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VOL. XX. MANNLNG., S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1905. NO. I. LUCKY ESCAPE. Large Passenger Steamer Ram med at Sea by a Schooner. BOTH SHIPS SAVED. Six Passengers and Two Officers of the Steamer Were Ijnred. The Collis Ion Took Place as the Steamer was Rounding Cape Cod on Her Regular Trip. The injury of six passengers and two of the ship's offl.ers by a collison at sea was reported by the steamer Jun iata of the Merchants and Miners' Transportation company, baund from Bostn for Baltimore and Norfolk, which returned to Boston, Thursday afternoon, badly damaged. The Jun. lata was rammed Wednesday night 30 miles cff Chatham by the fivemasted .schooner Harwood Palmer, bound from Baltimore fur Portland, Me., with a cargo of coal. The injured: Mr. and Mrs. Friedell, Pittsburg, badly bruised. J. W. Johnson, North Abington, Mass., leg broken; injured internally. Condition serious. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Murray, South Boston, bruised and badly shaken up. Corporal J. J. Mattingly, United States marine corps, hands cut. Capt. Z Nickerson of the Juniata, injury to hards. Qiartermaster John Crockett, hands cut and bruised. No one on board the schooner was injured. That the accident did not result In a general loss of life on the steamer is considered remarkable by everyone on board. The steamer bad a great hole stove in her starboard side amidships, her cabins from that point forward were ripped and torn into kindling wood, her pilot hcuse was wrecked and the foremast and smokestack were carried away. The Juniata re turned to her dock here Thursday af ternoon and landed her passengers. Arrangements were made to transfer the cargo. The Palmer lost her jib boom, bowsprit and headgear. The accident occurred at 9.50 o'clock Thursday night when the Juniata was steaming aroung Cape Cod. A fog hung over the water and the steamer's speed had been reduced somewhat. Capt. Nickerson was in the pilot house directing the movement of his ship. Suddenly the lookout shouted a warn Ing that a big vessel was to the star board and bcar ::R down on the steam er rapidly. C71pt. Nickerson ordered the wheel put hard over and the en gines reversed but even as his order' was being executed the flapping of huge sails and shouts of alarm were heard and in less than a minute from the time the lookout gave his warning the steamer was struck a terrific blow squarely amidships on the starboard side. Immediately following the first crash the schooner scraped along the side of the steamer, her spars and rig ging turning the upper deck Into a mass of wreckage. The state rooms and the pilot house were torn apart as though made of paper. The Im mense jib boom of the schooner after unroing the state room and pilot house became imbeddled In she upper works and was snapped off short. All aboard the steamer remained cool and there was not the slightest evidence of a panie. As a precaution ary measure the lifeboats were made ready by the crew and sailors not thus engaged went to the assistance of a number of the passengers who were vigorously working on the mass of debris In which several other passen gers, Capt. Nickerson and Qnarter master Crockett were buried. It was found that J. W. Johnson was the only person seriously injured. His state room was almost opposite the spot at which the schooner struck and was burled in the mass of wreckage. His right leg was broken and he sustained internal Injuries and cuts about the head and face. The schooner, although damaged, signalled that she was in no danger. Both vemais remained at the scene un til daylight, when the extent of the injuries sustained by each was learn ed. The hole in the side of the Juniata was found to befive feet above the water line. Capt. Nickerson decided it would be safer to steam back to Boston. The uninjured passengers were sent to Providence by train, whence they pro ceeded to their destination on the steamer E isex. The ~ mpfor the collision has not been fixed. CpNickerson refused to discuss the accide-D1 any way. Robbed the Navy. A dispatch from Tokio says informa tion has been made public that three naval paymasters have embtzzled 8165.000 of government funds. The announcement has been calmly re ceived by the public, but the knowl edge that the commissionof the crime extended over the period of a year without discovery may, it is said, cause a feeling of distrust and uneassi ness towards the naval administration and furnish a weapon to the politics parties that are opposing the govern ment. Comes High. Claude A. Swanson, democratic nom inee for governor of Virginia, has filed a statement showing that it cost him~ nearly $10,000 or two years salary, tc secure the nomination, all of which was for legitimate expenses $1,500 of this was for the assessment. Found Dead. A negress, Rachael Burkett, was found dead near her home at John ston. Coroner's inquest rendereda verdict that death resulted froma broken neck, caused by unknown per SO~r THE~Y LYNCHEiD BIlM. Full I ccount of Fow a Murder Was Ave ged by a Mob. Seven Men Charged With the Killing orallen Pendleton. Varrants Sworn out tor Them. Sunday night, Sept. 17, about 8 o'clock, about two miles below Honea Path, in Abbeville county, Allen Pen dleton, colored, stabbed Jis. Moore, a