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VOL. XXII MNANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, I)ECEMIBER 4, 9( O1 GANG OF CROOKS Breaks Two Safes at Mauldin and Make Good Haul. MADE THEIR ESCAPE And No Clue Could Be Obtained of Them or there They Went. The Same Gang That Recently Blew Op'en a Safe in Seneca. There Are Four of the Thieves And They Are Very Bold. A special dispatch from Mauldin in this State to The State says safe crackers struck that place Saturday night, making a good haul. While Mr. J. S. Hill was at supper the gang forced his front store door, entered and carried away his cash drawer and the contents, about $250. Mr. Hill organized a small posse and began a search, but without avail. About 12 o'clock midnight Mr. W. S. Bauldwin of the firm of Bauldwin & Whatley heard a noise about his store and got up to investigate. He was greeted with, "Get back in the house or I will blow your head off." Having no weapons at hand he went back in the house, while the safe crackers blew open his safe and car ried off the contents, netting about $300, making a total of nearly $600 secured Saturday night. iSheriff Gilreath was notified and was at Mauldin Sunday investigating the matter, but no clue could be ob tained. He tracked the parties north ward from the store through a field a little way, then they turned toward the depot and into the road, but they could be tracked no further. There is no doubt that this is the same gang that blew a safe in Sen eca some weeks ago and no doubt has headquarters in Greenville. No suspicious characters have been seen around that place recently. There were about four men in the gang. A MARRYING GIRL. She Married Three Husbands in One Short Week. A special dispatch from South Nor walk, Conn., tells of the death there of Mrs. Minnie Dauchey, who, while not yet out of her teens. was married three time and leaves four children. She married all three husbands in one week before she was 15 years old. Her first husband was a tatoo ed man in a. circus, with whom she ran away. She returned a few days later, and being upbraided by her mother for not bringing home her husband, she ran away again and the same day married Peter Strum. Both marriages were declared void because of her age and wthin a week she be came the bride of Edward Dauchey, this time with her parent's consent. She was known as the most beautiful girl in that part of the state.. tfter her last marriage she jofned taie Sal. vation Army. DOCTOR WAS KI JED In His Automobile While Hurrying to See a Patient. While speeding to the bedside 01 a patient, who was reported to bf dying, Dr. Edward S. Gates. a wel known Cincinnatti physician, was al most instantly killed, when the au omobile in which he was riding wa: struck by an accommodation trait of the Pennsylvania railroad at thi Red Bank Grade crossing Frida: night. Dr. Gates was alone in the ma chine, a light run-about, and in hi haste tried to beat the train acros the crossing. His machine faltere' on the crossing, and the machine an' its occupant were hurled many yard by the train, which was going ver DIED A HERO. An Aged Man Gave His Life for H: Loved Ones. Death claimed Geo. A. Kneel his home at No. 1575 Washingt< avenue, New York, at the end of battle which the old man had foug with fire to save the lives of h daughter and her two little childre who were penned in the kitchen 1 flames. Kneel dragged the mother and h ehlldren into the front room. usi! himself as a shield between them ai the fire. Then he put out the blat He staggered into the front roo: smiled at his daughter and the ch -dren, and held forth his arms as he wished to clasp them to him. the daughter ran toward him theC man fell to the floor and died heart disease. He was 74 years o Weevil's Advance Marked. The advance of the cotton boll w vi Eastward last summer toward Atlantic Coast was recently mapj out, by the State crop pest comn sion. Last summer for the f - t-'ime in the history of the pest crossed the Mississippi River. Eastenmost outpost of the weevi given as follows by the commissi Southeasterly, beginning_ at W Ark., a line may be drawn in a soi easterly direction cutting across norteast corner of Louisiana and tering Mississippi near Wateri a. This line traverses the coutn of Jefferson. Adams and Willki in Mississippi, and again en Louisiana running to Bayou Sar~ West Felicianna Parish. At point the line turns southwest runs to a point in Iberville Paris. A Happy Father. Richard Pearson Hobson]. whC addition to this fame as the her Santiago, was engaged in many Zous engagements. is reported to been made the father of a son en ntly.