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SEMI-WEEKLY L A N CAS T E k, S. C., SEPTEMHER, 13, 1905. ' ABLISHED 1852.
r.#AAM.,!ii. r. -j 1 1 """ - - -
uiccimiic unnu jury
Reports Irregularities.
Member of County Bonul Over*
drew Their Buy-Other County
Officers Due Small
Amounts.
Special to The Stale.
Greenville, ^Sept. 9 ?Six former
membors of the county hoard
,.f i
VWHIIUI Mini IIUVU IIVAJ1U I'll W I]
their bularios iti amounts varying
from $30 to $022. four having
paul tho money hack to the county
treasurer and two refusing to
pay; one beer dispenser duo nearly
$1,000 on August 1, which ho
has siuco paid; another beer dispen.-er
tho grand jury chinks is
due about $50 and iho case ib referred
to tho solicitor; former
register of mesne conveyance
short about $170, which he has
since paid; one magistrate duo
county $12, which has Mince been
paid; recommendation that special
committeo investigate books of
former registers of inesno conveyance;
only two or three magistrates
muking monthly reports
mm iciiinis 10 auauor una treasurer
as required by luw.
The ubovo are some of the
items that go to make up one of
tho most sensational grand jury
reports thai has been handed in
for a loug while.
By way of introduction to the
repoit of tho grand jury it should
be said that most of the shortages
referred to above are sums of
money that for one reason or another1,
iu several instances were
duo to misunderstanding on the
parts of the officials involved,
and were promptly paid by the
ones interested when fho matter
was brought to tho?r attention.
Kiiled by Stale Senator E. S.
Blease.
Charleston, S. C , Sept. 8. ? A
special from Saluda, S. C., says
tK..i IJ /'-I 11
lum iiwo ijuu v/nitiniKii, a wenknown
citizon of that town, was
shot, and it is believed fatally in111
rod, by State Senator E. S.
Bleuse. The encounter was on
the main street and Ooleraan received
four wounds. Blease surrendered
to the sheriff. No further
particulars aro known hero.
(Mr. Blease was brother in-law
to dead man. He is u brothor to
Senator Colo L. Clease, who figures
so prominently in the dispensary
investigation. One is
Sonator of Newberry and the other
Sonator from Saluda, adjoining
counties.)
Saludu, Sept. !). ? "The death
of Mr. Joe Ben Coleman on yes
terday was caused on account of
tbo discovery by me of intimate
relations existing between Mr.
Coleman and Mrs. Blease," said
Mr. E. S. Blease to a newspaper
correspondent today.
SICKENING "lUVEKING FIT
of Augue and Malaria, can t>e relieved
and cured witb Electric
Bitters. This ii\ a pure, tonic
medicine; of especial benefit in
malaria, for it exerts a true curative
inliuenco on tbo disease, driving
it entirely out of the ays em.
It is much to be preferred to Quinine,
having none of this drug'*
bad after-effects. E. S Monday,
of Henrietta, Tex., writes: 4,IVly
brother wan very low wish malarit.l
fever and jaundice, till ho took
Electric Bittern, which saved his
life. At Crawford Bros., J. F.
Maokey & Co. and Fundorhork
Pharmacy drug stores; price 50c,
guaranteed.
Will Kaisc lunds.
The Cotton Grower* Adopt u plan
to Provide Means for Main*
i ...
tuising the A ?social i >n. ]
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Asheville, September 8.?At i
the morniug session of the South- <
era Cotton Association the report 1
of the tiounciul committee was (
heard unit adopted. The commit* t
tee recommended that a general 1
lield ttgoni Miul oigunizjr for the (
nation, us well us for the State, i
organizations, be appointed, wiioso ?
chief duty it shall he to eolket
funds fo- the carrying out of the i
Association's aims mid objects. <
It is intended to raise $100,000 i
for the National Association and i
$100,000 each for the State and \
county associations. To secure 1
those funds a tux of three csnts on <
each hula of r?ntt-??r? r.?i^n/l l.? i
" -"J ? " - I
hers of the Association will bo lo- <
vied. The repot t named E D. i
Smith, of Columbia, S. C., as the \
held agent. It was not adopted, 1
however, without vigorous discus- 1
sion. It was advocated by (/lark <
of Mississippi; Blown, of North I
Carolina; Hyatt, of South Caro l- I
mi, and Moody, of Alabama, ai d <
opposed by Brook, of Alabama. i
Census Report on Cotton. ?
