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PUBLISHED rHREB ?E its Dynamite Eipress Car and G* t j Seyen Hb aired Dollars. R?3BSR5 W?R6 MASKED After. Getting tic Money, the Thieves Made Their Escape in an Automo bile--They I>id Not H?h Any of the Passeng??rs?They Left Big Som Behind. Southern train No. 36. New Or leans to New York,' which passes) Greenville at 6:20 a. m. was held upj .by five masked ?bandits, ? one mile j north of White JSulphur, Ga., 100 miles .from Gruenville, at. 2:15 -o'clock Saturday morning and the ? express car dynamited. . A bandit en tered the express car and attempted to blow open the stationary safe, con taining thousands of dollars, but the attempt was not successful. He then placed a stick of dynamite on a small safe, covered it with dirt.and touched off the fuse. Thu safe was blown to atoms and some :p700 was secured. On a straight line just north of | the 587-mile post D. J. Fant, the en gineer, was induced to stop , his en gine by the waving of a red light j across the track,, some 300 or 400 yards ahead of the engine. He ap-1 plied the brakes and slowed down, picking up a. mar., who told him that there was a. broken rail ahead and that it was being repaired. . At the same time a bandit climbed up on; the other, side oi the engine and the] two covered the engineer and fire man with revolvers, ordering them to hold up their hands. * One of the bandits informed the engineer that it) meant a hold-up. i Leaving his partner'to guard the engineer, the bandit then got down and went back to rob the express car, telling the engineer before he left that when a certain signal was given for him to start the engine. The ban dit attempted , to cut loose the ex press car, but failed. He then sev ered the air . pipe and went .back to the engine. He ordered the engineer to get down and bring along a shovel. Going back to the express car. Once, more, the. expreus messenger was or dered to open ine door. When the messenger failed to respond to- the order; the bandet threatened, to blow up , the, entire car - with a - stick-of ? ynamite which he. held,. In ills .hand. .."he 'door, was thrown open and the messenger was ; covered with' a re volver and ordered to throw up his ?hands. . . A bandit then entered,the car and placed a stick of dynamite on the stationery safe and touched off the fuse. ?' The explosion failed to accom plish the desired results, and be turned his attention to a small safe close by. ? A sl;lck. of dynamite was placed on top of it and dirt piled on top. The explosion completely wrecked the sale, damaging the car and express matter. A number of packages were taken out of the de molished safe by two bandits, a sec ond one having entered the car in the meantime. After havin!.1; looted the safe the engineer whs. told tbat he could go. - He went back to his engine and I pulled on up ;;o Lula, minus a fire-| man and a flagman. The former, a 1colored* man, was made to get down from the engir.e and flee through the woods by the bandit who was left in 1 the cab when the engineer was car-j ried back to the express car. When the train stopped the flagman dis-j mounted and went back to flag later' trains. ? WThen, Engineer Fant was taken hack to the express car by the bandit I he called to Conductor Mauney, who, he thought, was in a coach ? short j distance back. The conductor, how- ? /ever, was under cover of a bandit's revolver from the time the train stopned. When the train first stopped Conductor Mauney stepped to the' ground to see what hte trouble was, | and was immediately covered by a bandit. Having looted the express car, the bandits backed off, keeping their revolvers on the trainmen all the while. When they had gotten j into the woods they turned about and beat a hasty retreat. Conductor Mauney says he heard the men calling to one another. "They used numberB and not names. There were seven called but I only saw five. One man was on one side I -of the train holding the crew and, passengers tack while another was j on the other side doing similar duty. I There was to attempt made to rob i any one nor was any one hurt. The j place was admirably suited to the; purpose for :he banks prevented any j of the passengers from getting away j from the train without being seen. | After the two explosions In the ex- j press cars, the yeggmen disappeared as if by magic. ? As quickly as XI could I reported to headquarters." I In talking of the men, Conductor) Mauney was able to describe two with some degree of exactness. One; was short'and heavy built, weighing j about 160 pounds, with sandy, red-, dish hair while th? other was over! six feet and very stoop-shouldered. The tall man talked with a rasping Northern accent. Conductor