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ESTABLISHED UN" Ii TIED UP FAST. Tbs Governor Warns Banks Not to Pay Out the DISPENSARY FUNDS. Notifies the Depositories of the Fond Not to Honor Checks Without Pro duction of Collateral and Without Checks Being Signed by the State Treasurer and the Commission Chairman. The banks holding deposits of the State dispensary money have been officially notified by the Governor that these funds must not be paid to any one without the proper pro duction of the collateral and without thee heck being signed by the chair man of the commission and the State Treasurer. Inasmuch as the collat erals are all In the office of the State Treasurer, it is not likely that the bariks will care to violate the in structions of the Governor, although the banks are also under injunction from Judge Pritchard not to pay out this money except by order of his Court. At any rate, the banks ap pear to be sure of keeping the money, ?whatever view the take of the ques tion of State's rights or Federal jur isdiction. , The banks notified are the follow ing: National Loan and Exchange Bank, Columbia, S. C. Palmetto National Bank, Colum bia, S. C. The State Bank, Columbia, S. C. Bank of Charleston, Charleston, S. C. People's Loan and Exchange Bank, Laurens, S. C Bank of Orangeburg, Orangeburg, S. C. National Exchange Bank, Charles ton, S. C. Bank of Alken, Aiken, S. C Commercial Bank, Camden, S. C. People's Savings Bank, Abbeville, S. C. The Bank of Dillon, Dillon, S. C. The Enterprise Bank, Charleston, S. C. Merchants' and Planters' Bank, Gaffney, S. C. Farmers and Merchants Bank, Anderson, S. C. Merchants and Farmers Bank, Cheraw, S. C. Farmers and Merchants Bank, Walterboro, S. C. Commercial and Savings Bank, Florence, S. C. Bank of Hartsville, Hartsville, S. C. Peoples Bank, Union, S. C. Bank of Timmonsville, Timmons rille, S. C. City National Bank, Greenville, S. C. The Greenville Savings Trust Com pany, Greenville, S. C. 1 The Lexington Savings Bank, Lex ington, S. C. Peoples National Bank, Charles- 1 ton, S. C. ? The Peoples Bank, Greenville, S. C. The Norwood National Bank, Greenville, S. C. The Bank of Camden, Camden, S. C. Merchants and Farmers Bank, Spartanburg, S. C. First National Bank, Spartanburg, S. C. Central National Bank, Spartan burg, S. C. Meanwhile the banks having the money on deposit have all been serv ed with an order from Judge Prit chard not to pay out any dispensary i money except on the order of the Federal Court. The funds seem to be most securely tied up. Governor Ansel also sent a letter ' to all the county dispensary boards stating that some of them owe the State dispensary commission for li quors purchased out of the stock of the old State dispensary and notify ing them that these amounts must not be paid except when called for by the commission, and that the checks must be made payable to the State of South Carolina and to no one else; further, that under no cir cumstances must these amounts be paid to any receiver appointed by any Court. , * WAGES REDUCED. In Many of the New England Cotton Mills. At Lowell, Mass., on Wednesday notices announcing a wage reduction of 10 per cent, were posted in seven of the large cotton factories. Near ly 25,000 operatives will be affected by the cut down. Manufacturers state that the busi ness outlook is most discouraging and that the situation is without a parallel In many years, the whole cotton manufacturing industry North and South being seriously impaired. It Is also stated that furher cur tailment of production may become necessary. The corporations where the notices were posted comprise practically all of the large manufac turers. * I Negro Killed. At Chicago a quarrel that started in a crowded street car Thursday night ended in the killing of John H. Mapp, a colored man, by James McDonald, who was accidentally jostled by the negro._ * 369. FINDS FOR LYON. SUPREME COURT SAYS PRITCH ARD'S ACTION IS A NULITY. The Opinion in Court in the Dispen sary Case Declares His Assumption of Jurisdiction Cmvarranted. The South Carolina Supreme Court declares- that neither the Federal Court nor any other Court has juris diction to control the commission to wihd up the State dispensary, and that the adjudication of claims against the dispensary is solely with in the power of the commission, which is the agent of the State as much as the State Treasurer is. The Court intimates that Judge Pritchard should now step aside and permit the interpretation of the State Supreme Court to rule, but that if he will not do so the case can be taken to the United