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'' ^THEFORT TILL TIMHS. ' N 10TH. YEAR. FORT MILL,. S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 25. 1907. ' NO-17. A QUEER CASE. A Man Mourned For Years as Dead Turns Up AND TWO WIVES SUE. Mhij Believed Browned Startle! "Widow" by Asking Aid AkuIiikI New "Wife." Seek* Decree Her self and Spurn* Bequest to Kill Bivid's Aetion and Bejeets OfTei of His Bet urn. This queer tale comes from Chicago. Some twenty-nine years age Andrew Buckley, beloved husband ol I'hlmene Buckley, was drowned, having disappeared from an overturned rowboat. He is now defendant in iwu uuiiH ior uivorce. One pleasant day In October nearly three score years ago he went for a row.- Next day the l>oat was found bottom up, and Buckley was found not at all. A sufficient time having passed without his coming home to his meals, as had been his custom, Mrs. Buckley was reluctlantly led to believe that her husband was thoroughly und unalterably drowned, in spite of the fnct that the l>ody was never recovered, and she grew to look upon herself as a widow. 'As a widow, she fixed up a nice grave and decorated It with flowers every year. As a widow, she received the condolences of her friends and extolled the virtues of the late lamented Buckley among the neighbors, to the discomfiture of many husbands who had had no opportunity to prove themselves drowned and virtuous. Luxuriating in recollections of the happiness that was, she remained true to the past and brought up her son in fond reverence of the memory of his worthy father. During twenty-nine years she had become firmly fixed in the habit of believing she was a relict and was reconciled. Therefore, she was surprised, to say the least, when she recently received a letter from Buckley. The letter bore a water mark, but no other indication of having come from a man who had gone to a moist and permanent death. On the contrary it gave evidence of coming from one who was very thoroughly possessed of vitality and animation. In fact it went so far as to show that the writer had been leading a double life. The writer explained to the loving and affectionate widow that the constructive corpse was in trouble and needed her assistance. It is related that the woman with whom he had been living since his vicarious death was suing him for dlvorve and asking alimony. He wanted his widow to sign a disposition that she was his wife in order to upset the claims of his second wife, living in Seattle, Wash. "Philomene, darling," said the. letter, "Won't you please make this disposition? I want tp prove to my wife that she Is not my wife, but that you are. You have always been ve.ry good to me, and 1 am sure you will he so now. My present wife Is hard to convince. You were never so. She wants alimony, but if I do not have to pay her I can have car fare enough to pay my way hack to you, and I will live with you all my life. I presume onr son is earning money now. Please forward by return mail. Yours, us was. Andrew." Believing that she had been injured by the supposedly drowned man, who had originally deprived her of support and then of a widow's comfort, Mrs. Buckley asked Judge McKwen to grant her a divorce from the waterlogged mate of former years. FOUND l>KAI> IN BAY. Supposed to Have Fallen Overboard While hi a Fight. The New York American says two dead sailors, with arms locked, revealed a river tragedy Thursday afternoon, when found floating near the statue of Liberty. What the circumstances of their death were could not be ascertained, but it was assumed that they had been fighting and hud fallen from their ship. It is possible, however, that one had fallen overboard and the other, trying to rescue him, had been dragged down to death. Hotli canto from the steamer Dors ('.. and front letters found on one of thent he Is believed to he Charles Faulkner, twenty-seven years old, of No. 81 New street, Manhattan. P KIVK MI I.KS KIM,Kit My Mglitiiiig While Itunning Loose In a Pasture. The Augusta Herald says five mules, valued at >A,200, and belonging to the Woodward Hum her \ company of i?at city, were struck by lightning Wednesday afternoon about four o'clock and Instantly killed. * The mules had l>een sent to Jackson, thirteen miles front Augusta, to l?e used by the company there. They were loose and in a pasture when the storin came up. It is supposed that they were huddled close together when killed by the deadly l>olt. CLKHKS KHHOIl. Ignorant (iirl Served Years in Prisor for Mont ha. Flecause a clerk wrote years in stead of month, Lena Rivers, an it, norant girl, has served almost a sc ?r< of years in Alabama mines when tk< V