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|g^ VOL LTV, WINNSBORO. S, C., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1899. , NO. 4 ^ | ^SENDS SOLID SHOT. ^ Solicitor Sawyer's Report in the WHiiams Case. TWO. MAGISTRATE REMOVED ^ Governor McSweeney Takes i Prompt Action in the Case. > Senator/. Mayfield's Affidavit. It will be remembered-thafc sometime ago Gr. W. M. Williams, a Denmark lawyer, who was wanted in Georgia to serve out a sentence for some crime for which he had been convicted over there * * r% - i.VK "L - naa.tne Georgia consia-ue wuv ; over to arrest him arrested on the charge of forging Grcv. Ellerbe's name V to the requisition papers. Before the constables coald appear before the magistrate who issued the warrant and give bond, "Williams gave leg bail and left for parts unknown. Gov. McSweeney requested Solicitor Sawyer of that circuit to investigate the action of ' the magistrates who had aided Williams in escaping by arresting the constables who came for htm. Solicitor Sawyer investigated the . matter and reported to the Governor on p" Tuesday of last week. In his report the Solicitor gays tnat ftc Deneves tnac S. C. Ray, a magistrate- at - Denmark, and-W. L. Kennedy, a magistrate at G-ovan's, and a constable by the name of,W. J. Hntto, are guilty of aidiDg in * ' the escape of Williams. The Solicitor further says that he found very few r citizens willing to aid him in any way. He said it seemed to him that there are two parties at Denmark and considerable rivalry "between the towns of Denmark and Bamberg, and some people ftf wish Williams well simply because he 1 1 2.^2 f c. nas oeen proseouieu vpeiaecuucu. &o wcj< term it) by the Bamberg bar. He thinks a deplorable state of aft'sirs exist in that vicinity. In his report the Solicitor says: "It ,. seems to me that Mr. Ray attempts -to excuse himself-for not arresting Williams upon the ground that "Williams is a desperate character and that he was a mad man on that day, yet he, as a conservator of the peace, allowed Williams to walk up*and down the street with his hands in his pockets, believing L > that he had two pistols, one in each W coat pocket, thns defying arrest. Tour excellency will note that Hutto says I- "Williams was not in a rage, did. not look like a mad man to him, that he could have arrested him if he had had the authority, and would have done so. Your excellency will also note that Mr. f Walker, the town marshal, says that he does i?ot consider Williams a dangerous to arrest Williams for disorderly conduct, nor for anything else, and that he' /?/vnlr? Tiotta arrested Trim. Mr. Rav was at one time in considerable tronble about a person -who was a relative of all parties, and, I was informed, some W& of these parties took considerable inHBBp1"1* terest in that matter, whicli may have K placed some under obligations to the others. At any rate, they all seem to be very intimately connected and very r much interested in the welfare of each other, to such an extent that I am convinced that they formed a collusion. ^ WHATMAYFIELD SAYS. Senator May field in an affidavit says: "That shortly after July 13th on arrival at his office deponent was called upon by G. W. M. Williams, Jr., who re quested that deponent come over to ms father's office immediately, to which deponent replied that he was very busy but that if it was a matter of impor^ t&nce he would be there directly; that ^ hortly afterwards deponent was again | called upon and again requested to go . over, whereupon deponent walked over to the office of G-. W. M. Williams, Sr., and found there a gentleman who was introduced as a. Mr. Miley from Georm'a. -with a statement that certain pa pers were plasc? in Miley's hands, and j they desired to know as to the regularity of the papers; >Ir. Miley handed me the papers and I looted over them and found all regular until I reached one purporting to be signed by G-oy. W. H. Ellerbe; I informed the coDstable that the papers were in every way regular except that the name of Gov. rEllerbe had been written by his private secretary, Mr. W. Boyd Evans; that I supposed that it arose during the governor's illness and that Mr. Evans supposed that he had the authority under the direction and at Jie request of the governor to affix the signature of the governor to the papers; that in my fc Judgment as a lawyer, a private secretary did not have such authority, as the Br constitution of South Carolina devolvj| ed fckat duty upon the governor of the State, out tnat our coaswiunuu Ui 1WV .j? was new and that I presumed that this matter had besn overlooked, and that neither the private secretary's nor Gov. BRHF Ellerbe's attention had been called to the matter; hence the mistake. Mr. Miley asked me what was to be done and 1 suggested that he send the requisition back to Gov. Candler with the statement as aforesaid and -to give the rgovernormy name as the one who had so advised him, and that I had no doubt, upon his sending the requisition papers back to his excellency, Gov. McSweeaey, that his excellency being familiar \with Gov. Ellerbe's handwriting, would perceive at a glance that the paper had ?1 ?Kt? fJrtv r^llprhp and kAi aw uwu ^ ? gg WE" that new papers would be granted; that PP I direeted Mr. Miley and had him to ' make notes so as to guide him in writi ?ng Gov. Candler; that thereupon I left Mr. Williams and Constable Miley to^ gether in the office and came on about my general duties." W Mr. MaySeld then goes on in his affidavit to say that he did not advise Wil1 liams as a lawyer, nor to resist arrest, and on going to his office he did so simply on request, not knowing what he was wanted for and "-not knowing as is now claimed by the constable in his report to G-ov. McSweeney that the marshal of Denmark had arrested G. W. M. Williams. He further says that he did v. not approve of the arrest of the constable from Georgia on a charge