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TOWN POISONED]; t i And Wiped Out of Existence by j Modern Lucretia Borgia. c FAIR YOUNG FIEND < i 1 i Poisoned Her Rich Old Husband So 1 i She Could Marry a Young Lawyer, ( Whom She Also Poisoned. Then ] With Another Woman She Went ; Into the Wholesale Polsoniny Bus- ' ine?*. 1 The village of Kneez, in the county < of Temesvar, in Hungary, has been revealed to the world as a community of poisoners. Within a year, it is estimated, one r\ofcmnc rlioH r\f nnienn uauuivu v* Kvtwv,f in this village of 1,000 inhabitants. The imagiantion reels aghast at th e ' condition of things that prevaileo there, as now unveiled by officers oi the law. Husbands poisoned their wives, wives poisoned their husbands ; parents poisoned their children, children poisoned their parents. No relation, not even that of lovers, was a bar to murderous designs. The poisoning habit had taken a permanent hold on these people. Whenever one person could obtain anything by the removal of anothei poison was resorted to. It was a ter ' r >r that stalked by noonday and in tie night time. The cheerful cup of coffee handed to a husband by his smiling wife at breakfast time might contain the fatal dose. or. nerhans. it wax thp o-lasj ! of native wine poured for him at s ipper after his long day's work in the fields. Often the victim knew his or her danger, but there was no escape in a village where everybody was related to everybody else and had acquired the poisoning habit. The only resource was to poison the parson you suspected of trying to poison you, and thus it came to pass that Kneez was filled with persons seeking to poison one another. The arch poisoner was a woman , named Martha Petrubany. She is a ' hnnHsnmp vnnncr wnman nf the rich Hungarian type of beauty, with abundant black hair, flashing dark eyes, clear cut features and ruddy cneeks. She married a wealthy farmer some five years ago solely on account of his possessions. A young man of talents and good prospects, who was the leading local lawyer, bacame her ardent admirer. Mme. Petrubany's highest desire was to see her old husband out of the way, to marry the lawyer and combine h.s superior social station and the oIq man's property. Petrubany was very slow dying, and his wife decided to hasten the process. The old man suffered seveiely from malaria, and he believed that a certain kind of drug, made of hot wine and other ingredients, afforded him most relief. He used to take a pint every evening, This complex and highly flavored beverage, with its mixture 01 spices, sugar ana so forth, afforded an admirable opport inity for introducing a certain quantity of powdered arsenic. His wife used to prepare the poisoned drink every evening, with seeming loving hands, and see that the poor old man drank it down to the last drop. In this way she succeeded in killing him by a process of slow poison in three weeks. At the time he was buried there was not the slightest suspicion of the cause of his death. Then a shock awaited the widow. The lawyer, probably having an inkling of what had happened, did not care to marry her. Mme, Petrubany's love changed to fury, according to the well-known rule. The lawyer was removed by arsenic, as the husband had been. His servant, Sarah Hazok, assisted i Mme. Petrubany in carrying out thib I crime. Then these two women formed a { sort of poisoning bureau for the ben-' fi - of wives who wished to get rid ol I tneir husbands. They obtained arsenic in whosesale quantities to kill I tie rats in tne Darns on the farms. 11 Every wife who had been illtreated i by her husband or who wanted to marry another man could be sure ot J1 obtaining assistence from Mme. Pet-!1 rubany and her accomplice. They'' never refused assistance, because! 1 tiat would have led to complaints, j Taey furnished the poison and gave crafty .advice as to how it should be; alministered. ji They pointed out that the best way was always to put it in medicine, in \ case the victim happened to be ill j and that had been ordered for him ! t by the doctor. They charged as much i i as they could obtain from those who 11 needed poison, but as they never re- j i fused help their price sometimes fell J, as low as to poor women. i s The husbands learned what was c going on, and some of them sought = help from Mme. Petrubany in removing their wives, and obtained it. J Then the poisoner, who knew all the : family affairs of the villagers, sent f a.i assistant among them and offered c to remove obnoxious persons. t Kneez was rapidly becoming de- e populated by poison, and many fled from it in terror. s At last a woman named Poskar, i who had resolved to kill her husband s and had bought the poison from i ? Mme, Petrubany, accidentally killed ! | her child, Then she became con-'<e science-stricken and went to the au- $ thorities at Temesver and confessed ' what she had planned to do and what j she knew concerning other things | that had hannenpH in Knppz i At first the authorities refused to' 1 believe that such wholesale enormi- : ties could be possible. They regarded ^ t.ieir informant as an insane woman , and sent her to be examined by the '' doctors. 