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A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. -Armitage Matthew Kills Himself to Escape Trial-He Was a Promi? nent Republican. Kew York, October 12.-Legal cir? cles received a shock this morning when it was reported that Arimtage Matthews, secretary of the Republi? can County committee, had commit? ted suicide. Matthews was under indictment in connection with the ^Rothschild looting of the Weissel es 4ate, and was to have been placed on trial before Justice Davy in the criminal branch of the Supreme court ioday. Matthews had fought going to trial at every step and had asked 3for a change of venue yesterday, which was denied. The trial which ~3ias been pending for months was or -dered and placed on the calendar for "this morning. Early this morning persons living ?on West Ninety-Fourth street, direct? ly in the rear of 335 Central Park. West, saw a man hurl himself from the fifth story rear window of the lat? ter house, which was Matthews' home. Investigation proved that it "was Matthews. An ambulance was summoned, but he died on the way to the hospital. Matthews was the intimate friend Of Abe Gruber and ex-Governor Black, and that law firm has fought the efforts of District Attorney Je? rome to bring him to trial at every .Step. Matthews was assistant district at -torney under Wm KL Olcott in 1892 and was a member of the board of -Aldermen for three terms. At the time the board was being organized lie was carried into the aldermanic chamber on a stretcher: that he might vote for a vice president in sympathy "with the administr?t"on and refute the argument that money had been ?>aid fusion members to remain away and permit Tammany to organize the "board. School Building Funds. Columbia, October ll.-The ques? tion regarding the subsidy contem? plated for new pubhc school buildings 3?as just been decided by Assistant General Yon mans. He thinks the State board has a perfect right to pro? vide that the State's money should only go into a school building, where the title to the property is in fee sim? ile. The point was raised in Claren? don county and the Assistant Attorney General renders this opinion on the -interesting question: October 10, 1905. Hon. O. B. Martin, State Superin . tendent Education, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Yours of October 8 received calling my attention to the act to En? courage the erection of Adequate pub- ? He school buildings," February 22, 3905 24 Stats, 1905, and asking wheth? er it was within the competency of the State Board of Education on April 27, ^905, to pass this resolution: "Resolved, That county boards of education shall require all public school buildings to be constructed on ^ upon land deeded to the trustees in 3tee simple; that no school building shall be aided by funds under the School Improvement Act, unless con? structed according to plans approved Ty the State board of education, and furthermore, unless the building is Sound to be of first-class material and workmanship upon inspection by the eounty superiintendent of education?" I am of the opinion that it is within the competency of the State board of education to pass this resolution. Very Respectfully, LeRoy F. Youmans, Assistant Attorney General. EPISCOPAL CONVOCATION. The fall meeting or tbe Colombia ^Convocation of the Episcopal church da called to meet during the week com? mencing with Monday, Nov. 20th, mt the cnuch of the Holy Comforter "this city. Here follows the programme lor the meeting : Monday, evening prayer and ser? mon. Preacher, the Rev. C. M. Niles X>. D. Alternate, the Rev. W. H. Barn welL Tuesday, morning prayer and dis? cussion of tie topic: "The Church and Locial Unrest." Leader, the Bev. C. W. Boyd. Afternoon busi? ness session, Evening prayer and ser? mon. Preacher, Bishop Capers. ?Alternate, the Rev. W. E. Callender. Wednesday, Litany and discussion cf the topic "The Ministry; Is its influence Declining? How may its use? fulness and efficiency be increased?" Header, the Hon. R. I. Manning. Afternoon, business session. Evening, evening prayer and sermon. Preacher, the Rev. A. E. Cornish. Alternate She Rev, T. T. Walsh. Thursday, Morning prayer and dis? cussion of the topic "Tbe Clergyman ?n relation to tbe Rubrics and Casons." Leader, the Rev. W. B. Gordon. Afternoon, children's ser Tice with address by the Rev. A. E. -Cornish. Evening missionary service, -with addresses on general and Diocesan fissions by the Revs. T. T. Walsh mod Albert S. Thomas, respectively. Friday, Litany and discussion of the topic :"The Church in England Before the landing of Augustine." Evening, evening prayer and sermon. .Preacher the Re?. J. H. Tillinghast. Alternate, the Rev. H. O. Judd. Sunday, preacher, the Rev. T. W. Clift. The Darlington Cotton Growers' As? sociation has arranged with the Dar? lington Manufacturing Company to store cotton until a warehouse can be Jbuilt. AMERICANS DRINK MORE. Statistics Indicate Increased Use of Alcoholic Liquors. I have noticed in a number of lead? ing papers, and especially in the Sun, a statement that the consumption of spirits in the United States is on the decrease, probably as the result of the increase in the use of beer. It seems to me that an examination cf the facts will show that this state? ment is an error. The increase in the consumption of beer is real enough, but unless the past fiscal year proves an exception, which cannot yet be known, as the figures which seem to have misled many-those given out by Internal Revenue Burean-are only partial, the use of spirits has constant? ly increased for a decade past. The figures as I take them from the latest Sttistical Abstract show that the per capita consumption of spirits and beer, in gallons, was as follows: Tear. Spirits. Beer. 1896. 