University of South Carolina Libraries
+ L.xxi. -MANN ING, S. 0., WED-NESDAY, JANUARY 23197 OF RUINS. Jamaica, Destroyed -ible Earthquake. UD HORROR. Report is to the Effect ath List is Enorm .u-, t Fam:s Added to tatlng Work of smic Ske. - -. Kingston on the island uAch hada population of usand people, one half oclored. was devastated rning of last week by a nake, wb!ch was follow ructive fire. Iu which a were ibasted alive. iays one terr fic s'-ock Ildings tumbling int, ruins, crushing men, Idren to death, coming - ant's warning detroy. t of the elsy of King 1,0CO person% acc~rd g reports, are dead in *res, trapped in th. oasted to death In the - ept -over the ruined looks quickly followed then came a trembling 2at gradually subsided. destruction had been io shock. on the heels of the ab. Mobs, frenzied by through the shaking e suburbs, unheeding -.'guish and appeals for a crushed and dyir g in as. y hospital was - among Uat went down with a -ian thirty soldiers were -uis and ware roasted .2 dre that was soon igh the city. i destrucoion occurred seotionof the city, the xhere business houseE .like fell into piles. - r part of the bulldmgs -ere wooden, the dre .-rediblerapidity. The t was demoralized anc ess. In a short time rs were at work, and, roaring around thEm, wrecked buildings and oh the occupants had pulation -added to the cAne, as they seemed u and rushed to. and rantiaally and hinder had recovered their 4 to aid the injured. d in the crush of the *= and many others w. e caught in the tangle. *Ires. - - om Kingston on Wed -clay was-still a smoul arywhere the wounded m y. The estimates of trying and as high as - frenzy that followed - . survivors were er: z id a solders had to beat .obs with the butta of restore a semblane .01 nized.lntio large bands ae urinclpil residences, Ice and troops. Groups -cere shot down by vA .ilitary. Many acts of am marked the rescues. en and children were urning timBers under --*e pinned. a described as awfal. dder for animals and -itnent. :Momey is use - a have been burned rsupposed tobe safe - . - on all-sides Is- inde and poor. slke are - visons of aP. kinds are i- It-Is impossible tio -:c~ody can be found. s.rguson, vice chairman -Mail Stamsahip Cosi I thekilled. ~Theloas great,- but the ex:ct t yet-known. re buried under the duns. -The mercaptile iered most severely, --- tng uapon them. Many anare dead or injo d. are looting. Ghsayy :g witnessed. All Lhe idestroyed, and all thle I around Kzngsi~on are *few of them are ssfe - w Up School. ie Iwo yo'.ng boys y and Lawson, it is *pted toblow upstne building at Ivanh e, y, but their plans were 3 in time to prevent ;ave resulted in the ~acters and nearly 100 n. Misses Brownie * n Bufford, of' Wy'he. er in the bchool. Thle re under arrest. 'Inelr s een learned. 'elExploded. * - worth, an operator at ~xpouition Cotton mlls - t of Atlanta, was k.Ul ,r manner Friday morn neih section of a large nning at aighl Ep e d a loud report and spad - :ds Whitworthi, s trik ag *was standiag fi-ty feat worth died several hoars i 52 years old and le:.ves :hii children. unared Lives Lost. i of Leybe and Simar. y ay phoon on .at nary Ldred lives were 1c at In eks and quarters at East re destroyed. The storm Sever known. No r am 1g SNOT GUILTY IS THE VE1ztCT IN THE LIME HOUSE CASE. An Orangeburg Jury Restores ror chester's Sherift to His Eigh ffice. Sheriff Limehouse was! tried last Feiday by au Orangeburg jury for al lowing a prisoner to be taken from him nd lynched. After being oat about one hour the jury brought in a ver dict of "r ol, guilty," which vardict restores Mr. Limehouse to his high cffies, he having been suspended by Gov. Heyward pending his trial. The facts are so well known as to hardly, need repetition, but It will be recalled that on the 23rd day of Au gust, 1906. a negro, Will Spain. made an attempt to crhbonally assauls the little daughter of Mr. L. S. Connor, one of the best known and most re spected men in Dorobester. The negro was captured by a posse, among waon; was the father of the little girl, and taken to St. Georges and delivered to the sher'i Tals was about 11 o'clock, on the day of the crime, and just an hour or two later a second posse, composed of a score or more of men, came to the j il and a. comrittee o! about 12 entered and asked the sher 1ff for an Interview with the negro, who was looked in an Iron cage on the secord floor. The sher'ff wcnt for and broug"II the prisoner down stairs and the mob' took him away and lynched him. The sheriff claimed that he thought that the mob only wanted to question the negrc-to hold a sort of preliminary ral-and that he had no idea that they intended to make way with the prisoner. The sheriff also claimed not to know any of the men who compos ed the mob, althcugh they demanded tLe prisoner within four hours after the deed was committed, and were undoubtedly men from within a rad lus of five miles of the county seat Gavernor Hey ward rs qa ted Solic itor Hildebrand to investigate the matter, which he did, but as the sher. Iff claimed not to have