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The Marlboro Democrat r "WO THOU, ?KWAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS ANO MAKES OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OK OUK DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSH." VOL XXXIIf_BENNETTS VILLE. 8. C., FRIDAY, MAY 15. 1008 NoT?? WHII h FIEND. Assaults a Little White Girl Near Langley Thursday. HE MADE HIS ESCAPE Hui the Enraged People Scoured ^ the Woods for Him. Ile Met tho li.fl? Niuo Year Old Girl (Join? Howe From School and Criminally Assaulted Her. v' A disipatch from A af.asta to Tho News and Courier says t/ultl May l.eohard. the little nine year old ?daughter of Mr. Uolivor Loohnrd, of Langley, S. C., was criminally as saulted Thursday afternoon by un unknown white niau and is lu a criti cal condition. The fiend escaped. Excitement waa at a fever pitch Thursday nicht al Langel.v and tho woods around tho village were literally swarming with crowds ot armed mon. Had the ob ject of their search been caught a , lynching would have followed despite the fact that Sheriff Rayburn was early on the scene, and did everything he C?Uld to persuade (lie crowd to be sa-Ustiod with capturing the assail ant. At an early hour Fridu> morn ing scores ol" citizens and a number of o Ul cors were still scouring the county. About 1 O'clock Thursday after noon, ;m the little girl was returning home from school, she was approach ed by the man, who told her that he bad lost four dollars and would give her half of it if she would assist him in her search. The child agreed, but later showed sinus of fear and turned back when the man seized her to loree her to accompany him The Kiri attempted to call for help, bul her captor lightened his grasp and choked the little ono into insen sibility, l?e,dragged her almost life loss body to the Od g 3 of a swamp and there she was found some time afterward. Min liad bean assaultld and thc man had escaped. Assailant Caught. A Saturday dispatch says Sheriff Unborn captured today Henry Leop ard, who laped lalla May Leopard at Langley. ^, The prisoner is a f?rsl cousin Of the victim. She positively identified him at her assassin. Sherfl" Ra bo rn to-.nd pan ol the shirt worn by the prisoner when com mitting the assault. ll is spattered down the froid with blood. The sheriff evaded the mob and spirited the prisoner io Augusta, from whence lie was carried to the penitentials in Columbia KM.LL H 11V THAIN KOitltL'HK. Safe Opened uud Contents Stolen by t be ? ?ut laws. Train robbers who boarded a Den ver ami Kio (?ramie nain at Castle Kock, ?'ol., shoi and killed Kxpress Messenger Wright; From the (bail messenger the robbers took tin keys !o a small sale in i be baggage c ar, which they opened and look om the contents, in all Worth les., than a thousand dollars, Tin big safe in Hie caf. which contained a large sum 01 money was tampered willi, bul fthe robbers wore unable lo enter ii Wright was found lying in a pool of blood hes!de tue big safe. HAXCIOD IOU Ml KDI U. One Negro Pays the Hennit,V for Kill ing Another. At Wu Uer boro on Friday Thomas Washington paid the penalty on the gallows for killlug Frank Richardson |>n Fenwick Island last August. Wash ington and his victim were both ne groes, and the murder was a deliber ate one. The execution look place in i iie corridor of the ?ail, where a scaf fold lind been erected, iii (lie pres OllCe Ol' about ?JO people. The lope wtts cut. at 10:55 and 1 minutes later the physician.., Dr. H. A. Willis .aid Dr. W. li. Ackerman, pronounced lifo extinct. His death was easy. ,;' IN A ma m mtv. And Will Laud ut Charleston, Short est Houte Hollie, A cable from Secretary ol War Taft from Colon io Mayor Goodman, of Pensacola. Pla., in reply '<? an in vitation foi luin io return lo (he Slates via Pensacola, states that as his presence is needed ai onie in Washington, he will take tin' shortest coate, landing al Charleston, S. c., about May 20. ? Cotton Finn Falls. Inman and Co., of Augusta, Ca., ono of the largest notion firms in Hu* South has been forced into bank ruptcy with liabblllties of about $1. 