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VOL. XXII NLAN NIN G, S. C. AV, EDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19I98N.2 MANY KILLED And Much Property Destroyed by a Destructive Cyclone. SWEEPS TEXAS TOWN Two Known to Be Dead and Many Fatalities Are Feared-Buildings Flattened and Wire Lines Prostrat ed-Tornado Vis-sMississippiWip ing Out Three Towns, Destroying Life and Prdperty in Many Places., Tyler, Texas, was swept by the most disastrous tornado in its history before daylight Friday. Coming from the southwest, the storm swept over the main residence quarter of the city, leaving a trail of death and devastation. The known dead are C. A. Francis, agent of the Dallas News, and his wife and baby and a negro, Mose Lee. Francis's body was found a hun dred yards from his wrecked home. The body of his child was found in the street. Mrs. Francis was in the wreckage of the building. Six seriously injured" persons are reported. They are Irwin Franklin and his wife and four children. One of the children may die. The Frank- I lins were caught in the wreckage of their home. I Wires are. down in all directions ] from Tyler, but reports from far- ] mers are that farm houses along the ] lines were blown down. It is im possible to ascertain the loss of life in rural regions, but it Is known the I tornado swept everything clean for . a distance of five miles. I Three miles from the town the ( wind demolished the home of Irwin I Franklin, severely wounding Franklin t and his wife and four children. The t tornado tore a path through Tyler I 100 feet wide. Buildings, telephone i and electric light poles were laid flat in the storm's path, while great dam- f age was done in other parts of the t eity. *t CYCLONE IN MISSISIPpL six People Killed and Three Small Towns Demolished. d A dispatch from Meridan says 3 small towns were practically demol- r ished by a tornado Friday. Reports f of the number of the killed range 1 from six to ten, with the smaller number probably correct. Mossville, Service and Soso are the towns destroyed. They are all in Jones County and all are very small being merely a handful of seattered dwellings. The tornado struck them about noon. and in most instanc'es is report ed to have tarried buildings in its path completely off the lots on which they stood. Nearby fields were cov ered with wreckage, and the branches of several trees were littered with small household articles. L. S. Norrison, a resident of Moss ville, said that he was out of doors during the blow and was compelled to grasp a wire fence to keep from3 being blown away. He said the dead at Mossville are Alexander Windhami and wife, negroes. Near the town he said four white persons had been killed. a man and his wife and their two caildrenl, whose names he did not learn. The seriously injured at Mossville are J. W. Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Win. Campbell and Minnie Campbell. Near Service one child of Ike Hol- j, loway is reported dead and also an unknown negro. The tornado was accompanied by a torrent of rain, which caused a sudden rise in the ereeks and washed away several bridges.1 FUSILADE OF SNOWBALLS Causes the Death of an Old Man in New York. In New York on Wednesday boyr' returning from school snowballed ani old man who tottered along Green wich street. He sank down on thi steps of an old house beneath a int ilade of snowballs. His tormentr were preparing more missil5 when a policeman appeared ani it w. learned that the man was dead. FE was recognized as Thomas Thom:' once a wealthy man of good familh whose fortune was swept away yean~ ao 3MAN VICTIMS Of Hydrophobia Being Treated :in New York City. The New York health authoritc" admit that there are at least fift: cases of hydrophobia being treater' in New York. There has been ar unusual number of cases of this dis ease in the city for the last two yean~ and whil e just at present there seems to be a smaller number than usua: since the outbreak of the epideic there are many more cases than wer' known at any time previous to the epidemic which has been on for twc years. STEPPED ON LIVE WIRE, And Both Horse and Lad Were In stantly Killed. At Thompson. Ga., Willie Richards the eighteen year old son of John H. Richards of that county, was kill ed in a most horrible manner Thurs day afternoon. The electric wire leading from the electric plant to the Smith Manu facturing Company fel to the ground, and was still on the ground when young Richards came up the road, and the horse's feet struck the live wire, killing both the hore and rider instantly.