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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
FOUR BOYS WILL HANG
TWO OTHER BOYS GO TO STATE
pI5aagsgveanIIEE
For q Most Brutal Murder Committed
on the Outskirts of Chicago SEN
tence is Passed pn Six Boys.

At Chicago four boys were found
guilty of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to death and two 9Th
ers were sentenced to life imprison-
ment by jury Monday night for the
murder of a truck farmer on the out
skirts Of the city a month ago.
The four sentenced to death are:
Edwald and Frank Shlblawski, Philip
Sommerling and Joseph Schultz. The
two sentenced to life Imprisonment
were Frank Kita and Leo Suchomski,
both .16 years old. None of the four
on whom the jury visited the death
penalty is of age. The youngest OF
them is Is years old.
The boys robbed and killed Fred
W. Gruelzow in snite Of his suppll-
cation for life because he had wife
and baby to support. All confessed
Assistant States Attorney Edward S.
Day made a unique closing argument
for the prosecution.
Gruelzow had nearly reached the
city with load Of garden products
when the six boys set on him, armed
with two reyolvers, two butcher
knives. a club and a hammer. He
alighted from his wagon and was
struck down with the club.
He pleaded for his life, on his
knees, offering the boys all in his pos
session because ne had a wife and a
baby a month old at home but the
answer of the youths was to beat him
into upconsciousness with the club
and the hammer.
After the mau was unconscious ne
was stabbed four times with the
pitcher knives, the :, corpse was
dragged into a nearby thickes, club
was jammed down the throat and sew
eral bullets were fired into the body
The boys we're arrested while try
ing to sell name of the booty. The
Jury was GU. only two hours and
only one ballot was taken In each
case. The youth of the two 16-year-
old boys was all that saved them
from hanging said the jurors.
The verdict calls down death upon
more persons than any other one
verdict in Cook county save that fol-
lowing the Haymarket riot years ago,
when the four anarchists convicted
of throwing bombs into the police
ranks were hanged from a, single
Iscaffold
In 1904, Peter Niedermeyer, Har-
vey Van Pine and Gustave Marks, all
about 20 years old, were hanged one
after the other in punishment fer the
murder of eight persons.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
DRINK TOO MUCH LIQUOR.
Remarkable Statement Made by the
Commission.

Royal E. Cabell, United States
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
has made some remarkable state
ments in his annual report showing
that the internal revenue receipts
last year were the best in the history
of the Government, amounting to
S322,52G,299. Another very remark
able statement of Mr.. Cabell Is that
last year the production of distilled
spirits in the United States was 175,-
4O2,395 gallons, or nearly 100000
gallons more than in 1907, the prev
ious banner year.
The production Of beer, ale, etc.,
aggregated 63,216,S51 barrels, or
nearly 100000 barrels more than in
the previous banner year, 1910.
There are now in the bonded ware
houses of the United States, ripen-
ing for use, 249,279,346 gallons Of in
toXicating liquors. Still another very
remarkable statementin Mr.. Cabell's
report is that there has been a very
large increase in the illicit manufac-
ture of liquor in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee
and Virginia.
The first four OF these States are
supposed to be prohibition and in
Virginia the stuff is sold only in in
corporated cities and towns and then
only in towns in which the question
of the sale Of the stuff has been SUBJ
mitted to the qualified voters.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
Champ Clark Says Hops Succeeds Die;
pair in Democratic nearts.
TARIFF is THE ISSUE
After Years of Labor, Declares Speak.
er, Replying to Bryan's Criticisnss
Efforts Of Himself and Other Lead
ers Have Entirely Eliminated Dis
cussion Within Party's Ranks.

