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RESTS ITS CASE * Deface n Trial tf Larimer Says Testi mt Necessary Submitted. WHOLLY UNEXPECTED State's Attorney Wyman in Argu mm to ttie Jury Says Murderers Om Go Unpunished, but There Is No Justification for Bribery.? Uefnnilaut Will Not Testify. Precluding the possibility of the defendant going upou the stand in bis own behalf, counsel suy, and shutting out all testimony that Senator William Lorimer might have to offer in denial of the charge that his seat in the United States senate was purchased, lawyers for Lee O'Neill Browne abruptly rested their case in the criminal court at Chicago at noon Tuesday. The sudden move of the defense in the alleged legislative bribery trial was wholly unexpected. More than , fifty witnesses for the defense were , thus excluded from the records of the cose. Several of these in addi- ( ties to Browne and Senator Lorimer K were considered of importance to the ^ defense. Among them was Lieuten- ( ant Governor John G. Oglesby. r It is said that Browne's counsel t believe their case stands or falls , r u|h>h whether the jury is willing to c accept the testimony of Represents- j tive Charles A. White, who made the r first confession and delivered the s principal testimony in the alleged r bribery scandal. t Attorney W. S. Forest, who has t led the defense of Browne, haB insisted from the beginning that he is not t concerned materially over the out- . couie Ln the criminal court; that he t has made out a legal case for his c client to stand on in a higher court. In this connection Mr. Forest said ,, at the close of court: c "We have submitted all the testi- { monjr that we believed necessary. t We wanted chiefly character witness- ( es to support the defendant as believing that after what the Jury heard f about White, hia testimony would ( hare no weight." ^ State's Attorney Wyman, how- ^ ever, takes another view of the pro- e ceeding. He says that Browne and c his lawyers fear to allow the case to ^ be probed further, that even with g their own witnesses they dare not r take a chance cf an unexpected stop. e Although Mr. Wyman began his closing argument to the Jury com- ^ paratively early in the afternoon, he t had not finished when court was ad- ^ Journed for the day. Mr. Wyman t said In part: , "Murderers can go unpunished, g larceny Is often excused by the law, ^ and a man may go out In the night c and rob to feed a starvlg family; but there is no justification for brib- % ery. It cannot go unpunished. "The fact that over fifty Demo- fi crats voted for Senator Lorimer, a j RCMtl hi icMIl rIihuk In lliuilf thnt them was bribery. Representative White t was thus bribed to elect a member r to the only body in our federal goveminent that can declare war or ef- j. feet peace for the millions of our r population. "It was a gigantic moment for Browne, the minority leader, when he tried to elect Lorlraer. If he had failed, what amends could he have ( made to his constituents? As long as he succeeded the Democruts could go back to their constituents and make some sort of apology because he had succeeded." TAKK LAMBS AND PIGS. Missouri Farmers Attribute I/osscs to the Bird of Freedom. Farmers in Missouri and other Western States are blaming eagles for thefts of spring lambs and pigs from their flocks. Recently C. N. Drexler, of near Washburn, Mo., captured ono of the big birds. It measured more than six feet from tip to tip and stands nearly three feet high. The bird was kept alive as a decoy to capture its mate, but the niHte never appeared. Mr. Drex ler had been missing lambs and pigs < and blamed men for the theft, but ! no trace for tho missing animals < could be found. On the day he captured the bird his dog was engaged 1 with it In fierce combat and was ! getting the worst of tho fray. (Hiihl Shoots l>own Flume. Five-year-old Thomas Gardiner, of Thatcher, Ariz., fell into a lumber flume In the Graham mountains and was carried seven miles at the speed 1 of an express train. The flume is i considered dangerous, but the child 1 came out at the bottom with only a few scratches and minor bruises. 