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VOL. XXIII MAKNJNG9 S. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAR PROHIBITION BILL Passes the House by a Good Working Majority. WILL BE STATE WIDE In Its Provisions Should It Pass the Senate, But the Probability Is That It Will Hang Fire in That Body Until Next Session Comes Around. Columbia, Feb. 17.-By a vote of 58 to 40, the House of Represen tatives of the State Legislature to night passed the State-wide prohi bition bill, which thus marks the close of a filibuster that had lasted for sevdral days. This was accom plished after the adoption at the morning session of a compromise agreement between the leaders of the opposing forces. Under the terms of the agreement, the general supply bill was rushed through in half an hour. It was simple and easy to rush through the bill. Then the remaining third read ing. bills were rushed. through, oh, so easily. The agreement to take up the "State-wide" prohibition bill was ad hered to in every detail, and as soon as it was taken up Mr. K. P. Smith moved to table the bill. This brought forth the first test vote. It was taken without delay. There was no delay. The vote stood 45 to 62. At one o'clock the State-wide pro hibition bill was taken up, and pushed on to a vote. An effort was made to have Charleston, Richland and Georgetown counties exempted from the provisions of the bill, but It failed. The following is the vote by which the'bill was passed: Yea-To pass the bill: J . W. Ashley, Bodie, Bowers, Brice, W. D. Bryan, Bunch, Cantrell, Carey, Carrigan, Coley, Clary, Daniel, Din gle, Edwards, Gasque, J. P. Gibson, W. P. Gibson, Graham, Green, Greer. Hall, Hamer, Harmon, W. C. Har rison, Horger, Kibler, -League, Lee, McEachern, McKeown, Mann, Mauld In, Mobley, Moseley, Nesbitt, Niver, Richards, Ridgell, G. M. Riley, Rob ertson, Roessler, Sanders, 0. L. Sanders, Scarborough, B. A. Shuler, C..T. Shuler, C. A. Smith, Spears, Stanley, J. D. Sullivan, P. P. Sulli van;, Utsey, Vaughan, Way, Whatley, Wingo, Wyce-Total 58. Nay-To kill the bill: Whaley. - Amick, M. J. Ashley, Ayer, Bowman,. Boyd, Browning, F. M. Bryan, Bush, I Carwile, Coker, Cothran, Dick, Dix- 1 on, Doar, Duvall, I. Edwards, Foster, Faultz, Gais, Glasscock,- Griffin, Harris, 3. R. Harrison, Hydrick, Irby, Jackson, McMahan, Nunnery, Patterson, Paunling, Sawyer, Sink ins, Singleton, Vander, Borst, Wade. Wells,' Wiggins, Williams, W. B. Wilson-Total 40. Pairs-Suydamn and Leland, Brown and K. P. Smitn, Nicholson and Wright, McColl and Fraser, Law son and Mars, W. L. Riley and Hughes, 'Mines and Tobias, M. L. Smith and Rucker, Carter and Sel bels. Absent and Not Voting-Berg, Cosgrove, Lan, Lengnick, Todd. In this vote the pairs are given with the first name stated being in favor of the bill and the last opposed te it. The companion bill providing for State prohibition was then adopted without a vote of discussion. One of the bills provides for closing the county dispensaries and the second provides for State-wide prohibition. *There was absolutely no friction, debate or discussion, and the two prohibition bills went merrily on to their third reading. -TAKEN FROM LIVING TOM[BS. Several More Miners Rescued Out of English Colliery. Newcastle, England, Feb. 17. After the rescue work had progress ed all night in the shaft of the Col liery at West Stanley, where' a dis astrous explosion occurred yesterday, entombing nearly 300 men, the mine was cleared as far as the second level, where thirty-two men were found alive this morning, most of them, however, severely injured. The force of the explosion was so terrific that, although the upper level where It occurred is 840 feet deep, the flames leaped firty feet above the pit mouth on the surface. WRECK ON COAST LINE. Two Men Killed and Several Others Badly Hurt.1 Waycross, Ga.. Feb. 17.-Flagman 0 D. Francis, of Luverene, Ala., and Marshall Gate.s, a colored fireman, were instantly killed and Engineer S. B. Henderson u 's seriously In jured while several otner trainment were slightly hurt in a head-on col lission between Atlantic Coast Line freight trains 212 and 309. between Ty Ty and Tifton last night. Pointed Paragraphs. To loosen a glass stopper soak a corner of a glass cloth in boiling water and then wrap it around the neck of the bottle. The heat will cause the glass of the neck to ex pand and the stopper may then be easily removed. Killed Himself. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 17. Frederick R. Haight, city editor of the Register, committed suicide this morning by cutting his throat on the Yale campus. He was graduated TEXT OF THE BILL CLOSLNG UP OF THE DIFFERENT COUNTY DISPENSARIES. And Putting South Carolina in the Column of Prohibition States of the South. Below r-e print the first of the series of State-wide prohibition bills, which was passed under the truce agreement upon, Wednesday. Section 1. That immediately upon the approval of this Act the several county dispensary boards are hereby prohibited from the purchasing of any more liquors, beverages or sup plies for their respective dispensa ries, and they are hereby directed to close out the stocks of- liquors and beverages that may be then in stock in due course of business, under the regulations and laws now in force, until the first day of July, 1909, unless such stock of the respective dispensaries shall be disposed of be fore that date, as above provided, ihi which event all dispensaries hav ing disposed of the stocks of liquors, beverages and fixtures shall be clos ed; and in ,case any dispensary shall not dispose of its stocks on or before the first day of July, 1909, such dis pensary or dispensaries shall be clos ed on said first day of July, and the atocks disposed of 'as hereinafter provided. Section 2. That all liquors, bev ?rages and fixtures not disposed of as provided in Section 1 of this Act shal be inventoried by the county dispensary board, and sold for cash by the county dispensary board of the respective counties to the high est bidder for cash: Provided, fur ther, that all payments shall be made In gold and silver coin of the United States, in United States currency, r In national bank notes, after due advertisement in two daily news papers of this State, and two trade papers published outside of this State: Provided, that any county dispensary board advertising for b!ds shall have the right of refusing any and all bids, and to advertise for new bids: Provided, that all such bids shall be filed in triplicate-one bid with the county dispensary board, ne bid with the county auditor, and ne bid with the clerk of court, which bids shall be- open to inspec tion, after the acceptance or refusal >f the bids; out of the proceeds of such sales the county dispensary boards shall pay all just and proper laims, after such claims shall have been audited and approved by the 1ispensary auditor; any and all ap >eals from, the decisions or rulings )f the dispensary auditor shall be 'o the -Court of Common Pleas for he county where such claims are made, and the trial shall be de Lovo. Section 3. The dispensary auditor s hereby authorized to employ such ompetent expert bookkeepers as he nay deem necessary to aid him in nestigating the affairs, accounts of, ad the claims against the seevral lispensaries, and the conduct of the everal dispensaries, and said county ispensary boards, at a salary not xceeding ten dollars per day for ~he time actually employed in such eork; and all expenses incident to he closing up of said dispensaries hall be paid out of the moneys of uch dispensaries; and the profits of aid dispensaries shall be paid over o county treasury of the county here such dispensary is located, and distributed as now provided by, aw. Section 4. The dispensary auditor shall submit a report of his work, and the work of his deputies, to he Governor, and a separate report o the grand jury of the county in which such dispensary was located. Section 5. The dispensary auditor and his deputies. shall have the po er to send for all books and papers, and to subpoena wiftnesses, as may be deemed necessary; and any per son refusing to furnish such books r papers, or who may obstruct the work of said dispensary auditor, or ether of the deputies herein provid ed. shall be guilty of a misdemea nor, and, upon conviction for such ffence, shall be fined not more than one hundred .'d'ollars or imprison ment not more than thirty days in the county chain gang, one or both, at the discretion of the Court. Section 6. That nothing herein contained shall repeal any part of an Act entitled"'An Act to declare the law in reference to and to regulate the manufacture, sale, use. consump tion. possession, transportation and disposition of alcohol liquors and beverages within the State, and to police the same," approved the 18th day of February, A. D. 1907, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. Sharp Criticism. Washington. Feb. 1 8.--The im migration 'commission was the sub ject of sharp criticIsm in a speech by Senator Gray of South Carolina, bassed upon the resolution intro duced by himselr directing the com mission to report to the senate a summary of its acts and its present work. $8,000 Alimony a Year. ISt. Louis, Mo., Feb. 18.