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Colti X+ fl1~tt For the ,1ar r of Mr. W. K J4 Near Troy. S. C. THIY ACCIUSEWD EAC C"HI Man an( Wie luarr.ed and !a, ()r. ered ler e T n e 11 the Other !7h >t li., lilu from e :f Saturday s:tys Wil K. Jay, n of tle most prinen younu tarmnrs of the Troy section o this county. a; foully murdered ii his own y ard iiVday evening be: weCe 6 and Y by either Oliver Wice man or his wife. two negroeS liv;uI- ot his p:ace. Botn negroes were maa to pay the death penalty fe; tei deed by an iufaiiated crowd of 31r Jay's ne"ib.rs and friends. From all accounts, many of whicl differ. the following is offered as thi most nearly correct of how the killirn occurred: Mr. Jay lives in a new house aboul three and one-half miles from Truy This place. has never been inclosed anc the negro cabin formerly Occupie( b.: the nmgroes is within about 23 r 3 yards of the residence: Mr. Jay wa; returning to his nouse after attendin, to some business in the neigabjrbir,. and lien clo-e t his house he hear1 the two negroes making considerabl4 disturbance in the cabin. It seems thai the man was abusing or fighting hi. wife .and they were both quarre!inq and resisting. It was to stop this lis. turbance that lead Mr. Jay to thieil home, which as stated, is only aboul 30 yards from nis own house. Or his arrival be ordered the negroes tc be quiet-that if they could not be they could not stay on his place. Irn mediately after this Mrs. Jay, wh< was in her house. heard the report o! a gun. She ran to the door and looked out, and saw the two negroes, mar and wIfe, running away from theil cabin. Calling to them, she askeC what was the matter, but the negroe, made no answer and kept on running. Failing to get any response from then she called loudly to be husband. There was no response. She was ther wild with fear and began looking over the yard, and in a short whili found him dead in a pool of his owr blood. Almost his entire head had been blown of. Death was instan taneous. The alarm was at once given and the immediate neighbors rushed in. The news of the horrible murde, spread rapidly. Carriages started ir all directions. A telephone furnished the news to Troy and nearby towns, ar3 the whole country for milec around was soon being literally scour ed for the murderers. A party of men coming towards thE place from a section of the community a few miles near Mr. Jay's home. mel two negroes in the road. a man and a woman. The party did not know thE negroes. but arrested them on suspi cion and carried them back to the place of inquest. They were the guiltl ones. When examined both acknowl edged the deed, but accused eact other of committing it-the man said: the woman did it and the woman said the man did it. They never changec from this, but died accusing each othe: of the crime. The gun with which the murde: was committed was carried to old 1Bil Wideman's house. the father of thi man. and left there while the twC started out in flight. They were go ing towards Edgetield when caught. After the inquest the two negroe: were tnrned over to thes.constable who started to .iail with them. Al the Winterseat b;ridge they were stop ped by a crowd of infuriated friend: and neighbors and lynched. Thi lynching occurred about midnight. Is Now a Fact. Wireless telegraphy is now an as sured fact. The Halifax Chronicl< announces that wireless telegraphis communications have been successful by established by MIarconi betweel Cape Breton and Cornwall, England A message has already been sent t King Edward by Lord Mlinto. Gov Sernor-General of Canada, and also on to the King of Italy. Dr. Parkin. M1 P.. of Toronto, special corresponden of the London Times. also had a mes sage transmitted. MIarconi has beel at Table Head for the last eight iveek working steadily. The wires were a; removed and installed anew, the fa mous coherer being replaced by anothe wonderful invention of 31arconi. callet a magnetic detector, which gives m.os satisfactory results and which enable the transmitter to attain greate speed and accuracy. The inventc has also established at his Table Ilea station one of the world. It wr ~thought that until a similar curren was established at the Cornwail sur tion satisfactory results would not b had. Tests were made frequentl during the last few weeks. but tb greatest secre(-y was maintaimet Last week communication was estat lished. __________ A Street Duel. At Nichols, Ga.. on Wednesday Sai P. Padgett and J. C. Buchanan~yotm white men. fought an imprompta dut on the s'treet, as a conseqluence( which Padgett is dying and Buchana is seriously wounded. The two youn men mr.rried sisters, and while ti: .cause of the trouble is not known it: believed to be a family disagreemeni Padgett and Buchanan have herett fore beea friendly, but on' meetmr Wednesday each drew a revolver an began shooting. Padgett was sha through the chest near the heart a cannot recover. Santa Claus Scorched. A dispatch from Georgetown i The State says Tuesday night at Christmas tree celebration in tht city, D~r. Rt. S. Bailey. who was actir as Santa Claus. wa painfully but ne seriously burned. His clothing ai cidently caugh t tire. Three Firemen Killed. In a New York tire which sh< through tive factories in the ri'.t front district F'riday morning thri tiremen were killed. 