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t BRUTAL MURDER ) Beth an Axe end a Rjaer Were Used te Commit k. ^ BODY CAST IN WELL 1'lao Kerribk Oriiu* Ls Oh W tke WiW9t> Tlia* Kvcr Hiipyfcl la (Hilaatbla, and for Myst?ry hnu> ruemdlnK it lUvitln tl*? t'taaoas Maad Allen Murder Onse, In the revolting killing In the kitchen of her home at 611 Sumter i?ireot? Oolumbia, Friday morning a Ho at day-break, of Mrs. VictoMa (iriflia., who was struck in the head with an axe, her throat cut from ear to oar and her body thrown luto the wen. on tne promises. Tli? Iter or <1 says tho Columbia police have a murder mystery oil their hands, which is a match for the Maud Allen murder mystery, which has never been solved. In hoth the Maud Allen and Orlfiin murder cases the owner of the premises is a resident of Ilrookluud. This has no bearing on the ease, but is merely a curious coincidence. The following particulars of the crime we olip from the Columbia Record: Five men have been arrested in connection with this morning's murder, throe of them sons of the deud woman; tho fourth a inan said to have been on friendly terms with tho dead woman up to live months ago, w hen he <V.ased bounding at 'ttje house, and the iifth a barber named l.uko Lewis, who was a visitor to tho dead woman's oldest daughter by a former husband, Eula Thompson. The three sons are Walter, Jim and Russell CIrillin, all colon mill operative*!. They were all found at the house by the ihiIIco, and said they all slept in their mother's room, tho youngest, Russell, in the same bed. The oldest daughter occupied a room to the front. There was still another daughter In the house, about 13 years old. There a re only three rooms aud n kitchen in the house. The other i man in arrest is S. Wash Medliu. who ceased boarding at tho house recently, but who turned up there hortfy after the arrival of the police <?f about 5:30 Friday morning. 1 Ail the arrests made were made at i a. . .. (nt* loupe, except that of L.ewts, who wart places! in arrest at his barber 1 *bof? in the McCrecry building, opposite the union station. He said he wiui not at the house last night, and Kuta Thompson says, though last 1 night wus his usual night to be there, lit* had sent word that he could not couicx. AJJ the children, except a daughter, who lives in the country, were at j homo, and they advanced the theory > !* suicide so strongly, in the face cf the physituil facta demonstrating X. wiurder unmistakably, that Coroner # TV'ulber became suspicious of them I and made the arrests a? indicated. The woman's husband, David Weeley Orifhn, was a well known restdent ?r Richland county, and waa fairly *uccse*s.sf ul in business. He wus murdered In a quarrel with his partner in the turpentine business, by a man named Dennis, about live years ago, in Georgia. The oldest daughter says she discovered that her mother waa missing i abont 5 o'clock. Being awakened at 1 bis time and not hearing her mother stirring in the kitchen, the daughter left her room to go to her mother's to uremic her. Not tinding her there she made a fruitless search. The youngest son then went to trie union station, a few blocks away, and uotiMcd Officer Salter, who, with another flicdr went to the house at once. A. horrible sight met the officers' , gaze in that back kitchen in the fresh crisp dawn of the new day. A pool ( ?f blood was on the floor of the kitchen, a bloody razor, afterward , claimed as his by one of the sons, was on the kitchen table, and in the < corner stood a bloody axe, part of ( the blade being broken off and tho j other half very bloody, and blood on ] the handle. There were bloody tracks about the kitchen. There ( were also some tracks leading back i into the room where the sons slept, , tout it is thought these were made j by the youngest boy in going out i to search for his mother. Prints , ^ of the woman's fingers on the floor as she struggled in her own blood | were evident. Finally the officers were attracted i to the welj by a few blood stain# on ' the side of the well-box. The top i was down, the dry bucket on the ' two lids. Further investigation die- < closed the woman, whose body was i fUahed up out of about flftten foet of