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VOL. XIV. . MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10,1905. NO. 33. AFRICAN 00T0ON. Claimed that It Can be Succes fully Grown rhere. SOME LARGE CLAIMS. An Undertaking Which it Is Said, Shows that Cotton Can Be Grown in Africa as Easily as in This Favored Section of the United States. Director of the Mint George E. Roberti has just receivEd a letter from Leigh Hunt, the noted Ameri can capitalist and explorer, swho is engaged in opening up an extensive area in the Soucan to the raising of cotton, in which Mr. Hunt says his experiments in the employment of American negroes in the Scudanese cotton fields have been successful. About a year ago, Mr. Hunt took a dozen skilled cotton growers from Tuskegee to Africa for the Purpose of testing their value in raising cot ton and his experiment attracted much notice at the time. He has de cided now to take over several times as many as in his original experiment. He arrived in New York a few days ago en route to Tuskegee and it was from New York be wrote Mr. Rob erts. He expects to reach Washirg ton in a short time, on his return from Tuskegee, and as be and Secre tary Wilson of the department of agriculture are great personal friends, he will doubtless have much t: say to the secretary and to the experts in cotton growing in the department, abeut the method of cotton raising pursued in the Soudanes3 region. Mr. Hunt writes Mr. Rcbarrs not only that he is pleased with the American negroes as cotton gr'wers, but that they themselves are greatly pleased with the climate and sur roundings into which they have been taken. His object in getting skilled American negroes is nut entirely on account of their own worth in the growing of cotton, but also to have them teach the Egyptian natives how to do this work. He will have this in mind in making his selections of the next list of tbose who are to ac company him on his return. He de sires to have negroes who have been technically educated in cotton grow ing and he will avail himself of the counsel of Booker T. Washington in getting men of the right srt. Of this experiment in transporting American negroes'to the Soudan, Mr. Hunt says: "Thus far there is certainly no cause for disappointment. The ne groes in our employ are technically educated men, good workers and their influence on the natives is the best. However, It looks as if the prevailing opinion that the Egyptian fellaheen is averse from migrating to the Upper Nile is wrong. If he does take kindly to the Soudan, it means that Lord Cromer's dream will be realized and the Soudan will become the outlet for the overflow of Egypt, in which event my colored ccuntrymen must meet a orceful rival." Mr. Hunt, as the result of the past gears's experience in the Upper Nile country, is convinced it has great ag ricultural possibilities. Sugar cane and cotton, he says, are certainties while wheat and barley may be de pended upon as far south as the Blue Nile. Tobacco is prohibited, although Mr. Hunt thinks the region Ideal for tobacco culture. Vegetables do well. but it will take time to determine what can be done with fruit. "Our experiments in cotton," says Mr. Hunt, "show a larger yield per acre then Egypt produces and quality quite up to the best American. Be sides the Egyptian varieties will do as well as in Egy pt if planted early, but early planting involves the question of water at low Nile, which is the problem of the future. Water is ev erything. The railway line connect ing Sheikh Barghu; on the Red Sea with Damner on the Nile will be com pleted in June, 1906, if no unexpected interruptions occur. Then the door which hitherto has been closed on that great country wiil swing wid2 open for the era of commercial peace and prosperity. It is doubtful if the full meaning of this new chapter ir the redemption of the Soudan is very generally understood ." Mr. Hunst nas traveled extensively in the far East and has large interestl in Korea. In fact, he went from .Xorea about the time the war wai beginning and went to Egypt in pur suance of an arrangement with the Soudanese government to superintenc cotton growing on a large tract be tween Berber and Suakin which he bought from the government. On ac. count of his personal familiarity withk the conditions at the seat of war, Mr. Hun.t's ideas on the subject are valua. ble. He says the after results of i1 will be valuable for all nations bul Germany. That country among out side influences, be savs, is regar ded af second only to the Ruisso-Chines bank in bringing it about. Japar will readily forgive France, for shi looks on France as an honerable and chivalrous ally of Russia, but she wil never forgive the meddling of Ger many. The success of Japanese arm: means new anci better life to Kore; and China, Mr. Hunt bielieves. Nov that Japan knows her strength, h' says, she will give to her neighbor strong guiding hand, which will mea; that "China's superb natural resource: and incomprehensible wealth an< power of her cheap labor are factor: to be reckoned with in the future With her extensive iron and coal de posits and cheap labor you ca.n safel; count on rapidi progres. I do not iu the least believe in the yellow pern unless it be the synonym of progres In China. But why sbould the pros perity of China be sacridced to satisf the indecision of the puwers? .Jana nese progress