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OL X MANN ING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1902. wimathut untie.' thuose ia'c' abue relted. and which Would go to im peach ti validity of the said b nis. (lhis to in1 face 1f the fact that the record1s in the ollice of the county comm Ii ssione rs fit t he various counties which recorels are public records and notice to the world, disclose all of the facts which wouhl ro to impeach the validity of the said bonds.) Since then the matter has been in litiga tion. until finally judglgments have been obtained ag~ainst se\ eral of these' townships upn coupons representing as part only of the accrued interest. ni! mand ates have been issued by the t'nited states court authorizing a levy and collection of a tax to meet the judgnments already obtained. and .-uits are still pending against some of s tile townslips: and inasmuch as the d first instalnent of the principal of the p said bonds falls due this year other n suits will surely follow. since it ap- a pears that these l(inds. or at least a t large portio In of t hem (the exact a a runt we do not know.) have found their vay into the hands of non-resi- n dent, who can sue in the lnited i States court and thus evade the deci- i sions of the State court. The debt against )unklin and Oak r Lawn townships, in Greenville Count c alone amounts in principal aim ae crued interest to s'Omlething like thirty t thousand dollars each. The principal i of bonds on behalf of Cokesbury, t Ninety-Six and Cooper townships amount to 46.-00) The other town- c ships are similarly affected. You can i imagine what an elcornous tax will r be ret uired to pay this debt and the o number of homes that will have to he r sold in order to meet this unjust tax. C if some means of escape cannot be s devised. it hangs over the property a of the said townships as a black cloud, d striking terror to the hearts of our v citizenshi p. shutting out all rays of I hope ftr the future. U'nless relief Is j had this debt will practically destroy i1 the value of our property. since no y one would care to purchase property. v or move into a township with such an t enormous debt hanging over it. We ' are advised that the supreme court of i of the United States itself has decided v that in cases like this. where the t charters of the municipal corpora- s tions are repealed, and their corporate s agents removed, there would be no t longer in existence anyone upon whom b the Federal courts could lay their t hands in order to enforce the collec- t tion of the tax provided for by the a Act, and that the. said court is limit- e ed in its jurisdiction to enforcing the v machinery provided for by the Act authorizing the levy of the tax: that t it cannot itself levy the tax, nor can p it place the said townships in he t hands of a receiver, and that in such cases the creditors are without remedy d except to apply to the Legislature for t relief. if this constitutional amendment. n therefore, is voted, the townships hay- n ing no longer any legal existence ih would have no corporate agent upon t whom the Federal courts could lay t their hands for the purpose of compel- t ing the levy of the tax, and we would a thereby be relieved from the payment p of this unjust, illegal and inquitous tax which we are called upou to pay, 1 and for which there is on considera- f( tion either legal or moral. t We~therefore.ask our fellow citizens Io to stand by the decision of the State 0 ourt. If a citizen of South Carolina u eld any of these bonds he could not p recover. Under the decision of the S Federal courts a non-resident purchas- fi er for valuable consideration and with- d ut notice can recover, thereby un- n justly discriminating against the e itizens of our own State if the said e ebt is a just one and should be paid. c We most earnestly ask our fellow- ri itizens to be sure to vote the printed e: tickets. wvhich will be furnished the a cnanagers at the next general election. n "Constitutional Amendment of See- t; tion 11 of Article VII of the Consti- b ution, relating to Counties and h ounty Government. Yes:" and also e se their influence at the polls to see t hat others vote the same way. "Do tt nto others as you would have others d o unto you'' under similar circum- b stances is all that we ask. ti Dunklinu-C. D. Smith, -L. T. H. a Daniel Jesse L. French. a Oak Lawn-Dr. V. 1). Hopkins. W. e . McKelvey, Geo. XW. Sullivan. Sullivan-Win. D. Sullivan, R. WV. h Nichols. JIohn XW. Beeks. Cokesbury-Wm. J1. Moore, T. .J. s; Elis, W. HI. Moore. , i Ninety-Six-M. II. Coleman. .J. P. Philips. G. H. Taylor. Co.oper-J. HI. Br ooks. R. WV. Town- n scd. t P'in'e Grove and lluiet-J. E. Brun- c so. W. U. Stevens. Mrs. Dennis Dies. t t A fter hovering between life and eath since last December, Mr-s. Ada Gibert IDennis, the victim of the most mterious assaults in the history of the District of Columbia. died at the Garield hospital in Washington Thu rsday. With her death'the last hope of the solution of the mysteryc has disappeared. Mrs. De)nnis came ere from Gettysburg. Pa.. and mar ied Walter Dennis. a Washingtcn actor. She was found. D~ecember 30.n insensible in her bedroom, her skul! :rushed. Various theories were ad- i vanced as to the motive of the crime. but no detinite clue w'as ever obtained. Iobbecry wvas suggested, but reieeted s $100 on the table had not been t taken by her assailant. In one: of her u semi-ratonal moments she exeialImed. 