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INA iug VOL. X.XII "MANNI-N.G, S. C. WED-N.ESDAY, APRIL 29,.908N.3 BIG LOSS OF LIFE In Several States Caused by a Destructive Cyclone. THREE HUNDRED DEAD! Over One Thousand More or Less. In.jured, and Many Thousands Are Homneless.-Storin Covered Much Territory, Nearly Fifty Towns Be ing Wrecked. Some of Which Are Almost Wiped Out. Three hundred and fifty killed, a hundred or more persons fatally in jured and many times this number painfully hurt, together with a prop erty loss running up into the millions. is the record so far of a series of I tornadoes that originated in the West' Thursday. sweeping across Texas. Ok- < lahoma. Arkansas. Louisiana. Missis- f sippi. Tennessee. Alabama and Geor- 4 gia Friday and Friday night. -It left a path of death, desolation and want in its wake, seriously inter rupted communicatibn between cities I in the South and brought about chao tic conditions in many smaller towns. p Mississippi bore the brunt of the storm. Reports from that State in- b dicate that the loss of life will be by s far the greatest of any section t through which the storm passed. c Estimates of those who loss their i lives as a result of tornadoes in Mis- s sippi place the death list at near three t hundred and fifty, with a thousand b or more injured. In Texas. Louis- I iana. Alabama and Georgia the death g lists are also large, with loss of life in Arkansas and., iennesseei S Authentic information is in many f instances lacking owing to crippled t facilities for conmnnication and the a lack of time to form anything like an P accurate estimate of the damage. c The storm. which first appeared in Y Georgia at Columbus. on the Ala- i bama line, seems to have moved in a t northeasterly direction, strking tbc f wns of Chipley. Harris. LaGrange. Grifflin. McDonald, Locust Grove. Ce dartown and Cave Springs. while a portion of its fury was felt in the eastern surburbs of Alianta shortly after midnight. * Most of the dead are negroes. Per haps a dozen white persons were caught in falling buildings and either t fatally injured or so serously disabled c as to require medical attention. W The loss of life was in the quar- W ters of colored persons where the c wind destroyed their cabins, burying e the occupants in the debris, or in the til farming section of the country where trees were uprooted, telegraph and a telephone polls torn up and general d destruction became an encore to a storm which, with almost tornado d2 fury, swept through the country. s It is difficult to estimate the loss p of life or the extent of the disaster, ii for there is little or no communica- s tion with the points where the wind and rai did its greatest damage: Intouisiana it is estimated that a h score of small towns were destroyed a or nartially wrecked. These include se Amite City, Arcadia and Indeioend- d ence, Belle Grove, Melton. Lorman, 3: Pine Ridge. Quitman, Landing, Falir- t< childs Creek. Purvis and Lumiberton. a Miss, are -reported seriously damaged t; by the storm. In Alabama. Dora was the chief s sufferer. This town is also. known as Bergen. Four or more persons were killed, among them the wife s'nd daughter of Section Master Moore. Fifty persons at the lowest estimate were injured. Those most seriously hurt were carried to hospitals in Bir mingham, Ala. One woman. a M-s. McCully, died on the train. Two s other members of this family were seriously injured. At Bergen cars t were b'lown from the .railroad tracks 0 and considerable other property de- c stroyed. Rcports -also say that the E storm struck Abertville, Ala., and de- ' stroyed nearly the entire northern t portion of the. town. A cotton mili was blown down, the storm ranging a northward, doing much destruction to C life and property. An unconfirmed report from that section gives the death list as frgm 30 J to 35 with other persons injured. A special train was sert from Birming ham. carrying physicians and a squad of State pilitianmen to the district. Aid is also pouring in from all drec-' ;ons. From Meridian, Miss., comes a re port that Mrs. John Minuiece and her child we're killed oatright and John Minniece was seriously injured, while a number of other persons were hurt and there was considerable destruc tion of property. Richlanld and' Lamourie, La., were struck by the storm and nearly a fifth of their population injured. Winches *r. 31ss.. a small town, is reported wiped out. though only two persons are known to have been killed. Natchez, Miss.. reports sixty are known to he dead in the northern Louisiana storm. Hundreds of plan tationi cabins are reported destroyed in that section. Mobile reported nine dead in Hat tiesbulrg. Miss.. but this has not been confirmed., ILLINOIS FOR BRYAN. Instructs Her IDelegates to Vote and Work for Him. The