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. Vol. LXX1I1 No. 1SS7 . . U?lo?, S. C, Froloy AIIMUUO. I
JEFFORDS PAYS
WITH HIS L1F1
Columbia, Dae. 22.?Frank M. Jei
fords was electrocuted at the staft
prison here today for the murder las
May of his business partner, J. C. Ai
nette. The current was turned on a
d lu-.20. He was dead four minute
I later. One application was made. s
I Jeffords made a few requests abou
I the disposition of his personal belong
I tags. He entered the death chambe
1 with a Arm tread and greeted the wit
i basse; with "Good morning, gentle
men," then calmly took his place i
the chair, the strapa were adjusts
and Superintendent Sanders asks
Jeffords if he had anything to saj
> "The only thing I want to say," sal
I .tfffnnU "U ?- J
l m? ? n?iv ?UiU UU<
[ side see an example in tkis. I hav
L made pay peace with God and ai
r rendy to go. I want to spy a llttl
prayer, too," then he repeated th
23rd Psalm, adding to the Blbliea
text, the word amend. As he ende<
the current was applied. His brothc
and brother-in-law visited him pric
tjo the execution.
Columbia, Dec. 21.?Frank M. Je:
fords, one of the three convicted mui
derers of John C. Arnette, partner <
Jeffords, in the automobile filling sti
tion business wiu be electrocuted t<
morrow at the state penitentiary hei
between 10 a. m. and 2 p. m., thei
being nothing now to interfere wil
the execution of the court's sentenc
a last minute appeal to Governor Hal
t oy yesterday bringing no results.
Jeffords refused to make a stab
ment to newspaper men today exce]
to declare, "I am ready to meet m
God. Everything is all right wil
me." The condemned man ate i
early supper and retired early.
rVklnmfii* Ti#? 91 ?U?
vey today reprieved Ira Harrison, ui
J der sentence of death for the murd<
of John C. Amettc here last May, ui
til February 16. The chief executiv
in a statement, declared his move wi
to prevent an endless chain of a]
; peals farther delaying the axecutfc
of Harrison, until the supreme cou
disposes of the appeal now pendin
: which acted as a stay of exscution <
the date pat, tomorrow.
court is carried out, bo
I ernor Harvey's statement declared ti
I option was taken because the chl
I' <!->:ecutive is charged with the "sc
responsibility of seeing that the vc
L . , dicta of the courts are carried out."
IB ' Harrison, together with Frank ]
Jeffords, condemned to die in the ele
trie chair tomorrow and Glenn Tree
were tyied jointly and found guil
* ' of the', murder of Arnette, who w
Jeffords/' partner in a gasoline fi
in gstation, at which Treece and Ha
ri?on were employed. Treece was gi
en a sentence of life imprisonmei
upon a recommendation of mercy
intNf nfkil.i TTurriflAn an/1 Tpffnr
UiC JUIJT| TT 111'V * ?WVt* MMU w W?
were sentenced to be executed in t
state penitentiary on June 15.
The execution was stayed by a
peals taken on behalf of both H<
" uaon and Jeffords. The case w
argued before the supreme court a
last fall, the supreme court of t
state dismissed both appeals as bei
without merit, ordering that the pr
oners be taken back to the circi
court for resentencing. The two wi
taken before Judge T. J. Mauldin
Columbia on November 22, and I
cember 22 was- set by the judge
the day of execution.
Bernard B. Evans, attorney 1
Harrison, asked for a delay until 1
client could be examined by a boi
to determine his sanity. Harrison a
taken into the court room at 1
time in an apparent coma and 1
death sentence was passed while
was lying prone on a desk. The coi
refused to inquire into the defendar
sanity after three physicians bad t
tilled that the coma was feigned.
An appeal from this ruling
Judge Mauldin saved Harrison fr
being executed tomorrow.
.a*. Jeffords received his sentei
* ? Without making any motion throe
'lP his attorney, although his case s
If later taken to the United States i
preme court, which declined to revi
it. An appeal to the governor,
last hope, failed. Tonight there i
nothing to indicate that the d
executive would postpone the exe
tion of Jeffords.
CapUin Ord4rad to
MobQiia Guardsm
MonYoe, La.. Dac. 22.?Lieuter
Iouis Harden today received a n
|f * raff* from Captain Cooper at 1
> Rouge ordering him to mobilise
Guardsmen and rash them to
< Morehouse parish to reinforce
% troops on duty there.
