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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 19O6. NO. 20. LOCAL OPTION. Bill Passed to a Third Reading in the House. HOW MEMBERS VOTED Under the B.11 Charleston Can Issue Uquor Licenses and the Other Counties In the State Would Have to Accept Prohibi tion or Establish Dis pnsaries. The Morgan local option bill, which abolishes the State dispensary and creates county dispensaries or prob bition, according to now each county votes, except in Charleston, wbere they can issue liquor licenses, estab lish dispensaries or adopt prohibition, passed its second reading in the House of Representatives on Tuesday of last week ,by the same vote it passed its first reading week before last. The bill passed its third read ing on Wednesday and was sent to the Senate. Should it pass that body and receive the governor's approval it will became a law at oncz, unless it is attacked in the courts, which is prob able, as some gcod lawyers hold that the provision in the bill givir.g Char leston the right to issue licenses makes the bill unconstitutional. There were efforts made to kill the bill, then to amend it, but Mr. Sand - ers, who was the fl)or manager, kept the bill intact, and Mr. Waaley, to gether with the othor members of the Charleston delega-ion, kept the Charleston license clause intact, al though there was a fierce ontaught on the license clause. It was expected that there should be a fight on ths bill going thrnugh. Col. D. 0. Her bert, of Orangeburg, took up the fight against the bill. He stated plainly that he was opposed to Char leston having high license and then went on to sympath'zs with Charles ton wanting something d' Iarent from the odher counties. Col. Herbert con tended that this was wrung in princi ple as well as unconstitutional. He protested against the passage of tbis bill. It has been stated that under this bill as it now stands general pro hibition can be had. This is a mis take. If the Prohibitionists believe this, they are being deluded. Tas bill, this thing of threads and patches, will not secure prohibition. Under this bill counties having dispensaries will have to pay 10 per cent to the State, whereas Charleston, having high license, will be exempted from paying anything to the State. COI. Herbert said this matter of county dispensaries won't do. It won't do at all. He insisted that It was all wrong. Every dispensary in operation to-day under this bill became a county dis pensary. Simply changing the name did no good. He voted fcr prohibi tion because he thought anything better than the Morgan bill. This Morgan bill would bring a lot of fes tering sores all over the State. Capt. Hamel said this was not the experience of Georgia and North Caro lina. * ol. Herbert said the bill was abso lutely without restrictions. The coun ty boards could buy at any old price, any old liquor, and pledge the credit of the county althout limitation. If this bill be pasesed the State simply multiplies by 35 or 40 times the op portunities for stealing. The people ci not seem to appreciate the sert curses of county dispensaries. Tne committee bill regulates the parchase of liquor. In this bill there are no resanctions of the county board. The bill, he thought, was directly in con Bic; with the Constitution. He urged that the Constitution was written in the disjunctive, and never contem plated county adoption. There is no local option in tne Constitution, and he did not think there had ever been any argument against county adop tion. Capt. Hamel said the county dis pensaries were simply the lerser of the evils, and the county dispensaries would certainly get rid of the State dispensary. Mr. Cats pointed cut that the credit of the c~unties culd only be used for the first purchase, ar d only the first. Col He bent insisted that the coun ty dispenstrie were unconstitutional, and could cot be legalizad. Mr. Hemphill torut a turn at Col. Herbert, and showed him some of the wagon ways in the dispenss~ry bill. Mr. Hamel said that if the dispen sary advcestes had gone with the Prohibitionists the licmse question would never have been an issue. He related how the Prohtibitionists in tue Constitutional Convention aided the dispensary advocates, and made it possible to hav5 a license system. The Prohibitiontists in that Convention fought against licenses and the dis pensary adv.acates forced the license system into the Constitution. Tne Prohibitionists were simply trying to get the best they could and that was why they favored the~ Morgan bill. Mr. Sanders tteu Hook the floor and argued that thers w?.s nothing in the worldi in Col. H -rbert's position. He said there was nothmg in the objec tions made, and that Charleston would have to pay its same propor tion to the State. The Constitution was absolutely plain that county dis pnas were legal. The Constitu tion even permits municipal control, and it plainly provides far count3 adoption. The debate wais warm and Thu State says Col. Herbert "roated"' thu bill severely and made a number 0: thoughtful poin:s against it. Mr. Pollock, who was opposed ta the bill, wanted to speak, but Mr Sanders, who had the bill in charge applied the gag law by caling thi previous question. Mr. Podl on ted on his right to be he ard but friend t theo bill did not want to have I further debated, and insisted on te previous question being