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VOL. ---- MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY AUGUST 5, 1908. V--. -J---U . CUT THEIR WAY OJT. Thirteen Daring Prisoners Escape trom Polsom Penitentiary. GUARD CARTER CUT TO DEAT. A Sanguinary Battle Wis Fought Before the Officials Were Over powered, Some Otlicers Taken Away as Prisoners. A special from Folsom says l:; desperate prisoners contined in the Folsom penitentiary made a success ful break for liberty at the breakfast hour Tuesday morning. After a fierce fight in the captain's office during which a turnkey was fa tally stabbed, a guard was killed and another officer was wounded, the con victs seized arms and ammunition and, using the warden and other officers as shields escaped. Tuesday night it is believed they are making for the Bald mountain. State troops ordered out by Gov. Pardee have gone to the scene. The dead: Win. L. Colter, a guard, cut in abdomen, died five hours later. Wounded: C. J. Cochran. turnkey, stabbed in back; will probably die. W. C. Palmer, cub in the head. The convicts made their break for liberty about 7 a. m. They went to the oflice of R. J. Murphy, captain of the guard, and seized Warden Wilkin son, Capt. Murphy and several other officers and guards. A. desperate fight' took place. The convicts were armed with knives and razors, and with these they assaulted Warden Wilkinson and his officers. The warden's clothing was slashed into shreds with a razor, but the blade did not touch the flesh. Turnkey Cochrane fought the convicts with a chair, raining blows upon them right and left. Finally he was felled by a knife thrust in the back. Gua.rd Carter was disemboweled by a cut in the abdomen and he died about noon. Palmer was severely cut in the head. The floor of the office was covered blood. The officers were easily out-number ed and were soon relieved of their arms Then, using the officers as shields, the convicts started for the armory on the outskirts of the peni tentiary grounds. They passed a Gat ling gun on one of the walls, but the guards were afraid to shoot at the convicts for fear of killing the prison officials. When the armory was reached offi cers there attempted to interfere but were quickly overpowered and the convicts after fortifying themselves further with rifles, knives, pistols and ammunition mace a dash for the coun try Convicts, each armed with rifles, marched on either side of Warden Wilkinson, who was threatened with death if he attempted to escape, and the officers were told that if any of the pursuers took the life of one of their number they would retaliate, life for life. At Mo:mon bridge, about a mile from the penitentiary, the warden, his grandson and Capt Murphy were re leased and sent back. The others were marehed along with the convicts. Further on the convicts went to a farmer's house, seize'd his four-horse team and wagon, stripped the house of all its portable valuables, took the farmer with them as a driver and headed for Bald mountain. Evident ly it is their intention to reach Alabaster cave, situated near this mountain. All the convicts are still at large. Among the officers carried off by them is General Overseer Mc Donough. Some fears are felt for his safety as he bears the especial ill wil of the convicts. The several hundred remaining pris oners made no atteemnpt to get awa and were quietly returned to their cells and locked up. Warden Wilkinson was the first to return to the penitentiary. The con victs had taken his hat. Capt. Mur phy appeared afterward, minus part of his clothing, and later young Wil kinson came in. Folsom penitentiary is the prison without walls. It is situated in a rocky amphitheatre close to the American river, about 20 miles from Sacramen to. Nearly 1,500 men are confmned there where it has been the practice .to send the most desperate prisoners. ONE CGNVICT KILLED. The result of the tight between the ceonvicts and the two otticers at 7 clock Wednesday night in Eldorado county was the death of Fred Howard, a convict killed outright, and the wounding of another convict, a negro named Seavis. The coroner at Placer ville at the request of the pr-ison offcials will hold an inquest on the dead convict. When last seen the convicts were in citizens' clothing, while their prisoners v'ore stripes. The latter appeared to be having a hard time of it, as they were heavily laden with bundles and amunition. The latest information is to Ihe effect that anoth( r encounter has taken place between the fleeingr convicts and their pursuers, resulting in the death of John Addison. a convict and of an other whose name is unknown. The posse and militia are closing in on the desperadoes. The capture or destruc ton of the complete band is only a matter of a short time. At 10 o'clock Wednesday night the convicts turned Bernard Schlottman. Joe Foster and the following prison .o fcials loose: J1. C. MlcIonough, .. E. Jeter, J1. W. Dolan, \V. .J. Hop tona and Thos. Seavy. They were released in the brush about four miles south of Diels place and came into Jiels about t; o'clock Thursday morn ing- John Kiendori, one of the guards, tumbled out of the wagon during the firing at Pilot lill andI escaped unhurt. This makes all the free men accounted for and sale. The convies are somewhat short of ammunition and are without supplies, having lost them in the tight at Pilot lll. All of them had