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PMlD SOUTH CAROLINA mm / 11 of the News Gathered Yrors (Va I Sections of the Commonwealth pJL r ^any Readers. ^ :cvict Died After Whipping. ^ irsday afternoon W. II. Woodsui>eri:iteuik*iit of uang Xo. 2 \ ;i P c I waui%? v\us ^ lit to Aiken and lodged in jail, ? ed with the murder of James ^ tell, a convict who d ed at the several weeks azo. The warD an which Woodward vas arrestk is sworn out by Am'erson Ilisrh, father-in-law of Junes Mitch> . the time of Mitchell's death the "t ?f inquest rendered i verdict to ^ N Tect that Mitchell ?aine to his from being competed to work f sick. The inquest was not enk . satisfaetory to all parties con, and Coroner Johtson reopen| i inquest, and reenpaneled the which rendered the same ver' second time. I hell was sent to 1hc gang for t term. After working a few he is alleged to have been h1. After striking him a few it is said, Mitel oil told Mr. card that he siek. This he first time > f, Woodward ?f his being: siek. K? states, and lediatelv sent liini to tho camp, naincd too siek to work that id the night of the following '. W. S. Kubanks was sent for inistcr to him. That was Satnigrht, and he died about 3 Sunday morning. Cotton Mill for Newberry. uilding of a third eotton mill erry is an assured fact. Subs are being taken and the O is hanked on liv snmo ami most influential busi1 in the city. It is hoped nil 1 of at least $400,000 capio break dirt bv tho first of r. Large blocks of stock are en by home people which s local popularity. ae for Making Bottles. -made bottles, an absoluteparture in the glass blowing are being turned out by the lass company, at Colombia. rd<-i- foi iuo?*i.ine-inade luitu are said to be better than blown ones in that I bey are form thickness throughout >t vary in their holding cats been recently booked by my. Frice for Convict Labor. ng a series of meetings of tornte of the State prison of flOO convicts was let to Graham under a new conch wiil not the State more >00 in addition to previous suits. The labor is worth year. The price paid per gher under the new contract, aham held u contract for ears until this winter. \gain," Say Insurance Agent ordanee with the suggestion dent Cofield Friday the memthe South Carolina Fire InAssociation of Agents at Copassed resolutions to the eft they will not again siirn the not to accept more than 15 t commission from any comul that the members who have this agreement will disregard le hereafter. College Institutes. m college authorities farmers' institutes in inty, one at Kcitt's the other at Young's 1. nent Goes to Aiken. Reiriment, National th Carolina, will go into en on July 29 for ten Acting Hardware Men. o1 the most successful in U history, the sixth ing o the Retail Hnrdntion f the Carolinas .journeil fhursda. nt Charleston, i ter selecting Ashe\\ie a<r the next ace of meeting an< electing the Rowing officers: President, W. H. Smith, of Giflfpey; ice president. A. I. Phipps, Duram; second viie pnsident, M. h?>noitt, Darlington- rli*r?l vice po?si< oat, Otis Green Asheville, secrearv and treasurer T. W. Dixon; ari.l elegates to the ntional convention ext year M. Bonnoiend T. W.Dixon 3ie State Excursion tVer 0., C. & O. After a conferencecf officials of he C., C. & O., on the?natter of the South Carolina Chamber,f Commerce axcursion over that road,if waa given out by MY. Mnndel, travtjng passenger agent, that the dates chosen for the excursion are July 26,07 an(j 28. The train will leave tpbrfctrtfc-rr fl.to r* T 1 t. Hi .- of ' e '1!. ai*l ri-tnn v.- uii.