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; ' ' I ' . A FATAL FIRE" A Colored School at Abbeville Destroyed by Incendiary Fire. THREE DIE IN FLAMES Other Student# Probably Fatally Injured?Incendiary Origin Indicated?Mass Meeting of Citizens Condemns Act.?City Council OfTers Reward?Cover nor to Aid. Thursday morning early Harbison College, at Abbeville, was found to be In flames. The alarm was given and the people of the neighborhood assembled to render what assistance they could to save the inmates of the institution. The walls of the building were already beginning to fall in before the fire was discovered, and the flames were bursting out t?f all the doors and windows. Three of the students who were rooming up stairs lost their lives, their remains being found in the ashes. The names of those who lost their liv<>s are as follows: Carl Duckett, of Charlotte, N. C.; Samuel Jenkins, of Carlisle. S. C.; and Kid ward M. Dubose, of Lamar, S. C. The two former were about nineteen years of age, and the latter was about tw lve or thirrteen years old. Several others were injured in jumping ifroin windows in an endeavor to escape from the fire, some of whom were probably fatally injured. In addition to tho burning of th<xnain building, the house occupied by the Rev. C. M. Young, who is at the head of the institution, was also on lire, but on account of the fact that it was burning in the rear, instead of tho front, as the other building, the lire was easily extinguished. The work shows unmistakable evidences of being the work of an incondiary, as kerosene could be plainly detected on the woodwork of the president's residence. No motive can uc aooigin'u iur iin* nc> nor tins uny clue been discovered as to who is the guilty party or parties. The citizens of Abbeville are very strong in their condemnation of such an ,nct of incendiarism, and no effort will be spared to run down and punish the guilty. A mass meeting of the citizens of Abbeville was held Thursday afternoon in the Court House, at which resolution was adopted denouncing the burning of the college, asking the city council to offer a reward for the incendiary and raising a fund to hire detectives. The city council have offered a reward of one hundred dollars for the arrest and conviction of the guilty party or parties, and a committee has been appointed to request the Governor of the State to offer a reward of not loss than one thousand dollars for such apprehension and conviction. The Re v. Young, president of the college, attended the mass meeting of the citizens and asked that he he given a suitable guard at night for a short time, until the students could make arrangements to leave town, as he was afraid of future trouble, and a euard Will l?o Stutlnnrxl nn tVio promises as long as it is deemed necessary. Harbison College is a negro institution and grew out of what was formerly known as Ferguson Academy. Mr. Harhinson of Pittsburg donated a large sum of money, and other Philadelphia men joined him in establishing this school. T. H. Amos was put at the head of the school, hut 011 account of some trouble. he was forced to leave, and tin Rev. Young, of Abbeville, was put in charge, and is still at the head o! the school. He is a gentlemanly and honorable mgro, and by his quiet and unassuming manner has made many friends among the white people of Abbeville, all of whom sympathize with him in the misfortunes which have just visited his school. The student hndv n* the school number al>out three hundred and twenty-five, Harhinson College being a co-educatlonal institution. CIIU&H Kl> TO DEATH. Ituilroad Fireman lillied by a Kun>way Engine. Henry Evans, aged 3.r>, of Kort Smith. Ark., a fireman on the St. Eon is and San Francisco railroad, wits killed at Bonevllle, Ark., early Saturday when a runaway engine crashed into an engine on which Evans was working. Both engines were standing in the Bondvllle yards waiting for a passer, gcr train. One was being cleaned and suddenly it darted forward and crashed through a swith into the engine on which Evans was working. Ho was crushed beneath the wreckage. ? Fight In Cell. >t Sandersville, Ga., Soloman Brantley, charged with murder, and Church Scott, alleged murderer, both negroes, gought In the Washington county jail. Scott's throat was cut ' almost from ear to ear. The