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Tne "DO TI?OU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IS THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS ULORIOUS IN THY OA USE," VOL. XX/s xi. BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1905. SHOT TO DEATH. Eight Prisoners Lined Up and Riddled With Bullets BY DETEKMIMD MOB. One of the Victims Was a White Man, Whom a Citizen and thc County Jailer Begged thc Mob to Spear, but lt Re fused to Do So. A mob entered the jail at Watkins ville, Qa., at two o'clock Thursday morning and took therefrom nine prisoners, eight ol wbom were shot to death and the ninth escupid only by being thought dead by thc mob. Tue prisoners taken out and lynched were: Lon J. A}cock, white, charged with the murder of F. M. Holbrook and wife of Oaonee couuty, and seven ne groes, Eloh Robinson, Lewis Robin son, Claud E der, charged with the murder of the Holbrook couple; Sandy Price, a young negro, charged with attempted rape upon the person of Mrs. Weldon Dooley; Rich Allen, a negro convicted and under sentence of death for the murder of Will Robert son, another negro; Geno Yerby, au other negro charged with the burglary of a ride from Mr. Marshall, and Rob Harris, a negro, charged with shooting anobner negro. A dispatch from Watklnsvllle says there were about f)0 to 75 men in the crowd. All wore heavily masked and noone knows whence they came or to what point they returned. They went at once to thc house of Town Marshal L. H. Aiken and quietly called him to the door. As he put his head out of the door be was seized and told that he must deliver the Jail key. He refused and men put pistols in his lace and overpowered him, ht being a rather small mau. Aiken ro fused to dress, but borne of btie party dressed him and carried him along. Tue mob next seized Courtney Elder, a blaoksmlth, and made him bib g bis tools along with him. On their way to the jail they were met by A. W. Ashford, a prominent citizen of Wat klnsvllle, who had beard thc noise at the maisbal's house and came down town as soon as he could dress. Mr. Ashford begged the men to de Bist and let the law take its cuurse, especially pleading for Aycock on the ground, that the evidence had not b> . aft?ured-i?'-wari'Anr . convic tion. He*" also begged tue ni' not to lynch those not charged with capital crimes. They told Lim that they w^re cool, sober and determined and that he might as well go back home and go to bed. The jail was then opened by the town marshal under cover of several pistols and inside the jail the mob held up Jailor (Jrow and demand ed the keys to the cells. Ile refused at first, but surrendered them after being menaced with guns. Jailor Crow begged hard for Av cock ou the same ground that Mr. Ashford old and also for the two negroes who were not charged with capital crimes. Members of the attacking party told him to shut his mouth. Tuey knew what to do, tbey said, and they were going to clear out the whole jail. Tho mob got every prisoner In thc Jail except Ed Thrasher, a negro charged with gambling, who wu* on tho misdemeanor side of thc prison and was not noticed. The prisoners were carried to a point some luo yards from the jail und tied to three fence posts by their necks. Aycock protest ed his innocence to tho la t. ile said they were killing au innocent mau. While tlie general belief lu Oconee county ls that Aycock was not guilty, still there were many who did not be lieve HO. Rich' Robinson said l? was all right, so far as ho wits concerned, but tnat three more negroes wore in tho Holbrook murder. Ho named Slduoy Norris, Jim Taylor and Wiley Durnum as the three implicated. These negroes had b?en In jail before on this cuaige and had been released after full investigation by tho con milbee. The other prisoners did not open their mouths during their maren to their doom. After the prisonors had been tied to tho fenceposts, the mob lilied up and fired live volleys Into their booios All died without a siruggio, with thc exception of Joe Patterson, a negro who was charged With pointing a ^un at Albert Ward. Patterson wu* soo,, several times in tho body but was alive after tue mob left and win recov er. Aycock's body was fairly riddled with shot, a great hole was torn through his heart and another through his right breast. Tue mob left quickly after doing its vurk, and none of its members went toward Athens, lt is believed that thc men wore from neigh boring counties, as tho rope rt was brought to Watklnsvllle Wednesday afternoon by A. N. liostick of Morgan oounty that a mob would likely alack the jail Wednesday Tnls tumor, now ever, was not given muon attention since BO many of its kind had come before. Sheriff Ovcrby was on his farm Wed nesday afternoon and he was not no tl fled by Mr. Rostlck. In r.ici, the pur pose of tho mob was accomplished So quietly that the sheri ff, wno lives a milo from the Jail, knew nothing of tho occurrence until T lUfsday morn iog, and thc residents of Watklusvill were taken completely by purprlso. Tho people of Coonee county a'o hor ribed at the occurrence. They han borne with patience tho delay ucees sary to Recurring thc evidence against the Holbrook murderers and had ag rei d i". ?ita i.