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VOL. MANNNG, S C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1909 NO.5 Wachs by the EMs HEYQIVEUPTHE FART A mest Deal of Wbi** and DBee Js eing Best Away Pr MOM c *i ia. the Tipe Being Afraid to ecetive the Goods, as it WonId Be oeined. A 4ispatch ISm Cbarleston to The State says three thousand and two hundred and fty-:Mts quarts of whiskey and 4.920 bottles of import ad beer were loaded Wednesday on a steamahlp of the Baltimore line and shipped back to Baltimore and Im mediate points. The contraband had boen consigned to blind tigers here. but never reached the consignees as the police patroled the water front day and night and the stuff gradu ally piled up on the wharves. The greater part of the returned whiskey and beer was so undenia bly contraband that the blind tigers did not even go through the form of attempting to 0. K. the bills of lad ftg, but simply waited until the vig iance of the polie was relaxed. The opportunity never came, and all par ties concerned thought thit the best plan would be to return the liquor to the point it was ahippei from. There is at present on the various steamship wharves many'times the amount of contraband shipped out of the city, and as the polee show no indeation . of relaxing their watch along the water front, the next week or s will undoubtedly see enormous uhipments.of whiskey and- especially beer, as the latter stuff keeps only a limited time, to their various desti nation Certainhenterprising tigers did at tempt to 0. K. a limted'number of bils of lading for the accumulated contraband but as they were prompt ly refused, the practice was discon tinued. A very limited amount of whis key and beer has without doubt been spirited away in. small boats to nIghbo ing sea islands. *s the po ice have to confine themselves sole ly to the land. as they ue without m qt ,extendbw - their activity to tle water.- but as the:;re on the lookout for smuggling of this nature. the amount spirited away is of sman Inoment. - The same steamship tOat carried bact the large cns2gnmeht brought Into the city only 22 galos of whis key and 10 barrels of beer, a marked decrease in the amount luiported re cently. A glance at the police blot ter shows that between September 6 and 15. local tigers forfeited ball to the -amount of $1,150. rather than face the charge of dispensary vIolation.. WIlL HAVE TO WAIT. No Money to be Bad for the Man agers of Stt fleetios The Florence Times saysthose who hold claims against thej State for the last election are doomed to dis appolntment. It was thought that being a special el'cton, the managers would be' paid out of the small ap propriation made by the last legisla ture, but there were too many elec tions a bead of Florence county. and the appropriation was ong4 $600, so that the creditors of the State in th'.s county will have to line up with those in the other eounties and wat the appropriation of the next legis lature to collect their- elaims. The editor of the Times went over to Columbia to try and get 'this money fr the managers In Florence coun ty. but was obliged to return empty handed. Bond issue elections and other s~sdial elections Aave been held in a number of counties and that exhausted the funds. No county in which special elections were held at the sam, time as the dispensary elec tion was held can draw money, since some had to be put outi all dispen ary counties were put on the same footing. PLACED IN PRDGON. Preaeber Accused of Abducting a Young Woman. Rev. Wallace M. Stuckey. pastor of the Christian Church of Williams burg. Kanesa , and editor of The Wliamsburg Star, Is confined in the county fail on the charge of having abducted Lorena Sutherland, sixteen years of age, daughter of a wealthy famer of Williamsburg from her home. The girl. orig1bally a bru nette, but now a blonde, -also Is In custody. She wDi be returned to her parents and be used ' as witness against the accused preacher. In every principal feature' the case is like that of Rev. Jere Enode Cooke. pastor of St. George Episcopal church. of Long Islandt N. Y.. who deserted his wife and -chldren and led to San Francisco fith Miss I.o retta Wbaley a few yeqars ago. The Tobacco Crp The second monthly teport on the tobacco situation was 1de by Comn missioner Watson Thuttday under the new act. It is for August show ing total sale of 15.265.293 pounds. which brought $1.125.704.38. The fgures indicate a crop for the year at least two and a half mifllon pounds- Mullins is the leading mar et. Lake City second. Dlarlington third. Timmonsvile fourth, and Flor ence Mith. ERYAN SCORS SOcaL.D DEMO. CRATS WHO VOTED With tme RepubIcans in