Mm. T. A. Littiedoha of Jonesv
wil hare as her fasets for the 1
days, her mother and sisters, 1
Fannie Las setter and Miss Bess 1
setter of Luthererille, Ga., Mrs. E
Bui lard and son. Reward, of Mac
Georgia.
CHARGE OF ARSON
I, TO GAFFNEY MAI
11 Gaffney, Dec. SI. ? Parry 1
e Holm**, wall known Gaff hey citiaer
t, was a res ted yesterday, an the chary
' of having sat fire to his residence i
t Gaffney soma days ago. P. L. Bakai
s who Uvea next door to the resident
of lfr. Hohaaa, waa awakened in th
>t very early hours of the morning b
- crashing glass. Ha soon discovers
r that Hie house was on lire, an
- promptly turned in the alarm. Whe
! the fireman arrived they found n
n one at home, afid the bouse was *1
d eurely fastened. They effected ec
d trance through the roof, and diacoi
r. ered a Um of bod coverings extent
d in< fn>ra the room oarer that in whfc
t- the Are originated, to an attic. Tb
-e btd covering* according to the a tab
n ments of the A reman, were thorougi
le ly saturated with gssoHfto, and i
m the attic were found a quantity c
il old papers and refuse which had hoc
i, saturated with the same fluid. Goifl
t down stairs they found two btackel
>r Ailed with gaaeline, and in a elan
they found a quantity of disu4?
clothing and waste which was litei
I- ally dosed with gasoline. Mr. Low
r- who prosecuted Mr. Holmes, ia;
>? that his investigations disclosed thi
i- this is the seventh Are which M
>- Holmes has had within the past eigl
e years, and the members of the Ale di
e purtment say that they have answers
h three alarms from Mr. Holmes' res
e, dence within the past nine months,
r- After being arrested Mr. Holmi
employed Butler snd Hall to repr
b- sent him, and in a short time the
jt secured an order for bail, and tl
ty accused man is now at liberty,
th preliminary examination will be he
in at an early day when, the testtmoi
for the state will be taken.
Mr. Holmes has numbers <
r- friends in Gaffney, who believe in h
a- innocence, as they say they cams
sr conceive of his deliberately plash
a- in jeopardy the lives of his no
e, neighbors in order to get bumnm
is money.
m Program for UmLm Com*y
it lapdat Ciifwiii
? The next meeting of the Uni<
** 10:80 a. m.?Laymen's work and c
e* ganized men'* classes. Discussion o
ened by Rev. J. E. Menf.
,r- 11:00 a. m.?'Paying Our Vowi
a sermon by Rev. L. M. Rice.'
12:00 m.?Recess fjr dinner.
!C" 1:00 p. m.?Praise service.
ce 1:30 p. m.?"A Message to t
ty Sceptically Inclined" by A. O. Ke
as nedy, Esq.
2:00 p. m.?"The Best Way to I
ir* nance the Church." Discussion open
iv* bj J. K. HambHn, Esq.
B*? All of the churches are request
by
to send full delegations.
ds 1567-2t. 'Committee,
he ?
Entire National
^ Guard on Du
Mer Rogue. Dec. 22.?The ent
Knt.inntl Ctmr/i cnmrmnv rvn riutv he
ng while the lakes surrounding the ci
i8 are being dragged for the bodies
^ the two men kidnaped last August s
re cr(iered to Cooper Lake today. T
in guards stationed there discovered s<
je_ oral men moving about in the sh
ag low water and fired upon them. T
men escaped from the dftachment
ror troops who have been guarding t
divers who are searching the both
ird of the lake.
ras The troops returned here later. Ci
jje tain Cooper announced that the m
jje fired on by guards disappeared. 1
he investigation after daylight failed
throw further light of the visit to 1
lt>8 lake. The theory advanced ia tl
gg. they were trying to remove the bod
of Watt Daniels and Thomas Richai
0f who were kidnaped in last August.
" Official Denial Madia
fico '
,gh Berlin, Dec. 22 (By the Aseoda
ru Press).?Official denial warn made h
BU_ today that Chancellor Cuno or ?
iew other government official had si
hit gested that American commission
ras vestigate the German economic c
lief dition.
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Santa Claoa Work
Forest Camp, No. 86, W. 0. W.
