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"r rf x v f- <r:. I I n? L&ilufciiEi TtlURLOW S. CARTER, EDITOR AND MANAGER. 1881?ED \VKI?NKSl>AY AND SA'H'KI)AY HU BSO HI l* TION $i ail l'KW VK\li SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1904. The question of tho extent of I newspaper influence will ever re\niain do but able, but it in significant jthat while twelve of the fourteen dailies published in Greater New York supported McKinlev in both his presidential campaigns, only threo?The Press, Mail and Tribune?are now supporting Roosevelt. It is porculiarly gratifying thai The levelling Post is an earn est Mipporter of Paiker, for while its counsel .nay not be potential with either Democrats or Republicans it is the gospel to the independents? tha mugwumps, if you please?and it is w ith this element that the Democratic candidate needs help, all Democrats being for him anyhow and practically all the Republicans aguiust him.? Charlotte Observer. Life Term Convict Kills Himself. Suicide Was the End of Fred Brown, Sentenced to Bo Hanged Thirteen Years ago. The State, 29th inst. Fred Brown, a life term negro convict, sent up for murder, cut his throat after making a murderous assault yesterday afternoon upon YViii Lewis, also a iifo term | negro convict in the penitentiary. Brown whs head cook oi the guards' and otlicers' mess and Lewis is a waiter. The tight be gan in the kitchen and the otlicers were aroused from dinner bv Lowis rushing into the room, a stream of blood gushing from his nock, and Brown dashing after him with a long kitchen carving knifo. After a hard chase Brown wns overpowored and taken to the whipping room beneath the hospital. While waiting there for instructions tko guard paid little attention to the man until ho hoard i,u exclamation,! and looking up saw the murderer slashing his own throat. He lived for several hours, dying at 8 3C lust night. Fred Brown had heen in the penitentiary for 14 years. He was convicted of murdering Leiu Jackson, colored at Belleville, ? - .. Lexington county, in Juno 181)0, and was sentenced by Judge I. I) Wilherspoon to he hanged March 20, 1901, in tho Lexington jail. During this interval Brown escaped jail but was recaptured and on the night before ho was to expiate j his crime Gov. B. K. Tillman commuted tho sentence to life imprisonment in the Stale penitentiary. During Gov. McSwooney's administration several petitions for tho man's pardon were submitted to that otllrial hut ho refused executive clemency and since then the otlicials say Brown had become morose and dejected, frequently aying there was no hope for him and ho would have to spend his entire life in prison, which he would say was worse than death. ^ m m ? BRUTALLY TORTURED A case came to light that for persistent and unmerciful torture has perhups never been equaled. Joe Golobrick of Colusa, Cal., ... .. O lit'? ir ? ? nuvvo. rur n> yeurs i endured insufferable pain from Rheumatism and nothing relieved mo though 1 tried everything known. 1 came across Electric Hitlers and it's tho greatest medicine on earth for that trouble. A few bottles of it completely relieved and cured me." Just as good for Liver and Kid noy troubles and general debility. Only 5 Oc. Satisfaction guaran toed by Crawford Hros., J. F. Mackey iM: Co., and Funderburk l'harmacy, Druggist. ?Subscribo to The Ledger. i I I I 'iirHfii'ii rs Iln* hi'iilli *n" I??\ | 1 . (>. itli'4Xiu In mir lust issue wo luude mention i.f the sudden death of Dr. T. 1 It. McDow, brut her of Dr. E. 8 McDow of this place. From The News anil Courier of Wednesday wo take tho following pat" tienlnr of his sail death: Dr. T. 11 McDow was found dead in his bod at his residence, No. 101 Rutledge avenue, yesterday morning at 8.30 o'clock, bv his cousin, Mr. J. 0. McDow, 1 who had boon summoued *o the place by u servant. Dr. McDow had not been seen since ho weut to his room to retire on Saturday night, and it is thought that he must have died almost immediately after retiring. When found ho was lyinu on his back on his bed, no part of which was in the slightest disarranged. Tho clothes, which he had worn during tho day, were lying folded on a chair, and there wag beside the bed a pitcher of water and a glass half full of water. No nu mbers of his family were in Charleston and it was for this reasou that the dead man was was not sooner discovered. As soon as it wos ascertained that Dr. McDow was doad the coroner was at once notifiod, aud Deputy Coroner Connelly at once went to the residence and took charge. Dr. E. A. Baker was called and came to examine the body. After an investigation he decided that death had been brought about by natural causes, aud that Dr. McDow Jhad diod from heart disease. Dr. Baker said that, judging from the condition of the corpse, that death must have taken place soon after Dr. McDow rotirod on Saturday night, July '23. The body was very much swollen, ana when taken :n charge by NlcAlister's undertaking establishment to be preparod for burial it was hardly recognizable. 