Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r - -y -^SS s- - P3B ' I'lio 1arid Banner I ? PART SECOITD. | 1 j *u-*l ? -- -*? ^ iBfliiiiw out nr iiinni/ 1 Turn anr ai An CUT IN TWO. Thirty-Six Men Perish In a Ti pedo Destroyer Which GOES TO THE BOTTOI The Deck Crew Goes Down With t * rv >1 nilclrlnc Q \ essei?? urt'sswi 111 uuauiu ? Boots, Victims Have Xo Chance Twenty-Two Are Rescued by Hot From the Other Ship**?Destroy Tries to Cross Big Cruiser's Bo A dispatch from Portsmouth, En land, says thirty-six men, includi] Lieut. Middleton, commander of t torpedo boat destroyer Tiger, lc their lives in n collision off the Is of Wright, Friday night, betwe that vessel and the British cruie Berwick. The vessels belong to the Port mouth division of the British hoc fleet and were engaged in night ma euvers In the channel on their w; to Portland. The night was very dark and tl Berwick was steaming slowly. Wh< tae destroyer attempted to cross t) big cruiser's bow she was caug! amidships and cut in half with half like percison, sinking almost imm diately. The deck crew who were? dreseod heavy oilsklne and boots, went dow with the vessel, not having time 1 free themselves from these heavy e: cumbrances. Of the twenty two men who wei rescued most of them were englnee and stokers, who having light clot] iug, were able to keep themselvi afloat until boats from the oth< ships, which were immediate! launched, picked them up. . The smaller naval vessels were 1 the midst of an attack on their bij ger consorts when the disaster occu red. 1 he entire fleet was und< masked lights, and in darkness. Tt destroyer was cut in two as if st had been made of paper. The fo ward half sunk instantaneously an thesea became dotted with strugg"n men. Most of them, hovever, san before help could reach them, me Tiger had a complemeut of fifty-nir men. THREE DEAD AND MAST HURT Terror Stricken Tenants are Wedge Solidly on the Escapes. At New York three persons wei killed, fifteen were injured, some < them seriously, and the lives of nea ly a huudred persons were endangere by a fire in a five-story tenemei house at No. 44 Hester street. Br Weinstein, nis wife and one yea old son were suffocated In their apar ments on the fifth floor. In their mad attempt to escai from the smoke and fire scores < scantly clad men, women and chi dren crowed the narrow iron pla forms and ladders until they becan wedged in solid masses on tl fire escapes, unable to extrlca themselves and blocking the way < those who had not yet succeeded I getting out of the building. In tl meantime the flames had been co: stantlv spreading and the tern among the tenants had carried the past the point of self restraint. WhiIo the firemen wwre ??.. out to them that there was no dang< and that help soon would reach the they beggan. one by one. to Jun from the windows, resulting In tl list of injured. GHOST MONEY BLKXKD. Clearing IIoi?<o Certificate# Destroy in Columbia Last Week. A fire In Columbia last week d stroyed $4 4 6,832, but no one lost cent and there wore no regrets. T Columbia Clenrius House Associatl held a meeting at %vhieh all the ban were represented and the Clear! House Certificates issued some tii ago were ordered destroyed, havi been redeemed and recalled. The total amount of the issue w about ?4r>f>.000. and there is abc $5,000 in certificates still outstar ing, some of which are in the han of the banks. The Clearing Hot oai.fifif.ntps sprved their purpose a V/Cl VlUVMvv. the stringency in currency havi passed, the ssue was retired soi ^ weeks ago. KILLED BY FALL. On the Eve of His Celebration of I Birthday. Just as the family preparations a surprise party in honor of his 1J birthday were belug completed 1 evening. Louis Lee, of Seginc Mich., was kil1ad by falling do* stairs. He died half an hour af being picked up by his mother at I foot of the stairway. The young man who was w< * known as an atheleie and footl: player, had been complaining that felt sick. Starting to descend stairs, he missed his footing, tun a somersault in the air and lane on his back 011 the floor below. P sicians found that his back ^ I broken. 1 ... 