called. Mr. Pollock was in no mo:-d to have the gag law applied to him withcut a fight, and so he dercanded a yea and nay vote on the c1ll for the previcus question, which resulted in a vote (r 60 to 45, and the pre'ious que~stion was ordered, which cu; rff all iurther debate. The dispensary advocates voted for continuing the d--bate, and the advocates of the bill voted to shut off further dtbale. Several amend ments were fftred an-) voted down, and the bill was ordered to a vote with the following result: The following voted to establish county dispensaries by voting for the bill: Ardrey, Arnold, Ashley, Banks, Bass, Beamguard, Bradham, Brice, Browning, Cothran. Dabbs, Davis. DeVore, Earhardt, L. B. E-beredge, Fishburne, Foster, Fraser, Frost, Gasque, J. P. Gibson, J. W. Gibson, Gray, W. MoD. Green, Hall, Hamel, Hamlin, Harrison, Harley, Haskell. Hemphill, Hayward, Kerphaw, LAw son, Lofton, Lomax. McMaster, Ma say, Laban Mauldin, Miller, Nash, Nsbit, Nicholson, Otts, Patterson, Raaves, Rucker, Sanders, Saye, Sea brook, Sell-er, Sheldon, Sinkler, Sni vey, Strong, Taylor, Toole, Tribble, Vander Horst, Verner, M. W. Walk er, Wimberly-63. The following voted againzt c)unty dispencariee by voting against the bill: Speaker Smith, Boyd, Brant, Brace, Clifton, Celler, D-sCbanps, Doar. Dukes, Epting, E. J. Ethrdg Faust, Ford, Geuse, Graham, D L. Green. Gyles, Harrellson, D. 0. Her bart, Higgins, Irby, Keenan. Kirven, LAFitte, Laney, Lester, McColl, Mc. Faddin, Nsncs, Pittman, Pollock, Rawlinson, Richards, Riley, Stoll, Turner, T. M. Walker, Webb, What ley, Yeldell-40. The pasage of the bill was no sur. prise to the friends of the dispensary. As soon as Mr. Sarders could secure the floor he put the parliamentary ohncher on the vote and the bill was finally closed as a second reading inci dent. A MODEL F&RM To Be Established at St. Matthows by the Government. A Washington dispat.h to ths Niws and Courier asys Rpreentativn L--ver and Eilerbe evidently think thn they can be of mom service to their people by looking after the pracical side of the work in Washington than by mak ing speeches upon qaetions about which there is no division of senti ment in the House, for ins-md of tak ing their time to prepare a lot of stoff which can do no good in Washingten. and can only serve the purpose of home consumption, they are at work trying to get something tat will be of practical benefit to their d!strices. Friday tbese gentlemen called on Prcf W. J. Spillman, of the agricultu ral deparsment, and after presenting their claims succeeded in iuducing hin= to establish diversification farmt as Sb. Matthews, and at Marlon Court House. The plan of the 'epartment is to co-operate with soms progressi ve faimer at these p-inzs in conducting a model diversification farm. The department furnistes all of the plans and the expert supervision, while the farmer furnishes, of coume the land and fr rtilizer. E v.r;thingt h grown on the farm which wtil a-:d to its productive value and a comiple:s accurate record of every trau.ction i:1 kept . Tue results will be complied and furnished to the publ:e at large in the fo'rm of bnlletin;s. Eoch f arm Ia intended to be an ocular diemoustra ion tao the community in which it is located of the practibility anid profit ableness of diversification fsrmzng as against the prevalent one crop system we now have. Tnere are two of these farms in the State. One at Columtia in Mr. Lever's district: and one at Spartanburg, in Mr. Johnuson's dis trict. These have been successful In a measure, and it is the hope of these Congressmen to increase tue number in the State. Nine People Barned. On Wednesday morning a small house near Curtis, Md., was destroyed by fire in which were burned to death nine colored persons only one of the inmates escaping alive. The victims were: Richard Taylor, Horace Jack son, his wife E-1zi. and their son Samuel, a youth of 17, R osa Jackson, a widow and her cuildren, Ida, a grown daughter; Susan, 11 years old; Isador. 9, years, and a six months' old baby. The only inmate who es caped was Eaa Webster, who jumped from the second story windo w to the~ ground and gave the alarm. When the neighbors arrived, the house was a pile of blazong and smoking debris and when the b dies were recovered nothing buo the charra d bones of the victim were left. Accordirg to the statement of the survivor, LE~l Web ster, the fire was caused by one of the younger children who got up to stir the fire in the chimney place and a' cidentally scsttered ccals cu the door. Wedded on Deathbed. At Wilmington, N. C., with his life ebbing asway, Dr. R'cchard-J. Paice and Miss Evuztbeth Viijgins were married Wednesday fnorning. D-. Price was unable to ise his hend and the respouses ware titt~ered in a 1o x oi nce. He was a surgeon iD thd United States army in the Phi 19aines and ranks as first lieutmut. Wnile In the Pailppines he c nracted tu berculoris, and returned to this coun try. For a long time he was at F -rt Byard, Nrw Mrxico, but receu-ly returned to his home in Wilmlr-gton. Dr. Prict and the young woma~a he married had been engaged for several years. His death is expected at so.) moment.