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V ml baking NOiE Abmohitt iJWl mteg the ft"< ( lti> Jkm dons blsciil pastry; coir the most h * 'badly beaten" Youig IVitlolm John>tone Set Upi n By Men E.ideavi rn g lo Molest Piopeity. CHARGED WITH ATTACK Three .Men AiivhUhI Near l*ee?ville on SuKitieion of Having lnjure<l 1 Newberry Youth?Young Man i Cruwli d to h Tenant House and (iu\o i lie Alarm. ] Mr. Malcolm Johnstone, son of State Senator Alan Johustoue, was , terribly beaten and possibly fatailv , injured by robbers at Newberry j Thursday night near the home of his ] aunt in Newberry, where he was j staying to protect her and hi- property. ( Hearing a noise late In the night. ( he went with his loaded pistol and , foun . a man le.iaiug one of the hors- t es out. He fired upon him and as j the man ran he emptied his revolver , after him. doing back to the house, j he reloaded his weapon and returned , to a lane in pursuit. Here he ran upon . everal men, but could not dis- c tinguish in the dark whether they j were white cr black. He fired upon ? (them an they returned the lire, j neither side being hit. N His weapon empty, the robbers tnen ^et uj on young Johnstone, who is i. I t? >ears old, and beat him terribly about the heal and. body ( Some tin e afterward he managed to crawl to a tenant house, and the alarm was given. A ispate.h to The State says Sun?tflv nlirhf Sheriff Hueord arrived in Newbei i y w.th H. W. Welch, G. W. J Martin an.l J. W. Williams, all f white, who were arrostod near Leesvlll> on suspicion of being tho par- * tiee- w ho attacked young Malcolm J Joht*stone l hursday t|lght In the yarrl f his aunt, Mrs. T. J. McCrary, E while seme one was attempting to y steal ;i hette out of the stable. These ? parti s left Newberry Saturday morning on the C., N. & L. freight at ; 8::tn. At fvrosperity they were met 1 by a brother of one of the men. who 1 lives bet eon Prosperity and Loos- c villi, at <1 spent the night with him. , ^ Sun ay they were arresto 1 at the 4 hot-e oi a :'tiend, four miles front ( Le? s'.'illf. it carried to Newberry. * Chi f of rTlice A lams of Newberry ( got :r i"k of the parties at Prosperity ' onr! ussiste' the sheriff, who was 1 ' also n 1*1 * by the chief of police of f Batesbtt rg Tti .-r?? q nnlv rhp nllcrhtpst olrcum * " " " - - t stanflal evi 'ence against the parties. They claim that their trip had been arm aged for several days an 1 that * th* v ha ?>re over to attend a frolic " hov had musical instru- 1 v meat v ifh them. Young John- fi .stone s' tep that one of the parties that attache1 him had on a light p suit f eirthes. One of those ar- c rest" w g dressed. ^ Ye t Johnstone Is somewhat bet te-, but i: ctlll In a critical condl- c t'on * tVra tbv Woman a Hulcfde. 1 envlng a note in which she said she arrl- 1/o much over her money Vt v* I'r'en T. I>ester, of Hal 1^ wlnsvU'e. V. Y., committed suicide j bv h i gj"rr herself to her bed. She wn - fit vears of age and leaves an r -th *8f>.000. J i Iftu Ton V on t-u Phil Alien, aged 68, former vice pre* out < f tho Firat National Bank ( of Mineral Point, Wis., charged with f the rnbezzlement of $168,000 of i that i"ctTtntion, waa a few dnya ago 1 sentence' to ten years In the fed- t / eral pri?o>n. i V { SUBSCf - POWDER MS fiy Pur* IvpLJ est, most dell* MjjTjM It, cake and #AnJr ireystofood mjf*W ealfhfiil of ttluM iiilL I'UK U1 nt LITTLK .MI ST l'AV l<Oii SIA Li * 10s W i lli I11S OMl. Virginia M uiderer Convicted for Cold-blooded Killing; of Whole Kan.ily at llurloy, \ a. Declared guilty by a jury of niuri er i;i the first degree an 1 sentenc8 1 to be electrocuted In Richmond, January 7, whh the outcome of the trial at Grundy, Va.. Saturday of Howard Little, who was charged with the sextuple muraer of Mrs. Hetty R. .1 ust is, Georio Meadows, bis wife, and three children. The jury rendered its verdict Saturday morning after having been out all light. i ne murder occurred at Hurley, Buchanan county, and the bodies of he vlctima were burned. The crime for which Little wan ound guilty wan a particularly atrocious one. The only motive which low can be conceived by the auhorlties la that of robbery- They >el.'eve Kittlo Bought to obtain the noney which he thought was in the louHC, amounting to $1/100, and that nurder an I arson followed, bu' ;ince the crime was committed nom >f the money baa been found. Feeing against the prisoner ran to such in extent that an extra guard w:u >laced around the