The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, May 31, 1907, Image 2
The Marlboro9 Democra
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VOL. XXXI4 BENNBTTSVlXIiE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1007.
Of a Prominent Citizen of Union
County by a Negro.
GREAT FXCITEMENT.
Mr. Clarence C. (?1st Waylaid by n
Negro Pullman Porter nt the Hea
bonrd Airline Depot and Assassi
nat ed.-A Posse ls Hunting the
Murderer Down Willi Several
Blood Hounds.
A dispatch from Carlisle in Union
County to The State says Mr. Clar
ence C. Gist was killed there Thurs
day night near tho Seaboard Air Lino
depot hy Arthur Davis, a negro,
_WhOm Mr. Gist had arrested at the
baso ball grounds Thursday afternoon
for boisterous conduct.
While being takon to tho guard
house Davis made threats, saying
that ho would have further trouble
with him. After being released on
bond lt seemed he hld himself near
tho depot and attacked Mr. (?isl
while the latter was on hts way to
his home. After the shooting the
negro made his escape hut the citi
zens are determined to effect his cap
ture.
A special to The Stale from Union
Thursday night about ten o'clock
stated that there was considerable
excitement there over the dastardly
assassination of Mr. c: 1st at Carlisle.
Parties left Union for Carlisle as
soon ns they heard of tho crime to
assist In hunting the negro down.
Bloodhounds were asked lo he sent
from the State penitentiary, but as
the first train leaving for Carlisle
was over the Southern at 7:10 Fri
day morning lt was thought that the
dogs would not get there in time to
be of service, (.'apt. Griffith would
have sent the dogs Thursday night If
thoro had boon any possible way.
Hounds were secured from Mon
roe, N. C. The Monroe dogs are as
fino ns can be secured In the South,
having been In several very success
ful chases, it will he remembered
that these dogs were used lu (he cap
ture of the four safe crackers near
Monroe in 1 002.
A message from Carlisle at half
past twelve Thursday night staled
that no trace bad boen found of Ibo
negro Davis. Conditions there are
roported easier. No violence bas
beon done and lt ls not expected thal
the citizens of that town will com
mit and rash act in their excitement.
Davis is a Pullman porter and has
a Pullman pass on hts person. Rail
road and Pullman officials and con
ductors all over Ibo State have been
asked to look for bini and lt is be
lloved that, he will ho caught in a few
days, If not sooner.
? 'Mr. Gist Was a brother of Presi
dent William II. Gist of tho Hank of
Carlisle and a nephew of the late
Gov. Gist. i,e was an Industrious
farmer and was serving as constable
for the magistrate at Carlisle when
he arrested the negro Davis at tho
baseball grounds.
Mr. Gist was aboat 2.r, years of
ago. Ile married two years ago Miss
WilbUrn, daughter of Mr. Stanford
Wllbom, a prominent planter of
Union county, and who was at ono
time county commissioner.
Tho negro Davis is about l?? to 2f>
years of age; uoiweon foot <"> in
ches and f> feet !t inches in height,
weight about lim pounds. Ile is very
black and has bulging eyes, rat hei
red. Five hundred dollars reward ls
offered for lils arrest.
Davis was arrested on friday and
ls In jail to await trial. Ho was
found at tho bouse of another u(>"
gre, Chalmers Dawkins, who said he
had come to hiv house tin* night be
fore and asked to be allowed to spend
the night. As soon as the officers
reached Dawkins, house ho told thom
that Davis was in an lip-stairs room,
where he was found and arrested.
Wade Davis, father of tho murder
er; George Davis, his biol her, and
George Lyles, his brother-in-law,
have also been arrested as accessor
ies and locked np. The elder Davis
ls a had follow, and has been before
the courts several times for sel line,
whiskey. Om' (jr two of the last
named had pistols on their persons
when arrested. Davis claimed that
the shooting was accidental, Windi,
of course, is all a yarn.
Not a word was heard about lynch
ing tho prisoners, every body seem
ing disposed to 101 tho law take its
course. Mr. Cist was assassinated
for arresting Davis at the ball ground
by order of (ho Intendant of Carlisle.
Davis was disorderly al Ibo grounds,
and the Intendant (old him lo bo
have or leave. This made (be follow
mad and ho became more disorderly
than ever. Then Mr. Cist was order
ed to arrest him, willoh he did and
locked him up.
In a short lime Davis was (urned
out on bond, his father and a while
man signing it. Davis Mien went (<.
bis father's restaurant and got a pis
to!. He way laid Mr. Cist on his wa>
homo and idiot him. 'liiere is m
doubt about tho guilt of Davis, mid
be will be executed accordingly Ofter
a fair trial. Tho man at whose house
Davis was arrested is a well-to-do ro
speetable negro, and he bad no de
sire lo conceal Davis. As soon as
the officers asked him if he had seen
Davis he told them where they could
lind him. _
VIA lt (i Hld) VI? lt KM AI NS
Of Sir; Confederate Soldiers on (he
Battlefield of Antietam.
Frank Otto and Arthur Day plow
ed Up in Capt. David Smith's orchard
on Antietam battlefield, near Sharps
burg, tho bodies of six Confederate
soldiers lying side by side.
The (d(d bing and shoes were intact
Until ox posed i?> the air, whoo the
crumbled lo dust. Alongside on of
tho bodies Were 11 sword, ?maul?is
and large buttons, the accoutrements
of an (diner. A leg ol' "in- of (he
men bad been amputated. A bullet
was found In (he skull of one <>i the
soldiers.
