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County Fair Edition PUBLISHED TRI-WpEKLY HE'D LED MOB feferur Blease Appbntis the Actito of Honea Path Liadrilf. LECTURES PREACHERS Bather Than Call Out Militia to Save Culprit, Governor Declares to Thousand of "My Frie?da," He "Would Have Resigned His Office awl Become Lyneher-in-Chirf. la response to an iavitatiea ex teaied by neveral? friends, Governor Bisase made an address en Conrt Besse square Saturday afternoon be fore a thousand people. His subject was left to the Governor and he spoke for mere than one hour, dwelling on raosy things of interest to the people of the State. He stated that on Friday he was requested by the president of the State Farmers' Union to issue a pro clamation, calling upon the farmers of the State to bold their cotton, and also to ask the Governors of the other cotton States to Issue similar procla mations. This lie refused to do, he explained, because he is no farmer and does not profess to" know what is the best for the farmers to do un der the circumstances. In his opin ion, the solution is left with the farm ers themselves, and he urges that they organize and get :ln position to put a price on their crop. He called attention to the fact that the lawyers, the doctors, etc., had all organized and agreed upon prices for their servlcds and he thinks the farmers should do likewise. He nloces the blame of the low price of cotton upon the cotton mill mergers and prophesies that the mergers will soon cut down the wages of mill em ployees, after they have finished pull ing down the price of cotton. Governor Blease made a plea to the r.?.ill people, and to all the people, to secure registration certificates be fore it i8 too late. The newspapers are trying, he said, to disfranchise a large portion of white men by mak ing a registration certificate a re quirement in the primary election. He stated ths.t he would veto any bill passed by the Legislature making any special requirement, but the dan ger lies with the Democratic Conven tion next May, when he will not be in position to look out for the interests of the people. He thinks the Con vention will be asked to adopt a res olution requiring the certificates'. For this reason he urges all persons, whether friends of hi? or not, to reg ister and put themselves in position to vote, no matter what the Convene tion does. Governor Blease reiterated his po sition with regard to lynching. He said again that when a negro puts his hands upon the person of a white girl, the sooner the negro is put six leet under the ground the better. He stated that on the night of the Honea Path lynching the soliclor of this cir cuit called upon him to order out the militia, and that he told the solicitor he would send two telegrams. "One of these telegrams," said the Gover nor, "was addressed to Sheriff King here. "In that telegram I told him to ?Keep in touch with the affairs, and to make a report to me next morning of what was going on. The sheriff received my telegram and he under stood it, for next morning I received a report from him, telling what had transpired." The speaker stated that rathei than use the office of Governor in ordering out troops to defend a negro brute and require these troops to fire on white citizens, he would have re signed from the office to which he had been elected and would have caught the train to Honea Path and led the mod. The Covernor then criticised the ministers of the local union, who had drafted resolutions condemning him, and everything and everybody con nected with the lynching. He said that he knew some preachers in this State to have more negro blood in their veins than did the negro who was lynched, and that he did not piopose to be dictated to by any preacher or set of preachers. He also expressed his belief that there are not twelve men In Anderson County who would bring in a verdict of conviction against any member of the mob who did the work; "and if there were twelve men who would do eo and a verdict of guilty was re turned. I would wire pardons to those convicted," he said. Governor Bdease attacked the newspapers, giving especial attention to "the Columbia State and its edi tor." He charged that the newspa pers are not telling why and under what circumstances he is extending executive clemency, and he asks that the public read the accounts of his actions and leave plenty of room in their minds to hear his side. The Governor made it plain that he intends always to stand by his friends. He 6tated that a person com ing to him for any consideration must be one of his friends or must be en dorsed by one of his friends, and he cautioned the people hearing him against