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A S Sallej - 123 Berk BSTABUSHBIrpLlv^ LYON EXPLAINS. At Lexingto? Why He Took Double Pay. SID) IT WAS CUSTOM For Legislator? to Draw Pay as Members ol tbe Legislature and as Members of a Committee at the Same Time, Ragsdale Was Very Sacarstic. ?The first series of meetings of the State campaign ended at Lexington -on Saturday. It was a very good meet ing. There was much more snap and life in the proceedings than usual. A. 0. Jones, John M"Mahan and R. I. Manning broke away from their, even tenors and made things lively. Bat the sparkle of the meeting was fur nished in the speech of Mr. J. Wil lard Bagsdale, who is opposing Mr. Fr?ser Lyon for Attorney General. Mr. Bagsdale arrived late and spoke ?after tbe Gubernatorial candidates Mr. Lyon had spoken early and had kept close to the usual lines of bis previous speeches, but Mr. Bagsdale literally lit into Mr. Lyon with gloves off. He jibbed him wherever he thought there was an opening, and be sides trying force, tried to ridicule his opponent. Three or four times be rose on his feet, and with arched fingers pointing to bis bosom, exclaimed: 'M am J. Fr?ser. Lyon, tbe great pursuer of grafters!" Then he would tiptoe and exclaim: "I am the great Fraser Lyon," who was going to do this or that. It amused tbe audience because it was roasting the other fellow brown, -and the average orowd enjoys a finish ed roast no matter much who is roast ed. LYON DENIES A EEPLY. Mr. Bagsdale wanted Mr. Lyon to answer him categorically, but Vir. Xyon declined to do this, and begged to reply at the conclusion of Mr. Bag sdale'8 speech, bat Chairman Efird declined to make any exceptions or bo ?hange the original programme, and Mr. Lyon spoke briefly at the very end of the meeting. Mr. Bagsdale, who arrived late and ?ho was eager for the fray, said he rode .700 miles to be here to-day. He -seemed surprised that Mr. Lyon should have spoken after his regular time. He said he wanted to settle certain issues here and now. He went on to say that Mr. Lyon had at a previous meeting said that certain statements he had made were not so. Mr. Lyon had, he beard, made such a statement after his speech. Now he wanted to know j directly whether Mr. Lyon had gotten double pay while serving on the inves tigation committee. He wanted to know if be had been paid as a legisla tor and as a member of the commit tee while it was in session during the Legislature. Mr. L?on asked If be might answer in dei&tl from the rec ord, and if so he would gladly do so. Chairman Elrd held that he could not permit any extended statement. Mr. Lyon refused to answer yes or no* without an explanation, and then Mr. Bagsdale piled into him, and said here was a great purifier and .chaser of graft, taking 84 a day as a legislator, -and 84 a day at tbe same time for ser vice on tbe Investigating committee. He said that Senator James Stack house, of Marlon, had told him that Mr. Lyon had said he received the ex tra pay. MAKES MANY CHARGES. As to the itemlzad statement not being ?le?;. he got his information from Mr. Blease. If such a statement had been filed, then it was all well and good. Then Mr. Bagsdale said Mr. Ly on had been elected to the house from Abbeville as a dispensary advocate, and he wanted to know what pledge the people had that he would not have a obange of heart in his pursuit of the grafters. No man should change his views without first consulting his people. The Attorney General at best had little to do in such cases. The solicitors do the prosecuting, and if Lyon will only give the evidence the prosecution could now go our He said Lyon was simply making a grandstand play talking about pursuing the graft ers. H3 said Lyon was waiting to say: "I'll unfurl this banner. I'll be the leader against graft," and incident ally draw. 81,900 salary, whioh, be j said, was more than Lyon had ever made before, for but a few years ago be was satisfied with a Senate clerk ship at 84 a day. No man, he said, ought to oe elected who could not get the support of his borne people, and he did not think Lycn could now carry Abbevile. Lyon should have resigned bis place in the House if he meant to { fight tbe dispensary. He made merry of Mr. Bristow and the evidence of Mr. Bristow and in Eisted that it was all worthless and so indefinite as not to be worth a penny. He had a lot of fun ridiculing the Bristow evidenoe as a type of the work of the committee. He said