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PALMEHO AFFAIRS Occurrences of Interest from All Over South Carolina MANY !TEMS if STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range-What is Going On in Our State. Charlotte Cotton Market. These price rppresent the proces paid to w"gons: Good mi~ddlil ng. . .. . . . . . .11. - Sticn midling...........-111 miiddlin..... .. ...-........--11 i-S G'ool middling. tinged .. ......11 S ain .... .. .. .. ....'. ... 9ro 10 General Cotton Market. (alvesto -. teady.. . .. .. ..11 1-16 New Orlaiis. easy.. ......1015-16 Mlobile, quiet. . ..0 . .... 5-S Sava nah.oule . - .. ... . . -10 3-4 C7harle..to. uiet".. ........10 9-16 Wihnington. steady.. .. ....10 3-4 Norfolk. quiet........ ....111-S Baltimore. nominal........111-S New York. steady,.. ......10.90 Bost on. quiet.. .. .. .. ......10.90 Houston. ste;-y.... ........11 Philidelpheia. steady.. .... ...11.1 Auzusta. steady...----.--..-1'11-S Mem4his. quiet.. .. .. .......10 7-9 St. Louis. quiet............1 C incinnati...... ...... . --- -- Electricity for Greenwood. dent ~A. J. Sprotes is ioinz right ahead in the work of wiring places for the installation of motors. The <iav eurrent is now on. beingi fur nished by the local plani. tile idea being that a good trade or iatrnn ..e will have' been worked up by the time the current is readyv from the plant on Savannah river. A large number of places in town. res idences and offiees, are now using elec tric fans. Quite a number of mo 'tors have been ordaed for meehanical offlices. but although they have been shipped. none have as yet arrived. This day current of electricitv is a great thing for Greenwood. 1t will prove in fact it has already proved, quite an ineentive to the snealed smaller industries. Waterwork3 for Bamrberg. Bamberg. Speeial- t a mass meet Citizens l.id here the city -c'ucI was instruere to take proper steps towerds establishing a water wo rks systeur'on1 tle pincipal streets of the town with thle view to extend irg in a few years. Propositions were submitted by engineers but none ac -cepted definitely. The city is enthu s:.astic for fire nrotection and the work of instal1lton w ill he begun as soon as expedient. Much dis cussionl was held and the meeting lasted over an hour. With work on electric light system already going on, the citizens have dleterninled to continue improvements that will bene fit the community. Solicitor Wants Detective. A letter to Gover:nor Ha.x-ward from Solicitor T. S. Sese bii0gs the in teligence that hie has released the men who wvere arrested -for the inr cdr of Mosc's -Hughes. at Union. iuder a bond of $5)t00 each. The crime neeulrredi about ten days ago and the body of' itughs was, foind in thc river weigh ed down with ine'ks. Soii eitor Sensq wanltS th 31 Lovernor to sendl a detective to Unionl to work rp the ease. as he savs it is hard to se -eur~e indiiomnents onl the facts as they now stam!. It Seemfl that the~ no lroe wh kamr the vaihie cvi dience are' terrifiedI and thus cannot be v~ot to testify truthf~uly for fear. Stat NasItems. n~e!Web. r linemamn of the Charlest-m wa killed through the i:l ng1 . 1)n oni wxhich' he wa d 'wla .. The bottom part ;fth 1;....... n.r:t en and theC line linkin it !inpasile for him to avoid fa rwh the. pole. Ai a meeting of thie court house ii nunlissin for H.arry county the bonds for th' nrcetion of a new court hoa ami jail were sold to the .Se x;rt Trust compny of Spartan hae oru 'I)1. a'~it onliy 4 '1 )-2 pr Iet *''. -.es fTe puirch3asrs ;iay he expos' of lihograping and Uninz. Thes ond wil be7 6sne A..'k. elv J:nuI!. 1920i~O: .. he (Coh ton men from' various parts of the State who have been asked for their opinion as to the effect of' the re -erains onl the cotton crop ar l-c most unanimous in the opinion that he0 erop has beeni damaged inl nea0r every parttt of tile State andl in ' mi pist of North Carolina by the YCe~fnt heavy r'ains. The estiae of --K: daman~ge varies from D3 to 25 per G3ov-'r.,or H~ey.ward publishes in the ennypap'rs [irinlg a reward of Ird :n a -ecuelna 1h 'er THE CAMPAIGN OP[NS Candidates For the State Offices Make Their Formal Bow to the Public. The State campsign opened at St. Georgie o:i Wediesday. Thecandi dates for governor sploke first. The crowd