lunches in their pockets, and when the shooting began they threw them into a box lm the wagon and a fewmiuelar lied. Nearly all of them have a little money. They debated whether to kill their hostages or turn them :oose. but tinally they decided to let them go unharmed. About 100 shots were exchanged in the battle at Pilot Hill. The tigh;. at Pilot Hill Wednesday night between the convicts and their pursuers seems to have been a more serious atfair than at tirst reported. After they had looted a provision store at Pilot Hill they were practically surrounded by the sheriffs of Sacra l mento and Piacers counties, each com manding a strong posse. All four horses on the convicts' wagon were shot and one of the criminials was kill ed outright. Then the outlaws raised a white flag and marched up the road with the guards and others whom they had captured on each side of them. A general volley was not or dered. as it might have killed several innocent men. In this deliberate manner the second escape was made. The pursuing otlicers have been in structed to shoot the convicts on sight and their death or capture in the near future is expected. TWO TRAINS CRASH. A Fast Vestibule Dashes Into a Slow Work Train. Two people were killed and seven injured in a rear-end collision between the South-western Vestibule Limited on the Southern railway and a work train at Springtield, Va., seven miles from Alexand-ria at 7.15 o'clock Sun day morning. The engines and several of the cars were badly damaged. The killed: W. W. Woodward, Jonesville, Va., 29 years old, a postal clerk. Walter Meeks. fireman. The injured: Benjamin tawings, Orange, Va. postal clerk, both legs broken; may die. Peter Harrington, engineer of the passenger train, seriously injured about head: may die. John L. Thompson, Washington, D. C., postal clerk, in charge of the mail cars on the limited, wrist badly cut. J. Frank Keller, postal clerk, Lant zer's Mills, Va., right arm broken. Fred J. Larrick, postal clerk, contu sion of right leg and foot. T. A. Fontaine of Bethel lIll, N. C., badly bruised. One unknown passenger, The Southern is double tracking its line between here and Atlanta and the work train had been on a siding at Springfield getting ballast out of a pit. The brakes refused to work and the train, beyond the control of its crew, slipped out on to the main track. I he limited, the crack train of the Southern between here and New Or leans, due in this city at 'J.42 o'clock, was between half an hour late and was running at a high rats, of speed. En gineer Harington was unable to see the work train until within 200 feet of it. The collision occurred about 15 feet south of the siding and the baggage, mail and express and several passenger cars were thrown into a ditch. The engine of the limited was turned on its side and the other engine was badly wrecked. The tracks were made impassable for several hours. Foritain, Keller and Rawlings were brought to thiscity and treated at the Emergency hospital.Engineer Arring ton and the other injured were taken to Alexandria. -Blind Tiger Clubs. The Columbia State says Gov. Hey ward's attention has been called to the fact that there is an increasing num er of social clubs in the city, and it is darkly hinted that some of these clubs exists only for the purpose of selling liquor- It is a very delicate question. Recently one of these clubs on lower Main street was raided and the consta bles found an ice box in which were a few bottles of beer and a large num ber of bottles of soda water. The proprietors of the club asked the con stables to leave the "soft drinks." Whereupon the constables became suspicious and upon opening the bot tles supposed to be tilled with sodo water found instead that they wvere loaded with real booze. A Distiller in Trouble. A Special to!The State from Pickens says Chief Constable C. L. Cureton of that division assisted by E. P. McCravy and G. W. Coleman Thursday set a watch over government distilery No 239, operated by J. D). Stansell. It was not long before they saw Stan sell go into the cistern room and in a few minutes he emerged with a tin bucket containing two gallons of whiskey and started with it toward his house- The officers pursued and soon captured him. They confiscated the whiskey and brought Stansell to the magistrate at Pickens before whom he pleaded guilty on a charge of transporting and paid the fine of $100 an unusual price for two gallons of whiskey. The distillery will probably be broken up. Fatal Accident. At New York three men are dead and several injured as the direct result )f the blowing out of a cylinder-head of an engine attached to an ammonia pump in the Jacob Ruppert Brewin companies ice plant on Alexander avenue early Tuesday. One hundred and fifty men were at work at one time anci as soon as the engine stopped working the ammonia tiowed from the pump. the fumes spreading to all parts of the building. Patrolman David .J. Goss was overcome by the fumes while rescuing unconscious employes from the building and his injuries may prve fatal. A Fatal Row. A tragedy occurred in Mason county. Tenn. last week, in which three men were killed and a fourth desperately wounded. The trouble occurred in the home of Miss Julia Bell while a dance was in progress. Miss Bell, it is said. had shown a preference for .J. IFrets and Dick Mason. Tom Fields. Clay H~ouse and Mike .Johnson attack ed Frets, who it