he was in earnest in offering to get out of tbe way for, Gen. Youmans and knocked hard at the suggestion that be was put ud as a decoy to take Lyon out of the race. LYON MAKES A STATEMENT. Some of the audience wanted Bags dale to talk on, but he only spoke briefly over his time. After all the speaking and when but few remained, Mr. Lyon said that it was an almost universal precedent for members to accept pay as ligislators and also as members of special committees that served during the meeting of the Leg islature. Tbe question came up be ?Jr IG aus 05 eley Building ? ftSr? fore the Investigating oommlttse and, with but one exoeptson, S3 he remem bered, all voted to accept the pay, as it had always been done before. He accepted both salaries as has always been done. The Legislature had ruled directly upon such pay and all Legislative j committees working during the ses sion were provided with pay and have been paid. In rare instances recently such pay had been declined, ho under stood. As to the itemed statement, it was published in tbe Journal of 1906 and that ought to end it with any horn-able man, The House and Senate by vote ac cepted this statement as satisfactory and directly refused to ask for any further statement. Any one could have easily found that this statement was printed in tbe the official Journal. The only issue in Abbeville was on the 1-2 mill tax in tbe Brice law. He fa vored it. Mr, Lomax opposed this 8proial tax. Both were elected; there fore, what was the position of h's people? He did know hisg people stood for honesty and right and that was his position,- and all he asked was justice. :Mr. Lyon made his brief statement witont any flurry, quietly and impressed those wbo remained with his sincerity and honesty. ALORB IM MATH. The Sad Fate of a Young woman at at Florenoe. The Florence limes Bays: Toiling in its sad details a story of suffering and betrayal by a man who professed to love her, and who had deserted oer three months before the birth of a child last Saturday morning, is tbe life of a young woman supposed to be Laura May Bhame, who died last Friday night about 11 o'olock at the Infirmary of Dr. Wm. Ilderton on Evans street. The young woman had been In Florence for some time and had taken a room at a boarding house in Eist Florence, where she was being treat ed by Dr. Ilderton. Friday morning her condition was alarming, and it was deemed advisable to take her to tbe infirmary where she could receive more careful attention and be under constant medical supervision. Bat she had passed the stage of human aid and death ensued?leaving har real identity a mystery, and a little baby girl. The remains of tbe unfortunate young mother were taken to Water's undertaking establishment and pre pared for burial, and the Interment :1s being postponed In the hopes of get ting intelligence from friends or rela tives. The child Is being oared for by Dr. Ilderton until something else can be done in the way of providing a home for it. As to the- real identity of the wo man no one knows. She had gotten only one letter since she bad been here, addressed to Miss Laura May Bhame, and three letters were found in her possession addressed to Miss Helen Traut man, Wedge fisld, S. C, and A. D. Bhame, Clarendon, S. 0., and one to Mrs. DjSohamp, Pine wood, Fi 0. Another letter from an unknown party was found in which he wrote in the most endearing tones, ond mak ing unfulfilled promises. Also a rec ord in the faded leaves of a worn Bible were found some family records but nothing tending to throw any light on the mystery. It is said that a man came here about four months ago looking for a party by tne name of the dead wo man and that he had some money which belonged to her through the sale of some property. ' But he looked in vain and oould not get in communi cation with her in any way. He has hot been heard from sines. Dr. Ilderton has borne tbe expense of the woman's sickness and - death and says he does not mind that, but would like to make some disposition of the child._ Burned to Death. An awful accident happed in the Middleburg Mills village at Bates burg on Friday night. Mrs. Corley, wife of one of the mill employes, in starting a fire in the stove preparatory to cooking supper, poured kerosene Into the stove when there was already a smell fire. As a result the fiame came up to the can, causing an ex plosion and burning Mrs. Corley so that at a little past midnight she died from the