Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Marlboro' Democra "DO THOU, C? H IO AT LI DEUT Y, INSPIRE OUH SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OH OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." --it. VOL. XXXI5 I i E N N ETTS VILLE, S. C., FRI D AY , AUGUST 9, 10O7. NO. 32. WORK OF FIEND. * Another Girl Victim is Found in New York. ATROCIOUS CRIMES. An Hight Yeal' Old Child Assaulted and Slain-Police liol ie ve a Mau lac ls Roaming (lie City, Possessed of An Impulse (?> Kill Wollten and Children-Several Women Have Bee? Killed. B Tho OXCltomcnt caused in New ~York city hy tho rocen I atrocious crimes against women and children was greatly Increased Thursday hy the discovery of the body of an olght year-old girl in a cellar ol' an East Side tenement. The child had boen ^assaulted and then murdered, marks on lue th ron I indicating that perhaps tue little one bad been strangled. Tho suspicion (hat the child was choked to (loath, taken in connection with tlie murder of Sophie Kohrer and ol' au unidentilled woman by Strangulation, leads the police lo be lieve that Ibero is a maniac al larne lu the city who is possessed of ?ni in sane Impulse to kill women and chil dren by thc? same method. The body was lying on a si ra wher ry crate, where ii apparently had been placed several day, ugo, ?iud its condition revealed the frightful treat ment to which the child bad been subjected. The girl's body was stumbled upon by a woman who visited tho basement of tho house al 203 Kl rsl avenu?'. It lay upon a berry craie with seeming ly no effort al concealment. "You can say for mo," Coroner Il ur berger declared, "thal tho crimes in Uerlin. of which the newspapers have told have not been one thous andth pint .is had as the murder of this little girl." At the colonel's direction (luciano Rlppolano, whose cobbler shop ad joins tin; girl's home, was arrested and asked to explain his absence from his shop on last Friday. Ile es tablished the fad (bat he had spent the day al Bristol, Conn. Tho girl ls said to hnvo frequented Itippolano's place ?uni ?1 search brough! to light a man's shirl which whore red stains. The collider was arrained and re manded to tho coroner. Giuseppe B?fnnto, Rippohindo's partner, was questioned, bul threw little light on the case and wa? nol detained. Tlie pol leo nlso hogan a soarch for a woman who is said lo formerly roomed at the Pi'ilsclllOl' house, hut who left Hiere after a quarrel and lOO'n '.'V? Ul tllQ llCJISS V'.'.'Jl'e tlie girl's body was found. When the news of the finding ol' tho little one's body spread through tho neighborhood excitement rose to such a pitch that the removal ot' tho body and the arrest ol' Rippolnno caused almost a riot. Many thousands ol' persons were in the nearby street when the wagon from the morgue arrived. At sight ol' Hie covered body the crowd vented its grief and rage in a babel of ton gues. Tho police wen> compelled to use force lo gel through tin' street. Soon afterwards the arrest ol' the cobbler became known ?ind tho crowd charged the prisoner's shop- Itippo lano bad boon solely removed to the Station House, bul his shop windows were smashed and only the determin ed front ol' ihe police reserves who clubbed right and left, prevented greater dania.!;". .lohn Kusmicho the Russian watch man under arrest ?is a suspicious per son ami who is said lo have been seen in the company "f the gill whose body was lound in ihe areaway on Kast Ninetieth street, was remand ed without bail until Saturday. No clue l< i bo murder lil Tw Olli y second street was secured . Lalor il wiis decided lo hold Ro fanlo for examination. Dora Mess uer. who is said to have hern seen in the company ol ihe cobbler, was arrested ns a w it ness. ^ .NORTH SKA Tl!AGKIHKS. Schooner Wrecked ?ind British and Natives Fight. Th,- st ea ii i <u Manuka from Ansi ral ht, Willi news ol' lighting 111 the New Hebrides, bas re;u bed Victoria. B. C. lo an encounter between Ile brides blacks and a punitive exped? .Hon lauded from the British cruiser Cambridge, i<> avenge Hie murder of ?i European t ruder, t he blacks killed one bluejacket ol' the Imidin? party ?vbd wounded snot lier hluejacket. Tlie news was brough! I'roiii the ('?Moline group thai the HadllU schooner Charles and Killi rounder* tl in a hurricane, ('aol. Warner and : ol' hi;; crew w ere dl'oW ned. Iv F, RS 11 AW Ki: FI I \S IH S BEN'S A11\ Slate Board of Canvassers incide Thal it Woo. Tin Slate board Of canvassers nu aiilmVnist.v dticided Thursday th? ai? | peal in tlie Kershaw dispensary el pe lion in favor '?I' dispensary. Und ing Hun ihi' election, was illegal on account of Irregularities; This reverses Hie Unding 'd' the county bonni, which lound Ililli pro bibil ion had carried b> 8 I votes, and il keeps the dispensaries open. The prohhlHoulsts will lake Hie ?ase to the Supreme Court on certiorari. CHA SI NH CHA I IS. IJ^osse Aller Two Who Attempted Criminal Assailli, A special rrohi Athens, (hi., ?sys a pot ; e is. pU'rt nih? 1 wu negro men who entered Ihe room of IWo vonni; wo "".,, ;;, adonis o? i he slimmer normal m.hoOt, al Candler Hall ard attempt ed criminal assault. Tho girls screamed so loudly t hat I he men w ere frightened away. TRAIN RAN AWAY Crashing Into Another Creight Kill l our Persons. Ai AI ch Ison, kansas, Missouri Pa elfie freight train ran away down Shannon