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b v VOLUME XVII. CAMDEN, S. C.. FRIDAY. AlMil'ST 24, !!)()<;. ><>, 33' Ill Governor hey ward's Fruitless Effort to Stop Lynching ? ???, .. . * NEGRO RAPIST SHOT TO PIECES In Broad Daylight and Almost Within Sight of the Chief Executive of South Carolina, Bob Davis, Who Assaulted and Nearly Killed Green wood Girl is Literally Riddled With Bullets. Columbia, S. (J., Special.?Within the shadow of the home of bis victim, Miss Jennie Brooks, after having been identified by her, and after Governor D. HeywHiti, who went to the scene of tlie trouble had addressed the mob in vain, Hob Davis, the negro who on Monday murderously attacked Miss Brooks with intent to commit assault and who afterwards outraged a negro girl 14 years old, was lynched alwut 7.30 o'clock Friday evening. Governor Hey ward reached the scene shortly : fter the negro had been captured, A platform was erect ed in a fence corner o.i the premises of the victim's father from which Governor Heyward addi ?ssed the mob in an effort to prevent the lynching. /The Governor beseeehed the mob not to lynch Davis, but in vain. At the conclusion of his speech the Governor was vociferously eheerefl. The uiob then removed the prisoner from the view of the Governor and within a short distance of the home of his vic tim the negro was riddled with bul lets. Jt is impossible to estimate the crowd, as the citizens from several counties had gthered at the scene and for two days had been in pursuit of the (lend, hut it is certain that hun dreds of bullets were sent through his body. , *'' The militia in that section of the State is now encamped at Cbicka mauga and there were 110 near-by troops to be called upoin < The Gov ernor's Guards and the mcliland Vol unteers of this city had been ordered to hold themselves in readiness in the event their services were needed, but the mob was determined and it is doubtful if the presence of soldiers could have prevented the lynching. Mob Furnished Platform. The mob erected a platform near ,the home of Miss Hrooks for the Gov ernor to address them, lie pleaded with the mob not to stain tile fair name of Greenwood county and the State of South Carolina. IIis words were cheered lustily arid When he had finished the mob took their pris oner a few hundred yards away and shot him to death. Governor Hcy ward viewed the horrible spectacle from a distance. Tim negro was captured in a creek, tied hand and foot and brought to the home of his victim for identifi cation. When they arrived at the gate of the BrookvS home a great crowd gathered there. "Lets wash his face. . boys, before wc tako him to the house," said some one, but the crowd was too impatient. Four men were delegated to escort him to the house. The young lady was lying on her bed with a deep gash in her throat, turned ' her eyes toward the negro as he stood there between his captors, his hands tightly bound with a rope, his jet black face all in a blaze, his blent; eyes rolling from right to left,.. "That's the scroundrcl," she said. "I know him by his eyeu." Governor's Appeal. The negro was removed outside the house, where the platform had been erected for the Governor. "Hear the Governor," said some one, and he be gan in his clear voice a most impas sioned appeal. "I know," he said "that nothing could lake place that could keep you from hearing ? the Governor of South Carolina." The crowd cheered lustily and clapped their hands in admiration. "I come here alone," he continued, "not bringing any troops; only two news paper men came with me, and they as well as I are South Carolinians,, just as you are, with like feelings. You are my friends. Here I am not alone as your GoVcjnor, but as your friend. "But it is my duty to enforce the '?n. laws of South Carolina. Don't cheer, / men, this is a solemn occasion and 1 _ am very much in earnest, and beside# I understand it excites tiie ladies and this is a consideration that appeals to, all South Caroliniaiffr.