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P? BLISBBD TBEEE TI IRON ORE Senator Tillman Gixes His Reasons for Voting for the Tax TH?KES IT VERY PLAIN That the Tax on Iron Ore Does Not Increase the Price of any Article 7riade Oat of Iron to Constnmer and That the Steel Trust Pays the Duty. In answer to a letter from Mr.' W. C. Smith, of Willison,. S. C, ask ing him to explain "why he voted 'for. a duty on iron ore, Senator Tillman replied last year as follows: "Your letter of May 27th, has re mained unanswered simply because I have been overwhelmed with work here, and have spent several 'days in South Carolina, looking after mat ters at Clenison, and lost one day as I returned by reason of a railroad wreck. "I have never printed anything about my vote on iron ore, and will very gladly give you an explanation' direct. 1 notice that my old ene mies are. making a great howl about J my votes up here, while many oth eri who have not been enemies are j yelping in chorus, simply because they are ignorant of conditions. The trouble, with many editors in South Carolina, is they take and read the Associated Press dispatches, which are colored in behalf of the Repub-j ?lican party, and are garbled afh.d condense, an give no adequate 'cbifc ception of things as they really "hap pen. "The facts In regard to iron ore are sfcmply these: There Is' overwhel ming ^evidence that there are p-nb-in dependent Bteel or 'Iron producers:' The Steel Trust has absolute con trol a^d ehjrjys a 'Tnonop'oly of the iron ?ad steel 'business* In''this' coun try. 'Th'e^so^called^n'depehdent Con cerns :'are ^?minaf?Q"'and:~ccm?i,olied ?by it, '^hough not ".ill'owned by %C \Steel ^Trnate^Bxes ^rfces1^^' the others'Jcouto'rm. . . ] ,; "There are Immense, well-nigh inexh^teirblft",deposit8 'of -iron ore in, Michigan, Wisconsin and 'Minnesota; and", the l&eel; Tru? ;/^bmrtrisk ita< mese "deposlte in- those State?, it also^imtrbl?.' or "some 'of' its*'subsl-. dary'compariif? do;"large'dep?sitsin Cuba. lt. was brbn'ght out1 in ' the debate, that some of the Eastern com panies have" contracts 1 with the Cuban mine owners, to import not less than a million tons a year of Cuban ore, and I do'^f think it worth while'to let this come in free when it would make no difference' what ever to the consumers of iron and steel 'as to the price we would pay for these articles. I believe tha't the American producers of iron and steel (that Is the Steel Trust main ly), can compete with England, Ger many and France in the markets of the world, and that the whole scheme of protection of manufactured steel is a bare faced robbery of the Amer ican people. No one but an idiot will increase the price of anything manufactured of iron, to the Ameri can consumer. If we could rdduce the tariff on'manufactured iron we could get cheaper prices, but under existing circumstances the tariff law bars out the European competitor, who is already handicapped by hav ing the ocean freights to pay, and our people are charged the cost ofj production - in Europe, plus the' freight, plus the tariff, and this isj the source of Carnegie's millions. Assuring you of my high apprecia tios of your friendship in the past, and hoping to continue to merit your confidence, and support, I am, sin cerely yours, B. R. Tillman. j EXPI.OSION IN FACTORY. Of Corn Products Refining Company lulls Two. Two men are dead and seven are badly hurt as the result of an ex plosion on the sixth floor of the corn house of the Corn Products company at Granite City, 111., at five o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The sixth floor was completely wrecked and it was almost half an hour before the men could be taken out. The dead are John Galo, Granite City, and an unidentified man. The explosion was caused, it is believed, by spontaneous combustion, due to a large amount of dust floating about the corn house. Dangerous Animals. The efforts of seven men were re quired to make an angry bulldog re lease his hold on the face of Samuel, the thre"-yoar-old son of Gus Mar golen of Paris, Ky., Thursday morn ing. It is probable that the lad will lose the sight of one eye. Collier Sunk. The naval collier Marcellus, lies at the bottom of the ocean, in lati tude 36, longitude 74.8, having sunk in ten hours after she was struck by the Norwegian fruit steamer, S. Ros ario di Giorgio, last Tuesday. Tragic Death. At Louisville, Ky., while sweeping Miss Lillie Kuntz dislodged her false teeth. They become lodged in her windpipe and she strangled to death. MBS A