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DOWN AND OUT Sultan of Turkey Deposed For His Brother CAUSED EXCITEMENT The Boom of Big Gans Told the People of the Change-The Troops at Adana Have Revolted and Seized Fifty of Their O1icers and Hold Them. Abdul Hamid has been deposed as Sultan of Turiey and Mehemmed Reschad Effendi, his brother, has been proclaimed his successor. The deposition was through the regular form prescribed by the tenets of the Mohammedan faith. It is un derstood that Sheik Ul Islam, the head of the church, will issue a de cree of deposition. The news of the deposition of Ab dul Hamid and the selection of his brother to succeed him caused great excitement throughout Constantino ple. Crowds at once be2gan to gather in the principal squares and thor oughfares and around the imperial palce of Yildiz in anticipation of the proclamation of the new sultan. A salute of 101 guns, fired at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. announc ed to the populace of Constantino ple a change in the sultanate. It is reported that the sultan has been removed from the imperial palace of Yildiz and conveyed across Bos phorus to a point in Asiatic Tur key. Mehemmed Reschad Effendi was proclaimed sultan of Turkey at 2:*30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in suc cession to his brother, Abdul Hamid I. The sultan was dethroned by the national assembly whose decision on the proposal was unanimous. Fifty Turkish officers have been arrested at Erzeroum by their troops and dispatched under escort to Tre bizond. The exact significance o1 this action is not clear, but it i. feared that it means the beginnin of a revolt of the provincial troop. against the Young Turk officers. Disorders at Adana. The following acocunt of disorder. at Adana has been received here b: telegraph from Rev. Herbert Adam, Gibbons, a missionary: "The entire vilayet of Adana ha, been visited during the past five day4 by a terrible massacre of Armenians the worst ever known in the histor: of the district. Terror has been uni versal and the government has bee: powerless to check the disorders Adana, the capital of the province has been the storm center." He added that the unsettled con ditions and the animosity betwee: the Turks and Armenians resulte. from political activity of the lattel An Armenian and a Turk were kille< on Wednesday night and thei corpses were paraded through th streets, inflaming the inhabitants. Gibbons then described how th mob assembled and shots were fire in the air. This was followed b killing. Local authorities feared t act. While Gibbons and Field Secre tary Chamber of the Y. M. C. A were athe telegraph office, wher they went to sum~mon aid of the Brit ish consul, the Moslems burst in ani killed two Armenians before thei eyes. Gibbons and Chambers wen into the next room and made repre sentations to the Vali. Being afraid of his own life, tha official made no ef~ort to protec them. The situation, according to Gib bons, grew worse. The Armenians he said, withdrew to their quarte of Adana and converted their house into fortresses, where t-he fightin, went on for two days. Gibbons con tinued: "Adana was a hell. The bazaar: were looted and set on fire. Thern was continuous and unceasing shoot ing and killing in every part of thi town and fires raged in many quar ters. "The Moslems from the neighbor hood began pouring into the city and notwithstanding our vehement pro tests. All distributed arms to thes< men, alleging that they were Turkisl reservens" The missionary added. "On Thurs day Daniel Miner Rogers and Henr3 Maurer, American missionaries, wert killed under treacherous circum stances. On Friday the Armenianm yielded, and since then there has been little murdering. "Adana is in a pitab~le condition. The town has been pillaged and de stroyed and there are thousands 01 homeless people here without means of livelihood. It -is impossible tc estimate the number of killed. Oorpses lie scattered through the streets. Friday when I went out I had to pick my way between the dead to avoid stepping on them. "Saturday .morning I counted doz ens of cart loads of Armenian bodies in one half hour being car ried to the river and thrown into the water. In the Turkish ceme teries graves are being dug by the wholesale. The condition of the refugees is most pitiable. Not only ar~e there orphans and widows be yond number, but a great number of babies are even suffering from se vere wounds. The situation in Adana is unspeakable. KILLED) HER BETRAYER. Young Woman Shoots Down a Young Man. Isaac Mor'se, a well known young business man of Nashville. Tenn., was shot andi almost instantly killed today by Gertrude Douglas in the office of the American Dry Clean ing Company. In the excitement that followed the shooting, the young woman escaped, but was arrested later in the office of a doctor. At police headcquarters. Miss Douglas said: "tke Morse has betrayed me. He has been going twith me for the last nine years. He couldn't throw me over and