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VOL. XXVII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER FRIEND OF TIO$T 101 T IE.LPE TEDY IE! lE BEAT Y. J. RYAN SHELDON TELL OF FRAU -e Swears Archbold, Morgan. Fricl and Gould Each Gave One HundrW Thousand Dollars to Booseelt'a Campalga Fund According to the Records of Treasure Bmes. Four contributions of $100,000 each from John D. rchbold. of the Standard Oil Company; J. P. MorgSa & Co., H. C. Frick and George 3 Gould, were made to the Republica national campaign fund of 1904 when Roosevelt ran against W. 3 Bryan, according to records of the late Cornelius N. Bliss, which - pass' ed through- the hands of George B. Sheldon. treasurer of the 1908 Re publican committee, who testified on Wednesday before the Senate com snittee investigating campaign ex pendituXO$. Mr. Sheldon said Mr. Bliss gave him a detailed statement of the 1904 funds; that he noted "these large contributions." and tb -he wa th positive no record appeeed of the $100,000 Archbold contributlpn hay lug been returned. With equal poe. itiveness, he swore that the records showed the disputed Edward H. Har riman fund of $240,000 had been received by -Mr. Blias for the New York Republican State committee, - headed by B. B. Ode, Jr. - "That fund of $240,000 was rais ed at the request of B. B. Odell." said Mr. Sheldon. "and turned over to his committee in its entirety." Mr. Bliss's records 'showed it.. was en troly apart from the funds spent by the national committee." Mr. Shel don's statements were made in a lull of a day of wrangle between Senator Joseph M. Dixon, manager of CoL Roosevelt's present campaign, and members of the Senate committee. Senator. Dixon charged the com mittee with concentrating its activ ities upon the Roosevelt funds and ignoring the financial activities in behalf of all other candidates, Re publican and Democratic alike. Committee members heatedly denied this, declaring that arrngements for the investigation had been lef entirely in the hands of Chairman Clapp, a strog!g supporter of the -progressive national 4andidate and that managers for all candidates had been subpoenaed to testify. Published' statements of Govern er Wilson and Senator LaFollette, that they did not receive $70,000 contributions from Charles R. Crane. t'estifed to by E. H. Hooker, will result in the calling of Mr. Crane as a witness at an early gate . Senator Dixon demanded as soonlBh tok the stand, and repeatedly ther out his testimony, that the; commit tee examine "before election" every one who handled funds or might have contributed to tne pre-conven tion ign of Mr. Taft, Wilson, Underwood. Harmon. Clark or La Folette. Statements by Chairman~ Clapp and other members of the~ commit tee, that these men had been sum moned did not silence Senator Ilx on's demands, or his assertion that Col. Roosevelt was not getting a "square deal." 'The charge brought .a sharp retort from Chairman Clapp, who said the statement" reflects upon the one -member of this committee who Is friendly to Co1. Roosevelt." Senator Dixon accounted for over $96,000 more' of Roosevelt's funds in the flght'tefore the Republican National Convention, at Chicago. This was collected and expended by him personally. he said. He had kept no accurate records, .he said. -the money "going out as t&st as it came in," but over $52.;000 was spent in the conduct of campaign ac tivity from the Washingtn head Th fun handled by Senator Dix n was largely contributed by George W. Perkins, Frank A. Monsey and Dan R. Hanna. The Senator said e tried' to distribute the burden equally amongst the three~men and thought each had given.about $25 - 000, while William Eno gave $ 000, and other smaller amounts. This fund of $96,000, was in addi tion he said, to the $163,000 handl *d by E. H. Hooker. at New York. for the city primary fight. and the New York Branch of the national Roosevelt committee, and the $102, 000 gIven by William Flinn, in Penn sylvania. The amounts contributed by Mr. Perkins, Mr. Miunsey and Mr. Hanna also were in addition to their contributions to the New York fund. Senator Dixon declared he would tell anything he could about Roose velt funds, but he Insisted that the *committee show as much activity to warn other candidates as It han to wars the Progressive candidate. Hie said he had been Informed that large sums had been contributed for tbe support of Taft, Wilson, Under wood, Harmon and Clark. Attempts by Senator Pomeron' 1.o et the names of the informants brought on a bitter exchange. Tvie Senator Pomerene appealed to Chair man Clapp to compel Senator Dixon to give the names of men who knew about these funds. Senator1 Dicon said what he had stated was "com mon rumor," and that he had re elvd much of his Information fromr Roosevelt leaders in the differeni istricts, where It was hard to pin down Informast)a t) e-:rtainl personli Aften Senator Dixon had admitted that he did not know what arrange ments th., omimittee h 1. I made foi 4restigatng the funds of other can didates. Senator Pom?"ne enarced the Roosevelt manager with attempt * g "to slander the committe-.' Senator Dixon's references to cam pagn activities for Governor Rar mon whom Senator Pome~ene had supported, intensified the feeling be tween the two men. When Senaiol Dixon demanded of Senator Pomer one where Governor Harmon ha-: made a publio statement of his ex peditures, the