effects of the burn The houBe was completely destroyed by tbe fire and it was only through the heroic work of the operatives ttat the fire did not spread further. Al most all of the houtehold goods of the Corley family were destroyed. Mrs. Corley was less than thirty years old and a very sad feature of the affair is that she would have given birth to a child in two wett-ka Croker on Bryan, Harry Walker, of New York, has received a letter from Richard Crok er, former leader of Tammany Hall, expressing the hope that Mr. Croker may live to see W. J. Bryan sleoted President of the United States. The letter which is dated Dublin, June 16, which Is in part as follows: "Your letter received and also the newspa per clippings. You have my senti ments regarding Bryan, as I look up on him as one of the most ahle men In our country. I have no doubt but that he was robbed of both elections by the trusts and also misjudged. I hope I may live to see him President of tbe United States, J?an With Twelve Toes. P. E. Franks, of Pennsylvania, was arrested at Cumberland, Md., on a chargo of embezzling about 45200 at Charlerol, Pa. Five minutes after the telegran was received at tbe police station Lieutenant Schmvtz had Franks undor arrest. The fact that he has six toes on each foot was one of the means of identification. He returned to Pennsylvania without a requisition. ORANGEB?RG THE DEATH RATE. v More People Die from Coasump* tiori Than From ! ??; ANY OTHER DISEASE. Pneumonia Comes Next la the United States, bat Heart Disease Is Steadily on the Increase. The Census Report Covers Five Years. The bureau of the oensua has just published a report presenting mortal ity statistics for the United States for the five calendar years 1900 to 1904. This report was prepared under the supervision of the late William A. King, ohief statistician for vital stat istics. The annual compilation of statis tics of mortality was authorized by the act of Congress establishing the permanent esnsus office. The statis tics, however, do not oover the entire country, but, in accordance with the provisions of this act, are restricted to what hi termed the "registration area." This area comprises those States and cities which have laws re quiring the registration of death and possess records affjrding satisfactory and comparable dita. In 1904 it in cluding 11 States and 334 cities whloh had at least 8,000 population in 1900. The 11 registration States are Con necticut, District of Columbia, In diana, Milne, Massachusetts, Michi gan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York. Rhode Island, and Ver mont; the 334 registration cities in clude, in addition to the olties in the 11 registration States, a considerable number which are in non-registration State. These States .and cities, composing the registration area, inoluded in 1904 a population of 32,996,989, or only a trifle more than two-fifths of the esti mated population of the United States For the remainder of the United States we have at present no mortali ty statistics which are sufficiently re liable and complete to be inoluded in this report. The registration area, nowever, is gradually increasing in ex tent, as the various States and cities come to realizsthe importance of hav ing adequate registration laws and of effectively enforcing them. The number of deaths reported in the registration area in 1900 was 639. 939, and the death rate per 1.000 of population was 17.6. In 1901 the rate declined to 16 6 and in 1902 the rate declined to 16. The rate increased in 1903 to 16.2 and in 1904 to 16.7. The average annual rate for tbe five years was 16.6 per 1,000. The average annual death rate in the registration StateB was 17.8 per 1.000 in the oities of 8,000 or more population in 1900 and 14.3 per 1,000 in rural districts, which as the term is here used, includes everything out side these cities. Rhode Island is the only registration State in which the rate was as high in the rural districts as in the olties. But in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire the urban rate exceeded the rural by less than 1 per 1,000. The excess was greatest in New Jersey, New York and Maine. The higher mortality for cities Is due largely to the faot that residents of rural districts when critically ill re sort to the hospitals and institutions in the oities for treatment, and that the deaths occurring in such cases are registered in the cities, thus increas ing the urban mortality. The