Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ilie Press and Banner FABT SEOOITD. TIED UP FAST. | _______ The Governor Warns Banks Not to Pay Out the DISPENSARY FUNDS. I Notifies the Depositories of the Fond j Not to Honor Checks Without Pro- ( duction of Collateral and Without ( c Checks Being Signed by the State t c Treasurer and the Commission Chairman. j The banks holding deposits of the State dispensary money have been c officially notified by the Governor that these funds must not be paid r to any one without the proper pro- j duction of the collateral and without a thee heck being signed by the chair2 man of the commission and the State c Treasurer, inasmuch as the collat- ^ erals are all in the office of the State Treasurer, it is not likely that h the banks will care to violate the in- 1 ? c etructlons of the Governor, although ^ the banks are also under injunction from Judge Prltchard not to pay out ^ this money except by order of his | c Pmirt Af anv rat?. the banks an- I pear to be sure of keeping the money, j, whatever view the take of the quea- ^ tion of State's rights of Federal jurisdiction. , c The banks notified are the follow- D ing: National Loan and Exchange Bank, ^ Columbia, S. C. 0 Palmetto National Bank, Columbia, S. C. t, The State Bank, Columbia. S. C. Bank of Charleston. Charleston, tj S. C. ti People's Loan and Exchange Bank, Laurens, S. C. j. Bank of Orangeburg, Orangeburg, jj S. C. National Exchange Bank, Charles- j ton, S. C. e. Bank of Aiken, Aiken, S. C. Commercial Bank, Camden, S. C. ^ People's Savings Eank. Abbeville, s. c. ;x The Bunk of Dillon. Dillon, S. C. The Enterprise Bank, Charleston, S. C. Merchants' and Planters' Bank, Gaffney, S. C. 0 Farmers and Merchants Bank, Anderson, S. C. Merchants and Farmers Bank, p Cheraw, S. C. * Farmers and Merchants Bank, 1 Walterboro, S. C. Commercial and Savings Bank, w 1' jorence, S. C. Bank of Hartsvllle, Hartsville, 8. . c. I" PeoDles Bank, Union, S. C. Bank of Timmonsville, Timmona- 6 ville, S. C. City National Bank, Greenville, S. C. The Greenville Savings Trust Com- S pany, Greenville, S. C. The Lexington Savings Bank, Lexington, S. C. Peoples National Bank, Charleston, S. C. ? . The Peoples Bank, Greenville, S. & C. r The Norwood National Bank, a Greenville, S. C. t] The Bank of Camden, Camdeu, S. ^ C. c Merchants and Farmers Bank, j c Spartanburg. S. C. e First National Bank. Spartanburg. t S. C. Central National Bank, Spartan- ^ burg, S. C. Meanwhile the banks having the j a money on do;osit have all been serv- i ed with an der from Judge Prit-' chard not to p: v out any dispensarv J money except . i the order of t he j v Federal Court. The fund? seem U j be most securely tied up. ;c Governor Ansel also sent a letter;' to all the county dispensary boards j ^ stating that some of them owe th?jfi State dispensary commission for li- i quors purchased out of the stock of!. the old State dispensary and notify-', ing them that these amounts must not be paid except when called for by the commission, and that the , - ? * -- * U rv checks must lie macie payaoie iu iuc State of South Carolina and to no one else; further, that under no circumstances must these amount? be paid to any receiver appointed by any Court. , * DON'T WANT TAFT. A Labor Leader Says His Union Will Not Support Hiin. 1 At Omaha. Neb., on Wednesday, , in the Republican State Convention the Second and Sixth Districts endorsed Taft. "Tony" Donohue. a local labor union leader, who was a delegate to the second circuit district convention, protested against the endorsement of Taft, saying he j x luKnr* nf i wanted to put me umuu Omaha on record as opposed to him, aud added that, if Taft was nominated they would not support the ticket. . ' * Delegates I'nnstructed. Pennsylvania's delegation will go to the Denver convention uninstruct??d." was the 1 ointed remark made by Colonel James M. Guffey, Democratic) leader. ANOTHER VICTIM ANOTHER HIGH FINANCIER DIE SUDDENLY. rhis Make a Total 01 Ninetceu Pel sons Who. Have Died as a Resul of the Recent Panic. The death of John G. Jenkins, Sr n New York, on Friday, makes ;otai of nineteen persons wno nav lied, a raaqorlty of them by thei >wn hands, as a result of the recen Inancial troubles. A complete lis >f the victims follows: November 13, 1907?NathanWest leimer, retired financier, sustainin; leavy losses; suicide. November 14?Charles T. Barney leposed bank president; suicide. November 