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'VOL. XI.MANNINGq S.C.WENSA.OYIJ DIED TOG(ETHKH . A Shocking Tragedy an: a Revela tion in Omaho, Neb. A PREACHER AND A HISSIONARY. Found in Each others Arm. (old in Deat h in the Pr-eacher's -- u dy in Rear of the Church. A most shocking trau-'-y was enaet ed in Omaho. Ne-raska. <-n Tuesday night of last week. Gasped in eachl other's arms. I ing on the iloor of the pastor's study in the Gierman Bapstt Church early Wednesday. Usear Hern des. janitor of the church. dis)vered the dead bodies of the Rev. W. (. Rabe. pastor. and Augusta &Nusch. a missionary and assistant to the pas tor. Death had been caused by as phyxiation. The room was till,:d with gas, a jet and a burner of a small stove being partly turned on. The bodies were Iying on the ilor. the wo man's head being pilkwed on so.me cushions. They evidently had lain in that Dosition for several hours. There seem, to be little doubt that death was accidental. It is believed that. the pair had fallen asleep. the stove nlame blew out and the gas escaped. The b dies were rigid and denta evi dently occurred during the early hours of the previous evening. M1iss Busch ronmmed at t he home of Janitor Bernies and Mr. Rabe at the home of Harry Dirksen. Miss B3useh went to the Dirksen home yesterday morning and remained there uutil about 9 o'clock in the evening. engag ed in sewing. She left for her home alone and it is thought probable that she met 'Mr. Rabe on her way and that the two went to his study in the rear of the church. where the tragedy occurred. They had been good friends,. but no stronger feeling was apparent to those who knew them. Mrs. Berndes supposed the dead wo man was in her room until Miss Senal ker, housekeeper for Mr. Rabe. repr ted that he had not been at .home during the night. Theni it was dis covered that Miss Busch had not c cupied her room and a search weas made-for them this morning. The janitor went to the pastor's study and found the door locked and the key on the inside and he detected the escap ing gas. Quickly he summoned a po lice officer and the door was broken open. In the centre of the very small study the bodis lay, the heads a few feet from the doors. The woman's face was covered with froth and had begun to turn purple. One gas jet above the pastor's table was partly turned :If and from a stove uas was slowly es caping. It was thought at tirst that the two had committed suicide, for on the ta ble was an open letter. a neatly ar ranged bouquet. Mr. Rabe's watch and ghLsses and his hat, Miss Busch's gloves and handkerchief and folded upon the back of a chair was her jack et. The letter was written in German and when translated was found to be an answer to another letter which MIr. Rabe had received. There was noth ing in it to indicate that the tw' had intended taking their lives. Mr. Rabe was 54 years of age and came to Omaha from Buffalo. N. Y.. when he was chosen pastor of the Ger man Baptist Church. In that State he left a wife who is attending a mis sionary school, and one son. He was held in high esteem by his congrega tion. Miss Busch was 31 years of age and had been a missionary in Omaha for the last tive years. . She came here from Chicago, sent by the Church Missionary School. She, too, was held in high esteem and was very popular. A Sad Accident. Mr. Arter Hamilton. of Dillon. S. C., was struck and killed at that place on last Wednesday by a freight train. Mr. Hamilton who was eighty years of age, attempted to pass over from the east to the west side at the cross ing just north of the depot platfor m. and was looking south at a train that was taking the siding and failed to see or hear the approaching train from the opposite direction which was but a short distance from him, and al though the station signal had been blown and the bell was .ringing, he failed to appreciate his danger. The conductor of the train was in the cab with the engineer and saw MIr. hiamnil ton just as the pilot struck him. i~e told the engineer at once what had happened and the train. which was running at about 15 miles an hour, was stopped witin its length. Storm on Gold Coast. No less than eight men were drown ed, three vessels driven ashore and practically every lighter on the NIn~e beach were wrecked in a storm that commenced Tuesday. Nov. 4. and cen tinued throughout the day. The facts are given by Purser Roirson, on the Ohio. who arrived Frid y. A dwi.cn or more people th'r'wn into thie su:f were rescued by the life satving. crews. The schooner Louise. the~ steamer Elk and the launch Fleet W ing were on] the larger cral t wrecked~ ont the beach. In each instu~nee the crews w.ere res cued or managed to reach the shore. The storm e.*sed the water to bacd up in Snake river a-:d D ry creek. an( the Dry creek bridge was washet away. Takes !a-c Own urec. A special dite fra:n Lancaster -;to The State .sys 2.iss Ida Craiw young lady about :10 year~s of age li ing about eight miles in the eunty, nrut an end to her iire by drinki -arbolic acid Tuesday morn!flin'g a'bot .3 o'ciock. She had been using thi acid for tootchache. and t be supposi tien is that after retiring for the ii hi she~rank tihe contents of the botl which was a small one with1 on y small quantity of the acid dii tet therein. The young lady had eec complaining during thle (day und it probable ner mind ha:1 become u: balanced fromi11. health. Life is CheaP. IHerbert Marble was convicted manslaughter at New Haven. Conn. (in Thursday for kidling a man by run ning over him with his aultomfOh -a was sentenced to one year mn jail A TEXAS FIGHT. Three Men hilled in a ShootiIng Atayv at Orantue. Three men are dead as a res lt of a shooting affray at Orange. Texas. Wednesdav and great excitement pre vails in that comnunitv. The dead: .1ety Chenault. Cit vIarshal .lordan. T on .ns. i;ad bl 'iod is said to have existed between Chenault and Wi!! Ilarris. a well-known yung m an. for some time. Wednesday the two men met and after a war of words I [arris secured a (ub- le-barrelled sho it-.'un and kii:ed Chenault. 