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-~-HMM" ??M 1 IlO "DO THOU, GREAT LIRHKTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKH OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OH OUll HEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY OAUSE." VOL. XXXIj DENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1907. . , ? vTf. ?EU9HT^VOifcerv* Tiff ? ' ' J . , * ' - * -, -)?tf ?f> 0 ?' . -* '. , ' * - < Democra NO. 32. WORK OF FIEND. Another Girl Victim is Found in New York. ATROCIOUS CRIMES. An Fight Year Oui Child .Assaulted lilid Slain-Polk'C liol lev? a .Maniac ls Itoumlllg tho City, Possessed of An Impulse to Kill Women and Children-Several Women Have Been Killed. mk Tho oxcltoinent caused in Now "York city by (IK? rocoilt atrocious crimes against women ami children was greatly Increased Thursday foy the discovery of tho body of an olgllt year-old girl in a cellar of an lOust Side teiioniont. Tho child hud boen ^assaulted and then ni ti rd o roil, marks mi toe throat indicating that perhaps lae llttlo ono lind boon strangled. Tho suspicion Ilia! the child was choked lo death, taken in connection with tho murder ot' Sophie K?lner and ol' an unidentified woman hy Strangulation, leads tho police lo be lieve that there is a maniac at large in Hie idly who is possessed of au in sane Impulse lo kill women and chil dren hy (ho snillO method. Tile body was lying on a slrawber >.?. ......... ...1._"II,. i... ,i .v i .i. v , ..??<!, 11 appal eu li j ll ad been placed several days ago, and its (..ondit ion revealed Hie frightful treal moni lo which the child lind hoon subjected. The girl's body was stumbled ii pon by a woman who visited the basement of the house ul L'ti:: Kl rsl avenue. lt lay upon a berry crate with seeming ly no effort ai concealment. "You can say for mo," Coroner li ar borge r declared, "thal tho crimes in Herlin, of which the newspapers have told have not been one thous nndth part as bad as the murder of tills little girl." At the coroner's direction (luciano Hippolano, whose cobbler shop ad joins the girl's home, was arrested and asked lo explain his absence from his shop on last Friday. Ho es tablished Hie fact thal he had spent Hie day al Bristol, Conn. The girl ls said to have frequented Itlppolano's lillico and a search brough! lo light a man's shirl which ??bore red stains. Tlie cobbler was arrnined and re manded lo Hie coroner. Giuseppe Hofanlo. Rippohtlldo's partner, was questioned, but threw lillie light on tho case and was not detained. The police also began a search for a woman who is said lo formerly roomed al the Prilschlor house, but who left there after a quarrel and LOQY ludt'lt'S \\\ LhCvliQj?sc wiivre, n.io girl's body was found. 'When the news of the Unding of tho little one's body spread I brough tho neighborhood oxcltonionl rose to SUCh a pitch that the removal of thc body and the arrest of Hippolano caused almost a riot. Many thousands ol' persons were in ibo nearby street when the wagon from Hie morgue arrived. Al sight ol' tin" covered body the crowd vented its grief and rage in a babel of ton gues, The police wore compelled to uso force to ged through the street. Soon afterwards the arrest of Ibo cobbler became known and thc? crowd charged the prisoner's shop. Hippo lano bad been safely removed lo the Station House, bul his shop windows were smashed ami only the doloi min ed front (d' I he police reserves who clubbed righi and left, prevented grenier damage. .lohn Kusuticho the Russian watch man uudei- arrest as a suspicious per son and who is said to have foeeh seen in Hie company ol' the girl whose body was found ill tho aroa wax on Cast Ninetieth street, was remand ed without ball until Saturday. No clue to the murder In Twenty-second si reid was secured . Haler il was decided lo hold Ho fanlo for examinai ion. Dora Mess uer. who is said lo have been seen in Hui company ol' the cobbler, was arrested ns a wll ness. N Ol ITU S FA TRAGHIH CS. Schooner Wrecked and British and Sat ives Fight. Tile Steamer Manuka from Austral ia. Willi news ol' lighting In Hie New H?brides, has real lied Victoria, H C.,. In au eilCOlinter between Ile brides blacks and a punitive exped? ?| lion landed from Ibo British cruiser SF Cambridge, t<> avenge Hie murder cd a european I radar, the hincks killed one bluejacket ol' the lauding pttrly ?villi wounded anol lier bluejacket. Tho news was brought from Hu Caroline group Hint lite Irndlilg schooner (Muirlos und Flin foundered in ll hurricane. Capt. Warner and ' ol' lils crew were drov ned K Fd IS IIAW lt FF PS IMSPF.\S.