M. w, Snaavely, referring lo a book
containing Ibo names ot Confodornlo
soldiers burled, ascertained thal the
remains wore those of Cid. W. T,
milligan, of tho Fifteenth Georgia;
lieut. 15. M. Fuller, of the Soul li
Carolus Volunteers: D. H. Herring
bf Ibo Firs! Nor! h Carolina; ll. Hob
bins, of the First McIntosh Bullery;
A W. Spralght, of (he Third North
Carolina, and W. fe. Willingham, ol
Company L, Twelfth South Carol!nfl
Volunteers.
VERY BAD MAN
He ls Wanted in Two States for
His Many Crimes.
An Officer From Greensboro, Gn.,
Caine For Him, But Papors Wero
Not Right,
Tho State Hays William P. Lovett,
who ia now in Jail In Bamberg, IB in
a had way. Two States aro after him,
and between the two ho may Borve a
long long time, in prison. Tho crimes
of which ho is accused aro tho das
tardly kind that make men rejoice to
seo punishment meted in return.
Those whom he offended were wo
men, or, in the eyes of the law, chil
dren. Ono of those ho misled, the
other two he married.
It. E. Bethen, chief of police of
Greensboro, (Ja., arrived in Col
umbia Sunday with requisition pa
pers Issued by tho State of Georgia,
dov. Ansel turned the documents ov
er to tho attorney general, but Mr.
Lyon reported that tho papers bad
been made out Improperly. Gov. An
sel therefore declined to issue extra
dition pupers.
Tho warrant upon which Lovett
was arrested and Is being bold for
the Georgia authorities charges him
with seduction. There is a graver
charge against bim now, that of big
amy. Into the Uvea of three
women this man luis come and
brought sorrow, it ls probable that
before tho Georgia authorities can
Ale additional requisition papers,
Lovett will have beer arrested under
a warrant sworn out In South Caro
lina, charging bim with bigamy.
Mr. Bethen stated that the ease ls
Indeed a sad ono. Lovett was a mill
hand and was attentat Ive to the old
er of two daughters of Mr. DI.lard,
superintendant of the mill at Greens
boro, Ga. His attentions were re
sented by the parents. To the sur
prise of all, Lovett and a younger
daughter, aged Ll, were married one
night. It was then that the older
daughter, herself not 10, declared
Lovett to he a seducer. Lovett left
the night he was married, some Hine
in November last. That the marriage
was legal there is no doubt; lt was
performed by a minister who signed
tho legal certificate.
lt ls the custom of the officers
when they catch a fugitive to look
wise and say nothing of their meth
ods of capture, but Mr. Bethen talk
ed very sensibly about the matter
and said that it was quite easy, only
that lt had required a little time. The
coton mills, for L.oir own protection
and for tho sake of law and order,
issue monthly circulars in willoh they
describe the new hands employed. In
this way Lovett was located.
Mr. Bethen sent tho warrant to the
chelf of police at Orangeburg and by
the latter It was turned over to Sher
iff .lohn ll. Dukes, who Investigated
at once and found that this same lav
ett had been a resident of Orange
bur, but after havng married in that
city had gone to Bamberg. The war
rant was returned to Chief Bethoa,
who forwarded it to Sheriff Hunter
of Bamberg, and the man was arrest
ed under the Georgia warrant so
served.
Mr. Dothen was unable to get his
prisoner, as the solicitor of tho cir
cuit n Which the crime was commit
ted had not submitted an a III dav i I lo
tho effect that tho accused is wanted
for titi1 crime specified. Not only can
ho be arrested for seduction as charg
ed, but he ls also guilty of abduction,
for any one marrying a child under
1 fl a ba inst the wishes ol her parents
ls guilty of abduction under the stat
utes.
DILI) FOB IllOlt HONOR.
Comely Boarding House Matron ls
Brutally Slain by a Boarder.
Resisting an attack on her honor
al her home in Lambert ville, X. V.,
Mrs Frank Congilio, .!."> years of age.
was shot and killed while Peeing
from Michael Thomas, n boarder. 3fi
years of age. Thomas was captured
in Trenton, X. .1., and is in the Hun
lerd?n county jail. Mrs. Congllio
was a comely matron and had been
conducting a boarding honst; for
some years.
From tho facts tho woman was
able lo give before her death. 11 was
i learned Hint Hie had been annoyed
hy Thomas" attentions for some lime
and that she had repeatedly repulsed
bim. On the ?lay of the shooting
be returned earlier from wank than
usual. Ho fourni Mrs. Congllio busy
al lier housework and once more np
nroaehed her. Sin? demanded thal
bo leave the house at once. Instead
te attempted to embrace her. She
broke away and Hod lo the stree!
1 bomas followed, and. Standing lu
be doorway ordered the woman t<
onie back. She ran from Hie Infill'
ialed man. Then be drew a revolve'
nd fired four shots into her body 111
-hort range. All four look effect.
Mrs Congllio died n few hours lal
?r in Trenton hospital. Thomas wa;
captured Isle in tho same evening in
frent?n and placed 111 Jail.
WAH IN lill CAM I?.
Head of Georgia IlepilhliCnn League
Issues Address to Followers.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., snys
Chairman Blodgoll of the stale Re
pUblieail League, winch wns formed
to fight the present national admin
istration, Issued au address to re
publicans. Of the South, 111 which be
lakes tho administration severely to
task for the appointment to office of
..Democrats and lukewarm republi
cans," and ames thal no federal of
fice-holder bo appointed to the noxt
Republican National Convention.
