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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 9. 1906. NO. 32. HOT SHOT FIRED Into Several United States Judg es in the Senate BY SINATOR TILMAN He Claimed That Spooner Had Acted Harshly Towards Him. but Said He Did Not Object to Befrg Call ed "Rude," Because lie Was a "Rude Man." During the debate in the United States Senate Thursday on the rail road rate bill senator Tiliman took the flaor to put into the Becord anum ber of statements he had gathered to justify his position that the people distrust the federal courts. Prelimi narily he announced that he did not intend a wholesale onslaught upon the judiciary and he acquitted the sup reme court especially of questionable proceedings, although, he said, it had "wobbled" more or less. In the south, he weat on, there were may - xoellent Judges, but en the othe ha- some ol nem had been ,guilty of ." questionat.le and dis creditable acts." Many (I them were he said, ur duly prejud!ced in favor of the railroads add were wholly u flt to be trusted with the power of passirg on railroad questions. Hence he ar gued that there would be no great risk in preventirg their i-terference in such cases. 'It is utterly absurd to show that the judges are higher creatures than other mrn,' he said. I He referred to the div1ion of the 1 supreme court on the income tax case saying that in that case one of the judges had changed his mind. "Thus" he said, "the practice cf a century reversed and the country submitted merely because of the plea that the highest court of the country must be sustained." He alsocited other cases in other courts intendtd to: show that some i judges are not only not infallible, but not incorruptible." The first of the references was to Judge Smith Mc Pherson of Iowa, who was represen ted in an article in the New York World of the 30th of March last as t having appeared at a barLquet to Gov: Cnmmins at Council Bluffs in such a ondition as "Dot to be able to 6 stand up without clinging to the ta ble. Mr. Tillman next referred to a pleasure trip to Tampico, given byi( three Kansas railroads to Fdera& Judges McPheraor, Paihfps and P-A lock. The accouns was condensed I from the Kansas City papers and showed that the judges had been 1 transported in a special oar and weret - accompanied by the general solicitorsi of the railroads giving the excursion.c Mr. Tillman said that Judge Phiillips 1 had been especially commended by the president in connection with the( Paul Morton case and he centrasted the president's course in this case withb his course In critic'zing Judge HunLD-i rey in the beef packers case.a I believe it has come to be c-msidery ed good law to Issue injunctions a gainst strikers," said Mr. Tillman,a and added, "if It is not the senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Spocner) will1 correct." The manner of t.his appeal to him evidently angered Mr. Spoon er. He rose and replied sharply say-. ing: "The senator from South Car ,olina forgets what is decent when he hallenges me in that way. Mr. Tillman maintained that Mr. Spooner had acted very harshly tow ard him, and charged him with hav ing been "indecent." To this Mr. C Spooner responded that he would withdraw the word and substitute "rude." This satisfied Mr. Thilman who said he did not mind being called the word, because he was a rude mani and did not care. Mr. Tillman con sidered the case of Editor Daniels of'a the Raleigh, N~. C-, N~ew and Ob server, who had been placed in prison1 because of a refusal to pay a flue of 82.000 for criticising the appointment1 f a receiver for a railroad by Judge Prnell.C Mr. Tlllmrn Insiated upon with drawing his question and apologising but Mr. 2pooner remarked that he asked no apology. Upon an apparantly goodnatured command to Mr. Spooner to sit down, Mr, Tillmnan and the ihair became involved in a spirited coloquy as to who had the floor. The decionl was favorable to Spooner, who remarked that in ordering him to take his seat Mr. Tillman merely had accentuated what he regarded as "a great piece of rudeness." After Mr. Tiliman had offered an apology Mr. Spooner sat down with the statement 'hat he did so of his own volition. Mr. TiInmanl had read an editorial from the Columbia, S. C., State oon cerning the Judge Purnell case, up holding the position taken by Joseph us Daniels and quoting from a discus sion of Circuit Judge Pritchard of North Carolina, declaring that pub lished criticisms or even libel of a judge is iiot contempt of courts In having the editorial read he stated. "I have that article read with espec lal pleasure because it does ample jus tis and speaks in the most compli mentary way about Judge Pritchard." When the reading was concluded Mr. Tilmanl said he would pass on to Florida, although he could review in stance in his own State of acts of ty ranny and indecency, hut ths judge Scommitting them is dead and has set tied his accounts elsewhere. Tne sen ator said he also knew some cases In Georgia, but that he would take up the case of Circuit judge Pardee in en joying the Florida railroad commIsion from instituting suit to compel the Loivleand 1Nashville railroad to cents a mile. He enarged that Psrdee ought to be impeached for his course. Mr. Tilman next paid his respects .oth .. eao udg Carls S. Wayne of Florida, whom the senate refused last session to impeach and asked to incorporate in his remarks a statement prepared by Rpresentative Lamar