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VOLUME XVI, CAMDEN, S.C., FRIDAY, OCTOHKR 13, HK)5. NO. 40. RILUQNS FOR RcGURUVS fWv C?t $4,500,000 Fr?m Mti- 1 ts'aj In Twenty Year?? ' ? ' WiVEUTIONS ASTOUND HEARKRS v> .V"" i > I *WM,W *?*>*? Ton. How H# 4?T?oe?d y7 *?**? 9IM9 s Y*mr MiLtrr lb l sat to Incor?)<i~I.oul? A. Th?b?u^, Pr6?l.leu' ai?Cunly'? Son. U'l.nw, U*<1 Kiuli Flckln**, New York City.? In an examination WI?te la <1 t^nlls bo surprising ns to ,-gstound eveiKthe hitherto Jmperturbn* Hughes, It WfiSc shown before r ik insurance commission ,_lp9t the stupendous sum of $2,fln2, 031.30 hod bocn received by two incm' persof the McCurdy futility, ltobprt II., tlic President, -and LouIk a. hebaud, a son-in-law, from the Mu Bftl LIfo lit less than twenty year* wild Information Jn, the hands of tb-i committee shows that tin* President Ii,C,irtr<l ,I" McCurdy. received ?|T tniarJes alone approximately $l,r>oo. .^W In tbe Hame period, The vast pehed by the younger members ?r tuo family were . mainly tbroujrh S?SrL0,,I/2 nQ1'Cjfen "mI domestic ?SI V P' Well -as for salarv, ?nd tlie net Income of tbe three members } ?.f tffif. f<lU>,,y from 1,,e Mutual Life J. f?PP' "Xj Ilia ted $420,000. r J.5 Pro?re"e ?,f Robert H? McCurdy froJU ii minor clerkship to a posit 'on r# ii L fur In excess of that f tbe Precis ilw Uirited States J", "I1? a st0l7 tl?? main feature of Which was the Almost fabulous dl KXl0"? ?? t,i0 JMP^'ecclvecl. Kn Sfn i* * fl"u C- ?? Raymond, a general agent of tbe Mutual, at twen |ME?, :/c ?.rn old, fresh from .college, &a,R''rry ot '100?. Mr. McCurdv tes tifled that iu the first ten years of bis the Mutual Ids income ? ' Sk- ,!? ~P WflWMted to more than $200,* WO, tbat ten years after bis entrance received In a single year com m is* ^ ajops on foreign and domestic business r Aggregating ft 10,000 and tiiat In 4hat I*** "e wis receiving one-half tbe .. -fronts of- the firm, Which he entered year, after be began life in ^??rauce work. 1880 lie went nbroad i.:.? ?rgauj?e the foreign agency of the ^ Mutual, and from that time until re ^ he-" received vast commissions ; on an renewal business, commissions so. stupendous, iu fact, tbat be bad vol untarily Vked tlu?t they be reducfcl. s;V (low stupendous they really were nily fr be gathered from tbe fact that bis re * ceipts from thin source alone In 1003, 11 ? ^"<1 Jn?t be<Mi made general mlnrl Op90,000. umount " ? ** .WMHHfc rrnrt he was still drawing . ?q??tue from insurance written while [5:4.??.^ * member bf O. H. Kaymond & H although in this year the amount V b?d become Insignificant. *?SSS^'"^ mi *eve!at>ou. dwarfing the remarkable exploits of even George W. Perkins In the realm ?ajnttond A Co., still drawing there* 2? and tbe 'iS! Mr. Thebaud entered the' pr?gr?*s lu the Arm estab 1880 ,*?e had a quarter to 1002 one-half, to 1903 t^vo tblrdsT and at the present thne tbree ^gartera. in 1002 this netted $12,000, I.'. IS? Jt waa "Pward of $148, 'v ; 2. ??i? receipts lu eleven years 'r^L J*alpg ^^?.000, The figures for. this T^a?d -vere supplied by h;.?; Rny^oiid hlmselt', Moreover, to B?XW<?iJk Co. the ^JlatuaJ ??o^efl i?lnety.al* i>ee cent, on - Nw York dJstrict. and gtiftrtnteed this S ,^U||D?B ,?t $1T,5D0,000o written arLf/lngJ? p"y %<hls basis without regard to the possiuflity of the Sr wrltt?n 'ailing below b . Mr.. Hughes finally obtained from - !5e company's counsel a transcript of J?? cashier's payroll, which showed that since 1001 Richard a. McCurdy, as president of the Mutual, had been receiving $160,000 a year, a sum three greater than that paid to the sQmShW the United States. .T*?f Ap*l Uguree show that Richard A. McCurdy, his sou, Robert H. Mc ?