1 Aeroplane Dived Into River. In an attempt to make a glide across the Ohio river At Louisville, 1 Kjr., J. C. Mars was surprised for | the motor of his aeroplane stopped ' and tho machine dived Into the riv- f er. He was not injured and the < machine not damaged. < !jsha, ... IERV1NG LONGEST TERM HIGHLY KDUCATKD BLACKS IN THE PENITENTIARY. Ignorant Negroes Serving Shortest j Teems in Soutii Carolina Peniten tiary. Figures that should cause all thoughtful advocates of the so-called higher education among the negro race to ponder yet a little more, have been compiled showing the sturtling conditions that of the negroes incarcerated within South Carolina State penitentiary those most highly educated are serving the longest sentences. The poor ignorant negroes are imprisoned for the minor crimes and offenses while the negroes who have hud a school or college education are the life-timers and the "over ten year" prisoners. That this is the condition also in the county chaingangs and on the p blic works of the counties and in the JaiJs throughout the etate is the opinion of Commissioner E. J. Wutson, of the department of agriculture, commerce and Industries, t>y which department the figures ivere compiled. Asked for an explanation of the ompilation and the possible reaions fV>r the condition shown to exist Commissioner Watson stated Tueslay that the figures showed beyond easomible doubt that the academic iducation Is not the thing for the legro. Commissioner Watson advoates education of the negro along ndustrial lines and thinks that the legro should also have sufficient ehooling to be able to keep the acpoun's on the farm Summing up he * 'nation the commissioner said hat the proper education of the nero is to furUier his usefulness in V> ;.wll.?f?(nl n.nnl ^ U? in- i:iviuoiii(ii ttui iu ujr aiftiiin ui iroper instruction in subjects that end u> increase his manual eltiiency. The commissioner and his assistants had a wide field to bane their ampliations upon for there were >35 negro prisoners examined, of his number 4 79 being males and 5? >eing females. The total number of male life >ri*>ners is 25 6 of the negro race. )f this number 10 read and write without attending school. One hunIred and seven attended the common ohools from one to ten years. Sevsnteen attended school less than one rear. Six attended coflege. The tummary shows 123 who cannot ead and write ad 133 who can read md write. Of the female colored prisoners vho are serving life sentence, the otal 11.. None read and write vithout attending school. Five atended common school 1 to 10 years ind none of those who attended >chool did ao for one year or less. Two of the life prisoners among the :olored women attended college. There are four who cannot read and vrite and 7 who can read and write A further anulysis of these figures ihows that there is altogether 267 ife termers of the 536 negro pris ners at the penitentiary, reformaory and state farm. That of this lumber 140 can read and write, 8 ittended college and less than one talf of the total number cannot ead and write. FLKKING CONVICTS SHOT. Convicts Make a Break for Liberty But are Downded by Guards. Two young white men, Garflelu lutchina and Lindsey Huffman vere shot while attempting to get tway from convict camp on the LowMonday morning, and it is said that lutchins may die. The men slipped tway front convict camp near Winson-Salem Monday, and it is said an into a cornfield a distance about orty yards when Guards Griffin and )ull fired on them, dropping them nstantly . Hutchins, who is rather welltnown hereabouts and who was on t thirty months term for rohherv on he street while impersonating an jfflcer, was struck in the back of :he head by a load of buckshot. He *i?8 hurried to the Twin City hospital at Winston-Salem and l)r. E. P. dray attended him. The physician said the man would scarcely reco\ar. Huffman, who was serving a 14 months term for forgery, was slightly wounded about the head and will recover. Blackberries .Make liens Drunk. Spoiled blackberries thrown '.n her back yard by Mrs. James Burnet, of Holiday's Cove, W. Va., made a feast for her hens and put them on a jag. While they were drunk she thought they were dead and thriftily plucked their feathers. Now the birds are wearing blankets. Freight Steamers Collide. The French frefght steamer La Rochelle from Bordeaux for Liverpool, was sunk through a collision with the British freighter Yews off 3kerries, Ireland, Monday. Ten of he crew of the