^(The residence was but forty feet awaj^ l come to appeal to your manhood. VThe question is, Shall tho people be Al lowed to be ruled by their passion^ and prejudices or snail the supremacy and the majesty of the law be upheld? I promise you on my honor that as speedy trial as the law allows shall be held. I would not object to cutting the rope to hang that scoundrcd pro vided the law saya so." A Picturesque Sight. It was one of the most pictures qtte sights ever witnessed either in this State or any other. Jnst a few yards away stood the helpless prisoner, who looked dazed, and men stood eloe* about him with rifles and shotguns in their hands. t. * "J am here alone/' went on the ; Owiiow/'^t I iipwml the majes ty of the law, I mpresent the 8tat* " S Bli Cerelii^ >? ?t?te wl implore you m God's name, don't put another slain 11|x>li our lair State. I plead with you to let the law take it? course. V<nt have an oppornnity here u splendid opportunity to let it he said that South Carohna leads in this mutter, Lot us reason together. 1 fel just as you do, I have lived in the country ami realize the dangers to which our women are constantly exposed, but there is something high er than the wreaking of vengeance on that black devil and fiend of hell. Von won't enjoy ii tomorrow wken you look back upon it all." PALMETTO CROP BULLETIN Condition. of South Carolina Crops For Week Ending Monday, Aug. 20 1906, as Given Out by tha De partment. The sunshine was much below nor mal, there having been one clear day in the interior; on the coast from two to six days were clear. The temperatures averaged slightly above normal and was remarkably equable, with unusually small differ ences ** the daily temperatures from the mountains to the coast. The high est maximum temperature was 5)7 de grees at Blackville ou the 13th. There was very little variation in the night temperatures throu.uhtout the week; the extreme minimum was (if> decrees at Greenville on the l'ith. The precipitation was copious oyer the greater portion of the State, but was much below normal in a few lo calities, most of which were in the eastern counties. The greatest local amount was .'{..'{(J inches at Catawba. Nearly all the north central counties had excessive amounts on one or more days that caused lloods on the smaller streams. Many thunderstorms occur red in the western half of the State an*l some of them were accompanied by high winds. Narrow Escape From Death. ^ A special from Spartanburg savs: "T. C. Williams, Jr., William H. Lyles, of Columbia ;fnd ;^Ir. Tuton of Greenville, while touring the moun tains in an automobile, had a narrow escape from death a few days ago, when their large machine tumbled over a 15-foot ledge. The fact that the machine lauded right side up ac counts for the minor injuries and bruises which the occupants sustain ed instead of perhaps fatal injuries. The machine wn*a complete wreck. Survey of Heyward County. Aiken, Special.?The commissioners appointed in the new county matter met here. Messrs.. L. \V. Keeso, H. A. Cochran and T. G. Croft, Jr., being present. Owing to sickness, Mr. II. M. Cassejjs whs uoahle to attend 'the meeting. The survey lias been com pleted and blue prints of the snrvev were handed to the commissioners. Mr. George T. Jackson appeared in behalf of the promoters of the new county and requested that the com mission grant permission to change the boundaries set forth in their pe tition to the governor. Sold Whiskey at uhurch. Anderson, Special.? There are no developments in the nesrro shooting affray that occurred at Shiloh church in whiebNseven negroes were shot. The deputies went to the scene with instructions to arrest any of the par ticipants in the shooting. hut none pnt in appearence. The deputies rOr turned and state that they have gath ered additional evidence and the names of several more negroes who took part in the shooting and they will make arrests later on. One no j>ro was caught selling liquor at the church and Magistrate Jackson gave him MO d.t, ? or $100 and the negro is on the gang. The wounded negroes are still, living, hut two or three of them are