* FAKE WHISKEY FIRMS Whiskey Was Bought From Houses That Never Has Existed. Remarkable Testimony as to Dispen sary Creditors Brought Out at the Hearing in Columbia On Thursday. It having been established before the dispensary commission that the address given as headquarters of the alleged liquor firm of Belair Distill ing Company is in a fashionable res idence of Baltimore, it was brought out at the hearing Thursday that the address given at the Washington branch of the Belair concern was the same address of Richard & Co., 480 Pennsylvania avenue. From letter heads of both con cerns it was shown that J. S. Richard, a -ember of the firm of Richard & Co., was also president of the Belair concern, and then it was shown that Richard is a brother-in-law of M. V. Goodman, the agent of Ullman & Co., who is now under bond on :harges of conspiracy to defraud the tate. The Belair Company, it appeared, began to do business with the dis pensary after 1905, when Ullman & ,o. were put on the blacklist by the Iay committee. It was then stated >y Mr. Felder that Goodman had put n bids for Ullman & Co., the Anchor sistilling Comparj, Strauss & Co., ichard & Co., the Commonwealth )istilling Company and the Belair )istilling Company, all of which got uciness from the dispensary, and all f which according to Mr. Felder, be onged to the "Ullman family." It ras shown that Goodman in 1903 ad put in a bid as president of the ommonwealth Company, though in is recent testimony he said he left he Commonwealth Company before hat year. The old dispensary law rohibited one concern putting in ore than one bid. The commission passed a judgment Lnding that on account of overcharg s the Belair concern was indebted to he State in the sum of $10,492 to rhch is to be applied the amount f :he claim, $6,386.41. But if the ;elair concern is a fake concern rhat is the judgment worth? To how that it is a fake concern. Fei Ler said no record of its charter ould be found in any State; there ras no response to a notice sent by egistered mail, no one had appeared or the concern and the house could ot be found in Baltimore by a col ction agency. During the investi ation Mr. Lyon suspected that the . elair concern was a protege of leischman & Co. He was on the rack, but did not get the game. Evidence was also produced to ow that J. W. Kelly & Co., and ring & Co., both~ of Chattanooga, as one and the same Concern and oth had put in bids on Silver Spring orn liquor at prices 20 per cent. igher than Kelly & Co. had charg l other customers outside the State. 'he claim of King & Co. amounts to. 6,395. DYNAMITED) AMERICANS. 1: exicanl Miners Blow Up Quarterst and Many Were Injured. Mexicans employed at Santa RosaI aine in Sopora. two miles son 'of 1 )ouglas. Ariz., tried to kill every -merican in the camp by placing 1 ticks of dynamite under the Amern- 1 an boarding house, the company's C tore and the forman's office. The Lynamite under th~e hoarding house t ent a dozen men through the roof. I 11 of them had legs and arms brok-1 tn and some were more or less dan ~erously injured. The fuses were imed so that the explosions would ccur almost simultaneously and the our selected was that of the evening( neal. Dynamite was also placed be teath the superintendenit's residence.( ('he comp~any store was completel.< emolished. * t FORAKERl BEATEN IN 0OHO. Roosevelt's Man Friday Cleans Him tIp All Over State. The net result of the Republic". timaries held throughout Ohio wa 'or Wmt. H. Taft.- Four~ delegates t large and 22 district delegates to :he National Conventionl in Chicago. nd a delegate to the State Conven ion to be held March 3, which will e unanimously in his favor, werej iected. -Actual voting for delegates o the State Convention was carried mn in but thirty-five outt of the total f 88 counties in the State. The 'aft delegates in 52 counties having! no opposition, their name were sim ly certified as having been elected. SAME OLD) STORY. Nine Men Killed in a Mine E-xplo sion in Kientucky. Nine men are dead and one in a dying condition as the resu:- of an explosion of gas in the White Sfine~ t South Carolton three midles northi of Central. Ky. Ten men wer at work in a shaft 180 feet de-ep in a~ room apart fromt the rest of the mine and three more were in a dif'erent part of the mine. Suddenly thtey heard a terrific explosion und till were hurled to the ground. Rlecov ering. they rushed to the rescue of their companionis, only to thnd the room filled with fallen coal, and r> hear the cries of the dying. Six Burned to Ueath. Lawrence Haake's wife and six children. ranging from a new born infant to a girl of 13 years of age. were burned to death Wednesday ini thi shack at New Liskard, north of LYON FUNGS LIE At Editor Koester of the Columbia Evening Record WHILE HE IS IN COURT As a Witness, Where le Had Been Summoned by the Attorney-Gener al to Give Iis Reasons for Assert ing That the Attorney General Has Been Trying to Convict in Dispen sary Cases with Bought Testimony. During the session of the dispen sary commission Thursday after noon. Attorney General Lyon de nounced Mr. George R. Koeter, edi tor and manager of the Columbia