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VOL. XXIII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JUN E2,10NO4 OLD BEN GOT MAC With McCumber's Tactics and Voted Wrong. TILLMAN EXPLAINS Why He Voted With the Repub licans Against Free Lumber-Had He Not Been So Tired and Thinking More Clearly Would Have Voted for Free Lumber. Zach McGee in his letter to The State says Senator Tillman's vote for a duty on lumber Monday against the unqualified declaration for free lumber in the Denver platform was a great surprise here. A short while before the vote was taken in the senate Senator Tillman arose, inter rupting Senator Burkett of Nebras ka and said: "Mr. President, will the senator from Nebraska inform me why it is, although we were told the other day that there were only five razor manufacturers in this country, that 80,000,000 Americans were compel led to pay those five fellows a trib ute and increase the price of razors if you are going to put lumber on the free list. I am going to vote to put lumber on the free list, but I just wanted to understand the con tradictions in the reasonings and the arguments on that subject If pos sible." That was not strange, for the senior South Carolina senator along with the junior senator had declar ed time and time again that he was going to vote for free lumber. Just before the vote was taken Senator Bailey made one of his bold, em phatic speeches, in which he said he utterly refused to be bound by the Denver platform on lumber be cause he said it was "undemocratic" and loudly declared in effect that no man was a Democrat who voted for free lumber. Immediately after Bailey sat down the vote was taken and Tillman had for some reason changed his mind for he voted against the free lum ber amendment. Senator Smith, as stated in the dispatch of Monday, was. paired with Senator Warren of Wyoming. He stated he would vote for free lumber if Mr. Warren was present. Senator Tilnan Explains. W. Sinkler Manning, .Washington correspondent of the Columbia Rec ord, in~ his letter Wednesday says: "To me Mr. Tillman explained that his vote came from displeasure at the maneuvering of Senator McCumber, and not from any change in regard to the duty itself. Shortly before the McCumber amendment was voted on, Mr. Tillman had supported the Johnston amendment, puttIng all building materials on the free list, and as long as Mr. McCumber left his amendment, removing from the dutiable list all kinds of lumber. Mr. Tillman said that he had intend ed to vote with him. At the last moment, however, in an attempt to strengthen his cause, Mr. McCumber modified his amendment leaving cer tain cheaper grades of lumber under a duty of 50 cents. "I just got disgusted with that kind of monkey business," said Mr. Tillman, and decided to vote against the whole thing. If the lumber schedule had come up today I in tended to offer' an amendment put ting the whole paragraph on the free list, and I may do so yet just as a matter of record. But there is no chance of passing such an amend ment; half the Democrats are vot ing the other way. I was very tired at the time, but if I had been think ing more clearly perhaps I would have contented myself with getting what I could and voted for the Mc Cumber half-hearted proposition. But I was too disgusted just then.": A Further Explanation. Zach McGee, in his letter to The State. says Senator Tillman stated Wednesday that when he said on the floor of the senate Monday that he was goin'g 'o vote for lumber on the free list he meant it, and that he voted against Senator McCum ber's motion 'only because ilt did not include all lumber. but left cer tain kinds of sawed lumber and some other kinds dutiable at 50 cents a thousand. Senator McCumber just before the >vote was Itaken arose and said: "I wish to amend my amendment so that It will be limited somewhat. "I move to strike out all after the word 'measure' in line 8, paragraph 197, down to and Including the re.3t of the paragraph. That simply leaves the paragraph reading 'sawed boards, planks, deals, sycamore and basswood. 