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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Itemst of More or Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. President Roosevelt left Washing ton and went to his summer home at Oyster Bay. N. Y.. on Saturday. Bobby Valthour. the renowned Atlanta cyclist, was severely injured in a race in Atlanta on Thursday. but is reported to be rapidly recovering. The commencement address at the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn., last week. was delivered by Baron Sperk von Sternberg. the Ger man ambassador to the United States. I Nealy three quarters of a million dollars in life insurance has been paid to the estate of the late Robert H. Platt, of Macon, Ga.. who committed suicide after the failure of the bank of which he was president. At the meeting of the National Ed ucational association in St. Louis last week W. H. Maxwell. superinten dent of instruction in New York. was chosen president of the associa tion for the coming year. Steve Renfroe. of Fayetteville. Ga., an aged man 79 years old. shot his daughter-in-law through the head on Thursday, killing her instantly. The old man and the woman had dis agreed about a cabbage patch. John Jones. a negro. who was ar rested at Cartersville. Ga.. on Fri day and identified as the assailant of a white woman living near Altoona, Ga., was taken from the sheriff by a mob numberirg over 200 and lynched. The body of W. A. McQueen, who was known as a quiet and inoffensive man, was found floating in a river at Miami, Fla., his home, last week. with an ugly gash on his head and the theory has been advanced that he was murdered and thrown in the river. The navy department has pur chased over 27o acres of land adjoin ing the Norfolk navy yard at a price of $4oo,ooo. This purchase is part of an improvement to be made on an extensive scale there which if all plans are carried out is expected by naval officials to make the Norfolk navy yard the largest in the world. Governor Jennings, of Florida. by proclamation, on Thursday ordered a reduction on.state tax proper from three mills on the dollar as provided by legislative enactment, to one-half of one mill on the dollar, the lowest rate in the history of Florida, made possible by the splendid financial con dition of the state. The prohibition party in session in Indianapolis, Ind., last week nomina ted Silas C. Swallow, of Pennsylvan ia, for president and George W. Car roll, of 'T.exas, for vice-president. General Nelson A. Miles, who was spoken of for the nomination for the presidency, positively declined to have his name placed on the ticket. A locomotive boiler on the Penn sylvania railroad while -going up a mountain from Ehrenfeld. Pa., ex ploded, killing three men and injuring two others, one of them fatally. The exploding boiler belonged to a lo comotive that was helping a freight train up the mountain. The three men killed were in the cab of the lo comotive. H. S. Hart. senior member of a lo cal jewelry firm and a prominent cit izen of Shreveport. La.. wvas fined $1.ooo and, in default of payment. sen tenced to two years on the ptublic roads, in the Shreveport city court. on Saturday on the charge oi send ing an insulting letter to young wvo man of good repute.* John Alxander Dowie, the self-st el ed "'Elijah I1I.."~ who has recently made a trip to Europe and elsewvhere, his trip practically circling the earth. arrived at his home in Zion City. Chicago. on last Thursday. Elabor ate preparations had been made to greet D)owie, and he wvas given a royal reception by the Zionites. .\ clerk in the Nels n Five and Ten Cents store, in \\vorcester. .\as.. n Saturday accidentally stepped on a large torpedo and started a fire which causedl the explsin 'if $70o wortnh tirewi rks andl cut if fo rty cust' miers and clerks fromi the * nly exit. \V' men andl clhildren were inju:red and.l suftie catedl by sin ke and were rescued from ithe cellar. where they had tied to an :d the flames. Fortunately there were few serious injuries, but Frank Thomas. after being pursued for thirteen years. during which time he visited a number of countries. is at last in jail in Alabama. with num erous indictments against him. Thom as held up a maili carrier near Ever green. Ala.. in 1901, ritled the mail pouch. threw the mail matter into a creek and robbed the carrier of mney and a gold watch. lie finally located in the Indian Territory. where he was convicted of selling liquor without a license. lie served two years in the Federal prison in Atlan ta. and while there he made a con fession and at the expiration of his sentence a requisition .or his return to Alabama was 1(inored by the gov ernor of Georgia. The final bulletin issued by the cen sus department on the negro popula tion of the United States .hows that the number of negroes in the United States. including the entire area cov ered by the twelfth census. Conainen tai United States. Alaska and Ha waii.) and Porto Rico is 9.204.531. perhaps a larger number than is foifnd in any other country outside of Af rica. The report indicates that be tween ii and 16 per cent. of the ne gro population have or are believed by the enumerators to have some de gree of white blood. Almost 90 per cent. of the negroes in Continential United States are in the southern states and two-thirds of them all in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed in the State. Nineteen young men received their diplomas