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This is the chief 1 jf P *, requisite for l?] ||| making Perfect f| jjljl Bake Day Foods fUn llfLS ruvvuer rpjj Absolutely Pure jjr| The only Baking Pow- ~|| Irl der made from Royal |N Jf 5j Grape Cream of I artar Vlp i ?Made from Grapes? No Lima PhospBiato ^jp |Wi\ No ACuett m) ONLY FOR LiF?" fa the Ptnitenliary is the Senlence Imposed On Fiur Men lor A MOST BRUTAL CRIME the Shocking Story of the Murder of Voting Pnul A. Williams by a lot of Circus Toughs oil a Train From Columbia to Augusta Iaist October. Four former employees of the Hogenback-Wallace circus were convicted at Lexington on Wednesday of the murder of Paul A. Williams, r? t Cnl inn lilt) f\ n Thn 111 r? r ti I n ir r\f O/'. U ? v/i ii 111 i/iii, wii ttiiv lit*' i ii i i i ^ v? i \y v^'Ikt 2 while he was riding on a cirr.us train from Columbia to Augusta George Nichols, a white man, Klijab Clark, Garland Brown and John Wilson, three negroes, are convi< ted men. They were all sent carpi! to lifo imprisonment in the p n<1 cntiary. They should have ben fc ig for their brutal crime. Nichols and Clark were tried md found guilty of murder with recommendation to the mercy of the court. Ju ! o Gage directed that the same vrdict be found in the case against Brown and Wilson, who pleaded guilty and threw themselves on Urn mercy of the court. The evidence which was offered during tho trial of Nichols and Clark If. best described by the words of Judge Gage, who said, in imposing sentence on the four prisoners: ' I have never heard in any court hous*(iroof of a more revolting murder than that which you have been found ... III.. nntimillflnn " ^ 1 I I I > \J I \ " I I | || I 1 I II I I . Phe evidence in the case of Nieht>ij1 and Clark, who were tried first, conflicted somewhat as to which of ilie four convicted men shot Paul Williams, The witness agreed that three of them, Brown, Wilson sr.d Clark, the negroes, had pistols. Tl.ree eye-witnesses, all circus em plo yens, laid the guilt, on Jolin Wilson. He placed it on Brown. One witness said tiiat two shots were Ir d. The pistol bullet which plercprj Paul Williams' brain was h .3 2 c<' ?il)ro. The two eye-witnesses both said that, when the shot or shots were find, Williams was crouching In a eorner of a canvas wagon, begging for his life. James O. Cabe, of Copper Hill, Ga., one of the men In the wagon, who was "red lighted" after [Williams was shot, declared that, while the boy was pleading, John Wilson interrupted with "You are too d?n hard on us niggers down Bowth?" and fired point plank in his face. After Williams was shot, ho was thrown over the side of the canvas wagon. His body fell on the edge of the flat car. The murderers got out of tho wagon and pushed the body off tho car. Drops of blood wcro found among the crosstles 500 yards from whore the body was found. This corroborates the statements that the body was not thrown iirectly from the wagon to the grounl. James O. Cabe, who, according to his statement, was an eye-witness of the shooting and wjis also among those "red lighted, " said he was from Fanning county, Ga. He Joined the allow a few weeks before the riot. Cabe said that he went to sleep in * canvas wagon after the train left Columbia. He was awakened by Clark, Nichols, Ifrowu and Wilson who demanded his gun. Clark was landing over him with a pistol In each hand. Nichols wus standing at the side of tho wagon. Suddenly, said Cabe, two shots were fired in quick succession. And Clark said, 'Throw him off, Hrown." Clark looked over the side of the wagon and said: "He ain't off yet." Hrown jumped out of tho wagon. Cabe heard him say, "lie got me all , with hh.:,H " J After tho bloody work had been done, the murderers seem to have turned their : tier.tTor. to Or.be. He told them that he had nothing When they found that this was the ease, they ordered him to "unload." Cabe said that, as ho Jumped off the flat car to the grouud, a pistol was tired. Garland Brown, one of the nonoes named in the indictment for murder, was the next witness. He vas exceedingly nervous on the >tand. "We four, Nichols, Clark, Wilson and me," said Ilrown, "got "ogether on one of the flats. Nlch is was the leader. Clark had two dstols. He gave me one of them. We went down tho flats and Into the wagons, waking up tho men. We made two or #hroe of them jump off." * "When we got to Williams' wagon." the witness continued, "Wilson says, 'Where are you going?' Williams says. 