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C aii 'VOL. XXIII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1909 NO.47 DANIAL ZIMMERMAN AGED BOND CL(.ERK FREED FROM THE PENITENTIARY. Recommendation of Board Approved by Goveror-Affective Scenes at, Prison When Beneiar7 Left. Mr. Daniel Zimmerman. who has served sixteen months of a three year sentence for embezzing State bonds while bond clerk In the office of the State treasury, was granted a full and unconditional pardon by Governor Aneel Friday, who merely adopted the recommendation of the pardon board, which contained an In teresting couple of paragraphs on the Zimmerman case, written by Col. W. A. Clark. the board's secretary. The pardon bas been expected. as powerful pressure has been brought to bear on both the governor and the members of the pardon board. who were appealed to by induential people from all parts of the State. In fact the pardon was expected at the last meeting of the board, but the discovery of additional shortage caused postponement of the case. The first news was telephoned to the penitentiary Immediately after the governoi had acted. by Clerk Brooks of the supreme court, a fvl low Confederate Veteran of Mr. Zim merman's. who sympathIzes with ev erybody in trouble. Capt Roberts of the penitentiary guard made Mr. Zim merman's heart glad with the first news. Shortly afterward Mrs. Zim merman arrived and there was a tearful meeting. She waited until the papers were brought down and her husband formally released. As clothes the aged pair drove away In clothes the aged pair doe away in a carriage to their home. It Is thought that the pardoning of Mr. Zimmerman will make a pardon for his accomplice. Mr. T. J. Gibson. easier to secure. Up to this time r there have been indications of much a bitterness against Mr. Gibson on the -art of Mr. Zimmerman's friends. Mr. Gibson has not yet begun ser irce of his sentence. being out vn bond pending appeal to the supreme :ourt from the circuit court's order refusing him a new trial on alleged ifter-discovered evidence. KILLED BY EMPLOYEE. Vew Orleans Baker Slain by Man . With Axe. --I have had a little trouble with - rour husband." said Carl Sortuna, arly Thursday mornin; to Mrs. Jnan . Knecht. as he was alont to take is departure from Knecht's Bakery ? a New Orleans. where he was em oyed. Mrs. Knecht found the mu .ated body of Knecht on the floor jt f the. baking room with a bloody ixe nearby. I All the money in the cash drawerb >f the bakery was mIssing. The po tice believe that jealousy, with the' roung wife ot Knecht as the moving H principal may have proven a prim et actor In the tragedy. ATTEMPTED TO KILL HIMSELF. ti gotheg. Suicide Causes Man to Try to End His Own Life. At New York Herman Schmidt is a a prisoner in the East Eighty-eighth E treet station because the police rear t e w~IU kill himself If he is not re S 4traied. After visiting the grave of her busband, his mother. Mrs. Frances Schmidt. returned home and comn- j mitted suIcide by turning on the When Herman was told of his nother's death he tried repeatedly 3 to throw himself from the fourth , story wiadow of their flat and after, struggle he was arrested. >ther thirds of the United States. A string and a pin wheel will enable you to prove this. You men whot think on commeria.l subjects do 1 ot need that I should detail to you he advantages that rest with a por Ion of the county that can be s'a-. istical and governmental proof de" -lare that it had more coast line. noe navigable streams, more wa erpower. more minerals convenient-j y arranged, more agricultural range.I noe foresta, more cheap land. more, cessbilty to ports than any third~ f the Union. "The meanIng of this summing up f Southern opportunities is this: nd none but the blind will fail to e it. That there is to come a time :n the history of the United States. s a whole, must have the support and development of the Southern tates. 