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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1908 NO. 26 BRYAN WRITES And Thanks The State For Fight Against Misrepresentation. WANTS A FREE PRESS But Thinks the WilI of the Peo ple in Every State Should Have Voice, Not the Wishes of a Few Rule or Ruin Newspapers. Shows Up the New York World and Its Editorials. Lincoln, Neb., March 13. 1908. Mr. Wm. E. Gonzales, Columbia, S. C. My Dear Mr. Gonzales.. . . I appre ciate the fight which you are making against the misrepresentations in dulged in by the New York World and those who echo Lneir editorials. It is not for me to discuss the ques ton of availability of candidates. I have never stated that I was the most available candidate or that I could poll the most votes. That is not a question upon which my judge ment ought to be ventured or ac cepted. I have simply stated that it is a question for the voters -.' the party to determine. As a Democrat I have resented the claim that a few editors should de cide this question for the people. I am a believer in free press and 1' recognize the right of any editor. a whether his circulation be large or small, to state his opinion and his reason for it, but those who read his 1 opinion have a right to give it such weight as they think it deserves. I have insisted that the readers ought to know what pecuniary interest the editor has in the questions under discussion. For instance, I asked The World to state editorially what financial in terests its owner, Mr. Pulitzer has in the stocks or bonds of railroads and in 'the stocks and bonds of cor porations commonly known as trusts. The World has not seen fit to an swer the question. He is reputed to be interested in a number of cor porations which are affected by leg islation, and his readers are entitled to know what his interests are. If t he has interests adverse to the in- I terest of the public, he is not a dis interested judge as to candidates or platform. - If he has interests that would be r injuriously affected by legislation I needed by the people, then his opin ions are worth no more than theopin- I ons of Mr. Harriman or Mr. Rocke- t feller. I do not deny the right of Harriman. or Morgan, or Rockefel- c ler, of Pulitzer, to own a paper and t present their views to the public, but f I do contend .aat in the interest of t honesty and fair dealing, the owner a of the paper should be known and I: the interest of the owner in the ques- I tions frankly stated. .The World's unfairness is evidenc ed in every editorial. In the first place it ignores entirely the election of 1894, when the Democratic party was overwhelmni'gly defeated. This election occurred before I had any influence in national politics. It oc curred when the party was being con ducted along the lines laid down by l The World.. It is deliberately unfair in ignoring this election and charg- - ing the defeats of 1896 and 1900 to me, just as it is unfair in ignoring ~ the still worse defeat of 1904, when it was again the party's adviser. t It is simply prophesying when it e says that I can not carry any States e that I lost before, and that some other Democrat can. How does it know? What gift of phophecy has it? It thought in 1904 that Judge Parker would prove a popular candi date. It demanded his nomination and it advised him each day .3 to what he should say and do. What evidence can it furnish that it has more intelligence today than it had then, or that its prophecies rest on a firmer foundation? There are several papers in your State which were against me in 1 8956 and have been aganst me ever since. I do not know whether it is because of a difference of opinon as to what ought to be done, or whether they are connected with interests that are hostile to the things which I have been advocating. There are several papers in the United States which are known to be owned. in whole oi in part, by the corporate interests which they defend. but I would not make such a charge against the pap ers of your State. becuase I have no knowledge as to the ownership or as to the corporate interests with which the owners may be connected, and I prefer to assume that the differences are honest differences unless I have evidence to the contrary. However, it is only fair to say that these unfriendly editors. howev er honest they may be. are only so many individuals, and according to the Denmocratic theory, they are en titled to such infiuence only as their fellow-Citizens may voluntarily give to their opinions. If the voters differ from these editors it must be remem bered that they have a right to dif fer. and if it should prove that the voters are mistaken in judgment. they can consoie-themselves with the reflection that the editors unfriendly to me have also been mistaken in judgment, as is shown by