Congress Asist the Pift-m Adopted b Their Own Party. Bryan. the Great Commoner. made a great speech Tuesday at Dallas. Teas. Denouncing him who would violate a party pledge ratifed by the voters of his party as an embezz'er of power. Bryan outlined his views as to the tariff before a large audience. Mr. Bryan's subject was "Democ racy and the Tarif." He emphasized necessity of Senators and Congress men being bound by platforms, say ing he would later suggest a form tor ach a plank. "If all of the Democrats In the Senate and House had voted against every proposed increase in the tariff. and for every proposed decrease, we might have made our ight next year upon the party's record without mak ing a specific declaration on Items of schedules." said Mr. Bryan. "But in view of the fact that Dem omrats In both the Senate and the House differed as'to the Interpreta tion of the Democratic platform. and as to the rates that abould be Im posed under the various schedules. I believe that it is necessary for our platform to be specific and emphatic. "If we expect to secure control of Congres we must convince the pub ic that we will, If entrusted with the power. favor material reductions. Unless our candidates for Congress an agree before the election they ure not likely "to agree after the lection. If each Democratic can tidate will state his position. the roters can selqct a representative who will give expression to their -iews. and I am much more anz ous that the representatives shall effect the wishes of his constituents ,han I am that he shall agree with ny opinion." Mr. Bryan concluded his addres ' with an extended argument In favor if free raw material. When asked f he would attend the reception to * given Samuel Gompers. president >f the American Federation of La )or. on his return from abroad. Mr. 3ryan said: "That depends upon the date." When told that It was October 1. ie said: "Impossible. That is our twenty !th-wedding.anniverary." 9TR S WILL BE CONVICTED. Mdence Agnst Them Said to Be VeNy Strong. The Florence Times says the gen ~ral opinion in Columbia is that omething Is going to happen right ard to the men charged wth graft rg in the State dispensary matters. 'he evidence given before the grand ury is direct, positive and apparent y indisputable. It is said that the en on trial are worried. The prose rtion teels sure that they will se ~ure convictions It they have a jury hat anything like recognizes their esponsbility. The members of the grand jury ave let out few of the things that rere brought out in the evidence be ore them. and they are shocking, so hocking that the men could not keep ~he stories to themselves. The tak ng of money and money In big slic s. Is not even attempted to be de ted. the accused .content themselves rith insisting that it was not bribery. The cumberous verbage of the in ictment charging that with force ~he defendants conspired to cheat md defraud the State, has caused good deal of m'erriment, the liquor nen say that they used force ,r comn misiaon, but found the loulI parties lute in a, receptive mood. The cases may not be brought up t the present term of court, but tey will come up if there is time. he jail is full of prisoners and hose out on bond are let alone un til the fail Is cleared. This may ake the graft cases over to another erm, or to a special term. SHOT HER AUNJT. in abama Woman Arrested on Charge of Murder. A 'dispateh from Brewton. Ala.. says Sheriff G. A. Fountain returend from Pollard late Wednesday night rith Mrs. Will Nowling. who had shot to death her aunt by marriage. Mrs. Henry Nowling, two and a half miles from Pollard. The latter was a sis-' ter of Martin Lindsey. a millionaire of Mobile. Mrs. Will Nowling claims self-defence. The trouble arose over the efforts of Mrs. Henry Nowling to put Into the house of Mrs. Will Nowling household effects of a mar ried daughter. Ignoring the warning she Is alleged to have advanced on Mrs. Will Nowling with a bed slst. at which juncture the latter fired. the load of shot taking effect in the heart of Mrs. Henry Nowling. Mrs. Nwling's father and brother reside at Jay. Fla. Will Wear Gray. Before long the inmates of the Confederate Home at Columbia. will wear uniforms of Confederate grey. thanks to the devoted efforts of Mrs. J. W. Bunch, of that city, who has raised by subscription about $S300 for the purpose. Thre. Hurt in Motor. At Syracuse. N. Y.. In a collision between an automobile and a trol ey car Thursday afternoon. Mrs. James McKay, of Scranton. sustained a fractured skull and Mr. and Mrs. Tmothy Conklin. of Troy. Pa.. were prably fatally injured. __ PERISH INRECI Eight Trauma [le ad Fifta paws gmr Are hiered BY COLLISiON OF TRAIN! A Freight and Paesseager Train Omae Together Near Nashvife and Fire Sweeps the Debrfi, Consum Ing Two of the Bodies of Those Who Had Been Kiled. Eight trainmen killed and 15 pas sengers injured, two fatally per haps, is the result of a ;ollision be tween a passenger and a freight train Wednesday morning on the Nashville. Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad at Pegram Station. 20 mIles west of Nashville, Tenn. In the dre that followed at least two of the mangled bodies were completely con sumed. The dead: William Mogan. trav eling engineer. Nashville; Joe Gow er. engineer on passenger train. Nashville; Jess Tarkington. engineer on freight train. Nashville; Walter Roach. messenger. Nashville; Sam Whited, treman on treight train. NashvIlle; . B. Walp. brakeman; W. . Stalcup, mail clerk. Martin. Tenn.; L. C. Balley. man clerk. Martin. Seriously injured: Bob Bailey, &reman, Nashville, two ribs broken and left side Injured; Ellis Martin. conductor on treight. Nashville. In Jured on hea and Internally. may die. Slightly iniured: Capt. T. Jobe. Burton. N. C.; William Lunsford. Peachtree N. C.; W. L. Thomason. Peachtree. N. C.; R. W. Boyd. Al mond. N. C.; Mrs. L. IL Lee. Tul lahoma, Tenn.; Mrs. Temple Luns ford. Murphy. N. C.: Mrs. A. C. Thompson. Murphy. N. C.; May Thomason. Murphy. N. C.; Mrs. Mary . Jackson. McClellan; Mrs. John Lively, McFlmmville. Tenn.; Mrs. ohn Dunn. Cumberland Furnace, enn.: Mr. John Dun, Cumberland Furnace. Tenn. The collision occurred about 8 'clock and was between passenger train No. 4. westbound. and fast freight No. 51. en route to Nash ille. The wreckage at once caught tre. The baggage, mail, express Lnd smoking cars of the passenger train and several of the freight cars were burned. But one bag of mail was saved. Through the almost su perhuman strength exerted by the passengers the three day coaches nd the Pullman were pushed from the fire and saved. It Is the general impression mong passengers and the trainmen hat the fault was with the passeng r crew, as an order to meet at Peg am had been issued, and the wreck ccurred west of that station. DANGERS OF WESTERN CORN. is Use May be the Cause of Peia gra In the South. The Augusta Herald very wisely ums up the matter of Western corn nd its results as a food for man nd beast. The Herald says It is ot in corn that donger lurks, but n Western corn. The reason for his - is clear. Western corn does ot fully mature before the season ends. Frost fails upon it before he ternels are hardened and the ob is dry. In this condition it is gathered and housed or stacked. It then goes trough a process of fermentation hich produces the chemical chang es that convert a healthy food for an or beast into a subtle poison. ed to horses It gives .them blind staggers and thousands of horses and mules are killed by it every rear. Eaten by men it produces peilagra. Fortunately a simple preventative ill avoid all risks in this matter.' hat is to use only Southern grown orn either for making corn bread r to feed to the horses. And an Atlanta case may show that grits ground in the North should also be excluded. Let our farmers ponder his matter. andl raise corn enough for all our needs. .Pellagra is be oming entirely too frequent in the South. Bengal Tiger a Suicide. The hunt along the water front of Marseilles. France. for the Royal Bengal tigress that escaped from a steamer in the harbor on Tuesday came to a dramatic end when the animal, mortally wounded and with blood streaming from her head and fanks, fled from her mob of pur suers and with enormous bounds gained the water front. Then she sprang Into the sea and was drowned. Players Were Poisoned. Johnny Dobbs. manager of the Chattanooga team. says that the members of his team were poisoned Wednesday while playing in Augusta. All the men who drank from a bucket of water are ill. Two, who did not drink of the water. escaped. Meek. the star catcher. is confined to his bed with a doctor in attendance. It Is not known bow the poison got into the water or what was the na ture of it. Pitched Ball Proves Fatal. Charles Pinckney, second baseman of the Dayton. Ohio. baseball team, who was hit on the bead witha pitched ball in Tuesday's game witl Grand Rapids. died In the hospital at noon Thursday. He suffereda fr.cture of te skn1L. ILL HEALTH THE CAUSE L BANKER, HEA OF UNION TRUS CO., KILLS HIMSELF. John W. Castles, One of the Mo Prominent Men in New Yorl Outs Hbis Own Throat John W. Castles. president of th Union Trust Company. of New Yor city. capitalized at $1.000.000, director in other well known cot porations. and prominent in clu and social life in New York an the South. cut his throat from