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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
Dr.. c. c. Bighan, Convicted Of Helping
to Murder His Young Wife.
HAS BROKEN HIS BOND
Avant, who, With Righam, Was
Convicted OF Manslaughter 1t
Georgetown Recently for Killing
Mrs. Bigham, Gives Himself Up,
But the Husband Is Missing.

But the Husband Is Missing.
A dispatch from Georgetown to
The News and Courier says frem de-
velopnfents within the past few days
it seems likely that Or. G. c. Big
ham, who with w. b Avant was corr
>yicted at the last term of court Of
manslaughter for the killing Of Mrs
Risham Oh Murrel's Island, will yet
escape the penalty OF three and q
half years hard labor in the penk-
tentiary, imposed by Judge Watts.
The notice of appeal made by the
defendants attorney, j. w. Ragsdale.
not having been filed within the ten
days allowed by law, Solicitor Wells
wired Sheriff Scurry to apprehend
the convicted parties at once, they
being out on sl,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 Burcb;
of Florence county, to arrest DR..
Bigham Immediately, but from !nfor-
nation so far received it seems that
he cannot be found. The surmise IS
that he has fed the State.
There seems tc 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 $4,000, under which
amount they appeared for trial.
After conviction and sentence the
men were turned loose under bond
of only $1,000 each, pending the re-
suit of an appeal to the supreme
court. 1t is said that as Dr.. Big
hams family are we.l-to-do, the
forfeiture of the bond is Of small
consequence.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
ANOTHER LYNCHING
WHITE MAN SWUNG UP FOR
NUMBERING HIS OWN WIFE.
After Lynching the Negro the Mob
Attacked the Jail and Made Quick
Work of a White Man.

At Cairo, Illinois, Henry Salzner,
white, a photographer, who killed
his wife last July with an axe, gas
taken from Jail at 11:40 O'Clock
Thursday night by mob and hang
ed to telegraph pole, and his body
riddleds with bullets. The lynchins
followed closely on the lynchihg of
Will James, negro. who earlier in
the evening had been hanged for
the murder of Hiss Annie Pelley.
The mob gave Salzner a chance
to confess after the rope was around
his neck, but he was SO frightened
that he could only humble that his
sisters had killed his wife.
The mob became furious at this,
and it was hard work to keep them
off Salzner long enough to give him
chance to pray. The mob finally
subsided and a short religious service
was held, after which he was strung
up, the rope being placed over a tele-
graph pole at 21st and Washington
streets.
The mob found some difficulty in
breaking the cage, as it was al cn-
tirely steel structure, but after half
hour of telling blows upon the door
it gave way, and Salzner was secus-
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 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
mobgfei 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
a loud voice that Salzner should be
lynched, after which he was driyen
from the mob and all attention was
given to- Salzner. After Salzner
was hanged, and while the body was
being ridGled with bullets, the rope
broke and the body fell to the
ground, where it now lies, the mob
going away and leaving it.
Salzner was born and reared at
Cairo. He had been married about
two years last July, when his wife
was found at her home with her
skull fractured. A bloody axe was
found under the bed. Two babies
were playing in the mothers blood.
Salzner was found at the home of
his mother, where he often slept at
night. 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
lynching of James, when some one
suggested Salzner, the mob rushed
for the county jail, got Salzner and
lynched him.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
uallcy'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 an0
with the naked eye in January.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
4 THRILLING RASCAL
Being Sought by the Wife He Base
ly Deserted.

A dispatch from Atlanta TO the
Augusta Chronicle says coming from
Augusta without cent in search OF
her husband, whom she says is win
Rarnum and Balley's circus there,
Mrs. Bessie Brooks reached there
on a Georgia railroad train without
the formality of ticket Nednes-
dav. In her arms she carried ba-
bv of 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 he 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.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
Double Tragedy.

AS a tragic elimination of martial
troubles of long standing Louis w.
Lewis, white. shot and instantly kill
ad his wife at his home in Jackson
Vile. Fla, Wednesday afternoon.
then turned the revolver on himself
sending a bullet through his head
causing instant death.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
Officer Kills Negro.

Because he drew pistol when tine
officer approached to arrest him tnf
disorderly conduct, Joe BostWick,
negro, was shot and killed at Az
bany, Ca, q few days ago by oscar
Walden, acting deputy sheriff.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
S.Xcn Victims Recovered.

