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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1908 NO. 22 WILL BE LIVELY. Gov. Ansel Will Not Have a Walk Over This Summer. CANDIDATES GALORE. C. L. Blease Has Announced That He Will Be in the Race for Gover nor, and So May C. C. Feather stone, W. B. Nash, John Calhoun Otts and One or Two Others. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Herald says up to a few days ago the probability has been strong almost to the point of certain ty that Governor Ansel would glide into a second term without opposi tion, as was the good fate of Gov. Heyward, but the gathering of the legislature, and its actions recently. have wrought several radical, cruei changes in this program. The practical certainty now is that the gubernatorial race this sum mer will be an extremely lively if not sensational one, with half a doz en men in the race, with a great va riety of liquor platforms from wkicb to choose. Blease of Newberry. State Senator Cole L. Blease, of Newberry authorizes your correspon dent to formally announce his can didacy for governor. His liquor plat form is the present local option sys tem with a license feature for those counties that desire this way of hand ling liquor. He ran for governor when Ansel was elected, and in spite of the unpopularity of the state dis pensary system, which was his plat form at the time, he received nearly 18,000 votes in th race where the vote was split up among a number of candidates. It has been thought that he would offer for re-elcetion as senator, but developments of the past few weeks have decided him other wise. In spite of his politics being distasteful to a large body of the sen ate he has for years been one of the smartest and most influential mem bers of it. John G. Richards. T It is also practically certian, unles : there are further radical changes in the political situation, that Repre sentative John G. Richards, for a number of years one of the house floor leaders for the state dispensary. will be in the race for governoa against Ansel on a state wide pro- f hibition platform. His fight through ten continuous years for a repeal of the agricultural lien law has brought him into prominence on acccunt of the adverse action of the senate on that measure. Urged to R~un. A number of delegations have come - to him and offered their support and urged him to run promising to work for him regardless of his liquor plat form. Some of these have urged him - to run for lieutenant governor against President of the Senate McLeod on account of the latter's vote against the Crouch lien law repeal bill in the senate. But although Mr. McLeod's vote against this bill was applauded on the floor of the senate at the tim by the anti-repeal forces his ac tion is said by his friends to have been misconstrued, that he was vot ing against the Crouch bill in order to get the Richard's house bill passed so as to hasten enactment of repeal. C. C. Featherstone. C. C. Featherstone, of Laurens, a former candidate for governor, has been in Columbia several days hold ing conferences, and it is predicted that he will announce himself for governor on a state wide prohibition platform in a few days. He has been making prohibition speeches in dif ferent parts of the state recently. The friends of Mr. Richards and other prohibition candidates have gently intimated to him that he has read hims~elf out of the pro hibition forces by his interview pub lished recently to the effect that the next change in the lquor law should eb to declare a state of prohibition and allow such counties as desire 11 to vote In dispensaries. His attitude the past year has been construed that he would not oppose Mr. Ansel, but uf others : re coming in he will join the merry L nd. .:,resentative Nash. Repre~ tative Nash, of Spartan burg. a li. -long prohibitionlist. is ex pected to announce his candidacy for governor soon as the legislature ad journs. His friends say that the rea son he dces not announce now is that that course would reduce his influence and hamper him in his work on the floor of the house. John Calhoun Otts. Still another state wide guberna torial possibility is said to be Repre sentative John Calhoun Otts, of Cherokee, a former dispensary adv-o cate, but last year a champion of lo cal option in the senate. Ansel's Platform. It is thought highly probable that Governor Ansel himself will switch to a state wide prohibition platform before he files his pledge next June. He was elected on a local option plat form. butt he has always been a work er for prohibition, chosing local op tion as the next best thing. It is known that he hesitated many many moons before recommending a con tinnonce of local option. in his tres sag~e to the present legislature. Mr. Ansel is a former state dispensary supporter. Hie has the advantage iD the coming race of the strong senti ment in finor of 34enna termism. Made Deep Impression. The newspapers at Lopaz, Bolivia. commrentinlg upon the passiag of the Amerienn ileet off Vaiparaiso. declare tbat the Armada has created a pro found impression in the minds of thousands of South Americans, and is an c::cellent demonstration of '.be power of the United States. HE Witt RUN. Mr. C. C. Featherstoan Will 0: pose Gov. Ansel This Summer. The Distinguished Prohlbitionist An nounces His Candidacy on an An ti-Dispensary Platform. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says the pol itical situation was still fur:her com licated by the announcement Thurs day night that Mr. C. C. Feather stone, of Laurens, wul be a candi date for Governor in the primary this summer. Mr. Featherstone was in Columbia Thursday night. on his way home from Orangeburg County, where he had gone to deliver two prohibition speeches. He said he beileved the time for the enactment of a State I prohibition law had arrived and that I he had acceded to the wishes of his friends to enter the race for Govern r to advocate that policy. Mr. Featherstone was a candidate for Governor in 1898 on the prohi bition platform and was defeated by a combination of peculiar cireum tances, and by a very narrow major ity. He has not since that time par tand in the next campaign is not known. Mr. Featherstone is one of the trongest lawyers in the State, is a an of fine address and manners and .s personally very popular. He has erved as grand chancellor of the nights of Pythias, and is an ac ve and promineat member of the [ethodist church. Governor Ansel some time ago an ounced that he will be a candidate or reelection. He was elected two rears ago on the platform of local ption, but before that campaign he -as an out and out State Dispen ary advocate. Just where he will tand in the campaign is not nown. Mr. Featherstone is a candidate hat will have to be reckoned with. hose who think that Gov. Ansel will ave a walk-over in the campaign his Summer will find that they are nistaken at the end of the campaign. any who believe in the dispensary vill support Mr. Featherstone against lov. Ansel. .Gov. Ansel is not near as strong ow as he was two years ago, and nany who voted for him then will ppose him now. Many people regard rm as dictorial in the extreme, and his has made him many enemies in 1 parts of the State. There has been considerable talk o the effect that Mr. John G. Rich rds, of Kershaw, may enter the race or Governor this year and Mr. ichards in reply to a question said had the matter under considera ion. He is also for State prohibi ion. SALARY BILL PASSED. 'he House Agrees to Pay Its Mem berm More Money. The House by a vote of 67 to 34, nd without debate, last week passed he bill of Senator Walker to chanige he manner of compensation of mie'n ers of the General Assembly. The ll was amended so as to give the - peaker double the compensation of member. The bill as passed, reads:. Section 1. That members of the eneral Assembly shall receive as >mpensation for their services the u of two hundred dollars for each egular session, and mileage for the ctual distance travelled In the most trect route, going to and returning rm the place where the session of he General Assembly shall be held. he Speaker of the House shall re :eive double the pay of the members Section 2. That the provisions of1 his Act shall not go int.o effect untu ranuary 1, 19.9 Section 3. That Section 14, Vol me 1, Code of Laws of South Caro in, 1902 be, and the same is here y, repealed. - UTLE BOY BURNED TO DEATH. [atch Ignited Oil-Soaked Cloth Plac ed on his Chest. A special to The News and Courier rom Louisville, Ga., says Walter, the itle 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. alter Farrell was burned to death t their home last night in a very uching and pathetic manner. Thc itte fellw was suitcering froml a se eee cold ,and a cannel cloth saturat d with turpentine was placed over is chest. During the night the skr. eecame irritated, and the child was ertless: the mother arose to com ort it and, strikinlg a maitch while eaning over the little fellow, the tur snntine ignited. Mrs. Farrell was seerly burned in her efforts to ex tinguish the flames. The child died in a short time. A LITTLE HERO Ls Her Life Trying to Save a Lit tle Companion. At Cartersville, Ga.. in an attempt to reseC her six-year-old comapamlonl Dave Rogers. from an approaching trai reently Lillie May Kline. 12 yes-old, was struck by the train an;wih the child in her arms both wr crushed to death while the fath er of te nirl who was walking with t children looked on. AN AUTOIST SUED~ For Making a Mule Run Away and Killing Driver. M r. Harry Bu~hi. a wealthy resi den. of Pittsburg, Pa.. who, winters in Augsin, Gn., is being sue dby Melssa MCladly. a negro woman, for 33,000 or tlhe ciean of her husband. Whl auoing onu a country road a ee mi out of Augusta. Mr. Buhl's mahn frightenedl a mule which the Io -'s rw:-band waus driving. caus 4na t emru away and kii him. LAID TO REST. Remains of Sen. Asbury C. Lati mer Sleeps in Home Town. FUNERAL CEREMONIES Were Most Impressive.