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THE FORT MI LI TIMEsT ^ I 16TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21; 1907 NO. 34 J SHARP FORGER I Takes in Several People In Columbia For Small Amounts. LOOK OUT FOR HIM. The Amounts Which He (Jot Wore Not Very Much in the Aggregate Rut Then* Were Several Crooked l>eals Which Showed Rare Persistence utul Nerve on the Part of the Forger, F. W. Unit ley. The State say F. W. Rent ley. who Is branded as a forgor by his former employer, by Columbia banks arm hv half a dozen business men about the city, Ib apparently possessed of considerable nerve, and has managed to stay In Columbia for two weeks with l>olice officers, detectives and others lookng for him, all anxious to give him a berth lu the county jail, lientley managed to pass forged checks upon one bank and a half dozon business men of Columbia, beginning his operations about Oct. 25. and, although the matter was promptly reported to the police department, he is known to have been in the city Thursday night and attempted to work a Gervnls street merchant with one of his worthless pieces of paper. Hentley went to Columbia about Juue 1, from Dubuque, Iowa, to work for John Neill & Co., proprietors of the Capitol City market, 1610 Main street. On October 19 he was discharged by Mr. Neill and his crooked deal was pulled olT shortly thereafter. when he went to one of the Columbia banks and asked to borrow $25 on his note. He was told thai he could not get the money unless Neill & Co. endorsed the note. Ilent- ' ley, it is said, took the note and went out, coming back a few minutes later ( with it bearing the alleged endorse- | of John Neill & Co. He got the money and it wu6 not discovered that the 1 signature was a forgery. Several days later Ilentlcy walked into the name hank and presented a check for $25 signed "John Nelll & I Co., and payable to himself. He In- formed the teller that he wished to 1 get the check cashed and apply $5 on ! his note at the bank. The $25 was I counted out to hiin and he passed $. I back to be npplied to his note. < On November 1 Hentley called at i the Parlor restaurant and nsked the proprietor. Mr. Ren David, to cash a < small check for him, tvhich was done. The amount of this check was $10 l and It was signed the snme ns 'he ? other; drawn on the Rank of Colum .bin and made payable to himself. On November 12 Bentley walked into one of the leading hotels of the 1 city late n the afternoon and presented a check for $25, drawn on th? Carolina National hank, payable to P. Bentley and signed "John Nelll & Co." He stated that Mr. Nelll had given hlin the check and that as It was after banking hours and as he needed the money hndiy he would have to have It cashed by koi\jp one else. The check was cashed all right, and the next morning It was turned down at the Carolina National as Nelll & Co. had no account there. -1 >nl">n to Mr. The check wan IIIOU lunvM Noill, who branded it as a forgery. Mr. Noill informed the hotel man that it was not the tlrst. chock which Bentley had forged against him at several others had already been call ed to his attention. A few days later a check for $T turned up which Ilentley had succeed ed in passing upon u small merctaan' in the outskirts of the city and stir another one for a like amount, which he had worked off on a man in tin Olympia village came to light. Two checks for small amount' which Bent ley gave on the FalinettNational hank, signed by hlmaell weie turned down by the hank fo lack of funds, he never having hm an account there. It is also said that a draft for $4( drawn on Neill and Co and sent in b> a firm outside of the city, througl another bank, was turned down b; one of the hanks, Bentley being th? author of it. It was learned nt ihe police station that Bentley was In town Thursday night and attempted to pass a checi or, nn a merchant on Gervni: street. Possibly others were taken in b> Bentley with his worthless check? and have refrained from reporting the cases for fear of notoriety. It is said that Bentley has been living with a woman on Main street and this woman made inquiries over thf telephone of Nelll & Co. since the first forgeries came to light. She alw looked after getting Bentley's trunk and this action was immediately re ported to the police. It was thought that she and Hentley were preparing to board a train and lenve the clt? together but the depots were watched closely, it is said and neither of them was seen. Mr. Neill hnd known Hentley foi several years and at one time worker in the same otilce with him. with Ar . mour & Co. He states that Bentle? is mni'Hed