THE BROWNSVILLE INQUIRY
witness Hmv Negro Moldier Fire Into
The Cowan House.
I lorbert Elkins, of Brownsville,
testifying at tho Brownsville Inves
tigation nt Washington said thal ho
snw two negro soldiers come up an
alley from the harrison and fire into
tho Cowan house.
He said that others followed and
also thal he saw the shooting from
tho garrison which appeared to como
from the balcony of Co. B. barracks.
Later he said that he heard a no
gro soldier say that they would conic
out tho next night and finish thc
town.
SOME HOT WORK
An Attempted Outrage Calls To
gether an Angry Mob.
FIVE PEOPLE DEAD
Two Negroes Lynched, Ono White
Mn? and Two Negroes Killed and
Heven Other Persons Injured ns a
Result of an Attempt to Capture
Would-be Assailant of a Widow,
Near Mannssas, Ga.
i wo negroes lynched, one white
man and two negroes dead, and se
ven other persons injured is the re
sult of an attempt to capture a ne
gro who Monday night, nttompted a
criminal assault upon Mrs. Laura
Moore, a widow living near Mantissas.
Tattnall County.
The dead:
John Hare, white, farmer.
Sim Pndgetl, negro, and daughter,
aged seven years.
Lynched :
Padgett's wife and son.
Injured :
W. H. Pearson, shot In stomach
and ami-, prohahlp fatally.
James H. Daniel, shot In eye and
may die.
Dr. 1). H. Kennedy, seriously.
Son of Padgett, seriously.
Flem Padgett, slightly.
Two daughters of Pagett.
Fifteen persons early Tneeday sur
rounded the house of Sim Padgett, a
negro whom they suspected of har
boring another negro who had crim
inally assaulted Mrs. Moore, and de
manded lo he allowed to search the
house.
Permission was given, hut when
within thirty feet of the house those
Inside the building opened lire on
the posse, Instantly killing John
Hare and seriously wounding Har
'ow Pearson, .lames Daniel ami Dr.
i. c. Kennedy.
The posse then returned tho fire
''.Hiing Padgett and one of his (laugh
ers, aged leih ?o?d wounding two
thor girls, aged six and thirteen
espcctllvoly, and two of Padgett's
ions, aged twenty and twenty-two.
Tho posse then retired for rein
forcements. The news spread rapid
..' and liv ten o'clock five hundred
inned mon wore on the scene and
tarted in pursuit of tho negroes,
who had escaped.
One of them was captured and
taken before Mrs. Moore, hut she
failed to identify him. The negro,
however was identified as tho man
who shot Hare, and he was started
for lteidsvliie jail, together with Pad
gett's wife and son.
On the way the odicors were over
taken hy about seventy-five, who
took the prisoners from them. Tho
woman was told to run, and as she
did so she was riddled with bullets,
ber soil being shot to pieces where
he stood.
Tho negro who assaulted Mrs.
Moore has not. been captured, hut it
ls reported that ho is surrounded In a
negro house, and that in all probabil
ity he has hoon killed.
Sheriff 13d wards, with deputies,
took all the prisoners from the jail
at Rcidsvillo and left with thom to
elude the mob, who, it is reported,
will attack the jail
Groat exe!toment prevails and lt.
s feared that other trouble will oc
cur. Hare was a native of Monroe,
N. C., and leaves a widow and sev
eral small children.
GIRLS SHIPPIOD IN R?XES.
Were Heilig Smuggled Into Hie Coun
try From Japan.
Six Japanese gil ls, each nailed in a
high box wore nearly killed by sul
phur fumigation on hoard ibo steam
er Can fa al Victoria. Tho girls, said
lo bo imported for Immoral purposes,
wore consigned to K. Seasookon, a
steerage passenger, alleged to be
Tnki Kai joro, a procurer, who was
deported from San Francisco two
years ago. Through exchange of
courtesies between Hritish and Amer
ican anthorltios the six women and
Sesooken were brought to Port Town
send, Wash., and will be sent back
lo Japan on the Califa.
Smallpox broke out on Ibo Calif?
during Ibo ship's last previous trip
from Hu* Orient, and on reaching Vic
toria on the present trip tho entire
steeraage was fumignated. The
hatches wer?* battened down and a
large uuantity of sulphur was Ignited
below. In a short lime violent and
protracted sneezing was heard in the
freight compartment.
The compartment was hurriedly
opened, odicors of tho ship fearing
lia! a pel eat was differing In the
sulphur fumes. Their surprise was
great when a ehorusofsneer.es Issued
?lom the heavy wooden boxes, while
frantic scratching in Ibo oases be
tokened great anxiety to escape.
On opening the eases an nmond
eyed girl appeared in each. Food
and waler supply was Ingeniously
places in each box, which was ilxod
up like a toy room.
OM 0 INSIDE TIHO OT HER.
Car Starter YOllgUC of Columbia Has
Curious Egg.
Tho Columbia Record says Mr.
Jefferson S. Yongue. car starter ut
ibo stre?d railwny transfer station,
was surprised, Oil breaking tho ogg
beside his breakfast plate, to find
I hal lt consisted nf t wo eggs, ono
inside tue other. Moth were perfect
ly formed. This is a curiosity seldom
se, n. The egg caine from a hen on
Mr. Yongtio's premises nt 1017 Green
street.
LOST AT SEA.
Two Chicago Men and a Launch Arc
Missing.
