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fBARNWELL. S. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 26.1811
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Colorado Spriogs, Wherr
Six Person* Were BnUhered; and
in Illinois Town,
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Three Others Were Killed,
Declares Former Spouse. "
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SOLD HER FOR GAIN AWFUL STORY PE0PLE ARE R0BBED
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MOST DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT
NEAR 81MMERTON.
EiftM Ely, tki Fastis Ameii’s Ca-
rt«r Ea^s la a Fall M laeta
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Mr. Henry B. Richardson Accidental
ly Shoots and Kills His Young and j JUMPED TO HIS DEATH
Newly Wedded Wife.
A special dispatch from Summer-
That Charles Marzyek, ex-convict,
sought by the authorities in connec
tion with the murder of five members
of the William Showman family at
Ellworth, Kai., Sunday night, had
been in Colorado Springs, where the
six members of the Wayne and Burn
ham families were slain, and was ac
quainted in Monmouth, 111., where
three were murdered recently, was
the startling declaration made to the
authorities by Mrs. Minnie Vopat,
Msrsyek’s divorced wife. All these
fourteen -victims were killed with an
axe.
Samuel Showmen, brother of Wil
liam Showman, heed of the murdered
family, Wednesday started at the
head of a posse to search the county.
Marzyek is believed to be hidden
in the neighborhood. If he is found
a battle Is expected. Marzyek not
long ago served a term for stealing
grain from James Vopat.
All the members of the Slav com
munity who bad any comnection with
the conviction of Marxyek went
armed Wednesday, for he la reported
to hare sworn vengeance on those
responsible for his Imprisonment.
Ira Lloyd, the attorney wko de
fended Marxyek In the wheat steal
ing case, said Wednesday:
"I believed Marzyek will remain In
the neighborhood until be has conr-
pleted his vengesnce. After his sen
tence he told me that when he was
released he would come back and kill
the people who were responsible for
his conviction and also their chll-
drem. ‘I will put them all in hell,’
he Mid.”
Evidence furnished by Mr. and
lift. William Showman it said to he
responsible for Marzyek’s conviction.
Nine persons remain here who fear
hid vengeance. These persons, all of
thsM-Slavs, bit own rapce, are: James
Vopigt, Mrs. Minnie Vopat, who oU
talned a divorce from Marzyek after
hla sentence and married Vopat nine
months later; their two children, one
ten months old, the other three
yesrt; John Kstke, father of the
murdered Mrs. Showman, who tes
tified against Murzyek; Mrs. John
Kstke and three children, Emile,
aged 17; Annie, aged 18; Mary, aged
10.
As to s possible connection be
tween the Ellsworth and other trag
edies. Mrs. Vopat says her former
busbahd was convicted of forgery in
Colorado Springs a few months ago
She said that It was not Improbable
that he had been In Monmouth late
ly.
The tnaane cruelty on the part of
the slayer is evideoit In the Wayne
and B<urnham tragedies, at Colorado
Springs: in the murder of William
E. Dawson, his wife and daughter,
In Monmouth, and in the killing of
the Showmans. .
Marzyek served in the Philippine
war and after his return to this
country deserted from the army. He
had been In trouble since, for forg
ing checks and stealing. Until he
went to the penitentiary he was a
constant fugitive.
ton says one of the most deplorable
tragedies in the history of that sec
tion occurred near that place Thurs
day morning when the young and
newly wedded wife of Mr. Henry B.
Richardson w&a ' accidentally shot
and .killed by a gun in the hands of
her husband. From the testimony
brought out at the corner’s inquest,
held at the home at noon, it appears
tagf Mr. and Mrs. Richardson were
preparing ’o drive Into Summerton
luimedlalely after breakfast.
The deceased was in her bed room
when her husband entered and pick
ed up a double-barreled shotgun
from a corner, intending Vo kill a
chicken with it. While speaking to
his wife he examined the gun to
if It was loaded, and as he closed the
brsech there was a deafening report,
followed by a cry of pain, and the
young woman fell mortally wounded
to the floor. The entire load enter
ed her left side, just beneath the
arm, tearing her heart entirely a-
way and causing immediate death.
