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VOL. XXIV MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1909 NO.20 AWFUL STORY The Atiata Stechde is Dechred ts Be Dirtier Thu Pig Pa SOME HORRIBLE TALES A Girl Testined That She Wa% Hung 'p on Wall of Oell Room. as * ~fth teuded Arms and That Attempt Was Made to Whip Another Gir. That white women were hung up on the wall of a cell room. as thougc crucled. with extended arms. tha' at least an attempt 1.s made to wtip a woman, and that ,risonere were used to do work for prvattI citizens were some of the thlnge testiied to Thursday In the investi gation by the Atlanta City Counci: in the stockade matter. Charges that the city prsa. tc which men and women convicai of mlsdemeanora and unable to par a money fine are committed. is a alhhy place unworthy of holding even ani mabs, that there has been trait anad that barbarous cruelties are pi ac ticed there have been made. The grand jurors recently indicted S.pez - Intendent Vining and two g-zard for cruelty and made pu.). - a bcath ing report which resul-ed! !. :t investigation. Ruby Gaither. a countr gr. whc said sbe was t years. old. was the star witness of the day. After the grand jurors had described th ."rio on as 'the dirtiest. foutest ptace ot earth. dirtier than any p1z pen.' the girl was called. She told hos she was sent to the stockad' aftei her mother remarried. because sh fought with her step-brothers. ani bow one day she was struck h. another woman prisoner. She struel back and fearing to be punished went to Superintendent Vining an, reported her infraction of rules. "Mr. Vining grabbed me." sh, said. "and snapped a handeut around my right wrist. He -anf another guard dragged me to the rail in the cell room and hooker my arm to a ring in the wall. Th ring was so high that I could no stand on my feet but had to stant on my tip-toes. I told Vining tha I was ill and suffering. but he pai no attention to me. I was hunt there for nearly an hour In agon! before I fainted. I do not kuoa how long I was hanging but I wa: down and the doctor was attendin3. to me when I recovered conscious ness." The wittzss told of seeing anothe' girl, also white, hanging by bott wrists. A third girl was hung up but her hands were so small that %, slipped through the handenffs This same girl, the witness swore was put in the whipping machine big wooden chair. invented~ by Vin g. in which the victim Is placed ned and then turned over to applIcation of the lash. Th' is a henvy leather strap witi metal rivets studded in it-' ace. This gir1. Pear Ryan. was small, however, that she ,alippec gh the chair, and the guard> up the attempt to beat her. a e operintennen3t a~r d thes guared indicted for cruelly beating* .Another negro died a a ago from blood poisoning cans )y shackles rustin'2 on his leg Scutting into the flesh. Whe ~nrs arrived at the stockad Akles were rivited on over thei -ng andS no matter how lour twe'e held. they could not re 4their clothing. Only a ly" Uas r s the prisoners an' 'STRANGE DEATH. Rival May Have Polioons the GirL Convinced that her daugher. Be se Mae Priest, who died in Glendale Calif.. on Christmas eve, after mysterious iles. lasting twent days. was the victim of a care'full laid pois'on plot. Mrs. Jennie Pries has asked the district attorney an the sheriff of Los Angeles count to investigate the mysterious even?' preced'ing the daughter's strang A motive for the plot was un earthe'd Tuesday by relatives of th dead girl. when 5t was learned tha Miss Priest was enga;ed to Harr Sayres. a Newark. N. J., millionarle' so...an'i that a woman, whose iden tity is' Weing carefully concealed. wa. jalous of Miss Priest. -Murder and Suicide. A carefully laid plan of a lore sick and discouraged man. involv ing robbery, murder and suicide culminatedS in the slaying of Mis: Dora Chapel!. 21 years old, a wal tress, in the dining room of the~ Bear's Hotel at Pern. lad.. by Ro" McKinney. who then committed sni cide. McKinney w'as an alt roun!. bad man. Deadly Hot Supper. Two negroes. Rass and Joe Horn brothers, are dead, and three other negroes. Henry Wharton. Wess Fish er and Luther Lomax. are badly wounded. as a result of a general row and fight at a "hot supper" neai Verdery, in Greenwood county, early~ Wednesday morning. Seven ('hildren Burned. Seven childre.n. ranging in age from i to 12 years. were burned i death and three persons perhaps fa tally injuredS late Tuesday night. when a f.rc qwed by an explosion Iof powder. ~, oyed the home of Steven dr a miner of Sykes vlm. Pm s the vftimF urs for AN ATMU TRAGEDY IOVE-SICK MAN ENDS '1.L HIS TROUBLES. nnmmits Robbery. Slays Girl He loved and Then Suicide,-Had Been Twkce Married. A carefully laid plant of a love sick and discouraged man. involv ing robbery. murder and suicide. culminated a few days ago in the slaying of Miss Dora Chapell. 