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VOL. XXIII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1909 NO.35 LAST ONE GONE en. M. C. ButIr Died In Colum bia Wednesday Night WAS SICK LONG TIME Was a Major General in the Con federate Army and Was Appoint ed to the Same Grade In the Army of the United States by President McKinley. Gen. M. C. Butler. the last of the brilliant general officers South Car olina contributed to the Confederate cause, died at the Knowlton Infirma ry in Columbia about 12 o'clock Wednesday night, after an illness which extended through many weeks. His wife and son were present when the soul of this splendid old warrior passed over the river to "rest under the shade of the trees." General Butler was In the 74th year of his age. On his last birth day, the 8th of March, he embraced the Catholic faith, being confirmed by Bishop Northrop. He was taken to the infirmary to be treated for sciatica. Gen. Butler's Career. C Matthew Calbralth Butler was c born In Greenville, of Illustrious par- c entage. His ancestors on the Butler side are a race of heroes. They were among the pioneers of South I Carolina, and settled In the northern part of Edgefield county. His great t grandfather, Capt. James Butler, was killed fighting for his country- in the war of the 'Ameriaan Revolution t lie was a descendant of the Duke lk of Ormand, the great royalist leader b in England. V; General Butler's grandfather, Wil- r liam Butler, was very prominent In tl Ithe legislatldve Idepartment bof the State. and also served thirteen years n In Congress. His father. Dr. Wil- a: liam Butler, was surgeon in the b United States navy. and was a broth- d er of Governor Pierce M. Butler, of j South Carolina, who fell at the bat- w tle of Charobusco. while leading the f( famous "Palmetto regiment." and a Dr. Butler's other brother was the distinguished Senator, Andrew Pick- tr ens Butler. 41 While stationed at Newport, R. t I., Dr. William Butler married Mies j, Jane Tweedy Perry, the sister of Commodore Oliver Perry, of Lak O Erie fame, and of Commodore Mat- k thew Calbraith Perry, who was 'l first to open cur commercial rela-|l tions with Japan. All readers oi is American history are familiar with | these distinguished naval heroes. After his marriage Dr. Butler re signed from the navy and returned to his native home In Edgefield. A The mother of General Butler was a woman of many sterling quali ties and was muc'h beloved and ad mired for her grandeur of character and her great beauty, sincere even to brusqueness and truthful always. ~ After the civil war a friend present ed to her General Sickles, of the ~ United States army, saying. "Gen- ~ eral, Mrs. Butler Is a sister of Comn- 'E modore Perry." Very emphatically. Mrs. Butler exclaimed: "I had rather ' be known as the mother of Calbraith ' Butler!" Here spoke the mother. ~ the heart--the "Cormella" *'of the ~ nineteenth century. The mother ofp the "Gracchi" could not have been ~ prouder of her "jewels" than was A this splendid woman of her nobh sons, of whom there were five whc *C "wore the grey." General Butler was a lawyer byi i profession, and soon after his ad- .M mission to the Bar married Mis? b Maria Calhoun Pickens, one of th; i handsome daughters of South Caro - linas grand old "war governors.'I Francis W. Pickens. When the war broke out General Butler organized a cavalry force an3 entered the field as a captain. Grad by grade he was promoted, until h attained the rank of major general at the desperate battle of Brand: Station. and the most dashing, gal ant and debonaire figu: seen tha' - day was this youthful. knightl. "Paladin" of the Army of Northerr Virgina, who possessed all the bril hiancy and valor of "Bold Henry o Navarre." In that terrible fight a' Brandy Station General Butler comn manded a regiment under Gen . J E. B. Stuart and lost a leg. whil' General Davis, who commanded tb Federals, was killed while crossing the Rappahannlock river. It was here, at Reams's Station. that he was promoted major general One of General Butler's gallant cour lers, who was then only a youth of 17. and by the way, was a relative of the general, has said. "Had Gen eral Butler no other war record hir ictory at the battle of Trevilian Station will forever immortahize him." After the din and smoke of the battle had died away, and white robed "Peace" crowned our once des olate land of the "Sunny South,~ General Butler returned to his home in Edgefield and resumed the prac tice of law. Gifted with brilliant Intellect and wit, he was regarded as one of the most effective speakers in South Carolina. a State which has always been noted for her able logicians and orators. In the autumn of 1876, General Butler was elected United States Senator, and his career as statesman was as grand as his record as soldier and patriot. Handsome as Apollo. and gifted with a charming personality, his mag netism and loyalty held his friends with "hooks of steel." After General Butler retired from the Senate he formed a law part nership in Washington, D.