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VOL. XVIII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 4,1903. NO.7 A BRUTAL MURDER. Henry Patrick Shoots and Cuts His Wife to Death. LITTLE ANNIE'S TESTIMONY. Crazed by Drink, the Infuriated Hus band Accuses His Wife of Un faithfniness and Then Kills Her. Bennettsville bad a shocking mur der on last Tuesday week, the particu lars of which are most revolting. A dispatch to the State says: A ghastly sight met the gaze of those who went to the home of Henry Patrick, a three-room cottage in the southeastern portion of Bennettsville near the cotton mill Tuesday morning. On the floor, face downward in a pool of her own blood, lay the dead body of Mrs. Mary Ellen Patrick with a gun shot wound just under her left ear and six gashes made with a knife or razor, across her throat. In another room was part of a bed soaked in blood and two little children, a boy of 2 and a girl of 6, seeming not to realize that their mother had been murdered by their father. There is but one known eye-witness to the tragedy-that is the girl, little Annie May. Her story told at the coroner's inquest today is as follows: I was in bed with mamma asleep and was waked up by the fuss. Papa was cursing mamma about a note she wrote to Raleigh Stewart. Kit Cox told him about the note, he cursed Kit and told her if she didn't get out he would cut her brains out and Kit went out. Mamma was sit ting up in bed. She told papa to take that gun away and he shot her. She fell down on the bed and got blood on my arm. He told her, "Damn you and Raleigh Stewart too." He was cursing every kind of a way and was standing up by the bed. After he shot her he pulled her out of the. bed and dragged her into another room. Papa and I weet to a negro house on Mr. Capel's place. After he shot Mamma papa told him if he didn't get up and make a fire for his little girly to warm be would shoot his old h'use down. The negro brought papa home and put him in the porch and he went to sleep. I tried to go to sleep but couldn't and Mr. Carpenter came and carried me to his house. Raleigh was here when pa came home last night. Mamma was writing a letter to Ral eigh and gave it to him herself. Pa told him if he didn't get away from here he would shoot his guts out." The collateral evidence gathered from several other witnesses is summed up below. Mrs. Kit Cox, a woman about 30 years old, who recently came here from Stanley county, North Carolina, was boarding at Patricks. She said she had heard no threats or fuss but left the house because Patrick was drinking and slept on the floor in an. unoccupied house the rest of the night. She heard the gun a few min utes after she left Patrick's. Two young men, Raleigh T. Stewart and Walter S. Carpenter, spent the even ing at Patrick's home and drank with the men and then left again. Car penter swore that while they were there Mrs. Patrick wrote a note and handed it to Stewart. Stewarteafter ward handed one to her. The young man left between 9 and 30 o'clock. When Carpenter got home he .found Patrick there and they again drank together. Patrick left there between 11 and 12. Carpenter's father said : he gun fired after 1. Soon afterward Patrick and his little girl came over and the girl said: 'Pa has.killed mamma." Patrick showed Carpenter bis hand and it was bloody. Carpen ter sent for the sheriff and he found Patrick lying at his steps in a drunken stupor. Be had to be carried to jail in a buggy and was carried up the steps. He said nothing about the killing. Stewart denied knowing anything about any note. "1 think that is a mistake," he said. "I did not receive any note." Stewart is a brother of J. T. Stewart, contractor for the woodwork on A. J. Matheson's new residence and is himself at work on the building. Patrick is a well known character here. Be has been living until about two months ago on Matheson street, near the depot. He was for a long time employed by the Marlboro Wholesale grocery. He is a strong, robust. man, weighing about 200. His wife weighed little more than half of that. Mrs. Patrick was a daughter of John 0. Sanders, an old and well known citizen of Bennetts ville. Your correspondent saw Pat rick on Wednesday afternoon and asked him if he had anything to say for publication. He said he was very sorry the accident occurred, but that it was purely an accident. "I was loading my gun," he said, "and it went off. Mrs. Cox was there when it occurred, and I think Raleigh Stew art was there to.. Sheriff Green has nmy knife and there is no blood on it." A Valuable Tree. It is reported by consul. general Guenther that a new plant has been discovered in South America that promises to supplant the sugar cane and sugar beet. This plant is said to contain a large amount of saccharine matter and a high percentage of natural sugar properties which are - z?v to extract. It is said to be easy to cultivate in climates like those of the southerij portion of the United States and according to experiments made by the discoverer, the director of the agricultural institute of Asun cion, this plant is said to yield a sugar which is from twenty to thirty times -as sweet as ordinary cane or beet sugar. _________ The Deadly Hot Supper. At a hot supper in Rock Mills town ship in Anderson county Thursday night Sump Reed and Shug Jones got into a didiculty, Reed drew his pistol -and began shooting- He failed to hit the man he was shooting at but one of his bullets hit Jones' brother, Will Jones, in the eye and killed him in stantly. Reed tired two shots after killing Jones and then said it was about time for him to be going and left the house