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VOL. XX.. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 6. 1906. NO. 36. IT WOULD 00 o Friends of the State Dispensary Claim That It WOULD BE PURIFIED B the Passage of the Raysor-Manning Bill by the Legislature. The Ad vantage of the Measure Point ed Out by the Columbia R-cord. The ColumbiaiState in discovering some phases cf the dispensary men tions the fact that while dispensary advocates admit that certain evils have characterized the administra tion of the dispensary they hold that1 if the Rysor-fanning bill were to become law everythirg would be clean and properly conducted and says: "If such could be assured, many who are opposed to the monopoly and opposed to the state engaging in the traffic, would side with the ditpen sary. They would embrace an oppor tunity to settle the question. But where is the guatrantet ? Where is 1 this promise more binding than any other made for thirteen ye:rs? Where is fact o preces( eat to bus5 ain fi? It is an opinion an unfortifi. d opinion, against which is arrayed reason and I logic and myriad doubts." c x In commenting on the article of the State tl.e Culumbia Record says: "The guarrantee is in tbe provis tone of the bill, which must be observ ed if the dispensary is to cont-inue at t all under those pro'isic.ns enacted In- 9: to law. The terms of the law them- C selves will guarrantee none!t-y. These ii will eliminate opportunii3es for c:1- 1 lusion, graft ana other forms of car- a ruption. Any cff.ial under such a-law c who attempted to graft would easily n be detected, because of the publicity o required and the general nature or a the business as it would be under- C ita "This proposition of The State has 'a been made before and has been re- P -echoed in portions of the state press g as well-as in the legislature Now let d us lock at some of the provisions of ,the law and see if they donot give to D any reasonable man, any man who de- t sires to see the dispensary properly t conducted,- every possible guirrantee b of Its effectivenets in accomplishing t the desired end. P "In the i.st place af her ascertain- P ing the amount of stock needed for L' the year In any pirticular, and after 1: due advertising fcr bids, sealed and C directed to the state treasures, the governor will appoint three citizens' who will open the bids and award a contract for supph..s for a year, the lowest responsible b Qder to be award- e ed the contract in any particular class i of supplies. None of tnese three men k will know who the others are until il they assemble in C~lumbia. This pro vision was inserted in the- abundance a of caution, notwithstanding the gov- fl ernor could be relied upon to appoint ' incorruptible men whose knowledge d of each other's appointment before s the meeting would make no diffar- a However, as thereis sorne disposi- 0 tion on pars of some unreasonably to I look upon everything and everybody e connected with the cispensary witb a suspiclin,it was thcught best to dis- &E arm all such at the start-hence thie s provision. Now that method insurts 9 competition in the first place, assures the lowest responsible bidder of get ' ting the contract without being com pelled to offer inducaments or offering 9 such of his own volition. Supposing I an almost impossible thing, that the a governor should appoint dishonest- D ciarupt men,' the cppertunities for collusion are such that they amount r practically to nothing. But suppes ~ ing otherwfse, and that the opportun t tunity is there, the'y would be quict. t ly detected in any juggling of prices C so they might get a "rake off ' by I further provisions of the bill, wihich r will be appari ni as they are mention ed. "All liquors must ,be purchased 3 from a government bonded warehouse J. This insures age and in-a large degree quality. Such lquors are quoted on the market dailey, just as cjton and wheat are. The price of any particu lar bonded whiskey today is printeo and anybody concerned can easily ac quaint himself with. It. Tnie price being thus fixed and publicly known, and the Raysor-M~anning bill requis- 3 ir g the publcation of the bids, a amount bought and price paid, it would be next to impossible for the buying committee, bupposing it dis honest, to publically buy for one price ~ but have an understanding as to what shall be the real price In "rder for them to make sorr-ethirng for them elves. They would inevitably be dot ected, unless every man connected with the dispensary 'was In corrupt ecmbination with them, which is well impossible to conceive. So the pur chasing feature of the business Is ful ly safeguarded, the Aery operation of of the provisions of the bill giving this guarranl.ee practically in an ab solute manner, "Buying from a warehcuse, to is a guarrantee that the qualit7 of whis ey bought will be delivered. The government stamp is on every barrel1 as It enters the warehouse. Taa~t1 stamp is again placed on It 'when it leaves, so that it will be Impossible for the dealer to deteriorate the whis key and send an inferior Quality at the price of a superior. We do not see how a greater guarrantee can be given thon in all this. Is is an abso lute as It Is possIble for human ingen uity to devise, it seems to us. "'We have heard it said, "but all this leaves out the commissioner. He will have an