Just a few days ago the young
couple surprised their large ciiple of
friends by announcing their mar
riage, which took place in Augusta,
Ga., on the 10th instant. The de
ceased was a young woman of 18
years of age, and was widely known
and - deservedly popular hereabouts.
8h» anas the daughter of Mr. James
Douglas Dess, formerly of Camden,
but now living at Summerton. Mr.
Deaa is in the West at the present
time.
Mrs. Richardson had several bro
thers and a slater, all of whom have
been notified of the accident. The
husband is a young man of great
promise and is completely over
whelmed by the terrible tragedy.
The interment w\ss at St. Mark’s
Chuoch, Clarendon, at 3 o’clock on
Friday afternoon, 20th instant. The
sympathy of the entire community
goes out to the young husband and'
groom in his grief.
SEVERAL PARDONS GRANTED.
Lose* Control of Machine, which
Plunges Downward, and Endeav
ors to Jump to Safety—Body Brok
en in Many Places, End Coming
Eleven Minutes Later.
WERE NOT THE ONES.
Governor Bleaas's Pardon Mill Still
in Good Order.
Aaron Williams, a-white man who
was convicted in Kershaw county In
1903 on the charge of murder and
upon recommendation to mercy sen
tenced to life imprisonment in the
state penitentiary, has been paroled
by the Gov. Hlease during good be
havlor. He left the penitentiary after
a service of only eight years for
murder.
DeWItt Rogers, who was convicted
in Spartanburg county in JJune of
this year on the charge of violating
the dispensary law and sentenced to
six months or a fine of S300, has
been paroled by the governor.
Ella Jernlgan, who was convicted
in Marlboro county in October of
1910 and sentenced to two years in
ths penitentiary on the charge of
manslaughter, has been paroled.
The sentence of C. W. V. Benton,
who was convicted in Beaufort coun
ty and sentenced to six months’ im
prisonment or a fine of $200 or six
monthn on the chain gang.
Since assuming office on Janvary
17 of this year the governor has ex
tended clemency in 250 cast'; as fol
lows: Paroles 134; pardons 116.
Quest for Capt. Jarvis Results Tn-
saccessfully.
The News and Courier says after
a two-day search of the islands about
Btono Inlet In an effort to discover
the bodies of Capt. Edward L. Jar
vis, of the schooner Margaret A.
May* and his two brothers, who lost
“their Uvea when their vessel was
-wrecked in the great hurricane of
August 27 and 28, the Custom House
lairich Sumter .returned to the city
Wednesday aftqrnoon. The bodies
were exhumed ]}? the March party,
and the evidence failed to substan
tiate the report tfcftt one of them was
that of the gallant and popular sea
man, whose many friends In Charles>-
ton have never ceased to deplore his
untimely death.
KILLED BY A SNOW SLIDE.
Man and Wife Overwhelmed in Home
Three Natives Were Eaten.
News comes from the New Heb
rides that a French trading vessel
made a raid and a number of na
tives were kidnapped. The native*
In revenge attacked the steamer and
captured three ol the crew, all na-
ttj.es. These were killed and eaten.
l4 i Drop# Frogs Large as Bees.
Yellowing a rain storm In Chatham
county, Ga., the entire eectlon is
alive with frogs about the site of
bees. Even the business section of
Savannah Is alive with the email
creatures which. It Is believed, fell
with the rain.
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Mistook Hair Tggte for Whisky.
James Fhmegan, of St Joseph,
Mo., IB yearn ol4 mistook hair tonic
f ylit of
fond
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Llfel
by an Avalanche.
Stanley McLellan and bis wife
were killed recently by a enowslide
that demolished their home at the
Fatridee mine on the West of Lake
Atlin, Y. T.
Victor Carlston, who was standing
near the bouse, was caught up by
the avalanche and carried a thousand
feet dowa the mountain. He suffered
several broken ribs, but will recover.
McLellan had just gone into the
house to aid his wife in preparing
dinner, when the snowslide swept
down upon them, crushing the stone
building Into bits.
McLellan was peeling potatoes
when the snow overwhelmed his
home, and when his body was recov
ered the knife was firmly grasped
In his hand. When Mrs. McLellan’s
body was uncovered it wa* found
that her glasses were unbroken.
