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? ESTABLISHED US' 1? ANSEL WIMS? SMITH IN THE LEAD FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR, How the Vote Stands for the Other State Officers as Far as Heard From. The following special telegram* from The News and Courier to The Times and Democrat indicate the re sult of the primary in tbe State. The first telegram was received by The Times and Democrat at 10.47 Tues day evening and was as follows: For United States (Senator. Jno. Gary Evans. .... .4778 Jno. P. Grace. 76 George Johnstone.2352 W. W. Lumpkin.661 O. B. Martin.530 R. G. Rhett.4447 E. D. Smith.6192 For Governor. M. F. Ansel.10989 Cole L. Blease.6104 For Comptroller General. N. W. Brooker. 3656 A. \V. Jones.12334 For Adjutant and Inspector General. J. C. Boyd..73-31 H. T. Thompson. . . . .8729 . For State Supt. of Education. . E. C. Elmore.3889 Stiles R. Mellicham. . . .6212 J. E. Swearingen.6350 For R. IL Commissioner. Jas. Cansler.4211 Banks L. Caughman. . . .4341 Frank C. Fishburne. . . .1574 H. W. Richardson.1496 J. A. Summersett.3615 Latest Returns; The second dispatch was recleved at 12.24 Wednesday morning and it save the following total?: For United States Senator. Jno. Gary Evans.637? Jno. P. Grace. 95 George Johnstone.4346 W. W. Lumpkin.866 O. B. Martin..73 7 R. G. Rhett.5707 E. D. Smith. .8574 For Governor. M. F. Ansel...15634 Cole L. Blease. 9305 For Comptroller General. N. W. Brooker. ..... .5 .48 A. W. Jones. 18361 For Adjutant and Inspector General. J. C. Boyd. . . . . . .11426 H.T.Thompson. . .'. .12387 . For State Supt. erf Education. , E. C. Elmore.. 5943 Stiles R. Mellichamp. . . 8003 ..J. E.. Swearingen.10251 For R. R. Commissioner. Jas. Cansler.6517 Banks L. Caughman. . . .6809 Frank C. Fishbourne. . .2075 H. W. Richardson. ? . . .2215 . J. A. Summerset*.5215 Gov. Ansel is re-elected by a hand some majority. Smith and Evans will run over for United States Sen ator. ? FOFlEfST FIRE SPREADING. Fate of Scattered Ranchers is Un known. Forest fires on Vancouver Island are extending in every direction, and the latest reports indicate that the settlements are threatened. In Kogsilah district, 20 square miles are ablaze. The fate of the scattered ranchers is unknown. The names are ad vancing on Goldstream and 150 in habitants are back-firing to save the village. Several lumber camps have been wiped out. Telegraph and telephone messages state that the eastern side of Bow ?en lslaud is a mass of fire . In one settlement SO souls were scattered about the section which has been swept by the flames, but it is im possible to ascertain their fate. DARING ESCAPE. ?Convict Bores to Freedom Througn Prison Walls. A dispatch from ..Vlilledgeville, Ga, says Andrew Ford, a 20 year convict from Chatham county made a dar ing escape from the state farm Saturday morning. He tunnelled through the walls, broke open the superintendent's office where he helped himself to the arms and am munition and changed his prison garments for citizens clothing and going to the stable harnessed the fastest horse there. He was seen about day-break driving rapidly in the direction of Macon. The alarm baa beeu sent out to all police offi cials. * Murderer Adjudged Insane. At Pensacola, Fla, a lunacy com mission Wednesday adjudged Clifford Touart insane. Touart is the man who shot and killed his wife at Bag dale,. Fla, several weeks ago. Since the tragedy he has become a raving maniac. He is a printing pressman and a member of a French family here prominent on tbe Gulf coast. * Georgia's Convict Inquiry Ends. Inquiry into the convict lease sys tem of Georgia ended Wednesday.) The legislative committee, which hasj been operating the probe, is now en-l gaged in making up its report, which will be submitted to 'a special ses sion of the Legislature called by Governor Smith to assemble on August 25. HORRIBLE STORY. Members of ArtriUery Battery Attack ed Officer and Young Lady. A special from Laramie, Wyo., of Friday night says that while every effort is being made by the authori ties at Camp Emmett Crawford, the military maneuver ground, to keep the fact secret, it transpired that on last Sunday members of an artillery battery, assaulted a young woman, leaving her bruised and unconscious on the ground. According to his story a non-com missioned officer of the 21st Regi ment was escorting the young wo man, when the pair were attacked