1.t means that our nation will never reach its full greatness. t means thIs, also, that as sure as the sun shall rise tomorrow there Ls to come a period of commercial ievelopment in the South compared w'ith which the past growth has been ut the tottering footsteps of an in cant. These are not words of boast ing or bombast, but thev are se -ous words, based upon the incon rovertible ev'idenceo of the Soutth's resources and what those resources must lead to." The afternon session ' as spent listening to a discussion of the good roads movement by Gen. Clifford Anderson of Atlanta and Charles H. Hoy. superintendent of road cor. truction of the United States gov ernent. After the papers' had been concluded. M1ayor Miaddox invited the nmbers to stop at his country home whie on the automobile ride. The members did so and dis'overed that Atlanta is not so dry as the prohi btonsts would have the porbl!c e inve. There w'ere cicars. puznch an ht the ma.yor eoailed "o'h" -*ng. EXPLOkTS SOUTH Tells of This Section's Com mercial Advantages. IMPORTS INCREASING t Speech Director Dawe at SUthera CO-mercial Congress Says That Ocean Frontage of Southeastern Third of muion Exceeds That of the remander. Nearly 100 Southern cities were represented at Atlanta WednesdaY at the frst annual convention of the Southern Commercial Secretaries' asSOCition. Statistics showing 'the South's re sources were given by G. Grosvenor Dawe of Montgomery. managing di rector of the Southern Commercial congress. Mr. Dawe took as his theme the potential greatness of the Southern States. "Viewed from the point of coast line, It Is well to understand that the Southern States possess an enormousi advantage over the other two-thirds of the United States: !'or the coast line of the Southern States is 3.007 miles. while the coast line of the North Atlantic States is 888 miles; of the Pacific coast 1,557 miles. "The natural advantages of coast line .re already asserting their in luence. for we are able to say that a Southern ->ort still holds the second position for exports among all the ports of the United States-New Or leans in 1900-and now a Souther.2 port that nine years ago was wrecked and rent by storm. the port of Gal TWeet "We are able to show you the the exrorts along the gulf now ex Ceed the exports of Philadelphia and 1-otcn by 81 per cev. and the. e'ua! uore than 50 ot: cent of th tWra which belongs to de overshal u:ay port of New Yor!. The tabl, of exports for 1900 and 1908 shen that 27 per cent growth in exports has taken place in New York. Phili delphia and Boston regarded togeth er. During this same time the gulf exports increased 31 per cent. Imports Increasing. "In the matter of imports-goods coming to America for distribution -you will find that while the three great ports above mentioned have in meased 27 per cent. the Southern ports have Increased 97 per cent It. to not reasonable to claim that the Southe=n States. by reason of their coast line. are coming to occupy an tmportsut relation to the maritime future of the -United States? "When we consider also that all this swing of commerce is tkn place prior to the completion of the Panama canal and that the Panama canal will help to pall Southward every inter-oceanie movement, you must realize that the Southern ports will be on the very front doorstep of the world's future commer'ial movements. "We also declare that the rivers of the South, navigable, and there fore some day to be brought Into coperation with the energetic men 5f the South. are more than two to one when compared with any other portion of the UnIted States. The national eonservation commission has resported that there are in the United eStae navigable streams amounting to 26.410 miles. How much of thIs Is in the South? Over 18.215 miles. "This enormous total does not In clude a single mile of the Ohio. though it benenlts Southern States through 900 miles. Neither does this totat include any portion of the Missouri river. If the Msisippi be regarded as a feeder for the gulf commerc, the mileage should be 23. 691 miles. This leaves only :2.719 miles of navigable streams to nffect the commercial prospects of the re maining two-'th;rds pt the United States. Water Power Potential "The vast Appalachian range. the greatest mountain range in the Unit ed States, lying within the region o' plentiful rainfall. is producing a: present unharnessed. every mom'en' of every day 5.000,000 horsepow'r The day Is coming when. through -anservation Impulses. this wat'er wil1 be used to drive the wheels of indus try and of transportator. through out the South. thus lndefnn'tely ex tending the life of power burled now in the coal fields of the South. "If you look at the estimat. s re garding tue iron ore life of th, Unted~ States. you will see that the Southern Appalachian region is ex pected to endure 100 years after the Lake Superior region is stringed and exhausted. Yet, with all the ad vantages belonging to the Southern extremty or the Appalachians. ad vantages so great that Birmin'tham sets the price for