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/)tw^ ^ A TKKM8. #1.50 IN ADVANOH. SDAY , FEBRUARY 21, 10] 1 NO '2() STORHMMw Greearilte It Stirred fcy I lie Sbtttfaf'it Tvttf I* Ptlktm ENaP^ Bp?v> . > ? ?Hp'' w Offlcer Gunnela Mm From the ? Wound# Inflicted by tin Bandit, Who Mnde His K?cape, and fosses Art Scobring the CoUatr j on the f u ; ?; * i k' ? -.v Scores men, private cltUens, polloemen and deputies, armed to th? teeth* scoured the oountry between ' Greenville and the mountains to . . North Carolina Friday and Friday night iniaarch.of theMone stranger, believed to be a professional yegg man, who Friday morning, letweeiv 2:80 and 3 o'clock, engaged ? In /*> desperate pistol duel In the passen ger station of the Columbia and Qreenvllle Railway, with Officers b. V. Johnson and 8ergt, Oliver S. Gun nels, of the Greenville police force, In which Gunnels received wounds from which he dted at 9:40 o'clock, while Johnson was shot through the right leg.' ' ?Perhaps never before in the hle tory of the city has Greenville been so excited. The tragedy of Friday," which cost the, life of a? universally popular nnd faithful officer, comln; on the heels of the dastardly aHsauit upon tlie life of "ITnele Tommy'" I Cvretoif, tho oldest policeman on the force, Tuesday morning by G. VV. Stonecypher, in a drunken orgle, wa? heightened by a dastardly asBauIt, made a few hourp^rftfer,f upqi^ the life, of another meirthor off ? the* -"police force, by an aggregation of disreput able men and women a* the officer attempted to place one of the women of the gang under arrest for commit ting a revolting aot. ? At coroner's Inquest held Friday morning over the remains of Sersi. ( Gunnels, at the undertaking estab lishment of Jas. F. Mackoi?&. Son,: but Kr'tr s exa,i l&torj . Tr?? -r I," said ho, "were coming along Au gusta street, fce^nd the Intersection of Vardry street, .toward the olty4 shortS 9 Si-Jaw * imerge fwyn the rmlrOad put of -??wa ?wnvtn. Rait hment .of ,Ja*; Fi Mackcjjb&Son, t oneJwtt^eis^Qfficerj/phiiBQn^was^ imin^JjMW: |eatlmpnr tells the ?rj*oI tne tragedy, ""Gdritfefs and m Rfl looking Wack slung over his 1 * tell whether ^ ^..prr^WI^^^-fcalled "nilOrniinii iiln" attention to the lone rid rartde the remark that he ifybly ii* chicken thlfef/'; etched him closely and him approach the door of the ored waiting room of the passenger station. I advanced toward the *ta ? tion and when within a few feet ot It I heard the man moving about on the inside. Gunri?wlii?d I approached the door at tho same time. He put; Ms right hand to the door and pushed, it open With his left hafitf? ho If&shW^ his electrlo flash light Into the dark room* The light revealed a tough looking* white man, short, thick set, heavy, with a short, black mustache, Mid dressed commonly, without a collar or tie, and wearing a slouch hat, standing In the centre of the floor. "Simultaneously with the flash , of the officer's pooket flash light, the man raised his revolver and flred, The first shot pierced Gunnel's abdo men and he fell hack against th*? door facing, exclaiming: 'John, I'm abot, kill him.' Before the stranger could fire a second time, I had -my pistol out ahd opened fire on him. The second rshot he flred struoR. Gunnels in the right thigh i and ttanfcels receded toWard the south end Of th* station. The third phot from -fhe man's revolver pierced ray right leg. "All the while the mon and I were exchanging shots with li?htnlng-llke rapidity. 1 had a Smith & Wesson 38-caIlbre pistol and X think he was armed with a 32-callbre Colt's mag ailne revolver. I flred four limes and pulled the trigger of my rejrojvefj Again, but the cartridge failed to explode. ?" I receded then . and the man sprang through the door, firing as he ran. When on the outside he wheeled about, ran backwards a short distance, and fired several more shots, the first one beinf. , flred at Gunnels, whjo wss In thd abt <?r sink ing to the ground, and the remain ing shots being flred at mo. Ho then fled, and 1 turned to assist Gunnels." words of the only witness, now ,the fata! affray in the loner, railway station, in the dead| with a desperate man, who, ilteved now, committed a series berles earfleV ln( the night at 'Ullameton, elghteeen mile* below . Jreenvllle, Is a story which has stirred Greenville from cehtre to cir cumference. M<>ify$irew down busi ness and seised weapons to Jdl)i squads that left at Intervals through out the day to sooUr the country fpr the fleeting murderer. The mayor of the olty himself Joined a squad and went In the direction of the mountains shortly after noon. The olty of Greenville has offered Mm. mrardL o? Jlfi 0.0. and ihe State a | reward of $2 00 for the capture 6t the >r of OJffloer Gunnels. the country Several * ght into the nightfall. Ki !ght and and search* en* throtfSrhoul the i> end should the stayqr be danger of a lynch %\ services over the ffiHSION FRAUOES Tin: LEGISLATURE HAS I1HRN * ? ASKED TQ TAKE ACTION. ?f !