21 years old. a waitress in the dining room of the Bearss hotel in Indiana polls. Ind.. by Roy McKinney. who then committed suicide. According to advices from India napolis, McKinney entered a lunch room there early Thursday morning sad riled the cask register while he orered the men behind the counter with a revolver. Letters found la tte dead man't ,ocket indicate that the hold-up and .be crimes were planned. It is thought that McKinney committed Lbe robbery to get money to go to Peru. Ill. The letters were addressed to the' coroner, the girl-s father. Frank .hapell of Peru. and to McKinney' wife at Bat Germantown. Ind. Ia the letter to the coroner. Me Kinsey tret directed that his body he pent to a medical college and :heu added: "I left my !.'st wife uecause sh d vas not true to me. I left my sec -nd wife last March. On March 18. * 909. I met Dora Chapell and went vitb her two months. at the end of vblch time I found that she was be only girl for me. Several days %go. the girl's father went to In 'ianapolis and caused me much roubie *ad brought Dora to Peru. t was impossible for me to forget ior. so I came to Peru. I asked er to go to the theatre with me ,at she had other arrangements. I odld not sleep and God only knows ife has been a hell. May God help r )ora and take pity on me. Before C Sclose I hope that everybody will a ake a punch at me before I pass ver the great divide." In ti'e letter to his wife XcKln - ey mid. "1 only wish you were with me so I could take you with us. too. MeKinner went to the hotel Thurm lay and registered as L. B. Len art of Chicago, Ho posed as a Inted States marshal and displayee i secret service badge, it s no, nown where -he obtained the badge ws be has not been in the governi net serrice. S NEGRO RACE CONFERIECEL 1 ti feet. in Columbia on January 11 ti and Costlnaes to the 14th. ti The following letter has been >t by Richard Carroll and Anthony , tobertson, president and secretary. ~ espectively. of the Negro Race Con-| ~erence of South Carolina: I The Negro Race Conference of outh Carolina meets in Columabin anuary 11-14. 1910. Through the t oumns of the journal I wish to no- | ty the colored readers that the Rac' |I ionference will meet in Columbi::r anuary 11 to January 14. 1910. |t Special addresses will be deliver ~ -d on Agriculture by Col. E. J. Wat. tl o. Mr. Ira Williams of the Unite? I tate. agricultural department. Mr . H. Kinard of Ninety-Six. S. C. ir. Win. H. Bailey of Greenwood vil speak on gardening. Some of he other white speakers who have romised to speak on other subject> I 5 interest of education ar. Gov t ror Ansel. Superintendent of Ed iation J. 3. Swearingen. Jas. HI -oyt. Judge Robert Aldrich. Judg; lae. Col. Alfred Aldrich and othelj romnent white and colored speakft rs are on the program. Reduced rates will be given on ll railroads on certifieate plan l rikets good for a week. Delegat-"j ho come. those who are stranger"Ts the city. please call at No. 1014 N. Lady street. Columbia. S. C. It Is hoped that many of the col red farmers will attend the confert mee. KILIA ROTHRJ~.N-LAW I 1 Toung Man Uses shotguu at Fa ther's Command. At Biristal. Tenn.. acting upon th rders of his father. Rupe'rt Carl on aged 18. Wednesdiay shot anc -11led his brother-in-law. Arthur 'oward. aged 27. and a form.-r sec-L i police oficer As Howard fell 'ead with two loads of shbot in h is ody. his father appear.-d upon th cene. but made a hasty ret reat w bet 'he Carletons opened firs- upon himn The shooting occurred at the home' sf the Carletons, after the elde: 'carleton had ordered his son-in-law. Heward. not to enter his house When Howard attempted to enter regardless of Carle.ston's warning the latter is said to have shout'd to his son to get the shotgun and kIll Howard. which you.g Carleton promptly did. Negro Kills Self. At Hodges Charles Dickerson. a colored man twenty-six years of age. committed suicide Sunday byl shooting himself in the head with 'a pistol. He left a note saying li fl had no more pleasure for him. isk father and mother both testified that he seemed all right just before h shot himself. Much Booze. At lTawarin. Ca.. nfficers raidedl th-* store of Clavton Aaron. coiored, and confscated 1.10" pints o! alleged blind tig..r whiskey. Three wagons were reqsired to transport the goods to the cosrthouse. The whiskoey was cleverly concealed in the realing of the store. the offiers fiyerii it 2t a van -!