Ohio Senator had rse, grasped the arms of his chair glared at the witness an I sail "I you'll sten outside I'll answer that' Many Make This Mistak. t is a mistake to estimate the value of a man by the external a; pratus of life Instead of by its in n) abUilty. LYNCHER IN PRISON WHERE HE HAD BEEN TAKEN TO SAVE HIM FROM A MOB. But Convicts in the Prison Learning That the Negro Had Assaulted a White Woman Hanged Him. Details of the lynching of Frank Wigfall, the negro assailant of Mrs. Esther Higgins, known as the "pris oners' friend," by the convicts of the State penitentiary at Rawlins, Wyo., Wednesday, while Sheriff Willis, at the county jail, was holding off a party of would-be citizen lynchers may never be known. The sinister threat, 'the first man who squeals is the next man hung," silenced all the convicts and prison guards examined by a coroner's jury The jury gave up the task late Wed nesday afternoon, without learning anything. Wigfall was placed in the county jail late Tuesday for safe keeping, af ter his capture at Fort Steel. When the mob surged about the jail early Wednesday morning the sheriff prob ably saved the prisoner's life by slip ping him out unseen and rushing him to the penitentiary nearby. Wigfall was placed in a cell, which soon aftr prisoners marching to breakfast had to pass. As they filed by the uegro made slighting remarks of his crime. With the mob at the jail still clamoring for the negro, about one hundred of the -prisoners broke loose immediately after breakfast and l made a dash for the negro, who also had been taken to breakfast. The guard was overpowered before he 1 could thrust the negro into a cell and himself locked in the cell by the in- F furiated convicts. One of the convicts produced a rope and while the others held the negro he tossed a half hitch over the negro's head and made the other end t fast to the balcony rail of the cell i house. The negro was tossed over the railway and the convicts march- e ed back to their work. Not until the cries of the imprisoned guard e brought other guards was the lynch- 2 ing known to any one except those t who took part in it. Sunday night Wigfall broke into i Mrs. Higgins' house, chopping down a t door with an axe. About dawn Mon- r day he left her in a pitiful condition. t A few hours later she crawled to a t neighbor's house and told what hap- e pened. Posses searched the hills all j Monday night for the aged woman's i: assailant. Late Tuesday night he c was catured in an exhausted condli- c tion by a justice of tne peace. BLEW HIMSELF TO PIECES. Sat on Load of Dynamite and Touch- d ed it Ofr. r The chance encounter at West Pei- n ham, Mass., Wednesday of Mrs. Jen- e nie B. Shaw and her husband, Geo. v Shaw, a wealthy farmer whom she c left two years ago, was followed by a barbarous attack upon the wife by the husband and his self-destruction. a The woman had come from Hartford, onn., to visit her son's grave, was I seen and pursued by the husband. t He opened fire upon her as she rode with two other women in a bug- t gy. The horse ran away, throwing e the woman out, Mrs. Shaw having been shot twice through the abdo- e men. Shaw then fell upon her, beat- e ing her in the face with his fists and c striking her with the revolver butt t until she was insensible. - Authorities soon afterward found t parts of Shaw's body strewn over a r field near his home. They ascertain ed that after filling a stump with dy- y namite Shaw had sat upon the stump ; and then discharged the explosive. e Mrs. Shaw cannot live. The two had r been married many years but had not a seen each other since the wife left. r The cause of their disagreement nev-i r was disclosed. r BEES STUNG MULES TO DEATH. t Two Animals Overturn Hives With t , Fatal Result. t t Two mules, belonging to Andrew e Long, a prosperous farmer, residing i about two miles north of Gilb 3t, r Lexington County, were stung so bad ly by bees one day last week that c both died from the effects of the a stings. It seems that Mr. Long had t loaded his wagon with cott sa and' a had left the mules standin-i. They r grazed around and ran upon tue I hives, turning two of the gumsI over. The bees immediately swarme.1 and c compltely covered the animals. One t of the mules died a short while after- a wards: the other the following day. , .The loss falls heavily on Mr. Long, r who is a hard-working, industrious r citizen. Long anad Gunter are Held. A coroner's jury at Wagener re- 1 turned a verdict on Tuesiay that t Pikens N. Gunter came to his death by a gunshot wound at the hands of t Hugh C. Long and Hayes Gunter was an accessory to the shootnig. Dr. D. I B. Portwood, who was arrested on a , warrant charging him with being anr accessory to the shooting and taken to jail was released after the coron-' er's jury returned its verdict. IC Gets a Large Reward. Sheriff Poole, of Greenville. has turned the reward of $700 offered by the State for the arrest of T. U. I Vaughn over to R. E. Allen Jr., the Greenville boy attending a medical . school in Baltimore, who detected him in a church. Allen, it is under stood, has agreed to turn over $300 I o the amount to the detectives who I made the arrest. Fell Dead at Telephone. A telephone message that he was about to be arrested charged with op erating a handbook so frightened Joseph Sohickling. aged 52, at Cin cinnati. 