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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
DIR. CARLLSLE'S LIBRARY
Given to Wofford College by His
Son and Daughter.

The library Of the late DR.. James
H. Carlisle. president of Wofford
,sollege. containing many choice and
are volumes. has been presented 10
Wofford college by j. II. Carlisle,
s'r.. and Miss Sallie Carlisle, children
u the deceased. The gift is highly
appreciated. not only by the faculty
and trustees of the college, but by
be students and the alumni. for
Z is regarded as one of the richest
reasures of the college.
In addition to presenting the H.
srary OF their father. which consists
e some $500 or 5000 volumes, Miss
Carlisle and Mr.. Carlisle presented
he college with several old pieces OF
sbrary furniture of DIR. Carlisle
which are familiar to the old stu
ients OF the college.
The library of DR.. Carlisle will not
5e catalogued along with the other
looks OF the college, but will be plac-
I'd Intact in a room of the library
9uilding and the furniture will be
arranged in this room as nearly as
possible as it was in the library OF
he great educator. In other words
he faculty of the college hopes tC
preserve the library and its furniture
intact so that one who ever had
the pleasure of calling on DR.. Car.
isle az his home will at once bt
impressed with the surroundings
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
AN UNFINISHED VAULT.
Builder Refuses to Tako Out Permit
and Police Guard IL.

Two years ago the owner of a
private residence in the aristocratic
vicinity of the Plaza in New York
city had his house remodeled and a
vault constructed under the sidewalk
The contractor had obtained a permit
for the alteration on the building,
but had failed to take out a permit
for the vault, for which n fee of sew
eral hundred dollars was required.
At the behest of the bureau of high
ways policeman was stationed at
the building to prevent further work
on the vault until the fee was paid
and the permit obtained. The vault
has been under police surveillance
ever since and the vault is still un-
finished, with a fair prospect of re-
manning so until the owner of the
building, who Is said to be a mil
lionaire, chooses to plank down the
required fee for permit.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
AFake Story About Senator Tillman Made
Up in Columbia and
SENT TO new YORK sun
Mr.. A. j. Bethea, Governor Ansel's
Private Secretary, Wrath With
the Writer of the Dispatch, Which
He Brands as a Yarn Out Of the
Whole Cloth.

Mr.. A. ]. Bethea, Governor Ansel's
private secretary, writes the follow
ing letter, which explains itself:
The governors secretary has writ
ten the following letter:
Senator B. r. Tillman, Trenton, s. C.
My Dear Sir: have Just read the
story in The News and Courier enti-
tied No Drink for Tillman," copied
from the New York Sun, and to say
that 1 am disgusted and outraged
hardly expresses my feelings.
There is not a semblance Of truth
in this article. which, of course, you
know as well as l do, but In jus
tice to you and to myself, 1 hasten
to write to assure you that 1t did
not come from me nor any one con-
nected with the governors office.
There is only one way in which
1t could possibly have originated, and
the truth has been so distorted that
it strains the imagination to account
for 1t.
On Friday of last week a gentle
man came over from Winnsboro, and
was in great distress because he
found the dispensaries closed, max
ing it impossible for him to purchase
champagne, which he wished to use
at reception at his home the next
as he had ordered the dispensaries
closed for that day and the next, |
told the gentleman / could do moth
ing for him, although he brought
with him physicians certificate.
AT the luncheon on Saturday / sat
by Mr.. Robert II. Hazard, a repre-
sentative of the United Press. and
during the course of conversation
related to him the above story, tell
ing him of the distress of the gentle
man. but without mention of his
name, and certainly without any
thought of yours in connection with
1t.
/ do not say that MIR. Hazard
wrote this article. but l cannot ac-
count for il in any other way. II
Is certainly far from the truth. and
| hope you will understand that |
resent 1T and that I object to being
made party to a newspaper story,
which is utterly without warrant and
without foundation.
Trusting this explanation will
serve the purpose for which it is
intended, and assuring you of my
unwillingness to do you an injus-
tice, l am,
Yours very truly.
A. ]. Bethea.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
CAN'T Be FOUN
DR.. G. c. Bigham, Convicted Of Held
TO Murder His Young Wife.
HAS BROKEN HIS BOND
Avant. who, With Bigham, Was
Convicted Of Manslaughter mt
Georgetown Recently for Killing
Mrs. Bigham, Gives Himself I'm.
But the Husband is Missing