of forgery, as Williams well knew that the error was made by ike private secretary signing the governors name and for which the special constable was in no way responsible. Jle further says he gave the advice in Williams' office to the constable upon the request of Williams and without the constable making any statement other than that they both wifhed to know how the matter stood, aid that deponent gave the advice with no view of helping Williams' escape or in aiding him in any way; but upon the request of Williams in the presence of the special constable and in accordance with what deponent believes to be the law of this State; that he is still of the opinion that the paper is void because J the genuine signature of Gov. Ellerbe has not l?een attached. He further declares that he is neither now nor has he at any time been the attorney of Mr. Williams, nor has he given any comfort in his escape from the hands of the officers of the law, nor does he uphold Mr. Williams in having innocent parties charged with I'orgery, ; WOKrtmc TTTjall l-natrr lliof flia , W UKU BtllU II Uliarno au^ n t.uuv Uiiv signature to these papers had been affix ed by the private secretary of G-ov. Ellerbe and heard deponent so declrae in his presence to the special con outwc. BOTH MAGISTRATES REMOVED. Tuesday night Gov. McSweeney, after reading the solicitor's report and the accompanying affidavits carefully, decided to remove both the magistrates? Ray at Denmark and Kennedy at Go- ( van. He forwarded to each of them the following, letter: Columbia, Aug. 29, !LS99. i Dear Sir: From official information recfiv-d by me I am satisfied of your officii misconduct m the matter of ex- j tradition of G. W. M. Williams, and : your commission as magistrate is here- ' by revoked, to take effect from this ; date. You will turn over all books and papers in your possession belonging to your office to your successor when he : shall call on you for the same. Yours truly, i M. B. McSweeney, Governor of South Carolina. The governor filed with the papers the following written statement of the : reasons for his action: In view of the report of Solicitor : Sawyer and the statement therein contained and the evidence furnished by . the affidavits accompanying the report , in regard to the action of Magistrates ; C (2. TJo-n W T. an-nan xt armPATSl O. \A JLifCbj auu TV* JU? that said magistrates, instead of endeavoring to assist the agent of Georgia in his efforts to arrest Gr. W. M. Williams, a fugitive from justice in that State, and for whom the said agent had requisition papers from the governor of South Carolina, made in due form of law, the magistrates, as it appears from the report of Solicitor Sawyer, assisted the paid Williams to escape arrest, and thus the ends of justice have been thwarted. Such being the facts in the case, I do not consider these magistrates worthy to hold the high and responsible position of magistrate, r,nd they are hereby removed from their office, said removal to take efiect from this date. "August 29, 1899." WM. STRAIT ARRESTED. Accused of Attemptine to Poison His Mother-in-law. William Strait, a young farmer who lives about seven miles south of Rock Hill, was arrested Wednesday on the charge of attempting to poison his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mollie Kidd. The affair exhibits Strait-in the light of a cold-blooded and very unnatural son-inlaw. Avarice is reported to be the cause of the attempt upen the life of Mrs. Kidd and other members of the household, for it is said Strait wanted to come into possession of her property. It is stated that Strait, who lives a quarter of a mile from his mother-in1 Va* a w\Aoa rry*r% 4-a/3 /*Arr> $r\T ! IAYVj DOUb a Uiuao vi giavvu vviu dinner. Some one who tasted the dish remarked upon the bitter flavor of the corn, aDd suspicions were aroused. Some of it was thrown to a dog, which soon keeled over, and the family seems to have been satisfied that the dish was poisoned. The rest of the corn was buried. Afterwards when they went to make an examination and an 1?i an analysis ui _ic uuiicu wiu m was found to have been scratched up. It is said that Strait had been hinting around that he anticipated that his mother-in-law would try to destroy herself. On the day of the alleged attempt at poisoning he is said to have remarked that he feared that she would try to make way with herself and her < entire household. Straic is a youDg : farmer, son of Mr. Thos. J. Strait of : Bethesda township, not Congressman Strait. Mrs. Kitfd is the widow of Mr. i T__ A c U LIU. -fX. JLV1UU, Hiiu <1 iCVT JfGiUO committed suicide in his own home with a shot gun.?The State. < BLOWING OF THE TRUMPETS. Celebration of the Jewish New Year * , I Began this Week. On Monday began one of the most ! important of the religious celebrations of the Hebrew people^ the beginning t>f : the Jewish new year. The festival, : which is of very ancient origin, com- : mencect in reality xuesaay, dui. owing to the custom of the Jews in dating ! their days from sunset to sunset, it was ushered in Monday night. The occasion marks the advent of the first day of the seventh month?the month of ! Tishri, according to the Hebrew calendar, and is followed by a period of penance, lasting for ten days, and cul- : minating in the day of Atonement on 1 September 15. The celebration of the ; first day of the seventh mon^h, the Rosh Hashana, dates its beginning from the time of Ezra, when the chil- : dren of Israel returned from Babylon to re-establish Jerusalem under his direction. In that day it was celebrated as a secular festival, the religious celebration occurring in spring with the beginning of the first month, buu since, : for all practical purposes, the Hebrews have now adopted the Gregorian calen- i dar, the festival has become a religious one.. The festival of Rosh Hashana was early associated with the blowing of trumpets, and