real time was less than two yea -n She died just before her time was u{ and her mother now asks the All \ bama legislature for overtime pay. HE DENIES IT. 5 Rev. C. M. Billings Publishes Card In Augusta Chronicle. Mr. Robert li. Fielding, of illaclcville, Replies to Same Through The Columbia State. The following communication ap* peared in the Augusta Chronicle one t day last week: "On June 23 and 24 dispatches ' were given to the press to the effect that I had been expelled from the Bluckville. S. C., Baptist church 011 . account of letters containing expressions of endearment for a house-maid who had formerly served In our home A further statement to the effect that " I had forsaken my wife and child and ? gone away with this servant was f made. "I want to say"~by way of explanaI tion for my silence that for the first 1 10 dayB after these dispatches appeared I was not in a physical nor mental condition to make the statei ment I wish to make. Besides, friends as well as myself thought a statement which would finally be made by a l>ody of brethren would be more satisfactory to the general public. But findng that many of my friends are expecting a statement from me and are waiting impatiently for it, 1 wish to declare: "First. That the letters in question were not written by me; neither have I been allowed the nHvl'opn r?r seeing them. "Second. The statement with reference to the relations of endearment existing between me and the servant in question are libelous. "Third. At the time that the dispatch went out 1 had not only forsaken my family, but was at home with them. This the uuthor certainly must have known. "It is true upon ihe evidence contained upon these letters I was excluded from the church, but I had absolutely no opportunity to defend myself or deny the authorship of them, since I was preaching for a friend in Augusta and did not reach home until f> o'clock in the afternoon of that day. "This is my final statement until a body of reputable brethren hear the cuse and their findings made public." "Rev. C. M. Billings." Contradicts Hillings. To the Editor of The State: It has been the purpose of your correspondent to have nothing more to say in regard to the awful Billings matter which has been the talk of our town and the whole State and caused great grief to Christian people here and elsewhere. But the statement in your paper today, copied from the Augusta Chronicle, is so misleading to those people over the State who do not know the facta in the case and is so totally devoid of truth until this informant must come forth. Now, every reputable man in this town will sign his name to the fact that these awful letters written by Billings to the negro who had been his house maid are in Billings' own handwriting. These letters weie written here and mailed to Bamberg, where the maid had gone after leaving his home on account of the fact leaking out here. a young newiy married man could not write a letter in more endearing terms to nls tender i?ride. The only word of sympathy for the man here for his crime is occasionally the. statement that "the man must have lost his mind." This answers Billings' first statement in regard to his not writing these letters. Second. That he had not been allowed the privilege of seeing them is fulse. On the other hand he was begged to go and read them and he tiat-footedly refused to do so. His third statement, that he had absolutely no opportunity to defend himself or to deny the authorship of the letters as he was away preaching for a friend and didn't reach home until 5 o'clock in the afternoon he was excommunicated is devoid of any truth whatsoever. On the contrary. Millings was notified on Friday afternoon that he would be turned out of the church on Sunday and was asked to be there. This he failed to do, but on the contrary, took the train for Augusta <Ja., and preached there for a preacher who came here for him and heard the proceedings at church here Sunday morning. This was not a previous engagement for him to preach in Augusta, for he had an engagement to preach in Lexington, N. C., and wired them, after arriving in Augusta, he could not come. This information wus in i the Charlotte Observer. It might also be stated that Millings was excluded from the church not only for gross immorality in re Hard to his life with the negro but for prevarication. A copy of this letter has been sent to the Augusta Chronicle in reply to the card appearing in that paper. Robert B. Kick l ing, i Blackvllle, S. C., July 17, 1H07. Ill KIKI> CITY KOIND. In Texus Which Was l<otig Ago Densely Populated. > r Prof. T. L. Kverly, an archaeolo. gist and instructor in