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f, R fk FO 16TH ^ EAR. AFTER THE TRUSTS Standard Oil and the Fertilizer Combines SUBJECTED TO EXAMINATION ? Protiiy and Clements Now Go to Washington Where They Will Begin Preparing the Report Which They are to Submit to Congress. Cleveland, O., Special.?After three days spent in taking testimony concerning the affairs of the Standard Oil Company, the Interstate Commerce Commissioners Prouty and Clements adjourned, and shortly thereafter started for Washington, where they are expected soon to begin the preparation cf their '*eport on the testimony here and in Chicago for presentation to Congress. The report however, will not he closed until the Standard Oil Company's attorneys have had ample opportunity to reply to the many statements and charges put in evidence. Attorney Virgil P. Kline, for the Standard Oil Company, gave notice just before adjournment, 4hat lie desired to answer some of tho diniony produced, and requested t commissioners to name a suitable e ami place for the reopening of r.... ?i.:? - mi una jjuijHiar. jur. iviino lolil that tliis privilege v;ould be tilled to him and that announeent of the time and place would be in the near future. In the three days' bearing just completed a total of thirty-live witnesses have been on the stand. About fifty or sixty were subpeonaed. Some of theso were not called. Counsel for the commissioners, however, had five or six on hand ready to be sworn, but the commissioners declined to hear them, indicating that the things expected to be provm were not important. FERTILIZED TRUST ALSO. Engaging in a Combination in Restrait of Trade as Defined by the Sherman Act. The Case Against Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company. et al. Nashville, Special?The .~rnnd jury of the United States Circuit Court, which lias bqpn investigating the alleged fertilizer trust, for the past four wceke returned an indictment against about eighty fertilizer manufacturers, including a number of local men. The indictment contains six counts dctailillD* ill anccifin form nlln<v_ oil violations of the anti-trust laws and charging 'he defendants villi combining and being engaged in a trust or combination 7.lie defendants live in various parts of tho country where fertilizers are manufactured and certified copies of ^lic indictment will lie sent to the various districts in which the defendants rcsme and there served. The defendants will bo required to execute bonds for their appearance at the October term of the court in this city, when the eases are to he tried. The grand- jury examined during the incvstignlion 140 Avitnesses and the indict nent returned is a voluminous document. The six counts in the indictment are in a double series of three coca. The first charge the defendants with engaging in a conspiracy; the sccoud charge the defendants vitli conspiracy, and the third with conspiricy under section 5440, revised statutes, to commit the offense of engaging in a combination as defined by the Sherman law. The punishment under sectiou 5440 is two years in prison and a $10,000 tka -i ? tic? (.1111 vi ruuuia i iiai^L' till* UOIII* milling of an offense against the United States by engaging in a cC.'Vibination in restraint of trade, as defined and prohibited by the Sherman act. The style of the ease on the docket indictment is United States vs. Virgrinia-Cnrolina Chemical Company ct al, and the indictment is described as "indictment for violating aot of Canfress approved July 2, 1S90, aid entitled "An act to protct the trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies" and section 6440, revised statutes, United States ? I -* 0 ?RT SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS] Officii Roport on South Carolina Crops For Week Ending Monday, May 28, 1906. The week was ?jenc rally eloud.v with frequent showers and thunder storms during the lust three days over practically the entire State. The mean temperature was about tli-ee degrees per day below normal, in the central parts, and about normal in the southern and southeastern portions, owing to somewhat lower maximum temperatures than usual and to nearly normal night temperatures. The highest maximum temperature i'or the week was S7 degrees at Rock Hill on the 21sl, and the lowest minimum temperature tor the week was ."