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THE FORT MILL TIMES. 10TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1908 NO. 50 TIED UP FAST. . The Governor Warns Banks Not to Pay Out the DISPENSARY FUNDS. - ! - Notifies the l>ciH>?ltoriea of the Fund Not to Honor Check* Without Production of Collateral and Without Chock* Iloiiig Signed by the State Treasurer and the Commission Chairman. The banks holding deposits of the State dispensary money have been officially notified l?v the Governor that these funds must not be paid to any one without the nrnner nrn duction of the collateral and without thcc heck being signed by the chairman of the com mission and t he-State Treasurer. Inasmuch as the collaterals are all in the office of the State Treasurer, it is not likely that the bnnks will care to violate the Instructions of the Governor, although the banks are also under injunction from Judge Pritchard not to pay out this money except by order of his Court. At any rate, the banks appear to be sure of keeping the money, whatever view the take of the question of State's rights or Federal jurisdiction. , The banks notified arc the following: National l.onn and Exchange Bank, Columbia, S. C. Palmetto National Bnnlt. Columbia. S. C. The State llnnk, Columbia. S. C. Bank of Charleston. Charleston, 6. C. People's Loan and Exchunge Bank, Laurens. S. C. Bank of Orangeburg. Orangeburg, S. C. National Exchange Bank. Cliar'eston, S. C. Bank of Aiken. Aiken. S. C. Commercial Bank, Camden, S. C. People's Savings Bank, Abbeville, S. C. i no uanK or Dillon, Dillon, S. C. | The Enterprise Bank, Charleston, 1 S. C. Merchants' and Planters' Bunk, I Gaffney, S. C. Farmers and Merchants Bank, Anderson. S. C. Merchants and Farmers Bank, Cheraw, S. C. Farmers and Merchants Bunk, Walterboro, S. C. Commercial and Savings Bank, 1' lorence, S. C. Bank of Hartsville, Hartsvllle, S. i C. Peoples Bank. Union, S. C. Bank of Tlmmonsville, Tlmmonsville, S. C. City National Bank, Greenville, S. C. The Greenville Savings Trust Company, Greenville, S. C. The Lexington Savings Bank, Lexington, S. C. Peoples National Bank. Charleston, S. C. The Peoples Bank. Greenville. S. C. The Norwood National Bank, Greenville, S. C. The Bank of Camden, Camden, S. C. Merchants and Farmers Bank, Spartanburg. S. C. T.-M Vnttnn.,1 II.... 1- C* ? not .ni I.UMUU Wdiin , ojm i i <111 uu I ^ , s. c. Central National bank, Spartanburg, S. C. Meanwhile (he banks having (he money on deposit have all been serv- , ed with an ( ier from Judge J'rlt- ! chard not to y out any dispensan 1 -money except ? i the order of tin Federal Court. The funds scent i< i be most seen rely tied up. Governor Ansel also sent a lettci to all the county dispensary boards stating that some of them owe (ha State dispensary commission for liquors purchased out of the stork of j the old State dispensary and notifying them that these amounts must not he paid except when called for by the commission, and that the cheeks must he mado payable to the State of South Curolina and to no one else? further, that under no circumstances must these amounts he paid to any receiver appointed by any 1 Court. , DON'T WANT TAFT. A I.nbor l.ender Says His t'nion Will Xot Support Him. At Omaha, Neb., on WednesJay< in tin* Republican Stnto t'onvontioil the Second and Sixth Districts endorsed Taft. "Tony" Donohue, a local labor union lender, who was a delegate to the second circuit district convention, protested ngainst the endorsement of Taft, saving he wanted to put the union labor of Omaha on record as opposed to him, and added thnt If Taft was nominated they would not support the ticket.-' Delegates 1'unfttructed. Pennsylvania's delegation will go to the I>enver convention uninstructed." was the 1 intod remark mnde by Colonel James M. GufTey, Democratic leader. ' Ajg. rfcfi i v ? ; ! ANOTHER VICTIM ANOTHER HIGH FINANCIER DIES SUDDENLY. This Make a Total 01 Nineteen Persons Who Hare Died as a Result of the Recent Panic. The death of John G. Jenkins, Sr., In New York, on Friday, makes a total of nineteen persons who have died, a maqority of them by their OWn hanrta nu o ~ ?* ?t AVtOUIl Ul iue 1 CtTIll financial troubles. A complete list of the victims follows: November 13. 