is said. becgan to shoot with the result that the three irst named were killed and Jlohnson; is thought to be mortally wounded. F~ets, it is said, shot only four times. gg~ing a main each time. A FATAL ERROR. Mistook Nitric Acid for Water ani Poured it on Nitro Glycerine, WHICH CAUSED AN EXPLOSI03 Of Powder which was Being Taker From the Magazines and Loaded on Wagons at the Time. At Lowell. Mass., two small gun powder magazines, situated in th very midst of the humble residence of 50 mill operatives, exploded Thurs day with a frightful concussion, an( the resultant wave of death cut off th lives of more than a score of humat being and injured nearly 50 others Half a dozen mee who were ioadin. kegs of powder from one of the maga zines were blown to pieces: Sour boy! 200 yards were killed by the force o' the explosion, and 14 frame house within a radius of 40G yards wer blown down as if they had been buill of cards. Seven of these houses im. mediately caught tire, probably fron the kitchen stoves, and were complete ly consumed. At least three persons were caught in the ruins and burnec to death1, while seven or eight other: who were rescued died subsequently ol their injuries. It is estimated that 70 separate pieces of property, including those al ready mentioned, were destroyed, while the force of the expipsion wrecked windows for five or six mile. around, and its thundor could be heard distinctly more than 50 miles away. The following is the list of those known to be killea: George Finn. John McMasters, Louis E. Richards and James D. Grady, all employed by the United States Cartridge company; James B. Sullivan, Charles Moore, Jean Roleau, all employed by the Stanley Forwarding company; Gilbert McDermott, 10 years; Michael McDer mott, 1: years: Thomas louligan, 11 years: Joseph llouligan, 10 years; Wil 1iam Galloway and son Robert Gallo way. Albert Lebrun, Mrs. Catherine lRiggs, Eddie Rodgers. George A. Mc lUermott, four years: Josephine Pe russe, 11 years: Mrs. Victoria Perusse and Septiriam Perusse (the nine last named were killed by the fall of their houses or burned to death): unknown man. Four persons are missing, two car penters, names unknown; John Riggs and Patrick Spencer. Those fatally injured are. Amader Boulager, IS years; Clarendon Good win, 60 years. both ensployes of car tridge company;.. Mrs. Howard Bur kett. Miss McDermott, Eliza Gallo way and Clara Superna. The magazines were the property of the United States Cartridge company of this city, but fortunately were sit uated more than a mile away from the factory itself. They were con strcted some 30 years ago, in what was then a broad, open tield on the bans of the Concord river. During the last decade small wooden dwell ings have gradually sprung up in the vicinity, crowding nearer and nearer with fancied security to the two inno ent-looking little buildings until they were almost completely surrounded by them, except on the river side, the nearest house being scarcely 50 feet away. Both magazines ordinarily contain ed two or three tons of gunpowder in tin kegs. The company has for some time been desirous of strengthening the floor of the magazirre nearesb the sreet and this morning eight men, three of them emiployes of the com pany, three expressmen and two car peuters, were sent there with three large express teams .to take out the powder and mend the floor. Two of the teams had been loaded and the other was almost full when, at six minutes past 9 o'clock the explosion ccurred. It was discovered that a can of nibro-glycerine,which was stored inthe magazine, was leaking- Mr. Goodwin picked up what he thought was a jug of water and began to your it on the nitro-glycerine with the idea of dilut ing it and was washing it up. As soon as the fluid from the jug struck the floor, he found that it was nitric acid. The floor at once began to smoke, and when the men saw it they rushed from the building, but had not gone 10 feet when the explosion oc curred. This magazine was, therefore, the irst to go up, followed immediately by the gunpowder in the three teams nd several seconds later by the second magazine. To those who heard the crash, it seemed as if there were two distinct explosions, with a continuous roar be tween them. There are, however, live holes in the ground, which clearly indicate live explosions. The entire catastrophe, however, occupied the space of scarcely five sec onds, but in that time the surround ing property was' swept as if a small volcano had broken forth In its midst. Every house within 200 yards coleps ed trees were blown down, the grass within a hundred yards mowed as if by a lawn mower, while bricks from the two magazines were hurled far across the river and all over the neigh borhood. For several minutes afterwards thle air was completely lilled with smoke and dust. illuminated hy the glare from the already burning houses. The work of rescue began at once, but in many ca.ses tile Ilames had al ready gained full sway over the crum bled ruins and several persons were burned to death before the debris which covered them could be remnov The property is situated just over the Lowell line, in Tewksbury, but the Lowell tire department did most of the work in caring for the wounded. Before a stream of water was start-ed from the engines, the hose from all the wagons was taken out and the odies of th~e wounded were placed in the wagons and hurried