Illinois State Democratie Con vent ion. which met at Springfield on; Thursday. adopted the unit rule and instructed its delegates to the Na-1 tional (.envention at Denver tO vote for W. .1. Bryan and to "use all hion o-able~ mea ns" to secure his nommna ion. The regointion endorsing Mr. Bryan was adopted with enthusiasm and a fiattering demonstration fol owed the action. One by one the Western States are falling in line for the gret Commoner. ] TRIED TO KILL THEM. GREENWOO .4AN AND WIFE HAD CLOSE CALL. While They Were Asleep in Bed the Son of the Man Shot at Them at Close Range. A dispatch from Greenwood to The News and Courier says Butler Pinson. known as "Bub," is charged with making an attempt to kill his father and step-mother, Ar. and Mrs. B. P. Pinson. as they lay asleep early on Tuesday morning, firing both barrels f a gun at them. and when only about eight feet away from then. That Ir. and Mrs. Pinson are living o tell how it happened is a miracle, or the load of shot entered the head f the bed, only a few inches above :heir heads, and some of the shot xere found imbedded in-the pillows, )n which their heads rested. J Mr. B. M. Pinson lives about a I nile anl a halt southeast of Saluca, nd within about four hundred yards f Siloam .Church. He is a well-to-do armer, and is numbered among reenwood County's fiost substantial tizens. he being a man of about 55 ears of age. "Bub," however, seems t' bear a c retty bad reputation. having lived a c 'ery profligate life, living the greater c art of the time away from home. Young Pinson's motive is unknown. t ut his father, the elder Pinson,him- ( elf thinks that the boy. knowing I bat no one knew he w:as in this part c f the country, decided th: ' he t rould kill both himself and Mrs. Pin- a on, and that he would then share q e estate with his brother, Richard, s eing hard pressed for funds. Mr. C inson had only lately refused to e rant his request for n'oney. c Young Pinson made his escape, but heriff McMillan is making every ef- n rt to catch him, and has sent out b te following description of Pinson o 1 over the country: "Arrest Butler a inson; charge, attempt to murder; t] lor, white, age twenty-six ii ears, height 5 feet, 7 inches, weight 60 pounds. Said to have missing f< ,oth, brown eyes and dark hair: full p .ce and clean shaven. Use caution." cj h COAL MINE VICTIMS. t \ploson in Pennsylvania Coal Mine o Kills Four Men. t Mine Inspector Henry Loutett and e miners who volunteered for res e work in Mine No. 1 of the Ells- u orth Collieries Company, at Ells rth, Pa., where an explosion oc irred early Thursday, have complet- a I their search of the mine and report t( iat only four men were killed. There were over one hundred men work at the time and their scape is ( Lie to the fact that the explosion ppened at a point beyond where Z ey were workng. The explosion re- t lting from the victims striking a t cket of gas while at work far back the mine and ahead of the air applied by the ventilb~ting system. Fire followed the explosion, which h as terrific, but the affected sections u ve been bratticed and the damage u ill not be heavy. This was the sB cond explosion in the mine, but no t eaths resulted from the first. In )ectors regarded the mine as gaseous s a dangerous degree and protested ainst it being equipped with elec- a ical appliances, but their protests ~ ere denied on the hearing of the I) tagainst the company. h I ANOTHER SAFE ROBBED. eggen Enter Stores and Take Three Hundred Dollars. A t Greenville Tuesday morning tfe crackers entered the branch store ECarpenter Brothers and blew open ie safe, securing in the nighborhood f$3 00. The sub-postoffice was 1o ted in the building and part of the oney belonged to the Government. e building is located on Washing n street. in a few yards of the P outhern depot and the robbery was e daring piece of work, as there is o ystat passing on the street at all ti ours of the night. It is thought a bat the robbers blew the safe open, ust as a passenger train rolled into *a he yards. the noise from the train k rwning the report from the explo BRYAN WINS AGAIN. assachusetts Will Send Delegates to Denver Favorable to Him. A dispatch from Boston says the rvan men report the state for ryan at the caucusses held to elect elegates to the state convention. No otest worth the name was made or any other candidate, and the dele ates chosen. were. generally speak ng favorable to Bryan. In Bostou nly four per cent. of the party vote ae out, and the same thing was he rule throughout the state. In ne Boston ward, where efforts were nde to elect delegates, pledged to onsoi, the attempt was unsuccess HEAVY D)ISPEN SARY SALES. Tree Thous'and Dollars Worth of Liquor Sold in One Day.1 The largest sales since the opening > the North Augusta dispensary wereI made on