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F?BUBBBD THREE TU ? Mmn dike Tariff i$ lie (int Daly of Cosgrete anils 1HE PAR??TISS?E ? . ?.? ? Tbe Democratic Governors Who At VHS tended 'the Louisville Conference Last Week, Urges Speedy Belief of the People From the Tariff Burdens.. The'first; duty of Congress in the! tos^iion. of every Democratic Govern or In attendance at the conference - at Louisville is to revise the Payne Acdrlch tariff, says a correspondent ?fi^the New York -World, writing from Louisvlile, Ky./ last week while ?lie Conferences of Governors was ? fceihg.held in that city. Sereray Re *oblican Governors concur -In this >3bw. ? The Governors -are --almost-a ?Bit In declaring that all duties of foodstuffs should be eliminated. ? Gov. Harmon of Ohio said to The j World correspondent to-day. ? / "The New York World-never did a greater, service to the .iwople-.than *t is doing now in advocating a real revision of the tariff. The Congress tftould revise the Payne-Aldrich-bill before It does anything el3e. The . Ajnerican people by tremendous maj orities .have shown that the measure gassed by the last Congress is die ' tasteful, and the wishes of the maj ority should prevail., The;re Is no tt?abt that the high cost of living fa due to'& large etxent to the tariff. Bforythlng that the American work man needs In maintaining his fami ly, should l>e duty free." Gov.Elect Woodrow Wilson, of | New Jersey'said: . "The Democratic party won Its sweeping victory in November on account of' Rooseveltism and the dis satisfaction of the people over the rayne-Aldrich bill. Itie'the duty of Congress to obey the wishes of the electorate and revise the present tar tff law. This is a nation of workers, a nation of homes. The burden of lb* extra cost of living should he raised from the shoulders of the man mfeo has to support, a family: I be Starre that the American people may > have hope of the next l&ngresa. It jajjjffii^ can-, read the handwriung-^n^o wall, . ?d will sign any bill that the' Demo crat pass (n regard to the tariff." Gov. Plalsted of" Maine* said:" "The Democratic succesu In my aeetion of the Uuion 1b due entire ly to dissatisfaction with the Payne Aldrich tariff law. That measure Is tank pure and simple. It was fram ed' for the protection of the inter ests and the people were not consid ered. They have registered their protest. 5t is the .duty, of Congress to reform this measure. More espec ially should the duty on everything that goes on tbe table and in the bouse be repealed." I Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of In diana said: "Every public man who has tbe Interests If his country at heart should see to it that tbe tariff laws are equitable. I don't believe in pro tecting one class to the detriment of another. The great mass of the people are staggering und.er the bur den of a tariff , law that makes them pay too much for everything thai toes to sustain their lives. The next Congress or even this Congress ehould revise the tariff law so as to *ake the duty off the necessaries of We." Gov. Neal of Alabama, Shofrotn cf Colorado. Brown of Georgia, Kitchen of North Carolina, Mann ot Virginia and Cruce of Oklahoma, ex pressed the opinion voiced by their Democratic colleagues as' quoted ?hove. They all declared that Jt was rhe duty of Mr. Taft if he wished fo t&ve the reputation of his party to demand that the tariff -be revised and that he would mark himself thx greatest President tbe nation ever bad if he demanded that this oe done by the present Republican Con en ess. 'Republican Governors were less communicative regarding revision of the tariff. One of the exceptions. towever, was Gov.-elect Francis E. McGovern of Wisconsin, who said: "It seems as if the people are op iposed to the present tariff law. Per sonally I thing they are right The burden should be lifted from the householder, tbe necessities of life should be admitted duty free. It takes an expert to formulate a tariff law, but It doesn't take an expert to know that the real necessities of life rbould be made as cheap aa possible fx the consumer. The people have Irdicated that they want a readjust ment of tbe tariff and it will be done eventually.' Gov. Herbert S. Hadley of Mis souri said: "You can always depend on the leople to get what they want. I be lieve that the Republican party can be depeneded on to preserve the in terests of this nation. There ire objections to be made to the Payne Aldrich bill, but these can be easily ?moorhed out. I