Eugene Ely, the well known avia
tor, was fatally injured at tke State
Fair grounds her ahortly after 3
o’clock Thursday afternoon, when his
aeroplane refused to rise after a M8-
sational dip and plunged with him
fifty feet to the earth.
In the presence of nearly 8,000
people he fell to the middle of the
incloeure of the mile track, almost
clearing the machine by a desperate
jump he made when he realized his
peril. His 'body was bfoken in a score
of places, and he died eleven minu
tes after the fall. Just before the
end came he regained consciousness
and muttered.
“I lost control; I know I am going
to die.”
Ely made a remarkable flight
Thursday morning shortly before
noon, ascending to an altitude of
3,100 feet. At 2.45 o’clock he began
his second flight of the day, rising
gracefully from the track iuclosure,
which he circled In a few minutes,
traveling at about thirty miles an
hour. As he was completing the cir
cle, he made one of his famous dips,
apparently to startle the thousands
beneath him who were watching with
straining eyes. The birdlike machine
shot down with tremendous veloci
ty, the crowd applauded, thinkig that
the aviator would rise, as he had
done countless times before. But
Ely seemed to lose his grip on the
lever, for the machine continued its
downward plunge to the earth.
Realizing his pe>ril, Ely released
the lever altogether and half jumped,
barely clearing the aeroplane as It
crashed to the ground. It was demol
ished, flying bits of wood and metal
flying hundreds of feet. Ely struck
with terrific force. Scores rushed"
acoss the track to where he lay, a
broken, bloody, inert mass, to offer
him aid. He was tenderly removed
from beneath the wreckage which
covered him, and carried to his quar
ters.
The vast crowd, excited and cu
rious, rushed forward, but, were
kept in order by the policemen. Ef-
torts were made to reeuciate the
aviator, but he only regained con-
•ciousness for a moment, before his
death. Even in his unconscious state
his physical agony was manifest.
Ely left his wife in New York
two weeks ago to come to Macon to I
give a series of flights for the Geor
gia State Fair, in his Curtiss bi
plane. En route he stopped at Dav
enport, la , to visit his relatives. He
had been giving spectacular aerial
demonstrations at Macon for eight
days, going up on one occasion amid
a shower of rain.
Thursday he even offered to make
a flight by night, painting hla cfaft
with phosphorous, “so as to startle
the natives,” he told the Fair direc
tors. The offer was declined.
Ely was the first man to alight on
the deck of a warship with an aero
plane. During an aviation meet, held
in San Francisco, a distance of about
twenty miles, and alighted on the
deck of the cruiser Pennsylvania,
which was anchored in San Francis
co Bay. After holding a reception on
board the warship, Ely flew from
the »hip back to the camp and land
ed safely. ;
COUPLE WHO WERE DIVORCED.
WOMAN MAKES THIS CHARGE
AGAINST HUSBAND.
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Three Months After Their Marriage
She Declares He Bartered Her to
Chicago Millionaires.
“My husband—that serpent whom
I killed last week—repeatedly aold
me—sold my body—to a Chicago
millionaire. Once rich himself, Pat-
terion resorted to the worst when
he lost his money. He aold me on
one* occasion to that millionaire for
$1,600. The purchaser took me to
Europe and there we—well, I’ll drop
the curtain on what we did there.
Do you wonder that I shot Patter
son?”
This will form the line of defense
for Mrs. Gertrude A. Patterson, now
In Jell at Denver, Col., for shooting
and killing her husband, Charles Pat
terson, In the Phipps sanitarium in
that city .laat -week. It meane ehe
will plead "temporary insanity, the
climax of a long series of unspeak
able brutalities.”
“He spat in my face, struck and
called me the vilest name a man can
call a woman,” she declares, and
shows a bruise on her cheek, which,
she said, resulted from her hus
band’s blow. “I have evidence in
my husband's own handwriting that
will undoubtedly clear me before a
jury,” declared Mrs. Patterson.
Mrs. Patterson told her hideous
story without reservation to her at
torney, concealing nothing concenr-
ing her relations with a Chicago man,
and, at the same time, overlooking
nothing which would serve to dis
credit the character of her husband.
According to Patterson’s diary,
found among his effects, he knew
bis wife was in ‘Europe in Jan
uary and February, 1909,
could not have left her husband In
February on excuse of going to visit
her family in St. Louis, as he al
leged in divorce suit he had filed
against her.