ea to ear In the Grand Union Hote Monday afternoon and was fount dead stretched across a bed. Hq had been In ill health for some time and his suicide is ascribed solely tc a nervous breakdown and not t financial troubles. His body was discovered about I o'clock Monday night by his brother Burton S. Castles. who. having be come alarmed at Mr. Castle's fa.lure to return home from the bank, be gan a search through the hotels of the city. Arriving at the Grand Union. at 42d street and Parke ave nue. he found that Mr. Castles had registered there under his own name at 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, and had gone immedialely to the room assigned to him on the second floor. As his body was found cold indications are that he ended hiA life soon after closing the door bo. hind him. The body, dressed only !n the under garments, was lying across the bed in the room. while on a table nearby was a bloody razor. with which he ended his life. Ex amination showed that he had sev ered both the windpipe and the car told artery, but notwithstanding this had made his way to the bed before he expired. The position of the ra zor leads to the belief that he stood before a mirror while slashing his throat On a dresser near the bed there was an eight ounce bottle, unlabel led. but containing a pungent acid. Whether he had taken any of this before cutting his throat had not been ascertained at last reports. A physician was summoned hastily after the body was found. snt the banker was beyond ald. The police and coroner were then notified and an investigation begun. According to his friends. Mr. Cas tles was broken in health by over work, and had had litle connection with the Union Trust Compiany since assuming the presidency of the in stitution on January 1. last. Not long ago Mr. Castles' con dition became so serious that he was sent to a sanitarium at Kerhonkson. N. Y.. in Ulster county, where he remained for three months under treatment. Mr. Castles' widow and two chil dren are in the Adirondacks. She was notified of her husband's death. Coming originally from the South. where he was well known in Texas and Louisiana. Mr. Castles moved to New Yrok to assume the presidency of the Guaranty Trust Company sev eral years ago. But in the latter part of last year he resigned this position and on the opening of the new year stepped in as head of the Union Trust Company. In the search for tue despondent banker, his brother was accompanied by Eli B. Springs. a director of the Charlotte. N. C.. Electric Railway. LUght and Power Company, and a lifelong friend of the Castles. After the finding of the body they looked in vain for a note or letter explain ing his suicide. Mr. Castles had large intr-i-ests in Texas, and was at one time presi dent of the Hibernia Trust Company. of New Orleans. Besides being pres ident of the Union Trust Company. Mr. Castles was a director of the Central Park, North and East River Railroad Company: the Central of Georgia Railway Company; the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com pany: the Hanover National Bank. of New York; the Maryland Trust Company, of Baltimore, and tbae Morristown. N. J.. Trust Company. He was United States trustee for the Northern Assurance Company, Uimited. of London. (AUSED BY" DROUGHT. There Are a Large Number of Mad Dodgs in the State. The Columbia Record says the Pasteur treatment for rabies is being administered 'to eight patients at the State biological laboratory. Dr. P. A. Coward, director, stated that in his opinion the unusually large number of cases or rabies this sum mer had been due to the prolonged drought. Dogs and other animalh infected with the germ in the incu bation period were forced to roan around in search of water. This together with the intense heat, pro duced a high tension of the nervou: system and caused the disease to de velop when it otherwiseimight hav" lain dormant. All during the 1st ter' part of the month of August h< averaged one examination a day foi rabies. besides examinations o sputum and foetus. diphtheria swabs etc. Eaten by Wild Animals. William Johns. an American nat uralist, and R. Gentruch. a Swed' are believed to have t'$en attacke1 and devoured by wil! animals i Costa Rica. according to a cable gram just received. Soon after th two men. who were exploring tb island disappeared, a search wa made for them and the hat and r fie of one of them was found nea newly made t-acks of 'ild anm TELLS FARMERS TO HOLD T A SHORT CROP PUTS THEM IN COMMAND OF SITUATION ,0 use of it by Putting Oatton fn the Warehouses. e There is no reasonable probability t of a large cotton crop this year. The ever increasing demand for raw cotton