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TOWN POISONED And Wiped Out of Existence by Modern Lucretia Borgia. FAIR YOUNG FIEND Poisoned Her Rich Old Husband So She Could Marry a Young Lawyer, Whom She Also Poisoned. Ther With Another Woman She Weni Into the WVholesale Poisoning Bus ines. The village of Kneez, in the count3 of Temesvar, in Hungary. has beer revealed to the world as a communi ty of poisoners. Within a year, it is estimated, ont hundred persons have died of poisor in this village of 1,000 inhabitants. The imagiantion reels aghast at thE condition of things that prevailec there, as now unveiled by officers ol the law. Husbands poisoned theii wives, wives poisoned their husband, parents poisoned their children, chil dren poisoned their parents. No re lation, not even that of lovers, was E bar to murderous designs. The poisoning habit had taken E permanent hold on these people Whenever one person could obtair anything by the removal of anothei poison was resorted to. It was a ter ror that stalked by noonday and ir the night time. The cheerful cup o. coffee handed to a husband by his smiling wife at breakfast time might contain the fa tal dose. or. perhaps, it was the glasc of native wine poured for him al supper after his long day's work ir the fields. Often the victim knew% his or her danger, but there was nc escape in a village where everybodi was related to everybody else and hat acauired the poisoning habit. The only resource was to poison th person you suspected of trying t poison you, and thus it came to pas that Kneez was filled with person; seeking to poison one another. The arch poisoner was a womai named Martha Petrubany. She is handsome young woman of the riel Hungarian type of beauty, wit) abundant black hair, flashing darl eyes, clear cut features and rudd: cheeks. She married a wealthy farm er some five years ago solely on ac count of his possessions. * A younj man of talents and good prospects who was the leading local lawyer became her ardent admirer.. Mme Petrubany's highest desire was t see her oid husband out of the way to marry the lawyer and combine hi superior social station and the olt man's property. Petrubany was very slow dying and his wite decided to hasten th< process. The'old man suffered severe ly from malaria;-and he believed tha a certain kind of drug, made of ho wine and other ingredients, afforde< him most relief. He used to take pint every evening, This comple: and highly flavored beverage, wit] its mixture of spices, sugar and sa forth, afforded an admirable oppor tunity for introducing a certain quan tity of powdered arsenic. His wift used to prepare the poisoned drini every evenmng, with seeming lovmns hands, and see that the poor old mar drank it down to the last drop. ~ 1 this way she succeeded in killing hir by a process of slow poison in threw weeks. At the time he was buriec there was not the slightest suspicio! of the cause of~his death. Then a shock awaited the widow The lawyer, probably having an ink ling of what had happened, did no care to marry her. -Mme, Petrubany's love changed t~ fury, according to the well-knowi rule. The lawyer was removed by arsenic, as the husband had been His servant, Sarah Hazok, assiste< Mmne. Petrubany in carrying out thi crime. Then these two women formed sort of poisoning bureau for the ben fit of wives who wished to get rid oj their husbands. They obtained ar senic in whosesale quantities to kil the rats in the barns on the farms. Every wife who had been illtreated by her husband or who wanted tc marry another man could be sure of obtaining assistence from Mmne. Pet rubany and her accomplice. They never retused assistance, because that would have led to complaints. They furnished the poison and gave cratty advice as to how it should be administered. They pointed out that the best way was always to put it in medicine, in case the victim happened to be ill and that had been ordered for him by the doctor. They charged as much as they could obtamn from those who needed poison, but as they never re fused- help their price sometimes fell as low as $5 to poor women. The husbands learned what was going on, and some of them sought help from Mine. Petrubany in re moving their wives, and obtained it. Then the poisoner. who knew all the family altairs of the villagers, sent an assistant among them and offered to remove obnoxious persons. Kneez was rapidly becoming de. populated by poison, and many fled from it in terror. At last a woman named Poskar, who had resolved to kill her husband and had bought the poison from Mmne, Petrubany, accidentally killed her .child, Then she became con science-stricken and went to the au thorities at Temesver and confessed what she had planned to do and what she knew concerning other things that had happened in Kneez. At first the authorities refused to believe that such wholesale enormi ties could be possible. They regarded their informant as an insane-woman and sent her to be examined by the doctors. Then another woman, who poison ed her husband and had been unnerv ed by her daughter's attempt to poison her in retaliation, confessed to her deed. This made the author ities feel that the circumstances war ranted inquiry. An expedition composed of doe tors, representatives of the public prosecutor and p-olicemian, was sent to Kneez and began operations in the local 'graveyard. The grave of the last informant's husband was open ed and his remains were found to contain arsenic in such quantity that it had clearly caused his death. Astounding scenes followed. All day long the investigators dug up new graves, taking them