jail to prevent 'iolenee. ITUST LOVK TIIK ONLY ONK. deuplo Arrives at That Belief After Being Separated. Asked how it happened that he lad remarried his divorced wife, A'111iain 10. Huson of No. 2128 Call ornia street, Denver, Colo., said: "You oan't get around, it?the irst love is tho only lasting one. ' I hey had been separated two yours. When found Huson was in h.H shirt sleeves washing dishes, and his vife criod, "See, I have him busy ilready." Huson looked at her sheepishly ind began whirling the dish cloth neditatively. "Well, I am willing o do it for you since I thid tnat 1 can't get along without you." Just like real Newly weds, Mr. and drs. Huson fondle and caress each ither, and they say that they are foing to follow the a lvice of Judge ... V. ^ * - - a* A - ? jjiviii wuu innrriiMi mem, 10 me t*r"ect that whenever either one of :hem- starts to quartrel the other 'hould wulk away. Mr. and Mrs. Huson lived together the Arst time for eleven yeara beore they came under the impression hat they could no longer live together. That waa three yeara ago. Mra. Huaon waa bually engaged in mpacking her trunka that have been itored away ever since the divorce. Vt varioup times alio would come Lcroas things that would remind her >f her former marriage days. In ipite of there being a third party >ropent, both of them commented up>n it, and Huaon Anally said, "Gee! am g'.ad we di I it over again.' drs. Huaon Just smiled and hit her lusband a playful whack on the heek. Hoy Foot Hall Victim. Leonard Ettler, aged 13, died at lis home in Ilanlsburg, Pa., Wednealay from blood poisoning caused by in injury to his knee while playng foot bnll ? ? A Hrnvo Woman. Miss Grace Witherspoon, 20 years )ld, a few nights ago, overpowerea i burglar who had entered her home in a wrencnea from his grasp a pilowsllp containing $200 In Jewelry ind furs, which the Intruder had itolen from an upstairs room. mm f * TRIPLE MURDER Man and His Wife and Their Little Son Meet Horrible Death. THE WOMAN ASSAULTED \nd Then Hh? t 1 h rough the llonrt. The Little Hojr Wtw Evidently Murdered to Keep Him From Teliinir \Vhi? # %>??? i. o U llll' Crime??Fiend Will bo Lynched. A triple murder and an assault on a woman was enacted 0:1 a lonely road a milo north of Frontenac, KansuH, aomo time Saturday night. The dead ate Mr. and Mrs. Will.am Bork, Germans, of Frontenac, and their son, who was 2 1-2 years ol 1. Mr. Bork presumably was killed while trying to .efend his wife. The chll 1 probably was slain because the mur.leror wished to silenc* him. The Borks were last seen alive late Satur ay night, when they st irl oi to drive home to Frontenac from the homo of Mrs. Borks mother two miles out In the country. Sun lay morning the Borks* horse and buggy were foun 1 stan ling in tin roadway at a deserted spot. In tin bottom of the buggy was discovered the child, dead from a bullet wound in Its head. Hastily pursuing their investiga tions, minors who found the child > body, came across the l>ody of Bork in the ml idle of the road some dis tance away. Bork had been shot once in the bead and twice in th< body. A trail through the dust plalnh lei the miners to a cornlleld a hundred feet further away. There they found the body of the woman. Slu had been assaulted and bad then oeen unci through tho heart. Mr*. Bork had fought desperately against hor assailant. Aloug th? trail to the cornfield weru founu l>oth the slippers she had worn. Ribbons from her hair and her cloak were also found. It 1h supposed Bork was the firs to be killed. Tho indications were that he had been shot us he sat In the buggy und that ho foil from hitneat to the road. Two bullets cvi lently were fired into bin body aftei he fell. Ooronor Dudley, Sheriff Morrisoi | and County Attorney Wooloy bur i rled to the scone from Pittsburg Kas., as soon as they heard of th? ' crlmo. Tho bodies were carried lnt< town and an Inquest was held Sun day afternoon. Bloodhounds wort sent for to bo used lu an effort tc trace the slayer. He left no clue 1 I Lynching may result if he Iscaught. LOUISIANA LYNCHING. Crowd Take*) Girl's Assailant From OiUeers and Hang Him. Two hours after tho crime was committed Henry Rachel, negro, charged with attempting to assault a 7-year-old girl, was hanged by u mob in West Bhreveport, La., lute Saturday. ' j With a companion, the little girl wont to an unoccupied house to secure a pail of water, when nh<> d?. clarea, who waa Reined by Rachel and dragged Into the