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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1808 NO. 18 CHARGES GRAFT Fleischman & Co, of New York, Askior Receivers of DISPENSARY FUNDS. They Allege That the Reason the Money Is Withheld from Creditors is Because Members of the Dis pensary Commission Have Placed It in Certain Banks in Which They Are IndividuaUy Interested. In the United States Circuit Court Tuesday at Asheville Judge J. C. Pritchard signed an order citing the dispensary commission of South Car blina to appear on Wednesday, Jan. 29, and show cause why the relief prayed in a bill of complaint filed by Fleischman & Co.. of New York, creditors of the dispensary, should not be granted and a receiver ap pointed to take charge of the funds held by the dispensary commission, and the affairs of the commission wound up. The bill of complaint Sled by attorneys representing Fleischman & Co., is interesting and in parts sen sational. The complaint in effect charges that the dispensary som mission has failed to pay the claims of the creditors because the commis sioners are financially interested in the banks in which the great sum of almost $1,000,000 is deposited. The bill alleges that the commission has violated its trusts and a receiver should be appointed to take charge of the monies and affairs now under control of the dispensary commis sion. The bill in part recites that said defendants are abusing the trusts re posed in them by wrongfully and un lawfully failing and refusing to car ry out the terms and provisions of said act of 1907 of the general as sembly of the State of South Caro lina, and that the greater part of the money which the defendants have received, as aforesaid, has been on deposit for many months, and is uow on deposit in certain banks in the State of South Carolina, in which banks the said defendants, or some of them, are respectively Interested, either as officers, stockholders or dir ectors; that a large sum of said mon ey is now in the National Loan and Exchange bank of Columbia, in which bank the defendant, Murray, who is chairman of the dispensary commis sion, is a large.stockholder and dir ector; that another large portion of said money is deposited in the Bank of Timmonsville, in which said bank the defendant, McSween, is a stock holder and director, and is also its president; that another large portion of said money is on deposit In the People's bank of Union, In which bank the defendant, Arthur, is a stockholder and director and also its president; that another large portion of said money is on deposit in theI -Bank of Alken, in which bank the defendan:, Henderson, Is a stock holder and director; that another portion of said money is deposited in the Pledmon: Savings and Invest ment Company of Greenville, in whIch the defendant, Patton, is a stockholder, and a portion of said money Is deposited in the Merchants and Farmers bank of Cheraw, in which bank one W. F. Stevenson. who resides In the said town of Che raw and who is the attorney for the defendants constituting the State dispensary commission, is a stock holder and director and also its pres ident. That the said defendants have wrongfully, unlawfully and fraudu lently declined and refused to make distribution of the said money among the creditor' of the said State dispenasry or to pay the claim of your orator or any of the other said creditors, for the reason, as your orator verily believes and alleges the fact to be. that there has been form ed and now exists an unlawful un derstanding or agreement between the defendants by which it has been decided that the money deposited ID the banks above named shall be held~ and allowed to remain as long a~ possible In said banks and be usec by them for their own benefit and profit. Attorney General Lyon of South Carolina was present in the interest of the dispensary commission. That side contends, In effect, that certain claims of creditors are not genuine: that undue influence was used in the purchase of goods and too great a price was paid.. It is understood that there are claims aggregating about $600,000 against the dispensary commission and these creditors, al leging that the funds in the hands of the commission aggregate about $800,000, demand that their claims be paid. It is probable that there will be an interesting hearing on January 29, when the dispensary commission will appear to show ause why a receiver should not be appointed. TRAGIC ENDING. Merrymakers Are Driv~en 1:nto Their Homes and Burnt Up. A dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria says news has reached here of a ter rible tragedy which occu eu a the village of Dragosh, near Monastir, a town in Macedonia, several days ago. While a festival was in pro gress and the villagers were danc ing upon the lawns in the