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van THEY WERE HUNG Twt White lea Lyachd at Tanpa, Fla.f Far Sheetiag a White Mai. PROMINENT ITALIANS ? Were the Victim* of the Lawless Bftob.??They Had Been Arrested and Were Being Cai'ried to Bur racks When Small Mob Hulted the J Conveyance and Procured Tlicm. While being transported to the oounty jail Tues-day night about nine o'clock at Tampa, Fla., Castenge FIccarotta and Angelo Albano, two prominent Italians, who have made themselves conspicuous in the cigar strike here, were taken from deputy sheriffs at Howard and Grand Central avenues, hurried to a heavily wooded tract nearby and hanged to J the same limb. Both men were arrested about six i o'clock in the afternoon by a deputy sheriff charged with being accessor- | les to the shooting of J. D. Easterling, the bookkeeper of Bustillo Brothers and Diaz several days ago. They were locked up in the west Tampa barracks for a short time and after nine o'clock were taken out, 1 1 - .1 | | placed in a hack ana srurteu towards the county jail in Tampa. They were accompanied by Deputy Sheriffs Evuns and Bryan. When { the hack in which the four men were ' riding reached Howard and Grand 1 Central avenues a squad of armed ' men, estimated in numbers from 5 0 to 75 halted the party. The officers ' were told to get out, and the driver ordered to turn around. The pris- 1 oners, handcuffed to each other, were then ordered to alight. As the two prisoners were marched off the two officers hurried to the nearest telephone and sent a mes- 1 sago to police headquarters. When Police Chief Woodward ar- : Ived at the scene no one was in Sight. He was greeted with the gruesome sight of the dangling bodies in the moonlight. A hasty examination was made but there was no clue upon which the officers could proceed. The two deputy sherics, when questioned stated that they believed the lynching party was composed of Italians and Cubans, and would be able to identify - m ii ts 1V, ^^.,,1,1 1,^, HOIDO Ol tuoui 11 iuo; wuiu uc . brought face to face with them. iWhen the bodies were cut down at 11 o'clcok it was found that the necessity for hanging both to the same limb arose when the mob failed in an effort to sever the chain connecting the handcuffs. Ficcarotto had hif pipe gripped firmly in his teeth and wore his hat. Following the discovery of the bodies wild excitement reigned. At midnight a crowd estimated at 2,000 persons had gathered and the real tensity of feeling, resultant from the strike now on in Tampa was evidenced. ' Ficarrotta and Albano, it is charged, have made themselves conspicuous recently in the labor troubles between the manufacturers and cigar makers. 'Marshal Logan, of the West Tampa force, stated that he has an ( eye witness who will testify that Al- j bano was the man who fired the shot which seriously wounded J. D. Easterling, and that Ficarrotta was a j conspicuous member of the crowd gathered in front of the Bustillo * brothers factory at the time of the assault. Eight months ago Ficarrotta was J tried on a charge of murdering his uncle, G. Ficarrotta, a prominent wholesale dealer of West Tampa. He was acquitted for lack of sufficient 1 evidence, and as he was being carried to jail Tuesday night he made the re- ! mark that he had escaped hanging on a charge of murder, and that he supposed he would escape on this minor charge. The police do not believe that the ' execution of these two Italians has any bearing on the local striko situation, alleging that It is rather the result of recent feuds between certain elements of the local Italian colony. Deputy Sheriff Keaggin, however, who arrested the two men earlier in the evening, stated that he was approached by a number of people who asked at what time the two men would be sent to the county jail. Shoots Little Brother. At Amorlcus, Ga., seven year old Johnnie Medlin, clim'bed up to the mantel in his father's home Saturday, took his father's pistol which *. ~ -* * V. 1 1 1 J 1 uv iuuuu meic, i;iiiu.ut'u uuwu nuu put a bullet through the body of his 22-months-old brother, who was alone with him in the room. The baby died almost instantly. The children had been left playing alone for a few minutes. ? Daring ltobbery. Four masked robbers, all believed to be white men, Saturday night entered the home of Stuart Southers, at Wytheville, Va., beat