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1 , f 7()IJ. ZvI.Y. M--- ---A--------- 1-NN 11\TG, S. C.9 )1rERN EAJ3JAY" AJEl. TJ.:I? A TALE OF HORROR. Thirty Thousand Christians Are Butchered by the Turks. sa THE VILAYET OF MONASTIR of A: oc th Is One Vast Charnel House of Decay- . ing Corpses. War Between Bulgaria and Turkey Sure to Come. I t cl A dispatch from London says every- lai thing seems to point to new and ter- sti rible developments in Macedonia. On he top of the appalling accounts of the Cl results of the Turkish methods of a "restoring order" in the vilayet of w, Monastir comes a threat by the insur- th gents to resort to reprisais on the same scale. The Porte's anxiety to suppress news by expelling newspaper Ja correspondents from the area of the we operations is held to have but one Cu meaning. Tuesday morning's papers c comment upon the signiticance of the of news, first published by the Associa- Ith ted Press, that Russia and Austria are su seeking to persuade the powers to tu coerce Bulgaria as showing a belief to that war is inevitable. No further news regarding the out- Sp break at Beirut has been -received Ti here. A dispatch to the Standard fel from Constantinople dated Sunday, me says: "The Turks are much disturb- se ed by the presence of the American di; warships at Beirut, and are making be, every effort to have them recalled. In ye; sDitC of all assertions that the United cli States only intends them to be there so, for the simple protection of the rights of her citizens it is quite possible that the despatch of the warships may initiate action leading much further." J. RESULT IN LEBANON FEARED. The same correspondent. telegraph ing under Monday's date, on receipt of the news of the Beirut outbreak says: wI "With the slightest encouragement aft disorders might result in the whole of the Lebanon rising in revolt. Tues day has been foretold as the date of w the arising against the foreigners and If many resid'.nts of Constantinople are wi keeping to their houses. Personally in I doubt whether there will be any thing more than dynamite outrages which are pretty sure to be attempted 2 before long-" e The Daily Telegraph's correspon dent at St. Petersburg says he is as- th sured on excellent authority that Rus sia, when she submits proposals to the Porte for the pacification of Mace- ge donia contemplates the dispatch of m her Black sea squadron to Turkish go waters, where it will make a much , longer stay than recently in order to overcome the Sultan's objections to i her reccomendations. I Tne Sofia correspondent of the br Morning Leader, says by 'the end of Sr the week the insurgents will have re- t ceived a large accession of weapons. Thirty thousand rifles are being smug gled to them from all sides, and when these have been received, the real fighting will begin. . t TURKs EXTERMIINATING. ed A dispatch from sofia, Bulgaria, sir says all reports- from the vilavet of th Monastir agree in describing the sit- thi uation as apalling. Between 20,000 . and 50,000 Bulgarian inhabitants are an believed to have been massacred by A! the Turks and every Bulgarian village br< in the vilayet has been destroyed. wi The refugees in the mountains and thi forests are dying of starvation by At thousands. At present it is impossi- ho ble to obtain precise iigures. b The revolutionary headquarters de estimate that thirty thousand Bul- is garian men, women and children have is been killed, while at least the same kt number of refugees are slowly perish- hii ing of hunger. In ottisial circles these ; iigures are regarded as an under-esti- Ja mate and oticials incline to the belief ro; that the number of the massacred ex- ern ceeds 5i0,000. The Turks are appar ently determined to exterminate the entire Bulgarian population of the - iliayet A in government circles here the tie situation is viewed with increasing me alarm. it is reliably reported that in1 the Turkish forces iaMacedonla num- Jan ber 300,000. it is considered impos- ret sible that such a force has been as- w( sembled merely to crush the rebeLico. of It is feared that the sultan is meditat- Su] ing au attack on Bulgaria.M in THOUsANDS BUTCHER~ED. The Macedonian organizations are' H preparing a memorandum to be pre- h~ sented to the representatives of the ap powers, in which they will declare fr< that the insurgents intend to resort to reprisals for the Turkish atrocities. The memorandum gives detailed in formation of villages destroyed and ed the massacre of their inhabitants. It - declares that 65,000 men, women and A children have been slaughtered andM 120 villages burned, in the list of ~ villages given only two ai-e in the by vilavet of Adrianople. Others are at principally in the Monastir vilayet.O The memorandum repeats the state- hi ment recently issued by the insurgent oi general staif at Monastir that the iJu Turks, instead of tighting the insurg- I ents hav-e instR uted a general massa cre of the Chri:,tians. The organiza tions declare t-hey are issuing the present memorandum because they t are no longer to restrain the handsA from retaliation and henceforward the responsibility will rest with the greata powers. Mlot her and Child Drowned. A dispatch from Philadelphia, Pa.. -says the mystery sur'rounldinig the tind ing of the body oX 5-year-old Viola Cordes in the Allegheny river last Sunday evening was partially cleared h Wednesday evening by tihe rinding ofd the body of the child's mother, float ing in Ithe same stream. From