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'I-I-I-M-H-t- V V111 I'M*WJt s Loant Savings Bank Augusta, Ga, Pays Interest on Deposits, ?9 ?ccoanis Solicited. 4* t LC. FAYNF, CHAS. C. HOWARD, I 4? PKEaiOE.'i". CASH1K J RESOURCES OVIfR $1,000,000. .g. EDGEFIELD, S. C; ?WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1908, THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, f AUGUSTA. GA. X C. HAYNE, CHAS. R. CLARK, JU President. Cashier.**" CAPITAL $200,000.00. X Surplus & Profits SISO.OOO.OO. T The business of our out-oMowa friends X roceivea the same oarefal attontioc as that T ?of cur ?coal depositors. Tho accounts of T" careful conservative_r>eoplo solicited. T ?l"l"I-l"l"l"H"l"l"MI"M"t"t"H"I'tA NO. 5. I Georgia Railr oad Bank AUGUSTA, GA. Savings Department Pays 4 ^interest on all accounts in this departmeLt, compounded every six months, January and July. Capital and Surplus $550,000.00. GO TO SEE HARLTNG &?BYRD Before insuring elsewhere. Wefjrepresent the Best Old Line Companies. HARllflG & BYRD> At The Farmers Bank 0f Edgefield 1908 1908 FINDS .THE MAN that sella Staubopes, Carriage, Wagons, Buggies, eic, in position to offer you tbe highest possible grade of goodsjat the lowest possible price. Remember I am known as the best in the business, my material is al ways of the best standard, and those who buy from Coskery's congratulate themselves. Material the best, prices always the lowest. BABCOCKS THE LEADER. . H. Ht. COSKKRY, 749 and 751 Broad Street AUGUSTA, GA, M!oiiixiiioixt:al Oarriage Store ''Opposite the Monument." We've had forty-six years experience making and ning and lasting and qualities- would match ?loyer and Columbia Bug* gieStRiifiaboifts and Surreyso Studebaker Wasons ? If Better were made you would find . them here, A complete line of Harness always cn hand. Heavy Lumber Harness and Road Scraper Harness a I SPECIALTY, - BELTING, LEATHER, CARRIAGE MATE RIAL. ETNA COAL. Joseph H 729 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. FE.U1NINE NEWS NOTES. liss. Eliza Allen, of Augusta, Me. who is fifty, was a great grandmother at forty-nine. Mrs. Theodore W. Birney, founder bf Mothers'- Congress, died in Wash ington, D. C. Half rates for women prevail in some old Swedish hotels because the; eat less than men. ' Mme. Tinayre, the noted novelist, of Paris, regrets that she scoffed at her proposed enrolment in the Legion of Honor. A Devonshire farmer has offered to marry Mrs. Pankhurst, the most notorious of the militant suffragettes of England. Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson, of London, the English "Suffragist," spoke ia Faneuil Hall. Boston, to a large num ber of women. Mr?. Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood, who died in Oregon recently, aged 120, is believed to have been the old est person in the United States. A daughter was born to the Duch ess of Manchester, who was formerly Miss Helen Zimmerman, of Cincin nati, at,Kylemore Castle, Dublin. . Henrietta Crosman, <the actress, and her husband-manager. Maurice Campbell, filed petitions in bankrupt cy. Together they owe $119,447. Of the girl pupils In the Paris Poly technic Schools 546 are learning to play the mandolin as against one who is receiving instruction in automo biles. / Under the circular Issued by the Stat9 Department Mme. Gould, as the dlvorce-t wife of a Frenchman^ haa the option of. resuming her American citisensiip within one year. Henry Miller, the millionaire eat. e grower, of California, baa given six acres of land near, Gilroy, ?t?anta Clara County, as a home for girls, where they ara to.be trained for use? 'ul oscuratlons. LABOR WORLD. Long investigation hu established beyond- doubt that the pretence or absence of foresta has an influence os rainfall. Ii is equally certain, ob? "serves the Nsw York American, that tome of our most disastrous floods ?av* bee? due te the widespread and reckless destruction ot the trees. Hudson (Wis.; unionists have or ganized a new machinists' union. The Glass Workers' Union has 6000 members and $100,000 in the treasury. The advance In wages of the min ers has been general throughout Great Britain. Wage scales of the bituminous coal miners are subject to readjustment at the end of March. Bartenders of Denver, Col., are tak ing steps to organize a.union to pro cure the eight-hour day. Barbers of Hamilton, Ont., want more wages, and threaten to strike :f their demand ls not met. A bulletin issued/by thc National Bureau of "Labor says Russian Jerws are overcoming adverse *n??klons. Every labor union In Muncie, Ind., J has adopted a rule to fine a member $25 every time he rides on a street car. The forty-first annual