Record, as "A most infamous and dirty liar." Mr. Koester, who was present, asea ror tfe protection of the Court, and arose from his chair. The situation was tense and Commis sioner Patton also arose as if to step between Lyon and Koester. Mr. Lyon warned Mr. Koester not to approach and dramatically told him he (Lyons) walked the streets of Columbia and was personally responrible for what he said. The incident grew out of an edi orial in the Record Wednesday af torial in the Record Thursday af rought into the room while the com mission was in session and the at ention of Mr. Lyon was called to the editorial. Mr. Lyon had just onie into the room. ,He at once re uested the commission to summon Ir. Koester. This was agreed to, nd Mr. Stevenson, drew up the sum ons, which was signed by Mr. Mc ween. The marshal of the commis ion was given the paper and within half hour or so returned with Mr. oester, who had come very willing . He was examined under oath by [r. Stevenson, the regular counsel >or the commission. Mr. Koester Questioned. The offlicial record is in substanee Ls follows: Q. Mr. Koester, the attention of he commission has been drawn to his paragraph in this afternoon's laily paper as follows: "Tae Record has been asked why it ssails Attorney General Lyon and eeks to hamper his attempts to have 'grafters" punished. The insinua ion in the question is that the Re ord is in sympathy with the "graf rs." The insinuation is too con emptible to notice. "Explanation of the Record's atti ude toward Mr. Lyon is wanted. It s easy to give. If there has been raft the Record, as much as Mr. yon or anybody else, wants it ex iosed and the guilty punished, but e methods employed to bring about at desired result should be clean. nd honorable and command respect. is Mr. Lyon's methods to which e Record objects. Wherever the .nglo-Saxon civilazation has spread common maxim of its Courts has 4een that it is better for a thousand ~uilty men to escape than that one nocent man should be punished. "Similar in spirit is the Record's 4elef that it is better that all dis ensary grafters should escape than - hat an attempt should be made to cure conyictions with bought testi nony. And that is the game Mr. yon has been playing first as a mem )er of the investigating committee nd now as Attorney General. If here were no political phase to the atter he could not hope to secure nviction with bought testimony, nd it is only the political phase of e case that keeps his attempts to uy testimony from meeting the uni. ~ersal execration they deserve." 1 The commission wishes to know 'ho is responsible for the editorial Iepartmenlt of your paper. A. I am. Q. The commission being partly bharged with getting this testimony. Lnd the work which Mr. Lyon has lone in that line being through the :mm ission, the commission wan tc 0 know what information you have tbout the purchase of testimony? . Nothing but what has been pub.. ished. Q. Does what has been publishedl wify the charge that they are buy a tesi1muny? A. Weil, all this is :e.y sucldcn. I have not got it at y fingers' end. )ut Mr'. H-ermann, 4ho is the president of the Augusta Brewing Company, testified that he ad paid rebates or commissions and hat an order was passed by the old nyest'tiatinlg commnirtee ordering payment of his claim, which I believe was the first and the only one paid up to that time. Q. Let us get that straight. That was when Mr'. Lyon and another comn amittee was investigating the dispen sary. Those who composed that comn-1 auitte, I helieve, were Mr. Ly-.n.. Mr'. Blease. Mr. Christensen. Mr. Spivey, and some others- These gei:I~een o charge. togethier with Mr. Lyon.. with having purchased testimony. Is that the basis of your charge: of the purchase of testimony? A. 'hat is. offered to purchase testi nony. ycs Q. That is the hasis of your charge. that the old investigating committee did that? A. That they offered an in ducement for getting testlioy. Q. I want to know this: whri evidnce have you that there has been' ouchase of testimony since the o:' ganizationl of this commission? A. I don't say there has been a pur chase. Q. Do you mean to say there has been an effort to do so? A. I mean to say. if I be correctly posted. that I have got a right to infer that if partis to whom claims were due, or who allege that amounts are owing to them by the dispensary. will come forward and give test iony that there claims will be paid. 