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The Barnwell VOL. XXXV BARNWELL. S. G., THURSDAY. AUGUST 22.1912 BLEASE ON TILLMAN SAYS HE DOES NOT NEED THE SENATOR'S SUPPORT JONES TALK OF ISSUES “I M Well QuaUlleii to be Governor as Tillman or Anybody Else," Says Governor Blease. — Peoples and Earle Says They Are Blease for Governor. Thomas H. Peeples ai.tt J. R. Earle came out for Blease. This declara tion of preference as tw the leading candidates for governor by two of th<f four candidates for attorney-general was the news feature of the State campaign meeting in Laurens. Fairly good order was kept by the crowd of 3,000 persons, which filled a natural ampltheater at the edge of the town, except that the chairman HOW HE FOOLED HER YOI NG WOMAN ANSWERED AD- YEHTISEMENT FOR WIFE. The Brute She Married in That Way Deserted Her in Three Days After Marriage. Marry in baste and repent at leis ure was the fate of pretty Mrs. Con way G. Hutcheson, formerly Miss Mary McEachin, and a daughter of a farmer of Brooker, Ua., according to the story she told Chief Beavers Tuesday morning when she asked -that he-find the husband wlio, she al leges, deserted her after they had been married three days. The girl, who is only twenty, lived on a big farm about ten miles from Hazlehurst, Ga., and she had never met Hutcheson until she answered an advertisement for a wife. The adver- tisemtnt read: "Wanted a good coun try girl for a wife. Am a rich Vir ginian. No one but a country girl need apply." Soon letters were exchanged. Then protographs, and finally the man call FORTUNE IN BANKS ■- BECKER, THE NEW YORK CROOK, GOT HIGH SHIELDING THE DENS OF INIQUITY In Less Than Nine Month This Dis honest Police Lieutenant Has I>e* posited Nearly Sixty Thousand Dol lars Received from Crooks of all Kinds for Protecting Them. HELD UP THE COURT TOOK BOY CONVICTED OF MUR DER AND LYNCHED HIM. Powerful banking interests, acting York The Unmasked Mob Penned the Dep uty in the Court Room and Went Away With Negro. Holding up the court officials in the courthouse at Columbus, Ga., at pis tols’ points, a mob of about forty men, In open broad daylight, Tuesday afternoon about five o’clock, took T. ft. Cotton, alias T. C. McElhenny, a rilxteen-year-old negro, on trial, and Ijnched him Just beyond the city limits. The negro had been convicted of SEVERAL DETROIT ALDERMEN HAD MARKED BILLS GIVEN THEM BY BURNS CAUGHT WITH GRAFT » express car To Pass Certain Important Measures Through the City Council for the Benefit of the Wabash Railroad, and Eighteen of Them Have Been Arrested Charged With Grafting. Prosecuting Attorney Sheppard of Detroit, announced Wednesday after noon that Edward Schreltor, deposed John M. Cannon was unable to get a|ed at the girl's borne, where his pol- hearing for Judge Jones when the iat-j ish» d manner and glib tongue won , killing young Cedron Land, a white through the New lork Clearing ne ar town two mouths ago. House committee, came to the aid of; Iy and was found in a field, his face, , u District Attorney Whitman In his ef-! riddled with bird shot. It was re- eounrilmanic 'Terk, who mad© a com forts to lay bare the alleged corrupt| p orted that he had trouble with tho 1 I\ l€,e confession after his arrest with alliance between the police and the negro and the latter was arrested ^ eighteen aldermen In connection with At the trial Tuesday the negro was! *> rlb f7 charges, will from now on as- speedily convicted of "unlawful man- 8i8t lu prosecuting the aldermen, slaughter". Judge Gilbert sentenced 1 "Schreiter lB J“ow an attache of the him to three years in the penlten-i P r08ecutor 8 offlce: * ou m c »" t j ar .. | him an assistant without pay, said The spectators made no show 0 f the prosecutor. The statement was gambling fraternity, founded on graft and blackmail. Burns and his detec tives are on the Job. A virtual command was given by the committee to all banks In the clearing bouse to furnish the district ... attorney with a record of deposits ] their dissatisfaction with the verdict, * Innt] '' af,,>r ,he arraignment of the ter sought to make categorical reply‘the heart of the girl. But” her aged' th ^' ma >’ have from an / of th f hlgh and as soon as court adjourned many; A r u^i h *t to Governor Blease. j father and mother objected. They, ‘^lals whom he district at- of the court officlal8 left. When dop- ^ ™fo 8 <’* ^r hearing on August Judge Jones gave little time to 1 begged the girl to wait until they, ' orn "y suspects of imvlng been coiiec- uties started away with their prison-1 - • who nf th» offi self-defense hut spent the geator part knew more of tiie man, but the cou-' t<,rH ^rkmall from the disorderly^,., they were surrounded and disarm-! . ^' r l ' ^ h ? R “ »!. the of his fortv-fivo minute period in ex- pi, ran away from home, taking theM^nts of he city I ©d. They were held in the court-! lB '° ° o n f J?