-A decree of divorce with alimony of $6,000 a year and the custody of her son was awarded Mrs. William J. Lemp, Jr., by Judge Hitchcock in the circuil court. The decision followed a sen sational trial. Reports Exageratedl. Constantinople, Feb. 17.-Th4 rumor In the United States that tel thousand people lost their lives ix the earthquake in Asiatic Turkey il clearly a gross exageration. The actual loss of life as far as the pres ent information goes is thirty per KILLED IN TAXICAB BY A YOUNG MAN ON THE STREET. The Crime Committed by a Lover of the Murdered Girl, Who Also Killed Himself. Reading, Pa., Feb. 17.-A case that has all the ear marks of a mur der, followed by suicide, took place in a taxicab on North Front street at 1:30 o'clock this morning. The woman who was murdered by her companion, is Stella Boukstashed, of 647 North Front street, and the man 'is George E. Knaut, '219 North Front street. At one o'clock this morning a young man came to the Arcade ho tel, 12 North Front street, and ask ed Raymond W. Christensen, son of the proprietor, to telephone for a taxicab. He said he had a woman outside and asking permission to bring her inside to wait until the taxicab arrived. Christensen recog nized the young man but had never seen the woman before. He called tne taxicab of Lewis Becker a chauffeur who boarded at the hotel. The couple, who were greatly ex cited, entered the cab and ordered the chauffeur to proceed to 647 North Front stret, the home of the girl. During the trip the report of a pistol was heard, and Knaut order ed the cab to be driven to a hospital, but a few minutes later, a second shot was heard. W.hen the cab reached the Reading hospital both were found inside dead. Knaut was a telephone inspector. The couple were young people, who had been quite intimate. Miss Boukstashed's parents state that they did not approve of Knaut and that it was their daughter's intention to break up with him. This, the -po lice believe, precipitated the quarrel leading to the tragedy. NERVE MADDENED RUSSIANS. Tired of Living, Seek Death in Fiendish Torture. London, Feb. 17.-The Daily Mail's St. Petersburg correspondent declares that neurasthenia is claim ng an ever-dncreasing number of victims in all sections of St. Peters burg society. A surprising number of people, tired of. life, seek death by various methods. Persons of fashionable society journey to Fin land and fling themselves into the romantic Imatra rapids. Strange clubs and societies are in existance. one of these Is styled 'tiger and hunter." Two members draw lots to decide who will be the tiger and who will be hunter. A silver bell is hung around the tiger's eck and the hunter is given a load d revolver. Both enter large dark ned rooms, and the spectators take efuge in safe corners. The hunter begins, the hunter's yes are bound, he is allowed six hots, guided by the sound of the ell. If he fails to hit the tiger, he roles are reversed and the hunter ecomes the tiger. This continues util blood flows. Another sodiety has "champagne evenings" where one among twenty ottles is drugged with morphine. Some time dln a single night there re numerouis secret suicides, for which there. Is no plausible explana tion, giving rise, says the ,Mal's orrespondent, to the suspicion that he, victims belong to the same eague of self destruction. IMMENSE DAMAGE WROUGHT. Many People and Thousands of Cat tie Are Killed. Hieheran, Persia, Feb. 17.-News was received here showing that the iolent earthquake recorded on Jan aary 23, at almost every scientific bservatory In the world, has Its ocation In the province of Lauristan in Western Persia. Sixty villages in this district were wholly or 'partly destroyed and the resultant loss of life is placed be tween 5,000 and 6,000. The district of Jurnjurd and Sela hor in Luristan province were the center of the greatest violence and here the heaviest casualties occurred. Several villages are reported com pletely engulfed. The peasantry lost practically all their herds and It is estimated that from 10.000 to 12, 000 head of cattle perished. FARMAER COM.MITS SUICIDE. Edward Harrison Ends His Life With Shot Gun. Greenville, Feb. 1 7.-Edward Harrison. a well known farmer of this county, committed sicide at his home, about ten miles from the city, last night by blowing out his brains. Ill health is assilgned as the cause. Mr. Harrison was a very wealthy citizen and lived with his brother, Rich Harrison. He was 50 years of age and was unmarried. He had a large family connection. .e was one of the county's best cit izens. Killed by Tight Shoes. Lake Charles, La., Feb. 19.-May Buller, aged 10, died at Hacker, La., a few days ago from blood poi. soning, which originated from a blis ter caused by a tight shoe. Man's Body Fourd. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 15.