States Supreme Court, where, following the usual rule, the State Court will be follow ed in the interpretation of a State law rather than the Federal Circuit Court. The case came up in this way: At torney General Lyon presented to the Court a petition for mandamus, alleg ing that the commission decilr.e 1 to pay into the State treasury, for use in prosecuting the alleged dispen sary grafters, the sum set aside by the Legislature for that purpose. The commission asserted that under thc order of Judge Pritchard they were restrained from paying out any funds at all. Mr. Lyon held that the order of Judge Pritchard to this effect was of no force and effect, as the Federal Judge has no jurisdiction in the mat ter, and this position the Supreme Court upholds. For the pet'tioner Attorney General Lyon and Mr. P. L. Abney argued the case, and the commission was represented by its regular counsel, Mr. W. F. Steven son. SERIOUS WRECK. At Trenton in Which an Engineer and Fireman Were Killed. A frightful accident occurred on the Southern at Trenton at It o'clock Wednesday night, resulting in the ieath of Engineer Robert Hubbard, and a negro fireman, Tillman Low man, of Columbia, and the* inju-ing though not seriously, of Conductor Charles Wright and Mr. Lewis Har rison, a trainman, he roads from Columbia to Augusta and from Aik en to Edgefield cross at Trenton. An extra passenger train was run ning from Aiken to Edgefield, a freight train heading to Augusta was shifting, and one of the boxes back- 1 2d and left across the point where the lines crossed, and the train from Aiken crashed into it. The engine ) was turned over and the dead men 1 were caught under it and crushed to ieath. Mrs. Hubbard, the wife of the en gineer, with Miss Helen Haltiwanger i jf Edgefield, occupied the passenger, i ;oach, which was also turned over, but the escaped without serious in- ? |ury. The coach caught fire, but the i .lames were extinguished before it was much burned. An inquest was held, the jury returning a verdict in i conformity with the above facts. * 1 THOUSANDS KILLED. Awful Slaughter of Striking Miners at Iquique, Chile. According to reports brought to San Francisco by the officers of a steam ship just arrived there from Chile many strikers were mowed down by machine guns at the nitrate beds [tear Iquique. The number of men billed is placed at 2,500, but this is :hought to be a high estimate here The workmen at the nitrate be,Is nave been on a strike for many months and numerous small riot? h:-ve occurred in tb? weds of Iqui que and on the outskirts. On January 1, 4,000 strikers start Ed to march through the streets of Iquique. They were met on the out skirts and ordered to d"sparse. The men refused, and tried to rush the troops, who suddenly opened- lire with machine guns on the mob. When the fracus was endel 2.500 men are reported to have been found, the majority being buried by the sol diers. It is stated that the strikers were not armed. FOUR DEATHS IN A FAMILY. Pneumonia Took Them Within a Pe riod of Four WTeeks. A dispatch from Aiken to The State says one if the saddest deaths that has occurred in that county was that of Melvin Bell, twenty years of age, which occurred on Monday of pneumonia. Mr. Bell had been ill only a few days. He was the son of Mr. J. P. Bell of Windsor. He was the fourth in that family that has died in the past four weeks. On March 12 Barney Bell, his brother, died of pneumonia; a few days later Mrs. J. P. Bell, his mother, died of the same disease; on Monday of last week Frank Bell, another broth er, died of the same disease. This makes the third brother and the mother of the same family to die of pneumonia within four weeks. None of them were sick over five days. A few months ago Frank Bell's wife died. 4 OBAJTOEBt A GREAT SPEECH. CONGRESSMAN PATTERSON OF BARN WELL TALKS PLAINLY. He Wants the Great Power Now Ex ercised by Federal Judges Limited and Held Within Due Bounds. Speech of Congressman James 0. Patterson, of Barnwell, in the House of Representatives, March 2, 190S. The House being in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and having under considera tion the bill (H. R. 1S347) making appropriations for the postal ser vice? Mr Patterson said: Mr. Chairman: The distinguished gentlemen of this House who have in dulged in speech makingat this session of Congress have taken a very wide range and have discussed in an able, intelligent, interesting and exhaustive manner a great variety of subjects embracing legslative, judicial, execu-| tive and political. It seems to be the rule in general debate