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ixun iung Ei VOL. XXI MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1908. NO. 16 DEATH IN RUSH For Seats at Entertainment in a London Hall. TRAMPLED TO DEATH. Sixteen Children Under the Feet of Excited Mass of Human Beings, Who Became Panic Stricken and Rushed for the Exits of the Build ings, and Forty Others More Or Less Severely Injured. At Barnsley, England. dixteen children were trampled to death and forty others, several of whom can not live, were injured in a mad rush for better seats at an enter tainment given in the public hall there Saturday afternoon. There was a great rush to seeure admittance to the entertainment, and when the show opened every seat was taken and the gallery was literally packed with children, who filled the aisles and were danger ously massed against the lower rafl ing. With a view to relieving this crowding in the gallery, the attend ants decided to transfer some of the children to the body of the house and one of the ushers called out: "Some of you children, come down stairs." Immediately the rush started and within a few seconds hundreds o' children were being trampled under foot. Even those who had seats in the gallery, doutless being panic stricken by the screams anu strug gles of the crowds fighting to reach the staircases, joined in the stam pede. The scene was a terrible one, the cries of the injured and moans of the dying causing the greatest ex citement among those gathered in the body of the hall. Police and ushers rushed to the head of the staircases, *hich were literally strewn with dead and dying, and by the most. desperate efforts managed to drag scores of the strug gling children to the corridors below. It was with the greatest difficulty that a panic among the children in the lower part of the house was averted, all of these being eventual ly being taken to the *street in safe ty. When the reserve police arrived they found the narrow stairway prac tically blocked with bodies which were crushed in some cases almost beyond recognition. Scores of chil di-en were forced by the pressure by the crowd behind them to scram ble over those that had fallen, wheth er living or dead, and many of. the injured children were found later to be suffering from fractured bones and severe lacerations, caused by the indescribable manner in which they had been trampled upon. Soon after the accident the ap -proaclies to the hall were crowded w'ith sobbing women- searching for their missing children.. . TRS ROBBED. Part of the Goods Recovered and Three Negroes Implicated. The stores of half a dozen mer chants at Conway were entered one night last week and $40 or $50 worth of goods stolen. Part of the stolen property was found in a sack underneath the office of Magistrate Jailor Bruton. Three negroes, brothers, w->re im plicated, two of whom have been ar rested. One was discovered by some small boys, the other came to the jail to see about getting his brother out. The second negro fought hard against ~arrest and tried to shoot Janlor Brunton. When searched a Quart of whis key and a pistol were found on him -After his trial by the town and- sen tence to $45 or sixty days, proof of his conviction with the burglary war found. NEGRO MOB LYNCHES NEGRO The Victim Had Sold Them TicketV to Fake Show. - A message from Selma, N. C., re ports the lynching at Pine Level Johnson County, of a strange riegr< at the hands of a negro mob. Th4 strange negro, purporting to tbe a~ advance agent of a 'big show,' take< the negro residents into what turn ed out to be one-man performlanc by the strange da~k~y himself. Co0 ering their heads with guano saek: the mob entered the negro's boa! d ing house early next morning, an took him forcibly to the woodS. 11 body was found at daylight on th Southern Railway tracks. His ider tity has not been established. SWINDLER CAUT. Man Who Collected Money tnd False Pretenses Ifeld G. A. Thurston, who operated Sumter last summer, representir himself as an agent of the Knigh of Honor, and who got a good litt pile of money and beat his. board b, has been caught in Louisville, K: and is in jail there. A photogra: of Thurston has been received Sumter by Sheriff rpperson for ide tification. Warrants have been swo Out against Thurston, and when t Louisville authorities are throu with him. the Sumter county con .i-m deal with him. THEY ARE HELDU Party of Five Alleged Yeggmen Jailed at Lancaster. They Were Found Encamped in the Woods WeH Araed and Supplied With Explosives. A special dispatch from Lancaster to The News and Courier says a party of five good looking, fairly well dressed white men, suspected of be ing safe-craokers, arrested Thursday night near Van Wyck, on the Sea