in order. beginning with the most recent ones was any definite information regard ing the death of the occupants. The earth was strewn with decomposing remains. The inhabitants endeavored to interfere with the operations and a regiment of soldiers was summon ed to guard to graveyard. Out of the first twenty-five graves opened the remains of thirteen bod ies revealed arsenic in sufficient quantities to cause death. This sat isfied the authhorities that crime in Kneez had progressed to a point be yond anything they could have im agined. TO'GAIN AFORTUNE. The woman Petrubany and her ac complice were arrested at the outset of the investigation. Then the village doctor was arrested, for he had ap parently signed a certificate of death from natural causes in many cases which he must have known were not natural. He has since confessed his offence, and has explained that he would have been poisoned himself had he refused to acquwesce in the crimes. The village butcher was arrested on the charge that he had sold sau sages mixed with arsenic to those who needed them. Wholesale arrests followed these. Four husbands and eight wives were arrested for poisoning their spouses. Two of the women poisoned two suc cessive husbands and one of the men poisoned three wives. A peasant named Valassa Ardelan was charged with poisoning a rich aunt in order to obtain possession of the fortune which she had bequeath ed to him. Nicholos Glass, a widower, is said to have poisoned his neighbor, Anton Braun. so that he might marry the latter's widow. Katherine Bider is charged with murdering her son-in-law, Michael Kuhn, becaase he was a drunkard, She is also suspected of murdering her father and mother, with whom she was on bad terms. They died suddenly, but their bodies have not yet been exhumed, as they have been dead three years. Lenka Bogyck poisoned her hus band, Acon, because he would not -remove to another village, where her married daughter lived, In many cases the poisonings were committed from the most trivial mo tives, Julia Wuicsitch poisoned her husband because he could not buy her a new dress. The crimes are of such a wholesale character that it seems impossible to deal with them according to ordinary standards of justice. It is not con sidered advisable to execute half the inhabitants of a considerable village. The Petrubany woman will be prosecuted relentlessly, but in many of the cases no action will be taken. Probably Kneez will be deserted by its remaining inhabitants, and in that case a great many of them will go to the United States. Thq News of the Day. The Kansas legislature has passed the 2-cent passenger rate law. The John B. Gordon monument will be unveiled in Attant: on May 25. 'The Russian reactionaries are try. ig hard to bring about the dissolu. tion of the second Doumna. SSpeaker Cannon and his party of c ongressmen were received with fireworks at San Juan, Porto Rico. It is reported that Nicaragua plans to vary the usual Central American Swar by having a sea fight. The consolidation of all of H. H. Rogers' railroad interests in Virgin ia and West Virginia has been ar )ranged. An attack by the Socialists on Premier Clemenceau failed, the chamber of deputities voting confi dence. President Roosevelt protested to the governor of California against the new anti-Japanese legislation in that state. Patrons of the 18 hour trains be twseer Ne okadChicagoar signing a petition for a slower schedule.. Secretary of the treasury Cortel you decided to regard more the bus iness interests than the stock specu lation interests. The Protestant Episcopal Church purposes to rasse $1,750.000 for mis sions as a thank ofiering for 300 years of Christianity in America. Mrs. Russell-Sage, widow of the New York financier, has set aside $10,000,000 for what is to be known as the Sage foundation, the income Ito be used in improving social and living conditions in the Unittd States.* A boom has been started in New York to nominate Jesse R, Grant as democratic candidate for president in 1908. Grant is the youngest son of Gen. U. S. Grant and a citizen of California, Evan Colltster,. a foreman, was instantly killed in the Belmont tun nel when his head was caught in an exhaust pipe and his lungs torn out by the rush of air. The governor of Deleware places the machinery of the state in the hands of Dr. Marvin of Dover to in vestigate the mysterious dissappear ance of little Horace Marvin. A second cousin and an adopted son of Mrs. Mary G. Eddy have been added to the plaintiff's in the suit to obtain control of her property. Gen. Streeter announces that by agreement of counsel on both sides in the suit against Mrs. Eddy no further action will be taken until April 2. The case against the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Railway Company, which is charged with granting sugar rebates, began in New York, B. F. Yoakum, of the Rock Island Road said he favors even government control than the rate law gives, as security against adverse state legis lation. Margaret Lee, of Southport, Conn., stepped from the sub-way station at Ninety-Sixth street direc ly.befere a train, was knocked to one side of the track, possibly fatal ly injured, but escaped the wheels. Win. F. Sands, secretary of the American Legation at Panama, has' chalanged a Frenchman to fight a duel on account of derogatory re marks made by the latter in refer ence to Secretary Root. John Temple Graves, editor of the Atlanta Georgian, was struck in the back of the head and stnnned by J. H. Crutchfiield who has been in jail for shooting his wife. Crutchfield' was taken in charge by the police and