11arris ran to escape the Lire of Chenult ' rother. but was apprehuded hy City Marshal Jordan. who was clse at h11d. While the oilicer was conducting young Hiar ris to iail he was shot and killed and his prisoner escaped. It is not known who killed Jordan, although there were a large number of people on the street at the time of the tragedy. Will Harris was later arrested and placed in jail. At this juncture his brother. James Harris. started for a near-by store. diclaring that he would priecure a weapon and take part in the affair. It is claimed that Tiny lJones handed Harris a gun. after which the former jumped into a buggy. As he was driving away ini--ers appeared 0:1 the scene and o,: ire on .1 nes, inflicting wounds fisn which he died a fe'w minut- later. The town was thrown into a state of intense excitement and furtlher trouble was feared. but Sher1ii itob erts ordered that all saloons muNt close until he gave theml permissioni to open, and announced that he wouild rest ire law and order at anv c . I'his statement lwd the desired etffet and although ti streets are ero-A l oikr does not appear to be an ! Rl1iid of further z lable. .lordan. was only recently appointed to succeed Mar shall .lett. who was killed in the dis charge of his duty. After Capers. E. I. Dleas. the Neoro c.airman I the liepublican party in this Siate. has attemptedi to stir up another se sation in the G. 0. P.. and has pre ferred charges against District Attor- i ney John G. Capers. Internal Revenue Collector Micah Jenkins and almoSt every other federal oftice holder in the Stat'e to the effect that they are :,uil I ty of pernicious political activity and have used their ottices in a way bound to offend the president. As a result 'Mr. Fred H. Wannamaker. civil serv ice examiner, has been sent to Char leston to investigate the charges and spent the entire day Wednesday tak ing the testimony of Mr.Capers. Deas' 1 charges are not regarde1 seriously by any one and it is generallv thought that he is feeling sore because he feels the control of the party slipping from his hands. He is not consulted in the matter of federal patronage any more. and what he says is of no weight in Washington. It is likely. therefore, that after the hearing of the charges authorities in Washington will dis mi s the whole maztter. Just what Deas hopes to gain by this is a matter of conjecture. A Horrible Story. .A special from Columbus, Neb. tells of the killing last Friday of a farmer named Gerhard Borchers, living sev eral miles northeast of H~umphreys, by Herman. a fourteen-year-old son, who used a shotgun, which he had purchased for that purpose. When the help of two brothers. August aged 10. and John, aged 8 years, Her man dragged the body of his father to a strawstack and set fire to it. This 'is the story secured by Sheriff Byrnes from the three children, who are in custody. Each of the children practi cally told the s; me story, the only variance being in the degree of cul pability in the killing accorded to each. Herman. wvho is said to have tired the gun that killed his father, implicates his younger brothers equally with himself, wvhile they put the blame on him. The only motive for the crime given is that the father. with whom the children had lived alone since the mother's death, had not treated them kindly. Neighbors f the Borchers say they knowv of no mistreatment on the part of the father. Amiount o1 Cotton Ginnaed. A report issued by the census bureau Wednesday places the quantity of the present crop of cotton which had been ginned up to October 18 at 5.925.872 commercial bales, which is estimated to be a little more than 60 per cent of the entire crop. These tigtures were collected by the agents of the bureau and 29.314 ginneries are represented by the returns. The following figures represent the amount gmied in each S tt by bales: Alabam-a 585783 A irasa 3i30.S00. Florida 29.779'. Ger ta 0.949. Indian Territory 01.019 IKentucky 254. L ouisiana 1n9, 4. '3iississippi 559.12, Missouri 14. 90. Nornth Carolihna 3 02 ( )kla humai '4.6019. Sout h Car iolinai 601.4'1. Tenessee 121.iS0. Tlexas 1,781.~97. Virginia A.25. Anf Unexpected Victory. T he Columnbia State says the Denmo rttie victory in llhode island wvas aLl mst entirely unexpected. If the Demcoicratie cam paign managers mnade anym ecainas of carrying that State they were 'renerally deeuled too unimap' r tant for atten'ion. Yet it seems that t'e igovero a''the l i ' den:tnt g' vernor and the ciongressm'lan are D emierat" wh ile the ilor hiouse of the general aseml is evnl ' uciliOtid hetvu en th tw' parie*s. 