l NW RAY, SEPTEMB1 WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR SHAlIFF CHARGED WITH MURDER. Negro killed in Saluda, Coroner's Jur2 Says, by the Sheriff and Another White. Man, ws and Courier. aluda Sept. 8... About dark Satur day "night Bob Crouch, colored, wai shot while on the atreet and died soot afterward. The affair was a com plete surprise and soon a large crowc had gathered around the dying man During the afternoon and even aftei sundown there wore a number of no, groes on the streets, but there was no disturbance of any kind. Immediately after the negro died Coroner Gipson summoned a jury ol inquest and proceeded to take the testimony of several negroes whc had been arrested and lodged in jail ns probable witnesses. At 1 o'clocl the inquest was adjourned until Sun day morning. The eye witnesseE Saturday night placed the Crouch hegro almost in the middle of Maiu street, where it is intersected by Church street, when the shot WaE fired, and standing alone. Popc Coleman had just left him and waE walking away looking bacl over hik right shoulder, still talking with Bob, when a shot, cowing, as he stated, from the side of the brick building, was fired and the negro fell. H( saw two men at the place where thc piptol shot came from, but did nol state who they were until rocalled Sunday morning. In his testimon) he says he was afraid to tell Satnr. day night what ho knew; was afrai' he'd be killed, and then goes on t( say that. tho two men ho saw wer( Sheriff Ithoden and Mr. Matt, Berry lHe states that ho is positive, havinf passed them noar this place just. be fore the shooting and having alt recognized them whon his attentiou was attracted by the pistol shot.. Another nogro practically corrob erates Pope Coloman's testimony after stating this morning that he too, was afraid to tell What lie kney about the affair. Jimmie Gillion, a clerk, testifiec that he jimped out of the side doe of the drug store when the shot wai fired and, looking across the stree to the opposito si le, saw smoke froi a pistol and a man runnuing u] Church street. He continued to rui until he got to the Prosperity Stocl Company's stabl(N and then walkei a few stops and again commenced ti run. Gillion started off up stroe after the party he saw running, bu soon turned back- When ihe wen back in the store Matt Berry was il there and others. According to pope Coleman's story Mr. Rhodlen ran off up Church stree and Mr. Berry ran across the strec and went in the drug store at a sid (leor. Every witness, except a little negr< practically agreed as to the plac where the shot came from.- Thi little fellow claimed lhe sawv a ma nearly across the street from wher it was testified Sheriff Rhoden an Berry were standing, raise his arm like lie wvas "sighting," and the fired. Ho did not know whether was a white man or a negro. Just about neon the jury of ir qus,all white, redrdtefollov camne to his (loath from a gunshot the hands of W. L. Rihoden and Ma Blerry." Soon after the verdict was ai *nounced, Coroner Gipson took Shiori Rhoden into custodyV. Berry, wl was in town, left for nis home, sov< or eight miles in the country, abol '1 1 o'clock. After the verdlict w. Jmade known, Berry was informe of the nature, and Sunday afterno< returned here for the purpose, it presumed, of surrendering. Berry, who was placed on ti stand as a witness, stated thatl was nearing the dIrug store wvhen tl shot was fired behind him. ThatI looked around, but s'iw nio one who the shot caime from, and then turn, upl Church stree~t and went in t ~side (loor of the drug store. There was absolutely no moti for the killing so far as can learned. The sheriff has made no statem( sifar as your correspondenit knos neither han' Mr. Berry, outside his testimony, given in substance above. The affair has been a leading topic here. It is understood application for bail will be made at once. Lying by the dead negro was a double-barreled, braech-loading shot gun, not loaded. The distance from where the witnesses placed the man I who did the shooting to where Crouch was standing when he was shot, is fully sixty feet. SOUTH CAROLINA NBWS. Items of More or Less Interest Condensed In the State. Clemson College has opened with five hundred and