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DIED ON STAGE A Hypnotist Fails to Awaken a Youth He Had Put Soundly to Sleep DOCTOR CAME TOO LATE A IjfU'go Audience WitJiessos (lie . Tragedy?The l*ollce Arrest the Professor niul Carry Him to llospitnl Wliere Ho Works All Night Over the Youth. i a n Jii ? \? f ii ^ t ? /VI oil 111 lilt* r > 111', ?> . I . IVOUOrt Simpson, a young man of Newark, was hypnotized before a large audience in the theatre Tuesday night by I'rof. Arthur Everton, a professional hypnotist, and Wednesday lie was pronounced dead by the staff doctors of the Somerset Hospital. After being placed in a cataleptic estate the youth did not regain consciousness. I'rof. Everton was arrested, but was released in the custody of two police ofllcers, who accompanied him to the hospital where he remained all night in an effort to restore life to his helpless subject, which the physicians said would bo impossible. Simpson had been employed by the hypnotist as a professional subject for little more than a week and when the performance, which was the first at Sommerville, began he seemed in normal health. Everton passed his hands over Simpson's face a number of times while the young man was lying on the floor, ctnd soon Simpson's body became rigid. Everton then raised it and placed it between the chairs so that the neck rested on the hack of one chair and the ankles on the hack of the other. The hypnotist then stood upon the rigid body of his subject and performed other feats to show ; ,1 ,.i? r..,? I 11(1 t kJllil n UD in 41 V WUI|Ml.'lU t(H" alepticoma. When Everton had bowed his acknowledgement of the large audidience's applause he stood the rigid body erect, leaning it against a back wall and then sought to bring around the subject. The audience soon realized that Everton had l>oconie highly excited when his first efforts failed. Simpson was carried behind the scenes and doctors called, but it was useless, the doctors saying that Simpson had died while cataleptic. POISON VALUABLE HOUSES. IMabolical Work of h Gang of New York Blackmailers. In New York more than 2 50 valuable horses in East Side stables have been poisoned to death in the last few months by a gang of blackmailers for whom the police are eagerly searching. Detectives declare that owners of horses in that section of the city have already paid at least 510,000 to the blackmailers and that thoir nninutls hnvn so fnr pninvwl immunity. Dr. H. Stark, chief inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Aniamsl, declares that while more than 2f)0 and fewer than 500 horses have been killed by pois oning, more than 2,000 animals have been given poison, but saved. The .method of the blackmailers is to demand, through a letter, several hundred dollars from the proposed victim on penalty of having his horses killed. After the second demand has been ignored, one or more of the victim's horses die. It has been found that many of the horses have been given arsenic. AN UNFINISHED VAULT. lluihler Refuses to Take Out Permit and Police Cuard it. Two years ago the owner of a private residence in the aristocratic vicinity of the Plaza in New York city had his house remodeled and a vault constructed under the sidewalk. The contractor had obtained a permit for the alteration on the building, but had failed to take out a permit for the vault, for which a fee of several hundred dollars was required At the behest of the bureau of highways a policeman was stationed at the building to prevent further work on the vault until the fee was paid and the permit obtained. The vault lia?s been under police survelllanc* ever since and the vault is still un finished, with a fair prospect of re maining so until the owner of tin building, who is said to be a mil lionaire, chooses to plank down tin required fee for a permit. Wreck Gas Plant. A boiler at the gas plant of tin Palatka, Fla., Gas, Light and Fue Company exploded Tuesday after noon, killing two negro firemen, al most completely demolishing tin plant and causing the city to be ir darkness. Houses for blocks around were shaken almost off their foundations, and window panes nearby were broken. The bodies of the men were blown against somo heavy pumping machinery, one of them being crushed Into almost an unrecognizable mass. ANOTHER LYNCHING WHITE MAN SWUNG LP FOR MURDERING HIS OWN WIFE. After Lynching tho Negro the Mob Attacked the Jail and Made <^uick Work of u White Man. At Cairo, Illinois, Ileury Salzner white, a photographer, who killed his wife last July with an axe, waf taken from Jail at 11:40 o'clock Thursday night by a mob and hanged to a telegraph pole, and his