live." As a rule, the man who boasts that he has never made an enemy doesn't amount to much. It is just as well to put off till +om0W the worries of today. TARIFF ON SULPHUR DiRECTOR HARPER CALLS A] TENTION TO IT And Says It Will Hurt the Farn if it is Allowed to Stay in th Tariff Iill. Director Harper. of the agrieu tural cxperimaent station at Clemso college. has cale!d the attention C Commissioner Watson to some othe work to be done on the Payne tari bill, there being seval paragrapl: affecting the Southern farmers. will be recalled thit after conside: able fighting the Southern farmei were enabled to get on the free li potash sailts, which is a basis ft all fertilizer products. Prof. Harper has learned that t1 sulphur interests of Louisiana an t'tah are attempting to place a dut of $6 per ton on sulphur. This, course, means another hardship o the farmer. Comnisioner Watson had copics < the letter made and sent to each < the senators and representatives froi the State. The letter says in par "I understand that the sulpht people of U-tah and Louisiana al trying their best to get a tax of I per ton on sulphur. This meal another hardship on the farmer. Si uhur is used largely in this counti in the manufacture of sulphuric aci The extent to which sulphuric ac is used is enormous. There are mo than 2,000,000 tons of mineral ph phates dissovled by sulphuric aci A duty on sulphur means higher pri ed acid phosphate. "There is another matter that would like to call to your attentio Some of the acid phosphate people this State are using their influen to prevent basic slag from remaini on the free list. Basic slag is us largely in Europe and the Briti: Isles as a source of phosphorous ai where it is used with stable manu in this country it is a valual source of phosphorous. It is al a valuable source of plant food wh used on rich bottom land that cc tains large amounts of organic m, ter. The directors of the experime stations were largely responsible f sulphate of ammonia being put the free list. Heretofore the duty sulphate of ammonia has been per ton and the Payne bill as or inally framed admitted sulphate ammonia without duty but the sti trust had influence enough to pl a duty of $4 per ton on this materi "I have been conducting expe ments with sulphate of ammonia comparison with nitrate of soda a top-dressing for cotton and I f! that it is just as good as nitrate soda for this purpose, provided have favorable seasons. During wet year sulphate of ammonia is i as available as nitrate of soda, I is Is a splendid source of nitrol and if it is admitted duty free will reduce the price of nitrate soda and other ammoniated fertil - ers. The cotton planters ofi eSouth are learning the value of1 dressing their cotton and corna n ach year the demand for nitrate soda and other quickly availa rnitrogenous fe.rtilizers increas SWe must exert every effort to he -sulphate of ammonia placed on1 free list. I understand that ba slag has been eliminated from1 -maximum tariff i. both bills and is not likely that a duty will be pl ed upon it. unless great pressure brought, but there is consid era -doubt about brimstone and suiph; of ammonia. Ploase continue fight on this proposition." FELL TO HIS DEATH. A Young Man Was Fatally Hurt Columbia. The State says William Brewer young man about 25 years of as fell from the Seaboard Air Li trestle, near the corner of Lince street and Whdiey avenue a f afternoons ago, and sustained juries from which he died last nie at 9 o'clock. The fall caused a fr ture of the skull, a -fractured a disocated hip and a broken arm. The injured man was removed the Columbia hospital at once, 1: he was found to be fatally hurt, a all efforts to save his life proved no avail. He was an employe of t Virginia Tron Company and wase gaged with a corps of workmen replacing the old wooden trest where the Seaboard tracks crosst Atlantic Coast Line, with a sta structure. It was, in this work th he was engaged when he fell to I death. The dead man is a native North Carolina and was unmarrie FELL FROM THE TOP Of High Skyseraper and Was I stantly Killed. Falling 425 feet from the thirt fourth story of the Metropolite Life Insurance Company's skyscra r on Madison Square, New Yor Monday. Thos. Mortimer, 42 yea of age, was instantly killed. Mc timer, who was foreman of the ri ers at work on the building, w; superintending the erection of scaffold four floors above the b lock, on the 24th street side of ti tower. Hundreds of people in Mad son Square were watching him; work and saw him fall to the balu trade of the balcony above the cloci Here the body peised for a momel nd dropped to the street. MSTRIAL FOR .JOSH ASHLEY. The Jury Unable to Agree in ti Peonage Case. The jury in the case of John U Ashley. tried last week in the Fei eral court at Anderson on the charj of peonare reported Monday morr ing to Judge Brawley that it wt unable to agree and was discharge' The case will not come up again ti the fail term at Charleston. Colun bia or Greenville. The trial attraci ed