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VOL. XXVII. BARNWELL, S. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1903. * jfcl- <, •\ t . PRIEST RETURNS. S»T< a Band Kidnapped Him and Ka t Him a Prisoner DT A DEEP, DAM DUHGEOH. In Graphic Statement of His Cap- tlYitjr, 8ay« One Bandit Uru ed the Others to Murder w Him. f • " - . . v ■ - The Rev. Joseph Cirringiooe, miss ing pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Williams^ bridge, New York, was found at First avenue and East Fifty-fljst street at 3:45 o’clock Wednesday morning by Patrolman Joseph Cooke, of the East Fifty-first street station. The priest told a story of having been kidnapped by strange nftn, chloroformed, bound and robbed and kept in a cellar for two days, and finally liberated from a wagon at the foot of East Fifty-first street. His narrative was heard by priests from the Cathedral, a physician Justice George F. Roesch in succes sion and they were convinced of its truth. Even tbe^ police, who have laughed at the 'kindnapping idea in stead of seriously investigating it, admitted after bearing the priest’s story from bis own lips that he bad made a strong Impression on them, and declared they would follow up the meager clews he was able to give. THB PRIEST’S STATEMENT. This business %egan bn the 22d of October. Two days before, at the laying of the cornerstone Of my new church, I told the people we were go ing to get a loan of 115,000 so we could build the new church. Two days later I riceived the first letter'de manding'S3,000 and threatening me witfr death if t failed to nay it. i took thu letter at a lake, but I made up my mind then that I would go where /the letter said on Wednes day nlghi. I bad a revolver, and I it and loaded it. Wednesday I was ill, at my house, so I could not go. On October I got another let- heard one say: “All New York Is upset. The papers are full of this matter.” • > ’ The men always spoke in English. Only one of them looked like an talian. He did not like me. I think he s the man I struck in the wagon, his man said they should kill me. he others said no, it would till the cellar with blood and they would be traced. ; __ The man I took for ap Italian kept i liking of killing me, and last night 1 ley got intoa fight among themselves. bey all were drinking, and they kept giving this man more whiskey until they gpt him drunk. When belay still they came over to me and I thought they were going to kill me. hey gate me my clothes and told me to put them on. Then one of them put the handkerchief with the bad smell over my face -1 suppose it was chloroform—and when I came to my senses I was in a wagon apd we were driving over pavements. I asked where I was going, and t ley told me if I would keep still I should go free. They put a handker chief over .my'face so I could see noth ing, and finally stopped and let me out of the wagon. It was by a fence neaf ihe iTfeTrafUl' nobody wasuboutv be wagon drove away in a burry. I was sick from the chloroform, and my eyes hurt 1 me very much, while I had a pain in my stomach. ben I walked along until 1 saw a policeman. Officer Uook. I ran to 3im and grabbed him by the collar. I told him 1 was afraid the men might come back and kill me. He asked me what I was talking about, and I show ed him my Roman collar. He said: “Are you the missing priest?” I said I was, and 1 asked him to send ’o^*an ambulance and have me taken X) a hospital at once. He led me to the station house, and then I was brought here. I do not know where the cellar was >ut I belive.lt was somewhere In the Bronx. I did not know one of the men, but two of them I would recog nize, the one with the false beard and the Italian. - ' i . got it On fai the ter I began to think that ttr was no jbke. I told the other priests and I notified the police at Wakefield. Last Wednesday I got the third letter by special delivery. I told the police about this letter. I slept at my father’s house on Wednesday night and Thursday night, as I was afraid to sleep in Willlamsbridge. On Thursday I went to my lawyer and signed the mortagages on' which we were to borrow 115,000 for the church. I believe now that the men who took me away knew that I bad signed these paper and thought I had got the money. On Friday I went back to Williams- bridge to keep an appointment with Captain Foody. Captain Foody and the detective left the house about 0:15 o’clock. I gave them the. let- Wben the captain left the'XitlWT ^ priests were playing cards. 