and has not been seen since. All parties are negroes. GOr Iq T13 I DIRTY WORK. A Number of People Were Robbed by Pickpockets. The report that the "grafters," fak irs, flim-flammers, shell workers and pickpockets had moved on Columbia from the Greensboro, N. C., fair was not an idle one by any means. The Columbia State endeavored to give sufficient warning. Wednesday at the union deoot the pickpockets played havoc among the passengers as they crowded each other getting off the trains, while barding street cars at the union station, and during the fierce jams on Main street Wednesday night the pickpockets found the pleas ure seekers easy prey. Dr. L M. Hair of Union was reliev ed of a $200 diamoun stud as he was boarding a street car at the station. Two boys caught him in the act and pointed out the man to Dr. Hair, who left the car and caught the thiet and held him' until a policeman arrived. At the police station by a shrewd move the culprit threw the diamond in a sewer and flushed it with water. E'orts are being made to recover it. A thorough search will be made. At the union station a lady friend of Mr. B. W. Bolin of Sumter rushed up and said that her purse, contain ing $37, had been snatched in the hur ry of getting off the train. Mr. Bolin replied to his friend to not worry as he had $150 or S17C with him and that she was welcome to all she wanted; then he reached into his trouser pock et and found that his wallet, too, had been stolen. Mr. T. S. Galloway lost all he bad as be and his wife were boarding a street car at the union sta tion. Mr. Mark Stoney of Edgefield had his pocket picked at the union station also as he was boarding a street car.; They got all be had-822. Mr. Thos. F. Harmon of Newberry lust all be had with him. Mr. Harmon could not tell when he was touched. All he knew his purse and its contents, $25, disappeared. The most affecting scene of yester day was a very old couple standing off from the crowds at the fair grounds weeping. Every cent they had was gone- not even car fare was left. Their lass was $65. Wednesday night num bers of robberies were reported-vic tims losing large sums of money. Very few watches have been snatched as the grafters find it little trouble to find the ready cash in most instances. The police have been active. Graf ters and flim-fiammers have been ar rested with all manner of crooked de vices on their persons. One of these bunco games is worked with two small pocket knives, apparently iden tical, with spring blades. One knife is worked very readily and the other is a aummy which cannot be opened. There are a number of ingenious ways to force an average man to aot he can open the spring knife. the tli n-flam mer dexterously substitutes tue (tum my knife, enforcing the victim to lose his bet. An intellIgent looking boy from Marion, who has attended South Carolina college, was done for $35 in this manner yesterday while stanaing in front of the "skyscraper." It was estimated from the reports that over $1,000 had been stolen Wednesday by he "grafters." Mr. H. H. Evans, a well known member of the board of directors of he State dispensary, was robbed of a iamond shirt stud Thursday He was caught in the jam in the main building, a lady being at one side and a gentleman at the other shaking ands with him. A woman got bis1 pin, which is quite a valuable bit of' jewelry. Mr. Evans was unable to stop the thief for there were so many ladies arouno. The woman passed the pin to a male confederate and both were swallowed up in the crowd. Mr. E. WV. Wilson, a well known olumbiary, had his purse containing $25 filched from his pocket while in a rowd near the race track; Mr. T. L. Johnson of Newberry lost $15 at the fair grounds; Mr. T. M. Davis, a farm er of Lee county was robbed of $30, every cent he had, as he was getting off a street car up town. The fiim-fiammers found some ready victims during the day. Tue pe-n knife thimble-riggers caught several victims. Mr. Millege Blackwell, a Columbia carpenter living on Wood row avenue, had a memorable exper ience with a pair of these blacklegs. The Record says the pickpockets ar rested Wednesday for stealing a dia mond pin from a gentleman from the up country waived a preliminary ex amination this morning and were sent to jail. It is supposed that "ne of the pickpockets, fearing detection, as the police were after him he dropped the pin in a sink at the union depot. Thle police employed plumbers to take up the pipes, but the pin has not been found. The pickpockets have employ ed lawyers to defend them. A Faiihful Minister. Rev. William T. Warrington, one of the oldest ministers in indiana, has resigned from the pastorate of the First Christian Church of Hagertown, on account of continued poor health. He has served as minister for almost fifty years. His salary the tirst year was $50. This was increased each yer thereafter by $50 until it reach ed the sum of $4.5o0 per year. He then refused to accept any further in crease, although it was urged upon him to do so. Rev. Mr. Warrington built church editices at Darlington, Wingate, Thorntown, Antioch, New Salem, Hagerstown, Boston, Ind., and other points. A Hideous Murde-r. A Special from Littleton, N. C., says: A hideous murder was com mitted on an excursion train from the Weldon fair Wednesday night by an unknown negro and for no apparent cause. While the train was discharg ing passengers at Summit, this State, a negro walked up beside Levy All good, a colored man of Macon, N. C., saying, "Hello, Allgood," and thrust a knife iuto his throat, severing all the main arteries and wind pipe. Allgood ran into the car and died in less than ten