believe that it 's the duty or Congress to do this with out destroying the entire fabric or the measure. The necessities of M*e ffhould be made as cheap as possible to the consumer." Gov. Aram J. Pothier of Rhode Is fend said: "The present tariff law as i. whole ?BS A WEEK, GOES INTO COURT MRS. B. E. TILLMAN, JR., SUBS HBR HUSBAND FOR MONEY. Proceedings, to be Instituted in Edgefleld County, Will be tried Next March. Papers to be filed Saturday in Sdgefleld county by attorneys for Mrs. Lucy Dugas Tlllman will ask 'or a Judgment In the sum of $13, 073.08 against her husband, B. R. Tlllman, Jr. The case will be .called to trial at the March term" of th* '"urt of common pleas for Edgefleld county. This case follows the hab eas corpus, proceedings of last spring when Mrs. Tlllman secured'her two little girls from B. R. Tlllman, the "ather of her husband. The action is brought to recover .moneys alleged to have been collect ed by B. R. Tlllman, Jr., as rents on 4 tract of land owned -by Mrs. Till Man near the' town of Edgedeld. The attorneys- for Mrs. Tillman are De Pass & DePass of this city and S. Mc G. Simpklns of Edgefleld. The attor neys for B. R. Tillman Jr., are Qrier and Park of Greenwood. The complaint has been served on h. R. Tillman, Jr., andhis attorneys vave made answer, in which a num ber of.allegations are denied and ai co in which he makes a number of claims as to what amounts he has -expended. Following is the sum mons:. You are hereby summoned, and re To the Defendant Above Named: ?You are hereby cummoned-and re quired to answer the complaint in this action, a copy of which is here with served upon you, and serve a copy of your answer on the subscrib ers at their office, 1215 Washington street, .Columbia, S. C, within 20 days after the service hereof, exclu sive of the day of such service; and il you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaint iff in this action will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint. , DePass & DePaos, S. McG. Simp kino, Attorneys for Plaintiff. HELD UP BY A BEAR. Strange Hishap That Befell an Au tomobile Party. A Weaverville, N. C. letter says as W. A. Gbetz was automoblllng with some women friend s on Sunday night the party was held up by a monster black bear on the road from that place to Douglas City. As they lounded a point the headlights re vealed a startling bruin, who reared up on his hind feet and snarled de fiance. ' Goetz, at the wheel, attempted to turn aside and drive around tbe bpast. As he turned off the beast road a forewheel drooped into a hole and the azle snapped. It was inl and the axle snapped. It was lm r cesible to move the car forward or tackward. The women screamed. After the bear had gazed in wonder ment at the strange spectacle for a few minutes he ambled off into tbe bashes on the mountain-side. ?A second auto party on the way iTom Douglas City to Weaverville ricked up Goetz and his friends a lew minutes later and conveyed them out of the bear zone. ? NINETY-ONE MILLION. Population of United States May Reach Stated Figures. The total population of the Unit ed (States, as revealed by the 13 th census, is expected to be announced by the census bureau on December 10. Counting Arizona and New Mex ico as States, the totals for twenty fight out of the forty eight Ftates already have been an nounced. The grand total for 26 of these States is 60,036, 759, which is a gain of between 21 and 22 per rent over the population in the same States in 1900. At this rate of in crease the total populaion of the cemtry should be about 91,000, 000. The most striking development of tbe census so far shown is the rela tive growth of cities and industrial centres compared with farming re ^ilons. The Eastern States have more than held their own, while the States ul the Middle West have fallen off. ? ?b a good measure. The country Is prospering under it, but,'like all laws, it contains many inequalities. L Congress wants to do anything It should reconsider the Payne-Aldrlca D>I1 in so far as the necessities of life are concerned. I do think that 5rme of the articles that enter Uro Ihr cost of living are too high and llmi this is prnlwhty Ihp ensn <?n hp count of the tarilf." Gov. Eb n S. Draper of Massachu setts said that he had nothing to say regarding the tariff. Other Repub'i 1 .