French vessel were lrowned. PROTECT YOURSELF BY FORMING A MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. . According to Bill Passed by the Legislature Last February Ten Men May Organize For Self Protection. A bill was pased and approved by the Legislature on the 4th day of February 1910 providing for the organization arid regulation of Mutual Protective Associations. It provides that any ten men of lawful age could form an asociation to protect themselves against loss from lire, disease, accidents, lightning, hail failure of crops, and to insure the live stock of its members. It must be understood that this association is allowed only to protect its members and is not organized with a purpose of making money, or enriching anyone privately. These associations are only allowed to work in the county in which they were organized. Before the state allows any of them to begiu business the elected president and secretary of the proposed asoclation must swear that twentylive men will take out policies in it for not less than a total sum of twenty-five thousand dolars. This list of subscribers must be sworn to and filed with thep Insurance Commisiouer. Bach member of the Asociation is entitled to one vote in the elections neeesary. It is required that a thirty day notice be given of each meeting by publishing the same in the county paper and by sending a postal to each member of the association, who can either attend or send a proxy, but no man is permitted to vote more than twenty proxies or vote under the orders of anyone having twenty proxies. Each asociation is required to meet at least once a year and elect directors and officers, the latter can not be elected for a term longer than two years. The amount to be received by each officer must be stipulated before the duties of the ollice are entered upon or the work performed. The manner in which this association would pay the loses of 113 number would be to assess each member equitably for the amount of the loss. Hhould-upon investigation the Insurance Commissioner find that ay officer Is neglecting to levy and collect any assessment made he may apply at any court having the proper authority for a mandamus to enforce the performance of the neglected duty. The premium is to be guaranteed by a note or lein on the properly insured, but the property must be so described that a person could recognize it from the description. Any of these asociations could create a reserve fund in the mauer prescribed by their by-laws, provided it did not conflict with the laws of the state. From a table compiled by Insurance Comissioner McMaster it is shown that there are fifteen of these insurance asociations now at work in this Stale, earying from $191,604 to $4,4115,040 insurance in force. The rates of these companies range from $1.80 to $8.00 per thousand. Here is what Insurance Commissioner McMaster says about them: "The salvation of these companies is to have a director in each township who will approve the insurance ot each piece of property in his township; to take only the class of property, viz country residences and tenant houses; to take only a limited amount of insurance, say $.1000 on any one peice of property; to have at least one annual meeting of the policy holders at which the officers and directors are elected, a"d at which complete reports are to be made by the officers; to have quarterly meetings of the directors. "While a number of these assosiations levy assessments as the IIres occur, and while others levy assess merits but once a year it is beleived safer to require the insured to pay that it would be very much better and in advance what is understood to be the rate by the stock companies, and at the end of the year to refund him whatever the saving might be. "There are many other features j connected with the business needing , explanation and the insurance I>e-I partment will be glad to answer any j inquiries made." Addres your let- j ter to the "Insurance Department of 1 South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 0 9 0 llobbers Fire Hani. Four mules and a thousand dollars worth of Hour, implements and supplies were burned Monday night in the barn of H. Hobgood, at Garner. near Raleigh, N. C., there being every indication that the barn was burned to cover the stealing