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VAli ""l!> ' THREE ARE LYNCHED | SCORE OF MEN WREAK VENGEANCE ON PRISONERS. FOR USING THE TORCH On Way From Olar, Scone of Attempted Incendiarism, Trio of Confessed Negro Firebugs Meet Dcntli at Hands of Mob, Made !"]> of Hantberg County Men. Throe negroes in charge of two constables on their way from Olar to Eamberg to be lodged in the county jail were taken from the oflicers by a mob at Odom's bridge, seven miles from Olar, and shot to pieces Wednesday afternoon. The mob of 75 ft 100 men surprised the two constables and quickly securing the three negroes finished their work i 11 short order. The negroes are: Alfred Dublin, 25 years of age; Richard Dublin, MO years of age, and Peter Rivers, -10 years of age. All three of the negroes had confessed to attempting to burn the house of J. E. Cook, mayor of Olar, early Tuesday morning. On February 21 a destructive fire occurred in the business part of the town, resulting in much loss. A fortunate circumstance prevented Mr. Cook's house from sacrifice to the flames. Py the merest chance he came from his house to the porch Tuesday morning about 5: MO o'clock, lie was surprised at a glow coming apparently from beneath the floor and on investigation found a pile of "fat" splinters burning and an empty bottle that had contained the oil used to start the fire. With several buckets of * water he was table to extinguish the blaze before serious damage had occurred. A rigid investigation followed the attempt to burn the mayor's house. 3n view of the fact that indications at the February fire pointed to incendiary origin, the search was even more determined than might otherwise have been the ca?c. Rloodliounds were used in the pursuit, but to little avail. One negro was ar . .1 ni.. J ?1, J. r. ?wJ 1'CSieU 1 Ut'MlU.V IllglU, 11U? UIUI , <111 vt the other two Wednesday. Without being allowed to see or com munirate with one another they were closely questioned and finally confessed, the three telling tlie same story. All three arc known locally as "bad" negroes. All had had trouble with Mr. Cook. Peter Rivers had been convicted of illegally selling whiskey and Mr. Cook, as mayor, bad fined him $100. The two Dublin negroes had been discharged from the employ of Mr. Cook. The negroes were held In the guard house at Olar until the confessions were obtained and then it was decided to send them to the county jail at Bamberg. Two constables started that afternoon about 3 o'clock on the J 2-mile journey with their prisoners. Olar was in a state of comparative quiet prior to the departure of the officers with their prisoners and no violence was anticipated although the necessity for a speedy trial had been appreciated by a number of citi/.ons and such a request had been communicated to the solicitor. Just what happened when seven miles of tho trip had been safely traveled is more or less conjecture. It is only positively known that at Odom's bridge a determined crowd, nuniborng from 75 to 100 men, dispatched the three "fire-bugs," using bullets as the means of execution. Sheriff Hunter of Barnher county paid over (lie long distance telephone from his home at Bamberg that he was advised of the arrest of tho three negroes and was about to start for Olnr when he was advised that the negroes were already on the way to 'Bamberg. He then abandoned the journey and shortly afterwards was notified of the lynching by Magistrate O. .1. C. Lane. A deputy sheriff had gone to Olar but did not travel the road used by the Olar officers and arrived there after the lynching at Odom's bridge. Sheriff Hunter and the solicitor will go to Olar for an Investigation. UK.YSOX KOU HACK SUICIDK. | * Selfishness Prevents the Hearing of the Little Ones. "If one thinks race perpetuation brings too many hardships and is too much of a sacrifice, go to mother and ask if she thinks you a burden." That is the suggestion that C. R, Hisliop, general secretary of the Y M. C. A., made in a speech before the Association at Kansas City Mondav night. "I will answer all the arguments in favor of race suicide," Mr Bishop said. "The whole truth and eolc reason is selfishness." And Mr Phillips lilts the nail on the head too ... ? ? 1 * - - ?J ^ C.kfil/it/1 I III'I/ 111 Vtlimril t 7H* nv/<H According to tho Peking correspondent of The Daily Mail, London reports have reached the Chinese i capital that the eastern part of the city of Canton has been burned an<! sacked br disbanded soldiers h , BALKED AT DARINK HERO +. MESSENGER OX SOUTHERN l'ACiEIO KI LliS BANDITS. +. Drained His Captor and Shot the Other?All the Property Stolen by the llold-Up Outlaws Recovered. An express messenger, David A. Trousdale, balked the robbery of a Southern Pacific train near Sanderson, Texas, early Wednesday, when he trapped two highwaymen who had held up the train and killed them. The robbers boarded the train, No. 1), west-bound, a few miles east of Sanderson. The mail and express cars and the locomotive were detached from the passenger coaches. Then the engineer, under cover of the robbers' guns, was compelled to run the two or three coaches ahead of the remainder of the train. One of the robbers took the express messenger, Trousdale, back to the train and kept him under guard while the other robber covered the crew in the cars ahead and started to rifle the safe and express boxes. Trousdale is said to have employed the old ruse of signalling to an imaginary uerson back of . his captor. When