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VOL. XVL MANNING, S. C., WEDN ESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1902. NO.14. ELECTION FRAUDS. Affidavits are Presented to the Solici tor With Request to Prosecute. SPECIFIC INSTANCES GIWI. Citizens of Charle,.ton urge Solici tor Hildebrand to Prosecute Frauds in the Primary and Give Him the Fact:. 'The Charleston Post says the agita tion made by the press of Charleston and by the good citizens generaily for punishment of the frauds enacted in the late Democratic orimaries has borne fruit and the next term of the Court of Sessions will bear on its cal endar cases against some of the ol'en ders against right and the purity of ! the ballot who were so coUspicuous in their defiance of public sentiment and all standards of good citizenship in the recent political contests. Affidavits, especially setting forth instances of fraud and making direct accusations of persons committing them, have been sent to Soliciter Hil debrand, enclosed in a letter from prominent citizens of this city, with out any partisan or personal motive but merely in the general interest of! good citizenship and with a desire to protect the ballot box against future defilement. The letter was mailed Thursday morning and its text is as follows: Charleston, S. C.. Oct. '$. 19t.2 P. T. Hildebrand, Esq., Solicitor, First Judicial Circuit of South Car olina, Orangeburg, S. C. Sir: The general impression of frau dulent practice in the recent Demo cratic primaries in Charleston county is so extensive and the report of it in the newspapers so detailed that a scandal of large proportions has fast ened upon the community. which :should not go without effort to re move. The press of the city is united in demanding that prompt and vigor ousprosecution be made of the charges in which have been laid and it is stated in the public prints and by numbers of reputable citizens that evidence which will convict the prep arations of the frauds can be put into your hands. For the good name of the commu nity and for the protection of the bal lot in future elections, it is our opin ion and earnest wish that prosecutions should be pressed against all offenders and we respectfully call upon you to take the matter vigorously in hand and have justice administered. We would suggest that you nake a public call for evidence, as we are as sured that such a request would meet with a full response. F. Q. O'Neill, Jno. B. Adger. Wn. Henry Parker. Jr., G. Walter Mcver. J. H. Thayer, P. Hi. G;adsdein. MIontague Triest. 0. E. .Johnson. F. 11. 1c31ast er. Henry A. 31. Smith. Philip E. Chazal. C. B. Northrop, WV. H. Welch. Alex WV. MIarshali, Chas. F. Middleton. Henry Buist, Julian A. lHarrot, Walter G. G reen. J1. C. Simmons. The attidavits which wvere enclosedi leave nothing~ t<> be done nut, the arrest *of the accused and their praseltation to the grand jury. It is expected that Solicitor li,ldiebranA~ wii co:neC tn Charlesten at once and have warrants issued and that these will be executed immediately and the cases tbe present ed to the grand jury a't the comning -term of court. The anlidavits. it is understood, set forth all the circum :stances in ea~h case arnd name the witnesses who can testily to the or fences. It is said that the cases are absolutely clear and convi ning an'd true bills on them are almost. certain to be returned by the grand jury. Solicitor Hildebrand has declared that he is prepared to move in the matter as soon as evidence is placed in his hands, and with the atiidavits before him his course is clearly marked out. It has been thought by some people that the agitation which was made by tbe newspapers immediately after the recent primaries and the general: demand of citizens for prosecution of the frauds has subsdt and that nothing would be done in the way of bringing the offenders to justice. ~Some of these offenders have even ~made sport of the wvhole matter and .considered it all a good joke on those they regard as purists and suJpersensi .tive citizens. They are likely to take ~different view of the situation when .Solicitor Hilderbrand gets after them and will probably not show in the ..court the impudent front they pre -sented at the polls. The names of those accused in the :afldavits were not given out by the ~ctizens who had secured t he evidence. it being thought best to leave SoliCI tor Hildebrand unhampered by any publication which might put the of fenders on their guard or give them warning which would perhaps per-mit of their escape. it is expected that the first intimation the individual -- perpetrators of the frauds will have that they have been caught in the meshes of the law will be when the constables present warrants of arrest to them and haul them before the court. Aud this will probably be within a few days. Served Himt Right. In New York the other day an auto mbile ran into a trolley ear, kuueked it og the track. turned it over and m jtured about twenty passengers. Three days later the automobilist was se tenced to the penitentiary for si ,months for reckless riding. A Gas E.xPlosiohi By a sudden rush of gas supp sed ti have been sulphurated hydirgn, four men wer-e killed and three seriously :affectedl near- the twenty-fourth street heading of the biiz tunnel at Niagatra TAKES THE TOWN. Carrie Nations Makes Speeches on the Streets in Columbia. The Columia State. in speaking of the visit of Mrs Carrie Nation to that city. says one (f the features