bod) riddled with bullets. The lynching followed closely on the lynching ol Will James, a negro, who earlier in the evening had been hanged for the murder ot Miss Annie Policy. The mob save Salzncr a chance to confess after the rope was around his neck, but he was so frightened that he could only mumble that hie sisters had kiled his wife. The mob became furious at this, and it was hard work to keep them off Salzncr long enough to give him a chance to pray. The mob finally subsided and a short religious service was held, after which he was strung up, the rope being placed over a telegraph pole at 21st and Washington st reets. The mob found some difficulty in breaking the cage, as it was an entirely steel structure, but after a half hour of telling blows upon the door it gave way and Salzncr was secured. The mob rushed him out of the back door of the jail, which is in the basement of the court house, around the building through the yard and out into Washington avenue, and up to 2 1st street, which is a prominent corner and has a public s(| uare. Ho cried and begged piteously for bis life and was met by cries and blows from the mob. When Salzncr was asked for his last statement a man. a stranger in the crowd, stepped forward and said ho believed Sal/nor was innocent, whereupon the mob fell upon him, kicked him and finally knocked him down, and It wns nnlv tho r?f nnnlpr m?r sons that saved his life. He was compelled to beg for mercy from the mob, and announced in a loud voice that Salzner should be lynched, after which he was driven from the mob and all attention was given to Salzner. After Salzner was hanged, and while the body was being riddled with bullets, the rope broke and the body fell to the ground, where it now lies, the mob going away and leaving it. Salzner was born and reared at Cairo. He had been married about two years last July, when his wife was found at her home with her skull fractured. A bloody axe was found under the bed. Two babies were playing in the mother's blood. Salzner was found at the home of his mother, where he often slept at night. Before Mrs. Salzner died she recovered enough to accuse her husband of attacking her. Feeling against him had been bitter, and Thursday night, after the lynching of James, when some one j suggested Salzner, the mob rushed for the county jail, got Salzner and lynched him. 1>11. CARLISLK'S LIBRARY Given to WoiVord College by Ifi* Son and Daughter. The library of the late Dr. Jamci H. Carlisle, president of Wofforc college, containing many choice iiik rare volumes, has been presented f< \Vofford college by J. II. Carlisle Jr., and Miss Sallie Cnrllsle, childrei of the deceased. The gift is highl; appreciated, not only by the facult and trustees of the college, but b the students and the alumni, fo it is regarded as one of the riches treasures of the college. In addition to presenting the li brary of their father, which consist of some 2,r>00 or 3,000 volumes, Mis Carlisle and Mr. Carlisle presente the college with several old pieces c library furniture of I)r. Carlish which are familiar to the old stt dents of the college. The library of Dr. Carlisle will nc be catalogued along with the ottu books of the college, but will be plat ed intact in a room of the librar building and the furniture will I arranged in this room as nearly t possible as It was in the library < I the great educator. In other word t the faculty of the college hopes 1 . preserve the library and its furnitui . Intact so that one who ever ha . the pleasure of calling on Dr. Ca ? lisle at his home will at once I - impressed with the surroundings Very Good Suggestion. Mr. D. A. Tompkins, largely into ested in cotton mills, makes this sui ? gestion. "The best way for tl 1 farmer to hold the present price < - cotton would bo for him to go t his town and buy his supply of co ; ton goods for the year. If ever i cotton farmer in the South woul I buy one bolt of goods now he woul please his wife and altogether thi - would relievo the goods marko i Cotton is not too high, and if th - farmers will help we can all togetfc . er hold it up." Ia?t the Union tak hold of this matter and we beliov it would work well, FIEND LYNCHED : By a Fierce Mob at Cairo, Illinois for the Horrible Crime of ASSAULT AND MURDER i A it'lundiuli Iti'iil ivli ' Confessing to the (Ylincs of As-j suulting and Murdering Missi l'elley, Wlios?? Itody Was Found in an Alloy. Lynched and limned, | r i Will Jainos, tho negro suspected of 1>? ii k tho murdoror of Miss Annie I'elley, was lynched at Cairo, Illinois, Thursday night by a mob. I He was strung up to the public arch, I the rope broke and at least 500 