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.Scraps and Jacts. ? Independence, la., Nov. 24: Mrs. William McWilliams and her five children, ranging from three to eight years in age, were slain at their farm home today and the husband and father was arrested at Independence tonight, charged with the killing of the members of his family. He declares himself to be Innocent. Bach person had been killed with a ham mer blow on the head. Mrs. McWil-| liams was atrociously beaten, and a few knife thrusts had been Inflicted on the crushed body. In the woman's rigid arms lay the corpse of the threeyear-old baby, its hood, coat and mittens on, a piece of buttered bread in one hand. The baby had been killed by one blow of a hammer on the head. The other children lay about the house, dressed in working clothes. It is thought that the mother and baby were killed first and that then the children had been called into the house one at a time and struck dead with the hammer. There was little evidence of a struggle. ? Says a London dispatch of Nov. 25: The sultan's defiance of Europe has quickly become the subject of paramount international importance. Not only has he adopted the attitude foreshadowed in these despatches a week ago, but he retorts to the demands of the powers with scarcely a veiled threat of the massacre of the Christian population of European Turkey if coercion is attempted. The majority of the powers still profess to believe that Abdul Hamid will concede everything, as he always has anno h?rotnfore when a naval demon stratton proved the reality of purpose of a concert of Europe. Information from Constantinople and other Islam sources is of quite the opposite character and indicates that th? time has at last arrived when the Moslem world Is prepared to resist with all its resources the encroachment of the civilized world. The outside world, including European statesmen; takes little cognizance of Moslem public opinion. It Is a factor, nevertheless, which the sultan himself does not dare to ignore in its present condition. Intelligent Mussulmans deeply resent the attitude of Europe at this juncture. They point out that the Christian nations propose to discipline the Turks while they look on with indifference to the massacres of the Jews by Christians in Russia, worse than any Macedonian outrages on record. They deduce from Europe's policy that the pretended motives of reform are shams; otherwise similar tactics would have been adopted toward Russia. The present movement is, in their opinion, simply ? diseuised plan to drive out Turkish rule from Europe. That issue they are prepared to meet. In accordance with their repeated declarations, by the desperate resistance of the whole Moslem world. ? New Orleans, Nov. 24: Secretary Hester's weekly cotton statement, issued today, shows for the twenty-four days "of November, a decrease under last year of 120,000 and a decrease under the same period year before last of 193,000. For the 85 days of the season that have elapsed the aggre gate is behind the same days of last year 596,000 and ahead of the same days year before last 385.000. The amount brought into sight during the past week has been 619,093 bales, against 498,951 for the same seven days last year and 561,203 year before last. The movement since Sept. 1st shows receipts at all United States ports to be 3,783,433, against 4,146,986 last year. Overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada, 190,697, against 281,082 last year, interior stocks In excess of those held at the close of the commercial year 473,183, against 594,298 last year. Southern mills' takings 639,000, against 614,999 last year. The total movement since - - !?? K C 9 7 Sept. 1 18 b,U41,01O, aguiuai u,v?i,v.? last year. Foreign exports for the week have been 142,818, against 278,951 last year, making the total thus far for the season 2,151,473, against 2.848,048 last year. The total takings of American mills, north, south and Canada, thus far for the season, have been 1,349,814, against 1,337,285 last year. These include 703,636 by northern spinners, against 716,306. Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty-nine leading southern interior centres have increased during the week 218,355 bales, against an increase during the corresponding period of last season of 73.783. Including stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far from the new crop, the supply to date is 5,485,844, against 5,799,332 for the same period last year. ? Sebastopol, Russia's great stronghold on the Black sea, is in the hands of mutinous sailors and soldiers. The mutiny had been under consideration for months and things came to a head last Friday, when eight sailors seized their officers and expelled them from thejr barracks, a rear auimrai took a company of troops a.id ordered the sailors to disperse. The sailors refused to disperse, and the rear admiral ordered the troops to tire upon them. Two shots rang out in response to the order, and a cap.aln fell dead while the rear admiral went down with a ball in his shouldir. During the night the sailors proceeded to organize, and decided upon a programme pledging themselves to abstain from pillage and murder, and from indulgence in vodka. On Saturday they were joined by a large number of workmen, and displaying the banner of St. George, and numerous red llags, they marched in procession to the barracks of the Brest regiment. The officers of the regiment ordered their men to tire on the mutineers, but the men refused, and the officers were taken prisoners and sent under escort to the marine prison. The mutineers, reinforced by the soldiers of the regiment and now 10.000 strong, marched through the city. Later they encountered several companies with a machine gun battery. The bands of the mutineers begun playing the national anthem and the bands of the soldiers answered. Both sides cheered. The soldiers marched away at the order of their commander, all save those connected with the bat.ery. These remained with the mutineers and participated in a conference. After the conference the procession formed again and went to the barracks of the Bielos.ok regiment, where there were other companies, but these companies also declined the invitation of the mutineers to join them. In the afternoon the sailors from the barracks signalled their comrades aboard the warships to join them, and also sent a deputation to Vice Admiral Chouknin requesting him to come to the sailors' barracks and hear their grievances. But the admiral in a short Speech in which he pointed out the madness and criminality of their actions and the dreadful penalties to which they had subjected themselves, declined to accede to the request. The sailors thus far have comported themselves well. The city Is panic stricken and the inhabitants are fleeing. Saturday evening the mutineers stopper the train in order to prevent the arrival of troops from Simferopot and many persons left on foot and in cabs, wagons or any other kind of vehicle available. ^Inrkrillr (^noutrrr - YORKVILLE, S. C.J TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2S. 1 >05. There