1 Tnen another woman, who poison * ed her husband and had been unner v- ? ed by her daughter's attempt to ^ poison her in retaliation, confessed u to her deed. This made the author- n ties feel that the circumstances wai anted inquiry. An expedition composed of dot ors, representatives of the publi >rosecutor and policeman, was sec ,o Kneez and began operations in th ocal gTaveyard. The grave of th ast informant's husband was oper ?d and his remains were found t :ontain arsenic in such quantity tha t had clearly caused his death. Astounding scenes followed. A iay long the investigators dug u iew graves, taking them in ordei Deginning with the most recent one and not considering whether ther ivas any definite information regan ing the death of the occupants. Th 2arth was strewn with decomposin remains. The inhabitants endeavore to interfere with the operations an a regiment of soldiers was summoi ed to guard to graveyard. Out of the first twenty-five grav< opened the remains of thirteen bd< ies revealed arsenic in sufficiei quantities to cause death. This sa isfied the authhorities that crime i Kneez had progressed to a point b vond anything they could have ir dgined. TO GAIN A'FORTUNE. ' The tooman Petrubany and her a complice were arrested at the outs of the investigation. Then the villaj doctor was arrested, for he had a parently signed a certificate of deal trom natural causes in many cas* which he must have known were n natural. He has since confessed h offence, and has explained that 1 would have been poisoned himse nad he refused to acquiesce in tl crimes. The village butcher was arrestt on the charge that he had sold sai sages mixed with arsenic to thoi who needed them. Wholesale arrests followed thes Four husbands and eight wives wei arrested for poisoning their spouse f wo of the women poisoned two su cessive husbands and one of the m< poisoned three wives. A peasant named Valassa Ardeh was charged with poisoning a ri< aunt in order to obtain possession < che fortune which she had bequeatl ed to him. Nicholos Glass, a widower, is sa * t - J L: :_ui An!. to navepoisoneu 111s neiguuui, ruiu Braun, so that he might marry tl latter's widow. Katherine Bider is charged wi1 murdering her son-in-law, Micha Kuhn, becaase he was a drunkar She is also suspected of murderir her father and mother, with who she was on bad terms. They die suddenly, but their bodies have m yet been exhumed, as they have be( dead three years. Lenka-Bogyck poisoned her hu band. Aeon, because he would n remove to another village, where h< married daughter lived, In many cases the poisonings we: committed from the most trivial m tives, Julia Wuicsitch poisoned h< lusband because he could not bv her a new dress. The crimes are of such a wholesa character that it seems impossible deal with them according to ordina: standards of justice. It is not co sidered advisable to execute half tl inhabitants of a considerable villag The Petrubany woman will 1 prosecuted relentlessly, but in mai of the cases no action will be take Probably Kneez will be deserted 1 its remaining inhabitants, and in th case a great many of them will go the United States. BATTLESHIP DISASTER One Hundred and Seventy-Five Pe ' sons are Missing A dispatch from Paris says Admi al Marquis in his official report the ministry of marine says the nui ber of dead among the officers ai :rew and labores, resulting from tl explosion on the Iena Tuesday we< igo, will approximate 100. Foi hundred and seven members of tl crew answered roll call Friday. Oi hundred and seventy-five are missir md sixty-eight men are in the hosp tals, but only six of these are belie ad to be fatally Injured. The flri Dn the Iena have been extinguish* and though it is not certain the ve sel can be saved, there will be coi siderable salvage from It. Later official dispatches to tt ministry of marine from Tulon i contradiction of an earlier Btatemei that only about 68 men were seriou ly injured in the Iena disaster stat< that 34 6 memebrs of the crew wei admitted" to hospitals last week an that few of these have been able t leave yet. It also