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VOL. XVIIIH MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9.1908. NO.12 ANOTHER CALL. Counties Not Represented at Recent Immigration Convention INVITED TO JOIN XOVEMXNT. Mr. Matheson, Originator of the Present Movement for Immi grants Has Another Word on the Subject. To the Editor of The State: Referring to immigration again, perhaps for the last time along this line, I wanted to give my views in full. First, I want each county that was not reDresented at Columbia on the 10th of November to let me know promptly whether or not they care to co-operate with us in this great and grand scheme, so that I may enrull them on my list. Then I want two subscription lists circulated in each county, one of the subscription lists asking for a small contribution for the State board to defray common expenses, such as literature, legal ad vice, and other State expenses, this list to be circulated in each county by a member of our committee. This is to be called for in such sums as may be needed from time to time, as it may be required. The amount I would expect from each county 1 would say $100, and perhaps Charles ton 8300, Columbia $200 and other counties that have large cities in them in proportion. And the other sub scription list asking for contributions the expenses of getting the immi grants to South Carolina, say at least $1,000 from each county and counties that have cities in them to give in proportion, say Charleston $3,000, Co lumbia, $2,000, and so on, to be called for when required for above purposes. Now, as to who we want, the Scotch peasantry, they are the tillers of the soil, honest and able to do good work, and they have good blood in their veins. They will make good citizens and help ns to pay our taxes and help to suppo-t the schools and churches and st n I in line with us when we have trouble between the races. Now, as to the Germans-I think they are a good people, too, but they are a com mercial people, and not farmers as we want. As to the Irish, the better class of them are politicians and poor er people are not ambitious-they don't like farm work. The English, as a rule are capitalists and manufac turers. The Swiss and Italians are not tillers of the soil; they like to work in the cities. And, after all I think that the Scotch is the kind that we want for the interest of South Carolina. Now, the way to get them is to get some good literature suitable to strike their fancy, and spend a few hundied dollars having it distributed in the proper manner in Scotland by some one that can be recommended there, and in the meantime have the govern or to endorse our action and then get the president to also, and to have the proper papers arranged and send them to our agent in London and have him to present them to King Edward for his approval. If all of this works as we want it to, send over two good men, at least let one of them be an. educated man and have some knowl edge of law, that he might be able to draw legal documents with steamship companies and change our literature if necessary after they get to Scotland. And charter a tramp ship, or buy a ship if nece&,ry. Now, Marlboro county is ready to comply, so far as the $100 for the State pur poses and $1,000 to be spent moving the immigrants is concerned, and wil do more if it becomes necessary. I hope that all the counties that have not come in will let me know promptly their intentions. Below I submit a copy of a commu nication which I have addressed~ to the senator of each county that was not represented at our conveution, which please publish for the puolic in formation. As therein stated, I wish to have committees meet as soon as the vacancies can be filled. The fol lowing is a list of the counties which failed to send delegates to the con vention, namely: Abbeville, Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berke ley, Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Colleton, Dorchester, Greenville, Hampton, Horry, Kershaw, Lancas ter, Oconee, Orangeburg, Pickens and Spartanburg. If in any of these coun ties there is a commercial organiza tion, such body is entitled to distinc tive membership, and I hope the otli cers thereof will suggest the name of a citizen that I may appoint him. Yours respectiully, A. J. MATHESON, Chairman Executive Comn. nnettsville, Nov. 30, 1903. Bennettsville, S. C., Nov. 30, 1903. Dear Sir: At the convention held In Columbia Nov. 10, last, for the purpose of devising ways and means of bringing to our State a desirable class of immigrants, provision was made for an executive committee to consist of one member from each coun ty of the State and one from eachi commercial body; the chairman of that committee to appoint at his leis ure a member of the committee from each county and such commercial body as was not represented at the convention. I regret to say that your county was one of the few which had no delegates and my purpose in addressing this communication to yo is to ask that you suggest tbe name of a suitable citizen whom I may appoint to that place. It is needless for me to say that there is no politics in this matter and we want a man who will take an interest in the objects and purposes of our organization and who is willing to give some of his ability, time and attention to the duties of the position and who is willing to de fray his own expenses in attending meetings, etc. I would ask you to do me tbe further favor of informing me whether or not there is a commercial or civic organization in your county, and if so. tbe name of the secretary. Please