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54. .0. VOL XLVI NO. NEWBERRY S. C.. FRIIDAY. .JANUARY 29, 1909. .TIEAWE,S.0AYA Yeggman Ded Policeman RADEGY IN LAURENS IN RAILROAD YIRD OCCURED AT 2:15 O'CLOC YESTERDAY MONING. afe-Cracker Was Killed By Co paion Officer of the Wounded Policeman. An unknown yeggman dead and policeman of the city of Laurens fa ally and probably mortally wound( is the result of a pistol duel at 2. o'clock yesterday morning in the ra road yards at Laurens, in which t un1nown safe-breaker, who had eon in on the through freight from Spa tanburg, and Patrolman McDuffie : Stone, the wounded policeman, ai Patrolman W. F. Walker, of t Laurens police force, were parti pants. Patrolman Stone received fi bullet wounds, the most serious which was in .the abdomen. Yeste day morning it was thought there w -a,chance for his life, and Dr. LeGrai Guerry, of the Columbia hospita, w wired for to come to Laureno on t Columbia, Newberry and . Laure train, arriving at Laurens about tv o 'elock yesterday afternoon, and pe form an operation. * The wounded policeman did n get in a shot, the yeggman being ki .,ed by Policeman Walker after t yeggman had fired at Policemi Stone, hitting him five times, a then fired once at Policeman Walk The first news of the tragedy w 'received in Newberry at an ear hour yesterday morning, and T Herald and News secured immedia connection with Mr. S. E. Boney, ed tor of the Laurens Advertiser. bo by:Western Union wire and long di tance 'phone. Mr. Boney gave t: following details of the tragedy: Details of The Tragedy. "On the arival at 2.15 a. m. of t ,t+rugh freight from Spartanbi bound for Augusta, Patroimen Xl Duffe H. Stone and W. F. Walk were in the railroad yards. in t. course of their rounds. Patrolmn Stone walked down one side of t train and Patrolman Walker walk down the other side. Patrolman Sto. m-et a stranger on his side of t] train, the stranger carrying a litt sack in his hand. Patrolman Sto: aeoosted him, saying: " 'What are you doing here?' "The stranger answered. 'I am train hand.' " 'Where are you going?' ask Stone. "'Going back to the caboose,' i lied the stranger. "'it is strange you haven't g.>t light; train hands' always have light: said Stone. "With this remark, Patrolm. tone stepped up a little nearer to t stranger and laid his hand on ,hi whereupon the stranger whipped o a .45 callibre magazine pistol from 1 ves: pocket and emptied it at Stoi firing eight shots, five of which to effect in Stone's body-one in t abdomen. three in the legr. and one the lower lip. "The shots from the magazine p: tol came immediately after it w drawn, and before Polieeman Sto had time to realize the situation, a: the shots were in such rapid sucec sion that Stone did not have an o portunity to get out his pistol. Stoi however, clenched the stranger, a they fell together. Stone, of cour aii growing weak. and the strane worked loose from his grasp. A Clever Ruse. "Patrolman Walker, in the mea time. had crawled under the cars Stone's side of the train. As WaIlk appeared on the side of the tra where the shooting had occurred, t stranger said: " 'Don't shoot; I am already si: to pieces.' "Tahis, of course, was false, t stranger not having been shot at all, and was a ruse to give him tii to relad his pistol. Slipping anotbi 2d; Laurens B] 3adly Wounded NI magazine in his empty pistol the yeggman fired once at Policeman S Walker. Li Yeggman Shot to Death. "This shot missed Walker, and K Walker emptied his revolver at the yeggman, firng five shots, four of which went through the yeggman's is] body. The yeggman lived about I0o - three-quarters of an hour. He did su not speak after being wounded. B. "At this hour, 10 a. m., Stone is ti( resting very well. The only serious wound is through the bowels. It is H thought that he has a fighting chance w , for life, or else he would have died pr d from hemorrhage before this time. br L5 - "Dr. Guerry has been wired to di 1- come to Laurens this afternoon, and E. ie it is very likely that Stone will be ar operated on this afternoon, if he is lo ie still living when Dr. Guerry arrives. w] Safe-Cracker's Tools. d - "In the sack which was carried by ch id the yeggman were found all the tools a.b ie and explosives usually used in safe- gi i. cracking, including nitro-glycerine ve and dynamite. The equipment was th DfComplete. bu r-: May. Be An Accomplice.