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VOL. XX. MNNING, S.C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1906.NO45 MAROUS HANED. The Murderer Went to is Death Without Flinching. 'WAS.VERY PENITElT. Under the Galk ws the Doomed Man Read a Statement Confessing Hils Many Crimes-and Ended With a Warning to You, g Mn. E At nine minutes past eleven o'cleck Friday mcrnirg, in the Charleston jail yard, William A. Marcus was tanged for the brutal murder of Maggie Marcu-, on the night of April 14, and nine minutes afterwards be was proncurced dead by Drs. Bellin ger and Edwards. His body lies in St. Laurence cemetery, where it was buried Friday afternoon. Marcus faced death with remarka ble fortitude, and his ca'mness up to the very moment when the ketch was sprung wa that of a brave soldier rather than such as might be expect ed from the cowardly murderer that he undoubtedly w as. The execution itself was most orderly and successfu!. Father P. L. Duff accompanied Marcus under the 'allows and read for him the prayers f :r the dying and the dead. Ma'cus responded to the last and died fully co: filent that his sins were furgivin arid that by the grace of God he wou-d b' saved. Early Friday morning F ather Duf fy paid Marc us a visit in L.sS cell, and as his spiritual adviser c-lebrated mass and offered pray era for the con demned man. Then Holy Commun ion was brought Marcus in his cell, which he rec .ived mest devoutly. Marcus ate his last meas at about 8 o'clock, afster the d.parture of the priest. He had an urdinary break fast, havir g expressed no particular wish as to what he should be served with. This meal was sent in to him by the Star Gospel Mission. Follow ing the meal came a smoke and a turn about the cell. Father Duffy returned to the jail a little after 9 o'clcck and remained with Marcus in prayer and medita tion until Sheriff Martin appeared to read. the death warrant and the death march began. It was about 10.50 o'clock when Sheriff Martin went to the condemned murderer's'cell to read the death warrant. "I wish to thank the cfizersof this .institution," said Marcus, "for the at tention and kindness which they have bestowed upon me. Mr. Sheriff Martin, Deputy Sheriff Poulnot, Capt. Grad dick, Mr. Rice and others." This was all that Marcus had to say. When ask ed by a reporter for The Evening Post If he wished to send a last message to his wife and children he conferred with Father-Dv ffr, who replied that this had alreaoy been done by letter the day before. The march tb the gallows was then taken up. Straight under the gallows Marcus -marched, and whieeled arounc to face the spectators. His features did not move His eyes was steady. Sheriff Martin then asked that hats be removed and perfect quiet be giv eso while Marcus read his dnal state ment before the black cap was put over his head. Marcus read in a clear voice and withoiut a hault the follow . " goto y dath truly penitent far my grievous sins against Almighty Gcd, the author of life; for my viola tion of the laws of this State, eanact ed for the protection and peace of so ciety, and for the ir jtry done all those who have suffered through my unlaw ful acts and beg their forgiveness "1 have sought pardon for my sins through the means instituted by our Blessed Saviour in his divine mercy to sinners and die hoping for forgiveness through the infinite merits of His death upon the cross. "Looking backward today to the happy home of my youth ..and the gocd and Joving parents from whcm I waywardly wandered,' I wculd say to young men who may hear of my fate: 'Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth,' and to the Christian char ity of these and others I appeal to pray to God to have mercy on my soul." After Marcus finished reading no unnecessary time was lost for the fatal signal. Sheriff Martin was be yond Marcus, and it was his duty to give the word for the execution. Without a motion Marcus waited for the jerk. Suddenly, noiselessly, cleaniy, the body of -the man left the 1rcund. It rose smoothly Into the air toward the cross beam of the gal lows. Then It dropped a few feet back near the ground. It was then nine minutes past eleven o'clock. The return jar wa~s followed by a slight crack, which brcke Marcus' neck. His body was then taken down and in terred. stri.nb Charge. Jerry Tollersonr, a negro man about 45 years old, living on Capt. A. H. Foster's place near Jonesville in Union County, was arrested and brought before J. W. Bates, magis trate at Jonesville charged with com mitting rape upon Ariminta Foster, a married woman, last Sunday on the way from church. He was given a prelimInary hearlrig and bound over to court. The case exited considera ble interest anyong the negroes and a large crowd attended the hearing. Hiding in a Swamp. A special from Milledgeville, Ga., says that Joe Morris, the negro youth, who'recently attempted to assassi nate the family of George Bload worth, a farmer living a few miles frcm Maccn. is tiding In a swami near Miedgeville. A poese of men ir buggies, on horses abd afoot, all arm ed, surrotund the swamp. A report of a lynching has reached Milledge vie, but is unconfirmed, Bioodwortt is in a criticle condition from hl wounds. FOUND HI GUILTY. SEURETARY CHE.aTH AM. OF THE COTTON ASSOCI ITION, Convicted of Fpeculating in the Cot ton Futures Under Fictitious Eames. While the