minutes. The murderer made good his escape. Sherman flon uments. A monument to Gen. Sherman has been unveiled at Washington. There are a few of the 1864 style of Sherman monuments still standing in Georgia n South Carolina. SKND NEGRO AWAY. Is the Only Race Problem Solutio'. Says Bishop Turner. CLAMORING FOR AFRICAN HOME. White and Black People Can Never Understand Each Other and Should Not Live Together Hating Each Other. "This nation or its aggregated peo ple will either have to open up a high way to Africa for the discontented black man or the negro question will hinder this Government. There will be no peace to tbe United States as long as the negro question is an issue. I will tell the black man what John Temple Graves thought, but was re luctant to express. Your very exis tence depends upon separation. At present there is no Christian unity, much less civil and political unity. A shameful division prevails." In these strong terms Bishop H. M. Turner, one of the oldest and ablest colored ministers in the South. ad dressed himself to a mass meeting of his race at Atlanta recently. His ad dress was in large measure a reply to the Rev. H. S. Bradley, who had op posed the separation of the race. Bishop Turner has for many years ad vocated the movement of the negro to Africa, and his address, as was ex pected, dealt with the question in plain language. In part he said: DO NOT UNDERSTAND NEGRO. "The bulk of white men know but little about the inner feelings and idiosyncrasies of the negro. When they speak about black men emigrat ing to better their conditions they signally, by reason of the fact that it is nout a question that concerns them enough to give it deep and protracted thought. I know there are many white men who ride into popularity by pretending to know all about the negro, but they only know the igno rant and scullions side of him. In this country, where white represents God and black the devil, but little thought is given to the black man's future. Everything that concerns the negro is whittled down to the present contingencies, and the eternal future which involves and contem plates change, revolution, mutation and destiny of races is but little thought of and if the negro does not think about it himself it will receive but little attention and our status as a race, to use the language of the elder Judge Lumpkin, is so ignoble, and the foolish scare-crow of social equality has become such a hobgoblin with the ignorant masses that we are further apart in spirity and sympathy than heaven and hell. We are as innorant of each other as races as if we did not live in the same world. The very conditions that surround and confront us forbid a white man from having any palpable knowledge of the-negro, and I could bring a bun dred illustrations to establish this fact. It was verified the other night in Dr. Bradley's address, when he said the negroes were American citizens nd did not wish to be separagated. NO REAL CITIZENsHIP. "The doctor says the negro is an American citizen. I wish he were orrect. Twelve millions of colored eople of the United States would trow their hats heaven high if this eclaration about the citizenship of he negro was a reality or could be stablished. Surely the doctor has ot been apprised of the fact that the onclave in Washington, D. C., called he United States Supreme Court, has ssued a legislative decision taking way every vestige of his civil rights, nd in the recent Alabama case has eclared his political rights a nullity, and outside of the right to pay taxes nd work the roads he has not a single ight that would prompt him to be a an. I would not mention the de radation this decision or these decis ons (for there are three of them) have nlicted upon the negro in detail, but t would be to" voluminous and do no good; but I will give $500 if any man will show me such a decision from any ther Court of last resort in the world. "I beg to ask the doctor If he could ave any respect for any man, or any et of men, who would sit quietly un er the condition of things that con ront the negro in this country. If e wants to know what 1 mean, just let him color his face (for wnite is not a color) and attempt to be a man and gentleman for one day, and be will nderstand the meaning thoroughly. CLANORING FOR AFRICAN HOME. "I nave been singled out in this :ountry as the chief factor In the A fri can emigration movement, and as such I believes that I have received all of 100,000 letters, some of them contain ing dozens and dozens of names, who are clamoring for transportation con veniences sand- cheap rates from this to the land of our ancestors in order that they may return to Africa with ut having to pay their way to New York city, then to Liverpool and then to Africa which they have to do at present, costing them more on the ars to New York than white people have to pay from Queenstown, Liver pool, Hamburg and other points to come to New York, Philadelphia, Bos ton, New Orleans and Savannah. "Think of it-557 steamers, besides sailing ships, are hugging the shores of Africa the year round from Europe and not one from the United States. "A United States Senator from a Southern State said to me some time ago: 'I am opposed to your emigra tion agitation, especially about return ing to Africa in any numbers. You are keeping up an unnecessary excite ment. But he finally said: 'aemem ber, Turner, I am opposed to it as a white man, as your race furnishes us with cheap and obedient labor, but if I were anegro I will be d--if I would not leave this country before the sun goes down.' COULD BUILD UP A NATION. "When I speak of separation I do not mean that everybody