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ALL COMES OUT Ita Confesses That He aid Fear Other Negroes Murdered Mr. Moje SO THEY COULD ROB HIM Before the Florence Jailer and a Deputy Sheriff, the Man CThargod With the Rerolting Crime, Telia of the Tragedy, and Says it Was Oooly dunned for Robbery. A dispatch to The News and Courier says the sensation in Florence on Tuesday was the confession of Clarence Hani, the negro, who was charged by the coroner's jury as being tin slayer of Mr. Elihu M. Moye, to Deputy Sheriff Edward C. liarren and to Jailer James, in liis cell at the Florence County prison late Monday afternoon, in which ho implicated four other negro men as being the ouea who slew Mr. Moye, while he kept watch in the read near- , by. All of the negroes whom Ham alleges took part In the horrible and shocking tragedy are safe behind the bars of the county prison. Here is the story of the horrible 1 crime as related by Ham: "The plan to murder Mr. ..Moye and rob him was under consideration for more J than a week, but nothing was done ' until Friday, when it was known that Mr. Moye had come to Florence to sell hogs and get money to pay of! the hands with. That night when wo gathered to murder him it was found that he had gone to Timmonsvllle to church, but we knew he would return with Mr. Howard Cole about 10 o'clock, and then it was that the details were arranged for. "The plan was thai I should keej watch in the road and when tlu team crossed the bridle, near tin house of Mr. Moye, i was to give tin alarm by whistling. "In tlie party were Alex Welling Ion, William Burroughs, Henry James, Seuion Asking, and iuyseif. "When Mr. Moye was to enter the house, Wellington, Burroughs, James and Sen ion were to knock him down and rob him, and I was to keep watch and give the alarm if anyone came up or attempted to pass. "When Mr. Moye and Mr. Colt crossed the bridge I whistled, but they did not hear me, as they were in Moye's house plundering in the dark. "I stood near the tobacco barn in the road, and when Mr. Moye anu Mr. Cole drove up to the front of the house Mr. Cole stopped his horse and Mr. Moye got out of the buggy. 1 could hear them talking and hearo Mr. Moye tell Mr. Cole something 1 about going to Florence next clay. "Mr. Cole drove on down the roaci : going home, and Mr. Moye started on towards the house, but stopped for a moment, then went on in. ] followed easily, and heard Mr. ' Moye put his key in the front dooi and unlock it, he then struck a match and went on In the passage, holding the match up in front ol him, into his bed room and lighten the lamp. I was standing outsidi and could see him through the glass window. "Before Mr. -Moye had gotten to the house Alex Wellington had run fai|s hand through a broken window pane and raised the sash, and after gettin? in the house opened the doo and let William Burroughs, Henry .lames and Senion Aakins in. "Wellington went in the dining room and Burroughs went into thf closet. 1 did not know where James and Ask ins were when he was inurdoed, but they were round behind the house or in the house." "After lighting the lamp, Mr. Moye took off Ills overcoat and threw It on the foot of the bed; he then took off his coat and vest and hung them up, but lay his watch on the bureau. He was lp the act of removing his tie when Wellington 1 ? ? i. ? .1:i.... 1 lUI'UVT UJJtUl l 1HJ Ullllllfi iUUUI UVMVI < and fired one shot from Mr. Moye's : gun, which struck Mr. Moye in tlie ' stomach. Mr. Moye throw his hands J over his bowels and started to run 1 out of the house when Wellington fir ed a second load at him, but uever 1 toH him. "After getting out on the piazza, ' Mr. Moye fell dead and Wellinitm came on out and stepped over him | with one foot on either side of his body, stooped down and searched , bis pockets, but only found about two dollars. "Wellington then said that no would make sure of his being deal and shot him twice more from the ; gun while lying on the lloor; one load was fired into his shoulder anu the other *nto his neck. "They all then got together in the road and talked the matter over. Wellington seemed to be uneasy about me telling the storv and gave me the $2 and Mr. Moy? '? coat and * pair of pants and pron ised that if I would not tell it he wouid go to the bank at Timmonsvllle on Saturday and get a check cashed and pay m* the $25. i "James 2nd Asldns then wont on to their home on the Cole place and Wellington, Burroughs and myself 1 com** on towards Kbenezer and : < left them at their houses. "I then went on to Ethel Wild's I I LARGE CORN CROP THIS 8TATM PRODUCED FIFTY MILLION BUSHELS. Moam Much for the Farmcn, and Pute Soutii Carolina In the List of Great Corn