Trade Union Congress" of Great Britain will con vene at Nottingham on September 7, 190S. Labor organizations of Baltimore, Md., are assisting the policemen of that city in an effort to have one day off each week. There ls a rumor that the tele graphers will strike-again at the time of the National Republican Conven tion In Chicago. An average cut of twelve and a half per cent, has already been made in the pay of 30,000 coke operatives In the Pittsburg district. In Austria 547 per 1000 work ten hours or less each day, and 438 from ten to eleven hours, Comparatively few work more than eleven hours, T. S, Lewis was elected president of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, He defeated W. B. Wilson by 40,000 majority in a vote o: 800,000. It is sa.d that three-fourths of the white people of Georgia are rejoicing over the passage of the prohibition law and ure determined tb uphold lt, It seems to be purely an economical measure to the Minneapolis Tribune, One of tte prohibition leaders in the L?gislature declared that lt was oQUlvalen'i to the Immediate Introduc? tion into Georgia of 100,000 desirable laborers. i?RIPfBlIZZARD Wave of Intense Cold Sweeps Over New York City SNOWFALL OF TWELVE INCHES First Snowstorm of Importance This Season Visits New York, Tying Up Business and Demoralizing Trans portation. New York, Special.-New York is digging itself out of a foot of snow. The thoroughfares of the millions are piled high with drifts that im pede the progress of man and beast and that have tied up street car and vehiclo traffic. Friday night the temperature was falling slowly and the snow promised to stay for another .day at least. The snowstorm, which began Thursday night continued until past noon Friday and even after the snow fall ceased a half gale kept the air thick with flurries that filled tho walks as fast as they were cleared, clogged the wheels of traffic and blinded the skippers off shore. The storm was the first of impor tance of the season. Much suffering bas been occasioned, there has been the usual toll of deaths exacted; and the monetary damage must be reck oned hy thousands of dollars. Tbs snow -was accompanied by moderate temperature and in its early stages it was welcomed by the honest part of the 35,000 unemployed men in the city. AH who sought employment from last midnight on, found it read ily and at good wages. Even with all who would work, the streets ia the outlying sections could not he kept open. Friday night thc charity societies had their hands full. The bowery bread lines were extended for blocks farther than at any time before th?3 winter and at an early hour it was said that the supply would not near ly meet tho need. The free lodging houses were pack-( ed and the Salvation Army and kind- j red organizations were working he roically tb minimize the effect of the ; sudden shift from spring to freezing ! winter weather. During the day tho thermometers registered from 26 to 23 above zero, followed by a gradual decline toward midnight, i A number of accidents and four ! fatalities were credited to the storm 's account. One man was frozen" to death near an East Twenty-third street lodging house from which he .had bee^.*^e*t?d?- A ~Qwrml~~6+reeti>. merchant succumbed io heart disease after battling with the snow and wind. In Woodlawn Cemetery a special policeman died while digging a path to a newly-made grave. A civil war veteran was another victim of heart disease caused by exposure. The storm gave the new public ser vice commission its first opportunity to witness the transporation com panies' struggle with the elements. Bennettsville Fire-Swept. Columbia, Special.-A $100,000 fire occurred at Bennettsville, Marl boro county Friday morning, wiping out the principal business section and many of the best residences. Tho town is practically without fire pro tection and it was impossible lo check the ames. The fire started in the big Skye- Hotel, where there were many narrow escapes from death. Col. J. J. Heckart, president of the Benn ettsville & Cheraw Railroad, saved his-life by jumping from a window, sustaining a broken leg. To Meet Railroad Men. Washington, Special-One of the most important conferences held on road questions held iff recent years will take place here Monday. On that day President Roosevelt will confer with the operating vice presidents of some of the leading roads of/ the eountry, who have been invited to come to Washington for that pur pose. The proposed legal "cation of pooling agreements will be one of the subjects discussed. Rairoad Cuts Salaries. Baltimore, Special.