of the early morning was a talk made by the justly celebrated Mrs. Carrie Nation to the Clem.son cadets outside their qluartcrs at the old Agricultural hail. M r.. Nation was hoisted into a window and from this -antage point exhorted for stame little time the boysand many others who gathered near. her every sentence being punctuated with vo eiferous applause and peals of laught er. "Do you know." sais she after wards. in the most artless way imagin able. "'wherever I go or whatever I say everybody laughs:" There was nothing original in her little speech to the Clemson boys, but she speaks clearly and directly and her English is very good indeed. She appears to have the Bible at her tinger tips and to be thorougly imbued with the idea that hers is a divinely appointed mis sion. It may be as they say that she acts as she does solely fot the sake of the money and notoriety thus to be obtained, but those who tar her are apt in most instances to carry away the impressicai ti s she herself is thoroughly sincere if rather misguid ed. After she Lari concluded her speech Mrs. Nation cpned up a satchel she carried and fl.r some time did a rush ing business selling tiny souvenier hatchets. the proceeds of the sale to go. she stated, to the building of a home in Kansas for drunkards' wives. During the day Mrs. Nation made sev eral speeches on Main street and she never failed to draw a crowd. thiough the over-zealous appreciation of the auldence interfered somewhat with the success of her orations. Friday afternoon the chief feature on Main street was the excitement created by Carrie Nation, who mount ed convenient doorsteps and address ed hundreds of amused citizens. She was chaperoned by Col. Jim Harris, proprietor of the White Stone Lithia springs and one of the jolliest fellows in South Carolina. Nobody seemed to take Carrie seriously. but it was all the same to her, as she found pur chasers for hundreds of her souvenier hatchets. The crowd whooped when Carrie caught a young fellow mimicking her. She boxed his jaws good naturedly and the joke was on her tormenter. It is supposed that Mrs. Nation endorses Col. Harris and his mineral spring. Col. Harris does say his spring is full -of good properties. Baried to Death. A little girl, daughter of Mr. .1. II. Kirby, of Woodruff, was burned to death on last Thursday. The child had been out of doors for some little time. and as the day was decidedly cool, she came into the house and went to a room where there was a fire in the hearth. ' She stood too near the fire., and suddenly her clothing was enveloped in a sheet of liames. She screamed and her mother has tened to the spot. Before the parent culd reach her child and render aid, the unfortunate young girl ran screaming out in the yard. and it was there that her mother caught her and extinguished the fire. which ad scretd over her body. The child lingered in acute agony until Friday morning at 3 o'clock, when she died. The parents have the sympathy of many friends in the city and county in this sore bereaveme it, Assauited a Policeman. A dispatch to The State from Fort' Miii says Chief of Police Nivens is su f fring fromi a cut and bruised face. A ew nmonths ago MIr. Nivens locked up Mers. Kirby and Ashley, two em pioes ot the Catawba Power Compa. ny. ror being drunk and disorderly. They threatened to be revenged and Timrsday w'hen Mr. Nivens went to the dlam looking for a negro. Kirby ordered him ohf, and on being joined y some friends the crowd started for Nivens, who drew his gun, but he was too late. Kirby got in a lick with a pair of brass knucks. When he awoke e was bound and on his way to the guard house in Rock Hlill. wliere he was lodged on a charge of assault and battery. Gets Eight Thousand. The case of L. A. Riser against the Southern Railway was concluded at Newberry on Thursday. After re maining out several hours tihe jury returned a verdict of SS,000 for MIr. Riser. MIessrs. Cothran & Schumpert, attorneys for the Southern, had left the city before the verdict was ren dered and it is not known what action will be taken by them. M1r. Riser was injured in a wreck at Camp For nance last September and has never regained his usual good health. Good for Woffordt. A dispatch from Sapatanburg to The State says Friday John B. Cleve-: land announced that. he will build a science hall on Wotford college cam us. Thle plans. whi':h are already drawn. call for the building which will cost between 812,000O and Sl16,000. 3Mr. Cleveland aut horizes the construction of the building at his expense. MIr. Ceveland is a graduate of Wofford, and while not a M1ethodist, is one or the best friends the college has. A Law Breaker Killed. In an attempt to liberate his friend, S. . II. J1ones. from the county jail at Miount Olive. M1iss.. Thursday night, Jfohn MiliN. a white man, was shot and instantly killed by Deputy Sheriff Walker. Mills approached the jail, armed with two six shooters and an axe. and when ordered to halt attempted to draw his guns, whereup on fOricer Walker tired. killing Mills instantly. A Sheriff Robbed. Sheiti' R. E. Ellison of Winnshoro Was relieved of his po,:ket b ok Friday hvy cro k on the capitol ground in Colmbi. Tnce sherilf lost $220 in cash ck for S100 signed by W. F. Maritin. and another cheek for $1~>, signe lby Col. TI. WV. Holloway. The pole w.