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I mm millionaire to be miss I0NARY IN CHINA I FAMILY IS DEVOUT ? luo to the Little Known Province I Kansu. China, One of the Most enighted Aegions in Asia, and He ranquilly Faces Years of lsoln A dispatch from Chicago says Wil^^^^Bam Whiting Borden, of that city f^^^Bas forsworn the world to become a jj^^^Bnissionary and will start upon the ^^^^Kvork he has mapped out for his life^^^Btime?administering to the physical ^^^Eand spiritual welfarre of the heathen the little known province of Kan^Hiu, China?the darkness and meanest ^^^Kection of the Drient. The young man is a son of the iate ^^^Bwilliam Borden and Mrs. Mary BorI P den. The Borden estate i.j one of th: "big holders of improved downdown property. The . family mansion is B pointed out from the "rubberneck ^ automobiles" that tour the Lake Shore drive. It stands opposite the Harold McCormick residence at Beliewie place. William Whitting B:>rdei'?; share in this estate is estimated at more than $5,000,000. He shares alike with his brother John, who is secretary of the Walden W. Shaw Tixicat Pfimnanv .Tnhn rec^ntlv married Miss Ellen Waller, a daughter op Mr and Mrs. James Breokenrhtge Waller, who is much seen in society. He inherited the Lake Shore 'rive mansit n in his apportionment of the cst:fe, and, incidentally, har thu-o oth er costly residences?one in Mast a chusetts, one in California, and one at Lake Geneva. r- William Borden's choic > was n<;l made without thought Hi? mothm was devout. For years she laugh* z class of boys at the Fourth Presbv terian Sbabath School. The young man after finishing fale in 3 90J gave $20,000 to found a students mission, which he conducted himse-f Later he spent three years at Prince ton Theological Seminary and was graduated last Spring. His sister Mary chose to devot< her life to mission work in India. Ii 1908 she was married to Georg Douglass Turner of Glasgow, Scot land. After tne weaaing m Mrs Borden's chalet at Villars sur Ollen Switzerland, she went with her hus band to Lahore, India, where he wa: Secretary to the Young Men's Chris tian Av >ciation. Sitting in his private office in th< Borland building, William Bordei said: "I made up my mind to become . missionary during my trip around th world in 1904 and 1905, just after was graduated from my preparator I school. Before that I had not though much of foreign missionaries. Bu while I was in the Orient I stayed a the homes of several missionarie and I changed my mind. "In 1906 at a convention of th Student Volunteer movement I de cided my field would be the convert ing of the Xohammeden Chinese (There are about 10,000,000 of thes in China. At present there is no mis sionary worKing airecuy iar meu * They have been let almost entirel alone?for one reason because the are so far inland. "But my preparations will tak some time. In December I will go t the school of Dr. S. M. Swemer, i * Cairo, " Egypt. There I intend t study Arabic. I also will take course in medicine in London btfor t I go to China. The people in th t province of Kansu are way behin in the practice of medicine and the suffer from diseasts that are easil curable. I do not want to take th time to et ag medical degree, bi I shall take a short course. "When I get to China I will spen one full ytar studying the languag< The course in the school for mi: sionaries there is two years. Afte that I shall go inland. The journe to Kansu takes about six weeks. L will be there tight years before I g< P a furlough year." r Mr. Borden said he had not decit inst how he would spend h I - - -money when he got to China, r "I intend to make it my life work, he said. "So if I ste any chance t make good investments for Christia* ity with my money I won't fail i make them. I shall spend my mom in that work just as a business ma would spend his monty in bis cnose field. I haven't any pi ins in tin ' respect yet, however." The young mgissionary's colle* life was somewhat different from th; of the usual millionaire s son. I could have haa anything he wan to He spent much of his spare time ; r college, however, in Y. M. C. A. wor \\ hile a senior dt laie ne e&i.