~m' vaarl THE LAZY BUG Dr. Stiles Says the Negr Broght h With Hi. When He Came FROM HIS NATIVE LAND in an Address at Boston He De ciarei That Unnatural Biological t Conditions Exista in This Country. Speaker lk-car Caroed by Effort to Indge Race Side by Side. Dr. Stiles spoke on Tuesday at Boston before the American Associa- t ion for the advancement of service )n the lazy bug or hookworm dis ase of which he has mad, some ex ensive study. He declared that in he United States a law of nature vas being violated when an effort was made to lodge different races )f men side by side In the same tir Dr. Stiles said in part: is an unnatural biographical t -ondition to have two closely allied pecies of animals living side by E ide in the same area. it this coun ry we bare four races of animals. C iz:- The white, the red, the yel- C ow and the black maa-breaking ature's laws by trying to live to ether. The competition of the in livIduals Is intensified by being ex- R ended to a competition between the P aces and we must. In the end. sub- S nit to *he working of the law of he sur'-al of the 2ttiest. Differ nt races may have different dis- S ases and after long generations of fection a relative immunity may e developed in a given race through he survivial of the 2ttiest individ- C als. This partial immunity to the erious effects of a disease doee not a nply Immunity from infection. On he contrary that very Immunity may sad to make the partially Immune t ace a reservoir for Infection and bat infection when transmitted to a more susceptable race will. upon eaching such virgin soll, be very tal. * The white race has brought to 01 he South certain diseases from orth Europe. These have spread a -tth deadly effects to the blacks. s 'be negroes have brought to the T outh certain tropical diseases nota- 9 ly the bookworm. which hav i pread to the whites with serious C 'sult~. These conditions are no' any way blameable to the South s a portion of the country. hut n pen the fact that in the United w tates. we are violating a law of na- w are when we attempt to lodge dif rent races of men side by side I, be same area. "It is not an exaggeration to sAy at the negro in the South lives nder a handicap because of th resence of the white man's diseasel nd because of the presence of Afri ~ a diseases, the white man therel Salso living under a handicap. ant tary science. if backed by Intel ~ gent practical application and au bority. can overcome that handicap C 'heory demands that in rural negro' t >calities with anything less than ood sanitation we must find an ex-U esive anomia .among the whites. nd practical experience bears out his theory among the tenant whites f the South. "It is not only foolish but cow rdly to attempt to deay the exiast ~ sg conditions and pay for a false ense of local pride at the price of he lives of women and children g ortunately the better class ol ~ hought in the South is facing fat ~ nd organizing for an extensive cam algn to improve sanitary conditlons.e Ld when the South shall win its oble fight against disease the vie ory will be great sad fully repay be efforts spent uon it." n Dr. Stiles. speaking upon chiMo aher in the South. took a positi'' 0 rhich sc-me of his hearers might tave judged radical. He said' "i hav-e never defended-t .hild ?'e-' or ans an abstract prop .-'ot. but rhen I compare child labor and chliI nisery upon the soii-pollute.1 ce torse farms with child labor wider he vastly improved sahitei, c'on- a litlons In the Southern cottaa~ m!:i. am afraid to the conclus.>n th-; he latter is infinitely better than he former, and If it came to a hoce betwan the two for my ounc daughter now ten years old. ny duty would compel me to choose or her a life in the spinning room >f the av'-rage cotton mill of th"-I south. whaich I have visited, n pref >n the average insanitary tennant arr; I have studied. "am unable to join in the whole ale condemnation of the South's otton mills for I recognize in them ~he best frientra the tennant whites ft the South fnve." Dlon't Like Us. Z.-laya. self-styled "titular Presi ent" of Nica. agua. arrived in the City of Mexico We-dnesday. No Me'xt -an officials met him. He was greet-' e.i by- 200 Ce'ntral Am'ericans and Alexicans who welcomed the deposed executive with erIes of "Long liv Zelaya." "L~ong live Mieico." an-i "Down with the Yankees!" Two Negroes Drowned. Robert Bennett and Elias Hey ward, colored man and boy. respec tively. !ell from a small boat and w..re drowned in approaching Cain hoy on Christmas eve night. Re-nnett and Hleyward had been to Charle ton. doing their Christmas shopping and were returning to their home nith their Christmas purchases. .Man Burns to Death. Jonathan Nichols. an aged white man, employed as Dremian at a saw mills at Laurel Hill. Fla.. was tnrno . t.