'Its a woman.' Subsequently she k made contradictorv sita temfenits. She C never recovered sunliciently to tal'ki rationally.I I Several of the up-.ohuntr-y papners have recently no ted the fact that 1or mer residents in Texas are stendiniz to this state the weevil insect which h-s wrought millions of dlollar-s' worth of destruction the cotton crop in thait state. These insects are sent in bot ts as specimens, hut it is an exc crinIgly dlanger-ous practice. on ae cunit of the liab ilIity ol their inutro (ued itn into this state. A Newiherr I famer wit re-eived a bottle of speci meu pi~romti bu vhrned the. insets in the presence '4 wvitnessgs. so that if I they ever become an evil in this state - he ;-'tld no t:bel el responsilet. ill :5 exalple oght to be followed by evervbody who receive nyr of the pest~( AN APPEAL To the Qualified Voters of South Carolina. AN IMPORTANT STATEE'ENI Front the Citizens or Several T-,wn ships in the Ipper Part o the State on a Vital )latter. To the Voters of South Car', lna: The townships of )unkiin and Oak Lawn in the county of Greenville: Cokesburv. Ninety-Six and Cooper in the county of (Greenwoo d:: Sullivan inl the county of Laurens, and IIfuiett and Pine rove in the county of Salu da, hereby call to your attention the proposed amendment to Article Vii Section 11 of const it u t ion of 0 +-, which seeks to dest m:y the corporate existence of :he said townships. and respect fuily ask that you vote in favor of the said proposed constitutional amendnent. for the reason that it is the only hope to relieve the taxpay ers of the said townships from the payment of an enormous debt for bonds issued in aid of a railroad which never was built, and for wN hich they have received absolutely no considera tion. The said bonds were illegally issued in the beginning, as the citi zens of said townships respectfully al lege and will endeavor to show, and the said indebtedness has been declared null and void by the supreme court of South Carolina. whose decision should be accepted as final and conclusive by all loyal citizens of the State. the de cision of any other court to the con trary notwithstanding. So then the taxpayers of these townships claim: (1) That there is no moral consider ation for the said indebtedness, inas much as the conditions prescribed by the Act upon compliance of which, alone the bonds should be issued. were never complied with and the people of these townships have received abso lutely no consideration for the said enormous debt. the principal alone of which amounts in the neighbor hood of one hundred thousand dollars. and which has been drawing interest at seven per cent. for something like sixteen years. (2) That the said debt does not con stitute a legal indebtedness against the saia townships if we accept as fi nal the decision of the supreme court of South Carolina,which it is our duty to do. That the decision of the Fed eral courts upon questions of this kind is not authority binding upon the State courts or the citizens of a State has been frequently decided. In the case of Congaree Construc tion Co., vs. Columbia Township. re ported in 49 S. C., 535. - At page 539 the court uses this language: "Again, it is urged that, inasmuch as the supreme court of the United States, in the case of Folsom vs. Ninety-Six Township, 159 U. S.. 611. has been called upon to pass upon the same questions as were considered and decided by this court in Floyd vs. Perrin, and has taken a diilerent view from that adopted by this court as to the constitutionality of the statutes there involved, (our own court in that' case hav-ing fleld the bonds invalid) this court should now, with a view to securing uniformity of judicial decis ion, abandon its previous well-consid ered opinion and adopt the view taken by the supreme court of the United States. While this court fully recog nizes the superior authority and bind ing force of all decisions of that dis tinguished tribunal in all cases in volving the construction of the con stitution and laws of the United States and is always ready to cheer fully follow and acquiesce in such de cisions, yet we do not recognize the superior authority of that tribunal, or the binding force of its decisions, involving only the construction or va lidity of our own State constitution and laws. Upon such questions it is our sworn duty to pass, untrammeled by the dicta of any foreign tribunal. whether State or Federal, no matter how high its rank may be, and to de cide such questions according to our best judgment." The facts are brielly these: In 18~ the Legislature passed an Act amend ing an Act to incorporate the G(reen ville and Port Royal railroad campmy in certain important particulars, an d among this incorporating ce'rtain townships along the line of the said proposed railway, and authoriz.ed r these townships to subscribe to its' -capital stock upon the terms and ennt ditions therein expressed. These con ditions were never complied with,. and the records in the ottice of the county commissioners for the various tout: ties will so show. The said bonds would therefore. he invalid in the hands of the original parties to whom they were issued. Notwithstanding the failure to comply with the condi tions precedent required by the Act, bonds on behalf of these several town-' ships were issued in an amount vary 'ing from ten to twenty thousand dol lars to each township. A company wa organized for the pretended pur pose of constructing the saidl road. This company pretended to be grad ing the road, and thereby secured from the county commissioners the issue o' the said bonds. Shortly thereafter the company failed and left the grade in an incomplete condition. and the people have no prospect whatever (of ever getting the said road. An