A cable from Valdnz, Alaska, sayf
thal W. I.. and O. K. Hail, of Chicago
have been lost at sea in a launch,
They left Valdez a week ago foi
Knight's Island, and started without
oars, provisions or sall, expecting tc
make tho run lu a few hours, bul
nevor reached their destination.
Tho belief at Valdnz ls that, thoj
wero driven to sea by a broak In th(
launch's niachlnory.
FELL OFF SOME.
Not So Much Fertilizer Sold This
Year As Last
It is Thought That tho Cotton Acre
age lu the State Hus Ileon Reduced
a lilt tie.
It is usually presumed that tho
amount of commercial fortllllzer used
is nu indication of Hie size of tho cot
ton mop, or rather of tho acreage
planted In cotton, and if this is truo
thc aereago this year is likely to he
found much smaller than last year,
hut still a groat deal larger than in
1905 and 1004.
It was in these two years that tho
efforts to reduce acreage were made
through thc Southern Cotton Associa
tion, hut last year the acreage went,
up again in a kind of reaction from
the campaign of the year before, and
now it seems to have taken a turn
again.
The amount of fortllllzer sold is
determined hy tho amount of tax pnld
into the State treasury. The tax ls
25 cents per ton on all fortillizer sold
In Sont':. Carolina, the money going
to Clemson College, where under the
law the fortillizer is analyzed. To
date the amount of tax paid this year
ls $132,310.01 and tip to the same
date in 1 POO the amount of tax waa
$143,889.14, which is $11.579.13
more than last year.
The amount of tax paid this year
represents over flvo hundred thous
and tons- 52 9,240 ton to he exact
while the amount of tax to this time
last year represented 575.550 tons.
The total amount of the tax last
year was $10 7,1 57.89, which is the
largest amount ever paid In on this
tax. The tax year ends June 3 0, ac
cording to the hooks of Clemson Col
lege.
From the hooks of the State Treas
urer the following figures as to the
amount of tin4 tax lu the last seven
years are t aken:
1900.$75,21 4.14
1901. 84,073.43
1902. 81,744.94
1901.9S.909.SO
1904. 1 18,974.15
1905. 130,439.08
190G. 1 07,1 57.89
1707 to date.132,110.01
Prom the last report of the Clem
son College for 1900, it. is stated that
"tim Inspection tax amounted to
$104,996.82, and from this was de
ducted for unused tags rodeeined$6,
042.79, leaving a net amount re
ceived from the Inspection tax of
$1 58,350.03, which, added to tho "bal
ance on band together with tho In
come from other sources amounts to
$224,091.07."
From this amount is deducted the
expenses of analysis. The report ox
plains that the apparent discrepancy
hot ween the tag tax figures as found
In tho college report is due to the
difference in thc fiscal years. How
ever, most of the fertilizer ls sold in
tho sining, so that the difforenco is
not very great.
NOT 101) SCIENTIST 1)10Al).
Sentenced Once to he Hanged, Lived
and Became Famous.
Dr. Frank L. Janies, a noted scient
iest, who was once sentenced to he
hanged, died a natural death at his
home in St. Louis.
Once nu enemy of Hie federal gov
ernment, he was afterward Its chief
export in the investigation of the
"em balm Od heel" scandal during the
Spanish-American war. For his ser
vices al the Inquiry in Chicago he
received $50 a day from Hie same
power that once tried to hang him.
As scientific editor of the National
Druggist and associate editor of the
Medical Brief, St. Louis publications,
Dr. .lames made his name known to
physicians and chemists all over the
world during Ibo 10 years of his res
id eace (hore.
When thc Civil War began he was
a young student of chemistry in Mo
bile, Ala. lb- invented submarine
mines, Which woe planted lu Mobile
bay to blow up Federal gunboats.
They were so effective that a price
was set on .lames' head. He was cap
tured and taken to Now Orleans,
where (len. H. F. Butler condemned
him to death.
Through the aid of friends he es
caped flinn the New Orleans jail a
week before the date std for his hang
lng and went to Japan. Seven years
later ho roturnod to America, but Hie
death sentence was never carried out.
His death was due lo erysipelas.
A bug (lew Into his left ye ten years
ago, blinding him. Physicians ?it the
Bethesda Hospital, where he died,
hoi love that this may have been tho
indirect ca USO of Iiis death.
roo MICH l?ll<i.
'Frisco Woman's Husband Made lier
Elli it Three Times a Dav.
Punk ll) pic three limes a day for a
diet, sunploninted by salmon, when
slio ititi not like either and preferred
striped bass and soups, led Mrs.
Fluiior Doe Stetson lo sue her weal
thy husband, J. B. stetson, president
of n San Frniielsco railroad company,
for divorce. Ile not only made her
eat t li I ll gs she didn't like, bul sub
lected her Io till kinds of slights.
Mrs. Stetson said she had to eat
her ClirlslllUlH dinner alone, while
her husband dined with his daugb
(ors, and that she was never Invited
to social affairs given by the taller.
When he sohl a pair of horses and
brougham belonging lo her, he re
fused to ('.ive hor the money and she
said that the only way she could get
what was coining to lier was to take
lt out in board.
MADE HIM i.io.WE.
New Way of Clotting Hld of Objec
tionable Minister.
Following u sensal Ional driving
from his home Wednesday night of
Kev. O. Janies, pastor of the Congre
gnlionnl church ai Drago!, Mass., thc
town is badly splii into factions foi
ami against the minister,
The Kev. James recently took tilt
parish and proceeded roundly to de
nounce present tiny evils, wit bout
regard to the persons he might hit
He paid no heed to the resulting
storm td' protest.