-an Governors refused to be quVed, j' ut all admitted that the Novemer reverse of their party wa:s due to ah sclutely to the dissatisfaction of the - people with the Payne-Aldrlch tariff. (They declared that they believed j that the measure was framed with ? '.he view to subserving the inter*?f? ?'rn' mlsakes had been mnde. OBANGEBUBGv FOPP IN HAREM Taken Oat by Friend and Case to This CdDotry Eat May Return ARABIAN NIGHTS TALE lleautiful Young Greek Widow Is Being Held at Ellis Island, New York City, With the Friend Who Rescued Her From Her Slavery in Damascus. ,rhe immigration authorities ar Vow York are in an awkward posl L.cn as to the course to be pursued in the case of a Greek girl of unusual htauty now a prisoner on Ellis Is '*nd. With her is a man who says Its is her protector and guardian, nothing more. The girl Is Merle Hlopila. According to the story of her cous in, Mrs. Haflfl Hebella. wife of a tnerchant, who lives at No. 17.8 At ?i.ntlo. avenue, Brooklyn, this young woman is a refugee from a harem, Mi which she was held a prisoner tine years. The man with her, An tonio Jahara, a fellow countryman f.nd long time admirer of the girl, helped her to escape from the har em. Marie Hoplla and Jahara admitted 'o the immigration authorities that they are not married, but they con tended that under the unusual con ditions of the girl's flight her com panion from motives of friendship could, do nothing else than escort her who had been the slave of a Pasha safely to America. The two arrived on the American Ifner New York on Sunday. Ellis Irland is now Investigating the case. Mrs. Hebella, the Brooklyn cousin of the girl, in a letter to Commissioner Wl'llams set forth the romance of the Greek girl. Marie Hoplla, the letter says, was married according to the custom of her people when thirteen years old. Shortly after her marriage her husband died. The girl widow, tkillful at needlework, then support ed herself by sewing. She was sit ting in front of the place where she Uved In" Damascus ?busy. with her needle one;day aBva'Pasha, .paqsed. that way. The Pasha was captivated by the beauty of the girl widow. First he attempted to woo her openly, but Marie did not like the Pasha, al though he was rich and powerful. She repulsed him, repelled all hia advances and ran away from him. But the Pasha was crafty. Deter mined not to be baffled In his pur f ult of the young beauty, he employ ed a woman to seek out Marie, gain her confidence and invite this girl to his home to be employed as a needle woman. Having the child widow within his house, the Pasha took her forcibly and put her In his harem. Marie Hoplla had a faithful friend In Jahara, who had known her at the time of her marriage. He sougbf her after her disappearance, kept up bis search for nine years, and at last was informed by one or his ser vants that she was an inmate of the I'asha's harem. Jahara disguised himself as a ped dler, called at the Pasha's house, soi l bis wares at a loss, led on the greedy Pasha to patronize him further, gained the conldence of the Pasha'H cervants and after three or founr months succeeded in entering the I'asha's harem, met Marie and quick ly arranged with her a plan of es cape. She is a communicant of the Greek Church. She bogged her lord. 88 she had been a prisoner for nine years, to allow her to attend church outside the harem. At last he con sented, and in a month, guarded by two 6laves, the girl started 'for rhurch. - On tht way .she broke from her attendants, joined Jahara and wl*h ; him took a. steamer from Damascus for Marseilles, whence they made their way to Southhampton, Eng land. In Southhampton. they coni n.unlcated with Mrs. Hebella and following her advice came to New Vcrk. Mrs. Hebella has appealed to thu Commissioner of Trnmigi atlon not to deport her cousin to Southompton as Great Britain will surely send her Lick to Damascus, where almost cer tain death awaits her. ? Hurricane at Sea. Nearly 300 lives have been lost tnd ten vessels have foundered In the Caspian sea In a terrible hurricane j that swept that body of water, ac cording to a report which was pub i Jished in the The Berlin Tageblatt, j The greatest havoc was wrought near As-thachan. * Many Horses Burn. About twenty horses were burned to death in a stable fire at Albemarle, ?N. C., on Saturday morning, before [day. It is not known how the fire started but no doubt it caught from a cigar or cigarette, as it caught near I the back where no stove was. Large Wheat Farmer. J. N. Fike of Colby, Thomas coun ty, Kansas, Is probably the most x tenslve individual grower of hard I red winter wheat in the world, hav jing harvested nearly 14,000 acres of I that grain in 1910. ? S. C, TUESDAY. DECK FIRST IN THE ,STATE CORN EXPOSITION NOW 'BEING HELD TN COLTJMBLi. ? % i i Marks of the Climax in the Prodnc tion of that Valuable. Crop in the Southern States. The South Atlantic States corn exhibition, which opened Tuesday morning, will be the fihrst corn show Leid In the South and will mark an era in the progress of; this section. It is expected that several thousand farmers will attend. The exposition will be educational as well as enter taining. The finest collection of corn f:ver>gathered together-In the South will be on exhibition. 