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VOL. XXII 31ANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18. 1908 NO.25 TIED UP FAST. The Governor Warns Banks Not to Pay Out the DISPENSARY FUNDS. Notifies the Depositories of-the Fund Not to Honor Checks Without Pro duction of Collateral and Without Checks Being Signed by the State Treasurer and the Conunission Chairman. The banks holding deposits of the State dispensary money have been officially notified by the Governor that these funds must not be paid to any one without the proper pro duction of the collateral and without thec heck being signed by the chair man of the commission and the State Treasurer. Inasmuch as the collat erals are all in the office of the State Treasurer, it is not likely that the banks will care to violate the in structions of the Governor, although t the banks are also under injunction from Judge Pritchard not to pay out this money except by order of his Court. At any rate, the banks ap pear to be sure of keeping the money, whatever view the take of the ques tion of State's rights or Federal jur isdiction. , I The banks notified are the follow ing: c National Loan and ExchangeBank, : Columbia, S. C. Palmetto National Bank, Colum- d bia, S. C, C The State Bank, Columbia, S. C. Bank of Charleston, Charleston. t S. C. People's Loan and Exchange t Bank, Laurens, S. C. I t Bank of Orangeburg, Orangeburg, S. C. National Exchange Bank, Charles- E ton, S. C. Bank of Aiken, Aiken, S. C. c Commercial Bank, Camden, S. C. e People's Savings Bank, Abbeville, S. C. The Bank of Dillon. Dillon, S. C. i The Enterprise Bank, Charleston, S. C. Merchants' and Planters' Bank, v Gaffney, S. C. Farmers and Merchants Bank, o Anderson, S. C. Merchants and Farmers Bank, C Cheraw, S. C. D Farmers and Merchants Bank, a Walterboro, S. C. ti Commercial and Savings Bank, I Lorence, S. C. Bank of Hartsville, Hartsville, S. I] C. Peoples Bank, Union, S. C. 11 Bank of TimmonsvlleO, Timmons ville, S. C.g City National Bank, Greenville. S. The Greenville Savings Trust Coin pany, Greenville, S. C. The Lexington Savings Bank, Lex ington, S. C. Peoples National Bank, Charles ton, S. C. The Peoples Bank, Greenville, S. d The Norwood National Bank', Greenville, S. C. a The Bank of Camden, Camden, S.;t C. Merchants and Farmers Bank, Spartanburg, S. C. First National Bank, Spartanburg, S. C- e Central Nationa: Bank, Spartan burg, S. C. Meanwhile the banks having the money on d'eposit have all been serv ed with an order from Judge Prit chard not to pay out any dispensary V money except on the order of the Federal Court. The funds seem to be most securely tied up. Governor Ansel also sent a letter to all the county dispensary boards stating that some of them owe the State dispensary commission for 11 quors purchased out of the stock of the old State dispensary and notify ing them that these amounts must not be paid except when called for by the commission. and that the checks must be made payable to the State of South Carolina and to no one e -e; further, that under no ci cums: ces must these amounts he paid to -ny receiver appointed by an Court. WANTS THE FACTS Tinan Asks Pointed Questions~ About Some Bank Transactions. Senator Tillmtan introduced a res olution calling upon th.e Senate comn mittee on i-ance to conduct an in vestigation and answer some pointed questions bearing upon financial legislation. Among the questions asked are as to whether the national banks of New York York are in the habit, under the guise of commercial loans, of furnishing permanent capi tal for speculative or other enter prises: whether the Treasury Depart-; ment had knoweldge of the loans by the National Bank of North America of New York. which. are the subject of a suit by the receiver against C. W. Morse. and of other similar trans actionS in other national banks: whether the national banks are en gaged by themselves or through oth er organizations in attemptin~g to control or dictate the legislation of Congress upon the currency ques tions. Japs Tfried Them. Fteca'tse fah did not have the money to bring back two embezzlers from Japan the Milkado's Govern ment not only tried and convicetd the offenders for a crime comnmittel in Utah, but paid the State for collect ing and forwarding affdavits in the case. The prisoners are czrgee with emhealing $16,000Q. * ANOTHER VICTIM ANOTHER HIGH FINANCIER 1DIES SUDDENLY. This Make a Total oi Nineteen Per sons Who Have Died as a Result of the Recent Panic. The death of John G. Jenkins. Sr., in New York, on Friday, makes a total of nineteen persons who have died. a maqority of them by their own hands, as a result of the recent financial troubles. A complete list >f the victims follows: November 13. 