all t accounts it is believed that Mrs. Cor- e des, who was about 24 years old. er jumped into the river, carrying her ti child with her. Mrs. Cordes hadn ade threats of suicide. j hi MRS. BOYESEN DEAD. 1 Badly Mixed Cp Story that Comies from Chicago. A dispatch from La Parte, Ind., vs: "Mrs. Jane Stewart Boyesen Chicago died Wednesday night at hevilie. N. C.. as a result of nerv s shock following accusations of a eft. The news reached there in a 1 legram to friends. W.iile Mrs. >esen was at a hotel near Spartan rg. S. C-. the room of a guest from gusta. Ga.. was robbed of 160 rth of jewelry. The landlord accused Mrs. ]ioyesen. e was not in good healt.h and the arge resulted in her physical col >se. Before the end came she in tuted a $50,000 damage suit against r accuser in the federal court at larleston. Mrs. Doyeseu had done C nsiderahle newspaper work and was d musician of maiked ability. She ( Ls a member of the Daughters of f e American Revolution, the Chicago onn's club and other organiza n.t ns. A dispatch from Chicago says Mrs. r nie Stewart Boyesen, the Chicago t iman who was recently wrongly ac sed of stealing goods from a mer ant in North Carolina, is dying at hite Spring, that State, as a result t the nervous shock she sustained at s e time. Mrs. l3ovesen has been t rering for the last four years from berculosis. Last January she went Ashevi.lle to seek relief, a Last Reek she was staying in White t rings when a robbery occurred. a trough a misudderstanding suspicion I on Mrs. Boyesen and her apart ts were searched, she sustained a d ere nervous shock from which she d I not recover. Mrs. Boyesen has v en a resident of Chicago for many irs. and is prominent in North side tb circles. She has written many a igs and poems. t A TERRIBLE DEED. P r K. Stark KillsJohn F. Angeli the Express Office. t 1. E. Stark shot and fatally , unded John F. Angel Thursday k ,ernoon in the office of the Southern ii press company in Jacksonville, Fla., e tile the latter was protecting the of his sister, the wife of the man s to fired the shot. Stark had been o Jacksonville several days and this t irning wired for his wife to join n. She came at about noon and at r'clock they met in the office of the ress company, where her brother s en-loyed. The wife suspected Lt her husband meant to do her t lily harm when he endeavored to to his hotel. She desired to' re in near her brother and declined to I have brought you here to kill 9 u," Stark said. Quick as a flash his fe seized him as he was endeavor ; to draw his pistol. She pinioned t arms and her cries brought her 0 )ther. The pistol was -taken from a trk before it was drawn. Words be- r een the two men followed and blows re exchanged. Stark went to a w shop, where he procured another tol and returned. He entered - the P Soriice and walked to the cage where ~ gel was at work with his back turn-! .Resting the pistol in one of the s all steel holes of the cage he tired, ~ ball striking Angel in the back ofd heai and lodging near the brain. 0 ngel fell. Stark looked about him h started to leave when a brother of 0 igel appeared and seized him. Thea ther made an effort to kill Stark s t a knife but others interfered anda police placed Stark ilider arrest. ige is at St. Luke's hospital. No t pes are entertained for his recovery, c t he will liv-e until morning. The n fense that Starks lawyer will make t that he was insane, a theory which q generally accepted by those who S ow him, and who have been with fi a during the past few datys. c Stark was formerly auditor of the o ksonville, Tampa and Key West li id. Angel was cashier of the South Express company. n Turning Ouit Rascals. -t Eugh H. Price, surveyor greneral of t izona, has been removed from of- ~ e as a result of an investigation t Lde by Secretary Hitchcock's orders - ;o charges preferred against Price ~ d his chief clerk, W. E. Murphy, of C eiving illegal fees for expediting ~ rk in that oltice. Frank S. Ingalls Yumna, Ariz., has been appointed d rveyor general in Price% place. s arphy has been suspended pending ~ uiry by the civil service commis- ~ n into the charges against him.s has sent in his resignation, but it ~ s not been accepted. Murphy was a pointed from Georgia and Price t m Arizona. Killed by an Automnobile. q A-fatal automobile accident occurr Thursday at Barbe, near Bordeaux t ance. A car conducted by an t nerican, whose name was given as 11 rtin, said to be a hotel man in New )rk city. and who was accompanied f a party of guests, became deranged a d the vehicle dashed into a ditch. a ie of it-s occupants, M. Cuivillier, 1 d his back broken and was killed t tright. Martin had a shoulder in- I red but the two other occupants of e e car escaped uninjured. f Fell Througrh a Bridge. An engine and 14 gravel cars went r rough a bridge near Hugo on the o rkansas and Choctaw road Thursday t lng four of the crew. The dead e A. M. Ilanna, conductor. C. L. Miller. fireman. . MAllin, engineer. .1. T. 11111. brakeman. Th bridge was new and untinished. No Delay of the Law H ere. Wiiford Ro seboro, colored. was moged at Statesville. N. C., Thurs .y for the murder of Mrs. Dolph avr on the 30th of July. The coun cmmissioners ordered that the ecution be private, but the surging.