Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, April 03, 1907, Image 2

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LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, I ?ugusfe. Ga, niijiiwuiwu ACC?1}TFS SOLICITED J L C BA1TNE; I PB<<SXDft?t. Cbas. C, Soward, J BEStURCES OTK? 81.000.000 ^iiiiiBiniii nimiiiiiiy L^..-. VOl . 72. EDGEFIELD, S. CH WED??ESOAY, AP?lL 3, 1907. KATMffAt BANK I ? AUGUSTA, GA? f IV, OL HAYHE, Prtsrideal PXAHX & FORD, Oatt* CAPITAL.$250,00? Surplus and Profite. 150,009 % Wt ?kal I bc ftaoaai to har? y ?a OOM M ?iarod of rr .rr ora rut j and MOoa??*d>tt- -I X kl? oaoar Moserraiir?, milirn Wiitin; wiiKi ? mi viiHiiiiHinnim NO. 20. Late JSfetvs In "Brief A % MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Another Pennsylvania train was re railed by wreckers. Andrew Carnegie was a guest of [the President at luncheon. Princeton men gave a loving cup (to ex-President Cleveland. Secretary Taft's Presidential boom [was launched in Cincinnati. The -Interstate Commerce Commis sion issued a long list of new rulings. Elizabeth City, N. C., suffered dam ivamoun^ng. to nearly $450,000 by ire. Germany holds that at present the IMoroccan situation is France's af fair. (.Anglo-Saxon prelates presented their claims for consideration to the Pope. ?Fighting continues in Moldavia/ though the Government has announced reforms. .L2!ie Davis, 20 years old, shot and I'fatally wounded herself in a cemetery 'at Bristol. Gen, Lawrason Riggs was elected a ! vice president of the National Guard Association. A strike, of-trainmen on 40 West ern railroads seems more imminent than ttefore. s The New York stock market rallied when the action of Secretary Cortel you was announced. Preiiident.Roos?velt accepted the inc vitation to open the Jamestown Exoo aition on April 26. Secretary Cortelyou came to the re fief of the money market with about $16,000,000 in cash: j More revelations of graft, in con nection with the Pennsylvania Capi tol were brought out. Lieut. George C. Lawrason gave his version of the Brownsville affray to the Senate committee Ambassador James Bryce told tho New York Chamber ol' Commerce in a speech that trade makes for peace. ? Bonilla's Government is reported to be at an end in Honduras and the termination of the war is looked for. : Senator Foraker demands that Ohio Republicans, by primary vote, expr?s- j their .choice for Senator and Presi dent. The Virgiuia Supreme .Cc?urt,refus ed a" new trial to "Thomas, convicted tn Ale?.:::i3ri.t r^iutv c?i criminal as sault. : James_ Henry Smith, one of New York's wealthiest men, died in Japan, . ' while on his-wedding "tour around the WOVldvSM - raw -? ?--v <*. ?:------e. r-. -=. Observers-believe there will be- _ fight to a finish between the Forakey j and jgaft factions in the Ohio .oj" The New York Central- Railroad was indicted for manslaughter iii the ? second-d?gree as a result of the Har lem wreck. . :- The New York common carriers are making^a great ?effort to emasculate O?V^o^fjj?&ghes>- Public Utilities The-body of Thomas De Lontch was found- mthe c?imney of a vacant house *? near his . home io Southamp ton county,. Viirgdma. The genferal_ Education Board au n ou need awards to universities and colleges-aggregating $625,000 from th-j big Rockefeller fund. A Norfolk Banker has filed charges j against A. L. Sutton, chief of exploi-" talion, Jamestown Exposition, which are being investigated: Capt. William Swift is on trial be fore a court-martial for allowing the battleship Connecticut to strike a rock while oflLCulebra, Cuba. Troops guard the courthouse at Alexandria, where George I Midgets, colored, is1 being .ta?ed on a charge^of murdering Charles T. Smith. The Baltimore Conference, Metho dist Episcopal Church South, is hold ing its one hundred and twenty-third annual session at .Staunton. Va. Former Justice Morgan it. O'Brien declined to-serve on the:Thaw lunacy, commission, and David McClue, a prominent lawyer was appointed. Doctor and Mrs. S. D. Kennedy, of Warrenton, announce the engagement of their daughter, Agnes Gray, to Dr. William Beverly Mason, of Washing ton. ;< Justice Fitzgerald appointed for mer Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, Peter Olney and Dr. Leopold Putzel a com mission in, lunacy to pass upon the mental condition of Harry K. Thaw. . The -Tuna Glass. Company, of -Fair mont. W. Va., will establish , a plant at Clarksburg, Wf Va., for the manu facture of window glass, annual cap; acity to.be 200,000 boxes. About $75;-* 000 will be 'invested in the buildings and equipment. Seated by "AckJ' Hale iu ?