kindly give this matter your attention as I wish to call the com mittee together at the earliest practi cable day. Yours truly, A. J. MATHEsON, Chairman Executive Coin. GETS THIRTY YEARS In the Penitentiary for Killing His Three Little Children. Dr. Jay, the triple murderer, who was recently tried at Asheville, N. C., was found guilty of murder in the second degree and was sentenced to 30 years in the State's prison at hard labor. Dr. Jay's crime was one of the most horrible in the history of the State. On the morning of Octo ber 15 last, whilb apparently in a rage, he killed his three young children with a claw-hammer, at their home at Barnardsville, Buncombe county. The mother of the children, becom ing frightened at the action of her husband, rushed to a neighbor's for aid. While she was away Jay killed the children, one by one, taking the youngest, a babe hardly able to talk, in his arms and crushing its skull with hammer. As soon as neighbors could be summoned Jay was taken in custody and hurried to jail at Ashe ville. The community was very much wrought up over the crime, and there have been threats of lynching should the murderer escape the death penal ty. The plea of the prisoner was in sanity, and a number of witnesses were introduced during the trial to to establish this contention. The time of the court yesterday was taken up with argument, the case going to the jury late Wednesday afternoon. At 10 o'clock Wednesday night the jury retired, having failed to reach a verdict. The verdict was not a sur prise, as it was predicted Wednesday that the jury would reach such an agreement. Dr. Jay is about 50 years of age. He has been married seven years and his wife is but little over 20. The ages of the murdered child ren ranged from one to six years. Babe in the Woods. Near Greensboro, N. C., Emily Schoffner, a three-year-old girl, who was lost in a forest for three days, was found half frozen and half starved. After being revived she pluckily told of her adventure. Last Friday- morn ing week Phillip Shoffner, a farmer, started to market, and the child fol lowed the wagon. Her parents did not know this, and the child got lost in the forest. . That night a search ing party scoured the country and the girl was found in a thicket cuddled up under a tree. The baby told an intelligent story of her adven ture, saying she had been walking in a pine thicket calling for mama and papa, and when she could not find them or the "big road" she went to sleep. She had been walking, she said, when she was not sleeping. It is remarkable that the child did not freeze to death, as the weather has been bitterly cold, and she was bare footed and wore only summer clothes. The Boll WeeviltPest A dispatch from New Orleans says a special session of the Louisiana leg islature will be held in December to 1 pass legislation which it is hoped will keep the boll weevil out of Louisiana. 1 Gov. Heard made the announcement of his intention to the boll weevil con- 1 vention. He said he was fully alive to< the dangers of the threatened invasion< of the weevil and that he had been as- 1 sured that the State would have the hearty cooperation of the agricultural 1 department at Washington in the effort to keep the pest out of the State. The boll weevil convention was addressed by a number or plant ers, merchants and oil men, and also heard Vice President Miller of the Audubou association on the relation of birds to the boll weevil. The con-1 vention decided to ask for the enforce mentof laws for the preservation of the birds of the State, as an aid in the destruction of the weevil. An Afficted Famuily. A dispatch from Pickens to The3 State says Miss Pauline McDaniel, a1 daughter of Sheriff J. H. G. McDan iel, died Thursday night. She had been ill for some time of typhoid fever. She has gradually grown worse since the death of her mother, which occurred about three weeks ago. This caused a shock from which Miss Mc- 1 Daniel never recovered. The remains will be interred this afternoon at Se cona Baptist church, of which she was a devoted member. She was also a valued member of the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Three deaths have occurred in this family in about a month's time. The sympathy or the entire community goes out to the sorely bereaved family. . Hunter KiZed. A dispatch from Spartanburg to The State says John Godfrey, a young white man, was accidently shot while out bunting by a white man named Greer Thursday, and as a result the wounded man died at 10 o'clock that night. Godfrey and Greer were two of a party of four who went hunting in the woods of Capt. Dean's farm, tree miles from the city. By some accidental means the breech-loading gun of Greer was discharged, tne en tire load, an ounce of No. shot, tak ing effect in the left knee of Godfrey. The wounded man bled to death from the wound before medical aid could alleviate his sufferfng. He was a resi dent of this city and unmarried. Foully Murdered. A dispatch from Greenville to The State says a negro named Ansel Arn old, 45 years old, living between Brandon mill and the Southern rail way, was found in the woods Thurs day with a hole shot through his head. He left home Tuesday night to visit a neighbor, and search being made, he was discovered nearly a mile from home with his body robbed of money obtained the day before a for bale of cotton. He was a reliable, thrifty, in dustrious negro, owned a farm and comfortable home and was worth sev eral thousand dollars. Some negroes in the neighborhood are under sus picion, but no arrests have been made. State Banks. The secretary