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I WILL NOT HANG fit Slayer af Tweaty-Oae Penan Sea t la Stale Priiea far Life. FOR DYNAMITE CRIMES Whe Above Was the Punishment Meted Oat to James B. McNamara, While John J. McNamara, Who Hew Up the Llewellyn Iron Works, Was Given Fifteen Years. A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal., mjs James Barnabas McNamara and John J. iMcNamara, brothers, nat|ves of Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesday felt the strong hand of justice which they long had sought to evade. J. B. McNamara was sentenced to imprisonment for life, for murder ommitted in dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building and killing twenty-one persons, and his brother to fifteen years in the penitentiary for blowing up the Llewellyn Iron Works. It was the retaliatory action of the law against thoso lawless methods f which John J. McNamara, secretary and treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, pursued in fighting mployers who kept open shops. P Though the younger Brother, James B., in formally presenting his confession to the Court Tuesday, declared that he intended no murder when he placed sixteen sticks of dyn ? ' ? rn? I 11 ami to oeneaui me nines uuuuuik, uu October 1, 1910, John J. McNamara, recounting to his attorneys his principles, broke down as he muttered that he fought against great odds in the best way he could. It was a sequel to the Court scene earlle; Tuesday when he received his sentence In tears of abject surrender. A few hours after the sentences were pronounced by Judge Bordwell, word went forth that subpoenas would be Issued for both McNamaras to appear before- a Federal grand Jury to divulge further details of a dheir dynamiting conspiracies. * The United States Government will ^ demand of them information concerning Inter-State trafficking In dynamite, which is alleged to have resulted in more than 100 explosions at bridges and factories where labor welfare was involved. Something of the same fear of terrorism brought by those explosions ditted through a crowd of nearly 15, 00 persons Tuesday, as it surged ^ back and forth around the jail, expecting to see the McNamaras taken to the Hall of Records, where previous scenes in the trial had been enacted. Rut the Court and counsel, taking cognizance of possible lawlessness, held the final session In a ] Court room adjoining the jail, and j the prisoners were taken thither over i p an interior bridge passageway. j "I never carried a gun until to- { day, since the McNamara affair start- ] ed,M confided Samuel L. Browns, , chief official of the State department < of investigation, when his detectives ] reported to him that suspicious char- j acters by the scores were scattered ] in the crowd. ] Judge Bordwell changed his mind j ^ several times, but took final precau- j tion and held Court in the small { chamber beside the Jail. Outside the j crowd begged for entrance. An army of policemen fought its efforts. To i the Hall of Records, not far distant, t ^ the mass of humanity moved back i and forth in confusion and even ( many who really were entitled to ad- f mission were denied that privilege, $ In the Hall of Records, floors and i stairways were choked with the cur- t lous. Only a hundred persons saw t the two brothers led through the t narrow passageway into the chamber c beside the jail. , "i * \ STATISTICAL RETORT 1 , t Interesting Data Showing the Growth of the Church. At the late Conference of the 1 Methodist Church at Rennettsville the -f Rev. It. E. Turnipseed, statistical secretary, made hio report, which contains the following interesting facts: ^ Local preachers, 70; members, 91,- e 130; net gain over last year, 1,679; r Infants baptized, 2,233; adults bap- ^ tized, 1,9 80; Epworth Leagues, 102 b senior and 78 junior; number of c Sunday-schools, 717; number of e scholars, 58,926; increase over last a year, 4,201; amount paid superannu- ^ ated ministers, $10,600; missions, a m j * a i a ft n r o . j _ a. i _ a ft ft ioreign, fzi.vaa.oai aomesnc, *?