that is one of the features of the present day. The tea days of meditation and penance end on September 15. with the day of atonement, or Yom Hakippurim, which is the culminating and most sacred day of the period. Six Hundred DrownedSix hundred lives have been lost by the flooding of a copper mine at Besshi, island of Skikoku, China. LIQUEFIED AIR. Carried a Distance of Five Hundred Miles. INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS. Some of the Marvelous Powers of the Great Factor as Seen by a Georgian. A Georgian writes to the Augnsta Chronicle from Chatauqua, N. Y., that he had just witnessed some experiments with liquefied air which were so wonderful that I am sure your readers will be interested in hearing about them. The liquid was brought from New York city, where it was manufactured, in a large eight-gallon can, care-. fully wrapped in non-conducting felt, just as ice is packed for transportation. It is the first time that this fluid has ever been carried so far in quantities ilarge enough to be experimented with, and so well was it packed that only two gallons evaporated in the transit?a distance of about 500 miles. When the cover was removed it immediately began to smoke like a cauldron of furiously boiling water. The temperature of a liquid air is so low?312 de grees below zero?that contact not merely with common air, but with a lump of ordinary ice will set it to boiling just as water will .do on contact with fire or with a lumD of redhot iroas. mi *? JLnere is uooruiuary suusiauue wia.o ia not redhot in comparison with a temperature of 312 degrees below zero, consequently the liquid air, unless carefully protected by non-conductors of heat is in a constant state of ebullition. Yet, even while boiling, it is colder than ice by many degrees, and will instantly freeze whatever comes in contact with it. As the operator dipped it up from the can the ladle would be immediately coated with frost, and when a vessel of it was placed in cold water, the liquid air at once "began to boil furiously from the heat of the water, and at the same time the water around the vessel forming a crust of ice so hard that it could be readily removed and used as a tumbler. Into this ice tumbler more liquid air was poured, which instantly began -- ? . ? mi to boil trom coniact with tne ice. ine hydrogen of the air, being lighter than the oxygen, evaporates more quickly, and as every school boy knows that oxygen is a great promoter of combustion, the liquid air, after losing iis hydrogen, becomes a medium for producing the fiercest heat, though itself so intensely cold. Now you will be prepared to believe me when I tell you that a piece of wire with a carbon point, when plunged into this ice tumbler filled with - 1- -* J 010 J kA?OT, a iiLjuiu ox.id uegices tuun ^uu, u^au to burn with a temperature of nearly 3,000 degrees above boiling water, and burned away till the wire was consumed like a straw! On the same principle a piece of woolen felt that could not be made to burn when ignited in common air, blazed up like rosin when saturated with the liquid, and a flock of common cotton wool exploded like gun cotton, leaving scarcely a pinch of ashes behind, so complete was the combustion. Hence can be seen the great possibilities of this latest discovery of science in the cremation of garbage and the manufacture of explosives. In color and consistency liquid air is just like clear water, but evaporates so auicklv that it will not wet anything, and being heavier than common air, its vapor, instead of rising, like the vapor of water and like common smoke, falls to the earth. Plunge your handkerchief into it, and the handkerchief will smoke as if on fire, while drops of the chilling liquid fall to the floor, but there is no sign of moisture. Pour a bucket full of it on the floor and there will be a furious smoking as if every plank were on fire, but when the vapor rolls away not a drop of moisture is to be seen. A bunch of roses immersed in a vessel of it retained their natural appearance, but became frozen so hard m a few seconds that they shivered like glass when thrown upon the floor. The same thing happened to a potato and a piece of beef, which had to be broken with a hammer like stones after remaining about 20 seconds in the strange fluid. Alcohol, which freezes at a temperature of something like 200 degrees below zero became solid ice in about half a minute, and mercury, in scarcely double that time, froze so hard that it was used as a hammer to drive two large nails into a board. Still more curious effects were produced when a little water was poured ' into a tea kettle filled with liquid air and placed on a lump of ice. The kettle immediately began to boil so rapidly that it froze the water by evaporation and left it a lump of ice in the kettle. The experiment was then tried with the kettle placed over the burner of ; a kerosene stove and not only did the water turn to ice as before, but the cold ; produced by the evaporation of the liquid air was so much greater than the ' heat produced by the stove that the bottom of the kettle was heavily coated with fiost right over the flame or tne i burner! j; This intense cold, I may remark m passing, is the great obstacle in the use of liquid air as a motor power. While its expansive force is twenty times greater than that of steam, the intense cold produced by its expansion , causes any machinery to which it is applied to become so heavily clogged > with frost as to prevent its working. No effective remedy for this difficulty . has yet been found, and until this problem is solved I would advise all inves- . tors to beware of the bogus companies , that are being formed to exploit Trip- ( ler's great discovery. Its chief practi- < cal use at present would serve to be for < refrigerating purposes, and the manu- < facture of explosives. It also promises . great results in medical