600,000 and assets tho same, * ATLANTA SUFFERS. FIKK CAUSUS MU LOSS IN HUSl KKHM MNTItlCT. Hign W?ul and Light Water Presume Itondercd thp Firefighter*' Work Harder. One million and a quarter lu the los? conservatively estimated Friday on a fire which started at :{::i0 o'clock Friday morning and which swept two blocks O? Atlanta business property. Friday night the lire was under control with ruined buildings in thc district bounded by Forsyth, Nelson, Madison and Hunter streets. Late Tiday the police and lire departments dynamited what was left ol' the rag ged walls. Friday night halt ol' tho tin- lighting force of Atlanta was playing water into a do/.eu razed structures How the tire started is a mystery. lt was discovered ia the building oc cupied by the Schesslnger Meyer com pany, bakery From lhere it ran its way in all directions until ii struck the Terminal hotel, oho of (he largest Iii tho city, and Rutted that. During lim early morning bouts every one in tho Terminal hotel and in numerous other smaller hotels tn lite district had warning. There was no loss of < lite and no serious injuries Hom tho conflagralou, ' 'J ..e Insurance on ?he pro port; de | stroyed is placed by insurance men al $750,000, one of the heaviest , los?is in S. M inman ol Atlanta, who ( owned the entire block bounded bj Forsyth, Mitchell and .telson streets ^ and Madison as enuc, and in w hich were localed Hu Schessinger-Aleyer , company, Urn nell K ol' tho city post ellice, tile Liquid Carbonic company. , a branch ol' Central Trust & Hanking i company and many smaller concerns. ] The lire was discovered In the clo vator shalt of the Schlosslngur build- , inf, and is sunposd to bav.o,or.J.fcUv,Ue?i , from crossed wires running to tho motor which operated the elevator. Hy the time the firemen luid arrived the Hames had broken through the roof of this building and owing lo a light water prosurc, it was impossible to check their progress, In a shun linn- this structure was completely gutted and the lire was eating ils way through the Station I! of the Atlanta posloHleo where mails iv celvod from the terminal station just across the square are distributed. Th?- employers of the postofllce, however, by quick work managed lo save all lin mail and most ol' the equip! mein Jumping across Mitchell street, the Hames made -boil work ot ihr Ter minal hotel, Hie Terminal annex Childs' anm \. ai w hld) point the bremen succeeded in checking the onslaught on Hie north side of Mil clu-ll street. On Hie .south side, hos?, ever. Hie Hames continued lo sweep everything in their path until Forsyth si reel was reached, gutling the build ings occupied b> McClure's Ten Cent store, the brach bank of lb.- Central Killiking and Trust company. Hie Par agon Sl'.Spehdor company. Moon Shoe store and Hie LD] ll id Carbonic com pany Tho Schlesslnger building extended half a block on Nelson street lind from it the Hames soon jumped lo numerous structures on Forsyth street and destroying the places occupied hy Alverson Uros. (?roeerj company, the Mincers Frame Maufacttiring com pany, ?ind lu- W alker Cooley Kurili (ure company. A strong west wind fanned Hie Hames and scattered burn inc. embers over Hie whole business set lon of th,- city, ihre? Irin lng toi a lime to cause even greater loss. The ll rem en had ma ly narrow es cupes from falling willis, but no in juries of ?1 serious nature are report ed The gUOStS from the hotels i'.i.d rooming houses in the bumed (joellen succeeding in saving most of their effects having been warned in tillie to remove their trunk-. which were idled on Cm- pln'/a in fro ii I of the Ter minal station, from which point their owners and many early risers watch ed i he progress of the bro F.XTF.KS DANACH SUIT. Young Lady Says She Was Insult -d on Train. A dispatch from Spartaubiirg to The State says Miss Sallie liragg of C .lupobello. through her attorney, I. A Phifer, has commenced a suit against the Charleston and Western ( aro'lna road for damage? lu Hie sum of $50,000, alleging thai while she ssa.- a passenger on one ol' tho train.