young white man to death. Jim Moore ard his cousin, McDon ald, a mere boy, were driving and locked wheels with Pendleton. This caused words and Pendleton sprang from his buggy and stabbed Mcore. who bad already alighted from hs buggy, four times with a large knife. One thrust pissed through the juu lar vein and came out back of the neck, Moore dying instantly. The negro then fled in the directICn of Honea Patb, but was hotly pur sued and was caught about half way. Pendleton was carried back by the captors to the home of Bo.b Moore, the murdered boys father, whicL was only a short distance from the scene of the killing. A crowd soon collected and a lynch ing seemed invitable. C. E. Harper and other cool heads advised against lawlessness. The party who had him in charge agreed to wait the arrival of some citizens of Donald's and be governed by their courcxl. Tne Don alds men were wired for and went In haste to the scene, but were ttoo late. The spirit of revenge had prevailed and Allen Pendleton had met his fate. With a trace chain around his neck he had been cbained to a small tree on the side of the public road, while his slayers faced him from the middle of the road. A volley of fifteen shots with a few directly following, ended the career cf Moore's murderer. About a dozen gunshot wounds were on the person of Pendelton. About half of them were made by balls from Win chesters of large calibre; Dr. Payne testified at the Ltquest that Pendleton's skull was crushed and his shoulder and neck broken. When last seen alive Pendleton was being led away by John Martin Ash ley, the father and three brothers of young Moore, Sam Bigby and others. Many negroes were at the inquest, but were quiet. His relatives refus ed to come near or have anything to do with it, as did the other negrces. They absolutely refused to care for or bury the remains at any price. So a grave was dug in the thick woods near where the bcdy lay. Even a wagon to convey the body could not be obtained. A few young white men improvised a sled, put the body of Pendleton on it and dragged it to the grave in the woods, where a few planks were placed over the ne gro's bo iy and It was covered up. The sentiment of the people of Honea PAth was against the lynching and it was severely condemn-d. Tne I oroners jury rendered a verdict that Pendleton came to his death at the . bands of parties unknown to the jury. 1 A dispatch from Honea Path to te State says Solicitor Cooper Is here, acting under orders from Gov. eyward. He Is investigating the ase against the murderers of Allen Pendleton. He has s worn out warrants against ohn Marion Ashley, J. IR. Moore, osh Moore, John Moore, Will Moore, Sam Bigby and Hugh Bowen. Sheriff yon made the arrests Wednesday orning. Solictor Cooper says that he is go ng to investigate the case to the bot om and prosecute to the fall extent f his ability. He did not understand he message sent him Monday morn ing and sent a reply which was not eceived here. Constable Shannon had the negro, Allen Pendleton, buried yesterday, or rather he had the negro dragged on a slide to a hole, about 200 yards away, nd dumped into it. Tnere was no eoffin nor box, dirt was thrown in, the hole was partly filled and this was the burial he received. Took mas Lile. At Montgomery, Ala., Charles M. Shear, a young man of Jacksonville, Fla., took his own life by drinking: laudanum Tuesday at the boarding. ouse of Mrs. Baggett on ahe Wood ley road, in Boguehomme, a suburb. The dead man lef t the following note: "My Dlarling Wife. As I write this, I am nearly in the sweet by and bye, and when this reaches you, I will be there. You remember, I tried this once before. All I ask of you is to tell my mother at 202 B,-y street. "As ever your own, "Charley." Through the Seaboard Air Line of fice, by which railrcad company he had been employed, it was found that he has a brother in Jacksonville. A tel egram was sent to him advising him of the death, and the answer was "Bury him there." The mother was not in Jacksonville. He was buried by the railroad. The Wages of' Stn. ofThe Chicago Newas pri1nts a highly colored story of the arrest in that city ofMollie Hutchinson, formerly the wife of Seymore Hutchinson a wealthy and well known South Carolinian but Iwhose estate she long ago dissipated and M. T. B.aggs who lefu a wife and ten children in A bbeville In almost de stitute circumstances t:) elope with her. The pair were living together under the name of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Tomas, each working in a factory. Mrs. Hutchinson once a woman of wealth and ease is now reduced to rags and:- imprisment at the age of 2, af ter being the means of bringing scandal to several respectable homes. The paIr will be brought back to Ab beville to be tried for adultery. Five Trainmen Kiiled. Five trainmen were killed and eight others seriously inj ared in a collision between a pay train and a combina tion passenger and milk train on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad at Roush's curve, at Mount Holly Springs, Pa., Thursday af ternoon. None of the passengers was injured. The pay car contained about 550 000 In cheeks, which wt s scattered aboit the tracks. The checas were picaed up by the trainmen. Olcals of the company here s::y the accident probably was ue to a misnnderstanding of