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? CYCLONE WIPES OUT TOWN. > __________ Reported That Eighteen Were Killed in Oklahoma Storm. Oklahoma City, May 2.?According to a dispatch from Altus, Oklahoma, > to-night, the village of Kern, in a remote section of Washita county, i was practically wiped out by the tornado which swept through the southwestern corner of Oklahoma last Saturday. It is reported, but not pos- i sible to confirm to-night, that 18 persons were killed at Kern and a ? number injured. Kern is removed 1 > from the railroad and without wire communication. Three persons, Mrs. William Spradling and two children, 1 are reported to have been killed at Eldorado, Okla. A revised list of the dead shows that 22 persons were killed in Oklahoma exclusive of those : reported dead at Kern. May Indict Xear Beer Dealers. Atlanta, May 3.?The grand jury which meets to-day has under consideration criminal indictments against 100 near-beer dealers in Atlanta and Fulton county. They are charged with failure to pay their special licenses of $300 each, which were due in January. Every effort has been made to collect this money, and repeated warnings > , have been given. The authorities now understand that some of the dealers are planning to hold out indefinitely to test the validity of the special tax, and this has led the solicitor general to decide on a criminal prosecution, for misdemeanor, if he can get the grand jury to act. The bills have been drawn up, but have not yet been returned by the grand jury. Acquitted for Lynching Negro. West Chester, Pa., May 3.?Lewis Dentithorne, on trial for second degree murder in connection with the lynching of Zach Walker, a negro, last August, was acquitted this t morning by a jury. After the jury had brought in the verdict of not guilty in the Dentithorne case the commonwealth asked for the acquittal of the other five defendants. The acquitted men were discharged, among them being Chief of Po* lice Usted. The commonwealth's reason for jf asking acquittals was the inability to obtain convictions because of the V:, state of mind of the people of the county. Zach Walker, on the night of August 13, 1911, was burned by a mob after being arrested for killing a special policeman. Branchville Man Shot by Negro. Branchville, May 4.?W. W. All, a well-known young merchant of Branchville, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by Noon Evans, a negro, to-night at 9 o'clock. The shooting occurred almost directly in front of Mr. All's store. The ne* ? gro is said to have fired four shots, the last taking effect. The bullet entered the left breast just below the heart, lodging under the flesh 'of the back. Evans made his escape, disappearing in the darkness in the direction of the negro settlement in the eastern part of the town. Searching parties were formed at once and the country is being diligently covered in the hunt for the negro. The searchers are aroused and if Evans is found to-night he may be severely dealt with. It is said that Noon Evans came to the door of Mr. All's store to-night when Mrs. All asked him about an account he owed Mr. All. His reply to the question is said to have been ? impertinent, ' whereupon Mrs. All walked to the rear of the store and told her husband what the negro had said to her. Mr. All secured an axe handle and walked out into the street. As he approached Evans, who was sitting with other negroes, the negro fired four shots from a revolver that he had drawn. Mr. All is about 30 years of age and has a wife and one daughter. He was originally from Kline and was formerly a train dispatcher. The possibility of the wound proving fatal can not be estimated at this time, although it is feared Mr. All may not recover. Seek Dispensary Election. Chester, May 2.?Nine hundred and thirty-one signatures were turned in Tuesday, April 30, which was h the final day according to the laws of W the State, to Supervisor T. W. Shannon requesting that an election be called on the dispensary question at the general election day in November. Before an election can be called by the supervisor 25 per cent, of the A > qualified voters must attach their sig* natures to petitions and those peti tions must be in the hands of the supervisor on the aforesaid date. As Chester has about 2,000 registered voters, it appears that the petitioners have won, unless a large number of the names are scratched when they come under the scrutiny of the county board of examiners. Boyce Littlefield and Robert McCar- , ter criminally assaulted her near j Greer Saturday night, April 20, and he dismissed this charge after a preliminary hearing in the court house yesterday. ] An older woman in whose house the crime was alleged to have been