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>? X * ,*c * * ' ?hc Xatwastet" ?cdgrr. ^ud!A)W RJ3ABTBR. [ A^Wiy Nexospmptr : ForO* Rromatiom V UU PvUXtml, 3b*mt, A^ritmituralmd (\ mmiti iml .hit 5 TEB1IB; |LM a Tmb. ?? *? WOA?a > | Fwkm a Axtakol SEMI^WEEKLY. L A N C A 6TE K, 8. O, SEPTEMBER 6 1*99 ESTABLISHED 1H.V2 ^ SON DISCOVERS PWSandifer. | A IMDDAD AC Till? ona l~i?:? *- ^ ' SIRE'S SHORTAC Does His Dot; and Oicia Reports tbe Matter. Late Treasurer of Barnwell. Free'** Accounts Show a De ficiency of Over $8,000. Quite a large shortage in accounts of a deceased county ficial came to light yesterday i way that was most unusual. rJ deceased official's son, upon t official's death, was appointed succeed him. It was the son v discovered the shortage, and uj him fell the most painful duty communicating the facts to governor, hut he did not flii from his duty, and in a stri forward manner made his repc A short timo ago County Tre urer Free of Barnwell coun having reached an advanced a died. He had been treasurer the county for some six or se> years and was held in the high esteem by all of his fellow citi/.e No one dreamed that there woi ever be anything like a short* in his accounts. Even now one can give any explanation to how the money went, for j Free was a well to do farmer a a careful business man, and, far as known, did not need s money. The estate left by Mr Free amply sufficient to cover the sho age and the bondsmen will h nothing, unless a sale is forced A. H?r>ri fiiw U11 li.'l ? ~ 1 ._V?. ?v uaii a OIIUU^ UOl and neither the State or couc can possibly lose anything. The letter of the son of 1 Free to the governor reporti the facts of the matter is as fi lows: Barnwell, S C, Sept 1, 1899. To His Excellency, the Governe Columbia, S C. Dear Sir: It is my painl duty to report to your excellen that since talcing charge o* t office of county treasurer for tl county, and receiving the fun transferred from the accounts niy father, the late treasurer, 1 his executrix, that a deficiency $8,703.10 appears to be due 1 my father as county treasure The amounts due by him were follows: State funds $ 421.1 County funds 5,281. School fuods 11,051.1 Total $16,754. ( The amount of funds which nc J.il ? - miner nail deposited as coun treasurer in the Bank of Barnwi and transferred to me on joi check of myself as his success and his executrix, was $8,050.9 leaving the deficiency of $8,703 10 due as above stated. My fath left an estate worth approxima ing, including realty and perso alty, from $10,000 to $12,00 which his executrix and d visees desired to turn over to tl sureties on his bond to reimbur them on their paying me, as tl successor of my father, the balsa due by him as treasurer. Tl exacntriv ?n^ - ? V.VHVOVB uavo c hausted every means to raise tl money to settle the deficienc, and one of the bondsmen has ooo menoed a suit, on aoconnt of the contingent liability, against tl estate. The sureties are Mrs M Kennedy and Messrs SQ Ma; field, J W Lancaster, C B Fn I deeru it my duty to call (u. attention oi the State officials the condition of affairs, and v 11Y he glad to render every assistai {possible in the adjustment of I matter. While clork in my father's < Mr he? I knew of the amount of 1 different funds in his charge, I as he kept his own hank hook was only after his death that the discovered the discrepancy 1 of- tween the amounts in his chai Q n and the amounts on depos fhe Since the $8,050.91 was tore hat over to mo, I have remitted t to $521.33 due the State and ha rho continued paying county warrai >on on county funds out of the mon of on hand. the Yours very respt. ach E I) Free, lit* County Treasurer Barnwell. >rt. ! Gov McSweeney has not 3 I considered the matter full v. 1 ? j y will confer with the attorney g< ge^ era! in regard to it toduy. ,en i Half I>ogs and Half Hogs, eat D8* i S E Sammons, a well kno' 1't* and thoroughly trustworthy far lRe er living in the upper Hoction no the .