<tijjiajithe Hope Mission in Xew Haven. I bought the property and started 11 working of the mission, it is sti helping the "down and outs," *\I come to that city. In th* winter c cold nights from 50 to 1rf' liien-? there at night, hut nothing ever charged for board or lodging. While some of his millionai fritnds at college were eloping wi actresses William Bordei was n worrying about matters of love, am not married," he sai.l, "nor a -I engaged. I never have worrit much about that and don't know I ever shall be married.'' Paid for Slapping His Face. Because of an Atlanta street c conductor slapping his face for rin ing a push bell several times, B. Wheeler, aged 19, was given a v? diet for $700 against the Oeorg Railway and Power Company F day. \ r SHOT IN NEW YORK * RULLET ENDS THE SHADY CAREER OF GANGSTER. Fired by Man Who Jumps on Running Hoard of Street Car Containing His Victim. At New York "Big Jack" Beelig was shot and killed Friday nignt, ine t East Side gang leader and prospective witness in the trial of Police Lieut. - Chas. Becker, for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, which will begin Monday, was seated in a _nd avenue open surface car when Philip Davidson, who says he is a frut dealer jumped on the running board ard fired the fatal shot. ? - ' j * Davidson leapeu num me wi aau ran away, but was caught, pistol in 5 hand. He admitted the shooting and declared it was for revenge, the poI 'ice say. According to the prisoner, i Zeelig had held him up at the point of a revolver late Friday in an East ; Side hallway and robbed him of $400. The ^police received reports that Zees !ig had been lured to the scene of the shooting by a telephone message and i this is being investigated. i Zeelig, mortally wounded, ?was \ rushed to Believue Hospital, but died ; in the ambulance. On his body, the t police say, only $2.34 was found, als though a well-dressed woman, whose - identity was not learned, visited the" Believue (Morgue not long after Zee ling's death and asked the authori^ ties to turn over to her $500 which ; she said Zeelig had in his possession . when he was shot. The woman was detained by the morgue authorities, they stated. The police also detained Hyman Giverth, an East Side resident, as a material witness. Giverth says he saw the shooting. Little is known about Davidson. He told the police, they say, that he came o this city from Peekskill, N. Y., fiv ; or six days ago. He hr.d been a fruit dealer, he said, but was not now in any .business, s TWO MEN SHOOT IT OUT. " ~ ' r- . One is Dead and the Other is Fatally! 5 I ) J Wounded. Edward Gregory is dead and Oli1 ver H. Watson lies dangerously : wounded as the result of a grudge of long standing, the difficulty occur3 ring near Kershaw, Lanlaster Coun\ ty, Friday. It seems that Gregory r and Watson, both in buggies, met in . the publil road, and as they started ; to pass ealh other the buggy wheels became locked and both commenced I shooting. Gregory was instantly kill5 ed, being shot through the head, and ; Watson was shot in the left lung and his physician, Dr. Twitty, states that 5 he has little hope of his recovery. 3 Gregory was formerly a patrolmar' on the Lancaster police force ana ^ was unmarried. He was about 27 ,> years old. Watson is a man of 50 ] years and has a wife and six chily dren. Both were well-to-do citizens, t *The tragedy is much deplored and t has been the sole topic of conversat tion in Kershaw Friday. S TROLLEY OAR CREW BEATEN. e * Attempt to Operate Augusta-Aiken [ Line Causes Trouble. e Trouble developed Friday after le ill Several hundred Mount Vernon 10 children are ill at Mount Vernon, D. >n Friday as the indirect result of z JO Baltimore and Ohio freight train is wreck. A large shipment of medi cine in tablet form was scattered re' from one of the cars and the chilth dren filled their pockets. The tablets ot found their way into the hands o: "I nearly every child in the ctiv by th< n? time school was out Friday after ed noon. Friday practically every loca as physician was kept busy treating th< children. Several of the cases ar< said to be critical. <? ? ar Many Killed in Powder Mill. K- As a result of a terrific explosioi A. at the Western Powder mills locate< Jr- at Edwards Station, 