but the Husband is Missing.
a dispatch from GEORGETOWN to
Inc News and Courier says from de-
velopments within the past few days
1t seems likely that DR.. G. C. Big.
ham. who with w. b Avant was con-
victed at the last term OF court of
manslaughter for the killing of Mrs.
Bigham on Murrel's Island, will vet
escape the penalty of three and a
half years hard labor in the peni-
tentiary. imposed by Judge Watts.
The notice Of appeal made by the
DEFENDANTS attorney, ]. w. Ragsdaie.
not having been fled within the ten
days allowed by law, Solicitor Wells
wired Sheriff Scurry to apprehend
the convicted parties at once. they
being out on $1.500 bond.
On Saturday Avant. learning of
his being wanted by the sheriff, went
to Georgetown from his home at
Harpers and surrendered himself.
He is now in the county jail.
Sheriff Scurry wired Sheriff Burch,
OF Florence county. to arrest DR..
Bigham Immediately, but from infor-
nation SO far received it seems that
he cannot be found. The surmise ia
that he has fed the State.
There seems to have been some
inconsistencies in the bonds reQuir-
ed by Bigham and Avant When
the men were first arrested on the.
warrants issued by the coroner. the
bonds were fixed at $500 each, be-
Ing later raised. at the instance of
the solicitor, to s2.500. under which
amount they appeared for trial.
After conviction and sentence the
men were turned loose under a bond
of only 81 500 each, pending the re-
suit of an appeal TO the supreme
court. 1t is said that as Dr. Big
hams family are weil-to-do, the
forfeiture of the bond is OF small
consequence.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
A THRILLING RASCAL
Being Sought by the Wife He Base
ly Deserted.

A dispatch from Atlanta to the
Augusta Chronicle says coming from
Augusta without a cent in search of
her husband. whom she says is with
Barnum and Balley's circus there.
Mrs. Bessie Brooks reached there
on a Georgia railroad train without
tho formality of a ticket Wednes-
day. In her arms she carried a ba-
by of a few months. She Is only
twenty years old and claims TO have
married at Whitmire, S. c.. about
a year ago. A short time after the
baby was born ne left her and she
was told that he had Joined the cir
Gus. She Immediately went to Au-
gusta in search of him. but not find-
ing him there. she followed the cir
Gus on to Atlanta.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
BLAMES The WOMAN
STOLE BIG SUM OF MONEY AND
PUTS UP THE EXCUSE
That He Was Made to Do Il by Re-
ing Blackmailed by a bad Female

Associate.
AT Cincinnati. Ohio. Mrs. Jeanette
stewart, also known as Mrs. Ford
one OF the women accused by Chas
l.. Warriner. defaulting local treasur-
er OF the Big Four Railroad of hav-
ing shared In his speculations by
matchmaking him, declared she
would tell the whole inside story of
the $643,0OO theft, when the case
came to court. Mrs. Stewart denied
she had ever received money from
Warriner.
The sudden breaking of her ST.
renee was caused. according to her.
by a quarrel which she had with
another woman, who has also been
mentioned by Warriner. This quar-
rel resulted in the attachment of
Mrs. Stewards furniture. The Of
ncers who made the attachment were
quickly followed by reporters, and
In the stress of excitement, Mrs.
Stewards reserve broke down.
Il never received a cent from
Charles Warriner." she said, and
l never gave any information to the
railroad about his shortage. 1t was
another woman that did 1t all; a
woman I thought was my friend. I
know the whole story and 1 will tell
II In court. too"
AT present the question that is
exercising the railroad officials is.
What became OF the $643,OO0 which
Warriner admits having stolen?
Warriner says he lost it in stock
speculation and in satisfying the
demands of blackmailers, but that
explanation III not satisfactory to
the officials.
Warriner says he Is penniless and
his reighbors at his home In Wyom-
ing. Ohio. declare that he is a sick
man.
1t is admitted by railroad officers
that Warriner might have continued
his speculations indefinitely II he had
not been betrayed by woman, so
great was his superiors' confidence
in him.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
FORT MILL S. c.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER is, 1909
MURDERS CASHIER
AND WOUNDS PRESIDENT OF
BANK HE TRIED TO ROB.
The Young Bandit is Run Down
and Captured After He Shoots One
More Man.

