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FARNUM BRIBED i i Drawing (he 'aNet Tighter and Tighter About the Defendant. EVIDENCE VERY STRONG fho IViMfutiou in the Htoio IMuponxary Cost's llud a Regular Field Day?The Links in the Chain of Kvidenoe Curefully Fitted Together by the State. The prosecution of the grafters in tho State Dispensary matter la becoming very interesting. lloforo a Jury which Is to pass upon J. S. Farnutus' guilt or his right to liberty, Joe It. Wylio swore unreservedly that he had accepted bribes from Farnum. While Farnum is being tried for a particular offense, that of giving a bribe for $1,125 to Joe 11. Wylio, yet tho testimony took wide latitude and Wylio testified that this transaction was but an Incident of a regular business connection with Farnum. lie alleged that Farnum had assisted in Wylie's campaign fori election; that after being elected Wylio was approached to use his influence in behalf of whiskey and beer i concerns represented by Farnum; lhal in pursuance of agreement Wylio exerted that influonce and therefore received tho remuneration agreed up on. i mil r mi iiumi nuu pmu uiiu in money at time, and at other times tiad given him drafts made payable to a third party, Henry Samuels, for Ihere was an Investigation committee trying to got hold of information and Wylio didn't wish his name to appear in writing. The defense attacked Wylio without vigor, but the general opinion of those who hoard the proceedings waa that while Wylio was presented In a very poor light bo far as his past conduct was concerned, yet his credibility was not impeached. The prosecution has pieced together what is considered a very Blrong case, and the defense will undertake to tear it down. Beginning with an unnamed draft presented for collection traced thnt instrument through the hanks of Chester, Columbia and Charleston to the very cash drawer of Farnum's place of business in Charleston. The defendant could not be forced to produce It. but the secondary ovldence of Its having existed is almost unimpeachable. -Wylio swore thnn Farnum gavd him a draft for $1,125 payable to Henry Samuels and Samuels later testified that the draft was turned over to him and that he cashed It and gave the money to Wylio. I ne motive for such transactions w&s also presented with skill. The "purchasing clause" of tho old dispensary law was put In evidence, na were books, minute books, rewords of purchases and of awards and Invoke books. Tho minutes of March, 1906. showed that the hoard of which Wylle was a member had uet out to "order out" whiskey only when two members of board sJgned a warrant authorizing the commissioner to do so. Hut In September of the same yenr a now rulo was passed and the clerk of the board was authorized to order hulk goods when tho supply on ban dshould run low. Tho point was .stressed that It was not making awards on bids that counted, but In "ordering out" the stuff nlready nominally purc.haaed. Tlu;re(riro irt. was worth while for a whiskey house to have 'as a friend In court a member of the board. Wyllo swore that it waa. In part settlement for Just such services that he was given the $1,125 on September 1 4, 1 906. When court reassembled Thursday morning Wyllo was on the stand lie identified several books of record and then got down to the Fonsational testimony published elsewhere. Samuels Takes the Stand. Mr. Henry Samuels was then called. He is now mayor of Chester. Answering Mr. Abnoy bo waa 4 8 year?, or age and engaged In the mercantile business. Ho usually signed his name "H. Samuels." He had known Jos. 11. Wiley foi 15 or 20 years. In March, J urn and September, 1906, be was in Oo lunibla representing whlfkoy bouses Mr. Samuels named a number o! these firms. Ho was agent under W v t , - c it n. i\uj iiii ttunit' ui in cue concornh On one occasion ho went up on thi Chester train with Wyllo and h wan el von a draft for $1,125 by thl dispensary director. The bank pav film about $1,000 of this In bill of $100 denomination. A few day Inter ho turned over this money t Wyllo. Tho draft was signed by Farnur and drawn on either a bank or Arm, bo could not remember whlot ft was Riven to him before Wyll wont to his home In Rlchhurg. Al forward?, he callod up Wyllo ove fhe 'phone and told him the draf had boon cashed. "Keop It untl Iwonday," paid Wyllo. This waa no the first time drafts had boon giv on him In his name to bo cash* for Wylle. Wyllo told him that Farnum ha settled with blin (Wylle). The witihv?