Wals not large, but paid cIUs attention. The position of the eight candidates for governor on the liquor quIestioll are about as divergent a- the four points ot' the compass. Mr. -ian u'l anld Mr. 31e31ahan believe in a reformed dispensary; Mr. Ansel I countv disl)ensaries: Senator Blease commends the institation as it is: 3r. Joel E. Brunson for prohi hition: Mr. A. C. Jones agrees with Mr. Brunson, but pending the arri val of the time for prohibition he is willing to put up with the Brice law, by voting the dispensary out ot coun tv after county and destroying the State machine. _1r. W. A. Edwards of Saluda did not get to touch 'on the liquor issue, but he is in favor of the Ravsor-3Manning. 3Mr. EdI wards is a man with a mission-he wants to flav the Southern railroad with subjugation. He has pending a suit against that corporation for merging competing lines under its own management. He claims that the franchise of the Southern road in those properties-lshould revert to the State of South Carolina. The first speaker was Mr. M. F. An sel of Greenville. who thanked the people of South Carolina for the fine vote which he received four years ago. He had not been elected then but he had received such a flattering vote and had come so close to the line thaf he felt that he should make the race again. He comes with the endorsement of 75 per cent. of the people of his home section. the Pied mont country. the old Eighth circuit in which for 12 years he had prose euted the evil doers. He first discussed the question of education. The common schools should be given the best teachers, the largest terms and the most comfort able -school houses which can be af forded. He 'also believes in good roads. He -wants to t the people in terested in building g-ood roads. He wants the federal government to send some. of their money down here to supplement our own nonev and eon viet labor. He wants the govern ment to improve the inland water ways. but lie is more in favor of i.ood roads. The greatest tax the farmer pays is wear and tear on ve hicles and stock. If the roads had been improved 50 years ago, what would this country be today. As to the liquor question he said that lie is opposed to the State dis pensary. He is in favor of the coun try dispensary system. The eounties are able to manage their affairs. The people of Dorchester sohuld be given the right to sav exactly what they want. Greenville should not say what Dorchester wants, nor should Dorchester say what Greenville wants. Let each county have the right of option bet ween county dis pensaries and prohibition. The coun ty board could report to the court. He is opposed to any plan which would provide for license or commis sions, for that wonld tend to push the sale of liquor. W. A. Bdawrds was the Next Speaker He stated that he had discovered facts of a dangerons natunre in connec tion with the covernmnent. After cit ing the constitutional provision wvhiebt' declares that railroad franchises shall be forfeited by companies buying up competing lin'es. lhe called attentionl to the fact that in April. 1900. the Southern railway had obtainedl con trol of 400 miles of competingr lines that afforded competition at 2.3 of 25 points in the State. Freichts were advanced as much as 100 per' cent. in some cases, he claimed. The viola tion of the anti-merger law appears to be beyond dispute. lie contends, and yet all elsses in the courts except his own appear to have been dropped. His case did not get into court, after delays, until a special term in Aikeni in April, 1903. At this term Jundge W. C'. Benet presided. Mfr. Edwards declared that lie suspectedl somlething and upon examination lie found that Judge Benet wa even then of record as one of the Southern Railway's attorneys. Mr. Edwards charged that Judge Benet declhined to grant a continuance of the case until his attorneys fa(cd .Judg.e Benet with~ ailidavits as to the-judge's connection with the Southern railway. He declared the Southern railroad to be "a monster, a robber corpora tion. a blight, a foul. festering sore on the political system.'' There was a great deal more on this line. His time' was up whien lie had concluded with hmt half of his sneech.