seems to point to peac rather than war, for there is itt] doubt that the future controllin combination of the world will t England. France, Italy and Japal As for the United States, we shall have our bands full at home looking after our Socialists unless our repub. lie rides safely through the storm that is now gathering. The impor tant issue here is simply this: Shall a few rich men, by and with the con sent of the senate, dominate the United States, or shall PreRident Roosevelt by and with the help of the people prevail in his fight against corporate greed?" GEN. FITZHUGH LEE. The Northern Papers Speak Highly of the Dashing Cavalryman. The death of Fitzhugh Lee is the occasion for the expression of sympa thetic and appreciative opinion in the press of the northern and eastern States. Without exception, as far as we have seen, these papers have gen erously availed themselves of an op portunity to speak magnanimously and justly of the dashing Confederate cavalry leader who recognized no enemy save those under a hostile flag. It was natural that the attitude of Fitzhugh Lee should appeal strongly to the best sentiment of the north as it did to the best sentiment of the south. It was the attitude of a gal lant fighter, who does his best and, at the end of the struggle, returns as gallantly to the tasks of peace-tasks made more difficult by defeat and loss In assuming this courageous position, however, he was not the leader, as one might infer from reading the eu logies of him in the northern press. He followed the lofty precept and ex ample of his uncle, Robert E Lee, and in this State the course advised by that great chieftain bad already been adopted by Gen. Wade Hamp ton, who, indeed, needed no counsel in any path of honor, of courage, or of right conduct. In praising Fitzhugh Lee's attitude, therefore, the praise must be accepted, in principle, for other leaders of the south in war and in peace. The New York Times said of Fitz. hugh Lee, the day he died, but before it knew of his death: "There is no man in the south, and no man in the United States, who contributed more than Fitzhugh Lee to form, after the division of the Civil war, a more per fect union" In an appreciation of Lee, the Phil adelphia Public Ledger, after speak ing of the "very important part played by this patriotic man and competent administrator in the era of reconstrue tion," said: Cleveland acted with great spirit and wisdom in appointing this dis tinguished son of the south and form er Confederate general successively internal revenue collector in Virginia and consul general at Havana; and President McKinley must have great credit for his decision to retain this. Democrat at the important Havana. post, and particularly for appointing him to be major general of volunteers during the ,war with Spain, and finally, military governor of Havana * * * Gen. Lee was thoroughly "reconstructed," like his uncle, the Confederate military leader. Great soldier as was Robert E. Lee, his real greatness--something of that large ness of soul which we attribute to a Washington-shone out conspicuously in his counsels and practices of peace and good will, and in his performance of new duties for the upbuilding of the shattered south in a reunited country almost from the day that the war was over. The New York Sun very gracefully said: "Fa zhugh Lee died a hero of the whole A merican people. The il lustrious name he bore, typical of the highest and p.urest American citizen ship, is a proud national possession. It is a name atmost canonize~d at the Souths and at the north it is scarcely less honored.- It seems a far cry back to Agi~omattox when one reads such sentiments In the northern press. The State. Paid their Debts. A meeting of the advisory commit tee which has been in charge since O.tober, 1903, of the affairs of the banking houses of John L. Williams & Sons and J. William Middendorf & Co., of Baltimore and Richmond, was held Wednesday night. After the meeting it was announced that the debts of the two firms had been paid in full with interest and the com mittee had been dissolved. The two houes had obligations aggregating more than $12,000,000 at the time of their suspension Had they been forced inlto b ikruptcy at the time, they would probably have paid twen ty-tive cents on the dollar. But in stead an advisory committee was formed and under the supervision of the committee, the two firms have liquidated more than $10,000,000 of their obligations. The final details of their settlement called for a loan of $500,000 on securities that the two firms desired to hold because of their developing values. One firm with London clients offered to take the whole amount, several New York houses also madie similar tenders and Jlaltimore financial institutions sub scribed largely to the loan. Scared to Death. The New York American says worry over a friend's jest is said to be responsible for the death of Leon Kahn, proprietor of "The Old Home stead,' Union avenue and Frst street, Mount Vernon, N. Y. Kahn, who was rorty-two years old, was a prominent lodge man. He had not been sick in twenty years. Saturday Kahn met a friend, who during a joking conversa tion said: "Another white shirt wil. finish you." That statement worried Kahn. He asked at least two dozen friends if he looked sick. They said he did not. That night Kahn was seizec with pains near the heart. Paralysis