recognized any of the mob, and as the jury rendered a verdict to the effect that the negro, Will Spain, came to hI death at the hands of men unknown to them, the jury, no indictments w're handed out against the mob, but at the fall term of the court of general sessions for Dorchester county SAlcitor Hilde orand prepared a bill charging Sheriff Limehouse with criminal cowardice. The grand jury found a true bill and Gov. Hey .vard, who had taken a deep interest in the matter, promptly suspended the sheriff from cfflee, pending his trial. The coroner, P. L K z-r, was commissioned sheriff and nas so acted since, but did not want the cffiae and wrote the governor to appoint some one else in his stead. Orangeburg county was selected as the county in which the case would be tried, the cse was reached Friday as scheduled. Solicitor Hildebrand represented the State again as ably as he did a Uttle less than a year ago when he prosecuted the Eutawvile lynohers, and Sheriff Limehouse was represented by a brilliant array of tal ent composed of Messrs. Connor, Hiers and Dennis c-f the Dorchester bar, and Etysor & Summers, Wolfe & Ber ry and Bowman & Bowman of the Or anigeburg bar. The first witness for the State was Lawton Limehouse, son of the defend ant) and deputy sheriff of Dorchester county, who~ testinied that he received the prisoner, Will Spain, and locked him in the cell. Said that at request of parties wno came to the jail he turned the prisoner c var to -them for the purpcse of holding a preliminary .xnmination and having the prisoner properly committed; that the mob overpowered him and his father and bo':k the prisoner from them, and that the mob was composed of 75 men, 12 of whom carried the prisoner away on a band car on the Sauthern railway. Dr. A. R Johnson testinled that he wasl15thejail sadthat be siw the mob overpower the sheriff and his deputy and take the prisoner away. He saw the soeriff try to use his pls tel, but recogn'z 3d none of the. mob. Dr. Joe P. Johnson tes'tifed as to conditions as he found them when he went to the jail, after the mob had dispersed. L. Virgil Minus testified that he was at work in an office near the court house. He took the testimony at the coroner's lr quest, but didn't hear the sheriff say he knew any of the mob. Miss Sibyl Thomas and Mrs. E. E. Thomas testified as to the ~sherlff's conversation with Gov. Hexward, they being Southern Bell long distance ope rato's. Mra. Thomas testifisd she hea.d Sber!ff Limehouse tell the gay arnor he knew the members of the mih. Ike Minus testifted as to the search and capture of the prisaner and as to delivering him to the sheriff. Tnis was corroborated by Peter Stokcs. Dr. J. P. Minus testified that he went to the jill af ter th~e mob had taken the prihoner, saw the hand car in the distance and told of the sheriff's mental condition at the time. A. H. McCormick, secretary and treasurer of the Dorchester L amber company, of Badham, and who lives tt Badham, saw the mob come by with the prieoner, anew none of them, and knows that none were employs of the Dorchester Lumbar company. W. F. JaqVes and John A. Hired also testined as to conditions as they found them on arriving on the scene. but that they knew none of the mob. The defense introduced no testi mony at all, and consequently their attorneys had no really. Solicitor HUdebrand made an able argument Ifor the State, while Hon. Thomas M. E Bysor replied for the defense, being the only one ci the brilliant array of talent to reply to Solicitor Hilde brand, Judge Gage's charge to the ju'ry was unusually strong and brilliant. He held that if the sher ff brought the prisoner before a body o1 unknown men and allowed them to take his prisone" from him he was guilty, ac oharge in the indictmeut. Judge Gage also took occision to denounce mob law and argued that no crime calls for mob rule, Hie said the act under which Sheriff Limehouse 'ws. 1tda enacted subaconently to the fconstituti3nal conventon of 1895 and was intended to aid the sheriff in up h lfing the law. Judge Gage spoke for 20 -inutes in a quick and force. ful manner and many say his charge was the strorgest ever delivered bt fore an Orangeburg jury as regards dignity cf the law. The jury was out 'about one hour and a half, af tr which they rendered the expected verdict of "not guilty." The jury was considered an unusually strong one. The State used a number of chal lerges and the defense exhausted theirs. Sheriff L'mahouse was accompanied to Orangeburg by 50 or more support era and' these were seen to mingle with the State witnesses freely, and, in fact, the witnesses gave reluctant testirony. Anyway the caes was de cided by the jurf and no one can say Si1titor Hildebrand and Gov. Hey ward did not do their full duty. Thae case did not attract unusual attention and the court house was never crowded. Solicitor Hildebrand deserves much prawe for his vigcrous prosecution. This is the second disagreeable case he hss presented In Orangeburg on change of venue (the Eutawville lynchers being also tried here), and in both