will- go, or must go; I am only contending that Ithere should be a highway made across the Atlantic (only 3,350 miles from the City Hall of New York,) for suca lackL men ndr women as are self-re-. liant, and have those manhood aspira tions that God planted in them, and degrading laws will intensify. We are not clamoring for rich men or men of respectable means. We want smart, energetic and self-reliant men. If Australia could be made one of the geatest countries on earth by penal convicts, who could dare say that re spectable colored men could not also build up a nation? "It was also proclaimed the other night that Liberia was a failure and had played out. I know Liberia, I know Muhlenourg Station. I pre sided over an annual conference there, ordained ministers there, and I am prepared to say that a finer republic is not to be f und on earth than Lib eria, consisting of 35,000 civilized and 1,500,000 heathen people. "In conclusion let me say that the negro is the richest man in the world if he had sense enough to know it. We will get that intelligence, how ever, in God's own good time. The American negro, with a few excep tions, is the lowest specimen of the African tribes. The superior Afri can sold us inferior Africans to the white men. We were slaves, hun dreds and thousands of years, to our African masters; but this lower type has to return in numbers, to civilize and Christianize the higher type, and the white ._an has to help us to do it and God will see that he does it, or the nation that owes us forty billion dollars for two hundred years' work performed and services rendered, will commence to wane and end in broken fragments like the Roman Empire. "I Grant that the outlook for the future between the two races appears far more pacific than it did. But God sent the ne gro here through his negative Provi dence, to 'imbibe civilization and Christianity from this giant white race and then redeem the land of his ancestors, and he must do it and will untimately do it." BLIND TIGERS KNOCKKD OUT. Constables Stationed at Every Place and Give Dealers No Chance. The Columbia Record says "some time before the fair opened it was rumored that an extra force of con tables would be stationed here dur ing fair week to look after the blind tigers. The rumor proved true, and if any blind tiger is doing any busi ness it is done in the most clandestine way. In fact it moay be stated that the tigers are completely out of busi ness. Every place where it was known that whiskey was sold had a constable stationed in it. These took regular hsbifts" relieving each other, and there was no chance for the dealers to do any business at all. Several of them Thursday afternoon closed their doors altogether, except those which happened to have restaurant attach ments. These had to do strictly a restaurant business owing to the con stant presence of a constable. In one Main street restaurant a visitor called for a -drink in the presence of a con table, and being informed that he could not be served he launched out in a general denunciation of constables. A fight resulted and there were hot times for a few minutes. The visitor was badly handled, though he put up a stiff scrap. Notwithstanding their close watch in the city the constables managed to go out into the country and capture a large quantity of con traband hidden in the woods. As a cronicler of the sayings and doings of the people the Record states the-fact that there is a good deal of kicking among a large class of visitors. They want a drink occasionally at night and they can't understand how they ould get it last week and probably can next, yet must not be served this week. That's the way they talk, but the authorities are obdurate and are enforcing the law as it has never been done here before." A FOOL AND HIS NONEY. The Three Card Game Played on Hartford Man. Two strangers who are alleged to have swindled G. S. Burnham of Hartford. Conn., out of $5,000 through a three card game, are being sought by the police authorities here and in other places tonight. Burnham re ported his loss this afternoon. He is a well-to-do retired farmer about 65 years old. One of the strangers said his name was Brooks and that he was connected with a bank in Torrington, Conn., while the other represented himself as a southerner, who had come north for the purpose of finding his sister in Winsted, to whom he was to pay $30.000. H aving learned that his sister was dead, the southerner said he was reckless as to what became of the money. Hie offered to show Bro'oks and Burnham bow to play the three card game with the result that Burn ham was induced to draw $5,000 from te bank and put It in a tin trunk to gether with a roll alleged to contain $10,000 which the southerner islaced as his part of the wager. Burnham was given the key for the trunk and the men drove to West Partford, stop ping at a secluded place in the woods where the game began. Burnham won, and receivihg the trunk started home alone. It was not until he ar rived home, opened the trunk and found it empty that he realized he had been duped. Searchingr ror Hiimsezlf The man who murdered J. Murdock and Mrs. Mary Beuvens and seriously wounded her husband at Port Jarves, M. J., by firing two loads of buckshot through a dining room window last Friday night is known. Unless his arrest is made soon by New Jersey authorities in whose territory the crime occured. a lynching is threaten ed. It is said the man under suspi cion is one of a crowd searching for the assassin. As it Should Be. The Columbia Record says for one time the police have put a stop to swindling, gambling games operated by fakirs who flocked to the city for the fair. Visitors will generally ap preciate this move, and if any swin dler is caught violating the ordinance he ought to be sent to the gang and not given the privilege of paying a fine. Preventing these robbers from plying their trade will make the fairs muh more attactive. A STRANGE CASE. Took Lives That He Might Qu.f Blood from the Bodies. MOST HORRIBLE EARRATIVE. A Russian Convict Who Can be Neither Pat to Death or be Flogged for His Aw ful Crime. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, says the latest Sachalm mail, addressed to the minister of the in terior, conta:ins the following ex traordinary sory: "To convict 1,118, name Kaserski, home Mocow, banished to the village of Chandsa, eighteen murders lately committed in the island have been traced and proofs are accumulating that he is guilty of many more. He admits his inability to state just how many men he killed. "This convict-peasant first attract ed the attention of the authorities by te frequency with which he sold fat tened hogs. - Be raised more than any other deported settler. At the same time persons continued to vanish in the neighborhood and finally a house to house search was decided upon. In the hut of convict Number 1118, three bottles containing a dark tlid were fould. When questioned, he said be used the stuff to grease his boots. The official thought this a lie and ordered the convict to drink from one of the bottles to show that they did not contain poison or explosives. "The convict complied with seem ing pleasure aud the search continued. Something that looked like a human foot was found in the pig-stye, and, suspicious being aroused, the gover nor ordered the garden dug up, with the result that eighteen human skulls were discovered buried there. "The convict then confessed that he was responsible for the numerous disappearances, and, maybe, for the death of many more persons-he could not remember how many he had killed during the last three or four yea:s. He :laimed that his crimes were due to irresistible impulse, a wild passion for rinking human blood. He said he ouid not exist witbout a botttle tored away in his larder. "At the same time the convict was proud to show that he was not a mur derer for gain. The money found on is victims, he had either secretly re urned to their relatives (which was proven true),or kept at the bottom of lis well, from where it was recovered by the authorities. "He coLfessed, though, that he had made good use of their bodies, by cut ting them up and feeding his hogs on hem. The investigation is still con tinued." As in Russia, the death penalty is imposed only on political criminals, his ferocious monster will be suf ered to live, and the czar's order gainst corporal punishment, formul lated some two months ago, will like vise favor him. A further report by be medical authorities of the penal ,olony says that convict 1118 is per Cectly rational. PASS HIM AROUND. Lhe Bankers of the. State Warned About One W. R. Morrell.. The South Carolina Bankers' asso iation through its secretary, Joseph Norwood, of Greenville, is sending out he following letter received from msie Nicholson, of the banking firm if Union: "Dear Sir:--For the information of he association it might be well for you to report the following swindler, who, it appears, has been operating in tis vicinity, and who Induced one of ur customers to cash a check for him which proved to be forgery. "His plan of operation is to ap roach a merchant, buy a small bill of oods, and then tender in payment a heck drawn by another party to his rder, apparently certified by the bank n which it is drawn. "In the case which occurred here, e gave his name as W. H. Morrell, ad presented a card giving his ad ress as Spartan burg and respresent ing that he was with the A. T. T. ompany. The check purported to be rawn by W. A. Dickson on the First National bank of Morristown, Tennes ssee, and was apparently certified by said bank. "The following description of: Mor rell may be of some service: "Name, W. R. Morrell; residence, Spartanburg, S. C.; nativity, U. S.; :ccupation, with American Telegraph ad Telepnone company; criminal oc :upation, forgery; age, 25; height, about six feet; weight, about 170 pounds; complexion, medium 'dark; oor of hair, medium dark; eyes, wore glasses; clean shaven. "From whbat our customers has been able to learn since the above occur rence, this party has also been operat ing in Spartanburg." Broke is Wife's $.eart. Mrs. Pearl McDowell, of Yorktown, Id., died Wednesday night of a broken heart, it is thought because of the inexplicable absence of her young usband, Claude McDcwell. When a soldier in the Philippines he desert ed, it is alleged, by obtaining a sick furlough in tne name of a dead mate, and, coming to Yorktown, immediate ly married Pearl Stewart. He was captured by the federal authorities a few days later and taken to Fort Thomas, Ky., and sentenced for de sertion. Hie twice escaped from pri son, each time going to his wife. The third time he was captured he served out his sentence. He lived happily with his wife until a few months ago, when he mysteriously disappeared. Want to Grow Cotton. The Belgian cotton interests is tired of buying cotton from the United States, and a bitter ifeeling, because of the impotency, has arisen. The feeling, heretofore expressed by the newspaper and private interests, has taken detinite form and the Bel gian cotton association has now petitioned the government in strong terms. They demand that the govern ment begin the cultivation of cotton in the Congo Free State to take the place, if possible, of importations