'h sv en tte being still stonly1epubli-an. Ithoide island ws once con'sdered a I )emi ratic tae ut it late rears has bioen aanoinedc to heolepbians. It ma b that this 'it tle victory is an etering weg for the I'emoicratic pary in Ne EnglanId. where it mas In a Bia H urry. The Sate ays io i. 14mean :1 '.as in i 5 e ca no m ' l'iltl 'is b1e 1'' ii . ir hlig rs y hoard (f can vassers. Canboridge street shop con Oct. 3. tie dav after her murder. by a white man whose description tallied exactly with that of the man who brought the Mor tin watch to the pawnshop Saturday night. The descriptions of these men is said by the police to agree to a striking, extent with that of the sus pect Mason. and the pawn broker will be given a chance tomorrow to identi fy him, if possible. as his visitor. COLUMBIA'S GLASS FACTORY. It Makes Tons of All Kinds of Bottles Each Day. But fe~v people realize the vast mi portance. or even the extent of the new rlass factory that has been but recently established in Columbia. brinriug into the city many desirable families to make Columbia their Shome. The industry is one of the f most important that has come to Co lumbia, al there is no plant here that is destined to attract more wide spread notice. Already it has been termed by experts who have seen it the best ventilated and most thoroughly modern plant in America of its class, which is a very broad statement. It has been started by progress4ive young men who were as sured before they spent a dollar that such a factory would be a paying in vestment, and since the factory has commenced operations they are more than ever satistied on this point. The State refrained from giving many of the details of this new and important enterprise until President John .1. Seibels of the cumpany got everything thorourlv organized and working smvoothly. This has now been accom plished. A few essential facts about the factory will therefore beof especial interest to Coinhians and others. The company that has established this plant is capitalized at 460.00-j. and 545.000 hIas been invested in the thoroughly up-to-date factory. It is what is known as a 12 shop factory. running 11 shops since it was put in operation on the night of Sept. 30. I The ilant runs night and day. six shops working in the day and tive at nigh t. A shop consists of three men. two blowing bottles. while one tinishes the neck. and there are tive boys to each shop, each bottle passing throngh t the hands of all before it is completed. The men work in shifts alternately each week by day and night and sev eral of the shops of the factory are blowing 18 and 19 gross of bottles per turn of 8 hours. It is interesting to note that one shop at the new factory only a few days ago broke all records for quart bottles ever blown in the east. blowing 20 gross and 5 dozen, which earned for the three blowecs about $12.50 a day each. The factory shuts down at noon on Saturdays, making the actual work tive days and nights and a half day extra each week. The half holiday is necessary in order to blow out the tun nels and keep the plant thoroughly cleaned. The plant employs 120 men and S boys. of whom 33 are high-priced and skilled blowers, all carefully selected. The capacity is 36 blowers. The factory is at present turning outi fromn II to 12 toins of glass a day of 24 hours, being bet ween 175 and200 gross of bottles according to the size of the ware, and giving a daily output work Ion~ the market about 51.250. The class of goods now being manufactured consists of coca-cola, soda water. min eral water, beer and whiskey bottles. The factory's payroll amounts to ab~out $4,000 a week. The plant consumes 10 tons of coal a day, and has been keeping a supply without ditticulty. Three cars of sand a week are necessary. This :omes from Killian's in this county Iand is washed, screened and dried by the Killian Fire Brick company. The coke used in the lehrs for annealing the ware after it is blown is obtained from the gas works here. Two car loads of soda ash per week are used: 1 this comes from Syracuse. N. Y. The1 glassmakers' lime comes from Toledo. 0.. and the manganese, arsenic, anti mony and other ingredients come from various portions of the west. The factory runs with an improved system of gas produces, and a uniform heat of 4,000 degress (Farenheit.) The box shop has a capacity of 1,000 boxes per day. but owing to the difticulty of installing tile electrical machinery it has only been in operation for a few days. turning out half its capacity. The box shop uses about three cars of lumber a week when running full capacity. The factory now has blown on orders, ready for delivery, at the factory, about 12,000 or 15.000 bot ties, which will be delivered to the purchasers as soon as the boxes are -ready. The True Cause. s rT e Columbia Rtecord says Massa schusetts papers are tryiing to explain swhy Booker Washington's daughter ,was forced to leave Wellesley college. t One paper attempts to explain it by j time fact that the Southern girls in -the college absolutely refused to as 1 elate with her, and adds that some of athe Northern girls "took up"~ with t her. There is no -disputing about a tastes generally. so the Northern girls sare welcome to theirs in this matter: Sbut the truth of it is that the e generality of Northern girls are not e much different from their Southern Sssters in this respect. The faculty e of the college is acting very follishly ein trying to make it appear that any thing else than race prejudice. if you splease to cali it that, caused her re d jection as a student after the experi e menit had been tried for one term. A Dead Beat. V Mrs. ..osephine Thornton of .In d dianmapolis. Ind., secured a divorce from hecr husband on Friday. one of her grounds of complaint being that. thioughl her huisband was getting a ~ood salatry. they had moved 30 times since their marrianze ten years ago -inding it cheaper toi move than to ' pay re it. Got Their IDeserts. A el known society man of Lon .don named Barnard Fraser has been emtenced to ten years penal servitude arad with him A rthur Throrold, the -son of a minister. Their otiense was corrupting youth. THE ELECTION. There Were No Great Surprises in the Result. REPUBLICANS WIN THE HOUSE, Put the Democrats Made Ri;r Gains' in Nearly All the States. The south Once More Solid. The election on Tuesday. 