by 32 men of the artillery battery. The officer was beaten into insensibly with a gun and the unfortuate youg woman was dragged to an isolated spot and mistreated. After living half dead for hous, the victim of the outraged crawled to a house some distance away and told her story. Twenty-six men alleg ed to have been implicated in the outrage are under arrest and are chained together in the camp prison. They are under constant guard to prevent lynching, as sentimet in the camp is strong against them. Six of the alleged assilats escap ed but three of them were appre hended at Rawlins Saturday. The other three are still at large. * JEALOUSY LEADS TO TRAGEDY. Woman Commits Suicide and Her Husband Does Likewise. At New York, believing that her husband was about to leqve her for ever Mrs. Edward H. Hacker com mitted suicide Tuesday by shoot ng herself.| Her husband, who had bade her good-by after a series of alterca tions and started from the Hague Court apartment house, where they lived, heard the shot and ran back to their flat. Upon beholding the lifeless body of his wife he was overcome with grief and remorse and, locknig the door of the apartment, he picked up the revolver with which she had kill ed herself and ended his own life by shooting himself three times. When the superintendent, of the building broke down the door he found the husband and wife dead. Hacker with his arms clasped about his wife's neck and his lips close to her cheek, as though he died while trying to kiss her.For a day and night Hacker ai'd his wife had been quarreling. They had been married a little less ihauXwo years and it seems that Hacker was insanely jeal ous of his wife. ? LIGHTNING GOES DOWN CHIMNEY House in Chester Struck by an Elec tric Bolt Thursday. A dispatch from Chester, says Mr. T. C. Faley's house on Columbia street was struck by lightning Thurs day afternoon while an exciting elec trical storm was in progress, and it is a wonder that very serious dam age was not done to the building and contents. As it was a good-siz ed hole w as knocked through the outside wall of the building, while on the front a clean aperture that looked as if it might have been made by a missle about the size of a base ball, is to be seen. A considerable quantity of plast ering was torn from the ceiling in one of the front rooms, and pictures and ornaments on the mantel were thrown far and wide, and some of tnem broken and otherwise damag ed. The bolt seems to have struck one of the chimneys of the house and divided, a s part i assing down the chimney on the outside, while the rest of the bolt went down the chimney. ? CLINTON MAN MISSING. John Cansley Leaves His Wife on Train at Lnurcns and Disappears. The police of Spartanburg and Laurens are searching for John Cansley, who disappeared in Laur ens Thursday while enroute to Granite Falls, N. C. with his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Causley left Clinton Thursday morning and changed cars at Laurens. Causley left the train, saying he wanted to step up-town, but he never returned. Mrs. Caus ley came on to Spartanburg and ap pealed to the police there to aid her in searching for her husband. The Spartanburg officials have been in communication with the police of Laurens, but no trace of the missing man has been found. * SIX CHILDREN CREMATED. Home Burns While Men are at Work and Women at Theatre. Six children are dead tf&fi two oth ers are burned so seriously that re covery is doubtful, at the H. W. Schultz ranch, between Col fax and Palouse, Wash., resulting from a fire that destroyed the home Wednesday night. Four of the dead were chil dren of Schultz. The other two were children of W. W. Fox, a brother-in-law. The men were away harvesting and the mothers were attending a theatrical performance. The two eldest Schultz girls at tempted to rescue the children, but lost the way to the door and were forced to drop the babies to make their own escape. The cause of the fire is a mystery.