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HE'D LED MOB
feveraor Blease Applauds the ActitQ
of Honea Path LycchiBg.
LECTURES PREACHERS
Rather Than CalU Out Militia to Save
Culprit, Governor Declares to
Thousand of "My Frieads," He
Would Have Resigned His Offloe
n?ii Become Lyncher-im-Chief.
la response to an invitatiea ex
tea?ed by several, frlenfls, Gevernor
Blease made an address en Court
Besse square Saturday afternoon be
fore a thousand people. His subject
?was left to the Governor and he spoke
for more than one hour, dwelling on
many things of interest lo 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 hold their cotton, and
also to ask the Governors of the other
cotton States to Issue similar procla
mations. This he 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 bi6 opin
ion, the solution is left with the farm
ers themselves, and he urges that
they organize and get in 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 services and he thinks the
farmers should do likewise. He
places the blame of the low price of
cotton upon the cotton mill mergers
and prophesies that the mergers will
soon cat 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.i.lll people, and to all the people, to
secure registration certificates be
fore it Is too late. The newspapers
are trying, he said, to disfranchise a
large portion of white men by mak
lug a registration certificate a re
quirement in the primary election.
He stated that he would veto any
bill passed by the Legislature making
any special requirement, but the dan
ger lies with the Democratic Conven
tlcu next May, when he will not be in
position to look out for the Interests
of the people. He thjnks the Con
vention will be asked to adopt a res
olution requiring the certificates". For
this reason he urges all persons,
whether friends of his 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
l?et under the ground the better. He
etated that on the night of the Honea
Path lynching the aolicior 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 rt-port 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 Konea Path and
led the mod.
The Governor 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 iynched. and that he did not
piopose to be dictated to by anyi
preacher or set of preachers. He
also expressed his belief that there j
are not twelve men In Anderson I
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!
so and a verdict of guilty was re-j
turned, I would wire pardons to those
convicted." he said.
Governor RJease 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 Btand 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
oi-cur. He said that he knew some
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 OO 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 substantiate for him
no leas person than Supreme Court
Justice Charles B. Hughes, aaye Jud
eon C. Welllrer, in The Washington
Times.
The Hughes proposal is not a boom
and it is not intended to be a boom.
It is being kept just aa quiet as pos
sible. More is talked and known
about it In New York than anywhere
else, yet It gets no publicity in New
York. In New England it 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 oper^t
BAajiaq sao{.\ap Smijiqs-auaoB oq; 2uj
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
partiaan, 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 by Mr. Harmon,
'that plan has been spoiled by the
rise of Mr. Wilson. tMr. 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 Progressive schism
should develop in the East, be would
seen be forced out of serious consid
eration. And Justice Hughes is the
man now being tried out in the larger
considerations of strategy and tac
tics, z- ? ? ?
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; they would go ahead
and put over their plan and feel se
cure in the conviction that no man
ib going to refuse his party's nomi
nation for president.
There is, however, a disturbing re
port that when Mr. Justice Hughes
was named for the supreme bench,
he is in Bubstance pledged himself
not to Interfere with the future of
Mr. Taft. The story?and It is 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, Mt.
Hughes , it is maintained, is now I
estopped, in honor, from violating
the implied pledge to "withdraw en
tirely from political activities."
would stand around on the streets
and complain.
I
He said that the supervisor of An-;
derson County had Just stated to him1
that he had two prisoners on the
chr.in gang who were burdens to the
county and were not earning their
bread. He promised to send paroleBj
for these men at once and thereby j
save the people the expense of keep-!
ing up two persons.
Governor Blease stated that he in- j
tends coming before the people next'
summer to give an account of what)
he has done as their Governor, and
ask them to reelect him to that high!
olhce; that it was true he worked at'
a livery stable when a boy and was
proud of the fact, all the criticisms
of newspapers and enemies to the
contrary. He had li\ed a clean life,,
he said; had worked up to the office'
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 intend?!
to serve them "by the help of the A1-!
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 compesed of friends and
followers.
>t
OR ANGEBT
SHOWS WO MERCY
Heireiles? Slaughter of Chinese by the
SaDcbns at Nanking
_
A HORRIBLE PICTURE
Great Port-Ion of the City "Was
Burned and Looted, and Many Wo
xnem and CSxildren, as Well as Men,
Were Massacred by the Blood
Thirsty Manchos.
A cablegram from Nanking, China,
under date of last Friday, Bald that
city was desolate. The cablegram
went on to Eay that fully a thousand
of Its Inhabitants lie massacred and
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 Manchus
that brought the devastation. While
the Republicans were in camp three
m-iles 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, v/hile, the emblem of the rev
olution marked its wearers for in
stant death.