- - HAD A HARD TIME Two Men Starved Three Days in Boat on Bay. Drifting Without Food or Drink They Hail Passing Vessels But to No Avail. I Without food or drink for seventy two consecutive hours. and 1earing evidence of having been buffeted by storm, Charles Losee and George Goff, amateur fshermen, arrived at their homes in Fort Hamilton on Thursday evening. They told how a little boat in which they went adrift was passed by several fishing smacks, although the two endangered men signalled wildly for help. The men had caught a good many Ish and had started back for Fort Hamilton. As they got to the mouth of the narrows a big storm struck them. The sail of the skiff was rent as if it were tissue paper. The mast cracked and fell overboard, tipping the vessel until the men believed they would be drowned. The storm not only destroyed sail and mast, but even ripped the rudder loose, so that it was useless. Losse and Goff were helples. They had taken along only enough water and food to last late in the afternoon, and as the night wore on and the gale swept hither and thither in the cold and darkness they began to suffer from thirst. As morning broke the storm increased in fury, and the fish ermen had no idea where they were. Rain descended in such volumes and was driven in such vapor like clouds that they could not even see the shore. A sailing vessel, struggling with the choppy sea, passed close to the skiff. Losse and Goff shouted wildly and waved pieces of the tattered sail. But the craft went lurching on her way, the captain paying no attention to the yells for help. Later another vessel, a big fishing smack, hove in sight, and the cries were renewed, but again they were ignored. Several other vessels sailed passed the seemingly doomed men. land they abandoned hope. Meanwhile the police had issued a I general alarm for them, and all the life-saving stations along the Ne* Jersey coast were notified. Crews of outgoing fishing vessels were re quested to keep a lookout for the missing pair, but no word was re ceived from them until late Thurs day. At seven o'cloek they appeared at their homes. They had drifted into Point City Cove. about eight miles from Atlan I tic Highlands. and had managed so I as to manoeuvre the boat as to per mit a landing. The two were be draggled and haggard from exposure and lack of sustenance. -They won't go out in the skiff again. KILLED NEAR CHESTER. Blood Found on Trestle But Body Not Yet Recovered. A dispatch from Chester to The State says on the arrival of a through freight there Friday morning from Abbeville the crew reported that the fireman. Ablert Ferguson, a young man of that place, was found to be missing near Tyger river. The train was at once stopped and an ineffec tual search made for some distance along the atrck. On receiving the information thei' 1Mr. G. W. Ferguson, father of th' young man, in company wa:h a rein tive, Mr. W. WV. Smith. left Mo the scene. At Tyger river they saw bloo< -and some strands of hair on the rai and the bridge timber. From thi: Sthey concluded that the your~g fire man had fallen into the river. The: Sand some of the nearby resident Smade efforts to locate the body. bu Sthe efforts were without results On the midnight train of the Sea board several men left to join th party and assist in the work of cor Itinuing the search. They were prc vided with an outfit of grappim hooks. Albert Ferguson was about twenta n two years of age and was the olde n son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ferguso] a f Chester. It is said that this w~ it his first trip on the road in the c~ i acity of fireman. THREE BOLD ROBBERS. HlUpPassengers in a Crowd SI Railway Station. T hrustinlg big revolvers in t' n..70 or a coachload of Erie passe i ters at the station of that road ear i Thursday morning at cleveland.( s three masked men succeeded in gi dd ing $50 and escaped as a policem of arrived. As the policeman enter d-. the car the trio fled warning the p: sengers not to join in the chase. the hill the three sped, bullets fr* e-- jthe policeman's revolvers follow] 1e them. The robbers lost themsel' edd in the crowd in Superior street. -st SWIFT ,jUSTICE. - hheobbed Bank. Convicted and S is to Prison in Two Days te.. Less than forty-eight hours a~ th- they held up and rohhed the St the bank at Clinton. Ill.. Edward Mi en- and Edward ~Davis were arres1 off.ipeadedl guilty and sentenced to p tis on. They robbed the bank Mon on. evenng, wer" arrested Tu'slay ers rs Wednesday wvere given- made iminmlte senlteWce in the V1penin hs at Chester. 