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Southern Baptist Convention It Hold AnDual
Session in Few flays.
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' NUMBER SIX MILLION
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The Convention Will lie Numerically
Larger Than Congress or the Brit"
ish Parliament, but la Advisary
Only in Character, and Is Different
From Moat Such Bodies.
Greater number than the the British
parliament or the congress of
the United States, the Southern Ba]>tist
convention will meet in Jack
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17, with delegates present from
, every Southern State.
The convention Is made up of
* delegates from churches, associatlons,
State conventions, missionary
societies and Sunday schools. All
Baptist churches are independent.
Therefore the Convention has no
authority to bind the churches in
its territory. Its action is advisory,
not compulsory. Ministers and laymen
are admited into the convention
on the same basis without any
oflftcal distinction between the clergy
and laymen.
^ The convention has three boards:
The foreign mission board with headquarters
at Richmond, the home mission
board, with headquarters at Atlanta,
and the Sunday school board
with headquarters at Nashville. The
work of the foreign board is to
preach the gospel in foreign lands.
The home mission board looks after
0 missionary work in the home field,
which includes the Southern States,
Cuba and the Panama section.
The Sunday school board is the
head of the Sunday school work,
and publishes Sunday school helps,
periodicals and books for use in the
Sunday schools and Young People's
societies. The Southern Baptist The^
oligical seminary, the School of the
Prophets, located at Louisville, Ky.,
is also under the control of the
Southern Baptist convention.
According to the best available figures,
there are about 6,280,649 Baptists.
Of this number 4,1 10,873 are
^ in the South, 2,218,911 of the Southern
Baptists are white, 1,891,962
colored. In the Northern States
there are 1,190,293 Baptists. There
are 22,438 churches connected with
the Southern Baptist convention.
They make up the largest religious
denomination in the South. The
Baptists are said to have 3 9.5 per
cent of the church membership of
the South, the Methodists 26.5 per
cent, Catholics 15.9 per cent, Disciples
5.2 per cent., Presbyterians
\ 4.9 per cent, Episcopalians 1.7 and
all others 5.9 per cent.
The churches connected with this
convention raised last year for carrying
on their work $9,474,777. Of
this sum $1,336,519 was given for
i missions. The church property of
the Southern Baptist convention is
valued at $37,283,522.
Roger Williams was not the first
Baptist as some erroneously suppose.
The history of the church runs bark
for hundreds of years before his day.
John Runkun, who lived nearly an
hundred years before Williams was
born, was a Baptist. Williams was,
however, the first to become a Baptist
on American soil, and he organized
the first American Baptist
church in Providence, R. I.
The first Baptist church In the
South was constituted in South Carolina
in 1682. The first established
in North Carolina was in 1653, in
Virginia 1714, in Tennessee 1770,
in Georgia 1771, in Mississippi 1780,
^ in Kentucky 1781, in Alabama 1S03,
in Florida 183 8.
In 1762, when the great Baptist
persecution began in Virginia, there
were only 3,000 Baptists in the whole
country. In 24 years they had increased
to 35,000. In 1700 there
were 50,000, in 1812, 175,000; in
1825, 238,000; in 1840, 570,000,
and in 1853, 1,258,765. Today
there are in the South alone 4,110,873.
In 1814 the Baptists of the United
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PUYING WITH FIRE
OPEN RIOTING BY THE STRIKERS
IN TAMPA, FLA.
Declare Strike Will Continue Until
deLa Cam pa and Other Leaders
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Are Pardoned.
As the result of a mass meeting
at Tampa, Fla., Wednesday afternoon
at which indignation was expressed
over the confirmation of the
sentences of Jose D. La Campa, Brit
Ruseel and J. F. Bartlum, three at
leged leaders of the recent tobacco
workers troubles, 3,000 tobacco
workers declared a strike. About 20
per cent of the number went out
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they would not return to work until
the ruling of the court was rescinded.