are scores of so-called patent medicines that are really nothing more or less than preparations of alcohol Intended as substitutes for whisky. They are advertised as remedies for ailments of all kinds, and are readily sold on sample. The counties that have voted out the dispensary Include a majority of the white voters of the state; but still there are those in high authority who are not yet willing to admit that the dispensary law is a complete failure. They are unable to lose sight of the splendid graft feature. Thomas W. Lawson, who some months ago announced his purpose to try to control the reorganization of the New York Life and the Mutual Life Insurance companies, and asked for the proxies of all policy holders who were willing to trust him, claims now to have enough proxies to name such officers as he may choose. Mr. Lawson may be talking just a little fast in the matter; but if it is a fact that he has the necessary proxies, he will make it rather warm for some of his old enemies including Mr. Rogers and probably Mr. William Rockefeller. The question as to what the Democrats of the house are going to do with W. R. Hearst for opposing the Tammany organization in New York is pressing for settlement. Tammany, of course. Is very bitter against Mr. Hearst and the understanding is that John Sharp Williams, the leader of the Democratic minority in the house, is receiving hundreds of letters urging that Hearst be denied the privilege of entering the Democratic caucus. A number of southern Democrats are doubtful as to the wisdom of such a step as they believe it would make a martyr of Mr. Hearst and would do him much more good than harm. Although it has been evident for some time that order cannot be restored in Russia except at the end of a bloody and exhaus.ive revolution, and that such a revolution is inevitable, it has not yet become clear just how the revolution Is to break out or how the conflicting forces are to be divided. But now there seems to be a starting place at Sebastopol. The sailors and troops there are in open rebellion against the government, and it is up to the government to squarely Join the issue. With the spirit of mutiny so strong, however, throughout both the army and the navy, it is difficult to see where the government is going to get its support. The possibility of a rupture between Russia and Turkey is receiving more or less consideration in Europe. Russia prevailed over Turkey as the result of the Russo-Turkish war, and as one of the conditions of peace Turkey agreed to pay Russia a large indemnity. Turkey did not volunteer actual payment and Russia never saw fit to press the collection of the money. Since the conclusion of the war between Russia and Japan, Turkey, now less fearful of Russia than formerly, has been spending a lot of money strengthening her fortifications on me Bosphorus and along the Black sea. Russia does not approve of these operations and the understanding is that she has advised Turkey that unless they are discontinued she will proceed with the collection of the old indemnity debt. Turkey has no idea of paying that debt, and so the matter goes. Fifteen Cents Cotton. There has been a lot of discussion of Harvie Jordan's threat to tie up three million bales of cotton and force the price of the remainder to fifteen cents a pound, and while there does not seem to be much disposition to question the ability of the president of the Southern cotton association to do this, the wisdom of such an undertaking Is being challenged in many quarters. President Jordan's attitude, we do not think there is any doubt, has been brought about by the attitude of the spinners. When the executive committee of the Southern Cotton association proposed 11 cents as a fair price for the staple the representatives of the spinners hooted at the idea. In the first place they really thought that 11 cents was too high, and in the second place, there is reason to believe that they had no idea that the cotton association was in a position to fix such a price. It was really a bluff 011 both sides. The executive committee of the cotton association had reason to believe that it would be backed to a certain extent uui just now lar inai uuimub tuuiu be (Ifponded upon, it had no definite id?a. The spinners really had little respect for the cotton association. Conscious of the fact that they had been making prices very much as they pleased heretofore, they believed that they could continue to do so, and their Participation in the Asheville confer nce was but little more than an act of patronizing policy. They hardly considered the situation as serious. President Jordan's recent manifesto is a development of events subsequent to the Asheville meeting. Not openly; but none the less certainly, the spinners went home and commenced fighting. They were unwilling to concede even the 11 cents that had been virtually agreed upon; but sought, as of old, to buy cotton as cheaply as possible, and through Price and other bear leaders the fight was waged with a fierce bitterness that has not been paralleled for many years. Finally after the tide of battle had swayed first one way and then the other, the reports and statistics fully developed the strength of the position of the Southern Cotton association, and hence President Jordan's fifteen cents manifesto. As to whether cotton is worth fifteen cents it is not necessary to argue. The price was once 5 cents and the producers had to take it because that was all they could get. If the producers can force the price to fifteen cents the spinners will have to pay because they cannot buy any cheaper. Fifteen cents is certainly as fair to both parties as was 5 cents, and if the spinners have to pay 15 cents under existing cirjcumstancfs they will only have them selves to blame. Had they been disposed to do the fair thing they could have arranged to have bought the crop at 11 cents. At least we so believe. Those who question the wisdom of President Jordan's move argue in the first place that 15 cen'.s cotton will curtail consumption and discourage a still further increase of spindleage. They fear also that such a price will not only stimulate overproduction in the south; but it will still further encourage experiments in Africa and elsewhere and work eventual harm to the agricultural Interests of the south. Just what the future has In s:ore along lines so tremendous as are those involved, we don't care to try to predict. There enter into the proposition .00 many things of which no intelligent account can be taken; but somehow we are inclined to endorse the action taken by President Jordan as likely to be productive of both present and future good to the southern cotton i-dustry. The idta of an advance agreement between the producers and the spinners as to the price of cotton is, we think, a good o le. If the spinners had been willing last summer at Ashevllle "here would have been but little trouble about such an agreement. The fact that there was no such agreement was more the fault of the spinners than of the producers. Now the producers. through their president, are trying to give the spinners a