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SHOT TO KILL A Columbia Butcher Killed While on His Way to Work. MURDER OR SUICIDE. Robbery was Doubt loss the Motive, Although the Sulehle Theory Has Been Advanced. Jle Usually Cari ried His Money to and from His Market. Crime Occurs Al?out Five O'clock in the Morning. Another homicide, with evidence of a successful hold up occurred in the surburbs of Columbia on Thursday morning. It. T. Westcott, a butcher, was shot and killed, while on his way to his market from his residence in the surbiirl) of NVaverley The off..!.. - - cmmi is a mystery, i>\?t there's evidences that a holdup and robbery, such as resulted several weeks ago In the double killing of Charles B. Green, a Shandon merchant, and Edgar Marshall, the supposed highwayman, was attempted. In this case, however, the robber (If robber there wop) did not take any chances, but sl/ot to kill. The fact that the homicide occurred at five o'clock .11 the morning, and that two chambers of Westcott's own- pistol were empty, lends some color to the theory of suicide, but there being circumstances of immaterial nature which also tend to support this - theory. But the general impression is that he was waylaid and murdered. Westcott lives in Wnverley, No. 1,016 Oak street, a street which runs parallel to Main street in Columbia. His home is an ordinray one story cottage, but seems to have been a happy home, containing a happy and intelligent family. It was Westcott's custom to arise about 5 o'clock and prepare to go to his market. He lost his left hand several years ago, and his wife usually assisted him in dressing. His son? Robert, 1 f> years of age, was usm^ty awaked about the time his fatlmr left the house and followed him To the market. Th#? Httlo ononlfll ,> ? ?w.v- Ujyuuitl UU5, IJlUWIIie, went with Ills master, who was accustomed to carry his pistol in his one hand as he walked along the suburban streets at this early hour. It was Westcott's custom, as it was the custom of Charlie Green, the Shandon merchant, to carry money back and forth between his market and his home, as he had no safe in his market. Thursday morning he followed the routine he was accustomed to follow every day. Arising about five o'clock, or a short time before that hour, he called his son, and with his dog started cut. The boy in twenty-five minutes followed in the usual routine, along Oak street, across Gervais street, almost to Lady street, where a bypath was taken through the grounds of the Waverley School and oetween the large and small school house buildings, which stand about ten feet apart. At the corner of the small school house, which is the left as one walks In that direction, the boy came across the lifeless body of his father, the little dog sitting by his master's body on guard. The pistol was at the dead man's right side. The boy, paralyzed by grief and funr If unt lita wltu ctlll nlmnJ and Instead of running back home to alarm his mother, went to his grandfather's so that the news might be broken more gently at home. His relatives were soon on the seme and summoned physicians, and the officers of the law. Constable Richardson of Waverley was the first officer to arrive, and he kept the crowd back as much as possible, in order that tracks might be followed. Coroner Walker was there as quickly as possible, and Sheriff Coleman followed. The coroner secured from Jthd penitentiary and from the couiUfy chain gang several blood hounds, but they failed to find any trail, though put on the scene in a remarkable short time. The body was removed to Van Metre's undertaking establishment, where several physicians examined the wound. It was found that the ball had entered the left side of the bead, above and to the front of the ear and above and to the rear of the temple. The ball penetrated the brain, lodging in the skin on the right of the head, where it was cut out. It was a 32 calibre. The wound must have produced Instant death. The unmistakable powder burns on the left side of the head, where the bullet entered, showed conclusively that the pistol when fired was placed almost, if not directly, against the uuau. If Westcott was murdered?and there is no reason to say that he was not?the murderer was standing in front of the little school house as the victim walked along the side, and as Westcott emerged from the house the murderer placed the pistol at the head and fired. It was an ideal place?if not an ideal time of d.'iy for a hold-up?and not a likely spot for a suicide. The fact that he was shot in the left side of the head, which was toward the school house, while his left hand was gone, is another circumstance