-deat there 2 few da,~ THE WORLD FOR CHRIST 'HE GREAT MISSIONARY MOVE MENT OF THE LAYMEN. rhe Joint Committee of Laymen and Linsters of the Gospel Calls a Convention. The South Carolina convention of he Laymen's Missionary movement rill meet in Columbia or the 17th o 19th of January. This is a part of the national campaign. The Co umbia committee of laymen consists if the following: W. P. liouseal. chairman: W. W. .umpkin. 'ice chairman: C. P. .ounts, secretary: E. G. Quattle taum. treasurer: M. F. Anse!. H. C. fudzins. S. C. Mitchell. D. D.. W. A. :lark. F. C. Withers. Dr. F. S. Kil ingsworth. W. 0. Whitescarver. T. L Bryan. E. T. H. Foster. A. S. aillard. C. H. Girardeau. W. P. iamrick. T. S. Harrie. C. L. Kib tr. J. B. Penland. C. D. Stanley, J. 1. Spillman. The pastor's cooperative commit e is as follows. Rev. A. C. Baker. Rev. L. L. edenbaugh. Rev. G. A. Blackburn. .ev. A. N. Brunson. Rev. Carlisle ourtenay. Rer. K. G. Finlay. Rev. '. A. Freed. D. D.. Rev. A. E. Holler. ,ev. A. B. Kennedy. Rev. J. P. nox, Rev. J. W. ILewis. Rev. W. C. Indesay, D. D.. Rev. J. D. Mauaey. .ev. B. F. McLendon, Rev. . N. ratt. Rev. W. S. Poyner, Rev. S. M. mith. D. D.. Rev. E. O.Watson, D. . .. Rev. C. E. Weltner. D. D. The Joint committees met and Is zed the following call: "The Columbia cooperating com littee hereby invite the Christian ien of South Carolina to meet in elumbia January 17-19. 1910. for ise purpose of coasidering methods id means of adva. -Ing our interest 1 i and participatioa .a the evangeli Ltion of the world In this genera- a on. t "We meet for many purposes. and t 'tend many conventions. Is It uat ght. Is it not wise, for us to 'ee'l 1 men, and become better acquaint- a I with the coming of the kingdom It God on earth, and then take our I ghtful place In the great mission- I -y propaganda that is now laying 4ge to the citadels of heathendom. I he great purpose of this conven- z on is to bring information and r spiration. which it is hoped will 1 ystalize into conviction and ac- 1 on. t "It ip desired that every denomi- : ition in the State be represented ith a full quota of delegates. We t ant men from ihe cities, men from r e mills, and men from the farms t 'e want men from Columbia and I en from every county in the State. I 000 or more in all. I "If a church has :00 or less mem- t trs, let it send !.s pastor and tw.- e ymen: if it has more than 100 embers, let it send one additional *yman for every additional 100 a embers or major fraction thereof t and picked men. f "Fill out and send at once to A. Bridgeman. executive secretary.| I te registration ticket. Inclose $!| r registration fee. Th's fee I' l ied towards meeting the expenses I the coni-ention.. "ThIs convention will be sAlf-en rtaining. A list of hotels and I od boarding houses will be furn f hed in ample time. Reservations| ill be made for such as desIre iem upon applic.ation. I The railroads have been asked to I vs reduced rates, and nadoubtedly ill. Further information about this 1 ill be provided later. Colu~mbia is a bout the centre of the State, and I s isily reached by all railroads. "The opening session will be held Craven hall at 6:30 p. in.. Mon- a ay. January 17, 1910. when the 4 en of Columbia will tender a corn- < timntary supper to delegates from1 gtaide of Columbia.I1 "Admission to all sessions of the nventlon will be by tickets, which i!be furnished free to all men -ho register as delegates. "'Many of the foremost missionary torkers and speakers of the day will e present. Among those expected re the following: Dr. A. P. Par or of Soo Chow. China. Col. B. W. lalford of New York, Dr. H. N. Sny er of Wofford college, Dr. W. M. insworth of Macon. Mr. W. HI. .tubh of Nashville. Tenn.. Hon. oshua Levering of Baltimore. Rev. L. J. Willinghamn. D. D).. of Rich mnd. Rt. Rev. W. A. Guerry. bishop f South Carolina; Rt. Rev. Arthur .Lloyd. Alexandria. Va.; Dr. Geo. I. Crom.er. New berry: J. Campbell chite. N..w York: Arthur J. Brown. .-w York: Dr. J. S. Moffat. Erakine olle*ge: Rev. W. W. Moore, D. D.. tebmond. Va.: Geo. Sherwood Ed. y. New York. and W. T. Ellis. the aewspaper man. "An important place on the pro ram will be given to denomination I rallies. A complete program will e& provided later. "The uprising of the men of th hurch for world conquest in the tame of our Lord Jesus Christ at his period of the world. whe~n the ion-Christian nations are springing orth into ne-w life. discardiner large. y their old beliefs. swinging wide pen the door for the entrance of bhristianity. pleading, in instances. or the gospe-l: with the splendid uccess of the work now in pro. ress as a basis for greatly enlarged )perations: with the student volun rer movement leading the choicest of our young men and young women to off.