well deserved lesson and It Is hoped that they will succeed. It is quite possible Miat fifteen cents cotton may demoralize the cotton growers and result in the planting of the largest acreage, and the consequent production of the largest crop that has ever been known; but the resulting conditions cannot be any worse than those with which the present generation is thoroughly familiar, and iust as those conditions once regulated themselves, they can. if they come about, do so again. The immediate question of the greatest concern, as we see it. Is not what effect 15 cents will have on the future; but can we get 15 cents for the balance of the crop. If we can get 15 cents now we will be better able to take care of ourselves when the price goes down again. UP TO SENATOR TILLMAN. Splendid Opportunity In Connection With the Rate Bill. The following interesting article is from W. W. Price the Washington correspondent of The Columbia Record: Senator Tillman at last has the opportunity to shdw whether he has the capacity of a leader in national politics. He came to the United States senate under a cloud of prejudice, due to the general impression of him throughout the country created by the newspaper articles sent out from his own state. Possessing many qualities of rugged honesty and native ability, but mistaking the senate for an audience of "one gallus" boys he was addressing from a stump In South Carlina, he did not make the headway he had hoped. His oratorical pitchfork, which he boasted would turn the alleged corrupt senate into a body of cringing, repentant, discredited beings. failed to pitch anybody. Every time he brandished it he got into trouble. It was like butting against the stone wall. The staid, immovable old senate, the one body that President Roosevelt can not sway with his great political power, refused to regard Tillman as a bloody scarecrow or as being able to revolutionize anything. When Tillman saw that his measure had been well taken and that it was one thing to whoop it up to the farmers of South Carolina and another to turn the senate and the nation upside down, he got on to a few dots that did him good. Slowly. like a pot of very hot home made soap, he simmered down and his usefulness in the senate began. After he had learned his lesson he found that the senators began to look upon him with more favor. He has been in the senate ten years now and has grown to be tractable, patient, even has a soft pedal on his voice and his movements. He has some real influence in the body he sits in. and his time to show what he Is made out of has come. Senator Tillman Is the ranking minority member of the senate committee on interstate commerce. That committee is now in session to make a report to the senate on railroad rate legislation. The committee is badly divided. As the suposed leader of the five Democrats on the committee Senator Tillman ought to have great influence in presenting a document that will make its mark. There are eight Republicans a.iul five Democrats. Of the Republicans, Senators El kins. Aldrlch, Kean, Foraker and Millard, of Nebraska, are either opposed outright to the plans of the president or will refuse to accede to what they regard as the radical legislation he wants. The remaining three Republicans, Cullom. Dolliver and Olapp, of Minnesota, are understood to favor whatever the president wants. Cullom and Dolliver are both candidates for reelection and must soon go before the people. The majority of the Republicans, therefore, will not produce a measure that agrees with the wants of the president. Will the five Democrats unite upon a measure embodying Democratic and Roosevelt views ami leave it to the three Republicans to support their measure or will they support the bill of the three Republicans, making the bill a Republican measure? Will they be absorbed by the three Republicans or will they bring the Republicans into their camp? From a Democratic standpoint there is ground for politics of the worst sort or of the most successful kind. If the country really demands a railroad hill of the kind advocated by the president will it be good politics for the Democratic senators to become a tail to the Republican skyrocket or shoot off some fireworks of their own? There Is room for good politics and the leadership of the Democrats never had a better opportunity. It is possible, of course, that there will be three lull* me by the Republican majority, one by the Republican minority, and one by the Democratic minority. It is also possible, and even probable, that the Democrats will fall out. as they usually do. and some support the various bills of the Republicans, while others attempt to frame a Democratic bill. Senator Railey of Texas, has come out in an interview saying that the Democrats are not following the lead of the president. but that he is following their lead, as they demanded in 18!)6, and again in succeeding conventions, just what the president is now asking for. Bailey is supposed to have given the cue that Democrats will follow, although the president has been told he will have the support from the south. Personally. Senator Tillman is unlikely to do anything that will reflect credit upon President Roosevelt. He bitterly hates tne president, due to an incident at the White House several years ago, when he claims the president insulted him in connection with the dinner to Prince Henry of Prussia. The Democratic representation on the senate committee is composed of Tillman, Senator McLaurin of Mississippi: Carmaek of Tennessee: Foster of Louisiana, and Xewlands of Nevada. LOCAL AFFAIRS. " C NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. d Southern Railway?Announces that Its 1 winter tourist rates to Florida re- c sorts are now in effect. r J. C. Wllborn?Has good milch cow with young calf for sale. c Kelly Inman, President?Calls foa a 1 meeting of the members of Bui- 8 lock's Creek Township Southern c Cotton association for next Saturday afternoon at Shady Grove. C. B. Smith?Has home raised celery, fresh from garden. Apply at Ferguson & Clinton's store. 1 A. M. Ormand?Will sell a lot of personal property at his home seven { miles northeast of Yorkvllle, Dec. 5. L. R. Williams, Probate Judge?Gives notice that W. Brown Wylie has ap- t - " - -1 u 'rt*. lalfora r\f o A m Inla. piieu IU Illlll IUI I^WVVt U tration on the estate of Miss E. C. . McGIIl, deceased. J. L. McGill, President?Calls a meeting of King's Mountain TownshipS. ( C. A., to be held at Bethany next Saturday afternoon. Loan and Savings Bank?Wants you to know that you will never know s the convenience of a checking ac- , count until you try it. It is ready to help you start such an account. Foushee Cash Store?Is opening up its ' Christmas goods, including toys of < all kinds. Watch next ad for announcement of Monday's special. J. Q. Wray. The Leader?Calls your ' attention to the fact that his store I will be closed Thanksgiving Day. Strauss-Smith Co.?Will close their , store Thanksgiving Day. They return thanks to customers for liberal * patronage during the year. f First National Bank?Says that harvest follows seedtime, and that wealth follows saving. It wants to 1 help you save. i Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Wants < you to remember that most people buy insurance from the agent, but that the company is the one that ( writes the contracts. Look before ? you leap. ? Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Has just received a shipment of plow shapes including bull tongues, twisters, etc., f such as farmers need now. i ? I The present term of the court of ( general sessions has netted about J450 in fines. The term will cost In the < neighborhood of 31,000. i It has been a splendid fall for gath- ' erlng crops: but because of the lack of 1 rain and the consequent dryness a very * poor one for sowing small grain. Would you, as a Juror, sworn to go according to the law and the evidence, convict in a liquor case where the c proof was clear? That is becoming a < pertinent question in many localities, i There are people who will not convict ( even under such conditions. ( The members of the York County f Southern Cotton association failed to turn out last Saturday afternoon in j response to the published call. Only j Mr. John A. Latta the president, and j Mr. R. E. McFarland were present at j the opera house when the appointed { hour for the meeting arrived. I After the people, have had time to ? shake themselves together and grasp a comprehensive idea of the advantages ( afforded by the coming of the electric \ power, they will probably figure on the 1 profits to be derived frorr^the develop- t ment of sma'l manufacturing Indus- t tries. t Although York county has always ( stood high as to the quality of her i jurors, it is a subject of frequent com- < ment that Jurors are constantly imbibing still higher conceptions of the res- I nnnoihiniipq of their office. There are t still men who are inclined to use their i position as Jurors to do things In ac- I cordance with their personal prefer- t ences; but the average Juror nowadays i seems to be inclined to weigh testimony I carefully and impartially and reach an i honest conclusion. t There has been no little comment on i account of R. F. Thomasson's plea of guilty of violation of the dispensary law. It is a common opinion that if Thomasson had gone to trial he would ^ not have been convicted. It is a matter of common notoriety that he has , been in the liquor business for years; t but it Is suggested that It would have ( been next to impossible to have gotten up a case that would not have left a ( sufficient pretext for an acquittal. As f a matter of fact it is said that not a ( great many people could testify to ( having bought liquor from Thomas- ( son himself. They would go to a side window of his house and see a hand , with a bottle In it and that is about ( all they would see. They knew that ] they had bought liquor all right; but ( from whom they could not testify, "not ( on oath." li is now beginning to look as if Har- , vie Jordan is going to be able to make t good his threat to hold 3,000,000 bales , of cotton off the market. Farmers all j over the south are responding heartily ( to President Jordan's proposition and , hundreds of thousands of bales have j already been pledged. There seems to be no doubt of the fact that the attl- | tude of President Jordan has materially affected the situation, and the feel- j ing that cotton will be much higher is spreading everywhere. Pledges have ( been in circulation among the farmers of York county during the past few , days and the understanding is that . 4 1 1 '""1 nuita ffunornllv wify art* uvmg m^iicu quae b <_ ?*. The farmers of this Immediate vicinity who have not already sold at 10 cents and over do not seem very particular about selling at all. Most of them believe that prices will be much better. In the case of Mort Williams. Frank Burrls and Bank Williams, Indicted for murder, the solicitor was unable to see any evidence of a conspiracy that was supposed by some to exist and nol prossed the case against Frank Burrls and Bank Williams. These three defendants were indicted for the murder of Wash Blair, who was killed during a shooting affair between Mort Williams and George McClure. The indictment was given out on the theory that Frank Burrls and Bank Williams were accessories to the murder; but this theory was but poorly sustained by such facts as were obtainable. After hearing the testimony against Mort Williams, the jury remained out all of Friday night and on Saturday morning reported its inability to agree. A mistrial was ordered. It is understood that nine of the Jurymen stood for a verdict of guilty of murder with a recommendation to the mercy of the court and the other three stood for 1 manslaughter. I THE TYING UP PLEDGE. , Following is the pledge and notice < now being circulated under the aus- | pices of the Southern Cotton associa- | (ion with a view to tying up as much ^ spot cotton as possible: Ii is now definitely ascertained from reliable sources, including the department of agriculture at Washington, that the present crop of cotton will be in the neighborhood of only tea million bales. Half the crop has already been sold around ten cents. An unprecedented demand exists for the balance 1 of this crop, which, if sold at fifteen \ cents, would average the price to the . mills at only 12J cents. We must tie up at least three million bales at once * to convince the cotton world that we 8 mean business. If this Is done the ^ market will advance to our figure. Thy . Southern Cotton association, therefore, asks all spot holders who are able to 1 do so to subscribe to the following pledge: t We, the following named citizens of postofflce county v state, hereby agree to use every power t it our command to hold the number s ?f bales of cotton stated 'opposite our p espective names for 90 days from late and refuse to sell any of said cot- d on within that time for less than 15 h :ents per pound, basis middling, at our a narket points. The names of all signatures will be :onfldential and none given out to the v jublic by the association, only the o iggregate number of bales from each y :ounty held. ABOUT PEOPLE. Dr. M. W. White spent Sunday at -loodtown. Miss Mary Williams came over on j Saturday from Winthrop college. Mr. Samuel Blair of Blairsvllle spent oday in Yorkvllle with friends. p Mrs. M. A. Hay or Hickory, N. c., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lowry. Miss Mary Dobson is at home from Columbia Female college, Columbia, for j i few days. t Cadet Frank Riddle of the C. M. A. ipent Sunday and Monday in Yorkrille with friends. Mrs. Terrell Covington of Wades- j aoro, N. C.. is visiting her sister, Mrs. ^ 3. T. Radcllffe In Yorkvllle. Mr. John M. Rawllnson came over f from Charlotte yesterday on a visit to Col. W. W. Lewis's family. ^ Miss Daisy Williams returned to j STorkville Saturday after a visit of teveral weeks to Mr. J. B. Williams' , 'amlly at Rock Hill. j Mrs. John's. Jones and Mrs. W. H. ^ ^owler leave tomorrow for Johnston, j 5. C., to represent the Winnie Davis j Chapter in the U. D. C. convention. g Mrs. M. W. White was called sud- j lenly to Riverside last Saturday on ( mcount of the serious illness of her j jrandmother Mrs. Mary Thompson. j Miss Ethel Dover and Mr. A. Q. Hln- ^ ion of Gastoi.