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WHITE FIEND. Assaults a Little White Girl Near Langley Thursday. HE MADE HIS ESCAPE Hut flu* Kntiiged Scoured the Woods for Him. Ho Met the Little Nine Year Old Oirl Coing Home From School and Criminally Assaulted Her. A diBtpateli from Augusta to The News and Courier says Uula May 1 \ \ L,wn?ru, me little nine year old daughter of Mr. I>oliver Leohnrd, of Langley, S. C., was eriminally assaulted Thursday afternoon by an unknown white man and is in a critical condition. The fiend escaped. Kxcltement was at u fever pitch Thursday night at Langely and the woods around the village were literally swarming with crowds of armed men. Had the object of their search been caught a lynching would have followed despite the fact that Sheriff Kayburn was early on the scene, and did everything] he could to persuade the crowd to be I satisfied with capturing the assailant. At an early hour Friday morning scores of citizens and a number of officers were still scouring the county. About 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon, as the little girl was returning home from school, she was approached by the man, who told her that he had lost four dollars and would give her half of it if she would assist him in her search. The child agreed, but later showed signs of fear and turned back when the man seized her to force her to accompany him. The girl attempted to call for help, but her captor tightened his grasp and choked the little one into insensibility. He dragged her almost lifeless body to the edg? of a swamp and there she was found some time afterward. She had been assaulttd and the man had escaped. * Assailant Caught. A Saturday dispatch savs Sheriff Unborn captured today Henry Leopard, who raped Lula May Leopard at Langley The prisoner is a lirst cousin of the victim. She positively identified him at her assassin. Sherff Raborn found part of the shirt worn by the prisoner when committing the assault. It is spattered down tho front with blood. The sheriff evaded the mob and spirited the prisoner to Augusta, from whence he was carried to the penitentiary in Columbia. * j KILLED BY TRAIN K<HIRERS. Safe Opened and Contents Stolen by the Outlaws. Train robbers who boarded a Denver and Rio Grande train at Castle Rock, Col., shot and killed Express Messenger Wright. From the dead messenger the robbers took the keys to a small safe in the baggage car, which they opened and took out the contents, in all worth loss than a thousand dollars. Tho big safe in the car, which contained a large snin of money, was tampered with, hut the robbers were unable to enter it. Wright was found lying in a pool of blood beside the big safe. * HANGUP FOK MllltDEH. Oue Negro Pays the Penalty for Killing .Another. At Walterboro on Friday Thomas Washington paid the penalty on the gallows for killing Frank Richardson on Fenwick Island last August. Washington and his victim were bo.th negroes, and the murder was a deliberate one. The execution took place in the corridor of the jail, where a scaffold had been erected, in tlie presortnsi r?f utiniif 10 tw>onl<> Th? I'onft was cut at 10:55 and 15 minutes later the physicians, Dr. H. A. Willis and Dr. W. B. Ackermau, pronounced - life extinct. His denth was easy. * IN A BIG HURRY. And Will TiOml at Charleston, Shortest Route Home. A cable from Secretary of War Taft from Colon to Mayor Goodman, of Pensacola, Fla., in reply to an invitation for him to return to the States via Pensacola, states that as his presence is needed at once in Washington, he will take the shortest route, landing at Charleston, S. C.. about May 20. ? Cotton Firm Fails. Innian and Co., of Augusta, Oa., .one of the largest cotton firms in the South has been forced into bankruptcy with liabbilitfes of about $1,$00,000 and assets the same. * .N SUBSCP \ r - i ???> 111 it11 directions until it struck tin* Terminal hotel, one of the largest l in the city, ami gutted that. During t the early morning hours every one in ' the Terminal hotel and in numerous other smaller hotels in the district had warning. There was no loss of t life and no serious injuries from the * eonllagraion. 'i .ie insurance on the property de stroyed is placed by insurance men ( itt $750,000. One of the heaviest j losers in S. \1 Inman of Atlanta, who , owned the entire block bounded bv Forsyth, Mitchell and .