his wife, tied her to a bedpost, stole $700, that was hidden in a mattress and escaped. Southers was absent from home. He does not believe in banks. * THE WAGES OF SIN A MAN SHOOTS WOMAN FRIEND AND HANGS HIMSELF. Mysterious Double Tragedy Is En* ncted in Cleveland, Ohio, Hotel on Thursday. As the end of a close acquaintanceaMrk of unknown duration, B. Yat on |/ V* ? .. es, a wealthy Detroit business man Thursday shot and seriously wounded Mrs. Fred Singer in a Rocky River wine room and two hours later hanged himself in the county jail at Cleveland, Ohio. Thursday night the woman's attorney, Frank Billman, was closeted with Yates' two sons for several hours. The result of the interview was not given out, and the three refused to discuss the shooting or its cause. The young men, A. W. and H. F. Yates, hurried to Cleveland from Detroit as soon as tho news of the shooting reached them, and the body of their father was shortly afterwards identified as it lay in a private morgue. Yates was 4 8 years of age and married. Ho was chairman of the board of directors of the Business 1 ? " I MOI1S fU 011SU Illg V_,uui yuiij , vji awtrlot, was owner and manager of a hotel and possessed extensive lumber holdings near Bradford, Out. It is to to this latter place that his body will be removed by special permit of 1 the coroner's jury. 1 Mrs. Singer, formerly a resident of 1 Detroit, but lately residing in a ' Cleveland hotel, is the wife of a traveling salesman, and is related by '< marriage to men prominent in Cleve- ! land affairs. 1 The couple spent Wednesday afternoon and evening in an automo- ( bile. At midnight Thursday night < they went to a road house at Rocky Kiver, a western suburb of the city. Four hours later a quarrel occurred in a grill room across the street from '< the place first visited. Mrs. Singer, according ?to the barkeeper on duty, ordered a taxicab by telephone against Yates' protest, and ten min- ' utes later the shooting occurred. Mrs. Singer was shot through the back and through both legs. A policeman and the barkeeper disarmed the man. "I fired two of the five shots at myself, but missed," Yates told Marshal Roy Martin, according to that officer. While the woman was borne to a Cleveland jail, and there he hanged Cleveland pail, and there he hanged himself to a low iron rod in the wash room, using his handkerchief as a noose. Considerable mystery surrounds the relations of the man and woman, who have been acquainted, it is ad- i mitted, for some time. She has been estranged from her husband for months. Her condition is reported 1 at the hospital as serious, but it is added that she will recover. She i was unable to make a statement, it was announced. ? POLITICAL REFLECTIONS. i rraveling Men Say Democrats Will ' Sweep the Country. ' i In his letter to The State from he West Zach McGhee says Illinois lid nothing surprising. Boutell, one < )f the most scholarly men in th? 1 louse, and one of the most subser- 1 /ient adorers of Cannon, was defeat- c ?d for the nomination in the Repubican primary. He says he will run 1 is an independent candidate. That < neans the strong probability of a t Democrat in his place. It is a curious thing that these Itepubliafens, j leretofore so shrewd about ajuch 1 natters, should in their quarrels ] forget that there is a Democratic ] larty. I Jamee R. Manning, another Can- 1 ion lieutenant, was renominated, i beating two opponents at a clip, but < that only makes his seat doubtful 1 for Mann happens to hold a seat i which represents a district much in- i clined to insurgency. Ho will, however, in all likelihood, be reelected, Money will talk. Everybody is talking of the somewhat astounding result in Maine, although traveling men say it is not astounding to them. They say the Democrats are going to sweep the country like a tornado in November, and that this Maine business is but a circumstance. The Republican insurgent leaders at Colorado Springs heard of the election in Maine after the meeting the other night. I was walking to the hotel with some of them. "It vindicates the insurgents' position," they agreed. "The only salvation for the Republican party is in the Progressive movement." ? w ? Gantt Goes Free. Claude C. Gantt, of Swansea, was acquitted by a jury at Lexington on Thursday for the murder of Fred Caughman on the streets of Swansea on January 