1907?Nathan Westhelmer, retired financier, sustaining heavy losses; suicide. November 14?Charles T. Barney, deposed bank president: suicide. November 15??L. N. Underwood, Columbia professor, driven insane by reverses, killed himself. November 13?Nicholas M. Smith, and Mrs. Smith, New Rochelle, J "Man of Mystery." Smith lost all l and was killed by his wife, who then 'committed suicide and burned her 1 home. | November 24?Mrs. S. T. Bon' ham. worried herself to death over Ithe ruin of her husband, which was I claimed to be due to the Jenkins ! failure. November 25?Louis Straus, mine i broker, plucked clean by the panic, icaught in forgery, drinks poison. November 26?Howard Maxwell, j bank president, indicted, out on ball; I co pun It ted suicide. November 26?Valentine Haydnhl, I caught in Knickerbocker Trust comI pany crash; suicide. November 30?George Frultman, I diamond polisher, funds in the Borough Bank; mortgage due; suicide. December 5?Clara Bloodgood, actress. funds tied up: suicide. December 14?Worth Dallace, retired millionaire, 75 years old. loans tied uu: suicide. December 2f>?Ernest Steadmnn, lawyer and real estate man, lost all in panic; dead in subway. January 1, 1908?Archibald Mitchell. young prodigal; money gone; ends life by gas. January 9?Charles Wadsworth Whitney, Vanderbllt broker, worrying over financial troubles, ended life with bullet. February 8?E. C. Brooks, once wealthy speculator; lost his last penny and committed suicide on floor of Produce exchange. February 21?Col. Eugene \V. Guindon, president of the Fuller Express company nnd Civil War veteran; worried greatly over business troubles and shot himself in ofllce. February 18?Harry Rosenburg, wealthy pawn broker, lost his savings in bank; suicide in subway. March 12?John fl. Jenkins. Sr., indicted banker; ill for several weeks, died at his home; apoplexy given as cause. * TESTIMONY GIVER OCT. Suppressed Dispensary Matter Made Public by (Tiariuan Murray. Chairman W. J. Murray, of the dispensury commission Wednesday made public the testimony taken In regard to tue exnense and per diem accounts of Mr. B. F. Ar,hur, one of the members of the commission who was appointed receiver by Judge PritQliard. This testimony was taken in October and was transmitted to Governor Ansel but the governor has taken no acton and all nformatlon in regard to the matter has been withheld from the press. Mr. Arthur has not since attended a meeting of the commission. In ?act. ill inquiries were met with the answer that there "Is nothing in it." The investigation of Mr. Arthur was mi used by a report to the commission by its attorney, Mr. YV. F tevenson. in which he seid. "Voucher No. 211, the Hon. It. F. Arthur, for March, shows 13 days' service in March. $6f>. The record shows that he attended meetings of 'lie board on March 12 and 13, and le doubtless came down to sign thecks which could not have taken more than two days, which would leave nine days to be accounted for I which I don't understand, and if allowed to stand as it will subject the board to grave criticism, and constructive per diem cannot be allowed It contains items of mileage to Richmond which should he explained fully In th? vocher or mileage could not he charged from Rchmond to meet the board here. I "Ills account for April Is for eight days, and the record shows only one day at a meeting, and if we allow one day to go and come and one trip for signing checks, allowing two days, making four possible days for the 'month and 1 cannot approve the voucher as it stands." It seems that whenever Mr. Arthur came from Union to Columbia to sign checks be charged tip three days, ! although he was not engaged more ; than fifteen minutes in signing the ! checks. On one oocaison he charged j mileage from Richmond, Va. S|Hitl the Day. Miss May Harris Armor of Georgia is trying to earn fame as the Mother Shlpton of Pennsylvania. 