putting their names to peti tions addressed to him if they did not want these things petitioned to occur. He said that he knew Borne people who had jut their names on petitions for pardons and that after] the pardons had been granted they \ TAFT IS A LOAD REPUBLICANS FEAR TO GO INTO NEXT ELECTION. President to Be Side-tracked and Hughes to Be Made Candidate is the Story From Washington. A big potent silent Influence* with in the Republican party are organiz ing a movement to displace President Taft as the party's presidential can didate, and to substantial* for him I no less person than Supremo Court I Justice Charles E. Hughes, says Jud eon C. We Hirer, im T he Washington Times. The Hughes proposal is not a boom and it is mot intended to be a boom. It is being k*pt Just ae quiet as pos sible. More is talked and known about it In Now York than anywhere else, yet it gets no publicity In New York. In New England 11. Is recog nized as a well developed propagan da, yet the public prints know it not. In political circles in the Middle West it Is talked, but quietly and un der the rose. The time is not come to give it notoriety. That time may never come; but the people operat eAOtrsq saojAop Snnjiqs-auesB oqj Suj they will be able before three more months to turn the calcium suddenly on the center of the stage and re veal a new figure there. Fearing that Mr. Taft cannot be elected if nominated, and that Mr. Wilson's nomination can not be pre vented, the conservative interests in politics, which in general are non partisan, are casting about for a means to secure control through the nomination of a different Republican. A year ago . the conservative plan was to let Mr. Taft be nominated, and then be defeated hy Mr. Harmon. That plan has been spoiled by the rise of Mr. Wilson. Mt. Wilson is regarded by the old-time Republi cans and the Parker sort of Demo crats as no better than Mr. Bryan., So it has become necessary to trans fer allegiance back to the Republican party, in the hope of displacing Mr. Taft by some man whom it will be safe to support as against Mr. Wilson. Justice Hughes, all things consid ered, has appealed as the man most likely to win at both convention and palls. It is-calculated that Mr. Taft is now so far broken down under the assaults of the Projrressive schism should develop in the East, he would scon be forced out of iorlous consid eration. And Justice Hughes is the man now being tried out in the larger considerations of strategy end tac tics. ? - ? ? Can Justice Hughes be induced to permit the-use of his name? That is the big question at this moment. The people who are engineering the deaf for him don't .care, they would not ask him; thoy would go ahead and put over their plan and feel se cure in the conviction that no man Is going to refuse his party's nomi1 nation for president. There is, however, a disturbing re port that when Mr. Justice Hughes was named for the supreme bench, he is in substance pledged himself not to interfere with the future of Mr. Taft. The story?and It 1b re lated on such high authority that it will not be denied with a show of confirmatory documents?that when Mr. Hughes was tendered the judicial post he now holds, it was through a letter which in substance said: "Having heard that you intend to withdraw entirely from political ac tivities, the president would be pleased to know whether a tender of a position on the supreme bench." etc., etc. That, it is declared, by people who assume to have learned the substan tial contents of the letter, amounted to a commitment of Mr. Hughes to keep out of politics. Accepting the proffer on that condition, Mr. Hughes , it is maintained, is now estopped, in honor, from violating the implied p!edge to "withdraw en tirely from political activities." would stand around on the streets and complain. He said that the supervisor of An derson County had just stated to him that he had two prisoners on the chain gang who were burdens to the county and were not earning their bread. He promised to send paroles for these men at once and thereby save the people the expense of keep ing up two persons. Governor Blease stated that he in tends coming before the people next summer to give an account of what he has done as their Governor, and ask them to reelect bim to that high oflice; that it was true he worked at a liver)- stable when a boy and was proud of the fact, all the criticisms of newspapers and enemies to the contrary. He had lived a clean life, he said; had worked up to the oflice and gratified his ambition; his life had been spent so that he can look any man in the face and say he is good as any man. His ambition now is to serve his friends, and he intends to serve them "by the help of the Al mighty." Before the Governor left the hotel for the Court House he was sere naded by the 1st Regiment Band; a great crowd had gathered in front of tte hotel and when the Governor made his appearance he was greeted with cheers. The band played before the speech was begun and afterwards. The speech was interspersed with loud cheering and yells for "Cole" and "Our Governor," and it could be easily seen that be was addressing an audience composed of friends and followers. 