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TliH LKDGbR. Th ? low S. Carter, itii'DK A N I> M \ N AUKU. WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1901. Kvwhold Say* Prisoner is Not M R R?'P?.? The State, 20th. After all, it turn)* out that the man under arrest at Oxford, Term, was not the much desired M R Reese. Mr. Newhold, when he left, stated that h? did not believe that the Mississippi authorities hud gotten Reese The authorities there were so positive, however, that the governor thought it absolutely necessary to at least send some one to see whether it was the man wanted. Last night the following telegram was received oy the governor: To (iliv M 'Sweeney, Columbia, S C. Wrong man. Looks nothing like lo ese. Will write from home. ? u rsewhoiu [ For The Ledger. A Complaint Against Conditions of Public Highways. To the Supervisor and Overseers of the public highways: It seems thai our Supervisor has over I inked our roads in the Tradesville section nnd elc^where. Some of our roads below Trades vi I let have not been worked since the chaingaeg worked them four or live years ago, and some have no overseers on them, ns the Supervisor is aware, for I notified him myself. 1 thought from the impression he made in time of the campaign that if he was elected we would have better roads, but I find il a mistake. There is a place near Mr. M .1 Long's house that is noarlv impassable, and it has been so all the winter; and our Supervisor passes oyer that road every week. What is the mutter ^ ?whose fault is it that the roads hnve not been worked \ Kvcry i verneer ought to tie made to work his section of rout, or push him with the law. I believe in ^ oi|'ihI rights to all and special privilege's.to none. Where dues the equal rights come in at for me to work my section four days according to I iw, in the year, the section next to me my neigh hurt work none at all. There in no justice iu it; let us all work our roads alike or quit. The Super visor ought to go over the county and see that the loads are worked If they don't work them, make them pay their tines. Some of our overseers will go over their section of road in.half a day, just to say thev have worked their road, but the Supervisor ought not to accept that?make them put in the full time that the law allow*. 1 would suggest that the overseers put in two and a half days in the spring and the balance in August. If v*o do that, my word for ii we will have better roads in the future than in the past. Yours truly, L .1 Fnnderburk. When it is seen that t!*e ablest and most enterprising citizens of the state are in sympathy with McLautin, it is a little strange that even the thickest headed citizen does not realize that there is a ditl'erence of opinion in South laroiinu. Those tomtit politicians who can furnish evidence of loing nothing to advance the he>.t interests of the country assume to he able to criticise men. any one of whom has done more for the development of the state than 'he whole crew of their assailants. ?Abbeville Press and Banner. Barnard B. Evans Is Allowed Bail. SUPREME COURT FIXES IT AT THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. . ilaj. Evan* I Mailed Story of How the Killing Occurred Attempt at Suicide Follow ed by Accident. Special to the Daily News. Columbia, S. C., April 20.? Bernard B. Evans was today iul> mitled to bail in the a mil of three thousand dollar*. .lohn Gary Evans, N (ieo. Evans and W .J Murray went on the bond and Maj, Evans has gone home. (ieo Johnstone, appeared for Maj. Exansuni .lodge Crawford and Maj Gary are associated in the defense The chief and only sensational evidence was that of Major Evans' and he testified as follows: | WHAT EVANS SAYS. ' Captain Griffin helped me to move some of the furniture and when this was finished we went over to my room in the Green . I field building A friend of mine had sent me a small keg of whiskey of which 1 had before inform* ed Captain Griffin and our purpose was to open this keg and try the whiskey. The keg was sent h rew <iays nerore and had not been opened. As nearly as lean recolhct it was between 11 and 12 o'clock when we got to the rooui I called William Roof, the janitor, to come and open the keg and he, under the direction of Capt Griffin, did so. When ttie liquor was poured out it was found to he colored, although it had heen sent to me for corn wiais key. "We remarked upon the color as unusual for corn whiskey hut took a drink of it, and William tilled a small water pitcher with it and placed it on the table. We sat down and talked upon various subjects and during the time took several drinks. It was a drizzly day. "After sitting and talking for some