>,- ^ 038.19; specials for missions, $7,- t] 735.13; chhrch extension, $8,873.67; Amerioan Bible Society, $989.05; pre- s siding elders, $26,869.63; pastors, ^ $213,093.07; Bishops, $3,381.17. g ? Houses of worship, 764; number of 8, * societies, 804; value of churches, $1,- t] a 981,820; number pastoral charges, b 251; parsonages, 209; value parson- y ages, $512,550; educational property, e{ value Wofford College, $356,800; Co- ^ lumbia College, $218,450; Lander ^ College, $135,000. a Killed as Trains Crash. a Sixteen persons are reported killed ir la a head-on colllsslon between two h Union Pacifle passenger trains a few ai sites east of Ogden, Utah, Thursday, gi \ HUNT THE! DOWN ! BLOODHOUNDS ARB ON THB TRAIL OF THE WHITE MEN. Who Murdered and Burned Three Negroes in a Wagon Loaded With Cotton Out In Tennessee. Adispatch from Savannah. Tenn., days four white men were fugitives from a posse of prominent planters who sought to avenge the murder of a respected colored farmer and tne lynching of his two daughters. The slayers burned the bodies of their victims on a load of the farmer's cotton. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the slayers and the whole countryside, aroused by the atrocity of the deed, arose and Joined in the pursuit. It was conceived that if caught the slayers would be lynched. iMystery surrounded the triple slaying. The identity of the murderers, beyond the fact that they are white men, was unknown. There was no apparent motive for the crime. Ben Pettigrew and his two young daughters, who lived on a farm near Fishers Landing, were the victims. Pettigrew had borne a reputation for honosty and trustworthiness unequaled among the colored people of that section of the country and was regarded as highly as any member of his race in the South. Pettigrew was driving a load of cotton from his farm to Savannah. On the road a few miles from this place four white men appeared and shot him to death as he sat in the seat of his wagon. Then they dragged his two daughters from the top of the load and hanged them to a nearby tree. While their .bodies dangled from a limb the slayers drove the load of cotton under them and set flre to it. Other farmers who were driving along the road saw the blazing cotton and hurried to the scene, arriving in time to see the four slayers escape into a dense thicket. They gave pursuit, but were unable to overtake the slayers. The bodies of Pettigrew and his daughters were burned to a crisp before the burning cotton couid be extinguished. The authorities were notified of the slaying and at once organized a posse. The most prominent and wealthy planters in that section of the country volunteered to aid in running down the fugitives and an alarm was sent throughout the countryside. MOB LISTENS TO REASON. Delivers to Sheriff Laurens Boy Charged With Serious Offense. The prompt action, Wednesday night, of Sheriff Owlngs, Deputy Reid and Rural Policeman Sullivan, and the cool conduct of the officers after arriving upon the grounds, probably saved Robert Moody, a 16-year-old negro boy from the hands of an angry srowdj of citizens bent on meeting jut ot the negro summary vengeance tor his alleged conduct towards two drls of Laurens. The trouble occur rod in the vicinity of Watts Cotton Mills, near the city, and after an appeal to the crowd to let the law take ts course, Moody was delivered to :he officers and by them lodged in tail. It seems that Moody late Tuesday ifternoon accosted the young girls is they were returning heme in a Juggy from the mill, where the older 1 )f the two Is employed. Springing 1 rom hiding on the roadside the uejro, so the story goes, seized the ] nule by the reins and bringing the ? earn to a stop, sprang to the side of ^ he buggy and demanded with oaths hat the young ladies get out. With- ' >ut waiting, it is said, the boy then 1 lade an effort to force them to alight, vhen the screams of both frightened 1 tim away. Driving hurriedly to their home, J he girls reported the matter. t t t 1 HOW TO CURE HAMS. < g y Phis Formula is Given by the Pro- 1 1 gressive Farmer. 