of Florida. Mr. Tillman then closed with an apology, explained that the situation was such as to require the administering of "some pbysi." He would not allow the judges to "roam up and down the land, doing whatever the railroads want and refusing to grant relief to the people." Senator Beacon of Georgia made a spirited defense of the federal judlci ary and deplored the fact that their misdeeds were given such publicity which would necessarily result from this recital in the senate. Tillman asked him if he had not voted for the impeachment of Judg - Swayne. Beacon made reply to "ohis bunch of ques tions," as he called them. He had vo ed for Swayne's impeachment, but that he said was a different thing from criticising a judge before he had been formally accused. Senator Beacon was applauded by the Republicans as he sat down. Announcing his conviction that Mr. Tillman needed no assistance in pre senting his case to the senate, Mr. B.ley took the floor In opposit:on to Mr. Beacon's contention that the j - dictary should not be criietsed on t, doer of the senaite, he believed in d branding wrong wherever it made its appearance and while as a whole be had the utmor, corfidence in the ju- b diciary of the Ucited S'ates he could c not overlook the fact that there were , some unworthy members of it. SHOZ If UU. rw4 Young Men Tried to Kdl Each g; Other. Js U The Columbia State says a sensa c tional shooting affiir bet-ween Dr. di aowland K. Smith, formerly of Co umbia, and Mr. T. H. Brown, a wel' mown lumber man of Chapin, occurr d at that p'ace Thursday morning. di Both men, It is said, emptied their uns at each other, but neltLer of ihem was hit. The shooting occurred hi Ls the train from Laurens over the Co- in umbla, Newberry and Lsurens rail. c -oad was leavlg the station, and It is U ,leged to be the result of the rela ions between Dr. Smith and the wife lii )f Mr. Brown. wj It is said by those who saw the l hooting that Dr. Smith was boarding he train on it way to Columbia when cy Er. Brown opened fire on him from ei he side cf the track. The doctor dash- at d into the baggage car and returned to he fire through the door. The passen .era on the train were greatly alarmed )y the firing, bat no one was hurt. Dr, Smith continued on the train nd came as far as Irmo, where he ac topped, and, it is said, went br.ck a brough Cbapin on the next train w a that direction and went on in the s Ilrection of Laurens. Mrs. Brown kit de ,napin on the night before the shoot- ! rg and went from there to Laurens. " R.mor has it that the names of Dr. " ;mita and Mrs. Brown have been con ected by gossip for some time, but E hat on ednesday they were seen ogether walking In the woods and it ras this and the suttsequent departure if Mrs. Brown that brougnt the mat- ~ er to a crisis Tirursday. d The affair was reported to President ~ ihilds of the Columbia, Newberry an~d e aturense railroad soon after the arriv ro 1I of the train Mr this city. Mr. Unulds t nvestigated the matter carefully and nnounced Tziursday afternoon that h ~e would place the case in the hands A f the attorney for the company with "~ view to having both parties arrested t or firing lito and from the train. He ri ras indignant that the passengers onm is road snc uld have been submitted Pi o this danger, and seems determined ~ o bring the case into the courts. tC Dr. Smith is a son of Capt. C. M. 4 mith of Columbia, the local agent of he Arlantic Coast line. He is about Ot 8 years of age and is a married man. Ir. Brown is from Virgitzia and is ~ onnected with the lumber mill of gc harles P. E binson of Chapin. fl Bow to Destroy Fle.C A priza of $3,000 has been awarded y the Paris Manin to the anonymous es nysntor of a new method of getting ' ~id' of house fl ea.. The method is a trictly scienitidec, and, it is claimed. le will completely destroy the eggs, 8 hich are usually deposited in drain ipes. Crude petrol mixed with na ater is used for household disinfect- te ng purposes. The drain pipes be- li1 ome lined with the oil, which both in lls the eggs already there and pre. m ~ldes the deposit of others. When c lesired the petroi can be poured son ol ine soil and the latter sprinkled in 3~ ~orners. This, it is said, is thorough- p1 y effll.acious in destroying the eggs. tO he operations should be carrrled outi n the spring to obtain the best re ults. Killed by Bomb. t A dispatch from Paris says a bomb th xposion occurred in the forest of be 71ncennes Thursday afternoon, kill- ma ng a Russian named Strie and nec lanqerously wounding a companion th tamed Bousanoff. The men were fo: proceeding through the woods, each ~arrying a bo0mb with the evident >urpose of hiding them for futureU le. While so doing the bomb which trie carried exploded, killing him in tantly. Boussnc2f wats s.truck by ragments of the, bomb and 1efitfully acerated. The remaining botfb has ~ not yet been examined owing' to the langer in handling it. Bold Thief. fr A horse thief operated on Broad- gl way, just above City Hall Park, New w York Thursday afternoon, and pick ng for a pr ze a handsome bay and fo rubber tired runabout, valued at at 1,000, owned by Maurica S. Locks, fo No. 141 Schenck street, Brooklyn, ar :rove rapidly away, while the owner ce was in an cffi.e building. lo Blindi Stdent Excelled. i One of the most interesting figures p1 in higher mathematics, in geology, le was a blind student who hails from a fir soall country town in North Carolina. tt Ee has mastered the most dimcult at ourses in higher mathematice, in geo- at logy, won a degree from the U~niversi- ir: y of North Carolina, and is now work ing for a dreern of M. A. at Harvard. h WANTS TO HANG. Murderer Rawlings, of Georgia, Asks the Governor Not to SUSPEND SENTENCE ie6Bgs the Governor Not to Pay Any 1 Attention to Silly Appeals for E t lis Reprieve, But Let Him d Be Executcd At d t Once Frrom his cell in a Georgia Jill a ondemned murderer is sending forth a ,ppealato stop all efforts to save his 0 ife and demanding to be hanged. 