averaga annual rates were low est in St. Juseph, Mo. (7.6); Owosso, Mich., (10.1); Lincoln, N-.b., (10.4); and St Faul, Minn., (10.5), and high est in Cnarleston, S. C, (31.3); Wil mington, N C, (28.2); and Jackson ville, Fla., (28.1). There were 44 cities In which tbe average annual ueath rat? for the five years wa^ 20 or more per 1.000. Nine teen of thc&e cities are located In the Southern Swt.s and c^nt^in a larg'1 proportion of colored population, tue death rate for which in general large ly exceeds that for the wnites. Tuberculosis of the iungs and pneu monia were b? far the icaalng causes of death. Tne average annual mortality from tuberculosis of the lungs or consump tion, 1900 to 1904, was 172 6 per 100, 000 of population. It is gratifying to note that the rate has shown a mark ed decline since 1890, when it was 215 4. This indicates that the war rare against the white plague is meet ing with success. Tbe mortality * rom this disease in the regis:ration a ea in the United States Is io ?er then it is In Ireland, Germany, Nur.yay, Spain and Switzerland, but higher tian io England and Wales, Scotland, the Netherlans, Belgium and Italy. The average annual mortality from consumption wad higher in Denver than In any other registration city. This fact is easily explained by the deaths of non-residents who resort to that locality in the later stages of the disease hoping to be benefited by the ravoiable climatic conditions. Exclud ing Denver, the rates were hlghoBt in Naw Orleans, San Francisco, Wash ington, Newark, Jersey City, Baltl more and Clnclnna-); ana lowest in St. Joseph, Mo., Sor-nton, Omaha, Detroit, St. Paul, Buffalo and Min neapolis. Pneumonia was second among the principal causes of d^ati, the av-rage annual rate being 134 9 per 100,000 population. Toe deitu r^te from tnis dicea.se in the registration area of tbe , 8. C, TH??SOAY, J? j United States Is considerably greater j tnan in England and Wales and Scot :ani. For the prinolpal cities the average annual rates were highest in Alle? eheney, Plttsburg, Inew York and Kansas City, Mo.; and lowest In St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Joseph, Mo., and Toledo. Among the leadlrg causes of death, diarrhea and enteritis was third, the average annual mortality from this disease for the five veara being 113 1 per 100,000. Over 80 per oent of the deaths from these diseases were deaths of children under five years of age, and and over 65 per cent of children under one year of age. Fjr the prinolpal cities the rate was highest in Fall River. It was high also in Plttsburg, Providence, New York and Alle gheny. Heart disease was fourth among the j leading oauses of death, tne average annual rate in the registration area of l tbe five years being 129.9 per 100,000 I of population. Over 75 per cent of the deaths from this disease occurred at ages above 44, over 45 per cant occur ring at 65 years and over. It Is no ticeable that the mortality from heart, disease is steadily increasing, the deatih rate advancing from 111.2 per 100,000 In 1900 to 134.8 in 1904. Another cause of death with an in creasing rate was cancer, the rate for which increased from 63 per 100,000 in 1900 to 70.9 in 1904. A compara tively small proportion of the deaths from cancer occurred at ages under 40 years. The deaths of females far ex ceeded those of males, the pronort!on being 622 females to 378 males In l, 000 deaths. ' The death rate from cancer in the registration area of tbe United States was less than in England and Wales, Scotland, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland, but was greater than in Ireland, Hungary, Spain and Italy. It was higher in the cities than, in the rural districts, but this is due partly-to the fact that residents of rural distriots in the last stages of the disease seek the hospit als in the cities fcr treament. The average annual death rate from typhoid fever In the registration area was 33 8 per 100.000 of population. Of the ten European countries for which similar statistics are available Italy alone shows a higher. The total num ber of deaths in the five years, divid ed as to sex, shows a proportion of 588 zrales to 412 females in every 1, 000 deaths. In each year a greater number of deaths from typhoid fever oconrred between the ages of 20 and 55 than at any other age period. Tbe number of deaths was greatest in Sep tember and October, and least in June. Over one-third of the deaths occured in