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FIEND'S CRIME Negro Attacks Voting Lady In Woods Near Her Home. A MOB ATTACKS JAIL Aad Is tTrcd l!pon by the Sheriff and His Posse?Three Persons Are Wounded?Troops Ordered to the Scene Senator Carlisle and Others Appeal for Law and Order. Miss Leila Demp&ey, the popular and attractive bookkeeper of time al Saxon mills, near Spartanburg, was aasaulted by a negro named John irby while on her way home from tbe mill Saturday morning. The negro wne captured In the woods near the scene of the assault by S. G. Porter and others, who took him to the home of Miss Dempsey on Parley avenue, where he was idetitiflcd. Police officers took the negro from the mob who were on the way to the woods to lynch him, and hastened him to county jail, where he was locked safely within (he strongest coll. The Spartanburg Herald says a mob, gathered about the Jail, and Sheriff Nloholls ordered out the Hampton Guards and later the Morgan ill ties and strongly garrisoned the prison house. Several attempts wore made to break into the Jail, but they proved futile. Several shots were exchanged between the mob outside and the guards inside with the result that throe young men in the crowd woro severely wounded, Sheriff Nicholls, it is said, was hit and a prisoner in tho Jail by the name of Steve Howard sustained Homo trifling injuries. Story of the Crime. Miss Leila Dempseyt daughter of John Dempsey, who resides at 105 Parley avenue, is the time-keeper at the Saxon mills, which position' *he has held for the past three years. John Irby, the negro who attempted criminal assault on Miss Dempse/, ft ginger cake-colored negro, who has t>eoii living in Spartanburg for some time. lie has been working sround the cloth rooms of the Saxon mills or the past two weeks. Wi s Dempsey left the mill yeslerduy morning at about 10 o'clock for her home. As she passed through tho narrow strip of wood on t-.&Vdi avenue near Mr. Adair's home a negro ?prang suddenly upon her from the bushes, grabbing her about the throat and choking her to insensibility. She was dragged In the woods a short way from the path, and there it is believed the brute attempted criminal assault upon her. How long the negro was with her Miss Dempsey could not say. When #be came to herself she crawled back to the road and saw Wilson Harry, the old colored man who works for Mr. Daw. In an Instant he saw her oondition, and was off to the store of Mr. S. G. Porter, a short distance Away, where the alarm was spread. Mr. Porter hastened to Miss Dcmpsey's assistance and took her home in a buggy. On going back and looking around, Mr. Porter and his friends saw the place in the woods where Miss Dempsey's assailant had her on the ground. There they found the shoes of the young lady, the comb from her hair and the bundles that she was carrying. It was not many minutes before Mr. Porter and those with him found John Irby hid in the bushes near the spot, where he had attompted criminal assault on tho youngMady. They caught him and hastened with him toward the home of Mr. John Dempsey on Parley avenue for the purpose of having hltn identified by the young lady. Identified by Miss Dempsey. When the crowd with Irby were within a hundred yards of the Dempsey home they were met by Policeman Fleming, who took charge of the negro. Oiilcor Fleming, surrounded by tho crowd, led the negro on tho front porch of Mr. Dompsoy's home. Miss Dempsey was called out to look a* him. Irby ?eemo(l calm nnd deficit .but when the young lady said, >J'He la the man," he dropped hia head, and neemcd to lose courage. The moment Miss Dempsey pronounced Trby as the man the crowd aOemed to boil with rago. Strong men grabbed hold of the negro, and one picked up a brick bat and threw It at him, inflicting a terrible wound in the head, from which blood flowed freely. Though the crowd were^novlng with both ofllcer and prisoner in tho direction of the wood, with the avowed purpose of stringing the negro to a tree and filling him with lead. Policeman Fleming stuck to his man and advised the mob to let tho law take it* course. The crowd had not gone far from the Dempaey home wnh tho ofllcer SUB' and the negro, when Chief of Police Hall and Mr. B. (J. Landrum drove up in a buggy. Chief Hall alighted from the buggy and called out that he would take charg} of the negro. For an Instant the mob seemed dat,ed at the audacity of the command, and before they had time to recover Chief Hall and Oliicer Fleming hail Irby In the buggy and he was speeded away to the county jail. The crowd followed as fast as they could, but before they arrived the negro was locked safely within the strongest cell in the jail. Militia Ordered Out. Sheriff Nicholls, when he saw how | the crowd was gathering about the Jail and clammoring for Irby, lo?