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THE BaRJSTWELL VOL. XXXV BARNWELL. S. li, THURSDAY. AUGUST 29.1912 PRIMARY TICKETS 60?. BLEASW CflAROE PROVES TO BE FALSE PLENTY TICKETS SENT Christie Benet, Secretary of Demo cratic Committee, Makes Public Letters Showing That J. T. Richey, TURNED MANY LOOSE B LEASE'S PARDOV RECORD IS PRINTED BELOW. In a Little Over One Year and Six Months He Has Released Nearly Four Hundred Criminals. Governor Bleafle has exerctlgA •' clemency In 3 82 cases since he as sumed the office of Governor of South Carolina on January 17, 1911. Of those receiving clemency at his hands 85 had been convicted of mur- of Pickens, Was Given Ballots as der and were serving sentences and Requested. At the campaign meeting at Pick ens on Wednesday In reference to his charge that the Jones people in tend to count him out, If possible, Governor Blease said he had receiv ed a letter from J. Manly Smith, ex- sherlff of Lee county, saying that State Chairman John Gary Evans had sent the Lee county chairman two thousand tickets for use In the primary, whereas there are three 84 had been convicted of manslaugh ter, making 169 homicide cases In which the Governor granted clem ency. Twenty-three persons convict ed of assault and battery with intent to kill have beep the recipients of clemency at the hands of the pres ent Governor. The list of" crimes In which the Governor has exercised clemency run all the category from murder to per jury, Including six who had been con victed of rape, two of attempted rape, three for crimes against children, GRAFTERS TRAPPED BURNS TELLS HOW THE DETROIT GANG WAS CAUGHT USED THE DICTAGRAPH The Police Court Examination of One Jbf the Boodle Aldermen Brings Out the Testimony of the Man Be- THE WAGES OF SIN CAUGHT AFTER A LONG HUNT FOR A BANK DEFALCATION. TEDDY IS HIT AGAINl * ™l *™ck Took the Money to Speculate In Real Estate and Lost It In Several Bad Deals. PENROSE SAYS HE ACCEPTED STANDARD’S COIN. John A. Flack, the defaulting cash ier of the Abilene State Bank, of Ab ilene, Has., was arrested in New York Wednesday afternoon by de tectives of a surety company, lie ad mitted his identity and sai l he would hind the Snare That Landed Eigh- ^ a< ^ v * )ac ^ a, \ ( ^ 9 t a *' ( T trial. The shortage, he admits, is more than $75,000. He has been missing since September, 1910. Flack was taken into custody as a result of a decoy advertisement In a WHEN ROGUES FALL OUT thousand names on the dub rolls of BOVen for ar80n . nineteen for vlola- Lee County. I tlon of the dispensary law, one foV teen Grafting Aldermen. A dispatch from Detroit, Mich., says testimony of W. J. Brennan, a detective, was the feature of the po-j local paper. The advertisement of- lic e court examination of “Honest fered employment In an East Side Tom” Gllnnan, the first of the elgh- establishment. Flack answered the teen aldermen recently arrested on advertisement and was taken In bribery charges to be tried. It was charge by two detectives. He ad- Brennan’s evidence that resulted in mitted his Identity, declaring he was Whe arrests of the aldermen and Coun- glad to hear his own name once ell Clerk Edward Schrelter. . 'Brennan went Into details of the more. I’ve been going under assumed trapping of the aldermen up to the names.’’ he said, “until I am sick and time hs alleges that he. representing, tired of It. I want to be myself once The Governor said also that the fKduc,ion> three for bl K am . v - Rich- himself to be an official of the Wa- more. I'm ready to go back to Kan- Plckens county chairman had been land Count y hearls the Ust in the bash railroad, paid Gllnnan $1,000 sas and face th e music. I have no furnished two thousand tickets less' clomenry column - having forty-one'for his influence In granting the rail- excuses to offer. I did what I knew than asked for. Lee and Bickens are c:i8f ‘ 8 t0 her credit - Spartanburg road's request for the use of a city to be wrong. I lost my nerve at the both Blease counties, said the Gov- l ' om, ' a second with twenty - five, street for building purposes. | wrong moment ajid now there Is ernor. who decid-d the State chair- f:rt ‘ < “ nvl110 18 ,hird wlth twenf y- An -j Alderman Thlessen's case came up nothing left for to do but to take man's alleged action In regard to the d, ‘ r8on 18 a cln8e fourth with