the defeat of 1904. I am not asking for any honors at the hands of the Democratic party: I have been honored far beyond any thing that I could claim as a matter of right or as a matter of merit, and I ~~pecially appreciate the generous support that has conme to me from the Southern States. It has been grat ifying to me to know that my Dem ocracy has been satisfactory to the rank and file of the Democrats of the South. as well as to the rank and file -' he Democrats of the North. If the Democratic voters believe that 1 can assist the party by being a candidate why should I refuse? An why should I take the advice of HEAVY DAMAGES GIVEN MOTHER AND LITTLE SON WHO WERE Badly Burned by Coning in Conta~t With a Lire Wire on the Streets of Florence. A dispatch from Florence to The News and Courier says th3 biggest verdicts ever awarded by a Florence County jury were recorded Thursday in the cases of Mrs. Maude Laughlin and her little son. Lawrence Laugh lin, b',-.h of whom were horriby burned by an electric wire in Flor ence last August, against tne Flor ence Electric Light and Power (..om pany and the Southern Publicz Servict: Corporation Mrs. Laughlin. who asked $50.000 damages. was award ed $17,000. and Lawrence Laughlin. whose suit was for $25.000 damages. obtained a verdict for $S.000. Judge Dantzler promptly overrul ed a motion for a new trial, as he had previously overruled a motion for a non-suit, based on the ground that it had not been proven that the Southern Public Corporation was in any way connected with the Florence ight and Power Company. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. This was one of the biggest :ases ever tried in the Court of Com mon Pleas in this county. Mrs. Lauglin is the wife of Mr. :eorge W. Laughlin of Florence. rhe injuries for which she has been iwarded damages were received on .he 19th of last August, while she ras trying to rescue little Lawrence ier only son. who had become en :agled in the street near the corner )f Ravenel and Cheeves streets. Both nother and son were so badly in ured that it became necessary to mputate Mrs. Laughlin's right hand Lnd right foot, and the larger por ion of Lawrence's right har.d. * TWO ELEPILXTS AT LARGE ,scape from Circus in Florida and I Make for Georgia. ] Chief of Palice Dampier, of Val osta, Ga., received a telegram from he Van Amberg Shows, at White prings. Fla., stating that two of heir elepnants and escaped and were eaded for Valdosta, where the cir us wintered. Later reports which have reached Lere say the elophants have been sur ounded nine miles from Geona, Fla.. y a crowd of farmers -ith guns, nd that the big animals were fired Lpon. the shots only infuriating hem and causing them to dash away. Three or four trainers from the ircus are hurrying to the scene to ry and capture them. Telegrams rom White Springs say the people in he country through that section are most terrorized and are organizing great numbers for a big elephant unt. * NEGRO CHILDREN BURNED three Pickanninnies Perish in a Fire s f Near WValhalla. - Three negro children perished in ~ e flames when the house of Ella C )avis, a colored man living near Wal- i ala, was burned Thursday night. our children alone in the house l .ere playing with a torch nead a ck of seed cotton, which caught C e, igniting their clothing. Though ~ e door stood open the three young st children were too freightened to scape. TWO MLEN SHOT. ammunity Excited Over Wounding 1 of Young Men. An unknown negro shot and fatal r wounded Baxter and Rufus Burns t Burns. Miss., late Friday. Both Lre relatives of United States Senatorc ~cLaurin of Mississippi. Gov. Neol i tas sent bloodhounds from the Ran in county convict farm in pursuit. he vicinity is greatly excited and a arge posse is reported assisting inI he search of the culprit. The cause )f the shooting has not been ascer ained. * i Ten Were Injured. Ten persons were injured, none ~eriously, in a troliey car accident at >hiladelphia yesterday. ? few editors who have never been . riendly rather than the advice o? nillions of Democrats who have been olaborers with me for more than a '.ecade? The policy of the party must he dtermined by the voters and when : discuss Democratic pr'inicples I dis uss them with the understanldinlg hat I have no power to coeree. as I have no disposition to coerce. I can only persuade, and I have never tried to persuade others to believe except wbere I have myself believed. You have as much right to your opinion as to any other editor. and' surely your D~emocracy can not be questioned when you, unlike some other editors. propose to test the ~opularity of measures and ot men by the vote of the peop1e Popular government rests upon the right of the people to rule and ever party. i~f it deserves a place undera ~oplar government, must recognize the right