Colonel Graves soon recovered.! By the will of Edmund P. Dwight, <f Philadelphia, various church or FINDS THE BABY. But He Had Grown up and Drives a Hack READS LIKE FICTION. Big Dan Left the Home In Ireland I and Went to Antralia Many Years Ago, and Then Comes to America and Finds His Brother by Advertising in the Newspapers For Him. Forty years have rolled by since the day big Dan Carrigan swung his baby brother Mike to a perch upon his shoulder, kissed him good-bye, and left the old homestead in Ireland to seek his fortune in the wilds of Australia. The year that followed were full of adventure for Dan. He struck into the bush coun try upon landing in Australia 'and became a sheepman. So for a while he almost forgot little Mike in the old country. There I were no letters from home to keep him in touch with the old times. His life was severed from all that per tained to Ireland, All went but the brogue. Then the years began to tell upon Dan. White crept into I his hair. He was not so erect as in the early days. The solitudes of the bush country were conductive to dreaming. Dan dreamed of little Mike, and wished to see him again. There had been a letter once from Mike, a lit tle bit of a letter telling of his com ing to America, and of being a I coachman in Highbridge, the Bronx. i One day while looking over the plains over the backs of thousands of grazing sheep Dan suddenly re solved to seek his little brother. It was characteristic of Dan to act quickly. That was less than a month ago. Dan is now in New York, and Thursday he found the little brother, a little brother no longer, but a big, hale man not un like the sheep herder. The meeting of the two after the lapse of forty years was affecting. An advertise ment in the "Lost" column did it. On ariiving in New York Dan had gone to the home of Mrs. Bella Vol ger, at 216 East 40th street, whose sister he knows in Perth Australia. It was on the advice of Mrs. Volger that the big sheepman advertised I for his brother. The -method was a new one to him, but he was willing to give the newspapers a chance tc locate Mike. Mike Carrigan was at breakfasi Thursday morning with his wife anc son at their home, 239 East 51si street, when a neighbor ran in witt a paper in his hand and showed hirr the advertisement. Mike did riot wait to finish eating He just grabbed his hat and left the house on the run. The son followed They were breathless upon arriving at the home of Mrs. Volger. "Have you a stranger here?" he asked, as Mrs. Volger appeared a the door. "Why yes, and you look a lot lik' him." she replied. "Let me see him, quick!" exclaim ed Mike, and was led into the par lor, where sat the sheepman: "Say, is that you, Mike?" Dat shouted, as the younger brother ad vanced with outstretched hand. Wit] one spring Mike was upon Dan and had his arms about the sheepman' neck. "And can my eyes be serving mi aright?" said Dan, returning the hui with interest. There wasiore ex clamations and excited guestions. Then the two~ men began to cry. The emotion was too much for them. Mike's son also began to cry, and Mrs. Volger, not wishing to be thought unsympathetic, cried too. For a while nothing was to be hearc in the room save sobs. The burst of emotioni over, there was a wordfest such as is only seen when two glb talkers from the ',Old Country" gel together to tell the personal gossip of forty years. Mike's story came first. He had left home ten years or more after Dan went away, had come to New York, and had become a coachman. He is still on the box, and now driv es a hack. He. told Dan of the fami ly history, of the death of their par ents and of their sister. And them came Dan's turn to relate some chap ters from his life in the wilds of Australia, where a man's life is not worth much to himself, or some times to his neighbor," as Dan ex pressed it. His was the story of many another man who has chosen to llve the life ofa sheepman in a wild country. There was danger, plenty of it, and the hairbreadth escapes of the Irish adventurer in the bush were many. He said that money was plenty there, but that to get it meant work. He became an expert sheep shearer, and shearing time was able to make $100 a week, he said. Dan then made a confession. He used to look too often upon the wine when it was red, and his money went over the bars of many a saloon in Australia, from Sydney to Perth. Sometimes when caring for the herds, Dan would not receive his pay for a year. Some times he would not see his boss, the. owner of the herds, for two years. There was much solitude and few friends. Often his dogs and the sheep wer.e his only companions for months and months. But in spite of all that,' Dan likes the bush. He will return there some day. But first he will go to Mexico, he says, and to Texas in order to see how they raise sheep there. Maybe there will be a Mrs. Dan Carrigan when he starts back to Australia. No, he has no particular damsel in view. But, according to Mrs. Volger, he is "looking around," and has a very soft spot in his heart for American girls. Dan is a little ashamed of the fact that he is a bachelor, and apolo gizes by saying that he has not had time for courting. When Dan arrived here he wore the usual outfit of a bushman--wide brimmed sombrero, woolen shirt and heavy trousers. Mrs. Volger made him take them off and don more city-like attire. Dan refuses to sleep in bed. He has become so used to camping out that he cannot rest well unless rolled in blankets. He sleeps on the kitchen floor at the 45th street house ofhi ostess. One of Carrigan's peculiari ties is the tea-drinking habit. He brought his teapot