1.01 15.3S 1897. 1.02 14.9-1 1898.1.12 15.96 1899. 1.18 15.28 1900.... .. ..1.25 16.01 1901..... 1.31 16.20 1902. 1.36 * 17.49 1903. 1.46 1S.04 1904. 1.48 12.2S The figures of withdrawal of beer for- consumption for the fiscal year 1905 show an increase in the total consumption of more than 38,000,000 gallons. The figures of -withdrawal of spirits show a small reduction, about 6-1-0 of 1 per cent Imports do not seem to be reported yet and until we have those figures and the estimate of population for the year is decided, it is impossible to say whether we have drunk more or less per capita during the past year* Reduced to "pure al? cohol," the per capita consumption, all liquors included* I figure as rblliws: Tear. - ^ Gallons. ?840.....'. 1.S8 I860. L67 1870..... . .. ?A0 1880. L2? 1893. lifrO 1897. 1.46 1901.,.. 1.69 1902. 1.82 1903._ 1.88 1904... 1.91 These figures are rather startling, but I believe them to be correct They are founded upon the tables of the Statistical Abstract. It seems to me that they show us that some recent writers have been inclined to take a too rose colored view -of the temper? ance situation.-New York Sun. MURDER ON HIGH SEAS. Captain and Four of a Schooner's Crew Killed and the Bodies Thrown Overboard. Wilmington, Oct. IL-A special to Tbe Star from Southport tonight says the schooner Blanche $H. King. Capt. J. W. Taylor, Brunswick, Ga., Sept 23 for Philadeplhia, pu j in there this afternoon, bringing in irons three negroes, all that remained of the crew of the fonr-masted schooler Harry A. Berwind, .Capt. Kamill, from Mobile, Sept. 23, to Philadel? phia, the captain, mate, cook and an enigneer who did hoisting aboard' having been mcrdered m a mutiny at sea and their bodies thrown over? board. The body of a fourth negro of the crew was found lying on deck where be, too, had evidently been murdered. Capt Taylor of the schoon? er King sighted the Berwind early this morning about 30 miles off the Cape Fear bar and was attracted to her by the manner in which she was be? ing steered, having several times come vrey near running down the King. A near approach to the Berwind showed that she had been practically abandon? ed. Capt. Taylor and crew boarded the vessel and placed the three I negroes in irons, bringing the two ves? sels off the bar when one of them was towed in by Wilmington tugs, which have now gone for the other schooner, a gale prevailing on the outside. The Berwind being from a territory against which this city is quarantined for yellow fever, the three negroes in irons are held at quarantine until ar? rangements can be made for their de? tention by the federal authorities. It developes from the stories of the negroes brought in irons by the King that the mutiny arose as the result of a quarrel aboard the ship early Tuesday morning about some coffee that was being brewed for breakfast. The King was signalled by the Ber? wind 30 miles east of Frying Pan lightship and in response to a signal Capt. Taylor sent his mate, engineer and others to board the Berwind. The decks of the schooner were crimson with blood, giving evidence of a fierce encounter. The berth of the mate was spotted with blood, indicating that he was butchered in bed. After the boarding party from the King handcuffed the mutineers on the ship one of the negroes complained the ir ms were too tight and hurt him. When one of the boadiug crew loosened the bracelet on the negro's arm the captive whipped out a pistol and shot of hie own crew, the presumption being that the maa killed had signalled the King against the wishes of the three others. The total list of killed is fonr whites and one negro, the names of none of whom can be learned. The King left a prize crew aboard the Berwind, whioh is still off the bar, but will be brought in tomorrow morn ing. The really onery man can't do work unless he eithei has a lot of people to watch him or an assistant. Wbat an awful lot of future there lies before a baby, and what a little behind an old man ! When a woman has a pretty face a:id a pretty figure, which does she spend most time in admiring. A Line From Charleston. The sale of the Cincinnati, Ham and Dayton railroad system to Morgan interests having killed hope that a line across South C lina, with a terminus at and a sp? interest in Charleston would be 1 with the co-operation of the ow of that system, we .shall have to ti of other plans for cutting thrc the cordon of railroad discrimina which oppresses us here. And v belter pian than the most dir wiry not cut straight out into the terior, throwing out a line to tl who will not throw in a line to U? We have frequently considered A high expectations the coming of g systems to Charleston. They have come. Sometimes we have considc going to great systems. We have gone. Now, there has been subsc ed, in the expectation