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MAN'ING, S. C. WED-NESDAY, APRIL 8,908N.2 VOL. XXII 1N CUT IN TWO Thirty-Six Men Perish In a Tor pedo Destroyer Which GOES TO THE BOTTOM The Deck Crew Goes Down With the Vessel-Dressed in Oilskins and Boots, Victims Have No Chance Twenty-Two Are Rescued by Boats From the Other Ships-Destroyer > Tries to Cross Big Cruiser's Bow. A dispatch from Portsmouth. Eng land, says thirty-six men. including Lieut. Middleton. commander of the torpedo boat destroyer Tiger, lost their lives in a collision off the Isle of Wright, Friday night, between lthat- vessel and the British cruiser Berwick. The vessels. belong to the Ports mouth division of the British home fleet and were engaged in night man euvers in the channel on their way to Portland. The night was very dark and the Berwick was steaming slowly. When tne destroyer 'attempted to cross the big cruiser's bow she was caught amidships and cut in half with lnife like percison, sinking almost imme diately. The deck crew who were dressed in heavy oilskins and boots, went down with the vessel, not having time to free themselves from these heavy en cumbrances. Of the twenty two men who were rescued most of them were engineers and stokers, who having light cloth ing, were able to keep themselves afloat until boats from the other sips. which were immediately launched, picked them up. The smaller naval vessels were in the midst of an attack on their big ger consorts when the disaster occur red. The entire fleet was -under masked lights, and in darkness. The destroyer was cut in two as if she had been made of paper. The for ward half sunk instantaneously anti thesea became dotted with strugg"ng men. Most of them. however, sank before help could reach them. The Tiger had a complement -of fifty-nine men. XHREIE DEAD AND MANY URT Terror Stricken Tenants are Wedged Solidly on the Escapes. At New. York three persons were ' killed, fifteen' were injured, some of them seriously, and Twe lives of near ly a hundred nersons were endangered by a fire in a five-story tenement house at No. 44 Hester street. Brel Weinstein, his wife and one year old son were suffocated in their apart ments on the fifth floor. In their mad attempt to escape from the smoke and fire scores of cantly clad men, women and chil dren crowed the narrow iron plat forms and ladders until they became wedged in sol'l masses on the ire escapes, unjable to extric.-.te Sthemselves and blocking the way of those who had not yet succee-ded in getting out of the building. In the meantime the, flames had been con tantly spreading and the terror among the tenants had carried them past the point of self restraint. While the firemen were calling ot to them that there was no danger and that help soon would reach them they beggan, one by one, to jump from the windows, resulting in thE e list of injured. GHOST 3MONEY BURNED. C (~eang House Certificates Destroye( ' in Cohimbia Last Week. - -A fire in Columbia last week de stroyed $446,832, but no one lost cent and there were no regrets. . Thi CClumbia Clearing House Associaitiol held a meeting at which all the bank were represented and the Clearini House Certificates issued some time ago were ordered destroyed. havin1 been redeemied and recalled. The total amount of the issue wa about $450,000, and there is abou $500in certificates still outstanJ ing. some of which are in the hand of the banks. The Clearing Hous certificates served their purpose an the stringency in currency havin passed the ssue was retired som weeks ago.. BRDGE FALLS. Three Men Watching High Wate Swept to their Death. Three men were drowned by th collapse or a suwensonl bridge Rokkkc W. Va., spanning Bluestot River. The victims were standingc the bridge with five other men at bos, watching the rushing currei when the bridge gave way, precipit tig the enltire eight into the riv Fie were washed down stream to poit where the river had overflow its bacs and were lodged in tre 'ro romwhich tney were rescuo.T bodies of the three victims have r been recoverd. WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. Wfe of Groceryman Sends Bul Into her Breast. A special to The News and Cour rom Spartan burg says sirs. L. Sharp. wife of J. D. Sharp. a gro comitted suicide Thursday aft noon by shooting herself in the ch with a 32-calibre p.stol. Despond cy is said to have been the cause the act. She walked into her nol and seizing hecr husband's pistol pl edditto her bbreast and fired. died almost instantly. PREY ROMANCE. SEC RED A WIFE BY NEWSPA PER ADVERTISING. The Prospective Bride Came From Michigan and Met Her Intended Husband in Columbia. The Columbia State says through the agency of dear old Uncle Sam's mails a romance which bridged 1,000 miles and culmraatez Thuraday in the joining