The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, February 14, 1894, Image 1

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' V "i-j2?S| VOL. XLVIIL WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1894. NO. 27. THE WELLFORD TRAGEDY AN OFFICIALS!ATEMENTFRCM CHIEF CONSTABLE FAN7. He Makes Oa? Apparently a Clear Case of Self-Defense?The Whole Story of the Shooting a? 7uM Hvfoe Tie Co*ore.'e Jury. Columbia, s. C., Feb. 8?Governor Willman received yesterday the following statement from Chief Constable Fant in reference to the Wellford toagedv: "It hau been reported to me for the last two weeks by different parties that a crowd of" men i'rom Glassy Mountain had established themselves at a trestle, nine miles from this place, and were seilin^ whiskey to anybody who would buy,openly defyiugthe law, and swearing that thej would not be arrested and that any officer who at tempted it would bite trie aust. Having obtained sufficient evidence to convict these parties of selling whiskey, warrants were sworn out against live of them and placed in the hands of the Sheriff. His deputy summoned me and my constables ts a posse and we went wbere it was reported the whiskey was being sold, bur. found no one there. We met a party who informed us that he bad iust boueht from them at a house near by. lie told us that the whiskey was not at the house, but if we would go to the house and give them the money, one of the men would take a lant-rn, go to the swamp and get the whiskey. We got this man and two others to go back to the house aad make another purchase. We s?creted ourselves sear the swamp wbere the whiskey was supposed tc be. In a few minutes a man came toward us with a lamp, but on the opposite side of the swamp. He disappeared awhile and then started back toward the house. We followed but could not cross the swamp. We then went up the swamp j to the railroad above us, when we saw tha ]nmr> Mminor fnwurfi US. Dftan. I ? , Massey and Jackson were ahead of me a few paces. They made a rush at the A man. ?He ran and fired back at the ^^j^Tifficers. Dean and myself returned the ^ fire. The man fell, crying for help.and calling for Ballew. Ballew responded: "Yes, ,1-itn coming," and he came firing. Tnere were not less than half a djzen firing on us oefore he came. I shot six time* with my double-barrel shot sun at the Hashes of tneir guns. After the firing ceased, we got a lantern at a house near by, and went to look after the man who was wounded at the first of the fight. We could not find him but found his lantern with blood on it, denoting that the man was wounded. Hearing hollering at a house near by, we went up the path toward the noise and saw a man coming toward us witn a pistol in each hand. "We told him to drop his pistols. He lowered them to his >ide but kept the muzzles toward us and halted within twelve feet ?f us. We again told him to drop his pistols. He would not do ' so but raise'd the one in his right hand, and Massey shoe him, k;]lin:r hirn in stantly. He fell, holding on to his pistols until Jackson took them from him." THE TESTIMONY AT THE INQUEST. The Spartanburg Herald gives the following account of the testimony at the Coroner's inquest at Wellford, Spartanburg County: A. Boyee Dean: I came in company with posse of State constables to this place. We came first into the swamp just below this place. We stayed there about half an hour; saw a man coming down there with a lantern. He stayed there about Jive minutes. We were about twenty-five yards from him. We then turned and came up the railroad; I was m front; saw a man coming back this way from the branch with a lantern. Jackson was just behind me. Fant was behind Jackson. I called on the man with the lantern to halt two cr three times. He went o? partly toward the hollow. He turned around and fired at me. I was about fifteen or twenty yards -from him at the time. When be fired at me I s!" or at him. I I would not have fired at ail if he had not ^ fired at me. His shot was the first shot k of ?11. In a short time he hollowed, Ktben the firing began ail around. 1 ffijcculdnot tell exactly which way it was. Ir. Gregory's l i Mr. Grego-1 t some one a:d he was it gave me a kson. Then came down bought vras a near .this niiig out of ?se together, each hacd. 3 pistols two gun leveled not dre at ie stopped, right. I3aid raised ihe >ot, Massey r.e oDiy shot billed, in a house s he heard a between 11 shot someThe parm back: tohiug like a ut.e. I was *g during snoot-1 gSTO >} ce Dean came W f?r a light, i loo^HMB m^^^umLer of men, abotn^H^^HHBHHK the shot tired, then door. I never heard an^HHHHrc won;an began to scream, lJ^B3||||a> women said "this is my inar^rffl^^ll him." After this on - man came towards the house and said "come on bovs," tbey came. -J. li. Pant: I came here last night with a posse to seive papers on Mr. Mocre with Sheriff D.-au. A!s*> had probably another. Deputy Sheriff Dean bad the papers. We intercepted a man earning a light r.ear Gregoiy's house. Deputy Dean and Jackson followed the light. They ran up behind the in^o and weordered him to halt. The rnau carrying the light s'ariea running ^nsi Sred back. Dsau lired at him and then 1 tired. Just after I tired several others began hrins? from the swamp near the raiiruad. I shot at tee flasS of tne pistol or gun. I was on the raikoad at the time. T">oan xrera nao-r \ (y Gregory's bouse durin-j /it shooting. Alter tiring ceased we .vent around and hunted to li;.d the manv*wishiugto carry him Lome anu take care of him and grt a phjsician. We heard hollowermg here at the house and. supposed h*>wa> h?-r~. W.'^Vr^c- c-Ji tiiu-in >.* twenty tett i'ruai ^swiousc th^re w.ts a man Cr.me out or the corn to wards us. i <rculd St e .ht- biiirhr pistol shiuicir m his hand. v.