0 This unique example among mur- t erers has written a letter to Gover- -1 or Terrell, of Georgia, insieting upon is rights as a murdarer legally 1 ndemned to go to the gallows on the b ay named by the trial ocurt-May 4 8< 'hrough the newspapers, when they 0 iterview him, he makes the same de kand.q Tais anomaly among condemned intenced murdurers Is a former cler Fman, the Rev. J. G. Rswlings. In 61l with him at Valdosta, Ga., are his re' sons, Leonard, Milton ard JesseW mvicted for compl c'ty in the mur er last June of littie Willie and Car e Carter, children of W. L. Carter, i! h whom BKiwlings had been at feud r years. As the actual shooting of the chil- la :en was done by Alf Moore, a negro, ho cnfessed, dtclaring that Raw ags paid him to do It, many persons terested themselves in efforts _to e, Lve the sentences commuted to life l :prisonment, and the case was even d rried to the Supreme Court cf the t sited States. d Rawlings's emphatic and open re n natment of these i fforts to save his si 'e created a sensation In Georgia, h uch has not yet subsided. In his ii zter to Governor Terrell he said: "1 respectfully urge your Excelien not to 'interfere with the speedy :ecution of the death sentence. I a a tired of the business, and I want t be banged as soon as possible. Cu IGED THE GOVERNOR TO LET HIM Si HANG. "My boys are innocent, but I do cil t believe there Is any hope for tenem ti( d they feel as 1 do, that the sooner ch are hanged the beti.er. We are go fering more than death now. The s lay and uncertainty are far worse sm an the gallows, and I hope you a 11 do nothing to prevent a speedy ecution of the death sentence." wl Being interviewed for this newspa- st r, Rawlings made this remarkable g mand still stronger. He sait: an "I am desperate. I don't care any mi ing about the decision of the Su- an eme Court, and I had rather be tb ad than to stay shutuplin this dark an Ld stifling cell another day. It will fri it me exactly to be hanged to-mor' m( w, and the sooner it is done the bet- by r I shall like it. l "I have written to my attorney, r. Cooper, asking him not to take Ra y further steps in the matter, and a let it go as it stands. I have writ- bu cx to the Governor demanding my kn r a. I don't care anything about tw r own fate, so far asit aff acts me so] ronally, and I have only wanted to de: a thus long in hoe of being able all do something to save my Innocent : 78. no "I expect to die like aman, and ha e of the greatest regreta 1 have is it account of my mother. I have a it written her, thonghi, that I shall faa to my death bravely. She is old sw w, and can't bear up under such ti liction even as well as my wife en D. t "But that can't be helped. I am titled by sentence of the Court, to st s hanged by the neck until dead,' th id in simple jastlce I demand my in al right-I Insist upon no interfer- ap cc with my execution." a'1 The United States Supreme Court an ,a decided not-to interfere with sen- ak( nce of the trial court. Bus Raw- ye is's attorneys have still the plea of me unity to argue-and the condemned an in's strange demand, in itself, is -or csidered a good ground for such a fr a. But this fact does not give rise rei any suspicion that the murderer is atl ying an "insane dodge." as he is o earnest and emphatic and logical de his demands for his right to be ny nged- a Milton and Jesse, who are to hang 'ar th their father, are not so anxious , go to the gallows, and they say olc at the old man is crazy and has is en for years. Both of the boys have wi ide a pathetic appeal to the Gover- ho ir for clemency, stoutly claiming tw at they are Innocent of the crime a, r which they were convicted. ab GLAD WHEN HE Is HANGED. Inl When Rawlings was told that the 2ited States Sup~reme Court had re- : ed-to interfere in his case noe was an listiig "How firm a foundation, ye (s itof the Lord." He continued to th 11stle as the news was broken to an: m and finally said:- a "It is no more than I expected and thi mm not sorry. I looked for no favors ta am the United States. I will be ho ad when we are hanged. I reckon wi a will be atpeace then." b The men have been confined in jail : r a little more than ten months, ha id the mon'flony of a dingy I0 by 12 00 ot cell has told sadly on their spirits in id demeanor. They occupy a corner ii 1 in the jail, with windows over- co' king busy thoroughfares on two an ls, and as they sit day by day look- sh g out through the bars at the peo- is e passing by, or as they pace rest- ne sly up and down the narrow con- um ies, reflecting on the time when tb ey, too, were free to go and come as tei oy please, it Is not hard to under- cri and that they have found jail life so hil some. The elder Bawlings maintains that lit Sha absolutaly no hope of his soul's ini wlvatioGn, and says he is certainly loomed to go to hell. He believes he ias committed the "unpardonable in," and has appeared to become in :ensed with