building. With the approach of pnBnlng pedofltralnn. ahe aaya, tho negro became fright- 1 cned and ran. Rachel wa? captured by a pon?e of olhcerH with tho aid of bloodhounds and identified by both the little glrlfl. En route to prison the oflicbrs having him in custody were overpowered by a mob of 200 poraonft and the hanging of tho negro from n Htreet car trestle followed in nhort order. Tho mob then disposed. Khot Wrong Negro. At Tampa, Fla., mlHtaking Mward Jenktaa. a negro, for Henry Jones, who cut Sophia West, his mlatreoa to death two weekn ago and haa been In hiding In the city hIhco, patrolman George Rawla Runday nlgbt Bhot and fatally wounded Jenkins, and, when Robert Simmons, Jenkins' companion made a threatening gesture, shot him also, inflicting a alight wound in hl? knee. Rawla said Jenkins reached for a gun wheu ho commanded hi in to hult. Hunter's Note Telia of Tragedy. "Accidental, slipped and " was the contents of a note found near the dead body of I. B. Borland, in | me wuona noar r ranKim, tniH paat wook. An exploded Bhell In ' his gun and a wound in hin loft log explained how norland had mot hin death. Bvtdontly Borland bocamo exhausted beforo bo oould lluiah hla note, W TO GAVE UP FIGHT | The Pathetic End of Miss Jannette Calder at the Hospital. TOOK POIS i AND DIED The Sue! FuU* of a Young Hootch Wonuiu In Columbia, Who After liciiig Taken to ttie Hospital, Hegged the Doctors to lj?'t Her Die at Oikc. After refusing to aid In the fight that was being made for her life and expressing a steadfast wish to die, j Miss Jeannett Calder, who took a large tiuantlty of poison a week ago, died Saturday morning at 4:.r?0 o'clock . Death, which had been expected for the past two days, occurred at the Columbia hospita., where the unfortunate young woman was taken Friday a week ago after she had carried out her intention of ending iter existence. The following account of tlie sad case we take from The State: Miss Calder was a strikingly handsome young woman an I a few weeks ago friends aver that she was the picture of happy, contento I young wotnanhoo i, apparently with no thought of ending iter life. '1 he case is a pathetic one and seldom have the hospital authorities, the coroner aud the undertaker, people who come in laily contact with trouble and sadness in its most exaggerated form, mih'ii so enectea wh.ie performing their duties. The misguided young woman wuh a native of Scotland, but her pronounced brunette features and beautiful dark eyes showe I her contention that a bit Oi Spanish blood flowed in her veins was true. She wuh 2 7 years of age and came to Columbia sevoral years ago to take a position of domestic in a Columbia family. Since that family closod their house in the summer she has been occupying a room at 190b Main street, with Eugenia Kessel, who wuh formerly employed as a domestic in the sumo family. Thursday afternoon, ono week before Thanksgiving, these two young women visited Dr. VV. M. Lester, Miss Cal ler complaining of a slight indisposition. I)r. Lester's examination disclosed that she was threatened with an attack of grippe and he gave her some medicine, admonishing her to go at once to her room mil retire after taking the medicine. l'he physician told her that he would pay her a visit the next morning. Early the next morning ho received i telephone call from Eugenia Kennel, telling of the mad act of her room-mate. The physician found that Jeannette Calder had dissolved five tablets of Mehlori !o of mercury, containing seven and one-half grains oaeh, in a glass of water and had swallowed the deadly poison. This oecurred about 6:30 o'clock but the physician did not hear of it until nearly 9 o'clock. Eugenic* Kessel being forced to dreRs and seek a telephone before sho could summon medical aid. In the meantime Mrs. Sallie L. IvaGrand. who lived on the lower tloor, came to the aid of the frightened WIhk Kessel by preparing hot coffee and making an effort to cause vomiting and offset the work of the polHon. The unusual quuntlty of the drug taken did cause much vomiting and when Dr. I*e&ter Rrrived the Htomach had been apparently relieved. Bl-chloride of mercury la an antiseptic and rh auch 1r used by physicians, but nearly alwaya externally. In aomo instances .It ha? been g(!ven internally but the general done 1h one-twelfth of u grain. Had the young woman taken but one of the tablet" bhe would have been dead beforo the physician could havo reached her room. The