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GIVES SOME CASES IRREGULAR OR FRAUDULENT VOTING IN COUNTIES BFPI1RT RY MMMITTFF 11L?K UU I ui vuiiiiiii uw \ In Some Boxes Dead Men, Negroes and Boys Under Age Were Allowed to Vote.?At Other Places Men Who Could Not be Found Were Recorded as Voting. The following report in reference to irregular or fraudulent voting in the first primary was made by the sub-committee of the Democratic Slate executive committee appointed to investigate the many charges of fraud in the first primary: Abbeville County?The boxes of Antreville and Cold Springs are the cnly boxes about which there is any Question. In those it seems that the managers were not sworn, and some of the voters were not sworn. Of the votes cast at those boxes Gov. Blease received 186, Judge Jones 50, Duncan 6. Total 242. Aiken County?This county was carefully abstracted. The votes at the Bath precinct were challenged J ia unriicnntori th?r the diiU tUC pi V/V/i UUUAU^ VV/v? . > managers were not sworn. At that precinct there were 149 votes cast. Id addition to that irregularity, it was proved by affidavits that a number of parties voted who were not citizens of South Carolina.* Nearly all of them, however, voted at Bath precinct and are embraced in -149 votes. A few other votes were cast fcy parties that were charged with not being eligible to vote, running the total number of challenged votes in Aiken county to 189. Anderson County?In Anderson county there appears to have been 252 votes cast by voters not on the club roll and one case by a colored man without the proof required by the rules of the party. As far as the committee examining the poll lists were able to report, there were 78 instances of the same name being on the club roll more than once, running from two tc five times, and in one instance as high as eight. The average is safely three A large number of affidavits shewing that in many instances this occurred by there being several persons of the same name have been filed with us and are herewith submitted with the evidence. Total challenged in Andersor county, 4S7. This running down ol duplicates extended down througc the letter "?". Berkeley County?The authorities reported ten votes cast by persons not on the club rolf and one alien voted. Affidavits were filed that liquoi { was used at Friendship precinct b) I county candidates. Charleston County?The newspam per there published the club rolls and the authorities at our expense made an alphabetical list of the pol! lists, but they were not published ir the paper. t The club rolls and poll lists have been checked partially against each other and no irregularities found. Cherokee County?There is reported votes of 23 persons not on tht club roll, but the committee of the county executive committee reported that they were satisfied that there was no fraud practiced in the election in Cherokee county, but some irregularities. In Darlington county there are 16 voaes apparently irregular and unex plained. There were 57 votes at La mar reported as not being on the clut roll. The report of the managers shows that they were on the clut roll which was formerly adopted, bul in attempting to transcribe from thai roll to the alphabetical roll these names were left off, and that thej used the official roll and every mar * voted was on the roll. In Dillon 43 names were added t< the certified club roll on the day o1 the election, but the affidavits state that they were taken from the old club roll used two years ago, not having been brought forward before the roll was certified to. The committee has received letters charging that 34 men voted at the Maple mills and also at Dillon, anc that one man voted at Latta and alsc at Kirby, and that no poll lists oi managers' oaths were sent in fron Bermuda. TV? i r- nnrnm itfoQ hoc cV/Sfl t h ( A u JO I'Vcimnwvt ttuu v v* v ? < county chairman to send up copies o the club rolls and poll lists, and foi any ether information in its posses sion in order that it might deter minued these, but has received n< response. In Dorchester County there wen 125 votes counted at Summervilh that voted in the wrong boxes. I was reported by letter that minor at Pregnals' precinct but neithe: rames or proof were furnished, al though requested. The Greenville committee reporte( 128 votes in Central, where 752 vote1 were cast, in which the voters coult