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VO X VOL. XX. ANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY.:PJUNE 20, 1906(O 8 HELD IN TRUST. Brevard Miller swears that Glass Stock was given Directors. STATIM1NT DEl.FP The Glass Ccmpanv Of-icials Assert That -he Dispensary Officials Were not Presented With Stock in the Glass Company. Wednesday an affidavit from Mr. Brevard D. Miller, omganizer Cf the eompany which built the Carclina Glass company In Columbia was put In evidence betcre the dispensary In vestigating committee. MILLsM AFDAvrr. Personally appeated Bitvard D. MIuLer, who being uiy as(in depcaeth na sayeth. 1nat up to scmetine in 1892, he 'as for scmetume pr'-vicus living in thi city of Columbia, S&-uth Carolina, being at that time coinected with Giarby cotton mills (f that city. Dur 11 g the time of his tesicetLC there he etelopea the ioea, and was one 01 the piomoters in the crganizat.ion 01 the Carolina Giass company. Being assciaied in the urgarAlzaueni of this gians oumpany wi-.I Jao. J. Saeiels, Tcnmas layior, Jr., W. G. Ctaiab and E. G. Seibeli&. Tne ircorporators of the Carcina Glass ecmpany reahzing that the oub I6ss ox tbe Sate awpensary would be an advantage and irs.me the succew% ot-he company, - approached H. H. Evans ard L. J. WiAamb, then di rector of tn SLAe LisCLZarY, witL the cifer to sea them a cer;Zam &muinL 01 stcOk of me uarnr.a Giaeu woiapa ny to be paia for i monrey a. tuiL zsme price as the bLuck %as soid w,,, ouner parties. 1j *as undercwoo &(. this atage in the tramaction thbt ti. Caroina Giaas company was to meet, compeung prices. Luwr, it was decided by the con trominix interesut of uLe Carouna Gia&e company Wu tevc 6L6 9aQ i. H E7nM andL J. Waam a oua tj I., I stok in return ior w ,.t Cs.r, 1. h Gianb compey was to be given au, wt a part, of Ime saUS a. sp..Lary gla s bu6ies. A0onu Wnib Lime, ua.l-g conversation oebween J. J. stldels a"C R. R. Evans, n zqy prcseLc Jac. J beibels btaLed ant the Carouna Gass company, no6 eilg very btrong linan - caay, wouid not be able to tand 1or any .ng tb U1 tme a CuL in pIces 1., thou caputura, it itauuta ne mades. To wau bL statuee H. ki E .ants re paiea, -O- AL&, we 4rC pub L&ei LL jualgc giaoa. WeLn . we phLcs o giving the stock to the anhcLOas ul theS SLL clispensa ry 'has CciaSa On, I was not in sc cCIra Wim itsu naOLjecte.d to it, reaL i.ng that a was in uie mmaority, anc nob at aLL in accura Vwit- thle ponicy Oi the Incospo.rb.tors, anid thbai, conk. not prevsL izas gif, ul stoca, or SucD acolus as nousa ~mraly bolow, I witndrcew from tne company and my interests were taken over by ornne? It was my understanding at the time I withorew tAa thils gift of stock was to be mace to W. G. Childs as trustee for H. H. Evians and L. J Williams. it was my understanding, up to the time of my decLbion Lo witndraw from the Caroluna Glass company, that the Carolina Glass companDy was to meet competitive prices, and that the di reckors of the State dispensary were to be stockholders on the same basis as the incorporators, whereas this gilt of stoCk, to which I Objected, wcould give the Inference that the. Carolina Glass company would be ta vared by the directors of the State dispensary. At a meeting of the incorporators .of the CJarolina Glass company at which this gift of stock was discussed and from which I withdrew after re signing my Interests, I was reqaestec by Jno. J. Seibels to say notamg o' my knoiwledge of the transactions oc the Carolina Glass company. This 1 refused to do.. it has been several years since the transaction related above occurred. but the same is substantially as r' lated above. Brevard D. Miller, Sworn to and subscribed to before me, this 17th day of April, 1906. J. R Wnartcn, ImLEB FPLTLY CONTRAD)ICTED. The directors of the glass ccmpany who were in the city gave cut the following statement, which flatly ccntradicts Mr. Miller's statement: Hon. J. T. Hay, Chairman Ilavestiga ting Committee. Columbia; S. 0., June 13, 1906. Our attention has just been called to an affdavit which was placed In evidence before the State investigat lng committee just before Its adjourn mant today, and which pur ports to eminate from Brevard D. Miller, now of Alabama, but formerly of this place. He states that the ircarporators approached H. H. Evans and L. J Williams with an cifer to sell them stock in the glass company. We cat: state with certainty that none of un approached Mr. E rans or Mr. Wil1 -ams in reference n. this matter; anc if Mr Miller approached said gente men for the purpcse stated in his affi davit, tie dia so cf utis own volition, and without the krowledge or sanc tion of the otner incorporar-rs The main gist of the affi'avis I. -contained mn the statement, it wa: decided b? the controlling intere. *va* * to give the said H H Easand L. J. Williams a b.e.ck ,. this stock in relurn for woich thb Carolina Giass company was to b Sgiven all or a part of tse State dispen 'sary glass bu.siness." At d the sam party states that he resigne d his iffia and connection with said company oi eaccU. of this decision and policy We urqualitiedly deny this statement not only was no stock given to any member of the dispensary b ard, but no stock or bonus or commission or valuable consideration of any kind whaisoever was, at any-time, given to any one; nor was any auch decision