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BABNWKLL, S. 0„ THUBfiDAY, JUNE 8 1005.
NO. 40.
A CLOSE GALL.
One Hondred and Ten Convicts
in Penitentiary Poisoned.
PAMS GREEN USED.
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U Wat Pat la fcM WWI .WldAJBl
Coavicta Ate for Diaaer. Parti*
dca af the PoUoa Uaed Hare
Beea Discovered ia aad
Aboat the Kitchea.
f The State of Thursday said there
has been a lot of lllneas among the
convicts at the penitentiary within
the last 24 hoars and It is known that
tbo 110 or more who were made sick
suddenly had partaken cf green vega
tables oeokad in a large pot. None of
the 800 conviots was affected except
the ones who ate of the cabbage thus
prepared, and it ia believed that the
pdaonlng was not dae to any mischiev
ous intent. Col. D. J. Griffith, super
intendent of the penlt* ntiary, stated
that nearly all of the alck had left the
aflraaary with ti e tkoeptloo cf a few
bo were not well anyway, end there
no casual ties of a serious na
ture.
The convicts who were made alck
ate of cabbage cooked in a pot whiob
. bad not teen ustd for some time,, al
though the cooks declared that they
cleaned the vessel thoroughly. It is
customary to put a little soda Into
the vegetables to fsd litate the oock
log| and it is possible that the action
of the soda on the iron of the pot form
ed a chemical change which nauseated
the prisoners who ate of the vegeta
bles prepared therein.
The nausea appeared so soon after
the- dinner meal that all of the din
ner had not teen cleared away, and
acme of the vegetables were sent to
Dr. W. 8. Burney, the State chemist,
who was asked to make a careful
analysis His report bad not been made
Wednesday night. It is hardly pro
liable that the omvicts engaged In
-«fatheriDg the v< getables and in pre
TO OUT THE RKWAED.
A Williamsburg Kan Ewers Away
the Liberty of a Negro.
A ROUTED ARMY
n I1UU1LU nillTI I •Ibbe brigade on the extreme left was
almost wiped out. Had Btldertng re*
Japs Aad Russians Pictured On
The March And In Battle.
Peculiar Gaae Brought to Attention j
of Gov. Heyward la u Petition
for Pardon.
The State says Gov. Heyward has
been asked to pardon a WilUamtbarg
man who has served severnl years of:
sentence after having bsen convicted
unjustly, It seems. Tha negro was
frightened Into making a confession
by a white man who wanted the re
ward of 8300.
John Harrison was convicted of
bavlcg killed Alfred Singletary and
wu sent to the penitentiary for lift)
Now o me several sffldanto who testify
l ist Harrieon was at the store of J
M. Brown, 13 mita away, at the time
of the killing. - Mr. F. Barron Grier,
who represented Solicit r Wil-on at
the trial, declares the n<gro deserving
of a pardon. Judge Gary Interpose*
no objection alih ugh the esse is no;
fresh in his msmory.
But the singular part about this
case is that one Gao. W Arms tried
to swear away the liberty of the ac
cased because s reward of 1300 had
been offered. It is probable that
Arms will be indicted on his own evi
dence against himself. His affidavit
Ifl SS follows:
“George W. Arms, who being duly
sworn, says that be remembers the
trial and conviction of John Harrison
for murder, with a recommendation
fot mercy at the court of genera see
ftions for said county and State, and
that be is now aware of the fact that
the said Harr turn Is conlined in the
State prison for tbs remainder of hi*
natural Ufa.
“That at the time of tbe trial of
the said Harrison thlsdrp tuent work
ed at the jiU, and it was to him that
tbe said Harrison made his confession
acknowledging the murder of Single
tary; this deponent desires to state
how said confession was obtained in
order that justice may be done. Prior
to ,the trial of Harrlsion be was in
caret rated in tbe jail at Kingstre*;
this deponent, In order to get evidence
on which to convict said Harrison
appeared at night at the cell door of
tne aald Harrison sad then and there
with tbe use of a chain tried to soars
the said Hairlson Into s confession.
After working this scheme for several
nights the said Harrison complained
to thh* deponent of ihe occurrence and
this d( ponent told tbe said Harrison
MUKDEN CAMPAIGN.
poised Kuroki two or three days at]
iJie Hunho the Russian reserves might
na^e been able to tarn the tide et!