~ He uriz id the peCople to) elect legislitors who wouhid not belonZ to theit railroads. Believes in the Dispensray.' Sknator (Cole L. Blease read his platform:. It is the same, lie said. whieh lhe had in 1900 when lie was a canldidate for the legislature. He declared that he had never varied from tihat platform, and he hiad been elected several times to the legisla ture. When lhe said lie was opn~osedl to hiigher education of the niegro. there was alpplause'. Hie is in favor of the dijspelnsary law and in favor of the absolute repeal of the Brice law. He saidl that God Almighty never intended negroes to be ednen: oid. and he. claimed the credit. with Dr. Lowman of Orangeburg, for hay ing dwindledi the appropriatih)n to the colored State C'ollege from .910. 00 to $5.000. lie spoke at length nthe subject andi tused a goodu miany adjectives to describe the worthless ness of the educated negro of todlay. This excited a piln se. .\s . theisnensairv he said thlt pensary." He opposes the Rayson Manning bill, so-called. Where is the dispensary corruption ? Who for four yea rs been in charge of the dis pensary Were they origial dis pensary men ? Ile does not say there is corrupltoln. He idoes not say there is. The governor of the State has not )een a dispetnsory iian more than to say that it was the best solution f tie liqur question. 1e criticised IGov. AHeyv..-Urd as not being ares ,ively in favor of thie iispensary. He is ready and willing to def'nd Iayiv attack on the State dispensary, ian if the people of the State Ion't aipprove of his views he will go back tio the State senate fur two more years and keep on defending it, for he will still believe it is right. He ehid ed the opposition to the dispensary, in the State campailn with gaving shifted from prohibition to local op tion. Dispensary Roasted. Mr. Joel E. Brunson of Sumter was the iext speaker in alphabetical ,r der. He declared the dispensary ques tion to be the leading issue because it involves more in dollars and cents and it also affects so closely the moral wefare of the whoie people. In reply to the claim that the d'ispensary helps to educate the people he declared that education and culture do not safe guard the people from intemperance. He quoted from the last message of Gov. J. G. Evans to the legislature in which he claimed that even if sale of liquor brought trouble it would bring revenue to educate the people and thus to heal the wounds caused by intemperance. Mr. Brunson preceeded to a strong arraignment of the dispensary's profit feature. He was vigorous and used telling similes. It requires the sale of $4,000,000 of liquor to get $SOO.000 in profits -for State, cities and counties. Of this imount but $160,000 is the "educational salve'' to heal the wounds as. referred to by Gov. Evans. In other words out of every $4 paid for liquor only 16 cents is given back for educational salve and of that only 2 cents stays in the county, the rest being divided among counties, some of whom have no dis pensaries. Mr. Jones for Local Option. Mr. A. C. Jones of Newberry. who has been a leader in the ma-ny fights against the dispensary and took the stump in Newberry county last sum mer against Senator Till mai and helned in driv ing the dispensary out of that county, followed Mr. Edawrds. Mr. Jones' speech had zrit and backbone .i every line. He does not profess to be an orator. but he speaks force fully and gives voice to his powerful convictions. le will be out of the camapign for sevval days on account of illness at home. To Reform Dispensary. Senator R. I. Manning of Sumter, who was next introduced, stated his record for the last 14 years as a leg islator from Sumter county, and for eigth years of that time as a senator. He may have made mistakes, these he frankly admits, for all are human, but he had always tried to apply the rule right to every action. The educational institutions are growing and the fight against them is largely a thing of the past. The in stitutions. have grown and of eourse the appropritions have grown in or der to provide necessary accommoda tions. He descried the growth of pension appropriations from $30,000 to $250. 