'Don't kill me. I am going to Augu:-:ta.' Clark said, 'Don't shoot him. A11 (J vvuson says, u;s, they are too hard on us niggers flown South." He shot him." On cross examination Brown saifl that Williams was crouching In one corner of the wagon. Wilson stepped right up to him and lirori in his face. Nichols did not have a pistol, hut "fooled "em with a sack of tobacco." John Wilson, another of the negroes charged with the murder, went on the stand in the afternoon. He. too, was to'd that he would not be forced to testify against himself. His story was like Brown's except he differed as to what happened when they climbed into the canvas wagon on the flat car No. 78. He said that Prown and Nichols threw the body out of the wagon. It caught on the ed " flat car and was pushed ol The witness, for tbo 'ante wn? Roy Greshani, a negro boy, also known as "Chicken." He said that he had been with the Wallace- Hagen beck circus for three years. On the night of October 2 he was sleeping in a canvas wagon on car No. 7 8 with Cabe. Brown woke him up and took $ 1.20 and a sack of tobacco out of his pocket. They threw Paul Williams out of the wagon. The hotly fe'! on trie cat car ana. .'liter looting it. Brown kicked it off. "Who shot Paul Williams." asked Solicitor Tinniierina?. "John Wilson." replied GroRham. After the judge's charge the jury took the case at 1:"0 o'clock. They i brought, in a verdict of guilty with ' i recotn mendat ion to me rev after II ' 1 j minutes conference. Court adjourned for the dinner recess. in the afternoon session, the case against John Wilson and Garland Brown was called. A jury was drawn and sworn ?*n masse. Mr. Wingard announced that the two defendants would plead guilty and throw themselves on the mercy of the court. "The two defendants in this case. ' said Judge Cage, "ought not to sufi t'er any more than George Nichols [and Clijah Clark I therefore dlI feet you to return a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy." The jury did not retire. The foreman wrote the verdict and passes, the verdict to Sheriff Corley. In sentencing Brown. Clark and Nichols and Wilson. Judge Gage told . them that they had reason to he thankful that the death sentence had not been ordered by the jury. He then sentenced them to confinement in the State penitentiary at hard labor during Cm rest of their natural lives " Mi no V ictims Found. The bodies of ten miners, who were entombed in mine No. 3 of the Providence Mining company at Providence, Ky.. Friday ufternoon, were arcught to lie surface, one by one by the government mine corps station vi at Idnton. Tnd.. Saturday He 1> One of Fa. H. 0 VV'^rthen, the new genera) superintend in of the Southern div lelon of the Western Union Telegraph Company, i* a Southerner by birth and at the n e of 3 4 has reached one of the high positions in the telegraph service He was born in Shcl by. N C Hunting Causunltic*. Dunn: the door hunting neason, which opened on November 10 and closed December 1st, there were 4t> accident In the upper peninsula of Michigan, twenty of which are fatal. Five thousand deer were killed. SHE IS TOO BIG i To Get in the Btrih and a Clyde Line Sieward Gives Up When HE SEES THE FAT LADY Where to Stow OOO Pound Woiuaij Still an Unsolved Problem.?TV StairwayN on the Liner too K %r row for the Use of the Corpulent Passenger. "What shall we do with Big Ad nief was *nt question wnicn puz 7,led Steward Dixon, of the Clyde