>.., lo lr A itu eon r<!0 Tho impelling cause of the lynching with out doubt was the attempted rape by Sandy Price, which excited tue people all over that section. Kilted ?t ijod/.. A dispatch from Lodz, says that General Marmusoff,commanderof thc troops at Lodz, was assassinated. Tho rebols attacked thc general while he was driving through tho city and af ter dragging bim from bis carriage stabbed him through his heart. THE C?IMK That Caused the F hooting of tho Pris oners at Watklnsvllle. Sandy Prion, A Negro, Hntors tho Homo of A lindy ?11(1 Tried to AiSBftult Her. A dispatch to the Atlanta Journal, undor dato of June 27th, gives an ac count of tho crime that lead to the lynohiuir of the eight prisoners at Watklusvlllo, Ga., on last Thursday morning. The dispatch said tho Couti ty of Coonee had another sensation on tlic Tuesday afternoon beforo the lynching of thc eight men, that set tho people of Watklnsvllle, where the lyuohlog took place, wild with excito ment, and came very near resulting in tlie lynching of Sandy Price, a negro max living at Watklnsvllle. Mrs. Weldon Dooley, the wife of a well known young farmer, living lu the suburbs of Watklnsvllle, barel> es caped from the clutches of this nf gro In time to give the alarm to the neigh bors and cause tils arrest. Mrs Dooley bad gone Into her room and was lyiug on the bed with her baby. Suddenly the back door of the house was thrown open and this negro butted in and made a rush at ber. She grabbed her baby and ran through the front door in time to get out of his reach. As she did so she screamed at the top of her voice, and the negro went out the back door and made off Into the woods. Mrs. Dooley sent word back to Wat klnsvllle that this negro had entered her house and In less than fifteen min utes fully forty armed men were on the scent In buggies and afoot. The negro was tracked for nearly a half mile to the house of a negro woman and the house was surrounded. Price was told to come out and did so after a little hesitation. As he left the bouse some members of the crowd fired at him two or three times, but all the shots missed thc mark. lie was then captured and carried Lo the j iii In Watklnsvllle. Ho denied jotng into Mrs. Dooley's house, but LU r Identification (ff him was complete, ind there was further Identification, that bis shoes were littcd Into the brack in the back yard. Coming right ?vftor the Holbrook murder, which was a mo^t brutal and cold blooded crime, this affair has greatly stirred the com munity, and had thc negro been kept away from jail much longer the crowd might have dealt violently with him. Puls man was ono of the eiirht men that was shot to death on Thursday morning by the mob at Watklnsvllle. TBE HOLBROOK MURDEH, l<'or Whtoh Four Mon Worohynohod *t JgAtkinsvIHo, G?. J -x'ne wm to man -and three of the ' acgroes lynched at Watklusvlllo, Ga., roursday morning, were held In jail d r the brutal murder of Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook, and aged c mple, which oe iurred in May. With their beads tattered almost beyond recognition, l<\ M. Holbrook and bis wife, an aged iou pie, were found murdered on thc ight of May ll on the back porch of jheir home, live miles below Watklns vllle. The couple lived by themselves ind owned a farm and country store. Tho store ^was found to have boen jroken open and robbery was the sup posed motivo for the murder. Black, an aged negro, who was waikii g near the home, discovered ibo dead bodies at an early hour on the mc ruing following the murder ind gave tho alarm. Tho nearest m Ighbor was Adam Smith, who re {ponded quickly at.d was j.dnod by ji her nt ignbors. H!o dhouuds were secured from Athens and ovory effort made to cap Cure thc murderer, but without avail. Jiti/.cnsof the village formed them selves into an Investigation committe md as a rt snit of their work several negroes wore pl io d undor artest. The store lu which Mr. Holbrook .vas attack- d is annexed to bis house md ho was evidently showing his as .ai hints a suit of clothes when he was druck on the back of tho bead with l blunt Instrument. Tue suit of eloth !8 was very bloody arid bis spec!ados wore found near spattered with blood, lie ran from the store n oni into lils icdroom probably to get his gun, as a ?treak of blood was found on the wall near bis gun. His body was found on the. porch. His wife held a piece of scantling In her band when found and had ou only one garment. She perhaps hoard her husband give an alarm and jumped from the ber! and ran to his rescue. When found tho bodies were per foctly sUlf and the crime was no doubt 0 ?mraitted carly in thc night. There wore nine holes made with a binni Instrunent in Mr. Holbrook's head and a nolo mach; by a pistol ball in Mrs Holbrook's head. After tho bodies wore embalmed they looked tiuito natural, as the wounds were all on tho back of tin head H except one. bruise on Mrs. Holbrook's face. Du rr* s Two Hearts. Answers to his advertisements to soil his body and two hearts after death have kept A. Purr, of New l\ lohelle, N. v., busy. Tho advertise mont whlob was printed in a New York paper, read: "] agree to sell my two hearts, tho buyer hoing entitled tu same after my death." Durr is a carpenter, ?tr, years old, single, and the picture of health lie works every day and loads a regular life. Hp to a few years ago, he says he did not know that he had two hearts. This was dis c -verod when he called a physician t>> treat him fur a slight attack of sick ness. Since then he has submitted to examinations by (nany physicians de cently, bo says, a specialist offored $10,000 if be would allow an operation for the removal of one of the hearts. This the oar pan tor