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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
BRYAN AGAINST LIQUOR.
Refuses to Talk for Candidate for
Governor.

In a statement in which he de-
clares that the crusade which he
feels impelled to wage against the
liquor interests of the State and ma
tion overshadows personal political
friendship Of 20 years, William j..
Bryan this evening announced that
he had bolted the head of the Dem
ocratic State ticket in Nebraska and
would not support James G. Dahl
man for governor. Mr.. Bryan says
he regrets that he is compelled to
take the stand he does-his first de-
parture from political regularity
but says he feels it his duty to do so
because Of position taken by the
Democratic nominee on the liquor
question. The statement, which in,
in a way, in an apolegetic tone, does
not indicate that Mr.. Bryan will sup
port the candidate of any other par
ty, but announces that he is a pre-
JUDGED advocate of county option
and the early closing saloon law,
both Of which he says are menaced
by Mr.. Dahlman's candidacy.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
GIRL TRIED SHOT
SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY IN A
LEXINGTON CASE.
Young Woman Goes on Stand and
Says She Shot at Man Because
He had Wronged Her.

There was surprise in the Lexing-
ton Counrt room Monday when Miss
Buff took the witness stand and ad-
mitted that she fired the shot at the
three Hendrix men for which offense
her father, M. B. Euff, and Artie
Buff were on trial, the charge be-
ing assault and battery with intent
to kill. Miss Buff stated that she
tried to shoot John Hendrix because
he had wronged her under promise
Of marriage.
The first case to be called was that
of NJ. B. Buff and Artie Buff, father
and son, defendants, who, 1t is al
legged, made an assault upon Jno.
w. Hendrix, Sr., John w. Hendrix,
Jr., and James Hendrix on the 25th
of March while the three were pass
ing along the road in front Of the
house of the accused. The three
men swore that the elder Buff and
his son fired two shots at them.
The defendants claim that the
shots were not fired by either Of
them, but that Miss Malissa Buff, a
daughter Of NJ. B. Buff and a sister
of Artie Buff, fired the shots. The
young woman went on the stand and
admitted that she did the shooting;
that John Hendrix, Jr., had, under
promise of marriage, wronged her
and that she wanted to get revenge.
She said that neither her father nor
brother knew that, she was going to
shoot, and that Artie Buff took the
gun away from her after she had
fred the second shot.
Miss Buff is just 1S years old, and
made a star witness. All of the
parties are prominent farmers Of the
Hebron section of Lexington coun-
ty, and large crowd has been in at
tendance upon the trial.
M. B. Buff, one OF the defendants,
Is q Confederate soldier. The pros
ecutoru Jno. w. Hendrix, Sr., is a
former county commissioner.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
CHARGED urO OPERATOR.
Four Killed and Two Injured in a
Freight Collision.

Four men were killed and two in
jured in a head-on collision between
a Mobile and Ohio and Iron Noun
tain freight train, Sunday near
Beech Ridge, ILL.,,
The dead: Claud Rollins, engineer;
M. and o.; A. S. Rossner, fireman,
M. and O.; w. E. Stevenson, brake
man. M. and o., all Of Jackson,
Tenn; unidentified negro.
witnesses testified before the cor
oner's jury Sunday afternoon that
Operator Charles Clark, who was on
duty at Beech Ridge, had been drink
ing and failed to transmit train Or
ders. Clark was arrested, charged
with responsibility for the wreck.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
PATIENT KILLS DOCTOR
Who Failed to Cure Him As He Ha0
Promised to Do,

Armed with revolver, pair OF
brass knucks and al open knife anG
awaiting his turn in the office of Dr.
]. f. Sewell, at Atlanta, w. NJ. Cox-
aged SO, Of Austell, Ga, shortly az
ter noon Monday shot and instantly
killed the physician just as the lat
ter was emerging from the operating
room. Cox then turned the pistol ON
himself and pulled the trigger. He'
Is now at the Grady hospital with a
fractured skull.
Cox wen to Atlanta from his home
in Austell Tuesday morning for the'
purpose, it is said, Of visiting Dr.
Sewell, whose patient he had BEEN
for several weeks. 1t is understoo
he had been brooding for some timer
because of fancied wrongs at thee
hands of the physician. He has stat
ed, it is said, that the physician.
promised to cure him Of chronic.
disease in return for 800, but in
stead of getting better he had be-
come verse.
There were no witnesses to the-
shooting, although another patient.
who had just left the physicians Of
fee a few seconds previously heard
the shots and rpon running back
found Dr.. Sewell dying and Cox un-
conscious on the floor. Dr.. Sewell-
who is 46 years of age, is survived
by wife and six children. Cox lS
unmarried. A coroner's jury has or
dered Cox held for investigation
pending his recovery.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
CONFESSES DOUBLE MURDER.
Girl Shows Axe Used to Kill Her
Father and Uncle.