*nt;i we lirst saw him he uid n.'t have h:3 pistol presented. lie had one up. When he sot close to us he presented Lis pistols? both. land Deputy Dean bo'h dejq in an dec! he drop them. He would not drop his pistols, but; continued to ad-1 5 vance, but ra-sed the pistols as if he [was going to shoot, and ilr. Massey tired. Every man had his gun presented except J a'ckson and he was about twelve feet of us and he raised his pis tol as though he wis going to fire, about the time Massey fired. Ballew held on to his pistol. Jackson grabbed him by the hand and pulled him up from the ground. He left his pistol on the ground. About that time a lady raa out. He was in a sitting pos:ure and she grabbed him over the neck and said "don't kill my man." She asked us to bring him to the house. We told her we could not j ust then as we have to put down our arms which would put us at a disadvantage. Millwood Burgiss and Jackson brought him in the house. We then went back into the hollow for the man wb irst hollowed he Was shot. Not finumg [him we carried the lamp back to the man we borrowed it from and wanted to get where we could notify the Coroner. I with Deputy Dean,Jackson ana Pearson went to Wellford. I think Ballew died in the Held near his house. There were five constables and four or five private citizens. Terry Moore says: I was in bed asleep at this, my house, last night, February 3. Some parties called me up and three men came in and asked me to tret them some whiskey. They gave me money and one quart b'ottle. I went and got them a quart and brought it back to them. They stayed in my house while I was gone for the whiskey. One of the party claimed to be drunk, j and they asked me to go over to the road and help them get in the road. I took a lantern and went with them. When I got over there i saici Doys lr you can't get over the trestle I will take a light and go with you. They thanked me and said they could get along all right. Just as I stepped off the railroad somebody said "halt." I came on waiking pert, and someone fired on me. I had a pistol and I shot one time. Mine was the second shot. I fell ant* some one ran up and took my pistol and lantern. I was hit on the head by some one. Just then Mr. Ballew came to me and put me on his back and carried me up there to two oak trees, saying, if I take you home they will kill you. Ballew was in his night clothes. My wife and sister was hollowing and I told Ballew to go and tell them I was not hurt much. He ran towards his house and I heard some one say "halt." Then one shot iired and I heard Ballew hollow and say I am killed. His wife ran out and I heard her ask tnem what they had killed her husband for? They replied: What did be run out there with a pistel for ? Ballew had only one pistol X am sure that Ballew did not get my pistol when he came to me after I was shot. I think one of the men for whom I got whiskey said his name was Caldwell. I saw the man who got the whiskey turn back when the others said "halt." Dr. Dean testified that he, with Drs. Black and Vernon examined the dead man. They found a bullet hole in the right side and front, over the region of the lower border of the liver. The ball penetrated the abdominal cavity, p^ss-! ed through the liver and the spinal col- j umn and lodged in the region of the left side. The folio wins is the Coroner's jury: | A. P. Golden, W. B. Burnett, James Snoddy, G. Lowe, Pink Taylor, L. W. liurcb, J. W. Croker, J.D. Sexton, J. E. Odum, William Hoy, F. Dorrah and W. L. Griffin. The verdict wss that Crawford Ballew came to his death February 3d, 1894, by gunshot wounds in the hands of F. G. Massey, while resisting officers of the law. DELAYING TARIFF REFORMThe Snb-CommJttee Devising >Iaay Chaoses. Washington, Feb. 7.?The suncommittee of the Senate-committee on Gnance, consisting of Jones of arkansas Mills and Vest, got to work early this morning in Vest's room and went over a number of schedules in the tariff bill suggesting changes in number that are nearly- tentative pending final action oy the full committee. It is said that the bill might be reported to the Senate next Tuesday, but this was emphati-! cally denied this moning by a mem- j be- of the sub-committee, who said that despite whatever progress had been made, it would be utterly impossible to have the bill ready by that time. Speaking of the bill generally, this Senator declared that when the measure was reporterd to the Senate it would be a strictly revenue bill, yielding sufficient revenues for the government under an economic administration or anairs. This, he said, meant that there would be a duty on sugar, which was in line with the"Democratic policy as enunciated in the Mills bill, and an increase in the whiskey tax. The bill has been practically divided into five sections or schedules?A, B, C D and E. In the first schedule will be placed all articles bearing compound or combined specific and ad valorem duty and the duties will be all ad valorem. In scneedule JB will be placed all articles bearing a duty of 40 per cent; schedule C those bearing 30 per centsjin in the schedule D those bearing 20 per cent, and in schedule E those bearing 10 Der cent. The bill when reported will contain no free list. Every article naw-iioned in it will be subject to a duty of some bind, and those not men'ioted in the bill will be admitted free of duty. The sub-committee are going carefully through the Wilson bill and selecting the largely imported articles. As these articles *re picked out, they are placed in the schedule, which the judgment of the committee will cause thfm toyitld the greatest revenue. During the afternoon the whiskey schedule was briefly dis* discussed. The talk was as to the advisabilitv of increasing the tax and extending the bonded period, ao agreement was reached, bat it wa3 dec-idea to have a talk with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue on the subject.. One point appears very ciarly as the result of thesub-committee's labors up to this point and that is, th3.t the tariff bill which they will present to their Democratic associate? on the ti-r nace comrnitt-e for approval will bea a slight resemblance to the original Wilson bill. The reason for the extensive changes in contemplation, and already made, is to be iound in the decision of the three sub-committeemen to be governed by the plan of the old Walker tariff act, and so place the duties as to secure the largest amount of revenue, which in volves, of course, reductions in some cases, inereases perhaps, in others and a very restricted free list, if indeed, any articles entering largely into consumption are permitted to enter duty free. ^The Republican members of the committee are devoting themselves to devising a raetncd by which the actiou nf thu TVmfsrratifi maioritv against further hearings upon the bill by interested parties may be reversed. Tbey are planning to have the bill recommitted to the committee when it reaches the senate, with instructions to the committee to grant hearings. This they uope to accomplish through the aid ot Democratic votes. A candidate for mayo: of Kansas OT' . tried to whip* an editor?a ilissouri editor, and named Stout, at PPat;. ^ut they sav that if he runs on the ticket as well" as he did down stairs he will be elected before the polls open. j WHISKEY MADE CHEAPER. THE DISPENSARY REDUCES THE PRICE BY GALLONSRedaction or FJftyCeDtson All Liquors. Possibility ot