\K\ Stale Board of Canvassers Decides Thal il Won. Tho Slate board ol canvassers lill aniniymslv decided Thursday Hie ap peal in Hie Kershaw dispensary ('Icc lion in lavin Ol' I lui dispensary. Hud lug thai the election, was illegal on account "i Irregularities. Tin? reverses ibo Duding of the county board. Which lound ililli pro hihii Inri had-curried h> s i voles, and ll keeps ide dispensaries open. The prohhltiouists will lake i ho case lp the Supreme Corirl lin certiorari. CHASING Fl l'A DS. ^i"ssc Alter Two Who Attempted Criminal Assault. A special from Adieus. Ha., says a posse ls pursuing I wo negro incl) w ho entered Hie room ol two vonni; wo men si adonis Ol' I llO summer liol Illili school, al Candler Hall and ill I OUI pl od criminal assault. Tlie girls screamed so Idiidlj l hal I ho men wei 0 f riga teaed away. TRA IN RAN AWAY Crashing lui?? Another Freight Kills Four Persons. Ai AH bison. Kansas, Missouri ra cine ffOlghl train ran awa\ down Shannon lilli Wodnesdaj morning and struck tho rear end of i.thor freight standing oa tho track. Four nersoiis were killed and IWO Injured. ThrOO Of thO killed were boating I hen way. SUICIDE MYSTERY. A Woman Kills Herself and So Does a Man Who Know (ho Woman Well ami Was Summoned as a Witness at tho Inquest. Amos li. Rum haugh, of Washing ton, t). C., n clo?e friona* o? Miss Laurit Matthews, tho yoong woman who committed suicide nour Brond moor, Colorado. Sunday night, added borrow and mystery to the gruesome case hy shooting himself! through tho head Wednesday, In tho samo manner adopted hy Miss Matthews. Rumlmugh committed tho act in Iiis room al the Alla Vista Hotel. ' mi hour when the fatal shot was fired is nol known as it was no! honril hy my ono in the hotel nutt the deed was discovered only when officers went io his room to ascertain why he hail liol responded to Ibo subpoena lo attend Hu? coroner's in quest tiver Miss Matthew's hotly on 'Thursday morning, When the olllcers appeared nt the hotel a bell boy was sent, to Ruill hutigh's room lo .seo what was the matter. Tho boy found tho door locket! anti could get no response. The olllcers forced tho door open ami lhere tm Hie bed Rumbaugh was re clining, bis brains oozing out onto the door. A hasty examination show ell that tin"- man was still alivo, and he was taken io a hospital, bul al a late hour (he attending physicians say he cannot recover. Thal (be act td* Runibuugh was the direct result ol' the death of Miss Matthews is not doubled by Ibo ? 111 cials. Ho was lo have appeared ns a witness al (he coroner's ili(|ucsl to toll what lie knew of his frioud's iragic end. Runibaugh claimed to be bul a chanco acquaintance of thc girl bul ii developed that he knew hoi" in Chicago and also knew C. A. (Joey, of Chicago, and Dr. H. A. Thomas, of tho "tai Ranch." Ile was frequently a member of the par ties al Which Miss Matthews ?inti Hm other men ltd erred to were members. Runibaugh was ibo ono who ac companied Miss Creen, tho nurse, to the livery slnhle about D o'clock Monday morning lo seo if Miss Mal thews' horse had returned. Il was, he who had sent Ibo telegram lo Coey ask int; I lint he "do tho righi Hiing hy (ho girl" anti it was willi him thal Miss Matthews loll tho let tor in which was enclosed another loiter lo Coey. If Rumbaugh tibi md destroy the bitter left him by Miss M nt tho ws to gether willi the ltd 1er to Coey, il is believed they will show startling tacts thal may eulanglo tither people. The telegram sent by Rumbaugh lo Ciii-y. luker, in Hie light of bis sui cide!, has more moaning than before. 11 was as follows: "Laura committed snit ide on ac count of you. I,idlers loft behind, Semi $;?oi) at once for expenses." 'The oflleors say thal lin letter shows thal Rumbaugh knew Coey well enough to speak lo him of "Laura" anil to threaten bim. Runi baugh was a bon I L'S years of age, A service medal ol' honor shows flint he served willi distinction In the 'Tenth Pennsylvania Infantry In the Philip pines. Two in iel" notes aro all thal ex plains (he young man's act. One note is addressed "To whom il may concern," and reads as follows: "Ship my lindy lo Mrs. J. II. Runi baugh, Mont Pleasant, Pa., West moreland county. Notify tho Travel ers' Insurance company of Hartford. Conn., and Hie Fraternal Order of Eagles, of Scottsdale, Pa. Amos ll. Rumbaugh." 'The second note was addressed lo his mother, Mrs. j. II. Runibaugh, at the above address. Riiinbaiigh wrote: Dear Mother: 'There is nothing for me to say why I did (his awful deed, KO lay my body away to rest. I have abOlli $1500 on Illy person. Von and Charlie sollie things up, "Your son "Richard IL Ruinhaugh," MOP RX KB AS DI-'. AD. For Fl li y Nears Hut 'Turns lp lo Oreel Friends, Mr. and Mrs. \V. H. Smith, of Ar mory, Miss., are visiting relatives at vahiosla, Ca, Mr. Smith has the dis IIm (lon ol' having been mourned as load for lilly years and aller thill i hue (urning up al his old home to intel his relative;; I hose who wen alive. lie ion bunn' in TwiggK county Alien ho was IS years of ago and went West. His sisters, two of whom ive in Low nos and ono in Merrion .ouniy, moved uwa> with ibo fnlnll.v ..id lie lust I ruck ol' them bulli last jj ear. IP' is now s| years ol' ligo and li mle and hearty. His mooting with bis sisters aller stich a loni; sopera ion was a vei ,\ happy occasion. SION ATORS IIA V Vi Till HST. .pent Dig Sum for Drinkables ni Hu Last Session. The annual report of Hie secretary of the Unllod Slates senate is in some ways n queer document. A good many (d' Its items might lead one to think thai the senators are an expen sive luxury. Cor Instance the sum of ST.nun was spout during the lasl session ol Congress to provide ibo members with drinkables, suth as various in i nera I waters and lemonade, of iliis. nm ou n I $38 was spent for lem ons anti sugar. (tosidos these Items, there are many other curious things mention ed. Noarlj $11.'