Saturday. April 18. the sales amounting to over $3000. This amount exceeded the largest amount vet sod in one day previous by abou't S1100, the largest sales previously being about $1.900. A Wonderful Cat. The Newberry Observer say.: "There is a pet cat i the family of Thomas Barberry. o'f Hopkins Cor ne, Mich.. that will never play with the baby without first bitting off the WILL NOW QUIT Selling Booze or Go to Jail for Contempt of Court. AFTER BLIND TIGERS Court Injunctions Will he Pus'hed and an Earnest Eifort Made to Stop the Illegal Sale of Liquor-Gov. Ansel Will Authorize the Attorney General to Proceed as Supreme Court Gives the- Right. "What will be done now that the upremte court has sustained the in unction policy as applied to blind igers? This question has suggested tself to a great many people n the ast two doys. Gov. Ansel himself ecines to talk. and Attorney General ,yon is out of the city," says the olumbia State. "But it is reported that Mr. Mar hall P. Delruhl. assistant attorney eneral. has been given a batch of f injunction affidavits and has been rdered by Governor Ansel to pro eed against the places regarded as ind tigers.' It is said that among hese cases are five right here in olumbia and that Capt. T - E. Dixon as been given orders to enjoin not nly the keepers of the piaces but le owners of the property from ever gain toleratng the illicit sale of li or on the premises. such sale con ituting a nuisance under the Carey othran act and subjecting the prop rty to be handled in injunction pro edings. It is believed that Gov. Ansel will 1 w push the injunctions against s ling tigers .in ,Charleston-and in ther cities where they may exist- r ad by this drastic measure drive i tese people out of an unlawful bus- 2 Less. "When Gov. Ansel was a candidatp e r governor he receive'1 ne.trly 7:~> E r cent. of the otes in isirrleston s )unty. Some time or ie .-ssumed i is official duties th' - was some lk to the effe'-t ie Charleston n as getting more an . more 'wide v )-i.' depending upto'l Cov. Ansel's - litical friendship.' \\ lien this mat- a r was brought to Gov. Ansel's at- c ntion he inquired of the attorney g neral if there were any way effect j illy to go after the blinO tigers. "Mr. Lyon suggested the injunction a ethod. This was approved by the 1 >ernor and the State disuensary " ditor. Mr. W. B. West, was sent t Charleston to w6rk up evidence i ;ainst suspects. The dispensary s instabulary was used and u.pon af laits thus obtained the attorney eral issued injunctions closing a imber of liquor shops in Charles "An appeal was taken to the su eme court and the court decided in vor of the injunctions. Mr. Lyon d been ad'vised by Goy. Ansel to I ispend the enjoining proceedings t til the court should act. .Mr. De-1 uhl. it is stated, has received in ructions that as the court has sus- ' ied the injunctions the work e Lould be pushed It is said that in Charleston when r law breaker was enjoined from C lg liquor he would move his d ace to the upper story of the same\ ilding and conduct the businesS in C .s cherk's name. Mr. Lyon will now a sue injunctions against property li 'ners also. These injunctions are rpetual, and the punishment is I A SEV'ERE CYCLONE. C odies of a Man and His Wife (air rie'd a Mile. A destructive cyclone visited Ne aska last Thursday. sweepingt trough Cumming County. Three( ople are known to have been kill- 1 . a number injured and a numbert houses destroyed. Telegraph and ~lephone'lines are down and reports e slow in arriving. The tornado struck the house of hn 3angleson,. near Pender. Nob.. id hen swooped up~ into the air'. king the ' teekage and both Mr. id M's. Manglesonl. Both were kill . h~ir bodies being carried a mile G-orge W\acker and family were at n-h when the twister stru'ick their use. Three of the family were IGHT W'ElU" EXECTFI udets Attemnpted to Asssffiate the President of Guatemala. . A dispatch from Mexico says stu ets atte-mptedl to assassinlate the' residet of Guatemat'la on Wednes v 'he studenftS were immediately elzed and, without trial, eight of hem were executed. The sqluad of' adets had been assigned from the nstitute to ac(t as anI hororarly' guarItd t tthe recep~tionl of M\ ajor W\iliamn -leuke. the new' minister from the ied States. The dispatches assert that as the r esidet entelr(ed the pailace the stu ents fired and Cabrera fell, blood tramig from several wounds Soldiers seized the studentsl1 andi er'nched the guns from them before hee could reload or use their clubs LOST CONTitOL OF TitRAIN. : our italhans W~ere lied Whenu- the C'rash Came(. IFour' italianis were k illol outr-ight. in faally injured. and died on the :raln while en route to the Williams port hospitai, and font' others ptrob ably fatally injured in a wreck an a logtrian on the LaQuinn lumber road