the Canadin.i college at Hereford. Texas, has dls covered a buried city in Ochiltree county, in the extreme northern part of the Pan Handle. The appearance of a numhe^of mounds upon what was otherAflfc&|&| t level plain attracted Mr. Everl^KMgi tent ion. and he began investig>H9gg| His excavations have revealed buildings, in which are human - ancient potters and stone utens^^^H The mounds are rectanguHJHH J shape, and their number show^^^SS : it was a city of several thousa^^HB habitants. The character oHfflB > ruins indicates that they antflBgn| the Aztecs or Toltres. Mr. will make further excavations. AWFUL TRAGEDY. Miss Julia Wannamaker a Victim of the Undertow. SWEET YOUNG GIRL From Orangeburg Swept Off Her Fret ami Out to Sea While Surf Bathing, Near Station 10, on Sullivan's Inland, Heroic Ffforts to Save Her Failing?Two Ot hern Narrowly Kscape. Caught in the merciless grip of the undertow, in water barely waist deep. Miss Julia Wannaniaker, the beautiful young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Heber Wannaniaker, of Orangeburg, was drowned while in surf bathing on Sullivan's Island, opposite the street leading from station No. 19, near the rocks, late Friday afternoon. Mrs. Joe Bell, of Charleston, and Miss Pauline Cart, of Orangeburg, narrowly escaped a like fate, being saved only after the most heroic efforts. The following account of the sad affair is taken from The News and Courier: The three ladies named and Prof. Francis L. Parker entered the surf ibout H:30 o'clock. The tide at thi. hour was dead low ami still running out. They found that, although the water was comparatively shallow, being not more than wist deep, the undertow was so swift that they were unable to retain their footing. The ladies called to Prof. Parker that the undertow had them. He quickly seized them, bunched them togeiuer and called for help. Mr. Tom Buist, of Charleston, was the first to reach them, and Prof. Parker turned over Miss Wannaniaker, who had become panic stricken, to him. It had been very necessary, however, for Mr. Buist to make a long run up the beach before reaching them and he was practically exhausted when he undertook to support Miss Wannaniaker, and could not keep her head above the surface. Mr. George Huguenln, also of Charleston, being attracted by the calls for help, hastened to Mr. Buist's assistance. Mr. Huguenin has been ill recently and his strength was soon gone. He was unable to support Miss Wannaniaker and she sank. Mr. Jas. Adger, who ..ad been swimming some distance further out, close to the jetties, reached the ?scene of trouble alaiut this time, and undertook to assist Miss Wannaniaker, but was him FIANGEI) TO DEATH. Aeronout Falls From a llolloon and is Drowned. Charles Sams, twenty-one years old. of Hattle Creek, Mleh., was drowned near the Allendale resort at Gull Lake, after making a balloon ascension before a large crowd. ? ne body of the young man has not been recovered. The first balloon ascension of the season was advertised to take place Tuesday. \\\ E. Martin, of Hattle Creek, who has the contract, had secured the services of Harry Laptide, but the latter refused to go up at u.e last minute because his mother objected. Sams walkeu out of the crowd and offered to take Laptide's place. Wuen 1,500 feet in wie air the parachute was cut off by Sams and he struck the water about :$00 feet from shore. Two fishermen went to the rescue, but the body was not in sight. FOUND IIF.K MAKK1KD. After Doing Absent Many Years lieturns to Life. Thomas Keefer, of Steuhenville. O., who was believed to have been lost in a river collision twenty-five years ago, and who was mourned as lead by his wife. Thursday night walked into the home of the woman, U'lui hfitl 1 iPnn tlio utJfo ? ? man for fifteen years. hdmuur Dixon, the second husband learning of the expected arrival of the man with the prior claim, packed his suit case, and as Keefer entered ti\e front door he went out the back. e* lilt; CHOI* OF COKX. Mr. K, |), Smith Tliinks the Williamson Plan is Ites|M?iisilde. The State says the greatest crop of corn in the history of South Carolina will he gathered this year, according to the reports that are coming in. Mr. n Smith nrouirlont nf I hn Cnnth Carolina Cotton (.rowers' association, ascribes this to the interest taken in the Williamson plan, and he think.