%elson streets land Madison avenue, and in whicli | were located the Schessinger-Meyer I company, Branch B of the city post- . ofliee, the Biqyid Carbonic company, a branch of Central Trust & Banking company and innny smaller concerns. The fire was discovered in the elevator shaft of the Schlesslnger build- , ing and is supposd to have originated . from crossed wires running to the motor which operated the elevator. , By the time the firemen had arrived ' the flames had broken through the , roof of this building and owing to a light water prosure, it was impossible to check their progress. In a short time this structure was completely gutted and the fire was eating its ' way through the Station B of the Atlanta postofllce where mails received from the terminal station just across the square are distributed. t The employers of the postofllce, j however, by quick work managed to \ save all the mail and most of the | euuintment. i .lumping across Mitchell street, the flames made short work of the Ter- ( tninal hotel, the Terminal annex, ] Childs' annex, at which point the ( firemen succeeded in checking the ] onslaught on the north side of Mil- j chell street. On the south side, how- . ever, the (lames continued to sweep , everything in their path until Forsyth . street was reached, gutting the buildings occupied by McCl lire's '"en Cent , store, the lunch bank of t.ie Central , Hanking and Trust company, the Par- , agon Srspender company, Moon Shoe ( store and the Liquid Carbonic company. The Schlessinger building extended half a block on Nelson street and from it the flames soon jumped to numerous strucuros on Forsyth street and destroying the places occupied by Alverson Bros. Grocery company, the Lingers Frame Man factoring company, and he Walker Cooley Furniture company. A strong west wind fanned the flames and scattered burning embers over the whole business sction of the city, threatening for a 1 time to cause even greater loss. 'I'lift fli'i.mon hnU nwinv narrnw es capes fi*6m falling walls, but no Injuries of a serious nature are report- 1 ed. The guests from the hotels and rooming houses in the burned section 1 succeeding in saving most of their effects having been warned in time i to remove their trunks, which were piled on the plaza in front of the Ter- 1 minnl station, from which point their owners and many early risers watched the progress of the fire. * ENTERS DAMAGE SUIT: Young Lady Says She Was Insulted on Train. A dispatch from Spartanburg to The State says Miss Sallle Bragg of flr.ninnlifilln thrmiyh ntt<trnr>v I A. Phlfer, has commenced a suit against the Charleston an i Western Carolina road for damages in tlie sum of $50,000, alleging that while she was a passenger on one of the trains of the company between Augusta and Laurens she was grossly insulted by the conductor of the train. Miss Bragg is a native of Spartanburg county, her homo ba.ug at Campobello. She is seventeen years of age and an orphan. * tlBE N0\ ATLANTA SUFFERS. FIRK CAlSFS Bid LOSS IX IHSI- 1 N USS DISTRICT. Hlgtt W ind and Light Water Prwwure J Rendered the Firefighters' Work Harder. One million and a quarter is the loss conservatively estimated Friday on a tire which started at 3:30 o'clock Friday morning and which swept two blocks of Atlanta business property. Friday night the tire was under control with tuiued buildings in the district bounded by Forsyth, Nelson, Madison and Hunter streets. Late 'riday the police and tire departments dynamited what was left of the ragged walls. Friday night half of the fire fighting force of Atlanta was playing water luto a dozen razed structures. How the tire started is a mystery. It \V!?S rllBfnv'nvnd in ? 1? - - 1... i 1.1 i ~ * v . v u an tut- t'uiiuuiK ui;- i cupied by tin- SchoHslURor Meyer company. bakery. From there it ran its i TWO BAD MEN. WHO MIST IIK HIMIN<; H IKiK LYNtll. tfegroes Aluluct <? Woman and After Robbing Her Leave Her in the Woods. A dispatch from Charlotte says lohn Boyd, a one-armed negro, who s bell boy at the Selwyn hotel, and rVUson, another negro hackman, lave .just been bound over under a 11,000 bond each to await trial at he next term of criminal court on a 'ery grave charge, that of robbing a velldressed lady, who gives her name is Mrs. J. M. Morgan of Atlanta, and vho was stopping at the Buford lotel. Mrs. Morgan was found in he woods near the city, wandering i bout in a stupefied condition. A enant on a farm discovered her and iummoned the police, who have been liligently investigating the case, with he result that suflicient evidence was omul against the negroes to hold hem on the charge above stated. According to the story told by Mrs. Vlorgan, and which story 1; back"! ip by circumstantial evidence, Mrs. dorgan took a cab to go to the depot. Instead of taking her to the station he two negroes are said to have held ler in the carrleage and to have Mirried her to the woods, where she ,vas later found unconscious. She says she was robbed of two liamonds worth $200. Dr. Boyd vas the star witness at the trial. He old of finding Mrs. Morgan with her irtn hadlv bruised and her body badly iruised. He says she was in a dazed condition, as if sh?? had boon doped, le further testified that he saw in he woods where she was found a t>lac where a struggle had taken dace. A bottle was found nearby and a lumber of matches. A watch charm vas found near the scene of tho struggle which belonged to John ioyd, a vicious negro bearing a bad eputaiton. At M.his time full details ?f the case have not been