water, though it was not>*yet stiff. ' V The dead woman had a gash in I'.i (KA a# VA? -- 14 " " _ . ?uu .v|> v/i um iivuu u? ii niaac by YJW thro? licks from the blade of the IjKr * axe, although tho sfcnll was not frarw3 tured. The wound9 on tho throat l revealed repeated hackings at It with f the razor, the assassin striking the f cartilage of the Adam's apple and ) forcing his way through this with fiendish energy, A chip out af the Adam's apple was found on the # MET TO StTru imwct va a? bi&b ajsm iwt Wartna# tM Ir>tWw In Iiiw Bwwr i pi ? Maa WW UH WifVs C?fl?? Was N?r. A. dispatch from Birmingham. Ala., says reseating the imputation of C. tt. Carper that Mrs. Kelley could not make good coffee, W. T. Kelley, and his brother-in-law, Will Sparks, Sunday morning met Carper at Boyle, a suburb of Birmingham, and proceeded to "settle" the matter. Ah a result of the affair, Carper Is dead. Sparks is fatally injured and Kelley is wounded in the arm and le<r. It is sold that Kelley attacked Carper with a cluh, whereupon Carper drew a pistol, two other pistols being Immediately produced by the brothers-in-law and a general fuslludo of shots followed with the above reaults. * KILLS KA1LMKK AX I) MXTIJS? Mnu Struck by Lightning While Ploughing. Suuiuel Hoggs, a well-known and prosperous farmer, was killed by lightning late Tu?ksday, while ploughing in u field at his home near Central, north of Anderson. The mule he was working was also struck by the bolt and instantly killed. Mr. Hoggs was about 3D years old nun hi survived by his wife and four children. The funeral was held at Sharon church Wednesday afternoon and was largely attended. This is the second man killed in Anderson county by lightning in the last ten days. MAIUUKD BY WHOLKSAU:. Five Couples I'nited by One Single Ciweroouy. Rev. Alfred W. Bur roughs, of Bristol, Tenn., Wednesday, with a single ceremony, joined in marriage live young couples who elop?ni to Bristol from points in Virginia. The five brides, each attired in wh,te. Left their resp<?ctlve homos, ostensibly to attend commencement Qt Kmory and Henry Colleges at Bristol. All the couples arrived 011 the same train. This ceremony brings Rev. Mr. Burroughs' record up to nearly 3,000 couples, and he claims the world's record for marriago ceremonies. kitchen floor by Dr. L. A. Griffith, who afterward conducted the post mortem. The woman's next door neighbors are negroes. They could tell the police nothing to throw any light ou the mystery. The coroner and police found the children all In tears and they appeared to be grief-stricken in the extreme. In the face of all these facia disclosed by the poUce they vtlll affect to believe their mother committed suicide. Neighbors say the children were very affectionate towards their mother. In support of the suicide theory the children 111 rnrH nvor fn ? N > .... VUU V/UI UUUI u two-ounco bottle of Iodine, half empty, which they Bald their mother bught Thursday. The bottle bears the Imprint of W. C. McMillan's drug store. When fished out of the well the women was chad in two night gowns, and the small amount of blood on them gave rise to the suspicion that the body was thus dressed after the murder. Kula Thompson stoutly maintains to the coroner that she is a good girl. She went so far as to offer to undergo any sort of examination it the hands of a physician which would satisfy the coroner that she J had always been a good woman. I She pays she Is willing to do this :>r most anything else to throw any light on the mystery of her mother's murder or suicide, whichever It is. The dead woman suffered from cancer of the stomach, the children ifiy, and they believe she took her )wn life on,this account, because she bad been saying lately that If sTfe ^ould find a good way to kill her?elf she would do It. A theory of the police is that Medlln committed the murder m a lit of I r* o 1 * * * <? v ' nuving caught Mrs. j Griffin In company with another man. Tho children admit that Medlin slept in tho same room with their mother when ho was boarding there, but they deny there had been any quarrel be- ; tweon tho two, so far as they are in- 1 formed. Medlin has boon to the ! house frequently up to within a week of tho