orders. BOTH 0OT HELP. McCall, of the New York Life, Says Parker Never LET ANYTHING PASS. lie Also Asserts That His Life Was Made Weary by Democrats Chasing Him For Money. He Says Parker Accepted Contributions when He Was Chairman. Pi;tical contributions of the New York Llfe Insurance company and the conection of Andrew A. Hamil Lon of Albany with the alleged politi col activity of the company were the points around which the hearing be fcre the legislative insura:ce Investi gation in New York turned on Wed esday. President John A. McCall of the New York Life Insurance company was the chief witness and for several hours he was subjected to a ire of questions by Charles E. Hughes, Drunsel for the cmmlttee concerning 8he money presented for political urposes. The climax was reached when Mr. cCall declared that the soliciting of funds for campaign purposes was not onfined to the Republican party in he campaign of 1904 and announced: "My life wr.s made weary by the Democratic candidates chasing me for money in that campaign. Some of he very men who today are being Lnterviewed in the papers and de aouncing men who contribute to cam paigns were crossing my path every t.p I took looking for money. One ay-the candidate himself, Parker f he would show up his books when ae was chairman of the Damccratic state committee, It would give you Aft. He ncv!:r rejected a dollar in .he world. He would take every dol ar that was presented to him." Judge Parker was chairman of the Democratic State executive committee n 1885. Mr. McCall's statement was greeted ith wild cheering, which continued intil a threat was made to clear the oom of listeners if the crowd did not :esrain itself. - With great care the acoount of An Irew A. Hamilton with the company was analyzed by Mr. Hughes who sked Mr. McCall about every item Lnd made it clear that a search was ing made for political contribu Aons. Mr. McCall stoutly maintained that 2e had given Mr. Hamilton no money ;o be used in influencing legislation ,t Albany, but the admission was btaned from Mr. McCall that Ham ton's expenses at Albany were paid :rom the company's funds and that is accounts were not submitted to ,udt. It was shown that $235,000 has een paid to Hamilton with only a rerbal accounting to President McCall ~nd that at present Hamilton owes he company about $60,000, but Mr. dcCall said he felt sure that Hamil on, who is now in Europe, will re ay this sum upon the company's de nand. The 5235,000 Mr. McCall said he was sure wou'.d be paid by Mr. Barn lton on demand of the New York lfe Insurance company '1f it is not," said Mr. -McCall, 'I'll be responsible and I'll pay It." Emilton received for legal services, e said, about 5100,1)00 a year from the New York Life Insurance comapa ay. He was given charge of work all ver the United States in the matter i legislation and taxes and represent d the New York Life before legisla tive committees. Taking up the campaign contribu tions, Mr McCall said that In 1896 he ontributed to the defeat of the silver >latform, not to the defeat of the [D-mocratic party. In other cases of campaign contributions Mr. Mc(.all preferred to characterize them as contributions to the support of the gold platform rather than to the Re oubcan national committee. Hz denied that any contributions had been made to either State or munici pal campaigns at any time. Be as sumed the entire responsibility. Of the campaign contritutions m~ade by Mr:. McCall and Geojrge W. P<rkins for the New Park Life Insur ance company in 1904. Mr. McCall said he did not care how many of his poicy holders agreed with his action. He said he consulted no one but Mr. Perki.s. "I did it on my own book. I don't justify the use of csmpaign unds. I[ just a the use of this money for the oenefit of the policy holders." Replying to Mr. Hughes, he said: 'I honestly believe in this instance it was justfie~d. If you ask me if I ap prove of campaign contributions, I say no, a thousand times no. "Did y..u really think that in 1904 the interests of the policyholders were so suiusly endangered that the com pany ought to contributt? ' asked Mr. Hughes. "I did think so when the man who ho.d twice voted for Bryan was a can didate on a platform framed by a cmmittee that had by a majority of two to one rejected the gold stand ard." Referring to the Democrats Mr. McCall said: "Their shadows were acrss mine every move I made." "I1 thank God that Bryan and free silver were beaten and that I had a share in their defeat." Applause followed the statement but the demonstration was checked by the chairman, who said he would have the room cleared of spectators ii order was not kept. In 1892 Mr. McCall ssaid there was no campaign contribution by the New York Life Insurance company, be. cause both parties had gold platforms. No contribution to any State -0o mnimi cmpnnign fnds had beer r ade by the New York Life Insur ance company since his connectiot with the company, said Mr. McCi11. A]3OLUTELY FALSE SAYS PARKER Judge Alton B. Parker, Democratic candidate for president in 19)4, gave the Associated Press a statement con cerning President McCall's testimony relative to the soliciting of fonds from the New York Life Insurance company by Democrats in 1904. The statement folo tes: "My attention has been called to certain testimony said to have been given by Mr. John