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V ~ FIEND^FIXED~ An Alabama Bnrte Shot and Burned By a Posse ?I Citizens for ' ASSAULT ON A WOMAN The Scoundrel llrok<> Into the IIoumc, Kei/.? <! the llUNhand, Who Kacaped and ArouKed the Neighborhood, Who Found the Brute Near Where He Committed Hi? (Mjuo. After assaults on Mrs. Win. C. Cheatwood, wife of a farmer living near Edwardsville, Ala., Ray Rol?ton, a negro, was bunted down by a posse of citlzeuH Wednesday and after being riddled with shot, the body was burned. Mrs. Cheatwood is in a critical condition. The negro went to the Cheatwood home, and battering down the door, seized Cheatwood, saying . We've got you now, and we're going to kill you." Cheatwood ee-. raped and fled through the window to arouse his neighbors. While he wus absent Rolsbon attacked Mrs. Cheatwood. The brute dragged his victim by her hair to the woods near by after beating her over the head with sticks and rocks. Finger prinis on her neck also showed where ,ho tried to choke hei into insensibility. The negro, according to the statements received, then laid down near hla victim and went to sleep. After recovering consciousness, Mrs. Cheatwood crawled back to her home, where she notified her husband and friends who had gathered. The posse quickly found the negro, when they riddled his body with bullets and burned It. Cheatwood's throe small children fled from the house when the negro entered. It had been raining and was cold and they wore in an exhausted condition when found sov oral hours lator. VERY SIMPLE ItKMEDY For Tuberculoois If it Proven to bo \ Successful. A simple remedy for tuberculosis and one declared to be a sure cure is announced by a Texas Mothodis. 1 preacher, Hev. L. G. Grimes, of Cop' peras Cove. He is now living in tha? little town with his second wife, his first one having died with consumption. .Shortly after the death of ills drat wife, he himself was stricken with ' the wh te plague, and the disease do- 1 veloped so rapidly that he was forced to give up his work. He hail fiequont hemorrhages from ?he lun?s and tlie only exercise he could take ^ was horseback riding. t One day ho rode ove-* 'o 'he black> smith shop to have his lio-se shod and while the smith was dclug to*' work he got on the forgo to warm, and accidentally inhale i ;he smoui from the stone coal. It. seemed t< give instant relief, and he inhaled it for some time. He returned home, feeling better than ho had felt for months, and determined to continue the experiment. Rev. Mr. Qrimoa says that he never had another hem orrhage; that Blx treatments cured liim; And that he has never had a symptom of conaumptlon Blnce. He * had a lady friend who waa in tho last Btagea of consumption. bat had given up all hope and wah confined to her bed, which she never jt expected to leave. Mr. Orimos told * her how he was cured, and ah she 1 could sit up her husband had a little furnace made, and with pipes conveyed the fumes of tho stone coal ' , into her lungs. Her physician forbade the treatment, but the husband refuse! to desist aud in a few f. weeks the lady was able to leave hei 1 * bejf, and has never had a sympton J \o( the disease since. , ' Mr. Grimes wants the world to know of his simple and inexpensive remedy, and hopes ull sufferers with *'r? consumption will give It a fa 1 * jS KILLKI) A DKSI'KItATK NKGIIO.. f * t., Fuitjinn Turner Shot Whitinnn HarlejfHvhen Latter Threatened Illm. purman iurnor, a liveryman *of Yorkvillo, shot and killed Whitman Harley, colored, Monday night. Harloy was a noted desperado, who had a record as a criminal, having killed one man and shot several others. Tho trouble arose about Harley hiring a team from Turner. The ne- i gro was insulting and ran his hand into his pocket and Turner, knowing the desperate nature of the man with whom he had to deal, shot and killed him. Public sentiment generally regards the shooting as Justl fiable. Negroe's Kite Was Poisonous. As the result of being bitten by George Peterson, a black negro, whom he was trying to arrest. Policeman William Bverman, of Philadelphia, lost his right arm. Blood poison developed and the memIber had to l>o amputated. iiiiffiTh % fi I VIH III nf T ft ' COTTON GINNED CKN8VH RETORT SHOWS MUCH LESS THAN UHT YEAR. K?