Washington, Sept. 8 ?The
census office to day issued a re- (
port of Ih x cotton ginned of the (
growth of 1005 to September 1, '*
1905, as follows: Counting round bales
as half btdos, 409,500 bales, (
as against 374,821 for 1904. :
The report by Slutes and Tor- (
ritories is given as follows: Ala- '
b.iQia, 1905, 50,593 bales; 1904, t
25,078. Arkansas, 1905, 50;
1904, 76 Florida, 1905, 2,38<>; *
1905, 1,950. Georgia, 1905, '
107,079; 1904, 61,706. Indian <
Territory, 1905, 92; 1904, 1,055. (
Louisiana, 1905, 4,049; 1904, 1
5,453. Mississippi, 1905, 4,480; '
1904, 2,652 North Carolina, 5
1905, 3,024; 1904, 134. Okla- 1
homa, 1905, 11; 1904, 43. South
Carolina, 1905,37,733; 1904,4,- {
215. Tennessee, 1905, 2; 1904, 1
1 Texas, 1905, 258,801; 1904, <
271,871. 1
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To he Resentenced. '
O !*%.. ' ' 1
opuciai 10 ixews and Courier.
Columbia, Sept. 8 ? Do; uty !
Sheriff Ballingor, of Greenville,
came hero to-day and returned to
Greenville with Byrd ami Crca
well, tho two negro men who arc
undfr sentence for the killing cf
Magistrate Cox, of Greenville
County. Their appeal has been
dismissed by the Supremo Court
and the prisoners aro being 10
turned to bo resentenced. A. K.
A GKIM TRAGEDY
is daily enacted, in thousands of <
homes, as Death claims, in each
one, another victim of Consump- (
tion or Pneumonia. But when
Coughs and Colds aro prop
eily treated, tho tragedy i* avert- 1
ed. F. G. Huntley, of Oaklandon, 1
Ind , wiites: "My wife had the i
consumption, and three doctor, i
gave her up. Finally she took Dr, i
King's New Discovery for Con- ,
sumption, Coughs and Coldse
which cured her, and to-day she 1
is well and strong." It kills the 1
germs of all diseases. One dos. 1
relieves Guaranteed at 50c and ]
1.00 by Crawford Bros., J. FMackoy
it Co. Fundorburk Phar.
macy, druggists. Trial bottle free ^
Subscribe (r.r Thr? T
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Senator Tillman's Speech
Last Friday.
Lancaster special of the Stl?
nstant to The News and Courier:
Ln response to a numerously
signed petition United States 1
Senator B. R. Tillman addressed
i Lancaster audience today on '
;he dispensary. He spoke on
Uourt House square and was attentively
listened to by 500 or
nore persons. A number of la- (
lies were in the audience and ;
Mayor Wylie introduced the :
speaker.
The Senator stated in his open- v:
ng remarksjthat it had been I
about eleven years since he had 1
spoken here, but he had address- :
cdLancaster people often enough 1
:o feel at home among them. ;
lie expressed his appreciation
af the frequent evidences in the past
by the citizens of Lancaster 1
)f their good will and confidence '
in him, which he would continue
:o strive to deserve. He wished I
:hat he could be let alone, but
kVould always respond to the (
call of the people, that he used ;
:o have somewhat of a reputation
as a fighter, though he never
had had but one or two personal
difficulties in his life, the 1
last being in Washington in the
Senate.
NOT TO MEDDLE.
He did not come here to med- ;
He in local affairs, but came be- ;
muse between three hundred
and four hundred citizens of
Lancaster petitioned him to
come and talk dispensary. "You
are competent," he said, "to decide
issues yourselves. You
aave always had the good sense
.o vote for me."
Taking up the dispensary the
Senator gave a complete his- 3
.ory of the system from its inception
down to the present. He
explained why from his standpoint.
tV?P ovio'inol 1
~ i^iuui iioai j
bill was substituted in the Sen- (
ate for the prohibition bill that :
had passed the House. He reviewed
the troubles he as Gov- 1
3rnor encountered in enforcing
the dispensary law, going into
details about the Darlington
riot and giving the history of
the dispensary in the courts,
both State and national.
He declared the statement
that he had tried to foist on the
people what they did not want
bore falsehood upon its face.
Realizing that men love whiskey
and will have it. he had in the
dispensary simply endeavored
to give the people a law that
would minimize the evils of liquor
selling and liquor drinking
and divert the profits from the
pockets of individuals to the
State, counties and municipalities.
Prohibition, he said, would
produce hypocrites and liars.
Edgefield tried prohibition once
and the drug stores proved to
be worse than saloons. The
only way to stop the making of
liquor is for the people to stop
drinking it, which they will never
do. The dispensary was designed
to reduce the evil as
much as possible. It was working
all right until the Legislature
began changing the law,
first taking its control out of
the hands of the Governor and
turning it over to a board of directors.