of the state has com pleted the statistics of the capitaliza-' tion of new state banking corporations orgaaized during the year, most of which are in operation or will be soon. The total capitalization amoun 1,100,000, which exceeds that of pre THE POSTAL FRAUDS. Bristow's Report Condemns Tyner, Beavers and Matche,. WHO ROBBED THE GOVERNMENT The Report Shows that the Ac cused Men Had Been Dishen est from the ,ioment They Took Office. The brief of J. L. Bristow, Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, who conducted the investigation of the United States Post Offiee Department was made public last week. It details the glaring frauds, conspiracies, black mailing and looting of the public treasury that for ten years had gone Dn in this department of the public ervice. It is shown that in most mases the accused men had been dis bonest from the moment they took ffice. In the case of August W. Machen, uperintendent of the Free Delivery Division, Mr. Bristow, openly charges that he was a forger when he entered the service. As the arch-conspirators Df the department he mentions for mer Assistant Attorney-General Tyner, Chief George W. Beavers, of he Salaries and Allowancee Division, ind August W. Machen, in charge (if he Free Delivery Division. Barrett, ryner's nephew is mentioned as a close econd to his uncle in plots to rob the reasury. The brief discloses the finding of 'orty-four indictments, though more ;han this number have been recorded. f these. fourteen were against Afachen on Various specific charges, Lnd eight were against George W. Beavers, in charge of the Division of 3alaries and Allowances. There is no Lttempt on Mr. Bristow's part to mooth over a single detail. He fells n a most open, matter-of-fact way he methods by whom Post Office )fficials used their offimces to put noney into their own pockets. TYNER AND HIS NEPHEW. The charges against Assistant At orney-General Tyner for the Post )ffce Department indicate, in a very yractical way, that he was in partner hip with his nephew, Barrett, who ad been his assistant, in order to )rofit by the non-prosecution of bond nvestment companies, or "get-rich tuick" concerns that were using the nails to perpertuate their frauds. 'Stop orders" had been issued against hese companies, Bristow recites, by ssistant Attorney-General Thomas, who declared they were "a greater nenance to society than the avowed otteries." Barrett wrote an opinion declaring al bond investment concerns fraudu ent and "inimical to the postal laws," )ut still suggesting that they be given 'an opportunity." In order that the 'get-rich-quick" concerns might not sack the opportunity. Barrett resign rd from his office and formed a part iership with J. Henning Nelms, an egent for one of these concerns. Then ihey became attorneys for nearly all if them and thereafter the approval >f Assistant Attorney-General Tyner o any plan of the investment com >anies was sure, if the application was hrough his nephew, Barrett. Mr. Bristow says that the fees of ielms and Barrett for the first fifty ive days of their copartnership were 6,000. The opinion of Barrett, prior a his resignation from the depart nent, had scared the investment com >anies, who all fled to Barrett for rotection. He obtained it through lis uncle. Mr. Bristow takes up the ase of each bond investment company Lnd shows what was done. Fraud orders were issued against the southern Mutual Company for using ,he mails. Tyner arranged with the aw firm to allow the concern to do usness. Other concerns operated to ull the public are mentioned, includ ng the Physicians' Institu-te, of Chica o; E. 3. Arnold & Co., the turf firm, f St. Louis; J. J. Ryan & Co., and thers. It is pointed out that the 'raudulent concerns were able to use he mails for six years under Tyner's ulings. A BANKRUPT AND FORGER. Mr. Bristow finds against August W. Machen as follows: That he cen ~ered the service in 1887, a bankrupt Lnd forger; that he had then secured oans from friends on false representa ,ions; that, as Superintendent of the 'ree Delivery System, he introduced ~traps instead of twine for the use of ~arriers in tying up mail and collect d $30,000 from George D. Lamb, a nan with whom he had only-a verbal ~ontract for suppling the straps; that. he straps cost the Government $14, )0C a year. That he made a contract with John oyle & Co., for the furnishing oIf arriers' shoulder straps and collected i rebate from the firm for each strup sed; that he made a similar contract vith William G Crawford, of Wash ngton, when the Boyle contract for our years expired, and that by it-s erms be entered into a conspiracy with Crawford and George E Lorenz, jf Toledo, Ohio, to furnish straps and ivided the money received from the overnment. By its terms M-chen and Lorenz each received 37t per sent. That Machen conspired with the Qroffs and Lorenz to defraud the Government in the supply of the Grff fastener for attaching letter boxes to posts, and that Machen actually re ueived more than 825,000 from the scheme. That Machen conspired with John T. Cupper, of Lockhaven, Pa., to paint letter boxes at exorbitary rates and collected a rebate for himself for awardwg the contract. That he conspired with Maurice Runkle, of New York, and Charles E. Smith, of Baltimore, for the supply of leather cases for the carriers in rural free delivery routes and thereby made a liberal profit for himself, while the two men mentioned were allowed to defraud the Government. "GRFT"INLETTER BOXEs. That Machen conspired with My bury & Ellis, of Detroit, to make and distribute a vast number of rural let