'The coroner issued a certificate in accoidauce with the physician's report,and Announced that no inquest or postmortem would be held. Joseph Trueu, who had been in Dr. McDow's employ for several years, went to the Police Station yesterday morning and stated that he had not seen his employer since the Saturday night preceding and that ho was afraid that his master had come to some harm. He stated that he had rung tho bell repeatedly and that there had been no response. Because of tl is silence he was anxious that au investigation be made He was told to go for Mr . J. C. McDow, a relative, and state to him the facts in tho case. He did so and this gentleman at once went to the residence in Rutledge avenue, and having forced an en | trance into the building, upon ! entering the bed room came up ! ou a horrible eight. He found hie kinsman lying dead upon his bod?and there seemed to be little doubt, from the appearance of the corpse and the odor that whs perceptible throughout the house, that Dr. McDow had been dead for some time. There were no members of Dr. NlcDow'a family at home, for Mrs. McDow and daughter had gone to Dallas, N. C., on July In for the summer. They were notified by telegraph of the death of the head of the family and were expected to ar : _ nt. - * rive ui v>.Mftri09ton last night. Dr. McDow was 49 year9 of ago. lie had practicod medicine in this city siuce his graduation. Fifteen years ago, March 12, 1889, Dr. McDow shot and killed (.'apt. F. vV. Dawson, editor of The Nows and Courier. The tragedy occurred in Dr . McDow's office There were no witnesses and in tlio trial which followed a plea of self-defense i was entered and Dr. McDow was acquitted Von Pfehve Murdered. ttossian Minister Of Iuterior Victim Of an Assnssin.? Coach man Also Killed and Bystanders Hurt. St. Petersburg, July 28. ? M. Von Plohvo,minister of the interior, was assassinated at 9.50 o'clock this morning by a bomb thrown at his carriage while ho was driving to the Baltic station to tuko a train for the palace at Poterhof, where he was to make his weekly report to thoemporoi. The assassination is believed to be l ha outcome 01 a widespread plot the existenco of which has been suspected for several lays. Numerous arrests have already been made, including that of tho assassin, a young man believed to bo a Finn named Leglo and who is now in a hospital severely and perhaps fatally injured by tho explosion of bis own bomb. The assassin woro a brown overcoat and a railroad official's cap. tie stood on the sidewalk pist as Minister vonPlehve's carriage was about to cross tho canal bridge near the station. The Minister was escorted by a number of detectives on bicycles and oneofthein jostled the assussin who then rushed into the road and threw the bomb after the carriage. The missle struck the hind wheel and exploded with fearful force, kill ing or wounding over a score of persons. Minister Von Plohve and his coachman woro killed outright and an officer of tho guard was fatally injured. Happenings in The State. As Chronicled by the Alert Correspondents of The Columbia Mate. "LAFAYETTE HAI.I." BURNED IN CAMDEN. Camden, .July 27.?Lafayette hall was destroyed by 6rc early this morning. It was a historic old place having boen built in 1820 and occupied during that year by the Marquis de Lafayette and his retinue on his visit -to Camden. The fire originated in the kitch on. The property was owned by Baron Von Treskow and was oc? copied by Mr. Scott Brown as a | commercial hotel. | There was $6,000 insurance on the furniture. The totnl loss is probably $10,000. DIKI) IN KEI.IOIOU8 ECKTACY. Upper Township, Kichland County, July 27.?Mrs Mary Blocker, wife of Joshua Blocker, mother of 10 children, all living, died during services at Taylor cnapel. tShc wns shouting. The question was asked bv the pastor: "Who would meet him on the other shore?" She responded that she would and commenced falling. She was caught by her sister, who prevented her from falling to the floor. Treasurer-Free'e Shortage Settled. Special to News and Courier. Barnwell, July 20.?Mr. John D. Kelly of Charleston, S. C., representing the fidelity and Do posit company of Maryland, was in town today and paid to the Hon. James E. Davis, solicitor of the 2d circuit, $11,300.44, in full settlement of the claim of the State of South Carolina under surety bond issued by the above company in behalf of E. 1). Free, lato treasurer of Burnwoll county. Mr. Davis immediately transfer-! red the warrant to Countu Tipuk-I uror t). 15. Armstrong, who will place same in the Hank of Barnwell for collection. Sound kidneys are safeguard r>f life. Make tlio kidneys healthy with Foley's Kidney Cure. Sold hy Fundorhurk l'harnmcy. ' I \ ' I A. WORD ir UK Is what we are si itors and out* aim interest of every J giving him or hei money. No quo! approve of such, live advertisemei and at l-2lhe va nonsensical talk will say that we enough to five on and itwillbehac that we will mak of our competitor which can not he Remember our of shoes, which a THF RP a ma w& wan Every pair gua solid leather coin pair prove to the a new pair. The the Douglas line, bald-headed eagl he soars. 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