-r their services as missiona rio-s to our various hoardm. is cer tainly provid'ntial. and calls upon us to be up and dotn;; in this day of liis poner. "rf our Colirmbia conventinn. and1 the simnilar gatherings eisen hero. are to h'- meetin::s of power and1 last j-: fruitfu!ne-ss. w'- must be in prayer. Let us go to prayer-hearing anda e-3.nsm-erine newd- to i ILLED IN WRECK SEVERAL PERSONS LOSE THEIR LIVES IN COLLISION. One of the Country's Most Promi neat Bankers and Multi-MiIon aires Numbered Among the Dead. Spencer Trask. banker and multi millionaire. was killed Friday. two other persons also lost their lives and four werp Injured. when a freight train crashed into the sec ond section of the Montreal Express of the New York Central railroad at Croton. N. Y. All of the victims were in the last car at the time. The engine of the freight train telescoped this ear. The car. which was a sleeper, was crushed. as though ii were an egg shell. The three persons thought to have been killed were imprison -1 in the wreckage. No sound could be heard from them after the col Lision and it was considered a cer tainty that they were killed. Their mames could not be obtained. The porter of the sleeping car and three t 3ther persone, all injurod, crawled t ,ut of the wreckage. b It was with great difflculty that he body of Mr. Trask was taken rom the debris. It was then eon veyed to the morgue. at Croton. while a crew of men began working o : secure the other bodies. The accident is said to have been [ue to the carelessness of a brake nan on the Montreal Ezpre. The rain, bound for New York. was run iing in the middle of three tracks, md when it reached Uppererosin d it Croton. It halted near a signal Ight, which displayed a estop" sig Lal. The conductor of the train sent G he brakeman back to signal any N >ther trains which might come 3 long. It was not 'hen known by ' he conductor that the freight was G hundering along on the same track. The brakeman Is said to have gone k aly thirty feet behind the Montre I Express with his red signal. In V he rear sleeper there were eight G eruons, seven paasengers and the G orter. Mr. Treek was asleep in a berth e tear the rear door. For several I nonths he had been Ill, and only i ecently underwent an operation by rhich he lost the sight of one of is eyes. On this account he had old the porter not to disturb him util the train reached New York. The freight train bore down upon he express at full speed. The brake man saw it when it was some dis ance off and began waving his 1ag' h mot Engineer Flannigan of the a reizh? di I not see the signal until S te was too near the express train S D 1 slow up. He then applied the mergency brakes. The freight, con htting of nearly forty cars, did not eem to slacken its speed. It slid long on the rails and crashed into he rear car of the express with rightful force. After the first shock of the col i.jion. the engine of k.he freight rain plowed through the sleeper. S 'hose in the car had no opportunIty o flee. The brakeman who had been sent mack to give a sIgnal disappeared s inmediately after the crash and of- C leials of the railroad company aret low searching for him. 11 Mr. Trask boarded the Montreal $ arpress at Saratoga, where he had e meen living In "Yeddo." his miagnlice- p Lut country home. The train had s een delayed by recent snow storms. t nd by the time It reached Croton. t ~t 8 o'clock. it was more than an L onr behind its schedule. It was due in New York at 7:20 t . m. The rear sleeper was the only i nae damaged In the crash. Passeng- a rs in all of the other cars were a >adly shaken up. but none of them t ias seriously injured. * t I'oag Teacher Couldn't Get Inside I the Yestibule. A dispatch frota Greensboro. N. E .says: Swinging to the outside C >f the vestibule of a swiftly moving passenger train. L. D. Surratt, S roung teacher of high standing, was literally frozen to death and fell e a.s the train came to a standstill. RIis body was stiffly frozen and was I picked up by the crew of a south- 1 bound freight. Pasenge-rs on tha' northbound train reaching Grow'nsb~oro Thursday, afternoon reported that a man, now1 identitled as Surratt. board~e4 the train at Lexin;;ton. but just beinreI the train pulled out be ran back to get a package. he left in a buggy at the station, lHe was seen to catch the closed vesti'eule. No one paid particular attention to the incident, supposing the train m-n had opened the entrance for the passenger. ilanging to the steps. the man met the terrific gale blow ing in the face of the fast moving train. His position subjected hIm to the only re-source, to crouch on the stepr of the car until the next sta tion was reached. Heavy Snow Storm. Tragedy and humor came on the wings of the heavy snow which cov :-rs New England. most of the Mid dl.. .tlantic States and a fringe of the Middle West and South. Sunday morning papers at twilight, morning milk at supper time, ni-thts spent in street cars. in trains or stations con tributed pictuigesque and amusin: scenes to soft.