the spiritual advisers who luring his long incarceration, have cone to the jil to minister to him, Lad have attempted to ditabuse his nind of the idea that he is doomed to iternal punishment if he repents of 1ts sins. He was once a minister of ihe gospel, and says he has studied ihe Bible closely for years, with the esult that he is convinced that mor als sometimes reach a stags where hey are beyond the pale of God's for ,iveness. The crime for which Bawlings and tIs three sons-Milton, Jesse and jeonard-were convicted was commit d on the night of June 13, 1905. O1 hat night Carrie and Willie Carter, aughter an2d son of W. L. Carter, a armer, living ten miles north of Val osta, were shot down in the yard of heir father's home, and an attempt 2ade by the assassins to kill the rest f the Carter family. The girl, aged fourteen, and her rother, sfx*een years old, went out f their father's house soon after the vening meal to Investizate the iL %ssant barking of their dog, and ba ley reached a point near the garden ,nce, a few yards from the hcuse, th of them were shot down, the ttle girl being killed almost instant. , and the boy living to drag himself ack to the door of his home. For imetime his parents were afraid to pen the door to take him in for fear iat another volley from the assassins, 1 ho were secreted in the shade of c me trees nearby, would end the lives a other members of the family. The boy lingered until about sun- I se on the following morning, and I ke girl's body lay In the cotton fild, c bare she fell until after daylighb. In the trial of Rawlings and hi6 ins, witnese3 swa're that the girl's ; sad had been battered into the t ound by the heels of the murderers, by the stocks of their guns, as stie y dead. Suspicion at once fell on J G Rw C igs, as he and Carter had been C emies for a long time. It developed f at Biwlings spent the night at Vil- 1 sta, and ab the Coroner's Icquest 0 e next day Carter and his wife and C ughter swore that they had recog 1 zed the Bawlings boys as the assas. is, as they walked around the Carter a miestead In the moonlight on the C ght before. t The boys were arrested that day, 0 id on the following day, as the elder d iwlings and his wife drove into town t d to the j .il with some clothing for a eir sons, the father was taken into ntody and looked up with his boys. d Alf Moore, a negro was arrested at 0 munton, thirty miles north of there, 0 o days later, charged with compli- A y in the crime, and made a confes- a in of the whole affair. He sworr S at the elder Biwlings hired him to a and kill the Carter family, prom- a og him $100 for the work, and t) iding his three sons to see that the il irders were carried out as arranged. &t the trial Moore claimed that b ten they reached the Carter home- tI ae, about a mile from the home of 5i wlings, that his nerve failed him a d he refused to take any part in the W irders. He mintaineCi that Milton h d Jesse Bawllngs fired the shots ti at killed the two Carter children, tl d that he (Moore) then became 01 ghtened and ran away. His testi- 8 my was corroborated in many p->nts the testimony of the Carter fam- ii 0' after the conviction of the men, si ,wlngs acknowledged that he hired 5i s negro Moore to kill the Carters, t that his boys were not present, ew nothing of the arrangement he eon him and the negro, and had ab utely nothing to do with the mur es. He has stoutly maintained this the time. B'urthermore, Bawlings says he did t intend to have any of the Carters P rmed except the old man, and that fi was not any part of his arrange- a it to kill other members of the nily. On the other hand, Moore g ears that he had positive instruo - us, as also had the boys, to kill the ~ bire Carter family and then burn d m house. [f Moore was actuated in turningH ate's evidene by a hope of escaping si e full penalty of the law for his part b the tragedy, he was doomed to dis- a pointmens, as the jury brought In ci rerdict of murder In the first degree, re d he, too, was sentenced to death. "I ing with 3. G. Bawlings, Milton and " me: Leonard Rawlings was sen iced to the penitentiary for life; C d served a few weets, later being 01 >ught back to j.Il here on an order 0* im Governor Terrell, to await the a~ nilt of the appeal made by their am sorneys to the Supreme Court. ir &lf Moore has also escaped the ni th penalty, so far, as his testimo- U was considered very escential in it e the Rawlings obtained another -a I. G. Bawlings Is forty-nine years W l, and in addition to his three sons f the father of two Interesting girls, f Lo are now budding Into woman od. Milton Bawlings is about enty years old, Jesse eighteen and onard sixteen. The boys are away ave the average In appearance and t eiligence. BOYS SAY PATHER Is CEAZY. Rawlings was a well-to-do farmer, oi I before his numerous troubles with ni rter, and even up to the time of tg i murders, was a very popular man a long a great number of people. In w it he had more friends, It is said, iI in Carter had. He was very hospi- ni 1e and a good neighbor and his y me was aiways open to his friends. e tere they were entertained in the & it manner possible. Eilton Bawlings, the eldest son, s wribten their attorney, John B. oper, of Macon, requesting him to titute lunacy proceedings against i father and, if possible, have him ti nmitted to the Insane asylum, as he it d his brothers are confident that w s elder Bawlings Is a crazy man. It fC understood that this will