ter boxes, at extortionate prices, with ment to defraud the Government. Mr. Bristow gives the prices charged and the profits that accrued each year, $70,000 be.ing paid out uselessly by the department in four years. That Macben, with Issac McGlehan, conspired to defraud the Government in the manufacture of package letter boxes, charging from $4 to $8 a box when they could have been made for $3.50. That Machen, with George W. Beavers, then in charge of the Divi sian of Salaries and Allowances, con spired to defraud the Government through the introduction of the Mon tague iddicator, a device to show be hours of collection at street letter boxes. Machen and Beavers each re ceived stock of the company promoted by V. W. Montagae postmaster at San Francisco Mr. Bristow introduces letters to prove all he says about this allege fraud. That Machen received 10 per cent rebate from Charles J. Heller of Phila delphia, who had been allowed a con tract to furnish bacages to rural car riers at fifty cents each. Mr. Bristow says in conclusion: "Machen does not seem to have con sidered a day of reckoning possible; over nineyears of continued prosperity had given him confidence. He had passed through three Qongressional investigations. He had deceived his superiors through four different Post masters-General and alike number of First Assistants." BEAVERS WORSE THAN MACHEN. The findings of Mr. Bristow against George W. Beavers are: That as cnief of the Salaries and Allowances Division be conspired to defraud the Government through a series of schemes for the promotion of clerks, the appointment of others who did no work and drew salaries; that he collected vast sums for the alleged advancement of clerks and by chang ing the offcial titles of clerks to ad vance their salaries and take part of them himself. Tuat he leased premises at exorbi tant figures in order to reap a profit himself. That he purchased a vast number of useless .Brandt-Dent automatic ,asbeirs for post offices, compelling the Government to pay a fraudulent price for them in order to reap a per ;onal gain. The machines proved seless. That he compelled postmasters to buy the Elliott & Hatch typewriter, in inaccurate and poor machine, for 200, when other and better machines :ould be had cheaper, so that he could profit by thus mulcting the depart nent. Mr. Bristow gives many in ;tances of this kind. Tuat Beavers purchased thousands f unnecessary time clocks, used in the ervice to record the time of arrival ind this departure of carriers through 3 conspiracy with the Bundy Clock ompany in coujunction with George E. Green, its president. That he conspired with H. J. I'ruesdale and George E. Green, of Binghamton, N. Y., and W. D. Dore us, for the purchase of useless stamp ancelling machines, 670 of which cost he Government $143,475, while only thirty-nine were used. Mr. Bristow oes into great detail as to the scheme regarding the cancelling machines which were invented by Doremus and amed after him. Beavers, Green and Doremus were all indicted in this con 2ection. Mr. Bristow ends his arraig nent of Beavers with the remark that: "The administration of Beavers was, if possible, more demoralizing ipon the integrity of the service than tat of Machen: Mr. Bristow also goes Into the ffenlces of minor otficials, giving the1 istory of each one and the action taken against him. T HR EE MEN LYNKCHED. Whites and Blacks Unite in a Triple Lawless Execution. In the presence of a crowd of about 1200 persons, composed of whites and negr(.es, Phil Davis, Walters Carter and Clint Thomas, allI negroes, were lynebe:d Tuesday afternoon about 1 o'clock within a short distance of B~elcher, which is twenty miles from Shreveport, La. Thbe men were executed for rartici pating in the fatal shooting of Robert Adeer, one of the most popular busi ness men in North Louisiana. The negroes confessed their crime. They stated that they were trying new guns and when Adger appeared on the street thought it quite natural to turn the guns on him. No shots were fired at the lynching, the negroes all being hanged to a single limb of a tree. Two of the neg roes under arrest, Sam Lee and Peter Thomas, were released. Lee proved that he attempi ed to prevent the neg roes from shooting and established the fact that he was too frightened to shoot. Phil Davis and Walter were captured Tue.day afternoon several miles from the scene of their crime. Clint Thomas was caught later about a mile and a half from Belcher. The negroes were taken before Adger and confessed their crime. They were held in concealment until shortly before 1 o'clock today, when they were taken cut and hanged. Davis is said to be an ex-convict and Walter Carter was forced to flee from Mansfield, La., about a year ago, for insulting a white woman. The negroes of Belcher joined in the search for the men and were appear ently as eager to have them lynached as the whites. One negro was pre sented by the whites with a purse of $100 for the part he took in the pur suit. The negroes who were lynched were given an opportunity to pray. A Great Problem Solved. A North Missouri editor asked: "Who is the happier, the man who possesses S1,000,000 or the man who has seven daughters?" Another Mis souri editor promptly solved the prob lem in this way: 'The man with the surplus girls, of course. The man with the money is not satisfied and wants more, the man with the seven daughters is satisfied-he has enough."