VOL. XXIV MANNING, S.C. WEDNESDAL JUNE 8
A QEER YEAR
Up s is r.e We ave a sm
Nsu Remarkable Weather.
YEAR WITOUT SMR
Are We Going to Have a Repetition
of the Year That Had Cold Weath
ee in Every Month and Had Big
Snow Storms in the Month of
June
The Augusta Herald says the sea
sons so far this year have been most
peculiar. After a winter of rather
disagreeable weather spring appar
ently opened up early. and during
March and the first half of April
the weather was most pleasant, with
absence of rain and the usual 'March
winds the distinguishing feature.
Then came a return of cold weather.
During the latter part of April there
was a heavy snowfall which extended
well into Georgia. and frost which
reached into Florida. And since
that time the weather has been cool.
Only a few days ago a heavy snow
storm was reported from the West.
and within the past week overcoats
were worn on the streets of Augus
ta. Surely most remarkable weath
er!
But it is not without precedent.
The year 1816 was a year that must
have been similar to the weather
as we have had it up to this time.
It was referred to for years after
wards as "the year without a sum
mer." and so cold was it at times in
some sections that almost all crops
were a failure, and the year was
called by the irreverent the year
of "eighteen hundred and starved to
death.*
'A gentleman in Thomasville has a
copy of an old Virginia paper, pub
lished shortly after the war. which
contains the weather conditions of
the year 1816 that was copied from
the Boston Globe. and which is of
Interest now. This seems to be the
account of a party who had personal
knowledge of that abnormal sum
mer. and who had collected some
data in regard to it. He says:
"While every one is speaking of
the present season as being remark
able in its characteristics. I have
gathered !or your readers some re
liable facts of the year 1816. known
as the 'year without a summer.* Few
persons now living can recollect it.
but it was the coldest ever known
through Europe and America. The
following is a brief abstract of the
weather during each month of the
year:
January was mild, so much so as
to render fires almost needless in
parlors. December previous was very
cold.
"February was not very cold; with
the exception of a few days it was
mild, like its predecessor.
"March was cold and boisterous
during the first part of It: the re
mnainder was mild. A great freshet
on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers
caused a great loss of property.
"April began warm. but grew cold
er as the month advanced, and end
ed with snow and ice and a tempera
ture more like winter than spt'ng
"May was more remarkable for
frowns than smiles. Buds and'-fruit.
were frozen: ice formed half an inch
thick: corn killed, and fields again
and agi:n replanted until deemed
too late.
"June was the coldest ever know
in this latitude. Frost. Ice and snoa
we-e common. Almost every greer
thing was killed. Fruit nearly all
destroved. Snow fell to the deptb
of ten inches In Vermont. several in
Maine. three in the interior of New
York. and also in Massachusetts
Considerable damage was done at
New Orleans in ccnsequence of th(
rapid riqe in the river. The su
burbs were covered with water, and
the roads were only passable with
boats.
"July was accompanied by fros'
and ice. On the 5th ice was formed
of the thickness of a common win
dow glass througout New England
New York and some parts of Penn
sylvania, Indian corn was nearly al
destroyed: some favorably situate
fields esc'aped. This was true o'
some of the hill farms of Massachu
setts.
"August was more cheerless. I'
possible. than the summer month'
already passed. Ice was formed hal'
an inch thick. Indian corn was s'
frozen that the greater part of I'
was cut down and dried for fodder
Almost every green thing was de
stroyed, both in this country and in
Europe. Papers received from Eng
land state 'that It would be remem
bered by the present generation that
the year 1816 was a year in which
there was no summer.' Very little
corn ripened in the New England andt
Middle Stat-'s. Farmers supplie ~
themselves from corn produced i:
1815 for the seed of the spring oi
1817. It sold at from $A to $5 a
bushel.
--ept'e-er furnished about twc
weeks of the mildest weather of the
season. Soon after the middle it
became very cold and frosty: ice
formed a quarter of an inch thick
"Oct'ober produced more than its
share of cold w'ather; frost and ici
were common.
"November was cold and bluster
ing. Snow tell so as to make good
sleighini.
"December' was mild and comfort
able.
"The above was a brief summar:
of the 'cold summer of 1816. asi
was ra~ed. in oraer to distinguish ?
from the cold season. The winte:
was mild. Frost and Ice were comn
mon in every month of the year
Very littl4 vegetation matured it
the Eas:ern and Middle States. Th<
sun's rayrs seemed to be destitute o
heat throughout the summer; al
-... == nd i a sblehue. a!M
SCAUSES MA WRECKS
VESSEA LOST AN) SEVERALL
.1EN 1)ROWNE).
The Disaster Was Caused by Heavy
Fogs Along the Coast of British
America.
