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jgV..2 'C** ' -7. ' ?t >?!- * # LIFE SENTENCE GIVEN. Negro Who Entered Converse College Room Convicted. Spartanburg, April 17.?Life imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary was the sentence administered to Harvey Bradford, colored, convicted in the court of general sessions to-day on the charge of burglariously entering the room of Miss .> Julia Reed on the second floor of! 1 A 1 11 ? ? Pftllotro nn , jjcxccr aaix tit wuvciot wmov v the morning of April 5, at 1:30: o'clock. Miss Reed was the star! witness in the trial. The conviction of the negro hung on the identification of the hat found in the room of Miss Reed, which was lost by the -/> burglar in his haste to get away after the alarm had been given. It was proved that the hat belonged to Bradford and that he wore it on the nisrht of ADril 4 when he left home w and that he returned home without it early next morning. S. G. Finley represented the defendant. A majority of the Converse College girls and the faculty were present during the trial, which lasted from 11 a. m. till 6:30 p. m. Solicitor Otts and S. J. Nicholls appeared for the State. Never before has a trial awakened ^ so much local interest. The court % V ' room was crowded all day, and L r ! standing room was hard to find in any part of the house. Many ladies of the city were in the audience. When the dinner hour arrived everybody hurried home and ate in haste ' in order to get back at 3 o'clock .. and miss no part of the testimony. A great number of witnesses were examined, both.for the State and for " * the defense. The State's witnesses gave a chain of testimony that could not be broken even by the most skeptical. It was all circumstantial v; evidence, but the circumstances all i& y pointed to * one conclusion?the guilt of Bradford. Of all the witnesses placed on the stand the coolest and most competent was Miss Julia Reed, whose room the burglar entered early on the morning of the 5th of April. The young lady is vvl * the daughter of J. C. Reed, of Pittshnrar. Pa., a retired naner manufac i turer, who is at present residing at Hendersonville for his health. Mr. ^ Reed was physically nnable to atend the trial himself, but Mrs. Reed came down. During the trial she sat beside her daughter and which of the two appeared the coolest would be hard to say. A Fine Witness. It would be hard to find a better f witness than this young lady of the sophomore class of Converse Col lege. The story that she told on the stand was the most trying ordeal any heroine ever went through?dealing with a ourly burglar in the dead hours of night, alone and in a hand to hand scuffle, in which the brute was trying his best to choke her. Miss Reed's testimony was in substance as follows: "I was asleep and I woke up ' quickly. When the door cracked I was aroused. It was dark at the end of the hall in which my room is located, only a light burning in the farther end. At first I thought it was one of the girls, I looked up and saw the form of a man a^inst the light, I smelled an odor like tobacco : or a strong pipe and I knew that I had to deal with one stronger than myself. I "I attempted to scream and a hand was thrown over my mouth. I began fighting the burglar, but he v had every advantage, as I had to strike upward to hit him. I tried to scream and partially succeeded. The man then thrust his fingers in my mouth and I clamped .them as hard as I could with my teeth. I bit him so badly that he drew his fingers out and I got in a good scream. The struggle was a hard one. I knew that I had everything to fight for. I could not state positively how long the struggle lasted, but to me it seemed an age. Directly I heard an . answering call saying 'I'm coming,' ? . and soon some of the girls were at hand. The man rushed for the window and made off down the fire escape." Miss Frances Cleveland, a student of Converse, was next put on the stand. She said that there were trunks on both sides of the hall in that part where Miss Reed"s room is located. One trunk, she said, was found open after the burglar had gone. This trunk had been closed. The top tray was out and the bottomm tray pushed back. The things in the trunk appeared as if they had been stirred up. Poor Tired Doggy. Little four-year-old Marian was walking one day with her mother . when she saw a dachshund for the first time. Like all dogs of that class, his body was long and his legs very short. Marian gazed at him with wideopen brown eyes for a moment, then said excitedly: "Oh, mother, mother, look at that queer doggy with legs at each corner of him? Was his legs long once, mother, and did they get wored down by him using them so much?"