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HE GIVES UP Negro, Who Shot Sheriff Corley, Surrenders WAS WITHOUT FOOD Bovcral Hays WliHIti Hiding From tho Posso W ho Was Pursuing llim. lit* Tolls of His K\|H'riciM'o ami His Trip Through tlio Country I Itcfotv He <?ave I'p. Hunted by a determined posse for three days, without food and ubsolustely exhausted, 10d Itynum, the negro who shot and dangerously wounded Sheriff Corley of Lexington county last Wednesday, gave himself up Saturday to a white man whom he knew he could trust, and Sunday morning at 7 o'clock was landed in the State penitentiary. The escape of Itynum from a mob bent on violence, his wanderings through a section ot country where there was no possible chance of meeting it friend to protect him, and his final surrender form-d a story full of human interest. The Columbia Stale says there is likewise a feature, well worth comment, in the action of (lov. Ansel's secretary, Mr. A. J. ltelheu, who has been in constant touch with the situation from the time of the shooting and in the t.rip (through the country with Itynum by Mr. Jacob It. Oswald, who at personal risk saw that the negro was finally brought here and placed safely in the penitentiary. It will be recalled that Itynum shot Sheriff Corley hist Wednesday when the sheriff rode up to arrest the negro. It was charged that Itynum had been a cropper on the farm of Mr. C. W. Caughman, had quit his work and had run the other hands out of the field, when Mr. Caughman employed them to work out Itynum's patches. When Sheriff Corley, to whom the matter was reported, attempted to arrest Itynum, the negro shot him. For three days Itynum evaded an infuriated posse, all of them armed and many of them with dogs who determined to hunt him down and kill him. Some of the oUlcers of the law who had been asked for In Ip responded with bloodhounds and the chances for Itynum's escape seemed slim. In every direction in Lexington and Saluda counths the description of the negro had been telephoned. His relatives were known and a close watch kept on their houses. Thursday Secretary Bethea, in the absence of Gov. Ansel, sent over Mr. ,1 as. Broom, a detective of Columbia, to get in touch with the situation and il possible get word to Bynum that be could be brought to Columbia and protected. Broom at once went to the father of the negro, Henry Bynum, and asked him to get. word to the fugitive that, should he decide to surrender, protection would be guaranteed. Ollieer Broom, who had considerable trouble in finding the father of the negro, finally located him and advised that should 10d Bynum not care to trust himself with the ollieer he should ask him to get some friend among the white people who could be trusted to bring him over for safe keeping. Word was finally sent to Bynum to I this effect and as a result the negro went to the home of Mr. Oswald Saturday, after visiting relatives. This place is near Gilbert's, about 12 miles from Lexington. Bynum arranged to come to Columbia, accompanied by Mr. Oswald. The two drove through the country, taking a circuitous route, and met no one on the road. There was hut one accident. The buggy turned over a few miles from Columbia hut was quickly repaired and the trip resumed. About 7 o'clock Sunday morning, both being physically exhausted, with the strain and the ttip the two appeared at the government mansion r.ird reported to Secretary lu ih.ua Arrangements were at once made to take Bynum to the penitentiary and he is now in the hands of the authorities awaiting the results of the wounds inflicted on Sheriff Corley. Bynum, who is rather intelligent, had very little to say concerning his escape from the mob. In a very calm manner he related to Mr. Bethea that he had been without food for three days and to escape the dogs, which lie heard once within 100 yards of him, ho took to water and walked or ran up a branch for about three miles. Then he doubled and almost ran into the hunting fiarty. He hid under a bridge which the party passed over a little later He recognized five of the men and (beard their threats against him. H< then made his way to his brother's bouse and made arrangements u give himself up to Mr. Oswald, wh< stated that he would see that the fugitive was brought over to Co ]umbia for safe keeping. Itynum does not know why he shot Sheriff Corley. lie said that Ik* was At work on Mr. Caughman'H place as a cropper and asked the latter for Aome clothes. Mr. Caughman refused to give him the clothes at that time, remarking that Hynum's account was overdrawn. Then Dynum DESTROY FLEET STAKT1NCJ INVENTION' TO TKCT (.KIIMAN COAST. To llmt (i'ivttt lOloctric Magnets to Draw Kueiny's Vessels Within Itewli ol* 1'oets. A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says a startling novel invention, for the protection of the German coast, harbors and seaports, is receiving the serious attention of the German r.aval