seventy-six students and President Mell says that no more can be received. In a brawl at Clifton mill No. 1 in Spartanburg county on Saturday night Felix Dewberry, colored, was shot by Asa Littlejohn and killed. A warehouse in Orangeburg used by J. P. Turner for storing tobacco was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. The loss in tobacco is esti mated at $10,000. The losses resulting from the fire in Columbia Farly Monday morning are estimated at $80,000, with not over $30,000 worth of insurance. Mr. J. L. Mimnaugh will rebuild at once. Connors, a young white man, on Saturday shot and killed William Calhoun, colored, near Clinton, in Laurens county. The negro is from Georgia and is thought to have been a fugitive from justice. Labor Day was celebrated in Columbia on Monday on a larget scale than ever before. There was a very long paraTe and addresses were made at the Fair grounds by Mayor Earle, Governor Heyward au others. Early Tuesday morning fire brok( I out in the grocery department of th( r large Laurens cotton mills store 3 The building valued at $6,000 and t the stock valued at $20,000 wer i totally destroyed. The loss is par tially covered by insurance. 1 Tooney Williams, a negro womar who was shot coming from Augusti back to Anderson on August 27, ij dead. The nogro who did the shoot t ing, Will Robinson, was arrested a the time, but was released becausi it was not thought the woman wai seriously injured. ,The dispensary at Hampton wa t destroyed by fire Monday afternoon t The amount of stock on hand wai e about $2,300, insurance about $400 The building was owned by ex Gov >, ernor McSweeney, and is a tote e loss. The Williamsburg County Alli eance held a large and enthusiasti d meeting at Kingatree on Monday t devise ways and means to fight th tobacco trust. Delegates werea Spointed to a convention to be hl in Lake City today. -PACOLBT MILL NO. 3. h it Trouble and Delay In Rlebuilding OwIng 1 The Breaking of the Two Tempo rary Darns by High Water. 1- r The Pacolet Manufacturing Conr ff pany is having no little trouble an o expense in repairing mill No. n which was not carried away by tl 1t June flood, but considerably dan 18 aged. The company expected a have it repaired by this time and tI n mill running, but now it seems thi is it will 1)e the end of the year befoi they get the mill in operation. Ti 1e company has had two temporai ie dlams built to turn the water frno: 10 the mill so they could carry on tl oe work and both of the dams have hec re washed away by a rise in the riv 1(d caused by heavy rains above. T1he hie dams cost about $2,500. All this very discouraging to the com pan ye which has already lost so much I be high water. The stock of the Pac let and Clifton companies were wi nt worth twvo hundred for one befo is. the June flood and they are at MADE MAD BY HOLINESS. Terrible Infanticide In Anderson County Caused By Religious Fanaticism of Negro Mother. Anderson, September 8.---A hor rible case of infanticide caused by religious fanaticism occured last night in Broadway Township, about six miles from the city. John Graf. fenreid, a negro, and his wife, had been attending a "holiness meeting," and had become greatly wrought up over the excitement attending it. They left the meeting Monday night and spent a greater part of the night praying. Just before daylight, Graffenreid says, his wife awoke him and -asked him which he loved best, his wife or his baby, a child about 16 months of age. She said the Lord was going to take one of them and asked which he would rather give up. He says he said that if it was the Lord's will he would rather give up the child. He says the woman then got out of bed and took the child in her arms and declared she was going to offer it as a sacrifice. He says he was standing by her trying to got her quiet, when she suddenly exclaimed: "Here, Lord, take this child," and threw it against the wall. His wife then threw her arms around him and tried to choke him, saying something about both of them going to Heaven together. They had a scufile, which awakened the other children who ran into the room and took the child and placed it in a bed. The woman then jumped out of a window arid left the place and went to the farm of