* OBANGEBTJ 111 TALKS ON TARIFF BRYAN SPEAKS TO THE IOWA FARMERS. He Arraigns the Republicans For De manding Revision When They Have Had Power to Revise. W. J. Bryan delivered an exhaus tive speech on the tariff at Des Moin es, ? Iowa, Friday. He showed how the Republican party has completely abandoned the earlier arguments for a protective tariff because of "in fant industries" and because the "foreigner pays the tax." They have come to demand tariff revision immediately after the election, when it has been In their power for years to make revision. He discussed at length the action of'the Paper Trust, made possible because of the high tariff- on wood pulp and other articl es from which paper is made. He sharply criticised the 100 per cent, protection the Standard Oil is get ting to keep out its rival in Russia. In concluding Mr. Bryan stated the Democratic position as follows: "The Democratic party has declar ed for an income tax as a part of the revenue system, and for a constitu tional amendment as a means of se curing this tax. Secretary Taft an nounces in his notification speech that he is in favor of an income tax whenever the revenues are so low as to require it, and expresses, his be lief that it is possible to secure such a tax without a constitutional amend ment. If it is possible to frame a law which will avoid the objections raised to the income tax law of 1894, well and good, but that is uncertain. If an income tax is desirable, surely Secretary Taft cannot consistently oppose the adoption of a constitu tional amendment. If the principle is right and the tax wise. Congress ought to have authority to levy and collect such a tax and no supporter of Secretary Taft can oppose our position without dissenting from the Republican candidate. "The whole aim of our party is to secure justice in taxation. We be lieve that each individual should con tribute to the support of the govern ment in proportion to the benefits which he receives under the protec tion of the government. We believe that a revenue tariff, approached gradually, according to the plan laid down in our platform, will equalize the burdens of taxation, and that tae addition of an income tax will make taxation still more equitable. If tne Republican party is to have the sup port of those who find a pecurniary profit in the exercise of the taxing power as a private asset in their business, we ought to have the sup port of that large majority of the people who produce the nation's wealth flag in time of war, and ask for nothing from the government but even handed justice. * MET TRAGIC DEATH. Neck Brokrn in a Very Peculiar Man ner. Cicero Holcomb. a well known farmer, who lives near Gainsvile, Ga., had his neck broken Friday morning as he was coming to Gaines ville with a one-horse team. Some part, of the harness broke, and Mr. Holcomb got out to mend it. He gave it a hard pull, and the harness broke, throwing him into a ditch, his neck being broken in the fall. He was a Confederate Veteran. * Killed in Runaway at Pickens. Pickens was saddened Wednes day evening by the death of J. E. Harris. He was out driving and his horse ran against a telephone post, throwing him out and breaking his neck.He died suddenly.He was an effi cient clerk for Heath, Bruce, Morrow & Co and was twenty-three years old His home was in Charlotte, to which place was his body shipped. EG, S. C TUESDAY. AU< iO TO MOTHER'S APRON STRIN( MAKES NEW RECORD. THE LUSITANIA MAKES THE BEST RUN YET. Big Cunard Turbiner Crosses the At lantic in Four Days, Fifteen Hours and Twenty-five Minutes. A dispatch from New York, say with the best previous record for a Trans-Atlantic voyage lowered by! more than three hours, the Cunara turbine steamship Luisitania arrived | off Sand Hook light ship at 10 o'clock j Wednesday night, having made the I run across the Atlantic over the short course in four days, fifteen I hours and twenty-five minutes. The Lusitania's former record, which was also the ocean record, was four days, and eighteen hours and forty minutes, the steamer by her new performance lowering her former mark and the record by three hours and fifteen minutes. The Lusitania's previous best per formance was made last November, when the short course was still in use. As the season advanced the big turbiners, with the rest of the great liners, began using the south lern, or long, course, to avoid dang ler from icebergs. Both the Lusitania and her sister ship, the Mauretania, then began a series of record-break ing performances over the long route which continued until recently, when the vessels again sought the short course for the fall and winter sea son. I Tuned up by her many fast trips in spring and summer, the Lusitania began speeding for a record-break ing run over sea immediately on leaving Queenstown, Sunday morn ing. She