* that those who followed the formula given by Mr. Mclver W'illiamson have made large yields and that their profits will lie such as to justify ineir having taken Mr. Williamson's advice. S.W Kl> IIKK LIFE By Hanging from Tie I'ntil the Train Had l'assed. i to besing hose self she hy ,*uin the ?ach the bnk WANTS DIVORCE So As Her Husband Can Marry Another Woman. And Give His Two Illegitimate Daughters His Name and Thus Sure Them From Shame. iirttu 11? # T*im iuw iurmai application made Thursday in the New York Supreme Court for a final judgement of divorce, following an Interlocutory decree signed by Justice Crane on April 6th last, is made public astartling story of martial infidelity and double life, in which a prominent resident of Borough Park, Brooklyn, is the defendant, and a social scandal which has agitated Boston at times for several years is revived. The man who is charged by his wife with having led a double life is Joseph T. Cunningham, said to be drawing a salary of $15,000 as manager of an electrical company with offices at 111 Broadway, Manhattan. His wife, Mrs. Ksahel S. Cunningham, of 66 Clifton place, charges that he has been living with one Lizzie Deinpsey at 5817 Fifteenth avenue. Borough Park, and by whom he has had two children. From the papers and tlic testimony in the case which was taken before Justice Crane on March 2J2d. much of the romance of the Cunninghams and the sorrow of the wife at her discovery of her husband's transfer of his affections to the Dempsejr woman is revealed. Letters of Mrs. Cunningham aiso tell of her wish ?.o endure self-abnegation in the nope that, if she secured the divorce, her husband would marry the mother of his children. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham were married at the Hotel Oxford on December 14, 1894. At that time Cunningham, it is said, had great political aspirations in Boson, being a friend of former Mayor Josiah Quincy and a close associate with other prominent Democratic politicians of Massachusetts. He was at one time a member of the Democratic National committee, it is said. Mrs. Cunningham was also of u prominent family in Boston, highly cultured and educated, and of independent means. The marriage of the parties was a social event. A few years later, it is suid, and the charge is made In the papers in the action brought by Mrs. Cunningham, the husband became enamored with one Lizzie Denipsey, daughter of a prominent society man in Boston, and deserted his wife, after having dissipated as much of her fortune as he could get hold upon the woman who is mentioned as the correspondent in the action, it is that Mrs. Cunningham, after tracking her husband and the Dempsey woman to New York city, about seven years ago, horsewhipped the woman in the Grand Central staton The discovery that Cunningham and Miss Denipsey were living together in Borough Park was made, the plaintiff says in her testimony, in June, 1906, and it is claimed that the $15,000 Queen Anne cottage. 5817 Ffteenth avenue, which stands in Miss Dempsey's name was a present to her from Cunningham. Testimony was given at the trial that Miss Denipsey is known there as Mrs. Cunningham, and that few in the Borough Park coterie of friends of Cunnigham knew otherwise. Mrs. Cunningham says, in a letter, because of the two little girls, daughters of the Dempsey woman and Cunningham, she is averse to any expoure of the marital infelicities that have came between herself and husband. She writes: "The little girls." she says, "are six and four and a half years, respec ttvely. Because of them I was able to bring myself to a point where I was willing to divorce hlin. It was through him that I lost my horses, jewelry and other property?everything dear to me. I horsewhipped her seven years ago when he wanted to come back to me." KACKiGI) FKOM BKACH. Passengers on Jersey Short* Shocked by Ada hi-a hi I-1*1 ve At Jersey Shore. Pa., shocking reports of carelessness regarding bathing there have bobbed up from time to time. The costumes worn by these frolicsome bathers have been the cause of complaint. In fact, the costumes have been overlooked entirely, and it is this that the town authorities object to. Passengers on the trains and trolley cars passing the river have told stories whereby they gazed with a dread curiosity on the wator frolics. Time was when the Garden of Kden effect was confined entirely to the men, but now women have been added. This calls for decisive action, say those in control. C?~ A 1 12 ?? 2-? ov? nit; iMiiiii' were given special orders to keep a lookout for loose who pooh-pooh conventional garb, and officers carried out instructions to the letter. Kven, it is said, that some of the women who disported themselves in this highly unusual manner are prominent socially; hut this Is discredited. l?HO\VNKI> IN HATHINt; POOL. Young Man, laist llis Life While in Swimming. A dispatch from Rock Hill to The State says L. Alley, a young unmarried man, 23 years old, was drowned in the swimming pool of Arcade cotton mills about nine o'clock Wednesday ovenlng. It is not known whether he could swtin or not. He was on a plank floating around in the pool which fs a private affair for the operatives. Those nearby who heard his call for help were not able to get to him in time. It was an hour or more before his body was recovered, dredging the pool having to be reborted to. & g!k. e !