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\ OPPOSE A PARDON.
Say Stripling Killed Three Men While
Chief of Police.
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Atlanta, Ga., March 16.?That Edgar
Stripling will not be taken from
the Muscogee county jail and placed
in a convict camp before his application
for pardon is heard on April 6,
is practically assured.
Attorney t. t. Miner, 01 uuiumbus,
consulted with Gov. Brown this
morning, and afterwards stated to
H the newspaper men that Gov. Brown,
tinder advice of the attorney genera!,
had decided not to respite Stripling
until the hearing, owing to the pec
euliar circumstances under which
r ^ Stripling rested.
As Stripling is theoretically in the
penitentiary, the governor feels that
L any respite he might issue would
have a tendency to complicate the
case, and he is unwilling to assume
H that responsibility.
ilt is now in the province of the
i prison commission to * say whether
* Stripling shall stay in jail or go to
the penitentiary. But there is very
little probability of an assignment before
the hearing on April 6.
Petitions are being circulated in
Atlanta by interested parties, and it
is understood that very few people
decline to sign them readily. Flynn
Hargett, formerly of Columbus, is
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bad much to do with circulating petitions
and arousing public interest.
His brother, Rev. C. L. Hargett, of
Harris county, was foreman of the
grand jury that indicted Stripling,
r He has written the governor a letter
asking him to pardon Stripling. Eleven
cf the 12 jurors are still living,
and all that have been found signed
a petition for pardon.
Virgina papers are opposing a
pardon for Stripling. One of the
Danville papers recently contained a
lengthy editorial asigning reasons
I why Stripling, should not be pardoned.
A clipping from the Richmond
Times-uispaxcn reacnea uov. urowu
to-day. It was an editorial written
by Maj. Hemphill, in which vigorous
reasons were given against a pardon
for Stripling. It is stated in the editorial
that Stripling killed two ne*
groes and one white man while serving
as a police officer in Danville, and
uteile it was done in the discharge of
bis official duties, most people believe
all three killings could have been pre|
vented by a less passionate man. Attention
is also called to the fact that
Stripling was known to be a man of
L . most violent temper, and was usually
\ dangerous in that mood.
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AlllUllg OUILC Clio ivv/ui^
Tribune-Herald comes out editorially
against a pardon for the Harris county
man.
May Have Women on Force.
j'/ Trenton, N. J., March 16.?There
will be regular women members of
|v the police force of every New Jersey
city and town next year, if a bill
pending in the legislature is passed.
The executive committee of the
! Equal Franchise league has started a
campaign in support of the bill and
every woman's club in the State will
join the movement.
The hill provides for the appointment
of women to the police force in
every municipality in the State. It
is not framed with the intention of
having the women police perform all
the functions now performed by the
male officers, but it specifies that they
. may be assigned for duty in dance
> halls, moving picture theaters, public
parks, recreation centers, etc.
In 12 cities of the United States
the plan of having women policemen
has been tried with excellent results,
according to the supporters of the
bill.
\ A Dreadful Sight
to H. J. Barnum, of Freeville, N. Y.,
was the fever-sore that had plagued
his life for five years in spite-of many
remedies he had tried. At last he
used Bucklen's Arnica Salve and
f wrote: "it has entirely healed with
scarcely a scar left." Heals- burns,
boils, eczema, cuts, bruises, swellings,
corn and piles like magic. Only
b #5c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg,
> S. C.
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x Brigand in Glad Rags.
I Rome, March 15.?Ballo, a notoI
rious Sicilian brigand, has been capft
tured at Palermo as he was leaving
I the opera accompanied by a gorgem
ously bedizened woman and his "secK
retary," Finezzo. It was the habit
| of Ballo, who had amassed great
wealth by pillage and blackmail, to
array himself as a society "blood"
and frequent the theaters and cafes
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or .Palermo wneu uc icu ^ wumcu.
This time he drove to the opera
kouse in a magnificent automobile,
but as the party was stepping from
the auto, they were pounced upon by
& party of policemen and carabinieri.
Before he was overpowered Ballo
shot and killed one of the officers.