?(? degrees at tlreenville from the 'J.'trd to the -t>th. inclusive, and at Walterboro on the 2i!rd. The precipitation averaged ahoui normal, although is was not well distributer! over the State, there having been ? deficiency in the central northern and northeastern counties, ami heavy rainfall in the southeastern Sa* annah vnJley and northwestern co? nties where it was in excess of the normal, and where the weekly amounts ranged from one inch to over uiivi? liinu's. Fresli brisk easterly winds prevailed over the State generally and northeast gales or curved on the coast. The amounts of precipitation for the 27th and morning of the 2Sth are not generally shown in the "Observer's Reports" but are included in the special rainfall reports. Woman Shot by Unknown Person. Marion, Special.-- Saturday night about 8 o'clock a negro woman, named Caroline Thompson, aged about 40 years, was assassinated by an unknown party at her home which she owns in a negro quarter in the eastern suburbs of the town. She was stending by the window ironing, and was shot with a shotgun loaded with small shot, the load taking effect in her left arm and side. The wounds are not considered fatal, as it is not thought that any of the internal organs were reached by the shot. At the time of the shooting >he was alone in the house, her married daughter who lives with her having gone to a neighbor's. In the Charter Mill. The secretary of slate has granted a commission to the Mailhoro Lumber Company of which Mr. W. ('. Smith, l>. I>. Mel'oil, Jr., and Hugh L. .MrColl are corporators. The capital will be $40,000. The Taylor < Sinning Company of (Sreelyville also received a eoinnbs sion. The capital will ho $4,000 and the arc S. .1. Taylor. T. \V. Boyle ami K. Mishoo. A commission was issued to the P?ank of Ninety-Six, capitalized a! $50,000. The corporators are: \\ . B. Andcrson., It. S. Xicklcs. .las. C. Self ami others. Negro Woman Surrenders to Face Murder Charge. Charleston, Special. The unusual happened, when a negro woman, Liz- | zie Simons, walked into the sheriff's j ofllce and surrendered herself for trial for murder. She hit a negro. William Sumter, on the head with a glass hottie about a week ago and two days later the negro died of lock-jaw. The woman had escaped and gone to James' Island, where she told her parents of what she had done. Her father persuaded her to return to x ii-i- ttif.ii hit undo niwl deliver | herself to the slieSlY. Crushed to Death by Mill Shafting. Union, Special. - A horrible accident is reported to have occurred at Jonesville Manufacturing: eompany where a ten year old hoy was caught in the shafting and so dashed against the ceiling before the engine could be stopped, that many | hones were broken, as a result of which he died live Itwnrs later. To Cotton Convention. Governor ITcywnrd has named as the delegates to a cotton convention to be held at Montene, Ark., June 20 and 21, the following South Carolinians: E. D. Smith, K. S. Anderson, Ninety-Six; J. A. Peterkin, Fort Motte; R. M. Pegues, Clicrnw; K. S. Keith, Newberry; J. T. Moore, Moore's; R. M. Williamson, Montt'lnre; W. G. Hinson, Charleston; J. M. Woodly, Dal/ell, and Iredell Jones Rock Hill. MIL FORT MILL, S. C., I TEXT BOOK CHANGES Will Be Offered For the Five Yea? Adoption?The Regulations Made By the Board. Tile ugents of text-hook lu>u-?'s nre 111 tlie Stale pressing the claims 01 Ihoir respective publications. The "book fight," as it is known, requires tiie services of scholarly writers