Georgia Legislature had under discussion a bill to exclude the bucket shops from that state, Representative J. R. Anderson, of Otatham C..uaty charged in a speech that some one in the heapq'iarters of the Southern Cotton ass- clation had been speculating in the name of Mike O'Grady, and signing the checks or receipts for the money in an cifacial capscity; and that some one in there nad been speculating in the name of P A. Lee. H , also charged that sme cfficial of the Southern Cotton association had been connected with a bucket shop called the Piedmont B-okerage company, and had held one-eighth of its stock, and that somr.e one in the i8 ;e of the Southern Cotton associa :iun had had stock standing in his name. Mr. H-rvie Jordan, the President of the Southern Cotton Assec'ation, at once took the matter up Wand ap pointed a committee to investigate the charges. H. r( q tested Mr, An ierson to appear before the committee and name the guilty men. This Mr Anderson very cheerfully did, and the result shows he was right in his harges. In giving tie names of the men who had betrayed their trusts as offi 3ers of the Assciation, Mr. Ander son said: "As to the charge in regard to the carrying on of speculations in cotton by an c ffioer of the Southern Cotton saRociatorf in the name of Mike 2 0'G ady and in the name of P A 1 Let ; the cf cer I referred to in this charge is Mr. Richard Cneatnam, the secretary of the association. "As to my other charge that some official in the Southern Cotton associ ation ffi ,e was connected with the bucket shop called the Piedmont I Brokerage company, and held one eighth of its stock. The person I re ferred to in this charge was Mr. Ar thur A. Fairchild." After thoroughly investigating the matter the committee submitted its report last Thursday afternoon, in which it expressed its "strongest dis approval and condemnation" of Rich ard Cheatham, secretary of the South- r ern Cotton association; and an cfficer, t for the dealings he made in cotton i under the names of P. A. Lee and Mike O'G ady, and also of the fact 3 that Mr. Cheatham had put the word 8 'secretary' after his signature on the hecks with which he paid his mar gins. It made the same rule apply to Ar thur A. Fairchild, the publication C manager of the Southern Cotton asso ciation, who had owned an eight in- C terest in the Piedront Brokerage Co., i although the report stated that Fair child was an employe and not an ofi er of the association. This report was sent to President Harvie Jordan, andby himit will be sent to the ex cutive committee for action, the omttee meeting in Hot Springs on September, 6, 7 and 8. The report first discussed the mo ives leading up to the investigatior. and dec'ares that the'witness who ap peared against the association with one probable exception were interest ed in or employed by wire exchanges. It says that no move was made aganst the association until July 24, when -the Boykin anti-bucket shop bill was in the house, although the transactions in question came up in] March.1 It says also that the charges against Cheathiam is the strongest reason for the abolition of specula tion. It holds, too, that it can see no d fference between legit-imate ex changes and tucket-shcps, all being ruinous to the country. It declares also that while there Is no law of the association against c f cers of it dealing in futures, It con demns in the strongest possible terms such action by Its cffiers or employes, or who may own an interest in buck et shops. "Mr. Richard Cheatham," the re port resumes, "the secretary of the Southern Cotton association, having admitted such dealings in cotton fu tures for Mike O'Grady and P. A. Lee, comes under this rule, and such action meets cur strongest disapprov al and condemnation. ' Your committee further finds no reasonable excuse for the use by him of the word 'secretary' after his name, but believe It to have been mislead ing and to have worked wrong against the association. "This meets the same disapproval as that above, and we should apply the same general rule to Arthur A. Fairchild, although he Is not an off cr of the association. "Believing that this committee has no further authority, this report is transmitted to you for transmission to the executive committee which meets in Hot Springs September 6th, 7th and 8th for action." Two N.3groes Lynched. John Black and Will Hagin, negroes were lynched by a mob of 200 men near Fort Gardner, Polk county, Fla. Tuesday night. The negroes killed 'id. Granger, a white turpentine op erator, without provocation, ano were captured by Sheriff G. Wiggins and three dleputies near the scene of the killing a few hours afterwards at a bridge crossing Pec river, two miles from Bartow. The mob halted the sheriff and posse and took poses sion of the prisoners. Both c nfessed and were hanged to a nearby tree, be ing afterwards riddled with bullets. The mob Immediately dispersed and the bodies were found Wednesday morning. Mur-der and Suicide. At Kingston, Mass., because the father of Evelyna Vezzeni would n~ot allow her to marry Enide Z~cchi, her ardent lover, the latter fatally shot the girl and then sent a bullet Intc tils own head. He ran a short dis tance, again shot himself and died. The girl was only nineteen years. old and one of the most beautiful In the village. She is not expected to lhve hut a fcw hours. FIENDISH OUTRAGE