says the numbe Df fatalities among the injured wi probably be heavy. GIRL HELPS KILL WOLFE \fter Animal Enters Cellar Stand Guard Until Man Arrives Miss Lula Crabb, seventeen yeai >ld, is the heroine of the killing c i gray timber wolfe near Bedforc nd. The wolfe which had been li\ ng off the sheep and poultry of th armers for several months, wa icared up in Monroe county and wa hased by men and boys towar Sprlngville. On Cabel Cobb's farm it took re uge is a cellar of an unoccupied tmiBP MIkr f!ohb saw it enter ani elephoned from the house to he ather. Then she procured a gun losed the cellar door, and guardei he wolfe until Ira Anderson arriv id. She was denied the priviledge o hooting it by Anderson, who fearei t might escape, and he shot it him elf. Miss Cobb gets the skin, how ver, which measures 5 feet and 1' nches from the nose to the end o he tail. Just before the wolfe reach d the cellar it had a fight with thre logs, killing all of them. I'omniits Suicide. M. S. Harris, former manager o the Postal Cable Company at Char eston, at his residence, 36 Meetinj Itreet, by shooting himself in th lead on Monday. He left severa otters to hlB wife, to the superin endent of the company at Augusta nd to the press. He said to th( ress: "I have lived honestly ant reated all men fairly accordingly t< ay lights. A complete breakdown a health and inability to perforn jy duties Is the cause of this act.' THE COTTON CROP.' s Nearly Thirteen Million Bales Have c it Been Ginned So Far. e A dispatch from Memphis says the ' National Ginners' association issued 0 a bulletin at one o'clock Monday t it showing the number or bales or cotton ginned up to March 2 to be 12,11 716,000. The report by States folP lows: ' r' Alabama, 1,231,000 bales, ;s Arkansas, 836,000 bales, "e Florida, 62,000 bales. 1- Georgia, 1,621,000 bales. ie Indian Territory, 391,000 bales [g Kentucky, 1,500 bales. >d Louisianna, 931,000 boles. 1(j Mississippi, 1,441,000 bales. a_ Missouri, 46,500 bales.. North Carolina, 607,000 bales. Oklahoma, 43 6,000 bales. jS South Carolina, 903,000 bales. *" Tenuossee, 291,000 bales, it Texas 3,903,000 bales, t- Virginia, 15,000 bales. in Total. 12,716,000 bales. e- The report, which is signed by n- A. Taylor, president of the associa1 tion, says: 'Owing to the very fine weathei in the West, the crop has been pick C- ed very much closer than usual anc et this has Increased the crop at leasi je 200,000 bales if not more. Our i-e p. ports iudicate that there will not bf much increase in the acreage excepi in Texas and the two Territories ^ where there will be an increase o: . 5 to 10 per cent . Scarcity of laboi lls is the report from all sections. Wc ie have reports from a large numbe: If of uncounted towns that show verj ie much lighter stocks than last year.' MORTGAGED TEAM TEN TIMES. 11 5e Anderson Negro Knows Something e About High Financiering re Whatever else may be said aboui s* the negro it can be truthfully said he c" Is an apt scholar at learning how tc work a fraud scheme. William Curem ton, now In the Anderson Jail, Is an h adept at high financiering. William rf who is as black as black can be h- sometime ago bought a pair of mule: and a wagon from a gentleman in id Anderson. He paid a small part of )n the purchase money cash, and gave ie a mortgage to secure the balance. William, having gotten a start, be,, gan his career as a promoter, and in crj a few days he had mortgaged the mules and wagon to at least ten d, different people for various amounts. 11 TTT11H iff Some how or omer wmmiu ttliU TV CU | m his methods of doing business to leaV ;d out and he was arrested and lodged In jail on the charge of disposing >n of property under mortgage. His team was taken and sold, and enough hard cash was realized tc ~ satisfy the first mortgage and pay ot something on the second mortgage er The balance of his creditors will get nothing. This incident shows how re easy it is to get credit in this State o- and explains why our labor is no er account. There were dozens of just iy such cases as the above in this county last Fall. 