Scraps aud 4;acts. ? John Wesley Crockett, deputy secretary of state in Arkansas and candidate for president of the state railroad commission, is a great-grandson of Davy Crockett, hero of Alamo. Among his cherished possessions are the gold watch and the "rifle gun" of his illustrious ancestor. The rifle was the gift of 500 young Whigs, his admirers In Philadelphia. Tvl /\# fKft no a t fou* flaVS LllSptlll'UCS UL U1C .v from St. Petersburg indicate that the| Russian cabinet has gotten a plenty. Premier Goremkln has tendered his I resignation and the same has been accepted by the czar. A new cabinet will be formed as soon practicable but as to whether the Duma is to be allowed any recognition in the matter has not yet developed. ? New York Sun: The Mercantile Trust company of St. Louis, which represents the owners of the property, has leased to the United Cigar Stores company the store and basement in the new eighteen story building that is going up at the southeast corner of Broadway and Wall street. The lease is for ten years, at an annual rent of $40,000. The store measures only 28 by 28 feet, making the square foot rental $51.02 a year. According to Lorenzo E. Anderson, vice president of the trust company, this is the highest store rental on record. ? The packing house scandals are weighing heavily upon the cattle rais- I ers of Texas and the west generally. Since the publication of the reports showing the filthy and unsanitary practices of the big packinghouses, the price of cattle has declined from 53 to 35 per head, and the stockmen see no hope for a change until the whole dreadful affair has blown over. Congressmen are receiving thousands of dispatches asking them to hurry the work along as rapidly as possible and to have the investigation over with and the remedy applied without unnecessary delay. ? Charleston Post Saturday: In the United States district court today the suit of the United States against the Germania Brewing company, growing out of the sale of some malt tonic was continued. The brewery sold the tonic to the post exchange as a non-intoxicating drink, and it is alleged that the soldiers were made drunk and the goods were sent back to the brewery. The company refused to take the goods. ana ine government is uuw sums w. $1,000 damages for the tonic making the men drunk, and also for about $86 worth of the tonic which was not consumed at the exchange. ? Charlotte, N. C., June 10: With remarkable courage. Miss Pearle Jones, night long distance telephone operator at Selma, this state, shot and fatally wounded a negro brute, who, by his own confession, had premeditated an assault upon her. Miss Jones heard noises outside her office at midnight and seizing her pistol went out to investigate. As she stepped outside the negro. Bud Anderson, attacked her and she promptly fired Ave times, mortally wounding her assailant and then returned to her work. Anderson made a death-bed confession, implicating another, who was arrested" and jailed. The people are highly excited, and trouble is feared. Admiring citizens have raised a fund with which to purchase for Miss Jones a gold mounted revolver and gold medal. ? Washington, June 11: Assistant Secretary Hays of the department of agriculture, gave out the following statement regarding the cotton acreage report of June 4th: "The department is convinced that the estimated planted acreage in cotton of about 28,??iUr tfuquirrr. YORKVILLE, S. C.i TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 190(5. I ~?~ ? ? Thrre is evidently some strongly organized effort behind the Bryan boom. Stenographer Deal has handed in his resignation to Chairman Hay. Under the circumstances this was the proper thing for Mr. Deal to do. Eugene Blease has filed his resignation as senator from Saluda county. Blease is the man who was some time ago acquitted of the murder of his brother-in-law, Joe Ben Coleman. The lieutenant governor has ordered an election for Blease's successor. Yes, Lucinda, it was Mr. Blease who drew up and introduced the resolutions under which the dispensary Is being investigated; but that does not necessarily mean that Mr. Blease wanted the people to know the true facts as to what was going on. Senator Blease of the dispensary investigating committee, got excused last Thursday before the examination] of the Newberry witnesses was com menced. He said he had to go to Newberry to attend court. He had several cases that had failed to receive attention at the previous session because of his absence in attendance on his duties in the senate. It was a pity that Mr. Blease could not be present to hear what was said. It is a pity that the other members of the committee did not back Messrs. Lyon, Christensen and Spivey up In their effort to make Mr. Lewis W. Parker tell who represented Lanahan after Boykin refused to "stay fixed." The people of the state want to know. There is a large number of people who are beginning to centre their suspicions on a well-known citizen of Columbia. and if Mr. Parker or some one else don't come out with the truth of this other man, some of the innocent are bound to suffer. President E. D. Smith of the South Carolina Southern Cotton association has issued another address to the business men of the state. He urges everybody to quit selling cotton for future delivery and to give their attention to the erection of warehouses. He insists that the south is not going to raise any mofe cotton than the world actually needs and that the thing is to hold it from the market until the mills are compelled to pay a fair price. While the testimony of that fellow Lanahan is interesting and very likely true, people who are inclined to make a hero of the liquor dealer are making a mistake. There is good reason for believing that Lanahan has spent thousands and thousands of dollars in grafting dispensary officials and the best that can be said for him is that he only quit after it developed that other houses were willing to pay larger pullbacks than he was willing to pay. TKcro oro alu'Qi'u ftrn cIHpQ tn J1 hrihPTV proposition, and the man who gives the bribe is not a whit better than the man who takes it. Of course, there may be something in Mr. Lanahan's claim that the reason he could not meet the offers of the western Jewish houses was because he was unwilling to sell such an inferior quality of whisky as they were content to put off on the state; but even that is a question. There is just as good reason to believe that Mr. Lanahan was not content with as small a profit as would satisfy the western Jews. However, as we have already remarked, Mr. Lanahan's disgruntlenient is a cause for congratulation. Furthermore, we are of opinion that the directors will take a