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PUBLISHED THBEE ?11 PITIABLE STORY . He Marder ei Uajford Was Dae to Mtst Estraordioary Caue*. PATHOS WITH TRAGEDY Conditions Surrounding the Harris ' Girl is Mos: Heartrending and the Coroner's Jury Verdict Has the Approval of All Familiar With the Evidence Adduced at Hearing. d correspondent of The State, -writing from Bruuson, says distaste ful as Is the task It Is best that the story of the killing of J. R. Lanjford be told and necessarily in the telling of it there must be related the too tragic story of Mary Harris, the young white girl who is in the peni tentiary at Columbia, an eye-witness of the killing and the occasion of it. There is no charse against her. It is possible there may be one brought?for by her own admission she was - accessory after the. fact, to the murder of Mr. Langford. After hearing of the life and en vironment of this poor child, one can but recall what was traced in the dust by the fingers of Him' who came to save sinners: "He that Is with out sin among ye, let him cast the first stone." With hardly an exception the peo ple of this place and, indeed, all who have heard the details of the osse, think the coroner's jury which ft\ed the killing of Mr Langford upon Richard Williams, the negro now in the penitentiary, were right In their fending. Two other negroes have -been arrested and released under toad to'appear as. witnesses' when fine trial Is held. They are Ed Rouse and Jake Brown. The evidence adduced at the in ?oeet In brief is: On Tuesday morn ing Mr. Langford, who ran a hotel at Srunson and also operated a sawmill, left his home in a buggy, about 8 o'clock. He drove by the telegraph office and sent a message which was filed at 8:10.' This fixes the time /essentially. From there he drove to-, ward his sawmill at Bopoep, but stopped a short - way from the cor porate limits and the bouse of Bob Harris,.where he talked to Mary Har ris, ..who was .cutting *wooi In She j/aid. He drove off a short distance, turned out -of the road,-tied his home' and got out of the buggy. The girl having made a fire,, crossed the field j and met Mr. Langford in the woods. I ? On her way she saw a buggy coming j *p the road and recognized the oc oapants as Ed. Bouse and Richard Williams, ne?roea, both of whom she smew. She did not know she was followed by Williams, and did not see him again, until he was standing over Mr. Langford with a stick or club upraised. The blow fell and Langford's head dropped. He groaned tut did not speak, though she called to him. The negro upbraided her with being unfaithful. She was frightened and ran home. The ne gro did not follow. She wanted to tel! of the crome but was afraid. J The girl talked freely when shej did tell. Her story was ctralghtfor ward and despite traps that were laid her evidence was never shaken in the least. The story of the search for Mr. Langford and the finding of his body on a bng?y road in the woods has been told. Suspicion fell on Williams before Mary Harris told of the par' she had played In the tragedy. While the search w-^s being made for Mr. Lang ford. Williams volunteered the In formation that he had seen him on the new Fairfax road at an hour when, It was shown by the evidence of the other negro, corroborating that of Mary Harris, that he could not have been in sight of the road. He did cross the road later in the day. Ed. Rouse testified that he was drlvfn? to Brunson and overtook Williams, taking him In his buggy with him. When they got within Bight of the Harris home, Willams, who is a turpentine scraper, got out, saying he had left some of his tools in the wools and had to set them. Rouse did not see Mr. Langford's horse and buggy nor did he see the girl. It is supposed that Williams saw both. He described accurately Mr. Langford's dress. On this evidence the negro was . eharged by the coroner's jury with the crime. | There is pathos immeasurable in ?he story of Mary Harris and though the mind revolts from degradation ?iich as she has confessed to yet It must be said that she is not all bad ?nd is the result of an environment ??hieb is deplorable, and a poverty of lie direst. Ci,e should "impute the ranlt To a soul 1' the fud, so starved by Stinted of warmth, It will not blow this year Nor recognize the orb which spring flowers know." Dwelling In a house so open that, as It was described by a resident here, the birds can fly through it, Mary Harris, herself only IS or 20 years old now, the eldest of a family rf four girls, has had to work like a 3 eero and with negroes. Her moth er died two years ago. and her fath er, a simple