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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 SCORES KILLED. An Indiana Town Practically De stroyed by Terrific Explosion HUNDREDS INJURED. Powder Plant Blows Up, Scattering Destruction in Every Direction The Concussion Was Felt Two Hundred Miles Awy-All Build ings in the Town Were Wrecked and Inhabitants Killed or Injured. The town of Fontanet in Indiana was practically destroyed Tuesday by the explosion of the plant of the Du pont Powder Company. The dead number from twenty-five to fifty. More than six hundred per sons were injured and every building in the town was wholly or partially levelled to the ground. Where stood a thriving and busy town of 1,000 people Tuesday morn ing Tuesday night there is ruin and scattered wreckage. Five hundred inhabitants, all more or less seriously injured, have been taken away. Five hundred inhabitants, all more or less wounded, remain to gather their scattered household goods and sleep under tents and on cots, guard ed by soldiers of the State. Without warning the powder mills. seven in number, blew up at 9.15 o'clock Tuesday morning. They em ployed two hundred men, and of these seventy-five were at work when the first explosion occurred in the press mill. In quick succession the glazing mill, the two coining mills and the powder magazine blew up, followed by the cap mill. In the magazine, situated several hundred yards from the mills, were stored 40,000 kegs of powder. When it blew up the concussion was felt nearly two hundred miles away. Farm houses two miles away and school houses equally distant were torn to pieces and their occupants in jured. A passenger train on the Big Four Railroad, four miles away, had every car window broken and several passengers were injured by flying glass. The mill went up with three dis tinct explosions, followed ninety min utes later by a fourth; even more ser ious than the others, when the mag azine blew up. Immediately following the explo sions the wreckage caught fire and the inhabitants of the town, who rushed to the rescue of the mill em ployes, found themselves powerless to aid those burning in the ruins. They worked frantically, in constant danger from possible succeeding ex plosions, unmindful of their ruined homes. Dead and dying were picked up and collected.' Eighteen bodies burn ed and mangled were carted to a pro tected spot to await identification. while the badly injured, numbering upward of fifty, were put on a special train and taken to Terre Haute for hospital accommodations. Nearly every one of the one thous and inhabitants carried blood on hands and face from his or her own wounds or those of people who had required aid. The miils were located one mile south of the town. With the first explosion the employees ran for saf ty, but most of them were killed or wounded by the quickly following ex plosions in the other mill. When the heat from the burning mills exploded thmipwemg zine later, practically destroying the town by the concussion, many of those engaged in rescue work were badly injured and several were kill~ esuperintendent Monahan. of the plant, was killed while sitting in hi office, and his wife and sster-n-la' were killed in their home sonme dis tance away. That the death list is not far great er is due to the fact that the peopl in town had left their houses at thl first explosion and were not in then when the explosion of the 40.004 kgs of powder in the magazin hurled their homes to pieces anl scattered their household goods u heaps of debris. -mong the buildings totally de stroyed in- the town were the Methc dist and Christian churches, the d pot. all business blocks, including large block just completed. a larg ware house and 500 homes. Three school buildings were de stroyed, two at Fontanet and one Coal Bluff. two miles away were filled with school children an every one of these were more or len injured by the collapse of the bui .A four-room school building w torn to pieces and not one of the t~ hundred children escaped unhur none was fatally hurt. The scho building at Coal Bluff was turn over and collapsed. The teacher a~ ninety pupils were more or less jTere Haute and Brazil sent phy clans and nurses with supplies carriages and automobiles, acr the country, while special trains w made up and run over the Big Fc Railroad for the care of the mnjur Governor Hanly, at lIndianlaPo or dered the Terre Haute company the Indiana National Guard to pat the ruined district and to protect 1 and property. The governor ar ri Tusday evenina about the time soldir eached Fontanlet. lHe brous with him 700, tents and cots for use of the homeless. The condition of the bodies w frightful. Burned and mangled every conceiva:ble way. writhing