1Caught by Flanmes. t Glouster. Mass.. one man kied. a marn and woman proh: ii atally injured and several others ofO lthrilig escapes Friday in a fir ur the Harvard boarding house. J aave onton, the dead man. jiluped .. a.sh .tt,. window and broke BRYAN ABUSED. By Senators 5tewdrt and Daniel in Hotel Lobby. BECAUSE HE THINKS For Himself and Refuses to Sneeze Whenever They Take Snuff.-The Former, With Angry Words, Re fuses to Meet Mr. Bryan, While the Latter Rails at Him Because He Does Not Do As He Wants Him. One day last week William J. Bryan was denounced by former Sen ator Willianr Stewart, of Nevada, in the Williard Hotel, New Nork. The denunciation was spoken within ear shot of the Nebraskan. A moment later Senator John W. Daniel, of Vir ginia. declined point blank to attend the dinner that night in his honor. He accused Mr. Bryan of being dic tatorial and of taking his Ideas from outsiders. Mr. Bryan had been In the Williard attending the meeting of the asso ciation which aims at publicity of campaign contributions. As he step ped into the lobby, former Senator Stewart was seated in one of the easy chairs. Senator Daniel, who is iame, was leaning on his crutches near the desk. Major J. A. Armes, one of the promoters of the Bryan dinner ap proached M ,. Stewart and said. "Senator, there is a friend of yours. Wh:y don't you go over and speak to him?" "Friend of mine; friend of mine'" spluttered the former Senator so loudly that all could hear him. "That aker is no friend of mine. What is the use of talking to him? He doesn't amount to anything. He has run ,twice and been defeated. You don't bet on a hcrse that has been licked twice, do you?" This outburst seemed to upset Ma jor Armes. for he made no reply, but walked over aud joined Senator Dan iel. He said: , --Senator, won't you come to our dinner tonight in honor of Mr. Bryan? We sent you tickets; but have received no reply." "No," -said Senator Daniel emphat ically. "I will not. I do not care to attend any dinner at which Mr. Br hvyan is the guest of honor. I thank you for your kindness, but I am go ing to Richmond tonight and it is iimpossible. With that. Senator Daniel started down the corridor. In passing the elevator he encountered Mr. Bryan, who was talking to a group of friends. The two greeted each oth er and stepped aside. There was a short conversation in an undertone and then Senator Daniel lifted his oice and was heard tO say -I am very sorry I can't agree with you. I like you personally. but I don't ike vour principles, nor your plat orm You don't listen to those with in your party. You are too fond of dctating what the party should do." As he spoke the Virginia Senator shifted his weight on his crutch and is free heand shook his finger at the ebskan. 'When did I do that?" interrupt' ed Mr. Bryan." .You did it in 1900. You declared that you w~ould not be the noinne of the party unless the silver plan~ ws inserted in the platform." snap' ped Senator Daniel. "Well, you were with me on thai in 1896. wern't you, Senator?" ques tioner Mr. Bryan 'I beg to differ with you. I wa ot with you," was the answer. .You were a member of the comn mittee which drew up the platform.' "But I opposed that plank in th pl pltform.' declared Daniel i dh -t believe in it. .,ogt twe hee platform was being written. .I am surprised," exclaimed MI ~van and his apearence did not b~ lie his words. "I am surprised to hea h.frI had always considere ttyuwere with me," he repeal o. I was not." thundered Danie SYuare wrong. You dictate to t~ "-'l Senator." interrupted M -af. I do not want to quarr - h 'ou about this matter. I thin 'eaatio eto lthe word. the Nebra a n brushed past Senator Danila e Senhator Dniel stood his grou o ~several minutes. and then he. to e eft the hotel. going toth a eo t-stio and taking a train for i dPOR FELLOW Had Nothing To Be Thankful F eIand iKilled Self. '- have lived thirty-six Thankg igs and never had anything to tankful for. so here goes nothinl was the note left by Jos MeISI popretor of a hotel at Applet "i..who blew off the top of his h~ wt a hotgunl. Meslein Wedlest err ordered all the guests from the hc .te Isaaing that he intended quitting bt er ness and demanded that they mi ed'd before Thanksgivng morning . iSERVED HIM RIGHT. nny~i Woman~ Whipped Fellow V - ad Siandered Her. ecca use David Hirsch had nm -e iarks affecting hex' char'acter'. cas nez Schaefer, formnerly of Bos bly owner and exhibitor' of bloo iadd dogs at the annual dog show inllPhilldelphia. publicly whipped >hnu man Thursday. omo n ive times sh wielded her v hishasdanafter each stroke blood rosi .a- -.e-t croshe man's face. MUST TAKE THEM. Clearing House Certificates Can Be Used to Pay Taxes. I The County Treasurers Who Construe Law Too Liberally Are Making Trouble Aplenty and Must Stop. The Columbia Record says State Treasurer Jennings is doing all be can to stop the drain