.500 sviis paid for sta Itomiry and engraving, and oven for Such articles ns gloves anti tobacco cases. Among Ibo oilier ileitis were an old ininti, a dollar mouse trap, aliar of roses, quinine, hair Vigor, null mid castor oil. HUCK HI) AT CHAIN GANG. Prefers io He Punished For Deserting From Hie Navy, halber than serve thirty days on Ibo mad:, James Williams, al Salis bury N C.j declared thal ho is a do sorter from the navy, and communi cation from Washington vorlflod iii:, statemoni, IT o had served olghtoon months on the Franklin, ol' Ibo ic quired tour year;;. The Washington authorities will send for him Against a Priest of Being Leader in Murder Plots IN CITY OF NEW YORK. Threatening Lot tera Hoon Uovcalcd, Four indictments Against tho Av inenian, Who is Central Figure In Hug Merchant Murder (Jaso-Sev eral Other Crimes Aro Hoing Shown Up, In New York four hui ici ment s now lie against Father Martoogosslan, the Armenian, who,-it is alleged, some times hiys aside lils priestly robes to practico extortion and blackmail. Tho priest is Just now the central ligure in tho conspiracy which the district attprnoy seeks lo provo had for its object the robbery of wealthy Armen ians and lcd lo tho murder of tho rug mendiant, Tuvshanjlan, and oth ers, who refused to bo financially bled. From ibo slayer of Tavshanjlan, Medros 1 lainpni l/.oomian, us ho is known in New York, tho polieo hope to secure a confession establishing (hat tho youth unwittingly was tho agent of oluckiiinlling terrorists. A trunk which Ham part /.oom ain h. ad in Lowell, Mass., has been brought, lo New York and its contents may throw light on the Investigation. Of tho (bree additional Indict ments aga ir. si Martoogosslan brought in by the grand jury, two charge at tempted robbery as did the original Indictment and ono alleges extortion. The latter charges that Un* priest was responsible for at least one of tin blackmailing letters which (illicit ly followed tho death of du? rug mer chant. The loller was mailed in Now York on Hie aftornoon of .Inly 22, tho day thal Tavshanjlan was shot. It was written In red ink in tho Armen ian language, and was signed by tho symbol of the terrorists, three hands with daggers uplifted, poised above a red heart. Tho loller is as fol io ws : "Gulahl Gulbonklan & Co., "Brunswick Hld., New York. .'Death Warrant: "Tho executives of Ibo Constanti nople Armenian revolutionary terror ists organization condemn io death Ilaroulinn Gulbonklan, dulah! Gul benklun and Patrick Gulbonklan, tho (bree brothers who. entirely, have doaf ears lo all appeals for national freedom. Our executive hoard, hav ing given its decision to Haroutlan and Gelabl Gulkonklnn, in America, gives them twenty-four hours lime to dot ide Ind ween their duly and death. "Constantinople Armenian Revolu tionary Terrorists' Organization.*' Tito letter is dated Constantinople, .lune 27. 11)07. Following the lotter ls n postcrlpt, ?ilso in red ink, which reads as fol lows: "Although indi her poison nor hanging can proven! ns from fti 1 filI ing our duly to tue end, lt is neces sary thal you should know. ll you bel ray Ibis letter or cause harm lo one hair on tho heads of one of us against that consider your whole fam ily whiped out." i llofore this loiter carno Haroutlan Culhenkinn, w ho is the accusing wit- , ness nguiu st Ibo priest, had received a blackmaling lofter demanding $25, nnn. hid had no! complied willi tho demand. Tho sense of Hie indict mont is thal the pries! either sent the quoted let ter or caused il to be sent. Also, it ls alleged thal In September, 1905, Fatlicr Martoogosslan threatened lo kill or came lo be killed. Medros llanzanjlan, a mord?an! bf ?9 Union square, unless the biller gave lip $ if),OOO ttl I he Armenian revolution ists. Furl her. ii is ( barged that Father Marloogcssinu represented, or caused io be represented, lo Miran G. Kara gonsian, au Armenian, thal ho would meei deal h unless he gave $ I nu.nun io tho Armenian revolutionary lund. Karagensian, ii ls said, received this communication in tho form of II 'ot ter on August 2'.'. 11)05. Tho lette! added : "Tho list is not finally dosed yet. There may be several others and you may lio Ooxt." Tho Into afternoon develope4 an important witness, when Mugderlck Musir?an, a blacksmith, was examin ed by 'Assistant District Attorney Manley. According to information lalor given out tit the assistant dis trlcl attorney's ellice, the witness said lluil he had often attended meetings of the 11 um link isl, nt which Mart oogessinn presided. Continuing, lu is alleged to have slated, that he knew (if live diff?rent cases, where men had bren sent from ibis country io Kuropo ai the Instigation of ll man muted io murder persons. On two occasion. . Luslrillll Saldi he bad been boson io ii.ardor, bul managed In various ways io shin tho responsi bility. Some limo ago be was told thal he would have lo kill Nikolai Milack be cause iii thu! time ii was believed i liai Milack was ii TUrltish spy. Ac cording lo Mr. Manley, the black smith made further startling admis sions and furnished corroborative evidence of meal Importance against tho prisoner, who is declared lo other Armenians lo have been Hie moving spirit in tlx' blackmailing baud. .MOTH Hil St M IDI'S. Mccann' Despondent Over Hie Death of Her Son, Mrs. Marv Sykes, a well known and prominent lady of Groonsboi'O, N. C., committed suicide Thursday by Ur ine, (WO pistol bullets into ber body. A bunt il yea'r ago Mrs. Sykes' young esl son died, aller a long illness, and ever since she lias been very despon