and that his wife is now K living In Iowa. He says that untt' P Bentley begun forging his name br had never heard ^nythlng against hit JP_rh;iraeie. and ilwaya considered him T^riem: > it thought to be in the ANOTHER MUDDLE, i , ; Difficult Point Brought Before Attorney-Generel Lyons. In Connection With the Luwn Governing New County Elections.?May ' Postpone Calhoun County Election. The rolnmMn i?.i - vvi I VO^UllUV'lll U I the News and Courier says an interesting and difficult point has come up in regard to the election which has been ordered for this month on the | establishment of Calhoun County, out < of portions of Orangeburg and Lex-! ington counties. There is a conflict in the laws governing the holding of elections on new counties in that it is provided in the Constitution that when an election is ordered all the qualified electors within the proposed new county shall hav the right to vote, whereas it is provided in the statutes that the county board of election commissioners shall appoint managers for those voting precincts within the prescribed territory. It so happens that some of the', qualified Hectors residing in the tor-' rltory are registered at precincts i which are outside the territory, and the question arises whether or not! these electors can vote, and if so. where. The Constitution clearly Btates that they are entitled to vote, as the resi dewithin the territory, but the statute, It is argued, makes no provision for the holding of the elec tlon except at the boxes within the territory, and an elector can vote only at the precinct where he is registered. An elector may change his registration from one precinct to another If he has changed his residence, but j this has to bo done by applying to; the registration supervisors on one af the days when their office is oucn. The questions outlined, aloug with ithers, were propounded hy the new t jounty advocates to their attorneys.. Bellinger & Welch, and in ord?*r t< ! tuake the procedure safe the j.ttorneys have asked the Attorney General for an interpretation of the law. This condition again brings to the front the uncertainty which exists, and the degree of ambiguity in the election laws, and suggests that it might be well .or the General Assembly to Instruct the Judiciary commit Lees of the two houses to take the election laws into consideration and j report back a bill or bills, which will j ro amend the laws as to make them j consistent and plain. It ought not to lie difficult as it b :o conduct a legal election in this' State, but under the present condi- ' ions it is practically impossible, for lot even the lawyers can construe tin deetion laws. The only way out of he trouble, it seems, it to poitpom he election in Calhoun until the j Legislature can meet and straighten iut the tangle. Otherwise the election I vould be illegal. Importun Decision. This is tho summary of an inpor-! ant opinion given by Attorney Gen- j ral Lyon in response1 to a request j rom Governor Ansel. The* opinion ~>t Mr. Lyon is as follows: "Dear Sir: Your letter of the 1 1th nstant is to hand in which you ask ; ne to give my opinion as to the right I ?f electors, within the proposed now ounty of Calhoun, to vote when they re seperated from their voting places y reason of their precinct being cut ?y the proposed new county line. Aricle 7. section 1 of the constitution f 1S9T? provides: "The governor, hall order an election within a reas nable time thereafter, by the quul- j fled electors within the proposed rea.' etc. Article 11, section 9. of he constitution provides the each ! lector shall vote at his own precinct nd section T?76 of the code of laws 902. volume 1, provides only for; penlng and conducting elections a ach voting place within the area o< he old county so proposed to for ut off.' "An elector being prohibited by he constitution from voting without Is precinct una no voting piace wun- i t his precinct and Mn the area of tti<? roposed county to he cut off' havng been provided by law, ho has nly a bare right to vote, without the leans or opportunity having been rovided by law for its exercise. "It is. therefore, my opinion that lectors so situated can not vote un?