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THEIR AUTO SKIDS W. S. STEWART AND H. T. MEIGHAN ARE BOTH KILLED THREE OTHER MEN HURT Car Carrying Five Prominent Citizens mi tlio Capital City, Returning From Ridgewood, Skids and Plunge# into a Ditch, Turning Turtle ami Pinioning Victims Beneath. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says Hugh T. Moighan. cashier of the Carolina National Think, and W. S. Stewart, hard-! ware merchant, were instantly killed; Theodore A Bell, seriously injured; W. C. Swatlield and William Watson, ?u - -- n utnmriliiln ill I injurea w ucu mo ? which they wore returning from Itidgewood Club skidded and went ever into a ditch just after the car liad crossed Smith's Branch, the car turning completely over pinioning the occupants underneath. When assistance arrived and the men were pulled from beneath the aAitomobile, the first two were dead, and the other three wore Injured. The injured men wore rushed tb tho city and given medical attention and the bodies of the other two removed to a local undertaking establishment. The accident, one of the most de-j plorable in the history of the city, happened Thursday night just, about 8 o'clock. The five men, Hugh T. Meighan, cashier of the Carolina National Hank; W. S. Stewart, hardware merchant; Theodore A. Bell, alioo store, had been out to the Counpany; \V. C. Swaflield, real estate and insurance man, and William Watson, representative of Watson's shoe store, had been out of the Country Club, Itidgewood, and were returning to tho city in an automobile. Mr. Meighan driving, when just after the automobile crossed Smith's Branch, about two miles from tho city, tho car skidded. It is just at this point that tho Seaboard Air Line trestle crosses tin? road and me ditchos on both sides aro very deep. When the car skidded tno reverse lever was applied and suddenly the car toppled over Into the ditch, turning turtle and pinning the occupants beneath. People running to the assistance pulled the men from underneath, finding that two had been instantly killed. It is said the first to reach the scene of the accident wero Waites Thomas and Hugh Hammond, and the rear light of the car, burning faintly, guided them, and as they looked over the precipice they saw the car completely turned over and the groans of the living foil on their ears. They Immediately rushed to get the occupants from beneath and, assisted by others who wero drawn to tho scene, pulled them out. Tho three Jiving were taken to a nearby house, and from there carried to the city. The bodies of Messrs. Meighan and Stewart were takon to a local undertaking establishment, ana Coroner Walker was sent for. Mr. Theodore A. Bell, who was seriously injured, was brought to the city in an ambulance and immediate medical attention given him. Mr. Wm. Wateon was taken to tho home of his brothor, in North Columbia, and it waa said Thursday night that beyond suffering a few broken ribs and being bruised up, he escaped with alight injuries. Mr. W. C. SwafTield suffered a broken arm and sprained ankle. Ho was brought into the city on a street car and taken to the hospital and his injuries dressed. Mr. Hugh T. Meighan, who was killed instantly, was the cashier of the Carolina National Bank, and a man of about 45 years of age. Ho was horn in Columbia, being a son of Major Meighan, and was practically reared in the Carolina National Bank, to which he attained the position of cashier. One year ago last. Juno he married Miss Grace Kinard, who survives him. Two sisters also survive. Mr. Meighan was one of the most popular young men In the city. Mr. W. S. Stewart, the other victim. of the automobile accident, was about 50 years old. He came to Columbia a few years ago from Orangeburg. Ho opened a hardware store ke;e, and by his devotion to duty prospered. He was a most estimable man and well thought of by the whole community. He was unmarried and leaves no relatives here. All of the men who composed tlu fatal automobile party were amonf the most prominent people of Colum hi a, and the news of tho doplorabh acc'dent spread like wildfire. Man; cxp esslons of sympathy were heart and universal regret characterize! every expression. Eleven Wore Killed. Mleven dead and live Injured, on? ovoMfbjy fatally, was the toll of th? rear end collision baweei two pas senger trains In which tho rear coac of the Cleveland, Akron and Colum bus