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The Press and Banner I SBOOITD. i BRYAN WRITES And Thanks The Stats For Fight01 . Against Misrepresentation. ~~ Be WANTS A FREE PRESS ^ But TliLilts (he Will of the Peo- j^e pie iu Every State Should Hare vei Co Voice, Not the Wishes of a Few in clll1 Rale or Ruin Newspapers. Shows jIn Up the New York World and Its bu en< Editorials. en, Lincoln, Neb., March 13, 1908. Ja] Co Mr. Wm. E. Gonzales, Columbia, S. C. asi My Dear Mr. Gonzales.. . .1 appre- ed ciate the fight which you are making wh against the misrepresentations in- obi dulged in by the New York World and those who echo inelr editorials, ed It Is not for me to discuss the ques- ha< ton of availability of candidates. I for have never stated that I was the the most available candidate or that I Soi could poll the most votes. That is an] not a question upon which my judge- Llg ment ought to be ventured or ac- wii cepted. I have simply 6tated that It Coi is a question for the voters of the caB party to determine. mo As a Democrat I have resented the 1 claim that a few editors should de- Ge< cide this question for the people. I Th< am a believer in free press and I awi recognize the right of any editor, the whether his circulation be large or wai small, to state his opinion and his her reason for It, but those who read his tag opinion have a right to give it such of 1 weight as ttiey tninn it deserves, i mo have insisted that the readers ought Jur to know what pecuniary Interest the am editor has In the questions under anc discussion. tioi For Instance, I asked The World to state editorially what financial In- 1 terests its owner, Mr. Pulitzer has in the stocks or bonds of railroads Esc and in the stocks and bonds of corporations commonly known as trusts. The World has not seen fit to an- ( ewer the question. He is reputed to d08 L be Interested in a number of cor- ^e poratlons which are affected by leg- gpr islation, and his readers are entitled the to know what his interests are. If ^ea he has Interests adverse to the in- CU8 terest of the public, he is not a dis- j Interested judge as to candidates or ^er platform. rou If he has interests that would be by injuriously affected by legislation an(j needed by the people, then his opln- upc Ions are worth no more than theopinons of Mr. Harriman or Mr. Rocke- ^ feller. I do not deny th? right of circ Harriman, or Morgan, or Rockefel- try ler, of Pulitzer, to own a paper and jro] present their views to the public, but tbe t a^ /inntonri . ,i?t in thft interest of ?i? * ^V, WU.V... ? ?- ai^ honesty and fair dealing, the owner In of the paper should be known and ^UI the Interest of the owner In the questions frankly stated. The World's unfairness Is evldenced In ev?ry editorial. Ia the first ^ v _ place It Ignores entirely the election ' of 1894, when the Democratic party M0( was overwhelmingly defeated. This 8er election occurred before I had any j^r influence In national politics. It oc- me! L curred when the party was being con- ____ ducted along the lines laid down by I The World.. It Is deliberately unfair the In ignoring this election and charg- I h lng the defeats of 1896 and 1900 to thli me, Just as it Is unfair In Ignoring of the still worse defeat of 1904, when I e it was again the party's adviser. sui It is simply prophesying when it the says that I can not carry any States ify! that I lost before, and that some ocr other Democrat can. How doeB It rac know? What gift of phophecy hat it? It thought in 1904 that Judge lie Parker would prove a popular cundi 1 date. It demanded his nomination fhs and it advise.' him each day a a t? i what he should say and do. WhP! evidence can it furnish that it ha> x I more intelligence today than it. had ;ri? then, or that its prophecies rest on mi! a firmer foundation? col ? There are several papers in your de< State which were against me in 1896 and have been aganst me ever since, del I do not know whether it is because I d of a difference of oplnon as to what cui ought to be done, or whether they thi are connected with interests that are ha hostile to the things which I have on been advocating. There are several to L papers In the United States which wfc I are known to be owned, in whole or | in part, by the corporate interests, op which they defend, but I would not su: make such a charge against the pap- qu ers of your State, becuase I have no otl knowledge as to the ownership or as po to the corporate interests with which me the owners may be