111., at noon sev ;ia eral persons were reported killed an< ri- many injured. The plant was wreck ed. noon when a car was operated on the * Aiken line by the Augusta street railway company. A double crew was y sent out and, instead of turning back at Hampton Terrace Hotel station, e went through to Belvidere. A crowd 0 attacked the car, took off two of the n men and were whipping them when ? the other two switched the trolley a and made a getaway run to Augusta. e One of the men was serevely beaten e and had to be taken to Pine Heights d Sanitarium; the other made his esy cape and is still missing. In Augusta J no trouble of any kind was expere ienced Friday in the operation of reglt u!ar schedules. ? d NOT A BULL MOOStf MAX. ? 3" John B. McCravey is Not With Projr y gressive Party. Mr. John B. McCravey of Colum Lia., whose name appeared in the list of those attending the initial meeting is of the Progressive party published in 1 n<3 Stctl.6 UI UULUUCi o, saiu uaiui^ day night that he was not a member 'Q of the B.ull Moose party, although personally friendly to Roosevelt, whom he knew while serving in the United States army. Mr. McCravey L'n declared he intended to vote for all the Democratic nominees from Woodrow Wilson for president to John Scott for coroner of Richland county, r0 although he is an independent in pol^ itics. He attended the Hull Moose le meeting as a spectator only. d. ' at MISTOOK IT FOR ('AM)V? Children III From Fating Tablet.4 siruftot'i'd hv Wreck. TEDDY'S NEW PARTY e WHITE REPUBLICANS ORGANIZED IN COLUMBIA. i SMALL CROWD PRESENT ? Twenty-Eight Citizens From the Different Congressional Districts Ex cept the First District Attended i the First Meeting and Helped Or- j ganize the White Republican Par- ^ t>. 1 1 The Columbia correspondent of , The News and Courier says the "Bull ] Moose" is off. His hoofs and antler ( tips were sharpened Friday and he entered the race with the Democratic \ mule. < Twenty-eight voters, representing every Congressional district of the State, with the exception of the first district, gathered Friday at the Co- ] lumbia Hotel and organized the Pro- < gressive party in South Carolina. A < permanent secretary and treasurer ] and seven Congressional chairmen ] were elected and the constitution and 1 rules of the party adopted. The elec- i tion of a permanent chairman and vice chairman was left open until a 1 later meeting. i The meeting was called to order at 2 o'clock by Provisional National < Committeeman 13. Sherwood Dunn, of Aiken. He introduced Dr. 0. E. Watson. pastor of the Washington St. ; Methodist church, who lead in pray- > er. The election of a permanent i secretary was then entered upon and i W. P. Beard, editor of the News- ' Scimitar and conspicuous supporter ol Governor Blease in the recent primary was chosen to that position. Maj. L. W. C. Blalock, long a Repub- ; lican leader of the State, was elected permanent treasurer. The election of chairman for each of the Seven Congressional Districts was then entered into with the following results: First District?W. P. Utsey, St. George, S. C. Second District?Thomas Thompson, North Augusta. S. C. Third District?C. E. Gray, Westminster, S. C. Fourth District?R. A. Hanna, Spartanburg. ^ifth District?I.'H. Norris, Yorkville. ^ixth District?Dr. C. R. Taber, Dillon. Seventh District?W. Boyd Evans, Columbia. The Bull Moose party Friday afternoon adopted its constitution. This provides for an executive committee composed of the officers and district chairmen of the State. These will meet at a future date ?f as provided in the constitution, elect the Presidential electors. No State ticket was put out by the Progressives. In the constitution is this resolution: "To that great apostle of human rights, who towers the greatest figure in the life of America to-day, Theodore Roosevelt, they pledge their loval support at the coming election ?and from this moment they promise by work and precept to spread among their friendsand neighbors the gospel ofdeliverance from te powers of great and political rascality, which have increased the cost of evry com? modity necessary to human life and which protect the gamblers in wheat, cotton and corn, making it