*t no time in having the Hampton Guards ordered out. Cgptaln Nicholls had the county Jail garrisoned with the Guards in a short while, and every part of the prison was strongly policed with determined soldiery. From a handfull of fifty or sixty men, the mob grew, as squads of mill men from 8axon and Spartanmills Joined their ranks. Tho crowd seemed to lack a lender. For a timo it seemed that one Cicero Thomas was tho ruling spirit. He called to tho crowd about him or all those who Intended to Join "tho lynching party" to hold up their hand*. Hundreds of hands went up. Then he asked those who did not Intend to join in to step aside, and a general division of tho "sheep aud tho goats" followed. At about 1:30 p. m. tho furor of the mob was at its height. A lad by tho name of Govrer Fowler .appeared with a sledge hammer and began pounding on the gate at tho entrance of the jail yard. Almost simulLanoeouly a ladder was thrown against, the south wall of the jail vard and Will Burnett and Mob McCarthy mounted upon the wall, whll'i others were following. Several shots wore fired front the Jail. Instantly the men got down ofT the wall and the pounding at tho gate ceased. Grover Fowler, Earnest Foster and two other young men, one named Carver and the other Richards, were sprinkled with shot. John Parks, of the Exchange Cafe, it is alleged, fired Into the jail with a shot gun, and Steve Howard, a prisouer, and Sheriff Nlcholls were hit, hut not hurt. Filled With Hlrd Shot. The hoys hit during the firing were taken to Whittington's drug store, where they were tended by Drs. Brown and Lindsay. They were j all more or less filled with No. 8 blrdshot. One hoy had both thighs filled with shot; one hnd his hack and right arm severely wounded, and another had his whole hack punctured like a porus plaster. The physicians say their wounds are painful, but not necessarily serious. Steve Howard, tho prisoner, who was hit In tho melee wag Htruck in the face by a piece of glass. He had a gun and tried to use it, but when ho pulled the trigger the cap snappcd. Tho firing caused tho mob to bo somewhat quiet and in more of a considerate mood. Dr. H. R. Black, the attending physician upon Mips Dempsey, made a statement to the mob that the young lady had not been ravished, that tho brute had failod to accomplish his puropse. He said that ho had examined the person of the young lady and would give his word of honor that she had not boon touched. During the afternoon Senator Carlisle, Solicitor Seale, Judge J .J. Gentry, Dr. L. M. Roper spoke from the court house steps and begged tho mob to disperse. Several times at the order of Mayor Floyd, police ofllcers cleared the crowd from around the entrance to the Jail. Refore dark the court house was entirely cleared of the mob and police and soldiers stationed all along the fence kept them out on the streot3. John Parks, who it is alleged, fired tho shot into the jail, was arreate 1 and lodged in the city jail. * WIFK WANTS DIVORCE From llusbund for Failure to Ilatlie in Eicon Years. Failure to bathe In the 11 years of his married life, is the principal ground for divorce alleged by Mr*>. Elise Erny, 'n her suit against William P. Erny, wherein the Raster's report was filed Thursday. Mrs. Erny declared that, to the best of her knowledge and belief, her husband declined resort to tub or shower. The master recommends that a divorce be granted. Tried to Lynch Him. | At L.OS Angeles, Cal., there was a scene of riotous disorder ip Justin's court Monday, in which sevdral persons were slightly injured in an attempt to lynch Edward Martin, a negro, who, on Friday night assaulted Miss Edith Ralston, a concert singer of college grove. Martin was . spirited away to Superior Judge Wlllaurs' court where ho pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life im prlsonment. SCRIBE f* HE DID SAY IT Newspaper Mm S*y Longwcfh Was Reported Correctly hi HIS FAMOUS SPEECH The Reporter* Who Made Note* of the "llooeevelt Dynasty" Speech of Hun-in-Law Nick Make Affidavit That the Speech won Made us Kf. ported. Kepubllcan leaders have been thrown Into consternation over the "break" which Representative Longworth, the president's son-in-law, made in his speech at Rock Island, 111., In which he outlined tho Roosevelt dynasty. Prince Nicholas ha* boen called down hard for letting tho cat out of the bag, and after allowing the mutter to rest for three days has issued a mild sort of denial lie did this after boasting on the day following his utterance that h.Y was making a collection of clippings from newspaper comments , and intending to send them to the president who he said, ho knew would be very much pleased. The Chicago correspondent of The Democratic national committee has