'vo wcere bad: Sinjured and more than $ 0 damag was done. .LWIUL RA:LROAD AC mD7NT 'welty'(-ei iiied and 'Se happened a, shrt ds.t nc1 from the littl st~ation of Nannstead. Caln.. on She *arnia ranen of the Gr-md Trunil aiwy. Saurday it. The1 trci ns .i1 c'kiijon were I"!e Pachie Expre"CS: I' Luhrll%' t'LlS iC S V \rffe and ~ a reight. Th ~res was' run i ie.r ty - wo hu r., la1e ami wa' mIng f 't, time. Thie freigif Z V.a Sdeav\ring~ to ml:e a siing to get Ar1 of th vxpress. but failed by; Tlere was a drea'lial C:ih'.. the locI'otives "rered ip and; l 'ver in a dith, the b;ggrae 'ir of the ex press telescoped the smoker and in nr 'isant the ar ':S and cries o ti.( w u i;, :md t1h ('yn(. 'i he air. i I s' "''of 1 i 2S. The Ji:jure will number considerably more, ahi manv of these may die. Many of the det-! were terri y mu t Iited. Iiads we-, cut off. 1egt Swrenehed frum toe b,.dies and th( level stretch (4-f sniow became crimsor withi tie lhed t f tie victims. ,The respo,)!-ibility fo;r the ac "ciden1 his not been detnitely tixed. but it i: beleved to have been due to a tele r '~nlh operator's error. The operator at one of the station, 'here the two trains stoppcd g:ive at order to the freiLht to pass No. 5. tht Pic &eExpress. at Wanstead. In the system of the Grand Truniz this order should have been duplicat ed, a copy. being given to the conduc tr and eng5ineer of the express. In stead of this the conductor of tne ex oress received a clearance order, teil! i ig him t'> run right througb. The frcight train meantime had stoppec at Wanstead. to sidetrack. and wan I telescoped by the express. The blind intg stormN which was ragin:- renderet objects invisible at the distance of a few feet. The operator at Wanstead is not uscally on duty at night but Ilast evening he happened to be in th o1llce for a short time. Ife was going out at the door when he heard the telegraph instrument click repeatedly the message: "Stop No. 5." "Stop No. Seizing a lantern the operator dash ed for the door and as he closed it be hind he heard the crash of the col lision up the track. There was not a house at hand tc which the injured could be carried. Fortunately, however, tlhe two Pull man cars on the train did not sustair any damage. They were warm anc comfortable and were converted intc a temporary hospital. The injurec were placed in the berths and every. i thing possible done to ease their suf fering. The Cold Wave. The following bulletin issued Friday by Observer Bauer from Columbia shows that the severe weather is gen eral: "The severest cold wave of thE season covers the upper Mississippi valley where the temperatures rangE from zero to 26 below. The cold wave carried the freezing line southward tc Northern Florida. with light frost at Jacksonville, Southern Alabama~west ward through Central Texas. The Pa ctic slope is much warmer, with rain) weather prevailing. It is snowing ir the lake regions, upper New Englanc and the Ohio valley. Portland. Me. had over ]0 inches of snowfall during the past 24 hours. Generally cleal weather prevails over the southerr States except along the coast wher< it is cloudy. The highest reportec temperature Friday was 80 at Lo! Angeles, the lowest Saturday mornint was 2G below zero at Huron, S. D." A Great Sensation. A dispatch from Dresden says al Saxony is agog with interest and spec ulation resulting from the tiight o: Crown Princess L ouise, who said bei husband was a "beast." and that sh< would never again return to the court It seems that thbe Princess eloped witi a French tuitor, who had been em ployed to teach the children. She I an Austrian archduchness, being thi eldest caughter of Archduke Ferdi 'nand, who represents the Tusear branch of the Austrian imperial fami ly. She was born at Salzburg in 187 and married at Vienna in 1891. Shi Sis considered one of the prettiest prin cesses in Europe. being endowed 1'i11 great personal charm. keen intelli gence. learning and modesty. Tih crown prince is a fine looking, soldier 1 l man of :37 years. There are tivi c'ildren of the marriage, the eldest .Prince George, being nearly 10 year old. t The Railroad Help. SThe Columbia State says a shor time ago the state treasurer wvrote etter to the dit~erent railroad compa nies asking them if convenient to pa their annual taxes irnto the Stat treasury. The lines of the Souther and Atlantic Coast Line systems har' coplied with this request of th tresurer and have paid theei' taxes t the va rious county treasurers. Thi reieves considerabliy the danger of stringency in money at the close c the year when the interest on th Stte debt must be met. No doub2 iti readine-ss of the roads to compi and ease the Sttes tinancial condi ton will be pirperly appreciated b fthe people of tie State. Treasure .enni ngs is urTginr every' county tream uter in the . tate to remit the Stat taxe as rapidly as theC are r. ceivcd and hopes to s*ure 'a suiieect sUum t tide over the term of strinigency. Needed in Hbawaii. LThomas FSIort une. specini labJor comf mis'oner appointed by Secretaryv Shi 1to visU thle PhiilOipines amid llawaiial island is i at l1iniollu. In an in ter view'in The star he said: ''1 believ the importation of ne&gr es ti:r armsn a ratural s ulation of the ia cu. lty \ whi unmavoidaiy follows tu absorpiition of tropi'al or semi-tropite tcio tie~fLs iy the litedl States I the ioutherni States and in the C'art ias the negro made tie ind~ustrie whttheyV are." The conmmnissi' ni said1 tihere might ibe diiieuly in 1 Staning the nec'r'. buit he thu haI)it the panmters cotui gei t al iie wanted if thy. sent the right soit I agentS after' themi. 