-Throngs of Friends and Associates Gathered to Pay the Last Tribute to Their State's Deceased Representative. Body Laid in the Family Plot at Belton Cemetary. A dispatch to The State from Bel ton says all that was mortal of As bury C. Latimer, late senator from South Carolina, was laid to rest in the family plot at the Belton ceme tary Friday. That Senator Latimer was esteem ed by his colleagues in congress was evidenced by the kindly expressions uttered by them, that he was es teemed by the citizenship of his home community was evidenced by the unusual tribute paid his -memory by his townspeople in the suspension >f business and the large outpouring >f people, not only from the town but rom all neighboring locaiftles, was pparent at every hand. Almost every store and business ouse of the town was closed from 11 o'clock until after the funeral in he afternoon, and nearly every bus ness house was draped in mourning is a tribute of respect to his mem ry. The postoffice and the public chools were also closed in honor of he distinguished dead The special train over the Southern ailway bearing the body of the de eased senator accompanied by the ommittees from the senate and ouse of representatives, arrived on ime. The body was immediately aken to the Methodist church of vhich the senator was a consistent ember, where it lay in state until he hour of the funeral. ERch train rought delegations from verious or anized bodies and indiv1id.ald citi :ens who had come to pi Vt Lhe last ribute to their reoersenrative in the enate and tbir per- -!l friend. The little town of Pe* :on, the home f the late senator, swarmed with )eople from every section of the tate, who were there to honor the iemory of the man who had done o much for himself, but who had r one more for his constituents, in hat he has been a faithful an dilli ent public servant. a The funeral arrangements were in harge of Mr. E. Livingstone Cornel as, assistant sergeant-at-arms of the enate, and the train was in charge t f Mr. (-;. W. Fletcher, city ticket c gent of the Southern railway in ashington. Col. R. W. Hunt board- C d the train at Spartanburg and look- I d after the funeral party to Belton. I The funeral services were held at C e Methodist Church, of which Sen tor Latimer had long been a mem er. The Rev. W. L. Halroyd, the astor, assisted by the Rev. W. T. 'I ate, pastor of the Baptist church, nd the Rev. A. J. Cauthen, presid g elder of the Anderson district, enator Latimer's former pastor, con ucted the church service. Perhaps the most moving feature f the funeral was the touching and oquent prayer of the Rev. Mr.c ~authen. "Asleep in Jesus" and "I Need hee Every Hour" were sweetly ren Lered by the choir and at the con lusion of the church service "lear *r, My God to Thee" was sung by e assemblage, after which the ody was removed from the church d the service was concluded at the 'rave. . A touching incident while the body y in state was when the old fain y servants, about 25 in number, assed through the little church to ake a last look at their dead mas er. One old negro woman, nearly 0 years of age, said with tearful ace, "God bless him," and fell in a taint, having to be assisted from the ~hurch. The congressional escort, the hon rary pallbearers, headed by Senator 3. R. Tillman first entered the church nd were seated near the bier. The active pallbearers were: A. M. arpenter.' R. S. Ligon, J. M. Payne, . F. Jones and J. J. Fretwell of An ~erson, and W. K. Stringer, John A. -ortn, L. D. Harris. D. A. Geer and Dr. WV. R. Haynie of Belton. in accordance with resolutions: adopted by the genera] assembly of 3outh Carolina the following mem ~ers were present to represent the senate: C. W. Sullivan, George J.' olliday, T. L. Rogers and J. R. Earle. On the part of the house these gen lemen attended: K. P. Smith, 3. T. Cox. J. A. Hall, L. S. Clinkscales, G. W. Dick, E. L. Richardson. Allan Johnson. 3. H. Miller and Herbert Gyles. Among the floral tributes, which were numerous and beautiful, were pieces from the senate committee on immigration of which Senator Lat imer was a member, the guests os the Congress Hall Hotel, where the Senator lived, and individual offer ings from the various members of the senate and other friends.* KI[LLED HISELF Becuse His Sweetheart Refused tot Smile on Him. --Smile .inst once at me. dear " peaded John Tripp, aged 20 years, of his sweetheart. Mrs. Ester POllOCk Davis. a grass widow. 