-The bod3 of George A. Stockley, a promineni Icitizen of Norfolk, who had beet missing since the night of Decembe: 19. was last evening found floatini -in the eastern branch of the ESliza beth iver LI LAW DtAD. Senate Kills It by a Large Ma jority Vote. AGREES WITH HOUSE That the Law Has Outlived Its Use fulness and Should Be Repealed. Twenty-Four Senators Vote to Repeal the Old Law and - Only Twelve Voted Against Its Repeal. Columbia, Feb. 17.-The Senate tonight by a vote of 24 to 12 pass ed the lien law repeal bill, which has been under consdieration for the past two days. Nearly every Senat or has had a say on i-his measure. It was thought that a vote would be reached immediately on this bill on which all Senators naturally had their minds made up. Senator Kel ley was willing' for a vote to be taken at once, but discussion arose and continued for the past two. days and nights. The House passed the bill by a vote of 85 to 35. The vote in the Senate stood as follows upon Senator Kelley's mo tion to table Senator Montgomery's motion to strike out the enacting words of the bill: Yeas-Appelt, Carlisle, Carpenter, Christensen, Crosson, Earle, Gray don, Hardin, Harvey; Hough, John son, Johnston,- Kelley, Lide, Mauld In, McCown, Muckenfuss, Rainsford, Stewart, Sullivan, Summers, Walter, Weston, Wharton-Total 24. Nays-Bass, Black, Croft, Griffin, Laney, Montgomery,! -Otts, Rogers, Sinkler, Spivey, Walker, Williams Total 12. So the enacting words of the bill were not stricken out. When the vote was announced there was a storm of exceptions :ot counties to be exempt coming under Senator Montgomery's amendment to exempt the county of Marion. The exemptions came thick and and fast; including Lancaster, Char leston, etc., etc. The amendment was tabled on a ye and nay vote by 19 to 17, thus bringing all coun ties under the provislons of the bill. The vote stood on Senator Kelley's motion to table the amendment ex cepting certain counties. Yeas-Carlisle, Carpenter, Chris tensen, Crosson, Earle, Harvey, Hough, Johnstone Keltey, Lide, Mauldin, McCown, Muckenfuss, Stewart, Sullivan, Summer . Walter, Weston, Wharton-Total 19. Nays-Appelt, Bass, Bates, Black, Croft, Graydon, Griffin Johnson, Laney, Montgomery, Otts, Rainsford, Rogers, Sinkler, Spivey, Walker, Williams-Total 17. The tabling of this amendment left the bill applicable to all coun ties. WHOLE VILLAGE MISSING. Earthquake in Persia Destroyed at Least Fifty Hamlets. Teheran, Feb. 18.-The Governor of Burujurd, a town in Southwest rn Persia, has sent out agents to ivestigate the damage wrought by the earthquake of January 23. The center of Intensity apparently was two days' journey fi'om Burujurd. Up to the present time only mea ger reports have come into Teheran. The devastation was particularly severe in the niountainous region between Burujurd and Luristan province. It has been already estab lished that fifteen villages 'Were whol ly or partially destroyed, and it is estimated that the total number will undoubtedly be more than fifty. Only a small proportion of the in habitants of area, where the shocks were most severe escaped. Some vil lages disappeared completely, and no trace can be found of the hamlets of Bahren and Leben. It appears that not a single soul belonging to these communities was. left alive. A severe quake was felt at Ishpa han, one hundred miles away, the morning of January 23. THROWN FROM HORSE. Young Boy Supposed to be Fatally Injured. Greenwood, Feb. 18.-Little Wil liam Henry Moore, while out riding horseback this afterngon, was thrown from his horse and sustained injuries that in all probability will prove fatal. The accident occurred this after noon at 5 o'clock on lower Main street, near the little fellow's home, and it seems that he and one of his boy companions were racing, when little William's horse became fright ened at a passing freight train and hurled him against a tree, fractur ing his skull and breaking his lefi leg. The little fellow was immedi ately carried to the office of Dr Epting, where he, with Drs. Nee) and Swygert, dressed the wounds The fracture is a bad one, and there is not much hope of recovery. TOOK 1HER OWN LIFE. Body of Young Woman Found Float .ing in Pond. Spartanburg, Feb. 1 6.