1907-XathanWest eimer, retired financier, sustaining ieavy losses; suicide. November 14-Charles T. Barney, leposed bank president; suicide. November 15-L. N. Underwood, olumbia professor, driven insane by everses, killed himsel. November 13-Nicholas M. Smith, nd Mrs. Smith, New Rochelle, 'Man of Mystery." Smith lost all nd was killed by his wife, who then ommitted suicide and burned her ome. November 24-Mrs. S. T. Bon am, worried herself to death over he ruin of her husband, which was laimed to be due to the Jenkins ailure. November 25-Louis Straus, mine ,roker, plucked clean by the panic, aught in forgery, drinks poison. November 26-Howard Maxwell, ank president, indicted, out on bail; ommitted suicide. November 26-Valentine Haydahl, aught in Knickerbocker Trust com any crash; suicide. November 30-George Fruitman, amond polisher, f.unds in the Bor ugh Bank; mortgage due; suicide. December 5-Clara Bloodgood, ac ress, funds tied up; suicide. December 14-Worth Dallace, re ired millionaire, 75'years old, loans ed up; suicide. December 26-Ernest Steadman, twyer and real estate man, lost all i panic; dead in subway. January 1, 1908-Archibald Mit hell, young prodigal; money gone; nds life by gas. January 9-Charles Wadsworth Vhitney, Vanderbilt broker, worry 2g over financial troubles, ended life ith bullet. t February 8-E. C. Brooks. once ealthy speculator; lost his last pen y and committed suicide on floor f Produce exchange. February 21--Col. Eugene W. aindon, president of the Fuller Ex ress company and Civil War veter a; worried greatly over business roubles and shot himself in office. February 18-Harry Rosenburg, ealthy pawn broker, lost his sav tgs in bank; suicide in subway. March 12-John G.. Jenkins, Sr., r dicted banker; Ill for several 'eeks, died at his home; apoplexy iven as cause. * TESTIM0NY GIVER OUT. ppressed Dispensary Matter Made Public by Charmian Murray. Chairman W. J. Murray, of the Ispensary commission Wednesday iade public the testimony taken in egard to tae expense and per diem counts of Mr. B. F. Arthur, one of e members of the commission who as appointed receiver by Judge Prit hard. This testimony was taken in ~ctober and was transmitted to Gov :nor Ansel but the governor has1 ten no acton and all nformaation in egard to the matter has been with- 1 eld from the press. Mr. Arthur has not since attended 1 meeting of the commission. In tact, I inquiries were met with the an wer that there "is nothing in it." 1 The investigation of Mr. A'thur 'as caused by a report to the ecmr-1 aission by its attorney, Mr. W. F. 1 ~tevenson, in which he said. 1 "Voucher No. 211, the Hon. B. F. Lrthur, for March, shows 13 days' ervice in March, $65. The record hows that he attended meetings of he board on March 12 and 13, and ie doubtless came down to sign hecks which could not have taken nore than two days, which would eave nine days to be accounted for. hic I don't understand, and if al owed to stand as it will subject ther oard to grave criticism, and eon ~tructive per diem cannot be allowen 't contains items of mileage to Rich nond which should he exlained fully n the vocher or mileage could not be bharged from Rchmond to meet the )oard here. "His account for April is for eight lays, and the record shows only one a at a meeting, and if we allow ,ne day to go and come and one trip or signing checks. allon ag two days. iaking four possible days for the onth and I cannot approve the -ucher as it stands." It seems that whenever Mr. Arthur :me from Union to Columbia to ign checks he charged up three days. although he was not engaged more than fifteen minutes in signing the hecks. On one occaisonl he charged mileage from Richmond, Va. TRIED) TO BURN SLil Had Left Him. Becuste his young bride deserted him. Agossan Thba. of Martins Creek. N. J.. Piled a lot of wood under his bed and set fire to it. Then turning on the gas in the roo he lay down on the bed and tried to go to sleep. The bed Took fire arnd Teba would have burnr'd to death but for the timely arriva! of neigh hors who saw the Ilames and for'ci ly carried him from the house. He begged them to leave him alone and said that he did not care to live. He was terribly burned and the hos ria phydeleins say he may not re TALKS TO WOMEN President Roosevelt in an Address Condemns Race Suicide. EXALTS MOTHERHOOD lie Says the Mother is the One Su preme Asset of the Nation, and That He Abhors the 31an Who Mistreats Women, Most Especial ly the Women of His Own House hold. The White House was the scene Tuesday of the formal opening of the first nternational congress on the welfare of the child, which is being held under the auspices of the Na tional Mothers' congress. The 200 delegates representing all the States and territories and a dozen or more of the leading countries of the world were received at the