must be met. Spinners must have cotton. The supply being cur 'tailed, as it undoubtedly will be by rithis year's shortage, the increased spindles of the world creates an in creased demand, which means log ically high prices for the South's great staple. It is up to the cotton growers of the South to seize this opportunity to reap the golden har vest that invites them to put in the sickle. There should be no bar gain-counter sales for cotton this fall. I urge every farmer to ware house his cotton, borrow money on his ware house receipts and pay off his indebtedness. Money is plenti ful and there is no need for him to rush his cotton on the market and glut it during September. October, November and December. as he has so oftenedone In the past. If no ware house is near him it will pay him to ship cotton to the one the nearest at band. Our farmers should this fall make a supreme ef fort to market their cotton gradual ly, and only at remunerative prices. I Already the spinners are counting i on buying their supply of cotton I during the first few months of the j cotton marlietiag season. as they I did last year. and as they have done I for many years. They expect the I bulk of the cotton to be thrown on I the market in three or four months the beginning of the selling season. I This they hope farmers will do, so q as to depress the price. Now, brother farmers, let's view a the situation from a business stand- I point. You have been told for a j long time that supply and demand a was the only thing that ftgbred In t the pricing of the staple. I want e to sy to you that the demand is .J now much greater than the supply. t So it Is evident that you have the 1 situation in your handa, We cannot ; make this year. according to the best t estimates, more than eleven and a x half million bales, and this means a starvation crop.- c Statements from Cotton and Cot- I ton Oil New., of Dallas. Texas, are t to the effect that the boll weevil has t devastated the fields of two States, a that Louisiana and Mississippi are t suffering from pests and that reports received at the Government bureau 0 of entomology at Dallas from the I "boll weevil areas" of Mississippi t and Louisiana show that an average I of 90 per cent of the cotton boll ' squares are infested at present with a the weevil. In the Baton Rouge neighborhood Dr. Hunter. who is in charge of the Southern field crop investigation. ~ says that 95 per cent of the squares are infested, while in the vicinity of Natchez, Miss., 90 per cent is a fair figure. This, Dr. Hunter says, is as bad as the worst years of the a weevil ravages in Texas. In all t sections of the Mississippi bottoms, e where the weevil is at wdrk, Dr. Hunter has establishe~'i substations, t: and It from these that the reports ~ mentioned above came. Regarding i the condition In Texas, at the present ~ time, D. Hunter said: "West of a line connecting Weath- , erford and Austin. the dry weather has had the effect of practically re- t ducing the damage incident to the E boll weevil to nothing. Through the central portion - of the State the ~ damage is considerably less than it was last year. But at the same time this report must not be considered as meaning that the cotton crop* will be better, for it will not. In the same proportion that the dry weather has affected the boll weevil. It has also affected the cotton stalks." Texas is the. hope of the past. Not in the recollection of the oldestI Inhabitants has the blighting effect of a hot wind of the first three days of last week been paralleled. That spell has cost the South fully half million bales of cotton. It is the worst spotted crop, too, within the recollection of the earliest settler. The damage to the crop 'n the South west, and especially Texas, is little short of a disaster, and cotton should be selling for a high price. I know some farmers have sola their cotton for future delivery, and they 'still deliver it just as fast as they can. Just think for a mo meat what such a man has done. He has furnished ammunition to the enemy to shoot him with. He Is killing the goose that has laid the golden egg. And the man who sells his cotton this way is one of the worst cotton bears on the market. Of course, such men will 'be glad~ for cotton not to go higher tha'n they have sold. So do not be scared vh'n -you see them delivering tlieir ton. It will soon be out of your way. Let our cotton grow-s use good judgment. sell whenever the price will justify, and not oefore. The holders of spot cotton have the .opportunity of their lives. I watnt to urge you to ware house yo'zr cot ton, borrow money on your ware house receipt, pay off your debts -and market the cotton, as