-Mrs. Ber Wright was drowned in Wingo's mil pond near Inman, some time betweel midnight last night and 3 o'cloc1 this morning. She was missed fron her room shortly after midnight an! search was 9nstituted at once. Abou 7 ,o'clock this miorning her deal body was found floating in the pond Shi had been in bad health for som time, nand it is believed that she too: hr own life. CROOKED WORK Partizan Political Eisctions Bring About Municipal Corruption MUCH MONEY STOLEN Kansas City Clerks' Stole $13,000 During 1908 Investigation of Councilmanic Deals in Pittsburg. High Priced Election In Wisconsin. What Is the Remedy? The American people are yearly paying the price for making elections political, rather than business propo sitions. Scarcely a month passes but some councilman, somle count of ficial or other individual prominent in the affairs of a community fails to remember that a "public office is a public trust" and allows his po sition to become a means for crimi nal procedure. City councilmen, who direct the affairs of municipal cor porations, invest their funds, handle their bonds, grant or refuse their franchises, and do hundreds and one other things which make their favor worth having, are made the targets of all sorts of propositions, blandish ments, favors and bribes. If they have been placed in office as a polit cal reward, they naturally take ad vantage of the prestige the job of fers and make the most of it. Again politicians do not buy elections for fun nor to serve the people from a pure sense of duty. They spend thousands in the hope of gainingmil lions. Grit has comiled a few of the more important cases of crook edness that have come to light since 1909. Indictments have been found against Councilmen Klein, Wasson, and Brand, of Pittsburg, and Bank ers Ramey and Vilsack for bribery in connection with the German Nat ional bank of Pittsburg. It is de clared that further investigation may reveal additional crookedaess on the part of Pittsburg-. council. Thiev ing clerks are accused of looting the treasury of Kansas City, Mo., of $13,000 in the past year. No de finite action has been taken as it is only a short time since the audi tor's office made report for 1908. W. W. Wallace, former county clerk, in Wallace county, Tenn., is under arrest on charge of embez zlement and breach of trust. He ad mits a shortage but will not plead guilty to the charges. Councilman George Aunger, of Astabula, 0., is under indictment on charge of al leged solicitation of a bribe of $1, 200 in connection with a gas com pany's franchise. Even school teachers in Oklahoma have allowed their names to become associated with criminal proceedings. D. H. Hallock, of Goodward county, is now serving six months in prison and will have to pay a fine of $1,000 on conviction of isubornation and perjury, in having school teachers make fraudulent land entries. Poor Farm Commissioner H., H. Baumgartner, of Franklin county, Pa., and Steward Henry Sutton, and their wives, are under indictment on charge of assault, larceny and re ceiving stolen goods. They forced their charges to steal and beat them when they cailed to appear with plunder, and other charges of an almost unbelievable nature are lodg ed against them. A. N. Armstrong. of Jackson, Mich., a warden in a State penitnelary, is under arrest on charge of bribery in connection with a chair factory in the institution in which convicts are compelled to ork. He is likely to go baca t. the chair factory and work as a con vict. The legislature in Wisconsin has just closed the series of incidents leading up to the election of a United States senator, by defeating Senator Stevenson for re-election by one vote. The contest was bitter and included resolutions to investigate the primary election, .'charges of bribery and fraud made against Stevenson by John T. Bahne and a vote by the senate for an investigation of the same. The senator-elect reported an expenditure of over $100,000 in se curing his election and his expense account is now ,in the hands of the commttee on elections in Congress. *No't the least of criminal proceed ings brought in recent date is the accusation made against Gov. Charles N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, and seven other prominent person of the State, for alleged fraudulent entries. The populace of Muskogee back Haskell to a man and feel he is being prose cuted by Roosevelt and Hearst. * TORNADO DEVASTS TOWN. Cedar Bluff Practically Destroyed by Heavy Winds. Greenville, M-, "eb. 15.--Re ports received he' ..ay from Cedar Bluff, Miss., state tLzt that town was practically destroyed by a tornado late yesterday afternoon. Five hous es were completely blown away and timber fell in all directions. The storm came from the Northeast, was accompanied by very heavy hail and mowed a path about 200 yards wide. Wires are down and tracks blocked with debris. Miss Mary Ellis was* killed outright; Alfred and Frank Ellis were injured and Miss Jane Stevens 'was injured internally. Will Aaron had a leg broken. 'Makes a Haul. IMilwaukee, Wis., Feb. 15.