upon a bill for the Member addressing the House to speak about anything and every [ thing except the subject-matter of the pending measure, and I will not at this time make an exception to the rule, but will take advantage of the time alloted me to address the House upon two subjects contained in sep arate bills which I have introduced at this session of Congress. To my mind these are very important mat ters, and I trust that the Members of this House will give me fheir at tention and these measures that due and careful consideration which they deserve. The first of these to wheh I ask your attention is H. R. 1675, which provides: "That no judge of any court of the United States inferior to the Supreme C? iirt shall issue any writ of injunction or prohibition in any case wherein the validity of a law of any State of the United States, or the act of any officer of any such State done, or required to be done, in pursuance of such law, is called in question." In view of the recent acts of Federal judges, fresh in the minds of the people, assuming powers never delegated to them, this question be come of great interest and import ance. Such an assumption of power by the judges of the United States courts can not be too severely crit icised and condemned. It is calcu- < lated to bring about, a clash and con- I flict between the State and Federal . authorities, and a check should be placed upon them and they should be;, compelled to respect the soverign , rights of the States to enact laws and , to enforce them, subject only to inter- j ference by njunction of the supreme court of the State or of the Supreme , Court of the United States. Since the expiration of the Fifty ninth Congress the people of the Unit- J ed States have witnessed many things tending to demonstrate the correct ness of Jefferson's solemn declaration ' L^at Federal judges are the "sappers ? and miners" of despotism. We have seen Federal judges attempting to 1 nullify the laws of a State by grant- J Ing injunctions forbidding and re- ? straining the officers of the States of Virginia. North Carolina, Ala- ! bama, and Minnesota. who < are charged with the execution of the I laws of those States, to execute those i laws, unless and until the Supreme I Court of the United States has pass- 1 Dd upon their validity, thus making < State Laws euforcible only upon a 1 condition never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution of the < ;Inited States. And we have seen this ! new Usurpation Of authority followed 1 immediately upon the sugestion of '< the President, who appointed the par- < ticular judges guilty of such usurpa- i tion. that the Constitution needed to e remodeled by executive, legislative, j' and judicial constructions, and not i b y amendments in the proper and j I authorized manner, in order to adapt!1 it to the needs of the times. In this way, by the appointment to judge- - ships of men who are overzealous to < please their benefactor, the Pres- i ideut is seeking and securing what i amounts to a veto upon all State leg islation, absolutely destroying the sovereignty of the State by indirec- i tion. Whiie the States are bting shown i of all initiative in the matter of leg islation for the protection of their citizens against the oppressions and abuses of corporation's, through the instrumentality of the former attor neys of those same corporations whom the President has transform ed into judges, tbe initiative of the Federal Government, or, rather, of the President of the United States, has been correspondingly increased^" means of commissions of all kin..*, exercising legislative, executive, and judicial powers ad .it i ace. As the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McCall) said in a speech at. the James town Exposition on Constitution day: We are not all to be regarded in our business and modes of life by gentlemen sent out from Washington and the gentlemen sent out from Washington are to be regulated by one man in the White House. Would it be possible to conceive of a more ideal centralized paternalistic gov ernment? The judges are not removable by the President, but these Commission ers are; so that, in effect, we have a new semi-judiciary system, by means of which the President may put in train whatever measures he may like through instruments dependent upon himself for their offices and emolu ments; aud besides this, a perverted HR?, S. C, TUESDAY, M judicial system by menas of whicl he may nullify all measures adopted by the States which do not please him. Our condition in these respects h worse to-day than it