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Hi*, m MTKM WATCHMAN, Kaiablts Con^olicUted Auk. 2, li PARDON REFUSED BIGHAM. hi i \st: m \;i - t.r.oiu.i it?w v IKMTKK (ll.MKMY, Petition Presented by Mother (>r Man ( ou\lct< ?I "i >laying In- Wir? and Mow a Pngutlve ? lltgluiin-Avant Trial at <iei>rgetowii Itcvalleil? Nc-ult of I i iv.. d> ut Muriell's In l.i. uhm lllgbams Young Wife M. i I?. all? . i. Ur n V Oolumtdi. June 7. ?A mother's pltu'il plea waa turned down late t > day by Govervor HI ease, when he re? fused Ut pardon O. C. Itlgham, tin young Oeorgetown doctor, who, wlih W. D. Avant, hl? cloae friend, was Convicted at the fall term of court in I 1909, >f the killing of young Mrs. Blgham. and ?ach sentenced to a term of thr? e years and a half In the State Penitentiary, both Itigham and Avant escaping fr >m the community and being still at large. This Is the second petition present? ed to the Governor, this. however, being th? first formal petition When It was sought same time ago to have 1 Avant pardoned. Governor Blease said that before he would consider the pi? pers even, the man would have to hi In the hands of the law. He takes the sann? position with regard to Blg The following Is the petition of Dv Blgham's mother: "The humble petition of M. afedOTe , Itigham respectfully shows that she is the mother of Dr. G. C. High am, who | was convicted in Georgetown County. t charo d w ith the killing of his Wife, ?>n or about September 3, 1909, and sentenced to 3 1-2 yesr3 in the Pen? itentiary: that his wife was Ruth CrtM>. '?f I^aurens County: that she I knew the relationship between her son and his wife and knows that her son would not have wilfu'ly and knowingly killed his wife or been a party thereto: that she Is the widow of the Hon. L. E. Bigha/n. whi was n member of the Stare Legislature wtth your Rseellency during the eighth decade of the nineteenth cen? tury: that her husband was instru? mental In the passage of a certain fish law that very materially affected the fisheries In and around George? town, and the people of Georgetown County have ever ? since been very bitter against her husband nnd fam? ily, and this was the prime cause of the c mvlctlon of her son. Dr. G. C. Plgham: that she humbly petitions your Excellency to grant to her son, Dr. ?}. <\ lti<nam, a full and fr. , pnj - don, snd your petitioner will ever pray. Mrs. M. M. Dlghnm. "February ti, 1911." Prom the daughter: I Mar?o- Idgham. am the daugh? ter of the petitioner. I have lived snd taught sch90] nenr Georgetown and know th.if th. pottttog is true snd Join In It." A csrd is attached with the petition, this card being not admitted as evi? dence st the trial. The News and Courier correspondent at the time, at? tending the trial, printed a portion of this card. Tin- eard addressed to Dr. G. <\ ItU'ham ft on his wife while sh > wss visiting her relatives In Uum i County Just prior to tho killing rends as f.dlows: "I>n?k for me tomorrow. Friday. Will be tnero sure. Am Just wild to ose you. "Ruth." Senator Tillman wrote the follow? ing letter u.'.dei date of March :'.'?. i 1911. from Trenton: i ??Mrs. L S. Hlgham. f.07 sHNM >nm Street. Greenville. S. (V?My Dear Madam: i hnvs yomr letter of M it h 'i'l. Th. r< i-s ,i rustak.aj im? pression ge'rg the r.?v?nd?. that I have i become influential wi n lee Gavernof in the matter of pardons. I presume tihs is due to the ?i? sire f-f th.- nev papers to coupU Govern ?r Ideas.? and myself tog. th. r. I ha\? naked lot only on* pnrb n and that w is fof a white hoy at Clemeon, whose step? father, aeeora'ng to the boy'l Stiry, was whipping h's moth* r and he sind him "1 nssjteushci your hnnhnnd rerj pleasantly In the day- thai are past and woubl be glad |C help you. I will tak.' pi asur.- in signing a petil i f.,r your gOs\ if roe w ill 9* ml 1? to mo. I think Avant the guiltv man tod aught to be putdmed. Wry siia > r- ly yours. **B, i: ; <iiiii.ni The obi mother ot Dr. Bigham csnm in person lo I he Oe emor*i of flee bringing hot son- petition for pardon with her. Mm en( with othii awaiting their turn in the OUt( t T mm of th?