Mukden Good generalship and good
fortune made history otherwise. Ku-
ropatkln had hiftrled his reserves from
| Mukden east to Foshan as the Jap
anese had planned that he should, and
then hurried them back to Mukden,
but only too late. The Japanese cen
tre army from KurokTs left Was posh
ing past Mukden to the north and
Quess tne men were unnerTea or
strain of long fighting, bat tbs
rlans captured earlier in tbe.wif
themselves with the dignity of
The Csptnre of Two Whole Regimests of
Russians, at One Time. Some Rus
sians Sadly Frightened when
•s?; , r ttvynscw;*..*
~ Cornered. One Hondred
Thonsaad Prisoners.
Doobtlem tho men were unnerved by
the ttrift"
Siberians
bote
soldiers. Whether the Buropoen
troop* who hair* been sent to the eest
are tbe beet quality of tbe Russian
army there is no means of judging,
but certainly they have not compared
favorably in physique or fighting qual
ities with the Siberians, particularly
the east Siber'an sharpslnoters. That
is tbe opinion of the Japanese offloeis.
Tha total of prisoners taken that day
wss nearly 4,000. They were a fierce
and savage looking crowd, aU wearing
big black or white sheepskin hats,
COTTON LETTER.
iff Theodore H. Price, With Vifaresj
Pointing to a Email Crop.
VIOLENT DE1TH
Hie Report, Oovertac the Ootton Belt, |
Ohowa a Dcoraaaa of SOA Par
Oaat. Over Laet Fear.
| Of A Man Who Had Prevkwsly
Killed Two Men.
—
Kuroki’s left division was marching
till farther north protecting its right I many in dirty fur ooats, meat of them
lank. Having lost ths Hunho the Rus-| heavily TMrded, all unwashed for
paring them could have been so mall
dons as to want to poison tb< ir fallow
prisoners, but if there was any thing
of tbe kind done it will not be difficult
to find the ones guilty. Capt. Griffith
“iiehf very much relitv.d after all is
over because rone of tbe prisoner*
failed to respond Immediately t« treat
ment and all will be If well as usual | that be bad lest oonfe>s as Bounds be
in a day or two
▲BfXNIC IN THE POT.
Tbe Slate tf Friday says there wss
linlbie-4i> the dinner that poisoned
tbe convicts. Dr. W. B. Burney, tbe
Stats ohsmlst, has not made bis form
8) xeport of the analysis undertaken
at the request of Capt. D J. Griffith,
superlot* ndent of the penitentlar
but he raid informally Thursday night
that he had discovered the presence of
arsenic in considerable quantity in the
•ample sent him for ex»mlnation.
Supt. Griffith and Capt. W. W. Adams
flpptftin of the guard, made a an in-
j^^vestlgatlcn Weonescay and Thursday
Hind they btv* arrived at tbe conclu
^gicn that the poi*on was put into the
cabbage with malice, and the psrfcy
guilty of the crime has tseu spotted.
As It wss stated Tburtday the con
victs were Bickered by eating of din
ner of cabbage ccoked in a large pot.
Thinking that net even a convict
shtuld be so inhumanly depraved as
to seel to poislcn tis fellrvr convicts
in such a manner, Capt Gr filth was
disposed at first to bell've it, possible
that there might have been some
obemlcal change brought about by rea
boo of the fact that the cabbages were
and tf at rods had been used to fariH
tat* the prooes of cooking.
THE POISON POUND.
Thursday experiments were made
with the sample pot and with ot^er
pots. It wss found that In no esse did
the cabbage show any signs of poison
from tbe use of soda in the cooking
Butin a perfectly clean pot used dally
some of the green poison on tbe window
added. Tbe color imparted to the
heard was the ghost of Singletary.
Even with this pressure being brought
to bear upon tne feelings of said Har
rison, be still. maintained his Inno
cence. Finding that this procedure
would not work the results wished,
this deponent then appeared at the
cell doer ol the said Harrison covered
with a white sheet and demanded
then and there that he make his con
f. salon, and it was upon this action
tbe said confseslon was made Thi*
deponent was a witness in the said
case against Harrison on bis trial
and told his confession in court, and
he now hoseftly believes that Harri
son being an ignorant negro and be
ing scared, made this confession
through fear and under duress and by
being worked upon by the various’
methods set forth in this affidavit.