?The Delineator for May. * MECKLENBURG HOTEL BURNED. Beautiful Frame Structure at Chase City Completely Destroyed. Danville, Va., April 16.?The beautiful Mecklenburg hotel at Chase City, 70 miles east of this city, on the Keysville and Durham branch of the Southern railway, was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. The hotel was an expen- j sive frame structure built 10 years ago by the Mecklenburg Springs corporation at a cost, including furnishings, of $200,000. At the time of the fire it was owned by the estate of M. L. T. Davis, of Norfolk, and was leased and managed by W. T. Hughes, who had conducted it for several years. The owners carried only $75,000 insurance on the hotel and equipment. Only about thirty guests w.ere registered at the hostelry at the time of the fire. The structure, situated on an eminence just outside of town, had 200 guest chambers, all well furnished. The flames were discovered by guests on the lawn who saw smoke issuing from the slate roof and the -? ? ?Imma/liotolv hilt aiarm wac viiuiuvuiww*^ y ?? ? the fire-fighting facilities were wholly inadequate to cope with the fire. All of the guests escaped and most of them saved all their personal belongings. i. The Way the Money Goes. , An Atlanta man just back from Panama gave these figures and facts to the Spartanburg Herald on Saturday: There are now 111 steam shovels at work, digging out five cubic yards each, every 17 seconds. There is a great contest going on on the isthmus between steam shovel men as to who can show the best report at each week's end in the 'canal record,' so 'Old man Yardeye' is boss on the isthmus. The big dam at Gatun is a wonder. It is really a mountain being thrown across the Chrages river val ley. It is to be 5,000 feet long, 15,000 thick and 125 feet high. This great dam is necssary to hold back the sudden rise in the Chrages river, which has been known to rise 75 feet in six hours. This is not surprising, though, considering the fact that the rainfall recorded on the canal has been known to reach seven inches in. four hours. This great dam will make a great inland sea, which materially aids the furnishing of a waterway across the isthmus, reducing materially the amount of digging necessary. It will also furnish the base of the great electric power which will be used for running the Panama railroad trains and moving the great gates of the locks as well as to furnish motive power for many manufacturing plants destined to spring up on the isthmus. For many of the Americans have found a pleasant place to live down there where its summer all the time and with a death rate less than that of Georgia they are satisfied to cast their, lot there for life. The figures shown of the work are large. Every two minutes a ton of coal is burned up at Panama, every minute twelve carloads of rock and gravel are torn from the earth, every hour 1,666 pounds of dynamite are exploded in mountain and jungle, every minute $124 is spent for labor. The American mechanic on the steam shovels and in the shops gets about 65 cents per hour and his room, lights, bath and service are furnished him. If he is married, quarters are furnished, meals are served at 30c. each. The fare is good. The visitor to the isthmus in 1915 will have many pleasant scenes to meet his eye. He will doubtless disembark at Colon and take the electric car line across the isthmus. He will see his ship glide through the locks at Gatun. He will then pass on through the magnificent tropical foliage skirting the way; pass Empire on to Culebra, where he will take dinner at the great tourist hotel, which will be built there on the mountains. He will then enjoy a magnificent view, catching a glimpse here of both the Atlantic and Pacific. In the afternoon the visitor will go on past Nura Floris (look at the flowers,) on past the locks at Bosopisbo and as the westering sun is throwing great bars of light across Panama. Bay?making gold the tops of the big Arem hospital, and embark again in his ship as she weighs anchor in Panama harbor. Swept Over Niagara. This terrible calamity often happens because a