50 cents per thousand feet board measure.'" The rest of the paragraph, whiak Mr. McCumber propo~ ed to strike ut was "sawed lumber, not spec4.. )y provided for in this 4:ection, S'.. p': thousand feet, boar-. n'easure," ed the pronic' of 50 regis additional f~r each side planed, :-'. i so on. Senator Triiman stys he was in favor of striking out the entire para graph, and as McCumb'er, the Rto publican "insurgent," did not con sult him, or so far as he knew. any other Democrat, before moifying his amendment, he just d~cid'.'i to iotc against the whole thing. Then he expected, ha says, to ef fer another motion striking on:t the entire paragraph. The senate im mediately adjourned, however, and the next day took up the sugar sehedule. But, he says, he intends yet to oter the motion to strike out all the lumber paragraph, thus putting all lumber on the free list. Lever's Joy Short idved. BEING WATCHED BECAUSE HE THREATENED DR. BABCOCK'S LIFE. For Pronouncing Him Dangerously Insane While They Were Both in France. The Columbia Record says a sen sational and partially inaccurate story is published in Wednesday's issue of the Augusta Chronicle to the effect that the State Hospital for the insane is being guarded by the Columbia police in order to protect the superintendent, Dr. Bab cock, from personal violence at the hands of a young physician, who was formerly in the United States navy. The story has a foundation in the fact that the life of Dr. Babcock is said to have been threatened by this young physician, who has for sev eral days been under the surveillance of the Columbia police, but there z has been no extraordinary precau tion taken to guard the State Hos- r pital for the Insane, and Dr. Bab- 1 cock has gone about his usual duties f both inside and outside of the t grounds, without any fear or inter- , ruption. It will be remembered that last I summer this physician, who was for i several years a surgeon in the navy, r was placed in confinement in Paris and committed to a French asylum r for the insane. It happened that Dr. t Babcock and Senator Tillman were f In France at the time and they in- i: terested themselves in the young a man's behalf. At the request of the h American consul, Dr. Babcock exam- c ned the surgeon and regretfully d made a report that the surgeon was s dangerously insane and should not N be released. 0 Later the friends of the surgeon ,rought him to this country and he t< has since been at his former home ti it the upper portion of South Car- t] olina. It is said that he now pro- S poses to bring suit against the n, rench government for his confine- h aent and that the certificate given tl he American consul by Dr. Babcock li is considered by the surgeon to be -i . barrier in the prosecution of his ase. He is, of course, no longer S1 n the naval service. 1C When he came to Columbia some ci ays ago and it was learned that he t1 ad made threats against Dr. Bab- n ock, the friends of Dr. Babcock, who a] Instructed the patrolman on the asy- C lum beat to keep a watch out for the 03 urgeon, and that is the extent to which the asylum has been guard- ff d by the police, and the story pub- rn ished In the Augusta Chronicle has tl his much foundation in fact. tr FIVE PERSONS DEAD si nd Many Injured as Result of Heavy Rains. Five persons are dead, at least 10 b eriously injured, several acres of d ~rops are inundated and every stream g a' in the northern and eastern part of S klahoma is raging as a result of eavy rains during the last few days. al .number of houses were wished 'P way. The dead are:d Mrs. W. W. Brown and three child ren of Foraker, and Mattie Jones, a ti egress. Mrs. Brown and her child- o ren were drowned on Salt Creekt hile attempting to escape from high a aters. The negress dropped dead ~ from fright when the waters of Bog- ri y creek near~ Enid surrounded her e ome.c A small tornado struck Morris, de-b olishing the Methodist church and a everal residences, including that of rnest Scott. He and his wife and child were seriosuly injured,. 5 FIEND HUNG TWICE.t u he Rope Broke in Two But They b Swung Him Again. At Pinebluff, Ark., Lavett Davis, r negro charged with attacking a l sixteen-year-old white girl, was taken from jail by an unmasked mob of two hundred men and hanged to a ? elegraph pole in one of the principal ~ streets. Just as the negro was be ng raised above the street. the rope )roke but he was raised again and r *eft han-ging. A number of armed leputies were on guard but were verpowered and the door broken with sledge hammers. Drummer Commits Suicide. John W. IHi1, drummer for a wholesale drug firm at Chattanooga. renn., committed suicide near Kappe Mill, Surry county, N. C., Tuesday, y shooting himself through the head. He received a letter an hour r two before he shot himself, and it Is believed that the contents of t the letter were responsible for the suicide. Istated generally that Mr. Lever sees justification for the action of him self and those of his colleagues who1 voted for protected lumber in the house, though Mr. Tillman's explana tion will probably disappoint him. Perhaps Mr. Lever finds additional justification in the fact that Senator Bailey not only voted for proteeted, lumber-on the groundeo of reve nue, to be sure-but spoke for it. But in speaking of Grover Clevetand and In spite of his