be the 8] t step of the attorney, and If ha Is ci successful In that, the last page of hi s famous case will have been writ- A i and Bawlings will expiate his ci ime on the gallows as he [insists is tl Sright. hi Since his conviction the elder Baw. w ig has spent much of his time read- w r he Rihle_ Hahas a.haiOf rad lug aloud, and this nabit nearly caused a duel to the death between Rawlings and Henry Hickey, said to be from New York, who is under sen tence for picking pockets while a cir cus was exhibiting her last Fill. Rawlings was reading the Bible aloud when Hickey cursed him. Raw lings made at Hickey with a knife, which he had been allowed to have, and Hlckey drew a rmz)r, which no one knew be had. Tne men were soon slashing one another and indict ed several wounds dbefore th' y were separated. Such episodes as this, manifesta tions of an ungovernable temper, hav been frequent in Riawling's career though, up to the time of the murder of the Carter children. )-e was able ' o keep out of serious diffloulty. There [a no doubt that he was sincerely re ligious, and when his passions were not inflamed by some infringem.ent of what he considered his personal rights be was a kindly and charitable man It is characteristic of him to still Irsist upon his personal rights even when they condemn him to the gal OW. WILL PIGET BIGC. L'he Anti-Dpensary Leader May L ose His Seuatorship. The dispensary people of York ounty have organ'sed their forces to 4usW State Senator J. Steele Brice, The 6nti-dispensary leader and author of he Br!ce act under which fourteen ounties have voted out their dispen aries. The correspondent of Tae Charles on Evening Post, who was at Rock 1111 last week, was informed by a iumber of dispensary leaders that enator Brice's defeat for reelection a county chairman on May 7 was now ractically certain; enouirt delegae ava been elected last week to accom lish that end. W. H. Stewart, who has served a )ng number of years as reading clerk f the Senator and who is a splendid rganizer, is to be put up to beat Mr. rice. In addition to this a a.inference to be held at Rck Hill in the Im iediate future for the purpose of ominating four stralghout dispensary ien for the Legislature. Mr. Brice's term as Senator does not. xpires for two years and he therefore an not be put out altoge her until nat time, but his dereat as county lairman means almost certainly hi feat as Senator two years henca hr. le elevation in his place of Mr. Ste-,. rt. Mr. Brice attended the recent anti spensary secret conference here re mtly. The meagre information given at about Its doings disclosed that it as the Intention of the anti-dispen Lry people to organize throughout the bate. So it is thought likely that the t dispensary people of York will tso put out a legislative ticket. In xat event other counties in all probab ity fo low suit. The York fight appears to mark the -ginning of drawing sharp lines on ie dispensary issue in the coming mmer campaign. Tae storm center i York appears to be at Fort Mill, e here a straight Stewart delegation is been chosen to the county conven on. The hidden hand seemisto be1 ~at of ex Representative 3. B. Haile, that place, who is backing Mr. ~ewart. The Yorkville Enquirer is support g the Brice faction, though all the her newspapers of the county are ,d to have lined up on the other de. ________f 1O00MVELT PLUNKB. * Worked a Shell Game on the D emocrats. A dispatch from Washington says resident Roosevelt has completely a inked on his championship of the ii .t-making bill. So seems to be the mneral impression in Washington a nong those who knew of his having ~ nl for forty newspaper correspon mnts, Friday afternoon, mostly re-t esentatives of E-spubllcan papers. e informed them that he would 5: and to the amendment agreed upon Sthe Aldrich element. This Is b sown as the Allison amendment and ~ 11a for the broadect possible court view of '9' 44's fixed by the inter ate con .-. commission, against U ich rei all the flght in the nate or unet of it has been directed. p till Friday th.;. president has stood It persistently in favor of limited P lurt review. He denies now that he L surrendered, but claims that his vocacy of the Allison amendment is c accord with his private views and j te very tning he has been striving r. Exactly how be will be able toh stify this claim is best known to s mself. He says he is consistent ~ id he doesn't care who thinks other- ' Le, So theralI But it is thought and i eely said chat the object of sending r these correspondents was to get aj Le news to the country in such a wayd iat the people will be fooled. Senator Bailey, who has led the ~hb against the Aldrich crowd, says is Allison amendment is the broad t court review provision that could Sdrawn, and Senator Tillman thinks a~ tat the Republicans will ,iow let up it to a man. Tillman says he sees >reason why they cannot jast passe ts bill Monday, for the Democrats e powerless, and the Republicans il stick by the president. It looks ce something is going to happen >w, after all these months of talk, Lough it isn't going to happen in ac-a rdance with Boosevelt's talk. Mr. ~ Idrich hasn't talked, but he's It. ZAcH McGmm. Wed Amid De brim. 3 The San F'rancibco disaster so shook el t plans of Montford Spining, son of tl te Rev. Dr. and Mrs. George L. Spin- S g, of South Orange, N. 3., that his a sding took place an evea month be- a re the date he had.8et for It. -Mr. a >ining is treasurer of the