® plaining politics which he advocates midnight train on July 31. They ar- As * result, records showing that I house while members of the mob. air"-’" 1 ' , H u rldbv so with the poll- rived at Atlanta earlv in the morn- 1 [ w 1 llhlu ,lle '; a8t eight months Police, unmasked, took the negro out to a (" mcilmanlc officials was featured by wee married on Thursday,! I ' ,ei Uenant Charles Becker, charged and contrasting i li cies comprehended in "Bloaseism ’, though lie di dnot once mention the governor s name Governor iilease repeated the sub stance of his addre-s N"wl)erry, omitting, however, the (harg“8 there ma'le bv him against rela'iws of Judge Junes who live U Newberry. Governor Blease referred again to the attitude of i: It Tillman, senior Fenator from South Carolina, toward the Blense-Jones camf'aipn. "Jones and his crowd." Blease. unit, "are try ing to take a snfety-pin and pin Jones onto Pen TtPman'e coat tads Edge- field coun'y has got a man In the race for the I'nited States Senate who served you as Sen.Tor. as superin tendent of ttie | eniien'-arv and for years In conete-s He t.as dor.e much for Sou'h Garollna "I^inrens co-inty has gf't a young man In the race who is honnrnhie md worttiv of any repos*-,f in him Why ehr*i!d Hie Iiipes people try so hard to hang onto Tillman’ He has his own fight to make If tio v had a proper respect for t ) • n.»etv *•« and for Tillman they wou'dti f do it "I t.on't need Tillman's endorse ment I have proven dur'nr «he pas* 19 mon'hs ’hat 1 am as well 'Vj.i’itb 1 to be governor ns Hen T: M- m or anybodv else Th* v sav H imp' >n was defeated hoi a ise to *f. '-d in s family fight and !liw< «’«■ lopg (heir best to get T;]b:..o. <o tnterfet. in a famiiv tigh* P.u’ ’hev are not going to gc 1 Tiliman 1f,*o " " The governor ge, !ar* d In 'harac- terlstlcallv .depart lang iace. *liat LONE BANDIT MAKES GOOD HAUL NEAR ASHEVILLE. Covers the Messenger and After So- curing Valuable Package locks Him In a Chest. A lone train robber, masked and armed, boarded Southern tallway train No. 10, Spartanburg to Ashe ville, at 10:30 Thursday night as it was V-aving Biltmore three mile* from Asheville, and covering the ex press messenger, E. F. Carr of Mar lon. with a revolver, obtained a pack age containing $3,00/1 In bills. Th# robber then commanded Carr to get In the express chest, which he had Just rifled, and locked him in it. It Is thought that tho robber left the train as It atoarnd up for the Ashe ville yards. When the train arrived at the Asheville station exprees employees found Carr locked in the chest. When released the express messenger was unable to give a description of his « sallant. saying that the latter was completely masked. The train was an hour late at BHt- more, a fact which the local police department says the robber was aware of The express messenger asserts he had just finished arranging his pack ages. preparatory to leaving tho train at Asheville, when ho was confront- with the murder of Herman Rosen thal. and accused of gambling graft itig, aiu the first of August by Judge Orr. T11mv went to a Mitchell street ho tel and remained until Sunday - , , thev were persuaded bv the you.u; his own name or that of ^is wife who girl's sister-in-law to go home and, bla< ' ei) ln tho hands of the P ub * seck the parental Messing. They did 1 ll ' I' roH ' ,c,lt,,r - so. ami p a' li* i Brooker. Ga., Sun •d by a in asked strar,"»i w’th a load- street ear ' p"'’hing denunciation hurled upon Reaching the negro quarter, tho bchreit* r by the aldoruien nvolved in revolver, .who demanded h!s rnon- his confession. All of the accused state- an(k^i(h tor.i d at trust tha* m’av (•. it.iy. and sp* nt tiie day with tho old 1 copl<>. Monday morning tiie hus band took the first train, and his wife told Chief Beavers that was ’lie last she had seen of him. That was ov-m a week ago, She had no idea, she told Chief Beavers, that ho was not going to come back, until she rereived a let ter from him. in whirl) he sa'd that h*' was gone forever fie wrote, she si d. ’hat lie was sorry he had mar ried Mr and that she need not ever expert to see him again "\nl may G M forgive me. he I'unelud. *l. "am- * t■ ’ v a rid ; ear* f i !’