passed Daunt's Rock, from which her leaving time is taken, at 11:35 that forenoon, and up to noon had traveled at the rate of 22.91 miles an hour. When fairly out, however, she struck up a still smart er pace, and in the next twenty-four hours, up to noon on Monday, the 17. had logged the record total of 650 knots, seven knots more than the previous best record for a day's run, made by her on Ju.y 6, last. In doing this she had made an average speed for the twenty-four hours of 25.6G knots. The run ending at noon Tuesday was slightly slower, but still a high rate of speed?631 miles at 25.21 knots an hour. The Lusitania did not attempt to come up the bay, anchoring outside the bar at 10:13 o'clock. * SHOP LIFTER HANGS HERSELF. Young Woman Commits Suicide in New York Police Station. Possibly acting on the suggestion contained in a magazine story which she had just read, a young woman awaiting trial on a charge of shop lifting committed suicide in her cell in the Jefferson Market prison New York Friday night by hangin? her self to the transom of the door with a rope taken from the prison cot. The name given by the woman at the time of her arrest was Marion Desmond, but. it is believed this is assumed. Another theory advanced in explanation of the woman's act is that it was brought about through fear of her identity being discovered I at the trial. * COLLOPSES UNDER BRYAN. No One Hurt and no PanicTBut His Speech is Interrupted. At Des Moines, Iowa, while Mr. Bryan was speaking in the ball park Friday afternoon cne temporary plat form on which were seated several hundred people, collapsed. Nobody was hurt, and there was no panic, but Mr. Bryan was interrupted for were made for him to continue speak ing from the grand stand, where he finished his address. , * GUST 25, 1908. aS. ?Porter in Boston Tr*vel?f*. SHOT BY MINERS. NONUNION NEGRO FATALLY WOUNDED FRIDAY NIGHT. I Negro Shot and His House Dynamit ed Wednesday Night?Fired Upon From Ambush. Anthany Davis, a negro non-union ? miner, whose house at Pratt Citty |Ala., was dyuamited Wednesday night, was fired upon from ambush near his home at Pratt City Friday j night and fatally injured. Quite a number of shots were fired into his body indicating that a band of men were lying in ambush. Davis I has been working steadily since the declaration of the strike and imme diately after the house was dyna jmited claimed,that he had seen and recognized the men who committed the deed. Governor Comer has not yet de cided what action to take in the matter of throwing the troops into the district, although great pressure has been brought to bear upon him to augment the forces. Apprehension of further throuble continues keen all over the district. The big mass and barbecue of strik ers which will be held at Lewisburg [will be made the occasion by the [strikers leaderrs of urging their men to stand firm. Among the Speakers will be Vice President White, of the national or ganization, and W. R. Fairley, na tional executive board member. ? STRIKE CAUSES SHOOTING. Three Italians Shot by the Dam Boss. Three Italians were shot and seri ously injured Friday by a construc tion boss at Dam No. 11, on the Ohio river, below Welisburg, W. Va. The Italians at work on the dam struck for an increase in wages and when their demands were refused, it is said, they tired to destroy parts of the completed work. One of the construction bosses opened fire on the strikers with a revolver, drawn them away and woundig three of them. * NEGRO ASSAULTER JAILED. Arkansas Negro Hurriedly Tried at 2 a. m. O'Clock. After being tried and convicted of an attempt to assault a young white woman and sentenced to twenty one years'in the penitentiary, at a hurried session of court held at Augusta, Ark., at 2 o'clock Thurs day morning and after narrowly es caping from a mob at Augusta by traveling a part of the distance in a gasoline boat and the remainder on fast trains, Randolph Young, a negro, of Augusta, arrived in Little Rock in the custody of a deputy sheriff and was immediately placed in the penitentiary. TAKES HIS OWN MEDICINE. Head of Pasteur lustitute Inoculates Himself Against Deadly Disease. Dr. A. Lagorio, who is at the head of the Pasteur Institute, 228 Dear born avenue, Chicago, has been in noculated with hydrorpobia germs and is taking his own treatment to ward off the disease. Several days ago while the doctor was experimenting