impossible for the honest producer to free himsslf from the money lender and high rates of interest which grant him an uncertain and precarious living from year to year, leaving him without hope or means of deliverance, except as held out in the promise of a return to the people of the right and prower to direct and govern their destinies by the initiative, referendum and recall, the direct primary in the selection of candidates to all important offices, and the destruction of the alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, which form the invisible government that has stifled the voice of the common people crying for deliverance, and we ;oin hands with the great gathering at Chicago, who gave us our battle gry, 'We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.' " Charter Members. The following are members of the Bull Moose party of this State who attended the Convention: L. D. Melton,, Columbia; W. W. Brue, Columbia: W. Boyd Evans, Columbia; W. A. Reckling, Columbia; S. A. Murphy, Columbia; W. V. King, Columbia; John McCreavy, Columbia; H. A. Simons, Columbia; T. H. Wannamak. er, Columbia; G. W. Mudd. Colum, bia; A. D. Palmer, Columbia; S. T. Westberry, Columbia; W. P. Beard, i Columbia; A. R. X. Folger, Seneca; T? A IJn nn'i Cno rt Q r> till rtr T. r^nin IV. n. i lUUliU, KS^JLAl lUil'/Ul . (4. V. V/*w, Camden; Major L. W. C.~ Blalock, Goldville; Isaac H. Norris, Harvin; Dr. C. R. Taber, Dillon; E. E. Clem; ens; Inman; I. D. Odom. Batesburg; Dr. V. P. Clayton, Shelton; C. E. Gray, Westminster; C. Roy, Inman; [ Thos. Thompson, North Augusta; E. A McGregor, Batesburg. | Tlim* Men Were Killed. Three men were killed Friday by I the explosion of a gasoline launch . near Guntesrville, Ala., on the Tens'nessee river. A farmer saw the boat II on. the river and the next instant he 5 heard an explosion. He ran to the . bank and saw the bits of wreckage 1 floating on the surface. The boat * and the three men had been blown to 5 atoms. ? Back to Their Home T^and. The four steamers of the.National i Navigation company of Greece have ] been chartered by the Greek govern ment to transport from New York j about f>,4 00 American Greeks, volun tcers and reservists of the Greek army, to fight the Turks. MANY LIVES LOST ? SUBMARINE IiOAT SUNK BY A LARGE STEAMSHIP. . Only One of the Entire Crew Was Saved and He Says He Went Down a Miles. Submarine "B-2" of the British navy was run down and cut in two J by the Bamburg American Line Amerika in the English channel off the Kent coast Friday and fifteen officers and men who were aboard the little craft were drowned. The commander of the vessel, Lieutenant Percy B. O'Brien, was among the victims, .but his second in command, Lieutenant Richard I. Pulleyne was picked up after being a long time in the water. He was the ] :>nly survivor. Lieutenant Pulleyne was found 1 boating in the sea too exhausted to 1 say more when he was rescued than: "The submarine is cut In two. I went down a mile." The "B-2" had left Dover Friday < morning to participate with the other submarines in a series of maneuv- 1 ers. The accident occurred an hour 1 ater, although none of the sister submarines knew anything about it un- 1 til Lieutenant Pulleyne was picked : up. 'fhe young Lieutenant collapsed af- 1 ter he was taken from the water and ' conveyed to the parent ship. 1 The Ajnerika stood by after the 1 collision and threw life buoys over 1 board while a number of torpedo boats, after being informed of the 1 accident by wireless telegraphy, ' searched the sea for hours. None of 1 fhe other members of the crew, however, was discovered in the vicinity. The Amerika then proceeded on her voyage to Southampton and Cher uourg. on ner way to ,\e\v iorK. This is the sixth disaster in British submarines, each of them involving the loss of from eleven to fifteen lives. PARACHUTE FAILED TO OPEX. A Man and a Hoy Js Killed in Drop from a Balloon. Lorenzo Howland, 15-year-old son of L. D. Howland, and H. C. Petty, an aeronaut, fell 500 feet from a balloon and were instantly killed at the State Fair grounds at Tuscumbia, Ala., on Tuesday. The tragedy was witnessed by a large crowd of spectators, which had assembled to witness the ascension. Howland previously 'v had been standing near the balloon while it was being inflated. When it soared upward spectators were startled to see him dangling head down from one of the ropes on the balloon. In somt manner Howland's feet became entangled in the rope before the balloon was turned loose. The aeronaut made heroic efforts to rescue the lad from his perilous position. When the balloon had reached a height of about 500 feet he cut the parachute loose from the balloon and both men began to drop ?