A dispatch from Halifax. N. S..
says thick fo.: and a quickly born
so:thwesterly gale are said to have
resulted in the wrecking of six ves
sels and the loss of eight men at
various points along the rocky coast
of the Atlantic Wednesday night and
early Thursday.
While most of the crew of 25
were asleep below decks. the French
brigantine Mauve, a fishing vessel.
piled up in the fog an Point Blanche.
at the entrance of S. Pierr harbor.
Miquelon. Thursday morning. and six
men on deck were hurled overboard
and drowned. The remainding 19
made their way to shore in small
boats and rafts. The Mauve is be
lieved to be a total loss.
The Norwegian bark Borghild was
driven on Castor Ledges. cif Port
Bickerton. N. S.. and at once be
gan to -0 to pieces in the heavy
sea. The crew of nine men launched
;their small boats. but all of them
were batered to pieces on the rocks
and two of the men were eithee
drowned or hurled to death on the
ledges. The remaining seven. cling
Ing to the wreckage of the boats.
were rescued by fishermeu.
'Half a mile inside ot Port Nova.
N. S.. the British steamship Ben
Cruachan bound from Baltimore to
Chatham. N. B.. struck the beach
so hard that it is doubtful if she
can be saved. Her crew of 26 men
were rescued. Captain Boswell. it
is said, mistook the Louisbury fog
siren for the Scattarie w.histle and
steered a wrong course. landing in
the breakers. Several steamers and
tugs have gone to the scene of the
wreck.
"I CAN'T EXPLAIN-"
HoIstlaw. Illinois Senator. Talks Of
His Confession.
"I'd rather be known as a boodler
than a liar," said Senator Daniel
Holstlaw in an interview at his home
it Inka. Ill.. Wednesday, speaking of
his confession to accepting a bribe
of $2.500 as a legislator.
"Maybe." he continued. "I took
the money because I saw everyone
else doing the same thing-I can't
explain."
"I made the confession because
I could not tell a lie.
"I don't know-! don't under
stand." be said. with a hope'ess air
answering a question of why he. a
nan owning property worth a quar
ter of a million dollars. would ac
cept bribe. I
"All I want is to sink out of sight.
I knew the indictment charging me
vith perjury was a bluff. aiid it did
not frighten me. But when they
asked me whether I was paid for
voting for Senator Lorimer. I had
to 'tell the truth."
[A daughter of' Holstlaw followed
the interviewer out of the house.
Breaking down. she exclaimed: I
"To spend years of toil in build
ing a name and then to destroy it at
)ne blow. Oh. how could he do it"
\My mother is prostrated. We have
not said a wo-rd to father about the
'rouble. for it would break his .heart.
H{e could not have been in his right
mind."
BONE IN THROAT KIL LS.
Negro Man at Batesburg Ilics in a
Peculiar Manner.
At Batesburg Wade Brooks. a ne
"ro man, who lived on Mr. N. A.
Rates' place. died Wednesday under
eculiar circumstances. About ten
lays aeto Wade was eating a piece of
SGuinea fowl, and in some way he
tot a piece of bone crosswise in his
broat. There it remained for .*
'ay or two, when a doctor was sum
noned. The doctor, it is said, took
in instrument and pushed the bone
'own. Instead of relieving the ne
rro it made matters worse. The
'one was lodged further down andI
he man died Wednesday.
Hequisition Refused.
Governor Ansel Tuesday issued his
eeision on Governor Patte-rson's re
ulsition for Shep Pearlstine of Den
iark. indIcted in Charleston. Tenn..
',r embezzlement, refusing requisi
!bn and stating the legal ground at
--ngth. A few months ago Givern
-r Patterson of Tennessee disallowed
lovernor Ansel's requisition of C. J.
lebert. wanted for trial here in c-on
:ection with the S--minole swindle.
Shot Self and Wife.
At .Jefferson. Ind.. with the words
"I don't believe you love mn' any
nore." William Boatman. a former
..mploye of the American Car and
Foundry company, walked up to his
-ife and shot her three times and
then killed himnself.
Eagles Attack Scoolhoy.
Homeward bound from school. Ira
Cottinghamn was attacked by two hun
g'y eagles near Kansas City. Kan.
He wHi carry the m'rks of their
talons to his gra'e. though h'- man
aged to beat the birds off with a
club.
Snow in Pittshurg.
At Pittsburg. Pa.. snow fell Tues
day. The tpelraturie was 29 de
grees. the cold-st .\ay 31 in~ the, re
cords of the local weather n'ureau.
men exhibIted no little anxiety con
cerning the future of this life.
"The average wholesale price of
flour during that year In the Phil
fadelphia market was $13 a barrel.
The average price of wheat In E:g'
I and was 93 silli1ngagjater.
CHURCH GROWTH
Lafger in Proportion Than the increase
in the Population.
