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VOL? XXXII
H?PP? OH OUI* DMTHH ?Loulous IN THY CAUSE."
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^ BENN ETTSVILLE, S. C.T M 1907
THIRD TERM TALK
Ended by President Roosevelt Re
peating What He Said
ON ELECTION NIGHT.
Republican and Democratic Lenders
Freely Comment on tho Presi
dent's Announcement that Ho Will
Under No Circumstances Stand for
R??lection na the Candidato of the
Republican Party.
President Roosevelt will not be a
candldute for a third term. All
doubt on this point was dispelled
Wednesday by the authorized i tate
ment from the White House that Mr.
Roosevelt still adhered to the declar
ation made threo years ago. In thc
statement Issued Wodnesday Presi
dent Roosevelt says ho has not
changed and shall not change the de
cision communicated to the public
lu 1904. Tho President's statement
follows:
On tho night ofter the election I
mado the following announcement.
'I am deeply scnslblo of the honor
dono mo by tho Amorican poople in !
thus expressing their confidence In ,
what I have tried to do. I appreciate ,
to the full the solemn responsibility <
this confidence imposes upon me and
I shall do all that in my power Hes J
not to forfeit it. On the fourth of j
March next I shall have served three i
and a half years, and this three and i
u half years constitute my first, term 1
The wise custom, which limits the
President to two terms regards the
substance, and not the form, and i
under no circumstances will I bo a 1
candidato for or accept another nom
ination.' I have not changed and (
shall not chango tho decision thus
announced.
Express Their Views.
Tho announcement that the Pres
ident would not. accept the Republi
can nomination if tendered carno at
too Into an hour to become generally
known in political circles, but among c
thoso who learned of it-Democrats (
and Republicans alike-tho feeling (
wu., gehort.1 char il let ..? 'ornent of ,
doubt in the Presidential situation,
fco far us it relates to tho third term '
talk,, and that lt definitely elimnates J
Mr. Roosevelt from tho contest. t
Some Democrats, however? express
a belief that a Roosevelt stampede In
tho Republican Convention would
shake Ii is resolution, und that he C
would prove no exception to the his
torical precedent in that no Ainerl- .]
can citizen over refused a Presiden
tial nomination. ?
Administration Republicans de
claro that the announcement gives i
great impetus to the Taft boom,
while the Democrats, many of tho I
leaders of whom are nt Washington,
are shouting that it means "liryah (
lu a walk."
Speaker Cannon says (be President i
speaks for himself and il would be
inappropriate for him to interpret f
his words. Senator Foraker declin- i
ed to discuss the matter. t
Senator Hopkins said it shows him <
to be a patriot as well as a states
man, following as he is tho Iradi- A
tiona of Washington and Jefferson
in limiting hisself to two terms. ,
Senator La Follette said: "While i
such an announcement could bo ex
pected it was not expected to come i
so soon. 1 have no other com?nenl \
to make at this time."
Represent a live Richardson of Ala- (
bama, said. "It is in accordance Willi ?
what I have always said of him. 1
did not believe he would accept the j
nomination for a third term."
Menus Bryon Ways Tillman. c
Among tho Democrats who com
mented on the President's statement (
wuB Senator Tillman, who said:
"This is by way of documentary ,
evldonce that the President has seen "(
tho handwriting on the wall. It
means that Bryan will bo tho next ,
President of tho United States.
Roosevelt is the only possible Re
publican candidate who could be
considered formidable."
John Sharp Williams said: "I bo
llovo I am one of the few Democrats
In publie life in the country who lias
been saying all ulong that tho Pres
ident would not run for a third
timo. I believe he had too much
knowledge of history to run the rlsl<
of threatening republican Institutions
with perpetuity of ton ure in the
Presidency. I also thought he was
a man of so much pride that oven If
ho had come to regret his after i K C
tion utterances ho would still st ami
to his word. I think the third term
Issue would have made Mr. Roose
velt the weakest man the Republican
pnrty could have nominated, not
withstanding tho fact that he if per
sonally the most popular Republican
in tho country to-day."
RoproHOntative Hardwick, of Coor
pia, said: "I think it means a tri
umph for Ibo reactionary (dement in
tho Republican party and a good
chance for the Democrats to Win."
Representative Bartlett, of Geor
gia, said: "It means a di ff 01*0111 can
didate and a different platform, I
think the Republicans will nominate
ti man on an entirely different plat
form and put Into the platform I bose
things which would not have been
put in had Roosevelt stood for the
nomination."
Representative James of Kentucky
said: "it is a complete surrender on
Roosevelt's part to the corporation
element of the Republican party and
announcement in advance of a sur
render and tho forecasting of the
defeated National Convention of the
policies for which ho st?nde. Th!J
will make Bryan stronger than over,"
Policeman Davis, of Sallo Y, Prob
ably Mortally Wounded
When In thc Act of Unlocking the
?mud Homo Ho Is Fited on in
, the Dark.