*|>ort Shown Dwiraiw of (her 1,000,000 Hales in lVixluctg (linmd to Novciubor 14. The census report showB 8,109,737 buU*H, counting round hales us half bales, ginned from tho growth oi 1909 to November 1 1, compured with 9.595,809 for 1908. Kouml bales included this year are 123,868, compared with 173,908 for 1908, nea Island, 08,608 for 1909. compared with 5 0,7 01 for 1908. The cotton giunoJ by States to Nov em ber 1 4, 1909, compared with that ginned to the same date in 1908 follows: 1909. 1908. Alabama .. .. 806,977 1,030,724 ArkunnaH .. .. 557,677 665,232 Florida 51,630 51,497 Georgia 1,659,671 1,564,037 Louisiana .. . 21 7,436 341.963 Mississippi . . 73 J.092 1.086.183 North Carolina. 466,513 414,434 Oklahoma .. . 476,523 322,061 South Carolina. 913,407 938,926 Tennessee .. . 1 84,451 243,493 Texan 2,100,970 2,863,528 A?i other States 43,385 46,761 On "November 14, 1 908, 73.3 per cent of the entire crop of the coun try had been ginned. The distribution of the sea island cotton for 1909 by States la: Fieri-I da, 23,477; Georgia, 38,913; South Carolina. 6,217. The statistics in this report for 1 909 are subject to slight corrections when checked against the individual returns of the glnners being transmitted by mall. The corrected statistics of the quantity of cotton ginned thiR season to November 1 are 7,017,849 bales. CAU8KS FATAL AFFRAY. lU'fumil of Young Woman to Djiiic^' With Young Mini. When the daughter of Simon Nelson refused to dance with Wesley McKenzio at a social affair being given in her own home at Harnwell, a town in n remote section of Baldwin county .Ala., Saturday night, n bloody duel followed. Two men are dead, four injured, and four are under arrest on the charge of murder. The dead are: Bert Pierce, beaten to death and bead crushed. Mack McKenzle, shot through the heart. John Falrey, two brothers of the dead Pierce boy, and one of the McKenzio brothers were wounded. According to the story told by officers investigating the case, Wesley McKlnzio approached Miss Nelson and asked her to dance with him. 3ho Is said to have refused on the ground that he was drinking, and he then began cursing In her presence. A general light followod with tho above result. I IF R.N S TO I) FAT 11. While Playing in the Burn Little Ik>y Sets It en Fii*e. A distressing accident occurred at Monbo, Catawbor county, N. C., Sunday about noon when a little sou of Mr. Jacob Oren was burned to death In the barn on his father's prein mr. uron n tamiiy are employed In the cotton mill of the Monbo Manufacturing Company and live on the land of the company. Sunday about the hour named the little boy, who wan Junt 4 years old, got hold of Romo matches and wont to a small barn ou the premises. It is supposed ho struck the matches, anyway when the barn was found to be ou fire the building was so enveloped In flames that the hoy could uot be reached. His charred .remains were found In the ashes of the building. HKItlKS OF TK.At.KOlFS. Man Shoot* Ills Wife, and Self and Fiend a Suicide. Oscar Osborn and hiH wife are in a hospital probably fatally wounded as a result of shots flrod by Osborn Tuesday night at his wife and himself in the main street of Richmond, Ky. Robert Hendrlck, a l>oon companion of Osborn, learning of the tragedy committed suicide by stabbing himself. Mrs. Osborn, who had lived apart from her husband for two months, came to town Tuesday from her country estate to Mo nnmp shopping. Osborn, who In wealthy, met her and after a few words ttrod tho two shots. Succumbs to Starvation. While on his way to tho Ralva%lon Army headquarters in New York to get a Thanksgiving dinner, John Devery, homelRRH and friendless, collapsed and a few hours later died from starvation. Before expiring Dovery told the hospital doctors that he had had scarcely a mouthful of food in a week and his emaciated condition tended to confirm this. Unable to obtain work, he had slept In doorways. DIED A HERO Democratic Leader Dies Tr)ing to Save GraodiOD