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ESTABLISHED IN 1* SHOT IN PARK. ;An Actress Killed and Her Escort Seriously Wounded, 8Y UNKNOWN MAN. Brown, the Wounded Jian, Says the ' Man, Who Did the Shooting, Was . Davenport, the Woman's Husband Dsvenpc^ Denies the Charge and Says That .'Ha. Can Prove An Alibi. The police of Brunswick, Ga,, are "trying to solve a murder mystery. XJl 11 an Davenport, an actress, was .shot and almost instantly killed, and W. H. Brown, a bartender, who was -with hor, was also shot, and will probably did, in a secluded: part of Windsor park, in that city, Thurs day inght. B~ L. Davenport, mana \ger of theMajestlc theater, and hus band of the dead actress, is under arrest suspected of the killing. Davenport denies that he killed i the woman.- -Brown 'at first thought j that Davenport did, but later, at the inquest, .was doubtful. Davenport's friends say he can prove an alibi. Three shots in all were fired. Two pierced Browa'a. body, and the ac tress, trying to defend bim, started toward the man who shot, and her self was shot. Before Brown could bring assistance to the dying woman, ?he s?ccumed. / Winsor Park is a resort near Brunswick, and it was there that Brown and the actress went. Thoy sat on a bench in the moonlight, in a secluded spot and had been there ?only a short time when the man ap peared. Tne man, according to the bar tender, slipped up on them. Before Brown knew that he was . being -watched, he says,-he heard two shots and simultaneously fell over. Both ttuUets had taken effect; one en tering the abdomen, and the other following it closely. The woman screamed, and in re sponse to Brown's appeal to shoot his assailant, rose to her feet and started toward the man, now in full ?view in the moonlght. She had gone but a few steps, Siowever, when a third shot was fired. The bullet entered the ac tress' breast, and she fell, mortally wounded. Then, Brown says, the assailant disappeared under the trees, but he himself, although probably mortally wounded, went to the woman's as sistance. "I am dying," she cried. "Loosen my .dress. Let me breathe." Brown, followed her instructions, and placed her on a bench. Then staggering from loss of blood. Brown started toward the city for assist ance. He flret notified the police, and Assistant Chief of- Police Owens, with his mounted officers, and a phy aiclai, hurried the park. TLey were too late, however, to render the Davenport woman any as sistance. She was dead when they arrived, and near her, on the ground, were found her wrap, jacket, a book and a cluster of roses. Meanwhile, Brown, having notified the authorities, fainted from loss of blood and was borne to the city hos pital. There the doctors said that his chances of recovery were small. The police, after a .search, found Davenport at his quarters in New ?Castle street and placed him under arrest. Davenport stoutly denied that he had shot the actress and Brown. 1 "1 have been right here since sup per," he declared. Brown, however, thought Daven port "was the guilty man, and Dav enport was arrested. Davenport is the manager .of the Majestic theater, which was recently opened here. He came to Bruns wick last January with the Parker Amusement company. His wife the dead actress, was "Superba." the leading attraction carried by the car nival company. Brown is a bartend er at the Mecca saloon, and has lived in Brunswick only a short time. REJECTS FLIRTING CHARGE. Judge Holds Conduct of Plaintiffs Sister Didn't Influence Jarcr. Superior Judge Howard Ferris has refused to set aside the $25, 000 vertlct given Miss Mollie Me Guire, of Dayton, Ohio, against the Railroad company. He also over ruled the motion for a new trial, as well as all other motions of the de fense. , In his opinion, Judge Ferris com pletely exonerated Miss Fannie Mc Guire, sister of the Injured girl, from all charges of having tried to influence the jury by flirting with Juror George L. V. Steumer. He al .so exonerated Juror Steumer from all charges ot alleged aiisconduct on his part. Serious Charge. At Denver. Colo., Dr. Benjamin <3. Wright, solicitor for the Interna tional correspondence school of Scranton. Pa., is in jail on the charge of murder, having confessed to the chief Of police that he poison fd his wife and daughter, who were found dead in their home. Infatuation for Stella