authorities. A German naval engineer, named llolininnn, applied to the German patent olliee tor a provisional patent for an invention which is intended to destroy any hostile fleet, attempting to blockade or attack Herman port s. According to the inventor, stations must he erected along the coast and at the mouths of rivers, wheh will 1m; equipped with the strongest electric magnets that can be manufactured. When those are in action it Is claimed that they would exercise sufficient attractive force to make ironclads and other protected vessels deviate from their course. These magnet stations are to situated where shallow and deep water alternate. The hostile ships would ho drawn into the shallow water where they would ground and lie helpless at the mercy of the guns of the forts. Although the invention smacks strongly of romance, yet :s noteworthy that competent authorities deem it of sufficient importance to he subjected to a thorough examinat ion. lu this connecton, it may ho added that electric cranes capable of lifting weights of five tons by magnetism are already in use at German ha r ho rs. Avcii^mI II is Sister. At Morgan City, La., Dr. All' n King, a widely known physician and commander of the Louisiana naval militia, was shot and killed in his ofllee by Leroy Oliver, a 10-year-old hoy, who alleges his sister had been wronged by King. Oliver has surrendered. * Three Die in Storm. It is known that three lives wore lost in a severe storm which struck I'ensacola, T' la., Thursday. The wind reached a velocity of 00 miles an hour, whipping the hay into a seething mass and carrying small boats down. Much damage to trees and buildings was done in the city. ,A Menace to Life. Residents of Catoosa county, C.eorgia, declaring that the government riile range there is a menace to life, are preparing a petition for an injunction to prevent target practice by the Eleventh United States cavalry. Confesses to Kobbory. Ralph II. Clark, a young man of good family, sum ndered to the United States commissioner at Columbia on Friday on the charge of robbing the postoflice at Batesburg. lie is also out on bond of $1,000 for trial in the State court. * left and returned Wednesday, finding other hands on his part of the farm. lie ran the negroes off and Mr. Caughnvan went to Lexington ! after Sheriff Corley. Bynum in the meantime had gone to his house to get breakfast and when Sheriff Corley approached he took up his shotgun and tired, some of the shot striking the sheriff in the face and 100 others in the right forearm. This is all that saved the sheriff's eyesight, and probably his iife. Rynum left at once and his chase coinim need. The saving of Rynum from the mob, his remarkable experience in eluding the dogs and his confidence that Mr. Oswald would bring him safely to Columbia is ono of the remarkable eases in a near-lynching. Rynum will he kept there until Sheriff Corley recovers and at the next court will be taken back for trial on the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Sunday at the penitentiary he was well cared for and in a few days will l>e entirely recovered, despite the privation. Secretary Rethea asked Mr. Oswald to present his claim for expens| es. There was no reward offered, despite the efforts made by some of the posse to make it appear that there had been a sum of money set , aside by the authorities for the cap nirc 01 me negro. ints, according to Mr. Broom, was put out to assist I in tlie capture by those bent on lynching. Mr. Oswald was accompanied by his son, Mr. Willie P, ) Oswald, and Mr. Tillman Taylor, in bis drive across the country. * Sheriff Corlcy Improving. Sheriff Corley, of Lexington counh ty, who was shot hy the negro Ed i Bynum on Wednesday morning, is i improving satisfactorily. IBs assail ant is still at large, the posses being unable to find any trace of him up to the present. Every means known to the officers L bciUi; used to run down the culprit. OtfuY A JOKt Till: AIISI KIMTY OF THE PltOTKITION SYSTEM Shown I |? l(y Senator Tillman in II is l*ro|N>sition to Tax All the People for One Mail. The tea industry of the United States came up for a little discussion in tlie senate a day or two ago, says Zach Mctlhee in his letter to The State. Dr. Shepherd of Sutnnierville, you know, is the tea in dustiv. llt? has a tea farm upon which he grows 15,000 pounds of It a. Senator Tillman, in order to show the absurdity of the protection system, interrupted some Republican speaker and said: "Now just wait one minute?and as it is acknowledged by the senator that we could obtain $10,000,000 by a duty of 10 c? nts a pound on tea, and it would not increase the cost of tea at all ? so these importers tell me?why do we not pick up that $10,000,000 and give protection to this industry down in South Carolina, where there is one tea producer? There is a poor little pulling infant industry out in the piuey woods at Sunimerville, begging the United States