21 years odi at the latter's home at Indianapobs. Id., on Wednesday night. Failing to get the desired smile. Tripp fir*ed two shots into his oudy and t'enl. miortally' wounded, at her feet. Trisp was a railroad man, recently fro'm Ta ayee Ind. DES AT THE ALTAR. Father Heinrichs Murdered While Administering the Sacrament. The Awful Deed Done by Alio Guis ep pe, An Italian Anarchist, Who W~as Kneeling at the Altar. A: Denver, Colo., Father Leo Hein richs was shot and killed Sunday by Alio Gulseppe, an avowed anarchist and priest hater, while the priest was administering the sacrament at early mass in St. Elizabeth's Caholic Church. Kneeling at the altar rail betveen two men, Guiseppe pressed the muzzle of a revolver against the body of the preist, after receiving frori him the consecrated water, and shot the priest through the heart. Excaiming "My God! My God! My God!" Father Leo fell prone in front >f the altar and died. The assassin sprang into the aisle, nd. brandishing the pistol, dashed to he church door. For a moment, the undred or more persons in the hurch were dazed. Then a woman creamed and the congregation be ae panic stricken. Several women ainted and many others became hys eri:al. Several men, including Pa rolman Daniel Cronin, started in )ursuit of the murderer. Policeman ,ronin overtook the fleeing Italian at he church steps. Guiseppe attempt ,d to shoot the policeman but was oiled and overpowered after a des erate struggle. T he murderer was removed to the ity jail. As threats of summary ven eance were made by men who quick y :,athered In front of the church, hief of Police Delaney called out he reserve force of patrolmen. Deputy.Coroner Daniel 'Hayes took harge of Father Leo's body. A sin le bullet hole in the white commun on robes of the priest showed that he lead had gone straight to the Leart. The bullets remaining in uiseppe's revolver had sharpened 0oats. Guiseppe was placed in solitary onfnement. He admitted to a po iceman that the priest whom he had illed was a stranger to him, and in planation of his crime, said: "I just went over there because I ave a grudge against all priests in eneral. They are all against the ro rking man. I went to the com- I 2union rail because I could get a etter shot. I did not give a damn hether he was a German priest or ny other kind of a. priest. They r' all.in the same class. "I left Italy three months ago and rent first to Central America and ian came to Denver. I am an anar- t hast and I am proud of it. I shot E i, and my only regret is that I otaldn't shoot the whole bunch of rests in the church. I am a shoe 2aker, but have not worked sincet mnng to Denver." TWO MORE JUDGES ',; Fill the New Circuits Created This Session. Messrs. J. W. DeVore, of Edge ld, and S. W. G. Shipp, of Flor ce, were Thursday afternoon elect .i judges of the two new circuits :eated by this legislature. Mr. J. W. DeVore was chosen dge of the eleventh circuit, eon ~sting of Lexington, Saluda and ~dgeeld. He was opposed by Mr.1 .M. Efird Mr. DeVore represents Edgefleld the house, and his opponent, Mr. nfrd, is supreme court reporter. Mr. eVore defeated Mr. Sfird by a vote 89 to '70. Mr. S W. G. Shipp, of Florenees eeated Mr. W. Y. Montgomery, of farion, by a vote of 92 to 69. The welfth circuit consists of the coun les of Florence, Horry, Georgetownl Lnd Marion. The new judges will begin the dis ~harge of their duties with the be ninng of the spring terms of court in ay. KILLED IN RIOT. wo Dead and Six Injured in a Penn sylvania Town. Two men were killed and six others 'erO seriously injured in a riot at )unbar, Pa., Tuesday night. Two of' he wounded are Americans, the lead and the other wounded being ~oreigners. Forty-five persons were arrested by the police who were call d to quell the disturbance. According to one of those arrest d the trouble is tile outcome of ri alry between two boarding houses onducted by foreigners. It is said hat six Croatins who lived in a hox car went to an old homestead which nother gang of foreigners had turn d into a boarding house and after >attering down the doors, st~arted a fight. READS LIJm FICTION. Left a Fortune of One Hundred Thousand Dollars. A story reading very much like a tale in a novel has developed at An gusta, Ga., in which Mrs. Joe Koger, of Columbia County, has become heiress to a fortune of about $100, 000. About forty-five years ago her brother, Col. Elisha Bates, went out to the Santa Fe country and engaged as a stage driver. He was penniless, but hoarded his little earnings unt't eventually he became the operator of the stage line, and later made other successful business ventures. A short time ago Col. Bates died, 'leaving an estate of $100,000, to which Mrs. Koger, now a resident f the Conlumbia County, Is heiress. HOT SENATOR Charges Extravagance on Part of Dispensary Commission. What He Said, What He Reiterates and "Responsible for What I Say, Here and Elsewhere." There was another personal priv ilege statement In the State sen ate Tuesday, anent