-la, are to be married ( Wednesday night af the residence of he bride's father, Mr. Perry Dover, ? )f Clover. Miss Lyl Parish who has had charge )f the music department of the Graded jchool for some time past, has redgned her place in the school, and eaves next week for New York, where ?he will continue her study of music. AGREES TO QUIT COUNTY. R. F. Thomasson a notorious liquor baler of Rock Hill plead guilty last Saturday to violation of the dispensary aw in two cases and was sentenced :o pay a fine of $600 or go to the 'haingang for a period of one year In 'ach case. The plea and the sentence were both natters of previous agreement and arrangement on the part of counsel for :he defense and for the state and the jnderstandi.ng is that sentence Is to be luspended pending the faithful carryng out of Thomasson's part of the igreement. Thomasson agrees to leave the state luring a period of two years and take vith him his entire family and effects, [t is understood also that during that :lme he must stay away, not returning :o this state for any purpose except on iccount of the critical Illness or death >f some relative, and then he must renaln only so long as is absolutely nec?ssary, Thomasson has been In the liquor justness In and around Rock Hill for ieveral years, and has generally been ible to lead the authorities quite a ively chase. The understanding Is :hat nobody has any special desire to iee him punished, they only want him :o quit selling liquor in the commuilty, and if he will only stay away the irrangement will be perfeotly satisfac :ory to all concerned. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The C. & N'.- vV. depot la being repainted. ? Turkeys have been offered quite freely on the streets during the past few days at 12i cents a pound and lots of them have been sold. ? Mr. W. R. Carroll and other residents of Cleveland avenue, have perfected arrangements for the opening >f an alley way from Cleveland avenue to Main street by way of the Baptist ihurch. ? Mr. B. F. White is looking into the matter of rebuilding his handsome residence, recently destroyed by Are. He has not yet definitely decided as to detail; but he will probably build of brick. ' ? Edith, the seven weeks old daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sherer, died it 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon after ;wo days illness with diphtheria. The j 'uneral was held at the cemetery Sun- t lay morning at 10 o'clock, the ser- J rices being conducted by Rev. W. C. j Swart. a ? There will be a Union Thanksglv- * ng service In the Associate Reformed murch next Thursday. Rev. J. O. Ba- ^ Pin, of the Episcopal church will 1 preach the sermon, and the members >f the congregations will be given an ? opportunity to muke contributions for 1 :he benefit of the different orphan- ? iges. [ ? The Winnie Davis Chapter U. D. g O.'s has given the Yorkville Monument t ivorks the contract for the erection of * the monument to the Confederate sol- c Hers of York county. The monument c is to be entirely of granite and to con- j dst of a base, two sub bases, die, plinth l ind shaft. The exact height has not . ret been determined and neither has t u" lr*r? ^ LUC ll.OULpi.vi, ^ t jpon; but the understanding Is that e ;he monument Is to be completed ready I tor unveiling by next June or July 1 The cost of the entire work Is to be ^ [1,250. The monument committee con- j lists of Mrs. J. J. Hunter, chairman; I Mrs. W. B. Williams, Mrs. W. G. White, J Mrs. B. N. Moore, Mrs. S. M. McNeel. r APPLE WAGONERS ACQUITTED, t z J. H. Britain, four others, the North e Carolina "apple wagoners," who were p irrested last Saturday week on the J . harge of selling brandy along the j King's Mountain road and on the i streets of Yorkvllie were tried yester- v Jay afternoon and acquitted. The trial consumed about an hour p ind was typical of its kind, the wit- l lesses not being positive about any- r r thing that was really material to con- c fiction, and while the state made out a i case that left but little room for f loubt that liquor had been sold and ^ that some member of the party was at he selling, there was no evidence that ivould warrant a conviction. q Two witnesses swore that on Friday c two covered wagons passed down the e King's Mountain road; that one was ^ irawn by a gray horse and a dark col- |, >red mule; that the wagons had ap- v jles, etc.; that each bought a quart of c ipple brandy from some one in the a vagon. One paid $1.05 for a peck of ap- F )les and a quart of brandy and the oth>r paid $1.25 for a peck of apples and ^ l quart of brandy. But neither of the h vltnesses was able to recognize any of k he defendants as the men from whom ^ hey made the purchase. a Another witness recognized one of g he prisoners as driving one of the ^ ragons described above, and testified ^ hat this man approached him on the h treet with an offer of apples and a int of something stronger; but he Id not buy. Still another testified to | avlng bought brandy of a party of pple wagoners on the street; but was nable to describe the team of the i ,-agoners or Identify any of the prisners at the bar as the parties from j ,hom he made the purchase. After the state had made out such ( ase as it had, Solicitor Henry an- | ouneed that he was willing to sub- ] rilt the ease without argument and ac- ' ept a verdict of not guilty. Walter M. | )unlap Esq., assisted the state in the | riul and the defense was represented >y Messrs. J. C. Wllborn and Thomas 1 \ McDow. , , i CIRCUIT COURT. When The Enquirer went to press ( ast Friday the court was engaged in he trial of Mort Williams charged 1 vlth murder. The Jury was unable to 1 .gree and a mistrial was ordered. The next case taken up was that of .ewls Hutchison charged with murder. Phe Jury returned a verdict of manlaughter, the judgment was deferred tending a motion for a new trial. Upon the convening of court yesterlay morning the following second week urors answered to their names: J. S. H. Farles, S. A. McAllllly, H. Cox. J. T. Latham, B. W. Creed, ' r. M. Starr, J. D. Hamilton, J. B. Ford. J. S. Williams, J. M. Brlce, J. R. i ialle, J. B. H. Jackson. R. A. Jackson, r. W. Lilly, R. D. Stevenson, Sep Masit y, E. D. Darwin. D. L. Glenn, J. H. Jarnett, W. J. Mitchell, W. S. McPlelland, W. P. Wright. T. B. Goforth. . H. Campbell, Starr Klmbrell, R. A. dlnter, M. S. Carroll, Meek Moore, A. 5. McAllllly, Lawson White, L. H. Jood, J. T. Wilson. Mr. F. S. Love was excused from urther attendance. The first case taken up was that of fob Stowe. charged with resisting an ifficer. Verdict; not guilty. Alnsley Wllks was tried on the iharge of assault and battery with lnent to kill and acquitted. Steve Towns, charged with assault ind battery with intent to kill, was :onvlcted with a recommendation to he mercy of the court. The case of J. H. Britain and others, ried yesterday afternon for violation if the dispensary law. Is reported more 'ully elsewhere. The court has been engaged all of his morning In the case of the State igainst VV. O. Balles, charged with aslault and battery with Intent to kill. This case grew out of the shooting of 2d Bailee last April. The case was itill In progress when The Enquirer vent to r?r? &. There Is another case against W. O. dalles and Sally Balles or Halobaugh. iharging them with living together In idultery. This case will probably be aken up tomorrow, It Is the purpose of the solicitor to ake up this afternoon the case of Robert Smith, charged with murder. The case of Ed Williams, charged vlth housebreaking in which there was l mistrial last week is to be tried igain as soon as It can be reached, as s also the case of Mort Williams, :harged with murderr. There are several motions for new rials to be argued, the most Important >elng those In the case of W. M, MoDonald and Will Gaines. Solicitor Henry says he will- wind ip the sessions business tomorrow, and he understanding now Is that the Juors will be discharged tomorrow afernoon. LOCAL LACONICS. 