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^ RESCUED THEM Two Norwegian Girls Rescued in New York From , THE HOLY GOSTERS He Young Women Were Somewhat Reluctant to Leave the Power of the "Great Spirit," But Their Relative* Kmplujred the Police and Clot Them. % The arm of the law and the "Holy Qhosters" clashed In New York cltv ^ this week and the law won. The rewult is that Hilda Johnson, ~ Norwegian girl of Ii2, has been restored .to her family, together with a friend. Miss Sigrid Signrson, 18 years c^. whose parents are in Norway. Both had been in this country less than two years and with the "Holy Ghostem" more than five mouths. The girls did not wish to leave the mission where they were under the guidance of the "Great Spirit," and they -believed they wt^re '^serving the Ix>rd." Both looked worn and hungry, but insisted that self-deuiai m the way of food did not seem a great hardship in llis service. The release of the two girls was due to the offorts of Thomas Handue to the efforts of Thomas Hanson, and her brother, Peter. The two men tried to persuade the maid ous to return home, but "Shepherd" Brother Jonah Sturtevant interfered and the ladies lost their intentions. Letters were received from the girls' parents in Norway commanding that they leave the "Holy Ghosters," but the "Shepherd" told them they are of age and need not heed the wishes of "plain" mortals. Finally detectives were called by the young women's relatives and the dealings with 1 n uu tuv k)iir|/iiv;i u ncit? UI lt*l UI1U to th-e point, to the limit that the detectives brushed the "Holy One" aside and took the persons they were looking for. Hiida Johnson told the night matron in the police court, that she joined the "Holy Ghosters" last summer while at \Lima Park. There ?he heard "Shepherd" Sturtevant preach and later became interested in the strange manner of dancing, in which the participants moved around slowly, clapping their hands,, at the same time, patting one another 011 the ' shoulders. She stated that the first month after she joined the sect she roomed with negro woman and when her husband came home she and "Sister" Sigurson had to go to "Brother" Sturtevant'a house, where they remained until the call by the detectives. The girl describes her life there as consisting chiefly of working, praying and fasting. The fasting at times lasted ten days. r ^Brother" Sturtevant was a good man and fasted the same as the five sisters who lived in the house with ( *-> him. ( At the mission "Brother" Sturtevant stated after being despoiled of the maidens that their parents in Norway were not opposed to the religion which the girls were enjoying, but they could not understand how negroes and white folks could wursnip lugeiner. iae gins nau noc paid anything for their board, he f said, and when asked how they all lived, and paid rent the brother raised his hands dramatically and exclaimed, "The Lord provides, and ( we do not want. Many give, strangers give in the streets as the sisters walk to the open-air meetings. People I have never seen have sent me $50?the Lord provides," he declar 1 ed. 1 FOLK BISHOPS HAVE DIED. l i The Southern Methodist Have Met , With Big Itosn. The Columbia States says the Sou- 1 thern Methodist church has suffered i a great mortality rate among its l bishops. The next general confer- 1 ence, next year, will be called upon to elect successors to the following who have died since the last conference, three years ago: ^ W. W. Duncan, Spartanburg: A. ( Smith VnrfAllr Va T r? r* I Tigert, Nashville, Tenn.; Chas. Betts Galloway, Jackson, Miss. All of these were well beloved in Columbia. All had spoken here, had j preached here on occasions and had visited here. Bishop Coke Smith had been pastor bore. Bishop Tigert had visited Columbia several times before he became bishop. Bishop Galloway has long been admired in this State and death causes much sorrow. , I Killed in Auto Accident. ( Near Salina, Kansas, A. P. Riddle, ( former Lieutenant Governor of Kan- j sas, was killed Thursday in an auto- y ** mobile accident. j Took Carbolic Acid. fv** At Savannah Mrs. E. E. Bohnken took carbolic acid in a local hospital Friday, and when found by nurses , wa9 dying on the floor of her room. , She entered the hospital several days | ago in search of rest. A negro wo- ( man obeyed her request to smuggle the acid to Mrs. Behcken. * 9 GEN. BOYD VERY ILL THE AI MUTANT (i EN Kit A L SEIZEl) WITH APPOPLEXY. He Fell Front His Chair While Talking With Capt. 1 tains in the Hotel Aiken. While on a visit to Aiken on Friday afternoon Adjutant General lloyd, of Columbia, was stricken with appoplexy in the lobby of the Hotel Aiken, and is now in a very serious condition. Gen. Hoyd was in Aiken for the purpose of selecting a site for the encampment of the Third regiment and making arrangements for the encampment. with several citizens ho spent all the morning driving, and the hot weather was noticed to have fatigued the general somewhat. After he had dinner at Hotel Aiken he was sitting in the lobby with Capt. Rains