Line Steamer Comanche, which wat in port Tuesday, hound from JacK sonville to New York, says the Newt and Courier. Mrs. Ouellette, better known as Hig Annie, who tips the scales at 69 0 pounds and is said tt he the world's fattest fat woman has been showing for a week in Charleston. Tuesday she took passage on the Comanche for Nov York. When she hoarded the shij the steward was at his wits end to know where to stow tho big passen ger. It would never do to assign hei to a berth such as ordinary pas sengers occupy, so the officer took the matter under serious considers tion. Some ope suggested that she he given one of the big berths or the iionor dock, hut the nroblem o! getting tlie fat lady up the stairwa> leading to the upper deck killed tin su?gestion on the spot. What disposition the courteous and obliging young steward of the Comancht made of his passenger is not known Mrs. Ouellette and her daughter a very pretty girl of 1 8, named Flossie, were seated on t he comfort a ho lounges of the forward saloon of the Comanche when a reporter dropped in to pay his repsects to the world'sfattest woman. Mrs. Ouellette can not speak English very well, being a French Canadian. Her pretty daughter, however, "knows United ot^te*from A. to Z," and through the fail interpreter the reporter plied tin large lady with a number of ques tions. Big Annie says that she come* honestly by her tremendous slz>Her mother weighed 2 4 5 pounds and her father 2(JO potnds. When asked how long she had been exhibiting herself, she said for the past fifteen years. Luckily, she has never been forced to travel with the side shown of the circus, but has exhibited hei generous proportions on her own responsibility. Big Annie says she 'is the mother of six children. It was a rather embarrassing question to ask of a fan young girl, but the reporter asked .Miss Flossie if she expected to he fat like her mother. She refused to answer tlie question, adding, howover, that she was the youngest child and that the two older sister? were women of rather generous build. At present the golden-haired blue-eyed lassie does not give prom Ise of ever tipping the scales at more than 130 pounds. lilg Annie says she does not mine travelling around and showing herself. However, she remarked that there was no money for a fat worn.m in Charleston, probably, as her daughter expressed it. because of tb<fact that Charleston people all fen bigger than the strangers within 1 hoi r en 1 o? \1 (laughter are now on their way to I their home in Hilleriea, Mass - l>id Xo (ioid. it is .said that a large number of people signed a petition in favor oi Orippon who was sentenced to death and hanged for the murder of his wife in London. This is add Mono: proof that ?r 's the easiest thing in the world to got people to sign petitions, no matter what their object may be. Many sign just because they love to put their nan\e on paper, others because they never like to refuse a request, and still others, especially In criminal affairs, because M.?y are affected with sentimentalism.. Probably the old story of the man who signed a petition to ha\o himself hanged was not very much of an exaggeration. Hut the petition failed to save Crlppen from the consequences of his horrid crime From Fating Oyster*. Kivo persouR In the family of K. W. Olb?on, residing it) Mobile, Ala., including his rutro cook, wore pj'aoned from en ig ' stern chv.nda" night and had a narrow escape fro n death. Tney ate turkey stuffed with o.raters left over from the Thanks* giving dinner and soon af* n wards suffered excruciating agony for several hours Senator Tillioan llotter. Senator Tillman will attend the cssioris of con, s dur're rug pioynnt winter This announcement wa.r made Friday by Dr. .T W. Raboot k, who returned to Columbia from Trenton, where be spent Thanksgr<* ing day with Stnator Tillman Dr. Babcock said that ho found Senator Tillman in very much Improved health fc..'WU' 4k? COLORED PREACHERS AND THEIR FIELDS OF LABOR FOR THE COMING YEAR. \ppoiiitmontM of the South Carolina Conference Recently Held in City of Greenville. The following are the appointments made by the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church, which Is the largest branch of the Methodist family. All the preachers in this State, except one, are colored, but at the North nearly the whole membership, clerical and lay, are composed of white people. Here are the appointments: I tea u fort District. D. J. Sanders, district superintendent. Aiken?