- C., with two distinguished attorneys under mae of "Shelly. Butler & Mar SEVERAL KILLED IN A CLASH BETWEEN OUR AND STATB In Mexico, Whlch Is Said to H4 Been Started by the Priests the Parish. According to a dispatch recels at Mexico the rioting which occuri at Valdardena. a mining camp Coahuila. last Saturday night, v m.ore serious than at first reporto thirty-two men being kiled a many injured. The trouble was stigated by Father Ramon Vale :uela, parish priest, it is assert( who lies In a hospital hovering I .ween life and death. Fourteen of the rioters were e uted by the Government trool tnd many were imprisoned. Mai kmericans reside in Velardena, he camap Is oontrolled by Americ apital. The leaders of the mob, which w rell organized, avoided attackii Lmericans or destroying Americ roperty. The fighting occurred when tl efe Politico of the town, an offic< rrespondent to an American ma: r. attempted to stop a religious pr< ession headed by the village pries 1e laws of Mexico forbidding suc rades. A thousand parishoners followe he priest, wishing to witness th nnual burning of Judas, and whe te orders of the mayor becam nown, the mob stoned and late arned the house of the mayor, wh ith his wife, escaped by climbing ar wall and seeking protection I e American colony. The- rioters then stormed a Ch se hotel, looting it of all liquor 3d foods and terrorizing the neigh >rhood during the night by thei runken orgy. The police fired o: .e mob, many members of whic' ere well armed. The officers wer rced to retreat, leaving six of the4i anber dend In the .als sti.t. Later troops arrived in a specia ain etnd a fierce fAght betwen troop id rioters ensued, bring!a the to .1 deatks to 32, with a wtiber iti red. Father Valenzuela was arrested e of his follower- smuggled rife to his cell and the pries abbed himself six times in a vio t attempt to commit suicide. H now in the prison hospital. Quie as restored. KILLED HIMSELF ter Trying and Failing to Shoo a Young I 97y. After trying to shoot Miss JOSE ie Alberts, Allan M. Fay, aged 2; ears, a prominent broker, of Bos in, Mass.. shot himself through thi oth in an alley early Wednesda; d died while being hurried to thi spital. Fay had spent the evening wit] iss Alberts,'at her '4ome, leaving me time after midnight. He thei ent to the alley at the rear of th, use and fired four shots, thre )ing through the young woman ndow, but none reaching Mis therta. A policeman who heard the shot iund Fay lying on his side in th leyway bleeding from a bulle ound in the roof of his moutl iss Alberts, who is 22 years-of agt s known Fay about four years rid during that time has re'peatedl ~fused his proposals of marriagi is said. Convicted of Manslaughter. At Spartanburg John Quinn, hite man, who shot and kille arle Trammell at Greer seveh reeks ago, was convicted Frida fternoon on the charge of mar laughter with a recommendation fc tercy. Murdered and Robbed. At Clinton Fuller Holland. colo d, was murdered and robbed hb ween 10~ and 11 o'clock Thursde ght. r.nd his restaurant burn' ver him. The fire was extinguisi d before the body was burned b 'ond identification. So far there o clue to the perpetrator. on," and on the 28th of May. 189 'resident McKinley appointed hi ajor general of the United Stat rmy, and his confirmation as su< vas unanimous by the Senate. Thi e see this kingly major general he Confederate cavalry, who so gt antly led his ragged and hung oldier boys on to so many vict ious battles, 34 years afterward najor general in the United Stat rmy, and commanding an arn orps. He was appointed also on t Cuban peace comm, ssibn and f ome time attended faithfully to trduous duties at Habana. In the spring of 1908 General B1 er was one of the distinguished Pi ty that visited the Arroyo Rico d rict in the southe~asternl section he State of Chihuahua, in the f famed Parral mineral belt, 65 mi northwest of the city of Part This party comprised, among othe General Butler. oaf South Caroli the Hon. Jno. K. Cowen, of Ba more; Admiral W. S. Schley General Armstrong of Mississippi. was in January, 1894, that Gene Butler was elected president of Hidalgo Placer Mining and Mill Company of Mexico. After the death of his first w General -Butler married