1 Trim them neatly and make a ( irine strong enough to float a fresh gg. Put them in this and let them emain for four or five days to draw he blood. Then take them out and ^ oil and skim the brine and when old return them to the brine, adding nough fresh brine to cover them, nd then add for each 100 pounds of am a pint of black molasses and * n ounce of saltpeter, and ^let the 4 ams remain in the brine two or J hree weeks. Then take them out and hang and a moke well with hickory wood or a orn cobs and smother the Ore with ? reen cedar brush. When well ' moked, take them down and paint hem all over with a mixture of v lack molasses and black pepper. r /rap in stout brown paper and put * ach in a cotton sack and dip it in me wash and hang Jn a dark smoke f ouse. The hams will improve till " year old. 1 1 treat shoulders the same way, nd sides, except that the sides relain in the brine half the time the ami do. Jowls treated m this way i re fine for boiling with turnip h reons in the spring. 4 ti SHOT IN COURT A Mia Tryt la dial th# Calaws af the Skyer at Hit Bralher MURDERER IS BARGED It Wm Thought at First That" the Negro Had Again Escaped, But His Wound Was Slight* and the Execution of the Sentence Followed Shortly Afterward, A special dispatch from Washing ton, Ga., to toe Atlanta Constitution says the climax to the murder case of T. B. Walker, perhaps the most remarkable criminal case in many particulars ever tried in Georgia, came Wednesday at 11 o ciuck when Walker was being resentenced to be hanged for the murder of Charles Hollenshead on the night of October 28. Judge B. P. Walker arrived Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock and at once called a special session of the Wilkes superior court for the purpose of passing a second death sentence on the negro Walker, who was brought from Augusta by automobile at daylight. After the sentence of the court had been pronounced and the time fixed for Walker's execution at 2 o'clock Wednesday, John C. Hollonshead, of Lincoln county, a brother of the murdered man, attempted to kill the negro prisoner before he could be taken back to his cell. Only one shot was ilred, and that took effect in the right cheek of the condemned negro. The court house was well filled when the shot was fired and consternation reigned for a time. A hasty exit of a score of citizens, together with a yell of "where is Walker," gave the impression that the negro had made another sensational dash for liberty. The negro was only slightly wounded and was rushed from the side door to the Jail adjoining the court house by Sheriff Bobo, where his flesh wound was dressed by the county physician. Walker was not sufficiently wounded to interfere with his legal execation, which occurred Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. His neck was broken and he was pronounced dead in eight minutes. Hollenshead suffered a physical and nervous collapse after the shooting in the court house and was taken from the building by several friends. He had since the death of his brother advised that Walker be given a legal execution. During the last search of four days and nights, HollensheaJ, who is a prominent planter of Lincoln county, had joined the county officials in the hunt for Walker and was not in control 01 nis racuiues. Walker killed C. S. Holelnshead, a prominent man of affairs of Wilkes county, with a load of buckshot on the night of October 28 at Hollenshead's store near Washington. He was captured the same night about ten miles f:*om Washington and was delivered to Deputy Sheriff John W. Calloway, from whom he was taken by a mob at midnight, bent on lynching. He escaped from the mob as they attempted to take him from a buggy to string him up, and was recaptured November 2 in Lincoln county and was taken to Atlanta for safe keeping. On November 8 he was tried at the regular term of the Wilkes superior ?ourt and sentenced to be hanged on November 29. Following the first sentence Walk91' was taken to A'ugusta for safe keeping and was being taken to Washington on the night of November 28 for execution the noxt day, ivhen he escaped from Deputy Sheriff Florence at Barnett. On December 3 Walker was recaptured near Gibson, Ga., by ex-Senator H. A. Williams, who hastened vith him to Augusta, where he renained until Tuesday nigut, when le was taken to Washington and jaid the penalty of death for his jrime, which he confessed. ? ? SEVERAL PEOPLE BURNED. Is a Result of Trying to Start Fire With Kerosene Oil. % At New Albany, Ind., Mrs. Edvard Case is dead, her daughter, tfrs. Nora Lynch, and her son. Raynond Case, aged 10, are said to be luln cr o nil o a o >ai? il on n 1 n h n Pooa lJ <ilDf uiiu i% ouu\?uu n\/it) uuuii v aovi iged 17, is severely burned as a relult of the mother attempting to j tart a fire with coal oil at her home, j 'he oil can exploded in the mother's t land and in an instant she was /rapped in flames. The children | ushed to her aid. Mrs. Lynch and ; he younger son inhaled the flames. [ Vill Tracey, a railroad watchman I tationed near the house, attracted y the screams, smothered the flames nd extinguished the fire which hreatened to destroy the house. c ??? 