After the making of this confest>loo it
was scattered and talked about
through the entire county and worked
considerable feeling against Harrison
on his trial.
“The reason this deponent tried to
get evidt^poe to oonvtct said Harrison
was to try and get the reward of 8300
which had bien offered by tbe gjver
nor for proof to convict.”
The governor has written the fol
lowing Utter to Solicitor Wilson in
regard to the case: -
I have before me a petition asking
for the pardoo of John Harrison, who
was convicted In the court of general
sessions of Williamsburg county in
1895 of murder with recommendation
to mercy.
“In the record you will note that
there Is ait affidavit from George W.
Arms, wherein he states that the said
John Harrison was convicted upon s
w-bbage was the same as that observed I confession obtained from him while
in the dinner that made the con viol* working In tbe Jvil, by means that
•kk Convicts ate volunUlrly with no scared the defendant Into a coni
had ’ effects resulting from the greens sion, assigning the reason that dep
oonfes
bad effects resulting frqm the green* 1 sion, assigning me reason mat depm-
cooked with soda Of course none 1 of U nt tried to get the evidence in order
them would try the mess cooked with to secure the reward of 8300 offered
by tbe governor for proof to convict
And the deponent further alleging
that he honestly believed that the
said Harrison, being an Ignorant ne
| gro, and being soared, made this con
fession through fear and under duress,
being worked upon by tbe vailiu*
methods set forth in th • petit! m.
‘Tf tne effect of the guilty oonfes
Paris green.
Paris green contaius arsenic. There
for* It Is probable that tbe dinner wss
poisoned with malice aforethought.
There has been Paris green in the sup
room at tbe psr ittntiary and some of
It tad been used s few weeks ago to
kill bugs on tte Irish potatoes. Tours
day Cant Gr ffltb found traces of the ^ _
neen polsen on the window sill of the sion were obUined in such a manner
SinVroom and in one of the gut and by such means as are alleged by
ten near the kitchen was found mors deponent, It is manifest that such is
Sun Quantity of a spoonful!. Taking not conducive to Justice. And while
in connection with the feet that 1 appreciate tha fact that you
Dr Buraev has found arsenic In the not the prosecuting atto
LieronitTueX it would appear case-being m at Uie time-a. sollc.
Setone or more of the convicts may tor of that circuit 1 respwfully re
ifound guilty of a diabolio attempt | quest that you Investigate the
t wholesale murder. —
The naval conflict in which the Bus-
Jan fleet was distroyed has been va
riously distir guished as the battle of
n Straits and the battle of
Tin Island. A/^SlKl Togo telegraphs
toTuktothat' Is naval battle fought
from the afterlAon of Mai 27 to Hay
i vicinity of Qkjno laiand and
re
fects
ast forth in the petition, and the affi
davit which I herewith return to you.
“I enclose complete record In order
that you may note that an alibi Is
urged as a reason for the pardon.”
is called the naval battle of
» That settles t*.
Mioee Did U.
United States Minister Grlsoom,
who Is stationed at Toklo, In his re
port calls /attention to tbe fact tha
Japanese torpedo operations
Headquarters of Gen Kurokrs Arrnv,
near Tlebllng, March 25.—The first
realisation of tbe Immensity of tbe Js
panese forces was brought home to th*
observer when the two central armlet
roiled across the Shaho on the morn
ing of the 8th of March In the wake > f
the retreating Rut'siana. Htthero
during the battle parts of two or tore*
hrigalesof infantry, with a few batta
lions of reserves, a d z n or more bat
terles, with pack trains and fiel'l h s
pttals, were all that one person toold
see in the mountainous country of ih«
great armies engaged. But when tin
whole array moved northward with it-
impediments following it wss an 1m
press!ve hoefc. Linking from the
heights where the Russian bitteries
had been, one could *ee many khaki-
colored provsdons for miles on either
hand, emerging frm tbe valleys and
pass* s where tbe Japanese had b-en
corc ntrating since October, stream
ing aoro-s tbe dry bed of the river and
the narrow channels of ice and wind
ing away among toe hare hills anr
sandy plains northward. It was a bus
ine*s like army, swathed in dark blue
and kr akl with no spectacular show o’
gold braid, nor brass, and hardly a
touch of oolnr except the scarlet blank
ets worn over tne sUolders. M<*t of
tbe ranks were boys yet, but toe»
were toughened by a vear of campaign
log into bardy veterans. They plod
ed oo silently, as usual with no sh ow
of rejoicing over victory, without con
fusion or excited officers. Japanese do
minion over Manobu r la was spreading
at the rate of two miles an hour. By
cue river banks were fields of kaoliang
which had stood unharvested since fall
between the lines of hostile cannon,
and through these were swarming men,
women and chlldfeh, reiplhg andsiiai.k
mg their crops. The coinamaa frit
ters away no time gaping at victorious
armies when a few dollars are to b;
gathered.