committed and who fled prior to the time when the young woman was supposed to have been attacked, testified, however, that the four young ; men tore her waist and made vile 1 remarks as to their intentions concerning her. On her testimony, accordingly, Magistrate Dean committed the four to jail to await the ac ;~+ Vi ^ crronH l'lirv r?n J? phar^p Of ' liUU U1 cue giauu j Ui J vu. W X/MV*. assault and battery with intent to commit'a felony. The first young woman whose original story was that after the older woman had escaped three of the young men attacked her in the house and the fourth compelling her to accompany him to the woods and detained her there the rest of the night, was reluctant to testify at the hearing yesterday. It was feared that she intended to flee to escape being a witness?in fact, it was feared that she would be bribed to keep silent? and she was accordingly locked up in jail until she furnished bond. The warrants against the four defendants were sworn out before Magistrate Henderson, of Appalachee, but it was deemed expedient to transfer the case to Magistrate Dean, who is one of the oldest in length of service in the State, having ben a magistrate for more than 20 years. The hearing was held in Spartanburg for the sake of convenience. .olicitor Otts represented the State at the hearing while C. P. Simms was attorney for the defendants. Ernest Rollins testified how, after he had gone to the women's rescue with a shotgun, the four youths ^ wrested the gun from him and broke up the furniture in the house. Took Drink, Missed Wedding. t PbiiaHoinbin ATav 3?Edward M. O'Malley, who failed to appear for his wedding to Miss Mary E. Wineberg at Haverford yesterday, arrived home this morning and immediately made a dash for the home of his fiancee. Friends held him back and informed him that he would get a warm reception if he attempted to invade the home where yesterday the wedding guests were assembled waiting for him to appear. O'Malley took the hint, and later talked with Miss Wineberg on the telephone. He wouldn't say what she said, but he seemed peeved. O'Malley declared that he had gone to Philadelphia with $75 in his pocket for the purpose of purchasing furniture. He got into conversation with a stranger and took a drink with him. When he came to he was A in TM AnAXT TtTQC Ill -rt.liai_.Lli; vil* ai:u uio Uiuuc.i " gone. That was this morning. He immediately borrowed carfare and started for home. Miss Wineberg this afternoon said there would be no wedding. Duel to Death With Knives. Atlanta, Ga., May 3.?In a fight with knives in a house of the restricted district here early this morning, C. Richard Harper, said to belong to a prominent Jacksonville, Fla., family was killed and his opponent, Kell Potts, chief clerk in the local offices of an express company, was terribly cut. The fight was witnessed by a dozen women. According to Potts, who is in a hospital with his face and head slashed in a score of places, he and Harper had quarreled over a bottle of beer and Harper attacked him. When he looked into a mirror he exclaimed that he was mutilated for life. Turning on Harper, he stabbed him repeatedly with a pocket knife. The latter died in a few minutes. Harper leaves a young wife. He was the local representative of a lithographing company. PUTS ON PAI) FOR LICKING. Boy, Prepared for Punishment, Taunted Teachers. Because he came to school "prepared to take a whipping," says a Springfield, Mo., dispatch, Carl Gibson, a 12-year-old student in the Mentor district, about 10 miles from here, could not persuade a jury in the criminal court that he had been assaulted by little Miss Lydia Thornhill, instructor, and a jury, after deliberating 10 minutes, discharged the defendant. The Gibson boy, it was alleged, padded the seats of two pairs of trousers which he wore to school and became unruly, whereupon the teacher, who had heard his boast that if whipped he would have her arrested, promptly applied the "birch." Three Young Men Held. Spartanburg, May 1.?Little credence was placed by Magistrate J. M. Dean in the story of a young woman that Claude Wright, Ben Littlefield, NEGRO FINDS SPANISH COINS. About 8,000 Worth in the Woods Y Near Savannah. Savannah, Ma}- 4.?A colored man named Hamden has created a sensa- r tion in Savannah by bringing into a the city several ancient Spanish coins a of gold and offering to sell them. He v sold one to the Spanish consul to- c day for $16 and sold one yesterday s to a gentleman for $20, to be used as a watch charm. The coins are b known as Spanish "onzas" because v they weigh nearly an ounce each. c The negro says while walking s through the woods east of Savannah n he found one of the coins, and dig- b ging into the earth brought 