wordy declaration of respect for the Iast Democratie president in the abstract, he left the defense to Senator Aldrich. Be sidess Senator Bailey has been play ing so close to Senator Aldrich and the Repuplicans through all this fight that his support must be graded below par, from a Democratic view CAN'T AGREE The Firemen's Strike Causes Great Tension. TRYING TO SETTLE Transportation Facilities Along the Line Consist Chiefly of Automo biles, MulA Carts and Hand Cars. All Anxious to End Strike and Lay Ugly Spectre of Race Conflict. A dispatch from Atlanta says the :ension in the Georgia railroad fire nen's strike is increasing with each iour's delay in settling the race ques ion Involved. This was the at itude in which negotations for ter ninating the strike were conducted Vednesday in Atlanta. United States nails held up since the beginning of he week, a dozen counties facing emoralization of business, and the ace issue brought continually into inwholesome prominence were the actors which spurred the negotia ons through hours of discussion. lthough no statements were made s to the ground covered, it was arned that a very quick settlement looked for, provided any agree ent can be reached. It was learned that a feeling of ervousness exists on both sides in e controversy over the gravity of rther delay. This was taken to dicate 'the postible appiloach iof n agreement despite a report that [r. Scott has praetically refused to mnsider any basis of settlement that oes not permit recognition of the iority of certain negro firemen. r. Scott, however, has not refused utright to enter into arbitration. That Mr. Scott urged Gov. Smith issue a law and order proclama on, in the communities bordering te railroad was reported. Gov. mith maintained his previous an >unced attitude that until there ave appeared some definite danger at property will be destroyed or ves jeopardized no such proclama on should be issued. Gov. Smith and General Manager :ott of the Georgia railroad had a ng conference, at which was dis issed the feasibility of submitting e trouble to a board made up of en conversant with local conditions ong the railroad. United States >mmissioner of Labor Neill called t Gov. Smith. Gov. Smith and Mr. Scott con rred again and there were several eetings of the representatives of e opposing interests. Various towns In the strike dis iet took inventory of their visible pply of food. Madison reported at ast 15 days of plenty in prospect. ashing1.. reported a shortage in ~ast M.K prices rising. * thonia Mayor Brand said: f supplies should run short and it ~comes necessary I shall simply con ~mn the train load of perishable ods now on the siding at Lithonia d tell the citizens to help them Ives." There are 11 cars of provisions Lithonia and Ice has been sup .ied to maintain the perishable por n of their contents in good con tion. In addition to the visible supplies, e towns have their visible means transportation, headed by a trac n engine traveling nearly a mile d a half per hour, automobiles ith daring drivers and dangerous ads, mule teams with darkey driv s and cracking whips--altogether a mbination which had furnished a ight side to the strike and many holiday prank for rural comnmuni This good nature of the country ong the silent railroad was a reas ring feature during the negotia ons in Atlanta for one of the gray t aspects of the strike has been ncompromising sympathy which has cked it all along the line. An offer of aid in moving the iails was sent to Washington by ice President Ball, who is conduct g the strike, and who wired the stmaster general as follows.: it is cur'rently reported that an ifort is being made to charge the rotherhood of Locomotive Firemen d Enginemen with responsibility r interference with the United tates mails on the Georgia rail ad. So far from this being true. e stand prepared to aid you in get ing the mails through. I should e glad to confer with any represen ative of the postoffice department esignated by you and to aid you 1 accomplishing this result." The hand car which is carrying nail out of Atlanta went nearly 40 niles to Union Point. Six strikebreakers who left the mployment of the Georgia railroad aturday complained to the Atlanta )olice commiss-ion charging that hey had been brought here by mis epresentations and had been prac ically prisoners for several days in hotel, finally getting into com unication with strikers by notes~ lToped from the windows. A detec ie agency which has had char ge f the squad of strikebreakzers rnswered the cha 'ge, declaring themn ntrue. No plan for starting train service .':ts reacted by si. of the confr mces. Th~e question of putting aards on trains was mentioned as a last