i shots were poured into his body. James made a confession, implicating another negro, Arthur Alexan der. The lynching took place in the most prominent part of the c? y, and was witnessed by ten thousand people. Women present were the first to pull the rope. When it broke, the frenzy of the mob was uncontrollable, and they fired volley after volley into Jamc'a body, shooting him to pieces. The mob then dragged the body over the streets for more than a mile to Twenty-sixth and Elm streets, in an alley, and burned it' where the murder was committed. James was found with Sheriff I >a- j vis between Karnak, 111., and Helk-| nap, bv the Cairo crowd, who went up Thursday afternoon. The crowd overpowered the ofllcers and took] the negro from them, and sifter a ! conference it was derided to bring i I 11(11 pi IHDIItT UitCK IO C/5MIO 1111(1 lynch him. Sheriff Davis had boon fleeing ' from the mob for twonty-fonr hours I with the prisoner. Driven from town f to town by menacing crowds the sheriff had taken to the woods with 4 James, but the persistent search of 1 I the summary avengers proved effective at last. ( Fully si thousand persons went out l( to find the negro, and when the pursuers arrived in Cairo with their quarry, they were met by a howling mob of 5,000 others bent on slaying 1 the negro. They marched the negro direct to the public arch, sweeping the streets like a flock of sheep might tread I a narrow lane. Many women were in the crowd and anxious to help do the work. Sheriff Davis having been foiled in his attempt to hide the negro, pleaded for the life of the prisoner, , but without avail. When Cairo was . reached, Sheriff Davis was taken in ( charge by a party of the mob, which rushed the negro rapidly to his , funeral pyre. l ( The mob that chased the sheriff j and the negro was so large that it scoured the entire country from Karnak to Vienna, 111., a distance j of about sixteen miles. When found by the mob the no gro was handcuffed between two officers, and all three were lying on i I the bank of a creek. All three were so westk from hunger, exposure and the futile attempt to elude the mob j that they were not able to make much resistance. VV' hi hi in onotarl \r nf t It n aK oa?? . ! I* 111 IV 111 I IIOIV/IIJ \J I I IIV IIM/I' VV/III I ing to Cairo the negro would not ' talk about the crime, but whi n lu? I stood under the arch he weakened,! * and confessed that he slew Missj 1 Pelley. lie said that Arthur Alex-1 I under was implicated in the crime. d The attempt at hanging followed j >, quickly. The growling of the mob, II the grinding of the rope and the y struggles of the negro were stopped j y a moment only by the snapping of y the rope. The 10,000 persons who r had lokked on and danced in gl :e it shot forth armed men almost magically, and they tilled the negro wi*b i- bullets. s Then, not satisfied with vengeance, is the mob drugged the body to the <1 place where Miss Pel ley's body, ,f bound, gaged and bruised, had been ?, found. A roaring fire was built and j, the body was incinerated. James, who came from the South, said Miss Pelley had been assault>r ed and murdered after a terrific fight. It is reported that Alexander, y the negro implicated by James in )P the murder of Miss Pelley, has been ls found by the mob, and that they are bringing him into town to lynch s, him. o Governor Denoen appealed to at 11 o'clock by Sheriff Davis, who declared the mob was storming the jail i<_ and volunteers would not assist him ordered ten troops of militia to procoed at once to Cairo to restore order. - ^ a. r_ (!?iiso of Dcntli. An autopsy Wednesday at Homie mprvlllo, N. J., disclosed the fact )f that the death of Robert Simpson, ;o who died in a trance, was duo to t- rupture of the aorta. Prof. Fverton, y the hypnotist, will probably be d charged with manslaughter, d ? Is Needed Reform, t. A reduction in the mileage allow? ance of members of congress from i- 10 cents to d cents a mile is sought e in resolutions adopted by the Farmo ers' National congress at Raleigh, c* ?j. ^Ai SOUTH IS THE PLACE ? - ?? FOIt FA KM KHS, SAYS RKCRKTARY WIIiSON IN A TALK.. Criticises Tendency of Schools lo Kducuto Away From the Farmi'i'H ltather Than Toward Them. "The place for tho farmers now is in the South, where the soil is 'rieinlly to nearly every product of the country," declared Secret try Wilson, of the national department of ?m irnltnr?> rr?