tWhalen. Pa.. Wednesday morning. Failure of the reverse lever on the - engne aloe the train to run away. A BRUTAL MURDER DIDN'T INTEND TO TO KILL ANY PARTICULAR PERSON. H{oped His Victim Would Be Wealthy Anerican or English Tourist, Who He Could Rob. The sheperd, Joseph Michaud, who murdered Robert Munziger, a young Swiss Alpinist, on the Col de Balme last August, has been sentenced to life imprisonment at-Martigny, Switz erland. The crime was perhaps the most re markable ever committed in the Alps. According to Michaud's confess sion. which was made with great cal ousness. he lay in wait on the Col de Balme for days, intending to murder the first unaccompanied tourist who came along. lie hoped his victim would be a rich Englishman or American, and his intention was to leave Switzer land with the proceeds of the rob bery and to come to America, where e hoped to make his fortune. Michaud explained that he had hought this out carefully while at ending to his flock, and had conclud d that he would remain a shepherd :o the end of his days unless he could nake a cou'p by murdering and rob ing a wealthy tourist. "Many Englishmen passed," said ichaud in his confession. "but they ere all accompanied by relatives or riends." Finally Munziger appeared. He tended crossing the Col de Balme Lnd des'cending to Chamonix, whence e meant attempting an ascent of Iont Blanc. When near the sunmit i the Col de Palr'p Mich-iud at ocked him with a hunting knife and tabbed him to death. Michaud robbed the body, strip ed it of clothes, and then ouried it nder some rocks. He zorget, how t. rniove the traces of the crium, nd guides who searched the pre'ipic s of the Col de Balme for a week nally discovered the evidences of a ruggle, which led to Munziger's d:y iing disintered. Michaud aroused suspicion in a eighboring village by displaying a sch which afterward proved to hin lunziger's. When the shepherd was rrested he was wearing the clothes f the murdered man. He showee reat unconcern and langhed and >ked with the gendarmes. His booty amounted to a about $5 nd Michaud's only regret was that e had killed a Swiss instead of a ealthy foreigner. "1 was too has ," he complained -to the judge dur ig his trial, "but I had been waiting long that I had become impatient. BIANKER'S CONVENTION [et in Columbia Last Week in Reg ular Annual Session. The eighth annual convention of e South Carolina Bankers' Associa on was called to order at Columbia hursday morning. by the President, [on. W. D. Morgan of Georgetown. here was a large attendance of bank i's fr:>m all sections of the State. The invocation by Rev. Kirkman G. inley, rector of Trinity church, ened the proceedings. and Pt esi et Morgan then intrc duc.ed Mayor . S. Retemer, wh-.> extended to the mye:tion the welcome of the city d placed the keys of the city in the ands of the visitors. He was followed by Hon. D. C. eward,..president of the Columbia avings Bank and Trust Company. *ho on behalf of the Columbia learing House Association, extend the weldome of the Columbia ank ers. The response of the asocciationl 'as made by Hon. -John C. Sheppard. Edgefield, who niade an eloqnnt ilress, referring to the tian? when hirty-five years ago he first cam'e to olumbia to a meeting organized to escue the State from misrule and e courageous part of the people ~olumbia had taken in that move GIRL WITH FLEET. ;he Made the Trip on the Supply Ship Brutus. As a result of a story circulated in ittsburg by Elmer E. Day, who was civilian passenger on the supply hip Brutus, attached to the Pacific leet. that a girl stowaxvay made the assage through the straights of agellan with the ueet. Assistant ~ccretary of the Navy Newherry has aken steps to ascertain if a man tamed Dey was aboard the Brutus. "It does not seem possible that a tirl could secrete hers-elf aboard one it the vessels."~ said Mr Newberry. I believe it would he almost possible o ide a hanm, or even a cigarette. 'he person who circulated the story ept the girl aboard too long, lie should have had her discovered soon According to D~ey's story, the girl ~oared the? Brutus at Trinidad and ade the tril) around the point of the souhern continent and landed in (GOOD) FISH STORY. log lDrowned by Big Trout in a Fierce Struggle. A small dog belonging to A. E. Case. of IDayton. W\yo., was dragged into Tongue river by a trout and Ironed. The dog accompanied Cases lit tle son on a fish ig trip. The hIo\ hooked a fish large enough o jerk the fishing rod into thte water. The hoy sent the dog after it, but the trout hauled the dog and pole about until the dog was carried down the rapids and drowncd in sight of his master. The boy recovered the pole and after a hard struggle landed the +trot which weighed four pounds. SOME GOOD REASON& WH1Y THP COTTON ACRZEAGE SHOULD BE REDUCED. A Big Crop This Year Means Five Cent Cotton and Hard Times F(.r the South. The following circular letter has been sent out by Mr. .. A. Taylor. president o) the National Ginner's association: Cotton has reached the lowezt point since Jan. 1. 