San Frau- lE mo Lumbr Company. He was to o ve been married on May 24 to Miss a ice Duncan, butt everything was so g Langed by the calamity that 'iespite s4 Le act that the home which had e en made ready was ruined, the two J Bre wedded on April 24, when they S Ith a quarter of a million other San o rannimaans. were homeless., STOLEN BONDS Must Be Paid For by Responsi ble Parties. c GOVERNOR HEYWARD I Writes a Letter to State Treasurer Jen nings on the Subj~ct. Nothing Was 8 a Done by Legislature to Make Provisions for Rdeemirg Worthless Bonds. Gov. Heyward Wednesday made eiMfilal ir q-iry Into the matter of the t bonds purloined from the cfioma of the b State treasarer says Tae State. The amount so lost to the State approxi mates 816 000. The fact that par- , loining had b' en going on was dis- ti covered last Octcber and was made a public at that time. The defalcation then amounted to 116,403 75 The ftc value of the ir oonds purloined was $12,500 and the interest was 33.903.75 Between that Lime and January 1st the accrued in terest was 8$281 25 and to date is about 1400 additional. a As no announcement of any move, mntn to pay has been made and as he interest is increasing dally, theb egislature having declined to make Ln appropriation to take up thesi i..rtaless bond certiflaates, G-.,v aey ward thought it his duty to make iome inaury. The officials responsi )le fur the making good of the losses "I tuffered by the State are Capt. R H. rennings, State treasurer from 1901 io dat!; Dr. W. H. Tim rierman, from 895 to 1901; and Dr. W T. 0 Bates, .a 'rom 1891 to 1895 Accordingly, G.2v. Htyward a"- U. fresied the followlng letter t-o Cipt re Fennings as nere had been some di- D: susion as to the manner in whic- -Z ihe loss should be prorated and CapL. ja renaings is tue incu&oent in tha moic: H May 2, 19K6- av &r. R H Jvnrings, State Treasurer, ax (Ao.-:.a, S C. in My Dear Sir: I beg leave to call Ile 'our attertion to the last annual re- a )or of the comptroller general to the ac ,eneral assembly relative to an in restigation of certain irregularities in te be State treasurer's office. This in- at restigation revealed th~e fact that in in he exchange of certain Brown Consol th oupon bonds the State has lost, by a 0 uamber of fraudulent transactions, on ne sum of $12,500, together with 3,903.75 interest paid by the State, B, naking a total of 816 403.75, and I -* rill be glad if you will inform me .0 rhat steps, if any, have been taken an )eking towards the reimbursement a f the State for the loss iocurred. As w hief magistrate I feel it my duty to of all your attention to this matter, g nd desire to have this information of Equested in order that I may refer an Sto the offce of the attorney general, a that the interest of the State may of e protected. g Very respectfully, go D). 0. H syward, ne Governo'- a In reply to the letter of Inquiry cai com Go,. Heyward, Capt. Jennings to iade an offcial answer in which ne be ti:ovi "I am in receipt of your letter of tet this date in re the matter of fraudu- its ~nt transactions in exchange of cer Lin Brown consol bonds of the State. ta on ask what steps, if any, have een taken looking towards the reim ureement of the State for the loss icurred. mi "I answer for myself that I have to rranged for a loan with which to We urchase a 81,000 State bond, which livl ill be deposited in bank to await sai 2e decision of the proper tribunal as lag iy indvidual liability as State tun ~easurer, that with interest being lai ae amount reported so far as having bea sn fradulently taken during my ad- of: tinistration.. tru "I am not authorized to speak for are r. Bates and Dr. Timmerman, for- tbc er treasurers, as they have not in- thei rmed sne as to their intention. Pa 'either do I know what further ac- bec on I will be rcquired to take in the ani remises, out await instructions from ty a attorney general and yourself." wc The amount of.the shortage is in- put ~easing daily and it appears that ire should be some way of securing B ach of the State treasurers who . a been hurt by the peculations of W1 ime one has stated that his bonds. thE .en shall not suffer and that each E idividual will Day the losses incurred tOi Shis administration, with interest. bel Tuere is a criminal indic..ment mc tainst D. Zimmerman, bond clerk. I L iring the period of all of the trans. gotl stions. On account of the fact that ed :r. Geo. Bell Timmerman, solicitor be om this circuit, is a son of one of .101 in ex-treasurers, he has been reliev- SE I of the prosecution by courtesy,-O ad Solicitor James B. Djvis of Barn- oar all has been entrusted with the cas. prc is believed that the State treasur. era and his predecessors interested in ese proceedings will ask 'ar counsei asesist Mr. Davis. wom In a letter dated Oct. 7, 1905, from g on. B. H. Jennings, State treasurer, m the comptroller general, be called A tention to what appeared to be anso regularity in the matter of the ex ange of a certain 81,000 Brownat upon bond, purporting to .havegy sen canceled during the moniths of muary, 1897, and the amount cover I into a stock certificate. He s1ta ned ist, judging from the records, the bate appeared to have lost th'e nount of said bond and the interest, S4 1-2 per cent., s~nce that date; 'J d he requested that the comptrol- Wa r general make a full Investigation .er Sthe status of the State's securi- mj es, as requlb ed by law. The investi- Our tlan was immediately made in per- sto: >n