c: the organ was the diagnosis. A few hours later the hotel man was dead. President Pell Re-Elected. Dr. R. P. Pell has been re-elected president of Converse College by the board of trustees. In assuming thi duties of president of this well-knowi and popular institution for women fo: 'another year he will pursue his well known policy-that of working fo: the success of the college, keeping ui its high standard of excellence, hold ing in mind at all times everythini that tends to the uplifting and devel A NOTED TRIAL The Alleged Lynchers of Iutawville Will Face the- Jury. A Short History of the Case, That Will be Read With Interest by our Re aders. The alleged Eutawville lynchers will be put on trial today, and the trial will last several days, as there are a good many witnesses to be examined. Tbis case has excited considerable comment all over the State, and a re view of it no doubt would be read with Interest at this time. The so called lynching was the assassination of Keitt Bookhardt by parties un known the 7th day of last July. The negro had been put in jail on the tri vial charge of having exchanged epi thets with Henry Edwards. That night the negro was taken from the flimsy structure used for keeping prisoners, and his body was f ound two days later in Santee sriver, having floated and brought to the top a heavy grate bar, which had been tied around his body. The body gave evidence of inhuman treatment at the hands of fiends. The ears had been cut off and there weie other marks of violence to show in what manner the murderers had tried to degrade the body of* their victim. Gov. Heyward's attention was directed to the crime by a letter from Mr. J. D. Wiggins, magistrate at Eut awville, who denounced the murder and begged Gov. Heyward to take some action. Accordingly Gov. Heyward requested Solicitor Hildebrand t,) go to Eutaw ville for the inquest. The Pinkerton Detective agency was also communi cated with atd Inspector D.maio was put on the case. The investigation resulted in the arrest, after three months, of several white men of that section. These men were kept in custody at the penitentiary until the 17th of De cember, when a preminary hearing was held at St. George, Dorchester county, Magistrate A. E. McCoy presiding. The preliminary was held at St. George because that point is on the railroad and was as accessible Eutawville and more accessible than as Monk's Corner. With one exception the prisoners were remanded to jail to await trial. "Piney" Martin was released, as he had been arrested on a warrant, intended for "Penny" Martin. The others indicated are: Henry C. E Iwards, who confessed and is being used as the prosecution wit ness: S. A. Eadens, the constable in whose custody the negro was on the night of the lynching; J. H. Palmer, policeman at Eutawville; Benny Mar tin, Andrew Martin and Adger But. ler. The latter was released, as noth ing could b,. proved against him. Tue crime was supposed to havs oc curred in Berkeley county, and the accused were taken to the Berkeley county seat, Monck's Corner, where they had been lying in jail since last December until brought to Or angeburg last week. But when the case was called for trial at Monck's Corner in January, Solicitor Hilde brand sprang a surprise. He had had the territory surveyed, and while it is true that Eutawville is in Berkeley county, still the place at which the murder it alleged to have been com mitted is in Orangeburg county. The case was thus transferred to this coun ty in which there was not so much personal feeling and interest. It is probable that the defendants at. torney will make a motion to take the case back to Berkeley county. Henry Edwards, who turned State's evidence, and who will be one of the principal witnesses against the ac cused, was kept in the Penitentiary at Columbia since his arrest until last week, when he was brought to Oran g burg under guard. It seems that the authorities were afraid he would be treated with violence if sent to the Berkeley jail and imprisoned with the men he had turned States evi dence against. He admits his con nection with the terrible affair, but claims that the above named de fendents were the principle actors in the bloody drama. Edwards is quite a young man, and is from an excellent family. It will be left for the jury charged with the duty of passing on the case to say what credence there is to be put in the evidence given by Edwards. The case will ba a hard fought one, as there are able lawyers on both sides. The defendants have lawyers from the Berkeley, D >rchester and Orangeburg bars to conduct their case, and they will be most ably de fended. Solicitor Hildebrand will rep resent the State. He is an anle and very successful otibcial, and will have no stone unturned to convien the ac cued of the crime he believes them guilty of. If the defendants are guilty we hope it will be made s-o plain that no one can doubt it, and if they are innocent we hope they will have a speedy acquittal.