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VOL. IV MANING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 279 FLE To UVE nrchi.....~ha mmse a Aiesat hiUses. By the Rioters and the Missionaries Sfer Many OUtes at the Band6 of the Lawless Cnes-Thirty Students Weft Barned to De" In Their Scool House. The Chinese are still on the war path. and the situation in Hunan proVince is reported as critical. Wo men and children are fleeing for their lives from Chansha the capital. A number of villages near that city have been reduced to ashes by na tive mobs. The country is placarded with threats to kill all foreigners. This disquieting news was brought by missionary refuges who arrived at Hankow'from Changsha and near by- missionary stations. Many of them had travelled tbzrty miles on foot and reached the 1Yang-Tse-KI ang river in rags. Their houses haid been burned, and they lost all of their personal effects. - Trhe mIssionaries stated that gun boats in the river had their guns trained upon Changshe' and nearby points and have afforded a refuge for many of the mlsslonles. Three thousand Chinese Imperial soldiers are occupying the strategic points of the capital and detatchments are be ing hurried to the outlying districts where rioting is reported. qfany Chinese have been killed. In one instance a technical school was / set afre and thirty students were burned to death When vessels approached Chang- t ab to rescue the imperilled ones the I hinese mobs saturatJ the junka < with kerosene oil from looted sta fioss of the Standard pi Company and setting them afire, illowed them to 1oat down the streams in an at tempt to are the oncoming steam The victory of Hunan provin::e and the Governor of Changsha asA-3d that they have the situaton in hand. ad that order Is practicallY r stored. but the misonades 6sy that I they suer outrages. , The telegraph wires to the west wao ot -the disturbed distriet have bee cut down. Xany WSuionaries. C Aercn, French and Norwegian re'- I nain at outlying-posts. - - The British consul at Changar. -Wo Sam ''If one foreignqer had t--en b kiled a massacre probably woui3 d hae folowed. the British c-nsul- 3 ate was burned be-%zse It empto'e t n-Me from another province In the 9 onstruction of buIl-itgIS.1 The monetary lo-a toi forelcn In. t teessis believed no. to have 'men geThe Standar' e0C Cc.iipany I has lost a few tasanz aens f 2 - e Second VTldm of Mystetoe Murder Within Week.. The body of Tom Cason, a hard woring negro. was found In the woods In Gantt township in Green ile County Friday. .A gunshot wound In the abdomen told how the man had died. From what can be learned of the mystery..It appears tere exists a feud amonrg the negro famiies of that neIghborhood, this c being the second mysterious killing itin the week. The row started last Sunday at camp meeting, when the negro who was found dead. acc dentaly stopped on the foot of a negress. WOMANi 00NaSm Co3Mn Case is Likely Never to i Be TrIed in Cort At Columbia Olindo Scessa an Ita' nndressmrwhohs en in jil for several weeks without bail charg e4 with criminally assaulting the I wife of a Columbia watchmaker. was Thursday released on a five hundred dollar ball by Judge Gary on an amdavit of the victim admitting that1 r.'e had been having Illicit relations with the defendant previous to thc alleged assault. It Is likely now that the case will never be brought to tial. The woman's afadavlt creat ed a sensation. Feared the Comet. Fear that the approaching~ cone would destroy the earth,. le-i to the' suicide of Mrs. Florence Shankalnd. aged 21. at Louisville. K~y.. Th"'s day night. According to the state ments of neighbors. Mrs. Shankland. whowas of a melanchol ynature..bad been specially morose since the ad vent of Halley's comet. believing the ed of the earth might take place at any moment. h Rodgers Merritt. the negro twice convicted of a crIminal assault,.h Is alleed to have committed upon! a young white woman In the western part of Atlanta last year. was sen trrced again by Judge Roan of the superior court. Tuesday morning. to h hanged June 3rd. Cold Wave in West. Temperature, ranging from 27 t3 3 degrees above zero. accompanie by Intermittent flurries of snow were!. reorted from 'MissourL. Kansas and Nebraska Tuesday. Colder weather Is predicted. Arbitrtion Agreed rpon. Arbitration of the wage demand of the train men and conductors of the New Yokt Central lines west of menta were agee upeQ Saar HITS AT SCHM TO SAVE BALLINGER ON WICK ERSHAM'S PART. Charged That He Had Dated Docu ment Much Earlier Than lt Was Written to Deceive. After attacking certain statements in Attorney Genera! Wickersham's