in a serious oondition. Good Work For Sumter Firm. Sumter, Special.?The Sumter Hail way and Mill Supply Conmany* has tecured contracts for furnishing to the Cirted States government a con jide*nl.!e amount of supplies to be ue#d in constructing the navy yard and dry iloek at Charleston, and has been asked to make bids on supplies for government -work at Savannah Columbia and Pcnsacola. This whole sale firm, which deals largely in all kinds of piping, mill' supplies, and general hardware, has recently moved -jiilu its new stone warehouse on llarvin -street. It is eratifyinty to Sumter people to know that a Sum ter firm is extending its trade terri tory to different Southern States. Stricken By Paralysis. Greenville, S.tC., Special.?Col. M. P. Trihble, ono of the candidates for / , Sccrctary of State, lias been in ill invnlth for the past three months and was not able to join the campaign party until it reached his borne at Ahdei^pn. He i*?s really not strong enough to take the road at all. While ir a carriage on his way back from fWMW to Kaalay be bad a stroke of le?YM* iJnw*t helpless. , ? ?, ? - ii m Assailant of Little Girl is Shot to Pieces CONFESSED Tht AWFUL CRIME ? perpetrator of Brutal Attempt to As sault 7-Yoar-Old Daughter of Sa Juda County Farmer is Captured by Victim's Father, Who Was Tak ing Him to Scene of Crime to Shoot Him When Met by Mob?Placed on Dry Goods Box, and After Admit ting His Guilt, Riddled With Bul loets?Littlo Girl May Survive. Columbia, S. ('. KjX'cial. - Hob Kth cridge was shot to death by a nine miles from Summcrland, Monda\ night. It was the intention of the lather of the child upon whom he made a brutal attempt to assault on Thurs day last to take him to the seems of his crime and there shoot liim lw death but he was overtaken by the mob. Kt bridge was placed upon a dry goods box and asked it' he had anything to say. lie refused to talk further tabu to suy that he was guilty. The mob then proeeded to riddle him with bullets. The mob numbered MI men. Ktbridge, on Thursday last, at tempted to criminally assault the 7 year-old daughter of T. 11. West, a well-to-do farmer of the Mount Wil ling seetion of Suluda. Dead Body in Marl Hole. (loldsboro, N. Special.-?The peo ple in the seetion around Fremont, !? miles north of here, are wild with ex eitment over the finding of the dead body of a young lady in a marl hole early Monday morning. The whole country for miles around suspended work and gathered around the spot where the coroner held the inquest. The particulars could not be obtained from parties who are here at tending court from that seetion. because they left home before the body of the young lady was found and before the news of the tragedy had become known. II is thought, however, thai the young lady was assaulted, murder ed and her body thrown into the hole to hide the crime. No clue has been found so far to the guilty party. Many officials Murdered. St. Petersburg; By Cable.?Last week's statistics show that 58 officials were murdered ami 43 wounded in Russia proper, 50 bomb depots were discovered, six safes were rilled of money and (>.'? persons robbed. These official figures do not take into ac count the pillaging in the country, nor do they give the number of mili tary executions or arrests of agitators nutl revolutionists and there are no figures showing the number of per sons sent into exile. The St. Peters burg Gazette says 2,300 persons were banished Sunday from St. Petersburg alone and that 7500 were placed on ttfrius bound for the interior. G. A. R. on the Increase. Minneapolis, Minn., Special.?The total membership of the ({rand Army is declared in the report of Adjutant General Tweedale to be 2155,823, an increase of 3,1*08 during tho last six months. j,osses by death for the veer ended Dee. 31 last were 0,205. First North Carolina Bale New Cotton Morven.N.C., Special?The first hale new co!lon raised in the State was marketed in Morven Friday. It was grown by Mr. P. K. Hat lift, a pro gressive farmer of Anson county, and was purchased bv T. V. llardison, a