therapeutics? : I am not sure that this is the right word, ] but it will no doubt mean just as mien . to most of us as the right one would if ; I knew it. In regulating the temperature of hospitals and destroying the activity of disease germs it will probably work a revolution is medical practice. i A Successful Revoluti The revolution in San Doming has been successful, and President Figuero . has resigned. He will be succeeded by Gen. Jean Isodro Jiminez, who will i assume charge of aSairs. CHARLESTON TO AUGUSTA. iioute of the^Hew Road to be Built b] the Seaboard. The Seaboard Air Line is goinj ahead now with the necessary prepara tions for the building^ of its new lin< from Augusta to Charleston. In ac cordance with announcements hereto fore made the application for the char ter, which is the first of its kind unde: the new law, was filed with the secretary of state last week and the commis sion has been issued. The declarator sets forth in detail all facts as to th< capitalization and as to the route. As soon as the commission had been issu ed the corporators issued the following notice, giving the exact route, which is to be published'in the country effectec by the new road: "Notice is hereby given that the undersigned parties will, on Monday, the 2d, day of October, 1899, at 12 o'clock noon, or as soon thereafter as can be heard, make application to to the secretary of state for the State of Soutl Carolina, at Columbia, S. C., under the wAtrieiAna or* Qrtf Anf.ifla/1 'or* fr pi V v VI au uvb cau wv provide for the formation of railroads, steamboat, street railway and canal companies, and to define powers thereof, and provide a mode for amending the charters thereof; approved the 28th day of February, A. D. 1899, found in the 23 statutes, at pages 64 to 70, for a charter for the Chattanooga, Augusta and Charleston Air Line Railway company, the said line to extend between the termini stated below, one terminus to be within the city of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, and the other on the western boundrj line of the State of South Carolina on the Savannah river, opposite or nearly opposite to the city of Augusta, in the r?. , r?/-t i l i i fctate or ueorgia, wmcn said line, Deginning in the city of Charleston, wil] pass from its terminus through the city of Charleston, thence through the county of Charleston, and the parishes of St. Phillips and St. Michaels and St. Andrews, therein; thence through the county of Dorchester, and the townships of Dorchester, Collins and Burns thftnc.fi thrnnirh thfi onnntv of J O Colleton, and townships of Sheridan, Yerdier, Bell, Warren and Broxton, therein; thence through the county of Bamberg, and the townships of Fish Pond, Three Mile and Buford's Bridge, therein: thence through the county of Barnwell, and the townships of George's Creek, Barnwell, Rod Oak, Rosemary and Richland, and the town of Barnwell therein; thence through the county of Aiken, and the townships of Sleepy Hollow, Millbrook, Hammoud, G-regg and Schultz therein; and that they will seek for the said corporation the right to condemn lands for a right of way of said railroad and for sideAIvm J ItAWtflAa AMI? A11 bl'au&S, UCUUlO, Dvatiuu uuuscs <#uu an other purposes of the said proposed railroad company." Going to Rhode Island. Thursday afternoon Senator B. R. Tillman, accompained by Mrs. Tillman, arrived in the city en route to Rhode Island. The senator expects to proceed on his journey Friday morning and will be absent from the State about tea days. He goes to make a speech before the Bryan Bimetallic league of Rhode Island. He says this is in accord with some plans arranged at the July meeting of the National Democratic executive committee. The Democratic party wishes to have the Rhode Island dele ?j.z 1 gauoB in me uaiiuiiai uuuveuuuu solid for ffte silver and is sending speakers there. Another idea is to make the movement for Democracy so strong in New England that New England money will have to be kept at home.?The State. Turned Ilobber. A dispatch from Florence to The State say3 by dint ol! hard work Gr. S. nn ^ a n r. J JL urucviiic, A. V. JU? uciwurg, nag succeeded in practically breaking up a gang of thieves that for months has been a constant annorance to the company. The gang is said to be composed of about 15 negroes with a white WiTl^Am rTrvrtVn* / ?! ? ea 1 iil&llj TT 11 ll&LLL \J U-kJ JL WJ ivuuwii Upchurchanda negro named James Price have both been captured and lodged in Halifax, N. C., county jail to await trial. Upchurch was seen in the act of robbing cars and was captured with some of the booty upon his person. He is said to belong to a splendid family of Raleigh, N. C., people, but with him stealing became a disease and he finally allied himself with a gang of negro train-robbers. A Grateful Editor. We are at a loss for words to express rvifi. tVio'nL-Pnlnoaa T\fr? .1 R. S. \J IAJL UUVUflklUAUWUtJ VU i.'AAk' V * **. Siau for a basket full of lemon pies? yes sir, the basket was full! There is a weak spot somewhere in our diaphragm for lemon pies, and this estimaable and lovely lady beats all creation in making them. The pies were appreciated and eaten with relish, ?nd then we licked our chops for more. Thanks, thanks? a thousand thanks I Our sincere wish is that Mrs. S. may live to a, ripe old age to bless those who are near and dear to her, and then go home to glory to live forever and forever!? G-eorgetown Times. Last Year's Cotton Crop. The totals of Secretary Hester's an"""1 nf +V>a (in+tnn nrnn rtf flip Liuai X l> VI \JAJL\J vvubvu V/A.V?S VUnited States were promulgated Friday. They show receipts of cotton at all United States ports for the year, 8,579,?26 bales, against 8,769,360 last year; verland to northern mills, 1,345,623, igainst 1,237,813; southern consumption taken direct from interior of the cotton belt, 1,353,791, against 1,192,321: making the crop for the