From Fire. GOES TO DREADFUL END With the Lad iu IIIn Aruu the Congressman and Child Fall Through Floor un House iu Hansus ("it,v Huhih to (Ground?Veteran ot Lower House. Congressman David A. DeArmond. one of tho oldest and most nromi nent Democratic members of congress, and hie grandson Waddie, aged nix, were burned to death in a Are that destroyed the DeArmond homo at Butler, Mo., early Tuenduy. The other members of the family escaped and it is believed that none were hurt. Neither the body of Congressman DeArmond nor that of his grandson are yet recovered. It is believed that they were incinerated. Bones found are believed to be those of the congressman. Othei occupants in the house who escaped were Mrs. DeArmond and their son and daughter. The fire, the cause of which is unknown, started at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning. The DeArmond homo t;situaled across the street from that of his son, James A. DeArmon 1 lames started to rush in the burning home of his father in an at tempt to save the latter, but was restrained by the younger members ot ! the family and neighbors'. The DeArmond home was two sto ries in height and when it starto' It burned fiercely. Mrs. DeArmond. the wife of the congressman, escaped In her night clothes unhurt, but fainted as soon as she reached the ground. When she was revived later, she became hysterical and it was some time before she could tell what had happend. She occupied a room or the first, floor, while the congress man and his grandson were on the second floor. She had the first in timatlon of the fir#1 when she hoard the grandson cry out the alarm. She was only barely able to es on no w I t K Vw\ /\m ? II ? V? ? I ?? ? V ?i|/r "III! il\'J wwil II**", IIWV iiav ?i>' a moment to attempt to rescue tlx others. The house was of woo lex construction. Hy the time she reach ed the yard the building was wrap ped in flames. Fifteen minutes la' er it was in ashes. Mrs. DeArmond heard no ca'l f om her husband. Whether he was smothered in bed and burned before he could leave the room, or made an attempt to save his life, probably will never be known. Mrs. Harry C'ark, the congressman's married daughter, arid the house servant, who were sleeping* on the tlrst floor, wore among the others to escape. In Congressman DeArmond's death the Democrats lose one of their leaders on the floor of the house He was a member of that body for the past Ifl years, a man with a wide education and w,1do experience, a fluent speaker and had become one of the principal reaources of the Democratic party in debating national questions. He will long be remembered for his brilliant oratory and especially for his power of sarcasm and capacity for invective. He was conspicuous as a party fighter. He was inclined to be pugnacious. This quality was once the means of getting him into an altercation with John Sharp Williams, then leader of the house. He was an aspirant for the leadership of the house until the rccog/. C n V, .x /ID. -t. \ -- ? ' 111 limii \u viinui|i V/1iirn uy me minority. DKATII FOU FKKHLK MINDED. llmnnnitiiriniiN Startled l?y D tt<*r of the Mayor. The mayor of Plymouth, England, has caused a sensation hy Rending the following letter to Sir Edward Bradford, chairman of a meeting to consider the care of the feeble minded: "We are wasting millions on the erection of expensive buildings in the most salubrious neighborhoods, on the maintenance of an enormous official staff and on providing good food to help live those who have not and never will have one gleam of intelligence. This is called humanity. "Medical science has made Buch stridofl that it is j>OHRlble to submit these idiots to painless death and release them from the purgatory of non-intelligence. Spend the money now wasted in such profligacy on schemes such ftH maternity Institutions nnd creches and a different dawn will arise. Leaps to His Doatli. Eluding his roommate and shouting a frantic "Goodbye," William P. McCormick, a student at the Moody Biblical Institute, at Chicago, 111., Jumped to his death from a third story window of tho dormitory a few days ago and died on