Farther Redactions?A Ll*t of Dispensaries and Dlspenasrs. Shipments Growing Bally. Columbia, Feb. G.?The management of the State dispensary system, that is the State board, has at last begun to realize that the sale of official liquor, with the large profit placed upon in nn onnniimMmart: tn "htinri Il/j id au CUWUIQg^UiV/Uw wv %ww tiger" business, and consequently is an encouragement of that spirit of lawlessness which Governor Tillman says the newspapers are responsible for. Several leading dispensary advocates have said recently tbat the law could never be enforced till these prolits were knocked off, and the liquor sold at such I price3 that would encourage the purI chase of liquor from the dispensaries. !ln other words until the dispensary ! business was run on a basis of expenses ! only. The State board has evidentlv realized at last that the "blind tiger" must be fought aloDg this line, for today the announcement was made that a considerable reduction in prices had been made, taking effect on February 1. I at once called upon Commissioner Traxler and asked him about the matter. He made the statement and showed his list of prices. The reduction in prices applies only to gallon packages, but it is the heavy reduction straight through on all classes of ; X" graded liquors of 50 cents on the gallon. Heretofore rye and corn have been quoted as follows per gallon: X, S3; XX, S3.50; XXX, 84 50, etc. These Drices are now reduced by 50 cents. When I asked Mr. Traxler for the cause of this reduction he said: "There is no special cause for it, but we think that we can afford to make this reduction on these large lots or gallon packages because it does not cost as much to put them up; and then, again, we are now putting up such packages in jugs, which, of course, makes the cost much less." Mr. Traxler has nothing to say in regard to fighting the blind tigers by this method of reduction, but every one takes tne reduction to mean that, no more or no less. When the eyes of the board become more opened it is probable that still further reductions will be made. The Governor's interview yesterday shows that he has be gun to realize his inability to enfurce the law as he thought he could, and that he is becoming apprehensive ot the trouble that is so rapid'y growing. The dispensary business seems to oe rapidly growing, however, despite the opposition to the law, and everyone is looking forward to the report for the last quarter with the greatest degree of interest. The big State gin mill is now grinding the liquor oat in great shape. During the past week nearly 2.000 cases were shipped to the various dispensaries in the State. These 2,000 c.-.ses represent 30,000 quarts of liquors. The shipments for each day last week were as follows: Monday 327 cases; Tuesday 342; Wednesday 451; Thursday 24R\ Friday 100; Saturday 375. Today two new dispeasarles were opened, one at Sycamore in Hampton County and the other in Marion. To trie latter cases of whiskeys and 5 barrels of beer were shipped today. There are now in full operation in the State fifty-nine dispensaries in thirty-one counties, and the board is continuing to establish them every week. In view of the great increase in the number since the first quarterly report the forthcoming report will be "watched with all the more interest. It will be interesting, too, to note where these dispensaries are located and who tbe dispensers are. Today I obtained the following official list: 1. Abbeville?ft. E. Ilill, dispenser. 2. Anderson?A. M. Craig, dispenser. 3. Aiken?J. V. Georee, dispenser. 4. Allendale?W.R. Brabham dispenser. 5. Barnwell?W. H. Duncan, dispenser. 6. Blackville?J. Y. Baxley, dispenser. 7. Beaufort?T. F. Walsh dispenser. S-Biackcborg-sS^ McLure, dispenser. 9. B ranch vifle?B. ?. Izlar, dispesser 10. Camden?D. F. Dixon, dispenser. 11. Chester?I. McD. Hood, dispenser. 12. Charleston?F. Yon Santen, dispenser. If. Charleston?H. A. Meyer, dispenser. 11 Charleston?C. F. Steinmeyer dispenser. lo. Charleston?M. W. Powers, dispenser. 16. Cheraw?C. A. Brock, dispenser. 17. Columdia?I.M.Roach, dispenser. 18. UOIUmDia?T. il. OCOtt, uisyeuaci. 19. Columbia?J. Cartledge,dispenser 20. Chapins?H. A. Dickert, dispenser 21. Denmark?A. A, Faust, dispenser. 22. Darlington?I. B. Floyd, dispenser 28. Dillon, Marion County?John A. Ford, dispenser. 2i. Edgefield?I. B. Davis, dispenser 25. Eutawyille?R. B. Causey, dispen: ser. i 26. Florence?II. D. Williamson, dis1 pen3er. I 27. Fort Motte?VV. T. Crosswell, disj penser. j 28. Greelyville?A. 0. Mouzod, dispenser. 29. Georgetown?G. Johnson, dispenser. 30. Greenville?J. S. Hill, dispenser. 11. Hampton?B. C. Webb, dispenser 32. Jacksonboro?E. St. P. Bellinger' dispenser. 33. Klngstree?A. B. McDonald, dispenser. ! 34. Kershaw?A.B. Hough, dispenser 35. Lewisdale?R. A. Barr, disposer. 36. Lexington?1\ I. Rawls, dispenser 37. Laurens?G. M. Langston, dispenser. 38. Lancaster?H. B. Howie, dispenpenser. 39 Luray?I. D. DeLoach. dispenser. ! 40. MeuntPieasant?M. H, Williams, dispenser. 41. Monet's Corner?Jacob Carson, dispenser. 42. Manning?E. S. Ervin, dispenser. 43. Marion?T. E. Stanley, dispenser. 44.Ne w berry?R. C. Maybin dispenser. 45. Orangeburg?J. II. Claffy, dispenser. 46. Pleasant Hill?W. A. Marshall, dispenser. 47. Ridgeway?R. B.Lewis, dispenser 48. Scotia?W. Gaoriel Yarn, dispenser. 49. Sumter? W. H. Epperson, dispenser. 50. St. Stepnens?E. TV. Veroning, dispenser. 51. St Matthews?B. 0. Evans, dispenser. 52. Summerville?W. W. Llhaine, dispenser. 53. Spartanburg?M. Carlson, dispenser. 54. Sycamore? 55. Union?James F. Welsh, dispenscr. 5*6. Walterboro?M. Reckenbacker, dispenser. 57. Williston?A. M. Koundtree dispenser. 58 YVinnsboro?H. Mobley. dispenser. 