* V*?-, GREAT HAVOC Caused By Cloudburst In Ohio and West Virginia PROPERTY DAMAGED. Many Washouts on Hail Linos. Throo Deaths from Storm at Zanosvillo, Ohio?One Drowning; and a Lightning Fatality?Many Wire Pros| trato? Landslides Add to Dauiuges to Hoiuls. A dispatch from Pittsburg. Pa., says telephonic communication with West Virginia points late Thursday night report enormous damage by cloudbursts and storms in the interior of the State. At - U...vaiiua, *_?ii 10, a cloudburst and electrical stortn resulted in three deaths, and much property damage. Taylor Davis was drowned while fording a creek at Museville and a man was drowned iu the Adams Mill basin. His boat was upset by the wind. Joan Kline, a miner of Connellsville, was killed by lightuing at South Zanesville. Along the Western Maryland railroad between Thomas and Elkins, W. Va., the damage is so great that It will not tie possible to operate that portion of the road for at least 24 hours. Two hundred and fifty feet of the track was washed over the bauks of Tub Run between Ilamsleton and Hendricks, and at the same point there is a lib foot landslide. All telephone and telegraph wires are down between Parsons and Elkins. Between Douglas and Thomas, the tracks are washed out for a quarter of a mile. Rain is still falling and rail mad officials fear even greater trouble. The dry Fork railroad is reported under water and the big main of the West Virginia and Maryland Gas com pan.v was torn out at Parsons. On the Baltimore anil Ohio railroad Jhere has been trouble between Terra Alta and Grafton, including washouts and landslides, and since 9 o'clock there have been no trains over that division. The dam at Thomas has been weak ened and it is feared It will give way, precipitating several million gallons of water into Cheat and Tygurts valley. The coal and iron branch of the Western Maryland road between Elkins and Du: bin is reported tied up by washouts and landslides. Dispatches from Grafton. Rowlevburg. Tunnelton and other towns in Tygurt's valley, in northern West Virginia tell of terriffic rains followed bv the river going out of its lmnk nearly its entire length, resulting in the death of three persons and causing property losses that will aggregate nearly a quarter of a million dollars. At Elkins the rainfall reached the remarkable total of five inches and was nearly as heavy at other points. Fifteen or more bridges are washed out, railroads are washed out and at Grafton a church from Howleyburg passed down the raging river. At Thornton several houses were washed away. At McCoombs the water came in an immense wave, wrecking the house of Mrs. Mary Ballard, carrying off three of her small children. whose bodies have not been recovered. It is feared many other lives have been lost as the flood came without warning. AI TO HITS EGG WAC .ON. Injuries to its Occupants Might Be Termed Superficial. The New York American says an auto containing Andrew D. Maloy, of or. na v?.. i """"u curci, .Mdiiuaii i.i, 411111 several friends whirled three blockTh'irsday down the hill which leads froni the Long Island Railroad tracks to Jamaica avenue, East New York, and crashed into two wagons laden with eggs. The result might he described as an omlette du force. Broken eggs spattered about as if the sky were showering the barnyard product. One man was slightly bruised when the auto hit the wagon he was driving. Mr. Maloy and his friends were uninjured, but not so their clothing. SPAT O.N STARS ANI> STRIPES Japanese Engine Wiper at les Angeles is Roughly Handled. T. Yoni, a Japanese employed as wiper in the Southern Pacific shops in Bos Angeles, Cal., narrowly escaped serious injury at tne hands of an enraged mob of American workmen recently. Yoni was wiping an engine on which had been placed two small American flags. While wiping the engine Yoni turned and deliberately spat upon owe of the flags. A crowd quickly surrounded the Japanese and he was roughly handled when he managed to elude his assailants and escaped. I>IEI> FROM IKK.IIT. nullum iiis up ii on it i iw injured by Horse. A dispatch from Anderson to Tho State says Solicitor Roggs arrived In the city Wednesday and brought news of the rather unique death of