dent . FATAL ACCIDENT. Philadelphia Hunker Met Death in Sw Imming Fool. |'n" ?dent R, Willson, Of Hie North ern National bunk, of Philadelphia, Pa., was instantly killed in a swim ming pool al H><- Columbia club, ono Of tho most prominent social organi zations in Hie City. H la believed lie mol don iii by striking bis hoad against tho concrete side of tho tank willie diving. JAILLED A3 A WiTCH indiana Woman Accused of Caus ing Child's Death. ll is Alleged Slir Mus Foretold and Caused livery Calamity That Has Def al len Evansville. Ind. Tlie .ming of surety of tho peace proceedings against Mrs. Margaret Oil moro, of Evansville, Ind., makes tho latest caso in which tho law has hoon invoked against anyone accused of practicing witchcraft. Tho speci fic charge was the causing of tho deal li of a two-year-old soil of John Paris, and tho incident load to tho unfolding of tho history of the aged woman. In the last ten years she has hoe?! transformed in Hie public mind from a motherly old woman Into a vicious minister of evil, whose chief delight is to harass her neighbors and lill I beni with awe on account of her predictions (d' calamities, in tho Im mediate neighborhood or Mrs. Qii inoro's shtick nothing is loo terrible to be believed about her. The wav ing ol' a broom from her front door is enough to drive all Hie children In the community into their homes in abject fear. Ten years ago Mrs. Gilmore, nov SO years of age. was known as an ex ceptionally good nurse and was pop ular in the community. She was poorer I lum most of lier neighbors lint managed to make hm- living by selling vegetables she raised in lier garden and by raising chickens for the market. As she grew older she withdrew from intercourse with her neighbors and Iben stories of ber ec centricities liegan to crop oui. She was alleged to have seen visions; to have predicted storms and inunda tions, sudden deaths und unhappy marriages, and in fael every calamity that befell the people individually and collectively. She never professed to bo a clairvoyant or a necromancer, but lier reputation was made by pop ular talk. The incident thal led lo the recent proceedings was caused hy the kill ing of a chicken. Tho Hails family lives in Hie same neighborhood as Mrs. Gilmore and ber chickens annoy ed them. One day the son threw a stone and injured a pullet, and Mrs. Gilmore |s alleged ,to have said that if Hui chicken died ono of Hie. Paris children would cont raid whooping cough and died within (wo days. Tlie chicken died in S hours and the day 1 following ono of the Paris children ; was Bini lt on with whooping cough 1 and died within the spool Hod time. Tho Incident caused much comment ? and dually the action brought by the fat her. The court ignored the charge, say- : lng that these are not the days in < Which Salem witch massacres are ? possible. The authorities havo also arranged to give the woman special protection against any possible hos- t tility on the part of tho Incensed neighbors. 1 ('MADGES COX SIM DACY. Woman Says She Wasn't Cheating Indians, Hut Helping Thom. Arrested recently and platted 111 jail ai Hillings, Mont., charged with obtaining money from the Crow In dians under false pretence, Mrs. Hel en Pierce (?ruy, who claims to he a newspaper and magazine writer, says She is glad she has been arrested. She was sent to jail in default of $1,500 bonds. She say ss she is tho victim of a conspiracy. Mrs. Gray admits thal she obtain ed several hundred dollars from lin dow ndinns. This amount she said she used lo pax lier expenses to Washington dist year, where she went to place Inn1 story exposing the wrongs of Ibo Indians before the President and the oMicors ol' tho In terior depart menl. She said as a result of her Hip. Secretary Garfield's private secretary was sent lo the reservation lo Inves tigate the charges (hat Hie consent of the indians to Hie opening of I . 000,000 acres of tho reservation was obtained hy forgery. She thinks ber cause will now attract more atlOli I ion. A K A HS SI,A Y El HOPEA N'S. Many Killed as Result ol' Extermina tion Doctrine. Dr. Merle, who has arrived al Tan gier, on a German ship Which brought a ll ll ll) luir of Jews and other refuges from Casablanca, is the bearer of a report showing thal Hie ?daughter of Europeans in Casablanca was (he outcome of a Indy war preached by Arabs for the extermination of tho IO uro pea ns. On Monday a number of Arabs chiefs entered Casablanca and de manded thal tin- harbor Improvement works ceased and cited the natives lo exterminate Hie europeans . On Tuesday the natives began (he at tack by stoning a European who was Inn ked lo pieces. Tills was I ho I lg mil for a general attack. At least 8 were murdered While ihe .lews and Europeans were laking refuge on board the Cer n?an ship, tin- Mussulmans bogan io attack Hu- laborers employed on tho harbor works. They killed several men whose bodies subs?quent l> wore bu rued. AGAINST COAST LINE. Case Can't He Carried to thc Federal ( ourt. in an Important decision Hied on Thursday J lld go Cary of the Circuit court decides ill I he case of W. C, Geraty, Of Charleston again.