-Ten per cent reduction in salaries of officers and employes of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, who now draw over $?Gl3 monthly was announced. The busi ness depression prevailing through out the country is assigned as the cause. At the same time notice was served that all employes may evpect to have wages lowered if thc depres sion continues, v _ Five Die in Fire in Baltimore. ;. Baltimore, Special.-A fire which started early during a howling gale, in the brass foundry of J. Register's Sons Company, was only checked af ter causing the death of 5 firemen, more or leas serious injury to 22 oth ers and property loss of a million dollars. All the killed and most of the injured were caught by the fall ing walls. Cotton Ginned 10,337,607 Balea. Washington, Special-The census report issued shows 10,337,607 bale? (counting round bales as half bales; ginned from growth of 1907 to Jan. 16th, compared with 12,176,190 last year and 9,889,634 in 1906. The num ber of active ginnerifts is 27,370. The move for tbs repeal of the law which forbids the paralleling of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto mac railroad is popular in th? Virgin ia Legislature. CONGREMfORI Senate Tackles Trusts. The Senate spent over* an hi discussing a resolnrion^offere Senator Hansbrougb, of (Storth ta, directing the Department of merce and Labor to s??end i vestigation into the affaite of tl teraational . Harvester ? Con which was ordered by "u reso over av year ago. Diunnj&tbe d sion Senator Hansbrougb de< -that the "harvester trust'' is a piing to cuutrol the selection of gates to the next Republican hi al convention and is'especially ting to defeat him fori re-ele< The" resolution was flnallyr'referr the committee on agriculture. The criminal code bi)?.was J consiedered for over twofc' hours at 4:40 the Senate adjourned. In offering his resolut^ Mr. I brough explained that . ..'fitere e between the several dtfc&rtmen certain courtesy or qonuty ^ makes them desire to aof?in barr and for the reason tbe*Departi of Justice is .holding bacton its ccedings while another (pjjartmei under direction to mak&^n inv gation of the trust it colump?ate prosecute. The resolution called forth a si of protest during whiuavltfr. H brough declared that tbejjjiternal al Han-ester Company -.w; takini hand in politics in Norths Dekota is trying to capture df?cgates are to represent that Stra in the publican national convexi?n. " alone that," said Mr.^tlansbroi "the edict has gone fogLh. from monopoly that I am 'to'.'be defei for the Senate of the rutted St! because I had the temev\i$, to ofi!( resolution to investigatejit." "The political fortun?, of a mai a grain of sand comped- with injustice that may be wi??ght by institution of this kindA I accept t challenge and am reads, to meet If the people of my S|ate desire have this monopoly control tl State they do not wanfyme as tl representative." Senator Beveridge declared t this statement of the activity of "harvester trust" was ?more impc ant than the reason to stop the i?v tigation of the trust, ?r. Beverie declared that be could not underst? how the investigation--could eff the action of the Department of J tice. If the Department should cure more information" ' against I trust than the Attorney^General n bas that would only assist in f prosecutions. House Still on Code Bill. Rapid progress was made in t House of Representatives ?vtbe cc sideration of the bill to codify a revise the penal laws'- ?i the Unit States. The only amer Iment of a; importance which gotyfhrough w one""by"'which ' Mr.' ~(5??M ??nies; " Kentucky, making it . a criminal c fense under heavy penalty,-to falsi government crop statistics, the obje of the amendment being to prote the cotton and tobacco growers fro speculators. Over fifty pages of tl bill were disposed of. The amendment was adopted wit out division. The penalty prescribe under it is a fine of $5,000 and in prisonment. The House passed a bill providin for the holding at Salisbury, N. C., c terms of the United States distrh and circuit courts. ?xecpt for a political speech b Mr. Kimball, of Kentucky, thc prc ceedings were so monotous that at u time were a hundred members i their scats. Awards Not "Equitable." Senator Stone, of Missouri, pr? sented statistics of government dc posits in national banks to show tba the distribution of money during th recent currency stringency was no "equitable" as contemplated by th law governing the Treasury Depart ment. He declared that the Wes and South were discriminated aagins while New York and Boston wer? favored. His speech was on his reso lution pending in the Senate direct ing a committee to investigate and re port the facts in these transactions Mr. Stone read