* owd outside the jail yard tore away e canvas and fully 2,000 people wit ssed t he hanging. Rtoseboro met c fat with stolid composure. COTTON REPORTS. .ach Ginner to Keep a Record of Every Bale Ginned. WORK OF THE SPECIAL AGENTS. ive Statements Are to Be For warded to the Census Depart ment During the Cotton Season. The census department is making very effort to secure accurate state ents as to the number of hales of otton produced each year. and in or er to get this information, says the ;olumbia State it has been decided to urnish ginners with books in which hey may keep a record of every bale Landled by themselves. The depart 2ent arrived at this decision, upon he suggestion of special agents of he census department and upon re uests from ginners themselves. The ooks have beed printed and will be ent to the agents for gratuitous dis ribution. The gin hook should be posted daily nd should show a record of every ale ginned. This will provide a new nd uniforn system of bookkeeping nd will facilitate the efforts of the epartment to keep track of the pro uction. Upon the accuracy with rhich the books are kept this year de ends the success of the innovation, nd if the department is satisfied with his year's work the gin books will h ublished every year. These are blank books, properly uled, with spaces in which the ginner iay record the number of pounds of !ed cotton sent him, the number of ales and pounds of lint, the pounds of Dtton seed, and finally notes as to he cost of ginning. In keeping lhooks r the government, the ginner will eep a record which will be valuable i his own business, and at the end of ach day his earnings will be right be 3re him. Where a person gins for himself he iould, for the purpose of this record, pen an account with himself as "cus )mer," and thereby provide a com lete record of all cotton ginned for imself as well as others. The work of collecting cotton sta istics during the last ginning season brough special agents appointed by he government proved quite satisfac )ry both to the producer and to the ianufacturer. There will be live cot )n reports this season. The first till show all cotton ginned from the rowth of 1903 up to and including ug. 31. The second will show all tton ginned from the beginning of he season to Oct. 18; the third all atton ginned during the season up to ud including Nov. 18th; the fourth port will show all cotton ginned epm the growth of 1903 up to Decem er 13th. The fifth and last report 'ill likely be zmade during the first ortion of March, 1904, and will show he total crop of 1903. The information given is held as rictly confidential, and the opera ions of individual ginners are not ivulged. Upon the joint cooperation f the cotton growers, ginners, and mal agents must depend the success f the census ioffice in this inquiry, nd its ability to render this great rvice to the southern people and to 11 interested in the cotton staple. Cotton statistics collected through ae commercial system, however ao irately compiled, fall short of the de and of both producer and manufac arer-first, in that as they cover the uantity of cotton marketed between ept. 1 of one year and Aug. 31 of the yllowing, they are not statistics of a cop'grown in any one year; and sec d, in the liability to error involved statistics so compiled. Nothing short of official reports, lade sutficiently early to form a basis f prices, will entirely satisfy the cot >n grower or manufacturer. A cut an man Tuesday said it is gratifying >know that the south has the assis mce and cooperation of the govern lent in bringing about the result ey desire-an undertaking the suc ss of which now depends upon the tton growers and ginners themselves. Realizing that the collection of the ata for these reports is made at a ason when the ginners' time is reatly taxed, and appreciating the ecessity for prompt returns, the cen u oflice has located, in each county ntaining 10 or more ginneiges, an gent, who will visit each ginuery in he county and secure a report of the uantity of cotton ginned up to cer a.in dates. In undertaking the fre uent and hurried reports now sought, is of vital importance that the re urns be made with absolute uniformi y and that all be received at Wasn gton at one time. This result could not be expected rom individual requests madu by mail f 30,000 ginners, at a time when they re engrossed in their ginning work. urthermore, the census oflice must e kept advised of all changes in the anagement and operation of these stablishments, and secure returns rom all new and revived plants. To complish such results, it becomes ecessary for the office to have local epresentatives who shall be charged -ith the duty of keeping in close ouch with the ginning industry in ach county, and of promptly report g the quantity of cotton ginned. '"15 Dis De Man." Judge Audenreid of Philadelphia as hearing a case, the proceeding mn hich brought to the front a man amed Gesler. A German lawyer rep esented one of the litigants and he ersisted in mispronouncing Gesler's ame, calling him Jesler. Finally the udge said: "The gentleman's name is esler, not Jesler. You surely re ember the tyrant at whose order Villiam Tell shot the apple from his wn son's heady" "Sure I do," said he Ge.rman, hearily. I dis de MADE MAD BY HOLINESS. A Horrible Tragedy Enacted in the County of Anderson. A special dispatch from Anderson to The News and Courier says a hor rible case of infanticide caused by re ligious fanaticism occurred Monday night week in Broadway Township, about six miles from the city. John Gralfenreid, a negro, and his wife, had been attending a "holiness meet ing," and had become greatly wrought up over the excitment attending it. They left the meet Mondlay night