action wa broutght in the State courts for the purpose of testing tihe validlity of these bonds and the State court de cided the Act unconstitutionali and the bonds invalid. (See i-lovd vs. Per rin, 39 S. C., page 1.) Thereafter certain parties, who claimed to be non-residents and subsequent pur chasers for value and without ntice, (the bonds beirg invalid in the hands of the original holders, for. the reasons above specitied) brought their action in the United States court to test thle validity of tihe said bonds. and the Uniited States court refused ti folow the decison of t he State court in loy vs. Perrin and did'ed in favor of the said bond hlders. Thart is to say, that the bonidsw were god in the hlandis of the non-residlents who mlight have purca h ae for alue and PERISH N A FIl1. )ver Twenty Men Are Burned V Death in Chicago. HEY HAD NO TIME TO ESCAPI 'he Flatties Spread 1'romi the Base mlent to the Seventh Story W here the 3cu Wer( Wvorking Itatidly. Ie a lire which broke out in Ciicag ortlv before midnight on Tues av night of last week: in th lant of the Glucose Sugar Ltc .nery. situated at Taylor strce ud the Chicago river. that fac orv was alI mo'st entirely destroyed nd it is said 20 men lost tlch li ves h1 llames spread so rapidly that ; man who was working on the ;hin oor h:. barely time to escape witi is life and it is not thought by til m ul yes o the ctnern or by th 1 tire en that ltw me: in the upper stor: uld have avoided death. At mid ighit two bodies had been take: rum the ruins. but the tire was burn. Ig so rapidly that it was imnpossibl' ,) make further search. The pl:lit of the retining compan; iusisted Of three buildings. the (!V : house. seven stories in neighs. th ain retinery. 14 stories high. and anii t'r strcture (f1 four stories. The re started in the drying house- beine :used by an explosion. The llame: )read witlh almost incredible rapidity nd by the time the first of the fire epartment had arrived the building 'as ablaze from foundation to roof t was impo.,sible for the firemen t< lake any efiective tight against thi ames, and in a short time all th< 'alls were down and the building itlin one-half hour from the time it sie explosion was a mass of debris he tire was so hot that at one time was feared that the Taylor streel iaduet across which access is had to e south side of the city would be de :royed. The tiremen managed t( ive this after a hard struggle. They ent every effort toward saving the ilding of the refinery, but so in nse was the fire in the drying house lat this caught tire in several places nd at 22.: a. m. it was evident that een if it could be saved at all, il 'ould be badly damaged. Later: The tire was under contro y 1 o'clock and although it was no1 ossibie at that time to form any es mate of the loss of life, the state ents of the men employed in the rying house were soon contlicting sat the police declared that in their pinion the loss of life would not be tore than 10 or 12. Several of th( ten who made their escape from th( iver part of the building said that sere were not more than 10 or 12 on le top floor. and it is not thought at there would be, any loss of life tong the men employed in any other irt of the building. The men employed in the three (wer tloors of the drying house ran )r the doors and windows as soon as ey had knowledge of the fire and al: them succeeded in reaching the en air. On the third loor thce *as one man at work. He was com lled to make a run for his life dowr ~airs. Hie burst through a mass 01 :mes when he reached the lowei orway and was badly scorched. Thet ten on the seventh floor had nc lance whatever for their lives. See. al of them left the windows anc awled along the sills in an efTort tc ~ach a place of safety, but with the ceptiou of two men, all those whc tempted to reach safety in this way ade up their minds that it was cer tin death arid went back into the arning building. Ttne two men. owever, determined to take the ances of a leap and climbing upoc le window ledge, they sprang out in )the air. One of them came straight wn for the greater part of the way at just as he was within a short dis. nce of the pavement his body swung cound and he struck the stone walk Sfull length. The other man turn i over and over and over as he came hirling down. Their bodies werc rribly cr'ushed and mangled. and it as impod ble for any of the men whc tw them di:-eetly after their jump tc lentify them in any way. Four other men jumped from thc indows on the ?ourth Iloor. Thest ten were terrib:y injured and werm. iken ini police ambulances to thc J~nty hospital. Rejected the Treaty. The D~anish lent'sthing has rejected e treaty provAng for the sale 01 se Danishl West Indies to the United tates, and that settles the bursine >r the present at least. The - round urged in this country ft unexation of the islands was .;.t iey would be excellent places for the stablishment of naval stations and 1us give this country, in time of war. ntrol of the Caribbean sea and Gulf fMexico. Commercially the islands ould have been of little value to this >untry, though as a part of this ation the inhabitants of the islands 'ould doubtless have been been bene ted economicaily. Five Murde~rs. The little mining town of D)orches r Va., has recently been the scenti f tive murders~occurring one immitedi tev after the other. .John Slayers illd Mlark I ostonl. with whtom it it mid he had dirferences over a young tdy. The Slayer was about to escaLpi 'hen ie wars shot and killed b'. ames Bosto n. Miark's brother. wht hen tied to thte mountains. A negrt omanl killed her mart. putting tw< Vinchester