or policy, as statrd by said Miller, made or agreed to by the stockholders or dirEctors, or the controlling interests '.f the Carclina Gass company. Mr. ]AUller severed his connection with .aid compary not for the reason stat zd in his z~hdavit, but because his services were unsatisfactcry to the oard of directors. Upon his with drawal, when there had only been 20 per esnt. paid on his stock, it was taken up and be was succeeded on the oard of directors of said gia; s com panv by the late Dr. B. W. Taylor. Mr. Miller further states as his un. derstanding "this gitt of stock was to be made to W. G. Childs, Irustee, for H. H. Evans and L. J. Willi&as." We assert possitively that neither H. R. Evans nor L J. Williams nor any Atber member of the former or pres ent board of control of the State dis pensary directly or indirectly owned or had any intereso in any stock of said gl&s company; nor was any stock Of said company held by W. G. Childs in trust for any such parties. The tock book and other records of the company have been heretofore freely furnished to the investigating cow. mittee and remained In their custody for inspes:tion for da s, and until they voluntarily returned them to the ompany. John J. Seibels, W. G. Cilds, B. F. Taylor. This statement is not signed by E. G. Seibels or Thos. ,Taylor becauie hey are both absent from the city. - John J. Seibels, B. F. Tajlor. LBADBRS FOR BRYAN. eis Re-cent Utterances on Socialism Greeted with Approval. A dispatch from Washington says Democrats in congress are highly pleased with Mr. Bryan's Berlin inter view. "If be will only cut cu) soclalism md s:- to democracy," they havu been saying in their beart to heart discusslons f the uutlook. Now thaT 5r. Bryan has taken tne first oppor unity to draw the lines aginst soci -.1ism they believe all ounot of his aomination has been rem ved. "I fully expect to spe Grover Clove iana sukpotiLg Mr. B->an -in 1908 - said R p:esentaove B all, of hxos, %is evecing. "1? he- aes the righ -era cf sie-ech at that Na N York re ption, ano I am ccnident -,e will, .e will not only be nominated, but Blecttd." " There is no reason to daubt Mr Bryan's demccrncy," said Senator Blackourn, of K-ntucky. "Tnere ated be no fLar Stat he will nt is gqui to the ozcasloa. W4 who have wals supporzrd him know tat Mr Bryan is .ot extremely radical. H is a cemc-ca , and democracy, i.L ealthty conservatismn." ''I em glad to see that Mr. Bryan has si~aroed cf right." said Juge D.iel Smith, of Kentucky. "What e says In is Barim interview is all rgns. D mocracy is not socialism nd s cialaem is r ot democracy." *B'yan is all rignt. There 1s no :nn mt,.ie United States I wculV rather see preskent than he. for I know he is all right," said Senator Truman. "The so called conservativ. emocrats of the c 'untry know they can have every confidience In him. 1 ;ught, to know It, for, you see, I am ometmes pic:ured as a coaservative zyself." "What Mr B-yan Is quoted as hav ing said in Berlin Is all~ right," said Henry D. Clayton, representative from Alabama, and member of the demo cratic national committee. "The emocrats of the South are not accial ists and never will consent to giving me party over to socialism. The democrat-s believe In applying old fashioned remedies to political condl tions, not in running after every new Ism in the hope of finding in It a po litical Issue. The democrats of the rut~hern states willhbe glad to see Mr. Bryan nominated, believing as they o that he is a safe but fearless demo crat." "I am delighted at Mr. Bryan's ringing utterance against socialism," said Representative Webb, of North Carolna. "HIS interview has the right ring to It. N )rth Carolina can be counted a Brian state." wno~ioit'? E-Constable M. N. Bahr of Charleston and Chairman J'. M R 1 son of the present board of lapensary directors were on the -stand b. f are the dispensary investigat ig committee Wednesday. Bahr testifed to seeing a big roll of ble bills, aggregating probab'y $2.000 tossed on a table at a Colum'bia hotel on one cecasion by a whiskey drum mer for members of the board of con trol present, but says he did not stay long enough to see who got the money. He said L. J. Williams. Dudley Haselden, Cnrls Rt 'btnson and probably M. R. Cocper of the pur chasitig board then in cf~ce were present. He also testified to being in a bar In Augusta when a whiskey drummer threw down a big roll, with $500 to $'700 in It, in front of Chair man H. H. Evans, Chris Rob~nson and L. J. Williams, saying there was no use to go homie. but to stay and' er joy the carnival going on in Augusta t the time, that there weas plenty of money to give them all a gr~od t:me. But be could not give the name o the drum~ner, and did not remnember vho picked up the r~ll. Pai ar orFfire. Eighteen million feet of rstural zas are being consurmed each day Dy fire a-. the 1i.