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f PAYS FOR CRIME \ QartBce H m Hanged Friday for (be Mur\ der of Mr. Eiihu M Moye. J TWO OTHERS WILL HANG f Friday Morning at Florence the Murf derer of HJs Kmployer and P ?ne factor Met Dentil 011 the GhIIov s? Stuck to His Confession Inipl'eating Two Others. Clarence Ham, who was conv :tcd as an accomplice In the inurthr of Mr. El ill u M. Moye, 011 Friday evening, October 2 8, at his home near Florence, was hanged 011 Friday at that place. While standing uiulei the noose, he reiterated his confession, implicating Alex. Weldon and William Burroughs, which I10 made while being tried. Just before being I ^ hanged Mam said: ; "Gentlemen, here I am fixing to I leave von all. I will leave you ull in the hands of the Lord. I am ready to die and I am going home to God. I submit to the crime of which 1 am I gnllty, but I will tell you all tho . .. I* oi>nnt it 1 know nothing more \ than what I have said. I don't want my body buried in the grave yard. \ I don't want my body carried off in | a wa?on. If my people are not able 1 to get a hearse, I want you white I people to help them. Young men, | don't continue In the path of sin; f change and follow your Lord." (He i paused; silence prevailed every* where.) Starting again, he said: "Is my brother here?" He was told t that his brother was not present. "Well," ho said, "I will tell you all good-bye, good-bye. Will Itev. Taylor lead us in prayer?" After prayer Deputy Harroll placed the black cap over his 'head and tied his feet. One of the colored ministers sai l, "Good-bye, Clarence, God have mercy upon your soul," and in response he said, "Gcod-byo ! all." Exactly at 10..'ID o'clock the f death trap was sprung hy i-'heril'f i f i Lurch. Dr. King pronounceu u.uu dead at 1 0 : r?2. Two colored minisI tors took up a collection to covc-r | burial expenses. The streets were ! packed with people of all hues, even some climbed telephone poles to get a glimpse of the execution. After the negro was pronounced dea l all -1.. were admitted to see the body. ? Story of the Crime. On Friday evening, October 23, Mr. Flihu M. Moye and Mr. Howard Colo attended preaching at Timmonsvillo and returned home at about 1 1 o'clock. Mr. .Moye goI of the buggy at his residence an 1 Mr. Colo ?r drove on to his own home, which is about a half mile further. Mr. Moye entered his home and met his fate. From all appearances of the seeno at Mr. Moye's home the murderers ay secreted in his rooms, probably in a closet, for the dead man's body was found in a position Indicative hat he was in the attitude of taking ff his collar when fired upon. He was foun 1 dead on his veranda Ith a load of shot in his stomach, d investigation revealed that he s shot three limes, once probably K'# lie turned at some noise. He vvr.3 [ illed with his own gun; the gun id several empty shells heinv found his house. Mr. Moye had his o'> 1 in his hip pocket, hut apparently !e no use of it.. Saturday nffer' . Clarence Ham was arrested on ? ipicion. Later he made a oonb'Sn imolicating Abe Weldon an I Ilium Mnrronghs in the murder, m had worked with Mr. Move for irs; had slept, in his home, loved 11 and nursed him when sick. What Ham Salrl. On the stand at the trial Ha:n ade the following confession: Friday, when lie (Mr. Moyo) paid 3 -oft, went to Alex Weirlon's house, ?d wont to Rbenezer. I left Kbozor and went hack to Aler Weln's house. Me and Will linrJ ?ughs went there together, and I ent home. I left home, and Mr. love's dog harked at me as I passed, iml I got most to Mr. Wilson's. I int. Alex and William. Alex Wellon skod me if Mr. Move was at home, 'lien I got against the tobacco barn not Alex Weldon and ttnrrouglis. ddon said to mo that Mr. Moye id Mr. Colo liad gone 10 umnions.llo to preachiup:. They said there Bonie money somewhere around J* ire, and we must have it. Weldon .'jfsisted on my going to Mr. Moye's \ use. I consented to stay in tho ad until they went to the house, d they went and stayed there unMr. Moye and Mr. Colo came from nmonsville. They forced me to 'House. They told nic to whistle jifeard any noise, and as Mr. Moye Mr. Colo eamc in I whistled. I rd Mr. Moye say something about g to town the next morning, sir. Moye went on In the house