Good, is the supposed mo tive for the crime. A Good Board. W. A. Courtenay, Edward Ehrlich and A. E. Gonzales have been ap pointed members of the commission to improve the capital grounds at Columbia. The legislature appropri ated ?"l 5.000 fo: this purpose. m - Killed by Ammonia. In New York on Thursday two men were killed and eleven render ed unconscious by ammonia fumes at a fire in the market on Eight ave nue. One of the unconscious may die. S69. DID HE POISON HER ? Atlanta Has a New Sensation to Talk About Man Gave Two. Names and Acted Otherwise. Supiciously Before Wo man Died. Atlanta has a new sensation to talk about While his wife, who is said to hare died under mysterious circumstances,-laid at the undertak ing room of Barclay" & Brandon, c waiting a coroner's inquest, the po lice and detectives of that city gre searching for Edwin P. Winfield or B. W. Pettus, both names, it is al leged, having been given to the un dertaker and the attending physi cian. An inquest will be held Fri day. It Is said the man had another wife. According" to the doctors, the wo man, whose maiden name Is Lucia Carter Brewer, of Marietta, Ga., died, as her husband told them of morphine poisoning. Winfleld or Peitus, gave his oc cupation to the undertakers as that of a telegraph operator, and said he was employed by the Southern Rail way in one of its block signal offices near Howell's station. He is a man something over 50 years old, of slen der build, and with gray moustache. Winfield, or Pettus, told conflict ing stories about his name, it is said, and was much preturbed when Mr. Brandon, of Barclay & Brandon, told him that-the coroner would arrive shortly, to investigate. Mr. Brewer, father of the dead woman, said he knew little of Win fleld or Pettus?he knew him as Winfield. He said that the man had a daughter at Agnes Scott and. a son in New York. The dead woman was 36 - years old, and was of prepossessing ap pearance. The woman died 'early Wednesday morning at her residence, 24 Bar clay street. Dr. Andrew Stribllng, of No. 112 North Boulevard, told Mr. Brandon that he had been summon ed by her husband the night before. Pettus, as he gave his name to the doctor, declared that his wife had taken morphine, and said that previously she had been attended by Dr. C. E. Stone. Dr. Stribllng answered the call, as it seemed to be an emergncy one, and-finding that the woman, as he said, seemed to. have recovered, he left. iHer death followed the next morning. Her husband ^called on Barclay & Brandon and gave an order for the' funeral arrangements. To Mr. Brandon, he said that his name was Edwin P. Winfield.. When Mr. Bran don called on Dr. Stribllng for the death certificate, he was -informed that the man had given the name of PettUB. Neither doctor would issue a death certificate. F1KKCE FIGHT. ? i Between Members of the North Car olina Legislature. The floor of the North Carolina House of Representatives one day last week was a scene of an en counter between .Congressman-elect R. N. Hackett. of the eigth district, and Representative C. G. Bryant, of Wilkes county. Hackett used his right hand effectively on -Mr. Bryant's ear and jaw. Mr. Bryant drew a long bladed pocket-knife and made for Hackett, but was intercepted and disarmed. He then attempted to strike Hackett with an inkstand apd subsqueutly with a chair, but the blows fell short The fight took place while a leg islative committee was in session, I a matter concerning Wilkes county being under consideration. Hack ett had addressed the cpmmittee, and when he closed Mr. Bryant, a member of the committee, arose to speak. Referring to Hackett'3 remarks, he said that he resented the asper sion put upon the commissioners of his county. Hackett replied that he had net aspersed the commissioners. Bryant repeated the remark, and then Hackett struck him. The com mittee was in a tumult of excitement for five minutes. Hackeit is a Dmocrat and Bryant a Republican. Both live in Wilkes county. When quiet was restored Bryant apologized for his offensive words that brought on the fracas. Gave Up in Despair. At Cleveland, Ohio, five workmen in the top story of the John Schaber picture moulding factory had a nar row escape from death when the building took fire. The firemen climbed to the third story and res cued the workmen. Schaber, own er of the factory, collapsed at