The congregation demanded hit
resignation immediately but he sail
the latter part of June would sub
hint. Wednesday night a largo pa rt >
of tho town's people gathered am
forced him to leave town, accom
nanylng Ids departure with tootlnj
horns und jeers.
A TAINTED FORTUNE
Texas Farmer Getting Rich by
Growing Bermuda Onions.
This Year's Crop Is Estimated at
1,500. Car Loads and tho Profits to
Growers Amount to $1,000,000.
What. Texas considorod an experi
ment four yoars ago bids fair in the
spaco of four years more to bo the
principle industry of tho state, out
sido of', cotton growing. This ls
nothing moro or less than growing
Bermuda onions, and for tho quali
ty and [quantity of this product the
Lone Star state bids fair to soon ex
cel the group of islands in the Atlan
tic that those onions have made fam
ous.
Tho state ls now busly engaged in
harvesting tho annual crop of
muda onions, and this season's out
put, which is expected to he; on cars
hound for tho north by June 1. will
he about 37,500,000 pounds, or about
l,r>00 car loads. Considering that
this produce soils for between two
and a half and three cents a pound,
tho value of this now industry to
those engaged In lt ls apparent.
Four yoars ago tho ground now
used for growing onions, was consid
ered useless and could he bought for
50 cents or $1 au acre. Today it
brings from $150 to $200 an acre,
and ls cheap at this price consider
ing thnt tue profits of onion growing
run from $?100 to $700 per acre a
season, tho average yield of an acre
per season is about 2 0,000 founds.
Tho elonicnt In lue soil of Texas
give the onions a peculio davor, and
they are sahl to excel even those
grown on the Bermuda Islands.
The planting season is in October,
which ls a de.tghtful time of the
year along the Rio Ciando border,
ibo season for Irrigating and culti
vating ls during tho winter months
when there ls just enough coolness in
the air to make working out of doors
a pleasure. The harvesting time ls
In tho spring when all naturi* ls
abloom. By June 1 the crop is out of
the way.
That leaves June, July, August
and September to tho onion planter
in which to follow his own inclina
tions as to pleasure or some other
business. Most of the mon who have
made comfortable fortunes in rais
ing onions spend tho vacation period
of four months nt some Northern
resort. By doing this they escape
the enervating heat of this region In
summer.
The hoalthglving properties of the
onion are well known. The people
of Laredo eat onions as tho apple
lover eats apples. Any day here
children cnn ho seen running around
wit,, a big onion In ono hand and a
piece Df broad in the other. my
take ltrst a bte of bread. Tho combi
nation 1 delicious. Laredo is one of
the h.n.ithiost towns in Texas and
the onions ls said to be me principal
oaten ht it.
TERRORIZED BY YEOOMEN.
One Hilled and Several Injured at
Burnell, N. Y.
Hornel I, X. Y., was terrorized Fri
day morning by a gang of yeggmon.
Night Watchman Henry was fatally
shot, Night Watchman Kelly badly
beaten and others Injured. Three
yeggmon were arrested after two
of the gang and boen shot.
Tho robbers first appeared at a
grocery where they blew open the
safe. A private residence was next
entered, where articles af value were
taken. A woman next door put hot
head out of a window When shots
wore Ired at her, dying glass cutting
her. The gang next broke Into the
Steuben silk mills. Hoing apprised
by Night Watchman Kelly, they
beaat him into insensibility. They
secured no plunder there.
At the street, railways olllc.es they
were confronted by Night Watchman
Hendy, who was sind fatally. Hy
Ibis time the town was aroused. The
robbers jumped OU a morning
freight, police and posse following on
SWitCll engine. One robber j Ulli pod
from tho train into tho river and was
capt m ed by the police, after a swim
of 100 yards. At Canlnsoto,whore
tho police mot them, two were
wounded with buckshot before giv
ing up.
1 {ICM ARK AHLE FORTIT UDE
A Mau Watches A Surgeon Cutting
O?' Both His Legs.
Seldom has the nerve of man been
put to Blich a severe lost as in the
case of Patrick Creely, and rarely
has man displayed such remarkable
fortitude on the operating table as
did Creely iii tho Methodist hospital,
Thursday at Philadelphia.
With eye:, wide open and totally in
different to the terrible pain ho must,
have suffered, Creely stoically watch
ed the surgeon amputate both legs,
ono at the hip ?od other Just
above the knee.
When the operation was over
Creely thanked the surgeon and at
tendants. Ile assured them thal ho
would he all right In a few days, and
the went to sleep- He awoke later
refreshed -and confident of being out
ol' the hospital soon.
EAR SEVERED BY HAZERS
Student Disfigured Because ho Had
Worn Sideburns.
Captured by Freshman of tho
Northwestern university, Chicago,
(Miarlos Sanderson, a student of tho
Northwestern Preparatorn school,
i was. hazed r>>i ?earing sideburns, and
now ho ls minus a portion of his left
oar and h.s face s disfigured by cuts.
The profoSSOro of both schools are
Irving to learn tho Identity of tu0
hazers, who will bo dismissed.
Sand. .-.,,, W08 dragged from an
entertainment hali to a sod lided spol
on tho campus and there choked and
his hands and foot hold while frosh
men wielded (he razor. When they
saw that they had etti theil* victim
the fled._
NOTED INDIAN BANDIT I HOAD
Apache Kid's Skull Rests in Phys!
chill's Laboratory.