While House at 2.30 o'clock that afterrnoon when President Roosevelt delivered an ad ress to them in which he declared hat he placed the society ahead of the Civil War veterans, because he said in the final analysis, it is the mother only who is a better citizen a :han the soldier who fights for his :ountry. The president said in part: "The successful mother, the moth r who does her part in rearing and :raining aright the boys and girls rho are be the men and women of he next generation, is of greater use :o the community and occupies, did he only realize it, a more honorable t ts well as a more important position han any successful man in It. "Nothing in life that is really t vorth having comes save at the cost I >f effort. No life of self-indulgence t >f mere vapid pleasure can possibly, s ven in one point of pleasure itself, -eld so ample a reward as comes to 1 he mother at the cost of self-denial, t if effort, of suffering child-birth, of t he long, slow, patient, trying work if bringing up the chldr -ri arght. C o system of education. .i - .stem of e noral training can b1. i:it unless t is based fundamnentr-ly upon the ecognition of -eeirc '.hat the girl is rained to unUerszi-a I the supreme p lignity, the supreme usefulness of s notherhood. Unless the average v roman is a good moth r, unless she tI ears a sufficient number of children e o that the race shall increase and e ot decrease, unless she brings up v hese children in soul and mind and t ody-unless this is true of the aver .ge woman, no brilliancy of ii ;enius, no material prosperity, - to triumphs of science and 3 adustry, will avail to save the n ace from ruin and death. The h other is the one supreme asset of 1i ational life; she is more important o my far than the successful statesman er business man, artist or scientist. b "I abhor and condemn the man n who is brutal, thoughtless, careless. f elfish with women, and especially c vith the women of his own house old. The birth pangs make all men f he debtors of all women. I abhor t .nd condemn the man who fails tO s ecognize all his obligations to the roman who does her duty. But the u roman who shirks her duty as wife .nd mother is just as heartily to be condemned. We despise her as ve despise and condemn the soldier rho flinches in battle. "Decause we so admire the good roman, the unselfish woman, the arsighted woman. we have scant pa jence with her unworthy sister who 'ears to do her duty: exactly as, for I he very reason that, we respect a nan who does his duty honestly and 'airly. All honor to the man or wo nan who does duty, who renders ser- ~ ice. and we can only honor him or ier if the weight of our condemna ion is felt, by those who flinch from I heir duty.c I want to ask your assistance for wo or three matters that are not mmediately connected with the life - the family itself, but that are of ital consequence to the children. Int he first place, in the school, that the I ;chool work be made practical as ossible. For the boys I want to see 'raining provided that shall train tem toward. and not away from, heir life work: that will train them :oward the farm or the shop, not away from it. With the girl, see that it is not ma~de a matter of mirth that the girl who goes to college comes au:. unprepared to do any of the or inary duties of womanhood. "As regards our public school. es pecially I want to put in a special vcrd in behalf of the right kind of p lay grounds. No school is a good school if it has not a good play ground. Help the children tO play. and remember that yo can often help them most by leaving them en tirely alone. "You can not have good citizens. good nmen and good wcmnen of the next generation if the bays and girls are worked in factories to the stunt ing of their moral. mental and phy sical growth. Wherever the nation al government can reach, it should do away with the evils of child labor, and I trust this will be (lone: but much must be done by the ac tions of the several State legislatures; and (10. each of you, in your several States, all that you can to secure the cm.am-:t. and then the enforce moent. of laws, that shall put a stop to the employment of children of tender age in doing what only grown ~eople should do.I "D not forget that love is what the home is based on: but do not do hildren, don't do grownpel. the dlreadf~ul injustice-through a 'e that is merely one form of weak nes-o fai-iling to make the child. o I mig~ht add, the man. behave it el or himself. A marriage should e a partership where each of the two partes has his or her rights. we each should be more careful jt ao hi or her duty. than to ex SOME PLAIN TALK. FRCOM SENATOR TILLMAN ON THE TAR'FF LN THE SENATE. Said Present Needs of the Republi can Party for Campaign FundsCare for Trusts Necessary. . Senator