\vif11 v Hnwnward. w " * v " ? For some reason the parachute failed to open. The men plunged to the earth and were killed. Howland struck the earth first and the aeronaut landed on top of him. When spectators reached the two men both were dead. ? ? ? PLUNGES DOWN TO DEATH. ? Five Thousand Spectators See the Awful Accident. With 5,000 persons watching him at the Inter-state fair grounds at Trenton, N. J., Thursday afternoon, Chas. F. Walsh, while making a spiral descent in a biphane, fell 2,000 feet to instant death about a quarter of a mile outside the fair grounds. Practically every bone in his body was broken and his face and body were badly cut. Walsh had been giving exhibitions at the fair all week and Thursday for the first time was doing fancy stunts in tht air with the machine. He was very high Thursday, probably 5,000 feet, as he becan his descent. He was making the spiral descent with the' front of the machint pointed almost j straight downward when he lost control. Walsh could plainly be seen struggling to regain his balance, but without avail. The machine then bescent to the earth and the large numbtr of spectators realized that the aviator's death was imminent. German Aviator Killed. Another German airman, August Birltmeier, was killed Friday. He was flying around the aerodrome at Hanover in his monoplane when in making a curve one of the wings tipped too far and caused the machine to crash to tne ground from a height of r>0 feet. ? ? Brothers Divorce Sisters. Two brothers, Richard and Roger A. Lyon, both of Melden, Mass., were granted divorces from their wives, who are sisters, in the Cambridge Divorce Court on statutory grounds, naming the Melden men, also brothers, as co-respondents. j ? ? Chafin Ticks the Winner. "Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft together will not carry ten states in the comign election, and either Wilson or myself will be elected president," declared Eugene Chafin, Prohobition candidate for president, in his speech at St. Paul, Minn., Friday. Fell Dead at Telephone. A telephone message that he was about to be arrested charged with operating a handbook so frightened Joseph Sohickling, aged 52, at Cincinnati, 0., Wednesday, that he dropped dead at the telephone. SOME BLOOD SHED ? FOUR AMERICAN MARINES KILLED IN NICARAGUAN NUMBERS ARE EWOUNDEO [{evolutionary Forces Are Driven to the Hills After Brief Battle, Sustaining; Heavy Losses. ? Leader Among the Slain. ? Americans Marching on Only Remaining Rebel Stronghold. In a gallant assault American marines and bluejackets Friday drove the Xicaraguan revolutionaryl eader, Gen. Zeledon, and his forces from Coyotepe and Barranca Hills, near Masaya, after 3 7 minutes of fighting, btu in the action four privatts of the I'nited States marine corps were killed and a number were wounded. The victory of the Americans opened the way for the Xicaraguan Governornment troops to assault the town of Masaya, which they took from the revolutionists and the starving inhabitants were relieved. Rebel losses were heavy. The Government forces lost 100 killed and 200 wounded. Gen. Zeledon, the rebel. esnaned but later was cornered and killed by a troop of Federal cavalry. One thousand American marines and bluejackets, under Lieut. Col. Charles G. Long, are moving on the city of Leon, the remaininLg rebel stronghold. The American marines killed were: , Private Ralph Victor Bobbett, er; listed at St. Louis. His father lives at Nevada. Mo. Private Charles Hays Durham, enlisted at Indianapolis. His mother lives at .Junction City, Ky. Private Clarence Henry McGill, enlisted at Boston. His aunt, Mrs. Herbert, lives at Portland, Me. Private Henry Pollard, enlisted at Rochester, N. Y. His