Ballo's exploits had become proverbial
for their audacity. About
'.: i 10 murders are laid to his charge,
and he had worsted the troops in
several encounters. He is said to
have drawn an income of some $30,000
a year by levying blackmail on
two Sicilian provinces.
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MUST SERVE FIVE YEARS.
Despite Judge Gary's Ridicule of Hip
Pocket Defense.
Judge Ernest Gary, of Columbia,
ridiculed the "hip pocket defense"
in his charge to the Lexington county
grand jury, but because some of
the veniremen, afterwards drawn at
that term as petit jurors in the trial
of YV. B. Glenn, for the jnurder of
Clinton Rhoden at Batesburg, March
24 last, happened to hear the charge,
Glenn was not necessarily entitled to
a new trial. So ruled the supreme
court Thursday, in affirming the sentence
of five years' imprisonment in
the penitentiary, which Judge Gary
imposed at Lexington June 18 last.
Hit Glenn's Defense.
Judge Gary did not suspect, at the
time he made his general charge, that
in one of the cases to be passed on at
the same term the very defense he
ridiculed would be offered. The supreme
court deems it absurd to contend
that the court's remarks to the
grand jury prejudiced any of the
legal rights of the defendant Glenn.
Decision below is affirmed and the
Glenn appeal dismissed. Glenn will
now be brought to the penitentiary
to commence service of his sentence,
if no motion for new trial is made on
the ground of after-discovered evidence.
The Old Plea.
Glenn and Rhoden quarreled in
Batesburg and a fist fight ensued,
which terminated when Glenn drew a
pistol and shot Rhoden to death.
Glenn is a white man and so was
Rhoden. Glenn's defense was that
Rhoden threw his hand to his hip
and that he himself then
fired, believing his life to be in imminent
danger, because he thought
Rhoden about to produce a pistol.
Glenn was convicted of manslaughter
and sentenced, as stated, to serve
five years at hard labor in the penitentiary.
Ten Probably Killed.
Nashville, March 16.?While the
searchers are busy at the J. H. Fall
building, the walls of which collapsed
yesterday during a high wind, killing
12 negroes and one white man and
injuring 14, all hope of taking any
other workmen out alive has been
abandoned.
It is believed that probably eight
or ten bodies will be recovered. It
is claimed that half a dozen negro5
workmen were observed in the center
of the building where the debris
is thickest, just a few minutes before
the crash came.
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It is also understood that probably
several idlers and on-lookers who
usually hang about such places talking
to the workmen were caught by
the walls.
Too Harsh With Him.
Along a country road walked a
man and woman. The latter, a
gaunt, stern-faced female, was bullying
the little fellow who trudged
just in front of her, with downcast
head.
Suddenly the woman, turning, saw
a bull racing down the road behind
them. She quickly took refuge in the
hedge, but her companion, unconscious
of aught but his woes, kept on
his way.
The bull caught up to him and sent
him spinning into a muddy ditch,
then continued on its wild career.
As the woebegone figure crawled out
of the mire he saw his better half
coming toward him. Plucking up a
little spirit he whimpered:
"M?M?Maria, if you hit me like
that a-g-g-gain you'll really get my
temper up, so I warn ye."?Ideas.
Goes Off with Strangers.
Newberry, March 15.?There is
some excitement out in the Deadfall
section of the county, about 10 miles
west of Newberry, over the disappearance
yesterday morning of Bertha
Tavlor. the 14-vear-old daughter
of Noah Taylor. The particulars are
very hard to obtain here. This much
is known:
She "was on her way to school with
other children when two men drove
up in a buggy. One of them called to
her to come close to the buggy. She
did so and he whispered something
to her. She then handed her books
and satchel to another girl standing
by and got into the buggy with the
men, who drove off and she has not
been seen at home since. Inquiry of
several persons in that section of the
pftiintv fai1? to reveal the irientit.v of
the kidnappers or their purpose. The
girl's mother is dead and it is supposed
that the "kidnappers" were relatives
of her mother. If this is true
their purpose may be to give her a
more congenial home and take care
of her. .
Her father is not altogether in his
right mind at times.
It is said that she has been writing
and receiving letters recently, and
the readiness with which she got into
the buggy and drove off with the
men would indicate that she understood
the situation and was prepared
to go.