connected, and I Po prefer to assume that the differences rig > are honest differences unless I have pa evidence to the contrary. po However, it is only fair to say th that these unfriendly editors, howev- co er honest they may be, are only so do many individuals, and according to De the Democratic theory, they are en- th titled to such influence only as their lifc fellow-citizens may voluntarily give be to their opinions. If the voters differ do from these editors it must he reniem- w< bered that they have a right to dif- th fer. and if it should prove that the w< voters are mistaken in judgment, mi * they can console themselves with the reflection that the editors unfriendly er to me have also been mistaken in pc judgment, as is shown by the defeat I of 1904. HEAVY DAMAGES VEX MOTHER AND LITTLE SON WHO WERE idly Bariied by Coming i* Contac t With a Live Wire on the Streets of Florence. A dispatch from Florence to The ws and Courier says the biggest rdlcts ever awarded by a Florence unty Jury were recorded Thursday the cases of Mrs. Maude Laughlin d her little son, Lawrence Laugh, both of whom were borrlbiy rned by an electric wire in Fierce last August, against the Florae Electric Light and Power (.oraay and the Southern Public Service rporation Mrs. Laughlln, who ced |50,000 damages, was award- ' $17,000, and Lawrence Lnu^hlin, < ose suit was for $25,000 damages, ] :ained a verdict for |8,000. i Judge Dantzler promptly overrula motion for a new trial, as he ! i previously overruled a motion ' a non-suit, based on the ground i it it had not been proven that the I ithern Public Corporation was in ] r way connected with the Florence 1 ;ht and Power Company. The case i >1 be appealed to the Supreme 1 art. This was one or tne Diggesi i es ever tried in the Court of Com- t n Pleas in this county. Vlrs. Lauglin is the wife of Mr. jrge W. Laughlln of Florenre. i 5 injuries for which she has been t arded damages were received on ( 19th of last August, while she t 3 trying to rescue little Lawrence 1 only eon, who had become en- t led in the street near the corner c Ravenel and Cheeves streets. Both i ther and son were so badly in- t ed that it became necessary to I putate Mrs. Laughlln's right hand c I right foot, and the larger ?or- t i of Lawrence's right hand. , * t TWO ELEPHANTS AT LARGE 1 ? I Ape from Circus in Florida and t Make for Georgia. I 3hief of Palice Dampier, of Val- | ta, Ga., received a telegram from . Van Amberg Shows, at White ings, Fla., stating that two of ir elephants and escaped and were f ded for Valdosta, where the cirwintered. v ^ater reports which have reached C e say the elephants have been sur- 8 nded nine miles from Geona, Fla., a crowd of farmers with guns, 2 I that the big animals were flred ?n, the shots only infuriating c m and causing them to dash away. ?hree or four trainers from the r :us are hurrying to the scene to S and capture them. Telegrams tn White SprlngB say the people In country through that section are tost terrorized and are organizing great numbers for a big elephant . it. Fatal Explosion. The boiler at the saw mill of G. Moore at Homeland, Ga., blew Friday morning, killing Mr. , ore, the proprietor, instancy, and lously scalding three other men. Moore was one of the wealthiest q in that section of the State. . am not asking for any honors at c i hands of the Democratic party; 1 ave been honored far beyond anyQg that I could claim as a matter c right or as a matter of merit, and 1 specially appreciate the generous >port that has come to me from i Southern States. It has been grat- 1 Ing to me to know that my Dem- 1 acy has been satisfactory to the ? ilr and fll*> nf tho npmnorflts nf tho ' ith, as well as to the rank and ' of the Democrats of the North. ' [f the Democratic voters believe 1 it I can asBlst the party by bein? ' candidate why should I refuse? : d why should I take the advice o few editors who have never been ' endly rather than the advice oi < I lions of Democrats who have beer. ' aborers with m? for more than a < ;ade? ? ' The policy of the party must be ' lermined by the voters and when liscuss Democratic pnnicples I dis- < ;s them with the understanding it I have no power to coerce, as 1 ve no disposition to coerce. I can < ly persuade, and I have never tried persuade others to believe except iere I have myself believed. You have as much right to your inion as to any other editor, and rely your Democracy can not be estioned when you, unlike some kqi- oHitnrs nronose to test the pularlty of measures and of ;n by the vote of the people, pular government rests upon the ;ht of the people to rule and every rty. if it deserves a place under a pular government, must recognize e right of the voters to rule. Power mes up from the people and not wn to them. You are on sound imocratic ground when you insist at the destinies of a candidate. :e the destinies of a country, must placed in the hands of those who the voting, for to be Democratic ? must believe in the capacity of e people to govern themselves, as ill as in their right to self-governent. Again thanking you for your gcnous defense of the principles and fnr rrMrh T nm rnntpnriilier. 