half-witted unfortunate, feave eloquent testimony tb?t *.h*re Is a great deal of good in the girl. "Don't keep Mary long," said the 1ES A WEEK. iT7^ CORN SHOW WAS fiCOD PRESIDENT W. W. FIN LEY OF THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY Congratulates South Carolin? and Says He Wants to See Cotton De veloped as Well as Com. Mr. W. W. Finley, president of the Southern railway, who is in at tendance upon the trial of the South ern railway merger case, at Colum bia, has addressed the following let ter to Commissioner E. J. Watson, of the State department of agricul ture, commerce and industries: My Dear Mr. Watson: The South Atlantic Corn exposition is the moBt impressive thing thai: I have seen In a lony time. It marks what I be lieve to be the most Important de i velopment In Southern agriculture (since the Invention of the cotton gin led to the growing of cotton on a large scale. "You and your ansociates in this movement for raising' the standard of Southern corn and1 increasing the yield per acre are entitled to the [gratitude of every man interested in [Southern progress. I congratulate I you most sincerely. "Realizing that co:tou is the great I esc asset of the South and that the world will call upon us for Increas ing supplies, I am intensely Inter ested in the work which you and Mr. Williams, aided by Intelligent grow ers, like Mr. Keenan and Mr. Coker, are doing to develop prolific and ear ly-maturing varieties of long-staple ! cotton. I believe that we should not let anything interfere with the main tenance of our cotton production, and that we should seek, through seed selection and the building up of our i soil fertility by scientific crop rota tion, live stock growing; and the In teligent use of commercial fertilizers, to increase our cotton production by increasing the yield per acre, thus leaving room for corn and the other crops which should be included in a scheme of diversified farming. I am confident that your success in this di rection will be as marked as it has been in the corn movement. "Thanking you for your many courtesies to myself and the members of my staff since we have been in Columbia,-I am, ,. "Yours truly, . . "W. W. Finley, " ~~j '--"President" ? poor man the night she was taken f'om home. "She has been daddy and mammy - bnth to these girlB. .Vventeen years I ha' worked for Roy Tuten for wages and I are worn out Mary's a good daughter." That this is true there Is abundant testi mony in Brnnson. Bob Harris Is described not as half-witted but as less than that. His wife Is said to have been not much above her husband In intelligence. The children are intelligent, even bright. They are small. In Brnnson it Is said that Mary I'.arris, in all probability, gav? ber s*li from ?!. \' i overty and not If .in * nywardness. She had som? neun i lng, can read and write and i'^e years back the children came U Sun day school in Brunson. Mary lias worked hard for Mr. Tuten, who owns much of the land around nere nid pr nproR within th? enrporafp limits. Since she has grown to ue targe enougn she has labored .7. the rrtton fields with the negroes, be3n tattled from one field to another with I'lera in the same wa?on, ani for some years ne?roes have been al most her only associates. JaKo Urown's wife has been good to her. she said pathetically when asked 'aIiv sl.e went to the negro's house. With the care of her young sisters forced upon her without the association of sr.y white woman. Is It any wonder this wretched and forsaken chiK ? urned to this negro woman who had known her from her Infancy? "She was the only one I could go to for advice: when she told me not to do things I followed her direc tions," said the girl. "She was soo i to me." Battling against such odds, no mother, no friends, a partly helpleesa father who never was of full Intelli gence and who had been whipped in ?"lib battle with poverty, herself in? frur others to feed and clothe, can j one greatly wonder that this child strayed from the right path? And v hen she had strayed where was there one to direct her to Him who paid to another erring woman: "Go and sin no more. Thy sins are for given thee?" There be some "blind mouth3" who condemn utterly and talk ex ' trp.vagantly. hut let it be said that It vas not due to fear of any violence NvOg offered that the girl was taken to Columbia. She was as safe in ?i amp ton jail as she is behind the vails of the penitentiary, but to pre vent her being talked to by the raor !"iiy curious the sheriff thought it J-cst to send her away. Meantime the three little sisters and the father who has worked 17 ;*ars for wages are without the girl who "was a good daughter and both nammy and daddy" to her mother's children. ? Drown in Storm. Mail advices state that a storm, November 20, overtook a Japanese and Korean fishing fleet of Mekpo, Korea, and 391 men were drowned. Seven Japanese and G'2 Korean ves ?