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THE e&MDEN SHR VOLUMK XVIII. GAM DION, S. 0.. Kill DAY-, MAIiCII H, litoT NO. !t. ,1 Occurrences of Interest From All Over South Carolina ? ~ MANY HEiyfS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragtapbti Cover s' ing a Wide Range?What is Going Ou in Our State. Caught in Flour Mixer. Greenville, Special.?While oper ating a mixer in the ('melon & lire, bakery in this city, J. F. Burty, out |'l the bakers, had his hand caught the machinery and crushed ho se verely thai, amputation was found t?.? be necessary. I>ut ry *s cheek bone was alsi? shattered by a blow from a ievolving crank attMched to the mix er and lor a lime it was thought that his eyoi had been put out and physicians were slow to believe that \ injured man could recover at all. I HeporUs l'rotu the banitarium say ' that Burly is dojjig well and that he I will recover. His H?ty arm has been i lakfti off near the shoulder. The mix er was being diivcn by a live horse poweK elcvtiic nt<dM\ Unity was Vitejiiiig the Hour as poured in and seeing a cord in the hopper lent over to take it out. .lust then the revolving blades caught the man's hand and in a moment his arm had ' been drawn in and crushed to the khouhler. He was struck in th?? face at the sain" lime by u crank. Aged Man Killed Acting as Peace make;. Anderson, Special. ? Anderson county was the :ceno of a horible i killing, last week, when Asbury Woolen, a while ir.an ot' 10 years, I shot Mr. Duke Owens, a white man of 7ye is, through the heart killing him i'nttantly. The ^hootim? occur- , red on the A. W. (iaHspie place, three iniie'4 thi< side of Central, near tli" county line. The lads of the killing tire meagre, but it is said that some boys pln\fully rocked Woolen's home Sunday night. He, being half-wit ted, became angry. Mr. Owens, a neighbor and some other jH'rsoii whose name could 'not be learned, lie hcuwt to Wooten's home to tell Ijim the hi y;- meant no harm, but Woolen <iid not accept the e.vphuuttiou and ordered Mr. Owens and his companion off the place. Mr. Owens remained to re iiionstralc with Woolen and it was then I (nil Woolen tired the fatal shot. Mr. Owens was a piomineni man in this county, and the tragedy is greatly deplored. _i New Laur.dry for Chester. Chester, Special.?In the matter of what arc called the smaller enter prises for the investment of enpitai ami the employment o? labor, Ches ter is taking a pari. The Chester Steam Laundry company baa obtain ed a charter, with a capital stock of $4,000 and has organized for busi ness with the following olbeers: It. B. Caldwell, president; A. N. Sample, vice president; J. W, Dan iel, secretary and treasurer. These officers, with II. S. lleyman and lv. W. Honey constitute the board of directors ' This institution will sup ply a long felt want in this com munity, the "vashec" business bav in? become something of a problem. Checking Up Accounts. The auditing experts of the Amer can Audit company are expected here soon to cheek up the accounts p>ne over at the state dispensary by tlie clerks now employed by the commission. This is done bccanso flic commission wishes to be abso lutely correct in the statement oi? accounts and so that a Plcar idea of the stock to be disposed of may bo obtained,?(.'olumbi'a Stale. Two Member Chosen. Abbeville, Special.?Mr. 0. A. Vi panska and T. .1. Price wero reeoin ineuded by the county delegation as their two members of Abbeville's dispensary board. Mr. Visnnska is 70 years old and has been in the mer cantile business in Abbeville for the past of) year?. Mr. Price is from Me.Cormick and is in the stork aiuf lumber business there. Marion Victims Total 24. Charleston, Special. The finding ?f drowned bodies, as a result, of the burning and sin king of the steamer Marion in Wadmalaw sound, con tinues, but the natural aptitude of colored people to attend a tunerai is reported to l.c interfering with tho work of seaivhin;? lor the drown ed people. A report received heie (lint tour additional bodies ha?l been found, blinking liie a^reyate up to ?J4, and lat''r in tJ:s? day i.t was said - (hat "Hu; toihI will rea<4> 3'J, but the ' latter report was ,tJot s-? well authen ticated, and it is not liekly that the (lent'h list will teach this limine, Better Tel*g?ph KenUw, Speciel.