>#n playing Santa Claus this year i
made so many people happy,
camp sent the 8anta Claus club a |
1M erous check and also gave the Sal
Ua~ tion Army one for their fund.
40 This was very handsome in C<
No. 86 and both organisations
the very grateful.
Falling Walls Injurs Firon
ille,
loll- New York, Dec. 22.?Deputy C
in. John F. OUsts and IS firemen i
Las- injured today hy falling wals w
L B. fighting fire in a Brooklyn fact
hen, Fifty families were driven from t
nearby boons.
'BODIES MAY BE
I MISSING AIRME1
2. Nogales, Art*., Dec. 21.?Colon
W A. J. McNab, In command of oper
toina in the Nogales sector in tl
a search for Colonel Francis C. Ma
r, shall and Lieutenant C. L. Weblx
? missing army aviators, said tonig!
e he had been- unable to secure ai
y definite information concerning t\
d reported discovery of the aviatoi
d bodies on tl|e Papalo Indain reserv
n tion, 78 miies west of Tucson,
o t
San Francisco, Dec. 21.?The cha
i- red bodies of the missing aviatoi
r- Col. Francis N- Marshall and Liet
1- Charles Webber, have been founds
h the Papalo Indian reservation abo
is 75 miles west of Tucson, Aris., tl
?- Southern Pacific railroad officii
i* here were adyfsed this afternoon
h dispatches from Tucson.
it A cowboy,'the advices stated, car
n upon the bodies -near what is knot
E as Indian Oasis. The bodies lay
t* the wreckage of the fliers' airplai
A It is not known whether Col. Mi
>d shall and Lieutenant Webber we
r- killed when they crashed to earth
? burned to death afterward.
fS The meium to the Southern F
rt ciflc said: "Some cowboy found the
r- two aviators naar Indian Oasis. Be
apparently were bnrned to desi
* About 7b mites west of Tucson
** Papalo reservation. No railro
there. It ia on a wagon track. Sv
pose airplane fell to ground and avi
88 tors burned to death."
** Saturday mnrning Ave airplan
!y started an intensive search for t
missing airmen. They were johi
~ later by 15 more airplanes. T
planes carrier emergency rations a
*y water containers so they could
dropped at any point on the desert
J* the lost officers were sighted and
landing was impossible.
The starch .was conducted on
** larger Malts, than any other simi
** operation conducted by the army
m service. v
Hastock Schools
. c-tP Closo for Chriatxn
Tim Bastoe schools for boys a
mi yesterday morning :
Jj? the CM$htwi^hol*Ays. Both i
? studio of Miss NeU Curies. 'm
bra ting the dosing of school for
. holidays. The room was ft lied w
pupils and guest*.
? T1?e Christmas carols, "Sil
'? j Night" and "Joy to the World," w
|8ung. A freak quadrille, for wh
| Miss Lena Bailey played an old dai
ke tune on the violin, was given by eij
girls, dressed backwards with b
n* combed over their faces and ma
r. j at the back of their heads. T1
I gave seven or eight figures of an c
fashioned square dance. Miss M
. garet Wingo gave a monoluog
"Mrs. Fidgety on a Street Car."
The president of the senior cli
Miss Nancy Mathewes, presen
gifts to Hugh T. Shockley, rpesid
of the schools, and to B. L. Bis
ty well, president of the school for gi
Mr. Blaclcwell made a brief spe
're of acceptance.
ire The exercises closed with the si
lty ing of "Alma Mater" and distri
?* tion of gifts from the Christ!
if8 tree.?Spartanburg Herald,
he i m
Letter of Appreciation
alMr.
Charles F. Allen, who is .?
?* N J.. wrote a charming letter to
ushers and the choir of the Gi
5rn Smith campaign, thanking them
the beautiful silver gift* to Mr. A
ip~ and expressed great appreciation
[511 their kindness and thoughtfulnesi
him during bis stay here,
to T m Mr.
Align Called Home
!? Mr. Charles F. Allen, who is i
Gipsy Smith in Hattiesburg, M
was called to his home in O
Brook, N. J., on account of the crit
illness of his father.
Christmas Jingles
ere
iny (Written by Cecil Calvert Wilson,
a** Grade, Clifford School)
0_ Santa Claus is coming, to fill
stockings full,
Bring us some toys and wagon to ]
Make some poor boy happy
With a present nice and neat
And a brand new pair of shoes to
? on Ms xeet.
md It wu half past nina when we h
oar mother say,
! ?- ?i hear the bells tinkling on Sai
w* sleigh."