ami iudcf'utigiblc workers. The general public has no idea liow interesting this campaign really is It is said that one member of the State board of (ieorgia received over $75 worth of sample copies of text books. To examine each and every one wo ild be .in endless task and the State board perhaps makes selections as much on the reputation of the writers and publishing houses as for any oilier reasons. It i- said to he the policy ??f the department of education to make as few changes as possible, but to get rid of any trashy publications which might have been adopted in former years. The adoption of hooks is to cover a pei mmI of live yeara. as is the case in other states. May 22nd was tu? day fixed for liling bids, and bids will he received from this time until the 22 of June when the hoard will meet to make adoptions. Renders, histories, arithmetics and geographies are tin' branches of study on which the hardest lights are made. It is said that there will he a hard effort made to get the board to adopt the history of the t'nitcd States writ Ifii l?y Mr. Waddy Thompson. <>!' Atlanta, brother of Col. llenry T. Thompson of Columbia. This is published by I). C. Health & Co., of New York. Another strong effort is being made in behalf of the history of the \ uited States written by the Kev. Henry Alexander White, I). 1)., of the Columbia Seminary, and published by Silver. Hurdett & Co The board will give careful consideration (ti these two propositions, but may decide that I lie books now in use are just as good. The board may not have time to examine the merits or errors of all text boohs offered, but in the matter of selecting histories great care will probably be observed. In selecting text books, the lirst thing to be considered is subject matter. then price and liually relative merit in mechanical excellence with tin- promise o| durability. To those whose school days knew nothing more poetic than Webster's "blue back speller," the beautiful primeis of today would be a revelation. The ingenuity of writers and of printers has been taxed to work out color schemes which would be i*i good state and yet would teach children the colors and shades in a way which would make the entire reading lesson entertaining as well as instructive. I I IS on triwul lint liikii I \- i 11 * i t only urn1 or two ??f tin* big publishing I houses i]o their own printing and tlint some print ing houses got out hooks for two or more coinpeteing publishing houses. This is a statement which sounds anomalous, hut is made on the authority of au author and publisher who has his printing done elsewhere. The following regulations have been adopted by the State board of education : First: That the session of the State hoard of education of Smith Carolina, beginning: f? p. in., dune 22nd,. 100t>. shall he continuous until adoption is complete, except necessary recesses. Second: That no representative of a publishing house shall appear before the State hoard of education or any member thereof during said session unless requested by the full hoard to do so. Third: That no announcement shall he made of the. adoption or any part thereof until the entire adoption is complete and signed by the chairman and secretary. Fourth: That the Stale hoard of education, at its meeting dune 22ml, adopt 100 additional library books. The condition of the above proclamation shall not apply to this adoption, hut the resolutions do apply. The instructions sent out by the State board state: "No bid shall be considered unless i' be accompanied by an affidavit of the binder to the effect that the person. company or corporation bidding is in no way, directly or indirectly, a party to any compact, syndicate or jMMieiue wnereDy the benefits of cumpetitive bidding have been or will be denied to the |>eople of the State of South Carolina, or by whu.li he, they or it, either individually or as a coinshare with another