he made masterful fights. Being vindicateA, Sheriff Limehonse will resume his office, and he was most warmly congratulated by his large following here when the verdict was .nnounced. BAR ASSOCIATION Had Interesting Me6ting in Volumi bla Last Weck, The Bar Aisociation had a imost interestina msating In Columbia last week. It wal necided to recommend that tne saary of the chief justice of bte supreme wourt be made $6,000 a year ann ins sanaries of the associate in.tices ae mace 85 500. There was much ascuss-on on the resolution and it was generaly agreed that the pres ent salaries are entirely out of keep 1ng with the dignity of the offices. THE OFFICERS. The following Is.the list of offlears oleoted: President-J. H. Hudscn. Vice presidents, one from each jud Icial circuit: First T. M. Baysor; sec ond, Geo. H. Bates; third, T. G. Mc Lacd; fourth, J. R. Coggeshall; fifth, N. G. Evans; sixth, A. L. GastoD; eventh, C. P. Sanders; eight, Walter H. Hunt; ninth, B. H. Rutledge, Jr., tenth, R. T. Jaynes. Secretary-John J. Earle. Treaauxer-W. S. Nelson. First District-T. M. Raysor, L S. Weeks and Rbert Lide. Second DistrIct-Geo. H. Bates, H. -. Dowling, J. S. Davis. Third district-T. G. McLeod, Eugh Haynesworth, J. B. McLaugh Lin. Fourth district-J. R. Coggeshall, Eenry Back, T. W. Bouchier. Fifth district-N. G. Evans. W. H. 3harpe, J. W. Thomas. Sixth district-A. L. Gaston. 3. L. lenn, J. H. Foster. Seventh district-0. P. Sanders, V. . DePass, H. T. Bomar. Eighth district-Walter H, Hunt, L W. Ables, 3. F. Fraser. Ninth district-B H. Rutledge, fr., B. A. Hagood, J. E. Pinckney. Tenth district-R. T. Jaynes, T. T. Mauldin, J. S. McSwaln. Executive committee-F. Tomp ins, P. A. Wilccx, 3. B. Wingard, John 3. Earle, W. S. Nelson. 9*ENEBAL COUNCIL. One from each judicial circuit, named in order: D. 0. Herbert, T. Q. Croft, Charlton DuRant, W. P. Pollck, M. L. Smith, T. G. McLeod, W. S Hall,-Jr., D. A. G. OaIzs, W. B. Graber, E. M. Bucker. The pres ident and sEcretary are also mom beta. ELECTED) u.XFICRS. and the Work Will Now Be Pushed to Ccmnpletion. The South Carolina Public Service orpoation has advanced another step in its progress towards beginning work in the oevelopment of its great enterrse, The preliminary meeting requited by the statute to be held for the put pose of obtaining subscriptions to the stock and for the election of the board f directors an d Lifcers was held on Wednesday of last week at the Elisto building, where the offies of the company have been located. The meeting was attended by a large numter of gentlemen interested in the enterprise, andi the necessary subscription of $275,000, required as a preliminary to the granting of the arter, was promptly made, and the necessary cash payments given to the treasurer. The following cifcers were elected: President, Joseph 3. Timrmes; 'vice president and general manager, Char les R. Van Etten; secretary the treas urer, John P. Bonney. The following directors of the ctr poration were elected; Joseph J. Tim ms, C. B. Van Etten, John P. Bon ney, Joseph Bermel, Lawrence M. Pickney, John 0. Lott, Dow S. Smith Frederick W. Schreeder and Robert H. Jennings. The final step In incorporating and perfecting the comupany's3 plan for be ginning business will be taken Jan. 18, when the formal papers will be iled on t'he expiration of the satutorv notice, and the secretary of state wIll be asked to Issue the charter, accora ing to law. All the directors except Messrs. Pnckney and Jennings are from New york, and represent the capitalists of that city who are intersstod in the enterprise. Mr. Pinckney is from Charleston and Mr. Jennings .s from tfls city, The company is now fully 'organized and ready to enter upon the building of the net work of rail ways they have in view. Death of Dr. Woodirow. Dr. Jrnoes Woodrow, scientist. ed. uctor, ohznologician, publicist, bank er and business mail, died In Colum bi Thursday mornir:.g after a linger ing illness. He was born in Carlisle, Engand, on May 30J, 3328, being a on ot a Scotcha clergymoaa. His parents came to Osiiada in 1836 and to the LlUnited Sasi 87 WHO IS FOER Unknown Person Has Attempted to Kill Mother and Son. MAUKED FOR DEATH Poison, Dynamite and Fire Have Been Used in Attempts to Annihilate a South Georgia Family by Some Secret Enemy or Enemies. Marked for death by an unknown fos, Mrs. Alice Futcb and her son. Allen Ftch, are momentarily expect Ing assassInation in their home In the lower part of Thomas county, Ga., says a dispatch to the Atlanta Jour nal. Nine times the hidden hand of mysterious death has been raised against mother and son, poison, dyna mite and fire failing in each Instance to accomplish its fiendish execution. Secret service officers, county cffl cdais, private detectives and the com bined efforts of the l&w, augmented by sympathetic and zealous friends, have bsen foiled In their strenuous efforts to detect the man and the mo tive and today the tirror-stricken and sole inhabitants of the old Futch homesteal are calmly awaiting what they fear may b complete annihila tion. Recounting