of the voters to rule. Power comes up from the people and not down to them. You are on sound Democratic ground when you insist that the destinies of a candidate. like the destinies of a country. mnust he laced in the hands of those who do the voting, for to he Democratic we must believe in the capacity of the people to govern themselves, as well as in their right to self-gov'ern Again thanking you for your geni erous defense of the principles and policies for which I am contending. I am, Very truly yours. W X. J. Bryvan. WENT FOR TEDDY Serator Tillman Arraigns Presi dents Encroachment On LEGISLATIVE POWER. He Says Congress Is Subservient to the President's Will, and Says He Exercises Too Much Influence on the Other Departments of the Gov erunient. House Declared to be Speaiker's Tool. With a caution unusual for him, Senator Tillman reecntly read a. part of his speech in the Senate, in which he denounced Executive encroach ment on legislative power. With this apparent caution he proceeded to de liver one of the most direct and de nunciatory addresses ever heard in1 that body. He was given a careful hearing. His speech was based on his resolution instructing the commit ee on finance to inquire whether na ional banks of New York are in the abit of furnishing permanent capi al for speculative enterprises, etc. 'he resolution was adopted. Mr. Tillman traced what he termed t "swinging of the pendulum" from he regime of Andrew Jackson. when ,ongress assumed control almost to he exclusion of the President from egislative influence, to the adminis- t rations which followed, which, he eclared, witnessed a growth of Pres dential powers. The dominating in luence and control of the Executive ranch over the legislature and in a egree over the judicial branches of he Government were the most mark d features of the American politics at his time. "It has taien," said Mr. 'illman, "just forty-one years for the f endulum to swing from one extreme t o the other." "Now," he said. "the House of tepresentatives has degenerated into .'le more than a resor i: machine o do the will of the S'.,1 O.-r and his ieutenants." Freedom of debate in he old and true sen- :ias disappear d from the other end of the Cap- n tol. he added. In the Senate "3er ility and cowardice are the order f the day," he declared, "and the hadow of the Executive hangs over f 11 and the President's wishes are '1 Imost the only law. e "There is," he added, "some show f resistance on mattdr affecting the a 2ulti-millionaires and the great cor- t orations. The President writes colding messages and makes inflam atory speeches appealing to the nthinking and ignorant masses. He I as the potent influence of the press t his command; he has used the ewspapers and magazines in exploit g what he calls 'my politics' with skill and daring that compel admir tion. With bated breath Senators enounce his radical ideas in pri ate and oppose in every possible tay the measures which he clamors a r by the passive resistance of non tion. No one of the dominant par r' dares lift his voice in opposition r denunciation, but the Executive afluence is the only influence In evi- I ence, while the Senate cowers in si- k nt resistance. t "The cause of this condition." de ared Mr. Tiliman,. "is Federal pat mage.",i "The theory that the Senate must ' ~dvise and consent' before appoint ents are made,'' he said, is of lit e or no moment when Senators show uch want of courage and self-respect d d bow submissively to the orders t om the White House. The mem- 1 ers of the minority party, of course, a ere largely ignored. Appointments 0 ci the South, where the Democracy3 etains control, are in the hands of - eferees' who fill the offices for the ->e purpose for maintaining ma hines. The Senators of the domi ant party are afraid to resist the t secutive will, lest they themselves ~ ould fail to obtain the patronage ~ if their States."t They have also, he declared, a tread lest they should be forced into le etirement WXhen clashes have come between the President and Senatorsd ri Representatives the people have a almost every instance sided wlia he President. he said. "The people. poor. :simpule souls, 'eading the sp~ecial pleas ar~d r'ophis ea exc'uses of Repuh~1ca:x editors. Ii .' W to think -the Pr'esiden- alorne s honest and patriotic." said MTr. Till-i ian. ''They believe r'eliousnly' thate he Senate is c'orrupt-anci the White t ouse debauched and that the voli s-my politics. which are so ex loited in the press-must prevail md hecome law before any relief can ~e obtained. Senators who do not agree with the Executive and who i refuse to obey his will must be re ired. Congressmen who resist Exec utive dictation must b~e replaccd by those who will obey. "Tu the mad rush to placate the negro vote we may expect to see he fore the Chicago