and spent a greater part of the night praying. Just before daylight Gratfenreid says, his wife awoke him and asked him which he loved best. his wife or his baby, a child about 16 months .f age. She said the Lord was goiug to take one of them and asked which he would rather give up. He says that if it was the Lord's will he would rather give up the child. He says thi wo man then got out of bed and took the child in her arm and declared she was going to offer it as a sacritiee. lIe says he was standing by her trying to get her quiet, when she suddenly e-x claimed: "llere, Lord, take this child." and threw it against the wall. Ilis wife then threw her arms around him and tried to choak him, saying something abort both of them going to Heaven together. They had a scuflie. which awakened the other children, who ran into the room and took the child and placed it in a bed. The woman ",hen jumped out of a window and lett the place and went to the farm of W. Q. Hammond, wed she appeared early in the morn ing, acting in a strange manner, as if demented, and Mr. Iammond secured her for fear she w ,uld do herself or others harm. She said something about her husband killed her baby, and this aroused Mr. Hammond's suspicions, and he phoned Sheriff Green for instructions. The sheriff gave instructions to have her husband arrested and this was done Mr. Allen Martin, who was at Mr. Hammond's and the man and his wife were brought here and put in jail. The woman is either raving mad or an adept at feigning insanity, and spent the day rolling on the floor or try ing to climb the walls of the cell, but no word-could be gotton from her. The man appeared to be more rational, but is evidently weak minded and talied freely about the affair, though his story is rambling and disconnected. He does not show any sorrow or remorse over the death of his child. The coroner was away to-day and the inquest has not yet been held, but it is believed the above are about the facts of rtbe case. THE GAME LAWS. Complaint Is Made that Half Grown Birds Are Killed. There have already been a number of complaints that the game law is be ing violated. It is said that the sum mer has been very propitious to the raising of partridges and the fields are full of young birds which in some localities are meeting with wholesale destruction at the hands of pot hunt ers. In view of this fact, it might be well for the sportsmen wvho love sport for its own sake to become familiar with the game laws so that they das prosecute pot hunters and stop the extermination of fledglings. Following is a digest of the game law of 1902: Non-residents required to pay a license of $25 to the county treasurer f the county where the visitor may be for the privilege of hunting in the State. Not obtaining said license be fore hunting or shooting, shall be :eemed guilty of misdemeanor, and n conviction lined not more than 50. Tnis act does not apply to per sons who kill game on their own land. It is unlawful to kill deer or to worry them with dogs between the irst day of February and the first day f September, except in the counties, f Clarendon, Georgetown, Colleton, Williamsburg. Marlboro, Kershaw, Horry, Darlington, Marion and Berk ley, in which counties it shall not be lawful between the first day of Feb ruary and the first day of August. fire-hunting is prohibited. It shall not be lawful between the irst day of November to kill any wild turkeys, partridge, quail, woodcock r pheasant: or between the first day f March and the first day of August ny dove: or, at any time durisg the year, to fire-light any of the birds named. It shall not be lawful for any per son, escept upon his own lands, or up n the lands of another with the con sent or the owner thereof, to net or trap a partridge, and it shall be un lawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, or ship or export for sale, any partridge, or quail. ordeer. or wild turkeys for the space of five years from the approval or this act; provid ed, that nothing in this act shall pre vent the importation for sale of any partridge or quiail. Any person violat ing this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a tine of not ex eeding s-30, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceed ing 30 days. Died of Hydrophobia. Joseph Alston, a colored boy, 10 years of age, died this morning of hy drophobia, at his home, No. 266 Ash ton street. The boy was bitten by a dog near his home tive days ago. The dog was not known to be mad and from what could be learned today it does not appear that the v-ound caused any alarm or receiv'ed medical attention at the time. A few days ago the boy was taken ill and D~r. Laltoach Wilson was called in. ie diagnosed the case as hod rophobia and applied the usual treatment, but to no effect, and the boy died after sutfering in terrible ag ony for hours. It is not known if the dog was killed. " Blackdomi" for Negroes. The Black-dom Town Site company of Santa Fee N. M., was incorporated Thursday with a capital stock of $10, 000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the southern States in Chavez county, the name of the tow.n to be Blaekdom. THE RECENT WRECK At Fishing Creek Being Investigated by the Commission. WHAT ONE OF THEM SAYS. Mr. Garris' Trip to Scene Fails to Reward Him WiLh Decise:a aP to Where the Blame Lies. Chairman Garris of the railroad commission Wednesday completed and gave out for publication his report on the Fishing creek disaster. The report discovers