-Times and Demo crat. Saves a Train. But for the presence of mind and natural intelikgence of Nannie Gibson, a sixteen year old ba'sixt mountain girl, a mixed freight J~nd passenger train leaving Asheville Monday morn ing, east ward bound, would in all prob ability have been wrecked at Mud Cut in the Blue Ridge mountains and sev eral lives lost. Nannie Gibson lives close to Mud Cut. That morning shie saw a great pile of rock and earth slide on the track at that place short ly after a special train had passed, and realizing that an engineer of an eastward bound train would be unable to see the slide in time to stop the train and that there was imminent danger of loss of life and property, she picked up a torpedo and running up the track some distance placed it on the rail at the mouth of the tuni nel. Then hurrying back, she found a red flag, and again started up the track when she heard the engine whistle of the mixed train. As the train came she waved the flag, the en gineer applied the brakes, and the train came to standstill within less than twenty steps of the slide. After the girl child had told her story the passengers showered upon her coins, aonting- to many rdollars. WORK OF A MOB. Chicage Strikers Beat and Force Negro Strike Breakers to RUN FOR THEIR LIVES Wherever Negroes Appeared It Was the Signal for Furious Assault by Strikers and Sympathizers. One Man Killed During the Day. Scores Wounded. The fighting in Chicago ~-v 6da4y in the streets was more fierce ~than the day before. The strikers and their sympathizers attacked the non union men at every opportunity, as sailing them with bricks, stones, clubs, knives and any and every other offensive weapon upon which they could lay their bands. The fighting occurred in the heart of the business secticn of the city, men being shot down within 200 feet of the retail store of Marshall Field Co., or clubbed nearly to death at the corner of the Auditorium hotel, in plain view of hundreds of ladies, who were compelled to run from the. mob to save their own lives. In many instances men walking along the streets who had no active connection with the strike were as saulted by hoodlums, who beat them first and later accused them of being strike breakers. A notable Instance of this kind was that of R:v. W. K. Wheeler. pastor of the Ninth Presby terian church who while passing the aorner of DEsplaines and Adams strats on his wa) to the Pennsylvania depot, wa.s attacked by three men, who knocked him down and beat him unmercifully until the timely arrival of the police saved him from critical injury. Mr. Wheeler managed to hold one of his assailants until the police could arrest him. William Miles, a colored waiter, while at work in a lunch room at Adams and Sangamon streets, a half mile from. any former scene of rioting duing the strike, was also a victim of the strikers' fury, although he had no connection whatever with the trou ble. He was accused of being a strike breaker, was pounded on the head with a billy, knocked down and tram pled upon. Miles was removed to the hospital, where his injuries were pro nounced severe. As far as known, but one man was killed during the day. The list of in jured is much greater than that which it is possible to obtain. In many cases the nonunion men swung their clubs with grea'. effect; knocking men from their wagons headlong into the street; in other instances, when assailed by mobs, they fired point blank into the crowds, and it is diffi cult to see how the members. of the mob could escape many broken heads or how all the bullets fired during thie day should have gone wild. THE DEAD AND IN.TURED. Charles Beard, struck on the fore head in the fight near the Auditorium hotel. He died of a fractured skull at the Mercy hospital, where he had been taken. The injured: Bruno Germain, New York city head cut. Charles Moody, beat on the head with canes by strikers, condition seri ous. John Bhim, nonunion driver, struck in the side with a brick, one rib bro ken. William Miles, colored waiter, head cut with billy, and trampled on. Police Sergeant Barron, thrown from patrol wagon while responding to riot call, leg badly wrenched. Martin Garray, nonunion man head badly cut by billies in the hands of strikers. W. N. lBrown, nonunion teamster, struck by a bucket of cement thrown from twelfth story of building at Adams and State street; leg broken. Policeman Ed ward Gampton, struck on head with a brick; severely cut. Rev. W. K. Wheeler, beaten by strikers; face and hesd cut. Henry Shultz, shot in left side by nonunion teamsters; not serious. DanIel Cohen, nonunion man struck on head with a club. William Burke, right hand lacerat ed by brick. William Hill, head and left shoul der cut by stones. A. B. Smith, nonunion man, face cut with a stone. Frank Emerson. nonunion man, right hand smashed by heavy stone. James Smith, nonunion man, struck in the back by a stone; injuries are severe. Albert Mcllvaine, shot in the back, not expected to live. Lyde McDowell, shot in the left hip. 1William Bass, shct In the left leg below the knee. J. Erickson, shot in the right arm above the elbow. Louis Fisman, colcred, struck on the head with a brick In a tight at Jackson boulevard and Halsted street. Williarn Davis, colored, nonunion driver, head cut. James Butler, colored, nonunion driver, arm broken. Andrew Scott, colored, nonunior driver, head cut. William Riggs, colored, nonunior driver, head cut. Frank Curry, leader of nonunior men, struck on head by a stone while conducting wagons along Frankling street. FIERCE FIGHT WITH sLUGGERS. A. S. Utely floor manager for Mont gomery Ward & Co., attacked by sluggers on Oakenwald avenue. Mr. Utely, who has been active it the interests of Ward & Co., since thE commencement of the strike, was at tacked by men