good deal off of Mr. Lanahan. He has not only been connected with dispensary transactions for a long time: but he is a millionaire well able to take care of himself and to fight revenge fully on occasion and there is no telling how much he can tell, if he wants to. Ai/rnoroH in times past there has be< n good reason to think differently and many think difierently now, we believe that there not only is a probability that Mr. Bryan will be the next Democratic nominee for the presidentcy. but there is more than a strong possibility that he will be elected. Mr. Roosevelt was never the choice of the ' It-merit of his rinrtv which has ordl narily been in control. They regarded him as unfit for such a position by reason of his lack of experience in statesmanship and his possession of a disposition that is not in accord with the real spirit of Republican institutions. He lias not proved a disappointment to the people who were doubtful of him from the beginning, but has proved very much of a disappointment to the masses of the American people. Whatever else may be said of Mr. Bryan, it would be extremely difficult to show one single incident or circumstance in his long public career that is discreditable to himself or to the American people and it is not to be denied that his conduct generally has been to increase and extend the respect in which he has all along been held by such a large percentage of the American people. The country is now getting ready for a change. The people who elected Roosevelt before have been driven away from his standard and they will neither support him nor men who have sympathized with him. Bryan will not ask for their help. They will however, bend their efforts in a different direction and they will bring about a split in the Republican ranks that will make Democratic success possible. No two men in public life in South Carolina, since the days of '76. when Wade Hampton was at his best, have shown more genuine manhood than has been shown by Messrs. Fraser Lyon and Neils Christensen in connec lion with this dispensary investigation. Had these gentlemen seen proper they could have shirked their duty without losing to a considerable extent the respect of anybody but themselves. They had good reason to believe that in pushing their investigations they were in constant danger of assassination. either at the hands of some guilty corruptlonist or hired tool of the people they have been seeking to uncover. They have never had reason to believe that they had the sincere support of their colleagues on the committee; but they have never given an intimation even that they were aware of the fact. They have gotten close to the bottom of rottenness that few of the best informed people in the state could have uncovered and through it all they have borne themselves as calm, cool, deliberate high-minded South Carolina gentlemen. South Carolina has need of men like this, and while there is no rtason to believe that either of these two are seeking personal advancement, we take leave to venture the prediction here and now that both of these men will some day take positions as high as have been reached by the best that the state has yet produced. ALL ENTER DENIALS. Newberry Delegation Claims Not to Have Been Bought Cheap. Newberry, June 9.?Senator Cole L. Blease was asked tonight if he had any statement to make in regard to the testimony of C. C. Davis before the dispensary investigation committee to the effect that Mr. Evans had employed Mr. Blease as his attorney. Senator Blease said: "I expected all kinds of campaign lies and slanders when I entered the race for governor, there being among my political enemies a certain element of people who would stoop to anything to defeat me regardless of honor or truth. I shall make answer on the stump before the people. "From the letters I am receiving and the reports of my friends, I am very much encouraged in my race, and believe that after I have had the opportunity to address the voters of each county I will be elected governor of the state. I have nothing more to say before I get before the people, and then I expect to and am willing to stand upon my public record, and my private character, both of which I am proud of and ready to defend at all times, at all places, in any way and under any circumstances." Representative F. W. Higgins, says: "I have read the report of the testimony taken before the investigating committee, and if it were possible for the people of the state to understand all of the circumstances connected with it as the people of Newberry do, I should treat it with indifference. As it is I wish to say that there is not an atom of truth in the report. I expect to have an opportunity, and on every opportunity offered during the campaign to set forever at rest an imputation characterized by such a disregard for the amenities of existence. I have approached Mr. Evans in regard to the matter, and he assured me that there is no truth in the statement of Davis In so far as that pertaining to the Newberry delegation is concerned. Representative John M. Taylor says: "The charge made by H. H. Evans as testified to by C. C. Davis, is absolutely false. My record in the legislature will show that I was against the dispensary from start to finish, and when this record is examined it is absolutely absurd to think that I was bought, and in other words my action at all times when the dispensary system was under discussion was not at all in accord with that of one who had been bought. I Hnno in ho nhlo to shnw the neonle the absurdity of such an accusation. I shall demand a positive answer from Mr. Evans as to the charge made by Mr. Davis." Representative John W. Earhardt says: "To those who know me as a private citizen and In a public capacity I think a denial on my part of such a charge is unnecessary. I have waited to see a statement from Mr. Evans. He failing to make any. on advice of his attorneys, I called on him in person, and to me he denied making the statement attributed to him in as emphatic manner and in as strong language as it is possible to use, which resolves itself into a question of veracity between him and Mr. Davis, with which I have nothing to do. Fortunately, however, my record in the legislature is a sufficient denial of the accusation on my part. I voted to retain the Brice bill, to knock out the tax feature of the Brice bill, which I considered a barrier, to give the present investigating committee the power it asked at that hodv's hands without limit as to the number of days they should receive pay as was wanted: to abolish the state dispensary and against the Raysor-Manning bill, which appeared to me as a measure looking to fastening the dispensary system on the people of South Carolina indefinitely. I supported the Morgan bill, which meant local option as between county dispensaries and prohibition, and on measures relating to the dispensary the Journal of the house of representatives, which I have at hand, shows my vote recorded against what is now known as the present dispensary interests as now conducted. On that record I am willing to stand or fall. "As to the vote for Mr. Evans, chairman. I don't suppose any one ever supposed for a moment that I would vote for any other man than Mr. Evans, with no other candidate in the field from my county, a matter, however. which Mr. Evans never mention ed to mo. During my ten or twelve years of public life neither by Mr. Evans nor any one else has an improper proposal been made to me."