United States for 1898-'99 amount to 11,274,340 bales, against 11,199,994 last year, md 8,757,694 the year before. The mills of the South have used 157,558 bales more than during 1897-'98, aimirisf-. a r>onsnmnl,ion bv the north of U9o"ooo." " Fresh News Wanted. The Salesbury, Me, Press says: "Send in your items of news when they are fresh. We don't like to publish a birth after the child is weaned, a marriage after the honeymoon is over, a death after the widow is married again, nor the notice of an entertain ment after the job work is done elsewhere and the editor is charged for admission. FOUND XTJEDEEED. j The Tracks of Dogs Led to the Body of Dead Man. r The Greenville correspondent of The 11. , i p - state says a grewsome story comes irom ? Tigerville, in the upper section of the . county. While walking Wednesday - on the farm of Joseph McKinney, near . Tigerville, Luther McKinney made the r discovery of a human head severed from the body and numeroES dog tracks " were near the place where the awful - discovery was made. He reported 'the i ghastly find to some of his neighbors , at once and they followed the dog tracks to the river not far away, where 3 they found a man's leg protruding above " the water, and on further investigation > they brought up the headless body with I / A ?A rtlr TTtV? AT"A fltfl yjuiy tiic obump vi liic ucu& rrjuc.it. wg ^ head belonged. It was at once believed that the body was that of Ed Hayes, a ' farmer who lived in that neighborhood, 5 and who disappeared suddenly and mys: teriously three or four weeks ago. 5 Search had been made for Hayes and ' no trace of him was discovered unless L the headless trunk belonged to him. ! The dogs had eaten the flesh off the ' face so that it could not be identified, j and other means had to be found to ' prove that Hayes' fate was made known. ' An inquest was held over the body and > the jury found a verdict to the effect l fViof. t.Tio mai waa Til/I TTovps an<3 that i he came to his death by a pistol shot at > the hands of James Sudduth. The investigation was tedious and the evi' deuce somewhat vague, but the jury 1 was satisfied that Ed Hayes received 1 his death wound from Sudduth, with ' whom he was on unfriendly terms. On* lie sliot twice at Hayes and the second 1 time lie shot to kill. The dead man was shot in the back from his right 1 side, and the ball went through his Hv' er and lodged in the left breast. Hayes was identified by mears of his clothing, and each garment was inspected and ' clearly proven. No papers were found on the body, and the pockets of his ' clothing; were empty. Hayes disap1 peared on the 8th of August from his " home, which is not more than one-quar; ter of a mile from Tiger river, and tie body was lying in the edge of 'the stream just where a ditch empties into . it, covered with sand and corn stalks. The skull was some distance down the 1 river, atjd the men who made the search , waded t|e stream until th*y found the body, kjudduth is at home sick with fever, arid his physician reported his ; temperature at 101. Magistrate Gul: lick issued a warrant for his arrest im; mediately after the verdict was rendered, and his constable placed Sudduth in custody without delay. THE OHIO DEMOCRACY. /-'7 CoL Bryan and the Chicago Platform Endorsed. The Democratic State Convention of Ohio assembled at Zanesville on last Wednesday and soon nominated a good ( strong ticket and adjourned. John R. McLean was nominated for Governor, and a platform was adopted endorsing the Chicago platform and demanding I the renomination of Col. Bryan. | The Columbia State in commenting i TBAnIr nf a rtAmronfi/vn 0<s]rQ* UJU n ViA. VA VUV VV^1VU?*VM ' "What's the matter with the Ohio Democratic platform? No ambiguity in , it, is there? The Chicago platform of 1896, 'especially the financial plank'; free silver at 16 to 1; Bryan for presiI dent; anti-imperialism; independence 1 for the Philippines as well as Cuba; no ^ entangling alliances with foreign kingdoms and empires; no ship subsidies; a . strong navy; a small standing army; abolition of the trusts; no bossism; electron of president, vice president and senators by direct vote of the people. This nlnifrirm 'ratifiedenthusiastically' by the convention, is a mighty good one and in our opinion the Democratic national platform of 1900 will resemble it nlnonlTT I "We predict that John R. McLean of the Cincinnati Enquirer, nominated for i governor by the Democrats of Ohio will give the Republicans the hardest race for their money they have had for a long time. Mr. McLean has a very i impressive bar'l himself, and his great paper is a power in Ohio, among Republicans as well as DeD3ocrats. Since he has adopted the suaviter in modo policy Mr. McLean has reduced the number ol msenen' ^> very materially, and the faction fji I among the Ohio Democrats seems : ) have died out. The prospect io the Buckeye State is not bad." A Sad Comm^iry. What a commentary it was on human nature that Col. Neal should have had to wait so many hours in custody Wednesday before bondsmen could be found for him. Here was a man who, a year 1 ago, when he seemed the power behind I the throne in Dolitics. had politicians from all over the State running after : him for favors; was courted, deferred to, pressed with professions of frienpship; and could have made a.$50,000 bond in an hour?yet Wednesday, in his time of disgrace and need, he could not get one of these "friends" to come to his relief and pledge as little as $3,500 security that he would appear to stand his trial. It was "the way of the j world," but ten thousand precedents could not redeem it from contempt. 1 We honor the plain business men, not 1 professing devotion or admiration, who | signed his bond and ended the painful J "? mt rr, , \ spectacle.?xne state. ( The Cuban Army. * i Now that over 33,000 Cuban Soldiers < have been identified and paid their $75 < each and several thousands more are : shown to have been left off the lists, ; what becomes of the sneers of many < contemporaries at "Gomez's imaginary < army', and "post-bellum warriors?" < None of the men who entered the ser-? 