Frye's joint resolution to provide for the transportation by American ships only of material for use in the construction of the Pana ma canal. which was brought up in the senate Tuesday by unanimous consent. was the subject of an ani mated debate on -various phases of t'' work of providing material for the :anal. Mr. Frye stated that five million barrels of cement are to be used In the constructon of the canal and said :hat under the law American ships :annot compete for transportation service, as British ships cost 33 1-3 :er cent. less for both constructioni nd for their operation. His resolu on was to give the trade to Aie: .an ships, regardless of the differ nce in cost. He submitted statistics howing that there were 10 times as uch tonnage of Ameican vessels as vas necessary to ship the cement teeded. An amendment by Senator Foster f Louisiana providing that the re triction should not apply to the Gulf orts or any part of the United States rom which vessels of the United I tates could not be secured for the rade, was accepted by Mr. Frye. Senators Fulton, of Oregon, and acon. of Georgia, sought to have he amendment extended to the .orthern Pacific and southern Atlan ic coasts, respectively, but were un uccessful. Mr. Lodge ,commenting on the pro riety of securing cement on the Is hmus, said It would cost $1,000,000 : erect plant there for that purpose. Mr. Culberson said there was need f protecting the United States from xtortion by the monopolies that -ould be benefited by the resolution. Mr. Bacon thought the resolution hould not leave the direction to th.e resident to determine that American hips should be given this business -hen their charges were not extor onate nor unreasonable. He want d the restriction mandatory so that very bidder could know what he rould meet in the way of transporta on. Mr. Tilman, declaring against buy ig cement in the United States at reater cost than elsewhere, called I [r. Lodge to his feet with the state- r ient that if he wanted free cement s e should apply the same principle to imber and and other material used n the canal or in this country. "I would like powerful well to ave that done," retorted Mr. Till ian, "as I represent a good many1 armers who would be benefited by heap supplies." Mr. Tllman added that the need r campaign funds made it necessary >look after the interests of the hiping trust. The resolution was then laid aside ntil later. I c FIREBUGS LYNCHED. 'our of Them Taken From an Offi cer and Hanged. Dave Poe, Tom Ranston and two enkins brothers, all negroes, were I enched at Vancleave, Miss., by a 1ob of 30 men Tuesday night. The len were in the custody of Deputy heriff Evans of Jackson county en oute to jail when the mob overtook t hem. A series of incendiary warehouse res, causing losses in foodstuffs and ther supplies, incensed the people of I le vicinity. The four negroes con-( essed their' guilt when the mob took 1 hem from the deputy and all four rere hanged to limbs of trees by he side of the road where their bod es were found the next morning. The immediate cause of the lynchinig as the burning of the warehouse of lam Byrd last Friday night, when, tis said, an attempt was made to 'aylay and rob Byrd, who conducts .store near Vancleave. Among the other warehouses burn d In the vicinity are those of W. H. estfall about a month ago and the )antzer Lumber company recently. [he lynching was conducted in an rderly manner. The Deadly Auto. At Cairo, Egypt. four persons were tilled and twenty injiured during the unning of automobile races. While he fourth event was being contested Hago Fenderi's DeDion car became~ nmanageable and ran into a crowd >f spectators. The Duke of Con naught and the Khedive witnessed rhe accident and immediately left the course. Delegates Unnstructed. Pennsylvania's delegation will go to the Denver convention uninstruct ed," was the pointed remark made by Colonel James M. Guffey, Democratic leader. act duty from the partner, but each must in justice to the other partner no less than to himself or herself. exact the performance of duty by the other partner. ( Applause.) Let each of you do his or her duty first but do not lose your self respect b~yI submittng to wrong. The first session of the congress was held at the Metropolitan Meth odist Episcopal church at John Mar shal place and C street. Elmer E. Brown, United States commissioner of education, who was appointed by President Rosevelt as the offical representative of the United States, spoke on "Children in the United WET OR DRY? THIS IS THE QUESTION TIROUB LING CALHOUN COUNTY. The New County Will Need the Rev enue That Will Be Derived From County Dispensaries. Shall Calhoun Sounty be wet or dry? This is the question now troub ling some of the Calhoun County f6lks, and