Convention meets o uuote a great New England paper,1 'the President reviewing the re-en- p isted battalion on the White House green, after which there will be iun heon at the Executive mansion. The President's action in that was hasty and unjust. inasmuch as the innocent were punished along with the guilty. but it is a pitiable spec tacle all the same to see the mad race for negro votes. '"M1r. Roosevelt is .aiways loud mouthed and even vehement in the proclamation of his own purity of purpose and patriotism. He has ah solte faith in his own infalihility and is apparently so drunk wit power. bat he unconsciously lapses into the imperial 'we' and sends cablegrams about 'me and my people.' But these things are of small moment--'vaga ries of a noble and impetuous spirit.' ant we could pass them by were it, not for the existence of cold-blooded fa.s to show mxentive resnonsibil-1 THE COTTON CROP FOR LAST YEAR GOES OVER ELEVEN 'MILLION BALES. The Census Report Issued by the Department of Agriculture Gives the Total Figures. The census report issued Friday shows that the cotton crop grown in 1907 aggregated 11.261,163 running bales. counting round as half bales and including linters, and showed a total of 27,677 active ginneries for 1907. This is against 1,.305,265 bales in 1906, and 10,725,602 in 1905. The statistics include 177,646 bales returned as remaining to be ginned after the tiem of the March anvass. The total number of run-. aing bales as given is equivalent to 11,302,872 of 500 pounds each. The average gross weight of the 1 >ales for 1907 is 501.8 pounds. The tem for the crop of 1907 are 10, 798.596 square bales; 198.549 round ales; 86,793 sea island bales; 198, 49 round bales; 86,793 sea island ales; linters 276,500 bales. Tne nurnber of running bales by tates follows: Alabama 1.126,028; trkansas 760.162, Florida 57,616, eorgia 1,891,900. Kansas 34, Ken ucky 4,205, Louisiana 676,8Z3, Mis- I issippi 1,464,207, Missouri 35,- 1 97, New Mexico 447, North Caro- i ina 648,517, Oklahoma 864.106, t outh Carolina 1,175,375. Tenn(.ssee 1 74,536. Texas 2.271,724, Virginia 1,486. Kentucky's total includes lin ers of establishments in Illinois and r Tirginia. i The linters included 276.500 bales f or 1907, 322,064 for 1906 and 230. 97 for 1905. Round bales are 198, ! 49 for 1907. 268,219 for 1906,,and i 79,836 for 1905. Sea island bales a re 86,893 for 1907, 57,550 for 1906, t 12,b39 for 1905. t Average gross weight of the bales u r 1907, including linters as given, 1; against 501.9 for 1906; that of a he round bales is 246.1 pounds forla 907, compared with 245.1 for 1906, t: nd the sea island 391.6 pounds for t 907. compared with 387.2 for F 906. Watson's Close Estimate. The State says when the govern tent estimate on the cotton crop for 907 came in the estimate made in ovember by Commissioner Watson's epartment was compared with the gures issued from Washington and was found that there was a differ- a ce of only 13,498 bales in the a gures on the South Carolina arop d 109,957 on the entire crop ofj ie United States. * C n h RAN AWAY FROM SCHOOL. h G p oung Boy Killed While Riding Un- a derneath Express Car. Young Dean, the son of a promi- e mt citizen of Langley, was killed a esday afternoon on the electric car t e between Langley and Warren- s lle, near Aiken. It seems that he c' ipped off or ran away from school G d got on the Augusta-Aiken ex ess car. It is supposed that he b Lther fell off or was shaken off, h L1ing on the track and was then p in over by the car. The men on n e express car, it is said, did not G ow anything about the matter and li e boy remained on the track until u e car bound for Aiken came up a ft tte later. The affair is avery de- e. orable one. a: Legally Hanged. C At La Grange, Ga., Ingram Cana- C . a negro assailant, was hanged in C e jail yard Friday afternoon at h 16 o'clock. Canady was convicted 1U the last November term of .court p crminally assaulting Mrs. Rosa s mes. y for many of the evils which ex- h t without dispute." Paul Morton, as vice-president of p e Santa Fe Railroad, said Mr. Till- It] an. "in the rebate cases laid him- n lf open to indictment and liability personal punishment, but the Pres lent peremptorily refused to permit [essrs Judson and Harmon to pros- . cute him." Senator Til lman denounaced Presi ent Roose'lt for not prosecuting td grafters, and Senator Beveridge iterrupted to say that the only dif- E erence between the President and t enator Tillman was that the former t rosecutes upon evidence and the E titer without it. Mr. Beveridge ~ anted to know why Senator Tillman 1: his flood of messages has not coy-C red the subject. Mr Tillman replied C hiat if Mr. Beveridge ."wants me to nake more criticisms than I have the f enator from Indiana is a great hi gli ;lutton." .11 Mr. Tillman reviewed- the events t if the recent currency crisis an dIa harged Wall street with many mis- 5 emeanors. 