the world .needs it. and our country will be i prosperous. : The deterioration of the crop in - all of the States is of such a na eture that it is now too late for it e to recuperate and make anything like a full crop, no raatter how favorable -the seasons may be from now on. So: rrealze you have the situation Ln your own hands. I want to urge A FILTHY PRISON Awful Cndinis the te Pe-t=tas* 3a AflegMhal,PL3 More Than ree HUndred Prisoners Are Saffering From Tuberculosis and More Than Seventy-nine CeUs Are Now Oceupied by Prisoners Showing Advanced Statges. Conditions at the western peniten tiary of Pennsylvania at Allegheny have been found so distressing and so intolerable as to require the im mediate removal of all Federal pris oners whose transfer is practicable and to demand the most serious con sideration of the proper public authorities. This Is disclosed in the report ot C. IL McGlamon. of the department of prison.and prison era, to the attorney general. At the direction of the attorney general, Wade Ellis, acting head of the Department of Jstice. made known the result of the investiga-, ion which Mr. McGlasson conduct .d following the reports published by tlae newspapers several weeks ago. criticising the condition at the snitentiary. "The population on the 1st of this nonth was 1.301." says Mr. Ellis In ils statement. "Of this number more han half are at all times idle, and nore than half are confned two in L cell. The cell* are unusually small knd the cots take almost the entire ength of each, the room for mov ng about being a space eight feet ong and eighteen inches wide. 7here are more than three hundred irisoners suffering from tuberculosis. nd seventy-nine cells are now oo ,pted by those showing advanced tages of this disease. The prison 3 filled with vermin of all kinds, athough the jof1icfals .are making Z effort to eradicate them. An un Zually large number of the prison re are of the lowest possible char =oter, mentally and morally, and here is but one general mess pro ided for all. Almost universal com laint is made about the quality of he food served. especially the :eats.' "The attorney general does not. of ourse. assume that these unfortu ate conditions are known either ) the Governor of Pennsylvania. or ) other authorities having Immedi to control of penal institutions in hat State." continued ..Mr. Ellis. There are twenty-one.Federal pris ners confined at the western peni entiary 'of Pennsylvania. All of lese who can be Immediately trans eMed, except those wlgose terms Pill shortly expire, will be removed t once to Atlanta er Leavenworth.* RU'NNIG DUEL IN STREET. 'agitives and Policemen Exchange| Shots-Two Hats Are Piered A dispatch from Newport, Ky., ays a running duel between fugi ives and a policeman created wild scitement there a few days ago. Detective Jeff'Norton called at| de hotel to arrest R. W. Leroy and saac Brewer on the -charge of de-| sining fourteen-year-~2ld Florence ~ray. The men fiad alter Leroy| ad fired three shots from a re olver. One bullet grazed the head at De ective Jeff Morton. Another pierc d the hats of Tony Gastright and ames Taylor. spectators. Another., lipped the ear of Chris Albert, the~ Ity jailor. A policeman joined in the pur uit. and a running battle ensued for everal blocks. Kindness Rewardd. Mrs. Geo. Bramer. of Methuen. (ass., has received word from attor teys in the Cilly Isliands that R. J. tibstock, a man whom she and her naother befriended In Bermuda. had villed her about 51.000.000 In rail oad stocks and bonds. When Mrs. 3ramer met ~~ Ribstock In Bermnu Ia, she the:n was unmarried and rith her mother did many little tindnesses for him in his old age. le was eighty at the time. Was an Old Man. Isaac Brock. who died in Waco. rexas. Saturday. was said to have een 121 years old. Basis for this :lalm rested on a record in the old Brock family Bible. ad oats: for corn, flour and bacon are now very high. They can be raised for much less than half the cost at which farmers are buying today. and we have every reason to believe they will be higher another year. Let us begin now to diversfy our crops for 1910. Make home self supporting and self-sustaining, and our country will grow rich. I want to urge upon every farmer to study the conditions of the cotton crop in all the cotton belt States, and I am sure he will not dump his cotton on the market as he has done in the past. Just a word about cotton seed. Remember the supply this year will be short and the 'demand great for cotton 3ee4 products. When you sell your seed. be sure to make ar rangements for the pric of meal and hulls. or you will be caught in a trap. You probably have used good judgment in growing your crop. and it behooves you now to use better judgment in selling. B. Harris. Ex-President State Farmers' Unlion. FidiG TO DUAli Salguninzay Dud of Sisters-4z.