they want to know how the question is to be answered. As John Henry would say the new coun ty needs all the funds it can get to start housekeeping. The local option law, known as the Carey-Cothran law, provides that the sale of whiskey in this State Is pro hibited "except in incorporated cities and towns of ths State in counties wherein the same may be permitted as hereinafter provided." Of course, this Act having been passed prior to the establishment of Calhoun, there s no provision therein in regard to he sale of whiskey in Calhoun Coun lv. t In the Act establishing Calhoun c ,ounty, passed at the 1908 session, here is nothing in regard to the I natter. Mr. Banks, whose home is I n the new county, had an amend nent inserted in Mr. Cothran's bills a Lmending the Carey-Cothran law, d rhich provided that the dispensar- e es now in Orangeburg, but In the a erritory to be included in Calhoun r 1unty, should be- turned over to a he new county, but this bill did not 0 et through the Senate. A delegation from Calhoun county c ecently waited on Governor Ansel t Lnd asked his opinion in regard tothe natter, and he took it under advise- tj ent. If it Is left to the Governor c o decide he will likely say that the 0 ew county is prohibition under ex- y sting law, but the new county peo- tj le, or some of them at least, desire e a operate~ dispensaries for the rev- a nue which the new county will s eed. t) It is probable therefore that a y est case will be brought before ] ome Circuit Judge to determine c: vether the new county is dry or s ret? Under the general local option 1i aw no election can be held on the bject until next November, at the S ame time as the general election is y eld. *1i MILLS SHUTTING DOWN. tl 'honsands of Oeratives Are Affect- J ti ed by the Curtailment. a Thousands of employees oi- New S ngland Mills and factories went on short time Lasis following several p ionths of devression. In some places g eporta come of several factories re- V uming wori arter the shut down or e ei creasing their running time. ? The Hargraves Parker mills in 'all River went on a four days ae teek basis. The Fisher Manufac-p ring Company's cotton mills, at 'isherville, Mass., employing 700 c Lands, were shut down until Monday. e The Gabot mills, at Brunswick, ~ 4e., with 800 hands, went on aT hedule of four days a week. cl Cotton mills in several towns own- 1 by B. B. and R. Knight, and em loyng six thousand operatives, went t n a three quarters time schedule. ~ The Putnam Manufacturing Com- ti any's mills went on three and a half c< ime schedule and the Nightingale Lnd Powhattan mills, of Putnam, ~onn., have reduced to four days a c 'eek, affecting 700 hands-.t The Edwards cotton mills, at Au- t ~usta, Maine, employing 1,000 hands, dopted a half schedule, and the Vhitin. machine shops, at Whitin 'ille, Mass., making cotton mill ma hinery, with 1.800 men, reduced ime to forty-five hours a week. t Curtailment of production is also Lpproved by the Chicopee cotton6 nills, of Chicopee Falls, 1,300 hands. ie Dwight mills, of Chicopee, 500 4peratives, Salmon Falls mills, Sal non Falls, N. H., 700 operatives, ~ aumbeag cotton milhs, of Salem, ,500 hands, and other concerns. t WANTED DRAWINGS. s rap Tried to Get Plans of New Forti- a Cation Made. At Ely, Nevada, a prominent C raughtsman named Clinton was ap ,roached by a Japanese who sought ~ :o have Clinton accompany him to an Francisco to make plans of the ew fortifications there. The Jap inese said he would pay al expen es as well as "make it all right with ~linton"~ in case the latter made a Irawing of the new fortifications. Clinton refused to accede to the suggestion, and caught hold of the Japanese with the intention of hold ing him until an officer came to place him under arrest. The Jap m nese cau~gTt th.e "5ir; hand~ of his 1 captor in his mouth. biting tw3 of his fingers so badly that he will prob ably have -o :iave them amuputatedl. A crowd soon gathered and held the Japanese until a deuulty consta ble came and arrested him. The Japanese bit and scratched like a wild man. declaring over and over that he would not be arrested alive. Hewill be held on a charge of may He wIl be held on a charge of may NTegro Killed. At Chicago a quarrel that started in a crowded street car Thursday night ended in the killing of John H. Mapp, a colored man, by JTames McDonald. who was accidentally jostled by the negro. * Six Chinamien Killed. Six Chinese dead, two others bad ly injured and one building destroy ed was the result of a fire n China town, at 1st and Oak streets, in Maryville, Cal., Thursday. The fire is believed to have been the work of BRYAN WILL WIN. New York Sun Says Democrats Will Carry That STATE IN NOVEMBER DIver Any Candidate the Republicans May Name.