of Charleston. The general was noticed to be in some way affected, and when he was spoken to by Capt. Rains he made no reply. In a moment, however, he appeared to have revived and answered. His peculiar actions caused alarm among those who saw him, but Capt. Rains explained that ho often was thus affected, and he thought he would soon recover. However, in another moment he had fallen out of his chair to the tloor. I)r. T. G. Croft was summoned at once and In a few minutes the stricken soldier was carried to his room, where for nearly two hours, he was in a delirious condition. He has now quieted, and the attending physician states that lie has hopes of recovery. Tonight lie has partilally regained consciousness. The general's attack was followed by a hemorrhage. A quantity of blood was drawn from bis arm. * i Klll.l.l> And One Hundred Hurt hy u Series of Tornadoes. A series of tornadoes in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma a few days ago killed a dozen persons, injured about 1G0, devastated Mollis, Kans., wrecked a train and did great damage to property. Twenty-five were iu the suburbs of Kansas City. At Mollis, three men were killed and ten seriously injured. The lOekstrom family of five persons is missing and may be dead in the ruins of the home. Near Great Rend a tornado killed two and injured 20. All wires are down in that vicinity ami it is feared that the death list may be greater. Wm. Ackerly, a Sante Fe engineer, was killed while working with a bridge gang, between Great Bend and Kinsley. Frank Nicholson, a conductor, was also killed. The storm spread over a wide farming area and laid waste many farm houses and barns. An estimate of the rural casualties could not be obtained. At Moisinger, Kans., a tornado injured a number f persons and greatly damaged farm property. At Pond Creek, Okla., a severe wind storm injured four persons and unroofed several houses. Many washouts interrupted traffic. Electrical disturbances crippled tele grapii ana teiepnone wires. TOOK TOO MUCH. Captain of Steamship Dies From Overdone of Drug. A drug tawen to relievo Illness caused the death at the Ilelief Hospital at Boston Friday of Capt. \shley Burroughs, of the Savannah steamer Nacoochee. Capt. Burroughs, in nursing an ailment, which nade its appearance when the steamer was one day out from Savannah, :ook an over dose of a drug from tiis medicine chest, and when the joat arrived at Boston was in a dyng condition. He was rushed to he hospital, but died four hours ater. Mrs. Evans-Wilson's Will. The will of Augustus EvanstVilson, the novelist, who died Sunlay, was filed Thursday at Mobile 'or probation. Her public bequest? ;onsist of $10,000 each to St. Franks Street Methodist church, Protestint Orphan asylum and the Nonlectarlan infirmary, and $500 to the if. M. C. A. library of Mobile. Special bequests to relatives amount o about $50,000. Return of Rattle Flag. The battle flag of the famous rifle icouts captured at Selma on April l. 1805. hv thf? Fourth Ohio y, was presented to the Alabama livision, United Daughters of the Confederacy Thursday night at Juntsvllle, Ala., by a delegation of veterans from the Ohio regiment. An mmense audience witnessed the proiensation. Cut in His Hod. At Jacksonville, Fla., O. N. K<>y, i well known express messenger, was 3ut to death in his room by his friend, E. J. Johnson. Key was undressed and in bed when he was killed. The knife wound severed his heart, causing instant death. AWFUL TALES Heartrending Accounts of Tragedies in Armenia MAKES CLEAN SWEEP Of the Country of the Armenian. Men Are Murdered, Women Maltreated and Carried to the llarems, tlnniuw. ? iw *i-u unu 11it'll liumnl ami Fnnu Animals Driven Off. Dispatches from Marash, Asiaflc Turkey, say that most distressing account continue to be received there from the couutryslde of the Armenian villages assailed by bands of Mohainedans, who, acting on tko supposition that the Armenians were rising against government, were quick to strike the tlrst blow. Men were killed whenever found within reach of knife or bullet. Girls were ofteu maltreated, and some of them were carried off to become the wives or slaves of rich men. Houses were ransacked and then burned. Farm animals were driven off and small parties of horsemen rode through the country "cleaning up the Armenians." The whole country is ruined by the destruction of the farms and the homes of the people, thousands of whom were killed by the blood-thirsty Turks. Everything portable has been stolen and carried off by the thieving and murderous Turks. Families are completely brokeu up, and it is estimated that at least one hundred thousand people haw been murdered or carried off into captivity, which is worse than death. No one was spared. Even infants at the breast wore torn to pieces by the demons, and women were reserved for a worse fate than death. Half of the stories of the horrible butcheries have not reached the outer world because the Turkish authorities refuse to let many of them pass the telegraph or postofllce. KILL EACH OTHER