Mrs. !N ne Whitman, nee Bostick, Dt the irr Robert fam-ily of Charles1 THE TURKS SLA CH Two Americans in the Outbre at Adama. of WAR ON CHRISTIAN ed Half of the City Reported Burn ed in an Anti-Armenian Riot a In as Sixty Persons Said to Have Lc d, Their Lives-Soldiers Join in tl nd Looting. n Two American missionarlos ha d, been killed in the anti-Armenian ot e- break at Adama. Asiatic Turkey, a cording to information received Constantinople from that place I telegraph t riday afternoon. ay At midnight neither the Americ.a as ambassador, Mr. Leishman, nor tI L1 British embassy had received at further news concerning the mass Is ere or 'confirmation of the reporte murder of American missionaries i Lo Adana. Consular telegrams received f Constantinople report that half < Le the town of Adana has been burnet r and that the attacks upon the Arm( r- nians are extending into the vilaye They say that the British vice cot stil as Mersina, Major Daughti Wylie, who was ordered to Adan h when the first advices of the maE sacre were received- has been wounc d ed. Communication with the disturbe district is interrupted, however, an a all reports received from there mus e be taken with caution. The Port r declares the disturbances are suil o si-ding. Two additional battalion a have been dispatched to Adana. n The Moslem attacks recommencei yesterday afternoon and continuei throughout the niglit. Large num s bers of Christians are said to hav - been killed. One report says tha r sixty Armenians have lost their live and that many houses have been loot ed and burned. The first news of this anti-Chris tian outbreak said the scene wa: at Mersina, but this was erroneous The trouble occurred at Adana, whici is about 36 miles inland from Mersi na. The early reports were declaret to have been exaggerated and mes sages received later said only ter Armenians had been killed, tha martial law had been proclaimed a t Adana, and that reinforcements o troops were being sent 'n fror Beirut. This latest intelligence refers t( disorders that took plnce after th( situation was supposed to have quiet, od down. Adana is a station of the Ameri. can board of commissioners for for teign missions with a working forci of five missionaries and thirty-6r< native workers; an out-station of th< - Synod of the Reformed Presbyte n an church in North America, anm - a Bible depot, and sub-agency of thi e American Bible Society. SAdana is a city of 45,000 people s and is the seat of Government o the province of the same name. Th a people are mostly Mohamidans, bu ; there are a considerable number o a Christians, including Armenians an4 s a small Greek community there. e The missionaries of the distrie s are at present at Adana for th< s regular district meeting. They ar< Mr. and Mrs. William Chambers. the s Misses Webb, Miss Wallis and Mis: e Borel. Mr. Christy is at Tarsus. t Telegrams arriving at Athen: .from Mersina report sanguinary riot ,at Adana as a result of a (lemon ,stration against the police, who ha< vkilled two persons they were tryinj .to arrest. A massacre then beganr in which the troops are alleged ta have participa'ted. Several house were burned during the disturbane' a The dispatches add that th d foreizn consuls have demanded tha LI warships he dispatched to Mersina. FOURTEEN PERISH. Boarding House for LaborerR Burne in San Francisco. At San Francisco six hodies r< covered and pr'obably eight or te vothers buried in the ruins; six ii djured, one fatally, property lo: a-1S2..000-these are the results< ia fire Friday that destroyed the S SGeorge Hotel, a lodging house it laborers at Howard and 8th stree Eight other small buildings we *burned. The bodies takeun to ti m mo(,~re were so charred that ident es fication was Impossible. hThe hotel was a three-story fran slbuilding. It was burne.d so rapid Lthat nlonf te8 guests had tin lto dress. Man:y escaped by jumpi ry to the room of an. adjoining woe 0~ shop. Scores clambered down tl a firemen's ladders, and the fire escapes on the building. Four jump to safety in a net held by the fi hfighters.. or__________ is Given a Banquet. The Spartanburg Bar- Associati u'- gave a dinrner Friday night at Ho is- Finch in honor of Judge D. E. E' of- drick, recently elected to the or' prem0 Cou:-t bench, and Judge T. le- Sease, recently elevated frC ale solicitor of the 7th circuit to Judg a. Slight Earthquake in Peru. ti- An earthquake shack accompan nd by subterranean rumblings was f It at Lima, Peru, this week. M~ ral buildings were damaged. No cast the ties are reported. ng Murdered UCnpaid Cabman. ife, Resenting a demand for hack f~ an- John Burchfield shot Zeke Rob