Hill Wednesday morning aud struck tho rear end of anoihoi frol?hl Btnndiag oa the tra? k. lunn l)nrHOn8 wore killed and two Injured Throe of ibo killoe! wore heating then way. Mk SUICIDE MYSTERY. A Woman Kills Herself and So Does a Man Who Know tho Woman Well ami Wrns Summoned ns a Witness nt tho Inquest. Amos lt. Ruin haugh, of Washing ton, p. c.. a close friend of Miss Laura .Matthews, the young woman who committed suicide nour Broad - moor, Colorado, Sunday night, added liorrow and mystery to the gruesome case by shooting himself through tho head Wednesday, in tho same manner adopted by Miss Matthews. Rum haugh committed tho not in his room at the Alla Vista Hotel, 'ino hour when the fatal shot was tired is no! known ns it was imf heard by any ono in (he hotel mid tho deed was discovered only when 0 ill CO rs wenl to his room lo ascertain ! why ho had not responded to the subpoena to attend tho coroner's in quest over Miss Matthew's body on Thursday morning. When tho olllcers appeared at the hoi id II bell hoy was sen! to lt lim baugh's room lo seo what was the maller. The boy found the door locked and could get no response. The olllcers forced Die door open and Ihme on ibo bod Ilumbnugh was re clining, his brains oozing out onto the Moor. A hasty examinai ton show ed that tho man was still alive, and ho w;is taken to a hospital, but ai a late hour tho attending physicians say he cannot recover. Thal tho ael cd' llumliaugh was (he direct result td' tho (loath ol' Miss Matthews is not doubted by (be olll eials. Ile was lo have appeared us a witness ai the coroner's Inquest to loll what be knew of his friend's iragie end. Kuinbangh claimed lo be bul a cilanco acquaintance til' the girl bul it developed thal he knew ber in Chicago and also knew C. A. Cooy, ol' Chicago, and Dr. H. A. Thomas, of the "itu Ranch." He was frequently a member of the par ties nt. which Miss Matthews and Hu* other men referred to were members. Rumhnugh was the ono who ac companied Miss tireen, lin* nurse, to ? lite livery stable libOut 5 o'clock Monday morning io see if Miss Mat thews' horse bad returned. Il was, be who had sent Hie telegram (o Cooy asking that he "do the right Hiing by the girl" and il was willi him thal Miss Matthews b lt (be Iel tor in which was enclosed another ltd I er lo Cooy. If Illimbaugh did not destroy the I loller loft him by Miss Matthews td 1 goth er with tho letter to Coey, ? ls believed they will show startling facts thal may entangle other poople. The telegram sent by Rumhnugh to ] Cooy. t.tKcv. in Hie light ol' bis sui- I eldo, luis more meaning than Indore. I lt Wits as follows: "Laura committed suicide on ac count of you. Letters loft behind. Send $300 at once for expenses." Tin? o theo rs say thal the letter shows thal Rumhnugh knew Cooy ; well enough to speak to him of I Laura" and lo threaten him. Ruili batigh was a bon I 28 years of ago. A 1 service medal of honor shows that ho i served with diSlilic?loh In (ho Tenth .> Pennsylvania Infantry In tho Philip- I pines. 1 Two brief notes are all that ex- ; plains the young niall's act. One i noie is addressed "To whom it may concern," and reads as follows: i "Ship my body to Mrs. .1. ll. Rum- i Laugh. Mont Pleasant, Pa., West i moreland county. Notify the Travel- I ors' Insurance company ol' Hartford. < Conn., and lb?' Fraternal Order Of I'htgles, of Scottsdale, Pa. Amos R, | Rum haugh." I The second note was addressed lo i his mother. Mrs. .1. II. R il jil haugh, ai tim above address. Ru in ba ugh j wrote: I Dear Mother: There is nothing ? lor nie lo say Wily I did this llWl'lll deed, so Inj nf y hedy away to rest, j 1 luive about $350 on my person. YOU and ('bailie settle things lip. "Your SOU I "Richard R. RunibiiUgh," MOURNl<}|) AS DFAD. Fdr Fifty Veers Bul 'linns l p io i Oreel Friends. ; Mr. and Mrs. YY. I). Smith, of Ar- , Uior'y, Miss., are visit inn relatives at Vnuiosta, Ha. Mr. Smith bas ihr dis (ludion ol' having been mourned ns tload for titi \ years and aller thal lime turning up ai bis old home io meei bis relatives those who won uiive. Ho lett home in Twlggs county Ainu be was LS years ol' age and Weill West. His sisters, two oi' whom ?(Ve in Lo WU os and om- in Dorrien 'hunty, moved iiway with Hie I'ninllj ind be lost track ol' them until lasi .ear. Ile is now Xl years ol age anti i lille mid hearty, llb- mooting with bis sisters al ler stich a loni; sopera Hon was a very happy occasion, SENATORS HA VIO THIRST. . pent Piig Sum Itu' Drinkables al Hie Last Session. The annual report of Hie secretary Of Ibo United Stales se?ale is in some ways a queer (I octillion I, A good many ol' its items migltl lend one lo ibink I hal the senators are ?in expen sive luxury. For instaure Ibo sum td' $7,bun was spent during the lasi session pf Congress io provide tho members with tl ri uk a liles, stub as various mineral waters and lemonade, Of Ibis nmotinl $:LS was spool for lone ons ami sugar. Resides these ileitis, there are many oilier curious things mention ed. Near I j $12..Min was paid for sta tlouarj ami engraving, and oven for such articles as gloves a nd lohiicco cases Among tile other Hems wore au old (runic a dollar mouse trap, aliar of roses, quinine, hair vigor, snuff and easter oil. Bi CK HU AT (HAIN CA NC Prefers (0 Be Punished For Deserting I From Hie Navy, Rather iban serve Uilrly days on the