Cldef of Police W. H. Davis, of
galleys, was shot from ambush Fri
day night and may dio. A shotgun
was used and tho charge penetrated
his abdomen.
In a 8tatomont made diroctly af
ter the shooting in tho presence ol
several wltnossos Mr. Davis stated
that he had been shot by Morgan
Hoylston, with whom he is said to
have had trouble recently.
Mr. Davis was formerly on the po
llco forco in Columbia, but has been
In Salley about two years. Recently
ho had serious trouble with Mr. Boyt
ston and his son-in-law, Mr. D. O.
Manning, and when it becamo nec
essary to arrest thom ho had to uso
considerable forco, and tho two mon
Indicted Davis for assault and but
tory and falso Imprisonment..
.This caso was to have been tried at
tho last term of court in Aiken, but
was continued.
A few days ago Mr. Davis at
tempted to arrest Mr. Manning
again and in doing so had to beat
him up considerably. Tho eauc
against him was heard by the city
council at Salley Friday, but result
id in a mistrial.
Davis had a negro locked up In the
sunni house at Salley and Friday
light he went to the building to ?c
ense the prisoner. Just as he was
ibout. to unlock the door some ono
doppod out from behind the guard
louse and fired point blank at him,
ind tho wounded man claims the
diot was fired by Doylston.
Tho latest report from his bedside
s to the effect that bis wound is
aortal. Davis has preserved order
luring his Incumbency ns chief of
police and is held tn high regard by
he people Of Salley.
ANC1F.XT UH 10 H MASON'S.
I,ist of Cira nd Officers Mlected at the
Recent Meeting.
Tho-Most Worshipful Grand Lodge
>f Ancient. Free Masons of South
karolina mot, In annual session in
Charleston last week The Grand
duster's report showed the order to
ie in a most, nourishing condition.
Vf ter the transaction of all business
he following grand ofllcers were
dected:
Grand Master, .lames 1,. .Michie,
?f Darlington.
Deputy Grand Master, James R.
lohnson, of Charleston.
Senior Grand Warden, George s.
dower, of Newberry.
Junior Giand Warden, George T.
iryan, of Greenville.
(?rand Treasurer, Zimmerman
)avis. of Charleston.
Grand Secretary, J. T. Barron, I'.
I. M., of Columbia.
Grand Chaplain. Kev. W. P. Smith
>f Sportanburg.
The Grand Lodge being called
rom the third degree lo tho first
legree, proceeded to thc Inslalla
lon of the newly elected Grand
> ulcers.
The following appointive ofllcers
vere then announced:
Senior Grand Deacons! J. P. Duck
.tt, Anderson, and .1. G. Kinney,
lenneftsvillc.
Junior Grand Deacons; W. J.
lodgers, Darlington, and J. NV.
Cohorts, Greenville.
Grand Stewards: A. L. Harton,
'ballest?n, and J. K. Hood. Allder
ion.
Grand .Marshal. John Keiinorly,
Odgoflold.
Grand Pursuivant, G. L. Kicker,
Sumter.
Tho following District Depntj
'.rand Masters:
First District, William C. Ma/
.ck, Charleston; second, S. ll. Hod
?ors, Beaufort; third. It. A. Gyles
Blackville; fourth, William A. Giles
rirnnitevlllo; fifth, I?. IO. Nicholson
ridgefield; sixth, lt. A. Cooper, Lau
.ens: seventh, J. C. Watkins, An
'?'orson; eighth, O. lt. Doyle, ('?il
noun, ninth. A. S. Howell, Piedmont
tenth, H. H. Bishop, Inman; eleventh
'!. Y. Hunter, Prosperity; twelfth, K
0. Beerest, Lancaster; thirteenth
loseph Lindsay. Chester; fourteenth
W C. Davis, Manning; (If teen th
Louis Jacobs. Klngstroc; sixteenth,
William lOgglOBtOn, Hallsville; sev
onteeth, John C. Sellers; eighteenth,
william L. Glaze, Orangohurg.
DISPIONSARV LAW DISCI SSI;i>.
Represent ntl ves of lOlevcn County
Hoards of Control Meet.
Pursuant to a call sent out by thc
Kershaw County board Of Control
there was held in Columbia Wed noe
day a conference of county boards,
which was attended by representa
tives of eleven county boards as fol
lows:
Kershaw, Richland, Orangeburg.
Charleston, Lee. Harnwell, Laurens.
Dorchester, Fairfield, CllOSlor and
Sinnier. Dr. W. J. Dunn, of Kel
shaw, was elected presiden! and Cap!
i. II. ciaffy, of Ornngoburg, secre
tary;
The mom hors Of COUftly boards
present discussed Hie provisions of
I thc Cnroy-Cothrnn law In detail and
particularly as to such sections as
now give practical difficulty In the
Operation O? the dispensaries.
The matter of samples, which le
not dealt with al all In the biw, was
chiefly discussed, and lt was decided
to ask tho General Assembly to
amend the law so that the boards "an
dispose of sample;, in some way lo
yilly.