-"ceme tary at Bristol, Va., Lillie Davis, 20 years old, sent a bullet into her beast. The girl was still conscious when found and was able to teil the officers that she shot herself with suicidal in tent after having told Hale Vf her" intention. Hale was arrested. The presumption is-that he and the giri, who had gone to the cemetery carly in the evening, and quarreled. The at tending physician says the girt cali-? not? recover. Hon. T. C. Pilcher, whose announce ment as a candidate for the State Senate from the counties of Loudoun and Fauquier was made public re eeiAly, will be opposed by G. Latham Fletcher, of Warrenton. An unknown white man was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the stable of G. W. King, a farmer, near Danville, Va. It is supposed-the roan wri a tramp and. set.fire to the stables'; while smok&'m the-loft, where a' quantity of dry feed, was stored. wviitmn - l?i i fi i if ?Ul i ll I Tri She Census Bureau Gives Out Some Interesting Figures INCREASE A MILLION A YEAR Os Basis of Eestimate of Census Bu reau Density of Population of Con tinental United States in 1906 Was 28 Persons Per Spaare Mile Against 26 in 1900-Estimated Population in Fire Leading Cities: New York 4,113,043; Chicago, 2,049,185; Phil adelphia 1,441,735; St. Louis, 646, 820; Boston, 602,278 Rapid Grow th of Urban Population Noteworthy -Increase of. 16,3 Per Cent Shown in 88- Cities- Having Esstimated Population og 50,000. Washington, Special.-There are how nearly 8,000.000 more people in Contietftal United States than there '.rere six years ago. Thc above estimate is based upon figures compiled by the Census Bu , reau in -a special report issued- today. According to its estimates the popu lation of Conteinehtal United States in 1S06-,w.-u SJ.941,510, this being an increase' over 1900 of 7,940,935. The population of tte United States, in elusive of A?a?ka and the insular poi -sessions, ia l???, was. 93,182,240. The growth in population'hi Continental United States fyi m 1905 to 1906 was 1,367,315. Compelled -on*the basis of the esti mate, the density >f population of Continental United States in 1906 was ?8 persons per. square mile, as com pared with 26 iii 3900. ! The five leading cities and their es timateti-population in 1906 are as fol lows; New York, 4.113,043; Chicago. 2,049,185; Philadelphia, 1.441,735; St. 735 inl: Sp uer shvdl sbrdlushrdluu Louis. 649,320, and Boston, 602,278. Thc States which took a'census in 1905 aw Florida. Ia>ya, Kansas, Mas sachusetts, Minnesota, Ne?- Jersey, New Yjork, North Dekota, Oregon, Rhode island, South Dekota, Wiscon sin and Wyoming. In Michigan the census is taken in the years ending with a "4." The population returns for the "States was 26,263,877, an in crease since 1900 of 1,901,572, or 7.8 per c?ntr For th remaining States and Territories the population for 1905, as determined by the method of es timating-., adopted by the Bureau of the Census, was 56.2.83,059, ?an in crease over 1900 of 4,374,040, or 8.4 per cent.^ The population of the 14 States making an .enumeration if esti mated in the same.manner would be 26,204,762, a difference of only 0.2 p^r-cerit. fi-om the actrrahTetttrns.-' - Therrpop.ulatum.of ?^??nentaLUnit ed Statis, in 1905,'as obtained'by ad :d"n?r to "the returns of tie States which ??ok a -census in .'fcbat^eaf^ji^ estimated population :bf th r?mairi^r States and Temtori?s. "is.82.574vl95. an increase ov*r 1900 of-'6,'579;6?20, or 8.7 per-cent. 1 The rapid growth of urban popula tion is note war thy. t Thev88 cities. .with an -^'estimated population of 50,000 or more in 1906 had a total estimated population of 19,771 ?67, W inerefa'se; on 2s766,863, or 16.3 per cent., over that reported at the 12th census.. . ... NEWBERRY FIRE SWEPT. $200,000 Loss Sustained by South j Carolina^Towiu , . . - ' Columbia,- S. Cr,- Special.-Fire at Newberry,.a thriving little city of 6,000 population, ' Friday destroyed 22 residences, "10 stores and two churches, entailing a loss estimated at between $150,000"-to $200,000, which insurance of about $35,000. .Prominent Ifethbdist Iffinister Dead Roanoke, Va.*, Special.-Rev." Dr. J. H. Boyd, prominent minister in tho Baltimore Methodist "Conference for .more, than ?30 years, died here^Thurs "Hay, after ?h extended illness.