~jS ?* *1 * ' X-; ^yo^VBIU W*jtfm<*lr the M0U*, iin They Arefteeply in* tfrwted In the Measure. Charging fraud In the pension *ystem of the State. Gen. C. irHne Walker of Charleston has made the fallowing Statement: ^ v "Thoro Is a very deep Intent among the ?<?! Confederate here st loathe final outcome of now before the legislature, to am the pension laws of the State, to stop the stupendous frauds at present exist. The mow?L atartod In Camp Sumter and was taken up most -earnestly by Oen^ B. H. Teague, commanding the Sotfth Carolina division veterans, and rffcp resentlng the veterans of the entire State. Qen. Teague hnd presented to the senate and house a bill, w the veterans thought would correct or check the evil. "The veterans have evidence 'of such general fraud In the glvin^i'of pensions to those not entitled to tp celve the same, that It prevents the worthy veterans and widows of spoh from receiving all that' the State generously nwardB them. The Worthy should rppeljte $36 per* an num. but the appropriation rs srftbbed up by so many unworthy that' the worthy" received In 1910 only 120. Little more than half! -"Tho veternns sent a representa tive to Columbia to lay the matter before the legislature. He appeared before the flnapec committee of the senate and the military committee of tho house, and both committees, after careful consideration, made unanimously favorable reports. This shows that these influential commit tees were convincndMjy the veterans showing that the .great evil existed, and were satisfltfu with the remedy which tho veterans Buggeated In their! 1*111., . . ! 4 I'TjhS v'etorAns hnvo laid bare the hofr{ble Conditions existing, shown the f/aurti being annually perpfe trated upon^the worthy veterans and upon the Statq, and if the le?lslature dqes not f>0t, It must answer for a pension roll of 1*10 s^ows 4,888! United Confederate veterans that they had enrolled conSld "ly more' than half the survivors the Lost. Cause In the St*te.< Last year the State division had on its rolls 2,395.' The pension roll of 4,886 jjoldlers 1b more than double tbp number of comrades In United Confederate camps! Nothing can more clearly demonstrate the utter absurdity? -Ifyn^t fraud ? of 4the pen eiott' roll! : * *'The veterans have exposed the fraud and feel that It Is now up to the legislature to remove the stigma and save the State money. It Is sin* cerely hoped that It will not adjourn without taking the desired action." SHOT WRONG ONE FIRST. A Man Murders a Girl and Then He / * s, A. Commits Suicide. D'Mven to desperation, J. W. Pow ell, of Rnchanan, Va., Monday kill* ed h's sweetheart, Miss Maude West, 1 8 years old, and then turned the -hotgun on himself and ended his life. The doublp tragedy was thought id have been caused by JeV.ousv. T*owell; 88 y?tafs of age, called unoh MIsb West Sunday night and while at the home met another young man. He was heard to make thioats as bo was leavln?. While the young woman was on her way to a mail box -to pos-. a let ter Powell, who was In /hiding4 on tbe eld? of, the road, Jumped frorq a? dumb Jbfybushfsj; ap do pen 3.-1 flife tfh fier with a shotRuft. He empt'ed two loads in her body and th-M plac ed the weapon to his head and flrof'. Wheh found both of them were dead. Flour Rent to Chlim. Ten thousand ?acka of flour were 1 nvrohased In Chlongo Thursday by Otto Koonl?, of New York, to be sent ; for the relief of the famine suffer*' fits in China, the flour In the con- j ?.rlhuMon Ojf the auhaOVlbers of The Christen Herald. The flour will be sent to Seattle, whence It will be cafrled fi^oilrOf ehaf## oh the tin 1 ted ty^tea transport liuford to Chink* tahg. ; . ?< ? ? * ill IM,I,II> n?/? i+i i i I li I . . *?r. Mistake. Anklhg Mm. Bert Bond If he might set her1 After (he show cost Harl J. Kobe, of Canton, O., his life In Un ion Olty, Ind. The rej^ftfk , wu ov erheard by 'the yountf wOtaUft's fath er end a n?fit followed, tlefore lio died Robe said ,he mistook Mrs. Bond for some one else. The girl's father surrendered* The ^raste tor tn keegjjlg era tit re. mains ofjttfi flaturday , a police cotamleSJOtkfcrif and the police force Mtit attend In p bo$y. A se lected *q had of police will act sa PAH bearers, Vhlle interment will be employ- a Pinker ton detective hat amounted to hundrsds of dollars al ready and Is trowing hourly. * / HOLDS HER Oft 1 % ? Jr ObartotM K?p? Her BgM Itakr* nd CoUtteo Loses One. ? ? ? ? BOW (T FIGURES OUT ? ?' ? = :T ; . ? ? . y ; After Long Fight the Reapportion ment Bill Wan 80 Amended as to r\f s, J % ' ' c v Prevent the Lom of One Member . ? ? ? _ ( bjr Charleatpn ?t the Expense of Colleton