to the hos pital. Ambulances soon1 appeared on the scene and assisted the firemen, .and all,.,eo ehicles were pressed into the service. Nearly 40 persons were taken to the two hospitals with i in half an hour, while many more whose injuries were slight had xheir wounds dressed and remained on the scene, where they assisted in caring for the less fortunate. The explosion shook the city and within half an hour there were at least 5.000 people on the scene of the catastrophe. The crowd so badly hindered the work of caring for the wounded that the mayor sent out a militia call. Three companies respond ed and three hours later had thrown a cordon of men around the district and cared the place of every one except those immediately engaged in quench ing the flames and searching for vic tims. Two hundred yards further down the river from the second magazine the tiremen suddenly came across the bodies of four little boys who were about to have a swim. A fifth mem ber of the part was in the river when the explosion occurred, and escaped without iniary. Apparently the force from this sec ond magazine was expended in two di rections, north and south. On the north it completely demolished the house of William Riggs, about 5,0 yards away, almost burying Mrs. Riggs, and badly injuring her little son. Mrs. Riggs died before being taken to the hospital. On the other side of the magazine was a grove of trees. through which the explosion tore a path 50 feet wide for a distance of nearly 300 yards. The four little boys were caught in the centre of this path, and three were instantly killed, the body of one of them being frightfully mutilated, the head being completely blown off. The fourth was alive when he was discovered by the police and firemen but did not long survive. Most of the property destroyed con sisted of small buildings constructed of wood, and at a comparatively small cost. The property loss, there fore, will not be heavy. The select men of the town of Tewksbury believe that $75,000 will cover the entire loss. RAINFALL VERY LIGHT. The Weekly Report of the Weather and Crops. Section Direetor J. W. ~Dauer has issued his report on the weather and crops for the week ending July 2S. It is as follows: The week ending 8 a. m., Monday, July 27th, had a mean temperature of 81.5 degrees, which is practically nar mal. there were no very cool nights, nor hot days, making the temperature conditions quite-favorable. The winds were generally light, variable and very dry. There was more than the usual amount of bright sunshine. The relative humidity was unusually low throughout the week, that caused veg etation to wilt considerably in the day time, but it generaliy fresliened during the nights. but this condition was favorable for ridding fields of grass by cultivation. The week's rainfall was very light, averaging only 0.4 inch for the State. and consisted of widely scattered showers. These showers were benefi cial where they occurred. There is a need of rain indicated for all parts of the State, although early corn is the only crop that has as yet suffered to any material extent. The rain is needed to counteract the severe work ing that crops received in ridding them of grass. Laying by is either finished or well underway, and but few fields remain grassy. The drought is most severe in York and adjacent counties. Corn is firing in the eastern coun ties. In places old corn is safe, in other places it is in a critical condition for want of rain. Young corn is gen eraly promising, but needs rain to maintain this condition. Some fodder has been pulled. A general summary of the condition of cotton shows that on clayey lands, and over the western counties, the crop has improved, but that on sandy lands, and over the eastern counties, exept parts of Hlampton, Barnwell, Orangebarg, Sumter, Marion and IMarlboro, the conditions are les~s prom ising. The cotton crop would be ben efitted by a general rain. Sea island cotton is in excellent condition. Tobaco curing is making iapid progress, and-in places is nearly finish ed, the crop is about half gathered Soe is "burning" in the tields. Mar keting is underway. and prices are un satisfactory. Early and late plauted rice arc do ing well, .whileir4ermnediate plantings are poor and grassy in the Colleton district. Peas are not doing wvell. St5ole Safe and All. A special dispatch from Salley's to The State says last Friday night week. robbers entered the room of Mr. Sulli van Sawyer and stole a small iron safe containing about $75 in cash and sev eral valuable papers. It is not known how the robbers entered the house but the supposition is that while Mr. Saw yer was eating supper the parties went into his room and carried the safe away. Saturday the safe was found concealed in the woods near the town but it had been opened and everything carried away. Mr. Saw yer is one of the most prosperous mer chants of the thriving little town of Perry. It is hoped that the guilty partie; will soon be caught and speedy justice meted out to them. This is the second time that Mr. Sawyer has been robbed in the last month and it seems that the r bbers must be famil ar with the place and where the money is kept. This ought to be a lesson to all who keep their money and papers in such places that can lhe easily moved. Coming South. A dispatch from Evansville, Ind.. says for twenty four hours many strange negroes have been passing