ascortaned, nit the further the matter is probed he more dastardly becomes the crime hargd against the two negroes. Mrs. ilorgan had been at the Buford sev>rul days and was well dressed and of ractlve appearance. SKVKXTY-TWO MKN SAVKI). Ii'sciihI by Ik'tinir Life Savers from <'rumbling Wreck. Seventy two men who for more han twenty four hours had been fueng death in a raging sea near Fire island, were rescued from the crumbing hulk of the big German ship Peter Ilickniers early Friday. Their rescue was effected after one )f the most trying experiences the ife savers on this exposed coast had ?ver been called upon to face. No ess than a dozen times hope of saving the men on the doomed ship was ill lint abandoned, and it was only the easing of the gale and terriilc seas that made their rescue possible. Fortunately not a man was lost and it is believed that no one of them suffered any permanent harm us a result of their long light against death. The great steel ship, one of the finest sailing vessels that ever rode a sea, is a total wreck. * FATAL TENEMENT FIRE. Flames Practically Destroy a Large uii ut Vint' \o ?*L At Now York four persons were killed and twelve injured Friday afternoon in a lire believed to Up of incendiary origin, which practically destroyed a five story tenement house in Orchard street. By the time the firemen arrived men, women and children were so closely packed on the fire escapes that none could get down. More than a hundred were taken from he fire escapes on ladders by the firemen. Those forced to remain inside had a more serious time. Two of the victims were burned in their rooms. One woman attempting to reach the roof with her child fell. The child was burned to death. BOLD THIEVES. Broke Into Fever Hospital and Stole Employes Wages. A dismntrh fmm T.nnrlrm thnf on Saturday burglars went to an unknown extreme when, disregarding a number of eases of malignant fever, they broke into the fever hospital, on Beagrave road, Fulham, and made away with valuables estimated to be worth $2,000. The money had been drawn out of the bank to pay the wages of the employes. In order to reach the office where the money was kept It was necessary for the theives to pas* through several wards whore patients were lying. No one saw them, but marks evidenced where they forced uu entrance to the building. * V TO HAD BROKEN NECK HIT HID NOT KNOW IT FOIt YKAKS. Senator Money Given Startling Information When llo Visited Osttm-1 patli in Now York for Treatment. A dispatch from Washington says tin? tact that Senator Money or' Mississippi passed through life for 3 5 years with a dislocated neck and did not know it became known to some of his associates recently and created general astonishment. The condition was discovered when the senator began to take osteopathic treatment for neuralgia. He has suffered intensely from that ailment tor many years. At the first battle of Franklin, in April, 1X63, Mr. Money was a cavalry man In the Confederate service. While riding through the streets, hoi was struck by a bullet that circled around his ribs, doing no other injury. The shock was such that Mr. Money was thrown from his horse and struck on his head. Heing helpless he was captured and taken within the federal lines, lie did not ask t'liv )wve?%tt.?t ? ' - * .... ..wni'ntii in"iiimen c, was exchanged later, rejoined his troop and funKlit until the war was closed. Years passed and Mr. Money entered tho senate. Neuralgia had taken a lirni hold on him and his eyesight had grown so bad as to approximate! blindness. Senator Foraker advised Mr. Money to try osteopathy, which was just beginning to attract much attention. Mr. Foraker's daughter has been benefited by the treatment. Senator Money wont to New York accompanied by his son and visited the osteopathist. Almost the doctor's first remark was: "Why, senator you have had your neck broken." Senator Money denied all knowledge of such an affliction. The physician declared that one of the vertebrae had been entirely pushed from the top of the column supporting the head and was in a wrong position, lie demonstrated U>at the muscles on one side of the neck were tluhby and useless. "If you hud been old enough to take part in the Civil war." said the physician. "1 would say you were thrown from a horse and sustained Tne broken neck." "That is just exactly what did happen." replied Senator Money, recalling the injury at Franklin. "1 can cure your neck," said the physician; "it will require but a moment's time." The osteopath laid the senator on a table, took hold of the misplaced voidable with both hands and snappod it into proper position. The noise made by the bones swinging into place was like the report of a pistol. The senator's son. who was looking out of the window, turned in alarm, saying: "Father, have you broken your neck?" "No," replied tie senator. "I have just had it set." The physician told Senator Money that he must exercise precaution until the weakened muscles regained their normal strength. He was cautioned not to turn his head in looking at anything, but to move the entire body. These instructions were observed, and the neck aparently became as strong as it was thirty live years before the operation. COXVICTIOI) OF Ml ItDFK. For Killing Man Who Lived in House With Him. A dispatch from Greenville to The State says Henjamin McAbee, a young white man, was convicted in the Court of General Sessions Friday of iiiiii iit'i , u 11(1 ? ?t?