7. PRETTY ROMANCE. SECURED A WIFE BY XEWSPA3r PER ADVERTISING. The Prospective Bride Came From ^ Michigan and Met Her Intended Husband in Columbia. The Columbia State 6ays through j be the agency of dear old Uncle Sam'B malls a romance which bridged 1,000 miles and culEiluatsd Thursday In the """' joining of the uearts and lives of a South Carolinian and Michigander. A venerable citizen of tnis State, er who had seen service in the Confedrate army and wuose hair is snowy w* white, patronized a matrimonial g. agency several months ago and had insereted in the official publication e nf t he nemetual bliss society an ad- 1 hp ' r vertisement, giving notice to all mar- ^ ' riageable women from coast to coast ,e that he was lonely In his oil age en and was In a receptive mood to take i: er unto himself a partner for life. s The advertisement told of h.a be- j, " ' ing a farmer, in a prosperous farm- a ing section of South Carolina, and f( ~ the information that he was able to provide for a helpmate and would not a only provide for uer but shower upon r her all the love and affection of his n ?n . y _ warm heart. le ^ A winsome lady of far-away Mich- [( lgan answered tbe advertisement and 3 ^ one letter followed another for a brief ^ spell, and finally he of matrylug in- s jn clinatlons sent uer word to "come ^ rQ down." He liked her photograpu and f, ^ liked also the way her .cetera were jj written. , ? She told him that she had a son, re and this was satisfactory to the man C( rg who was looking and longing for a ?ood wife. He sent the money for s; 3R the two tickets and wrote that he a ![r would meet her in Columbia. lt [y They met there and recognized h each other Instantly, for luey had exchanged photograpuB, and as she n n Hp'htpd from the train they fell in- n r_ to each other's arms and the lUtle ^ ir fellow was happy, too. They left on "e the next train for Sumter, where w ie they planned to be married, and from C( r. there they will go to their home in ^ Williamsburg county, .p. F. M. Brltton, Sr., Is the brldek groom and he resides at Church, 0( ie Williamsburg county, he is past 70Jte years of age and is a little hard of hearing, but otherwise is sprightly ^ and well preserved physically. He is . "well fixed" in a financial way and w has a nice home all prepared for the ^ bride of his later years. The bride is Mrs. Lillian Barnett w of Kalamazoo, Mich., and 6he Is just past forty-five. Her son is a bright "e young boy and when seen with his ^ mother and the man she has chosen r" as his step-fatner he seemed to be Q very well pleased. , * it " el DOES WELL WEST. r- u Egyptian Cotton Can Be Successfully ^ ,(> Raised Out There. 11 3f w j Successful experiments In the cul~ tivatlon of Egyptian cotton have been conducted in New Mexico and Arizona, according to reports made by w the bureau of plant industry of the ^ . Department of Agriculture. b . Dr. Webber, now of Corness, ex- ^ perimer/ed with the Egyptian plant 16 in South Carolina and Northern Gcor- r n gia, but the climate was too severe in ? ">r these sections. Dr. Carson of th<? dem partmc-nt was rewarded greater sue- 'p ;ebo in his efforts made in tho Col>rado river basis, as much as nin*> \ 01 hundred pounds of lint having been 115 lecured from one acre last year. It s J is believed that the plant can be n I grown In Northern Florida and Southern Georgia. p ontton. millions of dollars r; . ? vorth of which are Imported annuale y Into the I'ntori States, Is more va! iub'e than Inland specimens of kp. sland and upland varieties though t ess valuable than the best grades of If- he former. It is the strongest var- . f ;etv of cotton, and is used largely In v h( the manufacture of fine l?ces and best [ on luality of nndergarments. * k, ; ng SENT UP FOR TEN YEARS no j "f i'or Sending Through the Mails a ,af Deadly Machine. 1 r At Greensboro, N. C., Hardin Ger- 1 , many was convicted in the superior court and sentenced to the peniten- ( ls* tiary, for Eendiug an iufernal ma- 1 n chine through the mail to Caesar t ng Cone, the millionaire cotton manu- i facturer to that city, two weeks ago. i Germany was a former employe in | one of Mr. Cone's mills, and is 20 < ? nt ne-e. He did not emply conn- ; ^ ^el to defend him, and offered no tes- , tirnony. but nedied the charge. Mr. Con was the principal witness. * WEST VIRGINIA toR I5RVAX. )th p*s1 He Is Endorsed by a Vote of Two )W, vn- to One. ter The Democratic State executive committee of West Virginia Friday decided to nold the state nomination >al! convention at Charleston on July 29. ho The convention to select delegates to tbe the national Democratic convention at Denver will be held in Wheeling j9(l on May 28. After an acrimoniius dehv bate of three hours, a resolution. vas indorsing William J. Bryan was * adopted by a vote of 10 to 55. * X BRYAN WILL WIN i th to Says Senator Tillman if Republi- ,ce? cans Nominate Taft in sa TALK WITH THE STATE E so n . mi yo Representative at His Home in