* had no interest In the matter. He had traveled In May, 1906, for Karnum "whooping up Long Horn I gin." He was paid $250 a month ( and OKpeuaea and Famum had set11e?l up promptly at the end of three weeks. Karnum represented a number of houses, including the Klchland Distillery Company, Uunhiui, the Dig Four and others. When working for Faruum lie visited the dispensers. Induced them to order tho stuff. He sent a copy Of this order to Faruum and another to the State dispensary. Under the cross-examination Samuels said he came here very often several years to visit a woman of 111 repute. He gave this woman money to build a house. He also played cards sometimes for money. " I fVr\ I ti/\ wu l/rk/\lV -? i h I,. .i ^^ * * v ? . r?w iaw\\-\ju Kfti iiiim UTitll, OtJ cause I got my orders and made my money on these commissions paid me." The witness got chocks from Farnum In 1907 and 1908, the lurge?t being for $500. In 1906 the only chock he received wan for $300. This was for work of three week* hut Farnum and Wyllo fell out over the manner of shipping "Long Horn" to dispense . Ho paid Wylio on 150 cases of goods one-half of the commission amounting to $3 00. "Nobody could get any business down there unless they paid commissions to the board," said the witness. The witness evidently had conslderable trouble with the dispensary commission. He was summoned to [ appear, according to his statement, j and at once consulted an attorney | now connected with the defense. : This attorney said there was no or- I casion for a lawyer in a case where : Samuels had been summoned as a witness. The witness nfter consid- 1 arable questioning finally admitted i the testimony brought out above. He said that he had been advised jt by his attorney. Mr. Paul Hemnhlll I to tell everything and It would prob- t able be to bin advantage. < "And you are not going to be ; i prosecuted?" queried the defense. 1 "I understood that's what It meant ' but 1 have never been told so. My < attorney told tno not to worry," was the response. ! Samuels produced a little memo- 1 rand am book showing the eomrnls- '< | slons paid and the schedule required , by the board. j W'yllo had prepared the schedule ! and ho, the witness, always paid the .rate flxci^ by VVylle. j The book was Introduced In evidence and then there was a pleasant little spat between the attorneys on the admission of the book. Judge Memmlnger ruled that It was evidence. The commissions paid were I given to Wylio. lie was also paid by Farnum for work done among the county dispensaries but this amounted to little. ! J. A. V. Schmidt of St. Louis was | liinn A., ll^.l . ? ?">- * * * * ' vii<?u wiiivu ?uii umuiii'd mac no is I employed by the AnhouBer-Husch Hrewlug association. Thin was all asked the witness. Mr. Stevenson then announced that the State rested ItH case. COOK LANDS IN NEW YORK. He Is CJreetod by an Immense Crowd of People. Dr. Cook, the discoverer of the J North Pole, landed In New York | Tuesday afternoon uftor an absence of nearly three years. On landing he made a rush for his wife. For the moment ho ovou missed the children, who stood a few feet away, ifttil liio in i f a aJ Ia?* 1 -"I 1 II uiu mo IIIIU DIIVIIII) IITII Willi iu | tbom. Then, ay ho lifted his young J 081 daughter there to his shoulder, the silent watching crowd broke Into a Btorm of cheers. J "1 have come from tlio pole. 1 have brought my story and my data , with me. I have not come home to enter Into arguments with one man or with fifty men, but I ain here to I present a clear record of a piece of work over which I have a right to display a certain amount of pride. "1 am willing to abide by the final verdict of competent judges. That alone can satisfy mo and the pub, lie. "Furthermore, not only will my report he before you In black and ' ( white, but T will also bring to America human witnesses to prove that 1 ' . have been to the pole." I Such is the substance of the first mossn-vo Dr. Frolorlck A. Cook * brought home In person to America * (Tuesday, answering his critics tho * world over. f WlLfi . ftlOKVH 1IIS TIME. M a Murray, tlio Former Congressman, i ^ ArresUid In Chicago. 