nine- yesterday. Disposition was reserved my medicine.” tickets showed “They are trying to t, ‘ en ' and r harleston has fifteen. | In the cases against Aldermen Broze, The former cashier attributed his count me out ” 1 ’ rom tho timp *as Inaugurated Roenthal, Lynch, O'Brien and Koenig downfall to "land fever”. He took The facts In the case are directly nnvprnor January 17, 1911, up to and the examinations of Alderman the bank's funds, he said, to pur- in contradiction of the Governor's ’ he M T T1iadp h,B ro P ort t0 the r,pimp '. Mason, Ostrowskl, Tossy, chase “sure things” In city real es- statement. In the first place the bal- f ”' n ° ral Assembly In January of this and Walsh will follow that of Alder- tate. which later turned out to be los- lots for the State primary were not; yrar ' abo,)t onp y ‘ >ar ' B tlm °' the Gov -' ^ ian Gllnnan. Clerk Schrelter also ing propositions. sent out bv John Gary Evans State Prnor had p * pr( ' 1,, '' d clemency in 317 was remanded for a week. \ "Before I left Kansas,” said he. chairman, but bv Christie Benet of f '' 18f ' 8 ''mm that time on not nearly Brennan explained that he Is a “It was known among the officials of Columbia, secretary of the State ex- f,R " ,any w, ' rp panted and ‘ho member of the staff of W. J. Burns the bank that there was a shortage campaign opened very few convicts and that his home Is In Boston. He in my accounts. I thought, however, have been the recipients of clemency told of coming to the city In April it was only about $?,n.noo to $35,OOfi at Governor Blease's hands. Here and of takng offices as a representa- After I came to Vow York to rest up tlve if the real estate department of mentally and physically I saw in the M tinier. . Manslaughter Assault and battern w kill u K ubi la 0 1 forgery ** wrote 5wV ' . , . Hlehw.ty rohberv Ho'is-break'ng and larceny l.arc.-ny 'r<»?u the person . 2 \nd l 1 ', other cas.-s Including gran I !an..n> [x-i'v laroenv bur glary frail ronsplr'nr fn d'-fraud ! ' .• St.lte. Mk.ti v i! r ;i nk • .Dm- Bon. mu'l!.v on nf t’rnp.-r v ' r;! 1 <■» a c x 1 r s’ r -1 n-n rri],.;rv t<> :i ?i! 'n.-fld i: • <n «:p’ M r>f fa n ! I v gan:- ’ 1’ g P'T' i r v it I lI'.T), br i ”) of . f U' ’ ( ' C i , 4 rt i .trrrin* i !"’n* ' a » ' T' N i t'< • ’ V of live- : v l ' i ■: 11 n t f G... I <!>on»ary | . A . m k; r* • • ' £ h '" • a ' ! i.9ri i k n *’ ><> !• r r >. trcs. aaii THE \\ \(.l s Of S|\ Is |>K\TII \ "Ung Man T'dil Girl to l eave, Then killed HJ^Hf •cutlve committee In reply to a letter written by Mr Benst On July 13 asking how many ... . ballots would be needed In Pickens , 8 ..Vj 0 _ pard ° n B *' county. Mr Richey wrote on July 15. “we vote about 3.500 In this county and will bt* glad If you will send us 10,000 tickets " These tickets sera » . , , ■ hipped to Mr Ritchie on August 1 5, and haftcry by Mr. Benet. On August 19 Mr Riche Mr Benet acknowledging the receipt of 10.000 State ?!r|<,(s and aided. "I requeet l.V'Mi tickets Kindly •end me the other two thousand a* I will need that many ' Mr. RPhey's first letter asked fur enlv Jo. tl-k • ts. The additional If.Ootj tb kets were sent Mr R.chey on August 2" flov. Blease warped the re, .rd very badly In hts spec h at Pu kens Mr Hichey s letters to Se< re'ary benet follows “Christ!* Benet p§q S'ate sec recary eve. ut i .iniu: .*’ee t'.> 1 um hi a S C “1‘ear Sir Bephlng t > your fawr of the t3 ma'ant t>ef t. sn' that w. vote about 3 f.an In 'h.s c , t and will b,. glad If you w 111 S' n ' * aNi i’ lO.i'O" tl< k« •» Th it w .1} g'ie US enough marg'n t , pi sv on should anything go wrutig w tb the t.ck't* V > > u r s v • r y • r u i' ( Signed i J T Hn bey “County Chairman Bickers C Mjntv ' Ihckens. S C July 1 5. 1 :> 1 2 ' “Hon Christie Beti't. Secretary Htste Dent 'cratic Cot.umftte t’o lOmbla, « C. I'ear Sir I b.-g to acknowledge receipt of od', ih! f. rr s for r. ' .• ns • f first primary ais.i lonoo S'ate tick ets I re u- ste l 12 1 . 1 t f ket* Klnlly send me the other 2.0mj as I will need that mauy lours very tr ily. (Signed I J T Richey Coun'.' (. halfman Pickens. S C, August 19, 1912 “ ‘ Kindly ha'« balance of tlcke's reach nie by Saturday If posaiLde. as I want to ha'.o same In bands u f all managers. M 'Uday. the 26 ” The 2 - Ouu tlcksts In additb n to the lo.Ooo already sent, wero shipped to Mr Rlrhey on August 2 l1 In order to he absolutely sure that the tb bets reached the county i bnlr- man, Mr. Benet sent them postal* with an attached card for reply, giv ing the numb' r of tlchets shipped and the date of shipment. Mr. Bend has received acknowledgment of the re ceipt of the tickets from practically all county chairmen. Ho will wire those from whom he has not heard The lien County Case. In his Pickens speech. Gov. Blease| also *ald that J. Manley Lee, ex-' sheriff of Lee County, had him that only 2,000 tickets had been 8 5 84 tb Intent to 23 the Wabash railroad. He also en- papers that th* shortage was about rag'd an adjoining office and had J'o.nno I then lost mv head com- New England Historical Society,” pletely and could not summon the printed upon Its doors nerve to return to my home town 7 The deteotIve then told of getting and friend* ” 7 acquainted with aldermen, of !m- With onlv $3fl0 he e*me to New r, ■ reusing upon them the urgent de- y or v v !*h his wife and for the past 5 Vre Of the railroad for the Improve- two y.-ars he has been struggling for 12 ten’s of the street and of the oppo- .v's’cn’o d 'Ing odd Jobs on the 2 ft on to 'he proposal that was ex- dicks' In store houses and when the rse<1 by several councllmen Fin- f. ar of deteclve* was not too great he v.t.’ur*d In.’o ’.uslness offices In the dowr’own district of the city to ,,ft » n Mfied Gllnnan came to hi* arr.ingt nient* were made i ' ■ «i ti g the S’ •■eet elm nan. told me at that time he n'c 1 'ii vs., me as a i ipe line t i St " sail t h »• defect 1 y»» Me i , 1 w mted for year* to get 'he \\ ih.isti railr ad. he Bald, and urht he could ser'e the rotnp*ny Peking Mf'-r Its tave* and o’her "• ’•* !:i ti... i ty ha I He **11 hs ! v i- • a boa t $ 1 ■ " a month for >" r \ • s I !• •• ’•■ p*' I 'o say ' Alderman. *':•«( * 1 * * s i g case has been re el t»a k t i the c, n:!' • ee and I '■‘Hen Is s . e d : t c ul'y, I* n t do clerical ,-ork BEATEN INTO INSENSIBILITY state Authorities Scouring Country for A s<>4^|ant«. an 1 tieatcti Itro Insensltillitv n' o w calf t. v u ni tier rti an ■ i • » T'ork dlapa'ch say* that i. I goes* we can adju*t it. d ' ; a-’ i i 0 B-oa.i » a > k n o' a n as rht> ■ I ! o i bon W * IIlH a list of ald.-r- 1! .i ! * -A w a c 11 )»• *i on.' of a ii' ot tl.T r. 4 ’ ! ut : l b.- vt n 1 *>o ttiodi and ty « ’ » .t r' > \\ *,1 .0. m h ••n a ;• i\ * ’ . ••• I a! • • i ! ' bad arran*. d V u: 'i k ti; Ih'. r. 1 at A l-.ra 1 bo to V \ .* him s« »n.4 • n.»* ’.• y for th.* pas * *• 1 ** A \\ H11K • : h of Ja. k ho n, ‘H i' •’ ' • > . • r. h i 1 " ' 1 , n rlosinK fho M!s« ' ' b :iM<-nly rr ■: t ’ k . ! t> a \ > * i n k t q h. • an: - U’ t 'fiat » o d oof do 1 v >!’ i n * : 1 Ii * I i >:;, ! . h: i 1 H * ?Ji4* n , a f t ho tin ♦♦ * ,ilt hot Woon tl.T"" \ «>u l' > I :n tiro 1 t $ .' » i ! h ' ’ V I. ki 1 I., » :ik t-» k 1 1 II , N 1 1 1 o * :v • h* t b F*n y rorr Into detsil* w. ' ' \ H t .' l ♦* * f 1 r 1 " • I I v* 'k: • rs i!ro» i ' f 11 r ’ ’ h»’r talks ^ !t h Gllnnan At it r * ' ,lv ■ r a v. ! *• ti’ .i b i ! .• t • hr ou v b !. »t !. • • fit: t ail arrar: romon:* » oro I 'S tr.t ■n -ii. ** tin •• la !*. v ,■ •ho • 1 . i 1' • f • r t h ♦* pn ivment of tb'' i .-m • • H r f* va a** an h" i '; , ., 4 OllO. b: ' . v ««n \ •f'r cn t k .*' n an h « a ’ r ii f \) \s »■ r c ttio A. •rn r? y i ; to t ho G‘*tln onr Gl'n AW ' M A W V an ! t! K ,, na no* nan a pptMr o i O n J' ily for th.' \ I) f ! Dt ♦*r». t'.Rra v oil on : «* r a ff n •vrvi . nk N K i g c r * r.tnio lio r o ab ' ut a • i U'ok out a ro '] of Mils “ said IllOli : h ago 1 lo u an i I'V 1 • r. ’ !>• a •bo v 1 t fO'bfi . "an d ro nnt'ul thorn I nan of :ji»*an s for niurh Jr u * !r\ a till Halil" Gl mnan. iioro Is tho $ 1 .null a l.i roll of waa f our. .1 u n h.s that I proi: 111 Sod you for voting for i lothing th.. w abas! 1 rle sin*: H*> thanked tno a ik: 1 put the nioii' v In his pocket Y 1 Mts M OTHER DEAD. As h o u a fi ; ihout to 1( rav** I took him — ItltlV tb o no \t ro< )in. Mr Burns was Pho* John J f'lT'Y a and head of the Hou»'on-"errv Man- ii 'set u r 1 n g eonipany. was f, md In hi* autoinohile along Hie roadside not far Gorn hi* home at Seat trd, iiel II, inlay It u supposed Hi*t roh- (•rv was 'he motive for the crime. h'’l ough Hr Ih rt v h»* not regained ^ Cl i leii* cor,si l usties* to |e|| any- G'lng The *upponitlon I* ttiat Perry *.is dr:' . tig along *o the u.'ll at. I was a ,- aike,| Hum to-t.ind as '!.»* ha k of 1 :» head Is hud'v cr ish. ci *rid hole* f "ind In the back cur'am of tho tnai bite i fcoc tors s.vv his sk ill Is '■a 'ured an I a tiulli’ wound was ■ 'I n: he bv k of *• •* load State ' it., r.tles. assis'. 1 to the |ioliie, aie “ our.ng t h a' se,'.lot.n of ihe country f"' 'be assa Hants Mr Perry is about 5 it years of ago arid has been '-ngig. ! in the lumber business for the last '! :r'v \oars op erating plaits In Mel tw are. Mary land. \ Irginla and North Carolina ■M REBELS lit T< IIKU AMKHK ANS. Plans to Surprise Her But Corpse Instead. I Ind- Edward Critn. aged nin-yfeen of Moundsville. W \'a . secure/I a vaca- t .on trom college and prepared to surprise his mother by returning hone without informing the family. He quietly- slipped imp his mother's lawn and tiptoed up to a window.j w here a dim light Av t here. ' I said. 'Mr Giinnan. allow me to present William .1 Burns.’ and Glln- t.an said, 'Pleased to meet you ' " The witness then testified that Gllnnan. when he realized his situa tion, handed buck the money and made a complete confession. VI TO BANDIT IN ATLANTA. Dodd and I’liillips Are Put to Death In Mexico. Two A mermans are reported to li.t'e been deliberately murdered In 'he massacre of Nicaraguan troops by thi Kehi Is at l.eon on August 19 One was said to be Harvey Hood, of Mis- s'-sippl and the other a man named Phillips The two men had been wounded 1 at:d were seeking refuge in a hospital according to the report received at i the statf^ department. Dodd and Phillips were said to a dim light was burning, he written Paw his mother's body clothed In a But Police Department Hasan Auto havo heen'fighti'ng with government , u | 8tl ^li'eVid died Xlonday and relatives' In Which to Chase Him. i AftPr th e defeat they were sent to that county, choreas there k ,, n ‘ ul ea / a , r€Ianvos l 'taken to a hfspital t)a(lly wounded, were three thousand name* on the C 011 ' 11 not ]oc ^ e ( rlm " ‘ ' club rolls. Hr. Benet said Wednesday that this was an error on his part which he had corrected. Only 2,060 tickets were sent to Lee County when L. L. She had died Xlonday and relatives' He fainted from the Blujbk and is In'a serious, condition. / / Prisoners to he Released. The Jbts Apache Indian prisoners Baker, County Chairman asked for j of war,, at Fort Sill, Okla , w ill he ro- 6,000. This mistake was corrected h'ase^ and turned over to the eecre- Wednesday when Mr. Benet person-1 tary/of war, with an appropriation oft t'h'e'tlfl an™ ally delivered the additional 4,0001 ?y?0,000 for such disposition as he ! neck 8peed wlth tickets to Mr. Baker who was In Co-j '/ay direct, according to the confer- his heels lumbla. j /nce report on the Indian approprla-j ]t i8 an v i ntere8 t ing coincidence | Mr. Benet purposely sent out th^tion hill agreed upon by managers of that the auto bandit has the House and Senate. The auto bandit has made his ap- ‘hen they were killed in the massaers pearance in Atlanta. The new type whk-h followed. No further details of criminal, produced first in Paris e^*' 8, ‘nt to \\ asliington. and then in New York, will have to Trie killing: of Dodd and Phillips, be figured with henceforth by the At- t !’ oll 1 ^ b 1 not entirely a parallel, recalls lanta police, for a mysterious strang- . ” lining of Cannon and Groce by er. in a high power touring car re- 'feia.as men In 1909, which resulted cently smashed oosn a drug store, ' n an upheaval that oyerinrevv the pod at break d ' rta,or out of 0, fi ce and him bo yele cops on Europe an exile. 500,000 State tickets on August J/S In order to allow plenty of time /or correcting any such errors as that ma3e In the shipment to Lee County. Mr. Baker’s letter to Mr. IkejJet fol lows: / “Hon. Christie Benet, Seer^4ary ( Co lumbia. S. C. Dear Sir: In reply ttyyour circu- yj*r letter of the 13th l/stant, beg to named Freda Shafer gave him a punch In the Jaw that disabled him , .until the arrival of the police. The •^y/hat we poll bet^fben 1,700 and hugger said he was In search of a model for his New York studio. Hermit's Love Was Enduring. made his ap- Adolph Hufenhauser, a tyhchelor pearance at a time when the police hermit of Hammond, Ind/ found fi-i 1 'nvw'in-4. xi.. n , n department for the first time in its nearly dead from starvation, had Just Girl I um new . Ian in Jaw. history will be able to meet him on written this note: "Strife/and worry M. Silverfleld of New York city, > his ovyn ground. The police depart-1 may fade the bloom ob youth, but was arrested at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., I ment has a touring car too, and It is leva’s first dream remains forever In for entering private houses and em- believed it may prove of unexpected the heart.” Hufenhavtser came from bracing women. A young womanluse in case the auto bandit appears Gertfcany more than/nfty years ago, again. ^ -. . / Honest Men Will OH Their Dues, is an Old Adage that is Being Veri fied by the Ijeaders of the Repub lican Party Telling on Eatb Oth er. The Republican leaders are telling on one another, and confirming what the Democrats use to say of them and the trusts. In & careful, delib erate speech In the Senate on Wed nesday, Senator Penrose replied to charges made regarding a certificate of deposit for $25,000 sent to him by John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil Company In 1904. Senator Penroee admitted receiv ing that sum from MlYAxch.bold, but asserted it was part of a contribu tion of 125,000 made by Archbold to the Republican national campaign fund, $100,000 of which, he said, was to be paid to the national committee and $25,000 to himself for use in Pennsylvania. “President Roosevelt hnd been ad vised of the contribution,” Senator Penrose said. He said that later Cor nelius N. Bliss, then treasurer of the national committee, asked for anoth er contribution of $160,000 from Archbold and his associaTee “Inter- ostod In the Standard OH Company”. “The demand was urgent, Insis tent. I may say Imperative, and it was represented that It came direct from I’realdent Roosevelt," said Pen- ro»* forcefully. William Flynn, Rooeevett’s leader In Pennsylvania, was scored by Pen rose The Senator charged that In 1 9o4 Flynn offered him and Israel W Durham $1,000,000 or $2,000,000” .f they would foster hts caadldacy to the Senate to succeed Senator Quay. Senator Penrose read what purported t > be copies of telegrams to Show that Flynn asked John D. Archbold to assist him In beln^ elected. Senator Penrose also attacked E V Van Valkenberg. editor of the i hlladelphia North American, ami •• f'-rred to the “effrontery, hypoerm- v at. I mendacity of the Van Valken- • - r riv nn combination”. Ihe galleries of the Senate were L id and wer* bright with feminine , in response to the announce :i’ r "'i' ttiat Senator Penroee was to -, V I •• "nor was crowded with Sena- • r« ! member* of the House He '■ mi tils speech from printed proofs Ai.d talked slowly and impresalvely At the eunclualon of his speec.i the Senator promised further dle- ■ >" » Senator Stone of Miesoarl a**' J him If he knew anything of the r"ntr!bution of E. H Harrlman to the 19«'4 Republican campaign fund J he papers are on file and letters “ sxM Mr Pen rose, “which I "i' k diiMn* the campaign will see t •• lU’ht <>f .lay 1 think If would he ■ rv tj. ntli'.xl to the country if they o'.oil'd ti. ixnme public " u here are they now'’" asked Sen- a* or Si onm II.i t., are hidden In the archives • f c a:..p.xlgu committees. In the cel- 'trs utni vaults of business men. and : the ' ffio« of lawyers.” returned na'or I’enrose “I think the time has come when these charge* should !*r no-t and the American people should no longer Y>e gulled by an swers which insinuate that another an Is a Bar.” Senator I’. nrose had the clerk read i newspaper Interview with Col Itnosixudt In which the latter was q'mted ns saying that Penrose had • i 'hing to do with the presidential c.ttiipalgn of 1964 The Senator said h* wm a member of the national (Iimmittee and chairman of the Pennsylvania State committee, and cumiucted the campaign in Pennsyl- v a n i a. 'Mr President, Is this ingratitude, mendacity or political aphasia?” he demanded. A ripple of laughter greeted this qu estlon. Senator Bacon asked to whom the $2,000,600 was to be paM by the “cit izen who wanted to be elected to the Senate?” “I Suppose either to Mr. Durham or mys'elf," responded Mr. Penrose. “We did not get that far In the con- aldeyatlon of the business.” Senator Culberson of Texas, seeing a psvchological opportunity railed up his till] forbidding campaign contri butions by corporations and limiting the amount to be contributed by In dividuals to $5,000. A filibuster developed against the measure and after thirty-eight sena te's had forced a half dozen roll calls on It the Senate was foced to adjourn. MADE ON AGED MINISTER IN SPEECH AT NEWBERRY. Governor Blease Said He Had Been Afflicted Because of Dirty, Slan derous Articles. The Newberry Observer says: Much Indignation has been felt In Newberry, and no doubt elsewhere, against the cruel and vindictive lan guage used by Governor^ Blease in his speech on campaign day here in ref erence to Newberry ministers; partic ularly so as It is generally under stood that his language had special reference to one of those ministers. Rev. Geo. A. Wright, who was recent ly stricken with paralysis at the home of his daughter in Greenville. Mr. Wright *0$ pastor of the First EJaptlst Church la Newberry for twenty-one years, beginning with the opening of his ministeriid. career; and it la not too much to set that no man who ever lived here was more highly or more universally esteemed. He Is a man without guile, e devoted and consistent follower of hie Mas ter; a man who ’while phyaldally able ‘ went about doing good”. The ‘‘dirty alanderoua articles” tbs Newberry mlnisteri “wrote” about Mr. Blease four years ago consisted solely of the folldwlng statement I'ubllfhed by them after he had said lu public speeches in distant coun ties, "If you want to know how I stand In Newberry, write to the pas tors of the churches there ahd ask them"—a reference they had not au thorized him to make: "Inaamuch as letters of inquiry re ceived from different sections of the State reveal the fact that unwarrant ed Inferences as to the attitude of the ministers of the town of Newberry are being drawn from certain state ments made publicly by Hon. Gole L. Blease In hts canvass for the office of governor, we deem It our duty to say that w e do not, directly or Indirectly, endorse his candidacy. “Signed» Edward Fulenwlder, Pastor Lutheran Church of the R«- deemer. "G. A. Wright. "Pastor First Baptist Church. "D G. Phillips. “Pastor A R. Presbyterian Church. “J. T. Miller, ^ Ts*tor O'Nsall St. M. E. Church. “A. H. Best. "Pastor Now berry Circuit” Of the ministers whose name are • fne<l to the above statemsnt. Mr, E il. nw I.!»t Is still ths pastor of the I title ran Church of ths Redeemer ind ts doing a splendid work In Ntew- b< rry Mr James was called a year t r so ago to a church in I'nlontown, Ala . with * salary sevoral hundred dollars mere than he revived while hTr. and with a fin# field of work. Mr PhtHIpe waa called two years ago to the Chester church, where his sal ary is much larger, and his work ts eminently eucc^eful. Revs. J. T Miller and A H I<est are Methodist ministers, serving churshes faithful ly and efficiently in other parts of tbs State, changing from on# to another in sccordanos with Methodist law and usage \\ hat i* to he thought of a Govern or of South Carolina who will follow an afflicted minister of the gospel In a vindictive spirit of this kind Into his sick chamber for so small a prov- ocatios. if Indeed It could be called a provocation at all to simply say that one “does not endorse his candida cy”? / . 2,000 votes In this lUee) county at thn coming prlmar/. I think It ad visable that you send us at least 6,- 000 ballots as psany are wasted In spite of all the/care we can take. “Yours truly, /oiled 7.- lenetsP -, (Signed) / L- L. Baker, “County Chairman. BIshoDvllle, S. C. July 22, 1912.” ivlct Silent for Txvo Years lenlsts are undecided whether Cfc/rles Carson, a convict Iq the pris on at Folsom. Cal., was stricken Wright Has a Mishap. Orville Wright lost control of United States Sends Marines. Undeterred by talk In the Senate of projected resolutions regarding/* the constitutionality of the landing of American sailors and marines In Nicaragua, the navy department at : j a ^p Sj ‘ boflght a small fai/h, cleared it and then wrote for lyfs sweetheart to come. Later he/recelved word that she was dead. / Three Children Burnefl.'V., At NewyBrighton, Pa., Edward, nydro-aeroplane with which he was/he request of the state department tVv^^Bix'wnGhs ^woTn^fo lr''veTrs' making an experimental flight Wed- Wednesday dispatched peremptory wor ; b U/ od tV,’death eailv Sunday nesday and plunged into me Miami, orders to navy yards on two sides of ^ TVay!or home was set aflm Iliver. That he was not seriously the vcontinent to rush reinforcements bv a / et doK over turn in e a Mhle on hurt doubtless Is due to the fact that to the naval forces now located far i w hicdi wad'an oil Hrrn n he was only fifteen or twenty feet! In the interior of the insurrection- h^ S T B^na d wJs n^'to nvt>r thn urater n nan ha fall ann at q tnm nr\untr\r _ / _ ' To Boost Writers of Poetry. To encourage the writing of verse more than a hundred citizens of Chi cago have subscribed $5,000 a year for five years to publish a magazine through which writers cf verse, now unknown, may be heard. The editor will be Miss Harriet Honroa and the first number will appear about Jan 1, 1913. over the water when he fell and at a torn country, point where the water Is shallow. Will Have New Job. , . , The defeat of Capt. John Laml dumb or la shamming. He has not: for the re-nomination by formerly spoken a word for over two years, i ernor Montague In the third Virginia Carson was sentenced to life Imprls- district means that Representative onment for assault and battery. In'a. F. Lever, of South Carolina, will Modern Thief a Robin Hood. A thief with a Robin Hood code of b honor returned to the nurse In the of- 1904, and later sentenced to death for participating Is a murdering Jail bo chairman of the House commit tee on agriculture In the next Con* greaa. death while trying to save the sleep ing family from the flumes. Took Her Own Life. An ugly scar left by acid on the flee of Dr. A. H. Heppner, of Ban pretty face of Ruby Plagle. aged six, Jose. Cal., sixty-five cents stolen from i caused the child to end her life bv the young woman's purse. WUh the jumping Into a well at h-r home at money was a note saying the writer i Double Springs, Iowa Brooding ov- never robbed the poor and much thatier the scars the child had rroviouo- was taken from the rich wat given UL ly declared her purpose and had been ths needy. j closely watched. Wealthy Escape Taxation. Forty thousand small homes of government clerks and workingmen In Washington are assessed at nine ty p^r cent, of their true value, while the Imposing residences of the north- \'"st section of the city averaged but fifteen per cent., according to a re port Wednesday by a special house committee. Seven Murderers to Die. Fevoa murderers will pay the death penalty in two California pris ons this week because a petition to irData new legislation affecting cap ital punishment failed to get the nec- * >siry 31,000 sismatures l>y August id r-.-.ly 12,000 name* had been obtained. FORESTS PREVENTS FLOODS. Forests Are Protection Against Sen lou* Flood Conditions. The forest* ar* protection against serious fliiod conditions Is the an. hvv.t made by George Otis Smith, director of the geological survey, af- trr extensive Investigation, to the long controversy between forestry ex- etts and weather bureau officials as tc the value of forests The report is made to the national forest com- tnlselon which has been buying tracts in the Appalachian and White mountains to protect the watersheds In the eastern United States. Professor Willis Moore, chief of the weather bureau, and some of his associates hare held that neither rainfall nor flood conditions were af reet ed by forest cover. “A direct relation exists,” says the report, “between forest cover and strt-Hm regulation. There was a pro nounced. difference in the rate of dis appearance of snow from the forest- ' d and covered areas.” FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY. Man and Woman Engage in Battle to the Death. Thomas Guffey, president o/ a min er's union at Colpvllle, Illinois, and his fdster-In-law, Mrs. Anna Floher, s ’ot each other to death at that place Wednesday night when the latter at tempted to save the life of Mrs. Guf fey, who had been attacked by her husband. Guffey's wife lef him a month ago and he called at his mother-in- law's home to seo her. He told her he had come to kill the entire fam- i!> and fired at her. The bullet went wild and Mrs. Floher opened fire on him from a window. Several shots were- exchanged between the two, Guffey receiving klx bullets. Mrs. Flo- tier was shot through the heart. Vote at Pacolet Mills. The vote at Pacolet Mills In Spar- anburg County has been polled as far as possible, and from present indica tions will bo as follows: Jones, 90; Blease, 81. The same precinct, two years ago gave Featherston*. 77; Blease, 121. First Wonmn Put to Death. At Richmond Virginia Christina, the negress, was executed at 7.23 Friday morning without a hitch. She murdered Mrs. Ida Belotte. bar white employer. Thli Is the first womtn to b« executed la Virginia. AUEDiEiEmnai! esvqtc LEFT ONE limi — Disappointed In the Man tk* ried, a Young j man Took Poison In * M» W| Parler and Died JM Reached Her. Joking of death aa her own, Mra. Nona three-year-old wife Wynee, a painter of Atlanta, Ga., sought employer as to the 1 mlttlng suicide. Her h mined her Identity Thursday lately after he drank poison and died Ww, _ night In a soda water pdltor, while fi dosen pleasure seekers alpftil thetg cooling drlnka at the table* ■up- rounding the one where the was enacted. Disappointment In her Is the sole explanation of Her husband, a painter find papers hanger, protests that there wan hn iron hio between them. "It she hnd any troubles, they were of hei was his laconic answer whoa for explsoatlon of her deed. Her entire action, though to the tragedy Indicated th bed weighed heavily on her that the decision to was not the reeult of but fihd been reached almost uncanny She left a note, husband for forgi' request to the baby boy. Th# cemetery where mains to rest w for her soul wj__ ... had conk ids red her h suit of her set She son as her method after been considered. Her married life had net keen of ease end pleas are. Five years at Pall city, Ala., whore afae born and reared, she wan Wynne, a boy, James T. wee born. Despite the sponstbllltles, 'Mrs. Wyaae v work to aid In the support of I and her baby. She was employed as a clerk retail grocery establishment of Glass. Ill Marietta hours were loag. DtL . garded as s cheerful, witting xod waa popular with her aa in th* store sad Its petiUM, It was to the prnpnecni «f store that shs first gave that shs intended to oud I *o cheerily war* | erence to snltida hid no thought that hts acutally Inteaded to praAl Vic There was no apparent el the glrl'e good humor In tl She waited on her castemsre and laughed sad Joked with workers. It woe dnrtag aa lull that aha broached the suicide to her employer. “What do you thlek woe of a girl who committed •hs asked. There wee a lips as she spoke. Her She seemed unusually "I hardly think nhe-d ge t en.” Mr. Gloss replied. The did not offset her "Well. If a girl did. the beet way?” ah Plainly the clerk _ uloyer reasoned aa he returned laugh. "Why I think I'd ride out te Lnho> wood and Jump in,” he said. "Oh, that wouldn't do,” she ham- tered back. “Somebody might you out. and yon woeld have had all )our trouble for nothing.” The conversation drifted to other subjects. Later In the afternoon Mrs. Wynne asked to be excused from duty In the store for « brief time. It tPM then that she purchased the poloom, She bought twenty-five eeata worth of strychnine In a drug store, »*Hfr»g the prescriptlonlat that ahe wished te ub* it in killing rata. She then returned to the store and resumed her work. Later oho wrote' a letter and showed the enval Mr. Glass. "Fm not going you what’a la It.” ahnaaifl. onA kLo laughed. The grocer think# thin was the suicide note. A letter was also written to * school friend In New Hampshire. She had told a teacher of the kil ten attended by her son that tire married life had been n dt polntment. * Leaving the store at 7 o’clock. Joined her husband and with went to Pink Cherry market, seemed In unusually high a] the market they separated, lipme and she back to the Where she spent the hours between then and . had chosen for her tragic known. At 10:30 o’clock she rug store. 58 White U a soda water and to one of the tablea went. A number of others -gtira —> ed about enjoying cold drlnka during the sweltering evening, r — She was -well dressed and few 1 am* trance was noticed by ajl the customers. She ordered u Finishing this, she went to u phone booth, where she spent moments Writing. When toe ed the paper waa grasped th if the was suffering from was not ditplayed on her - She summoned n waiter for a glass of water. If w her. No one saw her tafcd from her handbag, her place It in the water. It immediately. Before the last swallowef toe Hit hurried to her. ML hunts* ai4 ,W: 1 \ .n