Speaker Champ Clark, who is IN
Washington, declared Monday that he
had devoted che last three years
chiefly to getting the House Demo-
Gratis together and holding them to-
gether, and that, after seventeen
years Of factional fighting, the DEM
ocrats are united, and, by the bless
ings Of God, will remain So"
Il did not do it all by long shot,"
he added. II had lots Of help, and
every Democrat who participated in
that troublesome, laudable work de-
serves his full share OF the honor
While there was once despair In
Democratic hearts, there is high hope
now"
In this way the titular head of the
| Democratic lower house Of Congress
made indirect reply to criticisms Of
former Presidential Candidate Will
liam Jennings Bryan, as to the Speak
ership no longer carrying the leader
ship of the House. Mr.. Clark referr-
ed to the great Importance of unity
and wisdom among the Democrats to
draw voters not belonging to the
Democratic party.
"The m ost important feature Of the
extraordinary session of Congress
from political standpoint" said he,
was the fact that We pulled togeth-
er, worked together, fought together
and won together. We replaced the
old habit of defeat with the new habit
of victory, the bad fashion Of quar-
relling among ourselves with the bet-
ter fashion Of taking counsel together
and then presenting a solid front to
astonished enemy.
THE trend of public opinion Isl to-
ward the Democrats. President Taft's
long trip seems to have left things
in statu quo" /
The speaker says the recent elec-
ton proved that, wherever the tarifE
was the sole or the principal issues
the Democrats won, and that when
Mr.. TAFT vetoed the tariI bills, it was
inevitable that the tariff would be
the leading issue next year.
Zone Of the most preposterous
canards put into print since Gutten-
berg invented movable type" added
the speaker, is the charge that I
am In favor of the forcible annexa-
ton Of Canada. There is not fact
in the universe on which to base sucH
a slander. / never at any time on
place stated, or even hinted, such a.
wicked and kuixotic scheme to any
human being. have never dreamed
Of such thing, and would oppose it
to the uttermost.
II have frequently for years ex-
pressed the hope that there might be
a union Of the two countries by mu-
tual consent and for the good OF
both. 1t always seemed to ME a
friendly suggestion, because we are
neighbors, Of the same blood and
speaking the same language, but aa
the Canadians do not seem to want
that, there is an end to it,"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
Loss HEAVY BY FIRE
ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND SIX
TY MILLION YEARLY.
Carelessness Is the Chief Cause, And
People Should Be Taught How to
Pravaut FjrpS.


Present indications are that the fire
losses in the United States and Can
ada for 1911 will exceed S260,0oO,-
600. The figures for the first seven
months of the year show a total Of
s154,992,900, as compared with
s126,O76,SO during the same period
last year.
The losses for 1910 were S234,-
4O6,650, and If the present ratio of
increase continue throughout the
year, the 1911 losses may approach
5000, 100000. This will exceed any
year in the history of the country, eX-
cept those of the San Francisco and
Baltimore conflagrations.
Government officials, underwriters
and flremen agree that the majority
of these fires are due to carelessness
and are easily prcventable. All of
the recent fires, which have attracted
public attention because Of the heavy
loss of life with which they were ac-
companieu, were due to the careless
ness and Indifference of the owners,
occupants, or municipal authorities.
New York has been spending S10,-
! 100000 year for fire eXtinguish-
mcnt and only $4,000 for fire pre-
vention. The recent shirt waist fac
tory fire aroused the public and the
| ic 70
be made much more prominent here
after.
The most important consideration
| Is the development Of sense Of per-
sonal responsibility on the part of
property owners for the excessive fire
waste, which is daining the resources
OF the country and weakening its
insurance capital. A score Of fire
insurance companies have retired
from the field already this year, be-
cause Of the heavy losses last year
and the unfavorable outlook.
Disasters like the recent factory
fire at Newark, N. j., in which 20
| XII lSN w Gle hlllSu lAu w iouoAJ Ah
jured, are chiefly due to carelessness
In this case both municipality and
owner are responsible. The city had
not seen to the proper fire escapes
and exits, although the owners had
been frequently warned by the haz-
ards by the insurance men.
The public should be brought tc
realize the excessive danger involved
in the handling or gasoline and the
fact that the greatest care is re-
quired at all times. It's increasing
domestic use renders more important
the education Of the public in this
regard, as there are hundreds OF dis
tressing fatalities each year in the
smaller cities and towns which never
get headlines in the papers, because
only one or two persons were burned
to death.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
HANGED HIMSELF IN BARN.
Lifeless Body Of Oconee County
Youth Found.