summary of the Glavis case during cross-examination of a witness be fore the Ballinger-Pincnot investi gation Friday. Attorney Brandies cotisel for L R. Glavis. threw out a broad suggestion that the document had been dated two months earlier than it had been prepared in order to make it appear that President Taft's letter of vindication to See etary Ballinger had been based on the alleged facts indicated. At the White House and the de partment of justice it was stated t~ixt either the president nor the -itt - iey general would comner.t ou Mr. Brandeis' intimation. Comuparativ.v li- t rcer-s- w .s made with .h ein y y'rO:&y. Ce pite the apparently graw. tc amp3 Lience of the committee and the ger ral desire of the memb tx EV bring ,he hearing to a close. E. C. Finny. assistant to the ;ecretary of the Interior, was unde.r .oss-examination during almost the entre day. He admitted under ques Joning by Mr. Brandies that some of eickersham's statement were Inac urate. but insisted they were unim )ortant. It was near the end of Finney's amination that Mr. Brandies got ff his surprise. Mr. Wickersham in lis summary. says the srggestion huat it was unlawful for Mr. Ballin- I ,er to have any professional relations rith the Cunningham claimants be- J ause of his previous incumbency of he offce of commssioner of the and offce. was based on section 190 1 if the revised statutes and he cites I aws to show that Mr. Ballinger had I ot violated that law. DEMOCRATS VERY JVBULANT. rer the Election of a Democrat from New York. The Democratic victory in New i ork ma-e, the Democrats in the c ouse jubilant on Wednesday. Re resentative Francis Burton Harris n. democrat. of New York. believed 4 . " marked the overthrow of the egime, nation wide in its extent." Representative Underwood of Ala ama. democrat. declared "it was a Istinct repudiation of the Payne drich law and the administration." 'derwood declared no other con truction could be placed upon the [assachusetts and New York elec Representative Norris. of Nebras a. one of the republican "insur ets" sa~d: "It is simply the up Ising of the people against machine le and means that the people will and for It no longer. It is a 1o ml matter In New York. but similar 1 dltos prevail throutbout the muntry and similar results will en FINDS WATERY GRAVE. Ld Drowned While Fishing In the Nease River. News reached Goldsboro Wednes ay of the drowning near Salem hurch of Mr. Troy Crawford. son f Mr. Daniel Crawford, of the Noelt ill section. Young Crawford, whot ras barely 1S years of age. andj harles Williams, aged! about 17.j ere fshing in the river. The boys ad just hooked a large fish and in heir excitement overturned- the boat.' ad were thrown Into the swift aollen current. Two small colored oys wre on the bank and threw a rape vine to Willams. but Craw ord was carried out lnte me mid Le of the stream. beyone reach and as drowned. The body was recov red next morning and carried to he home of the distressed parents. AOTHER MINE HORROR ighteen Miners Are Probably Dead Year Steubenrille. Ei~hteen of a night force' of 25 nchine men employed in the mines uear Amsterdam. Ohio. are thought :0 be dead as the result of an ex >osion in the mine late Friday night. :o far six bodies have been found md seven have been taken out in an iconsrious condition. Twelve men re missirg. Rescue parties began work a few minutes after the ex plosion. It is thought that the ex plosion was caused by coal gas be. ag ignited by the tights on the, niners' helmets. Lost AUl of His Money. Standag helpless, while the hoard ngs of a lifetime burned, was the: experience which Jesse C. Walters. a f. mer suffered at Darbun. Miss.. lre Thursday. Waters, who is 70 yers old, did not believe in banks and kept all his savings in his .hum bl farm house, amounting to sever al thousand dollars. When he reach ed his home after dicovering it in' fames, he was too late to rescue anythin. Heavy Snow Storm. Chicao has been in r.'Ne rrasp of a hevy snow and violent wind storm tor several hours and there are no signs of its abating. The snow fol lwed one of the heaviest rainfalls of the year. The wind Saturday was so strong during the night that it lifted the roof of a barn and drop ped it on the cab of a passing CAR HELD UP lorterman Killed and Conductor Fattal ly Shot by ighwymen. ATLANTA IS SHOCKED By the Crime of Three Negro Foot pads. Who Attack a Street Car at the End of a Surburban Line and ConmiiL a Brutal .Murde-r and Robbery. At the end of tho Druid Hills car line. a lonely spot in the outlying section of one of Atlanta's residen ial surburbs. three negro highway men Saturday night shot and killed Motorman