-rri . ^.uirjinhur.' ;*.t t ? !? ? ? u the ev^ni.i.r 'C the'28th. \ INTERESTING STATE NEWS Column of Current EventB Caught in Every County From Coar.t to Mountain Cap. Another Sup^nie Judge Needed The supreme court of South Carolina may have an- additional just:oe when the legislature meets tiext wi.iter. Before this ean happen, however, the people must vote for an amendment to the State constitution in accordance with the joint resold- I tion passed at the last session of the I general assembly proposing to amend I section 12 of the constitution. Tlie present membership of the supreme court in this state is: Chief justice, Ira B. Jones, Lancaster; Justices Eugene B. Gary. Columbia; C. A. Woods, Marion, and D. E. IIydrick, Spartanburg. The salary attached to the position of justice is $3,000 per year. The argument advanced in favor of increasing the number of supreme court justices is to eliminate the matter of a divided court. When tlie court stands two and two now, either the appeal is lost, or the court must call an en banc session of the circuit judges. Sen. Smith on Cotton Bull Victory. That the cotton hulls have won a victory over Attorney General Wiekcrsham and that the latter withdrew the indictments against them because lie has seeu the error of his way, is the opinion of United States Senator K. 1>. Smith. lie points out the fact that cotton has climbed a dollar a bale in spite of the closing of mills, curtailment and all other bear influences thus indicating the adverse influenza ??v governmental interference with trade. He predicted that cotton would continue to rise until the prices in October would make the present prices look cheap. Tried to Skin Spartanburg Bank. William S. Clark, of Newport, Tenn., was arrested at Chicago, after unsuccessfully attempting to deposit $40,(IH() of alleged frudulent eashiers cheeks?drawn on the Spartanburg National bank, at the bank of the Illinois Trust and Savings company, at Chicago. The police say they found $17,000 of these checks on i *1 I - v-iai-K s person when he was searched. Clark is reported to have made a confession, in which he is quoted as saying that he intended drawing interest on tlie check deposits to open a line of wheat deals. Clark was masquerading under the name of "A. li. Swan." Oo]nro<l CuiclilCiJ. Henry Mars, a colored convict at the State penitentiary, committed suicide Friday by leaping from the third tier in tine new prison buildin}? and fracturing his sktdl on the cement flooring below. Mars was a life termer for murder, from Abbeville. Darlington Has Mill Fover Too. The city of Darlington will add another cotton mill. It is proposed to begin with $300,000 and in a short time double the capacity, having a mill with 40,000 spindles. Every Town Should Do This. A syndicate was organized a year ago at Darlington for the purpose of guaranteeing to the farmer the best prices for cotton sold on the local market. It is a body made up entirely of the business men of town, and the funds necessary to carry on their work are furnished by tlietn. They engaged a cotton buyer last season, and instructed him to be on the ground at all times, and see that every hale that was brought to market was taken at the very highest market quotations. The cotton marketed last year as a result amounted t-o far mare than the town had ever received before. Lightning Printed Picture on Back. On the body of Frank Miller, a young farmer, who was killed by lightning at Lancaster, was imprinted a perfect picture of the tree under which he was standing when he was lrtiwi TV ?: * " A,It uuiimi's oi me tree were perefetly depicted, even to the smallest branches. Col. C. B. Ycation of Sumter. Major Calder B. Yeadon, commanding the Second battalion of the Second Regiment, National Guard, has been elected lieutenant colonel of the regiment to succeed Col Charles T. Lipscomb, lately promoted* to the bead of the regiment. $75,000 Canning Factory. Georgetown is to have something new and something that has hcen needed for a long time, that is a canning' factory. The company has been organized with a capital stock o? $75,000, all of which has been subscribed. New Riilroad Through Darlington. A petition has been circulated among the residents and freeholders of Darlington, asking Cor an election on the question of voting $20,000 worth of bonds to pay for the ri-jtht of wav through *"? '"r- 'V iiew v .. ; which Mi l:?. I ..e in.