INCREASE VERY GREAT
There Are Many More Women Than
S
Men Included.-In the Larger .
Cities Catholics More Titan Dou- n
ble Pote';tants, but the Latter I
n
Said to he Greatly Understated. N
ti
Church growth in the United S
States has been greater than the i- Q
crease in population between t.he S
years l900 and 1906. according to h
the special census report on the cen- I
sus of religious bodies for 1906. In t!
the principle cities of the country.
the growth both in. the numt' -. of
religious organizations and comnmu - r(
ities was greater in the years men
tioned than the increas- in poopua- fc
tion. w-hile in the area outside the
principle cities to the rate of in
crease in the number of new chur
ches established was approximately 1
the same as the rate of population
increase, although in the number of
communicants the increase in the
outside area. as in the cities. was
In excess of that in population. W
Out of every 1.000 people in the sa
160 principle cities of the country- th
that is. those which had a popula- tb
tion of more than 25.000-there ISO
were 469 church members w.hile for
the area vutside these cities there at
were 364. and for the entire country t
there were 391. As compared to 1890 1
the report shows a gain of ninety m
communicants In each 1.000 of pop- a,
ulation for the principal cities and a as
gain of Afty-one outside of them.
Female members in 1906 outnum
bered the male members by 32 per a:
cent in continental United States. ro
while in the principle cities the ex- h,
cess of female members was pro- wl
rortionately less, being 960.526. or se
23.5 per cent. at
The aggregate number of 32.936.- tr
445 communicanry or members of all
religious denomination in continen- fr
tal United States was reported. Of ev
this grand total the various Protes- .
ant bodies reported 20.287.743. and ha
the Roman Catholic Church 12.- it
79.142. th
For purposes of comparison the pa
census authorities divided the prin- tri
cipal cities into four classes, those S
having in 1900 a population of 300.- th
000 and ovor. constituting the first cu
class: those of from 100.000 to 300.
000 forming the second: those of
from 50.000 to 10.000 making the -
tird: those of from 25.000 to 50.
000 forming the fourth class. FS
Of the protestant aggregate there
wre 1.478.145 or 7.3 per cent. in
the frst class cities: 4.7 per cent in
he second: and 7.4 per cent. in in
he third and fourth classes comn- rv
ined. while 80.6 per cent. were out
side the principal cities.m
Of the Roman Cat.holic Church's
otal membership there was 3.375,
53 or 27.9 per cent in first class m
ities: 1.361.132 or 11 3 per cent in ac
he second class; 1.57*.944. or 13
per cent in the third and fourth
casses combined, with 5.771.613 or
4.8 per cent. outside the principal
ities.
It is seen. therefore. that the num- a
ber of members of the Roman Cat.h
lic Church re;>orted In cities of the
irst was considerably more than dou- 01
be the number reported by all the
Protstant bodies, while outside of
the principal cities the nnmber re-w
ported by the Catholics was only a
little over one t.bird of the number
credited to the Protestants. It is p
pointed out in the report that the
strength of the Protestant hodies. as
compared with the Roman Catholic
Church. is ::reatly unriesstated.
Only two of the Protestant bodies
reported a majority of their nm-m
bership in the principal cities. i. e..
the Church of Christ. Scientist. 82.6B
per cent.. ancd the Protestant lEpisco
pal Church .;1.2 per cent: while of
the m-rmbership of the Jewish con
gregations. SS.7 per cent are in the
prncipal citIes, and of the Eastern *r
Orthodex churches 7(b.7 per c:-nt.
Of the total number of commnruni- ~
cants or members r--ported for the
principal cities by all denominations.I
6.307.529 or 60 per cent. belonged t
the cities showing the largest pro
portions of Protestant communicants
are .'--phis. $4.4 per cent: Toledo.
7e per cent: Kansas City. M".. 66.2 h
per cent. and Indianapolis. 62.1 per
cent.p
The cities showing the largest per- a
centages of Roman Catholic comn-h
municants ar.- Fall River. S&.. per.a
cent: San Francisco. $1.1 per cent: bi
New Orleans. 79.7 per cent: New
York. 76.9 per c.-nt: Providence.
76.5 per cent: St. Louis, 69 per cent:
Chicago. 68.2 per cent.. and Phila
dlphia. 51.8 per cent.
In the five leading cities the pro- 0
portion of communicants to, popu
lation was: New York. 44.7 per
cent: Chicago. 4C0.7: Philadelphia.
58.8: Roston. 62.6. and St. Lou is.
46..; per cent. It is st.-ted that. in V
general. cities which have a rela
tively larg-- Roman Catholic popu
lation show a hi-:her percentage el
church m.:mbers than cities ,a: wh'.ch
his bo'ly has a comparatively small
representation. In Fall River 86.5
per cent of the total number of~
members reporterd were Roman Cath
nlics and the church membership rep
resented .;7.C per cent of the pop
ulation. while in Memphis. where
4.4 per cent of the communicants
Ireprted b:elonged to Protestant
bodies, the church membership !
was only t'0 pen cent, of the popula
tion.