4?ppro:timate iy $10,000 in prizes will be given for the best corn exhibited.' Quality and not quantity will be considered. In connection with the exposition there is a corn show, participated in by the members of the bo^s' corn clubs. This ehow will be under the direc tion of the United States farm de monstration work. The exposition will be educational lu its nature, as well atf entertaining. Several well known corn experts are j present to deliver addresses on seed selection, corn Judging, and fetr'tiJI-1 zation. The judging off corn will bo j especially stressed. tThe exposition is the"oulmination | of the movement for production of corn in the South. The exposition emphasizes the fact that there has teen much corn produced In the South and that the quality has been improved. The federal censuB for this year shows the corn crop of the South to be 160,000,000 bushels greater than last year, p A yield of approximately 50,000, 000 bushels has been secured in' South- Carolina. This ..means "^that | corn will be shipped from the State | next year. The railroad men say that shipment of corn from the West to South Carolina has already fall en off materially. Many counties of this State will be represented by the boys' corn clubs. There will be several hundred exhibits, which insures the success of the exposition. It is the purpose of those interested in the exposition to make the corn show to the South tust what the national corn show has been to/the West. Prizes have been arranged i'or.each county In South Carollna^or the"con gresBional districts 'In South Caro lina, and for the three zones each in North Carolina and Georgia. ?Sweep rtakes will be offered for the best 10 ears of yellow corn, prolic white corn, single ear variety white corn, single ear. and bushel lots from all! States. All these exhibits will com? etpgether in grand sweepstakes and grand champion smeepstake clashes. In connection with the exposition there will be a cooking school con ducted by students of Winthrop col lege. Corn products will be prepar ed and served. The exposition will run to Friday, inclusive. The rates to Columbia have been very much re duced by the railroads and it is hop ed that many farmers and others will visit the exposition. TILLMAN WILL NOT BETIRE. Senator Will Hold Togo Until He Goes to His Grave. "Retire!" exclaimed Senator Till man, repeating an inquiry. "I shall not retire until they bury me; I have no Idea of quitting the game," said Senator Tillman in Washington on Friday. ? ?The South Carolina Senator, who arrived in Washington Friday, was in his committee room at the Capi tol and appeared to be as vigorous as he was before he was stricken down by severe illness during the last session of Congress. Mr. Tillman expects to remain four or five days only, however. He '?will return to his home this week, but counts upon coming back to Washington early In January, when, ht says, the real business of the'ses sion will begin. He said he felt in good cgndition for work, but would rot apply himself so assiduously as formerly. Mrs. Tillman, emphasized the last remark by declaring that she would keep him as quiet as possible. , "Yes,' said the Senator, "she is running the airship and I guess Bho will be able to keep it pretty close to f arth." Senator Tillman attributes his res toration to health to the fact that since he got out of bed he has been Siving his atentlon to the building of a big barn on his plantation. He said that the work benefited him by eivlng him something to think about besides himself. ? Died on Train Hurrying to Durham on learning or the death of her nephew Mix. r.mraa. Yearby, of Gipensboro, :\T C died on the train as :t ?ii noarij g trpt city. She had succumbed to grief and shock. The nephew was 'rhomas Robbins. ird a youns mer chant, anJ her favorite. Th-* bridles will be Interred side by side. * Will Die in Chair. In the State superior court at Ash vllle, N. C, Friday, Norman Lewis, a