-l in C cago Apricat Hos BOTH DIE IN STRUGGLE Mzr. Julia Trlpp and Mrs. Jacob Silvers Perish in Hand-to-han. Combat With Pistol and Knife. They Lived in the Same House and Had Frequently Quarrels. Mrs. Julia Tripp and her sister in-law. Mrs. Jacob Silvers of New York. are both dead as the result of a pistol and knife duel between the two women in Mrs. Tripp's apart ments at Fifty-sixth street and Prai rie avenue. a fashionable residence district of Chicago. It is said Mrs. Silvers' husbsnd left her about three months ago because of her peculiar actions. Mrs. Tripp was the wtfe .4 a superintendent of a manufacturing arm of Chicago. There were ten Iullet wounds and ene cut on the body of Mrs. Tripp. Mrs. Silvers had a bullet wound In the chest and several knife slash es. Only one revolver was found in the apartments, ibut eignt empty shells indicating that' the revolver was emptied and relo-id: oe-ring the struggle. The furnishlags o f the apartments were in disorder and in every room there wara evidencs of a desperate struggle. Mrs. Tripp was ful'y dressed but Mrs. Silver was in her ua-eurmozhing. Mrs. Silver had been ataying na the Tripp home for about a mouth. and the two women are said to have had frequent quarrels principally over the division of household duties. One strange feature of the case s that no one heard any shots. The appeals for help were heard, but no one made any attempt to enter the apartments until after the police had been called. Shortly after 3- o'clock In the afternoon Mrs. Tripp appeared in the Aallway in the front of her apart ment screaming for help. "I am being murdered in here!" she shouted. At almost the same time a woman In a blood streaked night gown was seen at the rear entrance of the apartment by the janitor. "Come quick and save me." she cried. "I am being killed." When the apartment was entered blood was found on the parlor cur tain. and several pictures had been broken and chairs overturned. In a bed room off the parlor Mrs. Tripp was found lying on the floor fully dressed. Her face and waist were covered with blood and a pool had formed beneath her. She was dead. Separated from this bed rom by orters was another room. Mrs. ilvers lay on the bed in this room und her night gown and the bed lothfs -were covered with ,blood. lood was gushing from a deep cut, n her forehead. She was uncon ebsus and died later. At Mrs. Silvers' right side was a - evolver and on the ffoor were a umber of empty shells. Search of he rooms failed to disclose the knife with which the cuts had been made. - BITTEN BY DEADLY SNAKE. Pevented Serious Consequences by Sucking Wound. At Anderson Miss Ramelle Nichol on was bitten on the right wrist by what is suppose dto have been a highland moedasin. The snake lung to the wound; seemed to be uable to free Itself, and the child as unable to shake it off. Finally he plared her foot on the tall of he reptile and literally' tore the fangs from the wound In her arm. A physician was summoned and ar rved within less than half an hour. e prescribed some medicine for the ite and the next day the child went o school as usual. little the worse for her experience. The girl had one into the garden and was pick ng beans when the snake struck her. Ai soon as possible she wiped the surface of the wound with her dress. sucked out the poison. and It Is very probable that because of this the bite did not prove more serious.* SHARKS AND TI'RTLES. Passengers on Steamer Had Great Target Practice, A dispatch from New York says there is no coraroversy between Capt. Tarnow and the passengers of the Atlas Line steamer Siberia over who irst saw a number of sleeping turtles and a school of sharks off Capt Hat teras a few days ago. The twenty pas-ngers and the offieers saw them at the same irnstant, according to all reports. and some crack revolver shots tried to do damage to the un exepteed visitors. Although. about ifty shots were fired at both turtles and shark. there is no report of any mortality. Some of the passengers are certain that a 15-foot shark that came within fifty feet of the steam er was hit, although he showed no signs of distress and easily got away from the steamer when he gave him self the jingle bell. Want -White to Leare. Piacarding the neighborhood with warnings that unless the three white mn who last week located in the strictly -;egro town of Taft. Okla.. left town immediately, death would he thezir puxnishmenlt. negroes Fri day night dynamited the store of one of the whites. The white mer chants doclare