College Moved.
Hiarbinson collece. the colored in-I
stitut ion at Abbeville whose main
buildinlg was burned down by an -In-1
cendiary nirst several months ago, has1
decide t me t. Greenville. ]
FIRES INTO TRAIN
031E YANDAL CAME VERY NEAR
KILLING YOUNG LADY.
V'ho Was a i'amsenger on the Train
and Near Whom the Bullet Hit
Window.
T.he Augusta Chronicle says Miss
ally Morgan. a resident of Turpin
il' Augusta. Ga.. had a close and
arrow escape from instant death
hile returning to Augusta Tuesday
Lit as a passenger on the C. &
. C. railread. whe'n. just as the
-ain passed the aqu--duct near the
ibbley mill. a pistol bullet crashed
irough the window next to where
ie was sitting. barely missing her
ead.
The shot came so unexp-ct-:dly.
te young lady fainted, and it took
te kind assistance of the other pas
'ngers in the coach. with the aid
ice water and handkerchiefs, to
vive her. Every attention was
own her. but it was sometime be
re she regained complete conscious
Ss.
At the time the pistol was fired.
iss Morgan was resting her elbow
i the window sill, and she says.
ving to the glare of the elctric
.ht she could not tell with any
1gree of certainty from which direc
)n the bullet came, but thinks it
is fired from the canal bank. She
ys further, in locating the spot.
at the shot was fired near where
e Clark assassination took place
metime ago.
"It scared me to death." she said
her home. "and it is a wonder
at I am not a total rervous wreck.
never was so prostrated in all
F life. I am unnerved right now
d will never forget the incident
long as I live.
"This is not the first time that
have met with such an occurreice.
d the last .happened on the same
ad. too. At that time some one
tred a large stone through the
,ndow glass. just missing me. It
ems as if the fates are pursuing me
d I feel wary of riding on the
tins in the future."
It is believed that the bullet was
ed at close range, as it cut an
en bole through the glass. leaving
Nblike crevices. It is probable that
.d It been fired from a long distance
would have completely shattered
e glass. Even as it was. though.
rticles of the glass lodged on the
mmings of the young lady's hat.
e has bits of it as a souvenir of
e narrow and most unfortunate oc
rrence.
MANY WORK.IEN KILLED.
ital Explosion in Utah Cement
'Works Near Ogden.
Twenty-five workmen were killed
an explosion Wednesday in a quar
of the Union Portland Cement
orks a: Devil's Slide, Utah, thirty
le east of Ogden.
The explosion blew down the tel
raph and telephone. poles and comn
unication with the scene of the
iden't was limited to a brief mes
ge sent out by a courier from 31or
n. Utah, soon after the disaster.
'ost of the killed are Japanese
d Greeks. who made up the quarry
ng of '0 to 100 men. The injured
e reported to number nearly a
ore.
The victims were blown to pieces.
1 the hillside overlooking the
ene, portions of arms and limbs
are picked up. Some of the bodies
are blown a hundred yards.
A premature explosion in a tun
I in the hill above the cement
ant was the direct cause of the ex
osion below. M\ore than thirty
-gs of powder were stored near
here the men were working.
URiAL OF JAMiES DARWIN.
ady of .Man Shot in Texas Laid to
Res't at Home.
The body of James Darwin. who
-rmerly lived at Woodruff. was car
ed there for interment Tuesday.
r. Darwin was -:hot from ambtush
veral days ago in Texas by a .\ex
an. .\r. Darwin was the son of
rs. H. A. Darwin and is the third
tild whom she has buried within
i Last flf--en months. From what
in be learned it seems that Dar
in was shot as he was going to
is work. He was an oil insperctor
>r a large oil manufacturing com
any in Texas. Ils mother an~d
thr relatives were pres' nt at the
urial. He was married last year
nd his widow came on with t.he
C'onvict Has No Home.
Ge. A. Ros--. formerly connected
ith the Producers' National Bank.
Cleveland, was rel.-ased from the
rison Friday afte'r serving 10 years
3r violatior. of the banking laws.
stion of the national banking laws.
lis horm-' has b.'en broken up. his
-ife' dying in Cleveland some years
Long! Ballot.
It is said an eight-toot ballot will
required in the Stat'e els-etion in
;uth Dakota next Nov'mber. ow
g to the largae number of measures
o be voted on under the initiative
nd referendum.
Blew Open Safe.
The sitte bank of U'nity. Wis..
as robbed Tuesday of S$'.00l. the
a f.' of the bank hoin::: dynamited.