- Vo as "One of the train hands says there ru id I was a companion of the dead yegg- ba as man on the train, and the police au- en le thoriwes in various sections of the it as State are being asked to keep a look- th 70 out. Patrolmen Walker and Stone, ne r- horever, saw o:ily the one man." ta ot Laurens, Jan. 28, 2 p. m.-Police- til I- man Stone at this hour is about -the m je same, there being no perceptible da in ohange in -his condition. Dr. Guerry id will arrive on the train from Colum- th r. bia at shortly after two o'clock this of s afternoon. -ri ly The dead man was in height about t.h i-e five feet six and one-half inches; th te weight about 160 pounds: age about no ti 40. He wore a broad sack suit, and of .h good shoes-size 6 nr 6 1-2, make s- "Atlanta Shoe Co., Atlanta, Ga." j le. Wore celluloid collar, size 15 1-2; ti< shirt of very small stripe (blue);- new sa suit of underwear marked "H. J. ca ie Porter Co.. Augusta, Ga." Had been ov g, operated on for appendicitis and wore e- an abdominal supporter. Had lineal s, er scar as from a knife cut. beginning se ae at centre of upper lip and continuing ne in across chin almost to point very near w~ 1e middle line. This was an old scar. pr ad Vaccination mark on left arm high 1e in. Teeth small and irregnlar, mueh on 1e wvorn on right upper side; one gold th le crowned and two gold faced on cut- or le ting surface upper left hand side; is one eve tooth has narrow cold band. la Hair scant. close-cropped, dark he a brown, curly. Eyes blueish-gray. bi] Heavy-set jaw. clean shaven, scant ed ad wiry mustache. Nose straight and th, rather long. Mouth broad, big. Harh th 'e- forehead, with hair line well back on ag right side, inereasing area. Muscular or a development good. Long-waisted; ,short, stout legs. eni I S. E. Boney. cr n tit ae RBMARKS EXPUNGED. on n, at at Representa.tive Willett's Speech on .is President Stricken From e te. Record. - lo' he Washington. Jan. 27.-Thie house Ci in with but a few faint "nays"' today J( ado)ptedl -the report ot the special M .s- committee on the Willett speech. Si as Rep)resentative Mann (Ill.), chair- W aie man of the spe-cial c-o:nttee, pres id ent-ed the report which, he said, re- F< s- presented the unanimous opinion of L: -:he emumittee. Af:er the report had ~S Le, been re:ad. Mr. Mann offered to yield to d timi to any member wishing to dis-I e eiss the report, but as none evinced a.a er desire to do so, the resolution striking th out the speech wats passed with hard- jdc ly a dissentig voie.te n- Recommending that the speech de to livered in t,he house last week by ye er Representative Willett of New York, hi in in which the president was severely hi be criticised. be 'expunged from The or Congressional Record, the select corn ot mittee appointed to consider the in 'peech submitted its report to the er bhue'od:1v. A letter written to the he at r-mmtt-ee by Representaitive Willett. er ne rgin:? that his speech .Ihould remain n< er . on reonrd,accomrunied the report. sh LL FOR INCREASE OF SILARIES KILLED. ) TEST VOTE YET ON PROHI BITION. ,n Law and Fertilizer Tax Discuss ed-The Work of the General Assembly in Detail. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 28.-The leg ature on yesterday began the bal ;ing for an associate justice of the preme court to succeed the Hon. Ira Jones, who was elected chief jus e. As stated in the last issue of The Drald and News five candidates re placed in nomination. It is not obable that the dead-lock will be ken this week. Four of the can Jates - Representative Cothran, c-Gov. Sheppard. Judge Hydrick, d Judge Watts-on the first bal - had very nearly the same vote, iile Judge Gage, the other canli te, had only 22 votes. Several bal :s were taken with no material ange except that Judge Watts lost out four votes and Judge Gage four ing to Sheppard, Cothran. and Ily ick a sufficient number to make eir votes within one of each other, t with less than one-half eaongh tes to elect. With these cariCidates nning so close together it is pro ble that several ballots will be tak before the result is reaeber., a.vd is the opinion of the members that e dead-loek will not be braken until xt week sometime. Tt is expected that both houses will ke a recess on Friday afternoon un Tuesday in order that the, mer'ers iv be home for the Februarv sales Y. No time has yet been appointed for e election of members to the board