1 Let your Christmas presents b< c omething useful. Thousands of dol are are worse than wasted on useless J hlngs every year. NEJIV FOLDER FOR IRONING Cltvor Device Turns Neat Hem la Cloth as Iron Passss Over It. It took two Iowa men to design the Httle implement produced here, but the/ turned out a clever device. It Is a cloth folder for ironing, and will turn either one or two hems in a piece of cloth as the iron passes over n 1 f Clever Device. the goods and smoothing it down. A small piece or metai, narrower ai un? end, has its sides turned under to form grooves. The forward end has a seat on which the back of the iron rests, and the rear end has a tongue turned down through the center to act as a guide. This will either fold one edge of a large piece of cloth or both edges of a narrow strip. In either instance the iron passes over the cloth as it is turned down and presses It flat. Where cloth is folded by hand [ it is impossible to obtain the accurate edge given by this little implement, and the work takes a great deal longer to accomplish. pINOSVvtell KNdWINIi Rice to be a useful article of food should be stewed with milk, butter or stock, which will supply the want oi natural fat. Lemon Juice will clean aluminum. If your aluminum pans and kettles | become blackened, just a little of the Juice on a cloth and rub the utensil well. To starch black lawns boil two quarts of wheat bran in six quarts of water for, thirty-five minutes. Let it cool and then strain. No soap is necessary where this is used, as it both cleanses and stiffens. A good way to wash bottles or vinegar cruets is to put crushed egg chells aad warm soapy water together in then and shake well. This will clean the glass well and will not scratch it. I i To protect your rolling pin and board in absolute cleanliness is to , make coverings for them of unbleached muslin, having drawing strings and loops sufficiently strong to hold them , when the bags are hung up. A loat of bread will keep fresh much longer if placed in a covered U'.nn t> ? |n..?n W ? ~ oiuiiu v;iutiv. >> i ap iu a. iui uiuiu iu exclude air and keep the crock in a i cool place It is nicer than a tin vessel and much better than keeping the* bread in a refrigerator. To preserve unused yolk of eggs * put the yolks in a cup or basin, drop 1 a piece of kitchen paper into cold war J ter, and place over the top of cup or c bain. This will prevent the yolks ^ from getting hard and they will keep 1 for days. c To deodorize saucepans after cook- c Ing onion, cabbage or fish, try this i plan: Wash and dry the pan, then ( place a piece of thick brown paper fl on the stove, set fire to it and turn c the saucepan over the blaze. After a few moments remove it, and the g odor will not be noticed. , v v An easy and quick way of dropping t oil when making mayonnaise dressing n is to cut a small groove in each side i of the cork in the olive bottle. The p air will enter the groove at the top q and force the oil out of the lower d hole in slow, even drops. Lay the bot- c he on the table with the cork end projectlng well over the edge. You can sit dowu and do your beating, and the oil will come out just right. Tomato Relish. y One peck ripe tomatoes, chopped t< and drained over night la a bag, two d sups chopped celery, two cups ^ chopped onions, three green peppers C shopped, one quart strong vinegar, li :wo pounds brown sugar, three table- o ipoonfuls salt, two tablespoonfuls cin- t] lamon, two ounces mustard seed. Q Stir all together well, bottle and seal. Mo cooking. Keeps any length of dm e. \ Cleaning With Milk. Buttermilk is the best thing to dean linoleum add oilcloth. Just mop a t up with a soft cloth and see the T hrt taken off by the application. Milk .. veil rubbed into the wood makes a tood furniture polish also, keeping he shine surface in good oonditlon. c r< % \ YOUNG HAN RUNS AWAY # UNION POLICEMAN DISAPPEARS WITH CITY'S CASH. I-eft His Young Wife and Two Little