1 vice after the war have been paid, and ' many who did serve in war have not i been Daid. The Cuban estimate of ] 40,000 men was very near the mark.? i The State. t Not Stated. The Augusta Chronicle fays: ?;Maj- ; or General Otis has been instructed 1 from Washington to capture Aguinaldo. ] It is not stated whether Aguimaldo is ] to wai for Otis to come get him, or 1 the American leader is to run him ] down. i TILLMAN SPEAKS At the Lancaster County Farmer's Institute. WHAT HE SAYS OF TOBACCO. He Speaks on the Practical Workings of Clemson and Winthrop Colleges. HPIIA Tnonfinff /\P f.ln* JL.JLLQ 1U.1LJ.AJL UibV/ Ui.U.&j Vi uuv ?**. ***w* w Institute for Lancaster county under the supervision of the professors of Clemson College, was held at Heath Spring on Wednesday 23rd instant. There was a large gathering from all sections of the connty, the crowd being estimated from one thousand to twelve hundred people. . Ex-Representative R. L. Hicklin pre J - J ?J --l?3?j i.v.? rui siueu auu xuuuuuucu lug oycaiwo. \j\ji. J. C. Sellers of Marion spoke first?his subjcet being the culture of tobaqco. The Colonel has had wide experience in the raising of tobacco in the Peedee section of the State. He thought the soil in the Heath Spring section would make good tobacco but he cautioned the farmers not to experiment on too large a scale. He said the crowd pres ent was the largest of the fourteen meetings he had addressed in the State. Senator B. it. Tillman was next introduced by the chairman as ' ;the great commoner whose name was a household word in South Carolina." The Senator was interesting throughout and held the close attention of his large audience for an hour and ten minutes. He was calm and dispassionate when advising as to best methods of farming and in general mofKnf. wfipr) Iia wrvrild tmieh on politics, lie became very much animated, and as remarked by a drummer on one occasion "his one eye would blaze like the headlight of a locomotive." The subject Assigned him was "the practical workings of Clemson and "Winthrop Colleges." He said he would not stick close to this subject as everybody nnrrp.tttlv informed oneht to know the workings of these two great instituions/ He said that Clemson, Winthrop and the dispensary were his three children conceived and bronght forth by the Reform movement?that his enemies were constantly trying to undermine and destroy them, believing that thereby they woiid bring about his political death. He said that Representative Smith of Sumter county had jumped on the colleges in general and him in particular. That while in Sumter he had made two speeches, one in the forenooa and one in the afternoon. That he had made a nice pleasant speeoh in the morning. Some people did aot believe he could, make such speeohes but he could. In the afternoon Mr. Smith made a speech announcing that he intended rubbing off some of the butter ex-Senator Abbott had olastered on his back in his speech of introduction. He said he had no objection to the butter being removed in a gentle way, as Dr. Abbott had rather gone beyond the proprieties. of the occasion, but instead of removing the butter gently, Mr. Smith had used a ftnrrv nnmb :tod had raked his hide? and besides lie bad attacked bis little girl Winthrop wbo was near and dear to bis beart. Mr. Smitb claimed tbat too much money is wasted on tbe two colleges, tbat instead it ougbt to be distributed among tbe free schools all over tbe State. Senator Tillman said tbat was impracticable because all tbe money would not run the free schools more than a few *eeks. And besides better teachers were needed for the free schools and tbat "Wintbrop and Clemson would furnish them. He said that these two college's and the Citadel and the South Carolina colleges were doing a great work. In reply to a question he said tbat Clemson did turn out some dudes but it was tbe fault of tbe girls I wbo were constantly lunning after them I being attracted by their gay uniforms j and brass buttons, fie said that Mr. Smith claimed that Clemson and Winthrop were for the rich man's sons and daughters. 'This he claimed was an appeal to ignorance and prejudice, because there was no boy or girl in South Carolina who with proper application and pluck could-not graduate at either one of the colleges. He instanced the case of a poor boy who made his way through Clemson by workiDg near the college during his vacations. He advised the farmers to educate their children and to learn them that they had to "sweat" to accomplish anything in their life. He said he believed money spent for education would Jbring in large returns. That he had endeavored, when a member of the constitutional convention to make the pqII tax three dollars, so that the $egro should be made to bear some of tfie expense for educating his children. That he also favored a three mill tax for schools. Senator Tillman then ga7e an amusing account of his experience in tobacco raising. Said he had been too smart and had bit of more than he jould chaw. That he had planted twelve acres instead of three or four. That he had to water the whole crop by hauling water in barrels. Some one in the crowd remarked tbat Darreis muse be plentiful in his county. He said no be had gathered together some kerosene and molasses barrels and a few whiskey barrels. That his experience with his tobacco this year had been somewhat tough, but that he was bulllieaded snough to go through with it just like be did with everything else. He said farmers injrEnriff alons like their laddies, -with a rock in one end of their sack and a pnmpkin in the other. That sotton was not profitable; it was the srop of the Negro and the lazy white man. He urged the