WEEK. [ WANTED EiS MONEY pito?l*toMQM8e B J?iIME BY A I FARMER PREACHER. Charged With Murdering Youth for Insurance Money and Then Setting Fire to the Houise. The supposed murder of a youta j to secure $2,500 insurance on hisj life, the gutting o:! the Rock Spring j hotel, a combination hotel and lodg ing house on the wharf, the arrest of J. C. Holly, about 40 years old. pro prietor ?of the house, erstwhile preacher*rof the Sanctification faith, {constituted .the sensational of a trag | ic fire which occurred in Wilming ton, N. C.i says a dispatch to The I State. I "Edward Cromwell, M years old, j said to have come to Wilmington four months ago from an orphan home in Charleston, and was cook at the ho tel, was found lying on the floor of his room, in his night clotheB, nearly an hour after the flrse was discov ered. Capt. W. P. Monroe, assistant chief of the fire department, who was the first to enter the room, testified at the coroner's investigation that the body was lying parallel with the bed, which showed no evidence of having been disturbed, his feet to ward the head of the bed, thus ex ploding the theory that the youtn fell from the bed. The mattress, he testified, waB sat uruated with kerosene oil and under the head of the dead youth was found a counterpane also saturated with oil, while two large empty oil cans were found in an adjoining room. Other witnesses testified to hearing a noise aa if a struggle about midnight in the youth's room. J. H. Scull testified that on Mon day, acting as tioi'?ry -p?blic he sign ed -ce^fficate'bf transfer of'insurance pohcy rfor $-2,500'from -Cromwell to Holly, "-the premium'on which he was Informed was paid by Holly, who had -applied vfoi Ins'ara?ce to the amount of-$5,00?, the company refusing more thin $2,500. This Ib supposed to hive furnished the motive for the crime that is believed to have been cbmrniit'eed. ^he Tn?st important development was |ft^.dferVdJb^'15r.,%".: G. "BelU'cor o^er/ih'at "L. T?." "Sa'gjser, -'a- druggist, sold to^. C. ??HdjlyV^bP^etor'-of the hotel, sixteen ounces '"of1 Batem'an's "drops, cWtaming ' laudanum, ' otc, at ;at)6ut ten o'clock T?fe'sday night, and che'subsequent'^.ndfhg by the physi cian of-the bottle in the hotel with less than a teaspoonful' of the drug in it. WOULD SAVE HIMSELF. Gov. Patterson Sees Handwriting on the Wall. As an outcome of the recent judi cial election in Tennessee, in which the regular Democratic nominee, which he supor"ed were defeated by independents who had the active aid og the Republican organization. Gov ernor Patterson has issued a state ment expressing a willingness to waive the Democratic nomination for a third term, v;'hich he has already received and again test the question of the rfhoice of Democracy in any sort of a primary. Thus he would hope,'.he says, to save the State to Democracy. The address among other things says: The pernicious inter-meddling of a Republican President with the af fairs of the Democratic party in our State should be resented and his well laid plan to Republicanize it thwart ed before it is too late. "Those Democrats who are actively aiding and abetting his efforts ex cuse their treason by saying that it is necessary in order to eliminate me from po.itics. "If this is true, why not bring it about in a way that will restore har mony and not destroy Democratic as cendancy? If the majority of the Democrats are opposed to me as it is claimed, I should not represent them as their candidate for Govern or." The Governor then offers to enter a new primary and adds: "The only condition I make is that, the successful nominee shall be sup ported in the November election by all who participate in the primary." RUN OVER BY TRAIN. Young Man Killed on C, C. and O. Near Spartnnburg. Vernon Jolley, 19 years old, son of Stephen Jolley, a well known and highly rpspected farmer living six miles west of Chester In Spartanburg County, was run over and killed ear ly Thursday morning on the C, C. and O., about, one mile above the Chesney depot. He was killed by the excursion train which had taken a party to Johnson City, and was re turning to Bostic after putting off the passengers at Spartanburg. The accident happened at 12.30 a. mn and the body was not discovered un til after sunrise, when Mr. Blackwell, j I who lives near the scene of the acci dent, happened to be going down the drack. Tarred and Feathered. Frank Schart, a farmer of Cardiff, N. J., is in a hospital Buffering from the effects of coal tar and feathers applied by three men with whom