Chinamen with white shoes, a. sign
of mourning among them, or eve-: a
white handkerchief, were ruthlesaiy
slain. At historic Nanking, Friday
afternoon, the sun set upon a scene
of rapine, 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,
while from beneath their stronghold
they are driving before them hordes
of Chinese out of the city. Innocent
Chinese, destitute, are fleeing terror
stricken to the shelter at the rear
of the reform forces. The latter,
numbering between 20,000 and 30,
000, are impotent to check the
slaughter or avenge the slain, be
cause of their lack of ammunition.
Friday night the revolutionists
made a demonstration, but did little
shooting and there were few fatali
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 gates were
opened Friday morning the people
thronged toward the country, driven
hy 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 shown no mercy.
Thousands of Chinese poured from
the gates. At noon it was estimated
fully 70,000 persons had fled. Be
fore nightfall 20.00C more, repre
senting every class, had escaped.
Meanwhile the 'Manchus scoured the
narrow city streets. Houses of
wealthy merchants wore sacked. Any
queuelees victim was beheaded im
mediately.
The correspondent of the Associ
ated Press 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 combatants
sl.-un would be futile. The Chinaman
found wearing foreign clothing im
mediately fell a victim to his ad
vancM tasLe. but foreigners were not
molested. Tbeir protest against the
nassacres, however, were laughed at.
Correspondents for the Associated
Tress worked uninterruptedly within
the outer walls of the city. Fires
sprang up everywhere. A large sec
lion of the native city was burned.
Friday night the Manchu, driven to
bay and glutted with blood, watches
the flaming city from the height of
Purple Mountain and awaits the mor
row. ?
DISAPPOINTED FIANCE.
Young Aiken Woman 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. Ilitt performing the ceremony
at his residence at Montmorencl. This
marriage came 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
1 Miss Holley was married quietly to,
'Mr. Garrett. ?
JRG, S. C. TUESDAY, NOVIi
PAID LICENSE FEES
AMOUNT COLLECTED PROM THE
CORPORATIONS.
The Report of Comptroller General
Jones Shows That They Paid Over
One Hundred Thousand Dollars.
The domestlf *j i foreign corpora
tion license f* 40.8 collected by A.
W. Jones, cop a3 ^ller general, dur
ing the yea: ^ nounted to $107,
724.40. Tbl an increase of over
$50,000 in 4 ears, which goes to
ahow that ir ? new capital has been
invested in ^ nth Carolina during
that period ? ,
The fee* re collected on an in
vestment & ,119,695,282. The li
cense Is 6nt^-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. 7S.2S2.83
1908 . 84,149.71
1909 . 89,592.85
1910. . ...... . . 96.704.43
191 1 .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 banking corporations?Cap
ital paid in, $10,S78,095; 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.
From 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.
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.
The following is the grand capitu
lation, showing corporation ' license
fees collected.
Domestic corporations?Capital
paid in, $1-19,695,769; fees collected,
$63,650.05.
Foreign corporations?Represent
ing property usrfd, $14,376,093; fees
collected. $7,510.44.
"'"Public utility corporations?inter
state receipts, $1 2,295,142; fees col
lected, $36,763.91.
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 tho 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 hitcn 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 fa^e; then Goinez 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 LackawannaJ
Springs and Hotel company, Clear-,
water, Fla. I discovered it after
thinking a long, long time." Thi:
discovery appeared to ease the mind I
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 sc-'era! days ago Rybolt
says he remembered nothing until hei
regained consciousness in a New Or
leans hotel.
Trains Meet in a Fog.
At Dalton, (ia., Engineer P. V.
Rhodes of Atlanta was killed and En
gineer T. L. Hamby of Smyrna, and
Fireman Barney Bridges of Rocky
Faiop, were injured when two freights
collided head-on near that place
Thursday morning on the Western &
Atlantic railroad.
MBER 14, 1911.
WIND A? SNOW
Storms and Slizzaids Cause Wide-spread
D.sasttr Over Coooiiy
SOME FROZEN TO DEATH
Deaths Nearly a Score, While Loss
to Property in Estimated at Mil
lions?Due to Sudden 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 Saturday 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 sloct, 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 boatf. were cast adrift. In
some places, gas almost failed. The
poor in large cities and the homeless i
in storm-swept regions suffered se
verely.
Reports received at Chicago Sun
day night by the 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
Iring 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
?nd the damage was increased by the
heavy downpour of rain, sleet and
snow.
Severe weather conditions are re
ported all 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.,
thermometers registered S degrees
btlow zero.
At least seven lives were lost and
scores of persona injured, some fa
tally, In a tornado which swept Rock
County, Wis., at dusk Saturday night.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
di.mage 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 surnn^e 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-i
peratures in record-breaking fashion
and giv.ag an unmistakable touch of
the real blizzard. Meagre reports
show that the wind blew at the rate
of -10 to 70 miles an hour and
brought sudden drops of from 20 to!
CO degrees in temperature.
Pensacola and West Florida were'
visited by a cold nor'wester between j
7 and S o'clock Saturday morning and!
It is believed there has been oonsid-i
erable property damage on the islands!
arid 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 heQ through the rest of the
day. There was a drop of 50 degrees
in the temperature in the last 2-1
hours.