says he declined to clo, h? feared ho might die. Durr says ho expects to receive several thousand dollars from some medical college for ids heart A Million I M in OrrnntB. Figures compiled for the llscal yoar show that the past twelve months broke all i coords of foreign Immigra tion In this country. The total reach es the enormous 'Igure of ovor 1,000,* 000. Tho highest reached in any pre vious year was In 1003, whoo the num ber was 857,000. THE RED FUG Of Revolution Flies at Mast of a Russian Battleship. THE CEEW MUTINIED Thc Officers of the JXniaz Potcmkhie, a Battleship of the Black Sea Squad? ron, Murdered and Thrown Overboard bv the Crew of thc Battleship. A cabio dispatch from Oiesaa, on tlic Black Sea, says the red Hag of ?volution is hoistod at the roast of Knalz Potcmkhie, Russia's most pow erful battleship In tho Black Sea, which now Iles In tho harbor in thc hands of mutineers. Thc captain and most of the ( Ulcers were murdered and thrown ovorboard in thc open sea and tho ship is com plctely In thc possession of tho crow and a fow ofllcers who havo thrown In their lot with thc mutineers. Tho guns of the Kninz Potemklne command tho olty of Odessa and In the streets masses of striking work men who the day before Hid before the volleys of the troops arc now Inllamed by the spectacle of open revolt on board an imperial warship and are making a buld front against the mili tary. All day loi g Uring has been heard In many quarters of the city. A number of barricades have been erected and tumult and disorder reign. Thc main i quadron of thc Black Sea lloet, consisting of the battleships George! Poblcdoncsetz (George the Victorious), Tri Svlaticella, Rostlslav and Ekaterina II, with two cruisers, are expected to come hero and a reg ular naval battle ls In prospect. The rioters are lu a mest d?liant mood und are not Inclined tj surrender without lighting. Reports of the muntiny, which oc curred willie tho battleship was at sea, are (lilli nilt to obtain, as tho muti neers refuse to allow communication with the shore, but lt is ascertained that lt arose from tho shooting of a sailor who was presenting on behalf of the crew a complaint against bad food. According to ono version, this saldor, whose namo was Omiltchuk, objected to the quality of thc "horohtch," or soup, and was immediately shot down by a mess otlicer. The crew then mm seized tho .si-?> va'-', t?? ti^oi*, eUihb' of whom were Npared, on condition that thoy would j dn tho muttueors. The others wero killed and their bodies thrown overboard. Af der a period of vacclla tlou the Koiaz Potcmkhie headed for Odessa and arrived hore last night ac companied by two torpedo boats. Karly Wednesduy tho body olT Omllt cnuk was brought ashore in one of too battleship's boats and was landed on thc new mole, where it had oeen ex posed In semi-state all day. lt was visited by thousands of per sons, many of whom placed coins lu a basket at tlie head of the body toward a fund to delray thc cost of the funer al, which the sailors held Tuur.^day and willoh the strikers made the occa sion of a giont demonstration. An inscription on tue breast of thc dead sailor btates on behalf of tuc crew that O uiltchuk died for the truth boeau*e he presented a just coin plaint of the crew. The authorities have made no attempt to remove tho Dody, tuc saliers having served notice tnat the ship would opon tiro on any one seeking to interfere with lt. A police agent visiting tho spot was kill ed by st.ikers. During tho day a red Hag was hoist ed on the Kutti'/ Potemklne and mern bert) of tlie crew rodo from ship to ship In tho harbor, forcing thc stop page of all work thcreou. Food was nuppiled them by sympathizers on shore, who pillaged the marltmo store nouses. T.ie strike is now genoral In the city and tho rioters aro growing lu numbers and boldness. Tnere were exchanges of shots all day, but thc number of victims cannot be stated. Phis evening a bomb was tiuown in Oar tiled ral palace, killing Its thrower and a polio, man. A telegram from thc mayor of Odes sa, who ls at Moscow, Imploring the Otlizeng to restore order, has boen posted throughout the city. During ibo day ono of thc t?rpido boats which accoinpalul the Kailaz Potem klne came into the harbor and seized the Russian steamer lOiperanza. Tno steamer was laden with 2 out) tons of coal, willoh tho battleship is taking on board. Too government has tele graphed for a squadron to be sent from Sebastopol. A dispatch from O Jessa dated Wed nesday night, says thc whole of the quays and buildings around tho har bor as well as much shipping aro in lUmes. Mobs of incendiarios prevent ing the tire brigade working. Tro .ps aro kept at bay and aro ai raid to ap proach within reaoh of tho K ula/. Pot emkine's guns, which threaten a dis astrous bombard meut. The city ls appalling illuminated by burning buildings and t> rror prevails every where. S eep is Impossible and every' body is watching and waiting. Tue whole garrison has boen requisitioned for patrol duty, lt is thought that lt may become necssary to summon foreign v.aishlps for the protection of American colonies. Tuesday night's collision hetweon the mobs and police and military resulted In thc loss of IT lives, Including three policemen. OttOftpOHl l liln;; SOltli An exchange truthfully says: "A nowspauor is sold thc cheapest of any commodity on the face of the earth, i lonslderlng thy great amount of work there ls put upon the publica tion of a newspaper, and