Then there was a scramble to ge
kmP to bed.
*n With a warm blanket and a pi
for oar head.
Bring Mr. Riee, editor of The T!
Mm Everything sweet for the Chris
chimes.
hief
rere Cortes Godshall, of Cedar 8pi
hile Institute, will arrive this aftermx
ory. spend the holidays with his par
heir Mr. and Mrs- U B. Godshall on
v Mala street
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POLICE JOIN HUtt|
N FOR BANK ROOT
el Denver, Colo., Dec. 21.?BmU
a- other peace officers of northenf.A
be iado tonight ?r? engaged in ?
r- sive man hunt for four men'Jim
it, automobile 3uapeeted of InuB
bt bandits who Monday morninraR
ay and killed Charles T. Linton, 8k
in reserve bank guard, during
r?? fight in front of the mint
M. which they stole $200,000 ha enfMk
ana escaped.
The hunt started this afbMfl
r- when Henry Fuqua, a farmer I?
rs, al*>ut 20 miles eaat of GreelepH?
it. ond 60 miles north of here, tgpB
on to Sheriff Hail of Greeley tha*lfiNfel
ut encountered four heavily armo4'A
he in an abandoned house on ha^H
lis property. i
in Sheriff Hall notified the DegMjK
lice department, asking for aaridttWl
so The sheriff, six deputies ani^KBfl
m ranger left for the farm hottgd^fl
In the Denver police departments?
le. ored riot car equipped with <HBl
ir- guns and two automobile loBdadgjj
ire cers and detectives armed witltJi|fl
Or on snotguns itii lor
in the pursuit. r
a- A third automobile ewryia|;||jl
mm hundred rounds of ammualQpi^JH
>th vuh dispatched from the Dtayif ^
th. quarters. Later hi the day SlmH
on imported to Denver by telnfrtjinif;#
ad he had arrived at the ranch hMWIJ
ip. that tho men had left. UWjja
la- C1U8 Downer, residing just
Greeley, reported that abfMgyt
as o'clock a man came to her UtSIN
he asked for a pan of water anAgH
ted cotton, explaining that he hhd dlM
"he in his car who had been hurt, *"jlS
nd Downer said she gave the Mhttsjnj
be of water and a roll of gauze;'<s?mK
if took back to the car. A few.nsdhr
a lrter she said the car sped 3
wards Fort Collins. She decUuBM;^
a car had the curtains drawn aitfipfti
lar one in the car threw .the
air the car went by the house.
The cars of Denver pnll|e ffifirjl
bi'ixed in Greeley awaiting
word from officers in thwvici^^^hr
Denver, Colo., pec. Ip|? h
yiU graphs of the fing^^
the c- "0 requested V' ' -Ji
Denver bandits to ET,
perpetrated a $75,000* iSkifting
ent recently. Copies of the
ere found on the gun and, 22.?Herb<
doned automobile *?Tt m
nce been left at a vantage point by f
bandits were sent to every large ei
ajr in the country.
List of Bond Buyers
Id
ar> The list of bond buyers up to t
^ time of going to press, is publish
' below, and the place where the Chrii
(<t mas seals are on sale:.
^ Emslie Nicholson, C. C. Sanders,
en^ H. Garner, H. L. Gaflfney?$10
bonds; C. C. Cooper, $6.00 bond; {
rj8 grade boys, Miss Kathrin I,ayt<
W|| teacher, $5.00 bond; 8th grade gii
Mrs. Malpheur, teacher, $5.QjMx>r
10th grade, Mrs. M. W. Mixsoii^B
bu- er' *500#
W. S. Nicholson, $6.00; L. M. J<
dan, $5.00; Farmers Bank & Tn
Co., $10.00; Mullinax-Faucett Clo. C
$5.00; I. From, $1.00 seals.
All other grades at the high scho
ith $14.23; grammar school, $40.16; Mi
beth school, $10.39; Bradley-Estes C
pay ?l 0? ot iealsjor
W. M. Hum, who has charge of t
lien camP*l?n? wishes to announce tl
0f the seals are on sale at the boot
( in the postofllce.
Famous Norte Dame I
Church Destroyed by fj
rfth Quebec, Canada, Dec. 22.?Fire i
|tt lieved starting from short circdt
sdar e'ectr^c wlr# destroyed the farift
deal Dame church here. The chai
was established in 1647.