A. McCall while a witncss before the insurance investi gati-.n committee In reply to Mr. Hughs' question whether he thought 'that in 1904 the interests of the po: ic, helders were so sericusly enda.nger ed tiat the eompa.. ghlt to contri bute.' It is ?vident that Mr. McCall was laboring under great excitement in making his reply, for it Is very inco herent. But if his answer is intend ed to convey the impression that In the campaign of 1904, I. either d rectly or indirectly, solicited from him or his corporation or any other corporation, any money or valuable thing, his statement is absolutely false. On the centrarl, I repeat now what I said before the election, that I expressly notified and directed the chairman of the executive committee of the national committee that no money should-be received from cor porations." MCCALL CRAWFISHES. Jobn A. McCall, president of the New York Life Insurance company, referring to his testimony before the legislative ommittee in relations to contributions to the Democratic party said Wednesday: "The meaning I Intended to convey when I mentioned Judge Parker was this: Judge Parker when a candidate for the presidency last year, did not perscnallv ask me for campaign funds, but friends of his did so repeatedly. "Judge Parker, as 'chairman of the States Democratic committee several years ago, did, however, accept prof fered contributions to the campaign fund." NANE HIM SAYS SHEEHAN. William F. Sheehan's attention was called to the testimony of Mr. Mc Call and he said: ''I was chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic national committee last year. There was not a single man connected with the Democratic national campaign that solicited a dollar from Mr. McCall. If any such person made any such solicitation Mr. McCall should name him." GRTS TEN YEARS. or Patting Snake's Heads and Rep tiles in a Well. A dispttch from Laurens to The State says Wednesday in the court of general sessions John Miller, a ycuag egro farm hand, was convicted of administering poison with intent to kill and was given a sentence of ten years in the State prison. The indict, ment under which Miller was tried charged Wash Carwile and Miller with attempting to poison an entire family, onsisting of Mr. E. W. Ferguson, who resides near Clinton, his wife, other, and aunt and some of the olored servants and hands employed on the place, by placing in the well, rom which every one on the premises sed water, a bag containing a snake's ead, a frog, a lizrsard and a quantIty f stuff said to have been a composi tion of match heads and other things f a poisonous character. The fact that Mr. Ferguson and ther members of the family became ery ill about the same time led to an nestigation which revealed the pres mene of the horrible mixture in the rinking water. Carwile and Miller were suspected of the deed. Miller was promptly arrested but Carwile es cped and has not been apprehended et. Both negroes and their families qit using the water on Sunday before te Fergusons were made sick on Tues ay. It was brought out in the trial Wednesday that the negroes were close friends and during the year had given r. Ferguson considerable trouble, omplaining that they were not being reated right and that they would even p things when their time was out. Oa the 12th of Ju]- their contraca be ng out, they wer: paid off. Three ays later the or: was found in the weli. - It was .i bolical deed and udge MemmineA said in passing sentence on Mille gnat the ten year limit was too light. William R. ickey, acting solicitor, conducted prosecution with signal tact and abil Alis-Well that Eads Well. A dispatch from Augusta to the Colubia Record says registered at tie P~antera hotel In Augusta as "F E. Manloy and wife, Columbia, S. C.," a couple, little more than chil dren, were c-alled upon Monday of last week to give an account of themselves A telegram had been received from P. J. IHtto, of Livingston, S. C., by the Augusta police department asking the police to look out for his daugzh ter, Lizzie, who had eloped with a man by the name of Davis and was thought to have gone to Augusta. Te couple in question had been as signed to room 54 and spent the night at the hotel. Early Monday morning, a little after 5 o'clock, "Manley" left the hotel, hearing of the wire. and acknowledged to the police that he was Davis. The father arrived later and the differences being patched up, the party returned to Carolina. The girl Is only thirteen years old. Frost at the North. Reports from New England state that that section was visited by frost Wednesday night. Much damage was done to crops. In New York state frost was reported in several sections. At Lane, Pa., and in northern Ver mont snow fell. The freezing point was reached at Concord, N. H., and Augusta. Maine. A high wind saved the cranberry crop in the Cape Cod district. _____ ____ Will Hang. ommander Johnson, a white man, has been oonvicted of the murder 0: Rev. H. D. Grainger in Horry Countj and sentenced to hang the second Fri: day in December. An appeal wil nmhbhl a .ken. OHARGE PROVED By the Confessions of Geo, W. Perkins and J. A. McCall. WHAT PARKER SAYS. All the Big Corporations Contributed Money to the Republican Campaign Fund Last Year, and the Men Who did It Should be Punished. Former Chief Judge Alton B. Par ker, last year the