their terribls experi ence, young Allen Futch, the son, twenty-cne years of age, dramatically exclaimed today: "It is the protection of the Lord that has saved me and my mother from deatL !" "Yes, it's providence alone," the mother interpcsed. And to these who have watched the plot thicken, it seems apparent that more than human agencies have been brought to their assistance to oun teract the execution of nine diaboli oal attempts to take their lives. "Another' attempt will be made apon the lives of these innocent peo pe," said Hon. Fondren Mitchell, member of the Georgia legislature, who has been employed as special counsel to aid the solicitor of Thomas ounty in running the assassin to cover. For seven months a veritable terror reign has ruled over the Futch home. .When the two members of the family were away, poison wold be placed Jn their food, In the milk and ven in the well; when they were at home they were targets for dynamite bombs and the assassin's bullets. Gc or stay, their lives have been in peril since early in last June. What vicious motive has driven an mnemy to such extremes? Ask the rembling woman, and she only shakes er head. Ask the young son who re rsins constantly by her side and he annot answer. "They haven't an enemy in the world. made so by an act of their >wn," declares Attorney Mitchell "It's all mystery, deep, weird and up o the present impenetrable. I am moving heaven and earth to find the guilty man. Others are doing the same thing. We all have theories. ut the facts are still beyond our rach." The population of the lowe -halt of Thomas county is busily engaged In speculating upon this strange case, and gossip has connected many per ons with the crime, in which Re mnce, Love and Jeilousy figure in sensational human interest, but the vidence is lacking. On June 4th, last year, Mrs. Futch and Allen were suddenly seized with esprate illness. That they were spared seemed almost miraculous. It was balieved their illness was due to acte indigestion. As a matter of tact they were poisoned,but it was not unt 1 he third attempt had been made that they realized a fiendish plot had been laid for their assassination. The first attempt was made by putting either arsenic or rough on rats in the water bucket and coffee pot. d~n June 10th a second attenrpt was made, and this time the mother and son -were again in the shadow of death. On July 5th the chicken at the noon meal was saturated with poison, and mother and son again were des perately ill. July 10? the assassin returned and poisoned, Mrs. Fetch. The condition of Mrs. Futch grew constantly more critica~l, and on July 13h Dr. Taylor, the family physician, Rev. T. A. White, the pastor of the First Baptist church at Metcalf, and other friends and relatives were sum moned. There were twenty-one persons in the house on this day arid none were spared by the unknown hand that sprinkled poison wholesale in the sup per. All twenty-One were poisoned. The physician, called to save Mrs. utch, almost lost his own life, and the minister was for hours at the point c f death. Oahers, including friends aad ser vants, were desperately ill, but all re covered. O~n July 23 another attem~t was made and Mrs Futch, Allen and John were victims. With the arrest of Laura and Ollie Cunningham, negroes employed on the Futch estate, the attempts ceased until January 7th, when the assassm grew more hold and discarded poison and resorted to dynamite. - Sunday night, January 7T h, the en emy crawled under the house, bored holes through the floor under the bEd tin which Allen Futch was sleeping, chiseled out a hole with a sharp in strument and pushed a dynamite bomb into the room, lighted the fuse and fied. Tracke were found in the back yard leading to the woods in the rear of the house. The bomb exploded, but again su per-human hands seemed to Incterpose nd the asassin was foiled. The boomb shook the house from cel lar to garret, hurled Allen Futch from his bed and set the house afire. I rIahed into Allen's room," said Mrs. Futch, "and was blinded by the light and flames. I expected to see my boy torn into fragments, but he was unhurt. We threw water on the 2ames and saved the house and then I was so thankful that we had been spared, that I threw my a-ms around Allen and cried: "Thank Gcd; Thank It is taken for granted by all that the attempts are too cunning to be planned by a negro. "It is the work of a white man," says Allen. "Why, when I got myself together from the shock of the dyna mite bomb, I rushed out of the house, shooting, to give the alarm to the negroes who were sleeping In the quarters. "To my astonishment, the dogs were gonc! "We have three dogs which we keep in the yard for added protection One of the negroes came running up about this time and I told him tc hurry to the barn and saddle my horse, as I wanted to go to Thomas ville to get the sheriff and blood hounds. "My horse was gone. "Tbe horse returned about two hours later and with him came the I dogs. The theory advanced 'is that the assassin first went to the barn and mounted Allens horse, knowing the dogs would follow the horse. "My dogs T.11 follow that horse day or night, without question or sus picion " Allen says. The horse was ridden about a quar ter of a mile away, tied and left be tind, and with him. it Is bellevd, the dogs waited out in the woods. The asaasuin, and the tracks in the newly plowed ground clearly estab lishes this, returned to the house. 