-e town of Burnt House n Ratchie Couny, W. Va. Tne i.mes are risitg 500 feet in tue an~ and the great ruintain of fire at ight lignts the surrournding country. Te fire Is watched by Ltiu anos The well was drilled in last Fdiias a and the tremend..us pressure mtde it aimpossible to cap the hole. Saturdal a trnoon wo: kmen were er-deavoring o stop tne n.iw wae~n they saw e underscrm approaching. H ardlh i aad the:- q nt wnen a fisa of light THE TRUE OAUSE. Not a Moral Revolution But a Tremendous Disclosure OF TERRIBLE FACTS ias Caused 'the People to See the Rascalities of the Trusts and the Republican Party as Pointed Out by Bryan Ten Years Ago. The Wall Street Journal says: "A tremendosii moral revolution is taking place. Many practices which ten years ago, five years ago, one year ago, and even six months ago, were in fa vor, public opinion havirg no condem lation for them, are now held to be Pdious and even criminal. This is, erhaps, the most notable development >f the day, namely, the creation of a ligher standard foi the conduct of &merican businass." In reply to the above The Common r says: Ton years agc! That was 109 years fter the American fathers agreed pon that great constitution whicb bey declared was ordained to "estab sh jastice, insure domestic trarquili y, provide for the oommon defense, romote the general welfare, and se ure the blessings of liberty to our ielves and our p"terity." Ten years'agi ! That was 120 years .fter the signing of the Declaration f Independence. Ten years age! That was nearly 2. )00 years after Christ walked the earth and taught those moral principles which, in other lands than our, are prrum-ed to rule in the hearts of men? Yet we kara from the Wall Street ournal that ten years ago the Amer a p. ople had not prcgressed far .Lorgh to know that it was wrong to -teal and wicked to kill. Ten years agt ! That was in 1896 he Wall Street J ural's "trem:n ious moral revolution" notwitbatat.d r. there must have beer--ven In 1896- somi great moral principles a' - orx in -the hearts of many Ameri :aGs. It was in 1896 that it was ohargee :y the rep.eantatives of the grea. it mooratic party in co-vention assem >Ied in toe city of Cacago that se fi-h ntrests were at work In the i ff .irz )f our government, and tnat the pur y se of these sellisa interests was to xploit this great nation for the bene it of a coterie of men and at the ex pense cf the masses of the p-opl". ter it was as-erted ttat a tar ff sys m w Ica 'creeds trusts and monopo ias I. dishonest Then It was saic aan an inc:'me tax whereby man pa [or tais support of a c-mmon govern nens in prrportion to tne benefits aey receive is in line with justice ben it was claimed that the burdens f taxation should be equally and im >artially laid; ranat d~fferences bet weet agex payers and wage earners shoule is settled by the peaceful method tf rbitration; that railroads and othei ret cerporations should be required to do justice to the people by whose aw they were created; that public of icers shioud be economical in hand i~g the money; that courts sboulc cot '2se arbitrary autharity for the op ression' of the weak and the helplese; hat government should be adminis ~ered for the greatest good to the ~reatest number. Yet we are told by the Wal Street rurnal-and this is but a fair- sample f what we read in many republicar ewspaper today-that in 1896 tht kmercan rperple di1 not have the ame conscience which prompts them o dencunce the infamies that have been recently exposed. There has been no moral revolution n the sense meant by the Wall Street ournal. Tuere have bt en exposurst and the very large number of people who were misled by republican ne wapa pers and re publiican leaders now know that the charges made by the demo ats in 1896 were true; that the sprc tal interests were even then preying pon the peop'.e and since then have tken advantage of their great vietor3 n that year to impcso upon the peo. pe-as though republican victory meant lcense for these men to do their orst. It is absurd for publications like the Wall Street Journal to talk about "the creation of e. higher standard for the conduct of American business" cor that the tnings which we now hold to be "'dious and even criminal" were a few years ago really in public favor. Long betore the editor of the Wall Street Journal was born' men knew that theft was theft. While the men of our earler days had their faults, it is safe to say that they would not have tolerated one-one hundredth of the impositions to which the men of today have submitted. If one-tenth of the facts revealed during the past six months had beerJ known to the American people in 189f the republican party would have gone down to an ignomirnous defcat. Did the republican party win be cause the peop1 were without moral I Dd the repu'blican psrty wL becaus; the peepie were indirent to th4 scemes .f trust wsgt sates? No. Theai men who are now exp1osed as commol sogues posen toen as defenders of na 4ional honor. And republican editor -thre editor of the Wa~l Street Journa amng them-stood sponsor for ah rascals. Wnxen George W. Perkins, Richar A. Mcourdy, James H. Hyde or at other insurat ce magnate lbsued an in erview in banalf of the repuolic. ticket, we were told that that wa the opinion of a successf ul man whos only concern was that the "ousinex laterets of the country be protected Wnen the proprietors of the packin houses isr-ued interviews in supportC he republican ticket, we were tol r~at these men were "captains of ir dutry " and entitled to lead good cil izens. When Bigelow, the MilwaukE baner, and Andrews. the Detro banker, spoke in behalf of the republi cin ticket, they were pointed out a disinterested patriots who would wil lingzlv shed their blood for the public interests. E qery speech delivered by Chaunce3 N1. Dpew, by Joseph R Burton, or