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I fio "DO THOU, QBKAT LIBHHTY, UJsnBJt 0U8 ?001-9 LSD MAKE OOB LIVES IN MIT POSSESSION HAPPY CE OOB JDJ&ATI13 GLORIOUS I? THY UAUSB." Y0Ii.)SXI. BENNETTS VILLE, 8. C., FRIDAY, J tl NE 1, 1800. NO. i?8 Mr. Lyon Says Major Black Threatened To Kill Him. M J, BLACK'S SIDE. lie Sa; s Lyon Io Mad Because Ile Is Not Allowed to Run the Dhpcnsary and Is Tn lug to Dam Ills Private Character B y Unlalr Means and Methods, There was quite a sensation lu Go J lumbla on Friday morning when li beoame knowu that Mr. Lyon, a mem ber ot tho legislativo dlspeusary In vestlgatlng committee, had stated t< the full committee that MnjM B ack, a member of the State Hoard of Con trol, had that morning used ver j violent language towards him, anc theu KUI ding i IT tblrgs by telling him that be "l ad a ? otb n thou am there to shoot" him atd "blow him up" on the spot. We publish whai Mr. Lyon a?ys below. We also give M: J ir Black's version who makes home damaging statement.1 about Mr. Lyon's nosing about ano prying into private mat ors In his ef forts to dan ano h's (Black' ) prlvatt oharaobtr becnuse oe would not al low Lyon and Christensen to run tin dispensary to suit thtmsolvcs. ?111. LYON'S STA'l KMICNT. "Mr. Chairman, ti.eit* nus a matter com'?vUp Kiklay morning that 1 deem lt my duty, though un pl eat ur, tc call to the attention of this commit tee. 1 also will stale that the par! of lt that a IT eis mo personally 1 dc not consider, but that part of it that sfteots the weifan- c f < ur con mlttci 1 do consider, aid 1 on m it lmpor taut to the final particular determina tlon of cur Investigation that lt be brought forward to the attention ol tliiS Ot Olin ll 11 e. "This mc mil g In coming fr< m my room, wh'ch ls above the hotel, ovci the store of Giradear & Marshall, 1 was stepped by Mr, Soicincn, who b the agent of the Big Creek Distilling Company, cf Savannah, Ca. Ile wa* talking to ixe about some accounts which the committee has In ld up These are at counts due by the dis pensary. We have had seine convol ution about this matter before anc ho renewed the conversation ohoie ar.d wished me to give Lim some de finite information about when we could reach it. "As I was standing there talking to him, Mr. Black, of tho dispensary board of directors, appeared before me. I really could not state from wtat direction he came. 1 could no say whether from tlie front or rear. J was Intent with my conversation wlti Mr. Solomon. Mr. B:aok\s f ice show ed decided ai g jr and be used tom very insulting language towards me Ho said that be understood that 1 had been spyirg out on him-on hts private life -at.d things of that kind, and that it was his puipo.se to kill mi on the spot. "I do not care to use any of the par tlcular language he used on that occa - sion, but he ?said that he had a notion then and there to bhoot me and blow me up on the spot-to use his expres sion. There was In his company a per son that 1 du not know to 1. ave sect, before. My recollection ls that there was a person in his company with a bluo Milt of clothes, red mustache ano straw hat. While ho was making bb threats against me and daring me te investigate his ? ll ?Irs he also used ver> violent language against Senatoi Christensen, which 1 suppose was hi thc nature of a rebuke to me for at tending Mich a person about tin streets. "1 rt mai ked that there were thret of them there that 1 did not care to dlacuss the matter with there j that 1 was Investigating thc dispensai y anti expected to continue to do so. He was ho Impetuous, though, that 1 scarcel> had an opportunity of putting In a word, and believing that he intended to mako an attack cn me ai d in put bing his hands anout his person that in Intended todo violence, 1 '.urned ano walked bi ck to my room, and be use? remo very unpleasant epithets to wards me and loki me that 1 might go and arm myself. ' 1 returned to my ro m and short ly afterwards returned to Wright's Hotel. As I passed the Columbia Heitel I did not see Mr. Biack or t n gentleman with him. i presume, Mr. Chairman, that Mr. Black exhibited, or attempted to exhibit, a letter from Manning, which 1 understand was from Mr. Black's former home-Wal torboro lt was. I foun 1 lt ntccssarj to go to Walteiboro a few days since for the reston that I bad heard -and 1 can rccagoizs the ditllcultles that it is likely to p'ace us li. 1 hoard that Mr. Black and Mr. II, ll. Evan* had been parties to bribing a member of the General Assembly who lives in thc town i f Wik terboro. 1 do no! know the facts In that case. 1 had some Information along that line and I went there, lo get some additional Information in regard to the matter That was the object of my visit ti Waltcrboro, ano I presume that Mr. Black has been Informed by tin se ol whom 1 h quired there of the purposi of my visit. I wish to saj this: That i did gt to Walterboro for the purpose of In vcstlgalluK Mr. Black Slid Mi. H. ii Evans ai (1 this member of the (Jener al Assembly, wbooe nome 1 do no care to mention, as 1 do not think l ls proper, as lie ls not a party to thl transaction. 