The body of young 16-year-old
son Of John F. Rice, who lives sew
eral miles from Walhalla, was found
hanging from the ent Of a rope In
the barn on Mr.. Rice's place Satur-
day afternoon. Young Rice had new
or been strong me?tally, and It. is
thought that in temporary fit or In
sanity he ended his life. His body
was found by his brother, who went
to the barn late in the afternoon and
the body was still warm, though life
was extinct. The body was taken
down with the assistance Of neigh
bors, who were called in. The rope
used was 4 long one, and when found
the unfortunate youths feet were
touching the floor.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
WIPED OUT HIS FAMILY.
An Italian Murders Five People and
Kills Himself.

Ignacia Plefcia, an Italian store,
keeper, killed his wife, his mother
his sister and then his two children
then shot himself to death in the
rooms back Of his store at Lodi,
small town near HackensacE, N. Y.
Monday afternoon. Plefcla had quar-
relied with his family and had been
away week. He returned Monday
afternoon and went into the store
A customer who entered the store
soon after found the six corpses. The
man used a revolver and each car.
fridge counted for life. Plefcla's
corpse lay nearest the door. Between
him and the living room at the reat
lay the body Of his wife. In the next
room were the other two women, and
in the bedroom the children, aget
four and six.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
CONDITIONS ARE APPALLING.
People in Asiatic Russia Suffer From
Famine.

A dispatch from St. Petersburg,
Russia. says the sufTegings expert
enced in tho famine of 1891 are be-
ing repeated in the province OF Oren-
burg and Tural territory. Asiatic
Russia, is famine stricken. The in
habitants of these regions are flock
ing to towns, preparing for death and
begging 10: the adm u'stration OF the
last communion. The crops IN the
province of Orenburg are Sc per cent
below the average, and Bishop T. c.
Helyabinsk has issued an appeal to
the government asking aid for peas
ants.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
Frozen to Death.

A flock of ducks, their fee: frozen
to the ground, was found in field
near Williams, Ind, during the re-
cent blizzard. 1t is believed the
ducks had alighted in the field to
spend the night and that the sudden
change in temperature caused the
wet ground to freeze holding them
prisoners. Many Of the birds were
caught by farmers in the vicinity,
who cut them loose from the ground
with axes.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
HOUSE DROPS SIXTY FEET.
Mine Cave-is Swallowed Up Dwelling
in Scranton, Pa.

Occupants of a double dwelling in
Scranton, Pa, escaped in their night
clothes when the house was swallow
ed by mine cave and reduced to de-
bris at the bottom Of G0-foot pit
one night this week. Broken gas
pipes and an exploding lamp formed
q destructive combination, and the
building, with its contents was con-
sumed by fire.
The peak Of the house was just
visible 80 feet below the surface when
the city firemen arrived and they
were powerless to check the flames.
For an hour the pit was roaring
furnace, and when the fire was over
all that remained of the house was a
heap of smoking embers.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
WOMAN CLOTHES CHICKEN.
ruts Coats and Pajamas on Fowls I'd
keep Them Warm"

Rather than see her chickens,
which had molted late the season
and we're running about featherless
these frosty mornings, suffer, Mrs,
T.. Stocker OF Colorado City, Col, has
made neatly fitting red coats, which
button under the wings, and sofd
Flannel paiamas and caps tastily fas-
tened with ribbons under the beak.
and now her flock gives Jack Frost"
the laugh. The chickens strut about,
apparently proud OF their clothes.
Mrs. Stoker says that the hens, to
show their gratitude, Ira lying eggs
every day.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
Thief Ate Too Much.

A large catamount was killed IN
one OF the busiest sections OF Hunts
VILE, Ala. The animal raided the
henhouse Of William Fletcher and en-
tered a coop IN which there wera
seven pigeons. 1t ate all of the pig
cons and several chickens, and after
it's feast was unable to get out
through the hole 1t had entered.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
dive KEEPERS WILL
ONCE NOTORIOUS WOMAN GAVE
BIG SUM TO CHARITY. e.
Six Months Ago She Gave Her Former
Resort to City for an Emergency

