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voL. xvmUi. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 16 A GOOD EXAMPLE. A Most Munificiet Bequest to the City Schools of Columbia. ALSO TO THE CITY HOSPITAL. The Late Charles Logan, of Columbia. Remembered the City of His Adoption in His Will. By zle will of the late Charles Lo gan te city of Columbia receives legacies aggregating no lessthan S60, 000. The Columbia bospital and St. Peter's Catholic church each receive $5,000. The document was admitted to probite Tuesday afternoon, and this wt s the tirst opportunity for verificat ion of rumors whiich have been afloat ft r several days. The State says shortly after Mr. Logan's death The State was told that the city would receive from bis estate quite a large amount for the erection of additional school build ings. The relatives of Mr. Logan declared that the will had not been opened and the attorney, Mr. R. W. Shand, declined to talk as it would not have been becoming in him to du so. The contents of the document were not known until late Wednes day afternoon when Mr. Sha-id was handed the will with instructions to have it filed in the probate court. The legacy to the city schools is not available at once, not until after the death of Mrs. Logan. This will in clude four acres of the race track at the fair grounds and $40,000 in money, The -legacy to the hospital is avail able at once. There is another be quest of $9,000 which is to be used by the city for the prevention of cruelty to animals. This shows the trend of mind of the late Mr. Logan, wpho was a lover of animal life. The legacy for the public schools is found in the last of the three codicils appended to the original will. The tract of land is worth not less than $10,000. Thesa items in the codicil read as follows: LEGACY FOR THE SCHOOLS. "I give and devise unto and to the use of said 'The City of Columbia' and its successors, after the death of my wife, four acres of my race course tract of land on Elmwood avenue in the city of Columbia, the said four acres to be so laid off as to be bounded by the present northern boundary line of said city, east by W. A. Clark, south by Elmwood avenue and west by a straight line drawn at right angles with Elmwood avenue and the northern boundary line of the city. In trust, nevertheless, that the city of Columbia and its successors will devote the same to the following uses and purposes exclusively, that is to say; the said devised four acres on Elmwood avenue shall be used for a public school as hereafter provided for, and for school grounds appurten ant thereto, upon which four acres the city of Columbia shall erect or cause to be erected within three years after my wife's death (or if she. pre deceases me then within three years after my death) a proper building for a public school, elementary or high, to be named 'Logan schoolP or, 'Logan High scnooP' as the case may be, and shall cause within the same time a school with teachers to be opened therein for pupils, which shall be free and open without chage to white children of said city under the laws and regulations governing the free public schools of said city, and to which other white children may be admitted apon such terms as may be prescribed by the p-oper authorities of said school." "I give and bequeath to the said city of Columbia after the death of my wife the sum of $40,000 in trust to expend the same in erecting or caus ing to be erected on the land devised in Item 3 of this codicil the said 'Lo gan school' or 'Logan High school.' " item 5 declares that if the city does not fultill the conditions, the property will revert to the estate. FOR Hl7tAITr's SAKE. In this same codicil, dated June 23, 1903, is found the following item: "I give and bequeath to the city of Columbia, a municipal corporation of the State of South Carolina, the sum of $9,0C0 in trust to invest the same and use the income therefrom as in their judgment seems best in enforc ing within the corporate limits of said city the laws of the State and the ordinances of the city in relation to cruelty -to animals. If the city of Columbia refuses and fails within a reasonable time to accept the trust hereby imposed upon it, then the said sum of $9,000 shall pass as a portion of my residuary estate." The concluding paragraph of the third codicil is as follows: "Out of the residue and rest of my estate I direct the following legacies to be paid: To St. Peter's lRoman Catholic church of Columbia, S. C., to the Columbia hospital of Columbia, S. C., to Dick Keenan of Columbia, S. C., and to Mrs. Mary Braslaw of Ne w York, $5,000 each; to the two daugh ters of said Mrs. Mary Braslaw, $2,500 each; to George, Keenan, Thomas Boyne, Mrs. E. H. Boyne, Mrs. Sarah Alexander and my nephew, Charley Graham, all of Columbia, $1,000 each. And all the residue of my estate I give devise and bequeath in two equal shares, one share to my brother James Logan, or if he be dead to' his issue living at the time of my death, per sturpes, and one share to the issue of my sister, Mary Cassady, per sturpes, living at the time of my death," The original will was written July 29, 1886, and was witnessed by G. Stork, Jno. G. Friday and Sam D. Friday. Those who were named as executors were his wife, Mrs. Louisa D. Logan, Col. James H. Rion o1 Winnsboro, Frank Ehrlich and James S. Graham of Columbia. Mr. Logar ontlived many of those named as wit nesses- The original paper was amend ed by three codiCils.. $50,000 FOR HIs WIFE. Hie leaves to his wife the residence at the corner of Senate and Assembl3 streets, including 1 1-3 acres, and $50.. 