GIRL RESCUED,
Held by a North Carolina Farmer
as a Slave
IN A BARN WITH RATS.
E. T. Pender Hired Miss Olga Sjos
tedt by Advertisement and Then
Tried to Starve Her.-Ho Laugh
ed tit Her Pleadings.-When Re
leased, She Declares Negroes Re
ceived Retter Food Than She.
Half starved, yet joyful over her
release from what nbc declared to
bo slavery on a farm owned by E.
T. Peudor, six miles from Halifax,
N. C., Miss Olga Sjostedt passed
through Washington D, C., on Thurs
day.
With her was Thomas Broderick,
formerly a detective at Asbury Park.
That is the homo of tho girl, who is
a trained nurse and who served In
that capacity in tho Spanlsh-Amor
ican War.
"On tho Tuesday beforo Thanks
giving Iwcnt. to Halifax to work for
Pender, whom I believe to be in
sane," said tho girl, as she clung to
her rescuer.
"Since then Pender has made me
a vertablo slave. If Mr. Broderick
had not arrived, ? would hava killed
myself, as T declared I would do in a
letter written to friends."
Broderick's mission was a strange
tine, lie had been told that If, by
Sunday, Miss Sjostodt were no!, re
leased she would destroy herself.
Supplied willi ample funds by the '
girl's friends, he hurried to the train
und early Thursday l.e reached Hal
ifax.
Hiring a rig, the dotertivo sped 1
)ver the milts seperaling the little '
town 'rom I be bl oak, desolate farm. 1
Atriving there lie found Pender, a 1
hoary-headed man beyond (iO years '
)f age. Ile did not at first see thc- '
unfortunate nurse whose piteous ap
peals for help by mail had aroused
Asbury Park. (
Broderick, a big, powerful man, '
ivith a record for bravery, aggres
dvely demanded thal the girl bo pro- '
laced. (
Ponder snarled and refused io '
!omp)y. Brodorick then resorted to
nlldor means. He quoted the law, 1
-Ie told Pender that he, having hlr- *
id the gii.i, was responsible for ber
vol fare. '
He cited the fact as he knew lt, 1
hat. she had been given only two A
neals a day, both consisting almost fc
invariably bf cornmeal. The de tee- f
Ive also told Of letters, Miss S.ios- J
edt had smuggled North, describing '
low sim bad been imprisoned In a
>arn, through tho cleats of which 1
mow and tho bleak winds blew.
"This girl," thundered Broderick, 1
.came into your employ (brough an '
ulvorlisemont. sim was afflicted *
.vith a slight, throat trouble, and 1
houghl tho Soiitb was tho place for
1er. You accepted her as house- x
cooper, and as such you should have (
u'ovided for hoi\ Von haven't done \
IO, and If yoi) don't deliver her to 1
no I'll bave von hauled before a 1
llld.ee." 1
Pender quivered and finally broke
lown. Ile led the dotoctlvo lo Miss
sjostedt, Who al that moment, she '
taid afterward, was comtemplating 1
nunns of suicide.
She had said: "ll is belter and '
iasier lo dio by my own band than '
0 be starved to death by ibis Inn- '
ide."
Miss Sjostedt Hung her arms f
iround tho big detective's neck when A
ie fold ber be bad como to release 1
ier. The pair gol Into tho rig. Brod- '
.rick keeping one eye upon Pender I
nennwhllO, and they covered the six 1
niles of d?solait! country, whore only (
?alf a dosten negroes and three or
our White persons live.
Arriving al Ilallfox, they took the 1
traill noi t b ward, and readied Wash- 1
inglon, eu route lo Asbury Park.
Miss Sjostedt was in tears during 1
! lie trip, bul ber tears were not those
if om in agony. The nervous strain
1 brough Which she bad bravely bat
tled began t<> tell on her as she left .
the shadow of tb?' tumble-down barn,
where Pender would thrust her nt
night and lock tho door upon lier,
ind whoro rats and mice scampered
about, adding more horror to her ;
pitiable condition. 1
"I never knew," she said, "that
a white man or a man alleged to
bo white could Heat a human be
ing in tho in lill nor Pender treated
mo. Ho even lailghcn In my face
when i begged for some nutritious
food, and offered me tho same old
dried up. unpalatable com meal. Ho
lcd tho uegroes working for him bet
ter fare than lie nave ?ne."
broderick gave no explanation
why, alter be had rescued Miss s.ios
lodt, ho did liol bave Pender ar
rested, lt is believed be bad reasons
of his own to justify this movo bis
main objecl being lo I'Otlll'il Miss
Sjostedt lo ber friends.
WATCHMAN' MURD10RI Mi
Ami Hobbed ai Pee Dee Bridge in
Marie,. County.
A special dispatch from Florence
to The News and Courier says Mr.
c. F. Kale, iii<' bridge watchman
for Hie Atlantic Coast Line at Pee
Dee Uiver, was lound lying beside
the track in an Unconscious condi
tion between tile liver hl'idgO and lilt'
station al Pee-Dee Monday night,
willi I wo wounds on Hie bead his
money and watch missing Indicating
tba! be bad been foully dealt with,
roi.I.e.! and loft for (lead.