Hospital.
Miss Anna Wilson's gift Of pract!'
cally s5O0,OOO to charity, the &C
emulation of 40 years profits from
the most notorious dive Omaha, Neb.,
has ever known, has brought out
more "reminiscences and caused more
talk than any single event in the Mid
die West in years.
Miss Wilson was sixty years of age
when she died few days ago, and
in her will she makes no individual
gifts, except of a trust fund, but
leaves all that she had saved to the
city as her greatest possible resti-
tuition. 1t il the second largest gift
to charity ever made by an Omaha
resident. Six months ago Miss Viii.
son closed her dive and presented the
building, with 5,00Q, to the city as
an emergency hospital.
Anna Wilson went to Omaha wher
it was a frontier town several years
before the Union Pacific railroad was
completed in 1867. Her first ap.
pearance was on q music hall stage
She was bright and pretty. Also she
was we'll educated. Just who she
really was has always been mys'
terry. She freely acknowledged that
Anna Wilson" was not her true
name, but her real identity has never
been revealed.
The young girl remained on the
stage only a short time. When the
music hall went to the wall she was
without an engagement. In the emer.
gency she took up with a noted
Square" gambler, Dan Allen, and be-
came his common law wife. This
relation she sustained for 20 years
until Allen died. Allen is said tc
have furnished the money with which
Miss Wilson opened the most notori'
Gus dive in the city. In the 40 years
of it's existence, however, there were
few arrests made there.
When Allen died he left a 0,00C
policy, made in favor Of Miss Wilson
She notified his brothers that at hel
death the money would be handed
over to them. Some years ago one
of them asked Miss Wilson for {
portion of the money and was giver
$1,000. In her will $4,000 is left tc
Dan Aliens brothers.
Six. years ago Miss Wilson leased
her home, purchased a $4,000 resi-
idence in KrountZe place, an exclusive
residential district, and went to live
in her new home. With her, she
brought one of the best Shakespear
ian libraries in the West.
Among her books is an illustrated
Bible, which cost many thousands o
dollars, and which Miss Wilson i:
said to have been fond Of reading ant
studying. Her library ran into thous
ands Of volumes, and pictures ant
works OF art fairly filled her home
Her flower garden and home were thG
wonder Of the town.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
NEGRO KILLS ANOTHER NEGRO.
Eugene Moseley Shoots Brutu5 Eu
banks Mt BarnWcll.

At Barnwell Eugene Moseley, a
negro, shot and almost instantly kill
ed Brutus Eubanks, another negro, at
the Suthern depot Sunday evening at
about 7 o'clock. lMoseley claims that
he shot in self-defense. Moseley gave
himself up to J. o. Patterson, fol
whom he has been working as a farm
hand. He was lodged in jail, and
will probably be tried at the present
term Of court.
Eubanks had been In the employ OF
the Southern Express Company as
driver for a long time.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
Dead Bodies Found in Park.

At Kansas City, shadowed for
mouths by detectives, and wanted in
several cities for alleged brokerage
frauds, amounting to thousands OF
dollars, Claire G.. Andrews, with his
wife, laid down in a wood Of subur-
ban park near here and swallowed
morphine. They had been dead more
than two months when found by boys.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
Beheadcd Sixty NlanchuS.

At Wu-9how, China, the revolu-
tiorary soldiers are averaging the re-
cent massacre. They have already
beheaded sixty prisoners, some of
them sons of aristocrats. After
wards they had an orgy, cutting out
the hearts Of victims, which they
roasted and ate.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
Peculiar Skin Disease.

Dudley Payne, the negro who turn
ed white at Chllicothe, Mo-, is dead
and efforts will be made by the Mis-
souri, Medical Society to ascertain th'
cause of the peculiar skin disease
which has .baffed physicians for sew
eral years. Splotches appeared OF
Payne's hands and then spread to tn
upper part of the body.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
Train Settles in Quagmire.

Lacking water and food, more than
100 passengers, several Of them wo-
men were marooned several hours
on the roof of 500 line passenger
train which had settled seven feet in
quagmire 21 miles east Of Moose
Lake, MINI. They were Is a peJilous
plight until rescued.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
Trans Station Robbers.

When robbers entered the station
a, Oriental, Pa, held up, robbed and
beat Operator A. l.. Carroll they were
unaware Of the fact that he threw a
red signal as they entered the place.
The signal stopped a train and both
robbers were caught ransacking the
place.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-30
Convict Sees His Dying Babe.