8he is up ithero prophesying that in ten years not a drop of liquor will be manttjfactufed in the Untied States^ TALKS TO WOMEN President Roosevelt In an Address Condemns Race Suicide. EXALTS MOTHERHOOD He Rays the Mother is the One Supreme Asset of the Nut ion, niul That He Abhors the Man Who Mistreats Women, Most Especial" ly the Women of His Own House* noiu. The White House was the scene Tuesday of the formal opening of the first nternailonal congress on the welfare of the coild, which is being held under the auspices of the National Mothers' congress. The 200 delegates representing all the States and territories and a dozen or more of the leading countries of the world were received at the White House at 2.20 o'clock that afternoon when President Itoosevelt delivered an address to them in which he declared that he placed the society ahead of the Civil War veterans, because he said in the final analysis, it is the mother only who is a better citizen than the soldier who fights for his country. The president said 1 part: , "Tho successful raoiher, the mother who does her part in rearing sad training aright the boys and > ' who are be the men and wor < n ( the next generation, is of greater use to tne community and occtr <: ;, did she only realize it, a ; .ore notable as well as a more important position than any successful man in it. "Nothing in life that is really worth having comes save at the cost of effort. No life of self-Indulgence of mere vapid pleasure can possibly, even in one point of pleasure itself, yield so ample a reward as conies to the mother at the cost of self-denial, of effort, of suffering child-birth, of the long, slow, patient, trying work of briucintr tin the ?.-rrt-.? No system ">f education, no system of moral training can be right unless it is bused fundamentally upon the recognition of seeing that the girl is trained to understand the supreme dignity, the supreme usefulness of motherhood. Unless the average woman is a good mother, unless she hears a sufficient number of children so thai the race shall increase and not decrease, unless she brings up these children in soul and mind and body?unless this is true of the average woman, no brilliancy of genius, no material prosperity, no triumphs of science and industry, will avail to save the race from ruin and death. The mother Is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far thun the successful statesman or business man. artist or scientist: "I abhor and condemn the man who is brutal, thoughtless, careless, selfish with women, and especially with the women of his own household. The birth pangs make all men the debtors of all women. I abhor and condemn the man who fails to recognize all his obligations to the woman who does her duty. But the woman who shirks her duty as wife and mother is just as heartily to be condemned. We despise her as we despise and condemn the soldier who flinches in battle. "Because we so admire the good woman, the unselfish woman, the farsighted woman, we have scant patience with her unworthy sister who fears to <lo her duty: exactly as. for the very reason that, we respect a man who does his duty honestly and fairly. All honor to the man or woman who does duty, who renders service. and we can only honor him or her if the weight of our condemnation is felt, hy those who flinch front their duty. "1 want to ask your assistance for two or three matters that are not immediately connected with the life in the family itself, hut that are of vita! consequence to the children. In the first place. In the school, that the school work he made practical r.r possible. For the boys I want to see training provided that shall train them toward, and not away from, their life work; that will train them toward the farm or the shop, not away from it. With the girl, see that It is not made a matter of mirth that the girl who goes to college comes out unprepared to do any of the ordinary duties of womanhood. "As regards our public school, especially I want to put in a special word in behalf of the right kind of play grounds. No school Is a good school if it has not a good play ground. Help (he children to play, and remember that you can often help them most by leaving them entirely alone. "You can not have good citizens, good men and good women of the next generation if the boys and girls are worked In factories to the stunting of their moral, mental and physical growth. Wherever the national government can reach. It should do away with the evils of child labor, and I trust this will he done; but much must be done by the actions of the several State legislatures; land do, each of you. in your several States, all that you can to secure the 1 enactment, and then the enforco/ | SOME PLAIN TALK. FllOM SENATOR TILLMAN ON THE TARIFF IN THE SENATE. Said Present Needs of the Republican Party for Campaign Funds Care for Trusts Necessary. Senator Frye'B joint resolution to provide for the transportation by American ships only of material for use Tn the