?News and Courier. MERE-MENTION. Governor Warfield of Maryland, has appointed Win. Pinckney White to fill the senatorial vacancy caused by the death of Arthur P. Gorman The National convention of ex-slaves adjourned last Friday after a four days' session in Washington. They passed resolutions against the jim crow provision of the rate bill A negro named Jim Davis was lynched at Ocala, Fla., last Friday for the murder of a Mr. Russel and his servant. The plant of the Trout Lumber company at Trout, La., was destroyed by fire a few days ago. The loss amounted to $50,000... .Supreme court orders have been served on quite a number of defendants in the Chattanooga lynching case Joseph K. Aikens, chief clerk of the Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania railroad has been dismissed by President Cassatt for having taken too much graft. General Nelson A. Miles has reminded the public that it was lie who first called public attention to the rott? n beef that is being furnished by the Chicago packing houses... .The health authorities at New Orltans are busy makiiur arrangements to head off the r< turn of yellow fever. They are making war on the mosijuitos Foster Dwiglit Cuburn having declined an appointment to succeed Joseph R. Burton as t'nited States senator, Governor I loch has appointed Judge A. W. Beson of Ottawa Fieven persons were killed and live were wounded at Lancast< r. Pa., last Saturday by tin accidental explosion of dynamite Because of the objection of Senator Hale the bill to make it a misdemeanor for an employe of the agricultural department to give out information as to crop estimates, etc.. for speculative purposes has been killed.... President Roosevelt has signed tlii* bill providing for tax-free denatured alcohol. The bill goes into effect about January 1 next Fx-Senator Win. F. Vilas. who was a member of Cleveland's first cabinet, has declared for Bryan as the next Democratic presidential nominee. Pulajones marauders continue to overrun the island of Samar Senator Blackburn of Kentucky, lias been chosen to succeed Gorman as president of the Democratic senatorial caucus. LOCAL AFFAIRS. \ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. A. Tate, C. C. C. Pis.?Gives notice of sale of real estate for partition in the case of Mary D. Hope, plfT., vs. Kthel D. and Wm. A. Hope, Defts. L. It. Williams?Is announced as a candidate for the office of probate judge of York county. H. A. D. Neely?Is announced as a candidate for nomination for reappointment as treasurer of York county. Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Asks the question "Where shall I insure?" and says that the Mutual Benefit is the best company. Yorkville Hardware Co.?Has fruit Jars, extra tops, rubbers, also water coolers, freezers, screen doors and windows, binder twine, etc. rv T D-l^.? Dft/ib mil U, J. Dl 1111 1111 IVW IV 4*111 mj.l lll?v the Catawba Military academy endeavors to train the body, mind and soul of its students. W. M. Kennedy, Agent?Sets forth the merits of a mole trap he sells. He also has choice line of fancy and family groceries. York Drug Store?Wants its customers to know that it always gives careful attention to prescriptions. G. H. O'Leary?Has Rex mattresses and cone spring beds, which nuike an ideal sleeping combination. M. W. White?Says for you to save your money and buy stocks. Loan and Savings Banks?Wants you to know that it treats all its business as strictly confidential. J. Q. Wray, The Leader?Is making an effort to turn all spring and summer goods into cash by July 1, and has cut prices accordingly. L. M. Grist's Sons?Have limited supply of copies of Horse Shoe Robinson. See fourth page. Geo. T. Schorb?Offers an Ivers and Pond and a Farrand organ at bargain prices for thirty days. Thomson Company?Has big lot of ladies' 15c hosiery, which it offers at 10c a pair. J. C. Comer?Is announced as a candidate for reappointment as magis trate of York townsntp. J. C. Wllborn?Offers a 160-aere farm 6* miles east of Yorkville, for sale, on terms to suit purchaser. Foushee Cash Store?Says it can save you money on ladies' hats and hand bags. Watch for new goods. "The Rivals," the publication of which is commenced today, is well calculated to interest, entertain and instruct all classes of readers. Farmers generally are well up with their work and in good shape to take care of wheat and oats; but th.Mr crops of grain are generally small. Rev. Dr Stevenson. The new title sounds well and Is in no sense a misfit. Than Dr. Stevenson, there is not an abler or better man in the entire Associate Reformed church. Thirty thousand dollars or thereabouts expended on King's Mountain battleground would make the situation around there quite interesting, especially if it could be required that the monument be erected from native ofnnn wHInh t horn nn nhnntlflnnp on the spot. The packing house revelations ought to serve as some kind of a stimulus to our people to raise more beef of their own. There is no reason in the world why we should not be able to produce as fine beef in York county as is to be had anywhere in the world, and when we raise it ourselves we will have a much better opportunity to know what we are eating. That will be worth something. People living along the various roads leading out of Yorkville say that there is less drunkenness than during the dispensary days. It is rare that they see a drunk man now. A Yorkville gentleman who made it his business to investigate, says that the man Warlick who attacked Mr. Thompson recently, was drunk on liquor that he had brought from the dispensary at Chester. Warlick has not yet been arrested. DEATH OF REV. DR. PRESSLY. Rev. Dr. W. L. Pressly, president of Erskine Theological seminary, died at his home in Due West last Friday night at about 9 o'clock, and was buried on Saturday afternoon. He had been in a dying condition for several weeks as the result of paralysis and his death