oppoxtunity for graft in withholding the shipment of any par ticular brand and of sending out others where inducements have been cffred and accepted." This presup poethat thristnbe a dishonest comuinssioner. Grant tbat for a mo ent. All pulclisses have been mad for tbe year, t.he commissioner wil have to ship cut all supulies durini the year. The whkey houses havinj secured their contract and their mon ey will be supremely ind.ff ren whether their gocds are all sent ou in J&nuary or beld until December A commissioner wh' would attf mp to "hold up" any house in that man aer couldn't do so long, or very suc cssfully, for detection would soot vertake him. But, as said, there i no fear on part of whiskey house: Lf ter they have their contracts. Ther will be no reason for them to pay E :ommissioner or anybody else to rust ut their product. So, even with E lishi.nest commissioner in charge hi a hedged about so under the R3.ysor ffanning bill as to give every possib!i uarrantee that he could not last long n his dishonesty. "We have rather been leaning hrcughout this article that the cffic als referred t,) would be by nature lisonest and we think we have ihown how their predctionl that way would be curbed and made harmless With horesS men and care ought al vays to be token to have no otter, here is an abpolute guarrante. a cr inty beyond all doubt of the prop Ldministration of the state dlspense y. There is, then, no need for prece ,nts to give any assurance. The pre, sed law cannot be puo Into effect ithout carrying that guarrantee long with it." LYNCHING FOR ASSAULT. [w the Washir g Post Locks at the Matter. Here is a recent editorial from the ashington Pcist, one of the most Dnservative as well as one of the icst influential newspapers any hers. "There is considerable human na are in this world, and it thinks, pesks, and acts the same language in zno and in Georgia, in Kiaas and tMssissippi. Last Wednesday at Earsvihe, O:o, a negro who had "sauted a wrAite woman was only ved frcm mob violence by the cun ng and the trick of the sher .ff and a the same day, at Rosedale, Kan., negro who had been discovered con aled uneer the bed of a wnite wom a was actually strung up by a mob, ad would have paid the penalty ith his life. if the police had not ne to the reseue and cut him own. ' Kansas is where they encourage 3e negro to vote and resent his at =pts to labor. Mississippi is where 2ey will not allow the negro to vote t ns'st that he shall work. With 23i d iference, Kusas and Mississp look upon tne man and brother recisely alike. In Kansas and in 0 2o 2e negro is a political facoi -entire r so. In Mississippi, and in South arolina, the negro Is out of politics -entirely so. "Bat whether North or South, hen a negro assaults a white woman 2e .ftct on the community is the e. Tne rage of the people bact m's erLzy, and a way wouid be found to ll nim "shough he were 'mmortal," the mob could Jay hands on nim at Lie moment It Is ufeless to speak o1 ie law there and then. Waere the ran, North or South, E ist or West, !ho would have his wile or daughter etail to the jury the story or her 2iame? We can all stand sue tootn ehe with admirable and serene phil sophy if is be somebody else's 'toott;. at the white man dces not live, [orth or South, who wouid not soon r lyr~ch a thoutand mifereants tnan 2t his~modest daughter snould be ibjected to the ore deal of telling the :ory of her shame to a publib morbid rith vitiate d curiosity. "Tnis is all very unfortunate; very rong, perhaps; but It is superlative rhuman. it is actually and gravely roposed in one of the states to 1->gal se lynchings. That cnly evidences the ie horror of t113 crime for which rost lynchings are the penalty. "To be entirely'frank about it, the spectable negroes-aaid there are ousands and tens of thousands of hem-can do much to stop lynching y a more vigorous and rigid ostracltm f those of their race guilt y of out ages, Let the negroes snemselves iake it botter for the monsters who ring reproacn on the whole race. Tat will do more thau all the laws 'u can shake a stick at to make inching unfashionable.'' A CLOaB GALL. Buggy Wheel Torn to Pieces by Ught ning. The Walterboro P~ess says a short [me ago on the Georges' Station road few miles from Walterboro, ligtning bruck the righo front wheel of Dr. ddick A ckerman's buggy and tore 11 the spokes in the wheel into plinters except one, and stripped the torse of the harness, leaving only the Lames and traces on the horse. Dr. Ackerman had been out in the ountry to see a patient and was ac ompanied by Dr. Smith Turner, of alterboro. They were on their way pack to town when the buggy wheel as struck by lightnir g about nine ~'clock. The story as told by both hese gntlemenl, is Indeed a thrilling ne. 1s seems as if they were stun dc by the stroke of lightning anc hey thought at tirst th.t their norse rad run away. The rain was falling very fast anc shey hitched their horse and weni >ack up the road about one talr mil' io L ather Yon's house and told hin ,hat they had happenedsto an acci lent, but did not dream~ that thel yuggy had been striick by lightning Drs. Ackerman and Turner spent the 11ght with Mr. Yon, returning tt Walteraro next m->rning. Neithe: shem nor the horse were hurt, thoug] she wheel, as stated above, was tori ao )pieces. Lows to science. At