The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 18, 1905, Image 1
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.