S. T. Brown and after robbing Conductor W. H. Bryson of $35. fatally shot him in the back and made their escape into the near by woods. Half hour later the crime was dis covered and Atlanta's entire police reserve was rushed to the scene. There were no passeners on the car. The car had just reached the end of the line and the motorman was reversing .his trolley when the attack came from the negroes. whi had conoealed themselves behind a clump of bushes. (Motorman Brown was shot down as he started to re-enter his car and wit2h revolvers leveled at the con uctor's head. h was ordered to brow up his hands. On complying, one of the men re lieved him of all the cash he had a his person and then he was told o *hit the grit." He was shot in Aie back by one of the men after .e had run about fifty yards and lell in his tracks. Two shots penetrated his liver. Fhe injured conductor was rushed to hospital where it was stated that ere was no possible chance of his *ecovery. The dead motorman and Injured anductor were found by MIotorman insley and donductor Royster. who were in charge of the car. that reach id the end of the line just twenty zdnutes later. Brown was lying face downward beside his car. a bullet through his eart. and along the track fifty yards stant was found Bryson. Before osing consciousness Bryson told of he attack. "Motorman Brown was shot to eath by the negroes." l said. "and hen they turned their attention to ne. After taking all the money I tad one of the yemrroes yelled 'hit the ,rit.' and while running I was shet n the back by one of t.he men. I idn't have an opportunity to get ray. The county bloodhounds were at ince rushed to the soone of the hold p and immediately took a trail. rhih led in t'he direction of a con truction camp. where a number of 3egroes are employed on grading rork. The camp was placed under heavy guard. and early Sunday very negro in the camp was forced submit to a thorough eramination the hands of t.'ie officers. Several rrests were made. Sunday whites rere not permitted to go near the amp because of the excitable condi ion of the crowds. Fifty police officers continued to our the woods in the vicinity of the told-up and several negroes wet. aced under arecst. though wit.hout ny convincing evidences or guilt. flu a moment of consciousness Sun lay. Conductor W. H. Bryson identi led one of the negro-'s emught in he police dragnet as probably one of he guilty trio. This negro and four ~thers w.'io are held on suspicion ire prisoners. All kinds of rumors have gained ,urrency and the offit-rs found it ~ecessary to prohibit negroes visiting e neighbored where the crime ccurred. There were' even expres dons of disapproval from the crowd1 it the presence of the fed negro :hauffeurs who piloted automotbiles yo the scene. Brown was 36 years of are an.i eaves a wife and four children'. Iryson is about the same are andi rried. Bryson is a native of aurens e-yunty. Soeuth Carolina. and as a brother living at Rockma. IEl A REAL HlEItO. IAst His Life Trying to Rescue a Neighbor's Chil.. At Chicago Nelson Harris. 44 years 14, was burned to death while try. ing to rescue a neHighhar's chilC. hich .he supposed was sleep'ng~ ont the second floor. 3Mrs. Elar,"r lar rison his wife was badly burned and will probahly die. The four children wen severely burned. Harrison. who slept on the first floor. was aroused! y the smoke. A fter helping his wife out he went upstairs and aro':s ed the children and after gettung ?.'em out he thounht that a neigh or child was still upst-irs and h* went back. Hlls lifeless body w-ls found by the police after :he inter ior of the building was practilly de stroyed. Died Under Auto. An automobile plunging from a 13-foot culv'rt in Chicamiauga park on Friday night resulted in the in stant death of Arthur Barrett. book keper in ?.' bettling department of the Chattanoora. Tenn.. Brewing company, and the serious injury of anes P. Byvrne. traveling saleman for the same~ company.* Blizzard in~ Wis.consin. A bli'.zard w-is rating throughuoi almost the entire State of Wisconsin. Several inches of snow has fallen in Mllwaukee. Miarinette reports a depth of two feet. Temperatures are below freezing. FOUND GUILTY WOLTER MUST GIVE HIS LIFE FOR KILLING GIRL. Horrible Murder of Ruth Wheeler, the Pretty Young Stenogapher, Will Be Avenged by the Law. Albert Wolter. a degenerate youth of 19 years. who gloated over lewd picturr's and was *crazy'' about wo men. must die in the electric chair for the murder of Ruth Wheete.'. a pretty sixteen-year-old stenog-aph.