>ss the legislature shall derm it wise ( o provide voting places in such [ asos." Terrible Kxplosion. i Two men were killed and three or our injured in an explosion in the1 Irander. Ohio. The factory was de-1 Grander. Ohio. Th efnetorv was detOlished and a number >>f houres vere shattered in the town. The cr.n ussion was felt for si..ty tnile:; iround. -1 ty yet. people who sometimes cash] checks for strangers should be on he lookout and it has been suggested that it would not bo a bad idea o inform the police of all eases ?rhere auspicious strangers offer 'hecks to he cashed, or at least to make inquiry of the haukt. A warrant was sworn out before Magistrate Fowles by Mr. Men Ihtvid, | 'harging Beutley with uttering and oubllshiflg a forged instrument i f writing. If he is cnptiired a half dozen other warrants will be .served upon htm ENDED AT LAST. Famous Lawsuit Settled After One Hundred Years of Litigation. PECK VS BORDEN CASE Which Originally Involved One Hun> tired Thousand Dollars, Is Ended , After Estate Had Dwindled to Six ' < Thousand Dollars.?Each Heir Got 1 Very Little as The it- Were a Great | Many of Them, * A famous lawsuit which has been In litigntion In the courts of Virginia for a period of more than one hundred years, was recently terminated there by the receiver for the property In litigation disbursing the remainder of the estate?some $6,000?among the heirs. Quite a number of the heirs of this estate live in Atlanta and other parts of Georgia, and through the courtesy of Albert Ilorden Greeu, whose mother, Mrs. ltachuel Green, of Decatur, was a descendant of the Borden family, and one of the heirs to the muchly litigated estate, The Atlanta Journal recently presented a facsimile of tho check which she recently rceived from the receiver lut full settlement of her share of the estute. The amount is not large, being only $1-1.69. but it was a case of long division, and $6,000 doesn't make much of a show when cut up among four hundred heirs. Among the descendents of the Rordens who live in Georgia and were interested in this famous lawsuit, may be mentioned Mrs. James R. Gray, of Atlautn, the wife of Hon. lames R. Gray, editor of The Jour mti. j. rv. oHcueii. oi Mapevnie; Mrs. Frank Little, tho wife of Judge Frank Little, of Sparta; H. II. Susuett, deceased, of Jacksonville, Flu.,; Mrs. c Mary Will Sasnelt, of Sparta: Bev. II. r 'I. Sasnett. deceased, of Atlanta, and Mrs. R. F. Greer, of Decatur. All of these Georgians nre the do- 1 scendants of the Borden family or 1 Virginia, and the large holdings of valty left bv the founder of the fain- H ily furnished tlie sinews for ?he long p legal battle which has been waged In he courts of Virginia for a century ' and ntore. The case, entitled Peck vs. Borden. | ^ forcibly reminds one of the celebrated ; ate of Jnrndyce vs. Jarndyce, as v Pictured by Charles Dickens. In this ase. however, the heirs have from r line to time had divided up and parceled out among them something ov- r <r $100,000, and the case did finally ^ onie to an end, being unlike that of larndyce vs. Jarndyce in that respect. r Kverybody in Staunton. Vn., knew " all alKJiit the Peck vs. Borden law- 0 suit. Lawyers regarded it as in the a lature of an inheritance, and the)*1 interest which a family of lawyers T had in the case as counsel was hand- (' ?d down from generation to genera- * lion, from father to son. It was one l] of the ordinary incidents of life for f in attorney, as the shadows of life 'engthened and affairs of life were icaring to an end to call his son to Ills bedside and say, "My son, I have 'ess of this world's Roods to leqve vou than I could wish, but I leave vou with my hlessinR and my interest as a lawyer in the case of Peck vs. Borden. It supported my greatgrandfather as a lawyer. It supported ny grandfather and father and it will loubtless supply the comforts of life "o your children's children." Hut. like all other things of this arth the celebrated case at length ame to an end. It was like unto he closing up of a lawyer's supply ompany when the receiver in the ase entered a final decree, and the ist dollar has been parceled out. ' trong men -lawyers?wept like litle children, knowing that cases like hose turned up only once every few onlurles, and the new crop of lawyers had a long and dreary period of waiting before such another good I thing would be discovered. j The case had its inception more than one hundred years ago when the property of Benjamin Borden, the founder of the family, was wrongly disposed of by a guardian of his two granddaughters. Out of this suit collateral issues sprang and the courts have since then been busy year after year with sonic branch of the case or another. When the judge ordered the clerk to pronounce the record in court the cierk complied by trucking it in with the aid of several porters, and there was scarcely left room enough In the court room to orous were the papers which had been Hied from time to time. Sturdy old Benjamin Borden, the founder of the family fortunes, emigrated from Kngland and came to Virginia in 1720, settling