QUICKLY AVENGED BY RELA TIVES OF T 6E VICTIM. Swift and Sure Justics Meeted Cu t, a Brute for Heinous Crime. A special dispatch from Atlanta t( to The News and Courier says in, the presence of Annie Laurie Piole, the beautiful fifteen year-old daughter o: a prominent &tlanta family, whom he tad assaulted, Floyd Carmichael, a negro, was literally shot to pieces about 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon b3 the male relatives of the girl. When the negro fell, cut and torn by a hun Ired bullets, it was proposed to burn the bleeding remains and steps were taken to kindle a fire, but the rela tives of the outraged girl decided not o go to this ext.reme. The girl was mutraged in 100 yards cf her home, on outh Pryor street, and her assailant paid the penalty of his.crime in front f the Poole residence. The girl was seizd by the negro shortly before noon as she was return. ng from a visit to a neigh )or. As she assed an alley she felt a-hand grip er, and she was dragged frcm tht street far up into the alley, which as deserted and rank with weeds. Che girl struggled desperately, but was chocked almost .nto insensibility. Che negro kept her in the alley for iearly an hour, and as he left threat ned to murder her family if she told wbat he bad done. The girl had been o badly injured that she could not nove, and was found bruised and >eeding in the alley by her mother, who, alarmed at Iinr absence, had one in search of htr. rue girl was dmost nude, all her clot =g having -en torn from her by ti : e - o. Mis. Poole immediately ia irmed ier husband, and he, after f r rg a award of $1.000, summoned L a s ns. rothers and nephews, and started in >ursuit of the -negro. BLodhcuads were used and the dogs led the aveng ng relatives to a cabin in the south n portion of the city. In the cabin, iding under a bed, Floyd Carmichael was found. His clothing was bloody ,nd he bore eyidenc -s of a struggle. rhe negro denied that he had d on! nything wrong. We'll take him to Lnnie," said the girl's father, "and ee if she can identify him." . - The negro was taken to tie P ole esidence, and the girl was borne in he arms of her father to the. front >orch. "That's th.: negro," cried the hild hysterically. "0, why didn't rou in mercy kill me?" she screamed, as she pointed her finger at the assail int. A dozen pistols were out ere the irl's voice died away and' in a few ninutes the negro was shot to pieces got a shot was tired save by relatives if the girl. Officers arrived and re noved the body shortly after the lyn hing. Tae feeling against negroes n this section of the city is now ex eedicgiy bitter and there are threats if forcing a general exodus. TILLMAN WANTS MAR3IIG. and a Dismunsary Leglature Will B e Elected. The Washington correspondent 6' he Ciarleston Post says C:>1. H. Y. impson, one of the most prominent awyers of the Laurens bar, is in Washngton with his family on his ay to Atlantic City. While in Washington Oil. Simpson topped his routine of sight-seeing ong enough to tell something about 2ow politics are going down in South Jarolina. "Senator Tillman was in aurens a 'short time ago and spoke o the people there," said Col. Simp on. "While from the crowd that Ltended the meeting he appeared to ave a good many followers still, ihere is not nearly the same enthu iasm noticeable that there once was when he appeared in public. "The future of the dispensary and the question of who is to be the next Govenor of the State are the twc absorbing topics of interest. Senatoi Tfllman may be able to pull Manning mnto ence as the next Governor--that seems to be what he is trying to do, though he has never said out and out that Manning is his choice. It i generally conceded, however in the State that Manning 1shis favorite. Whether or not the Seustor's influence tgether with that possessed by the Sumter man will make the latter the successor of Gov. Hay ward, can not be told at this time. "Sometime ago the people of Lau rens voted out tine dispensary, but itl advocates took the matter into court, and it was held that the electior under which the vote was taken wat invalid, hence the dispensary shoulc not be closed. It is still open, but)] think it only a q'iestion of time wher it will receive a majority of the voteu of the people for it to close. Many o1 the counties in the State have alreada voted the dispensary out, the people of those counties believing that thu dispensary was not the best solutio! of the liquor question. "While it has not generally beez k'nown that Manning was the chaici of Senator Tillman, I think there I no question of that being the case.] also think that perhaps the futur operation of the dispensary depend somewhat on whether or not Manninj is elected and his ideas adopted. Un less he is elected the dispensary ma; have a hard fight thoug~h I do no doubt that the coming primary elec tions in tne diffbrent countie throughout the State will send dil pensary men to the Legislature. Four M~en Kinled. The Louisville, Ky., Post has ine ceived a dispatch from San Lict Knott county, saying four men wer illzd there Friday night in a figh between the Martin and Hall factioni No names are given. Tuose factior have been at war for some time an the authorities have been tryh'g, ur successfully, to end the trouble. Tb Martin faction is said to numbe sixty men. A negro man in Alken shot an killed