1903. except from No vember to May of the big crop *ear of 1904-05, when it sold two cenrs per por i lower than this. What has caused this decline of three cents er piound in spite nf the fart that the cotton crop of the world is about 4,500.00 short of last year's crop? The only answer that I can find is "*Lack of Confidence." The retai'er is not buying except as he ue-ds the goods. the jobber is doing th lsame, consequently the mills have no orders ahead, while last year, and fo - sev eral years past, they have had ot ders booked from three to six months in advance. What causes this lack of conii dence? They are afraid we will raise a bumper crop of cotton again this year. Why are they afraid of a large crop? They look at the past. In 1903 we had a short crop and good prices, which was followed by a large acreage and good seasons and a bum per crop. The next year, 1905-06. we had a short crop and good prices, which was again followed by a large acreage and a bumper crop. Had it not been for the September storm in the Mississippi valley and the exceptionally good trade the mar ket would probably have gone to eiglit cents or under for the crop. We got a good average price for the'good grades in the crop, and a large acre age was set aside. for cotton' last sea son, but owing to th eweather dur ing planting time tne acreage was cut some and crop poor in Texas and Louisiana enabled up to get a good rice for the most of this crop. A month ago every indication was that we would have a large acreage this season, and the people did not are to place heavy orders for cot on goods, knowing that with a large acreage and fair season we would >roduce more cotton. than the world ieeded and the price of cotton goods vould decline. They are good busi ess men and you can't fool them. How can we restore confidence? In >lace of planting the same acreage ts last season in cotton plant 25 per :ent. less. As soon as the acreage re >ort is out in June or even before he trade will know that there will ie a moderate crop raised this year nd we will have the old time activ ty in the cotton trade. Jobbers will >ace their orders ahead to enable hem to supply their trade and the nills will contract in advance for uplies of cotton and the market ~vill advance much faster than it has lecined. The r-esult will be that you will1 narket a crop of 11,500,000. .If the veathier conditions should be unfav rable for the growing crop and it hould turn out a million bales less t would sell for 15 cents and bring atotal of nearly $S00,000,000 and dd to this the value of the feed crops hat can be grown on the acreage ntended for cotton and it will give is another $50,000.000. Suppose that you plant the same creage as last year and with favor ble weather we would likely make nyway 13,000.000, possibty more. hat would the price he under the resent trade conditions? *Not over in ever-age of S cents per pound and esaps lower. Say that it averaged 40) per bale the crop would bring 1520.000.000; at least $300,000 0(00 oss to the south. 1-ow to bring tout this reduction? It is not too late yet to plant corn. lfalfa, sorghum cane, millett or cow-1 eas for hay. Or it will pay you to let the land lie dlc for a season athei than plant in in cotton at a oss. Let every planter that reads his article at once arrange* tn re-1 luce his own acreage in cotton and how the article to his neighbor, ora etter call a meeting at every coun try school house in the south and iscuss -this matter intelligently, then o home resolved that each one will o his part. If you have any neighbors that wi!l ot r-educe send me their names and [ will take the matter up with each oe per-sonally. This is no small matter, and I hope that memabers of the Southern Cotton association and the Fairmers' Union will stand si-de by side in this great fight. With a heavy aci-eage Wall str-eet wll set the price foir our cotton crop, with a light acereage we can get our own price within reason. Dont delay, but get busy at once. There is plenaty of time yet if you vili only do your part. In 1905 by reducing the act-eage 15 per cent. the p-ice advanced cents per pound. and we can (1o it again. I will lie gladl to hear from every farmer that -eads this and indor-ses it. Do you want to return to the old days of .