_________ A Sad Accident. At Blackstone, Mass., the three sons of Mrs. Nellie J. Read, John, seventeen; William, fourteen, and George, eight years of age, were drowned in the Blackstone Tuesday, while attempting to cross the river on THE DEAD ALIVE. A Man Returns Home After an Absence of Fifty Years. HE HAD BEEN MOURNED AS DEAD After He Deserted His Home He Never Wrote a Line to His Wife or His Helpless Children. After an absence of fifty-four years from his family Jacob Wesley Cloy wandered into his son home,Judge John R. Cloy, at Graniteville, last Monday night wcek ago. The story reads like the plot in some romance of the mid dle ages, but surpasses the ancient fic tion in the faut that it is a true tale. A reporter for the Augusta Chronicle heard of this marvellous story a day or two ago and meeting Judge Cloy on the streets, who confirmed it and added more wonders to the way it had been told by another. The story recounted by Judge Cloy began when he was only twenty-seven days old and his father disappeared, leaving his mother with two helpless young children, and never returned until last week. During the absence of the father the two children had advanced past middle age and the good mother, who toiled fur their support and education, had died in ignorance of what bad become her husband. Mrs. Cloy departed this life in 1889. Back in the year 1849 Jacob Cloy was the overseer on the plantations of Frank Posey, a prominent planter of the eastern section of South Carolina. The great farmer had a son, Martin Posey, who married a young wife, and for a while lived happily on one of the places owned by his father. One day the young wife disappeared and a search was instituted to fnd her. In a few days after the disappearance her mutilated body was found in a swamp nearby, and the evidence was plain that murder had been com mitted. The strong finger of circum tances pointed to her husband. He was arrested and tried. MAIN WITNESS DISAPPEARS. Jacob Cloy was one of the witnesses ummoned by the state at the trial. He was one of the party that found the body of Mrs. Posey and it was thought that testimony given by him would throw considerable light on the mase. In fact, many thought that Cloy's evidence would convict Martin Posey of the murder of his wife. All were anxiously awaiting the time when Cloy would take the stand and say the words that would clear up the mystery that had shocked the whole ountry side by its horrors. The time for the trial drew near and inter st increased. Finally the day set for the hearing arrived and the court room was crowded to the doors. When Jacob Cloy was called to go on the stand it was found that he had dis appeared. Application being made at his home it was learned from his wife that he had not been at the ouse for several days. Many people immediately were convinced that an tber murder had been committed to keep the truth about the first one from coming to the light of day. Again the country was shocked and al sorts of methods were adopted to try and locate the whereabout of Cloy, but without avail.* After thorough search not a few people came to the opinion that Cloy had gone away to keep from convict ing his former friend, Martin Posey. Mrs. Cloy was left with a son twenty seven days old and a daughter not guite two years. She immediately et about supporting them. She un dertook such work as a woman could do and succeeded in raising her de serted children in a creditable 'nan ner and giving them an education. She often harbored the idea that she would hear from her husband, but as the years speed on and not a line tame she became convinced that he was dead. SON MEETS FATHER. During the latter part of the war Judge Cloy, then a boy of 14 years of age, was a student at the Arsenal in Columbia. Tue Confederacy was in desperate straits. It was almost a case of robbing the cradle and the grave to keep the armies supplied with soldiers. The boys of the Arse nel and the Citadel at Cuarleston were mustered into one company and sent to camp at Spartan burg. prepartory to being ordered to the front. in the company with Judge Cloy at the time was Mr. Z. W. Carwyle and others wo are now well know in Augu.,ta. The command of boys never reached the firing line for Lee surrendered while they were still in Spartan~burg and they were mustered out of the service and sent home. While travelling to his home in Aiken county the youthful soldier, Job R. Cloy, met a man in cna ge of a drove of stock that was being driven through the country. Ti-e man and the buy soldier struck up .i conversa tion and when the young man told his name the man began no question him very closely. They were together for nearly an hour and as the man was about to depart he told the youth ful Confederate that he was his father. The youth was incredulous and tbe man rude on without giving any further information. When Young Cloy reac'ed home he recited the occurrence to his mother. From the description given of the man and the subjects on which be asked ques tions Mrs. Cloy was positive that the drover who encountered her son, was her husband. This occurence was just after Lee's surrender. From that day up to one year ago Judge Cloy never beard of his father. During the last festive week in this city Judge Cloy met a relative of his father, who told him that he took no stock in the report and did not even brother himself to write to the address given. He had long since begun to believe that his father had passed away. RETURN OF PRODIGAL FATHER. Last Monday night week an old man, bowed down with the weight of eighty odd years, boarded the South ern train that left Augusta at 11:15 p. m., and told Conductor Wooten that he was the father of Judge John . Cloy, of Granitevime and wanted to go there. He