wide attention on account of th prominence of the defendant. w'h is a member of the Itegislative del egation from Anderson county. Th jury stood seven to five for acquit MANY WILL HAN( New Turkish Government Execu ting Conspirators NADIR PASHA SWUN( 1_1 i 'e Was. One of Haid's Chiief A4 visers-National Assembly At T points Commanuission to Try lnstigz ff tors of Arieni'an Massacres. and t Act With the Utmost Severity. Advices from Constantinople sa that the Constitutionalists have lo, no time in bringing the conspirator in the recent rising to trial. Th military court, sitting in the wa office. Thursday -condemned abot 2->0 persons to death, and they wer )f executed. Many will hang befor ,n things are adjusted. Nadir Pasha, the second eunuc rf of the palace, under the regime < n Abdul Iamid. was hanged at daw - Thursday on the Galata bridge. T1 1body was allowed to swing until e )clock in the morning, and thol A sands of people stopped to look T the great Nubian. whose name was 1- -error under Abdui Hamid. [. The dead man's face showed a d. undershot jaw and thick, heavy lip id in life he had been fully six feet. s re inches tall. Nadir was executed a 0- ter a trial by court-martial on tl ci charge that he instigated the mutit C' of the troops on April 13. Nad Pasha came to the imperial palai I as a slave and g:ew up in that h n- house of intrigue. of The government has decided ce send a commission to Adana to t il1 hv court-martial the instigators d the massacres, and the commissic sh is authorized to act with the utmo ad severity. re It is alleged that the chief autho le of the recent mutiny were Abd SO fHamid's favorite son. Prince Mehm en Burham Eddine. Rear Admiral Sa n- Pasha, son of Kiamil Pasha, w t- were engaged for a long time pri nt to the rising in corrupting the troo1 or The two former have fled. on THEY WERE RATHER GAY. $6 ig- Ex-Governor of Oklahoma and 'IN of nman Arrested in St. Louis. Lce Frank Frantz, former governor al. Oklahoma, was arrested in St. Loi ri in a few days ago in company with as young woman after an automob nd ride to a road house in the subur of which began Saturday night. T we couple was charged with disturb! lot the peace. They were detained )ut the police station until 9 o'cle ;en the morning they were arrest it when they were released on bon of At S o'clock at night an additio1 iz entry was made on the police bI the ter. It read: :op "Charges -dismissed by order ogd the chief." of The woman gave her name ble Ecina Wilson. and said she lived es. the Jefferson hotel. iv Chief Creecy, explained that the charges were dismissed after a p sic sonal apipeal by Frantz. the *'The facts were that he andi it vouing woman were just a trifle hi arious," said the officials. "They 11 not done any particular harm, an< hcould not resist the appeal." aeWITNESSED AN EXECUTION, An American and His Wife Prest by Accident. in Mrs. N. W. Stowell, of San Fra er Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, oft North German Lloyd. told how a had been compelled to be prest e- at Canton. China, when a man's be ne was cut off. n "Mr. Stowell and I were taken w the execution grounds in Cant in among other sights," said Mrs. Si well, "and when we were withint ht -anclosure the gates were sudd~er te elosed. To our horror they let c rda poor wretch and our guides told othey were going to cut his head c tWe wanted to get out, but they wou utiot onen the gates until the exec tion was over. of "Of course I turned my head aw e and suffered intense emotions, h Sthere were no unusual sounds moutcry. Afterwards we were tc :ney had gi-.en thei victim opin 'el When 'ite gates were op'adA we tu tried away as quickly as we coul SFATAL POLITICAL4 FRAY. One Dead and Three Wounded Shooting Scrape. n- Cornelius Pritchard is dead a: three other persons are wounded a- result of a six-handed shooti: _ affray at Meadville, Miss.. Tuesda the outgrowth of a political feui nAt a recent election Dr. A. M. Ne' P- man, formerly sheriff of the count k, defeated the father of the young ma s killed for the oflice of chancery cler: r- Feeling between the two factions b . eame intense, and when Pritcha: i met Newman today weapons wei a quickly drawn and fireing began. Il ig graham Pritchard came to the ai e of his brother and three sons of ID - Newman came to his assistanc t When the firing ended Cornelii s- Pritchard was dead, his brother ha k-. sustained a bullet wound in his le t and two bystanders. Herbert AppI. whito and Sidney Horton, were let seriously hurt. W OMAN CRUCIFIED. Many Corpses seen Floating D~ow the River. . Mersina, in Asiatic Turkey, is ut: Sder martail law and the Turkish au Sthorities are miaintaing order. Th s sanitary conditions in the city, how i.ever, are very bad. There is a lac1 i of fresh water and dead animals an -garbage that fill the streets pollut -the atmosphere. The river tha e empties into the sea here stil car o ries down the bodies of dead Chris - tins from the scenes of the mas e sacres. Among the ghastly burden - f the~ stream was the mutilated bod of a woman nailed to a cross. THE UNION PLAN I HOW THE FARMERS EXPECT TO' iA CONTROL PRICES. Warehouses Must Be Had, and the Local Unions Must Get Together for Protection. The presidents of the county .unions of the Farmiers' Union of He South Carolina met Friday night in' rniass meeting in the hall of the house of rerresentatives at Columbia, and deliberated until nearly midnight. o The session was executive, none be ing permitted to enter without the password. President B. Harris, of the State Unior, called the meting to order t and read the call, as heretofore pub- l s !ished. President C. S. Barrett, of Mn e the National Farmers' Union, was 00 1, then introduced, and he spoke for ti( it more than two hours, outlining tbe kr plan for the formation of a corpora e tion designed to amalgamate the va- es e rious warehouse associations in the In State of South Carolina Into one as- Ti 1 sociation. similar to the ones in Geor- fe gia and Mississippi. and perhaps oth er States, the ultimate puropse be- im n ing the absorption of all the small te er coroprations into one gigantic S corporation which shall control the & cotton industry. l)e it T-he purpose in detail with rela a tion to this plan may best and most th accurately be stated in the language I D of the proposed by-laws, as follows: w s- "When said corporation shall ac- R Ix quire by purchase, or exchange of ti f- its stock. the warehouse and other b, e assets of existing or future ware- r y house companies, thus merging and h ir consolidating such other warehouse 0 :e companies into the Union Consolidat ot ed Warehouse Company, then the old ti stockholders who shall thus become ti to stockholders In this corporation shall tI ry have the privilege of appointing three of of such old stockholders, who shall ti act as a local governing committee; st and such committee shall have the power of recommending a suitable person. a stockholder, as warehouse ul nian for such newly acquired ware ad house, and the board of directors id of this corporation shall, in the ab o sence of specific disqualifying causes, or appoint such warehouseman so nom m inated by the said local governing committee, to manage such ware house; and in all other substantial P matters concerning the local affairs p of such warehouses, the board of di rectors shall pay especial heed to such advices and recommendations of such local governing committee, who of shall continue stockholders in this ts corporation, to the end that as far a as may be practicable the former . stockholders of the locality where r ile such merged warehouse or ware bs, houses may be situated, may have he a controlling voice, by way of ree ng ommendation, etc., In the local affairs at and management of such local ware eck houses. Nevertheless, this corpora tion shall at all times, have and re 'taini the supervision and control of ial all, warehouses that it may thus ac t- riuire by merger, purchase or other wise, and all warehousemen of such of former individual warehouse comn panies shall at all times be subject as to the direction and control of this at corporation, and subject to dismissal, and new ones appointed in his, or he their, stead, at the sound discretion er- of the officers and directors there -,of." he This corporation proposes to main a- mai a selling agency whose duties ad and functions are described also in "Te arset secretary-treasurer, and cha'irman of said board of direc tors, shall likewise constitute a sell-.| ing agency, or committee for the nurpose of selling the cotton of the mnt stockholders who may desire said cor poration to do so, direct to the spin- - ners, or other acceptable buyers, eith tn er in the United States or abroad, he and thereby eliminate the middle man as far as practicable, In the ef he fort to bring fairer prices, and at mnt isss expense to the owners of cot ad ton.' "Such selling agency must prepare to and submit to the board of direc-a otors, or their approval, a systematic ~ plan of operations amply protecting he the owners of cotton, and clearly de lvfining the powers, duties and com missions of this corporation as sell-t uing agent, or trustee, etc., etc. "Such selling agency shall require lddaily reports from the differ('nt ware Ihousemen during the cotton selling u-season, of all cotton deposited with said warehouse for sale, showinge makweights, grades, names of owners. etc., of such cotton, and shall d~ keep a separate set of books, records ~ Iand accounts of the business of suchd iselling agency. Er Such selling agency shall ac- ci count and make just settlement It with all owners of such cotton im-j mediately upon the consummation of sale." * WILSON MAY KEEP PLACE ir d If Fight on Cassell for Postmaster I ig Goes On. R ' A dispatch from Washington to d. the Columbia Record says there isd ~' little chance of the appointment ofA Eany Democrat to the Florence post- cc n~ mastership. Unless the South Caro .lina senators stop fighting the Re e- olican, Cassell, It Is likely the