________ Who-W-as He. An unknown man, with $31,268 in his pockets, fell off a train near CaV iforna, Ky., on Saturday night and was killed. He is thought to have come from Hagerstown, Md., but there was nothiing by which lhe could be-identIfied. Manv Divorces. -The Augusta Chronicle satys thirty t vo divorces were granted in tl'at city Saturdr-y, week ago, eignCee3 f ;her being for desertion. Tue Ci:rcniel rghtly says the record ia not one an: civi-z'd community can b-e partCicuar ly proud of. After all the South Car I olna way is the beat. A BATILE ROYAL, A Negro Leads a Band to His Brother's House AND MURDERS HIM. The Leader of the Band Fired Upon the Officers Who Went to Arrest Him And is Shot to Death by Them After a Severe Battle. El. Pinckney and his half brother, Jem Pinckney, two Florence county negroes, had had a "falling out" over some land in their possession. Frrom day to day the trouble grew until Sunday week ago, when the two men had a fight. That night Jesse Pinck ney made up a crowd to go to El Pinckney's house and thrash him. The crowd, as recogn!zsd by Ed PInckney's wife and diughter, was composed of Jeme Pinskney, Isaac Pi.okney, Jr.. Willie Brown, Jim Williams and Sam Hart, all negroes. What happened is thus described by the Florence ocnespondent of The News and Courier: Arrivirg at the house Jesse Plnck ney cll-d f r EI Pinckney, but he rfused to got up or bother with Jease Seeing than Ei was not coming out nor going se get cut of bed, Jesse Plnckney fired his gun through a window towzrdz Ei'a bed. The load .f shot struck the bed, between Ed Pickne' and his wite. both of whom were lying in the bad. Thcen Jwe lith the butt of hi; guu broke the door open and the crowd entered the bous! and began to baai E' P2ckney over tWe heA with their guns and witi sticks. P:Ictnev's wife man. aged to get out of their war, for a t:me, by hiiing beneaah the bad The crowd continu:d beating P'nck acy over the nead with the busts of their guns ard the clubs ts they bad carried there until thay had bru tally murdered tWe ola negro in his bed. They tuen turnd to hunt for his wife and soon fcund her. S) was daggee from beneath the bgd and they btat her so badly that ?te will hardly recover. She bas a terri ble gash across Vhe her.d and numbers ,'f bruises about her faoe and body. She finally su.ceeded in getting away and hid in the woo.ds nearby. From Ei Plnckney's house the crowd went to another negro's, Sam Johnson's, and called him to the door, As soon as the door was opened they began firing at Johnson, whao is a brother in law of Pnckney. Joanson w.s badly hurt, having neen struck in the face and body a numb~er of times. They then rusaed in on John s:;n and in the somei~ Johnson's throat a.s cut almost from ear to ear, and he was le-ft for dead, bue after being attended by a physian he revived and mayq recover. During the fightt wita Jonn~son, Charlie Ja.mes, another ne gro, who came to Johnson's as stance *as also shot. Toe crowd of rumffsmn then visited several other acuses, and three or four other negroes were snot or cut by members of this band. Jesbe Pinckr~ey, just before daylight went to his nome, and upon reaching ~there told his wif.e to nte the chil dren and get away from there as soon as she could, for if a.ny one came at ter n1- he was going to shoot them as la.J as he could hold his bead up to see them, and said, "1 am going to co-ok my own brcakfast, even It I have to eat it in hell." Notice was sent to Coroner Cooper and tine Shteriff Burch to go the scene of the killing to hold the inquesst and to arrest Jesse Pinok noy. The two offcers left Fiorence as soon as they could, Sher.ff.Burch crrying his deputy, .Mr. iwin 0. Harrell, along with him to assist in making arrests. Arriving at the place where f~he muroer was committed, which is .in tti Brick Church section,.three rmils southeast of M.as Bluff and three miles north of Claussen's. Corousr Cooper viewed the remains of old ma~n Ed Pinckney and soon ha~d a jury. T.ie j.ary found that he came -to his oeatn an tne hands of Jeff -2mekne; and the other negros, alady men tioned, two of whom, Ieaec Pidekney, Jr , and Wiihe Barn, ware present antue ircq-ost. W:arrans -.ere issued by Corner Cooper :and gi;n to the scVenEf to arress tae glkilt7 par 3s. Isaac Pinckney, Tr and Wilhe B a*n were arrested'.bithout much tzoube and were sent oE ro FLorenec and Iacked in jsii. Shner:ff Burca then started to arrest J-ose Pi'ccney, and es.rrltd with him D puty Hr-nl and Nels an Watsou, tie lys men tied as a gu:de to direct tue. party no the house.3 Arriving at PI~Zkue~y's house Ste sheriff ple.ced~ her dsputy at the biet coar and he apprsed the front d..or As s~On as Pi.ocsey heard that was there Le m.adesa dastto l1-ave then nuildim-g. As he opensd thle dOr .-ie saw ~glson Wazemhe nrg~ro gaidei -itt-ing on a me e drectly,. mn fron;. rnclhls threw up his gun and firedi tohe lo' tokmng wa-os in Warans izeed ;no b.ody. W as>n rode off withei,~i further warning .and WenlS for al-phy4 sician, leanug the he-riff arnd hisi d-eputy alcne to protect tnemselvan or gul Panckney. shein-f Baron', wai.. stanaing guard, could n'ear Pinc'n.