board, were brought to Lancaster on the Southern and lodged in jail. The technical charge against four of them ts that of carrying concealed weapons and against the fifth of vagrancy. Thursday afternoon J. A. Hyatt, a merchant of Van Wyck, received a phone message from Waxhaw, N. C., to look out for suspicious charac ters. Shortly afterward two stran gers entered his store and bought some eatables. He watched the di retion in whieh they went and af ter nightfall he and eight of his neighbors, well armed, started out in search of the men. The suspects, who proved to be five In number, were found encamp ed about a half mile from Van Wyck. They were surrounded and ordered to surrender, which they did without resistance, saying afterwards that they thought the woods full of men and resistance, therefore, useless. Every man, except one, who has on ly one arm, had in his possession a latest improved revolver. The party also had a valise or two filled with highly explosive materials, such as nitro glycerine, dynamite caps and also soap. They declined to state why they were in Van Wyck, but gave the fol lowing names and addresses: C. F. Shaw, of Norfolk, Va; Henry S. Hal an, of Atlanta, Ga; James Scanelan, Charlie Williams, J. T. Leonard, the three last named refusing to give any addresses. The one armed man s Hallan, who, with another mem ber of the party, is said to answer to the description of two men the postoffice depatment is looking out for. Immediately upon their arrest In spectors H. T. Gregory and M. 0. Halverstadt were wired. They ar rived Lancaster Thursday night. They began the investigation about 10 o'clock r. m. Thursday, which ontinued till daylight Friday morn ng. The men arrested are not predis posed to answer questions and not very talkative. When they were brought down stairs in the jail to be examined one refused to come and had to be brought down by force. Among the things found were money hidden away on the person of each. One had some hidden away in his oat which he sewed up; and had money hidden away in his under lothes. About $100 in currency was btained from th'e five, knives and razors were also taken away. A razor was found on one man which was hidden in a little sack and tied around his neck, the sack being un der his clothes, which were removed only with difficulty. Mr Gregory seems to know some. possibly all, of the men, though he s keeping quiet about it. However. when one man was brought before him, Frank Shaw, Mr. Gregory re cognized him and said: "Why, Frank I didn't expect to see you here." Neither did I expect to see you." said Shaw. Shaw is just out of pris - since last February, having been sent up for robbing a safe in a rail road office at Peaks, Lexington coun ty, South Carolina. He had promised Mir. Gregory to turn over a new leaf but he was lead into temptation again. They are men of pleasant appear ane and wear good clothes. There is little doubt about them being pro fessional safe blowers and that they are the ones wanted in several places in this State. Their pictures were taken Friday with trouble. PRETTY BOOK AGENT. A Miner Came Near Marrying His Ovwn Sister. A dispatch from Englewood, S. D.. iays Albert Jaclisor. and Miss "innic Rurton discovered just before th( lay set for their marriage that they ere brother and sister, and they ave gone north to northern Minne ota to make a search for their moth ir, whom they have not seen sine :hey were little children. Jackson is a miner and has beer in the Black Hills for several years Mlss Burton came to the hills six o: :even months ago as a book agent rhe young woman sold the younh niner some boons. Jackson fell F love with her and a few weeks ag asked her to marry him. She con sented, and they set a day for th rnuptials. It came to light jut before th date set for the wedding that Mis Burton's real name was Worthingl ton, and Jackson's real name w~ Salso Worthington. Tney had bee adopted when children, taken th Snames of their foster parents, an lost track of each other, neither eve knowing the names of the other ur til the developments which interrup ed their wedding plans. 1Severe Storm. A storm on the English chann E malong the west coast of Eur'ope at week causes the lost of many sma~ craft. Two native passenger hoad Isons were drowned. Fatal Mistake:. In Jacksonville, Fla., rwo ynm n men who were Voutsinls et the-ir' v r.1 : .and wr'.t ci:: the 1.1: porch t look for a burglar and in the scar gh one was mistaken for the burg] tand was shot and instan.~y ki!!ed tre other. MANY STARVING. New York Children Without Food to Sustdin Life. FUNDS VERY SHORTO Report the Hebrew and Other Be nevolent Societies.-Contributions Reduced, and the Worst of the Winter Ahead.