3rept under the building .ut his ho:e through the floor and put the dyna mite bomb into the room, lighted the ruse and fled. The bomb exploded at 11 23 o'clock unday night and within ten minutes ahe negro servants and tenants on the plac bad -been thoroughly aroused ,.nd were at the home. "When I found the horse and dogs gone," says Allen, "I ordered one of ibe negroes to hurry to a house a 1aarter of a mile away, for more naissance. "In a few minutes the negro came running back, badly frightened. He old me -he had just seen a man on ny hore riding through the woods. "This man was, beyond quetion, the assa3sin, who had hurried to the oods where he had left my horse, nounted it and was escaping. Tracks he next dey showed the negro's itatement to be true. The horse re murned alone, with reins gone, in iDout two hours. "Everything connected with this iwful case indicates the work to be hat of a cunning white man who Is horoughly familiar with the place; io familiar, in fact, that he -could tcate the exact position of my bed, ihough he was under the house." The ninth- attempt was made last unday night, and but for the alert Ae of Night Guard Judson Fesll, night have been successful. I FIRED TO KILL HIM. Guard Fewell went on duty lasta unday night at dark. Mrs. Fasch! mnd Allen were in the houses with' shotguns and revolvers in reach. "I had a presentment." says Mrs. Futch, "that there would be trouble, ad I told Judson to watch every thing and investigate the least noise. [ told him not to shoot anyrne com ng In at the front ,gate, as John might be coming home." Shortly after 8 o'clcck Fewell beard a noise. He was In the rear of the house at the tim~e, but quickly crawled over the deep sand on his all fours, to the front. He heard the latch of the gate drop into Its socket and then 'was silhouetted the form of a man, whether white or black F'ewell did not know, In the -darkness. "I cried to him to 'Halt!' but he turne-1 and sprank behind a tree," says Fewell. "The next moment he started to run, and 1 fired point blank and I fired to kill, but missed' the man as It was dark. He got away, but we followed his tracks Into the woods for some distance." Since Sunday night the bcuse has been constantly guarded, day and night. _______ A Human Monster. Reports from Salonan, south of Me [lila, where the Moroccan pretender haa his camp, indicate that his follow ers, since the appearance of the Sul tan's troops at Tangier, are growing lukewarm, and that an energetic movement probably would soon finish the rebellion which the pretender has been conducting for several years.' Stories of cruelties with which he ter rorized the inhabitants are almost in credible. Those even suspected of disloyalty have been dragged to Se loan in cains and subjected to ton tures. Sometime ago a Kebdana sus pect was bound at thle mouth of a cannon and blown to pieces. Another, who had been obliged to give hospi tality to a scouting party of El Gueb baa troops was tied to a horse and rider and at full speed dragged through the camp and villages as a warning. Arresteal Murderers. Mike Smith and his son Charles, 17 years old, have been arrested an-I will be tried for murder next week at Troy, N. 0., on the charge of killing Milton Bunnell, a Coafederate veter an, for his money last 'week. Bunnell called at the home of the Smiths and exhbted some gold coins. When be started home the Smiths, accordkrg to the son's story, planned to kill and rob him. They followed Bunnell and when they caught up with him Char le Smith struck him with an axe. They then rifled Bannell's pockets and plac- d the body an the railroad track, were a train ran over it. Mike Smith denies participation in the crime. R~esignation Acceptea. Governor Ansel transmitted to the senate the resignation of Judge R. 0. Purdy on Wednesday and asked~ that provision be made fon the election of hi successo in the wonassmbl. 22PORT OF BOARD. What the State Dispensary Did Dur ing Last Year. To his Exzellency, D. C. Heyard, Governor of South Carolina: We have the honor to sal'mit to you for your information and also for the General Assembly, this, our report of the business done by the dit-pensayro during the fiscal year closing Novem ber 30, 1906. The attached statements will sho g that the total cost of liquors, wines, beer, etc, purchased during the year amounts to $2,167,565 69, and the total sales amount to $2.585,137.16 The total supplies bought, $23.671.80. The net earnings for account of the school fund for the fiscal year, which have been placed to its credit, amount to $23,883 14. The small amount of profit piaced to the credit of the school fund this iear is accounted for by the fact that invoices amounting to $141,767.30, was taken in stock In the fiscal year closing November 30. 