of the &,earts and lives of a South Carolinier and Michigander. A venerable citizen of this State, who had seen service in the Confed rate army and whose hair is snowy white, patronized a matrimonial agency several months ago and had insereted in the official publication of t he perpetual bliss society an ad vertisement, giving notice to all mar riageable women from coast to coast that he was lonely in his ol age and was in a receptive mood to take unto himself a partner for 'ffe. The advertisement told of has be ing a farmer, in a prosperous farm 'ing section of South Carolina, and the information that he was able to provide for a helpmate and would not only provide for uer but shower upon her all the love and affection of his warm heart. A winsome lady of far-away Mich igan answered the advertisement and one letter followed another for a brief spell, and finally he of marryir g in clinations sent Ler word to "come down." He liked her photograpa and liked also the way her itLters were written. She told him that she had a son. and this was satisfactory to the man who was looking and longing for a good wife. He sent the money for the two tickets and wrote that he would meet her In Columbia. They met there and recognized each other instantly. for tdey had exchanged photograpais, and as she alghten' from the train they fell in to eacA other's arms and the little fellow was happy. -too. They left on the next train for Sumter, where they planned to be married. and from there they will go to their home in Williamsburg county. F. M. Britton, Sr.. is the bride groom and he resides at Church. Williamsburg county. he is past 70 years of age and is a little hard of hearing, but otherwise is sprightly and well preserved physically. Hre is "well fixed" in a financial way and has a nice home all prepared for the bride of his later years. The bride is Mrs. Lillian Barnett of Kalamazoo, Mich., and she is just past forty-five. Her son is a bright young boy and when seen with his mother and the man she has chosen as his step-father he seemed to be very well pleased. , DOES WELL WEST. Egyptian Cotton Can Be successfully Raised Out There. Successfuil experiments in the cul ivation of Egyptian cotton have been c onducted in New Mexico and Ariz ona, according to reports made by the bureau of plant industry of the Deatet of Agriculture. DrtWenbr now of Corness, ex perme~ed with the Egyptian plant in South Carolina and Northern Geor gi but the climate was too severe in these sections. Dr. Carson of the~ de partment was rewarded greater suc ess in his efforts made in the Col orado river basis, as much as nine hundred pounds of lint having been secured from one acre last year. It is believed that the plant can be grown in Northern Florida and South ern Georgia. Egyptian cotton, millions of dollars worth of which are imported annual l into the Unted States, is more val uable than inland specimens of set sland and upland varieties thougi less valuable than the best grades 01 the former. It is the strongest var -ity of "cotton, and is used largely it the manufacture of fine laces and bes quality of undergarments. KILLED) BY FALL. On the Eve of His Celebration of Hi: Birthday. Just as the family preparations5 fo aa surprise party in honor of his 19t1 brthday were being completed his evening, Louis Lee. of Segin'T Mih. ws killed by falling down2 sair He died half an hour afte being picked up by his mother at th foot of the stairway. The young man who was wel known as an athelete and footba payer had been complaining that h felt sick. Starting to descend th sastirs he xdissed his footing. turne a somersault in the air and lande onn his back on the floor below. Ph: sicians found that his back Wt aEARTHQUAKE~ PREDIlCTEl). ya Roaring Well at Beloit, Win rOn Two Occasions. aThe "roaring well" near Belo Ws is. prdicted the Mexican eart quake as it did the one at San Fr-a tt cisco. The well is an the fairm Charles Lathers. northeast of Belo It roared for several weeks. l'efo the great earthquake at San Franc co and the curious sound of ru blings, together with wind from t Let muth of the well ceased at the pa ee hour when the shock str-uct Caifornia city. On the day. a lit err oer a week ago when the well suned its roaring, residents of Rc err county predicted a calamity. Mi r-- day it came, at Chilapa. Mexico. aI Return Flags. o At Trenton, N. J., Thursday1 ,hose passed the senate joint re ac- ltion providing for the return he Southern flags taken during the C BRYAN WILL WIN Says Senator Tillman if Republi cans Nominate Taft in TALK WITH THE STATE Representative at His Home in Tren ton-The Senator Getting Better Will Work for Democracy in Octo ber if Health Permits-To Visit Atlanta and Then Go Abroad With Mrs. Tillman. A representaiive of The State call ed on