|Curdy, and his son-ln*Iaw, Louis A. - ^ alnce their ofUcial connection *5^ -M?ftyal. Life Insurance Com* paoj" have jointly drawn from the /?M?ry of that organisation in the ? rorm of salary^ and commiislons an ag gregate of $4,584,120,40 aa their per* r jwnal emoluments. ' *A 9250,000 DAMAGE 8UIT. Huge Damages For Libel Asked Against the Ladles* Home Jonrnal. Auotber maker of pro does bas *?ued the Ladles' J for libel. Dr. Hartman. O-, wbo owos tbe Peruna ?aonfacturlnff Company, ?ie i f86$OOO^datnages oh ?cc<gQt of by thai* paper of -ar toa mttmoDlsl pur a Repnesen CataHna. bau tHS TO KIDNAP ROCKEFELLER Put Crowo Planned to Hold Oil King Tor $2,000,000 Ransom. Stkrlttiif fonfMiloi) of <!?? Man tJn?ler Atretl 1m Montana Kur KIcmIiu : tlie bun of m Millionaire 1'ncktri Butte, Mon'. ?That plans had been laid to kidnap John 1>; Rockefeller and hold III in for a ransom of $2,000,000 or W, 000, 000, n ml that (lie scheme was liot executed because of the tlmidues* of ono of tlio plot tc i s at the Inst mo ment, was asserted by I'at Crowe, the notorious outlaw, under arrest hto* for Ills connection with the 'kldpaplng of the Cudahy tioy. So startling in lis holdups way tkc lilan to >t(->iii the Standard Oil man that tlio.se who heard of It were in I clined to laugh at tiisi. l'.nl as the boldest Imndi. of this section of tlie country told the details and cireum stance* of Ills visit to Cleveland and the preparations that had been made for the greatest kidu.tpiug in th? his tory of the country, all doubt as to the truth of the story Crowe told vau ished. He dazed tlie public by uttering this amazing story through the bars of his cell: ^ ' I piauvthl to kidnap John D. Rocke feller and get his son to glvo me $2, 000,000 Afc a ransom! "It was Immediately after the Cudahy kidnaping that uiy partner and I? never mi ml his name? were lying low !ii Chicago, laughing at th ? excitement over the affair, .t had been so easy that I suggested that we j*o big ger game, with the result that within a week we took the train to Cleveland to kidnap Rockefeller. "We got down there, \. ent out tahis i>lace at Forest Hill, and sized up\be place. The. old uian was there. "We planned to hold up the watch man, gag him and get Into the house at night? we had a plan of the efitire place? and arranged to hustle the old inpn into a rlg"aud spirit him away. "We scheduled the job for Wednes day night. Ahout 0 o'clock my part ner said he wasn't feeling well and asked ni? to put it oft .until the next night. Well, I put it off and at noon the next day, Thursday, !.e broke do\vi\y and said he thought we were belli;;'' watched. That settled I began to -fear he was going to belr?y the Cudahy affair, so I hurried to New York, an* from there went to South Africa. "Rockefeller is holding up the world and getting his ransom, too." added Crowe. "Why shouldn't I make hltn pay if t have the chance? "I'm not the originator of tlie ransom business. Caesar was the boss kid naper. When he was running tlie world lie used t o send Brutus and some .of his generals over to Carthage, grab pue of tlie- big men of that country; and make diem put up several millions before they gave him back. They call It kidnaping nowadays. In those days It ttai statecraft. "Rockefeller It the oldest child I ever had desigmr on. ? "Maybe," contlhued Crowe wlUi a sickly smite, "I'll get the old man yet.'* Curious crowd* flllc^tbe jail, anxious to see Crowe. Many women carried fruit and bouquets to the prisoner. AR RESTED~FOR SCHOOL 43 R AFT. fatten. Professor Ditragtiertyr Peoria's Snperln- ? tendent, Accused of Forgery. Feorla, III.? The arrest on a forgery charge of Professor Newton C. Dough erty, Peoria's foremost citizen, former President of tlie National Educational Association, banker, School ' Superin tendent, ond frieud of Nicholas Mur ray Butler, of the Columbia University, of Now York, hai furnished tbls^clty with the most nul$*lug sensation in its history. A second iudlofment, chnrgfng him with the imbfgsiement of 98000, was returned against Mr. pougherty, and it Is now said the stealings will reach the $250,000 mark, ami perhaps more. The authorities declare they have evidence to show that Dougherty's life has beeq a living He; that whllo posing as the apost!e of civic righteous ness, preaching education and good morals, he has appropriated money entrusted to him in a business capacity. Professor Dougherty has resigned as President of the Peoria