the robber turned Trousdale grasped a mallet and before tlie high- i waymnn could shoot, ho dashed out his brains. Then arming himself with the dead man's gun, Trousdale waited for the return of the other bandit. After he had rifled the express boxes the second highwayman came back to the | conches. Stepping from cover, Trousdale killed him. All of the stolen property was recovered and the train proceeded. Trousdale is a young man, recently promoted to the express run. lie lives in San Antonio. The bodies of the robbers were taken to Sanderson. They are unidentified. At Dryden shortly after midnight where the robbers got aboard the i engine covering Engineer Grosh and the fireman with pistols, they told the engineer to keep moving and stop train over the first iron bridge west of Eldridge, about 10 miles i frcm Dryden. When the train stopped Conductor Erkel sent the porter, a negro, forward to see what was the matter and when the porter failed to return lie himself went forward only to be confronted with Winchesters. The engineer was brought back to the side of the mail car, and Messenger Trousdale and Mail Clerk Hanks were made to get out upon the ground. After debating a few minutes the robbers made the whole crew assist in cutting train in two and moving the engine, mail and ex" ? i ? _ a. .1 : press cars xorwara a snort uisiunuu. The express messenger and mail clerk were by this time rifling their respective cars at the point of guns and under threats of instant death. Conductor Erckel, hearing a train in the distant rear, went hack and had the train, a freight, stopped. From this lie put up the telephone always carried on trains and summoned ofllcers from Sanderson. By this time the robbers had driven the train half a mile, westward and stopped around a curve. It was here that Trousdale rose to the occasion. To the robbers he feigned to take the affair with apparent good nature and especially he seemed the most docile sort of catspaw for the robher who stood over him compelling him to rifle packages and boxes. Then just for a fleeting instant the bandit took his eyes off Trousdale and the next moment he was in eternity. Trousdale had seized a big mallet and brained him, striking a crushing blow upon the side of the head. As the man lay inert, Trousdale took up the six-shooter which had clattered loudly to the floor and crouched near the wall of the car, waiting for tho attack he knew would eonio. lie waited a long time, it seemed, for the man up in the engine had confldece in the other outlaw's ability. Growing uneasy, tho engine guard jumped quickly from the cab, released the engineer and ran back to tho express car. Trousdale barely heard his footstops before the robber had rushed half way into tho car. One shot was Trniisdale then ouletly in formed those of the crew waiting outside in the darkness that the holdup "was over." Trousdale Is a Tennesscan, having gone to San Antonio seven years ago when he entered the Well-Fargo employ. At Sanderson where the county authorities took charge of the bandits' bodies, they were still unidentified up to a late hour Wednesday. So far as known there is no reason to connect the attempted hold-up ' with any recent border disturbances. ?, ? ,? Property fluctuates considerably in . value within the space oftentimes of I a few weeks. When the assessor . comes around values depreciate to a . marvelous extent and they soar just as marvelously when a prospective buyer comes along. . Aviator Killed. 9 ? Horr Witte, an aviator, was killed ) when his Wright bi-plano collapsed. L: He was dashed to earth in the vijcinlty of Tctlow, Germany. I WANT A NEW PARTY TEDDY TRYING TO BREAK DP THE REPUBLICAN GANG THIS SEEMS HIS liAME Should Tuft and Roosevelt Rotli lie llptttcn (lie Republicans Would (?'<> to Pieces and Then Roosevelt Would Start Xow Party of His Own and Try to lie Elected. "Yes, lie's in bad. lie played the wrong card. Nothing doin' this year Tor Teddy." The speaker was ail intelligent looking man of perhaps 00, 011 an elevator in the Munsey building at Washington, where the Roosevelt committee has its Washington headquarters. "No, I guess he won't do much," said the man addressed, of about the same age and bearing. "I don't think he can get tlie nomination." "Oh,. I hope he does. 1 hope he does," said the other. "I'd be de lighted to see hi 111 get it, for it would help us more than anything else tho Republican party could do." At this point- a newspaper correspondent remarked: "I perceive that' you are a Democrat." "You bet your life," said the first speaker. "And I'd just love to see 'em nominate Teddy. lie would just have the earth wiped up with himself. It would be a lino thing for the Democrats." Others in tho car smiled assent to I the remarks of the Democrat who was anxious to see Teddy nominated. "Rut there's one thing about it. After it's all over, Teddy can sit back and laugh in his sleeve over one thing. That is this: lie broke up I the Republican party. Yes, sir; that's j what ho is doing, and he will finish the job. "But that isn't all. lie will be beaten, and Taft will be -beaten, and Hie Republican party will bo practically annihilated. But about eight cr twelve years from now, Roosevelt v ill bob up at the head of a new party, it will nominate him for the presidency, and he will be elected. We are young enough to see it, unless we drop off before our time. Now you just mark my words." And then the door of the building was reached, and the