-A Washington Cor respondent Says Well Informed Politicians Not Only Agree With This View, But Look Confidently for Bryan to Be President. Ralph Smith, the Washington cor -espondent of the Atlanta Journal, ;ays Democrats have been out of ower for so long and the party has net with suca overwhelming defeat n national elections of recent years hat ordinarily, it would seem ex- 1 remely hazardous to predict a Dem- t >cratic victory at the coming presi tential election. But there are in Vashington today many of the best >osted politicians in the country aen who have had long experience .nd who have made a study of con itions-who confidently predict the C lection of Mr. Bryan next fall over ny candidate the Republicans may ominate at Chicago, and these men re not enthusiastic Bryanites, nor n the died-in-the-wool Democrats. lany of them are old line Republi ans, men who have never voted any ing but the Republican ticket. The New York Sun, anti-adminis- 1 -ation, anti-anything-opposed-to-spe lal-interests, in its leading editorial f Tuesday, March 3, declared that , illiam Howard Taft cannot be elec d president, even if he is nominat- a a by the Republicans at Chicago, hich it doubts. This interesting atement Is made even more so by ie further declaration that either d illiam J. Bryan or William R. r earst, if nominated by the Demlo- r rats at Denver, can carry New York ate over any candidate the Repub- a can party may put up. The past inconsistences of The un, tokether with its well-known ro-corporation, pro-capitalistic pol- P y, to say nothing of its bitter an- c Lgonism of President Roosevelt. and d his policies," has tended to weaken R ie declaration, but the editorial has a st the same attracted much atten- n on and caused widespread comment mong politicians in Washington. Among other things, the editorial ys: t "If Mr. Taft were to secure the 0 epublican nomination, a contia- d ency which has been effectively pro ded against, he could not be elect- e . The Democratic candidate, wheth- d Hearst or Bryan, would win." "Speaking of our own state (New ork) we record our conviction," u ntinues the editorial, "that no Re- ii ublican candidate, and we particu- tE trly include Mr. Roosevelt himself, c n carry it against -Bryan, Hearst, ~ r any other Democrat that may be ~ laced in nomination at Denver, d here are mighty and revolutionary aanges operating in the political ~ ndscape." The editorial offers an opportunity b >discuss, briefly, the chances of s *emocratit success at the next elec- 14 on. Regardless of the Sun's sin rity, there are in Washington a i umber of people, supposedly well b sted, who share the belief that suc ss will perch upon the standard of s ue Democratic party at the next elec- t .on, and they all concede the nomi- i ation of Bryan by acclamation at renver. The Sun is probably the first to V mme forward with the claim that the t >emocrats will carry New York, and 2s statement is attributed more to ~ islike for Mr. Roosevelt than to a 5 enuine conviction. But the Republican party is -in S ower, and, as a young statesman s 'om Georgia often says, "a panic is a pon the people." Whether there ~ e a panic in reality makes little dif- c erence, the fact is that hundreds of 3 housands of men are vut of work, 2 articularly in the more populous t tates of the east and the middle t rest. t makes no difference wheth- r r the Republican party is responSi le for the hard times, the great mass f people believe such to be the case, d there are many who have here ofore voted the Republican ticket rho believe that a change would do hem good and benefit the country. No class of persons study politics nore closely than the Washington orrespondents, and it is surprising o note the growing belief among hese men that Bryan will be elect d, regardless of whom the Rebubli- I ans nominate. Some of the oldest< nd best informed writets in the gal ery~Republicans, representinggreat I .epuhlican papers-freely confess 4 hat the chances of Democratic suc ess look much brighter today than < 10 the Republican chances. New Yorkers look upon the Sun's < editorial declaration with varying1 iews, but they all agree that it is luite significant. The concldung par tgrap h, especially, has impressed :hem, and this paragraph predicts1 :hat New York state will go Demo The last sentence, "There are ighty and revolutionary changes perating in the political landscape," .s regarded as a particularly signifi tant hint. "The mighty and revolu :ionary changes" are taken to mean, . determination in certain quarters Lo accept Bryan, or Hearst, if need be. in preference to either Roose relt or Taft. Corset Killed Her. At Brigham, Utah, Mrs. Carl Gun ke laced her corset so tightly that she crushed her heart, causing the blood to shoot to her head. Her