- '-..t. e? lure >m t idi'Bee, it'. i ieahoar.1 Air l/:i | Ibneti.al \ ~ ? .. .. . . it no* " i ?.; ' i! bo mere r?. uii'.y. UNCLE SAM:?"MY MONEY IS I? | r : W. IJ ?r/Ei I MR.BUU^ I*!!??' ' ?Cartoon by ^ Conditions Sound, Verdicl Interviews Gathered Here surance That Stock Uannot Halt Wa POSTMASTER-GENERAL F GREAT GROWT New York City.?Emphasizing the basic soundness of the prosperity of the United States, despite the depression of stock prices through artificial courses, the Herald prints interviews with leading hankers and business men of the country. In a special cable from Carlsbad Jules S. Bache expresses the belief that the recent market depression was caused by "disappointed railroad veterans" as a protest against the new railroad law. Henry G. Ickelheitner agrees- with Mr. Bache that intrinsic values have been enhanced rather than depressed, and John F. Carroll joins Mr. Bache looking forward for results that will benefit the country. Postmaster-General Hitchcock sees in the reduction of the deficit of the PostofTice Department to the extent of S 10,000.000, involving an immensely increased volume of postal business, an indisputable evidence of the fundamental strength of the nation's finances. He also points oi>timistically to the hopeful outlook and bountiful crops in the West and Northwest. FILL STORAGE HOUSES } Never Such Quantities Laid by For Fi " interest and Expenses Piling Meet Next Winter Promi New York City.?Butler and eggs are now stored in the warehouses of New York and vicinity in greater quantities than ever before at this time of year. Last year's figures on storage and prices made high records un to that time, hut they are exceeded by the totals of thenresent month. Butter is now higher than it has he^n in July of any other year since the Civil War times. The figures were contained in a report completed from twenty-nine of the thirty-two food warehouses In the metropolitan district. This report shows that 2,234.000 cases, each containing thirty dozens of eggs, are now in storage, while a year ago the total was 1,911,000 cases. Never before has the total In these warehouses exceeded 2,000,000 cases in July. Receipts of eggs have not been gTeatly in excess of those of last year, so some of the dealers infer that a speculative movement has something to do with the conditions. The receipts for the last two months have been 2,417,000 eases, while in the same two months of last year 2,300. uuu cases were received. Ttie storage of "eggs began in April. The best grades of eggs going into storage are quoted at twenty-three cents a dozen in car lots. They are Western eggs, and two years ago similar grades were sold at eighteen cents. Fresh Eastern eggs, which are now quoted at twenty-four to twenty-seven cents a dozen in the wholesale markets, were sold for tWPHtV-fivp rontc n vooi- non All the egg prices will he increased, the dealers say, by* the warehouse expenses, interest charges and profit when the eggs are taken from the warehouses for consumption next fall and winter. The total amount of butter now In storage hi the metropolitan district warehouses is placed at 83,820,000 pounds. A year ago the total was 23,788.000 pounds. The receipts of butter in the last two tnonthR have amounted to 670,000 tub3 of sixty pounds each; last year's total receipts in the two months was f?20,000 tubs. The best grades of batter, called "specials," were quoted at twentynine and a quarter cents wholesale, which is two and three-quarter cents a pound more than a year ago. Two Doy Wild Ilcrry Pickers of Maine Hnm SI20. West Paris, Me.?Harold Webster nnd Archie Snow, of West Paris, aged seventeen and eighteen respectively, have earned $126 picking wild berries. 