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r t VOL. XX. MANINING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 11 190.NO,1 WHAT IT COSTS. People Killed and Wounded in Celebrating the NATION'S BIRTHDAY. Thirty-Eight Killed Outright and Two Thousand Seven tHundred and Eighty-Nine Injured According to the Compilation of the Chicago Tibune. On last Thursday the Chicago Tribune published its ninth annual summery of deaths and injuries caus ed throughout the United States by the F..urth of July celebration. The following are the figures: Dead....................... 38 By Fireworks............. 9 By cannon ... ......... - - 1 By firearms..... ......---- 11 By explosives-. -............ By toy pistols ............. 4 By runaways.. .............. 1 By drowning........ --...... Injured .................2,789 By fireworks.............1099 By cannon................ 261 1 By firearms.............. 393 By explosives.....":.... ----.697 By toy pistols.....-......... 304 By runaways ..... . - 35 t Fire loss. $08.450. a In Chicago: Dead........... .. ......... . 2 I Injured................... 156 Last year 42 persons were killer - outright, but when k c:jaw and other i diseases incuced by Injuries had c.m pleted their work over 400 lives had f been sacrificed. The number of injured, 2.789, is in excess of last year's -figures by 358. C ONE BILLED, ONE INJUEED. Only one death was rep.rted in New York as the result of cel brating the noted day of the nation. Morris Sha piro, a Seltzer water manufacturer, - was shot In the head by a stray bullet as he was driving in Harlem. He died soon afterwards. The police were un able to learn where the bullet came from. At the Sbeepshead Bay race track, while standing in a crowd John Fowler of Bufslo, N. Y., was wound ed in the head by a stray bullet. TTVE BOYs ARE KiLLED. Wanamie, Pa., a mining town, was a thrown into a fever of excitement this s evening ihen a ltud report was heard r similar to that of a mine explosion. Men, women and children ran to the e scene, and scon discovered that five a boys were killed and nine others in- n jured by celebrating the Fourth of v July They had placed powder in a C pipe and it failed to go off. They then L forced a stick of .dynamite into the d pipe and.began pounding it. A ter- e rinl : exploeicr_ followed. Four of the boys were badly mangled, and the s fifth died on the way to the hospital. ? Some of the injured are so badly hurt that they may die. HURT BY C.ACES. At Baton Range, La.,,. giant fire crackers ir jured two members of the t Louisiana state legislature during a Fourth of July parade of the house of a representatives. The legislators light-. ed and discharged the crackers as they 3 marched. One explccbd before the face of Mr. Charles B. Stroudba~ck, of New Orleans, tearing his hat and a gashing his forehead. Another tore two fingers of Representative J. M. a Bart, of Reserve. Previous to the parade, atarrel was placed in the nouse chambers, where the members had been in session, and giant crackersa were exploded in it, some of them big enough to jar almost the entire state house. ROCKED THE BOAT. Boyish folly in rocking a boat led to the drowning .July 4, cff PlumC Beach, Sheepshead Bay, L. L, of two toys, Benjamin Goets and Peter Zim merman, and the narrow eEscape of four more, whoiwore rescued by pass ing craft. FOUR PEOPLE KiT-TED. Reports from different parts offn diana showed ftur fatalities and a large nunmber of persons injured as the result of the celebration of the Fourth The dead: Roy BrownIng, 12 years old at Elk hart, Ind., blat k cartridge wcound. John Bager, at S. uth Bend, Ind., died of over-excitemer~t. Clarence Gant, 20 years of age, at Mt. Carmel, Ind., drowned at picnic. George Hempers, at Mt. Vernon, drowned in Ohio river. Fatally wounded: Miss Anna Parham, 16 years of age, at LaPorte, Ind., shot in side. Mrs. William Sny der, at Blufiton, Id., strick by piece of bomb. SIX LiYES LOST. Six bcdies, those of five young wo men of Omaha, and an unidentified man were recovered from the waters ci Lake Mana.wa where Wednesday night more than a hund~rod persons, while watching a display of fire works on the lake, were precipitated into sxT een fetet of water frcm a floating dock. Eight persons5 were reported missing. B'URYED TO DEATH. At Neguanle, Mich., Jcsephine Krat z, 9 years old, was burned to death Wenesday by flames which communQ icated to her dress from bursting flre rcers. FLEE 1N PANIC. At Excelsior, Minnl., by the prema ture explosiOn of a quantity of fire works in front of tte Casino late Wednesday nigflt, Lc uis A. Dick and B. I) Thompson~ were seriously in ured and in the panic amor g the 5,. 