he had a long standing quarrel. STRANGER COMMITS SUICIDE. Went Off to Himself and Cut His Throat Totally. A man who gave his name as John Shay, went to the mill of the Wil-. son Lumber company, about four | miles below Lake City on the 18th of July and since that time has been working for them; for the last few days he had been suffering from chills and fever, but did not stop his' work. Tuesay night supposedly about nine o'clock, he went into a small strip of woods just in che rear of the mill yard and with a razor cut his throat from ear to ear. From the gashes it appears that the first attempt was not so success ful as he desired; the second one, however, severed both the jugular vein and the windpipe. The body was found Wednesday morning about "9 o'clock 'and'an inquest Was held 'over the body. He was given a decent burial by the'-Wilson Lumber Com-> pany. He is described as being a man about 5 feet 10 inches high, medium build, with sandy hair, slightly balu and of Irish descent. There were no .(papers about him to lead to his identity. RUN DOWN BY A TRAIN. Three Brothers Were Killed and An ' other Wns Hurt. Three boys, all sons of John H. Straignht, of Cowesett, R. I., were killed and a fourth boy, a brother of the others were seriously injur ed when a New fork bound Port land express on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad travel ing at the rate of 60 miles an hour around a sharp turn, ran into the little group. The hoys' ages rang ed from 6 to 15 years. The boys were taking a short cut by the railroad and were in sight of their home when a heavy freight train .came in view. They were standing on the Express track watch lag the passing of the freight train when they were struck, a curve pre venting the engineer from seeing them in time to stop the express. Herbert Straight, who escaped with severe scratches, ran home with blood flowing from wounds In his head and body and it was he who broke the news of the death of the other three boys to the mother. ABANDONED THEIR PLUNDER. Bandits Stop Stage, Kill the Driver md Steal $1,500. For the second time within a week the New Mexico Mogollon-SIIver City Stage was neld up and robbed Sun day, murlei b-;ing added to the crime. Jose Deminguez, watchful as a result of his experiences last week, opened fire on the bandits ai I they shot him dead. The robbers hastily gathered up twelve bars of silver bullion. . liiere were no passengers on tne coach. 'rbe posse was soon chasing the fleeing bandits and the mounted olice also took the trail. The passengers found 11 of the 12 bars lying near the road side where the stage coach was robbed. Evi dently tin burden was too great for the robbers. The bar they kept is worth abui'c $1,500. SOLD IT CHEAP. Boy Swapped Diamond Ring for One Small White Marble. .What is said to be the cheapest price on record for a diamond ring was turned up at Atlanta Sunday by Detective Cowan of the loca police force. The price was one small din gy white marble with nicks all over It. The purchaser was a small negro boy and the seller another urchin of the same race for 'whom the police are now searching. There is no clue to the oribinVL- owner of the gem nor os to 'ic.w. it came into the pi ? session of the small party of the first part in the swapping transac tion. The value of the stone is u> der $100. SANK WITH A JUNE. Gunner on the South Carolina Had Close Call. A Provincetown. :Mass.. dispatch says mining practice by the Atlantic fleet has been completed and the lfeet has sailed out into Massachu The miniug parctico nearly resulted in a fatality when Gunner Walter, of the battleship South Carolina, be came entangled in the anchor chains of one of the mines just as it was going over board and was dragged down with it. For a minute and a half he was held under water until he kicked himself loose and rose to the surface. He was barely alive when pulled aboard a boat by his comrades. They Lost Him. Henry Washington, a young n^g'--, was arrested at Lnlcoln, Ala., on Thursdaj, and confessed that he h id attempted an assault on a young la dy. Under guard of six deputies, the negro !