with a guina pig that he was disserting, after hav ing innoculated it with the germs ot rallies, he ran a sharp silver of bone under his fi-.iger nail. Tt. penetrated some distance and made a painful wound. It was in experimenting with an eight-day rabies culture that the in noculation occurred. RACE mOT IN CHICAGO. White and Black Dock Laborers Clash?Five Men Hurt. In a fight between white and black dock laborers employed on the Western Transit Company's wharves growing out of the antagonism which has developed since the Springfield riot, five men were injured and the police restored order only after a free use of clubs and by threats to shoot. The feeling against the negro lab orers reachee* a climax Thursday that they would not go to work un less the negroes quit. This the lat ter refused to do and a quarrel en sued between Hugh tfrady, white and some of the whites declared and Louis Hawkins, colored. The negro drew a knife and stabbed Brady in the neck and arm, where upon the fighting became general. Bricks and clubs were used freely. The trouble attracted the attention of white and negro laborers employed a short distance away by the Leigh Valley Transportation Company and they ran to the scene and took, sides. Two riot calls were sent to the Chi cago avenue police station and two patrol wagons filled with policemen were rushed to the docks. The policemen charged the rioters with drawn clubs and succeeded in arresting Hawkins. A large crowd had gathered and was inciting the white men. Fearing that an attempt would be made to take the colored prisoner from them the policemen drew revolvers and shouted a warn ing to shoot the first man who made an advance. This had the desired effect and further trouble was avert ed. * BLOW FROM BOTTLE FATAL. Two Anderson Negroes Quarrel and a Killing Results. A peculiar homicide occurred at Anderson Friday when Floyd Tuck er was killed by Harvey Thompson, both colored. Thompson- was em ployed at the plant of the Anderson Ice Company. Tucker visited the plant to get a load of ice. The two became engaged in a controversy because one of the blocks of ice they were loading fell on Tucker's foot. Tucker cursed Thompson severely, bo it was said at, the coroner's in quest, whereupon Thomps n clinch ed him. They were separated, but got together a few minutes later. Tucker had an iron rod in his hands and dealt Thompson two or three blows. Thompson had a coca-cola bottle in his hand and rapped Tuck er over the head three times, the third strike shattering the bottle to pieces. Tucker arose from the ground where he was knocked by Thompson and got in his wagon to drive off Soon after getting in the wagon he became unconscious and was hurried to a di g store for at tention. He died two hours later without regaining consciousness. Thompson is in the county jail. * FEARED BANKS; BURIED MONEY Arkansas Man's Decayed Fortnne Saved for Him by Woman. A dispatch from Washington, says of $10,000 in decayed green backs sent to the treasury depart ment for redemption by O. D. Earl, of Morrillon, Ark, all but 25 have been identified and a check for $9, 975 was mailed to Mr. Early Friday. Fearing the banks were unsafe Mr. Earl buried his savings in an old pail in 1 904. Recently he dug up his treasury only to find that the bills were so decayed that he could not discern uieir numbers. All that was left of the roll was a bunch of paper resembling a package of dried leaves, with here and there the torn end of a note displaying a fig ure. Mrs A. E. Brown, the burnt money expert, of the redemption divi sion, was given custody of the un recognizable mass when Mr. Earl forwarded what was left of his for tune to the treasury department. After much tedious work she has succceeded in identifying most of the money. * ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. Woman While Cleaning Room Acci dently Fires Gun. Miss Mary Brinham, 18-year-old. daugther of Robert Bringham, of Mapleville, Md., was shot and al most instantly killed by the acci dental discharge of a snot gun at t home Friday. The load entered her breast, tearing a great hole in her body. Mr. Brinham had used the gun and re-loaded the weapon, and plac ed It under the bed. His two daugh ters were cleaning the room, when the younger one attempted to pull the gun from under the bed. The dis charge killed her sister. mob after Negro. Attempted to Assassinate Merchant in Mississippi.