the Senator at his home at Trenton Tuesday morning and found him alone in his library. He was ly ing upon a couch reading his morn ing's mail. Later he changed his po sition to a large rocking chair and had his breakfast Drought in. He ate heartily and seemed to relish his food During and after breakfast Sen ator Tillman talked upon a great va riety of subjects. ranging from anat omy to national politics. In appearance the senator seems to be in his usual good health. He does not, however, feel that he will be able to return to congress this session. He expects to go to an Atlanta sanitarium as soon as he feels strong enough to stand travel I ing. He. with Mrs. Tillman. will re main there for several weeks, after which they will go to Europe for a omplete rest. Senator Tillman said that he felt satisfied that he must not take on any more work just now. and that it would require time to show- when he will bp able to do so. He said that he had no plans with regard to politics. as he could not now see far enough ahead to make it worth while. He coi'ld not %ow t" -:-hother he would attend the Ffaw - nocratic onvention. but indicat1e that if his health permitted he wold do so. As to Inst:-uct inas. "Senator. do you favor an instruct ed delegation to the Denver con teotion?" he was asked. "Well. I have not been elected a delegate yet, and for that reason I do not think it proper for me to say what the convention ought to do." "What about national politics, senator. Do you think that Bryan will be nominated, and what are his chances of election?" "It all depends on one thing: If the Republicans nominate Taft for president at the Juue convention. Bryan will undoubtedly be named by the Democrats and I think he will win. But on the other hand, if the Republicans lock up the convention and stampede it for Roosevelt and nominate him, I do not think that the Democrats can put Bryan fo:' ward." "Do you think the matter of a third term would defeat Roosevelt?" "Well, al! that Byran could say would be 'third term.' because he has prased the policies of Roosevelt has praised he policies of Roosevelt him to say." "If the Repiublicans nominate Roosevelt. 'who do you think the Democrats would put up?" "That I am unable to say, re plied the senator. "When do you expect to go to Atlanta?"' "Jist as soon a~- possible.:" he said. "I want to take a special treat' ment of massage. baths and electri' city. Further than this I have no plans for the future. I am going tc Europe .iust as soon as I feel strong nugh to make the voyage. (ntended to Go Abroad. SenatorTillman said that fora long time he had been intending to take a trip abroad and that Jus1 as soon as he felt able to take it h4 would do so. Hie intends to visi tal first, because of the good chi mate. and afterwards to go to Eng Will you study the questiOn o immigrationl while there?" "Study? No: I'm not going ove there to study: I want to rest and re ew my acquaintance with Englis istory and literaturie. Senator 'Tillmfan's conversation in icated that he had no idea or r'e liguished his wokr for the State an ation. He said the real fight in th national campaign would not ope up un)iftil (Octoi' and that if hi 1 hysical condition permitted. hi ould go into the campaign toot nd nail and work for the triump f )emocradc". LeAtter! from Senator Chanler. -Among the letter's the senator wz r rading when The State's rpresenlt tlve reached his home was one fro. Err United States Senator WI iam E. Chandler. a Republican.< New Hampshire. Senator Chandl and Senator Tiliman, as is w 'known. are warm personal fi'iend ie saidl that Senator Chandler'. tite age of 7U- is still vigorous and full posessionl of his mental poweI . p to a year ago he was preside ofthe Span ish-Amnerican w'iar clai fcommmission. Since that time he h -teen practicing law in WashingtO re Senator Tillmnan paid a high tribi to the former senator from N am1r~shire. Although a Republici ee enator Tillman said that he cou 'o 1nt quest ion his patriotism and tl he h regards him as a very high mi e hen asked if he would not all< *e the letter to he published, the set too 'at fiirst decline~d.,but afterwal c onsented to its publication. T Ctte follows: My Dearly Beloved: The pap' sa you are staying in bed. Good. .iStay there. so If you knew how mnany pluocr of that fact pleases you w.ould real v-v-tat. in no other way can you cai nnmchhpiness to humans. TI may not be the ClS of bipedso you live to please and praise but God works in a mysterious way His won ders to perform. "There is a time for amnesty to ward all criminals. If you were here you might dis turb Mr. Taft's plan to get nominat ed. "(1) All pending prosecutions of trusts to be kept on the docket until the district attorneys report that they can see no evidence, and then dis missed. (2) A statute of limitations-vs. new prosecutions after one year-not before. "(3) The labor unions to boycott everybody at will, and no injunctions to be issued. "(4) The Sherman law to be so modified that trusts shall be deemed reasonable and sacred until a court at the end of a lawsuit shall say they are unreasonable. 