of the buile of the C., H. and D. connection, a s of money almost sufficient to ins the construction of a railroad fi Chester to Camden, as a link in a i tem of roads from the coal fields Tennessee. Why not proceed with organization of the construction cc pany projected for that scheme i employ its resources to another li The people who were counted upori back the undertaking seem no lon at service, but they are not the o men with* money. There is plenty money in the country and it see ready to embark on enterprise w reasonable promise of profit. Ms railroads have been apparently on ? Let's build an air line. Where shall we build to? Possi along the line projected for the Ch; lesion, Virginia and Ohio River n road, picking up the connections we go, until ultimately we reach 1 coal fields of Tennessee and join, ev with their grudging consent, the H. and D., which Mr. Morgan t bought to prevent unwished for coi petition with his other lines. P< haps to the Seaboard Air Line, alo the line of the Charleston, Augus and Chattanooga railroad, which w projected a few years ago and w abandoned when Mr. John Skelt Williams lost control of the Seaboa sytem to the Morgan influences agai The Seaboard is under the same ge eral influences that operate the Sout ern, but the laws of South Carol? preserve it in the character of a cor peting line with that system and would have to furnish some tran to the line which tapped its rai! And we should then have three sy terns of railroad running into Charle ton, none of them, perhaps, wi1 whole hearted interest In the poi but all of them forced by the vei logic of business to make some efto at service. Even the small rivalri< of local managements are not witt out advantage. The point we make is that now th< the people of Charleston have pr< pared themselves to build a certai length of road they should go ahea and build that length, even if it take a different route from that marke out for it in the project which ha failed. But the essential considera tion, from which there should be nc the slightest deviation, is that i should be built from Charleston. . Th projectors of the Charleston, Virgini and Ohio River line have acquire, fine terminal properties on the Coope river. Let the first cross tie be lai< and the first spike driven there. I the road goes no further than Tel Mile Hill it will at east pas through the hinterland of the cit: j which some day will develope int< rich suburban territory. "A smal thing but mine own" can be said o it. When we get to the end of it w< can at least come back to Charleston The trouble with all these other line! which have been projected is thai they have started for Charleston, bul have never reached here. The onlj railroads which we now have, aftei seventy years of rairoad building, ari those which began at Charleston. If a line is constructed from Charleston into the interior it will not have to go far before it meet* with some recognition. If we should build to the Seaboard Air Line the Southern would sit up and take no? tice. If we should build to St. Paul there is Col. Tom Wilson's little road which would help us along to Cam? den. Then we might take up the line to Chester, as recently projected as the first part of the Charleston, Vir? ginia and Ohio River scheme, and after that another reach to the coal fields, where we should be safe enough. Before the road had ever proceeded that far, however, the ef? fect of its undertaking would be ap? parent in the changed attitude of the lines operating into Charleston. We would be in the game. We might have a small stack of chips, but wc should be entitled to a show down. And, if nothing else, our presence would disturb the draw of the other players. So we should have some consideration. And our stake would always be Charleston. Moreover we should have the satis? faction of helping ourselves. That is worth while if only in the confidence it inspires within, but it would be worth much more than that. It would compel respect, and it would command business. Commerce is essentially servile. It takes orders, but does not pay any attention to ap? peals. Let us build a railroad from Charleston. Let those who will come to us. but let us go out into the world.-Charleston Post. Decrease in Farm Population. "The census of the states this year is telling some interesting facts that need little analysis to make plain reading," says Commercial West. "The increase of population in Min? nesota during the past five years, now found to be about ?23.000, is to be credited almost wholly to the in? crease of city and village population; that the older settled rural districts have lost in population, and that the only considerable increase in rural population is in the undeveloped farm-land sections. "The recent census figures of Iowa further emphasize the fact that our rui*al population is being drained off to the cities without compensating supply to the farm areas. The state of Iowa-perhaps the most nearly ideal farming state of the union-has lost in total population in the past five years 15,000. While the state, as a whole, has lost this number of in? habitants, every city of over 5,000 populaticn has gained in population, the twenty-five cities of this class having gained a total of over 77,00^0. This means that the rural districts, including