-, of the com pa a y between Augusta and Laurens she ssas grossly insulted by the Conductor of tho Hain. Miss Cragg is a native of Sptll'tlMburg county, her home b Mig at Campobel lo. She is seventeen years of ag?' and au 01 phau. TWO BAD MEN. WHO MUST BIO HUNTING JUUGK LYNCH. Negroes Abduct a Woma? nnd After Hobbing Hov locare Her in Ibo Woods. A dispatch from Charlotte says Jolia Boyd, a one-armed negro, who ls bell boy at Gie Selwyn hotel, and Wilson, another negro haokmnn, have .inst been bound over under a $1.000 bond euch to uwult trial at the next term of criminal court on a very grave charge, thal of robbing a welldressed lady, who nive* ber name as Mrs. .1. M. Morgan of Atlanta, and who was stopping at tho [tilford hotel Mrs. Morgan was lound in the woods near the city, wandering about in a stupefied condition. A tenant on a tarin discovered her and summoned the police, who have been diligently investigating the case, with the result Gmt sufllcient evidence was found against the negroes t- hold them 011 the charm' above stated. According to the stOI'Y told by Mis. Morgan, and which story 1; backed up by circumstantial evldeu.o, .Mrs. Morcan took a cab to co to the depot. Instead of laking ber to the station Hie two negroes are said to have held her in the eurrlcnge and to have lUirried her to the woods, where she was later found unconscious. She says she was robbed of two diamonds worth $200. Dr. lloyd was the star Witness al the Dial. Ile told of finding Mrs. Morcan with ber i rm badly bruised and her body badly bruised. He says she was in a dazed condition, as if she had been doped, ile further testllied that he saw in .lu' woods where she was found a plac where a struggle had taken dace. A bottle was lound nearby and a lumber of matches. A watch charm was found near the scone of tho druggie whjch belonged to John lloyd, a vicious negro hearing a bad reputation. Al this time full details jlf the ease have not been nsccrtaucd, jut the further tho matter ls probed ho. mor?? dastardly' becoir.es the Grime hared against tho tW? negroes. Mrs. Morcan had been at the Buford sev .ral days and was well dressed and of tractive appearance SI:\ i:\TY-TWO MI A SAVIOI). Iteseiied by lleniric Life Savers from i 'rumbling Wreck.. Seventy two moil wno for more Ihan twoi)l> four hours had been lac inc ?baili in a racine sea near Fire Island, were rescued from the crumb line hulk of tho ihr, German ship 1'iier Hick mers early Prhluv Their rescue was effected after one j ni i he most t ry inc experiences ibo life Stivers on i bi; exposed coast bad ever been called upon lo lace. No less than a (10'/.en limes hope ol sav inc Gie ne n on Gie doomed ship was all hut abandoned, and ii was Kill'. thc easing <>\ tin- cale ami terrille SOUS thai made ilieir rescue possible. Foil una I el \ uni a man was lost ami ii ls believed lhai no one of i hem suffi red any permanent harm as a result ol theil lone flghi against death. The great Steel ship, one of the lille;! sa il inc vessels that ever rode a sea. is a total wreck FAT \ I, TUX FM li NT Fl lt IO. Flames Practically Destroy a Large Mouse al New York. Al New York four persons were killed and twelve injured Friday af ternoon ill a tile believed lo be of incendiar^ origin, which practically destroyed a live story tenement bouse In Orchard street. Hy thc lime the bremen arrived men, women and children were so dosel y packed on the lire escapes that none could cet down More than a hundred were taken from he lire es capes on ladders by the firemen. Those forced to remain inside bad i more : i rions time. Two of tho .ictiins were burned in their rooms. )ne woman attempting to reach the oof with her chilli fell. The child ivas burned to death HOLD TH HOV 10S. llt'Oke Into Fever Hospital ami Stop' employes Wages. A dispatch Dom London says lhai nu Saturday burglars weill to an mknown extreme when, disregarding i number of cases of malignant fev er, hey broke into the fevet hospital, on leagrave road, Fulham, and made iway with valuables estimated lo be ivorth $2,000, y The money had been drawn out ot lie bank to pay the wages ol Hie em doyes. In order lo teach the ellice A'hore the money was kepi it was lecossary for Hie thetvea to pass brough several waul.