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VOL. XX. MANNING. S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1905. NO.4. KILLED Al SEA. The Captain and Four of a Schooner's Crew Murdered. MUTINY ANDMURMER. Four Bodies Thrown Overboard by the Murdcrers. Three Negroes, the Remaining Members of the Crew ef the Schooner Harry A. Berwind, Brought to Southport, N. C. A special to the Wilmington Star from Southport Wednesdxy night sa3 s the schooner Blanche H. King, Capt, J. W. Taylor, Brunswick. Ga., Sept. 23, for Pailadelphia, put in theie Wednesday afternoon.- brirging in irons three negroes, all that remained of the crew Of the four mastered schooner Harry A. Berwind, Capt. Rumill, from- Mobile, Sept. 23, to Pailadelphia, the captain, mate, cook and an engineer who did hoisting aboard having be n murdered in a mutiny at sea and t-eir b; dies thrown overboard. The b-.dy of a L-urh negro of the crew was fcuad ly g un deck where he, too had evidenti) : e n murdcred. Capt. Taylor of the e, ooner King sighted the Berwind ear: Wednesday morning ab- ut 30 miles L ff the Cape Fear bar and was attracted to her by the manner in which she was being steered, hairg several ti:nes come very near n iu:: g down the King. A near api rarain -o the Barwind showed that she , a' ;efn practically abandoned. Capb. T i.r and crew boarded the vestel -ac placed the three negroes in irons, oringing the two vessels cff the bar when one of them was towed in by Wilmington tugs, which have now gone for the other schooner, a gale prevailing on the outside. The Berwind being from a territory against which this city is quarantined for yellow fever, the three negroes in irons are held in quarantine until ar rangements can be made for their de tentlen by the federal authorities. It develops Irom the stories of the ne - grees brought in irons by the King that the mutiny arose as the resuit ol a quarrel asboard the ship early Tues day mornlrg about some c. if e that was being brewed for breakfast. Tae King was signallcd by the Berwind 30 miles east of Frying Pan lightshp and in response to a signal Capt. Taylor sent his mate, engineer and others to board the Berwind. The decks of tlhe schooner were cov ered with b.-. g.virg evidence of a fierce encounter. T'he berth of the mate was spotted with blood, ind.. cating that he was butchered in bed. After the boarding party from the King handcuffed the mutineers on the ship one of the negroes complained the Irons were too tight and hurt him. When'one of the boarding crew loos ened the bracelet on the negro's arm the captive whipped out a pistol and shot one C.f his own crew, the pre sumption b~ng that the man killied ad signaled the King against the wishes of the three ott~ers, The total list of kille d is four whites and one regro, the names or none of whom can be learne&- The Kig left a pr z: cre w aboaid die Ber wind, wh'ch Is still ifE the b',r, but will be brot.gnt mn tomorrow morning. United State Cu.mmissioner P. Coi her and Deputy Marsnail C. O.-Koox left tonight for *the quarantine to take charge of i~he captives. THE HORRIBLE STORY. He decks and cabins splotched with blocd from r,fle fearful butchery following the mutiny aboardship ear. ly Tuesday miornir g cif the ~North Carolina coast, toe four-masted schooner Harry A. Berwind of Phil adelphia was towe d. into S-outhport Thursday by Wilmington tugs Aboard were the p'ize crew of the Niew York scho; ner Blanche H. King, who were wante d as witnesses agaimst the three negroes shackled and brought tO the Cape Fear quararitine sttalo.'on Wednesday, ca~ ed viu mutiny and murder. At the preliminary investigation before 'United States Commis-,loners Collier of Wilmington and Pinner of Southport today the men who board ed the Berwind told the story of con ditions on the vesrel as they found them, and the three prisioners were then introduced at their own request. They gava their names as Rbert Sawyer, Henry Scott and Arthur Adams, all colored, and under 40) years of age. Sawyer and Adams em -ployed counsel and ooth charged that Scott kihied the five men with the ex ception of Capt. Rumill, who ;.disap peared before day Tuesday morming In a manner of which the y knew noth ing. Each said he saw Scott shoot the mate on the lee side o-f the ship, and throw his body overboard. Then he killed the engineer arnd went down the companion-way. Very soon they heard shots belo 'a deck in the galley, and a short while thereafter Scatt came up again, bearing the body of the cook,a. small white man,in hislarn depositing his burden over the rail. Tney atberwards bound Scott and were steering the vessel as best they ould until overhauled by the King Scott says all the seamen, four ne groes formed a conspiracy soon aftel eaving Mobile, Sept. 23, the colored seamen feeling outraged because -. short rashions. He said that he killec no one except the negro seamen founc on deck, Coakley by name. and thal he killed him in self- defense. OAk ley hit him with a stick, and shot at him while he was bound. He said hi saw Ckely shoot the mate and say Adams kill the engineer. He duei not know how the cook was killed al the sooting was below deck. Scott is a mullatto and is the mo; itelligent of the four; Adams is als< a mulatto and claims to be a Britis] -nbec from St. Vincenti islands. A] three of the n groes were held with out ball, and