the fire ano after he had been taken home, shot himself with a revolver. He said he was too old to begin life anew. He will probably die. The loss was $60.000. Confessed. In the court in Columbia last week Daniel Zimmerman confessed to stealing State bonds and selling them, but claimed that he was led to do it by T. J. Gibson, a bond brok er, of Columbia. Gibson was tried and convicted on Zimmerman's tes timony, and both of them have been sent to the penitentiary. Zimmerman is 66 and Gibson 76 years of age. A sad sight. Feud Caused Killing. Telephone messages from Clark's Fork, Knott county, Ky., give de tails of another feud battle between the Stone and Clark factions. Mich eal Stone was fatally wounded and his son, Richard was killed. John Clark, the alleged leader of theClark faction, was desperately wounded. Murdered and Robbed. At Pawtucket, R. I., Mrs. Alexan der Hendersou was murdered in her little candy store Friday by a robber, who after emptying the money draw er and stealing a quantity of cigars made his escape through a well set tled section of the city, leaving be hind him a trail of blood. /_ ORANGEBt AN OLD BEAU Sued on Valentine He Sent Ther ty-Five Years Ago. ASKS BIG DAMAGES. The Widow After Long Interval of "Marriage Flonnts Rhyme, and Says He Renewed Troth, Bat a "Trolley Smash, it Seems, Jolted All the Low Out Of the Old Gen tleman. A queer case Is" being tried at Hartford, Conn., which is attracting , considerable Interest. Thirty-five years ago Thomas K. Fitts,- of Ash wood, who is now seventy-five years [Old and wealthy, promised to be the present Mrs. Bridget Theresa Gor man's valentine. Although she af I terward married, and is now fifty three and a widow with three chil dren, she is seeking through the courts $10,000 damages because her whilom admirer declines to live up to his ancient assurances af undy ing love. The breach of promise suit of the I widow against the aged and promi I nent citizen promises to become in court annuls as celebrated as the case of Mr. Pickwick. Every action of Mr. Fitts from the time that he sent the valentine through the pro tracted married life of Mrs. Gorman and after death had freed her, is recorded and its interpretation by and effect upon the feelings ofMrs. Gorman affectingly recited. There weie tears in the eyes of Mrs. Gorman's lover and his voice broke from pathos when he read the fateful valentine, and the widow sobbed through the recital. "Maiden fair, to you I send This token of affection true, Showing where my feelings tend, Like the magnet unto you. "Worlds may pass away andperiBh Every feeling die away, But the constant love I cherish Never, never shall decay." When the lawyer had calmed him self after lingering on the words "Never, never shall decay," and the [ comely widow had dried her eyes, she took the witness stand to tell of her romance and its sad ending. Mrs. Gorman said that ?be -had' I known Mr. Fitts before her mar riage and that he had showed her I attention, but had not reached the I point of a declaration when Mr. Gor i man appeared. This was in 1872, I and after the first announcement of the banns in church Mr. Fitts called on her. , "He said that he would have been in Mr. Gorman's place "if he had only been more forward," said Mrs. Gor man, "and then he cried, and I cried and said to Mr. Fitts: ' '.' 'Now, ThoL.oS, you never told me anything like' that before.' " . "Did he show you any marks of affection on the occasion of your marriage?" Mrs. Gorman was asked. "Yes," she replv?d, with downcast eyes; "on the very day of the wed ding he sent me three or four bas kets of peaches, and I understood." Mrs. Gorman declared that, with her husband's knowledge and con sent, her acquaintanceship with Mr. Pitts was continued and that he re mained a batchelor. They often met, and went driving together, and he always seemed sad and often sighed, and she sighed, too. She said that her marriage to Mr. Gorman was a disappointment, be cause of the conduct of her husband. He left her and was gone four years, and during this period Mr. Fitts called upon her and they discussed the possibility of Mrs. Gorman ob taining a divorce. Mr. Fitts told her at this time, Mrs. Gorman testified, that he was worth $05,000, and that if she got a divorce he wculd marry her at once and make her life happy. In April. 