<-ls; rnntiinlng $3.0, were wrecked and only two Japanese and ?3 7 Ko rans were saved. ? A GREAT NATION,' Over Oat Hundred ard Ou? Million Uader lhe Sars and Stripes. WHAT EACH STATE HAS i liiere Are Nearly Ninety-Two >I'fl>??o People in the United States Propvr ?nil Over Ten Million People In i*?e Philippines, Porto Rico and Oi.hr* Islands. In the United States and all its iCBsesBions the Stars and Strlpea pro tect -101.100.000 souls. This enor mous number Is the official estimate of the United StateB bureau of cen sus, announced today In connection a-ith the population statistics of the country as enumerated in the thlr ??enth decennial census. It includes the Philippines Samoa. Guam, Hawaii, Alaska and the Pan ima Canal Zone. Within Its borders on the North American continent, -?xt'nsive of Alaska, the United Stales las a population of 31,972.266 In habitants. During the last ten years 'he States of the Union had an ag :regate increase In population of 15, 977,691, which amounts to 21 per ?ent over the 1900 figures. Since the first census was taken in 1790, the country has grown twenty live times as large, the population ?hen having been 3.929,214 slight.'y larger than the present population of he State of Texas. The growth of 'he country was greater than has ?>een expected by the expert statis ticians who have closely watched 'he progress of the country's popula tion. Census Dlrector^Durand.says: "The States showing the lowest rates of increase, falling below 10 per cent, are five In the great Cen tral section of the country, namely, owa, Missouri. Kentucky, Indiana ind Tennessee; the three Northern \'ew England States and Maryland ?nd Delaware. "The StateB showing the next high er increase between 10 and 20 per ?ent He adjacent to those showing the lowest rate and include, In the Middle West, Ohio, Michigan, Wis consin, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas, and on .the other .hand a great belt of - Southern States,, namely, Virginia, North Carolina, ,3o''ih Carolina, Georgia, Alabama md Mississippi. "StateB which show an Increase from 20 to 30 per cent are, for the most, the great manufactures States, including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Vorfc. Pennsylvania and West Vir ginia, the only other States increas '?ig between 20 and 30 per cent are V-karsas and Texas. "The States which show an In crease exceeding 30 per cent are, vph the exception of New Jersey and Florida, all located In the West and nake up a solid belt comprising fully one-third of the area of the United States. South Dakota, Colo rado and Utah had rates of increase hetween 30 and 50 per cent, while S?rth Dakota, Wyoming, Oregon, California, New Mexico and Arizona increased between 50 and 100 per cent, and Oklahoma, Idaho and Washington more than 100 per cent. ' The greatest change in rate of growth Is found in the three Pacific ?oast ctntes. and Nevada and New Mexico, all of which grew far faster ?l.irin? the last ten years than during the preceding period. "The population of the Middle At lantic States is 19.315,S92 and the ^outh Atlantic States 12.194.895. The percentage of increases of the -outh Atlantic States is 1C.S4. "The fact that the rate of in creases for the country as a whole was greater from 1 900 to 1910 than 'luring the precedin? decade was due entirely to the added rate of growth I In the Middle Atlantic. Mountain and Pacific divisions. In all six of the other divisions the increase during the last decade was less than during the previous one." The following is the population by the States: Alabama. 2.138,093 Arizona. 204,354 Arkansas. 1,574,449 j California.2.377,549! Colorado. 799,024 Connecticut.1,114,756 Delaware. 202.322 District of Columbia.. .. 331.069 Florida. 751,139 Georgia. 3.609.1 21 Idaho. 325.594 Illinois...5.638.591 Indiana. 2,700,876 Iowa.2.224.771 KansnB.1.000.949 Kentucky. 2,289.905 I ouisiana. 1,006.438 Maine. 742.371 Maryland. 1.295.346 V'assachusetts. 3.336.41 6 '?Tichieran.2.810.173 Minnesota. 2,075,708 Mississippi. 1,797,1 1 4 Missouri. 3.293.335 Montana. 376,053 j Nebraska.1,192,214 Nevada. SI.975 ! \ew Hampshire. 430,572 New Jersey. 2,537.167. New Mexico. 327,301 Npw York.9.1 13.279 .North Carolina. 2,206,287 ? North Dakota. 577.056 Ohio. 4,767,121 \ Oklahoma. 1.657,155 Crcgon. 672.765 Pennsylvania. 7,665,111 8. C, TUESDAY.. L'EClfi] t'iod* Island.. .. .. . . 