-e immediately notitied but up to a late hour Friday night noth : in hm - bn h a o h r lotnurse. A DOUBLE CRIL. A Terrible Sight Met the Gaze of'! Visitors to a Ranch. A special from Bearmouth. Mont.. gives the following details of the dis covery of the double crime at the Conn ranch on Willow Creek. which was at first believed to have been committed by the bandit who robbed the Northern Pacilic train last week: A member of a threshing crew on an adjoining ranch had occasion to visit the Conn ranch and when he entered the farm house a terrible sight pre sented itself. On the floor, with the brains oozing from his head, lay .James Conn dead, with a ragged bullet hole through his temple. Near him lay his mother, her head crushed in with a blunt instrument, presumably the butt of a revolver. At the time of the holdup of the t Northern Pacific train bloodhounds were put upon the trail of the robber and the dogs followed it for several miles in the direction of Willow Creek territory, but lost the scent. Those t familiar with the country decided at the time of the robbery that in all probability the outlaw would attempt to escape that way, as the country is - such as to afford an excellent oppor- I tunity to evade capture, being heavily timbered. The discovery of the crime was made at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and oticers are now at the scene. 1 Near the stable the threshing men met a demented woman who had t dwelt with the Conn family for son i time. This woman killed her hus- c band about 20 years ago. and it is i suggested that she may have know ledge of the tragedy. The scene ot r crime is about 30 miles from Bear mouth. and details are meager. A Fatal Fall. A dispatch from Spartanburg to c The State says Capt. John H. Mont- t gomery died Friday afternoon at 65 o'clock in Gainsville, Ga. He went to Gainesville Thursday on business con nected with the mills there, of which y enterprise he is president and treas- f urer. Friday morning he was stand ing on a scaffolding, a distance of I about 16 feet from the ground, in specting some work on the new mill i of the Pacolet Manufacturing Compa ny in that town, when by some means r he lost his balance and fell. His skull was fractured by the fall. and he was a rendered unconscious. The physicians gave no hope of his recovery from the ' first examination, and be lingered un- t til late this afternoon, and died. His wife and children here left for Gaines- I ville on the morning train. His re- . mains will be brought to Spartanburg for interment Sunday. John H.-Mont- r gomery was 69 years of age. having t been born in Spartanburg County i Dec. 3. 1833. Physicians Jailed. As a result of the twenty-five in- e dictments returned on Saturday by the grand jury at Indianapolis four physi cians of prominence have been arrest ed charged with grave robbery. This is only a preliminary as the investiga tion still proceeding. The following physicians are now under arrest: Dr. Joseph C. Alexander. demnonstrateor of anatomy in the Central Colkcge of Physicians and Surgeons; D.Wl i Molt, demonstrator of the Physico Medical College; Dr. Frank M. WrightC secretary and treasurer of the Eclcctic Medical College, and Dr. John Wilson an interne of the Central College of Physcians and Surgeons. One of the) doctors, a country practitioner, against whom an indictment was found, has not 3 et been arrested. The physicians are charged with taking, concealing and buying c:rpse. The arrest ofa these four make twenty-four who are now under bond or in jail charged C with grave robibery and complicity in the crime, 4 Fighting Mayor. A sensational street scene occurred t during a political meeting in the pub-' t lic square at Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, It in which Mayor. Tom L. Johnson ' struck William Mylecraine, a Repub- 1 lican tax board ollicial, in the lace with his fist. It seems, according toi S the statement of the bystanders, that r the mayor overheard Mylecraine as- t sert that he (.Johnson) was a liar. A a few hot words followed and the mayor struek Mylecraine in the face. Myle- 1 craine left the square, declaring that aj he would secure a warrant for the I mayor's arrest. Killed Himnself. John A. Horgan. a leader of the ~ "Straightout Democratic Party" in Norfolk County. Va., which faction ~ has been fighting the organization of t fusionists for several years, blew his brains out at his residence Wednesday I morning, lie was found by a servant t in his room in Berkley. On a table', was a note which stated that it had been said that his death would smooth j the waters of the county politics, andi if such was the case. it could be shown now. His wife was visiting her (laugh ter in New York when the affair oc curred. All for Love. Miss lInte Hayes, the 1-2-year-old daughter of George W. Hayes, form~ erly town marshall of Powder Springs Ga., shot herself with suicidal intent Thursday morning about 9~ o'cli.ck.1 She placed the pist ol against her lef't breast just to the left of the nipple. The ball went entirely through her body and buried itself in the wall nearby. She cannot live more than a few hosurs. it is thought the act was caud by despondJency over a quarrel with her lover. Sutrocated.i Allen Ore and Will Weedon. white. men, while working on a grade fo the Eastern Railway of Alabama. were killed as a result of a prematur explosion of dynamite near Anniston. The explosion unloosened a quantity o dirt which entombed the two men, therieby causing suffocation. D)ogs vs lHens. Some man whose mind runs on tig ures. has found that it costs as much to keep a dog as sixty hens. capable of laying six hundred dozen eggs.1 Men will continue, however. to pre-i fer the dog until the superior ability< of the hens to set birds is demon- 1 MURTDERS HIS WVIFE. 