publie parks, a large band of Greeks sud denly swooped down upon them, and after driving them into their houses, set fire to the buildings and burned them to death. The victims includ ed women and children, and num bered, It is said, between twenty-five and forty-five. BRYAN A WINNER. Henry Watterson Says He Will Be Nominated and Elected. Thinks Gov. hughes, of New York, is the Only Republican, Who Can Defeat the Great Commoner. "Bryan is as good as nominated." "Just so sure as the convention of the Democratic party meets in Den ver next July Bryan will be named as the standard oearer or tme party." "If the country remains in its pres ent condition of unrest, Bryan will be elected." "Governor Hughes is the only can didate the Republican party can name who could defeat Bryan under normal conditions." These quotations express the lat est opinions of Henry Watterson, the I famous editor of the Louisville Cour er-Journal, and are part of an in terview with him while in Washing ton recently. The fact that Col. Watterson has beenieading the fight against Bryan's nomination by the Democratic party, makes his utterances significant. "It is too late to defeat Bryan for I the nomination," said Col. Watter son. "Had I been given six months ago the support of those Democrats, whc are now clamoring for another s nominee, we might have accomplish- C d something. "When I suggested that if Bryan were to withdraw from the contest, I could name a man who measured C ip to all the requirements, a good. 1 winning Democratic candidate for t president. When I named him and ound that he possessed all the qual- c fecations I claimed for him, some c Democrats gave me credit for hay- I ing some perspicuity is now too late. t rhen followed the quotations made ibove. 1 "I am not personally unfriendly c o Mr. Bryan," said Col. Watterson. 'On the contrary, I like him, ard I im convinced that if the country re nains in its present state of un rest, t Bryan will be the victor In the next 8 )ecton. Gov. Hughes is the only I nan the Republicans could name s vho would. have a chance to defeat t :he candidate of the Democrats, how- a er he may be and with the coun- d ry in a normal state he would p-ob- t bly be elected. But I repeat, if the f -ountry remains in a state of unrest, ,ictory will perch on the banner of I he Democrats in the national e'ec- t: ion next November. f "Who appears to you to be in the ead, so far as the Republican nomi- li iation is concerned?" Col. Watter- b on was asked. "If Taft Is not nominated on the I rst ballot, Gov. Hughes will he 9 ,hosen on the second," was the o aconic responce. s "What about the senatorship out c ,n Kentucky-would you become a ~ompromise candidate, if Gov. Beck- g am is not elected?" 'I "I would not come to Washington h :o take the oath of office if a certi- s cate of election were handed to il ne," replied Col. Watterson. t c LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. s IThe Joint Assembly Choose Officers s to Fill Vancancies-. In joint assembly Wednesday the ;enate and house balloted for sev- b ral hours on the elections to fill the r various vacancies. The followinf t were elected: 1 Associate justice--Eugene B. Gary y f Abbeville-. Judge of second circuit-Robert y Ldrch of Barnwell- c State librarian-Miss Lavinia H. a LaBorde of Columbia.f Directors of State penitentiary- a D. B. Peurifoy of Saluda and B. F. 'homas of Barnwell-. Trustee South Carolina Military academy-Orlando Sheppard of Edge- s Trustees University of South Car lna-Robert McFarlane of Darling- y ton and Julius H. Walker of Colum Trustees Winthrop college-Wilie rones of Columbia and J. E. Brea eale of Anderson. Trustees Colored Normal and In dustrial college-Daniel Kibler of Newberry and A. L. Dukes of Or itngeburg. Trustees of Clemson college John G. Richards, Jr., of Kershaw. Coke D. Mann of Oconee and Jesse . Harden of Chester. -I The race between Col. Aldrich and Capt. Sawyer for circuit judge was zlose, the former beating the latter by only thirteen votes. YOUNG MAN MURDERED. is Gun and Garments Found in a Negro's House. The dead body of Thomas Furr, 18 years old, was found a short distance from his home in Union county, the other morning, with a gunshot wound In his heart. Young Furr left home the day be fore in the early evening riding a mule. The animal returned at day light, riderless, with blood on the saddle. A search revealed the murdered body in a field and, later Furr's gun. together with blood-stained garments were found in the cabin of Susie. Watts. a negress, near the scene of the crime. The woman. together with a ne gro man. Charles Stratford. were ar rested, charged with the murder of the young man.t Narrorly Escapes Lynching. On account of the acciddntal kil! ng of some laborers by a railroad locomotive at a surhuban