another whome he found in I mpremng position with his wife. FINE SHOWING. Statistics Brought Out at Boar( of Equalization Meeting. RIE FIGURES SHOW That Property Generally in Every Count) in the State, Except One, Has Great ly Increased in Farms as Well as the Country, Ander son Claims BestLand. At the meeting of the State Board of Equalization in Columbia last week all of the county auditors but five had filed abstracts of real estate returns in their respective counties. The audi tors who have not sent in their ab stracts have good reasons, it is said, and Mr. W. H. Dorrill of Georgetown, who is late this time, Is said to be be hind for the first time in his incum bency of 30 years. He is sick now, but will be re-elected without opposition. The other counties which have not re sponded are: Edgefield, Pickens, Un ion and :partanburg. A comparison of the figures for the respective counties is interesting. Ev ery county in the State shows a gain in property valuation in four years witu the exception of Fairfield, where there is a decided loss-and Fairfield has not ceded any of her lands to other counties. Anderson seems to think that her land is the best in the State by the way people pay taxes thereon and York county comes second. The boasted rich lands of Marlboro and Orangeburg do not show up so remark ably on the list. The following tables are necessarily incomplete on account of the fact that the five counties have not sent in ab stracts, but the statements therein contained are of no less interest. Fol lowing are the figures showing the as sessment of property outside of cities and towns: 1905 1906 Abbeville............82,180.540 $2,421,925 Aiken............ 3,435 438 4,044,665 Anderson........ 2,829 311 3,238,798 Bamberg.............. 924,925 1,082.140 Barnwell............. 1,946,090 2,111 365 Beaufort............ 1,219,105 1,336,455 Berkeley.............. 1,166,085 1,483,210 Charleston........... 1,833,645 1,958,270 Cherokee...... 1.27,816 1,489,237 Chester.............1,687,465 2,061,190 Chesterfield ..... 778.325 1,071,815 Clarendon......... 1,360,970 1,617.705 Colleton ....... 1,369,430 1,877,865 Darlington..,...... 1,643,370 2,017,230 Dorchester....... 6.54,570 823,895 Edgefield ..........1,684260 Fairfield ...........1,635,294 1,648,193 Fl 'rence ...... 1,488.4.. 1,912,170 Georgetown......... 993,395 Greenville........3,069,250 2081,950 Greenwood..........1,762215 1764090 Hampton. ......1.090030 1,46,832 Horry.............. 8486 Kershaw........... 1,447.. 2 1,498,155 Lancaster..........1,113,110 1.441,40 Laurens........ 2,307230 238495 Lee............ ........ 090 1,433,780 Lexington............1,590 890 1844366 Marion .............2.15430 2,731,015 arlboro. . .. . .1 8 Newberry........ 2,8,0 ,3,4 Oconee.......... 1,2,8 ,2,5 Orangeburg. 2,86,70.347742 Pickens........94 Richland ....... 2,2,17259,1 Saluda.......... 1,8,6 ,3,7 Sparianburg.3,6...7 Sumter......... 1,9...235,6 Uon..........1,7661 York......... 2,2.,2..2,63..9 Abbevile1,684..260.......4.. Aiken..,635,29...1,64.135 Andersn1,48.412...1,917 Bambrg993,395.......401... Bereley 3,069,250...2,081,950 heroke.. ,762,215....15764,9 Claredon48,675.......320... ~oiletn. 2,37.230.. 2,378,495 Dorchester 267,090.. 1,433,80 Geenwood 183,365.. 2,438,54 Kersha.974,644........ 9C.. Laurns,695..576......... Lexinton76,610.......... Marlboro2,237,245..2,635,390 Wimbryg.......,75,.61,.05 4 Abbele...................-....5 42 OAer.... .---.--........... 3 o Anders..........................64 Bambergd....................-.. 48 Bana1...........-.--............ 54 Beafrtnburg..... .......--...2o Smerkee....................-..15 Chnleon.....................320 Williamsbur..............---.... 5 0 Yostrkie......................20 ollown hostetauton..........---.------ 201 Daropertyon............. an -to--wn----s: Airceste...... 1,718,011.........1,8504 AEdgeld........ ..... 5.........35 F a rl.....................775 300 Flornce.............-.....--.. 439 euortw... .... 675,...---.---- --S19 G rkeile..............65 63 8 ---4 96i CHarlton .........--------- 12,7---.., 9 herohee...............- 636--... 90 LaCaster... 662,055.....--.... 78 CLaren..........o.n-..........22,3 0 525 Lle............-. 174,390----- 20,8. Lex ington ......... ,--...---.. 81 06 Dalorhs......5..0.------- 56264 N eery....................3 54 Oconre........... 297,708----......2 67 orener.....................9 0 ,3 335 P Gckenvill..1....---.---.------ - 527 Hachlan.....................15,2 18 82 Sa orr.............. .390---.. 17 52 Sparabr............ ---- 4 -- 510 Lauater.......... 2119 -31--.----- o Lee ............ ..---.----.....6,S 1 2 o3 Willarionurg..........290..... 87 o ar................. 340,060--- - 4-8 Sbbelry........ io.60 8724,24 Aikee...... 1,78,40 1,85,24 Baburg........9277,70 302.10C. Piarnsel.....147,555 46,2 Behaurtd......4,647,322 0,68,19 Brkeald..........65,6 84,962 C paretan....... 12,02055 1,399,59 Clrndon ......... '42203 0,5 Colliamsburg.. - 2-317,3906 21,98 Forknc.........1,111,633 1,031,33. Following shows the increase o value of all real estate. including citie and rural property: Abbeville .............................8 227,02 Aiken.............................. 741.45 Anderson............................. 598,29 Bamberg ............... 181,56 Barnwell......................... 172,55 Beaufort....................... 90,48 Berkeley .......................... 