000. The unequal assessment of proper ty he declared to be a burning issue which he had not the time to diseuss. There should be a strict buisiniess sys tern e the conduct of the government just as there is in business affairs. Mr 'McMahan. The address by Mr'. John J. Me Mahan was a classic. In statesman like thought it has been unsurpassed by any expr'ession on the political stump in this State in years. .It can not be reproduced even in part, as the theme would be marred in a con densed report. lie inveighied against the tendency of people to disregard or to give too little regard to their rights and duties as citizens. It is in periods of prosperity that the great da nger is to gov'erinents creep) in. People are then intent upon other things than the public wveal. It is with shame that in these days of' prosperity we note lie corruption. not in . the dispensary a lone, butt in country aff'air's as well. It is thle duty of the people to be vigilant. We shoinhl( be ashiame'd of connect ions which wotld have been intolerable even under a radical admninistruat ion. The st andarid of intezrity. oft r'utth antd oft worib shouldl be the~ same in lpublic' alfairs as in pr'ivate life' and yet too often is t he excuse for a imte that it happened in polit ie's. lie stands in t his campaign f'or lie same educational ref'or'ms for' which he fought in his four yecar''s service as State superintendent of educa tion. He advocates an experimental s(l'cho farmn in evei'y county. The speeches of the' eandidates t'or the othet' otlic'es were well received. At Walterboro on Thiur'sday the speaiking wvas about the same as the day before. The ci'owd wa's small and the attention was good. At Hampton. Hampton had. thle ('andidlates on Saturd'(ay. Tfhe spe~ches wereabu at the prev~'iu meetings. So far' but little spirit has nmariked thle eein te'st. Attorney General. Attorney'; Gener'ial Leror F. You mans w'as niot present. Ex-(Governior MIeSweene'v read letter frmom htim. Ir. J. Fraser Lvoti in a bierC and I (loquen't way iimparitted his views 'in till 'ort''t in ini the dispenisiiry. ilhe told of his invest igat ioni ando of lie byi ~ aying lie c'ould pon te nur mhii h'~ ~ic im. ih o 31 I L . ! ('al-ciale a.nn'nnet hielf by cebthlennin-: Lyonit how wher teP. and accused him of holding two II-e at the same time. and receil in ibzh pay. which was illegal. He s.aid that Lyln nid said that lie d ad e-ieled the race .1 him out of the .:av C' r Gen. Y~ounmuis. He said tha b- had o:Tere!i to wihr- if 1.I : wT nM. hm tliht Lyoni de!lid v.-y fro 31r. .1 T. H 'I. P. lrO-'r vinicat ui him :'or - -er-e 0mad aainst himl by alh.. e stated that he had fre inuiently paid money out of his On po<-ket to defray hi expenses while ei , h1is duties as a men-ber ,I 1li. in et'iga't cim- eommittee. Mr.. ( . . MLeod announeed his (-llilirlac'rir lieliteC lanit . oventim.. 11!% R. ' McCown. Mr. L. M. Ra aind .1. B. Morrison annonneed tiieir ~ F4 -nih-y fr secretary o sIa te. C(,. Tribble Was abseit. Tie muieetin ' g " was cnluticded by Irl. Bare and Mr. Tooe annolleini' their candidacy for cong e-ss from this dis SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS Cpndition of South Carolina Crops for Week Ending Monday, June 18, 3906, as Given Out by the De partment. There was some sunshine on the first and on the last day, while the intervening days were cloudy with frequent heavy rains. Fresh to brisk easterly winds prevailed early in the week, and high winds, that at iimes . reached gale velocity, accompanied by local thunderstorms and c.used much damage. The temperature averaged between four and five degrees below normal, owing to unusually cool weather at the beginning of the week. The last dy had about normal temperature and sunshine. The deficiency in tem perature was caused prinoipally by the absence of sunshine, as the night temperatures were about ncrma'. The highest temperature for the week was 94 degrees at Greenville on the 13th. The precipitation was exc:!ssive over the entire State, and it was heavift over the central and east era parts. Twenty-two statioins re ported weekly amounts of over five inches. with a maximum rainfill of 11.Q2 inches at Allendale. The aver age of all the rainfall reports ieceiv ed from places within the State was 5.46 inches which is about 4.50 -nches in excess of the normal amount. In places small rivers and creeks over flowed their banks causing local foods but the water did not