with him, and akes a little cup of it about twenty imes a day. Otherwise he is on the BRYAN SPEAKS. Refers to Fraud in Past Elections and Praises President Roosevelt and Tells Why He Escaped the Paralysis That Has Fallen On His Party. William Jennings Bryan was the guest Friday of the Democratic state committee of Massachusetts and at a banquet Friday afternoon in the Quincy house, Boston, delivered an address in which he touched upon various points of Democratic doc trine which, he declared, had been vindicated by eecent events. After spending the night at the home of Geo. Fred Williams, Mr. Bryan came to this city to confer with officers of the New England Democratic Prog ressive league, for the purpose of ar ranging for a series of lectures in New England. The dinner followed a reception at which some two hun dred Democrats were introduced to Mr. Bryan. Among them was form er United States Senator R. F. Pet tigrew, of South Dakota. Mr. Bryan was given a great de monstration, all those present stand ing and cheering repeatedly. State Democratic Chairman Feeney intro duced him as "the foremost figure in American statesmanship," and ex pressed his doubt if any office which Mr. Bryan might hold would make him any dearer to the American peo ple. Taking up the story that he was the author of the Democratic plat form of 1896, Mr. Bryan declared that he wrote but little of that plat form and deserved little of the cred it for it, but that he had had more o do with the platform of 1900. "I think," asserted Mr. Bryan, "that if we had had a vote unpur chased and untimidated in 1896, ] would have been elected by an over whelming majority." He went on: "I shall not discusa the amount of fraud that was perpe trated in 1896, but we had againsi us the largest corporation fund thai was ever used in a campaign." No one rejoiced more than he it the vindication that has come t< Democratic ideas, for dearer to hin than any office was the triumph o the things for which they had beei fighting, he said. "And I rejoice so much," said Mr Bryan, 'that I never lose an oppor tunity to thank the president foi what he has done. The presiden was one of my opponents. No on ever used harsher language that h did toward our cause. Yet I wan no man in the community to antici pate me in hearty commendation o: anything he does that I believe i: right. I do not know what the pres ident's attitude will be in the com ing campaign, but it is certain tha he cannot take back what he has sai< about our ideas. "Ten years ago they called ou ideas insanity, yet on no questio that we ever discussed have we bee1 ,more vindicated than our idea tha more money would make highe prices and better times. ,"The Republican has beel in power for ten ye th undis - uted rule. If it ha tdone any ~ thing that ought to have been don< it is its own fault. What is the re suit? We find the Republican part has gone on the tobogan side, so tha now it has just one man whom it re gards as popular enough to be tha candidate for president. Why isi that the president alone has escape< the paralysis that has fallen upon al the rest? There is only one explan 1ation, and that is that his popularit: is due to his following the Democrat ic doctrine." Mr. Bryan charged that the slum] in stocks of which the men in hig] finance complained was caused by th very men who are now complaining "If I may venture a prediction,' he added, "I would say that in th fight that is coming the Democrati< party will be looked upon as the pro tector of the- small investor agains1 the manipulation of the sharks thai have obtained power in Wall street.' ,Mr. Bryan was given a second ava. tion when he concluded his address. A row is on among some of the business men of Pomaria in Newber ry County as to who is running blind tiger there. A prominent mer chant there was accused of selling booze, and he in turn says some one tried to assassinate him, and so it goes. This whiskey question is a hard one to settle in the so-called dry counties as well as in the dispensary counties. IT was first thought that the decis ion of Mr. Bonaparte would play havoc with the immigration business in this section, but Ex-Gov. Heyward and Commissioner Witson who visit ed Washington, have found a way to make it almost harmless, Our friends in New England, who are trying their best to kill our immigration scheme, will have to try some other plan to mnjure us. A Great Mistake. We heard a young man remark not long since that "the world owes me a living." It is hoped for that young man's good that he'll get that notion out of his head. It's a mis take, a great mistake. He never en tertained a more foolish idea nor one wilch will bring him a smaller measure of respect. The world owes the young man nothing; but Instead he owes the world and society an active, noble manhood, steady, honest energy which will enable-him to associate with decent men and wo men in a true manliness of charac ter that will make his friendship val uable and his presence and compan ionship desired. The truly Intelli gent activity, and this young man should contribute to society's hap piness and welfare mne grace which comes through study, toil and hon est thought. Why It Didn't Pay. It does not pay to advertise say some merchants who have done but little of it and that without keeping it up The incident of the boy and the pump illustrates the matter very well. The boy was sent after a pail of water. He poured in the priming and pourd out as much as he pour ed in. Then he stopped to rest and the priming ran down After some time of alternate pumping and rest ing he concluded it did not pay