had only money enough to pay his fare to that place and asked anxiously to be directed to the home of his son when the train would reach Graniteville after midnight. The conductor told the old man that Judge Cloy's father had been dead for over forty years and thought he was endeavoring to deceive him. The ancient passenger was so insistent, however, that when the train reached Graniteville, Couductor Wooten called the night man at the depot and asked him to show the old man to the home of judge Cloy and that if the judge was not home to take him to a board ing house and he would see that the night's lodging was paid. The watchman escorted the traveler to the home of Judge Cloy and the owner himself answered the loud knocking at the door. When he asked what was wanted the old man in a broken voice made himself known. He told his son that he was now pen niless and without a home and that he was seeking his roof as shelter in the end of his life. There was not the time or opportunity there in the chilly midnight air to establi3h the identity of the man who came to his door for shelter and Judge Cloy invited the visitor inside and made him comfort able for the night. In the morning the old man proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was the father, who deserted his two children and their mother fifty-four years ago last March. nAS'BEEN WELL-TO-DO. Jacob Cloy admits now that he left home sooner than become a witness against Martin Posey, but he has not uttered one word that would indicate what his knowledge of the killing of Mrs. Posey was. During the fifty-four years that he has been away from South Carolina Mr. Cloy tells a tale of ups and downs in life. Once or twice he has been well-to-do and has lived in Mississippi, ' Indian Territory, Texas and Canada. He gives no rea son why he never wrote to his wife or hildren. It is with difficulty that he can be questioned as be is now quite deaf, speaks with difficulty and his mind is not clear as a result of his great age. What a change of fortune is this? Here comes an old, world worn man to the home of his son asking for shel ter in his declining years when in an full strength and vigor of young man' hood he left that son a helpless infaL t of twenty-seven days old in the arms of a young and inexperienced mother. The mother reared the son in such a manner, that now after having passed the middle mark of life he is in the enjoyment of plenty of this world goods and the respect and esteem of is fellow man. A White Man Hanged. At New Berne, NS. C., a murder case embeacing many interesting and un usual features came to a tragic end Friday with the execution of Chris Dixon Friday. Godfrey Weber, a substantial farmer was shot from ambush near his home, Nov. 22, 1901. He lived only a few hours, and while dying expressed the belief that Dixon was the assassin. Dixon was tried and onvicted of the crime, the strongest evidence against him being that two pages of a magazine was used as a gun wadand a copy of the same magazine found in Dixon's house had these two pages missing. After being sentenc ed Dixon broke jail and escaped. H~e was rearrested last October near Ohesterield, S. C., after enjoying two years' freedom. The widow of the man he murdered had become his wife and was living with him. Dixon's rime according to the testimony at the trial was prompted by jealousy. Dixn and the girl who afterwards marrIed Weber were sweethearts be fore Weber appeared as a suitor. The atter being a man of some means she discarded Dixon and married Weber. No Toy Pistols This Year. Few people realize that it is against the law for shopkeepers or other per sons to give away or sell toy cap pistols or caps for the juvenile wea pons. The general assembly passed an act at its last session prohibiting the sale of toy pistols because of the fact that so many deaths had occurred from their use but they are now being ofered In many of the stores of the city. The act states that "it shall be un lawful for any person, firm or corpora tion in this State to sell, put up for sale or offer for sale or give away any toy pistol in which caps .or cartridges are used or any caps or cartridges for such toy pistols." The maximum pen alty is $100 for each conviction. A Fugitive From Justice. Gov. Heyward Wednesday issued a rewarded of $60 for the aprehension and conviction of Henry Byrd of Dar lington county, who has been a fugi tive from justice for some time. .He has been committing depredations In that county, frightening woman and children. The residents of the county, being thoroughly enraged, have offer ed a reward of $40 for his capture. The sum which the governor has otier ed increases the amount to $100. Byrd was convicted of stealing a bale of cotton and sentenced to serve two years on the county chaingang, from which be escaped. Caught at Last. A young man who declared that he is Frederick Strube, wanted at Havana, Ills., on the charge of having killed Alice Henninger, was arrested at Macon, Mo., on Wednes'day. Strube said he struck Miss Henninger with a monkey wrench because she laughed at him when he pressed her to marry him. They were in a buggy and, he said, fell out of the vehicle during the struggle and on the ground he struck her and killed her and afterwards buried her body. The Boll Weevil. Representative Burgess of Texas introduced a bill in Congress Friday to lessen the damage of the cotton boll weevil, directing the secretary of agriculture to appoint commission in his department, to include residents of the States of Texas and Louisiana to study the problem. The bill ap