reach flood stages in the large rivers. South Carlina's Recovery. In compiling, last January, the a's sessed values of property i-i the Southern States, the Baltimore Manu facturers' Record, in the absence of official figures for South Carolina, not then accessible, made an estimate of $219,000,000 for that State. The con servatism of the estimate is indicated by the fact that the official figures now compiled are $220,224,505. An interesting feature of the returns of taxable property is the statement that '"while the law requires; that property should be returned at 60 pci cent. of its actual value,'' it is belier. ed that the figures given "'represent not more than 33 1-3 per. cent. of the total taxable property of the State.' On that basis the true value of property in South Carolina nay fle estimated at more than $U(61.00u,000. an amount greater by $113,00000 than the true value of property in 1860 and nmore than double -hat of 3SS0. A comparison of the figures of 1860, when the true value was: $5, 133,754, with those 1SS0, wl-en the true value was $322,000,000, reveals the immediate loss and subseqtuent res toration of South Carolina as au result of the wvar, even eliminating the value of property in slaves, and the com parison of the figures of 1880 and 1905 exhibits the wonderful advance which South Carolina has made in the past quarter of a century. In 1SS0 the true value of property. $322,000. 000, representing per capita wnalth of $323. The true value of property. $661.000,000, in 1905 represent s a per capita wealth of about $460. South Carolina was one of the Southern States most devastated by the war and most hampered by thie developments of the subsequent 10 or 12 y-ears. The prog-ress which it has made since the burdeni was lifted strikinelv illustrates the advanee made by the whole South, and the figures of the true value of its taxabic prop erty suggest the error likely to arise in making comparisons of *Isse$sse values in the South in 1860 and in 1905 if it be not remembered that al the earlier date assessed values rep resented abhout 73 per cent. of trne valu's and at this time they represent between .?0 and 40 per cent. of true values. Barnwell, Special.-An enthusiastic gathering of the business men! of the city met the representatives of the railroad commissioners and the At lantic Coast Line and the Southern railroads here in the opera house to lav before them the necessity of the erect in of a union depot at t he junc tion of the said roads. All the busi ness men 'f the town entered into theC spirit of the meeting anid dihI their best to convrince the r-ailroad comnmis sioners that the depot was an urgent necess ity. To Oppose Senator Tifllman. Columbia. Speial.-Col. A. W. Lumpkin. commnercial azent of tihe Georgria Railrnoad. has filed his pledge with the State Chairman of : le Dem ocratic committee aind entered the race against United States Senator BR.Tlman. The dispensa-y will be th pornimi issute of the carapaign. LIST Of ALL CANDIDAI[S Those Who Have Qualified to Run For Office Under the Rules of the Primary. The folwin. s1 a cmplete list (in alphabeticail rde-) ot all the eandi dates for al the .ate. oiies to be votel for in tlie primary election, whici will Le held A:nt 2S: United States Senate. D. B. Till man and W. W. Lumpkin. For Cong-ress. First district. George S. Legare. incumbent; Second, J. 0. Patterson. incumbent; G. L. Toole and B. B. Hare; Third. Wyatt Aiken. in cumbent; J. E. Bogzs: Fourth. J. T. Johnson. ineumbent; V. C. Irby, Jr., G. H. Mahon; Fifth, D. E. Finley, in eumbent: T. J. Strait: W. P. Pol lock: Sixth. J. E. Ellerbe. incumbent; Seventh. A. F. Lever. ineumbent. Governor, M. F. Ansel. C. L. Blease, J. E. Brunson. W. A. Edwards. A. C. Jones. R. I. Manning. John J. Mc Mahan. John T. Sloan. Lieutenant governor, T. G. McLeod. Secretary of state, R. M. MeCown. J. B. Morrison, L. M. Ragin and M. P. Trible. Attorney general, J. Fraser Lyon, J. W. Ragsdale and Leroy F. Youmans, ineumbent. Comptroller general. A. W. Jones, incumbent; G. L. Walker. State treasurer, R. H. Jennings, in eumbent. Adjutant general, J. C. Boyd, and L. V. Haskell. Railroad commissioner. J. H. Whar ton, icunbent; James Cansler, J. M. Sullivan, J. A. Summersett and J. C. Sellers. State