to pump and quit in disgust. The mer chant who does not believe in adver tising does it like the bc- did the pumiping. He advertised a few weeks then stopped a while and allowed the people to forget him and his bus ness before he advertised again and then concluded that advertising did EDISTO COUNTY MOVEMENT. Has Been Delayed by an Urlooked for Tangle. There is a hitch is the proceediffgs for the proposed new county of Ed isto, which is to be made from por tions of Orangeburg and Aiken coun ties, and there will necessarily- be a delay of possibly several days or longer before Gov. Ansel can act on the petition to order an election. The petitions and all the papers in the case were submitted to Attor ney General Lyon a few days ago. He has gone over the matter very carefully and Thursday night trans mitted to the governor the following letter, which shows in what respects the records fail to conformto the constitutional requirements. To His Excellency Gov. M. F. Ansel, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Your letter with peti tions for the formation of the pro posed new county of Edisto have been received. I have examined the petitions carefully and find that they do not state that petitioners are one third of the qualified electors within the area of each section of each old county proposed to be cut off for the formation of the proposed new county. This defect, however, is very probably cured by the affida vits of R. B. Hydrick, S. R. Smith and D. K. Gantt, who state these facts required by the constitution un der oath in the affidavits. There is, however, a fatal defect in the peti tion in that it does not show that the lines of the proposed new county dc not pass through any corporate city or town. In the respects above stat ed the petitions do not comply with the provisions of the constitution for the formation of new counties. Very respectfully, J. Fraser Lyon, Attorney General. THE COTTON CHOP. Nearly Thirteen Million Bales Hav Been Ginned So Far. A dispatch~ from Memphis says thi National Ginners' association issue a bulletin at one o'clock Monda showing the number of bales of cot ton ginned up to March 2 to be 12, 716,000. The report by Statee fol lows: Alabama, 1,231,000 bales. Arkansas, 836,000 bales. Florida, 62,000 bales. Georgia, 1,621,000 bales. L Indian Territory, 391,000 bales Kentucky, 1,500 bales. Louisianna, 931,000 boles. Mississippi, 1,441.000 bales. Missouri, 46,500 bales.. North Carolira, 607,000 bales. Oklahoma, 436,000 bales. South Carolina, 903,000 bales. Tennessee, 291,000 bales. Texas, 3,903,000 bales. t Virginia, 15,000 bales. Total. J.2,716,000 bales. The report, which is signed by J A..Taylor, president of the associa tion, says: "Owing to the very fine weathe in the West, the crop has been- pick ed very much closer than usual an, - this has increased the crop at leas - 200,000 bales if not more. Our re t ports iudicate that there will not b much increase in the acreage excep in Texas and the two Territorie. where there will be an increase c 5 to 10 per cent . Scarcity of labo is the report from all sections. W have reports from a large numbe of uncounted towns that show ver rmuch lighter stocks than last* year. VALrABLE DIscovERY -That Will Help Out The Saw Mil People. ~The Florence Times says "the diF covery that sawdust can be mad into alcohol will add something mor to the profit of the already renun erative lumber business in 't'i N< tion. Heretofore great sawdus . piles have blotted the landscap P through the COuntry, everywher4 -but later improvements on the ma chinery enabled the mills to bur: most of the sawdust, and later stil it was discovered that sawdust wouli make some sort of paper, but its us for that purpose hever became ver; popular. With the demand for alcc hol for fuel in automobiles and smal engines there ought to be a ver; rich future for the mills in th; South." This Is all true, provide< the cost of manufacturing the alco hol is not too great. If a chea: grade of alcohol, that could be use< in engines, automobiles and sucJ things, was put on the market I would find ready sale. We very much doubt however, whether alco hol can ever be made cheap enoug] to compete with gasolene for suci purposes. M2iLY MAD DOGS Menaces the Farmers of Upper Spar tanburg County. Mad dogs are on the rampage ir the upper section of Spartanburg County and the farmers are living in constant fear of their children be itg attacked and bitten by the rabid canines. Farmers who live in the section of the county near Parris, who spent the day in the city, state that during the past few days a large number of dogs have gone mad. Elia Wall, a well known farmer, stated that 3 dogs belonging to his brother went mad In one day last week and as a matter of protection the dogs had to be shot. Several weeks ago a mad dog pass ed through the neighborhood of Par ris and attacked the dogs of sever al citizens. Every one of the dogs that were bitten went mad and bit other dogs and in this way there has been a general epidemic of rabid dogs in that section. Great alarm is felt among the country people for fear that their families may be bit VICT~I OF JOKE PERISHES. Oil Poured on Him Catches Fire and He Burns to Death. At Pittsburg, Pa., John Domble, twenty years old, a laborer employ ed at thePressed Steel Car Works, in McKees Rocks, was burned to death Monday, the victim of a joke. Growing fatigued, he lay down in front of a hot coke salamander and fell asleep. It Is alleged a craneman standing on a crane poured crude oil over the salamander, thinking the' flashes when the oil should Ignite would frighten the sleeping man. Most of the oil, instead of going on the sal amander, fell on Domble, saturating his clothes. When the flash came it ignited his clothes. Other employes removed the burn ing man to the yard and rolled him In the snow, but the reLn9 body was burned to a crisp before the blazing oil was extinguished. The coroner was notified and started an investi gation. The craneman escaped. Allen LeRoy Locke, a Philadel phia negro is to get the Rhodes scholarship allotted this year to ACCIDENT OR SUICIDE? Body of a Young Man Found in the Road Not Far From His Home in the Neighborhood of Fort Motte Fri day Morning. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? are the questions being asked in reference to Mr. Esie J. Bozard, whose dead body was found lying in the road, a short distance from his home, one mile from Fort Motte, about nine o'clock on last Friday morning by a small negro boy. There is a mystery connected with his death that may never be solved. After breakfast on Friday morning he put the hands to work on the farm, and then left the house to go to the postoffice, which was his us ual custom. This was the last time he was seen alive. Soon after his dead body was found as above men tioned. , ,, ,, He came to his death either by accident or h committed suicide. He may have been examining his pistol when it went off and killed him, or he may have put the pistol to his -head and fired the shot that ended his earthly career. Nothing is positiVely known, but the general opinion seems to be that he commit ted suicide. The ball entered near the temple and ranged back and up, passing en tirely through his head. His hat and hair were scorched by. the firE from the pistol, which showed that it was very near when it was fired There was no trace or indicatiot whatever of foul play. As it had rained only a few .hours before, the signs of a struggle would have beet quite easy of detection, had theri been any. If he did commit suicide no onc knows any cause for the terrible act It is true he was not in the very best of health and, was at times de spondent, but it is not thought tha1 either of these things had much t< do with the young man's taking hiL own life. There must have beet some other cause for the rash act. Mr. Bozard was twenty-eigh1 years of age, and was unmarried He had been assistant postmaster a Fort Motte for several years, an his courteous, gentlemanly bearin, towards the public had made hin many friends who were greatl: shocked when they heard of his sai death. He left a father, one sistei and one brother, who have the sym pathy of many friends In their sa( bereavement. Young Bozard was a member o the Knights of Pythias Lodge- a Fort Motte, and was highly esteemet by a large circle of friends. He wa a young man of good habits, and hi: death is a mystery that is hard t< solve. If he committed sucide, hi must have become unbalanced fo: time. Apparently he had no sucl inte-ntion when he left his home r short time before. - - THE STATE LEAGUE. t Guy Gunter is Working to Get U: t Good One. f The State says Guy Gunter, repre r senting the. South Carolina Stat e baseball league, is now travelin r over a prospective field with a vie' y of organizing a new circuit this yeal 'There will be six towns In th league as per plans which will It clude Spartanburg, Anderson. Greer ville, Union, Sumter and Orangebur and Guy is much enthusiastic OVE [his prospects of affecting an organj zation. The clever athlete goes about frot - city to city armed with the followin eletter to the mayors of the six dij eferent towns, which he presents afte a short talk about municipal aft'aii -and town politics. . - Sumter. S. C., March 12. t ar Sir: This will Introduce yo eto Mr "Guy" Gunter, of Sumter, C., who is associated with us a manager of the Sumter basebal team Sumter was foremost In th organization of . the . South Carolin; league last season. While the leagu Splayed the full number of game .last seasoh and was quite a success Zwe believe it will bd much better ti have the larger cities of the Stati take part in this season, and any as sistance that you may be able tV give in the way of getting the peo -ple of Spar~tanburg interested will bi greatly appreciated both by Mr. Gun ter and myself. W. Bultman, Vice President S C State Basebal League How about Camdem, Darlington Georgetown and Manning. Are the: to be- left out In the cold? -If the smaller' towns want to have ball thil Summer an inexpensive league mus1 be arranged, as they cannot get mon ey enough from the receipts to rut an expensive one . Hardly the Cause. Writing on "Race Suicide" in the North American Review, Mrs. Chris tine Terhune Herrick declares that the increased -cost of living shows di rectly in the decrease of large famnI lies. Large families, as were common in the early days of the republic, the writer believes will come when the ost of living is substantially reduc ed. This argument is not limited in scope to the mere matter of feeding the babies that arrive, but looks as well to the time when they cease to be babies and have the wants of boys and girls-the education, the cloth ing and the various social advantages which will set them up in life. She says Americans does not relish the prospect of bringing up sons and daughters to compete in the markets with labor brought over in the steer age. American parents are probably not different from the parents of other races, but they hold one trait that is of vital importance in this connection. American fathers and mothers want their children to have a better chance in life than they themselves had. To insure this they first