was in 1798, when Jefferson and Madison aroused the nation with the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions. Federalism, or nationalism, as It is now called, had then run wild, indeed, under John Adams; but not so wild as It has run under Theodore Roosevelt. Many useless offices had been created as means of propagating the faith and perpetuating the power of the Fed eralist party; but the number was insignificant, and the emoluments still more Insignificant, when compar ed with the 3 6,000 new offices and $36,000,000 in salaries created by the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con gresses. The alien and sedition laws had been passed by Congress under the whip and spur of the Adminis tration in violation of the Constitu jtion; but those were as nothing cora | pared with the tariff bills, the sub [ sidy bill, the financial bills, and other i measures intended to benefit special interests at the expense of the public, which have passed this House in re cent years. Nor were the direct usur pations of undelegated powers, com mitted by Adams to be compared with those which the present President has committed. I have not the time to go into the Cetails of all these matters; but In respect to the juriciary system, as it was treated by the Sixth Congress under Adams and the Seventh under Jefferson, I wish to speak at length, in order to show that Congress has complete authority to destroy, as well as to create, courts inferior to the Supreme Court, and therefore to abol ish judicial offices and to deprive those persons who hold them of their salaries. After Jefferson had been elected in 1800, and before he had taken his seat in 1801, President Adams con ceived the design of perpetuating his ''policies"?all enemies of the Con stitution have "policies"?by creat ing new Federal courts and filling them with judges who could be de pended on to nullify any law passed by the new Congress or by any State legislature which might conflict with his monorchial policies. In his fourth annual message, November 22, 1800, he said: , It is in every point of view of such primary importance to carry the laws into prompt and faithful exe cution, and to render that part of the administration of justice which the Consitution and always devolve their present circumstance, that I :an not omit to once more recommend to your serious consideration the judiciary system of the United States. And having received from a House of Representatives devoted to his service a complacent reply, he added an the 27th of November the fol lowing: I thank you, gentlemen, for your assurance that the various subjects recommended to your consideration shall receive your deliberate atten tion. The President was greatly inter ssted in the improvement." of the (udiciary system. He contended that ifter courts had once been created md judges appointed these courts could not be abolished or those judges removed by Congress. In pursuance of this theory, the Sixth Congress, the last Federalist [Congress, with its expiring gasp, passed "An act for the more conven ient organization of the courts of the United States," whch was ap proved by President Adams. Febru ary 13. 1801?less than a month be fore Jetferson was inaugurated. This act created certain new courts, called "circuit courts of the United State." In virtue of appointments oiade by President Adams in pursu ance of this act, William Tilghman, Dliver Wolcott, Richard Bassctt, Charles Magill. Samuel Hitchcock, Benjamin Bourne, Egbert Ben-son, Philip B. Key, William Griffith, Jere miah Smith, and George K. Taylor became judges of said circuit courts, with salaries of $2,000 a year each. These judges were known as "John Adam's judges," and were extremely abjectionable to the Democrats, then called Republicans, of whom Jeffer son was the leader. In order to get rid of them, Jefferson, in his first an nual message, December S, 1801, suggested the repeal of the act. His remarks will be found in volume 1 of Richardson's Presidents' Messag es, p. 331: The Judiciary system of the United States? Said he. and especially that portion of it re cently enacted, will of course present itself to the contemplation of Con gress: and. that they may be able to judge of the proportion which the institution bears to the business it has to perform. 