weapon i used was a small pocket knife. * < L * FARMERS CO-OPERATE THREE MUTUAL COMPANIES OPERATED IN KANSAS. Insurance, Telephone, and Mercantile Companies Have Headquarters at Upland.?All Paying. Farmers In Dickinson county, Kan., are working out an intensiing experiment in co-operation. They own throe successful mutual companies. each paying a good dividend ami miner i ill |>>-u'iu uiiiiiiigeiiieii i. That part of Kansas was s< ttled 4 0 years ago by Germans, who are still the majority of population. Later eame Swedes and then farmers from Indiana and Illinois. Upland is the headquarters of the telephone, insurance and mercantile companies. It blasts less than 100 l>opulation, hut the amount of business transacted there is wonderful. Farmers attribute the success of their companies to the low cost of administration. no oflicial receiving more than $2 a. day and that only while he is actually employed on the company's business. The community idea took root during the Farmers Alliance days, back in 1891. A meeting of farmers was called to take up the question and each farmer was constituted an agent without pay to solicit new members. It was decreed that any time a lire occurred an assessment should be levied to make good the loss. Six years later it had 241 members, with $1 OS,000 insurance in force. Today it has 3,">00 members, with insurance representing $4,000,000. When the company started in business it was decided that $2 a day was enough to pay any ofllcer, and that amount has never been raise 1. This is paid only when the officer works. The average yearly salary list is about $800, due to the simple methods by which records are kept and the fact that ev< rybody pays his assessment "promptly under pain of being ilminwsl :it nnnn In 1S85 the farmers decided to | build a creamery. Later the advent of the farm seperator caused it to lie closed up, as there was more money in selling the cream to the central butter making stations. One day when a number of farmers woe waiting for their tickets from the creamery it was suggested that it would be just as easy to bring farm produce along with the milk every morning. Why not have a store? Within a few days a co-operatiw organization with a capital of 000 was formed. Only a part of this was used at the beginning, but the store lias been so profitable that the stock is quoted at $150 and the cash value of its resourc s is around $35,000. Once a year the stackholders meet in the town hall, hear the reports, declare a good dividend and elect ollicors. No one is permitted to hold more than $100 wori r. of stock an l this entitles him o one vote, lly the articles each s'ockliolder binds himself to sell all of his grain ami produce to he Gol Rule company, which is its incorporated name. The business is dor..* largely by credit. harm produce brought in is credited to the man who furnishes it, and 1 e is debited w"'.l? whatever I he buys .if gioceries a" ' dry gvoris. Cash settlements are made at the end of each month. The company owns a grain elevator, but this is at Alda on the line of the nearest railroad. A few years ago after a full discussion it was agreed that as there was no hope of the railroad coming to Upland the company ought by buy Alda. It did. taking in the elevator, stockyards, everything except the town's name. The telephone company serves over 4,000 persons, most of them being farmers. It is one of the biggest concerns in the state. It is purely mutual, with no capital stock, and this serves to make certain the retention of the control in the hands of the farmers. Fifteen or twenty trunk lines radiate from the stone building in Upland . The ofllcers condend that the success of the enterprise lies in the fact that no fixed rental is charged, each owner of a telephone p?ving a proportionate expense of operation and maintanance. lOach farmer must buy outright his 'phone. These, it is insisted, must be long distance instruments. They cost about $10 apiece. The cost of becoming a stockholder, that is of making a connection, is $10. Thereafter he is a stockholder and all receipts from tolls are credited to him proportionately. The officer's >f the company are paid only for the actual time they devote to the business. The first year's cost is about $:!.">. This includes instrument, con m i urn and dues. After that the