*ft Lincoln at nine o'clock Friday morning, but at noon had not reached Tailadega, the destination. Fatal Auto Accident. Mrs. Mary B. Train, who gave her age as seventy years, her home as San Diego, Cal., and estimated her wealth in the millions, was married at Chicago Wednesday to James Dibs of New York, an Assyrian linen sales man, twenty-three years of age. BGr, S. C., SATURDAY, A THE L?MR TAX Senator Tillmao Tells Why He Voted Against the big Steal. IT ROBS TBE FARMERS The Senator Says a Duty on Lumber ?Only Helps the Lumber Trust, Which Has Bought Up AU the Timber Lands in the State, and Buncoes- the Farmers and Others.! We present below some extracts from the remarks of Senator Till man in the United StateB Senate on the lumber schedule: Mr. President, before the lumber schedule passes from the attention of the Senate, I want to make a brief statement. When it was in the Senate before, two or three weeks ago, I voted for the amend ment proposed by the Senator from Alabama to put lumber and all building materials on the free list. In the discussion I remarked that I was in fafor of free lumber. When the Senator from North Dakota offered an amendment, which did not give us free lumber, leaving the duty on whitewood, jycamore and basswood at fifty cents a thous and, I voted against it, because it did not give us free lumber. The Senate adjourned immediately after wards, giving me no opportunity to vote for free lumber. There has been no opportunity to vote for free lum ber. I still think we ought to have free lumber, and I will give my experience and my reasons for that belief. I know, of course, we can not get it. Twelve years ago, when the Ding ley bill was on its passage, I voted for a $2 tariff on lumber, and re marked, very much to the disgust of some people and the edification of others, 'if there was to be stealing, I want my share." I have found out that I can not get my share; that the conditions of the South are sucn that the articles and products of the region which are capable of be ing protected are-so few in number that if we were to 'throw around everything down -there -a. high pro tective tariff, we would not get any thing like' a .proportionate benefit with the'New England and manufac turing States of this Union. In regard to this matter of lum ber I have watched the result of the duty. Immediately afterwards our timber lands, which had previously been neglected so there were com paratively small lumbering industries down there, began to be in demand. Men from Wisconsin and Michigan and other northern States where lumbering had practically denuded the forests of timber, or were about to finish them up, came into the State and bought up very large tracts, of timber at a very small price. They did this all over the South. Large mills were establish ed and the lumber industry began to pick up, showing investment of capital and a large export. At the same time the price began to rise, a little faster, apparently, than the industry itself. ?Now consider for a moment that the people of South Carolina are in about this shape; the State being a triangle, the upper part cutting off like the letter "A" is largely the white section of the State. Nearly two thirds of the people, although it is only one-third of the area, live there. They are consumers of lum ber and they have no yellow pine or very little. They have been im porting that lumber from the low er half of the counties next to the sea. In this coast region the lumber industry has taken root and is now very extensively carried on. I notice after three or four years of this introduction of lumber on an extensive scale that the price went steadily up, up, and it very soon became noised abroad. I do not know on what foundation that these lumber men had formed a combina tion and they would not sell under each other to the consumers in the upper part of the State. Lumber is not a luxury. It is a necessity. It is one of the neces saries of life. When I saw t.hat the farmers, who had to build houses and fences and barns in the whole upper country, were being charged steadily increasing prices for their lumber, I began to change my opin ion as to whether 1 was getting my share of the stealing or not. It look ed like somebody not very far away was getting an unreasonably profit out of cur trees, which had cost them a very small sum of money rel atively. So my opinion in regard to the benefits of the tariff in our State changed very radically. I believe in the greatest good to Mie greatest number, and when 1 saw that the people who use lumber, practically four-fifths of them, were paying an increased price, I decided if I ever got a chance I would take that tariff off. I do not feel that it is my business here to protect the industry of lumber which perhaps, involves the interests of 50,000 good and worthy people, as against the 500,000 equally good and worthy people who have to use lumber, and we