1 want to say this that I do not know how tho commit teo feels about a thing of this sort but so far as 1 am Individually con corned 1 shall continue to investigat Mr. Black and Mr. Evans, and any else who ls on there and if lt ls nee oossary to be blown up In this matte Mr. Biaok or tn mebody will have itt 0." WHAT MAJOR BLA0K SAYS. After learning what Mr. Lyoi stated to tho board, whtoh is printed ibove, Major Blaok said that he had ?u;vor heaid anything about the allo path n tbat ho said Evans had at tempted to bribe a representative from Colinton. Ile said he was incensed at Mr. Lyon because it appeared to bim Mr. Lyon was attempting to bound olm down and blacken his personal character, because be had refused to illow M-, Lyon to run the Ht ato dis penbary to suit himself. Whon hr went to ttie dlsponsary ho found ttio institution a half million dollars ID iobt for whiskey for which lt had no use. Ho bad wiped cut a largo imouut of this debt by forcing a num ber of houses to tako baok thler un salable whiskey and had <l -ne this against the protest of Lyon and Chris tensen, which, they telegraphed from Oho West. They wanted tho whlskej kept to suit thler oonveolence. They al to had been unable t o foroo him to buy it a less to thc State, from firms tho> favored Ho had blocked their little game to fe roo tho board to buy from their henchmen and let them usurp the powers thc L?glslaturo had glvon to thc State board. When they found lt impossible to ?rot anythh g against h.s chioial rec >rd, to gratify their spite, they on ieavored toblaoken his personal otiar icter. Ho liad a oopy of tho taking >f testimony In Cincinnati, in wilier, this attempt was mada aud lu whioo they attempted to black-, n Supreme Court Justices and Circuit JudgcB of this State by asking if they had recelvod presents of whiskey or other things from a house he had onoe rep resented in a cl iloil way. Maj r Ulaok said lie had always tried to live a clean lifo and his < ni .dal record as sher IV, major and in other capacities would show he had never done any ohing dishonest in hts life. His criar actor was his proudest possession and tho best thing he could hand down to uis children was a clean name. He bad no intention of permitting auybody to blacken lt to gral fy tueir pcrsoual spite. Major Black said tho lotter referred to was from his brother, n. W. B'ack Jr., of Walterboro, lu which ho said: '1 am told Frldiy morning that Lyon, Ot the investigating committee, was here Siturday last. From what I oan learn he is trying to lind out some thing about a conversation Walker had with his wife i ver the long dis tance 'phone tho night of your elec tion." That conversation was a per fectly private conversation between a man and his wife, In which the for mer said he was glad that Black was elected, as he was lils friend and hao uelpid him and would help him with '.Us personal lulluence Incase he ran for solicitor. Major Black said this was a purely personal and private conversa tion, In which he had no part aud when he heard that Lyon was in quiring into such matters it con Ur m cd lus b?lef Ihat Lyon was wining to go any length to try and lind some mud to put on his personal character Mt J jr Biack says lie was perfectly willing for fullest investigation of his record as a publlo servant, but would never submit to an attea:pt to besmirch his private character. As a member i f the State board he had not tried to please Lyon, but to do what was rlgiit. and Chairman Hay and Governor Heyward could both testify that he han consulted them and was earnest lo Ins endeavor to kuuw and lo the rijyht thing. Mr. Mobley, the clerk, had been sent to see Cnalrmau Hay about home of the problems of elie State board, and lils advice bad been taken. Major Bh.ek said the board was willing to do anything for the Invest igating committee as a whole, but they were eh cted to run Ito ?cate dispensary and were not g >lng to turn iver the running of the institution to dither the whole Investigating com mittee or a part of it. Finally, Major Back said: ' When my personal eiiar?.c er ls as.-.ailed I am willing to Ile by lo. I would rattier go home to my family d .ad than go home alive, out robbed of my character." Tried to l .'so* i> -. A dlspa ch from Greensboro, N. C., says John B. McMillan, 25 years old, who was convicted in that city for forgery and sentenced to two ycart, Imprisonment on the county roads was shot to death near there early Thursday morning, while making a sensational da<h for liberty McMillan with four other onvlots got awaj from Hie guards, who opened tire upon them killing Jesse Thongs, a negro, instantly, and mortally wojud mg Mi Millan. Tue latter was taken to the hospital at High Point, when he died several hours later. Before his death ho admitted that hts right tame was not M.Millan tint Brent A Morey, the son of a imminent citizen of Lexington, Kv. iUi |> m Itu- Pillow. At Jackson, Ky., Bill G. tili, a ne-gr.i, shot Dr. Strong, auothor negro, and deliberately went to sleep with the corpse for a pillow. Griffin was boating his wife, and Dr. Strong an swered her crios fur help. As he entered the door G? ill 1 shot him with a 44 caliber revolver, the bullet enter ing his forehead directly between the eyes. When the onicers reached th? scene Gi.lil l was lying on the door fast asleep, with his head resting on che corpse pf his vicHm. 