National Bank, thereby staying a "run." He also sent in his resignation as superintendent of schools and as director iu the various commercial lustitptlons lu which he is Interested. Dougherty was one of the pillars of the First Congregational Church and a member of every clqb of importance in Lthe city, as -well at the Union dub, of Chicago. EIGHT KILLED BY CAVE IN ~ President of the Vermonts'Slnte Coni^ pauy One of the head. Falrhaveu, Vt. ? Eight ^men were killed and several were injured In n cave-In or the Vermont Slate Com pany's quarry in the town of Paw let, four tniles from *GtaqvlHe. Hundreds of tons of waste, '"jrejUtT great sections of slate, sttflwith a rumbling AoIm 'down upon the 'gang of men at work in the pit. f ? ' John O. .Williams, the president of the company owning the* quarry. was standing near the edge of the pit, and was carried down with the mass of rock, being one of tbo*e killed. ' The others were Huogert^p laborers. ? 1 * i Wabash's PrtekJeot Removed. Joseph "jfitarMy7rlr.i Fas pernor sd from tbs PTesldeocy of the Wabash by MURDERS AT A FARM HOUSE k list of Victims in the Middletown T ragedy Now Complete# AGED OLNEY BROTHERS fcillEO Tlie Bodies of WIIIU C. utu| Picdeiick i?. You ml In ft Wood llulf ? Mile Above Their Xfomev-lliey Had Uceu 81ie,i to l)eal)i??att|)lpB Veiled Ifn. Ingerlck and IJiAUfililer, iff Mtadletown, N. Y.-~ Orange County Is aroused over the quadruple tragedy on the Olut^" farm, about four miles from Uie centre of Mlddletowu. The list of victims of the worst Bevies of murders that ever occurred here was completed when the bodies of Fred It. Olney, flfty-eSght years old, and his brother, Willis C. Olncy, sixty-two years old, were found in a wood about a half mllo from the Olney homesteud, where the dead body of nlne-year-old Leila In gerlek and the unconscious form of her mother had been found the night be fore. / . Unlli& the little girl and her^m^her, whose/ heads were beaten /ti with a piece ojf iron pipe, the two Olney broth ?rs bait "been shot, Fred receiving two bullet wounds In the side under his right arm and Willis having been shot through the head, the bullet entering the rlght'ear. Besides the two owners and their housekeeper, Mrs. Ingerlek's daughters, ^ Leila, and Grace, the latter thirteen years old, lived on the Olney farm. Willis Olney's wife died a month ago and Mrs. Ingerlck, about fovty-five years old, was then engaged to come in and keep the house, v She was the wife of Martin Ingerlck, but had sep arated from her husband. 1 On the morning before "the tragedy Grace Ingerlck, the elder girl, went to Middletown on an errand for her mother. When she left the house the other members of the household were all at home. After doing her errands In town the Ingerlck girl started homeward about 5 o'clock p. m., in plenty of time for supper. That was the one idea iu her mind, foif^he was hungry. The table, all set, was the first thing she saw. But nobouy sat there. The child shout ed her sister's name and then called her mother. Nobody answered. The girl wag frightened and went to the home of Daniel Davis, a neighbor, a quarter of a mile away, and Davis went bflck to the Olney house to see what was wrong. In tbekitchen he found a crumpled newspaper lying behind the stove. He flsbed It out and found inside a piece" of gas plpe'over a yard long covered with tylood stains. Then he begau to search f?the house. At tbo foot of the cellar stnirs lay the body of Leila Ingerlck. Davis carried the body upstairs and went for help. The next house on the other side of the Olpey farm is owned by John Fish; - ft New Yorker. There 4 telephone there and the police wj^re called' up. They arrived at the farm with Coroner Crist about two hours after Grace In gerlck had returned. ? search was made of the house and then the men- - went out to the barn. Under a piljKof hay they found Mrs. ingerlck uncon scious. Ther heHfeved at- first that~rhe was dead, but Dr. A. W. Preston found signs of life in her body. Although she had three wounds upon the head, any one of which might