train was telescoped. An ofT.oia statement says first train stopped be cause of a defective air attachment and flagman did not bare time to gi far enough to warn the other train. WHAT ONE KISS COST i IX ATTKMI'TIXG TO KISS AN UNK1SSKI) YOUTH. Young Married Womau Breaks Two of Iler Kibs and an Arm in a Twenty-five Foot Fall. A fourteen year old boy, during an intermission at a barn dance held at New Bridge near lfackensack, N. J., Tuesday night, became so interested in Mrs. Winfiold Ackermau that ho felt called upon to tell her the story of his life. In the recital he made the startling admission that ho had never been kissed. Thereupon Mrs. Ackorman asked him if ho would allow her the signal honor of making the initial inscription on his facial slate. The boy blushed and backed away. Mrs. Ackerman rose and repeated her request. The youngster blushed more furiously than before and ran toward the door. <T'll kiss you for fun," cried Mrs. Ackerman, starting after him, while the other dancers, who had switched C .. ^ . < tin n ti I a r t '1 ! n . inoir auuuuuu iiuiii v?iv^ biiivi vitin merit to tho incident, laughed unci shouted encouragement. Tho boy, fear evident on his face, ran upstairs and tried to hide himself behind one of the supports. .Mrs. Ackerman, pursuing, located him and for a few minutes they dodged and sped around the wooden column. The boy finally sprang out into tho open. Mrs. Ackerman caught him but he wriggled free and then dashed around tho room, with the young woman keeping up tho chase. When she caught him the second time Mrs. Ackerman held him tightly. He yelled and fought seeking to squirm from her grasp. This he continued while sho backed him against a double door. She was bending over htm when tho door gave way and the boy and Mrs. Ackerman both fell through to the ground, twenty-five feet below. Tho fall had come so unexpectedly I * -> ,nrr wotnn n t ll n f ch O O 11 hi | tW IUO J Vllilf] 1IUIUU1I IUUI, W..W ?,w v.. ^ I make no effort to save herself. She Buffered a broken arm, two broken ribs and numerous painful bruises. The boy escaped injury. Dr. C. F. Adams was called to attend Mrs. Ackerman. He found that her injuries were bo severe that ho hurried her to the Hackensack Hospital. METHODIST COLLEGES. They Are Doing a Splendid Work in This State. The report of tho Hoard of Education to tho South Carolina Conference at its meeting in Anderson carried with it the recommendation of ilie employment of a commissioner of education, who shall inaugurate a three years' campaign to raise $3 00,000, one-half of which is to go to Wofford College, one-fourth to Lander College and one fourth to Columbia College. The sums to be received by these colleges are to be applied on tneir indebtedness and also' for the erection of a dormitory at Wofford and for tho extention of the various college plants. In promoting tho appointment of the commissioner of education to raise this $300,000 tho board recommended that "amounts received for any one of tho three institutions, through agents or otherwise, within tho hounds of our Conference between now and the Inauguration of this campaign, snait no ueaucieu iroui the amount to bo apportioned to that institution." The colleges and schools of the Conference have experienced an unprecedented year of success. At Columbia College there are 2 3 teachers and tutors, with an enrolment og 287 students. Value of the plant $256,500; and Indebtedness of $98,000. At Lander College there are 23 4 students, of which 159 are boarding pupils. The value of the plant is $1 4 7,300; endowment $4,200. At WoIYord College there are 3 05 students and 181 In the Fitting School. This is the largest enrolment in the history of the two Institutions. The property and resources of the College have been increased by $50,000. The endownment Is $183,000. There are 8 2 students at Carlisle' Fitting School, overcrowding the dormitory. The property is valued at 1 $25,000; endownment, $5,000. At the Cokesbury Conference ' School the enrolment, was 4 0. The property 's estimated to be worth i $G,000; endowment, $1,000. ; Thirty-four charges in the Confer* * * i ?. . t.. n f ^ - once iaiieci 10 pay wieir ^oiueiiMiuu ? educational assessments, and eightyt eight of the charges paid this assess1 merit in full. The Klngstree diss trlct was the banner district, paying 80 per cent, of its assessments. Hangs Himself With Necktie. 