propriates $250,000 to be used for this purpose. The suggestions of this commission are to be embodied into regulations recommended to the legislatures of cotton raising States for nactment into law. IBE EBORT COTTON CROP Causes Great Excitement and Alarm Among the English MiUs. Dispatches from London says the riseincotton caused intense excitement In Manchaster and Liverpool Friday. American cotton advanced 28 to 44 points over Thursday'siclosing prices. It is said locallytthat~if thej official crop estimate of the;-United States department of agriculture made pub lic Thursday is correct it means a terrible calamity for Lancashire. The cotton trade is divided in opin ion, one section contending that the demand for cotton goods, because of the falling off of orders from India and China, is not likely to be excep tionally great during the coming year and that 10,000,000 bales. as estimat ed by the American agricultural de partment, will be sufficient to meet all requirements. One of the largest firms of cotton spinners at Bradford announce that they are preparing to erect mills in the United States, to which they will transfer hundreds of looms, with their complement of combing, drawing and spinnig machinery the dismounting of which flas already commenced. In making the announcement the firm says: "The American manufacture and dyeing of the finest classes of goods, similar to those we produce, on which we are paying 100 per cent. and up wards in duty, is the reason that we are confident our present American department will not be able to pay its way more tLan three or four years more at the most." All the English morning pa pers print editorials concerning the serious effect which the cotton short age in the United States will have on the Lancashire trade and the dangers arising from the fact that one market is able to control the price of raw cot ton. The belief is generally held that the United States department of agri culture underestimated the crop, but the editors *avail themselves of the crisis to point cut the necessity of using the utmost exertions to foster the cultivation of cotton in the Brit ish colonies so as totbroaden.the area of supply. In Manchester less excitement was .manifested than in Liverpool, mainly because it is believed that the crop will ultimately prove to yield 11,000, 000 bares. Manufacturers and spin ners, therefore, are prepared to hold out for later reports of the crop. Lead ers in the trade also point out that the present crop is likely to be a good one, while last year's crop was not seriously bad, and as a result there will be less waste. BOTH HANDS-CUT OFF. The Serious Accident Which Befell a Cotton Mill Operative. . The Spartanburg Herald says on day last week while engaged at hi work in the carding room of the Glen dale mills, Mr. James Francis an operative received injuries which cost him both of his hands. The unfortunate young man was attending to his duties and was using a yard stick In directing the cotton material to its proper place to go through the carding machinery. The stick dropped and Mr. Francis reach ed for it. Instantly his hand was caught in the machinery and fearfully lacerated. In. his agony and fright he reached his other band down to extricate himself, and this member be came entangled in. the machinery. Before help reached him and he was taken from his perilous position, Mr. Francis's two bands were literally stripped of all flesh by the merciless, rapid grinding of the machinery. Medical aid was summoned. Drs. G. R. Dean and G. W. Heinish visited the wounded man, and at once decid ed that his han~s must be amputated. The operation was skillfully perform ed by these physicsans, assisted by Dr. T. D. Hairston. The accident is a terrible blow to this young man, who had just farily begun the struggle of life, A young wife is dependent on him and his de privation of the natural means for making living renders the prospects for the future anything but bright or encouraging. The sympathy of many goes out to Mr. Francis. Perry 'Arrested Again. A dispatch from Spartanburg to The State says Ben F. Perry, son of ex-Gov. B. F. Perry, was arrested here Wednesday evening by State Constables Eubanks and Drake on the premises of C. 0. Davis on Lee street. Several gallons of whiskey were also seized. There was a disturbance be tween Perry and the contables during which a pistol was discharged by one of the otiicers, but no one was hit. After being arrested ar.d carried to the station house Perry gave bond in the sum of $300. He stated that he carried with him to his boarding house on Lee street Thursday night four and a half gallons of whiskey, the limit the law allows, and that he offered none for sale since then. The constables on the other hand state that there was found six and a half gallons of whiskey belonging to him at the boarding house where he stopped. There is not the slightest suspicion as to Mr. Davis selling or having anything to do with the illicit traffic of whiskey. He Shot Back. On Wednesday week ago as Mr. George Walker was returning to Walterboro from a collecting tour for Terry & Shaffer, he was ordered to hault by three men, who began firing at him. Mr. Walker drew his pistol and returned the fire. Fortunately he was not hit. Seeing that be was armed the highwaymen made off. There is no clue as to the identity of the parties. Sucidal Mania. A young woman in Charlotte at tempted suicide because she was sali vated and had the toothache. Thbat is a rather disagreeable combination, to be sure, but hardly calls for self destruction. A wave of suicidal