construction of the Panama canal, which w:ir hrnnpht nn 111 the senate Tuesday by unanimous consent, was the subject of an animated debate on various phases of th work of providing material for the canal. Mr. Frye stated that five million barrels of cement are to be used In the constructon of the canal and said that under the law American ships cannot compete for transportation service, as British ships cost 33 1-3 per cent, less for both construction and for their operatiou. His resolution was to give the trade to American ships, regardless of the dilference in cost. He submitted statistics showing that there were 10 times as much tonnage of Ameican vessels as was necessary to ship the cement needed. An amendment by Senator Foster of Louisiana providing that the restriction should not apply to the Gulf ports or any part of the United States from which vessels of the United States could not be secured for the trade, was accepted by Mr. Frye. Senators Fulton, of Oregon, nnd I Macon, of Georgia, sought to have the amendment extended to the northern Pacific and southern Atlantic coasts, respectively, but were unsuccessful. Mr. Lodge .commenting on the propriety of securing cement on the isthmus. said it would cost 11.000,000 to erect plant there for that purpose. Mr. Culberson said there was need of protecting the United States from extortion by the monopolies that would he benefited by the resolution. Mr. Hacon thought the resolution should not leave the direction to the president to determine that American ships should be given this business when their charges were not extor- 1 tionate nor unreasonable. He want ed the restriction mandatory so that 1 every bidder could know what he 1 would meet in the way of transportation. Mr. Tllman, declaring against buying cement in the United State's at greater cost than elsewhere, called ! Mr. Uodpo to his feet with the statement that if he wanted free cement ' he should apply the same principle to 1 lumber and and other material used on the canal or In this country. "I would like powerful well to 1 have that done." retorted Mr. Till- ' man, "as 1 represent a pood many farmers who would be benefited by 1 cheap supplies." Mr. Tllman added that the need ] for campaign funds made it necessary to look after the interests of the 1 shipping trust. The resolution was then laid aside until later. FIREBUGS LYNCHER. Foul* of Tlieni Tilkl'll Prnm nil Ofll cer and Hanged. Dave Poe, Tom Ranston and two fenkins brothers, all negroes, were lynched at Vancleave, Miss., by a mob of 30 men Tuesday night. The men were in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Evans of Jackson county en route to jail when the mob overtook them. A series of incendiary warehouse (Ires, causing losses in foodstuffs and other supplies, incensed the people of the vicinity. The four negroes confessed their guilt when the mob took (hem from the deputy and all four were hanged to limbs of trees by the side of the road where their bodies were found the next morning. ment. of laws, that shall put a stop to the employment of children of tender age in doing what only grown people should do. "Do not forget that love is what the home is based on; but do not .lo children, don't do grown people, the dreadful injustice?through a love that is merely one form of weakness?of failing to make the child, or 1 might add, the man. behave itself or himself. A marriage should be a partership where each of the two partes has his or her rights, where each should be more careful to uo nis or ner amy, man to exact duty from the partner, tmt each must In justice to the other partner no less than to himself or herself, exact the performance of duty by the other partner. ( Applause.) l,et each of you do his or her duty first hut do not lose your self respect by suhmittng to wrong. Th^ first session of the congress was held at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church at John Marthai! place and C street. Elmer E. Mi own. United States commissioner of education, who was appointed by President Rosevelt as the official representative of the United States, spoke 011 "Children in the United States." I BRYAN WILL WIN. New York Sun Says Democrats Will Carry That STATE IN NOVEMBER Over Any Candidate the Republicans May Name.?A Washington Correspondent Says Well Informed Politicians Not Only Agree With This View, But Look Confidently