ne d gro Wilson will keep the place. eSenator Penrose. of Pennsylvania. ~chairman of the postoffice commit d tee. is willing to see Wilson ousted,' r. ut Is unwilling to see Cassell, the ac son of a friend, the former represen-- SC s tative from Pennsylvania, lose the da d job. He thinks the removal of the a gnegro ought to satisfy the Caro- th inians and make them leave the road B4 sopen to a -white Republican, es- th p'cially as no Democrat's name has lie been presented in opposition. an _________________ho TROLLEY STRTKES AUTO. fo n in~ Society Woman Fatally Hurt in an th he Accident. all -At Pensacola, Fla., four promi- - e nent society women were Injured SI - Monday. one fatally. when the auto- of mobile in which they were riding co' : was struck by an electric car. Mrs. sti a Gonzales, of Pensacola, was fatally he t injured. The others hurt were Mrs. e - J. M. Mulcoon, of Pensacola, and wa - Mrs. .Luice and Mrs. Clark, of Mo- on - bile. The automobile was struck by bo' s a ay Shore car running about forty co Smiles an hour. Mrs. Gonzales later foc die oa f her injuries. ere HIGH FINANCE A chicago Swir.dler Fcrced to Cheat Others Y BY HIS CREDITORS Says Two Men Whom le Had Swindled Hounded Him to Dupe 1, Others so as They Could Get 0 the Money He Swindled Them Out of Back. Peter Van Vlissingen, who last nter confessed that he had forged )rtgages to the extent of $1,000, 0, thereby causing a great sensa n in Chicago, where he had been own for 20 years as a leading real Late man, exploded a bomb-shell the bankruptcy court at Chicago tesday when he stated that his con ision a few months ago was ante ,ted by four years by a confession de privately to men who held 00,000 of his spurious papers. Van Vlissingen was brought back Chicago from prison to testify fore Referee in Bankruptcy Frank Wean, who is attempting to locate e valid assets of the prisoner. Van issingen declared that in 1904 he as compelled to confess to Maurice asenfeld, at that time a director of .e now defunct Chicago National Lnk, and Bernhard Rosenburg, a al estate dealer, that the mortgage ld by them and valued at $400, )0 had been forged. "They discovered some Irregulari es in the paper in that year," said te witness, "and came to my offiee >r a conference. I admitted the >rgeries and said, 'I would go before ie State's attorney, tell him just hat I have related to you gentle en about these wholesale forger s, plead gailly and go to prison ke a man.' 'We want our money,' they said. 'I can get it,' I told them, 'but must dupe others as I have duped DU.' "We had another conference soon fter," continued the witness. "I roposed to settle with them. I romised to pay them from $1,000 > $5,000 a week. Altogether I paid em approximately $250,000." Further conferences were held rom time to time. At one of these, 'an Vlissingen said, they said, "We rant our money." He replied he ras getting it as fast as he could aise it. "'We don't want to know how ou get the money,' they told me at ne conference, held in December, 904." Bernhardt Rosenberg had been rominent in real estate business and a Jewish social circles for many ears. Van Vlissingen's face was pale and .is hands trembled as he told his tory. His eyes were bloodshot and .s lips twitched as he faced counsel nd recognized former friends among he spectators. The witness stated that his forg ries had continued for 30 years but hat he did not know the exact ex ent of them. "Will they aggregate $1,000,00'0?" "Surely." "And may be more?" "Yes." "Have you any property or other ssets not accounted for at present?" Tan Vllssingen was asked. "No. except my clothing, I had .out $150 when -I reached the pris n at Joliet, but I sent that back to a wife." "I told Rosenfeld at least 25 times .nd Rosenburg half as often" said an Vlissingen, "that I could reim *urse them only through illegal busi ess operations. "I told them further," the witness ontinued, "that I was rapidly be oming deeper Involved, that the umber of Illegal transactians was iultiplying and that my legal trans tons were falling off and almost eased to be profitable." Van Vlissingen said he transferred fe insurance policies aggregating 40,000 to Rosenfeld, delivering en to him, and further stated that nce turning them over to Rosen ld he paid the premiums on the olicies. "Rosenfeld and Rosenberg, partic larly the former," the witness stat 1 , "kept crowding me for money ntil I feared the situation would ill me. Finally I warned Rosenfeld mt if he did not cease I would not uplicate more notes and that I then >uld not make money to pay him. "I said I feared the end was near. mat I did not Intend to go to pris , and--well, he knew what I eant." Here the witness wept, hut when te referee suggested that the hear g be adjourned, Van Vlissingen otested: "I want to get through. can stand the strain. Go on." A recess, however, was ordered. osenberg and Rosenfeld have en iged an attorney and refused to scuss they sensational testimon I inquiries they referred to their unsel, Lessing Rosenthal. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. it Thought His Mule Had Kicked Him Sens --ss. The story of a peculiar lightning venture comes from the upper uth Edisto river section. Several 1 ys ago, a negro was ploughing in feied of Mr. B. F. Peoples, when a under storm came up suddenly. rfore the ploughman realized it. stom was upon him. A bolt of l htning suddenly struck the mule, d severely shocked the negro. The I It, after passing through the mule. lowed the plough stock, render- E him unconscious for more than t 'ee hours. When he was found, was in a comatose condition, and t hope for his recovery had been f 'en up, when he began to show t ns that he was stil in the land r the living. He initiated his re- e rery by pouring fourth a lurid earn of epithets at his mule, who, said, had kicked him, without n "backing his ears" by way ofp rning. The bolt had struck him a the head, crossed around his h ly, traveled down his right leg a rning out of the big toe of the right h t. The negro has about recov- si GETS HIS REWARDS NOTHER "TAFT DEMOCRAT" IS REMEMBERED FOR [is Good Work in Behalf of the Republican Party During the Last Election. Zack McGee, writing to The State 'om Washington says James T. Wil ams, Jr., of Greenville, was named [onday by the President to be one f the three civil service commis loners. He puts down his residence , "Lincolnton." The salary is 4,000. Here is the story: "Jimmie" Villiams hit this town some seven r eight years ago as a typewriter nd assistant to one of the Wash ngton correspondents. Being a right young man and alive to his pportunities he has steadily risen ver since. From one suit of clothes vith the vanishing point of the 'breeches" somewhere in the vicini y of the an'kles and a string tie anging down on his bosom, he has teadily advanced In the satorial cale, till the "breeches" have been onverted Into "trousers" and his iaberdashery has become one of the ashionable institutions of Washing :on. It takes four valets, it is said, ,o keep his wardrobe. He soon got a positlon with the Associated Press and being assigned to the State, war and navy depart ments It soon developed that he could shake hands high in air and bow down before "your excellency" most efficiently. Having a fairly good head for news and being able to write well, he became a valued reporter of the Associated Press. Three years go he was made the Washington cor respondent of the Boston Transcript. Jimmie kept growing, and the hand-shake went steadily up with him. By the time I arrived here, three years after him, he was saying "parst" and "arfter." for "past" and "after" and when I asked him one day how to spell "collards" he said he had never heard of such things. In due season he became a Re publican and last year was made one of the secretaries to the Taft propa gandist bureau, prior to the Chica go convention. After Taft's nomina tion he stayed with the Republican campaign committee and Is said to have done valuable service for the Republicaus. Any way, Mr. Taft felt under obligations to him and has giv en him a job in the administration. KILLED BY BURGLAR. Assistant Postmaster of Lenox, Ga., Shot Down. While searching for t, o negro men who had in succession robbed the postoffice, a bank, a dry goods store and a drug store at T enox, Ga., Monday morning, Assistante Post master Clifford Rutherford of that. place was shot twice th-ough th'e head and was instantly killed by Marshal Lewis, one of the negrozs. who had taken refuge in the railway station. Lewis' accomplice was caught. but1 Lewis escaped and was later trailed down by dogs at Adel, and was tak en toward .5 ,ashville, Ga., jail. The negro es. :ed and begged not to be taken back to Lenox. A hun dred friends of Rutherford went to Adel late Monday afternoon with the intention of intercepting the sheriff. It is admitted that a lynching is imminent. -Indignation over the murder Is deep and if the sheriff fails to reach a substantial jail the proba bilities are that his prisoner will be hanged. Rutherford, while seeking the rob bers. put his head in the door of the depot room and struck a match. At that instant two shots rang out and he dropped to the nloor. PELLAGRA HAS THEM PUZZLED. Three Surgeons Are Coming to Study the Disease. The Columbia Record says another indication of the growing interest in the pellagra problem on the part of the medical profession throughout the country is the fact that Dr. W. S. Thayer, associate professor of medicine in Johns Hopkins univer sity, Baltimore. has decided to study the disease, which has now been rec ognized in nearly every Southern State. and will come here next week for that purpose. Sureteon General Wyman, of the United States public health and ma rine hospital service, has detailed Surgeon C. H. Lavinder to make Columbia his headquarters for the study of the disease throughout South Carolina. It is probable that he will spend a month or more in restigating the disease, trying espec ially to find out its cause. Dr. Ch. Wardell Stiles, the recog nized expert on the hook worm dis ease, has also been detailed by Dr. Wyman to investigate conditions imong certain classes of South Caro in population. It Is understood an ifort is being made to secure an mple appropriation from this con tress to w-arrant a thorough study f the hook worm disease. * ATTACKED BY RATS. 