any of the other republican senators or members of congress was pointec to as the utterance of a far-seeing statesman who would as quickly desert his own party had his own party attacked the public interests as the democratic party was then charged with doing. And a consider able number of pe6ple really believed that these men were defenders of national honor. They really believed that they were men standing for the best course for the whole people. Several million men went to the poll: and voted the republican ticket under the impression that that party was the "God and morality" organ'z tion, rather than the party of pecula tion and plunder-as they now know it to be. Does any one believe that the things complained of in the Depews and the Burtons would not have been condemned by Americans ten, twenty, fifty, or a hundred years ago? Would the American people of the long ago knowingly have given their approval to conspiracics in restraint of trade, to monopolies in the neces saries of life? Wouli Americans of the long ago have looked with ap prcval upon an Aldrich did they know that he stood in the senate as the tool of special interests rather than as the representative of the peo ple? Has there been a period in American history when men would not have known that the embezzle ment of depositors' money by the B'gelows and the Andrews was wrong? Has there ever been a time when Americans would not see the evil when Uni.ed States senators ac cepted from private interests fees for their services in public affairs? Dur ing what particular period did Amer oans so far forget the simple rules of common honesty that they would aave failed to recognize as stea'ing the appropriation of policyholders' money for the use and benetit of th! republican pary? During what period would they fail to detect in iqilty in the bribes given by coal b.rons to rilroad ecployes and offi cials in order that the coal trust mizht secure undue advantage.? Woen did they ever look upon re ostes as anything but unfair and dis honest both to the railroad stock nolder and to the general public? Would the sIght of a Rcckefeller dodging Ocfmeers of the law inspire g: eater admiration among the Ameri aIns of the long ago than it does mong the AmerIcans of toda3? Art the Americans of today so much ,righter tnan their predecessors that ,hey can more quickly dectet worng in the action of Walsh, who, as owner of the Chicago Cironicle advccated ae election of the republican ticket, pretending his effrts to be in defense f national honor when, as we have reasun to believe, they were In order aat he might be etter able to reather his own nest by the violatior: of the laws of tne land and tne rules jf common honesty? There has never been a time when men did not know nat wife abandonment, as indulged in by the head of the steel trust and ther "defenders of national honor": la not "ediojus and criminal." There nas never been a time in the history >f the American government when men wouid not nave known that it Li a crime to deal out embalmed beef to she sold ers and the sailors, and a rime to feed the men, women ana hildren of this land upon diseased meat. Would the men of the long ago have looked more lightly upon the immunity bath to which our trust :agnates are treated than do the people of the presen a? Don't be deceived, Mr. E litor of she Wall Strtet Journal There has ieen no "tremendous mnoral revolu ion" as you employ the term. Taere ave been tremendous disclosures of terrible facts. The hearts of the people are right today as they were right in 1896. They were fooled then as they were fooled before and as hey have been fooled since. But once let the real awakening come; let them know that they are called upon o take their stand on tne side of truth or on falsehood's side, and it will be very readily seen that by an overwhelming majority they will take their stand In line with those good old reoral principles which they learn ed at the mother's knee. If the newspapers would only tell the people the truth with respect to these public Questions the popular verdict would be more nearly corriecs. Even now tnere are many honest re puolicans who really imagine that the foreigner pays the tax, and because of that false notion tiney are holding up the hands of the "standpatters.' When the rank and file of the repub lican party learn the truth with re spect to a republican tarnff they wil cold that poiucy to be "odious anc even criminal." Let the Wall Street Journal unde caive Itself. The practices which the people vigorously condemn toiay thej would have condemned in 1896 hat they not been srst~ematic:diy de eived. ________ *Formata for Success. The formula for success in lif wHch the late Baron Aiphonse R. tb child laid down for the young mei of France and distriouted by mean of printed cards was: Snun liquor Dare to go forward. 