1 -(5) The railroads may make pooling contracts ad lib. divide traf!ic and proceeds and agree not to com pete with each other. "The plutocrats and proletriat all for Taft! If you were to get out of bed you might expose this plan and defeat Mr. Bryan. "Stay in bed and Bryan fill win. "You know I have often told you you were a great help to the Repub lican party by your talk. Now you will help it by keeping quiet (?) See! "While you are away I shall urge Mr. Burrows to get through a public ity bill and take the credit away from you. Will he do it? "Seriously now-take a rest. Do not be worried. Sleep, walk in the garden and see the glories of the flowers. "Vis medicatrix naturae. Be a farmer again and not a stateman any longer. Faithfully yours, etc., "Wm. E. Chandler." Mrs. Tilhnan Shipping Asparagus. During the conversation of two hours or more between Senator Till man and the representative of the State, Mrs. Tillman was busily en gaged in the packing house, along with. six or eight hands, preparing asparagus for -shipment by express to Boston, New York, Richmond and Atlanta. Mrs. Tillman was hard at work, doing the actual work of wash ing the asparagus and marking the boxes for shipment. She has about eight acres planted in this vegetable and has orders for all that she can furnish. At present the market price is 40 to 50 cents a bunch. When first approached Senator Tillman talked slowly and deliberate ly, but after warming up to questions of interest to him his old time fire was apparent. While he is some what feeble physically, his mind is perfectly clear as was evidenced by the various topics he discussed in a vigorous manner and the interest he displayed in State and national af fairs. When th'e senator was first strick en he said that the attack came upon him as if a flash from a gun. He attributes the present illness to that with w'hich he suffered 44 years ago, hen he lost his eye. ie was simi larly effected then and has had sev eral attacks of a like character since that time. Senator Tillman's wishes are to get away from everything and have ab solute rest for a time and he feels and hopes that this will restore him to hs former vigor. During the course of conversation reference was made to the recent speech of Senator Tillman in the sen te. in which he took the Republi cans to task and incidentally gave President Roo~sevelt a walloping. Hie said that never before in his life had he felt less like making a speech, nor had he ever before experienced such a strain and effort as he did while delivering his address on March 16. He said that he was mn full posession of his facts and toughts, but still he was unable tc asemble his ammunition as he s hould like to have done. .1- gave notice on Saturday of his intention to deliver the address on Monday and had but a brief period to pre pare his remarks. Altogether, it may be said that Senator Tillman, as well as Mrs. llnan, hope that the senator will soon be restored to his usual heatlH and will resume his place in the fighi or mocracys supremacy. "Senator. did you see much of th4 late Senator William James Bryal of Florida. and what was your opmn - on of him'?'' . "Well, he was in the senate onl: a short time. but h'e gave every prom ise of being a valuable addtion' t< thhe Democratic side." Hie said tha Senator Bryan's death had grieve< him very much, as it had other sena ators, especially because of his youtl and great promise for future devel oppent. He thought that the FloT eidasenator would have made a nam frhfohimself and reflected credit upo i hi State. He said that the youn senator had been married hut thre ororfour years. having won a bridea Lexington, Va.. where he attende -- ololege at Washington and Lee un - Camipaigni Button. if ong other things of interest r' rceved i the mor-ang's mail of th' 11 ator was a "Bryan button." whic . he presented to the correspondent. T he button, which is probably or n of the first received in South Car< s3.Ilnna.is just a little larger than tt silver dollar and contains the lik' s ess I eof George Washington, Thor asJefferson, Andrew' Jackson at n. Abraham Lincoln with Mr. 