'ierce Onsalught Upon Men Fight ing Flames. Firemen who were called to fight balze in a junk shop in East leventh street. New York, Monday ight. were attacked by hundreds of arge rats. So vicious was the on laught of the rodents as they climb d the legs of the fireme~n and 'nit' heir hands and ran over their shoul-1 es and helmets that the firemen urned the streams of water from the re on to the rats. After the rats ad been washed away by the ter [fic force of the water, the fire was stinguished. Slept Long Time. At Kenton, Ohio, Miss Laura Cas- s er, 20 years old, who had been I sleep for one hundred hours, at..the a ome ,~of her sister, Mrs. Knapp, ~ woke Thursday apparently in good S ealth, although weak. Physicians i y her condition is due to a nerve- c Absolin The only &ak made from Royal Gra NORTH MUST GOI s to be Ousted For Alleged; Scandalous CONDUCT IN OFFICE He Wrote the Iniquitous Wool Schedule in the Present Dingley Tariff Law, But That Is Not the Thing for Which He is to be Fired by Taft. Zach McGee, the Washington cor-' respondent of The State, says the real reason Mr. S. -N. D. North, di rector of the census, Is about to be fired from his job is scandalous and unfruitable. But the reason why he sifbuld never have been appointed to this job, and why since recent ex posures it is a public disgra'e to have him holding any position of honor or responsibility in the gov ernment should be known to men and women. Mr. North is the man who wrote the present wool schedule in the Din gley tariff law. This he did at the direction and as the agent of the Wool Manuafeturers' association, from whom he claimed his reward and got it in cold cash. He was ap pointed by Senator Aldrich as clerk to the finance committee. In that capacity he wrote the iniquitous and pillaging wool schedule. For this he was paid by the Wool Manufac turers' Association. Whether Mr. Roosevelt knew this when he appointed Mr. North direc tor of the census I do not know. But. Mr. Roosevelt did know it last November when It came out in cer tain letters Champ Clark submitted to the ways and means committee, which letters Mr. North came before the committee and admitted he had written. Mr. North admitted that he had written the wool schedule and that he had been paid for it by the Wool Manufacturers' Association. The letters were there, it was no use to deny them, so Mr. North admit ted it. What happened?, Did he lose his .ob? Did Mr. Roosevelt spurn him from his "righteous" administration and denounce him as a tra'tor and a hired thief? Not at all. Mr. North holds his position until this day. Mr. Taft was apparently going to keep him, but that a lesser of fense Is charged against him. Mind you, the offense now charged is more scandalous; but that is because pub. lic thievery Is so common that it does not excite scandal. The other charge against Mr. North is. In brief, and without the details, that whenever a member of congress or another high official of the government has a pretty young lady friend to supply with a remu nerative job in Washington all he has to do is to go to Mr. North and apprise him of the fact and the di rector will provide for her. When ever later the congressman finding himself under further obligations to his young lady friend wishes her promoted to a better paying position, why he goes to Mr. North and tells him, and Mr. North promotes her. The young lady may be the daugh ter of the congressman or his niece or his brother-In-law's stepmother. It Is all the same to Mr. North; the congressman wants her promoted and it is done, regardless of the pub lic service, regardless of the individ ual merits of the other young ladies or- young men in the office, who have to stand on their own merits and records without any influential sen ators or "congressmen" to intercede for them. I say this, as bad as it is, Is not worse than Mr. North's thievery in connection with the wool schedule In the tariff bill, because some members of congress are now at bottom equal ly with North the real offenders. Some time ago a high official In the congress, who is also a member. went to Mr. North. "Mr. North," he said. "I want this young lady promoted to a $1.000 job." "Why. just at present, Mr. -," replied the director, "I have no such positions vacant." "Well, replied the high and in fluen tial congressman, "you heard what I said. I want her promoted to a $1.800 job at once." The yoing lady got her promo-i tion. And, you may recall, that th e census bill was passed by both hous es of congress with a provision that appintments in that branch of the service should be made without the; assistance of the civil service com mission but practically by the di