The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, June 01, 1906, Image 1
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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.