would not be saved from an ex orbitant price, because, I think, those people fcrmed a combination and agreed that they would not under sell each other. The only reason why we were ab lUG ITisT 13, 1910. INDIAN COTTON A FAILURE. Both Staple and Yield Have Proven Disappointing. A Washington dispatch says diffi culty is experienced by cotton grow ers in I"dia with both staple and yield. Many experiments have been made with the object of improving both, reports Consul E. Halderman Dennison, of Bombay, but thuswfar, with indifferent success. Egyptian and other exotic varieties have been introduced from time to time, but the results have not been encourag ing. Under garden culture the finer sta ples have responded well, but tried in the fields, they have failed to pro duce the results they show in their native soils. Future efforts will be devoted to the improvement of the staple and yield of the native cot ton. A tree cotton from which great results were predicted a few years ago, has poven disappointing accord ing to the consul. It did very well in garden trials, but when the at tempt was made to grow it upon a large scale, failure followed. KILLED BY THE TRUSTS. .Will Quit Tobacco Culture if Prices Remain Low. The business men of Mullins and the farmers of Marion, Horry and Dillon counties are very much dis turbed over the fact that the prices of leaf tobacco are so very low. Should the prices remnin as they now are, it is a fact beyond a doubt that the crop will be almost, if not en tirely, eliminated next year. This the farmers declare most positively will be the case, especially if cotton remains in the teens. The Farmers' Union may take hold of the matter and ask the American Tobacco Company and the Imperial Tobacco Company to give better | prices. It is generally believed that these two corporation control the prices absolutely. Both concerns have the nicest and costliest plants in the State at 'Mullins and it is hoped by all that they can see their way clear to pay a decent price for tobacco. . ?? ?? ? RECEIVES SERIOUS INJURY To Save Spectators Aviator Risked His Life. At Asbury Park, N. J., Walter Brookins, the aviator, was badly hurl while making a landing in his aeroplane in a desperate attempt to avoid injuring a crowd of spectators. Brookins saw his machine was like ly to strike a group of onlookers and made a quick turn. The machine turned and fell to the ground, strik ing several spectators in its descent. Brookins was picked up badly injured and several of the spectators were hurt. The machine in its fall tum bled amid a crowd of watchers, most ly boys. One youngster was rn ed to a hospital where it was reported that he Uad sustained a fracture of the skull. Six other youths were less seriously hurt. INCREASED ACCIDENTS. Number Killed During First Qnarter Eleven Hundred. A considerable increase in the number of persons killed and injur ed on the railways of the United States during the months of January, February and 'March, 1910, is shown over the corresponding pt .lod of last year. The total number killed dur ing the quarter was 1,100 and 21, 323 were injured. This was an in crease of 466 killed and 6,110 in jured, as compared with the corres ponding period last year. There were 19 killed on electric railways and 669 Injured. The figures were made public by the Interstate commerce commission from reports submitted by railroads as required by law. DROVE WITH ONE HAND. Lightning Struck the Rnshhoard of His Buggy. After driving with one hand a team of bronchos for forty miles on a stormy night, Alfred Villa delivered the body of his dead brother to his parents near Tuckson. Ariz., Thurs day night. While driving through the storm the buck board in which the two boys were riding was struck by lighning, killing the younger boy instantly, and paralyzing one side of the other. Regaining consciousness, the elder boy headed the team for home, driving with his unaffected hand. Several other persons were stunned during the same storm. le. or will be able, to get lumber at 'a reasonable rate was due to the I fact that there were some old field pine second growth left in the up per part of the State and small patches, or small areas, two or three hundred acres or "?00 acres, all through in the middle lower region that the lumbermen had not bought or could not buy at the high prices ?I mean the great lumber compan ies, with their railroads, and all that sort of tiling, running out into the swamps. The only reason why the upper-country people could get. lum ber