29, last. The Jury remained out one hour. Later Gantt was convicted on the charge of carrying concealed weapons and was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or serve 30 day in the county jail. The fine was paid and Gantt was immediately released. SIGN OF THE TIMES REPUBLICAN PARTY TOO LONG IN POWER. Democrat* Practically Certain Now to Control the House and a Faint Hope of Senate. It begins to look as If the people have made up their minds to have an accounting at the hands of the Republican party, which has been in power entirely too long for the country's good. In fact, it has been in power much longer than any party should be allowed to remain in power, if we want a clean, honest administration of affairs. Here is a eiimmintr nn of the uolitical events ? I' ? - ? of the year: C. C. Atkinson, Democrat, was elected to Congress from Missouri on February 1, 1910, by a plurality of 3,117, the Democratic plurality in 1908 being only 1,995. Eugene N. Foss, Democrat, was elected to congress from 'Massachusetts on March 2 2, 1910, by a plurality of 5,640, in a district that had gone Republican two years before by over 10,000 majority. James S. Havens, Democrat, was elected to congress from New York over Boss Aldrich in April, 1910, by a plurality of 5,831, in a district that gave a large Republican vote in the election of 1908. In the recent election in Maine , that State went Democratic for the first time in over fifty years, electing the governor, two congressmen and the legislature, which will elect a Democratic United States Senator and Democratic State officers. Be iuf^n\; oo f vii vi?v |/mi v vi v?? v |/w|/?v w abandon what they term the "howling farce" of prohibition, and return to some saner way of regulating the sale of alcholic drinks. Some of the strongest antl-dispeneary men of former days are interesting themselves In behalf of the present effort to have a vote and, It is said, that the petitions are being more readily signed a this time, than when an effort was made about two years ago, to have an election on the question. Four Men Drown in Wreck. Four men were drowned and two others barely escaped death when the power boat Comfort was disabled and foundered off Plum Island, near Newburyport, Mass., Saturday. * WRITES OF THE SHOOTING MAYOR GAYNOR RELATES HIS ( IMPRESSION OF IT. ' After Being Shot W?8 Conscious of / Terrible Metallic Roar Which Fill- ( ed Head Almost to Bursting. ? ^ M. 'Mayor William j. uaynur, ui i>ew York, in a letter to his sister, Miss Mary E. Gaynor, of Utica, New York, which is printed in the Evening Post, tells in an interesting manner of his impression at the time he was shot on the steamship Kaiser Wilheim Der Grosse. The mayor says that he has not read a line of what has been published of the shooting, nor ' does he remember the name of the ' man who shot him. Going over the incident of the shooting, Mayor Gaynor, after stating that Robert Adamson, his secretary, pointed out that the ship was dressed with flags for him, said: "My next consciousness was of a terrible metallic roar in my head. It filled my head, which seemed as . though it would burst open. It swell- ' ed to the highest pitch and then fell. [ and then rose again, and so alternated until it subsided into a continuous buzz. It was sickening, but my stomach did not give way. I was meanwhile entirely sightless. "T do not think I fell, .for when I became conscious I was on my feet. My sight gradually returned. I be- ] came conscious that I was choking. ] Blood was coming into my mouth ( and I tried to swallow it so as those around me would not see it. But I ^ found I could not swallow and then knew my throat was hurt. It seemed as though it were dislocated. I j struggled to breathe through my mouth, but could net, and thought I was dying of strangulation. I kept thinking all the time the best thing to do. 1 "I was not a bit afraid to die, if that was God's will to me. I said to myself, just as well now as a few years from now. "In some w&y I happened to close ^ my mouth tight and found I breathed perfectly through my nose. I then believed I could keep from smothering, but I kept choking, and my mouth kept opening to cast out ^ the blood. Though the thing had not entered my head that morning I wap not surprised when I reali/.ed 1 was shot. I had had a feeling for some weeks that I might be