15?L. N. Underwood Columbia professor, driven insane b; everses, killed himself. November 13?Nicholas M. Smith .nd Mrs. Smith, New Rochelle Man of Mystery." Smith lost al nd was killed by his wife, who thei oramitted suicide and burned he; lome. November 24?Mrs. S. T. Bon iam. worried herself to death ove; he ruin of her husband, which wai laimed to be due to the Jenkini allure. November 25?Louis Straus, min< roker, plucked clean by the panic aught in forgery, drinks poison. November 26?Howard Maxwell ank president, indicted, out on bail; ommltted suicide. November 26?Valentine Haydahl aught in Knickerbocker Trust com any crash; suicide. November 30?George Frultman iamond polisher, funds in the Bor ugh Bank; mortgage due; suicide December 5?Clara Bloodgood, acress, funds tied up; suicide. December 14?Worth Dallace, .reired millionaire, 75 years old, loans ?d up; suicide. December 26?Ernest Steadman l *11 iwyer ana reai estate umu, iuai on 1 panic; dead In subway. January 1. 1908?Archibald MIttiell, young prodigal; money gone; ads life by gas. January 9?Charles Wadsworth Whitney, Vanderbilt broker, worrylg over financial troubles, ended life 1th bullet. February 8?E. C. Brooks, once 'ealthy speculator; lost his last peny and committed suicide on floor f Produce exchange. February 21?Col. Eugene W. uii don, president of the Fuller Exress company and Civil War vetern; worried greatly over business oubles and shot himself in office. February 18?Harry Rosenburg, ealthy pawn broker, lost his savigs in bank; suicide in subway. March 12?John G. Jenkins, Sr., idicted banker; ill for several ^eks, died at his home; apoplexy Iven as cause. * TESTIMONY GIVER OUT. uppressed Dispensary Matter Made Public by Charman Murray. Chairman W. J. Murray, of the i6pensary commission Wednesday lade public the testimony taken in egard to inw exneuse and per diem ccounts of Mr. B. F. Arthur, one ol tie members of the commission whc as appointed receiver by Judge Prit hard. This testimony was taken ir (ctober and was transmitted to Gov' rnor Ansel but the governor has aken no acton and all nformation ir egard to the matter has been with eld from the press. Mr. Arthur has not since attendee meeting of the commission. In lact 11 inquiries were met with the an wer that there "is nothing in it." The investigation of Mr. Avthui ias caused by a report to the ccm nission by its attorney, Mr. W. F ' tevenson. in which he said. "Voucher No. 211, the Hon. B. F Arthur, for March, shows 13 days lervioe in March, $65. The recor< ihows that he attended meetings o he board on March 12 and 13, an< le doubtless came down to sigi :hecks which could not have takei nore than two days, which wouli eave nine days to be accounted for A'nich I don't understand, and it' al owed to stand as it will subject th joard to grave criticism, and con structive per diem cannot be allowe it contains items of mileage to RicL Diond which should be explained full in the vocher or mileage could not. b :harged from Itchmond to meet th board here. "His account for April is for eigh lays, and the record shows only on day at a meeting, and if we alio' Due day to go and come and one tri for signing checks, allowing two day: making four possible days for th month and I cannot approve tli voucher as it stands." It seems that whenever Mr. Arthi came from Union to Columbia i sign checks be charged up three day although he was not engaged moi than fifteen minuteB in signing tl checks. On one occaison he charge mileage from Richmond, va. Speed the Day. Miss May Harris Armor of Georg is trying to earn fame as the Moth< Shipton of Pennsylvania. She is i <!xre prophesying that in ten yea not a drop oii liquor will be man1 factured ia the United States. TALKS TO WOMEN s President Roosevelt in an Address Condemns Race Suicide. I FXfll TS MflTHFRHflnn w#ii im i w v v a i imii ii v w v H* Says tli* Mother is the One Sufi e prenie Asset of the Nation, and r That He Abhors the Man Who t :t Mistreats Women, Most Especially the Women of His Own House* g hold. The White House was the scene , Tuesday of the formal opening of ' the first nternational congress on the y welfare of the child, which is being held under the auspices of the Nai, tional Mothers' congress. The 200 1 delegates representing all the States i and territories and a dozen or more r of the leading countries of the world were received at the White House at - 2.30 o'clock that afternoon