3ev. J. 0. Huggins' Resigns. Rev. J. D. Huggins has tendered his eslgnation as pastor of the Baptist ihurch of Fort Mill. The announce nent was made to the congregation last Sunday. It is understood that Mr. -lugglns has under consideration a Cftli hat he will l|ke|y accept from another :ongregat|on. Tax Collections. The tax collections up to last Satqrlay night aggregated $13,196.68, included in 1,800 receipts Issued. Up to the lame date last year the collections aggregated $8,629.53, included in 1,277 eceipts. Apparently the tax money is :oming in very slowly; but as compar>d with last year the showing is really juite creditable. Up to this time the :ounty has been able to pay all bills ts presented; but the outlook Is that he treasurer will hardly be able to neet all of the current court expenses >ut of the collections. With the court xpenses out of the way, the next thing s a $10 000 note to be met about Janlary 1. The outlook Is that the couny's money matters will not be altogether easy until about the first of February, at which time there will ?robably be a small surplus ahead. MERE-MENTION. Convicts at the Missouri state pententlary mutinied, Friday, dynamited he gate, killed two officers, wounded wo more, and escaped into the forests >f the surrounding country In a lead-on collision between a passenger ind a freight train on the Boston and Halne railroad, Friday, two engineers vere killed and six or seven passengers vere Injured... .The town of Dickson. Tenn., was almost entirely destroyed >y fire, Friday Mrs. Francis Buron Harrison, wife of former Congressnan Harrison, who was Democratic :andidate for lieutenant governor of Cow York last year, was killed in an lutomoblle accident at Long Island \\ Y., Saturday. Three other persons vere Injured... .The Old Hickory Inn, Lt South Orange, N. J., a famous hos - 1 - J v.. Rma Cotintrlav .eiry, was aemruyeu uy mo uami , vith a property loss of $30,000 The fleet sent by the allied powers to :oerce Turkey arrived at the island >f Mytilene last Sunday..The Mexcan wheat crop is short this year and arge quantities of grain will have to >e imported from the United States.. ...The fund that is being raised In < he United States for the relief of sufering Hebrews in Russia now amounts i 0 $878,511 A fast express crash- I d into a local train near Lincoln, i tfass.. last Sunday night, killing flfeen people and wounding a large lumbers of others... .William S.Lleb, i issistant United States treasurer at I Philadelphia, has been removed by i 'resident Roosevelt, for violation of he civil service law while in office-.... Marshall Field, Jr., son of the Chicago i nillionalre, who accidentally shot him- < elf while handling an automatic pis- I 01 last Wednesday, is entirely paraly- i ed, and no hopes of his recovery are | ntertalned by his physicians... .Nine < ?ersons were killed and two were in- I ured In an explosion of dynamite at ! he plant of a powder company at | Imporlum, Pa., yesterday. The build- I ng was wrecked Seven persons | cere drowned in the sinking of a Brit- I 3h steamer off the Isle of Magee, near ; he Scottish coast, Sunday night I tobert W. Bliss, secretary of the Amer- ' can embassy in St. Petersburg, was | obbed and almost beaten to death by i ioters in a fashionable section of that < ity, Sunday night Harold Moore, j . member of the New York University < ootball team, was killed in a game vith the Union college team in New fork. Saturday. ? Columbia special to the News and ,'ourier: A forgotten murder is re- i ailed by a letter received by the gov- I rnor asking for Information concern- 1 ng the reward offered for H. Fred i iuchanan, wanted in Chester. The I - ' * 1 TV..." Js ] Plier is irom L>umtu, icm.., ? written by N. T. Pienner. Planner en- i loses an old clipping from a newspa- i er which offers $600 reward for Buch- 1 nan. who is wanted for the murder of ? oliceman Wilson In the town of Ches- < er in 1891. The governor will take up 1 he matter at once and if Buchanan is i i Tennessee will endeavor to have 1 Im brought back for trial. Buchanan i illed the officer because the latter ar- I ested a woman intima'.e with the for- : ltr. The shooting created a sensation i nd in the excitement Buchanan dls- c ulsed himself in a woman's dress and 1 tade his escape. He was traced as s ir as Charlotte and later on to Lenoir, f ut was never caught and the crime 1 as almost been forgotten. 1 ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. 3eath of Mr. R. A. Steele?Observance of Thanksgiving?Another Bank In Prospect?Personal Mention. Jorreapumlence ol the lorkville fcnyuirer. Rook Hill, Nov. 27.?Mr. Robert Alexander Steele, a gallan; Confederate veteran and one of this county's most substantial and well-known farmers, lied at his home four miles west of this city Friday morning at 7 o'clock. Re had been In feeble health for nearly i year. Previous to that he had been a man to whom sickness was unknown, leading an active life and always meeting his friends In the jolly way characteristic of him. He was the oldest Bon of Samuel Steele and his wife, who was Sarah Workman, and was born In January 1832, making him at his death nearly 74 years old. With the exception of his army life he has always been a farmer and a very successful one. He was first sergeant In Co. H, 1st S. C. cavalry, army of Virginia and was In the battles of Brandy Station Uppervllle and Fairfax, Va., Rockvllle, Md.; Hanover, York and Gettysburg, Pa., Sharpsburg, Wilderness and Fredricksburg. Of his company there now remains only the gallant Captain J. Wilson Marshall of this city. In 1851 he was married to Margaret Edith Biggers who survives him with their only children, Mr. John H. Steele and Mrs. Alex B. Fewell. Besides these and their children, he also leaves one brother, Mr. Joseph N. Steele and two sisters, Mesdames Leroy D. Poag and A. K. Smith. Mr. Steele was an ardent Confederate and took the greatest interest in the memorial exercises and in the U. D. C. affairs. The funeral occurred Saturday at noon at Ebenezer church yard, and will be with a soldier's honors. Among the floral tributes is a handsome Southern Cross of white carnations sent by the