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MUST PAY FINE ? Evangelist Convicted of Using Vulgar Language In the ' PRESENCE OF LADIES Thp Georgia Court of Appeals IXfides Afaiast Hev. Walt Holcombe, | Son-in-law of the Lute Itev. Sai'i I*. Joars, Who Had Appealed From Lower Oiwrt. } "Tho defendant was clearly guilty, and the record presents no reversible error." declared tho Georgln Skate Court of Appeals In sustaining the verdict of guilty against Rev. Walt Holcotnbe, of Cartersvllle. Ga., j-onvicted of using "profane, obscene and vulgar language in the presence ??f females." Dr. Holcotnbe, an evangelist, nml ji son-in-law of the late Rev. Sam P. Jones, was indicted for certain remarks ho made at a meeting ia i he Cartersvllle tabernacle, in thi presence of ladles.^ Ho appealed the case, and the higher court sustains i t ho verdict of guilty. "It was not the ribaldry of some low grade comedian in a second class i he.atre," said the court. "It was th? mdescent je?t of a niiuistor of the gospel, made in a house devoted t" the services of God, in the presence of some three thousand worshipers .'timed at a female member ? the congregation, whose excess adipose upon au unmentionable part of her person happened to excite hU attention." The case against Evangelist Hoic.ombe has been in the public eye at intervals for several months, and nas attracts wide attention, because <of its unique features und the prominence of the minister. The annual tabernacle revival meetings were in progross in Carlersville, and Evangelist Holeomles -ut.m ! < ?i- - ~ ? " un i*? uiuii LUC WVI VICCS. A meeting for men only hud been ad vortised and arranged for u particular Sunday afternoon, and it In recorded that a great crowd guthered. Itev. Mr. Oliver was to address the men. Following the services for nien the regular services were to be held . On this particular Sunday afternoon it began to rain very hard Just before the meeting for men wus to t/egh:. and ? number of women sought shelter under the tabernacle. The court record shows that Minister Oliver, who was to address the men, suggested to Evangelist Holv.ombe that the women retire, .so the meeting could proceed, as per schedule. Bvangeliat Holcombe advised the women to retire, and his remarkb were such as to lead to his indictment and subsequent couvictlon for using "profane, obscene and vulgar language In the presence of females. The minister's remarks, according to the record, were aimed at one particular woman, whose back wus turned to the roatum from which ho was talking. She was u particularly largo woman, and his remarks referred, in part, to her adipose. In passing on the case, the court of appeals declares that the word " profane" is regarded as surplusage, where the language set forth is, as a matter of law, not profane, but Is obscene and vulgar. "Ah used iu the code, obscene and vulgar language Includes any foul words which would rounonablj offend the sense of modesty and do eency of the woman, or women, or any of them, In whose presence they were uttered." Evangelist liolcombe will have tc pay the tine of $200 and cost, which was imposed by the trial judge al Oartersville. DIMKD HUMAN IIKAI) FOUND. ? Thresh**** Make Grosomc Discovery oa Michigan Farm. A dried human head, apparently cleanly severed from th<? body hy I a flaw, was the gruesome*1 object p Thnroday found hy hnnnett Coonoy, a farm hand, on the floor of the well bonee, wrapped in a pieco of burlap, on the farm of the late Sumucl Bryant, near Clayton, Mich where threshers were working. The object lay on the floor and Cooncy picked It up and remove i the burlap to 9eo what it was. He fled in terror and summoned the other men at work on the place. They left the head whore it was Pound and nailed up the house till oflicers could go to the scene. l)r. S. A. Bryant of Dowaglac, Mich., as son of the lato SamuH Bryant said Thursday night that the head found was, no doubt, one of Rereral that he had in his possession lor scientific purposes when tA- lived at his father's home In Adrian" SUBSC 1 \ FALLS UNDER WHEES AND IS CUL'SHKI) TO DKATtl! INSTANTLY. Skittish Mule Starts Off Suddenly and I/Ot>|M>ld Welle is Hun Over by Heavy I.oad<*l Truck. A sud nnd fatal uccidont happened In Charleston on Monday. The Kvening Post says Leopold Wide, of No. 267 St. Philip street, foreman of drays for C. 1). Franke & Company, fell Monday morning under a wheel of his heavily loaded truck at the Atlantic Coast Lino freight warehouse in Hay street, and was so badly Injuns! that he died a few minute after the fatal accident, without regaining consciousness. Mr. Wide had drivel, his fomowhat skittish mule up to the freight platform and having found out that it would be necessary for him to move to the receiving door further up, stepped upon his dray to drive off. He could reach only one rein, and leaned forward to get possession of the other. As he rested