who he thinks have been following him for several days. while passing a vavant lot in Oaken wald avenue, between Forty-fourtk and Forty-fifth streets. The men knocede him down and kicked him ir a terrible manner about the head and face. He knocked one down with a billy, and the others ran. Thinking he had killed his assailant, Utely went call an ambulance but when it arrived the man had either recovered and gone away, or had been carried off by his companions. A hundred colored men imported as strike breakers by the Employing Teaming Company struck today. The negroes complained that they could not protect themselves with wooden sticks or canes, which were being furnished by the company. The col ored men declared that the canes however stout, could not give protec tion against bricks, stones or similar missiles. The men wanted revolvers. Their request was refused. One of the liveliest disturbances of the day occurred within a block of the Auditorium hotel. Shooting was re sorted to by colored nonunion mn to day at Harrison street and Wabash avenue. Three wagons, formerly owned by the Edwin F. Daniels Coal Company, were being driven south in Wabash avenue. At the Harrison street crossing a large crowd gathered about the drivers and guards. Sticks, tiling, broken bottles and other mis siles striking the negroes. NEGRO SHOOTS. One of the colored guards, named Carter, whipped out a revolver and shot at Henry Schultz, who, it is al leged, was approaching Carter. The bullet struck Schultz in the left side. He ran south in Wabash avenue for a block before he fell. The crowd thoroughly enraged at the action of the colored men quickly closed in up. on the non-unionists and beat them thorcughly. A police call was sent in and seventy policemen under In spector Patrick J. Lavin hurried to the scene and dispersed the crowd with vigor. Schultz was taken to a hospital Carter was arrested. The bullet struck one of Schultz's ribq. He will recover. The shooting caused much excite ment at the Auditorium. The wo men became hysterical and rushed back into the hotel. For a time all traffle on Wabash avenue cable and the Indiana avenue electric car line was at a standstill. FICTUBESQUE SIGHT. One of the picLuresque sights wit nessed today was a procession of 500 non-union colored teamsters going from their lodgings to the Employ er3' Teaming Company barns, at Franklin street ano Jackson boule vard. The negroes were led by a white man, Frank Curry, formerly a street car gripman, who became a strike breaker during the city railway strike here some months ago; and who has recently been active in labor troubles at St. Louis. Crowds fol lowed Curry's novel procession today but the size of the force of non union ists and the fact that they were ac companied by fifty policemen seemed at first to act as a deterrent of any untowed proceedings. The proces sion turned into Jackson boulevard from Michigan avenue, where there was an increasing crowd of strike sympathizers, who, with yells of de fiance, began throwing stones and bricks. Police Lieutenant Dillon was struck on the head. He stag gered and would have fallen had not several of the strike breakers caught and sustained him. Other police and a number of the strike breakers were also hit. The march In Jackson bou levard was stormy, but the barns at Franklin street were reached without severe Injury to any one. Thirty non-union teamsters were at tacked Wednesday by a crowd of strike sympathizers at Jackson boule vard and Halstead streets. All kinds of missiles were used. The non-union teamsters, armed with stout hickory clubs, attempted to fight the mob, but were being overpowered when the police arrived. William Wrather, a white guard, was severely injurel The police, clubbing right and left, rushed the crowd off the streets. Five persons were arrested, Only ten of the non-union teamsters could be found, the others having fled. THOUSANDS ATTACK NEGEOEs Simultantous with the shooting near the Auditorium Wednesday af ternoon, another riot was in progress at Michigan avenue and Lake street, a mile north on the same boulevard. A crowd of 300 negroes imported from St. Louis were being escorted from the railway depot to a lodging hcuse. At Lake street and Michigan ave nue a crowd of 3,000 persons attacked the negroes, many of whom were armed with stones, pieces of coa1, black jacks, revolvers ani stout hick ory canes. When parsons in thie crowd began to throw stones, sticks and bottles, the negroes charged re peatedly, making fierce use of the hickory. Each time, however, the crowd increased. Persons in offie buildings rushed to the streets and swelled the gathering. Caught in Chicago., Henry G. Goll, the former assistant cashier of the Frst N~ational bank of Milwaukee, was arrested In Cbicago Thursday. according to the iniforma tion given out by the police authori ties in Milwaukee. The capture was madie by Detective Dennis Sullivan, of the Milwaukee police department Goll was walking on 30th street in Chicago when a Milwaukee officer ran across him. It appears that Goll has been in Chicago for several days, stay ing at a different hotel every night. A warrant was issued for Goll's arrest at the same time the warrant was served on Frank G3. Bigelow, the deraulting banker. Tried to Kill Himself. Tom Cox, sentenced to be hanged at Nashville, Tenn., for the murder of Poiliceman Ben F. Dowell, made