Ile was found by Hie sta t lon agent
at Tee I ?ec and, as lie was still alive,
was brought to Florence on Train
Xo. S?i for medical treatment, but
died soon lifter reaching Hie Const
Hine Hospital Without regaining
consciousness,
FIERCE RACE RIOT.
Thirty Blacks Reported Killed and
Five Whites Hurt
Fifteen Hincks limned to Dont h
When the Whites Attacked tho
Lodge Room of the Imiter.
A special dispatch to the Mem
phis News-Scimltor from Columbus,
Miss., soys somo chhty negroes
wore killed ono. night last wook and
many moro wore wounded no tho re
sult of a norco race war in Pickous
County, Ala. FIvo white men wore
wounded.
It is said that owing to the dis
covery of a plot on tho part of the
negroes to raiso against tho whltos
every black lu tho community is In
danger. This plot was carried on
by moans of a socrot society which
had lodge rooms in remote districts
ol' Picketts county.
Fifteen negroes were burned to
doatli in a lodge room near ltoform,
Ala., Tuesday night, when whltos at
tacked tho placo aud finding a num
ber of repeating lilies and shotguns,
ll rod tho building.
Tho blacks were penned In by the
continual shooting of tho whites and.
thoHo who were not killed in at
tempting to escapo were roasted
alive.
Near Gordon, three negroes were
killed when a posse of white men at
tacked a lodge room. So far as has
been learned, the burning of tho oth
er lodgo rooms wus without fatali
ties.
The trouble started with tho ar
rest of Toni Lowe, a negro, on a
charge of stealing a bale of cotton
from Whig Lowe, a white planter,
who is also a deputy sheriff.
Deputy Whig Lowe and sovoral
it her ofllcers succeeded in arresting
tho accused negro. As they were
hiing to Qordo with their prisoner,
hey were fired upon from ambush
>y a party of negroes headod by Bob
[.owe, the prisoner's brother.
Tom Lowe foll dead from a shot,
A h loll lt is said was fired by his
iwn prother, nt tho deputy sheriff.
Deputy Lowe fell, mortally wounded.
A dispatch to The Atlanta Journal
rom Birmingham, Ala., says a long
listnnce telephone message from Bo
orin, the nearest telegraph town to
ho scene stated that thero had boen
io persons killed since the Lour
ragody.
Tho excitement in Picketts cgu.li
vas the result ol' the killing bi
logro named Lowe and tho sorloiuu
vounding of a white man of ihc
mine name, the latter being a con
ti able who was shot while, friend's
vero trying to lake the negro from
tim.
Tho negro Lowe had been arrested
or stealing cotton, which had been
tigged. When relatives and other
tegroes approached tho officer who
iud him, shooting became promis
cuous and the negro was killed and
.owe was hurt.
Sixteen negroes aro lu jail In the
vest ern part, of IMckens county,
barged with partlepation in the ox
litoment. Many negroes are related
n that section of the county and for
hat reason the whites are armed to
ie ready for all emergencies.
The determined white men of Pic
tens county, in the vicinity of Qordo
tearing reports that negroes were
ireparing for an attack, raided a
odgo room and secured thirteen
,V inehester shotguns, which wore
oaded with buckshot, and every
race of a weapon taken lu charge.
Tho leader of the gang of negroes
mid to be ?etting ready for ti riot
vas reported lo have boarded a
rain for Birmingham, and efforts
nive been made to have him stop
?Od and placed under arrest. No
niling took place during the raid
m tho lodgo room.
(?ordo is not on a direct wire from
lirhinigham, and information being
.eceived is meagre, though rumors
irevnil that seven negroes have been
tilled already since Saturday, when
he first (rouble began between the
whites and colored.
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LOST THUIN HANDS. j1
i
To Stive the Lives ol' Their Fellow I ?
Workers.
At New York In order lo save
it number of comrades from death,
Olivo .lade and .lohn J. McGlynn,
iron workers, each lost a hand on
Thursday. The two men were at
work on tho Long Island city tower
of tho new Blackwell island bridge.
They were working high up on the
structure, and ll was their duly 10
guido Into place the great steel
plates on which the girdle rest, lie
low them WOTO working a SCOl'O of
other men.
one of the great pintos that had
inst been settled Into place sudden
ly began to slide. UlllCSB it was
stopped il would plunge from its
luise onto tho heads of (he men work
ing below. .lade and McGlynn saw
the danger and, shouting to the
workmen below, each threw an arm
around a beam and each seized with
his free hand the sliding plato. By
a gigantic nfforl they slipped it
to one side BO thal it rested against
II beam. Bul Ihoy wert1 linallie to
Withdraw their bauds in linio;
.hide's righi hand w;>s cut off at
the wrist and McGlyunls (efl hand
was terribly mangled. Comrades
rigged a tackle and dl'fW the plate
back Ito thal they Wfjro released,
meantime holding the two Injured
men SO thal they did >iot fall from
the tower. At the hospital Mc
Glynn's hand was amputated. Both
will recover.