a colony near Staunton, Va., He received for his valuable services to the crown a huge grant of land in Rockbridge and Augusta counties, Virginia, and some t>0,000 acres of land around what is now known as Bordentown. X. J. Benjamin Borden, Jr., succoaded to the property at the death of his father, leaving it in turn to his son. Joseph Borden. tTpon the latter's death, the property reverted to his two minor daughters, and this was the beginning of the famous law suit. The guardian for the two girlfc sold LOTTERY SWINDLE. Most Important Lottery Exposure In Recent Years. Many Wealthy tuid Prominent Per* sons Are Likely To Be Caught in Drag Net by Secret Service. The biggest lottery swindle in the United States which has been runalng for more than twenty years with tieadquarters in Chicago, was exposed Wednesday nght by arrests in that ind other cities of the country. The United States secret service claims :hat the promoters of the scheme aave made millions of dollars and .hat there are big men behind it who :an be reached by the prosecution of he men now under arrest. Under the name of the Old Reliable Guaranty Loan rnmnnn\- I :ompauy maintained nicely appointed )fllce8 at 2 25 Dearborn street, 171 Washington street, and 12 Sehrman itreet and a large printing establishment known j?s the Martin Fountaiu Printing Company at 26 Randolph itreet. Secret service agents Harry T. lonague, Otto F. Klinke and Law ence Richey, who have engineered ill the big lottery exposures of recent rears raided all four of these establshments and obtained thousands of ickets, lottery paraphernalia, checks ind returns from agents, and the dates from which the tickets were iriuted. I). H. Jones, alias D. H. Kissam, vho has lived in expensive style at he Great Northern Hotel and welltnown about the city, was arrested is the head of the concern. He has >eon in charge of the concern since ts inception in 1885, and is said by he secret service men to have acted is the representative and go between if the man higher up. He has also frown tremendously wealthy out of he profits pf the concern. John E. Miner, of W. Minter & ]o., was arrested a partner in the 1 onceru. Miner claims to be in the eal estate business. Warrants were issued for Miss ' ora Green, the confidential secretary of Jones, nnd Walter Schirabey, he bookk<*iper. At midnight, Jones, liner and Miss Green were arraignd before United States Commissionr Foote. George B. Geisler, the St. Louis gent of the concern, was arrested in ( hat city and a large number of lot- , ery tickets and records confiscated, 'rank Falkner, agent at Fort Wayne, , ias arrested by Agent Douohue. !harles and Royal Hamman were arested at Indianapolis by Agent Clink ,nnd John T .Marklnnd was arested at McKeesport. Pa. All were leld under heavy bond. The secret service men from the ecords they have obtained expect to nake more thnn 200 arrets In varlus cities in the country. An attempt .lso will be made to Involve the exiress companies as agnts or aecomdices, under the federal act forbldling lotteries. Commissioner Foote leld Jones without ball. Jones Is nore than 70 years of age, and very eeble. Under its various names, the lotery has been conducted in the reguar lottery manner, except that the irocess has been all out of proportion o the risk and the commissions have teen very heavy, putting hundreds of housands of dollars into the pock>ts of the promoters yearly. It is telieved that even with the heavy trecentage in their favor, the lotery managers did not live up to their (eAo r? t lw.tr* <1 n rv<>c< n fnfi^wt M vrillin< 0 IU l?ru UU^ O ?1IU 1CW1VU o share receipts as advertiser. iome of the property and did not ac:ount for it, and suit was instituted o recover it. That suit continued in he courts for more than one hundred . ears, and the list of heirs had grown vay up into the hundreds when the inal settlement of the case was made ?arly this month. Of this same Borden family was Colonel Borden, who presented the Capital City club with a shell fired from the Oregon at Santiago, which stands on the corner of the club's awn with an inscription plate on it. 