For 10 days from that morning the
who e o uutry within the eros of* the
fighting was covered with a midst of
fine dust stirred up by the. feet of
more than a million men and animals.
Itnever settled for a minute, it chock
ed the throat and'blinded the eyes,
lifted under clothing, made food grit
ty aod turned all water into mud. The
flames from burning bouses and stacks
of grain showed through it in the night
like tbe moon through fog. The sand
storms, which began on the second
day of the pursuit and continued at
intervals for a week, cam? from the
north directly into tbe faces of the
Japanese and made the discomfort and
Hardship worse There was a great
o mtraat between the Country south of
the Shaho and north of it. The vil
lages toward Mukden were larger and
more prosperous, with better buildings,
and the picturesque temples and tombs
surrounded by groves of dark green
firs made a welcome panorama to the
eyeaof tbe men from beautiful Japan,
who had spent months among the
dreary and monotonous hills Uhlnese
families gathered in front of their
houses and gre-ted the Japanese with
shouts. Doubtless they were equally
ready to acclaim the Russians, and
denounce the Japanese when it was
politic. Outside the large towns Chi
nese officials wearing tbtlr robes of
office and buttons on their caps, with
banners and soldiers In gaudy uni
ft rms, received tbe Japanese generals,
and Gen. Kuroki and bis staff rode
iuto the village where bis- hea quar
ters Are now through a double file of
villagers kneeling on both sides of the
road.
THE BUr SIAN RETREAT.
The brginnlng of tne R isslan re
treat from the Stiabo wan orderly and
they left a clean field. None of their
portable effects worth taking^had been
abandonei, except hundreds of stacks
of tin oases In the trenches and huts,
containing cartridges.
Toward evening of that day Gen
Kuroki’s troops'overtook their rear
guards eight or nine miles north of
ths Shaho and from that time the re
treat became a scramble for safety. At
the various supply stations huge piles
of grain were fired aod sm ulcered for
days. Toe pursuit outluued all
through tbe night of the eighth and
the right division of Kuroai’a army
came to the branch line of railroad
running from Mukden to the mines
at f usbun. On the morning of the 9bO
the sand storm began, which threw
both sides into confusion and made or
deriy retreat or pursuit on a large
scale impossible. AU tbe telegraph
wires connecting ‘
the different divisions were blown
down bo that eaon contingent proceed
ed largely on its own respoDsibltlty-.
The left division crossed the Hunno
under cover of tbe thick dost clouds
without a battle. Apparently the Rus
sian commander was afraid to risk
a defense on such a day even in the
elaborate works, whlyh
made th* Hanbo the most fi
sian central army left Mukden to Us
fate and continued Its now disorderly
retreat to Tiehllng. That all their
lead were left where they fell show
ed what the retreat had become. On
obe morning of the 10th, the left di
vision again enoountered the Russian
rear guard In considerable force north
east of Mukden and as the Russians
attempted to make a stud they were
beaten In two eog • gements, and in the
afternoon th; division arrived at tbe
town of Sana, 10 miles beyond Muk
den, and nn the main road from Muk
den to Tiehllng.
XARCHED DAT AND NIOBT.
Until toe 10th the army bad been
pushed forward day and night in the
face of every difficulty to draw tbe at
tention of the Russians from Mukden,
the men were nearly exhausted by
their forc<d march. The military
roads from Fushun toTiehlirg wound
along tbe plains among sharp hills
md the division followed this to got
to the north of Mukden while Gen.
Linevitoh took most of his men dl-
eotly north through the mjunta!ns
with the Japanese right army pursu
ing. Several times tne Japanese had
*narp brushes with the rear guard but
■no important aotion until the 14;h,
when tbeay approached the targe of
hgh aterp hills a yen miles aouti east
of Tiehllng which was strategically
tne strongest defense of the city.