assaulted on account of the annoymous threats I was getting by mail." Mayor Gaynor, in the letter, scor- v ed certain newspapers for the mau- J ner in which they had criticised him, \ saying that "the time is at hand c when these journalistic scoundrels have got to stop or get out, and I v am ready now to do my share to a that end." e Robert Adamson, the mayor's sec- c rotary, said to-night that the mayor's condition continues to improve, ' and that he plans to return to his 1 desk at City Hall on October 3. t ? t GEORGIANS IN FATAL DUEL. t ? Bullets of Each End Lives of Both. Wives Witnesses. P t Stopping their buggies when they e met each other in the public roi-d n near Pelhani, Ga., Wednesday, Char- 1( les Tate and John Marchant, both ^ h prominent men of this county, fought ^ fi duel with j)istols, both dropping e fo the ground dead after half dozer v shots had been fired. The wives of ^ the men sat in the buggies while the c tight was in progress and saw their f( husbands kill each other. ^ Tate was a bridegroom of two months and his bride was the wi *ow ^ of Frank Marchant, a brother of the v man whom he killed and who killed t him. The fight grew out of an old grudge, which at first was hscween c Mrs. Tate's first husband and her ^ second husband, later, it is said, be- ^ ing intensified between Tate and Jno. a Marchant, who opposed his sister-in- ^ law's marriage with Tate, and took ^ up the old quarrel. t When they met Wednesday Mar- v chant called Tate to his buggy. The a men exchanged hardly a word when ^ the shooting began. Tate fired three t times, every bullet finding its mirk. c While the bullets were cutting into his body, Marchant fired twice, one j bullet striking Tate's hand and the j other passing through his heart. The ^ wldowo called aid and the bodie3 g were removed. It was said that Mar- , chant lived a few minutes after he j - '? J *-? 1-1 V. t ? I reil lO llie grouiiu. X)C?iueo ma wuc I ho leaves two small children. The | men lived four miles from Pelham, j owned good farms, were of proml- j nent families and well respected In ( that section. ? <? Hurt in Oar Panic. One woman was fatally injured, i and a number of other passengers were more or less seriously hurt as the result of a panic incident to a controller box bursting into flames on an electric car at Knoxville, Tenn., Friday night. ? ? Lightning Kills Four. Lightning killed four persons duringn a storm in the vicinity of Eastonvllle and Elbert, 22 miles northeast of Colorado Springs, Col., Friday evening. sides two members of the State Supreme Court will be appointed by the Democratic Governor. The Democrats carried about four-fifths of the counties in the State. United States Senator Julius C. Burrows, "stand-pat" Republican, was defeated in the Michigan primaries by Representative Charles E. fownsend, progressive Republican. "Stand-pat" Republican senators who have announced their retirement are: Eugene Hale, of Maine. Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island. Frank Flint, of California. Samuel il. Piles, of Washington. Regular machine Republican representatives in congress who have been defeated for renomination are: Duncan McKinley, James McLachlin, of California. John A. T. Hull, of Iowa. Charles S. Scott, James M. Miller, William A. Calderhead and William A. Reeder, of Kansas. Ralph D. Cole, of Ohio. William H. Stafford, of Wisconsin. Jas. A. Tawney, of Minnesota. Joseph Sibley, machine Republican, forced to retire from ticket in Pennsylvania after buying his nomination for Congress. Cannon Democrats defeated for renomination are: Leonidas Livingston, William M. Howard, of Georgia. The Republicans carried Vermont by the smallest majority since 1 872. La Follette, progressive, was relominated for Senator from Wisconsin by a majority of 40,000 over his 'stand-pat" opponent. iBass, progressive Republican canlidate for governor carried the New 1 Hampshire primaries by a vote near 1 y double that of the regular machine ] candidate. j Thomas Leary was elected to the i Vermont legislature, the first Demo- < jrat from Crittenden county in fifty- i ,wo years. I In the wake of such significant 1 signs as the above we are looking 'or a regular Democratic deluge in ] Movember. The people do not pro- ( bose to be plundered any longer and i Lhey are looking to the Democrats ] Tor relief. If the party