'e VALUABLE DISCOVERY to That Will Help Out The Saw Mil? rie People. c. The Florence Times says "the dis iy covery that sawdust can be made n. into alcohol will add something more to the profit of the already renumat erative lumber business in this section. Heretofore great sawdust piles have blotted the landscape "through the country, everywhere but later improvements on the machinery enabled the mills to burn ?r- most of the sawdust, and later still it was discovered that sawdust would make some sort of paper, but its use for that purpose never became ver) ir" popular. With the demand for alcoto hoi for fuel in automobiles and small n- engfnes there ought to be a ver> 1(1 rich future for the mills in the South." This is all true, provided ie the coBt of manufacturing the alco hoi is not too great. If a cheaj ur grade of alcohol, that could be used in engines, automobiles and such ie things, was put on, the market it ? would find ready sale. We verj ,I_ much doubt however, whether alco v_ hoi can ever be made cheap enough 0S to compete with gasolene for bucI purposes. B* MANY MAD DOGS * Q.Menaces the Farmers of Upper Sparin it , tanburg County. 8" ;b Mad dogs are on the rampage In '.e the upper section of Spartanburg d County and the farmers are living 0 in constant fear of their children being attacked and bitten by the rabid ! j] canines. ; Farmers who live in the section ] of the county near Parris, who spent j the day in the city, state that during the past few days a large number of dogs have gone mad. Elia Wall 1 Is a well known farmer, stated that 3 J dogs belonging to his brother went J mad in one day last week and aa a ' ,g matter or protection tne aogs naa ic be shot. , ,r Several weeks ago a mad dog pass1. ed through the neighborhood of Par- ( r- ris and attacked the dogs of Bever- \ e al citizens. Every one of the dogs t B that were bitten went mad and bit 8 other dogs and in this way there has a been a general epidemic of rabid ij dogs in that section. Great alarm J fs felt among the country people for J ^ fear that their families may be bit- r d ten- r r VICTIM OF JOKE PERISHES. C ' 6 d - Oil Poured on Him Catches Fire and f He Burns to Death. f ^ At Pittsburg, Pa., John Domble, ^ _ twenty years old, a laborer employ- t 0 ed at thePressed Steel Car Works, I f in McKees Rocks, was burned to , . death Monday, the victim of a joke. e Growing fatigued, he lay down in 3 front of a hot coke salamander and a fell asleep. It is alleged a craneman standing f on a crane poured crude oil over the salamander, thinking the flashes when the oil should ignite would ii 5 frighten the sleeping man. Most of ^ e the oil, ipstead of going on the sal- . 1 amander, fell on Dofnble, saturating 11 his clothes. When the flash came a It ignited his clothes. > Other employes removed the burn c ing man 10 ine yara ana ronea mm " 1 in the snow, but the man's body was jj 3 burned to a crisp before the blazing i i oil was extinguished. The coroner D i notified and started an invest!- J* gstion. The craneman escaped. ? WATERS RECEDING. \ ri? PS? L.. i U/ill k? ' ins rrujieny luss ttiii uo ai ] Least Ten Million. \ i \t Xine O'clock Friday Xight the ] Ohio Had Fallen Eight Feet and i Was Going Down Rapidly. With the rapid receding of the waters in the Monongahels, Allegheny and Ohio River, which is taking place at Pittsburg, Pa., Friday night, condition are fast assuming normal proportions and the greatest and most destructive flood in the history of that city is at an end. At nightfall the approaches to the bridges were clear of water and several hours la ter car service in the flooded districts were resumed. Thousands of suburbanites who have been stranded in this city since early Saturday were able to reach their homes, while the down-town section, which has been crowded with sightjeers since the sudd n rise of water Is almost deserted. The only apparent indication of -Lie 1IUUU JU LUC uunu-wu DV.bl.iuu ire many pipes across the sidewalks, :hrough which water Is being sent. Several districts power plants have >een repaired and candles, used for eplaced with electric lights. At nine o'clock Friday night the iver had fallen almost eight feet. \t that hour the stage was 28 feet ind dropping a half foot an hour. Immediately following the subsiding of the water the task of comjuting and repairing the damage was jegun. A majority of the employees if the large manufacturing establishnents, who were temporarily thrown )ut of employment, were endeavoring to put the plants in working orler, and it is said that by Sunday at 'ast all these establishments will re?ume operations. Various estimates of the loss are lelng made, ranging from ten to twenty millions of dollars. It is said levertheless that the total loss will lot. excf-ed $10,000,000. The probabilities are that the Bel isco, Gayety, Alvin and Bijou theatres will be open to the pupllc Saturday evening A large force of men xre repairing the electric plants lamaged by the water in the basements of the playhouses. The News of the Day. Archie Roosevelt, young son of the president, is critically ill with diphtheria. Names of several Yale students were mentioned by witness in the Norton divorce