CJottnty. / Charleston retains her eight rep tesebtatlves in the* House of Rep resentatives under the provisions of the amended reapportionment bill, Passed in ~ the -Senate Friday ..night Wld adopted later in the House. This endejd the most persistent fight, ex tending over several days, that tho Senate had and Is all the more sig nificant, inasmuch as the House pnssted the original bill with no changes. The Senate adopted the amend ment of Senator Slnkler Friday nl<rhi giving Charleston eight instead of seven representatives, as the bill at first provided, and giving Colleton two representatives, instead of three, as originally inserted into the bill and as Colleton now has. In the battle for reapportionment at this session Senator** Robert Lide, of Orangeburg, was the leader, ana it is bwltfg to his untiring efforts that the measure finally passed the Senate. He was helped by other Senators, with no Ill-feeling toward Colleton county. Senator Slnkler, when he found that Charleston should, be cause of the annexation of a part of Collston, retain her present repre sentation, came to the rescue and won out. It so happened that when the re apportionment -l>i 11 was made up, Charleston, because of the smallness of the fraction of proportionate in habitant^ after the Beven representa tives had been accorded, was not en titled to Mother representative. This cijt r'hnrtcston from el?ht to seven. By the annexation of Adima Run and Collins townships, formerly in Colleton, to Charleston county, Char leston jpinod 6,4 4 4. inhabitants. Re fore this Charleston's fraction was only 8,047, with a representation of 85.8&0, had two represents tives. and a fraction of 10;948, which would have given her ..another representa ?U ye.^-' . v/- < | .jfaklng away the two township's population, namely, 6.444, Colleton has two representatives and a frac jtfoni of only 4,604, not enough to gfve he* another representative. She i thus loses one, as Colleton now has I three. This state of affairs was called to i the att.ftnt?to bt the 8enate by Sena j tor Slnkler. and a fl?ht of three days was then had on the bill. The ques tion arose as to whether the census should be adopted as It stood before the annexation, or should the new territory be added to Charleston and taken from Colleton. ? The Senate voted 20 to 6 to give Charleston her eight representatives and Colleton only two. The six negative votos In cluded Ackerman, of Colleton; Rlack, of Rambers;: Rarle, of Oconee; Green, of Marlboro, and Summers, of Calhoun. The 8enate adopted the bill with the Sinkler amendment lnsorted therein, Charleston's population un der the census Was given at 88,594 for the county. .*?$ ; The bill as adonted reads: "Section 1, That for the purpnRo of the apportionment of representa tives in the House of Renresentatlves I among the several counties In the States, the enumeration of tho In habitants of the several counties by the United States census of 1010 l? i hereby adopted ns a true and cor | rect enumeration. I "Paction 2. That, until tho next apportionment, the representation of tho rpvcrnl counties slnll he an fol lows: Abbeville, 3; Aiken, 3; An florin, 0; TlnnVbern. 2; Barnwell, 3; Beaufort, 2: Berkeley, 2; Calhoun, it; Charleston, 8; Cherokeer'2 : Ches ter. 2; Chonterfleld. 2; Clarendon. 3; Colleton, 2; Darllnaton, 3; Dillon, 2; Dorchester, 1; Rdsr^field, ,2 f Fair field, 2; Florence, 3; OoorgCtown, 2; Clreenville, R; Greenwood, 8; Hampton. 2; Horry. 2; Kershaw, 2: T ancapter, 2: I .aureus, 3; T,P0( 2; , DoxInKtnn. 3; iMnrlon. 2: Marlboro, 8; Newberry, 3; Oconoe. 2; Ofan7a sbufff. 6; Plnkens, 2; Richland, : | Saluda, 2; Spartanburg, 7; Sumter. 8; tJnlon, 2; Williamsburg, 3, and York, 4. "flection 3. That this apportion ment shall not take effect until tho ftext succeeding general election." The following counties gain one representative each: AhdetHon, Greenvliie, Dillon, Orangeburg, Rich land and Snar.tanburg. The following lose one each: Aik en, Berkeley, We* u fort, Chester, Fnlr j field and Colleton. \Vhen the hill went back to the House Friday nl*ht a big fight was j precipitated on the change. * I House Concurs. | After some discussion the Honse [concurred In the 8enate amendment ? by the following vote: I Hi In Senate amende 'mfntj Messrs. Ashlsy, Belser, Be4 then, Bookejf, Bowors, Bowmanj Boyd,'- Oonnoir, Courtenav, Drum mthfirf, .llsrie, Edwards, FJ. C. . *nd I??ac, Wvsrtl, Fults, Glbert, Haifi son, Hopkins. Horlbeek, Hunter, Hut to, James, Klbler, Kirkinnd, Dengue, Dee, T. eland. itta^ill, Miller, Motte. Mowsr, H. A. Odom, Riley, R. L, Rhuler, C. D. Smith, Todd, Vander Horst. Vincent. Wlngard, Wyche and Tourrtsns. Total, 41. Against concurrence In Senate iT'Sf*' v ' ? ;; ? V MAY RUSH TO WAR PSrr V I t M RELATIONS TO RUSSIA AM) CHINA ARB STRAINRD. RuwIni Troop* Ar? to