struck a match and went into his j and I did not hear any more mi in " j w 0 0 ^ v <T|f | BACK TO THE PEOPLE IS KEYNOTE OF SPEECHES AND BETTERS AT BANQUET. Both Harmon and Fobs Stress Point That PubBc Power Must be Used for General Good. Only two out of siix Democratic governors-c leet were able to be present at a banquet given in their honor by the National Democratic club of New York at the Waldorf-Astoria Friday night. John A. Dix of New York and Eugene N. Foss of Massachusetts were there, but regrets were sent by Wood row Wilson of New Jersey, Judson Harmon of Ohio, Simon E. Baldwin of Connecticut and Frederick E. Plaisted of Maine. Two of the absentees, however, Messrs. W ilson and Harmon, seni letters which were read and both Mr. Dix and Mr. Foss delivered addresses. Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee, presided and seated near him were Richard Croker, former leader of Tammany Hall, and Charles F. Murphy, the present lender. Ti'ov r.r-nci flon t of the clllb. I ti Willi A V A| |/? V( w ? _ was too ill to attend. A telegram was received shortly before the dinner began that Gov.-elect Baldwin had an engagement to speak in Washington. The letters of Dr. Wilson and Gov. Harmon were read before any addresses were delivered. Gov. 1-lar mon 8 leuer sain :n pari; "We miiRt justify the confidence bo signally expressed or the victory at the polls will not be the cause ot rejoicing, and we shall not do this if the conduct of public business falls below the standard of the campaign. Mere personal desires, selfish purposes and importunities for special favor must be swept aside and all public authority be employed for the general vood alone." Mr. Oix confined himself largely to an account of New York State developments and resources. K. N. Foss, governor-elect of Massachusetts, said in part: "I want to say at the outset that T am a protectionist. The protec- i lion which I believe in carries wllb it a large measure of reciprocity. In fact I believe that protection without reciprocity is Indefensible. My a??voracy of this kind of protection r M 1 f\ f\ rs t r\ P t h A. fl > ? V W ^ ?> r> I I In u i.it- 1)1 titC i vC)i it ii |>ai ty in Massachusetts. "I can speak only for Massachu; setts, but in that State at least the issue on which the campaign was so signally fought and won is this: To bring the government back to the people. The only way to do it., the iu'slnosR "/av, is bv eliminating all | w(>pnq fhr- br?R4 jip.d his ncpnls. ' the caucus the nominating convention and the lobby. "Before we ?ot an honest revision of (ho tariff tho senate itseif must bo revised?our senators must l)e virtually elected by popular vote. The direct primary and 'be election j of iho 1'nilod St a I on senators by the j people will eliminate (lie iobby and j i its train of corrnntion." * ! I ? TIIIUTY ()\K IN'.H A _ I Three Cars of Passenger Train Fall \ from-Fiver Fridge. At Davis. Okla.. Wednesday one man was killed and 3 1 were seriously injured when three ears of a south-bound Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe passenger train were thrown from a bridge into the Washita 'Tver, live miles from Davis Wednesday afternoon, Flovd Goan. of Davis, an Indian, was kiiied. Praetieally every one on the train I was hurt, thou-h nianv are slightly! J wounded only. The smoking car, the baggage car and the chair car plunged from the track forty feet, info the river, landing bottom side up. The Pullmans . and other passenger cars remained | | on the track. Two of the injured are expected I to die. The wreck was caused by a ! broken rail. j until I heard the shooting. I heard j one shot fire and then another and I saw a person come out the door after shooting was over. Hut-roughs and Weldon came to me and they told toe that the old man came in before they could yet ?>?it. 1 grabbed Ibej gun for protection. Wellon told me that he shot Move twice. Weldon got a pint of whiskey before the old man got in. After they came out Weldon gave me $.1 in money. We went on ! down the road and Weldon offered ms a drink and naked mo not ro snv anything nbnnt this affair. Wcldon offcrod mo $25 and to pay my way ( to Florence and Timmnnsviile to say nothing about !t. William also asked me no? to sav anything about it." Attorney W. V. CI ni'inn baS o?