'iale Borden, of New York, of condensed milk fame, Mr. Borden, of Canada, and the Bordens. of Kail Itiver, Mass., belong to this famous family. The story of the final settlement of the case is told in the following press dispatch from Staunton. Va: A case which has been occupying the various courts here for considerahitity over 10h years was ended recently in the circuit court by Mayor W. H. l?andi?, receiver, entering a decree, which is considered final, showing all the disbursements in the case of Peck vs. Borden and Borden vs. Borden. Over $100,UU0 whs involved and various decrees have been entered by almost every lawyer here. The heirs numberinB 400. were here from all parts of the country. The final decree approving the settlement of the receiver, Hon. William H. Landls, involved only about $6,000. One heir represented in the original suit as an Infant died some years ago at the age of 06 years. Nearly even- lawyer at the bar for the past century has represented some heir. The papers In the case were so numerous that no man living, even Judge or clerk, were familiar with all of them. MET DEATH In a Burning Hotel at New Haven, Conn., Monday. - j CAUGHT LIKE RATS | In a Trap And Arc Burned Beyond Recognition. Awakened by Panle-Stricken Bellboy, Gust* Fled To Street in Night Hobos. Six People Perish and Many Others j Narrowly Rscape. At New Haven, Conn., six persons i are dead as a result of a dlKARtrr?ti? i Are which swept the upper stories of : the hotel Garde, early Monday. Hun- I dreds of Kuests of the hotel, the blgget In the state of Connecticut, were thrown Into a panic and rushed into the streets, clad only In their night robes, as the flame swept through the wooden structure. Patrick Anter, a porter, was killed by the snapping of a rope with which i he was lowering himself to the street ' from the fourth story. Five other employes sleeping on j the same floor were suffocated by the ; dense smoke. Starting in the north wing, follow- | ing a violent explosion, the fire spread rapidly and ravaged the upper i stories of the hotols to the extent of , $50,000 before the fireman could get it under control. Awakened by the crackling of the > flumes in the room next to his own. a bell boy rushed through the halls ; shouting the alarm and arousing the sleeping guests. All of these were, able to reach the street in safety, although narrow escapes were numerous and the fire was marked by thrilling rescues, several women being taken from their rooms by means of ladders. MALICIOl'S MISSriUKF Marble Steps to Charleston Residences I'pset and I'ut In Street. The News and Courier says there i was sdme excitement and consider- 1 was some excitement and consider- 1 of Wentworth street when they arose 1 Thursday morning and found that I many of the marble steps in front of their houses had been not only interchanged, but carried into the street. ! it nas developed that one of the ;? blocks had only been placed on the;' track of the electric car line, but had ; been struck by one of the cars, result-1! ing, fortunately. In no Injury to the ! car, those in charge of It nor any of the occupants. The slabs were in some cases broken in several pieces. |1 Who is, or are, guilty of this wan-;' ton act is not known and while it is : snid to have been the work of some young men. it -will not be definitely known until the officers who have the matter under investigation make their report. And some one may have to answer in not only the Ke- i corder's Court, but that of General ; Sessions. DKAK KOSHER MEAT Causes Trouble Among the Women at Patterson, X. J. At Patterson, N. J., angry women visited homes in the River street section, and in all places where Kosher meat appeared on the tables for the uoon day meal, it was either destroyed, flung from the windows, or made i unpalatable by having kerosene pour- j ed over it. The Kosher shops were all picked j and a few purchasers got away with ' meats. In scores of cases, purchases \ were torn from the arms of men ! Butchers have decided to close their ' shops for thirty days to stop the boy- j cott of the shops. The high prices ' for meats caused the trouble. FOUGHT WITH SHOTGUNS. Enemies Meet While Hunting and , IWvth Jit Wounded. In a duel with shotguns near Radford. Va., Thursday evening, James; Newby. custodian of the Casers Lith- i ia Springs, was fatally wounded by ; Hugh Peternian, and the latter was i seriously wounded by Newhy. The' men were out hunting and when they i met turned their guns on each other and began shooting. The trouble Is 1 result of an old grudge which grew i out of jealousy on the part of Peter- , man, who imagined Newby was paying attention to his wife. WRECKED SCHOOL RllLDING Blown I'p With Thiw Romh* of Nitroglycerine. Three big nitroglycerine bombs dis-' charged In rapid succession early on i Thursday morning practically wreck-] ed the new $100,000 Henry school at i frormantown, Pa. For squares around i the residents of that section of the j shrub were awaked by the noise. | ThuB far the police have no clue of the identity of those who committed the act. It is though the explosion was caused by parties opposed to the $10,000,000 loan bill, which gives $500,000 to the board of education. A GREAT LOSS, Over a Billion Dollars Wash Away Each Year. Loss to the Farmer* Through Wash in Their Lands is Appalling Kaoh Yeur Says Rxpcrt The farmers of the United States annually permit one billion dollars worth of potential wealth to roll into the Seas, Without armareritlv tho slightest effort to prevent this enormous waste. This was the remarkable statement made recently by Prof. W. J. McGee, chief of the bureau of soils of the agricultural department. Then Prof. McGee sets about proving his assertion by reciting some of the follies of the American agriculturalist. Much has been said lately concerning the conservation of our nat-1 ural resources, and so great has this agi'ation become that the president will devote one chapter of his forthcoming message to a discussion of the subject. According to the views of the agricultural experts and scientific men in Washington, farmers are responsible for more of the damage to his lands than he is blamed for. Prof. McGee says that careful investigation justifies the department In the ascertlou that the rains are permitted annually to carry off into the small streams and through them to the great rivers and ou to the seas not less than-one billion tons of the surface soil, which is the richest and most potent In reproductive elements of any portion of the tillable land of the country, and that practically the entire amount could be retained If a proper system of plowing was followed. His criticism is made with particular reference to hillside fanning and the cultivation of sloping areas. Instead of plowing up and down the hillside, as most farmers in thU country do, Mr. McGee suggests that the agriculturists try the plan of plowing across sloping fields. This would make ridges that form natural, hut tiny breakwaters, thus preventing the water front rapidly flowing into the ravine, as inevitably Is the case when the furrows of a field plowed in the apposite and customary direction are converted into rivulets that in time grow into feeders that carry off the! water at a ruinous rate. Mr. McGee states that by following the plan suggested by Ills bureau water is not anly stopped from rapidly carrying off the surface earth, but the natural springs and other sources of water supply are prevented from replenishing themselves, if water is not permitted to link slowly Into the earth, he declares, springs eventually will dry up and wells will fail. From an economic viewpoint the situation assumes a graver aspect in the eyes of these experts, as Prof. McGee says at a most reasonable estimate this billion tons of the richest soil that is annuallj^lost cannot be replaced by the use of fertilizers costing vastly more than a billion dollars. The question also has another phase directly connected with the subject of the enlargement of our inland waterways, upon which also the president has declared his purpose of addressing the congress. Heavy rains carry this soil into the streams and the muddy and swollen rivers go rushing on towards the sea, eroding their hanks. Prof. McGee says that only muddy water will erode the banks, and that this silt and fine dirt and snnd cuts its way ruthlessly as it moves rapidly along eating the banks and filling up the channel. If it were not for this soil carried to the sea, the department experts declare there would be fir* ftnnrmnnc uovlnnr i n expenditures of the government for dredging and other public works in connection with the inland rivers. In the same way the levees and other works at the months of such rlvors as the Mississippi become necessarily. almost solely, because of this waste of the land that is permitted to flow down and block up the mouth of streams by their enormous deposits. SHOT HIS It!VAL And Murried h Girl Within an Hour After. Half an hour after Clarke Norton killed William Franklin, at White Rock, N. C., Monday, he and Miss Rlizaheth Gentry, for whom they were both suitors, were married at Asheville. Norton was not arrested until the following day, when he was taken in j jail at Marshall, N. C. He was accompanied by his bride, who hetrperi to be allowed to go to jail with him. hot was refused. She and Norton assert chat Norton shot and killed Franklin in self-defense. They say F'ranklln had found out that Norton and Miss Gentry were going to be secretly married, and had gone to the girl's home for the purpose of preventing the marriage. Franklin had said that Miss Gentry and Norton should never wed. When Norton made hi sappearance. Franklin. it is alleged, started the trouble, and Norton opened fire upon him, hia