well-known merchant and cotton buy er of M irven. Thejhale weighed 455 pounds and br??;?g M 13 cents a itound. Hundred Thousand Homeless. London. Hv Cable.? In a dispatch from Valopraiso without date, the correspondent of tlie Daily Mail suys: "Sixty jier cent of this city has been completely destroyed. The death roll is very heavy. There was eighty-two shocks during Thursday night and there have been 300 since then. The tremors still continue. One hundred thousand people are home less and destitute. Water is giving out'. Surrounding towns have been destroyed and the railroads have been cut." -h Rioters Captured. Middletown, N. V., Spceial?After an exciting night. th? mob of negro tunnel Employes who hjwl taken po* session of the village of Otisville, eight miles from here, rounded up at thir camp near the village by a posse of twenty-five deputy sher iffs, fcworn in for "the occasion. Five negntes had been ahot,'one seriously. No whites were injured. Physician* were wumnioned from this city to euro for the injured. Trit INQUESI HELD Grewbome Aftermath of the Dramatic Scene in Greenwood County Thiun day Evening. ( i ? CCIIVVOod, Spccla!. I Ii?? |;jt act mi the terrible tragedy ..i the week Hi (J rceu vi ood ?'ouii(a\, brgiuuiugg wuli the liendi>h jiii:.i-li i>.i Mi'> J fit mi* Hrooks li_\ llu1 i?ii?> Hob I'avis, who calne |o his death al llu* 11a 1 ul ??1 infuratcd citizens, wav enacted, when llu' law, in |hi* |K'l'siin ut (\u miri \\, s. Shadrach w as allowed an inning and solmuly sat upon tin* case. The Law. I'he inquisition is iu dm* an?i auc ienl form and runs as follows: State of South Carolina* County of 4 ? reetnvood. An nii|iiisit ion indented, taken at Pet- Hrookss' in (irccuwood couniv, the 17th day oj' Aui'._M, A I)., pinti, hi-fori* W. S. Sh ad I llrll. colonel ,'ut said I'onnty, upoft view of the ln?dy thou and there dead hy the oaths of ( blank shape here, a- u<? (?->ii mony was taken whatever). Iiein? a lawful jury of inquest, who being charged an sworn to inquire for the State of South Carolina where aiiil liv what means the saiil Mob Davis came to his death, upon their oath to say: We the undersigned jurois do sa\ that Hoh Davis eaine to his death by gunshot wounds in the hand- ol un known parties. And we. the jurors aforesaid, upon tl^dr oath afoiv.-aid, say that Hoh Davis 7u manner and form aforesaid eauie to his death. In witness whereof, I. \Y. S. Shadrach, eoroner aforesaid and ilie jurors aloresaid to iliis impiisition have in terchangeably put our hands and seals, the day. and yeai a'.iiur nieu t ioned. W. S. Shadraeh (I.. S.) T. I*. I'urdy, foreman (I,. S.) ; M. N. Hanks, .1. K. Devore. \V. T Kd wards. K. L. Kooshee. J. M. Wlkanl, ?lr? d. Ij. MeKellar, T. D. Jones, .1, K. Ligon. ,). H. Ward. .1. <'. Hughes, d. T. Anderson and I). M. (Ireitory. Relics. ( rowds visited the scene of the lynching all Thursday night ami shots were tired into the mutulated body of tin' w ret elf, off and on dur ing the night and even Friday morninu until the eounty authorities took charge of what was left of the body, the remains literally, and put them in a cheap pine box. It was supposed that he would be buried in the color ed churchyard nearby, I he negroes having- a church named Mount Moriah close to the white church of the same name, but the church leaders would not allow it, so Davis was buried iu one corner of a Held on the farm of Mr. I'd. Crcswcll. not far from the place of his death. The usual ghoul i?h( souvenirs were taken: toes, ears, Ibnj-er'fcj, ete.? vveic cut off by those who r?os^tjMre,.Viiltvbid desire' to have re lni^ders^i^i; lynched persons. The Lew Again. Solicitor Cooper arrived at 2 o'clock from Laurens in response to the tele gram sent him by tiovcrenor ilev ward. The governor referred io (his telegram in his siQoud appeal to ie crowd, hut it had no effect. He fore returning to Laurens, Solicitor Coop er directed that the coroner hold his inquest at once and send him a copy of the inquisition and further that if no testimony was taken for the cor oner to reconvene his