400 of k them to light. The find is worth h easily $8,000. Hamden is very se- b cretive about where he found the f money, fearing some one will take t the coins from him. Those he sold were dated 1735 and 1782, respect- v ively. He says he found them near t an old battle field west of the city, s YVoman Accused of Killing Baby, j Protesting her innocence and vowing that if she should give birth to a c baby under conditions which made it 0 the foulest disgrace possible for a r white woman, she would still love * and cherish the child Mrs. Julia ^ Taylor, 25 years old, of Drayton 11 mills, was arrested yesterday charg- a sd with infanticide. Her aged D mother, Mrs. Adeline Tissner, was ^ arrested as an accessory before the v fact. Their arrest followed the find- a ing in an old well of a week-old baby z boy, of whom Mrs. Taylor was declar- E sd by the coroner's jury to be the ^ Circumstantial evidence adduced at the inquest seemd to indicate that * Mrs. Taylor, after working in the * mill up to and including Friday, s April 19, gave birth to the baby that a night without the attendance of a e physician or anybody but her moth- s er, and returned to work in the mill c the following Wednesday. The tes- t timonv touched on her appearance P before and after that Friday night 1 and also related to certain noises heard in her house that night. Wo- ^ men who worked with Mrs. Taylor P in the mill told of symptoms of ill- r ness of which she complained. 11 Mrs. Taylor has three children. v She is separated from her husband. a Boys hunting frogs found the s baby, which was floating on the sur- to face of about three feet of water in * an abandoned well. Drs. James H. Hunter and G. H. Bunch testified that 11 the baby was seemingly not more to than one week old and had apparently been born alive. E After the inquest of Coroner John to S. Turner the jury found that "the c infant child came to its deatn oy drowning in a well at the hands of its mother, Julia Taylor, and that i] Adeline Tissner is an accessory be- a fore the fact."?Spartanburg Herald. P Fire at Allendale. a Allendale, May 4.?At 5 o'clock t this morning fire consumed the four ^ wood stores owned by B. R. Myrick, situated between H. Wolff &. Co.'s ., new brick structure and the Southern t Railroad, in the centre of the business section. The cause of the fire 0 u is not known, but began in the build- ^ ing occupied by Louis Hepner, from t which it spread in both directions. . But for the favorable condition of the air currents and the fire wall of H. Wolff & Co. the fire would have prob- ^ ably wiped out the greater part of the business section. One of the. buildings was used as'the grocery department of H. Wolff & Co., who succeeded in removing tne greater ^ portion of their goods, sustaining a t loss of about $400, with no insur- d ance. d B. R. Myrick occupied one with ^ his butcher shop, the contents and f fixtures of which was a total loss of about $400. n Louis Hepner, whose stock of dry ^ goods is estimated at about $3,000, ., had $1,600 insurance. E Julius Claus's stock of toys and confectionery, estimated at $1,200, . had $500 insurance. The barber shop fixtures of Angus Williams was saved, and so was the ^ pool table and furniture of the pool ^ room. B. K. .uyriCK carnea no lusuiauuc on the buildings, which loss amounts to about $2,000. G Why He Left the Church. 0 1' A lonely bachelor, at the age of p 72, married a young wife. A Sun- 1 day or two after the wedding a wid- s ower asked the minister who had of-1 ficiated at the marriage of the bachelor to pray for him, as his wife had just died. The minister, in his pray- b er, therefore, did not fail to remem- w ber "our aged and grieving brother ti upon whom the heavy hand of sore 1 affliction has so lately fallen." v At these words the old bridegroom, 1c red and snorting with rage, rose is from beside his girl wife. tl "It may be a sore affliction," he growled audibly, as he left the h church, "but I'll be hanged if any k man is going to pray in public for o me that way." a CHILD SHOWS RARE NERVE. Valks Mile With Mangled Hand and Sees Fingers Amputated. With one hand nearly cut off as the esult of an accident, Mary Corkhill 7-year-old child, displayed remarkble bravery and fortitude when she talked more than a mile and then almly held her hand while a phyician amputated four of the fingers. The little girl and her younger rother were playing in the woods - hen the boy picked up an axe and ut the girl so that two fingers were evered, two mangled and the hand early severed at the wrist. The child ound a string around the arm to eep it from bleeding, walked to her ome wtih her brother and then held er hand for amputation, stopping to orgive the brother with a kiss as