- e\? < uM ? o I . and Ii n - ail.\. firing of the b.ng wait, left the papers st the ollb ??? and \ ent home It was she who also sat through the three dsy's trial In Georgetown, and when the verdict wan announced ap hc?l April. ih50. 'Be .liiHt tin $81. < minwiw TO WED WHITE g1kl. I>r l.e Clue. Former 1'. of C. stu? dent. io Take Ramm City Bride? win Practice MotUotne in China, Kanaai City. Mo., lune <.?Dr. Lo i i Chee, who was graduated a few days ago from the University lied teal Collage hero, will marry Miss 1 laboth Wood, is years old, daugh? ter of a contractor, a sister of the girl has announced. After th? ir marriage. which is tc iik. place in the fall. Dr. Chee and! l>i btide will go to China, where the physician willl practice his pro tl ssi jn. It. Che.-, who is 2i years old, was 'ormerly a student at the University of Chicago. KB4KVKD of sentience. (iov. Please IleiiiitM Fine of $m>o Im ngnad on I rank o'Donnell. Columbia, S. (I Juno 7.?Governor r.l.i- Wednesday relieved Frank O'Donnell, ol Inihter, from a sen lenee of $100 or thirty days on the pnbtte works for violation <?f the dis panaary law. Mr. O'Donnell was tried on Match 2, 19?*, before C. M. Hurst. rder, and a jury. The effect of the pardon is to remit th hue or im? prisonment. S.\eril of the jurors wrote that Mr. <> l>onnell has never before been tried for selling whlake) and nev< r since, and in the trial of the eaae the teetftaaony was to the effect that Bate man, the detective Went to O'Donnell and asked him if he had any Whiskey aid Mr. O'Donnell replied thai he did not have any whiskey himself, I hut thought he could get some and then neat Batoman to the house of ( i certain party, and then Bateman ro turnlng and saying he had failed to gat it. he gave $1.50 to Mr. O'Donnell, and Mr. O'Donnell went and came back and brought a quart of whiskey frith him and he and Bateman drank I part of It. C. M. Hurst, the former city record? er fll Siimter. joins in the request for a pardon. An affidavit from O'Donnell himself concludes with this statement: "This defendant had acted merely ? is ? 11 o ? ??ntrn.'data.n and friendly ? to tile said Uateman, who he had known for years, and did not have thl sllghte-t intention or IdOt of sell? ing him whiskey and did not sell him any, but aaafwly g"t it for htm from d S. L. Young, giving the Htm? 11*11 that Bataman gave t,, him. That the said S. L. Yourg was work? ing In the store of O'Donnell & Co. Sad went out and got the whiskey and brought it to this defendant, who waited in the store of O'Donnell & Co. for him to do so and delivered une to him in the said store, and he ? i r ied it from there to his room a. ross the street." ? Among thoat who Signed the par? don petition are: J. K. Bradford, chief of police] It. Dosler Lee, present City Beoorderi R, D, Lee, attorney at law; L. I, Parrott, clerk of court; W. H. Kpperson. sheriff; If. C, Wallace, treasurer; It. K. Wilder. auditor; Thomas Wilson. Judge of Probate Richardeon, County supervisor Pitts and others. The petition was presented hy State Senator John H. Clifton. WILL RETI RN RECORDS. t,n\. dk si-n*. niii Rcejnlrlng Delivery of Documents to Booth Carolina. Albany, June ~.?Oov, Dia has signed the bill requiting ihe state hoard of regenti io deliver to the State of South Carolins the records of the commission* rs of the navy hoard of that State and certain other records now In poaiSlSlon of th' N.-w Y irk state library authorities. Home of the records which South Carol ?