000 in bonds for her support through out her natural life. At her deatt the residue of the $50,000 is to reverl to the estate. A fter thus providing for his wife he directs his executors as soon as prac ticable to sell all the remainder of his real and personal estate and convert into assets and after payment of costs of administration and $1,500 for his own monument to expend the net bal ance as directed. The brother and the sister of the deceased will be beneficiaries largely. It is impossible to learn just how valuable is the estate, but it is gen erally regarded to be about $200,000 to $250.000, and the relatives in the "old country" will inherit the bulk of this after Mrs. Logan herself has been provided for. In the original will be leaves to "my brother James Logan of Meencargagh, near Castlederge, County Tyrone, Ireland, $5,000," and the same amount to the issue of his sister, Mary Cassady, who lived in the same place. The deceased also provided for Chas. Logan and Jennie Logan of Chicago. nephew and neice of the late Charles Logan. They are to receive $50) a year each from the income from the rent of the three residences on the north side of Blanding street close by the Palmetto engine house. Charles and Jennie Logan are also to receive, share and share alike, the legacy of $5,000 intended for Sarah Gormley of county Tyron, provided that legatee should die without issue. The other features of the will are of a personal nature except the fact that he names as his executors Mrs. Louisa D. Logan, Jennie Logan, Edward Ehrlich and T. H. Meighan. He directs them to keep his property in sured and in good repair. Caught in the Act. - A dispatch from Trenton to The State says on Tuesday afternoon of last week Miss Sue Penn, the assistant postmistress, left the office to carry over a registered package to the train which stops in front of the office at the tank. While she w.L absent a young negro boy who goes by the name of Pete Tillman, went around to the rear. of the office, raised the sash and jumped in. Realizing that his work must be done quickly or his busi ness would no longer be kept a secret, he made no delay in getting to the safe and was just in the act of taking therefrom its valuable contents when he was surprised to see Mr. C. Ward, one of the rural carriers, step in. Mr. Ward gave him a very cordial invita tion not to be in a hurry to get away, so Pete decided to remain awhile. They went to see the magistrate, who thought it a deed worthy of notice by one of Uncle Sam's officers and now they are waiting until Friday when they will appear before Uncle Sam's representative to see whether Pete had any right to inspect the safe. He Murdered Her. It became known recently that the leading female dancer at the Metrop olis theatre, Fraulein Frieda Boelke, was murdered at a hotel in Cologne, December 2, by Ferdinand Tessier, a manufacturer of machinery at Vichy, France, who had several times been nationlist candidate for member of the cbamber of deputies. They were engaged to be married and had dined together at the hotel and quarreled in a private sitting room because the woman had looked too frequently, Tessier thought, at another man in the dining room. He tried to chloro form the dancer, but she was a strong woman and pushed him off. Tessier then took a hatchet, which he had concealed about him, and struck the woman once ineffectually and then stabbed her~fatally three times with a dagger. The hotel people heard the struggle an'de rushed to the spot, whereupon Tessier, with his back to the door, shot and killed himself. To Cartail Spinning. A resolution providing for a nation al meeting of all cotton mill men in the United States and the formation of a -plan for curtailment of cotton manufacturing was adopted at the conference of cotton mill men recently held in Charlotte N. C. The resolu tion, as adopted, provides for the naming of a "committee of fifteen delegates from the conference in ses sion now, to meet in Washington; that Southern, Northern and New England manufacturers be invited to appoint similar committees and that these joint committees formulate a feasible plan, looking to the curtail to the curtailment of production throughout the United States, and that this joint committee immediate ly issue a call for a national. meeting of manufacturers at such date and places as they may agree upon." The Democrats Win. Willimantic, Conn., elected a full Democratic ticket Wednesday for the first time in ten years. Oscar 0. Tan ner was chosen Mayor, and two-thirds of the Democratic candidates for the City Council were elected. The fact that Norwich, New London, Norwalk. Bridgeport, Hartford, Ansonia and Derby have gone Democratic at their last elections has alarmed the Repub lican party managers, who fear that the sweeping gains at the city clec tions may be the forerunners of Demo cratic victory at the State and na tional elections next year. .Did Not Mind It. When Daniel Webster's niarket man had sued him for a long unpaid bill and got his money he was so scared at his temerity that he stopped calling at the door for orders. Webster asked him why. one day, and the man con fessed that he supposed Mr. Webster would never trade with him again. "Oh," said Webster, "sue me as often as you like, but for heaven's sake don't starve me." There was never a time when the great man was not willing to owe as mnch as anybody was will ing to let him owe. Kilied by Train. Chas. B. Johnson, aged 33, acting as Breakeman, was run over and kill ed by a car in the Southern freight yard in Columbia on Tuesday. He leaves two prphan girls aged four and nine, his wife having died two years ago. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Perfectly Natural. The Augusta Chronicle says it was very natural that William J. Bryan .sould make a favorable impression among influential people in Great Britain. He is a man of commanding presence, quiet dignity, splendid ad Idress, and one who can say well what he has to say. SOME PLAIN TALK. Fraud and Mismanageme -t of Large Sums of Money IN THE OLYMPIA MILLS MATLTER. It Is Alleged that the Directors Voted Themselves a Million Dollars Worth of Mill Stock Free of Cost. The petition of Leonard Phirzy et al. of Augusta vs. the Olympia Cst .n Mills et. al. of Columbia, which was tled in the United States court f'or South Carolina a little over a month ago, has developed into two cases witi' several interventions in which tie president of the Olympia Mills. the Granby and the Richland Mills, all o' Columbia. and the board of direct:;ors. are charged with fraud and misman agement of the funds of the mills. The petition of the two Augusta plaintiffs sets out substantially that in 1889 the board of directors cf te Granby and Richland Cotton Miils was composed of W. B. Smith Whaley as president and W. A. Clark, vice president; Wm. H. Lyles, Wo. B. Childs, Geo. A. Shields, Wm. B. Low rence, Robert W. Shand, J. Sutter Moore, and W. H. Rose; that in 1899, about July or August, this board en tered into a scheme for their own per sonal benefit and advantage and protit to obtain a charter for and to erect the Olympia Cotton Mills, whici this board obtained as promoters without any cost to themselves practically all the stock of the new mill, and in which they secretly and fraudulently diverted the assets of the '-ranby and Richland Mills into assets of the new mill, with which they would build and equip the new mill with the money so diverted and such money as they could obtain from the public by thds bolstering up the credit of the new mill, enabling them to realize fir themselves profits from the new mill which they would cause to be issued to themselves and thus have control and management of the new mill. The charter for the Olympia mills was obtained on August 3, 1899 with a capital stock of $1,500,000. The Phinzy petition charges that the statements issued in July a show ing was made that the Richland mills had a surplus of $125,000 and the Granby a surplus of $250,000 and charges that the board of directors diverted this surplus from the two mills into the Olympia mill common stock; that W. B. Smith Whaley was voted $300,000 worth of common stock of the Olympia mill for valuable ser vices in purchasing machinery, for which service he was receiving a sal ary of $20,000 a year as president. They further charge that 8750,000 preferred stock was issued and sold; that $750,000 in debenture certificates were issued for the purchase of ma chinery. They set out that in this way $1,875,000 was raised with which to build the Olympia mill, and that the $1,000,000 in common stock wbich they charge has been voted to the board of directors, was issued and voted to them without a cent having ever been paid for it. Is is declared that when the $750,000 preferred stock was issued a statement was made that the $1,000,000 in common stock had been paid into the treasury when, as a matter of fact, none of it ad been paid in. The details of the issue of common stock, wnich they contend was voted fraudulently- to the board of dirctors is described as follows: That W. 'B. S. Whaley purchased a piece of land in his own name and sold it to the corporation for 875,000 in common stock of the company as a bonus oD the purchase. That 8300,000 of the common stock was voted to Whaley for valuable services as above described and from refraining from accepting from the sellers a secret commission for himself on the pur chase.. That 8125.000 par value of the common stock was issued to a "syndicate" composed of the bzard ofi directors and Carey, Bayne & Srnita. a commission concern of Baltimore. That the $125,000 common stock s;o issued to this dirm was secured by tnle notes of that firm, which they believe ave never been paid. Tuat $25),000 common stock was af ter ward issued to the Granby and $125,000 of the same stock issued to the Richland milis. That a.fter the stock was so issued it was divided among the directors and syndicate so that now the holdings of the Olympia common stock is as fol lows: W. B. Smith Whaley... 432,000 Carey, Bane & Smith.. .... 157,000 J. S. Moore. trustee.. .....100,000 W. A. Clark............. 83000 J. S. Moore.. .. ....... ... 23,000 W. H. Rose.............. 25,000 Geo. A. Shields.... .. ..... 1,000 W. G. Childs...... ...... 23000 W. B. Lowrance.. ...... ..1,000 W. H. Lyles.............. 15,000 Rebt. H. Shand .... .... ... 15,000 John E. Carey .... .... .... 31,000 Tunstall Smith........... 31,000 Mrs. Isabell Whaley... .. ...5,000 $1,000,000 That in addition to this it is shown that preferred stock is held by the di. rectory as follows: W. B. S. Whaley... .... .84100.00 W. A. Clark............... 