The tire is believed to be incen
ary, so the chief of police said 1st
The loss is f1,000,000.
6th 1
Family Feud in W. Vs.
Steubenville, Ohio, Dec. 22.?I
Ledson was killed and his broti
P k William, severely wounded as a
suit of a faud battle between the L
son and Pearson families today n
Weirton, West Virginia. James Yt
. son is being sought by the state
Bard lice charged with the murder.
?*' Death of Mrs. Plowden
Mrs. P. B. Barnes received a n
sage this morning that her fri<
Mrs. Liszie Plowden, of Greenv
v _ died suddenly this morning ?t
Mrs. Plowden frequently tls
here and death breaks'a friend
on earth that has lasted from el
?? hoed; I
>n to i i I
ote, Of every thousand men who su
Bast 679 wed women at the same afi
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I BORAH SUGGESTS
NEW CONFERENCE
Washington, Dec. 21.?Extensive
discussion of international affairs is
'expected to develop in the senate as
a result of a proposal today by Senator
Borah (Republican ( of Idaho
for an international conference to
consider economic, financial and business
problems, including German
reparations, as well as reductions of
land, sea and aerial armaments.
Senator Borah offered bis plan as
an amendment to the $830,000 naval
' appropriatoin bill, which was report>
ed to the senate today for prelimin\
ary consideration tomorrow. He
i proposed that the president be asked
' to call an economic and disarma>
ment conference instead of a conference
merelv tn wHV
?w ?vw? ?VI?U 11II A Wit VIV/11
of naval vessels under 10,000 tons and
military and naval aircraft, as provided
in the bill as passed by the
house.
In offering his amendment as a
substitute for the house provision,
Senator Borah declared world economic
conditions required immediate
action, and he proposed that President
Harding be "authorised and requested"
to invite such governments
to send representatives to the conference
as he should deem "necessary
and expedient" with the object of arriving
at "understandings or arrangements"
looking "to the restoration of
trade and establishment of sound financial
and business conditions."
With reference to armaments, the
Borah amendment includes the house
bill's provisions as to naval vessels
under 10,000 tons and aircraft, with
its provisions for consideration of
1 nnri an/1 HAW ormamanfs
|f Senate leaders do not expect the
S Borah proposal, nor the house pro9
vision, to be reached during tomor8
row's consideration of the bill. These
x end an amendment by Senator King
V (Democrat) of Utah calling for a
jnlanr and sea disarmament conference,
E which is pending, are expected to go
jover until after the Christmas holing!
days.
Ha.) Senator Borah's amendment caused
f^Lsurprise, especially in view
as re- VV^ong position in the past in
ira that to American participation
iade at f jUan problems. He was one
aestlons J-roagest opponents of the
J it clear thath^ bmsveda^
|i needed to solve pressing
Engine j I problems affecting AmeriLjw
Jmi reparations, he said, were
Jp u... * ' v4o the European situation,"
; and he th6ught his proposed conferj
y ence might "break the deadlock on
that subject."
Heavy Ginnings
To December 13
He
ed Washington, Dec. 20.?Cotton ginit
ned prior to December 13 amounted
to 9,493,296 running bales, including
F. 161,698 round bales, counted as half
.00 tales; 24,613 bsles of AmeritanEgyp>th
tian and 5,255 bales of sea island, the
m, coisus bureau announced today,
rls, To December 13 last year ginnings
id^ were 7,790,656 running bales, includSh*h?g
122,649 round bales, counted as
half bales; 25,827 bales of AmericanMr
Egyptian and 3,062 bales of sea islst
'and.
So.,' Ginnings this year to December 13
by states follow:
ol, Alabama .. 811,759
tc- Arizona 31,461
!o?., Arkansas 990,168
California 20,461
he Florida 27,052
tat Georgia 724,870
iha Louisiana 341,370
Mississippi 976,324
Missouri 130,706
j North Carolina 830,305
ira Oklahoma 626,174
I South Carolina 502,594
Tennessee 373,06S
taj Texas 3,065,072
>us V irginia 24,972
rch AJ1 other states 15,182
di. Man Chooses Death
*r. In Preference to Jai!