Tren* wc de ton?The Senator Getting Better? Will Work for Democracy in Octo- W? ber if Health Permits?To Visit tu 6(1 Atlanta and Then Go Abroad With Mrs. Tillman. *ri th< A representative of The State call- cai id on the Senator at his home at ml ^renton Tuesday morning and found ne lim alone In his library. He was ly- ^ ng upon a couch reading his mornug's mail. Later he changed his po- ev< ition to a large rocking chair and t0 iad his breakfast brougnt in. He te heartily and seemed to relish his ood r?c During and after breakfast Sen- j1 tor Tillman talked upon a great va- * iety of subjects, ranging from anatmy to national politics. p0< In appearance the senator seems an< 3 be in his usual good health. He pe* oes not, however, feel that he will e able to return to congress this for ession. He expects to go to an J itlanta sanitarium as c > ::s he sels strong enough to travel- , lg. He. with Mrs. Tiiin>;.:i. will reiain there for sever;! v.?.?nks. after hich they will go to Europe for a -v?l Dmplete rest. "C! Senator Tillman Shid That he felt W*J itisfied that he must not take on ny more work just now. and that would require time to show when e will be able to do so. He said that he had no plans with ;gard to politics, as he could not no* ffQ r ow see far enough ahead to maKe =>" worth while. flo} He could not *iow te'l whether he xjuld attend the State Democratic far invention, but indicated that if his an) ealth permitted he would do so. As fo Instructions. ^ "Senator, do you favor an instruct- I i delegation to the Denver con- hoi iotion?" ho was asked. ma "Well, I have not been elected a gta slegate yet, and for that reason I d not think it proper for me to say wjt hat tho convention ought to do." "What about national politics, gQi mator. Do you think that Bryan ill be nominated, and what are his ^ lances of election?'" I "It all depends on one thing: If ])Qy le Republicans nominate Taft for ej' resident at the Juue convention, / ryan will undoubtedly be named by , le Democrats and I think he will J in. But on the other hand, if the ^ epublicans lock up the convention tid stampede it for Roosevelt and . ominate him, I do not think that ^ le Democrats can put Bryan fori<ird. wjj "Do you think the matter of a lird term would defeat Roosevelt?" ^ "Well, all that Bvran could say . ould be 'third term,' because he ^ a3 prased the policies of Roosevelt as praised he policies of Roosevelt } im to say." eQ "If tho Republicans nominate j j :oosevelt, who do you think the ^ emocrats would put up?" "That I am unable to say," re- . lied the senator. j "When do you expect to go to itlanta?" "Just as soon as possible,:" he * aid. "I want to take a special treatment of massage, baths and electri- sqj ity. Further than this I have no ani lan3 for the future. I am going to Jtirope just a.- non as I feel strong nough to make the voyage." rej Jn!ended to (io Abroad. SenatorTillman said that for a one time he had boen intending o take a trip abroad and that just s soon as hp felt able to take it he j rould do so. He intends to visit . taly first, because of the good clinate, and afterwards to go to Eng, SU' and. t "Will you study the question of mm ig ration while there?" * "Study? No! I'm not going over ^ t,, I want to rest and re- 1 sew my acquaintance with English ilstory and literature." s Senator Tillman's conversation in- no licated that he had no idea or re- 10 inguislied his wokr for the State and an lation. He said the real fipht in the 1>a lational campaign would not open up until October and that if his he * ' physical condition penumr,,, would go Into the campaign tooth ind nail and work for the triumph ^ il Deinccrac.v. 0 Let tor from Sotintor Chandler. Anions the letters the senator was ^ reading when The State's rpresenta- ? five reached his home was one from Former United States Senator William E. Chandler, a Republican, of ? Now Hampshire. Senator Chandler and Senator Tillman, as is woll known, are warm personal friends ^ Re said that Senator Chandler, at th*? age of 72, is still vigorous and in t0 f :)I possession of his mental powers. aI Up to a year ago he was president ?' of the Spanish-American vJtr claims ' commission. Since that time he has r been practicing law in Washington. Senator Tillmau paid a high tribute s< ro the former senator from New ?] Hampshire. Although a Republican, Senator Tillman said that he could C( iyi H question nia pairiuiiBm uiu mm 3 regards him as a very high man. rhen asked if he would not allow 16 letter to be published, the senar at first declined, but