V. Q. Hammond, where she appeared early in the morning, acting in a strange manner, as if demonted, an- Mr. Hammond secured her for fear she would do herself or others harm. She said something about her husband killing her baby, and this aroused Mr. Ham mond's suspicious, and he phoned Sheriff Green for instructions. The sheriff gave instructions to have her husband arrested and this was done by Mr. Allen Martin, w. was at Mr. Hammond's, and the man and hif wife were brought here and put iu jail. The woman is either raving mad or an adopt at feigning insanity, an( spent the day in rolling on the flooi or trying to climb the Walls of thE cell, but no word could be gottor from her. The man appeared to b( more rational, but is evidently weak. minded and talked freely about th affair, though his story is rambling and disconnected. He does not shov i any sorrow or remorse over the doati .of his child. The coroner was awvay today and the inquest has not ye .been held, but it is believed the above are about the facts of the case *THE PASSING OF THE FORBSTS. - In Twenty Years Tihe Scarcity Will B, c Felt, And In Forty Years The Coun try Will Be Pliched. The Hon. James Wilson, Secre 1tary of Agriculture, in the Chicago Record Herald, says: It will not be many years uni the monarchs of the forests, whici have stood for 200) to 300O yearu will have been redluced to dresse, 0lumber. It was not uuntil a corii paratively few years ago that the peOc ple realized that iln time the suppl -of timber would be entirely consume d and that something must be done ,renew the denuded timber landi 0 Consequently it is only recently thi - the subject of reforestration has bee o0 brought up for consideration. 0 Until a few years ago, eduucatic it had neglected to teach forestry an e scientiflc research necessary for ri no production of trees and many agr y cultural products. IUealizmng thin Congress has incressed the hagrica ne tural appropriation each year dlurin n the last dlecade, until now $400O,00 r a year is allowed for forestry alon me T1here are todlay about b00 youn is men studlying the subject anmd whi y,cnn be0 done by the farmer to hel >y the reforestation of the country. o We hove reched the point who nll we may well be alarmed at the fo re estry conditions. Few know who ill to begin or what to (10. In twenty years tihn sarcity w be felt strongly, and in forty years, at the most, unless immediate and extensive actio-. 3 taken, the entire country will be pinched. Our tim ber supply will be exhausted, and we shall suffer a wood famine far worse than the coal famine which England is now fronting. What we must do is to study the soil. A few years ago all our fine cigars were coming from Cuba and other West Indian points. I sent men to these various places and had them collect samples of the soil on which the finer grades of tobacco were raised. This was brought to Washington and analyzed. Having found the properties of the soil,- I sent out over the United States to find the same kind, and as a result we are now growing the finest cigar tobacco in the world ight here in our own country. My men found the exact soil wanted in Texas, Ohio and Connecticut and in these States we raise better tobacco than is grown in any of the Southern islands. So it is with forestry. The ground that has produced the big trees and the hard wood trees must be anal yzed and seed must be planted im mediately. If the necessary elements are lacking in the soil, it must be manipulated until it will grow tim. ber. Every agricultural college in the country should have a forestry do partment. Yale is the only institu tion that has a regular course, Cor nell having abolished hers. I recently attended the graduation exercises of a Western agricultural school that recoived an annual endowment from Congress of $70,000 a year, and out of the 450 graduates not one knew anything about forestry. This is robbery. A few figures will give a fair idea of about how long the timber of the country may be expected to last at the present rate of consumption. There are now 700,000,000 acres of productive forest land in the Uni ted States. The annual cutting of lumber amounts to 35,000,000,000 feet a year; of timber, 3,000,000,000 feet; for railroad