jury and take VfMIII* IikjIiiooo..' % : I I I I . /f nrrr rjr fffltrci above, no testimony was taken and so far no steps have been taken towards reconvening; the jurv. The Negroes Approve. Tho negroe^ in town ami in tho country, so forns it is possible to as certain, have acquiesced in tli<> lyneli in?r. I'roof of (his will he found in the following open l<*tt*?r Principal Turn or of tho school Itail sulunit ted it I?? different while citizens who ad vised its publication. The address is ?is follows: "We tho negroes of this connly. wish to say that we are with you and in anything sot, serious as this yon have assistance* in what you think host. We cannot afford, as a race, to uphold anything that tend* to lower our Christian or moral standing', and the <|nicker we show that we arc ready to help trace the rascal to his den the Quicker will we have the sympathy of the white man when we are intrud ed n|)on. Some misguided colored 5>ersons may say that neirmes should not have assisted the white men in their search, hut wo say to them. 'Von are simply needing common sense. If there is anything lacking on the part of the negro race it is that of self-respect and we say that if he cannot respect' himself, teach him, and do not ho particular how ami in what manner the'lesson tho race es tv.? ii.?t ..... i i KUMinil | ilV' Hull ? v ?nill'llltt in and overtake any rascal we are not in full''discharge "f our duty. The; let us as a race learn to respect out selves and thereby expect it of others "We think we voice the sentiment of every respectable negro in the country when we say that ^the conn try is rid of one of the meanest most disrospeolahle characters imag inahle and your thoughts are <\nrs. It is unreasonable to exi>ert the white men to res|>ect and protect us when we do not resect ourselves. The only tliitiff wanted was the riffht man and that is what wo had and we are satisfied. (Sijrned) "Colored Citi*ens of Greenwood **>nnty." Occurrences of Interest From All Over Soulh Carolina ?- ? ? MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS *??? - ? - ? A Batch of Live Paragraphia Cover ing a Wide Ilango?What is Going Oil in Our Stato. Columbia Cotton Market. Tlu1 cotton market was steady. I,i.iw iiiv,- ? 0 Strict low middling it 1 'J j Strict low middling 0 3-I .Middling ? 10 I-S Strict middling lit 3-N (lood middling 10 1 -'J Charlotte Cotton Market. Good middling 10 1-4 Strict middling 10 1-4 Middling 10 IS Tinges and stains 7 1-2 to i) 1-2 State News Briefs. 1'ctition lias been received from the bar of Hani well asking for a special term of civil court to last three weeks beginning in October. There are said i be a large number of cases on the ilockel. A commission was issued to the Carolina-Honduras Mining Company, which will have its principal otlicc in Charleston and do business on a cap ital of $.'>,00(1. The company will develop certain gold mining property it has acquired and Win. Sehirincr . nd \V. F. Jordan are the incorpora tors. tii-vernor llcv ward has received a letter f i ? in the special eoniijjissiuU appointed m survey the linc^ietween j Kdg? tiehl uni.,.Aikcn counties stating that he appropriation for the work I wu < t?ni small and asking to be re | licved of their duties. This will prob ably affect the efforts now being uuidt to estiiblish a new county out of the territory in (hut section, Died at Age of 103. Aiken. Special.?Mr. Mieael Ander son died at his home in (Jloversville a few days ago at the age of 103 years. It was stated in a previous re port that Mr. Cass Wcatherford, who died at the age of 07 years, was the oldest man in Aiken county; but that was a mistake. The correspondent did not know of Mr. Anderson at the time that report was written. Mr./ Anderson was veteran of three wa/s. He was married twice and was the father of 23 children, now scat tered all over the State. Mr, Ander son was an honest, sober, patriotic and indiisterious citizen, and was re spected by all who knew him. .His remains were buried in the Laugley cemetery in the presence of a large number of