directors of the penitentiary and istees of the various colleges where ere are vacancies. It is probable at the time for these elections will t be fixed until after the election an associate justice. In the event of one of the cireuit dges being elected associate jus e another election will be neces rv to fill that vacancy. Not much n be done until these elections are er with. The two houses voted in separate ;sion on Tuesday for United States 2ator and in joint ballot on Wed sday elected Mr. E. D. Smith, who is the nominee in the democratic imary last summer. The lien law was up for discussion Wednesday in t,he house, and after we who desire to get rid of their atory on the subject, are heard, it probable that the bill repealing the x will be passed by the house. The se at the last session passed a .1 repealing the lien law but it fail of passage by the senate.. It is agCt that the vote in the senate is year will be close on this subject an, and it is not certain whether not the bill will be passed. In the senate there was some dis ssion on Senator Croft 's bill to in ease the number of associate jus es of the supreme court to four but Tuesday it failed to pass the sen by the necessary two-thirds vote. The vote on the motion to pass the olution in the senate was as fol Aes-Bass. Carlisle, Clifton. Croft. -osn Graydon. Hardin. Hough. h nstone. Kelley. Lide. McKeithan, ontgomery. Muekenfuss, Otts, kler. Spivey. Sullivan. Townsend. alker, Weston. Williams-Total 22. Nays'-Bl ack. Carpenter. Earle, rirst Griflin, Harvey. Johnson. ey, Mauldin, Ra insford, Rogers, iterrt. Summers. Waller, Whar --Total 15. The senate again on Wednesday ~opted a resolution -to reconsider e vote whereby the bill was voted wn and after some debate the mat r was carried over. The prohibition question has not t come up for debate though the ls providing for State wide prohi tion have been introduced and are te calendars. Senator Lide. of Orangeburg, has trodued a bill providing for a gen al election throughout the State to taken on the question as to wheth the State shall go prohibition or >t. It provides that tile election policy regarding the sale of alcoholic liquors and the election is ordered for August 24th. The questions to be answered in this election are: 1. Are you in favor of State pro hibition? 2. Are you in favor of local option between county prohibition and the county dispensary system? 3. Are you in favor of extending local option between a system of pro hibition or license or the county dis pensary system? Charleston through Senator Sink ler has proposed a bill along the same line. Senator Appelt has a bill to impose a heavy license tax upon whiskey drummers soliciting orders for whis key in this State. The purport of the bill is to make it prohibitive. Just what will be th-e result of all these proposed measures on the whis key question seems to be in very great doubt. It will be recalled that the house at the last session passed a State wide prohibition bill which was killed in the senate. It is not at all certain that this legislature will pass State wide prohibition. The sentiment seems to be growing amongst the members that the cause of temperance will be best promoted by allowing each county to vote on this question as under the present law. It may be, however, that the referendum propos ed by Senator Lide will be adopted so that the matter may be passed up on by the people themselves. The dispensary committee of the house to whom was referred the pro ,hibition bill introduced in that body submitted a majority favorable re port and a minority unfavorable re port. Mr. Kibler, who is on this committee. signed the majority re port. Senator Crosson, of Lexington, has introduced a bill providing for the office of State highway engineer. The bill provides that the engineer shall receive a salary of $1950 per year and his actual expenses, and shall hold office for two years, and also appoint assistant engineers. The appropria tion carried in the bill is $3000. The officer is charged with the duty of furnishing county supervisors plans, etc., for improved highways, bridges, and anything else that may be re quested of him to further the good roads movement. He is also requir ed to gather statistics along the lines of road building and -instruct the county supervisor as to the best methods to be followed.' Representative Cosgrove 's bill to issue State