'UUACO W? " ? <,? am, Very truly yours. W. J. Bryau. WENT FOR TEDD\ Senator Tillman Arraigns Presi dent's Encroachment On LEGISLATIVE POWER. He Says Congress Is Subservient U the President's Will, and Says Hi Exercises Too Much Influence oj the Other Departments of the Gov ernment. House Declared to b< Speaker's Tool. With a caution unusual for him Senator Tillman reecntly read a par his speech in the Senate, in whicl he denounced Executive encroach ment on legislative power. With thii apparent caution he proceeded to de liver one of the most direct and de aunciatory addresses ever heard Ir ?at body. He was given a carefu hearing. His speech was based or ais resolution instructing the commit :ee on finance to inquire whether na :lonal banks of New York are in the labit of furnishing permanent capi' :al for speculative enterprises, etc rhe resolution was addpted. Mr. Tillman traced what he termed i "swinging of the pendulum" frorr he regime of Andrew Jackson, wher Congress assumed control almost tc he exclusion of the ProM U-ur from flofeiotivo infliipnfft to the ;-.!niinis ^glOlUVKV ? _ rations which followed '\hich, he leclared, witnessed a growth of Presdential powers. The dominating inluence and control of ;he Executive jranch over the legislature and in a legree over the judicial branches ol he Government were the most mark:d features of the American politics at his time. "It has taKen," said Mr. Tillman, "just forty-one years for the >endulum to swing from one extreme o the other." "Now," he said, "the House of lepresentatives has degenerated into ittle more than a recording machine o do the will of the Speaker and his ieutenants." Freedom of debate in he old and true sense has disappeared from the other end of the Captol, he added. In the Senate "serility and cowardice are the order if the day," he declared, "and the hadow of the Executive hangs over ill and the President's wishes are ilmost the only law. "There is," he added, "some show if resistance on matter affecting the Qulti-millionalres and the great corlorations. The President writes colding messages and makes inflamnatory speeches appealing to the mthinking and ignorant masses. He las the potent influence of the press .t his command; he has used the lewspapers and magazines in exploitng what he calls 'my politics' with i skill and daring that compel admirition. With bated breath Senators lenounce his radical ideas in prirate and oppose in every possible vay the measures which he clamors or by the passive resistance of noniction. No one of the dominant pary dares lift his voice in opposition >r denunciation, but the Executive nfluence Is the only Influence m evilence, while the Senate cowers in stent resistance. "The cause of this condition," de;lared Mr. Tillman, "is Federal pat: onage." , "The theory that the Senate must advise and consent' before appointnents are made," he said, is of litle or no moment when Senators show such want of courage and self-respect ind bow submissively to the orders !rom the White House. The mem)ers of the minority party, of course .vere largely ignored. Appointments n the South, where the Democracj -etalns control, are in tne nanas oi referees' who fill the offices for th( sole purpose for maintaining ma >hines. The Senators of the domi iant. party are afraid to resist th( executive will, lest they themselves should fail to obtain the patronag( 3f their States." They have also, he declared, i dread lest, they should be forced int< retirement When clashes have com< between the President and Senator; or Representatives the people hav< in almost every instance sided win the President, he said. "The people, poor, simple souls reading the special pleas and fophis tical excuses of Republican editors H'o Hd to think the Presideir. aiom is honest and patriotic." said Mr. Till man. "rney ueneve ren$ra??i.v ma the Senate is corrupt anil the Whit House debauched and that the i-oll tins?my politics, which are so ex ploited in the press?must prevai and become law before any relief cai be obtained. Senators who do no agree with the Executive and wh' refuse to obey his will must be re tired. Congressmen who resist Exec utive dictation must be replaced b those who will obey . "In the mad rush to placate th negro vote we may expect to see be fore the Chicago Convention meet: to riuote a great New England papei "the President reviewing the re-er listed battalion on the White Hous rryaari after Ti'hifVi will be lUI biV-^4' V.VN,. * ?