old to death at Asheville, N. C.., a -em. ays ago. y NIGHT OF HORROR ENDS IN TRAGEDY BY STEAMEY ak SINKING AFTER Struggling Above Waves All Nighi S Wile Her Passengers Were in a Panic. Follo-~~:.g a remarkable series of ed accidents and a tempestous voyage, ad the steamer Virginia, from Cincin st natl, 0., to Pittsburg. was finally wrecked Thursday night in the Ohio hC river at Wellesville, Ohio. The boat, the largest plying the upper Ohio, wen- down close to re shore after striking a rock and tear t- ing a hole three feet long in the hull. The pasengers, numbering 50, in a highly nervous condition, as a at result of minor accidents earlier in )y the evening, became panic-stricken when the vessel met with the last n accident and it was with difficulty a crew of 75 men restrained them. ie Although handicapped by dark Ly ness, a high wind and drenching i- rain, the crew managed to place the d passengers safely in boats and put it them ashore. From here they weie taken scantily clad, to a fire engine house in Wellesville and later reach Lt ed the warmth of a hotel by means >f of a police patrol wagon. I. Today the passengers were sent to this city by railroad. t. The Virginia's trip from Cincin nati was without mishap until Wheeling was reached early last a evening. At this point a severe wind storm was encountered and the I, big packet was tossed about in the Ohio river like a small boat. It d was impossible to effect a landing : at Wheeling, and the Virginia con t tinued toward this city. e About 11 o'clock the steamer. which Is said to have been leaking s badly from an earlier accident, en tered the channel here. When yet I some distance from shore the steam I er struck an obstruction with ter - rific force. The passengers were a thrown from their berths. Baggage and valuables were forgotten. F After the excited paszengers had - reached the salon they.were quickly surrounded by a crew of seventy-five - men and quieted. Boats were brought Into service and before the steamuer settled all 7were safiely t ashore. Most of the passengers were from I southern points. TWO SUICIDES AT ONCE. Two Young Women Cabin Mates Kill Themselves. During the voyage of the Cunard Liner Lucania. which sailed from New York for Liverpool April 7, two young women, who had occu .pied a second-cless cabin together, .committed suicide by shooting. They were Margaret Clarke. 29 years old. who is ~believed to have been a resi dent of Brooklyn, and Annie Miller. .22 years old, whose former residence. lis not known. The motive for the Sdouble suicide has not been ascer tained, and as the bodies were burl ,ed at sea there will be no inquest. SMiss Clarke shot herself Thursday. Sthe second day out, while in her cab tin. Her companion four days later Stook her own life. WON HIS WIFE. By Making His Locomotire Whistle Play Tunes. Converting his engine whistle into a steam calliope, says the Pitsburg Dispatch, and playing thereon such tunes as "Home Sweet Home," 'In the Sweet By and By," "Will You Reniember Me?" "Way Down on the Suwanee River" and many other simple ballads of long ago, Robert sFreeman Ellington, engineer on the Southern Railway for more than 4twenty years, despite the fact that the is still a young man, won for Shimself a pretty young wife, who first became attracted to him after hearing his weirdly fantastic melo dies as he drove his iron steed through the stillness of the night. A LIVE IN H ER COFFIN. Moiurning Turns to Joy When Babe Opens Its Eyes. S Friends and relatives gathered t. last week at the home of Mr. and )I Mrs. C. C. H-arrington, of Orange. t. Tex., to attend the funeral services over the body of thcar two-year-old .3 daughter. The child had been dc i- clared dead, but was not buried for three days owing to the condition of ~the mother, who was suffering from ly shock. ie When the . services began the lit ig tie tot opened her eyes, gaped and k- wanted "out of - the box." She is e now on a fair wry to recover from s- her recent illness. Physicians who d declared the child dead are at a loss re to understand the case. Half Million Dollar Fire. Following a long series of incen on dia--y fires. two extensive sections of ~el Rochester. N. Y., fell prey, this week. y- to flames that for several hours ~u- seemed to threaten the destruction S- of the whole city. When the fireE >m were finally gotten under control, s. with the help of a heavy rain, over 100 families, numbering nearly 60C persons, were homeless and the prop ed erty damage exceeded $500,000. elt ny Hanged in Florida. al- Jesse Wells, alias "Alabama." negro. was hanged in the jail yarc at Orlando. Fla., Friday. by Sherif