superintendent of education, 0. B. Martin. "Home Coming Day" -at Fair. Colbimbia State. The success of "Home-eoming Week" in Kentucky has given the idea to a number of the officials of the South Carolina Agricultural so viet v to have a similar occasion in Co lunibia d(uring the next Statt fair. In -Kentucky the affair was widely adver. tised several months in advance and as a result many hundreds of Ken tuckians who had been out of the State for years went back to their homes for a few days. The railroads granted cheap rates for the occasion and it was a -ala festival all over the State. There are thousands of Souith Carolinians in. every part of the world and especially in every part of the United States who might i' the opportunity was presented them in time,, come back to South Carolina for a few days and iio better time could be chosen 'for the reunion than fair week. With proper agitationnow the railroads would grant the proper rates and the fair society could de vote one of the days to the "home comex s.'' The idea has been very far. orablv ireceived by the officials of the fair society and with cooperation can be carried through. Those Who Passed. At the recent meeting of the State board of medlical examiners. the fol lowing a pp1licanits passed a sat isfac tory examination: Dris. 0. WV. Cox, T. R. Howie. C. D. Jacobs. J. R. Young. R. L. Sanders. T. J. Peake, W. E. Shellhouse. L. M. Stokes. K. I. Pearlstine. J. C. Hill. J1. 0. Reed, W. M. Burnet t. T. E. Wannamaker, Jr. St. .J}. D. Caradine. WV. D. Grigsby. WV. L. I-tart. E. J1. Jones, 0. D. Ham mond. R. R. Morrison. A. B. English, L. J. Campbell, P. A. Brunson. L. R. Craig. H. A. Mood. J. XV. Sexton. T. WV. Bailey. R. E. Yellott. H1. M. Bo. wnds. WV. F. Youmans. Jr'.. WV. H Chapman. E. M. Allen. E. A. Stal vey, J1. F. Wilson. WV. A. Woodruif. E L. Jager. E. W. Simuons. J. A. Man well. WV. F. Clarke. Negro Assassinated. Laurens. Special.-Jim Young. a ne gro about 20 rears old, was shot and killed about 11 o'cloek Snday nizhi in the town of Clinton. Young seems to have been alone and was tired or as lie was passingz down thle railroad track ini tront otf Prof. WV. M. Me Caslin 's residence, lie was shot al most enitir~ely~ through the body and death must have been inst anta neous. Of courise~ it1 is ni kniowii for certainty who comm it ted t he coward lv muirder. bitt there is said to bE saiheienit ciroltnsiantial evidence te' onleet one it not tw~o negr'o mer with the crime who live several miles from Cliton. Youniig it is saidl had been home with a girl with whom onE Iof these fellows tried to go. or ob ,jeetedl to Young's attentions to, whet he was shot to death. News Items. The Simplified Spelling Board of Nwv York has sent out a list of 300 wrds'urgin'. the use of the forms of words named. Thirty-seven fire'men wi~ere over come by heat and smoke at a $4300,. 000 blaze in St. Paul. President Cabera, of (nt emala. is accused of htaving insti-zated the burning of the coffee estatos of Gen. erl Barillas. leader of the insurgents. Order has been restored at Bialy. stok. Russia. where a massacre of Jews took place last week.. Maca Sakay. self-styled "'Presi dent of the Filipino Repuli.'' and Francis Carieun. his Viee-President. eaders of Iadroniism in Luzon, P. T., hae surrender'i. Fl ods ha~ve degtroved manyv miles of the Ilank'w-Pekinz railway linc in Chint:. Japanle- t-fr--e blew up) the gate of HJ'ntju. Ko::a, ad defeateda GREAT fLOOD DAMAGE Lower Section of the State Suffering Heavily on Account of Excessive Rainfall. A -pecial from Goodwill to the Co' mbia State of Monday gives this ad ditional report of daniage done by the excessive rainfall of the past week:. And it keeps on raining' Not since the August storm of 1893 have streams in this section been as high as now. Church branch bridge that cleared the water during the heavy rains of the past few years, has some of its sills washed out, and is impas sable. Mr. S. W. Raffield is there with a force of hands trying to repair it. Spring branch, iear Mr. J. B. Warren's on )he Story road, has float ed the ,bridge so that. there is no travel from that direction. For 19 years the writer has been a close ob server of the weather at this place, and in all that time has never seen so much water o the land at