336.45 Charleston............................ 263,82 Cherokee................... 271,14 Chester... ........... .......... 492.44 Chesterfield .................... 393,32< Clarendon.......................... 431,00( Colleton ....... ......... 536,03( Darlington........................... 493.63i Dorchester................... 226,4i Edgefieid............................ Fairfield (decrease) $81,983 Florence.................... 466,28 Georgetown....................... - - -- Greenville........................ 563,80: Greenwood....................... 75,12: Hampton............................ 402,59= Horry................................. 283,16, Kershaw............................. 293,72( Lancaster .......................... 381,701'u e s. ............. 5 2,7L Laurens ....................J.52,70i Lee................................... 194,44( Lexington......................... 331.265 Marion .............................. 863,02( Marlboro ........................... 293,993 Newberry ........................... 362,98C Oconee........................... 402,41C Orang burg.............. 760,700 Pickens............................... -- Richland............... 2,089,435 Saluda............................ 63,380 Spartanburg............ 1,882,076 Sumter.............,........... 995,670 Union.................... Williamsburg............ 741,396 York........................... ......... 342,907 EIJ 208 BLOOD MONEY. The Widow of a Missionary Taks the R'ght Vic w. In the Persia correspondence in the portion of the Red Book on foreign :elations which was made public by she state department recently is con :ained a strong protest addressed by Mrs. Mary Sehauffier Labaree former ly of Urumia, Persia, to American Einister Richmond Pearson, at Te ieran, against the exaction by the United States government of an in Jemnity of 850,OOC for the murder of aer husband, Rev. Benjamin W. Lab tree, a missionary, killed on Mount rarat by religious fanatics. While believing that when an\ .merican citizen has been murdered because of the criminal lawness of a breign governmrant those dependent n him for support shnuld receive a suitable indemnity, Mrs. Libaree .made the following declaration: "I believe that the great mission cause to which my husband and I ded icated our lives, and which has be some even dearer to me because of he terrible sacrifice I have been call ,d upon to make for it, I beleve that this may receive serious injury if my children and I accept an indemnity for this murder. "The matter wou'd not be under ,tood by the great mass of people in this district who would inevitably know of it, as the Persian idea of blood money is so d:fferent from our .avilized understanding of an indem 2ity. Thus serious and blasting in jury might be done to the mission cause for which we have already sac rificed so much that I prefer to waive my rights as an American citizen ather than to see this cause suffer." Sue further protested against the siza of the Indemnity, saying that, while her husband's life could not be measured in value by the standards prevailing in that country, which fix ad the life of a Christian at 33 tomar s (dollars) and the maximum value of hfe of a Moslem at 1,000 tomeans, vet the disproportion bet ween the sum de manded in this case with that of sums paid In similar circumstances by oth er governments was too great. Mrs. Labaree asked that the strong est measures be taken by the Uniited States government to see if any in demnity was In the end exacted, it should not be extorted by the Persian government from the innc cent people of the province where the murder oc. erred. In spite of her protest, $30,000 was actually paid to her by Persia before ihe thirty days' period named in the altimatum of the United States had expired. This sum was three times *reter than the maximum ever be~ fore paid by the Persian government for the murder of a private person. Minister Pearson obtained a promise rchat the money should not be levied under any guise of special tax from the inhabitants of the province. B~IDBGROOM SLAIN.' Supp ised to Have Wronged Slayer'i Sister. W. M. Brown, a bridegroom of ar our, was shot and killed by John M Kncaid at Bessemer, N. 0. Wednes morning. Brown was. married at I o'clock to Miss Betsle Perry, a Besse mer City girl, and they were escort ed to the depot by a number of friendi and intended going to Ds~nvllle, here the honeymoon was to hamv been spent. As soon as the brida party arrived at the depot Kincatl called B:own aside and walked witi: aim to a nearby room. A moment la ter five pistol shots rang out, a num; ber of people rushed to the room ant found Brown dead, with Kincalc standing by holding a smoking pistol Desith was instantan.:ous. :Kmacaid immediately gava himsel: up to the authorities. He saitc B-own was to have married Kincald' siter, whom, it is alleged he betray e1 some months ago. Both met worked in the cotton mills here. K-n caid has a wife and three children His father Is a farmer and lives nea: Bessemer City. Beown's people liv< at Cowpens, S. 0. Negresses as Tigers. In speaking of the acuteness of thi servant problem in Greenville the other day, a citizen remarked to reporter of The N~ ws that many o: the negro women were conductinj lind tigers, and that they were abli to support entire families on the re venue derived therefrom, and that thi blind tiger