fron e United States A HOTEL DISPEJSARY. Was Ordered Closed Wednesday by Order of the Governor. In view of the fact that the dispen sary law is being so strictly enforced in Columbia, a great deal of comment has been occasioned by the fact that the "tourist hotel" privilege granted the hotel Jerome was being construed as to allow it to run night and day. As is well known the hotel Is not yet completed and is not ready for bus-i ness, but the dispensary feature of the hotel was doing a good business. The law distinctly says that only guests of tourist hotels can be served after the usual hours allowed by law, but the "privilege" evidently was open to all, according to the report made by Chief Constable Hammett. Colonel Mixon, who has the license, so to speak, did not intentionally vio late the law and evidently thought that he was in full accord with it, but the authorities having his busi ness called to their attention thought differently. He can sell only to bona tide guests of the hotel, and as none such exist now the dispensary will have to close. The governor, the attorney general and Chairman Williams of the state board of dispensary directors, after consultation Friday gave out the fol lowing statement to the press: "Upon the report of Chief Consta ble Hammett as to violations of the dispensary law at the hotel Jerome, Governor Heyward and Chairman L. J. Williams held a conference Fri day morning to consider the special privileges granted to hotels. "Chief Hammett reported that the privilege granted to the hotel Jerome was being abused to the extent that persons who are not guests of the hotel were allowed to ourchase liquors. "Upon this report.the governor and Chairman Williams determined that the spirit and the letter of the act. allowing tourist hotel an exemption under the dispensary act should be rigidly observed, and instructed the Chief Constable to notify the mana rer of the hotel in question, that un less the act was strictly observed that the hotel exemption would be revoked. "The view as expressed at the con rerence was that the act contemplated that none other than bona fide guests it the hotel should be allowed the privileges of this exemption, and ex pressed a determination to see that tbis feature was observed at this and ll other hotels of a like nature. "Chief Constable Hammett reported to the conference that in pursuance of the direction of the governor he noti ied the Hotel Jerome authorities that the law must be obeyed in the strict st manner, and they expressed most omplete willingness to observe the aw, and that they were not aware o the fact that any of the servants or igents of the hotel had violated the aw, and expressed a desire to co-ope rate with the state authorities in ob erving the strict letter of the law." -Columbia Record. WHO OWNS THE RAILOADS. About Two Million People Are Di rectly Interested in Them. Slason Thompson, head of one of the bureaus of the General Managers' ssochstion, recently addressed a letter to the railway companies asking the guestion: "Are there a million own ers of railway securities in the United States?" "Thirty-nine of the leading railway companies of the country responded," said Mr. Thompson recently. "They represent 107,640 miles out of the 20)2,471 of single track mileage in the United States. They gave the total member of stockholders on their books as 191,387. This is pretty near ly equal to two stockholders for every mile of railway. Applying two to one as the ratio, approximated in the total, would give 400,000 stockholders in round numbers for the 200,000 miles of railway in thft United States as owning 86,024,201,595 of capital stock as reported June 30, 1902. As suming that the 86,109,891,669 founded debt Is as widely distributed among bondholders, and the railway ownership would appear to be held in something like 800,000 hands. In one way or another the people of the United States own the railway of the United States and something like 2,000,000 persons through wages, in terest and dividends divide two-thirds of the gross earnings of $1,729,390, 267, (1901-02) among them and the other third goes for fuel, taxes, sup plies and equipment." Remember This, Girls. A good many girls just launched in to society and on the hunt for hus bands believe that they improve their opportunities by taking and giving many contidences and by getting as close as possible to persons to whom they meet. .But in this they make a grievous error. A girl who opens her soul to every man soon finds that men flee from her as they would a pesti lence. A man has no good use for such a girl and the remarks he makes to his friends concerning her would almost make a monkey's ears burn. The value of contidence, '.ike the value of wheat and potatoes, is regulated by the supply. A girl mdist be ex clusive if she would be highly respect ed and loved. None Whatever. The application of the Greensboro gold brick swindlers to the supreme court of the United States ty be tak en out of the custody of the authori ties of North Carolina and placed in that of the marshal of the supreme court, on the grouud that they fear ed being mobbed in North Carolina, was told of in yesterday's paper. There is no occasion for surprise in this, for, of course, men who will un dertake to work the gold brick trick will swear lies, but how much better than the ruttians who swore the lies are the lawyers who inspired them and who drew the affidavit for their clients to sign?