upon the cur rency supply of the state, which is being made by certain county treas urers who reject clearing hose cer tificates and demand cash in payment of taxes. He announced seve.'al days ago that at his own office clearing house certificates or any other paper of the kind that was current at par in Columbia would be accepted and the county treasurers who will con strue the lay on the subject in the same liberal way can do much toward ameliorating the situation. State and county taxes are due all over the State. They will amount to several million dollars. The coun ty treasurers who are declining clearing house certificates in payment of taxes claim that the law forbids their accepting anything but gold, United State Currency and state bond coupons. About half the state tax, amounting to a million and a quarter dollars will go to New York in hard cash as fast as It arrives at the state treasurer's office, which owes $350,000 in floating notes due in December and January, and $143, 000 in semi-annual interest on the state's bonded debt, much of which money goes to New York. Richland's treasurer, whose ex ample in rejecting the certificates, has been followed by many other county treasurers, cites section 181 of the state tax laws in defense of his course. This section reads as fol lows: "Taxes are payable in the follow ing kinds of funds and no other: Gold and silver coin, United Sttaes currency, including national bank notes; coupons due and payable dur ing the current year In the consoli dated bonds known as brown bonds; and the bonds of this state known as blue bonds, and other state bonds which may be issued by any act of law, making the coupon receivable for taxes. Appropriation tct, 1905, XXIV Statutes, 995; Code Section 414. Mandamus shall not issue to compel receipt of any other fund." Mr. H. J. Southern, the treasurer of Greenville county, is one of the treasurers construing this section very liberally. He is quoted as say ing: "I shall continue to accept these certificates as I have been doing since they were first put into circulation. I know the law states that only gold, currency and bonds of this state are acceptable in payment of taxes, but I do not construe that to mean that I cannot accept certificates which are as good as gold. I deposit the money which I collect in the bank each night and these certificates are accepted there each night the same as gold and as I am accomodating quite a number in accepting these certifi cates, why I shall continue to re ceive them unless I get orders not to. I think that the state should do all in its power to aid the financial sit~ nation and as these certificates are good, it runs no risk of losing any thing by taking them for taxes." WAR COMES HIGH. Russia Has Just Finished Paying Ul the Japs. Russia sent a draft for $24,300, 000 to Japan on the 24th, in paymen of the last portion of the debt incur red in her disastrous war to gobbl up Hanchuria, and incidentally, an nex certain parts of the Japanes empire. The draft was to cover th cost of caring for Russian prisoner taken by the victorious Japanes( 1The first bill for this was $75,000 00, but this was offset in part b a Russian bill of some $40,000,00 for the maintenance of Japanee rprisoners. FATAL COLLISSION. TJ.wo Steamers Crash Into Each Oth< eNear Gibralter. A fatal collision has occurred 2 miles east of Gibralter, between tl SCape Negro, a Belgian coal steam bound for Marseilles from Sunde gad n the Helvetia, an Italik dsteamer bound for Lisbon from Ma seilles. The Belgian vessel's bc crashed into the Helveti.'s starboa side, sinking her. Four of her ere Ldsucceeding in jumping on board t SCape Nero and subsequently the H vetia's captain and nine men we picked up while the boatswain, thi sailors and a woman passenger, Ad Sala, 22 years old, of Libson, we or drowned. DIED UNDER WHEELS, r-- Ina IDreami Mother Saw Her S ," Crashed. n' A J1as. A. Sattele, eighteen ye; n' old, was ground to death beneati ad freight train at Hannibal, Mo., wr .a hurrying home to Cliicago to~ spe el Thanksgiing, his mother learned i- his fate by mental telepathy. '-In ve dream." she said, "I saw a mang form and huge grinding wheels. ould not distinguish them. I o knew Jimmie was in danger ani could not help him. Then T awi howith a start and sat shivering .de THREE NEGROES IKILLED). on. Were Walking on Track and Str ded by Passenger Traini. the At Hurts, on the Southern F Iway, south of Lynchburg. Va.. thipIThursday a passenger train sti in and killed three unknown neg Iwo were walking on the track. MURDERER HANGED. Luke Chisholm Pays Penalty for Killing Robert Graham. The First Hanging That Has Ever Taken Place In the County of Dorchester. A