Seven victims have been recover
el and il is believed the list Of dead
will reach twelve. as the result OF
il fire in the iuchincloss shaft OF
thc Delaware, Lackawanna 4 Nes-
toru Coal Company. at Naticocke.
Pa: An explosion of gas set ilre 10
the limbers OF the mine.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
Mrs. Marie EStcy Suicides.

Mrs. Marie l.. Estey, widow Of a
widely known piano manufactures,
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 i'll health is believed to have led
to her act.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
Endnrscs 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.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
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
panv. died at his home in Louisville,
Ky, a few days ago, aged 72.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
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 manslaughter.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
Negro Woman Kills Herself.

In Savannah, Ca, Tuesday after
noon, Evelina Johnson, colored, aged
thirty-one years. drank the contents
of a two-ounce bottle OF carool!c
acid, from the effects OF which she
died in agony short time after
wards. The negro woman was
laundreSS
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
FLATLY DENIED
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 Yarn Out Of the
whole Cloth

he braSuQS Us u 4&Eu ouS "a eAAN
Whole Cloth.
Mr.. A. J. Bethea, Governor Ansel's
private secretary, writes the follow
ing .ietter, which explains itself:
The governors secretary has writ
ten the following letter:
Senator B. r. Tillman, Trenton, S. C..
Ny Dear Sir: l 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 l am disgusted and outraged
hardly expresses my feelings.
There is not a semblance of truth
in this article, which, of course, you
know as we'll as l do, but in JUS
tice to you and to myself, l hasten
to write to assure you that it did
not come from me nor any one con-
nected with the governors office.
There is only one way in which
it could possibly have originated, and
the truth has been SO distorted that
it strains the Imagination TO account
for it.
On Friday of last week a gentle
man came over from Winnsboro. and
was in 6. eat distress because he
found the dispensaries closed, max
ing it impossible for him to purchase
champagne, which he wished to use
at a reception at his home the next
day. The governor was absent, and
as he had ordered the dispensaries
closed for that day and the next. |
told the gentleman l could do moth
ing for him, although be brought
with him a physicians certificate.
AT the luncheon on Saturday sat
by Mr.. Robert H. Hazard, a repre-
sentative of the United Press, and
during the course of conversation L
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
it.
l do not say that Mr.. Hazard
wrote this article, but | cannot acc
count for il in any other way. 1t
is certainly far from the truth, and
| hope you will understand that
resent 1T and that object to being
made a parg to a newspaper story
which is utterly without warrant and
without foundation.
Trusting this explanation Will
serve the purpose for which 1t Is
intended, and assuring you Of my
unwillingness to do you an injus-
tice, am,
Yours very truly,
A. j. Bethea.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
Killed in Arkansas.

Mai. W. II. Seal. of Sumter, re-
ccived a telegram telling of the death
of his son David W. Seal. at Leak
vile, Ark, who was killed by fall-
ing tree. The body OF the young
man will be brought to Sumter for
burial
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-13
ired Negro Suicides.

Calvin Hinton. veteran negro
emplove at the farm OF Charles H..
Hinton, near Raleigh, \. c., COM
mitted cuicide few days ago, using
shotgun with which he blew out
his brains. Children hearing the
shot ran to the house and found
him dying on the floor of his cab
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-13
The Crane Case.

Charles H. Crane. recently appointed
American minister to China, has placed
his resignation by telegraph with Presi-
dent Taft after a tense interview with
the Secretary Of State. The two aspects
of the case have been presented to the
public In the news columns, one version
being given by Secretary Knox. the other
by Mr.. Crane. The gentlemen do not Diff
fer widely In their statement of facts.
The main point is a newspaper story
published In Chicago and based in part
upon q conversation by a newspapers
representative with Mr.. Crane though
the iatter's name is not mentioned). in
which 1t was said that the United States
government would protest against GER
tain features Of the recent agreement be-
tween China and Japan in relation to
Manchuria. Mr.. Crane does not admit re-
sponsibility for this statement He did
in a. way discuss the China-Japan-
Manchurian agreement which was under
consideration by the State Department.
xNs vss common knowledge. That the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-13
Senator Flint's Announcement.