largeat dono of this drug that ha? been taken without fatal effect i? probably three grains. In a dna^erouB condition the young woman waa removed to the | Columbia hoHpltal where until her death Hhe wua attended by a number of nuraeH, who wero much affected by her pitiful cane. After reaching the howpltal ?he begged the physic-1 laiiH and nursea to ceaso their effort*! j to nave her life, saying who wished to i!le. Hhe HteadfaKtly refused to take ' nourishment and It was only by force that liquid foods were pressed I through her lips. After a few dayB of Buffering she bocamo wild In actions and language and the physicians wore satisfied that she had become Insane. Sho repeated over and over, "Oh, I must go to hell and burn forever and forever, oh what will I do?" Was 111 wane. Later It was evident that she stood a chance to recover and It was decided that rh she wan cleurly insane, ahe ahould bo committed to the hospital for the insane and | THE HO PRISONERS ESCAPE I TWO WIIITK MKN HICK A K JAIL IN LEXINGTON COUNTY. ' A Conviotod Murderer and an A1(?K?d Former Hawed Away liu' Crll llara and G?( Away. The Columbia Record wiyR about two o'clock Friday morning two white priHonerH, ThomuH J. Craft and I i. /%. w niuie, intuit) tnetr escape from the county Jail by sawing the bars of the cell and letting themselves down to the ground on the outside. Craft was convicted at the I February term of court for the killing of CJarileld ilutto, ut a dance last Christmas, and was convicted and sentenced to life Imprisonhent. An appeal Is now pending in the su- , preine court. Whittle was awaiting trial at the next torm of court In January for forgery. Craft Is a heavy set, bright looking fellow, about 2 2 years of age, and weighs lf>5 pounds, f? foet I Inches high. He Is from the lower part of Lexington county, near Swansea, and it is predlctod that he will Ik; hard to locate, and If located i that he will be a game party to arrest. A negro who was confined In a lower cell, In another part of the jail, sfays he heard a noise about 2 o'clock. It Is believe 1 that the prisoners received assistance from parties on the outside, as tracks were found which indicate I that this ha I been done. The otlleers are ben ling every energy and putting forth every effort to capture the fugitives. The Indications arc* that a buggy was waiting for the prisoners near the Jail and they made their escape In this way. 0 /:IIMJ4 l<'W'U r etT.ii nee* Sensational KndiiiK of Quarrel in Alicia, Arkansas. In a street duel with knives at , A^lda, Kansas, near Bradford, | Miss Nora Owens was fatally Injur (Ml a few days ago by MIhh Stella | Hoik and died within a few minute. , Hot were prominent at Alicia. , The duel was the result of a nils- | understanding tnat haa existed be | tweon the two young women fo* | pome time. Miss Owens waa cut In | four different places, tho fatal cut being in tho left breast, whet an , artery leading to tho heart waa severed. M!sa Hoik wus arrested. Ikdy l-Viuiul in Woodshed. The body of Charles C. Martin, un- 1 til recently bookkeeper of a local flrin, wus found in a woodshed near his residence at Macon, (la., Thursday with a bullet hole througu nls 1 head. A revolver clasi>ed In his 1 left hand showed that tho wound 1 waa self-inflicted. Despondency because of 111 health Is supposed to ' have promptod the deed. 1 I Indians and Whites May Hash. 1 Kiowa Indians in a reservation < near Hobart, Okla., may clash with tho white authorities because the lattor reecuod a half breed whom they accused of murdering a full- 1 blooded squaw. I ! I Hteps wero taken to secure papers ! admitting her there. Defore these ' documents could be prepared, how- "1 ever, the patient commenced to grow 1 worae and it was Been that she wan 1 too ill to be moved. Gradually grow- < Ing weaker the end came early Sat- i urday morning. The Inquest was hold Saturday afternoon, the verdict of the Jury being rendered without the Jurymen Jeaving their Boats, the foreman and members agreeing that the caae established polntod to clear Hulcide, At the loquoet the principal wit- i ness wa? Eugenia Keflftcl, the dead glrl'a room mate. 8ho testified that Jcuuette Calder had told her on one 1 occasion that a man had given her j a diamond ring and diamond locket and had promised to marry her and i at another time the girl had tearfully exclaimed, "I wan* to die. He has ruined my life." The witnens related the Htory of how Hho whh , awakened by her