Rochester, N. Y., Dr. Loul; Weigel, the first American authorit: on-tne R )enltgen ray, died Thursd&, at his holne In that city, as the direc result of his x perimentall work Il that onnection. SELLS BAD MEAT t Upton Sinclair Bares New Atro t cities of Beef Trust. t CONDIdMNED STOCK Of Five Million Faris Poured lnto th Publc Ma ket for People to Eat By the Big Packing Houses of The Armours and Other Packers. The Beef Trust is about to be call ed to account for selling diseased and rotten meats. Upton Sinclair, wh has been instrrmental i showiDg nj the methods of the BEef Trust ft "The Jungle," a book be wrote, writei Ls follows to the New Yo.rk Amer can: Fir decades there has been develop ing in Chic go, entirely unrestricte and unheeded, a system whereby th public was made to buy and consum( ill the diseased and tainted meat thal could be gathered from the fire mil lion fatm; of this country. When I first went to P..ckingtown I found that the system nad reached a stage where the public had been educated to ignorance-not merely as to thE practices that existed, but even to the laws concerning tbem. I wrote a bo.k to tell the truti about it. Tne packers tried to bribe me, and to intimidate me; they sel detectives after me, and tried to in flaence my- publishers not to bring out the- book.- . Tney filled the.press with lies about me, and even sent to news papers to p:event the book's being reviewed. And then the President read it; and when he began an inves Ligation they started the story that te w:s investigating me, to get ma terial to attack me. And for months they were able to make the country believe trnis grotesque yarn. DRIVEN TO STOP "DOCTORING." And meantime they were cleaning up in front of his commission. I got information from a superintendent at Armour's as to the precise room in which they "doctored" spoiled ham?; but they had stopped "doctoring' spoiled ham I A night watchman for one of the "Big Three," who is gi Ang me information, writes as follov s: "They knew just when the two new commissioners were to be out, and exara men were working half the night getting ready." In the Armour plant I saw with my own-eyes the dcctoring Lfohams that were so put:ified that I. could not force myself to remain near them. The hams were on a working table, and a man with a foot- pump which worked on the principle of a gigantic bypodermic needle diled them with a chemical which killed the odor.. I saw skinned hams taken from hams so old that nobody could eat the skin. Without the skins there is a sale for them. Tnen the skins wuere taken and ground in a big mortar and sold as head cheese. Not a can of smoked or tinned meat that goes out of those packing houses is free from chemical preservation which must eat into and- corrode the lining of the stomach. FOTTED HAMS MADE oF sTALE BBEF.' The Armour recipe for potted hams as verified by two former superinten dents, is to take the nubs of mould3 moked beef and grind It In great hoppers with rind trimmings. I know a man who was high up in the councils of Armour & Co., at the ime of the Spanish-American War, and who is well known to President Roosevelt, who says, upon his personal knowledge, that one chemist got $70. 000 for testifying that the process did not destroy the nutriment in the btef. This man said that Armour alone spent $1,000,000 getting out of the scandal. This company contributed 50,000 to the Republican campaign fund In 1896. -While I am not prepared to say of my own observations and knowledge that such horrible conditions exist in New York and other large cities, I am morally convinced that they do exist in a degree only secnnd to those in Chicago. That the Chicag3 packers are alarm ed and desperate in their determina tion to have the Neill-R'eynolds re port suppressed is shown by the fact that they sent a man to try and in fluence this commission, compcsed of James B Reynolds, former secretary to Mayor L aw, and Uaited States Commissioner of Libor Charles P. Neill. I violate no confidence In say ing that much, for I have it in a let ter fiom a man who learned of it rm theo Beef Trust representative -iimself. And now that all these tricks have alled, they put the screws on the poor cattle raisers and set them to telegraphing! Much cause the cattle raiser has tc love the Beet Trust, and to pull its chestnuts out of the fire. For years he packers have been beating down the price of beef on the noof, rulning the industry In whole States. T.hey caused forty banks to fail in a single month. It bas lbeen their regular practice to raise prices to Induce big shipments, and then lower them, and scocp in all the cattle in sight. And .it is these same cattlemen who havE of ten been stuck in Chicago without money to get home by freight, wh( are now set to telegraphing the Presi. Ednt in behalf of the condemned meal industry! TNSPECrOR IN PACKERS' EMPLOY. Just a few facts to show how the packers treat these cattlemen. Dr William K. J. q'xes, of Caiicago, wh< was fo? two years at the head of thi city irispectioni in that city, writes mi as follows: s 'Qaarantin~ed meat is that whic' has oeen suspected of disease on thi oof, but after slaughter has bee: t found to be good. The law provide 2 that this is to be sold at auction. Tn hiaf meat irnpntor was employed bI one of the packers to buy this meat A ring was made and the bids