a desperate attempt to commit suicide in his cell at the county lail tbere Wednesday morning by taking poison. His condition is critical in the ex treme and the chances are against his recovery. Cox is Derhaps Tennessee's most noted criminal of recent years. The killing of Policeman Dowell was of a most sensational character and Cox's trial attracted widespread at tention. Negro Boy Killed. Will Salter, a 9-year-old colored boy, while at work at Hannah brick yard, near Glendale, Spartanburg county, Wednesday afternoon slipped into a mud mill and his legs were cut off and his body terribly mutilated. He died Weneany night about midnight. A HOT TIME In the Negro Baptist State Con vention at Union Friday. THE BLUFF CALLED By Carroll, Who Told the Preachers That They Were Guilty of Dis. honest Practices. Carrol's Life Threatened if He Persis ted in His Charges. "I will put a bullet hole through you If you repeat your charges in this convention," was the sensational threat sent to Rev. Richard Carroll, a prominent negro educator, by a negro preacher in high circles, both of whom was In attendance on the negro Bap tist State convention at Union last week. For several months past Carroll has been orrally and through newspapers making grave charges against the character of a number of negro Baptist ministers in this State, saying that some of the more prominent ones had formed a ring and that collections made for foreign missions, education and orphan work had been diverted into their own private purses. The knowledge that he was at the conven tion to push his substantiated charges made those interested employ almost every means, including threats against his life, to have him remain silenti However, he was undaunted, and the investigatoins which lae demanded and helped conduct brought out facts and over 75 other ministers corrobora ted his statements. A striking feature cccurred in the convention when, in a wild disordered assemblage, one prominent delegate demanded of Carroll to "name them!" "You are one," was the reply. Another preacher immediately sprang up and shouted. "Am I one, too?" evidently thinking to bluff the speaker, who calmly replied: "Yes, you, toc;" and Carroll proceeded t draw out a book in which he had the names of everyone implicated. This caused a storm of confusion and calis: "You need not read any more!" Carroll, who is doing good work for negro youths in Columbia and has the support of the whites, seems to have the special antipathy of many of his race,- who sarcastically denounce him as "an ingrate," "the white man's friend" and "seeking to raise himself on the dead bodies of the negro race." Tne whole sesson was a dramatic one, and the ring is larger than sup posed,'judging by the violent opposi ti:;n against Carroll. After a long session, the following resolutions were adopted, which, though strongly worded, are really neutral in character: "Whereas, in the recent newspaper articles under the signature of Rev. R. Carroll, commented upon in and out of the State, the impression has been made that the negro Baptist ministers in South Carolina are venal and generaly depraved; and whereas, the public recognition given Rev. R. Carroll, coupled with the gravity of the charges, are calculated to do un told harm to the ministry and check any present looking toward securing aid and sympathy -from those whose aid and sympathy should be given, be it "Resolved, That it may be true and fully admitted that there is among us, as among all other peoples and Chris tain organizations, some irregularities, but it is the exception rather than the rule. While we fully deplore and condemn the irregularities among the few, we, in convention assembled, most emphatically deny that such con dition ref erred to herein above obtains among thelgreat majority of our min isters and churches. Be it further "Resolved, That the Baptist minis try of South Carolin, in character, in tegrity and moral uprightness, com pare favorably with the ministers everywhere." The sentiment of the majority of delegates, including Dodd and Jen ins, editors who had violently op posed Carroll, 8:ems to be that it is best to have corruption exposed and remedied.-The State. EOW IT HAPND Why Whiskey for Gaffney Could Not Be Unloaded in Time. It seems that the good people of Gaffney don't drink so much whiskey aflier all, ann that a short article we clipped from the Spartanburg Journal a stcrt time ago to the effect that the express messenger did not have time to deliver all the whiskey con signed to GadIney and had to carry some of it on to Spartanburg and re turn it to Gaffhey the next day, wa~s misleading. The Gadfney Ledger makes the following explanation of the story, which puts a different phase on it altogether : "A Ledger repre sentative called upon Mr. Fisher, the local exoress agent, and asked him about the truth of the article. Mr. Fisher said that there was a to. tal of fourteen packsges for Gaffney ; that on account of a large amount of other express, such' as fish, cab bage, et.c., they did not have time to handle the entire fourteen pack ages of whiskey, and that not more than eight pacage weecrre y. We make no concealment of the fact that whiskey c:>:nes to Gaffney. - It does come. and more than we would like to see come, but it is manifestly unfair to try to leave the impression that the present state of affairs is not an improvement