Kirkwood, for the murder of W. H re, Hammond, his employer. Mr. Ham rts mond was knocked in the head witl ew an axe by Willis, while he was ou on a fishing trip some time ago. GRAFT IN JAPAN NINE ARRESTS IN TOKIO CRE ATES A SENSATION. Men Prominent in Commercial and Political Circles Are Charged With Grave Misdeeds. A dispatch from Tokio says a tremendous sensation developed there Friday with the arrest of nine members of the lower house of the Diet, the nature of the charges be ing withheld. It is believed, how ever, that bribery in connection with the recent difficulties of the Japan Sugar Company is alleged and that there is great unrest in the capital as it is stated that some members of the upper house are liable to ar rest also. A few weeks ago cha.rges of fraud were brought against certain of the directors of the sugar company, which is a big concern, capitalized at $12,000,000. The directors re signed and an investigation of the affairs of the company followed. A series of questionable transac tions was disclosed, and the stock dropped from fifty to sixty points as a result of the exposure, a large number of people, including many foreigners, meeting financial ruin in the slump. The affair started an outcry from the press and public, which led to the prosecution of a. number of the directors in commercial and politi- 0 cal circles. When the nine members e of the lower house were taken In custody and the charges against . them were not made public owing 0 to the connection of the defendant directors with politics. It is gen- E erally believed that the investigation c of the sugar company resulted in the exposure of bribery In the Diet. t The members arrested all belong a to the Seyn-Kat, the dominant party a in both houses of the Diet. The 3 arrests and the belief that other e arrests are to follow have caused L consternation in Tokio political and p commercial circles. *t ti LEE'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. r c. Historic Document is in Possession b p of Augusta Man. A special from Augusta to The 51 News and Courier says Gen. R. E. b Lee's farewell address to the soldiers ez at Appomattox. now the property of t the Beech Island Farmers' Club, has a >een brought to Augusta and placed p in the safe in the office of Dr. T. E. f Oertel, for safekeeping. ti This address was written at Ap- se pomattox immediately after the sur- D render at Gen. Lee's dictation by Mr. Milliam Hayward Atkinson of Beech la sland. Several copies of it were n ade and given out to the troops, ti nd this copy, the original, was pre- a: ented by Gen. Lee to Mr. Atkinson y< n recognition of his long and faith- ri ful service in the field. c Mr. Atkinson enlisted in 1 861 In p he 14th regiment, South Carolina a, Volunteers, and went with it in Vir- e~ inia in 1862. He took part in all o f the campaigns of the Army of T orthern Virginia from the Seven ays fight around Richmond to the o lose at Appomattox, April, 1865. D Being a graduate of Princeton Col- ti egt and a lawyer by profession, he ti was detailed for duty in the office ta f Major Henry Young, Judge Ad- n ocate General of the army at Gen. t: Lee's headquarters In the field. h He was many years secretary of r the Beech Island Farmers' Club, and lh shortly before his death in Novem- f er. 1887, he entrusted the keeping f the order to the club. He was ;Ii buried with other members of his il family in the Beech Island Ceme- 3 tery. - *b DEAD W)If6 TOUND, a An Unknown White Man Meets Death in Swamp. A special from Sumter to The News and Courier says the body of an unknown white man was found Fiday morning beside the railroad track in Rocky Bluff Swamp, be tween that city and Mayesville. He was apparently about forty or fifty years old, and had but one leg. About $2 in small change was found in his pockets and a copy of the Sum tre Item of April 9. hut there was nothing to show his identity. The coroner's inquest failed to bring out anything about the stranger, except that he was seen by the railroad sec tion hands Thursday afternoon ly ing on the ground about seventy-five yards from the track, apparently under the influence of whiskey. The supposi'tion is that he sat on the sidle of the track and a pas snger train struck him in the head, fracturing the skull.