* A posse is searching the swamps at Concordia parish, Louisiana Fri day in an effort to capture Henry Walker, a negro, who Friday at tempted V assassinate Robert Clay ton, a merchant, in his store at Clay ton Station. The negro fired on Mr. Clayton with a shot gun but the bullets went wild and he was not injured. A fight between the negro and the posse is anticipated should he be found it is probable that he will be lynched. * ?1.50 PEB ANNUM. GREAT FLOODS VISIT THE UPPER PART OP THE STATE. Pacolet Mills Said to Be Washed Away Again and Much Damage Done to the Railroads. Dispatches from Spartanburg and Greenville last night report great damage from floods caused by heavy rains. It is reported that the Paco let Mills near Spartanburg are again destroyed and that many railroad bridges have been washed away. Travel between Spartanburg and Asheville has been interupted by big landslides at Tryon and Meirose. All railroad travel in the up country is interrupted in all directions. WILL BE ELECTED. illman Says Bryan's Chances of Win ning This Time Are Good. A dispatch from London, says Senator Benj. Tillman of South Caro lina, who has been traveling in Europe for some time, sees demo cratic success in Bryan's nomina tion. "It may be that the wish is fath er to the thought," said Senator Tillman, when encountered at the office of the American Express com pany, "but it looks to me as if Bryan has a powerful good chance of cleaning-up the other crowd this time. "In the first place he has been nominate in spite of the best organ-, Ized newspaper fight against him ever known, thus demonstrating his innate strength with the rnak and file of the democratic party. Taft, on the contrary, has been nominated solely ht the dictation of Roosevelt, and against the wishes of the masses in tho republican party. While Taft is a lovable character m every I way, and I don't wish to be constru ed as saying anything against bin* as a man, his self-obliteration and what I should call the element of subserviency, shown in his visit to> Oyster Bay to get his speech revis I ed, are not in his favor." * FATAL FIRE. [Death Follws Blaze in Bakery? , ? Many Narrow Escape. As the result of a fire at the Link bakery, South Blairsville, Pa., at 3:0 o'clock Saturday morning, one fatality occurred, one person was in jured, and several of the occupants narrowly escaped being burned to death. The dead: Anna Pierre, aged 5 years, body found in debries after fire. The injured: Joseph Pierre, fath er of the child; perhaps fatally burn ed while making attempts to rescue his child, is unconscious at the home of a neighbor. The first floor of the building is used as a bakery, while the other floors are occupied as dwellings. Shortly after gas had been lit in the ovens the woodwork caught fire. Before those in the bakery realized what had happened the whole of the first floor was in flames. The girl, while in bed, was suffocated by the flames and her father, in attempt ing to rescue her, received his in juries. ** FOUND HIS WIFE A SUICIDE. Alabama Woman Dies by Her Own. Hand in an Asheville Hotel. Leaving a note to the effect that she was weary and tired of life. Mrs. A. J. Abrahams, of Huntsville? Ala, a guest at a Asheville, N. hotel, fired a bullet Into her brat? early Wednesday morning and end ed her life. The deceased, who came to Asheville three weeks ago, had! been in poor health for many years. The suicide was: not discovered un til 7 o'clock the next morning, when her husband arrived on a morning train. He found his wife lying dead on the floor, dressed in, full street costume. * ' \ DIED FROM SHOCK. Seer Said Lover Was Untrue And Pretty Girl Died From. At Sansebastian, a most tragi? fate befell a very pretty girl, whe went Friday to consult a well known woman fortune teller on the future of her fiance. The response must have been unsatisfactory, for the girl fainted and died within * few hours. The woman, who is a professional fortune teller by means of card, has been arrested. Long Navigator Saved. A dispatch from Milwaukee, Wia. says after spending twenty-four hours alone on the tiny schooner Juaita. with the body of captain rolling on the deck at hh |t, David Beebe, the lone navigato: >the de relict, was brought into j Friday by the Gilchrist steam. Helena, The rescued man was sick with ex posure ond all but dumb for hours after his rescue. ,