PUBLISHED JHBBE T I W?h Babe in H*r Arms Woman Fights fcgro Fiend. THE BRUTE IS RUN DOWN, A Daring Attempt at Awful Das ^?4V}y;;s: ' ?'''.?? .*?'."' ??? '/ ?;? ''. ? tardly! Crime In Open Daylight at Spartanburg.?Lady Attacked ?in Her Home and Is Saved by the Screams of Her Child. {Jary Gest, a negro driver of .a de livery wagon, entered the bed room of a well known woman on Union Street, in Spartanburg, Safurday af-j ternoon as she was nursing her three months old baby, says a dis patch to the Columbia State. As she arose with a cry of alarm he seized her by 1:he throat, chocked her until the blood gushed from her nose and threw her down. Her 3 year old son was 'n the ro??u and screamed in terror The negro ? grasped the tot by the neck and chocked him also. Mrs. Beaulah Askew, a neighbor, was in her hack yard. She heard the cries and rush-) ed into the house. The negro re leased his intended victim and fled i : from the house. I Within thirty minutes a dozen] policeman, the sheriff, "w.- J. White,-] and his deputies arid a score of cit izens were engaged .in the man hunt. They caught Gest in Duncan's woods, a mile and a half from the. scene of his crime, at 4:15. His captors! hustled the negro into a carriage, drove like mad and had the prisoner in a cell of the county jail at 4:30 i o'clock. A large crowd gathered j I around the jail, but there was, notj even a suggestion of lynching, j Gest knew the woman who' he i attacked. Her husband, who is a clerk in the office of a well-known commission merchant, at one time - ? was employed by W. T. Finch, pro prietor of the Finch hotel. Oeat was. employed In the hotel. He has re cently been employed In driving the ? delivery wagon of Brown Bros., gro cers. He started out with his wagon about 2 o'clock Saturday'afternoon, After delivering one package,he re turned, to the store and asked ques tions regarding something with ? which -he-' r'wafr -perfectly familiar.. Ozler Brown accused the negro of being drunk. Gest denied it and - started out again.J He stopped his wagon in front'of the residence on Union street .'and knocked,at the front door. He asked the Woman who lived, there. She tola him he knew very well. He said he Wanted to deliver a package to somOj people named Brown. There is no' one of the name in the vicinity. The woman went back into the house and prepared her baby for its after noon nap. She was sitting in a rocking chair, humming a lullaby, when her little, ?boy cried out that the . negro had come into the house. She looked up and saw the brute standing at the j door of the room. Holding tight to the baby, she leaped to her feet. Without utter-{ ing a cry and holding the baby with her left arm she raised her right hand and tried to push him back. Her hand touched his" mouth and he bit a piece out?'of it. The ne:ro choked her so hard that her nose began to bleed and her cries became faint. The little baby was also screaming. The negro, without releasing Ms grasp on the woman,' reached out and choked the child. In doing so his finger nails cut a gash two. inches long on the -boy's neck, bringing blood. During the entire, struggle the woman clung to her baby. The strug gle did not last more than a minute. Mrs. Askew rushed Into the room and Gest hurried out of the front door. He abandoned the wagon and ran at top- speed out the macadam road extending from Union street. Wait ing only a few moments to see to the care of her neighbor, Mrs. Askew ran to the door calling for help. Not 50 yards from the house a gang of negro laborers were work ing. There were white men In the vicinity also. Among them was F. ?f. Logan, a storekeeper. They saw Gest running hut did not pursue. .'nlIo'?r-M' "' "?'?-" " v . ?.. It is understood that the adoption of the amendment will have the ef fect of alienating the votes of a num ber of Southern Democrats, as the result of the new'law would be to force the South to count the negro in all elections for United States Sen ator-, This is a direct slap at the South, and should have the effect of causing all Democratic Senators from defend ing Lorimer, who, 'with the other stand-pat Republicans, is in favor of j the movement to make the South count the negro vote in the Sena torial elections. HAVE NARROW ESCAPE. Fire Destroys JVIuny Buildings, In eluding Hotels. White Springs, Fla., as mall re sort city on the Suanee River, was practically destroyed by fire, which started in the Baptist parsonage and spread rapidly through the business district Friday afternoon. A tocai of twenty-eight structures, a majori ty of them mercantile establishments, and including four large hotels, were destroyed before the flames burned out. A high wind was blowing all after noon and the fire spread with such rapidity that the guests of one of the hotels were threatened and several slightly burned before they could reach a place of safety. The absence of a fire department made the town helpless. Although the Lake City department was rushed to the city by special train, it was of no help on account of the absence of a water supply. The