that they wll remain. Fnther toue is expected. * S-IE A BIG 9ULd LARGE TUSSAC PLANT CAPTUlR ED IN SOUTH EDISTO SWAMP. This is the Eighth Still That Has Been Captured in a Year by the Aiken Omers. A dispatch sars another of the "big stills' of the South Edisto river swamp is in the Aiken jail yard. having been carried there by Of ficers Samuels. Cato and Holley Wednesday night. The still was a large one, the capacity being about 120 gallons of "mash.' Mr. Samuels received information a few days ago that Kinney Mon day. a white man, was in the bral ness. The information was based, it is said, on Monday carrying msolas ses from the Windsor depot. Sub sequently Constables Samuels, Cato and Holley left Wednesday armed with search warrants for Monday's house, which was searched. Nothing but empty Jugs and bot ties were found. These had the fa miliar smell. but the "tussac" was nowherq to be found. A search of the premises not revealing any whis key. it was continued into the ad jacent swamp. A path from the house was fol lowed into the swamp, and a short distance from the house the still was found, still stemming after a big "stilling bee" had taken place. The big basin and the worm was loaded on the. buggy, while six fer menters and a "fiaek" stand were demolished. It is said that this still is one of the most famous of the Edisto swamp, having. It is alleged, been in operation for 20 years. The distilled goods could not be located, but all appurtenances were destroyed. This still was found at a point that has not been raided with in a year, 16 miles from Alken, near Pine Log bridge. Monday raised quite a fuss about the oficers' searching his house, but made no resistance. This is the eighth still that has been captured within a year's time by the Aiken county offcers. Aiken is to be congratulated upon having the diligent dispensary officers that she has, as they are a terror to the blind tiger element, and by their good works the violations of the law are kept within a small sphere. 29 IVES lOST AT SEA. Graphic Story of Marine Disaster Reaches Mobile. A graphic story of a marine dis aster, which cost the lives of z 9 persons. when the steamer Nicholas Castania. en route from Havana to Cienfuegos, foundered off the coast of the Isle of Pines on the night of August 23. last, reached Mobile a few days ago.: Meagre news of the lisaster was given by the Associated Press August 31. The crew numbered twenty-seven offcers and sailors. Eighteen human bodies have been recovered. The missing eleven are beliedv~ to have become the victims of sharks. All the bodies recovered were in a ter rible decomposed state and Identifi eation was impossible. A government commission, after examination, reported that the im mediate cause of the wreck was t~he simultaneous explosion of the steam er's battery of boilers, combined with a vIolent concusion of the steamer on the rocks, whither she had been thrown by the gale and tidal wave. The crew and passenger list of the Nicholas Castania shows no names of women, but among the per sonal effects which showed the wear and tear of use were a number of feminine articles of wearing apparel and children's shoes.* WANTS NEGROES TO VOTE. Taft Criticises Law Debarring Them From Voting. President Taft has squarely and unequivically placed himself on rec ord. in a letter to a Washington newspaper as being opposed to suf frage restriction as being manifestly intended to discriminate against the negro race. In answer to a letter asking his opinion concerning the franchise amendment to the Mary land constitution which is proposed by the Democratic party in Marylandi the president says: "It Is deliberate ly drawn to impose educational and othe'r gialilacations for the suffrage upon negroes and to exempt every body else from such qualifications. This Is gross injustice and is a vio lation of the spirit of the 15th amend ment. It ought to be voted down by every one, whether Democrat or Re publican, who is in favor of a square deal.'' Judge .in Shooting Scrape. At Huntsville. Ala., Judge Betts and J. IH. Balientine engaged in a pistol duel on Saturday in the streets, each receiving a minor wound. The two men passed heated words Saturday morning and were separated by bystanders before blows were passed. Each armed himself later and when they met on the street both drew revolvers and be gan firing. -emptying their revolvers at each other at close range. Where Is Naviland? Henry Haviland. a former Boston man. last heard from nearly twenty five years ago in the vicinity of New York. is sought by a firm of lawyers !n Boston as the heir to an estate left 1n the hands of trustees by Ha" inaon wa:f wahe: she died in18.