are contined in the S.:uthp, rt ijil for the federal court in Wilmington in November. Three members cf the crew ti the schooner Blanche H. King are held as witnes ses. but will give bond on the arrival of the vessel owners temorrow. SIGNIFICANT OUGGlSTION. From a Probibition Source in Regard to L quor L tws. A dispatch from Columbia sa5 s there are strorg indications that the prohi bition executive committee will, at the Fa'r week meeting, name a State ticket with Joseph A. McCullough for Governor, and Louis J. Bristow for Lieutenant Governor. At the confer ence held here a few weeks ago both these min opposed nominations being made, but Thursday's issue of Tne Biptist Press. edited at Greenwood, hy Mr. Bristow, nominates Mr. Mc Culliugh for Governor, and advocates putting out a ticket. It is sign.iant that the edirle? favors county control of the liqu r question. 'Let us have a prohibition iaw, but where it will not be enfoic.d let it not be a force," says the editor ial. "Where a majority of men are willing to write their names on a pe tition asking for the privilege of sell ing whiskey, the best thing to do is to allow them to sell it, under string ent regulations." Tae editorial also says. "B-yond the moral question involved there is a politic_.l s.de. Men must be elected to office who will enforce a law against liquor selling. In certain counties ir this State tnat seems to be quite be yond obtainirg. A c'.ear test of sen iment must be made. Prohibition is Impossible nowhere, but it seems im practicable in some localities. Recog ntz ng this fact wa must take it into cansideration. In a community where public sentiment is not tuffic.ently strong to elect prohibitimn officers who will enforce a prchibition law, such a law would be tliggrantly violated and would be practically inoperatiae and that fact must not be ignored. There fore, we say let us advcate a prohibi tion law which will cover the entire State, but with a provision that the county which is willing to assume the moral responsibility and oiium of sell ag whiskey and the legal responsibil ty of enforcing the law, that such a county may vote upon the question and show where it stands. It such a county should decide to sell whiskey, then let the Lsglslature prescribe the manner in which it may be done, and throw around its sale all safeguards an:1 restrictions possible. "The dispensary is fast going, and the moral element of c ur citizens must 2ave something to offer in its stead or dmoraLzition will follow. "We have long been a student of the prohibition question, witn parti cular reference to South Carolina, and our calm judgment, upon mature con ditions, is briefly outlined in the fore going paragrapas. Prohibitionists are being looked to at this time and we mst ffE r the State the best method f dealing with this vexatious ques tion. But such a State prohibitlen law wil not enforce itself. We must have Governor who will enforce in, a prc ibtionist." Preparing For The Fair The Chamber of Commerce of Co umbia, as has been its custcm for sev eral years, is sparing no efforts to make the approaching State Fair one of the most saenssful in its history. With cotton at 100 and a wave of property sweeping the State, It is ex pected that the attendance will exceed ll former years. In anticipation of a large crowd the Columbia Street Ra.l way has increased its familities for andling the visitors by double track ing its line from the Transfer Station, or Capital Squa-e, to the Union Sta tion, thence a balt line encircling the FPsir grounds, which is practically a double track all the way, and will af ford and ample transportation. In addition to the usual attractions f the week, the Chamber of Commer e has engaged the Barkoot Carnival Amusement campan1y, which besides a band of Its own, has a variety of good clean shows, which will give exhibi tion at the several street corners, along with a number of free attractions. As usul, the theatre management has a splenid card for the week. Those exp cting to visit the Fair, which begirns O.:tober 24 and desiring to secure boarding and sleeping so commodation" should at once commun iate with Mr. E. B. Clark, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. StarvLa .mmf w Lfeatn The county jilil at Kansas City, Kansas, was surr.ouned Wednesday night by men who insist that Mrs. Belle Riggins, her daughter Cl arissa. aged 14 years, and ner husband, Giorge RIggins, held by the coroner's jury for the death of Riggin's 6-.)ear old son by a former wife, should be lynched That the little boy was starved and tortured to death is spec itically charged by the coroner's jury. Te boy's 2-year-old sIster was also cruelly treated and is at the point of death in a hospital. While Mrs. Rig gin's own children were well fed and kindly treated the two step children, according to the evidence presented to Ithe grand jury, were literally starved. Wants Damages. :1James O.Ligon of Cosrleston has brought suit for $10,000 damages ag~inst CJornith Bacon and Hampton K. Lea, merchants, beeause of defama tion of character. In March last the defendants had the plaintiff arrested by a magistrate nuder the chiarge of -obtaining goods under false pretences, the c targe bavirg afterwards been dismissed by Cix eu.t Judge Memmin LIger. __________ Canned by F.ailure -The suicide of Lee L eb, the weal thy Charleston