afterwards msented to its publication. The | tter follows: "My Dearly Beloved: The papers y you are staying in bed. Good. "Stay there. "If you knew how many pluocrats at fact pleases yon would realize at in no other way can you cause much happiness to humans. They ay not be the class of bipeds whom u live to please and praise but God >rks In a mysterious way His won- * rs to perform. "There is a time for amnesty toird all criminals. "If you were here you might disrb Mr. Taft's plan to get nominat"(1) All pending prosecutions of jsts to be kept on the docket until 9 district attorneys report that tney a see no evidence, and then disssed. I (2) A statute of limitations?vs. q w prosecutions after one year?not 0 fore. "(3) The labor unions to boycott v jrybody at will, and no injunctions ^ be issued. v "(4) The Sherman law to be so difled that trusts shall be deemed j] isonable and sacred until a court the end of a lawsuit shall say v }y are unreasonable. r "(5) The railroads may make t( :>ling contracts ad lib, divide traffic e i proceeds and agree not to com- 0 :e with each other. e "The plutocrats and proletriat all t] Taft! f) ff you were to get out of bed you ght expose this plan an? defeat . Bryan. ~Q 'Stay In bed and Bryan wfill win. Qi 'You know I have often told you i u-oro n cpent heln to the Renubj u " w ~ 0" ~ " *" " * u in party by your talk. Now you S] 1 help It by keeping quiet (?) See! ^ 'While you are away I shall urge . Burrows to get through a publicbill and take the credit away sj m you. Will he do it? 'Seriously now?take a rest. Do tj ; be Worried. Sleep, walk In the den and see the glories of the w vers. oj 'Vis medlcatrix naturae. Be a ^ mer again and not a stateman r longer. Faithfully yours, etc., tl "Wm. E. Chandler." b( [rs. Tillman Shipping Asparagus. ">nr(n^ the conversation of two irs or more between Senator Till- rt n and tno representative of the tc te, Mrs. Tillman, was busily en- C ;od in the packing house, along h six or eight hands, preparing lc aragus for shipment by express to a' ston, New York, Richmond and " anta. Mrs. Tillman was hard at ^ rk, doing the actual work of wash- t2 the asparagus and marking the :es for shipment. She has about 0( ht acres planted in this vegetable 1 has orders for all that she can al nish. At present the market price 01 40 to 50 cents a bunch. d Vhen first approached Senator 01 Iman talked 6lowly and deliberate- E but after warming up to questions 1 interest to him his old time fire Sl 3 apparent. While he is some- c' at feeble physically, his mind is ti fectly clear as was evidenced by h i various topics he discussed in a orous manner and the interest he '1 played in State and national af- d rs. C1 EVhen the senator was first strick- C he said that the attack came upon a as if a flash from a gun. He ributes the present illness to that :h Vhich he suffered 44 years ago, H en he lost his eye. he was simily effected then and has had sevil attacks of a like character since it time. c Senator Tillman's wishes are to get r ay from everything and have ab- ^ ute rest for a time and he feels g d hopes that this will restore him y hs former vigor. j, During the course of conversation s !erence was made to the recent ] ?ech of Senator Tillman in the sen- ^ In which he took the RepubJi- a 23 to task and incidentally gave p esident Roosevelt a walloping. He E d that never before in his life had felt less like making a speech, r had he ever before experienced ch a strain and effort as he did s lilo delivering his address on irch 16. He said that he was in II posession of his facts and oughts, but still he was unable to serable hin ammunition as he ould like to have done. He gave 1 tice on Saturday of his intention deliver the address on Monday ' d had but a brief period to pre- s re his remarks. Altogether, it may be said that ? OD fls ^Irs ^ nator unman, no ? llraan. hope that the senator will c on be restored to his usual heatlh ' id will resume his place in the fight!1 r Democracy's supremacy. !( "Senator, did you see much of the j' te Senator William James Bryan j Florida, and what was your opin-|( n of him?" j, "Well, he whs in the senate only | j short time, but he gave every prom-j e of being a valuable addtion to:, ie Democratic side." Tie said that | mator Bryan's death had grieved j, ira very much, as it had other sena-j, irs, especially because of his youth! id great promise for future devel-i iment. He thought that the Flor-j !a senator would have made a name] >r himself and reflected credit upon | is State. He said that the young > jnator had been married but threer four years, having won a bride at; exington, Va., where he attended sllpse at Washington nnd Lee uni-, ?