the dispeisary winding up commission and Atto ney W. F. Stevenson, over the irrepr 'ssi ble Clark purchase. Senator J.hn son was the speaker, he said: "Mr. President: In my remarks on Thursday last on bill No. 669, Mr. Christensen's bill, to appropriate the sum of 115,000 .to enable Mr. Lyon to secure counsel to prosecute alleg ed grafters, I stated in opposition of the bill that the investigating com mittee had already spent $20,000 of the people's money without any re sults. That the winding-up commis sion had spent $50,000 during the year of their existence, and if state ments and charges in the public prints were true and to be relied pon, in refusing to accept an offer 'hat was said to have been made by i firm or c, "poration outside of the ] state, to take over the entire stock x liquors, wines, etc., Including dead stock, odds and ends, at their origi ial invoice price, and having subse uently sold the stock at a discount t )f 20 per cent. on the dollar, which i -esulted in another loss of $200,000, I :o the people of South Carolina, I 1 lid not say how or for what pur- I >ose the $50,000 was spent, but, I imply said that it had been spent c y the commission, and any state ent to the contrary is false. But t now develops, and is shown by t heir own record that $59,389.56 was pent by them, insteau of $50,000 as tated in my argument, and tde $15,- i 00, given them by order of Judge i ritchard, and the $20,000 spent by he investigating committee, togeth r with the $15,000, carried by the ,hristensen bill, will make an ag regate of the enormous sum of s 110,000 in round numbers of the ( ispensary fund that has been got- e en away with in one way or another. which is over one eigth of the total e mount of the entire assets of the dis- . ensary. . ? t "Now comes one, W. F. Steven on, who is said to be the attorney t or the commission, and who -claims M hat no such offer was ever made ex- V ept in a jocular way, by a Mr. Bull, C f Peoria, Ill. 1 "This alleged offer and loss caused t hereby will however, be investigat- a d, but Mr. Stevensen says, if such , ,n offer had been made it could not lave been accepted under the act. his is a most remarkable proposi ion to come from a man who claims o be a lawyer, but not altogether a urprising to others in view of the act that if an offer had been made. .nd accepted, it would have been fol owed by the loss of some fat lega' ees. I do not believe, however, there s a real lawyer in South Carolina, ho would read the act creating thea ommission and place any such con-t truction upon it. - "Now I have presented the factsa .nd figures relative to the matter, E ust as they appear, and have repro-. I uced my remarks upon the subject ust as they were made, and any harge or intimation of unfairness on y part is false and without founda ion no matter by whom made. I ill further state that I am respon-t ible for what I say, here or else where." SUCKED POISON. itten by a Huge Rattlesnake, But Saved by Heroic Friend. Though bitten by a rattlesnake I ive feet long by measurement, El- I iot W. Daniels, twenty years old, an imploye oif the Southern Bell Tele >hone Company of Savannah, Ga., is loing nicely and is regarded as cer :ain to recover. Daniels, Charles Taylor and anoth sr young man were hunting near Bur roughs. Daniels felt a stinging sen sation niear the ancle, looking down, de saw the huge snake wriggling off. Ie called out and Taylor fired killing :he reptile. Daniel's companions were equal to he emergency. They removed Dan el's shoe and Taylor sucked the pois an from the wound. Taking a belt they bound it tightly above the wound. Securing a team they has tened to Burroughs with Daniels. making quick connection with a train for Savannah. At Burroughs a pint of whiskey was secured and Daniels was so full of "Snakebite" when he arrived in town th~at he knew nothing about the real thing in tnat line. TRAIN RAN DOWN BUGGY. Young Man Killed and Father and Sister Seriously Injared. Train No. 99, the Seaboard Air Line's southbound Florida ;imited, ran into a buggy containing Mr. Jerry M. Thomas, of Dentsville, anrd his son and daughter, Tuesday mnorning at about 11 o'clock, at Waddell, ten miles north of Columbia, the acci dent resulting in the instant death of the young man and the serious in jury of the girl. The vehicle was smashed to pieces and the mule killed. Somehow the father escaped with hurts not more serious than minor contusiots. The accident occurred at a crossing a little above Waddell where limited trains run at a high speed. The supposition is that the proper signals were not given or that they~ were unheard, or else disregarded by: [th nocuants of the buggy. A CHOICE PLUM Several Gentlemen Hope to Suc ceed Late Senator Latimer. POLITICAL GOSSIP. Legislature Expected to Hold Elec tion on March 3 to Fill the Uner pired Term.