when r President Roosevelt delivered an ad3 dress to them in which he declared 3 that he placed the society ahead of the Civil War veterans, because he 3 said in the final analysis, it is the , mother only who is a better citizen than the soldier who fights for his , country. ; The president said In part: , "The successful mother, the mciti- c , er who does her part in rearing a:i;l ? - training aright the boys and i,i.!. . who are be the men and woi e.i ;:f f . the next generation, is of greater use c to the community an! oc?u; it's, did t she only realize it, a i ioie ii-iorable as well as a more important position j than any successful man in it. t "Nothing in life that is really r ' worth having comes save at the cost t of effort. No life of self-indulgence ? . of mere vapid pleasure can possibly, 1 even in one point of pleasure itself, f yield so ample a reward as comes to t the mother at the cost of self-denial, t of effort, of suffering child-birth, of the long, slow, patient, trying work c i of bringing up the chldren arght. e No system of education, no system of v i moral training can be right unless it is based fundamentally upon the s i recognition of seeing that the girl is f trained to understand the supreme s ' dignity, the supreme usefulness of v motherhood. Unless the average t woman is a good mother, unless she e bears a sufficient number of children e so that the race shall increase and v i not decrease, unless she brings up t these children in soul and mind and body?unless this is true of the aver- j age woman, no Drunancy or genius, no material prosperity, j no triumphs of science and t I industry, will avail to save the j. race from ruin and death. The j mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman j. or business man, artist or scientist. r j "I abhor and condemn the man ^ who is brutal, thoughtless, careless, c selfish with women, and especially with the women of his own house- { ! hold. The birth pangs make all men ^ the debtors of all women. I abhor i and condemn the man who fails to i recognize all his obligations to the x . woman who does her duty. But the woman who shirks her duty as wife and mother is just as heartily to ( be condemned. We despise her as we despise and condemn the soldier 1 in battle. ( "Because we so admire the good woman, the unselfish woman, the farsighted woman, wc have scant pa- , I tience with her unworthy sister who ] fears 10 do her duty: exactly as, for , 'm the very reason that, we respect a ] man who docs his duty honestly and < r fairly. All honor to the man or wo- j man who does duty, who renders ser- ( vice, and we rau only honor him or her if the weight of our condemna- j tion is felt, by those who flinch from , their duty. j "I want to ask your assistance for f two or three matters that are not j immediately connected with the life j in the family itself, but that are of - vital consequence to the children. In 3 the first place, in the school, that the . school work be made practical as nossible. For the boys I want to see e training provided that shall train them toward, and not away from, j their life work; that will train them toward the farm or the shop, not v away from it. With the girl, see that q it is not made a matter of mirth that e the girl who goes to college comes out unprepared to do any of the ordlnary duties of womanhood. e "As regards our public school, es(v pecially I want to put in a special p word in behalf of the right kind of s, play grounds. No school is a good ie school if it has not a good playie ground. Help the children to play, and remember that you can often ir help them most by leaving them en o tirely alone. Si "You can not have good citizens, e good men and good women of the le next generation if the hoys and girls >d are worked in factories to the stunting ot" their moral, mental and physical growth. Wherever the national government ran reach, it should I do away with the evils of child ar labor, aud I trust this will be done; |_ but much must be done by the actions of the several State legislatures: and do, each of you, in your several ? States, all that you fan to secure the and then the enforce SOME PLAIN TALK. FROM SENATOR TILLMAN ON TED TARIFF IN THE SENATE. Said Present Needs of the Republi run Party for Campaign Funds Can for Trusts Necessary. Senator Frye's joint resolution t< provide for the transportation b; American ships only of material fo: use In