of a tine horse and buggy, no trace of whicn could he found in the ruins. Hobgood is a well-to-do farmer and conducts a tobacco warehouse at Clayton. Three Firemen Injured. Three firemen were injured during a tire Wednesday which completely destroyed a five-story building at St. Paul, Minn. The loss was over $100,000. Crazed by Wife's Death. Perry Noblett shot and killed himself a few hours after the death of his wife near Hamburg, Iowa. He was crazed by grief. SHOT INTO CROWD I OXK RKCKIVKS PAINFUL WOUND WITH 8LUCJ. Two of Posse Fired at Him But it Ls Not Known That He Was Hit. Woman Is Arrested. A dispatch from Walterboro says that at Williams on Saturday night at 10 o'clock Dr. S. E. Klnsey was shot and seriously wounded by Joe Freeman, a negro. Saturday afternoon Dr. Kinsey'H son was standing at the door of the store of Quinn Bros. when Lena Freeman, a negro woman, came up the steps to enter the store door and said to Mr. Kinsey: "Some one wants to come in." Mr. Kinsey stepped out of the way and looking back saw this negro woman. He expected to see some white woman enter, and jokingly remarked that he thought it was somebody. The negro took out a knife from her pocket and began to abuse Mr. Kinsey, who insisted that she hush and stated to her that he did not mean any harm by the remark, which was jokingly made. She continued her abuse and left the store shortly, and going to her home, returned with her husband, Joe Freeman, she carrying a gun. Mr. Kinsey was informed of this' fact and went to his home and returned with his gun, which he put in Mr. llrabhain's store. His father hearing of this came over to the store and instructed his son to put the gun up and go to Magistrate Wilson and take out a warrant for the negroes and have them arrested. This Mr. Kinsey did and turned tne warrant over to Constable Maxey. who went over to Williams to make |the arrest. Maxey appointed Dr. Kinsey and others as special constables to aid him in making the arrest. The party proceeded to the homo of the Freemans, but just before j reaching it, they were informed that Joe Freeman was back at the store of Quin Bros, with his gun. They returned to the store and attempted to arrest him, who seeing the party approach ran. They went back to the hoin?', where the woman was arrested. After securing her they started to leave and Joe Freeman appeared behind a clump of bushed near the house crying: "Get out of there." At the same time he shot into the crowd, the shot taking effect just above I)r. Kinsey's hip. The negro then made his escape into the darkness. Dr. .Kinsey was taken back homo and was attended. It was found that the gun had been loaded with a slug, but fortunately the load produced only painful flesh wounds. Kfforts were made Sunday morning to catch Freeman and he was s< en several times by the pursuing party, but owing to the thickness of the undergrowth in the bays near Williams, he has so far eluded capture. SKCOXll IN SHOOTING. The South Carolina (tanks After the llattleship Idaho. The battleship Idaho is to enjov for a year the coveted official honor of being the best hitter in the Amer lean navy. a comparison or tne shooting performances of the battleships this year was mad<- public at Washington on Tuesday at the navy department. The Idaho made a score with her guns of 4 6.121. The South Carolina gets second place with a score of 42.585, and the Wisconsin third with a score of 40,478. Th.> battleships are eo-.ipeting for a trophy, their rank depending not only uiK>n the hits of the guns but upon theh work with mines and torpedoes. While the target practice has been concluded by the battleships, only a few have done the reuulred mining. Ot these the Wisconsin stands at the head of those which have eompl ted the competition with a score of 45.494, the Maryland second with 2 7.587 and the West Virginia third with 22,264. Of the vessels competing for the cruiser trophy for gunnery the Charleston now leads with a score of 21.075. In the competition for the gunboat trophy, the Mayflower stands at the head of the list of those that have tired with a score of 6.612. Among the vessels competiting for the torpedo trophy the Preble is the victor with a score of 90,928. One of her competitors, the Rowan, is credited with a score of only 0.05G. Killed by