* BOYS KILLED THEIR FATHER. Two Virginia Lads Are Charged With Patricide. John Craig was shot to death in bis home at Roaring Fork, a small mining town in WVise wuunty, Va., Friday evening, and his two sons. Patrick and Arthur Craig, aged 9 and 12 years respectively, were ar rested, charged with the patricide aMs lodged in the county jail at W ise Court House. It is said the father had been brutally treating the boys. and while he was asleep they planned to take his life. One of -the boys pointed a revolver at the father and pulled the trigger, but the cartridge was not exploded. The other boy then took the weapon and shot the parent through the head, killing him almost instantly,. CAUSES MURDER Squatter Refuse To Give Up The Lands ON WHICH THEY LIVE .Nne Tragedies Have Resulted From a Den Which Began in Portland, Me., in 1833 and Forgotten Until Lands Began to Be of Much Value. Nine assassinations are traceable o the contention for undisputed pos ;ession of 400,000 acres of land in he State of Georgia. The recent :illing of Pope S. Hill, leader of the 3ar association in Macon, is but mother link in the chain of bloody ragedies, which takes its beginning rom the organization of a body of apitalists in Portland, Me., In 1833 o purchase lands in that State. The Norman Dodge Land Com iany, composed of New York men, s now seeking to oust squatters rom the territory and finds it Is up gainst a lot of bogus and forged eeds and titles. In some respects he case resembles the Reelfoot ake fight, in Tennessee. There the ettlers had by right of years come C believe that they owned the lake. Here the squatters on the land btained by the Dodges' had remain d so long In peace and apparent wmrship that they have come to elieve the land is theirs by right f possession. Consequently they re st every attempt to displace them. loody has been the history of the &se. Capitalists in Portland, Me., sent eir agents into Georgia in 1833 nd bought large tracts in what are ow Dodge, Telfair, Laurens and rontgomery counties. A deed was :ecuted in the name of the Georgia umber Company. Later the com ny became indebted and in 1877 e lands were offered for sale by e Georgia legislature. George E. odge, of New York, made the pur lase. In the meantime nothing had ?en done with the land except to iy the taxes. In the course of time the Macon ad Brunswick railroad was con ructed and the land became valua e. Mr. Dodge and his fellow own -s began to realize something on eir property. Deeds were forged id all sorts of schemes were worked get the land away from them ecemeal. Dodge finally filed a suit r injunction and prevented fur er sbeals. He also turned pos ssion over to his brother, Norman dge, a resident of Georgia. At this juncture Luther Hall, a ,wyer, began to sell deeds in the m-e of the former owners of the act. He was convicted of violating injunction and sentenced to fiv-e bars in the penitentiary. Later he nU for the legislature and in his mpaign told the people in th'e dis ted land to "meet Mr. Dodge's ents with shotguns and leave thier rasses for the buzzards to pick cram them down gopher holies." his happened in 1890. About the same time the murder Col. John Forsyth, the resident dge agent. was murdered. No less ian six deaths, three or four of mem by violence, have followed the lal of the case. There have been n assassinations in Telfair coun within the last 25 years, and these ave been traceable, it is said, di mctly or indirectly to the Dodge ~d case, the end of which is still r from sight. Pope Hill and Nat Harris have )oked aftber many of the cases, and was to look into some of them that r. Hill left Macon so recently on is fatal trip to McRae. "Murder ill out, and I have no fear Hill's ssassin will escape." said Col. Nat larris, the partner of the murdier man. MARRIES STEPMOTHER. oung Man Weds the Widow of His Father. 't has just been learned that the Leparture last February from Cor eil University of Harry C. Beckwith. wenty-six years of age, and enrolled .s a special student in architecture, as for the purpose of urging his it for the hand of his step-mother. drs. Eleanor Beckwith, thirty-six -ears of age, and now a resident of hicago. Friends of young Beck ith today heard that he had been ;uccessful in this end and that a narriage ceremony had been per rormed last Saturday in Chicago. 