1nver be dia co'uraged. Be polte to everybody E aploy your time well. Never te. ousmness lies. Paiy your debts prompt y. Be prompt in everything. Bes all troubies patiently. Do nc reckon upon chances. Make no use ess acquiaiItances Be crave in tfl struggle of lit e. Main.ain your intes rity as a sacrea thirg. Ne'ver al pear to be something rxore than y o are. Take time to consicder, then di c de positively. Carefulily examir every detail of your bus ness. SKalled~m an. "Mrs. 0. H. Patterson, wife of t1 president of tne Barnkers Trust can pany of Kansas City, was instant killed Fada) night, when tue lark a utomonile in whicn she was ridir Iwith her husband, daughter and ti driver, L. A. Pallips, collided wil tson streets. BIC FISH STORY. Fine Bass Fishing in the Street of a City. CHOKED WITH FISB, And Water Would Not Come Out of the Hydrants, Causing a Water Famine in Some Sections of the Great City of New York. The New York American says that a hundred stripped bass came out of a hydrant at One Hundred and Eighteenth street and Manhattan avenue Wednesday. Seventy-five more flowed Into the street from another bydrant a block further niorth. The visitation caused great juvenile excitement in the neighbor hood. Children swarmed about the streams In the gutters and thrust in Sunday sleeves to the elbow to cap ture the finny invaders. Protests to the Water Department from residents of the apartment houses in the neighborhood, who could get no water abova first floors, was directly responsible for the fish show. For two weeks the water sup ply in the district had been vacillat ing and eccentric. 0 1 some days the answer to an opened faucet would be an anaemic dribble which would not fill a basin in an eight hour day, nor a bath tub in a life time. Again an impetuous chocolate-colored flod wouid burst forth, which would have been scorned as unsanitary even in a packing house. Wednesday brought a dcimax of poor service and there was no water at all. John Willa, janitor of the Harold, an apartment house at No. 439 Manhattan avenue, telephoned she Water Department for relief. When the hydrants were opened, striped bass shot gaily through their 'ran mouths with astonishi- g rapidi ty. Ia a few minutes, almost two nundred active able bodied fish were endeavoring to ad just themselves to life in a great city. It furn sied joy ous diversion for the children. For 1locks around they were infected with the excitement and flocked about he muddy' streams. When the last ash was captured there was not a dry shirtwaist in the crowd. Several animated disputes among the children concerning the relative ize of the fish they had captured marred somewhat the pleasures of the day. A dirty piece of a tape measure was brought in' as arbiter. Some of he bass actually measured nine ches from stem to stern and weigh ed a pound and a half. The most aggressive boy in the athering, however, successfully :aintained that he had captured a fsh elghteen inches in length, which weighed four pounds. It was being prepared at home for dinner, he said Lo one disputed the statement, but dsfter his departure some of the young skeptics measured the hydrant open ig and whispered doubts. Wnile striped bass were predomin ant in the- wondrous visitation, the monotomy was relived by a few pickerel, perch, suckers and eels. Water famine was only partially re lieved. Some of the experts from the Water Department said that some of he fih had been forced up into the pipes leading from the mains to the nouses and had completely choked hem up. Drownea in iene surr. A telegram from Charleston Thurs day announced the drowning on Sul ivan's Island of Mr. C. L. Hisves, a wellknown book mani and the author of a number of articles on pedagogy. Mr. Hayes according to thle telegram, was in bathing with Mr. W. K. Tate, the principal of the Memminger Nor mal school of Charleston, and a num ber of others and was caught in the undertow and swept out In the ocean. Although a number of those in the ,ater at the tima attempted to res cue Mr. Hayes their ef!frts were in vain, and Mr. Tate, who went out at tr the drowning man was himself nearly drowned. Mr. Hayes was the general manager of the Webb3 and Ware drawing books concern of Nash vile, Tenn., and has taken an active part in educational ef dra In that State, being at one time mentioned for St-ate superintendent of educa Aion. Ejecr on 1l1egal. Jidge Hydrick Wedcnesday an nounce~d his decIsion in the Laorens dispensary election case. The decree reverses the finding of the state oard of canvassers and sides with the Lr.ens county board of canvassers, who declared the election void on ac count of irregularities. The returns snowed that the dispensary had been voted out of Laurens lasr January by a small majority. Judge Hydrick's decision has the effect or keeping the 1 ispensaries open. Whether tne anti dispensary people will appeal is not nown. It is thought that they will. Tae Laurens dispensaries have never ben closed, the state board's reversal or the county board's finding having oeen hla up by t:ue writ of certorari granted by Judge Hyrck. Played in Llon's Uage. A sensational performanca has aken place at tue S..oke Hippodrome, were two locali oiliard players arra'g ed to play a match of t wenijr- five up mn tne center of a lions' cage, say Phe L adon Mail. The lions, wion were uuder coatrol of a lady Grainer, sat around tne cage on peaestaus. Sorsiy after the game had begur eone of the animals gave a loud roar, which so frightened one of the play era that he drop his cue. As the game proceeded the lions grew excit d at presence of the strangers, anc dashed around the cage in an alarm o ig manner. Tue matcha lasted soma ten minutes, and the players wer' j oue cheere a they left the cage. WILL NOT APPEAR BEFORE THE DISPENS3IRY IN VESTIGAIING COMMITTEE. But Will