the way to the hospital. The young man is believed to be mentally deranged. RAILWAY WRECK A IW8SENGKK TItAIN AN1> A WILD ENGINE CX>LLIDE. Knglm-or, Fireman aiul Mall Killed, Two Fatally llttrt ami Five Can Destroyed by Fire. Telephone advices from Llnd. Wash., says that a disastrous wrej* occurred there Thursday morning at 1:30 o'clock when a "helper ' engine crushod into the Great Northern pas senger train No. 4, which was be lng held In a siding. The train Is uow burning despite efforts to extinguish the Maine*. Tin mail clerk and engineer are m'ssiig and it Is reported that others ai? also missing. It is reported that the teiegrapl. operator at Liud received order* U hold the helper on u siding, bu; according to the meager account*, obtainable the engineer, who Is iulss lng, probably misunderstood order* with the result that the passenge. aud helper crashed together at high speed. Every car was derailed an the tire which followed Is reported to be consuming the entire train. 1 A dispatch from Spokane say. three tralnment are dead, two other* fatally Injured and five of the six i curs on a Great Northern passenge train destroyed by tire, but ever, passenger Is safe as the result of > wreck. The dead are the engineer an fireman of the passenger train an the mail clerk. The engineer an fireman on the wild engine are prob ably fatally Injured. The Great Northern train fron the coast was traveling over th Northern Pacillc track on account of the floods on the Great Northern line. It was due In Llnd shortl; after 1 o'clock Thursday morning The wild engine started west an no sooner had it left the station that the onerator knew th??t n torriui mistake had been made, but ha; no moans of correcting It. A mllo from Llnd the engine nm passenger train caino in collision According to Engineer Hush, wht had pulled the train to Pressor, bu who was riding on the train fron that point us u passenger, every pas senger escaped unscathed except one who was Rliglitly injured. MOIl LYNCHES A N EG HO. Two Iiun<li*e<l Masked Men Tuk< Victim From Officers. Morgan Chambers, a negro, wa* taken from Town Mashal 11 road w a and Deputy Joe Camp, at Meehan 12 miles west of Meridian, Miss. Thursday night by a mob of 20< masked men and bis body riddle i with bullets. Dressier was taken to Meehan fo) medical treatment and 'the negn captured at Chunkey, a few mile further west, was taken to Meehan where he was positively ldentifle by his victim. After the idenliflca tion. Marshal 15road way and DopuC Camp started with the prisoner foi the town prison. On the way they were confronted by the mob, who took the negrc by force, Marshal Proud way bavin' his cheek graze 1 by a bullet in the scrimmage. After obtaining pos session of the negro, the mob draggod him a short distance and shot him to death, several hundred hul lets penetrating his body. The inol then quickly dispersed, leaving Mee ban, going In the direction of Point : and Chunkey. i KESCI KS CIIIL1>. Faithful ('mitiiro Drives Off Mud lli-iito Which Attacked Girl. A dispatch from Saluda says a mad dog passing through that town Saturday morning created quite a commotion. After ho had bitten several dog? he was followed and killed. His movements for the 24 hours previous have been traced and It is learned that besides biting numbers of dogs, geese, turkeys and hogs in the Kllis section of that county and between Saluda and the Kllis section, he bit the little 10-year-old daughter of llrown Hutler. The child was out In the yard when the do? ran into some geese near by. The child went around the house to see what was causing the commotion. The dog at once jumped on her, too, and fastened his teeth in her face. It is very probable her face wnillH ti?4V?? hlton m,w>>, w ?? ? ? atkVV M V"U IU UVII woree had not Butler's dog run up and, seizing the rabid dog, made him loose his hold ou the child. Butler has gone to the Columbia hospital with the child for treatment. I)le<l of liable*. Mrs. Goldea Friodlander, of Carmel, N. J., was bitten by a dog tlv? weeks ago, but paid little attention to the wound until a few days ago; when she applied for treatment. It was then Been thnt she had hydrophobia, and that it was too late for treatment. She was sent to Bellevue hospital, where she died, after suffering intensely, the doctors describing the disease as hydrophobia. | ? Bank of % CONWAY ^ CH|iiUl NUH'k |M*|N)HIUI '? /ft I'olMl ;\hM'|a J? DIItKC /ft ? A. McDermott, Jn 1 l'. MeNolll?Il. (i. 