1 played three bands and Jthen I got up and walked up and down, the ball. / Sud denly I heard a knock oo-the outer door. I opened the door and there was a man with a beard. He said in a low tone: - • “Father Joe, you ought to be glad We have the one who sent tbe letters. Tbs captain sent me to tell you to oome with me.” =4—- WORE A FALSE BEDARD **- I noticed that the man’s beard was false, and said something about it. He said be wore it to prevent people from reoongnizing him as a detective. “I will tell the other priests,” said. 1— TWO 8BC188IOHB. — * Comparison- Between the “Don’t do that,” said the man, “it will spoil itali.” So I got my bat and overcoat and stick and went out with Fourth avenue we met a boy, who said “Good evening, Father Joe.” There was another man on the corner. I asked “How do I know you are a detec tive?” . , ' He threw back his coat and showee me a badge of some kind, and that satisfied me. ‘Just around the corner there was a covered wagon,! ^tttb two horses. The men I was with told me tbe man was in there. ‘ I looked In and there were two men. One of them bad his hands across each other aa if he were bound. I got in and the wagon stalled off with the five of us. Then the man with the false beard said: . “Did you bring your new revolver ^long?” I said, “Yes,” and took it out of my pocket and handed it to him.' He said to one of the other men: ‘UFi* a nice .pew one.” The . other man took it and put It in his pocket, and then one of them put a handkerchief over my face. It smelled very'badly, and I knew they were go ing to do something to me, so I struck out as hard as I could. Hy fist landw ' on ons of the men: I think I must have hurt Mm.' In a minute I was unoon PRISONER IN A CELLAR. The next thing I knew I was in cellar. My eyes felt bad and my bead ached. I was on a bed but my dotbes had been taken off.—The only light in the cellar was a red lantern. There was a bum standing there with beard. He had a gun In his bands and a cartridge belt around-hls waist. I begged the man to give me my money.. I had inside my vest 1200, that was my sister’s matgage portion. Tbe in with hankerohiefis with boles out In for The Work of the Courts Is Still Very Much Congested. The Pisa Wm Favored by a General Committee of the House of Repreaentatlvea at tbe Last Seaaton, The business of tbe Court* of thh State is not in satisfactory condition. Cases are continued from court to court and the docket is cumbered with cases which have been in liti gation for years. Various remedies have been suggested. Some claim tbe trouble is the fault of the lawyers and litigants—nbt be- ng prepared for trial.' Otbersf con tend that it is on account of the vol ume of business. Tbe special court has been tried, and in many cases ias given satisfaction, but tn some ostarices has not aQQpmpllsbed the r-' Cane of Bonth Carolina and Panama. It has been said that Great Britain would have been as justifiable iu recog nizlng the indepeudence of South Caro- tna in twenty-four hours after the tall of Fort Sumter as tbe United tales was in recognizing tbe Kepub- c of Panama as soon as it was pro claimed by tbe junta. A comparison shows rather to tbe advantage of South Carolina. Tbe two have very •dkrly the same area, but a large por tion of Panama is not habitable, being either high and jagged mountains or marshy coast. South Carolina had in 1860 a total population of 705,606. ; Panama's population is probably less than 300,000. There has been no re cent accurate census. Secession iu South Carolina was not altogether &o precipitate as i| was in Panama, and t preceded by fuur-montbs tbe attack 'Fort Sumter. Oo October 25, 1860, a refoTartiou passed the South Carolina legislature declaring that the State would secede if Lincoln ihould be elected. Qa November 7 of the same year the Legislature passed an Act calling a State. Convention, and this Convention on December 20 unani mously adopted tbe ordinance of se cession. The State forces