-;! tlie AtIniltIC Coast Hine Hoad, thal the Coast Hine ( anno! carry Hie case into Ibo federal courts on Hie ground thal I is a foreign corporation. The de cisi?n says thal the road is estopped from contending lila! il is a foi'Olgll corporal ion because Hilder HlO COUslI tulloh all railroads mus! he domostl caled and if il is not domesticated il is operated unlawfully. |,0<'OMOTI VE EMM-ODES. Three .Men Killed and a Fourth Dying lu Consequence. Throe men were killed and a fourth is dying, as Hie result of the bl ?wing up of a Bur'ington locomo tivo, drawing a freight train otis! ol' HTeckonbfidgO, M.?., Thursday. / ) iNST?NTLY KILLED. Two Columbians Have Fatal Row Over in Georgia. Clarance. Gilmore Claims Thal. N. A, Itu inside Made Improper Propos als to His Wife and Ile Shot Him. A special dispatch from flaxley, Ca., says: Friday night, seven miles south of here, N. A. Burnside was instantly killed hy Claronce Gilmore, his lifo long friend) schoolmate ami boarder for many, months. Moth moved hero from Conimbla, S. C., a few months ago and had boen engaged in tile steam saw mill business. Gilmore caine in last nglit ?ind surrendered to the sheriff. He staled thal nitor re tiring last nigh! bis wife informed him that during (he day Burnside had made improper proposals to her. Gilmore got out of hod ?ind upon en tering the room of Iturnsido killed him using a shot gun." The Columbia State says: A greiit. deal of regret was caused here Friday by the announcement, of the death of Mr. N. A. Burnside. No particulars could he learned all day long ?ind that m ado Ibo matter all the more deplorable For both Air. Burn side and his shiver, M,r. Gilmore, wine well known ?ind widely connect ed. Mr. Krank H. Gilmore left Im mediately for Huxley, Ha., lo bc; willi bis brother, ?md promised to tele graph The State Immediately noon Iiis arrival any particulars which could ho "learned. The deceased Wits a native of tills county, having berni horn in Lyk?Br hind. His father was ?it Olio time a well-to-do farmer of tba county. Mr. Burnside himself bad some property a row years ago when he was engaged in the grocery business in Columbia, but it is said thal in the last year or two he has been in allluent circum stances and hud boen addicted some what to Intemperance; Mr. Burnside married Miss Clara Chappollo of the upper part of this township, a sister of Mir. Oscar Chappollo, tho well known farmer. Mrs. Burnside moved lo Florida about five years ugo and secured a divorce. Among Mr. Burn side's living relatives in Ibis country are bis half brother, Mr. W. 11. Burn side ol' Lakesland, one of Hie most 1 respected mon in this country; and 1 his sisicrs, Mrs. \V. S. Green and Mrs. H. V. Hagett of Columbia. Another brother. Mr. .1. W. Burnside, also a 1 well known Richland farmer, died at church at Mill Creek a few months ugo and his death Wits nundi dopier- i i'd. Mrs. F. S. Burnside of 117 1 Washington street is the stol) mother j >r Mr. Burnside. "Nob" Burnside, as Hie deceased 1 was known, was a man of pleasant 1 iddress, of friendly manner ?ind one >l the h ts who would be suspected 1 if l- , inc' d to bc uuarrolsoine. 1 CAY'.' Gilmore also is a native of ' tho Lykesland section, lie is a son [)f the late II. C. Gilmore, a promi nent farmer who was a near neighbor 1 of the Burnside family. Mr. F. ll. 1 Gilmore, who is connected with L?rick & Lowrance, and Mr. C. M. < Gilmore, a well known traveling 1 salesman, aro brothers of the young 1 man In trouble. Mr. C. W. Gilmore 1 is a married man. Iiis wife having been Miss Fannie Harris of Lykes land, ? member of another e?lliiinhlo 1 family. Mr. Gilmore had just n:o\ vi ; from Sumter about six monti s ago to this saw mill in Georgia, where he is associated with Mr. S. H. Owens, a former supervisor of this county. : Mr. F. ll. Gilmore was a candidate for the same ofllce last summer and was defeated hy a very na; row ma jority, and lie is very popular in Hie county. Mr. c. w. Gilmore ?s said by those who knew him to have always l een a mau of quio! disposition and never engaged In quarrels. Ills friends were very ni lld) shocked to learn thal he had got into trouble, the exact . a luro of Which was unknown up to a late hour last night. Hut a rumor gol oui to the effect thal Mr. GlllllOrc had quarreled over the maller of closing n saw mill during Hie sum iller months. Tlie reason why it was impossible lo get any news from Hie homicide is because Huxley, Ga., is itself al most inaccessible, being on Hie Southern's line between Macon and Hrunswick, and in Appling county, about 30 miles west of Jessup. The killing probably occurred at the saw mill, some distance from Hie town ol' Huxley, and particulars wen; not obtainable iioitiiiiin; LYNCHING. .Maryland .Mob Kicked Negro lo Heath After Murder. For the cowardly murder of Hoi ice man .lohn ll. Daugherty, ol' Cl'lsllcld, Md., .lames Recd, a negro and Indian half hreed, was kicked lo death by a mob after he had been taken into custody. Ills dead body was? lied lo a telegraph pole, where il was viewed hy thousands and later cul down ami thrown into a swamp. Heed shot 'lie olllcer in Hie back of the head, when he attempted io arrest his pul, ?ilse a negro, Hillery .Innes. Aller (be murder Rood jumped on a bicycle, rode to Hie water's edge and escaped in \ sailboat. Ile was run down hy power boats and brough! back lo the town. As soon as ho landed he was struck down uncoil scions by a member ol' I he walling mob, ind. in a few minnies, he was lylllfi lifeless beneath the feel of Hie lingi'} men. Heed was ycart! old. Il