at decent prices was becouse a little one-horse sawmill, costing $1, 500 or at most $2,000, would go in to these little patches of pine and saw the timber up and furnish the people this necessary, as against these great combinations of capital which had absorbed our timber. BREAK SOLID SOUTH PRESIDENT WANTS TO PATCH UP POLITICAL TROUBLE. Taft Summons to Beverly the Repub licans from Tennessee to Discuss Mat ters in that Stute. President Talf and President Had ley of Yale were in conference at Beverly in regard to the personnel of the commission which is to be ap pointed to inquire into the. proposed regulations of the issues of stocks and bonds by railroads. jWhile Mr. Hadley has not yet defi nitely accepted the tendered position of chairman of the commission, he is giving the president all the assist ance he can in formulating a plan of work, and it is believed that even tually he will take the chairmanship. Mr. Taft is 'strongly urging the mat ter upon him. An effort is being made to have the commission represent all phrases of the work. The so-called "pro gressive" sentiment of the republican party is to be represented. President Taft and his poliitcal ad visers believe that the republican party has a good opportunity to car ry Tennessee this fall and thus make a break in the "Solid South"?one of the president's ambitions. With this in view Mr. Taft has in vited a number of the party leaders in Tennessee to Beverly in order to see if the republicans cannot adjust their differences of the pass and go into the coming campaign in har mony. . . The Tenneseeans lunched Friday with the President. Among them were Representative Sanders and 'Judge G. M. Henderson. The Republican hope as viewed from Beverley is based on the split in the democratic party and the re cent overwhelming victory of the In dependent judicial ticket, which won by from 45,000 to 50,000 majority. In addition to a governor, there is ?to be elected this fall a legislature, which will name a successor to Sen ator Frazier. CELEBRATE THEIR BIRTHDAY. Senator Tillman and Dr. Babcock Dined Together. Thursday, was the birthday of two exceedingly well known South Caro linians, Benjamin Ryan Tillman, an unique figure in the United States senate, and Dr. James Woods Bab cock, one of the leading alienists of the country. While in many respects vastly dif ferent from each other, "the sena/or and the doctor are intimate personal friends and have many tastes in com mon. Each in his sphere has ren dered distinguished service to his state. The senator Thursday entered his 64 th year, the doctor his 55 th. Dr. Babcock was in a good berth with a large asylum in the North when Senator Tillman sought him out and brought him South to take charge of the State Hospital for the insane at Columbia and the sound ness of this choice has been amply vindicated by the career of Dr. Bab cock since that time. The two friends had planned a little dinner last Sunday at -Senator Tillman's plantation home at Tren ton, as a sort of anticipatpry celebra tion of the birthdays, but urgent offi cial business kept Dr. Babcock in Columbia that day, but the t.wo din ed together on Thursday. PROMPTLY LYN CHER HIM. ?Negro Entered Girl's Room and Then the Next World. Jim Toler, a negro, was lynched at one o'clock Thursday morning at Al ma, Ga., by a mob of over 100 men for having entered the room of two daughters of a prominent plater of Montgomery county Tuesday night, while the girls were in bed asleep. It is stated that one of the girls was awakened by Toler when he raised the mosquito netting over che bed and that her screams frightened him away. Search for the negro began at once and the next afternoon a posse of men came upon Toler work ing in a corn field and acused him of the crime. He confessed his guilt and was tied to a tree and shot to death CON I)ITION FA VORARLE. O?lcial Biiluletins Cheerful.?Sleep ing Well. Expressions of encouragement on the part of all the watchers by Mayor William J. Gaynor's bedside ushered in the fourth day of his fight for re covery. An official bulletin at 7.10 o'clock Friday morning said "Mayor Gaynor passed a very good night. He slept seven hours. He is comforta ble this morning and is is excellent general conditions. His temperature is 100; pulse 70; respiration 16." Fight Forest Fires. The forest service has called on the War Department for aid to fight the forest fires in Montana. Gen. Leon ard Wood, chief of staff o! the army, has directed that a battalion of the Fourteenth infantry, in maneuvers at American Lake Camp, Ore., be or dered Immediately to Missoula, Mon tana, for the work. 0 TWO CENTS PEB COPF MUST BE PROBED Every Mao on the Encampment at Aiken Will be Questioned to FIND OUT WHO DID IT A Soldier of the First Regiment Charged With "Throwing a Stone Out of the Car Window and Hit ting a Man Standing on the Side of the Track. "In any event you win make ?