roads. Janies Williams, nt Sails-1 bury, x C., declared thal ho is a de serter from the navy, ami communi cation from Washington vcr I Hod his' slaloment, ile bad served eighteen months on the Franklin, of the re quired four years. The Washington authorities will send for him. GRAVE CHARGES Against a Priest of Being Leader in Murder Plots IN CITY OF NEW YORK. Threatening Loiters Uren Hovouled. Four Indictments Against tho Ar menian, Who ls Condal Kiguro In Hog ?tferchnnl Murder disc-Sev eral Other Crimes Aro Hoing Shown l p. In Now York four indictments now lie against Father Martoogessian, tho Armenian, who/il is ul luged, 8OI110 limos roys aside his priestly robes to practico extortion lind blackmail. Tho priest ls just now tho central figuro in the conspiracy which (he dis! riet attorney seeks lo prove had for its object the robbery of wealthy Armen ians and led to the murder of the rug merchant, Tavshan.nan, and oth ers, who refused to be financially bled. From the slayer of Tavshanjlan, tied ros l-lnmpnrtzoomian, us ho is known lu New York, tho police hope IO secure a confession establishing that tho youth unwittingly was tho agent of blackmailing terrorists. A !?;?:?!; which Humpartfenomnln had In Lowell, Alass., hus been brought to Now York and its contents may throw Ugh I on the Investigation, Of the three additional Indict ments against .Martoogessian brought in by Ihe grand jury, two charge at tempted robbery as did (he original indictment and one alleges extortion, Tho latter charges that tho priest was responsible for at least one ol' Hie blackmailing letters which (illicit ly followed the death ol' tho rug mer chant. Tho letter was mailed in New York on tho afternoon ol' July '?2, the day that. Tavshanjlan was shot. lt was written in red ink in the Armen ian language, and was signed by the symbol of the terrorists, three bands with ?laggers uplifted, poised above a red heart. 'I he lotter is as fol lows: "(lulah! Gulhonklan & Co.. "Brunswick Mid.. New York. "Death Warrant: - "Tho executives of the Constanti nople Armenian revolutionary terror ists organization condemn lo death I laroo Han H?lbens ian. ('.ulalu Gul lienkian and Patrick (J ul honk ian, the three brothers who, entirely, have leaf oars lo all appeals for national freedom. Our executive hoard, bav in;; given its decision to Haroutlan ind (Inlaid Qulkonkiail, in America, gives them twonty-foiir hours Hine to decide between their duty and teat h. "Constantinople Armenian Revolu tionary Terrorists' Organization." Thc letter is dated Constantinople, lune L'T. I !)()7. Following the letter is a postciipt, liso in red ink, which reads as fol ows: "Although neither poison nor lunging can prevent us from fulllll ng our iluty lo the end, it is neces sary that you should know. If you jetray Ibis letter or cause barm lo nie bair on the heads of on?' of US igainst thiil consider your whole fam ily whiped oui." Iloforo this loiter came Haroutlan [illlhenkian, who is the accusing wit less against the priest, lind received i hlackmallng lotter demanding $25, loo. hut had not complied willi the loma nd. The sense of the indictment is thal he pries! either sent the quoted let er or caused il to be sent. Also, it s alleged I hat in September. I 905, [.'allier Martoogessian threatened to (ill or cause lo be killed, I led ros llau'/nnjian, a merchant of ii!? Union ?innre, unless the latter gave up $ Iii,OOO lo the Armenian revolution isis. Further, ii is charged thal Father Martoogessian represented, or caused lo he represented, lo Miran C.. Kara vensian, an Armenian, thal he would meet death unless he gave $ 1 On.ooo Lo the Armenian revolutionary fund. Karat:.'lisian, ii is said, received this .oniniiinicat ion in the torin ol' a Iel 1er on AllgUSt '20, I Oil... The lette Kided : "The lisi is not finally dosed yet There may he several others and you amy bc next." The late afternoon develop?* an important witness, when Magdorlck Lustrina, a blacksmith, was examin ed by 'Assistant District Attorney Manley. According lo Information lalor given out nt the assistant dis trict attorney's ollie t he witness said ?hat lie had often attended meetings ol' tho llunohaklst, at which Mart oogo! i lan presided. Cont inning, he is alleged lo have staled, that he knew (if live different cases, where ?nen bad been sent from this country io lOurope at Hie instigation ol' a man lamed lo murder persons. On I wo occasions, l.ustriun Sahl, lie bad been ?.hosen to do murder, bul managed in various ways to shift the responsi bility. Some lime ago he was lold thal he would have lo kill Nikolai Milack be cause al thal time il was believed that Milack wai; a Turkish spy. Ac cording to .Mr. Manley, Ibo black smith made furlhor startling admis sions and furnished corroborai ive evidence of great importance against the prisoner, who is declared by other Armenians to have been Hie moving spirit in Hie blackmailing band. MOTH FR SCICIDFS. Became Despondent Over (lie Heath ol' Her Son. Mrs. Marv Sykes, a well-known and prominent lady of Greensboro. N. C., committed suicide Thursday hy liv ing I wo pistol bullets into lier body. About a year ago Mrs. Sykes' young est son died, aller a long illness, and ever since she Ino; been very despon dent. A i Al. ACCIBlONT. Philadelphia Hanker Mel Death lu Swimming Pool. President lt. Watson, of Hie North ern National