bullets into his bociy. A istol duel was fuught between twi. hte men. one of whom fell dead Ieir names are niot known. A Great Ev:~il. The grand jury of Lancaster coun v. in its presentment. pointed outi rea evil in the operati or of th< iurts. showing that criminal prose u tlrs arc of teln begun in courit fo: he avowed inttention of forcing thi arment of debt. This is true all yve: he State. bu't if solicitors wold re use to ni pr*os such calses on a mnone arv settlement being made. the prac ice would be greatly lessened. Th< outst lose much valuable time inm at I RIGADE OF STATE TROOPS Which Will be Commanded by Brig. Gen. Wilie Jones. The State militia now has a brigade organization for the first time since the reorganization of the State troops in 1si8, and also has a brigade general t< nommand it. The Governor and the Adjutant General met Monday - morning of last week and at once the following order establishing the new brigade was issued bearing the signa ture of the commander-in-chief. General Order No. 11. Paragraph 1. The infantry branch of the State now composed of three regiments, having reached that degree - of progress and efliciency since the re organization, commenced and comple ted by the present administration of the military department. It is found necessary for the continued enhance ment of the service that a brigade of infantry he at once formed. Paragraph 2. It is therefore order ed that from and after the promulga tion of this order that the first, see ond and third regiments of infantry will compose a brigade to be known as t'he First brigade of Infantry. South Cariina Volunteer Troops." Paragraph 3. The disposition and *ssignments of companies composing the regiments of said brigade will be' duly assigned and notification of same 1 in general orders will be forwarded to all commanding otlicers from these headquarters immediately on comple tion of the annual inspections now in progress. By order of the commander-in-chief. J. W. Floyd. Official: A. & I. Gen]. . I). Frost. A. A. & I Genl. Shortly after the order creating the brigade was issued the commander-in chief promulgateo the following order appointing Cu! Wilie Jones. the pop ular commander of the Second regi- 1 ment, as brigadier general of the new c ommmand. General Order No. 12. In persuance of General Order No. I1. establishing a brigade of infantry, Col. Wilie .Jones. of the Second Regi. ment Infantry, is hereby appointed brigadier general of said brigade and will be obeyed and respected accord- i ingly. By orderof the commander-in-chief. M..B. McSweeney. Governor, J. W. Floyd, Adjt. & Ins. Gen. Oticial: J. I). Frost, A. A. & I. Gen. Gen. Wilie Jones, the new brigade commander. is too well known in South Carolina to require a detailed 2 account of his personal or military career. le was until Monday the ranking regimental commander in the State militia, with which he has been identified nearly all his life. He is ex tremely popular in military circles throughout the State. When the war with Spain came on Col. Jones went a to the front as commander of the Sec- I ond South Carolina Regiment. and re mained in charge of that regiment s during its service in Cuba. He has C since been the colonel of the Second South Carolina Regiment of the Vol- t unteer State troops. His appoint ment will no doubt give general satis- t faction. and the more so as the field I commander of the State troops will be C located at the capital in close touch with the governor, who is command er-In-chief, and the adjutant general's ottice.-The State. Held up and Robbed. A special dispatch to The State from Spartanburg says a daring high - way robbery occurred in that county Thursday night about two miles from Fingersville. The deed was success fully executed by three white men on a lone spot on the public highway leading to North Carolina, and which thoroughfare, Mr. John Cantrell, who wagons for Mr. George R. Branscomb,1 was traveling in a wagon. Mr. Cant-1 rell is an honestr hard-working young ~ white man, and Thursday carried five bales of cotton to the Fingerville mills and sold the staple. From the trans action he received about $200 in round numbers, and with this sum he pro ceeded toj start for Melvin Hill, N. C., where his employer lives. After pro eeding some distance from Finger ville, he was suddenly confronted by three undisguised white men, stand ing in the middle of the road. He could not recognize any one of the three. One of the strangers present ed a pistol and covered Mr. Cantrell, while the other two free booters "went through" his pockets and se cured all of the money he had on his person. The robbers then disap pearedl. Crazed by Jealousy.r Crazed, supposedly by jealousy, W. C .. Tarlt~on, of Pensacola, Fla., cut the I throats of his young wife and four- t ar-old son. then slashed his own aroat from ear to ear. Tarlton is a sad. but his wife and child are vet living. The wife will recover, but a the child is in a critical condition and its wounds may prove fatal. Tarlton irst attacked his wife. then grabbed s the child, using a small pocket-knife. r Thinking his ghastly wvork successful, e Tarlton sat on the side of the bed and t dlbrately sawed through the jugu- . Ilar, fallinguo heiori apo f bodwith his head almost severed t from hsbody. Tarlton was about 60 s vears old and his wife olny 21. Three S physicians are now at work in the ~ hope (of saving the child's life. r Bumrnning ofa Hotel. A special says the Tepee hotel at -'airview, 8. C.. was destroyed by fire early Thursday. One body has been taken fronm the ruins and seven other C peisons are said to lbe fatally injured. The tire started near the furnace room and the llames shooting up the stairway qjuickly cut oft escape except through the windows. The guests on tie tirst floor escaped easily but many. Of those above were badly hurt, either by the ilames or by leaping to tihe ground. ______________ A Narrow Escape. Another accident occurred on the Souti ern not far from Easley oin Tuesdaj~y afternoon. The Kenmore brothers were hauling corn, and asi they d rove across the track, the engine of passenger No. 12 struck the rear ed or the wagon. tearing it to pieces I and bruising the young men consider- 1 ably. One had his collar bone broken.