ties, 22,000,000, and for fence posts, 3,000,000. The lumber industry amounts to $676,000,000 a year, and of this the farmers receive $100,000,000 for tim ber cut from their personal property. If this industry is to be exhausted the result can only be surmised. Science is learning how to treat soft woods, which grows rapidly, so that they can be made to last as long as hard wood, This will assist in reducing the ann"'a consumption of ties and fence posts, wvhich are no small factor. We can only hope for greater development in scientific re search. The fuel question must also be considered. Every farmer should grow his own fuel. Those which are suitable for the purpose are soft and grow quickly, and1 every farmer should therefore have his fuel patch as wvell as his produce garden. Every child should be taught the 1 ee'.ing time of trees and know when to go to them t.o find the seed, and1 ' then they should planit thenm. TPhd 1seriousness of the situation mu:t. bc( - imnpressed1 upon (lie coming genera tion for they are (lie ones who wvill Y suffer ini event of a famine. Therefore, I say let every agricul 0 tural college have a forestry depart Sment., and in the department stud' It the soil. Teach your children froni n infancy the value of every tree an< tihe need of planting trees, and yoi n who are oldor, ontei- in with the don d thusiasts of the association,, advocat a State~ forest reserve and1( plant tree whenever you have ai sparO mo "mont. g Miller McKirnnoy, a imember o 0 the firm of Sloan & MtcJ(Kmney, mer chants at Tucaupa mills, Sparta&n burg, Was shot anid killed Wodnies gday afternoon by Harry D)oan, Sor It of a magistrate ini Spart anburg county p A debt of $2.50 caused tile killing There were no oye-witniesses. D)eai o has surrend(ered1. Deoan says tha r - they got into a hot controversy ove the dlebt, McK(inney drawing a pisto) re and that then ho shot. Botli wer young men and1 very prominenti ill the circles in which they moven. THE TURKISH SITUATION. a Further Terrible Atrocities-Mohammedan Fanaticism May Push Turkeo Into War. 0 e London, September 9. -The offi- o cial and press reports from the near v East to-day emphasize the serious ness of the situation there and con- si firm the belief of the authorities here a that, owing to the general irritation t throughout Europonan and Asiatic n Turkey toward the Christians, as a if result of the Macedonian revolt, the a 6ultan may be swept by the uncont- li trolloblo sentiments of his Ottoman n subeocts into a war with Bulgaria, despite the unwillingness of the Porte to precipitate such a conflict. The Turkish oflicials express gratification at the Russian Austrian proposal for coercivo diplomnatic action on tbo part of the Powers at Sofia. They A are confident it will be acceded to by 1 France, but whether it is adopted or s not the Sultan's hand has already t been greatly strengthoned, as he is in a better position to act than hith erto. IOTr A inoirUT. Washington, 1). C., September 8 Cablegrams were received at the State and navy dopartments today from Ministor Leisian, at Constan. tinople, and Admiral Cotton, comn manding the American squadron now in Turkish waters, respectively, giving an account of a r:ot which oc curred at Beirut on Sunday. Rear Admiral Cotton's cablegram is dated Beirut, September 7, and is as follows: "Violence and bloodlihed betwoon Mohammodans and native Christians t occurred at Beirut on Sunday. Six t Greek Christians, two Moaninodans and throo Turkish soldiors wer % wounded seriously. Other murders are reported. I have prepared to land a force for the protection of the property of American citizens if the situation denands it. Will act with caution. The present trouble is due to the animosity between the Mohanimmedans and native Christians and failiure to control crimes." Minister Loishmin reports that a riot ocurred yesterday at Beirut in which seven Christians wore killed and several wounded. Two houses occupied by Christians were pillaged by the soldiery. The panic was gen eral. An officer and a signal man from Admiral Cotton's fleet aro now in the consulato and an investigation of the conditions at Beirut is t)eing made b)y a flag lieutenant, Consul Itavnd(al and( another consular oflicer. Mr. Loirshman says that the origin of the trouble is riot distinctly stated b)y our consul. He further says that it is claimed by the Sublime Porte that conditions at Beirut are again quiet arid thrat the force now there is suflicernt to guarantee the safety of the city. Lieut Charles IL. Hlussey is Ad miral Cotton's flag lieutenant, and it is presumed here that he is the oflicer mmairng the investigation. D)isi'ATPCH To0 f.ONI,ON. London, Sept. .