man on Sunday, is now credited to the failure of the In dependent Cotton 0-i mill of Darllrg ton, a couple of months ago. He ost a good deal of money in the fail ure, and this is really what caused him to lose his mind, it is said, rathe2 Sthan the retirement from business, Swhich seemed to grieve him consider BLOODY CRIME. The Murder of Four People on the Olney Farm REMAINS A MYSTERY. The Mystery is Heightened by Mrs. In gerick, Who Was Found Conscious With Many Wounds on Her Person Refuse to Divulge Name of Assailant. Orange county is aroused over a quadruple murder on the Olney farm, ab ut four miles from the centre of Middletown, N. Y. Wednesday the bodies of Millis C. and Frederick R Oiney were found in a wood half a mile above their hom3. They had been shot to death Friday afternoon. The body of Alic% Ingerick, aged nine had been found with her skull crushed in the cellar of the Olney farmhouse, and later her mother, Mrs. Martin Ingerick, living, but with her skull crushed in three places, was found in a horse stall in the barn, t wo hun dred yards from the house. The abserce of the O.neys, who were brothers and old men, caused surprise, not unmixed with suspicion. No search was made for them until Saturday morning, when a posse of farmers organized a search, and at 9 1- '-k the victims were found lying oitfiL 5-) feet of each other. Lulu Ingerick, 18 years old return ed to the farm at 5 o'clock Friday evening. She had left the house early in the morning with the Olney broth ers, for whom her mother was house keeper. The men rode in a wagon, carrying a c m of milk to P.lgrim Cor ners. When she arrived home Friday evening she was accompanied by Amanda Wheat, her sister-in law. They found the house closed, and her mother, sister and the men were not to be found. In terror, Mrs. Wheat and the girl fled to the Davis farm, adjoining, where they asked Daniel Davis to go back with them. Mr. Davis complied and searched the house from garret W6 the first fl~or. He became greatly alarmed, for the ousehold goods were in cinfusion, a trunk and several handbags being burst open and bureau drawers pulled out and their contents strewn upon the floor. In the cellar, huddled in a corner, was the body of Alice. The little one lay upon her face, with hands extend ed above her head. The skun was crushed. The alarm was given and neighbors hastened to the scene. The Middletown police were notified and half a dezen detectives drove out. Lanterns wmi procured and a torough s:.reh of the premises made. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Ingerick was found with her skull broken, in a acant horse stall in the barn. Al hough she had three wounds upon he head, any one of wh'ch might be xpected to have instantly killed her, she appeared to be only partly insen sible. But all attempts to learn from er the details of the tragedy were navailing. It was believed she might know the identity of her assailant but tat she was determinedly shieldmng 2m. Alexnnder Merritt, who took er and the body of her daughter into town, became impressed with this idea The woman made several at empts to arran~ge her skirts, and tree times in the half hour's ride raised her head and groaned. All night long Police Chief Brinker aff, with several deputy sheriff, searched the roads and lanes near the Olney farm, but without result. With :aylight two hundred men many of temp armed, joined the searchers. he Olney farm les at the base of a range of densely wooded foot hills. It onssts of one hundred and seventy acres, and the brothers had bought the right to cut cord wood in the up lands. One of the searching parties penetrated the woods. Chief Brin kerhoff and Deputy Sheriff Holer Herman led this party, and Fred Olaev, son of Willis C. Olney, was wth him. They had scarcely entered the wood when Ring, the Olney collie dog, ran out to meet them. He barked and turned back into the glade ;as if in viting them to follow him. The searchers followed into the Darby woods, where the body of Frederick R. Olney, the younger brother, was discovered. The man lay upon his back, with his hands over his chest A w,. uud behind the right ear showed where the bullet had entered. Loss than a hundred feet away Willis 0. Olney lay with four bullet wounds in nis body, one entering the right side and one passing entirely through the chest. The wound In Frederick's head bore evidences of having been inflicted at close range, and It appeared as if he might have been surprised and fell without, a strugle. The elder brother seemed to have tried to escape and was evidently brought down after three bullets had been fired into his body. Oae went through the right arm, another en tered the right groin, a third the right chest cavity, passing through, and the fourth through the throat. No evidence that the bodies had been carried to the spot was found, and it is believed the men were sur prised by an assassin, who followed them, and that they fell almost at the same moment. Their pockets were turned inside out and their gold watches and all valuables were miss ing. The autopsy developed that the brothers had been slain with revolver bullets of heavy calibre. The motive for the crime Is believed to be robbery; for the brothers are known to have had about $700 in cash between them., -within a few days $150 had been paid to them, and they drew a