expected. Dr. Pressly was one of the leading men of the Associate Reformed church. He was born near Due West on May 3, 1837, and was graduated from Erskine college in the class of 1857. In 1858 he was married to Miss Francis Elizabeth Wideman, and after a course at the seminary, then presided over by his father, was licensed to preach the gospel in 1860. Dr. Pressly's first charge was the united congregations of Generostee and Concord in Anderson county. He became pastor of these churches in 1862 and labored with them for nine years, until 1871. when he was called to Due West to succeed his father as pastor of the Associate Reformed church there. He served as pastor of the church and professor of Hebrew in the seminary until 1889, when upon the death of the late Rev. James Boyee, D. D.. he became president of the seminary, continuing in the position to the very great advantage of the institution and of the Associate Reformed denomination up to the time of his death. Dr. Pressly leaves nine living children. His only daughter, Effie, is the wife of Rev. Paul L. Orier of Erskine college. Two sons are physicians. Dr. E. \V. Pressly of Clover, and Dr. Henry Pressly of Birmingham. Ala. Three are in the ministry, Rev. J. H. Pressly of Statesville, N. C.; Rev. Joseph L. Pressly of Alt. Zion, Mo., and Rev. Paul A Prucclv i\f T .n nr?*i *?r Tho nthpr sons arc still with the family at Due West. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The Neely mill is now getting a production close up to the capacity of the machinery, and it is of first-class quality. ? The new .Southern depot which the railroad commission promised for Yorkville is still as big as "all out of doors." ? Juvenile baseball teams of Rock 11 i 11 and Yorkville played in Yorkville y? sterda.v afternoon. The score was S to ft in favor of Rock Hill. ? A negro giving his name as Ernest Land, was before Magistrate Coiner yesterday on the charge of breaking into the house of and stealing some articles from Butler Erwi.i, another negro, who lives on the eastern outskirls of Yorkville. He was committed for trial. I lie ?i iiiiiiti i mrriiiifi im tut- iiiicti ii of trustees of the Yorkville Graded school will be held next Thursday morning at 11 o'clock and the annual election on the question of a special three mill levy for the support of the school during the ensuing year will be held Thursday afternoon from 12 to si o'clock. ? The Yorkville baseball team played a game with the Clover team on the grounds of the latter at Clover last Friday afternoon. The result was 10 to 5 in favor of Clover. The Clover boys are to come down to Yorkville next Friday afternoon. Mr. T. P. Moore, president of the Neely mill, has given the Yorkvilie team the privilege of using grounds belonging to the mill on condition that the boys put the grounds in proper condition. The offer has been accepted. There is a promise of more baseball in Yorkvilie this summer than for some time past. ? A barn belonging to Mr. C. E. Spencer and located on his premises on King's Mountain street, was destroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning. The alarm was sounded at about 4.15 o'clock and the firemen answered promptly, but the fire had already nade considerable progress and very little could be done toward saving the building or its contents. Th? loss wis in the neighborhood of $500 and the insurance was $325. Two horses were more or less painfully scorched and several pigs were killed. There is no definite information as to the origin of the fire; but It Is thought to have been accidental. ? Chief of Police J. L. Sanders has tendered his resignation to take effect at the end of the present month, having been induced to do so by the offer of a much better position with the Yorkville Banking and Mercantile company. The council has not yet accepted the resignation and will hardly do so if it can come to an understanding with Mr. Sanders. Mr. Sanders has made himself almost invaluable to the town during tne time ne nas neia the position of policeman and has done much to hold would-be offenders in terror of the law. There is no question of the fact that he has done more for the enforcement of prohibition in Torkville than, any other policeman who has ever been on duty in the town. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. Robert Jenkins is at home from Erskine college. Mr. Sam L. Miller, Jr., of Columbia visited Yorkvllle friends this week. Messrs. George and Carl Hart of Columbia spent Sunday in Yorkvllle. Rev. W. C. Ewart preached for the Tavora mill population last Sunday afternoon. Miss Bessie Anderson of Lowryville, is visiting Misses Mamie and Bessie Devinney. Miss Sallle Craig has returned to her home near Yorkvllle, from High Point. N. C. Messrs. George Cartwright and Jos Hart are at home from the South Cartina college. Mr. Luther Blair returned to his home near Blairsville last week, from Erskine college. Mrs. Frank Hart and children, of Columbia, are the guests of Mr. G. W. S. Hart's family. Mr. W. S. Loughridge of Gastonia, is spending a week or two with friends and relatives near here. Mr. Jas. B. Kennedy is at home from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, for the summer vacation. Mr?. M. J. Abernethy of Hickory, N. C. is the guest of her niece, Mrs. F. Woire, on Cleveland avenue. Mr. John Plaxco, who lives on the western outskirts of Yorkville, has t ,vo children sick with typhoid fever. Mrs. S. R. Moore left Saturday for a visit of several weeks to her son. Mr. Sam Moore In Washington, D. C. Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Kennedy of Chester, catne up Saturday on a short visit to Mr. W. M. Kennedy's family. Claude Moore, the Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Brice is still very sick; but Is thought to be Improving slowly. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Long are at the Bowen house for a few days. They will be at home In Mr. J. P. White's new cottage In a few days. Mr. S. Rhea Preston, Jr., of- the Smith-Premier typewriter company was in town yesterday. He comes to Yorkville quite frequently now and is building up a nice business here. Mrs. Rachel Boyce of Gastonia, spent Monday in Yorkville with Mr. W. M. Kennedy's family on her way to King's Creek, to attend the Faulkner-Thomson marriage today. Mr. J. D. Davis, for several months past the Southern's agent at Yorkville left last night for Waxhaw, N. C., to take a position with the Seaboard. T-v?..l? I In Vnrlr Mr. ua > in UCU3 UCCIl OUWtCCUVU III * v?? vllle by Mr. E. W. Long of Rutherfordton, N. C. Miss Elizabeth Faulkner of Smyrna York county, led the sophomore class at Due West Female college this year, her standing being as follows: A In English, Latin, botuny, Bible; B In history, geometry, logic, ethics, chemistry, piano. Mr. and Mrs. George Miller of Gregory. Texas, arrived in Yorkville last night on a visit to the relatives and friends of Mrs. Miller, who was formerly Miss Nelly Hobbs of this place. Mr. Miller will leave Mrs. Miller here while he goes for a short trip to his old home in Canada. The physical condition of Capt. E. A. Crawford is very good now, with kin Uo Una 1 rit* ?Ai;c|niun ui inn r^coi^iu. tic <*?