3 At LaGrango, Texas, after hearing 0 the trials of fellow prisoners Wed nesday, William Klemp, awaiting 1 hearing on a charge of burglary, - hanged himself with a necktie in his 1 cell Wednesday night. The Jailer - found Klemp suspended from the , bars of his cell whon he made his o round of the county prison Thursday morning. HALF OF THE WOMEN LEFT GOV. BLKASK'S CXH'HSE HAX- I GUAGE HAN THEM OUT. They All March Out When South Carolina's Governor Shouts "To Hell With the Constitution**. An Associated Press dispatch from Richmond, Va., says fully half of the fifty women in attendance at the Conference of Governor Friday afternoon hurriedly departed from the meeting when Gov. Cole E. Please, for the second time defending his policy of lynching negroes guilty of criminal assault, shouted, "to hell with the Constitution." Governor Rloase's declaration was made in response to a question asked by Governor Joseph N. Carey, of Wyoming. Governor Carey desired to know if the South Carolina Executive had taken an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of his State, and if these laws did not protect nel and if these laws did not protect ne"I will answer that question," replied Gov. Please. "When the Constitution steps between me and the defence of the virtue of the white women of my state, I will resign my commission, tear it up and throw it to tho breezes. As I have said before, 'to hell with the Constitution'.' When some of the women present nroso and left tho hall, Gov. Blease ceased speaking. Among the women who made their exist, were the wives and daughters of several Governors attending tho conference. Governor Albert W. Gilchrist, of Florida, took exception to Gov. release's remarks. Rising to his foot ho declared: "The first tiling that indicates a manly man or a womanly woman is thoughtful consideration for other people." Ills remarks were greeted with cheers from tho audience. Referring to the lynch law doctrine, Governor John F. Shafroth, of Colorado, said: "One mob can do more injury to society than twenty murderers, because lynching permeates the entire community and produces anarchy. The influence of mob rule is most reprehensible. When laws are made it should ho tho duty of the governor to enforce Liieill, WIlULIlUi HO appiUVUD VJI Itwc. When the law prescribes hanging for an offence, and a man is found guilty, lie should be hanged whether white or black and there is no excuse for mob laws. I conceive it to be our duty as Governors to declare for law and order." During the afternoon session papers were read by Governors Tasker L. Oddie, of Nevada, and James If. Hawley, of Idaho, on uniformity of divorce laws. This subject was under discussion when Governor Bioase spoke. After defending the law of South Carolina, where no divorce is permitted, he proceeded to discuss the race problem and declared that the inferior race always is swept away by the superior race. Governor Blease also again defended bis pardon record. Gov. W. W. Kitchen, of North Carolina, announced that there had not been a lynching in that State in six years, and expressed tho belief that there should be convictions in practically every caso whero there is a lynching. Governor Mann of Virginia, stated that he would call out every militiaman in the state if necessary to protect a man under arrest ana give him a fair trial. Movement for tho improvement of rural life and the upbuilding of agriculture were discussed by Governors Adolph (). Eberhart of Minnesota; Herbert S. Hadloy, of Missouri; W. II. Mann of Virginia; George \V. Doughey, of Arkansas, and Joseph M. Grown of Georgia. Divorce law problems wero also spoKon to by Governors Joseph M. Carey, of Wyoming, and Simeon E. Baldwin, of Connecticut. Miss Mary Johnston, the; novelist, addressed the Conference on equal suffrage. For it <;ki :.\ t k ve\ts. ? That Have Occurred During the Year That Is Passing. The Christian Herald says "four events will distinguish 1912 as one of the epochal years, viz: the transformation ot China from ri monarchy to a republic; the upheaval in Mexico, reorganizing the social and political condition of that country; the cmanclapation of Portugal from the incubus of Romanism, and the Kuropean downfall of the 'mnspeakjihln Turk " Ktunir well Illirht to death by the Balkan states, which ho has held in contempt and oppressed for centuries. Last and not. least is the political revolution hero at homo, which changes tho political map of our union and introduces now policies demanded by tho needs of too times. Two Prisoners Humeri. At Crowley, La., William Collier, Los Angeles, and an unknown companion were burned to death in the local Jail Wednesday, after they had started the flames In tho liopo of making their escape, Colin Lebu, also a prisoner, was seriously burned. Collier and tho unknown prisoner were held on a minor charge. BANOUET TO BELMONT ' i 8KXATOK TILLMAN AMONG TIIK INVITED GUESTS. Bclniont Honored Uecuuse of Ili? Inierest ttiid Work for the Publicity Law. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says Senator Tillman has accepted an invitation from Congressman William Sulzer, Governor-elect of Now York, to be present at a dinner, which will bo given to-morrow evening at the Now Willard Hotel there, by a committee of which Mr. Sulzer is chairman, to Mr. Perry Belmont, In recognition of < Mr. Belmont's successful efforts in arousing sentiment for the enactment of laws requiring publicity of campain contributions and regulating the same. Mr. Belmont was the organizer of the Contribution Publicity Law Association, to whose efforts are largely duo tho statutes whicn now exist restricting campaign contributions and requiring their publication. Mr. Sulzer was also identified with tho Association. Tiiimnn was a nioneer in uv;iunvi m. .. ? , the matter in that he offered in the Senate and secured the adoption of the 11 ist law prohibiting corporations from making contributions in Federal campaigns. The Tillman statute, which was approved January 2G, 1007, Is as follows: "Be it enacted by the Senato an' House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that It shall be unlawful for any national bank or any corporation organized by authority of any laws of Congress, to make a money contribution in connection with any election to nn> political oMlce. It shall also be unlawful for any corporation whatever to make any election at which Presidential and VicePresidential electors or a Representative in Congress is to ho voted for or any election by any State Legislature of a United States Senator. Kvery corporation which shall make any contribution in violation of the foregoing provisions shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $5,000, and every oflicer or director of any cor poratlon who filial I consent to any contribution by the corporation in violation of the foregoing provisions shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not exceeding $1,000 and not less than $250, or by imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court." PLOT TO KII.fi TWO COPS. Chinese (lamblors Lured Policemen to Intended Death. At San Francisco the other night Chinese gamblers lured two police officers to imprisonment in gas filled chambers, leaving them to bo asphyxiated. Each of the men escaped death, however, because they carried small axes and chopped holes thro' the walls of their traps. Corporal CofT, the first victim, was walking along when a Chinese brushed by him and whispered "Fight 1n Siberia Club". Without waiting to call his squad, Coff rushed to cho club. He thrust aside the doorkeeper. As the door swung back ho heard the bolt click and simultaneously the gas lights wont out. Trying the other door he found himself Imprisoned in a narrow hallway seven feet long and found that gas was rushing from jets which he could not reach. After 15 minutes work with his axe ho cut through the walls and was res cued. Officer Bailey was trapped sini ilarly In another club at almost the Ramo time. ? ? CONVICT CUTS MORTAL WOl'XD, ? One of the Ladsoti Liang Fights Battle With Posset. The News and Courier says determine to keep his word that ho would not. be taken alive, George Washing* ton alios Isaac Hamilton, ono of the seven negro convicts who escaped from the Rlue House road camp Sunday night, November 24, and who have born terrorizing the country sido around Ilavenels ever since, was mortally wounded early Tuesday morning at John's Island, while fighting a posse of rural policeman, who have been hunting the outlaws for over a week. The wounded man died as a result of his Injury a short time afterwards, while being taken to n lailroad station. Thousands of Turkeys. The "turkey special,'' a train of 34 cars, containing provision for 65, NOO Thanksgiving tables, reached Jersey City Wednesday from Tennessee and practically all the birds were sold on the New York market before sundown. The shipment is the largest single consignment of birds ever made. Storm Does Damage. More than 100 persons woro killed in tho cyclone, which swept over Madagascar Novembor 26, according to tho latest reports, received at the ministry of colonies at Paris. The damaye la estimated at $2,000,00. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Truck FarniN for Sale?L. B. Dial, Mt. Olive, N. C. Sweet Orange**?$1.85 per box, 140 to 11)0 in box. J. W. Amerson, Wclborn, Fla. Prize Winners?Guernsey cattle and Berkshire pigs. Wy Id wood, Cornwell, S. C. Hartford's Houpe Cure?Guaranteed 5 0c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Sneads, Fla. I )uroc- Jerseys?Rich breeding, high quality. Moderate prices. C. G. Oakes, Assumption, III. Cabbage and Ix?ttuco Plants?$1 per thousand. Reading varieties. Oak1 iii Farm, Salisbury, N. C. ? , . , ,. For Sale? Fresh Carolina Rice, meal, the best stock food. West Point Mill Company, Charleston, S. O. Cornish Indians, white and dark stock for sale. Egg orders hooked now. C. T. Miller, Hartsville, S. C. . i i i Toole's Pure Cotton Seeds?Yields more lint than any other variety. Write for prices. G. L. Toolo, Aiken, S. C. For Sale?Standard bred horses. Thoroughbred Jersey cattle and I)urock Jersey hogs. I). A. Coleman, Fountain Inn, S. C. Marry?Large list wealthy members wishing early marriage. Confidential description free. Reliable club. Mrs. Wrubel Box 2G. Oakland, Cal. ,rt For Sale?Black Minocr.u young and old stock, 75c to $1.50. White Orpington Pullets, $1.50 t ) $2, Cockerels, $1.50 10 $3. Cocks, $ ? to $5. Robert L. Shirley, Lanonia, (la. Wo hnvo millions of frost proof cabbage plants. Grown under 'Hlue Ridge foothills?they am hardy, tough. Cultivation suggestions and price list. Wakefield Farms, Charlotto, N. C. For Sale?Host plantation in Middle Georgia, for subdivision. Right adjoining two good banking towns, Seaboard Air Lino It v. Titles perfect, easy terms. W. H. Thompson. Homeland, Ga. Wanted?A man or woman all or spare time to securo information for us. Work at home or travel. Experience not necessary. Nothing to sell. Good pay. Send stamp for particulars. Address 'M. S. I. A., 581 L Huilding, Indianapolis, Ind. RwIT Orpington Ducks are the greatest layers known, small eaters, large carcass, hardy .and vigorous, the coining duck. Investigate them. Eggs for hatching, breeding stock) and day old duckling for sale at all times. J. H. Wendler, Lakeland, Fla. ~ j .Jouaniiet s l< rost-I roof < ahoage. Plants?No better to be bad anywhere. $1 per 1,000; 5,000 and) over, 85c per 1,00 0. Jouannetts early Giant Argenteuil Asparagus re ots, $4 per 1,000. let the bent. Alfred Jouannet, Box 7\, Mt. Pleasnni, S. C. . i Wanted?Fine pieces of very old sol-l id mahogany or veneered furniture, I sideboards, beds, secretaries, chairs, footstools, mirrors, etc.; old pistols, relics, stamps, pewter, brass. Furniture don't have to be in good condition. Address E. It. Gilgour, 118 West Saint Clair, Indianapolis, Ind.i Eggs for Hatching?S. C. White Leghorn, $1 per 15. $5 per 100. Fawn and White Indian Runner Ducks, eggs $2 per 12. $12 per 100. We sell you eggs from prize winners. We win wherever we show. Agent for X-ray Incubators. W. F. Dunnington, Augusta, Ga., Route 2, Box 1 3. For Sale?4 3 7 acres, 2 1-2 miles of TMmer, Barn well County, on public road, 200 acres open, 100 timbered, loamy soil, good dwelling, large barn, stables, other outbuildings, 7 tenant houses; near school and church. Price and terms reasonable. A. W. Fogle & Co., Columbia, S. C. Plants from High-Grade Seel Only? Same as used for my own mops. The very best that can be produced. "Lenderscn's Succession ' cabinge. ''Hip Uoston" lettuce, "Wnlt3 Hermuda" onion, and 4'Early Eel ipso" beet, $1.25 per 1,000; 10,000 for $10. Write for catalogue. Wm. Macklon, Dinsmore, Fla. - ' Undhcy's Triumph Sweet Potatoes is ready for the table 6 0 days after planting. Yields twice as much as any other sort. Unsurpassed in quality. Keeps all the year around. Is absolutely Plight Proof. I grow vegetable plants of every description. Prices right. Catalogue tree. II. K. CiOdbey, Waldo, Fla. Cabbage Plants tor sale?Plants grown in the high Piedmont section of Xorth Carolina. Will irive bet tor result8 than if grown on the low coast Section. Ours aro largo stocky plants, vigorous and healthy and will guaranteo satisfaction. Set early. Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield Successions or Dutch, single 1,000, $1.25, 2,000 or over, $ i per 1,000. Special prices on largo quantities. W. L. Kivett, High Point, N. C. FARM AND PECAN LANDS Dark loam, red clay subsoil. Any si/o farm you wish, near railroad, schools and churches. Prices from $15 to $50 per acre. See me. Goode Price, Ijecsburg, G*. SHE WANTS TO DIE PLEADS FOR LAW TO PERMIT HER TO END HER DAYS A HOPELESS PARALYTIC ? ? < A New York Woman Wlio is Holpleiv Desires That a Ijhv Ho Unacted Which Would Permit Her to Had Her Life Hecnusd of Her lutoMf Buffering. Mrs. Sarah Harris, the remarkable paralytic pationt in the Audubon sanitarium of Now York who inado two public appeals during the last three months for the enactment of a Jaw permitting her physicians to end her Buffering by taking her life, wrote a third letter recently. In it she tells of a visit from Mrs. Grovor Cleveland, who, being at the hospital to see an invalid relative, and knowing of Mrs. Harris' case, spent an hour with tsie latter. ' Mrs. Cleveland is the moat r? markablo and unaffected woman with whom I ever spoken," said Mrs. Harris. "She will bring to my help the counsels of wise people. I am as mncli in need of relief as when I made the first appeal. The law does not scruple to demand life for life. Why may not the law become an instrument of mercy as well as vengeance?" Mrs. Harris made n grim appeal to the people of New York last September to have a law enacted which will enable a practicing physician to end her life and her prolonged misery. Three years ago Mrs. Harris was stricken with paralysis and since that time has been able to to move only the muscles of her head. She is about thirty years of age, and is the mother of two children. Her husband is a salesman. Mrs. Harris suffers constantly and has yet to find any medicine that will get relief. Physicians have told her that she is the victom of spinal trouble, which has resulted in paralysis, although they have been unable to ascertain the exact nature of the malady. She believes the legislature should make it possible for doctors to end her life and the lives of all such wretched sufferers. Mrs. Harris was first stricken early in lOOli, while out walking, and the next day was completely paralyzed. , The physicians at the Aud4MK>n hospital state that no change has noon aiscernioie in me woman 8 condition for the past year or more, and that she may live ten or fifteen years more. 441 am Buffering the torture of the damned," wrote this woman, when she made her first appeal to the public several years ago. "There is no hope ;or my recovery. Why should T continue until the end comes in tho lingering death which I know 1? mine? "Various mechanical Inventions arc being pushed in which many shining lights lose their lives, and yet one question, tho greatest of all, how to end the suffering of hopeless, helpless sufferers has uever been Uulved Into. "Ilere in the early thirties, a young woman, stretched on a bed, immovable, bereft of the groat motor engine of her constitution for tho past three years, which places her In an absolutely paralyzed condition In which she is unable to exert a single muscle of her body, besides suffering much pain, yet In full possession of the strength of her mentality, craves and yearns for that which would end her misery. ''Now, why should not tho State take the matter in its hands and <er>d the wretchedness of such poor sufferers? Let us just stop long enough to think that when a brute, the lowliest of tho animal kingdom, becomes inactive and doomed to suffer, its suffering is put to an end. "Naturally, one's own loved ones cannot bring this about. Your physician cannot do it, for lie would he condemned, so the only means is tho State." 1 \v /sp'SD \ Wyy \ \ s-y v- ~vtr^v,->vv / S Governor Blease, In boasting of his executive clemency and of tho number of pooplo ho has turned out of the penitentiary in two years, told at the governor's conference m Richmond of an old negro who told him, on his recent visit to tho penitentiary, that ho had been in thero for twentytwo years for stealing a watch worth $27. No doubt, thiB old negro entered a dwelling homo where people wore sleeping to steal this watch, which makes his crime burglary, and it was that and not stealing the watch for which he waa punished.