& ~oding his gun, sand s pouring o: .imot in the mnzzie made enough n'o si for him to kroLW abou:) where he -wm sa3.mding on the inside of the isanse. Bath he and Deputy Harrell thin be gan firing their Winchests Ercugh, the side of the house with the. hope of wounding Picckfney enough to make him surrender, but cuon was not the result. Earch time they woulG~ shoot Piuckney would return the fir. t urough a door that wa protected by a curtain which obscured him from tue view of both offlers. This co::stani shooting at eant o-her was ksyt up for a half hour and finall Piney came to the door again, where he could see Harrell but where Harrell c.u!d not see him. Within 15 feet of each other the two men stood face to frce, firing and re firing at esch other; Pinckney all the while standing to one side of the door and pokirg Lis gun through the cur- V tains to sho:;t. Harrell, think:ng that he stood directly bebind his gun, would shoot at the gun, and each time missed his aim. Piuckner's shots, at each c'ack of the gun wou'd go either to the right or the left of Harrell's body. Luckily for Harrell he wamnever Wt by a ball from Pinck ney'fgin. When Pinckney found that his am munition was about exhzusted be made a dasn out of the back door to H1 escape. As he came out he directed the muzzle of his gun at Harrell's face and tired, the load passing near the left ear of Harrell. Harrell quIckly threw up his Winchester and fired. This bal took effesct in Pinok ney's hand, tearing it so badly that he was unable to stand, and he fell upon his knees and tried to reload again. Just while doing so Sheriff Burch shot, and the ball entered Pinckney's head just behind the ear, and came out on the opposite side of at his head, near the jaw bone. This ch quickly put Pinckney out of business bb and in two minutes he was dead. Coroner Cooper was sent for and emoanelled another jury and a ver- W diot that Pinckney came to has death dii at the bands of the sheriff while in ul discharge of his duty was rendered. tI< As soon as the verdict was rendered the sheriff and the other officers came on to the city, arriving here late in by the night. The sheriff will use every Oa kff:)rt to arrest Jim Williams and Sam m! Hart, the other two negroes, who tig managed to get away, and who are Pr implicated. St Od man Pinckney, who was mur ered by the crowd, is said to have tu been horribly beaten; so much so that be the bcdr was hardly recogn'stble by ih the jury or even his own family. His WC eyes were beaten out of his head, hl Ci kuLl bone crashed in in teveral places Of all of nis teeth knocked out, his collar Is xne, three ribs and one leg broken itA sad his fxoe was pummelled to's-jnUly. 5' To.is is the terrible story -as. told by DO the heriff in parson. and it Is revolb Ing to t,e extreme to think that ruch be aegto brutes live in a civilised com- th nur:ity. to] Old man Ed Pinckney was a good mi ld darky. and was highly thought of 2o -1y the white peeple In the Mia Bluff th sietlon of the county, being polite, :.cnest and respectud. He was a kind to] >T a preacuer in his community and. Iu sught school at time#. Sheriff Burch tal ind Deputy Edwin Harrell certainly leserve grsat credit for the bravery YO itown. and for the capture of Jesse SP Pinckney. He stated to a number cf wC pple in %tat community after killing a: 1Id man Pinckney, that he was going aD :o be another Simon Oooper, of Sum. :er county, the negro who defied the be: 3umter authorities so long a few years PO: go. he Ca WhIrled to Death. in Mr. Press Fulmore, who lives near I' avalry Lutheran Church, in Aiken ha ounty, was taking his little children no , school in a buggy a few miles from~ he: :ore, when the horse took fright sei and ran away. With remarkable ea >rsence of mind he took thres of the in Ittle ones and threw them out of the ble ugy saving them from serious in- for ury if not death. Thinking he could th ~hen get the horse under control, he go pr.ve all his attention in that direc ion. Ooe, a little boy, jumped from "$ ~he buggy, and his hea struck a mi >oek cau.sing a severe Injary from an which he may die. The other, a lit- tri le girl, about 7 years old, attempted pri o save herself by jumping. Her rei ess was caught in one of the wheels wh ind she was ba41~y mangled. She was , hirled over and over, as the animal in pd rapidly down the roadway, and was dragged uusil the team come to complete stop. She was so badly by urt tuat she lived but about an hour ed snd a half. It is reported that Mr. rulmore also sufered serious injuries. fra ?fnu buggy was demolished. The old se of the children is about 10 years o :- age, and all of the unfortunate 0 nans family were involved in the ac- p ~ident, excepting his wife and small b aby-.c A Bad Wire: st Advices from Woodville Miss., or tates that the Wilkinson sounty ~rand jury has r'eturned an indici- t nent against Mrs. W. 0. Stewart on he charge of poisoning her husband w he alleged motive of the crime, she eld a t10.000 life insurance policy on o he life or her husband. The indic~-t nm-nt alleges that Mrs Stewarb ad- W nistered morphine to her busband r 10 quuntitles, with the felonious in- p' ent of killing him, and it was only ar hrcngh the prompt action of mem- CO bera of the Stewart family in sending or physicians that the life was say- w Dank ~ar Tonaic: C. J. Kimball, a prominent travel- aL og sakemsn, and a negro barber died .fi at CGdelle, Ga., as the result of is: :iritikng a well-known hair toaic for in intoxcating purposos. They drenk -ial i~e medicine Wednesday afternoon. S Kmooall died during tue night and f3 ee negro Thursday mor'niug. Tihe mD c;roer convenea a jury ahd iusid an inqoest the verdict Deirg th:a, th.ey aI came to their death fre.m internal ra pclrning.se~lr admistered. . G's go 0. Coin.pald to ba the to presi*~f a gcid mining 'oempany t SGidfidN vada, causad--tne