one time with the possible exception of the 1903 storm. And it has all fallen since Tuesday morning. Friday after noon between 4 and 5 o'clock it seem, ed as if the deluge had come. In 20 minutes, the already full streams, had increased in height between six inches and a foot, covering land marks that were never bLfore seen under water. For a level country like this it means a rise of 10 to 20 feet in the hilly sections. And it rained until S o'clcok Satur day morning, with almost no inter missions. When any plowing can be done even on the highest lands, it is impossible to predict, and bottoms will be too wet to plow for at least two weeks. Later: Church branch bridge is down and cannot be repair ed until the water subsides. Bad Wre k at Darlington. Darlington, ipetial.-The outgoing passenger tra . from Darlington to Hartsville was wrecked in the yards here Sunday at 9 o'clock. The entire train was derailed although no part of it was overturned. The cause of the wreck was a half turned switch at the "Y,'' and there is evidence that the switch had been tampered with. A wrecking train was sent up form Florence and a special train was used to convey the passengers to Harts ville. None of the 20 passengers suf fered seriously, but the, colored brake man was dangerously injured and is in great suffereing. George DeWees Acquitted. Charleston, Special.-In the court of general sessions George DeWees, formerly ticket agent of the Southern railway, was acquitted of the charge of breach of trust. He was tried on the count of having made away with $800, but the warrant of arrest charg ed him with having sTolen $8,000. DeWees is a pretty well-known man and much interest centered in the case. 'Ii le jury was a fairly intelli gent onie. The case is the second of the kind to occur here in the past cortple of tears. Judge Turner Succeeds Judge NichIol. Leesburg. Special.-Judge Edward Spillman Turner. of Warrenton, re~ cently elected J'udge of the Twenty fifth judicial circuit, composed of the counties of Loudoun. Fauquier and Rappahannoek. succeefied Judge Chas. E. Nichol. of Manass as. Va., who has presided over the courts of Loudour since the elevation ot Judge James Keith. of Warranton, to the SupremL Court of Appeals of Virginia. JudgE Nichol will continue as judge of thE Sixteenth circuit, composed of thE counties of Fa'rfax. Prince William Alexandria city and county. Train Jumped Track Going Down Embankment. Mariette. 0.. Special.-The south bound passenger train on the Penn sylvan'ia railroad, due here at 7.3( o'clock, jumped the track at Elba while rnning 40 miles an hour. The engine, baggage car and tender al went down an embankment and th< rest of the train rollea ,on its side Engineer Vaughan and Firemar Shackles were fatally injured, ani many passengers were hurt. A reliel train has left this city with all thE local physicians and surgeons. Chief of Police Shot. Roanoke. Special.-Chief of Police William Refro. of Dorchester, Va. was shot and killed at that place b3 unknown parties. Renfro hieari shooting in the suburbs of the towt and startedl to investiaate. when he was fired upon. two shiots taking ef feet and causing his death at an early hour. The officer made a dying state ment and says he did not recognizt his assailants and so far there is nc clue to their identity. Brakeman Killed at Branchville. Branchiville. Special.-J. A. Addi son. white, brakeman on the Southern work train, was run over and almost instantly killed here about 8 o'clock Saturday morning. It is not definite ly known how the accident occurred but it is supposed that in coupline cars lhe fell across the track. Several cars passed over the body and his neck and one arm were broken. News Notes. The four days' celebration of the sem-cntennial of the nrst Republi cani national convention began i:: Philadeliphiat. The chauffeur was killedi in a col lision of an automobile in. New Yor! with another mjachine. President Roosevelt Decides to See For Himself WILL GET INFORMATION DIRECT Announceaent is Made at White - House Tha the Chief Zxecutive Will Sail on One of Navy's Big Cruisers in Latter Part of October or Early November, to See Wheth er Dirt. is Flying-Will Confine Visit to American Zone. Washington. Special.