59. Wagener's?G. M. Busbee, dispenser. Today when I asked Governor Tillman what he had to say with regard ti the decision of the Court of Appeals at Washington in the Palmetto liquor trade-mark case he said: "I have been looking for that. Those Courts up there have been inspired to sit down upon us. I am not at all surprised. Uur efforts in this direction were only looking to the prosecution of those outsiders who would endeavor to infringe upon our style of bottles, etc., and we simply wanted protection from them. We are already protected on the inside of the State. I will say, however that we are going to fight it on up to the United States Supreme Court, ana let that Caurt have the pleasure of deciding upon it." Opycse a March Convention. Abbeville, Feb. 6.?At a meeting of the Farmers' Association of Abbe ville county, held here yesterday, the following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, the question of holding a convention of the Riform Democrats of this State for the purpose of suggestfar the several State offices is bemg generally discussed throughout the Slate; and. Whereas, we, the representatives of the organization known as the "Farmers' Association of Abbeville County," in convention assembled, considering this matter of the proposed convention as one of very great importance to that faction of the Democratic party ieith which we are allied, and in the success and perpetuity of which we are deeply interested, desire to put ourselves on record and to speak out in no uncertain manner on this important subject. Therefore, be it. Resolved, first, That the holding of a convention by the Reform Democrats of South Carolina, for the purpose of nominating a State ticket, without first having the aspirants for the several offices to be filled to appear before the people and give expression to their views touching the various questions of State policy which are so deeply agitating the public mind at the present time, would smack so mujh of "Ring Rule" and "Bossism"as would in our opinion, result io producing widespread dissatisfaction in the ranks of the Reformers. Second. That it was one of the fun damentnl principles of theKetorm movement "that the people shoold have the right to choose their public officials," and we hereby enter our protest against the subversion of this right, and insist that, in order that the people, mav exercise the 3aid right intelligently and satisfactory to themselves, it is necessary that they be given an opportunity to both see and hear those who desire to be honored with such positions. Third. Thitas Reformers claim to be the regularly organized Democracy of the State, having the entire machinery of the party in their hands, the conditions which made it necessary in 1890 for them to hold an eaily convention for the purpose of naming their standard bearers no longer exists, and we, therefore, 3ee no occasion for such a convention beiDg held this year sooner than the middle or latter part of May, or at le^st.until the people shall have had an opportuDity to see and hear the several candidates, and thus be in a condition to act intelligently in this matter of choosing their public servants. fourth. That in the interest of pe>ace and harmony, we advise against anything like snap judgment being taken, or sharp practice adopted to advance the cause of this, that or the o'.her candidate and iusist that each and every candidate be given (a free and open chance before nprvnlA_ VWV K vvi The Widow and Orphan. Columbia, S. C., Feo. 4.?Governor Tillman yesterday morning received a letter from a lady on Edisto Island which ought to receive the attention of every charitably disposed person. The name of the lady is withheld for good reasons, but Governor Tillman assures those who wish to send him any money for her that he know3 it to be a case deserving of charity. She writes: "Dear Sir: Excuse the liberty I take in tresspassing on your valuable time, but I'll be as brief as possible, hoping you will hear me through to the end. "Five months have elapsed since the disastrous cyclone of the 27th of August. I am a widow with three children and we only saved the clothes we had on. I am entireiy dependent upon my needley for a livelihood. We took refuge in the house of Mr. who kindly allowed me to stay here ever since, but he is expecting to soon need the rooms I now occudy. I have been patiently hoping the Red Cross would do something for me. I have twice written Miss Barton about it. She promised to give me some lumber; that was two months ago. I asain wrote to her two weeks ago, reminding her of her promise, and have no reply as yet. "My object in writing to you is that of begging you to take up a subscription amonu: your manv friends and acquaint auce to aid me in rebuilding my nouse, for which it will taka. about $60 or $75. I know you have already been very generous to the ssa island sufferers and as Ion? as the relief committee had charge of things I was supplied with groceries, but since everything has been turned over to the Red Cross I haven't received one gill of grist. I am now in a most destitute condition, having neither where to iay my head uor the necessaries of life. "I implore your assistance in my time of need, feeling confident that the cry of the widow and the orphan will arouse vour sympathy. Hoping God will put in your heart to help me speedilv. I am. etc." Xaval Recruits Needed. Washington, Feb.7?There are not enougn men inlisred in the navy to property man the United States ships which go into commision before Jthe lirstof May and, moreover, the limit allowed by"law will not permit the enlistment of a sufficieen number. The big cruisers Columbia and Olympia the Marolenead and Montgomery, the Atlanta and boston, Raleigh, Ciacinnat Alert and Marion are all to be manned requiring about 1,?00 men. About half that, number is available. Additional authority will be required from Congress to enlist sufficient men, and Secretary Ilerbet will probably lay the matter befere that body. Lynctiea, Wkt Superior, Wis., Feb. 7.?Andrew Fikkarieo, Euasian Finn, was lynched at Evyeo, a smail village near here last night. Pikkarien was arrested for assaulting an eight-year-old child at iiruce's crossing. He was taken to Ewen and placoti in the village jail. He admitted his guilt and fifty citizens wearing masks surrounded the frail struc ure in which he was placed determined to lynch him. The officers protested but to no avail. The jail doors were smashed in, the culprit dragged out, the rope placed around his neck aad he was dragged eighty rods to a railroad trestle where he was hanged. A LIVELY STREET DUEL w- b- meetz? probably fatally SHOT BY J. D. MILLER. The Trouble Was Over a Dispensary Caae. Men Who Wanted to Kill Miller Alter the Shooting Prevented by a Brave Police. Columbia, S. C., Feb. 3.?For the first time since the dispensary law became a law, blood was shed on its account in the capital o? the State yesterday afternoon, ilr. W. B. Meetze the man who shot and silled Clsrk a few years agro, and the man who defied finvernor Tillman and his constables at the fair grounds last November, got into a street affray near Columbia'3 famous street lighting ground, the corner of Main and Washington streets, where every serious affair of any importance that has happened in recent years in Columbia has taken place, with Davis Miller, a stock dealer bailing from NorV* CarO;ina, and tbe former fell with a bulletin his side within one hundred rarJs from tbe spot where