distorted, the rescued heap of d and dying presented a ghastly sii the screams of agony were ne MORE MONEY NEEDED And Gov. Ansel Wants to Raise The Tax Levy. His First Annual Message Will Deal Largely With the Problem of Taxa tion and the Needs of the Schools. A dispatch from Columbia to The Florence Times says in his annual message to the legislature Governor Ansel will recommend that the state tax levy be increased, but just to I what figure he has not himself yet decided. He has been considering the advisability of recommending an increase of two mills for three con secuetive years, being anxious to vank the state out of its disastrous floating debt policy and place it upon a firm cash basis to remain, but the legislature would never do anything of the kind with an election coming upon them next summer, and so it is likely that a more moderate increase will be recommended, say something like half a mill. The present levy is four and a half mills, having been decreased half a mill by the present legislature and a half mill by the preceeding legis lature. In 1905 the levy was placed at 5 1-2 mills upon the recommenda tion of Governor Heyward, also for the purpose of placing the state on a cash basis. Afterwards the legisla ture banking on an increase in tax values reduced the levy, although it increased the appropriations each year. The reports of county auditors are coming in rapidly now, and the comp troller general's office will in a few weeks be in a position to say what the total tax values for 1907 will be. Nearly every county so far show a decided increase over the previous year, due principally to the increase in railroad assessments. Some of the counties show increases of over a million dollars, while many show additions of half a million or more. It is estimated that the total increase will be about $20,000,000. The rail roads alone have been increased over $12,000,000. The state's total assessment for 1906 was $249,534. 532, the increase being due to the quadrennial assess ment of real estate. The 1907 as sessment will therefore be about $269,500.000. Half a mill addition al levy on this would yield $134,500 and the five mills on the twenty mil ion dollars increase would bring in another $100,000 bringing up the to tal income for next year $234,000 above that for the present year. This would about cure the floating debt evil, provided the appropriations are not increased. The state treasurer has already borrowed $350,000 this year for current expenses, in spite of the big increase in tax values for It seems practically certain that the appropriations of the ,ming leg islature will reach high water mark in spite of the warning of next sum mer's elections. A strong fight, lead Sby Governor Ansel himself, will be made to have the salaries of all stat3 officers raised, and an equally deter mined effort will be made to have the supreme court and circuit court judges' salaries raised and each court I tenographer provided with an as istant. Which will mean an addi ional appropriation of about $10, 000 to $15.000. Winthrop College will ask for $60, )00 for a new dormitory, the elec tions will cost $20,000 extra, the ;tate board of health will ask for the ~stablishment of a $50,000 tuberculo ;is hospital for the state hospital for :he Insane, the reformatory at Fi'or ?ne wants sabout $5.600 to gets its ork properly started, the new high tchool system will need about $50. 000 and the militial will ask for ibout $30.000 to enable it to so equip it'self as to be able to pass the requiremets of the Dick law. PREACHER WHO ELOPED With a Married Woman Declared to Be Deranged. The Rev. Maxwell Walenta. pas or of St. Lucas's German Evangelica uteran church. Sutton street. WVil jamsburg. N. --. and his affnitV oung Mrs. Dora Bauer. were ar aigned in the Manhattan avenue 1)0 ice court. The case resulted in the dischargi f the prisoners, with the p'eache -onentig~ to accom1pany his fathel n aged minister, to the Brooklyn sU -reme court. where he confessed hi *t'villingness to be sent to a sau 1anni. dYoung Mrs. Baur was taken b ' er lawyer to the home of an aun to live. But as her aunt took h s Iwil aas love Mr. Walent a nd when he call me. I will go I -him. I will love him to the end 1 b~e world. I will love him as no ma d was ever loved before, and althous w e may never meet again, I will keE o n loving him until the end of time in recking. s The powder mill. which has suffe re d heavy losses in previous explosio ur ave employment to 200 men, wor d.. jug in three shifts. is. At the time of the exploson abo of xty-five men were in the plat -o The first explosion destroyed 1. iteress mill and the glazing mill,. edd oining mills and powder mnagazi he nd the cap mil followed. hh The country school near