> yours He bad given h*-r f J *1 wti.-n they rea, lie.! tin' farm house, and told her that was lo buy tor trousseau The nan had » •• c r v evil.-nre of being _ _ passengers were ordered off the car.. when ba8 hank deposits of $58,845 In | which was taken about one hundred Mhflals lirand the Schreiter yards farther. Then the negro was n * aB noth withstanding the taken off the car and his body rid- prosecutor refused to give out any of died with bullets. ' . ,ho rtMa'is of the confession. The mob was dissatisfied with the' Assistant i’rosecutor Charles Jas- verdict. Those composing ft thought now ski said that Alderman Thomas that the negro ought to have foeeri l ea( R' r t be comnlon coun ' hung for his crime, which was a bru-' n '* an( ^ wb o 1® ®®1<1 to have received * These deposits, the records show, were first made in November, 1911, shortly after Becker became head of the "strong arm squad" of gambling raiders, and continued all during the tal one. The matter will be Inveeti- tlme that Jack Rose says he was col- gated, hut It Is doubtful if anything I.' ting graft for Becker and until af- p, done, as the lynchers have tho In ter ins arp-st Tin* table of deposits dorsement and sympathy of many of as presented to the district attorney t i 10 [►eople was as follows: | . $29,515 4.330; MHY NOT CLAIM A LI*. fi.nnr* ’ * ealth.v the Ctrl said. .< was w or’ h $(0 010* line w as In Hven hu rg "• •• w • I'd a pur v’ ness and toM lier He sa.il li;s \'a . and that ait enlarging it was then traveHng for trg*‘ 'nvis*' He lover gave the ; - ■ ■ *• i ut li*- h. -* i a i*ox at the *n*a pos’olfice. vvt.eje h** r*s-e,v.-d th Tillman w up'’ wl’h State Messrs |h on record a twe*’n^'.b'.ts art Iv M v *' quisltur a ' tow nship, tia- Bleat-- hl-Uu lar an*l who "Hurah f -r !. V <T he’ llin -1 t n ac« '-li' d tes in ! i'.irb u to t'fje'jt . '.-re and J-*t;* a ftir-o* * Self l l' U I r •- d g- mh tb .1' ;v * - it- w 1 a 'he c'rl ,-|* home she •r .n ! s l. Hidw r;t;i’ig it ’o I— fur some bus- 'h<* ctl said sh<* # or- * - > h ; s t,ox number •*-r w is r*-' irn*--l She <-rs " 1 uki"1 like ho - f**- a p-irpos*- *■ li ;s age a- ' ! . nnd !« ‘' -t v r- v ' a i! 11 has I a dark s'l I ! v r! u s- . * • - •!• ! a cr iuk* d ! \« - • s •he *; - a n at ' a* s. , k a di- ar.-- .*■, I demand aii- Gorn Kxchang* 1 Bank . . Corn Exchange Bank. . . Corn Exchange Bank. . . Corn Exchange Bank . . ]o,nhu Empire Savings Bank . . . 3,5nn X'.'tsi Side Savings Bank . . . 3."t'<*t I.uuoln Trust Company . . 1,5**0 Total $58,845 Tin- district attorney had been promised r< urds of Becker's dejioslts :n foir othi-r liariks which did not have time to go over their accounts and he has also discovered that Beck er has an unknown amount of stocks, bonds and *>»htr securities locked up in two separate safe deposit vaults Tha* the total value of the police lieu tenant's as-ets will lie found to ap proximate $2*0*.noo would be no sur prise to the distend attorney Keeker s ealarv as a police l|ou let,ant was $2.25" a year Tiie aid of th** clearing house committee was proffered to Mr \S hitman after it he cam** known that tils representative had been finding some difficulty in tracing tuckers bank accounts and 'hose of other police officers Mr W hi'man w as ass u r* ,1 by lea-1- Ing bankets"! •*;. *, • v *h.i’ they wen* ,'xuois. as [ uMI* sp.iiti-*) * itlzeiis. • - ha'- *■ tlu ; - i ce fore,- p-irged of *' s ciafti-rs and tii*' w hot*- si-;*- lal ,i Me S .’*• uf a ha'.' t;a 1 r«-p*.«**-dlv v, ", j H irio-v Ev .ms.' w hi!*- the .Vfornev-t:* nern! J Fraser l.vnn was speaking Mr P«-ep!*-s. however, refrain*-') f- • * xp-*-sstng himself uu til after hi* had ascertained, fix means of a hand ; i.Ui,.r •• that many persot.s piesent, i*h*r than Mr Tumbiin. wer*> interested B B Evans, who l**ft last SaMirdav for Bla* k Muun' itn. \ C . *li,t not return until long after his turn to apeak came. *. n fai t, no* un'll Just t-c- fon- the niei’ting ended D. W Mcl.aurin. a candidate for Plate Tri>asur**r angrily r* fiis**d to be committed on the Bloaso-Jurca Issue. 