ar- -di rtt d!Khis wife M~able, and. Trank -s aid;.a chsihtteur zsad a. -ormer -:zplo e, on tne Oaerge e-f grand- lar- of saiy. Coismn allge n was doe .enred by rtie wifron Janary 15. ia.t *a za wrnica 1:neais chi~.vffur lft him o ad be discovered tne bo:: o1 50.000 h siures of a goltd mining colupany fo At Maccn, Gn., Cicero Taylor, a i y oung white man, committed suicide ba Wednesday in the Butland district in were he lived, by blowing out his ez bains with a 44 calibra revolver. Tue only-message he lef a behInd wa r a brief noye..to his young wife, telling of her so be irae and take good care of w, their unborn chili. He was 22 years at o age, and had baen marnied about (H l DIRTY BARGAIN as Made to Pass The Local Option Bill Says SENATOR TILLAN, i Chaiges Corruption in Dispensary Management, and Asserts That a Straightening Out is Needed. Says The Dispensary will be the Issue this Year. Mr. Zaoh McGhee, the Washington rrespondent of The State says San or Tillman insists that when he aracterized the method by which e Morgan bill passed the house as a lirty bargsin" he meant just that )rd and no other, though he says he I not mean to reflUc0 in any way on any of the Charleston delega . Says he: "I said there was a trade which Charleston's nine votes were nt for the bill in consideration for Lking that most remarkable excep in for Charleston, allowing it the Ivilege denied all the rest of the ate of having license if it wants it. "There may not have been any so Il overt trade, there may not haTe an any formal agreement, but the Ing is so self evident that it isn't irth while for any body to deny it. tarleaton has always been In favzr loosl option, by which, of course, it meant that it wants saloons, and representatives in the legislature w that. the only way to get it was vote for this 'eill. "Likewits the antidispensiry mem ra from other counties know thrat e ordy way they could get Charles i support of a so caled prohibition a ure would be to expeec; Charles from its operation by giving it 5 third choice of high lIcense. "Else why did they except Charles 2, and why did they not except Co nbla also, or Greenville, or Spar 2burg, or any other town? "Why, it I, plain as the nose on ar face if they had not given this ial privilege to Charleston they uld not have got these nine votes the bill wouid have been defeated, d they know it.' . few weeks rgo it will be remem red it was reported in this corres adence that Senator Tillman said had notbing to say on the South rolina situation, considering that a general way it was not his busi is to interfere and that he had his uds full here. &s a matter of fact, there can be doubt that he has his hands full re, about as full as any man in the iate, but he instinctively keeps one Sto thed ground for what Is going on South Carolina and it Is as impossi for him to keep out of it as It Is him to sit quietly in his seat in senate~ when a spirited debate is ig on. - 1 would be a fool," said he today, sit here in Washington, however ich I am absorbed with affairs here 1 see the people or South Carolina eked without at least making my test. And by people I mean the i majority of the white people for com have struggled." Fhe senator was once called down the senate for using the word rickery" when referring to the pres nt, so I asked him what hie meant It in this connection. "I say trick " he replied, "because that is what ppears to me. The Brics law dis ,ncises one-third of the white men the State who can vote in the Dem raic primary. "Besides, the enemies of the dis csary, why for yeara have controlled a State, have been putting men In arge of it who have mismanaged It, >len from It, brought it into bad ior, and the newspapers which are d always have been bitter against dispensary and against me, and lc make a practice of suppressing atever is favorable to the dispen ry an.d loudly vaunting what unfav Lible to 1c, are the ones which have e largest circulation and the. onies sich these 'ddftwood legislators' id and look upon as the law, the pes and the gospel so the people hoodwinked, ben there is a time ming. "Tue people will get a chance to press thomselves next summer and trout any Brice law to d::sfranchise y f themn and oostle theci up. Al! y need is somebody to stir them up. d let thern know what Is going cr. ie dispensary will be the decidli g tie in tae wtiule csmpaign, not omi; &gs ''.i-f mamoters of the le atire but ini evesry electionl in ate, for gcv.Trnor, fcr Stite offioc g r county ociors, for my successOr the sena-..e and all." Something was said 1est summer u the senator ruuning for govec irlnmsad of for tn~e senate and er has been some su-:a talk here un pernaps emanat~Ug from some c' ious~ represenltst:ye4 not averm teg called-uop. by rue people to Ite a afore enied -seat. A--ked the rect quession today, Senator Till "Ys, I have thoughb many times doing that. The only condidlo: as would induce me to consider it,-. rvover, from a persoral s-.andpoinlte md be the fact that my health oul be suuh as to m-.ke it unwise r me to remain in Wa~sch-gton and tend to my duties here. - But some dy uhtto.tke up .the fight in uth Carolina and stralgtenishings the interest of the people .who are ing hood winked, put the dispensary god.3uape and otherwise given an smple of honest politics." . Those who think he contemplates unig far governor say tbhalin case election, after serving ons term.