000 people gathered to witness the display, Teddy M~ntgomery, 14 years old, was trampied upon and badly hurt. sKULL CRACK.ED. Mrs. William Snyder, aged 35 yer'while witnessing the display of ireorks in Blufson, Ind., Wednes dy night was hit on the head by an unnepcted aerial bomb. Her skull was fractured and the accident wil result in her death. LOCKJaw FROM WOUND. At Eckhardt, Ind., Ray Browning, 12 years old, died Wednesday from lockjaw, resultirg from a wound caused by t' e explosion of a blank cartridge. Frank Beach lost an eye oy a giant firecracker. THROWN INTO WATER. At Onaha, N.b.. nearly one hun dred persons were precipitated into about 10 feet of water at Lake Mana wa, a pleasure resort on the Iowa side of the river, by the collapsir g of a landing deck Wednesday night. Mary Diersler, ag: d 20 years, is miss ing. Len Rosenbloom was uncon scicus when taken out and had not recovered consciPusness at a late hour and Miss Chamblin is thought to be fatally 19jured internally. The crowd was watching a display )f fireworks n the water and bathir g by electric liguts when the dock suddenly sank uto the lake. All the victims live at Dmaha. - WILD DASH OF CAR. )n a Mountain Grade in Pennsyl vania Proved Most Fatal. Eleven mein who were returning rom Portage to Puritan, both min ling towns, were killed on the Mar. in's Branch, a spur runnicg from ?rage to Puritan, a distance of our miles, by a runaway car which rad been started down the steep nauntain grade by some unknown erson. The miners had been to ?rtage and were returning to their comes. When the car was finally topped near Portage it was seen that he wheels were covered with blood ad shreos of clothing, and an inves igation disclosed the bodies of the nen laying along the track. Some f the bodies were a half mile apart. "it more than two oodies were found a any one spot. The railroad track s generally traversed by people going ro Portage to Puritan. Cars never un over the line after nightfall. The car crashed into a number of ars standing on the track and was recked.' An investigation disclosed Mlood and particles of clothing on the heels, and several men were sent ack over the track to see what had tarred the car on its wild trip. hey had gone but a short distance hen thsy were horified by seeing the angled remains lying beside the rack. Going further another body was und. Several hundred feet up the ecline, two bodies, horribly 'uangled were lyig on the track. Js and till on tne searchers went and by the ime they had arrived at Puritan levrn bodies had been counted. The cident is one of the most peculiar ba.t ever occurred in the history o 3.ilroading in this section. An engine and flat car were sent ver the line and the bodies gathered ad taken to a milir g settlement ear Puritan. Four or five men rere mjared, but not seriously. )ffciais of the Puritan mine who ave just been reacned declared Tues ay morning that it is their belle! hat the car was started down the in by stnrrkers, the mines having tarted on a non-union basis several eeks ago. Wiul bweep the Country. At Abilene, Texas, Wednesday ,ternoon, speaking to an audience of ver 5,000 Senator Bailey declare d in he most emphatic and enthusiastic vay his desire and belief that William .Bryan will be nominated and ele ed to the presidency of the United aes in 1968. Thi~s declaration met wit wild appause. Speaking of po tical contrientionS of the insurance ompanies, he said that the people's noney 'was taken to elect. Roosevelt nd KKnley. Continuing he said: 'Her me, all the money that the in urance p..tent-ates have will not be ,bie to buy the election in 1908 gainst W1.liam J. Bryan. I tell you ore, my countrymen," Senator Bail y contiz~ued, unless the Republican arty shall recognize the proud and ndignant j adgmnent of the American >epe ana pass a law making it a :rime 60 buy an Amercan president, 3ran's vote in 1908 will be more nanimous than McKinley's was in .896. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Attempted tu Escape. B'ack Diamond Rlgsby, a negro ioer sentence to be hanged, made a iesperate bream for liberty Wednesday wil e being canveyed from New Or leans to Plaquemine, La., to be exe mted. Rigsby and George Poindex r~er, anotner negro, both under the leath sentence for one of the most sensational murders in the history of the States, were on their way to Pia laemine under the guard of Sben~fl tetit of Iberville parish. Petit's prsners had teen brought to New Orleans from Piaquemmne, the scene of the murder, to escape threatened yncinLg. About 70 miles from New Orleans R'giby suddenly prcduced a revover and shot the sheriff in the digb. The c tfiser struggled with his prisoner until an~ armea passenger sent . bullet through Rigsby's head, kill mg him instantly. Jumped From Train. When returning from Savannah to his home at Glennville, Tatnall coun ty, W. Preston 0'Qriinn jumped fronm a S. A. L., train near Pembroke and breaking his neck, died almost in stantly. O'Q .inn had been spending the day in Lwe city and during the tme he was here securing some whis key. On his way back to his tome at Glenville he became obstreperous, and when near Meldrim began shoot ing his pistol from the rear of the train. Ccnductor Knowles, with sev eral passengers, approached O'Qainn, and after a struggle got him to go for ward to the baggage car. People in the car had dismissed the idea of watching the young man, when, without warning, he dashed for the door of the car, and before anyone coud stop him sprang to the ground. When the train was stopped and re turned OQ-linn was found dead. Fatal Bawt ball Rtow. A special to The Greenville News says as the result of a dispute over a bas ball game at Westminster on the Fourth of July, Will Malloy cut LukE Ferguson to death with a rssor. Boh aries are colored and undei WAIN RIAiI TO WIN. HOW TILLMAN IS REGARDED OUTSIDE THE STATE. Papers fay His Defeat Would Be a Great Loss to The Whole Country. The New Orleans States says: The Northern newspapers have recently given much space to discussing the candidacy of one Col. W. W. Lump kin, who, from all accounts, has ap peared on the hustings in South Caro lina as an opponent to Hon. Benjamin Ryan Tillman for the United States Senate. Withcut stopping to inquire as to who is Lumpkin or the strength or the prospects of his