S. D. Barron Chapter U. D. C. The pall bearers were: Capts. J. Wilson Marshall, W. J. Moore, L. M. Davis, Iredell Jones and Messrs. W. J. Poag, Clark R. Starnes, J. H. Westbrooks and Jefferson Roach, all of whom are Confederate veterans At the last meeting of Oakland Lodge No. 45 K. of P. it was decided that the annual banquet would be held on Thursday evening December 7th. This is always an occasion of much joy. The membership of Oakland Lodge is composed of the very flower of the city. Something like half a dozen of the young men are taking the ranks now. The churches of Rock Hill make a custom of uniting for the Thanksgiving service. This year the services will be help at the Baptist church and the Rev. Watson B. Duncan of St. John's M. E. church will preach the sermon. The schools, the stores and all places of business will be closed for the day as is usual here. One of the many causes for Thanksgiving In this city is that for a certainty the illicit dealing in Intoxicants has been materially decreased. This Js without doubt due to the course whioh Mavor Roddey has pursued in dealing with the tigers. He simply puts the limit of the law to them whether they make little or big sales. Today, for the first time since his Incumbency, there were no Monday morning cases to handle. Mayor Roddey Is to be congratulated and so are the executive officers, who, without exception, are doing their duty. The fact has been demonstrated, and always can be shown, that prohibition can be enforced fully as well as the majority of other !aws. "Young Men's Sunday" will be observed here next Sunday. By agreement of ihe ministers and the Y. M. C. A. commit'ee, speakers from the Y. M. C. A. will address the congregations of the Presbyterian, Associate Reformed Presbyterian, St. Johns M. E., Baptist and Episcopal churches at the morning service and In the evening a union service of the congregations mentioned will be held in the Presbyterian church, It is quite probable that Rock Hill Is to have another bank. Negotiations are pending and will be concluded In a very short time, but just at present nothing definite can be stated. It was sta'ed that Mr. J. DcDonald Forney who has resigned as agent of the Southern Express company at this place would take a run for that company between Washington and Savannah. Mr. For ley has decided to go west where he will take a position with the Pacific Express company, and he wl'l leave In a day or two for Texas. Mrs. T. A. Crawford and her sons, Peter Ihrie and Tom and Rob Crawford. left this evening for Plttsboro, N. C.. wh?re they will attend the wed ding of Miss Williams, a cousin. Dr. Femell is making some improvements at the Rock Hill hospital. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? St. Matthews special of Nov. 23 to the News and Courier: Mrs. J. T. Rickenbaker, of this community, the picture of health, married at 14, and Is just fifteen years older than her first child. That child married at 15 and conferred the distinction of grandmotherhood upon her mother at 31 years. ? Lancaster special of November 27 to News and Courier: There is no mistaking the earnestness of the Lancaster farmers in the matter of pledging themselves to hold cotton for much higher prices. During the last three days pledges have been signed which represent over 2,000 bales. At the present rate three-fourths of the cotton in the county will soon be thus pledged. Fully 100 bales were "pledged" yesterday. There is nothing like the cotton in the country now that there was this time last year. A gentleman whose business necessitates his traveling through all sections of the country remarked to your correspondent last evening that this time last year he rarely passed even a negro's home that he did not see one or more bales of cotton lying about the premises, but now a bale of cotton in a farmer's yard is an unusual sight. In one community he mentioned he saw last year about 500 bales, while now there are less than 40. Most of the cotton being held Is in the hands of large planters. ? Columbia correspondence of the News and Courier: The 'Frisco Township concern, which company induced several hundred South Carolinians to purchase lots in far-off Oklahoma, is now in the courts and there are probably a number of suits yet to be heard from. The suit here referred to was started in Charlotte and was brought by a number of cltlaens of that town against the company and its traveling representative, J. A. Bacot. It seems Lhat Bacot met the North Carolinians and interested them in the lots, which they agreed to purchase if the excursion was run between the 7th and the 12th. Five lots were taken and $25 iviia naid on each. The excursion did not run until the 21st and the purchasers could not go. For this reason they brought suit and demanded their money back. Bacot was not present at the bearing and the judgment was rendered and the case will be transferred to the Oklahoma courts. There has been some comment on the large number of people who were so easily Interested I i these lots In the west. The country Is practically unknown to the majority of the purchasers and with the same imount of money much more desirable land could have been bought at home. The fre> trip promised by the company was a:i Inducement to many, but the land they have purchased Is not jne-half as valuable as property jround Columbia or any of the other cities in the state. ? People of Gaflfney are very Indignant at the representation from Blacksburg that dispensary constables are needed in Cherokee, and set forth that the call for constables is merely) a political measure on the part of individuals who have all along been) opposed to the removal of the disoensary, and who have never become reconciled to that development. A.) L. Hallman. United States deputy marshal, who was reflected on in a recent communication from Blacksburg, resents the same In a signed communication as follows: "The correspondent to the Greenville \"ews from Blacksburg is either Ignorant of the facts In the case or he bas made a malicious and wilful misstatement thereof. All the work :hat I have done as Deputy United States Marshal since the U. S. court idjourned at Greenville has been lone at and around Blacksburg. I lave not had a single ease at Gaffney since that court adjourned. As regards the operation of illicit dlstilerles in the neighborhood of Blacks)urg, will say that some weeks ago I had Information that one was In operation near King's Creek, and I Immediately organized a posse and located and seized the same Involving a personal expenditure of $15.00, for which the government has refused to velmburse me. As I work on fees alone this has fallen pretty hard on me; but In spite of this fact, If the orrespondent of the Greenville News or anyone else will give me the location of an Illicit distillery In this county I will have same destroyed at once. I do not know the condition of affairs in York county as there is a Deputy Marshal in that county whose business It is to look after matters there: but I do know that there are fewer "blind tigers" in Cherokee now than before the "dispensary" was