Demcc:at-ic candi date for President of the United States, in an interview at Eiopus, N. Y., recently, referred to the charges made by him in the Presidential cam paign last fall, that corporation funds were being ued in aid of the R %publi can campaign. To a correspondent of the Associated Press who called at Rosemount, Juage Parker's home, and asked him if he had anything to say in relation to the statement made by Vice-President George W. Perkins, of the New York Life Insurance Com pany, before the Legislature coma mitte invest!gating the insurance business, to the effect that President John A. McCall, of that company, had caused a contribution of about $50,000 to be made last year to the Republican national campaign fund, Judge Parker said: "Yes, I believe I ought to say, now that there is no political excitement to distract the public attention, that the president of tne New York Life was not the only such contributor. The officers of other great life insur ance companies,Euch as the Equitable and the Mutual, also contributed from the policy holders' fund for the campaign purposes last year. The u-derlying principales which divide the great mass of the people into par ties have no effect upon such men. Their one Inquiry is, will the party organization in Its hour of trlumoh remember our generosity and respond to our demands? Of course, the or ganization coes remember, for it ex pects a similar contribution next time. And the expectation is not in vain. Last year was not the first time. Such contributions had been made before in national, State and municipal elections. "The offi ers responsible for these raids upon the treasuries of corpora tions have received their reward In unfettered management of different insurance corporations; in unembar rassed raids upon the public through trusts-condemned by both common and statute law; in refusal to punish criminally the officers of railroad and other corporations violating the laws; and In statutory permission to manu facture corporations and to levy tri bute on the people. "There can be no hope of checking the unlawful aggressions of offiers of great corporations so long as they may hus form a quasi-partisianship with he organization of the dominant po litical party. For in the hour when he administrative offcial seeks to punish the offender, he is reminded by he head of the organization of the magnitude of the contributions of the orporation. "'There Is, however, something worse, if possible, than the escape of such offenders from juitice. It Is the gradual demoralization of voters and re dulling of the public consience by eeefforts to make these vast sums of money procure the ballot they were ntende~d to procure, corruptly and otherwise. "What has been proved in the case of the New York Life will undoubt edly be proved in the other cases. The facts exist and honest and able counsel backed by an honest commit tee will unadoubtedly bring them out for the public good. "Were there an Investigation of railroad, manufacturing and other corporations It would be found that these corporation offcers who put their handJs Into the treasur; and took out moneys belonging to widows and orphans to help secure a partisan triumph. "That their acts were unlawful and their purposes corrupt goes with ut saying. They Intended to have the-money used, as it was, in corrupt ing the electorate. Mr. Perkins makes the point that Mr. John A. McCall, the president of the New York Lire, is a Democrat. Appar ently he would have the public as ue that when Mr. McCall unlaw fully and wrongfully contributed these funds-the company's ~share probably as a member of the uncer writing syndicate-it was evidence of political virtue, rather than miscon duct. "The truth about it is, and I say it without feeling, but emphatically, that men like McCall have no politi cal convictions that stand in the way of their personal advantage- Such men desire the triumph of tnat party wich will bettper serve their personal inancial interests and will-for con tributions, past, present and future continne to protect these interests by lenient legisistion and by pretense at executon of law which shall be ten derly blind to all their offenses. That party they espouse in the court room, and contribute to it of the moneys they hold in trust, and occasionally a little of their own. "It is not my purpose to claim that the Democratic party, subjected to the temptatCns which have overcome the other party during the last four years, would have acted differently' Mere party advantage should not be sought from the d!sclosures made In this investigation. But the facts should be diligently sought, that the people may beccme so arou~ ed that they will insist upon legislation mak ing it a criminal offense for officers to contribute oorporate funds for political funds for politcal purposes and depriving the apparently snccess ful candidates of their ottcas. "Efforts in that direztion have ben making in different States sinca November last, and partlcularly in this State. But the Republican or ganization would not consent to it, so the L-gislature defeated the bills. And the organization never will con sent until an ar, u3ed public senti ment shall threaten legislators witb political oblivion who fall to enact effective laws upon the subject." SLIGHT DBTERIORATION. Cotton Condition