'You aid gt By thc cxpkc.sicn of Gas at R.t Springs. Aikrsas. SIXTEEN S1RIUSLY -aVRI.. A Crowd Was Gaih'red to Hear Iltirts From, New Orle-as , Races. When the n ion Occurred. At ot Springs. Arkansas, WedInes day afternoon in the cellar of the uirf exchan.e, a club house and p.ol Ioim operatedn by Chambers & Walker. the building was badly danagel and 0 peple were injured. 11; of them being in a werlie.us eendiltion. The most seri ouzly injured are: 11. C. Chaimbers, one of the proprie tors of thle turf exch]ange, both legs ,nd both wyrists brcken. Wrn. lelwig. a biind man, nianager fa )ath house. both legs brok I will die. '" in u'red are: 1S. Meeks. Not Springs, Ark., bot legs brokcn. Jo.ephl Pcr%. imtei keeper, Hot Spings. both leh b~kn Finnegan. piuaier, hot Sprins, bot h legs~' broken. .1anes Cowc n, ot Springs, both legs W m. Metzer. a boy, I ot Springs, both legs br,..ken and skull fracturedI, will die. Jalmes Couglin. plumber. Hot Springs. leg broken. C. oG. Parker. Milwaukee, 'is.. both legs broken. Al. F. iotchsk!Ti. Hot Springs, knee fractured. T. Oier. engineer. Hot Springs. both legs broken. H. George, New York. leg broken. F. Crantleld, Cincinnati both legs broken, ribs crushed. Walter Powers. St. Louis, arm broken. Eugene Daly, Bot Springs, botl legs broken. Thos. Phelan, telegraph operator, Hot Springs, badly cut. Mr. Donnelly, visitor. residence un known. leg broken, also badly cut. Twelve others sustained bruises and slight injuries. About 4 o'clock Wednesday after noon the poolroom was crowded with more than 100.persons. Just as a race in New Orleans was being called by the operator the floor of the build ing seemed to rise in an instant and a report that shook the building rang out. Tlhe news of the explosion spread rapidly and soon Central avenue was f jammed with people. The police and tiremen tool: charge of the building and the work of rescue began. Men were pulled from under the building in a terribly shattered state. One of the most pitiable sights was when "Pily- Hfelwig. the blind manager of tht Lanber bathhouse was taken from, the ruins. Helwig is widely known to thousands of visitors who come to Hot Springs annually. RI. C. Chambers, one of the proprie- I tors of the turf exchange. is one of the' best known sporting men in the country. His condition is serious. The injured were taken in charge by the local physicians. The exact cause of the explosion has not yet been determined, It is said by some that gas which escaped in the cellar of the building was ig nited in some manner. causing the terrible accident. Another report, which is probably correct, says a driver of a gasoline wagon was tilling a tank in the cellar when the explosion occurred. Lynched in Kansas. A t Montgomery. Kansas, on Christ mas day. Montgomery Godley. a negro man, was taken from the jail and lynched by a mob because early Christ-< mas morning he had shot and killed Milton Hlinkle, a policeman, while the otlicer was trying to protect himself against a crowd of unruly negroes. 1 At the first effort to lynch the negro1 the rope broke. Some oie in the crowd then. cut Godley's throat, sever ing the jugular vein. After this he was hanged a second time. The shooting of Policemen ilinkle occurred at a dance. which was attended by a large number oif negro men and wo men from neighboring mining camps. Montgomery Godley and his brother were drinking and had become very dilsorderiy when Policeman Ilinkle ini terfered. The negroes became insult ing and. when Ihinkle drew his club to defend himself, Montgomery God Iy slipped behind the policeman, grabbed the ottiers pistol and shot Iike bhindthe ear. The wound d plic'eman was carried to the City 1 al. where he died several hours later. The news of the shorting spread rpidly; and a mob gathered in front of thie jal. The doors were battered 'in and tihe mob seized Miontgomery Godley, who, with his brother, had ben arrested soon after the shooting. Tey took the slayer to a telephone pleo three blocks away ,and there h anged him. At first the negrowa dianut, but just before lie warganged he oegged hard for his life. Ravages of Timie. In the singular failure of the old ridows of York cathedrai, the glas hasi lost m-ost of its transparency. and in piaces has become so perforated that it erumbles at the slightest touc. Tostopthe "disease'' so~me la ss of the thirteenth and fourteeth cnturies has been removed. It is kown that the hardest cement is somtimelfls disintegrra ted by chemical actionl set up by minute orgamsos.~ andit is supp(sed that the dest ruct ift -of th~e glass has been due to some fun Stami by the Ne;gro. c v.0 Longino, of Mississippi. Wed esay issuedm a proclamiation offering 1 if v d illars reward for the arrest and co'.