be expected to have instantly killed her, she ap peared to be only partly Insensible. But all attempts to learn from her the details of the tragedy were Unavailing. It wftt believed she might know the identity of her assailant, but that she was determinedly shielding him, Alex ftndML Merritt, who took her and the body of her daughter into town, be came impressed with this Idea. The woman made several attempts to ar range her skirts, and three times in the half hour's ride raised her head and groaned. The finding of the little girl, Leila, In the cellar, while her mother was some distance away in the barn, has caused the police to decide that the two brothers were killed before the mother and child were attacked, and that the murder of the brflthers was the principal object of the murderers The police theory Is that, after having killed the men. tbo murderers returned to the house In search of tbo mother and child, intending to kill them to hide the traces of their crime. They first made sure of the mother, chasing her into the barn, and then Searched for Leila, who was found hid ing in the cellar. With th? child's death their object of concealment was accomplished, and the murderer or murderers - coming up from the cellar carrying the iron pipe with which the mother and daughter were evidently beaten, dropped It on the kitchen floor, where it was found. Willis Olney wa? a Ivldower, whose wife died last August, anfTKred was a bachelor. Mrs. Ingerlck b a (The en em ployed as a housekeeper ? t the farm for about a month. Her husband lives at Wurtsboro, a to^An not . far from Middletown. V In the house no trees of robbery (-have been. found. ' The only articles of value known to have been taken from the brothers were two silver watches. The old men owned their farm. They bore good reputations, although Willie (L Olney was arrested on suspicion wnen Mrs. Norah Gre?ry was mur - t?l He war neTer tried, de?iL-MtJftr_fKftin. his jQageto^ J90& Magulre went to the ctettrlc chair S. the crime. Haul Their Cotton Back Home. Otie theueftnd bales of cotton were 1 K WASHINGTON. Attoriiey-General Moody was direct* ed by tho president to begin proceed* lng? to brepH up the monopoly exist ing At St. Louis, Mo., where the owners of bridge* and ferries have entered into it combination in restraint of t lade, exacting terminal charge* from the railroad* entering St. I,ouK At the Cabinet meeting at the White House it w:ii decided that the building of the Panama Canal should remain under tlra supervision of Secretary Taft. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will ask the Cabinet to consider a plan un der which small packers may have meat inspectors us well as the larger houses. (| In order that the damages resulting from the recent typhoon in the Philip pine Islands mny be at once repaired the quartermaster-general of the army has cabled to Manila that an extra al lotment of 950,600 has been mude to meet tho expenses. President Hoosevelt, It was said, found demoralization in nearly every executive department on his return to Washington, Secretary Hitchcock hos intimated that the next alleged land conspiracy case to receive the attention of the Government probably will be thot of W. N. Jones, a big lumberman, of Port, land, Ore. * OUIt ADOPTED ISLANDS. The arrival in Hawujl of thousands of Japanese laborers' has driven out many American workers from Hono lulu and the country plantations. Hawaii is importing minnows to de vour mosquito larvae. Government reports show that in the recent storm at least "SSWJsUJiat ives and twenty-five Americans aim^fnr*' elguers were killed in the Philippines. The losses in life and property caused by the recent typhoon in the Philip pines are heavy. The const guard cut ter Leyto was wrecked, eleven Amer icans were drowned, and army nosfs In the Southern islands were destroyed. Tho loss on hejup plantations Is esti mated at $1 ,000,000. All Honolulu drunkards have been otHclnlly blacklisted, so that they may be refused drink in the saloons. A cor respondent states that "nearly all ou