'lujuchlBt Foiled. Facts were made known Thursday jf the attemi t which was made Sat urday last, during thc ceremonies of i the opening of the Simpl?n tunnel, at DomodOSSOla, Haly, to assassinate King Victor lO nmanuol. An anarch ist, known to he dangerous, made the itu nipt and was only frustrater through the watchfulness of the de tectlves watching V ctor. The anar 1 diist was arrehted and a long'sill letti was found In lils sleeve. H(,ii> Found. I Tho body of a negro, Willie Jami i son, was found on the tracks of th s Atlantic Coast Linc in the suburbs 0 , Cha?leaton Thursday morning. Thor - ls a msplclon of fi ul play. The mai , is thought to have been killed b; some negro and thc body laid on th ti tracks._ Hr M,.n Sk .oped. ;' A speolal to The State from Spar r tanburg says that W. W. Hughes 0 G Dillon, who was found to be anim WO,OOO short In his building and loa accounts some time ago, has left tba n city, and will not bo prosecuted, CAME TOO LATE. After Being Caught In His Ras cality Thackston BECOMES PENITENT And Curses Out thc Dispensary Law, Charging it With Making Him a Grafter. Dispenser Allsbrook lias Ills Leitet s Rc?d to The Public. The Legislativo Dispensary Investi gating Committee resumid its sit tings in Columbia last week. Among tho witnesses oxamlned was T. F. Thackston of Spartanburg, who seems to havo h-on a star witness. Ile is reported to havo said after the oom* mtttee bad examined him and made him confess that he was guilty of sev eral raacalitles: ' I know 1 wish I had uever seen a dispensary, because lt in the greatest ourse we have ever had on the State. I am sorry 1 ever got my hands stained with it. Well I have never knowu a man that had anything to do with it that tho peo plc did not think less of him." Thackston is not the lirst min that has beoome peuitont after being caught up with. Ills deliverance on the db-pen nar y is simply a new version f the old saw, that no roguo evor felt ' l?e baiter draw with a good opinion of law. As long as he was not detect ed in his sharp practices ho said noth ing, but juht as soon as he is caught up with be b'am"S the law for making lima grafter. Too truth of tho mat ter is Thackston was a grafter before he becAtno a dlspeusor. All ho want ed was au opportunity to put his grafting talent to uso and lb oime when ho was made a beer dispenser. Ile wculd have done the same thing In a bank or any other place of trust. A dishonest man ls a dishonest man. Mr J. D. Alsbrot k, the dispenser at Manning, was also put through a cours? of Investigation, but he seom ?d to have had a bad memory as bc o uld not remember many thing con nected with his ( dice It was pltiablc to see this man dodging and insisting chat he could not remember; that he could not dony nor oould he till-rn that he had asked for pap because he was a dispenser. To the very last he oould not rccollcot and then dually Mr. J ,>on pinion on ulm three looters;' which were read as follows: TUB AI.SHltOOK LBTTBRS. Manning, S. 0 , November 13, 1?C5. Duffy's Milt Whiskey Company. Rochester, N Y.-Dear Slr.? : Your letter of November (1 is to hand, and In reply will say the advertisements aro pasted, as you Indicate in your let ter, at six dltfarent places, all of whloh, I think, are very good, but this will accomplish nothing unless you can get the county dispensers to handle the goods. I am dispenser hero, and have been hanoling DLIT/'S Malt Whiskey eve? duce 1 have been dispenser, but it ls hard to get lt at times-and besides, .f you want the goods sold, communi cate with the county dispensar of each oounty and let him know what he may expect, If anything, for special cour testes. It ls an old proverb, as true as Holy writ: ''Whose bread teat, whose song I sing." Tue eounty dispensers order what they want, and sell what they get. A hin*? to the wise ls sutlloleut - and this ls given cou li dont, lally. 1 have sold during the. past twelve months about SC oases Duffy's Malt, but have nob had any shipped me since last August. Since receiving your letter of Satur day, 11th Instant, 1 ordered several oases, bub do not know If tho goods will be shipped me or not. 1 shall ex peet to hear from y JU again In the next few days, and expect to continu? to sell some of your goods. Yours very truly, J. D. Alsbrook, Dispenser, Manning, S. C., November 28. 1906 Duffy's Malt Whiskey Company, lt ichostcr, N. Y. Dear Slr: Sine writing to you on the 13 h Instant 1 have seeurod a few canes of your whls key and hav*. sent In an order for more, whloh I hopo will be shipped to me, hut would Ilk? to hear from you at once before placing mv order for the Christmas holidays. Yours very truly, J. D. Alsbrook, Dispenser. Manning, S. C., Deoember 12, 1006. Dui?'y Malt Whiskey Company, lloohestor, N. Y. Dear Sirs. On No ve m ber 10, wc sont you Statement, showing 06 cases your goods sold. O.? November 15 we received L6 cases, and on the 20th ?0 cases more, whloh stock ls hoing rapidly sold. We can handle the goods alright If the proper quid pro quo is forthcoming. The oase of goods was rt e d ved to day In good order, and we deslro to express to you many thanks for thus remembering us during the Christmas , holidays. With best wishes for you and yours, and with groctlngs for the season, we are, yours truly, J. I). Alsbrook. \ Dispenser. TIIACKSTON'S (MIA NU IC OK II BA HT. When the commltteo was in Spar I taning several months ago tnoy . worked Thackston for all they could and he swore that never a cent did he . give any one for his Job, never a oont did he get, and butter oould melt In his mon uh, bub he now tells a differ ent story because he knew tho men hohlnd tlie work ha l tho documents v on him. Ho 'fessed up to getting $660 ' from tho Augusta Brewery with whloh c to buy his J ib from the Spartanburg 1 County Hoard and thou that ho kept y the money he got to buy his Job ou e this. The sub-coin ml tteo had doubts, but