station at Bak. Trans-Caucesa. Tucsday. a mob of the comrades of the victims attempted to lynch the engineer. To escape the engineer opened the: throttl,e and dashed through the cowd, lilling six men and wounding BRYANTRUEBLUE He is foi Democracy and Not Any Particular Man. HE MADE AN ADDRESS ro the Democatic Members of the Kentucky Legislature in the Inter ests of Gov. Beckham,'Who Is the; Democratic Primary Nominee e.f th~e Democratic Party for the Unit ed States Senate. A dispatch from Lexington, Ky., ays the climax of W. J. Bryan's vis t to that city was reached Wednes ay afternoon when he spoke to the )eniocratic members of the legisia-1 ure behind closed doors, advocating he election of former Gov. Beck tam as United States senator. Mr. 3rayan said neither Gov. Beckham or anybody else had invited him to rankfort. He declared he had no fears for imself. He said he was told in the oebel campaign that he might hurt Limself if he came to Kentucky. "I am not afraid of hurting my elf when the interests of the Dem cratic party are at stake," said Mr. ryan. "I might be a candidate this year," e said, "I do not know. Only two elegates have been elected and they ave been instructed for me, but hey are not enough to elect me. If what I say hero affects my hances of election it is not a suffi ient bribe to keep my mouth closed. am in the habit of saying what I He said he had come to Kentucky ot for Beckham, but fo: the Demo ratic nominee and that If McCreary ere the nominee for senator he ould he here speaking for McCrary. "I am here," he said, "because I elieve the Democratic ticket has a ood chance to be elected this year. do not know who the Democratic tandard-bearer may be, but I know iat it takes a Democratic senate nd house to uphold the president. I o not want to be president simpiy > sit in a chair, but to do something yr the people. "All the popularity of the Repub can president has come from adop on of Democratic principles and re 'rm. "We cannot rely much on Repub can senators. We may get the ouse, but it will require an over 'helming victory to get the senate. am hopeful we may make enough ains to secure the senat. for Dem eratic reform. On the vote of one nator may rest the fate of Demo ratic principles. "For a generation we have had a overnment under corporate control. his government was sold to the ighest bidder and since that time a tturalia feast has existed at Wash igton. The only relief Is a Demo atic triumph this fall; not only the hite House. but also the house and nate. The legislature of Kentucky ies a great responsibility and ould arise to the occasion and elect Democratic senator on whose vote e deliverance may result." He said personalities should not e allowed to figure in politics. He aid it was wrong for Democrats to ~fuse to support men just because ley did not want them. He said in 904 he took his medicine in Parker. arker was the man above all others e did not want, "but," declared ryan, "he stood for more Demo rats than the Republicans did and I ccepted him and did what I could >r him. Give me a bitter enemy nd if he stands for the same things stand for I v-ill do more for him ban his best friend." At the conclusion of Mr. Bryan's peech to the Democratic members f the legislature, Senator Wheeler ampbell, one of the anti-Beckham )emocrts arose and said he would efrain from making public his rea ons why he would not vote for Beck am for senator, but he would give Ir. Bryan his reasons in private and .e felt sure Mr. Bryan would shake a.ds with him and say: "Well one, good and faithful Dcmocrat." I was grceted with hisses. Mr. Bryan made an address be or the legislature speaking as fol "The embezzlement of power is as ;reat a crime as the embezzlement >f money." Mr. Bryan was referring to the nan who is elected to a legislative ,ody and then votes against the wish s of the people who sent him. "I 1pe the time will come," he said, 'when such betrayers will be wiped ron power." Mr. Bryan declared that legisla :ors who are too conscientious to rote as those who elect them want ~hould be conscientious enough to -esign their offices. "The rights of the corporations ex :end only to those given to them by w" declared Mr. Bryan. The warnings of President Roosevelt as o great fortunes which had been built up by the growth of the' cor porations was warmly commended by the speaker. Mr'. Bryan said that he wanted to expresS his gratification and gratitude for the taking off from his shoulder a part of the cussingz corporations which he formerly had to bear. According to the speaker the re cent panic was due to fictitious val ies. The ratilroads, he said, "had palmed off on the public" stocks that were the primary cause of the dis turbance. He said every State should pass such laws or amendments as would make impossible watered