- ? - cheon at the Executive mansion The President's action in that wa hasty and unjust, inasmuch as th innocent were punished along wit the guilty, but it is a pitiable spe< f THE COTTON CROP . FOR LAST YEAR (iOES OVEF ELEVEN MILLION BALES. Th? Census Report. Issued by the Department of Agriculture Givei the Total Figures. The census report issued Friday 0 shows that the cotton crop grown in pi 1907 aggregated 11,261,163 running bales, counting round as half bales 11 and including linters, and showed a _ total of 27,o77 active ginneries for 1907. This is against lo,305,265 0 bales in 1906, and 10,725,602 in 1905. The statistics include 177,646 bales returned as remaining to be t ginned after the tiem of the March canvass. The total number of run1 ning bales as given is equivalent to - 11,302,872 of 500 pounds each. 3 The average gross weight of the bales for 1907 is 501.8 pounds. The item for the crop of 1907 are 10,798,596 square bales; 198.549 round 1 bales; 86,793 sea island bales; 198,1 549 round bales; 86,793 sea island 1 bales; linters 276,500 bales. Tile number of running bales by " States follows: Alabama 1,1 26,028; 5 Arkansas 760,1 62, Florida 57,616, " Georgia 1,891,900, Kansas 34, Ken tucky 4,205, Louisiana 676,8i23, Mississippi 1,464,207, Missouri 35,' ft97. New Mcxico 447. North Caro 1 lina 648,517, Oklahoma 864.106, 1 South Carolina 1,175,3 75, Tennessee ' 274.536. Texas 2,271,724, Virginia 1 9,486, Kentucky's total includes linters of establishments in Illinois and ' Virginia. The linters included 276,500 bales ' for 1907, 322,064 for 1906 and 230,1 497 for 1905. Round bales are 198, | 549 for 1907, 268,219 for 1906, and " 279,836 for 1905. Sea island bales ' are 86,893 for 1907, 57,550 for 1906, ; 112,539 for 1 905. Average gross weight of the bales : for 1907, including linters as given, is against 501.9 for 1906: that of , the round bales is 246.1 pounds for i907, compared with 245.1 for 1906, and the sea island 391.6 pounds for ! 1907, compared with 387.2 for 1 1906. Watson's Close Estimate. The State says when the government estimate on the cotton crop for 1 907 came in the estimate made in November by Commissioner Watson's department was compared with the figures issued from Washington and it was found that there was a difference of only 13,498 bales in the figures on the South Carolina arop and 109,957 on the entire crop of the United States. * tacle all the same to see the mad race for negro votes. "Mr. Roosevelt is .always loudmouthed and even vehement in the proclamation of his own purity of purpose and patriotism. He has absolute faith in his own Infalibilityand is apparently so drunk with power that he unconsciously lapses into the imperial 'we' and sends cablegrams ' about 'me and my people.' But these things are of small moment?'vagaries of a noble and impetuous spirit,' and we could pass them by were it | not for the existence of cold-blooded facts to show Executive responsibility for many of the evils which exist without dispute." Paul Morton, as vice-president of the Santa Fe Kanroaa, saia Mr. unman, "In the rebate cases laid hira. self open to Indictment and liability to personal punishment, but the President peremptorily refused to permit p Messrs Judson and Harmon to pros. ecute him." ' Senator Tillman denounced President Roosevelt for not prosecuting land grafters, and Senator Beveridge J interrupted to say that the only dif. ference between the President and f Senator Tillman was that the former t prosecutes upon evidence and the [ latter without it. Mr. Beveridge wanted to know why Senator Tillman s" In his flood of messages has not cov' ered the subject. Mr Tillman replied | that if Mr. Beveridge "wants me to " make more criticisms than I have the Senator from Indiana is a great big 1 glutton." 