Not as Good as a Weck Ago. Section Director Bauer weekly crop report says the mean temperature for the week ending Monday, September 18 Ih, was slightly below normal, due to very cool weather early in the week and warm at i1s close. The extremes of tamperature were a miximum of 96 degrees at Blackville on the 12th, and a minimum of 57 degrees at Cheraw on the 15th. There was slightly less than the normal amount of bright sunshine over the southern and east ern counties and about normal amount in the central and western counties. There were numerous showers over the eastern and southern counties, and very little rain, in many places none -over the western ones. Excessive rainfall occurred in Florence and Dar iington counties, in the latter there were 8 inches recorded in 24 hours. L:nds were washed, streams fLoded and bridges carried away, and crops were seriously damaged on uplands as well as low lands. Generally the week's precipitation was needed and proved beneficial. Orer the western and northern counties the ground is very dry and late crops are suffering for moisture. Streams and wells are becmmlng low, and it is too dry for fall plowing and for seeding oats. Fre quent showers interrupted farm work along the coast and to a lesser degree in a few interior southern counties, while the weather was favorable for continuous work over the greater por tion of the state. There was a slight deterioration in the condition of catton due, mainly, to premature opening cauzed by rust and drought. On sandy lands the crop is rearly all open and most of it pick ed while over the state genorally it is opening fast. Growth and fruiting have stopped, but this Is Immaterial, as what fruitage would be taken on after this time would not mature. Cater pillars have appeared in Berkeley county on cotton, which is the only report of damage of insects this week. Late corn is in need of rain. There is a slight deterioration of minor crops due to want of moisture,over the west ern parts and a slight improvement in the eastern portions. Fall truck has improved, and recently planted seeds are germinating well. Rice harvest made good progress. Much bay and other forage was saved in prime con dition. LONG LOST COMMISSION Raturned to the Gallant soldier Who Lost It in Battle. A dispatch from Patterson, N. J., says a commission as captain of the Twenty-fifth New Jersey volunteers which was lost by Capt. Archibald Graham on the battleflid of Freder cksburg, Va., was returned to Capt. Graham's widow Wednesday by Cnief ustice Walter Clark of the supreme ourt of North Carolina. Judge Clark 'ound the commission after the battle was over. He sent it to the State ad jutsat general's offiee in Trenton and asked that it be forwarded to the own er. He accompanied it with a letter saying that he had intended to return it many years ago but had mislaid and forgotten It. He wrote: "This commission was found where only a brave man could have carried it-beneath the plunging fire of the Washington artillery on Mare's Heights, just benind us and the even more wasting fire of our infantry line behind the stone wall at the foot of the heights. We broke seven succes sive lines of battle to pieces at that pins, for nature had made the posi tion impregnable. I was then but 14 years of age, but I remember well that my astonishment at the recklessness of sending brave men on such a hope less mlssion was only exceeded by my addirA"ton of the steadiness and gal lantry of the men who endeavored to execute it. "I do not know to what bridge the T wentyfil th New Jersey belonged and hence do not know in which of these charges Capt. Graham shared, but was particularly struck with that mnade by Thomas Meagher's Irish brigade, whose line came up almost to the muz-. zles of our guas. We recognized that line by the green flag with the sun-I burst on it as well as by its reckless daring. My most respectable compli ments to Mrs. Graham and to her son, who, as I see is a member of the pro fession to which I have the honor to belong." The Right Spirit. The Marion Star, which favors the dispensary system, deprecates any at. tempt to mullify the result of the elec tion, and calls upon dispensaryites to aid in carrying out the new order of affairs. Tnis is the proper spirit, for nothing can be gained by attempt ing to force any particular thing upon the people through technicalities of the law, or endeavcring to retard cr inder the majority In carrying out its wishes. For snake Bite. As Farmer Arthur L. Mitchell, of North Wcodbury, Conn., was cuttirs fod d.r corn in a lowland lot a big rea adder bit his left wrist. Mr. MitcteU tore the reptile cff, ran for the house and drank a quart of whiskey, which neighbors brought him. He suffered terribly all night, but the liquor Is having the desired eff.:ct, physicians say, and he may recover. Hieavurj Fmned. At Chicago In the United States district court Thursday morning, four members of the firm of Schwamzhild & Sulzberger pleaded guilty to accept ing rebates from railroads in beef trust cases. The cases are not Identi fied with the Sherman anti-trust law. One was fined $10,000 and the others 5,000 each. The cost will b3 distrib uedropornntinnnaly. THE TRUTH AT LAST, The Big Corporations Tut Up the Poodle For the Republican Party to Buy Up the Last Election. What the Presi dent