is said thal should his pal put in appearance lie is Ikelv to meet a similar fate, so great is the Indignation of the peo Plo. _ BR FA 1)101) SHPIOKATlON. Devoted (Hil Friends Tried to laid Theil' Lives Together. Threatened willi being scpcrnlcd from each other, the Misses Louise Oiidro and Nonie f)ily, Iwo beautiful 10-ycar-old girls of Adunia, Ga., Died lo end their lives by jumping into Hie Chattahoochee river. Locked In each ol lier's arms i hoy sprang into the water. They were seen hy I wo men, who plunged after them ?ind saved I hem. Both girls belong lo good families in Atlanta. Miss Olldl'O is a striking brunette and Miss Day is a perfect blonde and rather frail. Miss Ondre always alluded lo Miss Day as "My little blonde sweet houri ". The girls are mildly infatuated with each other and say they do not care lo live un less they can be together. THE BLACK HAND ls Raided and Assassins and Blackmailers Are Caught. DOZENS ARE JAILED. Tim United States Steel Corporation Was Huck ol Pinn to Hound Thoth Pp-Twelve Murders in Two Years Aro Attributed to tito Organization Which ls Composed of a Lot of Desperadoes. A flor wailing for months and spending thousands or dollars and spreading a drag iud that has caught mon in four states, tho United Slates Steel Corporation lias rounded ni? what ls said lo ho Hm worst gang ol' hlackhand assassins in tho country. Dozens of arrests have hoon found, and men are in jail in New Castle, Penn.; Youngstown, Ohio; Sharon. Pa.; Plainfield, N. J., and Rochester. N. Y. A dozen murders in tho Maltonlng and Shenandoah Valleys in the last couple of years are attributable to the gang. Por headquarter the gang picked Millsville, a quarry town in Lawrence county, Pa., a few . milos wost of New Castle. Here are local ed the Immense quarries of tho John ston Limestone company. Millsville, locally, is known as "Belltown." The quarries, full of caverns, afforded hiding places that could ho searched for a week for suspects without re sults. Dolecttves were started after the gang. Some went to Itally and came hack as immigrants, going to Hill ville, where they worked with the Pluck Hand members. The raid was made Saturday after noon, .inly 13til, by.County Detective Logan, Deled Ive. P. Marshal, of Now Castle; Deputy Sheriff Frank Wad dington, Detective Mehard. several New Castle policemen, and railroad detectives. The time selected for the raid was payday at the Johnson quar ries. As (be men came up for their moll oy a stranger with a check list scann ad them. When a man wauled ap peared the stahger would toll him lhere was some!bing wrong with bis anvolopo, and ask him to step into a hack office. Before any alarm was raised twelve men had been Inveigled into the room and hand-cuffed. Final ly all the men were paid oft', and nine suspects were still wanted. A house in the town was then raided by Ibo police, and the missing niuo men (?aught. The men under arrest, wore charg ed with conspiracy to rob and being suspicious persons. Men and women it UillsvPle, no longer nfrnid tell of what became known as "flashlights Illing." Every night, long (lashes of light suddenly would he seen all over town. Filially it was explained that Hie lights were made hy (locket flash lights used hy Pluck Hand leaders to scare timid Italians Into giving up in?noy. Tiie lights were ascribed to supernatural causes. Nicolo ('turlee, who was .suspected liv tho gang of hoing a detective, was subjected to abuses and torture such ns few white mon endure and live. He told bis story in a justice's court at Hi?' hearing of some of tho suspecta. Jim Hoes, a grocer, who caused the arrest of Salvator Kxposlto, says he was compelled to mortage: his home for $:!H<> to meet the demands of the Slack Hand. lOxposlto is said to boone of the few real H lack Hand mon. john .lotti, arrested in Youngstown bj Chief McDowell and Detective Kane, is saitl to have conducted a school in which Italians were (aught lin1 use of the stiletto. Il is said that he had a rubber ligure of a niau, anti on il were marked tho places lu which properly lo insert Hie slilletto and cause Instant death. Joe linguale, who is said lo have levied tribute money from Italians for moni Iis and finally lofl Hillsdale with $11,000 in gold, is badly want ed. .loo Poehesso was murdered In froid of Sam Saillilio's saloon, Kasl Coderai stree, Youngstown, Sustal 110 Marione, a hoy ol' nineteen, is un dor arrest for the crime, He do dares he shot Pochesso in self defon so. When asked if be belonged t<> tho Black Maud, he boas! ingly said lie did. The murder of Pochosso, the police say was caused by his efforts to slop the blackmailing of arch Itallan women of Youngstown. Tho hoy reit so secure that he dill nool go ll ft cen miles away from Youngstown. in South Sharon tho police say thal Sam Yallous anti Sandy Perono were ibu rd er od by ibo Black Hand. South Sharon workmen at ibo Steed corpo ration furnaces ?ire said to have con tributed $8,000 to tho black hand Ilgen ts. Two men were arrested Sal imlay charged with attempting to blackmail a woman by throats of vio lence, t Owners Of mills and other Indus trial establishments are still foarl'ul of vengeance. One big cement con cern near Newcastle, which has $1, 000,000 invested 111 a plaid is said lo be guarding against Uro. Ill other mills extra precautions are heine, taken lo guard against hicondlarlsni. 