Singing the Marseillaise, 3,000
cigar makers marched through the
streets of West Tampa and Ybor
City In a demonstration against the
decision of Judge Wall of the circuit
court, upholding the sentencing of
one year imprisonment of Jose deLa
Oampa, and other leaders in the
recent strike at Tampa, Fla., rendered
by the criminal court of record.
Following the parade a general
strike was declared, and Tampa
faces the same grave situation which
prevailed through a greater portion
of last year. Further than the gathering
of crowds of excited workers
on street corners to listen to speeches
by strike leaders, there was no disturbance
of a serious nature.
Wednesday night Judge Wall issued
a mandate to the sheriff to notify
the leaders in the movement that
unless the demonstration came to an
end before morning the strike leaders
under sentence, Jose deLa Campa,
Britt Russell and J. F. Bartluin
will be remanded to jail and sent to
the chaingang at once to begin serving
their terms. ,
When rumors were received in
the business section of Tampa that
the cigarmakers had struck and were
rioting, a large detail of police was
hurried to the labor temple in Ybor
City to preserve order. The strikers
gathered in the labor hall and listened
to speeches during the afternoon.
When the factories closed the
crowd was augmented by thousands
who did not walk out, and that night
the streets of both Ybor City and
West Tampa are choked with gesticulating
Latins discussing the situation.
In a manifesto issued (luring the
afternoon the joint advisory board
stated that the strike will continue
until the men under sentence are
either pardoned or a new trial is
granted. ine numoor wno waiKea
out represent about twenty-five, per
cent, of the men employed in the industry
In Tampa, and it is fc'ire 1
that a majority of those who did
not answer the general call will
walk out late**.
A meeting of the general trades
and labor assembly is in session discussing
the advisability of a sympathetic
strike of all of the trade
bodies of the city.
Ilcbouml Was Fatal.
After an unsuccessful attempt to
shoot a crow, John Collins, aged 82,
a farmer, lies dead at his home near
Hen-dersonville, N. C., the victim of a
recoiling gun. Me had killed two
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vader and was hit in the chest with
the butt end of his gun. After suffering
intensely for several hours he
died at an early hour Tuesday morning.
The Wages of Sin.
At " Milwaukee, Wis., two young
women, Emma Nelson and Mebel
Gilmore, were shot and instantly
killed and Joseph linger was seriously
wounded in a fight at a resort
there Tuesday, by Charles Yance, a
stationary engineer of Racine, who
then killed himself. A quarrel between
linger and Yance preceded the
shooting.
Want to Divide Georgia.
A resolution will be introduced in
the next Georgia Legislature seeking
to memorali/.e Congress to cut Georgia
into two States, to be known as
North Genreria and South Georeia.
Its object, according to J. L Crawley,
of Waycross, who has drafted
the resolution, is to stop the continuing
bickering in politics and other
ways between the two sections.
States gave for missions $134,112,
and had only 64 missionaries employed.
Last year they gave $865,585
for missions, and there were 800
missionaries on the foreign field. In
1853 Southern Baptists raised $21,000
for foreign missions.
There were two foreign mission
stations?one in Africa, and one in
China. In these two fields 19 missionaries
were at work. The home
missions board reported 77 missionaries
at work, and 642 baptisms *n
the same period. Last year $460,787
was raised for foreign missions
in the territory of the Southern
Baptist convention and there were
231 missionaries on the foreign field.
The home board reported last year
$283,436 with 1,066 missionaries at
work and 188,000 baptisms.
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WILL TALK OF UNION
METHODISTS TO CONSIDER ORGANIC
FEDERATION.
Commissioners from Three Great
Branches of the Greatest Protestant
Denomination Meet to Confer.
For the purpose of considering
plqns for the federation of three
great branches of Methodism, the
Methodist Protestant Church, the
Methodist Episcopal Church, the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
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commission representing the three
denominations met at Chattonooga,
Tenn., Monday.
The joint commission consits of
2 7 members, each church being represented
by nine commissioners, and
its first session will be held on Wednesday
to receive and act on the
report of the substitute committee.
The federation movement was begun
at the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
at Memphis, in 1 894, when the commission
representing that denomination
was created. Later similar commissions
were appointed by the two
other churches and the three held a
meeting at Baltimore in December,
1910.