4th in stant. resulted in no great surprises. In New Yorkg the Republican candi late for governor claims his election by a small majority, which the De nocrats refuse to concede. The result s so close that there will probably he contest. In almost all cities of the itate of New York the Republicanj )arty organizations went to smash be ore the assault of the labor vote. The| Democrats win four congressmen in Jhe State. Pennypacker has been elected gov rnor of Pennsylvania by a plurality f at least 15,000. This was diae in he face of the bitterest campaign hat has racked the Keystone state in ecent years of hard lighting in the ace of discontent caused by coal trike. and of a revolt in Allegbany ounty. which, when the votes were ounted, was found to have caused .mplete party chaos. P'ennsylvania vill probably elect 24 Republican -epresentatives and eight Demncratic -epresentatives. Quay has saved the egislature and, having won this vic 4.ry. is ready to retire from politics. Connecticut h.s gone Republican by >robably 15,000 and it is likely that I iot only has Mr. Lilly. Republican andidate for iepresentative at large, ieen elected, in spite of his connetion] vith the beef trust but that all thi our districts have been carried by t:e tepublicans. In Ohio the Tom. Johnson ticket as been snowed under by the com ined efforts of Senators Hanna and oraker. 1anna's home city went )emocratic. The Republicans carry )hio by a greatly reduced majority. - In Wisconsin the Republicans have on in spite of themselves. The bit er quarrel between Governor Lafol tte and Senator Spooner was carried directly to the polls. The surprising esult is that Lafollette has been lected governor and the legislature s Republican insuring Spooner's re urn to the senate and ten of the leven congrelsional districts have een carried by the Republicans. There was a light vote in Illinois, ut the Republicans apparently held heir own. Indications are that tnfe lepublicans will have the legislature, nsuring the electi-n of Representa ,ive Hopkins to the senate as the sue essors of William E. Mason. Indiana remains republican. The egislature will be controlled by Re ublicans and Senator Fairbanks will ucceed bimself. There have been heavy Democratic ains in Massachusetts. but the Re ublican state ticket has been elected y a fair majority. - it is probable that three or four cembers of congress have been elect d. but the Democrats of Maryland hich now has six Republican repre entativyes have elected. four repre entativs. Deleware has probably been carried by the Democrats and Houston has >een elected to congress. The legisla ure is close, but is believed the De nocrats will control and elect two ;nited States senators. In the far west the Republicans have nade gains. Colorado is believed to >e safely in their column. Nevada has probably elected a Re >ublican to congress. The Pacific coast states are gener .lly Republican and the Republicans n California have elected their state icket and six of the eight representa ives. Rhode Island has elected a Demo ratic governor and two Democrtic nembers of congress. This is a sur rising result and is due to the up ising of labor in the cities of Provi lence and Pawtucket. The South is once more solid. The Iepublicans carried very few congres ional districts in this section. A Collision. ' The United Fruit company's steam r Admiral Sampson which arrived at oston Tuesday reports that she :ollided with the three masted schoon r Charley Bucki bound from Eddy .ille, N. Y.. for Boston, about ten iles off the Cape Cod lightship at 2 )clock this morning. The schooner was unk and Capt. Freeman Huntley of Jonesport, Me.: James Ulmer Hunt .ey. mate. and two seaman of the Bucki were drowned. The mate was i son of the captain. The lost sailors, were Norman Sampson of Sydney, C. B., and Mark Board of Two Rivers, N. S. The Admiral Sampson had her ventilators carried away. her port rail damaged and her foretop mast broken.___________ White Sup~remlacy. The election in Georgetown passed of very quietly. The white supremacy lubs carried everything before them with a rush. The negroes did not of fer to vote when they saw that the white people were fully aroused in the matter. There were but tifteen Re publican votes polled in the town. The white vote wa polled in full. There was no sign of disturbance. Georgetown has the iirst all white of ticers since the advent of the negro into politics in this state. There is great re~ioicing throughout the county at the success of the movement, and over the ease with which it was car ried. __________ Golden Streets. For some time past the authorities of Altman in the Cripple Creek dis-' trict. wvhich enjoys the distinction of being the highest incorporated town in the world have been paving the streets with rock taken from the wvaste dump of the Pharmacist mine. some of it looked so well that samples were taken at random and assayed. and the returns showed an average value of .2) in gold a ton. As a re silt men begani hauling away the street surface until