the check and letter wore conclu slvo that he got $660 from tho Brew - ery, on tho representation that ht f nee de l tho money to buy his position ? oiii? tli? ut?rr?k jr ??i?? Kii??? uii? tiionM. o Tney expootod to pay $300 hence this t lotter: "Yours of the 20bh Inst., received and regret to see this fquetzirjg game going on. We thought three plunk* would oover the bill, oneosoh, how ever when you told me it would talc Ave. I was ready to swallow the pill Now if you are ablo to sell as many as 12 c utt of beet the first year, and we get your trado the seoor d year if re elected, wo will be satlsllcd to the one half pulk. Wo aro ready to pul up whon you aro roady." Thaokston utterly denied this sev oral montha ago and now Solicitor Sease will handle his case. He take? the position that the $550 was sou. Mr. Becker and by Mr. Beoker given him and that was his jurisdiction for saying he got no money. He insists that ho used tho fund himself, but addod that he nuked the brewery to help him with cash In his second elec tion. lt is said that Allsbrook .will be prosecuted too by the State. HOCH ON EDITORS. Pleasures ortho Calllr-g mut li fl li on OJ Thoy Wiefel. Governor Hooh, of Kansas, says there ls no better Index to a town than its newspaper. If lt is well printed, attractive in its make-up, reliablo in its news columns, btrcng In editorial comment, but, above all liberal In advertising patronado, de pend upon it, nine cases out of ten, that town ls au onterprlsing, up-to date town, hut if the paper looks shabby, depend upon it the town h shabby, for a newspaper is every where end always a town's best mirror. Brethren of the Country press, I exalt your station. You aro tno real kings and queens. Your throne may be a riokeby chair and your scepter tho stu's of a lead pencil but you rule tho world just the same. Lioal politicians may i IV .ot to desplso you. but they await the appearance of youi paper each week with fear and trem bling. E/ll doers may try to belittle your inlluenoe, but they dread the publicity cf your c du m ns vastly more than tliey will admit. The inlluenoe and power of tho old home paper can not woll be overestimated. It enter* Into the very warp and wocf of the children's lives and unconsciously m dds much of their character. To my mind there is no more desirable, no more enviable occupation than that of the country editor. To own his own plant, to have a medium for the expression of lils honest views, tc lock up his t Hbo every evening and to ne able to go home and keep company with his family and with his books, to return next morning to the i ilise, to meet tho peoplo whom he serves to jot down tho thoughts that occur to his mind, to tear oft tho wrappers from his exchangee, aud got \u munion with other editors, to pei form the thousand ard ono little duties that come to him every day, to be a power In his c immunity, a* he may be and usually is, to be bk own boss-lo my mind, this is the Ideal life, more to bo desired thau the most exalted political station. FRI L FROM CAR. lion. J-E. Tindal is l^atatly Hurt in Columbia. II >n. J. E. Tindal, secretary of state when Tillman was governor from 1890 to 18U4, died In, the Coln m hie hospital at 4 o'clock Thursday morn>ng from Injuries he received at midnight by falling from the run ning board of a crowded street car on Mtln street Columbia. Tue R?on-d sayB one seems to know just bow the uoMdent oomrred. Mr. Tindal was on his way frcm ClemKon college, where be has been a trustoe for many years, to vlfcit his (laughter Mrs. Dr. 10. G Q lattlebaum, living on Bland lng strhot. He fell from the car as it was moving rapidly between two streets a few blocks beyond his desti nation The c m- u itor says ho had signaled to get t tl' and that the gong trad sounded for a stop at tho next jrosfdng when Mr. Tindal either jump id If or fell otV with his grip In hts han ri. Passengers standing near him were not able to tlgure out how tho accident occurred, so sud'ion and un ?xpooled was lt. Hi fell .vlth the back of his head striking tho mac? lam and died without regaining eon soiousness Mt. Tindal was a c .utious man, and thoso who know him do not think he either steeped off the car with the wronk foot or attempted to jump from lt Ile was carried to a fruit stand nearby, and from there oin .s in lo law accompanied him to thc hospital. Mr. Tindal was staunch Baptist and a power for good In his commun 1 ty Ile was a tine soldier, serving through the entire Clutl war. Mr. Tindal wai a loving and lovable man In all circumstances, and much of his lifo was spent In thc Interest of his uelgbb ira and friends. Ho was earnly eighty years of age. Many HOUHGB Humed. A dispatch from Cabolt, Ont., says fifty-seven houses aro burned and a dt zen others are wrecked as the re suit of tho forest Uro whloh swept through tho northern part of the town Saturday. As lt passed thc Ontario, powder company's dynamite magr zinc, seven lons and a half ol dynamite exploded within 50 feet ol tho main portion of the town, tear ing buildings frcm their foundation? and spreading ruin in all directions Only one fatality ls t.o far reported New BlNhoitH. The General Conference of th< Methodist Episcopal Chu roh, South which recently met at Bl mingham, Ala., la t week elected three new bishops as follows: Dr. Seth Ward, assistant mission ary secretary of thc ohm oh. Dr, John T, Tlgort, book editor. Dr. Jamei Atkins, Sunday sohoo editor. I lluiiK Him. A Columbus, MlflS., dispatch say George Younger, a negro, who sho and klMcd William Eotor, a wol > known white citizen last Saturda; i wbl lo tho latter was a member of pass endeavoring Lo fib id, ??i? ?i?g?o'? a? i rest, was taken from jail at that plac Wednesday night by a mob am I lynched. WHO SHOT HER? A Lady Assassinated While Asleep in Her Bed BY;UNKNOWN FUNDS Circumstantial Evidence Against a Nt;? 