-n th" noneral tone. of suech deaths as nceiurr.d. hillIed Whole Family. At Hillsvilie. Pa.. a whole family was wiped out Friday as the result of an explosion of :n oil lamrp, which caue the daeth of night nersn. TOOK HIS LIFE foig Vn Out on Bond on Mader Charge Commits Suicide in PRESENCE OF A FRIEND [t Is Powdble That He Was Brood Ing Over the Charge Against Him and Others for Killing a Colored Man Some Time During Last October. Joe Garris. a young white man. 8 years old, who was out on bond. harged with murder. committed sul ide at the home of his uncle. Joe . Garris. near Williams, in the up er part of Col!eton county. It will be recalled that young Gar is and two other young white men rere charged with killing Israel anigault. a negro. at the Collo on Cypress Company's Mill on Oc ober 27, and were to have been ried for this killing in November. ut the case was continued by the olicitor. It is possible that he was rooding over this affair and his aind became unsettled. The shooting occurred about S 'clock at the front gate of J. T. ,arris, and from the report given y Mr. Heber Padgett. who was at jr. Garris* at the time, throws no ght on the cause of the tragedy. appears that Mr. Garris. in com any with Mr. George Brannox. had riven from Williams. a short dis nce away, to go by Mr. Garris' r the ostensible purpose of seeing is son, who was a cousin of young arrie. When they reached the gate. [r. Brannon says he got out on on' d and went to hitch the bore. hile Mr. Garris alighted on the ther. Almost immediately be saw arris pull, as he thought, a hand erchief out of his pocket and carry to his mouth. Instantly there as a report and young Garris fell. Brannon called to the elder Mr. arris to come out, that young Joe arris had killed himself. Mr. Pads t rushed out to the gate, but found ung Garris breathing his last. He ent for Dr. Kinsey, who found that ke ball had entered the mouth and inged upwa-d, lodging In the brain. roducing almost instant death. Gar s had evidently placed the pistol i his mouth and fired. No reason can Ie given for the zicide. and no one suspected that le young man intended to do in try to himself. The only remark s made that was calculated to -ouse suspleon was made to his ster. just before leaving home. he was brush[.ig his coat and he Lid to her: ''It is no use to brush y coat; I will not need it after iday." The affair is regretted. as te young man belongs to a large 2d highly respected family. NO REWARD FORl GORD)ON. tory That H. Wait Once Saught Lis Deaied by the WAar Department. A dispatch from Washi-ngton says ecific denial Is made at the War epartment, after a car'fu! examina on of the records of the story pub shed to the effect that a reward of 10.000 had been offered for the pturet of Col. James Gordon. ap inted by the governor of Missi+ .ppl to succeed the late Senator Mc aurin, for alleged participation in ie the conspiracy to kill Presiden incon. When the matter was brought to ,e attention of the officials of the far Department a search of the ree rds was instituted. This invosred n investigation of' the records of de civil war and of the advertise esets for fugitives and rewar'Is of. te~d in connection with tae aset ination of Lincoln. Nowhere was be 'tame of Colonel Gordot foui the papers on b.e in the - :-part ient. Therefore. the War Depat leSt officials declare that th'r.- was o basis for the story publish.' I con ernng him. Negro Murderer Caught. A dispatch from Roanoke. Va.. ays Tom Preston. a negro who three ears ago killed \f. T. Custy. a sa oon keeper, in the latter place of usiness at Riedford City. Va.. and scaped. was captured at Richmond few days ago by Roanoke detec ive. When Custy r.f used to serve reston ahead of a wh!t.- customer. he negro shot himn through th'e eart. Rewardas amounting to S$'J" rere, offered for Pre-ston's arre. Rifle Found in Tree. Don Carson. a young man of ethel. Greenville county. while set .ing mink trap's in a creek nlea ts home a few days ago found an >ld ritie in a hollow tree. Inquiry L to the giur. brought out the fact hat it was hid the:e in IS65 by SConfede'rate soldier who was h.* g pursued by a posse with dogs.