stopped by the police. The Pharmacist company has ceased giving away the dump. and is haulin it to the reduct ion mills. SHOT FROM THE REAR. The Assassin Had Untloubtedly Lain in Aibush for Victim. No clew to the murderer of Gugic Hlourquin and Fred Taylor. the old ncro who was killed with the planter Wednesday near Savannah, as told of in the newspapers, has been discov ered. Officers visited the scene of the kill ing about six miles from Savannah. and made every effort to gain a trace of the murderer. but without success. Buckshot holes in the back of the buggy in which Bourqin's body was round. and in the body itself. showed that he had been shot from the rear, probably by some who had lain in am bush. The negro had jumped from the buggy and run on the track or the Seaboard Air Line. He was shot down also. from the rear, and sometime af terwards a train passed over his body. The conductor thought his train had killed the man, and so reported. Guillem.iin Bourquin, one of the sons of the murdered man, said of the killing: ".My father had a great deal of trouble with pot hunters and tres passers on his place, and 1. have no loubt that sume white man slew him. I do not believe it was the work of negroes. I have a clew that I will work on, and it may help me in solv ing this mystery." 3r. Bourquin was connected with the oldest families of the state: in lact, being a descendant of some of the original settlers. le was born in Savannah in 1837, and had resided herc ever since. He was connected with the Centrml railroad before the ar as cashier. After the war, with ,he tirm of Gilliland & Bourquin, he :onducted a grocery and produce busi less. The List twonty-tive years of ,is life had been spent as a rice plant r and in loeking after his extensive .ildings. Mr. Bourquin leaves three sons; one n Savannah,Guillemain Bourquin,one n Little [tock. Ark., and another hose wherea;bouts is unknown. He ilso leaves a sister, Miss Alice V. Bourquin. a teacher in the public ;choois. Mr. Bourquin was often in trouble ith hunters who trespassed on his egal entanglements was when he was ried for the murder of W. F. Darrell )n December 30. 1892. He surrender d himself to the authorities and gave >ond in the sum of $500 for shooting nd killing Farrell, whom he found respassing on his lands in the south vestern section of the county. The rand jury indicted him on January 12, 1892, and on June 22, of that year ie was tried and the grand jury found in not guilty. FAMINE IN PHILIPPINES. eroic Measures are Being Taken to Relieve Situation in Archipelago. A dispatch from Manila says the Philippine commission has been forced o take heroic measures to relieve the amine conditions prevailing in the tichipelago. It has appropriated $2, )00.000, Mexican, to purchase rice and Lo charter vessels to carry the supplies Go the different islands. It is proposed to sell the rice for :ash and to distribute it through the :ivil offcials. It will be sold at not ess than actual cost, including duty, ransportation, shrinkage and storage, thus not prejudicing legitimate com petition; but this will result in the sufferers being able to purchase at from one-third to one-half less than the present cost, owing to the exorbi tant coastwise rates that shippers are >bliged to pay. The first rice steamer sailed for the provinces of the Cama rines Wednesday morning. The bulk f the rice to be disposed of in this manner will be purchased in Siam. Reports from various places in the rchipelago show a general condition of poverty and famine, resulting from the insurrection, cholera and rinder pest. The authorities of the Zamba les provinces have appealed for aid in introducing American agricultural ma einery and in importing caribaos (water buffaloes) the rinderpest having killed 26.600 of these animals this year. The shippers have objected to the government importing rice, and have offered Governor Taf t a lengthy expla nation in justification of the prohibi tive prices prevailing for rice. They say in effect that the Philippine crop is always insuflicient for the home de mand, and that the present crop in Indo-China is a failure,the grain there selling 50 per cent. higher than it did last year. The Asiatic growers have issued a notice that no rice will be available between December and Feb ruary. The prices of hemp caused the Fili pinos to neglect their scanty rice cul tivation. The shippers deny that there is a pool to control prices, and declare that the high freight rates are the natural result of the fluctuating currency. The price is enhanced by the long quarantine, increased wages and the high duty. They assert that the local tonnage is sutlicient to ban d!e the business. Lynched Him. Sam Harris. a negro. entered the home of Get). Meadows. a prominent planter, near Salem. Ala.. on Monday and struck Mrs. Meadows and her 18 year-old daughter on the head with an axe, giving the former a mortal wound and fracturing the skull of the latter. The negro was arrested. but was taken from the otflmers by 123 men and his body riddled with bullets. Schooner Sunk. A cablegi-am from Cienfuegos. Cuba. reported that the three-masted schooner Austin D.. Knight. bound from Darien. Ga.. for New York with lumber. had been run down and sunk by the italian bark Sorrento. The dispatch which was from Capt. Ben nett. master of the Knight. grave no( other particulars. Killed on the Rail. ilerman A. Meyer. a Charleston bov 19 years old, fell under the .ears at Kingville while stealing a ride from Columbia to