mania seems to sweep across the country like a pestilence every now and then, and this young woman, like many thers, yielded weakly. THE BOARD DD IT. Governor Heyward Did Not Request the Holding Up of CHARLESTON'S LIQUOR PROFI'. This Statement Is Made in Reply to Unfriendly Criticism. The Formal Resolution of the Board. - The Columbia State says It has been regarded as a fact that Gov. Heyward asked the directors of the State dispensary to withhold from the city of Charleston the profits whicW that city would receive from the dis pensary law. This impression seems to have been gained from the state ment which was issued at the time. In view of some criticisms which have appeared, which the governor made known his unwillingness to notice, Mr. L. J. Williams, cihairman of the board of directors, ma-'e the following state ment Taursday: "While the governor has heartily .o-operated with the board in all that eas been done, and seems pleased at the prospect of a final adjustment of ,bis matter between the board and the city authorities, it is a manifest injustice to him to blame him solely with the natter and to charge him, with having taken the initiative. "While at my home in Edgefied I saw by the newspapers that the cona stabulary force in the city of Charles ton was in desperate need of assistance from the State authorities, and know ing that the only way by which they could get relief would be through funds furnished the governor by the State board of control, under section 565 of the dispensary law, and wish ing to co-operate with the governor. I felt it my duty to eCre to Columbia, and did so. When I arri here I found that the governor was t on his plantation in Colleton coZ> and waited over to see -him. Upn his arrival he did not seem to be fully informed as to the status of affairs, -I and, after several consultations be tween us it was determined that it was necessary that I, as 'chairman, call the State board of directors in ex traordinary session, since the board was the only authority in the State with power to furnish the governor necessary funds to protect the consta bles. "At this meeting of the board itr _ was deemed an injustice to the bale ance of the State to take this money, to protect the constables, from the State funds, and it was, therefore, de termined to take an amountnecessary to reimburse the school fund from the city of Charleston, since the failure of public sentiment in Charleston and the lack of co-operation of the city of ficials were at last the cause of al tb trouble. The only 'request' made by the governor, as formerly published, was for financial aid after these con ferences, in behalf of the constables. "I invited the governor to be pres ent at the hearing yesterday in re sponse to a letter from Mayor Smyth to that- effect. These are the bald facts with reference to the matter, and I don't suppose the governor or - the State board have any reason to feel that we could have done other wise" Following is the text of the resolu tion which the board has passed after earing the return of the officials of the city of Charleston: Resolved, That the profits accruing to the city of Charleston are hereby withheld until .Tan. 1, 1904, "to pay State constables" for the better en forcement of the dispensary law In the city of Charleston. Second, That thereafter the profits accruing to the city shall be restored, provided, that In addition to the three detectives now employed for making cases against illicit liquor dealers, four other officers be employ ed by the city subject to the direction of the division chief cnstable for the main purpose of detecting and captur ing contraband liquors. Justice Done. At Tuskegee, Ala., Ralph Arm stronrg was convicted Friday of the murder of his cousin, Miss Allie Arm strong, and sentenced to be hanged Jan. 8. The case will be appealed. Armstrong shot his cousin, with whom he was in love, Oct. 23, in Natasulga, Ala. Tbe defense attempted to show that Armstrong was irresponsible by reason of excessive drinking. The. State proved that Armstrong, the day before the murder, wrote a note - to his mother announcing his inten tion of killing his counsin and him- - self. Armstrong is a son of the late H. Clay Armstrong, once United States consul to Rio Janerio, and twice speaker of the Alabama house of representatives. Long Staple Upland Cotton. Secretary Wilson says satisfactory results are recorded with the hybird or long staple upland cottons and ex tensive field tests are now under way, and if the result of the present sea son's work is satisfactory seed will be grown for distributions. Indicationis at the present stage of experiments also favor the belief that we shall soon have varieties -of Egyptain cotton adapted to cultivation in this coun try. At present we pay Egyptian growers $7,530,000 annually -for their cottons. There were others. The Anderson Mail says this story is being told in that city: A young man had been vainly ringing the tele phone for some time. Finally when "central" answered his ring, he asked: "What in the world is the matter? I have been trying to catch you for an hour." "Oh, that's nothing," replied a sofT voice in the 'phone. "Another young man in town has been trying to catch me for nearly two years and he hasn't succeeded yet." Killed on the Rail. A young man by the - name of Lawry, in attempting to beat a ride from Catawba to his home at Monroe, N. C., fell from the train and a part of his head and skull was found on the track and his body nearby the next morning. This happened near Oseola in Lancaster County, about 11 o'clock at night.