Mauney | was of the opinion that the man who held him up and forced him to re turn to his car was a countryman inexperienced in the business. The one who did the safe-blowing, howevpr, was something of an ex pert although he appeared to know FALLS TO HIS MATH BEDSPRINGS BOUNCES LITTLE BOY OUT OF WINDOW. Little Fellow Goes From the Fourth Story of His Home to the Pave meat. "Mind the window, Mbrrie!" cau tioned five-year-old Sadie Solouon, wbx), with he.r brother, Morris, aged three, was bouncing a ball against a wall in the front room of their home on the fourth floor of No. 1295 Park avenue, New York Friday afternoon. The .boy and girl wore standing on a bed while playing their game of hand-ball and the springs lent elas ticity to their leaps after j the ball. The bed wns alongside j the window. The last time the lad struck the ball it shot toward the window. Morris with a cry pf alarm jumped for it and caught, it in his chubby fists. But in leaping he failed to take into account the bedsprings, which shot him. into the air and throngh the window hoad; foremost. A hundred feet, up the block was Herman Panzie of No. 54 East Nine ty-ninth street. He saw 'the baby come crashing through, the window, as did several other persons. Panzie started on a run, with outstretched arms, in the hope of catching the child before he struck the ground. A woman across the street rushed quickly to the other side with her skirts.held out.-like a iifenet. . But both were too late, though Panzie only missed catching Morris by a few inches, his jacket grazing the finger tips of the man's hands. Morris struck the pavement on his head. When Panzie picked him up he was stf.ll breathing and the man ran all the way with him to Mount Sinai Hospital, four blocks distant. The boy died just as the hospital was reached, the rubber ball still in his hands. * little about the use of explosives as it took him quite a while to get the small safe open and he refused to try at all on the larger one that con tained something like $?5,000. The express car robbed was in charge of Special" Messenger William'B. Miller. In talking of the affair on his arrival at Charlotte he said: "My first Intimation of the hold-up "was the signal of a bad rail ahead.. The engineer immediately' choked1 .down tbe'trallh' tm'd'^ali 'of us looked j out the doors to see what the trouble j was;'"AS the train came to a stand-1 still, shots were fired. All express car doors were slammed shut. All but one. This door was left open In the excitement and it was through it that th? robbers entered the car. j They placed a gun at my head and told me to get out. I waited a sec ond or two and when I heard shots being fired -on' the outside, I then 'left the car. On the outside, I was held, up. My hands were in the air. I heard two explosions. The first was not so loud. The second was tre mendous. I thought the whole1 car had been shattered. Six of the win dows were torn to pieces. The pas sengers rushed to the windows ana doors, but seeing armed men, hud-' died together inside the car.. There, were seven In the band. "There were two safes of money! in my. express car. The large safe contained $65,000. The smaller safe, I the one blown open, contained j $1,000. I think that was all. Every cent of Jhe money in It was taken; | It was a terrible experience, although | not a man was injured.' The rob bers didn't strike a blow. At first we thought the men were inexpert! enced, but two were recognized and I could identify them if seen again. "While I was being held up at tit; point of the pistol, the flagman and engineer were experiencing the Bame j sensations. As soon as the money from the smaller safe was secured the two men, who were working In side the car came to the door and jumped. All of us were ordered to get back on the train. The pistols were still on us. We were ordered to move. As soon as the train start-j ed the men darted down the embank ment and were lost in the heavy woods." FOUGHT OVER A CORPSE. Two Rival Colored Undertakers De lay a Funeral. The spectacle of two colored un dertakers fighting, like tigers for pos session of a corpse shipped for burial confronted passengers alighting from the afternoon Seiboard train at Americus, Ga., on Friday. One undertaker, Joshua Simmons, with caparisoned horses and hearse, was removing the casket from the tr?in when Dennis Barnum, his rival undertaker, undertook to scoop the remains instead. In the battle resulting, Barnum was knocked cold with a brickbat and ere he recovered, Simmons had captured the prize and departed in triumph. The undertakers' battle created intense excitement in colored circles, and will be umpired in the court. * Tliey Wore Tights. Surrounded by her