not be found. They reported 24< repetitions on the poll list and "ay ,;We are satisfied, however, tliac ? considerable portion of this duplica tion is natural and proper, due to th< identity of names in different com hiunities. On the other hand, man] of those names thus duplicated ap pear to be repeated on the part o those 'voting'." They reported tha a good many voted without bein^ sworn. In Greenwood County there an reported 179 men as voting who an not on the club rolls and there are 44 names that appear twice; but thej have not investigated ?is to whethei they were repeaters or different mer of the same name. In Hampton County twenty-?even men reported as voting whose names were not on the club roll, at Camp REPORT ON COTTON ? THE CENSUS BUREAU'S SECOND GINNERY REPORT. ? South Carolina Ginning Considerable Behind Last Year's, While Texas is Much Larger. The second cotton ginning report of the census bureau, announced that 2,015,033 bales of cotton of the growth of 1912 had been ginned prior cc September 25, counting round as half bales. To that date last year 3, 676,594 bales, or Zo.t> per ueut. vi rhe entire crop had been ginned; in 1908 to that date 2,500,639 bales or 19.8 per cent, of the crop had been ginned, and in 1906 to that date 2,057,283 bales of 15.8 per cent, of the crop had been ginned. Ginnings prior to September 25, by states, with comparisons for last year and other big crop years, with the percentage of :he entire crop ginned to that date in previous years, follows: /Jabamn. States. Ginnings. PerCt. 1912 194.334 1911 360,244 21.2 1908 \ . . 316,349 23.7 1906 221,851 17.9 Arkansas. 1912 40,447 1911 43,626 4.8 1908 80,465 8.1 1 906 . 35,837 4.0 Florida. 1912 1 9,575 2.0 1911 21,510 29.8 7 2 3 . * ??v " ?: 1906 10,479 17.0 Georgia. 1912 273,086 191 1 765,697 27.4 : 1908 514,898 26.0 \ 1906 281,585 17.2 Louisiana. 1 1912 73,657 191 1 89,069 23.4 ! 1908 79,042 1 6.9 1906 139,511 14.6 Mississippi. . 1912 59,226 1911 .. * 96,829 8.3 ; 1908 199,001 12.3 | 1906 156,573 10.6 > ' North Carolina. i 1912 102,999 1911 156,390 13.9 1908 89,063 13.0 1906 . . 44,877 7.0 J Oklahoma. I 1912 78,453 1911 116,328 11.4 , 1908 5,705 0.8 f 1906 17,570 2.0 i South Carolina. 1912 . . 177,827 . . . 5 1911 338,090 20.0 J 1908 289,969 23.8 1906 131,262 14.4 Tennessee. 1912 992 1911 15,541 3.6 . 1908 28,109 8.4 J 1906 7,394 2.5 [ Texas. i 1912 2,001,697 1911* ..1,667,875 40.6 ? 1908 966,607 26.6 1 1906 % 1,008,856 25.5 All Other State. > 1912 2,740 .... I 1911 5,395 3.9 I 1908 4,774 6.5 , 1906 1,488 2.2 Branch; and they report that others were allowed to vote without being * oil the club roll, but no fraud is * charged. The sub-committee of the sub-com> irittee went to Orangeburg to ascer5 tain why the poll lists were lost. It * developed there that the county ext ecutive committee had appointed a - sub-committee to investigate the loss J of the poll lists, as well as any other r irregularities in the election. They L reported that they could find out nothing. ) The sub-committee of the sub^ committee had a public hearing, took i the evidence of the officers of the * county Democracy ana evidence from " two of the members of the sub-corn* mittee. As a result it was found that the poll lists had very mysteriously 5 disappeared. The committee sent to Orangeburg I reports that the carelessness dis) played in that county?said carelessr ness being the usual custom used in 1 that county in not preserving all the records pertaining to the election, h severely condemned. ; In Richland County two hundred r and ninety-two votes cast in dupli" cate names, which the committee re ' ports are some of them explained l\i 5 being two persons having the sarru name; and we have not been able tr 3 ascertain how many are in that sicuu 5 tion. ? In Spartanburg County there were 3 23 2 irregular votes reported, suet r as voting and not on the club roll, oi " like irregularities, and 559 appareni repeaters were shown by the lists oi * voters whose names appear mon 3 than once. Running these dowi * demonstrated the fact, by a grea' mass of affidavits, which are herewith ? submitted, that these apparent repe ^ i fitinns wprp lare'olv ttuo to differenl " men having the same name, and were 5 not in fact repeaters; the same ex " perienee having been had in the f county of Anderson. York county reports C- irregulai f votes. r : Bought Up Entire Town. ; All the residents of the town oi j Conowingo, Md.f have b"?en ordered t;t.? vacate their houses ac once. The r j entire village has been purchased b> a power development comnar.y and i will be flooded in convener, with the erection of a big power dam act ross the Susquehanna river. The [ population of Conowingo is about ? 