State**. South Carolina has produced 50,000,000 bushels of corn for 1910, according to au estimate issued by the department of agriculture, which places the corn crop for South Carolina for this year at 49,740,000 bush els. This estimate has oeeu nirniBued the United States department of agriculture. The most gratifying feature of the estimate is that average produc- I tiou of corn to the acre in this I State has increased from 1G.7 bushels to 2t bushels within a year. There was a marked increase in the j acreage of corn, the greatest in the history of the State. The exact sta-1 tistics 011 the acerage have not been prepared. The Columbia State says this tremendous crop of corn mean that' South Carolina farmers will be able i to ship corn out of the State to other sections and that more than $(>.- < 000,000 spent on corn and corn pro* ducts will he saved to the people. As has been stated railroad men familfar with the movement of corn J say that the shipments into thil State from the est have fallen off materially during the past year and ' i that they expect to haul corn out of South Carolina next year. < The corn crop last year for South Carolina was estimated at 37,000,- ; 000, which was an Increase of 8,-1 < 000,000 bushels over the year 190S. j The entire increase of corn production in the Southern States last year was 13,000,000 with 8,000,000 of. < that accredited to this State. j < There were over 3,000 boys on the < I' rniB of this State to plant an acre < of corn this year. Several hundreds i of these boys have produced over 75 s bushels of corn on one acre of land j and have been awarded certificates of merit by the State superintendent I of education and Gov. Ansel. | I More than 100 of the boys have < produced over 100 bushels on one < acre, and there are several to pro- i duce over 15? bushels. These boys j will be the farmers of the future s and the Indications point ro South ' Carolina becoming one of the lead- 1 ing corn State in the United States. I The work of the 3,000 bova has < been under the direction of the j United States farm demonstration i workers, of which Ira VV. Williams I is at the head In this State. ! < The champion boy corn grower of i the world lives in South Carolina, and he has produced 228 bushels on one acre of land. The boy is not known. He lives in the Pee Dee section of the State and is a son of ] a minister. The marvelous yield was secured on the parsonage land. The records of the boy are in Washington and are being considered by the national department of agi lc ulture, and IPs name will be announc- ?d from there within the next sever- '> il days. 1 The boy has written a story of i how he produced the great yield i which will be published. He has de- i feloped a new plan of corn growing i which may he helpful to ail Sour a i Carolina farmers. (< '1'he agitation for corn production i oinmenced in this State several fe^rs ago and there has been a atca- 1 ly in crease. No longer is the far- t ner of South Carolina contented ; with 20 bushels to the acre. The < 100-hushel to the acre farmers in j South Carolina arc numerous. To j stimulate the interest In corn pro- ( luctlon over $85,000 in prizes will i je given this year. The climax will i )e the South Atlantic States corn < 3xposttion which is to be held In t Columbia from December 5 to 8 < Tver $10,000 In prizes will be given < it the exposition. I i house, over on Mr. George Muldrow's < 1 ? ' ^ "A - ? ?I nr/v 1 4 b A ??A 1 HHCe, JlC'iU' r luri'iiiT, riiiu fiui mcio < ibout one o'clock. On my way there i [ met several men In the road and < stopped and took a drink with them i near the fork of the road, where you turn to go by Mr. L&ko Cook's place. "1 carried the clothes there and ] put them in the bureau drawer." Mr. Ilarrell has corroborated the most of the confession as made by Ham by going to the spot and making a diagram and in securing the bottle that Hani threw away that night at the spot claimed, together with the marks at the spo: where Ham stood while lie kept watch. | The only thing that Mr. Ilarrell has not ferreted out as yet It as to the position of Wellington at the time Ham claims lie fhed the second shot and feels satisfied that the man in the closet fired tbe second shot. Pearl Ham, tlie wife of Clarence Hani, and Ethel Wilds, the woman at whose house Ham stayed Saturday morning, were arrested and are also locked up to be used ns witnesses. This makes seven negroes now in Jail, five of whom will he charged with the murder and' the two women as witnesses Remember Maine, where the I)em - -i 1 l I ocraiB won a rioriuus viutury u-r i cause hut few Democrats failed to vote. To got your veto In is tlio Innl test of your Democracy. SAID