0.. Wednesday. that he drop-' ped dead at the telenhone. South Carolina Lutheran Synod. The program for the meeting of the South Carolina Lutheran Synod has been announced. This year it meets in Newberry with the church of the Redeemer, commencing October 22, an4 continuing through the 26th. Ten Children burned Up. At St. Bernard, Quebec, ten chil dren, 18 months to 15 years old, were burned to death in their home during the absence of their parents, itaander Gravel and his wife. GIVES SOME CASE IRRE5IlLAI 81 fRAUDULENT VOl ING IN COUNTIES REPORT BY COMMITTE [n Some Boxes Dead Men, Negroi and Boys Under Age Were Allow ed to Vote.-At- Other Places Me Who Could Not be Found Wer Recorded as Voting. The following report in referent :o irregular or fraudulent voting i :he Brst primary was made by th ,ub-committee of the Democrati tate executive committee appointe o investigate the many charges c vaud in the first primary: Abbeville County-The boxes < treville and Cold Springs are th ;nly boxes about which there is an inestion. In those it seems that th nanagers were not sworn, and som >f the voters were not sworn. C he votes cast at those boxes Gol llease received 186, Judge Jones 5( )uncan 6. Total 242. Aiken County-This county wa arefully abstracted. The votes a he Bath precinct were challenge end the proof is undisputed that th managers were not sworn. At tha precinct there were 149 votes cast n addition to that irregularity, I ras proved by affidavits that a num er of parties voted who were no itizens of South Carolina. Nearl: .11 of them, however, voted at Bat] recinct and are embraced in 141 otes. A few other votes were cas y parties that were charged wit] t being eligible to vote, runnin, he total number of challenged vote a Aiken county to 189. Anderson County-In Andersol ounty there appears to have bees 52 votes cast by voters not on the lub roll and one case by a colore< ian without the proof required b: he rules of the party. As far as the committee examin g the poll lists were able to report here were 78 instances of the sam' .ame being on the club roll more han once, running from two to fv imes, and in one instance as high a ight. The average is safely three large number of affidavits show. g that in many instances this oc urred by there being several person the same name have been filer rith us and are herewith submitte< -ith the evidence. Total challenged in Andersot unty, 487. This running down o1 upicates extended down througl ie letter "f". Berkeley County-The authoritie: sported ten votes cast by person; at on the club roll and one alien vot d.. Affidavits were filed that liquoi as used at Friendship precinct b: runty candidates. Charleston County-The newspa er there published the club roll: nd the authorities at our expens' iade an alphabetical list of the pot ets, but they were not published it fe paper. The club rolls and poll lists hav een checked partially against eaci ter and no irregularities found. Cherokee County-There is report d votes of 28 persons not on the lub roll, but the committee of thi outy executive committee reporte( hat they were, satisfied that thter' ras no fraud practiced in the elec on in Cherokee county, but some ir agularities. In Darlington county there are 11 oes apparently irregular and unex laed. There were 57 votes at La tar reported as not being on the clui o1. The report of the manageri bows that they were on the clul ol which was formerly adopted. bu attempting to transcribe from tha al to the alphabetical roll thee ames were left off, and that the: sed the official roll and every mai oted was on the roll. In Dillon 43 names were added t< e certified club roll on the day o e election, but the affidavits stat< bat they were taken from the oli lub roll used two years ago, not hay 2g been brought forward before ti ol was certified to. The committee has received letter! harging that 34 men voted at ti laple mIlls and also at Dillon, an! at one man voted at Latta and ala< : Kirby, and that no poll lists a: ianagers' oaths were sent in fron ~ermuda. This committee has asked tit nunty chairman to send up copies o e club rolls and poll lists, and fo: ny other information In its posses ion in order that it might deter 2inued these, but has received n< eponse. In Dorchester County there were 25 votes counted at Summervill hat voted in the wrong boxes. I as reported by letter that minor t Pregnals' precinct but neithe ames or proof were furnished, al bough requested. The Greenville committee reporte< 28 votes in Central. where 752 vote rere ast, in which the voters coul tot be found. They reported 24 epetitions on the poll list and say We are satisfied, however, that ensiderable portion of this duplica ion is natural abd proper, due to th lentity of names in different com nunities. On the other hand, man >f those names thus duplicated aim eear to be repeated on the part c hose 'voting'." They reported tha .good many voted without hein In Greenwood County there ar -eported 179 men as voting who ar iot on the club rolls and there are 4. tmes that appear twIce; but the: tve not investigated as to whethe hey were repeaters or different me: >f the same name. In Hampton County twenty-Eeve nen reported as voting whose name t'ere not on the club roll, at Cam Branch; and they report that other rere allowed to vote without bein mn the club roll, but no fraudi hharged. The sub-committee of the sub-con rittee went to Orangeburg to asce: aa why