Senator Flint Of California announces a
purpose to retire from office at the close
of his term-in March. 1911. He likes
service in the Senate, and would be glad
to spend the remainder of his days as a
member of that body. But he considers
himself poor man. and that he should
make better provision for his family than
politics will allow. So his plan Is to re-
tire at fifty. when yet it will be time. and
in private life make hay for his own.
1t is creditable to Mr.. Flint that he has
found no. money in politics. 1t shows that
he has addressed himself to the duties Of
his Office with assiduity, and an eye single
to the true meaning of his commission. He
brought no money into the game, and It
is certain he will carry none out. He is
going out to seek some.
1t has happened that men taking this
step have regretted it. Two conspicuous
instances are of recent date. Thomas B.
Reed. after long service, left Congress
to make a little money. He succeeded in
that. but discovered that he had parted
with -contentment. He found that he
could not be happy out Of the public serv-
ice. and had he lived might have reap
peared in office-possib1y in Congress.
David B. Henderson took the same
course, but did not realize his expecta-
tions. He was cut off before prosperity
could come. But he lived long enough to
regret his step, and to wish himself back
in the House.
There are men whom fortune has forced
out Of Congress. and many Of them are
wishing to return. Some have means,
and some not. but all alike look back
to Washington with longing. AS in Mr..
Flint's case, they liked Congress, and
would be glad to return and spend the re-
mainder Of their days there.
Mr.. Flint Is not veteran In ONCE, az
Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Henderson were when
they retired. or as the numerous exes
were who have been retired. He is
serving his first term In the Senate, and
before that had only had a term as
United States district attorney. But Of
flee is so sweet to men who have capacity
and temperament for 1t, a mere taste
Is sufficient to fix the fancy. service
of four years in the Senate has made
Mr.. Flint love the place and regret that
he cannot stay longer.
The salary Of senator-seven
thousand five hundred yearLs
small for a man who measures up to
grade lawyers, big salaries for heads Of
business corporations. and opportunities
for investments. But a good deal OF COM
fort and consequence go with a high
grade political commission, and this has
Its weight. Mr.. Flint has twelve months
in which to change his mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-13

United States would promulgate pro-
test was a reportorial inference. he says,
for which he was not accountable. Sec
rotary Knox denounced the Chicago story
as canard and has held Mr.. Crane re-
sponsible for It,
There are probably other phases Of the
case of which the public has no intimate
view. II Secretary Knox had been wholly
satisfied with Mr.. Cranes appointment or
with Mr.. Cranes department since his &C
ceptance of the Picking mission. that sim
gle Chicago story probably would not
have been sufficient to bring about the
recall of Mr.. Crane. The story could
have been denounced as a canard, and
Mr.. Cranes denial of responsibility &C
cepted. Scores of other cases which may
or may not represent official indiscretion
are disposed of In this way.
If the charge is that independent of
the Chicago article Mr.. Crane has been
discussing too freely our relations with
and aims in China. to the embarrassment
of our diplomatic relations with Japan,
his defense is that President Taft told
him to accept all the invitations given
him to attend public affairs, to speak at
them concerning the situation in the
orient, land let them have it red hot"
The President would, of course. expect a
minister to a foreign court to discuss
foreign relations in a pleasing and dis
Greet manner. Tact is quality, some
times gift. but usually the result Of ex-
perience. 1t requires nice calculation and
highly refined sense of diplomacy to
say enough about the relations Of ma
tons to satisfy public curiosity with
out saying SO much that offense will be
given somewhere.
Experienced diplomats at banquets and
other public gatherings find it safer to
confine themselves to beautiful platitudes
about national amity. good will, historic
friendship. unity of ambition. and the
like. 1t is also a common practice with
skillful diplomats to furnish pleasing en-
tertainment to an audience by dwelling
on the beauty. grandeur. glory, growth,
etc, of the country to which they are ac-
credited. When a diplomat proceeds to
discuss International relations in public
speeches he enters upon dangerous
ground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-13
The Eskimo Witnesses.

Evidently the -Eskimos who accompanied
Cook must be examined and cross-ex-
amined by disinterested commission,
composed of men who know the language
they speak. their Individual and social
characteristics and the conditions of the
region in respect to which they are to tes-
tify. Cook says that they were directed
to tell nobody that they had been to the
pole. Peary says that they told him that
they had not been to the pole. What they
will say In the presence Of Cook and
Peary. being adjured by both men to tell
the truth, will be both interesting and sig
nificant. The living witnesses, as we'll as
the observations and records. will un-
doubtedly be carefully tested and weighed
in the case of both explorers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-13
Mrs. Belmont,