<S. 1). Williams. Appleton?W. McWillie. Allendale?A. R. Howard. Reaufort?R. K. Romans. Barnwell ? \V. M. Steele. Bamberg station?J. B. Thomas. Bamberg circuit?A. M. Wright. Cottage\ille?M. O. Stewart. Khrhardt?W. G. White. Grahamville and Hardeeville ? Win. David. Green Pond?.1. T. Wilson. Hampton?W. M. Stoney. Jacksonboro?.1. L. Chestnut. Lpdge?G. W. Gantt. IItiffin ? S. A. Flinches. Sprlngtown?.1. T. Latson. Sei -* 11n vi I le?Mosos Mayson. Walterboro?E. \V. Stratton. Turners?E. J. Curry. Y em asseo- ? E. Forrest. Malet and Cook chapel?to be supplied. Rocky Rolnt?to be supplied. Bcnncttsville District. A. C. Asbury, district superintendent. Rennet tsvil le?B. S. Jackson. Ret hunt?I. If. Richardson. Rishopville?It. F. Harrington Chbraw?C. C. Scott. Cheravv circuit?D. E. Thomas. Choraw mission?C, R Cleavis. Ch osterfiold?C. C. Robinson. Clio and Tatuin?\V. R. Romans. Darlin Ron ? L. (I. Creggs. Darlington circuit?J. A. Gary. Darlington mission?E. M. Wash in g ton. Dillon?J. McLood. Dunbar?W. S. Neal. Hartsville station?J. M. Phillips Martsvillc circuit?F. VV. Vano Jefferson-?J. U. Graham. Little Rock?S. Greene. Me Bee-?L. A. Thomas. North Marlboro ? B. C. Jackson Spears?B. S. Cooper. Society Hill ? It. L. Brower. Smyrn a ? J. M c Fa d d y. Charleston District, J. \V. Moultrie, district superin tendent. Centenary?M. M. Mouzon. Old Bet lie!?C. H. Harleston. Wesley?R. D. Hickson. East mission?S. Bonnean. West mission ? Daniel Brown. Dorchester?M. Stewart. Holly Hill?B. G. Frederick. Johns Island ? 1. L. Hardy. Marvvillo?F. I). Smith. Pinopolis? J. S. Mc.Millen. Ridgeville? A. R. -Smith. St. Johns?J. F. Greene. St. Stephens?0. F. Miller. St. Thomas?Thomas Judge. Surnmerville?X. \V. Greene. Washington and Ladson, T. G. Robinson. I' if I'OIIOO I Msi l'l( f . I. II. Pulton, district superintendent . niack River?.1. F. Martin. Rrookgreeno?A. 1). Jackson. Cades ?I). Sailors. Fleorence?W. S. Thompson. Georgetown ?T. J. Robinson Greeleyville?W. R. Rowers Kingsiree?G. J. Davis. Kingstreo clrctiit?J. P. Robinson. Lake City--Wiley Littiejohn Lanes ? -(V R. Lowory. Latta ? \ ork Goodlett. Marion ? A. S. J. Rrown Mars Rluff - W. M. Fadd v MilIIins?.1 F. Wood. McClellansville?J. A. Norris. Rosemary and Pleasant Grove ? J. A. Gibson. Salem and Wesley?J. A. Ilarroll. 'St Mary's ? Ren J. Rrown, St. Luke?C. IT. Ilood. S* Paul and Waecamaw?G W Rodgers. Springfield ? \V. Wilson. Timmonsvllle?J. Grice.. Turkey Creek? N. T. Rowen. Jr. Greenville District. J. F. Page, district superintendent Abiwvlllo and wndesvllle?J* Watson. Anderson ?A. O. Kennedy Helton?-T. C. Frazier. Kasloy- - L. L. Thomas. Fast Anderson?W. G. I)ens Fast Greenville?43. M. McCnllum P. riVHtl \' 1 11 o e t n t ( A ti W? n \? oLtvt. \?l V? r.? u ?T , Vf# V iru" cntlno. Liberty?J. 0. Martin. North Greenville-?J. A. Curry. Pendleton and Central ? Alfred 1? w 18. Pickens?J. C Glbbca. Hock Hill? I,. W. WllHams Sen oca?H. S. A. Williams. South Greenville?C. L. Logan. St. Mark?11. W. Williams. TownsvlUe ? Lawrence IIIce. Westminister and Walhalla?J. IE. C. Jenkins. West Anderson?W. F. Smith. Willlamston?J. A. Brown. Sterling College?1). M. Minus Orangeburg District. R. il. Burroughs, district superintendent. Bradham mission?W. C. Summers. Branchvtlle?A. B. Murphy. Columbia?A. S. Cottingham. Columbia mission ?J. H. Johnson. Denmark?V. S. Johnson. Rdisto Forks?J. S. Thomas. Jamison?1. R. Lowery. (i>ostofllce C olumbia). Lexington?C. W. Williams. Macedonia?S. J. Coooer. Midway?J. S. North?J. D IL.i.. Neeces and Norway?R. H. Cunningham. Orangeburg?A. R. Quick. Orangeburg circuit?J. L. llender son. Pineville?N. T. Howen, Sr. Rowesville?A. G. Townsend. Keevesvllle-? H. H. Cooper. St. George?J. B. Taylor. Springfield?W. J.. Smith. Swansea and Woodford?G. Livingston. Claflin university?L. M. Dunton. Sumter District. .1. 