Caere was a broad level plain in front
.f the bills and no avenue of approach
'of an attoOking force except to eross
^fatts plain under such covers as oculd
be found in the gudies aod behind oo*
oaslooal ridges. Consequently it was
d' cned to attempt the night attack
vlth the b»onet once more, and thus
the first Ud* of trenches below tbe
Sills was gained For the general
advance In tbe morning of the 14th
two battalions were assigned for tbe
frontal attack, one for a diversion on
the right and the large* force of
eight, on the left. A direct charge
upon the main trenches was tmpoesl
hie because ths slope before them was
almost too steep to be sealed even
with no resistance. A lower hill to
the west and in front was vulnerable
on Its west flank and after an artillery
engagement tbe main Jxxiy occupied
this Night stopped the fighting and
before morning the Russians had re
tired in baste leavirg 200 dead, while
the Japanese ban 809 casualties. The
last stand of the Russians before Tieh-
ilng was on a chain of hills 3,000 me-
tree southeast of She dtr-equipped
elaborately with a long chain of
trenches and well constructed gun
positions.while they held 24 hours.
Voile the general of division was re
oonnoiterlt g the positions on the af
ternoon of the 16th another Japanese
brigade from the south began to en
gage one of the Russian batteries
This partly exposed the Russian flank
to the enemy and 36 Japanese guns
were concentrated in a bombardment
of that position. Darkness again In*
terrupted the work after an hour’s
bombardment and again the Russians
retreated, abandoning without seri
ous resistance their most valuable de
pot between Mukden and Harbin,
which was their strongest military po
sition as well. Gen. Kuropetkin bad
oeen there In Mis special train until
the afternoon of the 15th, It
said. When the first Japanese oom
pany entered the settlement at 1 in
the mom log theyeaptured the sta
tion manter and twoother tffloers who
had b ;en left with orders to apply the
torch at the last moment, but only s
few buildings were burned and there
were valuable stores of munitions un
damaged.
N> A DRAMATIC ENCOUNTER.
No more dramatic encounter oo
ourred during this eventful week than
the capture of tbe Fifth and Nine
teenth regiments of Russian r fla*b/
Kuroki’s Mt division on the morning
of the Ilth. * In the panto whion pre
vailed at Mukden then these two regt
meats left at 3 in the m »rning with
no general command lag them, and a
mixed crowd of s ildlers from other or-
gahiitlons and followers attaching
themselves to the retreat. When the
two forces discovered one another
they quickly formed into fighting line
aod tne Russians came on with the
effiodr* In front of the ranks to out
their wav through. Tne contact was
so sadden that there was no confusion
at first, in wmoh the Japanese gene
ral and hit staff with two foreign at
taches came under the fire of the Jap
anees rifles and guns. Tha fight was
short and decisive. Toe Rumiaoa
could mot stand in the open fields un
der tfcfc Shrapnel and soon scattered
likesti*6p whlle many parties waved
towels and handkerchiefs, to surren
der. Toe Japanese had only 200 oaa-
days.
Among tne officers were
ral old men, one of them, a veteran of
the Rosso-Turkiah war, with a white
beard hanging to hts waist, who gave
his age as 72 Tbe nrxt morning
they went down the road In a big
cloud of dost—a long and picturesque
procession of dejected looking Moujlks,
with their officers riding in Ohlnsas
carts, and Jeering Mmeburians run
ning along the fltr.ki—to Join the
army of Rusdami in Japan whiob now
number nearly 100.000.
A CATXRPILL4R PLAGUE
A Train IStrppnd by MalMtndee oi
the Creeping insects.
Sometime ago some sections cf
Gedrgla were visited Ut a plague of
caterplllera, which became almrst un
bearable. For several days reports
had been going Into Savannah of the
ravages of the insects within a few
miles of the olty. Finally a represen
tative of the Augusta Chronicle visit
ed the stricken section and was as
tounded at the ait nation. The cater
plllers bad become a plague as de
struotiv* as any thait ever vialted the
west or committed depredation In
Biblical Hbbsi
Tbe peats actually overran a ohureh
and made It oofit for use. The
streams were so badly covered with
them that when It was decided to
have a baptizing on* Sunday; brush-
brooms had to be employed to dean
off the surface of the water. Two ne
gro families have been ran out of
their homes by tbe great horde cf
hungry, hairy things, and Rlobard
Dotson, who lived at Pooler, bad to
pot his entire family of twelve at
work to keep them from overrunning
his home. These are hard bat tine
stories of the plague.