candidacy the Baltimore Sun takes occasion to pay the following tribute to Senator Till man: "But Senator Tillman is strongly atrenched in the admiration of the people of South Carolina and it will 'e difficult to dislodge him. That South Carolina has long thought well of Mr. Tillman has been shown by his election for fifteen years to the high est offices the State has to bestow. But the country at large, which at first feared the untamed fire eater with his pitchfork, has come to real ze the sterling virtues of this rugged -old Roman. His unimpeachable hon esty, his continual champi:nship of the cause of the people, and his un ;ailing courage have won admiration and esteem even from his political enemies. Not only this, but in his management of the important rail road rate bill-an honor unexpectedly narust upon him-he exhibited states manlike q'ialities that revealed a new phase of nis character. "South Carolina has reason to be proud of Senator Tillman and the people of other States will be pleased at his re-electioa. He is a good man to keep in the Senate. The Senate and the country need men of his type now more than ever before." In view of the fact that Col. Lump kin is much better known to the cor poration newspapers of the North that are very anxious to see the .'pitchfork" retired from the Senate than he is to the people of South Car olina there is not much reason to fear that Tillman is in any danger of losing his seat. For instance, the Charleston News and Courier, which has never been accused of harboring much ad miration or affection for Senator Till San, regards the Lumpkin candidacy as little more than a bit of political oy-play and is somewhat amused by the interest it has aroused in the North and the publications there of the prominence and influence of the umpkin family in South Carolina. Our Charlestoa contemporary says: "As things now stand, Col. W. W. Limpkin, who is running for United States Senator from this State, does not appear to have much, if any, chance of election; but he is a good itiznn now, as he was a fine soldier in the war for Southern Indiependence and he is only doing what he had a ight to do under the rules of the party. We do not know what his platform is nor do we care particula' v, except that he Is a Democrat of long standing and of good record. He probably agrees with the views ex pressed by Senator Tillman in his speech in Pennsylvania the other day bat 'you cannot keep politics healthy when one party is always in control.' owever, that may be, arnd whatever als reasons for making his present ampaign, the colonel is entitled to respectful consideration. He has not yet warmed up to his work, but it is oped that he will grow more c-er ain of himself as the campsign pro eeds.". We do not believe it Is too much to say that there will be universal re Dilcing over the fact that the activity of Lumpkin does not threaten to cost Mr. Tillman his high and honorable position in tue Ssnate. We do not believe that the American people would regret anything more at this time than the def.:at of the ruggedly honest and fearless statesman from the Palmetto State. He has grown so in the public estimation as to be come more than a Ssnator of South Carolina, for the masses of the plain people hail him as a Senator of the whole country, and especially as a champion of their cause and interests. His defeat would come to them as a great calamity, becau'se he has won their cornfidente anid admiration by all times standing like a lion in the path of Congressional corruption and chicane, Great as is plutocracy's hatred of him it is nothing compared to strength of the affection he has won from the people, and it is true, as the Baltimore Sun says, that the whole country 'has come to realize the sterling virtues of this rugged old R'man," and its only regret is that there are not more men like him in she Senate to denounce and battle against the schemes of fraud and cor ruption. Roosevelt Declines. William Hoge, president of the Commercial Travelers' Anti-Trust League, sent a letter to President Roosevelt inviting him to preside at the reception te be tendered William J. Bryan in New York upon his arriv al from E irop early in September. Mr. -Hoge explained in his letter that the Commercial Travelers' Anti-Trust League is not a Democratic organiza, ion, nor a partisan organizationl in any sense, and that the organisttlon regards Mr. R~osevelt as being as much opposed to the trust as If Mr. Bryan. The President declined the invitation. Badly Shocked. A t Trenton, N. J., David Crumbly, 17 years old, and several companions of about the same age were swimming in? the canal when without warning a charge of lightning descended into the stream nearby, electrifying the water. Crumbly was knocked sense less and the others were badly shcck ed. Some companions on the shore rescued the boys, the electricity seem ing to leave the water almost as quickly as it entered. The stricken swimmeTr soon reovered. THE FIRST GUNI In Defence of the State Dispen sary Fired at Sandy Flats BY SENATOR TILNLMA Says I's Much Harder to Keep Fort] County Dispensaries Pure Than Oe State Disp -snary, and In dulges in some Plain Talk. Certain Legizlators. Senator B. R. Tillman fired the first gun in this campaign in defence of the State Dispensary on Saturday at Sandy Flats in Greenville County. He was greeted by a large and enthu siastic crown, and as usual the Sena tor presented his views with clearness and force. He does not believe