Mr. M. B. Waters of Brevard. N. C., who lost his life from fright near Pickens. It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Waters were driving out in the country when their horse became frightened and was rearing upon it's hind feet. Mr. Waters became frightened on account of his wife and collapsed, dying eight minutes later. The horse did not run but fell back and injured Mrs. Waters slightly. ? > >. ? v. CUPID VS CUPIDITY Blind God Routed in Honeymoon, Says Harrison. Now Ho Wants a Divorce?Declares Wedded Life Has Been Anything hut IMcnsaut. Rudely awakened on his honeymoon up the Hudson river by the declaration of his bride of a few hours that she had married hltn only "to collect alimony and live Independently," Arthur W. Harrison, has sued for divorce. Here are some of the allegations in his complaint. That on their honeymoon his wife treated him cruelly, and kicked and cuffed him about. That she pulled his hair. , That she assaulted him and slap- | ped him in the face, wounding his ' pride. | 1 That she drew a loaded revolver i and threatened his life. That she grabbed a handful of his ' ear w he tied a tie, and unnicrci-M fully flayed him about the head un- \ til he called for help. i That she fnli??wn.i iii... nun iu ihjs omce and down-town places, and annoyed ' and abused him. That she demanded $3 5 monthly j allowance and refused to return and j live with him. t That she stayed away from home o' nights and didn't tell him where i she went. That she Is nervous and quarrel- ( some and that she made life a burden i for him. That she did it all again. I The Harrisons. Arthur \V. and j Mary K., were married on July 14. ( 1901. according to the complaint, j and their troubles commenced before they had gotten a fair start on their ^ honeymoon. ^ It was then she told him she had ^ married him to collect alimony, and life wasn't exactly pleasant from that ^ time on. j He declared he was "treated" with "cruelty and inhumanity" the rest of ^ the trip, and it didn't stop when they | reached home. But they managed to get along without police interference until April, 1903. At that time because Arthur would not produce the q money for a new gown, he avers that ^ she set upon him as he entered home ^ one evening and battered him so his friends had difficulty in establishing his identitiy. ^ This breach was patched tip until September, when it was said that Harrison met Arthur with a large re- . volver one night, and compelled him to stand still while she explained c just what she thought of him. Then came the tie incident. ,. It seems that Harrison, like most i men who wear collars, can tie a tie ^ without invoking profanity and with- ., out donning war paint. He declares 4 there was nothing in his attitude at the time in question that might have ' been construed into a declaration of war, but, nevertheless, Mrs. Harrison, while he was deeply engrossed in making the bow look properly put together, .grabbed an ear and an end of the tie and belabored him about the head until he yelled "nuff," and * bellowed for help. About then is when, according to c Harrison, his wife began staying out o' nights, and he absently forgot to return home frequently. Consequently she began to call at his office and at the patent office and other places, and everybody within earshot knew just how she felt about it. it was ttnally agreed that he would give her $35 a month and be let alone , This was on June 27, 190t>, and for the first time in five years, Harrison felt happy. In September, however. ? business was bad and he felt he could ' not afford happiness as a $35-a- ^ month luxury, so he asked his wife to come back and love him again. ^ Mrs. Harrison declined, and de- f manded her $35, with the result that Harrison is willing to chuck it all and forego the pleasure of family life and once again assume the role with the single tared. Now he wants the court to take up his burdens and keep his wife away [ from his office, and give him a di- ' vorce, a inensa et thoro, which looks 1 like a frill, but means "from bed and board." ( XKCKO I,YXCI1KI? I Assassin Quickly Kxpiates for Cow- ' ardly Crime. Frank Railcy, a negro, was lynch- 1 eu ny a nioi) consisting or ir?o men I ami boys Wednesday night at Osage, t Ok la., after he had shot and mor- I tally wounded Frank Kelley, a brakeman on the Missouri, Kansas and I Texas. ( Kelley had ejected the negro from the train in the afternoon. The negro hid In the yards and as the train upon the top of which Kelley was standing passed, the negro shot him. The negro was captured an hour | later. The mob was formed and overpowered the two officers who had Bailey in custody. Its members took the negro to the scene of his crime and hanged htm to a telegraph pole, i HlXlWN' TO IMKCKS. , (Jen. Aliklumotr, Woman ami Coach- 1 man Killer!. 