> , desired returned were destroyed In the eapt* lol fire. ."itto.Pound Fair Weil In SI, loin-. Ml L-oiis Post-Dlspntch, Here is a heavyweight romance, A man who weighs MO pounls recently married a woman .f \i>>i pounds In st. Louis, Mo. The bridegroom Ii William Montandon and hli wife waa Millie,nt Montgomery. The two were acquainted for more than two y< irs, M ?ntandon jot the glrl'i consent to wed and the engagement lusted only two weeks, p. a red t ? I ?? the m? I affecb d of all in the court ro'm. Governor Please did not consider the petition long, He had announced his determination not to lake up thli sjsjsjf unless the fugitive! were In the bands of the law. id Fear not?Let ult the ends Thou Aln SUMTEIt, 3 0, SATUi LEXINGTON'S DOUBLE TRAGEDY i. P, BOUKXIGHT, WHITE, KILL? ED, ALLEGED SLAYER MIS ING. < loud of Mystery Apparently En velo|)os AJfalr ? Story Circulated of "White Cape*1 Visiting Homo of Negro Suspected of Sotting Fire to Farmen' Barn and stables. Lexington, June 7.?The body of j J. Pink Bouknlght, the prominent farmer of the Shady Grove section of the Dutch Fork, who, it h? thought, was shot and killed at an curly huor yesterday morning, while heading a posse of "whiie caps," by Will Col lins. a negrO| was laid to rest at Shady Grove church this afternoon at P. o'clock, in the presence of a large congregation of friends and rela? tives. Will Collins, who did the shooting, has either been killed and his oody thrown Into Broad River, or he has Succeeded in making good his escape, according to the most reliable int.?r mntlon obtainable from that section today. The first news of the death of i; mknight reached Lexington yester? day morning, w hen Coroner Belton D. <Mark received a telephone message stating, in effect, that J. P. Bouknlght was dead and requesting the ofllcers to come over and hold an inquest. No particular! as to how he came to his death were given, and attaching but little importance to the message on account of the meagreness of the in? formation given, the coroner ordered Magistrate Wallace E, L?rick, of Irmo, who U\ s not far from the sc. ne, to hold the Inquest. Repented efforts to gel foil Infor? mation as to the cause af the death* by telephone yet proved futile, it being understood, it is said, that no infor? mation be given to the press. Nothing of the real seriousness of the situation was learned tintil the return of Depu? ty Sheriff Miller, who was early on the grounds yesterday. Affer' making the most rigid inves? tigation Mr. Miller was not aide to give any of the real particulars of the tragedy further than that it was reported that Bouknlght had been ?hot In the stomach with a shotgun while making an effort to enter the home of Will Collins' through a win? dow. It so. ms. however, from what can be gathered from those who will have anything to say, (and they ai in the small minority,) that Will Col? lins had been accused "f burning the barn and stables of Joel Fulmer, a prominent young farmer of the Im? mediate section, and that suspicion as to his guilt was strong. I ?n Monday night, it i said, a party, variously estimated to number ail the way from twenty-live to fifty arm? ed men, went h> the home of Collins and demanded that he come out, and aft.r being repeatedly requested to show himself, anl refusing to do so, it was decided to break in the house, and J. p, Bouknlght headed the way. when he b id gotten in?., the window, according to the story, be was flr< d upon by Collins, the entire load tak? ing effect in the stomach. The negro rushed for the window and fell over the body of the man he bad shot ami as he ran off in the darkness, with nothing but Iiis night clones to protect his body, he was fired upon by the crowd, The dep? uty sheriff traced the negro, or a fleeing man. at least for a distance of about three hundred yards to the edge ?f the woods, where all traces were lost. ? '?pinion is divided as to tin- where? abouts of the negro, bui the majority believe that be was killed and bis hoc" 'brown Into the river to hide the crime, Others declare that the groans of the dying man so frightened the parts- thai their attention was di? vert.d from th,. negro and thai be made hb escape. One of Collin'a children received a wound in the Lack. The w if., of < !ol1ins< II is said, makes th.- statement thai she told I her husband to shoot, believing that she, together with her two children, would ail )..? killed, She gathered her j tw . children in her arms and man? aged to mnke her oscnpe In the dark' I_ m \lts i mi: \\?