through the city on their way to the south. where they will seek homes. Many of them came from Danville, Ill., and points on the ilinois Central railway. Two coaches tilled with negroes passed through at one time. A number of the negroes who left Evansville during the recent riots have not returned. The feeling against the negroes in the southern Indiana towns has grown more intense SOME PLAIN TALK. Senator Tillman stirs Up a Wiscon sin Audience by His TALK ON THE NEGRO QUESTION. Didn't LAke What ie Said at First But When le Was Through They Thonght Best of the Argument. Senator B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina, matched his wig and sar casm against the legal mind and wes tern manners of Senator J. i. Burton, of Kansas, Monday night of last week in a joint debate on the negro ques tion at Madison, Wis. The following report of the meeting we take from The News and Courier: Senator Till man said the people of the North. were as bad as those of the South in their handling of the negroes who committed "unspeakable crimes." "When a negro up here shows the outcroppings of the instincts of his inferior race," said Senator Tillman, "you mob, string, lynch, burn and outrage humanity with him. It makes a mighty big difference whose family is struck, whose home is en tered, whose wife or daughter is the victim. You men in the North are not slow to act when your women are utragred. and I want to say you are men to do it. "If you bad as many niggers as we have in South Carolina you would feel as I do, and your people would not sustain your anti-nigger senators as my peop-le sustain me." The fiery Southern senator was unpopular at first with the audience of 8,000 peo ple, but at the close of the debate the impression seemed to prevail that be had the better of th;e argument. Senator Tillman said the colored people owed all the progress they lad made in America to the fact that they were once in bondage, and that the South ha1 nourished them into whatever industry, virtue and Intel ligence they ever attained; that the North went to war to "free the nig gers" first and to "save the union af terward. The Republican party, he said, played, the friend of the blacks in order to get black votes. The greatest disturbing element in the problem was the fact that the people of the North, affecting motives of charity, Christianity and humanitar ianism, were attempting to poke their "great, long Yankee noses" into the business of the Southern states, that were equal to the problem that would not be in danger of overwhelming them unless the Northern influence brought about t war of extermina tion. Senator Tillmaa said the negroes were recognized in the South when they deserved it, and sometimes when they did not. mentioning the recipi nts of the United States' executive ppointments. The Southern sena tor asked the audience to hold an af ter meeting to form a negro emigrat ing society, for the purpose of bring ing to Wisconsin 300,000 negroes, the roportionate share of this state of the negro population of the whole ~ountry. The after meeting did not ~evelop. Senator Burton agreed that the ne ;roshad apparently grown more de 4raded and criminal than they were before the war, but he said it was the ~ault of the South, lack of schools, d the "euchreing" of the negroes ,ut of their constitutional rights by the Southern whites. B'e said in ~ducation lay the solution of the prob Senator Tillman agreed with Sena tor Burton in this but said the South would take up arms rather than allow Lhe north to forse an impossible so ial or political eQuality between the whites and negroes in the Southern states. Senator Tillman said that the nited States barred Chinese from heir ga~tes because of the inferiority f the Mongolian race and the inspos ~ibility of Chinese ever becoming the ocial or political eqjuals of Ameri "Trhe Inferiority is greater and the mpossibility more impossible with respect to the negroes and particular .y the Southern negroes," Mr. Till nan declared. Senator Burton placed stress on the reat possibilities which, he said, lay n the negroes. Their capacity for leveloment, he said, had been prov d in every Northern state, and not nly in the North, but in the very ear6 of the South. At Tuskegee, Ala., Booker T. Washington, a black man, had demonstrated there for sev ral years that the negro, when given he advantages of properly adminis tered education, could outstrip the hites in the moral and industrial world. Senators Tillman and Burton eon ~inued their debate on the negro ques ion at Moline, Ill., on Thursday. The Kansas speaker suggested an ~ducational standard as a remedy for negro ignorance, and Senator Tillman lelivered a striking speech. "God ade a negro inferior to a white man" said he, "as A frica proves. I Would not put him back in slavery, ut he shall never govern us. You voudnt iet him. and we are as gzood ts you arc, and we will sec him in hell before we will permit it. We don't intend ever te let him get on our acks to govern us. When you hold ;acred the fifteenth amendment, that ;ays the races are equal, you ad1d fuel L a rae war that is bound to come. do not believe in lynching for any :rime but one. When a negro as ;aults a white woman the only thing Lo do is to hunt him down and put im out of his miserabre existence as ;oon as possible. We are doing this mud we are going to keep on doing it, md if you dont like it you can lump Bookcer Hissed. At Boston while Booker T. Wash ngton was addressing a meeting of olored people Thursday three persons ere arrested and ejected for trying o interrupt his remarks by hissing. rwenty-ive policemen were called in on quel th isturhatice. A MEETING CALLED. Colored Citizens to Discuss Lynch ing and its Causes. Rev. M. G. Johnston, pastor of Lad son Presbyterian church, Columbia, S. C., has issued a call 'foi'a meeting of colored citizens of this and ad joining counties on Tuesday, August 25. 