Charleston on Sun day and had both legs cut oti. iH died before reaching his widowed mther in Charleston. KILLING MEAR ELKO. Ben and Arthur 3cCarley Surrendei Themselves as the Guilty Parties. Monday night, Nov. 3, between dark and ten o'clock, Mr. R. B. Kline was shot and killed about three miles east of Elko. The murder occurred within a few hundred yards of Mrs. McCurley's residence. About 11 o'clock the same night Mr. Will Mc Curley came to Elko and to the resi dence of Mr. W. M. Jones, where Mr. Kline boarded. and told Mr. Jones that Mr. Kline was' dead and he be lieved that his brothers, Ben and Arthur, had killed him. Mr. Jones and three other citizens of Elko, proceeded to the McCurley neightborhood, called on George Mc CurleyY a married son of Mrs. McCur ley, who showed them where Mr. Kline lay-a few feet out from the road. on his back, in a ditch, stone dead. There was a large wound, evi dently made by a gunshot, that pene trated the base of the brain and must have caused almost instant death. There were small shot wounds on the neck, face and body. George McCurley stated that his brothers. Ben and Arthur, bad killed Kline, but neither he nor Will could give any cause for the deed. After the killing Ben and Arthur McCurley went to Blackville, telegraphed to the sheriff at Barnweli what they had done, and that they were ready to surrender. Then they went home and went to bed. The coroner's jury ren dered a verdict that according to the best of their knowledge and belief the dead man came t his death by gun shot wounds inflicted at the bands of Ben and Arthur McCurley. It is rumored that Kline had gross ly insulted a young sir.ter of the Mc Curleys, which is said to be the cause of the tragedy. Mr. Kline was about thirty years old, intelligent, pleasant in appearance, and bad made a very good impression on many of our citi zens. He was a native of Kentucky and drove from there in a wagon to this place last summer, arriving just three months ago. He was in the memorial picture business, and has a brother at Quitman, Ga. The Mc Curleys went to Barnwell Tuesday af ternoon and gave themselves up to the sheriff. An Epidemic of Suicides. Under this caption the Atlanta Journal says "there must be some thing radically wrong-when young men all over this country, with deliber ate intent, are taking their own lives and confessing to their despair-with no other remedy for themselves but death. Youth is the season. the era of hope that is said to spring eternal in the human breast. Why is it,;that so many young men-just stepping but on the threshold of every-day life -have deliberately determined to quench the vital sparks in their own lives, either by pistol balls or by poi son? The percentage of suicide must be immense in the United States when so much appears in our own local papers, to startle and horrify us. Perhaps there is really nothing but a sense of God's protection and the resignation which comes from a re alization of God's promise to comfort in deep trouble which curbs the de spair of the majority of poor disap pointed natures-and as we see it, the mission of the modern church is to investigate more fully and clearly and find out the needs of young men, es pecially to repeated words of cheer and consolation, in a time of sore trial. Has the cigarette habit made these poor young men unusually despondent and despairing? We know that the drink' habit will sap a man's energy and precipitate his nature into fits of despondency, and oftentimes make him incline to suicide, but all suicides are not drunkards, and drink is not the only exciting cause as daily re ported in the public prints. This prevalence of the suicide mania is really alarming. It is of sufficient magnitude to arrest not only the ministry but every reform organiza tion in the land. It certainly should arrest the earnest attention of the motherhood of our own section." We believe one of the most fruitful causes of suicide is the speculation mania. Our young men are in too big a hurry to get rich, and when they risk their all on cotton futures or somne other speculative scheme and lose they become despondent and take their lives. Joy in an Anderson Home. A dispatch from Anderson to The State says the happiest man in Ander son county at the present writing is Mr. W. W. Moore, a prominent citi zen of the Piedmont section. Mr. Moore was married in 1876-just 26 years ago. lie and his wife have lived happily together ever since, but no children had ever come to bless his home. Mr. Moore is on the shady side of the half century mark and his wife is in her 50th year. He had about made up his mind that the fates had been unkind to him. and that he would remain childless, but it is a long lane that has no turning, and last Thursday night his wife present ed him with twins-a boy and a girl. The mother and little ones are getting along nicely, and Mr. Moore himselffis in good shape. These facts are given by people of that community, and Mr. Moore himself was in the city.. Hie is naturally overjayed on account of his great good fortune. "The peo pie of the city of Anderson are build ing cotton mills and trolley lines,"' he said, "but the piedmont side of the county is not to) be sneezed at. I wouldn't swap my fortunes for all the cotton mills and trolley lines in the country." Who is Ber-nard Murphy? A telegram received in The Colum bl State oflice Friday night from Ne Y ork said: "The body of a man, su pposed to be Bernard Murhy of Greenwich;. S. C.. was found in the Hudson river at Fishkill Friday. He was evidenitly beaten and robbed." As there is no Greenwich in South Carolina. inquiry was made in Green wood and Greenville. but in neither of those places wvas any one known by the name of Bernard Murphy. AN EXPLOSION Causes a Frightful Disaster in the Heart of a Crowd. ELEVEN MEN YTE OUTRIGHT And Fifty Injured, Many of them Fatally. Panic and Stampede Followed. 