nothing new as to the cause or the consequences of the wreck it self, but enters into an elaborate de fense of the generalities of the statute giving the board authority in such matters and ri'iiculing the idea that l the board's inspections of bridges can be regarded as any sort of a guarantee against danger. The report in full is as follows: Columbia, S. C., Sept. 8, 1903. To the Board of Railroad Commission ers, Columbia. S. C. Gentlemen: In accutdance with law I went to Rock Hill and thence to Fishing creek to investigate the re- t cent disastrous wreck on the South Carolina and Georgia Extension Rail - road company's tracls at that point. I found the wreck cleared away and f burned. From the the best informa- f tion t-hat I could get (without actual I measurement) the rrestle over Fish ing creek was 50 feet high. I found about 150 people engaged in the re placement of the destroyed trestle. t Of course, it was quite impossible for t me to acquire anything like accurate E or detailed information after my ar- t rival two days after the catastrophe, 4 but I feel that it is due the board and I State as well to report just. what, I s found. But before I do so I wish to e refer to the provisions of law which requires that in accidents of this kind the authorities report the facts to the 1 commission within 24 hours. This was not done. I got my first iriformation t by what is commonly known as bear- t say on the evening of September 4th. A day elapsed before I could reach the t scene so that my visit to the place of t wreck was delayed until Saturday, September 5th. MR. GAR RIS AT THE BRIDGE. The newspaper reports of this fear ful occurrenc were, I found, in the main correct; that is'to say from the standpoint of casualty. I devoted my entire stay at the wreck to an exami nation and I found that the remain ing trestle, consisting of about 50 feet contained unsound timber, but I did dot find more than two consecutive cross-ties to be iorthless, or entirely decayed. -A part of the under struc ture I found in a condition of decay. The trestle lies along a tangent where the spreading of the rails is quite un usual. And I examined all the track 1 wheels that I saw and found them in- 1 tact save one which was of the four under the front of the engine, the lange on one of these was brolten1 off for for about 20 inches and it was pointed out to me by the superintendent that the frag ments of this wheel were gathered up about 50 feet to the rear of the point where the engine lay. The remainder of the trestle with the cars, which wee a total wreck, were burned be fore I reached the scene, therefore I ad practically no opportunity to ex amine the timbers in that part of the trestle which went' down. I cannot, therefore, with the evidence before me say just whiat the prime cause of the wreck was, but I have no hesitancy in saying that if it is a fact that the wreck occurred from a broken fiange, that the ~trestle in its condition of partial aecay offered less resistence toC a derailed engine than it would if iti had been sound. I found that the people of Rock C Hill, Yorkville and the county of York generally in a state of intense I: excitement, a very natural conse :uence of such a fearful disaster when you remember that the victims were the friends and kindred of many of ' the best people of the county. I met 2 a great many of the citizens of the ( ounty who had visited the wreck earlier than I, and there was no ex- s eption to the belief that the sole ause of the disaster was directly traceable to the unsound structure of C the bridge. INsPECTIONs NATURA LLY INEFFICIENT While there is no ,law looking to the punishment of any transportation ompany by the commission for acci dents of this kind, yet there is a clause 9 in the statutes which reads: "See. 1630. The commission shall have the general supervision of all railroads and railways in this State operated by steam, and shall examine the same and keep themselves informed as to their condition and the manner in which they are operated, with refer- ~ ence to the security and accommoda ~tion of the public and the compliance of the several corporations with the provisions of their charters and the t laws of the State; and the provisions e of this chapter shall apply to all rail- d roads and railways, and to the cor- s porations, trustees, receivers or others ti owning or operating the same." Of g course, this section is very general, h necessarily. There are 3,000 miles of 1 railroad in the State. Trestle inspec- si tion to be at all efficient requires a I visitation once in every 30 days, some- t times oftener. The proper inspection ~, of a trestle requires time and care. If this section contemplated a guaran- d tee on our part against danger from defective construction it would im- q~ possibility even if no other duties a than inspection were assigned us, for a the services of no less than 30 inspec- k, tors are now employed in this State. As you know it has been the custom of our commission to visit points where there is complaint and to un-v dertake to remedy the complaint. We I visit the roads once in each year on il account of custom more to investigate 3 depot accommodation than to pass upon the soundness or unsoundness ofd trestles or roadways. In fact it would i be as ridiculous as it would be farci- 1 cal for this board to attempt to guar-1 intee the public against accidents Prom defective construction. There is but one method of fixing esponsibility known to me