bonds to be used in aid of building State roads has not yet come up for discussion. The house has killed the senate bill providing for an increase in the sal aries of State officers. Tihe house has also killed Mr. Ay er's bill to provide for a commission er to study and revise the education al laws of the State. Mr. Kibler 's bill to require all sehool warrants to be approved by the county superintendent of educa tion has passed the house. Mr. Brice, of Chester, has a bill to prohibit cotton mill operatives at any time working more than eleven hours in any one day, with the proviso that time lost on account of accident might be made up. Mr. McMahan has introduced a bill ini regard to the inspection tax on fer tilizers. so that when the tax is paid to the State treasurer as now p)ro vided by law, it shall niot be sub.ject to the order of the board of trustees of Clemson college, but shall go into the general fund to reimburse the State for all expenses in connection wih theC inspection and experimienta tion provided by law. This tax for tie present fiscal year :already amounts to more than $170.'000, the largest in the history of the tax. If Mr. McMahan 's bill should pass it wud be necessary for the legisla ture to make appropriations direct for the support of Clemson college as is done for the other State insti tutions. There have been during the week several important hea rings before the committees on insurance legislation which is proposed and on railruad legislation, especially the bill provid ing for electrie headlights on oil en gines in this State. The bill rprovid ing forj these electrie 'nndights h:w received a favorable report from the house committee, though it is being DEADLOUK Oh BALLUI ASSOCIATE JUSTICE FIVE CANDIDATES AE IN TIE RACE. Reported That Governor Ansel .Was to be Entered as Dark Hors Ballots so Far. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, January 28.-Three bal lots were taken for associate justice today with no result. The first ballot resulted: Cothran 37; Gage 20; Sheppard 38; Watts 32; Hydrick 36. Tthe second ballot resulted: Cothran 36; Gage 21; Hydrick 37; Sheppard 38; Watts 31. The third ballot resulted as fo lows: Cothran.39; Gage 19; Hydrick 37; Sheppard 38; watts 31. The joint assembly receded from balloting until 8 o'clock tonight, when balloting will be resumed. There is talk in Columbia today of entering Governor Ansel as a candidate in or der to brepk deadlock. J. W. King, of Columbia, has an nouncd himself a candidate for di rector of the penitentiary to succeed B. F. Thomas, resigned. Three ballots were taken by the general assembly on Wednesday for associate justice to succeed Associate Justice Jones, recently elected chief justice. No candidati having receiv ed a majority, it was decided to re sume the balloting again on Thurs day. There were five candidates before the. general assembly, as follows: Thos. J. Cothran, of Greenville. D. E. Hydrick, of Spartanburg. Geo. W. Gage, of Chester. John C. Sh.eppard, of Edgefield. R. C. Watts, of Cheraw. Three of the above, Messrs. Gage, Watts and Hydrick, are circuit judges, The other two are prominent members of the bar of the State. The first ballot on Wednesday was as follows: Cothran 38; Gage 22; Sheppard 36; Hydrick 33; Watts 35. Necessary to a choice, 83. The second ballot showed Cothran 37; Hydrick 35; Sheppard 37; Watts 33; Gage 21. Necessary to a choice, 182. Tihe third ballot showed Cothran 38; Hydrick 38; Gage 18; Sheppard 37-, Watts 32. Necessary to a choice, When the two houses were conven-. ed in joint assembly at 12.30 o'clock Lieu-t. Gov. Thomas G3. McLeod, pre siding, called for nominations for the position of associate justice of the supreme court to fill out the unexpir ed term of Justiee Ira B. Jon.es, who has been elevated to the chief justice ship. Senator Carlisle of* Spartanburg placed in nomination Hon. D. E. Hy drick, a son of Orangeburg county, but now of Spartanburg. This nomination was seconded by Senator Lide of Orangeburg and Representative Wyche of Newberry. Seniator Rainsford of Edgefie'ld placed in nomination Hon. J. C. Shep Ipard; seconded by the Richland dele gation, through Hon. J. J. McMahan of .the .house, .and by 1kepresentative IGarris of Bamberg. Senator Mauldin of Greenville placed in nomination Hon. Thomas P. Cothiran, whose nomination was seconded by Representative Carey of Pic.kens. Senator