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GREAT JsHOCK Cargo of Dynamite Explodes With Awtnl Results Wednesday. MANY PEOPLE KILLED Mnny More Are Injured by the Shock Which is Kelt Forty-Five .Viles Away?New York Shaken From Street Le.cl to Top of the Highest Ruilding. A cargo of dynamite in transit i from a freight car to the hold of a lighter moored at pier No. 7, Communipaw, N. J., let go shortly after noon Tuesday, 150 yards south of ttie i Jersey City terminal of the Central I Railroad of New Jersey and in the j widespread ruin that followed seven j men are known to have been killed, i seven more are missing, hundreds were wounded and varying reports leave from 15 to 20 more unaccounted for. Thirty seems to be a conservative estimate of Hie dead and property damage will hardly fall below $750.000. The c:n:se of the explosion is variously attributed to the dropping of a ease of dynamite and to a boiler explo?!on on a boat. The direct cause probably never will lie known. TVvmiii.'il The Jersey Central terminal was wrecked; three ferry boat's in the si'pa were lorn and splintered: lower "Manhattan, across the river, wr.s shaken from the street level to thej top of the Singer tower; severe damage was done In Brooklyn and Staten ' Island, and to the immigrant detention station on Ellis Island; the shock was felt at Amityville. Long1 Island, miles distant, and in New Jersey at i,ong Branch. 4,r? miles av ay. Th?? damage is so widely scattered that it is impossible as yet to estimate "-ore than roughly, but in Manhattan none it is placed ut $100,-J 000, on Ellis Island nt from $10.000 to $2 .">,000 and In all threequarters of a million appears to be a fair estini ?te. Lighter Van'sliod. The lighter receiving the dyna-' mite, the Catherine W., owned by Jemos Heeling of Jersey City, vanished utterly with her crew of seven men, including the master, Edward Trover. Alongside was the lighter Whistler, which was so badly shattered that she sank with her crow of two, while the Sweedisb steel hn-Ventine ingrid was stripped of her rifrir$TMf mill frlw Hvou of two Hnol/ Jinnds aboard were snuffed out. Fragment? of "lie man's head wore found gw'ng'ng high on a tangled piece of rope. Were I nloading Dynamite. Th > Kntherine \V. was tie ! to the oute- end of the pier, and a crew of docl- hands was unloading a consign ot of 50-pound tiox<-a from two f oi -V cars to the lighter when the cr ?h r te. One report was to the effect that the explosive wa9 consirne to contractors up the river for IdasMng along the Palisades, another t'-it !t w is hound for ITahana. With the plrs'on the Kntherine V sirc dv tisapv. a" -d: not n splioter of h- r lr. !i< ft found.- On'v the Setter's larpole has 1? -en found. T]'o \i i.i ( ;r went t'p In a puff of V t. On the rear deck of tbo ba-J-t-rt'lhe Iu nid were found a pair of 1-ov ruc'-S that were also torn to Mr.-.. \noihrr Our Shaken. V " v - !? hard stood another car o' 1 'It-*. T ie explosion ripped fi,,. ,",.< .... t nd ' foVrt 5ii the doors, b tii dynamite itself did not explr Or 1 - i the Tnor'd the steel nr!zz? .1 -d off phove ti e lower Vi i ' " ' th" ' ' !'d wreck nee ranio til' 1 i t th deeks. Kv. ryth'rte : * ft f > ra'czs nnmst was 1 \ e'< d p '"t 'h 1 le. | ; ' ' os of tlie liu'l ' M r, t*i, and showed tint (II" I -l 11 irk I n" ' i fpet ?h. pier-end Itself v s idt -i\ ! i.io'ished. All . ut .'- re strange freaks of the exp'osion. ' lass Hoof Collapses. Tc t'"? tr'in shed of the terminal, pearly the whole southern exposure of the ?!aTs roof collapsed, showering the passengers with broken g'e.xs. One man was struck by a 2d pound fiagmcnt and so severely P\' * 1i. f Ito rii<?r1 An nnclnoor it* n Bh'ftln" locomotive v.as blown from Ms rat) an.I died of a fractured skull. A tugboat captain was hurled fror* his wheelhouse and flslied out of fwe water In minutes later. Tnsid > th" passenger station th"re wn" damaze visit)le everywhere. The floors were littered with broken '-l-'ss. Windows fronting on the in"-r court had been suqked from the frames, sashes and all. (Mock !lnn?l*i Torn Off. c'ates were torn from the roof and th" hands of the ferry house clock w re torn off. .limoc \T.l Vi vv in cfn tior restaurant, was eatinp: luncheon when the explosion came. "There was everywhere the crnsti of fnllinp Rlass,' lie Bald, "and the rush of 'r'rhtened feet. Children Tltupered and women shrieked. Thf i nsat'on of terror was