person, linn, association or corporation the profits to be 1 ,L 1 HURSDAY, MAY 31, 19l made from the contract to bo award- 1 ed; and. provided further, that tlio j truth of such statomef.i is nereby made a part of tlie contract so entered into with him or them, it bcinuunderstood that the falsity of such statement shall ipso facto operate the avoidance of such contract; and. i?ro- ! vi?lo?l further, that the State hoard of education shall have, and it here- I by reserves, the right to reject any 1 or all bids, or any part of a bid, and to accept any part of the same, wit itout being under obligation by such partial acceptance to accept the I whole. 'Kills must be secret, and state specifically and definitely the quality ?>t' the books, prices at which hooks will be furnished, and the exchange price paid for hooks displaced, and must be accompanied by at least nine sp. moil copies of each book proposed to be furnished. One set of said specimen copies to be delivered to caeli of the several members of the State hoard of education at his home addross, before noon of dune 'J'J, l'.Mtth" -Columbia Stale. To Open Glenn Springs. Spartanburg, Special. Preparations are being made at Glenn Springs for the opening of the hotel there | which will be on June 11. There has been a force of bands at work Ihere for some lime nut tin" the ho'ildim Iinto condition and everything a\ill he iu readiness before the opening of | the season, which is expected to he the most suecofal 0110 ever enjoyed by the resort. Anderson Traction Company. Anderson, Speeial.?The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Anderson Traction Company was held The following hoard of directors was elected: ?l. A. Brock, F. <J. Brown, (Jen. K. Conghlin. It. F. Manldin. I>. A. Ledhetter. K. KeLi^on. .1. It. \ andiver, \V. F. Cox. Calhoun Harris, I). !'. McBtayer, ('. K. Sullivan, .1. t. Fretwcl', A. Bend. Dr. .1. F. Wilson, of Anderson, and .1. M. Fauvre of Indiatu'polis, Ind. Lynching in Missippi. Columbus, Miss., Speeial.?fieorge Younger, a negro, who shot and killed William Hector, a well-known v.hile eitiy?n last Sunday while the latter as a inenther of a posse was endeavoring to effect the negro's arrest, was taken front the jail at this place Thursday night by a mob and lynched. There is no elite to the identity of any of the lynchers. I News Notes. Former Chief Kngineor John F. tl? n wanacc severely attacked Seen la v Taft for his statement, ayniiisi \\ a lace. In an effort t<> collect an income tax from I'liiled States enoineeriiur <>liicers enyatred in work there, Canada has seized their household {roods. A treaty bet wen the I'nited Stales and .Mexico relatiiur to the use of the 11 io (i rand's waleis was >iyne?| in Washington. News Items. A $20,000 tire oeenrred at Vmlierst Courthouse, A'a. Count Salsky has been relieved of the presidency of the Nnssian Council of tlie Knipire. Cray Silver was nominated for Senator in the Jackson comity tW. A'a.) j primaries. A census hnreatt renort >lmws ihat ] there are 3,400.000 telcuhones in the I I'nited States, with nearly (>,000,000,000 calls a \ear. It i?? rumored in St. IVtc. Mniry a! (ieneral Stosell. who surrendered !' >, t Arthur, and Hen r- Admiral Neboaai* tVwho coniniaiuled one of l?nje?a \ e iI. . - ? * I M.i nave neon coiii|omii<'<l > ! ilea lli. II. II. Stuart, an KngC-h stilii-vt | ml Anioriean Viee-Couu el at I'a- i 1 1111)1. Kus.-ia. was assassinated by ideiil ilieil p. i sons. Moors hoarded the steamer Mai.o-| lita. earning tin* Anieriea' ll.ig. ? *:?? I Tel nan anil earned otV a 'iinnher oi \ Moorisli pasengors. The eontvst he fore (he arbitrator? in ll " matter of the llaleigh Si l'anilieo Sound If ail way and the Glenwood Company eontiincs at Raleigh,' and will pro>#ably last at least a I week longer. It is not yet known when the railway will put 011 passenger trains, but it may he several mouths. Soeretary Taft sent to Congress the Panama canal budget for the eurrent ear. earning appn.pri; lions of .