as a legal zed one, and that is for sufferers to ivail thedsel-ves of their right in dam ge. It would be, indeed, a poor pro ection to our people if the O. K. of his commission should exempt any railroad from the consequences of its tets of negligence. FEELING A3IONG YORK PEOPLE. But to return to the matter directly mnder discussion, I must report to you he feeling of the people in York aunty. I found it so intense tnat ]one were willing to discuess the cat strophe as resulting from any other ause than that of detective constru. ;ion. I visited the sick rooms of the mounded at Ro'ck Hill and found the atients wounded in this wreck in the ,are of trained nurses and under the ye of the best medical talent obtain ible. It was a sight that I am sure vould stir the deepest sympathies of he human heart. I say mothors by he side of sons lately the pride of heir lives but now in the agony of remature death,wivcs at the sides of tricken husbands and one and all with ,be choking conviction that their oved ones were the victims of infidel ty on the part of a transportation ompany who had promised safe con luct. THREE RECOMMDENDATIONS. Of. course accidents will happen verywhere, and so serious often as to ,ake the life of some one's loved ones Ld the consequences will pass from he memory of all save "a loving ew." The legislature has not seen it to consider this office with such avor as to provide us with means to rotect the public in the smallest neasure beyond our own services. 3ut we owe it to the public to do vhat we can to guarantee protec ion. Therefore, I recommend, first, hat we employ an expert bridge ngineer to inspect carefully the resales and track of the South ,arolina and Georgia Extension ailroad company; second, that we ummon to this office at the earli st possible date the officials of the outhern railway directly charged vith this portion of the road, for the >urpose of making inquiry of them nto the causes of this wreck; third, bat we make inquiry generally into he operation of the Southern railway ecause of the complaint against hem, and because the tendency of heir operation appears to minimize ocal interest in the interest of what s commonly known as through inter ts. Respectfully submitted, C. W. GARIS, Chairman. Fifty Feet Through The Air. While Barney Oidiield's racing au omobile was running nearly 60 miles ,n hour at the Gross Point track at )ebroit, Micb., Wednesday afternoon n the-ten-mile open event, one of the ront tires on the machine burned through and exploded, throwing~ the ar into the fence and injuring Frank hearer, a spectator, so terribly that te died in an ambulonce en route to be hospital. The car went 50 feet hrough the air and Oldfield, who kept is seat, had a marvelous escape from Leath. He received several cuts about he bcdy and had one rib broken. Old [eld ad just time to twist his brake .d head for a spot between two trees. ;hearer was standing against the ence at this point and the car struck jim squarely, breaking both legs in everal places and f racturiog his skull. le was thrown 75 feet and never re overed consciousness. Oldgel had resence of mind to throw himself ackwardl on the flat deck of the car, rhich went crashing through a low ree and was completely wrecked. ihearers brother was standing near um and had a narrow escape. Injunetion Refused. In the Supreme Court Thursday norning a decision was filed by Asso ate Justice Ira B. Jones, refusing an njunction and dismissing the petition f H. A. M. Smith, receiver of the efunct bank of the State, against R. . Jennings, State Treasurer. The etition was for an injunction to pre ent the State Treasurer writing off s books the bonds of the bank, whic h ave been carried for thirty years. The bonds were stolen during the war' pd have never been recovered. The ase has been elaborately adjudicated n the courts, the judges of the State itting on one occasion en bane upon t. It was decided that the bonds rere due to the receiver and the re eiver was instructed to apply to the egislature for authorization of -their layment. At the last session of the eneral Assembly, however, an act ras passed instructing the State reasurer to write the amount of the onds off his books. The application f the receiver of the bank was for an junction to prevent the State 'reasurer from carrying out the pro. isions of this act. Hoar on Race Issue. Senator Hoar discussed "Problems f the Nation" at the annual summer uting of the Essex club of Massachu etts at Bakers' Island Thursday. )iscussing the race problem in the uth, the senator said: "I know, my iends, that there are special dillicul ies in this problem as it atfects our olored fellow citizens. I know how eply moved are the feelings of our authern brethren. I would not utter ward them a word of reproach. I now how near to their homes and ow close to their social and political fe comes this cloud and shadow. '' e that one enthusiastic southern entleman has renewed the proposi ion that we send the ten million ne roes out of the country. This is autally impracticable. Let us not elude ourselves. We have got this uestion to meet squarely at home. he negro will stay. The European nd the Asiatic will come. You can ot turn them out and you cannot ee them out. A Death Ship. Bearing the bodies of 300 soldiers, rho sacrificed their lives in the ~hilippines, the transport Kilpatrick s expected hourly at New York from ,Ianila, by way of the Suez canal. Lhe ship bears the largest number of Lead that has yet