Clark fell and expired when he shot him. The extent of his injuries cannot yet be ascertained. Never beiore has a pistol light occurred here In which so many shots were fired without injuring any one except the participants. The street wa3 filled with people at the time, ana Miller, knowin? he had a cool sure shot to deal with, emptied two pistols, save onp bu'let, in less time than it takes to tell it. It was a perfect fusilade, and created the wildest excitement, especially when Mr. Meetze was seeD to reel and fall to the ground. All day long serious trouble of some kind bad been anticipated, but no one knew from what quarter it would come, or at what hour. Miller had been a witness in the first blind tiger case and his testimony goaded some of the liquor men and their friend3 to desperation. LoDg before he hai concluded the giving of his testimonev. it could be seen that he would have to answer in one way or another to somebody for some of "his statements. Some of the men looked very angry. Miller evidently knew too that he was to be "talked to," for he had come to the co. rt house armed with two pistols, both self-acting, which he carried in his outside overcoat pockets. A.t any rate, just as the recess was taken things looked pretty squally. Miller went back into one of the jury room and serious trouble came very near resulting in there, two men tackling him and cursing him pretty severely. Justice Clarkson went in there, however, and pulled Miller out taking him downstairs. Mr. Meetze and others who were very much incensed came on around on Main street, and they talked very bitterly about Miller. Several parties urged them to go on home, but somehow they got around on Law Range again. They went to a point in front of McMaster's law office and stood there talking. Among them were Messrs. William Sfieppard, Meetze, Fry and Herriot. Miller was standing up in front of Shand's law office at this time, talking to some young men. Fry evidently wanted to tackle Miller, for some one heard Mr Herriot say to him: ''No you ought not to do it." Just, about thie time Mr. Charles Hendrix, the defendant in another case, pulled out a pistol /I onnflOra/l t/\ Hti TTOTTT near llltf (JUlUCi auu appcaigu tv I***-j angry. Police Sergeant Morehead ana Bell Towerman Dunning saw him, grappled wi'h him aDd took the pistol from him, sending him away to the station house. Just about this time Mr. Miller came on down towards Main street. Eye witnesses all asree on the story. They say Miller came on down the sidewalk, and tried to pass around the crowd standing, there. As he did so Fry stepped up to him and said: "Did you say I swore to a.damned lie today V' Miller replied: ".No, I did not." Fry said: "Well, these fellows tell me so." Miller said: "Well whoever said so told a G?d d lie." Mr. Meetze, who was standing behind Fry, ran around and came up before Miller, cursing him, it is said and hit him once on the side of his head. Trial Justice Stack, who^happened to be near, rushed in between the two men and pulled them apart. Mr. Fry, pulled Mr. Stack to one side. Mr. Stack, iii tiis. name of the law, commanded the men to Keep the peace and called on others to helrjiim handle the two men. He grap?; and started off across the drain with hip. Meeiae, being released, followed Miller up to the middle of the street daring him to draw his pistol, and saying: "G d d n you draw. I dare you to pull out your pistol." In the meantime jusuce swck was still wrestling with Miller, and had gotten him ten paces away from Meetze in the Middle of the street. Finally Miller squared himsel \ shook Stack off and ran his hand into each overcoat pocket. When bis hands came out there was a shining weapon in each. He pointed one at Justice Stack, who left, seeing he could do nothing more. Miller leveled Doth his pistuls aud shouted: "Come on, all you people." At this time Meet?e was still advancing upon him still shaking his left hand at him and pulled bis pistol from his hip pocket with his right. Then so several eye witnesses say, Miller let lire at Mr. Meetze. In quicker time than It takes to tell it Miller proceeded to fir* nine bullets at Mr. Meetze. Mr. Meetze returned the fire as rapidly, and the firing sounded like an infantrv company practicing "company Sring." Mr. Meetee nearly emptied bis pistol. After the first fire Mr. Meetee was hit in the side and was seen to reel backwards and fall to the ground like a dead man. He tried to rise, but could not. Sergt. Morehead of the police force, rushed at Miller with his club raised. Miller still ' ' " - y 1 \ ~ * U .r-v naa dolu omi3pisuoi leveicu. ^3 mc officer came up to him he rais?d both hands and said: "I surrender." Then Meetz's friends, seeing that Meetze was badly wounded and thinking that he was killed, cried -kill the scoundrel" and were about to make for him. Then it was that Sergt Morehead displayed wonderful courage. He placed the prisoner behind him, leveled his pistol on the crowd and told them that the first man who c ime at Miller he would shoot dead in his tracks. As soon as possible he turned Miller around, and being joined by other officers went as quickly as possible with him to the station house. Miller left thinking that he had killed Meetze, and sent for Capt. John G. Capers to act as his attorney for him. As soon as the liring ceased many of the bystanders rushed to Mr. Meetz-'s side. When asked if he whs hurt much kq aoif?* < ! t-hinir mv is broke." A hasty examination "revealed a bullet hole in Mr. Mee/.e's right side, it being: located just about the center of his vest pocket. The bleed poured from the wound. Several gentlemen lifted the wounded man and dispatched messengers for a physician. They were about to take him into Dr. Ray's oilice, but he said: "No, take me around home." He was perfectly cool and collected, but was powerless to move a muscle. He was placed in a carriage and taken home. He asked for his hat just as he , was driven oil. The people all along Main street heard the fusllade and came running to the scene of the trouble. In a few moments the excitement R-a3 intense, and the streets were filled for two hours with excited men. JDrs. Talley, Folk and Taylor were soon at Mr. Meetze's side. They examined the wound and looked for the bullet, but failed to find it. It ranged backward. The physicians say it may have entered the abdominal cavity, but they cannot yet tell. In this case the wound is a very serious one indeed. They soon inclined to think, however, from the symptoms and the fact that it was a small bullet that it ranged around to wards the back, and