was in part at least re sposble for the reluctance wit] which negroes consent to wash anc cook and for the joy with which the; relinquish such positions. It was stat ed that daily many orders were sent out to whiskey hauses by negro wo men who conduct blind tigers an< that the business was increasing. AWPUL WRECK. Three Hundred Passengers J ost by Sinking of Steamer OFF COAST OF SPAIN, The Captain Took All Blame for the T- rr'ble Disaster Upon Himself - and Committed Suicide. The Rescued Passengers Are in a Terrible Plight. A dispatch from Cartegena, Spain, says a terrible marine disaster'occur red Saturday evening off Cape Palos. i The Italian steamship Sirio, from Genoa for Barcelona, Cadz; Monte-' video and Buenos Ayres, with about 1 800 persons on board, was wrecked off e Hormigas Island. - 1 Three hundred emigrants, most of 1 them Italians and Spaniards were a drowned. The captain of the steam- a ar committed suicide. The Bishop of Sao Pedro, Brazil, t also was lost, and it is reported that I another Bishop is among the missnr. i The remainder of the passengers a and the officers and crew got away in s she ship's boats or were rescued by means of boats sent to them from the shore. A number of fishermen who made t attempts to rescue were drowned. j Those rescued from the vessel are now d at Cape Palos in a pitable condition, oeing without food or clothing. The Sirio struck a rocky reef known as Bajos Hormigas and sank soon c after, stern first. Hormlg s Island r lies about two and a half miles to the C eastward of Cape Palos. The - Sirio d was owned by the Navigazion Italiana e of Genoa. Beforc he committed su!cide, the : captin declared the steamer had 545 c passengers on board, and the crew o numbered 127 men. T.ie Sirio had 17V z passengers when leaving Genoa, bur 3 additional Spanish passengers were z taken on board at Barcelona, where . the vessel touched-a few hours before the disaster. The disaster occurred at 5 o'clock I Saturday afternoon. The steamer was :a treading a difficult passenger through I the Hormigas group, where the B2 j s i Hormigas reef is a continual menace e Lo navigation. PRISONES ISCAPXD. e Three White Men Work Cleyer a Schemepon Jaior. Frank Buffington, J. W. Mahan, and Geo. Collins three white prisone's in the,Sumter jail overpowered Jail er Hancock Thursday night, took the keys and escaped. Two of the men were playing cards in a large room in the jail. Mr. Hancock Anlooded the ? big iron door to walk in. As he didso Biffiagton threw a chair into the .speung, and ran to the door. The ~ other dashed the cards into the jil-. er's face, and the bunch of keys open-v ning the cells upstairs were taken ~ from him. Bffi igton held the jail ~ er while tine other pirisoners went up C stairs to release Collins, who was locked in a cell. The three then broke away from the j ilor and made d good their escape.C The police department was Immed iately notified, Mahan and Collins were caught near the waterworks, more than a mile from the city. Baf dington was not in the company of these two. \The plan to escape was evidently prearranged, and was well carried out. Buffngton Is the fellow awaiting trial at the higher court for passing spurious money on colored people here two weeks ago. The money is a clever imitation of Uncle Sam's it did not bear his endorsement. The name of the "Richland County Build ing and Loan association" was printed on one side. He Is well dressed and makes a good Impression as a prosper ous ousiness man. Tne police are eager to capture.this fellow, and have invoked the aid of sister towns. Collins was awaiting trial for steal Lug a drummer's sample case of ra zars and knives from the Atlantic Coast Line in this city. Some of them were sold in Columbia. Through the efforts of Detectives Wheeler, Broom and Du-mning he was arrested and' confessed. He had an accomplice, but he ecaped. J. W. Mahan Is a wife-beater and notorious character from 0 wego, this county. He was arrested for utterii threats against his wife. Magistrate Harley found him guilty. and he was sentenced to a $1,000 pea~ce bond for a year. He could not fur21ish it, and was committed to Two Edle Vengeance for the mu-de - he had commttted was visited swiftly upon an Italian named Salvatore Siammon co Tuesday after he had shot and mortally wounded his countryman, Salvatore Carodone, on South street, near Fulton market, New York. Hardly a minute after the shooting Siammonco was stabbed in the heart and instantly killed by Guisseppe Toc::o. All three were peddlers who were buying ish at the market and engaged in an altercation. Wet and Dry Counties. Senator Tillman In his speech last week at Young's Grove in Newberry, stated that he had spoken in Abbe ville and Laurens to crowds of 3,000 in each county and had not seen a drunk man. They are dispensary counties. In Saluda county he ad jiessed a crowd of about half the abova. number and he saw 25 or 30 -ldrunk men and he was "told that Sthere was enough blind tiger l'quor in the bushes to make the balance I drunk. ______ 1WHAT influenced President Roose velt to allow Secretary Boneparte to give~ the armor plate trust such a big slice of that contract, when the Ad -ministration has been trying to make i us all believe it was fighting the trusts. TIE DFMON ALCOHOL TO BE PU V TO NEW AND USEUL SERVICE. kade to Run Engines, Iiht Our Homes and Cook Our Food. All of our leaders who. are familiar ith the Arabian- Nights' E itertain nents, and all who are not-have miss: .d a great pleasure, will rememifer a story of a genie who could contract i1mself into a space so small as to be ontained in a vial, but on being re eased, expanded like a modern ex ?losive until ne became a large giant, versbadowing the -earth. While :nfined in the bottle he was harm ess, bat when he got out.he threat n( d danger to all who approach We have often thought, that this orclful narrative of Q Aeon Schehere ade prefigured the'spirit of alcohol. 