acute. It s led as if the earth was belny e,... wtHmsjtm*# iii DbASTEKS WERE GctEAT SKVEN III \I>KKI> PKOPUK I>IEI> ( IN T A A L ERUPTION. Five Thousand Families Wert' Mnde Homeless and Ruined by the Volcano's Activity. The eruption of Trial volcano and ;the accompanying disturbances in ' 'the Philippines killed 700 people in 'the town of Talisay, according to a I icport cabled to the war department [Thursday by Gov. Gon. Forbes of the I Philippine Islands. The earthquake slioeke continue, the governor genIt ra I added. ! Among the estimates of casualties tiansmittod to the war department < vas a report which placeil the total dead at 300. The report added that o,000 families had been ruined by (he disaster. Recent earthquake shocks have 1 been slightly perceptible in Manila, < but have caused no damage. Since l the first disturbance, the setsmoMaph apparatus of the Manila oh- i s Tvatory has recorded the unprece- I drnted number of 714 slioi ks tip to 3:45 p. in. Thursday. ( FOFND AFTFK MANY WKKKS. 1 t Gody of A. (Yomutrie of Soparton, Gn., Discovered. ( The body of James A. Croinatrie t editor ot' a paper at Soparton, t;a., ( iho disappeared from tho hotel at v liamlet, N*. C.., November t?, last, was ( fcund Wednesday afternoon in a , swamp thre miles from liamlet by hunters. (lis personal possessions. . including a considerable sum of moil- , ?\v. were intact and there was no evidence of foul play, hut how he . :r.ct death and how lnni? l<?* li'ic lead have not been ascertained , f romatri" was on his way to visit , relatives in lilanden county and , stopped o'-er at Mantlet to change , i ais. He disappeared during the , night and though his three sons secured that section for a month j no trace of nis inovenientts could he ( ound. Identification was fully es- ( tahlislied by a relative. Searchers , had passed within 10 feet of his f I i ody. The report several weeks ago } fiat Croniahie had heen found in j the woods in a demented condition , near Ellenboro later developed to ( have been a case of mistaken iden^ : I torn to lilts. ' ] Showered With Glass. ! Two ferry boats of the Central 1 Railroad of New Jersey lay in the ' terminal slips and a third was just ' I edging into the river All of them ' 'careened violently and all of them were showered with their own glass. 1 Many of the wounded passengers in ' these boats came to New York for treatment at the hospitals. In New York the terror was in itensitled by uncertainty. For half ' an hour nobody know what had hap- ' pened or " hero it had happened. ' T.Herally aares of glass were broken ' j in Trinity -hurch a vainahlo stained 1 | glass window was strewed in the ' aisle. No Difference in l'ono. Strange to say. office buildin s on the water front streets in New York were no more jarred than those on the further side of llroadway, in Wall sired. Nassau street, on the Curb market row, or the stock eschange itself. A plate glust window , in the rear of the stock exchange was mashed and !n the aeqnariuin at the I southernmost tip of the island. 1" windows and 25 skylights were broken. N?lrly every sirurture from Fulton street, south, suffered in some i miner. Saw Cuff of Dust. ! New York business men who stood at the'r office windows looking out over the North river at noon saw a puff of yellow dr. * shoot into the air just below the .It t oy Central tert in 1 and then dr'ft down the wind until it covered the terminal train shed. The next thing they noticed v. that ever} tti-' hoat in the river scomed to be heading io fhimmuniaw. Turnin-, to the street helow they sav tltcin black with surging thousands. There wore Incipient panics hero nnd there throughout the city In business buildings and factories as far north a? the Ilronx. Wires >li\e?l I'p. Tho jar crossed many telephone and fire alarm wires down town and all 3orts of complications ensued. Fire engines were dashing hither and thither in tjueat of non-existent fires. Terrified tenants made matters worse by turning in alarms that had not sounded of their own accord, i Hhineiander Waldo, fire commin! slener for New York, nnd Fire Chief Croker, accompanied by a picked i hand of police, were among the tirst i t< reach Cummtinipaw. They ren,lr>r?.l il/l In tl.? *...1... I ' "w lances couM not come fast enough ' I and express wagons were command: ed for duty in their places. How n:any were injured never will be known in lull, but the count of those i treated