The residents shout Pooler mr
rounded their homes with ditches to
keep the conquering army book. Oo
the turpentine farms of Judge F. 8
Lathrop, chairman of the board of
county commissioners of Chatham
Ooanty, work was at a standstill. AU
the turpentine boxes that had the
least gum In them had to be dipped
and thrown away, as the caterpillars
had crawled into them, stuck there
and died. At WlUis Station, on the
Seaboard railway, a freight train was
stalled by the caterpillars. Tbe dead
Insects caused such a stench-that tbe
people passing that way were made
siok. '
ALLXGXD Y0T1 FRAUDS.
The following ia Mr. Theodore H.
Price's cotton crop report for the
month of May, Issued from New York:
Herewith I submit my monthly re
port on tbe cotton crop, made up from
348 replies to a postal card inquiry
which oompriBed the following
lions:
What is the precentsge of increase
or decrease in cotton acreage in your
section as compared with last year?
What percentage of the total con
templated area has been planted upon
the date of your reply? ft*
Is the crop with you earlier or later
than the normal, and hew many days?
Expressed in percentage, what is
the present condition o f tbe crop in
rour section, assuming 100 per cent,
to be the standard of normal or reason
abft perfect development at this sea
son 9
This is ons of the most extensive
rqutriesever made by me. R-piles
lave bran received from 3,386 towns
n 806 cotton producing counties.
The total number of cotton producing
counties, aomdlng to tbe last Osnsu*
returns, is 822 so that the entire belt
may beregarued as having been effec
tively covered.
Tbe average date of my replies Is
May 19th, and tbe statement of con
dition does not, therefore, refl nt the
heavy damage caused hv the excessive
rains inTexti oo May 21*1.
Tor this reason tbe Government re
port, which Is made up from repUSa
as of tbe date of May 25tb, may per
haps show s lower condition than
that given by my corresp indents.
Last year tbe condition as reported
by my oorrespoodeme on the 20th of
each month during the growing sea
son averaged wltnin 4 points of that
reported by the Government, and the
average of my correspondents’ crop
estimates published bv ms on th* 3d
of November was 12,177 603, or within
14 903 bales of the estimate-of the
Agricultural Department published a
month later.
The details of my report, Stats by
State, wlU be found below.
Ttm indicated, decrease in acreage,
as compared with last year through
out tbe entire belt, la 17 3 per cent. ,
1%$ condition of the crop, assum
ing 100 p*r dent, to he the standard
of noimal or reasonably perfect de
velop mentat this season, 70.8 per
oent.
Of the total contemplated area, my
correspondents report that there had
been planted op to May 19th 79 per
cent. *■
Oa the average the crop is reported
later than the normal by 17 days
summary.
State. Replies. Decrease Condition
1 BAD CAKEEB ENDED
la the Street tf Meeifomirr, Ala.,
fcy His Censta, Whom Hs Had
Threateaed far Ksfastav
“ Him Money.
Judge Francis a Randolph, one of
the best known men in Alabama, was
shot and instantly killed Saturday af
ternoon by John Randolph, a second
oou In, In front of tbd latter's oOaa
on South Perry street Montgomery,
Ala.
There are several rumors as to the
cause of the tragedy, ths one given
most credence being that Judge Ran
dolph had demanded a loan of money
from hie slayer with the aroompsay-
ng threat that unless ths loan was
forthcoming violence would ensue
Toe "two men met Saturday after
noon and It is said that Judge Ran
dolph repeated his threats. John
Randolph presented a single-barrelled
reprating shotgun and Judge Ran
dolph attempted to draw a revolver,
whereupon John Randolph fired two
shots In quick succession, one enter
ing the heart aod the other tbe neek.
Either would have proved fatal. ^
A vast crowd, estimated at 1,900
penone, at onoa surrounded the aosns
of the tragedy and medioal aid was
summoned, but wen e physician ar
rived Judge Randolph was dead. His
slayer was arrested and placed in tha
bounty jail, where many friends called
daring tbe afternoon and Isoderod
any asslstaroa needed.