-ounty, brought to town y< 88 terday a strange story of t recent existence of a quartet animals which were half hog a 80 half dog. The mother of the c lDy rious beasts is a pet hog aud t father a croas between u cur u 1 is a hound. The curiosities l?elon<: rt to Dave Durant, living on t jse Ingram place near Sandy Ft at The animals were all sha(>ed alii id, They bad dog ears, dog tails, a ity the hind legs from the hoc down were those of a dog. '1 VIr snouts wore perfectly formed ng were the hams and fore feet, li j|. those of a hog. They were 1 males and th?y had a way of ma ing a noise like both the hog a )r the dog, resembling the bark ol squirrel. Mr Durrant wosi , I charmed with his possessions a he killed all of tno curiosities a cv , thfl father of them several da ago. And now his neighbors n j telling him that he has put out ^ the way the l>est oppoitunity f making a fortune he ever had. , Greenville News, of by " m Victor Blue to Wed. as A special to the New Yo Herald from Newport, R 1, la 33 Friday says: 14 "It was announced here todi 54 that Morristown, N J, is to ha ? a brilliant and interesting na\ wedding on Octol>er 17, the co it/ . J trading persons h?ing Lie *V Victor Blue, U S N\, of t cruiser Brooklyn, and Mi Eleanor Stewart, a niece of Cm or Philip H Cooper, U S N. 1, - - _ HIS LIFE WAS SAVKI) er Mr J E Lilly, a promine it* citizen of Hannibal, Mo., late n- bad a wonderful deliverance fro 0 a frightful death. In telling it he aaya: 44I was taken wi Typhoid Fever, that ran in Pneumonia. My lungs liecar 86 hardened. I was so weak I couldr he even ait up in bed. Nothing help c? me. 1 expected to soon die ^ Consumption, when I heard < Dr King's New Discovery. Oi bottle gave great relief. 1 co tinued to use it, and now am w< y> and strong, I can't say too niu< qo in its praise." This marvello |r medicine is the surest and quicke core in the world for all Thro and Lung Trouble. Regular siz 60 cents and $1.00. Trial bottl Y- free at Crawford Bro's Dri ?e Store; every bottle.guaranteed. n liviuiim ur iriCi olr. Ike rfii Men Who Lived on a Comr rade's Flesh Landed at the Charleston, S. C. of 11) ? ^ Sailors Who Cast ljots to Determine Who Should Die to Give the Others Blood and Food?Adrift on a ltaft. ge ied Charleston, S. C., Sept. 2.? ^ Shipwreck, cannibalism and raving lunacy fonn the fabric of a ^ harrowing tale of the sea brought to Charleston today by Capt. Robert Milburn, of the British steamship Woodruff, bound here from Hamburg. The story of terrible suffering was rendered all the more thrilling by the presence of two of the actors in the terrible tragedy. They 5H- i are Maurice Anderson and Goodman Thomasen, survivors of tbe crew of Norwegian bark Decot, ?!? ? ' - * * ?>uiuu Haued irom 1'ascagoula for Buenos Ayres on August 3d. The vvn men were picked up from a raft m- by the Woodruff 250 miles south of j of Charleston, on last Thursday, bs 31st ult. They were in a condihe i tion worse than death, and they of were hut a little, if any better nd j when brought up to the city on J the tow boat Waban this morning he from the quarantine station and nd sent to a hospital. et* ; Andersen is a raving maniac, he ; with but little chance of again be! ing a sane man while Thomasen is tc* so weak ami exhausted it will be a n<* marvel if he regains health. k8 Andersen is a Swede while "e ; Thomasen hails from Stevanger, asj Norway. The Decot was wrecked in the West Indian hurricane off ll" \ he Florida straits August 11th. Nine membeis of her crew went down with her. Eight others sue11 ceeded in getting on a raft form 1 * ed by a part of the vessel's deck. ,1(' The following day the raft broke n" in two parts, two men remaining Y8 on one portion of it and six on the1 iie other. The German steamship ?* Catonia picked up one of the two or seamen and carried him to Baltimore. The only survivors of the party of six aro Andersen and Thomasen, who were brought here today. rk The six men lived four days on ^ the raft without water and with only such food as was supplied to ay them by a small fishing line one ve of the men bad in his pocket. Afra| ter enduring untold torture the n. fisherman lost his mind andjump? lUt ed into the sea, carrying hia fishhe ing tackle with him. The five re igH maining men were then left with pt | neither food nor water. I Two of them died and three, who htui been greedily > watching them, sprang on their bodies i hood as their falling |y heads showed that death had come, m and hacked away and ate pieces of their flesh and drank their yet ^ warm blood. Andersen and Thornto ? ne asen both say that these inen died *nd there is every reason to be Mi lieve them, for regarding the othof er of the three men left they tell (>* even a more awful story. qo n They say that when only three ,11 of the original six were loft alive ch and the drained and partly de~ us voured bodies of the others had been cast away and had drifted off at ^ on the endless, tossing waves, it