the cost of trotting it out, there is nothing made and sold which brings so small a price. For thc reason that tlie majority of tho pcoplo have no Idea ci tlie Infinite labor and groat expense attachod to the publication of a newspaper., they are apt to regard the copy theta re ceive as of small value. ALL TRAITORS. Tho Entire "laok Sea Fleet Honny Combed With Treason. The Ships And Mon Who Surrontlorod to To?o With Nrbafffttoff Woro from Thin Floot. A cablegram from St. Petersburg says more serious in its possibleeffeots thau all the defeats lu Manchuria or tho destruction of R JestveiiBky's Ueet was tho news which reached St. Petersburg carly Weducsday evening that tho standard of open rebellion was floating ou board one of thu em peror's battleships in the harbor of Odessa and that with shotted guns the mutinous crew headed by eight ofiloers was holding tho ship against all comers. The authorities aro in almost a state of panic and at the admiralty consternation reigns. Admiral Wi renius, chief of tho general staff of the navy, said to tho Associated Press that the admiralty had received ad vices regarding the mutiny, but ?hat he was unable to give details. He frankly confessed that the situation was very grave and that he did not know what to expect. The Black sea squadron, which left Sebastopol Tues day under command of Vice-Admiral Kruger, was due to arrive at Odessa Wednesday night and a battlo with thc mutiners may occur at any mo ment. Thc Kniaz Potcmklno is a more powerful ship than any in Kruger's squadron and the gravity of the situ ation is Increased by the fact that the city is practically In possession of the strikers, who, according to the dis patches, had already been encouraged to open resistance by thc mutiny of the sailors and were erecting barri cades and fighting the polloe and the troops in the streets. Ever since the war started ugly re ports about the crews of the Black sea licet have boen current. Men have been shot and even officers oourt martialled for disobedience, aud at Sebastopol twelve sailors were con demned to three years imprisonment for mutiny. No better evidence of the spirit of the crew ls need than an olllcial an nouncement made by the admiralty that Admiral NebagatciT and thc other otllcors who surrendered In the sea of Japan would have to stand trial by courtmartlal upou their re turn. Practically all of the crews of the vessels which surrendered camb from the Black sea. The fact that Odessa is not a fortified fort ex plains why tho Kniaz Pofcemkine is able to lie in the harbor unmolested. t^xn #DE88?~B?M BARDED. A State ol Wnr Declared in tho Port Ot UdCHBR. The London Dally Mail prints the following from its Odessa correspon dent, timed 10.40 o'clock, Thursday night. "Using full charges, the Knia/. Potemkin opened Ure on the city this evening. Tho first shell struck a house in Nyesjinskaya street and thc second fell on a brewery. In the v ails of hoi h buildings large Ivies, ^lx yards ss ldc, by three yards high, vsere torn. So far there has been no more firing. The governor ordered tue gas lamps exth gulshed and the electric currents f evered, so that the city Ls i ti total darkness." A dispatch from St Petersburg says the cmpt tor has issued tho followlrg ukase address to the senate: "In order to guarantee public; safety and to terminate the disorders at Odessa and neighboring localities, we have ft und it necessary to declare a state of war In Odessa and district and to invest the commander of thc troops in the military district of Odessa wish tho rivi it ts of military authority an'! special rights of civil administra tion for tho defense of order and pub lic tranquil ty." The crow of a government trans port which arrlv. d at Odessa Thurs day from Nlokolleff, sized their o 111 cors and joined the crew of the bat tleship Kola/ Potemkin, to whom they turned over the captain and other ofiloers of tho transport, lt ls reported that the foreign consuls have applied to tholr respective govern ments to send warships to Odessa. Tue Russian sailors at Liban mu tinied Thusday night, attacked the government stores, seized the arms and tired into tho officers' quarters, infantry, ait'llery and Cossacks were brought to thc secoue of tho fighting, but the result ls not known. Intonso excitement prevails. KcholM Hunt iiderod. A dispatch from Odessa says with out tiring a gun or making tho slight est show of resistance, thc mutineers on the Kniaz Potemkin hauled down thc rod flag and surrendered the bat tleship to Vice Admiral Krueger's squadron which arrived noon Fridiy. Ii waa an anxious moment for Odes sa, as the squadron of five battleships and sevon torpedo boats, with their crews at quarters and their docks cleared for action, steamed within range of thc Kola/. Potemkin, tho flagship il, inj/ signas) whloh rea ls: "Yield or be sunk." The terms of the surrender ls not known. li AH Not Surrontlorod A d'spatch to tho London Dally Mall from Odessa, dated early Friday mondng, assorts that thc Knalz Po temkin lias not surrendered. The I dispatch says: "lt was reported by the authoritlos that the Kniaz Potem kin had surrendered unconditionally, hut it ls now confirmed that she was joined by thc battleship Georgi Po bledonosctz, whoso officers were made prlsonors. Moth vessels aro anchored In tho roads aud are using searchlights vigorously as If expecting an attack from tho tquadron, 16 miles distant. Thc commander of the troops has re> ceived a