in County;Dispensaries and gives his rea sons He outlines his ideas as to how the State Dispensary can be run hon estly and pays his respects to the members of the Legislature who re fused to vste for measures to reform the dispensary at the last session. We print below the full text of the Sena tor's speech, and we feel sure it will be read with interest: There is but one important issue involved in this campaign so far as State affairs go, and as for my own candidacy it rests on the record which I have made since I entered public lie sixteen years ago and the intimate knowiedge which the people of the State have of my character, personal ity and qualifications. I am willing to leave it there without discussion or presentation. -The fight is State Dispensary vs. County Dispensary, for no one expects the prohibition candi dates, however worthy and well qual ified they may be, to receive very much support. With all their efforts (and tiey have been many and long con rnuec) the newspapers which have always fought the dispensary have not been able to drum up a candidate for G:.varnor who advocates local op tion straight as against dispensary and prohibition, and only in Charles on does that idea have any men of fering for (ic& under it. The local )ption offered the people is between prohibition and county dispensary, ad the whole fight is to destroy the State dispensary first with no other purpose tian to then obtain the priv ege of reopening the old barrooms mnder the new guise of liquor store 'selling under consituticnal limita ions." The real fight is for control )f the legislature because the Gover or cannot make or change the laws md can only try to enforce them. Bas only influence over legislation would be in the use of the veto power. But It is all .mportant to get a strong wd good man for Governor. The imes distinctly demand one. In any event some counties will tand by prohibition with its blind ligers and heavy jug trade by express. )ther counties will vote for county ilspensaries and the cities where the rincipal newspapers are published ill have the fight on the issue of State Dispensary or County Dispensa y with the ultimate purpose of having he county alapensaries turned Into icnsed barrooms i1 the county dis >esares are abolished. Tne scheme a to restore the sale of liquor to pri ate individuals rather thaa let It re nain in the hands of state cilicials. Lhose who clarnor for county dispen ares Instead of one State Dispensary ust demonstrate how It is easier t.o prevent carruption among the thirty r forty county toards than to stop It n one State Board. I nave great aith in the gooa common sense of the people and do not believe rrney can be persded to destroy thre Saanie Dis pensary and leave each county to purchase and seli its own i2quor. Yet T'ne State and The News and Courier which have always hated tne Dispen sary "Worse than the devil bates holy wa ter" are advocating candidates who favor ounty dispensanles. 'Tne only passa bly good reason that can be aaivanced on tnis line is that the prohbIiOilio counties under the contlitton re ceve a part of thre prouits watch arise from the sale of hquor in the onher counties. This is unjust as everyone must acknowledge, but it can be rem edied very easly by having the State Dispensary make no pronits other than a few thousand dollars above its run ning expenses, thus leaving the coun ties and the towns to divide the pro its between them. This can be easly done and when we consider the ex pense of buying liquor in retail quan tites and paying local freights on it instead of buying carload lots and paying through freights the count.i dispensary cannot stand the campari son. But this is not the greatest ob jection. The leakage or stealage in bottlinj of liquor at each county dispensar: woulan be Immense and 1 know of n< way that it could be prevented, nor d< I know any by which it would be pos ible to prevent the whiskey beinj watered, bottles refilled3, relabeled an' other scnemes of making money dis honestly, if the system were adopted It is not possible to prevent 10 and: do not think any sensible man whi considers the question will seriousl: contend that It Is. E gen if one hal of the counties in the State shiouli adopt the prohibition-blind-tiger-ji trade program It would be better more economical and there woul'i t less possibility of cotrraption and pe elation In the purchase and handlini of liquor in the other dispensary cour ties, If the buying, bottling and sh4l ping should be done at one centra depot, Instead of In each county. It must not be forgotten, because:i was the understanding (and a bargi1 was made) during the fight In the iej islature last winter against the Stat isnaryv that the ultimatte Du] pose is to have Charleston wholesal e liquor dealers supply the county dis pensaries as well as the jug trade b; express in dry counties; and while thi would be better than to have this 11 quor shipped in from North Carolin - and Georgia, as it now is, because I would keep the money at home, I d not believe that the people of th State are now willing or will ever bi willing to see the State Dispensara destroyed, with the inevitable resul! that liquor selling will gradually g: back to the old system of private con trol. I would be glad to have Char leston prosper, but it is not the lost of the liquor trade that has hurl Charleston. Osher things are tc blam:. The issue between .private control and control by state cffiials must hinge at last on the qnestion