'There was a report in the paper this morning of a clim paid on yesterday. Is that the publication you refer tm th publintion in the State this morning? A. Yes, sir. Q. Then you state that all you base your charge on is what was published in the paper? A. As to this present commission. Q. Is there any publication that you base your charge on A. No. Q. The publication in the State this morning? A. Yes. Q. With reference to the Paul Jones Company? A. Yes. The first claim said to be paid was the Paul Jones Company, which was of exces sive volume, but on account of mat ter behind it, it is stated that the payment of the claim was ordered immediately after obtaining testi mcny by them. Q. How do you connect M::. Lyon with that action? A. I don't know that I rightly connected him with that action; but at the same time, I considered him as adviser of the commission. Q. You don't hold him responsi ble for the action of the commission in aujudicating the Paul Jones claims? A. Not directly. Q. Or that this charge that he is purchasing testimony at the present time is based on that? I understand you to say that the only basis of your charge at the present time is from this article in the State. Now, t you admit that you cannot hold him rssponsible for that. Then you have no basis for the charge that he is now purchasing testimony? A. No, a sir, I can't say that I draw that in- C ference. Mr. Patton: V Q. Is that the only source of in formation you have, what you saw in r the State? A. That is all I based my 5 rticle on. Q. You stated that you had infor- t mation about to-day. Is what you I aw in the State to-day all the in- P ormation you have? A. That was p )11. Q. Answer by question? A. Yes, g said, except as to the old commis- t on. ! Q. You have no further informa- t ion of the purchase of testimony, 0 xcept what appears in the State? A. c o, sir. a Mr. Lyon Enters Discussion. t Attorney General Lyon: t I wish to make a statement in re- g ard to this matter. I regret, ex- p edngly, that it becomes necessary si 'or me take any action or to notice e: nything that may be said or done a )y this creature (pointing his finger of t Mr. Koester.) Mr. Koester el If this be a legal proceeding, I B esire that that gentleman be re- o: uired to use proper language. e( Mr. Lyon: , p I wish to say that as far as shown ti his afternoon that the man that fr vrote that article in the record is a bi iost infamous and dirty liar. ta Mr. Koester: I ask for the protection of the ourt. Mr. Lyon: I will be on the streets of Colum ia, and-y'ou need no protection. I ay, Mr. Chairman, that I regret ex eedingly that I have to notice that harge. It has come to my notice cl aat he has- written and published al i his paper a tissue of infamous and al currilous lies. I have not seen fit ai > notice them, and I would not have w octiced this now, but it comes before 13 his commission in an official way. I e imply wish to say that he has prov- fc himself a self-convicted, infam- A us liar. And I want to say to you, si ir, (indicating Mr. Koester,) that I d< m personally responsigle for what I - ay, and [ dare you to resent it. ai Mr. Ko-aster: si Now. Mr. Chairman, in regard to is matter, I have nothing further ti > say in regard to this editorial fur.- hi her than to say that I did not mean tl charge an'y personal dishonesty on n he part of any one of the present tz :mmission. It seemed to me a mat- G er of policy that an editor had a p: ight to criticise and condemn. If ai ; was the policy of the commission aa withhold the payment of claims a: intil parties came forward and gave a estimony; implicating others, that it ras a w:-ong policy. I stated it and tate it again. i Mr. Patton: Who said that was the olicy of' the commission? A. I in erred it from the action of the com nission. Mr. Patton: And :furthermore we assed judgment yesterday on a laim and nothing was said about hat and a half a dozen today. Mr. Koester: I was not aware of hat when I wrote that article. I jistinctly disavow the intimation of d y disrespect against any member f the commission. It was a matter ,f public policy, and if that -was the e olicy of the commission that a daim would not be paid unless par- t ies came forward arid implicated the )fficials, then that was a wrong pol y. One member of this commission have known for years. Mr. Hender on, and I would not for the world ay anything against Mr. Henderson ersonally C~ol. Felder Makes Statemient. Col. Felder: Without indicating t. he policy of your paper or resenting c nn any way anything you said about a ysel, I want to make this state- a ent as having been very active in v he prosecution of these claims be- e ore the commission, that not the c ightest inducement has been held out to any man to come here and r urnish eveidnce. The commission e >ssed a rule requiring all claim- t ants to produce their books and pro- i duce the representative that con ducted the negotiations5 with the s South Carolina dispensary, which re lated to these sales. And when their books are produlced and their agents: are produced and examinations are1 made. the commission then, without offering any reward, taking these caims as they present themselves in the books, making deductions as they i did in the Paul Jfones claim of the< amounts that their books