were in writing and the meat was always ob tained at a small figure. The c l meat inspector could ride through the yards, pick out the finest beef and q iarantine it, and after it was killed get it at his own price for the pack ers. When it was stated that I would make these bids open, it was intimat ed that I miguat come into the 'ring.'" "I suggest that it is time for the cattle n en to open their eyes, and not balieve all thy read in Beef Trust telegrams! Let them send on to Chi cago and learn a little about the Standard Slaughtering Compsny, which kills these qoarantlned cattle, and which is owned by the commis sion men, who are supposed to bA looking out for the interests of their patrons, but are in reality Felling them out-having good meat quarantined and sold to their company at half its value. "N -wspaper report says that two s cattle Fxperts cili1d on the President I and told him that 2verything in Pack- 9 ingtown was all right. If they did ii that, they said what they knew was a false, for there is not a cattleman in a the United States who does not know f: that what I have charged about the c Condqmned-Meat Industry Is true. e The President knows it too, for he has t the report of his Commissioners. t ' It is a business that has grown up e with the trust system of large scale slaughtering and refrigerator car dis tributior; so that now all the old, a dried-up, diseased and crippled cattle, s which for:erly were buried in the t farmer's back lot, are gathered up p and shipped to the nearest truit fac c tory to be converted into some kind Q of food. "There is no secrecy at all about e this. You can go there to Packing- a town and see the.; you can't go there it and fail to see them. if you know c what a sick cow is, and are honest k enough to admit it. Among the hun- *1 dreds of letters I have received about these matters is one from a farmer in t Minn sota, who writes: ' Oae day a hog buyer came to my place and said: 'Have you any sick hogs to seli?' I answered, 'Yes, nearly all my bogs are down with the chol era.' He said: "If they live till I can get them on the cars I will pay you a good price for them.' And se he did. S-me time after this I met the hog-buyer, and asked him how he came out on tue deal. He said: 'Two a of them died on the way to Chicago, tl but I came out all right.' " MEAT PRODUCTS ARE POISON. il I wonder if there is any connec.ion w between that story and the one pub lished in the San Francisco Examiner rc of March 23, last, telling hoe all the p; inmates of an orpha i asylum in Vallc- bi j were poisoned by a can of Swifo & Id Co.'s "Jewel" brand of lard. di - Eight years ago the United States pi Government made a practical test of al the products of the condemned meat le industry. It took many thousand of si able-bodied men and isolated them in t3 Cuba, and forced them to eat packing at house tinned meat. And the death Ez rate that followed caused a national scandal. Everybody who is on the St "inside" in Chicago knows that the Sc Beef Trust spent literally millions of g: dollars to hush up the facts, and that t it was the worry incidental to the of process which kil:ed old man P. D. w Armour. -in They are making the same kind of w food today-some twenty millions of di pounds of bioiled-out meat pulp known A as "Canned Boast Beef" goes out from si Armour & Co.'s alone every year; and ca into the tins go the very same disin- 01 fectants and dyes, the 'same gristle' '0 and tailow and p )tato flour, the same pulver zad 'gullets and cows' uddars 95 and heads and skins of hogs. vi A newspaper dispatch says that the t demand for meat is falling uff as a re- t' suit of my agitatloo1, and that thi'is hi the reason the stocir 'aising interests rc are sending telegrams. Taat is true, ai md it is the first true, statement the se Beef Trust has sent out in its war on w me. I0 MARKETING UN~DER ASSUMIED NAMES. ul Miss Alice Laxey, of one N{ational eL Consumers' League, writes me that ti the canned meat trade has fallen off E 17 per cent; and one of the assistants 01 who is now at work in Packingtown ri states upon the authority of a soptr- fl intendent that Armour & Co's, busi ness has fallen . if 30 or 40 per cent. h1 and that the big firms are no longer 'I marketing their goods under their 1i own names, but are sending them out cl uder false labels. c Naturally Mr. Arm our Is ve xed at g1 seeing his criminal profits disappear o0 ing, bus I do not think that it will DI help him to send telegrams to Presi a. dent R~osevelt, begging him to sup- W press the truth. If Mr. Armour wants 5. the American people to continue eat- el ing his products, the thing for him to 01 do is to let them see a complete et threshing out of the charges which have been brought against him, spec- ti fi-:ally and in desail. 