the construction of the Pana ma canal, which was brought up li the senate Tuesday by unanlmoui consent, was the subject of an ani mated debate on various phases o: th work of providing material for th< canal. Mr. Frye stated that five millioi barrels of cement are to be used ii the constructon of the canal and sale that under the law American ships cannot compete for transportatior service, as British ships cost 33 1-3 per cent, less for both constructor ind for their operation. His resolution was to give the trade to American ships, regardless of the difference in cost. He submitted statistics showing that there were 10 times as :nuch tonnage of Ameican vessels aa n&b necessary to ship the cement leeded. An amendment by Senator Foster >f Louisiana providing that the restriction should not apply to the Gulf jorts or any part of the United States rom which vessels of the United States could not be secured for the rade, was accepted by Mr. Frye. Senators Fulton, of Oregon, and 3acon, of Georgia, sought to have he amendment extended to the lorthern Pacific and southern Atlanic coasts, respectively, but were unuccessful. Mr. Lodge .commenting on the proiriety of securing cement on the ishraus, said it would cost $1,000,000 o erect plant there for that purpose. Mr. Culberson said there was need if protecting the United States from (Xtortion by the monopolies that vould be benefited by the resolution. Mr. Bacon thought the resolution hould not leave the direction to the resident to determine that American hips should be given this business ihen their charges were not extorionate nor unreasonable. He wantid the restriction mandatory so that very bidder could know what he I'ould meet in the way of transportaion. Mr. Tllman, declaring against buyng cement in the United States at greater cost than elsewhere, called >lr. Lodge to his feet with the statenent that if he wanted free cement le should apply the same principle to umber and and other material used m the canal or in this country. "I would- like powerful well to lave that done," retorted Mr. Tillnan, "as I represent a good many armers who would be benefited by iheap supplies." Mr. Tllman added that the need or campaign funds made it necessary o look after the interests of the ihipping trust. T?U ^ vAfAlnfiAn tifoo tlaon luM QcfHn lilt? 1UOU1UUVU ?T UO iUiU intil later. FIREBUGS LYNCHED. Pour of Them Taken From an Officer and Hanged. Dave Poe, Tom Ranston and two Jenkins brothers, all negroes, were lynched at Vancleave, Miss., by a mob of 30 men Tuesday night. The men were in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Evans of Jackson county en route to jail when the mob overtook them. A series of incendiary warehouse fires, causing losses in foodstuffs and ather supplies, incensed the people of the vicinity. The four negroes confessed their guilt when the mob took them from the deputy and all four were hanged to limbs of trees by 1.1 ~ P * V. a rno H TL'Hpvp thpfr hod Lilt; MUC \Jl cms ivuu > MV. W ... ies were found the next morning. ment, of laws, that shall put a stor to the employment of children ol tender age In doing what only growc people should do. "Do not forget that love is whal the home is based on; but do nol do children, don't do grown people the dreadful injustice?through t love that is merely one form of weak' ness?of failing to make the child or I might add, the man, behave it self or himself. A marriage shoulc be a partersliip where each of the two partes has his or her rights where each should be more carefu to do his or her duty, than to ex act duty from the partner, but eact must in justice to the other partnei 110 less than to himself or herself exact the performance of duty b: the other partner. ( Applause.) Le each of you do his or her duty firs hnt rin not lose your self respect b; subniittng to wrong. The first session of the congres was held at the Metropolitan Meth odist Episcopal church at John Mar shall place and C street. Elmer E I Brown. United States commissione of education, who was appointed b; President Rosevelt as the officia representative of the United States spoke on " Children in the Unitei States." BRYAN WILL WIN. E New York Sun Says Democrats A Will Carry That ?v* j ivu iv jlic i ruoiucut. , 5 bl Ralph Smith, the Washington cor- b; respondent of the Atlanta Journal, s< says Democrats have been out of t? power for so long and the party has ai met with sucn overwhelming