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MOB STORM JAIL At Cairo, Illinois, to Get Negro Who Snatched Purses From LADIES ON THE STREET Several of the Infuriated Crowd Shot lk>wu by Ofllcerg of the I*aw? The Crowd in I'uly .Mood Hurly r riuaj .Homing unu r urwier if tack on Jail K\pocte(l. At Cairo, Illinois, in a light Thursday between a mob that seeks *o lynch a negro charged with purse snatching and live deputy sheriffs who are guarding the jail, several members of the mob were shot down In an attempt to rush the jail. The number of injured is unknown the estimates varying between two eleven. The mob was still gathered about the jail at an early hour and was constantly increasing in size. Sheriff Mollis entrenched his force of deputies behind shuttered windows and sent out word to the mob that he would light to a finish to protect his prisoner. , j; ' ! The mob worked itself into a fren- ' zy and another rush on the jail is ( expected. The local militia company ' was ordered out Thursday night by the Governor but the authorities have ( been unable to 11 nd the company's 1 officers to lead the men. Sheriff Nell- * is appealed to Gov. Deneen for more x soldiers and outside companies are 1 hourly expected. There are three negroes in the 1 jail. One of them, John Pratt, was 1 arrested on a charge of snatching !1 purses from women, lie later confessed. lie was 1 in med in t el v ituHrt eu by the grand jury and it is believed the mob is after him. 1 The mob began forming shortly alter dark. As soon as the talk of a lynching reached Sheriff Nellis ho appealed to Governor Deneen for A troops and swore in live deputies. ( A crowd gathered about the jail, A tut 110 attempt to storm the struc- ( ture was made until shortly before t midnight. t Sheriff Nellis made good his prom- | ise to shoot and several men in the j mob fell at the first volley. Then the mob withdrew at a safe dis- . tance and began firing into the jail, j breaking the windows but injuring . rone of the defenders. A dispatch from Cairo at half- ] past three o'clock Friday morning < says the mob that attacked the jail , is reforming a block away and a 1 second assault is imminent. The ( mob, however, now numbering 5 00 t persons, is crazed because Sheriff 1 Nellis and his deputies fired 011 them ( and threats are made to lynch them 1 as well as the negroes. ^ Among the seriously injured of the f rioters are: t John Malonoy, shot through head, j Sam Wersinger, shot in shoulder. Horton Freehan, shot in leg. 1 George 11. Walker, shot in leg. Maloney is tlio husband of ono of the women whose purse was * snatched. Caused by Policy Murder. Cairo has been in a state of unrest since the heinous murder was ^ discovered on November f*th of Miss i? Annie Pelley, a shop girl, who was Y s'ain by Will James, a negro. Aftc* o a long chase through Alexander and r; adjoining counties, a mob captured d James, taking him from the custody b cf Sheriff Davis. The negro was led V back to Cairo and hanged in the ci public square. h The mob then entered the Jail ami rs dragged forth a white man held for s< uxoricide and hanged him. e< It was asserted by the Cairo papors and leading residents at that h time that the mob spirit was engen P dered by the delays of the courts in f< punishing criminals. ei Sheriff Davis was removed from g office by Governor Deneen, who acted II under a law that required the sum- a mary removal of a sheriff who al- 1> lowed a prisoner to be taken from him. The revengeful feeling towards negroes seemed to die out after com- j, panieg of State troops had hcdd the citizens in abeyance for several days. An alleged accomplice of James in the murder of Miss Pelley was later brought back to Cairo, but no in- ii dictment was found against him. 11 While the mob that lynched James last November was fiendish in its tl treatment of the body of Miss Pel- >ley's alleged slayer, tearing out his S heart and burning it at the spot on which the girl's body was found, J1 no talk of further vengeance on ne- ? grocs was heard except periodically. w Thursday night's outburst came ?1 therefore as a surprise to city officers ti but Sheriff Nellis, profiting by his o! predecessor's removal for failure to tl protect James, used drastic measures 10 save his prisoners. w No serious effort was made to pun- Va Ish any