Judge Francis 0. Randolph had
killed two men, one in Alabama aad
another in Colombia, to which ooun*
try he fled from this state. Fbr tha
bomlotd* in Alabama ha was asqalt
ted, bat In Colombia be was ami tan sad
to death. Ha was in oloai
meat there for several years, dal
which time his friends bars aad
Fowr Men Arrested fbr
Making
Oclsuog highly sucoemful in the-late~ battle line of dsfense, perhaps
sod a maj rity of the large Russian | 0 wn
tmstiIs were sunk as a result mines.
his
msn were in a panto. Prubatdy
was tbs deelstv* day of tilt baa*
uallies while dead and wounded Rus
sians were all over the field. Daring
to* rest of tbe day tbe Japan*** were
occupied hunting for Russians In all
the sorfoonding country. They bed
broken up Into small parties, were
fleeing in every direction, boom toying
to get baek to Mukden, others to find
_ roads of neoape northward, and many
twl I hiding in tbe ravinss and in Chinese
bonsse. However brave they were la
fighting, when cornered mss
of tbesDeelvcs hardly
of sun of A
False Election Returns.
Three managers of election, M. L
Vox, George Bnsbee and J. A. Arm
Htrong, and a partisan, named T. D.
Mitchell, were arrested - Wednesday
morning in the town of Bnxkland,
across the Oongaree river from Colum
bia, charged with fraud against the
State election laws sod with conspir
acy on the ground that they made
false returns in tbe recant election
held there for the choice of an inten-
dfnt.
Busbee has turned State's evidenos,
hut Is too sick to be locked up The
others sr* behind the bars. Candidate
Gunnells, who was counted out toy
three votes, alleges that he bolds affl
davits from 117 out of the 151 voters
who participated In the election de
claring that they voted tor him. Fox
Is a grocery man and alleged blind
tiger, Busbee Is a oottoo mill opera
tlve. Armstrong is s mill operative
and clerk and Mitchell was a witnean
for the defence In the Jim Tillman
murder trial.
Intended G. B. McCombs, In whose
interest the alleged frauds were com
milled, escaped after an exciting
chase at 2 o’clock Wednesday morn
ing, near Cayoe. Learning that war
rants were out he and Fox skipped
together. They were overtaken by
a party of three special deputies.
When Fox and MoOombs were beaded
off suddenly, they showed fight. Mo
Combs reached for his revolver. Fox
then grabbed D. puty Mayen and a»
the latter was throwing him to tne
ground MoOomb* escaped, Just as the
other deputies came up Before Fox
grabbed him Mayen find twice at
McCotob* without eiLot.
Voelkereum Wm Hilled.
Rear Admiral Yoe kersam, com
mender of the battleship squadron of
tbs Russian fleet, wu killed the lint
day of tbe battl*,'*Hay 27, In tbe con
Ding tower of bis flagatnp, the battle
•hip Oelabya, on* of the vessels sunk
Iby the JapuM. It wag YoeUcsnsm’s
squadron, according to a report, whiob
fired on tbe British trawlen in the
North sea, mistaking them for Japan
ese torpedo boats.
Acreage per cent.
N. Carolina
616
20.6
79.4
S, Carolina
735
15.2
76.3
Georgia
1,194
14.5
83.5
B lor Ida
59
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80.5
Alabama
854
12.2 _
838
Mississippi
978
19.2
66.8
Louisiana
324
19.5
62.6
Texas
1,483
18.2
588
Arkansas
522
21.9
62.8
Tennessee
262
18.1
61.4
In Teiritory 160
18.8
74.9
Oklahoma
133
23.1
83.7
Missouri
14
159
82.8
Virginia
15
24.5
89
Total
7,346
17.3 avg
70.8 av
la Opeu Revolt.