over the old system. Certainly the consumption of whiskey In this county has been reducld--and that materially-and that Is what we were aiming at. Our pro-dispensary friends, however, take every opportu nity to have it appear that the effort to reduce the consumption of whis key is a failure. Such is not the case, and if they would be fair they would not try to pervert the facts." GREEN GOODS MAIN Caught in the Act of Swindling a Gen tleman from Texas. When Reuben With Roll Arrived the Clerk of Astor House Scented Game and Netifled Police. They caught a green goods man red handed in the Astor house. His name is Neily Galvin, and the authorities at police headquarters in New York City say he is an all-round crook and old-time pickpocket whose picture has been in the rogues' gallery for years. The "come on" was taken and is now l(cked up at headquarters. He is Emer Klahr, part owner of a saloon in Higgins, Liplcomb county, Tex., and was lured here by the usual cir culars. According to Klahr's story he got here on the Baltimore & Ohio rail road, and, in keeping with the direc tions given to him In his correspon dence with the gang, went to the As tor house. He was taken in tow by the swindlers, and that night they showed him the sights. They also told him how lucky he was to be let in on the ground floor in the deal they were about to put through with him, and made arrangements to show him samples of the "counterfeit" money in the morning. When Klahr came down from his room he went to the desk and depos ited his roll of money with the clerk. The hotel people suspected at once that he was a "come.on," and notified the postal officials and police head quarters, in accordance with arrange ments that had been made several days ago when a stranger was re lieved of all his cash in the hotel by the gang of which Galvin is the re puted chief. Mlaher, it seems, was taken to Brooklyn, where some good money was shown to him as a sample of the mythical counterfeits. He was satis fied with the looks of the good money, and he made a cash payment of $50 to bind the bargain. Then he went back to the Astor house and awaited the coming of Galvin to complete the transaction, first get ting his roll from the clerk. The postal inspectors and McCon vile secreted themselves In a room directly across the hall from Klahr's and took turns peeping in. In a lit tle while Galvin came up and was admitted by the man from Texas. The sleuths crossed the hall and tried to hear through the keyhole what was said inside, but the conversation was carried on in so low a voice that they could catch only a word now and then. After waiting about ten minutes McConville tried the door and found it locked. Then he leaned against it hard and burst into the room, follow ed by the postal officials. Galvin stooped low and essayed to butt his way out. McConville pounced on idm, threw him to the floor and sat upon him. The "come-on" did noth ing but open his mouth and stare as if he was looking out through the gate of his teeth. When Galvin was searched the $465 in cash was found in his pocket. Klahr admitted that he had just paid over the money. He said $450 of it was for the balance due on purchase of the $3,000 worth of "long green," which was to be sent to hlim at his home, and the remaining $.15 for the expenses Incurred by the gang in showing him the town. MEETS- HER ALIVE. Goes to Bury Long Lost Sister Who Is Not Dead. The New York American says a drama in which one of the principals was confronted by the living form of a sister whose body he supposed was in a hearse he was following to a cem etery, occurred Tuesday at the Jersey City terminal of the Barclay street ferry. Conrad Ritter, of No. 21 Liberty street, East New Durham, N. J., was informed a few days ago that the body of his sister Mary had been in terred in a pauper's grave after she had died, on April 3d, of self-inflicted injuries in St. Mary's Hospital in Ho boken. The girl had been missing from home since March 24. Ritter invastigated and found that a woman answering the descripti'on of his sister had committed suicide and had been buried in the Hudson Coun ty Catholic Cemetery in Jersey City. He had the b .dy exhumed and ar ranged for its Interment in Calvary emetery. in Queens County. Tuesday all arrangements were com pletEd, and Ritter sorrowfully follow ed the hearse. He alighted from his carriage at the ferry entrance, and one of the first persons he saw was his sister leaving a boat. He Dearly lost his reason, and staggered against the gate, white and speechless. The girl not divining the cause of his agitation, stood horrified, but see ing the hearse and carriage, and not ing her brother's mourning apparel, decided that some misfortune of which she was not aware had occurred to him. When Ritter recovered, the situa tion was explained, and it developed that Mary had b len taken seriously 'ill at a f riend's home in B:ooklyn, and was unable to communicate with her brother. The body identified as hers has been returned to the Jersey City authorities. Fined For Gamnbling. Some of the gentlemanly gamblers of Covington, Ga., got it in the neck the other day. The grand jury, at the March term of the czurt returned about twenty- five true bills against ten prominent citizens of the town and county for gambling at, different times within the last severa.i months. By agreement each of the ten