10. Wilson, district superintendent. Antioeh?A. D. Drown. Hlanoy?J. A. Murray. B o rd en ? .J a ni es K i ch a rd s. Camden?U. A. Cottingham. Camden circuit?.J. C. I3urch. Lamar?S. S. Sparks. 1 .ynchburg? Isaac .Myers. Lougtown?A. II. Hayes. Mavesville?V. II. Itedfield. Mcchanicsville?G. \V. Moore. Mount Zion?I?. A. Thomas. Honk Springs?G. 11. Tillman. Shiloh?C. II. Dangerfield. Sumter?\V. M. Ilanna. Sumter circuit?1-'. U. Cainlin. Sumter mission ? Tl. J. McDatile/ Watrree?\V. If. .Tones, i nil ? A. 1). Harris. St. Matthews?T. W. Williams. Field agent Sunday School board? C C. Jacobs. Spartanburg District. C. It. brown, district superintendent Plaoksburg?C. C. Campbell. 1 trad Icy?IT. II. Matthews. Oatnpobello?\V. M. Smith. Chester?J. L. Miller. Clover J. IT. Middle!on. Cowpens?H. II. Kearso. Fast Spartanburg and Chenie cirCaffney station ? It. F. Freeman. Crcewood?J. A. Glenn. C,veers?F. W. Adams. McConnellsvillo?W. M. Griflln. Newberry and Trinity ? Frank Quick. Ninety Six ?J. W. Groves. Parole!?C. C. Clarke. Keidville?P. F. McLaughlin. Ttoek Hill? D. P. Murphy. Spartanburg?G. W. Cooper. Spartanburg circuit?S. A. King. Spartanburg mission ? C. II. brown. St. James?A. II. Fuller. Union and Jonesville?H. J. Kirk. Well ford?W. T. Kelly. Wilkinsvllle?J. A. Summers. Yorkville?N. S. Smith. York circuit?J. C. Armstrong. I.aurons mission ? M F TJutler. A Ql KKIl SENTENCE. Unusual (Conditions Imposed 1 ?> a Georgia Judge. Extraordinary conditions were imposed at Columbus, Ga., by Judge Price Gilbert, in Muscogee Superior (Court Thursday in modifying the sentence of Frank A. Stockton on a plea of guilty of violating the prohibition law, was sentenced to pay a to $750, or twelve months on the the chain gang, and also to go to jail for two months, without the alternative of a fine. Stockton pleaded for a remission of the jail sentence. Judge Gilbert withdrew i', but increased the tine to $750, ar twelve months on the gang, and suspended six months of the sentence on condition that Stockton leave the State of Georgia January 1st next and stay awav two years, and that tie not engage in the ni'ar-beor business in the adjoining Alabama counties of Lee and Russell. If the conditions are violaf- j ed the chain gang sentence is to become automatically operative. Snake Rite Was relet. Mr. Samuel Kirch, of Rutler. Pa. tied at the hospital at Ocala, Pla Saturday from the effects of a rattle snake bite received while out built tng. In trying to capture a ranbp which he had chased Into u hole, M ; Kinch put his hand In the hole and whs bitten three thtcp N the snak* (.citing Hcaml. A cut of 114,000,000 in the es timates for the running expense? o' the government during the next ti? can year was reported U? President Tnft Thursday as a result of hit ultimatum to the various heads >! departments at the cabinet confer ence Wednesday. I lent i no 1 Uvspoiulcni. Despondent over blindness, J \V. Hull, aged f>0, of Morrlmac, Ala., swallowed carbolic acid, living in terrible agony within a few minutes Hull )o?it his eyes 20 years ago by being shot while hunting. He loaves a wife and six children A woman's Idea of a brute is an> man who declines to (latter her. A woman is'nt necessarily wise because she can fool a fool man. TRIO TO HANG On One Gallows (or (he Murder of a m Florence County Citizen. KIL1ED MR. ELIHU MOYE Five Negroes Were Arrested at Firat Charged With t!?e Crime, Whicb Was (Committed in the Home of the Victim, but Two of Them Were Discharged. For the murder of Elihu Moje, Millie Burroughs, Ellie Weldon and Claranco Ham were