HE LIED Trafeliof Mao Makes Ex-Go?. Glenn Very Warm Under Ike Collar. HE BECOMES ENRAGED When Stranger Says That AH Democratic Speakers Are Afraid of Marion Iiutler ami Informs t'lc Drummer That He'll Make lliin Swallow Some of His Teeth. A dispatch from Marion to the Charlotte Observer spreading like wildilre over the city Wednesday went the news that ex-Governor Robert B. Gl?tin, who spoke at Marlon Wednesday had become engaged in a difficulty with a traveling man on the way from the railroad station to the hotel that mornin?. It. seems that while Mr. Glenn wis engaged in conversation with a friend, that the friend had remarked that Marion Butler bad gotten of! the same train upon which the Governor came, at Morganton. In the course of the conversation that followed the friend further remarked that the Democratic speakers and the press were making it hot for Butler. Mr. Glenn replied that 't was not necessary for the speakers and the press to make it hot for Butler as he, Butler, had all he could do to defend his record in the Stat". At this junction a traveling man, Mr. W. O. Crawford, butted into the conversation and said that all the Democratic speakers in the State were afraid of Butler. Mr. Glenn replied that the man certainly did not know the situation :>r he would not dare make s ich a statement. Crawford said thV hv 'id know the situation and. that h still maintained that DemocraOr speakers were afraid of tho ex-Sen itor. 'Mr. Glenn then told the rir imi 'ci that what he had said was absolutely an untruth and that the liniiocratic speakers had met Bir'c" ir debates and that only their self-respect kept them from doing so asp.in Mr. Crawford made his Oi'izinu1 statement in stronger language whereupon the Governor told him In was a liar, and that if he repeatet It he would swallow it and also sorn. 3f his teeth. At this juncture the bus had ar rived at the hotel where Mr. Craw ford hurriedly alighted from it an* entered the hotel lobby where li registered as "John Smith," fron Virginia. STOUTS WBKK LOOTED. Burglars Hob Two Stores in Spartan burg Same Night. At Spartanburg during Frida; night burglars entered the store o A. VV. Bluer, a well known jewelei md took about $1,500 worth o: jewelry from the establishment. En ;rance wa? arrecte.i uy urea King in iock on the rear door and raising u; die bar, which held it closed. Tii? same night burglars entered Whit dngton's drug store and robbed th? :ash register, taking several dollar1 n change, which had been left there There is absolutely no clue as t( who the robbers are. They covers :helr tracks completely. From tlr jewelry store they took a numbc. if bracelets, lockets, watch chain; ind other stuff that was not place 11 the safe over night. All of tli< ither diamonds and valuables wen n the safe, which was not opened A reward of $2 00 has been offer id for the capture of the guilty par :les. The Pinkerton detective agen ;y is at work on the case and severa if their men are in Spartanbuig ai present, it is said. News of the burg lary did not spread rapidly, a; ( svery possible precaution was take iiy the police and Mr. Biber to keej Ltie affair quiet and stund a bettei chance, as they thought, to captuit [he criminal. K1LLK1) AND IXJLKHI). By the Hail roads of the Country foi the I'ast Year. "Killed, 3,804; Injured, 82,374' ?this is the casualty record of the railroads in the United States during the year ended June 30 last, accord ing to the intercalate commerce com mission Tuesday. It is an increase of 1,013 in the number killed and 1 8,454 In the number Injured ovei the previous year's figures. Thcr< were 5,861 collisions, killing 433 people and injuring 7,7Gb ana damaging railroad property $4,629,279. In the 5,910 derailments during the year, 94 0 persons were killed and 8,814 Injured. During the last three months of the ye.^r the total killed or injured was 20.650. Dig liid For Cow. An offer of $1 0,000 has hoen refused by \V. VV. Marsh, of Waterloo, la., for his pot row, Dairy Mni.i of Pinehurst, the champion cow of the world. Although just a month o\ er three ye'is old, the cow produ -cd 1,003 pounds of butter during the last year. I HELPING THE FARMER THREE OF THE READING SOUTHERN RAJ LKOAD8 WILL Organize a Ootton Culture Department to Educate Cotton FarmerH In a Campaign Againnt the Weevil. Practical Bteps are being; taken by the Southern Railway Company, the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, and the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company to co-operate with the officials of the United States Agricultural Department and the Slate CoinmissionerR of Agriculture in advising farmers, in the territory (long the lines of these railways