Ought to Do. The testimony of Mr. Perkins of the New York Life Insurance Ocm pany that $50,000 of the policyhold ers' money was pledged and $48,702.50 paid Into the campaign fund of the RepubUcan party last year, to be em ploy< in promoting the election of Rv 3evelt, has stirred up many 0o:: of campaign contributions by zbr great corporate interests. A dis - Loh to The Chicago Rscord.Herald from Washington says that it is very freely stated at the capital now that the meat packers of Chicago, mem bers of the beef trust, which '"ommis sioner Garfeld has since declared to be a poor, suffering organ zztion, un justly accused by the public of extor. tion, paid $100,000 to Mr. Roosevelt's campaign purse. According to the correspondent's statement the con tribution of the packers was first put at $50,000, the same as the amount asked of the New York Life, but it was afterwards raised to $100,000. The correspondent continues with this interesting information: After the packing companies had contributed,representat:ons were made to the brewers and whiskey interests that it would be to their benefit to give large sums, and the money was forthcoming. During the campaign the agents of the department of com merce and labor were at work investi gating the affairs of the packers. The original sum contributed by the pack ers was about what they normally give to a campaign fund, and the later con tribution doubled it. It Is stated that Secretary Cortelyou knew nothing of the source of the campain contribu tions. "Cornelius N. Bliss, trea-uter of the national committee, and his usistant, C. H. Duell, were the only men who knew absolutely where all campaign contributions came from,'. said a politician today. 'In the West Charles G. Dawes collected the funds. He introduced many men whose con tributions were wanted to Mr. Cortel you at luncheors which werearangedi for the purpose. Mr. Cortelyou soli cited no contributions from these men. but merely talked over the campaign with them." In commenting on the above the Oharleston Evening Post says: "Presi dent Roosevelt denounced Judge Par ker most fiereely because he dared to aondemn these collections of money from the corporations and to draw the nevitable conclusion that tbev were made with expectation of favors from the administration and therefore, with mplication of such by the agents cf Mr. Roosevelt, who had not been re pudiated by that virtuous gentleman. ow we know that the New York Life gave a large sum of money and lso that it was given in just the way Judge Parker said last October that uch contributions were made. Here re Judge Parker's words: "Shall the ceatiens of government-many of which pursue illegal methods-control ur elections, control them by moneys elongiog to their stockhoders noneys not given in the open and harged upon the books as money paid for political purposes, but hidden way by false bookkeeping?'' The tem of the New York Life's contribu ion was so entered on the books that ven the treasurer of the company, who drew the check for the amount, dd not know what was its purpose ad it became necessary to call the 2ghest executive officers of the com pany to explain it. "But isn't Mr. Roosevelt to stir up hs spirit at this juncture and de ounce somebody ? He can't denounce Jdge Parker again because the truth of his charges is estalis~hed. But he might denounce Mr. Bliss for not tell ng him of the embarrassing obliga ions he had contracted. Except that e may never have consulted Mr. Bliss about the matter d uring the ampaign, it being agreed injadvance hat all assurances of clean campaign ing should come to the President from r. Cortelyou, who, himself, should ave nothing to do with anything hat was not clean. But one .thing r. Roosevelt might do, namely, te instruct Mr. Cortelyou to publish now the whole list of campaign contribu ions r:ade to the Republican fund last year and specifically declare him self frec of any obligation to tho. e ontributors, whatever engagemnlns his agents may have made when they secured the money. Mr. Roosevelti. likes to do sensational things. Here's a chance for him." Selling Whiskey. "I cannot fill the orders that come in for whiskey from Union and Newv berry unless I am given a shipping erk," said one of the Columbis, dis pensers recently. "You would be surprised at the number of sales made by me to Union and Newberry people and I am constantly receiving reqgaests for supplies to be shipped. Of course, I cannot ship the stuff as I have not the time nor inclination to turn my dispensary Into a shipping depart mnt, but the requests are coming in just the same. 1 thInk I can safeily stte that my sales last week and the week before were double that of any revious year at the present time and a large part of this Is due to the de mand for whiskey in Newberry and U:in." The Cohimbla Record says the statement will not cause much surprise here except as to the quan tiy demanded by the above nam~d counties. It was mad'e by a dispenser in whom the county board has perfect confidence and his report filed at the end of the month ou sales, as com pared with a similar report of the lart year, will bear out the statement. Maust;Ke mnai Closed. Associate Justice Gary, to whom Iawyer Boyd Evans applied in the hopa of keeping the Union disp-Insa ries open pending his appeal to the supreme