show to 1i be overcharges, p)urging the claimsi a tie evidence demanded, have gi v en judgment for the balance. I am 1 acquainting you witha that because under your statement you say you - want to be pierfectly fair. not only to1 the commission but to all the parties at interest. Mr. Koester:- I must absolutely savw any 'intention to reflect; PRAISES BRYAN. New Jersey Congressman Pa- s Him a Just Tribute in Inswering Another New Jersey Con gressman Who Thought Bryan Wanted to Boss Things. For the second time last week pol ties cropped out during the discus ion of the Indian appropriation bill n the house of representatves. Mr. -Iamill of New Jersey got the floor or five minutes, presumably to talk )m the bill. "My colleague, Mr. Leake, last 6onday made some remarks derog tory of the conduct of William Jen ings Bryan," he said. Mr. Hamill declared that the senti nents as expressed by Mr. Leake "are ot the sentiments I entertain or the entiments that prevail in Hudson ounty, which we both represent hich prevail for that ma:ter, hroughout the State of New Jersey." Mr. Bryan, he said, had been criti ised because of his knowledge of he decalogue. In his opinion it was .mazing that Mr. Bryan shonld be pposed on the floor of the house be ause he showed an acquaintance with the Ten Commandments. It ,as refreshing, he said, to fin.1 a ian who not only boasted and pos essed an acquaintance with the en Commandments, "but who roughout the entire course of pub c career has consistently put the recepts of the commandments into ractice." Shouts of Democratic approval reeted Mr. Hamill's announcements iat while he agreed with the state Lent that Mr. Bryan's knowledge of ie commandments would fit him to :cupy a pulpit with preeminence. "1 m also assure the house, reflecting . the same time their own convic on, that that same acquaintance ill enable him to occupy with eclat i ie post of president of the United :ates. The principles Mr. Bryan es >used, he said, were so undeniably >und, "that his victorious oppon its have appreciated many of them id made them the popular features their policies." If, said Mr. Hamill, it was true, as iarged by his colleague, that Mr. t ryan was engaged in the practice corraling delegates to the Denver 9 >nvention, it was the very same -actice indulged in "by the illus 'ious gentleman with- whom my iends on the other side of the cham- P r boast of as their political chief- t t t Ky'.LED IN WRECK. r isunderstanding of Signals Caused I the Death of Two. C n a head-on collision between the e Lerry tree accommodation train c id a freight train on the Cresson t: id Clearfield division, about a mile c id a half from Cresson, Pa., two ere fatally injured, six were slight- v hurt, three locomotives were de- n olishegl and two baggage cars and p ur loaded steel cars were wrecked. b misunderstanding of signals, it is f< .id, was responsible for the acci- r ~ainst any member of the eommis- p on. n Mr. Stevenson: Mr. Chairman, , ere is another suggestion I would t e to make. Mr. Koester states b at it was the policy of the corn- e ission he was criticising when, he p ade this charge about the Attorney s neral. This commission would b -efer to have the criticism made a ~ainst it in its own proper person e id not against the Attorney General t id I would like to ask Mr. Koester t fev questions.s Stevenson Questions Witness. a Q. Mr. Koester, the member of the ~ .vestigating committee to whom you ferrer, it was the realizing of Mr. ermann's account you referred to in yur paper? A. Yes. Q. Do you mean to charge Mr. ay, Mr. Blease, Mr. Christensen, Mr. aivey and Mr. Gaston with buying 1 idence? A. I don't remember who I yted for It or anything of the sort. Q. Mr. Christensen and Mr. Lyon ere then on the committee? A. I rew the inference from the fact that 1 claims were held up and ordered ,t paid, but that when Mr. Hermann me and testified that he had done rong. immediately on his doing iat his claim was ordered paid the I rst one. Q. This cricicism was directed rst at the old investigating com Littee and secondly as this commis on and tneir actions? A. Yes. Q. But Mr. Lyon was made the >e target? Mr. Patton: There is another in mation made by you. That this >mission is being handled by the .ttorney General: if you were here, s the other newspaper men are, you '-nld know that this commission is ot handled by the Attorney General r by anybody else. Col. Felder: Although Mr. Her ann came here and made the full st staement in regard to this mat r this commlission has not ordered is claim paid. Mr. Koester: I did not refer to that this commission had done. At the conclusion of this Incident .iembers of the commission assured Ir. Koester in the kindest way that .e had been laboring under a mis ipprehesion in regard to the pro edure of the commission, and that ey invited the fullest scrutiny of heir official acts in regard to these aims: that their sessions were open o the public in considering these natters and that newspaper men were velcome to attend and that others ind attended constantly. Mr. Koester ras informed that the commission vould be glad to have him present o see for himself what the commis ion was doing. With these assur mes the matter was closed and the omissonl took up other matters, id,,,-ni;i soon afterwards. * SHOWS UP WORLD Mr. Bryan Says New York Paper Took Republican Money IN PARKER CAMPAIGN. Congressional Election of 1904, Held While Cleveland Was President and Before Bryan Ran and the Party Lost Badly.