*2(>,S4S/JS1. IGNORANT GIRL. Grayce?What is a vermifuge? Gladys?Why, don't you know? That la the other name fov appendix. ?Houston Post. - I riME Mi. WHITE M/ N LYNCHED Taken f ;om Jail and Done to Death By Mob AWFUL SEQUEL TO A MISTRIAL Mob Batters Down D ors of No.tb Carolina Jail Drags J. V. Johnson, Alleged Murderer of His Brotherin-law, Gwinn Johnson, From His Cell. Strings Him to a Tree and Riddles His Body With Bullets Wadesboro, N". C.. Spet ial.?A mob compose J of 50 to 75 men battered clowthe jail doors shortly eft'.r 2 o'clock Monday mot nine: and lvn .'lied John Y Johnson, a white man about dO year-, old, the killing of his brother-in-law. Cuinn Johnson, on December 17. last. The mob, it a pears came from M? Fa via id. Morvon township, a small phn on the South Carolina line nr..!. largelv nu.ler the influence of whir-key and treated the prisoner in a most cruel manner, while taking hint out of t- v One sCory is that they told him to run for his life and then filled his br.elc with bird shot This may or mav not be true, but in taking Johnson out of jail one vrist was almost severed and the trail of the mob out of town was easily traced by bloody splotches. About 1.45 o'clock ovo or three mon, partially disguised, appeared at tlie back door ol' the jail and told Sheriff J. A. Boggan they had a prisoner and displayed a commitment paper. The sheriff came out and the door was bolted behind him. He tried to get the men to levao, but instead dozens more swarmed in and took hold of the officer and began to batter in the door, at the same time tiring several shots .'*.ito the jail, one load from a shotgun at elofe range making an inch hole in the door framing and a pistol bullet burning a mark on the jailer's collv.? fJaining admission to the jail after about half an hour, the i ,on swarmed \ip stairs, breaking down two other doors. When the cell \/as reached several attempts were made to break down the iron door an-' the mob put a number of shotgun, through the bars and threatened K> kill Johnson there, when a member of the sheriff's family, fearing ha *m to that, official. opened the cell door and Johnsou was dragged out barefoot and seamty dressed. lie attempted to hold on to s. mcthing, when he was badiv cut on the wrist. The doomed man's appeal for mercy were met with abuses as the r.iob dragged him out into the street. Here the crowd was divided into throe squads, with the prisoner in the center, and amidst volley alter volley from a number of shot irons and pistols and many shouts, wended it-, way out the Morven road in the dit l ion of the scene of the offence for which .1 oh 11 son was in jail. J. V. Johnson was tried at the April term of Anson Superior Court for the murder of Cninn Johnson, the jury failing to agree 011 a verdict. Judge Shaw, who presided at the trial, reprimanded the jury for its inability to reach a verdict and a mistrial wj. ordered, the prisoner being remanded to jail fir second trial at the next term of court. The trial was vigorously contested on both sides. Solicitor L. D. Robinson was assisted in tlie prosecution by Mr. John A. Mi lJae, of I lie the Charlotte bar, and Mr. II. H. McLendon, of Wadesboro, while the dofenee was ably represented bv Vfnasr t t * ?- . a. jj. v>au* | die, j. A. Lockhart, Jr., John T. Ben- ] neP. and 11< ?iry I toga n. The cvidenc showed that ilie two men were engaged in an altercation when the final shot was tii- d. After a ivia! which occunicd nearly a week, the jury took the case. The first halhu was eight for murder in the tir-i degree, 4hrec for murder in the second degree and noe tor acqi/'ltal. filter being out three days tlie final ballot was eleven for murder in the second degree and one for manslaughter. A mistrial was then ordered by Judge Shaw and the t scond trial set for the July term of court. Judge Neal to Scene. Tlaleigh, Special.?Governor Glenn has ordered Judge Neal to the s^em of the lynching to assist in an investigation. The governor is severe in V his condemnation of this act of law- [ lessncss. , m :s. NO . 