get the corn or the price of it stored up,-and the scarcer the corn the slower they are about multiply ing mouths to need it. There are other reasons for small families beside those assigned by Mrs. Herrick. Some of- the richest people have only one or two children, while many poor people have large fami-| lies. "Race Suicide" has about ruin ed New England, and it will ruin the South if it ever takes the same hold on us that it has on the people of that section. No doubt young Marshall who now fills a dishonorable grave was started on the downward road by reading trashy, blood and thunder literature. His sad fate should be a warning to all boys and young men who throw away their time reading trashy books and papers or loafing about the streets. It is reported that Thos. W Law son cleared up millions in the panic i thae knaet last week. SELLING WHISKEY. Fined Fifty Two vollars by Town Council of North Mr. Lee Jeffcoat, who lives not far from North, was tried by the Town Council of that town on Tues day of last week for selling whiskey in violation of law. He demanded a jury, and was ably represented by Capt. J. A. Berry, of the Orange burg Bar, but with all this he was convicted and fined $52. He was not satisfied with the verdict and he gave bond on an appeal to the Cir cuit Court. The Town Council of North was represented by W. L. Glaze, Esq., of the Orangeburg Bar. The good people of North are deter mined to stop the sale of liquor there This case is only a starter. How ereactu was Paid Of course every one believes, that when a large corporation makes a contribution to the campaign fund of a political party that it does so on the promise that it will be benefitted by the election of the candidates of the party to whose campaign fund it his contributed. This promise may be expressed or implied by the manager of the.political party that gets the contribution, but it is made clear and unmistakeable. These political debts are paid in a round about way, and Id the public hardly knows when it is done, not being versed in the tricks of the politicians, who handles the money given by the corporation. The New York American one daj last week gave a -specific instance proving that this belief is well found: ed. The evidence is from the public records and is therefore unimpeach able. The two men involved as prin ciples are known throughout the na tion. One is George B. Cortelyou, then chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee, afterward Past master-General, and at present Sec retary of the Treasury. The other is George W. Perkins, then vice-presi dent of the New York Life Insurance Company, now American manager d: the International Mercantile Marine Company, and then and now partnei of J. Pierpont Morgan. The sworn testimony in the Arm strong insurance investigation show. that in 1904 Perkins paid from the funds of the New York Life.to the IRepublican National Committee, thi sum of $48,702.50. The recorda oJ a the Post Office Department discolsr that in 1905 Cortelyou, as Postmas ter-General, made a ten-year con r tract with the International Mercan tile Marine, of which Perkins was an< is American Manager, giving tha company, for carrying the mail $762,638.40 per year, or $7,626,38 for the entire time. The records als< disclose that when he made this con tract Mr. Cortelyou had before. hin reports from his own simerintenden of foreign hails that this servic could have been obtained for one third the money. Records of the amounts paid othei companies show that for similar ser evices they received less than two - fifths of what was given the Perkin: -company. For the ten years for whicl i the contract was given this woulk Smake a clear gift to Perkins and his associates of about five million do1 lars. So it will be seen that Perkins gcontribution of over fifty thousan< dollars of the money of- the polica e* holders of the New York Life Insur s ance Company to the Republican cani paign fund to help elect Roosevel: paid him very handsomely. This i: I about the way all the contributorst< -the campaign fund of the Republicar Spartyare rewarded. That party holds Sup the people and let those who pni Sup the money to elect its candidater Splunder them, as is clearly showz Sthat Perkins was allowed to do for his constribution. STHE Charleston Post wants to knov if Perkins will be paid. We beg tc inform our cotemporary that Perkin has already been paid. As to how he was paid the article published in the next column tells'you, H. C. Havemeyer, the sugar king, of New York, just concluded the pur chase of three large tracts of adjoin ing land in Hampton county, -Which he will convert into a hunting pre serve. The price paid was $35,000, We wish these rich fellows would buy their hunting preserve some where else. CHARLES Gomillion, colored, whi killed a young white man named Dorn, was acquitted by a jury in the Edgefield - court on Thursday, the jury being out only ten minutes. And yet you hear it~said sometimes that the colored people in' South. Carolina have no rights that the white man is bound to respect. THE news comes from New York that the physicians up there have dis covered that man's soul~ weighs one ounce. The Florence Times says it does not know what sort of people the doctors have been experimenting with, nor how they get it, but there are some'people whose soul would not weigh half that much if that is the average weight. IF the Legislature throughout the country don't let up on the railroads they will be glad enough for the gov ernment to buy them u~p JOHN Alexander Dowie, self-styled prophet and one of the greatest hum bugs of this