HOW BAKERS SAVED EUROPE.
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Why Vienna Rolls are Always Made
in the Form of a Crescent.
Do you know why Vienna rolls are
shaped like crescents? The story
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iorms one 01 me great us ui uistory.
Solyman, the magnificent, sultan
of Turkey, planned to overrun
Europe even as he and his moslem'
predecessors had seized the countries
of the orient. With a mighty army
he captured the fortified Island of
Rhodes, invaded Hungary, annihilating
the Magyar forces at Mohacs (in
1526) and slaying the Hungarian
king.
So successful was the first expedition
that he planned a second and
more far-reaching raid in 1529.
Moving onward almost unchecked,
and carrying all before him, he captured
Buda and advanced against
the city of Vienna.
All Europe stood aghast. Nothing
had been able to stem the wave of
Moslem conquest. Men remembered
how one eastern land after another
had been seized by the Mohammedan
hordes and forced to adopt Mohammedanism
as their religion. Pedple
trembled for the fate of Christen,dom.
It seemed for a moment almost
possible that the whole eastern section
of the European continent might
fall victim to the Turks and become
part of the Moslem possessions.
To hope for clemency from Solyman
was to rely upon the mercy of
the merciless. Conquering one
Christian army and stronghold after
another, the sultan's all powerful
army threatened to carry destruction
and Mohammedanism throughout
the continent. It was one of Fate's
big moments.
On moved the Turks. Vienna
! fthpn ranit.al of the German empire)
j stood in their path, a seemingly frail
; obstacle between such a host and the
rest of Europe. Should Vienna fall
before the Moslem onset the progress
of the sultan's army would be made
far easier, and other lesser cities
would lose heart.
The inhabitants of Vienna were at
that time more renowned for culture
and thrift than for w-arfare. Yet under
Nicholas von Salem they gallantly
proposed to defend their city against
the foe, and to fight to the last gasp
for their imperilled homes. The
Turks drew near, destroying Vienna's
suburbs, and encamped close to the
town itself.
It was on September 27, 1529, that
the enormous Turkish host laid siege
to Vienna, Solyman conducting the
affairs in person. Before risking useless
loss of life in a general assault
i mil tan tried tr> make an entrance
into the city by means of tjinnels.
His soldiers were set to work with
pick and spade to dig a secret underground
way into Vienna by which a
body of men might later pour into
the place and thus catch the defenders
"between two fires."
The cleverness of the Turkish engineers
and the countless workers at
their command made the task a
swift one. Here it was that an "if"
intervened to save the threatened
capital and prehaps Europe as well.
Some Vienna bakers were at work
one night (so runs the story) in a
cellar making bread for the garrison.
During a pause in their conversation
one of the bakers happened to hear
the muffled sound of digging. It
seemed to come from a spot not far
beyond one oftne cellar wans.
Guessing at once that the enemy
were tunnelling a way into the city,
! the bakers rushed out and gave the
alarm. The garrison, aroused,, was
able to baffle Solyman's plan.
The sultan, failing at strategy,
next tried force. He hurled his army
against the city in one fierce assault
after another. The Viennese fought
like heroes. Each attack was repulsed,
with terrific loss to the
Turks.
For four entire days the Moslems
assailed the city, fresh detachments
ever taking the places of those who
reeled back defeated. During the
four days, almost without a moment
for food or sleep, the defenders fought
off the charging horde. It seemed
well nigh impossible that so furious
an onset by so vast an army could be
repelled by a comparatively small
garrison. But the defenders were
fighting for home and religion.
On the fifth day of the assault (October
14) Solyman gave up the attempt
to crush Vienna. He with
drew sullenly from tne scene or nis
defeat, leaving 80,000 dead Turks on
the field. The price of conquest was
for once too high for him.
, Vienna was saved. And not only
Vienna, but Europe. Vienna had been
Europe's barrier against the Turks'
farther advance. And the barrier
held firm. The northern limit of Europe's
Turkish raids was reached.
Once more, in later years, Vienna
was besieged by the Moslems and she
again beat them off. The high tide
of such invasion had come and re
ceded. Europe at large was now forever
secure from this long-dreaded
foe.