pig Iron. yet at present only about 10 pe- cent of he pig Iron of the United Stats is made in the South. Then look at the size and energy of Birming ham the Birmingham district. Chattanooga and other cities in Ten nessee and in Alabama dependJent up on Iron ore, then realize that their marvelous growth to present dimen ros has come through the creation ot merely 10 p-er cent of the pig ion of the United States. Then let your imagination run iot and picture '{ voureilf a bat will ba the develog ment of those portions of the coun try- whe'n instead of l" per cont they are producing 90 per cent of th" pig Iron of the United States and largely gIving that iron its dinat form. Fai rable Situatiob. "Thbe Southern Stat.'s as a whole pessrs more general accessibilit'y to ena3Lt iin'. and h*r"fore to 'hie enm DROWNED IN SURF YOUNG AUGUSTAN DROWNED ON SULLIVAN'S ISLAND. Was Trying to Rescue Mins Be"ste Boyle, of Chariestou. With Whom He Wa im Bathing. In an effort to save the ife of Miss Bessie Boyle. of Charleston. Mr. Fulton Kelsey. of Augusta. Ga.. lost his life in the surf at Sullivan's Island Friday. The tragedy occur red at about 5 o'clock in the atter noon. and a most unusual circumn-f stance was that no one was aware of the fact that Mr. Kelsey had been drowned until Miss Boyle r--gain ing consciousness after her resce. isked where Mr. Kelsey was. Miss Boyle. who was in the su rf w!th Mr. Kelsey. narrowly escaped irowning herself, and when rescued Was practically unconscious. Her ecount of the tragedy was therefore rey disconnected. It appears that Vr. Kelsey and Miss Boyle were in >athing together. and some little dis ance from any other batters. It was an unusually strong ebb tide and t high east wind was blowing. The irst intimation that any one had hat the bathers were in distress wa4 he sIght of Miss Boyle's outstretch -d arms projecting from the water. Jr. David Huguenin of Charleston. iappened to be 5shing In the surf earby. and seeing Miss Boyle's arms C n the position they were. realized he gravity of the situation an im nediately went to her rescue. The water was only waist de-p rhere Miss Boyle was found, and r dr. Huguenin had little difficulty a reaching her and bringing her to te shore. Miss Boyle's condition as quite serious when Mr. Huguenin eached her. her face being already iscolored and there were other in- 0 ications of strangulation. After reaching the shore Miss loyle regained constious . s. and !though !n a state of collapse. cried. Where is Mr. Kelsey? Where is C Ir. Kelsey?" It was not known until then that .r. Kelsey was in the surf. and fforts were immediately made to cate him. but the body had al eady gevne dzwn and no trace of it T3 dcovered. As soou Z. Mr. Huguenin was e-n >earing Mis- Boyle to the beach. [r. Clarence Powland and young Mr. udworth. of Charleston. immediate wer.: to his assistance and helped c ike Miss Bo!e to the cottage of Irs. Jo*vph B iar.on. where she ws aying. Whie Mis, Boie is Ietting lonp verr wei!. she is still in a ner- F nus st:te. rt:r!ng from shock. Miss r wa% able to state. how rar tha+ when she and Mr. Kels.v isc'overed their danger. Mr. Kelsey lpacd her on his back a:d told her; > call for help. Miss Boyle said that she ma-eIn I "veral e~s. hot that they were n'ot eard. The theory in connectiont -ith the drowning is that Mr. Kelsey s o seIzed with cramps andi was en ble to cope with the strong under >w that took him out to sea. ft Sthought probable that Miss Bovle ~ as first knocked down by the under- I >w, and that Mr. Kelsey went to har sistance: that Mr. Kelser succeud d in rescuing her and carried her C me little distance to the sho-e. ut was himself stricken and the ndertow bore him under. Mirs Boyle aid that she remembered the break rs coming over their heads. but bat the water in which they were tanding was only waist deep. * A LTMAN IES FROM WOUNDS.t ivenel Man Shot by J. W. Messer rey, Sueumbs to Injurie. E A dis~patch from Charleston says; .D. Altman. the citizen of Ravene! rho was shot by J. W. Messervey rhen he went to the assistance o f1s )ispenaary Consta ble FIshblurne s--v- I ral days ago to prevent Messervey' roma carrying away from the depot t Ravenel a package of alleged con raband liquor. died Fr~day at the toper hospital in Charleston. Alt nan dying in Charles:ton county he injuest w as held there, but them nial of Messervey. who has entered pleai of s.'lf-de-fense. will of co'urse ake puace in Coillton co-ir. Alt - nan had three sons in Charlemon