to be taken into consideration. Westcott was fifty years of age and was a native of Richland County. He left a wife and four children. He Use Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. The children like its pleasant taste, and mothers give It their hearty endosement. Contains no opiates, but drives out the cold through the jewels. Made In strict conflrmity to the Pure Food and Drugs Law. Recommended and sold by Conway Drug Co. ? SIMPLY AN OUTRAGE. Coffin Left on the Porch of the Baptist Parsonage A Card Was Loft Wit It the Coflln Threatening Rev. K. M. Light foot Witli Death In u Short Time. ! Orangeburg was stirred with indignation Thursday morning when it became known that some one on the night before had left a coflln on the porch of the Baptist Parsonage, which is located right on the public Square in the brght glare of several electric lights. The Parsonage is occupied by the Rev. E. M. Lightfoot, Pastor of the Baptist Church, and his wife. The community looked upon j the outrageous occurrence as a dastardly attempt to wound the feelings of a fearless and outspoken minister of the gospel for some attack he has made upon vice and its adherents. The coflln, which was discovered by Mr. Lightfoot about eight o'clock, was resting on two benches on the front porch. It was a cheap one, about the size for a half-grown person. .lust under the lid of the coflln was a card on which was written a warning and a threat to Mr. Lightloot. It read as follows: "This will be your last resting place after June 10 next. Good by, Rev. Lightfoot. P.S., Peace to your ashes. Anon." The note was written in a fairly good hand, and was evidently executed by some one of average Intelligence. Rev. Mr. Lightfoot notified the* police at once, who began an investigation. Later in the day the collln was recognized by the keeper of a colored lin/lo..tnbliwr 1.11..1 ' u..vi> i uinlllf, 1-BUIIIIIM1I1II'1U itH OllC that had* been taken from his establishment sometime Wednesday night. Ho said that one of the policemen had informed him that Ids place was found open about one o'clock Wednesday night. The policeman had told him this Thursday morning, and not immediately after the collin house was found open. No doubt the party was in there then getting the coffin. It is a pity that the matter was not investigated right then. A young man who works on The Times and Democrat says he saw some one go in this same coffin house on Tuesday night of last week, and that he tried t? see what he was up to, but the fellow knowing that he was watched stood perfectly still. He said the party he saw was a large, tall man with a moustache. He could not tell whether he was white or colored. No doubt this fellow, who ever he was, had something to do with putting the coffin on the porch the night after our young man saw him at the coffin house. While no one, of course, believes for a minute that the affair is serious so far as the threats made by the parties are concerned, still the entire community regards the dastardly outrage as an insult to the entire city, and that it should be ferreted out and the guilty parties made to sillier. It was a malicious, dastardly outrage, and we are glad to know that nothing will he left undone to apprehend and expose any one living In this community who would he guilty of such a thing. Several parties were engaged in it and they will he caught. One of the worst features of the outrage Is its effect on Mrs. I,ightfoot who s not in the hest of health, iiy accident she saw the coffin and at once hecanie very nervous, and at one time it was feared that she would he prostrated from the effect it had on her nervous system. It is a mystery how the coffin was brought up throught the streets without heing seen hy the police. It was certainly a hold piece of business, considering the location of the Parsonage and where the coffin was put. FIGHT FOR A SQUAW Indian Brave and White Man Both Claim Bight to Woman. Even the Indians are up to date and air their love affairs in court. Such is the case of Jack Wilcox, a Qulniault brave, who lives on the reservation at Aberdeen, Wash., and who has instituted nroceediners to re cover his wife, against Hilly Snell, a white man. The woman in question is an Indian and for 17 years she was the faithful wife of Snell, bringing him up a family of six children. Then the dashing young brave appeared and his stories turned her head. She eloped with him, after he pursuaded her that the first marriage was not legal. It was not long before the brave and his bride returned to the reservation and Hilly Snell won her back again, much to the chagrin of Jack Wilcox. The first. marriage