Jersey City, N. J., Dec. 21.?Witl
21 hours in which to raise $24 alimonj
or go to jail, Louis La Sasso attempt
*?y ed to hold up a grocery store here to
day and, when trapped, killed himsell
La Sasso entered the store and or
*4- dered the manager at the point of i
e*r pistol to put up his hands just whei
tar- prank Burns, a mechanic, who was t
P?* install locks iu the store doors, ai
rived and *?v? the alarm. A larg
crowd gathered and La Sasso fled int
a blind passageway ffi the rear of th
store. Finding himself trapped, b
' * turned the pistol upon himself.
Hid, a letter found by police in La Sai
so's pocket, showed ne naa wen ocj
' 10 arated from his wife and had bee
given a day in which to raise $24 1
ited give her or be sent to jail,
(hip *
did- According to an old superstititk:
the first to cry at a wedding will 1
the next to marry,
trry ?
I aa Mrs. J. M. Harrison of Colerah
was a visitor to Unio* today.
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DIVERS TRYING
TO FIND BODIES
Batron Rouge, La., Dec. 22.?Governor
Parker received message from
Mer Rouge today saying two bodies,
beUeved to he those of Daniels and
P.ichards, had been found.
Shreveport, I^a., Dec. 22.?Bodies
four.d in Lake LanFaurche, believed
to be those of the men kidnapped by
musked men in August, had limbs tied
nith wire, according to Journal's special
correspondent. They came to the
surface as a result of a big charge
of dynamite exploded last night by
unidentified persons. Only belts and
portion of trousers remain. One man's
head is gone. It is believed the slayers
tried to destroy the bodies.
Mer Rogue, La., Dec. 21.?Bivounppd
tonirht on t.hr? nhovoa nf Cln
Rouge parish lakes, a company of
Louisiana national guard faced the
prospect of spending the Christmas
holidays dragging the water and affoiding
protection to professional divers,
in an effort to recover the bodies
of two prominent citizens of Mer
Ilouge who were believed to have
been murdered by masked and whiterobed
men of three states.
Two days of effort on the part of
military and some 75 men and boys
rf the parish have been fruitless. Unsuccessful
in the efforts to recover the
bodies in Lakes Cooper and Lafourche
the search wil! be extended to other
lakes in the vicinity.
"We will drag every lake in the
parish until we find them," Captain
W. W. Cooper, commanding officer of
the company, declared today.
Machine guns were planted at
strategic points on the lake shores
late today as a precaution against the
possibility of sniping on the part of
those aligned with the mob that
swooped down upon five Mer Rouge
citizens last August while they were
returning home from a celebration
end earned them off to a punishment
ground where they were severely handled.
Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards
have been missing since that
night.
That the flaying of the two men
was not premeditated is conceded by
all interested Young Daniels resetted
th* mercilens t flogging administered
his 70-year-old father and tore
which wtS heard by Richards and
loth men were slain in the fight that
ensued, according to a story credited
to members of their families. The
bodies then were believed to have
been weighed down with wagon
wheels und thrown into one of the
r.earby lakes.
Department of justice men, after
working on the case for many
months, are *-aid to know the identity
of many members of the mob and
with the recovery of the bodies which
will establish that a murder had been
ccmmitted wholesale arrests will follow
and a court will be established at
Itastrop parish seat where open hearings,
under direction of Governor Parker
and other state officiads, will be
begun.
Soundings by professional divers at
Lafourche today where investigators
had charted the most probable location
of the bodies, revealed the fact
that the depth of the lake makes successful
operations there almost impossible.
A plan to drainC ooper lake of its
water also was abandoned late today
and instead soldiers and parish citizens
waded through the shallow waters,
but without result.
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I * WITH THE SICK *
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II 1 liHlu
Ill lO, ?aaacj xiunotu ???u uwiv
i daughter are confined to their home
i on N. Mountain street with flu.
> Mrs. Ben Faucette is quite sick with
! flu at her home on N. Pinckney street.
* Little James Switzer, the youngest
1 son of Dr. and Mrs. Paul Switzer, has
heen ill with pneumonia, but is much
improved today.
| Mrs. Dan Mullinax is confined tc
her home on Douglass Heights with
, u slight attack of flu.
f Miss Lizzie Gregory is sick witli
flu at her home on South street.
Mrs. L. B. Godshall is recovering
from a recent attack of flu.
Forrest Godshall is quite sick witl
a flu at his home on East Main street.
n Miss Demurys Spears, daughter o:
0 Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Spears, is sick witl
Mu at her home on East Main street.
o PERSONAL MENTION
e '
ie M. Russell Jeter of Santuc was i
business visitor in Union today.