telegram rrom the govern ment ordering him Lo sink the rebel ships without regard to a possible bombardment. I have Information regarding thlB second mutiny on ab solutely reliable authority." Two HwliiK. At Lancaster Pa., Leo Furman and John O'Prion wore hanged Thursday for tho murder of Samuel Uess?er, a vcncrablo tollgate \eoycr. FATALLY SHOT. L Scbarameck, an Augusta, Qa., Mun, Meets Death AT IWAYNKSBOEO, Gr A, Long ^lauding Feud Wiped Out With Moori. D. C. Curtis. Agricultural (finer of Schrameck, Also r* Instaatly Killed. Third Man Fatally Injured. A dispatch from Waynesboro, Ga., says two men aro dead and one seri ously wounded as a result of a shoot ing p.I? av/ that occure 1 there Monday. The parties to tue affair were L. D, and John HUI, of Drone and L. Schra meok, of Augusta, and D. ?. Curtis, of St. Clair. John HUI was seriously wounded In tho stomach and thigh. Curtis was shot In the face and through the heart, dying Instantly, and Sehratneok was shot In the head and through tho heart, also dying In stantly, Both partlos mot In Wayneshoro Monday while on legal business, and bofor? friends could interfere the shooting was done. It was tho out come of a foud of long standing, and was uot unexpected. An lr quest was held over the bodies of the (load men with tho following verdict: "That Curtis was killed by Dozier HUI in defense of his life, while lt is not Ijuown who shot Schrameok." Tho bad blood was of longstanding, having been In existence slues 18!)3, but the affair Monday was tho result of a lltfht between some negroes on tho respectivo places of Curtis and HUI. Schrameok was in no way con nected with the feud. He was a part ner of Mr. Curtis, and was in the city with him when the shooting happen ed. Both parties were getting ready to go home, and as the shooting be gan Mr. Sohramrck's horse was fright ened and started to run. One of the bullets struck Mr. Sohranieck In thc hand, and he lumped out of the bug gy and started for one of tho stores, when he was lilt again, falling and (?yin.* Instantly. It seems that he was trying to got away from the light, but the bullets were Hying so fast whoi? ho was struck that no one knows really who shot him. His horsi&.was struck again and fell dead. Drta y HUI was given a preliminary beaijjrj and acquitted. USTANB MUCH EXCITED. .?* tho .shooting at .Arly ^ ???a? ..tolatives of lbw family, aoaompanled by Under taker Wilson, left on an early after noon train, to take charge of the re malan, and bring them to Augusta. PdyslolanB examined Mr. Schramcok's bhdy and found the following wounds: ? Jagged wound of the right wrist, almost severing tho hand, possibly made by a slug. A number of wounds in the back, evidently made with buckshot and ri He. balls. In all there wer? seven or eight of these wounds. Twfior three were slight abrasions of the skin, seemingly made hy spent buckshot. The wound causing death. In the opinion of the physicians, struck the deceased in the right shoulder, penetrated the right Shoul der blade, traversed the right, lung, severing tho larger arteries of the chest, and coming ou? through the upper portion of the breast bone. This wound ls almost In a median line through the body, ls very laige and jagged. CAUSE OK TIUC FEUD, Friends of the family state that several years a^o, when cotton was very low and tho farmers of Burke county discouraged, Curtis and Schra meck optionally bought a large tract of land, supposed to oontaln between 1,500 and 1,700 acres. They were to pay $6 per acre. When cotton ad vanced and tho feeling was better, tho S3ller wished to back out of the bargain. But ho was held to the agreement. When tho purzhasers in sisted on tho land being surveyed, to determine how much they owed there was another hitch, tho matter finally going Into court, where Curt's and Schrameck won out. lt is declared that bad blood exist ed between the Hills and Curtis. It ls said that Dozier HUI wanted the property, and was responsible for the light put up for it by the former ownor. lt also appears that Curtis had beoomo llnanolally involved In some way, and only Saturday Schra meok was advised to go down and see if he could not settlo tho matter, and straighten up accounts. Curtis was running the large farm and Schrameck was tho financial backer. Hcrameck went down Sunday, spent the day on tho farm, and wont to Waynesboro Monday with Curtis, to see If the matter could not be settled. A later dispatch from Waynesboro ?says John HUI died Tuesday afternoon In Augusta from tho wounds he re ceived in tho shooting affray between Li. Scramcck of Augusta and D. C. Curtis of St. Clair on tho one side, and John Hill and L. D. Hill on the other. Frlonds and relatives declare that ,"|1An . I, " nl.nA?lni. Hfl ff An <3rtl\M- - ' - ..... ri .Ml., III K.wm i if, l.r.n, n .1 I I iv I I n i I. was Just driving Into the back yard with his his horse. It ls also said that ho endeavored to get out of harm's way, but failed. He was not armed and took no part In tho shoot ing. His rolativcs charge that he was shot by Dozier Hill, and further atllrra that Hill did not deny lt Tues day In Waynesboro. Leopold Sohraraeck was 60 years of age. He had resided in Augusta l l years. Ho was born in Alsaoo-Lo raine, oomlug to Amerioa whon (?ulto a young man. Voioti, Muon iviiiuit tftimaolit B. Erank Vaughan, aged 66, proml neut In Portsmouth, and employed In tho ollljes of the Baltimore Steam Paokot Company of Norfolk, Va., af ter casting in the