resort, to be avoided by all means on account of the enmity it might stir up. An agreement to arbitrate appears to be the only other means of set tling the strike and there was some doubt that the mere fact of such an agreement would remove the danger to such of the roads negro iremen as might work pending a final settlement of the dispute. DAMAGE WROUGHT DEVASTATION IN WAKE OF RAI! AND WIND STORMS. Crops Over Wide Territory Are Al most Destroyed, Towns Under Wa ter and Families Take to Roofs. A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn. says reports from the surroundinj country bring advices of devastation by the recent rain and wind storms Mississippi and Arkansas seemed tc have suffered most. The Arkansas river is out of bani and flood warnings have been sent out that other rivers will rise above the danger point. In both States crops are said to have been almost totally destroyed while numbers of towns are under water Pnd families have been driven to the roofs of their homes and the only means of transit is by boat. Great damage was done to the railroads and in several places trains are tied up. A tornado passed over the north ern portion of Mississippi, wreckin.g many houses. No deaths are re ported. Practically every stream in lower Al-bama and Mississippi is at flood stage. They have practically destroy ed all the lowland crops. Destruction of cattle and loss of timber has occurred. The Mobile and Ohio suffered a serious inter ruption of traffic. CLOUDBURST DOES DAMAGE. Track Washed Out, Bridge Damag ed, Mines Flooded. Over two miles of track of the Virginia Anthracite were washed out, bridges were damaged and the Mer rimac Coal mines near Blacksburg, Va., were flooded by a cloudburst . few days ago. Officials of the road ay it will be at least five days before the track can be put ir. shape for raffic again. Meanwhile all mail tnd passenger service between Black-sburg, wherm is located Virgin a Polytechnic institute, and Chris ansburg, must be carried on by a aack line. The cloudburst extended >ver three miles between these two places. An early report indicate. nuch damage to crops by high water. qany telephone lines are down. The torm at Blacksburg was the heaviest or many years. LRRESTED LONG AFTER CRIME. Villiam Y.rown Held for Complicity in Murder Case. Seven years almost to a day since :he alleged crime was committed. Villiam Brown, a hard wo'king man vho has been a citizen of Macon. a., and provided well for his fami for two years, was Wednesday rrested, and, upon requisition of ~ov. Corner of Alabama, will be car ied back to Tuscaloose, where he ill be tried for complicity in a mur er. Brown made no effort when ar ested to conceal his connection with he crime. He said that he, in comn any with George Moore and War ~en Fuller, killed a negro in a dif culty at Dadeville, Ala., and that he scaped. The other two men served entences in the penitentiary, he aid. A QUEER BURIAL. shes of a Veteran Lowered in Hampton Roads. A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., ays a remarkable burial in the chan el of Hampton Roads, off Sewell's oint, Thursday when the ashes of a former Confederate soldier, who ecently died in Seattle, Washington. were lowered into the water in a iny silver casket, in which they were sent from Seattle, first to Richmond, ad then to Old Point Comfort, by irection of the deceased. The bu rial was made by WV. H. Fitzgerald. f Richmond, by whose side the de :eased Seattle man fought in the United Artillery of Norfolk at Sew dlls Point during the civil war. * SEWERAGE SOAKED MEAT At Greenville was Rendered Into Soap Grease. 16.000 pounds of condemned meat in the local warehouse of Swift & Co., at Greenville, was Weanesday finally disposed of, the whole lot be ing sent to the Greenville central slaughter pen, where it was render ed into soap grease. Each load was weighed and taken to the tank under the personal supervision of Dr. C. E. Smith, the city meat and miilk~ inspector. This is the meat that was submerged in the recent heavy rains when the sewerage pipes were back ed up by the swollen waters of a nearby creek. KILLED IN WRECK. Collision on New York', Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad. The northbound Norfolk express on the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk railroad ran into a freigh1 train standing on a sidling, tw< miles south of Sallisbury, Md. Wednesday. Edward T. West, en. gineer of the passenger train, was killed, and William WV. Guthrie, bag gagemaster, and W. WV. Wright, ex press messenger, were slightly in jured. All the victims lived a Delmar, Del. by the strike said that perfect orde prevailed and that expressions c opinion