case. Hamburg shipowners are importing English stevedores to take the places of the strikers. Dr. C. J. Moffett, the originator of "Moffett's Teethina" died in Russell County, Alabama. Ambassador Bryce called at the state department and discussed matters of pending business. It is probable that Mrs. Eddy will be summoned to appear before a magistrate to tell of her affairs. Standard Oil on trial in Chicago for rebating, suffered two setbacks in the shape of adverse rulings. M. Golovin, the president of the lower house of the Russion parliament, had an audience with the czar. Western railroads have abolished all reduced fares in retaliation for legislatures passing 2-cent rate laws. The British woman suffragists say they will keep on having themselves sent to jail until their object is attained. A bomb thrown at Gen. Nepleuff, the retiring commandant oi Sebastopol, wounded him in the feet and legs. Thousands of Georgians paid their last homage to Judge Logan E. Bleckley at the fuperal in the capitol in Atlanta Thursday, It is reported that a battle took place between the forces of Honduras and Nicaragua in which the Nic araguans were defeated. It is claimed that the Louisiana sulphur mines can supply the world with that article of commerce. The Italian government is interested in the statement. Ex-President Grover Cleveland is shooting ducks at Georgetown, S, C., as the guest of Gen E. P. Alexander. He is accompanied by E. C. Benedict ind Admiral Lamberton. Detectives announce that they have located W. F. Walker, the defaulting treasurer of a bank in New Britian, Conn., in San Francisco, rhey await identification. John L. Sullivan told the Rev. Vincent L. Reed, at Waterbury, ?onn., that David and Goliah fought for a stake, and that Goliath was en- ' :itled to the fighji. on a foul. A sub-treasury wagon carrying 1 55.000 throuerh the streets of San < Francisco to pay soldiers at the < 3residio, broke down and spilled the < noney in the street. One thousand t nen entered into a scramble for ten \ lollars but the guards succeeded ih ? avjng all but $32. y j No doubt young Marshall who now ills a dishonorable grave was started in the downward road by reading rashy, blood and thunder literature. [ lis sad fate should be a warning to ( ill boys and young men who throw 1 iway their time reading trashy books 1 ind papers or loafing about the \ treets. c It was first thought that the decison of Mr. Bonaparte would play avoc with the immigration business t i this section, but Ex-Gov. Heyward t nd Commissioner Watson who visit- fc rl Win pli In npf An lioirn n tirntr f a S u f r aoiiiii& nave iuuiiu a way LU mke it almost harmless, Our friends ^ \ New England, who are trying their c: est to kill our immigration scheme, n ill have to try some other plan to p ljure us. d ? v." Solutiop of the Race Question. When the Republican party was : Darty of principle and not a party o plunder as it is now, it had man; jreat men-in its ranks. One of the? jvas William H. Seward, who was a ane time Governor of New York an later Secretary of State under Presi dent Lincoln. We class Seward amon, the great men of his time because h was not carried away at the close c the war by his prejudices and arraj ed himself against the rebels, as th people of the South was then callec In the midst of the excitement an passion of that period he rose abov mere party advantage and advocate what was best for the whole country regardless of section. At that tin: bitterness and passion held sway, an the great object of many who wei then in authority was to humilial the people of the South. But Sewai was not one of them. He was coi cerned about the future of his grei country. In 1866 in answer to the questic "how about the negroes," propoun< ed to him by Mr. E. L. Godkin, wh was then editor of a New York R publican paper, Mr. Seward said ' am not at all concerned about ther The North has nothing to do with tl negroes. I have no more concern f< them than I have for the Hottentot They are God's poor; they always hai been and always will be so ever r>Af r\-f A11V T wnertr. xncjr cuvz uw vi vw* They will find their place. Theymu take their level. They laws of polil cal economy will determine their p sition and the relation of the tv races. Congress cannot contraver those. I am ready to leave the inte ests of the rpost intelligent white mi in the guardianship of his state, ar where I leave the interest of tl white, I am willing to trust the ci\ rights of the black." This is the language of a clea headed statesmen, and had it bee acted on the entire country wou! have been saved a great deal of tro ble, and the South would