1 rhe Arabians first discovered .this tential agent, which is well describ d under the image of the demon in he bottle. Alcohol is not dangerous when bottled up, but when it gets out if the bottle and into the man or ther animal, there is "a multiplica. ion of devils, like those described in he New Testament. It is more than 1 kely that the belief in a personal evil, so prevalent in ancient days, ras typified by this subtle spirit of uc deadly potentialities. Cassio, in Iakespeare's "Othello," gives utter nce to this thought, when he says: 'Oh, th.u invisible spirit of wine, if hon hast no other name by which ou are called, let me name thee evil." But the devilish disposition is to be xtracted from alcohol that it may oe amed to the uses of man A marvel us transformation is to occur by sason of the law recently enacted by ongress. By the process known as enaturiing, alcohol is to De dehorn-~ , as it were, have its teeth pulled, ave the devil taken out of it. Hav- C sg injured man so greatly during the Bnturies, it is now to redeem itself y helping him. Originally it was sedo kindle internal fires, to set the Jul aflame, to addle the brain, to " lake maniacs. Naw, blessed- change, u e fire is to be kindled on the ours ide to make heat and power. Alco. g o is all iight if left out of the blood. a G works bautifully in a stove, in a d eater, wider an engine, in a lamp. o t will be especially beneficial foi irmers, as it is espi.cially well adapt for doing what farmers .constantly J eed to have done. In many waya i1 e mischievous old giant can be iled down, put in harness a3.d forc d to do beneficial work for the hu- I ian race to make up for the damage fitcted by ages of misuse. A lamp is now made that produces e strong, high-grade light from a c, ol, and the experts say a gallon of a- L hol is worth two of kerosene for ghting purposes. The thousands Oi i nail power engines heretofore run C rith gasoline, can all be served better 9 nd more cheaply with alcohol. These aginess are especially adapted to r irm purposes, -for pumping warer, ? atting feed, filling silos, threshing I rain, and the multiplied uses to a rhich a stationary power on fems is dopted. The principle objection to ' asciine, aside from the oast, is the anger to the farm building from fire C gasoline fire cannot be qunnd I rith water. Oa the other hand, water Bms to scatter the gasoline and In rease the danger. But an alcohol! re is easily put out by the use of I rater. Experiments show that a gal m of alcohol will produce at least 10 er cent. more power than a gallon of asoline. On the subject of heat, the bowing is equally favorable, the ques-1 Ion being simply one of relative cost. On this latter head accurate infor nation was gathered by the commit ee of Congress, whichi will be of es iecial interest to our readers. A large istillery at Peoria kept a record for en year, which shows an avarage cost f 4236 cnts abushel for corn used, rhe average production of alcohol was .76 proof gallons from a bushel of urn. The cost averaged 10 78 cents ier proel gallon of alcjnol. Tae corn ised in making one gallon of proof al ohol was .21 of abushel, costing 8 89j ents; deducting this cost from 10.78 ents, the total cost of the alcohol, re have 1 89 cents as the cost of naking one gallon of proof alcohol >ver and above the cost of the grain. IChere will, of course, be variations In >rce, according to the price of corn. 3ut other farm products may he uti zd In making alcohol, a low grade of nolasses being especially adapted for 1he purpose, and many other thinga aised by farmers will answer the pur ,ose. Thus the farmer is benefitted i two ways, by increased demand for is products to make the alcohol and aicreased uses of the latter when nade. So it is manifest that with ,ax-free alcohol, and the people awake so prevent trusts and corners, there arill be opening to us an era of cheap notor, light and heat production 1ch as the world has not seen, and :hers is no people in the world that :an put such things to so many uses is our American farmers. Kiling in Yok. A dispatch to The State from York iys Mr. W. J.