-Varions Persons Are Mentioned for the P.nce. Names of the Candidates Who Expect to Run in the Primary. The announcement of the death of Senator Latimer on last Thurs day threw the General Assembly in to political turmoil. Coming with in two days of the expected end of the session with the certainty that the Legislature must fill the vacan y before It could adjourn, the whole tspect of legislation was changed. a addition, the removal of Senator atimer from the race in the primary sntirely alters the condition of af 'airs, and that the political situation n South Carolina had been complete y transformed. Within an hour after the an ouncement that Senator Latimer was dead had reached the State ouse, it was seen that the names of aore than one member of the Gen ral Assembly would be presented for I he unexpired term and their friends Lt once got to work. This may have Lppeared somewhat heartless, but at hat time it was the prevailing opin on that the election would have to e held on Saturday and it was real zed that in this case no time could t e lost. Investigation of the law was set - n foot however and it was then dis overed that the General Assembly t night not have to elect at this E me, and further, that Is was possi- c le that the election could not be eld at this time. Though no official r formation was served from Wash- t igton until transmitted through the aessage of Governor Ansel Thursday ight, the judiciary committee of oth House and Senate met and con dered the question that was pre ented. Senator Carlisle, chairman ( f the State judiciary committee then ot into communication with Wash igton and talked with Senator Bail y on the long distance telephone, [r. Bailey being regarded as an au Lority on such questions. c Mr. Bailey informed Mr. Carlisle t hat after consulting Senator Till- t ian he and Senator Tillman i ere of the opinion that the t Feneral Assembly could at once elect 6 pon riceipt of official notification of c e vacancy but that Senator Hale f nd other Republican Senators, who d ould in the final analysis decide the -int if it were raised, held differ- 6 ntly and thought that the General 1: ~ssembly could not elect until the v cond Tuesday after the receipt of q~ fficial notification of the vacancy. t Senator Bailey then advised as it S tas a Democratic egislature electing ras a Democratic legislature electing 1: est not to elect anyone now, but to e llow the procedure which Senator s lale considered legal. In accord- s nce with this opinion the Legisla- 3 ure adjourned on Saturday until 'uesday, March 3, when it will meet a d elect a Senator for the unexpir- I: term of Senator Latimer, which s as about one year to run yet. a On the understanding that the eneral Assembly would elect someI ne to fill the unexpired term alone, I ,nd niot one of the candidates for the i ng term, the following members of e General Assembly were at once uggested: Lieutenant Governor T. G. McLeod f Lee County; Hon. Frank B. Gary, l f Abbeville; lion. George Von Kol itz, of Charleston; Hon. James Qos ~rove, of Charleston; Hon. W. L. Iauldin, of Greenville; Hon. Legrand t Valker, of Georgetown, Senator; on. E. M. Rucker, of Anderson. The Lame of Gen. Wille Jones, chairman< f the State Democratic committee,t as also presented. The list of candidates and prob ble candidates, as published in The .ews and Courier a few days ago, as a follows: Col. John J Dargan, f tatesburg, Sumter County; Hon. ). B. Martin, of Pickens County, ati )resent State Superintendent of Edu ation; Hon. D S. Henderson, of Aik n; Hon. Jas. A. McCullough, of reenville; Hon. George Johnstone, ,f Newberry; Hon. E. D. Smith, of0 'lo rence. SPEEDY JUSTICE. uick Work in the Trial of a Con fessed Fiend. Committed assault Thursday, ar-1 ested and jailed Friday, indicted the oallowing Monday, tried, convicted nd sentenced to be hanged Tuesday, .s the record established by the 'razewell, Va., Circuit Court In the :ase of the Commonwealth against Valter Rippey, the convessed negro rapist. Rippey was tried for assault n Mrs. Mary Dancey. Mrs. Dancey estified and In the course of her story was several times overcome, and the Court had to wait until she egained her composure before pro eeding. The recital was one of the most harrowing In the annals of crime in that section. The jury was out a short time and when the ver dict was returned Rippey was sen tenced to hang on March 25. For State Senator. Ex-State Dispensary .uirector Hub Evans authorizes the announcement of his candidacy for state senator from Newberry. He was formerly mayor of the town of Newberry, and was recently defeated for another term In that office by only eleven votes. He Is one of the few state. dispensary officials of his period of service not under indictment. And personally he is one of the most pop a men in the state. FIRST IN THE SOUTH Colored Photographs Taken by Two