"Three months after we were mar
ried,” said Mrs. Patterson in telling
MiBmbi Arc Stwiii ■ Chiu ut
CuifcilisH li Cceeci.
SEEN UPON EYERY HAND
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Heaps of Decaying Dead Piled in
Streets and Other Place# and
Sights are Sickening Horror of
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Devastations Produced by Vast
Flood Which Swept Central China.
Advices from Shanghai say that
millions of people face starvation in
Central China. Parents are eating
their children In the flood-stricken
districts. Marauding bands are in
control and head the fight for the
survival of the fittest. MlMlonarles
coming from the Interior state that
the situation surpasses anything
within the history of the conntry.
From Ichang to the tea, a dis
tance of a thousand miles, the valley
of the Yangtse Is bordered by heaps
of decaying dead, while the blwck
flag and canibalism holds undisputed
sway. The fiood-devastated villages
are overrun with starving Chinese.
The water-sodden ground is past all
cultivation. The rice crop is com
pletely destroyed, and even the grass
along the river bank has been uti
lized for food. Not a dog, rat or
bird that could be captured has been
spared.
The same conditions prevail In all
the valleys of Central China. Re
ports from the interior proclaim a
state of ananchy. All trade is sus
pended and the principal cltlee will
soon be In a state of siege, with their
Inhabitants facing starvation, the
and government is unable to cope with
the conditions. Millions of dollars
in food are needed at once.
Driven from their homes by the
floods, thousands of refugees fled to
the hills and camped on the sides
in little mat sheds. Here they have
been making pitiful efforts to pre-
FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOOL
TRUST WHO OWN MILLS.
her story, “ChaleS Patterson told me ( serve their lives until the subsiding
to go to a Chicago millionaire for; flood gives them an opportunity to
$1,500. He told me he might take return to their homes. They brought
me where he pleiased, that he might with them in their flight small
have me as long as he pleased and stocks of rice but in the weeks of
that the sura paid in cash was his' waiting this has been exhausted and
Compensation. Four weeks later | now they are eating anything that
when the Chicago man and I were
in Europe, Patterson wrote me that,
unless I returned to him by first
boat, he would follow me and kill
me He had spent the money then
and he wanted me back
might secure more That
holds nourishment. On the hillsides
they are digging into the ground with
their bare fingers to get roots of
weeds and grass and some have
mixed clay with L»elr rice In order
fk
k litucri d liacka
that he! to give it more bulk,
was the In Anhui province the refugee*
life fo which he led me. He sold me’ have overrun the wheat fields which
at a time when 1 did not know where were recently harvested and are
my next meal was coming from. gleaming the stubble of every grain
“Three months after we were mar- which was left by the harvesters,
ried my husband arranged with the, Those who have been able to reach
Chicago millionaire to take me off i the larger cities are offering their
his hands for as long a time as he children for sale, many little girls
cared to keep me. We went abroad being aold for a few dollars and the
at once. Our stay In Europe, espec-; boys for a slightly larger amount. In
ially at Paris, was just »whaf you | the smaller villages which have been
might expect that
into details?”
it was. Why go
LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
Young Woman Weighs Over
Hundred Pounds.
Eight
Two Killed About a Hog.
T. I. Hill and J. M. Revels, farm
ers, living near Adel, Ga., were ehot
and killed in a quarrel over a bog
belonging to a tenant on HiU’e place
which had gotten Into a field be
longing to Revels. When the men
met hot word# were passed and Hill
ahot Revels. A son of Revel* then
shot Hill through the heart.
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to Gen. Morgan.
Lexington, Ky., was the Mecca
Wednesday of Confederate Veterans,
their sons and daughters, from all
Remarry After Living Apart for Fif-
4
ty Three Years.
J. 8. Herman, a resident of Fuller
ton,- Neb.-, remarried hie first wif*
on the fifty-third anniversary of their
hrst wedding day, after having been
married to t|vo other women.
After living together for fifteen
years, Herman and the woman he has
| ist remarried were divorced. Herman
then married Mrs. Lasy Townsend,
of Fullerton, with whom he lived
for tweuty-flve years. She died fif
teen years ago, and ten years ago
he married Mrs. Margaret Houser,
who died recently.