~ ie io of any" personl who forces a ner to leav.e ithri or the cioraies rof ' in'oin.t m. F ranklinm or Pike. utndes of. negro'' * residents have dumiI the past few months. bis s'r ved "it h noti'es supposed to ema t - . "whtitmanor' urmoniza THE IMEAINEST iXAN. 11' _-:ts L:c FaIou:n1' at fos An-Cc.Cs California. The worst thing' about some stories s that they are lies. The worst thin bout this stry* V is that it is literally rue. The meanest man in Los An ,eles has been found. the case has w'en proved and 'Next" has been 'aled. It is doubtful, in fact. whether meaner man will be found anywhere. le st'iory necds no embelishment. "1e- simple facts are bad enough. and his' just the way the events (;Ccr ed. A well known woman went out r a fev days zigo. She had hr >(ekKetbook with her. The pocketboo :ontained some money. Therefore it s unnecessary to explain that the onman was not out sho-pping. She ost the pocketbook. WXhen she cane iome she told her husband about the o(s. As to whether he scolded her or iot my informant does not say. At Mv rate. that evening the family Cleplione bell rang and on answering t a man's voice was heard to make he usual minoiries. after which 1e ;aid: 'I found a pocketboik today con aininz a card bearing your wife's ame. I supposed the book belonged vour wife. I have it at my otice. " 'ie thanks of the relieved family ,vere freely poured over the wire. and ;lep in that household was sweet that Next morning the husband of the ornan who lost the pocketbook called Lt the oltice of the well-known gentle nan who had telephoned. lie wast >resented to a fine looking person who said to be the one who owned the C ound property. The husband des -ibed the portmonnaie accurately, neluding the contents, and the tinder racously acknowledged that the des- t -ription was correct. The book was then produced and vas promptly recognized. "I am very much Qbliged to you for :elephoning us of your find," said the ratified visitor: then, as a matter of urse. he added: "Now, how much Z lo I owe you for your kindness?" The other looked serious for a mo nent, and then replied slowly: "Well. I hardly know just how nuch to say. Well, lets say-no. It's ip to you. To say that the husband of the >ocketbook loser was surprised would I )e putting it mildly. Had lie been iaggling with a pickpocket, street ,amin or a beggar he would not have >een in the least taken aback. But to i iear that sort of a cool bid for a pit ance from a well dressed, grown-up nan who had done an ordinary kind ess such as might be returnable any iour was more than he was prepared 1 'or. When he had recovered his breath ic said: "Why, I never paid a reward in my ife. and have no idea of the rules cus omary governing such cases. I should eel better if you would name the I mount yourself. The man looked still more serious. Caking a pencil from his pocket, he >ean to make figures on a piece of >aper. "Let's see." he said. musingly, as e eyed the pocketbook. "Pretty good ~ocketbook, slightly worn-say, one If t. Contents, three dollars and live ~ents-total, four fif ty-five. We might I ~plit the diff-no, say two dollars." And he looked up at his victim with , ;he innocence of a child. The man dug into his pocket speech essly, and handed out $:2. and started 1 or the door. lie thought he had had :he experience of his life. Not so. If ;he man's diminutiveness had been ex austed, his nerve hadn't. Reaching nto his vest -pocket, he drew out a ard, handed it to the stupitied caller 1 Lnd said: "Here's my card. In case you 1 ;hould ever want anything in our line ve would like to have you remember :he man who found your wife's pock- 1 mtbook-Los Angeles Herald. Helped the Robbers. A t Chicago on Wednesday Police nan Patrick Mahoney.was found guil y. and Daniel Curran. co-defendant, it guilty of burglary. by a jury .vhich returned its verdict of a locally e~nsational case in Judge McEwen's ourt today. The burglary of Hlage nann's jewelry store with which the lefendants were charged, netted the robbers $10,000 for which S7,000 was recovered by the police. James Clark nd an accomplice were convicted and served terms in the penitentiary. pon his release Clark told a story to the state's attorney which resulted in the arrest of Curran a saloon keeper, ad Mahoney, a policeman, well known ad respected among his fellows. larv testified that Mahoney in full uniform stood guard while the jewelry store was being looted. Burned to Dcathi. At Malone, N. Y.. four persons were burned to death Christmas day in the house of .Julius King, of Pierce field, a pulp and paper manufacturing town in the Adriondacks. The lire had gained such headway before it was discovered that Mrs. M. J1. Mc Govern. King's eldest daughter, and I her three chileren, who were sleeping on the lower floor, were not able to get out and all were burned to dleath.I One of the children, whose body was found close to window, evidently had made heroic efforts to escape. King and his wife, with a few boarders on an upper floor, escaped by jumping ut of thme windows. One man was burned serionsly. It is not known how the lire started. illed by a Woman. N ews reached Mobile Friday of the kiling on Dauphin island, in Mobile ba.oft Frd Matthews, b~y a daugh er of Gyeorge Sprinkle. Matthes w's a son of a former maror of Seran ton .Miss. where his remains were ule for~ burial. The details of the shooin aul re not known although one report states that it was accidental. The xDeadly Parler Rile. 'u pringville, Ala., on Wednesday. Pr'f. .1 acoh Forney,. of the State uni versity. wvas accidentally: killed while somoting sparrows with a parlor ride. ~r f. Forney was a son of the late Maj. Gen. John II. Forney or the Confederate army. TO PLANT TOBACCO. Experts Take Charge of Considsrable Acreage Near Columbia. d 30M 'ACTS FOR PI 2ERS. a Mr. Waddell Talks. About Snil of r1 Is ijichland County and Its Sti tabilty for Culture of, Weed. The Culumbita State says 'Mr. II. S. t del. wno is a native of Halifax -(unty, -Virginia. has arrived in the -ity. Ile is the expert in tobacco who is been brouglit here to take charge f the experimental farms to be estab ished near Hyatt Park by 'Mr. F. ii. h Iyatt and others. Mr. WaddeNl has dready gone over consirerable land in p he vicinity of Columbia and inspect- r d it. Ile has long been a student of ,bacco culture. Thursday be closed 0 he contract with Mr. Hyatt for the 0 ultivation of 50 acres,and will doubt ess take 50 acres also for parties own- b ng adjoining lands. "Mr. Waddell has iso closed with Mr. Huffman to fir ish an expert to manage 60 acres of is land across the river to place in ultivation. Ile is ready now to in pect the land of any others in the c ounty desiring to plant tobacco, ad- e ise with them, and if they desire it ecure men to take charge of the d arms. get them here. Ile wishes to establish a tobacco p arehouse the first season and expects o make Columbla his home.