stock and fictitious capitalization. t Tried to Destroy Factory. At Clarksville, Tenn.. an attempt was made Wednesday night to set fire and dynamite the loose tobacco fe-actr ofihe Jnves-Sorey Tobacco LOCKER CLUBS Over in Georgia Will Be Put Out of Business. United States Judge Speer Rules that Each Member of Them Must Pay Twenty-Five Dollirs License. A dispatch from Savannah. Ge., to the Augusta Chronicle bays "trou ble of a deep nature is looming ahead for the locker clubs of Georgia those oases in the desert into which the prohibition ha-e converted the State, and unto which those who are sore at thirst are wont to wend their way. "This trouble is not that which is lurking in the approaching session of the legislature, but it awaits the clubs in the term of the United States court for the Southern district of Georgia, which is to convene in Savannah on February 20. Judge Emory Speer sounded the docket for the term. He will return to hold court beginning February 20. "Asked about the status of the locker clubs in Georgia, Judge Speer caused surprise when he said that he would charge the United States grand jury that the clubs are con ducted in opposition to the statute requiring that each place where li uor is sold or dealt in in any way shall pay a license of $25 to the fed eral government. Each and every member of the clubs, said Judge Speer is, under the law, liable for such a license. He is required to take out such a license and to post 1 n a conspicious place. "Thus far the members in no case ave complied with the law, and the judge says he will charge the jury to nvestigate this omission. This, of ourse, means the death of locker .lubs. "Judge Speer said the im;ression >revails up the State that no Savan tah jury would take cognizance of ailures to observe the prohibition aw. This, he is not inclined to be ieve, he said, for he had found Sa -annah citizens ever ready to do their luty.as jurors. "However, the judge naively con inued, that if he found it necessary te might call upon the 'sturdy yeo anry' of Bullock, Emanuel, Screv n and other neighboring counties to ,ome to his aid in enforcing the law. 'It was quite evident that Judge f peer was fully informed of the ra id mushroom growth of locker lubs in Savannah." t BRUTALLY ASSAULTED. Iit in the Head With a Brick on the Street. S A Sumter dispatch says Mr. Law- t ~ence DuBose of the Mechanicsville ; section was going down south Har-C ln street Tuesday night at 7 o'clock e was assaulted Dy a negro and his c ;kull crushed by a brick. He wasc aken to the Sumter hospital and is n a very critical conditior., his skull e eng so crushed that it rests upon c :he brain and a very delicate opera ;lon had to be performed. From all that can be learned of :he affair Mr. DuBose wsns in com any with a Mr. Easterling; and theyr were going to the Coast Line Passen-t er depot. It is said that the nergo an against Mr. DuBose on the street nd then attacked Mr. DuBose. Mr.E asterling went to the residence of 3 Alderman P. P. Finn, told him of ;he attack and asked that a physi ian be called, which was done im nediately, Dr. Walter Cheyne re sponding. Easterling is said to haye mys Leriously disappeared after the as sault, and it is alleged he took the1 irain. He is supposed to be from Dalell section. It was learned later by the offcers that one Dan Robinson, . colored man, who runs on the orth & Western train between Cam en and Sumter. committed the as sault. He did not return on the train as usual the next morning and the amden offcers have been asked to capture him. He is said to have old some negroes at the depot that 1 assaulted a white man. ATTACKED BY ANGRY BULL. Two Young Women Frightened and Injured by Ferocious Animal. Chased by an angry bull. Misses Phoebe Polhemus and Jessie Cava-] naugh tried to take refuge in a tree in their uncle's pasture, near Jack sonville, N. J. Miss Polhemus was climbing a small birch, when she felt the tree shaking violently and The girl landed upon the back of the bull, which she clutched as a drowning man clutches at a plank. The animal bounded off across the uneven ground, carrying her a quar ter of a mile before it stumbled and fell, throwing Miss Polhemus over its head. The shock that had shaken Miss Pohemus out of the tree was caused by Miss Cavanaugh being tossed hy the bull into the branches. When Farmer Cavanaugh rushed to the as sistance of his nieces, he found Jes sie hanging from a limb by her skirts. The girls were hysterical. Miss Cavanaugh was badly bruised, and will be kept to her bed for sev eral days. t Brawley Cuts Sentence. Henry W. Thompson, a prominent young Spartanburg stock broker who got into trouble last summer by us ing the mails for fraudulent pur poses to get $5,900 from a York. ?a.. firm for Aik-en mill stock, which he pretended was to be sold to an Au gusta broker, pleaded guilty in the Federal Court at Columbia Wednes day and was given 18 months in the tana Federal nrison. PASSED THE HOUSE. The Repeal of the Lien Law Now Almost Certain. Strong Arguments Made on Both Sides.