r.egro, was convicted of the murder of the chief of police, Mr. Stallings, j of Spring Hope, N. C., and was sent | onced by Judge Peebles to electrocu [tjon In the State pe?"onHarv Jan nary 5. ? MBEB 6 1910. THE STATE Tbe loportaot CoostHntiooal Amendments Are All Passed. VERY SMALL VOTE CAST The Number of Votes Each State Officer and Congressman Received ?Attorney-General Lyon ' Leads j All the State Officers in the Nuui-! ber of Votes Received. The State board of ?canvassers, meeting Friday, officially declared the results of the general election, teld on November 8. The constitu tional amendments proposed passed, including those to increase the mem bership of the 'supreme court form frur to ifive members and to asses* abutting property for permanent Improvements In the cities of Co lumbia, Spartanburg, Greenville and [the town of Manning. For govern jo, C. W. Manning, a Socialist, re-' jceived 70 votes, and C. L. Blease it0,739. The average cast for the other State officials was about 30, 000. This is below the average vote rcr general elections. The members of the State board are Comptroller General Jones, At icrney General Lyon, Adjutant Gen eral Boyd, State Treasurer Jennings, Secretary of State McCown, and K. P. Smith of the election committee of the house. Vote for Officers. The following Is the vote for the State offices in the general election: Governor.. ... . .. 30,739 Meutenant governor.'. 30,832 Secretary of state. 30,925 I Attorney general.. 30,934 IS?ate treasurer.. .. .. .. 30,90V Comptroller general.. .. . 30,874 Superintendent of education. 30,804 Adjutant general. 30,881 Railroad commissioner.. .. 30,703 The largest vote cast in the gener al election was cast for Attorney General Lyon. For Congress. The nominees of the Democratic party for congress were opposed In four districts. Following Is the vote: First District. George. VS,. Legare.. .. ... . 3,442 'AV':?. -Priolfeau............ - 59 Fifth District. Wyatt Alken... 2,588 W. D. Mann.. .... .. .. 2 Fourth District. J. T. Johnson.? .. .. 7,616 T. Brier. 81 Seventh District. A F. Lever. 4,762 R.H.Richardson... 214 The Amendments. The vote on the amendments fol lows: Constitutional amendment to sec tion 7, article 8, so that the limita tions of said Bectlon and section 5 ot article 10 shall not apply to the tcwn of Darlington. I'or the amendment.. ..... 4,394 Against the amendment.. .. 2,741 Constitutional amendment to sec tion 7, article 8, relating to munici pal g.onded indebtedness be amended so that the limitations Imposed by said section and by section 5 of ar t'cle 10 shall not apply to the towns r>i Alken, Camden, Cheraw, Clinton, Cdgefleld and St. Matthews: For the amendment.4,93y Against the amendment.. .. 3,130 Constitutional amendment to sec tion 7, article 8, so that the limita tions Imposed by said Bectlon and by section 5, article 10, shall not apply to the city of Aiken. For the amendment.4,249 Against the amendment.. .. 2,632 Constitutional amendment to sec tion 7, article 8, so that the limita tions imposed by said section and by eection 5, article 10, shall not apply to the town of St. Matthews. For the amendment.4,484 Against the amendment.. .. 2,516 Constitutional amendment to sec tion 7, article 8, so that the limita tions imposed by. Bald Bectlon and by section 5 of article 10, shall not ap ply to the bonded Indebtedness of any municipal corporation when the proceeds of Bald bonds be applied solely and exclusively for the pur chase, establishment and mainten ance of waterworks plant, sewerage system or lighting plant. For the amendment.4,620 Against the amendment. .. 2,807 Constitutional amendment to sec Mon 12, article V, relating to associ ate Justices and decisions by the supreme court: For the amendment.5,860 Against the amendment.. .. 3.150 Constitutional amendment to sec tion 2. article V, charfglng the num to fourber of associates justices from 3 to 4 and changing the terra of of ficp from eight to ten years: For the amendment.6,567 Against the amendment.. .. 4.440 Constitutional amendment to ar ticle X by adding as section 14 a sec tion authorizing the corporate au thorities of Greenville, Spartanburg, Columbia and Manning to assess abutting property for street and s'dewalk Improvement. For the amendment.5,347 Against the amendment.. .. 3,142 Constitutional amendment to sec tion C, article X, permitting certain townsships in the counties of Green vood and Saluda to issue bonds In Id of the Greenwood and Saluda .abroad company: ? or the amendment.4,900 Against the Amendment.. .. 