0RANGEB1 SHOWSNOMERCY Merciless Slaughter of Chinese by the Buchas ar Nanking A HORRIBLE PICTURE Great Portion of the City Was Bnr&ed and Looted, and Many W? rnern and Children, as Well as Men, Were IrKassacred by the Blood Thirsty Manchns. A cablegram from Nanking, China, under date of last Friday, said that city was desolate. The cablegram went on to say that fully a thousand of its inhabitants lie maBsacreT"?nd numerous business houses and dwell ings have been looted and burned. Seventy thousand persons have al ready fled the city and still others are joining in the exodus. Along the railway leading from the city a great line of humanity is trudging. It was the hand of the Manchua that brought the devastation. While the Republicans were in camp three miles away, awaiting ammunition and . reinforcements, the Manchus began the work of carnage. Men, women and children were slaughtered. Neith er youth nor age was taken into ac count, while, the emblem of the rev olution marked its wearers for in stant death. Chinaman with white shoes, a. sign of mourning among them, or even a white handkerchief, were ruthlessly slain. At historic Nanking, Friday afternoon, the sun set upon a scene of fire, ra;?ine, desolation and butch ery unrecorded in modern history. Friday night 12,000 Manchu and Imperial old-style soldiers held Pur ple Hill, where they are entrenched, I while from beneath their stronghold they are driving before them hordes of Chinese out of the city. Innocent Chinese, destitute, are fleeing terror Btricken to the shelter at the rear of the reform forces. The latter, numbering between 20,000 and 30, 00u, are impotent to check the slaughter or avenge the slain, be cause of their lack of ammunition. Friday night the revolutionists made a demonstration, tat did little shooting and there were few fatal!-' ties. The main body of the reform ers remained in camp three miles dis tant from the city, awaiting the ar^ rival of ammunition. Reform, rein forcements are coming from !every direction. They are raw and ragged recruits, but are determined. For eigners are receiving utmost consid eration. When the city gateB were opened Friday morning the people thronged toward the country, driven by the Imperialists. Soon afterwards the carnage began. Since the night of November 8, when the first attack was made by the rebels, the Tartar general has tried to terrorize the inhabitants by whole sale executions. Those whose queue had been cut off were beheaded, but Friday when the order for a general slaughter was given the whole na tive city was invaded by the Manchu soldiers, who massacred men, women and children. Even the aged and babes in arms were 6hown no mercy. Thousands of Chinese poured from this gates. At noon It was estimated fully 70,000 persons had fled. Be fore nightfall 20,000 more, repre senting every class, had escaped. Meanwhile the (Manchus scoured the narrow city streets. Houses of wealthy merchants were sacked. Any queuelees victim was beheaded im mediately. The correspondent of the Associ ated Presji saw several women exe cuted and their children stabbed and trampled under foot. The order ap peared to be that any one wearing white, which suggested the white badge worn, by the reformers, must be killed forthwith. A white pocket handkerchief, worn by the Chinese as a sign of mourning, was the signal for the execution of the wearer. An attempt to estimate the num ber of innocents and combatant.-: slain would be futile. The Chinaman found wearing foreign clothing im mediately fell a victim to his ad vanced taste, but foreigners were not molested. Their protest against the massacres, however, were laughed at. Correspondents for the Associated I Press worked uninterruptedly within the outer walls of the city. Fires sprang up everywhere. A largo sec tion of the native city was burned. Friday night the Manchu, driven to bay and glutted wjth blood, watches the flaming city from the height of Purple Mountain and awaits the mor : row. ? DISAPPOINTED FIANCE. Young Aiken Wonian Elopes on Eve of Appointed Wedding. Tuesday morning 'Miss Elizabeth Holley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Spann