Recently Herman wrote his first
wife, and two weeks ago she came
to see him. She responded to his ad
vances and promised to remarry him.
They are living at the home where
they began housekeeping.
Miss Gertrude Burke of Chicago,
largest woman in the world, is visit
ing at the home of Mrs. H. W. Hayee,
at Alton, 111. Miss Bu.-ke is twenty-
two years of age, weighs 825 pounds,
stands five feet, seven inches, and
some of her measurements are: Arm,
28 inches: waist, 54; bust, 75. She
wears No. 4 1-2 shoes and No. 7
glovee.
When she was born Miss Burke
weighed fifteen pounds, and at eight
years of age weighed 250. At the
Hayes home she sits on two chairs
placed facing each other. Miss
Burke goes through doors by turn
ing sideways, and It Is a pretty hard
squeeze at that.
Efforts have been made by show
men to get Miss Burke to exhibit
herself, but she has never been
tempted. Her parents left her au
estate and she does not need the
money.
Was Killed on Street Car.
At Montgomery, Ala., A. C. Jam!
son, a fruk vender, shot and killed
John Bice, a street car conductor, on
the rear end of a street car in the
heart of the city. Circumstances
leading to the killing are unknown.
Jamison has been arrested on a
charge of murder.
Will Beat Them Both.
Thtt' the next President of the
United''States would be a Democrat;
that Mr. "Ta/t would be the nominee
of the regular Republicans, with La-
Follette -the possible nominee of the
Insurgent faction, were the view ex
pressed at Lake Charles, La., Wed
nesday .by Speaker Champ Clark.
cut off from any food supply for
weeks canibalism Is the depth to
which starvation has driven the flood
victims. Many parents have eaten
their own children.
Ordinary flood statistics are Insig
nificant in ^comparison to those which
are necessary in enumerating the
extent of this flood. For a thousand
miles the Yangtse is a vast inland
sea, its former course serving only
as a channel in the stream which
stretches away to the horizon* or the
hills on either side. For two hun
dred miles to the north of the
Yangate the Han is out of its banks
and south of Hankow, Tung Ting
lake is so far out of its banks that
it has flooded villages fifty miles In
land. In one village six hundred
were drowned. In another three hun
dred. At least ten thousand were
drowned in the villages and towns
alone.
An area as large as a European
country, is under water, its crops
ruined, and its population homeless.
As to the number which are starving,
two millions Is as conservative eat in
mate, the most conservative of any
which have been made. After a
The Amerttaas Pay Over a Hoad red
Million Dollars In Taxes oa kbe
Clothes They Wear.
The people of the United State*
pay a subsidy to the wool industry
of at least $104,400,000 a year* 4
cording to calculations of the Hon.
Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama,
chairman of the Ways and Means
committee of the house of repress#
tatlvee, who discussed schedule K
before the Industrial club, of Chi-
cagot recently. -
After rotating the history of the
tariff on wool which he said had been
recommended in 1867, after a meeh-
ing of the wool growers of the west
and the wool Manufacturer* of the
east. Congressman Underwood un
dertook to show the actual tax Im
posed on the individual through the
tariff. ’
“An Illustration of the extent of
the burden la afforded by a study of
a typical article of comparatively
cheap cloth such as enters the ordh
nary men’s suit worn by the great
masses of the people,” he said. "The
article ia an all worsted fancy fabric,
the wholesi*! English price per yard
of which 1* seventy-seven cent*, and
the freight to New York, one cent
"The compensatory duty Is forty-
four cents per pound or twenty-three
cents per yard, the ad valorem duty
forty per cent or thirty-eight cents
|er yard In addition, or seventy-eight
per cent of the import price. It ret
quires three and one-half yards to
make a man’s salt. There are at
present 92,000,000 persons of tho
United States. It la estimated one-
fifth are heads of families, or mom
making 18,400,000 auch aults used
a year. There are doubtless an equal
number of women wearing Woolen
making a total of such cloth, which
with the children'! suits makes a to
tal, figured at the small estimate of
one suit a year, 171,200,000 yards.