careless boatman ignores the river's warnings?growing ripples and faster current?nature's warnings are kind. That dull pain or ache in the back warns you the kidneys need attention if you would wtnln/li'nci /I mnav csuayc idiai uiaiauKo uiu^/sj, uiabetes or Bright's disease. Take Electric Bitters at once and see backache fly and all your best feelings return. "After long suffering from weak kidneys and lame back, one $1.00 bottle wholly cured me," writes J. NR. Blankenship, of Belk, Tenn. Only 50c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. PREFERRED DEATH TO CELL. Noted Dr. Rosa Monnish Kills Her- ' self in Atlanta. * Atlanta, Ga., April 19.?Preferring the chill of the grave to the chill of a prison cell, and the shroud I to the garb of a convict, Dr. Rosa S. t Monnish drank prussic acid and died 1 to-day an hour after she had been ^ sentenced to serve two years in the 1 Federal penitentiary at Leaven- c worth, Kansas. Deputy United ? States marshals, in whose charge she had been placed, found her after they had broken open the door to her room. Mrs. Monnish has been more or less in the public eye in the South for several years. She built a sanitarium in the most aristocratic part of Atlanta a few years ago, despite the efforts of neighbors to prevent the opening of the place. Later her methods came under the scrutiny of the postoffice inspectors, but it was ( not until she had trouble with her 1 husband that the officers could get 1 evidence against her. They charged 1 her with sending improper and ' threatening letters to a young woman and secured her conviction. Her ' attorneys applied for a new trial, 1 and it was overruled this morning ( by Federal Judge Newman, who at 1 once sentenced Dr. Monnish to serve one year and one day in prison, and to pay a fine of $1,000 on each of 1 two counts. { Dr. Monnish fainted when the sentence was imposed, but recovered ! and asked to go to her home. The ^ officers consented, simply stipulating that they lock her in her room and 1 remain on guard outside. While her 1 attorneys were preparing an appeal 1 bond she accompanied the officers in a cab to her home, and went to her room. About 2 p. m. the guards called to her to come to luncheon. Re- 1 ceivlng no reply, they forced the door and found their aged prisoner dead on her bed. ! Dr. Monnish was sixty years of age, ana Desiaes ner nusoana, aiso a physician, she leaves a daughter, Jeannette, aged 13. I Chester Kennedy Granted Bail. At Aiken last Monday morning ] Chester Kennedy, white, of Barnwell, who is charged with promoting the murder of Perry Ussery, . also white, applied to Judge R. C. 1 Watts for release on bail. He has < been confined since his arrest in the Barnwell jail. : ; , It will be recalled that Ussery was | killed in Barnwell during the time a ; carnival was in the town. No mo- . tive could be ascribed for the crime, as Ussery was not known to have had any enemies. Suspicion was 1 directed toward Quitman Johnson, | a negro, as circumstantial evidence against him was strong, and he was ; arrested on the streets in Aiken. He was subsequently conveyed to Co- ; lumbia for safe keeping and later 1 carried to Barnwell for trial. < Being convicted he made a confession and said he murdered Ussery by mistake, having intended to kill Marvin Holland. He said in his confession that CheBter Kennedy hired him to kill Holland and he was the man he intended to shoot. : He was to have been paid, he said, 1 by Kennedy and also by a woman in Augusta, whose name was not an- ] nounced, but whose name is said to be known. Another negro; Grubbs, was also convicted with Johnson, but was recommended' to 'mercy. Ife maintains his innocence. The Judge granted bail to Kennedy in the sum of $5,000. Body Returned in Coffin. Shellman, April 13.?Particularly gruesome are the details connected with the return of the body of Ross Manior to his father, J. B. Manior, last night. Manior was killed last Friday night, it is stated, in an encounter with the negro Alfred Iver- ' son, whom Manior and his companions had attempted to whip. The 1 members of the mob carried away 1 the lifeless body of their comrade after he and the negro had been killed. It was discovered that Manior was missing. His father was told to place a cof- j fin in a certain spot. He complied i and the der.omnosed bodv of voung { Manior, half clad, was found in the j coffin when the father returned. The ( members of the mob are unknown. < i Words to Freeze the Soul. "Your son has consumption. His f case is hopeless." These appalling 1 words were spoken to Geo. E. Ble- 1 vens, a leading merchant, of Spring- 1 field, N. C., by two expert doctors? i one a lung specialist. Then was ] shown the wonderful power of Dr. ] King's New Discovery. "After three < weeks use," writes Mr. Blevens, "he < was As well as ever. I would not take all the money in the world for what it did for my boy." Infallible for coughs and colds, its the safest, surest cure of desperate lung dis- i eases on earth. 