which may eventually be reached by the Mexican cotton bool weevil, as to the beet methods of growing cutin Knitn nf fho nro.senee of that insect. The experience of the farmers in Texas, where the weevil has boon i'or sbme years, demonstrates that by ihe adoption of proper methods, practically as large yields of cotton can be obtained ok before the appearance of the weevil. In most localities in Texas the invasion of r.he weevil has generally been followed by short crops for two or three years until the farmers have learned how to deal with the insect. For the purpose of making a cooperative work of the companies as effective and helpful as possible, organization has been perfected to be known as the cotton culture department of the Southern Hallway, the Alabama Croat Southern Railroad, and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, with a view of encouraging the adaption of tiie most improved methods in advance of the appearance >f the weevil. This, it is felt, will have the effect >f maintaining the normal production of cotton. Practical farmers .vho have had experience in dealing vith the boil weevil will be employd along the lines of these railways n localities which may eventually be reached by the weevil and giving hem practical advice as to the besi nethods of growing cotton undei >oll weevil conditions. Planters and others in these lo alities who are desirous of avail ng themselves of the practical ? 1 .ice and assistance of the agents o. he Cotton Culture Department ii: his matter are invited to cor res >ond with Mr. T. O. Plunkett, General Agent of the Southern Railroao tnd the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, o, Jhattanooga, Teun. * BUY AN NO F1U3K LAXCK. leiterates His Stand Against Dalilman in Kansas. At Lincoln, Neb., in a hall hiroc >y himself and speaking outside thur'scliction of the DemocraMc stat( ommittee, W. J. Bryan Monday light proclaimed his political inde endence so far as the head of tie. >emocratic state ticket Is concerned nd justified his bolt of James C lahlman, candidate for governoi le disclaimed any intention of beoming a political free lance in uaional affairs. Mr. Bryan declared himseir "rog . lar" on all else save the Nebraska jovemorship, and gave unstinted en orsement to the remainder of th< .icket. lie Insisted that it was iu est of party regularity to refuso to ote for Mayor Dahlman, boca.isc. e said Dahlman was not noniinateu >y the Democrats, but by a conibi lafion of the votes of all partial lominated by the liquor interests. WORK or BLACK HANI). * \ Man Was Murdered While He Was ? Fast Asleep. Lying beside her sleeping husband in their home at San Francisco on Thursday night Mrs. Antonio Valentino heard a crash of glass and a moment later enw two men dim > .hrough the window of their room from the porch roof without. Too frightened to move or cry out. die watched one of tho intruders ;teal up to the bed, deliberately place i pistol at her husband's breast and Ire a shot that brou?ht instant leath to the sleeping man. By tin . time tho woman succeeded in re recovering her voice and raising an ilarm the murderer and his compan on had escaped. Valentino with hip. wife and three children arrived about four days ag< having come almost direct from Italy. Mrs. Valentino says they loft Naples very hurriedly, her husband irofoswing treat fear for his life for join? reuson not revealed to her. They Are Safe.Only one railroad passenger was killed in the United Kingdom by in accident on a train in which he was traveling. In other words only one man was killed of 1,264,800,0(>o journeys ami only one person was injured out of each 3,200,000 travelers. Killed by Falling Dirt. At Staunton, Vs., W. S. Spruise lost his life and three others had narrow escapes from death while at work Thursday in repairing a cavern there. They were caught under falling dirt. ii.lJN Iv Ol Conwa Has largest capital and surplus of i than the combined capital and surf CAPITAL STOCK.. .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCI SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIREI Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc t, will justify, and we ROBEUT n. BCAItBOKOlKUl, I I'lHWIIHVT We continue to pay 5 pc ,. .'*v. . V. .**>. -* v>..-**s. | FIRST NATK % CON \VA CAPITAL STOCK W SURPLUS PROFITS /J\ TOTAL ASSESTS A niREC J. A. 