have bee spared the horrors of the reconstru tion period. What Mr. Seward sa less than one year after the close i the civil war was the true solution < the race problem, and sooner or lati it will be putin practice. He sa the way of peace was that none bi white men should possess politic power in the United States, but th, all other races should be safe-guar ed in person and in property. Th is what Mr. Seward thought in 186 and it is what more than a majori of the white people of the enti] country think to-day. It is free admitted that giving the negro t! ballot was the blunder of the centu just closed. Many of the most proi inent men of the North now adrr that it was a mistake to clothe t nporn with nolitical ricrhts and th would take them away from him n( if they knew how to do it. They s now what the clear-headed Sewa saw when passion and hatred towa the South ruled the hour. Hardly the Cause. Writing on "Race Suicide" in t North American Review, Mrs. Chr tine Terhune Herrick declares th the increased cost of living shows i rectly in the decrease of large fan lies. Large families, as were comm in the early days of the republic, t writer believes will come when X cost of living is substantially redied. This argument is not limited scope to the mere matter of feedi] J the babjes that arrive, but looks well to the time when tliey C?ase be babies and have the wants of bo and girls?the education, the clot ing and the various social advantag which will set them up in me. She says Americans does not relj; the pfospect of bringing up sons ai daughters to compete in the marke with labor brought over in the stee age. American parents are probab not different from the parents other races, but they hold one tra that is of vital importance in tfc connection. American fathers ar mothers want their children to ha^ a better chance in life than th< themselves had. To insure this th< first get the corn or the price of stored upj and the scarcer the coi the slower they are about multipl ing mouths to need it. There are other reasons for sms families beside those assigned by Mr Herrick, Some of the richest peop have only one or t\vo children, whi manu nnnr ruannlp havp lflrap f?m o lies. "Race Suicide" has about ruii ed New England, and it will ruinth South if it ever takes the same hoi on us that it has on the people < that section- * Charles Gomillion, colored, wh killed a young white man name Dorn, was acquitted by a jury in th Edgefield court on Thursday, th jury being out only ten minutes. An yet you hear it said sometimes tha the colored people in South Carolin have no rights that the white man i bound to respect. The news comes from New Yorl that the physicians up there have dis lovered that man's soul weighs on )unce. The Florence Times says i does not know what sort of p.eopl; ;he doctors have been expenmentinj vith, nor how they get it, but ther ire some people whose soul would no veigh half that much if that is thi iverage weight. A row is on among some of th* 3usiness men of Pomaria inNewber y County as to who is running i )lind tiger there. A prominent mer ;hant there was accused of selling ?ooze, and he in tu rn says some on< ;ried to assassinate him, and so i foes. This whiskey question is a hare me to settle in the so-called drj .ounties as well as in the dispensary :ounties. The Clinton Chronicle says "one oj he dispensaries in the lower part oi he state opened the other day for he first time since the Carey-Cothrar till went into effect and reports its ales in one day at $1,200 worth of whiskey. "It must have been a thirsy crowd where that dispensary is loated, but still it was better lor the loney to have been spent in the disT en^arv than in blind tigers as they o in the so-called dry counties. " rr-FH" How Perkins Was Paid a Qf course every one believes that J f when a large corporation makes a' Y contribution to the campaign fund of e a Dolitical oartv that it does so on th? ,t promise that it will" be benefitted by d the election of the candidates of the i- party to whose campaign fund it his. g contributed. This promise may be j e expressed or implied by the manager j ^ of the political party that gets the g contribution, but it is made clear and . [. unmistakeable. These political debts d are paid in a round about way, and | the public hardly knows when it is ^ done, not being versed in the tricks of the politicians., who handles the Ld money given by the corporation, e The New York American one day last week gave a specific instance nrovino- that this hplipf is wpII found- ! a- * ? -? i it ed. The evidence is from the public ! records and is therefore unimpeachable. The