considerable sum from a Mid dletown bank Charles Frummell, of Howells, below Middletown, paid Willis Olney $84.47 a few days ago, and Thomas Ogden, a mls dealer in Middletown, paid the brothers a bill of am0 on Wednesday morning. FARMRS' INSTITUTES. To Be Held in a Number of Counties This Year. Clnason college will hold Farmers' Institutes in those counties desiring them this fall and winter, and J. N Harper, director of the institutes, ha sent out the following Information about i1: The Southern railway has granted t) Clems.in college the use of a cr for Farmer's Institute work. The college is going to have this car fitted up with all of the latest appliances for mak ing butter and the most improved methods of handling m'lk. If the farmers wish it and will funish the milk, they can see the utensils put to pr.c !cal use in separating the milk, ripening and churning the cream, etc. In this car we will have samples of about 26 varieties of corn and will lecture on those varieties that are best adopted to Southern soils. We will have about 30 varieties of the most improved types of cotton. We will also have on exhibition those insects that are injurious to the field and garden products with the insecti cides to be used In destroying and era dicating these injurious insects. Tae state entomologist will deliver lectur es on the proper method of using these secticides. We will have diagrams and charts showing the conformation of dairy and bemf cattle and will have with us ex perts to deliver lectures upon the breeding, feeding and care of all kinds of live stock. We will also have with us a magic lantern and will give illus trated lectures upon a number of ag ricultural subjects. These lectures will give the results of the experience of a great number of practical f .rmers and the result of experiments being per formed at this college and other agri cultural -:olleges over the country. We will have views showing the effect of different fertilizers when applied to cotton, corn, wheat, oats and other farm products. We will have samples of those compounds that go into the manufacture of fertil zars and will have experts to deliver lectures on the value of these compounds when put into fertilizers. We will have material to show the proper way of making grafts, the prop er methods of pruning fruit and shade trees, the method of retaining grape vines, all of this with the view of ob taining the greatest quantity of fruit. a this car, will also be on exhibition work of the Clemson college student n other departments of the college aside from that of agriculture. F.r example: machines designed and made by the mecchanical student, and fa brics of all kinds made by the textile student. Can't Hang Him. Because of a pecular freak of na ture Robert Garwner, a prisoner in the county jail at Chicago, charged with the mu-der of Agnes Morrison, may escape the death penalty. When te was arraigned in court his Attor ney, William Buckner startled the court by turning t) Assistant S 'ates ttorney Barbour and saying: This is a case where it wont do you any good o ask for the death penalty. They can't break this man's neck if they try to hang him and you may lose him ltogether by hanging him and failing o execute the sentence in full." It appears that the prisoner is suffering from ossification of the vertebrae and tissues of the neck. According to Prof Steffenson of REuch Medical college only five cases similiar have came to he notice of the medical profession. Attorney Buckner declares that the harding of bone and tissue had pro eeded so far that it would be impos sble to bring any strain upon the pa ient's neck that would be suffliciently severe to cause any discomfort other han a slight straining of the muscles A Strange Vase. That Mrs. Mary J. Harris, who died at her home in Newark, Satur day night last, had a vision of the death of her son, who died in Little ton, Col., on September 6, is believed by her relatives. Mrs. Harris, who ad been ill, was much concerned over the condition of her son, who went to Colorado for pulmonary trouble. On S *ptember 6 the young man died in the night. The news was kept from the sick woman. A few days later the mother told the members of her family that she had seen her son in death the night before. Eiforts were made to remove such an impression, but the mother would not be c )mfort ed, and her own ce ndition grew stead ly worse. Finally the d- ctor told her husband he bad batter break tbe news of her son's death to her and re jieve her mind. When she was told Mrs. Harris looked np and ss-id:I knew it all the time." Deadly Football. Forty-five deaths and hbudreds of serious injuries is the record of foot ball for the last five years, according to a canvass made by The New York Herald. The result of this was printed Wednesday. In almost every instance the death or injury was due directly to heavy mass plays, against which. Herald says, President Roosevelt and the country at large are protesting so vigorously. Sixteen died as a result of internal injuries, four frcm broken necks, six from concussion of the brain, eight from broken backs, three from paralysis, two from heart fail ure, one from lockjaw, one from blood poising, one from hemorrhages and two from memingitis inced by spinal injais suffered in play. The ic juries included ten legs and four teen collar bones broken and four kulls fractured. Killed by Cars. John Turner was instantly killed at Lamber, Florence county on Monday afternoon by being caught between two ag cars while the train was in motion on the tram road of Williams & McKthans company, of which he was an employe. Guests Left. The appearenice of a negro football layer at a table in a Chicago hotel aused the hotel to lose eight fami ies who were boarding there. The management of the hotel exeicised the right of choosing their guests and the boarders e'vercised the right of nhosingr their associates, TOOK A PILE. A Missing Money Clerk in the Express Ccmpan 's Office. ACCUSID OF THEF One Hundred and One Thousand Dollars Consigned to a Cincinnati Bank is Believed to Have Been Stolen by Edward G. Curliffe. Who Is Missing. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says the startling discovery was made late Tuesday of last week that the Adams Express company has been vic timized to the extent of $100,000, sup posedly thrcu.;h the peculation of an employe. The following cMcial state ment of the affair is giv,:.n tne Associ ated Pce.% for publication. -"At 4.15 p. m., Monday, Oct. 9. a bank of Pittsburg, Pa., delivered to the Adams Express company at their office at 610 Wood Street, Pittsburg, a package of currency containing 100,000. Of this amount $80,000 was in $100 bills. $10.000 in 850 bills and the remaining $100,000 in $5, $10 and 820 bills. The $100 ard $50 bills, is mue of the Fsrmers' Deposit N itional bank of Pittsburg and the Bink of Pittsburg, N A., were in the main, ntirely new; scme had been slightly ased. The $5; $10 and $20 bills were Ad currency. The package containing his large sum of money was consigned to a bank in C'ncinnati, 0210. "This package was received and re sipted for by E 1ward George Cun ff 3, who was then acting in the place >f the regular money clerk, who was t1l. "Cunliffe left the cifiee at the usual Aime Monday evening and Tuesday orning when he failed to report for lty a hurried examination was made f his department and it was learned 5hat about $1,000 of funds entrusted o his care were missing. General agent Aimer, of the Adams Erpress :ompany immediately called in detec ives and placed the matter in their aands. Later developments brought o light the fact that in addition to be $1,000 missing, the bank package ontaining the $100,000 had not been eceived at the money forwarding of ice at Union station this city. "Irquiries made at his residence, 9o. 314 Lucerne street, West Ead, Pittsburg, showed that Cunliffee ar :ived home at the customary time ruesday evening, and. after changing s clothes bade his family good-bye, laying to his wife that he was going )ut for the evening and nothing fur her has been heard from him." A war ant has been issued charging Cunliffe ith larceny. Caugbt at Last. P. B. Bellamy, colored has bien ar ested and lodged in jail for the al eged promiscuous burnings on the plantations ef JAs. H. Daniel, near illen, Ga. His arrest has been kept very quiet in order to catch the white nan who is said to have assisted him n the burnings, but it is now under ~tood that this party has skipped to uba. The plublic will remember ~hat for four or five years past as rego arly as the Christmas holidays rolled Iround the community was astound ad by a big fire on Mr. Daniel's plan ation. ~Once it was a large barn and ontents. At another time it was a gin house and many bales ootton, ihen the dwvellng and outhouces and it last the stables and fifteen or twen ey head of mules and horses in all en tailing the loss of the immense Imount of almost fifty thousand joliars. Deadly Paxior RL fle. Broadus Westmoreland, the 8-year ld son of J. F. Westmoreland, who ives in the Western part of Gaff ey, was the victim on Saturday afternoon > a very unt?nial and perhaps fatal iscident. Stacey 'v smooreland, a arger brother of the boy, was in the ct of shooting a chicken with a 22 rifle. Tae bullet from the gun pass ed through the leg of the c alcken and striking some substanice on the gronr.d supposedly a rock, glanced and struck the little boy, who was at play some listance away. The bali entErr d the :best of the little fellow and ranged upward. Phi sicians, who were sum moned, fcund it impossible to locate the ball and extricate it. The boy is said to be resting well, but as to whether or r.ot he will reover it is impossibe to say. Broadus is about eight years of age, while Stacy is abcut eighteen. Saved Her Child. A dispatch ffom Co~umbia says passegers on Wednesday's midday Clumbia, Newberry and Laurens train tell a thrilling story of a little child's miraculous escape from death and of a mother's heroic intervention. While the train was speeding between Little Mountain and Chapin, a 6 year old boy, whose name could not be Learned, was startding upon a car seat by a open window when the rapidly mcving train 1u ched around a curve and hurled the little fellow headlong through the window. The mother, who oacupied the seat behind, reached ar over the intervening seat and aught the boy's ankle j LSt as it was disappearing over the sill. Capt. J. S. Land of Columisa who was sitting opposite, quickly rendered aid and assisted the wonmen in rescuing the Bachelor Lax a Succese Cablegrams from BaenosAyres says; The new bachelor tax is a great suc cess, and girls and widows are happy. E rery healthy male