, "Apache Kid," tho notorious In
I dian bandit, has boon slain and bb
i skull now rests In a laboratory of i
i Chicago physician.
I H I? sahl that the mounted skid
. of the outlaw will ho presented t(
r Yale University With the suggeslloi
that ancruniuni and submit a report
CROP LAST YEAR.
Cotton Figures Compiled by the
National Census Bureau.
THE BANNER COUNTY
In This State Is Orongoburg, Which
ls About tho Third Cotton Pro
ducing County in tho Cotton Heit.
Tho Total Ciop Is Put Down at
1 ?,305,20? Halos, Which Is n
Humper Crop.
Tho census bureau of thc deport
ment of commerco and labor has
just issued a bulletin (No. 76) giv
ing the production of cotton by states
and territorios, with per cent of qual
ity produced in each, forms of the
total crop, and rank according to the
quantity produced from 1902 to 1900
Including linters and counting
round as half bales, the crop of 1900
ls 1 3,3 05.265 bales, compared with
10,725,602 for 1 905 and 13,697,310
for 1904. Tho 1906 crop for Texas
exceeds all previous records 4,281,
824 halos, or 31.6 per cent of the
country's production. Tho next lar
gest contributor is Georgia, with l,
02 6,8 2 4 hales, or 12 per cent. Mis
sissippi ranks third, Alahama fourth
and South Carolina seventh. The
statos of Florida, Georgia, North Car
olina, South Carolina and Virginia
each produced less cotton in 1906
than in 1905, tho combinod loss
amounted to 338.762 bales.
South Carolina produced in 1900.
in pounds, 4 4 7,565,601; in 1905,
54 7.999,71 6.
The sea-Island crop of 1 906, con
sisting of 57,550 bales, or 22.281,889
pounds, ls the smallest production
since 1892, when the crop was but
15,4 1 8 bales.
The production of Sea-islnnd cot
ton in this country, s confined at pre
sent to fourteen counties In Florida,
2 4 In Georgia and 4 in South Caro
lina, or a total of 4 2 counties.
South Carolina has 23,902 acres
in Sea-island cotton. The failure of
this staple in Texas shows that it can
only he grown to advantage in cer
tain places In South Carolina, Florida
and Georgia. The Increased demand
for superior staples in recent years
is developing hotter upland varlet ios
ny seed selection and more careful
cultivation. The average price per
pound for upland cotton this season
ls 10.01 cents, while tho sea-island
varieties sold from ll to 30 cents
States showing largest per cont of
water power for cotton mills arc
Florida, 19 per cent; Alahama, 12;
Georgia, North Carolina and South
Carolina, each ten.
South Carolina produced by coun
Iles as follows, in bales in 1906:
Abbeville.32,925
Aiken.23,018
Anderson. 50,7 9 1
Hamberg.1 6,1 S6
Barnwell.3 l ,03 l
Beaufort.6,04 1
Berkeley.1 2,224
Charleston.7,030
Cherokee.1 2,4 66
Chester.2 3,013
Chesterfield.I 4,994
Clarendon.2 1,09 0
Colleton.ll ,3 2 4
Darlington.24,o 1 3
Dorchester.8,313
Fdgefield. 22,205
Ka lr ti old. 2 3,5 7 8
Florence . . .... 2 2,57 4
Georgetown.1,3 34
Greenville.30,881
(J reen wood. 2 8,0 4 1
Hampton.1 1,343
llbrry.5.997
Kershaw.15,042
Lancaster.19,880
Laurens.36,874
Loo.19,628
Lexington.17,144
.Marou. 3 3,565
Marlboro.to,XL' ?
New her ry.34,793
Oconeo.11,876
Ornngoburg.60,319
Plckons.13,501
Richland.1 0.549
Saluda.19.218
Spartanburg. 4 8,328
Sumter. 22,645
Fnlon.15,430
Williamsburg.1 5,463
York. 3 4.7 7 8
lOvery county in South Carolina
produces the staple of cotton. George
town being the lowest, with only
1.3 4 4 hales.
New Mexico, appears in HU? list of
slates and territories, in tim produc
tion (d' colton In 1 900, for the first
time. It shows a production of near
Iv 100,0(10 pounds. It ls ahead of
Kansas and is expected to pass Vir
ginia soon.
Tlie average crop for the past five
vea rs ls 1 1.7 9 0,5 5 8 bales.
Of the total production in 1906
tho territory west of the Mississippi
contributed 7. 233,210 bales, or 53.f
pm- cent, while the states east eon
tributed 0.302,288 bales or 46.8 pei
cent, showing that the country west
of the Mississippi lias passed that
east of the Mississippi, nowlthstand
Ing the ravages of the holl-weavil In
parts of Texas.
The production of Texas, 3 8.2 per
cent of the total for the country,
compared with 30.5 percent lu 1905,
a gain ol' 7.7 per cont.
The production of 918.537 bales in
Oki ii.ema and Indian territory gives
thc now stale a respectable rank
among the cotton producing states,
belg larger than North Carolina and
Tennessee combined.
(Illili MUSSING.
Barents of Ronnie May Fowler Are
Very Much Worried.
lt s though! at Greenville thal i 8
year-Old Muy Fowler of Woodside
Mill, two milos from that (div. is
probably a victim of kidnapers or
oas mel a fate equally as distressing.