company, in the tights they wore at Miner's Eighth Avenue Theatre in New York Friday night, May Hadeley, leading woman of the Star Show Girls, was married to Edwin L. Flester, a tenor singer with the Rose Sydell Burles quers. ? OILAlSTGEBUKG, HOLDS HER OWN, Charleston Keeps Her Eight Members I and Coll ton Loses One. HOW IT FIGURES OUT After Long Fight the Reapportion ment Bill Was So Amended as to Prevent the Loss of One 'Member by Charleston at the Expense of Colleton County. Charleston retains her eight rep-| resentatlves in the House of Rep resentatives under the provisions of the amended reapportlonment bill, passed in the Senate Friday night and adopted later in the House. ThiB ended the most persistent fight, ox tending over several days, that the Senate had and is all the more sig nificant, inasmuch as the House passed the original 1 bill with no changes. The Senate adopted the amend ment of Senator Sinkler Friday night giving- Charleston eight instead of seven representatives, as the bill at first provided, and giving Colleton two representatives, instead.of three, as originally inserted Into the bill and as Colleton now has. In the battle for reapportlonment at this session Senator Robert Lide, of Orangeburg, was the leader, aDci It is owing to his untiring efforts that the measure finally passed the Senate. He was helped by other Senators, with no ill-feeling towarc. Colleton county. Senator Sinkler, when he found that Charleston should, be cause of the annexation of a part of Colleton, retain her present repre sentation, came to the rescue and won out. It so happened that when the re apportionment bill was made up, Charleston, b.ecause of the smallness of the fraction of proportionate in-1 habitants, after the seven representa-1 tives had been accorded, was not en-' titled to another representative. This) cut Charleston from eight to seven. By the annexation of Adams Run and CollinB townships, formerly in Colleton,'to Charleston county, Char leston gained 6,444 inhabitants/ Be 1 fore this Charleston's fraction was I only 3,047; with a representation of jseven. Adding the two townships I Charleston's fraction would be 9,491, ! entitling her to another representa : tive. Colleton, on a population of ; 35,390, had two representatives and a fraction of 10,948, which would have given her another representa tive. Taking away the two township's population, namely, 6,444, Colleton has two representatives and a frac tion of only 4,fc04, not enough to give her another representative.' She thus loses one, as Colleton now has three. This stare of an^i^s was called to the attention of the Senate by Sena tor Sinkler and a fight of three days was then had on the bill. The ques tion arose as to whether the census should be adopted as It stood before the annexation, or should the new ! territory be added to Charleston and j taken from Colleton. The Senate j j voted 20 to 6 to give Charleston her 1 eight representatives and Colleton only two. The six negative votes in cluded Ackerman, of Colleton; j Black, of Bamberg; Earle, of Oconee; Green, of Marlboro, and Summers, of Calhouh. I The Senate adopted the bill with the Sinkler amendment inserted therein. Charleston's population un der the census was given at 88,52"! for the county. The bill as adopted reads: "Section 1. That for the purpose ! of the apportionment of representa tives in the House of Representatives I among the several counties In the j States, the enumeration of the in 1 habitants of the several counties by' j the United States census of 1*? 10 is hereby adopted as a true and cor rect enumeration. "Section 2. That, until the next apportionment, the representation of the several counties shall be as fol lows: Abbeville, 3; Aiken, 3; An derson, 6; Bamberg, 2; Barn well, 3. Beaufort, 2; Berkeley, 2; Calhour, 1; Charleston, S; Cherokee, 2: Ches ter, 2; Chesterfield, 2; Clarendon, 3; Colleton, 2; Darlington, 3; Dillon, 2; Dorchester, 1; Edgefield, 2; Fair field, 2; Florence, 3; Georgetown. 2; Greenville, 6; Greenwood, 3; Hampton, 2: Horry, 2; Kershaw, 2: Lancaster, 2; Laurens. 3; Lee, 2; Lexington, 3; Marion. 2; Marlboro, 3; Newberry, 3; Oconee, 2; Orange burg, 5; Pickens, 2; Richland, 5; Saluda, 2; Spartanburg, 7; Sumter. 