be piapttcM to the Chinese Frontier to Scare Them. ? A dispatch from London mjn the relations of Russia . and China are strained to the breaking point. Rus sla Thursday notified the corem* ments of Great Britain, FrAnce and Germany of. her intention to a(jike'ii military demonstration on the Ruft so-Chinese frontier owing to* China** persistent violation of the 8t. Peters burg treaty of 1881. Russian troops will be sent forth with to the district of III. The ex tent 9f the demonstration. It Is said, added In the diplomatic note will de pend entirely upon the attitude as sumed by China. ; ' i - rV The vital questions Involved are free trade in Mongolia, , the extra territorial rights of Russians in Chi na and the establishment of a Rus sian coneultate at Koabdo, Mon golia. There havo been rumors recently of an Intention by Russia to bring pressure to bear upon| China be cause of alleged violations of the Russo-Chinese treaty. Thrft the sit uation was acute, however, has been denied both by the .Chinese foreign hoard and the Russian legation at Peking. It has been admitted that there were differences In the interpreta tions of the international agreement made at 8t. Petersburg and Peking. The treaty adopted in 1881 expires this month and it has been reported that China was unwilling to renew it, at least not until certain modifi cations have been made. The changes have been closely guarded by both powers and what stage the negotiations have reached was not Indicated until yesterday, when the 8t. Petersburg Gazette an nounced that an important confer ence had been held at the war min istry to tsonBlder "China's persistent flouting of treaty stipulations." , | The province of 111, ty which Rufr* slan troops will be sent, lies in the northern part of the Chinese empire. By a provision ot the Russo-Ohlnes^ trealy of 1881 'the western portion of 111 Is. incorporated with Ruagted order, tp apjvd Ushment for tlw i;" ' . ...... . - T ? Li f 1 DETAILS OF BASLBY KILLING. ? ? /????;! Oltn Fletcher* , Slayer , of -Bwr?U ? W ' m Xwira Goodson, in Jail. Tuesday night, at the Easlejr jCot ton Mill, in the town of Baalqy, OUn Fletcher killed Hait^U Goodson. From what oan be learned It seoms that several boys were sitting on the church steps at the mill, about ft o'clock. Olln Fletcher walked Up lo the boys and asked Luther Noxrls for a clgarertte. Norrls give it to him. None of the boys had a match. Olln Fletcher, seeing Ben Harris coming down the street, aBked Harris for a match. Harris pulled a pistol out of his pocket and said: "This is the kind of match I will give yoii." Har ris put the pistol back In hif pocket. Fletcher then pulled the pistol otit of Harris's pocket and began to sling it around. It was discharged and the bullet Btrurk Harrall Goodson and he was killed almost instantly. They were young men about 20 yearB of at;e and unmarried. Fletcher was caught about four nilles from the scene of the killing and is now In Jail.; The ooroner hold an inquest, and It is said a motive for the killing was brought out. IIVHGLARH TORTUIUC VICTIM. ? * A Sin no Ills Hair and Dlintercd His Face to Get Money* Torture by Are was resorted to bf two burglars who broke Into the J rooms of .Toneph Wlshnock, a cobbler In Williamsburg, N. Y., Wednesday In their determination to make him reveal the hiding place of hla pitiful small hoard of savlnga. It ,wat hOt ti n 1 11 the men had burned ofi Wlah nock'n board and hair and 'had blist ered his face an'd neck that he told that hlR Bmall store of |12 was hid den In the mattroBs on which his tor turers had him pinned down. At the hospital where the cobbler had his pnlnful but not fatal hurha dressed ho Identified two young men whom the police arrested an the pair who had tortured and robbed iffm. ' + + Quit* the ltaco. John Keith, a white farmer living four miles west of Marlon,, com mitted suicide Wednesday afternoon by shooting hlmsolf through th.'j hand with a plfltol. Mr, Keith was about 4 0 years of age and no Cause CUP be assigned for his rash deed, as both his health and finances were In good shape. HA Is aurvlted by threo Bisters and one brother. Indian Cotton Crop. A Calcutta dispatch nay* the rtnal forecast of the Indian cotton crop for 1910-11 places the yield at seven per cent below that of tua preceding yonr. . . * ai'Mi in 1 'jfMh* > niMondi.ietft: Speaker f'.tnlth, Arnold, tta^guAVf. Price, nutlft; Car J, Ohan<tl?r, Daniel,. Davis, Dixon, Du Poia, (Inaque, Graham, HaWlllton, Hants, Hill, Ifby, Jones, Kellahan, Katchin, McKeown, McQueeh, Wfan ual, Mattes, Mitchum, Nunnery, Paulllng, Peoples, Polk/ Rem hart, Banders, Scott, C. T. Shuler, 1). L. Smith, Tlaon, Turnbutl, Watson, Willi*? S&. ?By this vote Charleston retains her eight member* and Colleton loaaa one of her thraa. * ( " \ , f -1? >!. . ?? -j, ' , V; ? '? ' ' . . . .. MffflMr* ants tffl federal* near Mf ' They 7 Crus. ra and Mm men wm blind, a were w) the Insqi with th^ backs ly ! was elai sabre, j R^eri lea, phtij signed ^ cldenl. ' be sent 1 A dra discovery A govei found 1] ID BY REGULARS SOLDIERS ^GUILTY OV PAIi MUHDKH, He ha< When tl several the plaj by klllli the crowi of one Like into tH6 dler ln( against by the men di they woi to atop. lip Wore Shot WwM to K^ll 8ol Wotraded. snt fight v near Mulata, federals and the lu nger General Ortega, lu former were forced to re flated Press correspon lth the lnsurrectos. Tht, ie four old non-com bat deaths are laid to the ?e found in a farm house Euccvi*> de La Cruc. nel.Vo, Decederlo Garrasco; Carrasco. One of the ) years old, another wns another a cripple. All haired.- Next morning ictos found these old men hands tied behind tholv riddled with bullets. One sd across the face by. a Americans viewed tlie bod were taken and several ^affidavit describing the ln sworn statement will ? Washington. * fatlc Incident followed the the four murdered men. ant soldier had been wounded In the field, m cared for and fed. ^murdered men were found lurrectoe made a rush for ^ln Mulata to get revenge 'this wounded soldier. In waa a son and a nephew the aged martyrs. izy men they ran yelling and dragged the sol |the street. Many argued j(m. but others maddened Sht of the butchered old Uhelr pistols and declared kill any men that tried m. At that moment Or iBurrecto commander, rode called a halt. |dr?n,M he said, "I have i laid In rulna and a wife driven nak?4 and starv > hills, *i<L;Tvam not ?<t from. tieseyon or only one, the Bon, .the soldier's JlstpJ. *.\,tt 5 wounded soldier, was picked II jaf hla praisee in terror, .yjo'clo a shanty. t^>o days' battle the feder al* to twenty men and the lost one m&h killed wdunded. Tho dead man, anchet, was shot While bat In the door of a house with tfce; Scotchman, P. S. McCombs, to get at a squad of soldiers. 1 * ill PARDON *IILL STILL GRINDING. Governo#. please Pardons Two Life ?; * . Term Prisoners. Two prisoners serving life sen tencea at the 8tate penitentiary were | pardoned Thursday by Governor I BlteaseJ?^ A pardon was granted to Duncan O. Grant, a white man, formerly of the State of Florida, who was con victed Injl^Oft on the charge of kill ing Wajk?P' Swett, In Marlboro county. Th^re were several petitions presented t? Governor Ansel for the pardon of ( Grant. Governor Ansel refused uir petitions, and Governor Diegae act li) r on the old petltlons(and letters granted a pardon. Mary F/tlr, a Laurens county ne gress, waa plven her freedom by Gov ernor Bleale. She was convicted In 1897 on -the charge of killing Hen rietta Stfllltan, and upon recommen dation of the mercy of the Court, was sentenced to life Imprisonment. 8ho waa refused a pardon by Gov ernor Ansel. ? . , l>eath Boparntos Thein. At Florence, Colo., Mrs. Francis Haper, 108' years of n?e, said to be the oldest woman in Colorado, died In the firm ft of her 111-year-old hut hand Thursday night from burns re calved whan her clothlns? caught flr? frorii an open grate.' 'Mr. and Mrs. Ksper has been married 91 years. ? Throe Trains Orawh. Ten persons ware killed In a wreck caused by e double collision near Paris, France, Wednesdij night on the western section of the 8tato railroad when expresses for Par|s and Bresl ^dashed simultaneously Into, a freight train which was i>elii<i sldetraoked. The wreckage lutni?-d lately caught flre. * < fttorirV In New York Oncf^'doWth and fifteen lnjurlon from the ffhow and sleet storm which has been raging over New York for the past twenty-four hours, A your?* woman, crossing Fifth avenue, In the blinding storm, was killed by an au tomobile. The list of Injured showed eight broken arms and three broken tifeHk ' ':*H * ?'** Finds a Mate. ? 4 Oscar Krfeus, of Pomona, Kan., the "Kansas giant," has deoldsd that he does not wattl*4 Job on any police force, As was tils fcmhltlon. ft r mis, who Is siren fest, four Inches ? nil. has found A mate, a youhg lady ol, Lonjtoti, Kan., who Is six feet, flvf inched 'tall herself. . r; ' i 1 1 1 <<i*? 4 ^ m ??i?n n, \ fcraldfil to Dwiih. > AVter striking a fellow workman on t!be head with a shovel, Job?v Ooteh\of Sharon, Pa., leaped In'.o a cinder tolt filled with boiling water and wait scalded to death. The man ha assaulted will recover. U u HITS THEM HARD A Republican Seoator Talks Out Plainly on Ike Race Question THE NORTH HYPOCRITE In Opposing Amendment to RohoIu tion for Direct Election of United Stated Senators, Borah Maintain.'