dispatch from St. Georges to The News and Couriev says the first hanging in Dorchester County occurr ed Friday when Luke Chisolm paid the penalty of death Zor the murder of Robert Graham, in Summerville, last August. At the term of Court in October Luke ChIsolm was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be "hanged by his neck till his body be dead, on the 29th day of November." From the rising of the Court till that morning just before Chisholm was taken to the scaffold, the minis ters of his race have been untiring in their efforts to save his soul, and before the black cap was adjusted to close his vision of things of this life, he testified that his.,soul was saved as he has often done since sentence of death was passed -upon him. He told the spectators that he was ready and willing to die and that whiskey was the cause of his filling a felon's grave. He asked that all would look upon him and take a lesson as to the evil of strong drink and the degradation it would bring upon a man. Then the black cap was adjusted over his head, his feet and hands se curely tied, the noose put around his neck and at 11.15 Sheriff Limelaouse cut the rope whicb sprung the trap door, and Chisholm's b.ody was swung in midair until 11.38, when the at tending physician pronounced him dead.. His body was taken down and placed jn a coffin to be taken in charge by his people. A large number of people were in town to witness the execution, but under the law only a certain number were permitted to see It. There were numbers on the outside of the jail yard, who never gained admittance. This has closed t'-e rhapter of the worst murder e% committed in this State. FIENDISH ATTACK On an Old Lady by a Brute in Rich nond, V41. Brutally assaulted in her room by a negro who was overcome by cfficers and neighbors only after a wild and desperate strug'gle, Mrs. Jane Perry. 85 years old. and an invalid. ies in a ritical condition wiih face and head badly bruised in her home. No. 2003 East Broad street, where the attack took place. The negro, Junius Brooker, who lived in the yard in the rear of the premises occupied by Mrs. Perry, was caught by Policeman Goodman and a neighbor, Mr. W. A. Duke, in the room, beating his aged victim. The old lady had been dragged from her bed on the floor, and was being held by the negro in a desperate grip. O3fficer Goodman cried out. "What are you doing there?"' whereupon the negro reached up and wlth his st., smashed the lamp. putting the rom in darkness. Another light was secured, the officer using his club to terrible advantage over the negro's head. Booker fought like a fiend, seem ing hardly to feel the blood drawing blows which rained on his head, and holding Officer Goodman in a tighi embrace. Duke took Goc Jmani's pis tol from his pocket, but in the en counter was unable to g':f the sho' r the man without endangering th -oficer. Booker exclaimed: S"I know you, Mr. Duke; 111l fi: y on" but when he saw the levele< ' pistol, he calmed down, and was drag gd to the front room where he wa teid hands and foot. Duke turned his attention to Mr~ FPrry. who seemed unconscious, bu ervived on being lifted, muttering .'e has nearly killed me. Put me o my bed and let me die," and the later: "He would have killed me I you hadn't come in. Several of the bystanders an neighbors expressed a desire for sun mary justice without the interve! tin of the authorities. r FIVE PERSONS KILLED. .n rain Crashed Into Crowded Trolkc WCar at Crossing. .A trollev car loaded with passe: e gers on their way to work was rt - - down by'~rfeight train at the ra: ee road crossing at Waterbury. Cont ee Thursday. ee Five persons were killed in ti re crash and eight injured. The trCall car was demolished. The freight was running at f speed. The motorman of the troll n ccold not see the approaching tr~ as he ran into the crossing. When he saw the freight 'r bearing down on him he put onf ra eed and tried to cross in front a itit.The freight was too near, ho ever. and in an instant the locon tiv bore down on the car. T he trolley was ground into ki le lngwood. Many of the passeng )twere nr~ecognizable when taken ut v ofthe wreck. Of the eight ijul 7 several are reported to be badly hi ke SLAIN BEFORE FAMIY. Forner Partner, After Aet, Ends Own Life ek A dolph Lohmnfl who lived in I street. Bogata. N. Y.. was shot killed in his home by his fort il-il-bbusness partner, while his wife ~on murderer, Adolph Gunket, who] ickk been living in New York, then tar yes the weapon on himself, and die few minutes before his victim. SCHOOL GROWTH In This State the Past Twenty Five Years Rapid. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE. State Superintendent of Education Martin Points Out Some of the Things That Have Been Accom plished in the Last Quarter of a Century in Educational Matters By Our People. During the last twenty-five years South Carolina has made marvelous progress in all lines, and in no other line has the advance of this Common wealth been greater than in educa tion. There is yet much to be done. The foundations have merely been laid for making this Commonwealth a thorough educated and intelligent State, where illiteracy shall be at the minimum, but at the same time en couragement and hope should be tak en from the record of accomplish ment within a quarter of a century. In his fourth coming annual report State Superintendent of Education Martin will give some data in the effort to show the advance within the period mentioned. Twenty-five years ago the State Superintendent f Education was Hugh E. Thomp son, that splendid gentleman and educator, who later became Governor >of SouthCarolina, went to Washing ton in the administration of Grover Cleveland, and wound up his career with honor as an official of the great insurance companies In New York. Mr. Martin has taken the last re port of Superintendent Thompso'n and with it as a basis makes some com parisons with the conditions of to today. He points out -that twenty five years ago State Superintendent Thompson was closing his term of office, after having done some very successful foundation and building work for a public school sytem in South Carolina. In order to accom plish results it was necessary tnen for him to encounter a great deal of opposition. The statistics in his reports of his last term of office show marked development contrasted with conditions when he first assum ed the position. This year's statis tics are very interesting when con trasted with those of a quarter of a century ago. The following items are worthy of attention: 1832 Total Enrollment ........145,974 Average attendance . .....101,816 Total expenditures .. . . $373,567.95 Number of school houses.. . . 2,781 Value.. ...- -- - - .. ..470.600 Total number of teachers . .3.413 No. of local tax districts. . . .. .7 Ai't raised by local taxation $28,600 Libraries. .. .. .. .None reported. No. of books in pub. school .. sso. . Number of Books in public school library .. . . None reported. 19 07 Total enrollment.. .. .. ...314.399 Average attendance. .. .. ..222.z8 9 Total expenditures . . $1,148,474.11 Number of school houses. . . .::,786 Value........----.. 2,120,000 t otal number of teachers. . . .6,044 Number of local tax districts. .501 A't raised by local taxa tion.. .. .-.--.--...$326,072.96 Libraries..........-.-.-1007 Number of Books in Public school library .. .. .. ...200,O00 The appropriation, at the last ses sion of the Legislature, of $50,00C for State aid to high schools will mark an epoch in the progress of om school system. In addition to the development which has occurred it Ithe public schools the facilities fo: higher education have been greati: improved. Twenty-five years ago the Citade and the South Carolina College ha< tjust been reopened and were gettini fairly started after the war of recon struction. The denominational an< private colleges were just beginnin, a new era of prosperity. It would b a conservative estimate to say tha Sat least $1,000,000 had been addet ether in equiptmnent or buildings, t the colleges which were furnishin higher education to boys and girl of the . state In the early eightie The increase in endowninents woul approximate the same amount. Bi ysides this, the State of South Cart lina during that period erected thr( new State institutions, viz, Clemnsol Winthrop and the State Colored Co lege. The plants of these three i: stitutions are easily worth one at a half mifllion dollars. Private at ,denominational enterprises have al: erected Converse. Lander and Colut ic bia Colleges during the same perie i These. with the private academi and high schools which have bei l erected within the last few yea1 Ywould add at least three-fourths n a million dollars to the total val of the educational property in Sou ~Carolina. Of course, these figures ii.not indicate the full developmle i which has taken place. The gre; - est improvement of all is found 0- the sentiment which supports t work and in the desire which the pi d- pe manifest for continued progre rs "There are some points in the s ut tistiCS of this year in contrast w cd ast year which are favorable a ri. some which are not." says Super tendent Martin. "Tile average tendanlce last year was 218.862. '1 total this year is 222,189. This is ji pecially encouraging in view of fact that the enrollment did not crease. There was a decrease in menrollment. The