The Senator did not mince
words in referring to the members
of the State board. He
iaid they had ignored the pur- J
poses of the law, that there is |
no law for beer dispensaries,
that they had done enough
lawlessness either of omission
or commission to be removed, N
that Governor Hey ward should
call for their resignations and,
failing to get them, he should
chop oil' the directors' heads.
ACRES OF LABELS.
He alluded to a trip a director 1
is alleged to have made to Cin- c
cinnati, taking bids for labels t<
along in his pockets, and, while a
in that city, making a contract <1
for the printing of about "30 t<
acres of labels," enough to last 1
ten years probably. The Sena- t
tor characterized the directors >
as cheap $100 a year fellows, n
managing a three and a half ??
million dollar business. He said
be would give his salary for a 1'
year as Senator to be Governor t
three months in order to "clean l<
out the infernal machine."
Instead of voting out the dis- d
pensary and thereby losing the ?
revenue and having the country ?
overrun with blind tigers, Sen- i<
ntnv 'Tillrii'in I
jLiiun.ui auviocu HIO JitJUpiG ; li
to send men to the Legislature j t<
who will purify the system, js
"Don't destroy the law," he do- f<
clared, "because a lot of fellows t?
in Columbia have debauched it." u
If you have not sense enough ?>
to make a good law you must U
suffer like all fools for lack of 1:
gray matter in your heads." t!
WANTS AN EXTRA SESSION. c
Referring again to the State r
board the; Senator said that if f
the Gove rnor does not see proper
to vewivve, its members,, since e
they had proved their unfitness v
to fill the position, he should h
call an extra session of the Leg- tl
islatnre. Senator Tillman em- U
phasized the loss that the schools <j
will sustain if the dispensary is tl
killed. "You country people," A
he said, "for the first time in the fi
history of liquor selling and li-1 w
quor drinking, are now getting
some returns from the sales of o:
whiskey. You have had your w
school terms increased, which b
will he reduced if you vote out k
the dispensary." h
Toward the close of the Sena- tl
tor's speech he engaged in a|?
good natured colloquy with the
lion. Mat Hough, of Chester ti
County, which began by the I
latter asking Tillman if he did
not think drinking had increased
in the last five years. t
The Senator replied that such j
was probably the case, but the t
increase was due to the dispen-1 a
saw in'iiAwI ? 1. '
j .vivu tnuse |
provisions of the law intended j
to curtail sales, such as the re- r
quest feature, etc. t
Mr. Hough said something t
about seeing wine on the Sena- ..
tor's table, which the latter did ,
not deny.
Senator Tillman's speech made
a good impression, evidently t
strengthening the dispensary's j
cause in this county. C. T. C.
Indicted for Cabling ballots at 1
t
Two PieeinctH.
e
Special to News and Courier.
Columbia, Sept. 8. ? Solicitor
I
l'liimornian will at the next term ^
ot Court draw up another bill
ngainst J. 1>. Drawdy, charging
him with perjury, in that he voted
twice at the August election }
of 1904. The bill Would havo 1
been drawn up at this term, a* re- v
(pleated by the grand jury, but
that body has been discharged for t
this term and a bill could not be d
presented. 1
{and Powder Mills
Entirely Wiped Out.
Jinctcon of tho Kmployes A t o
Known to bo IJoad -Won.
Seven Kxploaions in All
Connellsville, Fa., Sept. 9.?
ho Kami i'owder mills at Fairbanco,
six miles south of Unionown,
wore entirely wiped out by
n explosion at 9.05 o'clock toay.
Of the 32 men who went
a work in the mill this morning,
9 are known to bo dead. Of
hose 13 have boon identified,
linemen, including ('. M. Umd,
fiamgcr of the plant, wore m ijusly
injured.
Scores of people in the town of
airchauce, within half a mile of
he powder mills, were mote or
,'ss painfully injured.
The shock of the explosion was
istinotly felt m Conntllsville, 20
i.\unr Ivnil I....' l--.:? - - 1
>><<11 WUlllg IOCKi!
on their fouudulion. At Chin
town hundredth of panes of
lasses were broken. in the
iavii of Kiiirchar.cc there i>
carecly a house that did not mf*
L?r damage. The bides were Watered
as though axes had heen
sod. Hay atucka were toppled
ver in the fields and live stock
.ore stoned. The mils of the
lallimoro and Ohio railway and
he West Pennsylvania Traction
ompany wero rooted from the
oud bed and traffic was delayed
roni four to six hours.
When the bodies were recover-;
d the work of identification was
cry difficult." Sinai!" pieces bf
udies were picked up all over
ho place. These weie not col
?cted together and many sections
f bodies were thrown back into
10 debris whero they were found,
dmost a half mile mountain ward
roni the plant an office oversleeve
'et with blood was picked up.