was performed by an Indian agent. If the contracting parties thought the first ceremony legal it would be binding. If the woman did not thing it legal when she eloped with Wilcox she would not be guilty of bigamy. was formerly an engineer and about thirteen years ago feli under a moving train at the union station, and in trying to shove himself out of the way, his left arm was cut off just below the elbow. He then quit the road and set up in business as butcher, his market being on Taylor street, in the city of Columbia. It is a mile from his residence to his market, and the place of the killing is about two blocks from his home. Many a cool thing slips through a man's grasp because he is too previous. About the only time the majority of us act ndtural is when we are asleep. j Freedom of speech has enabled many a man to give it to himself In! the neck. 1 COST OF LIVING. The Government Statistics Show Highest Level on Record. EVERYTHING HIGHER. Remarkable Increase in All Lines of Household and Personal Supplies Indicated by Recent Complication Of Statistics of Wholesale Prices and the Covcmmeiit to Study Retail Prices. Living expenses are increasing at a rate that finally lias startled the government statisticians?and he is the last man in the world to be startled at anything. For three years the average American housekeeper has felt the strain of increased household expenses, but until within a few months, the matter has not appealed olllcially to the statistical agents of the governments. Indeed, loss than a year ago, figures were made public by the bureau of labor which seemed to indicate that there had been no Increase in the living expenses of the average American citizen. The figures showed that some articles of everyday use in American households had gone up in price, but the general precentage of increase was-so small as to be inconsiderable. At that very time, it was known to every householder in the land that the expenses had increased materially, and that he was paying more for the support of his family than he ever had paid before. Now, these facts have dawned on the government officials. The latest investigation made by the bureau of liiuor nave inrown some strong light on the subject. The criticism of the reports made about a year ago induced the odicers of the labor bureau to institute an inquiry into the cost of wholesale amounts of commodities generally used in housekeeping. The comparisons instituted covered a period of seventeen years. The inquiry into the wholesale prices of such articles of the same commodities is being made. The latter will not be completed for several months yet; but the statistics respecting the wholesale prices has prepared the statistics for what they will find in their inquiry into the retail prices. In the inquiry only recently completed, it was discovered that the wholesale prices of 2f>8 ordinary commodities had reached a higher level in 1906 than at any previous time in the history of the country. Of course, the period covered by the investigation was only seventeen years, but at no time prior to that had prices so high been attained as to any considerable number of the articles investigated. On tu?? whnia number of articles, the average price in 1906, was f>.6 per cent higher than it was in 1905, and 36.5 per cent higher than in 1897, the year in which the lowest prices of all the commodities were reached in tho 17 year period. The statistics show that the highest level of prices was reached in December, 1906, the average for that month being 4.1 per cent higher than for the entire year of 1906, and 6.3 per cent higher than for the corresponding month of the previous year. It is stated by the bureau of labor that the Inquiries covered farm products, food, clothing, lumber, building materials, drugs, house furnishings and miscellaneous commodities. Farm products and chemicals showed a slight decrease from tho prices of 1905, but all other products indicated a material increase. The average price of farm products showed, in 1906, only a slight change from 1905, while food products as a whole increased 3.6 per cent over 1905. Sixty-five of the seventy articles of clothing showed an increase in price, while only four Indicated a decrease. In the others there was no change. In submitting the figures, the bureau of labor make no attempt to discuss the cause of the rise and fall of prices contenting itself with a simple statement of the facts as it finds them. It is significant, however, that an inquiry is being made into retail prices on the very heels of the other investigation. TWENTY HUitT IN WHECK East Train Left the Track and Two Passengers