nad they were with him when he ied. The body was prepared for hipment to Ravenel and left Char-i eston Saturday morning. The !n ~eral was held upon arrIval at Rav ~nel. AUTO KILLS ARMY OFFICER. Lajor Long. Retired. an Automobile Hater, Run Down by Machine. Major J. W. Long. United States rmy. retired, was run down at Washingtan Friday by an automo yle. earriedi to the Russian embassy ad dIed three hours later at the Emergenlcy Hospital. Ma jor Long hard an aversinn to sutomobiles and two d'- , agode -lared: - "If 1 had my way I would smash and burn every automobile in the District of Columbia.' Maior Long was a native of North! Carolina and appointed to the army from Now York. Hie formerly was superintendent of the Michigan Statec Soldier' Home and had written for' newspapers in Michigan. Killed in Auto Accident. A dispatch fronm Amerirus. (a . sa' s .1. F. Locks. a !'u-in-us man o Dawt'on. Ga.. was fatally~ injured late T'-sday rlahi ir. an automobile ac e'Ident. beween his home and thMt p~ae. and di-ei Wednesday. The 3s' tidt in the machine we liigh'. :. 'a'was no- :ho';h' Locke was TARIFF BILL Ten Republicans Vote Against ths Measure. PASSED BY SENATE Closing Rcene After the Long Fight Tante Indeed. Except for Contro versy Between Senator Aldr*cb and the Insurgest Republicans. Viste Was .1 to 34. The tariff bill passed the Seaate jubt a:ter- I o'clock Thursday by a w-ott .. 45 to :4. Republicans Yo:ing in tLe negat.ve were Beveridge. u [ndiana: Bristow. Kansas: Brown. !ebraska: Burkett. Nebraska: ClarL). qinnesota: Crawford. South Dakota: 7co-mins. Iowa: Dolliver. Iowa; La -'ollette. Wisconsin: Nelson. Minnen, McEnery. of Louisiana, was the yly Democrat recorded in the Uf Irmativ e. As it passed the Senate the b!I r 'onta!ns almost 400 paragraphs. Fuiie ;enate made 8.10 amendments to tLe louse provision. many of which wert Adopted Thursday. The closing scenes in the Sen-it hamber were tame indeed. Mr. La ollette's thr- hour speech Was. arnest. but not especialy animated. r -e had a slim audience. Senators 0 emained in their seats only when f equired to be there to vote. The results of the vote on the bill Lad been long discussed. There was o doubt of its passage by the usual a inance eommittee majority. s Following several hours of monot- S nous discussion of the general fea ures of the tariff bill, the closing ours were characterized by a spirit d controversy between Senator Al rich on the one hand and a number f the insurgent Senators on the ther as to the standing of Repub can Senators who might cast their otes against the bill. The bill being put on its passage. -as passed. Upon motion of Mr. Aldrich. the ice President announced the Senate >nferees as follows: Senators Aldrich. Burrows. Pen se., Hale. Cullom. Republicans: and aniel. Money and Bai!.y. Demo rats. FOLLOWED FMNERAL. or Forty Years Man Es Strange -1 ('ustomn. Daniel J. Gallagher, who. for for- ti years. has had 3o apparent bus1 es except to follow funerals in the I >wer West S~de section of NewIa ork. has been sent to an instita on for the blind. He was strickenr iortly after the funeral a few days go of Florence D. Sullivan. : Gallagher was known as "Johnny ookup" because an eye affliction hich compelled him to tilt his head ackward so that he could see. When bout twenty years old he *tarted to >lIow funerals, attending the servle s in the churches, and then ru~n ig alongside the hearses In a dog ot. leaving them only when they rached th'- ferry. He~ wars One of the many who vedl off the bounty of "Big Timi' ullivan, and now that Sullivan i-a iEurope, "Johnny Lookup" had to sek an instltution when he became jtally blind. TRAMP SAVES PASSENGERS. lags Rio Grande Train and Warns 11 Engineer of Bad Roadbed. The lives of more than 200 per ons on a we~tbound Rio Granda 14 rain leavirng Canon City. Col.. were aved Wednesday by an unknown , ramp, who was left unrewarded. . The train had just passed Swa]- o ow. a little station two miles east r if Canon City and was going at a orty-mile an hour gait when it was lagged. The tramp called the engin- a 'er's attention to a serious under nining of the tracks just below. c The road bed was found to be in , Sdangerous condition for two miles e hich the passengers walked along 1 or that distance while the train felt ~. ts way along and got past the dangerj pot. In the excitement the hero r'as forgotten. SEARCHING FOR NEGRO. ~ W. F. McI~ee W1aylald and Shot at Amaericus', Georgia. A dispatch from Americus. Ga.. lays W. F. .McRee. superintendent, i the Bagley Ray Orchard Company here, was assassinated at an early our WVednesday morning. Henry P'atterscon, a negro. employe. charged with the crim.'