he surgeon's knife did its work. It was only after dressing of the rounded member was completed that he child's iron nerve gave way and he cried. at Carson's Band Causes Civil War. Walnut Ridge, Ark., May 4.?This ommunity is excited by the develpments in the grand jury probe of ecent dynamiting outrages perperated by "Kit Carson and his band." is a result of the operations of that lysterious organization, resulting in n exodus of the greater part of the iegro population, a company of the Itate militia was called here last reek to quell a threatened race riot; ,nd this week nine prominent citiens were arrested on the charge of light riding in connection with the lynamiting of the home of John San[ers, a negro, April 19. The men arrested are Robert Mclall, Dan Tolston, "Dock" Drover, nil Wilkerson, Cliff Poe, W. F. Cut4r>croT> A T Stratrm .T R Pnrter ) AX. U ? wv* w . - nd Bert Belk. Other arrests are xpected, as detectives and deputy heriffs are busily engaged in the ollection of evidence. Several of hose arrested are among the most irominent residents of Walnut tidge. The trouble began on the night of ipril 18, when unidentified persons osted warnings threatening all negro esidents with violence if they did iot at once leave the town. These earnings were signed "Kit Carson nd His Band," and produced conternation among the negroes, who egan to get out singly and by famlies. The following night another circuar was posted, in which a commit-ee of white residents warned the Kit Carson" crowd that they would lot tolerate such interference with he negro labor of the city. This ounter-threat was as follows: To Kit Carson and Band: You are hereby given notice not to nterfere with negroes holding jobs nd working for people, as we will irotect our help and prosecute you n the limit of the law. Furthermore, the white people will rm their servants, with instructions o shoot the first intruders who disurb them. Your notice to the neroes to leave, if you try to enforce t, will more than likely get you in he penitentiary. We are determined lot to be put to trouble and annoynce by you and the sooner you are lealt with the better it will be for he community. When you go after he nigger be sure you are not aught. Negroes are notified to give alarm iy telephone is bothered and assistnce will be quickly rendered. Authorized by the White Citizens' ommittee. This- only aroused the enemies of he negroes to greater bitterness, and hat night a crowd of white men lynamited the home of John Sanlers, a negro. The porch of the iouse was torn away, but he and his amily escaped injury. Several shots rere fired into the house of another legro, but no one was injured, and or several hours the band ran amuck n the negro district, terrorizing the legroes and overawing the few offiers who realized they were unable * " ??T.OTr nf 0 SUDdlie SO rormiUclUit; an ai i a> ui awless citizens. An appeal was made to Governor )onaghey for aid and he sent the Jlack Rock militia company. The ppearance of the soldiers had a uieting influence upon the disturbrs, as they realized they "were up gainst it." It stopped the exodus f negroes to other towns, after at east 50 per cent, of the original population of 400 had departed, 'hose left behind felt that peace and afety were again assured. Whisky Output Curtailed. A curtailment in :heir output has een agreed upon by local distillers, ho fear an overprcAuction of Kenjcky whisky similar to that from S90 to IS93, inclusive, says a Louisnip riiKnntoh The 90.000,000 gal >ns produced in the last two years i more than 20,000.000 in excess of le demand. The distillers say that jobbers ave practically ceased to buy whisy younger than 1910, due to the verthrowing of Dr. Wiley's ruling s to what constituted pure whisky. FELL UNDER TRAIN. ^ Farmer Loses Leg in Accident at g Allendale. 1 Allendale, May 5.?Perry Jackson, a farmer living near Allendale, was knocked down and had one leg cut off by the engine of the Southern passenger train yesterday afternoon at 4:36 o'clock at the Main street crossing. The unfortunate victim seemed to have been unconscious of the train and it is said, walked into it as it was slowing down for the station. The railroad surgeon, Dr. H. R. Tison, took charge of the case, dressed the wound, and now has the pa tient in a fair condition for recovery, which was at one time in doubt. War on White Slave Traffic. Washington, May 1.?Attorney General Wickersham to-day appointed Stanley W. Finch, chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice, a special commissioner to suppress the white slave traffic. Mr. Finch will begin a vigorous campaign in every State in the Union for the extermination of the vice. 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