the poll lists were lost.I leveloped there that the county e: icutive committee had appointed sb-committee to investigate the los ,f the poll lists, as well as any othe trregularities in the election. The reported that they could find oi The sub-committee of the sul committee had a public hearing. toc the evidence of the officers of 1 -,u- pnpmanY an evidence froi REPORT ON COTTON THE CENSUS BUREAU'S SECOND 'GINERY REPORT. South Carolina Ginning Considerable E Behind Last Year's, While Texas is Much Larger. The second cotton ginning report 6 of the census bureau, announced that 3,015,033 bales of cotton of the growth of 1912 had been ginned prior to September 25, counting round as * half bales. To that date last year 3, 676,594 bales, or 23.6 per cent. of the entire crop had been ginned; in 1908 to that date 2,500,639 bales or 19.8 per cent. of the crop had been e ginned, and in 1906 to that date 2, 057,283 bales of 15.8 per cent. of the d crop had been ginned. Ginnings prior to September 25, by states, with com parisons for last year and other big crop years, with the percentage of the entire crop ginned to that date e in previous years, follows: e Alabama. e States. Ginnings. PerCt. f 1912 .. .. .. .. 194.334 . 1911 .. .. .. .. 360,244 21.2 , 1908 .. .. .. .. 316,349 23.7 1906 .. .. .. .. 221,851 17.9 s Arkansas. t 1912 .. .... ..40,447 -- 1911 .. .. .. .. 43,626 4.8 e 1908 .. .. .. . . 80,465 8.1 t 1906 .. .. .. .. 35,837 4.0 Florida. - 1912 .. .. .. .. 9,575 2.0 t 1911 .. .. .. .. 21,510 29.8 r 1908 .. .. .. . . 16,657 23.6 1 1906 .. . .. -.. 10,479 17.0 Georgia. t 1912 .. .. .. .. 273,086 .... 1 1911 ......... .. 765,697 27.4 1908 .. .. .. .. 514,898 26.0 s 1906 .. .. . . .. 281,585 17.2 1 1912 .. .. .. .. 73,657 .... 1911 .. .. .. .. 89,069 23.4 1908 ....79,042 16.9 1906 .. .. .. .. .139,511 14.6 Mississippi. - 1912 .. .. .. .. 59,226 . . 1911 .. .. .. .. 96,829 8.3 1908 .. .. .. .. 199,001 12.3 1906 .. .. .. ..156,573 ' 10.6 North Carolina. 1912 .. .. .. ... 102,999 .. 1911 .. .. .. .. 156,390 13.9 1908 .. .. .. .. 89,063 18.0 1906 .. .. .. .. 44,877 7.0 Oklahoma. 1 1912 .. .. .. .. 78,453 .... 1911 .. .. . .. . 116,328 11.4 1908. .. .. .. .. 5,705 0.8 1906 .. .. .. .. 17,570 2.0 1 South Carolina. 1912 .. .. .. .. 177,827 . . 1911 . . . . - -- 338,090 20.0 1908 .. .. .. .. 289,969 23.8 1906 .. .. .. .. 131,262 14.4 Tennessee. 1912 .. .. .. .. 992 ... 1911 .. .. .. .. 15,541 3.6 1908 .. .. .. .. 28,109 S.4 1906 .. .. .. .. 7,394 2.5 1 Texas. 1912 .. .. .. ..2,001,697 1911 .. .. .. -.1,667,875 40.6 1908 .. .. .. .. 966,607 2F 6 1906 .. .. .. ..1,008,856 25.51" All Other State. 1912..........2740 .. 1911 ........ .... 6,395 3.91 1908 .... .... 4,774 6.5 1906 .... ......1,488 - 2.2 -REMOVED TO COLUM~BIA. Long Taken From Alken Jail to the - Penitentiary. SRepresentative-elect Hugh Long, Swho at Wagener Saturday afternoon tweek ago inflicted the wounds where from Pickens Gunter, bank presi dent, died Monday might, was at 1 o'clock Tuesday night taken to the State Penitentiary in Columbia, os tensibly for safe keeping. He -left Aiken on the so-called midnight train, accompanied by nis wife and Sherix T. B. Raborn. Some have pro nounced this step as over-precaution ary, believing that the existing con ditions failed to warrant such action, but It Is well known that, particular Sly since the death of Mr. Gunter, the feeling in Wagener, though not run nig to riotous demonstration, is cer tainly strong against Mr. Long. DEMANDS BIG AMOUNT.I Wnts Twenty Million Dollars For r False Imprisonment. -Governor Dix, of New York, has received a letter signed "J. P. WInn, Denver, Colo.," in which the writer demands "an apology from you as governor of the state of New York and $20,000,000 damages for fals-s imprisonment and frustration of nay rlife." -"Unless my demands are complied with," the communication continues, "I shall enter suit agamnst New York SState. I am backed by the army and Snavy of the United States." SGovernor Dix said he did not take the matter seriously, but would turn it over to his legal adviser. two of the members of the sub-corn - mittee. As a result it was found that ,the poll lists had very mysteriously . disappeared. The committee sent to Orangeburg reports that the carelessness dis Splayed in that county-said careless ness being the usual custom used in that county in not preserving all the records pertaining to the election, is severely condemned. In Richland County two hundred r and ninety-two votes cast In dupli-I Scate names, which the committee re ports are some of them explained l'j being two persons having the same aname; and we have not been able to ascertain how many are In that skua stion. In Spartanburg County there were s 232 lrregular votes reported, such as voting and not on the club roll, or -like irregu.arities, and 559 apparent -repeaters were shown by the lists of tvoters whose names appear more than once. Running these down dmontrated the fact, by a great s mass of affidavits, which are herewith rsubmitted, that these apparent repe titions were largely due to different mtren having the same name, and were not in fact repeaters; the same ex Sperence having been had in the k county of Anderson. eYork county reports 6- irregular - votea, THEY PRAISE TAFT EPUBLICANS TO NAME AN ELEC TORIAL TICKET. No State Convention Will Be Held Nor Will Any State Ticket Be Nominated. Tht State says the