cities and villages under 5,000, have lost more than 90,000 of population in the past five years. If, as was shown in Minnesota, the small? er towns of Iowa have grown at the expense of farm population, it may not be far from fact to reckon that Iowa's farms have lost 140,000 pop? ulation in the last half decade. "Iowa had little undeveloped land attracting settlers. Speaking broadly, that portion of the state's increas? ing population, mostly young farmers, and the immigrant seekers of land, were offered little but high priced land within the state. Since that year this class of land seekers has been turned from the costly lands of Iowa to the cheaper lands of the Dakotas and northwestern Canada. It is well known that the emigration of these people to the northwest during the past five years has been greater from 1 Iowa than from any other state. But the fact is obvious that when the farm population left the state its place was not filled by a new population as nu? merous. Consequently the average Iowa farmer today is handling more acres than he did in the year 1900. "We had supposed that the coming of the rural delivery', the telephone, the rural electric line and the bicycle would make farm life more attractive and in the end, with other improve? ment to come, turn the current the other way. Is it that even these ad? vantages will not hold the farmers to their farms? Or is it that the price of farm land is so high that the re? cruits for the rural middle classes are now unable to get a start in life, and so must drift to the city, where they can live reasonably well as employes? Second Week Jurors. The Petit Jurors for the second week of the Court of General Sessions was drawn Thursday as follows : J. C. Stokes. M. D. Weaver. J. E. Player. A. H. Stuckey. C. W. Kingman. IA. P. Mims. S. J. Newman. M. J. Moore. R. L. Wright. J. H. Levy. H. M. McLanrin. W. T. Player. H. N. Barnes. H. W. Cuttino. E. B. Hodge. W. R. Phillips. Geo. E. Martin. J. W. Osteen. E. T. Hodge. W. H. Pate. J. D. Truluck. J. W. Goodman. J. A. Boy kin. Warren Moise. I. N. Thomlinson. A. C. Thompson. E. D. Cockerel. B. B. Seymour. L. D. Jervey. W. M. Davis. Singelton. Bradford. J. M. Phillips. J. D. McLeod. H. M. Dennis. O. W. Sanders. J. M. Brogdon. Daughters of Confederacy. Mrs. A. W. Barnet of Camden, president of the Daughters of the Con? federacy in tbis State, has issued the following call for the annnal conven? tion to be held in Johnston, November 29th: Camden, S. C., Oct 10, 1905. To the United Daughters of the Con? federacy : The tenth annual convention of the State division, U. D. C., meets at Johnston. S. C,. on the 29th of No? vember and all delegates are urged to be present on that day. Reduced railroad rates have been applied for. Respectfully yours, Harriet S?annon Burnet, President S. C. Div. U. D. C. The truth about lids is tbat there never was one that fit very tight. Do you enjoy being disagreeable in public? Some people do. When a lit? tle man is disagreeable, the worst be has to fear is a slap. Even if he re? ceives a slap, people will say it was an outrage for a big man to strike a little one., But if a big man is dis? agreeable, some one is liable to shoot him. and people will say, "Served the big duffer right." MISTAKES OF THE PRINTER. When He Can't Make Out a Word He Makes a -Stab" at lit. j The amusing mistakes that happen in printing offices are the some-:; o? much fun for the men who set f; t;e. Most of the "stuff" that passes through the hands of printers is writ? ten by men with fair or better educa? tions. But they are usually poor pen ? men, and when matter comes to a printer that he cannot read he "makes a stab" at it and trusts to the proo? reader to correct mistakes. Perhaps you will remember that Bryan made a speech on free silver. As the climax to his oration he de? clared the American people wanted "no cross of gold, no crown of thorns."' The expression has become historic. It was such a striking phrase that a Chicago paper decided it would make a good head over the convention story. Therefore one of the head writers wrote the head: "No cross, no crown." When set it read: "No cows, no cream." Fortunately the mistake was dis? covered in time for correction. In the same office another printer made an amusing mistake. He was putting an article into type for the dramatic critic. Many of the words used by the critic were new ones to the printer. In discussing the merits of a certain violinist who was per? forming at the auditorium the critic wrote a sentence which concluded with the words, "and the gentleman also lacks polish." When a proof was taken of the type it read: And the gentleman also speaks Polish." All newspaper offices have what is called a "style." For instance, some papers bar expressions of horror. Others bar words that are too long. They have printed lists of synonyms which printers shall substitute for the words that are under the ban. Other papers have a style as to how two or more syllables are to be separated in case the word comes at the end of a line of type. Some printers stick too close to "style rules." A "style rule" in a certain office cautioned the printers against using the word "balance." The word "re? mainder" was substituted. The night after the rule went into effect a prom? inent citizen fell