1 have caused to be procured from the several States, and now lay before Congress, an exact statement of all the causes decided since the first establishment of the courts, and of those which were de pending when additional courts were brought in to their aid. And while on the judiciary organ ization, it will be worth your con sideration whether the protecton of the inestimable institution of juries has been extended to all cases involv ing the security of our persons and property. Their impartial selection also being essential to their value, wo oue'.t further to consder wheth er that s sufficiently secured in those States where they are named by a marshal depending on Executive will, or designated by the courts, or by officers dependent on them. In the first place, then, Jefferson showed that these Federalist oourts were unnecessary and expensive. ABCH 17. 1908. ; EIGHT KILLED BT EXPLOSiON OF GAS AT NA TCHEZ, MISS. Wreckage of Shattered Building Caught Fire and Seven Residences Burned. 'At Natchez, Miss., eight persons were killed, one was severely in jured and property valued at many thousands of dollars was wrecked Saturday as the result of an ex plosion of gas in the basement of a five-story building occupied by the Natchez "Drug company, at Main and North Union streets, near the busi ness quarter. The dead: Cleve Laubat, Mrs. Keteringham, Miss Luela Booth, Missie Worthy, Carrie Murary, Inez Netterville, Ada White. Elias Hotch kiss, a carpenter, ran from the build ing and fell, breaking his neck. John Carkett, 71 years old, suifered fractures of both legs. He is not ex pected to live. The explosion tore away the rear walls of the building, which in fall ing crushed an adjoining tenement building. The wreckage caught fire and a stiff wind carried huge sparks to the north and west, setting fire to 18 residenecs, seven of which were destroyed. All business has been suspended and the local companies of militia are on duty. Tomorrow the work of re covering the bodies buried under great piles of brick and debries will begin. Owing to the intense heat this work is impossible. MUST BE DEAD. Hope No Longer Entertained for the Modern Crusoe. All hope of finding Fred Jeffs, a sailor who was stranded on Indefati gable Island, in the Pacific ocean, has ' been practically abandoned. The gunboat Yankton, which was sent from Cailao to hunt for the missing seaman, has arrived at Ac.apulco, Mexico, and the commanding officer reported to the navy department that no trace of Jeffs has been found, which is taken to mean that he is dead. That Jeffs must have experienced many more hardships than those re lated of Robinson Crusoe, is evident from the nature of the island upon which he was stranded Indefatig able or Santa Cruz Island, is on the equator, entirely uninhabited save by monster turtles and venomous rep tiles of the tropical regions!. The searching party* believe that Jeffs could not have lived long after he was wrecked, on May 8, 1907. * DON'T WANT TAFT. A Labor Leader Says His Union Will Not Support Him. At Omaha, Neb., on Wednesday, in the Republican State Convention the Second and Sixth Districts en dorsed Taft. "Tony" Donohue, a lo cal labor union leader, who was a delegate to the second circuit dis trict convention, protested against the endorsement of Taft, saying he wanted to put the union labor of Omaha on record as opposed to him, and added that if Taft was nominat ed they would not support the tick et. ? Corset Killed Her. At Brigham, Utah, Mrs. Carl Gun kle laced her corset so tightly that she crushed her heart, causing the blood to shoot to her head. Her husband, hearing her fall, ran to the room and summoned a physician, but Mrs. Gunkle was dead before the doctor arrived. * That was of itself a valid objection to them. But in the second place, he raised a far more serious objec tion by reference to "the inestimable institution of juries" in all cases in volving the security of persons and property. He foresaw, even then, that these Federal courts would, in the very nature of things, resort to the government by injunction?to the decision of cases without the in tervention of a jury. The Pritchards and Joneses of to-day were not hid den from his prophetic vsion. Nor were the abuses of the jury system, even when trial by jury was not dis pensed with, overlooked by him. He abhorred the idea that a Federal judRo should without a jury try any case whatever involving personal or property rights. The legislature of North Carolina, on the 17th of December, 1801, in structed the Senators and requested the Representatives from that State to urge the repeal of the act of Feb ruary 13, 1 SOI. And immediately afterwards a bill to that effect was introduced in the Senate. It was entitled "A bill to repeal certain acts of Congress respecting the organiza tion of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes." When