Holley, was married to Chas. S. Garrett, who resides at Hitchcock experiment station, near Aiken, Rev. M. W. Hitt performing the ceremony at his residence at Montmorenci. This marriage name as a complete surprise to the friends of the young couple. Invitations had been issued to the marriage of Miss Holley and a young man at White Pond, and this mar riage was to have occurred Wednes day afternoon, but Tuesday morning Miss Holley was married quietly to, Mr. Garrett. * JRG, S. C, TUESDAY, MOVE PAID LICENSE FEES AMOUNT COLLECTED ITCOM THE CORPORATIONS. The Report of Comptroller General Jones Shows That They Paid Over One Hundred Thonsand Dollars. The domestif ?jj I foreign corpora tion license ff .a collected by A. W. Jones, cop j^jller general, dur ing the yea/ ^ nounted to $107, 724.40. Thl ^ an increase of over $50,000 In f* ears, which goes to show that ir '$f new capital has been invested in uth Carolina during that period ? ,;? The fee/ re oollecited on an in vestment ?119,695,? 82. The 11 cense is onU_.alf of 1 mill. The fol lowing amounts have been collected during the past several years: 1905...?63.345.20 1906..' .'" 69,298.32 1907. 78,282.63 1908. 84,149.71 , 1909 . 89,592.85 1910. . . . 96,704.43 1911.. ...107,925.40' The following is a schedule" of moneys received during the year by the .comptroller general from cor porations for fees imposed* in pur suance of the act of 1904:' From hanking corporations?Cap ital paid in, $10,878,095; license fee, $5,488.42. From cotton mill corporations Capital paid in, $55,127,960; license fee, $27,568.36. From building and loan corpora tions?Capital paid in, $3,237,201; license fee, $1,716. From cottonseed oil- mill corpora tions?Capital paid in, $r,850,255; license fee, $929.11. From fertilizer corporations?Cap ital paid in, $6,632.740: license fee. $3,316.37. Frdm miscellaneous domestic cor porations?Capital paid In, $41,969, 518; license fee, $24,023.79. Total domestic corporations?Cap ital paid in, $119,695,769; license fee, $63,040.05. From foreign corporations?Capi tal paid in, $14,384,593; license fee, $7,210.44. o, From $100 statutory tax?License fee, $300. From back taxes, $610. Total of all corporations?Capital paid in, $134,080,362; license fee, $71,160.49. V The following is the grand capitu lation, showing corporation ' license fees collected. Domestic corporations?Capital paid in, $119,695,769; fees collected, $63,650.05. Foreign corporations?Represent ing property used, $14,376,093; fees collected, $7,510.44. Public utility corporations?Inter state receipts, $12,295,142; fees col lected, 536,763.91. Total receipts. $107,924.40. ? DESCRIBES MOB'S BRUTALITY. Revolting Story by Witness at Trial of Boy's Lynchers. Revolting scenes attending the lynching of Fernando Gomez, a Mex ican lad, at Thorndale, Texas, last June, were described In Court Fri day by Alfred Wilson, first witness called in the trial of Z. T. Gore, Jr., charged with participation in the murder. Wilson testified that he was guard ing the boy, Gomez, after the Mexican had been arrested on the charge of having stabbed to death Charles Zie tung, a garage keeper. Gore and three other men, the witness said, took the lad from him by force. One of the four men, according to the witness, dragged away Gomez af ter a trace chain had been fastened about the neck of the young Mexi can. The man who dragged the boy away, Wilson testified, was on horse back, and took a half hitch about the pommel of his saddle with the chain. Some distance away, according to Wilson, the horseman stopped amidst a crowd. Numbers of men In this mob, Wilson said, kicked the prone and half conscious form of the youth, inflicting bruises about the trunk, head and face; then Gomez was hanged to a telephone pole. * HIS MEMORY COMES BACK. Florida Hotel Owner Finds Himself in New Orleans. "I am Charles G. Rybolt and I was one time manager of the Lackawanna Springs and Hotel company, Clear water, Fla. I discovered it after thinking a long, long time." This discovery appeared to ease the mind of the man who said he was Rybolt, as he lay on a bed in a lodging house in the French quarter at New Orleans Thursday, convalescing from a blow on the forehead, which he said he remembered he sustained while in a sleeping car which he boarded at Clearwater several days ago Rybolt says he remembered nothing until he regained consciousness in a New Or leans hotel. Trains Meet in a Fog. At Dalton, Ga., Engineer P. V. Rhodes of Atlanta was killed and En gineer T. L. Hamby of Smyrna, and Fireman Barney Bridges of Rocky Fa<ce, were injured when two freights collided head-on near that place Thursday morning on the Western & Atlantic railroad. MBER 