2ro Under Arrest and Confined ia Jail for Safe Keeping, The Woman's Husband Also Under Suspicion. Tho Augusta Chronicle says Mrs. Eb Si Wilson of Beech Island was shot at 2 o'clock Thursday morning and so fatally wounded that sho died some boura afterward. 13111 Lumford, colored, Hes In the Rohmond oounty jill, with circumstantial evidence pointing to him as tho murderer. Tom Williams, another negro, ls looked up under suspicion, as au ao complice in the crime. The case waB worked up by Detective Howard cf the Augusta city police. At tho timo of tho tragedy Mrs. Wilsen was sleeping In her bed, alouo, In ono of the rooms of tho hcu?e. Her husband, Mr. Wilson, was In another apartment. At about 2 o'clock the night winds carried far and wide the echo of a pistol shot. Mrs. Wilson lay o.i her bed lu a pool of blood, mortally wounded. E*rly in tho night Mr. Wilson had seen a strango neuro loitering aronnd els promises. Having asked the man Us business and received no satlsfac tory auswer, he drove him c ff the place. It ls believed that this negro w.s Hill Lumford, and that ho re turned. Excitement and Indigna tion ran rife on Heeoh Island. As soon as the sad story was heard from Mr. Wilson's lips every eifjrt was made by frLnds and neighbors to ac complish the capture of the guilty parly. Tho trail was warm, and it led, ap parently, to Rill Lumford. The tracks of a man who wore rubher hteled ?hoes were followed without a break from tho Wilson plaoe to the Oarolita side of the Hamburg bridge. DcUoilve Howard, following other clue:, had arrested Lumford. Tho prisoner's shoes were taken from him, , iud Detective Howard personally went iro>s the river to seo whether - </ nev fl t. tho tracks. So far as ! t stained in the road, thoy die Tho Imprint of the rubber heels was damaging circumstantial evi dence. To make assurance doubly sure, tho shoes wero given to Mr. P. B. Page, a friend of Mr. Wilson's, who lirst brought tho news of the tragedy to Augusta, and Mr, Pago will tit them to the still clearer Im pressions made in thc loose ground on the Wilson place. Up io a late hour Mr. Pago had not reported tho result of this experiment Obher minor but important points converge to the same center. Bill Luxford And lom Williams are Spar oanJurg oounty negroes. Afior the arrest lt was stated that they had spent thc night in Augusta at the house of a uegro woman named Meta. Meta herself declared that they had slept at her house from tim middle of the night until morning. Investiga i l >Jt developed that Meta herself, ao companied by her husband, had been all night across the river at some negro family gathering or wake. Her story was oiscredited. Furthermore, responsible parties are reported to have soeu two negroes whoso description corresponds to that of the prisoners, crossing the Ham ourg bridge in the gray dawn of the morning, their clothing covered with dust, lt is said that Mr. Wilson would bo able to identify the negro whom lie ordered ot? his pl..C3. Up to a late hour Thursday night Mr. Wilson had not come to tho oii.y, nor could lt be ascertained at what time he would arrive. Tuc members of the family gave the following acoount of thc tragedy: When the shot was tired, Mrs. Wil son J imped from lier bod and scream ed '1 have been shot. Somebody has killed mc," and ran lulo her hus band's room, where she fell. Sire afterward became conscious, and Btat ed that she had no idea who shot her; uhat she was asleep at the time. Later she lapsod into scmi-consolous ncss and lingered until Thursday night, when she (Hud. Tin fatal shot was tired at so olose a range that the ll ?sh showed the powder marl s. Tue buhot entered under the right shoulder, and ranged down to tho left side, penetrating the diaphragm. It had evidently ben tired through the oriface caused by a oroken pane of glass. A hoard plac ed against the hole on tho outside had been removed by the assassin. t?lONSATION KOLLOWS B1CNNA?K.<M. A dispatch from Augusta to The Stato says sensation followod upon sensation Thurfediy night and this afternoon in tho Wilson murder trag ody. Shoes worn by tho negro Lum ford wero taken to tho scone of the 1 orlme during the forenoon and found to Ut exactly tiio tracks around the house and through tho ditch near tho houso. Lumford is still being hold in Jail there, but Mr. Wilson has nob been ' io the olty to identify him as the man . seen late lu the aftornoon before the i murder. ' J. L. Brown, a brother-in-law of Wilson's was arrested In Augusta " Thursday evening under the influence of liquor and hold in jail for a timo te prevont personal Injury. The man 1 deolared ho was on his way to Bieob Island for tho hurposo of killing WU son, whom hcdcclarod had killed Mrs. j Wilson, saying ho lntonded after dis ^ posing ot Wilson to kill himself, i After making this statoment, and ' saying to show that lie was in earnest c ho drew a pookot knlfo and slasher his OWD throat. InfllnH? ?j A Hhallnv ' nosh wound. N1CW8 FIIOM AIK1CN. A dispatohfrom Aiken to The Stat says it ls said there that relatives of Mrs. Wilson have