3; Union, 2; Williamsburg, 3, and York, 4. "Section 3. That this apportion ment shall not take effect until the next succeeding general election." The following counties gain one representative each: Anderson, Greenville, Dillon, Orangeburg, Rich land and Spartanburg. The following lose one each: Alk en, Berkeley, Beaufort, Chester, Falr fleld and Colleton. When the bill went back to the House Friday night a big fight was precipitated on the change. * House Concurs. After some discussion the House concurred in the Senate amendment by the following vote: For concurrence in Senate amend ment: Messrs. Ashley, Belser, Be 8. C. TUESDAY. FEBKU NURSING SERVICE AN IMPORTANT DEPARTMENT OF RED CROSS ORGANIZATION. National Society Expects to Enroll 10,000 Trained Nurses for Service in Time of War or Disaster. A red cross on white ground en circled by the words. "American'Na tional Red Cross Nurse," in"letters of gold on blue enamel, the whole enclosed in a laurel wreath-?this is the official emblem of the Nursing Service of the American Red "Cross, and no higher honor can be bestowed upon si nurse than the right to wear this badge, for it means that she is pledged to the service of her coun try. This emblem is protected by law, and stP1 further to prevent its improper use each badge is num- < bered and the names and addresses of the nurses to whom they are is sued are on file in the Red Cross of fice in Washington. The selection of these nurses is one of the most important duties de vdlving upon the Red Cross, and so important indeed did this duty seem that a National Committee on Red Cross Nursing Service was appointed by the War Relief Board of the American Red Crossf in December, 1909. This committee, consisting of nine members representing the Nurses Associated' Alumnae of the United States and six members rop I resenting the American Red Cross, was made responsible for the organ ization of an adequate nursing per sonnel which shall be at all ; times available for service under the ban ner of the Red Cross. The magnitude of this undertak ling may be indicated by the follow ing figures: During the last year of the Civil War there were 204 General [Hospitals under the control of the Medical Department of the United Army, with a capacity of 136,894 beds. If the Medical Department of the Army of 1865 had undertaken to fur nish a nursing service comparable with that which is considered neces sary in our large hospitals today, an army of over 27,000 nurses would have been required. . There were, however,' no trained.nurses available in those dark years of the Civil. War, but today there ^vre in the United States alone over 50,000 women who have graduated from; training schools Tor nurses, than which there are none better in the world, and from these the Red Cross hopes to enroll at ieast 10,000 nurses?10,000 selected women who are not only vouched for by the schools for nurses from which they have graduated, but are recom mended by well-known members of their own profession. The system of enrollment adopted by the Red Cross Is a guarantee to the nation that In the stress of ca lamity or the turmoil of war there stands ready for service a band of women worthy to follow in the foot steps of their great teacher and ex emplar, Florence Nightingale. * PARDON MILL STILL GRINDING. Governor Blease Pardons ? Two Life Term Prisoners. Two prisoners serving life sen tences at the State penitentiary were pardoned Thursday by Governor Blease. A pardon was granted to Duncan O. Grant, a white man, formerly of the State of Florida, who was con victed in 1906 on the charge of kill ing Walker Swett, in Marlboro county. There were several petitions presented to Governor Ansel for the pardon of Grant. Governor Ansel refused all petitions, and Governor Blease acting on the old petitions and letters granted a pardon. Mary Fair, a Laurens county ne gress, was given her freedom by Gov ernor Blease. She was convicted in 1897 on the charge of killing Hen rietta Sullivan, and upon recommen dation of the mercy of the Court, was sentenced to life imprisonment. She was refused a pardon by Gov ernor Ansel. * -o-O?c-. I Storm in New York One death and fifteen injuries from the snow and sleet storm which has been raging over New York for the past twenty-four hours. A young [woman, crossing Fifth avenue, in the blinding storm, was killed by an au tomobile. The list of injured showed I eight broken arms and three broken legs. * thea, Booker, Powers, Bowman, Boyd. Connor. Courtenay, Drum mond. Earle, Edwards, E. C. and Isaac, Evans, "Fultz, Gibert, Harri son, Hopkins, Horlbeek. Hunter, Htit to, James, Kibler, Kirklrmd. League, Lee, Leland, 'Magill, Miller, Motte, Mower, H. A. Odom, Riley, R. L. Shuler, C. D. Smith, Todd. Var.dor Horst. Vincent. Wingard, Wyche and Youmans. Total, 41. Against concurrence in Senate amendment: Speaker Smith, Arnold, Beamguard, Brice, Butler, Carj, Chandler, Daniel, Davis, Dixon, Du 3ose, Gasque, Graham, Hamilton, Harris, Hill, Irby, jones, Kellahan, Ketchin, McKeown, McQueen, Man uel, Meares, Mitchum, Nunnery, Paulling, Peeples, Polk, Rembert, Sanders, Scott, C. T. Shuler, D. L. I Smith, Tlson, Turnbull, "Watson, Willis?39. ?By this vote Charleston retains her eight members and Colleton loses one of her three. ? AR Y 21. 