for help, and saying if tea can g? t a protection of 10 cents a pound it will be the pioneer in introducing into that Southern country a great industry." Mr. Hale?Let me say to the senator ? Mr. Tillman?Will the senator vote for it, or will he have this commit tee r port it favorably? I want to introduce the amendment. Now, 1 will join you. 1 want protection for that pulling infant in South Carolina?the tea industry?and we shall get $10,000,000 by it, too, Why not give me protection for this industry in South Carolina? Mr. Tillman 1 have got a real industry. One man down there produces 15,000 pounds of tea. Mr. Hale?If that can become a prosperous and leading contributor to the industries of the United States as against foreign competition never so dang< rous as now and as it will he in the next 30 years?then the Republican party will adopt his bantling. 1 have no doubt of it. Mr. Tillman?I can only assure you that this gentleman, Dr. Shop herd, who has boon experimenting with ton culture for 20 years, has reached that point where, like all the others in this country who are seeking to increase their prollts, wants enough protection to increase his price. He knows that as soon as he would got 10 cents per pound additional, it would raise the value of his tea. Some of us people in South Carolina have an idea that we of the South are great tea drinkers. That's because we do not really know much about the general run of people about us. Those of us who can trace our ancestry back to England or English immigrants, and do it without the assistance of a professional genealogist or coat of arms manufacturer, usually drink tea. Many others of us who, while we c;in not trace our own families hack, have been associated with those who can, also drink tea. Hut hear what Senator McLaurin of Mississippi says: "What, do you pay for ttja now?" asked Senator Hale. "1 don't pay anything," said Mr. MrLaurin. "I don't buy tea; 1 buy coffee. We don't use tea very much in our part ot' the country." And that's a fact, true not only of Mississippi, but of the South generally. I have an idea that it is true to a larger extent of the whole country, to even of New England, than is commonly supposed. Hut your Lodges, your Hales, your Cranes, Aldriehes, Fryes and so on do not know it. They belong to the tea drinking class, and know little about the lives of the grosit mass of people in their States. If Dr. Shepherd lived in New England, what Senator Halo says might bo true, they might let him enjoy the special privilege of assessing .ill the tea drinkers in America in order that he might make a profit. Hut since he lives in South Carolina and most of the tea drinkers aro in New England, there is no chance for him. Confesses to Outrage. John Thompson, white, aged 91, confessed to the authorities at Welch, W. Va., that on September 14, 9108, he outraged and killed Lula Stafford, aged ten whose body was found in a clump of bushes in McDowell county court house yard. 1 > 1 % " iiHiiu-N .noon ior i rimo. Tho moon will bear an important part in the defense of Richard Kraft, of Berlin, Out., who shot up i police headquarters in Detroit, Mich., this week, and wounded three odicers. lie says he suffers from mental derangement during the full of the moon. ( Want Women to Vote. A Philadelphia woman announces that a petition signed with one mili lion names will ho presented to Cont gr< ss at its next session for a sixtieth 1 amendment to the Constitution, 1 ( which shall allow women to vote. TRAIN ROBBED Locked The Messenger Up and Rob Express Car MAXES THEIR SCAPE Xo On? on the Train Knew of the During ltobbery I'ntil the Me*?8?uger Was (Jot ton Out of the Ilox in Which lie llael Iken Locked |?y the Kobbers. .wxhhAKn /\tt rP .1 r% ? * I rrh i 1 I ill 11 I vJ \J 1/vT 1 o VJ 11 1 Ur UttJ 11 If, 11 I overpowered Express Messengei Thomas L. Hutto, on Southern train No. 1 7, which passed liranchville little before eight o'clock and whicli is due in Augusta at half-past ten o'clock, and robb'd the express safe of about $200, all the money that was in it. The robbers took nothing else. The following particulars of the robbery we take from the Augusta Chronicle: The robbery occurred between Warrenvillo and Augusta. The thieves got, the drop on the messenger. knocked him senseless, tied his hands behind his back, and threw him into and locked him in a chest. Tin y procured his keys and, at their leisure, ransacked the car. The messenger was liberated at the ITiion Station in Augusta. The blow with which lie was felled was not severe. 