While Trying to Shoot and Kill Another Man. Win. Bailey and it. M. Young, two young men of prominent families of Lee County, Va., shot and killed each other while trying to kill another man Friday night at a school entertainment at Dryden. Young and Bailey had an altercation with Win. Jones over the matter of tickets of admission. Young and Bailey abused Jones and the latter struck one of them. Jones and Young clinched, and Bailey in an effort to shoot Jones shot Young. As Young was falling he fired aimlessly, the ball killing his friend llri <1 ua i iuj . Jones was shot in the side and another man was slightly wounded. Pandemonium reigned in the hall, where the entertainment was held. Women fainted and others screamed hysterically, and it was many minutes before the frightened audience was pacdfled. * . THREE MKN KILLED. And a I>ozon Injured by a Accidental Explosion. In an explosion Friday on the quarter boat, No. 3, at Codjoes Keys, about twenty miles from Key West, Fla., on the Key West extension of the Florida East Coast Kailway, three men were instantly killed and twelve others badly injured. The injured men were carried to Key West for medical attention, and it Is believed that others were blown to atoms, as seven hundred pounds of dynamite went off. The injured men are now in the Ix>uis Maloney Hospital with Drs. Maloney and Warren attending them. Most of the men are Americans. * DEOOED WHILE SHE LIVED T" Hut Left Over Twelve Thousand Dollars in Dank. Searching in the home of Mrs. Mary Cleary, ninety years old, who has died after living for many years on the charity of her neighbors, found bank books secreted about her Brooklyn home representing bank deposits of $12,800. For the last quarter of a century Mrs. Clcary'a only companions in her little hovel were four cats. When well euough she solicited aid from residents of the neighborhood who were almost as poor as she, and when ill they brought food and ministered to her. If she has any heirs they are not known to the police of Brookln. * Restored Name of Davis. By the end of the present week the name of Jefferson Davis will have been chiseled again Into the stone J in the famous Cabin John bridge six miles west of Washington, President Roosevelt having given instructions to this effect previous to his retirement. SENT TO JAIL (iOOl) WAY TO llKFAK UP T1II? UNLAWFUL TRUSTS. ! Prison Term for Violators of the Trust I>uw 1 in|M>se<l by a Judge at Savannah. Judge William B. Sheppard knows how to break up trusts. At Savannah on Friday ho overruled the motion in arrest of judgment offered uy iaw ueienco ana sentenced the live men found guilty of violating the Sherman anti-trust law, and for the tlrst time so far as is kuown, jail sentenced in two cases were imposed. The sentences follows: Spencer I*. Shotter, chairman of the board of directors of the American Naval Stores Company, three months in jaii and a fine of $5,000. Edmund S. Nash, president of the company, $2,000 line. J. F. Cooper Myers, vice president of the American Company and president of the National Transportation and Terminal Company, three months in jail and a tine of $2,500. George Mead Hoardnian of New York, treasurer of the American Naval Stores Company, $2,000 tine. Carl Moeller of Jacksonville, Fla., apt nt of the American and general manager of the National Transportation and Terminal Company in Jacksnville,, $5,000 tine. Shotter and Myers were sentenced to terms In the Chatham county jail. Judge Sheppard imposing the punishment upon them because they had been before the court two years ago, entering pleas of guilty. At that time Judge Emory Speer, who was presiding, stated that a term in prison would be imposed if thev should come before the court again. Nash was excused on the former occasion when the grand jury returned a "no bill" as to him, as he was a witness before the grand jury. Moeller's sentence was made heavy because of his connection with the terminal yards in Jacksonville, where regrading and rcgauging were allowed to have taken place. The case will be appealed to the United States court of appeals just as soon as the bill of exceptions can be prepared and certified to by the court. In the meantime a motion for a new trial will not be made before Judge Sheppard. A writ of eror citing 53 grounds was tiled by the defense Immediately after sentence was passed. Council attacked nearly everything the court permitted to come before the jury to which the defense entered protest. It begins with the court's Indictment and ends with an exception to the jury's verdict. Ilonds In the sum of $20,000 was given for all the defendants jointly and they were discharged pending the determination of their appeal. The costs they must pay if the conviction and sentence stand will, it is said, reach $17,000, which in the event the sentence stand, will be apportioned among the five convicted men. The defendants were sentenced separately. Judge Sheppard made no long address, but merely gave them an opportunity to say why sentence should not be nrn nounced, a privilege of