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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-02-11
WINS HIS Fight.
CRUM's CHANCES FOR CoNFIR-
NATION VERY SLIGHT.
Senator Tillman Resents Presidents
Attack on Senator Perkins-Jap-
anese Question Discussed.

Washington, Feb. s.-Under the
guise of considering the nomination
of DR.. w. D. Crum, the negro col
lector of customs at Charleston, S.
c., reappointed by President Roose-
welt, the Senate in executive ses-
sion today discussed the Japanese
question. Incidentally the question
turned upon the reference to Sena-
tor Perkins by President Roosevelt
in a telegram to Governor Gillett,
of California, in which he said that
the senior California Senator had
hampered the Administration in it's
efforts to build up the navy, yet now
advises a policy of wanton insult. "
Reference to this statement was
made by Senator Tillman, colleague
of Senator Perkins on the naval af-
fairs committee, and indignation was
shown by other Senators because of
the attack upon Mr.. Perkins. Both
California Senators took part in the
discussion. Senator Perkins made
a statement to the effect that he
had not been asked by the Presi-
dent to participate in the conferences
that have been held concerning the
japanese situation in California.
He said that he could not under
stand why the President should in
innate that he tried to stir up the
sentiment in California in opposi-
ton of the President. He stated
what his position had been on the
subject of big navy, declaring that
he had always been in favor Of a
steady growth of the navy, even
though he was against the Presi-
dents four battle ship program last
session.
Senator Flint declared that he
had not participated in the confer
ence at the White House until he
was asked to serve as the interme-
diary between the Administration
and the Legislature. He made it
clear that he did not approve Of
the criticism of his colleague.
While it is becoming apparent
that Collector Crum cannot be con-
firmed at the present session, it is
also evident that the case is being
used as a buffer" for legislation
which the leaders do not intend shall
be passed. Senators Tillman, Fra
zer and Gary made extended speeches
today on the race question in the
South.
Mr.. Gary talked Of the Crum case
in particular and against the policy
of placing negroes in important Of
fetal positions where it is necessary
for whites to come in contact with
them, and especially in cases where
practically all of the business of an
office is transacted by white people
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ATTACKED THE SHERIFF.
Was Knocked Down and Fired at
Fifteen Times.

Houston, Miss, Feb. S.-A mob of
negroes attacked Sheriff |. NJ. Hoff
at Humble today and he narrowly
escaped death He was knocked
down and fired at fifteen times.
Hof escarod hv cutting his WY
through the mob with a knife. A
serious riot &c fonred. A large pos
Sc is forming to make wholesale
arrests. The sheriff had g"-e -
Humble IN "rroet a negro ch1rga'
with murder.
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Houston, Miss, Feb. S.-Roby
Baskin, murderer Of the Rev. w. T..
Hudson, was lynched by mob here
this afternoon. A crowd of over 800
determined citizens took him from
the jail and hanged him to nearby
tree. Not shot was fired, and the
whole proceeding was conducted qui-
etly.
Sheriff Dean, of Okolona, arrived
just as the negro breathed his last.
Leaders of the mob said the negro
had not been given speedy trial as
promised, and that they could not
be blamed for taking justice into
their own hands.
The prisoner was seized without
resistance and accepted his fate as
matter of course, sullen and with
OUT a word Of entreaty or prayer.
He was hanged from an elm tree
within two hundred yards Of the
county Jail.
The representatives of the sheriff
here declared they considered their
action in surrendering the negro, in
view of the refusal of the court
to call a special term, justified in the
interest of law and order. Should
their action be criticised they declare
they will resign.
According to Baskin's confession
he first robbed and, in fear that he
would be arrested for the robbery,
shot and killed the minister, throw
ing his body into a pond where it
was found by searchers.
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ROBBER KILLED AT LAURENS
known as Sheney Mike, Buried in
POtter'S Field.