8now declares ho will use his share of the money to help pay for a college course. This has been an unusually favorable season for berries and they are abundant and of largo Rise. The boys sold the fruit to near t?y M i ON' MR. BULL EVERY TIME." II P I |rf | V. A. Ropers, in the New York llcrald. is United t of Business Men J * ^ ' - ^ aiiu /serosa i^eneci AsMarket Manipulation ive of Progress. 'OINTS TO H OF POSTAL BUSINESS One of the mostdesperate attempts on record to inlluence the stock market was perpetrated by the publication in a malicious report, from an apparently authenticated source, that I Germany had repudiated the Monroe Doctrine and intended to do as she pleased in South and Central American affairs. Fortunately, the absolute falsity of tho report was so speedily and so authoritatively exposed that but little damage was done, but it is quite possible that the Federal authorities will proceed ncainst those responsible for this last rash and stop-nt-nothing effort at stork jobbing. with its mischievous possibility of stirring up enmity between two friendly nations. Washington bankers believe that the temporary depression of securities is due to a misinterpretation of the Government's attitude toward the railroads. Western capitalists declare that crop prosneets, even with a possible \vlir?r>t " ? ? Li,hc, uii; ilium flll'HUrilKI ins. Paul Morton's opinion that this is no longer a one crop country has I lound wide approval. NITH BUTTER AND EGGS jture Use at This Time of the TearUp?Elg Charges For Users to se the Highest of Frices. Tho phenomenon of increased quantities of butter and eggs in storage with higher prices in ;he market is causing much talk among tho wholesale dealers on the west side. The explanation offered by some of their number is that Western packing companies made contracts earlier in the year to take the hatter and eggs from the farmers at high prices, and eo they were cnmoelled to maintain pri hemsclvcs from losses. receipts of the product 'ered for immediate c( 'cs would drop, and eo ggs and butter coming has gone into storage. One le dealers said that the anies may also have a: n keeping up prices o leople may get the habj margarine as a substitu ter was at its highest ;t winter much more o! *as sold than ever bef< try. Dealer sy do not see any reasi g a reduction this year living in the items of t. ST.V * lf)10. f| I Iowa- \ugust 25- I Septeml Nebra Seotember I I C-P. j | Ohio? September I I 5-9. I Minr.r , Septt-mI her 5-10 | Wiscoi cc, September 1 Indian s, September 1 New Y , Septcm| ber 12-1 [ ! Kansat September | 12-1 C. | I Michigt -September i | 1 9-22. I Oklaho i Scptcmbe ). Illinois Septem- I ber 30-Oc ^ Missour October ! r l."-no. | Governor of >sts Pension f Thirteen. Penracoln, U1 Mrs. T. TJr.rberl, of p re.cclve'l from Govern handsome j sroon bearinj lie State or i Florida. * Married n; nr" t^1<> i wif? is now .ven, but Mr. and Mrs. ">o parents? of thirteen cb f tbc chll- J rtrc? ?' " ?wl? ! OFFICERS ARE REBUKED. | . ( j Navy Department Censures Superior I Officers in the Marine Corps?Jcai- j | ouzizz and Personal Strife. Vv":: -" i-i {mi, S|>'i i:iJ. The [a r-? nul strife anions the officers id the I'niled States marine corps Friday j reached a climax when the Navy De- ? purtnieut, as a result of a court of inquiry, scti! letters of censure toj nearly all the officers concerned. No, further judicial proceed intr.> are contemplated. The censured officers are Major General George F. F.liiott, coininalitlant of the rorje; Got. Charles 11. I.aunchheirncr, adjutant and inspector; Col. Frank L. Denny, the quarite?