*>* -j dLUUUY dA 11 Lt. Man Convicted of Arson Kills Or and Wounds Three IN THE COURT ROOM Lfter Verdict of Guilty is Read Prii oner, in Terro Haute, Indian; Opens Fire on Prosecuting Atto] ney and Officers and is Serious! Wounded Himself Before Mele Ends. At Terre Haute, Ind., Henry F. M( )onald, on Thursday,, in the Circu: Jourt room, after being f ound guilt f arson, ?hot and killed Chief of Dt ectlvefe Win. E. Dwyer, serlousl rounded three other officers and ystander and w as himself serlousl rounded. McDonald had been trie or dynamiting stores and a churc a Sanford last year. As soon as the jury reached it erdict McDonald jumped up, drew evolver and fired at Prosecuting Al rrney James A. Cooper, Jr., but miss d because Cooper tipped his chai ver backwards. McDonald continu d fired at the officers seated aroum he counsel table. Detective Dwye sll dead at the third shot. Policemen and deputy sheriffs i: he Court room drew revolvers am pened fire on McDonald, who return d the fire. Before the convicted mai 3ll with half a dozen bullets in hi ody he had shot Harvey V. Jones uperintendent of police, in the side leputy Sheriff Ira Wellman in th< hin; Sylvester Doyle, Court bailiff 1 the leg, and a bystander in thi ;de. The jurors jumped to tneir reet a ie first shot. Judge J. T. Walker ae of the attorneys, tried to sto] tcDonald, but he only hindered th< fllcers, who were hitting him, whei ley shot at McDonald. Judge Crane, who presided at th< lal, ran to the railing of the jur: dx and spectators rushed out in th< jnfusion. Persons in offices belov ie Court room heard the shots anc ished towards the upper floor onl] ? collide with the people leaving th< ourt room. Some of the spectators to the shoot ig said McDonald's brother also firec : the officers. The officers are look ig for the brother McDonald wai nally overwhelmed by officers anc iken to a hospital. It is said that McDonald and th< :her wounded men will recover. Th< K-ents which culminated so tragic II had their origin in dynamiting utrages that destroyed the Metho 1st Church and the general store: f Shychle and Johnson, and J. W rne, of Sanford, on February 2 907. Henry McDonald and Jame canion were arrested the next da; aarged with the crime, in a forma ial the jury disagreeing. Scanloi IULLi la ^ ^uviuv. ~ x Law. Just above Mr. Bryan's he; in the picture are inscribed "Id Americans," and "Popular Stat< men." _ BBMHHHH as not been tried. McDonald had been permitted hi berty during the trial. The polio epartment has been active In th ase, and several officers were li ourt to hear the verdict. DIED FROM BURNS. tanging Lamp Falls to Floor Witl Fatal Results. As the result of severe burns re eived by a swinging lamp in he oom falling from its fastenings an reaking at her feet, Miss Lolli niith, daughter of M. D. Smith, c V'aughtown, N. C., died Tuesday, an ier mother is confined to her rooi uffering from painful burns receive n trying to save the life of he aughter. A brother, Gilmer, wa ,Iso badly burned In attempting t iut out the flames that enveloped hi Qother and sister. MAN HURT IN WRECK. iees His Leg Cut off With His Oiv Knife. Pinioned under wreckage cause >y a rear end collision on the Bui ington road Friday and with steal rom a broken engine pipe pouring ii o his face, Horace A. McKittrick, tock broker of Brookfield, Mo. lirected the amputation of his le md furnished a dull jack knife wit -Mo* tho wnrk was done. The roug jperation was performed by tt *ev. R. C. Allen, of Grove City, Pa iut ft failed in Its purpose, McKlttrlc lying later at a hospital. A Campaign Button. Among other things of interest r :eived in the morning's mail of tt jenator was a "Bryan button," whic le presented to the correspondent. The button, which is probably 01 .if the first received in South Car Una, Is just a little larger than silver dollar and contains the Ilk nesses of George Washington, Thor as Jefferson, Andrewt Jackson at Abraham Lincoln with Mr. Bryan the center, under whose picture this inscription: 'The People's Choic At the top is a legend, "Enemies Special Privileges," and on the be ^<'TTr,v>?i^0,.ci nf Rnnalltv of t IYIHNI UUI ur YYUI\r\. I THE LABOR CONDITIONS ARE 18 MOST DISTRESSING. Thousands o f Wage Earners Ar** Thrown Out of Employment i>y Distressed Industrial Conditions. A Washington Dispatch says the s- most serious problem now confront? ing the country is the