40,000 W. H. Rose.............. 5,000 - 8455,000 OThat parts of this stock was issued without valid consideration and as a bonus. The petitions contend that before the first preferred stock was sold a special meeting was held on No0 vemtber 9, 1901, when a binding reso ltion was adopted by which it was agreed and stipulated that no first morgage bonds were to be issued standing before this stock and it wae on this understanding that Mr. Phini zy bought $15,000 worth of the first preferred stock of the Olympia mills, and Mrs. Alice Hull bought $8,000 ~worth of it. In defiance of this contract, a meet ing of the directors was called, they having the majority of voting power, on November 14, and an issue of 81, 750.000 six per cent. first mortgage gold bonds voted. The thi-d holder of the preferred stock of the Olympia is a Mr. Aldermen, of South Carolina. The petition was filed in Charles ton, asking that a receiver be ap poineddeclrin tht ithadbee discovered the mill was insolvent, and a restraining order issued against the issue of bonds. This order was tem porarily granted and two receivers appointed. The statement comes from there that subsequently repre sentation was made to Judge Simon ton that the appointment of a receiv er at that time would involve other businesz institutions of Columbia, and the order was recinded, while in its stead an order was issued to show cause why the prayer of the petition should not be granted. Saturday Marion Irwin, of the firm of Irwin & Callaway, filed a joint suit in the same court, setting out prac tically the same as in the Phinizy pe tition. except that this firm is repre seriting Pauline H. Dearing and Eu geria A. Dearing. of Athens, as stock ooi-rs of the Granby mill and is seeknr to secure the restorati-n of S250.U') wbich was subscribed to the :apitl stock of the Olympia mill. It is also stated that other inter ventions have been filed for the Coil Pipe dompany, of Hartford Conn.. and for Heyward et al.. and in one of the petitions the Baltimore Trust and Guaranty Company,' of Baltimore, Md., as trustees for the bond holders, have been made party defendants. The Phinizy petition was set for hearing on December 14, but since the tiling of the petition by Marion Irwin a motion has been made to set the hearing of both cases on the same day, December 21. A Sad Ending. This sad story is related by the New York American: "Bedelia"' was the swan song for pretty Lizzie Worth Thursday. Humming the words of the popular melody she placed a bottle of carbolic acid to her lips and ended her life in the rear room of a Harlem saloon. Lizzie Worth's life of twenty years was not one to be proud of. She had no home or no parents that any one knew of. Drenched by the storm and wearied of life, she entered a barroom at One Hundred and Twenty-first street and Lexington avenue. The bartender and several patrons heard the fami liar strains of "Bedelia" issuing from the little room in the rear. Then there was a crash. They hastened into the back room and found her in the last throes of death. Even then broken snatches of the song issued from her acid-scarred lips. Lizzie Worth was dead when a physician arrived. Her body will go to the Potter's field. A Family Burnt Up. Nearly a whole family perished in the flames that destroyed a dwelling at Clarksburg, N. J., Wednesday morning. Clayton Fowler, 42 years old, his wife, 36 years old, and their four children, aged respectively 16 years, 13 years, two years, and si-x montbs, lived in the house, which was a two-story frame building. The blaze started on the lower floor and when the family awoke the whole lower part af the house was in flames. The olest child, a boy, jumped from the second story window and escaped with slight bruises, but Mr. and Mrs. Fowler were either afraid to iump or were overcome by smoke before they could reach a window and they and the three other children were burned .to death. ihied Praying. Kneeling with her hands together in prayer in St. Vincent Ferrer's Ro man Catholic Church, New York City, an elderly woman died Thursday afternoon. Father T. Hyacinth Justa, who was at his deviations at the altar, heard heavy breathing. The only person he could see was a woman who was, apparently, praying fer vently in the last pew but one from the rear. He walked hurriedly to her and touched her on the shoulder. She took no notice, and, raising her up to a sitting posture, ne found that she was unconscious. He summoned a doctor, but the woman was dead when he arrived. Apoplexy was the cause. nisb.onest Bank Officers. Jamecs M. Edge, alias James Kane, was ;arresed at Memphis, Tenn., 1.ast week, charged witc embezzling a large sum of money, said to be about $1000, from the First National b wk of Paterson, N. J. Edge has' oeen in Memphis several months and his arrest was made at the instance of the assistant superintendent of a New York detective agency. The de tectives state that Edge admits his identity and confessed that his pecu lations amounted to $100,000. He helid the position of note teller in the Pat erson bank and disappeared from there three years ago. Edge, it is said, claims to have lost the money in turf speculations. Killed Himself'. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch to the Atlanta Journal says while brood ing over his serious losses inflicted up on the White Commission Company by the alleged embezzlement of F. B. Wellons, who is under arrest, J. P. Dawson, one of the largest stock holders, and said to have been one of the strongzest witnesses in the prose cution of Wellons, took morphine with suicidal intent late Wednesday after noun and died from the effects-of the drug. Wellons gave bond, which was signed by some of the most prominent men in Birmingham. The suicide of Dawson following the release of We lons on bail, caused the greatest ex citement here. Will Have to pay. At Union on Monday the property of Larkin M. Rice, colored, was adver tised under a judgement obtained at the last term of Court by a colored woman, who sued Rice for the breach of a promis.e of marriage, and got a verdict for $2,500. Rice appeared and claimed his homestead, which re sulted in a postponement of the sale. The property is located in the town of Carlisle and is of some value. Office Taken Away. Governor Hleyward Friday took away the oifice of notary public from several holders for violation of the conidence imposed in them. Those affected were S. E. Rivers, of Beau fort, G. P. McChiry, of Charleston, A. W. Brown, of Beaufort, J. E. Sher ard, of Georgetown, and Peter Wat son, of Beaufort. The above named had committed crimes and been sen tence to imprisonment. THE MESSAGE. Synopsis of What the President Had to Say to Congress. HE SPEAKS OF ALL MATTERS Relating to the Advancement and Progress of the United States and Her Relations With Other Nations. The annual message of President Roosevelt, which was read to both bouses of the Fifty-eighth congress today, comprises fifteen thousand words, beina estimated a* over eleven columns of printed matter. The mesiage, as transmitted to congress, deals principally with the isthmian canal, the repudiation of the canal treaty by Colo'mbia, the revolution in Panama an I the conse quential course of the United States in relation to the isthmian embroglio. The recent postal frauds, public land frauds, the creation of the de partment of labor and commerce form a specific portion of the message. The president recommends addi tional enactments in regard to these newly instituted departments, stating that the department of commerce and labor will be for fair and equita ble control and adjustmer:t of all la bor and capital; ssensions. Strict economy in national exgenditures is emphasized, the surplus of expendi tures for the year T903 being the basis for the president's recommendation. Needs of the financial situation is discussed, but the president express ing his opinion that it will be unwise and unnecessary to attempt at the present time a reconstruction of the entire monetary system. Additional facilities for merchant marine are urged. The necessity of an immigration bureau by which undesirable immi grants shall be kept out entirely is mentioned. Attention is called to the naturali zation frauds, which have been perpe trated in the United States, reveal ing a condition of affairs which calls for the immediate attention of con gress. The extension of purposes for ap propriation for enforcing trust and interstate commerce laws is recom mended. The of more effective treaties mak ing the crime of bribery extradictable is urged. The result of the Alaskan boundary decision is satisfadtory in every way. The settlement of the claims of Russia and Anstria against Venezuela by international arbitration is com mended, and the advancement of the cause of international arbiration urged. - The exemption of private property at sea from capture by beligerent powers is recommended. The meeting of the inter-parliamen tary union for international arbitra tion at St. Louis in 1904 is commend ed. The friendly relations with Turkey and the commercial treaty with Chi na, which have resulted in several gains for the United States, is ap proved. The recommendation of a reduction in cost of maintaining consular service is requested. The extension of rural free delivery service is praised. An additional ap propriation and facilities are recom mended. The policy of building good roads is approved. The favor of congress towards the Louisiana Purchase exposition is asked. The judicial development of re sources of the Alaskan territory is ur gently recommended. The complete vestment of pokver in the governor of Hawaii in regard to state affairs is endorsed. Tariff benetits for the Philippine possessions are urged. The preservatioa of forest reserves receives special mention. The brunmpt enactment of Instant remedial legislation to prevent the damage by boll weevil is :requested. The necessty of enlarging the safe ty appliances on railroads is endorsed. The extension of civil service rules is requested. The effect of recent laws providing for a general staff of the army and for the more effective servic of the na tional guard is strongly commended. Recommending that the govern ment should secure permanent camp sites for military manoeuvers in the various sections of the country the president recites the beuetits which would be secured by these tactics. A system providing a method for pro .otion from grade to grade in the army upon the standing and promo tion of the officers is urged. The progress of the upbuilding of the navy is commended, with the urging of an additional increasese in ships and seamen. The~ establishment of a naval base in the Phili ppine Islands is demand ed. The provision of a naval general staff on lines similar to those of the army is requested. The message reviews the relations of tbe United States government. to the matter of transit across the isth mus of Panama, going into detail in regard to the different decisions of court tribunals relative thereto. In his message the prssident states that the question before congress Is not by which route the isthmian ca nal will be built, but whether or not we will have an isthmian canal. The United' States' relations with Colombia is declared to be just, con sidering the manner in which that government repudiated the treaty.. The