from official state ments showing that on August 22d 1907, there was deposited in national banks $143,282,393, and on Decem ber 3d, 1907, $222,177,750, an increase of $79,834,089 in three and one hall months. He found that this increase deposited was distributed so as tc give New England an increase of 47 per cent over the former amount placed there; the middle States an increase of 94 per cent ; the Southern States 35 per cent ; the middle West ern States 37 per cent; the Western States 10 'per cent, and the Pacific States 9 per cent. "These increase found," he.said., "show a startling condition in thc deposit of money in the different sections and show to my mind an in difference to, and an utter failure to observe the requirements of the j law." Big Dificit Threatened. The urgent deficiency appropria tion bill occupied the attention of the House to the exclusion of all other business. A surprise was sprung when Chair man Tawney, of the appropriations committee, warned thc members that the cont ry was confronted with the certainty of a $100,000,000 deficit un less the estimates for the next fiscal year should be cut down materially. The urgenc]' diflciency bill carries a total appropriation of $24,074,450. Able to Meet Obligations. Mr. Tawney declared that he deem? ed it bis duty to call attention to the necessity of keeping expendituref within the estimated revenues. "I do not make the statement for the pur pose of exciting alarm," he said, "oi for the purpose of exciting any ap prehension in the mind of any one regarding the ability of our gov?ro? ment to mest all of ita obligations now existing ov tkt thin Congres* may create.'1 MMB? WOMAN - . Voung Man Shot to Death in New York Restaurant A CAREFULLY PLANNED CRIME C?trrying Ont a Threat That She Would Kill Him in a Fublic Place, Mrs. Mary Clark, a Manicurist, Brutally Murders Frank Brady, Adverting Solicitor, in Macy's Cafo and Then Takes Her Own Life. New York, Special.-Sweeping through tho crowded restaurant which takes up the eighth floor of Macy's, department store, and into .he gentlemen's cafe, a tall, stylishly dressed woman bent for. a moment over the shoulder of a diner, whisp ered something in his ear, and then drawing a revolver from her muff emptied the contents of the five "h.ambers into his body. As the vic tim, Frank Brady, a newspaper ad vertising solicitor, slipped lifeless to the floor, the woman flung the weapon from her and taking a second re volver from her muff, shot herself first in the head and then twice in the breast. She died half an hour later. A note found in the woman's purse ?roved her to be Mrs. Mary Roberts Clark, a manicurist, the widow of a police officer and step-mother of a 6 . ear-old son, Raymond. Brady was '10 years old and thc sole support of <i helpless, aged mother, for whom 'io had made a home. Shooting Follows Quarrels. .Thc shooting was tho culmination >f a series of violent quarrels, and, according to the woman's intimates in fulfillment of a threat to murder Bradey in a public place. The suicide who was about 30 vcars of age, was Mary McLean when sho married John Roberts. When the 'atter died a year ago she assumed ?he name Clark and supported her self and chill first ns the wardrobe woman at ar uptown theatre, and ?heil as a manicurist. She was of a orepossessing appearance and had narked business ability. While abe was in prosperous circumstances and before the death of her husband. Brady had lodgings at her home and 3ho declared that she helped him to the success which he subsequently ?ttained. A few months age he left aer thorne and made a home for his mother, whom he brought here from Kew Jersey. Recenily Mrs. Clark thought that Brady was avoiding her and when he called at her homo oe cassionally they quarreled. Mrs. Clark went to her bank, made a cash deposit, wrote a note identi fying herself and referring the react sr to her attorney, and 'armed with three revolvers went to the store where she knew that Brady usually lunched. SVe made her woy hastily to a ?mall smoking room for gentlemen guests off the main dining hall. The big room was filled with women who were lunching after the morning's shopping, and amid the buzz of con versation her agitated ' manner at tracted the attention only of the waitresses. In a moment she stood behind Brady's chair and spoke to him. Be fore he had time to reply she had shoved a revolver in his face and commenced firing. The head, the neck, the shoulder, the breast and the abdomen were successively pierced by bullets, and Brady lay dead at her feet. Take3 Her Own Life. Giving one glance to the half-doz en men nearby who were momentar ily stunned by the