of the members of the mob A that lynched James and the white P< man last November. No arrests were in made, although Sheriff Davis said ? that he recognized several of the ve rioters. A coroners jury that hel l he * an Inquest over James returned a of Ik*,,. Bill id r ii hi GIVEN TO THE MOTHER CUSTODY OF TILIiMAN CIIILDHEN SKTTLHD BY OOUKT. Their Father Hud No Bight to I>ce<l Them to IIis Parents Under tho law. Ily an unanimous decision of the supremo court Tuesday, Senator and Mrs. 11. K. Tillman aro commanded to surrender to Mrs. It. It. Tillman, Jr., the custody of the latters two Kirls deeded to the elder Tillmans in December by their father, upotu the allegation that their mother was mi lit to bring them up properly, and lie was not himself able to give them such an upbringing as he would like them to have. The court holds that such a deed is invalid without the signatures of both parents, if both be living. What Senator Tillman Says, Commenting upon the decision of the court, Senator Tillman said: "The supreme justices have lifted a great responsibility off ine and shifted it to their own shoulders. My only motive in accepting the guardianship was the welfare of my little ' grand daughters. 1 know all the facts 1 and circumstances, many of which ' were not brought out in the hearing, Find was actuated solely by a sense jf duty. The final result can alone letermine whether the court has act- ' 2d wisely. "Fifteen years hence, when I am ( lead and gone, the character and * ype of women that my grand-daugh- N ers will have become will show vhetlier it was best to have given 1 hem to their mother or not. "I pray God's guidance to her in ' earing them and that lie will shield hem from contaminating influences a Hid example." t IXCOM K TAX KXDOHSEI). c loth the Senate and flouse of Rcpretatives Favorable. The House of Representatives fa- d ors the income tax by the Federal lovornment. There were only tlireo ,'otes recorded against the proposiion. Mr. M. L. Smith had passed to & hird reading his resolution ratifying ho proposed amendment to the 8 United States Constitution for the Federal Income tax. Ry a vote of I UO to 3 the proposed resolution was o idopted. Representatives Fultz, S'unnery and Doar voted against tlie t imendment. The Federal income tax amend- G tnent proposition was passed in the Senate late Tuesday afternoon by a h rote of 2 8 to 9. The bill is now on :hird reading and it will probably i> ;ause some discussion when again cached on the Calendar. Apparent- a y there has been a change in the >pinion of members of both the ^ louse and Senate Rince the matter vas presented by United States Sen- h utor Hailoy for before Monday night here was a general impression that 0 he resolution eould not pass. a HOUGHT HE WOULD HE KILLED E cc >nt Death Game Heforo He Could s> Make a Change. ()< ci Hanging on a tile in the ofllee of m layor John T. Moore of Macon, Ga., oi > the application of Engineer W. J. ai ates, of the illfated passenger, train p: i me ueorgia Southern and Florida in lilway, which sent the man to his tl oath deep in tlie earth under the in locomotive lie handled Monday, n /hen the engineer filed the appli- 7 ation with the mayor he said ho ii ad a premonition somehow that his bt lilroad position would bring him to al ime terrible disaster and lie want1 a change. On being told he could tli ot earn anything like the money m e .got in the railroad service lie re- m led that he did not care so much tli >r that, for he feared death on his T ngine. It came before he could be d< iven the appointment ho wished, cii [e was a popular and trusted man rc nd did the most important work for is line. cr w RICSCI EI) 1IY CIUJISEIl. bi pl Topic Taken From Steamer in tlie til Strait of Magellan. n The Chilean tugboat Plsagua ar- g. Iving at Quellan, Chile, reports that c( le Chilean Mlnistre Zenteno rescurl the eighty-eight persons left on tr le wreck of the Hritish steamer sc Ima, in Iluamblln Passage, in the tli trait of Magellan. The cruiser arrived at Huamblin assage on Tuesday and found 86 d? f the survivors still clinging to the dr rock. Two others had ^ea^iod ar (lore. Those on the wreck were so iken off in small boats with tho aid dfl r lines attached to the wreck f.om sa le cruiser. Ja The two who had gotten asho-o Tr ere picked up later. The Mivii'.ro