* At the time of his death, he was pastor of St. James M. E. church, this city. He was for several years editor of- The Baltimore Methodist, the church paper, published at Baltimore. He had filled pulpits in many of the lead ing churches in the Conference . , Veteran of Two Wars Dead. Colorado Springs, Col., Special. Hamlin F. Lee, a veteran of the Mex ican and civil wars, and a nephew ol f?en..Bobert E. Lee, died here_Xhurs: day of heart iailure^aged .87.years.' Although closely related to the South ern general and a Virginian by birth. Mr. Lee fought with the Union, army. Iff,the i??e 70's Mr.; Lee went t?FLead .ville-and was the : cliscoyerer of thc famous Robert E. Lee mines. Two Killed by Derailment of a Pas senger Train. . Linden, Ala., Special.-Engineer fitzgerald, was killed and Baggage Master Galt and one passeger were injured in the derailment of a. west bound Louisville & Nashville passen ger" ?xaiff half a wile west of Thom aaton. It. is alleged that iron piled on the track caused the entire train to leave the track. Investigating Common Mosquitos. New Orleans, Special.-The city board-xjf health began an investiga tion of common mosquitos, not fhfl kind which transmit yellow fever, with a view to exterminating them, These mosquitos are a source of dis Comfort'if New Orleans nearly th? "year ronnth The extermination of itu fever moscj^iitoS? was'^rrnn abouttw< months ago. OIL MILIS BIM) Destructive Tire Visits Pitts bcrot ADJOINING FRCFERTY SUFFERS [ The Total Loss Will Reach Over $40 000, Only Partially Covered by Insurance Ir. Presumed to Have Started in Boiler Room--Vain' able Buildings and Products Near by SVived by Heroic Work on th? Part >f Citizens. Pittsboro. N. C., Special-The cot ton seed oil mills at this place was burned down Sunday morning at 3 o'clock. The fire lasted until 7. Thc loss of the mills will be $30,000, with $15,000 insurance. The guano warehouse of W. L. London & Son, A. J. By mun & Son, C. Poe and L. N. Womble were burned, together with about fifteen hundred sacks of guano, phosphate, I and cotton seed meal. W. L. London & Sons' loss will bc about $1,000; F. I C. Poe, $1,000; L. N. Womble, $800, j and A. J. Byniun & Sons, $300. By heroic efforts thc Pittsboro coach was saved, it having been pulled hy men up the track. The outhouses of Capt. J. F. Alston, just across the track, were burned, and only by con tinual application of water was his dwelling saved. A box car of hulls I on the siding was burned, but the two iron tanks containing 2,700 gallons of oil, were saved. The night superintendent says Le ran the mill until 12 o'clock and when he shut down had only forty pounds of steam. It is supposed the fire caught in the boiler room. Mr. Arthur London, the president of the mill, says that he had unloaded Sat urday 1,000 bushels of seed and load a car of oil, valued at $2,700, which was pushed down the track and sav ed. The mill gave employment to twenty-fiv men and was a great help to the community. ' The fire is a dis tinct loss to the town. Hon. Galusha Grew Dead. Binghamton, N. Y., Special.-For mer Congressman Galusha A. Grow died at his, home in Glenwood, Pa., Sunday afternoon as a result of the general breakdown, attributed to old age. Mr. Grow was elected to Con gress from the Wilmot district of Pennsylvania as the youngest mem ber of that body in 1851, and after retirement from public life for nearly k 40. years he re-entered the House pf j Represen tali ver us' - Congressman-at ; ??rge fron^ Pennsyfcaura v .ago; ^hen Te retired four yearsj ago,,his public service in the House exntending over the longest period, although not continuous service, of any man who ever sat in that body. Car of Explosives Ignited. Cumberland, Md., Special.-A car loaded with railroad torpedoes and iron containing carbonic acid gas, connected near the middle of a rapid ly moving eastbound Baltimore & Ohio freight train, was blown up while passing Patterson's creek, eight miles cast of here. The car was de molished, the connecting cars smash ed, two steel hopper cars on an ad joining track were blown over, the track was torn up for some distance and telegraph poles and wires de stroyed. The noise of the explosion was deafening and thousands of ex ploded torpedoes rained on house roofs many yards away. No one was injured. Passenger trains were delay ed foi a time. Chile Wants Ambassador. Washington, Special.