In declining an invitation to cross the
ocean and take the stump in England for
the suffragettes, Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont
probably confesses to the fact that she
has her hands full at home. She must
have. She holds no Office, but as adviser
in-chief to her own countrywomen seek
ing the suffrage she has no time to spare
to strangers much as she may sympathize
with their aims. And then there is the
difference in names and methods. In
England the suffrage-seekers are called
suffragettes. and their weapon is force; in
America they are called sunragists. and
their weapon is dignifed persuasion. Per-
suasion is of no force in England. and
force of no persuasion in America. Mrs.
Belmont would not fill the bill. But were
she to try. and adopt the English method
and be locked up with her English asso-
ciates, what an interesting international
row might follow!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-13

Commenting on the report that the
President may visit the Philippines next
year. the New York Evening Sun refers
to the tradition against absence from
the country. and quotes Thomas Jefferson
against any protracted absence. even
from the seat of government.
The Philippine proposition. 1t must be
admitted, is not in the class with a step
across the Mexican border. or trip TO
Panama. Shaking the hand of Presi-
dent Diaz in the latter's country. though
still in sight of American soil. or visit
to Panama on a ship whose deck Is
American territory, affords no ground
for disquiet. The Presidents decision In
those two cases 10 right enough.
Risk, however, might be taken In Q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-13
Iron Soldiers, Not Tin.

No outcry has been heard from the
District troops because of the Massachu
setts maneuvers. No cutlery will be
heard. The District troops are soldierly
In the field they take the weather as it
comes. and a ration that Is good enough
for a regular is good enough for them
Veterans of the Manassas campaign, the
Leesburg camps and Mount Gretna are
not hanging out distress signals because
of the Massachusetts invasion, and re-
cruits who got their first lesson In field
work last summer understood from the
veterans what to expect. felt no disap-
pointment and are making no complaint.
They are probably too game to do 1t,
even If the traditions and esprit of their
commands would permit it. Camps Of
instruction and maneuvers long ago
ceased to be picnic parties with the Dis
trict Guard. They take their soldering
seriously.
In The Star last evening Gen. Oliver.
acting Secretary Of War. was reported
as saying:
1.-The department has not the slightest
intention Of varying its plans for the
general education of the National Guard
in connection with the army in joint
camps and maneuvers alternate years and
nv the methods provided in general orders
No H. 1aOs. War Department. Future
participation of the National Guard in
maneuvers similar to those recently held
in Massachusetts should be hereafter lin
tied to such ORGANIZATIONS as have proved
themselves in the camps of instruction as
fit to take part and to be competent to
take reasonable and proper care of them
selves and only those organizations that
have been specially reported to the de-
partment as such should be given this
privilege"
Here is where the District troops shine
The more real military work assigned
them the better they like it. The man
who cannot march, sleep refreshingly in
a blanket and poncho under pup-tent
and keep well fed on properly cooked
army rations served in his tin cup and
meat can is no soldier. He may perform
beautifully on a ballroom floor or at
parlor social. but he has no business
dalIying with a service rifle or field
piece There are not many cotillion SOL
diers in the guard. .s-to-. .,...,..=.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-13
The Anacostia Flats.

Discussion by the Northeast Washing
ton Citizens Association of the rec
lamation of the Anacostia fats makes
familiar reading. The question has been
threshed over for many years and the
flats are unreclaimed. They are more
noisome than when the agitation for their
reclamation was begun a good many
years ago. Still this Is no reason why
agitation should cease or why citizens
should suspend their clamor for the
abatement Of this great nuisance-a null
sance which Is a blemish on the capital,
a menace to the health Of much Of the
eastern section Of the city and to large
and populous suburban area. The fight
against the continuance Of these flats is
a fight in good cause and 1t will be
won in time. It will never be settled
until 1t shall be settled right. %
The Anacostia was once a broad. mod
erately deep and picturesque stream. The
sewage Of considerable part Of the city
was poured into it and channels were
dredged. the excavated material being
dumped for the purpose of Fastening the
shoaling and choking up Of the river.
The projected trunk sewer will relieve the
river of its sewage. but at low tide 1t
will continue to be a disease-breedine
marsh
The filing in and parking of the Ana
costa flats presents q simple engineering
proposition and the work will be relative
ly cheap. because so much of the filling
has been done by the slow process of
nature. the wash from the watershed
having been held by the retaining mud
banks thrown up along the channel
lines
1t was a good resolution adopted by
the Northeast Citizens Association that
means be devised whereby the services
of every other similar organization in the
District of Columbia will be enlisted In
the fight to reclaim the Anacostia fats
and that all of these organizations will
from now on consider the project not as
sectional fight. but as a civic movement
for the good of Washington as a whole. :.
In time to come these efforts will bring
results. and graceful trees and bright
flowers will grow where now rank marsh
grasses flourish