husband. hearing her fall, ran to the room and summoned a physician, but Mrs. Gunkle was dead before the KILLED HER FRIEND. A YOUNG LADY FROM SAVANNAH KILLED IN BOSTON, MASS. The Murder Was Committed by An other Young Lady, Suffering from Melancholia, Due to Overwork. Suffering from melancholia, due to >verwork, Miss Ruth Chamberlin Weed, of Philadelphia, shot and kill d Miss Elizabeth Bailey Hardee, of ,io. 214 Gwinneth street, East Savan iah, Georgia, and then committed suicide at the Laurens School for 'irls in the Fenway district. The, )odies of the two women were found )y Mrs. Page, the matron of .the ;chool. The Laurens School was es- i< :ablished last fall by Miss Hardee e Lnd Miss Weed. On October 1, the lay school opened, Miss Weed broke own as a result of overworr, and as , result was committed to a sanitari- a im to be treated for nervous prostra- a ion. Tuesday night Miss Weed escaped rom the sanitarium and made her ay to the school. She appeared to a e badly deranged mentally. A n ruitless attempt was made to com- t] aunicate with the authorities of the anitarium, and at length Miss -Har ee succeeded in getting Miss Weed a D go to bed in Miss Hardee's cham- t er on the third floor of the school h uIlding. h Both women were awakened by Irs. Page and notified that they must r et up if they were to catch the 7.50 0 rain, on which Miss Weed was to be it iken to West Newton. Mrs. Page d aft them and a few moments later e shooting occurred. Mrs. Page Uinks the mention of returning to h he sanitarium must have excited 13 nd angered Miss Weed and induced tc ie shooting. w From the nature of the wounds tt [edical Examiner Stedman decided hi iat Miss Weed had committed suici- s( e by shooting herself through the c( ight temple after having shot Miss ri Eardee tilrough the base of the brain. se oth women were about 32 years old ad they had been intimate since m ieir graduation from Wellesley Col- m ,ge. Miss Hardee received her di- ii loma in 1894, while Miss Weed re- b( aved hers a year later - Miss Har- hi ee was an instructor of mathemat- ei :s in Wellesley in 1899 and 1900, u, ad last year taught school in Ver- m ont. Miss Weed also had been teaching t various sections of the county. F ast summer the two women decided- ti open a boarding school for girls w a Audubon road, in the Fenway J< [strict, October 1, the day upon tr hch- the Laurens School, as they call- w I it, was opened, Miss Weed broke it own as a result of overwork and ti: as taken to a sanitarium in West to ewton, where she had since been ader treatment. While at the san- is arium Miss Weed had been subject w >severe attacks of melancholia. Es- w ping the other night, she made her ce ay to Laurens School, where Miss tI ardee volunteered to care for her fr tring the night. . it Miss Weed behaved in a- seculiar ce tanner; according to the teachers, py andering aimlessly about the school r2 uilding and occasionally making a range or incoherent remark. At m mgth Miss Hardee persuaded Miss m eed to retire, and the demented wo- di tan followed her to her own chain- H er on the third fioor of the school. m hen Mrs. Page, the matron of the os :hool, went to Miss Hardee's room oj 2e next morning she was shocked to oy nd both women dead. f The pupils at the school, about 40 m, i number, are the daughters of ealthy parents from all sections of le country. Miss Hardee, in addition to school A rork, had taken a great interest in ettlement work in the city, and es ecially among the Itlian.s In the orth end. During her college career he was prominent in many branches F nd extremely popular. Miss Weed's s rork since leaving college has been ~ onfined almost entirely to teaching. ~ Vhile in the sanitarium at West n lewton she was frequently subject k o extreme paroxysms of weeping, ,t) ut never appeared to bear any ani- ' iosity to any of her friends. h FOUR DEATHS IN A FAMILY. 'neumonia Took Them Within a Pe- E .riod of Four Weeks. A dispatch from Aiken to The n state says one if the saddest deaths t hat has occurred in that county was V hat of Melvin Bell, twenty years of ~ .ge, which occurred on Monday of ~ ,neumonia. Mr. Bell had been ill t nly a few days. He was the son of ~ r. J. P. Bell of Windsor. He was he fourth in that family that has Lied in the past four weeks. On darch 12 Barney Bell, his brother, lied of pneumonia; a few days later I drs. J. P. Bell, his mother, died f the same disease: on Monday of ast week Frank Bell, another broth tr, died of the same disease. This r nakes the third brother and the c nother of the same family to die of c meumonia witnin four weeks. None 1: >f them were sick over five days. 1: . few months ago Frank Bell's wife lied. * DON'T WANT TAFT. i Labor Leader Says His Union Will a Not Support Him. At Omaha. Neb., on Wednesday. in the Republican State Conventionl the Second and Sixth Districts en- I orsed Taft. "Tony" Donohue; a 1l.. cal labor .unionl leader. who was a elegate to the second circuit dis trict convention, protested against the endorsement of Taft. saying he wanted to put the union labor of Omaha on record as opposed to him. and added that if Taft was nominat- < ed they would not support the tick-< SHOT HIS RIVAL Because He Walked Home With a Young Lady and Thell COMMITTED SUICIDE. it Marion a Young Man Walks Into Cotton Mill, Shoot and Dangerousr ly Wounds Another Young Man and on His Way Home Puts Bullet Through His Brain.