3eckwith's father died seven or eight years ago. KILLED IN STREET BY AUTO. ian Run Down as He Gets Off Car. Four People Hurt. At Memphis Peter Sullivan was killed and four other persons in jured late Wednesday night when an utomobile ran down Mr. Sullivan as he was alighting from a street car. Of the injured occupants of the au tomobile who were thrown to the~ ground by the sudden stopping of the machine, was 'Thomas Phetan, a prominent business man, is the most scriously hurt. Rejected Lover Tried Murder. Roland Matlack, 20 years of age, is under arrest in Trenton, N. J-. charged with attempting to kill his rival, Roland Chadwick, of Phila deWia, and Miss Margaret Summers, a girl of 19 and his former sweet heart. He tried twice to fire intc their face but the gun failed to gC off. . . . GOES BACK TO WORK SENATOR AND MRS. TILLMAN GOES TO WASHINGTON. The Senator Cherishes No Delusions as to Democrats Getting Anything But Crumbs. The Columbia Record of Friday says Senator and Mrs. B. R. Tillman were here today on their way to Washington. to which point the senator is -headed so as to be on hand for the tariff debate in the senate. The senator is apparently in splendid health. "I am getting so fat that positively I am getting sad about it. Gained six or seven pounds recently eating hog and hominy down at Trenton. Weighing 200 pounds now, more than I have ever weighed. But, by golly, I want some roas'n ears to eat, and I've got to leave before they come in." Asked if he could not say some thing rash on which a hardup news paper fellow might build a good live story, the senator smilingly nodded in the negative. "Haven't got an Idea on State or national politics," he deelared, giv ing away Indolently to the balminess of the spring morning. "Well, couldn't you tell us some thing about how much hell you are going to raise about the tariff?" "Oh, what's the use of biting at the grindstone? Whenever those Republican ringsters get ready to pass the tariff they will simply crack the whip and the majority will trot up and vote as the ring directs. Ii they will consent to give us the rIgnt sort of showing on German potash salts we will try to get it, but It is all in their hands." Senator and Mrs. Tillman will stop over in Rock Hill -this evening for a visit to Winthrop col'ege. * INQUIRY TO BE RESUMED. I Ittorney General Lyon Says Things Will be Doing. s Attorney General Lyon who lias lust gotten back to Columbia after )xtended trips to Augusta, Atlanta, ind Cincinnati, in the interest of .he resumptgon of the dispensary >f the Federal Supreme Court which Pvas announced while he was in At anta. "I guees I could tell you a few e e :hings we have been descovering re ,ently on which you could build t powerful good story," said Mr. r yon, smiling in answer to a ques :ion from one of his newspaper call rs. "but I am hardly at liberty to 0 io that at this time. I do not know nyself just what the -State's pro ,ram is now, as I have not yet had L conference with our attorneys here. nd as the Governor has .not yet illed the two vacancies on the wind ng-up commission but it will be safe :o say that the music will start up iow in a few weeks." Mr. Lyon was much "put out" at :he recent spread-eagle story that appeared in The Atlanta Constitu ;lon about Mr. Felder's law firm's rlleged big fee of $200,000 in the lispensary case. He is satisfied that :he Atlanta firm is in no way to )lame. Of course, Mr. Lyon is de lighted with the Supreme Court's lecision, but its general drift was aot a surprise to him. He had ex pressed himself as confident of vic :ory some time before the decision 3ame out.. r NIGHT RIDERS BRING TERROR. Threaten to Play Havoc if Planters Don't Heed. "Night riders'' are terrorizing I land owners and tenants in the vicin ity of Harriman's Ferry, Indiana.c William Schrolucke, owner of 700 acres in that neighborhood, reported that twenty men on horseback visit- t ed all his tenants and informed them that if they paid a greater rent than one-third of the crop raised, their crops would be mowed down before they became ripe. Thomas Taylor, a wealthy land owner, received by mail a package containing powder and matches, with a note of warningi of what he might expect if he insist-1 ed on a one-half crop rental. 1 BOTH PASSED AWAY. Only Two Hours Between Death of Man and Wife. The News and Courier says news was received in Laurens Thursday morning of the death yesterday of Mr. and Mrs. Brown Whitmire at their home at Young's Cross Roads, about three miles southeast of Clin ton. Mr. and Mrs. Whitmire were both ill with pneumonia, and early yesterd'ay moriiing Mr. Whitmire pased away. A few hours later Mrs. Whitmire died. Each was about 50 years of age. The burial service of the couple will be held today at Hurricane Church. SPECTACULAR RESCUES. Firemen Save Tenants From Flames by Daring Work. At New York more than ten spec tacular rescues were made by fire men early during Friday in a blaze in a six-story tenement at 204-206 East 165th street. So far as is known all the tenants escaped in safety. During the work on the lad ders Deputy Chief Callahan fell to the street and was injured, though not necessarily fatally. He was tak en to a hospital. The fire started in a laundry on the ground floor. IA number of horses in the cellar ere bure to death. * CAN'T