-r. After only one hour and fifty mii:u tes of deliberation in the court of special sessions found him guilty of murder In the first degree at 10-20 o'clock Friday night, bringing to a close a trial marked by its swift movement and its testimony of hor ror. The boy's counsel said with elo quence that Wolter was too tender hearted to harm a cat but twelve men decided that he had strangled Ruth Wheeler and thrust her yet alive In his fireplace, soaked with oil. her crumpled body writhed and burned. With the same waxed-faced indifference that he had shown throughout the trial Wolter evinced no emotion when the verdict was an nounced. With almost inhuman complanoiF he has been asleep in his cell-and sleeping soundly-w-hile. the jury was deliberating on his fate. This was made known by a court attend ant who said that he had to rouse the prisoner to bring him Into court. He will be sentenced on Wednesday. The jurymen themselves showed emotion, while the boy who must die showed none. As the jurors filed in the prisoner was led into the room and took his seat facing the judge. His face was the color of putty, but his compleCion is nAtur ally unwholesome, and its ashness was accentuated by the brilliant igohts of the court room. When asked if they had found a verdict, William V. Kulp, foreman f the jury, answered in a shaking voice, "we have." He then announc ed he and his associates had found 4 Wolter guilty of murder in the first I egree. All eyes immediately shift- 1 d toward the prisoner, but he was 4 s stolid as a piece of stone. As he was being handcuffed to officers pre- I artory to being taken to the Tombs, I e looked around unconcernedly and < en wobbled out with his custo ians. No relatives of the murderer or of I is victim were in court to hear the rerdict. His aged parents were in ourt during the afternoon. but as e heard the decision which means eath. he was alone among strangers. lfforts were nL.de to get a state ent from Wolter on'his way to the rombs. but he refused to talk. "I. Ion't want to talk tonight-I'm tired nd I want to get a little good sleep I rst... Ruth W)'?eler was killed on the 4th of 'Mt--ch, failing to dispose of aer body in th fireplace. Wolter cut apart and left the bust and head rapped in burlap on a fire-escape 1 prom where it was pushed into -the 1 ard below. He was arrested on e 26th and was placed on trial on ~fonday last. He denied ever know g Rut~h Wheeler. but testimony howed that she had been lured to is rooms exigeting to obtain work s a steno'nrapher. There Welter ad attempted to criminally assault ier and had murdered her in t.be ~truggle, strangling her with a rope led about her neck. * RETAIN THEIR SEATS. eer and Legaie Declared Legally Elected. A decision to allow Representa ives Lever and Legare of South Car ~lina to retain their seats in the ouse was announced Wednesday by he elections committee. Counsel t the hearing sought the endorse ment of the constitutionality of the south Carolina election laws bearing n the elimination of negro suffrage. The committee would not take that view, but agreed to seat the two nembers because their contestants, ft. H. Richiardson and George Prior ieau. respectively, both negroes. did not receive a sufficient number of votes. POISONED RER HU'SBAND.= With Four Different Kinds of Dead ly Poisons. The trial of Mrs Pearl Armstrong, indicted in Floyd county. Ind., on the charce of killing her husband. George Armstrong. at their home in New Albany. in December last year. began Tuesday morning. Nearly 150) witnesses have been sulmmoned. a third of them for the defense. The State will attempt to prove that Mirs. Armstrong poisoned her husband by administering calomel. carbolic acid. rough-on-rats and strychnine in broken doses. with the collection of his life insuran'ce of $1,000 as one of the motives. SPARTAN INN BURNED). Other Brick Buildings in Same Block Destroyed. Fire at half-past three o'clock Fri day morning destroyed an entire block on Mtorgan square. in the heart of the business section. of Spartan burg, entailing a loss of $75.