party of elevator companions went their several ways into the streets. There are people in Washington who believe that this will bo the final game of Theodore Roosevelt. They cannot see how he can possibly defeat Taft for the Republican nomination, hut, if this should occur, it is hard to see how, with the Taft following and the LaFollette following, and other factious of the Republican party alienated, he can bo elected. His nomination, they declare, will be a calamity for the Republican party, and lie will go down with it. With this view in mind, it is recalled that very recently Mr. Roosevelt declared that he would not be a candidate in 19 12, and that 'Mr. LaFollette declares that Mr. Roosevelt assured him that lie would not be a candidate. It is generally believed that LaFoIlette is telling the truth when lie says that Roosevelt assured him that he (LaFollette) was the proper man to lead the progressives, and that 110 one else could make so good a showing; and added that his influence and good wishes were with the Wisconsin senator. The opinion among (hose who hold these views is that Mr. Roosevelt meant what ho said to LaFollette, but that he discovered that LaFollette was gaining ground so rapidly that there was danger of his nomination. This the colonel had never anticipated, and he was not willing that anyone else should he the progressive nominee. Ills plan was to wait until the end of Taft's second administration, and then, taking the progressive party which LaFollette had formed and led, to secure its nomination for the presidency, and thus go dcwn in history as the successful leader of a groat third party, built upon the ruins of the Republican party. In this way ho would take rank in-history as of a mould with Lincoln, the first great Republican leader. Rut LaFollette was about to overthrow the Taft administration ir 10*12, and it became necessary foi the great third party leader to take care that his plan was not taken ovei by LaFollette. This had to be prevented by getting the nomination himself, or at least preventing La Follette from mixing things by got ting it too soon. So ho jumped in and is in the fight to a finish, eithoi to get tlie nomination now, or to sc< that-no other progressive gets it ovei 1 him. This is merely one of the nurner ous phases of opinion concorninj Roosevelt, "the wizard." i ? ? Push! Push! It is Just the wort for the grand, clear morning of life It is just the word for strong armi and young hearts; it is just the wore for a world that is full of work a this is. If anybody is in trouble, an< you see H, don't stand back, push! THAT FELDER BOOK UICV. JOHN L. HARLEY SAYS HE 1IAS HEAD T11E STOHY. +- .. ... Ho Says the Hook Contains Some Hot St nil' and Will He ltoad With Croat Interest. The Florence Times says there has been considerable talk In the State about the book that Mr. Tom Felder of Atlanta is said to have written and a great many people have come to the conclusion that he was a bluff and they wore indisposed to pay any attention to the stories of the man from Atlanta. The Times reporter has several times been told of the book that Mr. Felder lias but always under the seal of secrecy but recently it has come to the paper in a way that the reporter feels itt liberty to use} that Rev. J. L. Harley, _ 1? X 1 1 1 t .. 1. 1 1 ? 11 one oi nit; mo.si rename men 1x1 uie state, lias seen the book and read enough of it to make him sick. He has recently been in this section of the State and lie had told a number of people of his reading of | tho book in the office of Mr. Felder, and that lie really does not believe that Cole L. Blease will be a candidate for the governorship when this book comes out. It has been prepared for use as an official document, and can be used in no other way without giving the best opportunity in the world for prosecution lor criminal lible. It is understood that the commission could not use the evidence that they had against the governor, both as a senator from Newberry county and in other ways, but that in an investigating commission the story as Mr. Felder has it can be used, an ft i.Mr. Ilarley says that it is the red hottest thing that ever was put into a book. It is also understood from several sounccs, but none of them what might be called official, but the story Is told 111 places that ought to he informed that Detective W. J. Burns, the greatest detective on earh lias been trailing tlie governor, and that his report may possibly constitute a part of the evidence that is to do submitted to the committe of inquiry in this investigation. It is thought that this book and the stories therein contained, will be a part of the testimony given by Mr. Thomas Folder at the investigation to-day. The story of the presence and work of Detective Hums in this State as the shadow of Cole L#. Blease has been told to the Times twice under the seal of "swear you wont tell," and once without that restriction, which removes all of the restrictions. If the attorney general or Mr. W. P. Stevenson, or any of the others who have been active in this matter in Columbia know anything about this matter they are as close as clams and it. is impossible to get any thing at all from them. If Mr. Fel- 1 der has been working on these lines he has been doing it at his own instance and not at the instances of the winding up commission, as seems very plain fiom these attempts to get " a line on the Burns story." 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