of whether or not the people of South Carolina shall determine that we can not find honest men enough to carry on the dispensary system and devise laws to make those who are dishonest afraid. I say we can. I do not be lieve that every man who handles whiskey must become a thief. I be lieve that the people only need to see and know that the dispenrary system can be reformed and cleansed of cor ruption to make them stand by it. I will proceed togiva the plan whic' appears to me after a great deal of thought and consideration of sugges tions from very many sources to be the best. We will oegin on the coun ties. County Dispensers should be elected in the Democratic primtry the same as other officers. TheiCounty Board should be-composed of .the Mayor of the town in which a dispensary is lo cated, the Supervisor of the County, who is the business agent of the coun ty, and one man appointed by the Governor. The County Dispenser should be removable by the Governor for cause. The State Board of Con trol ought to be elected by the legis lature, but its duty should be confin :d to general direction and supervision of the business the same as the Peniten tiary and Hospital for the Insane are run. It should not purchase any whiskey or anything else required in the business. Everything required, including the whiskey, should be bought under annual contracts made as follows: After the State Commis sioner has advertised in the manner prescribed by law (and this ought to be very clear and specific, leaving nothing to the discretion of anyone, and going fully into details) the bids should be opened in public by three men selected just before the date fixed oy the Governor and the contract made with the lowest bidder by the year for the supplies to be ordered out by the Commissioner as needed. These three men are to serve- only once and annually there shall be three new men chosen to make the contracts. The bidders will not know who will make the awards and therefore cannot en ter into collusion in advance and even should the Governor, which is incon ceivable, be willing to select a board which would act corruptly, the speci fications of the bidding made with minuteness and the publicity would prevent any graft. No whiskey or liquor should be purchased except from Government oonded warehouses. In the case of wines and beer the brewers should alone furnish the flrst direct from the breweries, and the small quantity of the other used could be hed,(ed about in the advertisement so as to insure nonesty and the purest and best arti ole. For the information of those who are not posted 1 will say that the Government bonded warehouszs .are under the controlof the United States Internal Revenue officiala entirely and whiskey deposited in them comes di rectly from the still and the owner is not permitted to manipulate It or handle it in any way ntil the tax'is paid and it is removed. Wz thus get a guarantee of absolute purity without a chemical analysis and su.ch liquors are as muca stiale articles of com merce as corn, wheat or bascon.~ It is the blended and rectified whiskeys Gha~t are aduwterated and where the cheating comes in. Tue blending and mixing could be done in the State Dh pensary where there would be no inceDtlve to Increase profits by adul ceratiuns, besides the law would pro vide severe penalties for that kind of thing. The County Dispensers being elect ed by the people will be anxious to please the people as they will be beaten at the polls if they do not do their duty. Tne County Board chosen as indicated will be responsible to the people also with every incentive to give a good administration. The whiskey purchased in that way will be as pure and as good as can be ob tained under any possible conaitions and there is absolutely no way in which corruption can creep in, if there is the least effort on the part of the people and tne Governor to prevent it. The trouble with the Dispensary now is that our Governors have neg lected their duties and have not kept supervision over the w.rkings of the local dispensers and the State Boird. Excuse may be found for this by say ing the legislature put the Dispensa ry beyond the aGovernor's control. This is true in a way and it was a very great mistake, yet the Governor's oath of cffie rcqguires him to "see that the la ws are executed in mercy.' And with the power to appoint con stables at his discretion and detec tives also when needed it cannot be denied that the demoralizition and -corruption which have been so muck: in evidence would have beeu prevent: 1 ed by the Governors using trusrec - agents to keep supervision over thl .Dispensary system and see whethe: [ the law was being oarried out. I dic ) this, but my successors seem to havi Sthought it unnecessary or too muel I labor. I not only watched the dis : pensers, but I watched the constable: g too through a detective whno raportec , to me alone. The necessity for th! C more rigid enforcemnt of all la; Imakes the coming eliction for Gover a nor important. Tnings have been rmi Stoo loosely and too little regard paii e o enforcing the law. I criticise ni a one, but simply give the people thi facts as I see them and, of course t they alone can apply the~ remedy. WI n should elect the Governor who will di this and do it fearlessly and zealously a but there is still small opportunit; e- e mr~ft in the scheme outlined, prc vided the legislative committee which superintends the other State Institu tions and the grand juries of the vari ous