in the New York hospitals was 100 and in those of Jersey City, i lloboken, I nion Hill and snrround ins towns, more than double that i number. The estimated number of dead is I T. 2. Five bodies have been recov: ered. \ POISON SCORES i Sensational Wurd?r Trial Starts Russia Court Circles. HAUNTED BY HORRORS Dr. l*niitcl>ciiko and Count <Ie Lucy1 tfiursra nun "lienioviiig" I lit* j Count's lirotlier-iii-hiw?The l>?u-; tor Confesses mid Declurcs He Was Merely tin* Counts Toll. At St. Petersburg, Russia, the j Vunt Patrick O'Brien do Lacy and j i?r. I'antchenko wore placed oil trial! Thursday for the murder of Baron V'ssslUi Ruturlin by poison. An alerted confession t?y t?r. 1'antchenko chich was rend in court created a i cnicndors sen .-a I ion. In it he ii clared that ho had boon i>pnotizcd by Count de Lacy and led m :rd ue'l Baron Buturiin by noculating him with the germs of ilptheria. At first ho had intended, u said, to use cholora gorms, but, earing detection, substituted diphhoria germs. Before Ihe trial is finished, it is j issorted, names of persons in high ircles will !>e dragged in. A woman lieh in Russian society, who is said o be an intimate frineds of the docor. and a male cousin of the Count. *ho would lie benefited financially >y the den!h of the Baron, have alcady been mentioned. The murdered man was the second on of r.en. Butor'in, and the Couness dc Lacy was his sister. The oldit son of the General incurred painful displeasure hv marrying a nusiu ball dancer, and it was known iiat Tkiron Ruturlin would inherit ho bulk of his father's fortune, esimatcd a' $4.000,00n. In the event if the Baron's death it would go u i outness <ip i.?acy. Whrn Baron Buturlin was taken II Count de Lacy called in Dr. Panlhenko. A few clays Inter th? Baron Mod. and Pr. Pantehenko filed a cerificate that death was due to heart "allure. The widow was suspicious, lowevrr, and persuaded Gen. Buturiij to have an autopsy. This re oaled that the Baron had met his leath through some subtle poison. Chief of Secret Police T.ilipoff was notified and after investigation ar< sted Dr. Fantchenko and Count de Lacy. The doctor, under rigid eximination oroke down and confessed hat he had "removed" Baron Butur:n at the instigation of Count de I acy, who promised him $300,000. <nd also agreed to furnish money so hat the doctor's woman friend could marry another cousin of the muriered man. TTe also confessed that !.e had killed scores of persons by rueans of poison. "Haron Buturlin's murder was nly a drop in the bucket," he told liiof Filipofi. "Horrors have hauntsi me from early morning until late t night. I have killed scores, men a high standing as well as others. have been the blind instrument of i demon. Why? I don't know. 1 iio not a very rich man. I live as \erv professional of my class lives. I lnve not squandered great spins. you see there was no reason for me to poison the neople. Yet I have poPoned them us a butcher's wife roisons flies. 1 will tell you the . . >ii?r w :11> in.isicj- who mane me lake "he lives." "Who is your master?" he was nskcd. "Cpunt Patrick O'Urien de Lacy." w HR the reply. According to fhi"f Fllipoff, the confession of I>r. Pantchenko will lend to the unveiling of many mysterious murders which have puzzled 'ho St. Petersburg police. fount ( Lacy maintains that he is inno(int; that the confession is a tissue rf lies. The fount has held a high place .1. court circles end has been the peronnl friep 1 of the fahinet Mini toss, a diplomatic agent of the (lovornnimt and a man of good reputation, lie conies of a good Irish family, which settled in Russia at the beginning of the last century. The Countess Tarnowsjci is a cousin of Count de Lacy. " Fight Was Fatal. At F.alllec, Mich., IIu?h McNair. IS years olu, who was stabbed several days ago by Clove Rdwards, principal of the public school, died Wednesday. i he trouble vrew out of an alleged attack by McNair and two companions on Fdwards upon his return from a visit to' a younn woman, for whose affections all participants were rivals. Death List (treat. A wireless message from Fort Morgan, Ala., states that the officers of the steamer Herald, which arrived there Wednesday morning from Ceiba, Honduras, report 1."