale the feathers of a non-game bird, wjjjchJs a vio lation- otlhe. statue. ^Thg'feath^rB la; qaatlott-arn-thal New York Doctor Accused of Crim inal Practice Suicides. Rather than face trial for man slaughter. growing out of a rase of a.ieged criminal practice. Dr. Irving I. Cook, a young doctqr of New York drank a dose of a powerful poison and shot himself at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Friday. His body was found by hotel attendants. The man left a sealed letter addressed to bi- wife, but accompanying it was a terse note in which he asked her "not to take this affair hard." Dr. Cook was arrested last Tuesday night and the following day he was released in $10,000 bail. He was to have been prosecuted for the death of a young woman at Summit, X. J., last summer. Railway Magnates Will Do All They Can to Beat Him. / Alarmed by the growing sentiment among railroad employes for Bryan, the managers of the Big: Four divis ion of the New York Central railroad are sending a special train across Ohio with General Manager Van Winkle and-other officials on board, urging the men to vote for Taft. The first stop was made at Spring field, that being headquarters for four divisions of the road. "We have heard, men," said Mr. VanWinkle, "that you think that we want you to vote for Bryan. That is a mistake. Wfijmpe as many as the. drug. Salvation Army officers found out the condition of the couple, and were especially excited to pity through Rosa’s ragged and wretched appearance. The woman was taken to the Salvation Army home and there cared for before it was decided to send her to her home in Birm- Colonel Taylor had remained away from the vi mlty of the lake for some time. Recently, however, they heard that the feeling against then had somewhat subsidised. The at tortteys went to Walnut Log Monday- to see about some legal papers. A man named Powell is said t > have been forced to accompany the at the hotel, and when the rider* called e\‘ery one out and compelled them to line up, Powell, Colonc" Taylor. Captain Rankin and the stir ingham, Ala., but Rosa stayed there | members. Powell had been stojipinf only a few short weeks and then' again followed the fortunes of he: husband. In an uncommonly sho't space of time she was again in dir same deplorable condition in whicl she was found by the Salvation Army offleerr, The skin of both unfortu nates has turped a deep yellow through the excessive use of th$ drug. that such a verdict was acceptable. The 'foreman was Instructed to write such a verdict. When the de fendant was •arraigned for sentence his counsel re;Rl'the proceedings had before tjte probate court and mad-.* an an eldquent and touching appeal for mercy on the ground of the men ' tal unsoundness of the defendant, basing his plea upon personal knowl edge of the defendant'^ mental con dition and the proceedings in the probate court, whereupon the presid ing judge Imposed the minimum sen tence of ten years. The entire community sympathizes deeply with the defendant's family. per eent of professional Vnd mercantile vote .... 9,200 Net Republican shift to Bryan .T. ..... 157,133 Add total Ohio Democratic vptjkj In 1904 r r ' . - > i 344,674 ( 'V; ' * ' Estimated Democratic vote in Ohio for 1908 501,801 Estimate Republican vote In Ohio for 1908. after de ducting net loss of 157,* 442,926 veyor. whose name is unknown, arc the general opinion is that his! said to have been tiken away. i counsel acted wisely. srates, it is said, that after? TOO MUCH GRAFT. FATALLY BURNED. of a heron an a stylish hat In the Douglas window, and there are lots of others of the same kind in thi stock, which Mr. Douglas will have to dispose of in some legal way. When the case was called in the Magistrate’s Court he entered a plea of guilty and paid his fine. If the Audubon Society undertakes to enforce the law throughout the State is is likely that a good many stocks of millinery in other town* than Columbia will be depleted of some of th*ir choicest fall offering* * Colored Woman on Anderson Farm Meets Awful I>eath. :. iKgtbt»r-- Brown-.- a. -roumt clore l working on the plantation of M-. Charlie Jones, about two miles below Staler, was so severely burned that she-died in great agoney., She had been working in the field, near where she lived, and went to the house to start a fire in the stove t» prepare supper. It is believed that the womai^jised kerosene oil In start ing the fire and that it blazed up on her when, the match was applied. She was horribly burned all over the body and face. possible tfill vote for Mr^TsTT, for j Caused Moitnett ’to Become a ...