seized Fort doultrle and Castle Pinckney Decem ber 27, and it was not until April 12 that Fort Sumter was fired on and captured by Gen, Beauregard. These proceedings were lelsurelf, compared with wbat was done In F*n ama. There was no Legislature there no sort of Statd government. The re gion was merely a department of tbe Republic of Colombia ruled by officials appointed from Bogota. Tbe Act cf IN A-BAD FIX. TWO ADDITIONAL CDLCUIT8. LITIGATION IS GROWING. The matter was brought to the uention of tbe general assembly Gov. McSweeney,. who re tbe special term of court under tbe act of 1900, exhu 92,500 of bis contingent fund, bad observed that tbe special terms were not aa satisfactory as tbe regular sessions. (Xntinuing, Gov. MiSweeney stated to tbe general assembly. “If, however, there is demanded for these extra courts, and tbe demand is increasing, it would be better to in crease tbe number of circuite and do away with tbe call for extra courts. lawyers and litigants were always ready to go to trial and there were less delay in tbe dispatch of the business before our oourts, tbe congestion which it is now claimed exists would be removed and tbe present machinery" could transact tbe business in less time than is now occupied, even with the aid of extra courts; It should be remembered, however, that tbe State is increasing in population and in busi ness, and in proportion to tbis in crease there will baadditional litiga tion. In 1870 the population of PROPOSED LEGISLATION. At tbe last session of tbe general assembly Mr. Huger Sinkler of Charles ton introduced a resolution providing for tbe appointment of a, special com mittee to take under consideration the advisability of legislation along this tine. It was declared that tbe frequency of the demand for tbe hold- ng of special terms of court indicated that the congested condition of tbe calendar might be relieved by legisla tion, and tbe committee was author- zed to inquire iuto the conditions of the courts, and to report by bill qr -otherwise as tp tbe expediency of cre ating additional judicial circuits. Tbe committee consisted of Messrs. Huger Sinkler and Adam H. Moss of tbe first clrduit; J. H. Lesesne and J. TL^Uftob nf the wacnnd; W, P. Pol- lock and J. R. Coggeshall of tbe third; John P. Thomas, Jr., and J. W. De Vore of the fifth; T. Y. Williams aod A. L. Gaston of tbe fourth; R. A. Cooper and H. L. Bomar of the sev enth, and B. A. Morgan and M. P. DeBruhl of the eighth. After inves tigating the conditions, the cothmlt* tee reported by introducing a. bill. Mr. Magill’e bill on tbe same sub ject received an dnfavorable report, Mr. DeBruhl proposed to remedy mat ters by creating four terms of gener al sessions and by electing four addi tional circuit judges. All of ‘the bills were coutinued until the approaching session when they will come up as second reading bills—with tty? addi tional dignity of having been made special orders—and tbe matter will be settled one way or tbe other Al ibis sesion. „~r . • . - ^ PRESENT GROUPING. Following is tbe way the State is now grouepd: First—Charleston, Berkley, Djrches ter, Orangeburg. Second—Alkeu, Bamberg, Barnwel Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, y Tblrd—Sumter, Clarendon, WJ1 liamsburg, Georgetown, Florence. F o u r t b—Chesterfield; Marlboro Darlington, Marlon, Horry. Fifth—Kershaw, Richland, field, Lex ngtxra, Saluda. Sixth—Cberokee, Chester, Lancas ter, York and Fairfield. - Sevent h—Greenwood, Newberry Laurens, Spartanburg, Union. Eighth—Abbeville, Anderson, Oco nee, Pickens and Greenville. State was 705,000. Now it is twice that number. In 1870 tbe number of - cireGita-wae eighty Abe game number that we have now, and then we had only 31 counties, while now we have 41. The argument seems to be strong ly in favor of an increase of tbe num ber of circuits.” THE COMMITTEE BILL. Tbe bill proposed by the committee would have tbe circuits arranged as follows: Firs t—Orangeburg, Dorchester Colleton,JEWaufort Secession was declared by r junta com posed of some half dozen men, without any formal odnsnltation of the wishes of tbe people) Tbe secessionists would have been powerless to protect the government they set up, but marines: were landed from tbe gunboat