Stand Trial In the Court of General Sessions If Necessary. The members of the former State board of directors of the dispensary have not appeared before the investi gating committee in answer to the Invitation of the committe. Mr. L. W. Boykin was present Wednesday out did not go on the stand. Col Jno. Bell rowill was present the day 5hat Mr. C. C. Davis of Newberry testified to the matters which have excited so much comment. Mr. E. H. Evans has taken apparently little interest in the investigation, as he has not been in Columbia recently. No return was made by him Wednes :iay through his attorneys. At the meeting of the committee Wednesday afternoon, Mr. R. H Welsh of the law firm of Bellinger & Welsh appeared and presented a re turn for Mr. Boykin and a separate return for Mr. Towill. Tne two are identified in 1.r-guage, but are not signed jointly. Following is a copy of one of the re.urns: Columbia, S. C., Jun 13, 1906. Hon. J. T. Hay, chairman, and other members of Le committee appoint ed to investigate the affAirs of the State dispensary. Gentlemen: in response to your invitation, if I so chose, to appear bt fore your committee today for the purpose of making any statement that I desire to make concerning my for mer connection with the Sate dis pensary I beg to say that I prefer that )our investigation should pro ceed uninfluenced by any statement that I might make. The more whorough and searching the investiga ion is made, the more certain will the correctness of my conduct be de monstrated. I am not only anxious to see the investigation proceed hi &he raost rigid manner but I shouid be much disappointed if it did not do so. Indeed, numdiating as it n-igni; be. I cnadenge the closest scrutin of my conduct before any tribunal be fore wnich it can be made. I have no fear tnat those who knowi me will believe that I have done any - thing that has been eitner illegal or immoral. Instances in which honora ble men might aiffer with me in judg ment may, and perhaps will be dis :overed. Wrong cannot be, for it does not exist. Wnile I have keenly elt the injustice and the cruelty of some of the suggestions which have >een made in relation to my former :onnection with the dispensary. I am conident that when the scrutiny as been made complete that even those who ao not know me will reacn a like conclusion with those wno do. At a future day and when it can ave no influence upon the acAlun of rour committee it is my purposa to iend you a written statement cover ng the matters that I deem of cn esquence, whicn I shall ask you to re zard as part of this communication uid whicn I shall ask you to file as a art of your report. Very respectfully, L. W. BorgiN. After presenting the communica ion, Mr. Welsn asked the committee ot to -adj aurn sine die until these ~entlemen~ named could have an op. >ortunity to prepare a defense. As ~or himself, he would have a great eal to do on account ol the illness of Nr. Bellinp~er, but he made thiJs ap eal to the committee ini good faith ot to ad journ until his clients could ave a hearing. Same Oid Trick. The Boston Transcript admits that r. Bryan would run a little but acds: 'That te would h.a defeatea, owever, is hign~ly probable, almost eyoncl the posibiiliy of a doubt; not hat It would be easy to defeat him, out because tne busmness interests of he country would find it absolutely ecessary to do so." To wnch the Dolumoia State say s: - "Indeedi! And what are tnese 'buslness interests?' Tne corporations, we presume. IL here has been any dou.bt as to the necessity of passing the bill prohibit ing campaign contributions by te corporations such talk as tils from tne Tranbcript shoald. brush these doubts aside. Are the 'busmness in ceresa' to be permitted to repeat the p-rformance of 1896 and overthrow Gae will of the people by the free and unlimited use of money ? Tnat seems to be wnat '.ine Tranecript expects." Who in Ab., damb.,rger? H. M. 'Mooiey, Ciert Sae Board Dretors, made affldavit before a noary puolic " - tat ne uas examineu tue reoiraa of tne State dispensary rom 1893 to tne present date and tnat TuIS records do not sno~w any pur cases whatever from a waiskey nouse oy tne name of Canen, Bau & (Jo., represenlteal by one Abe Hmmoerger of Bialtimore, MarylanJ,- as testifled o by Mr. Bristo w of Greenville, S. C. efore the legislative investigating commieitee or ..nis State." Trust thet rsut-. . William Jennings Bryan was seen by a reporter in Benliu, Giermany, anca ared about the political situation ir tae Uait.ed -ates. Mr. Bryan ex. pre.ssed Lzie opinion tnat tue next elec. unin the suates would tura on tii* question of die trusis. Tne siivei inua he said was a "deaca noise" 13.,ng askeai about tne prospect 0: .s e.ge ut r~ciprocmy treaties Mr, Biyan said tat ne was in ravor of geuerai reciuctiuu of auties, in wicd case reciprioa' trearties wish foreigE countries would De superiaous, D:.adiy Elecricity. Electric light wires are dangerou na sine greateSt care snoulai be bee osed in Sneir erection to see trnas ture ar> wedl put up. Over in Augusta Ga., one nignt last week kir. J. U uarison, a young man, asmbled int two electric wires on the corner ( iOierry ahey and Gardner aveaue. Ha cries for assistance ar,-racted tne al entiOn of tisone who lived:( near b-I out all eiffrts to resuscit~ate Lim wase reacaieo were in vain. Tae wires