1903, Mr. Gorman died, and in June Mr. Fitts called upon the widow. " 'Well, you are single at last,' said Mr. Fitts to me, and I said, 'Yes,' " Mrs. Gorman testified. He continued to call on the widow on an average of twice a month, and made presents to her and to mem bers of her family. "Then in November, he asked me to barry him," the witness testified, "and I told him that I would," and her voice softened to a whisper "And he said that he would come at Thanksgiving and we would talk the arrangements over. It was un derstood that we were to be married the next May and would go to the St. Louis fair for a wedding trip. "And because he had proposed and I had accepted him. and knew that he was wealthy, I told all my boarders about it and let thern go, and I had twenty-two." Just at this time a trolley car butted Into the romance. It struck Mr. Fitts and injured him so pain fully that he had to go to bed. "I went to see him just as soon as I heard of the accident," Mrs. Gorman continued, "and stooped down and kissed him as he lay on the bed." "Did he kiss you?" she was ask ed." "Certainly he did," she indignant ly replied. "He always kissed me when he came to see me." The result of the trolley accident seemed to cause a coolness on the part of Mr. Fitts. He did not call to see the widow from December to March, and then told her that on account of getting hurt he did not want to make a change in life lust then. Later he almost stunned her with the statement that he thought she was too old to get married. " 'But. Thomas.' I told him, 'Yon are nn older than you were when vou asked me,' " Mrs. Gorman tes tified Then Mrs. Gorman wrote him the GRG, S. C, THURSDAY, COST OF CRIME. Figures That Will Surprise a Great Many People. Over a Billion Dollars a Year Is Spent in the United States On u Criminals., The eost of crime te^tbe-jgovernn ment reaches the enormous sum of 5140,000,000. Of this Bum 580,000, 000 is expended in a certain precen tage of. the, maintenance of the su preme and federal - courts. United States district attorneys, United States marshals, and the secret ser vice bureaus; part of it la the cost of crime to the. treasury department to prevent smuggling, the coat of crime to the army and the navy and to the postoffice and to allied de partments. The government jlosses by smug gling and postal frauds, , etc., add the $60,000,000 to make the afore said total. In the last statement, which is only an estimate of what the national government pays for crime, it should be remembered that there are no reliable figures on the subject. In estimating the government losses at $60,000,000 a year for smuggling, fraud, etc., the writer has endeavored to keep strictly un der the mark, It is estimated that the government loses from $75,000, 000 to'$100,000,000 a year by smug gling alone, while the postoffice frauds are believed to have cost the government something like $40,000, a year. The detailed cost of crime in the United States represents some as tounding figures. In 1897 the cost of crime in Greater New York was $35,552,133.24. The state, county and city authorities outside of Great er New York spent for It $42,605, 172.75. . In forty-five stateB (New York excluded' the expenditure was $697,080,000. Criminal losses by fires totaled $100,000,000. By customs fraudR the national government lost $60,000,000. Dur ing this one year the loss in wages, to 100,000 state prisoners was $28, 080,000, while the Iobs ?in. wages of. 150,000 prisoners j in the city and county jails was $33,000,000. The grand total, therefore, of the cost of crime in the United States reaches the stupendous figures of $1,076, 327,606:99. The cost of .religious work In the United States is enormous. The cost of foreign missions, comprising all denominations, is $7,000,000; home ' missions expended the same sum. We spend for education $200,000, 000; for church expenses and min isters' salaries, $150,000,000. Hos pitals and dispensaries for the sick poor cost us $1 oo/itiO.000; for san itariums ol all kinds we spend $60, 000,000. City missions and rescue wnrfi- of all kinds demand and receive $3, 000,000; humanitarian work of ev ery kind,' $12,000,000. Our Young Men's and Young Women's Chris tain associations cost $5,000,000, while all other moral and social work in the United States requires an expenditure of $5,000,000. The total expenditure for