In the moment of,victory, accord-'
ing to the account, the bakers who
had given the alarm were not forgotten.
To commemmorate the event,
CHARGES AGAINST BAILEY.
Statement Made in Public Meeting in
Illinois.
Denunciation of Lorimer and of
Shelby M. Cullom for voting to keep
Lorimer in the senate continue the
order of the day in Illinois. But at a
mass meeting in Elgin a sensation
was sprung by the introduction of the
name of Senator Bailey in such manner
as to place accusers plainly within
the grasp of the law unless the
charges of dishonorable conduct by
the Texas senator can be proved. It
is almost inconceivable that the
charge is true; slander can be no
more cruel.
The Rev. Milton B. Williams, pastor
of the First Methodist church of
Elgin, spoke to the mass-meeting as
follows:
"Before I came to this meeting I
was called up on the telephone by a
gilt-edged Elgin business man, a man
who has important, connections with
financiers of the first magnitude. He
was unable to come here, but he asked
me to make a statement for him.
He said he knew for a fact that the
enormous sum of $625,000 had-been
spent at the recent session of congress
to secure the acquittal of Senator
Lorimer and that this money had
been put up by the Standard Oil
company and other big financial interests.
Of this money Senator Bailey
got $100,000. The man who made
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this statement to me saia tnai ne
had his. information from financiers
who ranked with J. Pierpont Morgan
and who knew exactly what they were
talking about. He said he had not
a doubt as to the truth of the statement."
Later in the evening, D. E. Postle,
a member of the firm of architects,
Postle & Maher, said he gave Mr.
Williams the information; but would
go no further in light-shedding.
If this story has no better foundation
than most of the senatorial
years reaching newspaper reporters,
a very grave injury has been done
Senator Bailey. The fact that Mr.
Bailey had years ago been associated
in the public mind as a Standard Oil
attorney might furnish ground for
the manufacture of a report such as
that published by Mr. Williams.
The only disquieting circumstance
in this connection, of which we have
knowledge, is that it was asserted to
The State's Washington correspondent
in December, soon after the beginning
of the session of congress,
that Senator Bailey would speak in
defense of Lorimer?as he did about
nine weeks later?and that Standard
Oil had issued a call to all with whom
it had influence to rally to Lorimer's
support.?Columbia State.
$12,000,000 MHJTMERGER.
Steps Taken Towards Organization
of Pelzer Corporation.
Charleston, March 14.?It is reported
that at a meeting held here
yesterday steps were taken towards
the organization of a company to be
known as the Pelzer Corporation,
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! witn a capital or over ?iz,uuo,uuu,
that will take over some 12 cotton
mills in the upper part of the State
aggregating 500,000 spindles and
15,000 looms.
Capt. Ellison A. Smyth, of Greenville,
was here yesterday, and will
be president of the Pelzer corporation,
assisted by Mr. John A. Law,
of Spartanburg, Mr. A. F. McKissick,
of Greenwood, and others.
Capt. Smyth has been interviewed
by a representative of the Greenville
News concerning the telegram
sent out from Charleston, and he
substantially confirmed the statements
made therein.
Enlightening a Candidate.
A politician who was making a
house-to-house canvass, says Tit-Bits,
came to a farmhouse when he observed
an elderly woman standing at
the gate and the candidate gracefully
lifted his halt and politely asked:
"No doubt, dear madam, your husband
is at home?"
"Yes," responded the woman.
"Might I have the pleasure of seeing
him?" inquired the politician.
"He's down in the pasture a-burying
the dog," \^as the reply from the
individual at the gate.
"I am very sorry indeed to learn
of the death of your dog;," came in
sympathizing tone from the candidate.
"What killed him?"
"He wore hisself out a-barking at
the candidates," said the woman.
No attention is paid to anonymous
communications received at this
office.
thev and their descendants hence
forth molded their rolls into the
shape of a crescent (thfe sacred emblem
of Turkey.) The custom prevails
to this day.
Few Americans who are used to
seeing crescent-shaped Vienna rolls,
have any idea how such rolls first
came to be thus twisted, nor what
great deed the crescent form commemorates.?New
York Evening
World.
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