642,610 South Carolina. 1;515,400 South Dakota.S 583,888 Tennessee. .. ?? 2,184,789 Texas. 8,896,542 Utah.?> .. 373,351 Vermont.' ? ? 355,956 Virginia. 2,016,612 Washington. 1.141,990 West Virginia.. 1,221,119 Wisconsin. 2,333,860 Wyoming. .. 145,966 Alaska. 64,356 Hawaii... .. 191,900 Porto Rico.1,118,012 The States in their respective ranks according to population are: New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, Ken tucky. Io>? a, North Carolina, Tennes see.e, Alabama, -iilnnesotai Virginia, .Misjissipi i, Kansas, Oklahoma, Lou isiana, Arkansas, South i Carolina. Dryland. West Virginia, Nebraska, Wp^hinartrn. Porfo Rl^n. OnnnerHoiit. CY-'oraa>, Florida, Maine, ' Oregon, .-?outh Dakota, North Dakota, Rho.le Islxnd, New Hampshire,' Montana, I ah, Vermont, District of Columbia, .?-.??v.- Mt-nlco, Idaho, Arizona, Dela wiiie, Hnwall, Wyoming, Nevada and Alaska. Corrected figures Issued by the census office today give the .State of New York population as .9,113,614, Increase 1,844,720, or 25.4 per cent; Florida 752,619, Increase.224,077, or 42.4 per cent, and Maryland 1,295, J-46, increase 107,302, or 9 per cent. Unquestionably it will be necessary to alter the basis of representation ".n Congress. At the present ratio of 194,000 people to each member of the House of Representatives, the Mouse would' contain about 474 members as agaist 392 at present. It In ihe general bolief that this num ber would be unwieldly. Eveu at che rate of 220,000 as a bisls the public assembly would contain 41S Mi*>ml?(>ri?. uri Innren??? nf 2" * RESCUED IIV THE POLICE. Roy Taken From the- Kidnappers ft, Who Had Stolen Him. "They told me I was in Chicago," aald Giusseppi Longo, 8 years old. when the police led him to freedom from the tenement room in New York where he bad been locked a prisoner by kidnappers. , The boy was traced by the aid of another ch'ld whose brother is aib^ held for ransom. The police learned that Giusseppi was a prisoner in an East Side tenement. They searched the corridors, listenelng' at transoms. At the -door of a rear? ? room! they heard a child crying. The little guide was lifted up and peered over the transom. "Tat's him,' be whispered excitedly and the police broke In the door. Guarding Giusseppi were two men and In the same room with him were two other children, a boy and a girl whom he knew only by their first names. The police think they also may have been kidnapped. The two men on guard were arrested, ad were rive other Italians, among them a woman. Glusseppi's father is a well-to-da Brooklyn business man. The elder Longo has received two letters from the kidnappers, the first asking for 51 0,000 and the second $15.000. The recovery of the boy makes the thlru in loss than a week, two oth"r Italian youmgeters having turned up without the aid of the police. ? WANTED TO SEE HIS HARY. Longing For Little One Brings Er rant Father Hnck Home. It was a longing to hold in his arms his baby which he never had seen thru brought Walter A. Hall, a defaulting bank teller, back to New York and prison. He surrendered himself Friday, confessed a theft of $44.600 from the Herald S'inare branch of the Greenwich bank, and was remanded for sentence. Hall, who Is 24 years old. fled from New York last July and wan dered about Canada, he said, betting on horse races. When he heard that ja baby had arrived his longing to see the child made his exile misery. Me sent $500 to his wife, which she turned over to the bank. Later, he said, he sent $1.000 to her, but she told the police today that she never received the money. When he could resist no longer the impulse to return to see his baby, he came back to New York. Hu'l sur rendered $15,000 which he said wts all he had left of the money be had taken. ? Sick From Rat Bite. Bitten in the center of his fore head by a black rat more than a week ago, Thomas V. Dlackshear. a first year medical student at Atlanta, Is lying at the point of death in a local hospital. The case is one of the oddest known to the physicians of Atlanta. Blackshear was bitten while he was lying asleep. He ,and hi& roommate killed the rodent. A hole as large as a dollar marks the place where the poisoned flesh was cu: from the wound. ? Served Him Uight. Conductor J. P>. Stevens, who runs between Atlanta and .\iacon on the Southern railway shot and fatally wounded Henry Scott, a ne.