pitiless murder, Mrs. Clark whipped anothtr revolver from her furs and put a bullet near her right ear and two others in her bosom. The report of the discharges creat ed consternation and there was a rush for the elevators. The employes' of the place quickly closed the doors, shutting off a view of the smoking room. " The Big Fleet Leaves Rio. Rio Janeiro," By Cable-To the booming of guns and the cheers of thousands of tlie accompanying pleasure crafts, the American war ships sailed from Rio Jeneiro Wed nesday afternoon, bound for Punta Irenas, on the Magellan strait. Ten days will bring the fleet almost mid way on its 14.000 mile cruise to San Francisco and thc ships and the men camed with them the Godspeed and good wishes of the whole Brazialian nation. Gold Coin Missing From Kow Or leans Sub-Treasury. New Orleans, La., Special.-An nouncement that a bag containing $830 in tinder-weight gold coin had been stolen from thc New Orleans sub-treasury was made. The coin disappeared Tuesday and the short age resulting has been made , good by the officials who hail the gold in charge. Try to Dynamite Tobacco Factory. Clark?ville, Tenn., Special.-An at tempt was mado to set fire and dyna mite the loose tobacco factory of the Hayes-Sorey Tobacco Company, local representatives of the Italian Regies. Two negroes, Tony Allen and Walter Watkins, alias Frog Eye, were killed whilo trying to escape from ono of the night watebmeu. Ono other ne gro escaped, but is thought to have been wounded, Late JV etas I In Brief ?A | MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST f The stones of plots to blow up Am encan warships- are found to be em anating from Paris. Fifteen survivors of the wrecked barkentino Dundonald lived eight months on uninhabited islands off New Zealand. - Archbishop Riordan, of San Fran cisco, had a farewell audience with the Pope. . Lord Curzon was elected a repres entative Irish Peer in Parliament. A Filipino governor was shot dead after his election by a defeated rival. Rebate cases involving the packers were argued in the United States Su preme Court. Comptroller Ridgley disapproved the Oklahoma State plan to have nat ional banks guarantee deposits in other banks. Militia officers will be given riding tests during the next army maneu vers. Secretary of Navy Metcalf will send the Brownson letters to Con gress, but when he declines to say. A falling off of 2,234 in a month is the latest Japanese immigration re port. Senator Aldrich declared his cur rency bill or none would bo adopted and received Secretary Cortelyou's excuses for not sending needed infor mation. Immigration -restriction and cur rency gave rise to a hot debate in-the House. Plans for an army of 400,000 men were told in conference to a House committee by President Witherspoon, of tho War College. Several important bills will be' act ed upon this week by the Virginia Legislature. A petition for a receiver for the Public Service Corporation of Vir ginia was filed iu the United States Court at Norfolk. . The birthday of Gen. Robert E Lee was celebrated throughout Vir ginia, business being suspended in a number of cities. Governor Dawson and other'West Virginia State officials have signed a petition to the Governor of Kentucky for a pardon for Caleb Powers. The Pennsylvania SujCsnie Court declared the 2-cent rate ?aw uncon stitutional. -Evelyn Nesbit Thaw repeated on the witness stand her story of a year ago. Senator Foraker proposes tho/ "?a'frbV?fi6w?d; to get Ifco^iouc -del*, gates-at-large from Ohio, but that a fight be made for the district repres entatives. The New York grand jury has^fflH? pointed a commttee tp-r^vostigate banks and J^lf^^rvi<#. e^-pora tions. ~ A committee representing the" hold ers of a largo amount of debt has formulated a plan to readjust thc fin ances of the Westinghouse Company. According to tho Wiltzius Catholic Directory, there are 22,01S,S7S Catii olics living under the American flag A ne?rro who says he is 13G years old, secured a license and married a woman 2S years old in New York. The Supremo Court of Missouri de clared unconstitutional the law which makes it illgal for foreign corpora tions to take cases from the State to the Federal courts. The House committee is to hold Dublic hearings on the currency bills. Ch?rkes of malfeasance in office have been made against Police In spector Whitaker, chief cf New Or leans police, for shooting at J. M. Leveque, a newspaper editor. In spite of his disclaimer, the re port that Secretary Cortelyou will resign is generally believed. President Roosevelt is said to favor the Hobson plan of building five bat tleships each year. J. D. Logan, aged 06, a