-There is Worse Distress Than Has Been Known in Twenty Years in New York. Twenty thousand children in the city of New York are starving, not starving to death, but living on less food than is necessary to sustain life. This deelaration was made re cently by Cyrus Sulzberger at a meeting of the Jewish Communal institution. Inquiries that have since been made reveal that conditions are evn worse than he indicated, that the calls on public charities are greater than in 20 years and that the con tributions are less by one-half than ever before. The result is that d1l the charitable organizations are able to do is to keep the roofs over the heads of the poor, but not to furnish them food. The deficit in funds has so crip pled relief work that thousands of needy persons must be turned empty away and New York, onej of the wealthiest and most charitable ities in the world, is called upon to wit ness distressing conditions on all sides. Lee K. Frankel, secretary of the United Hebrew Charities, declares his society has nothing to give. Among his people 20,000 children are being supported, the offspring of ablebodied men who have been thrown out of work, the children of widows and those whose parents are either dead- or do not support them. He says the budget of the society is too small and is alrady $60,000 short, with worse conditions to face as the winter adva.-Zes. The Chidren's Aid siciety is feed ing 3,000 children daily. All agree there are thousands who are never reached. Mr. Brace, the secretary declares the distress is general and not confined to any one class. Mr. Bruere. general agent for the Im >rovement of the Condition of the Poor, is equally worried over pre sent conditions. He declares that families who never before sought aid are now ompelled to depend solely on char ity on account of the lack of em ployment. Continued lack of work will cause the most dire kind of hardships as the winter advances. The municipal lodging houses have been doubled. but, while the home less and employed can be lodged, they cannot be fed. In such tImes the children suffer first, Mr. Bruere says. and should be provided for im rnediately. PRIVATE BANKERS Should B. in Jaili Says Attorney General Jackson. "I have never met, in a like per lod so many men who ought to be in jail, as in my recent investigation of the affairs of banks that got into difficulties in the recent panic." said Attorney General Jackson, of New York, in addressing the annual din ner of the Brownsville board of trade, in Brooklyn, Thursday even Comptroller Metz, Bird S. Coler, and Senator McCarren were among .he 200 Brooklyn business men who heard him. "The lawless methods of those pi rate bankers." Mr. Jackson contin ued. "through deliberate and flag rant v'olations of the trust reposed in thenm by depositors, the reckless -i of other men's money for the iromotion of their own speculations, onstitute a chapter in the history f high finance in this city which uroperly can be conpared only to the uperations of the Tweed ring, or the traction gang, and which throws a ;reat light upon the question as t< who is responsible for the financia *uanic of 1907." NEW TUNNEL OPEN. The First Train Runs Under Eas River. The first passenger train passe' .hrough the new tunnel under th ast river, between Manhattan an' 3rooklyn, shortly before one o'cloc1 Wednesday morning. Starting fror he Bowling Green station, on th Manhattan side or the river, it reach ed the Borough Hall station in abot ix minutes. With the starting baG f the train, the regular interbol e ugh service was put into operatiol It was possible to accommodal onva small part of the enthusiast: Brooklyn crowd that came across til rver to ride in the first train. Othe trains, however, followed in quic succession. but as these ran from t! ronx to Brooklyn, the overnlow: the Bowling Green station still hs to wait. These trains were packt {illed at Crossing. Mrs. John R. Reigel, of Kende >. Y.. was iustantly killed, and to 1 .- hidrenl riding with her were mnj1 tt d. while crossing the Lehigh Val !railroad tracks at Kendai. Tlh( tStwo horses were also killed. Th Swere struck by an extra engne ru ing light. leM . Cnt The committee o h et -Fedra ted Union which is it.vestil ting tne laying off of men by h national. State and city authoriti rr reports that there are at prest ',100,00,0 nmen out of employment YewYor c~at,.al one. FIRED THE AGENT. Railroad Officials Must Be Care ful HOW They Talk. How the Southern Railway Punsh ed an Employee for Discourtesy Towards Its Patrons. "Generally citizens who have rea son to complain against the rail roads or the telepaone or teiegrapn companies do plenty of kicking and incidentally roast the railroad com mission pretty thoroughly for not requiring better