first shot taking effect In Franklin's heart and killed him almost instantly. TOOK HIS LIFE The Late President of the Knickerbocker Trust Company COMMITTED SUICIDE. He Was Mix?sl I'p In the I,atc Panic in New York, and Was I deposed for Speculating in the Trust's Company's Deposits.?Dissipation of His Private Fortune and Loss of Husiness Standing I'pset His Mind. Charles Tracy Barney, the deposed president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, of New York, and until recently a power in the financial world. shot unci killed himself Thursday In his home. His loans with the hank, it is said, are assured, and when he was forced from its presidency he was to all intents apd purposes eliminated as a factor in banking circles. What ill-effects his unexpected taking off might huv? had on the financial situation generally had long since been discounted. In distress of mind over the dissipation of his prlvate fortune and the I r s of his high standing among husi.iejs associates, intimate acquaintances find the hidden drift that broke his health and reason. Much of his personal wealth might have been saved. At the rituo that Harney was dying at his home at Kust Thirty-eighth street and 1'ark avenue, and surgeons prd???l for u bullet that, misdirected '?y a nerveless hand, had entered the body helow tho h? art. a handful ol Irlends at a down-town office were concluding an arrangemer.t by which the loose ends of the banker's Ui.ui/ enterprises were to be gathered up and financed by a stock compauv, which, if not wholly successful, would at . least have rescued from the wreckage sufficient to insure th i promoter's future financially. The conference broke up following the announcement that Mr. Hartley was dead. Mr. Harney, who was in his fiftyseventh year, shot hicnteif while alone In his chamber at the rear of the second floor of his home The bullet entered below th heart and lodged under the left shoulder blade, lie died about 2 o'clock that afternoon after suffering intensely. The death was reported to the coroner a little past three o'clock. Fvom tlu; confusing stories due to tho excitement of the hour it was detrrmlned that Mr. Harney deliberately shot himself while alone and soon after rising. As the bullet enlerel his body he fell unconscious upon tho bed. The report of the revolver startled the lillllliy. .viio. r> u?>ii 11 ;\ ijiju; t *tx?"i?*it?p u guest, was the tlrst t?. reach the chamber and she summoned the physicians. Dr. Dixon rein jmled, and also called two other physic lens Mr Harney was revived, an 1 to Or. Dixon, for twenty years th \ family physician, said: "Doctor, this is an accident." In reporting this to the coroner. , Dr. Dixon added, "with this I coincide." Ether was ndminirt, r id and efforts we-e made to remove the bullet, but they were not successful. During periods of consciousness th? patient suffered much, hut a?.v rdiug to those who were with him made no statement other than that quoted by Dr. Dixon. A desk in the chamber was littered with memorandums and piled high with papers, including letters from bankers and other flnancia. correal l ondents throughout the country. But the coroner was unable to find iinv communication fronr Harney to .suggest ft purpose of se'f-deatructlon. Mr. Barney was born In Cleveland, Ohio, on January, 27, 1 8*>t Ho was the son of A. H. Barney, president of the United Slates Exp cs* Company After graduating from Williams Colit'ffi, 1870, ho marrlol Mts.? Lilly Whitney, sister of Wm C. Whitney. This is the first trag'e echo from tho late gamblers panic In New York. Mr. Barney played the game of fren/.led flnnnce, lost and pnid the penalty. The Knickerbocker Company was oadly involved in the lata panic, and President Barney, and ail the directors were removed, and an investigation of the company la now oelng made, and some of the big depositets have given out that all otluers of the company who have violated the law will be prosecuted. No doubt this had something to do with the President's suicide. ife had borrowed I money from his own company. MET A IIOBItlBL^ DEATH. Mr. Itoht. King, of Falr^ix, Killed At Lumber Mill. A special dispatch to The News and Courier from Allendale says a horrible accident occured at about. 11 o'clock Thursday at tho Brown Lumber Company, situated at Ulmer's which resulted In the death of Mr. Robert King, of Fairfax. Mr. King while engaged in his work at the mill was caught in the line shafting. It was a matter of only a few minutes before he was beaten and torn in a terrible manner by the rapid revolutions of the machinery. He lived only 1 a few minutes after the accident, i