-he .uld gain Eeek election to the- sen e and thus break all previous .ree d In his or any other State. Of us he wound loe his prestig-e on committees and his recognized plaoe s one of the leaders in debate and o forth. He says, however, that should he ever leave the senate to become gov ernor be would never return. "In that event," he observes, "I am done. I'm wetting too old. "Now another thing," said Sena or Tillman, "I see sLmebody is get ting off that old jibe about my hav ing criticised Hampton for meddiling in State affairs while he was cenator and charging that I am doing the same thing. The d:ffrence is just this: Hampton took part in a personal contot between candidates, engaging in a fight between one man and an other running for office. I am tak ing no part in any personal contest, buat in the discussin of great issue, which it is my duty to do so long as I a n a citizen of the State, especially when I see an institution which I created and fostered attacked, and attacked In such underhanded, such a cowardly way with every conoeiva ble political tricr and with a lot of hypocrisy." Killed Herselt and Children. At Bogton on Wedne.day morning a woman and four children were foun dead in bed at their home. An invas tigation by the polict indicate that the woman, Mrs. Annie L. Dixon. bad killed tie cnildren ad hearsif by opening three gas jets. Tne childrer were Annie, aged 5 years; George, three and a half; Mildred two years andMarion, one year. The tragedy was discovered by the womsn's hus. band. Arthur B. Dixon, when he re turned home from work this evenlag. Dixon found. the hcuse locked an was obliged to break In the front door. He, found te bodies of h3 wife and children in a bedroom. Rodical Examiner A. A. MacDonald decided that Mrs. Dixon had killed the children and herself. Dixon told the police that he left home at 6 o'clock this morning- to go to his rork. At that time his wife was up, :he children were all arake and he did not notice anything unusual. Dixon is 31 years old andlhis wife was 27. They had been married fVr about six years. Of late Mrs. Dixon had ot been in good health. VISltm of Assassin. A dispatch from Ti says the murder of Gvseral Griazat ff, chief of he staff of ebe Vioeroy of sne Oancs -us, was most dz.matic and audacious. 'he assassin evidenuly had studied he habits of his victim and lay in wait behiind a wall of the Alexand-r Qarden oiposite the entrance to the palaes, where a omrriage was dra-5n 3p to take tne general for his daily rive. The amasin Impersonated a painter, carrying the bomb with which ae committed the crime concealed in & paint-can. He was thus able to reach als place of ambus without suspicon, 3mneral Griaranoff, clad in a crims.n aitform, made a shining target.. A, he general stepped into the carraige, she man sprang on the wal, swing 5he can by a cord and the bomb, as if ihrown from a sling with marvelous precison, sped straight to the mark mnd struck the general on the nocK. k. flash of fire and a terrific explosion a~llowed, and Griazuoff was literally lown out of the carriage, with his soachman and Cassack orderly, and ine laster's horse was instantly kill d. A lady who was pessinigat tbe ime of the explosion was mortally wounded. The .asesin was caugnt, >eaten into insensibility by thre in urated soldiers and carried of" to the moient forbress above the c:ay, al.n.. s Tfils is undermartial law, be will arcbably be exeu3nted at dawn. His .dentity is unknbwn. A Convict's Luck. The winner of the $25000 prize for :orrectly naming the asnaanoe ar he St. Louis exposition in 1904 was 'rank Campbell, a convict in the Nebraska state penitentiary. who still has about on. year to ser ve. Dampbell was convicted of emrb'.zzle mnt. He will receive only 812,500 f the prize, as he fearing dlcuay in securing the money while iis was iiprisoned agreed to pay a lawyor half of the prize in case of succass in tecuring it. OCupbell's attordey had a conference with him at Lhe penitan tiary In regard to the disposliin of the money wh:cn will be received in a few days. The conv.ct wll be un able to use the nconey unuil his scrn tence expihes. Madeo a Chance. No am.f stir has brAdiln the religious werid-by the reet ovcr son of REdward Evergt Hale, Jr., third son of Bosus. emeiin-as U Jira risa pari, from Uanaaian to* er~aglical Curisaiiy, Mr. Hale is profesor of Engian ~ltersture in Union College, Baacay N. Y.. and he will soon j L :is 'o it Pr.s byteiao Curchi 7 b:' 0:i7. Having lican der.crib-d in The Wasing ton P.st ss a noble red man, Lwyer Robent L. 0 en has written sileter to sY.e eadior. "I nwd as a -af-svident truth", he says, "that a man is nine-qynine pa~ris Irish and o't part Cheroke-e is to all intente and purp.a' an-. Irishman, even if he s by the aruaes of the Unaited State a Cherokee In.Jaa." ktase 8:11l P'ssed The Natiooal H..usa of Rrpresenta ivs on T' ursday tucz a voite unl he H;pur:o railroao rate bil. The roiu call began at 12:15. The bull was pased by a vote or 242 to 6. Those voting againsa t.he bui were McCali .nd Westa of Machuse;L; Po kmns Vrelcd and Sounawick, of Ne Y:rk, and~ Sibley, of Pennsylvama, all Repabcans. Two Mor!, Do.Dp'ed. -T wo mor, maidsarp nen of the third cla.ss were disiised fromn the navai academy as a result of the court irar ;ial fndings on a cha'h of hazing, Secretary Bonaparte having siend an order dismssii) Midshipman