OH was agreed that one of the three ig should die to give food and drink for the other two. The three viiugiu^ up iuu ran decided to cast I lots. It was left to chance an<l the two survivors say that after Jc deliberate discussion a method v*is chosen which was sure to be 1 fair. I A big German sailor lost and , he submitted to the verdict of | death without a murmur or strug- (j| gle, holding up his throat to the pr knife with all a sailor's careless- co ness of death. The Swede and jU Norwegian killed him,they frank- pj, ly say, diank his blood and lived tic for two days on his flesh. }a .?iiuj item icauy ior another ^h< gamble to determine which of the two should die and be eaten by w8 the other. When the Woodruff 8U, sailed in sight of the laft Thoma. an sen was amusing himself feeding g|] the rotting fragments of the dead ha German's flesh to sharks that pu swarmed around the raft and pp bumped their ravenous noses against it. He and his comrade an, were tx>th crazed and more dead ban alive, they were taken on wfl board the Woodruff and every* thing possible to revive them was jj, done but even after two days of care and attention they were iu a|, a fearful plight when they reach* a| ed here this morning. The two men told their story ^ to the seamen of the Woodruff. They are now in a condition of no collapse and both may die. Their m, attending physicians will not al- pp low them to see anybody. If they wj live they will probably l>o tried ge for murder and an old and much in disputed question of the law of the sen will be again brought up.? ga W aether men in their position have the legal right to kill atioth* ki er man; even with his consent, has ce never been determine.!. hi; Two More Recommended. hit foi The State of Sunday says, the tr( Governor yesterday recommend ed for commissions in the army two more South Carolinians?the Rev Wm Aiken Kelly of Sumter, ^ and Mr J S Hardin of Chester, the latter desiring a captaincy or a lieutenancy. Mr Kelly wishes pr to be a chaplain. He is the young ^ minister whose strange disappear- ^ ance last year, followed later on 8?| by his strange reappearance ir, ^ New Orleans, caused so much un* easiness to bis friends throughout the State. Though reinstated by re( the Methodist church, Mr Kelly qU having now entirely recovered his pu health, is anxious to serve as a fl;( chaplain in the army. an, NO KI?HT TO IJOMNKSM cia The woman who is lovely in ^ face, form and temper will always th? have friends, but one who would he attractive must keep her health. wIf she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will he nervous and irritable. If she has constipation P6 or kidney trouble, her impure rat blood wi' I cause pimples, blotches, tei skin eruptions and a wretched an complexion. Electric Bitters is ^ the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It 841 gives strong nerves, bright eves, If smooth, velvety skin, rich com- an plexion. It will make a goodlooking, charming woman of a run-down invalid. Only 50 cents at Crawford Bro's Drug Store. P? vSrnm^Tmmmimm^ rl' Six Hundred Drowned. Yokohama, Sept 1?Six hun- C0I dred lives have been lost by the yt> flooding of a copper mine at ^ Besshi island of Skikoku. j)r, s*-T*>BaT(w wtttr CMS. '0I ifiTtrnytl SCALDED TO DEATH. >hn Grant, of Chester County, Victim of an Accidennt While Ginning. >ecial to The State. Chester, Sept 3? Mr John rant, one of the oldest and most osperous farmers in Chester unty, died yesterday from inries sustained in an accident, p lived in the Broad liver scorn of this county, in the Armenneighborhood, and was one of e influential citizens of that sec?n. He was ginning cotton and j is close to the engine, when ddenly something got wrong! d a flue in the hoile?* burst, ling the room with steam. Other nds had the fortune to get out, t Mr Grant remained steady at i |K>8t, trying to control the | nation. He was Anally blinded j d liewildered, and crawled half 3 way out of the ruins. IIe: .8 burned from his head to the< ees and only lived 12 hours, j 5 was one of the best fanners i this part of the State, and was vays wise, careful and economic- j in all business transactions. Capt W P Crawford, whose apintment to a first lieutenancy in ! i United States army was an* unced last Tuesday, was im j jdiately ordered to Raleigh, N C| a returned here last night and II open a recruiting station hero, i veral members of his company ! the Second South Carolina ve signified their intention