4 "The profits of this nefarious stock I ongering have,", he said, "found heir way into the pockets of the *ery man who with evil results of heir fraud manifest pose as 'saviors' d 'and crowned kings' and are1 auded to the skies when they werel 'eally trying to save themselves from the disasters which threatened to )verwelm them along with their de-1 unded victims. One of these 'sav lors' had done more than any other. f the money kings to deluge the stock market with watered stocks." A long review was given by Mr. Beveridge of Democratic politics, and e declared that aconferencehad been held in Washington for the purpose f coming to a plan for asking for Byan not to again b3 a candidate on the Democratic ticket, but when Mr. Bryan was there, he said, not one of them had the courage to tell him what they had planned to do. This' statement called forth denials from Mr. Tillman, Mr. McCleary and Mr, Rainey, all of whom declared that there had never been any idea of ask ing Mr. Bryan not to run on the Dem ocratic ticket and that stories to that WILL BE HUNG. THE SUPREME COURT DECIDES AGAINST PINK FRANKLIN, The Murderer of Constable Valen tine and He Will Re Resentenced and Executed. The State Supreme Court has sus tained the lower Court In the case of Pink Franklin, the Orangeourg ne gro, who was convicted of the kill ing of H. E. Valentine, white, and sentenced to be hanged on October 25th, 1907. The case now goes down to the trial Court for Franklin to be resentenced unless his colored law vers take an appeal to the United tates Supreme Court, which, it is aid, they will do. The killing of Mr. Valentine caus d quite a sensation at the time and here was fear of violence. Mr. Val intine, a constable, went to the house )f Franklin to serve a warrant on) ruly 29. 1907. The warrant aharged ?ink Franklin with breaking an gricultural contract, which had )een made under the law since de :lared unconstitutional by the State xourts. When Valentine approached the Louse of Franklin, the negro went nside the house and Valentine :nocked on the steps. Soon after vards a shot was fired and Valen ine fell mortally wounded. The aan who accompanied. him, W. M. arter, was also shot from inside the touse. Franklin was also wounded *d he claimed that Valentine burst ato the house and fired at him be ore he fired at Valentine. Franklin was represented by Jacob /oorer, of Orangeburg, and John dams, of Columbia; both colored. nd they raised much the same points at Moorer has used in contesting he election of Democratic Congress ien in this State, to-wit, that the tws of the State . discriminates t gainst negroes. Of course, there is t bsolutely nothing in their conten- t [ons, but the points serve to prolong ie life of Franklin. Sooner or later 'ranklin will be hung. ( t s CAROLINA HONEY WANTED. I ahnz Says Thousands of Barrels Are r Sought by Germans. y The Post says if anybody in or bout Charleston would. like to sell " thousand barrels of honey, or one t undred thousand barrels, Imperial t onsul E. H. Jahnz should be com- E tunicated with at once because he d as received a communication from t ermany from distributors of that b roduct in the Fatherland asking for 0 a unlimited suppiy of American and articularly South Carolina honey.. The Germans use lots of honey ich year, so much in fact that local h paies, and even tne bee plants of ite neighboring countries, fail to ipply the demnand for honey that >mes from hundreds of baKers of ermany.e It would seem that use could not a a found for the vast amount of the v, ,ney produced in Germany and im--t yrted annually, but the supply has at yet equalled the demand, for theE ermans have a sweet tooth and b b ke nothing better than hteir "homgE chen" or honey cake, a kind of con etion that is widely popular and is ten by high and loqw Germans. The German .distrib~utors wi. buy ay kind of honiey in -any.:shape, Herr c onsul Jahns said redenty, in dis 1ssing the request which. he~has re ~ived from Germany. -The. bitter oney is as convertible into a~ prime. c gredient for the h~oney .cake as the urest sweet honey. Stran'ed-or un-s rained. thi honey.brought is 'taken. L~tters- addressed t'o-- Iti .Germand ynsuI at Charleston. .frota prospec oney sellers of this city or state ill be forward~ed to.. Germany and rices quoted by the distributorst ere. .i bey wi-l1 give the highest C tarket prices for honey. ISSISTANT OBSERVERS WANTED . Ieather Bureau Sercite -Offers- Op-. portunity to Younig Men. An. opportunity ,is offe.red young ~ ien to become assstanit observers in ' de United States Weather b~ureau l arough the civil service, as.. exvami- C ations will be held by the:ciyil ser-- . ice commission on April 15th.. prox no, at the following places in