-rActUJg on tli? request of tho buaiuos* uitfn of Kev the TVosuvu tJd^w bai <ltcid ed to e*tah}i&h ?? i^dapsiuUct office to commence work, at once. The building formerly used by the bank is being remodeled for the location of tho office. This will meet a long felt want, a$ the business here would . hav# long ago jitftilifd this ?tep by ^JfJ'compeny. 1 HE COUNIY I AX LlVY In Several CountieH Special Provis ion Made on Account of Change In Dispensary Law. < 'olumbia State. Below is published the principal details <>!' (ho itnmtal supply l>i 11 passed hy tin* 1 i?07 general assembly. Being in tlie main a mass of figure.^ the average reader will be inclined to *tody alone I lie figures relating to the levy in bis particular county, yet a careful study of tJie entire meas ure, particularly of the special levies mmle by the various counties, will prove interesting. The state levy is tixed at l 1-2 Willi, l-~ mill less than lust year. '!'<? this is added in . every county throughout the state the constitu tional .'i mill school tax. The county levy ranges from 2 mill* in Charleston and Orangeburg to 11 mills in Lexington, the ex tremely high levy in the latter comi ty being re<|uired on account of a large amount of interest to be paid vach year on bonds given in aid of the ( vluinhia, New berry and Laurens railroad. v The following counties iYtake spec ial levy for good roads: Clarendon, Cherokee, (,'hc?|erlicld, Colleton, Florence, (Ircenville, Kershaw, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens, Spartan burg, and I'nion, Lnion enjoys I lie unii|ue and com mendable distinction of being the single county in the state which makes a direct appropriation for lis Coii/edri ate veterans. In addition to getting their pro rata of the fr2">0, 000 appropriatcil by the state, the veterans of I'nion receive the bone lit of a levy of one-fourth of one mill on all the taxable property of that county. Charleston likewise occu pies au equally uui<|iic position in that a lax of one-eight of one mill is levied for the militia of that codnty. The proceeds ot this one-eighth mill tax is paid to the board of ollicers <$jlhe state volunteer troops in the city of Charleston. The levy in Kichl^nd county is among the very lowest in the Mate. Levy for 1907. By counties the levy I'm county purposes is as follows: Abbeville?Ordinary 2 1-^i mills, debt dm; sinking fund commission 1 mill, for paying inteiest and prin cipal on debt for new court bouse 1 uii|l. Aiken?Ordinary 3 mills. Anderson?Ordinary .'5 1-1 mills. Bamberg?Ordinary .'5 mills. Barnwell?Ordinary 3 1-2 mills. Beaufort?Ordinary 4 3--I mills. Berkeley?Ordinary 3 mills. A special tax is levied on all stock williin the territory exempted from the operation of the general stock law, as follows: Three cents per head-on all sheep, goats ami hoga and ;"> cents per head on nil cows. Clarendon?For the militia of the county, the various local companies of the state volunteer troops, 1-8 mill; for other purposes 1 7-S mills; for support of the schools of tho cic> of Charleston 1 mill, special, on.all property within tho city and an ad Hlitional levy of 1-2 mill on city prop erty for school building fund. Cherokee?Ordinary II mills, road tux 1 mill, permanent road tax 1 mill, sinking fund, Limestone, White and Morgan townships, 3-4 mill; railroad bonds, same townships, 1-2 mill; sinking fund, Gfowdeysville, Cherokee and Dravtonville town ships. .1 mill; for interest on rail road bonds, same townships, 1 mill. Chester?Ordinary 3 1-2 mills, in terest on railroad bonds and for sinking fund 1 mill. Chesterfield?Ordinary 3 3-4 mills, special road tax 1 mill, interest on railroad bonds and for sinking fund '2 1-2 mil is. Colleton?Ordinary 4 mills, road tax 1 mill. parlington?1-2 mill interest on court house, ordinary 4 mills. Dorchester?Ordinary 4 1-4 mills, interest on county bonds 1-2 mill, sinking fund 1-2 mill. Collier'.