14, 1911. WIND AND SNOW Storms and 8Iizzirds Cause Wide-spread D-sasttr Over Coonliy SOME FROZEN TO DEATH Deaths Nearly a Score, While Loss to Property is Estimated at Mil lions?Dae to Sadden and Violent Temperature Changes in Central and Southern Portions of Country. Nearly a score of deaths, several million dollars property loss and much suffering and inconvenience resulted from the violent change of temperature, the preceding storms and the succeeding cold and snow, that besot the central and southern portions of the country Satjrday and Sunday. A cold wave almost immediately rolled over the wreckage of the storms and extended in a few hours to the Gulf coast and the Atlantic seaboard. Rain turned to sleet, snap ping telegraph and telephone wires, and snow followed. The temperature dropped in several places more than sixty degrees in eighteen hours. Several persons were frozen to death by the suden cold, shipping on the Great Lakes was damaged, and several boats were cast adrift. In some places, gas almost failed. The poor in large cities and the,homeless in storm-swept regions suffered se verely. Reports received at Chicago Sun day night by +he Associated Press in dicate that cyclonic storms, coming between the abnormally warm period and the following cold wave, have caused death and widespread destruc tion in Southern Wisconsin, Eastern Iowa and Illinois Saturday. Fourteen dead, several dying and scores of injured are reported to be Iving in the wake of the storms and suffering because of their terror. Southern Wisconsin was hardest hit, according to early, reports. Near Oxfordville, Rock County, five per sons are known to be dead and it Is reported the list may reach twelve. In the village of Virginia, 111., sev eral were found seriously, perhaps, fatally, and fifty others slightly in jured. In Iowa, a 50-degree drop in temperature, accompanied by a driv ing storm of sleet, tied up traffic many hours. - Property loss mounted up rapidly in the path of the cyclonic blizzard. Nearly every public building in Vir ginia, 111., was demolished, farmers' homes were wiped out in Wisconsin t>nd the damage was increased by the heavy downpour of rain, sleet and snow. Severe weather conditions are re ported ail the way from the Rocky Mountains. In Chicago the wind blew 4 4 miles an hour, and in Yel lowstone Park and at Helena, Mont., thermomete.rs registered 8 degrees below zero. At least seven lives were lost and scores of persons injured, some fa tally, in a tornado which swept Rock County, Wls., at dusk Saturday night. Hundreds of thousands of dollars damage was done. Saturday night dozens of families found themselves without a roof and because the flood ed roads made travel Impossible, were forced to pass the night in the open fields. A cold wave followed the storm and snow and sleet added to the misery. At Orfordville Mrs. John Clowder, 70 years old, was killed, as were also a father and two daughters of a fam ily whose surname is Smith, and a Mrs. Breed. At Milton one person, as yet unidentified, is reported dead. Amy Korban, eight years of age, was killed when her home, just north Of Janesville, was demolished. Foot ville, Magnolia, Pewaukee and other villages also are reported to have suf fered severely. Cotton Belt Hit Hard. A New Orleans dispatch says the southwestern cotton belt is in the grip of the coldest weather experi enced at this season in many years. The cold nor'wester, which was fore casted Saturday, ploughed Its way across Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana last night, bolting tem peratures in record-breaking fashion and giving an unmistakable touch of the real blizzard. Meagre reports show that the wind blew at the rate of 40 to 70 miles an hour and brought sudden drops of from 20 to 00 degrees in temperature. Pensacola and West Florida were visited by a cold nor'wester between 7 and S o'clock Saturday morning and it is believed there has been consid erable property damage on the islands and along the lower coast. The wind blew at the rate of approximately 70 miles an hour and a drop of 20 de grees in temperature was recorded within a few minutes. Frost is pre dicted throughout the section. Severe winter weather, with a tem perature of 20 degrees lower, pre vailed throughout Kentucky Sunday night, following the heavy storm of the early morning. A heavy wind storm began shortly after midnight Saturday, unroofing barns and small er houses and wreaking destruction to trees. A widely extended thunder storm, with heavy rain, was succeed ed by hail and sleet and snow fell lightly he$ through the rest of the day. There was a drop of 50 degrees in the temperature in the last 