>. pealed in the case of Wcldon and TUirronglis, and thai is v hy they wore not hnng with llatn. They will be hung later. GflliE i ALL WANT PIE The Scramble May Cause Serious Division Among Democrats. nilCHT Tft RF niVIDFD WU1I I M \J f U v ? I av Vow That the Republicans are Out. It Appears That There is Much Jamming and Shoving for Places at the I'ie Counter by the Democrats. The Washington correspondent of the News and Courier says unless some of the Democratic leaders In the House shows a disposition to be more liberal with the Eastern and N'orthern States in the distribution >f positions in the next Congress. there may be a split In the ranks, according to the belief of some members Here. The fact that Representative Livingstone, of Georgia, wants to be a candidate for one of the good place* ?either clerk or sergeant-at-arms. ind that thre.e other Southerners? I. J. Sinnott, of Virginia, W. F. Dunbar, of Georgia, and former Congressman Trimble, of Kentucky, arc u the fight for doorkeeper, postmaster and clerk, respectively, leave* the Democrats from other sections of the country very little prospect of getting anything but crumbs. Viewed from one standpoint, it is claimed that the men from the South should be rewarded with the places that the Republicans will vacate at the end of the coming session, but, on the other hand, it is because the South is the Democratic stronghold: hut, on the other band, the Democrats, who are coming from New York, Indiana, Ohio and other States, which were formerly represented b.^ Republican majorities, take the position that this is not right. They claim that the delegations from the South will always be Democratic, ex ocpt in few instances, when two or kree Republicans set into Congress for short terms, and that, on the oth:r hair], the r.oxt 'Congress would have remained Republican except for the turn of votes north of Mason and Dixon's line. Without their aid, i: is claimed the Republicans would still control the situation. This is the situation that is seei ! here now. So far as can he learnenone of the men from the Southern Stales, who are candidates for th*positions mentioned are thinking for i moment of dividing up with the Democrats from other sections. Tho> are making a fight, not only with the old members who will hold over into rlie 02d Congress, hut thev are also whain? n vigorous contest through their friends to reach those mem>ers who will come in later. The same thing holds good with respect to the committee places thai rre to he parceled out at the beginning of the next Congress. The old Democrats?those, for instance, who have lie en in harness many years, ar*- j not disposed to see a general breaking up of the committees as at pros- ; mit constituted. Some of them sc** in the shake up a possibility of their being pinned low down the list tor | one reason and another. They claim < that the new men with no Cong res- ! dona! exjierler.ee, should not he giv- j en precedence over those who have ilrea'.v showed their ability. The incoming Democrats, as in the case of the positions to he filled, declare rhat they are as much entitled to j recognition on the committees as the old men, because they are responsible for making too next Ilouse Democrat ic. Thus the matter stands. No one kc.ro seems to know what Is goinj.' i 'o he done, and probably nothing] tangible will he decided u?ion until ifter there has been a caucus of all, the members, who are to sit in the I v.! .v,.^PO Tl.o? ,,-Sn l.nlnn t iw. I i?\? * m i ii(u *>111 iii'iit* i i nmatter to a focus. One member of the New York delegation said today that ho was not ! willing to see all I ho good places It. i rhc Mouse go to Southern men, noith- 1 >r was he in favor of excluding high ; ommittee places from Northern and! Eastern members. He further stated 'hat he would insist upon an equal llstrihution all around and that un'ess this plan should he followed serb >us trouble inside the Democratic -anks might follow. Coing to New Homes. A carload of babies passed through Chicniro billed to Houston and San Antonio, Texas, where each will be adopted by different, families. The babies are from a New York foundling asylum. (/ashler ltohhccl. I At Tulsa. Okla., robbers held nj ' Cashier Comer of the Prue Stat* banlt at tbe point of a revolver and took all the money available and es cnped. Citizens are forming a posse to pursue tho robbers. QW TO 4 \ AFTtR THE FAKIRS MANY ARE ARRESTED FOR US1NG THE MAILS TO DEFRAUD. \anlcs of tlic Persons an<l Some of tlie Slick Schemes They Used to Get Money. Nineteen arrests were made Friday in towns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey In the government's crusade against persons accused of using the mails to defraud. The arrests were made by postal Inspectors* and all the defendants were given hearings before United States commissioners and held in bail for trial or for further hearings on charges of "using the mails to defraud." Seven of the defendants were given hearings in Philadelphia. These were four officials of the Chain Shoe Stores syndicate, with offices in Philadelphia; two constitute the Pine Heights company, a New Jersey land improvement concern with Philadelphia connections, and the seventh 's a local physician. The complete list of defendants with the results of their hearings follow: Chain Shoo Stores syndicate, Pouts L?. Rice, president, Philadelphia; Andrew C. Patterson, first vice president, nlso president of the Excelsior Trust company of Philadelphia; Edgar Pohlig, second vice president and treasurer; Geo. H. Brooks, vice president, Philadelphia, each was held In $1,000 bond for a further hearing. Pine Heights company, Robert G. Morris, Philadelphia; Harry F. Stanton, Ocean City, N. J., waived hearing and held in $500 ball each for trial. Other Individuals arrested were: Dr. J. P. Hornstein, Philadelphia, $S00 bond hold for the court; Charles B. McKee, Huntington, Pa., $1,000 for a further hearing; J. S. Lepseh, Ridgeway, Pa., $2,500 for further hearing; John A. Weitzal, Lancaster, Pa., $1,000 for further trial; Abram Stauffer and Oscar A. St.au ffer, Palmyra, Pa., $4,500 for court; Tra C. \Vebstcr, Newark, N. J., $1,000 for further hearing; Oscar Gustavpon, Jersey City, $1,500 for further hearing; S. J. Sullivan Pittsburg. $2,500 for court; Lew is Conrad, Conrad Lotze and Win. Bingham, officers of the Correspondence Institute of America at Scranton. $1,0 00 each for further hearing. This organization has no connection with the International Correspondence schools. The government alleges that the Chain Shoe Stores syndicate S31'! iniuu^n irauuuieiiL it* in t'sriitations. Dr. Hornsteln, the Philadelphia physician, is accvired of sending through the mails clrcu11-"? advertising a remedy and is chucr'd with making fraudulent statements in his literature. Conrad, Lotzo and Pingham are respectively the president, secretary and treasurer and manager of the Correspondence Institute of America. The postal inspectors allege that this concern procured lists of high school students and wrote to them stating that their names had been recommended as those of persons with artistic talent. On this account the institute offered a $12 course of art instructions for $18.50. It is said that there was no faculty of artists, but there were GO,000 students enrolled on the books of iue conerrn. McKee, who was arrested in Hunt lngion, traned as t no Charles IP McKeo Commission company and the Huntington Fruit and Produce company. It. is alleged that he bo?ght produce or farmers through the mails and failed to make payment. Lepsch is a Jeweler, and is alleged to have defrauded the Adams Express company with a false claim for $.1,000 damages. His claim was an alleged loss of $1,000 worth of jewelry which ho said ho had sent to a Philadelphia jewelry firm for appraisal. It is charged that l.epseh merely sent an empty box by express. Woitzal Is accused of buying bronze and iron castings through the mails and neglecting payment. Gustavson is said to have sent improper literature through the mails. (Silverman is alleged to have collected money for a supposed charity, using the names of prominent Pittsburg men without their consent. The arrests are, it is said, ordered ,by the postmaster general who had postal inspectors at (work on the cases for a month and a half. * Kntiro Family Drown. i ne last or a ranuiy 01 nve oroi tiers and sisters, each of whom has met death by drowning, William Powers, a lumberman, is dead at North Twin