for Bryan to Be President. ! Ralph Smith, the Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Journal, says Democrats have been out of power for so long anil (ho party has mot with bucii overwhelming defeat in national elections of recent years that ordinarily, it would seem extremely hazardous to predict a Democratic victory at the coming presidential election. But there are in Washington today many of the best posted politicians in the country? men who have had long experience and who have made a study of conditions?who confidently predict the 1 election of Mr. Bryan next fall over ! any candidate the Republicans may ' nominate at Chicago, and these men ' are not enthusiastic Bryanites, nor ' on the died-in-the-wool Democrats. ' Many of them are old line Republicans, men who have never voted any thing but the Republican ticket. The New York Sun. anti-adminis- 1 tration. auti-anything-opposed-to-spe- 1 eial-interests, in its leading editorial ' of Tuesday, March fi, declared that 1 William Howard Taft cannot be elec- ' ted president, even if he is nominat- 1 ed by the Republicans at Chicago, : which it doubts. This interesting 1 statement is made even more so by the further declaration that either William J. Bryan or William R ' Hearst, if nominated by the Dere.o- f crats at Denver, can carry New York 1 state over any candidate the Repnb- 1 lican party may put up. 1 The past inconsistences ot The 11 Sun. toketlier with its well-known 1 pro-corporation, pro-capitalistic pol- 1 icy, to say nothing of its bitter an- I tagonlsm of President Roosevelt, and *' ills policies," has tended to weaaen d the declaration, but the editorial has i just the same attracted much attcn- <i lion and caused widespread comment t among politicians in Washington. Among other things, the editorial i says: I "If Mr. Taft were to secure the t Republican nomination, a contin- c gency which has been effectively pro- d rided against, he could not he elect- v ?d. The Democratic candidate, wheth- o ?r Hearst or Rryan, would win." d "Speaking of our own state (New v Vork) we record our conviction," > continues the editorial, "that no Re- u publican candidate, and we particu- i larly include Mr. Roosevelt himself, t can carry it against Rryan, Hearst, c si* any other Democrat that may be v placed in nomination at Denver, I There are mighty and revolutionary <] changes operating in the political landscape." i The editorial offers an opportunity v lo discuss, briefly, the chances of 1 Democratic success at the next elec- s lion. Regardless of the Sun's sin- 1 rerity, there are in Washington a \ number of people, supposedly well i posted, who share the belief that sue- I [ ,tuc will nnrnh tmnti IHa * tho Democratic party at the next election, and they all concede the nomination of Bryan by acclamation at Denver. The Sun is probably the first to come forward with the claim that the Democrats will carry New York, and this statement is attributed more to dislike for Mr. Roosevelt than to a genuine conviction. But the Republican party is in power, and, as a young statesman from Georgia often says, "a panic is upon the people." Whether there be a panic in reality makes little difference, the fact is that hundreds of thousands of men are out of work, particularly in the more populous states of the east and the middle west. It makes no difference whether the Republican party is responsible for the hard times, the great mass of people believe such to be the case, and there are many who have heretofore voted the Republican ticket f who believe that a change would do , them good and benefit the country. No class of persons study politics more closely than the Washington correspondents, and it Is surprising to note the growing belief among tliese men that Bryan will he elected, regardless of- whom the Rebublicans nominate. Some of the oldest and best informed writets in the pai- 1 lery- Republicans, representing great Republican papers?freely confess that the chance^ of Democratic success look much, brighter today than do the Republican chances. New Yorkers look upon the Sun's editorial declaration with varying views, but they all agree that it Is quite significant. The concldung paragrap h, especially, has impressed them, and this paragraph predicts [that New York state will go Democratic. The last sentence, "There are mighty and revolutionary changes ! operating lu the political landscape," ils regarded as a particularly slgnlfl'cant hint. "The mighty and revolu KILLED HER FRIEND. A YOlTiG LADY FROM SAVANNA! KILLED IN BOSTON, MASS. The Murder Was Committed l>y Another Youuk Lady, Suffering from Melancholia, Due to Overwork. Suffering from melancholia, due tc overwork. Miss Ruth Chamberlin Weed, of Philadelphia, shot and killed Miss Elizabeth liailey Hardee, ol No. 214 Gwinneth street. East Savannah, Georgia, and then committed suicide at the Laurens School for Girls in the Fenway district. The bodies of the two women were found by Mrs. Page, the matron of the school. The Laurens School was established last fall by Miss Hardee and Miss Weed. On October 1, the day school opened. Miss Weed broke down as a result of overwork and as a result was committed to a sanitarium to be treated for nervous prostration. * "r^iuj iiikiit .miss ween escaped from the sanitarium and made her way to the school. She appeared to lie badly deranged mentally. A fruitless attempt was made to communicate with the authorities of the sanitarium, and at length Miss iiar:iee succeeded in getting Miss Weed to go to bed In Miss Hardee's chamber on the third floor of the school building. Iloth women were awakened by Mrs. Page and notified that they must ?et up if they were to catch the 7.f>0 rain, on which Miss Weed was to lie aken to West Newton. M*rs. Page eft them and a few moments later he shooting occurred. Mrs. Page hinks the mention of returning to the sanitarium must have excited aid angered Miss Weed and induced he shooting. From the nature of the wounds Medical Examiner Stedman decided hat Miss Weed had committed suiclle by shooting herself through the ight temple after having shot Miss lardee through the base of the brain, loth women were about :t2 years old uid they had been intimate since heir graduation from Wellesley Colego. Miss Hardee received her dlilomu in 1894, while Miss Weed revived hers a year later Miss Harlee was an instructor of matliematcs in Wellesley in 1899 and 1900, mil last year taught school in Vernont. Miss Weed also had been teaching n various sections of the county, mst summer the two women decided o open a boarding school for girls ?n Audubon road, in the Fenway listrict, October 1, the day upon irhch the 1,aureus School. as thov enII d It, was opened. Miss Weed broke lown as a result of overwork aud ras taken to a sanitarium in West fewton, where she had since been inder treatment. While at tiie santa"ium Miss Weed had been subject o severe attacks of melancholia. Esaping the other night, she made her ray to Laurens School, where Miss lardee volunteered to care for her luring the night. Miss Weed behaved in a ^culiar nan nor. according to the teachers, vandering aimlessly about theschool milding and occasionally making a trange or incoherent remark. At ength Miss Hardee persuaded Miss ,Yeed to retire, and the demented wouan followed her to her own cham>er on the third floor of the school. Yhen Mrs. Page. the matron of the ichool, went to Miss Hardee's room he next morning she was shocked to lid both women dead. The pupils at the school, about -10 n number, are the daughters of veal thy parents from all sections of he country. Miss Hardee, in addition to school vork, had taken n great interest in lettlement work in the city, and especially among the Itlians in the lorth end. During her college careet die was prominent, in many branches ind extremely popular. Miss Weed's work since leaving college has been onflned almost entirely to teaching. While in the sanitarium at West Newton she was frequently subject o extreme paroxysms of weeping, 4ut never appeared to hear any anlnosity to any of her friends. Negro killed. At Chicago a quarrel that started In a crowded street car Thursday night ended in the killing of John li. Mapp, a colored man, by James McDonald, who was accidentally jostled by the negro. Six Chinamen Killed. Six Chinese dead, two others badly injured and one building destroyed was the result of a fire n China town, at 1st and Oak streets, In Marvville, Cal., Thursday. The fire is believed to have been the work of an Incendiary. Fatal Fire Damp. At Dartmound, Prussia, five men were killed In the Lukas mine, as the result of an explosion of fire damp. Thirty miners were entombed but they were resuced by their comrades after several hours of heroic