-? township 2 mills for road purposes. Edgefield?Ordinary f> mills; the wounty commissioners are authorized to make special levy on property in Johnston. Pine drove, Pickenj, Wise and Show townships to pay coupons on valid railroad bonds. Fairfield?Ordinary and past in debtedness 4 1-4 mills, for payment first installment on $20,000 due sink iug fund commission 1 mill. Florence?Ordinary 2 mills, spec ial road lax 1 mill. , Georgetown-- Ordinaty 2 .1-2 mills, with which to pay principal and in terest or l??an of *10.000 from com missioners of sinking fund, to be used in erecting, equipping and fur nishing annex to coin t house 3-4 i mill, for sinking fund Winyah Indi i j;o school district 2 mills. I Greenville?Ordinary 3 mills, f\>i convicts, roads and bridges I 1-2 mills, interest on railroad and past indebtedness bonds, for payment to qommissioners sinking fund on ac count loan mill. Greenwood?Ordinary 3 1-2 milU, uast indebtedness 1 mill, Ninety-Six township 2 3-4 mills, Cokesbmv tow?alm> ipilU, Cooper township I) mill*. HiiUiptou?Orrtinaiy 3 pa*i i>)d*biedn<& 1 mill. Horry-'Ordmery & ^ills, court btute and joil bo;vd* I mil], rc;lsuaO bonds in townahipa of Conway, Bayboro, Green Sea and Sijnpsou Creek 4 mills each. Kershaw?Ordinary 3 1-4 mills intcpfct 1 3-4 mills, road fax 1 mill, coufrt house bond# 1-4 mill. Lancaster?Otdinary 5 mills, ?n terttl on railroad bonds 1 miH, sink ing fund 12 iitill; I'lensaut JI ill township \i 1 J mills, (iill Crook 2 3?1 mills; Cane Ciock 2 3 1 mills. Lauren.*? Ordinary 3 mills, road tax 1 mill, interest on bonds 1 1-1 mills, tor expenses survey, the pro-, posed county of Fairview and for ad ditional road purposes 3-1 mill, i Lee?Ordinary 3 mills, sinking l'uml I 3 4 mills. l.c\i?gtuii<?Ordinary .1 1-2 mili.% interest on Columbia, Newbery am! Lmirpns railroad 1 oud* 7 1-2 mills. Marion - Ordinary I mills, jnil debt 3-1 mill. Marlboro?Ordinary ti 1-2 mill*. Newberry?Ordinary 3 mills. Oconee?Ordinary, 2 mills, road and bridges 1 mill, interest on bonds 7-10 mill, sinking fund 1-2 mill, for bridge at Hurnt Tauyard over Little riyttr 1 mill, for bridge over Coir.i I -j-4 mills, bridge over Keo wel* livty near Chapman Ford I I mil|, lor fault in court bouse and re unifying county records I mill. OrA^geburg?Ordinary 2 mills. Pickens-Ordinary 4 mills, debt 1-4 mill, sinking Hind 1 mill, chain gang 1 .1-1 mills, bbridgn over Koo wce river near Chapman Ford, 3.S mill. Kichland?Ordinary 2 12 mills, J-2 mill in Columbia township for the payment of principal and inter est on railroad bonds, and authority is given to tin; county board of com missioners of Kichland county to sell the certificnlc of stock of Co lumbia, Newbery mid Laurens rail road, being a certificate for 1.000 shares of the par value of $10,000, said sale to be made at public or pri vate sale after due notice in news papers for the best price obtainable and the said county board of com missioners are authorized to use I In proceeds ot said sale to supplement the fund now or hereafter on hand, for the payment of the principal and interest on outstanding railroad bonds; and said county board of com missioners are authorized to use anv surplus that may remain on hand from the levy of the half mill lax above referred to and from the sale ot said stock, with authority to turn over to the municipal authorities of any incorporated city or town in Co lumbia township, the pro rata share of suc.li eity or town to be applied to extra work upon the public high ways within such cities or towns; an additional lax of two mills in the school district of the city of Colum bia in lieu of special tax authorized by previous legislature. Saluda?Ordinary 0 1-1 mills, past indebtedness 1-2 mill. Spartanburg?Ordinary 3 1-2 mills, ordinary road 1 mill, interest on railroad bonds 3-4 mill, to pay loans to state 1-4 mil!, sinking fund 1-2, mill, for building macadamized roads .1 mill. Sumter?Ordinary 2 3-4 mills, sinking fund debt and interest 1 mili. Union?Ordinary 3 1-2 mills, road tax 1 mill, rniltpad bonds 1 mill, debt 1 mill, permanent road improve ment* 1 mill, aid Confederate vet erans 1-4 mill. Williamsburg???Ordinary- 3 1-2 