August, September and Oc tober. Among the large cities the greatest mortality from this disease occurred in Plttsburg, Pa., the rate being more than 120 in each year. The next high est rate was in the adjoining oity of Allegheny. The mortality from ty phoid fever was also excessively high in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Louisvlle and Washington. The aver age in New York oity, St Paul, Mil waukee and Jercey City. The mor tality was greater in many of tbe smaller cities and in the rural districts of certain counties in the legistratlon States than in tbe larger cities. Dh?nn too Better Way. The Columbia Reoord says Tim mouBvllle has no short dispenser oi dispensary, but it is short a dispen ser. And all this is cn account of a revival meeting conduoted there re cently by Evangelist Lsach. Mr. Leach knows all about the evils of tbe drink devil by actual contact as well as through inspiration, and bis efforts on this Bubjeot are usally suob as ought to appear In black type even in a great family newspaper. He has converted various persons at Tim monsvllle, including the dispenser, Mr. W. B. White, who has forthwith resigned. At least that is tbe in formation that has reached the state board about them'." >r, and an inspec tor Is to go there In few days and transfer tne stock Mr. White's suc cessor, because Mr. Weite since his rehignation has not wanted to touch the thing at all._ Killed an Intruder. At Dinville, Vi., an unknown negro was shot and Instantly killed at about midnight Friday night while In the act of attempting entrance to the home of Mr. R. E. M irris, a detective for the Southern Express company. The negro had raised a window to?a rojm i.eeupied by Mrs. Marris and her daughter, about 18 years, when dis covered by Morris, who was In the ro im directly above that of his wife Criminal assault Is thought to have b :en the motive for the presence of the negro. Some hours after the killing a negro giving his name as M mroe Richardson was arrested on the charge of being an accomplice of the dead negro. Morris was released without ball, and an investigation will take p'ace Hatigad HiuiH ?II? Capt. Filk of the German bark Ge&ine which arrived at Pjnn3acola on Thursday from Himberg, commit ted ? u cide while ine vensel was at *eab/ hanging himself In his cxbin. Toe G^ine left Himourg in Mircn but weat ashore on a reef and it was necessary to unload her cargo In or der to that the vessel. After that the cap&ian became very despondent and one m irnlng was found hanging in his cabin. Very ConBldorato. Rather than wake his traveling companions?some of whom were wo men?ti take the regular train at 5 a. m., from Atlanta to Columbus, Ga.. George Fjster Paabody, the rich edu call ?i-al philanthropist, waited on Mjuday 'MtU later In tho day and bird a special, paying for it 8688, and glvir g the employes of the train large tips besides. LY 5, L906. WAGES OF SIN. {Goes to the Gallows for Killing| a Friend. A POLISHED E4SCAL I One of the Most Picturesque Figures la Police Crookdora of the Ceotary. Probably the Most Remark able Criminal Record of Modem Times. After s life of crime beginning with boyhood, "Lord Frederick Seymore Barrlngton, society highwayman, re sourceful orook, bigamist, forger and murderer, paid the penalty of his last Cime on the scaffold Friday at Ooly ton, Mo. The crime for which Barrington was to die on the scaffold was the murder of James P. MoOann, a well known sporting man of this city, on June 18, 1903. MoOann was shot, his body roboed and his remains thrown into a pond at Bonfils. By a peculiar co incidence the nude body of the mur dered man was discovered floating in the pond just three years ago Thurs day. During the active years of his ca reer "Lord" Barrlngton was one of the most picturesque figures in "po lice" orookdom, for, although he was of lowly origin, his speciality of pass ing as a member of the British peer age, went well in several cities and helped him to live without work for years. Be was the son of a hack driver in Tunbridge Wells, England, and his real name is F. G-. Barton. He was arrested for the first time at the age of seven years, when h'e was caught setting Are to the common. At 12 he was sentenced to fi ve years in tbe5Eed Mill reformatory for embezzlement. After serving three years he made bis escape by means of a rope, only to be arrested two years later and sentenced for robbery. For this he served in Yorkshire prison. About