Two Islands .obi.
Fanning and Washington islands.
o? the Fanning Islands group In the
South Pacific, were so.d at auction
nt Suva, FIM, on Saturday last to
Father Broughlor for the sum of
$125,000.
Yoijtsey, One of tho Participants,
1 Tells About lt.
Ho Ku ye Caleb rowers ami Taylor
Doth Approved of tho Plan to Kill
the Governor.
At Georgetown, Ky., on Wednes
day of last week, Honry E. YoutBoy,
whorls under a Hie sontdflVe for com
plicity in tho assassination of Gov.
William Goobol, of Kentucky, Borne
years ago, went on tho witness stand
and tostlflod In tho COBO of Cabol
Pr rs, who ls hoing tried thoro for
lb udor. Powors was Secretary
ol .jUv4o of Kentucky when tho as
sassination took place, and the shot
was Hied from ono of tho windows in
his i pillee in tho Stato Houso at
Frankfort, whore Goobel had gono to
bo Inaugurated.
\}>utsoy tostified that he had talk
ed j Sith Dr. W. Pv. Johusou in the
lat! Jr's offlco about tho killing of
Go) ?el and of tho purchase by hlm
sel ?f smokeless cartridges In Cin
di ttl. Ile said beforo tho car
tr! ts wore offored Johnson became
tn lent, and said he could Bhoot
Gu n with his pistol from Sccro
tai of Stato Power's window, curs- |,
Iii? loobel at the time. u
j utsey thou told of the plot to *
Itll {oebel. Ho gave a detailed ac- w
:o! of events leading up to the
[jr ly, and told of the preparations n
i< fad made for the shooting. He tl
ia /ho met James Howard, who did ^
h ( actual shooting, on his arrival
it frankfort, a fow days before the
di ?01 lng took place. | tl
iToutsey also told of placing guns
'Powers office, oT raising tho win-1
V, and drawing the curtains, of
li
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nling out Goobel as he approach- 0(
)\c capitol and seeing Howard Vi
? at Goobel. He then left the \\
< -ni and heard the crack of the ri
ll as he was descending the stairs.
?Utsey In his testimony corner
wers directly with tho tragedy ?,(
tating that he lixed the door for \u
Outrance of the assassin and ap- jn
mi of the plan. In his testimony w
too gavo very damaging testl
%gainst Former Governor Tay
eto Treasurer Day, Superln
c of Public' Instruction W. J. ()l
W. W. H. Oullon and others (U
ed with the stat?* administra- )n
bc
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Youtsey further testified that Tay
1 dictated a lotter to bim asking
or Howard to come to Frankfort to
do the job," and he stated that he
rould give $1,500, a pardon and a
iiilltary escort to the mountains to |
ho man who would kill Goobel.
Youtsey iden tl fled tho original af
davit which he gave Powers while
otb men were in the Louisville jail,
n this document Youtsey made oath
hut he knew nothing against Pow
rs to connect him In any way with
he assassination of Goobel. The
llldnvlt, the witness stated, was glv
n to Powers at his requost for the
nrpose of getting Powers a now trial
s his case was then pending in th?
ourt of appeals.
An agreement, purported to have
cen given Youtsey by Powors in ex
punge for the affidavit was also
ut in ovldenco. The agreement was
o the effect that the affldavlt mad?
<y Youtsey for Powors should not bf
nade public, and should be returned
o Youtsey In fifteen days. Youtsey
tated that he knew when he mad?
he statements sworn to in the ofil
lavit they woro false, and that Pow
rs said he must have lt to get a new
lealrng. He said Powers wrote th?
igreement.
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WI Ii Ii SELL DIRECT. I cl
A spocial dispatch from Greenville
'armers t'iiion Will Eliminate th?
ll
Middle Man. | ,"
fo
o Tho Nowa and Courier says Mr. [!
v. C. Moore, financial agent for the c<
.'armer's Union, returned t?i Creen- fe
di le Wednesday from a trip to Eu
ope. Mr. Moore went, to longland
md Germany for the purpose of
onforrlng with the spinners about
inking direct sales of cotton. II?
mule a ?dose study of tho situation
md, as a result, agencies have been
.stab?shed at Manchester, England
ind also in Germany, through which
[.'armor's Union cotton will be soldi ti
11 reel lo tho spinners. Mr. Moore is
mthuslastlc over the plan and de
lares it Will result in saving at least
i dollar a bale on cotton thus hand
led. Ho prodlcts sensational prices
lalor in tho season when the con
uimor finally realizes the size of tho
.rop and the fad that tho farmer is
not willing to take less than 16
r?'U(s.
DECIDE ON DEXYEH.
Dem?crata- National Convention Will
Meei There on July 7.
After deciding to hold the next
Democratic National Convention at
Denver Col., and fixing the dal?