Fontau :he with an attendance of fifty childre 'lad just been called to order wh ree he explosion occurred. in The roof collapsed, but none nd the children were seriously imjurt add The teacher. Miss Susan Bishop, ;ht Terre H{aute, was struck by a fe . ye ng ham and fatally injured. WILL BE SUED. Both Drs. Bates and Timmerman, Late State Treasurers, DECLINE TO SETTLE. Dr. Tiinmerman Says Bonds Were Stolen by a Subordinate Not of His Choosing. and He Holds That Neither Legally Nor Morally Can He Be Held Responsible For the Acts of a Subordinate. Attorney General Lyon has re ceived a letter from Dr W. H. Tim merman, former state treasurer, in reply to Mr. Lyon's letter requesting him to arrange the shortage caused by the theft of bonds from his office during his Incumbency by a clerk, who had charge of the bond de partment. Dr. Timmerman declines to recognize his liability for the theft of bonds by his former clerk, Daniel Zimmerman, and consequent ly the attorney general will institute suit on the former treasurer's official bond for the amount lost during his administration, which is about $14. 000, including interest. The letter from Dr. Timmerman is as follows: Batesburg. S. C., Oct. 14, 1907 Hon. J. Fraser Lyon, Columbia. S. C. Dear Sir:-Yours of the 12th in stant is received in reference to stol en bonds claim. In answer thereto I will say that I do not consider my self morally or legally bound for the value the said bcnds. I.therefore will abide the decision of the courts upon the questior. of liability. I will be slow to believe that the state of South Carolina will be so unjust as :o require of me payment for the stealage of a self-confessed thief, with the aid and instigation of a con victed criminal, neither of whom has as yet received any punishment for their crime. And especially since I was denied by statute the free exer cise of my judgment in the naming of clerks in the state treasurer's of fice, do I refuse to make settlement. Very truly yours. W. H. Timmerman. Dr. Timmerman's reference to the fact that he was not allowed to put in the office clerks of his own selec tion refers to the fact that when he went into the office he desired to ap point a kinsman as bond clerk, but under the statute forbidding nepotism he could not do so and he then re tained Zimmerman. who had been appointed by his predecessor, Dr. V. T. C. Bates. Zimmerman has confessed the theft of nineteen state bonds. worth $12,500, but his case has been ap pealed on a technical point and will not be argued until this. winter. Meanwhile he is on bond. His alleg ed confederate, T. J. Gibson, quite an old man, a broker of Columbia. was convicted of receiving stolen prop erty, knowing it to be stolen, but Gibson has not been well enough to ap~ear in court and have the sealed sentence read to him. so that he too is virtually free, so far as the sen tence of the court is concerned. D)R. BATES WONT PAY. ie Too Declines~ to Make Up the Bond Steal Shortage. Dr. W. T. C. Bates. formerly state treasurer, has taken the same course as his successor, Dr. W. H. Timmer man, and will decline to make good the amount stolen in bonds by his bond clerk. D. Zimmerman. during the administration of Dr. Bates. In a letter tO Attorney General Lyon, ac knowledginig the receipt of Mr. Lyon's letter in reference to the mat ter. Dr. Bates says: "I cannot admit responsibility, by reason of any act of mine, for any reissue of State bonds by such clerk, and therefore I respectfully decline to make settlement as requested by ou in your letter." The amount for which it is hekl Dr. Bates is liable is $1,517.50, mf -luding interest. It is an interesting fact that Mr Zimmerman was first appointed tt the clerkship) in the office of thi ;tate treasurer by Dr'. Bates and wa .hen retained by Dr. Timmerman an< av Capt. Jennings. State Treasurer Jennings. who 'iable for several thousand dollars has indicated his probable intentio> to settle without suit. Fgn' P'ERSON DRtOW~NED. - The Illinois Riveri Clainms \'ictimls SOverturned Launch. Four men were drowned Fridayi the Illinois riveir six miles belo H-oa'ding,. Ill., by the overturninlg 4 a gasoline launch. The dead: Harvey Angel, liveryman. 24 yea B. D. Bizillian, farmer. 