-Believed That the Bill Will Pass the Senate. An overwhelming vote in the house passed Mr. Richards' bill for the re peal of the lien law to a third read ng Friday morning. The bill passed was very short, being as follows: "Section 1. That section 3059, olume 1, code of laws, South Caro ina, 1902, relating to liens for ad vances, be, and the same is hereby, epealed. Sec. 2. That all acts or parts of icts inconsistent with this act be, ind the same are hereby, repealed. "Provided, This act shall take ef ect on the first day of January, A. ). 1909." When special order bills were -eached Mr. Richards at once called 'or the lien law measure. Mr. Ruck r, who had the floor the day before vhen the proceedings were interupt d by Gen. Lee's speech, was rcog iized. Mr. Rucker stated at the utset that he was in a hopeless min >rity, but he thought the general as embly was making a mistake in >assing the Richards bill. However, f the arguments made by the major ty were correct he wanted the re >eal to go into effect at once, and Lsked Mr. Richards if he were will ng for this. Mr. Richards said that Le was not. Mr. E. E. Verner, one of the most arnest advocates for the repeal of he law, talked at length in favor of he pasage of the bill. He was fol owed by Mr. Harrison of Greenville, ho argued against the repeal of the aw. Mr. J. P. Gibson stated that he had alled a mass meeting of farmers in Jis ocunty, Marlboro, to discuss the aatter, but afterwards this meeting vas called off. With present labor onditions and the fact that there .re now in the fields of his county 00 bales of unpicked cotton he hought the repeal of the law un rise. Mr. Garris also made a vigorous ght agains: the repeal of the law, iting labor conditions and the need r encouraging the small farmers. tepresentatives Brantley, Wyche and L. G. Brice all spoke In favor of the epeal and denied the statement that he repeal would enslave the small armer. Mr. Richards, the author of the roposed repeal, then spoke. He call d attention to the fight year after ear, the agitation by the farmers nd urged his argument that the re eal of the law would not be a hard hip on the tenant farmer, as was laimed by the opposition. In an wer to Mr. Rucker he would say that be reason he did not wish the re eal to go into effect at once was be ause it would work a hardship on hose holding liens. He therefore anted to give the landlords or farm wners time to prepare for the hange. He believed that the re eal might temporarily effect some the tenants and some of the land wners, but in the long run it would rove a blessing and would take out f the grasp of the merchant-farmer, Tho charged anywhere from 25 to 00 per cent. for supplies, the poor aan who worked a small portion of he farm. The Vote. On the motion to strike out the nacting words of the bill, made by Ir. Sellers, the vote was as follows: Nays-Whaley, Aull, Ayer, Bal entine. Bethune, Boyd, Brantley, rice,'A. G., Brice, T. S., Bryan, W. )., Bryan, F. M., Cannon, Carson, arwle, Cosgrove, Cothran, Court .ey, Croft, Culler, DeVore, Dick, )ingle, Dixon, Dodd, 3. H. Dowling, pps, Frost, Gary, Gause, Gibsen, W. .Glasscock, Gyles, Hall, Harmon, arris, Hughes, Hydrick, Johnstone, ones, Kellahan, Kershaw. Kirven, ane, Lawson, Lester, Legare, Ma or, McKeown, Mann, Miley, Miller, orrell, Nash, Nesbitt, Nicholson,. ~iver, Richards, Richardson, Saw er, Saye, Scarborough, Sharpe, laughter, Smith, J. E., Stillwell, ;tubbs, Tatum, Todd, Tomkins, Van Ler Horst, Verner, Wade, Wanna naker, Wiggins, Wingard, Wyche, Yeas-Bailey, Beattie, Carey, Car igan, Clary, Clinkscales, Derham, )oar, Douglass, J. P., Gibson, Good vin, Harley, Harrison, Hinton, Lit :le, McMaster, Nickols, Norton, Par ter, Patterson, Reaves, Rucker, Sel ers, K. P. Smith, Thomas, VonKol itz. Wallace, Wimberly-29. Pairs-Fraser, aye, Leitner, no; Nalker, aye, Arnold, no; Robinson, io, Spivey, aye; Garris, aye, You nans, no; Grier, aye, Cox, no. Amendments Voted Down. The house voted down the propo ition by 91 to 24. to make the law affective at once and by a vote of 81 o 23 voted down Mr. McMaster's proposition to extend the time for the enforcement of the repeal until 1910. Mr. Richards believes that the act will pass the senate by a majority of at least four and possibly five. He has canvassed that body thoroughly and the repeal is certai: ~~e will now support the bill offe' -y Mr. Hydrick, which will protee., e farm ers and tenants, in that a mortgage on a crop before it begins to grow is forbidden. Mr. Hydrick's bill is. as follows: "No mortgage of any crop or crops