-Chile's fail ure to send a minister to Washington to replace Mr. Walker-Martinez, who did, not return here after the Pan American conference at Rio Janeiro last summer, has caused much com ment. The neglect of the Chilean Congress to appoint sufficient money tb maintain the legation has been given as a reason for leaving the American mission in charge of Alberto Yoacham, Secreetary to the Legaton. But it has just become known that the real cause was hid den deep in Latin-American politics. . * Wire-Tappers ' ' Caught. Cleveland, .0., Special.-In the ai rest here Sunday of three men and a woman giving the names'of Ed ward Weiss and Max Morris, of New York,' and Charles Drucker and Claudius Carldon, of this city, the po lice say they have caught a clique of el?ver "wire-tappers" wanted in sev eral cities. Mob'Violence Feared. Bristol, Tenn., Special. - During Satrday afternoon rumors were circu lated of intended mob violence against Ack Hale, held in the Bristol, Va., jail, charged with the killing of. Lillie Davis in East Hill Cemetery Wednesday night. It is thought that the hundreds of mountaineers here for Saturday's trading started the movement. In order to prevent, a raid sheriffff and deputies .secretly hurried the prisoner across the line ?nd lodged him in Blountville, Tenn. Four Killed at Crossing. Kansas City, Mo.. Special.-Four persons in a buggy were killed Sun day afternoon at the Fifteenth street crossing of the Chicago & Alton Rail road by a passenger train. The horsey escaped injury. The dead : George Henry and wife; D. P. Mon ner and wife. The men were sales men for local mercantile houses. PALMETTO AfFAiRS OccuiTcnces of Interest from AHOver South Carolind^ MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Lire Paragraphs Cover-, big a Wide Bange-What ii Going Oa ia Oar State. Charged With Embezzlement. . Sumter, Special.-Mr. E. L. Wither-j spoon, the general manager of the j Southern Coffin and Casket company]j swore out a warrant before Magistrate^ Wells for the arrest of Mr. li. E. Mil 1er, chief bookkeeper, charging him, with the embezzlement of something over $600 of the company's funds. The bookkeepr had the full confidence of his employers until a few da3's be'->j fore the recent death of Mr. M. B. Witherspoon, the former general nrar? ager. They suspected something wrong at the time, but the death ol the general manager, brother to tho . present manager, prevented an im mediate investigation being made. Miller had authority to sign checks, settle accounts, etc., during the ab sence of the manager. He had charge of the check and bank books and de posited the moneys collected for the company. It is alleged in the indict ment that he issued and signed checks which he cashed and appropriated to his own use. New Brookland's Bank, New Brookland, Special.-The di rectors of the bank which was recent ly organized here have decided to rent, the vacant building belonging to Capt. Williams on State street for uso until a new building is erected, if in deed, one is built soon. Mr. L. S. Trotti, president of the bank, was over this week from Ridge Springs and attended a meeting of the board of directors. . Mr. Trotti will move here some time soon and have every thing in readiness for the opening of the bank on Sept. 1, as decided by the board. The directors are extremely gratified at the excellent showin? made in the matter of the stock sub scription and arc confident that the bank will prove a success financially The capital is $25,000. The Drainage Commissions. Columbia, Special.-The counties are beginning to select their drain age commissioners to carry on the work as provided for in the act pass ed by the last general assembly, which will result in clearing out the'swami is m the lower part of the State. This act was passed through the efforts of Represent?tivii James (?osgro\ "' : ber of the Charleston drairu.^, mission which,' diiring his term of < lice, rendered habitable and arable thousands of acres of swamp land. Gov. Ansel ?appointed the following to have charge of the drainage in Georgetown: C. P. Aliston, W. H. Andrews, J. A. Heramingwny, O. B. Skinner and D. N. Bourne. Compromise in Franklin Case. Greenville, Special.-When the case of Mrs. Sudie Franklin vs. the South ern railway was called in the court of common pleas here Judge Gary an nounced that at the request of both sides the case would be taken up. Later in the day it. was announced that a -compromise has been effected. It is not known what amount was given to Mrs. Franklin, the attorneys refusing to make it public. The suit was for $50,000. The announcement of the compromise came as a surprise as all of the witnesses and attorneys in the case were here for trial. Georgetown Banks Do Well. Georgetown, Special.