38 yea Jeff Hunt. riverman, 28 years o H. C. Lampy, saloon keeper'. lvear old. Abner Poor, 20 years old. mana -ed to swim to the shore. s ILLED BY INDIANS. titSeven Personis Are Ambushed a t. Murdered in Texas. e A special from El Paso, Tex e sas Four men and three womv one of the former being a gove t- enft mail carrier, were ambust n and killed between San Jose de H en and La Colorado. east of Hermosil in the lower Sonora county by of Yaquis. The killing was discoveret d. Ishort time afterwards by a party of American mining men who were tr; L eling over trail with an escort eican soldiers. TRAINS CRASH. Horrible WrecK on the Southern Railway Near Greensboro In Which Four Persons Were Killed Outright and a Score Injured in the Demolished Cars. A hcrrible wreck occurred on the Southern Railway near Greensboro, N. C., Friday morning before day light, when the northbound passen ger train, No. 34 ran into an open switch at Rudd, a small station only four miles north of Greensboro, and rushed at full speed into the engine of a freight train standirg on the siding, killing four and injuring be tween thirty and forty persons, some of them so seriously that they will, in all probability, die. The passen ger train was runung at the rate of about sixty miles an hour, and the crash was terrific, as the cars fell in ruins along the track. When the terrific crash came the engine turned over and the baggage car was com pletely demolished. The car next to the baggage car was split in two, and in this car the large number were in jured and some killed. Strange to say some of the passengers in this car escaped unhurt. The people in Pullman cars were only slightly in jured. The dead: Mrs. June Thomas, of Danville. D. Allen Bryant, travelling repre sentative of the Richmond Paper ompany. A foreigner who could not be iden tified. The colored fire man of the freight train. The injured. Jim Shelton. Danville. A. M. Gregg, Portsmouth, Va. John Lineberry, Randolph county. R. W. Dunaway, Kernersville, W. June Thomas, Danville. A man from Canada, who refused to give his name to the. reporter. John D. Ferrell, Danville, Va. Charles Holton. W. C. Davis, of Gastonia. N. C. Mrs. W. C. Davis, Gastonia. N. C. o Wenple. Danville J. D. Kitchin, Clay county Dr. '. D. Moor, Charlotte. W. M. Giles, Charlotte Samuel A. Kindley, Gastonia, N. C. Mrs. George S. Wells. C. M. Clayton, Danville. Joe Sledge, Daville John Gordon, colored, Virginia. At the passenger station Thursday night was a hundred or so of people from Reidsville and other local )oints north of the city who were attending the fair and who were very anxious to go on No. 34 but the ticket agent would not sell the tick ets, making them wait for local train No. 12. The head brakeman of the freight train, who left the switch open and caused the disaster, ran and has not been heard of. SHOT AND KILLED A Man and Then Turned Upon His W. J. Chambers, of Augusta, Ga., was stabbed at Warrenville by John Cato. It is said that both men were drinking. They went to the Cato Iresidence about 7 o'clock Saturday night. They entered the house and sometime afterwards Cato decided Chambers was too familiar with his Without a word of warning he drew a knife from his pocket and slashed the throat of Chambers from ear to ear. Chambers dropped to the Cato then turned upon his wife and stabbed her twice, once in the breast and once in the hip. Chambers was taken to the Augusta hospital. where he died on Monday morning. Cato is in jail at Aiken awating a preliminary hearing, at which time new developments are expected. TWO MEN SHOT At Ies Moines, Ia., by a Pool Roomt Keeper. At Des Moines, Ia., C. H. Morris mine owner, capitalist and . formel presidenlt of the Iown Mine Operators association, and E. C. Johnson. man Sager of the company store at Enter prise Mines, eighteen miles north o: that place, were shot Thursday morn ting by J. C. Cain. proprietor of th Enterprise Pool Hall. Physicians hold out hopes that Mr Morris will recover, but it is not be flieved Johnson can live. Cain is still at large, Johnson an Morris had been instrumental in hav n jg Cain arrested on a charge c "boot-legging" and the ill feelim which resulted was the cause of th shooting. NEGROES ARRESTED. Attacked Lady and Daughter in ti Streets of Danville. John Basce, the negro who attac1 ed Mrs. Ferrell and her daughter the streets of Danville. Ya., Thursd; and his brother-in-law. William He dlerson, were arrested that night b~ fore the hounds put on their tra d came up with them. There was da ger or a lynching for awhile, but passed. s' TREMENT)OUS STORMS. dTed 'nWhole of Southern Europe in t loa Grasp of Floods. e The whole of Southern Europe a ain the grasp of a tremendous stor of accompanied by torrential rains. T1 v- coming on the heels of unprecedent of rain falls and floods of the past thi weks s causing great distress. MYSTERIOUS KILLING. Young Physician Shot and Killed Negro Woman in Union. Only a Few Months Ago She Tried to Kill Him-Woman Dies and Dr. Linder Surrenders to Sheriff. A dispath from Union says at one o'clock on Tuesday of last week Dr. W. L. Linder, E prominent young physician of that city. shot three times Lucy Lipsey, a negro woman. who, going to his office on the morn ing of March 25 of this year, shot him in the back without warning. The weapon used by Dr. Linder was! a 32-calibre pistol, one ball enteringi the right breast and the second slightly below. The shooting occurred on Main street, Dr.