farmers to wake np md be free men and to quit the life of servitude to the mortgage and the agrisultural lien. He advised every farinsr who was unmarried to get him a wife; that a man who couldn't get a wife was worse than a flop-eared dog md should be drowned in the Catawba river.?He touched on the Negro question by saying that he had >,p'iken on the subject in North Carolina hid adrised the people up there to solve the problem with the shot gun. He was isked his opinion of the Philippine tvar. He said that McKinley thought be had a soft snap when he bought the J - - + 1*^4- f/yrrr fT-? An CO T>r| L31<iIlU&) L licit a wiivuuu.u? ffould subdue the Insurgents and then he would have soft places for Republi:an, but that he (Tillman) predicted that the war would be going on this time next year and would result in the defeat of McKinley for reelection. Senator Tillman closed by announcing that he would be a candidate for re-election next year and that if anybody wanted to oppose him. to come right along and the longest pole would get the persimmon. The next speakers were Dr. Neeson, the Veterinary Surgeon and Prof. Morrison, both of Clemson.?Lancaster Ledger. m-rro Tmirnrro a nxr j.xi~Li i;jmuuAaui, Reorganization of the National Committee for the Campaign. John R. McLean, Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio, is now head of the v/ays and neans committee of the Democratic national committee. His appointment was announced by W. J. Stone Wednesday it being one of the features of the reorganization plan decided upon at tlie Chicago meeting July 2?th. _ ; Another feature is the elimination of John P. Altgeld from the national council's party. His resignation from the ways and means committee is accepted, and his friend, Devlin, who has had charge of the press bureau, will soon follow him ic retirement, it "is predicted. Tho tip'i- mpmliprs nf tVia aas were announced by Vice-chairman Stone upon receipt of a letter sent by Chairman Jones, who is now in Great Britain. They Sue as follows, the first one named in each case being the chairman: Executive?J. G. Johnson, Kansas; W. J. Stone, Missouri; Daniel J. Campan, Michigan; John G. Shanklin, Pennsylvania; Thomas Gahn, Illinois; James M. Head, Tennessee; Henry D. Clayton, Alabama; W. H. Thompson, \r?i 1? n. Tircn: vx. X'lcu tt niio-ijUSj ^jjiaaoa.clmsettss; T. D. O'Brien, Minnesota. Ways and Means?John R. McLean, Ohio; Urey Woodson, Kentucky; Adair Wilson, Colorado; J. Gr. Dwyer, California; Benj. R. Tillman, South Carolina; Frank Campbell, New York; J. Gr. Johnson, Kansas. Press?Clark Howell, Georgia; Josephus Daniels, North Carolina; Alexan der Troup, Connecticut; Charles A. "Walsh, Iowa; J. G. Johnson, of Kansas. Chairman Jones will be ex-officio chairman of all the sub-committees. The new committees will meet within ten days in Chicago and organize for fhe campaign. Killed by Lightning. TTTLM^ "\X- T__ XT ' x'L J ' yv uue lur. xraas neauutn ana a force of Negroes were on a log train at Harpers on Friday evening last, they were suddenly' shocked' by lightning. Two of the Negroes were killed outright, and'oke-^was severely; stocked, but recovered after a long" time. Mr. Nesmith was knocked down also, but escaped without further injury. t"? rra f a ta! of rt ll* att pott Ti o rJ tv xuaiic, w-icjr xoaj uau iiutiutu 110 lightning or thunder previous to being struck, and the supposition is that the lightning must have traveled along the telegraph wire and left -it just where the men were at work. Several telegraph poles were torn to pieces, and the wires between here and Lanes were down for a short time. All the injured and dead people were brought to the city and given every attention. ?Georgetown Times. A Preacher Shot, The Rev. Wm. Johnson, former pasf A A TJr.nfio^ UVA VI VU.C XJL1.Xivau VUULUU VI Maryville Mo., and an evangelist of the colored Baptist church of Kansas and Missouri, was killed Wednesday night by Officer John Wallace, while resisting arrest. Johnson was convicted Wednesday afternoon of having assaulted a white woman and sentenced to nine months in jail. Johnson created a sensation some time a/n at a meeting of Negro preacaers in Leavenworth, Kas., by declaring that the Negoes must organize. Officer Wallace has I not been arrested. A Schooner and Crew Lost. A dispatch from Baltimore says positive ia formation was received Wednesday that the schooner E. L. F. Hardcastle was wrecked in * the hurricane that swept the Atlantic . coast August 16-18, and it is feared that Capt. Wm. F. Todd and all on board were lost. The Hardcastle is reported to be ^lying ,1 1U Iduiligu QUUUU, UULLULU ilUUUt eight miles from Portsmouth island. The Hardcastle on the 15th inst. sailed from Newbern, N. C., with a cargo of lumber for Baltimore. 1 The Doctor is Better. Young Dr. Thomas Jennings of McCormick who was shot by a Negro on an excursion on the Charleston and "Western Carolina railway on the Fourth nf .Tnlv and aerinna wounded. has about recovered from his injuries. He eloped Wedne-day with Miss Lillie Talbert, youngest daughter of Dr. R. J. Talbert, of McCormick. 