'hen Sends Bullet Through His Ow Brain. WFUL TRAGEDY IN AUGUSTA ,arried Only Fourteen Months, an the Young Wie Had Began Suit for Divorce Because of Cruel Treatment. .A terrible tragedy was enactet n Augusta. Ga., last Saturda norning when Policeman Chas. II alker murdered his wife in col lood, and then blew out his ow rains. The couple had only beep arried fourteen months. lie wa hirty-two years old and the wife onl, ineteen. Last August one year ag he murdered wife. who was befor per marriage. Miss Stella Speers. rai way and married the man why aurdered heron Saturday. She corn ro one of the bet fa.milies in Au usta. On Saturday morning at the usu'a our of relief, at the police barrack: harlic Walkeg assumed his dutie pith his fellow otljeers. and went ou o his beat known as the upperterri urv. irncludini, tnat portion of th itv in which h:s mother's residece lecated, and where he and his youn ife had lived, until about thie 2nths ago. when. on accountof somn omestie differences, they left a o ent to board. His intimate frierd new that there was unevenness ii he course of his married life, of re ent development. ht none expecte< he serious turn affairs 1-ave taken aturday morning, as he went out 01 is beat, he took the same car witl ieatenant Collins, who was goini ome. and talked with him of th, amily troubles be was experiencing hen they reached the gate of thi eutenant's home. young Walker stop ed and talked further. He asked the eutenant. "Did you see that piece in th 2orning paper?' The lieutenant replied that he had nd Walker asked his superior otlice he thought that would bring the latter before the board of police con issioners. Lieut. Collins replied: "I do not think so. That is a fami V affair, and I don't see why th card would take it up." Walker then said he hoped it woul< ot that he did not want to go befor he board. le explained to the lieu enant that his intentions had been ti o ahead with his work and arrang( :r the alimony, but that he regrette< xceedingly the publication, the tilini f the divorce proceedings by his wife 'he story published Saturday morn ag and referred to by Walker is a ,llows: "A sensational libel fo;r divorce an< etition for alimony tiled in the supe r court yesterday, reads Mi rs. Stell .Walker vs. Charles H1. Walker. 'Althcough married but little over ear, Mrs. Walker alleges that he usband. an otticer of the police force ruelly and inhumanity beat her re eatedly and tinally deserted her. She lieged that as late as the 22d of thi: )onth he choked her into speechless ess, and, gathering up his persona ifets. left her home, declaring h, could never return. "The petitioner further asks thi ustody of her child, costs of court ttorney's fees and temporary alimon; ending the iinal disposition of thi "Judge Brinson has set Dec. 5 a he date for hearing the petition fo emporary alimony." This conversation took place be ween the two policemen shortly af er 7 o'clock, and, as the lieutenan urned to go into his house. Walke ralkd otT in the direction of the ca Charlie 11. Walker and Miss Stell; .Seer, a niece of Dr Speer, wer, arrid about 14 months ago, and o his union a boy was born four month nd three days ago today. When the young co)upie left th ome of his mother. three month go, they went to b-'ard, at 124 road street, where they have board d together since, until a day or tw go, when, some of his friends state .e left there. though this is not sub tantiated by any of the family. About 10.30 Saturday morning Irs. Walker, neatly attired in a blaci alor suit, boarded the Summervill a'. in front of 1:'40) Broad street, an< ode to Chafee avenue. where she lef he car, and proceeded to th;2 housi 'here sh~e shortly aifter met her death I1er husband must have known u tr presence at his mother's home or shortly after' he came rolling b: n his wheel and hi~s wife went to thi at and began a conversation witi in, still wearingt her h::t. A bout the gate is an arbor of vines nd on the left side of this stood Mrs Valker. just to the side of the wall nside the fence- lier hu2;and stool acing her on the outside 'jf the fence "hat was said no one knows. fo here was no one near enough to se ir hear what wvas -going on. Mrs alke', however, had been talkin; vith her husband but a few second then her sister started out of th Louse toward the gate. Just as shi merged, Mr. Walker drew his revo] er and commenced firing. Fou hots he tired at his wife and the: >utting his 'revolver to the back c us head about two inches behind th eft ear he pulled the trigger on th ast (artridge in the chamber, an ell backward on the sidewalk. Mrs Valker having dropped down besid he base of the arbor. As soon a Jhs. Walker's sister heard the firs hot tired. she fell in a faint on th loor of the porch and remained ther mtilu take'n up and carried into th Liut. Collins. probably the las >er'son, except his wife, to whor alker had talked of his famil rouble. arrived on~ the scene an nade a search of~ his body. .1 ust ur ir the edge of his cap, he found th >ullet lodged on the outside of th inv.