*mastcr at Washing! ?.n; Colonel Charles A. Doyen, commanding the j marine barracks at the naval aoaderny at . Annajtelis; Lieutenant Coloml Thoiuos C. Prince, assistant quartermaster at Washington; Lieutenant'; Colonel llcnry C. llaincs. assistant adjutant and insjMctor at Washington. am! Majors |joui< J. Maglll and I I i... ; .i ! i I' ... .. ?- - ' - i ??:-.l-r, MS ISMV1I .1' l,J 11T il 11 IS inspcitors ;it Philadelphia and \\ ashinirton. res| ? < i: , My. Tin' court l.i'M <! ai General K.lliott ha hi'i'ii profane. irritable and iras? ible at title's, imluluinur tun?h lately ia iiiioxicaliug liquors. hut never intoxicated mi duty and sotnetiums I'aili-d l<< treat subordinates with courtesy. but was usually p??lit< . yi'iii'inits. truthful, and a ' plain blunt soldier, open and frank." At the bottom of the dissension in the eorps is said to have been the question of the sueeessorship to General Klliott when he retires in Oetoiler. the liiriit h-itea between ollieers of the line and of the staff. Stamps by tie Billion. Washington, S|K*eial.?Ten billion postage stamps, worth almost t-"n.000.000. will lie used by the jH'ople of the I'nited States in the liseal year whieh began July 1, I'd 10, and will be ended June Ju, 1011. These bewildering figures are set down in the requisition which the Postoflice I>epartment has forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury, by whose order the stamps will be engraved and delivered by the Bureau of Kit"raving and Printing. The total of stamps asked for is 0,804,"J'Jo.OOO, hut that number will not sutliee. it is known, the reutiisition being made f?n- I saky of economy,'' smaller than the probable needs. Las: year's first supply <>1" $170.74(1^00 worth failed ami More had to he ordered. The face value of the tirst requisition this .war is $7.0.'Mi.JOO irreater than last year's. ; Must Call for Registry Receipt. Washington. Six-. ial. An interesting change in regulations affecting registration of postal matter is noted in an order just issued hy the IN s:- ' inastc r-( ieueral. Whenever request ' is made hy the sender of registered ' nail matter, receipt, showing person to whom and time when the matter ] was delivered will l'e taken hy j>ost- ' master at point, of delivery and returned to sender. "Receipt desired" must he inscribed, however, on the , registered matter from which the sender wishes such a receipt. For the ; present the INsstiuaster-tieueral instructs |w?stmastcrs to ask if return receipts is desired and. where indieat- j .... ... iihuisl' uiuii ior patrons of the j otiice. Famous Veteran Passes. Lynchburg. Va., Special.?Colonel August e Forsbcrg. who commanded | the Forty-Second Virginia Regiment | in the civil war. died here Friday at'- j ter a long siekm ss. He was 7!) years ] old a?vl a native of Sweden. He was < city engineer t"??r a long time here, j At the breaking out of fhe civil war. i he was engaged at Columbia. S. C.. as $ an architect. \ 1 <9 1 Distressing to Georgia Fruit Growers, i Fort Valley. (!a.. Spcial.?ll was t staled here Friday that thirty car- 8 loads of peaches (Kihertas) will he dumped into the Flint river, eight miles from here. Saturday, as a result of the failure to move the erop I 8 quickly. Kiirhtv thousand crates ^ were awnTling cars here Friday. a:ul ? it is feared will he a dead loss. Al- 1 ready growers here have lost .