1 have publicly b ac~used Mr. Armour of bribers ande< corruption, and with criminal negli- 8 gence or worse, in the preparation of Y the food of an entire nation; and Mr. t: Armour has not sued me, though .I 0i have dared him again and again to do tl it. Is it bcclase Mr. Armour's shre wd iI detec~ives have found oui the names b of the'men who have promised to go ci on the stand and back me up in case 0i it comes to a fight.0 C M1 maey and Parrot Time,. The Democratic state convention of a, Tennessee, a h'ch convened at Nash- ii vylle on Tuesday, of last we'k, be- a came a regular mob. Several fights a took place on the floor, and the police e had to be called in to preserve order. A truce was finally patched up, and the convention adjourned over to Wednesday. There were three candi dates for governor--Jno. I. Cox, theq incumbent; Congressman M. B. Pat terson and Judge Jo. R. Bond.e Many Killed in Riot. A dispatch from Bisbee, Arizona sai s news has reached there from Cananea, Mexico, of a bloody race war at rthat place. Toe town is on fire and streets are stre en with dead s; and wounded. Toe Arizona rangers and a large posse of ciriz~ns of Bisbee p nave jost lef t for Cananea. A report 9 is in circulation that all the Mexicans b employed at W. C. Greene's mines ing SMexico are on strike and that 40 have a habenki11ledin arint. A DEADLY BOMB. Neddirg of the Spanish King Marred by an Explosion. SIX TEEN PERSONS Vere Killed and Many Injured, Machine Hurled From a Boarding House lato the Cortege, Throwing Proces sion Into Utter Confusion. Royal Carriage Hit. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, iys as King Alfonso and Princess rctoria were pronounced man and rife on Tnussday by Cardinal Saneba i the church of San Jaronlmo, the ews was sgnalled to the waiting rowds and all Madrid broke into. cantie demonstrations or jay, while annon boomed and church bell. liimed. E itering the royal coach tie King and Q2een of Spain started D the palace amid scenes of the wild it enthusiasm, the throngs shouting Long live Qaeen Victoria." Tae public rejolcings over, the iarriage had a terribly dramatic qiel at 2.30 o'clock, when a bomb arown from an upper window ex loded with deadly effect near the >ach occupied by -the King and 1een. Providentially King Alfonso ad Queen V.ctoria escaped by an Lectric wire defikodng the bomb, but 6 least 16 persons, most of them be ig of the personal and military es rt and the other spectators, were led. Many others were injured. 'he following are the killed: . Capt. Barros, commanding part of ie King's escort. Lieut. Reysient. L'eut. Prendergast. Six soldiers. Tne marquise of Colosa. Her daughter. Don Antonio Calvo. His niece, aged 6 years. Jose Sqla, 70 years of age. Luis Fanseea. One royal groom, who was leading horse drawing the coauh carrying is King and Queen. Several of those killed were stand ig on the balcony of the house from hich the bumb was thrown. The explosion occurred just as the qyal couple were about to enter the ilace. Tne route of the cortege had :en diverted from Arsenal street to :ayor street, owing to the popular sires. Tae procession had just ssed through Mayor street and was )out to turn into the Esplanade ading to the palace, when an explo n sheok the building in the vicini , stunning a large number of people id throwing the cortege into inex icable confusion. The royal coach was brought to a dden stop by the shock, officers and idiers of the escort falling to the --und about the querry and horses at had been - kil-led. Tne screams the terrided m-21titude mingled th she groans of the dying. It was imediately seen that the royal coach as Intact except as .it -had been nimaged by flying splinters. King Lfnso immediately alighted and slsted Q ieen Victoria out of the rrige. . They then entered an her coach and were driven swiftl) the palacp. All this happened so quickly that ~ople away from the imraediate oin:ty were not a ware of the tragedy iat ad been enacted and contiaued acclaim their sovereigns. Soon, >wever, there appeared the empty yal coach with two horses missing id the. ot'- ers spattered with blood. veral of them bleeding from ounds. The grooms and drivers oked deathly pale in their spangled iforms. Tnen came a bay shouting it the bomb had been thrown at ie King. Tne appearance of the ing and Q ieen in a coach brought it delirious ovations as the fact was cognz3d that the sovereigns had een spared. In the meantime the scene of the agedy presented a horrible spectacle itn dead men and horses lying about terally torn to pieces.. Iatense ex iement p:evailed, the mob invading i streets while the forces of th6 ards soug'.1 to maintain order and ok the approaching streets. Tue dies were wrapped up in blankets id removed on litters, while the ounded were carried to hospitals in nbulances. The pavement was coy :ed with blood, and the upper'stories :the buildings nearest were spatter I with it. The place from which t'ie bomb was irown is a boarding nouse. Toe chao ar from wh.cfl she missile wa~s hurl I was taken May 22 by a man from arcelona givit~g tne name Lf Moral. Ten the police surrounded the house ie man attempted to iLae but was ptured. Another -man escaped over i roots of houses. According to an om alal statement ii not known whetner one of inore mbs were thro wn. The statement ntinues t-it it is impossible to as rtan at present the author of the atrage, though it Is known that ai atalonian named Manuel Duran took a apartment in the house from which 2e bomb was thrown IMay 22, paying adyance with a 500 peseta bill. He tas well dressed, of elegant appear nce and showed a fondness for 11ow Frederick W. Whitridge, the Amer. an special anoy went to tbe royal alace, where he was assured that the lg and queen were reasonably tran ul considering the circumstances. [r. Whitridge also called at the for lgn oflce and on behalf of the Uni ad States expressed profound sympa by with the Spanish sovereign and eople. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Assassinated. A special from Washington, Ga., sys: At 6 o'clock Thursday morning illiam Q~ Bryant, one of the most rosperous planters of Wilkes c runty, ras found lying dead in the front 01 is home, near Bessie, Ga., from a unshot wound in the side. Thursday ight, after an investigation lasting 1n day, no clne hadl been fond.r BY HIS OWN HAND. CONGRESSMAN AD IMS, 0 PHIL ADELPHIA. COM11T 3 SUVIIDE. ?e Ynded His Life Becuase Fe Had Met With T oses Through fpecula-im. Rapresentativa R bert Alams of Pniladelphia died at the Emergency bospital in Washington Friday from the cff-cts of a stf inficted bullet wound. Mr. Adams was discovered in a dying condition in his apartments at the M tropolitan club chambers snortly after 8 o'clock Friday morn ing. He was sitting in a chair. A bullet wound in his mouth and pistol lying near him made it clear that he had attempted to kill himself. A letter received by Speaker Can non from Mr. Adams Friday morning 'xplained the cause of the suicide. Mr. Adams said in the letter that his ,.ebts exceeded his resources and f. rc ed him to abandon his cffial pozi tion. Wbile te did not indicate ar. intention to take his life, he spoke o the form of his burial, Indicating that le had then made up his mind to com mit the act. D.)ctor Natvitt, the c.>r aner, issued a certificate of death by suicide, saying that it was such a alear case no ir quest would be neces sary. Not in years has there come to the membirship of the lower houseof con gress such sudden gloom as came with the going out of Mc. Adams. But Thursday having caarge of the diplo matic and consular bill he showed energy and activi;y, getting the bill thrcugh the house with less f iction than usual, but few amendments be ing made to the measure. Wtien the house convened there was an especial ly large membership present and when the ciaplain referred to the death of the late congressman, mem bers were visibly affected. Then came a scene that has never had its parallel in the histor'c cham >er of the nation's law-makorsg body The speaker rose and asked that the house indulge him while he read alet ter from the dead, a letter receivec while the life of Robert A dair s was passing away. A silence feil on the iouse that but ~.Thursday was sur ,harged with animation. Following the reading of the lette; 6.r. Morrell presented a resolution di recting the seargeant-at-arms to make the necessary arrangements for the uneral the expenses to be paid tu f the contingent fund of the 2ouse and then as a further mark f respect the house adjourned. RBsp esentative Adams was one of the nost popular representativas in con ?ress, and he has been identified with nany matters of world wide impor ance. . The following is the letter Alams wrote the Speaker: on. J. G. Cannon: Washington, May 31 19:6. My Dear Mr.~.Speaker-Tee fact ihat my personal obligations exeeo ny resources is my only excuse fo, ,bandoning the responsible pusition 1 cupiy in the house. I am willing to e burled at its expense, but I ask ~hat no committee be appointed or ~emoral services held as I have ever been in symyathy with the lat er custom. With assurances of my high regard. Sincerely yc u:s. r Rob~rt Adams. SAW DROWN]NS Prm Car Winu.w While~ Going Ont or Columbia,. A dispatch from Columbia says enator Cole L. Blease, of Newberry, rho is there as a member of the dis ensary investigating committee, re ates a moat remarkable cireuwstance f his witnessing ~together with a mmber of others, the drowning a few lays ago of Osborne Fair, the 10 year ld negro boy whose body was found n the Congaree at the L xtngton side f the C. N. & L ,bridge last Saturday reek, and wiuo was thought might ve been dealt foully with by his laymate, Julian Leaphard t. who had one out with him the afternoon 03 orue was missing. Mr. Blease says -he saw the child rown from the C.. N. & L , train as t was passing the ;resble on its way mun of Columbia to Newberry.~ The rain was hal an hour late starting ut and was passing over the bridge ~t about 5.50 p. m. Leaphardt says e left the boy at the Richland side f the bridge about 6 o'clock, Osborne going on over the bridge behind. two nen. Mr. Blease says he saw bim from the car window sink the last ime. Tne drowning was also witnessed >y F. H. D ominiek and R. W. Nichols f Newberry, by Dr. Hughes of Lau rens and by Adolph Sayer, who had hat day been a witness before the nvesigating committee with regard o the dealings with the Augusta rewery. Those on the train at first hought the boy was dodging under the water to avoid the gaze of those n the train, but on closer observa tion it was seen that the boy was -rowning. There was no one in reach of the boy at the time and none tc give assistance. All of which seems o clear his playmate. The body showed no signs of violence. It was at recovered until nearly twenty-four ours after the drowning. Gored by a tsuit A dispatch from Greenville says Maj. Jonno Ferguson, aged 85 years, a large planter and a prominent citizen f that section of the s bate, was gor d to death Thursday Gy a bull at his ome near the Piokens court houi,' Ihursday morning. At one, time da was the leading merchant of that cit e jor Ferguson of late years had r6 tired to the old family