* Treatment Accorded Negro in North No Better Than in South. That prejudice asaiast the negro is Just as intense in the North as in the South and that the North plays the hypocrite in its contentions to the contrary, was boldly and bluntly asserted in the Senate Thursday by h Republican Senator. Senator Borah, of Idaho, was the speaker. Mis declarations rigardin;; the negro v>ero made at the close of a prolonged speech, in opposition to the Sutherland amendment to the Senate resolution providing for the election of Senators by popular vote. The amendment world ha%e t :u> ef fect of giving Congress control of Senatorial elections. ^lr. Borah's pronouncement on the race question was made in re sponse to tho recent assertion of Senator Root, that without the Suth erland provision the resolution would deprive the Southern negroes of Fed eral protection in the exercise of the franchise. Mr. Borah dissented from thr New Yorker's view.' and in doing so used language which eltc ltod congratulations from many Sen ators. Mr. Bnrih contended tint as th?? evolution stands, nri *v*lthBt.?ndHV?; u gives State legislature^ control of Senatorial elections. Congresb would 8 1 1 1 1 have tho right to interfere" in protecting any citizen whose right of franchise had been interferred with. The Idaho Senator expressed deep re gret that thorrace question had been brought Into the controversy and as serted that Its Introduction was In tended only to Imperil the resolution. "I wonder how long the North is going to play the hypocrite and tho moral cow-ard on this question?" said Mr. Borah, and added that that section always had assumed moro wisdom and more tolerimce In d?ai 1n? with this problem thrm had been dlsplEyedt sl&ewhere. He Insisted f Wtt ; ?v^ii ot Nod h apreclablfc number of negroes, would demonstrate that the North had not dealt more leniently vlth the negro than had other sectlouB. . "The Northern States have exhlD Ited the some race prejudice that has been shown elsewhere,'' ho as serted. "In the North we burn the negro at the stake and there, as in other sections, we have our race wars. We push our negroes to the outer edge of the industrial world. Wo exhibit the same prejudices, the came weaknesses, the same Intoler ance that is apparent in tho South land. '? Mr. Borah declared that If Con gress had power under tne existing provisions of the Constitutor, giving Congressional control over Senator ial elections, It should be exercised. "If that right exists, the North na-j the greater obligation under it, be cause it makes claim to it. Wo assert the power, but we ldmit that we haven't had the moral courage to exercise it." For himself, ho denied the exist ence of any such power, and said that he resented such n (osltion be cause of the position in which Con gress waa placed by It. Concluding he Bald: "lne ne^ro haa been used na a political football about as long as our own Bense of decency and his developing Intelligence will permit. We should no longer mistreat hlni, but we should have the courage to Inform him as to tho real situation. Tt doe* not benefit him to make hint the subject of onr sophomorlc rhet oric. The negro hns advanced to tno point where we well may dispense with the perennial distribution of soothing syrup and t?lve him solid food In the wr'y of farts. We should tell him tho truth and conceal noth ing, "The negro Is beginning to realize that, tho white man of the North i* of the stime race ns tho white man of tho South, and that In his hloo.-l la the virus of dominion nnd power. He should know, whllo his slive chains have been broken, tho chainn of Industry are bolng forced around him and will eontlnue to hold him nnleps he himself breaks them. This badge was placed upon him by hla maker, and It. o?n be removed only by the no?ro himself, with the aid of those who have tho cournge to tell him tho truth, whleh Is that we have the power to guirantoe to him the equal protection of tho law and to protect, him .against discrimina tion. To attempt, anything more would he ruinous to the colored man end demoralizing to the whole polit ical body. Tie must work out Ihe problem under the Count It utlon. "When th? exigencies of debate nre ovor It will bri found that no monsuros will he offered in this Hen ate to protect any supposed rtsht of the colored man apy where, if thono who are Interested will turn to the Constitution, they will find there the on? Ufllvorrftl r)lle of equality, the Only rule to b? Applied to the ne *ro. and th? only rule under which w? can legislate. If applied. It will b? proven to bo the cor reef Ion rule, Jth? rut? for all of nil." IIjO *t Ills Hand. At Oreenvjlle J. F. low?, machin ist at th? South Carolina Cotton Oil Company's plant, lost h's right hand Wednesday (n the llnter machine. Ho was engaged In making some minor repairs when his hand got ; caught. KILLED BY FATHER M I'RDERER UNMOVED BY THE VICTIM'S PLEADING WIFE. The Young Man Drives Wnjton on Yard Against Father's Orders and 1m ShiJyWown. With the wife of his victim