"The talff tax of 61 per cent per
yard, to say nothing of any in-
prease lu tax as It passes to the
jabber, makes not lees than 9104,
400,00 paid each year to subMdise
the wool Industry of America
“On the other hand, the entire
duties paid the United States on all
Imports of woolens and worsteds la
1910 amounted to a total of lose
than one-fourth of one per cent of
916,600,000 for tho use of tho gov
ernment sod over flOO.ftOO.OOA sub
tracted from the pockoto of the peo
ple.
Ia it fair or ju*t or right to main
tain these enormous taxes unduly to
foster the business of leas than one-
and three-fourth* to stagger under
this enormous burden?
"1 do not believe the American
people will justify the president in
Us veto of the wool schedule. Ha
does not say the rates of duty fixed
in the bill presented to him ware too
high or too low, but says that con
gress was not Informed and that
they must walk the decision of the
socalled tariff hoard. The congress
had all the Information It had when
It passed the revision of the tariff
schedule, that the Ways and Means
committee had when It drafted the
Payne bill, which the president
signed.
“The chairman of the tariff board
does not seem to agree with the pres
ident as to the ability of that board
to secure facts that will aid pongresa
In rewriting that schedule. He said
at a banquet of the American Asso
ciation of Woolen and Worsted man
ufacturers In New York last Decern-'
ber “there are certain things that are
difficult to get and one thing is to
try to get cost of production."
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Day
of Horrors of
MURDERERS TO BE HANGED.
Two Negroes Will Be Executed for
Killing Negroes.
At the conclusion of the Court of
General Sessions at Chester on Wed
nesday, Judge Watts pasted sentence
on Henry Kee, for the murder of
three-weeks’ trip through the flooded} g*i» Dyo; and Mhoh Hood, for the
1 South. The oc- in -edg leading
Birth Rate Low In France.
For the five-year period from,
}1901 to 1905 inclusive the number
of births a thousand of population
canton for the gathering was the ubk
veiUng of an 18-foot bronze equeo-
wea as follows: In Holland, 166;
In Germany, 148; In Great Britain,
to Gen. John H. Ul; in Austria, ill; U Italy, 106,
,a < M ..j v is
. if 7 -i£ -ftM
and in France, 18,
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Killed a Huge Rattler.
A rattlesnake that had as Its
caudal Appendage 23 rattles and a
button* wa* killed in Baltkehatchie
swamp, several miles from Barnwell,
by D. E. Aldrich, last week. The
rattles were cut off and brought to
Barnwell. They measured five Inches
in length
Bottle of Catsup Blew Up.
Mra. Herbert Morgan, of,, Spring-
field, Mass., will lose the sight of her
left eye a* the result of an ex
plosion of a bottle of catsup. A bot
tle of catsup was on the table when
it blew up, and a fragment of glaa*
was imbedded in Mr*. Morgan’s eye
ball.
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French Miners Killed. r - -
explosion In the Bardot coal mine. In
white fighting a lire which
has been In tho workings since Tuaa-
region, it is my opinion that the
number will exceed 2,500,000. In
Anbui province alone the homeless
number half a million. In the Tang
Ting lake region there"li an equal
number and these two sections cover
only a small part of the vast area of
the flood.
From American standards their
necessities of life are ridiculously
smill. A dollar wiil supply a whole
family with food for a week. A hun
dred dollars will keep a village in
comfort for a month. Poverty auch
as is erfer present In China, Is uir-
known In America, just as suffering
such as Is caused by this flood Is
unknown here. There may be hun
gry people in America hut none is
starving. In Changteh and in other
cities In the flooded district, they
are dying by the hundreds dally of
Actual starvation.
In all of these cities you may see
bands of refugees so weak from
starvation that they can scarcely Rft
their hands to receive the penny you
give them Yon can see dozens of
those who retain some strength of
body fight like madmen over tho pos
session of a bit of rice which ha*
been spilled in the mod. Rats, cats
and dogs are being eaten Just as
other race would eat them if
to It by the pangs of hunger
To add to the horrors of tho
nation, thievary and
out U the Mg
murder of Walker punlap, sentenc
ing them to hang on December 8.
