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? . So. .v ' .' v,' ''? % v'c->v *X?:Vs&. 3s"' HE mn HIM I ID I 11JU 1/11/ 1111V1 UI One Rich Youog Man Found by Another in His Palatial Home ALONE WITH HIS WIFE And Ho Proceeds to Tio Him and Carve Him With a Knife in the Most Fiendish Manner and Contin^ ed to do so Until Stopped by a Policeman. Finding Jere F. Lillis, a millionaire local banker, in his home at Kansas City, Mo., when he arrived unexpectedly alone with his wife at an early hour Sunday morning John P. Cudahy, a wealthy packer, and son of Michael Cudahy, the Chicago millionaire, committed an assault on the man, which led to his arrest on v a charge of disturbing the peace. J Lillis was pretty badly done up. Cuts inflicted with a knife, are on his face, limbs and arm. The cuts have been made in criss-cross fashion. Before cutting Lillis, Cudahy is said to have hound him with a strong rope. One of Cudahy's chaffeurs was present. Neighbors heard Idllis screams and groaning in the Cudahy home and called the police. Ten minutes later Patrolman Underwood hurried to the Cudahy home which is located in a fashionable part of the city. mi... I'....... ,1^.^.. ,?na J lit' 1 I Ulll UUUI nun u|icu. i v ping into tiie hall he heard screams* ! coining from a parlor. Then came groans and cries for mercy. Underwood found three nun were in the room, which was brilliantly lighted. Prostrate on the floor lay Lillis, half nude and bound with a rope. His lower limbs was bare. His few remaining clothes were bloody. Above him stood Cudahy. Me was in cor rect evening dress, except that he wore no coat. His sleeves were rolled irp. Blood was on his hand. At Ills side stood his chaffeur. 'None of the men noticed Underwood. Lillis groaned and tugged feebly at the cords that bound him. "Dont' do it Jack; please don't do it," he pleaded. Rushing over to the trio, Underwood addressed Cudahy. "What, does this mean?" he queried . He has ruined my homo. He's ruined my home," said Cudahy, turning to the officer and making no attempt at resistance. After seeing that Lillis had boon started to a hospital, the policeman took Cudahy to t'.io police station. The packer gave a cash bond and was released. ' From the beginning to the end of the affair Mrs. Cudahy was not in 1 evidence. Since Cudahy's marriage to Miss Edna Cowin, who was a society hollo, of Omaho, on December ' 18, 1809, the family has been prominent. On the day of the marriage Cudahys father made him manager of his Kansas City packing interests. V" After a three months honeymoon, which included trips on special trains and the occupancy of a palace in Italy, the couple returned and purchased one of the finest homes in Kansas City. The city readily received them. The Cudahys have five children. Lillis is a bachelor, 47 years old. Ho is manager of the Western Exchange Bank and prominent socially. r 5^S? Shte. %i ?$4?*S ff^ A^#3 cntiiic Authority s demonstrated that ot two ives ol bread* one raised 1 th Royal Baking Powder* mm ? d the other with alum bak- JrQIft I powder, tho Royal raises! jp^ if is 32 gtcr ocntm ntoro jcsliblo than tho other. Avoid Alum WHAT THE WIFE SAYS || MRS. CUDAHY MAKES A PUBLIC STAT EME NT. ' Admits Taking Automobile Hides aiul l>iiiin^ With Lit lis When Her | Husband Was Away. Mrs. Cudahy makes a statement In I reference to the sensational happenings in her home at Kansas City. She declared that her husband's attack upon Mr. Lillis was the culmination of a long line of brutal treatment, and his last act would result in the seperation of herself and husband. "It was all caused by an automobile, a run-about that Mr. Lillis had ordered," she said. Lillis received a run-about last Friday, Mrs. Cudahy declared, and she told him she wanted the first ride in it. she told Mr. Cudahy's chauffeur, she said, of the fact that she was to have the first ride in the new run-about, "incidentally," she said, "I remarked that Mr. Cudahy was going out of town, down to Grainfleld, Kan., 1 believe,, to look at some cattle." She said she took a ride Friday afternoon and again Saturday afternoon. They went to the Baltimore Hotel for dinner, she said, where they | stayed only long enough to eat, and then went out. They went riding in , the evening also, she said, and upon their return to the Cudahy home Lillis was about to drive away when , she invited him in. t "We went to the library down- , stairs," she said, "and had been talk- , ins only a few minutes when Mr. j Cudahy rushed in the room. Ho ( was accompanied by Fenn (.Johann Moss) the chauffeur. They seized t Mr. Lillis and began beating him." f Mrs. Cudahy declared that her ( husband beat Mr. Lillis over the head < with an electric searchlight, about v. eight inches long and about the size j of a man's wrist. ( "That was what he hit me with too," she declared, displaying a bad- ( ly swollen eye, colored a deep pur- j pie. \ At some length she then gave a f detailed statement of the attack. j She said she believed they would try ., to kill Lillis; and "I though they would try to kill me, too," she said. Having finished tying Lillis, she v said, "Mr. Cudahy came tearing up- (] stair. He struck me over the head and in the left eye, and you see what ^ he did," raising her handkerchief j to her swollen eye. He rushed down- v stairs, she continued, "and then I r guessed he began to use the knife ,0 on Mr. Lillis." 8 ? ^ A Good Fish Story. Hero* is a fish story of tho 101 ft crop published by tho St. James S Budget. "While Mr. McRorie, an an- n OTIai* loH 1 n T /V/.L ' niu> tmuiii^ i /ucn i <iy, was nsning o In the Killln waters with two rods, > I wo salnvon took the halts simultan- 1 eously and l>oth were secured. The "I salmon /welshed sevente*m pounds ji each." Can any of our fishermen t beat that record. e Hold Up Hill. Representative Rucker of Missouri ranking Democratic member of the 1 House committee on the election of 1 the President and vice-President, as 1 serts. despite repeated demands by f the Democrats that the committee ho I called to consider the measure, that fi the bill requiring the publication of r campaign contribution is being held i up in the committee. c ROYAL Ij king Powder || enders the I ood more I iigestible 1 and tpj wholesome 1 m UtfiMei "olulely " ? w g# fg >>** V,B V* ?i >.y . >*/*i V\v/. ,*--A*;'' < C l! .\:fr'''*-' '' *.V F^V*}'-'1^ * :'??*S B -.irS V -V- > ' ' : v.' f CAN THEY DO IT? [fforts Being Made to Wrest Control of Cotton Production from "?i nurno nr tttr paittm 'AiunLitd ur itiL auuin n Germany and England Persistent Work is Hcing Done for the Itupid I)evelo|mient of Cotton Growing in Their Different Colonies With the Hope of Being Independent. In commenting 011 the eiTorts of he foreigners to enter extensively nto the production of cotton to av>id the American market the Baltinore Sun says: No doubt the South's monopoly >f cotton production is fairly secure, >ut American planters must not hink that no effort is being made to vrest it from them. In Germany ind England very persistent work is icing done for the development of sotton growing in colonial posessions. Cotton manufacturing employers md employes have come together in freat Britain to collect money for otton growing. It has been arrangid to collect two cents a month from ;ach cotton worker in all mills and vorksliops in the cotton districts for ifteen months, beginning with this nosent month. A committee in each town and disrlct will look after the collections md the hope is that Africa and cls?'a here cotton growing can he so ex>anded that'the price of America'' :otton will he kei)L in check. At the meeting of the Internaional Cotton Federation at Frankort-on-Main last October, it was desided to co-operate with the cotton growers of India, and Mr. Armo Schmidt was sent to India to ascerain the possibilities of extending iotton growing fhere. Mr. Schmidt has Just returned to Germany after a tour of 1,000 miles hroughout India, in the course of vhich he succeeded in affiliating the otton associations of Horn hay, Cawn>ore, Agra, Dilhl, Calcutta, Madras md South India with the internationil federation. Experts assured Mr. Schmidt that vith in four years India could proluce 10,000,000 bales of cotton. Such . quantity, the Germans think, would lave a powerful influence in checkng American speculation. This ear's Indian crop is estimated to he icarly half as large as the American rop and the quality of the lihro of ome of it is very good. Sheriff Dies. Deputy Sheriff Dunn, who with It ate Senator Travis and Assemblynan Kitchin, was shot down on one f the principal sheets of Scotland Jeck, N. C., on Friday by E. 10 ?owell, a merchant died on Monday, "ravis and Kitchin continue to im>rove. The removal of Powol: to he stato prison has had a quieting ffoct. Result of ft Quarrel. As tho result of a family quarrel n which hia wife took aides with icr father, Wm, Davidson, a farmer, iving near Ithaca, Mich., struck hia ather-ln-law, Julius Toet, with the iutt of a shot gun, killing