it reached the House it was referred to the Committee of the Whole House and was debated at great length. The discussion of its constitutionality was opened by Hen derson and Williams of North Caro lina, on the fith of February, 1802. (See Annals of Congress for that, day.) Henderson opened the debate. He deprecated the fact. that, the leg islature of North Carolina had in structed the Senators and requested the Representatives of that State in Congress to vote for the repeal of the act of 1 SOI. He then made sev (Continued on Page Two.) ANOTHER VICTIM ANOTHER HIGH FINANCIER DIES SUDDENLY, ; This Blake a Total ol Nineteen Per sons Who Have Died as a Result of the Recent Panic. The death of John G. Jenkins, Sr., in New York, on Friday, makes a total of nineteen persons who have died", a maqority of them by their own hands, as a result of the recent financial troubles. A complete list of the victims follows: November 13, 1907?Nathan West heiiner, retired financier, sustaining heavy losses; suicide. November 14?Charles, T. Barney, deposed bank president; suicide. November 15?L. N. Underwood, Columbia professor, driven insane by reverses, killed himself. November 13?Nicholas M. Smith, and Mrs. Smith, New Rochelle, "Man of Mystery." Smith lost all and was killed by his wife, who then committed suicide and burned her home. November 24?Mrs. S. T. Bon ham, worried herself to death over the ruin of her husband, which was claimed to be due to the Jenkins failure. November 25?Louis Straus, mine broker, plucked clean by the panic, caught in forgery, drinks poison. November 26?Howard Maxwell, bank president, indicted, out on bail; committed suicide. November 26?Valentine Haydahl, caught in Knickerbocker Trust com pany crash; suicide. November 30?George Fruitman, diamond polisher, funds in the Bor ough Bank; mortgage due; suicide. December 5?Clara Bloodgood, ac tress, funds tied up; suicide. December 14?Worth Dal lace, re tired millionaire, 75 years old, loans tied up; suicide. December 2 6?Ernest Steadman, lawyer and real estate man, lost all in panic; dead in subway. January 1, 1908?Archibald Mit chell, young prodigal; money gone; ends life by gas. January 9?Charles Wadsworth Whitney, Vanderbilt broker, worry ing over financial troubles, ended life with bullet. February 8?E. C. Brooks, once wealthy speculator; lost his last pen ny and committed suicide on floor of Produce exchange. February 21?Col. Eugene W. Guindon, president of the Fuller Ex press company and Civil War veter an; worried greatly over business troubles and shot himself in office. February IS?Harry Rosenburg, wealthy pawn broker, lost his sav ings in bank; suicide in subway. March 12?John G. Jenkins, Sr., indicted banker; ill for several weeks, died at his home; apoplexy given as cause. ? WANTED DRAWINGS. Jap Tried to Get Plans of New Forti Cation Made. At Ely, Nevada, a prominent draughtsman named Clinton was ap proached by a Japanese who sought to have Clinton accompany him to San Francisco to make plans of the new fortifications there. The Jap anese said he would pay al expen ses as well as "make it all right with Clinton" in case the latter made a drawing of the new fortifications. Clinton refused to accede to the suggestion, and caught hold of the Japanese with the intention of hold ing him until an officer came to place him under arrest. The Jap anese caught the "'.Uhr, haud of his captor in his mouth, biting two of his fingers so badly that he will prob ably have T.o :iave theo? amputated. A crowd soon gathered and held the Japanese until a denuty consta ble came and arrested him. The Japanese bit and scratched like a wild man, declaring over and over that he would not be arrested alive. Hewill be held on a charge of may He wll be held on a charge cf may hem. TRIED TO BURN SELF. Disconsolate Because His Young Wife Had Left Him. Because his young bride deserted him, Agossan Teba, of Martins Creek, N. J., piled a lot of wood under his bed and set fire to it. Then turning on the gas in the room he lay down on the bed and tried to go to sleep. The bed took fire and Teba would have burned to death but for the timely arrival of neigh bors who saw the flames and forci bly carried him from the house. He begged them to leave him alone and said that he did not care to live. He was terribly burned and the hos pital physicians say he may not re cover. Six Chinamen Killed. Six Chinese dead, two others bad ly injured and one building destroy ed was the result of a fire n China town, at 1st and Oak streets, in Maryville, Cat., Thursday. The fire is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. ? Speed the Day. Miss May Harris Armor of Georgia is trying to earn fame as the Mother Shipton of Pennsylvania. She is up there prophesying that in ten years not a drop of liquor will be manu factured in the United States. 