the list are steamship men." / Jap fpies are studying the defenses ofc the Philippines, a Spanish correspond-., ent at Manila cables.. Fellznrdo, chief of the outlaws in the Province of Cavite, was surrounded near the Uatangas border and jumped over a cliff to his death. The absence of a lino of freight-car rying craft between San Francisco. Cal., Guam and Manila throws all tho trade of the islands into the bauds of Japanese. The commander of the Government forccs at Gnaw urges the necessity of a system of water works In order that bad saultary conditions may be im>~ iwoved. ? Tbo- public. school system is well established aud attended with gratifying result?. \ DOMESTIC. Gladden, on bis third trial on*!he charge of criminal assault, was convicted by a Simpson County (Ky.) jury; The Judge then sentenced him to. death. Op President Roosevelt's homeward voyage from Now Orleans, La., the ar mored cruisers West Virginia, Penn sylvania and Colorado will race under forced draught for 1200 miles. Secretary Shaw, addressing the Ohio Bankers' Association, at Cleveland, urged that a more clastic currency systeju be adopted, The second tube of the New Jersey tunnel under the Hudson River, at New, J York City, was finished. t About. 200 delegate^" representing Massachusetts councils of the Itoyal Arcanum, at a meeting in Boston voted to take legal measures to prevent en forcement of the new rates of assess ment. jolin D. Rockefeller gave $10,000,000 in cash to the General Education Board. A Coroner's Jury found that Cornel ius A. Jackson, towerman, and Paul Kelly, raotovman, are criminally re sponsible for the wreck on the "L" train on September 11, In New York City. President Roosevelt will visit New Orleans, La., October 26, returning to Washington on a wars dp to a void quarantine. Judge Tayler, in the United States Circuit Court, Cleveland, Ohio, ap proved the report of a referee cutting down the fees of lawyers who ap peared in the Cns?it? L. Chftduick bankruptcy proceeding#. FOREIGN. Germany and France have come to an agreement on the Morrocco ques tion. regulating police and financial re forms, but affairs on the Algerian iron tier are to be under French control. Foirinsultlng the President of Nicar agua, William 8. A1 hers, representing a Chicago mining company, has been sen tenced to tbree years' imprisonment by the authorities of that company. Albers will appeal. Fifty thousaud Bengalis assembled at the Temple of Kaligbet, in India, have sworn by the goddess - Kali, to - boycott British goods as a protest against tbo partition of the province meeting of . the Chamber of Com merce of the Japanese Empire was be gun in Tokio to consider the revival ?>f trade and industry now tbrfi the war Is over. ? - "Tfcere was mortrrtotlnr at Budapest university students, and the of the Socialists to the eool- j to provoke n* > CHEAP INSURANCE LOANS . ? ??? - ?- * ? ?? I M . ' V?>, President McOall, of New York Life, Makes Startlina Statements. MONEY SPENT FOR LOBBYING luveslivftlor kihI Allornrjr iltifthri of (he *l?t? Iuaur?ne? Inquiry Commit t?te Alitkes N?me KeimtrUtthlo l>Uc<? vcrlea KfKMr.llitK JTodern Finance"? How tlio MoCmIU ItMiiuDloAi New York City. ? Something ap proaching a definite explanation of the mysterious legislative activities of "Judge" A ml lew Hamilton, legislative, agent ^Hlsr^Mntuiil, Kqnitable and New YorJPf.lfe companies, and of the hlthertor Inexplicable "yellow dog" funds came, when John A. McCall,. President of the New York Life, tos-1 tilled that three-quarters of Hie mcas-'j urcs proposed In Legislatures of the United States were ".strike" or black mailing bills, designed to "bleed" Insur ance companies. Following this frank arraignment of Legislatures Mr. McCall outlined in de tail the vast sums that have been handled by "Judge" Hamilton ih light ing hostile legislation at various State capitals in the last live years. From the New York Life alone ".lodge" Hamil ton received $7H,y<)0 in this period, in addition to a slngl^ fee of $1.'M,000 for counsel services. It will be recalled that