enrollment i m was 318,075. The enrollmentt tnd year was 314,399. In a cue erl -counties the session was shorteR lad presumably because of a reduction led funds. Some counties miss the fuW 'a which they have received from adispensary more than other count Tis is especiallr true in poorer co BAPTIST LAYMEN Of South Carolina Called to Meet in Orangeburg On Sunday Afternoon, December 8, to Promote the Layman's Missionary Movement in South Carolina. The following call explains itself: Dear Brethren: In the name of our Master, we ask your earnest. prayerful consideration of this call to attend our laymen's mass-meeting, Sunday afternoon, December 8, dur ing the meeting of the Baptist State Convention in Orangeburg. The meeting is called by the undersigr ed Baptist laymen, to promote the Layman's Missionary Movement in South Carolina in line with what is being planned throughout the South. We believe-this is one of the most inspiring and promising of the re cent movements for the extension of Christ's Kingdom. Its Christlike spirit, its comprehensive purpose and its practical plans have won both the enthusiastic approval and hearty co operatier. of many of our consecrated blsiness men, and we believe that many others will express as hearty endorsement when the plans are pre sented to them. .The movement has been defined as "an awakening of Christian lay men to the urgency of the Great Commission; an honest effort on the part of laymen to fulfill in the next twenty-five years their Lord's com mand to preach the Gospel to every creature. Its aim is to induce the Christian laymen to employ his in fluence, his money and his time in his religion in the same practical, common sense way that he does in his business or profession." The force of this appeal to Baptist laymen was seen in the great enthusiasm with which it was greeted in, the recent Southern Baptist Convention at Richmond. South Carolina Baptists are known as a strong missionary body but we have not yet realized our strength or fully recognized our obligation, nor will we do so until more of our lay men consecrate their strenth to this great work of the kingdom. Earnestly hoping that you will at tend the meeting and that you will enlist other laymen, we are, Your co-workers in His Kingdom, E. G. Quattlebaum, Columbia. F. P. Covington, Florence. T. 0. Lawton, Jr.. Greenville. R. B. Watson, Ridge Spring T. B. Anderson, Charleston. Geo. H. Edwards, Darlington. Wm. Goldsnith. Greenville. Zimmerman Davis, Charleston. Brooks Rutledge, Florence. R. 0. Sams, GaffneY. B. H. Yarborough, Jenkinsville. S. A. Epps, Fort Mill. D. M. Dew, Latta. A. L. Lesesne, Silver T. 0. Mabry, Rock Hill. . P. Wray, Ridgeway. . B. Martin, Columbia. J .J. Waters, Rock Hill. Orlando Sheppard, Edgefield. E. C. Ridge11, Batesburg. C. E. Robinson, Pickens. D. J. Knotts, Swansea J. J. Lane, Cllo Bartow Walsh, Sumter. J. J. Gentry, Spartanburg. W. R. Rabb, Winnsboro. J. P. Kinard, Rock Hill.. F. N. K. Bailey, Edgefield. C. B. Bobo, Laurens Chas. A. Smith, Timmonsville. R. M. Mixson, Willistonl. Sam. M. Gist, Yorkville. W. W. Keys, Greenville. John M. Geer, Easley. C. H. Henderson, Aiken. W. B. West, Columbia. P. L. Coogler, Chester 3. Q. Qutleam Auderson. B. E. Geer, Greenville E L. Wilkins, Manning J. M. Quattlebaum, Columbia. S. M. BagWell. Spartanlburg. J. B. White, Cameron. R. E. Rivers, Chesterfield. 3. .. Derhami, Green Sea. IH. L. Bomnar, Spartanburg. B. M. Shumlan, Greenville. S. . Lawton, Hartsville. J. 0. Freeman,' Taylors. J 0. Wingo, Campobello. SGeorge Boylston, Blackville. . W. King, Dillon. TRESTLE GAVE WAY. -Part of Train on West Virignia Roa Falls in Ravine. 1,A Pensboro and Harrisville Ra2 road passenger train was crossing terstle twenty-five feet high ne; Har larisville, W. Va., Thursday, wh< the supports gave way, precipitatil al o al the ravine below. The engr aad baggage cars were smashed, b the one passenger coach containi: s thirty persons was dragged slow over the side and no one was killE trhough a good many were severE cut and bruised. h FORTUNE IN NAILKEG. Old Mississippi Lawyer Had .7,0 in Thus Stored Away. -.- Nearly $75,000. the life hax s. s. ings of an old bachelor, wasdlC :a- ered on Friday stowed away in :h old nail keg by relatives searcai nd the home of Samue nak Magnol in- tired lawyer. lvn erMgo t- Miss. who died recentl. es te.e eleethat the Legislatt s- isllsoonl see the wisdom of makin in- State ppopriation which will gu he antee a certain per capita per ch arin the counties where the funds sm smllest. If a general appropriat of of $10.000 were made, provid: adedffirstfor deficiencies by counties ~in afterwards for general distributi dss it would have the effect of help 1he to strenthen the weak places and s.s.heing those who really need DIED IN FIRE. Thirteen People Burnt Up in a Tenement Building Which PROVES DEATH TRAP. Flames Start in Saloon on Ground Floor of a Four-Story Building and Occupants are Driven to Top Floor, Where Thirteen Are Burn ed or Suffocated.