Ricord L. DeSaussure, -of the First Southj Carolina district, and Midshipma[n George H. Melvin, or the Fiftecnth district of Illinois. Pased the SDate. Mr. Tillman's resolution directing the committee on 'immigration to make an investigation of tne Chinese booott of Amerncan goods was adopt a Wednesday by the Senate. HIDDEN AWAY. A Rich Young Lady Kidnapped and Held by Force. A LORD'S DAUGELTER. When the Mysterv of the Case is Clear. ed Away a Story of Real Roman" In Nigh Lifs Will be Re veled Says the Detes tives. With a desbtive seeking a wealthy mewer of a well-known euantry elub in N -w York, guardng all names witv the greatest ears, through polee iua- sea was revealed a tale of romane and eoventure wbien would have comm.nded itself to Wilkie 'Collas. Tne natural daughter of an Nglish word, kidnapped la a private yacht c the eossa of Japan, is in a sanitarium In s country a raving maniaa from her experienee. The club member Is accused of the kidnaping. B&ak -of it i. the tale of a o:nrested estate in volviug the Lrd, a French countes3, an old e. capsain and the man want ed. No namis were given by the po lie, but will be later on. Nt a line was revealed at polies headqiarters except to admit that Detesive Sergeant Wakefi was out on a most extraordinary es.e. "Sot a name," was Inspector McIaughlin's announeement, "until the man is found. It will then all come out". Wakeflild was not at headqarters. He appeared on the Jeffarson market polIoe &nr, SUurdAy. With him were everal sarangers The detective ser geant privatei-y obtelned a warrant after reciting facts as some lengin to the magistrate. HE departed immed lately, sayi-ig then ta wtea hA cAughb his man there wcuid be fll explanatlon. The story as it trickeld out Wernes day, stripped of names, is th; an English nobleman wnlle sraveling in rance, in 1876, met a woman who sfterward became the motner of a oaild. This child, a girl, was taken to Eugland by the nooleman, who, at er keeping her apart from his family for some listle time, consented to her adoptioa by a san captain. This cap uain was inscharge of a merchantman plying b-twe London and Yokona. ma. A countess, a member of the family, is 'in some way concerned in the case, but how the police will, not state. The daughter, brought up at Yoko hama taking an oCoatlonal sea trip with her ade.%tSd father, is sad to have come often in contact with her real father, who lived on an English asate. More recently thds child was spoken of as likely to inherit a large fortune from her titled father, and because of that .onre one thought it admirable to kidnap her. The method employed by the kid nappers was sensationlal. Is is report ed that the young woman was taken dif the boat on whion she was apas senger when only a mile or so from Yokohama, and taken aboard a yacht. Six weeks later the yacnt is said to ;-ave been located in New York har bor somewhere, but the young woman passenger was missing. Tne London .and Yokohama police corresponded ~with tnelir oaole system, and later the liw York police were told by cable to seb ab sus flazding the girl. The invastigation pursued by the central effioa detectives resiiad in their loo-ting the Victim in a sanina rium in Neaw York City. Ilt was asbated Wednesday that when the y'ant came into port witu the your g woman on board the authoriLias found to young woman virtualby a pril oner in a cabin where she was kept for six weeks, the time wnich is sa'd to have .elapsd fro m the day sne was kidnapped and thie day the yacnt was reported at quara4ntine. Thie quIarantine authorities discov ered very qaickly that tne youhg wo mian was mensa~lly unoalanced, and It was rep-orted she had become a raving maniac. Central c.ffoe detectives visited Jef ferson Market polce ouirs on several surccessive days last.- week, anticipat ing a visit so court -of a man w1-> was reported to be a patron~ at the Wal dorf Astoria hotel. YE)r some reason the~ man, who was expectedi to- make a f .rmaj affllavi-t of complit ngoa wnicai a warrant was to be asnxud rur, did no.t go wo cours. Tn.- on.ral cffl detezrives weot to Westceesser couo y an-i esid amoisg other pla~ces, it is sai, at a prominent country c~ub trnere, se.ek ing some one upon who-n taiey insen edto serve tneo warran3t. At the Walidort AE~aria hoeSO omm1g could 06 lejarned xgaring tne id.ansisy of one my5terion., patron, said by the police so ha~ve beea btopplag~ there. --*We know absomumely nothing of the asse," sid ?ne management, Tne police bad aeen at work on the0 case ror two weeks prior so goirar Into onrt so ask for warrants. JFormer Pallee Oo-amissioner M-Adoo is said so nave been acqueited with the case through. Actinlg Inspector O'Brien, who was in cnargre of the detective bureau whon the &>jndon polce first notified tne New Yoirk authorities. Datzeatives who nad the tne police oourt end of the case in charge refinaed from the outset to speak cocoerning she case. In fact, both denled that they were seeking warrants or expecting the man from the Waldorf. Fatal Dieae Samuel Smith and Robert Bobert son, Baptist deacons, got into a fight in a church at Owensboro, Ky., on. Sunday over the question whether John D). 1I.ckefeller would ever get to heaven, and R.ibertsen klwed.Smith. Simeon Wildar and John Hatchett, partners in the sawmiul business, were killed by the explosion of a stjeam bo'le- in Crawford county, Georgia on Wer-&aday. THEY REiNT IT SEN ATCR TILLMAN'S.INTERTIUS C ALLS FORTH REPLIES. Mr. Fankler. 