lake In Maine. He was on his way out of the woods to visit his sick wife and with a companion was crossing the lake on the ice when they broke through. His companion managed to regain the solid ice but Powers went down. BUT ONE ALIVE Gas Explosion in a Virginia Coal Mine Entombs Many Workmen. TWELVE WERE KILIED Greeno Mine, on Norfolk a"d Western Hallway, Seen? of Horrible Disaster ? Ileport of Explosion Heard Miles Around?Rescue Party Enters Shaft and Bodies Itecov- , ered. As a result of an explosion in th* mines of the Bond Coal Company, at Greeno, six miles ^ast of Norton \ Va., Wednesday morning, twelve met j have lost their lives. Thirteen were in the mines at the time of the ei j plosion and only two escaped, one of j whom died shortly after being takei out. j On account of atmosphere and oth | er conditions the rescue work bao i to be stopped after nine bodies hau ! been recovered and tlie other two bodies will not be brought out hefore morning. The dead were identified as follows: James Barrowman, superintend ent; William Ritchie, mine foreman; Lee Rowland, Charles Williams, Jessie Ritchie, Charles Whit aker, John Rodan, Arch Leslie an* Johfl Ritchie, The last named and Charles Ros enhaiMn were rescued alive, bui la aiw>oiiniha/l fn hl? In iurlM IVHV UltJ DliV'V U 141 n/vu ww MAU m m.m J m a w, The explosion came without a mo ment'fl warning, and It Is believed to have been caused by an accuruu j lation of gas set off by "blowing coal. The air shaft was thought ti be in good condition and nothing of (be kind was expected. The samf mine, however, hnd a similar explosion three years ago, in which sh men were killed. As soon as the news of the ei plosion had spread to other nearb) mining operations, of which ther* are a number in (lie vicinity, rescue i parties were formed and conveyed t( the scene by special trains and pri i vate conveyances, but nothing could i 1)0 done, except bring out the dead bodies. Only slight damage w;u 1 done to the mine. The Creeno mine employee abom : 3 5 men. The wives and children and other relatives of the missing men wen ! attracted to the scene of death bj j the loud report of the explosion i and, weeping and praying they have I kept up ceaseless begging for help t( I save their loved ones. By ? o'clock in the afternoon four unidentified bodies had been taken out. They were recovered by miner* who entered the shaft with helmet* j that furnished fresh air. Later in the day T. E. Roan, u.' the Clinchfleld Coal Corporation, as sumed direction of the rescue work lie has only a limited number ?>? j helmets, and is making every posit ; ble use of them. Near dark six more bodies w?r. j recovered, along with one man win ; is yet alive, but whose co/iriition it j precarious. 11o is fearfully burner, i and bruised, and is unconscious. KL.UGHTIOII IIY M MOI.HSALI:. +. Villages Devastated and Many Persons Carried OtV. Hundreds of inhabitants In many ; Turkish villages in Syria have been j massacred at the hands of Hedouins. j 1/ O o p /> d ? ' v /"> ?? * ? ? o ? wi ? I i . i I I 1 i I i VO , u\ < Ul UMI.S I U AX. ta^\\%.9 IK A | riving here today, tell of horrifying j details of a wholesale slaughter of j Turkish garrison and Turkish otlic- j ials. Soldiers were put to sword and no. mercy was shown by the frenzied tribesmen. Maddened tribesmen drove women and children before them and carried off many prisoners from the devastated villages. In eases where defense was made, the defenders of families were submitted to most brutal torture. * Why Not Hang Him? When eighteen-year-old George Rloohas, convicted of the murder of Kftimias Stergiousins at Kalamazoor, Mich., was sentenced to life imprisonment he hogged the officers to hang him. He said he would rather die than face tho prospect of spending the rest of his days hehind the bars. H loo has confessed he dropped a boulder on the dead of hip victim whilo tho latter was asleep. ? . Heard for Miles. Hull dings over a radius of several Monks were damaged by a boiler explosion in the Frodonla, N. V., Street Railway power house there shortly before midnight. One man was killed and another fatally injured. Two I boilers exploded simultaneously with! a roar that was heard at a distance! of several miles. id by m mm riL VERY