service, instead of taking the pro'>er course and imme diately notifying the commission in writing, so that the proper remedy may be applied," says the Columbia Record. Not so. however, with five well known traveling men who happened to be at Blackville one night during the month of November. They prov ed a gratifying exception. The par ty were waiting at Blackville for a Southern Railway train, and the train was late, though posted upon the bulletin board as on time. The Southern's .ticket agent and operator was asked for information but de clined to furnish it, his replies to the traveling men's Inquiries being couched in ungracious language and delivered in a most discourteous way. Instead of going their way and grumbling all up and down the divi sion about the arrogance of railroad agents toward a long-suffering pub lic, etc., these gentlemen promptly complained in writing to the Rail road commissio3n. Each of them signed the letter to the commission. The Railroad commission took the matter up with the Southern at once, and the following letter recent ly received from Division Superinten dent H. A. Williams, of Columbia, shows that the Southern acted upon the complaint without delay: "Mr. B. L. Caughman, Chairman, South Carolina Riailroad Commis sion, City. "Dear Sir: "I have your letter, together with complaint of several traveling men of the services performed at Black rille by our ticket agent and opera tor. I had Train Master King go to Blackville and personally investi gate this matte-. and apply the prop er remedy to this agent. The inves tigation developed the fact that the wires on the Charleston division were in trouble and were not work ing on the date in question. But this could liave been explained to these gentlemen, which would have been satisfactory, I am sure; but on account of nc effort having been made on the part of this man at all to satisfy these people, I am going to relieve him from the service. It is, however, a fact that the agent could not post the board correctlyI on account of wire trouble, and in stead of making an effort to satisfy: these people, he3 posted the train on; time. "Yours truly, "H. A. Williams, Supt." This is not by any means the first time that Superintendent Williams has disciplined his employees for failure to treat the Southern's pa trons with courtesy. It is a known fact that he will gladly entertain and patiently investigate any reasonable complaint that may come from any patron of the road, however, humble the person may be.~ This is directly in line with the Southern's policy to ward South Carolina, as outlined to Governor Ansel recently by President Finley. _______ A DIABC'LICAL CRBM. Woman is Murdered and Her Babe Left to Be Buried. One of the most diabolical crimes ever committed in Gwinnett county. Ga., was perpetrated in Cater dis ~trict, and as a result John Hudson and Henry Campbell, two negroes, are in .iail 5.t Lawrenceville, Ga., charged with raurder and arson. The house of John Hudson was found to be on fire, and when neigh bors came in they discovered the bodies of Hudson's wife and-three months-Old baby in the Sames. The bodies were removed from the burning buildintg, and it was seen al once that the woman had been mur dered by a blow on the head. She was also stabbed through the heart and then also dismembered. The child was not killed, but was left to die in the nlames. Coroner H J. Moon was notified, and after in vestigating the case ordered the ar 1rest of John Hudson and Henr: Capbbell as the murderers. Sheriff Brown brought the tw< negroes immediatelyi to Lawrence ville and placed them in jail. SILLED HIMSELF. Said He Had More Chlde Than B LCould Support. ~'Despondent because of liis inabil eit to provide for his family. Jo eph H. Sheppard. of Millerville, 3 J., killed himself by firing a bulle into his brain. Sheppard comp1&ned often be ha more children than he was able I properly suppiort and several timi Ihad threatened to commit suicid This week a seventh child was adde L.1to the family and the man becan jdistracted. 