Republicar State Executive Committee with 29 counties represented was held in Co. lumbia on Monday and adopted a res olution indorsing President Taft for re-election and issued a call for dis trict conventions to be held when candidates for congress will be nam ed to contest with the Democratic nominees in every district in the State. A subcommittee of nine mem bers was namtd to prepare a list of electors to be approved by the entire committee. The committee decided not to call a State convention at pres ent and not to put out a State ticket. The committee met upon the call o1 J. R. Tolbert, the State chairman and the names of "the niae citizens who are all worthy, upr:ght inen.' who are to be on the electoral ticket will be made public soon. A roll cell develope1 that thera gas not a member of thj comnittee %l~o favored the candidacy of The.: dore Roosevelt. Members of the com ittee said that it was the intention 1o oust all supporters of the Bull doose party. The following resoln tion was adopted by the committee: "The Republican party presents as ts candidate for president Lite Hon. William Howard Taft of Ohio. His idministration of the offlc3 of presi lent of the United States has been narked by the passage of more meas ares of real progress than any pre rious administration. He has con lucted the affairs of the nation with wisdom and prudence, but without rain and spectacular display and ias appealed to the reason of men Lnd not to their emotions, puasions >r prejudices. Above all he has been he president of the whole c,>untry Ld not merely the president of a section; he has been the president ,or all the people and has In every way labored in the interests of the people as a whole without regard to )arty, creed or class. No man even at in the White House who has ihown such an interest as he has ibown in the welfare, the progress nd pappiness of the South. No can !date for president has had greater -ight to ask or expect the suffrages f the citizens of the South than has he present incumbent, who at all times and in all seasons and circum itances has been the president of a -eunited country and maintained hat the South was entitled to re .eive the same fair and impartial reatment as that accorded other ections of our common country. "Therefore, the Republican party f South Carolina appeals to all cit zens of South Carolina, without re tard to previous political affiliations, ho believe In fair play and a square eal, who believe in progress on safe tnd sane lines, who believe in main aining our constitutional and repre ientative form of government, who elieve that the people of this State hould be politically free and no long r bound in the cast iron straight lacket of the Southern Democratic _arty, to cast Aheir votes for Presi lent Taft. "The Republicans of South Caro ia have placed in the field as can !dates for the e!k 'toral college nihe :itizens who are all worthy, upright nen, and who command the respect f the communities In which they iv. An opportunity is now offered or every man in this State to vote in Spresidential race his honest con rictions. . "We urge all true men to vote for :he ticket, which in their honest udgment will best promote the in erest of 'the whole country. "We hereby declare that all mem ers of the Republican State execu ie committee, as at present consti uted, are loyal members of the Re >ubllcan party and hereby pledge ~urselves and the organization we re resent to support the candidates and latform held last June in Chicago." PLUNGES DOWN TO DEATH. Five Thousand Spectators See the Awful Accident. With 5,000 persons watching him t the Inter-state fair grounds at Frnton, N. J., Thursday afternoon, has. F. Walsh; -while making a spir L descent In a biphane, fell 2,000 feet to instant death about a quar :er of a mile outside the fair grounds. Practically every bone in ais body was broken and his face Ld body were badly cut. Walsh had been giving exhibitions at the fair' l week and Thursday for the first :ime was doing fancy stunts in tht ir with the machine. He was very uigh Thursday. probably 5,000 feet, is he becan his descent. He was aking the spiral descent with the rront of the machint pointed almost straight downward when he lost con trol. Walsh could plainly be seen struggling to regain his balance, but without avail. The machine then be scent to the earth and the large raumbtr of spectators realized that he aviator's death was imminent. Sheets and Kills His Father. At Troy. Ala., Charlie Wilson was shot and instantly killed there after de made an alleged attack upon his wife. Wilson is alleged to have hreatened to kill his wife for having tm arrested charged with abusing tier. The boy remonstrated with his ather, and the latter is said to have threatened to kill him. The boy stepped into an adjoining room, se ured a shotgun and then blew his father's brains out. Killed on War Tessel. Lieut. Donald P. Morrison was kill e and eight men were injured Tues day by the explosion of the stdanr chest on the torpedo boat destroyer Walke. The accident occurred ofi Brenton's Reef lightship while the Walke was preparing for her second quarterly trial. Lieut. Morrison en tered the service from Missouri it 1902. William Suizer Nominated. WIlliam Sulzer, Representative It Congress from New York City. wat nominated for Governor early Wel. nesday morning by the New Yorlb Democratic State Conv'ention. It