homestead, where he occupied his declining years n raising fine stock. The bull which killed him had been an especial pet nd he had been accust.;med to go out in the field to feed it with his own ands evrymorning. This mornieg e pursued his usual custom, but the usually d..cile animal was enrag ed at something and gored him to death beftert assistance ould be pro BRYAN THE MAN. WILL BE NEXT DEIOCRATIC STANDARD BEARER. He Is Yore Popular Now Than Ever and .Would Eweep tie Country. There seems to be a general feeling among Democrats all over the country that William Jennings Bryan is their logical candidate In the next presi dential elctilon, and it is predicted by many that he will be nominated by acclamation, if he will accept the trust to lead his party again. A Washington dispata says De mocratic bopes for the control of the next hou e of representatives are be Ing superseded or augmnented by hopes of carryirg the election for president in 1908 The disclosures of numerous large contributions to the McKinley campaign fund in 1896 by the inbur ance companies and other corpora tions serve to arouse a bit of resent ment against the republicans. The numerous Instancas or exposed graf t do not tend to smrengthen the hold that the G. 0. P. has on the people. It is becoming a prevalent opinioD among large number of people that the election of 1904 was not an Indication of political strength on the part of the republicans, but to a large degree a personal tribute to rheodore R >osevelt. Equally prevalent is the belief that even RBosevelt could not do so well again. The opposition in the party &o tariff revision, the sentiment fox which Viows stronger .every day, bodes ill for the party in power. As soon as matters begin to look a bit bright and hopeful, -pro. hecies be come an Important proportion of the policical discussion., They are of more or less interest to the general public, depending somewhat upon the reputation and position of the prq phet. Perhaps no forecaster of the past few weeks is worthy of more con sideration than Is that of Norman E. Mack. "I will be Bryan by acclamation at the convention of 1908,"said Mr. fack, "and I should not- be surprised. if his opponent were Theodore Roose velt." He stated also that he believed that Mr. Bryan would sweep the country, and that he was more popular now ;han in 1896. In speak:ng of the political situa tioc, with partictilar reference to New Yorr, Mr. Mack said: "Hearst will be nominated for governor of New York and will be elected. He will carry the state by 100,000 plurality. This possiblity'of ais having to serve a term -as mayor of New York City will not be a f ctor in the gubcrnatorial campaingn. I think, for there seems to be little Ikelihood of the ballot -boxes bei g reopened. "Dj I think Tammany will be in line for Hearst,? Tammany alwvays is 0n line, and there will be no dropping Af Hearst's maj rity fir governor be .ause of the m.aoralty fight last #ab and the bitterness then engendered.' "Altogrether conditions never were more propitious for~ Demcaratic suc ess than they are now. .In our state di the factions are fusing fast, and shere is noti-a ripple of dlhcrd toimar the harmony tnat prevadea the party Roosevelt's rate bill juggling has hurt ahe republicai cause and made pro portonate capital for the Democrats, and last wzelk's episode will not b without its effeeb in all the nearing lectiorihs. I look for a Democratie sweep." Brother Kia Brother. - At O'Brien, Fla., Bart McCall be ame inlatuated with the wife of hh bro:her, E:l McCall. Thurs.:ay night ne visited his brother's home ano :ade noises to arouse his victim. E cCall went to a window previouisi pened by Bare and was then shot by Bart with a shotgun dying almost In santly. Officers arrested Bart, who broke down and confessed all, and was roughlt to Llve Oak and j ailed. Mrs. E I McCall had repelled the advances made ny her brother In-law. The Mc als were rarners. Laim-ar dar1 trom. A Wasnington special rays that Senator Latimer has just purchased and presented to Mrs. Latimer a first lass pair of thoroughbred Kentucky arriage horses. Experts who have exammned them say that this pair is as fiae a one as ever came to Washing on. These horses were raisad ano trained in Kentuckey, in the blue grass region, and present a fine ap pearard.c _______._ Lynchers Ac-reated. Thirteen alleged members of the mob which early Monday morning ynched John V. Johnson at Wades ooro, N. C., are in jail at that place Friday without privilege of ball, the harge being murder. They are:1 John Niven, Lester Johnson, Zeke Lewis, Elmer A. Dann, John Jones, 1. P. Niven, Ciyde Bowman, Joe eacham, Otis Martin, B F. Tim mons, Fred Dunn, Maiy Gulledge and Lewis Adams. There are warrants ut for five others who have not yet been taken. kohlna~ Deaax. Dr. S. R. Sayers of Pocanontas, Va., aged 30 and unmarried, wrs found dead in a room of the Gau.tc house, Chicago, on Tuesday; with the artery of his wrist severed. Papers( showing who he was and $500 In cash were found In the room. He had reg lterd under an assumed name. No cause.Is assigned for the deed. - Dodged Bombs. Advices from K-.tals, Trar~s-Cauca sia, state that two bombs were thrown ~hursday at General Alivhanaff, form er governor general of the province, while he was driving to the railway station. He was wounded