him initantly. Seizing a razor, the man silt his wife's throat and after niakng sure that she was dead, blew >ut his own brains. BURNED TO DEATH M118. IIAIIHI KT lit BY MKKTS \ THAGIC FATK. Went into Burning House After Boiiifx Warned Not to l>o So uiul Was Burned to Dentil. Mrs. Harriet Irby, widow of the late John II. irby, of Marlbotto county, was burned to death at tlie home of her sister, Mrs. W. F. Kinney, near Blenheim, Wednesday morning, between (> and 7 o'clock. Mrs. Irby's body was almost completely destroyed and Mrs. Dudley and Mrs. Kinney were saved from a like fate by a faithful old family servant, Pleasant Gibson. It seems that the three ladies were alone when the lire was discovered. W. L. Kinney, a son of Mr. W. P. Kinney, went over to his uncle's on business before breakfast, and the lamp was left burining in his room. Mrs. Irby was in the back porch, and Mrs. Dudley was in a front room. Mrs. Irby went into the burning house again. She was warned not to enter again but could not be kept back. It is thought that she fainted, or in some manner fell unconscious. Mrs. Dudley was painfully burned in an effort to rescue her sister, and she and Mrs. Kinney were held from the burning building by the negro. The terrible news was a shock to tho entire community. Mrs. Irby, a member of a large and influential family, was respected.and revered by everyone. She leaves a brother, John It. Townsend, and two sisters, Mrs. Dudley and Mrs. Kinney; also four children. MAKKS ItlGIl ItKWAItP. To the Man Who Saved His Daughter From Death. The saving of the life of May Jcnnintrs. near Alnino ? w ? W , X- v; A(in, IlilO made a millionaire of Francis B. Stromo, formerly a tramp. Strome is about 50 years of age, a machinist, for many years a resident of a small town in Illinois. He met with reverses, and after the death of his wife t/ook to drink. He was heating his way westward trying to make California and was hanging around Alpine, Tex., trying to catch a train when the girl was crossing the railroad track just as the train approached. The child hecame bewildered and would have been killed had Strome not jumped on the track and snatched her clear of the rails, just in time. He disappeared, but the father of the girl had him located about 50 miles away and brought him hack to the ranch and kept him at the place for sevoral days, learning something of his history before telling him what he was going to do for him. Strome agreed. to_settle down and care for his property. Last week, Col. Sam Jennings, the cattle king, filed ?i document for record transferring a half interest in his 40,000 acre ranch and 25,000 cattle and all the buildings of the Valvedere ranch in Jeff Davis county to Strome. The property is said to be worth between $700,000 and $1,000,000. * ?, | TBIKD TO POISON IIIM. I "Fixed" Boils Left at the Door of a Preacher. I),. If li .1! 1 " ?. ... , , 1 (I nw III l? II , uutTiur <31 the State Laboratory of Hygiene, completed an analysis which showe I that a hag of rolls left a few days ago at the home, of the Rev. A. .1. Voeglin, of the Manhattan Park Presbyterian Church, of Irvington, N. J., had been freely sprinkled with white arsenic. In the judgment of the chemist there was sufiicient poison on each roll to cause the death of four persons. The rolls were left a few days ago at the door of the clergyman. Th^v were sprinkled with a white substance somewhat resembling flour, yet differing sufficiently to arouse the suspicion of the Rev. Mr. Voeglin, who reported the matter to the local authorities. ? THK FERTILIZER TAX. Is tlio Greatest Ever Collected in Its History. The State treasurer's receipts of the fertilizer tax are heavier to date than for any similar period in the twenty years such a tax has been collected. The total tax up to We lie sday was $141,762.38, over $2 bOO ahead of the same period last year when the high water mark was reached. The tax collected so far this year is greater than for any one entire year up in 1 906. The total 1 i i r4.4- ? ?? ? ? ^vuar was $202,741.31. Two weeks ago the receipts to date w re $2f?,000 al>ove the same period last year. Hocnnso Ho Was Scolded. A scolding by his school teacher was more than Guy Moses, of Maplehill, Kansas., fourteen years old, could endure and he killed himself. Tfis parents found his body when they went to call him for breakfast. "I don't care to live* becauso teacher scolded me," said a note left by the b?y- , It a:. 