?0 persons killed in the recent fight at Ce'ha Former reports gave thirty .3 the death list. Sure lie's Demi. The will of Henry Abbott, Sr.. of Media, Pa , requires that his body he kept in an open coffin for 4 0 days after his death and that it be viewed da'ly. If he is still dead after that period his lemalns may be burled. I l LAID IT TO ItEST. Flection Or.ier for Heyward County in Revoked. I Gov. Rleatse on Wednesday killed the Heyward County proposition when he issued an order revoking the election order of Governor Ansel. | The election was to have been held on February 7. "I am satisfied that the territory dees not contain 400 square miles. Cue constitutional requirement, from uHiniony nai nas neon presented to me, and that the limits of the town of Klienton are one mile, which 1 would cause a county line to pass c through the limits of an Incorporated r town," said Governor Tllease follow- c Mir arguments by attorneys for tn<jromoters of Heyward County and Aiken County. The decision follows a hearing s which lasted several days, and at f which expert testimony was present- . ed as to the area of the new county territory. ? , I liOYl.KSS TAKKS CONTKOL. ltiiys Controlling Interest in 111?* Old Augusta Chronicle. 0 t A dispatch from Augusta to The f State says Thomas W. T,oyless Tues- c 'lay paid over to T. K. Scott and I). It. Oyer $S5.000 and exercised the ?' cptlon secured hy hitn January 10 f on the majority stock in the Augusta h Clironicle. in the interim Mr. Loy- r less has sold all of the stock held f hy Messrs. Scott and Oyer, except so e much as with his former holdings will give him control of the prop- s men of the city in small lots in this r iv gaining an enormous 'nislnes* < connection and influence for his pa n per. The company has a paid-in cap- ri ilal now of 5150,000. Ki*ht years go Air. Loyless bought The Chron- F Icle tor Himself and certain assocl- a aies. < IWSSKS THK SKXATK. .. t The Mileage I til I Gels a Very I,urge v ti Majority Vote. r The mileage bill passes (he State si nate on Wednesday night after a ' herd tight by the derisive vote of 2(5 ' to 12. The direct vote on the pas- 1 sane of the bill was as follows: Yeas?Ackerman, Hates, Dlack. ' Carlisle, Dennis. Earle, Epps, Ginn, Cieen, Hough, Johnson, Johnstone, 1 i.atiey, Lawson, hide. Mars, \V. L. ; Mauldin, T. J. Manldin, Muckenfoss. ' Itainsford, Sinkier, Strait, Stocky, s Sullivan, Summers. Wharton?2(5. f Nays Appelt, Crosson, Forrest, v !iall. Hardin, Montgomery, Spivey, * Stewart. Walker, Waller, Weston. ' Young?12. 5 The bill is as follows: 1 "That any railroad company selling mileage books for transportation t is hereby required to receive coupons i from mileage books sold by said rail- ? mad company on its trains for trans- l portation within the Stite, and to 1 i .look baggage for passengers upon j presentation of said mileage. > * > SKXDS HOY TI > DKATII. m > scared by Itubber Snake He Dashes in Front of Train. ( Frightened by a rubber snake in ) the hands of a companion, J. F. i Holder, Jr., a young hoy at Durti- . ride, Miss., Wednesday dashed in t fiont of a swiftly moving passenger ( train and was instantly killed. Jeff 'iomlinson, 18 years old. and young Holder were standing n? ir the rail J load tracks when suddenly Tonilin s ui drew 'lie imitation snake from ' ' is pocket and shoved it towards ' Holder, who dashed in front of th train and vat: g'ournl to pieces. Tomllnson was arrested, but no criuii- . nahty can jttnrh to his act He is very sorry of the death of his you up ! f; lend. ( Storm a?iul \Vr< k. Thirty people were killed when a passenger train was derailed at Val- i encia. Spain, a. a result of a wash 1 rut of the roadbed. A wild storm!' swept the Spanish coast last night. A score of fishing crafts were dashed ' ' j>on tlie rocks. Many crews were [ lost. Tliis tnornin twenty-five sailor!-' bodies were picked up along the roast. Leaps to If or Death. At New York Miss Nellie Rutl ay, aped wenty-six, went to a rear window of her home and leaped to the ground, six stories below. Her lifeless body was found on the stone , flagging two hours later. Relatives believed that she may have been walking in her sleep when she plunged. Mnrpvini' VVnmnn Mrs. Lizzie Miller lias pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy in court in Quincy, 111., and immediately drew an indeterminate sentence 'n the state penitentiary. Shi was charged with having married four men within four weoi<ft two of them inmates of an old soldiers' home. * Lice for a Life. Key We it. Fla., In a fight Thursday let ween John Sawyer, ager 7, and l.ouis Lowe, aged 