was the seventh time he had been a can daida for this nomination, SHOT IN HIS STORI A COLORED MERCHANT KILLEI BY ROBBERS NEGROES 0l0 SHOOTIN( George Hanford, a Colored Merchan1 of Darlington, Was Shot to Deati in His Store in that City on Thus day Night by Two Negro Bobbers Who Made Their Escape. A special dispatch from Darling ton to The News and Courier says George Hanford, colored, was shoi and killed in his store at the corner of Main Street and Avenue D, Thur. day night about nine o'clock. There were no witnesses to the shooting ex cept the two negroes who did the shooting and made their escape. Elias Davis, an aged negro, whc lives with Hanford and his wife it the small house adjoining and attach ed to the store, was sitting on the piazza and heard the shot, and sal two negroes leave in a run. Robbery was the motive, it is thought, as it is said the same ne groes held up and robbed Elias Fur. man in his store about two blocks away just before the killing of Han ford occurred. They took about $8G from Furman. Peter Smalls, also colored, was ai the FuFman store at the time of the robbery, and he and Furman identi fled one of the three susbects. arrest ed Thursday as being the one that went through his pockets while the other one held a pist ol on him. Apparently they had robbed Han ford and were making their way out of the store, and owing to -Hanford's loud cries and shouts of "robbers' they turned back; and it seems that Hanford must have been following them towards the door, and he, too, turned when he found they were coming back because it was just at this time that the shot was fired and from an examination of the wound it was found that the ball had enter ed from the back and made its way through his heart and out of his chest. An inquest was held over the re mains of Hanford Thursday by Cor cner John H. Kelly, and a jury found that the deceased came to his death from wounds inflicted by some per son br persons unknown to them. Sheriff Register and his deputies have been dilligent and have exert ed themselves vigorously in their ef forts to apprehend the guilty ones. Three negroes were arrested at Dar lington the following day. All stran gers. Circumstances, together with the identification by Furman . and Small, point strongly to the guilt of the accused. There is less proof against the other two, but upon being arrested they were found to have pistols on them, and are now being held to' answer for this offence. PARACHUTE FAILED TO OPEN. A Man and a -Boy Is Killed in Drop from a Balloon. Lorenzo Howland, 15.-year-old son of L. D. Howland, and H. C. Petty, an aeronaut, fell 500 feet from a balloon and were instantly killed ad the State Fair grounds at Tuseum bia, Ala., on Tuesday. The tragedy was witnessed by a large crowd of spectators, which had assembled to witness the ascension. Howland previously had been standing near the balloon while it was being inflated. When It soared upward spectators were startled to see him dangling head down from one of the ropes on the balloon. In somt manner Howland's feet became entangled in the rope before the bal loon was turned loose. The aeronaut made heroic efforts to rescue the lad from his perilous position. When the balloon had reached a height of about 508 feel he cut the parachute loose from the balloon and both men began to drop swiftly downward. For some reason the parachute failed to open. The men plunged tc the earth and were killed. Howland struck the "earth first and the aero naut landed on top of him. When spectators reached the two men both were dead. MONEY LOST AND GAINED. Amount Foreigners Brought in and Carried Out. The 1,114,919 aliens em'grants as well as aliens temporarily here, ar rhing in this country durmng the last 14 months, brought $46,712,69J7. The immigrants carried $33,122,550. They had an average of $38 per capi a darmng the fiscal yet.- and $40 ic 'g the two months MI'wit.g These figures are given In a com parative report made to Commission e- Keefe of the Immigration bureau. The report shows that the tide of immigration is running stronger than a year ago, that the 58 per cent. grrater for July and August, .al. though that the first five months of the fiscal year ran heavily behind the previous year's figures. Of the fiscal year's arrivals 1.6 per cent. were debarred from this coun try.~ The Immigrants from Canada carried the greatest amount per cap ia and those crossing the Siexican border had least money. Shot by Unknown Man. At Benson, N. C., John Smith, a well known horse dealer of Smith field, N. C., was shot and killed and his brother, James Smith, was seri ously cut in a fight there Monday night. James Smith went Into a res taurant, where there were four un known men, and picked up a chip lying on a chair. An altercation was started and knives drawn. John Smith entering during the fight, was shot through the body and died soot a fterward. IBought Up Entire Town. All the residents of the town 01 Con owingo, Md., have b-'en ordered t.