defeat di in national elections of recent years that ordinarily, it would seem ex- a tremely hazardous to predict a Dem- u ocratic victory at the coming presi- ^ dential election. But there are in Washington today many of the best fr posted politicians in the country? ^ men who have had long experience and who have made a study of con- 1 ditions?who confldently predict the m election of Mr. Bryan next fall over **a any candidate the Republicans may nominate at Chicago, and these men *? are not enthusiastic Bryanites, nor ' on the died-in-the-wool Democrats. bl Many of them are old line Republii cans, men who have never voted any- M thing but the Republican ticket. The New York Sun, anti-adminis- tr tration, anti-anything-opposed-to-spe- *a plol-lntorcofo 4r? Ifa 16 iwvvi vwvo, AAA itg 1VUU1U5 CUibVWai of Tuesday, March 3, declared that ^ William Howard Taft cannot be elec- ^ ted president, even if he is nominat- tl] ed by the Republicans at Chicago, ar which it doubts. This interesting tb statement is made even more so by the further declaration that either M William J. Bryan or William R. ^ Hearst," if nominated by the Democrats at Denver, can carry New York stale over any candid.-ito the Repub- ^ lican party may put up. Bc The past inconsistences of The ar Sun, tokether with its well-known th pro-corporation, pro-capitalistic pol- le| icy, to say nothing of its bitter an- P^1 tagonism of President Roosevelt, and ce "his policies," has tended to weaken de the declaration, but the editorial has *cs just the same attracted much a'tten- an tion and caused widespread comment mi among politicians in Washington. Among other things, the editorial in says: * "If Mr. Taft were to secure the t0 Republican nomination, a contin- 011 gency which has been effectively pro- dii vided against, he could not be elect- W1 ed. The Democratic candidate, wheth- ed er Hearst or Bryan, would win." do J4? l_i ~ C t U,'! opeaKing 01 uur owu ?mie vx^cw York) we record ouj ' conviction," n< continues the editorial, "that no Re- ur publican candidate, and we particu- it? larly include Mr. Roosevelt himself, to can carry it against Bryan, Hearst, ca or any other Democrat that may be wj placed in nomination at Denver, Hi There are mighty and revolutionary di changes operating in the political landscape." m The editorial offers an opportunity wi to discuss, briefly, the chances of bi Democratic success at the next elec- st tion. Regardless of the Sun's sin- le cerity, there are in Washington a W number of people, supposedly well m posted, who share the belief that sue- be cess will perch upon the standard of W the Democratic party at the next elec- sc tion, and they all concede the nomi- th nation of Bryan by acclamation at fir Denver. 1 The Sun is probably the first to in come forward with the claim that the wi r-v T..JH poi'fv Mow York, and th L/CUlUtiaio niu j ? ,^ w this statement is attributed more to dislike for Mr. Roosevelt than to a w< 1 genuine conviction. se But the Republican party is in p( power, and, as a young statesman n( from Georgia often says, "a panic is sh upon the people." Whether there ai be a panic in reality makes little dif- wi ference, the fact is that hundreds of cc thousands of men are out of work, \\ particularly in the more populous js* ' states of the east and the middle to J west. It makes no difference wheth- bi ' er the Republican party is responsi- m 1 ble for the hard times, the great mass of people believe such to be the case, u and there are many who have heretofore voted the Republican ticket ' who believe that a change would do nj 1 them good and benefit the country. H No class of persons study politics ^ ' more closely than the Washington correspondents, and it is surprising [ to note the growing belief among i these men that Bryan will be electj ed. regardless of whom the Rebubli cans nominate, oumc ? and best informed writets in the gal- e( \ lery?Republicans, representing great ^ 1 Republican papers?freely confess f ' that the chances of Democratic sue' cess look much brighter today than a do the Republican chances. \ New Yorkers look upon the Sun's ^ editorial declaration with varying views, but they all agree that it is w s quite significant. The concldung par- tl agrap h. especially, has impressed d them, and this paragraph predicts e that New York state will go Demo- c< r cratic. h The last sentence. "There are ? mighty and revolutionary changes a '' operating in the political landscape," t is regarded as a particularly signifi- t *caat tint. "The mighty and revolu-J \ ? STATE IN NOVEMBER * 3 Over Any Candidate the Republicans 0 Y r May Name.?A Washington Cor- ^ ei respondent Says Well Informed ^ Politicians Not Only Agree With n 3 This View, Bat Look Confidently S1 r - - - - G KILLED HER FRIEND. i YOUNG LADY FROM SAVANNAH KILLED IN BOSTON, MASS. 