(000f. with insurance amounting to only $5l0. The Spartan Inn, one of the principal hotels of the city, was among the buildinrs burned. The number also included several impor tant retail stores. The origin of the fire is unknown. There was no loss of life. "BAD" WMSKEYKILLS SEVEN DIE FROM i)RINKING PRO DUCT OF DRUG STORE. Little Towns Were Sure Modern Bor gia Was Loose, But It Was Only Caused by Wood Ucohol in Booze. LAs the result of drinking whiskey of the "made-whIle-you-wait" brand. three women and four men are dead in or near Westerly. R. I.. and so great is the excitement over the tragedies that the Attorney General at Providence. R. I.. has ordered an investigation into the deaths and also the places in which socalled medicinal whiskey is made and sold. The dead are Lena Blanchard. Mrs. Ellen Murray and Mdrs. Albert Tucker. of Westerly. R. I.: Edward Dougherty. Charles H. Hood and Henry Larrow. of Pawtucket. Conn.. and W. D. Perrin. of Hopkinton, R. Thus far responsibility for t'e deat-hs has not been placed, but the Westerly authoritiee have informa tion that they were due to the blun der of a drug clerk who used wood alcohol instead of the grain product in makin: the whiskey. An arrest is looked for soon. So far as can be learned all the whiskey was pur chased in the same drug store. and the symptoms shown by the victims in. each case, all of whom died sud denly, are reported by the attending physicians as identical. One physician has reported that his analysis of the contents of the omach of Dougherty showed the presence of wood alcohol In quanti ties large enough to produce death. Coroner Brown, of Stonington. who has some of the whiskey remaining in the bottle from w.hich Larrow and Hood drank just before their deaths. ra wood alcohol is preser t in It in sufficient quantities to produce eath when taken freely. The first of the deaths from the whiskey was tht! of Mrs. Murray. who died last Tuesday. An empty whiskey bottle was found at her side. ut the physicians stated that heart isease had caused her end. While he authorities were investigating e Murray case they learned of that f Mrs. Tucker. Wednesday night. Then on Thursday came those of [food and his father-in-law, Harrow. t Pawtucket. On the same day the leath of Lena Blanchard occurred t Westerly. and then that of Perrin n Friday. and Dougherty on Sat irday. Untii it w-s fairly establishded hat the mysterious deaths were due o drug store whiskey. there were rild rumors to the effect that a Bor ,la had found her way into the lit le communities and was administer g the poison my wholesale. Fam lies stopped their milk supply and vere extremely cautious as to where ey obtained raw food-stuffs. Wes erly is a no license town, and the esult is that the druggists have been ~oing a thriving 'business In the la of all kinds of substitutes. In e last few years several druggists. wo of them men of prominence. tare been cs-r-victed and sent to jail r selling liquor.* THEY HAD A HOT TIME. eneral Row in Which Two ,?ersons Are Killed. One man killed outright, another ying, still another seriously injur d and a woman in a precarious con ition is the net result of a quarrel ;tarted in a boarding house in 7Velch. W. Va.. presided over by the oman victim. John Jones, a former boarder, had en warned several times by M.rs. leek to stay away from her home. ~hortly after noon Tuesday he ap ~eared at the house and an alter aton ensued. A. T. Taylor. a board r. sided with Mrs. Cleek. and this nfuriated Jones. who grasping a din er bell, pounded Taylor over the head with it. Mrs. Cleek immediate y procurred a revolver and shot oes, killing him :nstantly. Shortly afterward. .Jones's son. ewis. entered the boarding house. nd M-t Mrs. Cle'rk with a huge ~tone. fracturing her skull. Taylor then secured the weapon used by Mrs. Cleek and shot young Jones zboe the heart, and the local s's pital physicians say he cannot re rover. J. P. Jones. a relative of the dead man, then interfered and was shot through the arm and shoulder by Taylor. who then disappeared. A SERIES OF TRAGEDIES.. Several Enacted at Binghamptoni on the Same D~ay. An unusual series of tragedies v' re recorded at Binghamnpton. N. Y.. for the twenty-four hours ending Monday evening. Dominic Fritz. of Corbettsville. a uburb, died from the effects of a bullet wound in his head. He was shot by his own 18-months-old child. who had been playing with an old revolver, supposed to be unloaded. Charles Lowes. a wealthy farmer. hanged himself in his barn, despon dent ever inability to obtain farm laborers at any but prohibitive rates. The dead body of an unknown man about 25 years of ate. we'll dressed and carrying several hun drred dollars in money was found on a railroad bridge crossing the Sus quehannla river. He had evidently been struck at.:i killed by a train. Demands a Court. A dispatch frnom Columbia says Col. Brock has filed an application with the Governor for a court of inquiry into the row between him and Gen Boyd. The Governor says that he has not had time to consider MANY IT HARD By the Issance of Forged Cotton Bils of Lading to Buyers by A LARGE COTTON FIRM Which Recently I-ailed at Decatur. Ala., With Liabilities of Nearly Six Million Dollars and Assets of On ly Five Hundred Thousand Dol tar% to Offset the Huge Liabilities. The Atlanta Journal says Southern