8 Oeo. Washington Murray, colorod 8 , who In the nineties represented the o . Bumtor district In Congress, and being hell In Ghlcasro at the request it ; o[ tho Bouth Carolina authorities a lo servo a sentence of three years ' for forgery, refusod to return here o without requisition papers. Appllcation for requisition wns made r to Governor Ansel. Murray fled 't while the jury was deliberating upII , on his case and tho sentence was >t tmpoFed In his absence. Ho has r- been In Canada since his flight. Murd ray has divorced his negro wife, It Is said, at his home, and married d a white woman. ?? i COMMIT FOUL CRIME j SIX DKB80N8 AUK Ml'HDKHKI) 1IY BAND OF UOBBKKS At Hurley, \V. Yh., Who Burn thi1! Houw of Their Victims With Five of the Bodice*. Aa entire family of bix p*thou8 were murdered and the bodies of all but one of the victims were burned with their home at Hurley, Buchanan county, Virginia, early Thura (lay. The motive was eveldeutly robbery, hh the owner of the house, an aged woman, known as "Aunt Hetty" Ju.v t is, was supposed to have kept a large sum of money about the place. Mrs. Justice, her son-in-law, George Meadows, his wife and their three children were the victims. Meadows' body, badly mutilated, was found lying in the yard of his destroyed homo, the funeral pyre of his loved ones. Two bullet holes |th rough the body and a ghastly wound in the neck, which almost severed the head from the body, gave tho discoverers their llrst evidence of the extent of tho tragedy. A search of the ruins of the house disclosed a sickening spectacle. The blackened masses of half burned tlesh and charred bones of two worilt-Tl Utwl t livun rill I 1 <1 ...... y J .... .. ...in . 111 i.uiiui un n ' I f 1UU11U beneath tho debris, each body beariUK evidences of murder committed before tho house was destroyed by hie, evidently for the purpose of hiding tho crime. The elder woman's skull was upturned somo distance from the remainder of her half burned body amid the smouldering ruins. Another daughter of Mrs. Just Is old the police that her mother had i large sum of money buried under he sill of the house, and they succeeded In digging up $950 In gold ind silver. The murderers are supposed to have secured tho $600 which "Aunt Hetty" always carried an her person. Bloodhounds were rushed to tho *cene and in a short time they took the trail of the supposed murderers in a cornfield which joined the Jus(is home. There the foot prints of three men were found Impressed iu the soft soil. A posse of citizens, heavily 'firmed, are following the bloodhounds, bent on lynching the murderers if they are captured. DRAT 11 OF CJOV. JOHNSON*. li e Khissed Away Clasping the Hand of His Wife. John A. Johnson, three times governor of Minnesota, candidate for the Democratic nomination for president last year and looked upon by many throughout the country as the probable candidate for 1912, died at St. Mary'H hospital at Rochester, Minn., at 3:25 Tuesday morning, following an operation Wednesday. The governor lapsed into unconsciousness at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Toward the end he revived himself several times to pat his wife on her cheeks. His last words were: "Weil, Nora, I guess I'm going; wo have made a brave fight." Dr. W. J. Mayo stated that there were no traces of blood poisoning and that the immediate cause of death was exhaustion and heart failure. Considerable encouragement was felt Monday morning. When the governor had breathed his last, Mrs. Johnson, who had boon in almost hourly attendance at her husband's side nnd who had borno up bravely under the ordeal, totally .collapsed and was taken to the Sullivan home. GIVKS TKN MOICK YKAItS. To a Man Who lias Spent Thirty Years Behind the Bars. After serving nearly thirty years of his life in prison on charges of counterfeiting and passing bogus money, James O'Learey, alias "Jack Mulvey," an aged man, was sentenced in the United States District Court at Philadelphia on Wednesday to ten years in the Government prison at Atlanta, Oa., on a similar charge. He pleaded guilty, but asked for clemency on account of blase. Judge McPhorson in passing sentence said that be belived O'Learj to be beyond reformation, and in th* best interest of society thought ht should be given a lyng U'HTU4 T&', I only witness at the itinT cret service operative, who recog nized the prisoner as an old offender from a photograph taken a scort of years ago. Murderers Kxecutcd. At Valence, Franco, throe mot were gullotlncd on Wednesday foi a rorles of atrocious crimes In th< department of Drome which create a reign of terror. No less thai twelve murders and 200 robberies nro laid to the doors of these men They often tortured their vlctimi with red hot irons. A great crowt' witnessed the executions and an ^'' uded wildly every time