2.957* T BRYAN WARNS PARTY HE SEES. NO PARTY UPBUILD ING BY NEW LEADERS. j Asserts that Class of Democrats j Elected in November Are Repre-, sentatives of "Special intecests," In the Commoner W. J. Bryan crit icises the New York World for its jraise of the class of leaders elect r.J in November, saying: '?'The bred of leaders whom men of intelligence can follow is, ac cording to The World, that charac ter of men whose environment has | in many cases made: them believe, and in some cases caused them to j pretend to believe, that only Bane, ? progress:o and cautious, according to the vintage of 1910, and the only safe and sane, according to the via-; tage of 1904, government is that, dominated by the special interests. I "The New York World .way to complete rehabilitation of the Dem ocratic party is indeed simple. The trail is indeed plainly blazed. It is the way the Democratic party looked vhen in 1892 it marched through a slaughter-house to a bloody grave, j as Henry Watterson put it. And tbe : trail is the trail of 1904 plainly* plazed by the New York World and other champions of a safe and sane . Democrat. "What is the thing the New York World calls Bryan Socialism from which In The World's view the party I has been emanciapated? I ("Democrats will better under stand the meaning of The World and . its followers if they use the latest; Democratic national platform as a i calcium light in which to read the I purpose of these organizers." I In turn Mr. Bryan asks The! World what changes it would make in the last national platform; would! Jt repeal the plank concerning trusts, | change the railroad planks, oppose! nopular election of Senators, favor | f.hlp subsidy, and be concludes, "the1 fault is that when The World pleads for a sane, progressive and cautious Democrat it means just as it meant in 1904, a Democrat, that holds the world of promise to the people's ear only to break it to their hope, a Democrat that represents special in terests rather" than public Interests, a Democracy that spells ruin to the Democratic party even as It spells privilege to Wall street;" . BLIND TIGERS GALORE. Twenty Arrested in One Day In the City of Goldsboro. One day last week a wholesale raid ,was made on blind tiger joints in Goldsboro, N. C, and when the po lice court opened twenty tiger? were cared In the city hall charged wth selling whiskey. Many brands of different; kinds of whiskey were dis played by four detectives, three of them white and one a negro, who have been in the city for some time, working on the cases. Ten of the cases were tried, five going free and the other five bound over to hlghe' court. Counsel _for the defendants made things rather unpleasant for the detectives w' He giving their evi dence. * KILLED SIvTY-TWO SNAKES. Were Wound Tightly in a Ball to Resist the Frost. At Cambridge, Mass., Peter Thral, a laborer employed at the pumping f-tation, is a man of sober and order ly conduct, phlegmatic and of sturdy and well balanced physique. Hence his interest was calmly Zoologie v.hen he unearthed 62 snakes of various sizes wound tightly In a ball as he was digging a post hole at Freshpond. Thrai merely stood by, crunted tne reptiles as they unrav elled, called his companion, Delevrs, to verify the count and then with his aid despatched them. The squirming reptiles measured from six inches to three feet In length." Died from. Rabbles. August Miller, 50 years old, of 14 South Sixth street, Newark, N. J., who was admitted to the City Hospital last Thursday suffering from hydrophobia, died on Friday r 'ght. He is the second victim of rabies in his family. Nine years r.go his brother Charles died from the same cause. ? A Harber Starver. Elhert Merida, who lived his nlnn <y years without ever having been shaved or- havinj his hair cut, is nead of typhoid fever. He was one f the oldest settlers of Brown County, Tenn. In his little log hou<e ore a number of rattlesnake skins Lhe wearing of which as belts 'ie attributes his long life. * Showed Good Nerve. Cutting off his own hand with a razor after it had been crushed in a corn shred 'er, J. Bruce Vaughan, of Eureka Mills, Virginia, carefully bandaged the stump and calml} awaited the arrival of a surgeon to put the finishing touches to the oper ation. . ? Dying from Rat Bite. With fourteen rat bites on uer b"dy Liebe Lewis, two year3 old, is r-ylng of blood poisoning at Washing ton, D. C. Mrs. Lewis was awakened by the child's cries and saw a big i at