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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. A large section of the wholesale district of Toronto. Ont.. was burned on Tuesday night. causing a los. u.,ich will run to about $io.ooo.ooo. It is reported from Jacksonville that. the Flordia replubicans propose to put out county tickets and to make a vigorous campaign. An Atlantic Coast Line passenger collided with a freight near Wilson, N. C., the engineer, fireman, and pos tal clerk being seriously injured and several passeRgers fatally injured. There was a fight between officers and negro railroad laborers near Knoxvile, Tenn., on Saturday night. one negro being killed and a posse man being fatally wounded. The damage to the battle ship Missouri, as a result of the explosion on the vessel while near Pensacola, Fla.. recently has been estimated at only $io,ooo by the chief constructorl of the navy. Wm. J. Bryan has announced that he will deliver a political address in Chicago Saturday night on "The New York Platform." This will be his de claration as to a platform and pres idental candidate. About on,e hundred miners were buried by an immense avalanche near the village of Pragelato, Italy. The investigation of the Reed Smoot case in congress has been re newed. The negroes of Richmond. Va., met and protested against an ordinance which will be put into effect provid ing for the separation of races on the street cars, and in future the negroes will boycott the cars. John Morgan, a Norfolk, Va.. car peDter 6o years of age, was struck and knocked down by his son-in-law, receiving injuries in falling from which he died at once. There had been bad blood between the two men for three years. S. H. Herrin, of Culman, Ala., who was recently nominated in the demo cratic primary for clerk of the circuit court in his county,. dropped dead while signing a note of thanks to the voters of his county. Just as he sign ed his name he was stricken with heart disease and died almost instant ly. The Pennsylvania democratic state convention, held this week, refused to instruct the national delegates from Pennsylvania to vote for the nomination of Judge Alton B. Parker. of Newv York, for president. The del egates wil go to. St. Louis uninstruct ed and will go bound by the unit rule. The Virginia democratic state con vention was held on Wednesday. It is said that the opening was one of the stormiest ever held in Virginia but things quieted down and the cog vention ended in harmony and enthu siasm. The four delegates at large and all the district delegates except two are for Gorman for president first and Parker second. Peter Neidermeyer, the leader of* the Chicago car barn bandits, con demned to die today, made two des perate attempts at suicide on Monday. First he masticated and swallowed the heads of seventy-five or one hundred sulphur matches. While the phosphorous was burning his stomach he sawed at the radial artery of his left wrist with a sharp pointed lead pencil. Striking a bone in the wrist he gave up trying to sever the artery and turned his weapon to the large veins ;on the outer side of his left forearm, and with jabs and see-saw motion he lacerated the flesh and muscles -of the arm. His second attempt was while he was in the hospital when he tore off his ban dage and tore away the threads in his wounds and with his finger nails tried to reach a vein. His wounds were horrible and mortal. There is a tall silo and a cold stor age house, built on the judge's plans. In the storage house are apples, pears, cider and all manner of good things to eat, mostly the products of Rose mont. Thrift, orderliness and ener getic management are everywhere in SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed in the State. United States District Judge Chas. h4. Simonton, of Charleston, has been quite ill during the past week and was taken to a sanitarium in Philadelphia. The committe on arrangements for the intercollegiate oratorical contest. which will be held in Greenwood on April 29, have decided to charge an admission fee of i5 cents for all ad missions except college students, pro iessors, and .others connected with the contest. The Rev. 11. R. Murchison has re signed as pastor of the Central Pres byterian church, at Anderson, and will establish a weekly paper in Co lumbia to be called The Weekly Visi tor. It will be a paper for the home and fireside and will deal with news and literary topics. n1gious news. etc. Judge Gage is ill and was unable to hold court in Yorkville this week. J. E. McDonald. of Winnsboro. was ap pointed special judge. Governor Aycock, of North Caro lina. and Governor D. C. Heyward, of , South Carolina, inspected the School for the Deaf and the Blind, at Cedar Springs, yesterday, and at tended the class exercises at Converse college last night, Governor Ay cock making an address in honor of Founder's day. Conway has unanimously voted a bond issue of $io,ooo for erecting a school building. It is reported from Marion that the republicans from that county a.e es pecially active and intend to put out a county ticket for the general elec tion this year. Fire at Mullins, in Marion county, this week destroyed property to the amount of $4,5oo; insurance, $2,500. The origin of the fire is supposed to have been mice with matches. Senator A. C. Latimer will deliver a good roads address in Boston to morrow. Wesley W. Madden was shot twice and badly wounded by Bud B. Hill, in a negro restaurant at Laurens on Monday, while the two men with sev eral friends