BE FOUND Twelve Year Old Child Disap pears While On HER WAY TO SCHOOL In Atlanta, Georgia, Little Carrie Olemmons Left Her Home on Highland Avenue for the Boule vard School and Has Strangely Vanished, and She Can't be Found. In Atlanta, Ga., the strange and unaccountable disappearance of lit tle Louise Clemmons, 12 years old, is cuasing great anxiety to her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clemmons, who lives as 354 Highland avenue. Since 8 olock Monday morning, when the little girl, with the school books under arm, left home for the Boulevard Street school, she has not returned home, and her anxious mother and father have earned sothing of her whereabouts. All night Monday night her parents spent troubled hours in - notifying the police authorities, phoning to relatives in different parts of the wity and in visiting the homes of the Yighborhood in vain, restless ef torts to find some clue to the where tbouts of the bright little daughter rho had so suddenly and so mys eriously disappeared. Little Carrie is a favorite in the 2eighborhood. She is 'bright and vinsome and is admired by all who :now her. She is her mother's only laughter and the mother is about o give away under the anxious train. Mrs. Clemmons was at first quite ,verse to- notifying the police or the ewspapers of her daughter's dis .ppearance, and it was far into the ight of Monday, after all possible iforts had been made, that she and .er husband called upon the police D assist in the search. From the Boulevard Street chool, where Carrie had regularly ttended and for which place she aft her home Monday morning in er accustomed manner. comes the 2formation that she was not seen t that school at all Monday. She ras urged by her mother upon leav ig to return home immediately after ,hool closed for the day and readily Dnsented. Her accustomed obedi ne in this respect makes her dis ppearance all the more of a myste y to her parents -and the suspense 11 the more. terrible. At first her tilure to return did not excite any ears, but the coming of night with ut the child's appearance brought 'ith it fear and anxiety. Mrs. Clem ions immediately telephoned to the omes of relatives over the city rhere the child had often visited nly to learn that she had not been een. The father was notified at Is place of busIness, 96 Ivy street, nd the search began. The only trace of Carrie yet learn d since her disappearance is that be was seen walking down Broad treet, near the intersection of Broad rith Mitchell street, Monday about 2 o'clock. She was alone, and yet er mother cannot believe her to e lost, because, although young, she new the streets of the city well and ften run errands to many points i the city alone, This causes Mrs. lemmons to believe trat her daugh er is being held and not lost, as she annot see why the child would not eturn home if she could, because he knows the way. Then, too, ~arrie had often expressed a fond ess for going to Lakewood to gath r the flowers there and Mrs. Clem eons is strongly tempered to believe hat she went to Lakewood and has allen into the lake and is drowned. "Of course, that's looking at it n the dark side," said Mrs. Clem nons to a Journal representative, 'but I am nevertheless trying to see he bright side, if there is any bright ide." When the little girl left home for chool Monday morning she wore a lotted blue muslin dress, with a larker blue border. On her head she yore a small tan cap; on her hair w'as a rather large blue ribbon bow. she wore button shoes and a signet ling on which were engraved the etters C. L. C. Her father is a plumber, working it 96 Ivy street. CAN'T EXPLAIN SUICIDE. Former New York Broker Threw Himself Over Cliff. Ludwig Stettheimer, the young American who committed suicide by throwing himself from a cliff at Tor regeveta, Italy, last Tuesday and. who was at first thought to be "I McPherson," of Seattle, was former ly a foreign exchange broker in Wall street. About a year ago lie gave up his business and began to travel in Southern Europe and Africa. His cousin here, Morris Stettheimer, was at a loss to explain the suicide. Ludwig, he said, was cheerful when he left here and had considerable noney. Socialists May Sue Outlook. The State committee of Socialists in New Jersey may sue the Outlook Publishing Company for an article written by Former President Rose velt in which it is alleged reflection was cast upon the characters of many members of the party. * Student Drowned. At New Orleans Gerald Slvright, aged 19, a student at Tulane Univer sity, and member of a prominent family of New Orleans, was drowned late Friday in the lake at City