counties pay azention to their - duties. No government has ever been . devised that would run itself and every government is an index of the intelligence, public spirit and patriot lam of its people. If the people are ignorant and indifferent and cease to watch and look after their affairs, the government they give themselves is inevitably bad and they can blame no one but themselves. The conditions in the dispensary now are directly traceable to the blundering and neglect of the legisla ture. That body placed the State t Dispensary in the hands of three poli ticians, elected without consideration to fitness, experience or character, threw no restrictions whatever around t the administration, left the door wide e open, limited the salary to $400 and t now we see the result. I have always said and believed it was designedly done to destroy it. Politics and not dtness have most always controlled the legislative elections, but no amount of salary alone would cure the b evil of which we complain. The original Board was composed c of the Governor, Attorney General 1 and the Comptroller General, three of e our highest State offiials elected by t the people, but the vital mistake was in not making strict rules and regula tions for the purchase of whiskey. The enemies of the Dispensary declare that it 13 inherently vicious and that. it cannot be purified. This cry is in dicative that those who thus con vend practically confess that they have lost all faith in the honesty of man or of t the ability of men to give themselves just and honest government. I for s one do.not believe that all of the hon est men are dead. The people are disgusted and they haye a right to be, but the one crime which they should s not forgive is the failure of the last n legislature to change the law so as to a prevent any further stealing and to p restore the dispensary system to its o original purpose, that of controlling 1 whiskey and minimising the evils in- a separable from its sale and use. The l enemies of the Dispensary were bent on killing it and the combination of o political and-other influences in the C House having failed in that, compell- n ed the election of a new Board because p they refused to change the law ano continued all of the old and proven d evils. It was the most glaring betray q al of the people's interests that I hav, ever known -respectable white men tb a be guilty of, and while many of them are my friends, at least politically, I take the responsibility to say that , very man who refused to put safe- g guards around the purchase of whis- p sey and change the system of man agement in the last legislature ought to be left at home. Sdch men cannot be trusted. They put partisan advan- 0 tage above public duty. Legislators are not the masters of the people. They are their seivants and the people had not instructec them to abolish the Staste Dispensary for there was no such issue wnen they - were elected; and when they them- c selves were responsible or their prede cessors were responsible for the cor- e ruption which they had reason to be- . lieve existed, it is Incomprenensible l .o me how any man with the least idea of obligations to the- people who dected him could act as that legisla- ti tune did. The people have a zigut to R destroy the dispensary, but no mere h representative of the people has a o~ right to assume such a responsibIlity o: as that would .have be.en without T navin~g a campscign and making the L :ssue before the people and getting al instructions from them. All I hi..v. le ever asked Is to have all of the white a. people pass on the question and let the .a majo)rity govern. .1 do not believe in 2i permitting newspaper's to dictate to a ci Lew scheming poiticians and to trade a] among themselves and settie the B ques.Aon. If the people of a county 1i *ant no liquor sold in it, let them vote for legislators to say so and for the candidate fur Governor who advo cates that. Let us be open and hon- ~ est In our politics and not vote for ~ fence straddlers and the seekers ' who will say and do anything to get. 0 elected.k Paid to kin. At Beathyville, Ky., a sensation al was caused at the trial of Former i Judge Hargis and Former Sher:ff Callahan of Breathitt county, charged with the murder of James Marcus. Asbury Spicer, It was announced, han made a confession implicating the two chief defendants. On the day Miarcum was killed Spicer was ina Jackson, Ky., he claims. He said that a few minutes before the killing he 'was sent by "Jim" Hargis to get "'Tomn" White, and was later dis- p patched by "El Callahan to get Cur- t tis Jett. A few minutes later, while a Spicer was in the Hargls store, tws shots rang out and Marcum fell dea& in the front door ot the court house. Spicer s3.id that he was cifered $500 i to kill Marcuma. The (ff ar, he said. was mada a few days before Marcum was killed. Spicer said he had refused d to kill Marcumn and that he had alsoa refused previously to kill "Jim Cock i rill,.1 Four Ligg d Chicken. The Laurens correspondent of The State says last Saturday Mr. Sam Simpson, who lives about six miles below Clinton, brought quite a freak to town in the way of a chicken, which had four well developed legs, and C touching the ground as the chicken stood erect. Onie or its legs come out just under the left wing, one just above the "oil-bag" and the other two in their natural position. Dah From Lightning. A severe rain and thunder storm1 which .passed over Baltimore, Md., Wednesday evening caused two deaths. Fran C. Scnieck, while on a launch in the harbor, was struck by iightning and Instantly killed, while Joseph Rudolph, whose coat coillax Schieck was in the act of turning up, felt no shock whatever. A& Man Earter. A story of a man eating bipopota inus comes from the neiglhborhood of Barberton, in the Transvaal. It is< asserted that the animal came out of a river, seized a small native bo) in i s mouth, crushing him to death. 