room mate who | told her that Bhe had taken poison ( aud wante 1 to die. j Dr. W. M. Lester In addition to testifying to other polnte of the case already outlined in this Htory, teBtitled that when he questioned hiR patient oh to the reason for her attempting suicide, he whb told, "I whh getting low In money." She reiterated this statement to the i physician aovoral tlinew, although through letters found and other 1 facte brought out It was found that ' thlH assertion was not true, the 1 young woman told the physician that she had purchased the tablets of bi-chorlde ovor a year ago. The' girl also told Dr. I^ester that she had sevon brothers In this country, and her father and another brother llvln# in Scotland. RRY HEI SHOT BY HIS SON Father At tack in* the Whole Family Wit Fired Upoo. BOY DEFENDS MOTHER Fathw, Anger***) bjr Dunning Awmj of Hon Ho Had Attacked, Aroae in III Mood Asaaultod Wife With llrouan .Inlin. Ol? , p mFU, 1/C" fcndtil Ills Mother. A dispatch from Laurens says Jesse \'. Fuller, a substantial and hard working farmer of tho county was fatally shot at an early hour Friday morning by his el?hteen-y?arold Bon, John lrby Fuller, death ensuing four and a half hours later. The shooting took place at five o'clock and wub, it seems, the se(|uel of a series of domestic troubles, periodically precipitated by the head of the family himself. Apparently brooding and chafing over his treatment of the day before of another son, Hen Tillman Fuller, whom he is alleged to have brutally assaulted out In the field, Jesse Fuller, the father arose Friday morning in an extremely bad mood and became furiouH ujkhi finding that Hen hud left home during the night. He aroused the entire family and started in, as he declared, to clear out every member of the household, by assaulting Mrs. Fuller with a very heavy hrognn shoe, after whleh he Hocured his pistol and was In the act of leveling it on his wife when the boy, John lrby Fuller, standing on the Htalrway with gun In hand, warned hie father not to shoot or Htrlko his mother another blow. Instantly Fuller, who was standing in the Uvln? room Across the hallway, faced tho son and was *hot down, the entire charge of shot taking effect In the abdomen. After coming to town for a doetor young Fuller returned to the City at 8 o'clock and gave himself up to the Sheriff, requesting that ho be permitted to attend the funeral In the event of his father's death. He Is at the county Jail In Laurens, but will probably secure ball latei. Jesse Fuller wan 43 years old and i member o ft he W. O. W. IUItlKl) IN MINK. Scores Have I'rolwibly I Vr is hod in Japanese Colliery. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan, *ays a hoavy loss of llfo in feared in tho result of an explosion a few lays ago la a coal mine at Onoura, rumioku province, fifteen men are known to have perished, while 228 minora aro entombed In the workings. Kvery attempt la being made to reacue them, but their fate la yet In doubt. Itying Man Loft Note. "Accidental, slipped and ? ?" ivaa tho contents of ft note found Sunday lu the denso thicket beside tho body of I. B. Borland, aged 60 yeara, former county troasurer and \ prominent politician of Franklin, Pa.,- who has been missing from home wince Friday. A woun 1 In the left leg caused Borland to bleed to death, according to the coroner. The iccldont was the result of a hunting trip. Women Hlain. Firing from a doorway of their home on a sheriff's posse to give their father and brother time to escape h.reHt, Mrs. Qharloe Daniels and her slxtoen-yoar-ol I daughter wore shot to death Friday. near Devon, Mingo county, by officers. The shooting grew out of a family feud between the Christians and Daniels families on the borders of Kentucky and West Virginia. Threw Herself Before Knijine. Despondent because ravages hv the Mexican cotton boll weevil had resulted In the entire loss of her crop this season, Mrs. S. It. Woe ma, attempted sulci !e near Alexandria, I,a., this past week. She threw herself before her son's locomotive but received only slight Injuries. Woman Killed. At Rrocheator, N. Y., Mrs. Mar Kftret Smith, aged thirty-live, and Mrs. Minnie Wright, ago 1 fifty, were killed by a gas explosion In a boarding house on North street Friday as a result of applying a match to a leaking Jet. Insane Man (V>mmlts Suicide. Taken from a train at Sandusky, O., because thought to l>? Insane, David M. Tullock hanged himself la a police station. IfllD