Laurens, Feb. S-Advices from
Postoffice Inspector Gregory say the
yeggman killed here in a fight with
policemen, January 2Sth, was known
as Sheney Mike" or Kentucky
Sheney," originally of Louisville.
This is based on statement from
a reform safe blower living in Bos-
ton, who was in jail with Sheney
in Norfolk in 1898. Monday after.
noon his body was buried in the Pot
ters field of the city burying
grounds, the mayor, aldermen and
other city ofllolals being present.
No service of any kind was held.
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ESCAPE FROM JAIL.
Four Negro Prisoners Take French
Leave Of Sheriff.

WATERFORD, Feb. 8 Monday
evening, while Sheriff Fox and FAM
lily were at supper, four of the sew
en- negroes in jail escaped. Those
who escaped were Israel Campbell.
Morris Judge, Sam Brooks and Elijah
Smith. 1t appears that the lock to
the outer door was out OF order, APP
parently having been tampcred with,
and had hnen taken of to be fixed.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-02-11
BOLT AND GET SHOT.
Atlanta Convicts Attempt to Break
Jail and Escape.

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. S.-As the re-
suit of bolt for liberty shortly be-
fore midnight Sunday at the city
stockade, G.. E. Mots was shot and
pounded by guard, j. w. Humph-
reys fell from the prison building
and was badly hurt, third convict
was shot at on top of the building
and darted back inside, and four
other convicts mad a successful es-
cape. Prompt action by the guard
prevented a wholesale delivery, as
fully 40 convictS has already at
tempted to escape and seven men
who had gained their freedom
brought back. The prisoners sawed
two iron bars from Il prison window.
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LOOKS LIKE WAR.
Orders Battlcships to Pacific and
Orders Out Militia.

Columbia, Feb. 9.-The Column
bia Record says is begins to look
like the national government expects
a war with Japan or something or
the sort. 1t is said that five or six
Of the battleships will be sent to
the Pacific as soon as the fleet re-
turns, and now California has been
requested by the federal authori-
ties to raise sixteen companies of re-
serves for coast defense.
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THE PRODIGAL SON
Blows in Thirteen Thousand Dollars
In q Few Weeks.

New York, Feb. S.-Frank Hitler,
who tells the police he is a 19-year-
old student and has just finished
spending $4,000 left him three
months ago by his father, in Little
Rock, Ark, was arrested in front
o. the Hotel Astor, where he has
been lodging, charged with passing
a bad check for $50 on the Prince
George hotel. With the $4,000 in
his hands, Hitler says he started
out to see the country. He went
to Cuba and on his way North stop
ped at Tampa, Palm Beach and other
Southern resorts. He experimental
with the races. He landed in New
York ten days ago, with very little
of his patrimony remaining. He had
ten cents when arrested.
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MURDERER .lYNCHEO.
NEGRO WHO ROBBED AND KILL
ED MINISTER
At Houston, Miss, Several Days
Ago, Taken From Jail and Hanged
After He Confessed

Houston, Miss, Feb. S.-Roby
Baskin, the eighteen-year-old negro
under arrest here. has confessed to
the murder of DR.. ". 7. Hudson,
in Moore's Grove, near this town,
Saturday morning. He says he shot
DR.. Hudson because he had robbed
him, and then decided to get him
out of the way. The governor or
dered out a company Of militia to
protect the negro, but later can
celled the order when he found out
that there was no danger OF a
lynching.
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Marries Telephone Girl.

Boston, Feb. 9.-Representative
John a. keliher, Of Boston, and his
bride, who was Miss Nellie NJ. Nc
Neil, a telephone girl, are due in
Washington today after having been
married on Sunday at the Holy
Cross Cathedral.
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WOMAN FINDS HERSELF
BY Reading Newspaper Accounts OF
Her Disappearance.