-Grab tbing a hand satchel containing $3, 1800) belonging to a big department store, a thief today made his way Sout of the First National bank, east Water and Wisconsin streets, with the loot anr1 eaped. THE LIEN LAW HOW IT WORKED IN ONE INSTANCE. Here Is An Incident Related by Mr. Harris, President of the Farm ers' Alliance. It has been asserted that if the lien law is -repealed there will be some good but poor people who will be unable to get credit and who will have an awful, awful hard time because thereof, says the ~Anderson Mail. Here is an incident, related to us by Mr. B. Harris, president of the State Farmers' Union, which may throw some light on the matter. Mr. Harrris says the incident came under his personal observation. There was a man-a middle aged white man-in a county not far from Anderson who got so poor that he could not give a lien. He had been giving liens for eight or ten years, and had never been able to get anything ahead. Finally he be gan to fall behind. He found it im possible, with a growing family of small children, to get along, although his wife and the children who were old enough worked in the fields with him. Two years ago the merchant who had been furnishing him for so long declined to run him any longer. "No," said the merchant," you have fallen behind now for two years, and I do not care to handle your account again. You do not owe me a great deal, but I am willing to square off. But you must get some other merchant to run you this year." The man tried other merchants for -a lien, but failed. The other merhants it seemed, knew that the man had not been able for two years to fulfil his obligations, and knew that this was why the other merchants had dropped him. The man went home to his wife and children in the deepest dejec tion. He told of his troubles and then his wife counseled him. "You must hire out as a day laborer," she said, "and I will stay home with the children and we witi try to make a little crop. You can send us or bring us your wages for us to live on. It is a bad arrangement, but it Is tha best we can do." The man got a job in a sawmill, and his wife and children stayed on the farm. The man sent his wages home, and the children worked a small crop. This was no great hard ship on them, for they had been working in the fields before. At the end of the year the man did not owe a idollar. His wife and children had made five bales >f cotton and over a hundred bush els of corn, about seventy-five bush els of peas, besides potatoes, etc., and they had two large hogs to kill. They were in better circumstances han ever before. The man is an illiterate-he car. ot read and write, and he had never had much ambition. But the ac umulation of so much wealth in one ear has changed his views of things. He is going to do better from now on. He has commenced sending his hildren to school; he had never felt able to do so before. He has enough supplies to run him this ear, with money ahead, and he con siders that his fortune is as good as made. The man says that the best hing that ever happened to him in his life was when he got too poor to be able to give a lien. He got his nose away from the grindstone, and he began to see the world. If e had been able to give a lien last ear he would still be in a net, and his children would still be grcwing p in Ignorance. A NOBLE CHARITY. America Gives Big Sum for Earth quake Orphans Home. Rome, Feb. 17.-Ambassador Griscom was received in audience by Queen Helena, to whom he formally presented the gift of the Red Cross Agricultural colony for earthquake orphans to be established In Cala bria with $250,000 of the money sent from America for the relief of the earthquake sufferers. 'The queen said she was unable to find words to express sufficient thanks for the gift and the spirit in which it was given. She added: "The Americans acted like brothers toward the Ital ans." TOO FAT FOR ALTJEY. Attorney Makes Novel Plea for a New Trial. Lawyers in the case of William Green, convicted on a charge of highway robbery in Ossining, N. Y., have entered a plea for a* new trial. They produced drawings and maps showing that the alley in which the robbery is alleged to have occurred is only a few inches wide. As Green is a man of 200 pounds, or better, it is declared witnessed testified to a physical impossibility and on this evidence is based the argument for a new trial. . Under Snow Drifts. Seven persons in the hotel kept by Mr. and Mrs. L. Waters at the crest of the Continental divide at the Alpine tunner, near Beuna Vista, Cal., are on the point of starvation, owing to deep snows. * Negro Is Hanged. Washington, Feb. 16.