- Friday h ic talked interestingly of the culture f bright leaf tobacco. which, he says. a he lands in this section are adapted c o. Ie considers these lands much t >etter adapted to such culture than he average lands now growingr tobac- t o both in this State and North Caro- h ina. Eie says ne thinks there are t( rom 5,000 to 10,000 acres in this im- C ediate vicinity that are thoroughly b dapted to growing bright tobacco n .nd that this is suficient to establish s( first cla;ss market. He says that d elf-drained land of light color will 0 ake tobacco, and those with the yel w clay subsoils will make a finer rade. Lands of this nature rarely b ver fail in producing color or quality, 01 egardless of the state of cultivation. K ie says: "As to the quantity of et ertilizers per acre and the kind this t, s best determined by first giving the nd a little study of its condition. rom 700 to 1,000 pounds of high rade fertillzers on a basis say of 8 per s ent. phosphoric acid, 4 per cent. am- ei onia and 4 per cent. potash is a good n onbination, with from 10 to 20 bush- h Is of cotton seed or double this quan- cl ity in stable manure. This is pro- d iding your land ir. poor and of a very t oarse nature with no ammoniated a natter on it: otherwise leave off the k otton seed or manure. V The average farmer, inexperienced g n tobacco, stands in dread of the ex- t] >ense and risk in planting tobacco. 1 1( vould say just here there is a greater a >r cent. of failure in agriculture in t< Imost any other crop cultivated than t( here is in tobacco. To succeed you a :annot risk this crop on a half-hand- E d, haphazard 'basis. It requires si tudy and intelligence. Do your part n i the work first. I have known farm- wi rs their first year cultivating tobacco is o0 average 8150 to $250 per acre with- G ut any instruction from any one. $ "I do not approve of the ,one crop s1 asis. I do believe though in diversi- u ied farming. It pays. Riaise plenty i o sustain your farm such as grain, orage. meat, etc.. then plant some otton and some tobacco. Even a one orse farmer when he is fixed for a arming. should plant from five to ten rI .res of tobacco, or from one to two t >arns. As to the size of a crop that d an best be determined by your situa- g ion. The first item is land, then r apital, and next and most important t s labor. The needy time in labor is P he harvesting season, July and Au- ~ ust, when your other crops are all aid by after which it can be market- t d with 75 per cent. less labor. In large crops from 25 acres up, it t ays to have an experienced man who ~ nay be secured for an interest in the ~ rop. Men that are most capable will ~ :ost you, from the fact they can make f noney at it for themselves alone. I ave succeeded in locating three men ith crops from 30 to 60 acres and ae two more I know personally to bet apable of managing like quantities.n will aid any one in securing men. ;hat is bring them in and give you my udgment on thue land, inquire as to is references and see that all such get t rood tobacco seed free, providing anyg uch will write me in the next few c lays and give me full particulars as top iow and where they are located. I lon't ask a penny for what I tell thenm a )r do for them. I do this simply with view of establishing a market here. "I would say to all interested: In h he event von cannot plant suflicient a coreage to employ an experienced man, n ry your immediate neighbors and ork up say 40 to 75 acres and write ne, as its important that this decis on should be made early. You sow n he seed in the months of January d Ind February and it is essential that e ou should push forward your work,s particularly where you have muc~h n milding to do. Tobatcco barns can be e uilt fromo %0 up. A barn will ham- d rest from 4 to 7 acres owing to sizeS md season. Its lifetime is about 20 b 1 ears, so practically your building a oesnt cost much. It is the other y mall expenditures, suc: as tlees. ticks and canvas for plant beds: they tast from three to eight ye-rs, accord- 1 ing to the care you take of them. After you once get tixed to make 1: obaco you can make it and put it an the market at an average east :f from 2 to 3% cents per pound, or from Ot to $35 an aere, acco.rding to easons and conditions as to labor. I will answer all inquiries. I furnish to ba~cco seed in plenty of time fur you, so long as they last. This offer is con tined strictly to leiebland and Lexing ton counties or not exceeding 30 miles' from this po'int. in New York Wecdnesday. Thomas J Sharkey. the privatc detective, who I wvas convicted of manslaughter in the secrdi degree for having killed Nicho las Fish. the banker. on Sept. 27. was sentenced to the State prison for ten FOULLY MURDERED. Ir. W. F. Hudsonn Found Dead in His Room. A dispatch to The State from Cam on says horrible tragedy was enacted t the Wateree River bridge. .ener ly known as the iron bridge. Friday ight. and the whole affair is so far brouded in mystery. Early Satur av morning Mr. W. F. Hudson, the All keeper. was found dead in his bed i a pool of blood. in his house by the iver bridge, on the west biik of the Vateree. A blood trail leading from le great wooden gates of the bridge. 