Atlanta, Ga, Feb. S.-Mrs. w. f.
Scruggs, the Warrenton woman, who
has been missing, following her de-
parture ostensibly for home from
here two weeks ago. has returned to
Atlanta and is now with her hus-
band here. Mrs. Scruggs went as
far as Richmond, Va, where she
happened to see an account of her
disappearance in a paper. She
bought return ticket for home inn
mediately. She was in state bor-
dering on nervous prostratlon when
she arrived here, but there are no
serious apprehensions as to her early
recovery.
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Two Life Sentences.

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. S.-Punished
with two life sentences in the pre-
dicament of Noah Adams, negro
of Columbus, Ga. In police circles
i. IS hintcd <facetiously that the
double sentence was given Noah on
account of his first name.
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Burned in Bunks.

Norfolk, Fob. 9.-The Norfolk and
Portsmouth Traction Company's fer
ry steamer was burned to the wa
tors edge at hc' pier here this morn
ing. Three of her crew were burned
to death in their hunks.
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Recruit Suicides.

Knoxville, Tenn, Feb. 9.-Patrick
Kelly, en- route fer Columbus, Ohi".
to begin service in the United States
army, committed suicide by drink
ing carbolic ocia this morning in
the army recruiting station here.
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Exploded DYNAMITE
In His Pocket and Died From In
jury Received.

Birmingham, Ala, Feb. S.-Her-
bert Fisher, aged IL years. of Sparks
Gap. south of Birmingham, is dead
as result of exploding dyna-
mite cap which he had in his pock-
et
The little fellow did not know
what he had and was knocking 1t
when the explosion followed. The
boys arm and hip were torn from
the body and death was instanta-
neOuS
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-02-11
MAN SHOT DOWN
And Killed In the Streets Of Char
lotte Tuesday.

Charlotte, n c., Feb. 81. G.
Hood, for many years prominent in
business here, was shot through the
head three times this morning by
w. S. Biggers, farmer.B Biggers
overlook Hood in front Of the Cen
trail hotel and fired four shots at
close range. One ball passed through
the hotel bus. missing the drivers
head by six inches. 1t is understood
that Biggers claimed he had been
swindled out Of money in business
transactions. Both men has fami-
lies.
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LYNCHING IN ALABAMA.
Negro Had Mistreatcd Little Daugh-
ter Of Her Employer.

Selma, Ala, Feb. S.-News has
lust reached here of the lynching Of
Will Parker, q negro, near MeXia, in
Monroe county, last Saturday. The
negro had mistreated the three-year-
old daughter Of n. o. Bailey, the
man for whom he worked on Friday.
A mob was formed during the night
but the dogs were unable to take
the negroes trail until the following
morning. He was found in corn
crib, and when the sheriff's posse
o~rived, about half an hour later,
s-cr, Monroeville, they found the
legros body hanging to a tree.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-02-11
REVIVAL AT EASTMAN.
All the Business Houses Close for
Morning Services.

Eastman, Ca, Feb. S.-Remarka-
BILE in character are the revival meet
ings which have been held at the
Methodist church in this city for
the past two weeks. Rev. w. NJ.
Christian, a we'll known evangelist,
is conducting the services. One of
the forces in the meeting is the
singing. directed by Prof. D. w.
Milan. The church is filled to over
flowing at each service, and many
have united with the church. Near
ly all business houses in the city
close for the morning service.
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DEAL IS ON FOOT
TO SHIP OUR COTTON DIRECT
TO EUROPE.
Gotenburg Wholesaler, With Large