bank, of Philadelphia, i?a., was Instantly killed in a swim ming pool al Ibo Columbia club, one Of lhi> most prominent social organi zations in the city. Il is believed he me? deal li by Striking his bead against Hie concrete side ol' tho lank willie diving. JAiLLED AS A WITCH Indiana Woman Accused of Caus ing Child's Death. ll ls Alleged Site Hus Foretold and Caused livery Calamity That Has Befallen Evansville, Iud. Thc .Illing of sleety of the peace proceedings against .Mrs. Margaret Gilmore, of Evansville, Ind., makes tho latest case in willoh tho law has hoon invoked against anyone accused of practicing witchcraft. The speed He charge was Hie causing of tho death of a Iwo-yoar-old soil of John Paris, and tho Incident lead to tho unfolding of tho history of tho aged woman. In the last ten years she has been transformed in the public mind from a motherly old woman lulo a vicious minister of evil, whose (diief delight is to harass her neighbors' and nu I hem willi awe on account of her predictions of calamities, tn the Im mediate neighborhood of Mrs. GJI nioro's shack nothing is too terrible in be believed about her. Tho wav ing of a broom from her front door is enough to drive all tho children In the community into their homes in abject fear. Ton years ago Mrs. Gilmore, nov SO years of age. was known as an ex ceptionally good nurse and was pop ular lu HU? community. She was poorer than most ol' bor neighbors but managed to make her living by selling vegetables she raised lu her narden and by raising chickens for Ibo market. As she grew older she withdrew from Intercourse willi ber neighbors anti Iben situ les of ber ec centricities began to crop out. She was alleged lo have seen visions; to liave predicted storms and inunda tions, sudden deaths ami unhappy marriages, and in fael every calamity inti befell Hie people Individually tntl collectively. She never professed o bo a clairvoyant or a necromancer, Dut her reputation was made by pop dar talk. The Incident that led to tho recent iroceedings was caused by Ibo kill UK of a chicken. The Paris family ives in the same neighborhood as \irs. Gilmore and her chickens annoy <d I hem. One day tho son threw a done anti injured a pullet, and Mrs. Kintore ls alleged lo have said thal f the chicken died one of Hie Paris dliidron would cont raid whooping sough lind dietl within two days. The hlekoii tlieti in S hours anti the day ollowing one of the Paris children ,vas smitten with whooping cough md dietl within Hie specified time The incident caused mindi comment inti finally the action brought by the 'ather. Tho court ignored the charge, say ng (hal these are not. tho days in .vliieh Salem witch massacres are lossible. The authorities have also irrange'd to give the woman special irotection against any possible hos lllty on Ibo part of the incensed leighhors. CI??I??? ils < 'OXSIM KACY. A'oiunn Says She Wasn't Cheating Indians, Hut Helping Them. Arrested recently ami placed in jail al Hillings, Mont., charged with ibtailllllg monty from Hie Crow lil lians lintier false pretence, Mrs. Hei rn Pierce Bray, who claims lo be a ?owspapor and magazine writer, says die is glad she has been arrested. 3ho was sent lo jail in default of ? I.."iiitl bonds. She sayss she is the 'ictllll ol' a conspiracy. Mrs. (?ray admits thal she O bia ill >d several hundred dollars from the 'row ndians. This amount she said die used lo pay ber expenses lo tVnshlhgtoii .nst year, where* she ?vent lo place her story exposing the tv ron gs of the Indians before the Presiden! and the ofllcors of Hie In orlor department. She said as a result of her trip. Secretary Garfield's private secretary .vas sent to the reserva I ion to InVOB igale (be charges thal the consent ?f Un* Indians lo Ho* opening til' I. non.ntin acres ol' (he reservation was ?htained by forgery. She thinks ber ul uso will now attract more alton ion. A HA HS SI,AV 101J HOPE ANS. Many Killed ns Itesilll of Extermina. (ion Dod l ine. Dr. Merle, who has arrived al Tan gier, on a Gorman ship which brought i number ol' .lews ami oilier refuges from Casablanca, is the bearer of a report showing (hat the slaughter ol' Europeans in Casablanca was (ho mir?me ol a holy war preached by Arabs tor the extermination of the Europeans. On Monthly a number of Arabs chiefs entered Casablanca and tl" mantled that ibo harbor Improvement works e.eased and rited (he unlives (o exterminate lite Europeans . On Tuesday the natives began the at lark by stoning a European who was bucked lo pieces. This was the sig nal lor a general attack. At least S were murdered. While the .lews and Europeans were laking refuge on board tho Cer n?an ship, ?lie Mussulmans hogan lo attack (he laborers employed on (he harbor works. They killed several men whose bodies BllbSOquoUtly were burnell. AGAINST COAST UNIO. Case Cnn'! I*'" Curried lo Hie Federal < 'oort. III an important decision bled on Thursday Judge Gary ?d' ibo circuit cou ri lloridos In ibo case of W. c. (?erai\, of Charleston against the Atlantic Goasl Lino Poad, thal the Coast l.illO Cannot carry the case Into ibo federal courin on tho ground I hal ii is a foreign corporation. The de t ision says thal tho road is eslopped from contending thal it ts a foreign corporal ion because under the consti tution all railroads must bo domesti cated and ii ii is not domesticated ll is operated