Portsmouth Demo crtto munlolpal primary oleotlon what he declared would bo his last voto, I ?tarted to Norfork and in tho ferry wilmot* rooms Ooiumiltod suiotde by j shooting himself In the head. ?KUJS TO HIS OATH. Negroes Bound a White Man to a Tree and Threatened to Kill film If Ho Did Not llovoal tho Secrets of Freo Masonry. Thomas Davenport, a prominont citizen of Toocoa, Ga., has been tho viotim near Buford, Ga., of one of the most vicious crimes ever perpetrated in this scotion. Acoordlng to & speolul dispatch to tho Journal: Bound, gagged, '.c.odwlnked, forced todo with but watet or food for 30 hours, and at tho end of that timo hanged to a tree and left for dead, ls tho oxpetlonee he paused through from 0 o'clock Satur day afternoon until carly Sunday morning. Davenport was brought to this place Sunday almost a total wreck, and tho story ho tells sounds more like a tale of border adventure than an actual happening in a civiliz ed community. Davenport says that on Saturday afternoon ho was enticed from his home in Toocoa by ?a note, presuma bly forged, from a friend in New Hol land, a little town on the Southern railroad, two miles north of Gains ville. This note stated that Daven port's friend was in distress, and urg ed him to come to New Holland at once. Unsuspecting, Davenport went to New Holland on the llrst train, ar riving there soon after dark. About oue-half milo from the New Holland station while on the way to his friend's home, Devenport says he wassoized by three negroes who bound and hoodwinked him, and ordered him to make no sound under penalty of death. He was then placed in a buggy which was driven all Saturday night. Sunday morning ho was taken from tho buggy and oirrled into the woods, when ho was ordered to dlsolose the secrets of Masonry. Upon his refusing ho was tortured and threatened in var ious ways through the day. Finally, Sunday at midnight, he was strung up to a tree and loft for dead. In order, however, to make his case, as tho ne groes said, appear one of suicide, be fore Davenport was swung to the tree his bonds and hoodwink were removed f r tlic llrst time since his capture. Ho thus managed to oatoh to thc tree and hold whllo releasing hlmsolf from the noose. For several hours Davenport wan dered in tho wood lu darkness emerg ing at last Into a road that led him to the home of Z >bcdlah Hannah, a prom inent farmer who lives three miles from Buford. Tho news was at once communicated to this place, when Davenport was brought here and pl iced on a train for his home, and his relatives at Toocoa noli iu d of his whereabouts. Alit'.Io in vi.?. KlCAtvJu M'IL.JJV. hero over the crime, and parkes are scouring all trtots of woods in tho vic inicy of where Davonport found him self, in an effort to obtain a clue to the identity or whereabouts of tue ne groes. Otlljers aro working on the case from here and from New Holland, but so far as is kn .wn no due has yet been discovered that promises a oapture of the crimin?is On i lio W ur 1'uth. At least twelve ranch >rs and sev eral women and children met deatti at tho hands of a band of a hundred Yaqui lndiaus who have been raid ing tne country along the San Miguel river In Ur^s district of Sonora, Mexico, and a party composed largely of American mining men, headed by Joseph DoWott, bas gone out from lV/> station to rescue thc un for tun ates who arc in danger of being mas sacred hy the Indians. After several families had been murdered hy the In dians, tho ranchers made a determin ed stand at Buenos Ayres ranch, where they were aided by employees, they succeeded In repulsing thc In dians, although Jesus Ortondo, the proprietor, his brother and Louis Car ronza, propriotor of an adjoining I ranch, with several other neighbors, died from wounds recelvod in tho light. It is thought fully twenty In dians were killed. Lonpod to ni', Dcntli. Capt. Robt. D. Graham, a lawyer 05 years old, who served In the Con federate army throughout tho Civil war and the son of a former cabinet Ollloer, leaped from the portico of a window of the sixth ll >or of an apart ment house In Washington Tuesday and wai so seriously Injured that he died a few minutes after being picked up. Do had boon lil for some time and lt is thought became despondent. The coroner gave a oertilloato of death from suicide. Capt. Graham was a na tive of North Carolina and a son of Wm. A. Graham at one time governor of that State and secretary of thc navy in tho cabinet of President Pierce. The deceased was for three years secretary of the lirst administra tion of President Cleveland. lOftt Two Mnoli Mellon. The Atlanta Journal says shortly after eating a quantity of watermelon, little Paul muling, the live-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Itldllng, of 385 Haynes street, became suddenly and violently ill late last Sunday afternoon and died Monday of ptom aine poisoning. While the membors of the family were preparing to attond the burial of the child an older broth el, Frank Rldling, six years o? ago, was seized with a similar attack and is now desperately iii, suffering v.ith the same trouble that caused the death of thc younger child. According to tho statement of thc attending physician, Paul Riddling, whose death occurred Monday, became 111 with acute indi gestion as thc result of eating too much melon. Wanton Killin?. At Philadelphia, what is said by eyo-wltnoss to have beert a deliberate attempt of a chautTeur to seato per sons on tho