tcfjHiuoiiy of Equitable officials; revealed "llie face that "Judge" Hamil ton's expenses were divided between the three great companies, and if he received equal sums from llv: other two his expenditures for "legislative work" against Insurance legislation In the last live years would aggregate over $2, <>00.000. ?Mr. Hughes pressed home the probe Into this form 06 insurance activity In a merciless fashion. He not only turned a flood of light upon the pro ceedings which permitted an official of the New York Life to swear that the company hud made no campaign contributions in a year when it had ac tually contributed $."0,0<)0, but he j&vo Mr. MeCall a bad half hour' explain ing tho circumlocutions by which Cov ernor Culberson and tho Texas State officials were hoodwinked about tills performance. Most striking, however, was thejod louche wrung from the witness regarding the uses to which the vast legislative funds were put. In form, Mr. McCall continued his former dec laration that so faj: as he knew not a .cent had been used corruptly to "in fluence legislation." In fact, he ad mitted that the money was turned over to "Judge" Hamilton to use legislative halls in such a way as "to produce results." "Producing results" from \lio insurauoo point of view meajit nothing more or less than the stifling of IniuUoal legislation, whether the ordinary "strike" form of black mail. or. tho recomroendallQus 0/, Stllc. insurance departments, , Following this line Mr, Hughe* led the wltner* to the ?admission* that while the N*W York Life officially dealt only wJfrTiat torneya "Judge" ?amlltou?jqwi fr.ev* to emp'oy any ond Who couhrinrfttf1 work, whether an attorney or not. "Entire freedom* were the words with wlilcli ho described "Judge" Ha mil. ton's power. Then Mr. Hughes took aforwafd step In the tracing of the metho.'.s of the great Insurance lobby that has bepn so frequently described as ex isting at Albany and at other Stat" capitals. By close cross questioning he obtained from Mr. McCall tho ad mission that there were In many States men in a position to deal with legisla tive juemgres Jq sui?J|. fashion as to exerolfo pressure to the extent of pre -VQulbjg^lh^i'e-electlou-of iuen acting counter to their Irishes. Mr. McCnll was not sure th^t those men could drive vecalcltrflnt legislator* out of politics, but he admitted their position would be "seriously strained." That the system reached to the national Congress Mr. McCall admitted lu tes tifying to the employment of an agent i to tight a Federal bill solely "because he was a man of very large acquaint ance In Washington." ..?part .from the legislative phases of hi* testimony, tho most amazing sin gle feature of Mr, McCali's examina tion was his admission regarding the hitherto unexplained loan of *50,000 to John B, liegeman, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a< a nominal rate o* Interest. Mr, Mc Call, apparently nettled by Mr. Hughes' questions regarding .the rea ton for the loan of this sum at a nom inal rate of Interest^declarM that he regarded the Interest rate as all fight, and said with some feeling that be had obtained a similar loan fiimi MP"*1 Hcgeman at a similar rate. '^Thls ap parent "brer a" was seized on by Mr. 0 Hughes at once, and the fact ^ehowu that Mr. McCall, a director in the Metropolitan, had obtained a personal, loan . from this company of $75,000, $50,000 of It nearly three yeari ogo. -and {hs t the rate had not bees until after the insurance agitation had becomo pronounced. When Mr. Hughes attempted to emphasise an improprl cty lit this proceeding Mr. MeCall de clared with evident sincerity that be would have taken tbe money at f lower rate of interest if he couhl hare ohfaiued It. The yearly Mtary Mil of the McCaU family drawn from the New York Life was ahown to be $137JXja 1 --?? 1 ? -- -? ? Collections Improve. MpwtratUe collections improve aa (be season advances. STARVING IN CAUCASUS. ArmeiMana^l^d^jwnjbjr T\rt> paltb* bere^Js*?