. is ber~ hunted bly ' poss". McRc'e was waylaid and shot at 1ios rangeo. two c'harges of buckshot entering his neck. Murderer Executed. At Auburn. N. Y.. Guissepe San ucci. who murdered Joseph Det: dano. an Italian detective. at Bcl fast. Aloheny county, on Dcme 2. i '*. was put to death in the ''lct ric chair Tuesday'. The execu t~n as remarkahie for the r'elerity with nhich it was carried out. Hill, Himn.self and Wife. Georae Knerer. of Loodi. Wis . a-' W.drnesday killed his wifc &3' I crshing her skuii' with the butt end ofa sl'nA'un. H"e te committed 1.9~f~ vy dron'ning: m a .hal.w pool? OFFICER SLAIN Attempted to Seize Alleged Contraband Whiskey. ASSASSIN AT LARGE C. P. Fishburae is Killed by John W. Meservey-Deputy Constable J. D. Altman. a Man 81 Years Old. Also Wounded in the Abdo. men. One man dead. another pdobably nortally wounded. and a third at lis home where it is feared that he will never be taken alive, is the dtuation at midnight following a hoottig affray at Ravenel at 7:30 'clock Tues6ay evening ,when Con tables C. P!nckney Fishburne and D. Altman attempted to prevent ohn W. Messervey frorr taking from he railroad station a keg of whis :ey. which was alleged to be con raband. Fishburne, the dead man, was the egular constable, and he had call d Altman to his assi6tance, when lesservey, standing in his wagon ed, shot them both, using a Smith Wesson revolver. Fishburne was bot in the breast and died about n hour later, while Altman was -ounaed In the abdomen, the ball anging downward. Physicians have een attending him since soon after ae shooting, and his condition is egarded as very critical, the in- a wtines, it is said, being perforated. Fishburne was about 50 years of ge. and is survived by a wife and ?veral children. Altman is near!y 1 years of age. but has a wonderful >nstitution. Immediately after the shooting esservey left for his home, and up > the last repot, has not been ar sted. h MRS. THOMAS GETS DivORCE. t t 0 tlanta Gir Who Married Her Chauf- . feur Free Again. In spite of attempts to keep it b hCret, it was learned that Mrs. < lvey Speer Thomas was granted a -rdict of divorce in the Superior a Durt in Atlanta Monday. p It was last September that Miss v eer. daughter of W. A. Speer. an. ' -ominont in local first family cir- s< P4. eloped with her chauffeur. Rus- g I J. Thomas. Her parents pursued ' * couple, had them detained and 6rried of the bride of a few hours. n is was spirited to New York and ' tence to Europe. to escape the i arch of her youthful husband. The tter has brought suit against his e ther-in-law for alienating his wife', Yections. In a statement signed Mrs. Thomas she said that young rio'nas made love t~o her, but she -~nted it. Next he told her that !ess she married him he would !her father. She averred that cthe day of their elopment, Sep mber 28, Thomas' father telephon- J I her that unless she came to Ma- d etta and married his son. her fath- g would be killed. She went to the e ace agreed upon and was very ner >us. The elder Thomas. she as-f *rts, gave her a tablet, and af'rr g railowing it shie claims she did no~t tV *member what happened, except in if dazed way. She believes now that o e was drugged, and that while in ri is state she went through a mre- t< age ceremony. DOUBILE TR.MiEDY. i iehmond Barber Commits Murder a sad Attempts Suicide. Declaring tbt she should nevar- e bare .Mm agnia unlese they wCat o gether. Mordecal Harvey Tayier, barber, living at No. 1.211 North ( Udl street, Richmond, Va., Mondcy iot and killed his wife before two f their smallest children, and thecn ushed into an adjoining room and .trned the same revolver on himsesi, alich~ g a woo'nd in the left breast -ch may prove fatal. The murder and attempt a'- su' ide was the result of a quarre!. hich started over the whipping of ne of the children by Tayx~r. Mrs.j 'aylor left him Saturday. goIng to he home of her sister. Returning iter, the quarrel was renewed and irs. Taylor threatened to leave a bird time. "Well, if you're going to leave me gain we might as well go together,'' eplied the' angry husband, and be an~ shooting. He tired tour times, one of the alls penetrated the neck, another he right band and two went intc he back. W~TO DASHES D)OWN MOUNTAIN. )nc Killed, One Fatally Injured and Two Hurt.L A dispatch from