-(cnt cotton? If not, join this move-. met and we will make the south more prospercious than ever. * * JIEIRIS OF GARRETSON. infomationi Wanted of a Captain in the United States At-my. The Charleston Post says Post meter~i W. L. Har-ris has received a ltter from Attorneys Lyon & Lyon of I \ashingtou. T). C.. asking for infor mntion about heirs of on8 Charles Garetson, a captain in the United States atnmy, whlo died in Charleston in .1871. The letter states that it is very much to the interest of the hirs that they should be knowvn and Postmastr Harr-is, desiring to con t-ibute his services to the cause, will be glad to receive any information in the matter- that hae may be able to fotward to the Washington attor neys. THE BEST SPEECH Made By Jas. C. Hardin, Represen tative of Wofford College. GIVEN FIRST HONOR. J. W. Hicks, of Furian College, Maks Second Best Speech, and Is Given Second Hfonor. Nine Colleges Were leprcsented by Nine Talent ed Young Gentlemen in the Great Oratorical Contest. A dispatch from Greenwood to The News and Courier says promptly at eight o'clock Friday night the doowirs of the Lander College auditor ,uni were closed and the tenth annual State oratorical contest was commenc ed. After a song of welcome by the Lander College chorus Club and prayer by the Rev. Robert Adams. president of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, Mr. Hardin, ot Wo~ford Collge, being the first speak or of the evening, spoke, the subject of his oration being "The Battle Against Ignorance." Then followed. the other speakers, the following pro gramme being carried out: "The Handicaps of the South," R. S. Owens. "The Spirit of the Age," T. C. Heyward. . "The Small College." J. B. Brown. "Christian Citizenship-The Hope >f Democracy," B. E. Petreay. "In Defence of the Flag," J. F Vohirden. "The American Shibboleth," J. W. Flicks. "The Menace of Mammom," G. N. .cCormick. "The South and Her Heroes," R. F Gcrzales. At intervale music was rendered by hie faculty of Lander College and the ander College Chorus Club.' Afte' he speeches a wait of a few minutes xas made necessary for the judges, ;]ho were the Hon. J. C. Otts, of affney; the Rev. J. B. Green, of reenwood, and the Rev. J. Phillips erner. of Columbia, to make their ecision. These few moments were soments of suspense, and anxiety vas i.ainly written in large lettars n the contestants' faces. But when the judges announced hat Mr. J. C.- Hardin, of Wofford, ad won fi-st place, the welkin was ade to -:ing 1:-: tiq --tudentr from Vofford, and their presence was ade 1:now by yells and the flaunting nd wa ing of their college colirs. r. J. W. Hicks, of Furman, was an inmeed einner of seeond place, and is supporters cheered him to thf ,cho. The contest was a battle royal so ar as thougt, oratory and elocution ~as concerned. For gracefully and eil did the young orators endeeavor o hold up the reputation of the col egos they represented. Indeed as e judges expressed it, it was a hard jatter to pick the winner, but all are greed that the right man, Mr 11ar in. won. Mr. Har'din's speech wats ne of the best ever delivered by a olege man in Greenwood, and he eserves great credit for the master thought and beautiful composition f ideas he injected into his speech. owever, all the speeches were good. ~.l taiking them as a whole t hey ave been excelled and many thongnt ever equalled, at any of the previous optests. held here. Mrli. J. C. H-ardin, the repre.wnitative if 'A fford College in the State ra o: al contest, is 21 yearr old. iN rn;'. C:,/ver. S. C , and Nisn enm e of the junior class "of Wufford 'Mk!gc. Soon after ent r.r'; college f -'ardin won a rep y.ti >n f'r I Urn elf as a speaker and because of his toroug literary work. He has serv dc1 as president of his class during l so'phmore year. The same year e was elected second censor. corres onding secretary and monthly ora or in the Preston Society. During he present year Mr. Ha-rdin is serv ": as chief marshal, assistant ex hange editor of the Journal staff nd v'ice president of the Y. M. C. A. le was also elected to r'epresenlt his ocety on the preliminary Emory Mi'ate and the junior debate. Mr'. adin is a brother of the Rev. E. . Hardin, who won the State con est at Greenwood in 1904 for Wof ford College. WILD ELEPHANT NUISANCE. Ijindustan Plianters Complain oftDam age Done by Pachydernms. At Calcutta, India, the Doors Plan :ers' Association has appealed to the ~ovenment for help in ridding the Lhe cohntry of wild elephants, whose pranks are becoming intolerable. hough no actual "rognes-' are re ported or loss of life, crops are said o be trampled on, fences torn down, -ofs pulled off, and many roads ren dered impassable by the patroling of these mischievous pachyderms. The ost serious matter, however, is in terruption of railway traffic, for the brutes exhibit a queer predilection (or wandering on the line, which is narrow gauge, and therefore ten les the trains specially liable to de railment should they meet an obsta -le when running at night or round curves in the day time. KILLED) IN WRECK. Over Fifty Are Dead and About Nine ty Injured. Forty-two