favorable to the strikers pre dominate throug~hout the strike ter IWEALTH TO POVERTY -NO MONEY IN SIGHT, AMERICAN KILLED HDISELF. Had Been Living in Affluence, But the Tide Turned and When Wife Refused Help, He Died. There is a sad story behind the suicide at Versailles, France, of Ed ward Sandford, a well known lawyer ward Sandford, a well knowl lawyer of New York. As a young man he married Ella Hoffman, daughter of the late Gov. John T. Hoffman, of New York. From the beginning his married life was unhappy, and several years ago he came to Paris, where for a time he was one of the leaders of the American colony. His brother, Lewis, lived here with him. Edward Sandford often rode in the gentlemen races at Longchamps and he was one -of the founders of the fashionable Laboulie Golf club. Mrs. Sandford was rich in her own right, but the couple were unhap py, and several years ago Sandford secured a divorce and obtained the custody of his daughter. Since that time he had kept up appearnees, but he led a more or less precarious ex istance. Mrs. Sandford, who resumed her maiden niame and who is living in Paris, has claimed that Sandford pursued her for money, while Sand ford alleged that his former wife, who is said to enjoy an annual in come of $20,000, did not keep to the arrangement by which she was to provide for the daughter. The daughter is at present at Wiesbaden. Of recent months, Mr. Sandford had beer living in seclusion in the hotel at Vo .es where he killed h,imself. -. plovifing 'for himself and his daughter his re sources had become completely ex hausted. A few days ago the proprietor of the hotel, to whom he owed $250, threatened to put hi mout into the street unless he paid. Appeals were made through third parties both to his former wife and to his brother, Lewis, but no response came, and is is presumed that in a fit of desper ation Sandford decided to take his own life. JUDGES OPINION. Railroad Mileage Regulation Upheld by Hines. Upon the request of the Georgia State Railroad Commission, Special Attorney James K. Hines has given an interesting opinion in regard to c the complaints made by the traveling public as to the exchange of mileage book coupons for straight tickets at railway agencies. Attorney Hines holds that the railroads' regulation t for the preservation and exchange of coupons for mileage is entirely rea sonable. Attorney Hines was asked by the Commission to furnish an opinion up on the right of a common carrier to expel a passenger, who had failed to comp~ly with its regulation, re-s quiring the exchange of mileage cou-a pons for a ticket. Attorne~y Hines says that carriers f of passengers may eject from theirr conveyances all persons refusing to comply with reasonable regula tions. He says that the present mileage book arrangement is rea sonable, because the purchaser en ters into a contract with the railway company selling the mileage book. One of the terms of the contract Is that -coupons /from these miileage books will not be honored on trainst execept at non-agency points or at station agencies not open for the sale of the tickets. The purchaser, says Attorney Hines, gets a. reduced rate and he is hound by the terms of the special contract. He says in conclusion that the arrangement has already been sub~mitted to and approved by the State Railroad Commission.-Atlanta Journal. * MURDERER KILLS SELF. Man Who Shot Sister's Sweetheart Commits Suicide. Irvin Carter, of Huntsville, Mo., out on bail, who scarcely a year ago shot down Thomas R. Bagby, who was keeping a tryst with Carter's sister, committed suicide this week in the house from which the fatal shots were fired into Bagby's head. A few days ago, Carter said that he was going away and would never b~e seen again. It was supposed that he intended to flee the State and es cape trial for the bagby murder. Later his body was found, with bul let boles through the head. When the coroner viewed the body, a revolver with all tne chambers loaded was found in his breast. His mother explained that in her excite ment she had removed the revolver and placed the wrong weapon on her son's body. F-tm an adjoining room - got another weapon, with one chamber empty. Flash Light Blinds. The premature explosion of mag nesium powder used in taking a flashlight picture of a carnival in Odd Fellows' hall, at Washington, D. C., this week, so severely burned the photographer, Lee Van Fleet, aged 20 years. of Washington, that he will probably lose his eyesight. * Gets Two Years. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Bingham, of Springfield, Mass., was this week sen rtenced to two years in the peniten ftiary, after pleading guilty to the charge of manslaughter. She shot and killed her husband because, she FEARED ARREST C Commits Suicide in Tragic Man ner With Razor. WAS HOUNDED DOWN By Detectives, Who Searched His u House on Last Tuesday-In a j< Note to His Wife Declared. His D ni Innocence-Then Went Out and Killed Himself on the Street. s( A sad tragedy took place in Au- bC gusta, Ga., on Wednesday evening, when a man hounded down by de- ar tectives took his own life. in Rendered desperate because suspi- th cion was rested against him in con nection with the sensational robbery G of the Southern Express Company's pi car on the Charleston division of the is< Southern Railway recently, says the an Augusta Chronicle. George P. Hum phrey, a baggage master on that 1, road, slashed his throat with a ra- th zor Wednesday night at 11 o'clock, th at the corner of Houston and Ellis se streets, and died an hour later at wi the City Hospital. Humphrey never pil spoke after the cutting. ha When the razor cut his head al- er most half off, Evander Humphrey, iis brother, was at the corner of Ba lreene and Houston streets, run- th< ing to overtake him, as George co -Iumphrey's wife had sent him to vertake her husband in order to StA revent him from taking his life. ea: Evander Humphrey arrived almost att n time to catch the prostrate form ph f his brother as he fell to the he round. tin The brother cried out in a loud to' -oice, horrified at the sight of George lumphrey dying on the street at is feet. D. F. Meredith, who lives Lt 131 Ellis street, rushed to the Ta orner and the brother of the dying nan and Meredith carried him to he store of Mr. W. H. Broadwater, t the corner of Houston and Ellis treets, where the hospital ambu- sh ace was telephoned for. tov The lightning flashed and rain fell so n torrents while Humphrey was be- du ng carried Into the piazza. ar Just prior to ending his life, Hum- Ro hrey took a drink of whiskey from me pint bottle. After laying it down, un rew his razor, and slashed at his era roat. An Lieutenant Britt, of the police de- the artment, as soon as notified of the ed, ct, sent Station Guard Tom Wil- he( iams to the point where the killing ins ccurred, ordered the ambulance to die et there as quickly as possible. Tw Humphrey died at the hospital at the idnight. Coroner W. A. Ramsey st vas notified at once and he permit- ar ed the body to be taken to Wilson's coz Indertaking estalishment and he ep ill make an investigation of the ffair. To a Chronicle reporter the heart ~roken widow, between sobes, told By hy her husband ended his life: "He was as innocent as a child," id Mrs. Humphrey frantically, "and , lthough three detectives came here nd searcehd our house, still they iD und nothing that- would implicate thE y huLsband in that express car rob- da: ~ery. He was the best of husbands be] nd every month he gave me all he kn ade. He had worried about being M alsely charged so much that he was TiC riven to frenzy, although I had no grc ea that he contemplateu killing to imself. He told me over and over sal gain that he was innocent, we "Tonight we had been sitting down Ia] alking just after he came from his req ork, and about 11 o'clock he was lat riting something in a book. Suid enly he got up, and tossing the ook into my lap, put on his rain oat and left hurriedly, saying he He as going to use a telephone. After e had gotten out of the door I was orrified to find these words writ :en in the book. "'I kill myself this night to keep ap ]rom going to jail and save my wife ho nd little children from disgrace.' "Oh, God! I cried, and called for a eorge's brother to follow him at. )ne. He ran out as quickly as pos-. ~ible, but failed to reach him before hi ue had cut his throat. I ran to where sh y husbani lay on the piazza of Mrs. th 3roadwater's store and he tried to CO kiss me and talk to me, although ro e could not speak. w "There was never a more devoted at usband and father than George, and m e had lived so happily together ever et since our marriage three years ago. We have two children, one a little p~ girl a year and a half old, and our gc ther is a baby boy, that was born of in March." p1 Mrs. Humphrey was formerly Miss sa Kate Speering, and many of the peo.. hi pe who live in the neighborhood of 0. the couple say that they were very 1ii much devoted to each other. a Humphrey cut what is commonly known at the "Adam s apple" in twain, and slso his wind pipe. The a physicians assert that there wouldt have been no chance to save his life E' had he received surgical attention CE immediately after he cut himself. Humphrey had been working for the Southern Railway for six years, and has been baggage master on the V Charleston division for about three ii years. Wednesday night he came