1911. SHOT BY THIEF Gieeovilie is Stirred by the ShsolbiDg uf Two of Her Polic meo INTENSE EXCITEMENT Olflcer Gunnels Pies; From the , Wounds Inflicted by the Bandit, Who Made His Escape, and Posses Are Scouring the Country on the Lookout for Him. . ScoreB of men, private citizens, policemen and deputies, armed to the teeth, scoured the country between Greenville and the mountains to North Carolina Friday and Friday night in search of the lone stranger, believed to be a professional yegg man, who Friday morning, oetweeu 2:30 and 3 o'clock, engaged in'a desperate pistol duel in the passen ger station, of the Columbia and Greenville Railway, with Officers b. I V. Johnson and Sergt. Oliver S. Gun-j nels, of the Greenville police force, J in which Gunnels received wounds from which he died at 9:40 o'clock, while Johnson was snot through the j right leg. Perhaps never before in the his tory of the city has Greenville been so excited. The tragedy of Friday, which cost the life of a universally popular and faithful officer, coming on the heels of the dastardly assault upon the life of "Uncle Tommy'' Cureton, the oldest policeman on the force, Tuesday morning by G. W. Stonecs pher, in a drunken orgie, was heightened by a dastardly assault, made a few hours later, upon the life of another member of the police force, by an aggregation of disreput able men and women as the officer attempted to place one of the women of the gang under arrest for commit ting a revolting act. At/ coroner's inquest held Friday morning over the remains of Sergt. Gunne'JB, at the undertaking estab lishment of Jas. F. Mackey & Son, but one witness, Officer Johnson, was examined. ' His testimony tells ,the story of the tragedy. "Gunnels and I," said he, "were coming along Au gusta Btreet, beyond the lntersectior of Vairdry Street, toward the city, shortly after 2:30 o'clock. I saw a m?h, emerge from the railroad' cut of the' Columbia and' Greenville Rail way, and move on down the track toward the passenger station, some 300 yards' away. I could see a mys terious looking back slung over his shoulder, .but could not tell whether he was white or black. I called Sergt. Gunnels' attention to the lone tramp and made the remark that he was probably a chicken thief. "I watched him closely and saw him approach the door of the col ored waiting room of the passenger station. I advanced toward the sta tion and when within a few feet ot It I heard the man moving about on the inside. Gunnels and I approached the door at the same time. He put his right hand to the door and pushed it open. At the same time, with his left hand, he flashed his electric flash light into the dark room. The light revealed a tough looking white man, short, thick set, heavy, with a shcrt, black mustache, and dressed commonly, without a collar or tie, and wearing a slouch hat, standing in the centre of the floor. "Simultaneously with the flash of the officer's pocket flash light, the man raised his revolver and fired. The first shot pierced Gunnel's abdo men and he fell back against the door facing, exclaiming: 'John, I'm shot, kill him.' Before the stranger could fire a second time, I had my pistol out and opened fire on him. The second shot he fired struck Gunnels in the right thigh and Gunnels receded toward the south end of the station. The third shot from the man's revolver pierced my right leg. "All the while the man and I were exchanging shots with lightning-like rapidity. I had a Smith & Wesson 3 8-calibre pistol and I think he was armed with a 32-calibre Colt's mag azine revolver. I fired four times and pulled the trigger of my revolver again, but the cartridge failed to explode. I receded then and the man sprang through the door, firing as he ra'n. Wlien on the outside he wheeled about, ran backwards a short distance, and fired several more shots, the first one being fired at Gunnels, who was in the act of sink-j ing to the ground, and the remain-! ing shots being fired at me. He then j fled, and I turned to assist Gunnels." The words of the only witness, now j alive, to the fatal affray in the lone ly little railway station, in the dead of night, with a desperate man, who, it Is believed now, committed a series' of robberier, earlier in the night at Williamston, eighteeen miles below Greenville, is a story which .has stirred Greenville from centre to cir-1 cumference. Men threw down busi-j ness and seized weapons to joiu squads that left at intervals through out the day to scour the country fori the fleeting murderer. The mayor I of the city himself joined a squad and went in the direction of the mountains shortly after noon. The city of Greenville has