July v. loos, tho national committee
Thursday at Washington entered up
on a spirited debato on the propriety
of accepting more of the if nm,ooo
offored by Denver for the Conven
Hon than is actually needed to pay
the Convention expenses lu that city
Tho opposition to tim acceptance of
the contribu? ion look the form of
resolution by Repr?sentai Ive Clay
ton of Alabama declining money not
actually needed for Convention pur
posfis, but after a long debate the
resolution was 'aid oil the table by
a volo of 31 to 14.
WIVES, BE FREE!
Says Prof. Thomas of the Uni
versity of Chicago.
WRONG FOR HUSBAND
To HONS tho Homos, Ho Says, --Ho
Declared That Many of tho Wo
mon Host Equipped for Mother
hood Were Sluring lt in Their
Pursuit of Fashion to tho Lower
and Defectivo Classes.
Suggestions for a declaration of
independence among wives were
nade Friday by Prof. William I.
Ch?mas of (he University of Chicago,
ocialogist and author of "Sex and
lociety."
Ho would have tho women put
way the old fashioned ideal of coni
'loto dovotion and Intellectual aur
eudor to their husband's lnterosts,
hluk for themselves, and haye some
ind of a clearing In tho jungle of
onjugpi responsibilities in which
liey could stand on their own feet
nd bo mistresses of nil they Bilr
oy od.
Prof. Thomas expressed lils idea
efore the Chicago Woman's club, In
n address upon "The Future of
lar ringo." The members listened
.ltll obvious delight, and when the
rofessor had finished, one woman
rose to declare that it was "the
lost gratifying paper ever read at
ie club," while Rev. Celia Parker
,'oodley, thanked the speaker by re
larking that hero was a specimen
f "mere man" who was doing more
? emancipate women that tho women
lemselves.
Alter touching upon race suicide,
oman's slavery to fashion, and the
ko, Prof. bomas sounded the liberty
?ll for wives by saying: "Still an
,her ideal of marriage is a more
iried set of interests for the wife.
rItli the household as it is now made 1
[>, lt is not psychologically a good
dug for one person to be dependent '
ion the will of another and solely
Inched to hts interests. No matter
)w perfectly a woman ls educated i
tho schools, she will not keep pace
Ith men unless she have some cou
rus for which she is primarily re
lousible. ,
"This does not amount to saying ,
nt she must! bo financially tndopon- ",
.nt, or a bread winner, though \
ere is no objection to that. Hut ,
ir life demanda some first hand re- ,
lion to the world, for the sake of |
;r character and intelligence. .
"Under the. pressure of nntional |
lection man made a tardy alliance t
it h woman and the home in primi- ,
ve times. Ile has used woman as j
lady figure on which to hang his ,
rial th ; has bought her cheap and
?light her dear, but he has really |
?vcr asoclated with her."
Prof. Thomas declared that the ,
nd of wives men liked were of the ]
?use dog type, domestic animals, ,
locile affectionate, friendly, un- ,
lestioning." "And in lending her j
If to this disposition," he subi, j
vornan has been pliant. i
"Woman likes leisure and luxury,
ul to be grander than other women. ,
ie is eager to be the best of her ,
nd according to prevailing notions. ,
lie smallest foot, the smallest
uist. the pinkest skin, the greatest
odosty, the greatest timidity, the ,
.cutest helplessness; womans atti
ide has been that if this is to be the
uno, she will play it, both to he
'tied by men and to excell other
omen."
Prof. Thomas declared many of
ie women best equipped for mother
?od were leaving lt, in their pursuit
' fashion, to the lower and defective
asses.
"If the fashionable women of Chl
igo, who are not at home to your
ng upon their door," he said, could
. located, where would they be
mud? In tho libraries? At the Art
isl it ute? At the Chicago Woman's
lub? Even engaged In entertaining
mvorsntlotl, No, they would be
?und in the department stores, the
miners' shops, at the silent sacra
eut ol' bridge whist, in the beauty
iib; at the massage parlor, in the
lothecary's."
VK11Y FAST TIME?
inoty-Two Miles au Hour Made by
Electric Engine.
The record for electric locomo
ves was attained at. Clayton, N, .1.,
hursday in the tests being made by
ie Pennsylvania's Railroad Coin
any. The electric engine No. 028.
OlOllgillg to the New York, New
laven & Hartford Railroad and
nowa as the .Jamestown Exposition
nglno, made a fraction over nine
p-tWO miles an hour. Tho loeomo
Ive weighs 1 80,000 pounds. Tho
luc?ais say the tests have been high
t satisfactory and that it has been
emonstrated that trains can be run
it li safety at a speed of ninety miles
ii hour.
CASI HEH KILLS HIMSK hV.
Minois Hanker a Suicide-Hank In
FIMO Condition.
R. P. EdStOll, 18 years old, cash
er Of the State Hank of Herscher,
H,, committed suicide in his bank
ust week by shooting himself in the
mad. Easton had boon cashier of
ho bank since its organization and
vas a stockholder. Ile was married
ind leaves a widow and two chil
Iren. When the recent call for the
condition of all the State banks In
illinois was made Easton's bank
made ono of tho hsot reports sont
Nit from that section of the State.