> i ill un iMi'd Ki the mercy of the Court. Fie shot and killed John Fowler, a man who lived in the house with him. in March. Ho claimed that Fowler was intimate with his wife. McAbee's attorneys have given notice of a motion for a new trial. * Use your head to think with. Hat racks can be gotten at the 10-cent stores. CRASHED THROUGH OAR. f.urgo I Cock Rolled Down Hillside on I Kx press Train. While the Chicago and New York express on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was passing Hammond, 7 miles east of Fairmont, W. Va., early Sunday, a large rock rolled down from the hillside and crashed through the roof of the smoking oar, Injuring three passengers. Thirty-Six lU\scue<l. A dispatch from New York says ! with the aid of the breeches buoy, 1 lifesHvers early Saturday rescued ! from the tank steamship Washington 1 stranded off Monmouth beach, her - captain and crew of xti men. ft is 1 expected that the steamship will he floated at next high tide. * THE WILL KILL BATS BY III KMNU I'.ATBli'K IIKNttY'S MIU.IMA MANSION*. / Millions of itie Pest Have Takni IVssosslon of it and People Driven From It. A dispatch from Aylett. Va., sn\s Montville, one of the most fatuous and historic places in Virginia, Is to he burned to the ground by Its own owners, the great grandchildren of Patrick Henry, because It Is overrun with bats. Since the warm weather begun there Is no living In or near tho place. Hats by the thousands hang about the grand parlors* and spacious bed rooms of the colossal < mansion Attempts to exterminate them by poison and with clubs have | failed. They are in every room. They 1 - * uuug in tong stripes, as is their habit. from the furniture, from tin- , ceiling, from the walls ami they are in surli numbers that limy form curtains before the windows, darkening tin* house during the day. At nightf 11 i 1 they loosen themselves from each other ami dart to the yards in such numbers that they strike each other in their flight. Recently Philip Aylett, one of the owners of tiie place and an engineer attempted to make the house "bat proof." Every crack, every door, and every chimney was stopped up, but the bats found a way to enter. They coulg Kef through cracks which would hardly admit a roach. Montvllle was built about the time the Americans drove the English out of the country, and its woodwork is old and brittle. Moit t v I lie is now owned by the six children of the late William Aylett. They inherited the home from their father, who had inherited it from his grand mot her, Elizabeth Henry, who had married an Aylett. After the death of William Aylett, half a dozen years ago, his sons and daughters married and moved away and Montvllle was rented for the first time since it was deeded in H>7o to the ' i first Aylelt who came to America by Charles II. From the day tho lease was signed ' bats began to invade tho place. The ' leeseo tried living in the mansion with iiis family, bul it was impossible. ' During the day there were strings of bids yards long.1 Tho llrst of the 1 grewsome creatures would cling to a 1 piece of woodwork, to the wall, tlu* 1 window sill,, or to a stick of furniture and his fellows would cling to him, forming a string of sqeaking, repulsive objects. The moment the sun set the string would dissolve and the bats would seek the open, squeezing through the cracks of windows or doors and through the floors and walls. The lesse and his family took quarters in a cottage 1,000 yards away and the manson was abandoned. The A> let l children offered prizes to the negroes who could kill the most bats. A child stood in the front door one afternoon and with ii tennis Pecquet knocked down 2,000 bids. The negroes for a time came from every direction, hoping to win the "bitt. prize," but after thousands and thousands of (lie creatures had been put to deauh there was no appreciable diminution. Poison was then paced in every part of the house, but the bats only seemed to thrive on it. This spring the bats have become a pest to the neighborhood, and tho owners of the old mansion have determined to burn it to its foundations. Tho bats can be got rid of in no other way. I I i A . IU I I / I'i I i l.