of enteno is taking the survivors to ha r.cud. The Lima stranded on Seaile It riint in Huamblin Passage, after be- nij g rendered helpless in a storm. mf liv xdict that read in substance that ? "came to his death at tho hands < persons to the Jurors unknown." acc TRAINS CRASH Women Tear Off Clothing to Bind Up Wounds of Victims SEVERAL ARE KILLED Two Passenger Trains on Georgia Southern and Florida Itailroud Collide Head On Through Alleged Mistake in Heading Orders by the Crew of a Train. Six persons are dead and eight are seriously injured as a result of the head-on collision Monday afternoon on the Georgia, Southern and Florida railway, 19 miles below Macon, between two fast Hying passenger trains. A misunderstanding of orders on the part of the northbound train is said to have been the cause of the collision. The northbound train crew were under the impression that the southbound train was to bo passed at Hon Aire, while the southbound train had orders to meet at Wills on. The northbound train dashed by Wellston and was making fast time o reach Hon Aire to prevent any do ay of the southbound train. The two trains met on a curve and loath and suffering ensued. The wo engines crashed into each other vith a terrific impact, the north louiul train was the heavier of the wo and the light engines and coachs of the southbound train were bady smashed. None of the dead were passengers nd only a few passengers were >ciDusly injured, the dead and injured >eing among the employes of the onipany. The dead: Engineer W. J. Yates, of Macon. I. 13. Ingalls, of Macon, conductor, nit traveling as passenger. W. E. Dupree, of Hon Aire, conluetor, but traveling as passenger. It. W. Holt, colored, mail clerk, of flacon. Jim Stephens, colored, fireman, of 1 lacon. E. It. Johnson, of Amerlcus, bag;agem aster. The injured: E. II. Taylor, express messenger, f Macon, badly bruised and burned. LeRoy Fuss, engineer, northbound rain, badly cut on head and chin. Robert Williams, of Macon, colord, mail clerk, badly injured in back. P. J. Blount, Orangeburg, S. C., 1 urt in head. W. M. Elder, Worth, Ga., bruised < a back. i W. Ij. Wheelers, of Boston, bruised I bout body. 1 George Bernhardt, flagman, pain t ally injured on head. W. II. Carson, newsboy, cut on i ead. i Loretta Putnam, colored, badly cut c n head. c The wreck has been cleared away fnd trains are running as usual now. ci ingineer Yates' body has been re- p )vered from under tho engine. i It was one of the most dismal t vamps on the road that the crash jcurred. Passengers describe the v ies of the wounded and dying as v ost pitiful and heartrending. Sev- b *al hours elapsed before medical a d reached the scene. Many women issengers bound the wounds of the jured with bandages torn from iclr clothing. T Engineer Yates stuck to his post, id was killed outright. Engineer uss, of the Shoo-Fly, and Young, s fireman jumped, and Fuss was idly injured, but probably not fat- ^ ly. {] All thoso who are injured are at. ^ io Macon hospital now under treat- a( ent. They were carried there at a' idnight on a relief train sent to ic wreck by Superintendent Grady. *l he light train, was almost totally jmolished, the engine and three 81 irs, while the heavier northbound 0 mained on the tracks. The accident will be charged to the 11 ew of the northbound train. They 81 ere to have stopped at Bon Aire " ut for somo reason, not yet ox- ai ained Lgnored their orders and tried i reach the next point. It was said 8' in northbound train was running at " terrific rate. w Both engines, the mail and bag- w igo cars and two day coaches were '' mipletely demolished. w A wrecking train and a relief a ain were sent out from Macon as n ion as news of the disaster reached ic head o til cos of the road. 8' Two More Victims. Two other deaths occurred Tuos ly as a result of the collision Monly evening on the Georgia Southern w ul Florida Railroad nineteen miles st nth of Macon. Those dying Tues- ni ly wore >1. F. Tllount, a traveling P< lesman of Orangeburg, S. C., and re ines Stephens, colored, fireman on W ain No. 2. Illount was a member af a prominent family, and was to ik ve been married fn about a month, he was reported at a hospital Tuesday ?ht, that A. H. Taylor, express ssenger, of Nashville, Tcnn., would yo e but a few hours. ? ? toi Of all base poisons