residents and visitors of White Springs have been panic stricken all night, and it is with dif Acuity that Bhelter is found. Many left for adjacent cities to get accom modations. The damage is conserv atively placed near $300,000. * Changed" His Mind. Governor Blease Friday approved the measure incorporating the Pied mont Northern Railway with a cap ital stock of $5.000,000. although he had previously announced that he would veto the Act. because it gave too much power to the owners of the company. The company proposes io construct a network of electric lines over the Piedmont section of the State. * Hig Strike Still On. The Charleston fertilizer strike re mains on with more than 2,000 ne groes idle and declaring their inten tion to remain away from the works until their demand for $2.10 is met. There has been no disorder worth speaking of however and it is en tirely possible that the men may yet go hack to work without the increase. Murdered Electrocuted. James B. Allison, ' of Asheviile, was officially electrocuted at Ral eigh, N. C, Friday. Floyd McGee, in a quarrel over a woman. He was the first white man electrocuted in North Carolina. ? TOOK AND HUNG THM NEGRO MURDERERS LYNCHED BY INFURIATED MOB. Crowd of. Two Hundred Brenk In Door, Tikes Out Prisoners and Hangs Them to Same Tree. Bob Jones, the negro who fatally shot Conductor W. W. Thompson at Camak, Ga., on the Georgia railroad Thursday night, was taken from the Warren county Jail at midnight Fri day night by a mob of about 200 infuriated citizens and lynched. .John Veazey, another negro in the jail, who was charged with the mur der of C. E. Tarham two months ago, was also lynched. The mob then quietly dispersed and Saturday War renton was as quiet as a small town can be. . The negro who was with Jones at the time Capt. Thompson was shot has not yet been apprehended and the mob took advantage of Sheriff Brinkley's- absence with his posse looking for/this negro to enter the jail and 'lynch Jones and Veazey. At eleven o'clock Saturday morning the two negroes were still hanging from a tree near the town, their bodies riddled with bullets. The mob entered the town about midnight pried open the door of the jail. They took the two negroes from their cells and quietly led them to the outskirts of the town. The next thing that the inhabitants heard was a fusillade of shots and then all was still. Saturday morning the re mains of the negroes were seen swinging from limbs of the. same tree. Much indignation was caused two months ago when John Veazey, ona of the negoes lynched is said to have murdered Mr. Tarham, a prominent citizen'of Warren county. i ? -> ? TWELVE YEAR OLD BRIDE. % With Parents Consent She Weds Boy . v of Eighteen. The youngest bride ever led to the altar in Cincinnati was Sarmelia Al tinnari, a girl of 12, who became the bride of Frank Stone, a youth of 13. The' license to wed was obtained by the parents of the children in New port,' Ky.,and the ceremony was per formed by Father. James McNerny, of the Church, of the Immaculate Conception, of Cincinati. ? At first Clerk J.. Lj Bryan,-of ? the^Kentucky^ Court refused to Issue the license be cause of the age of the bride-elect, but the father of the girl showed him that he was obliged, under Kentucky laws, to comply with such a request from the fathers of the contracting parties. Both fathers were present when the license was secured. * -r- ? LIFE TERMERS PARDONED. Preston Jefferson and W. G. Rivers Free?Petition Refused. Two life term prisoners were par doned late Friday by Governor Blease. One was. Preston Jefferson, who was convicted in Sumter count; in 1888, on the charge of rape, in the petition it is ntated that Jeffei ? son was a very young boy at the time. W. G. Rivers, the other man to re ceive his pardon, was convicted la Dorchester county for murder in 190:i. He is 77 years of age, and a Confederate Veteran. " A pardon was refused William fv Perry, who was convicted in Orange burg county in January, 1903, on the charge of arEon. He was sentenced to six years in the Reformatory and six years in the State Penitentiary. * WOMAN EGGED IN PARIS. Frenchmen Show Disapproval of Her Immodest Costume. Paris has been shocked! The French capital, home of almost any thing and everything "ultra" in fashions, has become cripper over the new trousers skirt. By some feminine contraption of apparel has designated as the "harem scarum." Paris blushed when it has heard of the skirt, but that blush of modesty turned into the flush of anger. A young woman, attired in the new mode, walking along the Avenue de l'Opera?the Avenue de l'Opera mind you?was actuaMy egged by a mob of disapproving men until the police appeared and helped her escape in an automabile. * The Deadly Auto. At Fort Worth, Tex., Harry Sears, a contractor, is doad, his daughter, Mrs. O. T. Ramos, is seriously injur ed, and the latter's husband and Miss Maude Berry are suffering internal injuries as a result of the wrecking of their automobile when the ma chine skidded, turning turtle. * Negroes Not Desired. The Dominion Government decid ed to stop the immigration or ne groes from the United States, and stepped at the boundary a party which intended to go to Western Canada. The ne?roes are renareded as undesirable citizens. * Rock Fell on Them. At Birmingham, Ala., Frank What ley, boss at the Songo Ore Mines, and Riley Dumas, a colored con tractor, were instantly killed Tues day when a rock fell on them while they were at the bottom of a slope. WO GENTS PEK COPY N? USE FOR IT Governor BIease Says He Will Hereafter Ignore Pardon Board. 