The hole whero the magazine
xplodcd is about 15 feet deep
nd 50 yard-square. The earth,
lack and soggy, is thro.vn up in
ugo chunks, some of thvni weighlg
a hundred pounds. Under
le high banks of earth thrown
p at this place workmen ire
forking with picks trying to get
race of moro bodies.
Asking ifor New Trial.
Thomasville, Sept. ?The mo.
ion for a new trial in the eases of
. G. Hawlings and bis sons, NLilon,
.Jesse and JUeonard, will lie
rgued at the Thomasville Court
louse boforo Superior Court
ludgo Robert G. Mitchell tumor-'
ow morning at 10 o'clock. At
ornoy John N. Cooper arrived
his ufternoon from Macou and
Solicitor Thomas will !jo hero at
nidnight.
Cooper will put up a hard light
ind has a long list of reasons why
ho now trial should ho granted,
lo scorns hopeful of such a reult,
but tho general opinion is
hat tho matter will ho cairied to
he Supreme Court, Judge Mitch>11
denying the motion.
Tho llawlingses wore sentenced
o ho hanged Soptemher 17 for
ho murder of two children of the
{ov. W. A. Carter, at Hahira.
USED FOdT PNEUMONIA.
Dr. C. J. Bishop of Agnew,
dich., says, 4kI have used Foleys
loney and Tar in three very score
cas< h of pneumonia with
ood results in every case, Reuse
substitutes. Sold by Fun*
lorburk Pharmacy C. O. Floyd
Cersbaw, S. C.
Earthquake Kills Many.
i'he Inutilities Ate l'laee 1 'it 370
and tl o Ivucnt ol the l'rop
oily Li as Cannot he Kstimnlcd.
I
Rome, September 8. All Italyis
tjull'i'fir.i* from terrible depiessioti
because of tlit? news from the
m)u11'< where one of the worst
I curtl.tpiukcs e\er experienced oe|cnrrcd
today. Although the earth(piuVe
w is felt all over v'lilubiiii
and to a certain extent in Sicily,
the worst news came from l'i/.zo
and Monti'leoiie and from lb villages
which are said to have Ween
completely destroyed. According
t > the latest news received
390 persons have been kilted and
a great numher injured. It is as
yet impossible to even estimate
the property losses.
The shock whs felt at 2 55
o'clock this morning. It lasted for
18 seconds ut Cahur/ it and soon
thereafter was felt at Messier,
i .? : . m - i
.u'niiouioni', Mariirnno,
Stefacon:, Piscopio, Tnbarni,
Zamtnaro, (Jossaniti, Xuidu, Oli
vadi and olhcr point-.
Scones of indescribable terror
ensued.
Club Meinbe.'s Make Alii luvits
\y 1*ich Relieve Them of Fines.
Special to 1 he State.
Ncwberr j, Sept. 'J. ? W. A.
Fant and \Y. C. Tyrco, recently
fined ?75 each for gambling, appealed
before Mil} or Crouicr this
ruoi-niug and mado afliduvit that
they were not playing for money,
in couse<juenco of which the mayor
remitted their lines ami dis;
missed the case. Mayor Cromer
had said in course of a public
communication "if any one of
these gentlemen will appear and
swear that they were not playing
for money, 1 will remit his lino
and dismiss his ca>e." When
Messrs. Tyrcoand Fant appeared
this morning, the evidence of
Policeman lvoon was read to them
word for word, they were sworn,
and each mado allidavit "that ho
has seen the testimony of Butler
K. lvoon in this case, that in tho
game of cards in the Palmetto
club rooms on the night of Au
I gust 2S, L'.?05, concerning which
tho said Culler K. Koon testified
in this ease, the defendants were
not playing for money, and there
was no money on the table."
Policeman Koon publicly states
that he will immediately ta.ro
steps to prosecute Messrs. Kant
and Tyreo for pei jury.
\Vant a New County.
Special to News and Courier.
Columbia, Sept. h. ? It is understood
that eHurts are being
made to establish a new county
out ot parts of Spartanburg and
Greenville counties. The dan is
to have a new county, with '
Greer's as the county seat. l'ho
matter is still in the formative
pel iod.
Cotton Ciroweis Adjourn.
Ashcvillo, Sept. ?The South
ern Cotton Growers' Association,
in session at Kenilworth Inn, ad
journed tonight to meet again in
November at Hot Spring?, Ark.
A meeting will also bo hold in
January at Moutg m ry, Aia?
?Save money by buying school
books Irom H C. Hough.