At Arkansas City, Kansas, Ebby
Sheppard, 16 years old, daughter OF
J. w. Shepard, who, with his brother,
Taylor, was murdered at their home
in Newkirk, Okla, Friday morning,
confessed Sunday to County Attorney
Burns and Sheriff RAIDER that she
killed the two men. In her coDfes-
sion she declared the cause of the
crime was that the men whipped her.
She went to the woodshed. secured
an axe, with which the crime was
committed, and gave il to the Off
GERS. The girl has always been con-
sidered feeble minded.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
WIN. THEIR FIGHT.
High Rate Of Duty on Cotton Bag.
ging is Reduced.

Domestic cotton ginners have won
an important victory at New York in
the board of United State general ap-
praisers which, has just decided that
so-called patches" for covering cot
ton are not subject to the high rate
of duty recently exacted by the
Treasury Department.
The board also denies the conten-
tion OF the government that the stem
cilling Of single name or word on
cotton bales constitutes printing
within the meaning Of the latter word
as used in the tariff acts.
9 The merchandise involved in the
test case consists of jute bagging,
thirty by fifty-four inches in dtmen-
sions, imported for use in patches to
cover holes in cotton bales produced
by sampling the cotton.
The collector Of customs at New
Orleans returned the merchandise for
duty at the rate Of As per cent as
woven fabrics of vegetable fiber"
The importers claim was for duty
at 6-1 9th of 1 per cent. per square
yard as bagging. This contention
the board sustains, the New Orleans
collector being reversed.
The collector contended that the
merchandise was taken out Of the
provisions claimed by the importers
on the ground that the patches were
printed" although the printing con-
sisted of but single word on each
patch. The board holds that the
stenciling was only for Identification.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
THEY WANT 1T BACK.
A Movement in Darlington to Vote
on the Dispensary.

A special dispatch to The News
and Courier says petitions addressed
to the county supervisor, praying for
an election on the question Of dis
pensary or no dispensary, are be-
ing circulated and freely signed In
Darlington county. There are those
who profess to see in the recent cleo
tion returns in that county will
ingness, on the part of the people to
abandon what they term the "howl-
ing farce" of prohibition, and return
to some saner way of regulating the
sale Of alcoholic drinks. Some of the
strongest anti-dispensary men Of for
mer days are interesting themselves
In behalf Of the present effort to
have a vote and, it is said, that the
petitions are being more readily sign
ed e this time, than when an effort
was made about two years ago, to
have an election on the question.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
TEDDY LOSES FIGHT
BARNES CLAIMS THAT SHERMAN
s5 HAS DEFEATED HIM.
He Thinks That Roosevelt's Fight
for the Chairma nship is Viola
ton of Political Ethics. z

A clear majoriYS>of SIS votes for
the selection of y& o esident sher-
man as tempor 3D.. ON OF the
New York State ~ ,ofes >anyen-
tion over Col. RooseVSaEa =" red
by William Barnes, Jr.,SRo.
Of the upstate primaries >1Heee e
Mr.. Barnes, who mas been lea
the fight of the "ola guard" declares
that the real contest at Saratoga will
be in the committee on resolutions.
This committee will consider the
question Of direct nominations. MT.
Barnes gave, out this statement:
The resuk ef psima aries ends the
contest over the temporary chairman,
and gives Vice President Sherman a
clear majority Of IS votes. Interest
naturally centres il. the personal ele-
ment, but there are involved in this
situation two principles Of great i'm
portance to the Republican party.
The first may be called orderly polit-
ica1 management. Mr.. Roosevelt was
defeated in the State committee by
a vote OF 2 o. to Is and then Mr.. Shar-
man was unanimously chosen as
the temporary presiding officer Of the
State convention.
To question that determination on
the floor of the convention is equiva-
lent to boiling a nomination. This
is known as political welching and
had Mr.. Roosevelt defeated Mr.. Sher-
man in the State committee that
would have been the end Of that con-
troversy- Mr.. Roosevelt has not act
ed ais Mr.. Sherman would have done
in questioning the unanimous ac-
ton Of the committee. They are
equal before the party. Mr.. Roos-
velt has no superior rights as man
than ony other man. SIS
4 Secondly, the real contest at Sara
toga will be in the committee on res
olutions. There the party creed for
two years will be proclaimed.
There must be determined whether
the party is to be turned over to my
policies borrowed from Bryan, or
to remain steadfast in the faith which
has given victory in the past. have
done what I could in the public press
to warn Republicans aof the Roose-
yelt danger and at the primaries to
secure delegates who will not rush
madly to the worship OF falsesgods.
We have won. ss.i,,,,a. -.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Robbed by Bandit.