-Richard Gregory, the negro convicted of the murder of William Gardner, colored, at Rock Creek, in August, 1907, today paid the penalty for his crime, when he was hanged at the United Sttes jail southeast Washington. SHERMAN'S BUMMERS DESTROYED COLUMBIA FORTY FOUR YEARS AGO. The Act of Vandalism Recalled by The Columbia Record on Last Wednesday. Columbia, Feb. 16.-The Rec'rd says on the 16th day of February, 1867, Gen. Wim. T. Sherman planted his batteries just across the river where the beautiful little town of New Brookland now stands, and shelled the women and children of the city of Columbia. During that whole day shells were falling all over this city and prints of the shells are now to be seen on the west end of the State House. On the morning of the 17th, the city was surrendered to General Sherman by Mayor Goodwin, when Sherman promised him that nothing would be molested, provided he was not interfered with by Hampton's calvary. Sherman's headCuarters on the., night of the 17th was in the home now occupied by Mr. Jno. L. Mim naugh on Gervais street. General Logan's 'bleadquarters were at the Preston mansion, now the College for Women. The northern soldiers took great delight in bqrrgng the city, car rying torches from house to house and had Instructions to burn the Preston mansion, but the order was countermanded early the next morn ing by a Colonel Ewing. Colonel Ewing was instructed to countermand the mansion order be cause General Sherman had given property to the nuns who had taught his daughter, Miss. Minnie Sherman, several years before at Brownsville, Ohio. Their property, where Tapp's store now stands, had been burned and the nuns were compelled to spend the night in the Catholic cem etery on the -night of the 17th dur ing the burning of Columbia. Butler's cavalry was encamped at Killian's mill, eleven miles away and the light was so bright from the onflagration of this city that a pin could almost be picked up from the reflection. Butler's cavalry was engaged In battle every day after the burning of Columbia until the close of the war. JEWELRY STOLEN. Robbers Take Many Precious Stones and Other Booty. Richmond, Va., Feb. 17.-From one end of the country to the other police, detectives and agents are to day searching for jewelry taken from the Southern Express office in Pine hurst, N. C., the value of which can not be computed. The robbery occurred on the night f Tuesday, February 9, and this s the first word of it given the public, though a large reward has been offered for the capture of the burglar or burglars, an d notices have been sent to the r athorities of all the cities in the -i .States and practically all paw. a brokers and thers, under wh~ose eyes the valu ables might come. The jewels were not the only things taken, but their value alone amounts to $20,000. The last of the articles stolen is estimated at a greater amount, although the letter sent out by the express company says that It may not be complete. MARDI GRAS IN NEW ORLEANS. The Annual Carnival Was Ushered in Thursday New Orleans, La., Feb. 18.--The annual Mardi Gras carnival was ush ered in today with the gorgeous street parade, tableaux and ball of the Knights of Momus. The festivi ties will extend over a period of six days, reaching their climax next Tuesday with the arrival of Rex, followed by grand tableaux In the evening and the spectacular parade of the Mystic Krewe of Comus. The automobile races and numer ous other sporting events on the cal endar for the week are expected to result in' a record-breaking attend ance at the carnival this year. Al ready the leading hotels are filled to their capacity, while each arriving train is adding hundreds to the num ber of visitors in the city. Streets and buildings are lavishly decorated and the entire city presents a festal appearance. WILL GIVE IT TRIALL. The Government Will Experiment With Rural Parcels rest. Washington, Feb. 17.-The estab lishment of an experiment rural par cels post system is authorized by a provision in the postoffice appropria tion bill, reported today in the Sen ate. The provision authorizes the postmaster -general to establish the system for experimental purposes in two counties to be selected by him and to operate it under rules and regulations, including the fixing of rates, to be prescribed by that of ficial. Miining Disaster. Newcastle, Eng., Feb. 19.-A tel rible disaster has occurred at West Stanley, a small mining town 12 miles distant, in which, it is feared, 180 lives have been lost. Body Found in Stream. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 15.