1Wants the Old Vets. At a meeting of the Confedera eter aus and Sons of Veterans - Grnv ille Thursday night an in' tation w.as extended to the Confe eate Veterans of the State to ho ther next annual reunion in tb ee Man and Wife Burned. s, At Auburn, N. H., James Moult< iI and his wife, each aged more th; n 7 were burned to death in a fi at dtryedvr their home last weE SOLUTION OF MYSTERY New Jersey's Lampblack Swamp Case to Be Cleared Up. Her Husband, With Whom She Is Known to Have Quarreled, Has Been Charged With Her Death. Theodore S. Whitmore, of Brook lyn, N. Y., has been formerly charg e& by the new Jersey courts with the murder of his wife, Lena Whitmore, whose dead body was found half submerged in the Lampblack swamp, at Harrison, a surburb of New York, and which case, until the identity of the woman had been established, was one of the most sensational New York. city has ever known. It took ten days of ceaseless work upon the part of the entire police and detec tive force of the metropolis before the dead body was identified as that of Mrs. Whitmore, hundreds of clews being run to earth and several iden tifications made. But with the one great mystery as to who the woman was cleared away, the authorities can now set to work to find her slayer. Although Theodore Whitmore, her husband, is in Jail charged with the crime, yet it was only by stretching the law a point or two that he was held. He was known to have quar reled with his wife a short time be fore her dead body was found Christ mas day, and it was known that oth er men were paying attention to her. But as sure as the police are that Whitmore knows something about the death of his wife, they are just as certain that he had an aceomplice, but the great question which con fronts them is, who is it? The pris oner had several mysterious visitors at that time of his career, between Dec. 24 and 26, which the police are trying to account for every minute of', but there is a great deal of spec ulation as to who these men were. FIVE BILLED OUTRIGHT. In a Head On Collision Out la Ala ba=n, A special from Vinegar Bend, Ala., tells of a disastrous wreck on the Alabama & Mississippi railroad Fri day, caused by a head on collision between a passenger train and a logging train. Five persons were killed outright and two were serious ly injured. The 'dead are: W. B. Paine, merchant, Vinegar Bend; Charles C. Busbee, a section fore man; three negroes, names unknown. The list of injured is as follows: Frank Marks, engineer of the pas senger train, will die; Henry Hall, fireman of the passenger train, ser iously injured; several negroes slight ly injured. Twelve miles west of Vinegar Bend, the road teirns sharply and the greater portion of this curve is made up of trestling that spans a ravine and a small brook at the bot tom. Running at fair speed, the tres senger train took the curve and tres the trestle gave way and both en came on the opposite end. Before Engineer Marks could bring his train to a stop tne trains met head on in the certre of the trestle. Simultaneously with the collision, the trestle gave way and both en gines and trains fell to the bottom. On the logging train were a number of convicts. -JEGROES LYNCHED. They Assaulted a Farmer and His Wife Murderously. -A dispatch from Hawkinsville, Ga. says a murderous assault was made on Mr. and Mrs. Martin Livingston at their home at Goldsboro in the upper part of the county Thursday night at 9 o'clock by two negro farm hands on the place. Mr. Livingston was struck on the head with a hatchet and his wife' throat was cut. Both were danger ously hurt. and at last accounts were not expected to live. The deed was committed, it is supposed, fIj the purpose of robbery. Sheriff Rogers started at once fI the sceue, but was notified that thi negroes had been captured and sho to death: SCHOONER WRECKED. And All But One of Her Crei - erish. A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., say the schooner that went to pieces o: Diamond Shoals last week has bee: positively identified as the Leonor rom Rouid- :Point, Maine, loade with fish scrap, and bound for Chai eston, S. C. The rescued cook rt gained consciousness and confirme the identification. Wreckage wasl ed ashore bore the name Leonorn Four bodies were washed ashoi during the day and one of the cre e.is still to be accounted for. The lii savers declare that not even a spa of the wreck remains to show wnel -the vessel struck. IENTOMBED ONE MONTH But the Three Miners Are Still We d .and Hearty. ~s A dispat hi from Ely, Nev., sa: - the six inch water pipe throng which air is fanned to the thr e miners that have been entombed f a month -became bent by the pre sure of rock and earth at the 60 foot level and for a time no air cou e e sent to the men. Rescurers, )f redoubling efforts, reached in a f4 ... hours the break and repaired t . pipe. The men are still well b d their rescue is yet far off. t Dr. Joynes Resigns. Dr. Edward S. Joynes who 1 many years has had the chair nmodern languages- at the U'nivers: nof South Carolina has sent in] re resignation. He is one of the m< k. distinihe edncators in the Sou AWFUL RECORD. Rev. Mr. Bristow Writes of Mur ders in This State in THE LAST SIX MONTHS. Since July Last There Has Been One Hundred and Fifty-Eight Murders in South Carolina, of Which Eigh ty-Two Were Committed in Pro hibition Counties and Seventy-Six In Dispensary Counties. Rev. Louis