-, where patients ivero lying. No one ?aw I hem. but narks evidenced where they forced in entrance to the building. HAD BROKEN NECK BUT MD NOT KNOW IT FOR Senator Mono; Given Startling in formation When Ho Visited Osteo path In Now York for Treat mont. A dispatch from Washington says the fact that Senator Money of Mis sissippi passed through life for 35 yeats with a disloca lcd neck and did not know lt became known to some of his associates recently and created general astonishment. The condition was discovered when tho senator be gat) lo take osteopathic treatment for nournlgln. |ic has suffered Intensely! from that allaient toi many vivi rs. I At the first hatti.- of Franklin, ia April, 1 863, Mr. Money was a cavalry man Ul the Con Tod ora lo service.! While riding through the streets, he was struck by a bullet that circled] around his ribs, doing no other in jury. The shock was such that .Mr. Money was thrown from his horse and struck on his head. Hoing help, less ho was captured and taken with in the federal lines. He did not ask for hospital treatment, was exchang ed later, rejoined his troop and fought until tin? wai was closed. Years passed and Mr. Money enter ed the se?ale. Neuralgia bad taken a linn hold on him and his eyesight had grown so bad as to approximate blindness. Senator Po rn ker advised Mr. Money to try osteopathy, winch was just beginning lo attract much attention. Mr. Fornker's daughter has been benefited by the treatment. Senator Money went to New York accompanied by his son and visited tho osteopathic. Almost the doctor's lirst remark was: 'VYhv, senator you have bad your neck broken." Se ardor Money denied all knowl edge ol' such an affliction. The phy sician declared thal one of the verte brae had been entirely pushed from the top ot" i be column supporting the r ie! *v; -.. in a .vrong ? position; He demonstrated thal the muscles on one side of the nock were flabby and useless. "I? you had been old enough lo take part In tho Civil war,'- said the physician. 1 would say yon were thrown from a horse and sustained the broken neck." 'Thai is just exactly whai did happen." replied Senator Money, re calling the injury al Franklin. "I can cnn- sour neck," said tho physician, "it will require bul "IO meal's lime.' The osteopath laid the senator ch n table, look hold ol the misplaced venable with holli bunds and Snap ped ii Into proper position The noise made by lite bones swinging Into lilac, was like the report Of a pistol, The senator's son. who was looking oui of the window, I urned In alarm, saying: "Father, have .von broken vour hock?" "No," replied ire senator, "I have just had ii sol." Tho physician lold Senator Stoney Ihiil be mnsi exercise precaution until Ibo weakened muscles regained their nounal strength. Ile was cautioned nm lo Ihm bb' bead in looking III anything* bul lo move ibo (?mire body. These instructions were ob served, and Mil! neck apareiiily |>0; linnie ns strone, as it vviui thirty live yeats before tile Operation CON VK TI'M) <>l Ml lti>K.K. Kol Killing Man Who Lived ill House Willi Him A dispatch from Greenville lo The State says Iknjamln Mc A bee, a vonna white mau. was convicted in Ibo Courl of General Sessions Friday of murder, II nd was recommended io tbe mercy ot' the Conn He ' bol ami killed John Fowler, a man who lived in Hie house with bim. in March He ,.humed that. Fowler was Intimate with his wile. McAbee's attorneys liaVO ?lvOh nolie.' ol' a motion loi a now trial. I'M- your head to think with Hat racks can be gotten al the IO ?cent stores. CKASIIF.n TIIUOtKill ('Mt. Large Kock Holled Down Hillside on Hxpress Train. While lue Chicago and New Vofk express on the ballimore mid Ohio railroad was passing Hammond. V miles east of Fairmont, W, Va., early Sunday, . ' larne rock rolled down (from the hillside and crashed through ibo root ol' Hie smoking car, injuring i bree passengers, Tliiily-Si\ Hescued. A dispatch Hom New Voil; says willi the aid Ol' tho breeches buoy, lifesavers early Saturday rescued from the lank steamship Washington stranded off Monmouth beach, hor captain and crew of 3(1 num. li is expected that thc steamship will be floated ai next high tide. WILL KILL BATS BY BURNING PATRICK HENRY'S