arrived from the slands. The complete list shows hat less than one-fifth died from vonr received in battle. DROUTH OVER COTTON BELT. D. tailed Report from Each of the Cotton Producing States. That the people of this scetion in terested in the growing crops in the South may judge for themselves the indications upon which.the recent de terioration was reported, the following detail report from the New Orlean station is given below. These report: are more in detail than the genera summary constituting, as they do, the latest advices from the cotton produc ing states. It will thus be seen that there is a deteriorating drouth over the entire cotton belt, as these report, !i:mo the different states will show: LOUISIANA. Dry, cool week; low temperatur unfavorable for cotton, rust and shed ding reported in several parishes and ball worms damaging crop in somi places, early cotton opening rapidl3 and some prematurely, picking con tinues, but is not general; too cool ant dry for sugar cane; rice harvest pro gressing rapidly, yield good; oorn be ing gatberd. GEORGIA. Drought continues, with .hot day. and moderately cool nights; cotton opening, shedding and rusting badly; picking begun in a few northern coun ties, becoming general in middle an southern; considerable ginned an marketed during week; crop in critica state; fodder pulling nearing comple tion: late corn badly fired; land tot dry for fall plowing; pastures and somt streams failing. ALABAMA. Dry week; first four nights quite cool, temperature more favorabli thereafter; cotton rusting, with mut shedding, stopped growing and bloom ing in places, considerable open, pick ing becoming general; minor crop: generally satisfactory, but rain needed for cotton, late corn and some minoi crops, paaticularly in northern dis trict; considerable.arly corn gathered yield good; much fodder and hay say ed ARKANSAS. Days warm, nights cool, total ab sence of rain; all crops suffering -fo moisture; cotton lost ground, some complaints of shedding, premature opening, rust, boll worms and sharp shooters, but.not general, beginning t< open normally in some sections, need: rain; late corn needs rain badly; con siderable hay and fodder saved .ir good condition; stock doing well; frui1 prospects unchanged. FLORIDA. Generally dry over greater portion, of northern and western districts, moderate showers in central and heav3 local rains in portions of Southern dis trict; ideal week for cotton to mature; staple opening rapidly, picking be coming general and being pushed, com plaints of rust and sheddingIcontinue though prospects are for fair erop citrus fruits and minor crops in good condition. TENNESSEE. Hot, dry weather prevailed, witt damaging effect on unmatured crops articularly late corn and cotton anc some of the minor erops:~ fine yield o: early corn assured, late rapidly falling cotton not .naturing well, rathe: light fruitage, shedding rapidly; to bacco cutting well advanced, late cort needing rain; large quantities fint forage secured; turnips and potatoei need rain: apples dropping; too dr3 for plowing. NORTh CAROLINA. Week not so warm, with beneficia rains first two days, but central sec. tion needs more moisture: conditions favorable for maturing crops and foi farhn work; corn good; saving foddei nearly over except in west; despitt some rust and shedding, cotton is er cellent, opening everywhere, picking advancing rapidly and ginning begun good prospect for top crop; curing to bacco approaching completion; late apples poor. soUTH CAROLINA. .Rainfall poorly distributed, westert counties suffering from drought: cot ton improved in places, but generally deteriorated, owing to rust and shed ding opening ,apidly, some premature ly, in east, where picking is general, just beginning to open in western counties; young corn injured by drought; rice harvest under way, yield variable; much hay saved in primE condition; minor crops need rain. OKLAHOMLA. Warm days, cool nights and lack 01 precipitation unfavorable for growth early corn cutting nearing completion; late corn maturing fast; cotton doing well and opening, some picking re ported, no shedding; broom corn, hay, alfalfa, sweet potatoes, melons and fruit, fair to good yields; fall plowing well af vanced, but ground becoming hard. TEXAs. Moderate showers in east coast dis trict and parts of central portion, but general absence of rainfall elsewhere; boll worms mostly disappeared, but :otton suffering from drought in the west and north portions, causing much shedding and retarding fruiting; boll weevil puncturing nearly all new forms in southwest, central and east por tions: sugar cane doing well; rice be ing harvested, yield average; sweet potatoes good and ready for use; much aay and forage saved. MIssISsIFFI. No rainfall; cotton injured by cool weather fore part of week; rust, shed ding and blight general, serious in south: erop continues fully three weeks late, well fruited north, some prema ture opening, picking becoming gen eral; pastures, peas and cane good, but needing rain; some localities too dry for turnips and fall gardens. A Desperado Mlurdered. A special from Morganton, N. C., says that "Silver Creek" Sam Pearson, wll known to otlicers of North Caro lina as an alleged dangerous character, was shot and killed in a bar at 6 o'clock by C. FS. Campbell, a deputy sheriff. It is said Campbell opened fire on Pearson as soon as he saw him, there having been bad blood between rhe two for some time. Campbell sur ,endred and was