- Linde,. being on the side walk and the woman in the door of Swigert's cash store, in the. act of coming out. As Dr. Linder fired the shots his father, Dr. S. S. Linder, chanced to be coming up Main street and was 6nly a short distance away. He sprang towards him and attempt ed to prevent him from firing anoth er shot. In the slight struggle that ensued Dr. S. S. Linder is said to have call ed for help and was heard by Mr. M. D. Hulett who was in the Palmetto Drug Company, two doors below. Dr. Huiett ran to his assistance, and was handed the pistol by Dr. Will Linder. As she was shat she is said to have fallen to the pavement and fall ing cried out, "My God, I'm Dead." Her sister, who had been in the store with her, caught her as she fell. In a short.while Dr. J. H. Hamil ton and Dr. Hardy reached her side and after an examinaton she was place in a hack and taken to the Rice Drug Co., and then to her home near the old baseball grounds. Immediately after the unfortunate affair Dr. Linder, with his father, went to Chief of Police Long and surrendered himself. He was turned over to Sheriff Sanders by Chief Long and is now in jail. Lucy Lipsey, after being shot, made her will. It was written by Dr. M. J. Hardy, a colored physician, and in it she gave all her property to her father and mother at her death, and at their death to her brothers and sisters. She also made an ante mortem statement, the substance of which Is that she forgive Dr. Linder for shoot ing her, that she never thought of shooting-him again, that she was not armed when she came up town. that she did not see Dr. Linder until he fired, that earlier in the day she pats ed him at the Main street railroad crossing in the buggy with his fath er. that she spoke to him and thought he spoke to her, that of this she was not certain. AN UNDERWORLD TRAGEDY. A Woman Shot in a Resort by the Man She Long Feared. Coming face to face with the man with whom she had formerly lived and of whom she had long been in terror, Pearl Harris, a former ac tress, tried to flee from a resort in the Red Light district of Schenec tady. N. Y., but was shot down by the man before she had gone many steps. The man was followed by two offi cers to the back room of a saloon and there he opened fire, shooting Patrolman Ragucci in the abdomen and inflicting a dangerous wound. He fought his way through the barroom, with a bottle and then escaped. MOSQUITOS KILLS T HOUSANDS. Fire Dread Diseases Directly Trace ale to Their Bites.. "There are 250,1000 death annually as the result of mosquito bites." said Dr. Edward A. Ayers, a member of the faculty of the New York poly linic, at a meeting in the New York Academy of Medicine.. Dr. Ayers furnished astonishing figures in his lecture on "The Mos quito as a Sanitsary Problem." He said five diseases were directly trace able to the bite of the insect. They are malaria, yellow fever, b~eri-beri, dengue and fila riasis. The government is eliminating the mos quito danger by draining swami lands, he said. MATES LONG ROW. He Went $7 Miles to Report Ship'; Lack of Fenl. According to advices received i' lSan Francisco a few days ago, thi -Oceanic Steamiship company's steam er Mariosa which is three days over Sdue from Tahiti is S7 miles off th< coast from Monterey without feul First Mate W. D. Watson, who row~ ed the entire distance to .Monterey reported the steamer's pre'dicames1 eWELLMAN AWAiTS SUMMER. His Airship Has Iieeni Stored for th -| Winter'. v With the p)reliminlary trials con -- pleted, and the huge airship storE e- at Spitzenbergen for' the winteri ii charge of a few caretakers, Walt 1- \Weilman and his party of' North Po it searchers have returned to this cou! try to await the advent of war weather next s.,ring, when the di' for the pole will be attempted agal PRISONERS SHOT. Five Men Killed by the Governmue is of Hayti. tis Five political prisoners were shi ed recently in Harti, according to a d: eee patch received at the state depa ment at Washington. KICKS AGAIN. The State Superintendent of Ed ucation Scores Gov. Ansel. OBJECTS TO A LAWYER Being Appointed on the Board of Education, and Writes a Caustic Letter to the Governor For Not Consulting Him and Appointing a Lawyer-Says He Will Not Stand For Re-election Next Year. The appointment by Gov. Ansel of Hayne F. Rice of Aiken as a member of* the State board of education to fill out the unexpired term of J E. Boland, resigned from the second dis trict, has caused Mr. 0. B. Martin, the State superintendent of educa tion, to write Gov. Ansel that the selection is not satisfactory because