unlawfully. LOCOMOTlVK EXPLODES. Three Men hilled and a Fourth Dying In Consequence. Three men were killed anti a fourth is flying, as the result ol' the bi ?wing np of a Burlington locomo tive, drawing h freight train east ol' Srcckcnbrldgo, Mi>-> Thursday* INSTANTLY KILLED. Two Colombians Have Fatal Row Over in Georgia. diur?tico; Gilmore Claims That N. A, Hm ii s ide .Mude Improper Propos als to His Wife and He Shot Him. A sp?cial dispatch from flaxley, Ha., says: Friday night, seven miles south of hore, Nf A. Hurnslde was instantly killed by Clarence Gilmore, his life long friend, schoolmate and hoarder for many months. Moth moved here from Columbia, S. C.. a few months ago and had boen engaged in the steam sa.w mill business. Gilmore came in last nght and surrendered to the sheriff. He stated that after re tiring last night his wife informed him that during Hie day Burnside had made improper proposals to lier. Gilmore got out of bod and upon en tering the room of Burnside killed him using a shot gun." The Columbia Stale says: A great deal of regret was caused hero Friday by the announcement of tho death of Mr. N. A. Hu inside. No particulars could be learned all day long and thal made the matter all the mort; deplorable. For both Mr. Burn- 1 side and his slayer, M'.r. Gilmore, 1 were well known and widely connect- ' ed. Mr. Frank H. Gilmore left lill- I mediately for Huxley, Ga., to ho With Ills brother, and promised to tele graph The Stall? immediately upon ? bis arrival any particulars which ! could be learned. The deceased was a native of lids 1 county, having boen born in Dykes- < land. His father was at Olio time a 1 well-to-do farmer of tills county. Mr. . Burnside himself had some properly a few years ago when he was engaged ' in tho grocery business tn Columbia, ' but it ttl said that In the last, year ' or two he has been in limitent drouin- ' stances and had boen addicted some what to Intemperance; Mr. Burnside 1 married Miss ('lara Chappelle of the 1 upper part of this township, a sister ( of M|l\ Oscar Chappelle, tho well * known farmer. Mrs. Burnside moved . to Florida about live years ago and ( secured a divorce. Among Mr. Burn- 1 side's living relatives in this country 1 are bis half brother, Mr. W. H. Burn side of Lakesland, one of tho most f respected men in this conni ry; and ' his sisters, Mrs. \V. S. Green and Mrs. I H. V. Pagett of Columbia, Another . brother, Mr. .1. VV. Hurnslde, also a <" well known Richland larmer, died at ' church at. Mill Creek a few months ? ago and his death was much dopier- ' od. Mrs. F. S. Burnside of 1474 1 Washington street, is tho step mother 1 of Mr. Burnside. "Nob" Burnside, as tho deceased . was known, was a tuan of pleasant c address, ol' friendly manner and one of tin- beds who would bo suspected c of li , 1?W '1 to be nuarrolsome. ? C. W. Gilmore also is a nativo, ol <'. the lakesland section. Ho is a son N of the late Ff. C. Gilmore, a proud- . neut farmer who was a near neighbor ' of the Burnside family. Mr. F. IL ! Gilmore, who is connected with ' Corick & Lowrance, and Mr. C. M. ' Gilmore, a well known traveling s salesman, are biol hm s of the young 1 mun in trouble. Mr. C. W. Gilmore K is a married man. bis wife having been Miss Fannie Harris of Lykoa- 1 land, a member of another estimable H family. Mr. Gilmore had jus. mov ' I :l I rom Sumter about six months ago to * this saw mill in Georgia, where he is 1 associated with Mr. S. ll. Owens, a former supervisor of this county. ;! Mr. F. IL Gilmore was a candidate J for the sanie o ill cc last summer and was defeated by a very na. row ma jority, und ho is very popular in the county. Mr. C. W. Gilmore is said by those Who knew him to have always l een a man ol' qtllol disposition and never ougaged in quarrels. His friends were very much shocked to learn thal ho lind gol into (rouble, the exact . a-I ' lure of which was unknown ap t > a Into hour last night. But a rumor got out to the effect thal Mr. Gilmore had quarreled over tho matter ol (losing a saw mill dining the sum iller months. Tho reason why it was impossible to gel any news from tho homicide is because Huxley, Ga., is Itself al most inaccessible, being on Ute Southern's line between Macon and Brunswick, and in Applillg county, about 3U miles west ol' Jessup. Tho killing probably occurred at the saw mill, some Uittanee from tho town of Baxley, and particulars were not obtainable. IK ililli Hld : LYNCHING. .Maryland Midi Kicked Negro to Heath After .Murder. For the cowardly ni u rd cr of Police man John ll. Daugherty, of Crlsfleld, Md., James Reed, a negro and Indian half hreod, was kicked to death by a mob after he had been taken into custody. His dead body was. tied lo a telegraph pole, where it was viewed by thousands and later cut down and thrown into a swamp. Heed shot 1 he ( nicer in I he back of t lie head, when he attempted to arrest Iiis pal, a Iso a negro, 11 ll lory Jones. Aller the murder Heed jumped on a bicycle, rode lo the water's edge and escaped in a sai' .oat. Ile ?as run down by power boals and brought back lo the town. As soon as Ito landed lie was struck down uncoil scions hy a member of the waiting mob, and. in a lew minutes, he was lying lifeless beneath the fool ol' Hu angry men. Heed was 22 yeartr old. Il is said that should his pal put in appearance lie is lively lo meet a similar