mills. York?Ordinary 4 mills, Catawba township 2 mills," Kbenezer 1 mill, York 3 mills, to pay "interest on bonds i-sued in aid of C. C! & C. railroad. ?' Alleged Yeggmen Acquitted, .Marion, Special.?Charles How ard and Thomas Nolan, alleged yegg men, charged here with robbing the Bank of Mullins, in December, 1902, were tried this afternoon in the gen eral sessions court and acquitted. The trial began at 3 o'clock and last ed until 0:30. The State introduc ed IS witnesses ?piite a number of them identifying the defendants and testifying to their presence in Mui lins amL previous to the commission of the iTJuberv. NKWSY GLEANINGS. New 8outh Wales has decided to assist British immigration. Dominicans are intensely opposed to the new treaty with the United 8tates. ? , Secretary of War Taft will go to Cuba to study conditions there at first hand. Census figures of automobile man ufacturing show a remarkable growth in the industry. Major-General Kelxri asked for a court of honor to investigate hiB con nection with tlio German election scandal. Reformers plan a Slate League to watch and expose bad men and bad measures in the Leglslaturu in Al bany, N. Y. Dr. II. W. Wiley, of the Agricultu ral Department, declared one should eat each day one per cent, of one's own weight. v C'harlea Buclc, the "man without a country," deported from Canada, was refused udmission to the insane asy lum at Trenton, N. J. The British Admiralty has ordered all warships at sea to make meteor ological reports, morning and even ing, to wireless stations. W. H. Truesdale, president of the D ,.L. and \V? *aid tht, present cam paign agAinKt railroads has its origin ip high fitcutlvo authority. The Chicago Motor Club has of* {?red $10 reward for the arrest and oonvlction of chauffeurs who yuu away after caueing accident;. DlctrcMlng.details of the famine in China are contained ..in report* of ?xnariean consul*. It is estimated that 4.000,000 people art actually starving. The British Government ban raised the salary of It* Ambassador to the United 8tatea to th* exact amount paid annually to the President of the United State*. _ ? HUGE PROFITS POCKETED RY HJIRRIMAM SYNDICATE Most Amazing Jugglery of Mill ions Ever Known. TOOK $23,724,000 IN 7 YEARS Validity of the Homls May 1 io (Jucs. tinned? I,a\vs of Illinois Hold 'I'hal l iltl(Ions Increases of Cm|i> i(al Stuck Are Void. If Alt HIM AN SYNDICATE'S PRO FITS IN ALTON DKAh. $32,000,000tukenu) ?.i ami go hi at ubout 90 |S, 000,000 .'itil per cent, dividend 0,000,000 $U2,000,000 bonds tak en at about 00. sold at SO 4,100.000 Sal* of preferred from old to new company. 2,055,000 Sale of Spriugileld-Pco-. ria branch line 100,0 00 Bonus voted to Mr. \ llnrrimun for sei v- \ | ices i bo.000 Total in seven years J ( 1 SI* to 1 H00) . . . 7\M,000 ' N?'w York City. When the Inter""' state Commerce Commission finished | ltn Inquiry into (he affair* of the Union Pacific Hnilroad Hystent there j stood revealed the enormous financial power in the >ailroad world of K II. Harriman, his autocratic domination i over many great corporations and the most amazing jugglery of millions that the country has ever known. Starting in 1898 with the Union Pacific, then only emerging from bankruptcy, lie has piled un issues of sororities to InindredM of millions. But standing out clearly and eon Aiptely above all the oilier operations in high finance is the astounding looting of the Chicago and Alton Hail- 1 road. It has not been noRslhlc. even with the probe of the Commission, to find the full extent of iliis profit. The ac countants of the new management are struggling over the books. Hut there has been shown that the Harrl man syndicate by iis operations has secured in profits from that unfortu nate company 823.721,000. How much more was made by operations as yet tin divulged can only be snr mi ised. The outstanding securities and lia bilities of the companywe.ro Increased from $39.93f?,887 in 1899 to $122. 