--A dispatch to the Standard fronm Const anti nople, dant,ed Sunday, says: '"The Turks are nituch diSturbod b)y the presence of thin A nmeicat' war ships at Beirut arnd are making every e1lfort to have them recalled. In spitei of all assert ions that, the United St ateos only mrtoends t hem to lbe there for thle si mpie protoct ion of the rights of her cit izonis, it is quite possible that the dispatch of the war ships may initi ate act ion loading nmurch fu rther.'' AwFJUL 'TUR KISH! ATR'IoCr'IES Sofia, Bulgaria, September, 8. - All reports fronm the vilayet of Mona stir aigree in describing the situation as ap)palling. Bet ween 30,000) anid 50,000) Bulgarian inhabitants arc be lieveud to have been massacredl by the TumrkH, anid every Bulgarian viilliago -in the vilayet has boen dlestroyedl. The refugees in the mountains and1 forests are dlying of starvation by thousands. At pIresenIt it. is imipossi ble to ob)tairn precise ligures. The revolutiounary headquarters estirmate t that thirty thousand B3ulgarian men, wonmen and( children have booen k ilIled, whaile at least the same numrber of a refugees areoslowly perishing of hun ge. lIn omniial circles thee higre re regarded a an undoroRtimate, nd ofliciall incline to the belief that ie uumber of tih nita8crod Ox. oods 50,000. Tho Turks are appar atly determined to exterminate tle atire Bulgarian PoPulation of the ilayet. In government eircles hero the ituation it viewed with incrosing larm: It ig reliably reportod that ae Turkiih forcos in Macedonia umber 300,000. It iH COlnHidOrOd npossible thatt suci a force hia been 8s0mbled Iloroly to ertish tho rebel on. It iH foared that. the h ultan is 1editating an at tack ol. Hulgaria. GENERAI. NEWS NOTES. ems of More or I.ess Interest Condensed Outside the State. A maun was arrested in Syractise louday during the stay of the Pros lent in that city because sIM)() one1 aid that he said thalt h would shoot he Presidtint. Tho Pittsburg col (,o., of I'it ts >urg, Pa , haa acq1(, gave way ml 'loasay u111-iring a lnitl bat h, by Olo regllr , wenty-four porson I,gein injured, hree perlitps futally. The H1amburg Amerivan Lino teamer Deutscliaind ma thi e t rip icrois the ocoun from Chorbourg i ow York in u days, Ii hoiurs and )* milnutos. Tie voytago wus nadc tt an average sped of 23.15 kiiot er hour. Robert, E. Peary will iiako unot lii ttempt to rmich tho North Polo Being a cotiiaibl,or in thlie U. S Navy, it was Icessary ffr him t' got leave of absence, whin1 wa granted for throo years. Mir. P'er) hoOpes to at Irt abolt ih1 Irst of Ju11) next. Rosa Adtus, it young lady of St Paul, has bogtin suit agaiist a los pital for $20,0)01 dumages, allegint that by roason (if a full i t ho lospi(. al's olovator salift shIm wI cripplot in her arnie, rettmiering hitr tiniuita ble for marriage, uamd thaut her < :0 suitors have detsertedi her. delivered at tTuehosu, A u oi Monday the Iirist of it series oif ad dIresies on "'Amtetica's M iighty ii. sion in thme Wochi." lie atdvecnte the expeniditutre of at billion iand half dollarM fori matkinig thle Ammeri can na tvy th o groet in thle wtorld. George W . I buavers, former liea of the salary mtatl al lowantcloh dvisit] of the piostotlico hilit depaturi, atguitm whom a warrat' hadi betn issuE chatrging him wvith roeeinvgcoimini Hiort ii n esh reiis~ 4 t 811)old io ie di oin 'ITiisdaiy, mtlI gave baii'iin thii sut o f $5,00)0. elevated triin. IHruing hadl pr andi was ini chatrge of a poelieni who was takitng himto th le peli coulrt to bei arratign ednth iIIiis chaitr when by great at rooigIth heo liur the pol icoma t bac ltk and thl~row hi, stelf unidrr the wvhools of thoe pastsi train. D)uring the labor day parade Chicago, the p)roprietor of a iw hiousie andI( van compan)tty was saulteid because he was d rivinrg 