-The body of George A. Stocket, a prominent citizen of Norfolk, who has been missing since the night of December 19, was last evening fouid floating 'in the eastern branch of the Eliza COOPER TRIAL The First Witness Took the Stand Tuesday Morning. TELLS OF SHOOTING Mrs. Eastman, the Woman Eye-WitV ness of the Shooting, Describes It Vividly, and the Prosecution Then Showed How Coopers Threatened. State Has a Strong Case. Nashville, Feb. ~ 19.-After a month of haggling over a -ury, the trial of Col. Duncan B. Cooper, his son, Robin, and John iu. Sharp, for the murder of ex-Senator Edward W. Carmack, on Nov. 9, last, has finally been started. The jury was completed last Saturday, after 3,000 talesmen had ben examined, and all but the 12 chosen ones had been rejected. The court took a rest on Sunday and Monday, but on Tues day the trial proper begah. It will probably be completed in about three weeks, unless the lawyers for the de talesmen had been examined, and all the witness box with "brainstorm" experts. The opening address of the State's lawyers were very brief, and by 10 o'clock Tuesday morning the frst witness, Mrs. Carmack, the widow of the slain man, was on the stand. She answered but a few questions and was succeeded by her ten-year old son. The child, fiercely grip ping. his mother's hand, was .on .the stand for about ten minutes, and, while his testimony was unimpor tant, the dramatic effect was .great, the little boy,. between answers, growering at. the defenda'nts - with hate written on every line of his features. The rest of the day moved swift ly, each minute bearing a sensation, each 'aour standing forth with a sur prise in the form of evidence which the State had concealed from every eye except its own. There was a stenographer undreamed of as a wit ness, who told of seeing Col. Cooper and Robin Cooper start forth from the law office of S. C. Brawford, hus band of a sister of the colonel,~ on the afternoon of November .9, to go to the corner where blood was to run half an hour later. There.'*As a newsboy who swore to the" fact that he heard Col. Cooper say to Robin half a block away froz Brad ford's office, "We'll get him," or "We'll catch him." There was an optician, who. testi fled that he saw the two Coopers with John Sharp between them going in a direction which would, ha-. . tak en them to the scene of the trage'dy and by this testimony Sharp was connected for the first time publicly with the action of his co-defepdl ants fellow-conspirators. There was a brother of former . Gov. Joseph Folk, of Missouri, who told the story of meeting Col. 'Cooper within a few steps of where Carmack was killed~ a few minutes afterward, and of see ing Robin Cooper -and John Sharp talking together at Seventh avenue and Union street. And it was Folk who swore that he heard -Robin. Cooper say to his father, "Are you going up this way?" and the colonel answered, "No, I'll wait a'while yet." There was Edward B. Craig, a for mer State treasurer of Tennessee, who told how Col. Cooper, on Nov ember 7, declared to him in. the Tulane hotel in this city that if Sen ator Carmack. did not refrain from using the name of Duncan B.' Coper in his writings in the Tennessean, that either he, Cooper or Carmack would have to die. Behind all this evidence loomed ; the background'~ furnished by the testimony of Mrs. Charles H. East man, to which Senator Carmack, with hat lifted, was about to open a conversationi when the Coopers came upon them. She swore that she did not believe that. Senator Car ma'ck fired the sflot. She said she saw his pistol catch as he sought to draw it from his hip pocket; that the voice of an old man-a voice she believed was Col Cooper's-was an asault in itself, when it approached her from behind and said substantially, "Well, here you are now," or "I have the drop. on you." Then she told how Col. Cooper fired one shot and Robin two, and of the accusation she made against them as the slain . man lay in the gutter in his own blood. WANTED SEVEN TfOUSAND. Entered a Man's Office With Pistol and Bomb. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 19.-Arm ed with a revolver in one hand and a dynamite bomb in the other, a man apparently about 40 years old, a few days ago entered the home of Lawrence M. Jones, president of the Jones Brothers Dry Goods Com pany, of this city, and demanded. $7,000. By a ruse, Mr. Jones overpowered the man, who was arrested. Negro Electiocated. Richmond, Va., Feb. 18.-Charles Gillespie, the negro who a month ago attempted an assault upon a young lady of this city, was put to death in the eleetric chair in the .penitentiary here today. Took His Life. M'obile, Ala., Feb. 16.-News of the sensational suicide of William Bowling a prominent resident of Le Roy, Ala., has just reached here. Bowling blew his brains out yester ay aternn with a shot gun.