872,328 in 1900. During that time, according to Mr. llarriman's own tes timony, only $22,000,000 wore ex panded in improvt im niH and better ments. The investigators of the In terstate Commerce Commission figure the expenditure as $ IS.000.000, but allowing My. llarrlman the benefit or the doubt, the enormous sum of $G1 000,000 watered securities was poured into this one*? magnificent property. The Constitution aud the statutes of Illinois were read out on the last day of the inquiry by Commissioner Harlan, son of .luetics Harlan, of the United State? Supreme Court. The company is incorporated under, the laws of that State. Article ll.ot the Constitution provides: "No railroad corporation shall is sue any stocks or bonds excopt for money, labor or property actually re ceived and npplied to the purposes for which such corporation was created, and all stock dividends and other fictitious Increase of the caplt*^. stock or indebtedness of any such cor- ' poratlon shall be void." This law calls Into serious question the validity of the bonds so freely put out by the company under the Harrl man management. There ere. two such Issues, the first of ?40,000,000, of which $32,000,000are out?tandlng. and the second of $22,000,000, all of which are in the hands of the public. The law of the State of New York | was amended in 1900, through the Influence of somebody, so that the ; bonds of the Chicago and Alton road I were made legal for investment by | savings hanks. President Felton, of the Chicago and Alton, was a witness in the morn- j lng to verify u statement that the sum spent in Improving the Chicago I and Alton property did not exceed I $19,000,000 since the reorganization ] of the company in 1S99. This was 1 placed In contrast with the testimony j that the capitalization of tho com- | pany had been Increased from $39,- i 935,887 at the end of 1898 to more ! than $122,000,000 by tho reorgani zation, i HOW HILL CROWD MADE $34,000,000. Philadelphia.?That James J. Hill and. his associate In the control of the Northern Pacific acquired a profit of 850 per cent. 011 a stock allotment at the reorganization of that railroad is one of the astounding statements 1 made by those who are interested in ; demanding a probe of tho Hiil-Mor- ! gan financiering of the Northern Pa- I clflc system. Hill and his crowd have ' been getting annual dividends amounting to fifty per cent on their investment of $4,000,000 made at the time of iho reorganization. Story of ^k'lrsysl. Mrs. Viola Hywaters told tlie story of her betrayal by Wllliftin Bywaters at tho trial of her brothers, James | and Philip Strother, at Culpeper, Va. Spring Lamb Scarce. Spring lamb is scarce and high, the hind quarter $5 and the fore quarter 13, Jfrllroud Are Kcanomlxlng. fUilroada jrtoenrtly are economic ing on their txyendllui-es, but there is plenty of xvork the; r^ust be done to keep, tho forges auu utile busy tbrtfugn the y?ar. - -- ?-3:. Farm Staple* Steady. Farm staples are steady in price, liberal foreign purchases precluding any possibility of excessive stocks to b? carried over from last year ? large croP* ?> ? "V ?. ) - ILLINOIS FARMER KILLS FOUR Shocking Murderous Frenzy of Thomas Baldwin, of Colfax. Our of tlir Oid Mnii'.i Vitlimh \V.' Fourteen-Year-oid Niece \\ho..i He Had Mistreated. Hloomlngton. lil. ? Ku raged by (Siand Jury proijefdlnRs to punish him for tnlulreatlng bis fourteen year-old niece, Thomas Baldwin, n wealthy farmer, *m> eight years old, recently matin e widower, began it campaign of vengeance, and wheu h<* concluded four persons had been mur dered. including the Hide girl whom he had sc. outrageously wronged. The child, Cora Kisoman. wus his lust victim and Ma iunlet* of her wan most cruel. Sh* had just seen he lUttther shot to death and wan striv i 11K t? escape by crawling through .1 thorny hedr.e when Haldwin t;.;: up nnd shot ho.- to ileal 11. Ha hi win resides iitvi;* Colfax and i* one of Hit he?;t known men in the county. l!<? was one of the Jcadiiu; merchants of the town until he re tired io live or. his farm. llis'largo Ymerests in various enterprises made bim of important ^ commoi'cinlly, and -he wan one 01 the moat conapicuou ? church member:; in the place. I I/lift Octobc.' his wife died am! he I seemed to mourn heiv?lt;?plv. iii? lit | tlo niece. Cora Klsoiuan.