> been troubled for some time with cataracts on both eyes and is almost blind, being able to see only enough to find his way about the house. He remains pretty close at home but is able and glad to see his friends. Mr. J. C. Wilborn and family returned yesterday from a visit of several days to Greensboro and High Point, N. C., Mr. Wilborn's former home. It had been a good many years since Mr. Wilborn had been to High Point and he was hardly able to recognize the place. It was a small village when he last saw it; now it is quite a city, alive with numerous furnituro and other manufacturing plants. LOCAL LACONICS. We Will Send The Enquirer From this date until January 1st, 1H07 for $1.16. Died In Colorado, Mr. Thomas W. Clawson of Yorkville, received a dispatch this morning announcing tlie death of his son, Mr. Charles W. Clawson, in Denver, Col., yest? rilay. Arrested In Gastonia. Deputy Sheriff Qu'.nn went up to Gastonia this morning after Jupiter Wilson, a negro who is wanted in this count J' for carrying an unlawful weapon, for selling liquor and because of other allegt d offenses. Death of Rev. W. P. Hemphill. Rev W. I'. Hemphill died at Griffin. Ga., on May 18 last. He was a native of York county, having been born here on November 22, 1841, and was married on October 5, 1865 to Miss Amanda J. Smarr. He leaves eight children. Murder Near Lowryville. A negro named Gus I>'p killed another negro named Lucius Jo.ies near Lowryville last Sunday afternoon. There are but few particulars obtainable except that the killing seems to have been in the nature of cold blooded murder and that Lee made his escape immediately afterward. Chief of police Sanders of Yorkville had a letter from the sheriff of Chester yesterday asking him to look out for Lee, who is described as being about twenty to twenty-two years of age, six feet high, black, with scar over right eye and having a mean appearance. He has been living on the John S. Bratton place near Guthriesville. Whiiky Thief Wounded. Fort Mill special of June 9, to the News and Courier: John Nlllag, an eighteen-year-old negro, a cocaine flend, was shot by Chief of Police Dawson Potts in the office of the Southern Express company here on Thursday night about 12 o'clock. Mr. Pot's was sleeping in the office to catch a thief who had been stealing whisky for a week or more. The negro entered through a small window and as soon as the policeman flashed his light on him went back through this window. Mr. Potts shot him as he ran, inflicting two slight flesh wounds. He was recognized and was arrested next morning. Magistrate J. W. McElhaney sent him to jail to await the next term of court. Germans Near Fort Mill. Charlotte Chronicle. Saturday: Mr. S. S. McNinch has received another party of foreign laborers, who were sent out this morning to his brick plant on the Catawba river. The party consists of 16 Germans, the majority of them young men. Mr. McNinch has been highly pleased with the energy and industry of the Germans, who have been at work for several weeks, and he believes that this last lot will solve the labor problem for him. He now has about thirty-five foreigners at work. Among the number sent out this morning is a young fellow who has five diplomas from schools In Germany, but he Is unable to speak a word of English. He will be a very valuable man, Mr. McNinch thinks, when he learns the language. He seems willing to do anything, to become acquainted with American manners and customs. ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. Catawba Military Academy?Talk of Sewerage System?Personal Mention. Correspondence of the Yorkrille Enquirer. Rock Hill, June 11.?Miss Eva, the charming young daughter of Mr. and Mrs Roach of this cltv eave her friends a surprise when she was married to Mr. Jas. L. Donald of Spartanburg. The marriage which occurred at 7.30 o'clock was at her father's home and in the presence of the family and a very few Intimate friends. There have been some rumors afloat to the effect that the Catawba Military Academy which has been in operation here for four years and of which the city is very proud, would not reopen next fall. I am informed by the Rev. Dr. D. J. Brimm, who is at its head, that the institution will open promptly at the appointed time with a full corps of Instructors. The work which has been done by this school is earnest and thorough and Rock Hill could not afford to give it up. As%an educator, Dr. Brimm is in the front rank in South Carolina. In a military way, the school has done fine work and elicited the highest praise from the veteran military men of the state. Rev. W. L. Llngle, D. D., came home Saturday from the bedside of his mother, in order to fill his pulpit at the First Presbyterian church Sunday. He returned Monday to his mother's home near Salisbury, N. C. While nothing definite has as yet been decided as to a sewerage system, the commltte?a joint one from the city council and Commercial club?met Monday at noon and decided to make a preliminary survey of the city with a view to ascertaining approximately the cost of such an undertaking. A meeting of the subscribers to the capital stock of the new cotton mill, "The Aragon." has been called for Tuesday afternoon. The meeting Is for the purpose of organizing. Only one officer, so far, has been agreed upon, Mr. Alex Long who is to be the president. He and Mrs. Long are here and are for the present occupying Hon. Blackburn Wilson's home in Oakland. Mr. Wilson and family are In Cuba, The local council of Red Men will hold a big "pow-wow" and ice cream feast Thursday evening. Grand Chief Hair of Newberry will be present and address the assembled braves. Rev. R. Maynard Marshall of the Episcopal church here, held services in Lancaster Sunday. Mr. John Wood, formerly of this city, now of Greenville, read the service for Mr. Marshall's parish. Miss Harriet Roddey left Monday for Corsicana. Texas, to visit her sister, Mrs. Hough, whose husband is the pastor of the A. R. Presbyterian church there. Mr. George Hart of Columbia, spent Saturday here "en route" for his old home in Yorkville. Mrs. John T. Roddey is visiting her mother at Winchester, Va. Miss Mary Johnson of this city and Misses Lena Stultz and Bess Williford