-Thc People's bank and thc Bank of Georgetown will pay 6 per cent, and 8 per cent, re spectively to their stockholders this year, a good balance being set aside by each to increase the surplus ac count. The annual meetings of the banks will be held the first week in April. Ice Plant For Newberry. Newberry, Special-Another new and important enterprise for Newber ry is an up-to-date and fully equip ped 20-ton ice plant with everything in readiness to begin operation on April 1. The plant has been install ed by the Farmers' Oil Mill Com pany, with Mr. John H. Wicker as superintendent and manager. The ca pacity of the plant is 20 tons a day and the company will put on wagons and deliver the ice throughout the city to its customers. Greenville Lineman Touches Live Wire. Greenville, Special-While repair ing broken insulators on the main wires of the Greenville Power com pany, ai 1 o'clock Thursday morning William Godfrey, a lineman, touched a live wire and was stunned. He fell to the ground, 30 feet below, breaking his right arm and fracturing the skull. He is still in a unconscious condition and physicians say he will die. Contract Let For New Boat. Georgetown, Special.-Mr. H. P. Duvall was in town and contracted with Mr. Samuel Sparks to build a boat at once for the Cheraw and Georgetown Steamboat company with a capacity of 200 tons, to be ready to bc put on the line by August next. Another boat will be built and put on later, and a big business is expected to be done by this line. Georgetown welcomes this new connection. It will bc a peat thing for this port and for Cheraw. TROUBLE AT UNIVERSITY Student ?, M. Lee, Waited Upon Committee Purporting to Repres ent tlie Student Body of South . Carolina University, is Given a I ?dmit?? Tim? in Which W Leave Father Has Engaged a Lawyer and Has Expressed His Determination to See the Matter Trough. - Columbia, Special.-Aa a result of being waited upon by a committee purporting to represent the student body,, giving him till D?B first tram ^ home to get out of college, young C. if. Lee, a student at the South Caro lina University from Timmonsville, has left the university. But he has not gone home, and his father will j back him in a fight to the finish with lawyers to regain his place at the uni versity. The university authoritiei &ave been informed that the father tl . * . ' t .inhere. Mr. Lee arrived on the scene donday and will take the matter be ?qr?--?ie faculty as soon as his at torney, Representative C. T. Ker shaw, arrives in the city. "I do not care to say anything fer publication just yet," said Mr. Lee, Sr., "I want to get the affair before the faculty as soon as my attorney arrives. My son is entitled to re main in college, to protect his good name, if to accomplish nothing else. [If he is given justice at the hands 'f&i?ie faculty, why the matter will end there, and of course, I will have no necessity for carrying the case to cours. " "The students quote your son as saying you gave him the revolver which he fired at the party of hazers and instructed him to defend himself against being hazed. Is that true?" "It most emphatically is not true that I gave him the revolver or any such instructions, ?n? I do not think he made any such statement. I do think, now, however, that he ought to be allowed to protect himself. against further assaults. My son has been attacked a dozen times in this way. He stood it until forbearance ceased to be a virtue. He could do no work. Of'course'I am sorry that he violated the rules in carrying a revolver, but I do not see how he could have been expected to act otherwise than he . did. The first of the trouble occurred several weeks ago, when a party of sophomores attacked Lee in his room for the purpose of blacking him. Hs resisted and when effort was made to fcice^a way into the room Lee fired cn the party through the door in the struggle over its being opened. ; As'j lie fitted the door.:closed, and-the .bul let entered the edge of .the door just p.bovtv, the. lock. His roommate, Hill, ?,^^^S?S???