Clemson Professors. How the Pictures Are Taken-Art of Photography Will, It Is Predict ed, Be Revolutionized. A special to the News and Courier from Clemson College says two mem bers of the faculty, Prof. F. H. H. Calhoun, of the geological depart ment, and Assistant Prof. E. T. How ard, of the mechanical department, have succeeded in producing photo graphs showing the original colors of the objects photographed. This has been accomplished by means of the Lumiere autochrom plate. The process was discovered about one year ago only by Lumiere, at Lyons, France; and the specially prepared films have been on the mar ket about three months. Dr. Calhoun and Prof. Howard are %mong the very first in this country o try the process, their order for Plates being the 33d. Out of eight plates they succeeded In getting sev en excellent color photographs of rarious scenes around the College, mnd they are naturally very proud of heir success. They are doubtless the irst people in the South to under. ake the matter. - The film used in making these col >r photographs is so made that it ontains coloring matter, which is af 4cted by the various colors in the )icture to be taken. The plate is xposed as usual in photography, ex ept rather longer through a special ay filter. Great care needs to be ex rcised to handle the plates n a dull ed light. They must be washed in nine solu ons, the first two in total darkness. 'he others take place !a the opeui ylight. The colors appear Imme iately upon taking the plates into he light; but the remaining process s are essential to the intensifying, learing and fixing of the colors. The newly discovered process, by 1 eans of which any scene may te ictured in the original colors, seems estined to revolutionize the art of I hotography. WILL BE IN RACE. oY. Heyward Announces His Candi dacy for United States Senator. Ex-Gov. D. C. Heyward Thursday 1 ight announced that he would be a andidate in the Democratic primary his- summer for the nomination to e United States senate. Gov. Hey ard has received messages and com iunications from all parts of the tate- urging him to announce his andidacy. Last night he stated de nitely that he will become a candi ate, and he expects to. win. "I will be a candidate for United C tates Senator in the Democratic rimary this Summer," he said, "and ril make the race on my record and ualifications for the office, which I rust are known to the people of 3 outh Carolina. The constitution of the Democratic . arty in South Carolina provides that ach candidate for the United States enate shall file a pledge that he will upport the political principles of the arty during the term of office for rhich he may be elected and work In ccord with his Democratic associates a congress on all party questions. I ri of course abide by that pledge nd will therefore be bound by the latform adopted by the national )emocratic convention at Denver. At resent it is not necessary to discuss atonal issues. I only wish my friends to know I m in the race and in to win." Gov. Heyward came into politics x years ago. Up to that time he iad a considerable personal acquaint nce over the State. Capt. Heyward, rith four opponents, lacked 11,000 -otes of receiving the nomination on he first primary. In the second rimary he had a sweeping victory, a ajority of 10,000 votes. In his wn county, Colleton, he lost but 58 ut of 2,200 votes. Another remark ble feature of his career is that he Lad no opposition for re-election, the Irst time in years, possibly since the var, that such had been the case. It is understood that Gov. Hey ard is not seeking election at the and of the legislature to fill the n xpired term, but is in the campaign his summer. HANDSOME WEDDING PRESENT ~arnegie Gives an Atlanta Bride Five Thousand Dollars. Miss Anne Wallace. librarian of e Atlanta Carnegie Library since its establishment, was recently married o Max Franklin Howland. Among he gifts was one from Andrew Car iegie which consists of $5,000 in 6 >er cent. steel bonds, placed to the redit of the bride at the Home rust company, Hobokon, N. J. The girt is in recognition of Miss Wallace's great work for the library ~ause, not only in Atlanta, but broughout the south. Miss W~allace was greatly annoyed by exaggerated toris to the effect that she had re eived a settlement of $100,000 from Mdr. Carnegie. DREW A PISTOL. On a Bank Depositor Because He Wanted His Money. At San Francisco, Caal., Presdent . E. Ragland of the defunct Citizens State Bank was sentenced to nine months in jail for pulling a pistol on a depositor who clamored for his money before the bank failed. J Ponansy, the claimant, is a painter who had $ 1.200 on deposit. He had made several demands on Ragland for money and had been put off. Finally an appointment was made by the banker. Instead of paying the money, Ragland drew a revolver and drov Pnnnsky