Hardin of Chester placed in nomination Hon. George W. Gage and this nomination was seconded by Representative Hines of Lancaster 'a:d by Senator Stewart of York. Senator Laney placed Hon. R. C. Watts' name before the joint assem bly, the same being seconded by Sena tor Wharton of Laurens and Senator Kelley of Lee. There were other seconds, but the chair ruled that in each case the re quired number of seconds had been received. - The general assembly then proceed ed to balloting. The First Ballot. The firballot resulted as follows: For hos.P. Cothran. Senators Christensen, Johrnstone, (Cntinued on nage four.) opposed ery strenuously by the rail roads on account of the additional cost which it will -entail, and because, they say, that it does not aid any en gineer in seeing objects on the track. It is very probable that this bill will be passed by the legislature. Quite a number of visitors have been in Columbia during the week who are interested in the elections. No action has been taken by the ways and means committee as yet on the appripriation bil' and, of course, these bills cannot well be reported until it is known what disposition will be made of the new measures carrying with them additional appro priations. T.he estimate of the comptroller general on the basis of appropriations made last year is that with the other sources of income the expense of the government can be met with a five mill tax. That will depend, thowever, upon adoption of new measures car rying with them additional appro priations. It seems that the disposi tion of the present hous-e is to keep the appropriations down. Mr. H. C. Holloway, attorney of the board of county commissioners, was in Columbia last night to confer with the Newberry delegation as to county matters. He is going to make up a statement showing th-e financial condition of the county and send to them at the earliest possible conven ienee. He estimates roughly that the expenses of the county' during 1908 were about $36,000, the income only about $22,000. The note fox $7,000 which was borrowed from the sinking fund has not yet been paid. The county fund has been overdrawn about $3,000, and the balance of un collected taxes- estimated at only about $4,000. It is probable that the tax levy will be made four and a half mills for county purposes. POSED AS MINISTER. Young Man Calling Himself "Rev. Ivan M. Gray" Turns Out to b'e a Swindler. St. Louis, Jan. 25.-That a young man who for four months preached from the pulpit of the Congregational church in Greenwood, a suburb of this city, was an impostor, using the name of a Chicago clergyman, was the allegation made in a letter receiv i ed today from th? Moody Bible insti tute, Chicago, by Rev. Herman Swartz, pastor of the Webster Groves Congregational church. The clergy man called himself "Rev. Ivan M. Gray " and .just before leaving Green wood he paid several accounts with cheeks drawn for greater amounts than the bills called for. In this way he received $100 in change. T.he checks were returned as worthless by a suburban bank. As the man said that he was a graduate of the Moody Bible institute, inquiry was made there. The answer states that Mr. Gray is pastor of a Chicago church and has never .been in St. Louis. He was robbed, according to the letter, by a young convert whom he took in to -his home and it is believed that the man who passed the checks .in Greenwood was the same individual who robbed Mr. Gray. NEW COLUMBIA PAPER. Business Men, Headed by Mr. Jas. A. Hoyt, Have Well Directed Movement on root. Columbia State. The secretary of state has issued a commission to The Evening Sun com pany, of whieh tihe .corporators are: Messrs. James A. Hoyt. M. L. Kinard and George L. Baker. and the capital stoc~k i.s to be $25,000. Mr. Hoyt is the organizer of th:e company and is to be editor and general manager of the paiper. He stated that he ex pects to begin the publication of the paper within a few weeks, as soon as a plant can be purchased and install ed. The Evening Sun will use the afternoon news service of the Asso e-iated Press, of which organiza.tion Mr. Hoyt was recently elected a mem er. Mr. Hoyt will be the largest stock holer in The Evening Sun company, het he stated that a number of busi ness men in Columbia and other parts of the State are a.lso interested in the enterpri::e. reg:rding the afternoon newpaper field in Columbia as very inviting