this time be decided it would Be to his advantage to give himself a new surirounding by joining the army, where he could observe the ways of the officers who made up much of tbe English society. This was in bis 221 years, but before his enlist ment was a year old he had forged a furlough, fled from the army and committed a burglary for which he did a ten years's stretch. That completed his English record. What orimes he succeeded in commit ting in the short Intervals between bis prisons terms are not known, but are believed to be many. He got into some of tbe best households as a ser vant; studied the members of society; he served as an artist, studies bis model, and In later years made good use of bis studies. He robbed a clergyman three times and each time by a sorrowing profession of repent ance and glib quotation succeeded in being forgiven. When he was finally landed behind the bars for the ten years' term in England he settled down to Improving his education so he could step out of prison a student. He perfected himself in French, German and the classics, and was a polished fraud when he came to America in 1891. He posed here as the son of an Engiishnobleman of wealth and rank. As such he won Miss Celestlne Mil ler, ef Booklyn, an heiress with a for tune in her own right. After marry ing Miss Miller he had the effrontery to return to his own land and estab lished himself with his wife in a home at West Brighton. There he cold bloodedly told his wife the truth about himself. Stripped of every penny by her husband, the unhappy wife returned to this country with her child, and Barton was arrested and sent back to prison to serve out an old sentence. As soon as the sentence was expired Barton returned to the ?.jltea Soated having found here the bast held for his peculiar operations. In 1902 Pniladelphia society receiv ed wltn open arms "Lord Burgoyne," of the Eoglish peerage.x His lordship was none other than the exconvlct, but before that came to be known he aadourted and wedded Miss Mar garet Bifferty, an heiress. He told her he was heir to 820,000 and bor ro .ved money from her. While they *ere on their hooey moon, "Bur gcyne" slipped from the train and disappeared. She would believe notb ing against him until she went to New Yerk and learned the truth from his first wife, with whom ''Burgoyne' was, at the time, attempting to effect reconciliation. Receiving no notice from his first wife, the ex-convict, who had been wandering In tbe West, made bis de but in St. Louis society under the alias of "Lord Barrlngton." He .met and married Miss Wllheimlna Grace Cuchrau, of Independonca, Iowa, who was visiting In St Louis at the time. Before he c^u^d enjjy the money he nad obtained through this marriage, a hard-headed brother of Miss Coob ran bad disovered his record and had Barrlngton" thrown Into prison. Following his exposure "Barrlng ton" succeeded in v/inning the confi dence of MoGann, a wealthy horse owner and hotel man. On the night of McCann's disappearance tbe two were seen drinking together. The murder was traced to "Barrlngton," and ha was convicted. The legal fight to save him extended over two years Convict! >n ol a Fiend. El Riiney, a negro, was convicted a' Gaffaeyon Monday, of committing ?. rap? on a thtrteen old negro girl, Tue girl is said to have died a3 a re suit of injuries* inflicted on her by the fiend. COTTON STALKS MAY BE USED TO MAKE GOOD PRINTING PAPER. Latest and Host Interesting Inven tion to Hake Paper From Useless Product. The manufacture of paper from the fiber of the cotton stalk is one of the latest and most Interesting Inventions of the new century, says Harvle Jor dan in Manufacturers Record. For I many years expert inventors have been busily engaged experimenting with the cotton stalk, and now it appears from recent developments tbat their labors and expenditures of money are to be rewarded with signal and strik ing success. Not only nave these in vestigations passed the experimental stage but they are rapidly being shap ed to be placed into practical opera tion. It has been unquestionably de monstrated that all grades of paper, from the best form of linen grade to the lowest, can be manufactured from the cotton stalks. In addition to this, a variety of by-products, suoh as alco hol, nitrogen, material for gun cotton and smokeless power, can also be se cured in paying quantities. The time' is not now far distant when paper plants equipped with all modern ma