voted out. If the correspondent referred to above would be honest enough to admit the truth I dare say the condition of affairs which he refers to obtains in York county and not In Cherokee." - GOOD MANNER8. Editor Yorkville Enquirer. Mr. W. H. Wallace of Newberry visited Charleston during Gala Week, and gave the public his impressions of the old city and its people through the columns of the Newberry Observer. Referring specially to the narrow streets and sidewalks of the city he said, amongst other things: "There is no jostling by the native pedestrian, as there would be in a newer and more 'aggressive' town. Really one can get on easier on the narrow sidewalks of King street, even In carnival times, when there is a full stream of pedestrians going each way, than he can on an upcountry sidewalk, where school children walk four abreast, and never seem to realize that 'there are others'. There is a suaviter in modo that marks the Charlestonian, no matter In what walk of life or in what occupation you find him?the highest tyDe of good manners, a due regard for the rights and comforts of others.?that is perfectly charming. He has not yet imbibed the idea that to get on one must run over others." We may well hope that the good people of the old city deserve all that Mr. Wallace h&s said of them, but that alone would not warrant this reference to his remarks. What of this upcountry town? Do the school children walk "four abreast"? And what of the grown children, ladles as well as gentlemen? Go, too, to the post-office: observe gentlemen standing in and blocking the doorway: are they ignorant of the purpose for which a doorway Is made, or have thf y no "regard for the rights and comforts of others", and simply lack that "highest type of good manners" which is so "perfectly charming"? Who Knows? Yorkville, November 27th, 1905. Tillman on the Rate Qubbtion,? The Washington correspondent of the Columbia State has had a short Interview with Senator Tillman on the rate question. The gist of the Interview Is to be found In the following paragraph: Senator Tillman was rather conservative in his remarks on this subject The question of state's rights is the one upon which his opponents seem to be basing the hopes of defeating it. The south is jealous, but whether it will be guided more by sentiment or tra ditlon in the matter or by Justice and its own and the nation's interests Is scarcely open to doubt. The regulation of railroad rates by the interstate commerce rates by the interstate commerce commission is a Democratic doctrine and was embodied in the Democratic platform long before Roosevelt took it up, says Senator Tillman; "But Roosevelt wants to get the glory for it, I think this whole trip of his-through he south was to get the favor of the southern people?to get them to stand with him and help push the matter :hrough as his measure, letting htm get the glory, whereas it is the Democratic party's declared doctrine. But there is no telling what Roosevelt's gol"g to do. He flunked most cowardly and contemptibly when it came to prosfcu'lng the railroad officials when Morton, a member of his cabinet, was involved. He's just as apt to flunk now when his friends and allies among other railroad magnates are affected," Rulinq as to Patbnt Mbimcikbs.? The following letter received by Special Revenue Officer Aiken, will be of much Interest to those druggists holdling proprietary medicines with alcoholic ingredients: Sirs:?The honorable commissioner advises that as soon as a list of the alcoholic compounds coming under tfce ruling in Circular No. 673 shall have been made up; it will be furnished to collectors for the information of all concerned. He says further: Druggists and merchants dealing in medicines are not required to pay sDecial tax as retail liauor dealers. even on and after December 1, 1905, the date when the ruling goes into effect, on account of their seiiing in good faith for medicinal use only any alcholic compounds labelled as medicines which shall have not been found by this office, upon analysis made here of samples submitted by the collector, to come within the ruling and that it is only those who continue the sale of such compounds as shall have been analyzed and found to be within the ruling, after public announcement of the fact, who are required to pay the special tax therefor. It is desired that you distribute this information as widely as possible having substance of this letter published in local papers as news without coat wherever you can. Respectfully, H. J. Hallans, Collector. Mr. Bryan Oot thb Stool.?Mr. Bryan's visit to Tokio coincided with the popular reception of Admiral Togo In one of the great city parks. There was a religious ceremony in which the admiral and the people offered thanks for the victories in war. Mr. Bryan r.ow enters, according to an acoount which William E. Curtis has extracted from Tokio papers: Admiral Togo, who was the central figure, was seated upon an ancient war stool, an heirloom of the Ogasawara family, to which the officiating chief priest belongs. At the close of the function, the papers say, Mr. Bryan asked If he might have the chair as a souvenir of the memorable occasion. He evidently did not realize the significance of his request, because it is the greatest treasure in one of the most famous families of the empire. No one Is ever allowed to occupy it because of Its sacredness. It has only been used in similar functions for centuries, and several of the greatest warriors of Japan, who are now worshiped as gods, have sat In it. Mr. Ogasawara, the high priest, did not faint or fall down although you may Imagine his feelings. Wl;h that extraordinary courtesy for which the Japanese are celebrated, he presented Mr. Bryan with the war stool, and the latter put It In a Jinricksha and seat it to his hotel. The Wealth of the Farmers.? The annual report of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has been made public. The secretary says that It is In the highest degree gratifying to see present evidence of the unprecedented prosperity which has in recent years regarded the diligence of the farmer and the efforts of his department. A year of unequalled prosperity has been added to the most remarkable series of similar years that has come to the farmers of this country. Farm crops have never before been harvested at such a high level of production and value. Corn has reached its highest production, over z.vuu.uuu uuu ousneis, of a total estimated value of $1,216.000,000. Hay comes second, with a value of $606,000,000. Cotton Is expected to yield $575,000,000. The Bhort wheat crop of last year is followed by one of 684,000,000 bushels, and Its value $525,000,000, overtops the highest value ever before reached. While only one crop corn, reached Its highest production this year, four crops?corn, hay, wheat and rice?reached their highest value. No crop but corn produces the income that the dairy cow does. The estimate of the value of dairy products for 1905 reaches $665,000,000. The farmers' hen competes for precedence with wheat, poultry products aggregating half a billion dollars in value.