friends and relatives. Mr. Anderson's long life can most proba bly be attributed to the temparate Out Guard's Throat, Escape. ('harlcstou, Special.? Feigning ill ness, three negroes, Alonzo Godwin, ll.iinnioiul Wilson and George Kenny, eoi.v < ts solving long terms on the chain gang i f the sanitary and drain age commission work near Aishley Jiietimi iti thy stueko.dy ho v ing asked lor water, seized and over powered II. ('. Stello, the white guard, and eut his throat with a butcher knife. Two " trusties" at the stock ad" were locked in hv the men, who ransacked the board's rooms;donned ci\ iiinn clothes and escaped into the nearby swamps. The men contrary to rules, were not chained on the Mockade. The trusties broke'out and s, cad the alarm. A sheriff's posso is scouring the woods with bloodhounds. From Bounded Warehouses. The state hoard of dispensary direc tors adjourned after a two-days' ses sion. Mnj. .John Blaek was not able to attend the meetings on account of sickness. The hoard decided to put into sffect a resolution adopted some time ago to buy floods in bulk from bonded warehouses. The advertise ments for purchases for this char ter will contain a notice to that effect. New Rural Route. Maye.sville, Special.?The postoflice department has ordered the establish ment of a rural free delivery route out from this office, service beginning October 1. This rodtc will cover the ground now cohered by a star route except tlfat it will go further down towards Sardinia, as far as the old Cooper place. It will cause the clos ing of the Goodwill postofliee. This route was worked out by the present postmaster of Goodwill in which lie was greatly helped by our hustling congressman, Mr. A. F. Lever. The examination for carrier will be held Sept. 8. Columbia May Have European Hotel Columbia, Special.?The passage of deed'* to complete the purchase of the GYpenfleld building at the southwest Corner of Main and l*ady street?, pro bably means the construction of a large and thoroughly w>dern Ewto pean hotel building, for Colnmbi* within 12 month*. H stock company is to remodel the building into a ho tel,. It% will be Columbia '? first ho tel on the Knropean plan. KEW HAM HUD SELLS TROLLEY LIKES feaiin-- State Control Disposes uf Its Holdings. SIX HUNDRED MILES GIVEN OVER Si WM ( >-tl\C t *i*l' ('('III of flu> Si ?'<?*? ( It.'lilWjt)* Ot' ( Ollliccljlilt Itlld .Many in .Massachusetts and llhode Island Included. Boston.- Trolley lines are no long er a part of I he assets of tho New York, New Haven and Hartford Kail road. If was announced that the railroad company had disposed of its entire group of trolley line# to a vol uniai y ussoeiation. Th*? new vtdnnlary association which now owns the trolley systems is to he known, according to report, as the N<'W England Security and in vestment Company, and is composed of a number of individuals who are, without much doubt, not unfriendly to the railroad interests. It is un derstood that the sale or transfer in volves all the road's trolley holdings. This means about liOO miles of com pleted trolley lines in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hhode Island and New York State. The lines in Connecticut form the largest group, for fully seventy-live per cent, of the entire street railway system in that State belongs virtually to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, including the street lull ways of Hartford. Willi mantic, New London, New Haven, Bridgeport, Stamford and Norwich, not to mention numerous other town*. in Massachusetts the hold ings included the systems in Sfiring Qeld and Worcester, the Berkshire SB'Ot^ Hallway and tho Worcester and South Bridge Street Railway and the Worcester and I!lack Stone Street Ituilwuy. These systems were held by the Consolidated Street Railways Company, which was owned by the NewiHttven. The transaction is evidently the outcome of the agitation over the so culled merger bill in the Legislature last session. President Mellen told the legislative committee at that time that if the people of this State did