( Thley said the wind was blowing so'( that they could not hear the train as 1 it,..amearmund the crve.1 BREAKS OUT AGAIN. Whitman Wants to Prohibit Chair man Jones from Putting NAME OF HEYWARD ON TICKET, And Thus Prevent Him Running for Governor. The Matter Taken Into the United States Court. Whitman, who has been standing :andidate for Governor for lo these many years has broken out in a brand 2ew place. A dispatch from Union to rhe State says: G. Walt Whitman aas brought action for an injunction gainst Col. Wilie .Jores, chairman of he State Democratic Committee. re training them from putting the name )f lon. D. C. Heyward on the ticket 'or governor. le has also tiled an in unction against the lion. 1). C. Hey lard himself restraining him from 'unning in the general election in No 'ember as a candidate of the Demo ratic party under the guise of the Democratic nominee. The matter was rought up before Judge Buchanan vhile he was here at court which has ust closed. Mr. Whitman says in his petition that he tiled this pledge within the )rescribed time by and according to he rules and regulations of the Dem Kratic party in this State. The pro ceedings are supported by the aflida rits of S. C. DePass, who was then in is brother's law office, but is now a tudent in the South Carolina College. Further in the petition he says he uas never been a candidate in the ,rue meaning of the word, "but that ie is not averse to tilling the office of overnor if elected on the platform of >road and liberal Ideas of education." He says he has exhausted all the ights and remedies by appeal to the state Executive Committee. He now hinks all the candidates for governor aught to be allowed to run on their awn merits in the general election and et the people decide who they want o be governor. The proceeding before Judge Bu hanan were based on a number of ati lavits, sworn to before W. W. Dixon, Jnited States Commissioner. The afti favits were those of Dr. J. G. Going, 0ol. James Munro, Dr. Wallace Culp ,nd Capt. Jas. E. Hunter. Most of the affidavits were to the ffect that they knew Mr. Whitman o be of age, and a qualified elector, hat his Democracy is above par when ompared with other members of the eneral assembly of the State. They ay they know that Mr. Whitman is nxious to be governor. Mentally and >hysically, they know he is able to un for governor, and that he will do o, and may make a good executive idicer. Then Capt. Jas. E. Hunter says hat Mr. Whitman's pledge was filed, n writing. It was written on a pos al card and was mailed by S. C. De ass. Judge Buchanan after hearing ral arguments from all the Union ar on the case reversed his decision. t is said that Mr. Whitman has car ied it to Greenville before Judge rawley. Timely Suggestions. These timely suggestions are thrown ut by a valued exchange: "What an the schools of the State do to rards inculcating a higher sense of he sacredness of human life? The errible recklessness in the use of fire ,rms is becoming a serious menace to ur civilization. It is time for teach rs and all good citizens to raise their oices against this fearful violation of sw, both human and Divine. Human ife should be regarded as the holiest rust that society has in its charge. low far is the toy pistol responsible or the pistol carrying mania, and the onsequent disregard of life? The oung lad is given a toy pistol, he aarns to handle it, and to snap his paper cartridge." But soon he tires f the toy, and wants to own a "sure nough gun" that will kill something. eachers and parents are familiar ith this process of evolution. Let he toy pistol be banished from the chool and from the home, if you ,ould keep from developing in that oy the murderous instincts of the ivage. Teach the child the sacred ess of human life,-yes, all li fe." A Beautiful Idea. Away among the Alleghanies there Sa spring so small that a single ox ould drain it dry on a summer day. t steals its unobtrusive way among he hills till it spreads out in the eautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches way a thousand miles, leaving on its anks more than a thousand villages nd cities, and bearing on its bosom iore than half a thousand steamboats. hen joining on the Mississippi, it tretches away some twelve hundred iles more, till it falls into the great mlem of eternity. It is one of the ributaries of the ocean, which, bedient only to God, shall roll and oar until the angel. with one fozt on he sea and the other on the land, hall lift up his hand to heaven and wear that time shall be no longer. o with moral iniluence. It Is the ill, the rivulet the ocean, boundless nd fathomless as eternity. Killed by a Fall. M1aster William Moerton Stone, son Prof. Harry 11. Stone, of Emory ollege, Georgia, was killed almost stantly Wednesday afternoon by alling from a fast moving wagon. Hie as attempting to alight from the ear of a rapidly moving wagon, just t a curve in the ioad near his home, nd fell, hitting first on his head