chinery and devices for making paper will be built and placed in operation throughout the cotton-growing states of the Sonth. The establishment of these, mills for the manufacture of pa per from cotton stalks will at once de velop a new industry of quite enor mous proportions of a waste product whioh at the present time has com parative little or no value. It will prove the entering wedge of checking the present increasing cost of paper, whioh is becoming suoh a burden upon the newspaper Industry of the country. It is estimated that on an acre of land produolng a bale of cotton at least one ton of stalks can be gather ed. Upon this basis of calculation this new Industry oan annually depend upon from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 tons of raw material. This will not only furnish necessary supplies to meet all home demands, but also permit of the export of pulp or finished pro ducts to foreign countries. At the present time there is approximately 1287,000,000 invested in paper mills in the United States, with but few plants.located in the South. The bulk of the material going into the manu facture of paper at the present time is spruce pine, and which Is annually becoming more expensive in the deple tion of toe forests and the high prices whioh suoh timber commands In 'Dbe market for other uses. The utiliza tion of a waste produot suoh as <he cotton stalk, manufactured into com mercial paper, will be a boon of ineati matable value to the whole country. Tlae practical effect of this new in vention will be to increase the present value of the South's cotton crop near ly $100,000,000 annually. The grow ers will be amply paid for the expense of removing the stalks from their fields and delivery to the paper plants and In addition thrroto receive a pro fit on this product of their labor. In the southwestern section of the cotton belt the new industry will especially be of value and a blessing. With the removal of the cotton stalks from the fields in the early fall the death knell of the boll-weevil will be sounded and Its present devastating influences re duced to a minimum. So tbat from every standpoint the speedy develop ment and expansion of this new indus try will be wetomed In all sections of the cotton belt. Paper manufactured from the cotton stalk Is of the strong est texture and softest finish. It is reported that several plants will be erected during the next few months In certain sections of the South which will be in full operation by January 1, 1907. l>et>triiouve Scorm. Charlie Thomson, a negro living seven miles east of Union, had the roof blown off bis bouse and furniture badly broken up by a storm last week. His family were unlnj ured by the light ning. An empty house on the Sin clair place near by wai abo blown down. A special from Pride's says there was a very heavy storm In that section and tnat great damage was done at Chester and Yorkvllle by the blowing down of trees and other things, which have not been cleared up, At Bad Point, near Pride's crops were badly Injured there being a heavy hall storm half a mile wide all through that section. No damage was done at Neals Shoals, though uhe current had to be turned off. Must Have tSueii Crazy. At Comfort, Texas, on Thursday In the presence of the assembled wed ding guests, at tad home of his in tended bride, Joaeph Rainhart, the man who was to have been married to her, shot and instantly killed Miss Ernestine Kutser and then snot him self with probably fatal lesults. The cause of the tragedy Is not known. v? ill Siop It. Ol Tuesla/ morning Mayor Young of Union li ied a negro woman woman 8100 in each of two cases or 30 days for selling liquor. A few day before he lined a negro man 8100 or 30 days in eac.i of three cases for a similar offene?. This kind of conduct 1b lia ble to cast a damper on the business. Jlam And loo Cream. At Arcadia, Fla., Albert Simmons, tbe 19 year-old negro who on March 17 last murdered his aunt and his two children, chopping up their bodies and feed in/ them to the hog3, was legally hanged Friday. Just before the exe cution he called for ham, eggs and ice oream. $1.00 FEK ANNUM. I POSTAL THIEVES! Columbia Has Lost Many Pack ages in Recent Past HAVE BEEN STOLEN Between Mail Room at Union Depot and Postoffice. Inspectors Have Worked But. It Is Said, Have Secured Little Evidence of Guilty Ones. There seems to have been consider able stealing of letters and packages going on among the postal