'BE ASSIGNS NO REASON Simply Says He Has Wlhtlrawn All Papers in Hands of Members and Will Refer No More to Them? The Office is Not Abolished by Law. The Columbia Record says report ers who asked Governor Blease, Fri day, what was the status of the State board of pardons, were told: "Well, I have recalled the papers that were in their hands and I do not intend to refer any more cases ro them." Which means the practical abolishment of the board, if the gov ernor stands by his expressed inten tion; yet the law requires thi: tho board shall met regularly, on the first Wednesday in each quarter, and so it will continue to meet, its mem bers drawing $4 per diem and their mileage, although their occupation be gone. The governor has not the power to abolish the board, nor is it within the discretion of the board to neglect the attending of the reg ular meetings merely because >the governor has eeased to refer to it any matters for consideration. The board is composed of Messrs. R. Mayes Cleveland of Travelers' Rest, C. A. Savase or Walterboro and Washington A. Clark, Sr., of Colum bia, Mr. Cleveland being chairman ;ind> Mr. Clark secretary. Mr. Sav age's term expires next month, Mr. Cleveland's about a year hence and jjtfjK Clark's two years hence. Mr. Clark said that he had not been advised of the governor's in tention not to refer any more cases to the board, but that if the gov ernor did pursue this course, the board would have no choice but to met' regularly, on the first Wednes day in each' quarter, notifying the governor that it was In session, awaiting his pleasure, and, If he laid no business before it, adjourn; and so on. until the general assembly should see fit to repeal the act cre ating the commission, or the hoaid I should go out of existence by expira jtlon of the terms of its members. The-pay- of the board;-Mr.- Clark said, is limited to $4 per day for mem bers while the board is sitting, and the usual mileage to "and from their homes on official business. The act creating the board pro vides that within 30 days from :he appointment, said board shall meet in the city of Columbia', and organ ize, and at'once notify the governor of their readiness to consider any petitions he may see fit to lay t efore them. They shall keep a complt ?. record of all their proceedings, and hold same subject to the orders from the governor, or th j general assembly. It shall be the duty of said boa^d to consider any and all petitions for. pardons or commutation of sentence which may be referred to them by the governor, and to make their rec ommendation to the governor regard ing same; provided the governor may or may not adopt such recommenda tion, but in case he does not, he shall submit his reasous to the general as sembly; provided, further, that the governor may act on any petition without reference to said board. Said board shall hold regular meetings at least four times each year, beginning on the first Wednes days of January, April, July and October, respectively, and as nuiny extra meetings as the governor may, through the secretary, order. The members of said board shall receive as compensation for their ser vices the sum of four ($4) dollars for each day they shall be in session, not to exceed 20 days, and 10 cents per mile, one way, for the mosc di rect route to and from such meetir.K; said sum to be paid by the State treasurer, on warrant of the comp troller general. Said board shall have authority to preserve order at its meetings, and to punish any disrespect, or con tempt committed in its presence. ? A majority of said board shall consti tute a quorum for the transact.on of business, and a majority shall rule in all its deliberations. The mem bers of said board shall hold no other public office than that of notary pub lic." Falls Heir to Fortune. The News and Courier says L. H. I Adams, a yeoman in Uncle Sam's ser vice at the local naval plant, has been Informed that he had fallen heir to a fortune of $27,000, left him throug'i the death of a distant relative. Yeo jman Adams home is in Beuton Har Ibor, Michigan. He has been in Char I leston about nine months. * Boy Accidentally Killed. Enbht.een-year-old Denie Goinn was instantly killed while hunting Friday with his elder brother nea. Columbus. The lad was holdfHg his brother's shotgun, which was dis charged, the load tearing out the lad's heart. ? Fell to His Dcatn. Slipping on a banana peel at the head of a Htairway leading to an up town subway station, an unidenti fied man tumbled, thirty feet. He was dead when picked up. ?