the lcnlfl felL SIXTYKILLED New Orleans and Surrounding Country Struck by Hurricane. PROPERTY LOSS MILLIONS Itamajce to Orupv Inoalcuablo? Dwellings, Cotton (Jinn atid Sugar Mills Levelled?Miles of Territory Laid WmU>?Now Orleans ltecovering from tlu) Blow. Gradually New Orleaus and the territory surrounding the Crescent City is recovering from the first effect of the tropical hurricane, which, starting Sunday, continued throughout Monday and Monday night. Sixty-throe human lives sro now positively known to lmve been claimed as victims of the storm, and forty others are reported to have been lost In lower Torro Bonne Parish, but as yet this report has not yet been authenticated. The property loss will run into the millions. Miles and miles of territory have been laid waste. Croos have nrn.#v tically beon ruined. Dwellings, cotton gins and sugar i mills have beon leveled. New Orleans ts sadly crippled In the way of railroad facilities and telegraph and telephone communication with the outside world. It was not until Wednesday night that the Western Union Telegraph Company was able to get a working wire out of the city. For two days the city's only communication with tho outside world was over au Improvised long distance telephone circuit of the Associated Press. Both the Illinois Central and the Louisville and Nashville railroads have suffered heavy loss, miles of their tracks having been washed away. It will be several weeks before the Louisville and Nashville will again be running trains over their own tracks. From early Wednesday morning, the (loath list in tho lower portion of Torre Bonne Parish increased as details of the hurricane's destruction were hourly received until Wednesday night it numbered twenty-nine. It Is reported that at least llfty others are missing, they are said to have , heeu drowned or crushed in tho tlyI ing debris of wrecked mills, dwellings and fishing camps. Thrilling tales of narrow escapes and daring rescues came from the storm swept area. One of t llA vh'Hiiw in Torre Bonne Parish was M. F. Smith, of Now Iberia, who .with his brother, A. F. Smith, and a dozen friends, made tip a fishing party at Bortbreoze. The brother of the drowned man reached Ilounu, La., Wedne.^xlay, bringing the news of his brother's death. Pleasure craft and shipping of all kinds in the bayon inlets were totally destroyed and the loss will be heavy. Store houses, sugar mills and other villages suffered heavily und scarcely a structure was un luuiicueu oy rue nurrioftne. The damage done by the storm nt Grand Island, Chenlere, Camlnda, was very heavy, but at these places there was no loss of life. The crops of these Islands were totally destroyed and the orange groves were stripped clean of fruit and foliage. The first news from these Islands j was received Wednesday when the nixiiU steamer Grand Isle reached New Orleans. It was feared before the arrival of the boat that hundreds had lost their UveB. In the tropical storm of 181>3 no less than fifteen hundred were drowned on Chenlere Camlnds. One mah lost his life at Day St. Louis, a fisherman, name unknown, who was drowned Monday. A number of other places are yet to be heard from. The long railroad bridge nt Hay St. Louis Is a complete wreck, and will ho weeks before it Is repaired. When the storm struck this bridge Geo. Doherty, a Western Union lineman, waa attempting to repair the 1 wires. He and throe negroes were carried down. "The waves were running at least fifty feet high," said Dohotry, "and If we had not lashed ourselves to a raft with wire we | would havo been drowned. The bridge went down Sunday and we . were washed around In the bay until > Monday afternoon, when wo were picked up by a fishing schooner." T? I*Pl1 ?rr>r?u urnrn 1" v. C? . I lllilft lit W r Orleans nil day Wednesday. * ItiHt of the Dead. > Terro Ponne Pariah, La., definite ? 29; reported 40. >t I I" > |"""?????? ???i??? I It was in this very cott from Birmingham, Ala. died of Fever. They hac r son's Tonic cured them Tho two physicians horo hod 8 very obe wore Italians and llvod on a crock 50 y 1 months standing, their temperature rangl tiling in vain. I persuaded them to lot m i od mattor and lot tho raodlclno go out in a I feet In all throe caaot* was Immediate and ] waa no recurrence of the Fever. t Write te THK JOHNSON'S CHILL Southehn States ? BUT FH) 4<55$ IV!achlnery P/ Plumbinjj ?