Sixteen men clinging to beacons in
THEY RUlilD fICD
ENTIRE FAMILY STARVES TO
PURGE THEIR SOULS.
A Father and Mother, Followers of
Self Promulgated Creed, Dies With
Their Son.
Details of a ghastly suicide com
pact involving a whole family were
brougiht out by the Chicago police fol
lowing the discovery of the emaciated
forms of Herman Letsch, his wife
Anna and their 12-y ear-old son. All
had been dead several 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 out
the whole family. From physicians
examinations, it was evident the boy
hf.d 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
loo 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
and pastor. This pastor told the po
lie that until about four months ago
the family attended church each Sun
day, always contributing ?l. 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 ol
God will blast you for it."
The rambling letter said no minis
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
tak'ng 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 decompos-ad body was
found floating down Pee-Dee river
Friday morning, opposite Society
Hill. The negro ferryman 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 "he
deceased, unknown to the jury, came
to his death in a manner unknown
to the jury. It was the opnion that
the body was that of a young negro
man. It was clothed In a suit of blue
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 to get to
the b?acons 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 roistered seven degrees1
above zero, a drop since 2 p. in. Sat
urday of 70 degrees.
Two persons were killed and seven
seriously injured in a storm which
struck East on, 111., Saturday night.
t< iiriiig away telegraph and telephone
wires, and leaving the city isolated
and the tragedy of the storm untold
f) the world until Sunday night. .Mrs.
Allie Henneger, 7f> years old, died of
I right when her home collapsed.
Il. avy 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 CO degrees, and Sunday
night was hovering around 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.
iWO CENTS PER COPY.
WANT THE TOGA
Will Four Mare Meo Oppose Senator IB.
R Ttikao for ihe Sc Date
OR IS IT ONLY GOSSIP?
The Names of Rhett and Heywnrd
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 polities 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 Mirn up;
and the thing that is going to turn
up may be the general assembly and
its result early in January and it may
be a common announcement from
some man that he will enter the field
for an office.
The gubernatorial situation seems
to be clearly defined with the.present
governor and Ira 13. Jones, the only
candidates in view. Hut 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, altfhough there will he a
race for a bigger and much more de
sirable office?that of the United
States Senate. The question arises:
Will those who have been infected by
senatorial bee stand idly by and see
the race between B\ It. Tillrnan and
Jasper Talbert? There are several
South Carolinians more or less known
ior various characteristics who are
keen to enter the race for the Senate,
an it is a safe prediction tlbat there
will be at least six candidates in the
campaign next year.
This important feature arises:
What is the physical condition of Sen
ator Tillman? Is he able physically
to make a strenuous campaign? Has
he political strength enough "to sit
on his back porch and let the wool
?hat boys elect him?" These ques
tions are vital and are being conBid
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 reforra
movement '.hat swept the state sev
eral years ago?that is about 20 years
ago. In those days they were closely
aligned, and then or later all pla.yed
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 was his
chief lieutenant, and Ira 13. Jones
was the first speaker of the Tillman
Mouse. The present governor was a
young legislator in the ranks of the
reforra party.
Now, here are some names that
must be considered before the cur
tain has been rung up on that senar
torial light. A. F. Lever, of Lexing
ton, congressman from the Seventh
congressional district; Martin F. An
sel, two times governor of the State
and well known attorney of Green
ville; R. G. Rhett, former mayor of
Charleston, and once candidate for
the Senate; Howard 13. Carlisle, well
known attorney of Spartanburg; Lew
is W. Parker, well known cotton man
ufacturer; John Gary Evans, former
governor and defeated candidate for
1 ic Senate, and maybe 1). C. Heyward,
former governor.
All of these candidates or near
candidates, are well known in South
Carolina and have one claim or anoth
er on the public for some kind of ser
vice rendered. At least four of them
will he in the race with Senator Till
man and Colonel Talbert?that if: al
most certain. The curtain will be
pulled up next summer and the stage
will bo the county seats in the State
I of Souh Carolina; the audience will
be the 1 1 0,000 voters.
MEETS DEATH OS RAILS.
Whiskey Botlle Near Body Probably
Tells Tale.
?ir Gilliam, a negro 25 years old,,
wa? run over and killed by an en
gine on the Southern Railway, near
[Kiblcrs Bridge, New berry county.
Thursday night. - Hody was found by
the crew of the westbound passenger
train Friday morning, the head br
ing crushell in and the right arm eUt
off. An empty wiskey bottle was
found near the body. It is FUpposed
that Gilliam, having imbibed too free
ly. \\f].: to sleep on the track and
tiius met Iiis death. Corom-i Ciap
pell went to the scene and held the
Inquest the same afternoon, the ver
dict being in accordance with the
above facts.
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 eify- A dispute about the
business dealings of another repre
sentative of the insurant company
resulted hi ill feeling between the
two men. ! 18