representatives of New York cotton firms. who rushed to Decatt:". Ala.. from Atlanta and other cities Wed nesday and Thursday. to ascertain the true status of agairs in connec tion with the failure of Knight. Yan cey & Co.. declare-4hat the gigantic transactions involving millions. which preceded and precipitated the crash. may end in prosecution in the federal courts. It is averred that forged cotton bills of lading attached to drafts for heavy sums were sent to New York firms and to big cotton houses in Europe. They say these drafts were honored and paid, and that investi gation has proven many of the bills of lading worthless. New York Arms, they believe, have lost about $1.000,000. while the to tal losses of European houses may run between $4,000,000 and $5.000. 000. No southern cotton Arms have been Involved in the smash-up, It is, said. t seems that all banks with which Knight. Yancey & Co., did business are amply protected. It is predicted, however, that the affair will revolutionize the cotton busness in this country by destroy ng the confidence of buyers in bills f lading, which have hitherto been honored as if they were the actual otton itself. The firm of Knight. Yancey & Cc., s composed of J. W. Knight. of Decatur; W. J. Yancey, of Memphis; E. H. Nesbitt, of Sdartanburg; and F. D. Nesbitt. of Birmingham. All f the men are prominent in cotton :Ircles. W. D. Nesbitt is one of the best known pusiness 2nen of th outh, is a state railroad commis iloner in Alabama, and a close friend f Governor Comer. J. W. Knight was in charge of ,he Decatur office. In an interview published in the Birmingham papers. X. T). Nesbitt declares that he has 2ot been in active touch with the usiness for four years and that the rash was a terrible surprise and revelation to him. The irregulari Jes. says .Mr. Nesbitt, appear to have rignated in the Decatur office. The question cotton men are ask g all over the world today is wheth r or not the affair will endi by a :riminal prosecution in the federal ourt. While representatives of Irms which have been heavily hIt do ot hesitate to condemn the bill of ading transactions. no one is yet 'eady to take the resronsibility of ~ying that prosecutions wIll actually e instituted, for the affair has not ret been gone into deeply enough d It is not known what attitude night will take in defense of the ~ransactions for' which he is held 'esponsible. The Knight. Yancey & C-> flr:u. n of the largest concerns of its lnd in the south. with ofiic-.s i scatur. Ala.. Mobile. Huntsville. Rirmigham and other cities, went uto involuntary bankruptcy on Wed xesday. The business of the company has been large, the hulk of which is ith European firms. Last year 60, 00 bales of cotton were shipped rm the Mobile port to Harv' alone. Judge W. I. Grubbs. of the United states district court. at Decatur. ap poInted Frost & Lowell receivers for he bankrupt firm. Their bond was axed at $:f00,000. According to Jere Murphy. refere~e in bankruptcy. the liabilities of the firm will ag'rre gate. $5.777.90S. The assets are estimated at about $500.000. CredI itors of the company. it is said. .hold securities to the amount of $411. OOLORED BISHOP ARRESTED. hlarged W~ith Embezzling Small .Anount of Money. Bishop Wesley J. Gaines. colored. of Atlanta. Ga.. w-ho is holding the annual New Jersey conference of the A. M. E. Church at Camden. N. J.. was arrested Thursday charged with mbezzlement. It is ralleged that lbe iv'rted to his own use one hundred and fifty dollars that should have been appropriated to a superanuated minister fund. The warrant was ob tained hy Rev. J. H. Morgan. form erly secretary of the conference. Gaines was held in one thousand dol lars bail for a hearing before a jus ie- of the peace. The bishop says .be is allowed $500 for expenses and $150 for legitimate needs. Death of Gen. French. Gen. G. S. French. who died n0 Florala. Ala.. was the oldest living graduate of WVest Point in the Con federate service. H.a was born in Giouceser. N. JT.. in 18S. and grad :ated from West Point inl 1S43. and went to Texas. He served under en. Taylor in the Mexican war an-l was wounded at t.he battle of Buena Vista. Returning to New Jersey nie was presented with a sword by that A Fool's Joke. At Chester. Pa.. Atwood Young. a Sixth ward youth. was burned about the face and eyes by powder from a joker's "loaded" cbzarett", and it Is feared he will lose the sight of YOUNG GIRL VIM NEW YORK REAL ESTATE M. A(XSED. His Scheme Was to Entice a Maiden to His Office and There Assault Mer. The police of New York City have effected the arrest of Joseph T. Ship man, a real estate operator. on ti e charge of attempting to assault Miss Emily Richie. who appeared at his offce in answer to an advertiseme't for a stenographer. Bearing in mind the recent Wolter case in which a young woman was a-s.xulted and murdered when she appeared at an office under similar circumstances. 