1 F.LL IMO RIV 1011. (.real Crush of People on Bridge Pushed Six in, Hall' a (lo/.OIl persons who were participating in tho fireworks displaj al thc dedication ol' tho HOW $3,000. nun brldgo across the diarios river. connecting Posion and Cambridge, Thursday nicht wore pushed hilo tho fiver l>> tho groat crush of people be hind them. The accident occurred Oil tho Cambridge side of tho river near tho end of Ibo now Indue. Six men and hoys wine pulled from Ibo water by the poll? o. and for ii Hmo it was be lieved Hull one or more had boen drowned, Investigation by tho police failed io confirm the rumor that anyone had been drowned. KOP FAN ARMY PISA 11M F<D. Hie Japanese Killed Forty Koreans In the Operation. A dispatch received at the Stale Depart tnonl I rom Seoul, Korea, says forty Koreans were killed or wound ed 111 a light precipitated Hy disarm aineiit ot the Korean army. The eas Hallies on the Japanese side were slight. DASTARDLY AFFAIR. Constable Valentine Shot and Kilt ed by a Negro, Who Ho Had Cono to Arrest on the Charge of Larceny-Tho Murderer M ado His Escape. About flvo o'clock Monday morning Magistrate J. I. Valentino of Cope lout his constable, H. ip. Valentino, 0 arrest Pink Franklin, alias Pink Porter, colored, on a cha.-go of Inr :ony. Franklin lives on Mr. K. S. lp]res' place about four miles from Norway. Constable Valentine pressed into erv ice to assist him Mr. \V. N. Carter md both wont to Franklin's house to irrest him. On arriving at tho house /alcalino wont to tho front door and Ju rt cr to the back door. Valentino knocked ut tho door and vas admitted. Just us bo got in the kOUSO the negro drow his pistol and ired at him. Tho ball entered his oft side ?nd penetrated the stomach. in the meantime, tho negro trenched Valentino's pistol from him nd it is supposed that in getting the islol it tired, striking tho negro in he shoulder, also one ball striking ds wife on tho arm, making a flesh /ou nd. Dr. Able of Norway and Dr, Jen Ings of Cope and Dr. Haldon of Cope Hended the wounded man, giving im nil thc medical attention pos ible. Mr. Valentine is about 27 years of ge and single. Ho is a graduate of be Osborne Business college of **U usta, Ga. Mr. Valentine died at 7 'clock Monday night. Tho negro Franklin is at large and 1 hoing chased by a posse of men, ho think they have him located lu a wanui near thc place of the sboot ig. His wife was arrested and curried ) Norway Monday afternoon. lt is lated' that she started toward the oundell man with an axe to kill kim dille he was on the ground. Two negroes who accompanied 'ranklin to the swamp have been night and both are in the Norway mud house. Ono was severely hipped to get informal ion, bul this died. TWENTY-EIGHT CHILDREN. lit her a Methodist Preacher XV lie ls Hule and Hearty. Tho Rev. Abraham C. Ritebush, a tie-legged Confederate veteran, of ort Lavoca, Tex., in charge of a elhodist church there, is the father f l? boys and IG girls, baby No. 28 living just arrived, Huohuuh, who unos from Virginia stock und be eves in large American families, ls )w 615 \e;n s of'ago. and bas bad I wo ives. He ls nd Ive, Strong and vi gr .ons. His Hrs! wife, now deceased, was liss Angeliite M. Davis, of Augusta ninty, Va., who bore lum six boys lid seven girls. Ills second wife was iss Anne (!. Adams, a Louisiana Irl, who is now 17 years old and the mi hm- of six boys and nine gris. DISGUSTED WITH FILIPINOS lind ion of Dr. Gomez Dlssnppoints Washington Ofllcials, The Filipino elections have boen a real disappointment to the a?thori ?s showing that the unisses ot the eoplo are still as little fitted for Mf-governniont as a lot of irrespon Iblo children. One of their selections for the lo ni Legislature was the notorious Dr. tommndor Gomez, a man who luis eon convicted of fraud, is a revolu ionisl and sentenced to the penlten inry. tie is out now only under a slay of xecolion. His right to a seat In tho Bsombly will bo contested If the Jail oes liol get bim first. There is re owed talk among tho naives of in ependonco.? KI Ll (El) KY A TELE i i. ONE. hoiked lo Death While Holding ll Receiver to His Fur, Howard Grouch, aged :!7 years, a ouduclor on tho Citizen's Ifllectrlc ailroad, al Newburyport, Mass., was iistantly killed tho other morning t headquarters by receiving a shock i electricity from a telephone Ho ind hardly pushed up tho receiver .dion the shock came. Ile was nu ble to drop the receiver and scream tl tor help. Superintendent Files rushed to lils ssistanee and cul tho wire willen had eon crossed by an electric light wire. Irotich fell dead. ROI LIOR EXPLOSION tills Four People ami Wrecks Two Hallway Trains. Al Milan, Tenn., four persons wore illetl outright, another fatally in tired and toil seriously hurl by an iXplosioil Of tho boiler Of an eilglllO .n tho illinois Central fast fruit rain. The explosion wrecked thc rain as weil as another freight on i parallel siding. Roth trains caught ire and were destroyed. The dead n e tho engineer and flroiUUll and tWO ramps. 