0) of his own teamts withbout a uini label. I Ic wias (caught by a mi numbering 1,000, who cut t ihatrmi of his horses into sinallI pioc, beat the antimals with canes, coi polIlinig themu to run atway, and th, heat Thornton~ badly. Thlorniton a ploys a large number of teamtste all of whom are members of I union, and tha nit1tever before hadl a tronble with the nrgniz,ation. TILLMAN'S JURY It Has Been Drawn In Lexington County, but WIU Not be Published. Columbia Record. A gent leman from Lexington coun ty who was in the city today told the Record that the list of jurors for the term of court to be held this month will not be published. Citizens expected to see the list in the Dispatch of this week, but failing to find it in the paper some of them inquired of the clerk of court why the names were not printed. Accord ing to the gentlemen referred to, this officer answered t hat the names would not be published this time in order to provent the p)ossibility of any "tampering" with them. He did not say, so far as the Rocord's inforinant knows, who ho suspected might be guilty of such an attempt. There is no law, so far as Lexington is con cernti, it said, to require the list of jurors to be published in newspapers, but their naiues cannot be kept by olicials from ayone who may desire to know who they may be. Still the sitatomit, is to the reason the list will not be printed in the Lexington I)ispatch is interesting, and involves a serious question as to whether "huampiring" with jroiors .is a cis ton ill th State or whether it is muH)ect-od to be attempted at this particular teri of court in Lexington only. DIlATH OF MRS. BOYESEN. Womian Whose Truniks Were Searched at White Stone Succumbs at Ashe ville to Nervous Shock. Laa Porto, 1nd., Sept. 9.-Mrs. .ham Stowart Boyesion of Chicago died tonight at Ashevillo, N. C., as it result of nervous shock following itcsaitions of it theft. The news roched horo ii a telegram to friends. Whilo Mrs. Boyosen was at a hotel niear Spartonburg, S. 0., the room of a guest from Augusta, (ia., was robbmd of $000 worth of jewelry. 'Ile landlord accused Mrs. Boyesen. She wits nlot inl good health and the chargo resnted in her physical col lps(. Before the end came she in ltitulitod a $50,000 ditmage suit against hor accuser in the federal court, it Cliarleston. Mrs. Boyesen has dono considorable newspaper work and vam a intiisicial of maritked ability. She was a momber of the Daughtors of the American Rovolu 1 tiol, the Chicago Woimitn'ti club and ot her orgaiz/ationsi.. LONG STrAPLli FOlR UP-COUNTlRY. InterestinIg Eixperimenlts Ini Cotton Grow tig ieiing Maie inl Columbia by tile D)epartmuent. Colubia Ciitor. N ews and Courier. )Po 50or1in t rne the departmenit of a atgricuiltulre hits boon11 maitking experi mernts ini this Stitte withl a view to dliscoverirng a long stiaple cotton that d wvill grow onl upantIds, itnd one which a willI not doegenierato atfter a few years' t growth. T1hiese experimnents have d heen conditucted ini H artsvill anitd Co a Ium,biai under the di rectionl of Prof. 1 11. ,l. Webor, of the dleprtmenit of -k atgricuilturo. Mr'. WVeber wits here m, M'tonda1y and1( inisp)ected the ,ieveniteeni expjerimon00tatl paitchies thatt haive booni d ,plate (d just ouitside of Columnbiat. ,,Corngrssiritan Ilanver anid Mr.. It. C. Keoenatn, wvho arc very muuch interest ed( onithis miatter, atccompamiiled him heon his trip. M1r. Wobor expressed himiisel f as b)einig very much lehased wit.h the result of his experimenlts herO. Het hias been working for (1( several yearsa to make a hybird of .the seat island cotton ando the vigor rug 0 p1lantit of the uplands. The aver ago,seit isheud cotton hits a staple of an inch and thlroe-qutarters, while the stap)le of the ulplandl cotton is Sonly tliroo-quarters of an inchl long. Mr. Weder found from the expecri montail stations that tihe cottoni has a staplehi of an inch andh one-half, being asin rouiild 1)0118 instead of the long oval kind. lie is very mnuch imlpres 1,sol withI the godresults of the ex piie t and hopes to furnish seed *from thlis cotton to the farmers for rs, next year's crop. he A murderer andl two b)urglars dug ny their way ouIt of the Schohiarie coun ty, N. Y.. jail 0on Monay night