from a balcony and was killed. The reporter who wrote the story used the expression: "He lost his balance and fell to the street." The printer who got hold of the story made it appear: "He lost his 'remain? der' and fell to the street." Portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The fact that too frequently 5t transpires in American history that no accurate and authentic portrait of her great men is faitfully preserved has caused a number of the devoted admirers of General Robert E. Lee to interest themselves to cause a perfect picture of the great general to be made and to be preserved for all fu? ture history. This work, after a lapse of forty years, is now under way by the John A. Lowell Bank Note Company, of Boston, who are using for this pur? pose the exact photograph made at General Lee's residence in Richmond a few days after the surrender, which | picture has always been considered by the Lee family and friends as the most perfect likeness ever taken of the General at that period. The work, when finished, will be of the highest art of steel engraving, so that it will thus be preserved for all future time.-Washington Post. A New Russian Era. Episodes like this war are a part of the discipline of a crude and un? developed race such as the Russians are. A new era of genuine advance? ment is already in sight for the one hundred and fifty millions of human beings who acknowledge the Czar as their ruler. In the military sense, Russia's position in the Far East has been eclipsed; but it may be found a source of strength rather than of weakness for her to abandon, at pres? ent, all idea of armed dominance and to proceed with the agricultural and commercial advancement of Siberia, joining ail other nations in peaceful and friendlly efforts to develop Man? churia and to open up trade with all parts of China. Russia remains al? most where she stood ten years ago as a Far-Eastern power in the geo. graphical sense, with the added ad? vantage that she has now her great railway line to Vladivostok completed, and has made substantial beginnings i in the planting of towns and the opening up of farm lands over a vast expanse of country. She had pre? viously promised to evacuate Man? churia, and had disavowed designs of conquest against Korea. In a techni sal sense, therefore, she can claim not to have lost her permanent posi? tion on the Pacific coast. But she. will not menace Japan.-From "The Progress of the World." in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for October. Policeman Corn, of Greenville, has been arrested for participating in a crap game with negroes and whites. THE SUMTER SAVINGS Bil HORACE HARBY, President. I. C. STRAUSS, Vice-president. GEO. L. RICEER, Cashier. Capital Stock, $25,000 Liability of Stockholders, 2^,000 liiU_llfllllll Every Facility For the transaction of business is afford? ed those who deposit their money with The Sumter Savings Bank. In i portant papers can be drawn up and signed in a private room set aside for use of our clients and any information de? sired will be cheerfully furnished by the management. , Savings deposited here draw interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. $1.00 will open an account and secure a bank book. $100,000.00 Capital. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Sumter, S. 0. THE Comptroller of the Currency hav? ing approved the increase of the Capital of this Bank to $100,000.00, depositors now have as security for their deposits : Capital, - - $100,000 00 Stockholders' Individual Lia? bility, - - - 100,000 00 Surpius and Undivided Prof ? its, ... 26,000 00 Total Security for Depositors, $225,000 00 ONLY NATIOPLA BANK Ih CITY OF SUMTES. Largest Capital of any Bank in thia section of South Carolina. Strongest Bank in Eastern part of this State. Interest allowed on deposits to a limited amount. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. A. J. CHINA, President. NEILL O'DONNELL, Vice President? H. D. BARNETT, R. D. LEE, G. A. LEMMON, JOHN REID, E. P. BICKER. E. L. EE MUNDS, Cashier. B. D. LEE, Solicitor. BOOKKEEPERS. J. L. McCsJlum, D. J. Winn, Jr. Oliver L. Yates. DeLORflE'S PHARMACY, 23 South Main St Open from 7 a.m. to 10 p. m. ; Sunday, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Having consolidated my twa stores, I will be pleased to see all my customers at the above stand, where I am better pre? pared than ever to serve them. Your prescriptions will be called for and delivered. Phone 45. Full line of Drugs, Garden Seed and Cigars. Tour patronage solicited. Call bell for night work. Land Surveying I will give prompt attention to all calls for surveying, platting, terracing hill side? draining bottoms, drawing Mortgages Titles, Probating, cbc. BANKS H. BO YXIN, D. 8-, Oct 19-0 Catchall, S. G. Colds I It should be borne in miad tatt every cold weakens the lunga, lew era the vitality and prepares th? system for- the more serious dis? eases, among which are the two greatest destroyers of humas Hie, pneumonia ana consumption. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has won its great popularity by its prompt cures of this most common ailment. It aids expectoration, re? lieves the lungs and opens the secretions, effecting a speedy tad permanent cure. 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