bodies have been taken out of the wreckage caiused by the collision which happened on April 19 of two trains at Braybrook JTunctioni. about eight miles from Melbourne, Australia. It is believed that several others are still buried under the de lris. The number of injui'ed is plac ed at eihty-eight. A MONEY MAKER. OUNTY DISPENSARIES ARE MON EY GETTING INSTITUTIONS. Have Done About Same Business as Former State Dispensary With Much More Profit. During the quarter ending March 31 the county dispensaries sold $790,964.01 worth of whiskey in 24 counties, of which one has 'sin-e gone dry. On this business an aver age profit of 39 per cent. was made, the total profit being $268,941.98. This is at the rate of over a million dollars a year profit.. According to the statement recent ly prepared by Comptroller General Jones the state dispensary during its thirteen years of business paid Into the state treasury for all purposes the sum of $1,515,107.57. The proportion of profit paid to the counties and towns varied at dif ferent time, but the total profit of the State dispensary, even when there were dispensaries in forty-one coun ties did not reach one million dollars per year, or thirteen million dollars in the years that it was in operation. ,According to the report made isy Dispensary Auditor West to Gov'erncr Ansel at the close of the fiscal year the total amount of sales by the county dispensaries during the nine and a fraction months they were operated-in 1907 was $2,691,663.4^, on which the net profit declared was $695,056.61. The business for a full year, or 12 months, runs easily in excess of three million dollars, which was the high water mark for the state 'dispensary, while the profit of the county dispen sary system for twelve months runs n excess of one million dollars, which the state dispensary never did Attain, though its founder predicted t would. Though there are now dispensaries n only twenty-four counties the pro It from the county dispensary system s proportionately so much greater hat from the :state dispensary, and it s distributed between the county and owns, that as a revenue producer he county dispensary is going to rove more popular than the old sys em, and .for that reason, if for no ther, it is more difficult to vote it ut than it was to close the county lispensaries under the so-called rice Act under the state dispensary egime, when prejudices and antag nism to the state dispensary had omething to do with the large pro libition vote cast in:several counties r f the state. c USED HER GUN FREELY. hite Woman in Tennessee Goes on d b the War Path. At Memphis, Tenn., following a t uarrel because she had stopped her C hildren from playing with some ne- tl ~roes, Mrs. James Wright.- shot and 1stantly killed Leila Gordon, a ne- C ro woman. Mrs. Wright used a sin- e le barreled shot gun and her one b ht tore an arm completely from the il egro woman's body. Rushing into her home, Mrs. f: right re-loaded the shot-gun- and b tarted in pursuit of Mary Davis, ti nother negro woman. She shot at C Ler once after a chase of nearly a lock, but th~e shot went wild. Po ice officers from the Webster avenue tation arrested Mrs. Wright a few inutes later and she was locked up n a charge of, murder. A quarrel over the children of the hite woman being stopped from laying with some negroes living in ~ e vicinity was the cause of the 2 ragedy. 5 APPEAL TO TEDDY. e iewspapers Ask Relief From the Paper Trust Exactions. e2 The annual meeting of the Asso ated Press was held at the Waldorf storia Hotel in New York with an ~xce~tionally large attendance of ebllers from all sections of the ountry on Tuesday. Aside from the ransaction of purely routine business ifecting the organization, the most portant action taken was the pre enting and adoption of an address Lsking the President and the Con ~ress to "grant immediate relief 'rom the exactions of combinations of )aper makers." The assocation had ,banquet on Wednesday night at 'hich W. J. Bryan was the chief p~eaker. DEADLY TYPHOID FEVER. .n Augusta Family Stricken With1 the Terrible Disease. A dispatch says there is a smallt ~pidemfic of a malignant form of ty-i phoid fever in certain sections of: .ugusta. Sunday morning, Mrs. K. . Sibley, widow of the late Chas. t ~ibley; died at the home of her moth r, Mrs. Duncan. Just a week ago< ber sister, Miss Duncan, died of thej same disease, and at this time Mrs. sibley's two little children and her mother, ~.rs. Duncan, are seriously a of the same malady. PLUMBER'S CARELESSNESS Caused the D~eath of a Young Lady inl Brooklyn. Miss Grace Buckley. the 21-year old daughter of H. H. Buckley of No. 39S Halsey street. Brooklyn, was killed Tuesday night by gas asphyxia tion,, said to be caused by the care lessness of a plumber. The gas jet in hr bed room was fixed