has to pay a part of his income to the state beginniag with hIs twentieth birthday unless he marries, and bacthelordom grows more expenieve with years. A 50 year old bachelor has to pay the state $350 per annun or become a benedict. A I ter the fiftyv-first birthday the tax de creases. A man of 70 pays only $10 a year for being single, and when he is 80 the baliff takes; no more notice of his family affa'rs A F UILY AFFAIR. n Interesting Chapter to Insurance Folcy Holders How Sci cX the Old Line Insurance Are Woy kod f r the Benefit of Certain Families. Jafmes Hazsu Hyde, James W. A:exander, Jabn A. McCall. Georg W. Perkins, RWcbard A. McCurdy, Robert H. McCuidy. The New York Amcrican editorially says these are a f-w of the ins1ra:ce grafters who should be tried o - criminal char ges. Commenting on the Inv.stiga tion now goir g on in N.w Yprk of the insu-anee companies' the Niw York American says: "We hope and telieve that all the pe.'ple (f the Uai ted States are readIng day by day the reports of the investigation of the methods of the life insurance com panics now in progress. The brkzan confessions of grafting, looting and p culAtion made by the heads of these companies are so apparent to even the casual reader that there seems little need to call attention to them. If any man holding a policy in the Equitab!e. the N::w York Life or the Mutual Life dces not discover frcm the testimony of the cffcials of those companies that he has been sold a gold brick, or butchered to make a holiday for the families of the presidents, he must be more than blind-he must be insane. Now, mark, these man who have been taking the money painfully scrap .d together by hard working people to furnish a fund for the support of their wives and children after-death are eminently "respectable." They live in beautiful houses in Morristown, Long Branch, Newport or other charming spots. They are members of the "best" society, but for all that they have done things that demends investigation by a Grand Jury. O all the crimes which New York has known there Is none so heartless and so cruel as that of w rch McCall and McCurdy are co-i'esecly guilty. It is high time that wha' t ey have done should be look d a: In i.s proper light as a crime-a c. iue to be pun ished by a penitentiary a etence-and not as a mere matter o. corporation inance. ie money paid into the insurance companies is not, in the main, that cf rich men. We hear now and again of people who hold policies for $500.000 or more. They are the exception. The great volume of the insurance assets of something more than a oll lion dollars is made up of pcliies of $2,000 or less. These policies repre sent the painful savings of hard work ing men, savings on which they can aope to realize nothing, savings laid up to save their wives and their boys and girls from privation if death should take the wage-earner away. Could there be any more sacred fund! Could there be any trust rc I posed in a man that shou'd b, quite so faithfully administerec ? And yet this is whas the heads of two life Lisurance companies did with these funds: THE NEW YORK LIFE Iohn A. McOail, president 810,000 Darwin P. Kinsley, son in-law, second vice-president 40,000 ohn C. McCall, secretary, son 14,000 Ballard McCall,- son 10,000 mbrose McCall, brother 9,000 . E. McCall, brother 10,000 Walter Fitzpatrick, brother in-law 7,000 rank Dolan, brother-In law 7 500 Albert McClave, son-in-law 6,000 Tnere are also at least ten other -latives of President McCail who hold ni1or places that pay them from 1,200 to $2,000 a year each. THE MUlTUAL LIFE. President Richard Rizhard A. Mc urdy $150,000 RLbt. H. MIcCurdy, son, general manager, salary 30,000 ,bert H. McCurdy, general manager, commissions 100.000 . A. Thebaurd, son-]n-law, commissions 147,000 . A, Gillette, cousin, connected with exas agency; commissions 75,830 EmLs J. Moore, brother-In-law 12,000 . Stuyvesent Pilot, cousin to brother-In-law 15,000 The story of boys of nineteen to wenty-one being paid out of the fain ily loot salaries of $10,000 to $20;000 Is too familiar to recuuat here. But what of the man who earns $1,500 a year and pays the rascally parasites You, who may read this editorial, may have an insurance policy, taken to keep your wife or ycur child from want if you should die. Does it not ompel ycu to scrape and save to meet the yearly premium? Don't you once in a while lie awake wondering how you are going to get the money to keep it up. Andi now, when you find your money, and that of a host of other people like y ou, is being used to maintain useless cificials, all of one family, in luxury, don't you think that it is time to act-time to put scme of these rich and respectfully scoundels in jail? What more contemptible lot of ras ca1s has the world ever known than he men who send agents to gather In he money of people of slender means ad then use It for their own profit? f the criminal law is unable to reach hese smooth scoundels, new laws shculd be made to ser d these men to the penitentiary. The mere matter f restitution is notning. They are riminals and should be punished as such. Killed Two. At Chicago on Wednesday Robert Newome, colored, ran amuck and killed a policeman and a woman and fatally it jured a negro. Newcome went to the home of Fiorence Force, colored, 1255 West 61st street and during a quarrel shot her