streets Wednesday night, resulted In thc death of Eldon Garbor, a live-year-old boy. lt ls said tho driver deliberately steored tho auto mobile toward the child with tho ovl dent intention of soaring him. As tho automobile drew near tho boy the ohaulTour became confusod and before ho had galneu control of tho machino it had crashed Into young Garher. I Tho driver then put on all steam j and osoaped. HEROIC DEFENCE Of Fort Sullivan by tho Patriot? of | Revolution?r y 'ay*. An Event Tlmt lOv iy B. ndi Cnn li nlnn Should Fe- I Grnt l i ld ; lu Hemembmlnff* Last Wednesday wan the anthe' sary of tho battle of F rt Sulh> an ot Sullivan's Island at the opening ol tho Revolutionary War. In speaking of the day and its historical Import* anoe The Columbia State says "this is the anniversary of the first-and almost the only-deolsivo victory won by Amerioau arms iu the Revolution. It was on this day, 120 years ago, that tho untrained valor of American troops proved superior to British dis cipline, as it was to show its superl orlty later on other southern fields Cowpens, King's Mountain, Yorktown and New Orleans. "Tho heroic and triumphant de fence of Fort Sullivan, which was afterward named in honor of its gal lant commander, William Moultrie, was one of those greatly significant small actions that often characterize revolutions. Like the historic "can nonade of Valm.y," lt meant far more than the viotory itself. The vlotory was apparently only tho beating off of Sir Peter Parker's lleet, with a loss of 12 men killed and twice as many wounded; but it meant far more than this. It meant, for the hour, the thwarting of Clinton's intended at tack on Charleston. It meant that for two years tho southern colonies were to be unmolested, and allowed time in which to prepare the revolu tion and organize for tho long and desperate struggle which might other wise have failed. It meant, also a tremendous stimulus and inspiration to American arms; lt counteracted thc depressing effeots of the series of defeats in Massachusetts, where Washington had felt justified in charging the New England officers with incompetency and even cowar dice, and kept ?ill une tho hope of the ultimate triumph of the colonies. "The story of the little yet great battle is well known to most of us; but one or two features of lt may be recalled with profit. Charleston was one of the live chief objeotlve3 of the British, tho others being B iston, New York, Baltimore and Savannah. Clinton planned to break up the de fense of the colonies by attacking Charleston, compelling the withdrawal of troops for defense from the north This plan was defeated by tho repulse of Slr Peter Parker, friend and patron ships hammered at tno palmetto log fort on Sullivan's Island, which guarded the harbor, the British army was on Long Island, now the Isle of Palms, and unable to cross the inter vening channel. Had the land forces been able to join tho lleet In the at tack. Moultrie and hip -135 men would have been swept off thc island, and Charleston would doubtless have fallen. But the truo aim of the un tried American gunners was sufficient to win a victory of far teaching con sequences. "This victory, so cl a ly won, so important in its resell, SJ olma ter istic of and so crcdiiao.o to tho sol diers of this colo- y, ls what t i setting aside of this uay wai im? un ohicily to comm?mor?t< : u ve ve ture to assert that what we HJ< S honor is the great oe d o? ncr J.- m . Sergeant Jasper's that si i rea i n hearts of the whole nation BS.;; a ca to arms, to heroic endeavor, and h vlotory. Ever since Jasper sprai , from thc walls, regained thc Hag, and again Moated it above unconquerable American valor, "many a heart has danced to see that emblem lu thc sky." It was characteristic and flt ting that the hero, though risking lifo in a hundred other hazardous enterprises, should have fallen on the walls of Savannah, more than two years later, while while planting his regimental colors on the parapet. "One other suggestion. The heroic defense of Fort Moultrie in 1770 foreshadowed tho still wore heroic and more brilliantly successful de fenso of Fort Sumter in the same harbor, by descendants of tho Revo lutionary horoos. And Jasper's gal lant aot foreshadowed the still more gallant acts of tho soldiers who re planted the Confederate flag out down by hostile shot a dozen times. "These great unsurpassed heroisms forever honor tho State. They arc sutllolent in themselves to give the State a fair immortality. And we should never forget that in remem bering them and in valuing them wc prove ourselves grateful for them and j worthy of tho sacrifico and blood of our heroes." KILLKD IN THEIR HOMK. dim-leu F.. Davis ?ml MIHH F.lslo llavis Murdered nt Minmi, Fl?. Charles E. Davis and his daughter, Elsio, were found doad Monday morn lng in their home. They had been murdered probably Saturday night. They were both shot. One shot kided r\? ..I.. un ? io, twice. The fact of tho murder was discov ered by a Mr. Burbank, who went to see Mr. Davis on business Sunday morning. Ile found tho lower part of tho house, open, but could lind no one at home. Again Sunday afternoon and Monday morning ho wont with tho same result. On the last visit his sus picions were aroused and ho went to thc home of ono of the sons of Mr. Davis. Tiie two roturning to thc Davis! houso, mitered lt and going upstairs' found tho two bodies. No clue lias been found as to tho prepetrator of thc dcod. Tho commun ity