rushing the skull and causing con ussion of the brain and internal rup ure of a number of blood vessels, lie tever regained consciousness and lived nly fifteen minutes. Faculty, friends .nd physicians were called in immedi tely, but could do nothing to save uim. lie wa~s nine years of age. Prin'e Riola, son and heif of the uree of Rajputana, India, will soon >ecome a student at the University of alifornia. Hie is a graduate of alcutta university. Trhe prince is he first native prince of India to go westen sttes for education. A LONE ROBBER. A Railroad Engineer Shot Dead an the Train Robbed. An eastbound passenger train on th Northern Pacific was held up las night near Drummond. Mont., an Engineer Dan O'Neill was killed. Th train, which included mail, baggag and express cars and nine coaches ar rived at Missoula at 10.20 p. m., any proceeded eastward after a short de lay at the station. It arrived afte midnight at a place two miles wes of Drummond. Here the train wa: sgnalled to stop and the enginee: slowed up. While doing so, he saw a man creeping toward him over the tender. The man, who was armed, ,alled to O'Neill to stop the train instantly. The engineer took in the situatior it once and pulling open the throttle Dried to start the train at full speed The robber divined his purpose, and tred at him. The shot took instan1 !1Yect and the engineer fell dead al Pis post. The robber then proceeded to rifle the express and mail cars. He plundered the regular mail and blew >pen the safe in the express car whict yas wrecked by the explosion. The Lmount of plunder he secured is not .nown at present but it is supposec so be large. The excitement on the rain was intense. The sudden stop >age of the train followed soon by the explosion. spread alarm among the ;rain hands and the passengers. The larkness of the night and the loneli 'ess of the place added to the general cenes of terror. Word of the attack was sent tc Drummond, whence it was telegraphed , Deeer Lodge, about 50 miles away. 3loodhounds were sent out at once Lnd steps were taken to keep vigilant vatch for the robbers. It was assumed that at least eight nen were engaged in the hold-up but ,he latest advices are that one man lone perpetrated the murder and -obbery. Dan O'Neill, the dead engi ier, lived in this city and had a wife Lnd five children. He had been in the ervice of the Northern Pacific longer han any other engineer. The robber oasted that he was the man who kook part in the hold-up of the South ,rn Pacific train near Portland, Ore., bout one year ago. He made this oast to the train hands to terrorize ;hem while he employed them to run ,he train four miles to a point two niles east of Drummond. He declared ,hat he would be hard to catch, as he iad a horse in the timber. The Sorthern Pacific has offered a reward )f $5,000 for delivery, dead or alive,of he train robber who killed O'Neill. ['he mask worn by the bandit was ound on a mountain trail, two miles rom the scene of the hold-up and that after giving the hounds the scent )f the mask, the animals immediately ook up the trail, which was then Lbout eight hours old. SHOT HIM DEAD rhe Conductor's Life Saved by OnE of the Crew. A special dispatch from R'ock Hill o The State says: Cisely Rodmar as accounted by his color and the po ice as about the worst negro in these arts. He was wanted here on sever tl charges and the oflicers have beer ~iunting for him for a month or more riday night last they searched sia iouses for him. Last night he board d at Charlotte, an empty car on the reight train which reaches here at)] 'clock. He was put off several times n route, but managed to get bacli omehow. Some time between Fori Will and this place he was seen agair yut was left alone until the trair eached Rock Hill. When they got t< he yards the crew wvent to the cai o eject him. At that time there were wo other beats in the car and Cisel3 ad made his threat that he wouko ride that train to Chester"-he was oing to the circus-" or kill the vhole damn crew." When Conductoi [rapier called him out he- had some ~rouble to get him to obey and wher 2e did hit the ground he was drawing as gun. Mr. Henry Lloyd, one o1 ;he trainmen, saw the action and was ;oo quick for the negro. Lloyd shot uimn under the arm while it was rais d to shoot the conductor. lie died nstantly. Orlicers Jenkins and Mil er were at the train looking for blind ooze and were in 50 yards of the 1cene. The crew was held for the in luest, which was held here today. ['he evidence was substantially as bove and Lloyd was exonerated. loyd is from Savannah, and every >e who heard the evidence felt that i only did his duty. Rodman is without friends here. His mother is orking in New York and he has been uch a character as to alienate all who vould naturaly feelinterested in him. C'he negroes seem to feel that he leserved what he got and no one laimed his body for burial. Fought to a Finish. A pitched battle was fought Tues lay afternoon in the country foux niles from Grasbeck. Texas, between he Thomnasons and Rutherfords fac ions. The trouble grew out of rent md had been pending for some time. [he men, two representatives of eacih amily. met and the shooting followed, he tight being at close range. D. hopson, Robert Rutherford and m. Rutherford were killed, Wallace Chomason escaping without a scratch. Ie has surrendered but refused t< alk about the affair. A Peculiar Case. The city of Spartanburg has a suit 'or damages against it which is some ,hat peculiar. A man in a more ox ess intoxicated condition was arrest d, locked up in a cell and the next norning he was found dead, and his