Fatally Hurt A fast passengor train on the Ha.1timore and Ohio railroad on the Ohio River division, was wrecked fortyfive miles below Parkershury, W. Va., Thursday afternoon injuring 20 persons and two fatally. It was running at the rate of sixty miles an nour. 1 ne naggage car len tne track, causing the engine and live cars to follow and the rear coaches to turn over the embankment. MUItDElt AND SUICIDE. CIiml>ecl Up to a Second Story to Commit CriniCy At St Louis, Mo., after climbing a two-story porch and breaking open a window. Albert Koenlg, a lineman secured entrance into tho room of Nettie Woods, on Walnut street, and shot her. lie then shot himself twice. Both were removed to the hospital, and it is believed they will die. The two recently quarrelled. The tenderest thing in the world ] is a woman's hand when it caresses. But when it gets a grip on a man's hair?well, that's another story. When a man can hang on to his money it's a sign that he isn't married. , # LIVING TOMB. Several Miners Entombed Four Days Rescued at Last. HOW THEY MANAGED Wore Almost Frozen to Death. One Of The Imprisoned Men, Took Charge of the Tarty?They Built a Hut From Ties and Slept Most Of the Time?Seenes at the Mine's Rut ranee. The seven minors entombed in the Fouatwell mine of the BerwindWhlto company, near Johnstown, Pa. last Saturday, were rescued Tuesday night, after nearly four days of heroic work by the rescurers. The men were alive though almost frozen from t lie cold and starved from lack of food. The rescurers who came to their place of imprisonment first were Stoney ltoden and Charles Ke'an They waded through water up to their necks. Several times they passed within a few inches of the mine roof. They were almost paralyzed when they reached the men. lOach carried two bottles of milk and brandy and gave it to the men sparingly. The rescuers began work at once aftr the mind was flooded last Saturday. Pumps were set going. More than 2,000 gallons of water were taken from the mine every minute, day and night. It was not until Monday morning that the pumps began to gain on the water. The work of the rescuers necessitated great bravery. Some of them were forced to stop working because of lite mental condition. The noise of the pumps, the splash of the water and the exciting surroundings, shattered their nerves. Women and children crowded about the opening of the mine and hampered them in their work. They were kept from harm only through the use of force. The prayers and cries to the entombed were harrowing. Mrs. Molva, wife of one of the minors, stood weeping at the mouth of the mine and calling for her husband. Her father, 7 4 years of age, kept up chants and prayers for the man, never ceasing for 7 2 hours. Their case was not an exception. The rescued men wore found in the highest point of the shaft. Itolya, one of the members of the imprisoned party, had the men well in hand. When he found they were suffering from the cold, he ordered them to pull ties from the water and build a hut. There they lived for four days In comparative comfort. Only one of the miner's lamps was kept burning. When that one burned out another was lighted. Thus the men were no In utter darkness. They could see the water sinking int;ii ny men, and near me roar or the primps. They tapped frequently on the air pipes to let the rescuers know that they wore alive and to spur them to determined efforts. The reason the tappings wore not made more often was that the men spent most of their time sleeping in their living tomb. When rescued and taken to the hospital, it was found that they had suffered from exposure. Their good condition was accounted for from thf fact that they were cheerful all the time of their imprisonment, even though they had little reason to think they would ever see their families again. C ARK 1NI> OFF A It AI LI tOAl). Nothing Hut ltoadhed Remains of an Old Line in Ireland. A railroad between Hirr and Partumna, Ireland, has been stolen and nothing remains of it save the roadbed and one lonely bridge. One after the other the telegraph wires and poles then the rails and ties, and finally, the buildings have been carried off by the neighboring population. A man did intnnd tnkincr tho remaining bridge, but was prevented from doing so by an officer, who happened to catch him in the act. In 1868, a line was built between the two places. It was worked by tho Great Southern and Western line until 187 6, when it failed to renew the leas". The road was deserted and the people living in its vicinity gradually took posossion of Its fixtures. 