from the place. * FOUND GUILTY. Gen. Stoessel Condemned to Die For Surrendering the POST OF PORT ARTHUR Court-Martial Which Has Been Try. ing him for Cowardice in Surren dering Port Arthur Returns Ver dict Sentencing Famous General to Death, but Recommending Ten years in Prison Instead. Lieut-Ge. Stoessel was condemned to death Thursday evening by a Military Court at Et retcrsourg for the surrender of Port Arthur to the Japanese. The Court renomraend ed that the death sentence upon Lieut Gen. Stoessel be commuted to ten years imprisonment in a fortress and he be excluded from the service. Gen. Frock, who commanded the 4th East Siberian division of Port Arthur, was ordered reprimandc-. for a disciplinary offence, which was ot connected with the surrender, nd Gen. Smirnoff, acting command Reiss, chief of staff to Gen. Stoessel, Reiss, chief of staff to Gen. Stoessed, "rere acquitted of the charges igainst :hem for lack of proof. Gen. Vodar, president of the Court, ead the sentences amid a tense si ence. By a great effort of self con :rol Gen. Stoessel maintainea rigid ;oldierly-like impassivity. Gen Snir ioff also was seemingly unmoved, 3ut there were tears in the eyes of -en. Rbiss. The sentence of death was pro ounced upon Gen Stoessel, "for sur endering the fortress before all the neans of defence had been exhaust id, for failing to enforce his author ty and for military misdemeanors." Commutation of the sentence was sked on the ground that "Fort Ar gr, beset by overwhelming forces, Lefended itself under Gen. Stoessel's adership witf unexampled stub iornness and filled the world with as onishment at the heroic courage of s garrison; that several assaults Lave been repulsed with tremendous sses on the part of the enemy; that len. Stoessel throughout the seige ad maintained the heroic courage f the defenders and finally that be ad taken energetic part in three ampaigns." Before the sentence was read, easures were taken to prevent a de onstration in favor of Stoessel by number of the younger officers, d witnesses who were present. hese later sent a dispatch to the )mpress saying that they would hum y bear testimony that Gen. Stoes el was - the soul of the defence f Port Arthur; that he had always ncouraged and put heart in the gar ison, and that in case of war they 'ould wish to serve again under uch a hero. They asked the Empress racously to bespeak from the Em eror a full pardon. There was a dramatic moment af er the reading of the sentence when detatcment of soldiers filed Into he hall. The spectators, thinking hey were abolit to seize Gen. Stoes e, displayed great excitement, sev ral women fainting. It developed, Lowever, that this was merely a :uard for the disposal of the Court. Gen. Stoessel, 'who was accompan ad by his son, was the object of a rmpathetic demonstration, friends :lssing and shaking him by the hand .5 he left the Court leaning on his on's shoulder. The basis of the indictment upon which Lieut. Gen. Stoessel, Gen. 'rock, who commanded the 4th East ~lberan division of Port Arthur, .nd Major Gen. Reiss, chief of staff o Gen. Stoessel, were tried for their ives, was a secret report made by jeut. Gen. Smirnoff, on the defence f Port Arthur. Smirnof 'was acting command nt of the fortress. Stoessel being >mmander of the Kwang-Tung Pen nsula. Smirnoff categorically ac :used Stoessel of cowardice and in apacity, and finally of the deliberate Lnd treasonable hastening of the sur ender to save his own life a<. de lance of the decisions of two suc :essive councils of war. Gen. Smirnoff declared that the ortress, which was surrendered to he Japanese, January 1, 1905, could ave held out for six months longer. The stands taken by Gens. Stoes ;ei, Reiss and Frock were that the ate of Port Arthur was sealed v-hh he capture of the "Eagle's Nest," nd two other positions5. The indictment against Gen. Smi: of charged him with having failed :o remove Gen. Frock from his comn nand, although he suspected the tgreemet between G ens. Stoess':: nd Frock to surrender tho fort REVEALED IN A DRE.DL Long Lost Ring Recovered by its Owner This Way. A vivid dream thrice repeated howed George Chester of West Liv inston, N. J., where to find his wife s rddig ring, wbich she lost nearly ave years ago. TIhe dream came to iim first on Friday night. He saw iiself walking along Roseland Aenue toward Caldwell. About half aay to Caldwell he seated himself nnder a big t.-ee. Aftr resting a while ee got up. His foot slipped and dis placed a small stone. Then he saw aright object and picked it up. It was the ring. Carolina Negro Hanged William Handy, a South Carolina negro was hanged at Easten, Pa., Friday for the murder of Police man Shuman, of South Bethlehem ast ummer. Handy decdlared to the inst that he did not remember having shot the oilcer. Handy Is known to have shot a detective in New Ynrk some years ago.