elatives are suing the city on thc i.,m thait dath was cnnusrl by neer THE LAW DEFIED. Two Fiends Hanged Before the Eyes of the Judlge. After being tried with legal form and procedure for criminal assault and murder and given the death penal ty in each case. Jim Wesley and Red dick Barton. negroes, were late Tues day afternoon taken from the authori ties and lynched in the public square at Hempstead, Tex., by an infuriated mob. The district judge asked the gover nor for troops to accompany the ne groes to Hempstead from the jail at Houston where they were safe. At the request of a large number of citi zens of Hempstead who signed a writ ten promise to aid the authorities in preventing any mob law it is said Judge Thompson countermanded his request and the troops did not accom pany the negroes. Barton was first tried. He plead guilty to criminal assault and then to the murder of Mrs. Susan Lewis, aged 63. Sunday. October 12. The juries in each case on which were several negroes promptly returned verdicts of the death penalty. During the after noon Wesley was put on trial. le plead guilty to assault and then to the murder charge, but while the second trial was going on a mob broke into the court room and attempted to take him, having learned that the sheriff had finally asked for troops. The mob was dispersed and trial pro ceeded, the State putting through its testimony hurriedly in coroboration of l the plea of guilty. Both juries as signed the death penalty. The otlicers of the court sat about the room awaiting the coming of troops when there was a sudden move ment on the part of several men in the room. The sheriff was overpow ered and Wesley was taken posses ion of by the mob and hurried away. Another portion of the mob attacked the jail and Barton was surrendered to them without a struggle. The two prisoners were hustled to the public square and there executed by hanging. Neither of them had been sentenced and District Judge Thomp son had positively refused to permit them to waive the thirty days of grace allowed them bylaw. It was the gen eral desire that they die quickly. They are hanging to the arm of a telephone 1 pole, where only last month a negro murderer had been strung up by a mob. Sheriff Lipscomb was badly hurt 1 about the back by the rough treat- I ment of the mob. During the first rush a shot was accidentally tired and I Sheritf Sparks of Lee county wast wounded in the stomach, though not I seriously. The governor was informed of the lynching but as yet nas had < nothing to say. Served Him Right. Late Saturday afternoon a negro man, a stranger in that section, met a negro woman in the public road on the Greenville side of the Saluda river and attempted an assault. The wo man screamed and ran and the man became frightened and also fled, croossing the river to the Anderson side. The woman gave the alarm and a crowd of infuriated negroes started out to hunt the man. He was captur ed near Shady Grove church, in Anderson county,- and his captors started back into Greenville county1 with him. They passed the home of Mr. J. M. Cox, a prominent farmer, on the way, and after Mr. Cox had found that the man had nct succeeded in his designs upon the wo man he made the crowd promise not to kill him, but told them frankly that he would not care what else they did to him. The negroes carried the man over into Greenville county to4 the scene of his attempted crime. There he was fully identified by his intended victim, and he also confess ed to what he had done. Then he was carried into an old field and a buggy trace was applied to his back: with great vigor and unction for quite a while. It is said that when the negroes finished with him the job was as completely and thoroughly done as1 if white men had been engaged in it.1 Created a Panic. A panic was created in the male alcoholic ward at Belevue Hospital in New York Thursday when a man, who said he was Peter N. Bain, 60 years of age. a speculator, drew two1 38-calibre revolvers from his pocket and began firing in the room. The man had just been taken to the ward1 after having gone voluntarily to the1 hospital. Just as he got inside the door he suddenly sprang away from the attendants and, placing his backi against the Wall. shouted: I am Tracy, the outlaw; beware of me; PIlI kill everybody in sight." Then he drew the pistols and began to fire. There were seventeen patients in the ward and they were in the wildest confusion until Bain was overpowered] by ten mien. No one was injured, < most of the shots passing through an I open windowv. Shooting in Spartanhurg. Thursday afternoon at the Spartan burg junction a yard conductor, .J. H1. Lewis shot Will Austin. yard employe. The wound is a pistol shot and is dangerous, 4ne ball entering the negro's body about the waist. Austin is danger ously hurt. Lewis' statement is that he ordered the negro to go to worki and he refused with an oath. Hie thenr asked the negro if he knew whom he t was talking to. at the same time Aus- 1 tin threw a piece of coal at Lewis, and then started at him with a brake-. stick. Lewis drew his pistol and tired.f He Got Her. "Doc" Brown of Morganstield. Ky., who represents his district in the State Legislature. is one of Kenitucky's unique characters. To illustrate a 1 point in a recent speech he gave the following account of his courtship: "Take my advice and never give a woman anything she can't eat and never make love to her out of an ink bottle. Why, when 1 courted my wife I just grabbed hold of her and< said: 'Sallie. you are the sweetest thing on earth and your beauty bailles the skill of man and subdues his