>i:i> "mg<;r.H." dude,. K|NH>r Threatens To Have \ti? led \ttorn< > Hisluircrd, : M icon, < In., .1 une ... .1 udg< Rm >ry j Bpt er, the I ntt il SI ih < n. nit Court, threatened Th in ? I;. F? ld< r, A l tome) -General cle I of Georgia, I with disbarment unli he qull d< scribing Ihc negro plulntlfl In i peon? age ease as a "nigg- i." is t at ?k? thy Country's, Thy God's au tu AY. JUNE 10. 1911. EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO, skty-threk: are killed \\d sevI: n i y.fiv I: injured. Over Hall' the Deed Killed in liar. racks,?The Property Damage is V?o.ooo?Xo Americans Injured by Shocks. Mexico City, June 7.?Sixty-three killed, 7 5 wounded, property loss, $:.o,ooo. i These are the net results of an earthquake which visited the capital I this morning and injected a note of tragedy into what was expected to be a day of pure rejoicing. When the work of searching the ruins ll completed it Is possible that the list of '.he dead will he somewhat higher and there are doubtless many wounded, who, with traditional fear of the authorities and government hospitals are anxious to evade dis? covery. The property loss is but an et tlmate and is based upon estimates made to owners and contractors. Lit? tle of the loss Is covered by in? surance. It was 6:23 o'clock when the first shack was felt. According to the meteorological observatory the great? est intensity was reached at the end of the minute, but the instruments con? tinued to record the shocks for four? teen minutes more. It was of a va cillotory, twisting character, but al? most free from terpidatory motion. More than half of the dead ac? counted for were soldiers. They were caught beneath the falling walls of the artillery barracks in San Cosme, a locality near the Mexican Central station. Another plan where the earthquake took it? toll of death In considerable numbers was at the city power plant sf the street car com? pany. Here six were killed and six wounded. Two others were found in the debiifl consisting partly of steel rails, which had been stacked In the Iron and wood departments and Which collapsed. The victims were Inhal ltants of little shacks built along tfc>? sitic: .?f ihe structure. ? With these two exceptions the death list was made up of single cases or In some instances of two or three caught beneat.ii a falling wall in the poorer buildings of the district most seriously .affected. Although the shock was plainly felt in all parts of the city few realized the magnitude Of the catastrophe until late In the forenoon, diu- to the fact that the casualties were contlned to a com? paratively small area. BOARD ADHERES TO POSITION. Dlspcnsar) Commission Again Writes to Attorney General. Columbia, June 7.?The new dis? pensary commission stood by Its guns today, wln n it forwarded this after? noon to the Attorney General a letter In which it adheres to iiv termer action in connection With the employment of counsel and other things referred to in its recent letter to the Attor? ney General. Today's letter follows <Columbia, s. c.. June 7. 1911. I ' lion. J. eraser i.\ >n. Attorney [General. Columbia, s. <\?Dear sir: We are In receipt of your 1? tter of the fourth instant, and upon consider? ation of same we are more firmly con? vinced of the propriety >f our action, which is fully set forth In our last communication to you, and w i are satisfied that the interest of the State will be best subserved by our former action. We shall, therefore, adhere to what we have already communlcat ed'to you as to the course shall I pursue, v. ry truly yours, t i Signed > "J- v. Wa llace. "Acting Chairman State Dispensary i < Commission." j Prank Kelly, Secretary." I The Bank of Blshopvllle, having [been made a State depository, will i receive $6,000 of the $25,000 fund I over which the state Treasurer would , not countersign checks to uo In banks I other than State depositories. The Nowherry Bank named by the uom I mission will ^<'t Its $5,000 being al I ready ;i state depository, and the Pai | motto National Bank .a local Institu? tion will retain $15,000. i