J. Bristow, a young Baptist preacher and a strong pro hibitionist, has been keeping the re cord of the murders committed in this State in the last six months, and gives out the following on the sub ject for publication: "The appalling frequency of homi cides in South Carolina is a matter which should give the officers of the law and all law-abiding people cause for serious consideration. -Legisla tive, executive and judicial officers are confronted with a situation which, if tolerated much longer, will result in untold evil to the state. If necessary, drastic measures should be adopted to put a stop to the reign of riot that is rampant in South Carolina. "For a long time I have been giv ing attentien to the matter, and I herewith append figures covering re ports in the daily papers for the past six months, from July 1 to December 31, inclusive. "Homicides, 158; of the dead, whites 79; negroes, 79; of the slay ers, whites 70, negroes 85, unknown 3. It will thus be seen that the number of deaths Is and the men who did the kil.lings were almost equally divided also. I have often heard it said in answer to argument agsinst killing that the large major ity of the homicides in South Caro lina were ordinary 'nigger killings.' The reports In the daily papers for the last six months are a complete re futation of the claim. "As to the manner of death I find that 121 of the dead were killed by guns and pistol shots; 18 by blows from rocks, brick and pieces of wood; 17 by knife cuts, and two by blows from axes. Here, too is a ter rible indictment against our people: the deadly weapon-the pistol-is carried by far too many men and boys. Pistols are made and carried for the purpose of shooting men, and that person who habitually carries a pistol is in his heart already a murderer, with the possible excep tion of certain officers of the law, who are supposed to go armed. I believe it is true tha't an indictment for murder In this state carries with a charge- of carrying concealed wea pons; but I have never heard of a case where the accused was convicted of the charge, or count, relating thereto. "Another matter, and one which I leave to others to account for: "Of the 158 kIllings since July 1, 82 were committed in prohibition counties and 76 in counties in which there are dispensaries. Since Octo ber 29, killings have been reported in phohibition counties as follows: York. Saluda, Oconee, Union, Pick ens, Marlboro, Cherokee and Spar tanburg, one each; Greenville, New berry, Darlington, two each; Edge field and Marion, three each, Lan caster, four, and Anderson. eleven. "In prohibition counties. Hamp ton. Williamsburg, Georgetown and Dorchester, one each; Charleston and Columbia, two each; Bamberg, Aiken, Orangeburg, Richland, Lau rens, three each, and Barnwell, four. "I recite this last paragraph for the information of those who have desired to compare the homicide re cords of prohibition and dispensary counties. "My remedy for the evil of homi cde is for the legislature to make it a crime, per se, to be punished according to the degree of felony it each case. "To take a human life is an of fense against God and human so ciety, except it be due process oj Slaw. When the Lord gave his lawi to Isreal, he made provision for th4 manslayer who killed by accident But even he was not to go scott free According to the Mosaic dispensa -tion every person guilty of a honmi cde suffered a penalty for his of dfense against human life and society whether the death blow was give1 preneditatedly and wantonly. il heat-- of passion, or in fear; o whether by error or accident~ Thi was God's command: and every prc r vision of the Mosaic economy er 3 shrined some enduring principle B it some lasting moral lesson was it tended to be impressed upo~n th minds of the people. The institutio may be altered or entirely disappea 1 amid changing social conditions; bt the principle ever remains t he same "The Cities of Refuge provided fc sby the Mosaic laws were to. give a aesylumn only to .those wh~o killed I eaccident or error, but even they ha r to suffer on Indeterminate senten< -of conifinement in such city--untl 0- the death of the high pri'est. For a Id other manslayers the penalty we v death. S"It is my conviction, after lot e and serious study of the matte ut that homicide should he a feloi and that punishment should follo upon proof of homicide according the degree of carelessness or wilfi r Iness or felony in each case. W\ere of a legislature I would introduce in ty that body next week a bill declari: s homicide to be a felony, and fixi: )Et the punishment for man killing .