or any other age, died on Saturday in Zion city-a city that he had founded near Chicago. He was 60 years old. THE Clinton Chronicle says "one of the dispensaries in the lower part of the state opened the other day for the first time since the Carey-Cothrana bill went into effect and reports its sales in one day at $1,200 worth of whiskey. "It must have been a thirs ty crowd where that dispensary is lo cated, but still it was better for the money to have been spent in the dis pensary than in blind tigers as they do in the so-called dry counties. THE mail clerks on the trains in the West do not like to mix up with the negro, and have petitioned the de partment to arrange matters so that they would not be compelled to eat and sleep with the negroes. The de partment says that it cannot take cognizance of the difference in races, and refuses to do anything in the matter. Such occurances as thisonly astens the time when the negro will be eliminated politically from our af-e MANY ARE LOST Eighteen People Perish At a Fire at Wheeling THE WATER 0 H On Account- of the Flood Brave Firemen Were -bmpe]W To Use Boats to Fight e and Rescue Those 1 Jen Many Other People are e to Be Dead. Eighteen persons: are 1rnown.<to have lost fheir lives n the morning fire that occurred Sa at the plant of the.Warw 7 Company which is locaed er flood district of Wheelin V Following is a partiaijist o who were ro'wned: Mike Bretries, aged 0, -sto keeper. Rosa Bertas* aged 22 sIne Elias Mitchell, aged 18 montbs. - Allen. Bertas, aged 2 years. Frank Holmes watchman.at t Pottery. Simon Elisproprietr of d obods store - Julia .Mosesaged 7 year Waider Moss, aed Charles.itthews t. c Because of -the water s the "burned. districtit wasimos ble for thefre- apparais e the -scene. Thei to service~al the ba secured. They didhe o only foughts the fire, ~tasse~ rescuing manyperson The crew-of a boat I 1,1Loo:11 ed-across'therivei'ro manned a a 100 peraons;b The men swere-offere rewards:a the. .workt tat th they dfusedZto times tfie .i-y flowing ai.t.'a dut that the -iyena tic Syrians-fro During. theprdcess scene was:>mbs-- f scieams orh building eoule b _tie steel bridges . .. ; thousands$f any assi ce-ri Vt hed e The r of thosewhG add n going on a1 -day been very swift.an e ' is: that moeb6d e . - ed wheni theo 'd eAdd -Thbile- i ocpp - - fortinate vidtlmsar i by the.IfIe. W S t startedA-tilrdw ~ edile liv3 in thlin-YEJ N0 sooner dt 'n -ecUidthiipeCfI exosneaure(mqwh nenced--tdeapt the watr.. Not 4llofthosw 1 death were.dro b the wat'er-Five -temTwered ed by the upsettln - was carrying thes ty. n~jrt-f h'~~1~2i nte e drict are -Syr idC~trif they refused to .returatoterhms They are 'being taken cae~1~te City HaiU and, edunty jaiL hr1'i scrcl amaniy that -didotsea' :member, and the sur ors-r-rf ~ heii the Repulian art~a pondpf jrincitl ptiiy o Splunider -as itisnow, itliad mn greatmninritsrunks.Oeof' was Wilam:l..I~eward411wh ~ one time Governor of -NewY r denticoin Weca~~idibg the greatmen of h s~tm~i~ was notceaa yatth~~'f. the war by hi srJd~7nra ed himself gant the b ~e people o'the Souith was thn et In the'midst of .theecten aid passion of ,that pernod his~b mere-partyadvaritageadt whtwsbest,forithewhl riga1&ssof sectiorn At taiin bitternesisand pasisid wa y, the great objeet~ofmanyy eh~sren then in authority wasih miliate the-pepple of the Sute ad was not one of them. Heian cernaed about the future of hsra country. -- 'In 186.in answer to-the questfo?) "how about the negroes,"prouc ed tohim birMr. E.^L. GEkn, No was then editor of a New YokR publican paper; Mr.-Sewddsaid: 1d am not at all concerned'abeut~bmW The North hasnothingto do itIfe.$ negroes. I have no-more 46fen-fodr them than I-have for the Hottentots& TheyareGod'spoor theyahwayshavc been 'and always will besso-'every where. They are notof oizae They will find their plhe. Theyinist. take their leveL They laws offolitLi cal economy will determine teir-po sition and the relation of theltwoh races.. Congress cannot contrayeied those. I am ready to leave thedinter ests of the most intelligent whitern in the guardiannaip of this stilts4 and where I leave'the interest df fthie white, I am willingt rutheivil rights of the black. - - This is- the language ofi acear headed statesmen, and had it beene acted on the entire country,-would2 have been saved a great.dealofl-roud ble, and the South would~havenbeenr" spared the horrors of therscn&ru tion period. What Mr. Sewatdsai less than one year after the edse--ox the civil war- was the truesolution Od. the rae problem, and sooner orlate. it will be put in practice.-He saig the way of peace was that nbne-but white men should possess politics! power in the'United States, but than all other races should be safe-guard-. ed -in person i.nd in property. This~ -is what Mr. Seward thought in 1866,. and it is what more than a majiority of the white people of the entire country think to-day. 'It is freely, admitted that giving the negro thec ballot was the blunder of the century .st closed. Many of the most pror. - inent men of the North-now admit that it was a mistake to .elothe thec negro with political rights anid they would take them away from him now if they knew how to do it. They see. now what the clear-headed Seward - saw when passion and hatred toward the South ruled the hour. Shot to Deah Joseph- D. Rivers was- shot in the - face and instantlyr killed in Cliaries~. ton's tenderloin district on as Men day by W. F.. Schiffhliuser an electri. clan in the- employ of Sw1if C. Schiffiauer' was arrseted soon affk the shooting, driving through .We~c street to Archd'ale in a carriagepan~