Soutir; ~arolna .on .that. .day.:. Charieston; t olumbia and Greenville. The position pays 5759 with the rospect of rapid promotion after the robationary period of six months. as. ended.: A.D.pticationl for informa ion in relation to the exarni-'nations. I .nd .for. , . admission . to the same, houldbe a'ddressed'to the U. S. Civy I Sevice Commission-, Washington, ). C -- -- PRETTY WELL FIXED. enator. Laimer Left a Large Estate - t~o HiHiers. At Anderson. the will of the late enator A. C..Latimer has been pro ated by Probate Judge W. P. Nich lson. After each omnember of the ~amily receives certain- -legacies the v'ill provides that the estate he. di ided equally. share and share 'alike, imong the members of the -family. neluding Mrs. Latimaer. . The will oes not state the value of the estate. bt it is generally believed that its valunation is somewhat between -$300, 000 and $500.000. - JTumped Five Stories. At New York Mrs. Sarah Scherry. a despondent' widow, killed herself by diving from the front window of her fifth-story apartment at 64 East 103rd Street into a crowd of women on the sidewalk, most of .them who~ had children in arms or in-baby car-I TALE OF HOROR. Men and Women Beaten on Cer tain Islands. HORRIBLE PICTURE By Gen. Pienaer, Who Says He Has Seen Children Beaten Until Their Blood Covered the Ground Around Cocoa Plantations. Plea to Por tugese Goaernment to Have It Stopped. At Washington a vivid description Af atrocities alleged to be perpetuat ad upon slave laborers on cocoa plan tations on the Islands of Principe and Saint Thome, Portugese West Africa, was given in an address on 'Children's Lives in Africa," by .en. Joubert Pienaer, of South Af ica, of the International congress on ;he welfare of the child under the xuspices of the National Mother's longress. "The atrocities I have witnessed n Portuguese West Africa have tak m such a hold upon me," declared xen. Pienaer, "that I cut myself oose from all my business and leav ng my family thousands of miles Lway, I have consecrated my life to he freeing of the men and women hat are daily being done to death Lnd the little children that .1 have een beaten until the blood flowed to he ground." The speaker said that he had form d an association with the Intention f petitioning the Portuguese gov rnment on behalf of the slaves to stablish missionary settlements to ivilize and Christianize them and o act as a guard over the slave rade and to report the atrocities to he association "This seems to me," he said, "the nly effective way of putting a stop I ) this iniquity." He asked for the upport of the Mother's Congress in .is mission of humanity. After stating that " the cruelties icted out to those degraded human eings on the mainland were be ond description," General Pienaer ontinued: "children are torn from ie breasts of mothers and sold as laves. Slaves in the employ of their sk masters are beaten to death, zen wud women and children are iutilated. Often a native has been one to de-af-h he Is qu.:rtered and ae different portions of his body are ung on the trees to terrorize the ther natives. CAN'T DO IT AGAIN. ongressman James Says Corruption Funds Defeated Bryan Twice. Loud Democratic applause greet- C I Congressman James while making speech in the House on Tuesday, 1 hen he asserted his belief that in le last two campaigns against M~r. c ryan, "but for the corruption rought by the Republicans on the ionopolies and trusts of the country ryan would have been elected Presi ent of the United States." c Mr. Bryan, he said, stood for some ing and had convictions and the C yurage to express them. "He has ~ ever prostituted his garments fort Loney," he said. "He has never sold i 1 love of -the American people for yrporation gold." . "The .people of the country," he c tid would "in just time do proper eed and credit to the man who 1 raws the naked sword in their de- l nse and in their rights," and he elieved that these people, "are go ig to elect for President that grand, at splendid, that matchless Demo rat: W. J. Bryan. - DROPS DEAD. Vhile Looking at- the Corpse of a * Drowned Baby. .Ina. -Dunklin Township, in . Green ille-.County, three miles from Green ile,' the i-year-old child of Joe Say- 1 as, colored, fell into a tub which rowned. .The child's mother had 1 aft it..alone to go into the house and hen she returned it was dead. The news' quickly spread through he neighborhood and a number of eopl'gathered at the house, among h'eni Joe Jordan, the 18-year-old on of Mr. J. B. Jordan. He walked p.to the tub, in which .the child had een drowned, .looked at it and drop ed dead. Mr. Jordan says his son had a nar ow escape from .d'rowning in the ame manner when a child. The boy Lad a weak heart and it is supposed hat .the recollection of his narrow scape when. a child and the horror f the. negro