cling ' n k 4t> him and entreating him not to shoot, and her four children standing by, awe-stricken witnesses. William Martin Lanford. a 64-yeai old Confederate veteran, early Wed nesday morning put a bullet into the heart of his son, William David Lanford, 35 years old, killing him almost instantly. The son and his family lived with 'he old man on a plantation on the Enoree river, three miles from Woodruff: Hecause of constant bickerings the son had decided to move. When he came with a wagon ^o take av.av h's household goods ?he father bade him not drive upon the yard under pain of death. The young man ignored the command, and was shot through t ho heart. After the killing, the old man mounted a mule and, with head eroct, glancing neither to the ri?hi or left, paying no heed to the curi ous persons who followed him, rode to Woodruff, calmly announced that he had killed his son and said he was going to Spartanburg to sur render to ther sheriff. The train had gone and Lanford accordlnily went to Foster & Dry son's store and requested Bert Weathers, a clerk, to telephone the Fherlff, W. J. White., to come for him. This was done and Lanford wns committed to jail late in the 'f'ernoon. ? in J.;il bo complained of begin iP and Dr. Wllllany G. Sexton was called and prescribed. It is reported that Lanford is suffering from pel lagra but the report lacks confirma tion. The old man said at the jail that during the last six months he has had 15 physicians treat him for intestinal trouble and none had been able to do anything for him. Dr. Sexton said that owing to the darkness of Lanford's cell he had not noticed any skin eruptions, if there were any, but he would make more careful examination next day. Coroner .T. 11. Turner had the In Muest in the afternoon. Thore whs dimpulty In obtaining a Jury because, of-rta.50 or CO persons call?|^^nri 'v all were rfeVated toth/J^^^WoTnR? ^rhpf jury tfirtxVFy eSotifW^tJTijid ^ tH At ' W. D. Lanford had come to his death by a guhshot woun.d at the hands of W. M. Lrnford. The testimony given was in effect the same as the story given above. Thero was evidence thai Lanford had consented to his son moving and did not object to his taking away the furniture but ordered him not to drive the wagon on yard. FOUND HIM A WIFE. Wfote Ills Nniiio on nn Kj?h and Cupid Did the Rest. Because an egg on which he hart written his name while parking a crnte for Bhipmont East r^n-hert itf destination in a fresh condition, E;l warrl Taylor of Alexandria, R. Dak., a grocer's clerk, and Miss Margaret Hravner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were mr vrled last week. Miss Oravner when opening the eg;r noted the nune and address on ?he shell, and being struck hv the freshness of the morsel of fo^d and the oddness of the affair, wrote to the yoning man, more is a Joke than anything felse. T,ater -photographs were exchanged, then more notes, and Anally Taylor Journeyed down Fast to see in real life the object of his peculiar romance. Thlnrrs were better In real life than on paper, and after a phort courtship ho returned to Alexandria and the grocery store. Tie did not write on any more ef?*s ? he didn't have to--he was ens:a7ed and lv 'overt the girl and the irlrl loved him. The girl was the Brooklyn lass who wrote the joke note because she founrt a boyish name InsfMbert on the shell of a fresh erg. Two weeks atro Taylor returned to Brooklyn and last week married Miss Oraynor. HIH TilFK CKI'SURI) Ol'T, ?f. Kdgnr Rlmnvite Dies ?f Horrible Injuries at Pol/.or. Mr. J. Edgar Shumate, night" sup erintendent of the Moneynick Oil Mill, nt Pelzer, wan horribly crushed in the fly wheel rf the mill nt 1 o'clock Wednesday morning, and at 9:30 o'clock Thursday he succumbed to the Injuries. Fire was discovered In the en7lne room and young Shu mate went, down In the fly wheel pit to throw tho largo driving bett off the wheel, to save It from the flames. He stopped on the fly wheel, when tho machinery was unexpectedly started, and bo was caught In thr wheel and crushed. Shumate was removed immediately to bis room at the F'ndgot Hotel and medical aid was summoned from Anderson. Kills Wife nml Self. At Alexandria, La, James Mob lev, aged 3 0, Wednesday shot, a.id killed his wife and then sent a bul lot through his temple, killing him self Instantly. Domestic Infelicity Is glvon as the cause. Mr. and Mrs Mohley wore locked In a room wli"n tho tragedy occurred. Wcarjr of l.lfe. At Oolnmhus. Oa.. .T. W. Weaver, a??ed r.4 years, committed suicide by eV-ootln? blmpolf in the temple with n pistol. He was discovered by his daughter lying In a pool of blood nt tho family residence on East High land street.. Til health Is said to have been the cause of the deed. j CAN'T SEE JOKE l I ? ? ? I Champ Clark Stirred Up Msst Uoap'ct ed