'Messrs Wharton, Garter, Ricliards an*1 Gansler. were asked when* rliey stood on this mailer, our the ques tion was nut pressed and they all Ig-.-ut norod IE 1 tn \\ 11.1, ( \ BKA H< »MI ( X't NTY Jones Will Have Big Majority in I.*n- caster < 'mintj. air* d an-t that ’Ih-v * v erv aid in Ih**lr i -a as gladly a''Ci ; 'e 'ornv w ' o r-ai-1 would give h;m i ,* <■ r. Th .s offer 1 y the district "I am receiving support from the bankers of • k v in a p; vate li'ti*r *o the edi'i-r of the Gr* i nw,end Journal Mr \ J i".irk. t '1 to* I.anca**t.*r News vvri'i-s tha’ ’ Jot,* s wilt rarrv I,an a-'i-r county bv -* vera! hundred ma- J- rity H>* is op.,* of tin- le st ru-n that have tiv.d hu-rc sine J , amt* li«ri* ov it t h Irty > i-a rs ag * This news i, «*s; i-i tally interes’in-,* in view of tin* fact that Gov. Bli-ase has claimed several times that lie would carry Lancaster county He reiterated tin* statement in h‘s speech Newberry In this eonncction it ■ht ho added that reports from -; Vint New V The dis’rnt Ht'urni-v lias p-ceived information that l',eik**r may have put mon, > aw.ix in several hanks • c- de of the ritv and if tlu-se are it *i n: tr 1\ lot'a' 'h* ■ Nfxx York bank- •k h :r * - • pro It) 181"! to us,* thHr in- 14 Hi •(* tO 8*' cun* tliotr proiiuction h*- j ,<1 'i*,**' m '; on oxpiTts that tii** aid • th i*a n k a \x ill b,* invaittahlo to 1 m !i*ii it* * tak*' •8 up tit** larger :isu ■ Of till' g'af: Inquiry. It ht ■.■aii,** k ;i(> .x n that tit** dintrlot : # ur: !l» y is I; old tic for prc8**ntatii’n > th' l‘ nt rind jurx * vidcitco by xxhich » 4*\ P' IT'S to COIIX 1 ct four police in- Mille* Ele<-t» l‘re**iilent Taft Easily on I’a|>or. | Charles n Hillel, chairman of the Republican national committee, issu ed a statement rlalmtng that fit states' with a total electoral vote of fist for the Republican ticket and conceding in states, wuh an elis-toral vote of lit. to Uu* Democratic party He listed four stati-s. with an electoral vote of i t as doubtful and conceded nr state to the Brogreeaivea i Eidlowing are figures submitted by Mr Hilles In what tie calls a pre liminary survey of tin* political situa tion Claimed by Republicans Colorado.' •'*. C ,|i nect I e u t, 7 Delaware, fi, Ida- iio. 4 Illinois. 2 3 Indiana. 15. Iowa. 12 Kansas. 1" Kent ink v. ifi; 'lain,* *1. Maryland. V M assaih us ■ • tts, tv. Michigan. 15; Minnesota. 12. Missouri 1' Muntnna. t Neva da. 2.. New Hanipsh-re 1 New ti-r si v , 11 New Mix - *. 4 . New York,' 4 5 North Dako’i Ohro 24 Ore gon 5 Eetinsxlv ir a 0 x Ithodi- is land 5 Soutfi Dakota r**nni'ssee, 12. I tal*. I. Yernmut. t. Washing- t ». 7. West Virginia. *> Wiscoi.si:. 15. \\ yomii.g, it Total. ' 4. Conceded to Democrats Alabama, 12' Arkansas. 9. Florida. 5. Georgia. II. l/ouisiana. 10; Mississippi, 10; North Carolina. 12: -South Carolina, 9. Texas, 2". Virginia. 12. Total, 1 1 1 Elsted as doti’-'Gi! Arizona. 2, Califotnla. 12. Oklahoma. 10. Ne braska. v Total. 2 1 Mr Hilles a!su said that the new Progressive par’v would draw no more heavily from the Republican party tliau from the Democratic par- ! ty , , \ CHANtiED HY CON VFUSION. HleasHtf** Got Ih-li^iun anil Bocanu* JmiositeH. oy. Carr says tha robber than bound his hands and forced him to get Into tho chest, which he locked. The alarm was quickly given and several policemen were sent towards Rlltmoro on a special train. Other members of the force boarded train No. 35 which leaves Asheville at 10:50. It was thought that the rob ber might have attempted to eacape on this train. A mldnlgtit the police and express officlaJa were atlll with out a clue. Carr up to July 21 was a dark In the Southern Express office af Ma rlon, N. C.. when he waa given the run from Columbia, S C.. to Ashe ville. OuO bribe money from a detective in the Wabash Railroad street dot ing case, has repeatedly confirmed hla confession. All of tha aldermen are charged with having been Implicated In a plot t force the Wabash Railroad to pay them various sums for their Influence In putting through the council a rea- olutlon closing a city street for the benefit of the railroad company It is declared that nine of the al dermen actually received bribes, not, however, from & railroad official, hut Addressed to a t oung Lady Rut tioea from a detective who posed aa such INFERNAL MACHINE EXPLODES. Two Children, Jut Left Her curred. — 1 Lodged In Jail