child's death caused a hock to his system which resulted n his-death. lKilled on Railway. A dispatch to The State says "Miss eila Davega -received a dispatch ednesday mornng announcng the eath of her' brother-ia-law. Mr. E. Shavasse. from being struck by a assing train at Lexington. Ky. Miss DaVega left at once to attend the funeral. Mrs. Charasse was Miss Mary DaVega. a native of this city. and sister of the late Dr. S. M. D~a Robber Injured. A dispatch from Asheville to The State says in an effort to make a quick -"get away." after he had brok en into and robbed the Arden post office. Wlliam Miller, a young man from South Carolina, attempted to board a movng freight train, but fell beneath the wheels. One foot was cut off and he is otherwise badly SEN. TILLMAN SICK HAS BEEN QUITE ILL FOR SEV ERAL DAYS. But His Physicians Do Not Fear Anything Immediately Serious From Present Attack. The State says it was reported from Trenton, S. C., Saturday that Senator B. R. Tillman is quite a sick man. It is said that he is not in an alarming condition. but that he will not be able to return to his duties for some time. Dr. J. W. Bab cock. superintendent of the State Hospital for the insane, who went down to Trenton to see Senator Till man, came back Saturday night and gave out the following statement: "Senator Tillman was taken seri ously ill Thursday night. He spoke Monday in Washington and after two days at Clemson College he went to his home at Trenton, complain ing of the heat. That night he had an attack, evidently due to ha:d work, and the unusual heat, which produced nervous trouble similar to hat from which he suffered three ears ago when he consulted eminent pecialists in Philadelphia. who did ot find any signs of organic disease. Aifter a short rest the senator was oon at his post again. "In the present attack the old ympt3ms of numbness. and tingling )f the left side have returned, but hey are lessening in the last 24 ours. His physicians, Drs. Hunter ind Babcock, are agreed that there tre now no indications of organic rouble, and are hopeful that after a : ew days' rest the senator may be veli enough to return to his duties n Washington." Senator Tillman Better. It was stated Sunday night by Sen- ] .tor Tillman's physician at Trenton, i )r. T. J. Hunter, that senator Till- i nan had passed a good day, resting 4 vell Saturday night and retaining uis nourishment Sunday, and in is I ioped that he will be all right within j he next few days. Dr. Babcock, of ( 'olumbia, who went over to seen the i enator, returned to the city Satur ay afternoon and had heard nothing I rom him Sunday. * BOARD OF EDUCATION. resent Members Will Be Reappoint- S t ed by Gov. Ansel. Gov. Ansel Saturday announced at he meeting of the State board of ducation that he would reappoint .11 of the present members of this oard for the term of four years. here has been considerable specu ation on the probable appointments. i Prof. W. -K. Tate of the Charleston ehools, representing the First Con ressional district. Mr. H. C. Rice, a member of the iken bar, of the Second district. Prof. D. WV. Daniel of Clemson llege, representing the Third dis rict. Prof. A. G. Rembert, Wofford Col age, for the Fourth district. Prof. A. R. Banks, superintendent f the Lancaster schools, represent g the Fifth district. Col. Banks as been a member of the board un er five governors and was a mem er of the staff of two other govern rs. Mr. WV. J. Montgomery, member the Marion bar, representing the ixth district. Mr. Montgomery is. e retiring president of the State lanker's association. Prof. A. J. Thackson of the Or-:1 *ngeurg schools for the Seventh dis rict. Gay. Ansel is chairman of the oard and Superintendent 0. B. -e artin Is the secretary. * 3 MOB LYNCHES TWO MEN.t lorida Farmers Shoot Two Alleged Murderers to Death. a At Perry, Fla.. tween one and two i 'clock Friday morning a mob of r .rmed citizens surrounded the i ounty jail and took Richard Smith E .nd Will McMullen, both charged ~ith murder, from the jail carrying c hem quietly to a secludedl spot on e outskirts of the town, where :hey ere securely tied to a post and theirc )odies riddled with bullets. The bodies were foun i early nextt norning by the authocities. Smitt as charged with the murder ->f a hite man a few days ago and Mc dullen was awaiting trial tar the nurder of another negro. Mc ullen was a desperate character,I nd a few days ago overpowered thei ailor, making his escape. He was ~ecaptured by Marchal Hawkins. The citizens of -Perry are of the )pinion that the mob was formed of1 arers of the surrounding country. o further trouble is feared. *I ANOTHER SENATOR DEAlD. enatror Bryan of Florida Passes Away in Washington. United States Senator Wmn. James Bryan. of Florida, died at Providence Eospital in Washington Sunday norning of