of ing with him to Manila. Capt Crawford was one of the udest and most intelligent ottirs of the Second regiment, and 3 men will never forget his at-1 itions. lie is enthusiastic in , 3 work, and will make a name r himself before this eastern! mble is ended. Capt Crawford is assigned to | 3 Fortieth infantry, Fort ltiley, j tnsas. He expects to take his I iristmaa dinner in Manila. "The struggle between the twoj inciples of individualism and | operation will continue, and; j question whether the best reIts are to be obtained by comtition, or combination will l>e ight out until one prevails over > other or a new and composite ?ult is obtained. This is a estion of political economy, t at the bottom is the const between two social desires d the law is after all but the pression of the prevailing soil desire." This is a part of an dress by E T Keasby before a American bar association. His oughtful investigation closed th these ideas: "In most mat's of business it is safer to let ople take care of themselves thor than for the courts to in* rfere with liberty of contract d the natural course of trade, combinations of capital become o large to be managed with fety and profit they will fail. they serve a useful purpose d are in accordance with the *s of social development, ' they 11 go on and tbe courts will be werless to stop them.1'?Greenle Times. A dispatch from Latta, Marion unty says that on Friday the 6ar old daughter of Dr K A Base liden tally shot and killed her other, 4 months old, with a par. : rifle. SADAOHBruM laM BlautMbf Dr. MlW nrau. AilnwMk LEE'S SUGGESTIONS FOR CUBAN REFORMS. An Early Decision ab to Suffrage Should lie Reached. Washington, Sept 1?In a report received at the war depart| tnent from Gen Fitzhugh Leo, commanding the provinces of Habans and Pinar del Rio, that offl cer makes a numlter of recommen dations for reform for the betterment of the inhabitants. Among these are that an early census of the island be taken; that the question of suffrage be considered in all its aspects and a decision reached regarding the same; that a modern system of jurisprudence, as far it can be made applicable, he generally introduced, so that elective officers belonging to it can lie voted for at the general elections: that a <?on??-..! - ? ?? ? ui |/1 VOI " dent and a congress or legislature, to consist of two branches, and all other officers of a republic, as well as municipal elections in the various municipalities; that the United States shall keep a strict supervision of the affairs of Cuba until a republican form of government has been adopted by the people; that the island shall still l?e garrisoned by troops of the United States in order to protect the lives and property of citizens of the United States and those of other foreign nations residing in Cuba, preserve peace, surppress disorder and maintain the supremacy of civil law whenever and whereever necessary; that the future Cuban republic shall be vested in the people and their ; representatives so far as it relates to the question of an American protectorate or annexation to the United States. Koundlap Bale Becomes Popular. The American Cotton Company has met with marked success in the development of its Koundlap bale business. Last year it had less then sixty presses in operation while this season it will have over 300 at work. Its plant at Chicugo for building these presses is running night and day and new locations are being selected as rapidly as possibln. Rewards for Desperadoes. Columbia, S C, Aug 31?The governor has offered a reward o (200 for the capture of a gang of desperadoes in Clarendon. They waylaid and shot a man who was hunting for one of the gang, and numerous robberies have been committed. This, with rewards offered by citizens, brings the total up to $600 their capture will be worth. BISMARCK'S IKON NERVF, Was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tremendous energy aie not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidney* and Bowels are out of order. If you want these qualities and the success they bring, use Dr King's New Life Pills. Tbey develop every power of brain and body. Only 25c at Crawford Bio's drug store. Fatal Boiler Explosion. Pittsburg, Sept 1?A boiler explosion at the Republican iron works at daylight today killed [five men and seriously injured seven others. Fire following the explosion added to the horror s. The mill was partly wrecked and the entire plant was closed down.