The robbers esca:ped. The bank was
stablished in 196.-- with a capitai
Thirty Suicie in May.
With one day to be .heard from.
:e month bf Mlay contributeda
rhasty record o! 30 s'.icidea 1:
hiadinh1& -
STRUCK BY CYCLONE
HIGH WINiDS 1K) MUCH DAMAGE
IN AUGUV STA. GA.
Streets Were Blocked With Trees
and Wires and the City Was in
Tota I)arknes.
A dispatch from Augusta says that
the entire city has been in darkness
since 10.13. -'ery street is congest
ed with uprooted trees and disabled
wires: every telephone is out and
trolleys are disabled. as a result
c a cyclon-: :zating about eighteen
minutes Thursday night.
So far no fatalities have been re
ported. but half a dozen or more res
idenc.-s have been more or less
wrecked. and two or three ware
houses blown down.
The Casino building. at Lake View.
where a nizht performance was just
concluding. was completely wrecked.
but the audience escaped uninjured.
Every night enterprise depending
on electric power is tied up. and all
business .houses and residences us
ing current are in darkness.
The entire fire alarm system is
disabled. The cyclone passed over
into South Carolina touching Aiken.
Orangeburg and other places.
BEAT! THE RECORD.
Englishman Flies Across English
Channel and Back.
A Dover. England. dispatch says
the Hon. Charles Stewart Roll.3. ca. t
tain in the London section of the
army motor reserve, driving a Wright
biplane. vindicated Anglo-Saxon aer
onautics by crossing the English
channel twice Wednesday evening
witbout alighting. He made the
round trip between Dover and Calais
in ninety minutes.
While two Frenchmen. Louis Bier
ict and Count de Lesseps. have crrss
ed the channel in an aeroplane. it
remained for an Englishman, In an
American machine, to perform the
double feat. The distance across be
tween the two points named is 21
miles. so that -his over water flight
of 42 miles without a stop estab
lishes a new record.
Capt. Rolls left Dover ai 6.30
o'clock. The atmospheric conditions
were excellent. He lost no time In
maanoeuvres. but after describing a
circle, headed toward the coast of
France. In anticipation of the flight.
torpedo boats steamed at full speed
across the Straits. but the pace of
the aeroplane was swifter. -t
SMOKE CREATES PANIC
In the Subway Five Hundred Feet
Beneath the Street. t
Five hundred hysterical women. b
screaming children and panic-strick- I
en men fought their way through a C
ense smoke in the Mott avenue sub- .
ray station in the Bronx. N-w York
city, early Thursday. striving to es-a
Only one elevator was available
to take them to the street. which is
65 feet above the subway level at
this point, and the crush to reachI
this exit or the five flights of stairs
which led to the surface increased
the panic.
Fifteen p.-rsons were overcome by
smoke and two men were injured ser
ously enough to require hospital
reatment. Fire in an automatic
pumping station caused the smoke.
The damage was nominal.
AU'T( BURST INTO FLAMEFA
'aluable Car of Lancaster Man D)e
stroyed by Fire.
At Lancaster the automobile of
Mr. C-has. B. Skipper was practically
destroyed by fire Thursday afternoon.
Mir. Skipper had just lighted thel
pilot light when flames burst from
beneath the car. He had presen- -
'f mind 'nough to push the car out
of his carage. which was very c!or
to his home, and turn a stre;:m
of water on the car from the y ,ru.
.hos'. Otherwise, it is probable that
his hom-- would have been de'oyotl
The car is covered by insu."r.-v.
his is the second automobile that
has been destroyed by fire .it Lat -
caster in the past six months
l)EBTS ('AUSED) SUICIDE.
The Dead Man Sat in His ('hair for
Three D~ays.
Driven to suicide by inability to
pay his debts George B. Warren. of
trocwayville. Pa.. sat three days in
a cair in his room in a Pittsburg
hotel before his deat~h was discover
-d. In his pocket was a note to
his wife stating he was going where
the "wolves howl." He also left a
check of S$90' to pay his hotel bills.
Warren was t.he general manager for
the tieneral m--rchandising firm of
R. M. Beadle & Co.. of Btrockwa.
ville. Pa. He lived with his wife
and two sons at Shickshinny. Lizerne
county. H-- came to Pittsbuirg Mlay
23. on a business trip. To his friends
he appeared moody.
Tried to t'elI Girl.
Stax Appel. of New York. was ar
committed tc await the' acifon of the
Grand jury. He is accused of having
trid to dispose of Sadie Brooks. 22
and pretty. butt speaking little Eng
lish. in .\anhattan and Brooklyn. and
failing, to hav' take'n he~r to a re
sort in Baltimore.
Had a Real -Joy Ride.
Findin;: that six tramps had brok
.n into a beer car noar Choyenne.