The report showed the institution to
be is oxcollent condition.
TWO WHITE BRUTES
Arrested at Union on a Most
Serious Charge.
They Attacked and Attempted to
Assault a Young White Woman
on tho Highway.
A special dispatch t0 Tho NOWB
and Courier from Union soys on
Sunday afternoon a dastardly- at
tempt at criminal assault was
made, it ls alleged, hy Lestor Beck
noll, white, upon MIBS Fannie
Vaughn, a respectable white girl of
16 or 18 years of age.
Miss Vaughn and Miss Sadie Wil
lard come to Union last week from
their homos near Santee on a visit to
relatives.
On Sunday, a little before sunset,
tho two girls wv.-e walking on the
Sou thorn Railroad loading to Spar
tanburg. When a short distance up
tho railroad they wore overtaken by
Lostor Beckneil and a mah who gives
his name as W. C. Massoy. The for
mer is n nativo of Union county.
When theso mon came up with the
girls Miss Willard turned aud ran
back to tho homo of her brother-in
law, but tho mon took hold of Miss
Vaughn, carried her somo distance
up tho track and into a thicket,
where she was knocked down, beat
on, about tho face, and the mon on
ly desisted from their offorts to ac- 1
comp?ish their purpose when they i
became alarmed at tho outcries of 1
tho girl. I
Upon being arrested Hocknell re
mnined stolid and weakly denied his i
guilt. Massey, on the other hand, j
pointed out Bocknell ns tho guilty i
party, and statod that ho himself >
only stood off and looked on while c
Heck nell made his attempt. c
No one having denied this ac- s
count of the affair, Massey, who only 0
came to Union last week, ls being f,
held in jail as a witness, while a
warrant was promptly issued for vv
Hocknell on the charge of an assault tl
with Intent to ravish. ^.
Miss Vaughn's brothers assaulted tl
Massey after the eccurronco and
stabbed him in tho back with a w
knife, but the wound ls not a serious j
one.
MOURNERS MAKE MISTAKE.
r<
ct
cl
Mother Wrongly Identifies Dead Boy W
ai
as Her Son. \x\
A dispatch to The News and
fourier says when tho body of tho
?oung man killed by a ltvo wiro lr ?*
hamden and supposed to he that of
AMI ber Langley of Chester was car
ded .there for Interment, tho collin
vas opened at the rcquoBt of young
langley's mother. No one doubted
,he Identity of the corpse. Mrs.
langley herself not questioning that
ho body was that of her son, and
dio and other relatives of young ni
langley viewed it and wept over it Ai
is such. . \\
Among those who carno in tho ^
muse of mourning to pay their re
meets to the griof-strlcken family '
vas Mrs. Orre, a neighbor of the m
Langley's. Mrs. Orre, like others of
hose present, was permitted to view j>
he remains, and to her utter aston- ^
Bhmont recognized in ine dead body
ter own son, Lewis Sowell, a child w
Ijy a former marriage. ci
The Longleys, following the an- v
nouncenient of Mrs. Orre of her dis
'every, were convicted of Its correct
ness, and it was further confirmed M
by the appearance on the scene of w
young Wilber Langley himself, alive o1
sind well, who returned home from
the country, where he had been at "
work, and was astonished to loam ~
that he had been mourned as dead. M
Young Sowell, who was 17 years
sid, leaves besides his mother, two
brothers and a sister, Mr. Ernest
Sowell of Orangeburg County; Mr.
Hoy Sowell and Mrs. B, Lowry, of 8
Lancaster. ,
TI IIIJMAN WANTS TO KNOW. o
- 0
Asks Investigation of Cortelyou's ti
Action Dining Financial Crisis.
Senator Tillman Monday Intro-J ^
doced a resolution in tho Senate
directing the committee on linanco R
lo Investigate the recont proceed- t<
lugs of tho Sccrotary of the Treasury ti
In connection with tho financial i<
cries and also to make an Inquiry Q
concerning clearing house certifica
tes. The resolution was presented ?
In two series, the first doallng with
tho operations of the Treasury De
partment, and tho second with clear
ing house certificates, both being
divided into three sub-divisions.
Bl
KILLED BY LIVE WIRE.
R
C
Employee of Carnival Company ls *
Shocked to Death. c
A dispatch from Camden to Tho '
News and Courier says Tuesday eve- ,
nlng Wilber Lewis Langley, of Lan
caster, who was recently employed
in the Persian Theatre of tho Jones
Carnival Company, now showing at
that place, met with a tragic death.
Ho was attempting to attach a globe
to an electric wire and In taking hold
of thc wire ho was Instantly killed.
Ho was a young man apparently of
I about 20 yours of ago.
CETS A FORTUNE.
Pensacola Woman Thought Sim Was
Ministering to a Pauper.