1r. Eamel and the In known Mr. Tabbs Take Is tice of Senator's East. The interview given out by Sna tor Tillman in Washingtca in regard to the legislature of South Carolina caused som - comment on the part of s.me of the members of the Lagisla ture. MR HUGK sINE-N. Mr. Sirkler in rising to a question of pers nal privilege Wednesday said; I rIse to a qsesrilon of perbonal privi iage. 1 spea. for myself and my state mcnt is made on ace:.unt of the fol lowing paragraph pablished In an in erv:ew with Senator Tilima whib appeared In the afternoca papers W-dnesday and in the morning pa pers Tuiursday: Without Onares zon's nine votes the Morgaa bill would have been defeated by a msj-rity of two votes, so If the Slate dispensary is abolisiLed at this session it will be done by a dirty bargain bstween tht old barroom element in Cnarleton and these 21 prohibitionists. "As a member of ils body for many years from Ctarleston I would be: lacking in seif-rwepedt, earelau of your esteem, if I permitted this reek ess, u.j ut, untrue charge of bargain and sale of my Oenvieians, and my onvictions on this measure remain unchanged. No bargin was ever made to my knowledge, nor was my vote inspired, influsneed or centrolled by a barroom element or any other element or person whatever, and the charge so boldly made is lasking In truth and dignity. I voted for ioal opion because I believe the people aave a primary and fundamental r:ght to say and settle for themweves waat they want. Furthermore, I would have voted for VbA Morgan bill t Cnarleston nemr got the option of aigh license, although I believe Char eson should get what she wants and every other oounty should have the same privilege. It is not my purpose so retaliate with abusive epithets but Aimply to make this statement In vindication of my Atbitude and vote and in deferencos to my friends Inthis oody wivose good opinion I vzlue. CAPT. E A Es RlVMk The tubstance of wnat Capt. HIm el said Wednesday morning Is as 101 lows: "So much had been said sharging prohibinionists with being in a co = pame or unholy allianee with the li o.ne people that I wanbed to stat my posiion to be in opposition4o license: tias the Morgan bill was not my b-ll and I had nothing to do with ita prep ation. "Tie prohibitionists had nothinz to do with its being an issue there. hat responsibility was upon the :spesary people, who, in the ean sjtauonal convention of 1895, cooper ted with the license people -to put aat option In. "Mr. Clayton of Florence had offer d an amendment to the original sec tion prepared for the regulation of ne whiskey question, whtan amend nenri provided that the lieensing of r.e sie of liquor should bie pronibited n thle constniutionl. The prohibition ts in the convention were working .u. en the dispensary people for the dopdion of this amendment, as It woud umit the choice between dis persry and proioition. Bat the ate of the dispensary was banging 1n tle balance at ahab rim~e and its eon ,ii:.uioaliy was being. .tested In the. coras. A member of the convention undrtook to picture oonditions as tey would be under State prohibi non in case thle dispensary was de aared nconstientional and he toot ~but the same view that the oppon nty take now regarding blind tigers ovrrnninig probhioition counties. TIXe dote was aejourned and a con trenCe was held be aeen the dispen ary and liense people, and thre pre sent section waMsue resut of their gziberations5. Tne dhzpensa.y peuple nc not tne pronibitioniste, in unn.,ly ailance with tue license element in oe onvention are risponsible, there fore, tha~t we have the issue of lcense o const~er at all at this time. Ini teir votes here In this legIslature te prohibitionists are seeking to oonesty caodse thaejIewier In a c~ioici eteen evils," MR. DAB3 5 EE3ONln. Mr. Dabos Wedneteday, by request made tce Lollowing statementi: "Ini reply to 1the 'ranting interview of trie seni:or senator, I am~ flaattereo tat my prediction has come true so n. C, q'inker than I anticipated. I aa inii ju-.sifiestion in predieting hari he would rant on every stump for he had annonnoed his determlina ten as long ago as last summer to wnip the boys Into line te either save his pet institution or take tils siump or prohibition. If he will give out suach a 'ranting' interview and, as uuai with him, so full of inaccurac les, as wile be seen by reference to Sile fts zhown by the aye and nay voOe on thle Mrgan billand Mr. Hamei'5 .LIIJ tion 2mendment, and thabto at C lng range from Wasiington, wilst i.L he do wuen he begilns his band primary on tne stump?. "Tne nistory of hia pre-vious eam paigns gives all the answer needed2. I im no; uneasy; 1 know him too well, even if I am to him nnknoGwn, My p tia on she dispentary was, as 1 ,hoght, well known ID Sumter counl ty. I cortainly- would not have be rome a candate, if I had thought I nud not have the right to give ex prsinto my convictions on thie lijor of the house,-as unmlstakably as I kew how, jus.as for 20 years I *aave from time to time in public prit." -~ Mr. Sinkler's remarks were accepted as they were given. Mr. Kernhaw oriefly cmmended them and inoved~ that Mr. Siukler be given permiis1on to print his statement in tile journal of the acut-e. Mr. Sinkier modestly stated that he did not care for the privige, but the house granted It myway.