31.ss Richie invited Mrs. Emma Mc Cully to accompany her. The pres ence of a third party. who carried an infant child on her arm, was no protection but it did lead to a dis closure of Shipman's methods and will put an end to his activities for some time to come. When In his cell in the Fulton street station. Shipman gave his ad dress as 144 West Twenty-second street. but changed it later. At that address Mrs. Anna Hillshire said that nine weeks ago she had rented a room to a man named Shipman. He remained there five weeks. spending his time writing advertisements and. answering those girls who wrote for inquiries. She said that more than 25 girls had called to see him and that she became suspicIcus and final ly put a stop to his activities and he left her house. Another woman called and claimed to be his private secretary. He directed that she write to New Jersey -and secure ball. A woman who said she was Mrs. Shipman. believes her husband Is in nocent of the charge brought against him. Miss Richie is about IS years of age, and had been working as a stenographer in Brooklyn. W-hen she read Shipman's advertisement offer the hope of bettering herself. Ship man stated that he was not able to hire a first class stenographer and for that reason he advertised for young girls whose experience was not such that they would demand the highest wages. He explained to the girl that a lodge went with her position and that he would show her to those quarters on Lexington ave nue. Mrs. McCulfy went along. When they reached the lodge they found it contained two rooms. Ship man directed Mrs. McCully to one and then locked himself in a room with the Miss Richie. Then. ae ordin- to her story. he seized her. held his hand over her mouth and tried to choke her. He threw .her on a bed in the room. but she kicked and screamed and struggled so that he finally released her, she said. Then she unlocked the doors and both she and Mrs. McCully ran away s soon as they could get out of the otel. The gIrl related her exper ence to her mother, who In turn ost no time in informing 'the police. he arrest was effected by Capt. allagher and Detective Quinn. when rs. Richle. together with Miss Rich ie. directed the offcers to Shipman's uarte.-s.* KNIGHTS OF HONOR rand Lodge Held Meeting in (bi-| umbia This Week. A gre'at deal of Interest was man ifeste'd in the election or officers tc erve the order during the next tw3 ears. the election resulting as fol-| ows: J. Aiwyn Ball. Charleston, su-| reme past grand dictator: James 0. add, Summerville. grand dictator: . A. Spivey. Conway. grand vice dic-| tator; M. W. Culp. Union. grand as sistant dictator: L.. N. Zealy. Coi mbia, :rand reporter: N. W. Trump. olumbia. grand treasurer: J. J. ernon. Weilford; L: D. Harrel:. heraw: Sol Blank. Charleston;. rand trustees. C. P. Quattlebauml. f Conway. was elreted the repre entative to the supreme lodge for o erm of fcur years and R. A. Oli hant of Union as alternate. The following standing committees ere appointed: Laws and supervision-J. W. odd. W. L. Glaze. J. W. Moore. Finane-J. D. Kelty. R. A. Oh hant. P. K. McCully. Cedentials-J. J. Vernon, L. D. arrell. Sol Blank. The ome-:s-clected were installed by Past Supreme Dictator John C. heppard. After the passage of ai resoutionl extending th" thanks of the grand lodge to Palmetto lodge No. 5. I. 0. 0. F.. for the use of the hal. the convenition adjournled to. re.t in U'nion on the third Wednes day in April. 1912 FAMILY OF" SU'ICIDF.S. Like ilis Father and Itrother-inl-Law Ends His Life. The second suici-e within a month and .he third in the family. within ight tmonths at the homre of Mrs. Charles WVells. his sister, at Peters hun Va.. was that of Nat. P. Irnge. aged 2 1 years. who died early Fri day morning. Young lnge swallow ed carbolic acid late Thursday night and died after th'ree hours o! agony. On 'March 2Z. Charles Wells. a broth ern-l~w of Friday's victirr. drank with fatal effect carbolic acid, while' depondent over unemploymet. On October 21st last .\ihert P. Inge. the Ifather of Nat lngo. suizcided by drownin.: at Danvihie. Va. No rea snn is known for his self destrue tion. D~rownetd by Automobile. Margaret Brennan. a nurse. twen ty-two years of age, was drow.ed :n two feet of water in Muck Creek. 