court, has sustained Judge, Townsen d. The case can still go be fore the full supreme court; but mean while the dispenraries must remain AWFUL SIORY Of a Murderous Attack Made on J. D. Hawkins by OTHER WHITE MEN. The Victim of the Murderous Attack. Who Was Left for Dead, Revives and Tells Now He Was Laid on the Rail Road Track to be Ran Over. The Columbia State of last Wednes day says Sheriff Jennings of Pickens County arrived in Columbia on Tues day tf last week with a warrant for John Hendarson and Tom Vaughn, who was In jail there charged with the murderous assault upon J. D, Hawkins near Calhoun more than two weeks ago. The Sheriff got the Iris ners and returned to Pickens with them on Wednesday. The State says Henderson ano. Vaughn are the two men who were arresteid in the weave room of the Olympia cotton mill by Deputy. Sher 1fs Knox and Cathcart last Thursday afternoon, September 14 as the result of tealphone communication from Sheriff Gireath of Gresnville. It was not known at that time whether the crime was committed in Greenville or Pickens county and the delay in removIng the man from the Rchland jail has been due to the fact lhat it was necessary to wait until awkins had sufficiently regained his sense to tell a coherent story of the Nffort to take his life. He has now improved suffciently o do this and reiterates what he stat ,d at a former interval of -oonseious iess, that Henderson and Vaughn are ;he men who attacked him and placed 2s almost helpless and senseless body., )n the track of the Southern railway o be crusbcd by an oncoming traih. io as to conceal the crime that had >cn committed. Snerff Jenuings stated that from :he information now at hand it seems Zat Hawkins, who resides at the Brandon mill in Greenville, wa's on saturday afternoon, September 2, Lbout to take a train for Easley, where ie intended to attend a meeting of ihe Odd Fellows lodge, and he had on is person $100 belonging to the order. rhis money he showed to several men vith whom he was associating that af ernoon and a plot to rob him was-ev dently determined upon by them. Af er at&empting . several ruses to get 1m to a point where the robbery could >e co--mitted without fear of discov xry, finally one of them told Hawkdns Sscandalous story concerning his fami ly and when Hawkins indignantly re anted the falsetcod he was told that f he wcu.d go with them the men culd carry him to the man who had aid it and would furnish prof of its ruth. It i supposed that that night they ot in an empty freight car of a pass ng freight train androde as far as alhout , where they got off and start d on fooo toward the Seneca river. When about half way to the river and rear a saw mill, Hawkins' companions .tacked him with heavzy scantlings, striking several terriiic b~ows on the. read and one on his left arm, which aroke it between the wrist and the lbow. He was also given ajab in hi ack with the splintered end of a' aroken scanitling, which made a rightful wound. The blows on the sounded man's head had reudered rim aimost uncons4cious but not en irely so, as tihe assailants supposed. Eawkins, bleeding and unable to raise 1s hand to help himself,' heard them liscuss the best way to dispose of his )dy. It was agreed by them to throw is body In the Sences river and gath rirg it up they started toward the iver bank, but when about half way :hey saw the watchman of the bridge . Lpproacing with his lighted lantern. Althrough he soon disappeared this mused them to change their ;>an and t was then. agreed to place the body m the railroad track to be mangled mder the wheels of the next train. Tnis was done and the would be mur erers quickly disappeared in the larkess. Hawkins, dimly realizing iat certain death awaited him unless e could crawl from the track, made supreme effort au.d managed to.drag ls body to the outside of the track and roll down the embankment. It will be remembered that his groans were beard by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Chapman, whao were passing on their way to church the ncxt morning, and the half dead man was found and cared for at their borne. Henoerson ana Vaighn were seen at the jail Tussday and asked for a satement but they vigorousiy denied .ny knowledge of or connection with he affair. They said that they were in the company of Hawk~ns in Green vie during the day but that they did ot see him at night, as they were both at the Magnolia cafe and later s.t -a lawn party at the residence of Mtr. Whitesidei. They claim to be abe to produce proof of this alibi. awkins' statement is conclusive proof na the assaalt cecurred in Pickens county and the entire matter Is now in the hands of Sueriff Jennings. A Gnostj~y k'ind.. At Boston, Mass., the police we a called up to investIgate the death of a -oman whose dismembered body, wrapped lza white oil cloth, was found in a green leather suit case in the wate, near the Winthrop Yacht Club house, early Thursday night. There were nQ markes by which the remains coud be identdfied. It is though the woman was the victim of a carels op raton. Tire Intestines had been retved. Tae bcdy had evidently been dismembered by a sharp knife. -The cuts were clean and no bones were broken. Lost at. S Two Ger man freight steamers bound from Hamburg and Mediter raean port;, foundered in the North sea anel 3 men were drowned.