fate, so great ls the Indignation of the peo ple _ DltFADIOD SMPFHATlON. Devoted Girl Friends Tried to Ibid Theil' Lives Together, Threatened with being sopera I od from eaidi oilier, tho Misses Louise OlldrC and Nellie Ddy, two beautiful I !? year-old giri ol' Allanta, (?a., tried lo end their lives by jumping into lb" Chattahoochee river. Locked in each other's arms they sprang into Hie water. They were seen by two men, who plunged aller them and saved them. Holli girls belong to goO(l families in Albinia. Miss Ondre is a striking brunette and Miss Day is a perice' blonde and rather frail. Miss Olldl't always alluded to Miss Day as "M> Utile blonde sweetheart". Tho girl} are madly infatuated willi each othoi and say they do not care to live un loss they can be together. i THE BLACK H?ND ls Raided and Assassins and Blackmailers Are Caught. DOZENS ARE JAILED. Tho Untied States steel Corporation Was Hack i?r Mah t<> Itound Them Up-Twelve Minders hi Two Years Are Attributed to the Organization Which ls Composed of a I/ot of Desperadoes. A Der wailing for months and spending thousands or dollars and spreading a drag nol dial has caught mon in four slales. (ho United Stales Steel Corporation has rounded up what ls said lo ho tho worst, gang ol' Mark hand assassins in tho country. Dozens ol' arrests have boon found, , and men are In jail in New Castle, Penn.; Youngstown, Ohio; Sharon, Fa.; Plainfield, N. .1., and Rochester, A dozen murders in the Mahonlng and Shenandoah Valleys in tho las! souple of years aro attributable to the gang. For headquarter (he gang lurked Millsville, a quarry ?own in Lawrence county, Pa., a few. milos WOSl of New Castle. Here aro locat ed the Immense quarries of tho John son Limestone company. Millsville, locally, is known as "Ilelltowili" The Itiarrles, full of caverns, afforded aiding places tba?, could be searched l'or a wooli for suspects without re mits. Detectives were started arter the ?fang. Some wont to Hally and cann1 lark as immigrants, going to iiiiis irille, winne they worked with the Slack Hand members. The raid was made Saturday a Mor mon, .inly 13th, by.County Detective -ogan, Detective H. Marshal, of Now 1 "asile; Deputy Sheriff Prank Wad- ? llngton, Detective Monard, several sew Castle pol leemon, and railroad (electives. The time selected for the aid was payday at the Johnson quar tos. < As the men caine up for their mon- I ?y a stranger with a check list, scann- 1 id them. When a man wauled ap- I icared the sfangor would tell him here was something wrong willi his mvolope, and ask him to step into a >ack oflice. liofore any alarm was | aised I wed ve men had been inveigled nto Hie room and hand-cuffed. Finnl y all Ibo men were paid off, and line suspects were still wanted, A louse in the town was then raided by 1 ho police, and the missing nine men ? aught. The mon undor arrest wero charg- c id with conspiracy to rob and being 1 uspicious persons. Men and women f ir HlllsvlUe, no longer afraid tell of 1 vhnt became known as "Ibishllghls 1 iring." Every night. long (lashes of ^ Ight suddenly would be seen all over ( own. Finally it was explained that ho lights were made by pocket flush- ' ights used by Black Hand leaders to 1 care timid Italians Into giving up \ adney. The lights were ascribed to . upernaturnl causes. * Nicole Chuleo, who was suspected 1 iv tho gang of being a detective, was ubjectod to abuses and torture such is few white mon endure and live. He old his story in a justice's court at I he hearing of some of tho suspects. Jim Roes, a grocer, who caused the irrest ol' Salvator Exp?sito, says he vas compelled to mortage hts home or $.".oo to meet the demands of Un? j thick Hand. Exp?sito is said to boone if the few real Black Hand num. John Jolli. arrested in Youngstown j iv child' McDowell and Detective ! sane, is said to have conducted li icliool in willoh Italians were taught ' ho uso of the stiletto, li is said thal io had a rubber ligure of a man, and m ii were marked tho places in .vhieh properly to insert the stlllotto md cause instant death. Joe Magnate, who ls sa id to have ' ovied tributo molloy from Italians or months and filially loft Hillsdale ' ?villi $11,000 in gold, is badly want id. Joe Poehcsso was murdered in rout of Sam Sn ll lino's saloon. East [i'odorni stree, youngstown, Sustnl io Marione, a boy ol' nineteen, is un- I 1er arrest for Ibo crime. He do lares he shot Pot hesso in self defen se. When asked If ho belonged to ho Black Hand, he boaslingly said lie did. Tho murder of Pochosso, tho lol icc say was caused by his efforts 10 slop the blackmailing of arch Italian women oi' Youngstown. Tho toy fell so secure that lie did tlOOl go 11 ft cen miles away fro in Youngstown In South Sharon tho police say thal Salli Vallons and Sandy Porono were murdered by the Black Hand. South Sharon workmen at tho Steel corpo ration Inmates arc said lo have con tributed $8,000 to tho black hand mellis. Two men were arrested Sat - imlay charged with attempting to Idackniail a woman by throats of vio lence. I Owners of mills and oilier Indus trial establishments aro still fearful d' vengeance. One big cement con clu near Newcastle, which has $1. 