fear Is the mo3f iursed. bei I FIND GRAFT IN OHIO FORM Kit STATE PRINTER OWNS VV TO GRAFTING. Democratic Governor Harmon Tree? Republican Thieves in the Ruck eve State. Governor Harmon is after th< graft era in Ohio. A dispatch fron Columbus says Chairman Beatty o the legislative graft probe committee appointed through the insistence o Gov. Harmon announced today tha J. 10. K re Is ford of Dayton, formei partner of Mark Slater, former sup ervisor of State printing, had con fessed to him of wholesale grafting in the department of printing at th< time Mr. Slater was in charge. Ac cording to the confession of Hrels old, from whom Slater bought goods he and Slater divided $13,700 drawn from the State treasury 011 vochert for the payment for stock never delivered to the State printing department. lirelsford went 011 the stand on Wednesday in the State probe investigation session and revealed details of the transaction of the committee. Mr. Brelsford was shown a warrant, No. 1250, on which he was paid $5,501.75 for goods alleged to have been sold to the State bindery 011 December 7, 1005. The entire list of goods itemized in the bill was read to him and he testified frankly at the conclusion thnt ma <? cimrt,, item represented poods actually delivered by him to the State; that it was entirely a piece of graft. Before testifying the committee ex plained to him again .that the testimony he might give here could not he used against him in criminal prosecution. On the fourth bill, dated March 27, 1906, for "24 dozen of Morocco, sorted," for which $2 01 was drawn, he testified that but two do-v en were delivered, the cost of which was $67; that the bill was padded to the extent of $7 27. HOODOO NKGHO DOCTOR. (Jot Fifteen Thousand Dollars from the Swopes. Chase Jordan, a negro herb doctor, of Kansas City, Kansas, who advertises himself as "Minister of Mediicines, Medical Doctor and Doctor of liver and gall stone," obtained some $15,000 in eight years for doctoring members of the Swop? family. It was told by the "Doctor" on last Wed used ay. He gave a deposition in the slander suit brought by Dr. B. C. Hyde tgainst John G. Paxton, executor of he estate of Col. Thos W. Swope, whose death Is under investigation >y the grand jury. Jordans name was first brought nto the Swope case when Mrs. B. C. lyde issued a statement expressing :onfidence in her husband's intiornse and saying that Chrisman Iwope used Jordan's remedies. Jor!an gave his disposition after much >rotost, as he claimed his ministerngs to the Swope family had nothing o do with the case. Jordan testified that his medicines /ere harmless "varbs.' Hn anM tiiov ,ore compounded from roots and ^aves obtained in foreign countries nd in the woods near Kansas City. SOMKftODY PISHING. aft Program of Legislation Now Confronts Taft. Congress now confronts a Taft rogram of legislation. Last year lore was a Roosevelt program for ongress to act upon. This repre?nts the growing tendency for the dminist rat ion to assume the loadernip in getting laws enacted, foliowi,g somwhat after tiie manner of uropean legislation, where a responble ministry either gets its program f legislation through or else resigns. ( his country has seen so many do- ( othing Congresses, where no one , ?emed responsible for getting anyling done, that there is a general cquiescence in this tendency of the ( resident to assume a more active ( lare in the leadership of his party > /ith this change gradually coming, , lion things go wrong tlie country | ill know who to punish. Many eople still feel strongly against hat is called one man power, but fter all one man power ii often the tost responsive to the pop.nnr will, ecauso someone Is directly respon- ^ l,U ? * gvuiiib wotk acne. Put Them In dor Bod. Surprising three burglars who i ere robbing their cottage on Hill i root at Hot Springs, Ark., Monday r Ight, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wyman of i eoria, 111., were hound, gagged and I ibbed of jewelry valued at $4,000. p yman, his wife and the negro cook, ( ter being bound and gagged, were t >t able to free themselves for 2 4 a mrs. 9 Smilo and the world smiles with c u, even when the smile be liquid, c A vigorous will is a perpetual E nic. a A mental flaw spoils a thing of tl auty. 1 o; " A DARK CORNER } Claims that Witches Killed Seventeen