1936, and not charged on the books until the folloviing year, by reason of which our net profits were reduced just this amount, or, in other words, we would have made a net.piofit of 8165,650.44. . Under our present sys tem this cannot possibly occur. The not profits trat have accrued to and been equally divided between the towns and counties amount to $552,098.80, making the total earn ings for the year for the school fund, counties and towns, 8575.975 94. We have paid Into the State treasury D;camber 1, 1905, (the bakin ning of the fiscal year.) on account of the school fund the amount of $150, 000 leaving a balance due the school fund, $63,409.94, which we today have paid in full, making our pay ments on account of school fund for the year 1906 8213.409 94. On Dacember 1, 1905, we found the dispensary owing the school fund 189,526 80. On assuming the duties of our office we found about $200,000 worth of high priced barrel goods, largely in excess of the amount needed by the dispensary. We employed 1. E McDonald, E:q, to look into the mat: ter of these purchases and see if we were liable for the payment of these goods In nearly every instance we found that the houses which had shipped these goods to the dispensari were willing to take them back, they paying the freight on the returned woods. Acting on the advice o a.ttorney McDonald, we returned $119,249.74 of the above goods, and have used a considerable part of the alance. We include in this report of Mr. McDonald's report In full apd respectfully ask that he be paid liberally for his services. We are now installing a rcc:Ifyi:g and blending pl&At, wpiroh Vl C-2 ically do away with the handling of use goods, and which will ylald the State a larger profit, ana give more employment to home people, and give better satisfaction generally. We are very much gratified to state aat the businesi of the dispensary has been conducted with harmony in all the departments. We wish. how ver, to call your attenition to the fact that $400,000 Is an insufficient amount to conduct the business of the dispensary. ' We big to call your attention to the very limited time allowed the expert s'ccountanzts in which to chech books- of the dispensary, which is thirty days, and suggest that the time be increased to forty days, with a compensation of five dollars per day. This will Insure ample time in which to do the work and will secure the very best talent. In conclusion, we most respectfully refer you to the report of the Legisla ive committee and the expert ao cuntants appointed by the Gover nor as to the dispensary management. All of which Is respectfully submit ed. J. M. Rawlinson, Chairman; Jos. B. Wylie, John Black State Board of Directors. M. H. Mobley, Cierk. LLARNIUG A L3850N. Presideint Rooseveic Cordially sated by the Negroes. Senator Carmack gave a very~.strIk ing descripticon of the President's position relative to the negro as de veloped by the Brownsville affair, when he sad, in his speech before the Senate Thursday: "There is no man in this country today, not even thec Senator from South Carolina, who Is so universally and bitterly hated by the negroes, as the man who abolished the Indianola postclfle and dined wth Booker Washington. All that be has done for the negro, all the evi dences of friendship he has shown in te past, have been utterly forgotten simaply because he has not shown that smpathy with the criminal negro which pervades the negro population of this country, from one end of it to the other," The Charleston Post says that illustrates forcibly the character of the negro, which has ieen fcrmed so largely by the teach ings of sel~sh politicians and narrow doctrir alres. President Roosevelt ii learning a :esson noav which will be good for him and good for the whole country and especially good for the negro. The rejection of Roosevelt by the negroes after all that he has at tempted to do for them will inevita bly result in a readjustment of the standa.rds of judgment which the country will appiy to the race. It will bring the negro to the test which is applied to th'e white man and he will then ape.r In his true value. What that may be will depend upon the negro himself. The day of his dwelling upon a plane of artificIal ele vation is about to close, and he must maintain himself by his own merits or fall. For IFree Distiribution. So much interest has been shown in the Williamson method of grow ing corn that tha E swan Fertilizer company of Charleston has gotten up a booklet, giving the method in de tail, and Is sendiug :s y' merchants for distributions, a.nd will be glad to send-a copy to anyone who may care for it and wil arop a postal. THE ECTUIC LIM PAYS LARGE FEE AND GETS 1S CHATE R. - The Company Has in Paid Subscrip tions $300;000 With Which to. Begin Work. The South Carolina Public Service Corporation Thursday was granted a charter by Secretary of State Me Cown. The fee of 82.802.50 was paid by a draft on John