^ro. Fri day morning, because he had insulted his housekeeper. The housekeeper t-~>ld him of the neero's proposals and Capt. Stevens immediately got the negro In his house. He denied mak ing the insult, but when confroted by the woman admitted his guilt and attempted to attack her. It was then that Capt. Stevens fired, every bullet taking effect. ? MBER 13 1910. BEGAN ALL OVER frreer of Colonel Andrews as Related by Colon?! Aagost Koto, SERVED WITH HAMPTON ituilroad Service of the Southern Railway's Famous First Vice Pres ident Interrupted by the War, During Which He Rendered Con spicuous Military Service to the Confederacy. Seated in an arm-chair at the Metropolitan Club In Columbia Wed nesday night was Col. A. B. An Irews, first vice president of the Southern railway system. Mr. Sam H. Hardwick and I had a little argu ment about Col. Andrews' first rail road experience and we went over to Col. Andrem to have him settle the issue. The point was decided in fa vor of the newspaper man and, by way of explanation. Col. Andrews took from his trous er pocket two well rubbed and shin ing Mexican silver dollars. There were two of them and they had rubbed against each other for a long rime, for there were perhaps no com panion pieces. These two Mexican dolars represented the worldly pos sessions of Col. Andrews when he left 'he Confederate army, at the close of the struggle, except two mules. The mules and two unspent Mexican dollars represented the beginnings of his present accumulations. But the point Is: When did Col. Andrews begin his railroad service? It was before the war, before 18C0. when as a lad of seventeen he was1 <iven charge of the trains that hauled the stone used in the construction of the masonry on the present Blue Ridge railroad, running from Belt on to Walhalla, via Anderson. Col. An-! drews' uncle had the contract to con struct the Blue Ridge railroad?the plneer road that was to have pierced the mountains and provided a through line from the coast to the WeBt The original contract was for com pany to haul the stone to- be used in the construction work, but the deliveries" were ; so unsatisfactory Ithat "Col. Andrews,'then a mere* lad, was put iu charge of the train that hauled the rock. That was hiB first service as a superintendent of a rail road. Later he was a real superin tendent and he has gone the entire gamut of railroad service?active and actual ser/ice. Then came the war and Col. An drews, as he is now called?and he Is a real colonel, and not one by post-war service?entered the 1st North Carolina cavalry as a lieuten ant. Hi; served In the Hampton Cav alry, and with distinction and cour age. He was In the stress of many of the serious engagements with Wade Hampton, and the last time he saw Hampton that distinguished chieftain remarked to him: "An drews, I am going to write sometalng that I hope will give full credit to your North Carolina men in my com mand, for I do not think you have ever gotten full justice In recorded history." Unfortunately that prom ise was unfulfilled, for Gen. Hamp ton died about two weeks later. With his two dollars and mules Col. Andrews went to work. He saw the destruction that had been wrought and it occurred to him thai there would be money and service In rebuilding bridges?railroad bridges. He borrowed money and got the job of reconstructing the bridges on the old Raleigh and Gaston railroad. He remained with the Raleigh and Gas ton road for ten years, during which time he was its superintendent. Then he went with what was for merly the Richmond and Danville jroad; perhaps his devotion to this j system Is accentuated by the fact that jCol. Andrews' wife is the daughter of Col. Johnson, who T/as the first president of the Charlotte and Au gusta railroad. Thirty-five years ago Col. AndrewB entered the service of the nucleus of the present great Southern railway system. It has been largely due to his constructive gen ius, his capacity for work and his knowledge of men that the weakling mads here and there have been brought together until today the ays tern aggregates over 8,000 miles. When Samuel Spencer and his predecessors were gathering in weak roads, pulling them out of bankrupt courts and whipping the lines Into shape Col. Andrews was his right hand and his safety check. Col. An drew j then as now was first vice president of the system. He kept unceasingly at work to make the Southern railway a great system and he as persistently kept In the back ground. When Mr. Spencer was killed he showed the same keen spirit of co-operation towards a younger man. President W. W. Finley. recog nizing In him a man of abundant ability and energy. Col. Andrews was severely wound ed in the war. Several years ago the physicians told him his "boilers would not stand full pressure," but it is even now dlillcult to keep him from doing too much work. Of course he Is