flat $4i In a cell nt the pel toe Nashville, where she spent the \ charged with tha mnrdnr Oft < Alva Cave, a widow aged^ 0. J. Jones, aged twenty-tow, day morning refused to tragedy until her artslgnamt,* Mrs. Jones want tn an Mm Mrs. Cave Wednesday night 5 her twice, one ballnt entering heart. Mrs. Cave died tn a few utes. Mrs. Jones waa route to the police station a dor. Jealouay la aald to hare be cause of the tragedy. tMxa. some time ago filed auit for divorce and la aaid to hare bean lie* Ing apart from her huabaad. Mrs. Cave waa the widow of ; Gave, a son of Rev. R, L. Cave, lam of the linlted Confederate. Vet erans, a Nashville minister. Mrs. Cave's husband two years ago and at the time of shooting, she and her two ehUdrea^ a girl of five and a tjoy jxt two, making their home with ner meaner. Mrs. Sophie Letahoas. Mrs, Cave waa noted for her beeety. Other members of the family mem in the rear of the house when thn tragedy occurred, the Itttte hoy herr ing climbed down from Mi mother's Up just aa Mrs. Jonea entered the gate. Mrs. Jonee heard at the poHee ela tion that her aim hod heea fatal. She raised her head a an arfmt: "li she dead?” When mb Cava wda deed, a alight ed her face. She waa perfs aa aha answered questions. At a Ute hour Thnrsdhy Jones bad not beta to tht Tin* nine others. It is charged, agreed to accept certain sums but failed to "collect" nt an appointed time. According to the prosecution the trap was sprung a short time after n:n<« aldermen were bribed and also after the time for the others to re house to aae his wife. Defer off Beforo Time. marriage Mrs. Jonas wee Mini n ,, „ . , . , . Hooper, a daughter of J. J|* H* Police officials, who have closely >n employee of tha Naahv|])e road and Light co examined the remains of lbs Infernal machine which was Intended for Mlsa Oille Hoover but exploded In the hands of the express agent at High Point, N C Saturday afternoon, aer- ccixe their sharo of the money had i lously injuring himself and assistant, • -.xpin d. Prosecuting Attorney 8hep-j are wondering whether E. R. Mcln- 1 ,-rd and the detective claim that tyre, who Is charged with sending marked bills were found on several ofi the machine and for wnom the po lice are now searching, made the tl.*• ald-rrui-n after they had been ar- r* stud and searched Tii** nine aldermen arrested last Friday on charges of accepting bribes but for whom no formal warrants have teen ia«ued as yet, are : David Rosenthal, A A Delm<*l, Louis Tossy, Martin Ostrowskl, Jos. 1, Theleon, Louis H-roro Andrew. J Walsh, Frank Mason and Thomas E GMnman ( pres- olelit of I lie * mint y ) machine himself or secured It from some other source No one but an Ingenious mechanic could have con structed such a device. The machine was In a box within a box In the Inside box, nicely bront- ed and covered with a binged and buckled lid, was a revolving cylinder stuck full of math heads like teeth tn a threshing machine cylinder. Warrants ( barging a promise lojthat would iGgnite the powder when Hi * '■; t bribes were Issued lates Tuea- m-ned around by the opening of the box lid Still another device at the side of pta-n i-krziki, Patrick O Brlen,^u ie box, made out of small hand- "Crentlemon." Raid Mr IVoplep, "I N*-wherry an* to tho ofToi-t that tho have always Noon tho friend of ♦ho ponlltnont In that rni Tn*y is very much Hon Colo I, BleaHo, and I see no r»*a- dividt-d. It is bolloved. according to BO n— - ^ roports. that Gov. Bb-aso's majority That was enough for inquisitors in hts homo county will ho very small,j - who raisod a shout, "Hurrah for If lit* carries it at all. Bloaao and IT;epics." I, ■*•"*-* Mr Earlo said. "If you want to] MO.NKI-.S fi* TAKE SHIP. know wiior** 1 stand I have voted as] ♦ a rule with Governor Blease on his]nj m i, i n Rigginfr to tlu* Great An- vetoos. s.