'hich are about 50 feet from the; ouse, to the bed, indicate that the iooting took place at the gates. The Lrge gates are closed every night and cked, and only a small pastern is ft open. The supposition is that the erson or persons who committed the iurder came from the east side of the ver as the postern shows marks on ;, as if some one had tried to prize it pen from that side, while a few feet ti, the gate keeper's lantern was )und with blood spots on it. The lood trail begins on the right gate. here one spot is visible near the round, and leads directly to the )hone which is to the right of the tcuse door. There is blood on the ret eiver, and the unfortunate man ei ther ndeavored to 'phone or reached for is gun, which hung over the door. A large pool of blood is on the mid le of the floor. and young Hudson es in another one on his bed. Iis istol was found on the desk, but it not supposed that he had it with im when he went to the gate. Vho -rpetrated the horrible deed is still a unsolved story, and no very de inite ues leading up to the deteation of ie murderer have been found as yet. obbery was apparently not tue mo ve as nothing was taken out of the use and the toll money was not uched. Messrs. Craig and John lyburn, who passed over the brid:e ,tween 11 and 12 o'clock Friday ight, seem to have been the last per mns who saw Hudson before the mur r. state that he came out and ;ened the gates to let their buggy ss through. Mr. W. F. hudson as about 30 years old, single, and is position was a very responsible e, and the best evidence of the con lence and esteem he enjoyed in this 1 )mmunity was his appointment to e same last year. Killed by Robbers. A special from Matthews, Ga., Lys: A horrible crime was perpetrat 1 near that place on Christmas eve ight. Mr. Ed Gray, who was at )me after his place of business was 1 osed for the night, was called to the s or by an unknown man and asked > change some money. Not being le to make the change Mr. Gray irdly consented to go to the. store, high was a short distance away., to -t the proper money. Mrs. Gray, inking her husband was staving nger than necessary, became uneasy t ad started to the front of the house s see if he coming. She was startled see the storehouse a mass of flames 1 d gave the- alarm by screaming. efore assistance could arrive the ore was gutted. Among the re ains Mr. Gray's skull, fractured., as found and the safe was open. It believed'the man, after forcing Mr. 1 ray to open the safe. which contained [300, murdered him, robbed the ore and then set fire to it to cover p his crime. Thfere is no clue to his lentity. Two Trains Collide. The Pennsylvania limited, running most an hour late, crashed into the ar end of the Leetsdale accomoda on at Quaker Valley. Pa., Wednes ay night at 11 o'clock. The big en ne of the limited ploughed into the ar car; the smoker, like a knife rough paper, and the little car was ushed through the one ahead of it, aking the two cars the length of one. 'he crash was heard for a mile and ae limited, running at the rate of fty-five miles an hour, carried the ain from Quaker Valley to Edge orth, a distance of almost haltf a ie before it could be stopped. Many 'ere injured, some of them probably Itally. Santa Claus Burnpd. Forest Gale, 15-year-old boy attach - to the Salvation Army, at Hamil >n Ohio, was fatally burned Christ ias night while playing Santa Claus > 300 poor children. The accident :eurred in the Salvation Army's hall, here the annual Christmas enter lnment for the poor was in pro ress. Gale was swathed in rolls of tton and wore a long beard of simi tr material. As he was frisking round the tree, picking gifts for each ild, his clothes ignited by a candle. 'ire enveloped him almost instantly. 'he false beard was burned and he in aled the flames. Gale was taken to hospital, where he died in twenty iinutes. Found i n a Well. The body or John Miller, a young ian who had not been seen since Sun ay night. was found in a well at By ly's brick yard one mile east of Win :on N. C., late Wedned~ay after oon. It is believed that Rluf us Stev nson, who commissi suicide yester ay afternoon, and hs brother, Sand tevenson, killed Miller and threw Imn in the well. Sand Stevenson was rrested near the Stocks county line esterday afternoon, lie is~ in jail. Swoman tells the ottleers that the tevenson brothers and Miller were at er house Sunday and that the latter ad money. All of them were drink . Leg Crushed. Mr. Will Moody. a tireman on the ergia road. went under the engine ~hich he was tiring when the trainm 2ande the stop at Social Circle, Ga.. o make some repairs to the ash pan. *nd while in a position with one leg xtending ac'ross tile track the engine noved, the wheel passing over the eft leg and mangling it so that am utation was necessary. The other! ip was badly bruised and dislocated. it the time of the accident there was! ttle hope for recovery, but he is im >roving and there is good hope for ecovery. lie at one time worked on .' Sdohrn rmd and lived in Colum TIHANKSGIVING OFFERING. Iwenty Million Dollars Raised by tho Methodist Episcopal Chnrch. Success has crowned the efforts o :he Methodist Episcopal