> lit t IV. Tin* Ex-Senator, With Two Others, to Get I iii rge Foe. A Washington dispatch to The News and Courier says Justice Ashley M. Could of the District Supreme Court, decided Saturday that Senator Owen of Oklahoma, former Senator Sutler of Edgefield, and Wylie O. Cox, are entitled to a fee of $75,000, payment of which from the United States treasury was enjoined last year on complaint of the law firm of Shellep and Martin of that city. This firm charged fraud in a $5,000,000 claim of the Cherokee Indians aguinst the Government. Justice Gould held that no fraud had been shown. * LAUNCH ItltEAKS DOWN. Four Voting l.ndies Were Drowned as as a Desalt. Four voting ladies. Misses Klmn Webster, IS years, Kdith WaBster, 1 <5 years; Grace Lytic, 16 years; and Hessie Lawrence were drowned in the Neosha river at Hartford, 111., Saturday morning. In company with Kate Griffith, Mary Griffith, Carol Lytic, Kniil Steinholst and Howard Lyon, they went boating in a gasoline launch. When the party was a short distance above the dam. at the Hartj ford mill, the supply of gasoline gave out and the engine-went dead. 10RRY HI THE DEATH GRIP. Terror-Strickon Plague City Has Been Cut Off From REST OF THE WORLD. Iuk Guayru, Vonozuclu, Is |{? in? liepopulated by the Terrible Disease Known ns tin* liubonlc Plague-? P?x>plo Fleeing From the Country. ?The Death (lute Very lleutjr. La Citiayra, Vencruela, la * city of loath. The plague is spreading there. Vho inhabitants aro fighting It fu*nticnlly, alono and unaided. From the rest of the world they are out off, on one side by the sea, on all ottiers by military patrols under orders to shoot, fugitives on sight. News from the town Is hard to obtain. so strict is I he quarantine, hut enough has leaked out, however, to prove the spot an Inferno. ItuslnesH Is practically suspended, stores closed, and residences shuttered. None venture abroad, except under absolute compulsion. Food is hardly to ire had on any terms. Whoever will may enter with supplies, but having entered, none can leave, even for the enormous prices offered for provisions, few will accept the cert 11 In t v ? * . nui'i iniiuuiuiii ana the risk i?I' death. Front miles away the smoke can he seen by day and the (lames by niglit at" blazing houses where the plague has been, of burning lumber piles from which the people are trying to ilrive the disease-laden rats, and of the 11 res in the oil Hooded streets, a plan adopted by the authoritis as the readiest and speediest means of ridJing the community of the accumulation of tilth which probably was mainly responsible for the epidemic. Most of the workingiuen, who, panicked by fear of the plague and rendered desperate by famine, broke through i he miliatary cordon and scattered through the surrounding country, have been herded together ind driven hack by the troops. The terrified villagers and country people among whom they sought refuge did everything in their power to lid in the hunt. Dr. Gomez Porazu, >f La Guayru, who iirst diagnosed lite disease as bubonic plague, uud was thrown in prison by President Castro, only to he released later when it became evident that Ids judgment was correct, is leading the sanitary workers In their efforts to stamp out the epidemic. hJxcept for a few persons who rushed from tiie city before the cases became numerous, the only ones who have escaped have been those rich enough to pay the skippers of small eraft Jo smuggle them from the harbor and land thorn surreptitiously at distant places on the coast. President Castro lias declared a blockade at the -port, and regular shipping is suspended. Mven the blockade runners art; few. The prices they charge for the supplies they bring in, and the passengers they take out, are enormous, and only the most imminent risk of death at tho hands of sanitary guards are they able to break the embargo. The La Cfiiayra railroad has ceased operations. The rate of mortality from the disease Is enormous and those who succumb are said to do so in the majority of cases in about twenty four hours from the time they are stricken. There have bee a few cases of the disease outside of La (Juayra, but tlio government is making herculean exertions to prevent the disease from getting a foothold, and tho sanitary precautions promise to accomplish the desired result. Foreign resdents and wealthy Venezuelans what are able to leuve their businss are quitting the country in largo numbers, however, lest tlie epidemic spreads. WUITK MAN AltltHKTKl). On Charge of Assaulting a Young White Woman. John Groves, a white man 5 5 years of ago, was lodged In jail nt Spartanburg on a warrant charging him with criminal assault upon the person of Miss Annie Dobson, a daughter of John Dobson, a well to do fanner of the Wellford section. The warrant for Groves' arrest waa sworn out by Magistrate Dean of Duncan. The defendant was arrested at his home at Greer by Constable T. Walker Moore and brought to Spartanburg. He denies his guilt. * Eleven I >row n?>d. The steamer Minnie E. Kelton wan wrecked off New Port, Ore., on Tuesday and eleven of her crew drowned. The steamer shifted her cargo of lumber during a storm, and when a big wave struck her became unmanageable. * ERALI).