VIRGINIA MANSION. Millions of thc Fust HJIVC Taken Pos? session of it mid People Driven From lt. A dispatch from Aylett, Va., says Montville, one of the mont famous and historic placen In Virginia, in to bo burned to the ground by UH own owners, thc ?rent grandchildren of Patrick Henry, because lt ls overrun with bats. Since the warm weather began there is no living in or near the place. Hats by the thousands hang ab(\ut tho grund parlors- and spacious bed rooms of the colossal mansion Attempts lo exterminate] them by poison and with clubs have failed. j They (?re in every room. They hang in long stripes, as is their habit, from the furniture, from the ceiling, from the walls and they are in such numbers that they form cur tains before the windows, darkening the house during the day. At night fall they loosen themselves from each other, and dart to thc yards in such numbers that they strike each other in their flight. Recently Philip Aylett, one of the owners of tho place and an engineer attempted to make the house "bal proof." Kvery crack, every door, and every chimney was stopped up, but the bats found a way to enter. They coulg get through cracks which would hardly admit a roach. Mont ville was built about the time the Americans drove thc Kngllsh out of the country, and its woodwork is old and brittle. Montville is now Owned by ibo six children of the late William Aylett. They inherited the home from their father, who had inherited it from his grandmother, Elizabeth Henry, who had married an Aylett. After the death of William Aylett, half a dozen yours ago. his sons and daughters married and moved away and Mont ville was rented for the Hist time Kine-: il. was deeded in ?070 to tho tirsi. Aylett who came to America by Chariot ll. From the day the lease was signed bats'began to invade the place. The leosoe tried living In the mansion with his family, bul if was impossible. During the day lhere were strings of bats yards long. The first of tho grewsoine creatures would cling to ti piece ol woodwork, to the wall, the window sill,, or to ;i slick of furniture nnd his fellows would cling to him, forming a string of sneaking, ropul sh e objects. The momonl the sun set tho string would dissolve and lue bats would seek I he open, squeezing through thc clack:; ol' windows or doors and through the Hoers and walls Thc losso and his family look quat'* lers in ;i cottage I,nun yards away and the manson was abandoned, The Aylett children offered prizes 10 the negroes who could kill the most bats. A child stood in the' front door one afternoon and with a tennis i'* quel knocked down 2,000 Pits. The negroes i<>r ;i Limo came from every direction, hoping to win iii,- - liai prize.'' Inn aller thousands and thousands of the creatures had hoon jiu! lo d?nrtll there was no ap preciable diminu? lon. Toison was i hen paced in every pan ol tim house. I.nt. the bats only seemed to thrive on ii This spring the hals have become a pesl to the neighborhoods and Hie owners of the old mansion have determined to burn 11 to ils foundations. The bats can be Rot lid of in no other way. * <;i:\. HL'TLUIt IN LICK. The Kv-Senator, With Two Others, to (iel liUl'gC Kee. A Washington dispatch to The News and Courier says Justice Ashley M. Coal of the District Supreme Conn, decided Saturday that Senator Owen of Oklahoma, former Senatoi lintier of KdgoHeld, and Wylie O. COX, are entitled to a foo of $71?,OOO, payment of which from tho tlnitod States treasury was enjoined last year on complain! of the law lirm of Shollep and Martin of that eily. This linn charged fraud in a $0,000,000 claim of the Cherokee Indians against the Government. Justice Could held il,,,, no fraud h.ul been shown. * KU MH Ult F, A KS DOWN. l oin Voling Ladies Were Drowned as as a Kc.ult. 1'our young ladies. Missis Cdma Webster. I ? years. Kdith Wussier. Iii years; Crace Ly tie, 1.'