two men involved as principles are known throughoutthe nae. tion. One is George B. Cortelyou, 'I: then chairman of the Republican Nan-! tional Committee, afterward Pastil ; m aster-General, and at present Secs I retary of the Treasury. The other is ;e j George W. Perkins, then vice-presiy i dent of the New York Life Insurance Jf*; Company, now American manager of j., the International Mercantile Marine o- Company, and then and now partner 'o of J. Pierpont Morgan. ie The sworn testimony in the Arm^ strong insurance investigation shows lcj _ that in 1S04 Perkins paid from the ie funds of the New York Life to the ril Republican National Committee, the sum of $48,702.50. The records of i.U?. AAaa /licrtfvlQQ ij-j Lilt: ruai Uliltc ucjjiw wi'tim mo\.wiuv id that in 1906 Cortelyou, as Postmas* u- ter-General, made a ten-yew con;n tract with the International Mercanr tile Marine, of which Perkins was and 3f js American Manager, giving that 3f: company, for carrying the mails r!j | $762,638.40 per year, or $7,626,384 ^ for the entire time. The records also al disclose that when he made this con, at tract Mr. Cortelyou had before him 4" reports from his own suDerintendent 'gS of foreign mails that this service ty could have been obtained for onere third the money, ly Records of the amounts paid other companies show that for similar serry vices they received less than twoiit fifths of what was given the Perkins he company. For the ten yea/s for which ey the contract was given this would ^ make a clear gift to Perkins and his rd associates of about five million dolrd Iars. So it will be seen that Perkins' contribution of over fifty thousand dollars of the money of the policy holders of the New York Life Insur r* 4-1? ne i <11 icc lkj luc ivcpuunvaii vaniis.! paign fund to help elect Roosevelt t' paid him very handsomely. This is about the way all the contributors to &[" the campaign fund of the Republican li- party are rewarded. That party holds on up the people arid let those who put he up the money to elect it? candidates , fplunder them, as is clearly shown thaf Perkins was allowed to do for l.c^ his constributjofl. " 1& The Charleston Post wants to know fs if Perkins will be paid. ' We beg to | inform our cotemporary that Perkins ys has already been paid. As to how he was paid tne article publjsljed |n the ^ next column tells you." sThat was a terr jbl? tragedy enactia ed near Columbia last Saturday night ls when an honest man and a thief shot I each other to death. The tragedy % ridded the city of at least one of the footpads that have been holding up . people in and around Columbia, but llf it was done at a fearful cost, id H. C. Havemeyer, the sugar king, of New York, just concluded the purjx chase of three large tracts of adjoin. l ing land in Hampton county, which I he will convert into a hunting preyr serve. The price p$id $35,000. tjj We wish these rich fellows'would buy _ their hunting preserve some where le else- __ '.e CURES ALL SKi.N TROUBLES It fir ie Sulphur the Accept^ Remedy for a 4 Hundred Years. )f Sulphur is one of the greatest remedies nature ever gave to man. o Every physician knows it cures skin d and blood troubles. H$i*cock'g Liquic ^ ' ? 1. 1 ?.A.. *<v P.. 11 0 Mllipnui tmaUlCU JUU LU ftVV luo iuu e benefit in most convenient form. Do d not take sulphur 'tablets' or 'wafers' j. or powered sulphur In molasses Hancock's Liquid Sulphur is pleas ? ant to take and perfect in its action , s Druggists selPit. A well known citizen of Danville k Pa., writes: "I have had an aggra- < vated case of Eczema for over 25 1 r years. I have used seven 50-cent hote ties of the Liquid and one jar of youi , t Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Ointment, e and now I feel as though I had a j brand new pair of hands. It haf e cured me and I am certain it will J t cure anyone if they persist in using e Hancock's Liquid Sulphur, according to directions. 'Butler Edgar.' Shot to Death. 