Miss Annie Burkhurt, twenty years]
old, thought she was entertaining a
pauper In Thomas Caldwell, an aged
recluse, who wont to> Ponsocola, Fla.,
frpm Chncago and oked out a miser
able existence, hy peddling fish and
food. Miss rturkhurt ministered to
the man when he was ill . The girl
has now received information that
she has been made tho sole heir of
tho estate ot Caldwoll, valued nt
$75,000. _ ._
Arft
Section of 4 New Bridge
to Swollen Stream.
SEVEN MEN DROWN!
T
High Water Caused tho Accldh
The Catastrophe Occurred J
NlghtfaU, Who? Men Were pj
paring to Knock Off Work
tho Day. There Were Mani
Narrow Escapes: .
High water Monday night cauwd
tho collapse of a now bridge
course of erection ovor the
branch of the'Susquehanna River
at Mlfflingvllle, Pa., and resulted bj
the death ot seven mon and tho in
jury of nearly a score of others, two
fatally. Forty mon were at work
an the traveller on tho middle span
3f tho structure when it collapsed:
They wero all thrown into tho swol
len river.
Tho collapso of tho bridge waa
mused by tho rapid rise In tho river.
Tho water rose during tho day at the
.ato of almost ono foot an hour mid
lebrles carried down tho stream by
he flood struck tho false work of
die bridge and caused Its collapse.
Tho accident occurred just et
lightfall, when tho mon wore pre
>aring to abandon their work. As a
osult the work of rescuing those
vho wore thrown into tho water and
:aught In Ibo mass of twisted iron
md. steel waa greatly retarded. Tho
econd span of tho bridge was hoing
reefed and lt was this section that
ell with tho big traveller.
Tho bodies of four of those killed
'ero found floating on the surface of
tio water entangled in tho boat and
wisted girders and iron work, but
io others haven't boen found. Many
f tho mon wore caught in the rapid
ator and carried a mlle or moro
own tho river before they woro
??cued.
Ono of tho moBt miraculous es?
ipes was that of William Nesbit,
ho was caiight in tho iron work
id hold a prisoner an hour with
ls mouth and chin above wntor bo
tro being rescued. Tho bridge was
sing built by the State to replace
ie carried away in a freshet in
?03.
A WILD MAN
(tacked'Lumbermen in the Woods
Out In Washington.
A dispatch from Seattle aa$s*Voam
g the Northwestern forest and
fliting the inhabitants of small
rashington towns along tho Monto
risto branch of tho Northern Paclf
? ls a wild man who has thus far
'aded capture,
Nels Helgensen, recently from St.
nul, was attacked by a man whilo
i tho brush, who, Helgensen says,
ore a few ragged garments and
irred a rusty pistol, which ho lo
eled at Helgonscn, the hammers
Icking several times without shoot
ig. Tho strapping Swedo grappled
1th his assailant, and got the worst
! tho match.
Other loggers laughed at his story
ntll a few days ago when John
'Leary, a timber cruiser, went into
io name neighborhood for gamo and
ad a similar exporlonco. Ho wont
> sleop in a desortcd cabin and was
wak ned by a yell.
Arising, ho was knocked to the
round again, but hit the man with
n ax as ho grappled for his throat,
ho wild man slunk off with a plto
us half-human wall. Tho man,
'Leary says, had a hairy body and
ice.
Many old timers at Granit a Falls
ny thoy have seen tho wild mau,,
dio ls bolieved to be a Frenchman
rho took up a timbor claim near
lt. Pllchuck five years ago, and dls
ppared mysteriously two years la
ar. The supposition is that soil
tide drove film crazy, aftor which ho
ist much of his resemblance to tho
uman by living wild.
iEARCH FOR D10AD SUSPKNDKU.
recked Coal Mines Have Given Up
?20 Undies.
At Monogah, W. Va., soo,'ch lu
Mnes 6 and 8, of tho Fairmont Coal
Company for victims of last Friday's
ixplosion was suspended early thia n
veek, partly because Aro had broken J
tut again in Mino 8, and partly be
muse ovory section of the two minos
ins boon explorod and it was not be
loved that furt.hor search along tho
tamo Unes would result In tho find
ng of moro bodies.
Threo hundred and twenty bodies
lave boon removed. Of these 71 were
Vmerleans, 146 Italians, 54 Slovaks,
il Poles, 5 Greeks and 2 Hunga
rians.
Vico President Wheelwright and
louerai Manager Loo L. Malone be
love that all bodies not deeply bur
ed In the old workings have boen re
moved.
A forco of nlnoty men hos begun
to clean up the mino and romovo tho
heavy falls and heaps ot debris that
woro not disturbed by tho rescuing jj
parties, and lt 1? said that somo ad
dltlonal bodies will bo found.
Didn't Slur Bryan.
Thomas IC. Watson, of Georgh
asked' the American Thursday
donv the story that he referred
Bryan at "ono big laugh." "Itj
absolutely untrue," eald Mr. Wat
"that I made any disrespectful
luslon whatovor to Mr. Bryan-'J