19 1miles from Tacoma. WVash.. Friday. bei. pinined under an automobile. SICK HIS. DOGS On Atteriey Geaeral Wickersa For Helping the Bears Out. HE EfRAPS ALDRICH -enator Smith Makes Him Admit That the Tariff Law Is the Cause of the High Prices and Discusses the Action of the Government in the Cotton Cases. Senator Smith Wednesday turned loose his dogs of war on the attor ner grneral for prosecuting the cot ton men. Brown. Hayne; Scales and thers. nays Zach McGhee. in his Washington letter to the Columbia State. * The immediate question up was whether or not the senate should vote $6.000 for further investiga tion of the high prices of the neces saries of life. Senator Smith said tnat he had been in favor of this investigation at irst, but that now the thing had taken such a peculiar turn that he believed no good could be accomplished. This brought him into immediate conflict with Senator Aldrich and there was an interesting little tilt. .'Do I undestand," asked Wr. Al drich, "that the senator was in favor cf this investigation at frst but that now the attorney general Is Investi gating the wrong trust?" That seemed to put Mr. Smith in to a hole, for while the contention has been for lower prices, here was a South Carolina senator coming out in favor of higher prices. But 'Mr. Smith in turn put Mr. Aldrich Into a hole. Mr. Aldrich said that -he wanted an Investigation to see wheth er the tariff was the cause of the high cost of living. "Does not the senator believe that the taiff is the cause of the high prices?" asked Mr. Smith. -"I believe that the tariff causes prosperity." replied Mr. Aldrich. "But you also have said that pros perity causes high prices, have you not?" said Mr. Smith. iMr. Aldrich admitted that. "Prosperity causes high prices, and the tariff causes prosperity," said Mr. Smith. Unfortunately the gravel fell just .ere. the time being up. But -Mr. A.ldrich was made to admit as no Republican had before admittled that the tariff is the cause of high prices. Senator Smith In his speech de elared that the deptrtment ef justice ad allowed the beef trust, the steel trust, the 'ones who had cornered the wheat of the country putting *up rhe price of bread to go on without arosecution. but that now when the farmers of the South by a natural monopoly and by a shortage of the erop were gettins a high price for their cotton, the department of jus tice was singling out this staple as a subject for prosecution. "I venture the assertion." he de elared. "that Brown, Hayne. Scales. Patten, and the others do not hold -.00 bales of cotton. But cotton .. speculators in New York have sold . hundreds of thousands of bales which they have never had. and now when they try to buy them at a low er price than the figure at which h'y solU. the farmers of the South. either have not the atton or will not sell at the figures offered. These men supposed that the South would -' as she has always done, put their motton on the market at whatever urice they could get for it." Several times in his speech. O(r. smith referred to the elections in New York and Massachusetts and reminded the Republicans that the -:erdict was going against them. He s~aid it was on account of just such behavior as that c f which the at i orney general was now guilty, in -dngling out the South for attack in stead of enforcing the law against the other combines, He admitted, with consderable "mphasis, that he had tried to organize the Southern farmers into a combination. "Per haps you .had better Investigate be," he declared. KILLS AN INTRL'DER. .An Intoxicated Mtan Tries to Enter Another's Home. L. C. Manning. a well known bus iness man of Philema. Lee county, Gai., was shot and killed. at Walker's staitlon Wednesday night, by John Wilkinson. Manning spent the day at Albany and it Is explaine-i. had been drinkin-ni. He took the wrong train and went to Walker's station. instead of Philema. He attempted to get into several houses an finally tried to force an entrance into WiI kinson's home. when Wilkinson, shot M'm with a rifie. May Be Lost. Fears are entertained at Morgan City. Pa.. for the safety of the tug Dells, carryin-g a crew of ten men, which sailed from Galveston. Teina, last Sunday. with a tow of twro barges. It was due to arrive Mo': day morning. In spite of the fact that the vessel is long overdue. con signers are inclines to believe that soue derangement of machinery in the absence of storr.s served to de in1v the arrival of the boat, and that .:ere may be no ground for appre hension. Demands Inquiry.' - Col. W. T. Brock. assistant adju tant general. said Wednesday that he would ask for a court of inquiry for a full investigation of the charges made by Adjutant General Boyd. He state~s that he will not enter into a newsaper controversy.