Chattanoo ga night watchman, was killed by a blow on the head from some heavy instrument. The body was after wards placed in a small frame shed which was then set on fire. When found by firemen it was burned al most beyond recognition. The steamship Kirnwood has ar rived at Darien, Ga., with Capt. C. W. Bates and his wife and six men off the schooner Malden, of Boston, Mass. The schooner was abandoned 320 miles to the eastward of-Jackson ville bar, January 14th. Claude M. Crude of Roanoke, com mitted suicide. The Oatsburg mine of the Monon gah Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, located near Monongah City, Pa., is reported burning. Forty men were at work in tho mine, but whether they have perished is not yet known. Hermon Ridder, of New York, made an address in praise of the Ger man-Amercan in Charleston, S. C. Judge St. Paul, of New Orleans, apologized to Senator Caff rey's so:i ?ad adverted a duel. Former Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, fell three votes short of thc number necessnry to elect bim Senator. Secretary Metcalf will prtb/uly not send the Brownson memorandum to the House iu responso to the Gill resolution. The corouer's jury at Fairmont, W. Va., iu its verdict concerning the Monongah raine disaster, finds that tho explosion wa9 duo either to a blown-out ihot or to ignition of pow der, and tho corapa* not blamed. Wm. SCHWEIGERT, A. S, Prest. August Offers the Citze SAFE, CONS] CONVENIENT 4 Per Cen ll Ta?meit? i I The News of South Caro ?WW? 8-M-fr^W-M-ir >l 8411 B'l't" 4 Kew President For Watts Mills. Laurens, Special-At a meeting of the board of directors of the Watts cotton mills, held here last week, Alax Long, of Rock Hill was elected president and treasurer to succeed tho late W. E. Lucas and M. L. Cope land of Laurens was cl.osen as assist ant to the president and treasurer. Mr. Long who is president of the Aragon cotton mills at Rock Hill wili continue to reside in that town and will give half of his time to Watti mills, while Mr. Copeland in his posi tion will devote his entire time" to his new duties. The new president is au experienced mill man, having fill ed fhe position of secretary of the Laurens cotton mills under President Lucas for a number of years and for some time in the same capacity with the Watts mills and tho Darlington Manufacturing company. Two years ago ho went to Rock Hill and assist ed in building thc Aragon mill, which is now in operation under his man agement." Mr. Copeland was also elected as successor to Mr. Lucas on the board of directors. ' Eegro Killed , in Cotton Gin. Clinton, Special.-Albert* Dash, col ored, of Goldville, died of injuries received on Friday in a ginnery. It seems that thc negro went intb the lower part of Mr. J: S. Blalock's giiir nery to put a loose belt on a rapid-, j ly revolving pulley: In soi coa*; was caught in thc pull? Tvasf wlnrled aroiunV feet and lu<e?j^t??ku-rg" floor _QZT t,!ie building > r??tx dot?e. ' Mr. Berrry Hunter., who"'is' emnloyed ia thc' eriim^; bearing his ttries,.fuskj$~te"*???s aid, but could ac |C^B?K5??' nothing, being knocked in- j sensible by being struck in the face by the negro's swiftly moving feet. It was at first thought that Mr. Hun ter was fatally injured; but he recov ered quickly and is now out again. Both of the negro's knees were dis located and his feet were beaten to a pi#. Spartan Cotton Growers. Spartanburg, Special.-At the an nual meeting rf the county cotton growers' association held in tho co'*"' house officers were elected for thc ensuing year, after which dele gates to the State convention to be held in Columbia Friday, Feb. 7, were elected. E. L. Archer, who has been the president of the county as sociation since its organization, waa reelected president; Dr. Ralph H. Smith, vice president; L. G. Miller, secretary and . trea*sux-er, these two offices living been consolidated. J. H. Gosnell and S. S. Hunter were elect ed delegates to the State convention. L. G. Miller and Dr. R. H. Smith wcro elected alternates. Tax Collection ir. Chester. Chester, Special.-Comparison of, figures in the collection of taxes ci'.j past two years shows quite a dis-j parity. Of the total levy of $36,-1 142.57 for 1906 the sum uncollected on Jan. 1, 1907, was $13,975.47; from a levy of $36,217.69 for 1907 there was uncollected Jan. 1, 1908, the sum of $25,080.57. Ex-Congressman Jno. J. Ilemphill, now of Washington, D. C., returning from attendance on tho meeting of the State Bar association i.n Columbia, spent Saturday and Sunday litre with his mother. Mr. R. L. Wylie of Clover is here on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Mary Miller. The county pension board met here Sat urday and approved several applica tions. Struck by a Train. Manning, Special.