1HCATII A MYSTEKV. Screams Heard in Vacant House and Head Body Found. At Atlanta mystery surrounds the death Thursday afternoon of William C. Glazier, an employe of the Gholstin Mattress company. He was seen about five o'clock going to an unoccupied house on Houstan street and soon after screams were heard. Investigation resulted in finding his body lying on the floor, life extinct. Suicide is one theory advanced. KEFl'SEB ADMISSION. Woman in Male Attire Not Allowed To Land. A dispatch from San Francisco says landing in this country has been denied "Countess Convalessky," a woman who dressed in male attire and who arrived with her husband I on the Ventura. ' KODOL For Dyspepsia clears the stomach and makes the breath as sweet as a rose. KODOL is sold by drugglsta on a guarantee relief plan. It conforms strictly to the National Pure Food and Drugs Law. Sold by Conway Drug Co. i BLOODY TRAGEDY. Caught a Man and His Wife in Compromising Position And Knocked Tliein llotli in the Head With a Hammer Kefore They Had Time to Awake. A special dispatch front Columbia to the News and Courier says there was another murder in tho Waverley neighborhood Sunday morning, but the affair differed from the recent homicides in and around Columbia, being a case of tho "unwritten law" among negroes. It seems that about midnight, John Jacobs, a negro carpenter, returned to his home in Waverley and found It locked against him, but entering through a window he discovered his wife, Hesslo Jacobs, asleep in the same bed with Will Johnson, a negro. John Jacobs proceeded to kill both the man and the woman, as he thought, hitting them in the head with a hammer, as they slept. Ills blows ended tin* life of bis wife, but not that of Johnson, who is now at Taylor Lane Hospital, under treatment. Jacobs went to the home of his employer, the colored contractor, A. S. Johnson, and with Johnson went to the police station and surrendered, and is now in jail. lie was under the impression that he had killed both man and woman but when the oflleers reached the scene the negro man, Will Johnson, was alive and was taken to the hospital as soon as possible. Tho sheriff, police and cor oner went to the scene soon after the news reached the city. KTItrriv PIHSONEK. Negro Who Assaulted New Jersey Women I lent en by Mayor. Edward Gibson, a negro living at Wenonah, N. .1., and employed as a cook at Woodbury, near Camden, N. J., was arrested Thursday night, on the charge of attacking Miss Dorothy l'nris, of Wenonah. Gibson attacked the young woman as she left a trolley car in Wenonah, for her home. He knocked her down, an was about to seize her by the throat when four young men made their appearance and Gibson (led. He was captured in the woods near Wenonah, and given a beating by his captors. Gibson was then taken before Mayor Lawrence, who, when lie heard the story, became so enraged that lie struck the prisoner in the face. Mayor Lawrence held hiui for a hearing before Justice of the Peace Williams, who sent him to Jail without bail. KILLED ItV Ml ST Alt E. An Austrian Count Slain by a Posse In California. The San Francisco Examiner says the supposed desperado who was killed at Willows after a running light with a posse of officers lias been identified as Count Otto Von Waldstein of Austria, scion of a noble family of history, nephew to a cardinal and to the Prince of Wartemburg, one of the richest men in Franz Joseph's empire. uoiim uiio men ngnung, neiieving that ho was heing attacked by a band of robbers. The posse thought that it had ran down Smith, murderer of John Marcovich. Count Otto Von Waldsteln left Austria and his family six years ago because of a love affair. He fought through the Hoer war. He wandered to America a poor young man without a profession to work with his hands for existence. SHOT IN FIOIIT. A .Man Charged Willi Murder Ijcads Rxritiiig Chase. At New York in a running fight with a dozen policemen Thomas Donahoe, whom the police sought on the charge of murder, was shot and fatally wounded at the hands of the policemen. Donahoe's fight was up and down fire escapes and over several roofs Donahoe died after the arrival at the hospital. It was a shot in the shoulder that brought him down, when he was obliged to expose his entire body to the police. C AI 111 WITH TIIK <j<>( > I >S. An Aged While Man in Savannah Confessed to Theft. J. W. Hart, an aged white man held at Savannah for robbing a house of a large quantity of silverware Thursday told the police of a number of robberies that he had committed. The officers have recovered about $:i00 worth of silverware belonging to A. II. Silcox, of Charleston, whose house was robbed recently. Ml ST HANC. Kn?tl.nL'V * ? --- nj \ will I ill /1|I)II'UIM ;t IIII'lllS