rector, upon the recommendation of members of congress. There is a reason why, as the old song used to; ye. Presidlent Roosevelt vetoed this mi1. and congress is now wrestling vith the problem of another which vil save their faces--and their favo -Ites' jobs. THREE LYNCHED. fob Takes 3Men From Jail andI Kills Them. At Marshall, Texas, a mob enter-c d the county jail early Friday, ecured three negroes. Creole Mose, s 'le Hill and Mst Chase. and lynched a ! of them. The negroes were charg-t d wth shooting and killing Deputy I heriff Mark Huffmanl and wound- t 2g constable Alex. Cargill a few t ays ~ago while the' officers were t Baking Powder ing powder Re Cream of Tartar. KILLS HIS NEPHEW. [oy and Aunt Were Being Arraigned in Police Court. Dr. G. K. Boyajian, an Armenian, a few days ago shot and fatally wounded his nephew, Harotoon Gas tanian, while the latter was being arraigned in police court with his aunt, tie physician's wife, at De troit, Mich., on a statutory charge. Dr. Boyajian' fired four shots at his nephew, three of which found their mark. He then turned the re volver on his wife and fired the two remaining bullets at her. A news paper artist saved the woman's life by pushing her into a vacant jury room. Mrs. Boyajian, who Is 28, and'her 23-year-old nephew were arrested the night before. Boyajian told a remarkable story of his discovery of the alleged' relatior~s between his wife and nephew, whom he had brought from his home at Lynn, Mass., and was educating In a local medical college. His suspicions were first aroused by having his wife murmur his nephew's name in her sleep. The doctor summoned a law yer and questioned ,her. Hle de clares that she made a full confes sion. He then swore out warrants for the couple's arrest. When the.. case was called and Justice Jeffers ordered Gastanian to -rise. Boyajisn whipped out the revolver and fired. One bullet entered the young man's back; another, penetrated his wrist, and a third in his hand. He fell to the floor as the doctor turned the revolver towards his wife. The wildest excitement prevailed in the court room as bystanders and officers jumped for the maddened husband, who was arrested. Gastanian died shortly after. EXCITEMENT AT MAYESVILZE Caused by the Attack bf a Negro on a White- Man: Wednesday night a serious clash between white and colored people. of Mayesville over in Sumter coun ty, was narrowly averted, but the counsel of the cooler heads prevail-. ed, and quiet was restored. Mr. John Cunningham, who is e~m ployed by the Lfnson Lumber Com pany, reprimanded one of the negro hands, Lindsay Conyers, .for care less woric, and hot words followed.: As Mr. Cunningham- turned away, the negro struck him a blow on the head with a scantling, laying open 'the scalp to the'bone, and render ing him unconscious. The negro then took refuge In a nearby cabin, and when'~ an officer attempted to arrest him, resisted. and drew a, Colt's antomatic pistol. Fortunately he did not understand the safety catch, and he was over powered and takfir'to the guard house. -Gonsiderable excitement pre vailed, and there was talk of lynch This, however, quieted. down, and Sheriff' Epperson was notified. Dep uty Sheriff Sykes went to 'Mayesville immediately and brought the pris oner to jail without trouble. DISFRANCHISEMENT Act Favored by the Florida Senate~ by a Vote of 20 to 10. By a vote of 20 to 10 the Florida $enate, in sessidn - t \Tallahassee, Friday adopted the Beard joint reso lution, which submits to the voters of Florida a constitutional amend ment, providing, that the voters of the State shall be "white male per sons." This resolution, which -is similar to. one which pa.ssed the senate two years ago, but was kill ed in the house of representatives, now goes to the house for consider ation. Senator Beard, of Pensacola, au thor of the resolution, read a letter from Senator Money, of Mississippi, commending tlie attempt to regulate the negro vote. MURDERED TRAVElLERS Who Stopped at Their bIn and Rob bed Them. A band of female cutthroats, who, for many months past have ben com itting with immunity a series of brutal murders, was discovered and arrested Monday in the Russian vil lage of Kurchine, thirty miles from st. Petersburg. The principal cul prites are a woman and her- two daughters, who kept a. tavern. As isted by -other women in the vil lage they murdered travelers who topped at the Inn for the night. Disfigured bodies beyond recognition. and threw them into the rapidly lowing stream 'that passed near the PLEADED GUILTY. eorge Barton, the Yeggban, Con fesses Crime. George Barton, the escapea yegg an, was arraigned in the federal ourt at Greenville Tuesday morning n the charge of robbing the post Iice at Pelzer in December last, leaded guilty and was sentenced to eve five years in a federal prison, ad pay a fine of $1,000. He will etaken to the prison near Atlanta. arton declared that his escape from he Greenville dounty jail was ef ted by blowing a hole through the vo-foot stone floor of his cell with