500 Policemen Called Out. By a series of explosions of pyrote chnic bombs and other fireworks Tues day night, among the vast multitude gathered in Madison Square in New York City to witness the ascension of an airship and the display of the elec tion returns. eleven persons were killed outright, many being.blown almost to pieces and at least fifty injured, many of them fatally. It is estimated that at least 30,000 persons througed the Square at the time of the explosions which were suc ceeded by a frightful panic in which hundreds were thrown down and trampled under foot. Five hundred policemen and all the ambulances in the city were instantly summonedand the dying and those most seriously injured were removed to the hospitals. In addition to these many of the wounded were taken away by friends. Nine men in charge of the fireworks display were placed under arrest Im mediately after the explosion. The list of the dead is: Policeman Dennis Shea. Wi. G. Finley George Ritz. Tharold Robley. Five unknown men. Unknown colored man. Unknown colored boy. The densest portion of the thronC that packed the square was gathered along Madison avenue close to the place reserved for the discharge of fireworks. Along the border of the square facing the avenue were arranged three groups of the castiron mortars, 20 in each group and loaded with heavy bombs. A few -minutes after 10 o'clock the first row of mor tars was touched off, but before the discharge took place one of them fell over on its side and the next instant stant the bomb was shot into the thickest of the crowd, where it ex ploded and hurled the people -into heaps. The fall of the mortar and the concussion of the explosion knock ed down the rest of the row of mor tars and a thundering volley of huge projectiles ploughed through . the crowd. Almost instantly the second group of 20 mortars about 100 feet further up the avenue discharged their con tents into the crowd and a moment later the third group, evidently Ignit ed by the showers of falling sparks, exploded in the same manner. In the panic that ensued thousands ran blindly across the square, tripping over the seats and benches and falling were trampled upon. The police on duty were carried along by the rush and for half an hour the wildest con fusion reigned. After the smoke of the explosion had cleared away 16 persons were found lying on Madison avenue be tween 23rd and 25th streets.-. Scores of Injured were scattered about the avenue and the square. Among the dead was a policeman who wasstand ing close to the mortar and whose body was frightfully mangled. A force of 500 policemen was soon on the spot and upwards of 100 physi cians and 200 nurses were summoned from the hospitals. Penitentiary Farms. The Columbia State says an inspection of the commissary depart ment of the South Carolna peniten tiary just at this time would make the average South Carolinian con gratulate the State upon having Col. D. J. Griffith at the head of the Insti tution. The commissary ls stacked to its capacity with meal, flour, and sup plies of all kinds. The flour is of the very best quality and is all neatly sacked. There is highland rice In plenty and no end of other provisions for the winter season. All of It Is the product of the State farms ciur ing the year. Never have the farms netted more handsome results. The actual facts and iigures will be set forth in the coming annual report of the operations of the Institution. In addition to these supplies there are now in the pens of the institution as fine a collection of hogs as perhaps can be found in South Carolina and all the stock presents a sleek and at tractive appearance. Died in Quicksand. A special dispatch from Easley t? The State says Robert Connor, the negro who has been employed by Mr. S. 3. Wyatt as hostler, met death in rather a peculiar manner. While com ing from Central and attempting to cross Eighteen Mile creek he encoun tered quicksand. One of his horses succeeded in breaking loose from the vehicle and making his escape, but the other one was drowned. It seems that Robert was not drowned, but died while struggling to rescue the dead animal, for when found he was Iin water above his waist holding to the dead animal. It is thought that he froze to death as the night was very cold. The Governor Invited. Gov. McSweeney has received from President Jf. A. Speer of the Interna tional Live Stock association a cor dial invitation to attend the third an nual convention of the association to be held in the Union Stock Yards In Chicago. November 29 to December , and to be there especially on .De cember 3l which has been set apart and designated " governors day." The~ meetings of this association are always interesting and valuable to those who attend. Where it at another season of the year the governor says he would make every effort to take the trip. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ IShot Dead. Nero Haillams, an old and respect ed negro. was killed on Saturday night while sitting in his house at Norris Station. three miles from Central. An unknown assassin shot him through the window. MUST BE INSANE. A Wealthy Young !Fostonian Accuse of Committing FIFTEEN MURDEROUS ASSAULTS Two of' Them Resulted Fatally. H4 Has Been Insane. But Was Released From Asylumu as Cured. A dispatch from Boston. Mass. says in connection with the 15 mur derous assault eases which have occur red in Cambridge. BIrooklin. and Som erville within the last few months two of which resulted fatally. th< State police Wednesday arrested Alai G.Mason. of Boston. a well known an< wealthy business man. a member o the piano manufacturing firm of Ma son & IHamlin. a prominent club mem ber and a Harvard graduate. The no lice suspect. from evidence in thei hands. that 'Mr. 'Mason has been in volved in nearly all the cases referre' to as the circuntances of each havt been very similar. Mr. Mason is i middle-aged man but he has been victim of mental trouble for which h .vs treated ai the McLean asylum al Waveriv. A bout a yetr ago he wa: ta-d to leave tl;e institution Since flhat time. it is said. he ha been p rmit td to g. and come at wil and th.e fact Ilit he had been fre. quont:y sven axmut the localities ii which thbe assaults occurred. led t( suspicion against h1ii-n. The pectuliar assault cases whicl have te rrorized Cambidge and vicin ItY as voll as other .suhurban sections ieg.ai last . une. During the summei there were half a dozen victims of ar unknown assailant eacth of which wa: struck down and beaten with a blun! instrument. Early in October Mis: Agnes McPhee was assaulted in Som erville and died from her injuries. at iron wrench was found and fixed upor as the weapon used. During the same month eight other cases tollowed. thc last of which occurred last Saturday night when Clara A. Morton. a laun dress at the McLean asylum. was ac osted on the grounds of that institu tion and beaten with a blunt instru ment. Miss Morton died Sunday. Mr. Mason was taken into custodv at his mothers home, on Newburv street. .le made no objection and on the way to police headquarters it il said Mr. Mason admitted to the olli cers that lie was in Somerville on thE night on which Miss MePhee was fa tally injured. The prisoner is about :19 years of age and is the sou of the founder of the firm of Mason & Ham lin. organ and piano manufacturers. He was graduated from Harvard in l$-tG and entered th - firm of which his father was the head. Mental troubles developed within a few years of his graduation and he went to the McLean asylum for treatment. After a time he showed improvement and left the institution. A second time it became necessary for hirm to return but he soon improved and he was re leased a second time. .In 1901. however, symptoms mor( serious than any previous ones (devel ped and his mother and brother found it unsafe to be with hima at their Newbury street home. He had threatened both and a petition was iled to have him sent away on the round of insanity and Mason was sent to Waverly for the third time. The man himself protested against what he termed an injustice and said that he was perfectly sane and would conduct himself as well as possible while he was there. Hie remained si.: months. Since then he had been free and has been a stock taker at the Ma son & Hamlin organ factory at Cam bridge. Mason has a mother and thre< brothers. Ed ward Palmer Mason.Hlen ry Lowell Mason and Daniel Gregory Mason. Hie is a cousin of .John Mason the well known actor. Mason was detained at the statior house until nearly 3 o'clock, when hi was tal, en to Cambridge where he wil remain under surveilance by mnsanit2 experts for a time. Throughout th< examination he absolutely denied thal he knew anything about the assaull cases The police assert that four 01 ive witnesses declare positively thal they saw Mason in Waverly Saturdal night. Mason's brother says Alan is in bet ter mental condition than he was som< time ago but he realizes that Alan i an insane man. One fact considere: significantly by the police is the ad mission that it has been the habit o Alan Mason' to take a car ride almos every e~veni ng before going to bed.Th ride was taken as usual Sunczay even ing but Mason declares he did not g in the direction of Waverly. Later developments in the casei v~ry damaging to Mason. It wa announced that the watch of Mis Cara Marton. Mason's last victim had been found in a Cambridge stree pawnshop where it had been pawnei fo 8 by a young colored man, an tis discovery at e'n'e led to a generr serch for this man by the entir olce force'. but without avail. Bu later develpments were far mor sensat ion~d. When'i the pawn broker memory lha I been jogged a little an< he hI had tre to think over th matter. he 'om bered that thm wae ha im brol:ghlt to his Oele In las htrda in'igt bet weeni th: hnurs' lf * i:m 14 o'clock by a w'hit man and o' ered in pawn. Owin to the fa"ct lun it was after busine. hors hc bad rcfusedl to receive it an aiter expressing disappointment th: man departed. taking the waitch wvit him. )n Niondav morning the sam w'atch was bro ught in y a colr mant ab:out 21 vcarIs of age of who the pawn oroker bought. it for $4.. urly colorerl man. evidently a con >anion of the other. had bcen waitinm outside the shop while the trade wv: bei n ade andi as soon as it was con plted. he entered anr tto(k the mone which the proprietor passed over. I h1 mern thenI depar'ted. 'ont inini their in vestigat ion: th !m n icers marde' st::.rtling discoveri whieh wvill have a. important hearin 'r t he case. to the e1leet that tt wat ch of7~ !1ss .\gnes NePhee of S 'me vile. an other ''Jaek the Slugger" vi<