'h? Murder Was Committed by Another Young Lady, Suffering from Melancholia. Due tn Overwork. Suffering from melancholia, due to verwork, Miss Ruth Chamberlin reed, of Philadelphia, shot and kllld Miss Elizabeth Bailey Hardee, of o. 214 Gwinneth street, East Savanah, Georgia, and then committed aiclde at the Laurens School for iris in the Fenway district. The odles of the two women were found y Mrs. Page, the matron of the :hool. The i-aurens School was esiblished last fall by Miss Hardee ad Miss Weed. On October 1, the ay school opened, Miss Weed broke awn as a result of overwork and as result was committed to a sanltarim to be treated for nervous prostraon. Tuesday night Miss Weed escaped om the sanitarium and made her ay to the school. She appeared to 3 badly deranged mentallv. A uitless attempt was made to comunicate with the authorities of the initarium, and at length Miss Har;e succeeded in getting Miss Weed ' go to bed in Miss Hardee's cham;r on the third floor of the school lilding. Both women were awakened by rs. Page and notified that they must :t up if they were to catch the 7.50 ain, on which Miss Weed was to be ken to West Newton. Mrs. Page ft them and a few moments later e shooting occurred. Mrs. Page inks the mention of returning to te sanitarium must have excited id angered Miss Weed and induced e shooting. From the nature of the wounds edical Examiner Stedman decided at Mi3s Weed had committed suicii by shooting herself through the ?ht temple after having shot Miss ardee through the base of the brain. )th women were about 32 years old id they had been intimate since eir graduation from Wellesley Col5e. Miss Hardee received her dloraa in 1894, while Miss Weed reived hers a year later Miss Hare was an instructor of mathemat3 In Wellesley in 1899 and 1900, id last year taught school in VerDnt. Miss Weed also had been teaching {/\ri n SN f + V? ? vanuuo ocuuulis ui 111c uuij. ist summer the two women decided open a boarding school for girls i Audubon road, in the Fenway strict, October 1, the day upon ich the Laurens School, as they callit, was opened, Miss Weed broke iwn as a result of overwork and is taken to a sanitarium in West jwton, where she had since been ider treatment. While at the sanirlum Miss Weed had been subject severe attacks of melancholia. Esping the other night, she made her ly to Laurens School, where Miss ardee volunteered to care for her uing the night. Miss Weed behaved in a -*3culiar anner, according to the teachers, mdering aimlessly about the school lilding and occasionally making a . - * x .1. a 4 range or inconereut remain., al ngth Miss Hardee persuaded Miss eed to retire, and the demented woan followed her to her own chara;r on the third floor of the school, hen Mrs. Page, the matron of the hool, went to Miss Hardee's room e next morning she was shocked to id both women dead. The pupils at the school, about 40 number, are the daughters of ealthy parents from all sections of e country. Miss Hardee, In addition to school ork, had taken a great interest In ttlement work in the city, and es>cially among the Itlians in the >rth end. During her college careet ie was prominent in many branches id extremely popular. Miss Weed's Drk since leaving college has been inflned almost entirely to teaching, 'hlle In the sanitarium at West ewton she was frequently subject i extreme paroxysms of weeping, it never appeared to bear any aniosity to any of her friends. Xegro Killed. At Chicago a quarrel that started i a crowded street car Thursday ight ended in the killing of John . Mapp, a colored man, by James [cDonald, who was accidentally istled by the negro. * Six Chinamen Killed. Six Chinese dead, two others bad injured and one building destroy1 was the result of a fire n China>wn, at 1st and Oak streets, in [aryville. Cal., Thursday. The fire believed to have been the work of a incendiary. * Fatal Fire Damp. At n:irtmound. Prussia, five men ere killed in the Lukas mine, as le result of an explosion of fire amp. Thirty miners were entombd but they