P. Bosmey, of New York, igned by J. J. Timmes. The corporators are J. X. Timmes, J. 0. Lrvin, J. A. Bell, George Fleck, Jr., John P. Boaney, Char'ee R. Van Etten, John E Timmes, all of New York; J. C. Lotv, J. A. Craig, Sol Kohn, R. H. Jennings, all of Orange burg, and L. M, Pinckney, of Charles. ton. The purpose of the. corporation, as stated in the cbartr, is to lay a roa6 in Charleston, and from Charleston tc Columbia, with privilege of extending it to Spartanburg and Charlotte, passing throngh the towns of Lexing ton, Saluda, Greenwood, Abbeville. Anderson, Greenville, G& ffiey, York. ville, Rock Hill, Chester, Union, Laurena, and Newberry. Also e build a road from Augusta to Or angeburg via Aiken, and to acquire, own, construct, lay, equip, build, and operate railways for local business in each of the towns named. It is also stated that the system may pass through the counties of Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Or angeburg, Richland; Lexington, Saluda, Greenwood, Abbeville, Anderson, Greenvmle, Spartanburg, Cherokee, York, Chester, FairfieId, Uaion, Laurens, Aiken and Bamberg. The charter also confers the right to build bridges over rivers, to con truct power plants, telegraph lines, ste. In addition the company has the right to own and operate boat ines on the Santee, Congaree and Saluda rivers from- .Georgetown to Columbia, and also from Augusta tc Svannah, and also to northern points. The total length of the line pro Iscted is to be 525 miles. Te oon ern is to use as power electricity, asoline, or steam and with the ex Deption of the road entering Augusta the road Is to be of standard gauge. The minimum capital stock ti to be 500,000 and the maximum is ten million dollars. The charter confe'E the right to condemn land for rightE >f way. It is certified that 50 per sent of the capital stock bas been ubcribed and that 10 per cent hap been paid in, the subsoriptions mounting to s5,000 per mile of road. The survey is not yet completed. C The subccriptions of stock are set fewn as follows: J. J. Timmes $145. 000, John F. Bonney $20,00J, C. R Van Eten $20 000, J. C. Lott $20, 000, D. S. Smith $10,000, L. M. Pinckney 810.000, F. W. Schroeder $20.000, R. H. Jennings $10.000, Jos. Bermol 810 000, J. 0. Levin 810.000 Mr. Timmes is president, Mr. Van Etten is vice-president and general manager, Mr. Bonney is secretary and reasrer. Mr. Van Etten's res ene is set down is Charleston,* and the headquarters of the company are o be In Columbia. The papers in the case were pre pare d by W. L. Gir ze, E Q., of the rangeburg Bar, who has acte d as he legal advisar of the corporation in South Carolinia. He has b e e n he legal adviser ever since the en terprise was started several months go. The big fee paid by the corn pany for its charter looks like busi ess. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Emerson Found Guilty. At Anderson last week the j Iry In he case of the state vs. Allen Emer son, char ged with the murder of T. i. Drake, returned a verdict cf guilty of murder with recommendation to mercy Friday night, after deliberat ing about one hour. The- defendant displayed little if any em:tion when the verdict was read. Thomas Allen of counsel for the defense gave notice of intention to apply for a new' trial. Emerson, who was a guard on the county chaingang, killed T. F. Drake In the home of the latter on the night of the 11th of last August. Enerson was in the room with one of Drake's daughters, and Drake came. in the room on them with his pistol In his hand. He fired one shot at Emerson, who fired two shots, the lattar killing Drake instantly. The plea was self defense. Emerson and the wcman hr'd been Intimate for seversl years, and Drake had forbidden Emnerson to come to the house.' Nine Victims, A dispatch from Noafolk, Va., says nine victim;-seven Children and two policmen-bittenl Saturday by a sup pcsd mad dcg, whose brain, after a mieropiC examination, has been pro nourced by the government medical experts at Washington to nave. shown signs of rabies, are now in Richmond for Pasteur treatment, having been sent hence at a cost of $1,200 which1 will be defraye'l by public subscrip-I tion now being raised in Norfcik. The last six victims, cbIldren ranging from four to eleven years. were sent to Richmond this morning, the other children having gone cn betore as a precuton. Found Dead un Railroad Trac. Thursday a force of section hands found the body 01 a der~d negro man at Saxon, a small stsat-ion this side of haresten on the Notheasternl :osa. The dead rean was lying near the track and had a large gash In his head. and his left leg was pretty badly man-|I gled. He was weil dressed but there was notbing found about his clothes by whioh he col be ident:fiea, and It Is noa knownl whe- er he w'as killed y tbe train or is the victim of foul play. ...-...-..