persons charged with the offense entered a plea of guilty. Judge Roan imposed a fine of $200 in each case on one indict ment, suspending sentence upon the other indictments pending good be havior for twelve months. In this manner the cases were quickly dispos ed of and the special session did not at more than three hours. FATAL OUARREL. Thomas Jones Shot Through the Heart by Thomas Godfrey. ABOUT A GRAPE VINE. The Men Were Next Door Neighbors, and the Tragedy Resulted from a Dis agreement Over a Very Tri vial Matter. The Slayer is Now in Jail. Spartanburg has another murder to her credit. A special dispatch from that city to The State says Thomas Jones was shot and Instantly killed in his yard -on North Church street Thursday morning by Thomas Godfrey who was taken in charge by the police shortly after the shooting and Is lodged in the county jail. Jones was shot down very near his own doorsteps and in his lot by a neigh bor, Godfrey, whose lot is nearby. At the time of the tragedy Jones was sitting in his front Orch awaiting a street car to go to his. shop. Godfrey approached from his~(Godfrey's) house and holding out some pieces of grape vine in his hand, inquired of Jones If he knew them. Jones replied in the negative, and Godfrey insisted that he did. This ciused Jones to emphatically state, without the superfluous use of oaths, that he did not. Godfrey made some remark to which Jones replied, calling Godfrey a liar. Godfrey drew a 38 calibre pistol and fired one shot at Jones. The ball entered Jones' left breast and plowed to the- heart, and in a minute or more the man was dead, Godfrey is an Irishman who has lived in Spartanburg for a number of years. He is an aged citizen, and of frail feeble frame and ill health. He is a skilled workman. He - and Jones have been at outs for a long time and had held no verbal conversa tion with each other. Godfrey, it is said, claims that Jones cut the grape vines in his (God frey's) garden, causing them to die. This was the cause for the shooting down of an unarmed map on his own premises. Jones was a quiet, honesl, industrous citizen and was a blsk smith, wo)dworkman and machinist. He was running a shop of his own at the time he was killed. Godfrey had no statement for the press. BOLD BAIK RORRRRY. The Bandits Secure Between Five and Ten Thousapid Dollars. A band of masked robbers rode Into the village of Gilbertsville, . Y., at 3, o'clock Wednesday morning, blew open the modern and supposedly bur glar proof safe in the private bank of E. 0. Brewer, and made good their escape with booty estimated at- be tween $5,000 and $10,000. When the startled villagers were awakened by the muffied roar of the explosion and had been halted by the pistol fite of the retreating bandits, they found that the robbers had completely Isola ted Gilbe'rtsville from the outside world by cutting all the telegraph and telephone wires. Effjrts to communi cate with neighboring towns were fn tile. The bold attack rivals In the de tails of its thoroughness, Its daring and Its success the exploits of the most notorious bandits of the western It is believed there were five men In the band. That all were heavily arm ed was shown by the freq-lency of their fire when the villagers arrived near the bank. The men first pried open the front door of the bank. Not. a light glimmered In the village, and they evidently set about their work leisurely. T wo holes were drilled into the heavy steei doors of the newly In stalled safe, and Into these the explo sive, believed to have been nitrogly cerine, was inserted. The explosion which followed wholly wreckedl the safe and shattered every window in the bank building. The robbers hasti ly gathered up all the money exposed by the explosion and started on a run just as the first of the awakened vil lagers reached the scene. Other resi dents quickly came up, but In the meantime the inyaders were making good their escape, firing as they went. Double Suicide. The bodies of E. B. Shaw and his wife, who he married in Piladelphia five years ago, were found in a field near Blackpool, England, where the dead couple lived. Both had been shot and there was a pistol beside the bodies. The tragedy unfolds a pitiful stury. After five years of happy mar riage, It is alleged, Shaw discovered a fortnight ago that his wife was in volved in an intrigue two years before her marriage. According to the story, he taxed her with the offence, and as a result of her admissions he told her to prepare immediately to sail for America, leaving their children at Blackpool. They started on Tuesday, seemingly reconciled; but Shaw's mother was suspicious and caused neighbors to follow them. Shots were heard and the bodies were discovered. Each was shot through the mouth, the indications being that It was by mutual agreement, the woman having carefully removed her hat and placed it beside her husband's on the grass. A double ticket for New York by the steamer Majestic was found In Snaw's pocket. _________ Robbery and Murder. At New York the body of Marie Dacci, forty-five years old, was found dead in a room of her apartment at 54th street Wednesday morning with a handkerchief stuffed down her throat. The woman was evidently strangled for the purpose of iobbery. The police are looking for two men who, it Is said by her daughter, visit ed her mother Tuesday. The woman was separated from her husband..