ia the thigh.1 One bystindCr was killed by the ex plosion and three others were injured. Tne would-be assassin escaped. Had the Rhino. John Frost R tynus, aged 68, and E 1ith Mae Pallips, a schccl girl of 171 were msried at Milllarook, N. Y., on Sunday, the father of the girl con senting. It goes witl out saying that1 Rhnns has the rhino. AN AWFUL FATE. A Newly Married Young Couple Burned to Death WHILE THEY SLMPT. All Efforts to Awake Them Failed, and as. They Could Not Be Reached on Account of the Intense Heat They.Were Burn ed to Death. A terrible tragedy cocvrred near Walhalla at three o'clock on last .Frl lay morning in which a -young mar Ied couple were burned to death in iheir boarding house. The following particulars of the. tragedy %e.. learn .rom a dispatch frofn Walbaa to tbe ;reenville ]Iews. This dispatch says: Er. and Mrs. Joe Hadson, a. young >ouple, were burned to death as 3 fclock Friday morningin a fire which lestroyed the -residence of L~uIs Can irell, in this placa, at which Hudson md his wife were boarding. They iad-been married only a few months. rhe house was a large two-story itruciure, near .the residence of Judge Wickliffe, in West U-iion, and when Sir. Cantrell awoke almost the entire irst floor was enveloped inflamem: It seems that the fire broke'out In a 3lacksmith shop at a little place call d West Uilon, which is abaut two niles from Wl halls. A large two itory residence about 'thirty yards listant cauight from sparks fr'om the ihop and was burned to the ground. wo families occupied . this house. rhe family in. the firt'story escaped, mt Mr. and. Mrs. Joe Hudson, who ived up-stairs, were burned to death. (heir bodies were taken from the uins Friday morning only the trink eing found. When the ire was discovered it was mposaible io reach young Hudsf and iife. Baeks were thrown against the uindows and every etart made to 6rouse them, but they were never zen. In a short time-all..that was, eft of them were two charred bodies n the half burned timbers. Mr.and drs. Hudson were froni the Salem se ion, but both had been here several ,ears. Mrs. Hudson's charred body, with ihe linbs burned off, was found lying' w the bedsprings. The body of her imsband was found lying near theseni. ;re of the bzilding, shoiring ithabe iad risen and had possibly rehed the loor. What remained of both-bodles was placed in a coffa and carried to dr. Reid's residence. Many visited ne ruans of the old Careyplace Sat Lrday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson were both oung people, and were married only ,bout last Onristmas. Mrs. Hadson Fasa daughter of Mr. and Mra. Arch bed of Wyshalla -The- coroners lin restigation, held later- jirrda'y irought 'out nothing definite-.as 'io be origin of the fire. Tphe kitch in portion seenied to have bnirned ist. When Mr. Cantrellewokdd1he tre had made great hedway an(Gne. nan ran to the foot of the stairway - alling loudly, to the coupler above. ['he fire was then so- far-advanced hat it wasimpossible to go or comne rom the rooms. Wite Ran Away. A d'spatch from Diwson, Ga., tio he Augusta Chronicle says Mrs. Jallie Farrar, eloped with'Blv. J. B. lankins, a minister of.the gaspel'ari uperintendent of the Dawson public chools. Oni last Thursday, Prof. Han. ins- left tne school room, telling his? :lass, which was standing an exami ation, that he would be bach short y. Later Mrs. Farrar leift home tio risit a neighboi- and neither party has een seen in Dawson since. Latier Mr. 'arrar learned that the couple had ~loped and went in'search of ~them, racing them through MlsIsiippi where he lost ttne trail and-decided to 'eturn home. Mrs. Farrar was& arom. nent social leader and Dr. Harikrts a. nember .f one of the best families of ,he state. To Gover Crime. A well dressed man with marks on ils clothes bearing the, name of "J. r. Oakes," was found on the railroad racks n aar.Ingleside, W. Va. e The iead was entirely severed from 1the >ody, and from the position of the ody and the fact that the pockets 0: he man were'empty,. the liference Is hat he was murdered: 'and his- body laced on the tract to cover, up tihe irime. Blue and Gray. - At Little Back,'Ark., members .of. the local Confederate camp united ['lursday with those of -the Grand a.rmy of h.e Republic post In forming an escort in the oarade, marking -tihe >bservance of national Memorial day. - [!be former Confederate soldiers ap Jeared in their old uniforms . of ~gray hnd the G. A. R members-were clad n blue. Youaaz uderer. At Columbus, Ga., Henry GarrIson, 10-year-old negro boy, shot and kiL'. ~d Fannie Wilson, an 11 ye~r-old are tro girl, on the - Hateber place, In 3nattahoochee cogn;:. T ursday after loon. The two children had quarrel nd and the boy went into a house and rot a shot gun and deliberately shot mnd killed the girL. On account of his age he may nct be prosecuted. STalking Olocks. Cloch are now being made which. pear tne hours instead of striking ihem through the ingenious applica lion of the phonograph. They are Lrranged to call out in various degrees f modulation some loud enough tO -ouse the soundest sleeper. Tired of Law's Delay. Rbert T. Rbgers. awaiting his Ghird trial for murder of Jesse Brown, was taken from jail at Tallulah, La., mn Tuesday night and hanged to a telegraph pole. The people got tired af ta law's delay and su ung Bodgers.