<Lt?n^ Emitted 'be par e result wi the party. Jack Reeves, of Charles ton, and Douglas Dargan, of Darling ton, were suspended for the remain der of the season; Lee was suspended for two weeks for having firearms on the campus, while Dave Loring, of Sumter; Biscoe Davis, of Summer ville ; Clyde Franks, of Laurens ; Wil liam H. James, of Chester; John B. Wardlaw, of Union, and Robert Holmes, of Newberry, were suspended for two weeks. All these returned to college last week but Reeves and Dai^au. The head and front of Lee's of fending in the eyes of the students is that he violated the honor system by carrying the matter to the college authorities. The student body is practically a unit against him. Both the senior and the freshmen clashes adopted '"resolutions against' him, i'nd a student body mass-meet ing was to be held later, when this comm?tet lost patience at the delay and acted themselves. In chapel President Sloan condemn ed i lie action of this committee, and warned all against any further haz ing, lie said that if this committee were dis covered they would be sum marily dealt with. He said that Lee had stayed out the suspension period,? and had a good legal standing andj should be allowed to remain in the] college. Special Election in Laurens. Laurens, Special.-In pursuance of an act of the general assembly, passed at the last session of the legislature, the board of trustees of the town of Laurens, of which Col. J. W. Fergu son is chairman, a special election has been ordered to be held on the 18th of April for the purpose of vot ing upon the question of whether or not the board of trustees of said school district shall issue bonds to the amount of $30,000 for the purpose of erecting a new graded school in the city of Laurens. , Petition for Pardon. Columbia, Special.- Gov. Ansel has received a petition for the pardon of Walter Allen of Greenville, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Henry Johnson. The de fense put up the plea that Johnson had insulted Allen's wife, but the jury returned a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy. The homi cide occurred in 1901. The case will be referred to the State board of par dons. Big Cotton Mill For Aiken County. Aiken, Special.-Another large and modern cotton mill will be added t.i Aiken county. The Seminole Manu facturing company has been organized and a charter has been applied for. On Saturday morning this company, {.brough Mr. John W. Dickey of Au gusta, bought the entire assets of the Clearwater Bleachery and will trans fuim at once the present mill into a modern and thoroughly equipped cot ton factory. Brownsvife Affair Thoroughly Aired in Investigation LIEUT. LAURASON IS EXAMINED [.Officer in Charge of Company B on Night of Brownsville Shooting Cor roborates Practically All M a trial Points in Testimony Given by Members of His Command and of Cos. C and D. Washington, Special.-Lieut. Geo. Carson Lawrason, who was in com mand of Company B, Twenty-Fifth Infantry, on the night of the affray at Brownsville, Tes., was on the stand nearly ??l day in the investigation being conducted by the Senate com mittee on military affairs. On prac tically all material points his testi mony corroborated that given by the men of his command, and also by the men of Companies C anj D. He was shown bullets taken from th? walls of houses in Brownsville, but could not say whether they had been fired from the Springfield rifles, with which the Twenty-fifth Infantry was equipped, or whether they had been discharged from Krag Jorgensen cartridges by Krag rifles or carbines. He gave further testimony inferring that the shells picked up in the streets may have been discharged on the range at Fort Niobrara and car jried to Fort Brown, and also that he-waa eertain that two of the rifles identified by expert examination of the shells as having been used to fire a certain lot of the cartridges had not been out of the chests in which they had been packed at Niobrara. Awakened by Firing. Lieut. Lawrason told of having been awakened by the firing and of his efforts to get the company form ed among the confusion attending the call to arms, as well as a number of other matters on which all of the members of Company B had been ex amined. He said mat . he had post ed his men along the wall in the rear of the barracks at the order of Major Penrose. Senator Foraker asked the witness if the men could have cleaned their s while stationed along the walL Lawrason thought this would have J been impossible. According to his story,. on " direct examination, Lawrason was with his