& most searching and careful investi gation and make a full report to rthlfj office at the earliest possible moment. The most scrupulous observance of. every povlsion of this oder is en joined." Thus concludes W. W. Lewis, wno is colorei of the First Teglment, to Maj. M. J. Walker and the command ing officers of Companies C, K, L and M of the regiment, in ordering an investigation of the alleged injury to a man near Sally from a rock thrown by one of the soldiers returning from the Aiken encampment. Col. Lewis' orders follows proclamation issued by Governor Ansel, who is Comman der-in-chief of the National Guard of the State, a, few days ago, when the matter was reported to him. When the soldiers were returning from Aiken on August 8 a rock was thrown from one of the windows bf the special bearing the troops. That day Gov. Ansel received a telegivai from J. M. Hawley at. Salley, stating that a member of the company on the first train from Aiken, passing through Salley that day, had injured one of Mr. Hawley's men with a rock. Gov. Ansel immediately order ed an investigation and directed a telegram ,and. later, a letter, givirig all the information he had to Col. W. W. Lewis. That Col. Lewis is determined that the guilty person shall be found out in this matter is shown'by the fol lowing letter addressed to Maj. Wa1! ker and those commanding the foiir companies mentioned above: "It has been reported to me that when the first section of the mili tary train 'bearing Second battalion and part of the hospital corps was at or near Sally some person .on the train threw a rock or some ^issle, seiously wounded a man working in the fields. This was on the return trip from Aiken. "You are hereby directed at once to summon before you every man he longing to you several commands and examine each and every one of them under oath as to his knowledge of the- incident, requiring him *o Ktate the facts as he knows them or any hearsay testimony that will put light on the subject. "In the event any man refuses to appear and testify you will at onco prefer charges against him and for ward them to this office. In the event any man refuses to testify af ter appearing you will prefer cnargfcs against him unless he refuses to tes tify on the ground that his testi fying will incriminate, in which eise you will report that fact to this office at once. "Should you be able to obtain any evidence tending to locate the guil ty party you will at once report his name and the names and addresses of the witnesses to this office "In any event you will make a most searching investigation and make a full report to this office at the earliest possible moment. The most scrupulous observance of every provision of this order is enjoined." A" the office of <lov. Ansv the name of the man who was injured has not been received. Secretary Be thea has addroa ?.d a letter to Mr. Hawley ask:.-.g Lim to furnish the name of the man who was struck by the rock. Mr. Bethea, in behalf of Gov. Ansel, also requested more de tails, as to when and where the the throwing took place a^-1 an> oth er information that may throw light on the matter. In order to indict the guiity person in case the inves tigation reveals who threw th--> rock, the name of the person struck w;Il, of course, be necessary. FIRE AT SALI DA. I Business Section of the Town De stroyed by Fire. Fire Tuesday night at Saluda, N. C, a mountain resort crowded with summer visitors, destroyed entirely the general merchandise stores of Thorn & Boon? and S. D. Statton, each valued at $S.000, together with a warehouse and stables worth $10, 000. Saluda has no fire protection, ' and hundreds of white-clad visitors watched tho spectacle and bankers and mill presidents put in several hours' hard work passing buckets of water. Two Girls Drown. Two young girls, inmates of the Independent Order Odd Fellows home, about two miles west of Cor sica, Texas, were drowned In a pond near the home Thursday. They were Irene Park, aged sixteen, from Fort Worth, and Sallie Blvens, aged 13, from Houston. The girls were in bathing when they stepped into a deep hole and drowned before if> sistance could reach them.