Church t< aise a Twentieth Century Thank-Of ering fund of $20.000,000. Abou1 il9.000,000 has already been raise mnd a promise has just been obtaine !rom a milllonaire to add the required Lmount to complete the full sum. Th< ;ae of the donor is a secret, and wil enain so until New..Year's Eve. vhen, at a watch meeting to be bele n Trinity Methodist Church, it ,pringflield, Mdss., formal announce nent of the gift will be made. In the meantime speculation is rift ts to the man who is willing and abl :o give so large a sum. Many name! iave been mentioned, and it is be, ieved by many that the $1,000,00( vill come from either John D. Rckc. eller or Andrew Carnegie, notwith tanding that neither is a Methodist .nother guess was hazarded that z anderbilt had opened his purse trings. Rev. Dr. Edmund M. Mills. whC ias had charge of the work of raising .he fund, refuses to discuss the mat :er, but admits that the final gift ha. >een "underwritten." Of the thank fering fund 88,000,000 will be devo ,ed to the payment of church indebted. less, and the prediction was mad( :at the result will be that not a Iethodist Church in the country wil] emain with a vestige of a debt hang ng over it after the committee con ludes its work. Along this same lin( vill be the establishment of a fund o1 1,500,000 to provide pensions foi ged and infirm ministers. The fund or this purpose will be increased vhen opportunity presents itself. The contributions have been sur )rising in their nature. The Norwe rian conference, in Minnesota. which s made up of a membership frugal, )ut far from wealthy, has contributed n average of $22 per member. The xerman conference of Oregon has ;ontributed an average of $20 pei nember. From the son of an old dethodist minister came i gift of 400,000. To the education of Methodist chil Iren nearly $8,000,000 will be devoted. Chis fund has been gathered largely brough the efforts of the presidents f Methodist institutions of learning. Che sum of $1,176,800 was raisd. by yracuse University. The Ohio Wes eyan University raised $1,092,806. It is understood that $5,000,000 vill be devoted to the hospital work. [en years ago the Methodists had not , hospital in the world, while -today bey have 20 in the United States and everal others are under way. Will be Arbitrated. A dispatch from Washington says resident Roosevelt will not be arbi rator in the venezuelan controversy. he whole-vexatious question will be eferred for adjudication to the Hague ribunal. Epitomized, this was the ituation as it had resolved itself at he conclusion of the cabine' meeting oday. The meeting was not a long ession. All the members except Zoot were present. The Venezuelan uestion was the principal and practi ally the only topic of general concern mnder consideration. Secretary Hay >resented the net results of the cable orrespondence with the governments 4r Londen, Berlin, Rome and Caracas n accordance with the suggestion of resident Roosevelt, President Castro f Venezuela, was reported to have greed to submit the differences be ween his government and the Eu opean powers to arbitration of the ribunal at the Hague. The Europ ~an powers have not only consented o consented to submit the controver y to arbitration, but while they ex* ressed a preference for the arbitra ion to be conducted -by President R~oosevelt, they assented to his sug festion that the matter be referred lc he Hague court. The presentatior f the case met the hearty approval ol he members of the cabinet. No fea: s expressed by the administratior hat the Monroe doctrine will bE >rought into the controversy in any nanner that might result in embar ~assing the situation of the Unitec tates. Broiled Alive. A horrible accident occurred at thE Richland distillery on Christmas eve. About half-past 4 o'clock Charlie Till nan, a colored employee, while walk .ng along the gangway just above one )f the great slop vats which hold! 1,500 gallons, slipped and fell into the at. It was filled with boiling slOP, :he stuff from which the whiskey had lready been extracted. This stufi was at the time of a temperature oJ 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When Till nan fell into the vat two fellow work nen tried to save his life. They luckly managed to grasp his hancd ud pulled him out. He hardly spen1 nore than two minutes in the vat, ut when he was drawn out he wa4 iconscious and had really been cook. adl aliv'e. lHe was in such conditior :at his clothing had to be cut frort ais b)oiled tiesh. Dr. Kendall was mastily summoned and found the mar till breathing. Hie administered opi ttes and as soon as possible the suf ~err was removed to the colored hos >ital. Through everything possible vrs done to save the man's life, deati tame and relieved his awful sufferlngs. Ee had inhaled the deadly vapor frog :he vat.