-eotors on tii** I'liarge of collecting] li)ackiii;*.li fia'in gamliling houses and I ihsonli-rh ri-Horis. These four men | Tiie Spartanburg H<'rnld says: At are all aware, it is said, of the nature Buck Gioek Ghur* h. tn Gherok* * o’ the eviJt-nct* and have been trying j township, a. revival service has boon to cover tholr tracks. Thus far the! under way which ha** profoundly stir- Sisters state's investigators have uncovered red the people from G l i**roVe» Rpr'ne'G h",:k nreouMtR of two totalling *75,-1 to GllesneO Nllinliers of men have j been Indued to profess ( tiristianity Afr**r having lived at New Orleans murder indictments• and join the church. One of the f ()r .n^veiuecn years, the last yoar \ IM* grand jury were not handed I curious features of th** revival is 4 he * u it llin a block of each other, Airs. J *' for tiie (ollowing aldfir<nen \\ ll ;uu Ko*-nlg. \\ m H C. Hindle 9 ID* liard M V* at son, Thomas I.ynch,l HHWB waB ad justed that th® opon- i.eo H Ellis. Jos Merritt, Wm. F j nR c> f the box lid would rrat© thro® to by E dward R Schreiter, former 1 Bawf) ''«gain8t another row of match®® rn by Edward R GchreR«r. former - raBtont .j l0 tha bt(1PB or the lnner R<'cr«;ary of the council committees, ] also chavged with bribery who roMJB^ B yet. for som** unknown reason, r.*nt;ly mado to th® prosecutor fn'-,** that w ,ui to fire th® cap on the ltd ter termed a full conferofll.] B t|ck of dvnamlte failed to do its No warrant fo^achreiter s arrrownas ( j ea( j|y wor j c la-ell issued^ . ] t ^ % ’I ‘ s case Was'worke\ up by Burns! .•ir.-' liis detectiy^K^ho posed as ra!l-| mad ini®,'*snd had conversations! with thf^ aldermen reeordf*d by the *1'-'.urraph. which was concealed in the room as In the case of Nlcho's at Fpa r 'antoirg. The Glerk and several **;' tho aiJ.Tmen have confessed that they incepted graft as Bums charge they dtil, and will be prosecuted by tho city. HIDDEN TRKASI HF POI ND. Ten Thousand Dollars Ran Upon in an Old House. ti.".nk accounts of two totalling $ The expected lit® grand Jury were not handed I curious features of th** rcvi.-al is ihe down owing to the tiino’taken up by! fact that ardent supporters of Gov-j ^deb* Golunibus Antau testimony of various witnesses. Ono'ernor Blease, ujwn b*-inv converted.! y*,,},. those was Jack Rose, who, it was have renounced their alieflance to I have th** manhood to vote for what 1 believe to be right. He and 1 were in tho general assembly together for years and he and I wore usually on th,* same side. When hei vetoed those afipropriations I voted] to sustain him, and I am willing to do so again.” Mr. McLaurin told his questioner that if ho did not desist from annoy ing him he would have him arrested. "You go ask Jones and Blease who they are going to vote for,", he said, "and I'll tell you how I'm 'going to vote. If you had as much sense as you have got mouth you wouldn’t ask , 'I fi ID T*-n thotrsand dollars In gold, be lieved to have been hidden by Wil liam Anderson, a bandit wbo terror ized Cenfal Missouri immediately after the civil war. has been found in tii** old Manor Hou o o on what was the plantation of William Burch, In Howard Coupty. Missouri, and which now is th<* property of C. E. Yancey, of Liioerty *v Employees of Mr. Yan- cey are remodeling the bid house. According to those from which the storv of the death of Anderson comes in Ikf.k, he was wounded after rob- hlng a Gentral Missouri bank and and Mrs. j stopped that night In t be manor Cl embus Algero, sisters, met] house of the* Burch plantation, dying ‘av for the first time in 30'several days later. It was in the MEET AFTER THIRTY YEARM. Although On Sam® Block Didn’t See Each orher. noyance of Sailors. i.arned, held the jury spellbound for j the Governor and become supporters i y „ arB They were separated when* room In which the bandit slept that two hours when he repeated the eon-; of Judge Jones. A fervid meeting, cI . ildrtn in Havanna and had remain-'the money was found. / T Iip vovTE-e of the Mtr . ; *' > ' 8iou of b 13 P art 111 I be in urder plot | recen t lx lasted until late at night.| PC j i:l ignorance of the whereabouts j, The xoxage of the ©’P ' m ,and his alleged graft relations with'As soon as a Blenseite got freigh^r Egremont Castle, From the |j | ,, ) | (Miant p, ( , r k,.r. j he became a Jones man. far east. <'amo iioar being one long, (> no 0 f the jurors is reported toi man who was in the ci nightmare. | >, av ,, remarked that he had not heard] religion continued to ajiri I orty-one motiKeys were CtaMi onj t | 1e P q ua j 0 f story portrayed in hoard at an eastern port. They re- !an y nododrama. The one additional fused to answer the dinner bell, they f a( q n f importance which Rose added swarmed in the rigging hopelessly tr) ^jg p r p V ious accusations that Beck- tangling any loose ends of.rope they 0 ~ hj !nH( qf was, In effect, the paymas- could find, swung on the whistle rope, j pr 0 f murder