placed in iail. BEAVERS GIVES Ur. Postoffice Scandal Enters New Period of Activity. GRAND JURY STIRS UP THINGS, And Brings In Indictments Against a Number of Postoflice Of ficials, and More Are to Come. George W. Beavers, the former head of the salary and allowance divi sion of the postoffice department at. Washington, surrendered himself in the once of United StatEs Commis sioner Hitchcock, in Washington, *':i: Tuesday and gave $5,000 bail for his '4 appearance before Commissibuer Hitchcock on September 15. United States District Attorney; Burnett last week notified Beavers's -- council that a bench warrant hadbeen ssued for the arrest of Mr. Beavers, and that he would be taken intothus d n. tody forthwith if he did not im eda tely surrender himself. The .defen-3 dant's lawyers then verbally informed:. the Federal authorities that. they . would produce their client on Tues day. The indictment against the former head of the salary and allowance:di sion was-returned two months ago nin Brooklyn, and charges him with hav ing received a check fof $810 from the Brandt-Dent Manufacturing Corn pany, of Middletown, Wis, which, "i, is alleged, was paid to him by the fir as a part commission on a number .of. automatic cashiers furnished the po:tal department by that firm.-.. After deliberating for severaleeImy ' over a mass of documents submihte_% by the postoffice inspec the Fed r al grand jury in Washi ton city Tuesday returned seven ind -/ in postal cases, involving six differen T persons. All the indictments wereF2 kept off the publie record and bob the officials of the district aattorney t >flice and of the postoffice deparment refused to divulge names or details of= the indictments until the parties in dicated are arrested.' The identity of" the indicted individuals was thus 'left$ a matter of conjecture. It is expcW ed that arrests will occur Wednesday morning, and that the postoffice partment will have some announce= ment to make during thie forenooni2 The grand jury's action pro'kb g e marks the beginning of the..end ot the investigation that has been in = progresss, since fthe mniddle of .~~z March. Voiuminous evidence been laid before the grand jury as ti result of the inquiry, and while ,the present report of -the jury disposes mf e r most of the cases, there yet rean ' several to be passed upon. When the latter are disposed of, according- to Postmaster General Payne. the in vestigation, so far 'as- the work at : Washington is concerned, will be at an end foy all practical purposes. Several of tfie persons indicted Tues day live outside of Washington. They will be arrested as soon as bench war- -. rants can be served. Two other important events occur red.--Tuesday in the postal ingniry.' Leopol Stern the Baltimore contrac tor, who disappeared from Baltimore before he could be arrested on an in dictment returned July 31 last, was located at Toronto, and 'the long. de layed surrender of George B~avers, the former head of the salary and - allowance division, to the N~ew York -2 authorities took .place. The postal officials have been searching for Stern - ever since he disappeared and liv finally received word from the Cana-' dian authorities that he is in Toronto. The queston of extradition has been taken up with the State department. The case has features similar to the Greene-Gaynor case. It was .then contended that conspiracy was not extraditable, but the State depart ment took the view that -the acts themselves involved alleged embezle ment and constitute, extzaditable of fences. Stern was enacted for con spiracy to defend the Government. He was charged with receiving full price for satchels for letter-carriers, : including shoulder straps, despite the supply to him of these straps at Government expense. In considera tion of the supply of these straps to him, for which he was paid in full, he is charged with paying large sums to W. C. Long, of that city, and A. W. Machen, the deposed head of the free delivery service. "Munrder Will Out." On information furnished by Allee Stayton, colored, of Philadelphia, Pa., Essex Stayton, her husband, was Wednesday committed to prison ac used of murder. She visited a magis trate's office to procure a warrant for her husband's arrest on a charge of assault and battery. While telling. her story she declares Stayton had shot and killed Abraham Little, his bro,hr-inlaw, in March, 1902, at Grimesland, Pitt county, N. 0. When arraigned for a hearing Stayton was asked if he bad killed Little. Be said he had quarreled with the man and ini self-defense had shot him. He left the place at once and did- not know whether Little's wound had proved fatal. The woman testified that Little died five days after the shooting. The local authorises will communicate with the authorities of Pitt county, N. C. A Terrible Accident. Dr. Edward C. Rushmore of the Tuxedo colony was fatally injured and ~iss Cornelia Herrick of Southamp ton, his niece, was instantly killed in n automobile accident at Arden N. ., on Thursday. The automobile in oing up a steep incline three hundred ards from E. HI. Harriman's summer residence gave out and the brake would not work. The machine rush d backwards down the hill going own a 00-foot embankment on the mountain side. TRE report that Carrie Nation is about to make her debut on the stage as filled the camp of the Thespians with dire consternation. She is to ap pear in a revised dramatization of "Ten Nights in a Barroom' "which is eingoadapted by Robert Ellsworth.