5 Mr. Tillman reviewed the events 2 of the recent currency crisis and ? charged Wall street with many mlsi demeanors. J "The profits of this nefarious stock mongering have," he said, "found , their way into the pockets of the - very man who with evil results of . their fraud manifest pose as 'saviors' and 'and crowned kings' and are lauded to the skies when they were t really trying to save themselves from e the disasters which threatened to - overwhelm them along with their de luded victims. One of these 'sav1 iors' had done more than any other n of the money kings to deluge the t stock market with watered stocks." o A long review was given by Mr. t- Reveridge of Democratic politics, and he declared that a conference had been y held in Washington for the purpose of coming to a plan for asking for e Bryan not to again be a candidate on ?. nomnrratic ticket, but when Mr. 5, Rryan was there, he said, not one of r, them had the courage to tell liim i- what they had planned to do. This e statement called forth denials from i* Mr. Tillman, Mr. McCleary and Mr Rainey, all of whom declared thai is there had never been any idea of aske ing Mr. Bryan not to-run on the Demh ocratic ticket and that stories to thai {effect were mere myths. TALE OF HOROR. k Men and Women Beaten on Certain Islands. HORRIBLE PICTURE By Gen. Pienaer, Who Says He Has Seen Children Beaten Until Their Blood Covered the Ground Around Cocoa Plantations. Plea to Portugese Goaernment to Have It Stopped. At Washington a vivid description of atrocities alleged to be perpetuated upon slave laborers on cocoa plancations on the Islands of Principe and Saint Thome, Portugese West Africa, was given in an address on "Children's Lives in Africa," by Gen. Joubert Pienaer, of South Africa, of the International congress on the welfare of the child under the auspices of the National Mother's Congress. "The atrocities I have witnessed in Portuguese West Africa have taken such a hold upon me," declared Gen. Pienaer, "that I cut myself loose from all my business and leaving my family thousands of miles away, I have consecrated my life to the freeing of the men and women that are daily being done to death and the little children that .1 have seen beaten until the blood flowed to the ground." The speaker said that he had formed an association with the Intention of petitioning the Portuguese government on behalf of the slaves to establish missionary settlements to civilize and Christianize them and to act as a guard over the slave trade and to report the atrocities to tlie association "This seems to me," he said, "the only effective way of putting a stop to this iniquity." He asked for the support of the Mother's Congress in his mission of humanity. After stating that " the cruelties meted out to those degraded human beings on the mainland were beyond description," General Plenaer continued: "children are torn from the breasts of mothers and sold as slaves. Slaves in the employ of their task masters are beaten to denlh, men <-u(j women and childrin are mutilated. Often a native has been done to death he is quartered and the different portions of his body are hung on the trees to terrorize the other natives. CAN'T DO IT AGAIN. Congressman James Says Corruption Funds Defeated Bryan Twice. Loud Democratic applause greeted Congressman James while making a speech in the House on Tuesday, when he asserted his belief that in the last two campaigns against Mr. Bryan, "but for the corruption brought by the Republicans on the monopolies and trusts of the country Bryan would have been elected Presi ident of the United States." Mr. Bryan, he said, stood for something and had convictions and the courage to express them. "He has never prostituted his garments for money," he said. "He has never sold the love of the American people for corporation gold." "The people of the country," he said, would "in just time do proper meed and credit to the man who draws th? naked sword in their defense and in their rights," and he believed that these people, "are going to elect for President that grand, that splendid, that matchless Democrat: W. J. Bryan. DROPS DEAD. While Looking at the Corpse of a Drowned Baby. In Dunklin Township, in Greenville County, three miles from Greenville, the 1-year-old child of Joe Sayles, colored, fell into a tub which drowned. The child's mother had left it alone to go into the house and when she returned it was dead. The news quickly spread through the neighborhood and a number of people gathered at the house, among them Joe Jordan, the 18-year-old son of Mr. J. B. Jordan. He walked up to the tub, in which