crew. When Beck- sending forth blasts of the siren in ^r itrldeie Webber and Rose met In tiie dead or night; rifled the gall'ry; f nm t 0 f ^i lirra y jjju k a ths on the sitedves ami upset everything that me such a question. Wouldn’t fbe! waS nnt nailc(1 down ' a prettv fool to come before the peo-j Freedom of the ship had been gi* pie asking for such an office as that Ranted to the monkeys to keep them ev of State Treasurer with "Blease" or In better health, but ( aptain S:nih| w Jones" branded across my breast? if finally ordered hem c.aught and put, passed it on to “Gyp the Blood" and a back in the cages, This resulted in, his three thug companions. religion ()f t ,. ir h other until a chance meeting ' an ' j . ^r!*j 1 At a factory, where they had sought ■tty said t tat 'f, |.mpioynient| one because she was a , , . , spread in her-i w) ^ ow a f am (jy t 0 ®upp 0r t t the okee township there would not lie t 1 0 ft 1( . r because her husband was out Bleaseite left. Stabs Wife With Knife. At Nashville, Ind., thinking his wife a burglar, Harvey Trover stab bed her In the back early Tuesday, morning of tiie murder, according to, anc * sbo P roba bly will die. According Rose, Becker borrowed from "Brld-!* 0 ibeir statements they were awak Webber the $1,000 of employment. A similarity in ap pearance attracted each to the oth er and questions disclosed their iden tity 'i i PLAGUE RAT AT KEY WEST. -+ — Animal. Said to he Infected .With Dread Bubonir. . Washington, A suspected plague infected rat has ben captured at Key West Fla., according to advices to the public health service. Secrealry MacVeagh on Wednes day sent Dr. John F. Anderson, direc tor of the hygienic laboratory here Tore Fourteen $20 Bills Up. After she had torn into shreds sev - ra A.!i i 1 ?*?..!.™™; to the Florida port to cooperate with king final was a ma nbefore either of them; and I bore myself as a man.’ 1 South to See Warships. bi^d mon-^n^ b - v a nni8fi as , lf tb " re w a8 an ln ’ a window, Mrs. J^nie Lieberwlth,! ^e^state‘officuis Tn v" in large bills, handed It to Ro8e, :,ru ^ or ,n I* 10 darkened room Both sixty years old, of No. 168 Tompkins, plague tjacillus was - ho handed it to Schtpps, who then 41080 4n( i the husband, armed with avenue, W illiamsburg, N. Y., ^ 48 dj 8C overed on the rat AUg. 6. - - J *'•- —Tuesday taken to Kings Cuunty Hos pital for observation as to her #an- the death of Ifi. Child still Missing. » z- ,, „ , , , . Sixtv-four years a resident of C&li- Sprrelary -Meyer announced Tnea- and ,i E hty-one year, oW. Mary At Wants to Vote Before She Dies. butcher knife, stabbed the wife whop they rah against'each other. day that some time this fall or win ter he wo pie the magnificent Atlantic fleet af i 0( ^ f rom their home in Charloote ear Dog Beats Women to Yoting. A pedigreed bull dog was voted in place of a negro voter in the election of Representative Jamts A. Hughes, Josephine Melvin, born in Ireland,; |^ e p U ^]j can 0 f West Virginia, ac- ity. She had destroyed fourteen of the bills in an $800 rolj when discov ered. Aviator Has Clds® Call. some time tnts rail or win-:,„o,hinty from their five-vear *****'**“**'*.] Kepunncan, or \x esi Virginia, ac-' Ideutenant Foulers, of Ihe United uld show the Southern peo-' *a „„„ „. hn mvsteriouslv disannear- 1 ai,I,earecl ln San Francl8C0 ' ^ a ’ * an(1 ] cording to the report prepared by the States aviation corps, probably es- —* -* 01(1 8on ' wb0 mysteriously disappear took out her flrgt paperg to b e 00 me Ifoufte Committee investigating raped serious injury or detRh as if a citizen. She declares she has lived Hughts’ election. The report will ar- by a miracle when his biplane, upon as many as the principal harbors of the South Atlantic and gulf coasts as the dreadnoughts can enter or even approach within reasonable distance. Thief Onc<?