murder, It is said. Mrs. Griffin's son Waiter, who says he slept in the same bed with his mother, although ho Is fourteen years old, says his mother had ? habit of going out to the back steps , several times a night on hot nights and dipping snuff. She went out last night, lie does not recall her returning after she had gone oat the third time. She was wearing dark clothes them. many KlUtD By EtfilnwM StMck In the Swih it fnnci. many pthoons hurt l*kn (*>11 IxtfBt mi (it? Disaster Not Yet Kmnnn?lirrat HuflVrliiK is Reported im Remote Districts, \V bem Food In huk in^1?The Monetary Dohh Ls Very Heavy. A dispatch from Marseilles says from 76 to 100 dead and 100 injured is the estimate of total casualties as to the result of the earthquake which devastated several towns and villages In the southernmost part of France, particularly in the departments of Hourie and Houehes-deKhone. Great suffering is reported from tho remoter places, owing to a lack of bread and tho necessaries of life before tho arrival of assistance. The casualties may bo greatly increased, as tho ruins havo not yet been entirely soarohod. Tho villages of Saint Canuat and Hognese were completely demolished by the earthquake and I^ambostc, which is 12 miles from Alx, suffered hoavlly. According to advices received a number of the wounded are still imprisoned in tho ruins, and soldiers are working desperately to rescue them. Survivors are sleeping In tents and the streets uro impassible. In many places they have been torn up and are encumbered with masses of wreckage. Houses, public buildings and churches are crumbled to pieces. Among oth'?r villages seriously damaged are \ a*oenarguos, Vanelles, Pellssanne, I'uy-ste-Ileparado and A 1 ? <-v [ k u 1 if.i, The victims at Saint Cannat and Ilognwofl wer? horribly mutilated. There wor? evidences that several of the victims had lived for hours imprisoned by the debris before they died. The people rushed Into the streets when the iirst shock occurred, crying out la terror. Many of them returned to the rest.ae of their families. At Rognese a family of four were buried In the ruins. Th?dr cries coukl be heard throughout the night, but all were dead in the morning, when a rescuing party reached them. At Saint Cannat an old man and his son were watching a billiard game. They were Instantly killed. The players escaped with slight bruises. The chateau Val Mousse, near Saint Cannat. was badly damaged. The communal chateau at Argullles was split in two. The historic village of Vernegues was wrecked, but no one was killed. The monetary loea in the affected district is very heavy. COTTON AUAIXST CKRIALS. Home Interesting Facts Fro in the Census Report, A bulletin lust issued by the bureau of the ctHtsus contains some interesting facta on cotton production, says th? Anderson Mail. It is found that revised figures for the crop of 1908 expressed In equivalent 500-pound bales urni including Haters, show a total production of 10.587,306 bales. This rep resents an inereaso oror 1907 of 2,211,8 45 bales or 19.4 per cent. It is the third largest crop over produced, being exceeded only by the crops of 1904 and 1906, and Is 97 8,751 bales larger than tho average crop of the last fivo years. Hut what is more Interesting, It is shown that the aggregate valuo of the cereal crops for the United States In 1907 was estimated by the department of agriculture at $2,378,000,000, while the value of the cotton produced that year was estimated at $7 01,000,000, nearly one-third the value of all cereals. No less than 9,000,000 persons are employed in producing, handling and manufacturing American cotton, of whom some 6,000,000 are fanners and farm laljorers, 1,000,000 otherwise engaged with the fiber In this country and about 2,000,000 are concerned with It in foreign countries. The value of the goods manufactured from the average American cotton crop is estimated at $2,000,000,000. Whitewash Iteoefpt. The "whitewash season" is at hand and a receipt tx> make whitewash that will not crumble off may be of use to someone who rends this. Here's the formula used by Uncle Sam at the various government works: "Ten parts fresh slacked lime and one part hydraulic cement. Mix well with KiV 1 f WCltAP QMlt uuu U|r\JiJ IUJU. \flVH this formula a trial the next time you whitewash. Tried Female Attire. John Robinson, a negro, tried to aid in the solution of the female servant problem In Chicago. 