demanded tho arrest of Mr. Wilson himself, whom they allege killed his wife, lt ls further said that these relatives charge Wil son with gross oruclty to his wifo. They say that Wilson is a hard drink er and that several times while under tho ipflueuoe of drink he bas beaten her unmercifully. A short time agu hor brothers retaliated upon him by administering a sound thrashing. That ibo Wilsons were not a poaoeful family seems to have boen known by the neighbors generally, lt cannot be learned here yet whether Mr. WU son has been arrested or mt. Mrs Ki Wilson was a niece of ex-Clerk of Court John N. Hankinson, who now resides at Whitepond. Sue was an estimable lady and highly regarded in her community. BRCKS UP MEETING. i wo Georgi* Fai-moro Hhoot lOaoh Other to D'jAth. A spcoial message to tho Augusta Chronicle says resulting' from bad blood, which has existed for some time, Joe Hasty, a farmer, who liv* erl about two miles from Chlpley, Ga., was shot to death in a pistol duel at that place Wednesday ata polltioal meeting, and Sam Irving, who shot Hasty, was killed a few minutes after ward bv aorowd who gave chase as tu ran from the scene. The Urst shooting occurred on the outer e.lge of a grove where an audi ence was listening to a speech being mado by Hon. II ko Smith, candi date for govornor. The crowd 1m mediately left thc grove and Mr. Smith was compelled to discontinue his speech, being uuablo later to re sume. It ls stated that the bad blood which existed between Hasty and Irvin was due to an alleged debt of tlfteen cents. Tho two men met at the political gathering and renewco the ti ?arrel, when thero was an ex change ot heattd words. Tho town marshal interfered and smoothed the difference over for a time, but. shortly ' nasty and Irvin carno Leget), er agalr and began to shoot. A'roost witt the iirst shot tired Hasty fell to ti < ground mortally wounded, aud dito in a few minutes. No sooner had Ha^ty fal'en than : Irvin ran and was pursued by a nu L ber of people from the audience. Im mediately there was a fusillade cf * bullets, and beforo Irvin had gone three blocks ho fell dead from bu.let8 tired by some one In the party of pur ?uors, who is not known. There were about 05 shots tired 1 during the excitement. Two speota ' tors, standing to ono sido of the audlenoe, were hit by stray bullots 1 an? slightly wounded. KILL THEIR BABIES. Horrlblo Story oflluiiiftn Saorfllooto Imaginary God. t ! A dispatch from St, Petersburg, , Russia says the most atrocious crime ( that has occurred in Siberia since the ( famous case of tho brothers K alasohln kulT Is about to be investigated In Tu- j bolsk. Seven poasants of the neigh- , boring vdlage of K ibulika and three women are about to bc put on trial on a charge of sacriHoing a number ol ( children inordor to appease the wrath of au Imaginary god of pestilence The Siberian plague had destroyed the villagers' cattle year after year. Tin village was reduced to poverty, and many of its inhabitants were obliga ted bo migrate to tho towns. A local quack, who earned a living by making ohiidreu "invulnerable to tho evil 6)6," advised thc muzhiks that "until blood has been shed and a church raised upon lt" thc village would continue to ba visited by pes tilence aud-ho hinted-even worse terrors. The panic stricken peasants understood this to mean that a. church bhould bo built upon a foundation of human beings, aa was done by their ancestors lu heathon tlm^s. A man named Glaz int il t tiered to sacrifice one of his seven children, and his example wan followed by the local blacksmith. The two ohlldren were killed at night and a rude wood en ohapel hurriedly built over their remains. When the story became known tho muzhiks from a neighbor ing village raided the culprits' homes, burned tin m do Arn and nearly killed the murderers. MK (1 til' KaOlili H. A special to The Augusta Chronicle says, Bernard tho four year old sun of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. IUixton, of Girard, Ga , died at tho Pastuer In stitute in Atlanta about I o'olt.ok Thursday morning. Ile was oarrled there for treatment for a mad-dog bite that occurred about a month ago. At tho time tiie little fellow was bit ton, no one thought thc dog mad and little attention was paid to tho wound. Wednesday the dog showed signs ot tiie rabbles and his father carried him to Atlanta for treatment. Ills death was a sad shook to his parents who have tho sympathy of all in their be reavement. Uli OHO Mend ii oo. Probably tiie m wt uniq ie sentence ever imposed by a court of law in Kansas, says The Ktnsas City Star, was ordered in thc case of Joe Tran aler, who waa bofore Police Judge Herr on the charge of being tirunk. Transier is an old otlondor, and when ho was brought Into court Judge Herr lined iiim $2 and orderod that lie be oonlined to his bcd for a week. Mar shal Horath took Transier home and put him to bcd and tho culprit's fam Hy was instructed to notify tito court if Transier allowed a disposition to lcavo tho bcd before tho week was out. Jumper! Too Hoon. To avoid a wreck whioh did not oe our, Scott Gillespie, of Somerset, Ky., a locomotive engineer, jumped from his locomotivo at New Uiver bridge, ouo of tho highest in thc world, and was kided. John Colyar, the tireman, also leaped in the rlvor, and Is not ox ' peoted to live. Tho mon became alarmed when ono of tho truoks of t I ? > --Ai-it.?