1100,000 invested in a plaid is said to ho guarding against Uro. In other mills oxtrn precautions are hoing taken to guard against Incondlarlsni. I ELL INTO HIVE 11. Creal Crush of People on Bridge Pushed Sis lu. Hall a dO'/Otl persons, v. ho were participating In the fireworks dlspla> ai Hie dedication of tho now $3,000, min brldgo across the Charlo;; riven', connecting lloslon and Cambridge, Thursday night were pushed Into tho river by lite grout crush ol' people be hind them. The accident occurred on the Cambridge side of the river near the end ol' (lie new brdge. Six men and hoys were pulled from the waler by ibo police, and i'm a lime il was be lieved thal ono or more hail been drowned. I nvest i^al ion by tho police lailetl m con ll vm the rumor thal anyone had been drowned. KOREAN* ARMY DISARMED. I he Japanese Killed Forty Koreans In the Operation. A dispatch received at (he Slate Dopartiiionl from Seoul. Koroa, Bays forty Koreans wen? killed or wound ed in a light precipitated by disarm ament of lite Korean army. Tho ras miltles on tho Japanese side were I Blight. Constable Valentine Shot and Kill ed by a Negro, Who lio H:?d Gone to Arrest on tho Charge of Larceny-Tho Murderer .Mude His Escape. Almut five o'clock Monday morning Magistrate J. I. Valentino of Cope sent his constable, II. E. Valentino, to arrest Pink Franklin, alias Pink Porter colored, on a charge of lar ceny. Franklin lives on Mr. E. S. Spires' place about four miles from Norway. Constable Valentine pressed Into service to assist him Mr. W. N. Carter and both wont to Franklin's house to arrest him. On arriving at the house Valentino went to tho front door and Carter to the back door. Valentino knocked at tho door and was admitted. Just, as he got in tile bouse tho negro drew his pistol and tired at. liini. The bull entered his left sido and penetrated the stomach. In tho meantime, the negro wrenched Valentino's pistol from bim and it is supposed timi in getting the pistol il tired, striking tho negro lu the shoulder, also one ball striking his wife on the arm, making a flesh wound. Dr. Able of Norway and Dr. .T?n nings of Cope and Dr. Harton of Cope attended tho wounded man. giviim bim all the medical attention pos sible. Mr. Valentine is about. 27 years of ago and single. Ile is a graduate of the Osborne Business college of ~ai gtisla, Qa. Mr. Valentine died at 7 o'clock Monday night. The negro Franklin is at large and is being chased by a posse of mon, who think they have bim located in a swamp near tho place of the shoot ing. His wife was arrested and carried lo Norway Monday afternoon. ll is stated that she started toward the wounded man with an axe to kill kim while ho was on the ground. Two negroes who accompanied Franklin to the swamp have been caught and both are lu tho Norway ?uard bouse. One was severely whipped to get information, but this ? ailed. i TWENTY-EIGHT CHILDREN. leather a Methodist Preacher Who Is I i Hale and Hearty. The Rev. Abraham C. Ruehush, a 1 me-Iegged Confederate veteran, ol' | Port Lavaea, Tex., tn charge of a dethodist church lhere, is tho father , >f 1? boys and I ti girls, baby No. 28 laving just arrived. Ruobusb, who ?.omos from Virginia stock and be? lo\es in largo American faj?n il les, ls . i?\\ ?S >ears ol "age, and bas had I wo vives. He is active, Strong and vig ilo us. His tlrst wife, now deceased, was ( diss Angolitte M. Davis, of Augusta ?ounty, Va.? who bore bim six boys md seven girls. His second wife was Uiss Anne Cl. Adams, a Louisiana ?Irl, who is now 17 years old and the i not her of six boys and nine gris. DISGUSTED WITH Fl Ll PINOS Klee) ion of Dr. Home/ Dlssappoints Washington Officials, The Filipino elections have been a Areal disappointment to the authori ses showing that the masses of the people are still as little titted for self-government as a lot of Irrespon sible children. One of their selections for the lo cal Legislature was the notorious Dr. Dominador Gomez, a man who has 1)0011 convicted ol' fraud, is a revolu tionist and sentenced lo the poulton t ia ry, He is out now only under a shiv of execution. His right to a seat In tho lissom bl y will be contested if the jail does not get him il rat. There is re newed tnll< among tho naives of in dependence. KILLED HY A TELEi ..OM:. Shocked to Death While Holding a Deceiver to His Har. Howard Grouch, aged 27 years, a conductor on tho Citizen's Fleet ric railroad, at New hu ry port, Mass., was instantly killed the other morning at headquarters i>y receiving a shock of electricity from a telephone. Ho had hardly pushed up the receiver when tin1 slunk came. Ile was un able to drop the receiver and scream ed for help. Superintendent Files rushed to Iiis assistance and cut tho wire w ll icu had boen crossed by an electric light wire. Grouch fell dead. HOI LCR EXPLOSION Kills Font' People and Wrecks Two Railway Trains. Al Milan, Tenn., four persons wei e killed outright, another fatally 111 jared and ten seriously hurl by nil explosion ol I lie boiler el' ?ill OllftlllO on tho Illinois Central fast fruit train. Tho explosion wrecked the train as weil as another freight on a parallel siding. Loth trains Caught lire and were destroyed. Tho dead are ?he engineer and fireman and two tramps. CAI SE TERROR. A Rand (d' Robbers in Maryland Who Rob Homes. A dispatch from Cumberland. Md., says tin" whole custom section of the county adjoining Pennsylvania, West Virginia is suffering a reign ol' (error caused by depreda I ions of an organiz ed gang of robbers. Armed men arr standing