eost is about $5 a year. .Man's Awful Heed. A special from Marion, N. C., says tnat Charbs Morris, living six miles south of that city, shot and instantly killed his two year old child and mother-in-law. Mrs. Hird, and seriously wounded his wife, lie then tired a bullet into his own head, from the effects of which lie died an hour later. Jealousy of his wife and her family is assigned to be the cause. I WILL BUILD CHURCH WANT HANDSOMK BUILDING IN CAPITAL. Promises of $i;{fl,000 for Church in Washington Already Hccortlcd.? Literal Donations Expected. The national building committee j of the Methodist Episcopal, church. South, appointed for the purpose of I raising funds for the erection in the national capital of a building which *hall be "our representative church in Washington," adjourned Saturday. One hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars has already been pledged. This amount is in sums ranging from $100 to $10,000. The proposed edifice is to stand at the intersection of Massachusetts avenue and K street, in the northwest section of the city. The next meeting will he held In Ashevlllc in May. at the time of the general conference of that church. Bishops Wilson. Candler, Hoss and \tkins, who were pn sent at the meetings of the committee, approved of what had been done and of the uians for the future. They endorsed a letter which the committee has sent forth in behalf of the project. Great satisfaction was expressed over the large amount already pledged and confidence in the denominational loyalty, which, it was declared, would raise the balance of the amount. The question of the architecturM style of tlie new edifice was left with a conimitte > composed of John C. Mayo, I). L. Coon, Rev. Br. \V. F. McMurrny and Hie Rev. G. S. Sexton. This committee will report at ' tlie next meeting of the committee. ' "Such a thing as failure does not enti r into our oii*a the building committee in its appeal for aid. "There ought to be somewhere in the ranks of our 1,800,000 members at least a few magnanimous souls who will contribute not less than $10,000 to this gr at forward movement, and surely there are more than a few who will give us $5,000. Small but liberal contributions we confidently expect to pour in from a host of others." YOl'TII SF.HIvS ll.YLM. Young Man Demands $120,000 ?>f a Widow (IS Years Old. The usual order of breach of promise suits is reversed in the case of Frank Catterton against Mrs. Lucy E. McKnight, of Baltimore, Md. Catterton is 28 years of age, and the widow in the case 68. The young man asks $20,000 damage, the claim including bouquets, candy and theater tickets which he lavished on his charmer during their love making. The plaintiff is a linotype operator. Mrs. MeNieht is said to be worth nearly $100,000. About three years ago Cat.terton met Mrs. McKnight at a social gathering at her home. The widow invited the young man to call agru. and he became a daily visitor for about 18 months. Then, it is alleged. Mrs. McKnight proposed that they marry. He agreed, and a month or two later obtained a marriage license Mrs. McKnight was to meet h r | finance and en m n ... - - siF,,iiimii J ,1CI 1<? i to have the ceremony performed, h it he says, when he went to her home, she told him she had changed her mind and that they would wait until she had her house fixed up and they would be married there. Afterward. it is declared, Mrs. MeKnltrht still declined to marry, but told Catterton that she would leave him $15,000 in her will. * ltOUIlKD TilK Clll liCH, Altar Hoys Caught Stealing from the Cash boxes. A systematic robbery of the con- ' tribution boxes In the Immaculate Conception Italian church at Pittsburg, Pa., which has been going on for two years, has ended in the arrest of seven altar hoys. Detectives, hidden in confessionals, saw them come in and pry open the 1>oxe? with knives, while the coins dropped one by one into the hands of con I ,, ?, Mnrs. i lie ringleader said that a brother, who is dead, taught him to rifle the l?oxes. One of tlie hoys said he had stolen between $3.">0 and $300 In the last two years and spest it. for candy and in nickelodeons. Marked money put in the boxes was found on the boys. * Don't I.end Auto. Don't lend your auto; it may cost you a matter of $.">,000 or so. This lesson lias been brought honi forcibly to James