She wore short dresses and is un
usually small for her ago. Sunday
morning tho girl boarded a car ,', >
lng to Sunday school and has not
been seen ?by her parents since. Her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fowler,
hoilOVO that she bas been kidnapped
or that she bas been enticed away
hy some one.
' The police have begun work on
the case without, a clew to lead them
in any direction. Some of the mon
superstitious people In tho city have
discovered a connection between thc
dlsappearonce of tho child and thc
print of a huge black hand found on
the pavement In front of a residence
on a fashionable street.
MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY.
Three Men Die. Terrible Experi
ences of Shooting Party.
Caught In a Mountain Htorni and Af?
ter Great Suffering DIo From Ex
posure,
The London Mail nays a "hunting
foray" on the range of mountains in
the northern part of County Antrim
has been attended with the loss of
three lives.
Five young men, the sons of farm
ers, set out from their homes, about
Parkmore, early on Tuesday after
noon, and met at a prearranged ren
dezvous at the foot of Collin moun
tain, which rises 1,700 feet above the
Glens of Antrim.
Ascending about half way, they
became so engrossed in the day's
sport that they did not notice a thick
cloudy mantle creeping down the
mountain sid?;, and soon they became
enveloyed. With numerous ravines
around, and night approaching, they
became wildly alarmed, wandered
about for a few hours, and lost their
bearings.
One of the party, Kielty, seeing,
as he thought, a light in thc distance,
and thinking it denoted thc small
farmstead of a man named Courtney,
whom he knew, went off, with one of
his companions, White, in that di
rection to obtain guidance. They
were not seen again alive.
The other three, Miller, Smith and
Connolly, remained behind together,
the last having become exhausted and
Ul. Out of thc darkness they heard
the voice of Kielty shouting, "Pat's
down," and understood that Patrick
White had probably fallen into a
bog-hole or down a ravine; but Kiel
ty did not return.
They suffered so greatly from cold
during the night that Smith volun
teered to attempt to reach Courtney's
house and bring assistance. Scarcely
able to crawl, Smith eventually
reached the farmhouse, but fell in
sensible before he could deliver his
message.
With hot fomentations and such
other rough and ready treatment as
the cottage allowed, he revived af ter
a few hours and told his startling
story.
Meanwhile Connolly had died in
the darkness of the mountain side.
His sole companion, Miller, realizing
that he could be of no further assis
tance to his comrade, marked the
place whore his dead body, lay, and
with the approach of dawn he also
Drawled away. With many rests, he
roached Courtney's farm.
Courtney himself, having previous
ly learned some of the circumstanc
es, had sot out at break of day down
the mountain to the nearest village
postofnee, Martinstown, and tele
graphed to Connolly's father. When
he returned Miller and Smith had
sufficiently revived, and the three
went off to find the body of young
Connolly, which they carried on an
improvised stretcher to the village.
Meantime the elder Connolly had
organized a search party of a dozen
friends. When the old man learned
that his son's body had been already
recovered he and his friends remov
ed the remains to his homo.
A large body of police and civilans
went up the mountain seeking for
Kielty and White. Their bodies were
found late in the afternoon in a
stream which the melting snow and
heavy rains had swollen to a ranging
torrent.
WANTED A DKINK.
A Runaway Horse Wont Into an Au
gusta Saloon.
The Augusta Herald says wild |
commotion reigned supremo for a
fow moments Thursday morning at 9
o'clock out on Campholl street, near
tho Union depot. A frieghtonod horse
dashed madly along the street- with
nothing attached to him in tho way
of a vehicle, hut the harness straps
wore hanging.
Just as he reached Cashln's har
and restaurant, the horse veered
from his course and in a twinkling
rushed into the har, putting to dight
all who stood anywhere near the
path he might pursue. He paused as
they reached for the tempting drink,
then lied, forgetting everything in
their flight for safety.
However, the wild career of the
horse was slopped when ho reached
tho rear end of the saloon. Ho was
arrested hy parties in the neighbor
hood before he had time to order his
drink and au unwelcome customer
was led hack to the shelter of the
stable from whence he had escaped,
while being "hitc hed up" to a buggy.
CK TE I, l'A lt ENTS.
Half Witted (Hil Confined in Smoke
House Dike a Brute.
Cue hundred infuriated neighbors
rescued Ethel Hedley, a half witted
girl about 17 yoars of age, from a
smoko house in Which she had boon
confined for several weeks hy her par
ents, who rosine oil a farm near Her
lin, Somerset county, Pa.
Tho smoke house prison In which
tho girl was kept, was six by eight
feet in Size, with but ono wlndoW,
Which had bOOll painted over to pre
vent the girl from hoing observed by
strangers who might be about, th?
promises.
Whoo food was given the prisoner
it was thrown in Upon the door. Thc
rescuing party was composed of till
lUOSl prominent citizens of Hoi lin
George Hedley, tho father, was ar
?.estell and gave bail.
FOB NOT I IA VI Xii TAX TAOS.
Proceedings Against .ioho Wohltinni
Company by Inspector.
The Charleston Host says attach
mont proceedings were Hied Thur?
day lu the olllee of tho clerk of cour
and placed into tho bunds of tho stier
Iff for service against John Wohlt
man Company on \'?<> sacks of cot
> ton seed meal, Which P. W. M a yoi
! Inspector of fertilizers at Charloslo
1 alleged were oxposod for sale ami <H
! not boar tho proper Inspection ta
I tags. The penally for this offonco 1
? $:i a sack, making tho sum allege
duo tho Stato ?375.