The lends are moved from the Nat I lonal lan and Exchange w here, ac? cording to the commission's state ' wriv hi di posl without Inter* st. The mom s i i now to draw i per < ent. I >r. , w. J. Man a\ Is a director In th. bank Mr. w. R. Metlee, Division Passen : .1 Vir. nt of the Southern Railway was in ?he eltv Wednesday. i Truth's." THE TRUI BRYAN TO LECTt RE IN MANNING Pcplo of Planning ami Abbeville to Hear the Great Commoner This Mouth. Manning. .Tune 5.?William Jen? nings Bryan has been engaged to de? liver a lecture in Manning on June 20. it is understood that tb lecture will be delivered in the auditorium of the graded schol building at 11 o'clock a. m., which hour will suit the convenience of many people in I the country much better than a night j appointment. BEST ROADS ON EART* Surprising to Leorn That in Northern Afrb Are "In January of this year I saw in Algeria and Tunisia what I believe to be the best constructed public high? ways in the world," and I take off my hat to the clever Frenchmen who, in tln ir possessions in north Africa hove shown mankind how to build model ro*?.Js," said J. Augustus Nookes, of London, an English scientist and trav? eler, at the Stafford. ' There is one particular stretch of road, that between liougle anl Jijeli, 200 miles in length, that is positively the best example of road-making on earth. Winding along a forbidding coast for almost its whole route, it was cut out of the solid rocks over? hanging the sea at a great height and forming the m.")st wonderful comics in existence. "Here France has built, not for to? day's needs, but for trfe future and these north African roads are fully the equal of those world-renowned highways the ancient Romans made. They are opening the country to com? merce and civilization and preparing it for the immense population it will some day surely have. Alderay a splendid system exists, a network not only of main roads, but of minor ? ?nes, even the mountain pathways showing the same care and skill of canstruction. Mind you, they have been built not only near the cities, but far out Into the desert for the benefit of the great caravans as they journey between the towns and the heart of Darkest Africa. "Of the most permanent and en? during character are these French highways; all the bridges and tunnels are of stone; the outer walls, along a cliff >r over the sea are a yard hiirh and eighteen inches thick. They are not interrupted by the deepest gorge or the loftiest mountains. The engi? neers who did the work were masters of their profession, who gloried in ac <? iRiplishtng a job that will bo praised for centuries to come. The entire system is kept in fault? less order. The whole territory is di? vided into Sections, each with an overseer in command of a squad of laborers, the government giving the overseer a fine residence and ade? quate salary.? Baltimore American. SMALL POX AT DALZELL. one New Case Has Developed and Old Cases are Doing Well. One new ease of small pox has de-1 veloped at Dalxell and the, old eases are doing well Is the report that comes from that place today. Several days ago two of fhe eases at Dalsell wer.- dismissed aid the quarantine was removed from the house in which they bad be< D seg? regated. The other occupantj of the houses had been vaccinated and had been In the lions,- for twenty-four ?lays without the disee.se developing |and it was thought that it would not develop. However, four days after the case In "ii" of the houses had been dis? missed and tlm quarantine removed, a negro woman living in the house broke ?ut with the disease. The ne? gro woman has a baby lour days old which will probably take the disease I from its mother. The other cases that developed at Dalsell several weeks ago an- all getting along nicely, and its is prob? able thai the guard will In a few days j ho removed from s >me of the houses I in which they are confined, and th? 1 patients dismiss.'.'