- Exep fo hisre badge an pistol the only thing found was a scrap of yellow paper, torn from a note book on which. in Walker's hand writing were the words: "At the mercy of Tiberius." THANiKSGIVIN~G DAY. Thursday. November 27, Named as a Day of General Thanksgiig President Roosevelt Wednesday issued his proclamation designating T hursday . Nov. 27. as a day of Thanksgiving. .The proclamation is as follows: According to the yearly custom of our people, it falls upon the president at this season to appoint a day of festival and thanksgiving to God. "Over a century and a quarter has passed since this country took its place among the nations of the earth and during that time we have had on the whole more to be thankful for than has fallen to the lot of any other peo ple. Gcileration after generation has grown to manhood and passed away. Each has had to bear its peculiar bur d (lens, each to face its special crisises, and each has known years of grim trial, when the country was menaced by malice, domestic or foreign levy, wllepl the hand of ihe Lord was heavy upon it in drought or fiood or pesti 1 lence. when in bodily distress and an guish o: soul it paid the penalty (f tolly and a forward heart. "Nevertheless, decade by decade. we L h .ve struggled onward and upward; we now abundantly enjoy. material well being. and under the favor or the Most~ High we are striving car nestiy to aclhive moral aind spiritual. uplift ng. Tho year tht ha s just closed has been once or peace and. overilowing plenty, Barely has any people enjoyed greag'r prosperity thani, we are niow enjoying. lFor this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good: and we seek to praise Him not by words only but by deeds, by the way in which we do our' duty to ourselves and to our fellow men. "Now. therefore, I. Thcodore Roosevelt, president of the United States. do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving, Thursday, the :7th of November, and (;o rec'm- a mend that throughoutt tile land the people cease from their ord-inary oc cupations and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks unto Almighty God for the manifold blessings of the past year." c c Says Negro Will Wie Out. f A sen'ation was created at Musca tine, Iowa, by Rev. J. L. Murphy. of the English Lutheran Church, who r 1 said in a lecture on the race preblem a that the study of the sociological con- a dition of the Negro today proves that I he is deteriorating in this country, s will later lapse into barbarism and fi- c l nally become extinct. He points out v that before the war the Negro was trustworthy and the honor of any woman in the South was safe without c the protection of white men. Today. t however, a white woman scarcely dares venture forth alone. Mr. fur- f phy says that not only is the black I man becoming degraded morally in 1I the South, but also physically. Phy- I; siclans testify that he is more suscep- a tible to disease than a .few years ago, and especially in pulmonary troubles.e Pneumonia is almost always fatal. e The position taken by MIr. Murphy is( that in time the progressive class of -blacks will tire of the conditions inc 1this country and return to their form-i er African home to teach their fellow- i blacks while those left in this country will then rapidly become extinct. Mrs. Nation in columbia. The State says 31rs. Nation arrived in Columbia on Thursday afternoon. She created quite a stir in Col. Hollo way's oifice about :3::30 o'clock when she was introduced to the fair otticials -and to a number of other people. She talk~ed fast and interestingly for a awhile and seemed to be thoroughly Sbusiness-like. When introduced t-> a representative of The State she :ao-s ticed a cigarette in his hand and as, she stepped back she raised her hands. cried "Oh, horrors!' and instantly slapped trie cigarette from his hand,5 stamping on it as it fell. She ex plained that she did not propose toI allow any one to commit suicide right under her very eyes. MIrs. Nation is a woman of more than middle age. stout and not uncomely. She has a flashing eye and is full of vigor and energy. After a brief chat with those in Col. Iholloway's oitice she found out where the place for her lecture was, took her two v'alises and left to keep her engagement by tihe first car. Texas Fever. A special dispatch to The State says considlerable uneasiness and anxiety hias been caused at Williamston with in tihe last few days on account or the death of a number of line cows from what appeared to be a very mysteri ous (ause and in order to give the casea a thorough inivestigatiorn. Dr. .J. 11. Foster, the States assistant veterina rian from Clemson was summoned.v and came down this morning. After a a postmortem examination he pro- e nounced the disease "Texas fever." t which he says is incuralie. the best remedy being to separate all cattlet which are infested from the others. e ie says tile disease is commilunicated by what is commonly known . as the 'tick," and after a cow comes il con tact with .tihe (disease through thist medium, and is taken sick. nothingr can save her from death. which fol lows within a fcw hours.F Wadnted Them Watched. The1'. following from the Newberry( O(bs.erver is a good one on the preach-s i ers: "Whenever a circus comes to ,town or0 thlere is a very large crowd expectecd for any other reason it is cutomary for the city council to put a few extra men on the police force toJ ensure the preservation of peace and F good Irder'. A few days ago wvhle 1 Policeman Franklin was on duty a young man walked up to him and i asked him how many preachers thlere would be in Newberry during the con ference. Mr. Franklin told him there would be