1 hey went to Augusta, G-a., and were married. Atlanta's Way. Strange things happen in and around Atlanta. Here is an Atlanta meteor, for example, which passes over that city''in an aerial direction." If it had been scooting over any other town than Atlanta it would doubtless have taken a terrestrial direction, or at least an aqueous one. But Atlanta demanded something univue, and the meteor kindly furnished it. Except when it is copying the sensations of other places, Atlanta has a genius for originality.?The S:ate. A Fatal Wreck* The Erie accommodation train from New York was wrecked shortly b -fore 2 o'clock Wednesday on a bend just east . of Arlirgton, N. J. Two frieght cars ; which had broken from a preceding ] feight dashed into the engine, which was smashed and derailed and the smoking car loaded with passengers ' was crushed and thrown up into the 1 air. Turning over in the air it-fell to ( the side o? the tr?. :k and rolled down a ; 30-foot embankment. "Win. JSurie of 1 Arlington was killed and J. J. Connell of Blo^mSeld was fatally injured. Ten persons were seriously and many slightly injured^ The vreither reports say this has been : the hottest summer on record, "We knowed it without ttq bureau telling us ' so. NEAL ARRESTED. After Some Difficulty He Finds Needed Bondsmen. . ^ MORE SERIOUS CHARGES. " : r*.'1; u:: Former] Political Friends Did Not^ ftnma tn Aid the Ex'SllDflr* intendent. Columbia Bus- . inessMen Did. Col. Neal, former superintendent of the State penitentiary, was arrested and carried to Columbia" on Tuesday night of last week, and The State says it look| ed for several hours Wednesday as if lie would not be able to give ms Dona and would have to go jail before friends from his home could get to Columbia to help him out Wednesday morning /. $*! ! when 10 o'clock, the hour appointed for the preliminary came, Col. Neal had not succeeded in securing bends men. Three personal friends t that he ' 'MM was relying upon proved to be away from the city. At this time also warrants sworn out by Attorney General Bellinger in two other cases were served upon Mm, making three disfipct charges preferred against him. The original warrant charged Mm with fail- ^ tire to turn over public funds to Ms successor. One of the new ones charg- ; p ed him with breach of trust with fradu- r , lent intent, and the other with embezzlement of public funds. The affidavit in the breaoh^of trust case read as follows: State of South Carolina, County of Richland. The State va. William A. 'Neal. Affidavit. ' ' Personally appears before me J M. Smith, a magistrate for ?nd in said county and said State, Gt. Duncan Bellinger, attorney general, who, en. oath, savs that he is informed and believes * that on the first day of December 1895, in said State and comity, one William A. Heal was guilty of a breach of trust with fraudulent intent in this: v That being then and there paid by one J. S. Fowler the sum of-five hundred dollars for the use and as on ? account of the State of South Carolina, the same being the property of said State, upon the special trust and confidence that he thesame 'should safely keep, transfer and disburse for the said State,-as its public servant and officer, nc c-eiQg LLLtJii aau mony * vuc duj^vuu- y .:7.. 4 tendenrof the 'State penitentiary, he did then and there felonionsly appro- / priate, convert and divert the same to His own use, with IntentJ[to^ cheat and defraud ih? Mid.Sj^fc _ ^?-?i : i Sworn to before me thia^29th day-of ~ Angost, 1899. (l. s.) . G. Duncan Bellinger, - Attorney General. <T. M. Smith, Magistrate. The affidavit in the embezzlement case was as follows: State of -}Sonth_ Carolina-County of . KicMancL~Jl'iie State vs. William-a.. ; -w.-%a Neal,' Affidavit. Personally appeared before me J. M. Smith, a magistrate for and in saidcounty and said State, G. Dancan Bellinger, attorney general, who on oath, says that he is informed and Believes that on the ? day of ?189?, insaid State and county, one William A. Neai was gnilty of embezzlement, in i this: That then and there, being superintendent of the State penitentiary, he, as such superintendent, did receive from one "W. T. Magill -the sum of forty dollars for the use of saiS. penitentiary the same being public funds, and the property-of the State of South Carolina * V ;; and he being then and there charged with the safe keeping transfer and disbursing of the same, apd did then, and there feloniously convert, divert and . . appropriate said sum to his own use. And further, that the said William A. Neai then and there the sum of forty dollars,'the property of the said State, , did steal, take andcarrry away. - ?. 1 Sworn to before me this 29th day pf August, 1899. (l. s.) G. Duncan Bellinger, Attorney General, S. C. , J. M. Smith, Magistrate. CoL Neal waived the preliminary -A examination and the bond was fixed it $3,500; of this $2,000 was fixed on the original case, which isjregarded as most important; $500 on the second charge and $1,000 on the third. When it was found that Col.^ Neal had not secured bondsmen. Magistrate > Smith agreed to let him remain in Attornev Nelson's office dnrine the day - c'3 iii custody of Constable Roach, and from there endeavor to secure .bail. None of Col. Neal's former political" friends came near him during the day. A year ago things were very different, for Col. Neal was a man of political influence. The weary hours rolled by and still no bondsmen appeared. Col. Neal vmade a proposition to Magistrate Smith to allow Constable Roach to acrtr.mnoTiTT Viim f ft tlio nn-nnnnfTO ?n f.Kafc t he could in person secure bondsmen, but this was declined. The magistrate however, consented to allow CoL Neal until Thursday morning to secure the necessary bond permitting him in the ' i /.meantime to remain in constable Boacb custody. , ' / -*% Bat this proved to be unnecessary, < for about 2.30 o'clock Capt. W. B. Lowrance and Capt. Geo. A. Shields, I , of this city, both staunch business men who do not mix in- politics, consented to sign Col. Steal's bond. They repaired to the magistrate's office, where the bonds were promptly signed up and the ex-superintendent was set at libarty. Col. Neal declined to talk. He quietly went to the depot and in a few hours was speeding homeward via Charlotte. The predicament in which CoL Neal tound himself here was amost humiliating one, and though, he made no ( comment the ex-official showed that the strain had been a severe one.?The State. ^ Six Men Killed. A fire Wednesday at Yuma, Ariz., , resulted in the loss of six lives and caused $150,000 damage. A crowd of men were carrying goods from the building when the second floor fell upon them. Besides killing six a number were injured. ^