mother lives at Med way, Mass; The Americans most severely injured were: Second Lieut. George W. Martin, Company C, -st battalion, enlisted at Boston. Sergt. A. P. Sherburne, enlisted at Boston, his mother, Mrs. Francis L. Sherburne, lives at Georgetown, Mass. Private William Harvey, enlisted at Boston. Private Alfred Lunder, enlisted at P'argo, X. D. T. P. Captain, ordinary seaman, of the Cruiser California. The navy department cannot identify Captain. Admiral Sutherland, in reporting the battle to the navy department, said: "The department and the country have every reason to be proud of the officers, marines and bluejackets who were engaged in this action." - > 1 1 ? + Admiral OUlIieX'IclliU S Uia^ai(.u made it plain that the defeat of the rebels was complete. Zeledon, a Nicaraguan and formerly supporter of Zelaya, fled toward the Costa Rica boundary to escape. A band of Federal cavalrymen discovered him some distance from Massava and gave flight. After they had defeated him i and his followers he was found j wounded and died later. I Shedding of American blood in Central America is expected to bring to a climax in Congress the dispute OAer the right of this government to intervene in Nicaragua. Less than a month ago Acting Secretary Huntington Wilson served formal notice upon the Xicaraguan Government of the policy of the United States to take measures for an adequate legation , guard at Managua, to keep open comI niunications and to protect American I life and property. The Nlcaraguan Government already had declared its willingness and even anxiety that the Unitel tSates should act, finding itself fully engaged in fighting the rebels. No further resistance from the rebels to the execution of Admiral Sutherland's program to keep open the railroad will be tolerated. The doubt that had existed as to the location of the rebel leader, Irias, the last who commanded any considerable force, now that Mena and Zeledon have been disposed of, was removed when it was learned that he was at Leon. This is another important point on the railroad between Corinto and -Managua. Senor Castrillo, the Xicaraguan minister here, called at the State department upon explicit instructions from his Government to express profound sympathy and sorrow of the Xicaraguan nation for the American losses suffered at Masay#. This was in addition to a similar expression from Gen. Chamorro, the Xicaraguan minister for foreign affairs, to American Minister Weitzel, at Managua. ? Hanged From Railroad Bridge. "Babe" Yarborough, a negro railroad hand, who attempted to assault a 12-year-old white girl, daughter of a prominent family at Americus, Ga., was taken away from Sheriff Fuller and strung up by a rope to a railrcad bridge in Macon County, near Ogltthorpe. and then his body was riddled with bullets. ? Seems Anxious to Die. At Xeward, X. J., Miss Emily Ft. Sherman is under detention at the i,.-.o-rvifo 1 nftor t<?n unsuccessful n t\ nwopnu J, ut w> v. attempts at suicide by inhaling illumnating gas. In each instance the ving out of her purpose was frustrated by her landlady, Mrs. Helen 1 leach. Many Make This Mistake. It is a mistake to estimate the value of a man by the external apparatus of life instead of by its Internal nobility. THEY PRAISE TAFT EPUBLICAN'S TO N AME AN ELECTORAL TICKET. No State Convention Will Be Held, Nor Will Any State Ticket Be Nominated. Tht State says the Republican State Executive Committee with 29 ' i- - i J . ? c ^ counties represented was neia in. v^ulumbia on Monday and adopted a resolution indorsing President Taft for re-election and issued a call for district conventions to be held when candidates for congress will be named to contest with the Democratic nominees in every district in the State. A subcommittee of nine members was namtd to prepare a list of electors to be approved by the entire committee. The committee decided not to call a State convention at present and not to put out a State ticket. The committee met upon the call of J. R. Tolbert, the State chairman, and the names of "the nine citizens who are all worthy, upr'ght men," who are to be on the electoral ticket will be made public soon. A roll call develops! that there was not a