about three hundred. D~on't - ou tink." asked the young man "that you could get places on tihe: force for me and two of my friends 1 1 whlal they are hlere:- | THE WORI)S FAIR. Col. Averill Tells the People About the Big Show. -REAT CHANCE FOR THE SOUTH. Particulariy is This True as far as South Carolina is Concerned. lie GIves Some F'acts. Cu]. .1. II. Averill, formerly dire, or general of the Charleston exposi ion, was in Columbia on Wednesday. ol. Averill is temporarily acting as pecial commissioner for the St. Louis air to present to the people of South Lnd North Carolina the advantages to tecrue to them from representation it the big show to be held in St. ,ouis in 19,14. To a representative of The State 3o1. Averill gave the followintg inter ,iew and facts preliminary to the ex 2osition; "It will be the largest exposition ver held in any country, the total round area being 1,180 acres, the otal funds to date being $20,000,000, " The principal main exhibit build ngs are manufactures, 525xl.200 feet, ith tower 400 feet in height. 'Textile, 525x;50. costing $460.000. "Mines. 525x75), costing $500.000. "Varied industries. 525x1.:;00. cost ng 8604.000, "Machinery, 2.x1,000. costing ;496,5fs7. "Transportation, 5 5xl,000, costing 7,000," "Art palace, 450x8:30,. costing $1, 00,000. "Agriculture, 500x],600, costing 800.000. "Horticulture. 306x1,000, costing 200,000. Forestry, 400x600, costing $350.000. "Live stock, pavilions covering 25 cres and costing $100,000. "The generai goyernrent will erect building at a cost of $450,000, being 250,000 in excess of any amount here ofore appropriated for any exposition iuilding by congress, and $800.000 Las been appropriated for the govern aent exhibit, being eight times in ex ess of the largest amount heretofore Bade for Chicago or Butfalo, These ew facts indicate the scope of the ex osition. "The management have their com lissioners in every civilized portion f the old world, in Mexico, Central nd South America, and the West ndies and have already received as urances from a large majority of the ountries that they will be in evidence 7ith exhibits and many ot them will rect buildings. 'As the exposition is projected to elebrate the purchase of the terri ory west of the Mississippi, as would aturally be expected the States ormed from that section will be large y represented at the fair, and the agislatures of all them have made irge appropriations for the erection f State buildings and exhibits-the tates east of the river will also be in vidence, Mai's, New York, Massa husetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania; )hio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, .ennessee, Mississippi, Maryland and thers having already signified their tention of being in the picture, and t is a picture wherein the southern itates should hold a prominent place.. "They can there show the unprece ented progress they have made in he last quarter of a century. They an there show to the world that the outh, has enterprise, and that the tromises of the future for the south ind are practically unbotmnded, and hat it can offer as fair a field as any ection of our vast country for capital. nd as attractive inducements for ioe seekers. "There are other-reasons why the outh should be fully represented at t. Louis. One should sutlice: The satin-American republics and -the Vest Indies are enjoying much the ame prosperity in every line, as the a~uthern States. They are large ex orters and importers. Much of this rade could and should be handled rough southern cornmercial centres. hose countries will be represented rith their industries and resources. ~lace those of the south on exhibition vere their people can see them, have le southern representatives at St. ouis to tell the visitors from the far outh wvhat inducements can be of ered them to trade with the south, nd much good will be sure to follow. "As to South Car: lina's place in the icture, the showing made by the tate and continues at the recent ex osition in Charleston was a revela ion to every visitor, and has been omumented on in most favorable terms y the press of the entire country. od the work don~e there is already ringing forth good results in many ortions of the State. Shalt it, stop ith what has been doney Some wilt ay yes: the State cannot afford to ontinuc the work of givmng publicity o its industries, resources and possi llities. It can he said in opposition o this sentiment. no surer means of oitinuing to build up the rsosperity f the State than by means of an ex ostion. "They are the timekeepers I' progress. The State needs capi al. increased population and dliversi ed industries. If a comprehensive xhibit of its industries and resources a made art St. Louis they will not fail o attract and bring to the State vhat is alone needed to place South arolina much higher in the list oJ outhern States, in the march of pros erity."