-A white man giving his name as James McIntosh, but identified by citizens herc as Tom McIntosh, was struck by train No. 46. Orangeburg to Florence, near Brog-J don's Thursday morning about 10.15 and was brought here for medical J attention. The doctor found his, right r.rm broken and his back se-! verely bruised. Rock Hill Division Abolished, Rock Hill, Special.-On February j 1 thc Rock Eiil division of the Southern will be abolished and ev erything, with the possible exception of a dispatcher's office, will be run; from Charleston as a part of that; division. With thc division Mr. Ne well, the superintendent, goes out' but it is stated that he will be pro- ' vided for otherwise. There will at; present be co curtailing of trains or changea of schedule as erroneously reported, f interest. 18 a ii a i nt Bl cot 1 M IM* ?j? Affairs lina in Condensed Form \<\\ 111 a I m i i Ul C 3 8 i Milt J 9 Head of Negro Woman. ? Columbia, Special.-It iieeras that tho. alleged .murder* of fae Martin' woman by her husband; G<.*orge Mar tin, will not down, althoug-h the jury . of inquest found tbat there was no. evidence of-violence. Upon ?thia ver dict the negro defendant was releas ed, but later great excitment was created by the discover}' of the head of a negro woman on Embargo street. There were at once many rumors afloat but- it developed that it wa? the head of the'Martin woman which had been severed ffpm the body fer the purpose of making an . examina tion to ascertain whether or not sh? came to her deathes a result of vio lence. It has been difficult to ascer tain how the head came to be buried only a short distance from the bust- ' ness portion of the city and only a foot below the surface but it baa been again interred and it is believea that the incident is now closed for good. State Optical Association. Columbia, Special-The annual meeting of the South Carolina Opti cal association was1 held - here last week. Several interesting papers . were read. It was decided to affi liate with tho national association. The. election of officers for the South Carolina association was b?ld and re- , suited as follows: President, Gustaf vice presi 'B?nnettsville; Robbins, Columbia; W7 F. Strieker, Chester; Z. F. Highsmith, Sumter; executive committee, R. H. Alan, Charleston; P. H. Lachicotte, Co lumbia; J. C. Robinson, Chester; A. C. Strickland, Anderson. Good Showing For Bank. . Chester, Special.-The report at the recent annual meeting of the stockholders of the Commercial bank showed a net earning of IS 1-2 per cent, for last year. The old board of directors were re-elected as fol lows: A. G. Brice, J. M. Wise, A. L. Gaston, M. A. Carpenter, S. B. Lath an, George W. Gage, W. A. Cornwell, R. B. Caldwell and Robt. Gage. The directors met and re-elected the fol lowing officers: A. G. Brice, presi dent; R. B. Caldwell, vice president; Robt. Gage, cashier; A. G. Thorn ton, assistant cashier; R. 0. Thorn ton, cellection clerk. lien Law Eepsaled. Columbia, Special.-The Hous? of Representatives repealed by a vote of four to one the merchants' clause of. the lien law, which was enacted 41 years ago at the close of the civil war to provide means of credit to farmers wiped out by war. The law provides for mortgaging crops for supplies from merchants. The State Farmers' Union demanded a repeal in order to pre'^nt so much cotton from going on tue market in the fall. The repeal of the bill will pass the Senate. Fire Protection For Gaffney. Gaffney, Special.-Gaff ney's city council is arranging to give the cit/ more adequate fire protection. They have purchased a splendid hose wag on and will as soon as they can pur chase two good horses. They ivill also employ an experienced man properly-to install the fire apparatus , and see that same is put in proper"': working order. New Church For Latta. Latta, Special.-The Baptists of this town have decided to build a new church in the near future. The build ing, which will be very handsome, ia to cost between $12,000 and $14,Q00 Thc larger part of this amount has already boen subscribed and it ia .onfidentl} expected that the entire sum will bc available by February 1. Conductor Philpot Kurt, Columbia, Special. - Conductor Philpot of Columbia was. injured Wednesday morning in a wreck which occurred on the Southern, near Tren ton. A freight train from Columbia to Augusta was wrecked one mile this side of Trenton, 14 cars being derailed and a number of- them going over an embankment. Seven of the ears were filled with coal, which ne cessitated shout 10 hours to clear the tracks for other Uaiu?,