from the South Carolina Military Academy, at Charleston. last week. The annual meeting of the State Teachers' association will be held at Winthrop college, Rock Hill, July 14-16. South Carolina's delegation left yesterday for the national democrat ic convention, which convenes in St. Louis on Wednesday. J. P. Carroll was acquitted in the Charleston court last week of the murder of George M. Caulfield. The defendant set up the plea of self-de tense. The trial in Spartanburg of Harry Dean. charged with the murder of Miller McKinney. resulted in a mis trial. The jury failed to agree after remaining out all night. The body of Cairo Williams. the nrgro who was taken off a train at Scranton and lynched last week. was found in a bay near Scranton riddled with bullets. The .lynchers. it is re ported, numbered 150. Thirty gallons of contraband corn whiskey were seized by state consta bles last week from two wagons go ing toward Greenville. apparently loaded with produce. Both drivers. who are white men, were arrested and placed in the county jail. Alister Hamilton. a colored preach er of Beaufort, was shot by E. Pat rick. another negro preacher at the same place, on last Thursday night, Hamilton being caught in intimate association with Patrick's wife. The wound wvas not serious. Considerable excitement was caused in Camden last Thursday by a mes sage from the Boykin neighborhood of the county stating that Aaron Williams, a negro who had attempted an assault on the wife of a mill man and farmer. was threatened with lynching. The sheriff went to the scene and arrested the negro. Mike Meadows. a Columbia news boy, who lost his leg in a head-on collision on the Columbia electric street railway, has brought suit against the railway for S3o.ooo dama ges. The complaint alleges gross neglia nce in over-speeding the cars and not having them equippedl with suficent air brakes. Judge Purdy, who held the Marl boro court last wveek, sent ti jail a witness who was sent after with a bench warrant and wvho, wh en he cae,. saidI that he fo rgo t the day for c urt. Jundge Purdy said he thought the 'ftice . f co urt crier inught to be abolihed. "It causes confusion in the court." said the judge. "and is largely responille f. r the failure of witnesses andl juroirs to be in their places. Every man who has business in court ought to be here without haing te allerd." Will Jacobs shot and instantly killed R. B. Wallace. at the home of Jacobs. at Latta. on Thursday night. It is said that the dispute arose about Wallace's sister. who had taken her abode in the Jacobs home. She. it is claimed. was made to leave her father's home and immediately lodged in the house of Jacobs. \\allace went to Jacoh' house on Friday night and curseld his sister and attempted t( shoot Jacobs, when Jacobs shot him (lead. The internal revenue taxes paid in this state for the fiscal year ending July i amounted to nearly $760.ooo an increase of over $140.o00 over last year. Only a small amount of this money came from the dispensary. The income is derived from cigars. tobac co and manufactuired spirits. A., the government taxes paid indicate in a measure the prosperity of a state this will go to show that the state has en joyed a wave that ranks her high when compared with the incomes of other states from these sources. William H. Lowe. night watchman at the Whitney mills. Spartanburg, killed himself on Friday afternoon by shooting himself through the heart in an up-stairs room of his dwelling. No reason has been assigned for the rash act and he left no letter nor anything to indicate that the deed was premeditated. Lowe was about 48 years old. His wife and six chil dren. the most of whom worked in the Whitney mills, survive him. J. Clarence Edwards, a white man aged 21 years. has been placed in the Spartanburg jail to await trial for forgery. Edwards last week secured a blank check and filled it out, using the name of A. B. Groce. one of Spar tanburg county's wealthiest citizens. The check was for $200 and was pre sented at the First National bank, where the signature excited suspic ion and Mr. Groce was communica ted with and the forgery discovered. The young man attributed his crime to drink, saying that he was intoxi cated at the time of the forgery. An old white woman, who lives about a mile beyond Hyatt park, Co lumbia, while driving home about dark on Thursday evening, was pulled out of the wagon by a mulatto and warned not to make a sound. She screamed for help. however, and a gentleman came to her assistance and the negro ran. The negro was caught and turned over to the officer of Eau Claire, but the callaboose was not strong enough to hold him, and instead of having the negro taken to Columbia he was allowed to escape. It is not thought that the negro intended any thing worse than roboery. If a girl thinks'as much of a young an as she does of herself she is aflicted with a disease called love. Wood's Seeds. OfCilulll C10ofe Sown at the last working of the Corn or Cotton Crop, can be plowed under the following April or May in time to plant corn or other crops the same season. Crimson Clover prevents winter leaching of the sod, is equal in fer tilizing value to a good application of stable manure and will wonder fully increase the yield and q ual Iity of corn or other crops winch follow it. It nlso makes splendid winter and spring grazing, fine early green feed, or a good hay crop. 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