11, the former threw a pair of e-lssors at his playmate, killing him almost Instantly. '1 he scissors struck just below the khoulder blade, piercing the lung. i SOME WARM TALK IKPItESEXTATlVE WILLIAMS OF AIKEN" SPEAKS PLAINLY. louse Passed His Hill on New County Mutter by an Overwhelming Vote. 111 ine nouse Air. Williams' bill to ire vent the formation of deformed ounties passed second reading with ut objection Saturday. Monday light the motion was made to reonunit it. Mr. Gasque spoke in favor of the ill. He spoke of the bitterness ometiuies caused by new county iglits. There is no reason now for 'gerrymandering" since the negro las been forced out of politics, and lobble-sk tried and narrow-waisted ounties. Mr. Dixon also favo^ul the bill. It ins get so now that if a terrltoiy 'bjects to taxes or prohibition or itlier local conditions in their couny. at once the threat is made that hcv will leave the old county and o into some other. Mr. Courtenay of Edgefield delared his personal apposition to the ormation of Ileyward county, but le believes that the constitutional equirements have boon met and hat those restrictions are severe nough. !>? . Turnbnll of Aiken made a pirited speech for the hill, lie dehired that twice has the Ileyward ountv proposition been defeated and iow it comes hack up here in an alnost identical form and it is all the imposition of one land corporation. Te opposed the new county warmly nd favored ihe hill. Mr. Duller of North Augusta, liken county, denied flatly Dr. hirnhull's statement. He argued hat the people of North Augusta as roll as the land company, favors the i. v. lumii.i. mi' |i"e'|in" (ii mill ceritorv liave complied with the relutrements of the constitution and hose requirements are severe >nouph. He made a strong and earicst fleht apainst the hill. Mr. Humbert declared tlie bill unonstitution.il. Mr. Stevenson ir .a very clear ma flier show, d that the bill is not in 'iolation of the constitution. Mr. Uevcnsons declared that that proportion had been foupht out in ihe orniatlon of Dorchester county 14 cars apo. When ".Josh" Ashley ried to pet a part of Abbeville voted nto Anderson a few years apo this same pronosilion was again doternined. Mr. Williams of Aiken, author of he bill, declared that he bad not ntended to say anything on the hill is its merits should bo apparent, tut as it had been intimated that h?> iad made a personal fiuht on tha iromotcra, he would resent it and vould pren< :i the funeral of Tieyvard county. iMr. Williams did not minco iiis vords a bit. lie dec'"red that this ?ill is an outrage. That It see-saws icross the county of Aiken from Elenton on the south to Parksville. >r somewhere near the flreenwood inc. Tile county is f?0 miles in enpth and only three miles across it the proposed county scat and this hree-milo line is within eight miles if the court house of Aiken. Tie charged that the efTort to laruo this county was an insult to dov. Heyward who was in office, at IIK UIIIC, UBl'.i i:se I.Ill* t'lion W.I.-. nado to gain his favor by showinv hat his name, would go down into listory in this manner. Ho alleged hat the present governor was also nrnlted by having his former lav. lartner employed as one of the atornevs of the no\. county, but he lad born too much of a man to lie swayed by such blandishments. Mr. Willi ni8 declared further hat. the ati< ipts to create this now ounty ar-- all the ambitions of one nan and that lie has Irondy put the ounty of Aiken to a great ileal <>t ypenso in the two elections In which lie has failed an! there is now liefore the legislature a eliim for $1,800 for surveying this butterfly ounty. Mr. Williams also paid hir. respects to the attorneys engaged on tnis proposition. Ho declared that his bill would prevent in the future all such shoestring propositions of counties and that the lawyers who keep these matters in litigation so such an opportunity. Ho concluded by saying that he had not wished to express himself so pointedly on I he hill but lie had been forced to do so by circumstances. When he concluded the house voted on the motion to recommit and the motion ws rejected. The hill then passed third rending and was sent to tho senate. Have Yellow Fever. With nine men Aboard ill, possibly with yellow fever, the American punhont Marietta is now on her way from Puerto Cortes, Honduras, tr Key West. ITa. She hailed from Cen tial American waters under or* erf from