'Bryan: te th center, under whose picture thisisiiscription: 'The People's Choic atAthe top is a legend. "Enemies Special Privileges," and on the bc at tm is "Upholders of Equality of tl n.La. LaJust above Mr. Bryan's hei inithe picture are inscribed "Ide aa-Amenricans'" and "Popular State Abbeville Gets Buildig. rsl A dispatch from Wsahington sa buding and grounds Wednesday deed reported bills for new bui ts tthai Senate committee on pub ize ings ot Muskege.., Oklahoma, $2 se0 000; Abbeille. South Carolina, $7 BOYS SENT HOME. IFORTY-EIGHT CLEMSON CADETS ARE EXPELLED. Discipline Committee Going to Bot tom of "All Fools' Day" Rebellion and the End is Not Yet. Forty-eight out of ninety-two mem bers of the junior class of Clemson College and one suspended on Sat urday for disobedience of orders on April 1. The boys left college and went to Pendleton some miles away on Wednesday, when they had been commanded not to do so. They also sent disrespectful telegrams back to several of the professors. After full Investigation the discipline committee sentenced forty-eight members of the junior class to expulsion and one to suspension. The committee has not yet reported on the sophmore and freshman classes, many of whose members took part in the escapade. None of the senior class were invol ved in the trouble. It is a deplorable affair. Nearly all the dismissed cadets say that they realize that they did wrong and that they deserve punishment. There seems to be an absence of re senment. In fact those dismissed are anxious that no student shall leave on their account or because of any pledge that they would stick to the class. T. S. Allen, captain of the foot ball team, says that he was a leader aftr ethe affair got started and that he has no kick coming on his punishment. He expects to do all In his power to keep any other stu dent from going because of any com pact or their sympathy. His sensible action will be followed by many of the dismissed cadets. It is not like ly that any considerabble number ex cept those dismissed will leave. The following are the names of the dismised cadets: Loadholt,. J. N., Barnwell. Bellinger, G. D., Columbia. Murray, J. D.. Columbia. Horn, E. S., Prosperity. Pennell. C. H., Abbeville. ennell, J. R., Abbeville. Jenkins, R. C., Kershaw. Allen, T. S., Anderson. Britt, D. C.. Abbeville. Coleman, L. A.. Laurens. Yeargin, T. H., Laurens. Fulmer. T. F., Saluda. Happoldt, A. R.. Charleston. Haskell, E. C., Abbeville. Kelly, S. 0.. Leak. Boone, L. C., Orangeburg. Covington, J. C., Bennettsville. Robinson, W. A., Easley. Simpson, J. B.,"Anderson. Simpson, W. D., Anderson. Adams, R. E., Edgefield. Burton, G. A., Newberry. Gardiner, E. A., Aiken. Creamer, A. W., Greenville. Twggs, H. C., Greenwood. Blake, R. E.. Abbeville. Brockington, W. .,. Williamsburg. Clarke, W. C.. Leake. Green, H. H.. Abbeville. Nance. W. L., Laurens. Sheeley, W- J., Newberry. Watkins, T. w., Anderson. Dove, J. L.. Fairfield. Greene, F. B., York. Grier, A., Darlington. Rush, M. R., Charleston. Hunter, B. G., Pendleton. McMllan, J. P., Marion. Odom, W. F.. Barnwell. Clement, E. B., Charleston. Tarbox, F. s., Georgetown. Eason, J. L., Charleston. Gandy, F. L., Darlingtonl. Miley, T.. Peake. Wigfall, C. Y., Charleston. Spratt, W. C.. Chester. Chamn'ess, E., Marlboro. Wilson. J. H., Chester. FEARFL CRDME iN BARN WELL. egro Kills Another With Smoothing Iron and Burns House. A special dispatch from Barnwel to The News and Courier says Chie! of Police Strobel and Luke Stevehnsor of Blackville, came to that cit~y Sun day about 6 o'clock with one Elliot Green, charged with the killing o Bob Smalls. It is said that Elliot Green and two other negroes were a the house of Bob Smalls gambling and it was when Bob Smalls bad wo: all of Green's money and pistol tha reen became enraged, picked up smsoothing iron and struck Smalls o he left side of his head, breakin is skull and spattering his brains. -Clifton Moseley and Ed Furgersot - t is alleged, immediately left an ent home. Green recovered h: a pistol. which Smalls had won and ha i itn his hand, and walked out somi e o ne or two hundred yards away an t sat down by the mail box for one c i two hours, when he arose and wet back. On his entering the house 1' found his victim still breathing. He then, it is said, drew the woo box by his side, took some fire frol e the fire place and lighted the lc li and when it was burning so that 1 was sure of its not going out left tI ee ouse. which was some two muill - from Blackville. Early Sunday mor a ing Clifton Moseley and Ed F'urgesc m" ade the matter known. Green Wi a arested at Elko in a negro churc dd where they were having .service. E in denied any knowledge of the affair i st but confessed later. SIWEST VIRGINIA i'OR BRYAN. tHe Is Endorsed by a Vote of Ti to One. s- The Democratic State executi ccmmi" ee of West Virginia Frid didecd to hold the state nommnati convention at Charleston on July y The convention to select delegates or the national Democratic conventi d-tDenver will be held in Wheeli iic onMay 28. After an acrimonlius< ,- bate of three hours. a resoluti< indorsing William J. Bryan