o His Many Children. LIKE THE DAYS OF SALEM TIio Belief of a Father and Mother i f in the Superstitions of Witchcraft Reveals a Most Remarkable Conf t dition of Dense Ignorance in the r County of Berks, Pa. That seventeen of the twenty chil' dren of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Carl * of Reading, Pa., died as tho result . of witchcraft was the startling state, ment made Friday by the parents, i A daughter, 2S years of age, died ; and was buried last week. The ma jority of tho children died wheL quite young. The parents have never been ill i a single day, while their hildreu wasted almost to skeletons. Attending physicians said several of the children were afllicted with marasmus, a wasting of the tlosh without ?ny fever or apparent disease, while "powwow" doctors declared tht the little ones were bewitched by an obi woman. Several of the children in their illness scratched their mother on the neck and face, screaming for hours, and manifested other queer symptom until they died. While physi- ^ clans declared that several of the older children died of tuberculosis, Mr. Carl believes all were bewitched. . lie said: "U'li,... ..< -* * ,, ... > vuit- ui our riniaron was ill the doctor said it would not live over right, and at the suggestions of a . neighbor I called in a "hex doctor" who had the reputation of curing bewitched people. He hung something in a bag around the chid's neck and gave it two kinds of medicine. He said that it had been be- < witched by a woman, but would not . mention any name. From the time the witch doctor began to treat the . child it began to improve, and is f one of the three living today." On another occasion when one of his daughters was ill, Mr. Carl declares an old man, hearing him tell a friend about his loss of so many 1 children, said he could help the child, and was invited to try. He brought a piece of muslin, a needle end thread, a pen and red ink, and \ (lie seventh book of Moses. He t powwowed," and then copied a verse i on a slip of paper, using his red ink, ^ and put the paper in a little red f muslin bag and hung it at the head c of the, cradle, and the child improv- 0 ed. i When Dr. R. E. Strassers was cor- \\ oner he waged war on the "powwow" doctors, but they are still doing bus- j, iness in Berks county. Eastern Bonn- r, sylvnia is a stronghold of supersti n lion. j, ii MAKES SERIOUS CHARGE. p ? b Claims He Was Swindled l?y a Specialist in Atlanta. v< A dispatch from McCall to the ! 1 Charlotte Observer says hearing of the famous cures performed by Dr. llathvvay and Co., of Atlanta, Ga., , Mr. Tom Morrison hied to Atlanta cc lest Thursday to place himself in the . bands of this doctor?thoughtfully taking his check book with him. The .. rest of the story as told by Morrison . is: . Wi "When T got to Atlanta I found ^ that I)r. Hathway had left the city, , but that an "eminent London specialist" was in liis ofllce. I found two ^ men there who questioned me so fast, and talked so much that I seemed .^ under a spell of some kind Th?y agreed to make me a well man in a t few days for the sum of $800. I ^ was utterly unable, while with them, to doubt them or do otherwise than 1)0 as they bid me. I made out the check for $800, payable to the Lank 1 01 of McColl. 1 became uneasy and dis?ntisfled on Saturday and on Sunday ^ morning some one in their employ- ^ ment confirmed my doubts. I at . once wired the cashier of the Hank . s of McColll, to stop payment on check. ^ This was done. The case has been put in the hands of a leading Atlanta Ihwyer, and 1 expect to recover my money, less lawyer's fees. , t t Pti EUROPE'S EGGS ARE IMPORTED fo1 :i2 * he Hundreds of Thousands Are Drought nu to Anierica. *\v tin For the first time in five years the ue oroduct of the pauper hen of Europe s being imported, into New York in omneitlttr?n ?,ou - v.xn <> mi me l esuns or nome ndustry. The eggs aro shipped by en jrokers in Hull, England, hut are Co fathered originally from France and the Germany. Up to the present the edi otal receipts of the foreign eggs Wti mounted to 900 cases, holding about me '60,000 eggs. Ser The duty on foreign eggs is five dep ents a dozen, and the shipping barges about four cents a dozen. dealers say that European markets dea ro flooded and the low prices enable 'J ^ie shippers tp make a good