one hand upon the back of tho hig mule attached to the truck, the animal started quickly, and Mr. Welle lost his balance. He fell to the side of the . ih.'lff linrt lilu Ixwl v ut M1/-1- t l.n mont directly In front of one of the heavy wheels whlcn passed over his body, as the now more startled mu'.o moved off. A grout weight boro the heavy wheel down upon his body, crushing his stomach and abdomen fatally. Immediate assistance was given the poor old man by witnesses to the horrible accident, hut he could not be helped, and was dead not long after his injuries were received The body was taken to the undertaking rooms of .1. Henry Stuhr, in Wentworth street, where Monde? afternoon at G o'clock an inquest into the death of Mr. Welle was held by the coroner. His body was almost severed into two parts. The dray, a two-wheeled affair, was heavilv loaded with carriage stock, und the big wheel pressing his body ugalnst tho granite paving of Hay street had a fatal force, that the strongest man could not have withstood. Severul people witnessed tho accident, but it occurred before they could realize tho awful fact. Mr. Weile was a native of Germauy, coming from the home city of Mr. K. H. Jahnz. He is survived b: a widow. Ho ha<l boon in the employ of C. L). Franke & Co. for over twelve years, winning the esteem of Ms employers by his faithful uud willing service. There was no prompter man at tho company's store than I^eopold Welle, and no took pleasure in performing his work aay by day. He fore ho entered th> employ of Messrs. Jahnz he was known by hundreds of people as a driver of a Uutledge avenue horse car. I^eopold Welle had a cheery greeting uud a good word for everybody he knew, and his friends were shocked deeply when they heard of his terrible death. He was between tlfty-five and sixty years of ago. IIITK OF MAI) IKKjJ | Proves Fatal to an Klbertou, (?a.. Itetail Merchant. A dispatch to tho Atlanta Journal from Klberton, Oa., says Matthew Herman, the merchant who was bitten by a mad dog on the night of October 1st, died Thursday night at 11 o'clock, after an illness of two days from hrdrophobia. Mr. Herman did not become vio lent until two days boforo his death. Ouo great fear in his lucid moments seemed to he that ho would Injure Homebody. About 6 o'clock he broke loose from his attendants and jumped through the window. He waa brought back to tho house, but later broke away again, and running to the bath room drank water as if he com id never get enough. Ho Boomed to bo burning up with thirst. Later he asked thut ho be strapped to his bed, and this request waa complied with. Just before he died, after one of his paroxisms, he asked that everv one leave his room. Though strapped to the bed hif? fear that he would injuro some one was so great that he wanted to be alone. It was soon after this, while alone, that he died. . * St?M*r Huns Amuck. A mad steer run amuck Thursday in tho business section of Atlanta, mul luifrtrn utoor wno rniiffhf fit tho risk of life and limb, two persona wore injured and others fled to places of safety; pome being forced to climb telepnooo poles. In 0111 of his furious rushes at pedestraine the right horn of th? steer was torn from his head. " RIBE NO - % TELLS OF WRECK Schooner Abandoned on Voyage From Georgetown North. BRAVE LIFE SAVERS Rodlea Island and Nags Head Crews t Worked for Hours?Captain and i Wifo Thrice .Wrecked?llod^fH J Curried to (Hiarlestcn as I'rlzo of { I Steamer Fert Several Years ago. j ( Cupt. S. K. Lawry, of the abandoned schooner Flora Hodgers, a well- j known trading vessel at Charleston. I j tells an Interesting and thrilling story of the wreck of his boat u few ' days ago at Bodies Island and the rescue of himself, his wife and the , crow. The following account of the wreck and rescue we take from th? 1 Charleston Pott: 1 It is not the first time that tho { Flora ltnilL'urs hsiu Imuii, having had the same experience scv- 1 oral years ago off the Carolina coast, when she was towed into Charleston, as a prize of the Italian steamer ' Pert, being later libeled and sold by order of the United States court. In an interview in The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Captain La wry related a few days ago in a dramatic ' manner how Mrs. Lawry, his wife, his crew of six men and himself stood waist-deep in water with waves from thirty to forty feet in height leaping anil swirling over the wreck, nine hours before a line was shot over the vessel and how two anchor chains of links of an inch and a halt in thickness \v6re snapped like pipe stems which sent the vessel to her doom. It was also brought out how Mrs. Lnwry had been in two other wrecks with her husband and how on one ' occasion she was willing for everything aboard to be lost?that id, property?but to-only save her c?nary bird. When the gale was sweeping the 1 coast and carrying everything before it the ltodgers, lumber