of the county, are at home from Due West Female college. Miss Miriam Kinard of Columbia, is visiting Miss Lottie McFadden. Miss Galllard a charming young lady from EutawviHe, Is visiting Miss Annie Lyle Sandifer. TROUBLE FOR WILSON. Congressman Ellerbe Is Cock Sure of Fraud In Agricultural Department. The trouble that Richard Cheatham, Harvie Jordan, and other Southern Cotton Growers' made for Secretary Wilson, of the department of agriculture and his force last summer would appear now to be a mere passing in contrast to the storm that is about to break In consequence of that resolution introduced in the house a few days ago by Representative Ellerbe, says a Washington dispatch: The South Carolina man by his resolution has come out flat-footed and above board and charged that through the manipulations of shrewd, scheming officials in Secretary Wilson's force this official has allowed a bad blunder to be made in the cotton crop estimate for this year, and he says further that it is time for this sort of thing to stop. When Mr. Ellerbe was seen last Sat urday concerning the matter, he said: "I have nothing further to say regarding this question other than what has already appeared in the columns of the press, unless it be that I do not believe the statement coming from the department of agricultural department today to the effect that the estimate of the cotton acreage made by the department is absolutely beyond dispute. Of course, that is just what any one would expect to hear. No one would think for a moment that officials of the department would admit that such an error, if it is an error, could be made. It is past comprehension how such things occur. "I said in my statement to the president that the department is unable to show returns from its correspondents justifying the absurd increase which they report in the cotton crop in Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, and the increase there is just double what the figures will warrant. Judging by my own state and North Carolina, the estimate is incorrect. As a representative of the south and in justice to her greatest industry, I am going to push this matter through to the very last and find the real reason for these erroneous cotton estimates. "This resolution that I have introduced is now before the committee on agriculture. Before the estimate was made by the department a few days ago, I requested of Secretary Wilson the privilege of having two or three members of congress present at the tabluation of the figures; this proposition was absolutely refused, the Sfcretary giving as his reason that he did not care to have any more scandal connected with the department; that the figures were correct, and that he would do his own counting." It has been learned from other southern congressmen that many of them applied for permission to witness the tabulating of the returns and were similarly treated. This has caused some hard talk to be indulged in by southern members from the cotton growing states, and some of them do not h. sitate to say that if the work of the department is found to be wrong as Representative Ellerbe says it undoubtedly is, the secretary's official head must dropoff; lint th?.v will not loneer stand for such work. Whilst most of them say that in Secretary Wilson, personally, they place the highest confidence, that he has shown himself totally unfit for the office lie holds; that the cotton crop is too valuable an asset to be thus played and toyed with, and that they will demand of the president that some one be placed at the head of the agricultural department that everybody can't fool at the expense of the cotton growers. UNCLE SAM IN DISGRACE! Meat Packers Humble Him Before the World. Much has been cabled about the effect in Europe of the Chicago beef exposures, says a London cable to the News and Courier, but it is difficult to give an adequate idea of the worldwide fury and horror created by Upton Sinclair's novel, "The Jungle," and daily dispatches to European newspapers. It is frequently said here that American memories are short, and the American public the most tolerant of abuse of any in the world, but the manuiaciurers or American iuou products will not find either of these char- ] acteristics among European consumers. The efTect of the recent disclosures will last at least half a generation. The prejudice which has been created makes no discrimination, and no reform or protests will alfect it. This is not due altogether to the specific scandal of the Chicago packing houses. These revelations have come as a climax to a long series of exposures with which American telegrams to English and European papers have teemed for many months. The Old World has come to believe in general terms that American business methods are rotten. It is a sad thing to write of the reputation of one's country, but it is the simple truth, and truth had better be told without disguise. It will take more than a paper reorganization of the great life Insurance companies and the cleaning of the augean stables at Chicago to restore European belief in American honesty and fair dealing. It will be a long time before public opinion on this side of the Atlantic will have any confidence In American corporate reform. One thing, and one thing only, will have any real efTect in Europe. When America begins to send its greatest criminals to Jail Europe will begin to believe that there is a real standard of morality in the country. The administration of justice in the United States is today the subject of open ridicule and contempt throughout Europe. The Spectator, at the end of a long article on the beef scandal, goes as mar as it dares in friendly criticism, when it says that Englishmen will be of the opinion that the recent disclosures ought to be followed by criminal prosecutions, and in the event of convictions by severe punishment. It remains to be seen whether the American authorities will adopt an equally rigorous reading of their duties. The Spectator also says that "The two worlds have been shocked and Infuriated. Chicago packing houses appear to combine pretty well all the characteristic evils which degrade our civilization. They are recklessly selfish. They stop at no offence that promises to serve their purpose. They are grossly oppressive to those In their employ. They are familiar with every kind of fraudulent method for disguising diseased offal which it pleases them to sell as meat. They know how to square officials If they are threatened by so much as the shadow of suspicion. Thoy have not even tried to conceal their misdeeds." In the face of such language as the foregoing in the most conservative and friendliest of English publications it becomes the duty, however, painful, of any conscientious correspondent to Inform his countrymen of the indictment which the world at large Is bringing against them, and to warn them that it Is not corporate criminals alone who are being arraigned. It Is the wnoie American people, who stand today at the bar of public opinion before their sister nations. Never before has American commercial honor been so attacked abroad. Never before have American people been so criticised for neglecting their primary public duties. England and France and Germany and other nations are waiting to see how America will vindicate herself before the eyes of the world. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Newberry, June 8: It having been published this morning that Mr. H. H. Evans, formerly chairman of the dispensary board of directors, was preparing a card in reply to Mr. C. C. Davis's testimony as taken yesterday before the committee, your representative called on Mr. Evans today for the card. Mr. Evans stated that in view of the action of the governor directing the attorney general to Institute legal proceedings against the old board of directors of the state dispensary, which he welcomed, his counsel advised him to make no statement through the newspapers and that he had reluctant ly determined to act upon their advice. Mr. Evans stated, however that he was ready to meet any charges which might be preferred against him in any proceedings instituted under the order of the governor. ? Columbia, June 8: W. A. Clark, president of the Carolina National Bank, today testified that he had frequent conversations with S. J. Lanahan of William Lanahan & Co., of Baltimore, and that Mr. Lanahan had complained that although he had over $700,000 Invested in manufacturing enterprises in Columbia he could not get his due proportion of orders from the dispensary. He put in evidence a letter which he had received from Lanahan and had turned over to Governor Heyward. The latter declared his Intention to remove the purchasing board if Mr. Lanahan would furnish specific information. That was in December, 1904, and in the month following Governor Heyward recommended to the legislature that the entire purchasing system be changed. The committee took a recess until Tuesday ? Columbia, June 9 The statement is made that twenty or thirty Socialists have named a candidate for governor. The gubernatorial candidate is Mr. J. Lee Chandler, a native of South Carolina. The most enthusiastic Socialist, including Mr. Chandler himself, does not expect him to be elected, of course, but the leaders say some people will be surprised when they see the number of votes this party will cast. The Socialists will not participate in the Democratic primaries. They have no faith in either the Democratic or Republican parties and local and state Socialists intend to completely sever all party associations with the dominant party. What is or more local Interest is a nomination for the legislature which has been made. The candidate is Mr. A. J. Royal, a wellknown printer, who is prominently identified with organized labor. He will be a candidate for the legislature from this county. Mr. Royal is a native of Georgia, but has been living in this state for some years. The local organization has forty members. ? Columbia, June 11: There appears to be some confusion relative to the investigation to the members of the former boards of directors of the board of control. The situation appears to be that the counsel for the members of the board were a lvised that if they wished their clien s, members of the board, to appear before the investigating committee, that they would be given an audience on Wednesday. This was done because the committee wished to keep its promise that it would give the members a chance to be heard. No subpoenas were issued and it is not at all likely that subpoenas will be issued by the committee. In view of the direction of Governor Heyward that criminal action be brought against the members of the board in such cases as he thinks proper, the members of the old board may prefer to state their side in a court where the evidence and cross examination will be conducted according to law. The com limine win, in view or me uirecuon of Governor Hey ward, not undertake to force the members of the old board to appear before It, The committee will meet tomorrow at noon. ? Columbia special of June 10 to News and Courier: There appears to be a very general realization over the state that the fight against the state dispensary is to centre 01 the election of members of the general assembly. In many counties where there has been a luki warmness or indifference in getting candidates out, they are coming to the front and are defining their positions. It is appreciated that it Is very much more important to have candidates for the general assembly represent the views of the people than it is to have a governor stand on a certain platform. In some orthodox dispensary counties candidates have been announced as favoring the Morgan bill and the evidences are that there will be more such candidates, and the pity will be if such a fair and square light is not made in every county in the state. The legislative candidates ought to come out fairly and squarely on this issue, and there ought to be quite enough candidates In each county to represent both sides of the dispensary situation to give the voters the chance of voting for candidates representing their views. ? Charleston, June 8: An important opinion was rendered in the United States district court today by which liquor drummers will be compelled to take out the license of a retailer. The case came up In the trial of M. Manheim of Marion, who represented a Wilmington liquor house. Manheim solicited orders at and about Marion wnd was arrested for selling liquor without having paid the tax. The facts of the case were admitted to the effect that the orders were solicited and forwarded to the house and shipped direct by the Arm to the consignee. Arguments were made by the counsel, and then Judge Brawley charged the jury to return a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation of mercy. The decision will have much effect in the conduct of the business, and it is expected that an appeal will be taken as the liquor dealers will probably not be content to let the decision stand. The custom has been for the drummers to operate without a license, the payment of the tax by their Arm being sufAcient. The decision may put a stop to liquor drumming in certain communities, where the business does not Justify the cost of the retailer's tax which each drummer will have to pay. Manheim was dispenser at Marlon before the dispensary there was dosed by