in that case will not have serious results. About 8 o'clock last night Dr. Kendall, the family physician, was called in. lie made a caieful examination and located the ball in the abdominal cavity. It is impossible to extract it. It entered between the tenth and I C*CVCJLltil UUO, naouuiiu^ *,v* der of the former. It is lodged near the liver. Dr. Kendall says the wound is not necessarily fatal, but is extreme ly serious, and 1' -^ould be hard to predict the result. The ereat danger is from peritonitis. Mr. Meetze was resting pretty easy at 10 o'clock last night. Mr. Miller was only slightly scratched by one of Mr. Meetze's bullets. It entered his coat sleeve near the wrist, glanced along his arm and came out near the shoulder.?State. A FARMER TO FARMERS. Some Excelent Advice from Sir G. W. Tra1U, of Gcerffla. George W. Truitt, of Troup County, Ga., sajs that he has raised 100 bushels of oats to one acre, 128 bushels of corn on one acre, 4 bales of cotton, averaging 450 pounds each on one acre. From a pamphlet recently written by him we take the following address to farmers: "Fellow-farmers, we inhabit the most God-favored land of all the nations in all the world. In climate, soil and rainfall, we, especially those of us east of the Mississippi river, have the advantage, and it only remains for us to use it. While there is a scarcity of money, there is not near such ascarcity of food for man and beast; which we used to have to buy; hence, our next crop can be made with less money. To a very large extent, in us farmers Is vested the hope of the future prosperity and happiness of nearly all the people of this great South-land. Much is expected of us and we must get together and do our duty for ourselves and country. "Who saves his conntry, saves all thihgs, and all things, saved, will bless him. Who lets his country die, lets all things die, and all things, dying curse him/' The South needs a large addition to her Anglo-Saxon population, and, if 1 read the signs of the times aright, 3he will have it. Big plantation days are numbered. Small farms owned by thrifty wbite men in the South are being predicted by the wisest men of the day. May God speed the change, and while He is doing his part, let us do ours. Lets prove to the world that we can raise all the hogs, catties, mules horses, wheat, oats and corn we need, and nearly as much cotton as we do now, besides. Succeed in that, and we will always get a fair price for our cotton. Lets get matters in shape where we can have as long to dispose of one cotton crop as it takes to make another Then you would never hear of overproduction. That our country?the cotton beltis growing gradnally, but surely, let ontV?rvr,itx? LUC LI CI C cuuic uigu nuvuv&iu; the immortal Grady, oar most steadfast friend and most eloquent advocate. I quote from his frmous Dallas, Texas, speech, as far back as 1887: "While the producer of eveiything nearly we eat or wear, In every land, is fighting through glutted markets for bare existence, what of the Southern farmer? In his industrial, as in his political problem, he is set apart, not in doubt, but in assured independence. Cotton makes him king. "Not the ileeces that Jason sought can rival the richness of this plant, as It unfurls its banners iQ our fields. It is gold from the instant it puts forth its tiny shoot. The shower that whispers to it is heard around the world. The trespass o? a worm on its green leaf means more to England than the advance of the Russians on her Asiatic outposts. When its fibre, current in every bank, is marketed, it renders back to the South 6350,000,000 every year. Its seed will yield $60,000,000 worth of oil XI J AAA AAA to ii1b pi'tjss ctuu opwjuva^wu iu ivuu ivi soil and beast, making the stupendous total of 8450,000,000 annual income from the crop. And now, under the Tompkins patent, from its atalk yws.. per EuWard Atkinson once said: "If Xew England could grow the cotton plant without lint it would make her richest crop; if she held monopoly of cotton lint and seed, she would control the commerce of the world." JBut is our monopoly, threatened from Egypt, India and liraiflil, sure and permanent? Let the record answer: In 1882, the American supply of cotton was 3,241, 000 bales. Foreign supply, .3,036,000 bales. We led our rivals by less than 200,000 bales. This year, the American supply is 8.000,000 bales; from foreign sources 2,000,000 expressed in bales of 400 pounds each. In spite of new eras elsewhere, of fuller experience, of better transportation, and unlimited money spent in experiment, the supyly of foreign cotton has decreased, since 1872. nearly 1,000,000 bales while thaf of the South has increased nearly 5,000.0*0. Not alone il> cotton, but in iron does the South excel. An Englishman of the the highest character predicted that Atlantic would be whitened within our lives with sails carrying American iron and coal to England. In cotton, a monopoly; in iron and ceal, establishing swift mastery; in granite and marble, aaveloping efual advantage and resource; in yellow pine and hard woods, tbe world's treasury. So, my brothers, be of good cheerbetter times are bound to come. If every able-bodied man and womaa in the South would pitch in and make their own living: for one year, we would hear no more of "hard times". This is the road to prosperity. "Tis the way to manliness and sturdiress of character." Wheu every farmer in the South shall eat bread from his own Geids and meat from his own pastures, and, disturbed by no creditor, enslaved by no debi. shall sit amid his teeming gardens and orchards, vineyards, and dairies, making cotton his "clear surplus, then shall be breakir-g the fullness of our d*y. Mills Kiowa Tp. Spartanburg, Feb, 6.?At G.20 this morning, the iarcre driving wheel of the Spartan Cotton Mill went to pieces suddenly, aud falling on some of the large pipes, broke them and caused a terriric expiosion. Both cylinders were torn to pieces. F. A. Lewis, engineer, was instantly killed. Xoah Greene, who worked in the engine room Lad both legs broken. The engine house was shaken to pieces, the roof being blown off. Geo. Foore, the assistant engineer, was not hurt much. He thinks the driving wheel was the lirst thing to give way. It was a fearful crash and it will be several days before the mill starts up again. Engineer Lewis was a Northern ] man, perhaps from New York. THE NEW OPTION LAWChairman Hatch Introduces the Bill After Mon'hi of I'rf i>aratlon. Washington, Feb. 7.?Chairman i Hatch of the House agricultural committee, today introduced the new antioptions bill which he has been eoga?ed