time, Capt. Grilfin asked me for a cigar. Not having one, nevei smoking them, I went down to get him one. ITpun mv return William Roof came in and Cap tain Grilfin remarked about my having only one cigar and said that it would not last him and sent William down to buy some more. j We continued our conversation and it drifted to my race for i ailroad commissioner in the last election in which Capt. Griffin lias taken such a friendly and aelive interest ami in which he had been my principal advisor. "He began to talk of plana for anwther campaign and said he could elect me next time. '' Viy diener hour having approached t invited Captain Griffin to go with me to dine at my hoarding house. He replied, 'No* and said that 1 must go to Ben David'fc restaurant and I consented to do so. We arose and decided to take a drink before going to dinner and Captain (iriflin had just Hniehed taking his. 1 had poured out mine and was prepare ing to take it and was standing with the bureau to ray side and back and was facing Lady street. SUICIDR. "Captain Giiflin was standing up at the bureau. My pistol was lying in the top bureaft drawer which was partly open, the room not having been put in order for i Ka /In w AA ? 4 i -... 4 ! 1 ?..w . my HIICIIIKIII W8H HI traded to Captain (iriftin by heariag him repeat* poet i t something about 'This is not an ignoble death.' "I turned around and saw him with a pistol in his hand inclined towards hinueli. I put dowa my glass untouched and exclaimedc 'Mind that pistol is loaded.1 I sought to get possession of the pistol. lie did not release it and while we were thus engaged the pistol fired. "We hoth j 11 Biped hack startled and Captain (jriflio stepped hack. 1 rushed to his assistance and he suid: 'I am shot go for a doctor ' 1 rushed out to see if 1 could see a I run ilitnrn uluiru on.l down stairs and went into Midler's | tor* and tried to call a doctor j over the'phone. I could get no satisfactory answer I went to Dr. Rice's office, which is in Gerrais street, hut found no one in. 1 came down Main street and went to Dr. Fiehburn'a office but seeing no one there I went to McMillan's drug store and tried to telephone a doctor from there. 441 could get no one and went hack across Main street and went into Mulone's piano store hut could not get the use of his'phone as it nab neing used. I went again into Mr. Miller's store and being informed a doctor would soon come, 1 went to my room. 441 found Captain Griffin on I the floor between the bed and tho table ami tried to help him up as best 1 could and got him on the bed. 1 opened his collar aud shirt and asked him to breathe hard and he di?' so. Afterwards Dr. Gihbs came in and L asked hira to do all he could for my friend and assisted hiei to the best of my ability. "Dr. Gibbes said that he injected strychnine aud that Capt. Griflia was dying. 1 had not realized that he was d\ing and I blamed the doctor for the use of strychnine knowing it to be a deadly poison. "1 became incensed ami greatly excited. Afterwards policemen came to the room and 1 became indignant and more excited. I was taken into the custody of -tbe law and have been imprisoned erer since. WERE WARM FRIENDS ' Between Captain Griffin and me there had existed a warm 'and intimate friendship for years past and with him I was, perhaps, more miimate than with any ther person outside my immediate family. During the time tint covered the sad occurences related in this affidavit our friendship and intimacy were not broken in the slightest degree. While a guest in ( y room not an uukind word was spoken, not an unfriendly act suggested and I sincerely regret his death." OTHER TESTIMONY. The solicitor, Thurmond, did not have voluminous affidavits The first was from Dr. R W Gibbes, who testified at the coroner's inquest. He also saw the bruises on Griffin's body. They had been make by some instrnment and that the hat had dents in it. He reftored to (iud ing powder marks on the back of Griffin's hand. Evans was drinking but was not drunk. The bullet could not have been tired at V less than three or six feet. Dr. Earle's affidavit was as te bruises on Griffin's body. He ^ found one on each cheek, at the end of the nose and under the chin and on the forehead. Those on the forehead and nose might have been made by falling on the floor. Others could not have been made ; in that way. MONF.Y MI SSI NO Coroner Green told of finding only % silver dollar in the pockets of the deceased. A son of Captain Griffin said that, he was with his father about- 1 1 o'clock at J Hill's shoe store. Before that in his father's office, he saw him put a large roll of hills in pocket. His father had given him $10 to give te bis sister