____________ Presidential Advisor. It has developed that ex-Governor ones. of' Alabama. was appointed nited States District Judge upon he advic. of Booker Washington. A etter from Washington to Roosevelt. as just come to light in which Wash ngton strongly recommends Jones, mnd adds: ''I will give you more de ailed inaformation regarding other sout hern appointments when I see ou, which I hope will be within a ew days." So Booker appears to be he power behind the throne in the namt- of Southern appointments. HE WAS TOO QUICK. A Preacher Dangerously Stabs a Man at Paducah, Ky. Through an unfortunate misunder standing Rev. George Waverly Briggs, D. D., pastor of the Broadway Metho dist church of Paducah, Ky , the larg est church in the West Kentucky, Wednesday night stabbed T. J. Garr, proprietor of The Inn, a fashionable boarding house. : The weapon used was a small pocket knife. The blade entered the small of the back, on the left side. infieting a serious, but not fatal wound. The affair occurred about 7 o'clock, at the Inn, where Briggs' family is living. Mr. Garr had been skylarking with the minister's little 9-year-old son,. Waverly, and lifted the lad from the Ul:or, intending to swlng him upon his shoulder. The boy's head struck a banister rail of the staircase, badly brising his face and outting the scalp. The lad's screams brought his father. Sobbingingly the victim of the mis hap said Mr. Garr had struck him. Believing in his excitement that the boy meant Garr had assaulted him, Dr. Brigg's put the question: "Did you hit him?" He understood Mr. Garr to say that he had. Garr says he answered no twice. Fired by anger, the clergyman dealt the boarding house. proprietor a blow. Mr. Garr returned the blow. A ra pid exchange of rights and lefts followed. In the heat of the struggle Dr. Briggs drew and used his kinfe, although he has no recollection of stabbing Mr. Garr. A physician was called and the injured man's wound was dressed. He is resting easy at midnight. The affair. which created a sensation, is deeply regretted by both gentlemen. Subject for an Asylum. A dispatch from Ottawa says in quiry in oticial quarters in regard to the reports from the west about the Doukhobors elicits the information that there are a number of them, probably a thousand in all, affected with the religious mania. They are going from village to village among their own people and it is said they are likely to arrange to meet in some central place, probably at Yoakton, to decide upon what they are going to do. The Doukbobors believe it to be a sin to hold domestic animals in re straint, and they have therefore turned their cattle and horses loose upon the prairie. They will not wear leather shoes or any clothing produced from animals and the men and women have been yoking 'themselves to the plow and wagon. A large number of the horses and cattle have been seized by the government and sold at public auction-the ammount realized, about $20,000, will be used to take care of the fanatics when the winter sets In. A Bold Robbery. The boldest bank robbery of recent years in Iowa occurred at Prairie City early Tuesday. The robbers dynamited the safe of the Iowa State bank and secured an amount approxi mating $4.000. They exchanged a fusillade of shots with local officers< and escaped. Night Watchman Er skine discovered four nan approach ing the bank at 1 o'clock. One of the meu cornered him and kept him covered with a rifle for three hours while another broke open the bank door and worked on the safe. The other two men patrolled the street and by a system of signals were able to hold at bay the citizens who were attracted to the scene. Five dynamite shots were fired by the man in the hank before he suc ceeded in sgetting to the cash box. The sum secured was mostly silver. At 4 o'clock the four men left the bank and disappeared. A Mysterious Affair. A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from Parkersburg, W. Va., under date of Oct. 26, gives the following story of the shooting of a man who is well known all over South Carolina: "Lying on his bed, with the knowl edge that he is about- to die, W. Brooks Harley, the proprietor of the Manhattan club, who was shot in the breast Tuesday morning, bravely takes upon himself the blame for the fatal shot, which he declared was fired at him by his wife. The cause of the shooting is a mystery. Harley arrived home from his club at 4 a. m. and in a few minutes thereafter the police were summoned. Upon their arrival Harley declared that his wife had shot him, but afteiward he denied this, and has since stoutly maintained along with the other members of the family, that he shot himself and that it was purely accidental. As there was no witness outside the family, it will never be known unless the family should tell what occurred. Marion Has a Fire. A destructive fire took place in Marion at about halC part 12 o'clock Friday morning. The satire Holli day block., consisting of the Planters' hotel, the livery stables of 0. W. Holliday & Son and four other build ings, was completely destroyed. The tire started in the kitchen of the hotel and is supposed to have been caused by a defective flue. It was not dis covered until it was pretty well under way and the building being an old frame structure was an easy prey to the flames. From the hotel the con flagration spread to the livery stables and made quick work of them. Two small buildings belonging to Mrs. M. E. Matthews. a small unoccupied building owned by Mr. L. Wyatt Oli ver, and the blacksmith shop of Mr. W. Frank Williams were also reduced to ashes. A Tragedy. A tragedy occurred at Dayton. Tenn.. Friday night, resulting in the killing of N. J. Cooley and his son-in lawv, Will Whittleld, by Manuel Thur man. Whitfield was shot three times and died instantly. Cooley lingered a few hours and made a dying stats ment to the effect that Cooley an. Whittield were at Cooley's home when Thurman entered a room occupied by Cooley's daughter' Whitfield heard a noise and entered the room when