not want the railroad to hold trolley lines tho railroad would bow to the popular will. The merger bill was defeated and Immediately afterward Attorney General Malone Bent a draft of a bill to tho Legislature which he said would operate to cause tho New Ha ven to divest itself of Its trolleys. Governor Guild also sent a special messaKe to the Legislature congratu lating it on the defeat of the merger bill, and characterising (h? present railroad system in Massachusetts as i unjust and Inequitable, and saying that tho control of Massachusetts ' transportation was slowly but surely passing from Massadhusetts to aliens. Tho committee oh* street railways thereupon recommended that the le gality of the Nevfoplaven's holdings in Massachusetts trolley systems be tested in court. Tho New Haven management pro tested that the trolley acquisitions in Massachusetts of the Consolidated Street Railways Company had at all Uiuuti live ft in wOufoiiiitty with the Massachusetts laws. . New Haven, Conn. ? This state ment was made by President Mellen at his summer home in Stockbrldge, Mass., over tho telephone to his office here: "Tho transaction Involved the sale of over seventy-five per cent, of the Btreet railways of Connecticut, in cluding systems in the cities of New London, New Haven, Bridgeport, Norwich, Stamford, Hartford, "Wllll mantic and other" towns In Connects cut, together with lines running Into New York State arid Rhode Island and numerous lines in Massachusetts, including systems in the cities of Sprlnglleld and Worcester." FKKK LUNCH UNFIT. ClilcdKo IMant Wlierc It Is Mniiufuc* lined From Spoiled Moat. Chicago.?that the free lunch b? rvo'l In hundreds of saloons tn ; Chicago Is !- ^ely composed of m^at , in a condition absolutely unfit for use . was jjlsccvc.-ed hy Food Inspector | Murray w. en his force of assistants j raided a barn at 124 Illinois street, ' owned by William Davidson. The place contained thirty stoves, | over which six men were working i In an endeavdr to prepare decayed ! porl- and beef Injo a semblance of Its orl; !nal form, and thereafter "man- , ufacture" It into free lunch for the saloon trade. The men working 1- the awful stench of the place were arrested on warrants j.worn out hy Inspector Murray, and with Davidson are ac cused of violating the health ordi nances of the city. ? ' The raid of the Illinois street barn followed the inspection of a cold stor age warehouse.* The warehouse is a public one, and in It Inspector Mur ray found 25,000 pounds of ii^eat unfit for ?. ~e. The entire plant was confiscated and will b i sed a' evidenco against Davidson and his assistants. Speaker Cannon Renominated. Speaker Canno-' was nominated at Danville, 111., for Congress Tor the eijhteenth time and was indorsed tor President with great enthusiasm, an honor he said no man could refuse. Kills Wife and Self. Edward H. Sanderson, ?eeretary of (he California Track Company, killed his wife and committed suicide in their home In Los An teles. On). Mr. Sanderson, according v? a statement made by his con, had anted strange ly for several days. Bar Ha-bOT lC*., rsaUsnts and toeofciift in the town. CHELSEA. KISS., BANK SHUT The First National Wrecked by favors to Officers. i!ii. Leans Otluvrs Caitsi'd X^Mtfiuv, * rri'i dllljt <" Kcpoi'l of I'jjt.ttuiucr Kiver to (tic Conip". oiler. \\*a-?;iin?;ttin, l>. C.?T. P. Kane, anting C'ompiroller of the Currency, received advices by wlra from Na tional Hank lOxuminev Kwei* at iios loa I n n i the First National Uaak, of rht ls'-a, Maff , had been closed by action of I lie director*. ? Kxuiuiuw Kwor '-'s been appointed receiver.1 The failure of this bank is due to* large, excessive loans to o Ulcers and' director* of the bank. Chelsea, Aiass.?Tho Information)., given by liank l'*XHD)l0/sr Kver to t he Comptroller of the Currency at Wash ington, in connection with the full lire of the First National Wank, of Chelsea, was that the collapse was due to excessive loans made to officers and directors of the bank. it became known that the princi pal factor in the