procured affidavits from persons who attended the Republican meeting at Rock Island, and which proved con clusively that Mr. Longworth made the declaration attributed to him. The foil wing are the aflldavltB: "State of lllinoiB?County of Itoclc Island. "I, Hoy A. Sears, city editor of the Hock Island Argus, on oath ib state that 1 was present at tne itopuhlican day exercises of the Rock Island exposition, October 2, 1008, and reported the addresses of Congressman James McKlnney, chairman of the afternoon; Congressman Frank O. bowden and Congressman Nicholas Longworth and others. "1 further stnte that I heard i remarks of Congresman Longworth's relative to the suggestion made by the chairman, as to his (Longworth's) possible succession to the presidency of the United States. Congressman lx>ngworth's remarks were substantially as follows: " 'I must thank the chairman for launching my candidacy for an office to which I have not expired? I should Hny aspired. My chances for that office have "expired." I had thought that a good ticket for the Republican's for tho next eigl;t yearn would he William Howard Tuft of Ohio, and for the eight year after that Theodore Roosevelt of New York .then for eight yours nftor that my good friend bore, James S. Sherman, also of New York. After that?but modesty prevents mo from making any further suggestion." (Signed) "Roy A. Sears." "Subscribed and sworn to before mo this 6th day of October, A. D., 1908. "James A. Roody. Notury Public " (Seal) "I, E. E. Ryden, a newspaper man, who have been assigned to make unbiassed, unprejudiced report of tho addresses delivered by Hon. Nicholas Longworth, Hon. James S. Sherman and others wno spoke in connection with the Republican day exercises of the Rock Island exposition, October 2, on oath do state I reported the address of Congressman Longworth and his remarks with reference t < the succession to the presidency, in response to the suggestion having been made by the chairman of the MixAtln/v /x# !%!/? /T ? lutx-iius ui 1110 v iaiu^wui ill n/ pur'sible prefiidential candidacy, wore 11 substance bb follows: " 'Your chairman has seen fit t.? launch my candidacy to an office vo which I have not expired?I mean aspired. r.entlemen, I rather think my chances for that office have "expired. "Along this line I would like to make a few suggestion myself. For the next eight years I would propose Mr. Taft. Then in order to keen New York in line, I would suggest Theodore Roosevelt for eight year?-. Then to stili keep New York in the Republican column, I would propose our friend, 'Sunny Jim.' Aft.jr that?modesty prevents me from making any further suggestions. /CM rrn ? W W R is H '' "Subscribed and aworn to before mo this 5th day of October, A- D , 1908. "M. L. Parker, Notary Public." (Seal) The Uock Island Union, the reeog nlzed Republican newspaper of this city, In Itp Issue of Saturday morning following the Republican meeting, 'thus quoted Longworth In a general way: "I consider that Taft Is good for the next eight years ns preslden:. After which I consider that we really ought to have eight years of Roosevelt. Following this, I believe the country needs eight years of 'Sunny I0W TO MANY KILLED By a Terrific Explosion in Large Grain Elevator. A BIG FIRE FOLLOWS The OoncuHflton Blew Up the Lurtfe Klevator Iluildfng. and the Debris Immediately Took Fire and the Whole Structure Wmtt Destroy***!!, K. a tailing Heavy I awe*. At HIchford, Vermont, with ft concussion which shook the entire village a large grain elevator, having a capacity of 600,000 bushels, exploded lato Wednesday, causing tho denth of seven workmen and u woman . The oxploHion blow off the entire roof of the building, scattering timbers in all directions, and almost instantly flames burst out all over the structuro. Twonty-ono men were employed in the building of whom eleven are missing and undoubtedly perished. All lived in Rlchford. Mrs. John Jelifore, who was walking with a companion along the Canadian Pacific railway track close o the elevator, was burned to death and an unknown woman who was with her was burned so seriously that hor life is despaired of. The elevator was owned Jointly bv the Canadian Pacific and Boston and Maine railroads und was occupied bv tho Quaker Oats Company of Chicago. Thy amount of grain It contained was very large. The flames, which are supposed to have been started by spontaneous combustion in the dry dust of the grain, spread so quickly that the limited lire apparatus of the village was of no avail. Tho heat set ttre to a flour shed near tho elevator and the shod, together with 75 freight cars standing near it, was burned. Lato Wednesday night tho Are was still burning, but no other proper!" was threatened. The total loss is estimated at $400,000. liAilOll'tS