were getting dinner. Both men had been drinking. Both are farmers of Laurens county. The Baltimore conference of the African Methodist church passed re solutions calling on the United States senate to confirm the nomination of the negro Crum. The Rev. Isaac H1am, a negro preacher of Timmonsville, wvhile preaching oi. Sunday at Centre Hall. in Darlington county, was stricken suddenly with paralysis and sank to the floor. He was removed o a near by house and died. Williamston has voted bonds to the amount of $8,ooo for the purpose of eecting a graded school building. The corner-stone of a Confederate monument wfll be laid at Yorkville on the ioth of May next, under the auspices of the Daughters of the Con federacy. Mrs. Lizzie Goodwin, a woman who came to Pickens county from North Carolina about a year ago, committed suicidewith a rope in her own room. She had been separated from her hus band and lived with her daughter. Her act is supposed to have been the result of brooding over her unhappy domestic relations. In a shooting affair at Barton, near Fairfax. on Sunday night one white man and one negre were killed, one negro was mortally wounded and a man and one negro were killed, one John Griner and 'Willie Stone, the white men, went to the house occu pied by the negroes and began the disturbance, it seems. It is said the white men were drunk. They shot Clay Dickinson, one of the negroes to death, and going into another room proceeded to carve the other ne gro, Bristow Gardener, with knives. Gardener shot and killed Stone and shot Griner. It seems the .negroes were not expecting any trouble and that the affair was the result of bad feeling on the part of one of the white men on account of a dispute he had had with one of the negroes as ALTON BROOKS PARKER. Something of the Life of the Mari Around Whom Democracy is Rallying. The Atlanta Constituion gives the following sketch of Judge Altor Brooks Parker, of New York. around whom the democracy of the country is rallying and who stands foremosi for the presidential nomination on the democratic ticket. New York delegates having been instructed, b) the state convention held at Alban this week, to vote for his nominatior at St. Louis: Alton Brooks Parker was born or a farm in Cortland county. New .York May 14. 1852. His father. Johr Brooks Parker. comes of old Englisli stock. His great-grandfather. Johr Parker, was born in 1751 at Worches. ter, Mass. He was a hard-working farmer. When the war for indepen dence broke out he left his plougl and served as a private tinder Wash ington until the American republic was established. Little is known ol him except that he was a man ol pluck and independence and wa! greatly respected by his neighbors His son. John Parker. was an intelli. gent man, highly educated and pub lic spirited. In 1803 he came to Nex York state and bought a farm al Cortland, the same farm which hi! distinguisl'ed grandson owns and cultivates today. He had a large fam ily. and when his health broke dowr the burden fell heavily upon his son John. the father of Judge Parker. On his mother's side Judge Parkei derives good New England blood. Hi, white-haired mother, who lives al Derby. Conn., is a woman of refine ment. education and strong character In the summer time she spends th< judge's vacation with him in Esopus She is a member of the Woman' Christian Temperance Union. Th< giant sits before his mother while sh( solemnly lectures him on temperance and, being an abstemious man, smile and promises to be good. Her con stant aim is to warn him against am bition. When the newspapers grom too loud in his praise he is sure t< get a letter from his mother exhort ing him to be humble. Parker's Early Days. "Alton Brooks Parker," says Mr Creelman, "attended the village schoo and worked about the farm. Wher 16 years old he taught school in country school house and establishe< his authority by thrashing the schoo bully. Then he taught school ai Binghamton. Presently he was - teacher at Accord, in Ulster county at $3 a day. He intended to go t< Crnell university, and was savinj money for that purpose. but hi father's necessities drew 'from birr his slender income and his hopes o a universitj course failed. He move< to Kingston and entered the law of fie of Schoonef4naker & H ardenbergl as a clerk. Then he entered the Al bany law school, and upon gradua tig he returned to Schoonmaker 8 Hardenbergh. Within a few month: he took a partner named Kenyon an< opened a law office at Kingston. "For twelve years the young law yer practiced his profession in King ston. He had a good income and won several important cases. During that time he was quite free from th< control or influence of large corpor ations. "In 1877 he was elected surrogat< of Ulster county, and was afterward elected for a second term. That wa his first experience of public office. His entrance to politics was du' simply to his love for his old em ployer, Judge Schoonmaker, who ha< been driven out of politics. He be lien,d that the judge had been wrong ed and set out to restore him in pop ular favor. So earnest was his cam paign that he soon became a recog nized political factor in Ulster county being a favorite of Mr. Tilden an< Mr. Manning. who trusted and con suted him. In 1885 he was induce< to become chairman of the democrati< state executive committee, and in th< campaign which he managed, Davi< B. Hill was elected governor. Mr Hill appointed him to a seat on th< supreme court bench *when Justic< Westbrook died.. "When Judge Paricer was 33 year: old