81.50 PEB AKNTJM. SHOT HIS RIVAL Because He Walked Home With a? Young Lady and Then COMMITTED SUICIDE. At Marion a Young Man Walks Iota Cotton Mill, Shoot and Dangerous ly Wounds Another Young Man> and on His Way Home Puts Bullet Through His Brain.?Community Terribly Shocked. A dispatch to The News and Cour ier says the cotton mill village in the> eastern surburbs of Marion was ter ribly shocked by a double tragedy, which occurred Friday morning as a result of which one man is dead and another dangerously wounded. At about S o'clock Luther Hewitt, a young man who had been up untfl a few days ago, an employee In the mill, walked into the mill, where Ar thur Stephens was at work, and after saying only a few words to him fired at him at a distance of about one or two steps, the ball, taking effect in his neck, passing to the right of his windpipe. Stephens immediately ran, but was shot again at a distance of a few steps, this ball hitting him in the back just over the left shoul- ' der, causing him to fall. Hewitt, evidently thinking that he had killed the man turned deliberate ly and walked out of the mill and toward his father's house, but when within a short distance of his home, turned the pistol and fired at his own head, but missed the first time. The second attempt, however, was suc cessful. He held the pistol to bis right temple and fired, killing him self instantly. Dr. Z. G. Smith was hastily sum moned, and reached the wounded man within a few minutes, and find inth that neither of the balls could be easily loc^d, he decided to take his patient to the hospital in Flor ence, where he hopes that with the use of an X-ray machine, the baHew may be located, extracted and the man's life saved. The train from Wilmington to Florence was at the station at the time he examination of Mr. Hewitt was being made, and Conductor Jones kindly consented to hold the train for ten minutes until the wounded man could be placed upon it, and this was done within that time, Dr. Smith accompanying him to the hospital. The alleged cause of the trouble is said to be that young Stephens walked home from a party last night with a young lady to whom the de based was very much attached. But the general impression among the friends of both parties Is that Hew itt's mind must have been unbalan ced, although he had not shown any previous symptoms of mental de rangement. Neither of these young men is married, both of them living in the mill village with their parents. The deceased was a son of Mr. W. D. Hewitt the night watchman at the mill, and Arthur Stephens is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stephens. Both af the families are natives of Mari on County and have a great many friends, who are inexpressibly griev ed by the *r t i ? ? y. * WANTS THE FACTS. Tillman Asks Pointed Questions: About Some Bank Transactions. Senator Tillman introduced a res olution calling upon the Senate com mittee on finance to conduct an in vestigation and answer some pointed questions bearing upon financial legislation. Among the questions asked are as to whether the national banks of New York York are in the habit, under the guise of commercial loans, of furnishing permanent capi tal for speculative or other enter prises; whether the Treasury Depart ment had knoweldge of the loans by the National Bank of North America of New York, which are the subject of a suit by the receiver against C. W. Morse, and of other similar trans actions in other national banks; whether the national banks are en gaged by themselves or through oth er organizations in attempting to control or dictate the legislation of Congress upon the currency ques tions. The Deadly Auto. At Cairo, Egypt, four persons were killed and twenty injured during the running of automobile races. While the fourth eveut was being contested Hugo Fenderi's DeDion car became unmanageable and ran into a crowd of spectators. The Duke of Con naught and the Khedive witnessed the accident and immediately left the course. Japs Tried Them. Because Utah did not have thft money to bring back two embezzlers from Japan the Milkado's Govern ment not only tried and coavicetd the offenders for a crime committel in Utah, but paid the State for collect ing and forwarding affidavits in the case. The prisoners are charged with embezzling ?16,000. *