Wilkerbarre. Pa . ays one woman dead, another pr iaps fatally injured and no per *ons slightly huirt. is the result ot wild dash of an automobi!e down ,Kilkesbarre Mountain Tuesday. The le'ad woman is Mrs. Jam~s Hughe5. ,f Wilkesarre. M~ss Laura Can io'i. a member of the Luixerne coun y bar. was proebdly tataly injured. lames Hughes.. husband of the dead voman. and pr'-ident of the Wilkes ~arre Antomobile Club. and the '-hauffeur wure slightly hurt. Tillman to the Woodmen. At St. Louis Monday United States! Senator. Tiflman a'~ the principal :peeker a4 t he naional v'onferenco SHOT BY BURGLAR TWO SHOELESS MEN HELD WI POLICE. The Victims' Steks Aronsed En tire Town--Frch :ng Chsse in Nve York Suburb. A dispatch from New York sayi two shoeless men. one of then wounded in the arm and thigh b: bullets, are held by the New Tori police charged with the murder o| Mrs. Sophia Staber. vife of Georg( Staber, a New York importer of pa per. in whose residence a battle witl burglars early Thursday in whict grs. Staber met death. The men ad n!tted they were implicated in the yurglary. but at first denied any parl n the murder. They say they arc arlo Giro, born in Trieste, Austria, tnd "John Smith." Mrs. Staber was shot dead at 2 'clock in the morning, while stand n~g in her bedroom door. The shrieks of Mrs. Staber and her .wo daughters. the reports of revol -er shots and the excitement of the :ase by mounted policemen and tearly the whole neighborhQod, hrew Flatbush into a ferment. Pany wives pleaded with their hus >ands not to go to work Thursday. here has been comment over the act that the burglary occurred im ediately upon the withdrawal of he police dogs from the vicialty. CHEROKEE CITIZEN KILLED. . Sarratt Falls From Portico and Break His Neck. A special from Gaffney says: As result of falling from a portico ear Wednesday morning. Mr. Samuel Sarratt. one of Cheroxee county's iost prominent citizens. lies dead t his home two miles north of Gaff ey with a broken neck. It is very ard to determine at what hour it ok place. -is Mr. Sarratt was in se habit of sleeping on the portico the second story, and when the tnily arose early Wednesday morn ig he was fouind on the door steps !:h his neck broken. However, the ody was still warm when found, not ong after 7 o'clock. Mr. Sarratt was very widely known I1 over the county. having many omincnt connections and being uni rsa!!y respected. He was about Syears old. having lived in that Ttioa practically all his life. en aged in farming. He is survived Sfire children. Messrs. J. E. Sar -t. Morris Sarratt and John Sar Lt. Mrs. Joe Humphries and Mrs. 'ade Hummephries. all of that county. he interment took place Thursday ternoon at Providence church eem ,ery. DROWNED AT SOCTY HILL. ero Lad Met Death in Waters of Evans' Jond. Monday Morning about 11 o'clock ass Douglas. colored, aged 15, was rowned in the water below the food tes of Evans min~ pond near Socd :y Hill. S. C. Jesse and a compan m attempted to swim up stream 'om the bath houses to the flood tes above where the walter Is over n feet in depth. When about 25 et from the bank above Jesse cried ut "I can't make it." and sank and >s three times and went to the bot >m. Search for the body was made ntl a gig was stuck into the left g. above the ankle, and the body as recovered. There was sadness on the faces of very large crowd and great grief nd lamentation among his relatives rc friends, many of whom had toll d and rsited through the lon~g hours the day and night. FEORlGIA TOWN MARSHA L HELD. ecused of Assaulting a Woman of His Town. At Jesup, Ga., Town Marshal T. !. Thomas is confined in the county al on a charge of criminal assanult non a woman, who swore out thle carrant for his arrest. A prelimi ary trial has been s.-t for July 1 2. is alleged that Thomais, on the pre ext of having a warrant for their ar est, tookc the woman and her sister ro their home and. accompanied v another man, took them in a bug ya short distance in the country d forced them to submi~t to indig tes of a mzost revolting nature. BOLL WEEVIL COMING FAST. otton Pest Ha~s Reached Pike Coun A dispatch from New Orleans. La.. ays a report that the boll weevil n its eight eastward. has reached ke couinty. Miss., and that several pecmens were touind naar Magno~ I. that State. is contained in the 'eayune's weekly summary of cot' on crop conditions in Mississi'ppi md .ouisiana. The post apers to ave gained an early start rhis sea inn in :he infested t'-r:'itory'.1fnd ases are