C. ltrady, a New York broker, who has been directed by a supreme court jury to pay $.">,000 to Benjamin Friedbaum, a lad who was hit by Mr. Brady's car some 1 months ago. Mr. Brady had loaned the car to his brother and a hired ' chauffeur drove it. The verdict, 1 however, was returned against the 1 owner of the car. ( -I!? COMES TO HIS HOME SENATOR TILLMAN LJ5FT WASHIXGTON FOR HIS FARM Near Trenton on Wednesday Afternoon, Arriving There Thursday Morning. Senator Tillman is now at his home in Trenton, having left Washington for that place on last Wednesday afternoon and arriving there on Thursday morning, standing the trip alright. He was accompanied by Mrs. Tillman and Misses Lonu and Sophie Tillman, his daughters. In speaking of the departure of the Senator from Washington Zach McGhee in his letter to The State says the senator walked about one hundred yards down the platform at the station to take the train. Just a few minutes before time for him to leave his apartments, he not up and dressed, then took an auto car for the station. He did not walk down the steps at the station, hut went down in the bagguge elevator. Then for some 15 or 2 0 minutes he waited in one of the small service rooms, sitting down in a chair and talking with several friends, who came to see him off. On his way to the station the senator drove by the Capitol, jnst to | give it a last look. He drove up to t the steps, where he was espied by Senator Hale of Maine, who came out to see him. Senator Hale, one of the "big four" of the Senate, told Senator Tillman that he would look after all the local matters in which Senator Tillman would be interested during his absence. The Maine s nator has served many years nn the naval affairs committee with Senator Tillman, and the two men ;tre close personal friends. Senator Tillman goes to Trsnton and will remain there as quietly ' as possible. There are no other plans for him, although his family have been trying to persuade him to go to a sanitarium in Atlanta. They thought it advisable for him to stay here several weeks longer before going down, but he insisted 011 going today, declaring that he wanted to get out in his yard, where he can see his flowers and hear the June bugs sing. He has great plans in his head for building a cattle barn and raising cattle. hoy foi'cjht i:\<;i,i:s Half Starved (>10111 Kinds Sought | Human I'rcy. Attacked by a pair of eagles while on his way home from school, Ira Cottingham. of near Kansas City. Mo., defeated the birds but he will carrv ttir? ncn-bci ' ...... ...v ...... no WI linn IU1UI1H ID his grave. The eagles are believed to have been driven to attack the boy because of the long spell of frozen weather, in which their natuarl food disappeared. Sheep and other small domestic animals have fallen a prey to the giant birds since the Christmas snows. The Cottingham boy. who is only ten years of age, has nearly two miles to cover between his home and the schoolhouse. On tho day of the attack he was walking on the public road when he was suddenly startled by a rushing sound, and the next instant he was knocked to the ground by the force of something which struck him on the shoulders, at the same time hurting as though a knife had been thrust into his flesh. He found himself being attacked by two immense eagles, llrst by the one and then the other, each on sailing at him with talons extended, and with the swiftness of shot. He tried to arise, but was only partially successful, as the onslaught of th eagles was terrific. Finally he senurpH n ctinV Af iva/VJ ~ ? -i * - * 11 - ....... ui < uuu nun m*;il I Il?' birds off. Then he scooted for home. An effort to find the birds proved fruitless. * CItFKCF I KdlTIN'ti DlSFASK. Trying to Kill Out Consumption anil .Malaria Fever. Consul-General George Morton has made a report from Athens 011 the conspicuous work of Greek physicians in combating the country's two great sourgcs?maliaria fever and tuberculosis. An annual average of 2,00'> persons die each year from the former, while in epidemic years, due to excessive rains, the number exceeds 6.000, which was the case la 10or>. The population of Greece is 2,433,806. The people have been interested through lectures, pamphlets. etc., to fight the malaria carrying inns mito by draining stagnant ponds and throwing .petroleum on them. A