-Charlotte Observer. Would Not Klis Her. A Chicago wife called up the police station and demaned the arrest of her husband because he refused to kiss her. Here is a conjugal contingency that may as well have a legal prece dence first a last. NEGRO PROBLEM AN ISSUE. SenatorGorman -Says It Will Hell the Democrats. A dispatch from Washington says thE all absorbing topic in political circles now is the speech of Senator Gormar Saturday night in Maryland, when hE opened the Democratic campaign it that state. The speech was an ar. raignment of President R'osevelt ani his negro policy, and owing to tnr prominence he gave the negro questior in his address it is regarded by thE leaders in Washington that Is is 2 peacemaker for the Democratic na tional campaign. The friends of thE president here believe that it is th beginning of a plan to force tne negr< forward as the great issue against Roosevelt, and owing to the reported weakness of the present occupant 01 White House, as regarded by the po litical wiseacres here, upon this great problem the gauntlet is not gladly ac cepted by the Republicans, while the Democrats are not concealing their delight that the issue has been made. It develops today that it is a well determined plan on the part of Pa tional Democrats to force the race is sue to the front, not alone in the south and the close states of Maryland, Dela ware, New Jersey and West Virginia, but also in the larger cities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinos and Iowa, where, they think, it is possible to stir up the for eign-born voters on the negro ques tion. They also argue that if there is to be any doubt about Kentucky and Missouri, the race issue will make those states surely Democratic. It is not the intention to bring the question prominently forward in the Democratic platform, but to hammer it home on every Democratic stump. Republicans here take the view, judging from the personalities in Sen ator Gorman's speech, that the Demo crats intend to make this part of their campaign directly personal to Mr. Roosevelt himself, arid, wherever it is possible, to emphasize the Booker Wasuingtua dinner incident and the Crum appointment, with "a white man's government for the white man," the-campaign cry from one end of the country to the other. Senator Gorman, as the leader of his party in congress, will lose no op portunity during the coming session to develop the issue and campaign ma terial is expected out of renewed dis cussion of the Crum case and the Indianola postoffice. The election in Maryland is looked upon by both par ties as an important test of the negro question as a campaign issue. It will will be the tirst expression by the.peo ple of that state on the restricting egislation now in force there, wherein the educational test bars many ne groes from the privileges of the ballot. XILLJS HIs CILDRJN To Avenge His Wife's Refusal to Lite With Him. Jesse McClure, an Indiana farm hand, murdered his two sons, aged tive and seven leaving their bodies in a fence corner. . While a mob - was forming to capture and lynch him, McClure drove on a run to Marion, Ind., and gave himself up. He has been secreted by the authorities, who fear attempted violence. McClure lived near Frankton, and had separated from his wife a year ago, she refusing to live with him and returning with her children to her father's home. At noon one day Mo Clure hired a rig at Elwood and drove to the Kilgore farm, the owner being Mrs. McClure's father. He found the children playing in the front yard and induced them with candy to take a ride with him. He drove a mile up the road, carried the children to a fence corner, and shot them with a revolver. The older one was found dead a few minutes later, and the younger was dying, a piece of the candy being still in his mouth. McClure fled and was pursued by a crowd of young farmers, bent on vengeance. The alarm was given and from all surrounding towns armed pnrsuers started. McClure succeeded in reaching the jail in safety. To the jail turrikey McClure admit ted the murder of his two children, and he said he had killed them because his wife had lefr, him and refused to live with him. He said: "When she refused ti see me I de cided to be revenged, and drove down the road to a little clump of trees. My two children were asleep in the buggy. When I stopped, the jolt awoke my little boy, Dee. He looked up to me and said: 'Papa, what are you going to do?' I put my hand over his eyes and took my gun from my pocket and shot him in the fore head, killing him instantly. "The shot awoke little Homer, and I took him by the shoulder and fired a shot into his head. They both fell to the bottom of the buggy. I drove the horse to the side of the road and lifted both bodies out and placed them on the grass. Then I drove directly to Marion to the jail, and am here to give myself up. "The neighbors will lynch me when they find out what I have done, I do not care what you do with me. I am ready to die, and expect to hang for this crime. All that I ask is to see my dear little ones buried." Dies from Fright. Mrs. John Pittman, of Center, Ga., died from ight at her home Thurs day night. Her husband got up dur ing the night and went into the hall to get a drink of water. The water bucket was in a chair, and in the dark Mr. Pittman ran over the, chair and the bucket fell to the floor with a great noise. His wife, awakening with a st3.rt, was so rrightened at the noise and at missing hber husband from the bed that she screamed out at the top of her voice. Mr. Pittman ran back into the room only to find his wife in a spasm, from the effect of which she died in a few minutes. Two Negroes Hanged. Jim Chambers and Lou Shaw, ne groes, were hanged at Luverne, Ala., Friday, for the murder of Williamson Champion, another negro, in March