Savannah Line. the Prime Mover.
The Columbia Record says for
some time Commissioner E. J. Wat
son has striven to get the cotton
from this state shipped direct to
European points, thus avoiding the
profits to middlemen.
The scheme has lately been fur
thered and to the extent that on the
18th Of the month, Mr.. Watson and
Mr.. d. Harris. of Pendleton, will go
to Savannah, where they will meet
Mr.. Wilhelm Dickson, director of
the Swedish-American steamship
company, with headquarters at Got
henburg, Sweden.
The object of the conference is
to look into the feasibility of OPEN
ing Southern ports for the export
ing of cotton by regular steamship
lines.
Mr.. Dickson is prominent ex-
porter and is greatly interested in
the scheme above mentioned. On
December 1st of last year he wrote
the following. letter to Commission
er Watson relative to the matter:
Dear Sir: Being one of the direc-
tors of Captain Lundgren's steam
ship company, 'Rederi Aktiebolaget
Transatlantic, and having worked
with him hand in hand since we
started proceedings in buying two
small tramp steamers, l am natur-
ally informed Of and fully initiated
in, as we'll as greatly interested in,
your plan of the direct line between
Charleston and Sweden. I shall be
starting on January 18th for New
York on other business, but I shall
before that go fully through every
thing with my friend Lundgren, and
shall have great pleasure in making
an appointment with you when over
in America to discuss matters, es-
pecially so the matter l herewith
take the liberty of putting before
you.
"As you are we'll aware, there is
is a large cotton export, and also
great rosin export, and these two
different classes of goods would nat
urally be greatly favored by the new
projected line. and merchants on
your side would naturally be anxious
of forming good direct connections
on this side. 1t is thus my purpose
by writing this letter to ask you
kindly to put me into connection
with people who would be interest
ed in shipping their goods by the
direct line, and getting reliable
agent over there. thus propose to
take up these agencies. am pre-
pared to take up any big article
you put before me, but Of course,
l am only wishing to touch the
wholesale trade and make large
turnover. 1 am myself carrying on
large export business, and I am
thus open for such proposals as l
have named to you.
With regard to my personal
standing, beg to refer you to
Aktiebolagot Coteborgs Handelsbank
and Captain Lundgren, and besides,
when you were here, you were sure
to have heard about me-
Hoping to hear from. you before
I leave this country, and that you
shall be able tc put before me some
proposal which 1 nigh take up and
arrange when l get to your side. I
remain, dear sir, hoping for a
speedy and lucky development of
mutual plans,
Yours very truly,
"WM. DICKSON"
What will be the outcome of the
conference, Of course, is matter of
conjecture. but Messrs. Watson and
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Five Young Women MysteriOusfy
Murdered by
UNKNOWN MURDERER /.
While Comparing With the Whiee~
chapel Murders Over in England
of Twenty Years Ago. the Murder
of These Young Women Have No
Parallel in Our Crime Annals.

Atlanta, Feb. 9.-The Journal
says while comparing with the infa-
nous Whitechapel murders Of twen-
ty years ago, the Dayton girl murders
have no parallel in American crime
annals.
Altogether, it appears, five young
women were mysteriously murder
ed and the police theory is that all
were struck down by the same
fendish hand.
This may OF may not be true. It
is fact, however, that five young
women of about the same age and
social condition, have been mystic
riously murdered in the Ohio city
and there are various tangible cir-
cumstances which seem to connect
the crimes.
The police call the supposed E.r-
derer lack the Stranger" from the
fact that all of the girls were ap-
parently killed by the clutch of a
monsters hand upon the throat.
The latest vidUim was pretty
Elizabeth Fulbart, little country
girl, who went to Dayton to obtain
employment. The day after her ar
rival she disappeared. 1t is believ-
ed that she was lured into vacant
house, in the resident Giqtrict,
strangled to death, otherwise abus-
ed and dropped into cistern in
the rear of the dwelling.
Two workmen happened to open
the old cistern, a week after the girl
disappeared, and discovered the
body, floating on the water. 1t was
fished out Though the manhole
through which it had been dropped.
and soon identified by the girls
brother. The girl was fully dress
ed.
From the condition of the remains
the police were unable to decide
how death had been inflicted, but
that there were no wounds seemed
to strengthen the theory that she
had been strangled. The body had
been wrapped in a piece of gunny.
sack.
The police went out to solve the
mystery without any definite clue
| or theory as to a possible motive
The girl was known as of good char
acter.
On January 23, 1909, Mary For
schner, Is, was assaulted and chok-
ed to death by some unknown man.
Her body was found in an old shed.
The police were completely baf1ed
by this crime.
Anna Markowitz, IS, was assault
ed and killed on the night of Au-
gust 5, 1907. She was seized by
an unknown man while walking in
park with her sister and young
man friend. The sister ran of to
get help. When the police arrived
the girl lay dead in thicket.
Layton Hines was arrested, and Oh
circumstantial evidence was sentenc-
ed to life Imprisonment. The police
now frankly say that they doubt
Hines guilt.
Dona Gilman, 20, was assaulted,
then strangled to death, by fiend
on the night of November 20, 1906.
Her body was found forty hours lat
er concealed in a thicket near her
home.
Ada Lantz, 13, after an assault,
was thrown into vault in the rear
Of her home and was there found
dead. A party was in progres in
the girls home at the time. This
crime, occurring in 1901, has never
been solved:
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VALUABLE MATTRESS.
Over Fifty Thousand Dollars Found
Sewed In One.