FIGHT ON CANNON Will Send Many Speakers in IDs Congressional District. Labor is preparing a final and determined onslaught on the cundidaey of Speaker Jos. (J. Cannon. The political action committee of the Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday made plans to send a number of labor leaders into "Uncle Joe's" district next week. During the last three weeks of tho cftmniiiirn will a tT- X# r. ??l u\y u v;? * ,T 50 labor speakers in Danville, Kankakee and vicinity. Two organizers for the American Federation of Labor are in the district now making spoeches for the Democratic candidate for Speaker Cannon's seat in the house of representatives. NMD INTO THE MISSISSIPPI. $75,000 Worth of Property Ixwt at New Orleans. Sevonty-flvo thousand dollars worth of railroad property slid into the Mississippi river Friday when b section of earth 3 00 feet long and about 200 feet wide caved In between Washington avenue and 4th street, New Orleans, carrying along seven freight cars and four lines of railroad tracks. Undermining .?f lV,? ?.? 1- ' ? ?? ' uiu unit tv ity iiiku wuier WHS ll.e cause. The cars and two of the tracks belonged to the Illinois Central Railroad, and the other two tracks belonged to the Public Belt Railroad. WOMAN KILLS HERSELF. Fearing Tliat She Would Go to the Poor House. Fearing that she would be sent to a poor house, Mrs. Carolina Fisher, 68 years of age, committed suicide at her home in the basement of 692 East Fifteenth stree', at New York, by Inhalling gas. Mrs. Barbara Alberts, a triend, found her body In a chair. Until three months ago Mrs. Alports had lived with her son, who was a butcher. She left there after a quarrel with her daughter-in-law. .* | Jim,' after which?but modesty fo:*' bids my mentioning the mutter further." The speeches were heard by Fi.OOO people, and all Irrespective ol policies, *ho have heard Longworth's denial, are thuderstruck. The remarks in the first placf creatfcd a sensation. | The denial has created a grealc (sensation. 4 THE \ J KILLING IN lCIMitCFIKLD. Prominent Xi'gru Shot to l^ntti by n Young .Man. A dispatch from Rdgeflcld to The State says Klchard Feun, a prominent and somewhat educated negro of the town, was shot and almost Instantly killed by Tom Gray, white, Thursday afternoon. Gray used a pistol, shooting five times, two balls taking effect, one in the right thigh, the other two Inches above the nave , the latter wound causing death. 1 W. W. Shoppard and Polic?ma?. Weir were the first to reach Penn after he was shot and Lmtifled at the inquest that the deceased made the following dying declarations: That he was coming towards town and met Gray and they spoke and deceased remarked that that wan a fine pioce of corn. Gray replied 'Yes; it is not mine, but belongs ' to Mr. Samuels.' They then passed ' each other and when deceased ha 1 1 gone about 110 yards, Gray called * him back and commenced cursing ' him and drew bis pistol and fired." ' It is said that Mr. Wright llolson 1 was an eye witness to ttie homicide, < but he did not testify. Gray nas, so far as Is public y 1 known, made no statement and Ills ' version of the affair Is not known. 1 It Is rumored that Gray Hpys that i the deceased insulted his mother. 1 n ? -- * ~ - " vyrujr i? now in jau ami has employed COUIlHel. The Jury's verdict was in accordance with the above facts. i . i GOING TO NKW YOHK. Bryan Will Again Visit and Speak in That State, That William Jennings Biyan will 1 make another address in New Yor'c and visit. up-State cities was announced Thursday by Vice Chairman 1 Hudspeth, of the Democratic nations! ' committee . Bryan, lie said, will speak In Madison Square Cordon on October 2G, in Brooklyn, on October 2 7, in Albany, 2X; Syracuse, 2!) Buffalo, 30, Chicago, on November * ? ! Hudspeth added that it is novsf expected that Bryan will wind tip the campaign with speeches In Omaha on the night before the election. 1 It was also announced at Democratic headquarters Mutt John YV. < Kern will make his llrst address of the campaign In New York city on ' tne night of October 13, in Tammany Hall. Kern also will speak In Brooklyn, Boston, several Connecticut cities, Newark and Jersey City on ! dates yet to be fixed. The national committee, it was announced Thursday, will make public on October 1 f? all contrlbuitons to the campaign funds. SHOT HIM TO IIKATH. Wanted to Kill People and Himself Got Killed. A negro named Henry White whh shot to fragments by 11 mob at Younker, Ga., Saturday night. White atarted out to shoot up the fainilv of Mr. Thomas Allen Saturday, and on his way met another negro, whom ho ahot and wounded for refusing to join him in his expedition. Ho went on to Allen's and ahot at him and his wife, running them away from their home. A posao gathered, pursued and captured White and placed him in the lockup. About 11 o'clock Saturday night a band of unknown men took White from the lock up, carried him about a mile from Younkera, tied him to a tree and riddled him with bullets. * LYNTHKl) IN MIHMIHSI1?I?I Shot a Conductor and Cot Strung Up for It. A special from Lulu, MIhb., says: liin and Frank DhvIh, negroes, charged with having shot and probably fatally wounded John C. Kendall, a conductor of the Illinois Central Railroad, wore taken from- the Jail here today by a mob and hangnl. The shooting of Kendall occurred aboard a passenger train near her.