stand taken by the United States in the Panma-Colombia revolu tion is declared to have been justified, the control by the United States of means of undisturbed transit across the isthmus being of vital importance to the United States. ' The treaty offered by the new re public of Panama to the United States is commended and endorsed in every detail, "it being in terms better than the treaties offered to us by the republics of Nicarauga and Costa Rica." The provisions of the treaty with Panama are of benefit to the United Setae in every ceunse and the TUnited States enjoys within the granted limits all the rights, power an au thority over the canal which it would possess were It the sovereign of the territory to the exclusion of sovereign rights by the republic. GRAND LODGE MASONS. Election of Officers for the Ensuing Year and Their Installation. The Most Worshipful grand lodge A. F. M. of South Carolina held its annual meeting in Charleston during the pass week. The attendance was large and the reports indicated growth. The members were the re cipients of a very pleasant entertain ment, also a trip to the Isle of Palms and excursion out to the jetties. At the election of officers, there was but one contest, that of junior grand war den, and James R. Johnson, of Charles ton, was elected on the first ballet over three competitors. The following grand officers will serve for the ensuing year as a resust of the selections: M. W., Bro. John R. Bellinger, of Bamberg, grand master. R. W., Bro. F. E. Harrison, M. D., of Abbeville, deputy grand master. R. W., Bro. J. L. Michie. of Darl ington, senior grand warden. R. W., Bro. James R. Johnson, of Charleston, junior grand warden. R. W.. Bro. Zimmerman Davis, of Charleston, grand treasurer. R. W., Bro. Charles Inglesby, of Charleston, grand secretary. R. W., Bro. Wm. E. Thayer, of Rock Hill, grand chaplain. After installing the new officers the lodge was called off at 11:15 p. m., until the next annual communication. which, by, the usual resolution, will be held in Charleston on the second Tuesday in December, 1904. The appointive officers were: Senior Grand Deacons-Bro. J. P. Duckett, of Anderson, and Bro. J. F. Kinney, of Marlboro. Junior Grand Deacons-Bro. John C. Watkins, of Anderson; Bro. A. L. Barton, of Charleston. Grand Marshal-Bro. John Kenner ly, of Edgefield. Grand Pursuivant-Bro. Wm. Murchison, of Marion. Grand Stewards -Bro. C. B. Roper, of Laurens; Bro. M. H. Sandifer, of Rock Hill. Grand Tiler-Bro Wm. A. Winkler, of Charleston. The following are the district deputy-grand masters: First district-Bro. W. G. Mazyck.. Second-Bro. E.-C. B. Mule. Third-Bro. J. A. Jenkins, of Barn well. Fourth -Bro. Wm. A. Giles, of Graniteville. Fifth-Bro. J. B. Haltiwanger, of Edgefield. Sixth-Bro. G. C. Walton, of Ander son. Seventh-Bro. J. K. Hood, of Anderson. Eighth-Bro. R. T. Jaynes, of Wal halla. Ninth-Bro. A. S. Rowell, of Pied mont. Tenth-Bro. Harvey H. Anderson, of Tucapau. Eleventh-Bro. R. M. Gaffney, of Gaffney. Twelfth-Bro, J. T. Darwin, of Blacksburg. Thirteenth-Bro. J. E. McDonald, of Winnsboro. Fourteenth-Bro. Bartow Walsh, of Sumter. .Fifteenth-Bro. J. Harleston Read, of Georgetown. Sixteenth-Bro. Win. E. James, of Darlington. Seventeenth-Bro. C. S. Chaffn, of Bennettsville. Eighteenth-Bro. W. L. Glaze, of Orangeburg. GANBING RUINS TWO LIVES. A Game of Cards Ends in a Deplora ble Tragedy. A dispach from Spartanburg to The State says Albert Dearman, a young white man, was shot Friday evening in a gambling room on the second fioor of L. Rteibling's building, at the corner of Church street and Kenned~y Place, by Albert Thoir.son of Spartan burg. The young men were engaged in playing stud polker and Dearmnan accused Thomson of "ringing in" a separate deck of cards. - The lie was exchanged and Thom son produced a pistol and fired one shut, the ball entering the- abdomen of Dearman, inficting, in all proba bility, a fatal wound. Thomson dis appeared immediately after the shoot ing, but was subsequently arrested by Chief of Police Dean at the home of his mother on South Church street. He is in the city station house. When seen there he :declined.- to make any statement whatever in regard to the matter. He has secured as counsel Mr. H. L. Bomnar. Medical aid reached Dear man a short while after he was shot. and the wounded man was carried to sleeping apartments In the building next to the gaming room. The phy sicians ministered to his sufferings, and several hours later he was carried to the home of his parents in the West End section. Late in the night the physicians will endeavor to ex tract the ball from his.- stomach. They regard his condition as exceed ligly grave. Dearinan is a member of a well-. known family here, his father being one of the oldest contractors in the city. Thomson .Is a member-of one Spartanburg's leading families. He has not been engaged in any line of work for some years past. Both the principals of the tragic event are very young men, Thomson being about 20 and Dearmuan about 22 years of age. A Big Loss. The barn and stables, with five bales of cotton and six mules and a quantity~ of' feed, belonging to Jack C. Cox of Youngs township, Laurens county, were burned one night last week. The loss was $1,500, with no insurance. Had to Pay. The supreme court has decided that the Spartan mills in Spartan burg must pay back taxes; that the city had no right to exempt them prior to the adoption of the 1895 con stitution. A special referee will ad jiaet the a~mount due. WANTS LEVER'S SEAT. Dautzler