Wo.. F. W. Hunt. a Colorado and
Souithern conductor. s'ized the door
a::d sent the car to Cheyenne that
the mn might be delivered to the
sherif. They faced jail cheerfully.
Id-claring they had enjoyed the ride
-u ...-r- full of boor.
PARDON REFUSED
Peculiar Case Recalled in the Petities
for O8e Jia ig
THE NOTED YEGGMAN
I
[)ther Men Were Convicted and a
Case of Mistaken Ideutity Made
it Nece-mary for Gv. Heyward to
Release Three Others.-Petitioner
Said to Be a Physical Wreck.
Four years spent behind the pris
)n walls at Atlanta and over six
nonths in the South Carolina prison
ias made John King. alleged safe
)lower. a physical wreck. according I
o a petition presented to Gov. An
o a petiti:'n presented to Gov
!rnor Ansel who refused to par- I
Ion him. In behalf of King I
t member of the house of represen
atives wrote an appeal to Governor t
knsel. In which the interesting and
)athetic case of the man is set out.
. M. Masque of Marion -is the at- c
orney who petitioned the governor. f
John King was sentenced to serve
wo years in the penitentiary. hav- e
ng bee-n convicted of housebreaking t
Lnd larceny. and came to serve his 1
;ntence in October. 1909. t
Back in February. 1904. the safe I
>f John L. Dew, a merchant of Lat- t
a, was rifled and the same night
he quantity of stamps and other
roperty taken therefrom. Not many
lays thereafter out in the country 1
ras found a den where three men e
sided. In this den were found
tanps and pennies. Apparently
er were the guilty persons. Leon- d
rd Harding and his twoc ompan
ons. H. E. Cunningham and T. H.
Iarion. were arrested by postoffce
nspectors. The men ware tried b- t
he State courts and. having been I
;uilty. were sentenced to serve five t
,ears each In the State prison.
Meantime John McCarthy In a
rermont prison made a confession. a
mplicating John King. That was e
m 1905. The confession was made
o Postoffice Inspector Gregory who a
s well known in this State. The
onfession exonerated the three men a
rho had been tried for the Latta ,
obbery and made -King and Mc- a
:arthy the guilty persons, accord- ,
g to McCarthys own statement.
With this confession before him v
;ov. Heyward pardoned the three F
men. who had be--n serving their sen- b
ence for nearly one year. Subse- k
xently in Charlotte one of the men .
ied. The discovery of the mistaker
dentity was made by accident one
ay when Inspector Grerory visited t
he State prison.
John King was tried in CharlFton
y the federal court in April. 1905.
pon the testimony furnished by Mc
arthy. who in the words of the peti
ioner 'was a confessed criminal, a
irebower." King was konvicted
nd sentenced to serve four year.
n prison. He immediately went to2
tlant~a and remained In prison there
or four years.
Following his release from the At
anta prison. King was immediately
'earrested and tried in the State
ourts.
At the time he had been in jail
or a year.
"With five years already served
or one offense." writes the petition
r. "King was again brought before
he court." He was convicted
nd sentenced to serve two years.
{e came to Columbia In October.
909.
The petition states that King is
ow a physical wreek, "worn out
ears.' and thatf he haohfl"D.iorfl
i his close confinement for six
'ars" and that he .had never ben
n trouble before the Latta case. ac
ording to .lcCarthy's confession.
lhe petitioner pleaded to let King
ut so that he might become a better
It izen.
"While John McCarthy Is enjoy
g his freedom. havin.: been par
loned by the president of the t'nit-d 1
tates. by the governor of North Car- ~
lina. and by the governor of Ver
nont. King Jias lingered in prisonL
nd suzffer-d." pathetically states the
etit ion.
That King had been sufficiently
punshed was Judge Watts' opinion.
hie having tried the case. Solicitor
Wells did not agree with Judg"
Watts. saying that the other fellows
sho suffered for King's deed were
punished and were innocent. The
reason Kin~c stayed in jail one year
before trial was because there had
been a mistrial.
Goy. Ansel mak->s no comment In
the ase except to write on the peti
tion. "Pardon refused. June 3rd.
1910
SOLO)NS LO)SE THIRI JOBS.
Nearly All Alabama Legislators Were
Left at Home.
A 'Montgomflary dispatch says show
ing. it is claimed. the reversion of
sentiment since th.- last Legislature.
which enact-d the Stat-e-wide prohi
bition and other laws, only eleven
men out of the 1e.5 composing the
Alabama Legislature will be return
d to office. This fact d.'veloped Mon
day in the first official compilation
of nam'-s of the new solons. Two
preachers were nominate-l in the re
cent primaries and will be elected.
In three counties the Democrats put
no candidates forward, and the Re
pubican nominees will be elected
without oppositionl.
Burned in House.