* Sa WHECKER'S BOLD ATTEMPT Or Train From Oreenville Knocks Ob struction From the Track and the Noxt Train Finds it Replaced. Columbia, Special ? Two dastardly attempts to wreck passanegr trains Nit. 12 ami No. l^i On t he (.Columbia branch ot' Mm? Sol^ir/r!! wore made Sunday morning b>' unknown i>erson? about two miles north of llimoa 1 'at h. Neither of the attmepu wax suceess ful. Train No. 15 which leaves Columbia at 7 o'clock in the morning, struck a pieee of iron known in railroad par lance as a bumper knuckle, which had been placed on the rail, and Knocked the iron from the track! No d sin ago was done and the train proeeoUtM to Melton, where trains 12 and l<r) meet. 'I'lie engineer of the train from Oreen ville was told of what had happened and cautioned to look out for the ob st Miction, lie acordingly shaved his train down when he approached the s|xd where the obstruction had been dashed aside by the tlrst train and found that it had been replaced by the would-be wreckers. The train was brought to a standstill and the knuck le picked np and brought to Columbia. No one was seen in the vicinity by the cmw of either train and s?> far as eovjr.t be learned no clue has been found or no motive discovered that ?will lead to Itxiug tfA> crime upon the guilty persons. .It was stated by one who came to Columbia on the train that Capt. <1. It. Willis who is the agent of the Southern at Williamston was at Hmiea Path and went, accom panied by seven*! .tthers to the place, to search for evidence and if possible to locate the person > who placed the iron on the track. Rewards Offered by Governor. Columbia, Special. ? Governor I lev ward lias offered a reward of $500 for the arrest of (lie parties who waylaid and killed R. A. McDowell on I He streets of Camden last Wednesday night, and at the same time indicted dangerous wounds upon J. W. Porter in th^ attempt to take his life. Ato ward of the same amount had been offeree} by the city council of Cam den. Governor 4 ley ward received an appeal from Sheriff Trantham and this was endorsed by a number of the most prominent and most reliable' bus iness men of Camden, amo/fj g 'them Mayor H. G. Carison, Capt. W. M. Shannon. Mr, H. 13. Clarke, Mr. C. C Moore, (Jol. T. J. Kirklaml, Mr. -W, K Hough, Dr. A. W. Burnet, Mr. K. J). Blakenev, Capt. K. 0, von Treac.kow, Mr. L. T. Mills, Mr. Joel* Hough, Col. W .D, Trantlmm, Capt. M. L. Smith, Capt. A. p. Kennedy, and Senator J. T. Hay. JV X A inward of $100 was offered for the arrest of Dave Bush, a negro charged with, a bf a uJt witkiotm^ 4*o. wpe and highway robbery in Riebland county. j-Tlie accused is said to be black, 0 feet 8 inches in height, weighs 170 ponds; is stoop shouldered, and has a swing ing motion of the shotddert when walking. ^ prolific family. The Greenville News says: "W. A, ? * , w J- barn , the present year. There is no danger Gurry is the proud grandfather of three sets of twins and all bijrn within of race suicide in the vicinity of 6imp sonville at least and President Roose velt ought to be informed! of the oc currence. and perhaps Andrew Coi^ negie might contribute a hero medal. The eldest set of twins were born Ave months ago. They are boys, the little sons of Mr. and Mrs? Arlington Curry? Two months later Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam.J3nrry becawes the parents of two "little girls, and three days ago Mrs. Brazier, a sister of Arlington' and William Curry, became the motli ?r of the third set of twins in the family, one a boy and the other a girl. The children are lusty and bid fair to develop into sturdy manhood arid- wo manhood." J . .. Magistrate Mobley 's Case. Governor Heyward has declined to remove Magistrate Jas. G. Mobley of Johnston who seemed to have excited (he opposition of some people in Johnston by his action in regard to some cotton damaged in the fire at that place. Governor Heyward stated Tftfc^there was not sufficient ground for raqoval. Mr. Mobley made a stalemenKiii his own behalf and pre sented a Teh?erfrom Mr. J. W. Brown agent of the Southern Railway com pany at Johnston, itKwhich the agent says that Magistrate Mbklgy was an "Uqiorizt-d tv