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A dispatch from Roanoke, Va., va a# trx i - m xt v. a? _ says rj. m. uuviqh, ui rmorioik, v?i.,i a prominent man, died there Thurs- j c day night from Injuries received In fl an automobile accident nine weeks ^ ago. He was a native of Wtndes, j England. j p Woman Fonnd Mordered. ? A dispatch from Detroit, Mich., 1 says Mrs. Harriet Hill, 20 years old. r was killed Thursday night in a road i house east of there. Her head was \ crushed. Some one outside of the r house shot her through the win- f dow. 1 Conway" \ . 8. a yb $50,000.00 W 150,000,00 A 250,000.00 A roim 9r >o. C. Bpivey, D. A >lllu?, C. P. Qua I- 2k uck, I). A. fiplvey. 11 ' ami a plainer In Kofttern C?r. A >i<l |?r?inr?"<M of our f>)nniy for Z haft b?s?n for tho upbiiihling of X With this in view we extent# W tiahle aeeoiniiHKlat ion muftis- A uucii im> MTouhts of tmlividiiHAL. L DICK, A Oaohicr. ' 0 HOKHY, s, c. $ 50 1X4) mum 0(MX*) 111)000 I0KS W. R. I^nvia, , \\\ A. tnlmaon, \N ill A ? i'i \?nrl\ <!< ) i Kith ji<v? holio . l IHTK, V 11.1. A KHfFMAH 1( f I IM Ml'l M. . .( VlHRi mmS HOPE IS GONE * # rbat Any of the Miners Buricd^io lit Cherry Mibc Are Alive ?-. , TUNNELS COLLMSED $ in K?VoimI Volo, anil llmcu^. puri) Ih Chit Off?Mrf Kmlungfn'il Vtftves of I'lxplon'i'H?^k?ond Porty ouod Tlw>m?One Wtio K^iuipfld Pies?liut 10 Left of a 10 Men .. . A dispatch from Cherry says hope that there mi;^!it still be allv'r tfome :>f the 189 mow known to be' eir tombed In the 8t. Paul coal mine wan ihandonod Tuesday. An e^fOoration Into what is known ih fhe second vein, whore It *was thought probably miners bad barricaded themselves and managed to ixlsit on outs and corn kept fhore for inuloR, nhowed that great pptlionn )f tho tunrielH had collapsed. It is thought that many men wero juried under the debris and that if he obstruction Ih not snort cleared iwriy at least 100 bodies may-fksver h* recovered. Fire Is still raffing n these tunnels; and these portions >f the mine, iu which imprisoned miners might have found a retrial, lire said to he full of the fatal black ilamp. The death Tuesday of one of the survivors brought to the surface last Saturday reduced to 19 the total number of those saved out df the 3 10 entombed by the fire a week ago Saturday. No bodies were found Tuesday. The explorers met with great f>b stacles Tuesday. In one instasoe fire broke out In a tunnel tetnporartly cutting, off the osoape of 25*-u1ei? who had ventured 4,000 foot frbm the hoisting shaft. The smell* -'of smoke gave the warning abcve'fmd fresh men rescued the explored Following a telegram sent to Governor Deneen by the executive board Df the minors State organization, asking that some one man be designat cl to take charge of the mine. Mine Inspector Hector McAllister was Din cod In charge of the cxplorlhg vork. Despite the fire and the fating In of tunnels, the work of clearng the mine will be pushed night md day. A diary was found In the clotting of Samuel D. Howard, 2 1 years dd, whose body was found In a >ocket of the mine. The diary wan >egun on November 13, the day tb? Ire started, and covers a period of wo days, describing the struggle for Ifo until black damp ended thO veird tale, written with a pencil on ouhu leaves or an account booh. ? ? Young Man, Iktvam. Young man, beware of the first ?ath and the first vulgar utter* inco, the first cigarette, the first ;lasR of wine, the ftret glasa of beer, he first mingling with - evil ' oonvmnions. You may think you are strong enough to indulge In thee* tud break away from them at your vill, but you never made a greater nlRtake In all your life. ICach one 8 like an octopus. Thoy will grndial)y wind their arms around you vnd death Is the only thing strong >nough to toar you from their dead* y embrace.