guard over their homes. Not a High! passes without severnl rob beries aild no clue is lett HoaVV re wards are offered, bul without caus ing results. FOI N'D cTloTvED. The Bodies ol' Two .More Wouieii Arc Found, Ni W York has an epidemic of mur ders. Two young women wore found Choked to death Monday and Wed nesday. The bodies are at tho mor gue unclaimed. Ono bns been Iden Ulled as that of Sophie Kohror of Buffalo. The identity of tho other is unknown. TWENTY VICTIM Found After Tenement In New York Was Burned. BLACK HAND OUTRAGE Fiio Stalled in the Store and Spread With Such llnpidily that Score Met Dcatii and a? Many Badly Ihtrucd. Tlio Oodles of tire Dead Wero Found in Many Unexpected Places . Among the Kuins. A shocking loss of human life and the destruction of property worth more than ono million dollars, v/oro caused hy flies lu Now York and its Immediate vicinity in tho 24 hour? ending at eight o'clock Sunday morn ing. The fire wave struck Coney Island and before it. subsided Steeple Chase park, a score or hotels and many amusement attractions wero in ruins and many persons homeless. Four women were discovered dead In a closet where they had rushed to hide from the flames. Tho body of a woman was found lying ovor a child as though she had tried to protect it from the flames. Fivo bodies wore found crowded around one ?l o o rv v r * ' on the top floor, showing that thov had been struck down while trying to escape. , After an all night search of the ruins of six story tenement on Chris He street, burned shortly after mid night, the police announced that there were twenty victims of ?heI" llre. The bodies of the dead were found In all sorts of unexpected places to Which the people had fled when" the fire broke out. Almost all of tho bodies were burned beyond recogni tion, many to such an extent that it was impossible to distinguish tho sex. A majority of victims, the po lice believe, were women and chil dren. The burned building was a telle ment common lo the east side, with ;t store on tho ground floor and apart ments up stairs crowded with ton tnts, mainly Italians. The Are started in tho store and swept through the building with such rapidity that a tin h of the 100 ten ?ais met a horrible "doatn, another score, though thoy escaped, wore more or less burned. It ls thought tho Aro was caused l>y an explosion, a citizen reported that he heard a loud report and saw he store window crack and fall to [deces. If this is true it is possiblo lint the great loss of life is due to a Black hand" outrage. WHO WAS rilli) MAN ? Due Is Heilig Sought in Connection With Actress' Suicide. That a man had something to dei ivitll di ving Miss Helen Balley Trow- * ?ridge to suicide is believed hy Pitts burg authorities. Tho woman was an udress and ended her life hy cutting her throat at tho American house, Pittsburg, a few nights ago. Noar her body was found an extract from Riley's poem, "The Blues." Boforo her death she hud frequented tho now morgue and seemed to take a mor bid interest in the bodies exhibited there. The women's body was covered with marks, believed to have been inflicted by soon; person, possibly her loyer, with whom she might have quarreled. i> ls said she tried ear lier on the evening of her suicide to jump, from a third-Btory window. In vestigation is being made lu Butler, PlttsburgPa., from which placo sho went, to Pittsburg. Chicago relativos have taken her body. INSANE MAN 'tried lo Throw His Child From a Moving Train. Frederick Ford* of Philadelphia, became Ul sane in a New York Con trai Express train after leaving Al bany, N. Y.,/ and made several ef forts to kill his two year old daught er by throwing her from the window ?d' the train ns it was speeding along lou was prevented hy passengers. Ho also tried to make away with himself by leaping from thc train, but was t esl rained, and held captive by mem bers of the train crow until New York was reached, when ho was sent to Belevue i tospital. A Kl YUH AT HIS PLEASURE. Tobacco Magnate Pumps Burban Al most Dry for His Park. in an effort to make his two thous and acre park like, fairyland, with gushing fountains, cascades and bountiful lakes, for his bride during their honeymoon, .lames B. Duke, presdetll of tho American Tobacco company, lots pumped tho iiaritan river at S?merville, N. J., nearly dry. Duke has on his estate nrtiAcial bikes covering an area of sovoral hundred ?teres, besides Innuineral fountains and waterfalls and tlteso are supplied from the Karl tan river i.y a pumping station. W11IPPEI) ALMOST TO DEATH Severely Lushed for Telling Tobacco Crowing Secrets. John Lockert was severely whip ped by unknown purtles at Guthrie, Kv., early Ibis week. Switches were used, the flesh being gashed and pieces of his clothing driven into bis flesh. Ho is In a precarious condition. Tho mon told Lockert that he had done a little too mindi talking last year about the Hine the tobacco plant beds were scraped, and they had rome for n settlement. ACED MUBDEBEB. An Old Man KR.arocuted in New York Prison. (mailes Ponier, agetl sevonty-olght yea I'S, old and white headed, was electrocuted for the murder of Franz and Johanna Freholr at Auburn. N. Y., Wednesday. The old man walk ed lo his death without a qulvov, alhough tho authorltlos had foarod it breakdown. Twice tho fatal curroilt wns turned on boforo tho doctors wore satisfied.