can regulate , its members who voted for any part 3r parcel of the Republican protec- j five tariff, and give the people the relief they jeed, it has a chance of remaining in power for many years. ? THEY WANT IT HACK. A Movement in Darlington to Vote on the Dispensary. A special dispatch to The News and Courier says petitions addressed to the county supervisor, praying for an election on the question of dispensary or no dispensary, are being circulated and freely signed In Darlington county. Thero are those who profess to see in the recent election returns in that county a willImirn/tDa nr\ ?Via niirt r?f tha nn/tnlo tft rFIRST NATIC ft CONWA1 9 CAPITAL STOCK flt SURPLUS PROFITS || TOTAL ASSESTS ^ DIRECT) !J. A. ?McDermott, John C B. G. Collins, H. L. B M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua Successor to t^e Bank of Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent dev< Republic. Backed by the C United States Bonds, we are p tomers any reasonable acconin |l H. A. SPIVEY, Cashier. BANK OF Conwa' i Has largest capital and surplus of a :han the combined capital and surpl CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSITC DIREC Etobert B. Scarborough, 3. L. Buck, >?orge J. Holiday, iVe offer our customers every acc< | will justify, and we s iobert b. scarborough, d President. 1 We continue to pay 5 per SHOWS UP TEDDY ln issue of veracity raiser by mrs. b. stoker. ihe Challenges Roosevelt's Truthfulness in the Archbishop Ireland Controversy. The resignation of Bellamy Storer, is ambaesador to Austria-Hungary vas transmitted to Washington on larch 7, 1906, and was accepted, lis resignation was requested by the >tate Department, and it later developed that serious difficulty had irisen between President Roosevelt inh th? nmhfissarior. drimarily be ause the latter had failed to answer l communication from the President. The communication enclosed a leter to Mrs. Storer, calling upon her o give a written promise not to inerfere in Vatican politics. The point at issue was that Mrs. Jtorer had used the official position f her husband to forward the aplointment of Archbishop Ireland to he cardinalate. The Storers respond- ? d to the action of the State Departnent by giving out for publication etter? from Col. Roosevelt when he r-as Governor of New York, in which le expressed high appreciation of irchhishop Ireland. Mrs. Storer in xplaining this letter said it had been written to her so she might show it o the Papal secretary in order to onvince the Vatican of the friendly eelings of Americans toward Archishop Ireland's policy. Following the sending of a letter y Mr. Storer to President Rooseelt, members of the cabinet and of he Senate committee on foreign reations, the President gave out the orrespondent between him and Ainlassador and Mrs. Storer in which ie said that Mr. Storer's refusal to .nswer his letters and the publicaion of various private letters justiied that ambassador's removal, and hat he (the President), had stated vith absolute clearness his position, md the reason it was out of the luestion for him, as President, to ry to get any archbishop made a ardinal. Now, after four years of silence, drs. Bellany Storer comes back at < ioosevelt, by writing a letter which vas published Thursday in the ipringfield Republican. This letter vas written from France on Hentom>er 6, and in it Mrs. Storer reviews he controversy of her husband and herself with Roosevelt, concerning the former President's alleged authorization of the former ambassador to Austria-Hungary to visit Pope Pius X, and ask him as a personal favor to the President of the Unted States to make Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, a cardinal. letters written by the archbish op in 1903 and 1904 hitherto unpublished are quoted by Mrs. Storer to show that at repeated Interviews in the White House between the archbishop and the President Col. Roosevelt acknowledged that he had commanded Mr. Storer to act as his personal envoy at the Vitican in bohalf of the archbishop. Col. Roosevelt has hitherto publicly denied that Mr. Storer was ever authorized to represent him in this manner, and 77777VV97nA^ )NAL BANK | f, 8. C. Z $25,000.00 y ^ 2,500.00 A 125,000.0# ML rORS: 9 . Spivey, D. T. McNeill, A uck, W. R. J^ewis D. lT I ttlebaum, D. A. Spivey. 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