Files Formal Notice. Case is Now Being Heard. Formal notice that Representative Lever's seat in the house would be contested has been filed by Dantzler's attorneys and the evidence has been filed before the congressional commit tee on contests. This evidence was taken in Columbia and elsewhere in the district before a referee some time ago, as was the statement by Mr. Lever's attorneys and there is little doubt that the evidence of Dantzler will be thrown out, but he will be allowed 83,000 by congress for con tests. In the protest by Dantzler -he says tfat his constituents .were not allowed to vote and that those that bad registration certificates wkere turned down on legal technicalities. It is also alleged by several Republi cans that in Columnbia they were noz given due notice of the election and that no opportunity was given them to express their choice for Dantzler although Lever's attorneys have affi davits from the supervisor of registra tion showing that these same men are not even registered. However, Dantz ler will get $3,000,' the conLest fee as will Prileau, another negro of Char leston, who wants Mr. Geo. S. Le gare's seat. Prileau is now out of jail on bail, the charge being that he tampered with the mails while postal clerk and will be tried in Columbia at. the next sitting of the court in Jan uary. A dispatch from Washington to The State says: Representative Lev er's contested election case came up Monday before election com-nittee No. 1. This is the second time Mr. Lever has been called on to defend himself in a contested election case, both times the contestant being a cornfield darkey named Dantzler. Dantzler is contesting the election on the ground that the suffrage laws in South Carolina are unconstitutional and therefore the elections there are illegal. National interest centres in this case of Representative Lever for the reason that the entire principle-ofuf frage qual-fications in the southern States, like North and South Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi is involved. There is some uneasi ness at the action of Speaker Cannon in referring the case to election com mittee No. 1. This committee holds the record for having unseated more men in congress than any other com mittee. At its head is Representa tive Mann of Illinois, who takes a peculiar delight in defending the negro against what he claims is the maltreatment he receives in the south. DOWN GOES WAGES. Eightv Thousand Cotton Xill Opera tives Work for Lesb Pay. A dispatch from Boston, Mass., says the wages of 15,000 cotton mill opera tives were reduced about 10 per cent last week in New Bedford, Fitchburg, Baltic, Conn., Taftville, Conn., Fish ville, Mass., and Pawtucket, R. I. The total number of mill hands who have had their pay lowered up to the present time is about 80,000.. Five thousand additional operatives in Berkshire county were given notice that their pay will be cut next week. Most of the mills which have partici pated in the ot to date follow the course of the Fall River schedule adopted on November 30th. About 12,000 of the employes affected by last week's cut are employed in New Bedford mills. There is much uncertainly in this section as to the fnture conduct of the mills, and while the operatives are willing to submit to the reduc tion rather than be idle they do not know just what will transpire within the next few weeks. According to some reports a majority of the mills have cotton on hand, but it is known tbat the supply is limited. With the high price of the staple spinners de clare that they cannot manufacture withgut serious loss, and the general! feeling is that if the operat:.ves shoula take tue initiative and go on a strike the plants in this section would shait down indefinitely. The statemeat was made last week by one of the pro minent mill presidents that the reduc tion of waiges was to be regretted, but under existing conditions it was in evitable. Just what would happen in the event that the mills should close is difficult to realize. A famine would be almost sure to follow and the thou sands of operatives would face starva tion. .It is believed, however, tnat with the cut in the pay and by cur tailing production the mills will be aole to live through the present fin ancial troubles. . Boygraphs If the boy is treated like a gentle man at home be will act like a gentle man abroad. We feel awful sorry for the boy whose father has forgotton that he was once a little fellow. If a boy forgets his mother the chances ate that the reason may be ound in the example of the father. Some boys would be overjoyed to receive as much attention from their fathers as is bestowed on the family horses. As a general proposition the boy who is untruthful has been made so by being punished for telling the truth. If a boy finds a sympathetic listen er in his-father when be tells his boy ish troubles he seldom goes out on the streets to make confidants. A Terrible Death. At Dressan, Germany, Mrs. Fiss cher, a lion tamer, was torn to pieces and partly eaten alive by four pet lions. Her children saw her multila tion and death from a box. A great crowd - of spectators sat frozen with horror at the tragic spectacle. The woman was in an animal cage trying to make a lion spring through a hoop. He rebelled and she srtuck him with a whip. Infuriated he leaped upon her and disemboweled her at one stroke. The woman cried out but once before the three other lions join ed in the attack and fought for frag ments of her fiesh. There was a panie among the