dead. -Rob ert Snow, colored, went to the assis tance of the woman and was fatally shot by Newomie. Newcome then barricaded himself at home and stood off two squads of policemen an thour, firing many shots and killing ti2lser John Shine. Muntinonst Srcokers. Thirty-three firemen o-1 the White tar line steamer Oceanic were arrested upon the arrival of the v'essel at Liver pool, charged with cambining to re fuse to obey the masiiers command, -ave been sentenced to seven day s im nylnnmentI DUE TO CLERICAL IRORS. The People of Dorchester Have Faith in Their T-vasurer. A dispatch from St. Georges to The State says the recent suspension by Gov. Heyward of County Treasurer Whetsell and his refusal to reinstate Mr. Whetsell comes to the people of Dorchester county lika a clap of thun der from a cloudless sky. With very few eic ptions if any, the p:ople of the county believe that Mr. Whetsell is an honest man and that he has been guilty of no criminating conduct dur ing his incumbency as treasurer of the county, but on the contrary, they feel atisfied that if there is any error in is r tfie it Is du! entirely to cleric.l meV ks. Y u zorrespondent asked Mr. Whet ;- riday for a statement, but Mr. v n~sell said that until a complete uid impartial exmination of his books ind accounts was had he did not care o make any statement for publica ion, for he felt that his concience was clear and to prove that this asser ion is correct, and that his actions Lre characterized by honesty through ut, he put up the alleged shortage to rcer that his constituents might not ,ven run the chance of losing a penny. Ar. Whetsell did say, however, that Ihe alleged shortage arises from annu i settlements previous to four 3 ears go, which annual settlements were ade by the then cop pvroller general lor whom the present c)mptroller ene:al was auliting clerk and made he settlements himself and prononc d the same all right at the time. Mr. Whetsell's friends look upon the recent occurrences as very unjust to Hr. Whetsell but Mr. Wnetsell being i modest man, daes not himself use mca harsh expressions. Tae cansn ms of opinion here is that Mr.Whet ell will obtain complete vindlcation )f the whole matter as soon as an im partial investigation as to the condi Jion of his off!c. is held. Will NOL be Done. Since the issuance of the order by ihe post. fu se d.,partment that all rur il rout mail boxes should be num )ered not later than September 30, sonsiderab'e dissatisfactlon has arisen Lmong many of the smaller cities of he country who have discovered the reat injustice it would bring to them d the undue advantage it wculd ive all mail order houses. Aiver ising matter and circulars c..uid be ;et out by these houses without rnowing the names of their patrons, mply by addressing their circular etters to all numbers from one to 130 Lnd they would then feel safe in hiLnkLing that every patron of a iur l free delivery would receive their rinted matter. French War Balloons. The huge Lebaudy dirigible balloon, onstructed under the patronage of e war crAne, at Toulan, France, has nada its first successful ascent with me chief engineers and a party of efflcers, who made an extensive rEcn ia sa.nce of the military defences from L'roul to Nancy, near the German ontier. The distance covered was bout thirty miles at a rate of twenty Ight miles per hour. The cfiiers nade inspections of the forts and tock hotographs of them, thus establish ng the merits of dirigible ballons for var purposes. Japan's Debt. Former Japanese Foreign Minister )kums, referring to the sudden ex ansion cf Japan's finance, said that ven the withadr.wal of the troops Is ompeted she will find herself con 'ronted with a debt of $1.250,000,000 ,he annu!al interest on which alone, oughly speaking, will be $75,000.000 r nearly twice the revenue of the ~uty ten years ago. Tne per ,apita rate of taxation before che war var $2. Now it is $6. The per capi a share in the national debt before ie war was $6. I s now $25. Pity Tis So. Churches will sing and sing "Rescue he Perishing," but when a membar, ~oung or old, makes a misstep and goes wrong, there is very little at ~empt to rescue. The tendency is to pusn them deeper down, rather than esue them. This Is especially true n regard to girls or women. They ing "rescue" but act "push down." [n the case of men It is a little better, mless his failure is in his business. Iaen instead of praying for him they Lili prey on him. * A Big Crop. The census bureau has Issued a bul .etin showing the produ~tion and dis Gribution of the cflton of the United tates available between September ,1904 and September 1 1905, to be L4,4f5.994 bales. Of this amount 91 per cent was exported, 30 per cent was used in domestic c nsumption, eaving a surpus of 9 per cent. The lomestic comlumption includes 36,776 males destroyed by fire. His Fame" S::care. The Savannah News says they may put Tecumseh Sherman in the Hall of Eame, but the fact remains that his ame rests on two things: that he iaid 'War Is hell", and illustrated his neanir g perfi. c ,1y on his march to the iea. As a part of the second reason the nost prominent was his burning of Jolumbia. How curious it is that any >ody wants to perpetuate that sort of About Right. The New York Sun says that the est way to inclucate business, moral .ty in the Insurance business, would e to put some of the