Interested In the pending "merger* litigation, for it j was he and Col. B. L. Abney whoi handled the transaction by which the | Southern railway took the properties] "out of the wet" and undertook to, develop them, and thereby the Stale. ???ZE THE CAUSE | FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY OC CURS NEAR HARTSVILLE. j 1 ?a Fight Commenced in a Negro*? | House Where the Belligerents Had G"ne to Buy Whiskey. A terrible tragedy was enacted B.Hir Hartsville about twelve o'clock , en Sunday, In which E. D. Boseman. a f.Diiier about 65 years old. was shot to 1eath an I his son, Otto Boseman. Hired 12, badly if not fatally wounded by Coy Blackman, a youth of 22 yiNiVfc. Blackman made his escape. Ti-f shooting began in the house of Ciceio Byd, a negro, who liveB on Ihr? plantation of S. W. Byrd, a prom inont farmer, living abet five mibe v/ebt of Hartsvllle. The two young rcon had gone to the house, suppos edly to buy something to drink, a^i a quairel arcae over the ownersh.p of a pistol, which was in Blackman's possession, but which the younger nofiemf.n claimed belonged to him. lie remanded that the weapon .be siten him and advanced on Black mail brandishing a bear bottle. ?Mr"'?man Bred, the ball taking ef f ??;', but not making a eeriou3 wound. Bbckman retreated to the yard and was followed by the youncer Boseman and his father, who had come to the ne?ro's bouse also. In the yard Blackman resumed firing, h.s first ball striking the elder Mr Uoseman in the heart, killing him in stantly. He then shot the youne man and seriously wounded him. The physician wno was called says that it will be Impossible to tell whether Lhe wound will be fatal until efter au operation. lhe two youn? men, Otto Bose man-nan and Blackman were once companions and had formerly worked to ? ether at Roanoke Rapids, N. C. It is .:jderstood that they had a fight onue before and the trouble today ?.robably resulted from a renewal of the old quarrel in a ?lightly different fc rm. An Inquest over the body of t!ie elder Boseman revealed the facts .ibuve stated. FOl*ND DEAD IN ROOM. Expert Telephone Engineer Dies Sud denly at Hotel. C. E. Stihson of Buffalo, N. Y., the telephone engineer, who was re cently employed by the Spartanburg chamber of commerce to appraise the plant of the Southern Bell Telephone company, with a view to testifying before the State railroad commission In a comp'aint against the company, was found dead in bed at the Hotel Finch Friday. Dr. Defoix Wilson said that death was due to alcoholism. Mr. Stinson called Dr. Wilson yesterday. He was highly nervoU8 but Dr. Wilson found nothing alarming in his condition and left, after prescribing a sedative. John Wood, secretary of the cham ber of commerce, will leave for Buf falo with the body tomorrow morn ing. As a result of Mr. Stlnson's death the plans of the chamber of commerce with reference to the tele phone situation will temporarily be held In abeyance. " Talks War in Japan. That Japan must prepare for war with the United States Is the next of an nrtlcle published by the Tokio Nippon. Japan must ask herself,' says the Nippon; "what object an ele ment of United States citizens have In view when they advocate the ex penditure of enormous sums on fur nishing the Tacific with a big fleet, of creating a powerful army on the Pa cific slope, of building a huge canal j depot and naval station in Hawaii and of fortifying the Philippines. Hawaii and Panama." * Past Century Mark. With a salute of 100 guns Friday afternoon, Augusta honored the hun dredth birthday anniversary of Mr Jonathan Miller, the father-in-law of State Treasurer Pope Brown, and next to the oldest person in the city Despite his hundred years the old gentleman is In good health, though his sight has failed of recent years Friday afternoon he was tendered a public reception at the home of Hon Henry Hammond, judge of the su perior court circuit. ? Preacher Suspended. At the South Carolina conference of the Methodist church Saturday at Charleston, the committee on the in v. est.iration Into the domestic affairs c; Rev. R. H. Mills of Rock Hill made Its report, finding that the evi dence sustained the epeclfications and the recommendation of the commit tee that Mr. Mills be suspended for ? period of one year was adopted t*3 an unanimous vote. Sent Back Home. Eleven hundred, arriving at San Francisco, on the steamer Manchuria, will be deported under a medical in spector's order. The Hindus are af flicted with the hook-worm. Immi gration authorities say they are de porting many recent arrivals because of the existence of hook-worm dis ???? nmnne th?m * At that