At Eaufaula. Okla.. Puenobojo
Lowe. Peter Reaver and the latter's
wife and child, all from W-'ieetka.
Oka.. were burned to death in a fire
whch destroyed a rooming .house
ery Monday. Bcaver and Lowe
each had a daughter at the Indian
High school and were here to attend
KELLNER MURDER
FURTHER TRACES OF DEED CON
FIR31 TH EORY.
Iharred Foot of Little Alma Kellner
Found in Basement of Louisville
Church.
The unravelling of the knotty
kein of evidonce confirminz only too
vell the theory that little Alma Kell
er was murdered in St. John's Cath
lic Church. Louisville. Ky.. where
he went to worship on December 31
ast, proceeded rapidly. but nothing
ins been heard from the suspected
anitor.
The charred right foot of the
:hi.ld was found Wednesday in a
>ile of ashes near the furnace in
he basement of the church and near
t were picked out of the refus-- two
vomen's handkerchiefs. This makes
total of five handkerchiefs found
n two days. and some of them bore I
lood stains. 1
The quick lime with which the
oody wzs covered when found was
urchased. it was learnel. at a groc
,ry only a few blocks away. Ac- I
ording to the groceryman the order
or the lime was telephoned in from I
;t. John's Church. and the barrel i
f lime was deliv->red there soon af- c
er Christmas and turned over to a s
roman. As it was a cash transac- I
ion. no record was made of it. and I
t is, therefore, impossible to give a
he exact date.
In police court Mrs. Wendling's C
.ttorney asked Judge Boldrick to dis- 3
barge her on the ground that she is r
eing held illegally and in violation 1
f Section 1.129 of the Kentucky 1
tatutes. which provides that the c
harge of accessory after the fact c
[os not exist as to the wife of a f
>rincipal in crim. The motion will
e argued.
Mrs. Wendlig. rho is confined in r
he jail, said tL. she knew abso
utely nothing oi the murder. and I
hat she had no idea as to her hus- E
and's whereabouts.
As an excuse for the disappear- V
nce of her husband Mrs. Wendling a
ered this:
"He was French-he was gay- n
Frenchman will 'take his head' a
less he has work tiat he likes.
nd the weather was so cold this t
rinter. and there was so much snow 3
nd so many fires to make and the 1
rork was so dirty. that. I think, was I
rhy he left. He did not like Louis- C
ille and he wanted to be with the
'rnch people. I never heard my i
usband talk about his friends. I a
now he deserted from the French
rmy. He told me so just before c
re were married. I think we were n
2arried about two years ago, on r
be 18th of December. t
MOZAMBIQUE DESTROYED.
ity on East Coast of Africa Hit a
by Terrific Cyclone.
A terrific cyclone swept over Mo
ambque on the east coast of Af
ica early last week. killing hun
reds and destroying practically the
ntire city. The details received are
reagre. but all reports agree 'that
he windstorm was the fiercest eve:
nown on the African coast in many
ears and that the death roll will
e nromous. A coast-wise steamer.
arrying 400 natives, was caught ir. b
he cyclone off the harbor of Mozam
iqu.- and overturned, drowning all
board. '
A number of small native craft
ere swamped with loss of life and !
early every house on the three is I
ands in the harbor was demolish-1
d. Mozambique. 6.000l in popula- I
ion, was formerly the metropoils
the Portuguee possessions in Af- C
ica. Its harnor is world famous. *
HEIFER BROU'GHT BIG P'RICE.i
atte Raising In South Carolina
Proves Profitable.t
South Carolina's place in the cat
le raising industry is shown in the
ale in New York recently at the
'ooper's cattle sale of a 14-months' I
icifer for $1.l50. The heifer was
rown near Columbia. "Emin'nts
Cameless" out of "Golden-ferns
Camelss" by Eminents Goldenmont
d." a bull from Mr. Thomas Tay-1
or's cattle farm. was the heifer
rhich sold for $325 more than her
~other sold for at the same sale.
The mother. "Coldenferns Name
ess." brougit. $825. and the 14
nonths' heifer brought $1.150. This
~hows the progress of rattle raising
n South Carolina.
M'RI)ER BAND SENTENCED.
wenty-Nlne Men to Die for Their
Crimes in Russia.
Penalties of death or life lmnpris
:mment have been met~d out at St.
Petersburg. Russia, to the youthful
band of men and women, who for
ighteen months during 1907-08
-~mmtted a seri-s of murders and
ro~bbeies that terrorized the reqi
dents of a considerable territory.
Twenty-nine men. ag'ed from 18 tol
25 years. were senteed to death.
Eight women escaped hangin: b'
cause of th--in sex. but were sentenc
ed to imprisonment for lif..
Lived Without Work.