work. * tionary chanfies" are taken to mean a determination in certain quarters to accept Bryan, or Hearst, if need be, In preference to either Roosevelt or raft. SHOT HIS RIVAL i Because He Walked Home With a Young Lady and Then COMMITTED SUICIDE. > i At Marion a Young Man Walks Into Cotton Mill, Slioot and DungoroDV" ly Wounds Another Young Man and on Hl.s Way lloino Cuts Bullet Through His drain.?Community Terribly Sliocknl. M A dispatch to The News aud Courier says the cotton mill village lu the eastern surburbs of Marion was terribly shocked by a double tragedy, which occurred Friday morning as a result of which one man is dead and another dangerously wounded. At about 8 o'clock Luther Hewitt, a young man who had been up until a few days ago, an employee in the mill, waiked into the mill, where Arthur Stephens was at work, and after saying only a few words to him fired at him ut a distance of aboat one or two steps, the bull taking effect in lis neck, passing to the right of his windpipe. Stephens immediately ran. but was shot again at a distance of a few steps, this ball hitting him tt the back just over the left shoulder. causing him to fall. Hewitt, evidently thinking that he had killed the man turned deliberately and walked out of the mill and toward his father's house, but when within a short distance of his home, turned the pistol and tired at IiIb own head, but missed the first time. The second attempt, however, waB successful. lie held the pistol to his right temple aud fired, killing himself instantly. I)r. Z. G. Smith was hastily summoned, and reached the wounded man within a few minutes, and flndInth that neither of the balls could lie easily located, he decided to take his patient to the hospital in Florence, where he hopes that with the use of an X-ray machine, the balls may lie located, extracted and the man's life saved. The train from Wilmington to Florence was at the stution at the time he examination of Mr. Hewitt wnu lioitt cr nin/lrt "?-?^ J "v.i.f, >u?uvi uiiu vuuuutkur J on ob kindly consented to hold the train for ton minutes until the wounded man could be placed upon It, and this was done within that time, Dr. Smith accompanying him to the hospital. The alleged cause of the trouble Is said to be that young Stephens walked home from a party Inst night with a young lady to whom the deceased was very much attached. Hut the general Impression among the friends of both parties is that. Hewitt's mind must have been unbalanced, although he had not shown any previous symptoms of mentnl derangement. Neither of these young men Is married, both of them living in the mill village with their parents. The deceased was a son of Mr. W. D. Hewitt the night watchman at the mill, and Arthur Stephens is the son of Mr. and Mrs. .1. B. Stephens. Both of the families are natives of Marlon County and have a great many friends, who are inexpressibly griev I by the *1 .; y. MILLS SHUTTING DOWN. Thousands of Opcrallrrt Are Affoct* t'd by the Curtailment. Thousands of employees 01- New England Mills and factories went on a short time Lasts following soveral months of depression. In some places report-: come or several factories resuming worn arter the shut down or Increasing their running time. ? The Hargraves Parker mills in Fall River went on a four days u week basis. The Fisher Manufacturing Company's cotton mills, at Fisherville, Mass., employing 700 hands, were shut down until Monday. The Gahot mills, at Brunswick. Me., with 8 00 hands, went on a schedule of four days a week. Cotton mills in several towns owned by B. B. and R. Knight, and employing six thousand operatives, went on a three quarters time schedule. The Putnam Manufacturing Company's mills went on three and a half time schedule and the Nightingale and Powhattan mills, of Putnam, Conn., have reduced to four days a week, affecting 700 hands. The Edwards cotton mills, at Augusta. Maine, emnloving 1.000 hands. adopted a half schedule, and the VVhltln machine shops, at Whltlnvl'.le, Mass.. making cotton mill machinery, with 1,800 men, reduced time to forty-flve hours a week. Curtailment of production Is also approved by the Chlcopee cotton . mills, of Chlcopee Falls. 1,300 hands. the Dwlght mills, of Chlcopee, 50t 1 operatives, Salmon Falls mills, Salmon Falls, N. H., 700 operatives, Naumbeag cotton mll?s, of Salem, 1,500 hands, and other concerns.