'Ihe following is the call: To All Colored Citizens of Richland and Adjacent Counties: You are in vited and most earnestly. requested to attend a convention to be held in this city on Tuesday. August 25, for the purpose of taking under consideration lynchings, its causes and its remedy. And also to consider ways and means pertaining to higher moral elevation of the race. We also note the sad fact that every year hundreds of our people leave their farms in the coun try and crowd into the towns and cities, where they get little or noth ing to do and very often-some of them commit crimes that are hurtful and humiliating to us all. All the above merits our most serious and prayerful consideration, prompt and decided ac tion. If all we hear and read about the race be tru , then we have a work to do which can only be done by an hon est, faithful and united effort on the part of the best thinking people of our race. While there no doubt will he some among us who will not join in such an effort for the moral up-lifting of the race, I am satisfied that there are thousands of men and women who stand ready to do everything in their power for a higher moral elefi.tion of the race. Therefore we appeal to all ministers of the pospel, teachers of privato and public schools and lead ers of the rate to attend this conven tion, and let us see where you stand and what side you are on. A number of speakers will address the cod vention and a number of papers will be read. Nothing will be dis cussed but the moral condition of the race, lynchings, it: causes and its curses. We expect to secure reduced rates on all roads leading into Colum bia. Names of speakers and rates to the convention will be published later. This call to the convention is endorsed by the ministers' union of Columbia. THE SOUTH AND THE NEGRO. Remarkable Resolu tion. Adopted by Negro Methodist Conferen ce By denying the negro social equali ty, Southern whites befriend him, de clares a resolution adopted by the con ference of the African Methodist Episcopal church, recently in session at Macon, Ga. The South is declared the best place for the negro, and the crimes which provoke lynching are condemned. In part the resolutions are: "We commend the Southern white man becauses he refuses to let negroes drink at his founts, eat at his cafes, sleep in his hotels, for the following eason's: It forces the negro to build. is own resorts, teaches him business ad turns a flood of money to negro aults and bank accounts. It gives is boy and girl work and establishes hrift, inteistry and economy. "We condemn the heinous crimes so ften charged to our people. Such rimes are brutal, vicious and deserve he most severe punishment that the aw is allowed to inflict. They mar ur civilization, hinder our progress ad stamp us as villains. "We equally condemn and regret hat it is evident that the mightiast, ivilization on earth should resort to so nhuman and bloody work as to lynch fellow being witheat due process of aw. "We believe, after carefully recit ng facts, that the negro is as safe, or afer, in the South than in the North. Safer, because hecan earn a living in ny vocation in the South that he pos esses ability to do. Safer, because no Southern preacher is on record as hav ng pleaded to 3,000 people to burn a uman being." As to Watches. Everybody carries a watch nowa ays-men. women. girls and boys. Prices range from $1 to as many thou ands as one cares to expend in jew lry settings. The $1 watch keeps just as good time as the $5,000 one. )id you ever consider tlee amount of labor performed by a good wateh in its life-time of 50 years? The balance heel vibrates 18,000 times an hour, .32,000 times a day or 157,680,000 imes a year. The hair spring makes an equal number of vibrations, and there is the same number of ticks trom the escapemnent. Multiply 157, 80,000 by 50 and you have 7,884,090, )00 pulsations. Yet the watch is in good condition at the end of half a etury of labor. A Sad Death. Th-i Anderson correspondent of the 3ate says Mr. Lamar Buford, a son f Mr. D. Buford of Calhoun Falls, as drowned at Jackson~ville, Florida, ast Friday morning. The young man vasa telegraph operator at Jackson ille. The supposition is that he was ~rying to cross the St. .Johns river in small boat and fell out. His body vas recovered 36 hours later and was uried in Jacksonville. Trhe young. nan had many relatives and friends n Anderson who will be grieved to earn of his tragic death. ie was an xpert telegraph operator and had a nost promising career before him0 Ie was only 19 years old. Bribe Takers sentenced. At St. Louis, Mo, Wednesday Judge yan passed sentence on five members )f the house of delegates, four of vhom were convicted of bribery and ne of perjury in connection with muoicipal franchise deals. Following re those sentenced: John A. Sheri an, bribery in connection with street railway deal, five