cited whe~re planters are Fo'ot Mashed Off. WhbI!'n on his way from Savan-ah :o Tyb.e" b'ach on a tra:n c'rowded: ith Indapen~dence day colraor E1-'ury Schwarz. aged t i. ron o1 eorge C. Schwarz. fel! from a coac: platorm and rolled under the tram' bis' ight foot being cut off. itwa SLAYER I TAKEN f MESSERVEY TO ANSWER ACCU SATFON IN COURT. Claims He Shot Constable and Alt r man in Self Defese-6qu-4n t Kok at Ravenel. J. W. Messervey was arreste4 Wednesday at Megett by Magistrate Cowles and later taken to Rarene. for the Inquest, and afterward was transferred to the Waltorboro jail by Deputy SherIff Buckner. He de elared that he shot In self-defense. An inquest held at Ravenel into the killing of Constable C. P. Fish burne resuilted in a vedict that the deceased cne to his death irom the result of a gunshot wound Inficted by John W. Messervey. Magistrate Cowles apparently had no trouble in arresting Measervey, whom he put in charge of his broth er. and the two were coming to Rav enel when they were met by Deputy Sheriff Buckner, who took charge of the defendant. Messervey declared that he bad shot the constable only after the latter had drawn a pistol on him. and that he had shot Mr. Altman after the old gentiman had raised a stick to hit him. At the hospital Mr. Altman was re ported to be "about the same." He has sons in Charleston who are see ing that he gets every attention. Solicitor Peurifoy made a motion before Circuit Judge S. G. W. Shipp for a special term of court to con vene at Walterboro Monday, August 2, to try J. W esservey. who was committed to ,3. charged with the killing of Constable C. P. Fishburne at Ravenel on Tuesday evening. The order was granted and this extra term of court will be presided over by Judge Shipp. NEGRES B1 RNED TO DEATH. Aged Charlotte Stngleton Meets Hor rible Death. A dispatch from Charleston says, having lirst been suffocated by smoke and being unable to move from her bed. Charlotte Singleton, colored. sixty years of age, was burned to death at 3 o'clock Thursday morn Ing in a one-story hut on Heinz al ley. by the Ashley River. Maria Williams, a married daugh ter of the deceased. and Joseph Wil liams, a twelve-year-old son of Maria Williams, barely esaped with their lives. The aames completely destroy ed the house, and its los Is estimat ed at $200. The origin of the Ere is unknown. Charlotte Singleton was most hor ribly burned. in feet. there remained nothing of the body but portions of the '.runk and the bead. Acting Coroner Behrens held an inquest over the remains and the jury ren dered a verdict of accidental burn ing. The negroes lost everything in the house. The house was on are when they awoke, and the rapid spread of the flames made it impossible to ren der any aid to the old negres. The deceased had been engaged in the selling of vegetables. The house she occupied consisted of but two rooms. BABY FOR SALE. Couple Would Spare Child Hard ships by Getting Better Home. At New York Harry Beach. twenty two years old, and out of employ ment, and his wife, both of whom have offered their two-weeks-old ba by for sale for $500 cash. When Beach's first wife died two years ago she left him with two children and he married his present wife six months later. In discussing their offer of the new baby for sale, Beach and his wife said that to keep the child would be only to Inflict their hardships up on hIm, and that by selling the boy they would provIde him with a good home and bring prosperity to them sTRAIN FALLS INTO WATER. Crashes Through Bridge at Pomona, Knsas-Rescuers at Work. A dispatch from Kansas City says an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train, No. 5, which left Kansas City. at 9 o'clock Wednesday mornIng for the West, but which was detoured because of high water, cra.hed through a bridge at Pomona. Kan., I 8 miles routhwest of that p!1ca. Wednesday afternoon. Rescue work was carried on in rowbotts and skiffs. The train was one of the heav lest traveled on the main line w'st of Kansas City. It was running in the water over its rail when the ac cident occurred, the track slIpping. lKILLED HIMSELF. Wife Had Committed Suicide the Respndin in notcahat h body of his w:fe, who. it is believ'. .,mmitted suicide two or thre days ago. had been taken from the oht ror. Walter 3. Honaker. e .m^ of a promInent retail firm of I~-'~ ..Ky.. Identified the bodly a- an uzndertaker's establishment, then shot h mtelf. dying instantly. e-nate 1'oteii Sum for Mrs. Hale. Washington. Ju'.y -.