unprecedsnted number of idle work people in every r" city of any considerable size throughly out the land. In New York alone, according to the latest statistics, e nearly 700,000 are without employment and with no visible means of support except what comes through a precarious sort of charity. It Of this number over 200,000 are reported as belonging bj the various y labor organizations, the rest being nonunion work people. The condi* tion of the laboring class Is almost a if not quite, as bad in Chicago ^ Not a city, in fact, either in the . Northern or Central Western states is exempt from this anomalous state of things. Even in the extreme Northwest there is a surplus of unemployed labor. * VlO^fA KftrtW A 4 ATTO j JCiiiui 10 nave uccu uiauc lv i ciiwv t the city of New York of its congested idle working people, but so far all ^ efforts have proven futile. Recently the editor of the Christian Herald sent letters to the governors of over twenty states inquiring if it would ^ he possible to replace unskilled with skilled labor, and saying that he Q could supply two thousand skilled ? laborers at a moment's notice. Withi out a single exception, the governors replied to his letters to the effect p that their states have more idle work lng people of their own than they e could provide with employment. The situation is frightful, and con- ( t sidering the enormous crops made last year and the vast wealth of the ^ country, it is strangely anomalous. a Added to this general impression in fViQ Knolnoeq O/nrlH hv whlr.h a mil J l?UO (7UOIUVWW v>? * ?-* y ** J .. __ w __ lion and a half of work people have ! ; been thrown out of employment, Is 'f the "fact that the cost of living has , ; not decreased to any appreciable exf tent. Such a condition of thlngE ' j would seem to be prophetic of a reign j of terror. ; No work and hunger that cannot 1 be appeased by honest toll make peo. pie desperate. They are ripe for re- c } volution of for anything that will . keep the wolf of starvation from their : 5 doors. And yet nothing Is beinf ' j done to relieve the situation. The thouble Is, what can be done? All ? that we can say Is that 'tis a pity the a Innocent h ave to sufTer for the wrong - doing of the guilty. r Business heretofore conducted lm- 1 ! properly, if not dishonestly, in it? j s return to honest channels of output and trade has left these unemployed J stranded and with nothing to stave s off starvation. They are the suffer/ ers, n ot those who by devious and ] dishonest methods were responsible ' i for the panic that has wrought such widespread ruin. s The South,'being an agricultural e country, is fortunately exempt ir a e large measure from this dreadful conn dltion of labor glut, although in the * larger cities we have more unemployed p eople that they care to see. It is possible that the farmers of the South, who at this time of the year li need help, could relieve to some extent the congestion in other sections of the country. But the greatest difAcuity In the way would be the fact r that the great majority of the unem(j ployed are artisans of one calling or e another and know probably nothing about farm work. d n VERY STRANGE CASE. d A Burglar in Sleep, But an Honest 'p Man Awake. o Is Charged with breaking into the * home of Fred Folger, at No. 400] Armour avenue, Chicago, and attacking Folger and hia wife, Robs Freeman, son of a wealthy oil dealer, waf ? acquitted on the ground that he wa? asleop when he conmitted the offence. Freeman was found by Folger in ;(j the kitchen of his home. He grappled r. with the intruder and was getting j] badly beaten when his wife appeared. i_ Although she was beaten also, the.\ a managed to overpower Freeman and hold him until the police a rrived. g In ocurt alienists testified that they h believed Freeman was asleep when h he entered the Folger house and that ie his attack upon Folger and his wife t was not a criminal act. One alienist, k Dr. O'Neill, said that Freeman's act was commlttel while he was in the ? "automatic mood following an epileptic seizure." He asserted that this e_ was different from the state of samnambulism and testimony was given <'h to show that Freeman was an epileptic. * le . t,,., umrsrcwHIPPED HIM. Mir/ UVl.r,.. a e- Says He Had Annoyed Iler With His 111(J Attentions. 