tuberulosis congress will lie It id in Athens next year, to which will lie invite I not only physicians, hut all the mayors and other prominent people of Greece. Starved to Itentli. The northwest Mounted Police Expedition. arriving at Dawson, N. k\, front Fort McPherson at the nouth of the McKenzie, brings word he !H Fort Kae Indians of the Dog ih tribe near Great Slave Lake, li d this winter of starvation. J r^r * Rheumatism!! Not one case in ten requires _ internal treatment. -i Where there is no swelling or fever Noah's Liniment will accomplish more than any internal remedy. One trial will convince you. * Noah's Liniment penetrates; requires but little rubbing. Here's the Proof ~ Mr. "W. R. Taylor, a resident of Richmond, Va., writes: "For the past four years I have been traveling ICastern North Carolinn, where I contracted malaria and rheumatism. Recently I have used Noah's I.lnlment with benetlcial re- _ suits, and take pleasure in recommendIng same to anyone suffering with rheu- ?' matism." "1 caught cold and had a severe attack of rheumatism In my loft shoulder and could not raise my arm without much pain. I was persuaded to try ! Noah's I.lnlment, and In less than a ? week was entirely free from pain. I a feel justified In speaking ol It In the highest terms. A. Orooker, Dorchester, Mass." N'oiiIi'm T.lnlmenf Is the best remedy \ for Rheumatism, Sciatica, I.ume Rack, ? Stiff Joints and Muscles, Sore Throat, \ Colds, Strains, Sprains, Cuts. Rrulses, Colic, C r a m p s , olcbe^v. Neuralgia. Toothache and all y/\\ Nerve, Hone and Wv Muscle Aches and ^\V "JddVriJ . I'alns. The gen- "*V. 11 d ulne has Noah's 5?n&Uij V Ark on every nackacrc etc Sol J by dealers In ^ ? medicine. Sam- k W] * 1 B j pie by mall tree. Noah Remedy Co., I l IBulSi ll Richmond. Va. nikllUl^klll _ j llAHliAINS! BARGAINS! While they last.?A ntibiher of slightly used High tirade Organs for only sjCVS.oO. These organs appear nearly new and are warranted to last a long lifetime. Terms of sale given on application. Write for catalogue, stating terms desired. This is an opportunity in a life time to possess a fine organ at about cost. Answer quick, for such bargainst do not last long. Address: bargains do not last long. Address: ~ >1AIjOXK'S Ml SIC HOI Sl<:, Coluinl>ia, s. C.? Pianos and Organs. Bargains In Pure Bred Stock?rlCA and rare Rerkshire Hoar Pigs, 4 H months old from regular stock a: $15 each. (One Hred Sow (China ~ lletsey No. 119177) Duo to farrow in April, at the small sum of $75; has farrowed twice, flrst lit ter 10 pigs, second 11. S. C. 13 Leghorn Eggs?15 for $1; 30 for $.90; J 00 for $5. In answering this ad mention this paper. A. K Sloop, China Grove, N. C. KILLED IDS IWTIIKK. Man Shot at (inline) by Son Dies of His Wounds. ? I At Caffnev, S. C.. W. 11. Rright, who was shot by his s m. Travis Rright, Monday morning, died in the ofllee of Dr. Pitt man Tuesday night at 11 oclock. Hright never arroustd from tin- shook ?>f the operation. A ? statenv nt was made by nitn ju>-t W before his death m 'no clerk o' court but this has not > H bee t made public and its contents is not known. The coroner's inquest was held and the following verdict returned: "That the deceased came to bis death by a gunshot wound Inflicted by hie son, Travis Hright." t , W I to mod to Death. At Winchester, Va? Miss Hariett Taylor, an aged spinster, was burned to death in a fire Sunday which destroyed the home of Mrs. Naomi llarrett at White Hall. Mrs. Itarret had a narrow escape from death. Claims the State. Newell Sanders, of Chattanooga, Tenn., Repuhlcian state chairman of Tennessee, says he looks for the state to land in the Republican column because of the tinnonnl ?? !?? I v" I the present law. * I " w Will Dye I I-adle#' or Men'# (lAruicntH Clean**#! or a iid C. C. Laundry an OOU'MH IA. A stronp blast, with lit buffal Ul) The i?U*al portal \ COLUMBIA SUPPLY C N ?>>? CLASSIFIED COLUMN his Cures All Diseases?Send tor free box. Prof. Wm. Dulln, Nebraska City, Neb. Inns from prize winning S. C. Rhode Island Reds, $1 aud $2 for 15. E. II. Craig, Pickens. S. C. i . 'or Sale?fancy pigeons, ring doves, white doves, guinea pigs. John Ornellas, Springfield, ill. . olMtceo Growers?Splendid opportunlties here. Write for particulars. Tullahcnia Tobacco Works Tullahoma. 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