spectators, and many p~r sons were injured Assistants with iron rods and hooks dragged the animils from the mangled body. AFTER THE RASCALS.7 Even the Republicans Feel Outraged. at the Scandals AND THE EFFORT TO HIDE T . Senator Gorman Leads the Fight to Have all the Rascalities Aired in the Open Senate. A Washington dispatch to The Atlanta Journal says the postoffice' - scandals bad a preliminary airing In both the senate and house of repre ;entatives Wednesday when a resoln tion looking to a congressional in vestigation was introduced. Senator Gorman led the fight in the senate for an investigation and- he took the language of the president's message as a text for a terrific pound ing of the department corruption. Senator Lodge, inspired by a white house conferencz, opposed. the in vestigation, bat his arguments were completely shattered by Gorman's caustic allusions to the corruption in the department and the burning desire of the public to get at the facts, which have to date been barely hint ed at. There is a deeper motive in the Democratic debate than appears-on he surface. It is apparent In several references made to the Cuban scan dals that an attempt will be made to repen in the senate a discussion of that late malodorous condition and eneral Leonard Wood's - connection with it. The purpose is to drag the Wood in estigation from the secret meetings f the military affairs committee Into the open senate and ventilate it there-? from top to bottom. The plan ny marry and the country may yeth xll the details of the Wood int bion through a senate debate. If this plan does succeed and It saidt6be favored by some 9f the I - uential Republican senators wbo are )pposed to the elevation of 5here is little doubt but the P ent's appoi:itment of Wood will fail f confirmation. Already there are utterings of a storm breaking over he high handed proceeding of Senator Lodge and the president. in construing recess of congress between the extra . ession and the regular session where ao recess existed in fact. By -this :onstruction - the president was en ibled to make a recess appointment of Wood, which gives that officer a salary grab in addition to the rank of major eneral while the case is pending-ln4 the senate. Many senators, who- w unfavorable to Wood's confirmation " before the regular session began, are now exceedingly angry at the inde.-. 3ent perversion of an actual fact by Lodge and Roosevelt merely to allow a lavorite a salary grab. When the resolution for the In estigation of the postoffice frauds :ame up in the senate Thursday Mr. orman took the floor and strongly >pposed the reference to a committee Df the resolution. He declared that the majority should not shrink froi .n investigation. He said there had been positive assertions that men who bad 'anlawfully placed emploves on he rolls were to escape. Mr. Gorman said fraud and corrup tion were admitted and communicat d to the senate b~y the president. -He said the country was not satisfied with the investigation nor was the senate. Those who had been accused had said thers higher up were as guilty as they, while they have been mnade scape goats. "Let us have all the. facts," said c Mr. Gormnan, "and see If the presi dent will turn the rascals out." - Mr. Lodge, who made a motion-to refer the resolution, stated that what Mr. German said only further con vinced him that the resolution should be referred. The investigation made under order of the president, he be lieved, bad brought out all the facts. Tere was a mass of evidence In the departnent awaiting an order of the senate for priniting. Mr. Lodge said that as to the in sinu.tions against higher oificials, It was well known that the postmster general and the fourth assistant post master general had made every effort to get all the facts and it would be well for the senate first to examine the evidence to see if the Investiga tion had been thorough. Mr. Cullomn cut short the discussion on the resolution by insisting that the Cuban -bill had the right 'of way. He Was Greased. Stark naked and covered with soap so that he could slip his whole body through a six-inch iron aperture that should have fiattened even his head, James Wilson, colored, a notori os prisoner, escaped from his iron clad cell in the county jail at Lancas ter, Pa., Wednesday night. Then, with a carpet-rag rope he attempted to descend from the root, but his rope broke and he had a terriflic fall. He made good his escape, however, though In running the six-inch Iron gauntlet he had to remove from Its exterior a tall, sharp iron splike that was calculatald to tear him asunder after he had wriggled and squeezed thus far. ________ ?He Was F'ound. Edward F. Hoyt, who dissapeared two weeks iago from Atlanta leaving debts, it is charged, amounting to about $15,000, from whom a reward was offered by his creditors, was fono by detectives Wednesday evening In a negro cabin in the western part of the city. He had a well furnished room and bountiful supplies of food on hand. No money was found. but It is believ ed a large sum was hid out. The trunk, which was carried away, has. not yet been located The prisoner refused to talk, and It is believed by his friends he is mentally unbalan Work 0r Bad Boys. Miss Erline Sinclair, a nineteen year-old school teacher of Sullivan, Id., who was overpowered by her unruly pupils Wednesday, tied to a hog trough and placed foi- two hours i a -pond of icy water until only her head- was above the surface, swore out warrants for assault and battery aint six boys.