y' adote ny a vote of 10 to 55. BLOODY BATTLE. Man Convicted of Arson Kills One and Wounds Three IN THE COURT ROOM. After Verdict of Guilty is Read Pris oner, in Terre Haute, Indiana, Opens Fire on Prosecuting Attor, ney and Officers and is Seriously Wounded Himself Before Melee Ends. At Terre Haute, Ind., Henry F. Mc Donald, on Thursday,, in the Circuit I Court room, after being f ound guilty of arson, -hot and killed Chief of De tectives Wm. E. Dwyer, seriously wounded three other officers and a bystander and w as himself seriously wounded. McDonald had been tried for dynamiting stores and a church in Sanford last year. As soon as the jury reached its verdict McDonald jumped up, drew a revolver and fired at Prosecuting At torney James A. Cooper, Jr., but miss ed because Cooper tipped his chair over backwards. McDonald continu ed fired at the officers seated around the counsel table. Detective Dwyer fell dead at the third shot. Policemen and deputy sheriffs in the Court room drew revolvers and opened fire on McDonald, who return ed the fire. Before the convicted man fell with half a dozen bullets in his body he had shot Harvey V. Jones, superintendent of police, in the side; Deputy Sheriff Ira Wellman In the chin; Sylvester Doyle, Court bailiff, in the leg, and a bystander in the side. The jurors jumped to their feet at the first shot. Judge J. T. Walker, one of the attorneys, tried to stop McDonald, but he only hindered the officers, who were hitting him, when they shot at McDonald. Judge Crane. who presided at the trial, ran to tLe railing of the jury box and spectators rushed out in the onfusion. Persons in offices below the Court room heard the shots and rushed towards the upper floor only to collide with the people leaving the Court room. Some of the spectators to the shoot ing said McDonald's brother also fired at the officers. The officers are look ing for the brother. McDonald was finally overwhelmed by officers and taken to a hospital. It is said that McDonald and the other wounded men will recover. The events which culminated so tragic all had their origin in dynamiting outrages that destroyed the Metho dist Church and the general storg of Shychie and Johnson, and J. W. Erne, of Sanford, on February 2, t1907. Henry McDonald and James Scanion were arrested the next day charged with the crime, in a formal trial the jury disagreeing. Scanlon has not been tried. McDonald had been permitted his liberty during the trial. The police department has been active in the case, and several officers were in 1Court to hear the verdict. * DEATH CAUSED BY LAUGHTER. Widow Overcome by Joke Related at a Social Function. At New York overcome by laugh ter at a joke by a member of the com pany she was atending, Mrs. Anna Ferrera a widow forty-two years old, was unable to stop the laught parox ysm. She fell to the floor, was lift de back into her chair, gasping for breath and before the horrified guests realized that anything serious was she matter she was dying. Before a phy* 1sician who was summoned could jreach the house she was dead. DIED FROM BURNS. H anging Lamp Falls to Floor With jFatal Results. As the result of severe burns re Iceived by a swinging lamp in het room falling from its fastenings and breaking at her feet, Miss Lollil Smnitnl. daughter~of M. D. Smith. 0 1Waughtown, N. C., died Tuesday, an< ther mother is confined to her roon suffering from painful burns receive< in trying to save the life of he daughter. A brother, Gilmer, wa also badly burned in attempting t put out te flames that enveloped hi Imother and sister. MAN HURT IN WRECK. dSees His Leg Cut off With Bis Ow Knife. Pinioned under wreckage cause by a rear end collision on the Bui dlingtonl road Friday and with steax nIfrom a broken engine pipe pouring i to his face. Horace A. McKittrick, stock broker of Brookfield, - Mo. directed the amputation of his le and furnished a dull jac't knife wit which the work was done. The roug toperation was performed by tt Rev. R. C. Allen. of Grove City, Ps ut it failed in its pirrpose, McKittric [edying later at a hospital. SENT UP FOR TEN YEARS For Sending Through the Mails Deadly Machine. At Greensboro, N. C., Hardin Ge nmany was convicted in the superi e court and sentenced to the penite RY tiary. for sending an infernal m nchine through the mail to Caes .9.Cone, the millionaire cotton man to facturer to that city, two weeks ag n Germany was a former employe gg one of Mr. Cone's mills, and is e-years of age. He did not emply cou 1sel to defend him, and offered no te stinony, but nedied the charge. N MANY OUT OF WORK. THE LABOR CONDITIONS ARE S T DISTRESSING. Thousands o f Wage Earners Are Thrown Out of Employment ;)y Distressed Industrial Conditions. A Washington Dispatch says the most serious problem now confront ing the