which they took but small advantage, and then passed the sentence. Shottor was the last to bo sentenced. Judge Sheppard made his longest speech then, probably 100 words. The defense was represented by W. VV. Mackall, Former Judge Samuel B. Adams and Gen. Peter W. Meldrlm. With Mr. W. M. Toorner of Jacksonville, the government was represented by Assistant District Attorney Alex Ackerman. The case will be fought by the defense until there is no power to which the defendants can appeal further before the jail terms will be served or the fines paid. ( DIED FROM BLOOD POISON. Han n Nail in His Foot Which Caused Death. Mr. A. J. Howe, of Marion, died l at the Highsmith Hospital at Fay- ! etteville, N. C., Friday night at 8 o'clock, after a lingering illness. Mr. 1 Howe had the misfortune to stick a nail in his foot last fall, and since 1 that time he has suffered from the I effects of the wound. A month or * two ago his foot was amputated, and ' it was thought he would then recov- J er, but for the nast. < , wv. VIWI nccivo 1 ho has been growing worse, and his wife left Marion on Thursday to go J to Fayettevllle, intending to take him to his former home in Penn- < sylvania for treatment. A few mln- > utes after her departure from Marion i her daughter received a telegram an- < nouncing his death. Mr. Howe had 1 been living in Marion only a few 1 years, and was an architect. Had a Close Call. Imprisoned by a fall of top-rock for thirty-six hours, Thomas Buscvage and John Master, miners employed at the Morca colliery, near Pottsville, Pa., were rescued uninjured late Monday night. They saved themselves by improvised props made out of their picks and slflJvela. I HELD UP TRAIN Six Murderous Bandits Cut Engine and Mail Car FROM REST OF TRAIN Take Them Several Miles Ahotul, Hitln the Mails of an I'nrrnlAln Amount uml S??ml Cur and Knglue Buck to Truin ou Wild Itun, Hurting Sr?er?l Persons. Followng tho hold-up of a Great Northern passenger train by six bandits between Colbert and Mead, Wash., Sunday night, twelvo persons were injured when the locomotive and tho mall car, cut on from the rest of the traiu, were run back wild by the bandits, aft?*r they had rifled the mails of an unknown amount, and collided with the rest of the train. The conductor saw the wild cars coming back at 25 miles an hour, lie and another trainman placed a lie on the track, but the cars, though partly stopped, plunged Into the coaches, throwing passengers from their seats, cutting them with broken glass. A trainman sprang aboard che locomotive as the collissiou oourred, and shut off the steam, stooping the havoc. When the train reached Colbert late in the night, while the crew was busy with some switching, two men sprang into the cab and thrusting revolvers against the breast of the engineer and tlreman, ordered them to do as commanded. The engineer and iireman complied, and the mail cars were cut off from tho rest of the train by four other robbers. The locomotive and mail car then ran up the truck a few miles. Then the engineer and his fireman were forced to leave tho cab. Two of the robbers went to tho door of the mail car and ordered it opened. Their command was obeyed by Benjamin F. Stumps, mail clerk, who was hurried away from the cars with the uuguieman oy a dozen revolver shots. Manning the locomotive themselves, the outlaws took the mail ears down the tracks and looted the registered mail. Then they started the locomotive back toward the rest of the train and escaped. Conductor C. N. Robertson cut in a telegraph wire to send word to Spokane. While he was telegraphing about a half-hour after the locomotive and the mall car had disappeared, he saw the powerful locomotive careening towards the coaches in which many 'wore asleep. Many of the passengers knew nothing of the hold-up until awakened by the collision. As soon as Conductor Robertson realized that a collison was imminent he called on the brakemen and porters to aid him. While the conductor and another brakeman stood ready to board the cab as soon as the shock of the collision checked the impetus of the wild locomotive. None of the passengers was fatally hurt. Two special train-loads of deputies and doctors were brought from Spokane. No traco of the robbers was found. While is is reported that the bandits obtained as much as $20,000, railroad officials and mail inspectors sa the amount is not known. One of the bandits who entered the cab was more than six feet tall, and evidently an experienced engineer. a? the two robbers entered the cab this man said to the engineer: "You have heard of us hefore," indicating that they had been involved in similar hold-ups. SIXTY CAKS OF MAIL. One Firm Mails Six Million Pieces at One Time. The Chicago postoflice has just broken the world's record for mail handling at one time from one source, according to James N. McArthur, superintendent of the Central station. "The Chicago ofTice has just handled 6,000,000 pieces of stamped mail from one Chicago firm," said Mr. McArthur. "This represented an expense of $60,000 to the firm in stamps alone. The matter was handled under the new canceled stamp arrangement by means of which a lirm buys stamps already canceled, io as to save that work being done it the postofllce. "The mailed matter weighed 125 tons and filled sixty cars. I understand that this is a world's postofllce record. In the last year the receipts of the Chicago postofllce were $14,DOO.OOO, and the expenses $5,000,0000." * Arrested in Florida. Sheriff R. G. Causey, of Berkeley has received notice from the author!