'McDermott, John ( A\ 13. G. Collins, H. L. I M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui & . Successor to the Bank ol Jki Horry County, and a pioneer *1* ly allied with the recent dev (Its Republic. Backed by the < iiC Unit' d States Bonds, we are p *1* tonievs anv reasonable accoim >t> /}\ II. A. SPIVEV, $ Cashier. i?Hf)n:ssu;\Aii cakdh. H. H. WOODVVAlii) ittorno)' and Couucelor At Da* CO.NWAV, s. C. H. ?. HCAliHUOl till CON WAV, 8. r Attorney mi Uw. a. 11. HITtKOlXiHH 'hyalclan him) hurucon CON WAV. 8. C. K. WOFFOKD WAIT. Attorney at U> linnk of Horry limltling. OOiMVA) , 8. O. THE WORLDS GREATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE k A-IGHT RUNNING ^ | M M ah \ ? Ifyon wantellhcrft VlhmtlnKRhnttle, Rotai* okuUleor a Hlnglo Thread [Chain?itilcM\ U/ttirl itr# \l n/?li InO Uli'ito f A WV> n i ii(^ mitvuuiv TT * iv IA# THE NEW HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE COMPAIt Orange, Mass. Nlony newlnc machine* arc made to tell re cordless tt Quality, but the New Home is made to weas. Our ruaranty never runs out. * 14 by Authorised deslevs umJW*' pom sals str HlUHOUlillh cOliLLNtf CO., Con way? H. O. LIFE SENTENCE IMPOSED. Dallas Sergeant Slahhetl Man During President Tnft*? Visit. Sergt. J. D. Manley, of tho TexaNational Guard, who stabbed wiJ his bayonet and kil o 1 Louis Dlchen sleln, a spectator, durin ? ihe visi of President Taft to Oal'ns a yea ago, was given a life-sentence in tin penitentiary Friday nu ruing by jury in the criminal oourt. Manle has always claimed 'hat the killin was acci lontal. The fU ' ir'niu sho.' ed signs of tempc insanity the close of the tri ' wo |u P'o 1 ort he sir o'f ; % n.l < a thanked them for th< > r?nco ' liOKltY, y. 8, C. i iny bank in Ho try county. Morr >lus of all other banks in the county. $60,000 12,600 CHOLDKH8 .... 60,000 TORS 112,600 :ioks D. V. Richardsoh. I W. A. JOIiiihoii, | W il] A. Irecnrian. 1 ommodation which their accouHts-"* solicit your business. I ). V. Richardson, will a. frermaa ft; Nick I kehidknt Casiiikr ft :r cent, on yearly deposits. ft 3NAL BANK V lY, S. C. $25,000.00 2l 2,500.00 fn 12 5,000.00 /|\ TORS: JP 3. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, /fjb luck, W. R. Lewis, D. & Utlebaum, D. A. Spivey. tF ' Conway, t.he oldest Hank in ||V in Rastern Carolina. Close- j!: elopinent of the Independent [government and secured by repared to extend to our cub- jL nodations. It. C*. COLLINS, A President. ^ KXRS HIS OWN LIFR. Iiools liimslf Dead Seated Upside Ilis Fin nee. Unable to find employment which would enable him to support a wife, r?aKayette Maddox, aged 25, Sunday hot and killed himself while seated n a street car In Philadelphia boi !e his 18year-old fiance. He had fixed the 2 0th of this month as the date for the weddlag, but grew despondent at his continued failure to find remunerative employment. While on a surburban trolley car with Miss Nellie Callahan, to whom he had been engaged for nearly a year, Maddox, it is said, endeavored to induce the girl to enter a suicide pact she refused to consider such a proposition and did not believe ho was serious until Maddox pulled a revolver from his pocket and sent a bullet through hla head. The girl fainted and tlie other passengers were panic stricken. The motorman hastened to a physician's residence, but the dottor said death had been instantaneous. SHOT FKOM AMBUSH. Hunger on Biltmorc Estate Killed by Supposed Poacher. A dispatch from Asheville says ? Friday Clayton Davis, a forest ranger in the employ of the Bill more estate, who was shot by a person or persons unknown last Wednesday morning ^ while searching for poachers, died 'a early that morning and T. C. Ke'irjrj, a mountaineer of Mill River, Henderson county is now in custody, char ged with the shooting. The deceased was walking near the boundary line of the estate near State Hock creek when a shot from ambush B'ruck him in the abdomen. The wounded man was found by forestry hands some hours later, after he had crawled and walked a distance of nearly three miles In the direction nf IBs home, to which he was carried. Professor Accidentally Shot. ' John C. Goggans, Jr., professor hi the department of technology at Newberry College and former captaia of the Clemson College football team, was shot in te face accidentallhy Friday while hunting with a brother professor In Newberry county. Hin injuries are such that it is not known whether he can recover. 0 ? A" Dr. Thompson Convicted. r Dr. Robert Thompson, chargod with tho murder of Eva Swan, wai found guilty Saturday night in San Francisco of murder in the second degree. The body of Miss Swan, wlf died as the result of an operation, was found two months ago burled nriHop tho hnHomont rfrtrtr n f a d* sorted cottage. Atlanta Man Kills Himself. (Shortly after his return from a successful fishing trip Friday afternoon, Frank A. Hilburn, an exmomber of the city council and a prominent Confederate Veteran commited suicide at Atlanta by shoottag 'Imself through the head. Relatives declare they know of no motives far the deed.