Mr. Rice is a lawyer and not an educator. The letter also makes the interesting statement that Mr. Martin will not be a candidate for the office he now occupies again. The situation in what is called the 'cabinet" by the newspaper men is rather strained Some time ago Gov. Ansel announced that he had offered the vacancy in the second district to on. John C. Sheppard. Superin tendent Martin wrote the governor a very strong letter of protest and in the controversy Mr. Sheppard de clined to serve. The vacancy re mained until after the meeting of the State board of education last month and when the appointment was announced Tuesday it was sup posed that harmony once more pre vailed. The letter notifying Mr. Mar tin of the appointment was as fol fows: on. 0 B. Martin, State Superin tendent of Education, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: I have appointed the Hon. Hayne F. Rice, Aiken, S. C , as a member of the State board of edu cation to fiill the unexpired term of Prof. J. E. Boland, resigned. Mr. Rice has taken great interest in school matters for years, and I feel sure that he will make a very use ful member of the board of educa tion. Yours Very Truly, M. F. Ansel, Governor. Mr. Martin received this letter on Wednesday morning and at once re plied with the letter published be low. In talking over the matter, he said that he did not wish to withdraw from his educational work as he plan ned it. He believed, however, that when the terms of the present board expired Gov. An sel would appoint lawyers or men who arc not familiar with education l work and thus interfere with the work of the educational department. The announcement by Mr. Martin that he would not be a candidate for reelection will probably cause a num ber of announcements to be issued shortly. He was regarded as the strongest man in the coming cam paign for the office and therefore his removal will change the line-up con siderably. So far only one man has announced himself, E. C. Elmore of Spartanburg, but several others are spoken of for entrance. Mr. Martin's letter to 'Gov. Ansel was as follows: Hon. M F. Ansel, Governor, Colum bia, S. C. Dear Sir: Your letter notifying me of the appointment of Mr. H. F. Rice of the Aiken bar as a member of the 'State board of education was p~romptly received. So you have suc ceeded in appointing a lawyer and also in not consulting the officer who is responsible to the people for the conduct of the educational affairs of the State. I wish that it were pos sible for me to think of your action in this whole matter other than as small-minded, officious and pernli cious. I prefer to think of the gov ernor of my State as liberal minded, potential and statesmanly. I note that you say that Mr. Rics has taken an interest in school mat ters. Likewise many of our school men have taken an interest in lau but it does not follow that the: should be put upon the supremE bench. They are hardly competent t< examine applicants for admission tc the bar and to discharge the numer os complicated but tecnical duties o .the supreme court. ITo - take a charitable view of th situation I believe you utterly fai to grasp the duties of a member o the State board of education. Som tim ago when you made your seconf appintentof a lawyer on thi hoard. I char'acterized your actio: 1with such language as seemed at tha time alp opriate. I applied the mu~ tard plaster' which afterwards seeme -rather pungent. The conclusioni no" beari:ng down upon me that yo ire fur nishing a concrete exemplif ution of the characterization abo~ refered to. The appointee whom .hal designlate as lawyer No. 2 haj pened to be too broad-gauged a ma to accept any appointment in a d partment whose head had been igno ed. Appointee lawyer No. 3, "Prof Rice of Aiken bar, may be of a sir ila calibre but if I am to believe tI Ireport given to the press concerni r his appointment I should say that e s at least ambiguous. amphibiou ambixtrous.~ ubiquitious and ind terinate. These characteristice m: appeal to you. As you perhaps knc 1-vnhave next year the appointme of the remaining members of t State board of education with the ception of the secretary who hol it the position ex officio as State sup4 Iintendent of education and I ha the supreme satisfaction of knowi: > ithat I do not have to sit with the s nor be bound by their actions. I Wi t- to give you the pleasure of knowi her nd now that I shall not be BADLY FOOLED. A Young Woman Became Engag ed to a Man She Had Never Seen and Went to Lake Park, Ga., to Marry Him and Found Her Intended a Negro. A dispatch from Valdosta, Ga., .says the spectacle of an- intelligent and good looking white woman com ing 2,000 miles to marry a man whom she found to be a negro has greatly exercised the people