the child had been drowned, looked at it and dropped dead. Mr. Jordan says his son had a narrow escape from drowning in the same manner when a child. The boy had a weak heart and it is supposed that the recollection of his narrow . escape when a child and the horror of the negro child's death caused a shock to his system which resulted in his death. Corset Killed Her. i At Brigham, Utah, Mrs. Carl Guni kle laced her corset so tightly that . she crushed her heart, causing the t blood to shoot to her head. Her husband, hearing her fall, ran to the room and summoned a physician, but t Mrs. Gunkle was dead before the jdoctor arrived. _ AWFUL TRAGEDY. JUDGE BUCHANAN SHOT WHILE K1JLUM4 U.N TKAXN. tr He is Fatally Wounded and is Taken to a Hospital In Augusta Where He Died. A dispatch from Augusta to The i News and Courier says former Judge 0. W. Buchanan, of Winnsboro, S. C., died there Tuesday at 11*30 I o'clock as the result of the 22-calibre rifle wound which he received while sitting in a railway car at Ward's Station, S. C., Monday afternoon. Judge Buchanan was coming from Winnsboro to Augusta and was sitting by an open wndow reading a newspaper when without warning the small leaden missile whizzed through the opening and buried itself in his right side, the shot having been fired by some unknown party, the only theory entertained here being that it was a stra/ oullet fired by some person practicing shooting. The wounded man was brought 10 mis city ana an opera1;!))! at Di. T. R. Wright's private sanitarium resulted in the successful extraction of the bullet, but the Intestines had been pierced in several places. The remains were taken to Winnsboro for interment. Judge Buchanan was' to meet a party in Augusta composed of his brothers-in-law, Messrs. James H. Tillman, A. R. Fuller, of Laurens, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. G. A. Bunch. He was siting in a seat with Judge Lyon, and as the train was leaving Ward's Station, thirty-five miles from Augusta, he exclaimed that a brick had struct him, arose from his seat, and in a few m'nutes later fainted from the shock of his wound. A dispatch from Edgefield says that three boys were out hunting near Ward's and one of iliem accidentally shot in the train with a rifle. It is reported that the boys have been arrested, but no names are given and it is impossible to get authentic Information as to the real facts of the sad tragedy. It is supposed that a ful investigation will be had and the matter clarified WANTS THE FACTS. Tillman Asks Pointed Questions About Some Bank Transactions. Senator Tillman introduced a resolution calling upon the Senate committee on finance to conduct an investigation and answer some pointed questions bearing upon financial legislation. Among the questions asked are as to whether the national banks of New York York are in the habit, under the guise of commercial loans, of furnishing permanent capital for speculative or other enterprises; whether the Treasury Department had knoweldge of the loans by the National Bank of North America of New York, which are the subject of a suit by the receiver against C. W. Morse, and of other similar transactions in other national banks; whether the national banks are engaged by themselves or through other organizations in attempting to control or dictate the legislation of Congress upon the currency questions. * SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Three Men. All Prominent, Shot From Convent Grounds. Dr. Glovonni Grana, a prominent physician; his brother in law, John Orofino, and a friend, Alfonso Mole, were shot from ambush in Ybor City, Fla., by four men, who had secreted themselves in the grounds of St. Joseph's Convent. Mole will probably die, the others being only slightly wounded. All are Italians, and the shooting is believed to be the result of a Black Hand Plot. Five thousand dollars was demanded from Dr. Grana several weeks ago, and he had also been warned to leave the city. Demands have also been made on other prominent Italians, and much alarm has prevailed in the Italian colony. The police have arrested Ave Italians on suspicion. RAN AWAY FROM SCHOOL. Vniin<? Bov Killed While Riding Ud derneath Express Cur. Young Dean, the son of a prominent citizen of Langley, was killed Tuesday afternoon on the electric car line between Langley and Warrenville, near Aiken. It seems that he slipped off or ran away from school and got on the Augusta-Aiken express car. It is supposed that he either fell off or