anu Captmed Alter HC Shoots One
More Man.
In an attempt to rob a bank AT
New Albany, Ind. a young man en-
tered the Merchants Bank at noon
Thursday and killed j. Hangery
Fawcett. cashier OF the bank, serious
ly wounded John X. Woodward, pres
ident OF the bank, and wounded Jas.
X. Tucker. a negro chauffeur. prob
ably fatally.
When Hall entered the bank he
carried a pistol in each hand. After
commanding every one to throw up
his hands and "get into the vault"
Hall began shooting.
Cashier Fawcett was shot through
the chest and neck and died almost
instantly. President Woodward was
shot through the liver and his intes-
tines were perforated. Tucker, the
chauffeur. was shot through the body.
Following the shooting the MUIR
derer rushed from the bank and
tried to escape in an automobile,
which he had taken from the curb
In front of the residence Of It's own.
er, Mrs. Walter Escott, in Louis
vile, Ky. He had forced the negro
chauffeur at the point of a pistol
to drive him to New Albany.
After the shooting at the bank the
chauffeur, paralyzed with terror AID
apparently incapable of action, sat
still when the robber jumped into
the car and ordered him to speed
up the machine. The roober then
jumped out of the automo bile, shot
the negro in the back and ran two
blocks to the Ohio river.
He seized skiff and was on his
way to the Louisville side of the riv-
er before the frightened c.tizeus OF
New Albany knew what had happen
ed. An alarm was given through a
megaphone on a dredge boat ami in
short time several policemen had
started in pursuit in fast motor
boat.
After being captured the bandit
refused to give his name, and had
little to say. He said that hc haC
been around Louisville for several
ooyo. LAC uiu Hol hnOW Il the
chauffeur. and declared Tucker was
not implicated In the attempt on the
bank
A dispatch from Louisville, KY,
says the bandit was identified as
Thomas Jefferson Hall. and according
to William ]. Hall, his father, the
desperate is but II years old. The
older Hall. who has furniture store
at No. 500 South Preston street, In
that city. said that young Hall was
household tyrant, and not insane
at all.
He is simply mean said the faith
er. The family is formerly of Knox
Vile, Tenn.
w. j. Hall detailed his sons ac-
tions for the last few years, say
ing that dime novels had been the
youths constant reading.
Among young Halls effects was
found powerfully made cabinet,
lined and outfltted like room. 1t
is believed that the boy expected to
escape with his loot, crawling into
the box, which was consigned to "R.
j. Smith. Knoxville, Tenn" and es-
cape as freight.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
A Fools Money.

Franklin Taylor. a Brooklyn law
yer. who ran for municipal judge
at The. recent election and lost. has
died his expense account, which to.
tailed ss32,23 with the county clerk
"Ail of which serves to demon.
strste." Mr.. Taylor refectively com.
ments In his paper. that a fool and
his money are soon parted"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
ANOTHER LYNCHINC
WHITE MAN SWUNG UP FOR
NUMBERING HIS OWN WIFE.
After Lynching the Negro the Mob
Attacked the Jail and Made Quick
Work Of . White Man.

At Cairo. Illinois, Henry Salzner
white. a photographer, who killed
his wife last July with an axe, was
taken from jail at 11:4O O'Clock
Thursday night by a mob and hang.
ed to telegraph pole. and his body
riddled with bullets. The lynching
followed closely on the lynching OF
Will James. a negro, who earlier In
the evening had been hanged fol-
the murder of Miss Annie Pelley.
The mob gave Salzner a chance
to confess after the rope was around
his neck. but he was 80 frightened
that he could only humble that his
sisters had killed his wife.
The mob became furious at this,
and II was hard work to keep them
OF Salzner long enough to give him
chance to pray. The mob finally
subsided and a short religious service
was hold, after which he was strung
up. the rope being placed over a tele-
graph pole at 2lst and Washington
streets.
The mob found some difficulty In
breaking the cage, as 1t was an en-
tirely steel structure, but after a half
hour OF telling blows upon the door
II gave way and Salzner was secur-
ed. The mob rushed him out of the
back door of the Jail, which is in
the basement of the court house,
around the building through the yard
and out into Washington avenue,
and up TO 21st street. which Is a
prominent corner and has a public
square,
He cried and begged piteously for
his life and was met by cries and
blows from the mob. When Salzner
was asked for his last statement a
man, a stranger in the crowd. step
ped forward and said he believed
Salzner was innocent, whereupon the
mob fell upon him. kicked him and
finally knocked him down, and It
was only the pleas of cooler per-
sons that saved his life.
He was compelled TO beg for mer-
cy from the mob, and announced In
loud voice that Salzner should be
lynched. after which he was driven
from the mob and all attention was
given TO Salzner. After Salzner
was hanged. and while the body was
being riddled with bullets. the rope
broke and the body fell to the
ground. where II now lies, the mob
going away and leaving il.
Salzner was born and reared at
Cairo. He had been married about
two years last July. when his wife
vas found at her home with her
skull fractured. A bloody axe was
found under the bed. Two babies
we're playing in the mothers blood
Salzner was found at the home OF
his mother, where he often slept at
1ight. Before Mrs. Salzner died she
recovered enough to accuse her hus-
band OF attacking her.
Feeling against him had been bit
ter. and Thursday night. after the
iynching of James. when some one
suggested Salzner. the mob rushed
or the county jail. got Salzner and
lynchpd him
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
Killed in Arkansas,