officials located in Columbia. A dispatch from that oity to the Charleston Post says what Postmaster.Easor calls "a regular Saturnalia of stealing" has been going on among the railway train porters and perhaps others, who have been handling the mails between the mail room at the union station and t?oe trains. He has failed to locate over seventy-fl ve packages that have been reported to him as having been lost, the date of the first pack age mailed being December 9 last, and that of the last April 14 last. How many more have been stolen Dr. Ensore has no idea. There may be many oases that were never reported and still other oases that will be reported later. Aa a resulted of a letter Dr. Ensor wrote to the Washing ton division Inspector Williams, located at Chattanooga, de* tailed Inspectors Puls if e::, Banner man and Webers on the case. After several days' work they were unable to trace any evidence against either ol the three transfer clerks who are in charge of the mail room at the union station, in relays. So far only one arrest has been made, that of Sam Wilhams who was caught by & decoy letter containing silver which 1 was handed to Mm to be taken to the train. He has been landed in jail by Commissioner Verner. in default of ball. Transfer Clerk Mobley, a negro, was arrested but was afterward re leased. Nothing has so far been dis covered s,gainst the other colored transfer clerk, 0. P. Murray, and both he and Mobley are still on duty. Chief Transfer Clerk N. J. Davis is the only white man in caarge of the mail room. He is a m in of nigh in tegrity, in whom everybody has per fect confidence. Sam Williams has been at the union station only four months. E ich of the transfer clerks has a key which fits all the locked pouches, and which be is required by the regulations to carry on a chain attached to his body. But whether anything has been stolen from the first class mail, which is re quired to be looked, can not be said, it appears from the list of lost pieces which tracing has failed to looat,e that the stealing was confined almost altogether to packages. These pack ages are handled almost entirely in large saoks, unlocked, which are bandied between the mail room and the postofflce by porters. There are a number of porters working in tile employ of the postoffice. But Sam Williams is in no way con nected with the office. He and other railway porters and the postoffice por ters all have acess to the mail room and as the transfer clerks have fre quently to be away from the room there Is a good opportunity tor steal ing. Though the inspectors have given , up the fight for the time being they have by no means given up hopes, 1 and other arrests are expected in the immediate future. On one occasion eight packages sent up on the Charleston train were stulen before they reached the Colum bia office. Dr. Pike, a Columbia dentist, lost nine packages, which should have ceme to him in two weeks. ''The thing has become notorious." said Dr. Easor to Tno Evening Post representative. "An awful stanch had arisen to the nostrils of the pat rons of the office, who were taking their packages to the express offije. The investigation has declosed that the mall room down there ha3 turned out to be a regular den of thieves. Of course I hope you will say nothing that might be construed as a reflec tion on Mr. Davis in whom we all have the greatest confidence. "Whether any of tne stealing has been going on among the postal clerks on the trains I can not say, but I sup* pose not. Tne 3tudcnts here in the male and female colleges have hardly been ab.e to get a thing sent to them in the past several months. The thieves made a clean sweep. 1 am satisfied that not an article has been stolen by any of the empioyees of this office, not only because I have confi dence in them but the system would require all to be In collusion if one stole." Wanted to Hear Til man. It was announced that before the adjournment of the present session of congress Senator TUlman would make a red hot speech on thd?>ase of B. F. Barnes tbe man wiao n V-iuat been appointed postmaster of tue city of Washington, and tne man that Sen ator Tilman believes responsible for tbe rough treatment of Mrs. Minor Morris at the white house some months ago, the senate have been packed every day, and long lines of expectant people have waited patient ly for an opportunity to secure a seat and hear what Senator Tillman might have to say on the sur. ject. -