Hanging for Assault. A dispatch from Troukfort, Ky , says the Kentucky law Inflicting the death penalty for criminal assault was sustained by the court of appeals afilmiag a death sentence imposed on Harrison Alexander, colored, for an assault on a white woman. A man lias no more use for a crying baby than a woman has for a crying man. Some people are such consistent knockers that they refuse even to ling a door hell. Men who whistle at their work . seldom work and better than when I thoy whistle. ? * MANY KILLED. In an Explosion at Canton, China, on Thursday. HUNDREDS WOUNDED. Fifteen lluildings Hiucd, Scorns Heriously Wrecked, and Section of Mu.sNivo City Wall Thrown Down. Residents in Foreign Quarter Xot Hurt. l'ngodu Kscupes. Heavy Property Iioss. Poor old China is always in trouble. Very great destruction of life and property was caused at Canton Thursday by an explosion of a gunpowder magazine. Twenty-one bodies have already been recovered from the ruins. Hundred of persons were injured. Fifteen buildings were razed to t he ground, and over a hundred were seriously wrecked. A section two hundred feet long of the massive city wall was thrown down. The historical, many-storied pagoda escaped with slight injuries. Officials jijkI staffs lit' i ti?> ? uv/n|Mtain are doing their best, to succor tho sufferers. In tho Shainion surhurb, whore tho foreigners live, tlio shock caused by the explosion was felt, but the residents wore unharmed. Some Idea of tho force of tho explosion may be gathered front tho fact that roofs of houses a mile distant from the exploded magazine were blown off. A number of mportant. Chinese and foreign mercantile establishments were completely diminished. Bodies recovered from tho ruins in the vicinity of the magizlne were shockingly mutilated. Many corpses wore without heads. The olllcer in charge of the magazine was among those killed, and when ills body was recovered a pipe was found clutched in his hand, which suggests tlie possible cause of the explosion. CAUGHT ON THE FLY. Sheriff Captures Man From Window of a Flying Fnginc. One of tho most sensational captures of an escaped jail breaker ever effected occurred early Thursday morning alont the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, near Miuon, Pa., when Chief of Police Mincemover, of Danville, leaning far out of a speeding locomotive, seized Charles Sutton by tho collar and swung him on board, a prisoner. , Sutton had broken out of the Mon tour county Jail several hours before and believing that he would try to escape along the railroad. Sheriff Williams and the chief of police got a locomotive crew together and start nw in 1111 im 111L* wiine running About. 20 niiloK an hour they suddenly espied in the glare of the headlight. Sutton leaning haek against a box car on the adjoining track to let the locomotive pass him. He did not suspect such speedy pursuit, and did not realize his danger until Mincemoyer's strong arm shot out and seized him. FATAL FALL. Hurled to His Dcuth From Top of High Hiiilding. At Atlanta Alber J. Stevens, an Englishman, was hurled to death and three other workmen narrowly escaped lining killed by the fall of a section of coping on the new Andrews building on Marietta street Thursday morning. Stevans fell a distance of seventy feet and was horribly crushed. He died at the Grady Hospital an hour later. The three other workmen who were working with Stevens saved themselves by jumping backward when the coping gave away. The exact cause of the accident is not known. Stevens was an ornafental brick mason, and was 24 years old. He had been in Atlanta only about two months. FIVK MKN DUOWNKI) Captain and Four Men Drowned As They How Out to Vessel. At Pars Chrlstain, Miss., the drowning of five men of the schooner Sioux on Monday night came to light Thursday, when tlie bodies of two floated ashore and a third body was seen off shore. The missing Include Captain Jones Connelly, formerly of Baltimore. Me and four sailors started to row out to their schooner Monday evening, but they never reached the vessel. What accident befell them has not been learned. The Sioux is from Blloxl, Miss. TAKKN FROM MINE. Fourteen Dead Bodies of Miners Aro Itecovered. A dispatch from Charleston, W. Va., says the bodies of 14 dead have roenvftrful frr?m tU? Whlnnla inino where tin explosions or gas occnred late Thursday afternoon, and this was thought to he the full extent of the fatalities. "Good for everything a salve is used for and especially recommended for Piles." That is what we say about DeWitt'a Carbollzed Witch Hazel Salve. That is what twenty yeara' of usage has proven. Sold by Conway; Drug Co.