At that time a substitute committee
of three from each commission
was appointed to inquire into the
causes of the alienation of the three
branches of Methodism and, to formulate
and present a plan for unification.
This committee met at Cincinnati
early in the present year and agreed
upon a tentative plan of federation,
which will be submitted to the joint
commission at- its meeting. The
meetings of the substitute committee
and of the commissions are behind
closed doors.
Among the prominent men taking
part in this conference are:
Methodist Church, South?Bishops
A. W. Wilson, of Baltimore, and E.
E. Boss, of Nashville; Collins Denny
of Nashville; Dr. W. J. Young, of
Danville, Va.; F. M. Thomas, of
T.rtnfavMIa f! Hf Rishon. of Wichita
Falls; R. S. Hyer, of Dallas, Texas,
and W. B. Stubbs, of Savannah
Methodist Episcopal Church?Bishop
Early Cranston, of Washington,
J. A. Patten, of Chattanooga; R. \V.
Miller and J. M. Walden, of Cincinnati,
and L. B. Wilson, of Philadelphia.
Methodist Protestant?Dr. T. H.
Lewis, of Westminister, Md.; L. M.
Jennings, of Pittsburg; R. S. Harris,
of Henderson, X. C., and J. J. Barge,
of Atlanta.
FIVE CHILDREN BURNED.
Father Was Unable to Rescue Tliem
Through Firery Stairway.
Five of the six children of Sanford
Davis, a farmer, residing near
Free Union. Va., were burned to
death in a fire that destroyed the
Davis home Tuesday, Davis and his
wife and an infant escaping. The
dead children ranged in age from
three to fifteen years. The slept in
a room on the second floor, reached
by narrow stairs. When discovered
the fire aleadv had eaten its way to
the stairway. The frantic father attempted
to reach the room from the
outside, but when at the top of the
ladder he was nearly overcome by
smoke and heat. Davis called vainly
for the children to come to him.
The only responce came feebly from
Estelle, aged 15, who cried: "Papa,
I can t get out; I am nearly strangled
to death, I?".
WOMEN TOO BUSY AT BRIDGE.
Minister Says Tliey Have Not Time
to Raise Families.
The Rev. J. E. Wray, pastor of the
Mulberry Street church, in Macon,
Ga., in a recent sermon, declared
that the women of the present day,
so far as his observation extends, are
too busy playing bridge and going
in society, and the men too deeply
|interested In making money, for them
to raise families of creditable size.
He deplored the fact that three or
four children are now considered a
large family, and contrasting this
era with the time when 10 and 12
children in a family were common.
He said that this indicated a regretable
decline in the standards and morals
of civilization.
iwkiiwii i-niiirr \ iidii^rn.
The Newberry Observer says "the
backbone of the cold weather is
broken. The break came somewhat
suddenly on Tuesday. That morning
started off at 4.1 degress; in the
afternoon the temperature went up
to 88. The temperature Wednesday
morning was 55; Wednesday afternoon
it reached 94. There was a
change of fifty-one degrees from
Tuesday morning to Wednesday afternoon.
The change was very welcome,
for everybody had got mighty
tired of wintef weather in April and
May." All that is needed now is a
good rain. *
Another Aviator Victim.
At Berlin, Germany, Herr Ilekemmuller,
an aviatoi* pupil, was killed,
when his aeroplane crashed against
a building that had been hidden from
view of the pilot by a heavy morning
mist.
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NEGROES FROM THERE
News of Governor mease's uraer tor
Removal to the Penitentiary of
Nc^ro Prisoners Under Death Sentence
Received with Complete Surprise
by the People of Florence.
The News and Courier correspondent
at Florence says the article in
Tue/sday's iNtews and Courier sent
out from Columbia headed "llusn
Negroes to Penitentiary," was a stunner
to Florence folks, inasmuch as
it gave out news emanating from the
Governor's office that the people of
that city believe was absolutely without
foundation, for its publication,
and it has caused no little harsh comment
of the Governor's action, by
not only his enemies, but by some of
his Florence friends and admirers.