9. # PALMHTO AFFAIRS ? Occurrences of Interest From All Over South Carolina MANY ITFMS flF STATF VFYTK A Batch of Live Paragraphs Covering a Wide Range?What is Goixug On in Our State. Genera) Cotton Market. Galveston, null . . I 7-1* New Orlenii-., si t in!y 11 I* Mobile, steady 1.1.1-3?. Savannah, <|uioi 11 '.I 1?Cliurlestou. <p?iet .'1 I-"* Wilmingto. . ?(< ;??!v.. . . lit h Norfolk. ... ..1)12 Baltimore. .Miniunl 11 iS-4 New York, <)?ti?'t Boston, <|ui(t . . 11 ft*' Pliilath l|?!...t. -l. ...ly 12.1* Houston, -ti-...is M J<-> August;i, .. li I ! I -? Memphis, s e;ul\ and hoiii moI. II .? !? St. l.onis. ijuiot . '< 1$-^"" Cincinnati Loui-\ illc, lino . . i li S Charlotte Cotton Market. These jnict < rcpiv-vir the |i 'ut? paid to wagons; Good middling < ! .'! ? Strict middling '1 Ii-4 Middling.. 11 Ji-* Good middling*, tinged 11 ;? f Stums ! 1-'.'. to U) I 1 CAMPAIGN ITINERARY. Democratic Sub Committee of PoultCarolina State Executive Commute* Arranges Programme lor Coming Contest. < 'oluinbiii. Special. -Tlie suh-eommittof tin- State exioiilivo mil toe adopt oil ami promulgated the following campaign itinerary for tht apprnneliiuy Slate campaign: SL George's, Tm-^day, Juno It); Ghailo* ton. Wednesday, June, 2.0; WalUirboro, Thursday, June, 21 Beaufort. Friday, Juno 22; liau:, :>>n Saturday. June 'J.'l; Barnwell. Monday, June lit* Bnmheiy, Tuesday, .In;: '20; J >!(<* .. Wednesday, Julio 27 ; Kdgeli.dd, Thursday, Jus" 2S; Satan'::. Friday. Juno 2''; l.< \i-iy|on, Sat uday, Jim* 30; t'olmnhia. Monday, .i ilv !); Or augehiirg, Tuesday, Jul; 10; Sum tar Wednesday. July 11 ; M n-,nitty, Thurs day. July I ? : Monks lot -or, Ft .day July K>; Georgetown, Saturday, July 11; Is in?sl r??et, Monday, July 16; Florence. Thursday, July 17; Marian. \Vedii'-Ml.y. July IS; t'oiiw.iy, Friday. July. 20; Oarliitylon, Saturday, July 21; Bishapville. Tuesday. July 21 Beimeltsville. Wednesday July 2f?. ('lio-ti i li-Id. Tluirsday/> July 20; t'am den, Fri ,i\, July 27; Ban. aster. Sat urda e. .1 n! v *_N I'luwl.. M...v.lo. i\ .!(>; WinosUoro, .l?Hy III; Yorkvitlo, Wednesday, \ngusl 1; (JalTuey. Thursday, August 2; Spartanburg, Friday. August d; Union Saturday. August 4; Newberry,. Tmw. day, Angus i 7; Greenwood, Woiluc*. day. August S; Abbeville, Thursday. August 51: Anderson, Friday. Au^isi 11; I'iekens, Monday, August Ft Greenville, Tiii'silny, August 14. If;*eonum"U'i' thinks this schedule wilt, suit all ami \\i!i work out all right ' ? Numerous Housebreakings. C'liester. S|M*(*ial. The town ban bppn arous d ol' laic by .. number ?C imiiscbrenl* oilis .out lareonii'Si. Tin- police I'ldvc lias been reinforced lo some extent, ami there lias beet: some let-i11? in this line of hw-ineist As ye| there have been no nrresto Pytliians Fail to Act on Caatlo Half Matter. Sumter. SjM-eial. The *asll<* halt idea is 111> iu the air. The grand lmlge of Knights of Pythias has postponed net ion until tle? next session. Ooluin bin presented i proposition and had no op|H?sition, l?ut the grand lodgr* failed to grasp the opportunity and tlii' matter went over. Anderson was seleeti?l as llie next place of mooting Power Plant Ready For "Ware c<ttoa!*Mill. Lauieii-. SjK-eial. Mi*. M. 11. !>? ?* president of the Ware Shoalft M.inu faelnriii.tr Company, makes the inter est nig annoiiiieement that the power has been turned on at the big WareShoals plant, located on S:> nda river, ami tin- dy.iamos hav-3 been running since Saturday. Kverything is in readme*- !'? - the mill to start np mmd any day ne v and soon the whirl ??F -A.iHMi .-.pimi'es will be beard above the roaring shoals, nature's sweet mii.uf, the sound -?f which his been heard without an accompaniment at War.Shoals down through the ages of time ^ , i