These will be the first legal hang
ings in Lanoaeter county In twenty-
one yeers. The last hanging Waa
that of Roach Catoe and Will Cly-
burn, for the murder of Gus Hen*-
nis. Out of the twelve murder eases
to come up at this term, all except
two wera tried. Two were convicted
of murder iu the first degree, one
with recommendation to mercy, and
one of manslaughter.
Fatal Shooting at Gayce.
A dispatch from Columbia says
Tom Bynum, colored, waa shot and
Instantly killed at about 8 o’clock
Wednesday morniag at Cayce by
Superintendent Avant, of the N. C.
McDuffie A Co. saw mill, at Cayee.
The shooting was In telf-defenca.
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Prince Shot Down.
At Novo-lkherkash, Russia, Prince
Troubetskey was ssaasalnatad Wed
nesday. A student entered a private
car In which the prince was
6 to that town and shot
times with a revolver.
-
at Hankow and
* - - ‘
A cablegram from
China, says six packed
rived here from
rylng refugees. The
via was occupied
sigh passengers who were |
nccommodartion# at the T
the consol In Hankow. The ship mm,
so crowded the* many of the f*m
sengers slept on the fleer ef the
bold. Moat of the foreigners were
Russians employed' In the tee faete-
ries and Belgian Iron workers, em
ployed In the steel works, the Maffi
Yeng arsenal, and on the Peking-
Hankow Railway.
The refugees declare thsfl the whole
Yang Tse Valley, from Hankow to
Shanghai, Is In the hands of the reb
els with the possible exception of one
or two of the
provincial officiate have
their available troops. It ha* hi
sis ten tty stated here that Kin j
15 miles below Hankow, is
revolutionary control. This Is 4
however, by foreign officiate «
the representatives of the
custom service.
Acoouats of ihe
tack on Wo Chang as given
refugees emphasise
of ihe
la ths slaughter neither age
was regarded sad It Is doabtfnl, the
refugees say, whether e slagle rep
resentative of the Maachu race
left alive there. Similar i
the Manchos followed Ip
and Haa Yang, when
fell.
Copies of the Centra)
which arrived on the Belgrai
scribe the early progress of
lutlonary movement. "The
tionary leaders,” the pega
“displayed secrecy, promp
thoroughness— qualities
shown by the governing
Chian Bat the immure o
chus in our three elUee is a
blot on the reputation of the
1 — +■* —a tf .
lutionams.
Shanghai te a hot bed of
tlon aad rumors of plots aad
plots are numberless. A
peal issued by the
gents ksre today says: J
"We appeal for the
cur brethren throughout tho
Those with money should
funds; those with wlsdoi
devise plane; thorn wM
should secretly report the
condition Wo expect that our
ment will succeed. If it tUHa, the
days’ massacres ef Haag
Ktattag. when the Maaehn
China, will Jbe repeated.
It te hoped that eat
brethren will respond
direction* nod with uaanlmoae i
will turn this universe about. M
|A proclamation credited to
revolutionay leader I
follows:
I come to save the Chinese p ^
pie . I liave no ided of neqairlag
personal profit or preference bat *)■«
only to pull you out of the fir*,
cure your cankering maladies,
erto you have been bitterly
ed. You hare hma drowned
of misery by a government i
Your rulers have treated
bastards, hot Tike childrM.
Let whoever te
triotlc sentiment come qaickl.
Join our ranks. With us he wil
tain unending glory by dellVering*
country from the Manehu bar bah-
who hitherto has eaten our
From now on we shall steep to hie
skla. .
Let ns be
our ti
careful, not to recklessly kill the
Manchos. Let us give them aa
i-ortunity te rurrender
anj uenpona If
yield and c^ntlnne enemies of .
rcvolutioary movement, they must
bo killed.
The official announcement thte
morning that telegraphie commfnl-
cation with Hankow hnd been Inter
rupted since sunset Inst night. <
ed consternation throughout
capital today.
The wildest rumors of reverses
the Imperial arms spread Uh» I
fire, although no definite fasts te I
port them were available.
significance waa attached to tho
(hat the
from
ment of a victory tet:
.ItHttont
refugee
lerly
honest.
Jar
theft, and hanger Has driven
to morder for a quart of riea. to
whote beet crows In order
at a
gagement
—
in return
James Gantt, at Lot
who filed suit i
allege that he
in tho bam.
tobacco
to the Md