Maj. w. II. Seal. of Sumter, re-
ceived a telegram telling of the death
of his son David w. Seal. at Leak
Vile, Ark. who was killed by a fall
ing tree. The body of the young
man will be brought to Sumter for
burial.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
Mrs. Marie Estcy Suicides.

Mrs. Marie L. Estey, widow of a
widely known piano manufacturer.
committed suicide in a boarding
house in New York few night ago
by inhaling Illuminating gas. The
loss of her fortune some years ago
brought on nervous disorder and
her Ill health Is believed TO have led
to her act.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
Seven victims Recovered.

Seven victims have been recover
ed and 1t is believed the list of dead
will reach twelve. as the result of
a fire in the Auchincloss shaft of
tho Delaware. Lackawanna & Wes-
tern Coal Company. at Naticocke.
Pa. An explosion of gas set fire to
the timbers of the mine.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
Double Tragedy.

AS a tragic elimination of martial
troubles of long standing Louis w.
Lewis. white. shot and instantly kill
ed his wife at bis homo In Jackson
Vile. Fla, Wednesday afternoon,
then turned; the revolver on himself,
sending a bullet through his head,
causing instant death.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
Endorses Printers, Label

The Farmers Educational and Co.
operative Union of Tennessee. in an
nual convention at Jackson recently
unanimously passed a resolution in
structing officers of the State union
to use the union label on all printed
matter.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
HaIIey's Comet Sighted.

Halley's Comet was observed
from Providence. r. L.. at Ladd OBJ
servatory. Brown University. by Prof.
Winslow Upton. The comet. accord
ing TO Prof. Upton. should be visi-
BILE by telescope from now on and
with the naked eye in January.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
Nsaro woman Kilis Herself.

In Savannah, Ca. Tuesday after
uvon, Evelina Johnson. colored. aged
tbirty~one years. drank tho contents
OF two-ounce bottle of carbollc
acid. from the effects of which she
died In agony short time after
wards. The negro woman was a
iaundress.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
Confederate veteran Passes.

Major Thomas Hayes, former in
spector general of the Confederate
army. at one time second vice presi-
dent of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany. died at his home In Louisville.
KY, a few days ago. aged ~.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
Aged Negro Suicides.

Calvin Hinton. a veteran negro
employe at the farm of Charles H.
Hinton. near Raleigh, n. c.. COM
mitted cuicide a few days ago. using
shotgun with which be blew out
his brains. Children hearing the
shot ran to the house and found
him dying on the floor OF his cab
IN.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
Cause of Death.

An autopsy Wednesday at Som
merville, n. j.. disclosed the fact
that the death of Robert Simpson.
who died In a trance. was due to
rupture OF the aorta. Prof. Everton.
the hypnotist, will probably be
charged with manslsughter.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
Officer Kills Negro.