humani tarian and religious work is, then, $549,000,000. As against, this, the iota! cost of crime in the United States for the year reached the in credible total of $1,076,605.99. This is to say, we spend more than $500, 000,000 a year more on crime than we do.on all spiritual, ecclesiastical, physical, humanitarian, educational and healing agencies put together. SCARED TO DEATH. Negro Woman Thought Witch.cc; Were After Her. , A Spartanburg letfer says there is great excitement among the ne groes of that city because of the rleatli of Susie Moore, who died suddenly at her home. The woman was taken ill and acted in a strange manner, and many, negroes believed that she was poisoned, but an in vestigation by the coroner showed that her death resulted from natur al causes. Sunday night the woman began to act in a strange manner. She declared that she was possessed of witches and seized a handful of salt and scattered it about her room, thinking a free use of salt In the house would run out the witches. The woman soon lost consciousness and fell on her bed. Medical aid was summoned and when the physician arrived she held salt in both her hands. Coroner Tur ner made a thorough investigationof the case, but found no evidence to lead that sh6 had been poisoned or that her death resulted from other than natural causes. Dispensary Auditor. Gov. Ansel Thursday announced the appointment of Mr. VV. B. West. .superIntendant of the graded schools of Gaffney, as dispensary, auditor, under the provisions of the Carey Cothran law. This position carries with it a salary of $2.000 per year and actual expenses. Tho Incumbent will be the most powerful single official of the system. To Help Mrs. Jackson. Mrs. Myra A. Jackson, widow of the late General Stonewall Jackson, has been granted a pension of $20 a month by an act of congress. The pension was granted to her as a wid ow of a Mexican war officer. Senator Overman and Representa tive Webb were instrumental in hav ing the act passed. Mrs. Jackson lives in Charlotte, N. C. following letter, and quoted the lines of the valentine given above: "Dear Thomas?I have waited patienlyifor a call, but the Summer has passed and Winter is at hand, and I am yet 'waiting. I hope poor health has not caused your non-ap pearance. It is almost thirty-three years since you sent me the lines.' The poetry failedto bring a reply from Mr. Fitts, and after waiting for a year Mrs. Gorman has tired and began suit for $10,000 for breach of of promise. MARCH 7, 1907. THE IM LEVY In the Different Counties as Fix ed by Legislaturm. STATE TAX REDUCED. Ranges From Two Mills tx Orange burg and Charleston to Eleven Mills, in Lexington. .Change in Dispensary Law Cause Several Counties to Make Special Provi sions in Levy. Below Is published the principal details of the annual supply bill 'passed by thol907 general assembly. Being In the main a mass of figures, [the average reader will bo inclined i to study alone the figures relating j to the?levy in his particular county, yet a careful study of the entire measure, particularly of the special levies made by the various counties, will prove interesting. The State levy is fixed at 4% mills, 1-2 mill less than last year. To this la added in every county throghout the State the constitution al 3 mill school tax. The cqunty levy ranges from 2 mills in Charleston and Orangeburg to 11 mills in Lexington, the ex tremely high levy in the laUer coun ty being on account of a large amount of interest to be paid each year cm bonds given in a:id of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad. The following counties make special levy for good roads: Claren don, Cherokee, CheBterfield, Colle ton, Florence, Greenville, Kershaw, Laurens, Oconee, Plckens, Spartan burg and Union. Union enjoys the unique and com mendable distinction of lieing the single county in the State which makes a direct appropriation for its Confederate veterans. In addition to getting their pro rata of the $250, jO00 appropriated by the State, the veterans of Union receive the bene fit of a levy of one-fourtli mill on jail the taxable property of that county. Charleston likewise occu pies an equally unique position in that a tax of one-eighth of 1 mill Is levied for the militia of that county. The proceeds of this one-eighth mill tax is paid to the board of officers of the State volunteer troops in the city of Charleston. Levy lor 1907. By counties the levy for county purposes is as follows: Abbeville?Ordinary 2 1-2 mills, debt due sinking fund commission I ml!l, for paying interest and princi pal on debt for new court house 1 mill. / Aiken?Ordinary 3 millE. Anderson?Ordinary 3 Vi mills. Bamberg?Ordinary.3 mills. Barnwell?Ordinary 3% mills. Beaufort?Ordinary 4.vi mills. Berkeley?Ordinary ? mills. A special tax is levied on all stock within the territory exempted from the operation of the general stock law, as follows*: - Three cents per head on all, sheep,.