Lockport, N. Y, Feb. 9.-More
than $4,000 in cash has been found
in a mattress on the bed of James
Mahar, a civil war veteran, who died
here on Saturday. His two sons,
James and Lawrence, will inherit
the money. The old soldier, who
died in his seventy-first year, had
been a prisoner at Andersonvllle
during the civil war and drew a gov
ernment pension. He had been i'll
for fourteen years and during all
that time did not leave his room.
His pension money, together with
a large part of his life savings, he
had placed carefully in the mat
tress.
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STRUCK By LIGHTNING.
Barn and Three Head of Stock Is
Burned.

Johnston, Feb. 9.-The rain storm
that passed over Johnston on Fri
day evening was accompanied by
thunder and lightning, the latter
setting fire to the barn of Mr.. Luke
Lott, near Johnson. burning the
building, with all its contents of
feed and farming implements and
three head of stock. Mr.. Lofts loss
was heavy, with no insurance, but
the good people of Johnston and
community will reimburse him.
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Theatres Corrupt.

New York. Feb S.-"The stage
is worse today than it was in the
davs Of Paganism," said Archbis mop
rore,v. in his sermon In st. Pat
rick's cathedral yesteray.
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Lincoln. Neb., Feb. "a bliz-
zara Is raging here With the mercn
~ at zero and the wind blowing
fifty miles an hour.
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PECULIAR MALADY.
Takes Away Young Lad ut Warm
Vile Friday.

Varnville, S. c., Feb S.-On Feb
ruary 5th, Mr.. Frank Mixson, Of
Staffords Cross Rroads, lost son
under peculiar circumstances. The
young man who was fourteen years
old, was taken with cramps in both
feet and legs, suffering excrusiating
pains. In a few days tne flesh on
both legs turned black, and COM
menced falling off. The physicians
decided to take off the legs as they
claimed it was blood poison, this
was once above the knees and
then the disease assumed the form
of meningitis. The boys head was
drawn hack until he died. The doc
tors do not know what the disease
was but, say it was blood poisoning.
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a YOUNG SUICIDE.
Eight-Year-Old Girl Takes Her Own

Pittsburg, Feb. Sword was re-
ceived here today from Bolivar, Pa,
of the suicide there last night of
May Estella, eight years old. The
child's mother died some time ago
and she has since been caring for
two younger children. Sunday night
the child said to her father: Papa,
| am going to shoot Before he
had time to realize the meaning of
the words, the girl fired bullet
into her right temple.
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yours very truly,

VIM. DICKSON"
What will be the outcome of the
conference, Of course, is matter of
conjecture, but Messrs. Watson and
Harris will leave no stone unturned
in the effort to cause the conference
to bear fruit