> vacate their houses at once. The entire village has been purchased by 1a power development comnany and will be flooded In connuk~u with the erection of a big power dam ac ross the Susquehanna river. Tb4 noulation of Conowingo is aboui 40n. EIGHT ARE KNOWN DEAD AIEN MAN AMONG INJURED IN WRECK OF EXPRESS. Many Passengers Probably Caught In Burning Wreckage, Which May Increase Death List. At least eight persons were killed late Thursday, when the negine of the second section of the Springfield Express, bound from Boston to New York, failed to take a cross-over and nearly the entire train was ditched near the Westport-Sagatuck station, on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. It is believed the injured will run to fifty. Four parlor cars, heaped up in a mass of wreckage, immediately burst into fames, which brobably imprisoned and killed some passen gers. The exact number of fatali ties in the wreck is not known and may not be determined for some hours. The identified dead are: G. L. Clark, engineer; J. 3: Moker, fire man; Mrs. James B. Brady, of Al bany, N. Y.; two children of Mrs. Brady. There are also three uni dentifed bodies, two of them wo men. The injured includes: Elliott Har rison, of Aiken, S. C., leg broken. The locomotive, which was run ning at high speed, went over on its side, after leaving the roadbed, and the boiler, to all appearances, ex ploded. Engineer Clark was taken out alive, but died soon afterward. Joseph J. Moker, his fireman, was crushed to death. The baggage car and the four chair cars next follow ing it were overturned, and in these occurred the loss of life. The three day coaches, although derailed, re mained upright. The wreck carried down the poles bearing telegraph wires and delay ensued before out side assistance could be called. The South Norwalk fre depart ment was called ouqand began work ing on the burning cars and surgeons were summoned from nearby towns. Meantime darkness had fallen and the work of rescue of the injured passengers was slow. The fire burn ed several hours in the wreckage. The dead,, except the engineer were all believed to have been pas sengers in the first chair car. Fears are held that in thia car many pas sengers lost their lives. Under the wreckage were found the bodies of two women, who died with hands clasped. TRAIN GOES INTO DITCH. Engine and Three Cars of Passenger Train Derailed.. Passenger Train No. 32 from Au gusta to Florence was wrecked just as it a&T. roached the stuti:i at : nE Star Wednesday afternoon. The en gine and three cars went down al embankment that is variously stated to be from eight to eighteen feet. Engineer J. L. Wysong was severe, injured. He was throws' out on the side that the engine fell antI was our led under the coal from the tender until only his head and hands were left out. His escape was a most remarkable one, and he would have been very much worse injured had it not been for the fact that he remained con scions and could direct the rescuing party In their work of digging him out from the coal and wrecked ten der. His ankle was terribly dislo cated and there were concussions on his head and body, but Dr. Gregg, who met him at Sumter says that the injuries will not be -serlious. This same foot was injured ivi. an accident some years ago on the E. . and G. road In which Mr. Wysong had nearly as narrow escape as ne had Wednesday nght. Mail clerk M. S. Broom was slightiy hurt, and ser era! other of the crew had injuries that were so slight that in the first excitement of the wreck they passed ur'noticed. A physician wno was a passenger on the train gave the first attention to Mr. Wysong's Injuries. A relief train was sent out from Sumter with Dr. China in charge. The passengers were carried to Flor ence- shortly after one o'clock. The track was cleared for 85 to pass go ing to Augusta Thursday morniag but the wrecked engine will be some time in getting in. The accident was one of those that might have happened from a number or causes, but nothing definite can be said of it now. FATHER AND SON SENTENCED. Given Fifteen and Seven Years Im prisonment. Fifteen years and seven years, re spectively, at hard labor in the State Penitentiary or upon the pn~blic works of Lexington County. was the sentence of the Court at Lexington Friday in the case of Jacob Watts and Govan Watts, father and son, who were convicted of manslaughter in the General Sessions Court last week. The two were charged with the killing of Adam Watts, a Confed rate soldier, 72 years old, the 7th o' August last. Adam Watts was the brother of Jacob Watts and an uncle of Govan Watts, and the killing oc curred after a general row in the home of the aged veteran. Judge Sipp said that he would show the boy mercy on account of his youth, and that he hoped that he would yet make a good, law-abiding citizen. Jacob Watts, according to his testi mony on the stand, is now 51 years of age, while his son is only 19. * Back to the Days of Cheap Eggs. The Greenville Piedmont says: "We can remember when you could buy six eggs for a nickle." The New berry Observer says "those were good old days undoubtedly; but I can re member when eggs, fresh from the est, sold in Prosperity for 8 1-3 cents a dozen from merchants at that price, they having taken them in trade. But "never again". Once upo,U a time we bought two dozen eggs from a man for fifteen cents which had four teen chickens concealed in them for hich he made no .charge. Automobile Kills Oongressmnan. Congressman Carl C. Anderson of Fostorio. O., was instantly killed Wednesday night when the automo bile in which he was riding turned o-er near that city'. INTRUDER IS SHOT A CHARLESTON LADY GRAPPLES WITH A BUGLAR WHO ENTERED HER HUE Young Wife Holds Burly Intruder While Her Husband Comes With Pistol-Negro Wrenches