--Claims That He Was for Parker and the World Was Against Him. In an interview Mr. Bryan says the so-called map put out by the New York World is worthless. It begins with 1892 and omits the Congres sional election of 1894. In that lection of 1894, which was held while Mr. Cleveland was P-esident tnd while the World had some influ nce as an adviser'in the party, the Republican majority on the Congres ional candidates was la'gf-i than it was in either 1896 or 1900, and the Republican majority in Congress was arger as a result of that election han it was as a result of 1896 and 900. The World will not accuse me )f being the leader of the Democratic arty at that time, and yet the par y suffered a more disastrous defeat han iiL suffered in either of the cam aigns in which I was a candidate. "Now, is It fair to charge up the ereat of 1904 to my leadership when he party allowed the World to select he candidate that year, and give im its boisterous advice each day uring the campaign? And if I was eader in 1904, in spite of the fact hat the World selected the candi ate, how can the World prevent ay being the leader this year, even it is allowed to select the candi Late again? How can I get out of he responsibility of leadership if I ould not escape after I was boldly epudiated, according to the World, a 1904? If the World wants to be air, why does'nt it publish a map of e country showing the party vote , 1894, and thus inform the public iat the party fared better in 1896 nd in 1900 than in either the Con ressional campaign before'I ran or e national campaign after I ran? "There is an honest way of fight .g political battles, but the World refers the dishonest way. If it wants > find a reason for the defeat of udge Parker why doesn't'it say that e world contributed to his defeat rhy doesn't it say that the World eceived money from the Republican c >mmittee for doing so? At least, 1 assume that the advertising space c bat the world sold to the national >mmittee the Sunday before the c lections was paid for and was not ( ratuitously given by the World to C e Rebublican party as the World's ( ntributon."C "A great many people failed to| ote for Judge Parker, and I have t had time to consult all of them I rsonally since election to see why; t t I did what I could to secifre votes r him, and he not only appreciated y services during the campaign, but: e called upon me the first time I me to New York after the cam aign. I was opposed to his nomi ation for reasons which I gave, but rhen he was nominated I did all bat was within my power to secure is election, and there was not ough money in the Republican cam aign committee to buy one Inch of ace in the Commoner to use against im, and I shall not allow my 10y lty in that campaign to be question by a paper that will claim to be ie discoverer of a candidate and will ien, for a pecuniary consideration, e1 its pages for a cartoon that was1 abusive of the candidate as lan uage could have been." "And now you may add a question rm me: The World telegraphed me d asked me to name the special aterests which it represented. I ,nswered asking the World to state ditorally what financial interests, 'any, Mr. Pulitzer of the World, ad in the stocks and bonds of rail cads or In the corporations generally nown as trusts. This information ~ould enable me to answer its ques ion more fully. The question had Lot been answered when I left home. Vhen the World advises the Demo ratic party, the party ought to be i position to know just what pecun ary interests the World or its own r has in the questions which the Vorld discusses." YOUNG MAN SLAIN. lhere Was No Immediate P'rovoca tion. But Old Grudge. A. J. Cline, a young lumber deal r, formerly of Bristol, Va., was shot Lnd instantly killed by Luke Ban xer. sixty years old and a wealthy nerchant at Banner Elk, N. C. There ~as no immediate provocation for he killing, but, it is said, was the esult of an old grudge. Cline, it is lleged, was shot down without warn ng. Banner escaped on horseback, nd is still at large, though he was ;een later near Montezuma heavily trmed and fleeing. A posse is in )ursuit.