After robbing w. X. Ewing, a wei
known business man of San Antonio
Texas, and his companions, two
prominent society women, Of money
and Jewels valued at S1,400 two
masked highwaymen seized their au.
tomobile and escaped. Mr.. Ewing
and party were on the way to clut
near the city.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Murder and Suicide.

At Abbeville, Ca, p. .Manass Mon'
day shot and killed Mrs. Cole H. VIII
liams, wife of former Mayor Will
liams, because he believed she had
interfered to prevent the success OF
his suit for the hand OF her sister,
Mrs. Eugene Robal, widow. AS
Mrs. Williams collapsed he turned
his revolver on the widow, wound
ing her on the hip and then killed.
himself.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Deadly Gasoline.

Mrs. Anna Belica, Of Chicago, and
two children, Frances and Joseph,
were burned to death by an explosion
Of gasoline Tuesday. Two other chill
dren were probably fatally burned.
The accident took place when Mrs.
Belica tried to start the kitchen fire
with the liquid.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Row Over a Dog.

AS the result of quarrel at Per-
ryville, Ark, over dog, Dub Thur
man, aged 18, died Tuesday night,
and Bob Owen, aged twenty, is charg-
ed with the killing. Thurman was
fatally stabbed on Saturday night in
a fight which followed Owen throw
ing rock at the formers dog.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Shots from Ambush.

Ed Sherrod and ]. r. Hewitt were
shot to death from ambush, at Cooks
Camp, twenty miles north of Hunts
Vile. Tenn, Sunday. Pending in
vestigation, John Bunch and son, Joe
Low, Nelson Low, Jack Low and
Jack Bradley are in Jail.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
WANTS GENERAL PRIMARY Law
Proposes Conference of Governors
to Consider It.

A congress of governors Of the
various States to outline a primary
law for general use throughout the
country was the plan outlined by
John A. Dix, chairman Of the New
York Democratic State committee, al
a conference Friday afternoon with
200 Democratic leaders of Saratoga
county. Mr.. Dix also advocated a
State law that 1,ulG prevent th4
use of funds by corporations IN Coz
rupting legislators. He told hi:
hearers that the time has come 10
place citizenship above partisanshi1
to accomplish re:orms.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Kills at PoStoffice.

AT Vernon, Texas, in the midst of
a throng waiting for the Sunday mail
at the postoiTice Sunday morning, Dr..
A. P. Howard, a prominent physician,
shot and killed H. A. Burns. The
cause is not known. DR.. Howard
surrendered.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Fatal Train Wreck.

Ten persons were killed and 25
injured by collision between ex-
press trains Tuesday near Rottehe-
mann, Austria Prince Won Honenlo-
he-Schillingsfurst, governor Of Tries
te, was ON one of the trains but es-
capped without injury.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
WRITES OF THE SHOOTING
MAYOR GAYNoR RELATES HIS
IMPRESSION OF 1T.
After Being Shot Was Conscious Of
Terrible Metallic Roar Which Fill
ed Head Almost to Bursting.