400. ? SHOT IN HIS STORE" A COLORED MERCHANT KILLED BY ROBBERS NEGROES DiD SHOOTING George Hanford, a Colored Merchant of Darlington, Was Shot to Death in His Store in that City on Thursday Night by Two Negro J Jobbers, Who Made Their Escape. I A special dispatch from Darlingion to The News and Courier says tleorge Hanford, colored, was shot and killed in his store at the corner ct Main Street and Avenue D, Thursday night about nine o'clock. There were no witnesses to the shooting except the two negroes who did the shooting and made their escape. Elias Davis, an aged negro, who lives with Hanford and his wife in the small house adjoining and attached to the store, was sitting on the piazza and heard the shot, and sawtwo negroes leave in a run. Robbery was the motive, it is thought, as it is said the same negroes held up and robbed Elias Furman in his store about two blocks away just before the killing of Hanford occurred. They took about $30 from Furman. Peter Smalls, also colored, was at the Furman store at the time of the robbery, and he and Furman identified one of the three susbects arrested Thursday as being the one that went through his pockets while the other one held a pist ol on him. Apparently they had robbed Hanford and were making their way out of the store, and owing to Hanford's loud cries and shouts of "robbers" tbey turned back; and it seems that Hanford must have been following them towards the door, and he, too, turned when he found they were coming back because it was just at this time that the shot was fired and from an examination of the wound it was found that the ball had entered from the back and made its way ! through his heart and out of his chest. An inquest was held over the remains of Hanford Thursday by Cor-j | cner John H. Kelly, and a jury found i , that the deceased came to his death i , from wounds inflicted by some person or persons unknown to them. Sheriff Register and his deputies > have been dilligent and have exerted themselves vigorously in their ef; forts to apprehend the guilty ones. 1 Three negroes were arrested at Darlington the following day. All stran- 1 gers. Circumstances, together with | the identification by Furman and I Small, point strongly to the guilt of * the accused. There is less proof ' against the other two, but upon being arrested they were found to have pistols on them, and are now being I ; held to answer for this offence. TRAIN GOES INTO DITCH. Engine and Three Cars of Passenger I Tiain Derailed. Passenger Train No. 3 2 from Augusta to Florence was wrecked just . as it ar.'roaclied the stuio i at ne ' Star Wednesday afternoon. The en- ; i gir,e and three cars went down an 1 embankment that is variously stated 1.0 be from eight to eighteen feet. . Engineer J. L. Wysong was severer/ ! injured. He was thrown out on the | side that the engine fell an ! was ouried under, the coal from the tender until only his head and hands were left out. His escape was a most remarkable '{ one, and he would have been very , much worse injured had it not been j fcr the fact that he remained con. scious and could direct tne rescuing , party in their work of digging him . out from the coal and wrecked tender. His ankle was terribly dislocated and there were concussions on . his head and body, but Dr. Gregg, J who met him at Sumter says that the , . ir-iuries will not be serious. I This same foot was injured i? an acc'dent some years ago on the E. T. and G. road in which Mr. Wysong had nearly as narrow escape as ne had Wednesday nght. Mail clerk M. S. Broom was slightly hurt, and several other of the crew had Injuries that were so slight that in the first excitement of the wreck they passed unnoticed. A physician wno was a ' py.aStuger on the tram gave the first attention to Mr. Wysong's injuries. A relief train was sent out from Sumter with. Dr. China in charge. . The passengers were carried to Florence shortly after one o'clock. The track was cleared for 85 to pass going to Augusta Thursday mornmg hut the wrecked engine will he some time in getting in. The accident , was one of those that might have , happened from a number or causes, t but nothing definite can be said of it f now. ?? 