* MAD)E A GOOD HAUL. Five Cracksmlenl Rob a Missouri Bank -of Big Sum. At Richhill Mo., robbers dynamited Lhe Farmers and Mechanics bank at l2:0 o'clock Saturday morning, de nolishing the building and entering the vaults which they looted of $23, O. There were iive of the bandits. When last seen they were riding north at breakneck speed. Citizens of the town heard the terrific explo sion and hurried to the scene. When they saw the bank in ruins a posse was immediately organized and pur sui sarted at once.* WAS NOT REPEALED. The Senate Voted to Repeai Lein Law and Then Changed, The Senate Declines to Follow the House and Kills the Richards Lien Law Bill. The State Senate by a vote of ten t'o seventeen passed a bill on Wed nsday repealing the lien law. The following was the vote: Against repeal: Bass, Bates, Biv ens, Black, Clifton, Graydon, Holi day, Laney, Otts, Smith-10. For repeal: Appelt, Brooks, Car penter, Christensen, Crouch, Earle, Efird, Gibson, Hardin, Harvey, John son, Kelley, Mauldin, McKeithan, Rogers Raysor, Toole-17. The Hydrich bill, prohibiting the mortgaging of crops until they were up, was then taken up and killed by a vote of 16 to 17. Lieutenant Gov ernor McLeod giving the deciding vote against the bill. The Lien Law Stands. On Thursday the State Senate killed the Richards Lein law bill, having first voted down all amend ments to carry out the provisons of the Hydrick House bill, which was killed by the Senate Thursday. The Crouch Senate bill similar to the Richards bill has also been killed. Thus the Senate declines to follow the House with result that the session will close with absolutely no change Ln the present law. THEY WERE HUNGRY. Plfteen Hundred Children Fed by a Kind Hearted Restauranteur. At New York fifteen hundred school hildren, attracted by the prospect of free hot dinner were in a riot in ront of a restaurant at 274 Grand street; and before the police could *estore order by assuring the little nes that all would be fed, the plate lass window was bushed in. The retirement accommodates only 80 children, but thrice this number were fed. , Adolph Lorbee, the res urant keeper, assured them that here was food enough for all, but hose is the rear became impatient ess there not be enough time for the ioon hour. Many children said they ad not eaten in two days. Their arents had no work and there was .o food in the house. In view of these conditions, the estaurant keeper sent word to all f the schools in his neighborhood hat he would give free dinners to hildren who applied between noon Lnd one o'clock each day. The se *nd and the third floors were turn d over to the children, the menu omprising soup, a meat order. veg tables, rolls or bread, and tea or offee. It was while the first set of dinners ere eating that the trouble occur ed. The remaining children stood in he rain in a line that went half way around the block, but they kept1 ushing and struggling till the two oliceman on duty sent for the re erves of the Edlredge street station. efore they arrived the children had mashed the plate glass windows. * DERELICT SCHOONER hich i Bound for the Port of Miss-a ing Ships. Somewhere out on the Atlantic, )reasting wintry seas and with some f her canvas set, is the four-masted ~chooner Edward J. Berwind, aban loned and beating up the tracks for he Port of Missing Ships. She was sighted at sea on Febru ry 7, by Captain Scott, of the steam r Maravel, now in New York, from iranada. The schooner's decks were awash, nd there was evidence that the crew iad left in haste. It is possible that hey were picked up by passing craft. When sighted the schooner was Ibout 470 miles east of Charleston, . C., and although water-logged, was naking about two knots and heading way- from the shore. Her storm foresail was set and the izzen under two reefs. Her head sails had been carried away, and the spanker was in ribbons. Towing as not feasible on account of the rough weather. The Berwind is likely to prove an ugly menace for navigation for she s under fair headway and running hrough the nights without a light lisplayed. IF]DAiRY BILL PASSED. ouse Endorses Brooks Measure and Sends it on To Governor. In the House Tuesday night Mr. Yeldell called up the bill of Senator Brooks to establish an infirmary for Confederate veterans, the bill having< been passed over on third reading [usday morning. The fight which was made on the bill on second read-< ing was at once renewed when Mr. Sellers moved to recommit the bill. nd the ayes and noes were called nd by a vote of 47 to 55 the motion was lost. The bill was then passed. As the bill has already passed the Senate it becomes a law upon the< signature of the Governor. The bill carries an appropriation of $12,000 to establish an infirmary on the Wal-1 lace land adjoining the State Hospi tal for the Insane. A commission to manage the institution is to be ap pointed. Mysterious Shooting. Frank Brettrell, a 'young real es tate operator, was shot and killed in the apartments of his sister in the st. George hotel, Brooklyn, under circumstances which have caused the police and Coroner Brewer to insti tute. the strckst investigation. SERIOUS CHARGE. Senator Blease Said to Have Rep resented a Liquor House. AN AFFIDAVIT READ. Mr. L. W. Parker Swears That 8. J. Tanahan Told Him That He Had Employed Senator Blease to Re present His Firm Before the State Board of Control.