country is the unprecedented number of idle work people in every city of any considerable size through out the land. In New York alone, according to the latest statistics, nearly 700,000 are without employ ment and with no visible means of support except what comes through a precarious sort of charity. Of this number over 200,000 are reported as belonging b the various labor organizations, the rest being nonunion work people. The condi tion of the laboring class is almost. if not quite, as bad in Chicago Not a city, in fact, either in the Northern or Central Western states is exempt from this anomalous state of things. Even in the extreme Northwest there is a surplus of un employed labor. Efforts have been made to relieve the city of New York of its congested Idle working people, but so far all efforts have proven futile. Recently the editor of the Christian Herald sent letters to the governors of over twenty states inquiring if it would be possible to replace unskilled with skilled labor, and saying that he could supply two thousand skilled laborers it a moment's notice. With out a single exception, the governors replied to his letters to the effect that their states have more idle work ing people of their own than they could provide with employment. The situation is frightful, and con sidering the enormous crops made last year and the vast wealth of the country, it is strangely anomalous. Added to this general impression in the business world, by which a mil lion and a half of work people have been thrown out of employment, is the fact that the cost of living has not decreased to any appreciable ex tent. Such a condition of things would seem to be prophetic of a reign of terror. No work and hunger that cannot be appeased by honest toil make peo ple desperate. They are ripe for re volution of for anything that will keep the wolf of starvation from their doors. And yet nothing is being done to relieve the situation. The thouble is, what can be done? All that we can say is that 'tis a pity the innocent h ave to suffer for the wrong doing of the guilty. Business heretofore conducted im properly, if not dishonestly, in Its return to honest channels. of output and trade has left these unemployed stranded and with nothing to stave off starvation. They are the suffer ers, n ot those who by devious and dishonest methods were responsible for the panic that has wrought such widespread ruin. The South. being an agricultural country, is fortunately exempt in a large measure from this dreadful con Idition of labor glut, although in the larger cities we have more unemploy ed p eople that they care to see. It is* possible that the farmers of the South, who at this time of the year need help, could relieve to some ex tent the congestion in other sections of the country. But the greatest dif ficulty in the way would be the fact that the great majority of the unemi ployed are artisans of one calling or another and know probably nothing about farm work. QUARREL IN BARBER SHOP Results in Death of One Man and Wounding Another. As a result of a shooting scrape in a colored barber shop at Yorkville Saturday afternoon John Warlick Is dead his brother, Is painfully though not seriously wounded, and Law rence Marley is in jail charged with murder. All are young white men. The Warlick boys worked in the cot'ton mills. Marley is a house painter by trade. and a son of a re spectable and well thought of family living near town. It is said that Marley secured the pistol with which he did the shooting when he left Warlick after the first quarrel. II is a 44-calibre six-shot Colt's. TROUBLE AT CLr.-..-'N. O vr Half of the Boys Took Holidal on Wednesday.* A dispatch from memsonl to Thi State says a little more than nalf thi adets, principally lower classmen aking advantage of April 1, tool oiday and went to Pendleton thi: m, orning. All the seniors, most o the members of the atnietic team nd a number of all classes remamn d at the college and are attendini aheir regular duties. The aisciplin ommitte is consilderng the matte uisnt known what actoin1 PREACHER'S BODY FOUND. Buried Under the Ruins of a Wreck~ ed Church. While clearing away the debris c the Epworth Methodist church, ea~ a f Columbus, Ga., which was wrel d by a storm several days ago, tb body of Rev. John Wynn, a negr p reacher. of Cuthbert. Ga., was foun u rI nder the timbers. He had taken re - uge in the church during the heav -Admiral Evans Seeks Health. .. Admiral Evans. accompanied by h: in son, Lieutenant Evans. Flag Lieute1 00 ant Train and Passed Assistant Su n- geon McDonald arrived at a hotel s Hot Springs, Cal., Thursday. Tl r.Admiral hopes for a speedy restor tion to health. THEY ARE GLAD. Republicans Are Jubliant WThat Senator Tillman Is Absent. ARE AFRAID OF HIM. The Republican Leaders Said to B Breathing Easier' Than in Years Becauso of the Enforced Absence of the Senior Senator Prom South Carolina.