company -along the garrison wall for abou^J 1-2 hours; when - they were | dismisSfc} -by-i I-Penrose, >who ~ ?mm ^racks and the racks locked after he had carefully certified the count. AU Guns Inspected. All of the guns he said, were in spected the following morning when drill call was sounded and ammuni tion was inspected as well. Lieut. Lawrason told the committee that he satisfied himself that no guns of his company had been used the night be fore -and that the men had all of their ammunition. The witness explained that shells picked up on the range are saved and decapped and are then shipped back to the arsenal. He said that at Fort Niobrara there was something wrong with Company B's decapper, and the shells, more than 1,000 ir number, were put in a box and ship ped to Fort Brown to be decapped there. He did not know what had become of the box after the arrival of tue company at Brownsville, b*il there was considerable property idl on the rear porch of the barracks. The inference plainly shown by Senator Forak?r's question was that this box may have been accessible to Mexican boys or others and that shells bearing marks that could be traced to^rompany B rifles may have been carrig into the town and after wards thrown into the streets for thc purpose of manufacturing evidence against the negro soldiers. Posse Still Searching For Members of Secret Society. Muskogee, I. T., Special.-Excite ment over the killing of three negroes by United States Marshal Ledbetter and his posse in a street fight here, has quieted down. Jackson and Brown, two of the wounded negroes, and John Cofield, the white police man, are not expected .to live. The marshal's posse is hunting for other members of the "United Socialists," the secret society that led to thc trouble. Agriculture ls the largest industry In the United States and is pursued by thirty-five per cent, ot OU? work ers. Engines, Seilers, ii? cns Complet'; Cotton. Saw, Grist, Oil and fertilizer Mill Outfits, Gin. Press Cane Mill,and Shingle Outfits. Building,Bridge, Factory, Furio and Railroad Castings, Railroad, MU Machinists'and Factory Supplies. Belting, Paoking, Injectors, Pipe Fittings, Saws, Files, Oilers, etc. We capt every day. Work 160 Hands. Foundry, Mach " d, Boiler, Press and Gin Works TfSf Repa is Promptly Done Looted Iron Works & Supply Co AUGUSTA. ?A. PATAPSCO MASTODON GEORGIA CHEMISAI* WO$I?& Augusta, Go* Everything in Fertilizers, Plant Food and Ag ricultural Chemicals. '~:s>'S!=a?r*4 Blood and Bone Goods, Fish Goods anoVCot^ ton Seed Meal Mixtures. These reliable Fertilizers have been tried by ,the trade for more than a third of a century, and their increasing popularity attests their merit. Using them is therefore no experiment. Factories, Augusta. Ga., Pon Pon, S. C. Sold exclusively at Edgefield by the Mercantile Call on them for information. PHENOMENAL SUCCESS? BABCOCK VEHICLES beat the world in qual ity, style, comfort and durability. They have no equals. Oar sales jVJLore than Double all the vehicle dealers in tfce city of Augusta. Come to see us. We will prove it to you by our stock, and by our local receiver of taxjeturns and collector. .FRAZIER road carts. 'HACKNEY wagonsj CHASE'S fine robes. We sell you these robes at Half pjrice as compared to prices elsewhere. Carriage and wagon material a specialty IH. JBL. COOKERY, The Carriage and Hardware Man of Georgia, 749 and pH Broad Street AUGUSTAr^Sv, Carriage and Wagon Material. Leather, Shoe Findings' Gum Belting, Gandy and Leather. Belting The largest Stock of Double and'Single Leather Belting in the city. Laces, Rivets, etc. Agents for Studebaker Wagons and Moyer BUGGIES. the best in the world, and at moderate prices. The liberal patronage extended the old firm will be appreciated by the undersigned. JOSEPH H, DAY. 729 Broad Street, The Insurance Agency of C. A. GRIFFIN & CO. Will protect you against loss by Fire, Death, Accidents, Sickness and Wind Storms. It will be a pleasure to serve you at all times and your business will be heartily appreciated. Wagons Buggies IT UfUNTITURE Large Shipments of the best makes of wagons and buggies just reoeived. Our stock of furniture and house furnishing* . 10 complete. ? Large stock. . . i at COFFINS and CASKETS. al always on hand. All calls for our Hearse prompt- ^ ly responded to. All goods sold on a small mar- ? gin of profit. Call to see me, I will save yen money. _. * ESHfSEEESB. \ GEO.P.COBB Johnston. South Carolina.