*goat? and hogs and 5 cents'^per head bit all oowp: ' Clarendon?^Ordinary ' 2% mills road tlx % mill. ? I Charleston?For the militia'df the county, the various local companies of the State volunteer troops, mill; for other purposes.1% mills; for support of the-schools cf the city of Charleston 1 mill, special, on all property within the city and an ad ditional levy of Vz mill on olty prop erty for school building fund. Cherokee?Ordinary 3 mills, road tax 1 mill, sinking fund, Limestone. White and Morgan townships, % mill; railroad bonds, same town ships, 'h mill; sinking fund.Grow deysvllle, Cherokee and Draytonville townships. 1 mill; for interest on railroad bonds, same townships. 1 ?mil!. * Chester?^Ordinary 3% mills, in terest on railroad bonds and sinking fund 1 mill. Chesterfield?Ordinary 3 % mills, special road tax 1 mill, interest on railroad bonds and for sinking fund 2% mills. Colleton?Ordinary 4 mills, road tax 1 mill. Darlington?% mill in.erest on court house, ordinary 4 mills. Dorchester?Ordinary 4 Vi mills, interest on county bonds Vs mill, sinking fund V2 mill. Collier"* township 2 mills for road purposes. Edgefield?Ordinary 5 mills; the county commissioners are author ized to make special levy on proper ty In Johnston. Pine Grove, Pickens, Wise and Show townships to pay coupons on valid railroad bonds. Falrfield?Ordinary and past in debtedness 4 Vi mills, for payment first installment on $20.000 due sinking fund commission o;ie mill. Florence? Ordinary 2 mills, spe cial road tax 1 mill. Georgetown?Ordinary 2 V? niilis for the purpose of creating fund with which to pay principal and In terest or loan of $10.000 from com missioners of sinking fund to be used In erecting, equipping and furnish ing annex to court house % mill for sinking fund ' Winyah Indlar school district 2 mills. Greenville?Ordinary 3 mills, foi convicts, roads and bridges IV2 mills. Interest on railroad and past indebtedness bonds, for payment tc commissioners sinking fund on ac count loan V2 mill. Greenwood?Ordinary 3 V? mills past Indebtedness 1 mill. Ninety Si> township 2% mills. Cokesbury town ship 2 mills, Cooper township ? mills. Hampton?Ordinary 3 mills, pas' Indebtedness 1 mill. Horry?Ordinary 5 mills, cour house and jail bonds 1 mill railroac bond.'; in townships of Conway, Bay boro. Green Sea and Simpson Creel 4 mills each. Kershaw?Ordinary 3 Vi mills, in tercsi: 1% mills, road ta:c 1 mill court house bonds Vi iaHl. Lancaster?Ordinary " mills, in teros; on railroad bonds 1 mill, sink ing fund V? mill; Pleasant Hil FAMINE HORROR Chinese Women and Children Sold at $5 to $15 Each. In Some Places the Starving People Are Catching Dogs and Eating Them. Millions of people are on the verge of starvation in China, and unless they are helped thousands of them will die for the want of food. In fact, thousands of them have already died. Advices from Central China report the famine condition as becoming worse. .Middle aged women are be ing sold for from $10 to $15 and children for $3 to $4. The famine district is denuded of animals. In Borne places dogs are being caught by starving people by means of traps and hooks, and are eaten as soon as captured These poor, starving people are in great distress and want. They cry to the civilized world for succor. Christian America should help them bountifully, and at once. In some districts nearly all the people in it will starve unless they are given something to eat ? from abroad. Let us do our share. TEKKIBLE TRAGEDY. A Half Wltted Man Shoots and Kills His Neighbor. Anderson County was the scene of a horrible tragedy on Tuesday of last week, when Asbury Wooten, a white man of forty years, shot and Instantly killled Mr. Duke Owens, a man of seventy-two years. It is said that some boys playfully rocked Mr. Wooten's home Sunday evening, and that Mr. Wooten, be ing half witted, became. vAry ? wrought up over the action of the boys. Tuesday morning, Mr. Owens, ac ou.p_.ntia oj uuotiiur genuemai. vent to the home of Mr. Wooten t. 