Children to Fight It Out All Alone. A special to the Columbia Record from Union says Sergeant C. B. Gregory of the police force of that city, has left for parts unknown, and, it is alleged, since his disappearance it has been discovered that the city is short of $403, which he had collected for fines and $235, which was the net amount the police department received from the carnival held here recently, and $17, an overdraft on a bank. It seems that Gregory disappeared last Thursday night or Friday, the first intimation that he had gone being a note, which his wife found under his pillow Friday morning. This note reads: "Am leaving home; will take care of you and babies. You will hear from me soon. Yours, C." The matter was kept quiet for a while, pending an investigation, but the news soon leaked out. Chief of Police Evans was very busy Monday with others checking over the police accounts and it is Chief of Police Evans' statement that the amount short in all is $665. Gregory, it is ? _ * alleged, signed nis own name ana that of H. H. Hicks, who was one of the custodians of the carnival fund, to the check. Soon after Gregory's disappearance, Chief of Police Evans went In search of him, but returned without having located him. It is understood that there is an effort on foot to make up the amount that Gregory took, but Mayor Duncan stated that the law would have to take its course, although as yet a warrant has not been issued. Gregory is a man about 2C years old, rather tall and of a nice appearance. He leaves a wife and two children. It is reported that he had been drinking rather heavily lately. CHARGED WITH MURDER. Colored Elevator Man Taken Into Custody and Held. For the murder of Isaac S Vogel, a wealthy dealer in gems, in New York, Joseph Roberts, a negro elevator man, was held without bail by the coroner Wednesday night, upon charges made by detectives who questioned him all afternoon. Roberts asserts his innocence, but admits, the police say, the ownership of yellow shoes, spattered with blood, found not far from the body, a ring and fountain pen belonging formerly to the dead man. Roberts explains the blood on the shoes by Baying that he stepped in the pool around the dead man's head; declares he bought the ring two weeks ago, and that he picked up trie pen iroin toe noor eariy Wednesday. The thieves lifted from the dead man's body gems valued at $10,000. Vogel's watch was found later in the basement. It bore finger prints, through which the police hope to soivvict the murderer. THREE HIJHNEI) TO DKATH. Outrage in Kemote Kural Community in Tennessee. Two negroes and one young ne?resjv were burned to death by a nob of white land tenants, who obif?rt tr? n^nnnnov nf land hv rnl vw W" V """" >red people, near Savannah, Tenn., Arednesday, according to meagre retorts received at that place Wednes'ay. The lynching Is said to have oc:urred ten miles from Clifton, Tenn.*, n the vicinity of Rob's Landing. Clifton is about 3 00 miles east of Memphis. It is a few miles north >f Shiloh national military park. Three negroes were traveling to a fin, with a load of seed cotton. They rere waylaid, held up and tied to the ragon load of cotton, it is said, and ( he mob, after building a fire be- | leath the wagon, stood guard until he wagon was consumed. The ne- ( roes' team consisted of two mules. , >ne animal was permitted to burn to eath, according to the reports reeived at Savannah, while the other i'as shot, to end its misery. 1 Negio Hoy Is Hchl. I At Charleston Alonzo Small, ten < ears old colored boy was committed ' j jail Thursday, charged with the i eath of Capt. T. H. Symnies, who I ras killed by a run-awa./ car of the J %??? il. . \,A.. k a .. uiiHuiiuuiuu vuiiipttiiy, iii? uuy navlg started the car, it is alleged out f the car shed. The boy is held on ^ (ie statement of several other colred children that he started the car. ( Taken From Smoking Ruins. At Philadelphia four bodies?one J tan, t./o women and a child?have een taken from the ruins of the [arc apartment house, which was estroyed by Are Wednesday night hey have not been identified, but 1 . is believed they are the bodies of ^ [r. and Mrs. Samuel Balfour, theit 1 tiild and Miss Baker, who were first t sported to hare escaped. c WILL BEAT TAFT \ ' ';>WJ * Uaitcd Stoics Scaalar Fiaik J. Ill* Uiab (isfitasr Wlsaa . WOULD SWEEP COUNTRY l Says the Entire West Is for the Gov* cruur ui new ??erwcjf, ouu iiuu vnu/ Folly or Perfidy Can Prevent Hiq Nomination for President by DeoN ocrats. In a commuication to The Rockj Mountain News, Denver, Col., former United States Senator Frank J. Cannon, in speaking of the Presidential election next year, says: 1 have traveled in ten States since leaving Colorado a month ago. The cry of the Progressives in these States?Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and even Missouri?is for La Folette and Wilson. The Progressive Democrats want the Republican party to nominate Rob.. if r . i/1 ? 11 ? 11r.. ? r>? I .t .< t;i v im. uu r unviiv iui uiv jti voiut'uvjrM so that?it the Democratic party shall lose?the people will win. And Progressive Republicans want the Democratic party to* nominate Woodrow Wilson; so that?If the Republican party shall lose?still the people will win. You will observe that the Progressive Dove has at last learned wisdom from that wily old Serpent, tho System; whose favorite plan has been to select both candidates, subscribe to both campaign funds and then let the people. In deadly earnest, fight a useless battle. Personally, I fear that the Progressive Republicans cannot control their convention, although that fear grows less as one o-serves with what gigantic stature Da Follett? is novf, standing in the public gaze. And it in possible that the popular feeling] may find effective expression in the national convention. But it does not seem to be probable. The office-holding machine is powerful, insidious, and experienced. The Interests are desperately determined to prevent a La Follette term in the White Honse; and their financial aid makes the machine almost resistless. Frankly, I do not believe in this talk of a fatal breach between President Taft and Big Business. On both sides it looks like a calculated quarrel, a melodrama played for national entertainment. The need of such an affectation of battle is too obvious. Despite his earnest work, the people had no faith that President Taft would solve our problem and restore the government to tho custody of the people. A play was needed. It is being played. But there remains Wilson, whose nomination by the Democratic convention can only be prevented by insanity or perfidy?or both. Other candidates are able; they hare sincere advocates. Bait the Progressive Republicans?as well as tne mass of Democrats?want Wilson nominated; and it is the Progressive Republicans whose votes will decide the issue. If both La Follette and Wilson shall be nominated, the Progressives of the two parties will choose between them. If, as is more likely, Taft shall be the Republican nominee. Progressives of his .party would turn almost en masse to Wilson?and Wilson is the only possible Democratic nominee to whom they would turn. They will not leave Taft in order to vote for any Democratic ally oC the Interests. Tliey will not desert their own party to chance any humiliating experiment with the other. They want to preserve their self-respect and at the same time perform a high public service. ^ ^ f f?ll dead in church. Stricken While Conducting Thank*" giving Services. A dispatch to The State says Ja?. 0. Winburn, of Patrick, died suddenly Thanksgiving Day. Nearly all Patrick gathered at the Baptist ihurch to attend services, and as Mr. Sullivan, the pastor, had failed to lome, Mr. Winburn was conducting a short service. He had just read a nan 1m nn?^ marl a n vorv annrnnrlata t~ ~ v ? " V-* ^ v?|*. av?vv? xddress, when, without the slightest warning, he fell forward and breathed his last in a very few miuites. Mr. Wiii'mm hrs for vexra been a faithful and consistent worker n the Baptist church and w:ll be sadly missed by all who know him. ? Will Make n Good One. Col. E. H. Aull was elected Monday by the State Board of Education to he position of superintendent of duration of Newberry County, to suo;eed Mr. J. S. Wheeler, and will atlume his duties on the first of Jan* lary. t ? ? t Oted From Football Injuries. Charles D. Benson, the 17-year-old eft halfback of the Newport News, /a., high school football team, who tad his neck broken in tht game igainst Fredericksburg Oollega Frh lay, died there that night* . Afvfi , < * }/, i ? , $ ' ' . iV-.; s;* . at v , . .if .4; .?..v- v