Nash ville add tbe commandant of the Col ombian troops at Colon, forty miles away, was prohibited from sending soldiers over the railroad to Panama. A ColombianJMar ship undertook to bombard th^Rbelllous city, but the United States authorities ordered it to desist. South Carolina had areguarly elect ed Governor and State Legislature and the aCt of secession was deliberate and orderly. Great Britain or any foreign Power, aft^er tbe fall of Fort Sumter, could have recoguized it as an independent State with more con sistency than the Government at Washington could recognize the junta government at Panama. Second- Hampton, Bamberg, Barn well,, Killed a Millionaire. Joseph Furlong, of St. Louis, tbe traveling man who shot to death Irv ing McDonald, the'young millionare Sunday morning at tbe Hotel Metro- pole, was acquitted by a coroner’s jury and discharged from custody. Fur long, in company with Wm. Lynch, another traveling man, Mrs. Lester -Myrick aod Miss. Grace Holt of Governor’s Son” Theatrical company, visited a cafe late Saturday night and started for their hotels in tbe morn log. They were followed by four young men, McDonald amoung them, and in a fight at tbe hotel, McDonald was shot through the stomach. Iwn» A Fatal Explosion. - By an eipLoslOn of dynamite in a burning store at Sharon, Mich., three men were killed and a fourth so verely injured that he may die. Tbe fin origntated in a general store, it la supposed, from an overheated stove, *j*!** 7 The blase spread quickly aod iu the of-tbe moment, evpry oat PLAIN TALK About Brihsrj Methods in tho House . , .'of Hepresehtativos/v'- 1%. A MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN Uses Language About Major Geoeral Wood That la Too Bcandal- ous and Libelous to " Print. . \ * ' Wednesday was a warm day In the House of Representatives at Washing ton. Cuban matters were being dis cussed. Tbe features of the day were the Speeches of Mr. Grosvenor^of Ohio, who opened the discussion in ad vocacy of the bill, and of Mr. Fordney, of Michigan, Who spoke in opposition. Mr. Grosvenir spoke for more than an hour, during, which he was frequently Interrupted by questions emenatlng from the Democratic side. Mr. Ford ney and two of his Republican col- the l leagues from Michigan spoke in oppo- T0 PENSION THE FAITHFUL. A TERRIBLE CRIME Prominent those poor starving Cubans” 120,000 which be had paid Thurber to influ ence legislation.’ “Oh, wbkt action by, a high offi cial,” continued Mr. Fordney. “He _ . . . — * claimed that tbe Cubans weee eUr*-|~ — Maylaid and Murdered, ing and then reached hie long fingers into the Cuban treasury and banded out 120,000 to this and here Mr. Fordney toalled names which might be considered libelous uttered any where save in congress. Mr: Fordney »*ld Gen. Wood had Important Action Taken by tbe At lantic Coast Line Railroad. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the atlantic Coast Line rail way was held at Richmond, Va., Tues- day. — - . ~ " The following offeers were elected: R.' G. Erwin, president; Alexander lamilton, first vice president; C. S. Gadsden, second vice president; T. M. meroon, third vice preSicteat; J. R. Kenly, fourth vice piesident. Board of directors—Michael Jen kins, Waldo Newcomer, H. Walters and W. G. Elliott of Baltimore; F. W. Scott, Richmond, Va.; E. B. Borden, Goldsboro N. C.; J. H. Estill, Savan nab, Ga.; M. F. Plant, New, Yorx; Donald McRae, Willmington, N. ,C.; L B. Short, Lake iV&ccamaw, N. C.; J. J. Liu-iis. Society Hill, S. dcAlex- ander Hamilton, Petersburg, 'Va^ The board of directors elected the following: H. Walters, chairman;IH. L. Bord en, secretary and assistant treasurer, New York; James E. Post, treasurer, Wilmington. N. C-; R- D. Cronly, as sistant secretary, Baltimore; W. R. Sullivan assistant secretary, New York; W. R. Jones, assistant treasur er, Richmond; J. J. Nellijan, assist ant treasure, Baltimore; C. C. Oloey, assistant treasurer, Charleston, S. C.; M. Lee, assistant treasurer. Savan nah, Ga.; J. R. Kenly, general mana ger, Wilmington, Nf<L; H. M. Emer son, traffic manager) Wilmington, N. C.; H. G. Prince," comptroller, Wil mington, N. C.; W. G. Elliott, gener- al.cuunsel, Baltimore, Md. A dividend of 2-1-2 per cent, was