shall be good and effective to convey to the mortgagee any inter est in any crop or crops to be raised during the year in which said mort gage is given, and unless the land whereon said crop or crops are to be raised shall be described or men tioned in said mortgage, and unless the crop or crops herein referred to shall be up and growing at the time of the execution of the mortgage. That said amendment shall not take effect until the first day of Jan uay,1 09'- t SAVED AT LAST Rescued From Mine After Being Entombed Over Forty Days. FED THROUGH A PIPE. A. D. Bailey, P. J. Brown and F. M3..Donald, Three Miners, After Be ing Prisoners in a Colorada Mine Since the First of Last December, Were Brought to the Surface One Day Last Week. After having been entombed 46 days, one thousand feet below the surface in the Alpha shaft of the Giroux mine, near Ely, Nev., P. J. Brown, A. D. Bailey and Fred Mc Donald were rescued last week. Whistles all over the camp blew loudly, while crowds cheered in the streets of Ely to the ringing of the bells. "Ah," was the only word of Bail ey, the first to reach the outer air. Ee tottered forward into the arms f comrades, who in a few minutes recuperated him. "Is that you, Arthur?" queried Fred McDonald, as his brother step ped forward and embraced him after aearly seven weeks of seperation. 'By George, it certainly seems good o be out of that hole," he said as de was led away, telling his brother )f his terrible experience. "Somebody give me a chew of to 3acco," said Brown, with a laugh as e was led frcm the mine shaft to :he change room where the three nen were made comfortable. The news that rescue was near at band reached Ely from the mine hortly after 11 o'clock the day be ore and many citizens went to the nouth of the shaft to greet the men. Iany hours passed while the crowd alted and the entombed men and :heir rescuers dug vigorously to re nove the earth that blocked the notth of the 1,000 feet tunnel. Finally the anxious crowd around he shaft heard the bell signal, 'hoist. away" and a loud cheer urst forth. The basket soon rose to he surface, bearing one of the res uers supporting Bailey. Mrs. Bail y was not present, as one of he, hildren was sick. As soon as Bail )y was provided with clean clothes ie hurried home supported '>y riends. Another shout of joy greeted Fred dcDonald and when the last man ?eter Brown, came out the crowd be ame almost hysterical, realizing hat the long entombment was end d. On the morning of December 4th, acDonald, Brown and Bailey and wo Greeks were working in the 1' - om of a shaft 85 feet below the >ump ststion and 1,685 feet below he surface. The shaft caved in, mapping the cable used to haul the ~age from the shaft and hurling :housands of tons of rock and tim yers Into the shaft. From the bot :om of the compartment in which he men were working to the pump ng station, a series of rickety lad ers offered the only means of eg 'ess. With falling rocks and timbers streaming down~ or, them the five nen struggled up these ladders, Half ~ay up falling timbers knock'ed the wo Greeks from the ladders killing hem. Bailey, McDonald and Brown eached the pump station. Its tim ered roof withstood the rock and :iber that came down the shaft and >frered them a safe prison where for L whole day the men crouched, 'hile at inervals, rocks and timbers ept crashing about them, threaten ng momentarily to crush the deep omb. At first it was thought on ths sur ace that all five of the men had per shed, but twenty-four hours after ~he accident the three buriei men nanaged to make themselves heard by tapping on a six inch water pipe hat reached from the pumping sta ion to the surface. Communication was established with the world above and food and drink were plen teously lowered through the pipe. A large supply was sent down, as it was feared the pipe might be brok en before the rescurers. could reach the imprisoned men. But through out the long weeks of imprisonment this pipe was dailey used. A port able telephone was lowered and the men were able to talk with people above. This telephone carried from friends news of the world and mes sages of cheer, and from the bur ied men reports of their condition. STRANGE OCCURRENCE. Three Large Islands Said to Have Dissapeared Recently. The Mexican meterological bureau has been advised that recent sub terranean disturbances off the coast of Yucatan have caused the islands of Obispo, Sur and Cuyonevo to dis appear. They were of considerable size and were well known to naviga tors. There were several guano camps upon two of them. The har bor at Progreso has had its depth great decreased. t FIVE FIREMEN KILLED While Fighting a Fire Friday in the City of Baltimore. At Baltimore five firemen were killed and twenty seriously injured by falling walls early Friday