years: T. Edward tibright. dribery, suburban d-eal. five 'ears: .Jerry J. Hanmigan, bribery, ~uburban deal, tive years: Louis Decker, bribery, suburban deal. four~ i-ears; Emil Hartman, bribery, city igting bill six years. All filed ap eel bonrds in the sum of $10,000 each. SHE POISONED HIM. A Georgia Woman Gives Her Hus band Strychnine For Quinine. Recently Sheriff Rogers was sum moned to Gressten, 7 miles north of Eastman, to make arrest. Upon ar riving on the scene he found a mob of over 500 threatening to lynch Robert Cawthon, who they believe was in conspiracy with Mrs. R. J. Tucker, who gave her husband poison for quinine in a capsule the night before, Tucker dying in less t! an an hour after taking the dose. Cawthon has been working on the farm for Tucker for a year or more, and he and Mrs. Tuclier were exceed ingly good friends. She says he ask ed her to kiss him once. He says her caresses were at his command. She says some time ago Cawthon told her he wanted to marry a rich widow, and that she was the widow, or would be if she would help him. On June 22nd, it is said, he went to Emprie and bought some strych nine from Dr. Kimberly to poison dogs. It is said they put the poison in a drink of whiskey that Tucker had, knowing that sooner or later he would drink it. On July 18th Joel Horn, a prosperous farmer, with his wife was passing Mr. Tucker's home and told Tucker he was not feeling well and Tucker told him he had a drink of whiskey and to drink it, and it would probably do him good. Horn drank the whiskey and died before he had gotton a mile away. Tuesday night Tucker took a cap sule of supposed quinine and died of poison in 30 minutes. Mrs. Tucker says Cawthon gave it to him. Caw thon says she did it. They both have partly confessed and it is believ ed they will fully confess before night. Excitement is at fever heat, and it is believed by many that an effort will be made to lynch Cawthon Thursday. The stomach was taken to Atlanta Thursday morning for a chemical analysis by Dr. Clarke. Had it not been for the timely arrival of Sheriff Rogers, Cawthon would have been summarily dealt with at Gresston Thursday. Both man and woman are now in jail. An effort will be made to have Judge Roberts hold a special term of court for trial of this case as public sentiment demands speedy justice.-Augusta Chronicle. PLUCKY YANKEE GIRL Punishes a Masher for His Insulting Attentions to Her. Armed with a whip which she took with her from her pony carriage, Miss Mary Reed, daughter of Police Lieutenant John Reed, of Philadel phia, followed a masher into the Lake wood train at Winslow Junction Thursday night and administered a Bound thrashing. The man only escaped worse punishment at the hands of the father of the girl through his train pulling out before the lieu tenant knew what was going on. Aceording to the story of eyewit nesses, the man left the Atlantic City train at the junction to make connec tion with one to Lakewood. Miss Reed was waiting~ for her father, who had been to Atlantic City in charge of one of the police pension fund ex cursions,.-to drive him to their country hon~e at Elm City. While the young man and a party of friends were waiting for their train he amused himself by making insult ing remarks to the young lady, who sat in her pony carriage. She could not resent his unwelcome atttentions. on account of her horse being restive, and he at last took h~old of the horse's bridle and held it in spite of the girl's protests. Just as the Lakewood train pulled into the station and the young man ceased worrying the girl in order to catch it, her father arrived on the scene. Without telling him of her intentions, the girl handed him the lines, and seizing the whip from the socket ran to the car which the young man had entered, and, catching him in the aisle, belabored him soundly until he cried for mercy. The atlair happened so quickly that none of the friends of the matn bad time to interfere and Miss Reed ran out of the car and jumped from tbe platform after the train had be gum to move. When-her father heard the sorty from her he was furious and made an effort to have the man ar rested further up the line, but did not succeed. Miss Reed is twenty three years of age and very pretty. Peri'shed in the Flames. The Sea View House, on the camp round at Old Orchard, Maine, was burned to the ground Thursday, and two women guests, Mrs. A. E. Stevens and Mrs. Helen Martin, both of East iraf ton, N. H., are missing. The alue of the property burned was about $4,000. The body of one of the missing women was found in the' ruins this afteraoon. It was so badly urned as to make recognition im osible. Search is being continued with energy, as the finding -of one ody is taken to show that both wo men perished. M~ardered His Wire. A t Mount Vernon N. Y., Coronmer Weisendaoger Wednesday afternoon tonounced that Martin Ebelt, whose wife's body was found in a sewer pipe n Sunday with a shoe lace tightly round the throat, bad confessed to iim and to Chief of Police Foley that he had murdered the woman. It is aid that Ebelt had'complained to his ister that his wife was constantly ap lying to him for money. Hie told his ister that he was tired of these ap lications and that his wise was a ontinual nuisance to him. Jumped into a Creek. Passenger train No. 2 on the Vir rinia and Southwestern railway was recked near Mendota, Va., Tuesday The