Thurman grappled with him. Cooley then entered and Thurman opened fire Thurman surrendered. A BAD FAILURE. The Atlantic Coast Lumber Cammy in Hands of Receivers. UNABLE TO PAY ITS INTBR.ST The Action Was Brought by lITr. tees, the Colonial Trust Com- sc pany, of New York, to be Reorganized. In the United States Circuit Conurt' _ in New York City on Wenesday4 Freeman Farr and Fdward J. Hath erne-were appointed temporary receiv=:_ ers.of the property of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company, within the Southern department of New YBrk ' The same temporary, receivers were appointed previously by the United States district court for the Eastern. district of Virginia. Mr. Farr was tlie former president of the company. The appointment of the receivers r was due to an action brought agalnst the company by its trustees, the Color nial Trust company of New York, ie lumber company being unable to meet the interest payments due the trust -' company. A statement issued Wed= nesday by those interested in the"wd lumber companies says the various re ceivers were appointed in connection -' with the reorganization and contem- - plated consolidation of -the principal lumber companies owning and, hand ling- what is known as North lina pine. The statement claims that;;, even in the case of liquidation the as sets of the two- companies .will beu : excess of all liabilities. Plans are already in process of for imation for the reorganization of r& company and the consolidation of.tbe Southern Pine Lumber interests. - terman A. Taft, Edward J. Hathorn and Ben L. Fairchield- were appoIpt ed in the Supreme Court Wednesd - temporary receivers of the. Expor1 Lumber Company on the applicationr of the majority of the company'sd{ rectors asking for a voluntary dissolu- e tion of the corporation. The petitio saysthat thesum of $50.000 Iliabilities due and about to mature cannot be met. The total liabilities amount to:32 9 358,538 and nominal assets $3,598,920: The company was incorporated-i_ w' 1878 and has a capital stock of half million dollars. The property to'come -: into the bands of the receivers in this 1 State will not exceed that amount-i> The principal styckholders -are Chaas : F. Flint, Alsden Swan and 3ohn1)= Carberry. The company has branchek at Boston, Georgetown, S. C., and in Canada. - Coffee Zone Destroyed. A dispatch from San Francisco pays;' the entire coffee zone of Guatemal has been destroyed by flames and smoke from the volcano of Sants =, Maria. Eruptions threaten the de struction of every living thing within reach of the fumes and fire -that poor': from the burning mountain, according to a cable to Castle Bros., importers of that city, received from their coffee . plantation in Guatemala. Onlyin meagre details are given. "Last Monday," saId Louis Hirsch, of Castle Bros., "I wired to our rep- ~ resentative there, asking for news o - the eruption of Santa Maria, and last Thursday night, I - received in reply this cablegram: " 'It is true. Enormous losses -Ee probable volcanic eruption. Coffee - zone destroyed. Our lives are In dan - ger. Further reports will follow.' "The coffee districts referred to,".*, said Mr. Hirsch, "are the Costa Cusar and Costa Grande. They are the fin- - est plantations ini the country. If the coffee district is destroyed as the - cable seems to indicate, one-third of the crop is most likely- involved. "That volcano of Santa Maria is located between ,Retalhulen and r Quezaltenango. The towns in the .. neighborhood to be most likely de stroyed are San Felipe, Mazatenango and Quezaltenango. The voleano has '~z been quiet for years. - Fatal Rioting. Political rioting at Ponce Porto Rico, was renewed Thursday evening. From 9 to 11 o'clock the city was in the hands of a Republican mob, al leged to have been aided by munici pal police. The Federal club was fired on. One man was killed and several were wounded, but not fatally. The rioting was renewed. Business at Ponce is suspended. Another man was killed during Thursday's attacks of the Republicans, and a number of men were severely wounded. The rioters announced that they intended to attack the Fefleration of Labo-r club and another club during the day, which caused the closing of -all the stores in Ponce. A Spanish dramatic cmpany which had been playing at ' Ponce applied to the Spanish consul for protection, and. it is reported, that the consul communicated with the Spanish minister at Washington. Shooting and rioting occurred inside he theatre Wednesday night and ince that day the company has been nable to perform. Charged With Bigarny. Friday a man named Rhodes who ad been living for some time near Seneca, was lodged in jail at Walhialla. harged with bigamy. A few days ago he eloped with the daughter of Dr. Browning. who lives near Seneca. and the doctor at once began a most desperate search for the couple, offer ing a reward of -850 for the capture or Rhodes. After a most exciting chase across the country Rhodes was cap tured in Rabun county, Georgia. by A. L. Dillard and Sam D~ickson of Westminster. Rhodes is said to have a wire and several children elsewhere. Dr. Browning proposed to prosecute the offender vigorously. THE problem of popular education is one that presses most heavily upon us. There is flo measure that we now think of that would more directly and sensibly benetit the South than this one, and we hope it will be pressed in season and out or season until it is realized in law and in fact.