-President Roosevelt will visit the Isthmus of Panama to make a personal investi gation of the work of construction of the Panama canal. This announcement was made at the White House by Secretary Loeb after a conference with the Presi dent. It is expected the President will leave Washington for Panama the latter part of next October or in the early days of November. He will be absent about three weeks. The trip probably will be made on one o:" the big cruisers of the navy, but what vessel will carry the President and his party is not yet known. None of the details of the trip has yet been worked out. Beyond the bare decision to make the trip, the President has reached practsically no conclusions. It is likely, he will be accompanied on the journey by See retary Tsft and Chairman Shonts, of the Panama canal commission. but even this has not been determined definitely. Wants to See For Himself. The President long has desired per sonally to inspect the route of the canal and to make himself personally familiar with the great undertaking of constructing the waterway. - The decision announced today, that he will visit the American zone- oin the Isthmus of Panama, was not reached hastily but has been under considera tion for a considerable time. It is the expectation that the President will be able to spend at least a week on the canal zone, and in that time he will familiarize himself with the situation by a study of it at close range. He believes a personal visit to the canal zone will enable him to gather information that will be of immense advantage not only to the canal work itself, but to Congress and to the American people. Above all, it will enable him to handle with an absolute knowledge of the situation fhe great problems which will; con stantly be arising in connection with the work of canal construction and administration. $60,0C0 Factory Fire in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Fire de stroyed the plants of the Atlanta Spring Bed Company and the Atlan ta Iron and Brass Bed Company. The loss is estimated at $60,000, fully eov-. ered by insurance. At one time it was feared that the tanks of the Standard Oil Company, which ad joins one of the plants, would be ig nited. lhut quick work by the fire de partment checked the flames in that direction. -Wages Raised at Fall River - Fall River. Mass., SpeciaL-The cotton manufacture~rs of this city have granted their 'operatives a 14 per cernt. increase in wages.- About 2.000 hands are benefitted. The new sale. which -will take effect July 2, is practically the same as that pre vailing previous to July 1. 1904. As the other New England cotton manu facturing centers follow the lead of Fall River. as a rule, the change is expected ultimately to- effect all cot ton mill workers in this section. Run Down and Killed by Train. Roanoke. Special.-W. A. Hipechee, aged ~4 years. a former. citizen of Roanoke, was run down by a passen ger train at Lithiia. Botetoutt coun ty, on the Norfolk and Western, and instantly killed. Hie was quite deaf and failed to hear the signal as the train approached. Dr. Denny Re-elected. Nashville. Special.-The book .com mit tee of the M. E. church South,,met here and re-elected Dr. Collins Den ny, of Nashville, secretary. Rev. J. M. ,Moore. of Dallas, Texas. was electer as editor of the Christian Advocate and Rev. S. . M. Goodbye was re-elected as assistant editor. Rev. L. F. Beatty was -re elcted~ assistant to the Su;ndag.school editor. Plans have been prepas '~ for the erectioni of a publishing house 2 at Dallas. Texas. and the facilities of the publishing house in China will be increased. Hit by Stray Bullet. Columbia. Special.-In a shooting affair on Washington street near Gadsden Thursday afternoon, Ma til da Fields.. an aged colored woman, was struck and seriously wounded by a bullet intended for a negro man named Silas Payne. The shooting was done by Walter Bailey. also olored, and was the result of a threatened assault tipon Bailey's -ta- . ther. a colored minister. Georgia Postmistress Knocked Down Ian'd Office Robbed. Atlanta. Gai.. Speciai.-A1 special from Dallas. Ga.. says Mrs. Saillie Goldni postm~iss at that plae, w::s knoeked do wn and robbed. A. maskd mn entered the office with S nii hand and told har if she sramed he would kill her. Aitempt