11 was nearly suffocated from his close confinement in the chest. Otherwise lie suffered no ill effects physically. Southern No. 17 makes up at liranchville. It's connections there are with Columbia and Charleston, It's express and mail are through Ordinarily the train, for the Southern Express Company, carries $2,501 to $10,000 of currency. Tuesday night's packages were the smallest in years. As stated, as luck had it the shipments was not more than ap lil'nvi Hl'l Ink' v/rt. Iiii% vv?j Y - v v Thomas L. Hutto has been an ex press messenger four years. He lives a i L'08 Ml lis street, lie tells a ver; interesting story of the robbery. Hutto was sitting idly on a box it his car?a compartment car, embracing mail and express service?as tin train pulled out from Warrenville The end door of the car?next tin baggage car?was thrown suddenly open and a man, his face hidden bj a shabby mask of red flannel, pisto extended, ordered "hands up!" Hut to was daz-'d by the suddeness of ii all, and made no move. "Hands up 1 tell you!" was ordered by anothei voice, and a second man had entered face red-flanneled, pistol extended Before Hutto could obey the rapit and fierce orders, and as he reachet for his gun, which was in a tin bo? but a foot or so removed from him he received a blow, presumably fron the man who had entered the cai first, and was rendered unconscious But he regained consciousness it a flash?he is sure he was unconscious but a moment. When himself again he found his hands grasp ed tightly behind his back. A pisto barrel was pressed hard .against his spinal column. "Cry out, make an> demonstration, and I will pull th< trigger!" the robber told him. A package of baby clothing?an express shipment?was cut open and cords taken therefrom, with which the messenger was securely tied? hands behind back. There was in the car an emptj express cnesi rour reet wide, live f'.et long and three feet deep. Tlu robbers threw the helpless messengei into this chest and clasped it, bin did not lock it. They then, having secured his keys, went through the car and safe at their leisure. There llutto remained until ex press helpers extricated him at the station in Augusta. The negro helpers at the Unioi Station, when they proceeded to the rar. as is customary, to remove the I express to the station otlice, foune the door of the car on the righ side?which was closed?unlocked The end door was locked. The doo on the left side of the car was open Entering the car they heard vigor oiks talking in 'the express dies and liberated llutto, who gave til first information of the robbery. Conductor J. B. Metz declares tha he and no other man on the trai had intimation of any thing wron until after llutto had been releasee The robbers left the train at Broa street, through the down-town sid door of the car?the one found ope at the station. From his chest prison llutto coul hear them plainly rattle silver. II could hear their voices, but no dis tlnctly enough to distinguish wlu they were saying. He hoard one c them call the other "Jim." His experience on the run enable him to locate when the train reache the Hamherg yards, when it crosse the bridge and about when it reache Broad. It was then that the hum c conversation ceased and Hutto kne that the men had left the car. II kicked the chest in the hope of a tracting the attention of some onefor he was about to suffocate?bi was not successful. He then sun , moned all his strength and waite till the Union Station was reachei Southern States ' IYlQohtner^ Plumblnfl COLUM E , KILLED HER FATHER j MOTHKK MAKKS ACCI'SATIOX k A(iAIXST IIKH I)Al*<ilITKH. The Police llelieve That Ijouise Ar!>ogust is Guilty of Murder and Thinks She is Crazy. ! The authorities iu St. Paul, Minn., t have the slayer of Louis Arbogast , in the hospital ward of the County Jail, but they are uncertain whether j mother or daughter did the actual ; killing. Louise, 23 years of ago, toarlsse, refuses to talk. The mother, Mrs. Minnie Arbogast, escaped a direct accusation because the police were able to establish circusstantial i evideioe that makes it imi>ossible to prove the charge. She escaped formal accusation because the police forced her to accuse someone else | in self-defense. She accused Louise. The lKuly of Louis Arbogast was found in his bed, last week. The head had been crushed with an axe , and gasoline was used in an effort to destroy the remains. When th% accusing officers got the daughter , and mother together in the mothI er's cell the girl withstood the battery of searching eyes and maintained her absolute innocence. Finally , the mother, in an outburst of desperate appeal, cried: "Louise, it. is either you or me. .Tell the truth, tell the truth. You ( were outside father's door when I r came from the bathroom. You must L toll the truth." The girl was silent. The mother persisted. She almost shouted, "You say you didn't do it, but I know you did." Hut Louise professed to remember nothing and stared straight ahead in silence until the terrific strain ^ was broken by their sob and the two embraced, weeping bitterly, the girl kneeling by her mother's bedside. The girl was arraigned in court ' and listened to the reading of the charge. She said she needed no attorney. A plea of not guilty was entered, and the prisioner taken to jail, the case being continued