. SAVES $0,000 PROM TIPS - I Young Woman Makes small Fort urn in l ew Years at Hotel. ? \. ? Vork, June j 22 yearn old, has m< if parlor at th< j n sen Ice of 3 I -2 j ed for Europe to n I her mother :it \ linguist, speak Inn j and (lerman, Hotel St. Ilsh \ IE SOUTHRON. Established June. |>U Vol. XXXII. No. 32. ROOSEVELT 10 SUPPORT TAFT. FOR G. O. I?. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN 1012. News < ones from Aut horitat i \ c Source and i< Received with De? light by the Prcoident?Mated that Roosevelt Positively vril not Ooa Bider Tr Nomination for Him? self? and Present Execu tlx . at Gibbons Cclebrntiosi ?nore. J? AShington, June 6.?President xft in his candidacy for the Presiden? tial nomination in 1312. will receive the unqualified endoresment of form? er Presidi at Roosevelt, which will be uttered just as certainly as it was in the last campaign. This is the best political news Mr. Taft has received in many months, and it comes to h'm In a manner that leaves no doubt as to its authenticity. The information that Mr. Roosevelt under no circumstances, will allow his name to he presented to a national convention was received several days ago, hut it did not become known un? til tonight. That Col. Roaavalt feels that the Taft administration should be continued was brought out as a result of the meeting between the two at the Cardinal Gibbons jubilee at Baltimore. Whether the former President will enter the campaign, as an active worker, will be watched with inter est. It Is not expected to prove pleas ir.g to Republicans, who have made n 3 secret of their desire to bring Col. Roosevelt forward as a formidable rival for the 1912 nomination. Many of these Republicans, no doubt, will refuse to abandn hope until Col. Roosevelt himself, in a quoted state mint, announces his position and thus breaks the silence concerning the ad minisration, which he has maintain? ed since landing in New York on his return from Africa. The information that Mr. Rose velt would be found allied with \>m President rather than against him i was brought directly to Mr. Taft from Mr. Roosevelt by a mutual friend high in official life, who was connect? ed with both the Rosevelt and Taft administrations in a capacity that en? abled him to gain and retain the con? fidence, in fact, the warm personal I friendship of both men. MISSING FRENCH AVIATOR. Lieut. Hague. Daring Rirdman. Re? lieved to Have Shared Pate of Cc < il Grace. Nice. June 5.?It appears that more ami more probable tonight that Lieut. Hague, the French aviator, has met the fate of Cecil Grace, the English? man who was lost in the North sea while attempting a flight from Calais to Dover last December. Lieut. Bague. wh i holds the over-sea flight record, left Nice in his aeroplane this morn? ing for a trip to Corsica. The dis? tance between the two points is a lit? tle more than 100 miles and when nothing was heard from the daring aviator, two torpedo boat destroyers were sent to seek him. The destroyer Arbalen returned here this evening from Corsica and reported that it could not find any trace of the avia? tor, other naval vessels arc continu? ing the search but it is feared that it will prove fruitless. The aviator took carrier pigeons with him and it is supposed that the aeroplane capsized so suddenly that he was unable to turn them l^ose. Tin? Arbalen lefl again for Corsics ;>t a late hour to make a further hunt for the missing aviator, by means of search lights. On March 50th last. Lieut. BagUS made a sensath nal and daring tlight over the Mediterranean from Antibes to the little island of Georgia, .ft' the Italian ?oast, lie covered a distance of more than 200 kilometres (134.1 miles), establishing a new record for ov r-sea (lights. TO RECOGNIZE INFAXT Kl PI R I 14 . riiitod State- m : v;\;v:mn;i IO i;,?o_iiit c Portugal a- Soon as ? OUStitUl Ion I? Xdopjcd. Washington, June 7. The \meri ,.in legation at Lisbon has been in? structed to accord the official recog I public of Portugal on the adoption of i will be accepted as Ihe ? ait e '?: the people an .am. nslon f a I I? h if made conditional bj the Washington government to formal recognition.