member of the committee wLc favored the candidacy of Thovdore Roosevelt. Members of the committee said that it was the intention to oust all supporters of the Bull Moose party. The following resolution was adopted by the committee: "The Republican party presents a3 its candidate for president the Hon. William Howard Taft of Ohio. His administration of the office of presi ' * *i- - i r* j. - J. 1- ^ ^ U/n/sm aent 01 tne unuea siac/js uas uccji marked by the passage of more measures of real progress rha.i any previous administration. He has conducted the affairs of the nat:on with wisdom and prudence, but without vain and spectacular display and has appealed to the reason of men and not to their emotions, iussions or prejudices. Above all he has been the president of the whole country and not merely the president of a section; he has been the president for all the people and has in everv way labored in the interests of the people as a whole without regard to party, creed or class. No man evei sat in the White House who has shown such an interest as he has shown in the welfare, the progress and pappiness of the South. No candidate for president has had greater right to ask or expect the suffrages of the citizens of the South than has the present incumbent, .who at all times and in all seasons and circumstances has been the president of a reunited country and maintained that the South was entitled to receive the same fair and impartial treatment as that accorded otner sectioqf of our common country. "Therefore, the Republican party 01' South Carolina appeals to all citizens of South Carolina, without regard to previous political affiliations, who believe in fair play and a square deal, who believe in progress on safeand sane lines, who believe in maintaining our constitutional and representative form of government, who believe that the people of this State should be politically free and no longer bound in the cast iron straightjacket of the Southern Democratic party, to cast their votes for President Taft. "The Republicans of South Carolina have placed in the field as candidates for the electoral college nine citizens who are all worthy, upright men, and who command the respect of the communities in which they live. An opportunity is now offered for every man in this State to vote in a presidential race his honest convictions. "We urge all true men to vote for the ticket, which in their honest judgment will best promote the interest of the whole country. "We hereby declare that all members of the Republican State executive committee, as at present constituted, are loyal members of the Re? *-*?oY.+ ir onH horeiViv nlprtfp puuiiuaii j/ai ij uuu r o ourselves and the organization we represent to support the candidates and platform held last June in Chicago." BEES STUXG MULES TO DEATH. Two Animals Overturn Hives With Fatal Result. Two mules, belonging to Andrew Long, a prosperous farmer, residing about two miles north of Gilb3rt, Lexington County, were stung so badly by bees one day last week that both died from the effects of the stings. It seems that Mr. Long had loaded his wagon with cott ?u and had left the mules standing. They grazed around and ran upon the hives, turning two of the gunvs over. The bees immediately swarmed and completely covered the animals. One of the mules died a short while afterwards: the other the following day. The loss falls heavily on Mr. Long, who is a hard-working, industrious citizen. Long and Gunter are Held. A coroner's jury at #\Vagener returned a verdict on Tuesday that Pickens X. Gunter came to his death by a gunshot wound at the hands of Hugh C. Long and Hayes Gunter was an accessory to the shootnig. Dr. D. P. Portwood, who was arrested on a warrant charging him with being an accessory to the shooting and taken to jail was released after the coroner's jury returned its verdict. Killed on War Vessel. Lieut. Donald P. Morrison was kill: ed and eight men were injured Tuesday by the explosion of the steam chest on the torpedo boat destroyer Walke. The accident occurred off Prenton's Reef lightship while the ' Walke was preparing for her second quarterly trial. Lieut. Morrison en' tered the service from 'Missouri in I 1902.