time Col. Andrews went over the entire system and saw what wae ahead, and is abundantly satisfied with his prophecy that South Caro lina had not tbon open the dawn of the great industrial future that was ibead. August Kohn. * 'WO CENTS PER COPY j MUTINY ENDED F?o Hoednd Mutineers Wire Kilkd er Wound* d in a Battle. ! MANY OTHERS KILLED ll'e Land Batteries, Two Warships uud Seiend Torpedo- Destroyers Took a Part in the Bombardment, Which Lusted One Entire Even ing. . The Brazillian mutiny seems to he ;ver. A despatch from Rio Janeiro -a<*B the government troops are. again :n control of the garrison on Cobra island, ?od the second mutiny of the ?wal forces ha6 ended with'a heavy aau. Ity list, which will probably pis- r ?vat furtiier risings for some time..? The mutineers, who composed a- - aa;ia)ion of the marine corps, nun> , ??Ted , bout 600 men. Of these aou . a . either killed or wounded Satur: lay. The others were taken pris ?ueis by the destroyers while at '.etuptln? to escape from the island n 'he night. Two hundred citizens were either ? >.Hied .or wounded while watching ? he bombardment from streets or ? leng the waterfront. Many govern ment buildings were damaged, in ?kding the treasury, the foreign of Ve and the departments of public ?orks and telegraphs. Two land batteries, two warships - tad several destroyers took part in the bombardment and twice In the ?cgavement an armistice was allowed . for the removal of the dead end . nouded. Firing ceased entirely late in the evenlng^.but no actual eor tender of the rebels occurred, the ir-mma:aders -of the government 'rrces deeming it the wiser coarse . to await the coming of day. .1 The destroyers however, were eto uoned within easy range of tho Sa in d so as to prevent the escape ef. Ointineers. Toward midnight sev *ral boats put out and men coukJ be >ee swimming, evidently .with, the to entlon of reaching ..the mainland... Tie destroyers took them prisoners. ? ' The chamber of deputies met. ilscusa the subject of a special sea- \ ?Ion. The government believes it has fhe situation well in-hand, for aside 'rom 81 fey malcontets the army and. uBvy are loyal. Strict censorship' \f< being maintained, but conditio? ??ithin the city are normal. The scout ship Rio Grande do Sul died the first shot In the revolt, turn-, ?ng her guns on the city. The heavy Pombsirdment by both land batteries ird warships cau?ed a panic In Rio Janeiro in the early hours of Sator ?lay and frightened and wounded" p-ople fled in all directions. .\rcording to the newspapers the ca-'Loii leading to the second .revolt. trivial, most of the demands, Made by the men In the last mutiny t?a?','ng been granted by the govern ment. ' ?* CHRISTIANS BUTCHERED. General MaKsacre in a Turkish Toww by Bedouins. A telegram from Jerusalem Bta'es that Bedouins have massacred the j urkish garrison at Kcrak, a town In the Turkish vilayet of .Syria, and killed more than 100 Christian in habitants of the place In revenge for the execution of a Bedouin chief. The Bedouins, the dispatch adds, now hold the fortress, in the 'vicinity of which, there has been desultory fight ing cetween the tribesmen and the government troope for the past year and a half. Kerak, formerly the capital of Moab, has a population of 8,000, of whom 6,000 are Moslems. The town is the last on the road [rom Damae- , cub to Mecca, where the Christians may reside. It stands on the moun tains of Moab and may be seen from Jerusalem, 50 miles away. There are no American mission aries there, the only missionary sta tion "oeing that of the British church missionary society for Africa and the East. This Is a branch of tho organ ization at Es-Sult, and is composed of one missionary, bi? wife and one native worker. * K,''led on Railway. iW. D. ^crogginger, a carpenter irom Anderson, was run over and fa telly Injured by an Olympia street car Saturday night at 8:20 o'ciTfk on the dark stretch of track behind '?arper's row, just north of the fair grounds In Columbia. Both of bis legs were cut off a little above the ?..?.Itles. He died at the Columbia hcspital at 11:30 o'clock. [ Made Chief Justice, i Associate Juntlce Edward Douglas jV'hlte has been appointed Chief Ju:i :tice of the United States Supreme ?Court by President Taft. It is aaid I that Judge Lamar, of Augusta, Ga., another Democrat, will be appointed i'ii Associate Justice of tho same ' Court. Leaped Into Hot Metal. At Barncb^llle, Ohio, In plain sight oi fifty fellow workmen, Charles tlandall, a molder helper, leaped into a cupola of white hot metal at a L'rrndrv. The man*6 flesh was en tirely consumed and only the bones were recovered.