-I !.. t._M. ..!.." UllU ItJUUIUUHO Ul MI IOHO, . M ....... i i , lt would fall from tho struoturo, but lt was stopped On the bridge by a seo ? ond lot? inn .ill Yo. AWFUL DISEASE Tin: winn; PiiA'jufi G II IRATEST OF ALI. CALAMITIES. The I OBS' of Lifo by Consumption Greater Than by Quakes Flood and fire.. "The great oalamltics that have be fallen part of our country within the memory of those past middle life," Haid he, "namely, tho Chicago fire, the Charleston earthquake, the Johns town Hood, and tho San Franoise cartLquake nial cor ilagratlon, brought tho world to its f< et with t fforlDgs of money and relief. Everybody gave, and wealthy men gave most gener ouHly. Everybody gave on faith, mor* over, without personal knowledge of tho oon?itions existing In tbose places or of the manner lu which the money would be expended. Every body agreed that help was needed, and everybody was willing to help. "All of theae calamities oombined are not as great as ls the calamity of tuberculosis to our o juntry every year. The loss of life In a single year by tuberculosis is ilfty times greater than lt was In all those oalamlties. The amount of suffering from tuberculosis for a singlo year ls greater than waa the total suffering in those calami ties. There was not a form of human suffering or misery preo* pi tated by those oalamlties which ls not dupli cated ir any times over every year by tuberculosis." Tho only item smaller Is the money valuation, and that loas from tuber culosis was stated by Dr. Flick to be more than 950,000,000 annually. Continuing, Dr. Flick said: "Could tho disastrous influence of tuberculosis upju any community be presented to thc publio in a conorete form in the manner in which, for in >tanoe, the San Francisco earl) quake was presenter ; could all the oonsump trives bo marshalled into Hoe and their .ufferlng thus be presented to the world at a glance, the response for Dbe amelioration of that suffering would be au generous as that which thc world bas just witnessed for Cali fornia." Dr. Fiiok asserted that the strength jf the association lay in the fact that ts ambition to eradicate, oonsump lion ot uld bo gratified. Ho ad vocal 3d thc establishment of hospitals, I lanatorla, oonvalescant farms, public I iispr?nsarles. where the poor could bc I lerved, and the scientific caro of the i dieted in their . own homes. Ile nitlciscd tho medical schools that ? .urned out graduates unatq tainted with the best methods of combating ?he disease. In referring to the great in?orra ional coofertmee of the associations jf .tho world engaged in the orusa/'c igalnst consumption, which will be ?eld in Wind timi von in 19i8, Dr. ITdok recommended that the national < tssoolation sin uld establish perman mt headquarters in Waobirgton, and ; .hat its invitations to the association i )f other countries should bear the seal jf tho approval of tho United State government. Tue governments of [Prance and Germany, said he, active ly participate in thc work of the assn jiaiions in their respeotive countries In commenting on the membership >f the association, Dr. BM lok depre cated the faot that so few clergymen, professional or business men were .aklng an aotive Interest in tho work. To create moro widespread interest he advooated the establishment of a lecture bureau, providing speakers to visit ev^ry part of the country and disseminate knowledge of how to suc cessfully combat the disease. The report of the executive com mittee told of the growth of the association and of the methods that iiad been employed in spreading knowlcdgo of the manuor to tight con sumption. IOxhibitiQns pictorially depicting tho nature of the disease and outlining methods to be followed by tho.c. suffering from lt, which tiave been given in several olties, wore attended by ovor 150,000 people in thc last year. The committee re commended that smaller exhibits be arranged that will visit tho smaller cities and towns during tho ensuing year. The oommitteo also reported upon Its success In st curing the co-1 operation of tne Y. M. C. A., the N u Ional B'ederatlon of Labor, and olliei asst e..al.lons in the crusade. The emhlem of membership to the .ia!ur ni, state, and local association was dcolared to bo a doublo red cross. NoarntK tho EuO. I Tirrlblo predictions concerning what will happen to this poor old j .larth during tho next twenty live years wore mado at a prophetic and S cond Advent conference last week ni L mden and while they differed somowhat lo details, thoy all agreed that the end of the world is at hand, thoy were not quite sure whether tho final oatastropho will omo on May 2. or April 0, 1931, but they aro quito sure that one of these datei Will proveto bo tho right one. There oan be no doubt that tho world has nearly outlived its usefulness, thc prophets declared. Tho wars and caril q lakes which have a VA toted it recently aro p.oof positive and all that ls required to ftilti 11 the prophe cies ls tho coming of anti-Christ, who is some.v/tuti< unkindly identified with Napoleon. t.'.-.?