remove the coj^ on by the trance adjuster. nfegro | A Ksgro 8bo|t| - 'Charleston, Special.? A nfcgro wo man, Christine Moultrie, shot another negro, Thomas Weathers' Sunday. The shooting- is declared by both Weathers and the woman to have been ao accident, but Ihrlreporte of the wit> mmsr dont srtre the same version. The shooting oeeurred in the outskirts of t lie city. The woman wiis arrest ed and the man waa'sent 4? tfee'eity hospital for treatment. xtmrgxvre i iniwa NMutr-pmn umrHMM Recent Lnormoiis Consumption of the Southern Mills REPORT ISSUED fOR A FULL YEAR First Census Bureau Bulletin On the Subject Shown An Aggregate of 1.4, 46(094 Bales, of Which 61 Per Oent. Consumed At Home, Leaving a Surplus of 0 Por Oent. Washington, ^Special. ? The census Murium iBsucd-nv bulletin showing the production and (fi^tributiou of the cot ton of the United States available,, between September 1, 1^04, and Sep tember I, 1 110.'), to bo 1 4,456,004 bales. Of this 01 jK?r cent, was exported, 30 per cent, was used in domestic con sumption, leaving a surplus of nine per cent. The domestic; consumption includes 30,770 bales destroyed by ? lire. o The exportation amounted to 8, 834,020 bales, the domestic cousump tion 4.315,750 and the surplus 1,305) 300. Of the total 13,003/279 bales 'were included in the crop of 1004 and tin) jjamphidor in that of 1005. Of the quantity eonsumed in the MJnited States, 2,1 38,820 bales were used in Northern and 2,140,151 in Soutrehn mills. BANN1SH 10X1 'OUT YEAR.' ' In addition to the totals given 124, 40!) bales of foreign cotton were im |M>rted into the United States during t ho year. The exportation for the year covered exceeded that of any previous 12 months by 1,144,462 tottURT ^i and they exceeded the Hverago for Ihe past tori years by 2,313,048 bates. Now Orleans, with a total of 2,405i,421 bales, held tirst rank as an exporting point, But close pressed by Gal veston with 2, 38$, 3 18 bales. Savon-' nab, Ga.y with 1,200,080 bales held third place. The value of the total export was .f 104, 200, 203. . The export of raw cotton was. dis tributed in, bales os follows: To United Kingdom, 4,043,090; Bolgium, 101,151; France,' 857,103; Germany, 2,115,072; Italy, 530,02b; Hussia, 125, 403; Spain, 2S0,088; other European couu tries, 172,112; Japan, 324,008 y- , British North America, 126,407; Mexi co, 73,270; all other countries 9401. SOUTH'S IIVNORY SPINDLES. The total ' number of producing spindles in the United StaJw ijUSir ?1 ported at 2-1,077,624 of which 8,211,* ' ? 734 were in. the SoutJi flnd lSjS^jTW in the North. Notwithstanding the* great difference in the number of spindtos of tl sumption^ oi same. The annual consumj cotton per spindle in the *?ar,t . OZ II mills is 07 pounds, compared with *34 pounds in the South. The diftftfsneo 8? n the cate* ipihiung' yafSilJf V?iy mi per spindle to that the Northern Qneness than those turned out b SoutSbai miift. The lanre outnat -s* the Southern mills this aeSso* ha* been mainly of heavy ~jf * ->?" Ply a greatlyCfJicreased China and t ho Orient, The report show* that J the product ion of the Ui -has. increased from 0,7? 693,279 bales, and that suraptiop of eoKon in has increased from 1 to iS78r tow yi?r# mim*. the cotton-consuming of the Southern Statea have their consumption from 1,4&S,711 to 2,140,151 balea. During tbeae fire years the Northern eottonjconsaming establishments have actually decreas ed their eonq^ptjon by 16,956 bales;, explained by theae mills being cjek ?ag*-d during this period in replacing old machinery by more modern. ? ' ? ?*> ; Collision on Pennsylvania. ' Miller? ville, Pa,, Special." men were killed, and a cardload 0 either kiled or so had to be *bot is ;t lision at the "June Valley branch of railroad,, a quarter mil place Monday. Pat Crowe V Butte, Mont., S^aei*!.? I bas admits that be was - ... . six weeks ago and duel with the poB^ during which an officer wa? shot. He saya fired 16 shots at him before be : ind that he opened firs to own life. He staid coming here was - 1 1- < -A . JL? . rY^-asrr-^-r-.'X? -? --