-Community Terribly Shocked. A dispatch to The News and.Cour r says the cotton mill village in the astern surburbs of Marion was ter ibly shocked by a double tragedy, rhich occurred Friday morning as result of which one man Is. dead nd ae wo'nded. nana9 ag;ously At alosi uther Hewitt, young.man- wE been up-until few day .an employee in the till' waiked into the mill, where Ar ur Stephens was at work, and after ying only a few words to him f!red t him at a distance of about one or vo steps, the ball taking effect in is neck, passing to the right of is windpipe. Stephens immediately tn, but was shot again at a distance I a few steps, this ball hitting. him the back just over the left shoul ar, causing him to fall. Hewitt, evidently thinking that he ad killed the man turned deliberate and walked out of the mill -and ward his father's house, but when ithin a short distance of his home, trned the pistol and fired at his own ad, but missed the first time. The cond attempt, however, was sue ssful. He held the pistol to his ght temple and fired, killing him If instantly. Dr. Z. G. Smith was hastily sum oned, and reached the wounded an within a few minutes, and find th that neither of the balls could easily located, he decided to tqre s patient to the hospital in Flor ee, where he hopes that with the ;e of an X-ray machine, the balls ay be located, extracted and the an's life saved. The train from Wilmington to orence was at the station at the me he examination of Mr. Hewitt as being made, and Conductor ines kindly consented to hold the ain for ten minutes until the :nded man could be placed upon and this was done within that me, Dr.- Smith accompanying him the hospital. The alleged cause of the trouble said to be that young Stephens alked home from a party last night ith a young lady to whom the de ased was very much attached. But e general impression among the iends of both parties is that Hew t's mind must have been unbalan -d, although he had not shown any evious symptoms of mental de .ngement. Neither of these young men is arried, both of them living in the ill village- with their parents. The ceased was a son of Mr. W. D. ewitt the night watchman at the ill, and Arthur Stephens is the son Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stephens. Both the families are natives of Mari i County and have a great many iends, who are inexpressibly griev Sby the 'r 1;*-i'* -THOUSANDS KILLED. wul Slaughter of Strihing Minen at Iquique, Chile. According to reports brought to Sanl rancisco by the oflicers of a stnam ip . just arrived there from Chile .any strikers were mowed down by achine guns at the nitrate beds ar Iquique. The number of men illed is placed at 2,500, but this is iought to -be a liigh estimate here. he workmen at the nitrate beds ave been on a stritte fcr many Lonths and numerous small riots :.ve occurred in th a -rjeets of It]ui ee and on the outskirts. On January 1, 4,000 strikers start 1 to march through trie streets of uique. They were met on the out kirts and ordered to dispyrse. The ten refused, and tried to rush the .oops, who suddenly opened fire 'ith machine guns on the mob. iihen the fracus was ende.1 2,500 yen are reported to have been found, ae majority being buried by the sol iers. It is stated that the strikers rere not armed. . WAGES REDUCED. Many of the New England Cotton Mills. At Lowell, Mass., on Wednesday otices announcing a wage reduction f 10 per cent. were posted In seven f the large cotton factories. Near r 25,000 operatives will be affected y the cut down. Manufacturers state that the busi ess outlook Is most discouraging d that the situation is without a arallel in many years, the whole otton manufacturing industry North nd South being seriously impaired. It is also stated that furher cur ailment of production may become .ecessary. The corporations where he notices were posted comprise, ractically all of the large manufac urers. Fatal Fire Damp. At Dartmound, Prussia, five men ere killed in the Lukas mine, as he result of an explosion of fire !amp. Thirty miners were entomb d but they were resuced by their omrades after several hours of leric work..*