leading men In t in jail, there is plain living and xard thinking. The same rexely vould be af~cacious in other lines cf usiness, and especially as to public affcials. ~ Serves Three Years. The supreme counrt has confirmed bhe judgment of the circuit court in ohe case of Gzo W. Murray, colored, of umter, farmerly corgressmanl from the 7 h district, convicted of forgery m~d sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. Murray Is said to own 560, 000 worth of real estate In Sum ter county. A NEGRO was taken from constables near Bainbridge, Ga.. on Saturday and lynched by members of his own race fo eaniauting a yong colordd won-an A HEAD FOUND On a New York Street Wrapped in a Shirt. A HORRIBLE MURDER The Forearms and the Lower Portions of the Legs Were FountdPacked in a Suit Case. Germaa Arrested for Crime Protests lilr Inocense. The finding of a man's head In New York City on Est E'ghteenth street, near Avenue C. early Thursday re sulted in the discovery of an unusually revolting murder, the victim of which was Thomas F. Corcoran. Corcoran was killed probably Wed nesday night in the house No. 149 Third avenue. After the picking up of the head the other portions of the body were found cut to pieces In the Third avenue house. The arms below the elbow and the legs below the knees had been packed in a Euit case and portlns of arms and legs were hidden in a clothes hamper in a room occupied by Frederick Bauerf an elevator run-er. Bauer was arrest-. ed. The point at which the head wasK4 found is more than a quarter of a mlt. away from 149 Tibrd avenue. Theheadt was wrapped -n the Sandaysupplement of a German newspaper and a blue and white shirt. The murder was disco, ered through a story told by George Lanole, who had a room adjoining Bauer's and who rushed Into a polis station Thursday,. saying that he had lain awake for hours listening to nos. -s which he thought proceeded from Baer's room, He said that late Wednesday ight he heard at least two men quarein in the aijoining room. He heard a shot and the sound of some vue falling to the Ior. Then he went to sleep. About 2:30 o'clock Thurday morning Lanole said he was awakened by strange noises in the roomwhr shnt had been heard. Twice a man opened the door and went out, and Lanole, after laying awake 11tening for some time, decded that some of the ssunds he heard were the nois 6f bones being broken. This suspicitO caused him to notify the polse. Bauer was fcuad entering his room by the police and saidto them: "I found my room like this when I awoke this morning." ' He said he had brought two mento his room Wednesday night, one asold fer, Baner fell asleep while these men alked, he said, and when he awoke he sAdier was gone, leaving the ther's body as the police found it. The police found that Bauer's socks, he right arm of his undershit and he right arm of an outershirt- were overed with blood. A badly niched razor was found on the top of a trunk in Bauer's room and a revolver with one chamber empty was also found in lthe room. Baner, who is 39 years old, is employed as an elevator man at the Union Square ho el. The p:olice make the allegation that it was a crime of degeneracy. For the Schools. The situation regarding profits for the schools from the dispensary has been looking a bit anxious and uncer tain for the past several weeks, there being no money forth eaming from the dispensary since January, when $68676,77 was paid in as accuring from sales made in 1904. Wednesdray the state dispensary people turned in a check for to the statt treasurer for $25,000, the first money to be credi ted to the school fund from sales of this year. They say $25,000 more is to come in a few days. While the investgating commission -was sitting here a check for $28,000 was turned in, but this was to be credited to the dispensary fund itself, the money coming frOm sales of various kinds and not representing profits at all. List year there was paid Into the credit of the school fund 8236,263,17 and the year before *186.602,83. Negro Veteran. The funeral of Amos Bucker, an ante-bellum negro took place at At lanta Thursday. He was a member of Camp Walker, United Confederate Veterans, which followed the body to the grave as an honorary esort. Gen. Clement A. Evans, division command er of the United Codfederate Veter ans, officiated at the funeral, and among the pallbearers were formed Governor Allen D. Candler, Gen. A. . West, Judge W. Lowndes Calhoun, Er. Amos Fox and B. S. Osborne. Rcker followed his master, "Sandy" Racker, through thie civil war In the 33d Georgia Infantry, and has been a familar figure at Confederate reunions f or years. E ditor Guilty. In the case of Alfred B. Willams editor of the N~ewsLeader at Rich mond who was chaiged with violation of the election law in the recent Demo cratic state primary, the jury re turned a verdict of guilty and fixed te amount of the fine at 8100, at the same time expressing the belief that Mr. Williams unintentionally, and recommending that tlie fine be re mtted. ________ Lynched. Shortly after midnight Friday a mob of shout one bundred men, sup posed to be from Trenton, Ky., took . Frank Leavell, a one-legged negro, from the jail at E kton, Ky., and lyn ched him in the near-by woods. Leav ell was arrested onthe chareof at temptng to enter the room of a young lady at Trenton Saturday night. H. onfenned.