vote of the people. ? Columbia special to the News and Courier: President E. D. Smith is in the city recuperating from his recent severe attack of illness. Mr. Smith's physicians Insist that he must take extra care of himself. Mr. Smith is very much Interested in the fight that Congressman Ellerbe is making to have a showdown made of the figures in the possession of the Federal government on the cotton crop. Mr. Smith says that the purpose is simply to make a comparison of the data. The South Carolina association, he said, has had nun like Mclver Williamson and J. E. Wannamaker and Mr. Peagues and Mr. E. L. Archer make up the crop estimates in the various counties. These estimates have been made in this state by cbunties and in many Instances as many as a thousand correspondents have given the data for a single county, and what the Southern Cotton association wants to do is to compare, county by county, the figures of the government with those of the cotton association and at the same time compare the source of information. Mr. Smith thinks that the cotton association has correct figures for this state, for instance, and that it is nearer correct to have given out the report for this state that was announced by the association than was given out by the department of agriculture. He thinks that the crop area in this state is about the same as it was last year and that it is not 5 per cent larger than it was last year, as reported by the government. ? There was quite a snarl in the dispensary investigating committee proceeding last Frld&v as the result of an incident that had not been regularly included in the programme. It see ma that during the evening before. Stenographer A. M. Deal had invited Detective Klingenberg to the residence of Mayor Earle to play whist. There was some talk that night about th& dispensary, the subject having come up in casual conversation as it is liable to do in any home in the state just at this time. Friday morning Mayor Earle was on hand as a witness, having been summoned in the meantime to testify to certain rumors he had referred to as having heard. Mr. Deal, as soon as he realized the situation, got mad through and through. He denounced Mr. Klingenberg as a sneak and a spy, and a dirty puppy, taking advantage of a social invitation to re- port things that occurred in the privacy of a home, and which had no legitimate relation to the investigation. Mr. Deal was called down by different members of the committee; but he broke out again and again until he had his say. Mr. Klingenberg sat smiling through it all, not in the least worried at what had occurred. Mr. Deal announced that he preferred to call the detective to account outside of the committee room. Mr. Lyon called Mr. Deal's attention to the fact that he, Mr. Deal, knew Mr. Kllngenberg's business at the time the Invitation was extended. The committee at length 'orranr Hrn/1 r\f fkn wrantrla on/1 that there should be no more of It The incident was then dropped so far as the committee was concerned. ? Says a Greenville special to the Columbia State: The Rev. Matthews Fortner, formerly a Furman student, is in trouble. Yesterday Chief of Police Bee knell arrested him on the charge of having deserted from the United States navy. Fortner says he enlisted in the navy with a view of making some money to complete his education. He found that naval service was different from what he expected, and he deserted from the old ship Lancaster, where he had been assigned Just three months after his assignment. That was in 1902. Since deserting, Fortner returned to South Carolina and married Miss Eva James. Her home was in Gainesville, Ga. He says thet he was in Gainesvile at the time the great cyclone destroyed the mill there, and that his escape from injury at the hands of the cyclone Influenced him to become a Baptist preacher. The Baptist church at Pleasant Grove, In upperPickens county, gave him his license about a year ago. During the college year Just ended Mr. Fortner has been preaching to the operatives of the McGee mill where he says he has a regular charge, supplying two Sundays in each month. Mr. and Mrs. Fortner and one child have been making their home in the Monaghan mill village. "I Irnniv I had clvpn mv wnrH tr? afav in the navy," said Fortner, "but I felt that finding conditions as I did in the service there was nothing better for me than to leave it all. At one time I thought of writing to Governor Heyward and asking him to get me a discharge, if he could, but finally I decided to keep on with my work and let the Lord's will be done. Here I am. It is His will." Fortner will be taken, probably, to Hampton Roads and there turned over totthe ship Lancaster from which he deserted. Mr. J. J. McSwain of this city has been employed to take Mr. B'ortner's case, and Mr. McSwain has secured very strong statements from the faculty of Furman university, and some of Mr. Fortner*s college mates in regard to Mr. Fortner's character and worth. It is Mr. McSwain's wish that all Furman studonta ii'hn irora In tko nnliraralftr nriih Mr. Former send to Mr. McSwain at once any letter or statement they may wish to make In Mr. Fortner's behalf, and that he will carry these letters and statements with those he had already secured to the naval department at Washington, and will there intercede for the preacher. Fortner was born In Pickens county, and is twenty-seven years of age. In view of his license to . preach having come from a church near his home, his character and that of his family is evidently worthy and good. Chief of Police Becknell has received transportation for the Rev. Matthew Fortner and for one other to Norfork, Va. The chief and his prisoner will leave for Norfolk tomorrow at noon, and there the prisoner will be turned over to proper authorities. TILLMAN SAYS CWr WITH IT.?DIScussing the dispensary investigation today, Senator Tillinan said it is very strange that the committee forced Mr. Lewis W. Parker to testify so far and no further. "Why did they not make Mr. Parker tell the name of the somekind-of an official in South Carolina whom Lanahan had employed? I am satisfied that Lanahan has been guilty of all kinds of bribery and corruption and has been for some time. What they ought to do is to make Mr. Parker name the man. They cannot compel lanahan to come down and testify against Evans and these fellows, but can get him dbwn there If they prosecute him. If this man, whoever he Is, has any grit in him and Is representing Lanahan in a legitimate way, as he may have been doing, then he would prosecute Lanahan for slander. Lanahan Is the man they need to get hold of. He is one of the head devils of the whole stink."?Washington special of Friday.