'The natives then turned out, killed jthe antnual and ait It. 1 AN IMPORTANT ACT. & NEW L :LW AFFE JTING BLIND 'TIGERS IN THIS STATE. Eevenue Licenses Can Hereafter be Used Against Them in the Etate Courts. The Columbia Record says collector dcah Jenkins of the internal revenue fice at Columbia has received from he treasury department at Washing on - a copy of a very important-act gassed by the recent congress that will fect the testimony given by prosecu ors in blind tiger cases. It should be xplained that all or nearly all, blind igers secure a retail lq for license rom the government before they at empt to violate the State dispensary 1W. The government would not permit he book containing the list of licen es to be exhibited in the State courts, olding that the government bad ex lusive jurisdiction over the govern ient books and also holding that gov rnment officials should not be allowed o testify in the State courts concern ig the licenses issued. As a result tate officials in States or counties here the sale of whiskey was prohib ed, could never obtain prima facie vidence from the government that rould be admitted in any court. Some f the congressman from the western taxes, however, got together and had be following act passed: "That chapter three of the revised tatnes of the United States be and ereby is amended in section 3,240 so s to read: "Each collector of internal revenue tall, under regulations by the com iissioner of internal revenue, place ad keep conspic-ously in his office, fcr ublic inspection, an alphabetical list [ all persons who shall have paid pedal taxes in his district, and shall ate thereon the time, place and bus less for which such special taxes shall ave been paid, and upon application r any prosecuting officer.of any State, )unty or municipality he-shall far Ish a certified copy thereof as of a ablic record for which a fee of one allar for each hundred words or frac on thereof in the copy or copies re ested shall be charged." 'This means that the State cfficials ere interested in the suppression of ie blind tigers may obtain from the >llector of internal revenue certified )pies of all-those who have obtained vernment liceases and that as they ractically contain the seal of the gov rnment may be introduced in any urt in the State and thus become an astrument for conviction of the law reeker. The office in Columbia has ot yet received any requests for cer fled copies of the list of license hold s in South Carolina probably because i1 law is not generally known, but it, ill not be long before this kind of ridence will be used jn the State urts. No change has been made in iat section of the act forbidding gov nment revenue officers from testify tg concerning the holders of these censes. - Crew Lost. The loss of four men and of the ree-masted schooner Ella G. Ells, of ockport, Maine, bound from New edford to Windsor, is reported'in a essage received from Capt. Breen, the schooner, the only' survivor. he schooner was wrecked on Libby land. When the vessel as broken p by the surf on the submerged dge, the captain and crew clung to large section of the stern of the hoonier. This was thrown against re rocks on Libby Island and all ex pt the captain were sucked back by ie undertow and drowned. Capt. reen grasped a rope thrown out by te savers and was drawn to safety. Snos in Buggy. A special from Wadesboro, N. C., sys. "Early Wednesday morning, 1st across the line in Union county, hich borders Burnsville township, that county, Wat Hill shot and Iled Marion Burgess, Burgess and Is wife were in a buggy together. 'hen he was killed and the cause of ie killing could not be learned, but Is supposed to have been the resuls bad blood between the parties. [111 lIves In Uaion county and Bur ss In this county. Burgess Is said > have been a notorious whiskey ealer and bears a very bad reputa Lon. Only a few weeks ago he knock I his wife in the head. Both men re white." A General slaughter. A dispatch from Warsaw, Russian oland says the recent rumors that tie terrorists were organiz.ng a gen ral slaughter of the police, .were atlally corroborated when two olicemen were shot dead and two rere mortally wounded simultaneous y In various parts of the city. In onsquence of the attack made on e polce the latter have been with rawn from the streets, which are ow patrolled by infantry. Terrorists ot andklled a gendarme and an afantry captain named Tobolzeff, the later nlaying been accused by revolu lonary papers of commanding pla cons at executions. The assassins scaped. .. -- Says Its Bryan. At Greensboro, N. 0., W. W. Kit hin was unanimously renominated for ongress by the Democrats of the fifrth isIrct. Mr. Kitchin has alreadi erved four consecutive terms in coa1 tress. In his speecn of acceptance Mr. Etchin said that much praie of ?resident Roosevelt was heard, but hat It was due to the fact that he tood upon the main planks of the Demnocratic platform. He predictea i e nomination and election of WIl i m J. Bryan in 1908. Coniilon of UOo The crop reporting boara of the ureau of