Thomas Edgar Stripping, former
police chief of Danville, Va, and now
Georgia convict and inmate of the
state farm at Milledgeville, in chains
and under guard, reached the home
of hts wife at Columbus, Ca, and
embraced his dying baby.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-13
NYE INTRODUCES FOUR BILLS.
To Provide for Bridges for City o..
Minneapolis. rs ss5 ss

Washington, D. C.-Representativs
Nye introduced four bills granting the
city of Minneapolis the privilege Of
construction of number Of new
bridges across the Mississippi river.
The bills are as follows:
For bridge across the river from
Plymouth avenue North to Eighth ave.
nue. Northeast, bridge from Third ave.
nue., near its intersection with First
street South, on the west side of the
river, to the intersection of Second and
First streets Southeast, on east side
of river, bridge from Washington ave-
nue. North near it's intersection with
Lyndale avenue North to Forty-second
avenue, crossing the tracks of the Min.
neapolis, st. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie
railway and Waterworks park to the
intersection OF Thirty seventh street
northeast, bridge from intersection of
Nineteenth avenue to South and
Bluff street to Tenth and University
street. The bills provide for com.
mencement Of the construction within
one year after passage of measures.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-13
CONSUL LOOKS FOR HEIRS.
Huffman's Estate May be in the Courts
Twenty-one Years.

nuluth.-Judge Gilpin of the pro.
bate court has case which may be-
before the court twenty-one years. It
is the estate of August HUFFMAN, a
homesteader, who died May Is, 1910,
intestate and without heirs.
The case was filed by M. J. Fila
trault on June %, 1910. and the Ger
man consul at st. Paul was given the
task of looking up heirs. He is search
ing every conceivable nook of the Ger
man empire where an heir might ba
located.
HUFFMAN is said to have been an
eccentric man, being a recluse of rig.
idly frugal character. Dying at tho
age of so, he left an estate which was
appraised at $1,O75 in real estate and
some personal property. Tho location
of his property is described as lot 8,
block Al, sixth division, in West Du-=
luth.
But the chief interest seems to
hinge on his personal effects, valued
at $685.. His manner of life appears
to have been patterned largely after
that of John Thoreau, the man who
boosted he could live on 81 cents a
week.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-13
CHAPTER Viii.
Mrs. Bungay Defends Her Hearth.
stone.

Mrs. Bunsay Defends Her Hearth.
stone. EH
A hand pressing hard upon my arm
brought back my scattered ser~es
with q rush. It was Mrs. Brennan
who stood there, her face whitened
by anxiety. her eyes peering anxiously
through the opening Of the door.
Surely those men are not soldiers.
Captain Wayne!" she exclaimed.
"They wear uniforms Of both armies
mo dour+ they are guerillas." an.
swered, drawing her back from where
she might be seen in their approach
I'VE must find hiding ii possible. for
you shall never fall into such hands.
Bungay!" '~
I turned toward W. re the little
giant had been sitting. but he was NOT
to be seen. However nc sound Of my
voice aroused Maria to a full sense or
our danger, nor was she q woman
to hesitate in such emergency. With
single stride she crossed the mar.
row: room. caught the white-faced hero
by the collar of his shirt, dragged him
ANONYMOUSLY forth from beneath the
table where he had sought refuge.
shook him as she would shake a toy
dog. until his teeth ratified, and then
flung him out of the door leading into
the back shed. It was done so ex-
peditlously that 1 could only gasp.
Nov inter Their hole with ye. Jed
Bungay-you an yer dorgs." she
painted furiously. AN you uns foller
him. l reckon I'm able ter handle tibet
lot out thar, even if it should be Red
Lowrie and his gang"
Catching firm hold Of NJ. Bren-
mans hand sprang down the single
step and closed the door tight behind
us,. Jed had scrambled tc his feet.
and rubbing himself vigorously with
one hand, utilized the other to drag
outward rough cupboard, which ap,
peared to be a portion Of the house
itself. AS it swung open there was re-.
vealed behind it a fair-sized opening
extending into the face of the hill It
was a most ingenious arrangement,
doubtless finding frequent use in those
troublesome times. Its presence par
TALLY explained how Jed had thus far
escaped the CONSUMPTION officer Int
this hole we entered one. at time
and when the heavy cupboard had
been silently drawn back into place,
found ourselves enveloped in such
total darkness as to make any move
ment dangerous operation. felt
the clasp of my companions hand
tighten, and knew that her whole form
was trembling from intense excite.
ment ~ r.. .....
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