<M>ntlv in :i n it 1 <1 r*? :<? h<?. lore the Natonal Farmers' Conf ess during it? visit to Durham, V (!., to inspect the tobacco factories there Secretary Wilson said he had nothing against the schools and colleges of the country, but that their tendency had been to educate away from the farmers instead of towards the in. He expressed his sympathy wi h tlie man who promised an agricu?t ural school for every county, whether that school be an actual institution or merely a place where farmers met and discussed farming. "Of course, the life of the cities and the lands of the west have called men away," he continued, "but the place for the farmer is in the South, where the soil is friendly to nearly every product of the country. The abandonment of farms has been upon such a scale that the danger of reducing the country to an import rather than an export nation is evident ." Issue was taken with Mr. Wilson by a number of the New York delegation when he declared that in New York State sixty miles from Albany ind twenty from Ftica every third louse was untenanted. Secretary Wilson boasted of the reedom of his department from polties. He declared that of the eleven housand men under him he did not uiow the politics of eleven of them. While Secretary Wilson, whose >resence had not been expected, was iddressing the farmers down town. Ambassador James Hryce, of Great tritain, was urging upon the students >f Trinity college the necessity of ultivating friendship formed at colege. He congratulated the South upon the number of men it sends o college for preparation for busiiess as well as learned life. MURDERED BY SMUGGLERS. Kiglitecn Sailors Made Drunk and Then Killed. Passengers nrriving at New Orleans on the steamer Parisimina, from British Honduras told of the scuttling of the Honduras gunboat Tatumbia and the murder of eighteen of her crew after she had overhauled a British steamer engaged in smuggling between Jamaica and Honduras. Six days ago the Tatumbia overhauled the smuggler fifty miles out of Puerto Cortes and twenty of the gunboat's crew boarded the smuggler. The smuggler crew surrendered and the smuggler captain told Capt. Zalella that there plenty of good rum in her hold. Zelella ordered a celebration. The prisoners feigned intoxication, and when the gunboat's crew succumbed to the ruin they were thrown overboard. The smuggler's crew scuttled the gunboat and then escaped. Two of the sailors who were (le.n? overboard reached one of the iloati 11K lifeboats ot' the sunken liondnran vessel and reached Puerto Cirtes with the story of the wholesale murder. pi:lla(jha caiskd deaths. Was at First Thought to 1m* Typhoid Fever. That hundreds of deaths which I occurred at the Confederate prison at An derson v,ill'o, Gav during the summer of 1864 were not due to tvj phoid fever, .as then supposed, but j were caused by pellagra, was the j opinion expressed before the Southern medical convention in New Or| leans a few days ago by Dr. J. W. j Kerr of Corsicana, Tex. l)r. Kerr, who was surgeon at the Andersonville prison, described the symptoms of the disease, which attacked the inmates so fatally at that time. and in nearly every particular they were recognized as l>?*tng characteristic of pellagra. This view was further strengthened, Dr. Kerr sain, by the fact that musty or spoiled corn, generally accredited by the medical fraternity as being perhaps the cause of pellagra, constituted i the main diet of the prisoners, beI cause of inability to furnish them other supplies, j The consensus of opinion among ' the physicians who presented papers : on the subject was that pellagra is j attributable to spoiled corn. Klcction Ordered. Governor Ansel has ordered an election for December 14 for the j proposed new county to be formed from the northern half of Marion ; county with Dillon as the county seat. This will give the new county advocates, if they succeed at the election, opportunity to get their new county 1)111 through the next legislature. That the election will be vigorously contested is sure. ^ ,>^ -Sr-Sr ft tS 999 999999mZ3 ? Bank of A CONWA w Capital Stock A Deposit* A Total Assets J? DIRE A J- A. McDermott, it T. McNeill, B. G. j|; tlebaum, Hal. L. /f\ The oldest Dank in Hoi /is olina. Associated with, the r jL the past decade. Our. polic the 4*Inilf?ni?ii<l????t Itonnitiio M to our customers every . rem /|\ tent with sound bunking. \V? fals, Arms and corporations. I). A. SPIVEY, d Vice-President. ! K*NKOf Conwa CAPITAL STOCK SDRPLl S LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDER SECT1 UI I Y TO DEPOSITORS I)IRE< Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, (?eorgo .). I loliday, We continue to j o\ f> jar cent inter* it yoiiraccount fiOHEKT H. HCAItHOKOUCP, I! PUKSIDkNT. IHtnUKLUi UHtflltSI StWINij MAllHINt k fcLIGHT RUNNING ^ fe?Mt If you want el t her a VI bra ting Shut tie, Ttotnry {Shuttle or a Single Thread [Chain StUc/t\ Sewing Machine write to THE NEW NOME SEWINI MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mass. Many sewlnsr machines are made to sell regardless of Quality, but the New Home is made to wear. Our guaranty never runs out. Hold by authorized dealer* only* FOR SALE B* ^ HlJRROt Oil* ac COLLINS CO., Conway, 8. O. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and rniincfilnr At t.?a CONWAY, S. O. C. K. ST. AM AN I), Attorney at IjUW Conway, S. C. K. B. SCAHBHOCGH CONWAY, 8. O. Attorney at Ii?w. W. K. McCORD, SURGEON DENTIST. CONWAY, S. O. Over Bank of Horry H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, 9. C. B. WOFFQRD WAIT. ' Attorney at law. CONWAY, 8. C. A Fool's Money. Franklin Taylor, a Hrooklyn lawyer, who ran for municipal judge at the recent election and lost, has tiled his expense account, which totaled $8:12.23 with the county clerk. "All of which serves to demonstrate," Mr. Taylor retlectlvely comments in his paper, "that a fool and his money are soon parted." The astronomers need not worry about the yellow veil covering Mars. Must be smoke from the fall bonfire season. Conway It LY. S. O. W $50,000.00 W 150,000.00 ^ 250,000.00 /K _ CTOK8 T Jno. C. Spivey, D. Collins, C. P. Quat- i|w Buck, D. A. Spivey. jj: Ty and a pioneer in Eastern Car apid progress of our County for y has been for the upbuilding of Vk With this in view wo extend ionablo aecoininodation eonsis- f|\ 3 solicit the accounts of individu- a\ HAt. I,.BUCK, A Cashier. % ? HORRY, y. S, C. $ 50 000 10 000 50 00Q 110 000 :iors W. I?. l/ewisf W. A. Johiiwon, [ Will A. Freeman. Sht on yearly deposits, aiidvM* holicI L. buck, MILL A. FKKFMAN Vice Phesidknt. .Cashier MURDERS CASHIER A\l> worxus PRFSIDKNT OF It t V li III." Tim/n 'r>4 \ ... . .1 i? in/ i mi /I/ * VJ Tile Young Bandit is Run Down aiul Captuml Aft?-r Ho .Shoots One Moid Man. In an attempt to rob a bank at Now Albany, Ind., a young man entered the Merchants' Bank at noon Thursday and killed J. Hangery Fawcett, cashier of the bank, seriously wounded John K. Woodward, president of the bank, and wounded Jus. R. Tucker, a negro chauffeur, probably fatally. When Hall entered the bank ho carried a pistol in each hand. Alter commanding every one to throw up his hands and "get into the vault," Hall began shooting. Cashier Fawcett was shot through the chest and neck and died almost, instantly. President Woodward was shot through the liver and his intestines were perforated. Tucker, the chauffeur, was shot through the body. ? Following the shooting the murderer rushed from the bank and tried to escape in an automobile, which he had taken from the curb in front of the residence of its owner, Mrs. Walter Escott, in Louisville, Ky. He had forced the negro chauffeur at the point of a pistol to drive him to New Albany. After the shooting at the bank the chauffeur, paralyzed with terror ami apparently incapable of act.icu, sat. still when the robher liinu?..ti intr. the car and ordered him to speed + up the machine. The robber then jumped out of the automo >11*-, shot the negro in the back and ran two blocks to the Ohio river. He seized a skiff and wag on his way to the Louisville side of the river before the frightened citizens of Xew Albany knew what had happened. An alarm was given through a megaphone on a dredge boat aaj in a short time several policemen had started in pursuit in a fast motcr boat. After being captured the bandit refused to give his name, and had little to say. He said that ho had boon around Louisville for several days. He did not know Tucker, the chauffeur, and declared Tucker was not Implicated in the attempt on the bank. A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., savs the bandit was identified as Thomas Jefferson Hall, and according to William J. Hall, his father, the desperado is but 17 years old. The older Hall, who has a furniture store . at No. 802 South Preston street, in i ' that city, said that young Hall was a household tyrant, and not insane at all. "lie is simply mean,' said the father. The family is formerly of Knoxville, Tenn. XXT T ? ?_%? w. j. nan detailed his son's actions for the last few years, saying that dime novels had been the youth's constant reading. Among young Hall's effects was _ j found a powerfully made cabinet, lined and outfitted like a room. It is believed that the boy expected to *?" escape with his loot, crawling into , the box, which was consigned to "It. J. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.," and escape as freight. ? "Aeroplano" is an awkward word, and the spcjlihg reformers ought to got rid of it. Why not chango it to airplane.? ?