*£ Jockey Ranked when a boy as the premier jockey of the American Jurf, with earnings of $50,000 a year, Grover Cleveland Fuller, who is still only 25 years old limped before Judge Crain In General Suasions Tbnrsday In New pl®ad to an indictment charging theft of a watch. ly Wednesday morning. The police and friends of tho family are tend- bendirtg every effort to find a clue as to the whereabouts of the child. Cat Causes Infant Paralysis? Officials of the Springfield Mass., health department believe they have traced the source of infantile ilaral- ysis to the house of cat. Th® in spectors have diacovered several well developed cases in cats and will send the affected animals to Boston for ob servation. Shows a Groat, Change. A careful poli of the votes of Pac- olet precinct in Spartanburg County shows the following result: Jones, 101; Blease, 6. The vote two years ago was: Feathtsrstone, 39; Blease, 52. ' 2 Music Teacher Killed. Jonee is said not to UATly employed hla home with a brother •oft drink stand. A reference to the a divorce bill bed STANDS BT HU Mr. K. L. Mr E L. Archer, Chalrmaa ef tfco Spartanburg County eeutlve Committee, la aa Keidville, aald that Maleolai a friend of Governor Bleaaa, pointed treasurer of the County Democracy two yeara ago the instance of T. R. Trtamler, vhM guaranteed a correct aettlemeaf. ^ When Bowden wm called apoa «• turn his books over to hte n rea fir elected succroaor he would aot 4a ae until threatened with readings. Finally He the hooka but they showad a age of $297, aald Mr. Arehar, ing to Bowden’e own flgnrpa. It waa because of that all the election meniaara wera not paid two yeara ago. Mr. Arehar said he felt morally bound to mate rood the $297 deficit out of hla ©w», pocket and would do eo. "You aay." continued Mr. Arehar, "why don't you prosecute him? Whea we went to look for him we foaad him in Columbia. And what waa te doing there? Monkeying with Got. Bleaae. What'e the uee to proeseata a man when he haa got bin pardea beforehand?” * Bowden is the man whom Bleaaa appointed as m aglet rate, contrary ta the recommendation of the Spartan burg county delegation, to til tte p'ace of Magistrate A. H. Kirby, aa cld Confederate vettran. FIRE BUGS CAUSE PANIC. Among the Workmen la a Big la- diana Powder M11L Thousands of lightning huge eaaa* ed terror among workmen employed in the powder mills at dtana, following a thunderstorm. 1 title Insects, driven from the ma e® by tha atnrm, eattlad * a tank containing several hnadrad gallons of nltro-glyoerlna. Tha aide pioycos saw the brllUantly Iliumlaat- rd bugs near the great tank aad Im mediately Mattered, runaipg terror* stricken in all directions in the that the tank would exploda. II ra-l quired nearly an hour for. foreaMI the mills to dispel the fean of employees and &et them to retem fV} work. .“* ■ - . Wfv Carpenter Left a Fiji tana Sick and alone la-hla poorly nlshed home, W. H. Spencer, a penter, sixty years bid. to see the dawn of freedom for wo men and she wants to vote before she dies. Will This Habit Spread? Steps are being takea against thp "big hat evil” by the mile visitors of the motion picture theaters in a near by city. According to an ordinance range franchise conditions in Hughes’ district, it is said. Vice Consul Was A dispatch from ©red bla says that the death of William B. McMaa- ter, the United States Vice consul a t Cartagena, whose body, riddled with gunshot was found a few miles out side of that city Monday, has prov- ianding. hit a stone wall Wednesday at Stratford. Conn. The machlpo was smashed, but the army aviator was unhurt. Tuesday at Sanfranclaeo that te Ji heir to a fortune of Isaac Spencer, an uncle, who cently in New Lexington, O. Aged Man Gqavlcted. WiiUtam Kennedy agte 91 day was convited of murder la iraey In the arrest late Monday night ofj j 1 !"®* de Kr 8 e f<> r a negro named H. J. Jones, fifty-five killing passed by city council in 1899, all ladies must repgbvtf their hats while cd without doubt that he was murder in the theater'before and After the performance hai begun. ed. There are no clue* to the slay ers. Over one Hundred Perish. A tremendous hurricane that swept the Spanish coast has caused heavy life and property lose. Fourteen Bilboa fishing boats capsized- during the worst storm and at least 119 sail ors perished. All coast towns suff ered from the gale. years old. the police believe have the murderer of Miss Signs Carlxen, the music teacher who was killed Fri day In Aprora. a suburb of Denver. five Prisoners Escape. Five prisoners escaped over the high will of the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus Tuesday- One of the pris oners was shot and another was eap- turod. Three mad* % clean get-away. his grandshn, Sara Kenaedy, . noted Prorce-KenBroy fM4 M aton Ala. Bailor* L crril> j c Two sailors perished quantity, of oil destfdjN Standard oft steamer & gather with thro* burned ercy! _ Wt