-fo two to fift ear innrisonme POSTAL REFORM. An Important Ruling by the Post office Department Subscribers Must pay Up Promptly or Their Paper Will Not be Car ried by the Mails. The Postoffice Department has is sued the following order: A reasonable time will be allowed publishers to secure renewals of sub scriptions, but unless subscriptions are expressly renewed after the term for which they are paid within the following periods-dalles within 8 months. triweeklies within 6 months, semiweeklies within nine months, weeklies within one year-they shall not be counted in the legiti mate list of subscribers, and copies mailed on account thereof shall not be accepted for mailing at the second class postage rate of 1 cent a pound, but may be mailed at the transient second class postage of 1 cent for each four ounces or fraction thereof, prepaid by stamps affixed. The right of a publisher to extend credit for subscription to his publication is not denied or questioned, but his compliance or non-compliance with this regulation will be taken into consideration in determining wheth er the publication is entitled to trans mission at the second class postage rates. Under this order all newspapers will have to come to the cash -in ad-' vance system almost or be heavily fined for violating i.t. At present newspapers are circulated free in the counties in which they are publish ed and one cent per pound for pa pers sent out the county. Under the above order any publisher that sends his paper to a subscriber who is in arrears more than one year for a weekly, nine months for a semi weekly, six months for a tri-weekly, six months for a daily will have to pay one cent postage on each paper sent out by him to such subscriber. This is a tax that no paper, could stand and so they iill all have to come to the cash in advance system, which will be better for all. The subscription- price to a newspaper in the majority of cases is a very small amount. There are few subscribers but could pay it regurlarly and would if compelled by the law to do so. The newspaper is usually a lenient reditor and therefore comes last. This ruling of the postoffice de partment might turn out to be a blessing in disguise to the country press and its subscribers. It will cut off all dead heads and subscrib ers who will not pay, and in conse quence there will be very little loss to the publishers. They can then all publish better papers, which would benefit those subscribers who always pay anyhow. The honest man who expects to pay for his paper wouTd just as leave pay for it in advance as any other way. There is not a paper published that gives almost unlimited time to subscribers but what loses hundreds of dollars every year from this source alone. There is one class of publications that would suffer, and that is the mail order journals, and it is doubt less this class the government is af ter. As the Minneapolis Tribune says, "The department has been try ing to get rid of carrying periodicals that collect a nominal subscription price once to get in the second class and are continued indefinitely free on the pretex of long credit." The country paper will certainly not be injured by the cutting down of the free circulation of mall order journals. It is a pity the govern ment cannot distinguish between the two, for the mail order journal is the chief sinner in this respect, and is responsible for burdening the mails with tons of -natter for the sole pur pose of carrying advertising. SHOT THEMi BOTH. The Murderous Act of a Jealous Young Man. As the result of a tragedy at Mar ion, N. C., which occurred in front of Ithe First National Bank building, James Patterson was killed outright and Alfred Patterson, his brother, was picked up in the street in a dy ing condition. The shooting was done by Grahau Finley, a well-known young man of Marion, and was over Miss Pattersor a sister of the two men shot. -Fin ley met Miss Patterson in companli with Henry Moore, his rival, as th4 -two were returning from church. He demanded that Moore surrender thi girl to him and was met with a prompt, refusal. A personal encounted ensued. an< rthe girl's brothers, who were ais< Sreturning from church with a part: -of ladles, appeared on the scene an< -took their sister's escort's' part whereupon Finley drew his revolve and killed one of them outright an emortally wounded the other. H Swas arrested. tand for dastardly or wilful murde1 death. "I venture the ascertion that ha Sthe 158 persons who killed tfiei fellowmenl during the last half C Cllast year know positively the penalt Sfor homicide was certainly two, po1 iisibly fifty, years' imprisonment. nc 11one-fourth of the number of ham ~cides would have occurred in thi stae. "I know I will be met with tI rcase of person who kills unquestioi LV ably in defense of himself, his hont I or his family. My reply is. we u o uaily have a man of integrity at 1- honor in the governor's chair, I whose hands is the prerogative< to pardon. g "I stated at the outset that drast ig measures should be adopted, I r at peat it. Louis J. Bristow. VERY SAD CASE Mysterious Disappearance of Miss baIle Shannon of Brookiand. TERRIBLE SUSPENSE Has Nearly Driven Her Grief Strick. en Parents Crazy.