7 Al SIO TERROR. X Hand of Robbers in Maryland Who Rob Homes. A dispatch from Cumberland, Md.. 5a>'8 HlO WhOlC eastern section Of the iou ii ty adjoihlng Pennsylvania, Wes! Virginia is sn ff Ol'lng a roi g tl Of terror .ausetl b> depreda t ions of an organiz ed gang of robbers. Armed mien are (landing guard over their homos, Not i iilglll passes without several rob beries anti no due is left. Heavy re wartls are offol'Od, bul WI tho ll I caus ing results. FOI ^D ( HOLLI). The Hollies of Two Moro WotUOII Arc Found. New York has an epidemic Of mur ders. Two young women were found Choked tb death Monday timi Wed nOSday. The bodies are al 'he .nor gue unclaimed. One has hoon Iden tified an thai of Sophie Kohror ol Buffalo, Tim Identity of tho other ls unknown. TWENTY VICTIM Found After Tenement In New York Was Burned. BLACK HAND OUTRAGE Fire Started In tho Store and Spread With Such Rapidity that Score Met Death and as Many Dadly Humed. Tlie Hodics of tho Dead Wero Found in Many Unexpected Piucos Among the Huios. A shocking IOBS of human lifo and the destruction of property worth more than one million dollars, Svoro caused hy lires in Now York and Ila immediate vicinity in the 554 hours ending at eight o'clock Sunday morn ing. Tlie fire wave strack Coney Island and before it subsided Steoplo Chase park, a score of hotels and many amusement attractions wero in ruins and many persons honioless. Four women were discovered doad in a closet where thoy had rushed to bide from tho Hames. Tho body of a woman was found lying over a child as though she had trlod to protect It from the Hames. Fivo bodies wore found crowded uvouud one cloorT/a " on the top floor, showing-"that""they had been struck down while trying to escape. c After an all night search of tho ruins of six story tenement on Chris tie street, burned shortly after mid night, the polico announced that lhere were twenty vlctlfns of . tho * tire. The bodies of the dead were found in all sorts of unexpected places to which Ibo people bad fled when tho lire broke out. Almost ail of the bodies were burned beyond recogni tion, many lo such an extent that it was impossible to distinguish tho sex. A majority of victims, the po lice believe, were women and chil- ' d ren. Tlie burned building was a tene ment common to tho east sido, with a store on the ground floor and apart ments up stairs crowded with ten ants, mainly italians. The file started in the store and swept through the building with such rapidity that a fifth of the 100 ten ants met a horrible "deatn, another scoro, though they escaped, were more or less burned. It ls thought. Ibo Uro was caused by an explosion, a citizen reported \ that he heard a loud report and Baw Hie store window crack and fall to pieces, if this is true lt ls posslblo thal Ibo great loss of life ls due to a Black band" outrage. YVHO YT AN THF MAN ?. . Olio ls Being Sought in Connection With Actress' Suicide. That a man had something to dq with (Irving Miss Helen Bailey Trow bridge to suicide is believed by Pitts burg authorities, Tho woman was an actress and ended ber life by cutting her throat at tho American house, Pittsburg, a few nights ago. Near her body was found an extract from H Hoy's poem, "The Blues." Bofore ber death she had froquontcd tho new morgue and seemed to take a mor bid interest in the bodies exhibited i hero. The woman's body wns covered willi marks, believed to havo been Indicted by SOUK? person, possibly her lovjr, wini whom she might havo quarreled. J? is said she tried ear lier on the evening of her suicide to jump, from a third-story window. In vestigation is being made In Butior, PittsburgPa,, from which placo she went to Pittsburg. Chicago relativos have taken her body. INSANE MAN Tried to Throw His Child From a Moving Train. Frederich Ford, of Philadelphia, bec?m? Insane In a New York Cen tral Express train after leaving Al bany, N. Y.,/ and mudo several ef forts to kill his two year old daught er hy throwing her from the window of the train as it was speeding along bul was prevented by passengers. Ho also tried to make away with himself by leaping from the train, hut was restrained, and held captive by mem bers of the train crew until New York was reached, when ho was sent to Belevue Hospital. A BlVEH AT HIS PLEASURE. Tob?ceo Magnatc Pumps Burban Al most. Dry for His Park. In an effort to make bis two thous and acre park Uko fairyland, with gushing fountains, cascades and beaut ifni lakes, fdr his brido during (heir honeymoon, James Bi Duke, presdent of tho American Tobacco Company, has pumped tho Rarltan river at Sumervillo, N. J., nearly dry Duke luis on bis est ato art ificial lakes covering ail area of several hundred acres, besides innunioral fountains and waterfalls and theso are supplied from the Rarltan river by a pumping Station' WillPPED ALMOST TO DEATH Severely Cashed for Telling Tobac? o Growing Secrets. .lohn Cocker! was sevorcly whip ped by unknown parties at Guthrie, Ky., early this week. Switches wero used, the fl?flh being gashed and pieces Of his clothing driven into his (lesli. He is In a precarious condition. rho men told Cocker! that ho had ?ono a little too nundi talking last year about the Hine the tobacco plant beds were scraped, and they had come for a settlement. ACED MURDERER. An Old Man Electrocuted in New York Prison. Chat ios Bonier, aged seventy-eight years, old and white headed, was electrocuted for the murder of Franz and Johanna Froheii* at Auburn, N. Y,, Wednesday. The old man walk ed to lils death without a quiver, al ho Ugh tho authorities had feared a breakdown, Twice the fatal curront was turned on before tho doctors wore satisfied.