'n In the presence of a thousand peo, pie, Mrs. Minnie Cowden, of James-1 :e town, N. Y., horsewhipped Henry of Franklin, on tue city's main thor>l" oughfare Friday. When Franklin he tore the whip from her hands, Mrs. ac* Cowden broke an umbrella over his !a* head. According to Mrs. Cowden, ?s" Franklin had been annoying her with J Ills attentions. _ * y t inCT HKL ULHU. Republicans Are Jubilant |kThat Senator Tillman is Absent ARE AFRAID OF HIM. The Republican Leaders Said to Be Breathing Easier Than in Years ^ Because of the Enforced Absence of the Senior Senator From South Carolina.?Democrats Will GreaOj Miss Him and His Leadorship. ^ V The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier saya since it was announced a few days ago that 3enator Tllman's physicians had positively forbidden him to return to Washington before the beginning of the next session of Congress and in the meantime had ordered a complete change of livng in every respect, there has been a considerable amount ^ of discussion as to who will take his part in the Denver Convention and will lead the Senate until he returns. ? It Ib said that Republican leaders are breathing easy now for the first time since Tillman went to the Senate. While they admit that he has toned dov#n considerable since his advent into Washington political life he is still, they say, anything but docile, and what troubles them most is that they never can tell just where nition >10 tn P'nfnS' tn hrA2k out. That part of the Senator's make-up has given them more trouble than . . a little and many times when they thought him quieted he was only gathering more material for a still mightier onslaught. Beveridge, Lodge, Aldrich, Hale, in fact all the big men on the Republican side of the Senate wear n lifferent look now from that to be ^ found on their features two weeks igo. They knew Tillman was a Bghter who did not know the meaning of the word fear and they had to ?uess many times justwhere to ^ :ackle in order to get a hold. Some :imea they held him, sometimes they ~ :hrew him, but it w.as always be>nnao nf the combined forces of the Republicans on one side as opposed :o the half-hearted help of the Dem>crats on the other. No man who had made plans to tttend the Denver Convention will be nore missed than Tillman and many Democrats who expect to attend from lifferent parts of the United States lave so expressed themselves. He vas to be the central figure?certalny so far as the South is concerned? jnless it be Bailey, of Texas, and ;here is now serious doubt whether ;he great Texas orator will be alow;ed to present his State or not. owed to represent his State or lot. There will be other Democrats from various sections of ihe country, but all eyes were beginning to centre on Tillman and 3ailey as the two Southern leaders. The people of Texas have never been able to believe that their former idol, Bailey, was entirely divorced from the scandal that two years igo came near ending his political life. when his alleged connection with the Waters-Pierce Oil Company oecame known to them. In order chat the people of Texas may vote on the issue as to whether Bailey shall be one of the four delegates at large to the Denver Convention a special election is to be held May 2. Should it be decided at that election that Bailey shall not attend two of the foremost Democrats in political life to-day will be absent?Tillman and Bailey. KILLED AT GRIST MILL. A Colored Boy Got Caught in Machinery Somehow. The Aiken Journal and Review >ays on Saturday week ago a negro >oy, whose name could not be learned, was killed at Mr. E. H. Toole's grist mill, near Wagener. The boy went to the mill with some corn to be ground into meal, and after it was ground, he was instructed not to hang around the machinery. Mr. Toole went into another part of the house, " -1- - 1 Un not thinking further or mo uuj. u? soc heard a thud and he thought tha- omething was the matter with the machinery. When he reached the place, he found hte boy lying lnesnsible on the floor. He had evidently touched one of the belts and was thrown heavily to the floor. He was not dead, and was carried to his home and care given to him. It was found that no bones were broken, but blood on " brain was supposed to have rauseu his death, which occurred on Sunday morning. The boy had severe convulsions from the time he was Injured to his death. * Abbeville Gets Building. A dispatch from Wsahington says {building and grounds Wednesday or dered reported bills for new buildthel Senate committee on public ings ot Muskegee, Oklahoma, $265,000; Abbeville, South Carolina, $76,000; and Miami, Florida, $75,000. Return Flags. At Trenton, X. J., Thursday tho house passed the senate Joint resolution providing for the return of Southern flags taken during the Civ. .11 .War..