convicted at Florence Monday and sentenced to f>e hanged on Friday, December 16. The usual motion for a new trial was overruled. Five negroes were under arrest harged with the killing of Elihu Move several weeks ago. Of the ive the solicitor held three and had '\o bill returned in the case of Henry Jones and Senior Askins. The no/\ * f *! it 1 urni?rt P )n t?nnca I I o tn j ^ i UL'5 w ii it till t" t u vidt nt\i uaiui ong a trusted employe and friend of Mr. Move; Willie Horroushs and Elj lie Weldon. The court house and court yard i a*ere crowded long before tne hour for trial by people from all over the I -ounty, who canio to hear the cose | ind seo the negroes who had committed a crime that shocked the en'iro community. Judge Hrown's charge to the jury vas brief, covering, as usual, the iegrees in homicide cases, and 011 .heir duty to the country. The solicitor wished to use Clarence Ham is a witness, so did not put him on trial with the other two. \V. F. Clayton, 10. S. Oliver and Claude Gasque were appointed by the court r.o represent the accused. Clarence Ham was put on the stand first. He testified that he had met the other two negroes and they told liini Mr. Moyc had gone to Timmonsville and that there was money in the house and they must have it. lie consented to watch in the road while they went to get it. I He was to whistle in case any one ipproached and he did so when Mr. Moye drove up later. Mr. Move went into the house and struck a match, the other negroes 'nror.il him i'o tn t ho hmiso. H? heard one shot, then another, then <a\v some one stagger out of the loor. He grabbed up the gun for his protection, but they led him away ind offered hi 111 a drink, gave him 13.00 and told hiiu to say nothing ibout the affair. They offered him ?25 and to pay his way to Florence if ho would say nothing about the affair. There was practically no testimony for tho defense and though th? counsel for the accused earnestly vorked to prevent injustice or prejudice affecting the case, the jury, without difficulty, found both Weiion and Burroughs guilty. The trial of Clarence Ham was I then entered into, lie acknowledged run guilt and in response to the usnil question by the solicitor said that my method of trial would suit him. He was promptly convicted. Before the close of court shortly if tor seven o'clock all three negroes were sentenced to hang on Friady, December 16. Mr. Clayton, on be-, aalf of his clients, moved for a new rial on the ground that the evidence lid not corroborate the confession if Clarence Ham and that the crowd ind pressure of public opinion in the matter'was an obstacle to unbiased >pin ion. Solicitor Wells replied that the ury was competent to judge the facta is presented and that there had not been the slightest success attendant >n the efforts of the defense to disprove hny of the statements and that the verdict ought to stand. Judge R row n com pH men tod the crowd tor ts order and refused to gran* the new trial. - - - a?:' 'W Safe Found I muck. 1*11e* Iron safe containing $l6,00h volcn from the substation of tjhe A id is Fargo Kxpress company at vtuskogee, Ok la., last Saturday night * as found Tuesday night and all the lioney recovered. The safe, which mis found under the porch of an iboudoned house, had not been opened Several suspects are being held \Frest Allc^'d Robber. R F. Rut/, wanted at Kagle Pane, Texas, for hank robbery last Juno, was arrested in Nassau county, Fla , Sunday afternoon, disguised as & farm hand According to netoctlcw Cheatham, liuf; has been heard from at many places In Mexico and South America since the robbery wai committed Thrills the (Yowrl. At Jackson, Miss., Thursday, In an attempt for an altitude record Ely had ascended to a height of 1,500 feet when his motor failed. He glided down without power to an almost perfect landing. His net thrilled the large crowd of spectators. ? . When some women feel the need 01' physical exercise they go shopping. j