of Lake Park, Ga. Information of the affair reached Valdosta Thursday. On Saturday afternoon there al ighted from a Georgia Southern and Florida train at Park Lake a young woman who was a stranger to the people there, and who, afte: await ing around the station some time, as if expecting some one to meet her ventured to inquire of bystanders, if they knew Rev. J. J. Roberts. The man first appealed to thought a few moments and finally confessed that he did not know of any one by that name in the town. Another par ty told the lady 'that the only J. J. Roberts in the town was a negro preacher known locally at "Burnt Eyed Jake," who got his name from the fact that he had lost one eye in a fire. The lady was escorted to the Lake Park hotel by some of the sympath etic citizens, and it was there that she told her story. She said her home was in Vermont. Some months ago she began a correspondence with Rev. J. J. Roberts, of Lake Park getting in communication with him through a matrimonial paper or cor respondence bureau. She had become engaged to him and he had sent her money to pay her way to Georgia, where they. were to marry. She fearlessly began the long journey, believing that her af fianced was, of course, a white man, and one prominent in his section. After hearing her story citizens of the town went out to look for the negro. and he appeared as greatly surprised as the woman had been He admitted that he had been cor responding with a lady in Vermont, but thought she was a "cullud lady." He protested that he had never dreamed of his correspondent being* a white lady. The citizens of Lake Park were very genorous in their proffers of as sistance to Miss Middleton, and will aid her in returning to her home if she needs assistance. )EMANI)S GIRLS HAND. Young Lawyer Threatens to Prose cute Millionaire Father. For more than two years Charles G. Roebling, president of the John A. Roebling's Sons company, of Trenton, N. J. the famous wire cable manufacturers, has been in re ceipt of letters from Benjamin A. Freeman, a young attorney of the Mercer county, (N. J.) bar, demand id the hand of his daiughter, Miss Helen Roebling. She, too, has redeived a number of notes. but never has one of the let ters or notes received an answer. Mr. Roebling is somewhat troubled by the receipt of the letters and states that they must cease. More than 200 of the missives are now filed, in their particular place. Freeman demands that they he re turned to him.. but this request has not been deeded. He has been man ing a record at the bar and in one of his latest letters stated that if Roeb ling does not consent to give him his daughter's hand. he will proceed to expose him in 200 newspap~ers and land him in prison. The first, last and only time Miss Roebling saw F'eeman was at a show soon after her debut in 1902. They exchangec half a dozen words. but that was all. The burden of Freeman's letters is that he is being kept from the girl, whose father is many times a mil lionaie, because he is poor. LOYE AFFAIR STOPPED. Young Redskin M*eets Officers Instead of His Dusky Sweetheart. A love affair between an Indian youth and a miaiden; at Mount Holly, N. J., undoub~tedly would have re slted in an eloptment, had the au horities not been acquainted witl their intentions and the officers o: the Indian school notified. IEdward Wolf. aged 17 years, ra away from the Indian school to fol low his sweetheart, who had secure< employment in Monait rdolly. \Wol ot work on a nearby farm and thi two had arranged to meet at Moun H olly. The girl's mistress learned o - their intentions and notified the In t iai school, with the result that th o fficers met young Wolf and too im back. m ember of that board any longE - than is necessary for me to discharg n my duty and obligations to the peopi of South Carolinla. For two terms h ave been elected State superintex dent of education without oppositiol - have discharged my duties fearles e 1 and vigorously. I feel the sati f action of having done some good f .e y people. T shall not ask for r s. le'tionl. I tuenition this in order th: -ou may indulge and cherish the for yv hope of getting a satellite of yo o wn ilk. I am somewhat mn the po it Iition of the old negro woman wi te nt into a dry goods store and as e d for three yards of red ribbon. Ti iss c lerk was very bow-legged. He sta r-ed across the store and said: "Wa ye this way." The old woman said, "3 ag sir! I'll do without the ribbon befc m 'll walk dat way " And I'll do WIl sla out my ribbon before. I'll walk yo ig way. Sincerely yours, a 0. B. Martin. GRAND OVATIW Given William Jennings Bryan People of Spartanburg. LECTURED AT NIGHT, On "the Prince of Peace" in the Baptist Church to Eighteen Hun dred People-The Most Brillant Audience