engine left the track and plung d into a creek. carryinlg with it the aggage and combination cars. Flag an Chiarles Sproles was badly Injur erd and several passengers were hurt. The engineer and tireman saved them :01re by iumpim!g. EXCESS FARES. Are Declared Unlawful by the State Supreme Court. AN IMPORTANT DECISION. Conductors Are Not Allowed Here. after to Collect the Twenty five Cents Excess on Cash Fares. Railroad companies have no right to charge excess fares of persons who " get on the trains without tickets where they canbeobtained. Such is the decision of the State supreme court in a case which attracted much atten tion. So important was the case con sidered to be that the supreme court called the judges of the circuit court to sit upon the cast. Railroads are accustomed to charge passengers 25 cents when passengers fail to get tickets. It is objection able to railroads for conductors to re ceive cash fares, and for that reason the 25 cents excess is charged, but a rebate check is given and the 25 cents refunded to the passenger by the agent of the company upon the ar rival of the passenger at destination. It is claimed that the custom is in violation of the law limiting the rate of fare to 3 cents per mile. This was one of the main points in the two cases heard by the court "en bane" and decided in the opinion. filed Wed nesday. The cases are Duncan against the Southern, tried before Judge Benet in Barnwell; and Fulmer against the i Soushern, tried before Special Judge Izlar at Newberry. In each case the railroad.compan won, and the losing plaintiff appea' to the supreme court. After aruii ment in that court it was otdr~' that the case be rearg' before the y court "en bane"--compri, of the supreme court justices and ven of the eight circuit judges. The court "en bane" duly assem bled, Judge Watts being retired is the drawing of lots. The leading opinion in each case is delivered by Associate Justice Gary, and it is concurred in by Chief Justice Pope and- Judges Aldrich,9 'Klugh, Dantzler, Purdy and Er' nest Gary, the last named filing a separate opinion. The conclusion reached is that under the existing statute a railroad company is. limited to the rate of passenger fare-3 cents r per mile-fixed in the statute~ ands that it cannot exceed that rate. Itt ' is further held that the 25 cents exa='. cess fare is charge," notwithstanding - the agreement of the railroad,-in its . "rebate check," to refund the sum to the holder of the check. Judge Er- - nest Gary holds that the railroad company may exclude from its pas senger car any person not provided with a ticket, .but having permitted _ 9 such a person not provided with a ticket, to become a passenger with ont a-ticket, the excess charge is -un- - lawfal The dissenting opinion is written - by Associate Justice Jones and con urred in by Associate Justice Woods, Judge Townsend and Judge Gary. It olds that as the passenger paying the 25 cents excess, because he has not procured a ticket may get back that sum by presenting his "rebate check" to the company's agent, there is no e'xtra charge but simply a reasonable regulation of the railroad company-in the management of its passenger bust ness. In each case the judgemenit of tihe circuit court is reversed and the case ~ sent back for a new trial. In the Fulmer case the plaintiff was represented by Messrs. Johnstone and Welch and the company by Mr. B. L. Abney and Mr. Thomas P. Cothran. In the Duncan case Messrs. Davis and Best and Mr. John S. Reynolds repre sented the plaintiff, while Mr. B. E. Abney and Mr. J. W. Barnwell ap peared for the company.-The State. Long Range Predictions. - W. F. Foster, writing to the News and Courier from Washington, says August, September and October will bring unusually severe and dangerous storms to the east coasts of N~orth - America and Asia, the Mississippi rainage basin, along the northern steamship routes of North Atlantic ad North Pacific, East- Indies, West ndies and Gulf of Mexico. Severe storms may occur any time during hese three months, but the danger period seems to -hover around Augusti 1 and 25, September 7 and 20, Octo er 5, 15 and 20. Voyages on water hould be avoided about these dates, nd precautions taken for safety on and. Very low temperatures about ugust 28, September 25 and 30. -- A Popular Governor. The Pickens Sentinel-Journal says: Gov. Heyward has proven himself very inch a man and is faithfully arrying out with the people the romises he made to them on the tump. He is a clean man and a true oe and furthermore, he is a man that s easily approached and lends a lis ening ear gladly and willingly to any ppeal that will help his State or his eople. Pickens county people are roud of tbe record he is making and ill be ready to hold up his hands in he discharge of his duty. Long life, ood luck an~d several terms in the ubernationlal chair, for the mantle f state is on most worthy and excel lent shoulders." Pleased With Report. The Columbia State says Gov Hey ard is pleased with the verbal report f State Constable Holmes of th~e Carleston division. The constables eclares that the sale of illicit liquor n Charleston has materially decreased. t an informal conference between the governor, the attorney genera(1, hief Hammett and Constable Holmes t was decided to make war upon the o-called chibs in that city who operate blind tigers under the pretence of be ng si oranizations.