Tne correspondent says me siuiy
is considered so ridiculous that Florence
folks really take it for a State
House joke of the first water. The
Sheriff knew nothing of the story
until it was shown him by the correspondent
in The News and Courier,
and then he hurried to the postofTlce,
where he found the Governor s letter
of the night before awaiting him.
The correspondent says:
Sheriff Parch, who. by the way,
has never had to carry a prisoner to
the Penitentiary for safekeeping, but,
on the other hand, has faced two
mobs at the risk of his life to defend
his prisoners, is mortified over
the fact that the Governor has ordered
these two prisoners hustled to
the Penitentiary, and states that
there is absolutely no use or reason
for these prisoners to be removed
from the Florence prison and feels
that it is a reflection on him if insisted
upon.
The following letter from the Governor
to Sheriff Purch was received
by the sheriff at eleven o'clock Tuesday
morning, the postmark on the
envelope showing that it was mailed
at Columbia, or rather stamped, May
8, 9:30 p. m. at the Columbia postoffice.
"State of South Carolina, Executive
Chamber, Columbia, S. C., May
8, 1911.?To Mr. Thomas S. Burcli,
Sheriff Florence County, Florence, S.
C.?Dear Sir: Tti view of the action
of the Supreme Court against the
two negroes convicted along with
the negro Ham, for killing a white
man and, after talking with some
parties who are acquainted with the
facts, T think it would be advisable
for you to bring the negroes to the
State Penitentiary; for if they are
granted a new trial it is possible that
they may be dealt with at once or
cause you much trouble, so bring
them on the next train and commit
them to the State Penitentiary for
safe keeping. Very respectfully,
"Cole H. Please, Governor.'*
To the above letter the following
telegram was sent in reply by Sheriff
Purch, after immediate consultation
with Solicitor Walter II. Wells, of
this circuit, and State Senator Joseph
W. McCown;
"Florence, S. C., May 9, 1911.?
To Governor Cole L. Please, Greenville,
S. C.,?Have read article in
The News and Courier of today. Sheriff,
deputy sheriff and I think no danger
whatever. Ask to have prisoners
remain here. Sheriff guarantees
protection.
"Walter H. Wells, Solicitor."
State Senator Joseph W. JVIcCown
wired the Governor as follows:
"Florence, S. C., May 9, 1911.?
To Cole Li. Please, Greenville, S. C.,
care Ottaray Hotel.?I think prisoners
are perfectly safe in Florence
jail.
"J. W. McCown, Senator.
Tn reply to his message to Governor
Please, Sheriff Purch received the
following telegram Tuesday night,
too late to take the prisoners to Columbia
on the evening train, but he
did so at four o'clock a. m. next day:
"Greenville, S. C., May 9, 1911.?
Thomas S. Purch, Florence, S. C.,
Your wire. Take prisoners to Penitentiary
on first train as directed.
"Cole Li. Please, Governor."
Dashed to His Death.
Lieut. George E. M. Kelley, of the
Thirtieth infantry, U. S. A., was killed
Wednesday morning in a fall
from a Curtis? aeroplane at Fort
Sam Houston. He was making a
flight, and when about fifty feet from
the ground shot forward from his
seat, landing on his head. His skull
was fractured, and he died in a few
moments without regaining consciousness.
Mlliw rndi>r tlio Wlw'cls.
Carl Malum, of Wadley, Ga., file
clerk in the office of the Atlantic
Coast Line dispatcher at Lakeland,
Kla., was killed there Saturday by a
passenger train. He jumped off the
train while it was in motion, alighted
on a pile of coal and fell under tiie
wheels. He was 18 years old and
had been in the Lakeland office but
two weeks. *
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CAUSE OF DISEASE
STATE HOARD OF HEALTH CONDEMNS
HOSIERY MILL.
Outdoor Work Recommended for
Convict** and a New Building Asked
for Females.