CORPSE FOUND,
A Horrible Crime Discovered In
New York City.
HIDDEN IN A TRUNK
Woman lind Polico to Open Trunk
Loft by Two Lodgers, Who Hud
Left Without Paying Their Kent,
mid tho Ilodly Decomposed ?ody
of n Greek Minister is Found
Within.
Hov. Fnthor Kaspar, of tho Armen
ian Apostolic Church, of Hoboken,
N. J., was murdered in tho city of
New Yory somo timo last week. Tho
body wa? found Sunday in a trunk,
which bad boon left as security for
their room rout by two Greeks, who
three weeks ago engaged a furnished
room of Mrs. Henry Sheror, who oc
cupied tho third floor of a tenomont
at 333 Wost Thirty-seventh stroot.
Tho body was in a kncoling pos
ture witli tho bead lion nd against tho
knees by a heavy strap that passod
over the buck of tho neck and was
buckled under the shins. The mur
dered man must have been about GO
years of ago. He weighed probably
160 pounds, and was about 5 foot 4
inches in hoight. A flowing beard
twelve inches long was streaked with
gray, but the long and bushy hair
was black.
An undershirt of bnlbriggan and a
cuff on tho right wrist were nil tho
body wore, but on top of it had boen
thrown three coats of clerical cut, a
white laundered shirt, two pairs of
black laco shoes, a soft felt hat, two
Roman collars and a detatched cuff.
The police think it is possible that
the body was shipped by express
from Chicago and tho authorities of
that city have been asked to follow
one clew, based on a meal ticket, al
so found in the trunk. This tickot
was issued by a restaurant at 1,222
Halstead street, West Pullman, Chic
ago, and written in ink across it wns
Hie finn name "S. Ermoylan Broth
ers." Through the word "brothers"
sevoral red ink Ines were drawn. Be
cause of the condition of the body,
the manner of death was not imme
diately apparent. Following an au
topsy at the mogue two mon were ar
reste on suspician.
Mrs. Shorer told the coronor that
when the two men engaged the room
in her horne called themselves John
and Paul Sarkis, oach about 3 5 years
of age. John was dark and smooth
shaven and the woman understood
that he conducted a restaurant in the
tenderloin. The other resembled his
brother, but woro a mustache. Tho
men ..ad been visited, she said, by a
man wearing a clerical garb, who
looked not unlike the murdered man.
She thought that this man called at
8 o'clock last Wodnosday morning.
No one in the tenement that day
heard any unusual noises.
Last Wednesday afternoon an ex
press wagon brought to the house tho
trunk which later, was found to con
tain the body. Ono of tho lodgers,
with thc aid of a young man, who
drove the express, carried tho trunk
with considerable difficulty to'tho
room. That night Mrs. Sherer asked
ber roomors for the rent due. They
pointed to the trunk and said it
would be found to contain ample se
curity for what they owed. Later
tho men said that the trunk deliver
ed to them was not theirs, but that a
mistake had been made.
The next morning the roomers left
before Mrs. Shorer was up. Tho next
day unpleasant odors were detected
coming from tho room and to-day,
Mrs. Shorer appealed to the police
and the trunk was foreod open. The
laxly was removed to tho morgue
and the police bogan a minute exam
ination of its biding place. It was a
cheaply built affair and showed,
marks of hard usage. Inside 1 io
cover was printed a name that look
ed like Culseppe Sarkis. On tho out
side of the chest was tho name "Er
mov?an."
Tho autopsy dovoloped that, tho
neck and an arm had been brokon.
Coroner's Physician Lehane doclared
however, that death was duo to suf
focation. The eternal organs wore
congested and Dr. Lehane gave it as
his opinion that the man was thrust
Into the trunk whllo alive, and tho
cover of the air tight trunk held
down until death ensued. Tho condi
tion of the organs were found to bo
similar to those In cases of asphyxia
tion.
A dspatoh from Chicago says at
the West Pullman address on Hal
stead street, the Armenians kept a
restaurant until five months ago un
der the name of S. Ermoylan Broth
ers. Tho Chicago police Sunday
night learned that on February 7, a
trunk said to answer tho description
of that found In the New York board
ing bouse was shipped, from Wost
Pullman by express to Sarkis Ermoy
lan. 426 West Fortieth streot, New
York city. It was shipped by n man
who gave ..ls name as K. Kenesiam.
Lewis B. McDonald, agent for the
Adams Fxpress Company nt Wost
Pullman snldthat Kenestani told him
lhat the trunk contained silks valued
at $200. Search was begun at onco
for Kenesiam.
BA1IV BCRNFD IN CHADLE.
Mother Charges an 1'nknown Fnoiny
Witli Setting lt On Fire.
Frantic with grief over ?he burn
ing to death of her 1 H-nionths-old
son while she was absent at a groc
ery store, Mrs. John Pavett, of Chic
ago, accuses an unknown enemy of
the crime. When she returned from
the store she found tho bilby, which
she had left asleep in its crib, envel
oped lu flames.
Mrs. Paavett declared that a
strange man bad been watching her
home for moro (han ? month. Tho
police think that a burglar dropped
a match or the lighted end of a
cigarette into the cradlo.
?HF AT STORM IN CAROLIN KS
Pacific Island Sahl to Have Reen
Swept hy Hurrlcnno
A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W.
snys report, han reached thoro that
a hurricane and tidal wave swopt ov
er tho CaroBno Islands on April 3 0.
Immonso damage was dono to prop
erty and 200 porsons aro roportod
killed.
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