wel a fnady cue ana pusned out from unais his oay ann it was removed 5o a iiaa by honse where nO aled. MORE RIOTS AND BLOODSHE D IN THE CZ AR' DOmINIONS. A Jewish Anarchist Said to Havi Caused the Trouble by a Bomb. A dispatch from Blalystok, Russia, says a Jewish anarchist threw a bomb among the Corpus Christi procession which was in progress there on Thurs day and killed or wcunded many per ions. In consequence the Christians attacked and massacred the Jews and demolished their shops. Hundreds of persons were klled or wounded. The bomb was thrown from the balcony cf a house in Alexandrov street. A Prus sion clergyman ramed Fedetoff was among those killed by the explosion. Immediately after the explosion Jews began to fire with revolvers from the windows of the house into the crowd. Soldiers surrounded the house and fired two volleys into the windows. Meanwhile the evraged Christians at tacked the Jewish stores in Alelan drov and Suraz streets, demolishing the fixtures and windows and throw ng the goods into the gutters and beating and murdering the Jaws. A crowd of Jews fled to the railroad sta tion, pursued by the mob, which kill. ed many of them there. Th.ee Jews were tnrown from second story win dows of the railroad station building. The signal for tne outbreak, whion apparently was daliberately planned, perhaps a counterstroke for the mur. :er of Chief Police Derkatchoff on June 10, waich was attributed- to JewisL Bundis, is given as the explo sion of a bomb during a religious pro cession. This was followed by revol ver fusillades in several quarters of the city. The polce are said noD to have attempted to Interfere In the early stages of the riot. The Jews, no number three fourths of the pop ulation of the city, offered the best resistance po3sible, many of them be ing armed but were unable to pre vent the pilliging of tneir homes and places of business. Fmnally the mli 6ary interfered, but accordtag to ad ices received at St. Petersburg, ithout being able to restore order. &einfic iments have been rushed to Bialystok, from Grodno. According to reports received Satur lay !ram Bialystok fusillading has ontinued througiout the city au day, Jews firing from the windows of.their acuses, the soldlers answering with vollays, crowds of peasants armed ich clubs and tcthes pillaging and eating Jews and cavalry patrols aunting oown pillagers. The city has oeen cordoned in order to prevent the ingress of more peasants. Many persons are reported to have been wounded but the number of dead is said to be comparatively small. Ezact otsils of Fridayi's disturbances are lacking; bat Tnurslay's pillaging is ttrioated largely to peasants from the couatry. Tne Jaws are fi3elnk from Bialy stok to the neighboring forests and mobs are pursuing them. Detach ents of dragoons nave been sent out to protect the Jlaws. Jaws arriving t Bailystok on railway trains have een draigged out of the cars and many of tnem have been murdared. Troops have cleared the railway sta ion Tne be:. stores in the city had been sacred, and many were dead ad wounded. Figures, however were not given, and probably the au-.ualties are not known in Blaly ,toZ owing to the continuance of the isoders. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says disoriaera appear to have broken out at Blalystok Friday afternoon with even greater fury than charac terized Tnursday's riots. N~o dispatch s have been received direct from Balystok, wuere the telegraph offle is closed, but semi-ficial messages from Grodno' and Minsk report that he ex~essei were started again today oy the throwing of several bombs. The crowds, according to these dispatches, then opening fire on the pollce eta ion, to whicn the troops replied, and hre was a constant interchange of shots between Jews in their houses and soldiers in tne streets. A mobof peasants, armed withbclubs, scythes, etc., wno had found their way into tne city Tnrsday, was par tcipating in the rioting. A dispatch from Mrinsk states that the authorities had been fully forewarned of the poe sibility of srouble Tiursday, and had recalled a bannation of infantry and several squadrons of cavalry from their summer camp to strengthen the gar rison, but without overawing the for menters of trouuie. Convic rted o1 Murder. William MIa,rcus, formerly of the Uitea States artillery, was tried at Cn.eton Wednesday on the coarge of murder, uaving iiled Jlis wife, on one front beach of Sullivan's Island, April 14, last. Ties woman, who waa uiversall: well regarded, was horrlb. y mutilated withi an ice pick witi which the kiling was done. As wa expected, tae attorney for the de ense, L. G. Fulz, who was appointed y tue court, set up the plea of in sanity and made a nard ngat for tnt ife of ils client, while Solicitor Jar vey was assisted in the prosecution b; Ocavus C,>hea, handled tne case we] for the state. A verdict of guilt: was found after a deliberation C three hours. Marcuas was sentencei oy Judge Aldrnch to be hung 0 August 3. He reclved his senteno winout any marked emotion or state ment. Tnis will ne the first hangins of a white ma.. in Cnarlesson ount. mn many years. Bryan 11he Man. A staff correspondent of the Koc mond Evening Journal interviewe Democratic N.Ltilu~a Comminit~ei Norman E. Mack, ini Buflo .Y on bine democ aU outloo. -r -~ hrsa ul of the 1904 election was s! aunce