the day be fore by the plumber who tightened the stopcock so that it was impossible to turn it completely off; and Tues day when her grandmother, found Miss Buckley dead in bed and the gas escaping from the fixture. A physician was called but he stated the girl had been dead for some SHOT HIM DOWN From Ambush While. He Was Riding Along the Road IS FATALLY WOUNDED Mr. J. B. Sims Assassinated Near the Scene of a Fight He Hpd a Few Weeks Ago Mith Mr. W. Hmnpton Stogner, in Which the Latter Was Mortally Wounded-The Assassin - Unknown. A dispatch from Lancaster to Tie State says J. B. Sims, a farmer of that county,' was found on Wednesday lying face downward about three miles from Lancaster, with what is believed to be a mortal wound, hav ing been shot from ambush. His left side is filled with buckshot. Rev. E. 0. Thompson made the dis-. covery and at once summoned Dr. R. G. Elliott, who attended t e wounded man. It is believed that his ivound is fatal. Sims' body was found almost at he identical spot at which-the diffi ulty between Hampton Stonger and himself occurred on February 3, last, n which both men used their pistols, 5tonger receiving a wound which re |ulted. ii his death at a Chester hos ital the following day. Sims, in the lifficulty, escaped without injury. Sims was tried for the killing ct ;togner at the last term of court, the |ase resulting in a mistrial. There s no clue to the' assassin of Sims. TIGER SPRINGS UPON MAN. )river of Bullock Cart Has Narrow Escape From Death. A dispatch from Calcutta says a arrespondent at Chamarajankar ends the following: A cart be onging to the forest range officer ras going along with some twenty: ther carts, at 4 a. m., at a very lit [e distance from Atigulipur, eight ailes from Chamarajanger. There were two persons in the art. Both were wide awake. --There. as noticed some uneasiness aimong he bullocks that were drawing tne arts. The cartman saw this symp DMD and became aware that' there ras danger. The bullocks began to un, as the road was sloping. The tiger was perceived by some of he cartmen pursuing them, and the artmen began to beat the kerosene il tins and shout wildly to scare way .the tiger, But the' tiger, not aunted by this, sprang upon one ullock that was to the left side of he hindmost cart. The two persons, hough much frightened, yet took >urage and began to shout and howl eir loudest. The tiger, enraged at this, sprang n the man who was driving the art. But the man managed to slip a ck into the. cart,'and the tiger lost s hold, and sat by the roadside. fter awhile the two persons issued om the cart and tried sto. lift the llock, but found it was dead. Then, ting the other bullock, they pro eded to the town. -* ONE MAN KILLED. our Others Injured in Street Duel at Bernice, La. At Bernince, La., Tuesday, a spec tor wras killed during a street duel.. d four others were wounded. Both ,elists were wounded, but not ser msly. -The fight was between C. J. orton and W. F. Barhamn. ~The ause of their quarrel is glot known. orton was just stepping off an Ar ansas Southern passenger train, ac mpanied by his wife .and seven ear-old son, when Barhamn appeared. Both men opened fire and Morton's ittle boy fell, mortally wounded; T. . Clarke was instantly killed and hos. Rivers was wounded in the igh. Conductor Alford of the rain and a male passenger were in ured. Morton was struck by two llets and Barhamn hit by one.* CHANCE TO ELECT BRYAN jays Editor Henry Wafterson. The Johnson Boom Is Too Late. While in New York a fe wdays ago, 'here he dined with Mr. Bryan, Col. enry Watterson said: "Personally, have no doubt that Mr. Bryan will e nominated at Denver, and I think hat we have a good chance to elect .m. The movement in the interest f Gov. Johnson comes too late and *rom the wrong quarter. If the in ,erests that are now urging his nom nation had backed me up when I dvocated his candidacy ten months go he might have had a chance for he nomination. But the Democrats f New York in the present chaotic onditionl cannot dictate to the ma ority of the Democratic party." Col. Vattersonl said that Taft would be omiated by the Republicans. PICKED UP AT SEA. VYrecked Off Charleston and Rescued by Yacht. The steam yacht Columbia arrived tt New York from Florida on Tuesday with three fishermen on board, res ued from their sinking boat in a ale off Charleston. The three men ;ailed from Charleston in the fishing mack Star on April 17. The next lay they were caught in a gale in which the smack lost her mast and nst of her sails. When the derelict was sighted the sea was running so high that the Columbia could not ower her boats. The yacht approach d the Star so near that ropes could be thrown to the fishermen, who were then hauled on board the Columbia. rheir friends in Charleston had. about give them up as lost.