declared on the common stock payable Jan. 10, 1904. One of the features of the meeting was the adoption of a resolution au thorizing the board of directors to es tablish a board of pension by which pension will be paid offeers and em ployes of tbe road on tbe basis of ser vice and age. The annual report of tbe officers of the company shows the following financial condition of the road: - Gross earnings 119.682.455.60. operating ex- penses 111,919,’336.59;..net earnings 17,7.72.119.01;" other income 11,152,- 952.J4; total Income SR.925^>71.3&^de- ductioos from income $7,646,118.08: it veil Aiken, Edgefield - . Third—Sumter, Florence, burg, Clarendon, Lee. * Fourth—Chesterfield, Marion, Mar boro, Darlington.^ Fifth—Saluda, lUcIland, Lexington psoy Kershaw. ———.: .v-4 Sixth—York, Lancaster, Fairfield, Chester. .—: - Seventh—Cherokee, Union, Spar tanburg. ; „ Eighth—Laurens Newberry, Green wood, Abbeville. x, , / Ninth-Charleston, Berkley, George town Horry. Tenth-Greenville, Pickens, Oconee, Anderson. The niptb circuit would be gompos- ed of Charleston. Berkeley, ‘George town and Horry. The tenth circuit would include all of tbe''' s ‘ffgbttng eighth” with Abbeville left out—An derson, Greenville, Oconee and Pick ens. surplus income for year, 91,278,953.22. IeO shows that the company owns 3,999.26 miles of track and oper ates under lease 139.61 mites, making a total of 4,138.87 mites by £he com- THE MAGILL BILL. Mr. Maglll worked out bis plan in accordance with the census statistics. Tbe population of the State IiJ,340,- 316. Tbe unit, if tty clrtuits could be made unlforaL would be 168,750 for eight circuits, of 134,000 for 10 circuits, k His bill prop^xes tbe follow ing groupings: ^ . < First Circuit—Orangeburg, Bam- 'berg, Colleton and Dorchester, populs- Seoood—Aiken, Barnwell, ton, Beaufort; population 133,769 Third--Sumter, Clarendon, Wil liamsburg, Florence; 121,580. Fourth—Chesterfield, Darlington, Marlboro, Marion, Horry; 136,973. Fifth—Lexington, Richland', Ker shaw, Lee; 117,649. Sixth—Fairfield, Cheater, lancas- ter, York; Cherokee; 145,395. s Seventh—Greenville, Spartanburg, Union, 144<fi&L Eighth—Abbeville, Anderson, Ooo- A Remarkable Cane. y Mr. E. W. Dodge, of Augusta,’Cfe tells Tbe Herald (A that city of the following peculiar agricultural inci dent: A gentleman, who formerly lived near Augusta, but now a resi dent of Goldsboro, N. C:, was setting out some tiny collard plants in bis garden in tbe spring of tbis year, and lost bis eyeglasses, which be diligent ly looked for, but couldn’t find. La ter, however, when, in tbe fall be was gathering the collards for use, he was astonished to ' find bis eye-glasses perched upon the top of one of tbe oollards. where they had fallen when the little plant was first placed in tne ground and with which they had grown up. He Wee Bounced. Prof. Spencer Bassett, occupying tbe chair of English at T’rlnlty col lege, Durham, N. C., has tendered his resignation and tbe trustees will act on it Tuesday night. Prof. Bas- sett’s resignation is due to the fierce ciiticism of the press on his article in Tbe Atlantic Quarterly on tbe negro Hamp-j question 1 in which be stated that Booker Washington is the greatest man, except Geq. Lee, born in tbe South, in a hundred yean. College patrons were threatening to withdraw pupils and Methodist churches were demanding Prof. Bassett’s dismissal. the lament, every one dynamite Ming Ninth—Obarteeton, Berkley, George Shelton died town; 141,216. _ Begged for Hie Life. 'At Alpine^ Ky., at prayermeeting Jamee Shelton, aged 22, and Denny Hayee, aged 26, engaged in an alterca tion when Hayee drew a knife and stabbed Shelton in tbe right breast, in 15 minutes. Shelton Newberry, Green- 178. Hayee not to kill him tehe 3ayes is a sition to the bill. Mr. .Fordney em phatically expressed his disapproval of tha. msMiuft , ■ Jl0 , . TJi ^ Mr. Grosvenor observed that noth ing would be more destructive than to have the Democrats come into power, but that was an impossibility for the next two years. U plying to the re marks of Mr. Swanson of Virginia, be said there need be no fear of retalia tion from a country which could hot live 90 days without purchasing food supplies from the outside. Answer ing a statement made by Mr. Clark of Missouri as to conditions existing when Mr. Cleveland went in as presi dent, Mr. Grosvenor said: “Immediately upon the election of Cleveland there was practically Sup pression of the income of the revenues of the government into the treasury of tbe United States. It was natural; was inevitable. It would happen if somebody other than Roose- should be elected president next year,” While speaking of the prospects for the Democratic party Mr. Clark of Missouri asked If Mr. Grosvenor knew that of ^he > 19 men convicted In St. Louis. 