fero ,.;oue nate' a nd T grot her."1 NEW CITIZENS. c Interesting Figures Published by the Immigration Commissioner. e t THOUSANDS OF THEM COME. More Than Twice as Many Males as Females Landed Last Year on Our Shores. The annual report of the commis sioner of immigration was made pub lic recently. It shows that of the 648.743 immigrants who arrived in the United States during the last fis cal year were 466.369 males and 132, 374 females. Of the entire number of arrivals, Italy supplied 178.375. an in crease of 42.379 over the number for 1901: Austria-Hungary, 171,889, an increase of 5S.599.and Russia, 107,347, an increase of 22,090. Most European countries showed an increase, but there was a falling off in the arrivals from Ireland, amounting to 1,423. the total from that country being 29.138. The figures concerning Asiatic inimigration show a decrease from China of 810, the total being 1,649, and an increase from Japan of 9,001, the total being 14,270, or 170 per cent. Of thesentire number 162,- - 188 were unable to read or write, but 74,063 were under 14 years of age. Commenting upon this circumstance Commissioner Sargent says: "It can be roughly estimated from the forego ing figures how effective in excluding aliens would be a reading test. such as that proposed during the recent ses sion of congress which would not be applied to children under 15 and adults over 50." The total number of aliens refused permission to land was 4,974, or about two-thirds of 1 per cent. of the total arrivals. Of these 3,944 were paupers, 709 had loathsome diseases, 92 were convicts and 129 were contract labor ers. Reference is made to the alien contract labor bill pending in the sen ate and the commissioner expressed the hope that it may pass during the next session of congress. Mr. Sargent finds that the sa.nguine . view expressed in the last annual, re port of the bureau as to the effect of careful examination by the United States marine hospital surgeons upon the transportations bringing diseased aliens to American ports has not been confirmed by the experience of the past year. Speaking of the enforce ment of the Chinese exclusion laws, Mr. Sargent says many obstacles have been encountered. "The chief obstructions," he says, "to the efficient enforcement of the law arises on the one hand from the unscrupulous character of some Amer-- r ican citizens and others who find a large profit in smuggling Chinese of the excluded classes across our land boundaries, and on the other from the constant interference of those zealous persons in our own country whose con sciousness of their own exalted pur poses in relation to.the moral amend ment of the Chinese appears to them ample justification some times for dis regard of the law and often for- the endeavor to have its provisions waiv ed as unimportant in comparison with their own designs." Was Anxious to Die. A special dispatch from Anderson to The State says: D). W. Hopkins, a white man made several attempts at suicide in a cell in the station house Friday night. He was arrested Thurs day afternoon for drunkenness. Short ly after dark he took off his suspend ers and tied them around his-neck and then tied them to an iron bar across tihe top of his cell, only a foot or so - above his head, and allowed his feet to drag the loor. He was strangling when some negroes in an adjoining cell noticed him. They gave the alarm and Street Overseer Lee, who was near, ran in and cut him down, He was soon revived and Mr. Lee left the premises. Twice more he swung himself up by his underclothing, but was cut down. Then he tried to butt his brains out against the sides of the cell, but gave it up after one or two attempts. Finally the police got some opiate and gave him and then he quieted down and went to sleep. Horrible Accident. Two men were killed, one was fatal ly injured and two others were serious ly injured in the bridge and construc tion department of the Pennsylvania Steel Works, at Steelton, Pa., Wed nesday. The dead are: Nielson B. Fetteroff, :30 years; Frank Hlirt, 27 years, Jere Lelank, 37 years, was fat-. ally injured, and William Miller and. John Chank were seriously hurt. Shank's home is at Shiremanstown, Pa. The other men livedat Steelton. The men were painters and were working on a row of steel girders, weighing about ten tons apiece. The girder on which they were working fell with them and the others piled on top of it. Fetteroff 'was crushed to death and IHirt died soon after being taken out of the mass of steel. .Saved His Party. In Monday's issue The Herald de clares that only President Roosevelt s attitude on the strike question has saved his party from a great defeat. It says: "Whatever may be the out come of the election in November whether the Republicans are to lose the.house ol representatives for the first time since 1892; whether the par ty in power is to go upon the rocks in New York, Pennsylvania and other Eastern States and general chaos oc cur in Ohio. Indiana and the Mid dle West -the fact becomes clearer as the campaign opens east of the Alle henies that but for President Roose elt the Republican defeat would bow be a foregone conclusion." Coughed Up a Nail. The little :3year old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. .J. H. Moore of WValhalla, who more than a month ago swallow ed a four penny wire nail. has cough ed the nail up. The little one would have been taken to Atlanta for an operation at once had it not been for the seriorus sickness of Mrs. Moore. Except times of serious coughing the it tie girl seemed all right, but it wvas cause for rejoicing when it was cough ed up.