by the comptroller general, assist- the I by S. T: Carter, bookkeeper, and :slo ,Fuller Lyon, bond clerk in the iwal bate treasurer's office. The result an: Sthe investigation caused a sensa- cha on oer the State. The eomptroller as reneral, in reporting to the State reasurer, said: "The examination reveals the fact ibat the bond clerk during the period n which these transactions appear ipon the books, has fals-fied or erased in the books the numbers of certain ionds surrendered for exchange, ard Las abstracted bonds pr.viously can eled, and Las substituted the same ,t a later date for such bonds sur endered; and has evidently, as showrn iy the Interest accou, put tht ionds so erased and unacanceled on he market. Tals is clearly shown ly the fact that all transaxtlons dur ag this pzriod appear in the hand Priting of the same bond clerk. It Rems that the bond clerk in the tate treasurer's cffice has charge of U bond transactions." There has been some calculating to s'r :ln for how much of the loss )r. T mmerman will be responsible ud for how muc!a Capt. Jennings, as lie bond clerk referred to was in apt. Jenning' administration but few days. However, that is a mat er to be adjusted elsewbere and not y the State. There are now two ends to the ransactioL-he proscention of the Dnd clerk and of Mr. T. J. Gibson, idicted in connection with him; and 2e other end is the secaring of the ioney lost by the State. There is me disposition to criticise the legis ,tve ccmmittees which made per inctory eximinations of the books i the State treasurer's office but lese committees are not under bond ad while morally they might have eglected their duty, yet legally they ,e not responsible and the State easurers c.nnot and will not make let ff)rs to conteso whether or not tey should be amenable af er their Oaks had been checked and approv WAITED IN VAIN.. .C Takes a Woman to Change Her Mind." "It takes a woman to change her Ind. Returned by the applicant, not ec I ' The above legend inscribed ross the back of a marriage license turned to the Supreme Court of the atrict of Columbia unused, summar d the sad ending of the romance of mes H. Mdffett, of New York. Moffett was ready to marry- Miss airrlet E Webb, of No. 1642 Jerse, enue, Brooklyn, Thursday, to the tent of being at the trysting place Washington with a preacher, his ense and a hopeful smile, Miss Webb ,I promised to be there proniptly at on. It was a heartrending cas for Mot. t of waiting at the church all the ternoon and far In the night uuti daspair he was moved to send back a legal permit with the pathetic mmentary on the party of the sec d part and her sex In general. Mr. Mcffett met Miss Webb In ovklyn several months ago, and the. rirLship which began at once moved without a hitch to its triumph. t and logical conclusion When she ve her answer to Mr. Mcffqtt Miss ebb also gave a very busy imitation a young woman who had found the l aity she had known in severalstates previous cristence and had been rionsly waiting for In this life. Nlcff st was so sincerely convinced the warmth of the young woman's caton-for him that he consented to to Washington and make all of the :essary arr arge usnts for the cere inr and aiwa? i Ge brde-elect. He cred out his part of the contrac' the letter with a glad heart, until became convinced that he was ardoing the waiting end. Mr. Mof t took the first train from the cap I to New York. Ee Is curious to know just what de ned Miss Webb. What, la Naeded. rhe beautiful is needed in our com mnity lhfe. We all have characters build, strengthen and maintain. need the beaubiful. Dress and s as savages and would soon become ages in action. The city or vil e totally void of beauty would be abode of the sensual, immarol and rless. A community of taste and 6uty must necessarily be composed efined and cultured people, and e leads to higher morality. There about our illage many things at commend it. There are things it are capable of improvement. blic sentiment will do much tow utlfylng our dwelling, our streets I alleys. Neatnes, tste and bea- I will help us all: Oar moral life n~d be higher and our social life C er. I C Fonod at Lsat. sveral million nerveous women a I rejoice to hear what happened to z "man under the bed" whom Mrs. c cl Lindsay, of Konkonlo, Ind., a nd. Her husband was away and ore she retired she looked for "the I na under the bed." Brave Mrs. a l3s.y did not scream or faint, but her husband's shot gun and order-c be man to come from under the . Sohe did but he ran out of the a se and away. She chased him and t d both barrels of the gun at him. a shot hit him, then policemen r ght him. He was James Wilson, a fessional burglar, wanted In sev- C l Indiana towns. a No Rain lor Fourteen Yars. The most parched country In the g Id is located on the west coast Cf ith America," said Capt. Reid, ster of the British steamship thenerag, which arrived at Thomp- 3 s -Poin~t, Philadelphia, from Iqui- r and Taetal, with a cargo of t rate of soda for the DuPont nitro- o serine works at Gibbseboro. Wnen n Aucheners'g left lqigue it had c rained for fourteen years, al- ; ugh the tops of the Andes were at y tes snow-capped. They Van Do IS bhe Charlestoni Post says "If theC ,r Department can't head off FAth 3nerman on his march to the sea it hth commission some of the old - Lfederate veterans In Georgia to i p him. Most of them were away on fighting line when his father came t ig to burn their homes and mak2 upon their women and children.1 I they would not be sorry of the ] nce to halt the younger. Sherm..n 2 ihay mig-ht hrae haited the elder. 