in preparing for many months. It was referred to the committee on ways and means, and it is certain thai the agricultural element in the House will, at an early opportunity, perhaps tomorrow, make a determined eflort to secure a change of reference to the committee ! nn agriculture, whereb? a tavorable re port on the bill is almost assured. The bill is a very long document, embracing eighteen sections and has been drawn to meet the principal objections that were made to the original Hatch and Washburn bills Section 1 defines options to be any contract whereby a party acquires the privilege, but, is not obliged to sell to or deliver to another man at a tuture time, or within a designated period, and' raw or manufactured cotton, hops, wheat, corn, flour, oats, rye, barley, pork, lard and be con. Section 2 defines futures to be any contract whereby one party agrees to sell or deliver to another at a future time or within a designated period any of the above mentioned commodities. ection 3 requires all options and futures, transfers and agreement to be in writing and in duplicate showing time of delivery of the articles, and whether the makers or agents are the owners, or have heretofore, acquired by purchase or are entitled to the right of the articles under contract previously made bv the actual owner. Otherwise the contracts shall be void. Section 4 provides that when the option or the tuture is terminated by the deliver of the articles, the contractor shall make a bill of 3a'e shoving the quantity and the custodian and identifying the articles by freight bilis or vouchers. Section 5 requires that when the contract is terminated otherwise than by the actual sale and delivery of the articles, or when the termination is delayed by agreement the document shall be executed in writing. Section 6 imposes special taxes on dealers in opt'ons and futures at $24. It also defines a dealer in options to be any person who shall in his own behalf cf for another deal in options or make any contractor by communication to a foreign country enter into an option's contract. The same definition is applied to dealers in futures. All contracts for futures or options mu3t bear internal, revenue stamps at the rate of one cent per hundred pounds or per ten bushels, and for bills of sale, at "the termination of contracts, the rate i3 doubled that for contracts, In case contracts are term nated without actual sale or delivery, the revenue tax is ten cents per bushel or two ucli13 & ^luullut x/caicjlo 1u u^bivuo vjl futures are required to give ten thousand dollars bond, renewed yearly, to report fully to the internal revenue officers, and an elaborate system of machinery for the collection of the revenue taxes is provided. It i3 nrovided that the payment of taxes shall not relieve persons from the restnoUono cf ?tau law as to these contracts. The law does not apply to contracts made by farmers for future delivery of their products, nor to parsons who sell to consumers. A ijtoray Passage. New Yoke, Feb. 4.?The Hamburg line steamship Taormina, Captain Koch, arrived today from Hamburg after a perilous voyage, lasting twentytwo days. She encountered two severe hurricanes in the gulf stream, in one of which her main mast was snapped off close to the deck. The Taormina brought 133 steerage passengers. In the early part of the voyage the weather was fair. When near sabel island in latitude 40.50 and longitude 59.40 she encountered a hurricane from the southeast. The hurricane continued nearl y forty-eight hours. At 7 o'clock on the morning of the 31st ult., a big sea broke on the deck and the man at the wheel lost control of the vessel. The bolts in the main boom were loosened and the boom threshing about struck life boat No. 8 on the starboard side and yanked it overboard. Afterwards the boom swinging with the roll of the ahip^^med^^JM^iaging 'of the mam mast lossing its braces, or>o?.r\n/i nfF omi tconf-. nvprhnard ff) guu^pvu VU. MU(.t IT VUW W . starboard. It was only by long ^nd troublesome work that the" crew were able to clear away the wreck. Oil in large quantities were poured on the trouble waters while this worK was in progress. Meanwhile the steerage passengers below decks were in an agony of terror. Some men were for hours on their knees praying while others staggered about and cursed as they were pitched this way and that by the lurching of the vessel. When the mast went by the board women screamed and some becims hystericaly All expected the ship ta go down. Capt Koch went among rhe men and women and by personal appeals, succeeded in allaying their fears somewhat. In the height of the storm Steward Iluberiel fell on the deck and- was seriously injured internally. He was unconsious for four days and is still in a dazed condition. The big wave that swept over the decs broak a capstan, stove in a hatch and twisted the rails and the deck fittings. The hurricane subsided on February 1st, but head winds were encountered delaying the ship five or six days. A Storm's Daadly Work. Birmingham, Feb. 4.? A wind and rain smrm which Dassed over Birm inghamlast night, blew down the Con-1 gregational church at Gate City, six miles from here. The Christain En-1 deavor Society, composed of thirty women and children, was holding a meeting at the time. The roof crashed in on them beneath the debris. JS'early every person in the buildiog was more or less'hurt. The serious casualties are Mrs. R. S. ProtcbelJ, leg broken and internally mjuredaDd will die; ilrs. James Xiles, internally iDjured will die; Chariies, Olsen, thigh broken, probably fatal. The others are not seriously hurt. Half the physicians of Birmingham are at Gate City, and the greatest excitement prevails. PJstfLalu Columbia, Columbia, S. C.. Feb. 7.?Maj. W. T. Woodward, of Kocton, and ilepre sentative Jonnson, 01 vvinusyuiu, cauic | near having a shooticg match here to! day as the result of a political controversy in a newspaper. Johnson sent a note to Woodward, who was at dinner saying that he was wanted and Woodward responded. .Johnson asked for i an apology and Woodward told him he was rot making: apologies today. Johnson stood with his hands in his overcoat pocket and when he insisted on an apology, Woodward quickly jerked a pistol, stuck the muzzle in Johnson's face and said: "What are going to do about it?" Johnson replied: "Nothing," and Woodward walked away, saying, "well that settles it." A P.iD LAW REPEALED. / NO MORE FEDERAL SUPERVISION OF ELECTIONS. The Senate settle the Question at Last by a Decisive Majority?All the Democrats, Oae Republican ard Three Papal Is ts Vote for