1 I General Alikanoff, former govern- i lor general of Tlflls, Mnie. Olieboff. < wife of Gen. Glieboff, and the coach- i man, were blown to pieces by a bomb thrown at their conveyance. A son of Gen. Alikhanoff and daughter of Gen. Glieboff sustained serious Injuries. Gen. Alikahanoff was nicknamed "The Wild Beast" by Caucasian members of the lower house of Parliament. His rigorous methods brought down upon him the enmity of the revolutionists. STATE BANKS. Report of State Bank Examiner as To Their Condition. REPORTS COMPARED. and Discounts, Capitalization and Savings Deposits Increased and Individual Deposits Decreased?laist llc|?ort Issued May 1? The Hanks Are All In (tood Condition. State nank Examiner Hollemau and his assistant, Mr. Rhauie, have compiled a report, as to the condition af the State hanks based on the reports called for on June 14. The last report was published on May 1, ?t which time the totals were as follows, as compared with the present report: Loans and discounts, $34,723,364 in May, as ajaiust $37,793,162.44 at present; total capltallzaion, $8,4 49,020.88, as against $8,>78,103.57 at present; total individia' deposits, $17,813,943.70, as igainst $14,925,017.03 at present; savings deposits, $12,611,303.73, as igainst $12,071,656.88 at present. The report in full Is as follows: Statement of the condition of the 515 State savings and private banks, ocated in South Carolina, at the dose of business June 14, 1907. RESOURCES. ,oans and discounts. .$37,793,462.44 demand 1 ,oans 1,784,193.87 Overdrafts 623,796.58 lends and stocks owned by the bank .. 3,831,079.37 tanking house . . . . 678,663.43 furniture and fixtures. 289,988.07 Other real estate .. 291.098.57 )ue from banks and bankers 3.600,271.08 Currency 840,987.40 iold 124,961.75 Silver, nickels and pennies 274.942.85 'hecks and cash items 247,259.21 Exchanges for Clearing House 38.456.97 )the.r Resources .. .. 15,842.58 Total $50,435,004.26 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in. $ 8.578,103.51 Surplus fund 1,492,356.68 Judivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 2,877,507.80 )ue to Hunks and bankers.. . . .. 717,869.62 lue unpaid dividends. 20,402.99 udivldual deposits subject to check .. ..14,925,017.03 iavings deposits.. ..12,671,656.88 )emand certificates . . 269,094.00 r<tnie certificates.. .. 2,457,345.70 jerfified checks .. .. 11,785.52 'ashler's checks.. .. 52,988.70 Cotes and bills rediscouuted 1,561,521.70 tills pavable 4,775,844.69 )tber liabilities .. .. 23.509.44 Total $50,435,004.26 The last report was as follows: Statement of the condition of the i 13 State, private and savings hanks ocated in South Carolina at the lose of business March 19, 1907. RESOURCES. .oans and discounts. .$34,723,364.20 lemand Loans 2,086,467.08 )verd rafts 636,095.08 loads and stocks owned by the banks .. 3,754,716.61 lanking bouses . . . . 630,437.90 'urniture and fixtures 308.240.86 \.i 1 Oil *?- a < viuei 1 i-'ii rnuiu: . . . . ? f 1, I i * 11 )iifi from hanks and hankers 762,998.68 Currency 1,034,011. iO lold 130,146.76 illver, nickels and pennies 288,553.11 Checks and cash items 408,950.93 Exchanges for Clearing House 43,745.35 >ther resources .. .. 21,567.66 Total (49,43 1,552,50 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in .. (8,449,020.88 Surplus fund 1,611,175.84 Jndivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 2,591,747.44 }ue to Banks and bankers 762,998.08 Due unpaid dividends 21,676.93 ndividual deposits subject. too check.. ..17,813,94 3.70 Savings deposits.. ..12,611,303.73 demand certificates .. 280.489.4S rime certificates . . . . 2,252.873,45 Certified checks .. .. 16,052 19 Jashier's checks .. .. 59,270.52 s'otes and bills rediscounted 982,488.01 tills payable 1,031,270 05 >ther liabilities .. .. 47,341.00 Total $49,431,652.00 K1 I,UNO NKAH MKX^lMICK 'atnl Row Iktwn-n Two Xrgro?t on k Public Road. i A dispatch from McCorniick to Tue state says news reached there Thurslay afternoon of a difficulty which iconrred on the public highway about four miles from this place between :wo negroes. One of the negroes was killed and his slayer has been locked up. The weapon used was a ?un and whiskey is said to have been the cause of the trouble. The names )f the participants in the tragedy are unknown at the time this dispatch was sent. FOl'RTKKN ARK DROWN FID. Sailboat t 'apsizes and the Occupants ^ ITheir IJves. Fourteen persons are reported to have beea drowned at Marstrand.^Hft the; capsizing