was shaken off. falling on the track and was then run over by the car. The men on the express car, it is said, did not know anything about the matter and the boy remained on the track until the car bound for Aiken came up a little later. The affair is avery deplorable one. Legally Hanged. At La Grange, Ga., Ingram Cana dy. a negro assailant, was hanged In ' the jail yard Friday afternoon at 1 1:16 o'clock. Canady was convicted at the last November term of court ! of criuiuuil\ assaulting .Mrs. Roso 'J Jones. ? FIGHT A DUEL J ' ,S( Gen. Fock MortellY woun's Gen. Smirnoff at Close Range. PISTOLS WERE USED. u2S Smirnoff Reflected Upon Brother Of41 fleer's Qualities in Memorandum i ' -3? .. on Seige of Port Arthur. Duel -.-M Takes Place in Regimental Riding School in St. Petersburg in the Presence of Men and Women. ' At St. Petersburg, Russia, LieutGeneral Smirnoff was probably fat " r'y% ally wounded In * duel fought Wed nesday morning wltn Lieut. Gen. Fock. ' jp The men were in the riding school of the Chevalier Guard regiment and fought with pistols, standing close to each other when the shots were exchanged. The duel was caused by a memorandum written by Gen Smirnoff on the seige of Port Arthur, in which he questioned the courage of Gen. Fock. The latter considered that his honor and reputation w;as involved and challenged the author of the memorandum. The duel, occurred with the full knowledge and approbation of the . ' military authorities. It was witnessed by several officers of high rank, >' and it is even reported that several women were present. Shortly before 10 o'clock Gen?. Fock and Smirnoff appeared at the riding school. Without saluting they took the places assigned by their seconds. The duelists were Instructed to fire until one or the other was hit. . ?. At Fock's fourth shot Smirnoff groaned and sank wounded in the abdomen above the hip. The word "fire" was given by Gen. Kirsieff, the Russian authority on duelling. At the third exchange Smirnoff accidentally fired premaUjMfy, but Fock magnanimously cT^fifed to shoot at a defenceless oppdnent, and the fourth and final shots were then exchanged. The duel will be followed by another .between Fock and Gen. Gorbatoffsky who was criticised by Fock during the court-martial pro- \ ceedings. Gen Smirnoff was acting commandant of the Port Arthur fortress during the selge and at the time of its surrender to the Japanese. After hii return to Russia he prepared a secret report of the defense of Port Arthur which was the basis of the indictments on which Gen. Stossel, Gen. Fock and Gen. Reiss were ti;ied for their lives before court martial. MUST BE DEAD. Hope No Longer Entertained for the Modern Crusoe. All hope of finding Fred JefTs, a sailor who was stranded on Indefatigable Island, In the Pacific ocean, ha? been practically abandoned. The gunboat Yankton, which was sent from Cailao to hunt for the missing seaman, has arrived at Acapulco, Mexico, and the commanding officer reported to the navy department that no trace of Jeffs has been found, which is taken to mean that he is dead. That Jeffs must have experienced many more hardships than those related of Robinson Crusoe, Is evident from the nature of the island upon which he was stranded. Indefatigable or Santa Cruz Island, is on the equator, entirely uninhabited save by monster turtles and venomous reptiles of the tropical regions. The searching party believe that Jeffs could not have lived long after he was wrecked, on May 8, 1907. TRIED TO JBUJKIM S^JLJP . Disconsolate Because Ills Young Wife Hud Left Him. Because his young bride deserted him, Agossan Teba, of Martina Creek, N. J., piled a lot of wood under his bed and set fire to it. Then turning on the gas in the room he lay down on the bed and tried to go to sleep. The bed took fire and Teba would have turned to death but for the timely arrival of neighbora who saw the flames and forcibly carried him from the house. He begged them to leave him alone and said that he did not care to live. He was terribly burned and the hospital physicians say he may not recover. Bryan Will Win. representative Johnson, who Is at home at Spartanburg for a few day* c TtTocViln nrtnn eavq hfi bellrJVCfi I LIU ill >vaouiu(,iuu, ~ ?^ Mr. Bryan would be elec^d President. In fact, many Republicans '>e lieve Mr. Bryan will be the next President and a Democratic House of Representatives will be cfiosen Ten Were Injured. Ten persons were injured, none seriously, in a trolley car accident at Philadelphia yesterday.