-Fellow:ng a ~ng e ablished custom in respet to si employees: th Senate Wedd roted six months' sMary to the ".id - or~ of thAs la chaplain. Dr. E'iurd MELL RESIGNS Board of Trustees Has Taken No Action, However. NOT UNEXPECTED Presideas MeIl's Actios in Said to Have Bee. Partry Due to His Claah With Commandant Minus Some Time Ago--Prof. Riggs Spoken of an His Successor. Dr. P. H. Mell. for several years president of Clemson College. South Carclina's agricultural institution, tendered his resignation Thursday. )r. Mell's action is the result of a clash b'.tween the president and ths military commandant, which assumed disturbing proportions. Prof. Riggs. of the faculty. Is spoken of as hLs probable successor, though the trus tees have taken no action. Dr. Mell was born in Penleld, Greene county. Georgia, on May 24. IS0. His father was a Baptist mia Ister and a teacher of wide reputs tion. In 1871 he was graduated from the Tniversity of Georgia. and !n 1873 he received from that insti tution the degree of C. E. and M. E. The degree of Ph. D, was later con ferred on him by his alma matier, while the University of South Car) lina has conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws. In 1873 Dr. Mell became mining engineer for a copper mine in Geor gia, and from 1874 to 1877 he was State chemist. From 1878 to 1902 he was professor of natural history and geology In the Alabama Poly *echnic Institute. In addition to these duties he was from 1885 ta 1893 director of the Alabama weath er service. In 1902 he became preil dent of Clemson College. WHITE MAN WA3 ARRESTED. Charged With Obtaining Goods Un der False Pretences. News from Lexington says J. W. Smith. a white man. was arrested and lodged in jail by Deputy Sheriff Miller Wt-nesday upon a warrant sworn out by Messrs. Riley aud Haig ler Brothers, of Swansea. charging him with obtaining goods under false pretences to the amount of about $95. Smith is a contractor, and it seems that he built the store house of the .ate W. H. F. Rast, at Swan see. and it was while he was doing the work it is alleged that he &o cured the goods. The a-rest was mad, at the home of his -ther-:n law. Mr. Paul Shealy. at Leesville. where he has a wife and an infant only about a r. 3 old. Smith claims to be a native of Georgia, and says that he has a brother who is a bank eashier at Brunswick. Ga. His peo ple have been notified of his pre dicament, and it is thought that an effort will be made to i icably .ad just the matter. M(OTOR WRECK CACSES DEATH, .J. L Martin of Bryoniville, Ga., Sun cumnbs to Infuries. From Byronville. Ga., comes the information that J. L. Martin died Wednesday from injuries received late Tuesdny in an automobile acci dent. His companion. Warren Tur iington, also received fatal injuries. The car being driven by 3Martin became unmanageable and rammed the bank on the roadside. overturn Ing on its occupants. The men were en route from Vienna to Byromville and on account of the lateness of the hour when the accident occurred there was little travel along the road. causing the men to experience great suffering before aid was rendered. BRAKE INSPECrOR KTTLED. Young Man of Columbia Crushed to Death Between Two Cars. Lawrence Ham iter. air-brake in spector for the Southern Railway, a well known and popular young man of Columbia. was killed Thursday morning while attending to his du ties as brake inspector at the Bland ing street yards of the Southern. While standing between two cars a shifting engine is supposed to have Istruck one of the cars, crushing him between the two. He never lost con sciousness, and was able to recog nize his parents. who reached the Columbia Hospital in time to be at his bedside when death came. WEARS BARREL Man Takes~ Womsan's Clothes While She is Bathing in Canl. Miss Mary Hart, sixteen years old. "hung her clothes on a hickory limb" wvhen she wC-nt bathing In a canal naar Paterqon. N. J. Wh he was in the water a man . r garments. but the aid of a barrel. furnishied by a woman, who heard her screams. she was able to reach h'ar home. Tne girl later obtained a warrant for John T~oe. snying she could iden tythman if she sr~ him. lill.. Father, lh-fends M!other. J. S. Lamb. a w.all-zo-do farmer. was~ sta'ebed to death by his son. Jamies Lamb. durinc a family qr rebTursday' at the~ir home in Mans fid. Texas. Accordin~g to the evi donce at ?'.y pr.~iminary ezamin rio thebe- struck the fatai blow in def.mP of ha~ mother. Young I L.. e released in bonds of