It Wasiii\gton. Feb. 7.?In the Senate today at 12.30, the House bill to repeal the Federal election laws was taken up and Hoar addressed the Senate in opposition to it. In reply to the charge made on the Democratic side that the law of 1870 was sectional, he said that that law applied only to cities of over 20,000 population, that when it-was passed there were tifty-seven such cities in the North'and but five in the South, and that of the fifty-seven Northern communities, eleven were m the commonwealth of Massaehnsettes. TTow idlft I therefore wa3 it, he said, to keep up the claim that the question was a sectional one, as if the brave and gallant men who presented the cause of the Southern Confederacy had fought and bled and died for the privilege of cheating at elections. Another objection made to the Federal election law was that it took away control from the people of the locality, but the same had been done in several Democratic States within the last ten or fifteen years?in Virginia, Maryland, Deleware, Louisiana and other States. The right of managing and ordering elections had been taken from the people who gather at the polls and had been put in the hands of the central power of the States, managed and wielded by the Democratic party leaders. After some colloquy on this point with Hunton (Dem) of Virginia, Hoar exclaimed: The records in the archives of this Capitol make of the history of elections in this country since 1865 the blackest and worst history of crimes since the world was created. "We can only deal with that subjection in silence. When these reports are read, blackening the fair fame of this land, we must walk backward with averted gaze and bide our heads in shame. This is a question of fraud or no fraud, ana there is nothing else to it. it is a question whether the supreme pearl and gem in the crown of the American manhood shall not have the strongest force on the face of the earth for its protection and defense. Gray of Delaware replied to Hoar, who he said had mistaken or misrepresented the gravamen of Democratic opposition to the election laws. They wanted to wipe them out, not because they protected the weak from the strong, but because Democrats believed from a bitter experience that those laws were not only at war with every tradition of local self-government, not only did gthey degrade the States of which they were citizens,but they buttressed up the very fraud which they were professedly intended to destroy. From the inherit vice in their structure, they had been, necessarily, an auxiliary to ihe party machine of the party in power in the Federal government. In every city of 20,000 inhabitants they had been the ready means by which during the last twenty years tne Republican party had put its hand into the Treasury of the United States, in order to defray the election charges . . and expenses or iuc pax w ? nnt, hp ? snnftpssf uI denial of that state ment. Bate (Dem.) of Tennessee closed the debate. He made an argument in sapport of the bill. It was susceptible of demonstration, he said, that the chief object of the reconstruction laws (of which the Federal election laws formed a part) had been to capture the electoral vote of the Southern States, and to secure Republican Senators and Representatives. But the scheme had gone cwry and all the plots had failed. The ' 'new aliies" had deserted the Republican standards and the Republican party had ceased to have a local habitation in those States from which four years after the war it had had all their Senators and all bat one of their Representatives. Whether these Federal election laws were or were not constitutional, they were certainly in the year of grace 1894 unwise and unnecessary. They embodied the same ideas that had dictated reconstruction, and they should now be repealed. They had inspired more fraud in elections than they had suppressed. Thev should be all repealed and the States should be left to regu?&?&?&nelections within their borders, phasis to the doctrine of ^ home rule, tha^ontWii^ty of a repub- ? lie. At the close ofMrTSSt^fl^fiS^j Chandler withdrew the amendment * " heretofore offered by him and moved another, the purport of which was to make the proposed repeal effective only to the extent of prohibiting the employment of deputy marshals at election. This amendment was rejected?yeas 27; nays 40. The three Populists, Allen Kyle, and Peffer, and one Republican, Stewart of Nevada, voted with the Democaats in the negative. Another amendment was offered by Chandler for the purpose of excluding from the effect of the repeal the crimes sections of the revised statutes, in regard to elections It was also rejected, yeas 27, nays 38. T wo other amendments were offered by Chandler (to,restrict the scope of the repeal) and were rejected by similar vofts. A taunting inquiry by Chandler, as to whether Stewart would contribute his vote to the repeal of the law, which had been one of the noblest acts of his r>nhiir? liffl hroapht out a short speech ? ?? o? from Stewart, to the effect that the election Act of 1870 was passed just after the nation had had emerged from war, and that now the nation had entered on another war, that of the executive against the producing classes. Perkins (Rep,) of California offered amendment, of which he had given notice yeslerday, allowing the election laws to remain, but confining the Federal supervision to cities of 200,000 inhabitants or over, instead of, as now, 20,U00, The amendment was rejected, yeas 27, nays 39. Three additional amendments were offered by Chandler and were rejected, two of them withj out a division, and the third by yeas 27, nays 39. The bill was then passed, yeas 39, nays 28?a party vote, except that Stewart (Rep.) of Nevada and Allen, Kyle and Peffer (Populists) voted with the Democrats in the affirmative. The following is thevdse in detail: i Yeas?Allen, Bate, Berry. Blackburn, I Brice, Butler. Caffery, CaU, Cockrell, I Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Daniel, Faulk! ner, Gibson, Gordon, (iorman, Gary, i Ilarri?, Hill,IIunton,Irby, Jones (Ark,) ! Iyvle. Lindsay, Martin, Mills, Mitchell (VVis ), Morgan, Palmer, Pasco, Peffer, Pugb, Hanson, Roach, Stewart, Vest, on/1 Whito _V 39? t > iiao, V uuiutw auu n utkv Xajs?Aldrich, Allison, Cameron. Carey, Chandler, Cullom, Dixon, Dolph, Dubois, Prye, Gallinger, Hale, Hansborougb, Hawlev, Hisrgins, Hoar, Lodge, Mitchell, (Ore.), Perkins, Piatt, | Proctor, Quay, Sherman, Shoup, Sqolje Teller, Washburn and Wilson?28. The Senate then, at6:15 p. m., after a short executive session, adjourned till tomorrow. ? . . mM