'ell him that the boys meant no harm in rocking his home. Mr. Wooten ordered these gentle men off his place, and told Mr. Owens that if he repeated what he had said about the action of the boys, he would kill him. Mr. Owens remained to pacify Mr. Wooten, who became quite angry. It was then that Mr. Ovens was shot through the heart, w'.Ich caused his instant death. Constables Needed. Believing the proper enforcement of the state anti-liquor law is impos sible in Greeniville county without the aid of specially appointed con stables, more than, two hundred prominent citizens have signed a petition asking Governor Ansel to reappoint certain constables, recent ly relieved from duty, there under the Carey-Cothran act. township 2 mills, Gill Creek 2% mills; Cane Creek 2% mills. Laurens?Ordinary 3 mills, road tax 1 mill, interest on bonds 1% mills, for expenses survey the. pro posed county of Fairvlew and fiar ad ditional .road purposes % -mill. . Lee?Ordinary 3 mills,-', sinking fund 1% ? mills: Lexington?Ordinary 3% mills, interest on Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad bonds 7% mills. I Marion?Ordinary 4 mills, jail I debt 94 mill. Marlboro?Ordinary 6^ mills. Newberry?Ordinary 3 mills. Oconee-r-Ordinary 2 mills, roads I and bridges 1 mill, interest on bonds 7-10 mill, sinking fund % mill, for bridge at Burnt Tanyard over Little river 1 mill, for bridge over Couu cross 3-10 mill, for bridge over Ke owee river near Chapman Ford % mill; for vault in court house and relndexing county records ) mill. Orangeburg?Ordinary 2 mills. Pickens?Ordinary 4 mills, debt % mill, sinking fund 1 mill, chain gang 1 -74 mills, bridge over Keowee river, near Chapman ford, % mill. Richland?Ordinary 2% mills, % mill in Columbia township for the payment of principal and interest on railroad bonds, and authority Is given to the county board of com missioners of Richland county to sell the certificate of stock of Colum bia, Newberry and Laurens railroad, being a certificate for l.UOO shares of the par value of $40,000, said sale to be made at public or private sale after due notice iri newspapers for the best price obtainable, and the said county board of commission ers are authorized to use the pro ceeds of said sale to supplement tho fund now or hereafter on hand, for the payment of the principal and in terest on the outstanding railroad bonds; and said county board of j commissioners are authorized to use any surplus that may remain on hand from the levy of the half mill tax above referred to and from the sale of said stock, with authority to turn over to the municipal authorities of any incorporated city or town In Col umbia township, the prorata share of mich city or town to be applied to extra work upon the public high ways within such cities or towns; an additional tax of two mills in tho school district of the city ol (Columbia in lieu of special tax au : thorized by previous legislature. Saluda?Ordinary 6 V4 mills, past indebtedness % mill. Spartanburg?Ordinary 3 % mills ordinary road 1 mill, interest or railroad bonds % mills, to pay loans to State Ya mill, sinking fund % mill, for building macadamized roadt 1 mill. Sumter?Ordinary 2%i mills, .link Ing fund debt and interest 1 mill. Union?Ordinary 3% mills, roac: j tax 1 mill, debt 1 mill, permanent road improvements 1 mill, aid Con , federate veterans Vi mill. Williamsburg -Ordinary 3 1-J mills. , York?Ordinary 4 mills, Cataw ? ba township 2 mills, Ebeuezer on< ; mill, York 3 mills, to pay interes i on bonds issued in aid of C. C. & j C. railroad. 