24 hours. Sixteen men clinging to beacons In THEY RElilD fLCD ENTIRE FAMILY STARVES TO PURGE THEIR SOULS. A Father and Mother, Followers of Self Promulgated Creed, Dies With Their Son. Details of a ghastly BUlclde com pact involving a whole family were brought out by the Chicago police fol lowing the discovery of the emaciated forms of Herman Letech, his wife Anna and their lS-year'-old son. All had been dead seven.! days. Followers of a religious creed, self promulgated, the parents had forced themselves and their son to do with out food to "purge their sinful souls of lust," until starvation wiped ent the whole family. From physicians examinations, it was evident the boy had been the first to die. On a bed was a black shroud, bearing a note reading: "This gown is for our son Herman when he is dressed for his coffin." Apparently the parents had been too weak to put the gown on the starved form of the boy when death came, but weakened by hunger, had iain on the floor near each other, waiting for the death which came several days later for the mother, and a week later, apparently for the fath father. A long and rambling letter In Ger man criticised churches and church people, and named a Chicago church aud pastor. This pastor told the po lie that until about four months ago the family attended church each Sun day, always contributing St. They ceased coming, and when the pastor asked Letsch about it, Letsch, he said scouted, "All right, I'll get out of the church, but a new appearance of God will blast you for it." The rambling letter said no rc'nls ter was to appear at their funerals, the determination to die, is said, ran back for three years and last March 17 was the day first selected for their taking off. An illness of the boy, neighbors said, must have delayed the suicide. The last of the three to die, the fath er died three days before discovery, physicians said. FOUND DEAD IN RIVER, Could Not Tell Whether Man Was White or Black. ? A badly decompossd body was found floating down Pee-D?6 river Friday morning, opposite Society Hill. The negro ferrjman saw it as he started across the river and it be ing near the Marlboro side, he brought it out to the bank in this county. Coroner T. F. McRae held an inquest Friday afternoon and the jury returned a verdict that the deceased, unknown to the jury, came to his death in a manDer unknown to the jury. It was the opinion that the body was that of* a young negro man. It was clothed in a suit of tlue overalls and a pair of fairly good lace shoes. The hair had disappeared and the skin had slipped from the body. There were some indications that death had been caused by drown ing. Mobile Bay, after being forced to de sert the frail 'boats in which they were hunting or fishing, were res cued by a tug after hours exposure in the storm Sunday. Several others were seen In perilous situations, but were too distant, in shallow water to make assistance possible. They may be dead by now. One apparently disabled launch, with several women on board, drifted past one of the beacons, where several men were ma rooned and no report has been made of it since. Several boating parties, caught In the sudden gale, managed lo get to the beacons marking the ship chan nel, their boats either swamping or going adrift. Others tried to make the shore, but with what success it will be impossible to determine un til reports come in from points along both shores of the bay. Death and destruction followed in the wake of the storm that swept Peoria, ifl., and vicinity Saturday night. Benjamin M. Welch, a motor man on the city street railway lines, was attempting to clear the tracks of a broken trolley wire when he was electrocuted. The Illinois Traction company suffered loss which will amount to thousands. Miles of poles were blown to the ground. The thermometer registered seven degrees above zero, a drop since 2 p. m. Sat urday of 70 degrees. Two persons were killed and seven seriously injured in a storm which struck Boston, 111., Saturday night, tearing away telegraph and telephone wires, and leaving the city isolated and the tragedy of the storm untold to the world until Sunday night. Mrs. AHie Ilenneger, 70 years old. died of fright when her home*collapsed. Heavy damages are reported from all over Indiana, as the result of the blizzard which swept over the State Saturday night and early Sunday. Sleet and snow cover the State, and since Saturday the temperature dropped 50 to 60 degrees, and Sunday night was hovering arouud the ten above zero mark. Seven men are reported missing as a result of last night's storm on Lake Michigan. They left Chicago Satur day morning for a fishing trip in a gasoline launch, and are believed to have lost their lives. rWO CENTS PER COPY. WANT THE TOGA ?