- T* O O L_ U M E | New Orleanc. definite 5. Frenler, La., definite 4. Doaalr, La., definite 3. Jackson. MIhh., definite 2. Haton Kouge, La., definite 1. Mandevllle, La., definite 1. Hay St. I/ouIh, MIbs., definite 1. Donaldson, La., definite 1. Qramercy, La., definite 1. Grand 1*0111!, La., reported 4. Harutarla Hay, La., reported 1. T'UHH \{ it ll?hun o ..... ... Iiu^, UV II11 I IC o. Total definite 83, reported 4G. Morgan City, La., definite 10. Eastford, MIhs., definite 7. YOIWG MAN GONE WRONG. Hobs the Granitville Hank of Seven Thousand Dollars. ' The Augusta Chronicle says the Hank of Granitville Is 9hort $7,800, and the shortage Is charged up to K. C. Burnett, a son of I)r. H. J. Burnett, of that town. Mr. Burnett was a bookkeeper In the bank, having charge of the persoual ledger. When confronted with the accusation he admitted most of it and his people have promised to mako the amount good. It Is stated that young Burnett has been extracting mor???v r, V j I1U11I lilt' hank for some time but It only became known to the bank officials while the young man was away on a summer trip. On Friday a warrant was issued for the young man, but he had left the community. Sunday Mr. W. A. Olles, president of the bank, received Information that led him to believe young Burnett was In Chattanoogn. Ho communicated with the police of that city and Monday Mr. Giles was Informed that Burnett was being held in Chattanooga awaiting identification. Mr. Giles at once delegated an officer qualified to identify Burnett and also to bring Burnett back to Graniteville, if tho prisoner proves to be he. Mr. Giles denied that the Bank of Graniteville felt any embarrassment from the shortage of $7,800, charged to young Burnett . Ho says that the statement that a State bank examiner will try to prevent a run on he bank Is absurd. Whatever j loss the bank may sustain from Burnett's alleged misconduct may bo readily absorbed by the bank's surplus. A dispatch from Chattanoogn rays R. C. Burnett, formerly teller of the Rank of Graniteville, S. C., was arrested there on a telegram from Graniteville stating that ho was wanted thoro for embezzlement. Burnett 1h in jail awaiting the ar! rival of officers who will tako him ! i hacq to South Carolina. KILLS HTMST5LF AND WIFE. Chester Xcgro the Principal in u Dual Tragedy. Jack Davis, colored, shot and killed his wife, Hollo Kennedy Davis, early Monday morning on the plantation of Mrs. K. B. Jamison, near Blackstoek, Chester county, and going Into the woods near the house, wh -re he killed the woman, ended his own life. The body of tho Davis womnn was found early irtonday morning, when another hand went to summon her to work. Word was sent to Sheriff Colvln and Deputy Sheriff Dye, and others went down from Chester to pursue the fugitive, but later In the day 'telephoned back that Davis' dead body had been found In the woods where It is supposed that he put | an end to his own exlstanco shortly after killing his wife. The two had lived apart since June, and the dual tragedy Is supposed to have been the outgrowth of domestic unhnpplness. ?'l?e American All-Wrought Tjip 0 Split ? age in Brookside, 15 miles , that three Italians nearly I been sick 3 months. Johnquickly?read letter below: llrookstdo, Ala., May 4, 1903. tlnato cases ot continued Malarial Fevor. All ards from my storo. These case* wcrool three ng from 100 to 104. Tho doctors had tried overyi? try Johnson'? 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A i friend put him on Johnson's Tonic, and in three weeks he wrote he was well and heavier than he had b'?on In 15 years. The half-well kind can put on flesh only by driving out ma'ada. FRENCH AVIATOR KILLED. iiapt, Forlfcr, of tho Army, Crushed Under Aeroplane. At Boulogne, France, Capt. Ferber, an offlcor of the French army, was killed Wednesday morning, while testing an aeroplane. While in tho air the machine turned compltf'fly ,-ovor and then dashed to the ground. Capt. Ferber was crushed to death by tho motor. After making a short flight tho captain attempted to alight. A wing of the aeroplane touched the ground, howevor, and the aeroplane turned a somorsault and crashed to the earth. Four years ago Capt. Ferber was in the United States to examine the WrHht aeroplane on behalf of the French government. He opened negotiations for the purchase of the American machine, but without success. ulley That All Want. 1 CARRY A LARGE STOCK f a large stoc'< of Woo'l Pulleys Hangers, Pelt ngand anything else j t wish in this 'ine. Whan von ?ro ' V* (II \ rUot, writo u? UMdl? ?'JPP(;y QO^P&NY Columbia. 8. (\