and after his death the family received enly one silver dollar. His father was a Coifed rate soldier of a peaceful disposition and I aw Abiding. He never carried a pistol He wax cheerful and happy and his family relations were of the ttnderest. and most loving kind. No man in th? world could have hud less reason to commit suicide. He was drawing a good salary, was not behind [in bis accounts and the railroad authorities were well pleased with his conduct in his position and thev hud contindence in him. They have appointed his oldest brother to his father's position I 1 ; " I A Dav for the PbiintiHri ! ' " " j Special to The State. Yorkville, April 26 ?The jury in tho case mentioned yesterday of \V. Brown Wylie, clerk of court, a. the Commeicial an?l Farmer's hank of Rock Hill, after remaining out 12 hours, catne in at id o'clock last Di?;ht with a verdict of $12,000 in favor ot the plaintiff. The court of common pleas was occupied all dav yesterday with the case of John R. London of llock Hill vs. the Landsford Water Power company. VIr Lon don was for several years president of the company, and sued 4_ua .x, ?... . ? j?f? /\aa ? HJO uuiujjmiy n?r vz,uuo Kir services in trying to sell the properiy. The jury rendered a verdict in his favor for $i,(iG4. It is probable that an appeal will be taken to the supreme court. A New Generation Confronted With New Conditions. The Richmond News is a warm supporter of Senator McLaurin. It say8 that he discusses issues of not only national but world-wide importance logically, clearly and calmly, while Senator Tillman (lies into pae-ion and resorts to personal abuse. It says: In two generations the the people of the cotton States have had no opportunity to consider or discuss economic questions. For many years they were occupied with slavery and secession; for many later years with reconstruction and th? color line. Speakers and writers who have irone before them with questions of tariff ami finance and foreign policy have failed to arouse their interest: have found themselve3 appealing to mind} trained to consider other things. For that reason those people have been ready prey for Any quack who appeared with a glittering and shallow theory on any of these matters. Now for the first time in fifty years a Southern Democrat will go beforeaudiences of Southern Democrats ami secure a hearing inside the organization ? ? for the new and broader questions of the daiv. The McLaurin fight promises discussion by a broad man of broad issues before the Democratic masses of the Southern States. It promises a vas upheaval in the South which will carry the Democratic party back to real Democratic principles, vitalized, ener<gized and modernized to meet new conditions. When McKinley appoints Ne gro Republicans to public office, they are sometimes lynched, as in the case of the Lake City affair; and when he appoints whiteDemoorats, the newpapers kick vegorously, although they did manage to behave themselves reasonably well with regard to the census appointments that ivere made last ' 1 A. I 1 - - v?ur. it *11(1111(1 noi ue forgotten that all of those appointments came from a Republican adminis tration, through Senator Tillman and McLaurin, and that leading RepublicaoH were also consulted. Most of the quarrelling we heard of in this state was between Democrats as to which should get the plums.?Yorkrille Enquirer. # V i jfv' ' * ??? Apportionment of j p Dispensary, Fund. / \ \ What Kach County (Jets from the i School Fund Money. t The Stute, 27th. . ? The comptroller general bne at ' lust received all the reports trom the various counties as to the mnoimis neeoeu rrom mo uispenwary fund to make up the per capita school allowance an required by the constitution, and yester.. i day proceeded to make the apportioninent of the school fund de- I rived from the profits of the (lispensary. Of the total amount of #100,000 paid into the school fund bv the State board, #5,000 had to go for summer schools, and it took #15,386 15 to make up | the deficiencies A statement of ' the deficiencies by counties has ' already been published in The ? State This left $76,613.85 to be apportioned among the several coun'ies upon the basis of total enrollment in the schools This " I was yesterday done as follows, aud \enterday afternoon the warrants were beinir sent the several counties for the amounts iudicat ed: Quota Enrollment based on <. n .. * sis. jrupns. jMiroiim t ! Abbeville 8,187 $2,312 25 1 Aiken 8,208 2,338 50 ' Anderson 12,293 3,471 88 ( Bamberg 3,734 1,054 5? Barnwell 7,311 2.067 82 * Beaufort 6.891 1,946 21 ' Berkeley 5,050 1,426 25 ' Charleston 12,511 3,538 35 1 Cherokee 4,599 1,298 90 ' Chester 6.254 1,766 31 Chesterfield 4,319 1,219 80 Clarendon 6.408 1,S09 80 Colleton 5,550 1,567 501 Darlington 6,665 1,882 40 , Dorchester 3,070 867 05 { Kdgelield 6,136 1,732 97 i Fairfield 6.468 1,827 02 ! Florence 6,040 1,705 86 ! Georfcetown 4.561 1,288 15 Greenville 12,752 3,6??1 51 Green wood 6,415 1,811 77 Hampton 4,763 1,345 20 Horry 5,123 1,444 87 Kershaw 5,382 1,520 02) Lancaster 6,394 1,805 #5 Laurens 8,141 2,299 25 i Lexington 6.741 1,621 42 Marion 7,901 2,231 46 Marlboro 5,327 1,504 50 Oconee 5,230 1,47b 10 I Newberry 8,119 2,293 03 Orangeburg 14,114 3.9t>6 46 Pickens 4,799 1,355 40 Richland 7,025 1,984 05 Saluda 5,152 1 455 06 taaburg 13,367 . 