The only man in Indiana who co1ld
live without working. Thomas Fields.
died at Hartford City. Ind.. last week.
ie was a waif in New York and 55
years aeo was shipped W-'st. He
was .honest. sober and lazy and hum
med his meals for over half a cen
Six Fishermen Dead.
Six fishermenm lost their live's when
the brigantine Mauve, of Cancale.
France, struck on Point Blanche.
while entering St. Pierre in a thick
FATAL FIGHT
). iSfler iills Ane in a Fsticxff
en Sdivia's Islad
AFE A HOT QUARREL
rtilleryman Accused of Striking
Another With a Chain-His Head
Hits Curbing and Death Ensues.
The Two Soldiers Had Had a Din
agreement.
The Charleston Evening Post says
'rivate Fry. of Company 144, coast
Lrtillry. at Fort Moultrie. was
nocked down in a fight with anoth
,r soldier. said to be Private Murray,
nd did not recover consciousness,
ollowing the contact of his head
rith the curbing in front of the
oost exchange. Murray is under ar
'est at the Fort and will have to
tand trial for the death of Fry.
It appears that the two soldiers
ere at the port exchange, and got
nto an altercation over some matter
>r other. and Fry is reported to have
truck Murray with a chair, which
rought on a fight and It was pro
esed to settle the difficulty outside,
fter the manner of the hardy sol
iers. This was at about 8:45
clock. Outside the two soldiers
quared off, for their fight, and Mur
ay is said to have hit Fry a blow
rhich knocked him down, and as
e fell the soldier's head came in
ontact with the curbing, and he lost
onsciousness. which he did not re
;ain, death resulting.
The death of the soldier caused a
rofound impression among his
3ates, who were astounded by the
nexpected outcome of an ordinary
sticuff. such as is frequently induIg
d in among the fighters of the var
aus companies. Private Murray was
laced under arrest after the fight,
nd is in a serious predicament. He
ras terribly shocked by the result
f what at first promised to be only
trifling matter.
Little or no official information of
he affair could be gotten from Fort
foultrie Thursday. but the story
ras curieu on Sullivan's Island, and
'ry's death gave rise to general din
ussion of the trouble.
Murray, the soldier under arrest,
of the same company as Fry was,
nd is well known in Charleston,
rhere he -ppear-d In the guise of a
ever and aggressive prize flhter.
ieeting Billy Yeager in the local
ing for three hard battles. before
he Nonpareil Club. !t is said that
furray did not wish to 'ight Fry.
At the hospital on the island i.
ras thought that strangulation had
s much to do with Fry's death a!
id the blow on his head, for be
ore he fell he also received a blow
n the stomach that caused him to
omit.
CHILD WIFE IIRINGS SUIT.
be Was Married at Nine Years of
Age to Older Man.
Suit for divorce has been entered
y Nellie M. Johnson-Lamar, who
as had her tenth birthday since her
ensational marriage to Newlan L
.amar. 33 years old, oif Memphis,
'enn., July 15, 1909. her attorney
eclaring that her wedding was
rought aoout through duplicity on
.amar's part; that he enticed her
way from her parents and married
er when she was at an age too ten
er to know her own mind and in
linations. Probably a more sensa
ional weddin: never stirred 'Memn
this when the facts became known
a New South Memphis following the
ight of July 15 of last year. Lamar
aing been informed, it ii said, to
iolently drive him from the comn
aunity.
KILLEI) BY BU'RSTING TIRE.
'lying Inner Tube Almos~t Severs
Man's Head from Body.
While seated on an embankment
ear his home at Marcus Hook. Pa..
ratching his brother-in-law, Charles
;uyer. pump air into the tires of
is automobile, Frank D. Marsha...
iged 45 years. was struck in the face
y he inner tube of the tire, which
~xploded wIth a loud report. The
ire cut his face horizontally across
.he bridge of his nose and it was
ound n--cessary to tie up his head
o keep his feature in act. He died
within ten minutes after the acci
lent and before he could be taken
.o the hospital. The accident was
witnessed 'y he dead mau's wife.
s'ho was standing in the doorway
>f .her home.
NEW BALLINGER CHARGE.
'secretary Accused of Illegally Letting
Contract.
The last days session of the Bal
linger investigation, before the Con
gressional committee, at Washing
ton. D. C.. resulted in 36 grievances
beint filed against the For-st service
and the Interior department. 34 of
the 36 being against the former. One
of the complaints against the Inter
ior department all-ges an unjust de
cisin by the Land oftice in a home
stead claim, while the other charges
that the contract 'et by Secretary
Ballinger for the survey of the Idaho
Montaaa boundary was without com
petition and therefore illegal.
Could Not Glet Work.
Albert Betts. aged 6-. despondent
over not being able to get employ
me:nt. committed suicide .in Gre- n
vi:!e on Tuesday by drinking carbol
Ic acid. He left a note stating his
rean for the act.