till Thursday. It is declared at St. Luke's ' hospital that Miss Arbogast, who is one of the most beautiful young women of Minnesota is irresponsible and killed her father in a moment of demoniacial frenzy, caused by hallucinations which have for ^ nirtn t ho honn nn ?? I r* L ^ .tiwi.viiw) UVVII I'lii 0111115 Ilr I . "She is plainly irresponsible," 1 Chief of Police O'Connor said: "According to hospital reports and other facts known to us," said County Attorney O'Brien. "The girl is insane and was not responsible for her action." The story of the mother, the accusing story which brought Louise ' Arbogast to the bar, bears out the statements of the authorities as to the girl's mental condition. The L very nature of the act, Indeed, indicated maniacial frenzy, the cunning' ness of some of her alleged attempts 1 to cover up the slaying is declared to establish the fact, and the asserted inconsisbenoiets of her statements after the slaying are said to have i been the lapse of cunning due to 5 slip of judgment, common to crimes committed by the inasne. l ' when he renewed his vigorotts kick' ing. On the floor of the express car was found a piece of rubber tubing? } such as is used 011 the air brake connections?on one end of which was 1 a brass coupling joint. Hutto had 3 been hit with the rubber hose. There ? were 110 signs of the discharged rod * flannel used for masks. No mer1 chandise was disturbed. Hutto's ' pistol was found lying on top of r the chest iu which ho was imprison' ed. The police got on the case immof diately. Sergenat McArdle and Roye nolds made examinations at the depot. Lieutenant Britt summoned the * detectives. No arrests have as yet n been reported. g TT..U? ll. - n a ' * iiiuiu uiu niHL roiiuer wno ' entered tho car was about 5 feet " 11, and slimly built. The second e robber was of slight build and a lltn tie taller than his companion. Furthor than this, the messenger could (* give no description of tho men. e What happened, happened quickly. 3" After Hutto was rendered senseless, lt he had no further opportunity to )f seo his assailants. It takes a good neighbor to ap(* preciate a neighbor who thinks he l(* is better. d i Supply Company ^TSk. ' Supplies HVM Supplies W|M bkGajsaanoi 3IA.S. O. ? shvfkhlv punished. Four Murines Sfnt to Prison Cor Taking Doer. On April 3 B. II.. Hayes, chlof constable for Beaufort county, seized two barrels of beer while in transit, | consigned to Thomas Eaton, of Paris island. His place of business is just outside of the Government reservation. This man, and others near the same locality, are alleged to have caused considerable trouble to the county constables. Thomas Eaton, hoaring of this, furnished, it is said, a gun to four United States marines, telling them they could have as much of the beer as they could drink if th-y would rescue the beer from Hayes, which they did at the point of a doublebarreled shotgun. They then opened the beer on the bank of the river and proceeded to enjoy themselves. Col. Cole, who is in command at the United States School of Instruction, being informed of the affair, had the men arrested and tried by court-martial. They were convicted and sentenced to serve three years and one month in a GovernI tnent prison. They will be sent to I Portsmouth in a few days to com! mence serving the sentence. Thomas Eaton is now under- indictment, and will be tried by the State. THEKE WAS XO WOMAN Put Only a Pouch Itasket Hat Floating Along. The useless bravery of Michael IConlin, of West One Hundred and | Thirty-eighth street, nearly cost him his life. From the Madison avenue bridge over the Ilarlem river he saw a peach basket hat floating down the stream and believing there was a woman under it, he valiantly leaped overboard and swam to the hat only to find it untenanted. Hut his shoes and other clothing were so heavy that he was unable to reach a dock unassisted and had gone down several times when he was rescued by the police. He was sent to the Harlem hospital, where it was said that he had been almost drowned. CLASS|FIEDC0LUNIN Heal bargains in second hand cars, runabouts and touring cars. Mr. Prospect, it is up to you to investigate. F. A. Jenkins Motor Co., ^ Phone 1773, Columbia, S. C. 12 16 Main. A Madam FJdon, Scientific Palmist, Clairvoyant and Astrologist. 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" 7 WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT MUSIC? Don't say, "Can't afford an Organ or Piano. We will make you able, granting from one to three years to pay for one. We supply the Swee* Toned, Durable Organs and Phmos, at the lowest prices consistent with quality. Write at once for Catalogue, Prices and Terms, to the Old Established ^ MA LONE MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, S. C. k,. ???? ~ ffalo Boiler-Feed Pumps arc the result of years of experience. All parts art; strong and durable. Write for prices to umbia Supply Co., Columbia, S. CL