? yon ru; and Kessle Lawrence were drowned in the \eosha river al Hartford III., Saturday morning, in company willi Kale Griffith, M a i \ Crlfllth, Carol Lytle, ICmll Stolnholsl and Howard Ky,m. the.t went boating in a gasoline launch. When (he parly was a short distance above Hie dam, al the Hail i for?! mill. Hie supply of gasoline gave oui and the encino went dead. THE DEATH GRIP. Terror-stricken Plague City Has Bean Cut Off From REST OF THE WORLD. Li? G'tiuyrn, Venezuela, Ls Being De populate! by the Terrible Disease Known ns the Bubonic Plague_ People Fleeing From the Country. -The Death Bate Very Heavy. La Gunyra, Venezuela*, ls n city o? (loath. The plague is spreading there. The In ha bi tfffits are lighting it fa'-n tlcally, alone and unaided. From the rest of the world they are out off, on one side by the aea, on all others hy military, patrols under orders to shoot fugitives on sight. News from the town is hard to ob tain, so strict is the quarantine, but enough has leaked out, however, tm prove the spot an inferno. Business ls practically suspended, stores ?dosed, and residences shutter ed. None venture abroad, except un dei absolute compulsion. Food is hardly to be had on any terms. Who ever will may enter with supplies, bul having entered, none can lonve. oven for the enormous prices offered for provisions, few will accept the certainty of imprisonment and the risk of death. , From miles away the smoke can bo seen hy day and the flames by night of blazing houses where the plague has been, of burning lumber piles from which the people are trying to drive the disease-laden rats, and ot the lires in the oil Hooded streets, a. plan adopted by the authoritis as tho readiest and speediest means of rid ding the community of the accumula tion of ruth which probably was mainly responsible for the epidemic. Most of the workingmen, who, pan icked by fear of the plague and ren dered desperate hy famine, brok,' through the initfti^y cordon and ?scattered through, the surrounding country, have been herded together and driven back by the troops. The terrified villagers and country people among whom they sought ref uge did everything in their power to aid in the hunt. Dr. Gomez Peraza. of La (Suuyrn, who first diagnosed inc disease as bubonic plague, and was thrown In prison by Pr?sident Castro, only lo be released later when ll became evident that his Judgment was correct, is leading the sanitary workers In their efforts to stamp out the epidemic. Except for a few persons who rush ed from thc city before the cases became numerous, tho only ones who have escaped have been those rich enough to pay the skippers of small craft to smuggle them from tito har bor and land (bein surreptitiously at distant places on the coast. President Castro has declared a blockade at the port, and regular shipping is suspended. Even tho blockade runnels are few. The prices they (barge for the supplies they bring In, and tho passengers they talco out, are enormous, and only the most imminent risk of death at tho bunds of sanitary guards are they able lo break the embargo. The La Ouayrn railroad has ceased op?r ?t ions. The rate ol mortality from the dis ease is enormous and those who suc cumb are said to do so in tho major ity of cases in about twenty four hours from the time they are strick en. There h ive bee a few eases of Ibo disease outside of La Ouayrn, but tho government ls making herculean ex ert ions to prevent the disease front getting a foothold, and ibo sanitary precautions promise to accomplish the desired result. Foreign rcsdents and wealthy Ven ezuelans who are able to leave their businss are quitting tho country li* large numbers, however, lest the epi demic spreads. WHITE MAN ARRESTED. On Charge ol' Assaulting a Young While Woman. john Groves, a while man .'>.'> yearn Of age, was lodged In jail al Spartan buvg on a warrant charging him with criminal assault upon the person of Miss Annie Dobson, a daughter of .Ioho Dobson, a well lo do farmer of tho Well ford section, The warrant for doves' arrest waa sworn out by Magistiate Denn oC linnean. The d?tendant was arrested til his home at Greer by Constable T. Walker Moore and brough! to Spar tanbuvg. He denies ills guilt. Eleven Drowned. The steamer Minnie E. Kelton was wrecked off New Fort. Ore., on Tues day and (deven of her crew drowned. The steamier shifted her cargo of lumber during a storm, and when a big wave, struck her became unman ageable. *