16 were Republicans. “I don’t know,” replied Mr. Grosve nor, .“but if that is true, it don’t speak well for tbe fairness of the ad ministration of justice.” Mr. Grosveuor replying to the Ktatement of Mr. Clark of Missouri as to tbe 'probability of tbe Democrats gaining control of the next congress and electing the next president, said he would show what the result would be. Tbe Democrats, he ’said, would carry Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten nessee, Texas Missouri and Virginia. ' Mr. Suker of New York—And you might add New York. Mr. Grovenor—I might add Ohio, but I won't. (Laughter on Republi can side.) He said the Democrats would find some fighting ground in Delaware, and Idaho (pcfealbly); Mary- and, he said, was*in doObt, Monianal somewhat doubtful. "I put New York in tbis column against my own judgment,” he said, adding that if the Democrats do not carry New York city by double the vote glven^Mr. McClellan, they would be defeated tn that State. He said this gave the Democrats 151 votes and 62 doubtful. He then named the following Republican States: California, Colorado, Con necticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan-, sas, M|ine, Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hamp shire, New Jersey, No;tb Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washing ton, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyo^ mlng, with a total of 263 yotes, . Answering Mj. Swanson’s state ments as to retaliation by Russia, Great Britain and other countries, Mr. Grosveoor said he will take care of Russia, saying she is our friend; also take care uf England, remarking that she has good sense. . Mr. Richardson, of Alabama, said tbe benefit of the cotton industry of the south which will result from tbe 40 per oentr deduction on cotton goods schedule in the Cuban treaty was the reason for his support. There ire other interests involved in tty treaty besides sugar. Tbe South, he said, had Increased the oumber tou spindles iu the last three times the increase of spim Great Britain ang New England com bined. Commercial expansion of our foreign trade is what we need and must have. The isthmian canal is our earnest hope. ~ , Mr. Fordney reviewed the history of tbe beet sugar industry pointing out how it would be injured by tbe passage of the bill. Continuing be said: “Someone has said it makes no difffereflee whether you put this meas ure inUflaw or not. if that is so, why was E. T _F. Atkin of Boston here nearly two years ago. Why was that? (Here Mr. Fordney used adjectives which are considered libelous iu most newspapers.) “Tburtyr here; been here, be has, speaking around the cap- itol ever since I have been in congress —who afterward admitted that he was paid by the sugar trust apd lied when before the committee o^ways and means, when the gentle Minnesota (Mr. T<Vney) asked he had received any . money Havemeyer of tbe sugar trust in way, shape of manner, and be no, bat a ftw days later when pi upon oath, he testified that he had received money- from Havemeyer and be also testified that he had received money directly from Maj. Gen. Wood, military governor of Cuba.” Fordney testified before a senate committee hat he bad searched tbe whole Island and that all tbe sugar he could find that belonged to the trust was 3,285 tons. “A few days later Mr. Havemeyer testified that the sugar trust had 93,- 000 loos of sugar in Cuba. Wood ooly missed it by 90,000 tons,” Mr. Burgess (Dem.) of Texas, char acterized the bill aa an outrage and said bis party could not hope for suc cess at tbe polls next year if ft con tinued tbe policy of making , tariff agreements affecting tbe agricultural and