0 81.00 PER AMTJM, HARRIS TO HANG. Man Who Murdered Mrs. Morgan Near Gaffney, Tells of ? HIS HORRIBLE CRIME The Jury Returns a Verdict of Gmfr tj and the Judge Sentences .'the Prisoner to be Hanged on Frtdaj, March 29?Harris 4aifl EveryoBe To Meet Him in Heaven, After "Buy ing Convicted. \ At Gaffney on Thursday' in Jthe Court of General Sessions Tom Har ris, alias Tom Childers. was conyie ted of the murder of Mrs. Horten sia MorgaD on November 20, 1?06, and sentenced to be hanged on Fri day, March 29. Mrs. Morgan, an aged widow, liv ed alone on the crest of a hill about two and a half miles from Gaffney. She was brutally murdered aboiit midway, her throat being cut from ear to ear, and her person robbed of a large sum of money. . Great interest has been manifest ed in the case and the Court House was packed very soon after the doors were opened. A great many ladies were present. Harris appear ance had greatly changed.. Several witnesses testified to see ing Harris at and near the oldlady*? house on the day of the murder. The testimony was strong against the man and there was not a shad ow of a doubt of hjs guilt. Before the murder he had very little mon? ey, and when arrested $<26 w.aa found on his person, which he said he won gambling. While confined in jail Harris con fessed to three people that he com mitted the murder and described his terribly crime. Harris said that he and his wife and two children came from Grover, N. C. His wifo and children stopped at Blachsbarg and he went to Gaffney. He then ?went out to Mr.s Morgan's and ac cording to his own confession hero Is what transpired. When he got to her house, he found her sitting on her front porch, approached her and pretended to want to rent a farm. She told him all her land was rented. She got up to go in the house, asking him to stay for dinner. He replied that he did not care for any dinner, follow ing her into her room. She stepped to the bed to get a paper and he walked up behind her. caught her by the throat, choked her down on the bed, took his knife from his coat pocket and cut h?r throat, after which he waited in her roon ten or twenty minutes until she died. " After this he searched a cupboard or safe for her money. Not finding it, he searched her person. Finding her money tied around her waist In a pouch or sack, he cut the string from her person, took the money from the sack and threw the sack down at the door. He then walked back to the road and walked back to Gaffney, going to a store and buying a new suit of clothes, overcoat, grip and a pair.of shoes, and expecting to get on trajn No. 11 of the' Southern Road and go to Atlanta, Ga., and from there . to Memphis, Tenn, never to return. He says no one else than himself had anything to do with this murder either directly or Indirectly. He fur ther states at the time he commit ted the murder he. had $40 of his own money, and, thinking it wouldl not be sufficient for his needs de cided to rob Mrs. Morgan. The jury after being out a very I short time returned a verdict of guilty. During the entire time the the Judge was making his prelim inary remarks Harris stood chewing a wad of tobacco. After Judge Al drinh senteced him to be hanged on Friday, .March 29, Harris exclaim eJ, "Everybody meet me in Heaven." WILL GO TO BREMEN I To Confer With Lloyd Directors Re garding Charleston Line. Former Governor Heyward, Com missioner Watson and Mr. P. H. Gadsen will, it has been decided, go to Bremen to confer with the direc tors of the North German Lloyd Steamship company in reference to the continuance of the Charleston Bremen steamship line. Commis sioner Watson, who with his assist ant, Mr. R. B. Herbert, is now In New York, has booked passage for the party on the Kaiser Wilhelm II. sailing from New York March ?2. Governor Heyward will spend sever al weeks abroad, but Mr. Watson and Mr. Gadsen will have to make a more hurried trip. These three gentlemen go as the representatives of the South Carolina division of the Southern Immigra tion and Industrial association, Of which Governor Hey ward is the pres cient. They ?<>re narnt'd at the or ganization meeting held at the Col onia hotel last week. Great Power Plant. The Catawba power plant, not far from Chester, has bt?n completed by the Southern Power Company. This company owns the greatest wa ter power in this country, except Niagara. Their plants extend from Hickory, N. C, to Camden, S. ?. and aggregate 200,000 horse power Robbing Dispensaries. The dispensaries at Blackville I and Moncks Corner were broken open and robbed last week by some of the thirsty souls who could not get along without booze. Measures will be taken to bring the guilty parties to justice. Selling its Stock. The dispensary commission has agreed to sell the stock of jiquors in the Charleston d'spensaries to tbfc county authorities ht 20 per cent dis count. This will probably bo the basis for dealing with other counties.