-Blease Read an Affidavit from Lanahan Denying It. Testimony which the Legislative Investigating committee of 1906 de clined to bring out was developed by the commission to wind up the affairs of the State dispensary at Columbia dn Thursday when Messrs. Lewis W. Parker and Ellison A Smyth were put on the stand and related a conversation with Mr. S. . Lanahan, of Baltimore, in 1905, in regard to the employment of a "prominent politician" to represent he Lanahan firm before the State board of control. Mr. Parker said hat Lanahan in a prior conversation, when Capt. Smyth was not present ad said that Hon. Coleman L. Blease was the agent referred to. It is understood that Mr. Blease, who is now and has for four years een State Senator from Newberry, nd who was candidate for Governor ear before last, has an affidavit rom Mr. Lanahan denying that Mr. .anahan made the statement attrib ted to him. He said that he had -ead it during the campaign last sum ner on the stump at Union, and that t was published at that time. He howed the original affidavit, which e has kept pinned in his inside cket. Those familiar with the dispensary vestigations will recall that two ears ago the Legislative committee investigate the dispensary sum oned Mr. Parker to appear and he ealted in substance the conversation rith Mr. Lanahan, but when pressed Mr. Lyon to give the name of the rominent politician he declined to > so. As Mr. Parker challenged the ower of the committe to make him swer, a case on habeas corpus pro eedings was brought in the Supreme ourt and the Court decided that he committee had the authority to equire Mr. Parker to answer its *uestions. But the committee decid not to exert its authority and Mr. 'arker did not answer the question. It has been common knowledge, wever, that the suppressed na:1s f the alleged agent of Lanahan was Eat of Senator Blease, and this nowledge evidently reached Senator lease himself, as he took the pre aution to get an affidavit from Lan han, and it is fortunate that he did, ince Mr. Lanahan died about two Teeks ago. The commission to wind .p the State dispensary had already moned Mr. Lanahan. When they testified Thursday Mr. parker and Capt Smyth made It plain hat they did so unwillingly and on ~'yielded to the recognized authority *fthe commission, which has the ame authority as the Legislative mmittee as decided by the Supreme It is not worth while to say who essrs. Parker and Smyth are; -they - the leading two cotton mill men aSouth Carolina, and their char ers and reputations ,need no bols rn.TheLaaan Affidavit. Following is the affidavit read by mnator Blease at the campaign meet gg in Union on Augurt 71, 1906. tate of Maryland, City of Balti re.Peonally came before me auel J. Lanahan, who, being, duly worn, says that he never told Lewis r parker, or any other person, that ole L. Blease was in his employ olook after his interest in the whis :ey business in South Carolina, and as amatter of fact, he did not have ole L. Blease so employed. Augustus W. Bradford, (otary Seal) Notary Public. Mr. Blease also read at the Union teting affidavits from* Jodie M. awlinlsn- John Black, Jos. B. Wy e, H Evans, John Bell Towill and '. Boykin, dated either August , 1906, or August 4, 1906, and each 6 which stated that during the af ant's term of service as director of he State dispensary "Cole. L. Blease eiteer directly or indirectly solicited usiness or asked that purchases be na from Samuel J. Lanahan or any ither person engaged in selling whis eyy or other articles to the State dis ACCIDENT ON A CRUISER. rho St. Louis Enters San Francisco After an Explosionl. A dispatch from San Franci'sco saysthe big cruiser st. Louis went. ut rough the Golden Gate leaving n r wake a hospital ward full of caded and burned sailors and signs f a rigid governmental nyestigationL -hch may explain why a warship, -esh from dry dock and the work of .epring, could have an almost fatal. Lccient in her boiler: room on the ve of target practice. Just as she ras about to leave the harbor, some f the boiler tubes blew out, filling :he engine room with a cloud of teaeam nd scalding terribly four of :he men who were at work there. POOR, ET RICH. & lthy Man Dies in a Hovel With $150,000. John McMillanl, aged 36, died in a tovel on the outskirts of Chattan ooga, Ten. Thursday. For years he lived in apparent poverty. After .his deat it was discovered that he was worth $150,000, which he carried wit hm in a basket.*