stock interests of the country. Reading on extract from an article written by Thomas B. Reed, Mr. Bur gess said “tbis simply, means stripped of all verbiage and bare facts stated, Hte Head Was Crashed by from Behind! and Hie Money Htolen. Several N« . Under Afreet. Cuban funds on vouchers issued by Leonard Wood, endorsed by the war department of this administration, "reciting on their faces that they were for tbe purpose of influencing public opinion Id the United States th favor of this bin. More Dispensary Halts. A third action has been Instituted against dispensary constables in Charleston, to notice received at the state board in taking away tbe prof its o! tbe city of Charleston. Tbe suit gives notice that.. Rudolph D. Wleters has |led claims against Gid eon, Bateman, May, Hoye, and Grady dispensary constables, and their bondsmen for the sum of 9560 each for damages. A few days ago Welters filed suit in tbe United States court for 910,000 damages, and also began criminal action in the circuit court of Charleston, tnere being some trouble, at tbe time over tbe bond. This last suit Is In the state oourte also, making three separate actions against these men. Tbe oonstabii and represented In the State oourts also, making three separate actions against these men. Tbe constables are represented in the state courts by Messrs. Bellinger, Townsend and Haskell, of this city, and In' tbe United States court by tbe attorney general’ The last move is regarded with much surprise in offeial circles. Found Starving. Mrs. Rosalie McMahon was f< lying stupefied in a cellar in York Wednesday night by Detective Bbtebtes, of tty Thirteenth street po lice station. With her was her ten- year-old sqp, Harry, a sickly, emaci- ated chlld. Shlebles’s attention was attracted by tbe cbild’a sobbing. The little one blinked at the dark lantern which the detective flashed about the cold damp cellar and clung closer to tbe form beside him. Tbe detective kindly accosted tty-boy, who said that be aod his mother were starving and cold. They bad nothing to eat for two days, and bad not bad a roof they might call their Own over their heads for several weeks. The little fellow said that he and his mother bad wan dered about all day too proud to beg aod seeking vainly in refuse barrels for something that could be eaten. Finally, worn out with cold and ex- The town of Bamberg was shocked and thrown into a state of excitement Thursday night Ovey^one of the bold est and moat high-handed mardera that has ever happened in this State. The following account of the dastnNk. ly crime we take from Tbe State: Mr. M. B. Yarn, a prominent mer chant of Bamberg, left hit store on Main street Thursday night about 9 o'clock to go home. He lived In the southeasteru part of town, oh Carlisle street, nearly a mile from the bustneM portion of town. He did not urlvu usual hoax, so about 9.101 bis wife became alarmed and started out, accompanied by one of her little sons, to see what was tbe matter. About 100 yards from bar nearly intrant of the residence of Mr. G. P. Harmon, they stnmbled over Mr. Yarn’s body lying on the sidewalk on his face In a pool of blood, with tbe whole back of hit bead crushed in, a gbssttf* sight. His skull was frac tured, be was unconscious and never spoke afterwards. Tbe alarm was raised, several neigh bors hurried to the scene and tbs man so badly done to death was tyrrtsd to bis home. Physicians were bietily summoned but nothing could be done died at 10.15 o’clock. He was hit twice in the hack of the bead with some heavy blunt Instrument, the na ture of which has not been determ ined. An axe handle and fe heavy piece of Iron, a part of a boggy spring, apparently,'were found In gbe street not very far from tbe body, hot no blood was on either. iSro men evidently did tbe Ulllag, ae two different traoke were found at the body, ae well as on a vacant lot bn tbe street near town where they bad sat down In the weedslaod watch ed for their victim to past. When ba came they followed a short until a favorable opportunity striking the fatal blow Itself. v Mr. Yarn usually took htt money home at night in a UtUs sack. He did this Thursday night, oountli g it out in tbe presence of a gentleman from town and a