Mayor William J. Gaynor, of New
York, in letter to his sister, Miss
Mary E. Gaynor, of Utica, New York,
which is printed in the Evening Post,
tells in an interesting manner of his
impression at the time he was shot
on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm
Der Crosse. The mayor says that
he has not read line of what has
been published of the shooting, nor
does he remember the name Of the
man who shot him. Going over the
incident of the shooting, Mayor Gay
nor, after stating that Robert Adam
son, his secretary, pointed out that
the ship was dressed with flags for
him, said:
MY next consciousness was of a
terrible metallic roar in my head.
1t filled my head, which seemed as
though it would burst open. It.swell-
ed to the highest pitch and then fell,
and then rose again, and so alternat-
ed until 1t subsidized into continu-
Gus buzz. 1t was sickening, but my
stomach did not give way. I was
meanwhile entirely sightless..
II do not think I fell, for when
became conscious I was on my feet.
MY sight gradually returned. I be-
came conscious that was choking.
Blood was coming into my mouth
and I tried to swallow it so as those
around me would not see it. But
found I could not swallow and then
knew my throat was hurt. 1t seem
ed as though 1t were dislocated. ]
struggled to breathe through my
mouth, but. could not, and thought
was dying of strangulation. I kept
thinking all the time the best thing
to do.
''T was not bit afraid to die, If
that was Gods will to me. I said to
myself, just as well now as few
years from now.
In some way happened to close
my mouth tight and found I breath
ed perfectly through my nose. I
then believed / could keep from
smothering, but I kept choking, and
my mouth kept opening to cast ont
the blood. Though the thing had
not entered my head that morning
1 was not surprised when realized
l was shot. Il had had a feeling for
some weeks that I might te assault
ed on account of the anonymous
threats I was getting by mail"
Mayor Gaynor, in the le7ter, scor-
ed certain newspapers for the man-
ner in which they had criticised hira,
saying that "the time is at hand
when these journalistic scoundrels
have got to stop or get out, and ]
am ready now to do my share to
that end
Robert Adamson, the mayors sec
retary, said tonight that the may
or's condition continues to improve
and that he plans to return to his
desk at City Hall on October 8.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
FEARFUL CRIME
WOMEN AND CHILDREN MUIR
DERED BY BURGLARS.
Mother and Three Little Ones Bru-
tally Slain by Marauder in West
Chester, Pa.

Mrs. John Zoos and her three chill
dren, a boy, aged Z years, and two
girls, aged months and three years,
respectively, were murdered late on
Tuesday afternoon at Byers, a small
IN about 10 miles from West
yhester, Pa. Suspicion points to a
Ilaborer who has disappeared, but
whom the police are making a des-
perate effort. to locate. -. :,
The husband and father was the
first to discover the horrible crime.
While on his way home from the
Plumbage mines, where he is employ
ed, Zoos saw the body Of his z year
old son along side the roadway. Upon
investigating he found that the child
had been terribly cut about the head
and was unconscious. The distracted
father took the child in his arms and
rushed to his home, a short distance
away.
Here a terrible sight met his gaze.
Lying on the floor In the little Kit
chen were the bodies OF his two lit
tie girls and his wife, the latter still
breathing but with her brains oozing
from a great cash in the skull. The
almost frantic father rushed from
the house and gave the alarm. A
physician was quickly summoned but
glance told him that there was no
hope for the wife.
Attention was then turned to the
wounded boy. He was placed in an
automobile and a quick run was or
dered for the hospital, a distance of
eight miles. Just as the automobile
was in sight of the hospital the little
fellow breathed his last.
It was evident that the murderer
had gone to the Zoos nome for the
purpose of robbery and the fact that
the three persons in the dwelling
were disposed of by the brutal bur-
glar would seem to bear out the
theory Of the police that the robber
was familiar with the Zooses and
murdered the family upon being re-
cognized. -
AT the time the woman and the
little girl were mur Tered the boy
was at school. 1t is supposed he met
the slayer Of his two sisters and
mother when a short distance from
home and the murderer, knowing
that the child would recognize him
and give clue to the authorities,
slew the little fellow.
The weapon used by the murderer
was an axe, the pole of which was
covered with blood and brains from
the mother and children. The house
had been ransacked and s45 which
Zoos claims to have had In his home
is missing.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
WILL Stretch Hemp.

For the murder of Officer Waldrop
at Piedmont about two months ago.
Bunk Sherard, young negro, was
Friday sentenced at Greenville by
Judge Gary to hang on the first Fri
day in October
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Wreck iAl AntipodeS.

The British ship Carnavaran Bay,
from Liverpool, June TO-, for Sgd
ney, has been wrecked on King Is
land. The captain and 20 men have
been picked up, but second boat
with Is men aboard Is missing.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22

list candidate received 1881 votes in
the district, and the Democrats are
trying to win the supporters Of these
tickets on the plea that the tariff
demands more immediate attention
than does the cause Of socialism or
prohibition.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Four Men Drown in Wreck.