tat I nave not believed ths . ulam Jennings Bryan would co. [ anue to be tne leader of the demnocra s ic party in tile ation and there ha. I enl no time In that period but whi , i have believed thlat Bryan would 1 renomina'ted for tue presidency by a oimatin in the next democratic col t veto. He also says the Soul -.dil name the eandidate for Vil Prsident. NINE KILLED And Forty Injured by Explosion on Board a Ship. VERY MYSTERIOUS. The Steamship Had Just Arrived at UV. erpool from Philadelphia. The Cause of the Explosion is Un known butLAttributed to Escaping _Naptha. At Liverpoo., Eagland, nine men were instantly kied and about 40 were wounded as the result of a SOr fio explosion Wednesday on the biltish steamer Haverford. of tihe In ternational Navigation company. Tne vessel, waica as commanded by (apt. Nsllsen, arrived taere from Padadelpaia. Tne explosion- ilawrot sne haaenna, rent tae aecks zad hurl ed doad and wounded men In all directions. Several bodies wore di membered and sne deck resembled the floor of a charnel nouse. Tbn victims were mostly stevedores. The expiosion, whica was heard for many mues, was foilo wed by we outbreak of fire. Tn cargo, onsOising. of tin. seed oil Oae, was soon blazing .Merc ly. Firemin and poUce narried - to we spot and Ene injured were .aken wc a neignoorng Iopital, while tmb work of neartnng for ?nrtzer post ole casualties pruoeeded wita vigot in spise of Soe liercedess of toe 're, .w=a soon assumed alarming propor sions. Arter Two iloarahard -Igns, nowever, &no ireman onsained mass ery of tne fames. A rumor on&s ie explosion was due sto an mfernal macamen arose from ue finding of a woolen box a foot -quare In one of te nonas. fhin box, w.ioa was only paroiy Saasered, sill onaned pece.s of ase macatnery. la was prominensly marxed "for Man. anesser, Bdgland. Tne fflicAls of the Internablonal Navigarion company haver Ui8r caarge of the box, bat they do not assacn importance to she neory o.t fonl play and say tmat ne presence of ne box in Ene nold was a mere a* 3idens. Tae officials say smney believe ine exploabon was aus to Ignision of gas given off by napona soap, whicn formed pars of the cargo. .Saoose Two Men. At Wadley, Gs., Wil Smith, an escaped negro convict, early TAUday s:aos and killed Maranal Morns of Mldvlle, and mortagy wounded.J. J. Pp, a wedl known vlanser, - living near there. Tne negro wno: was srv ing a twenty year sentence, nad es caped from tne camps. Mr. Popedis covered that toe negro had taken ze fuge as ni former aome and was. be iag proseced by is wife. Summon ing arsnlel MorrIs the owoapprOach ea toe caain and were mes Wisa a volley of snoss which c..niinuedi until thi marshal was dying on tne ground 'and Mr. Pope lay morially wounded. inf then came from toe cabin, ex amined hswoidbe captorsand dis appeared into tne dense woodz. Mncla excitement followed and a posse. swas. formed Immediately at Wadley, which us now In pursuit of the desperate no gro. _________ Explains itself. Thursday morning Conmssaner Tatum received sne folblowng letter from Caai, .B::l & Co., a copy ,of whichl he sent to theo committee with a request bat is be madea part of tne record of one investigation: '-Mr. W. 0. Tasum, Comlsanne State Dispeasary, CJolumota, S.C., "Dear Sir: We acanowledge re ceipoof year favor of one 93a Ins. Raplying toereso, we have nevers-Id one Soun Carolina dispensary: any goods nor have we ever been repro dented batore tnem bj Mr. Abe .Ham. Derger, or solicited any orders from them througn mm, nor paid .any na oney to anyone for securing bust. nes from tno Soutri Carolina dispen "Yours very truly, Cana, Bus & 0o." Freak or Ltaghung. An extraardinary agasting freak Is reported from Bialay, Frace, dur ing a onandersourm. A moan. named Dayeni, wno was noemng posatoes' was killed by liganamg, as closeK oving wirn to rags. iilin wife and taB two men wno were near bad mnear olotning torn, 'bat escap..l iijuljard, ,.xospt for 't .ze fact tnst oy some un accJumnao Il rear tne agooning paint si sneur laces a onigno red and sai ilpe biack. In time ilttle viillage of Oromos, 27 houses were stripped of taeir rOS. At Frels Maraui the ilgnoningc snrew a motor-Car across tile Sroad Ene two passenger5 escaping un mnjured. In moe Vosgos a nam.Oer of peopie were killed and a village Was set on fire. Burnen by Maeoiife At Atlanta, GA., an explosion of Igasolmne mn a dlyS nOass on Narztn vPryOr stree '?narsday evening, re : anne.d ma sue severe oanang of tas i proprlOi:nr W. J. 8Soddard, about the i face, neCK and armsi. Wnen entering e ne pilace to .tigs one lire, Assissana -Caler Pressiey was seriously injared goy a secorna explosion, ,vnica scoroned v as.i upper pauj of nams body. is is fear ed ~Se nuo ialsd Gne us~nes and bas ,uffered clangerous injuries. Both men were saken to the ttraay hospi - al. Several otner firemen were ourned as tney followed (Jalef Prews lety into one ounil-. eThe schonmer Tnomas S. Dennis~n, Captain Wade, arrnved as Port Tam tpa late Ti'nursday afternoon, having - on board A. Painney, master and -. sole survivor of sna crew of one a torso massed senoaner Emma L. o Oorsinmgnam, of New Bedford, Mass., e wamca sanx lass Sunday mornIng,. 136. 5. mies- weeo-sonrna-west of Egmuons :- Key, Fiorida, wiule bound from Mo. h ule toKaigniSs Bay, Fia. Six med a. oompoainig one crew of the Gotn ham were 1l1t.