^y 'oeTaf Tor Good. Powell killing Rank,in a vote was taken regarding the dispuositlon to mad" of Taylor. During the dispute Tay lor made a dash and jumped into the bayou, starting to swim across it A number of shots were fired at him. and in the-confusion Powell slipped a rut brought back -the, ptor y-fli. -says among the most thrilling e-xpe- we are convinced that Bryan’s elec-j ' -hei^Tfor food I the .escape or TtHampted^scape of riences of the survivors of the Pres- tion would mean, four years of de ; ’ ! Taylor pression. On the other hand, wo At g a j t i, a ite City Wednesday in j jr TayTof'wa* the father of Th c making a speech at a Democratic, ^ ndt , rh j| t bill star, Hillsman think Taft's election will mean pros perity. . Don’t think anybody is going .to he discharged if he votes for Bryan We simply want to Impress upon you . , . ' that work will be more plentiful if woman of Afldemrr, who HM' been j fl ' e iected." a 4 Men holding executive positions on the road are being asked to talk Taft to the men under them. I t many Instances the action of the of ficial was resented. Ctotton Mills Resume Operations. A dispatch from Eatonton. Oa.. says that the Floyd Cotton Mills of that place resumed operation this week, after being closed about fiv>» '"optb*. Estimate Democratic plural ity Ohio for 19U8...J. 68,891 Similar or larger Democratic gain, are shown all through the Middls West. Every indication is that they will be repeated in New York. ^ This extraordinary testimony to ?ryan • strengt h is'the unwilling evidence of i hostile witness. John R. McLean, proprietor of the Cincinnati" Enquir* <jr. who is making the caavaas, b»e \ dispatch from Alpena. Mich., ilways been bitterly antagonize to Mr. Bryan. His papers, the En quirer and the Washington Post, are both fighting hitn. But he la com pelled, by the stern logic of facta, to make thesep remarkable concessions. And they agree with the admlsaioot BRAVE S< HOOL TEACHER. Sa\«-d the Lives of the Children in Her Charge. que isle county forest flr^s was that of Miss Grace Barber, school teache ■, Lfrj^ears old. whose school was in rally Frank S. Monnett, former at Taylor, who was married to MIsm sffjision when the flames swept down torney general of Ohio, said: Katherine Taylor, the daughter o f 1 upoff**flb Jr ' , twdiaql lloUBt ‘ ^ 'of Republican National Chairman "The reason I left the Republican' s< , nator Robert L. Taylor, last fa!’. She took all of,Jrtie school, children Httchoock, who is , forced to admit party and advocate the election ot (Captain Rankin was a prominent to a plowed field nearby where they immense Democratic galpa alt Bryan is due to the fact that while. | aV7Cr Q f Trenton . Ho was captain^ were (kept crowded close tog"the-, ithrough the West. I was prosecuting the Standard O'* 1 1 0 f a military company in the Spanish Trust in Ohio, and with every rea son to expect a successful iijsue. The Republican campaign fund of Ohio swelled by .contributions from ward , of $10.d00 for the arrest bf the-night two boars-ffiade their at was the Standard Oil Company and n return that the company was allowed to name the personnel of supreme court of Ohio, whereupon all of the Standard Oil cases were promptlj dismissed. "Then," said Monnett, "T became a Democrat.” American war and served in the Cuban campaign. Governor Patterson offered a re- estffr enr»?er gulshed as iT feffirpon fftrtr etorti* 1 ' ing. Soon animals began to appea, oh the edge of the field, and during the person or persons guilty of < murder of Judge Taylor and Captain Rankin at Reel Foot Lake. Gov ernor Patterson was at Covington when news of the murder was re ceived *ud Immediately cancelled his engagement* to speak there Tties- •Jdar- pea ranee. Among other animals appearing was a fox and a wild cat. hut non . including the bears, made any hos tile demonstration. Miss Barber kept her charges in the field until morn ing. when they were sent to their homes. " * Waddy Bramlett, a rural carrier oh one of the R. F. D. routes oat oi Greenvliiq. dropped lead in tbo tom of Ringiand Brothers circus Tuesday He was entering the tout to witness tbe performance, sad it is supposd that he became over heated while waitlnf for tbo gatea to open. He fall just as he eatsrad the ient and died before medtcdl aM cculd reach him. V ft: