* I i RACE RIOT OUT VEST MOB IN OTTUMWA, IA.t SEEKS SUMMARY VENGEANCE. Crowd, Deficient in Initiative, Contents Itself With Noise After Starting to Lynch Alleged Assailant. Ottumwa, la., Feb. 21.?Lack of a leader was all that saved Ottumwa to-night from adding another bloody chapter to the history of race riots in the United States. A mob of men and boys, which increased from 100 to 1,000, gathered around the city jail, thirsty for vengeance on the negro who committed a criminal assault on a white woman early to-day. While three negroes have been placed in the city jail and one in the county jail, and several threatening demonstraA - ? ? ^ tw o n Ttro a UUU9 XUIVe UCCU luauc, UV lllau naa daring enough to lead the mob in the work they wanted to do and it seemed likely that peace might be preserved. John Junkin, a negro, suspected of the murder of Clara Rosen, who was slain two weeks ago, was taken out of town secretly by the police, following the early manifestation of mob spirit. A recently organized vigilance committee is aiding the police, who declare they have the situation in control. Company G, Fifty-fourth regiment of the National Guard, is held in the barracks ready for any call to action. Mrs. Charles M. Johnston, invalid wife of an Ottumwa traveling salesman, was in bed with her 5-year-old child at 3 o'clock this morning, when she awoke to find a negro bending over her. Before she could scream for help the black brute seized her by the throat and began to choke her. Despite her weakness as the result of a recent operation, Mrs. Johnston fought desperately. She tore herself loose from the assailant's hands and cried for help. At the same time the child screamed. The negro became alarmeg, and seizing a curtain pole, beat the woman until she became unconscious. How long the negro remained in the room is not known. -?1?? ai?Aiicn/) 1UO (/HVB Ul LUC L'UUU liuaiij atuuovu V. neighbors, who found Mrs. Johnson lying on the floor unconscious. By her side was the bloody curtain pole. Search for Criminal. News of the assault spread rapidly and before daylight armed men were searching for the negro. The homes of negroes were placed under watch. The city jail became the point of atr traction for the excited men who formed the nucleus of the mob. The trail of the assailant was fol- * lowed by bloodhounds to a deep ravine three miles from Ottumwa, where it was lost. Other armed men searched other parts of the country all day and far into the night. While this work was going on the crowd around the city jail continued to grow. Threats being made against the negro Junkin, the police toward night took him to Chillicothe, ten miles west, where he was put on board a Burlington train and taken to Albia. Trouble started again when search- . otki Hocmn hrincr in snSDectS caught in the surrounding country. The mob contented itself with yelling its hate as the first, second and third suspects were taken into the city jail. The police had been provided with a good description of the guilty negro by Mrs. Johnston. When the fourth man was hustled into the county jail the mob again became restive. * "Come on, boys, let's get some one; the police are fooling us," cried a man in the crowd. It was the moment for a leader, but the leader was not there. The onslaught never got beyond words. Violent One Soon Calmed. There were many ,of sober minds in the crowds and these argued with the more violent to give the police a chance. As darkness came the less vengeful went home and apparently the danger of lynching was over for the time. Although the slaying of Clara Rosen, whose dead body was found in an abandoned excavation of a house, was what first roused the mob spirit to-day, there have been a number of assaults on white women by negroes within the last two years that contributed to arouse Ottumwa people. The first was an assault on Mrs. * George McBride. Sherman Phillips, colored, was acquitted of this crime. Mary Mahoney, the next victim, died in a hospital. Oscar Hogan, colored, is serving a life term for this crime. Agnes Yates, a telephone operator, was going home from work and was attacked. Williams Stevens, a negro, was acquitted of this assault. Mrs. John Irwin, was assaulted by Leroy ?. 3 Edwards, a negro, who was senienceu for life. John Junkin, colored, is the only * suspect now held for the murder of Clara Rosen. There is little evidence to connect him with the murder, and many believe the Rosen murder and the Johnston assault were perpetrated by the same man. At 9 o'clock to-night two more negroes were brought to the city jail. Physicians attending Mrs. Johnston say she will probably recover. They say the fiendish attack with the curtain pole did not injure her internally, although there is danger of blood poison from lacerated wounds. Commercial travelers to-night subscribed a purse of $1,200 as a reward for the arrest and conviction of her assailant. In addition to the reward offered by traveling men, $300 was subscribed as a nucleus of a fund to employ detectives to work on the case. News of this action and the spreading of the announcement of a mass meeting to-morrow night, when it is expected to raise a large sum to employ a sufficient force of detectives to work on all recent Ottumwa crimes, resulted in quieting the mob. It is believed the danger of trouble to-night is passed, as only a few persons remain on the streets. The Bar Sinister. , "Was your father college bred?'' "Yes, but we never mention it. The college he went to had a rotten football team."?Chicago RecordHerald. / i AMERICAN TEL. & TEL. CO. Bell Statistics Outnumber Independents* Nearly Two to One. Boston?To the national government, working through the department of commerce and labor, belongs the credit for having finally determined the official facts in the long disputed question as to the relative size of the Bell and independent telephone interests of the United States. The government figures for 1907 show 3,132,063 Bell stations and 2,986,5-15 independent stations or telephones. The independents have all along claimed over 4,000,000 stations, or fully 33 per cent, more than they actually have. The government figures do not make any attempt to classify the independents as between "independ-. ent" and "opposition" companies. As a matter of fact, of tie so-called "independents" fully 900,000, or 30 per cent, of the entire number form through sub-license or service arrangements part of the comprehensive Bell system, but in all other respects are independent, self-controlling organizations. At present over 1,100,000 independents or about 40 per cent, of the total are thus affiliated with Bell lines. With this very important adjustment which the government statistics obviously could not make, it will be found that instead of the Bell companies having but 145,000 more stations than the independents, the real figures are something like 4,000,000 for the Bell, against 2,150,000 for the independents, a ratio of . nearly 2 to 1. The preponderance of Bell over independent stations may be better illustrated by the following comparison: i 1907 1902 Bell system.. ..4,000,000 1,350,000 Independents ..2,150,000 1,000,000 Bell excess 1,850,000 350,000 c P. C. I Increase. inc. d Bell system 2,650,000 196 f Independents 1,150,000 . 115 v Bell excess 1,500,000 I In considering these figures, it d should be borne in mind that the y station statistics of the Bell and ? connecting systems are all a matter h of record at a central point, due to I the fact that the instruments used b ' ? " i V?TT Vl Dy tne joen system tue luimcucu uj u the American Telephone Co. Statis- e tics kept by the Bell companies are r as precise as figures of railroad r earnings. Instruments used by the t! Bell companies are all given out E from one source and are identical in type of construction. Therefore, the statistics of Bell telephone stations are as reliable as balance n sheets or any other financial records, p The relative public utility of the a Bell and independent telephone in- o terests is not measured by number b of stations so much as by the fact o that the Bell lines are one compre- c hensive and inter-communicating o system operated under one general policy and connected with toll and v long-distance lines aggregating near- b ly 2,000,000 miles in length. The in- n dependents on the other hand are c scattered companies and for the s most part small associations or co- ? operative groups, having with a few e conspicuous exceptions no relation i] with each other and only limited s connection by local toll lines. The in- d atiMimAnts and aDDaratus come from 30 or 40 different manufacturers, b There is no uniform accounting sys- v tern a"hd there is no temptation to p make the figures any smaller than c they actually are. Furthermore, h some independents report telephones j, (a single instrument) while others e conform to the Bell custom and re- c port stations (two instruments), v To this extent the independent fig- \ ures are unduly swelled, but there is t no way of knowing how material h this factor is. The significant feature of the a rapid telephone development of the \? United States during the last five g years has been this quiet, steady af- h filiation with the American telephone c system of 900,000 independent sta- s tions. As a result, thousands of sub- p scribers in the West have to-day d what they have never before enjoyed g ?the advantage of connection with t the only national telephone service t in the country. t Law Against Cigarettes. t Following is the law prohibiting 1 the sale of cigarettes to minors. Why ! is this law not enforced in South Carolina and Bamberg? J Sec. 329. .It shall not be lawful J for any person or persons, either by himself or themselves, to sell, fur- s nish, give or "provide any minor or J minors, under the age of eighteen ; years with cigarettes, tobacco, or . cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor. ' - Any person or persons violating the provisions of the preceding section, either in person, by agent, or in any other way, shall be held and deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction therefor shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, nor less than two months, or both, in the discretion of the court; one-half of the fine imposed to be paid to the informer of the offense, and the other half to tye paid to the treasurer of the county in which such conviction shall be had. Washington Once Gave Up to three doctors; was kept in bed for five weeks. Blood poison from a spider's bite caused large, deep sores to cover his leg. The doctors failed, then "Bucklen's Arnica Salve completely cured me," writes John Washington, of Bosqueville, Tex. For eczema, boils, burns and piles its supreme. 25c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. ??^ Deadly. "Lady," said the tall tramp solemnly, "have you any more of that T. R. pie you gave me yesterday?" "T. R. pie?" asked the housewife in surprise. "What does that stand i for?Teddy Roosevelt?" "No'm, third rail. I want to give i it to a brakeman down at de water tank. It's bound to knock him out." 1 I Genui E: | ? r^ " " THE OLDEST HORSE, tarnwpll Conntr Eauine Dies at Aee of 29 Years. Bunyan, the noted gray horse iwned by Mr. C. B. Anderson, of )unbarton, died on Sunday and was lecently buried. He had been feeble or a long time, but worked to the ragon a few days before his death, le was faithful to the end. Mr. Anlerson had owned him twenty nine ears and two months. He thinks tunyan was over 8 years old when ie traded for him. He got him from leggie Brothers, of Augusta. In all is life Bunyan never had a chisel on is feet, nor was a dose of medicine ver given him. Mr. Anderson has aised four sons, and they all had idden, ploughed and driven him in : heir boyhood and manhood days.? larnwell People. Love Incomparable. There is no love so great as the aother-love; no devotion that will rillingly make such heroic sacrifices. l recent terrible fire, in which scores f school children lost their lives, rought forth an excellent example f the calm sacrifice of a mother to heer her daughter at the moment f death. Calling the name of her little girl rho she knew was in the burning uilding, the mother rushed to the earest window and, with the flames ircling about her, tried to climb in. ihe was restrained by force, and hen, as a sudden gust of wind cleard away the smoke, she saw outlined a the window at which she had ought entrance the figure of her ' aughter. The window was near the ground, ut two hundred frenzied children rho pushed from behind made it ira ossible for the little girl to climb --* 1 ? Ktt fVia loarg UL. dUt? W iXO piuiuucu ij j vuv ?v0w a the crush of bodies that were ammed against the wall. The mothr called to her to climb out. The hild's lips moved, but her words re re lost in the roar of the flames. Vhen she saw she could not make terself heard, she smiled and shook ier head. The mother pressed her body gainst the wall and by reaching up ras able to lay her hand on the irl's head. She seized her by the tair and pulled, but to no avail. The hild's garments were on fire. When he saw that it was useless to try to lull her daughter through the winow, and realize that hope was ;one, the mother laid her hand on he child's face and stroked it while he fire ate upward through the litle tot's garments. The scorching flames enveloped : he child from head to foot, but the aother continued to console her yhile the fire burned on. When the loor fell in, and took the dead girl dth it, the mother withdrew her land. It was burnt to a crisp to the ilbow. Calmly she walked across the treet to the house of a physician, ?here she refused to be attended un*" J nKa/iaiLoH il t&ree cniiareu, wuu uau. pi^uvu ier, were cared for.?The March I)eineator. ioldier Came to Confederate Home* Columbia, Feb. 18.?Francis Douglas Walker, a member of Com>any A, Hampton's Legion, has arived in the city from New York, beng sent here by the New York Daughters of the Confederacy to ener the Confederate Home, which is ion est and may continue so. 'The attention of the New York Daughters of Confederacy was called o the need of this veteran by a itory in the New York papers that a Confederate soldier had appeared >efore a magistrate and asked to be :ommitted to the alms house as he ' ' ????i- ?n f ' 3C WHJ ?nu LUJU? JUUl BOIuigo uviv uuv>v 21 solutely safe and earn yon an income, or pnt them away jg J 2 | in some place of fancied security where they will bring g X g C you in nothing but worry? 5 5 11 EHBHABDT BANKING CO., - Ehrhardt, S. C. 81 |i iTAPVEI^OVED| ? I have moved my hardware store into the ? ? brick store next to the Peoples Bank, on ? ? Main street. Have just received a new ? ? line of all > kinds of Hardware, Tools, ? ? Farm Supplies, etc., and can save you ? ? money. Don't fail to see me before buy- ? ? ing anything in my line. - ? ? J. A. HUNTER ? ? The Hardware Man Bamberg, S. C. ? a.; a? e? a? a f ti- a? a- a- ai ?i? a? a? a? a-ii.; cr? ti; a? 0? a? g? I! DON'T THROW IT AWAY I t? it That broken gun or pistol, or perhaps ? t? it's a bicycle that is not in working 3? ? order. Don't throw it away, but let t? ?? me repair it so that it will give you as 3? $ much service as though it were new. ? I am fully prepared to execute repair t J t? work promptly and satisfactorily, t? t? and solicit your patronage. t? fj. B. BRICKLEp ; i The Repair Man Bamberg, S. C. ?; ? I I Horses-Mules! We received recently another car load of ? Horses and Mules, direct from East St. 9 Louis, the largest Horse and Mule market x in the world. 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