* Boiler Exp~ndes. 1By the explosion of a holler at the ew plant of the Mertopolitavt lectric Company. in Reading Pa.. Sve men met ingtant death We.dnes jlay. The men were thrown se--. hundred f...: from the hoil.'r houise Martins body was bionn through a high tree. ar.d wats found about W feet from the sie.' of the explo sion.. nesly an-k lim to h., .ith u,.z id faithful to lT'm an.l11' i' nrk Pray for the commtre". p:ay f'r the speakers, pray for the delegates th~at their number may be large and tha' toymay- c-.,ch hold -and convev A MONEY MAKER THE STATE PENITENTIARY IN MOST EXCELLENT SHAPE. Superintendent Griffith Will Show a Profit of Eighty Thousand Dol Ismm for the Year. The Columbia Record says the high price of cotton, coupled with good management generally and with the further fact that the institution produced a greater quantity of cot ton this year than usual, will en able Superintendent Griffth of the! penitentiary to make a record-break ing flnancial report to the legislature this year. The report has not yet been draft ea. but it will show a surplus and net profit for the year's business of $80.000. which the superintendent has on hand to turn into the State treasury. It is likely that about a third of the amount will be used to put up a modern brick stockade for the DeSaussure and Reid farms. which adjoins each other and which together are located partly in Sumter and partly in Kershaw county. Since Superintendent Griffth as sumed office. practically the entire penit',ntiary plant has been built. These Improvements include a big granite blding for the Interior ar rangement of modern cells, a costly guards' quarters, the Anest tubercu losis hospital In the South and va rious improvements around the grounds and on the three farms op erated by the penitentiary manage ment. The Lexington farm has a fine brick stockade &ad boiler plant worth about $17,600. Superintendent Griflith this year produced over 900 bales of eotton -and will get an average of over $60 a baie for it. Hls other money crops were 23.000 bushels of corn and 20,000 bushels of oats. The price of oats this year has been about the same as last year, but corn was much more valuable than it was last year. It Is understood that the posltion of Superintendent Griffith and the board of directors with respeet to the legislature is that the manage ment will be grateful to the law making body for the privilege of being allowed to continue the good work without any change in the law as it now stands. Superintendent (.riffith's report will probably carry no recommendations, but will m ly lay all the facts bef e egis lature. There has been some talk and there were some resolutions propos ed at a recent good roads gatherinz to the effect that the legislatura should be induced to provide for road building by the penitentiary convicts. The management does not look with favor on this preposition as it looks upon this as a danerouxs -leparture from the present method of handling convicts, and would. 1t'i is argtued, lead to all the abuses of the lease system. Convicts woul:i be poorly fed and cared for in- many| cases. !.t is said. Though Superin-| tendent Griffith is firm and a Vvae disciplinarian, those who havel watched his administration have been impressed with the fact that his success has been due no little| to the fact that he uses kindneusi -nd consideration whenever it can te used to advantage. It is said there are at least 385 convicts who could not safely be allowed to work out in this way. Many of these are iangerous men, and not a few of them have to be kept in chains even on the grounds and watched with treat care. Many of these are no' now even on the farms. There ar many objections. it is claimed, to the present law allowing the leas ing of certain conviets to the coun ty authorities at the rate of $4 a month for each conviet. Less than 200 are let out In this way. DON'T WANT DIXIE Named as the Most Popular Patri otic Ballard. "Is -Dixie' more popular than 'Yankee Doodiec " That is the question which apparently has divid ed the country into two camps and brought about a controversy which promflises to become second only- to the recent great question. "Who dis covered the North Pol.''" The innocent assertion of Otto G. T,. Sonneck, chief of the division of music of the Library Congress. in his p~ublication on American national songs, that "Diule' was more promi neu:t in patriotic popularity than "Yankee Doodle" has stirred up 'a hornet's nest and even resulted in threats of death to Mr. Sonneck. His office in the Congressional Library is swamped with letters In which the writers take exception to the statement about "Dixie." Soma of these .letters threaten Mr. Son neck with dire punishment. Littkle Brother Kills Sister. A dispatch from Pensacola. Fia.. says Minnie Hurd, the 7-year-old danhter of Charles Hurd. residinr eight miles east of that city, was shot and instantly kifled by her smna! brother. James. at the home of their father a few days ago. The littie boy was loading a shot gun when it was accidentally dis charred, a load of heavy shot nearly blowing off his Sister's head. Prnv hasir With Bullet. At a .Thristmas tr~- freti.