111., by donning female attire and assuming the name of "Jeanette Robinson.. Detectives discovered hia trick this this week and he was fined $85 and ordered to resume the conventional dress of hla sex. / FATAL PISTOL FIGHT CORPORAL MOOTO CAJTTAXK, ? mm and BoMtar Bmim HkraxHl Bk* tag Rr^iliuudrd fur Staying t?tr I L?yt. A dispatch from I>ch Moines, Iowa. nays Corporal Lisle Crabtree Sunday probably fatally shot Capt. John C. Raymond, commanding officer of Troop 11, second U. S. Cavalry, at Fort Res Moines; shot and seriously Injured First Sergenat James II. Washburn and Con>orul Klijah Such, who attempted to disarm him, and then shot himself, the bullet rtrik- ^ ing a rib above the heart and crushing the bone. He may recover. Crabtree had been reprimanded by Capt. Raymond because of failure to reprot when a leave of absence had expired. He had spent the night in I)es Moines and was to have returned to his barracks at 7 a. in. The corporal insisted he had leave of absence until 7 o'clock Sunday. Captain Raymond accepted this explanation, but later Crabtree denianded that he be transferred to another department of the army. This Capt. Raymond refused to consider. telling the corporal he could not do that as long as he was not a good soldier. c Immediately Crabtree drew a revolver. and began lirlng. Sergeant Washburn Jumped to bis feet and grappled with the soldier, nattering a bullet wound In the hand, >nd another in the Jaw. Capt. Raymond seized Crabtree's arm, and was about to disarm him 1 when a bullet struck him in the neck, lodging in the spine. The j1 Captain dropped to the floor, paralyzed. A bullet also struck Corporal Such In the left arm. Crabtree then fired a bullet Into his own body. Capt, Raymqfid is the son of Brigadier Charles W. Raymond, re- r tired. He was 3 8 years old. He was commissioned from Pennsylvania. * v _ f] FAMILY LIYKD IN STUMP. k a t They Build a Cosey Homo in a Gigantic Cedar. * A dispatch from Seattel, Wash., s says with seven children and a fat wife, John Seivert, lately from Iowu, is living in a stump in the northern u part of that city. 1 Sol vert went to Seattle several v months ago. Ho had but little monH ey and a large family. Because of the great boom there ho was unable to find an empty house and resolved h to build one of his own. He bought 1 an unimproved lot In the north part i of the city, In a district where log- i ging operations ceased but a year t ago, and on going out to plan his r house ho found half tho lot occu- c pled by a gigantic cedar stump thir- 1 ty feet high and eighteen feet in t diameter ten feet above ground. i Wwith an auger and saw Seivert cut out a seven-foot section fVoca the south end, and walked Into bis stump. The walls were found to be j fifteen Inches thick and the whole stump was a hollow shell. Ho cut out windows, laid a tight floor and mado a celling of planking and flooring. ? With an auger and saw Selvort a twelve feet above ground, went in- j side and made the wiudows for the j second story. Third story was con- ^ structed and a tight roof of shiplap 0 and shingles was made over the \ top. t Selvert peeled off tho bark and i painted the stump a light green and c the window and door frames pure j white. The whole makes a very \ pretty home at a coat of only $4 0, 8 and the ownor has refused $2,500 j for his unique abode. L v WATCHING STUAMKIl. 1 I n Probable That Fill busk-ring Kxpedl- e tiou Fitting Out. j4 The presence at Kdonton, N. C., r of the steamer Nanticoko, which so mysteriously changed handB recent- e a ly at Elizabeth City, after having ^ been put in thorough readiness for c sea service, has aroused tho govern- ^ ment to activity under tho impression that filibustering expeditions is urkuuiziug. a. revonue cutter Ih looking after the expedition. / BUILDING COLLAF8KD. Five Floors of Stove Works Sink Under Weight. j Five of the floors of the six-story 1 g house of tho Peninsular Stove Works ^ of Detroit, collapsed from the weight j of stocks Saturday. The flre which ] followed was soon under control, j Search is being made for victims. , Four are reported killed and a num- , ber injured. , _____ j It may be braaa, not gold, that < comes to view when the copper Is required to show his mettle. SINK WITH CREWj lUssUn Safcraarino 6oas Down Id Blank Saa. ONLY ONE MAN SAVED Uarlnc MMo^uvren Id the llluck S??, Nmi* SebaNtopol, u SubsurlWo JUmt <'?llitlrs With Ilattlo Ship, i uud All bu'. On*> ti (lir 'Y? K t?o I>o\*t? With the (Y??ft. Twenty men went down in the Russian submarine Knmbala, after i collision with the battleship Kosisluy during manoeuvres Friday night. Hope, though it is slight, Is entertained that they are still ilive. Dospornto efforts arc being made >y the officers and men of the Hlack aa Ileet, with the assistance of dives and salvage workmen from Sobas.ojk)l to raise the submarine before he imprisoned men succumb to the tital air. Admiral Hostrem, commander of he naval ford's in the Hlack seu, las taken personal charge of the xmtoons, one of which Is equipped ?vith a powerful hoisting craft, astern b)o<l at the scene of the catasrop he. All through the afternoon divers ?nd technicians wore busy in an enleavor to fusten chains nround the lull, which li<-? in an awkward position, about i!8 fathoms down, in >rder to haul it to the surface. Ho far their efforts have not been luccostiful but reports readied shore ndicate that there is a good chance >f raising the boat. Apparently the submarine was not rushed, as had been feared. The submarine flotilla was conluctlng a series of night inanoeuves against the battleship squadron ?ith the idea of forcing an entrance nto the harbor. During tho operations the Kam- ( iala, uy?on which was Capt. Hlelloff, the conimundcr of the tlotilla nd in chargo of the manoeuvres, ( inaecountably let her course and wung across the bows of the batleship ltostlslav. The two vessels ollided a.nd the submarine sank in ta nUy. Tho commander of tho submarine, Aquilonoff, was on deck at he lime of the accident. Ho swam iway and was saved, but Capt. liellkoff, Midshipman Tnchkoff, a warrant oftlcer, and 17 members of he crew went down with the vesel. AH Hope Gone. A later dispatch from Sobastapol ays all hope Is gono of saving the Ives of the erow of the Russian subnarino Kampala, which was sunk n collision with tho battleship Roaislay during manoeuvres Friday light or of recovering? tho wreck, twlng to tho great depth of water. Two divers have died in the attempt 0 rescue the men, on account of the ntense preseuro. MAJ>H TO PAY HNK because He Did Not Pay First Class postage. The Aiken correspondent of The Hate relates a case that should be 1 warning to all pt-ople. He says dr. John Wallenburg, one of the rrominent citizens of that city, was ined $10 by a postottlce inspector for in alleged violation of tho postal uw. The inspector Informed him hat about a year ago he inclosed a ine or two of writing in a fourth lass palkage and that ho was duo Jncle Sam $10 for it. At first Mr. Vallenburg had no recollection of uch a violation, and refused to pay t, declaring that ho would carry the natter into the courts. Ho afterwards remembered, however, send1)1? ft rtiirkuvn rvf riling fllmn ?>' abeled each one and Htnted how aany of euch ho wished of the dealr. He then went to the poHtofllce nd oakod tho clerk to weigh it, atonding to pay first clans postage ates, paying on one ounce, but tho nnpector .sayn it weighed two ounch, and he waa duo $10 for the same, a it was a violation. Mr. Wallon- 1 urg paid the $10 as it would have oot him a good deal to have tho case rought into court. KIIJLKD IN Kl'NAWAY. L IVosporou* Farmer of Honoa Path Meetn Tragic Death. A dispatch from Honea Path saya is Mr. fl. K. Callaham wan driving nto town Saturday afternon his lorse iook rright at an oil tank landing on the railroad track. The ines broke after the horse had run 'or some distance and Mr. Callalam attempted to Jump from the >uggy. He, was thrown to the ground with such force that his whole body was paralizcd at once and he died about an honr afterwards. A negro In the buggy with him jumped out when the horse began to rnn. He was considerably brnhed, but escaped without serious injury. \ MAN AND COW WfliJL *K