-Democrats Will Greatly Miss Him and His Leadorship. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says since it was announced a few days ago that Senator Tllman's physicians had positively forbidden him to return to Washington before the beginning of the next session of Congrees and In the meantime had ordered a complete hange of livng in every res there has been a considerable amount of discussion as to who will take his part in the Denver Convention and will lead the Senate until he returns. It is said that Republican leaders are breathing easy now for the first time since Tillman went to the Sen ate. While they admit that he has toned down considerable since his advent into Washington political life he is still, they say, anything but docile, and- what troubles them most is that they never can tell just where or when he is going to break out. That part of the Senator's make-up has given them more trouble than a little and many times when they thought him quieted he was only gathering more material for a still mightier onslaught. Beveridge, Lodge, Aldrich, Hale, in fact all the big men on the Re publican side of the Senate wear a different look now from that to be found on their features two wleeks ago. They knew Tillman was a Lghter who did not know the mean ing of the word fear and they had to guess many times justwhere to tackle in order to get a hold. Some times they held him, sometimes they threw him, but it- w.as always be cause of the combined forces of the Repubblicans on one side as opposed to the half-hearted help of the Dem crats on the other. No man -who had made plans to attend the Denver Convention will be more missed than Tillman and many Democrats who'expect to attend from different -parts of the United StateS have so expressed themselves- He was to be the central figure-certaln y so far as the South Is concerned unless it -be Bailey, of Texas, and there is now serious doubt whether the great Texas orator will be al loed to present his State or not. lowed to represent his' State or not. There will be other Democrats from various -sections of the country, but all eyes were be ginning to centre on Tillman and Bailey as the two Southern leaders. The people of Texas have never been able to believe that -their for mer idol, Bailey, was -entirely divor ced from the scandal that two years ago came near ending his political life, when his alleged connection with the Waters-Pierce Oil Company became known to them. In order that the people of Texas may vote-on the issue as to whether Bailey shall be one of the four delegates at large to the Denver Convention a special election is to be hefd May 2. Should it be decided at that election that Bailey shall not attend two of the foremost Democrats In political life to-day will be absent-Tillman and. Bailey. WILL ADDRESS PRESS MIEETING. Third Assistant Postmaster General Accepts Mr. Aull's Invitation.' Third Assistant Postmaster Gen eral A. L. Lawshe has"/accepted the invitation extended by President Aull, on behalf of the South Carolina State Press Association, to attend the meet ig to be held in Gaffney beginning June 15, and to make an address. Mr. Lawshe will discuss the topic, The Postoffice Department and the Legitimate Publisher." Mr. Lawshe will spent at least a. day with the Association; and It is - hoped that he will be able to spend a longer time. His address will be interesting and valuable, especially at this time, In view of the ruling by the postoffice department, which went into effect April 1, that newspapers could not be mailed as second class matter to subscribers in arrears... Mr. Lawshe is a pleasant gentle -man and the members will enjoy his presence among them. He was for many years the publisher and editor of a country newspaper, and he knows something about the trials and trib ulations of wrestling with delinquent subscribrs. Therefore, he will be at home among the boys at Gaifney. SHE HORSEWHIPPD HIM. Says He Had Annoyed Her With His Attentions. -In the presence of a thousand peo ple, Mrs. Minnie Cowden, of James town, N. Y., horsewhipped Henry Franklin, on the city's main thor Soughfare Friday. When Franklin ttore the whip from her hands, Mrs. - Cowden broke an umbrella over his ehead. According to Mrs. Cowden, i Franklin had been annoying her with i is attentions. ? Must Not Deface Postcards As a result of numerous complaints of postal postcards being defaced by postmarking. the Postmaster General s has ordered discontinuance of the p- ostmarking of cards at the office of - ddress. The postcard fad has reach . ed such enormous porpotions that the e e nw ruling will be received with in -- terest by the thousands of postcard