-The Young Lady Was Lost to Sight on Dee. ember 29, and Since That Day She Has Vanished from Sight and Her Whereabouts Is Unknown. A brother of Miss Sallie Shannoa of Brookland, who has been missing from her home since Sunday after noon, Dec. 29, called at the State of fice and stated that, notwithstanding the numerous rumors circulated within the past week, not a single bit of authentic information concern ing his sister's whereabouts had been received. The girl's family is unable to de cide whether she is .dead or alive. The last she was seen, so far as the family has been able to learn, was about 20 feet from the Gervias street bridge across the Congaree. She was then coming in the direction of Columbia. The police officers In Col umbia and .Brookland do not think she has destroyed herself. Sallie Shannon was engaged to a young man in. Brookland and the marriage was to have taken place within a few weeks, it is said. It is known that they had a quarrel that Sunday afternoon, after which she never returned to her home. She attended Sunday school at the Luth eran church, where she taught a class, and those who saw her going in the direction -of the river bridge' did not observe that she appeared morose or downcast. The keeper of the bridge does not recall having seen the 'girl cross the bridge that afternoon or evening. Mr. Shannon declared with feeling that his sister was a very modest Christian girl and had always exhi ited a very deep interest in church work. She has been a member of the Lutheran church for about -ve. years. While she was usually quiet *and reserved in her manner, she pos sessed a happy disposition. While her relatives have a fear that, she might have jumped into the river while brooding over the misunder standing with her lover, they dedlare positively that nothing in her life would show the least tendency to sul side. Her mother is grief stricken oyer her- disappearance ad the other members of the family have been in sorrow since the fated Sunday. How ever, they still have a lingering hope that Sallie will yet be returned to them, the same bright, cheerful girl that she has ever been. They look by day and pray- by night for her return and the public generally. is appealed to to assist in every way possible to locate her. The police of Columbia have believed that she is in Columbia, but some think she Is in Charleston. Others suspect sui The following accurate desc'ip Sallie Shannen, aged 19; 5 feet- 3 inches in height; weight 130 pounds; light complexion, rosy cheeks; -round rather full face; dark hair and dark eyebrows; blue eyes; hair pompa dour, usually tied with ribbon bow at back; small mouth; medium nose, round chin; stood rather erect snd walked with a spring to heels; when last seen was dressed in light shirt waist, sky blue skirt, wore long gray cloak and no hat; had two rings on second finger of right hand, one plain, other with set; pleasant dispo sition, but rather determined; sel dom displayed any 'temper. Member of Lutheran Church-~ Was formerly employed at timekeeper and book keeper in cotton mill, but has pro fessed desire to be trained nurse. Has relatives in Camden, Chester county, in Columbia and in Missis i ss Shannon's mother, -father, two older sisters and three brothers' are living in Brookland. Any infor mation concerning her should be wired to the State immnediately and the family will be communicated with as soon as any news IS re ceived. -__ _ --,--....__ -FOUR FIREMEN JULE ByaFling -Wall in New York City Friday. At New York four eremen were ailedby falling wall inu a cfa - edn Fourth avenue between Eigh enti and Nineteenth streets. Twen ~ y-six othr weure moe aor lesse sr - The fire was never under control nfnally burned 'itself out being ithdi-iuty confinled to the build ugin which it originated. The loss stimated at $1,500,000. The fire wa s one of the most spectacular as Y elas disastrous of recent years, ein marked by heart-rendinlg t cnes, sensational escapes and --ashes of heroic daring. Fire at Ninety-Six eNinetySix was again visited by a - ery disastrous fire Thursday night. Te Talarm was sounded about 2.30 - 'clock. when it was discovered that *d . C. Hutchison's storewson fre.a i The flames soon spread. to Cthen nd Dr. s 1fo Hland, together with Ic the Ninety-Six telephone exchange, -- the K. -of P. Hall and fixtures, Dr. D. .1.mcanev's dental office and fix