negro. This sack was missing from tho body. From examination of his i b&ustton they had crept iuto the base ment. )—^ Boiled in • Vat. In yew York five workmen were er of her cot- Mt two years of spindles in from Injured by tbe collapse of s huge lard rendering Vat In a West Fortieth street establishment. Three of them will probably die. Tbe men were at work in tbe basement when tbe bot tom of a tank containing many gal lons of scalding grease suddenly gave and tbef men Were literally boiled. Instantly the grease became ignited and sbbn the basement was in flames. Tbe cries of three men could be heard by pedestrians in the street and aid was quickly rendered, by. the police and firemen, but the men bad almost been boiled alive before they could be rescued. Tty others were very serious ly hurt, but probably will reoovei;. la Deadly Duel. At Denver, Col., Rev. Felix M. Le- pastor of Mount Carmel Catholic and another Italian named Joe Sorlci, were fatally wounded to night in a duel supsosed to have arisen over a card game they were playing in the prelkt's apartment in tbe church building. Father Lepore was shot twice in the abdomen and onoe in the face, and Soriol whs shot once in the abdomen. There seems to have been no eye-witnesses to the affair and all those who were near are Italians and are very reticent about the shooting. Both were taken to St. Joseph’s hospital, where It is said they cannot recover. Nearly Wiped Oat. Remarkable fatality has attended the family of Peter Hickey, of Brook lyn. During the past week five members having dtod ltom typhoid fever in that time. Of six persons in the house- only one—a little daughter—re mains. She is still 111 aod probably #111 die. A priest who attended the family also contracted the disease and died. - Drowned Himself. Tbe ooroner’s Jury after an investi gation Into the death of Raynor Bell, whose body was found In tbe Pasquo tank river at Elixatet City, N. C., re turned a verdict that Bell came to was dis- book Fridy it is supposed to have con tained 98 or 910. In a small book in one of bis pockets #as le silver sod a 96 bill. Ha had some bills in another podket, which werer-not touched, tty robbers no doubt thinking he had all his money In the sack. His watch not gone. Magistrate W. W- LigbUey fann ed a jury of inquest Friday motelag, who viewed the body at the took Mrs. Yarn’s testimony sembled st the court boose, attending physicians were No light was thrown on tty tragedy aod ttyy adjourned until a more thorough Investigation. Three negroes have on suspicion and are now In Jail—Joe I'Robinaoo, Ned Warren and TomlCa- tery. Robinson and Warren formerly drove a dray for Mr. Yarn and he has had some trouble with both of them. Last summer Robinson, after work ing for Mr. Yarn some months, bought a horse and wagon and started a dray of his own, naturally fafrMng from some of Mr. Yarn's tomera. Recently working for Mr. Yarn, hot charged last Saturday, as hit for collections were not On Monday Robinson got a wagon for Warren and up in business and Mr. .Yam and Robinson bad some words a&outthis, so it is understood. Tbe shoes of each weie-taken-eC after their arrest and fitted to the tracks on the vacant lot and at the body and It Is said they fitted exactly. Matery it an associate ofthsas two and It is thought that be knows some thing about the murder. The dead man had been cautioned about his practice of carrying his money home at night sod whoever did the killing evidently knew of this habit of hla. * His wife tesUfied that a few montfaa ago two men followed bin with a shotgun, bat did not him. They acted auspiciously and ty told bis wife about It after home, saying that in the dark of the street they, walked fM under the lights they slacked ap.' An effort was made Thursday Bight to get bloodhounds for the porooas of trailing tbe murderers, buttfiej could not be obtained in time. The negsa who saw. him pot his money In hla pocket Thursday night la not known. Tbe town baa been saddened and horrified at this awful osaimnoi happening right On one of. pal streets of the evening, but ell la night aod there le a the law taka Its ^ our this morning and •200 for tba subscriptions like i Iv-.v 7s ItaJ.Qm. Wood, lorn death by rooks to