1 Shot by Unknown Man. At Benson, X. C., John Smith, a 1 well known horse dealer of Smith" field, X. C., was shot and killed and his brother. James Smith, was seri* ously cut in a fight there Monday night. James Smith wen' into a res- , J taurant, where there were four unknown men, and picked up a chip lying on a chair. An altercation was ctn nrl n rl B r\ i t * n a ^ r?o nfn T aB n oiai itu cinu, aiu ui an 11, u unu Smith entering during the fight, was shot through the body and died soon . f afterward. , Lost Her Life for Hat. ' Caroline Comer, a negro cook, was I struck by a Southern Railway locoi n-.otive Wednesday night just south of Danville, Ya., and killed. 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Guaranteed ^ 19 or money refunded by Noah BBSS' IS Remedy Co., Incx, Richmond, Va. w % ffgj c !p|CHT ABE KNOWN BEAD r?Fit any lamp. | er than gas, no SaS": AIKKX MAX AMONG INJURED IX nts wanted. H. Sumter, S. C. j WRECK OF EXPRESS. ?s of land, four' i Springs, 35 ac- ? , A good building: Many Passengers Probably Caught 5 cash. Apply to in i5urning Wreckage, Which May Lson Springs, X. w Increase Death List. A A 1 A. I.MIAJ a., complete gin- ai least eigni persons wcic- mucu 'ears old. ginned late Thursday, when the negine of iles, bought 400- the second section of the Springfield 1,000, price $fi,- Express, bound from Boston to New into this. Rare York, failed to take a cross-over and d money making nearly the entire train was ditched ?s. Augusta. Oa near the Vestport-S^gatuck station, on the New York, New Haven and : Cough-Cure It! Hartford Railroad. It is believed the cription, D. O. injured will run to fifty, re. Never falls. Four parlor cars, heaped up in a less and perfect, mass of wreckage, immediately burst into flames, which brobably Lever, 18,884. imprisoned and killed some passenand guaranteed, gers. The exact number of fataliy., Sumter C. H., ties in the wreck is not known and may not be determined for some h 01)06. The identified dead are: G. L. ?EBBYCO Clark, engineer; J. J. Moker, fireman; Mrs. James B<. Brady, of Albany, N. Y.; two children of Mrs. Brady. There are also three uniir dentified bodies, two of them women. 3 BBR The injured includes: Elliott HarFIHG-* rison, of Aiken, S. C., leg broken. The locomotive, which was run0N S.C. n*ng at ^igh speed, went over on its side, after leaving the roadbed, and Tile OOIier, IU <111 ai)tJcaiam,ca, j AMOUNT. ploded. Engineer Clark was taken out alive, but died soon afterward. ion Dollars For Joseph J- Moker, his fireman, was crushed to death. The baggage car sonment. and the four chair cars next following it were overturned, and in these New "iork, has occurred the loss of life. The three ned "J. P. Winn, (jay coaches, although derailed, revhich the writer majne(i upright. The wreck carried gy from you as down the poles beaiing telegraph te of New \ork wires and delay ensued before outimages for fals-> sjc]e assistance could be called, rustration of my The South xorwallc fire depart, o ... ment was called our and began worknds are comp lec Qn the kurnjng cars an(j surgeons cation continues, were summoned from nearbv towns, gainst New Wk Meantime darknras had fallcn and Z . ! -rmJ a' "le w<)rk of rescue of the injured , , . , , passengers was slow. The fire burnl he did not take e(^ severai hours in the wreckage. , but would turn dead,, except the engineer n n vmpr ^ LaKri- were all believed to have been pas sengers in the first chair car. Fears Reward. are held that in this car many pas CIroenville, has senders lost tneir lives, t nuer me f $700 offered by wreckage were found the bodies of arrest of T. U. tu'o women, who died with hands E. Allen Jr., the clasped. riding a medical ? + * e, who detected Ten Cliildren l>urne<I Up. lien, it is under- At St. Bernard, Quebec, ten chil> turn over $300 dren, 18 months to 15 years old, e detectives who were burned to death in their home during the absence of their parents, Alexander Gravel and his wife. ithernn Synod. ? ? le meeting of the Automobile Kills Congressman, leran Synod has Congressman Carl C. Anderson of his year it meets Fostorio, 0., was instantly killed le church of the Wednesday night when the automo ing October 22, bile in which he was riding turned ough the 26th. over near that city. 4