Because he drew a pistol when the
officer approached to arrest him for
disorderly conduct, Joe Bostwick, a
negro, was shot and killed at AL
bany. Ga, few days ago by Oscar
Walden, acting deputy sherin.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18

NiS between hdTndk, ILL.,, ana BelK-
nap, by the Cairo crowd. who went
up Thursday afternoon. The crowd
overpowered the officers and took
the negro from them. and after a
conference Ii was decided to bring
their prisoner back to Cairo and
lynch him.
Sheriff Davis had been fleeing
from the mob for twenty-four hours
with the prisoner. Driven from town
to town by menacing crowds the
sheriff had taken to the woods with
James, but the persistent search OF
the summary avengers proved effec.
tive at last.
Fully a thousand persons went out
to find the negro. and when the pur-
suers arrived in Cairo with their
quarry. they were met by a bowling
mob of 5000 others bent on Staying
the negro.
They marched the negro direct to
the public arch, sweeping the streets
like a flock of sheep might tread
a narrow lane. Many women were
in the crowd and anxious to help dc
the work.
Sheriff Davis having been foiled
In his attempt to hide the negro
pleaded for the life OF the prisoner
but without avail. When Cairo was
reached. Sheriff Davis was taken il
charge by party of the mob, which
rushed the negro rapidly to hit
funeral pyre.
The mob that chased the sheriff
and the negro was so large that 1t
Karnak to Vienna, ILL.,, q distance
OF about sixteen miles.
When found by the mob the ne
gro was handcuffed between two of.
ficers, and all three were lying OF
the bank of a creek. All three were
so weak from hunger, exposure ant
the futile attempt TO elude the mol
that they were not able to max,
much resistance.
While in custody of the mob com
ing TO Cairo the negro would no
talk about the crime, but when b.
stood under the arch he weakened
and confessed that no slew Mis-.
Pelley. He said that Arthur Alex
ander was implicated In the crime
The attempt at hanging followe,
quickly. The growing of the mob
tho grinding of the rope and III,
struggles OF the negro were stopI,et
a moment only by the swapping o
the rope. The 10000 persons whs
had locked on and danced in eis.
shot forth armed men almost magic
ally, and they filed the negro VIII
bullets. s
Then. not satisfied with vengeance
the mob dragged the body to tn.
place where Miss Pelley's body
bound. gagged and bruised. had beei
found A roaring fire was built an
the body was incinerated.
James. who came from the South
said Miss Pelley had been assauit
ed and murdered after terrifl
fight. 1t Is reported that Alexander
the negro implicated by James |,
the murder of Miss Pelley, has beeI
found by the mob, and that the
are bringing him into town to lyncl
him.
Governor Deneen appealed to at
O'Clock by Sheriff Davis, who declar
ed the mob was storming the jal
and volunteers would not assist hin
ordered ten troops OF militia to pro
ceed at once to Cairo to restor
order.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-18
FIEND LYNCHED
By Fierce Mob at Cairo, Illinois for the
Horrible Crime Of
ASSAULT and MURDER

A Fiendish, British Negro, After
Confessing to the Crimes Of As
saulting and Numbering Miss
Pelley, Whose Body Was Found
In an Alley, Lynched and Burned.
Will James, the negro suspected
of being the murderer of Miss An
ME Pelley, was lynched at Cairo,
Illinois, Thursday night by a mob.
lie was strung up to the public arch.
the rope broke and at least 500
shots were poured into his body.
James made a confession, implicat-
ing another negro. Arthur Alexan
der. The lynching took plac, In tl,e
most prominent part of the ciy. and
was witnessed by ten thousand peo-
pie.
Women present were the first TO
pull the rope. When II broke. the
frenzy of the mob was uncomfortable.
and they fired volley after volley
into James body, shooting him to
pieces. The mob then dragged the
body over. the streetssfor, nore than
Pa !e@Ia I3a'3 Elm
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-06-15
Council Holds Long Session.

The greater part of the city council
sessioc last night was spent in dis
cussing the assessment OF property
for the street improvement in the new
districts this summer, and making
such revisions and alterations as
seemed advisable. The resolution
was finally put to a vote late in the
evening and passed. Before the close
Of the meeting. Mayor Fl. G. Eakin
brought up before council the matter
of purchasing more fire hose. 1t
appeared that an agent from the
Board of Underwriters, who is prepar-
ing the new fire survey of the city and
arranging the new schedule OF rates,
had agreed to fix the rate at a figure
about 20 per cent lower than hereto
fore, provided the city would make
arrangements to secure enough new
fire hose to make the total amount oi
its supply 1000 feet. This will require
the purchase of about 200 feet OF new
hose. Il motion of councilman Ellis
that the insurance man be notified
that the purchase OF the required hose
would be made 10 short time was
carried by a unanimous vote. 1t II
estimated that the total saving to the
citizens OF Dallas by the proposed
reduction will amount to between $100(
and $4,000 year.