typhoid fever. It was nly seventy-three days since h'e took his seat as the successor of the late Senator Stephen R. Mallory. who died December 23. and thirty-three days f that tmne was spent in his fight against disease. In Mr. Bryan the Senate loses the seventh member by death since the adjournment of the 59th Congress on March 4 a year ago. They were the two late Senators from Alabama, M~r. Morgan and Mr. Peutus; Mr. Mal lory. of Florida: Mr. Latimer, of South Carolina: Mr. Proctor. of Ver mot: .Mr. Whyte, of Maryland, and M~r. Bryan. Curiously enough, the last two were the oldest and the youngest mnemb~ers of the body. Mr. Whyte was 84 years old and Mr. FIGHT A DUEL Gen. Fock Mortally Wounds Gen. Smirnoff~at Close Range. PISTOLS WERE USED. Smirnoff Reflected Upon Brother Of ficer's Qualities in Memorandum .on Seige of Port Arthur. Duel Takes Place in Regimental Riding School in St. Petersburg in the Presence of Men and Women. At St. Petersburg, Russia, Lieut General Smirnoff was probably fat ally wounded in a duel fought Wed nesday morning with Lieut. Gen. Fock. The men were in the riding school >f the Chevalier Guard regiment and Cought with pistols, standing close ,o each other when the shots were xchaniged. The duel was caused by a memo andum written by Gen Sinirnoff on ;he selge of Port Arthur, In which ie questioned the courage of Gen. Pock. The latter considered that his hon r and reputation was involved and hallenged the author of the memo andum. The duel, occurred with the full nowledge and approbation of the ilitary authorities. It- was witness d by several officers of high rank, nd it is even reported that several women were present. Shortly before 10 o'clock Gens. Pock and Smirnoff appeared at the ding school. Without saluting they ook the places assigned by their econds. The duelists were instructed to Ire until one or the other was hit. t Fock's fourth shot Smirnoff groan d and sank wounded In the abdo nen above the hip. The word "fire" was given by Gen. Cirsieff, the Russian authority on Luelling. At the third exchange Smirnoff ccidentally fired prematurely, but 'ock magnanimously declined to hoot at a defenceless opponent, and he fourth and final shots were then changed. The duel will be followed by nother between Fock and Gen. Gor atoffsky who was criticised by 'ock during the court-martial pro edings. Gen Smirnoff was acting comman ant of the Port Arthur fortress dur tg the seige and at the time of its irrender to the Japanese. After his eturn to Russia he prepared a se ret report of the defense of Port Ar ur which was the basis of the tdictments on which Gen. Stossel, en. Fock and Gen. Reiss were tried r their lives before court mar RURAL SCHOOL PRIZES. ~egulations Adopted by the State Board of Education. The State board of education Sat rday gave some time to a discussion the prizes to be awarded the rural hools making the most material nprovement during the year. It as finally decided to adopt the fol wig: "1. Improvements must be made etween November 1, 1907, and Dec ber 10, 1908. "2. Prizes will be awarded to the hools where th~e most decided ma rial improvements have been made uring the time mentioned. "3 Under material improvements re included local taxation, consoli ation, new buildings, repairing and ainting old ones, libraries, reading oms .or tables, interior decorations, eautfying yards and better general :uipment. "4. No school can compete for any f these prizes unless it is a rural hool. No town with more than 100 opulation shall be eligible to the ntest. "5. All who wish to enter this con est must send names and descrip ions of schools, before improvements re made. to the president prior to )ctober 1. ". All descriptions, photographs .nd other evidences showing im 'rovements must be sent to the pros dent before December 15, 1908. The hairman of the board of trustees of ny school that is competing for a rIze must approve all descriptions )efore and after improvements are nade. 7. Prizes wiai be awarded in hecks at the annual meeting of the outh Carolina School Improvement Lssociation December 31, 1908. The rizes are to be used for further Um ~rovefents in the schools receiving hem." SHOOTING OF JUDGE BUCHANAN 'atal Bullet Accidentally Fired by One of Two Boys. e A dispatch from Edgefleld says it *s now "ertain that the ball that 'illed Ex-Judge Buchannlan came from a rifle in the hands of one of :wo boys who were hunting, and it s authoritively stated that the shoot Lng was entirely accidental. While Lhe boys are known, the informant f the correspondent of The News nd Courier at Ward's refused to give names, nor have they, so far as is known here, been made public or ny confession or statement made as to their unfortunate, thrugh not criminal, connection with the sad af fair. No official investigatIon has een made.