laden, wus tugging at her anchors. She was 1 from Georgetown, S. C., for New Haven, and Captain Lawry seeing that ho could not suil'in such a storm, hod the vessel anchored off the inland. Two anchors wore thrown out and those were hold by many fathoms of chain, the links of which wero an inch and a half of solid iron. Tho vessel was double-reefed. Everything was done to prevent the craft from stranding, but to no avail, and at 10 o'clock at night the anchors tore loose and two and onc-nalf hours later tho stern of the Hodgen way battered away. Masts and rigging and spam crashed to the deck and lay In an Inextricable mass. The wind was increasing from the south-east, anl presently the vessel bega nto bo working broadside on the beach. Inky darkness prevailed. The waves by this time were running to a height of from thirty to fqrty feet, and at one time it appeared that a'I must bo lost. The life savers had discovered the wreok and they so notified those aboard the vessel by tho Costen signals. When daylight came the surfmen from the Hodies Islund station attempted to launch a surf boat, but they were beaten by the wind ?n<l waves. Eine after line was Are J and fell short, and those on tho wreck despaired of being rescued. Word WJ4H to thn Wnir n Itoi/t station and soon the crow was on the scene. If ever a set of men worked to save eight human lives It was the crows from the Bodies Island nn 1 Nags Head stations, and at 7 o'clock lu the morning a line was shot over the side of the vessel and made fast to the stump of the mainmast. Then the breeches buoy was run out. The captain and crew insisted that Mrs. I^awry step into tho buoy first. The brave woman wus reluctant tj do this but was finally persuaded an 1 sho was hauled through tho mountainous waves to tho beach. It was a dramatic scene. Then the crew, one by one, were hauled ashore and Captain Hawry was the last to step into the buoy. All hands wero drenched to the skin when they hit the beach and they lost all of their belongings, which went down in the wreck. The captain, bis wife and crew had not long been off the vessel when she began to break up and the lumber ca.* go 10 come asnore. une or rne masts washed ashore and there Is hope of securing the other two. Captain Lawry said tnat tho spars and rigging might also be saved an.i practically all of tho lumber cargo > that has washed ashore will be save !. i The cargo was insured, but the vesi sel was not. Captain bawry had ' a $1,000 interest In the Uodgera. * W TO FIRE IN HER HOLD \ STEAMSHIP AT SKA WAS IX ( ILKAT DANG Kit. IViroloMM Statiim at (%arlmton Kwps in Touch With a Steamer Tliut Hud ( one to the Hohcuo. The Charleston Evening Post aayu he steamship Luckenbeck en rout? 4 rom New York to San Juan, Porto itico and South Arooricnn ports rejorts through the wireless station it Hampton park the presence of tire u her main hold, but the blaze has >een brought under control by the combined efforts of ber crew mu .ho crow of the steamship Philadelphia which has the Luckenbeck in i ow. , The message of the lire in the hold ] >f the steamer was caught by the iiumpton park wirelees station about | 1 1 o'clock Monday night, having been , *ont by Captain Crockett, of the Philadelphia, when the steamship and her convoy were off Charleston ubout 700 miles and 680 miles south of Sandy Ihxik. At the time that the wireless message was sent to the Charleston wireless plant, the steamers were making about nine and a half knots un hour. Tito Iiumpton park station remained in touch with the plant of the Philadelphia for several heirs Monday night. The steamship Luckenbeck is one of a licet of five ships belonging *o the Insular Steamship Company, one of the competing lines of the Morse syndicate of steamships, running to Porto itico and South American ports. The Luckenbeck family of New York practically own and con vuji (in; YWBflS. inn IjUCKCnilCCK IB ono of tho host boats of the line, having a tonnage of about 5,000. Bound from tho South American ports with coffeo and other staple products of that country, and returning with general cargoes of merchandise, tho line does a good bus iness. It is of course not known what will be tln? damage by the Are on the Luekonback. The survey will probably be held upon the arrival of the vessel at San Juan, and then estimates will bo propared of the amount of the damage. M RIOTS THRRIHLK DEATH. Trying to Oleau Out tain Which <'aught IILs Arm. A dispatch from Newberry to The News and Courier ways a terrible accident happened at Mrs. II. I,. Sc.humport'B gin on last Friday af'^rnoou, whereby Mr. Dudley Hawkins lost his life. Mr. Hawkins was a nephew of Mrs. Schumport and a son of Mr. IV M. Huwklna. Ho has been with Mr. Mid Mrs. Schumport for a good many years, and since Mr. Behuinpert'a death has had practically entire control of tho roller mill and ginnery as well as the farm. Ho was a young mun aliout twenty-four