FOur HeH DTOWH III "1CSh'
Four men were drowned and two
others barely escaped death when
the power boat Comfort was disabled
and foundered off Plum Island, near
Newburyport, Mass, Saturday.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
shot BY A THUG
Killed in Ejscting Negro From the
Room Of His Daughters
In HIS CHICAGO HOME
Charles D. Hitler, he. Father, Who
Was Aroused by the Would.'~ AS
sailant Of the Young Ladies Cries,
Discovers the Fiend, Who shoote
Him Fatally. 90

O1SCOPerS Tie FfcHus wiz oAOOt31
Him Fatally. -
VIM. A. Jones, negro was part
ly identified Monday afternoon sG.
the slayer OF Charles D. Hitler, wao--
was shot in defending his dsughterS
from an intruder, who had er:ersA.
his residence in Chicago thrntteb
their bedroom window.
Jones succeeded in conceatihs a
bullet wound in his wrist for hours
while being grilleG by Polio, Cap.
tain Collins, at the South Engle-
wood police station. The injury be-
trayed itself when blood began
tridkldng down the. colored NAME
hand and onto the floor. The pris~
oner declared that he wounded him
self accidentally yesterday, but Capt
Collins declared the wound to be-
comparatively fresh.
The latter expressed his BELIEF
that Jones fired while struggling
with Hitler, his left arm-the one,
injured-being around Killers back
and receiving a bullet that had pass
ed through the latter's body.
When taken into custody Jones'
carried revolver, every. cbanfen,
of which was loaded, but which, tie
police declare, smelled strongly ss
burnt powder. ,.s.s..j5: q. ~.
Hitler was chief local freightscIesh,.
Of the Rock Island Railroad. Bsi
was aroused at an. early hour thas=
morning by the screams Of his daVgf
ters, Florence, aged IL, and ClarfcRa
aged 1s, who slept together. Fler-
ence told Capt. Collins that she Was
awakened to her danger by feeling
rough beard against her face. She
said the face was that Of a negres
but could not be certain of other de-
tails. She declared that the clothing
worn by Jones tallies with that In
which her assailant was garbed.
In answer ito her cries, Hiller
rushed to the bedroom and grappseG
with the intr, Ter. They, rolled down
the stairs locked in each others arms
Then the negro began firing, three:
bullets entering the railroad mans
body. His grasp relaxed and the'
murderer escaped. Detectives ar
rested Jones when he rushed from a.
clump of bushes near the Hil:sr'
house and swung onto car going:
toward the city.
Mrs. Elizabeth McNabb Identified
Jones as the man who had entered
her home earlier in the night. Mrs.
McNabb says the negro entered her
home and found his way to the bed
room, where she and her daughter
were sleeping. He laid his hand OH
the latter's arm and she awoke ands
screamed. This frightened the in
itruder away.
AT first I thought it was my lit
tie brother, Gerald, who had coms'
into our room," said Florence Hiller..
"Gerald, what are you doing hereS
Go back to your room" said
"Then felt that awful bearG
against my face and yelled
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22

that 1t must be refreshing to come
into possession of facts which may
not be questioned.
During the year 1909 the Wash.
ington correspondent Of the Colum.
bia IS. CO. State, one Of the best
newspapers in this country, without
reference to locality, made a per-
sonal tour Of inspection through the
mill sections of England and the con-
tinent. This correspondent was
Zach McGhee. I have known him
from childhood. There is no man
who is capable of making more
thorough and intelligent study of
the situation there, and l know Of no
living man whose statements would
have more eweight with me- Mr.. Nc
Ghee is honest, conscientious and
careful, and his statements can be
relied upon absolutely"
Mr.. Aiken then proceeded to ro-
produce a number Of Mr.. McGhee's
articles from abroad, dealing with
the tariff situation.
The Eighth Ohio District, repre-
sented by Ralph D. Cole, is a very
close one, and there is every resaon
to believe that Democrat will be
chosen this year to represent it in
the Sixty-second congress. Mr.. Cole
was elected two years ago by vote
af 24,476, as against 1921 for his
Democratic opponent majority of
only 1905 votes out Of nearly 50,-
900. The Socialist and Prohibition