-Columbia State. Rev. W. M. Jones Shot. While out hunting Rev. W. M. Jones. the pastor of the Willistor Baptist church. was seriously wound ad in the right arm by the accidental iischarge of his gun, in removing it from the buggy. in which he, witi: Dr. John A. McCreary. was riding, it was at first thought that amputa ion would be necessary. but hopes arn aow entertained that the arm may bE saved. Frozen to D)eath. Joseph Ilariton, an old prospector missing for the past three weeks, ha! been found dead within three hun dredI yards of his cabin near Ilse, Col Iarton was a Confederate soldie and. it is said, was at one time mayo of Atlanta. It is supposed that ha perished in a storm in an attempt t seek shelter and food. MAIL BOX SCANDAL. A Few Manufacturers Were Selected and Favored by Smith. LEAXING OUT AS A SCANDAL X Inspector or Personater a Patentee Mail Box and Brought the Matter Into Prominence. Mention was made in the Spartan burg Herald some time ago of the very unusual proceeding on the part of the subcommittee of the commit tee on appropriations, in recommend ing an increase in salary for the super intendent of the rural free delivery service and the chief of the division of salary and allowance, of the post office department, without the recom mendation of the postmaster general. As a sequel to the episode mentioned, what promises to be a very interesting matter has come up in regard to the officials of the postoffce department and it is said that an Investigation will be asked, to be conducted by con gress. The matter is in connection with the box question of the rural free delivery service. During the administration of Post master General Smith-a regulation of the department required'that_ boxes purchased for use on rural free d ery routes must be selected from a certain number of boxes, approved by the department, and made by a small number of the manufacturers of such goods. Dissatisfaction was caused by this regulation, both because the pat rons of the service disliked to be forced to buy a certain box, and be cause certain manufacturers were ap parently favored the regulation. Pub lic sentiment, together with the influ ence of several members of congress who were largely interested In rural free delivery, was brought to bear up .on the officials with such pressure that Mr. Payne, upon his assumption of the duties of the office of postmaster generil, had adopted another regula tion, which prescribed only the ma terials and size of the boxes to be used, and allowed them to be made by anyone, who could make a box meet ing these requirements. This, It was thought, would remove all the former dissatisfaction and for a time, such was the case. It is said now, however, that there is an understanding between some of the high authorities of the rural free delivery division of the department on one side, and certain box manufac turers on the other, by which repre sentatives of one of these companies are on the ground In the territory where rural free delivery is to be put in even before other companies are aware that the service Is being con templated. The companies thus fa vored, according to the reports, are the Corbin Lock Company, Bridgeport Conn., the Century company, of De troit, theBond Steel Post Company, of Adrian, Mich., and a company do ing business in Toledo. A story is published tio the effect that one of the inspectors of the de partment, whose business is the laying out of rural free delivery routes, while on duty in New York, went to Bridge port, and, underthe pretence of being engaged in the laying out of a route from that point, assisted in the per fecting of a box in the shops of the Corbin company. In a short time, It was decided by the department.to lay in supply of about $75,000 worth of boxes, and the inspector who had per fected the box was one of the com mission appointed to select the box of which so large a supply should ye pur chased by the department. The plan, for some reason, was abandouid It has been discovered, so the paper says, that one of the high officials of the department is a large stockholder in each of the companies whose agents have the advantage of others in being able to get upon the ground first. Another feature of the situation is brought about by the fact that officers of the rural free delivery division are unquestionably in a position such that they might be able to confer favors upon certain members of congress,and in return receive favors, and 'n fact it is stated by the local paper above referred to that instances are not rare where a member of congress, upon in quiry about routes where he sees no possible reason for the refusal of the department to escablish the service, has been told that nothing could be done for him in the matter of rural free delivery, while others, in the bet ter graces of the officials, experience no difficulty in securing any routes de sired. The operations of this oligarchy, or postof'fice department trust, as it Is called, may be inquired Into by.con gress upon its reassembling in Janu ary. A Romance. Three years ago while Miss Caroline 0. Pritchard, of Pottsville, Pa.. was nurring the Vanderbilt family at Newport, Ri. I., she met Harry P. Smith. a retired millionaire, of Bos ton. The romance then begun reach ed a happy conclusion in their wed ding at Pottsville Friday. The cer emony was performed by the Rev. Dr. James T. Satchell, at the home of the bride's father, ex-Chief of Police D. C. Pritchard. Miss Edna Stichler acted as bridesmaid; L. L. Pritchard, brother of the bride, was best man. The wedding was very quiet and Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith left on an ex tended Mediterranean trip. Mr. Smith is a member of the New York Yatch Club and of the Eastern Yatch Club. Mr. Smith and his bride will later take a cruise in his handsome yatch Adrienne. By Wholesale. At Armstrong, Mo., Rev. Naylor performed a marriage .ceremony Christmas night in which five couples were united. The brides and bride grooms formed a circle around the minister and clasped hands and took the vows. They belonged to a matri Smonial club and had agreed to be )married at the same time by the same I minister.