years old, very attentive to business and with a host of friends. On Friday afternoon about <) o'clock something got wrong with the gin and Mr. Hawkins undertook to clean it out, and in doing ao his right hand was caught in the saws and his whole arm pullod into tho gin, cutting it into shreds up to hl.s shoulder Ixjfore tho engine could lx* stopped. It took at least a half how to tako his arm out of tho machine, and during the entire time ho directed how it should 1x5 done, and showed romurkablo nerve and presence of mind, though suffering terribly. Ho was taken from the gin to tho homo of Mrs. Bchutnpert and I)r. Gilder was summoned, but did uot reach Mr. Hawkins until about U o'clock. KILLED BY TRAIN. Ooloml Farmer Tries to Hoard CoIkwo and Falls. Jim Wharton, a colored farmer, who lived in the Harkesdale neighborhood in Laurens county, was run over and instantly killed about 8 o'clock Monday morning by the mixed train coming over the Charleston and Western Carolina froxn Greenville, tho accident occurring at Harksdale Htatlon, seven miles from Laurens. Wharton tried to swing the cabooso of the swiftly moving train. Ho fell and was crushed to death under the wheels of an extra box car attached to the rear of the caboose. Both legs were cut off and his head was cut in two by the car wheels. Night lllders Caught. Many of tho night riders who brutally murdered Captain Quentin Rankin in Tonnessoe last week has been I arrested and is now in jail. One of I the murderers has confessed, lmp!i. eating oighty-flve other parsons ia i the lyneing. THE HO ENDS HIS LIFE \ Prominent Lawyer of Mobile Shoots Himself to Oeath. FHE CAUSE UNKNOWN Major Ktlwiml Murphy ltohlnson, After leaving the I>inner Table, FIivh Two Bullets From a Il<*volver Into Ills Brain?I weaves Young Wife and One Child. A dispatch from Mobile, Ala., says lhat Major Edward Murphy ItobinHon. one of that city's most prominent citizens, and one of the leading cimtnal and civil lawyers of the South, a club man, former representative in the genera) assembly of Alabama and who had refused many political honors, ended his life Sunday afternoon by two shots from a revolver In his bedroom at his handsome home in Government street,! shortly after II o'clock. The news of the tragic ending of this brilliant young mun, when it became generally known throughout the city, shocked everybody. Major ivobinson had been down into the business district during the morning. He left one of the leading social clubs of tne city at 2 o'clock, went to his home and was seen with his w ife and little child on t he lawn. I Later the trio entered the house and sat down to dinner. During the dining hour ho aroso! from the table and went to his room without saying a word. In a few moments two shots rang out, one following the other very closely. On rushing to his room, the lifeless body * i. _ - ? i in Luc uivorney was round stretched across the bed, blood flowing from two ghastly holes In the head. He died before anything could be done. Major Koblnson wns the Idol of Mobile county Democracy and the best known orator in the State. Ho gained national renown by his speccn of presentation of the silver service to the battleship Alabama, and immediately became a prominent, figure In State polities. Ho was mentioned this year as .1 candidate for governor. He served In the Spanish-American war as captain of company S, Second Alabama volunteers, und was made major of the battalion on the reorganization of the military forces following the war. In Mobile be had been elected to every otflce to which he aspired. Ho married the daughter of Prelate I) Barker, present postmaster of Mobile, and leaves a wife and one chil l. His political nfliiiations hare been undoviatingly with the Democratic party. He was bom at Stockton. Ala., in 1 873, his fater being a veteran of the civil war. Ho was a social loader and prominent in fraternal and Hl'crct nrilnru Unrlnw 1 CI A 1 l\ O (. V. w? u l I il i 47U fV?? 11 y was president of the Alumni of th? Uuivcrsity of Alabama. WILL FIGHT WHITE PLAGUE. Organize Anti-Tiiberculo?ls Movement launched at Columbia. Ah a result of a conference held Thursday at Columbia the physicians, the presH and laymen of the State will organize to educate the people on tuberculoplH and its prevention. The meeting was held In the State Library at noon Thursday and there was cydto a large attendance. It was railed by a Rpeclal committee of the Medical Association of South Carolina, and after discussion it was derided to appoint physicians in each county to organize county associations and to work along the line laid down by the National Association at the meeting held recently in Washington. The associations will be under the auspices of the State Association, and information and literature bearing on the sub...Ml 1... ;vi i win i iv wiiivij (i IMU i ouicd. At the annual meeting of the Association in April reports