Himself Loose and Darts Through Back Door Amid Fusillade of Shots. The News and- Courier says after a hand to hand struggle with Mrs. Rooney, the young wife of Mr. John D. Rooney, Jr., paymaster of the Clyde Line Steamship Company, Ben jamin Brint, a large and powerful negro man was found in Mr. Roon ey's apartments at 90 Wentworth street Thursday morning about five o'clock, broke loose from the strong hold of the young lady, only to be. shot in the left lung by her husband as the negro tried to make his es cape through the back door of the house. The negro at present isly house. The negro at present is ly per Hospital, where he was taken immediately after the shooting. The presence of mind displayed by - Mrs. Rooney and the cool manner in which she acted dugng the struggle was remarkable. She was aroused' from sleep by the cries of her moth er, Mrs. A. J. Carey, on the third floor, that a burglar was in the house, and rushed out in the hall way, catching the intruder by the lapels of his coat, while her husband followed with a revolver in, his hand. As soon as Brint saw Mr. Roony approaching he broke away from the grasp of Mrs. Rooney and start ed for the door, and at this move ment fr. Rooney fired the first shot at the fleeing man. His aim was bad. however, and the bullet went wild. but one of the two other shots fired at Brint as he was hurrying down the back stairs struck him in .the left lung. The mere fact that he had a bullet lodging in his breast did not stop Brint, for he continued tc make his exit through the gate after reaching the yard, Mr. Rooney fired two more shots at the burglar from the piazza, as he ran through the yard, but missed him. That a burglar was in the house was first discovered by Mrs. Carey when she was disturbed by the noise of some one creeping up the stairs leading to the third floor. where she was'asleep in the front room. Mrs. - Carey, thinking that it was her son who was coming up to get a blanket from one of the rooms, called to him in a low voice. Not receiving a re ply, she got up and went to the door and asked who it was. The man said something in a low tone that Mrs. Carey couldn't hear. She called again, and he told her that he was a travelling salesman. . she was not keeping a boarding house, Mrs. Carey thought that -the man had made a mistake. How ever, as she opened the screen door, she recognized the man as a negro, who had by that time come close up to her. He was asked his business, and stated that the boss sent him to get some clothing. Mrs. Carey, who was frightened by this time, told the negro "to get out." When Bint started down the steps, Mrs. Carey screamed. tMr. and Mrs. Rooney, who reside with Mrs. Carey, and whose room s on the second floor, heard the hreks of the elder lady. tMrs. Roon ey Immediately went to the door, while Mr. Rooney grabbed his re volver. Mrs. Rooney was the first o reach the hall way, and was con fronted with the big negro as he, sme down the steps. She seized him -by the lapels of his coat, and held him until Brint ibroke loose when he saw Mr. Rooney -advancing with the pistol grasped in his hand. As Brint was making his escape through the door, the husband put his firearm to use, and followed up the first shot until he had emptied the revolver. Policeman Lafourcade, who heard the report of the -fve shots In the stillness of the night, hurried to the house. and was told .by Mr. Rooney that he had shot a negro who was found on the premises. The police man instituted a search and found Brint lying on his back in the door way of Dr. Ball's ofice, a few doors rom Mrs. Carey's residence, bleed ng from a wound In the left breast. He was arrested and sent to the hospital, where he now lies, with little prospects of recovery, under he surveilance of a policeman. The negro evidently entered the house from the gate, which was ac idently left open. It is thought ha- he came up the back steps S., ar as the sceond floor, and that as he doors of the back rooms were securely locked, he crept up 'the front stair case, until diseavered Finger prints of the negro's hands ould be seen on the steps. 'Mr. J. D. Rooney; Jr., is the pop lar paymaster of the local Clyde Line offices. He is a most excellent oung man, and is known and ad :iired by a large circle of friends, many ot whom commended him highly, when they learned of the manner in which he handled a diffi ult situation. Mr. Rooney is the son of Capt. J. D. Rooney, Sr., one of the most courteous and efficient of the stewards of the Clyde fleet of - steamers. Brint is a negro paint~er, and for the last few weeks has beBen working at Oakley. He came to Charleston Wednesday and placed an order for a supply of paint with a local house. He states that he does not know what made him go into the house. Bashful Lover Sent Proxy. Robert E. Alexander, a young of Atlanta, Ga., didn't have the nerve to ropose to pretty 18-year-old Hattie ood. so he got a policeman to do it. 'he person of .brass buttons, hand uffs, and authority, was gone but a few minutes when the following mnes sage was sent to the youth: "Go buy our license, Robert; she's accepted." -Eost Her Life for Hat. Caroline Coiner, a negro cook, was struck by a Southern Railway lace motve Wednesday night just South of Danville, VTa., and killed. While rossing the track ahead of the en gine her hat blew off and she turned o recvar It with fatal conseQtie#Ce,