50c. and J 1.00. Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C., guarantee satisfaction. Trial bottle 3 free. t < ? FOUR CATTLEMEN LYNCHED. lob Formed in Commercial Club Without Attempt at Concealment or Disguise. Ada, Okla., April 19.?Four jro'minent cattlemen were to-day aken from the city jail here and ynched by a mob of 100 citizens. The victims are: J. B. Miller, Fort .Vorth, Texas; B. B. Burrell, Dunan, Okla.; Jesse West, and Joe Alen, Canadian, Texas. Th-e mob is said to have organized n the Commercial Club rooms and narched to the jail at 3 o'clock a. m. ;o-day. One man stood guard at the jrison and he was quickly overpowered and the four prisoners seized, ;aken to a nearby barn and hung :rom th-e rafters. The bodies were nit down about 9 o'clock this mornng. There was little excitement luring the lynching. The men were held on the charge )f complicity in the murder of Former United States Marshall Bobbitt, lear Ada, last February. Bobbitt was shot from ambush on his way lome. The examining trial was held rhursday, but no indictment was *ver returned. Miller has killed six men in his time and was a "chum" Df the late Pat Garrett, the famous man-hunter, and was with Garrett Krhen he was killed at Las Cruces. The mob was composed of many prominent citizens of the city and 3nly a few were masked. - < The authorities were powerless to prevent the lynching, as the early hour placed them at a disadvantage. The entire formation of the mob and the lynching which followed were performed in a most methodical manner. No Lynchers Arrested. % So intense was the feeling during the preliminary hearing of the men that Judge Brown prohibited the publication of the evidence. Burrell was a nephew of Miller and turned State's evidence against Miller and told of the complete plana of West and Allen to murder Bobbitt, a longtime enemy of both. No arrests of lynchers have been made yet. _ i INDIANS LIKE LUXURIES. Furnish Homes with Opera Chairs and Travel in a Hearse. Nowhere is the Indian's simplemindedness more apparent than in the homes. They are either devoid of furniture or crowded with encumhroriMJo TViq nwnnflnta nnuMfl Iron and brass bedsteads or display as their chief treasure a highly polished, elaborately carved folding-bed, never used. Rolling themselves in blankets, they seek repose on the floor. One home boasts as its principal furniture four opera chairs of upholstered leather, with movable seats, such as are to be found in any theatre. A Spokane Indian was the proud possessor of a shining black hearse, bearing four huge ornamental sable plumes. -Riding his cayuse into town one day he encountered a funeral. The hearse caught his fancy; he followed the procession, awestruck, to the cemetery. Nothing would do but that he must have the grand chariot for his own. Disposing of some land, he purchased the hearse and was wont to take his wife and numerous children out for a drive sitting on the floor of the hearse, bouncing from glass side to glass side as the road became rough, trying to appear dignified and nonchalant, but grinning literally from ear to ear, the brave on the box outside the proudest man in America.?The Delineator for May. Tragedy in Folding Bed. New York, April 19.?The folding bed accident which used to be common some years ago before the patent beds were as well constructed as now, has caused the death of James F. Maher, a feather curler in Williamsburg. During the night the bed began to I rise as if pushed by an unseen hand, pinning both Maher and his wife, despite their struggles and efforts to release themselves. A son, who was sleeping on the floor above heard his parents' cries and. ran to their assistance, but before he could extricate them, Maher expired. Mrs. Maher was taken out unconscious. 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