disappear. Tbe wounds were WO CENTS PEE COPY IS LOCKED UP Mary Barn's Held in C inflection Wits tie Langford Murder. A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR The Young Woman Is Taken to. Co lumbia and Put in the Peniten tiary, Along With tho Negro Who She Says Did the Killing in Her Presence. Mary Harris, the 20-year-oldt Hampton County girl, who, since shortly after J. R. Langford's body was found Tuesday morning ?week lias been held in the Hampton coun ty jail, either as a witness or charg p.u with having some connection with bis murder, was carried to the.pen ilentlary Sunday night. The State says why the girl has' been brought to the 'penitentiary could not be learned Sunday night. The officer who brought her "did hot want to talk to newspapers" and' uobody elBe seemed to know the" teason why, and perchance the officer from Hampton didn't know. The girl, when seen at the union station, seemed far from terrible.' A white sweater, an apron and. a hat with red ribbons on it, were the most striking parts of her apparel,-' and she was trotting along behind ibe man who had her in charge, ap-' parently perfectly willing to follow his lead. Information from Hampton is that there Is no rumor of violence there, and the frail slip of a girl does net seem to one able to break such a sturdy structure as the Hampton Jail surely is. Richey Williams,.the ne-,' pro Mary Harris accuses of commit ting the murder, Is lodged, at the 1 penitentiary, where he was carried! Funday night. The case involving the white girl and the negro who are now behind^ the same stern walls at the State penitentiary is a most mysteri?s* ? one. Tuesday morning J. R. Lang ford, a prosperous white farmer, left* his home near Bruns?n to go ic?" Bopeep, a small station on the Sea-' board Air Line Railway,, where he twas-setting up-a saw mill. He nev-^ turned home alive. . . .-. His hands at the mill awaited him In vain, and when he did not pnt in appearance, they went to his home to find out what they should do. Night came on and as Mr. Langford did not return home his wife be came alarmed and a searching party was organized. After some hours of search his horse and buggy were found beside the road, the horse be ing securely tied. A short distance from the roadside Jim Langford was found dead, his body lying on h's buggy robe. Wednesday a coroner's jury began nn investigation Into the death and learned that Mary Harris, an illit erate white girl, 20 years of agu, who lived near where Mr. Langford's body was found, knew something about his death. Upon being questioned closely, the girl admitted, but unwillingly, thar she was with Mr. Langford in the woods at the time he was killed. She ' said that Richey Williams, a negro man, had crept up behind Mr. Lang ford and hit him over the head with c stick. He never moved or spoke after the blow was delivered. _ ' The negro wsb arrested and ' >re >ent the possibility of any attempted lynching; was spirited away to Barn well, and from there carried to Co Vunbla and put in the penitentiary for safe keeping. There was noth ing brought out against him except the statement made by the girl and' h's own statment that he thought he had seen Mr. Langford that morn ing driving on the Fairfax road. PREACHER IN TROUBLE. He Leaves Letter to Conference Con!' fessing Theft. A sensation was sprung in the. North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church, South, at Eliza beth City, N. C. on Friday, when, a letter was read from Rev. L. N. Booth, of Chowan circuit, acknow !edging that he had misappropriated missionary and (conference funds amounting to about $200, that he had fled to New Jersey and could not return the money. Charges were immediately preferred and a trial or dered. It is a bad case. Booth, who was highly regarded by his con gregation and fellow members of conference, was said to have left home four weeks ago. without the knowledge of the presiding elder, on the plea that his invalid wife wa? in a sanitarium in New Jersey. His congregation had recently presented him with a fine horse and buggy and a new suit of clotheB to wear to con ference. * Organ Grinder's Fortune. I .An estate valued at more than tSO.000, accumulated by an Italian with a hand orran and a monkey, 1? in the Hennepin County, Minn., Pr> J'ato Court to be divided between charity and well-to-do relatives. Tho property is .that of John ZIgnego, who died Nov. 19 at the home of Jcseph ZIgnego, a nephew. He was - known to thousands only as "Mon key John." ?