last. Sale Arrington, an accomplice, turned State's evidence and was re leased. The hanging was in public and the military was used to help pre Ire order. A SNAKE CHARMER Is Bitten by a Huge Rattlesnake That He Was Handling. STRUGGLES WITH BEPTILE. With the Deadly Fangs Twice Plant ed in His Finger the Man Ran .Swiftly to the Hospital. A special dispatch from Charlotte to the Atlanta Journal says L. C. Crouch, of Winston, N. C., is at the Presbyterian hospital suffering from dangerous wounds inflicted by a rattle snake, which be was exhibiting at the fair grounds. Mr. Crouch is a cripple, and has a wife and seven children. A year ago be started to collecting snakes and other isnimals and exhibiting them, and has made a good living by this in dustry. Big letters on his tent de clare that he has inside "ground hogs, guinea pigs, angora rabbitts, Joe, a four-legged rooster, coon, squirrels and rattlesnakes." "Crouch ha', five rattlesnakes-two large.and three small ones. He bought these within a year from men who captured them in their wild state. Until Friday Crouch had handled all his snakes with safety, though he realized that the poison had not been extracted frjm the fangs of two of the large snakes. The largest snake is over four feet long, and has a number of rattles. Mr. Crouch took this snake from its box to show it to a young man who was in the tent. The rattler was plainly In an ugly mood. He was held at the neck by the hand of Crouch, but the rear part of his body described whith ing curves and cl'uched the forearm of his owner. With a sudden wrench the reptile jerked his bead loose, .the venomus bead went up quickly, and theinhe fangs settled in the middle finger of 6Duc,'s right hand. With a scream Crou -4gbed- at the snake with both hmnds ebag t away from him: The snake fell to the earth,but before it could move Crouch, pinned it down with his foot resting on the back of the head. Then, recovering his com posure, he had a man to cord his fing er tightly. At this time the rattler was sing ing a mad song with his tale; his little wicked eyes were shining devlishly, and he was hissing out of-his distend ed mouth. When his finger had been tightly bound Crouch reached dowr and again seized thes snake by the back of the neck. He did not lift his foot up un til his fingers completely encircled the neck of the rattler and he felt that he could keep his hold. Then he lifted the snake and stepped toward the box from which the reptile had been taken. Crouch had reckoned without his host. The rattler seemed possessed of intense strength. His big, sinuous body crept out convulsively and once more the coils were on Crouch's fore arm. The fierce head was pulled again from Crouch's close grip, and rose a foot above the wrist of the owner. Down came the head of the reptile, and the fangs were buried deep in the forefinger of the left hand of Crouch. Crouch's left arm went out. The snake dangled for a moment, holding by its teeth, and thpn dropped. Crouch gave a yell of terror; forgot care of his reptile, and dashed out of the tent with a look of horror on his face. Both his hands were outstretch ed. Though a cripple, his speed was as fast as that of a professional sprin ter, and he was soon on a car bound for town. At the first sight of a bar-room he bounded from the car, rushed in crying that'he was snake-bitten and asking for whiskey. Be. disregarded a small glass that was banded to him and bought and emptied, at one pull, half a pint .of raw spirits. Then he ran to the Presbyterian hospital. By this time both of Crouch's hands were badly swollen; he was vomiting and suffering great agony. Phiysicans came hurriedly to his aid, and first gave him rapid injections of perman ganate of potassium. His arms were tightly corded for hours, the hands being realeased in order that the poison might not be confined to too small a portion of the body. Crouch's hands and arms, to the shoulders, are several times their normal size. He had sioking spells, and his heart be came so badly affected that it was nec essary to Inject strychmine repeated ly. He will probably recover. The Ambitious Mrs. Bunn. A singular case of domestic infeli city is recounted by the iFort Scott - Monitor. In the morning Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bunn kissed each other affectionately and Mr. Bunn went whistling to his work. When he re turned at night he found his house empty. His wife had taken all her belongings and had gone home to her mother. No quarrel had ever been had in the family, save for the reason that Mrs. Buun persisted in taking in v ashing in order to help pay the fam ily expenses. Mr. Bra objected to his wife doing this kind of work. She declarrd that she would work if she wanted to. He forbade her doing any more of it. She left and refuses to return unless he will consent to her taking in washing. *A Bold Thief. The Atlanta Journal says one of the most daring thefts reported in some time occurred Wednesday night, when some thief rode away on a bicycie which had been ridden by Bicycle Otlicer A. D). Luck, I'the sergeant" of the West E~nd police. He left his wheel or Chapel street while he weint inside to serve a subpoena, and when he returned his wheel was gone. It was No. 22, of the Dayton make, and belongs to the police department. Kailed mn a W reck. A special from Dean Lake, Mo., says that Mrs. Booth Tucker was fai aly injured in the Santa Fe wreck and died half an hour later. The train which started from Dean Lake for Marcoline with the injured was de layed by the breaking of a truck and has not yet reached Marcoline. Mrs, Tucker was prominent in salvation army work.