2 Joseph D. Rivers was shot in the face and instantly killed in Charleston's tenderloin district on last Mon^ day by W. F.. Schiffhauser an electri3 cian in the employ of Swiff & Co. t Schiffhauer was arreeted soon after I the shooting, driving through West . street to Archdale in a carriage, and lodged at the police station. ( We Bare , ' )ne 25 hone power T&ibott, second hai i ty been overhauled This Engine is i j t great bargain for anyone w&o ib in th We are headquarters for anything in prompt at ention will be given to afi in< I a-?. Wniw a8*ben you are in the m< I to cret pMi-riree before placing 01 j Colombia Supply Co., . > - ' - y. < 'i ' V ' Why yon should "Z consult - a specialist "^f?l BY r " <?38 "Mahomet went to the mountain" f?r oovicus reasons and he wa? wiae man. Bnt 1- is not moessary for yog to remove 10 the itv to receive intelligent treatment for chronic or ner* tous d borders, by a capab e experienced g, edalist in th- se deep seated troub es of 1< ng atandin ,that so often Darao -neorainan pa sic ar Our) ns experi nce of p^nrds of tventa yearn enables is to iiagnose c rrectlj, and ?.ure, where other physicians, lean experienced, have treated the ccse, witt- ut success, {or an entirely different disease I in ile all sufferers from deep tested, long B anding tiotbies ol Heart, He d, 1 ungs, btor ach, Bowels, Nerves, r ditenaes peculiar to either sex, to wri e us and le*rn wfiat we have done for o hers imi'ar'y afflctrd, and wl ut we caD do for them. There is no cka ge for this com nltation vnd it is wor h jour tin'e and effo-t wh? <h<?r you decide to begin treatneat or sot. Jt U t i vliea- erto write to a cnnpe* tout &pecia ist a d set promj t, aureand iasim; teneflr, than to waste yoar J timo. raone and opportunity.- group- # # in* in th- dark with inexperienced physicians. wrre t day. Send t'. r <ur "He?l?h Feaeyi." Mail> ed f ce in unprinUd w app- r. SELLING WmSKIIY. i 1 Fined Fifty Two Dollars by Tpw* t - Council of North . Mr. Lee Jeffcoat, who lives not far from North, wap tried by the To^en Council of that town pn Tupe? day o'.last week for selling whiskey ia violation of law. He dem&qdpd a jury, and was ably represented by Capt. J. A. Berry, of the Orangeburg Bar, but with all' this ha wap convicted and fined $52. He'was not satisfied with the verdict and h? gave bond on an appeal tp the Gfrr\ cujt Court. The Town Cbuncfl ol! North was represented by W, ItGlaze, Esq., of the Orangeburg Bar, The good people of North are deter? mined to stop the sale of liquor there This case is only a starter. "SPRING CIJBANXNQ'^UEBDKD, *!. V' The Body Requires it Ju?t as Mocb as the Honse, . N . ' r "You look sick thie morning." "Yee I woke up with a dull head* ache, a coated tosgue and that daric brown taste in the mouth." "Ditn't you have pains in your j Joints and muscles." f "Yes. As my old negro mammy used to say, 'I have misery in my joints. "Better take a bottle of Rbeamacide, old man. ? .* "What does Rheum acide do?" "Why Rheum acide is the most powerful and effective blood purifier *V?a T> ewoano oil tha.<yArmi and poisons out of the blood and 'makes you well all over."' "Ever try It yourself." "Sure I take a couple of bottles of it before spring begins. Give my blood a spfjng cleaning. And" Rhetinacide puts me In such flfte phajp^ that I never have that tired fgjr&g"..' "Well,, I am going to try Rheumacide you say Is the b)5st eyjar. "Thats right.' All thp druggfftji sell it. Better get a hotjtti to4pyt You start to get well with the firpt dose. The proprietors say that Rheu: macide gets at the jointp from tfef inside and makes you wpl) all over. And that the truth,, old man." If the Legislature throughout the ^ country don't let up on the railroads they will be glad enough for the government to buy them up; * John Alexander Dowie, self-styled Erophetand one of the greatest humugsof this or any other age, died on Saturday in Zion oity---a city that he had founded near .Chicago. He was 60 yeys old, ' *L' The mail clerks"on tKe&ains jn the West do not like to mix up with the oni^ Viotto nofitinno^ flio Ho. UCgi V, Oitu 11U T V |/V v* W4VKVV4 w?.v / partment to arrange matters sq ?hat I they would not be compelled to eat I and sleep with the negroes. The d?- fj partment says that it cannot take J cognizance of the difference in racesj and refuses to do anything *ii} the matter. Such occurances as this only hastens t^o tirrje when the negro vyil) be eliminated politically from our^ffairs, Q&M OFFERED WORTHY vruyc Y0(JNG pEOpLL No matter how limited your meua or ?daMktion, if you defilre* thorough buduau training ?n d good position, wri te for our * GREAT HALF RATE OFFER. Suooeai, Independence and probable FOB. rUNE guaranteed. Don't delay; write-to-day. lUe OA.-ALA. BUS. COLLBOB. Macao, te - . 1 Pianos and Organs At Factory Prices. Vrite as tt odm for oar tpeol^l plan ' payments on a Piano or Organ. It u b 17 either lnat'umeni through u?, < get a stan^ar-' make, one th4t 111 last a life-time. I Malooes Music Hoqse, >1bitMa 8. C? for catalogs, price* 4 in# fl For Sale J id engine in took which has reoeat jM n fiiBt class condition and will b> 9| ie market for snob a site engine. U the way of machinery supplies, an* HI juiriee and orders entrusted to o? fl| ,t? ?L. ,?,-l k. MBfl Kn* auvmjuw rd?r? elsewhere Colombia, S. C. am i