^i ved with I her motiicr and niatrV about tiiree I miles northeast of, jArrowsmitl*. ten ! miles from IlaldwiirK home. lie went (here a week after his wife's death and persuaded Mrs Simeon !')!?em;iii to let Cora live with him, paying h. would take the he:?i of euro of hrr ami provide liberally for her in his 1 will. Soon aft?r the giil became an inmate of 11?^ liomi* he niist"Of?ted h<r on a lonely country road between Col fax and Afrowsmith The nil I told , her mother, ami Mi*-. KUpuihu, being ! averse tt> iij:< notoriety which would attend prosecution. refrained fnm J making formal complaint. Baldwin | In the meantime rave her S?iOO in wet* j tlenient. i lialdwln thtin supposed the nint'e;* : ha<l been finally disposed of, but the news of his offense was carried to StstP H Attorney \V. H. Bach, and h<? propmtly submitted the case to the (b and Jury and Haiti win wuh indicted. On being arrested Baldwin vowed vnugcanee upon everybody connected with the proceedings to punish him. Nevertheless he was released on j $1000 bond. j During the morula;; Haldwin took a revolver, a supply of cartridge!: and i a quart bottle of whisky and drove to j Arrowsni'.th. He llrst went to i.lio I homo of Mr. and Mrs. Clrirl?? Ken nedy, friends of the Wisemans, v horn I he suspected of giving the facia to J the State's Attorney, aud shot them 1 both dead. I Then lie re-entered his bu:;gy nnd ! drove to the Kite man lioni?. Mrs i Eiueman saw him coming an.l, fear ! ing him, called ("ova and the other j children into the house and locked the door. Presently, however, she j opened the door and tried to mollify j Haldwin. but his answer w.n to tiro two bullets into her breast, killing her Instantly. ! Corn and tho other children started to run. Baldwin paid no attention ? to the others, but with ourse<t fed ! lowed the little girl whom ho had j wronged. She had reached a -.edge and was crawling through to reach some neighbors when he reached her. He shot her dead while :die was beg ging for mercy. Haldwin then hunted up a deputy sheriff at Arruwgpiith and Etjrren I dered. llKCKlVEll FOR MRS.' KM)Y. Relatives Sue to Have llor Declared Incompetent. Concord, N. If.?Application wofl i made In the SuperloV Court of Merri mac County for an account ins of the financial affairs of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, the founder oj' the Christian Science movement au:1 pas tor mnerituH <?f the Flrfet Church of j Christ, Scientist, iu Bosom. 'l'he application was In tho form of a bill in equity and the petitioners I weffc George W. Glover, a ton of Mrs. I Eddy by her tirBl husband, whoj?e 1 residence is given ai Dead wood, S, I J).r hie daughter, Mlas Mary Baiter I Glover, and George W.Baker, of Han | gor, Me., Mrs. Eddy ? only surviving nephew, a sou or '.he late Czo.zc Sal-, llvan Bauer. BURNETT DlI S IX ALBANY. New York Assemblyman 111 J.ess Than a-Week With Pneumonia. Albany, X. V. ? Jean La Hue Bur nett, member of the Assembly from Ontario County, died at the Ten Eyck Motel after an illness of less than a week, of pneumonia. As the news of Mr. Burnett's d truth was announced vrord was received here that a f.on was horn to Mrs. Bur nett at Canandaigusi. Assemblyman Burnett was the bent known, as well an one of the inpit popular members of iite Legis lature. lie was the third member o? the Assembly to die this session. King Open* XeiV "Old Wailrj/* The new }I,GOO,000 (Central Crim inal Court House, built on the Kit#; of the historic Newgate Prison, In Lon don, coftimonly known as tho O'd Bailey, was opened by King Edward. It was a semi-state affair and there iy. was ginch flwajb Amaaing KailronU Mlxmaiiutfement. 0. W. Hfill aid, CuijUollev of O?o Chicago tDd Alton, told the latfiv (tate Commerce Coromtsilou, in >'?w York City, that tht Kfcrrlraan wn ngemeut bad uiortjared a branch Hue and'told the boa<la before con* atrnctioa was beguu. AuwtwAD SfcurltlcM Att.nUWJ. An attMck on American railway *o curltlea yaa made In the German Rilcbetag by a free conservative' member. DEATH RATE AND DISEASE Tuhercu osls and Pnsumonia at Top of List of FMa! Afflictions. Army ?