morn ing in what was the greatest fire which that city has experienced since the great conflagration of 1904. Among the worst injured Is George Horton. chief of the fire department. The loss caused by the flames is es ti+adat moure than $500,000. t OFFICER KILLED. Shot By a Convict Who Escaped Two Months Ago. Policeman W. A. Clyde, of Sumter, Shot to Death While Trying to Ar rest a Negro Convict. Policeman Clyde, of Sumter, was shot and killed about twelve o'clock Monday night by Toney Moses, -col ored, an escaped convict, near Bos sards, Sumter county. Moses es caped about two months ago from the Sumter chaingang. He was lo cated Monday night at a house near Bossards. Officer Clyde and Consta ble Nunnamaker went out to cap ture him, as a reward had been of lered for his capture. The officers rent to the house and demanded ad nittance. Mr. Clyde went to one loor and Mr. Nunnamaker to another loor. Mr. Clyde forced his way into Jhe house with his characteristic bravery and found Moses under a bed. He called upon Moses to come out and surrender, but Moses' reply was a shot from a shotgun, which took effect in Mr. Clyde's abdomen. The popular and efficient officer succumb ed to the terrible wound within a few hours, erhibiting rare fortitude-and forbearance. Mr. Nunnamaker went to the assistance of his injured brother officer and medical assistance was secured as soon as possible. Mr. Clyde meanwhile being taken to the house of Mr. Marion Dorn, where he died about two o'clock Tuesday morning. The affair has created consternation in Sumter and is regretted beyond expression. Mr. Clyde's brother. officers of the Sum ter police force are using every means to locate his murderer. The city of Sumter has offered a reward of $100 for the arrest of Moses. While public sentiment is very bitter against Moses still it can not be said that excitement runs high. Less than a month ago this gen al and kind hearted officer's little 2-year-old child was burned to death. rhe coroner's jury returned a ver dict in accordance with the facts, and implicated Daphne McDaniels, )ne of the women in the house at the time of 'the shooting, who was placed In jail. - The, murdered officer. has many riends in Orangeburg, havizig lived bere four years when his father was the Presiding Elder of - the Orange burg District. They regretted to hear )f his tragic death, and hope the brutal murderer will be eaught and punished. REFUSED AID TO HIS SISTER and So He Shot Down and Murder ed M. Sviridoff. At Krasno-Ufimst, Russia, Syiri doff, president of the 'ocal Zemst ro, was shot to &le.t Dy a brother f MIle. Ragozin: o va, the murder ss of General Mze noffsky, director af the department of prisons of the ministry of the intarior, on October. 28 last. It is sulosed that the mur der was committed in revenge for the refusal of . M. Sylridoff to make any move in behalf of Mlle. Rago innikova during her trial. Mlle. Rigozinnikova was a daugh ter of a teacher in the imperial conservatory of Music of Perm pro vince. Sh~e presented herself at the weekly reception of General Mai moffsky in St. Petersburg, and when admitted to his presence, drew a re volver and fired seven shots at the general, six bullets taking effect. On Oct. 3 Mlle. Ragozinnikova was hanged. THE UNWRITTEN LAW. Woman Acquitted for Killing Ma'n Who Wronged Her. At El Paso, Texas, having follow ed Robert J. Schram to his rooma and shot him down after he refused to right her - wrong by marrying her just two days after the verdict of not quilty in the Bradley case, in Washington, Mary Adloff was found not guilty of murder and released, both on the plea of "unwritten law," and temporarily insanity. She admitted killing Schram, but said after she nursed his dying wife at LaJounta, Col., he made love to her, promised tQ marry her, and then betrayed her and left .for- El Paso, where, when she followed and asked him to keep his promise and marry her, he struck her. Women hugged her as she stepped forth free and they squeezed the hands of the .iury and said, "God bless you." t THEY ARE FOR BRYAN. National Committeemen Have a Talk With the Commoner. A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says WillIam 3. Bryan met the sub committee of the Democratic national committee at the Rock Island station and shook hands with all the mem bers, including National Committee man Roger Sullivan, of Illinois, whom he attacked several months ago as an emeny of the Democratic party. Sullivan said to Mr. Bryan: "You nead have no fear from us; we are all for you." Others in teh party were Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, chairman; Nor man E. Mack, .of Buffald, N. Y.,; Urey Woodson, of Kentucky, and James C. Dahlman, of Omaha. The committeemen are on the way to Denver to arrange for the nation al convemtion. AWFUL TRAGEDY In a Crowded Cafe in the City of New York. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Frank Brady, Newspaper Advertis fng Solicitor, Made Target for Five Pistol Bals from Weapon in the Hands of Woman at Whose House He Had Boarded, Which COreted a Panic in Cafe. The was a terrible tragedy enact ed in a crowded cafe In the city of New York on Thursday. Sweeping through the crowded restaurant takes up the eighth floor -of Macy's department and into the gentlemen's cafe, a tall, stylishly dressed woman bent for a moment over the shoulder of a diner, whispered something-in his ear and then draiving a revolver from her muff emptied the contents of the fnve chambers into his body. As the victim, Frank Brady, a. ewspaper advertising sOiiitor, slip ped lifeless to the floor, the woman lung the revolver from her and taking a second revolver from her muff shot herself rst 1n- the head, and then twice in the breast - died half an hour later. A note fuond in the woman's purse proved her to be Mrs. Mary~Roberts clark, a manicurist, the widow of a police officer and stepmother of a six-year-old son, Raymond. Brady was thirty 'years old and the sole upport of a helpless aged mother, lor whom he had made a home. The shooting was the culmination A a series of violent quarrels, and, ccording to the woman's intimates, n fulfillment of a threat to murder Brady in a public place. The suicide, who was about thirty rears years old, was Mary McLean when she marired John Roberts. When the later died a year ago she ssumed the name'of Clark and-sup ported herself and child frst as the wardrobe woman at an up-town the tre and then a manicurist. She was. of a prepossing appearance md had marked business ability. .While. she was In prosperous cir :mstances and before the death .of ier husband Brady had lodging- at. ier home, and she declared that she ad helped him to the success which 1e subsequently attained. - 'A few nonths ago he left her home and nade a home for his mother, whom ie brought from New Jersey. Recently Mrs. Clark thought that rady was avoiding her, and when le called at her home, occassionally :hey quarrelled. Thursday Mrs. "lark went to her bank, m. le a cash deposit, wrote a note identi yng herself and referring the read sr to her attorney, and armed with :hree' revolvers went, to the store where she knew Brady usually lunch She made her way hastily to a small smoaking room for gentlemen ust off the dining hall. The big oom was .filled with women who were lunching after the morning's shopping, and* amid the buzz of the :onversation her agitated manner..at :racted the -attention -only of the waitressesss.. In a momnent she stood behind Brady's chair and spoke to himL Be ore he had time to reply she had hoved a revolver in his face and :ommenced firing. The. head,~the iek, the shoulder, the breast and :he abdomen were successively pierc ad by bullets, -and Brady lay dead at her feet. .Giving one glance to the half doz m men nearby who were momentar ly stunned'. by the pitiless murder, Irs. Clark whipped. another weapon from her furs and -put a bullet near der right ear and two otihers in her bosom. The report of the discharges ereat ed consternation and there was a rush, fof the elevators. Employees f the place quickly closed the doors, sutting off the view of the smoaking room and reassuring the women pa trons, few .of whoma realized what had odeurred. The police broke the news to ~Brady's aged mother and the Gerry Society took charge of the ead woman's body.t FATALLY HUR~T. IN RINAWAY. Sad ccident Causes Young Lady to - Lose Her Life. One - of the saddest of accidents happened over in Barnwell last Tues day. About eleven~ o'clock that morning Miss"Bertha Walker, of Ap pleton, was 'out driving a spirited horse. She stopped at the home of a friend for a few minutes and while in the house -the horse ran off with the buggy. He was caught by a negro and brought back to Miss.Wal ker. The horse was excited and the man urged her to let him drive her home. Miss Walker being an excellent horsewoman and having full confi dence in herself started to get in the buggy alone. As she got on the step the horse dashed off and before Miss Walker could get in or take the reins, she was dashed headlong into a large tree. The full force of the blow was received on the head, frac turing the skull and lascerating her face. . - Nearby friends rushed to her aid and found her in an unconscious con dition. She was immediately taken to the home of her uncle, Mr. J. C. Keel, where she was visiting and given medical attention. Drs. A.. B. Patterson, E. L. Patterson and R. C. Kirkland attended -her. They oper ated in hopes of saving her life, but the fracture was so severe and other injuries so serious that she died de spite their efforts. at 4 o'clock Tues a afternoon.