he was unanimously nominate< 'for the supreme court by the demo crats. The republicans would no nominate an opponent. Not a vot was cast against him. He served or the supreme court bench until hi election as chief judge of the cour of appeals, in 1897, by a plurality o about 6o,ooo votes. "Dng his nineteen years on thb benchli he has ignored politics. In iSo6 and 1900 he voted for Bryan. but it was well understood that he was a s.und-m ney man and merely accepted the will (f the majrity f the party." Parker's Personal Appearance. Jud'ge Parker is six feet tall and a man ci giant strength. His shoulders are bri-ad and his chest deep. lis muscles. developed by hard work on the farm and by daily horseback rid ing. are the muscles of an athlete. He slopes perfectly as a man should. from his shoulders to his feet. and in' spite of his nearly fifty-two years and his weight of 196 pounds his step is as light as a boy's and he can vault into the saddle with ease. His face is that of the ordinary country-bred man, strong-and full of color. The eyes are large and of an agreeable brown: lion-like eyes but for the kindly expression. One no tices the eyes first and then the im mense jaws and formidable round chin The lower part of the face is heavy but not brutal. It has a.powerful line and outward thrust that suggests tre mendous will power. The mouth is large and masculine. with a thick lower lip. The tipper teeth are big, flat and white. Ti lower teeth are small. The coarse. tawny moustache goes well with the the brilliant brown eyes and the reddish brown hair. The judge's nose is acquiline. He has high cheek bones, but the char acteristic is not marked. His high broad forehead slumps back without a buhp. It is a singularly symetrical brow, showing penetration, ambition and energy. The block head is not large and somewhat straight, so that it does not balance with the great Jaws and the fighting chin. Nowhere in the face or head is there a suggestion of craft. Nor is there anything, sidewise or sly in the eyes. They look at you straight. The practiet.j and logical dominate the imaginative, qualities, impulse is a slave to will. The lack of wrinkles between the eyebrows and the smooth forehead indicate a man who can con centrate his mind without the great ef fort which contracts the facial mus cles. Judge Parker dresses well and al ways in dark colors, usually grays. His ordinary attire is a cutaway coat of rough gray cloth and gray trousers. He wears a standing collar and simple black cravat held by a small pearl. Few men are more decorous or care ful in their dress. Parker As a Farmer. At the end of every week and dur ing the summer vacation Judge Par EVER SENT( :THE NEWBERN * WARRANTE 0 If it's not, *D e Send i1 iTheLeadiqg *Ring up No. 74 fo STORE. Order * ANSWERE[ * Prescriptions fron * berry filled at any I * We sell three bc * article for $2.50. + We carry the besi at very lowest price: I'Win. E. P El 'j0 Reliable Prescri 3 Newber ker is to be found on his picturesque farm. Rosemont. at Esopus. which iverlooks the Hudson river. He ha. three farms in New York state-one ,f 150 acres at Cortland. another of r;o acres at Accord and still another of oo acres at Esopus, He manages these three farm, and makes them. on the whole. pay. He is no dillet tante stranger to the country. playing with agriculture as with a toy. but a real farmer who directs the work. superintends the plowing. and, in har vest time. goes out in his shirt sleeves to work with his men in the hay and sorghum. A careful estimate of Judge Par ker's wealth places the value of all his possessions at about $3o.ooo. This property he has acquired mostly by saving and good business judgment. His farm at Cortland came to him from his farmer father. He was born on it and worked along its furrows as a boy. However deeply his mind may be immersed in the complex problems of his great office, his heari is always on the farm: for he was born a farmer and will be one till he dies. This familiar and practical knowledge of farming and farmers is of great value to the court in dealing with agricul tural cases. Here Judge Parker walks among his bulls and cows, in top boots and peajacket. the incarnation of strength and virility. He strides through the sorghum and hay fields, visits the great barn, tends the sick cow or fondles the latest calf, and helps his men to clear up the leaves or stubble. His cheeks glow, his eyes shine, and he swings his arms like a boy, drink ing in great draughts of the pure air or whistling a merry tune. None of his eight farm hands knows half as much as he about the trees, the crops, the cattle, sheep, pigs chick ens, turkeys or ducks. Whether in the peach or apple orchard, in the cow I pasture, barn or sty, he is master of all in knowledge, as well as in energy. He will ply his pitchfork or put his shoulder under a heavy load with the best of them, and it is a good man who can keep up with him. He is modest enough, save when he stands among his great red pool cattle, the pride of his heart. Then he swells with conscious comradeship, for they are like him-big, strong and genuine. There is no finer sight in that part of the country than Judge Parker in the -niddle of his head, calling to his gieat bulls and la'ughing as they come to him. V JOB )UT OF Y SHOE SHOP : D PERFECT, *. on't Grumble,:e Back. 0 Pharmacists:~ rPELHAM'S DRUG Sover telephone a )PROMPTLYa any Doctor of New- a our, day or night. * ~ttles of any $1.00 medicines and sella HAM I SON,a tion Druggists, ry, S. C. +-Ie+ttee