the navy department, which were issued as eoon as the official? there wer" advised that the Strieker men were suapected of having yellow fever. | REBUKE JUDGES Governor Cole Bltase Lectures the State Supreme Court SMASHES ALL RECORDS ^ X The Chief Fxecutive Sets Aside and Ignores All I'leeedenls ol' 'lie Past by nisrt'Kurdin); tlu? Highest Trlbimals Kccoaiincndat ion as (<> Special Judge of llichlnnd. The Columbia Record says (lov i rnor lUen.e informed the supremo court, Thursday, in so many worUs, that he has no intention of appoinliug his enemies to olllce. "upon tlis 1 eeoininenil.'t ion of anybody," but expects to see that his friends "receive at least some consider iiimi I?om this administration " Thu 11?t .-age was -e"t in cnr.nociion ?nh the aliuos' unprecedented a? t'a i jf no governor. in lisrogardlng sell erne court's nominal i>n of i',u ,i? Attorney General Duncan Kay of Columbia, to he a special judg for tt.e Kichland county common pie is term commencing Monday next, and appointing instead his friend, Mr. oames P. 1 Caldwell of Newberry. The correspondence in the matter v as given the press, without comment., alot. ii i Uh the usual minutes of the da - vroceedings and the I.si of dec. '.e tiled. Thio 'otter fioni the goverr ir, coining close on tlie heels his message relating 'o J trustees, which contained a para- J liaph re Hooting t<> some extent i>n J| (lie supreme court, lias aroused much ,-C interest among tin 11 b re of t e ar, who say that such i ings are almost without parall 1 in the history the State. Tho correspondence in the niatter, given here in full, explains The State of South Carolina County n Wlii i slon of the o irt of common pleas for Richland county ^ will he held it a r gr.lar term com- M r.i< ncing P brnary G, 1911, and there I leing no available circuit judge to I preside over said court; $1 Now, therefore, be it resolved by H the Richland County Bar association, That i>. C. R y. Esq., <>f Columbia, F. (\, be, and he hereby is, recommended for appointment as special it:dge l?y the chief justice of the supieino court of South Carolina, with .authority io preside over the said rcurt of common pleas for Kichland c.cnnty for the term commencing l etirutiry G. 1 9 1 1. 1 hereby certify that the foregoing 1 resolution was adopted by the Rich- * laud Countv Bar issoeiit inn .? ? nootitu; held on February 1. 1911. 10. Mcf, Clarkson, Acting Chairman. W . Anderson Clarkson, Secretary. Court's Itccommcndntion. fl Col ii in Iiia, - '' . ! ' t . 1 1 1. 1 lion. Cole L. Blease, Governor of South Car Una. Iicar Sir. I pon information tliat l.'or. U. 10. Copes, judge ele. t of the i ! irsi (irruit. will not ;u!11 it'\ and ho i (.nimissioned for s o ev il weeks, and ( in view of the fart that no regular circuit Judge is available to hold the court of common pleas for Uichla.ul county, commencing February 6, j 1 911. the supreme court respectfully I recommends that you commission Duncan C. Bay, Esrj . of Columbia, } S. C , as special judge to hold said >; i < fl Yours Ira It. Jones. Chief Justice. of < irolina, Executive I C'minh r. j Col tnihia, Feb r 1. '911. ITon. Ira I'. Jones, Chief J.e'ico, Snuie Court of South Carolina, C lutnbia, South Carolina Dear SI-. Yours uf February 1st I rc iv' il. ! lion leave to Inform you that ft a rorif \, >th I ;?!" ? Copes, In whl"h , stated that li would uat ho in i>( t<> runiify for the court of Ki'H in l county on February fitli, that I cotnro'ssioned lion, .lainns F. , *. Caldwell to hold said court. While I shall, of course, l>o re, spectful to your body, at the same time, a large majority of the people . rl South Carolina elected me gov, f t nor and in that lar.e majority , were as milih brains as waa in tlie ' , minority, and I exnert to see my ft lends roce-ve at least some eon- A , sideration from this administration, , .nd I do not propose to appoint my ^H|j enemies to ofllco. upon the recoinmendation of anv body, unless it lie that I can not find a friend who is , crmpetent and worthy of the posl^jg Very resneetfully, Cole L. I (lease, -vis (lovernor. ( I>(H 1'atiil l'*itSI. i J. I'. Km it's, a well known farmer < f (''xii-'uwhatcliif. S. C., died at Sa- , > . \V< dm sda> in 1 sanitarium, 1 is ttil* result of a fall from a street far there two w<-eks ago. m ; The ,\'ow York Democrats havo i rot < leeted a Knifed States Senator >et. They find it hard t.o get rid of corporation influence?.