$1(10,- * 000 because of lack of iced cars. Tht J situation is said to he the worst in the j historv of the industry in this section, j Fell Frctn Beat and Drowr,?d. Harrington, R. I.. Speiial.?In attempting to a bridge abutment from (oaky liout whicli was in danger of sinking, Mrs. Elizabeth Link \ of Abbeville, S. (\, fell into the Ih>r- \ rington ri\t r and was drowned Fri-\ j day. She had been visiting here at \ I GHOST JOKE KILLS Nl Barber Shop Porter While Dru Asleep ia Chair Barbers I Hiiu VVLiie and He Prop? When Awakened. Omaha. Special.? While a <<> jury has determined that Tom a neprw |? tt -r in a barber sin scared t<> death, it remains that his ?leat h was indirectly hutahle t?? tin* victory of ?. over Jeffrie's. II recti had bet money Johnson and had paired his salary for weeks t? Ilavinir won. be collected h and celebrated. In the event inp considerably intoxicated sat in a barer chair and \vj sound a.-l ep. When the hour for closing two of the barbers concluded a joke upon tJreen. They |# his face and wool until they hits' as snow and then t white sheet over him. Witer awoke and looked in a eh slnieked in terror: "t'iood was always hlnek. Now I an It is not me. I am d? ad. and my irho.-t." He fell hack in tl .... i ... . i uiiu I'Ai'iP'H. Trade With U. S. S1P0.000 Wushin.rtnii. ^jin in!. - Trail United Si in - with ;i- ji'iti-i ?'i territi>rii s fi i- t !:? It?1 year .i oil asrirrevateil :ih?mt -*r11 ti M> 04irilin_' In still i-tirs of the limnl iif < "otr.trei ie iiiiil l.ahn depart.rent nturast- tlii- with oiipl id ISH7. whi'ii tin ir.i.lo w vonr.ii.ions t- 1*1 i;< rw s a^^ro^at Slat i>t i??s sltmv that for months <>1 tho hist ti.-oal ye shipments from the i'lined S 1'nrto Kiiii. Hawaii, the 1'liil Ouatn. Mid way. Tn'.iiiln ainl amounted *o .if7r?.(MH?.iH?i?. ami i metits there tYnm to tin- Initei W,.7r?<?.CH?0. This ti'.iih'. In torts and imports, was hir^' that of the preeoiliiitr year larirest pereentaee of irain wa l'hilippines. to whieh the reel" art extended the privilege o change of merchandise free of Imports from the I'hilippitu eleven tnontlis ending with Ma were valuei) at $1.~>.8M7.-H8. in the siime niotiths Kx|sirts tor the eorresponiliiiir amounted to $l.i. 14H.-115 in 1 $n.s2.r?.oh:i in i putt. The Union Sea Island Cott Wavemss, (hi.. S|H-eial.?H tative sea-islund eotton irro three States met here Mon perfected an onrani/.ation m name of the t'niuti Sea Isl. ton eompany. whieh will ha quarters at Savannah and ul po^es to liuild a lanrr wurelio with branches at various }>?> purpose of the union is to s the producer the best possi for both Ion-.' and slant si ton. Reports on nop .-owl members of the eompaux a effort that the fleor.'ia rro 75 per rent of i!i>r:i..;! an Florida tW? p< ;* rent. Arreetc Grandfather C Out brio, < >kln., Sjieria!.? ration of Ihinie! Situs, ai tr.il property owner of this ttrnl .1 ;n!John It. Cntlei sued a temporary iujunetio inir tlie State Eb.etion 1 ts;ate Hoard i t A tT.nirs and ... e. .. - - .-i.nf 11-??111 mm the fu*o|M?sed "jrrand!'ath? Amendment ti> the Constitu ballot l'or the State prim: an Aupnrst 2. In his petition Sims a tlrt proposed amendment franchise him, as lie is un; or write, and that it ili him because of previous c servitude. Lynched a "White Rayville. lat.. Spccial.the fact that an appeal preme Court had been ta w in? his condemnation to Friday on tire charge ? : ! lered Town Marshal C. < . .1 i mob battered down 1i he parish jail at Ray\ilh rin? J. I >. Freeman, a Voni his cell. haiured him ipot where he had slain t ri... c - . .... mi i i ..in ;i him'p trasi n Frecnmn's throat !< <! t? hat he 11;i41 attempted st. ibly with a piece of ?rlaicard the mob's approae Lynched Boy's Lather G Cluvcland, (>., S;> rial, unsocial is <.f t ail Kt.:v? Vnnti-Saloon l.?a.riie <1. vas lynched at Ntvvnrk Imv that llnrtwell Kthe 'ather. would head a hat aineers from Kentmky nvade the Ohio city to 'or his son's death. The njrton will receive $5.0( \nti-Snlcoii League, and mid, will he offered as a Georgia Bank Ca hic S'vainshoro, Oa., Spcci. ijre of at least $'2d.0lH) 1 overetl in the accounts tens' br.nlc of this plat: v >f which Hutrh 1). Stri< ?r. and L. W. l'ond*r, 1