3.775 21 < Sumter 10,082 2,847 43 , Union 5,192 1,466 36 . Williamsburg 6,498 1,836 21 York 10,045 2,836 98 Total 281,391 $79,613 85 . Deficiency fund $15,389 15 Summer schools 5,000 00 $100,000 00 I tl Robbers in Blacksburg. { r Special to Tho S.ate. ? Blacksburg, April 27.?The J dispensary and the store of D- R. ^ Bird were broken into last night. < The former was robbed of about a t gallon of liquor in pint and quart bottles and the safe in the latter ' was opened and about $150 taken ( therefrom. No goods were taken. It was Mr. Bird's habit to leave the safe at night partly loc ked fortl o convenience of his head clerk ( the next morning and it was an < easy matter for the thieves to enter it. There is no clue to tho robbers. W. A. ! 'TIS K As* Y TO FFEL GOOD , Countless thousands have found a blessing to the body in Dr. Kinw's Nfiw I .ifa Pill*, ?u:.. u v i. WUIUU ^ positively cure Constipation, Sick(,j Headache, Dizziness, .Jaundice, j Malaria, Fever and Ague and all ^ Liver and Stomach troubles. t Purely vegetable; never gripe or ^ weaken Only 25c at Crawford . Bros' and ,1 F Mackey & Co'? ^ drug store. . * I How Arc Tour Kidney* I Dr. Hobba' 8|>ara?iis Pills cure all kidney Ills. 8amlefree. Add Sterling Remedy Co Chicago or N. Y. i\ollce V, or ICE l-? HK vKMV GIVEN * i-mi on toe 2>l lay f May, 1901, *> uiiiiorrIkii? ?1, h? i:u r?li-n of J. Oil win Nisb . will tile hi* final re ur< an-' Meiileniem ?n ?l niske applih i i to ill* Pr-baiM ourt for the >uo:y "f i.aio'AHiei s. i , for a flnal liactmrge mm ku r in . 1* W. NIHBET, (la'Hil ^4t'i A prii 1901 ISotice. jVOI'KE is Hi-.ltls.HY G VRN I Mm. "ii 'lie 21 < na\ i M?y, 1901, lie mill* r-ii? *8 miIihii iniator of e .? at of Win - Gioh (h ceased, x i I 11 e hi- li al return anil settle* till >l'li III Ike H| I < it'll ion to the 1'roiMie (\iu *o> the iji u in of I.a* * iter. S i' . f r * final it *cl<arge as u *< 111. i.no r . in . GEO H GRIFFIN. Oao <1 24th A 11 it 1901 . BRIdG.S TO LET. \ ul'KiuY M vY 4 NEXT, i " Hit' u.?i? >' 1.. (? - *lcr hiiiI k'or > < mi i. h ? i e?-l a 14 \ J l.liS ii< 1)1*K, <*r ?a <vvi) mi ?a ui" at.' F?i i Mn . fit * purpose if .eUl .it a Oil < t "i liuini a lt?W inn. at th? if i i Tn?? reserve a? riv i i<? r j i.?v ?iid all bids, i e. /fi ati'K - in d- knn ? h "it day ?f < ;tii*u I'd? tarni't' ridge untms the mi..' *ir- ..ii ii 'e l?t t ?e sain? day i t2 ' * no ii KiKi'iliot tons to be nune .. nwi iIi d?\ \\ i), % * KEY. JOi. ? K OOKllOJf, | .?i" visors. -v 11ri 24 lHOl. BRIDGES TO LET. I'lte ridge over Little Lynches :reek near .John M Hiuson's and he one ever Lick creek near tVhit? Bluff, will l>* let to the owes! renttutisihie bidder on Tuaa~ lay, the seventh day of May, 1901 ?the former at 11 o'clock, a. m. ;he latter at 3 o'clock, p. m. Claris and spueiticiitmns will he nude known at the letting. The *ight to reject any and all bids ia et>erved. W. Q C>t*key, Co. Supervisor. f-N ^ IV I J"T" TOBACCO SPIT UUIN I ?nd SMOKE Your Life away! 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SI* Hfl.Tn.Rif! s,lld and guaranteed by all drugHU-IU-DAb gists to cfu KK Tobacco liable THIS WAY. PLEASE! Just received a carload of Count hia and Jewel Buggies. Top md open, all the different kinds >f springs and colors. These bugties are beyond (Jpubt the nicest ind best wearing that we have mndled. We have also a larire ot of Buggy Harness, from $6.00 o $18.00 per set. Plow and W agin Bridles, from the cheapest to he best. We still sell the best Mules and dorses for the least money of any ither dealers in the up country. We have a number of extra rood Harness and Saddle horses. Our liverv outfit i? iim r v w ??iv "toi aim vo cun always furnish a nice turnnit at very reasonable rales. Jome and see us. ELU9TT& CRAWFORD To The Deaf. A rich ladv cnri?<l cA ?* |7 ?r<? W* IIVI less and Noises in the Head by )r. Nicholson's Artificial Ear )ruius, gave $10,000 to his Intitute, so that deaf people unable o procure the Ear Drums may A - iuvh mom Iieo. Address No. 1967 The Nicholson Institute, 70, Eigth Avenue, New York, I S A. 6m. \