offered 1 a reward of $500 and the State a reward of $2 00 for the capture of the slayer of Officer Gunnels. Mobs arej still scouring the country for the fleeing murderer. Several suspects have been brought into the city, at WATSON IS SCARED CLAIMS THAT SOME ONE TRIED TO ASSASSINATE HDL f u AVired Chief Elliott of Augusta to Come to Thomson and Bring Blood Hounds to Catch Man. The Augusta Chronicle says Mr. Thomas E. Watson thought, Hhurs day night, an attempt was going to be made to assassinate him. In fact, Mr. Watson is now offering a reward of $500 for the capture and return to Thomson of three men whom he has seen around his place. . Thursday afternoon Mr. Watson wired and later called Chief George P. Elliott, of the Augusta police de partment, and asked that he either go to Thomson, or secure and send Kood hounds to that place, to cap ture "a boyish looking young man, wearing high heeled shoes, whom ?Mr. Watson thought was "skulking around to kill him. j One of the messajes received by Chief Elliott, while rather meager as to description and information, was , to the effect that the chief was want ed in Thomson onv account of an at tempt to assassinate Mr. Watson. Ghief Elliott, in telephone conversa I tion, told Mr. Watson that there were no dogs available In or near Au I gusta, fit to trail a criminal, and sug gested that he try to get them from Atlanta. Subsequent information' from' Thomson is to the effect that Mr. Watson called on the sheriff of Mc Duffle county early Thursday night to send a posse to his house, to cap ture some men who were trying to assassinate him, and a search was made of the woods around Mr. Wat son's house, which developed the fact that some McDuffie people?it was not learned how many?were In that neighborhood, trying to catch a cou ple,of nefroes. Chief Elliott says one of the mes sages received by him Thursday night was to the effect that a posse was on the scene at that time, but the dogB were still wanted. Yester day subsequent telegrams were re ceived from Mr. Watson by the chief asking for assistance, and last night the fallowing telegram was received from Mr. Watson by The Chronicle: Thomso'n, Ga., Feb. 17, 1911. . Chronicle, Augusta, Ga.: Will you kindly allow me space to announce that I will pay a reward of SR00 for the arrest and return t<r Thomson of'the three men who have been skulking around my home at night and concealing themselves in the swamp on my place during the daytime ever since Monday night of this week. One of these men is said to be boyish looking and his footprints on the soft, damp ground indicate he is wearing practically new shoes with unusually high heels, narrow pointed toes, curving slightly inward. The style of shoe is known among deal ers as extreme. This man is thought to be wearing a derby hat. The men are well dressed, each in dark clothes which should now show signs, that they have spent several day and nights dodging about in swamps and thickets. It is thought they are headed to wards Atlanta. Thomas E. Watson. *i WHITE CITIZEN ARRESTED. Sensation Sprung in the Langford Murder Case. A dispatch from Brunson says a sensational feature in the Lahgford murder case developed Wednesday when a warrant was issued for L. B Tuten, a prominent citizen of that place, charging him with the alleg ed crime. On November 29, last the body of J. B. Langford, a prom inent merchant and citizen of Brun son, was found some distance oft i the public road, between there and his saw mill, about half a mile from Brunson. The discovery was made by a searching party, after his un accounted for absence from both his home and mill for about 12 hours. Foul play was indicated and, upon the statement of a young white wo man, that she saw the fatal blow struck, Richie Williams, a negro, was arrested, charged with the kill ing, and hurried to the Penitentiary cto prevent threatened violence. * Cut Off Her Hair. "Have you got a piece of pie to spare?" asked a tramp Friday morn ing when Mrs. M. C. Krist answered a knock at tho door at Byersville, Ohio. She told him to step into the kitchen. There, while her back was turned, the tramp knocked her down and cut off her hair. * intervals, sinn?