Trouble. - BY JOCULAR REMARK j The President Also Taken tho Mntter Seriously am' Tlilnks It Xvoewutry 1 to Issuu Denlnl of the Ke|M?rtr<l Oi'tnpus Designs of the I'niteU States anil r?nn<lu, The setn4-Jocular remarks which Champ Clark, the Democratic speik er-to-be, made In the house durm; the debate on, the C?nadii?ti reci procity to tho effect that he believed the Strra and Stripes would one dny float over the entire Western h? :nl Bphere. stirred up most unexpected trorblc on Wed nesd w. President* Tuft t<>ok o- "i^ion m I write to Represent'!!' vi McC.i'l. in troducer of tke reciprocity bill, a letter disclaiming and deprecating ' the annexation talk, and to follow it | up with personal remarks, even | more emphatic 'o bin \ i-.|r?*?-? Tl'e leit'-r (>f Presld'-nt Tuft to Mr. Mc | Call Fays in part : "This agreement, if U becomes a law, has no political significance. No thought of future political annexa- - tlon or union was in the mind of the negotiators on either side, Canada Is now and will remain a political unit." The president has made it known that he would like to have It under stood throughout the world that his admmi8tratlon had no thought (what ever of annexation when thtf resl j prcelty a^reem^nt wnn a^r^nrred. The nt?ws that Mr. Clark's nllu [ slons had created excitement In Can ada and in England occasioned great surprise and considerable amusement at the capitol.. The man most surprised of all was Mr. Clark | himself. I Ho declared Wednesday that he I expressed his own Individual opinion j and declared that he stands pat on hl8 speech. Mr. Clark's entire speech on reciprocity was delivered In & half-humorous, half-taunting vein. The JriusoVwas in a gale of laughter mopt of th$ time. /in returp for the laughs he was treating at\ their expense, some of the Republicans tried to turn tho -IjiMqh on Mr. Clark by chldlpg hint President Taft an opponent tor tho Democratic nomination. This humorouB exchange reflected the spirit of the debate during the entire time. Mr. Clark was on his feet, and no one gave serious con sideration to his remarks regard ing the possible annexation of Can ada at some distant time. There was a further touch of ficetlotiBness to the debate when one of the Republicans asked Mr. Clark if he would like to be tho flrFt president of the magnifleetvt rni^ji be was creating and he re i plied, amid burstB of laughter, that he fprtalnly would. Friends of the reciprocity meas ure were inclined to take the view that opponents of the agreement hid simply seized on what wns regarded I here as an entirely personal and harmless statement to make rap! t a 1 against the ratification of the agree | nient. Ottawa In Annoyed. A (Hspntch from Ottawa, Ontario, says there wan considerable interest and some Irritation thore Wednes day over Champ Clark's speech. In which ho said that the reciprorhy agreement was the first step towaru annexation. At the opening of session of tho house, Col. Sam TIughoB read a newspaper abstract of the sp?'?M'h and arked If it was a fair statement of the American attitude and If so In quired If the Canadian government leaders were prepared to withdraw from the reciprocity agreement. fir Wilfred LaurWs rooly was noncommHnl. He said that the gov ernment had no Information on I lie subject; that the Canadian govorn m^nt had announced Its policy and world not change it until It had morn information. Victim of llot Supper. At n negro danre a few nights ago, near Tirzah, Will Burnett, a nevro, was shot and killed by Rim Keweli, also a negro. Trouble aro-ise about a woman, and Harnett and Coo. Webb wero fighting when Fewel 1 fired the fatal shot. Webb went, to Yorkvllle and told tho officers that "There was a dead nigger out. there." They went to the plao.o and found him. we ran legislate. If applied, it will be proven to be the correction rule, tho rule for all of us." Fiitnl Practical Joke. At Decatur, Ala., aa the result of a practical joke, Woody Klrby, an employee of the Louisville and Nash ville shops loaf his life. Klrby and a man named I'lgg were engaged In a friendly sen file when the latter turned an air-hose on Klrliy, almost blowing his vitals out. Physician Arretted. Or DoFoIx Wilson, a prominent phvslclan of Spartanburg, has been arrested on tho charge of falling to report a contagious disease. The case !n qticRtlon was one of smollpox, and it Is stated that two other cases have resulted from coming In contact with this dlno>)se. ? Fatally Wounded. Upon ontorlng a room In flreenvlllo Wednesday to arrest O. W. Stonocy phar, who had hoen raising a disturb ance In a drunken sproo, Thomas J Hureton, familiarly known as "Un cle Tommy," ft 70-year-old policeman and the oldest man In point of fter vlce on tho Oroonvlllo police force, was shot In the head by Stonec.ypher and fatally wounded.