- in , no:;ro church at W.'ntwor'h, N r Pan Wooten. a half-drunk neCgro. eiuarreled with an enemy and in a'* temptinr to shoot him fired two shots. One bullet parted the colored .mses air on the side and the BI ROW ON lager and fiacho to Figtk u Beore a as..irte ONE OF TEM MUST GO When Congres Convenes on Tue day It Will Begin a Thorough In vestigation of the "oUntroversy Be tween the Secretary of the Interior and the Chief Forester. A Washington special to The News and Courier says on next Tues day. when congress convenes after the Christmas holidays, a fight. the equal of which has not been witness ed in all probability for years. will be commenced to determine who is right In the Ballinger-Pinchot con troversy. The joint committee of Investi gation. to be composed of members from beth the senate and house. will be given the fullest powers, and it will examine Into all of the oM cial acts of Gifford Pinchot. as chief forester, and of Mr. Ballinger, as secretary of the interior. It will cover two or .nree months. and at its conclusion the public will be able to know just what chance former President Roosevelt may have for another term in the White House, it having been charged that Mr. Pinchot is determined to keep Mr. Roosevelt before the American peo ple as a probable candidate for the presidency four years hence by an insistence upon the carrying out of his policies regarding the adminla ration of the national forests. It will be the first time In history chat congress has placed a cabinet ofeer on trial at his own request. in makmn his request for an inves igation. Mr. Ballinger stipulated that the administration of the for est service also be made the sub iect of inquiry. This has been s ceded to by the leaders In congress and by President Taft. According to present plans, the vestigation will be sweeping, and every opportunity will be afforded both belligerents to make good their case. On Tuesday or Wednesday the oint resolution providing for the nvestigation will be p he senate committaet-ii'public lands, wnd-tae -olise committee on rules. - t will be an administration resolu on, and it is expected that it will be adopted with but little opposi ion. There may be some objection on .he part of anti-administrationists to le selection of the personnel of the proposed committee, by the vice president and the speaker of the touse. on the ground that the men hey select would naturally be friend y to Ballinger. The administrarion eaders, however, have given assur ice that the members of the coin nittee will be chosen with the ides f an absolutely impartial investi ation. There will probably be twelve nembers, four Republicans and two emocrats from each house. Sena- - or Koute Nelson. of \Minuesota. hairmnan of the committee on pub lic lands, will probably be the chair an of the investigation commit ee. So bitter has become the dissen ion in the president's official fami ly. and so embarrassing to the ad nIstration, that it is generally pre icted that either Ballinger or Pin hot must leave the government serv ice as the result of the congressional nquiry. The intensity of the situation has een accentuated by Plnchot's speech n New York last Monday. in which he criticised, without the use of ames. however, the present admini tration of the interior department. and by the recent newspaper articles and interviews by former Secretary Gareld along similar lines. ELEVEN SHIPS IA)ST An Sixty Persons Dead as a Be-. ault of Big Storm. A dispatch from St. Johns. N. F'.. says sixty lives were bost in the ter rifc storm that recently swept the Northern Coast.- Eleven ships went down, according to reports receired Wednesday. sid the general damage was great. Reports from the in teior are delayed as all wires were felled by the hurricane. The storm lasted with intense fury for nearly a week. For three days Placentia was under water. Tides were unusually b!;h and looded many other points. Several hamlets were almost demolished and the village of Blackhead narrowly escaped being destroyed. Blackhead Is three miles from St. Johns. It is estimated that the loss to isheries alone is $750,000O. The witer so far has broken all records for severity. Heater Explodes. One woman was seriously injured and another painfully injured when a water beater exploded in the horns f Mrs. Minni' Lotspelch at Atlants Thursday. Mrs. 3Minnie Lotspeich was~ the more seriously injured of the two. She was badly scalded and probably will lose her "yeeight *f she recovers. Mrs. Jessie Lotspeich, her sister-in-law'. was struck by fly ng fragmn.-nts of the heater and sus ain.'d a painful injury in the Try India Cotton. The Pelzer Mills. of Pelzer. S. C.. wil receive Mor.<!ay two bales of India cotton, the :st specimens of the kind r.wirved in 'he PlizEODt