QUEER CASE A MAN WORK I P FROM A DRUNK AND FOUND HE HAD A WIFE. Judge Sense, Sitting in Chambers, Annuls Tics That Held lvulker to Pretty Telephone Girl. For want of consent on the part of the plaintiff. Ernest Brooks Walker. of Greenville, formerly a ticket agent at the Southern station in Spartanburg, Judge T. S. Seasc, sit ting in chambers at Spartanburg has annuled the marriage contracted between Mr. Walker and Miss Ida Jordan, a prutt> telephone operator of Spartanburg on August 20, last. In his complaint Mr. Walker declared he was so drunk when the marriage ceremony was performed that he had no recollection of it and did not know he was married until he woke up in the Argvle hotel the following morning and found Miss Jordan with him and she told him she was his wife. Tn her answer to his suit, Miss Jordan admitted all his allegations. Rev. W. M. Whitesides. pastor of , Green Street flautist. church, who married the couple, said that when I they came to him it was evident that ! Mr. Walker had been drinking, but j be was in perfect command of all his senses. "I talked to them both for some i time," said Mr \Vhite?ddf?s, "telling I them what an important step it was I that they were taking and asking 'them If they had fully made up their I minds. Mr. Walker sal 1 he and Miss Jordan had been sweethearts for two years and were determined to be married. In asking for the annullment Mr. Walker said that on August 2 0 and the day preceding, he and other I young men had been drinking to ex| cess in Greenville. lie was drunk , that, evening and while in that condition went to Spartanburg, arriving about. 0 o'clock, lie entered a hack i at the station, bought a pint of whisi , , key from tlu? bacKinati and took a big drink, "nnd soon became oblivious to all t ranspii ing events and uuI conscious of what I was doiii.?." Tie has le'ini"d that, some (into during the night, he went ur was mrrie.l trv Vi??i .T'>rd:in'? homo and tint about 1! o'clock of the samo I I i g 11 L h() fl T i (1 ?>! i Sli Jwl'd r< 11 \\ 0 It I to 111* v. M i*. \\ ii 11 csiel i o house anil wero 111 arried. Tie remained ;;nconscious, ho said, until tho 11 ox t. morning, when ho found himself in a room at tho Argyll* with Mi -a Jordan. Sho tali! him they had boon mnrriud. lie at on.ro left the hotel, ho said an ! returned to (1 rcc?i \ i!!e and has not scon MPs .!ov ! m since AXOTHKR SIVIiUK C.\! (diT. 1*3' (In* Old Siiani>Ii (?ug Tliat Has Ileen Hvposoil. 'A well-known citizen of Hiirh Shoals. Oconee count v. (la., ovneiulod $' 5 in cehlograins in answer to a communication 1m received from Madrid? Spain, in 'he hoi e of becoming tho possessor of a fortune. Tho writer of the letter claimed he was in prison in .Madrid: that he was an American and had recently married a young woman who formerly lived near Atlanta. lie claimed there was one chip, a little girl, now in the care of Madrid nnrl ioc liwl hn H>n| fbn 1 I i <r ll SIlO'll*? man to adopt her, promising a hrsto reward. lie declared lie was held in prison as the victim of political plots and had no hope of freedom. If hs undoes tool that the r ablegram sent, hy the Oconee man acknowledging receipt of the letter virtually agreed to take cm re of the child. From time to time in the past few years similar letters from different points in Spain have boon sent to this country, finally resulting in a warning being issued by the postoffice department. "Night lbhlers" Convicted. Ross U. Stapleton, floor go It rooks, Robert Robertson. .1. K. Ptomv, William H. (limn, .lames K. (lunn of Raldwin eounty, Alabama, wore We ! nesday adjudged guilty of ni.'ht ridng by a jury in the United States district court at Mobile, Aha. It ie illeged that on March 2S, ipno. the aarty called at the home of n. R. '"'om stock and warned him to leave he country within a stipulated time or take the consequences. Mayor Was Killed. At Lagrange, K>\, Mayor M**Dowel was killed by a falling chimney while fighting fire Friday morning. Two firemen fell through the floor, and were perhaps fatally Injured. Quite a Family. The twenty-eighth ehild arrived Friday at the home of .Tason Fanner in Newcastle. In'. Twenty-one of the ch'l iron are living. Fanner la 10 years old and Mrs. ttennor is 15. i f % m MWWWWi 'i ? v - P I LI