>f Cmiw Vlciiins (?rowing-?* JUsi'iiM' T.:!.???. S<'t*ii(li dace in InitcdSt;?{<?? Wort;iliil'libli'. Washington, I). C. Out of only two-ilfihs of 11)o populatIon of the Unit ml Suites more than half a million lives were offered up in 1905 as a Bacrlfico to disease. Startling as this death J ft to may seem it was less than that for the preceding year, but wa? in excess of the number of deaths registered for any other year. The death rate from nephritis and Rright's disease, aooploxy, caticnr, diabetes and appendicitis is increas ing. while that from old ago, bron chitis, (Convulsions, peritonitis and scarlet fever is decreasing. The greatest death rate recorded for any one disease in 1 i?0r? was that from pulmonary tuberculosis, amount ing to 50,770. vihile pneumonia fol lows closely with a death rate of 39, 068, exclusive i>f broncho-pneumonia. The much dreaded cancer shows a steadily growing death rate, the figures being 24,330. The above are l he more interest ing facts brought out in a report, issued by the Census Hureau. giving the sta tistics of mortality for 1005. The statistics Jn this report are restricted to States in which the laws requiring the registration of deaths have been acc--\ted as giving practically ootp pjetl* mortality returns and to cities in non-registration States in which satisfactory lyturuH are required by the local authorities. This regiat.rat.lon area i;i 1905 con sisted of ten registration States, the District of Columbia and 123 regis tration cities in non-registration States. The ten registration States were Connecticut. Indiana, Maine. Massachusetts. Michigan. Now Hamp shire. New .ler.sey. Now York, Rhode island and Vermont. The population qt the entire area in 15MJ# was 30. 71>5.6IK, representing 40.5 per cent, of the total population of the United Sti'.tfls. The total number of deaths report ed from tlie various kindB of diseases in 1H<>5 aggregated 545,533. and those for the preceding year amount ed to 551,35 4. On a percentage ba sis the death rate was in 1905 ifl.'J in each 1000 of population. The fol lowing llgures show the death rat?s per 10 00 of the rcgultdration States for 1905: Connecticut, 16.5; District of Co lumbia, 20.5: Indiana, 12.8*. Maine, 16.2; Massachusetts, 11?.S ; Michigan, 13.5; New Hamsliipvq* 17; New jer sey, 15.8; New York; 17; Rhode Isl and. 17.1. and Vermont, 17. The causes, with their rates, to which twenty or more deaths per 100,000 of population were attributed in 1905, ranked, according to num ber of deaths per 100,000, are as fol lows; Tuberculosis of lungs, 1(58.2; pneumonia, 150.1; heart disease, 132.5; diarrheoa and enteritis, 116.7; nephritis and Hright's disease, 114.3; r.poplet.v, 7 2.2; cancer, 72.1; acciden tal traumatisms, 42.1; old age, 36.4; meningitis, 34.5; bronchitis, 33.5; premature birth, 32.9; congenital de bility, 31.5; typhoid fever, 28.1, aud diphtheria and croup, 23.8. Cancer ranks seventh among tho various causes of death. Of the 24,? 330 deaths from this disease, 0180 were of males, while 15,141 were of females. LONQFELLOW HONORED. Celebrations of the Port's Hirtliuay fu Maine and Boston. Boston, Mass.?Tho love lu whirh Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in held was Riven exprosslon throughout Now England by oxerclnc? commemorating the 100th anniversary of tho poet's birth. In Maine, where tho poet was born, and in Massachusetts, where he spent many of the most important years of his literary life, tho principal public observances wero held, but there was acarcely a public school or literary society In this section which, did not devote some titua to his mem* ory. The most Important features of tho celebration wero in Cambridge, Mass,, at Panders Theatre when Rlias Perry, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Presi dent Charles W, Eliot, of Harvard University; Colonel Thomas Went worth lllggluson; Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard, and others, took part, IIARIUMAN ATTACKS FISH. Says He "Looked Upon Illinois Cen tral as His Personn! Property." New York City. ? 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