lightning. In the presence of his wife. Burt Crannon. a farmer, living about Cireer, was struck by a bolt of lightning Thursday and kill<ed. Crannon's cloUit s were burnea from his body and the handle of a hoe with which he was working was entirely consumed by the heat of Uie Has. Fanner Slain in l>uel. Quincy Everett, a young farmer, was shot and instantly killed, and A. B. Macklin, his father-in-law, was stabbed and fatally wounded, the result of a duel between the men at Mineola, Texas, Thursday. I ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS ^ AMOUNTS FOR PUBLIC BUILD( IXCkS AXI> 8ITKS. Colombia (lets Appropriation of $75, OOO for Xow Site.?Camden and Bennettsvillo i-lach $.V),0OO. A Washington dispatch says that President Taft will affix his signature, during the next duy or two, to the public building bill of the present session, just passed, and within u short time a large amount of money will be spent, in different parts of the United States, in the erection of Federal buildings. A careful inspection of the figures shows that South Carolina ha s been well provided for, the following being th>- provisions. Camden, $50,000; Gaffney, $10,000; Orangeburg, $10,000; Columbia, $75,000; lleiinettsville, $50,000; Marion, $7,500; Laurens and Union, each $10,000. Newberry, $10,000. While the members of the South Carolina delegation worked hard to secure these amounts, credit should be given Representative Johnson of Spartanburg, a member of the Iiouse 1 committee ou buildings and grounds, for his work. As the matter stands i now every city and town in South Carolina which, under the law. is i entitled to receive a Federal build- I ing. either has one completed, mi- i der construction, or authorized. < The Columbia appropriation is for I the purchase of a new building site, i The amounts of less than $50,000 t are in addition to previsions made S for the cities in former bills. SWKI.TKK AN1> SIZZI.K. i llitpless New Yorkers Cringe Beneath 1 the llot Weather. t I Hapless New Yorkers sizzled and sweltered Tuesday while the mer- J cury climbed steadily until it at- 1 tained a maximum of 90 degrees by othcia! readings at 5.45 p. m., a high mark for the year. Thermom*ters on the street ranged as high as 98 and three deaths directlv due to th? heat were recorded. More than 30 persons were prostrated. Excessive humidity added to the tortures oT the year's hottest day. lu ' the congested districts the suft'eriug was Intense and hospital ambulances * were kept busy caring for the strick- 1 en. In Bayonne, N. J., five men were 1 prostrated, two of whom are expected to die. 1 At Minolea, L. I., during a parade and contest of I/ong Island vol- ( unteer firemen, .half a dozen firemen ' were overcome and several spectators were prostrated. 1 9 0 9 ? SHOOTS AT INVALID. Negro Enters Sirk Woman's ltooin and Fires When Seen. While the family of Mrs. C. V. i Adamson, of Macon, Ga., were seated at supper, Mrs. Adamson's daugh- . ter, who had been sick for some time, was eating her supper in bed in a nearby room. . She happened to t glance upward and saw a big yellow negro standing ut the side of h??r ^ bed fumbling between the mattress. She screamed to alarm the household, and the burglar, instead o*. making his escape as quickly as possible. pulled out a pistol that he ^ had .found under the matte ss and deliberately shot at her. The bullet passed through her hair and buried itself in the head of her bed, and y the negro, hastily springing over the bed on which the sick womn i wes c lying, jumped out of the window and r nia.'e his escape. The unci! was i found on the grass near th-i house, s where he had thrown it. j DYINC; IIK ISSI KS OltHKKK. , Switrhmaii Shows Nerve After His i l<eg.s Are Severed. . r.eorge C. Hrilev, aged twenty- ' three years, a switchman for the . South', rn railway, at Hirminghain, j. Ala., after being run o\er .Monday s morning, both of his legs cut off j and otherwise hurt, gave instructions ( as to the disposition to be made j of his body, asking that it be shipped to Columbia, Tenn., where he has relatives. While cutting a string of cars his foot was caught in a | swum irog and before he could extricate it he was knocked down and several cars passed over his body. He died twenty minutes after the accident, but was conscious to the