stauis, department of igriculture, finds from the reports of he correspondents and. agents of the rreau that the average condition o! otton on June 25 was 83 3, as ecmr ,ared with 84.6 on May 25, 1906, 77 n June, 25, 1905; 88 at the corres aodnlg date In 1904, and ten-ye~tr sverage of 84.1. The condition in south Carolina on June 25 last was 77 iganst an average of 85 for the paat inn years. HE DENIES IT. Lanahan Says lie Did Not Tell What Was Quoted on THE WITNESS ST ND By Parker and Robertson in the Dispen. sary Investigation About His Buy lg Boykin. Says I Those Gentlemen Misunderstood What ie:Said. Mr. Wm. H. Lyles, a"$prominen lawyer of Columbia, appeared before the dispensary investigatleg commit tee while it was in session last week and made the following statement: "Just as I came in on the train, a paper was handed me by WIlliam Lanahan with the request that I make the statement to tie committee that they would be glad to have any of their matters investigated shortly. That they had expected same to be investigated, but the subcommittee while in Baltimore had not called upon them and they would be glad to make any showing that was -wanted." - Mr. Lyon made the following ex planation why Lanahan & Sons were not investigated: I would like to explain w hy tle subcommittee did not call oda gIs han & Sons. The list of creftors that we had that had been furisld Senator Christensen at Columbiathad Lanahan & Sons down for 0 ' I knew that 8600 was no induemedlte Lanahan, and it was reported; to u Ghat he said he would pcefer to- loss that than submit to an investigation. We have heard since that time ;tist nis claims were somewhere between 810,00 and 812,000-that the -st'', ment furnished us was not correot. 1 telep'honed Mr. Tatum this nmoxztb go send it up, and I presume,be- will send it up some time this'evening;" Mr. B. H. Welch, another- lawyer, who. was present, arose and made the following statement: ' I wish to introduce the affidavit' . of Mr. Lanahan in the matter o'tihe testimony of Lewis W. Parker andE W. Robertson. I wish to introducits as a parti of the record. I cannot; pro duce Mr. Lhahan. and this is th - nest I can do.' Affidavits have .been accepted under similar circstanm s Before and I do not see -how It can be refused." It will be remembered that Mr. Parker testified to Mr. Lanaban's en ,ire dissatisfaction with conditions-ate he State dispensary, as Lanabai had' thousands of do.lars-nvetedinSonth Jarolina. Tails was corroborated by Nr. B. W. B oertson, and M.L W.eA. ..f Dlark testified to other conversations of a like veature which he had nid with Mr. Lanahan. Mr. Parter wenti more Intio datal and testified that-Mr. Tanahan- wish ing to remnedy the situation hain - ployed Mr. L. W. -Boykin to0 repro lent him on the- board, or at' -lest t was testified that Mr. Lanahia had so stated. Furthermore he had-be somne ~dissatisfied with Mr. Boykin's services and had employed another agent whose name has never been made public. Now, in reply to this testimnny, Kr. Welen, representing Mr. L. W. Boykin, presented the followinj dffliavIt from Mr. Lanahan . state of .aryland, County of Binh~ land.. Personally came before me 'S rannahan wilo, upon oath, deposesand iays that with reference to the testi mony of Mr. Lewis W. Parker before the dispensary investigating commit tee at Columula, S. C., on the 60h day >f June, 19t.6, he maes aon folldwilng tatements: Mr. L. W. Boykin was employed~b the firm of Willam Laaan bSom as a salesman, but this was. months prior to his eleation as a meinder of rdie board of directors of the State. dispensary; that Mr. Boykin . had. severed his connection with said firm as said salesman and otherwise about a year before his said election. While Mr. Boykin was in our employ as said salesman he was paid a salary, .of course, but this i~slary ceased the mo ment he severed his conection with the llrm as salesman. He has never Deen In our employ since nor have. or any member of our firm paid him one dollar or otherwise since no sewe ed his connection as abovestated with our business. I never told Mr. Paik er anything different from this. From what Mr. Parker hia tiestified to be fore 'the committee he has evidently eitner entirely misunderstood what I nave said and meant or~bis recollec tion of what was said is absolutely erroneou3. I never meant by any thing that was said tio convey the im ;ression that while Mr. Baykin was a member of the board he represenuted me cr my firm or that we were paying aim one cent. Samuel J. Lanahan; Eat Candles. A dispatch from London says after being imprisoned six days In a flooded caraaociale of the Wales Coliery, two mners of mne SIX originally imprison ed were rescued alive Wednerday morning and ,three bodies were orought out by the rescue party. Two men rei~caed- were discovered in the old workings, having subsisted for a; week on a few candies. One of them was able to walk and the otner was. delirious during the last part of his imprisonment. Says Wife Kiled Ham,. A dispatch from Charleston, W. Va., says William yarvis, 35 years old, a prominent farmer was anlot inzd ?illed at his home on Cooper'6 Creek Weudnesday night. There .were no witnesses to the tragedy, but Jarvis lived long enough after being shoti to call his children, the eldest 12 years old, to his5 side, and told them that their mother had murdcred him. The. body lay in the front lard all night untii the coroner arrived next morn ing. Mrs. Jarvis claims the shooting wa la slf-dfenise.