WtraD OTF XM laRTfl AATt) NiTKAN 9Tlll?iL Tk? New Twfc rflfiiili iplgy by Twbwrctilosis, Valiw (t I' Fought Successfully. Cows and m<*n are In danger of ultimate extinction through tuberculosis, declares Nathan Straus, of Now York. This startllug announcement was made by the Now York philanthropist in u paper road before the International Dairy congress, at. Budapest, Hungary. Ah the result of IS years speut in warning against tuberculosis ho declared that he ta convinced that time and persistoaco In present methods will certainly assure the extinction of the dairy industry and of the human race. Instating that the great white plague exists and spreads among cattlo and among people largely because of tho peril of tuberculous milk, Mr. Struua said: "Tubereulosus cows bear healthy calves and straightway infect them with this disease through the milk that they give to their young, and when the calves are weaned these diseased cows supply the germs of the white plague to the human beings who us? their milk. Thus* we are Inviting the extermination of the dairy industry and of the human race, for this plague is Increasing both among cattle and among men, and it will Increase like the spreading of a lire so long as tn? milk swarming with tubercule taieilll Is used as food for calves or tobies. There Is a mathematical certainty as to this fact. "Eighteen years ago I declared that it would soon be regarded as a crime to feed a young child upon milk that had not been pasteurized. I was optimistic. Intelligent farmers now regard It as folly to feed a calf or n pig with unpasteurized milk unless they know by the tuberculin test that the cow is free from tuberculosis, but Chicago Is the only city In the world that takes such precautions to savo its people from tuberculosis." As for the consequence of dairy m?'U soiling tuberculous milk Mr. Straus pointed out thut tboro had been in New York city in two years an increase of 33 per cent In the number of now castas of tube.rculoHts, a fact which the Health department of the city tried to explain, but did not deny. At this rate, he said, within a generation the great wealth of the American metropolis would be Insufficient to provide hospitals for the tuberoulosls patients. Mr. Straus said that bovine tuberculosis now costs the American farmer $14,000,000 a year, and the immediate killing of all the tuberculosis dairy cows, if it could be effected, would cost a billion, but that pasteurisation would infallibly *111 the germs of tuberculosis and all other disease germs that might bo In the milk. BOUL-MATRH 8WITCHXD. Nee? Ctiro Administered by tike Irate Relatives, Jasper C. Crum, of Lexington. Ky.. disappeared from his home this week and it was believed that he had been kidnapped, as he was forced to leave at the point of a pistol. Kor the past woek a posse searched the mountains for him and be was D?% j-. 11? * " " uuunjf luuca iq a mlnlag camp, where he was living with Misa Lizzie Moore, his soul-mate. Doth were brought back to Lexington. and after being mado to strip to the waist, they were soundly switched. The woman then was turned loose, while Crum, who is married, was taken to his lrnto wifo. Letters found in the Crum home showed that the elopment had been planned in advunce and that it was to be made to appear that he had been kidnapped. Saved Man's Life. Cleveland Strow, a teamster, buried a hnge stone at a bull that was trampling David Purchis to death, fractured the animal's skull and saved Purchls' life. Purchis and & neighbor were driving the bull along the road near Vormontvllle, Mich., when it became unruly. The creature had no horns but after knocking Purchis down proceeded to trample the life out of him. The neighbor was unable to drive the bull away. Value of Radium. The fact that a pound of radium is theoretically worth over S36.AAA - 000 1b an Inducement to produee it. and science makes lta prod notion a necessity. The total world production of radium has not yet equaled one gram. Killed the Sheriff. At Florence, Texas, Saturday Retugio Jaureque plunged a charpened spoon handle Into 8heriff Wright while the sheriff was placing the black cap on Jaureque preparatory to hanging him. for criminal assault.