- Whitner, superinten lent of Glenn andAllison's at Fishing freek killed Minge A rmstrong, color id, Tnursdoy morning. The negro same late to work and Mr. Whitner isked him the cause, when he threw shove] of dirt on Mr. Whitner, who isked the .meaning of that. The niegro then attempted to strike him with a shovel and Whitner went to wards his house the negro foiP owing. Whitner and his little urother held the door to keep he negro out and the negro tried to break down the door. Whitner got alsa shotgun and went around the house and asked the negro what he :eant. He then advanced~on Whit aier with the shcye] drawn. After oeing told to stop he kept on coming and Whitnler shot him In the neck, ti~llng him. York is a dry county. uShot to Death. At Sheeveport, La., a man wa diled by his divorced wife who in an insane condition went to his hiouse md amdead her children. WILL NOT HNC Sentences Altered in the Case of Murderers by GOVERNOR H1 WARD "or Good and Sufficient Reasons. Luke Gray Reprieved Until Last Day of Month and William Gibbs' Sen. tnce Commuted Retused to Respite Marcus, Within the borders of South Caro ina, says The State, three men were o have been harged Friday,' three aen to have paid the penalty of the, id Mosaic law-''an eye for an eye, a ooth for a tooth." Ot these three, mly one was swung into eternity, for he others have had their sentences tered, one temporarily, it is.trde. The strangest part of the incdeinat s that the two men ,whose !deaths ave been deferred are negroes, while' . ie who was hang ed, was a white man. hia is a tribute to the State and a efutation of the slurs so often cast >y alien lips upon the justice of the ourtsof the Palmotto commonweatli. Thuisday the governor on the ad rice of the board of pardons, reprieved mtil August 31, Luke Gray, a negro nurderer of Aiken county, and com nuted to life Imprisonment te so ince of William Gibbs, also a mur lerer, whoee crime- was committed in leorgetown county. In both instan s, lne chief executive was guided by trong recommencations and the ur ent- advice of the board of pardons. is ,declined to interfere with the uidrue of the lawin regard to William [arous the Charleston murderer. The shane in the sentence of &ray ras made because his attorneys claim a have- mitigating circnmtance rhich will, they are confident, induce be pardon board to recommend adeft ite. alteration in his sentence.-. Tai overnor has reprieved this man, only G the instance of the pardon board's avice and the solicitation of various Ltizens of Aiken, among whom are mbered many prominent names. Two weeks' time will be given in bhich these mitiganing'ciodmslances, there are any, are to be shown, or lse the man will be-hanged on :tbe st day of the month. The governor rill write the petitions that tni alul ag must be complied with and that mile he feels tnat Gray is&asmurder r, he grants the reprieve because the ar is a riendieas negro and because ne pardon board so recommended. Toe attorneys who assisted the so citor are fighting any commuta Lon. Tnelr version of the killing is bat Gray asked Clifford Woodward, a rhite man of Montemorenal, what he ad said to Gray's wife during the onrniung hours. Gray, acording to. beir stiory, said noefnag and' advano d toward the negro wrha his hands In h front pockets or na1 trousers, when he .negro, backing away, killed the hiite man with a shotgun which he arried. Of course this statement is Lecesarly biased, on accou't of the iosition of those who mmais. Tue :iilng occurred on I'earnary 2 1905, ani Gray was tried ats tue summer erm of court. Tne negro niad nio at orneys, and B. F. Wyman and W. M. imoak were appointied oy se court. an Ojiver, tne brother-in-Jaw of fray, and who was tried with him, ras given a lie sentence in the State Irson. It will be rgmembared tihat Gray is he 'negro who walked into Governor ley ward's cufl38 and surrendered, say. ng he had kialed a white min down n Alken. William Gibbs, who, It seems, kill id ed Anderson by scabbing him on pril 2of this year, has been given a ood recommendation as an nonost, ard working negro, and an entirely everse character was given to Ned' anderson, colored, tihe man whom -he illedl. Many prominent -oitiisi of 3eorgetown, among them Mr. S. M. ard, testifiled and wrote that A~nder ion was a bully and-a desperado of he worst type. Judge Watts recoin nended the alteratical of the sentence so life lmprlionment. Mr. Lewis YBryan, Giobs' attorney, has been inasing In his efforts to secure a iange in the sentence. But Marcus had tio die. This mur erer who so brutally slew with an lce pick a trusting ' woman who lived with him and who believed -that he tad no other wile, paid for the awful eed committed on the sands by heg seashore. Tue govarnor .re meved another telegram Thursday, purportirig to be from Marcus' wife in 0lnoInnati, or rather written In her interest. If the telegramf .be bona fide it is only another indication 'of sh "rulng passion." The dispatch read: Governor D). C. Hey ward, Columbis, S.C. Lizzie Marcus has known two days only awful plight of her husband, ra thr oher tive tots. Penniless, friend less; she could not go Immediately. Have pity, Governor. Don't deny her ,hance to say last good- bye. Rev. Joseph Jasin, 325 Clintion. As all South Caronlnans know, here was never a more humane or eelng executive than Governor Hey ward, but in this Instiance, although ie and the pardon board have given she mattier full consideration, 'as does 2ti feel that he could intierfere. Strong Dnink in Neiwbarry. Senator Tillman spoke at Young's rove Newberry county last week to bout 300 people. During his speech 2 referred so Maine, Iowa and Kan as, socalled prohibition Staltes. At rhis point 3. H. Chappell, of New berry interrupted him and said: "There was more drunkenness in tie own-of N~ewberry last Saturday tihan I have ever seen before, and I have been here for thirtiy years, and (ni prhbtonists who spoke against 1the dispensary in the campaign last sam mer two years ago is selling the cider nw that makes many of these drunk."