were resuoed by their jmrades after several hours of erolc work. Ionary changes" are taken to mean . determination in certain quarters o accept Bryan, or Hearst, if need in preference to either Rooseelt or Taft. _ SHOT HIS RIVAL Because He Walked Home With a Young Lady and Then COMMITTED SUICIDE. / At Marion a Young Alan Walks Into " , Cotton Mill, Shoot and Dangerous* ly Wounds Another Young Maa and on His Way Home Puts Bullet Through His Brain.?Community Terribly Shocked. A dispatch to The News and Cour ier says the cotton mill village In the eastern surburbs of Marlon was terribly shocked by a double tragedy. I which occurred Friday morning as a result of which one man Is dead and another dangerously wounded. At about 8 o'clock Luther Hewitt, a young man who had been up until a few days ago, an employee In the mill, walked Into the mill, where Arthur Stephens was at work, and after saying only a few words to him fired at him at a distance of aboat one or two steps, the ball taking effect in his neck, passing to the. right of his windpipe. Stephens Immediately ran, but was shot again at a distance of a few steps, this ball hitting, him in the back Just over the left shoulder, causing him to fall. Hewitt, evidently thinking that he had killed the man turned deliberately and walked out of the mill and toward his father's house, but when within a short distance of his home, turned the pistol and fired at his owa head, but missed the first time. The second attempt, however, was suocessful. He held the pistol to hk right temple and fired, killing him* self instantly. Dr. Z. G. Smith was hastily summoned, and reached the wounded man within a few minutes, and find4r?fV? noither nf thfi hflllfl Pallid be easily located, he decided to take his patient to the hospital in Florence, where he hopes that with the use of an X-ray machine, the balls may be located, extracted and the man's life saved. The train from Wilmington to Florence was at the station at th? time he examination of Mr. Hewitt was being .made, and Conductor Jones kindly consented to hold the train for ten minutes until the wounded man could be placed upon it, and this was done within that time, Dr. Smith accompanying him to the hospital. The alleged cause of the trouble Is said to be that young Stephens walked home from a party last night with a young lady to whom the deceased was very much attached. But the generalv Impression among the friends of both parties is that. Hew itt's mind musi nave uweu uuuaiuced, although he had not shown any previous symptoms of mental derangement. Neither of these young men la married, both of them living In the mill village with their parents. The deceased was a son of Mr. W. D. Hewitt the night watchman at the mill, and Arthur Stephens Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stephens. Botk of the families are natives of Marlon County and have a great many friends, who are inexpressibly griev. f.1 by tbf *1 ?r. MILLS SHUTTING DOWN. Thousands of Operatives Are Affect" ed by the Curtailment. Thousands of employees o)e New England Mills and factories went on a short time basis following several months of degression. In some places reports come or several factories resuming worn arcer the shut down or increasing their running time. ? The Hargraves Parker mills In Fall River went on a four days a 1. i :n Tfio FMshpr Manufac jWeeiv uaoio. xuv turing Company's cotton mills, at Fishervllle, Mass., employing 700 hands, were shut down until Monday. The Gabot mills, at Brunswick. Ma., with 800 hands, went on a schedule of four days a week. Cotton mills in several towns owned by B. B. and R. Knight, and employing six thousand operatives, went on a three quarters time schedule. The Putnam Manufacturing Company's mills went on three and a half time schedule and the Nightingale and Powhattan mills, of Putnam. Conn., have reduced to four days a week, affecting 700 hands. The Edwards cotton mills, at Augusta, Maine, employing 1,000 hands, adopted a half schedule, and tha Whitin machine shops, at Whitin--111 - malfinir rorton mill ma Vine, luaoo., chlnery, with 1,800 men, reduced time to forty-five hours a week. Curtailment of production is alse approved by the Chicopee cottom mills, of Chicopee Falls, 1,300 handi, the Dwight mills, of Chicopee, 501 operatives, Salmon Falls mills, Salmon Falls, N. H., 700 operatives. Naumbeag cotton milis, of Salem, j^lt500. hands, and otner concerns. w