- nightfall. Every out going train, freight and passenger, is boing halted and searched by po lice and citizens. The excitement throughout the city is intense, and shoi.ld the slayer of Officer Gunnels be captured and brought back to Greenville there will undoubtedly be danger of a lynch ing- i The funeral services over the re mains of the dead officer were held Saturday afternoon. The board of police commissioners and the police forte will attend in a body. A se lected squad of police will act as pallbearers, while interment will be accompanied by Masonic rites. Public subscriptions to a fund Lo employ a Pinkerton detective lias amounted to hundreds of dollars al ready and is growing hourly. * rO CENTS.'FBB COPY GEIS THE MONEY The Colleges Liberally Provided For by the General Assembly. GIVEN ALL THEY ASKED Swells the Appropriation Bill to Over Two Million Dollars, Which is the Largest Ever Passed by South Car olina Legislature for One Year s Expenses. ? The appropriation bill has passed both houses and is now ready for the signature of the governor. For the first time in years a fight wa* made In the senate on the adoption of the free conference report on the bill. By just one vote, 18 to 17, the senate eariy Saturday morning adopt ed the free conference report which meant that the bill passed with the appropriations for permanent build ings at Winthrop; South Carolina University, and the Citadel restored to the bill. The report of the free conference committee was not unanimous. Sen ator W. L. 'Mauldin, chairman of the ?nance committee of the senate, not ?signing the report. The question of adopting the re port from the free conference com mittee was debated freely and warm ly. Senator Montgomery moved the ? adoption of the report. Senator Har Idin said that for the first timeVn his ! legislative career he could not sup port a free conference report., Senator Johnstone explained the action of the committee and told how carefully the items had been consid ered and the deliberations of the. committee. Senator Rainsford regarded the committee as a fooard of arbitration and the senate in honor bound ..o abide by its decision. Senator Laney put in a word for the common schools but said he would vote for the free conference report. Senator Montgomery said all gov ernments are bases on compromises, and when he saw tax levy would not be put up he consented for the sen ate to recede from its amendments. Senator Hardin thought the sen ate lost out entirely Instead of par- . ticipatihg in a compromise. He. could not conscientiously vote for it. Senator Strait sounded a warn- , Ing, sayiug the time is coming when people v.re going to rise up against these institutions. Might as well call a halt now- He reminded the senators he helped establish Win throp and Clemaon. Senator Weston was emphatic in his remarks. He said the University of South Carolina, the Citadel, Clem j son and Winthrop' are not the rich [ man's colleges. The appropriations I for Improvements are to be accom i panled by -increased and additional educational advantages. Senator Young was glad to see the action of the committee and told of what the action will mean. Senator Bates announced that he would vote against the adoption of the report as a protest against ex travagance. Senator Lawson asked Senators Johnstone, Weston and Montgomory la number of questions drawing out j the features of the added appropria tions. Senator Johnstone told again of the stand taken by the committee jand earnestly urged the senate to adopt the free conference commit I tee's report. The vote to adopt the report was ! passed, 18 to 17, as follows-: Ayes?Senators Ackerman, Car lisle, Clifton, Hough. Johnstone, Laney, T. J. Mauldin, McCown, Mont gomery, Muckenfuss, Rainsford, I Sinkler, Spivey, Stewart, Summers, Waller, Weston, Young?18. Nays?Senators Appelt, Bates, Black, Christensen, Crosson, Earle, Epps, Forrest, Green, Hardin, Law son, Manning, Mars, Strait, Stuckey, Sullivan, Wharton?17. Not voting?Senators Croft, Den nis. Ginn,. Hall, W. J. Johnson, Lido, W. L. Mauldin, Walker?8. The house then adopted the re port. '.Mr. Browning explained that when the bill left the house it pro vided for appropriations of $1,97.1, 322, and as reported by the free con ference corv.mittee the total would be $2,319,652.46. The report carries the additional $1,000 for militia, $3,000 for corn breeders' association, and a few oth er items. The principal points at issue were the appropriation for the State colleges. The committee re ported that the senate should recore from its amendments on State col leges. The university is to get is auditorium and Winthrop the new building for arts and sciences. The high school appropriation of $fi0.non and the public schools ap propriation of $20,000 are to como out of the dispensary profits a::d will therefore reduce the direct ap propriation by $80,000. * Flour Sent to China. Ten thousand sacks of flour were purchased in Chicago Thursday by Otto Koenig, of New York, to be sent for the relief of the famine suffer ers in China. The flour is the con tribution of the subscribers of The Christian Herald. The flour will be sent to Seattle, whence it will be carried free of charge on the Unltod States transport Buford to Chlnk lang. ?