-I ties 1n Jacksonville, Fla., stating ] that Jas. Edwards, wanted for murder in Berkeley, has been arrested. Sheriff Causey wired Gov. Ansel of the fact and at the same time wired the Florida authorities to hold the prisoner for requisition papers which will be forwarded at once. 1 GANT IS CAUGHT UK IS SAID TO HAVE DEFRAUD* ED SEVERAL PERSONS. Once Wum Very Popular fn Columbia, Hut <?ot Into Had OompMf and Fell. The State says C. K. Gantt, a young man well known in Columbia, who has been wanted by the jxilloo since September, 1908, was arrested Friday In Greensboro and arrived from that city Saturday in the custody of the Greensboro chief of police. Gantt will have to face several charges of breach of trust and grand larceny. It is alleged thilt Ho ?, - ? ?..-v ..v i/viv4 * ?o naui* pies while traveling for Strauss Bros, of Richmond, Va., and he is also charged with passing worthless checks and robbing a young woman of Charleston. He is said to have secured $25 fraudulently from the Bank of Lexington and to have taken S7f? from the Charleston young woman, telling her he would put it in the hank for her where it would draw Interest. lie left for parts unknown last September. At that time his sample trunks and other goods that he is charged with disposing of were secured by the police. He was supposed to have gone to Texas, and Chief of Police Cathcart has been following his movements ever since hut until a few days ago was unable dellnitely to place GantL The fugitive was discovered at Rock Hill a few days ago and later at Charlotte and Chief Cathcart proceeded to put the officers in several North Carolina cities on the lookout for (Jantt. The arrest in Greensboro followed. Gantt, who is quite a young man, was once a resident of Columbia and was well known and popular in the city. Before becoming a traveling salesman he had charge of a department In the Olympia Mills store. He made good so rapidly in this lino that ho was offered a good position as a traveling salesman. Ho made friends easily, and his largo circle of acquaintances in Columbia will regret to hear of his trouble. Gantt was released from custody Friday, the charges against him having been settled on his arrival from Greensboro with an officer from that city. It Is understood that prosecution will be dropped on the several counts, as he has settled the charges to the satisfaction of the officers by paying the amounts ho is alleged to have secured by improper methods. (Iantt was born at Wagoner, a little town over in Aiken county, on the Batesburg-Perry line of the Southern railway. He began his career as a clerk In the store of Gantt fk, (Iantt, at Wagoner, later going to Columbia. The fall of a young man is a sad affair, and as (iantt has got* ten out of this trouble we hope in future he will keep out of such scrapes. BARREL OP PITCHERS. Wil lite Sent Senutor Tillman by Senator Scott. Zach McGee in his letter to The State sayvS Senator Tillman will before lonir. have si )isirr*>l ^ r . v M MM* I vt v/l 51a Od pitchers. To could have had a carload If ho had wanted them. Senator Scott of West Virginia owns a glass factory and he gave tho senate a lecture the other day on common glassware. He said ho sold pitchers at wholesale at 9 0 cents a dozen, but that retailers sold them for about GO cents a piece. Senator Tillman, who was inclined to subscribe to Senator Kayner's doctrine that there was something about tho tariff which made liars out of all people Interested in it, threw down a sort of dare to Senator Scott to sell him some 60 cent pitchers at 90 cents a dozen. "I'll send you a carload," said the West Virginia senator. That was too many for Tillman, who said he would not know what to do with a carload of pitchers any more than he would know to do with a West Virginia coal mine. "Well, I'm going to send you a barrel, anyway," said Senator Scott. So if you want a nice glass pitcher cheap just let Senator Tillman know. He may have some to sell when ho gets back to Trenton thu summer. COL. KELLY DEAD. Was a Oullant Defender of the "Lost Cause." Rev. Dr. David Campbell Kelley, colonel In the Confederate service and commander of a brigade in Forrest's cavalry, died at Nashville, Tenn., Sunday afternoon of heart failure. Dr. Kelley was 7 7 years old and one of the most widely known ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His services in the pulpit covered nearly 60 years. A number of years ago he was a candidate for governor of Tennessee on the prohibition ticket, but i was defeated. He leaves a widow ' and one daughter.