---__ Sick Mian 31aered. N ews reaches Charlctte, N. 0., cfI the atrcious murds: of John Stamp-I er by Nia stepsonl, Clinton -Weaver; in the Muddy Creak section of Ah Cour.y, N. C., the mevst remote vil age of the State. Weaver, while intoxcated, entered Stamper's room, where the latter lay seriously ill, and cut Stamper's throat from ear to ear, tllng him instantly. Weaver was marreted. The crime was unprovok WENT TO STEAL Lead Pipe But Met Death in' a Water"Cistern. THE CORPSE FOUIIrJ The Negro Evidently Interded te> Steal Lead Ppe, Lost lis Baince in the Darkness and Was Drowns. ed. Womai'Pkd When Body Appeared. The Charleston Post tels of a gruO ome dnd in thacity.: It says the body of William CampbeIA.negro forty-five years of age, a whitiewasher and thlef by occupation;'was found In the cistern of an empty house, -No. 339 East Bay sreset. Wednesday. morning by W.. B. Murray, an old col ared man. Indications are that Campbell was going down into the cistern-4o seal .ead pipe, found the water of a great ir depth than-he thought, lost his 2ead, and was drowned In the terrible iarkness of the death trap. The water m the cistern was over ive feet In lepth. Campbell's height. was not uch more than this. There Is - no mspicion of foul play in the denth of fhe negro. Old man Murray, who bas worked ?hrty days for Mr. T. G. Main, the >wner of the house where pbell ame to his miserable end, was in harge of whitewishers and:Aeaners utting this house nlio ctond r enting. He found the door eadirg nto the piazza of the house open, and ster discovered that the clstermCover -; was off. He nearly fell into the hole imself, as the room where-the. cia em is, was dark. Murray only saved imasf by clhiing on. to the-door mob which he held by a lucky.ance. Of course the old m a wanate iver the careenma as he thought of he women or men under him in leav ng the door open, and the cistern ver off. They all denied-knowledge if it. Then he took the depth of the rater with an eve to cleaning the cia em out. Down went the piece. of :oard he used. He came in contact rith something soft. The thing felt Lke-a body. Old man Murray was frightened he >Ued- the board out-of the water, [rove a nal into one and, and pushed lown again. - He told the excited wo en about him to stand back -l is pulled a heavy thingip. '-A *ooly . - iead appeared, and further .ezertlon ho wed the body of Williai Camp >ell. The women dai screaming. Old urray shook like a leaf, andialled or help. The And was reported to the coro ter and the police. Deputy Coroner ;nnelley with oliceman Duncan and ',saly pulled the body "out'of the cis en, and it was sMnIto the hospital. roseph PerryAL wh s 5ean with DampbeR Wednesday at the house was Lrrested as a wItness. From whati could be learned it' was vident that Campbell was trying to teal the -lead of the cistern pump. Ee bad already made way with the >utside part of the pine. Murray said, m:1 yesterday the pumipand; zinc bout the chimney of theahouae were tolen. Campbell must have return id to the house Wednesday night, md making his way through the oin leading to the passage way be - iween the front part of the house and bhe kitchen, tried go get into~the cia brn. In-the darkness be -liftied the pieces of board and heavy atoe from aver the cistern1 squeczadtlirough the arrow hole, and droppedantoAhilly> water almost over hiis bead.- TheaID. test Into his death was- held. this a~fternoon at three o'clock sala&per, Hospital. Tno lead for which the negro gave lila life would have brought him a few snts from a innr dealer. Rsobert E. Lee, -- - Born Wistmnoreland county, Vir gna, January, 1807. Son of "Light Horse Harry"-Las. revlutonary leader. En~teed West Point 482Wappoint ed by'Gen. Andrew Jackson. Graduated 1829, second i h~class. Seond lieutenant In engineering corps tIll 1834. Married 1831, Mary Randolph Cus tis. granddaughter of Martha Wash ngton. Promoted to aaptain and staff of chief enginear. - At battles of Vera -Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Cherubusco and Chapultiepe in Mexian war, earning promotions. Appointed superintendent of West Point, 1852. Lieutenant colonel of cavalry in Texas Indian campaigns.,. Suppress ed John Brown's raid In 1859, Esjected command of UInited States army In 1861. Became brigadier general in Con federate army, 1861. Given direction of the' Confederate military operations5 in March. 1862. Surrendered with his army tio Gen eral Grant ait Appoma2DttoX April 9, 1865. Installed as president of Washing ton college, Lexigton, Va., 1865. Died Oatober 12, 1870. ' - Tried Him Twice. At Danville. Va., inthe Corpora tfou court Monday Bottle L Boswel was granted an absolute divore from her ausband, Joha-L Boswell, on the. grounds of crfel treatment and un-* fathfulness. This maen the second time Mrs. Boswell was granted a di vorce. ~Several years after the first deree she married Boswell upon his promise to do better, but after a few months It was the same old story again, she alleged. Ansel's First Appoint mfent. The first appointment made by Gvernor Martin F. Ansel was that of John S. Latimer, of Greenville, as chief constable of the State constabu lary to succeed U B. BHammatti, who resgned some time ago toaccept a position in the Internal revenue ser ice.