1 SPOTTED FEVER This Dreaded Disease Appears Again in the West DOCTOR, B FFL' D The Medical Fraternity is Entirely at Sea Concerning Causes, 0 lion and Nature of the Disease. Natives Generally Attribute it to the Wood Tick. Passed Assistant Surgeon King, of t he public health and marine hospit al service, has Jaas been sent from WashingtoL to Misscula, Mont., to lavestigate a new outbreak of "spot sed fever" ai d the medical world is once more "up in the air" over this strange anddeadly disease. What cause it? What, will cu:e It? And what will prevent it are questions that the physicians have been vainly trying to answer for thirty-live years, and today with the history of hundreds of cases to guide them, the learned fraternity is as much In the dark as It was in the early '70's, when the cattlemen of -the Bitter Boot valley fell victims of the malady. Under the various names cf "black measlos," blue disease," "black fever," "tick fever," and "spotted fe ver," scores of doctors have Investiga ted each new outbreak and generally have now come to the conclusion that all the former investigations made by their brethren were conducted upon erroneous premises and therefore were jast &.little less valuable than of no value whatever. In the first place nearly all the scientists agreed that the common wood tick was responsible for the disease. in 1903 Dr. John F. Anderson, of the marine hospital ser vice, wrote a S0-page pamphlet on the subject and said the tick was the cause Two years later Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, of the same burea, wrote a booklet of 120 pages upon the disease. and deilared that there was nothing to support the theory that the tick is to blame either for the fever's start or finish- After ex amining the records of several hun dreds of cases and personally watch ing.ascore of it here. Dr. Stiles reach ed the coucusion that "no satisfac tory specifle treMament is known" for the spotted fiver, and added: '. have uo new theories to present regarding the cause, tran~minn, and origin of the disease." In spite o. the fac' that Dr. Siles does not believe that spotted fever is oaused by the tick, thro.ughout thq Western country where it is most pre valent, the tick Is more than the rat tlesnake. 'Many of the plsgrims and dwellers in the valleys nearly die from fright when they flud a trick upon their person and often when they are bitten by the pestifercus insects, take to their beds, deciaring that death has marked them, when they are really In perfect health. In the Bitter Boot Valley, which many physicians regard as she home of spotted fever, nearly all the cases occur on the western side of the river In the months of April, PMay and June. Both sexes and all ages are subject to the disease, and, according to the rec 3rds, about 70 per cent of the cases bermine In death. A bout five or six lays afeser being bitten by thre tick, wrhich 2i given credit for tbe start of mhe disease, the patient takes to his aed with a heavy chill, headache and 1sausea. Soon af ter the spots begin to ippear upon the wrists and ankles mnd later upon the arms, legs and ibout the waist. Nosebleed, sore shroat, a fever rising to 106 at .times, md swelling of the joints them lot ow In succession or simultaneously, ind often a hacking cough serves' to nake the patient more miserable. )frten the sympt~om- closely resemble yphus fever and spinal me ingitis. Dr. King's investigations Into the auses and results of the latest out reak of the disease will be watched with a great deal of Interest by the atire medical profession. The fact hat the fever nas In recent years lten spread int) Utah, Idaho, Neva la and Oregon from Montana, makes ach fresh appearance of the disease he more alarming. Unless a remedy s found that wml cure It, some phrysi lans believe there is danger of wide pread epidemics ccurring through ut the West. Mcst of tee doctors who have given tudy to the disease agree that It is ot contagious and that It occurs hiefly In the months of April, May ad June. The spots that come with spotted ever first appear .about the ankles od waist and by the end of the first reek they extend over the entire ody. There Is ho regularity about heir appearing on the feet firas, as ome times the first spots appear on he hands. The spots are a bright red nd are half as big as an adult'si!nger al. The spots fade as the fever sub Ides, but if the patient Is exposed to old or bec.omes chilly the spots can be een for several monhrts afterward, at bough not as red as at first. There much irregularity regarding the isappearanice. Yes Ten Time. A young woman In Millerton, N. ., Thursday received an cffar 'f arriage with a request to reply by slegraph. Going to the telegraph ifil e she 2sked the operator how iany words she could send for 25 ents and he told her 10. Tnen she rote. ''Yes, yeR, yes, yes, yes, yes, es, yes, yes, yes." The name of the oung woman was withheld by the elegraph ccmpsry, as was the name f the lucky man. BeaL Them a. The United states exported more oods In 1905 than any other nation ai the w -rl', ace rding to saatist:cs abulated by the British board of rade. The total exports of this ountry amount ed to 81,621,000,000. while that of the next nation, Great 3ritia2, only reached *1 606 000,000. n 1-nports Gieat Brit:an, ranks first, ha Tiltard Stateg tMed.