/. i t?xplofeion, John Saunders was Instantly killed and seven other men woro more or loss injured by an explosion of dynamite on the Tidewater Railroad oonsiruo lion work near Roanoke, Va., Friday evening Saunders v*aa removing the tamping from a hole when tho ex plosive went IX Among tho injured art: Allen Harris, leg broken, cut and burned Oil ftcj and body; J. W. Berry and IC. B'erret were slightly hurt. III Explosion. A spcolal from Dorrldder, In, says J.R. Johnson was klllod, A. Keating fatally injured and several otheri slightly hurt by a dynamite exploslor at a railroad camp twelve miles fron here F.lday afternoon. The men wee out at target practico with rlfDs, whet ono of ti tu bu iiu IM oliwoka ??U? ?U? ' dred pound pile of dynamite, oauslni a terrino explosion. Tho camp was de stroyed by fire whioh followed, TOLD TO MURDER HerCruel Uncle in a Dream Says Woman ON WITNESS STAND. She Said That She Waa Subject lo Hal lucination, a Voice Commanding Her to "Kill Him" Dreamed She was In the Presence of Qod. ..--/'- . -~ In New York last week Josephine Terranova took tho witness stand In her own behalf at hor trial on the charge of having murdered her aunt. The defendant said that she oame to this c .mut ry when eight yeara old, going to live with her uncle and aunt the Regglous. She ls an Italian girl who told ono of the*, most awful tales of depravity and the part ot her un ole and aunt, whom sho finally killed for the groat wrong they had dJue her. "I didn't go to o^.uroh or to school, sho said, "for seven years after I oame to Amerloa. M/ aunt and u? ?le would not let me. I wanted to go. 1 did every thing, washing, scrub* bing, everything and somatenes there were ten, eleven, sixteen boarders In tho ht me." ' DJ you remember ono winter morning when you were about eleven and a half years old? ' she was asked. The girl replied that she did ; that her aunt had taken her to the unole's room that day. "That ls what I am on trtal here about," she aJded. AB the girl told of her unole's treat ment a woman spectator fainted. The girl hesitated In giving her testimony saying that she was ashamed to apeak it. Sae said that her aunt bad foroed her to obey hit undo and had beat tier, breaking a stick during ono of Dbe whippings, and making the wit ness so sick that she went to bed. rue girl said she was never permitted io play with other ohlldrou and waa Forbidden to talk English or asaoolate with the boarders in the house. She laid she wanted to go to her mother out was not permitted to. The wltncBS said that ber husband was led to suspect what her relations with her unole had been, because of a remark whloh the latter made. She declared that her unole's mistreat ment covered a period of about six years and that it continued up to and looluding tho night after her oivll marriage to Terranova. She told of the circumstances wuioh lcd her to kll thc undo, G.ietano, and her aunt, Concetta S io said that her husband after listening to her confession told her that she was no longer his wife and thereupon laft her. She remain ed alone during th.. following teu days, sui j ct, she said to the Influence of hallucinations In whloh her uncle appealed, w nene ve - he appeared a voice Bald "kill him." Etch night, the witness continued, she would dream or imagine that sho was in the preseuoe of God and there again she would hear the words "kill your un ole." Atthoendof ten days, tho girl said sho went to her mother's house and was turned away. Then the mys terious voiocs beoame more insistent and their directions more pointed, telling her fe buy a knife and a revol ver and kill. When armed on her way to their house for this purpose, she said she had orossed herself three times aud prayed to know whether she was doing right. She confronted uer undo, calling him "traitor," and he replied: "You are an outcast." "Sae remembered little of her at tack, but asserted that she b?gan to stab when her aunt oame between her and Gaetano. She d d not remem ber whloh one ?it ru ok first. Under oross examination the witness said she had been unable to run away from her uncle's treatment, as she desired to. H jr aunt, she said, had told her that there was no harm in her rela tions with her unole. .1 indien Soott, who ls hearing the oise, questioned the girl ab- ut the voices soo olaim* od to have heard, and she told him that they oamo like a ringing in the ears. Dried Uoel Uoreo Men?. Otlijcrsof the secret service at Ma illa have been engaged in an investi gation of tho alleged killing of dis eased horses for food purposes. They found that tho praotloe existed in sev eral plaocs between Manila and Gal oooan, the produot having been sold in tho form of "dried beef." In structions have been givon from Washington, wi Ich will enable the operators of the Information division of tho constabulary, co-operating with ttie health authorities, to break up such unsanitary practices. The re port on tho ease, showing tho extent of tho business, has h -on submitted to the war department. The con stabulary initials ab Mirilla have taken promt t, and what promises to be oiTootlve, action in tho matter. Fat*1 Xrolloy Collision. O ie i" MI w.i 1 killed and nearly seventy old soldiers wore ii.jurud, bub nono fatally, in a iv. ul inion on the I<ayfayette, ind., battle ground eleo ' trio road Friday. Both oars were \ orowdod with veterans atttnding the annual encampment of the G. A. B. Tho collision i o-.urrod at a switoh. Ono oar waa coming sjuth to the city ; j from the battle ground, filled with . j veterans, and the. other was outward ? bound, carrying old soldiers to tho 1 battlefield. G.?aries Roudebush, mo* j forman of tho south- bound oar, waa r killed. M. O. F .rmor, the oonduo 1 tor, was slightly hurt. Both oars ir* I V*/\ * I Ji ?v . -\l I Y% ril.,.^1 JIAA^AVH ?. V* W MW4**W?ll|WVMl J? *t vt ?v OUOUUIIi j were summoned and the Injured were j. brought to tho olby In special oars aud taken to St. Wuzabttn'a Hospital.