* late today when the conductor endeavored to quiet the negroes, who, it is Raid, had been drinking an I creating a disturbance. Another negro who participated iu tho shooting escaped, but Is being pursued by ft posse. OAUNKO IK CIVKH TO TAFT FUND. Contribution of $ ISO, (MM) from Htocl King is Announced. The fact, that Andrew Carnegie has contributed to the campaign fund of the Republican national committee wan announced Frlady by New ' York State Chairman Timothy L*. Woodruff . Mr. Woodruff also an nounced that Mrs. Russell. Sage has contributed $1,000 to the same fund. ' There have been no other largo contributions from individuals, Mr. * Woodruff said, but samll sums are 'looming in from various sources. I0RRY HI iCAMPAIGN FUND Official List of Amounts and Givers to the Democrats TO BE MADE ON OCT 15 Thore lfavfl lu^.n ^ ^ .r. ? vui \AIMFf* buttons of $1,000 Kact to Democratic < '-am pa iff Fund?-One Omt. the Hinallcst Contribution, Deceived from One of the litmiflfd. Tho Democratic national eomulttee is preparing to announce this week the amount of its campaign fund and the individual contributors of amounts of one hundred dollars and over. The lists, which bavo boon compiled to dnte and sont to Mow York from Chicago .show that the campaign fund iH a little over $220,000. Of this fund something nvor $180,000 lias been collected from contributions, which with $42.000 of the Denver Convention funa. [s the total fund now in the Demo cratle treasury. it Is learned that there have been 14 individual contributions nf $1,000 each. There have been ao contributions of sums between $1.1)00 and $6,000 to date. The Denver headquarters of the national committee has collected $6,006, which is paid to include a check ot $1,000 from former Senator William A. Clarke, of Montana. The smallest contribution received was one cent, which came in the mail from Monroe, Wash. The largest contributions to the Democratic campaign fund follows: I)elanc> Niooi), New York city, $ 1,00u. Jacob Jtuppert, New York city, $1 ,ooo. iniii iiftu Straus, Now York r.lt>, $1,250. National Democratic Club, Now York city, $2,600. W. F. Sheehan, Now York city. M .000. Archibald McNeil, of Bridgeport, 3onn., $ 1,000. Guy B. Tucker, Little Hock, Ark., $1,000. M. F. Dunlap, Illinois, $1,000. Roger Sullivan, Chicago, $1,000. Berry Belmont, New York citv, $1,000. Robert Owen, Oklahoma, $1,000. J. J. llogan, LaCross, Wis., $1,000. W. O. Wood, Flint, Mich., $1,000. W. F. Goltra. St. Ix>uin, $1,000. Monee C. Wetmore, St}. limits, $1,000. Normau 10. Mark, Buffalo, $1,000. Molbort Cary, Connecticut, $500. Jefferson Levy, New York city, $500. Dr. John Cox, Connecticut, $600. William F. Burns, New York city, $500. K. S. D. Mallory, H.-lmn, Ala, $600 Nathan Cole, I>os Angela, Cal., $600. P. W. Burns, Chicago. $500. Jos. FoIh, Pennsylvania, $600. William 1). Hodgers, Pittsburg. $5 00. Carl 8. Vrooinau, Cotnlt, Mass.. $500. Molvin E. Ingalln, Cincinnati, $600. W. R. Hurt, Saginaw, $500. Murray Carleton, St. IxjuIk. $500. F\ H. Lynch, St. Paul. $G0O. T. J. WalRh, Helena, Mont., $50*L W. U. Oeorge, Hillings, Mont., $500. R. H. Ford, Great Falls, Mont., $r?oo. The major part of the Democratic campaign fund haa come from dollar contributors and from the Demr>cratlc press, which started campaign subacrlptionH. PKKACIIKR KILLS NKIGIIIIOR. Family Feud in Alabama Results in Tragedy. News haa Just reached Athens, Ala., of the killing late Friday of Andrew Jackson, living near the Lauderdale county line, by a preacher named Livingston, 'i he men are said to have disliked each other for a long tline, and when they met Friday Livingston fired on Jackson. Livingston was later caught wandering about the woods barofooted and man only in his underwarments. L?ater In the night he made his escape. It is thought that his mind is unbalanced. Quits the Party. W. C. Cronerneyer, of Mackesport, Pa., known for the past third of a century as one of the original Republicans. has retired from the Republican party and is allied with the party of Kugene V. Debs. Mr. Oronomeyer was the original tin plate maker of the country, and a very cb?se friend to the lat Presii dent McKinley. . BRA LD <*