That Ever Assembled in Spartanburg, Not Excepting the Music Festival. In speaking of the visit of the Hon. William Jennings Bryan to Spartan burg on last Friday the correspondent at that place of The State gives the following account of the honors paid the distinguished gentleman by the people of Spartanburg. The corres pondent says: This day has been largely given over by the people of Spartanburg- to the entertainment of their distin guished guest, William Jennings Bry an. During the morning the ladies of the city gave their time and atten tion to making beautiful the Interior of the Y. M. C. A. hall, where at 5 'clock this afternoon a public recep tion was given in Mr. Bryan's honor attended by fully 2,000 persons, with whom the Nebraskan shook hands and greeted with that broad smile so characteristic of the man. Tonight Mr. Bryan addressed an audience of 1,300 people in the audi torium in the First Baptist church, delivering his lecture, "The Prince of Peace," He was presented to his au dience by Dr. Henry Nelson Synder, president of Wofford College. This day has been ideal and to night was perfect, in great colitrast with the weather conditions whltb. greeted Mr. Bryan here three years, ago when a terrific rain prevailed and the crowd that heard him was small. A wreck on the Southern railway delayed Mr. Bryan's arrival two hours and a brief stop at Gaffney be tween sections of his train added another half hour to the time. The rowd in Spartanburg had to wait, thus putting him here a- few minutes before four o'clock. At the station he was cheered and about 50 men shook hands with him before his car riage left the depot, carrying him to the home of Prof. Gamewell on Wof ford campus. - In the hour he spent there before going to the reception in his honor he received a State representative and talked of his recent trip in North Carolina. When asked if he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1908 he smiled and re plied: Now, young man, you are get ting on dangerous ground," and de clared that he would have something definite to say along that line later in the fall. The reception of Mr. Bryan this af ternoon was the most largely attend ed event of its character ever held in Spartanburg. The great company of citizens and people from the county who passed in line to grasp the hand of their guest being augmented by a line of 300 young ladies from Con verse college and fully as many We! ford students. Those in the receiving line were: Senator and Mrs. Howard Carlisle. Mr. and Mrs. Stobo Simpsonl. Dr. and Mrs. Henry Nelson Snyder. Dr. and Mrs. John S. Watkins. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Clevyeland. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Payne Pel Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Roper. Mr. and Mrs. John Gary Evans. Prof. and Mrs. D. A. DuPre. - Rev, and Mrs. W. A. Massabeau. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Jones. IProf. and Mrs. John G. Clinkscales. Mr. and Mrs. George Nicholls. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Simpson. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Du~re. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. F. Chapman. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Burnett. Congressman and Mrs.- Joseph T. Johnson. Judge and Mrs. D. E. Hydrick. Tonight Mr. Bryan's audience in the First Baptist church was one of the most brilliant ever gathered in the cityi not excepting the great fes ival crowds. He did not leave the text- of his lecture upon Christ as the -rice of Peace, and only in the brief eet way spoke of things politcal and he problems of government. The address is a powerful sermon upon religion as the basi ofalgv srenteton the world is his greatness measured.. -Speaks at Gagfney. A dispatch to The State says Hion C. Otts. representing GaffneY' . t) 'rd of trade, and J. B. Bell, repre oaentn the - city of Gaffney, left sen fharlotte Thiursday night to meet M r. Bryan and escothmo fne .Bryan spoke for twenty min tatGaffnler Friday while on his utes to Spartanbur'g between trains. Irore than 1,000 people heard the e rat commoner. A large number of e eole crowded around the train to ~ale his hand after he had finished speaking. The State's correspondent says watever may have been said about Mr Bran's extreme views heretofore his speech stamped him as a broad m. inded and conservative citizen and ooe who would make a safe presi A SLICK NEGRO. Victimizes Several Gaffney Citizens~ eBefore He Is Caught. k A negro named Walt Lipscomp -re >.. ently victimized several merchants re and citizens of Gaffney by a series of -h- clever -forgeries. In all he must have u: gotten nearly $50. He had easy sail - ing until he tackled Mr. R. A. Tones by whom he- was caught.