The hosiery mill at the State penitentiary,
in which several hundred
convicts are employed, under a flveyear
contract with the State of South
Carolina, has been condemned by
the State board of health, following
an investigation of conditions to determine
the cause of tuberculosis.
The investigation was made as the
result of a resolution passed by the
general assembly. It is expected that
the contract with the operator of
the hosiery mill, J. M. Graham, will
be taken up at the next session of '
the legislature. The board of"health
recommends outdoor work for the
convicts.
The hosiery mill at the State penitentiary
is an old bone of contention,
and conditions there have been
investigated on several previous occasions.
The report was made to
A. K. Sanders, the chairman of the
board of directors of the penitentiary.
The report quotes the resolution
of the general assembly. The
resolutions provides that the conditions
may be remedied by the use
of the funds of the State peniten4
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It was resolved by the State board
of health that the building used for
the female prisoners at the penitentiary
should be destroyed and a new
building erected at an early date. It
is recommended that the sick from
the female ward be removed to a
ward in the general hospital and
that the tuberculosis patients be removed
to the tuberculosis hospital
at once.
The board further recommends
that the toilets in the male prison
building should be removed to an extension
to be constructed adjoining
the building, that the bedding of the
prisoners be kept clean, that only
one prisoner be allowed to occupy
one cell, and that fresh water be provided
for the prisoners d^VnS
night. This recomedation condemns
the system in vogue of causing
the prisoners to take water from
tubs as they enter the prison in the
evening to be locked up for the
night.
With reference to the hosiery mill
the report says: "Resolved, That
after a thorough consideration of all
the phases of the hygiene and sanitation
in connection with the work
in the hosiery mill it is the sense of I
the entire board that this form of
employment should be discontinued
and that work of an outdoor nature
should he provided." .
The present toilet arrangement in
the general hospital building is condemned
that toilets and baths in accordance
with modern sanitary ideas
be installed. It is also recommended
that the building be generally
cleaned, and that the entire building
be screened.
The board says that in the tuberculosis
hospital nothing is found to
condemn, but much to commend.
The only suggestion in reference to
the building is that it be properly
screend.
Concerning the medical system the
report says: "That we condemn the
present medical system as inadequate
and ineflicient." It is recommended
that a chief physician and assistant
be named. White or colored nurses
are recommended. *
TO ORANGEBURG NEXT YEAR.
( rand Lodge Chid Fellows Adjoiinrs
at Greenville.
The South Carolina Grand Lodge,
I. O. O. F.f held its closing session
in the Opera House Thursday. Orangeburg
was decided upon as the
next meeting place.
The election of officers of the
Grand Lodge was held just before
adjournment. Jas. G. Lang, Jr., of
Union, who for the past year has
been deputy grand master, was made
grand master. To succeed Mr. Long
as deputy grand master is J. H.
Craig, of Anderson, formerly grand
warden. As grand warden to succeed
Mr. Craig, Kenneth Baker, of Greenwood,
was elected. Other oilicers of
the Grand Lodge who were elected
Thursday morning are: J ,L. Michie,
of Darlington, grand chaplain; M.
P. Wells, of Edgefield, grand conductor;
A. H. Doggett, of Piedmont,
grand marshall; C. L. Padgett, of
Union, grand guardian; J. J. Cooper,
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S. F. Killingsworth, of Columbia, was
re-elected grand secretary, and R.
Endel, of Greenville, was re-elected
grand treasurer. ,
Resides the election of these officers,
Wade II. Cobb, of Columbia,
was elected representative to the ,
Sovereign Grand Lodge, which meets
in Indinapolis next September.
Messrs. J. J. McSwain, of Greenville, |
and Jj. N. Zealey, of Columbia, were ,
elected trustees of the Orphans'
Home at Greenville. Wade Hampton
Cobb, retiring grand master,
was presented with the past grand
masters Jewel.
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We have a small taste of the good <
old summertime now, and you may i
take 'em off, if have not alredy done ;
so. i
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Insurgents Refuse to Support iiallinger,
Causcus C?ndl(l?te to Sue"
cee<l Frye, Although Hardly Possible
la Follette and Followers
Will Vote for llacon, Democrat.