last. ' Ibiinlxiw Appeared at Night. C. I,. Royer and members of his \ family saw a rainbow between 12 i and one r?'clock while returning to l their home near Prosser, Wash. The moon was sninning brightly. The t sight was witnessed during a light t shower. f Impure Ice Cream Made 1)5 111. J Ptomaine poisoning caused by the t eating of impure Ice cream made 95 I people ill in Houston, Tex. Heveral 1 of the victims had narrow escapes t from death. < IN FULL BLAST State Campaign Opened b Sumter m Wednesdby. BOYD AND BROCK QUIT Turn \nu* Kntidiui t I ???? ? ? ? ? Day.?l'an(li(lnti> Spiikr at lii.shopville mi Thursday.?tliurgos Mmlc by Opponent ??f Attorney General.?Lyon Replies. The State campaign opened up in Sutnter ast Wednesday. The last duy for filing pledges was Tuesday and up to noon ot that day the only surprises were the entry of Barney B. Evans for Attorney General against. Lyon and F. K. MeCully, Jr., of Anderson. Another feature was the withdrawal of both Gen. Boyd and his Assistant Col. Hroek front the race for Adjutant Geueral. At the meeting at Di&hopville on Thursday the feature was the severe attack upon the public r-cord of Attorney-General Lyon by Barnard B. Evans, an aspirant for that office, and the clear-cut. forciful reply of that officer. Other features were the rousing reception accorded to Titos. LI. McLoed, candidate for Gov? rnor, tty his home people; a mild attack apon C. C. .Feathcrstoue by the oilier caiididates. who are advocating state wide prohibition and a general 'warming-up" all along the line. \side front thes- points, the tueetng was in elfect practically the same at that at Sumter the da> before. The following is a correct list of hose aspiring lor State cilice* and or Congressional jvtim: For Governor?Cole L. ltlease, loiin T. Duncan, C. C. Featheistone. H. Hyatt, Titos. G. McLeod and lohn G. Richards. For Lieutenant Governor?E. iYalker Duvall and Chas. A. Smith. I.-,.- O -? i ut OCV. I t'LUl ) Ul OliilO Ai. KcCown. For Comptroller General? A. VV. Fones. For Statu Treasorur-i?H. M. Jenllngs. For Adjutant General?Charles s'ewnhain, \V. \V. Moore, J. M Itichirdson. For State Superintendent of Indication J. K. Swearingen. For Attorney General-?It. it. KvinB, J. Fraser Lyon. For Railroad Commissioner ?Jas Pansier, G. Mc Duffle Hampton, G. hi. Muhon, O. C. Scarborough. The following candidates Hied the pledges for the different Coagreslionai Districts of the State: First District?George S. Legare, F. 11. Lessene. Second District?L. P Boylestou, las. F. llvrnes, C. W. Harris. J. t). Patterson. Third District Wyatt Aiken, Julii8 E. Boggs, Coke I). Mann. Fourth District .los. T. Johnson. Fifth District?Thos. B. Butler, ). E. Finley, J. K. Henry. Sixth District George W. Brown, F F. Ellerbe, P. A Hodges, B. B. Sellers. Seventh District?A. F. Lever. VV. >V. Ray. . MOTH Fit KILLED HKItSF.I.F. it'nrrv O, ... m - -' - ? , ?.. on <>i one or ner Daughters the Motive. Soon after her t J year o!<l son lad left her, .Mrs. Ellen C. Kagiu :omniitted suicide in a sensational nanner Wednesday on a sidewalk n Media, Pa. Accompanied by her ion. laniis, Mrs. Eagle came from her lome in Lansdowne. Pa., on a troley car. Alighting from t-he car, Mrs. fiagle told the boy to go into a drug itore and drink a soda water us the lay was hot. As he turned his hack Mrs. Kaclo ook a bottle containing poison from ?< r pocket and drank the contents. The son turned to say something to lis mother and witnessed her act. She collapsed in his arms and died loon afterward in a hospital. Mrs. Baglo's worry over the illness of >ne of her daughteg is believed to lave been her motive for suicide. \\ I I.I. KAT NO FOOD. i?K<?nia?i iM'ii-i-miiu-41 u> starve linnself to IHmiUi. \V. A. McGlnnis, a white man, who lias been serving a three months' tentonce in the Greenville county ia.il for bigamy, according to the >vardcn has eaten no food- for a porod of 14 days. The farts in the case lave just become known. A week ago the warden's attenion was called to McGinnls' ootid 1ion, and the county physician was innimoned. He made an cxaminaion and reported t-hat there is nothng the matter with the man's conlition. He appears normal in every particular and seems bent on starvng himself to death. He even refuses nilk and has only taken two or three lrinks of water this weok.