is Imonselv excited, and a lynoh ing will probably follow an arrest. Miss Davis was ono of tho most loved young women in tho community and Mr. Davis was a popular and promi nent business nun. Thc oltizons of Miami have offered ft reward of $750, tho merchants' association 1250 and the Elks $250, for the apprehension of I the murderer of Mr. and Miss Davis. MANY DROWNED. A Danish Cadet Ship Ramuied by an English Steamer. BOYS DIED IN BUNKS. The Ships Came Together ia thc Dark? ness of the Night Near Copenhagen, Denmark, andat'Least Twenty Two Persons Lost Their Lives in thc Crash. A dlspatoh from Copenhagen, Den mark, says a S9riou? disaster ocotirred Monday night near hero, wnen the Danish cadet braining sohooncr Georg Stage was rammed and siiuk by tho British steamer Ancona. ?n?rweorg Stage sank in one and ono half minu tes. Twenty-two cadets were drowned and 57 rescued. The boys were all lu their bunks at the time of the disaster. The night was overcast but it was not sp dark that obj sots could not ba seen at some distance. Tho Ancona was considerably dam aged along her water lino. The port authorities have placed an embargo on the Ancona, willett will remain here untlLthc inquiry into the the collision is completed. Thus far only a single body has been rcoovered by the divers who have gone down to the wreck. First oflioer Myhro of tho Georg Stage attributes the accident to the Ancona changing her course. Ile said the Ancona's bow showed seven feet into the training schooner's side, bringing down the latter's masts and rigging, and preventing many o? the cadets from gaining the deck. Those who were noe entaugled In the wreok rge sprang on board the Ancona and assisted in launching the life boats. Myhre himself jumped into tho water and rescu .d muny boys who were en tangled in tho ridging. The Georg Stage was a schooner of 206 tons register and was 103 feet long. Apparently she was a training vessel for thc mercantile marino and was owned by a private linn of Copen hagen. A SET OF RASCALS Wore tho Mon MnnnKhiK the Equi table A.;ife Insurance Company. "Ono nv m?n Hin 'wmnnfch' aAnfclftm*>n wuniteuceu vt iou uno,mauKgetm-mi or the Equitable are being pulled out in to tho light," says the Columbia State. "Il,de and Alexander wore the flrst victims, but the work goes on apace. T.ie latest objeot of In quiry is Senator Depew. For years, heaven knows just how many! this 'le gal adviser' of the Equitable company has been drawing from that corpora tion the annual salary of $20,000. An investigation into the scope of his duties seems to indicate that the most of his elIort8 were dlreoted toward seeing that tho olllcials of the Equita ble were nob underpaid 1 Also that choy v/ere equitably paid. When /ouug Mr. Hyne found that in ordor ' )r him to maintain his retinue of ?. rvants and diso pay his automobile '> Hs he must have,a raise of $25,000 a var in salary, Senator Depew, (just .mn that he ls!) saw\t? lt that Mr. 1 xander, too, got a lLcc increase, i'ti rc was nothing niggardly In Sena or Depew'8 atbibudo bo ward young rlyde; the senator was merely con an jed to see thab there was no dis crimination. By all means the hard working Mr. Hyde should have his 'raise,' but Mr. Alexander, too, should have his. And did Mr. Depew also ?,'ranb himself an increase? Nob a bit of it. He went right on working zealously for his employing oompany on his miserly salary of $20,0001 Think of the self-sacrltlce, when he might just as well have had $40,000 or even $140,0001 All honor bo De pew 1 He worked hard raising bhe salaries of the other fellows, but not one cant moro for himself. Honest old soul, he probably Imagined that ho was not really oarnlng more than his twenty thousand.'* Bavou Frbin a Mob. A special from Casa, Ark., Bays that the Hov. J. J. Gray, a Methodist minister of Pottsville has been saved from rough treatment at the hands of a mob only by several little girls, who clung dose to him as he left a sohool houso, before which nearly a sooro of men had gathered intent upon seizing the preacher. Gray had been warned to preach no more ab Casa, but disre garding tho injunction, ho rode inbo thc town Tuesday evening, accompan ied by his small daughter. Ho was in the midst of a sermon, delivered ab tho school house, before a congregation composod mainly of wumeu aud child ren, when tho mob appeared before the buildipg. Tlic minister Immed iately left tito pulpit and started for the door. A number of little girls fearful for his safety grasped hts coat and ohing close to his side until the minister had m-idc his way through tho mob and esoaped In tho darkness. Wrook On thu Bouthorn. The northbound passenger train on tho Sjuthorn rallwa> was derailed Wednesday morning at Springfield, Va. All the oars except tho observa tion oar loft tho track. Telfalr Stock ton, of Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. Alice Huichinson, of Leosburg, Va., and her son. Hov. William Turner, of At? lanba, Ga , wero Injured, none serious ly. The oauso of bb o accident ta un known. ____________________ ?he Muet ilan?. Thc Pennsylvania State board of pardons has dually disposed of the oase of Mrs. Kato Edwards, tho Perks county woman under senbencoof death for the murder of her husband, by re fusing to grant her a commutation. There ls no appeal from the deolston of tho board, which has twice before 1 refused to oommute tho woman'? ?en tonce, and Gov Penny paoker will fix the dato ot her execution labor.