in " from his "run" from Branchville on iI the passenger train due in Augusta t' at 10:30 o'clock and went directly a home. He was baggage master on In the same train the night that the t< express car robbery occurred. e Mrs. Humphrey stated that the Id detectives had all of the train of- - fcials examined regarding the rob bery and that a negro swore her A husband was in the robbed car when ( it passed Broad street, attired in a white cap and shirt. Mrs. Hum-C phrey says that her husband always I wears a blue shirt, which kind he3 wore whne ended hi life. t STRANGF D!SEASE F PELLAGt.. TO BE DISCUSSE BY CAROLINIANS. irs. Babcock and Williams Aske to Address Scientists on th Deadly Malady. The Columbia Record says a pape pon pellagra is being prepare ointly by Dr. J. W. Babcock an r. C. F. Williams and will be rea xt week by Dr. Babcock at th eeting of the Asylum Physicians as ciation at Atlantic City, and by Dr 'illiams at the meeting of the Stat iards of health in Washington. This paper will give the statistica Ld geographical history of pellagr this country. It has been foun at the disease exists not only ii uth Carolina, but in Pennsylvania ryland, Virginia, North Carolina .orgia, Florida, Alabama Mississip e Louisiana and Tennessee, witi )lated cases in New York, Ter.a: d Arkansas. It is estimated that not less tham )53 cases have been recognized i is country, and Dr. Lavinder, o: e United States marine hospita rvice, who is now In Columbia th headquarters at the State hos. :al service, estimate that there ve been 1,500 cases in the South 2 States in the last two years. The paper being prepared by Drs, .bcock and Williams will give : )rough review of the investigations acerning this disease In the South. Dr. Babcock, superintendent of the Lte Hospital for the insane, leaves rly next week for Atlantic City to :end the meeting of the asylum ysicians, and Dr. Williams, State aith officer, leaves about the same ie for the meeting in Washing k of the State boards of health. TERMINATES IN TRAGEDY. -o Brothers Shot by Foes In North Carolina. Arthur and Andy Franklin were t to death Monday nightJn Laurel rnship, a remote section of Madi t county, N. C., in a four-cornered 1, in which the Franklins were ayed against the Tweed brothers. bert Tweed and Arthur Franklin t at the store of Arthur Frank , and resuming the quarrel sev .1 days old, both opened fire. d Franklin endeavored to stop fight, but Major Tweed interfer and both drawing pistols the fight ame general. And Franklin was tantly killed; Arthur Franklin d later of his wounds and Major eed received a serious wound in thigh. Beverly Stanton, a by nder, was shot in the thigh. No ests have been made. The parties cerned were among the best citi ts of the county. SEVEN DROWNED the Upsetting of a Gasoline Boat in a Storm. Che gasoline boat Dorris, with ten ~sengers on board capsized in storm at midnight a few rs ago and ~seven persons are eved to have been drowned. The >wn dead are: Ed. Mandy, Reif Elroy, Charles Murphy, Eddie kle, B. Alexander, Joe Page, ne >porter. The boat was returning Vicksburg, Miss., from one of the oons on the island. The waves re about four feet high on the :e and it will be impossible to :over any of the bodies .until e in the day. GETTING THE BOOZE. ,w the Game is Worked Over in Georgia. In a Georgia city .a recent traveler, proaching the clerk of the best tel, said: "I would like a room." Responded the clerk: ("You want Lolar or a dollar and a half room?' "A dollar and a half room." The guest was given the key to Sroom, and upon having been own to it by a bellboy, unlocked a door and found upon the table aspicuously in the middle of the om a quart of the best whiskey, ich probably would have cost hin out a dollar and a half anywhere America. This he put in his pock and demurely went his way. It seems that some time later thi ohibitionists of the city, having tten wind of this evasive methoc circumventing the liquor law, em ,yed a detective to go through thi me process. He did so, obtainec s whisikey and had the proprieto: the hotel arrested for selllng thi jour without a license. In court h [mitted that in the first place he td not purchased any liquor, an< at In the second place he carrie4 vay the liquor he found upon th ble he had hired-whereupon h omptly was arrested for petty lac ny. Dances to Death in Jail. Charles Hill, a negro of Richmont a., danced himself to death in th .il at Suffolk, Va., this week. HI as sentenced for 60 days, but, b ig a happy-go-lucky fellow, it ma bred very little to him, and he gas performance before the other il ates of the jail. After a most a yunding dance, taking all his e: rgy, Hill paused and fell worwar ead. D. F