-Police Suspect Incendiarism. Thirteen persons lost their lives and several others were injured ear ly Monday in a tenement house fire at One Hundred and Ninth street and Second avenue, New York. All the dead were Italians. Seven -of the 13 were children. The bodies were found huddled together in rooms on the top'floor of the four-story build ing, where the terror-stricken people had been driven by the flames, which rushed up from the lower floors. They had succumbed before they could reach windows which led to the fire escapes. Some had been envel oped In the flames and burned alive. Others, overcome by smoke, were spared the agonies of death n the flames. That the fire was the work of in cendiaries who sought revenge is the opinion. of the police and firemen, who mad6 the first hasty examina tion. Three weeks ago three Italians were caught in the act of attempting to rob a safe in the saloon of Guls eppe Cudano, on the ground floor. The safe contained over $2,000, which the saloon keeper's friends had withdrawn from banks during the money panic. The would-be. robbers were arrested and are now awaiting trial. The ire of Monday started in Cudano's saloon and the police believe it may have been the work of friends of the prisoners, who took this means of squaring the ac count with the saloon keeper. Cudano discovered the fire when . he went down to open his place of business early Monday morning. As he opened the door he was met by a rush of flames and without waiting a moment to investigate, dashed up the stairs to the tenements above, crying out for the occupants of the building to run for their lives. When he reached the rooms occupied by his own family he burst in the door and seizing. his young son in his arms told Mrs. Cudano and other members of the family to follow. Cudano and the boy managed to find their -way down the stairs to the street, but be fore the woman -could get through the flames had cut off all exit. Not a single person was seen to appear at any of the windows of the blazing building with the exception of those on the second floor, from which several persons reached the fire escapes and were rescued. Afte~r the flames had been partially checked firemen fought their way through the smoke to the upper floors. There they came upon piles of dead where they had fallen victims to the rvsh of flames and smoke even before th.-:7 had a chance to attempt to save themselves. In one of the heaps the firemen found a woman who had made one last desperate effort to save the life of her baby even when she knew that she herself was doomed to a hor rible death. She had folded her arms tightly around the little one and then huddled down close to the floor, her body protecting that of the child. The mother's body was badly burned. That of the child bore scarcely a mark but it was dead from suffocation. On every side of the mother and child lay the bodies os. other victims. DEAD BODY FOUND. Had Been Dead Two Days.-No In quest Held. . . The dead body of Bill Cleveland, colored was found in a cotton patch about five mils east of Walhalla on Friday morning. The discovery was made by a small colored boy, who in passing through the field, accidentally stepped on the feet of the dead man. dThe coroner and the physician were summoned, but after examination i was not thought necessaryohoda Iinquest, as the doctors opinion was that he died from natural causes. days. ut Police of Mexico City Have Big Task Before Them. d.Aseil to the Express from Mex Cit specsa . -Th police of this city v rict iy asat work on one of the aresti idnapping cases that they havgesee had. It is evident that for at le two months an organized 0 gang of kidnappers has been .opera ing in this city. Forty-nine children have been stolen from their homes. - What is. done with them or who -- might be taking them away and by nn what means is not known.' The. age g of the children varies between 12 *- and two years. a. A Bold Robbery. At Samarkand, Russian Turkes retan, a force of forty men, uniformed ea and commanded by two officers. sur a-prised and bound the sentries at the idrailroad station and blew open the le safes. The operation brought them on oly $10.000. ig Lynching in Pennsylvania. id At Mifflinton. Pa., Julius Derr, for n, twenty years an employe of the Penn ung sylvania railroad, was shot and fat of ally injured by an unidentified Ital i ian laborer, who was pursued by a