?- Mr. L. J. Browning is spending aom
>- time in Asheville at the Sunsc
!n Heights Sanitorium, where he ha
gone to recuperate after a severe il
ness. The many friends of Mr. Browi
^ ing hope for hir speedy recovery.
M Trig Tinsley is conducting an au
tion sale in Kock Hill for the Roc
Hill Jewelry company and the peop
fie oi that city are navm* uie time <
j their Uvea.
Jjf
CASE PRESENTED
IN MINE RIOTS
Marion, III., Dec. 21 (By the Associated
Press).?Alter eight days
spent in the introduction of evidence,
the prosecution rested today at the
trial of five men charged with murder
in connection with the slaying of
20 non-union miners during the Harriots
last June. The defense will
open tomorrow .corning.
In the testimony of its last few
witnesses, the state completed its relations
of the events from the time
three mine guards were shot while
driving a truck from Carbondale to
fk. I "
??wi mine on ine morning ol
June 21, to the attack on the mine
that afternoon when three union miners
were killed, the surrender under
a white flag the next morning of 48
men in the pit and the slaying of 20
of the prisoners.
All five defendants hav e been
pointed out in court as having been
seen with guns during the riots and
several of them have been named as
having shot down some of the victims.
During the course of the presentation
of the state's case, four of
the survivors of the tragedy have
taken the stand and described the
scenes of horror which they said accompanied
the killings.
The cross examinations by the defense
have been brief and apparently
designed to bear out its contention
that the non-union men in the mine
and their employers had incited the
riots for the purpose of having state
troops called out to protect the pits;
that the guards in the mine were
armed, and that they disregarded
warnings that the operation of the
mine would result in outbreaks.
In their cross-examination attorneys
for the defense repeatedly referred
to the non-union workers in
the mine and the guards as "scabs,"
"gunmen," "private detectives" and
"spies."
A. W. Kerr, chief counsel for the
j defense, sadi he expected to prove
that the "guards or gunmen" were
the aggressors in the riot* and
brought on any attack that was made '
upon them by their acts of provocation
and challenge. He made special
reference to the testimony of Donald
M. Ewing, Chicago newspaper man,
and it is said that the defense weald
shot at the Hen+n cemetery never
took plaae.
Mr. Kerr also stated that the testimony
of Dr. Shipman, who testified
as an eye-witness of the death march
from Herrin to the cemetery, would
be impeached and evidence introduced
to show that Dr. Shipman was not
there at all. He added that other
witnesses who would testify that the
effort to disprove testimony given by
other of the state's witnesses.
He further said that the defense
would put on the stand hundreds of
witnesses who would testify that the
defendants now on trial had no possible
connection witht the killings
charged.
Believe Skeleton
That of Officer
Orlando, Fla., Dec. 21.?Belief that
a skeleton found in a swatgp 24 miles
west of Orlando this morning by three
hunters is that of a former army officer
was expressed tonight by Francis
karel, sheriff of Orange county.
Sheriff Karel said that the body had
evidently been in the swamp at least
a year. The only mark of identification
found was a collar button in
which the initial "B" was carved.
Boots, such as are worn by cavalry
officers and an officer's cap yere found
i:t ar mc saeieion.
Tin- sheriff brought the skull to
this city in the belief that he may be
t Lie to identify the victim through
teeth found. There were two gold
teeth evidences of bridge work on
others and several fillings. If the
skeleton is that of an army officer, the
sheriff believes it may be identified
through the war department.
The sheriff also advanced the
' theory that the officer may have
> met with foul play, as a rib was found
broken and the clothing had appar1
ently been stripped of insignia.
: TODAY'S COTTON MARKET
i Open 2:20 p. m.
January 25.82 25.88
r 1K 2R.18
i May 26.27 26.30
July 26.00 26.10
October .. *. 24.26 24.35
Local market ' 26c
a Mr. and Mm. Charlie Hames and
little daughter, Katherine, will lerve
Sunday morning for High Point, N.
* C., to spend the holidays with relaivcB.
E. B. Curelon, of Atlants^ Ga., will
, arrive tomorrow to spend the holidays
with his family at tha home Mr. and
Mrs. R. W. McDow.
ck
Wages lost to Indiana coal miners
le during the recent general strike
of amounted to approximately $16,000,000.
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