- i Will Four Mare Men Oppwe Senator B. R. Tiilman for Ike Staate ? i OR IS IT ONLY GOSSIP? The Names of Rhctt and Heyward Are Again Being Used, to Say Nothing of Lever, Carlisle, Parker and Others in Connection With the Senatorial Race. The Columbia jcorresfondent of the Augusta Chronicle says politics are certain in Soutfh Carolina and yet politics are uncertain to the politic ians. The present political situation is one of suspense. The politicians are waiting for something to -.urn up; and the thing that is going to turn up may bo the general assembly and its result early in January and it may be a common announcement from some man that he will enter the held for an office. The gubernatorial situation seems to be clearly defined with the.present governor and Ira 13. ?ones, the only candidates in view. But wait?until after the Legislature has convened and adjourned, maybe sooner; there are several others who want to enter that race. They just naturally can not resist. They want to try their hand again. They are "going to try; and come back." So far-all of the "big interest" has been centered around the race* for, governor, altihough there will be a race for a bigger and much more de sirable office?that of the Unite* States Senate. The question arises: Will those who have been infected by senatorial bee stand idly by and see the race between B*. R. Tillman and Jasper Talbert? There are several South Carolinians more or less known tor various characteristics who are keen to enter the race f?r the Senate, an it is a safe prediction tlhat there will be at least six candidates in the campaign next year. This important feature arises: What is the physical condition of Sen acor Tillman? Is he able physically to make a strenuous campaign? Has he political strength enough "to alt on his back porch and let the wool ?hat boys elect him?" These ques tions are vital and are being consid ered by all of. the buzzing bee dis eased' individuals who ' have fond hopes for the senatorial toga. Here is the situation: Jones, Till man, Blease and Talbert are each and [every man a product of the reform movement that swept the state sev eral years ago?that is about 28 years ago. In those days they were closely aligned, and then or later all played important parts?with the exception of the present governor?in admin istering the affairs of this .State. Senator Tillman was the leader of the movement; Colonel Talbert wac; his chief lieutenant, and Ira B. Jones was the first speaker of the Tillman House. The present governor was a young legislator in the ranks of Che reform party. Now, here are some names that must be considered before the cur tain has been rung up on that sena torial fight. A. F. Lever, of Lexing ton, congressman from the Seventh congressional district; Martin F. An sel, two times governor of the State .?Tnd well known attorney of Green ville; R. G. Rhett, former mayor of Charleston, and once candidate for the Senate; Howard.B. Carlisle, well known attorney of Spartanburg; l^ew is W. Parker, well known cotton man ufacturer; John Gary Evans, former governor and defeated candidate for tie Senate, and maybe D. C. Hey ward, former governor. All of these candidates or near candidates, are well known in South Carolina and have oqe claim or anoth er on the public for some kind of ser vice rendered. At least four of them will be in the race with Senator Till man and Colonel Talbert?that i3 al most certain. The curtain will be pulled up next summer and the stage will bo the county seats in the State of Souh Carolina; the audience will be the 1 10,000 voters. MEETS DEATH ON RAILS. Whiskey Bottle Near Ikwly Probably Tells Tale. Sim Gilliam. a negro 2.r> years old,, was run over and killed by an en gine on the Southern Railway, near Kiblers Bridge, Newberry county, Thursday night. ? Ilody was found by the crew of the westbound passenger train Friday morning, the head be ing crusheh in and the right arm cut off. An empty wiskey bottle was found near the. body. It is supposed that Gilliam, having imbibed too free ly, went to sleep on the track and thus met his death. Coroner Chap pell went to the scene and hHd the inquest the same afternoon, the ver dict being in accordance with the above facts. -e ? ?- i A Fatal Pistol Duel. At Monroe, La., in a pistol duel in a drug store Chas. B. Wolfson of Monroe, solicitor for a Cincinnati life insurance company, was shot and killed by Noah Gladden, a physician of that city*. A dispute about the business dealings of another repre sentative of the insurance company resulted in ill feeling between the two men. ! ?