profit mm a their importations. as KILLED BY ACCIDENT BRIDGE WATCHMAN AT OONGAREE FOUND DYING. At Hi? I'ost of Duty Early Thursday Morning, Dying a Short While hitftr. Thomas Jefferson, night watchman for the Southern railway company Congaree River Bridge, just above Fort Motte, was killed at an early htur Thursday morning. It is not known how the accident occurred. The Steamer City of Columbia arrived at the bridge about 5: HO o'clock, and the draw was opened for it to puss. On arrival of train No. 15 at six ^ o'clock no signals were found, and the draw bridge was partly open. The crew closed the draw, and seeing no signs of the night watchman, passed \ er the bridge. After this a freight train from Columbia arrived, and after a search for the watchman they found him lying under the draw 011 the rock foundation, with one arm pinioned under a turn of the draw. lie was yet alive, but unconscious and died shortly after being moved. The supposition is that while trying to close the draw he fell through on the foundation and caught 011 the iron turn table to keep from falling to the river below. On arrival of train No. 15 a few minutes afterwards, when the draw was closed, it caught his arm. It ?eing dark he was not discovered lying underneath the track. It seems that when the steamer 3ity of Columbia arrived at the uidge at 5:30 o'clock and the wat;nman opened the draw for it to \r.ss, but as train No. 15 was due at >ix o'clock, lie hastened up the track o place a signal to save the pas:ciiger train from dashing into the vaters of the Congaree river. Coning hack to close the draw the watchnan fell into the aperture used for illing the machinery of the bridge, shortly after the train crew closed he draw and crushed the life out if the unconscious man. Jefferson lad been night watchman of the Congaree bridge for thirty years. GOES i r FOR LIFE. lulph Boyleston Who Killed Cleveland Funning. Ralph Boyleston will serve the renainder of his days in the peniontiary for the murder of Clevoand Fanning. The supreme court Vednesday rendered a decision afirming the decision of the circuit ourt which found Boyleston guilty f murder with recommendation to he mercy of the court, which means Ife imprisonment. The murder for which Boyleston > lust suffer was one of the most at- " ocious in the history of the State. In , lie early summer of last year young 'aiming was found dead in a road i Barnwell County and was suposed to have been shot from amush. Boyleston was indicted in June of vSt year and the jury returned a erdict of guilty. A motion for a ew trial was made by Boyleston's torneys upon the ground that there as a total absence of evidence, nn. f I' i which the verdict could have been ised, that the testimony showed inclusively that although the defenint had been at or near the place -r here the dead body was found in. e early part of the killing, yet at he had left the place and there is absolutely no evidence of any aractor showing his return to the ace and that the testimony as to e tracks and the trailing of the tunds was vague and indefinite, unrtain, and not sufficient to connect e defendant with the homicide. The motion for a new trial was erruled by the judge in the case d Boyleston was sentenced to lraisonment for his lifetime in the nitentiary. He appealed the case tht^ supreme court, which has just ndered its decision confirming the tlon of the circuit court in refusing tyleston a new trial, and he will ve to spend the balance of his days the State Penitentiary. Boyleston a young white man and so was his dim, Fanning. All Hope Is Gone. All hope that the missing United ite navy tug Nina, which left Nor- ^ 1, .... -n-t " - r n. wu run. o Mound for Boston with souls aboard, is still afloat has en abandoned by the navy depart nt and the warships which for o days have been searching for 5 Nina were ordered to discontintheir hunt. The Aiken Sentinel. The Aiken Recorder has been takover by the Sentinel Publishing mpany and its name changed to i Aiken Sentinel, which will bo > ted by Messrs. Robt. M. Ilitt and r liter E. Duncan. Tho announcont is made by the editors that the itinel is to bo a "progressive, in? lendent and unbiased newspaper." Vhat is joy to the fishermen la th to the fish. Cental strength Is of quite as 3h importance to the working man well developed muscles.