Meredith, a fireman of ti ugusta department. says that n nly was Humphrey's residen earched by the detectives sever Lays ago, but also was Thomas iutto's. the express messenger w] as found locked in a chest whi he robbed car reached the depot. TOWN WRECKED D Many Persons Killed and InJured In Texas by d o A TERRIFIC TORNADO r The Village of Zephyr Falls Victim to Ravaging Wind Storm, Which Leaves Path of Death and Destruc tion in Its Wake-Almost Unpar alleled in the State of Texas. A tornado of great violence struck the little village of Zephyr in the L eastern portion of Brown county. Texas, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning Lnd left a path of death and destruc tion seldom paralleled. The death list has reached a total of 32, and the number of probably fatally in jured and seriously wounded will reach 50. A score are more or less injured. The storm formed half a mile' southwest of Zephyr and swept down upon the village, cutting a wide swath directly through the resident and business dis'trict. Many houses were entirely demol ished. Lightning struck a lumber yard and started a condagration, which destroyed one entire business block. . No effort was made to fight the fire as the care of the dead and wounded victims demanded all at tention. A section hand rode a hand car to Brownwood and spread the alarm. In two hours the Sante Fe railroad was speeding a special train to the scene of the storm with nine sur geons and a score of Brownwood phy sicians. Hundreds of persons directly in the storm's path saved themselves by taking refuge in storm cellars. More than a dozen bodies were hor ribly mutilated. County iClerk Thad Cabler, his wife and two children, who had gone to Zephyr to spend the night, were killed. The big stone school building and two churches were swept from the face of the earth. By daylight 16 surgeons were working on. the wounded Brownwood hurried her second re lief train at noon Sunday loaded with provisions, clothing and neces sary articles and 40 nursk Sunday night three persons were still unaccounted for. Two children' were dead late Sunday afternoon, two miles out from the town, having been blown that distance. A special train left Zephyr Sun day night for Temple, carrying the more seriously injured to the hospital. The storm was 300 yards wide and swept the earth for only a short distance, probably less than a mi"k. Its fury is considered the ios,. ter rific of any tornado ever experienced in that section. J. I. Clingman, C. E. Kirkpatrick and nine surgeons, who formed the first party out of Brownwood, found a desolate scene awaiting them. The hillsides at Zephyr were cov ered with debris of all kinds and bodies of dead animals and human beings. The ruins were dimly light ed by the burning buildings and the cries of the wounded rose above the sound of the elements, which threat ened a second storm. A hog roaming through the debris strewn street was killed while trying to devour the body of an infant. Bodies were found twisted about trees and In every conceivable shape. People walked the istreefs almost naked, crying for their loved ones. Residences which escaped the storm were turned into hospitals, where were carried the bodies of the dead and wounded. One stone house collapsed on a family of nine without serious in jury to any. * CARELESS SHOO'GNG. Yorkville Dhoctor Came Near Be ing Shot By It. On the 19th instant, at night, while Dr. Jno. I. Barron was driving to see a patient several miles east of Yorkville, ho was shot at twice from the roadside, one ball going between the legs of his horse and the other just back of his buggy top. He is satisfied the shots were not intended for him, as the party, evi dently being out of ammunition, threw rocks at a negro in a buggy just behind him. A negro named Jas. Crawford was arrested, charged with the shooting, and taken before Magistrate R. B. DeLoach and gave bond in the sum of $500 for his appearance at a preliminary hearing. The negro he was after is named Henry Jones, and there is a woman in the case. Entire Family Wiped Out. John Carter, aged 75, an old sailor, and. three children of Mrs. Leila Shaw, his daughter, were burned Sto death early one morning a few 1days ago in a fire which destroyed the Shaw home in Eldon, Iowa. Carter was helpless. with old age. e A lamp was overturned in the room Land all perished before aid could -reach them. e Killed Himself. - Mr. David J. Young of the Stover te neighborhood of Chester county c~m >t mitted suicide a few days ago~ ty e cutting his throat with a razor. He al started to where his b-other was U. at work near the how,~e and whn~ to found was dead. The cause is a'. ~n tributed to poor health. He was 82