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier says a broad
grin constantly overspread the features
of Senator I>aFollette and several
other leading Republican insur
gents during tne neauuiui spin. mat
was developed in the Republican
Senate ranks Thursday, over the
election of a President pro tem to
succeed Senator Frye. Such political
curiosities as frequent conferences
on the door between Senators LaFollette
and Martin developed in the
long parliamentary battle.
The motion to adjourn, by Senator
LaFollette was taken by some observers
as a sign of a compromise
between the regulars and the insurgents,
but the latter deny this positively
and say that they are standing
pat and will be found so Monday,
when the Senate reconvenes.
The only chance of the election of
a Democratic President pro tem
would be by the insurgents voting
for a plurality election, or for Senator
Bacon, which is altogether unlikely.
If the three Republican absentees
and one Democrat, who were
pared, turn up Monday, both the
Democrats and the regular Republicans
will be farther from winning
than they was Thursday, as the
number necessary to make a majority,
will be increased.
But the Democrats are enjoying
the row hugely. A protracted deadlock
over the matter is probable. It
may last throughout the extra session.
In that event "Sunny Jim"
Sherman will have to stay constantly
on the job, except that when ho
wishes to go to a baseball game he
has the power to name a sub for ono
clay.
The incapacity of the Republican
party in the Senate to control a caucus
edict without the aid of the progressive
was demonstrated In the
Senate Thursday, when after moro
than two hours of effort and as a result
of seven ballots, the Senate failed
to elect Senator Gallinger, of New
Hampshire, as President pro tern to
Senator Frye, of Maine. Mr. Frye's
recent resignation was based on poor
health. Thursday's deadlock wae
due to the opposition of the progressive
Republican Senators, five ?f
whom voted against and three of
whom were paired against Mr. Galliger.
Senator Cullom, as the chairman
of the Democratic caucus, noininat
ed Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, and Mr.
LaFollette nominated Mr. Clapp. On
the first ballot it was apparent that
when the progressives did not cast
their votes against Mr. Gallinger
they were so paired as to render effective
the votes of absentees.
The first ballot totalled 73 votes,
of which Mr. Bacon, the Democratic
candidate, received 35: Mr. Gallinger,
the Republican candidate. 32,
and Mr. Clapp, 4, while Mr. Bacon
voted for Mr. Tillman and Mr. Clapp
for Mr. Bristow. Messrs Bristow,
I.aFollette, Gronna and Poindexter
voted for Mr. Clapp. Messrs. Cummins,
Bourn, Works and Crawford,
progressives, were all absent, but
paired, except Mr. crawioni, wnu
was ill. Necessary to a choice 37.
On the second ballot Senator (ia 1 linger,
who had refrained from voting
voted for Mr. Lodge, increasing
the total vote to 7 4 an making 3 8
necessary to elect.
The figures were unchanged
throughout the seven ballots of voting
until the last vote, Senator
Rradley retiring from the chamber,
thus reducing the vote by his own
ballot, and that of Senator Tayloi,
of Tennessee, who was paired with
him.
Mr. Root contended that under
the rules all Senators are required
to vote when their names are called.
Mr. Railey replied that the immemorial
custom had sanctioned pairing
so as to render it equivalent to
a rule.
l\tr. LaFollette, for the progressive,
denied the right of any Senator
to make the point against any one
voting "as I note that we are voting
against our party," "I do not propose,"
he said, "to be outlawed because
I cannot agree to support any
man who may he agreed upon by
such a meeting."
By vote the Senate held that a
pair could bo recognized only as an
excuse for not voting.
Messrs. Stone, Bailey and other
Democrats contended that a plurality
should elect. This would have Hecured
Mr. Bacon's election, but the
Chair ruled against them.
Itushetl to Columbia.
Two negroes have been rushed tothe
penitentiary from Florence by
the order of Gov. Blease. Alex Weldon
and William Burroughs, under
sentence of death for the killing of
E. M. ?Moye, a Florence county farmer,
are the men. ^
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