of the work done will be made. The meeting was presided over by I)r. Jno. L Dawson, of Charleston, and I>r. Walter Cheney, of Sumter, acted as secretary. Among those present was Mtb, Bead, of Sumter, president of the Federation of Women's Clubs, who promised the co-operation of this organization. Heavy Verdict. At Greenville In the Perioral Court Monday a verdict for two hundred and Hixty-threo thousand, four hun dred and ftfty-three dollars and tifty three cents was returned for th< Southern Power Company, of Char lotte, N. C., In the stilt against th< Catawba Power Company, of Uoci Hill, S. C. The suit was for th< collection of some promissory notes. RRY HE! BRIBED A JURY SENSATIONAL DEYEIXII'MKNT LV HAN FllANCIKC'O SCANDAL. A Contractor Having Tried ?Kl Convicted of ItrilMTy, Admit* Hi* (iuilt and Tell* Whole Story. Sun Francisco, Cal., on Thursday, hud a most sensational court scene. Standing in the shadow of the penitentiary with sentence about to he passed upon him. and huving seen his young wife just led from the Court rooui hysterically crying "Hit, no," A. S. Itlako, a contractor, ennvlctod of attempting to bribe John M. Kelly to (|tialify on the Jury to try Abraham Huef and vote for Kuef's acquittal, made u full coufeoslon in Court Thursday. Hlake said that after he was arrested on a charge of bribery, Frank i J. Murphy, Huef's assistant eouimei. came to hiin and promised $10,00# if ho would keep quiet. Ho sai i that notes for $10,000 purporting to tie signed by Ktief, were delivered to a third party, to be paid to lilnke immediately after he was sentenced if ho were convicted of bribery, lie sides this amount, Blake declared, his wife was to receive $100 a month while he was in the penltnetiary. When Bluke was called on to rise and receive sentence his wife cried No, not that," and began to sob hysterically. She wus lead from tb ? room. After motions for a new trial nml an arrest of judgment had t/een denied Blake said that he had a statement to make us a reason why nentence should not bo pronounced. Tills came as a surprise to his n.torneys, who were permitted to withdraw from the cn.se. After he had been sworn aud h?d stated that he had not been promised immunity Blake nnid he had been offered $1,000 by Attorney A. ?5. Now burgh and F. J. Murphy, of Kuef's counsel, to influence J. h\ Kelly, a prospective Juror, to vote for the acquittal of Huef. lie at llrst offered Kelly $f?00. which was refused, he said, hut an offer of $1,(100 was accepted. It was then brought out lu allegations that New burgh had procured attorneys for Blake's defence. Blake then told of his alleged offer of $10,000 and provision for his wife while he was In prison If he would not make a confession. The story* told by Blake created consternation in Court and tne case was continued for two weeks. DEAF MUTE KILLS HIMSELF. Itnilff t>( I! Win p,'ln(?v C,...* v?? -? + ? - m saMM/l WUHII AH'JIll in Woods Sunday. A dispatch from Union to The News ami Courier nays Robert filover, 2f? years of age, and n deaf mute, was found dead in worn? woods about one mile went of Union, late Sunday afternoon, with a wound indicating that a pistol hud t>een placed in his mouth and fired. Mr. Glovov wtt? a printer by trade and had worked In Union for several years, with both the Progress and the Union Times. On Thursday last ho returned to the city after several months' ah aence and resumed his position with the Times, working ther j Friday a.?d Saturday, and seemed to be in high spirits. Sunday morning, however, he left his boarding house about ft o'clock and did not return for dinner. A party of friends went in search of him, finding his dead body, us suited ubove. While there was no eye witnesses as to the manner of his death. It seems to be generally conceded that It was a case of suicide. His parents, who reside in Spartan burg, went to Union Sunday night and Monday morning took the remains bach to that city, where the interment took place Tuesday. His mother stated that the dead man had never entirely recovered from an attack of grip from which he suffered some time ago, and it is also said he was of a despondent disposition front brooding over his afflictions Women I'arude. Six hundred women suftragiats paraded the streets of lloone, Iowa, on Thursduy. Rev. Anna Shaw, head of the National Order of Suffragists. hfwi/lfwl I ho iiarudo U/Uh hur r.. iVfrn. Ren dell and Mrs. CoHtelle, of London, famous for thier participation in the attacks made on parliament by the women suffragists of Kngland. The spectacle of 600 women mai lng through the streets caused thfc whole town to turn ont to witness it. * I Kills His Htm. At Russellville, Ala., James Thorn, 5 a farmer, while attempting to rum - a mule out of the yard Wednesday 3 picked np a small stone and threw c it at the animal. He iuImmm! the ft , mule and hit his 2-year-old soa^ | killing him instantly . . ? . mt .rA>. tALD %