4 Bank of A OONWA J OaplUl Stock V I)<|N?itfl A Total Anita 2? I>IKK< A J. A. McDerinott, J A T. McNeill, B. G. C 2? tlebaum, Hal. L. I A The oldest Hank in llori if&L olina. Associated with, (ho ri the past decade. Our. policy the "Independent Hepublie." I ([Ijl to our customers every . ream J /|\ tent with sound hanking. We fals, firms and corporations. 1). A. BHIVKY, rp \ ICO-I'resident. HANK OF Conwa CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS. SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIRHC Robert B. Scarborough, II. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, Wo continue to jay T) per cent intere it your account UOHKUT B. 8CAKBO|{OtKiIl, II Pit KSIDtHT. ; 1 1U N ON HANK ION 1>S. Depositors Withdrew Over Two Million Dollars. After a run such as has never been known in Cleveland, Ohio, the depositors of the Society for Savings regained their equilibrium and Friday afternoon the panic was over. In the two days and a half that tho run lasted, $1,250,000 was with drawn at the rate of $1,225 a minute. As the majority of the deposits affected were small ones, the, record made by the bank in handling the withdrawals is regarded as remarkable. Spurred by the offer of $0,000 in rewards, $1,000 of which is personally offered by former Gov. Myron T. Herrick, president of the bank, thousands of amateur and numbers of professional detectives are searching for the originators of the groundless rumors on which the run was based. Tt was said that the bank officers have practically located the source of the canard. * HKVKX MINIMIS KILLH!>. j l Suffocated by Gas in .Mine H.vplosion; One Man Mscape<I. Seven miners lost their lives in the number live shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company near Wilkesbarrc, Pa., Saturday night in an explosion of gas. There were 8 men in the party and one of them was away from the scene of th" ex- ' plosion getting some toe.Is and was not injured. All the dead were suffocated. The officials have no theory as to Ihe cause of the explosion. When the bodies were brousr.ht up there were many pathetic scenes around the mouth of the shaft where the rela* lives and friends of the victims had garnered. General manager Huber said that the explosion did not cause much damage. The eighth man in the party left his fellcnv workers to j get the tools about five minutes he- 1 fore the explosion occurred. Several of the rescuers had narrow escapes from the fire damp that filled the mine. UHNAT COKN STATU. . ! South Carolina Stands at the (lead of Tlieni All. Dr. H. T. Galloway, chief of the: bureau of plant industry of the department of agriculture, the fore-1 most authority on the subject in the! country, says that South Carolina) is the best corn growing Stato in the Union. So the doctor told Representative Johnson a short while ago. "Other States produce more corn than South Carolina, it is true," says Mr. Johnson, "but what Doctor Galloway -meant was that In all , the great corn contests the contestants in South Carolina produced , more corn to the acre than those of any other State, not excepting the great States of tho Middle West." J Slide Down Stairs. At New York eleven year old John Hughes is in the hospital with a fractured skull, owing to his mother j commanding him to make haste, j Sent on an errand, ho undertook to , slide down the banister from the third floor with a tin can in his hand and fell three stories. He will probably die. Clifford Pinchot is conserving all our national resources except the ( lemon crop, which is fnst being depleted by Secretary Ballinger. % Conway i v s* ?* X 9no.ooo.oo JJ ino.ooo.oo ? 250,000.00 M tSr 7TOHS 5? tno. C. Splvey, D. Jti 'nlliiiK, C. P. Quntluck, L). A. Spivey. y and a pioneer In Kaatorn Car- jn 11?icl progress of our Oounty for Mk 11?is been for the upbuilding of jLi With this in view wo extend W inafilo accommodation ronsis- fl\ Noiieit the account* of iudividu- /ft i HAI,. L. HUCK, ^ Cashier. ? I HOUUY, y. S, C. $ 50 (AM* 10 odj 50 odj 110 (XX noks W. H. Lewis, \\\ A. Johnson, Will A 1' reonmn. Ft on yenrl) c!c*j < Mtb. <>! < ? t-olicL BUCK, VILI. A FKJ KMAM Vice I'iiksioknt, Cahmirr PROFESSIONAL CAltDS. 11. II. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Law, CON WAV, 8. C. G. K. ST. AM AND, Attorney at Luw Conway, 8. C. R. R. 8CARHROUGH CONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at Law. W. K. McCORD, BURGKON DKNT1H1 CONWAY, 8. C. Over Dank of Ilorry H. II. BURROUGHS ^liyn lelan mid Surueos. 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