suspension of the bunk was a large Indebted:vf;ss on the part of its president, Sylvester B. j Hinckley. This indebtedness Is un-' oMlclally estimated at 'rum $oOO,OO0 ! to $.">0 0,000, hut statements maue by ('.l/ectors of the bank indicate th. fc President Hinckley has transferred to the institution his equity In large real estate holding*, which. It la ex i peeted, ,/Ul provide for tho payment ! in full ofvtkil depositors. I President Hinckley is said to be ; dangerously ill at*his homo in "New ton. On Saturday lust he was unable to place hlH signature to the papers ; transferring his property to the bank, , and it was necessary for hiui to re | port to making his mar'., upon the document. This proceeding was le galized by the witnessing signatures of his wife nnd son. It is said that ; Mr. i if nek ley has not been able to be , a' the bank for four weeks. 1 Developments indicated that Mtf? : Hinckley was involved iu extensive real estate transactions, from which : he expected to realize great profits. '? The director most active in bring I ing affairs to a crisis was Thomas ' Martin, a former president of the I bank, who, in an interview said that j recently he discovered evidence ?f ; unbusinesslike methods, and startedf jan investigation. This disclosed the fact that papers held by the beak I were not what Mr. Martin considered strictly commercial. He said that j the signatures in some ?a*ea "needed* j explaining." I Mr. Martin also stated that inft cient property had been transferaMI I by Mr. Hinckley to the bank to HK sure the payment or Geposltbrs full. NKW c;. A. H. COMMANDER. Encampment KlecU R. II. Rrowi, Ed itor of Zancfiville Coarfer Minneapolis, Minn:^?R. B. Brown*, of ZancBvlUe, Ohio, wa? elected Corn mander-in-Chlef of the Grand Army of the Republic at the annual en campment. Other offlc0r? choeen wore rUan lor Vice-Commander, Will iam H. Armstrong, Indianapolis; Jun ior Vice-Commander, B. B. Font an. Detroit; Chaplain In Chief, Arch bishop John Ireland, St. Paul; Sar V*|ut ui| ff t ?ii vavasvS| mtmmmr coin. Neb. '' ,.t The new Commander-in-Chm'ed the Grand Army, H. B. Brown, wee born in 1845, and has always lived in Ohio. He enlisted in the. teenth Ohio Infantry at the sixteen years, and served In the Fourteenth Army Corps in the Asmw of the Cumberland -until he was ?? tered out in 1864. He then re-en listed, as a veteran soldier, ai(d served ? us suqh until the end of the war. He was a 'private throughout the three years ofv< his service and thoq he came a non-commissioned officer.' Mr. Brown is now editor of the Zanesville Courier. The total membership of the Grand Army is declared in the renpsd of Adjutant-General Tweedale to' he 2 35,823, an increase of 33CS daring, the last six months. The losses hr death for the year ended December 31, 1905, were 9205, or 3.J# per cent, of the total memberships In the preceding year the loss by death, reached etactSy the same pcrcontace The Cominander*fn-Chief in hla ad dress bitterly arriigned those whet, posing as the "most eminent msn eC the nation," had proved false to their trust in various ways, but declared that among all such the name of Me - Civil War veteran could be found. ? ? i ?' MANY EMIGRANTS FOR GANdM~ Salvation Army Charters Slea Bring Settlers from Etajglaad Brigadie.- General Howell Colonel Lamb, of the Salvation Arwsy, will leave England for Canada,. ing completed arangements for tfcar settlement of -between 20.0t?0 and '25,000 emigrants In the Dofftllw. * ithin a year. A fleet of ts* er* twelve ster mors will' be charterer their transportation. The ei wilt be scattered through Canada In such a way as to place them within reach ottne work for which they are be~?. sutrfed. ? State Senator a-Bri. _ Siaiw Senniur F. O. ^5Utj! ui? iliiS " convicted 'n the Circuit/ Court, ad . Peri^vllle, Ark., on. & charge of fering a bribe, to another State f tor. He mui sentenced to two In the penitentiary and 4nsd ?' I ? W*1 i III ~ Wealth For Winnipeg figures that th dlan Northwest wiH raise IT, bushels of wheat this year oslve tMlti- W? The ill