The Russian army in Manohorla
said to be la a bad state. According to
dispatch from St. Petersburg the
tooopa an in open nvolt and oacnot
ba depended upon to do mneb fighting
The newspf Bo*
given as then
The outlook, as suggested by these
guns, Is of the gravest import to
tbe trade. The aggregate reduction
and acreage as compared With tbe
Government's figures of lut year of
the same date, indicate an initial
contraction In tha producing capacky
of tbe cotton area planted, or to be,
planted, of 29 5 par o nt. Admitting
hat the crop of 19U4-5 wa* 14 000 000
bales, tbe present indications punr to j vllie f »r their
a crop of 29.fr per cent. te«, or 9 8TO; -’ t ttt« ft tad ‘
000 bales, a sumlng that the- condi
tions hereafter are as p lenomenally
and unusually favorable u tbe grow
log and picking season of last year
proved to be. Tola is hardly prob
able, a 9
The deterioration in the crop con
ditlon, u reported by the Govern
ment bjt»e*-n the first of June sod
t> e first of October lut year wu only
2 par oent., the leaeton JgQjrd for
the put ten years, the average de
terioration during tbe tunmer and
autumn for th* previous nine years
having been 20 per oent.
Toe indicated acreage for the oun
ing season ia 2 674,000 acres less that,
that planted two years ago, and which
produced a commercial crop of only
10 066,000 bales.
The oonuttt n u reported by my
correspondents la 2.8 per cent, lower,
than tne condition reported by tiTe
G vernment In 1903. Only 79 per
cent, cf tbe arts ha* been planted
and the crop Is 17 days later loan the
normal, wbereu lut year’s crop wu
generally admitted to be two weeks
earlier toan the normal.
Spinners’ takings for the current
aeon will proabiy reach, if they do
not •exceed, 12,600,000 bales, and tbe
present rate of consumption undobted
ly calls fer another ere p of 12,000,000
bairn or over to adequately supply tne
worWa demarift Their* seesoa to be
no pro* pact of any such production,
but a possibility on the other hand of
a crop not over 10,500,000 and possib
ly toss than 10,000,000 bales. * .
Theodore H. Price.
to have the
muted. Judge Rmdolph finally ob
tained his liberty and returned •>
Montgomery. Soon afterwards be
wu tried on thirteen charts* of em
bezzlement, alleged to have been eoaa-
mitted daring hts incambeoey u paa
bate judge of Montgomery ooanty.
Since bis re tarn here be has bean
drinking freely and It ia alleged that
on several qocasioofibe bu threatened
tbe lives of Montgomery dtisaos. A
few weeks ago. Judge Rtodolph was
an nnsuooemful candioat* for tbe
Montgomery D>m otatto mayoralty
nomination. Theaapnmesonrtof toe
state s me time ago affirmed a decision
of tbe lower courts denying eross bills
from Judge Randolph and his wife,
both petitioning for divorce. In ad-
| ditlon to bar, ba ia survived by a mn
and four daughters.
Their Bwsgy Bwsmed.
A dispatch from Spartanburg says
Chief Grady and several of the toem
constables bad e lively time of it on a
raid in the Dark Corner Monday
night. Arriving- GowansvlUe, tbeir
vehicles broke do*d, and they seemed
anot her and pitted forward in their
quest of Illicit distilleries. Tbeir raid
carried ih into tbe lonely, oafre*
quented sections of corner, and they
♦ere fired on several times, but with
out results. Their search proved
fruitless, and, returning to Gov
■j
--- w..«ai
burned up by the irate moonshiners.
Tnelr bones bad not been molested
and the men seouied another carriage
and canoe on homo
Raiding Bltad Tu
At Charleston the “sLOial dub,*’
chartered blind tigers, continne to be
raided by the consiab es and much ex
citement pre va Is among tbe proprie
tors and members, especially at this
season of tbs year, when oold bear to
considered to be so very
especially with the
of oomf .rtable quarters, etoetotoftas,
etc. Tha raid of one dab Wednesday
night netted 24 gallons of high grads
«hiskey and nearly 1,000 bottles of
export beer. Tne renewed activity
of tbe ccostable* is said to ba dm to
specixl instructions from Columbia to
get after tbe violators of tbe law.
Raaataa Loapra.
Rough estimate* nude of the Roe*
■ On 1 »aa« in tbe battle f >ugbt In tta
era of J pan exclusive of nearly 4,008
pris ners, vary from seven to nine
th naand. It ia thought that tbe
majority perished. Calculating the
complements of tbs sunken sad sep
ta red ehlpe at upwards of 8sa ttwos*
and, seven thoosand men reaaata oa-
I accounted for. It to poribl* that ths
•dreamedsom of tha
of ths crews of the torn for*
tnossts ships. Many bodlsshave fiasa
was had ashore on the islands aad oa
tbe shore of tits neighboring eoam
under the soeoe of the betUa
«Ute.
Aaked lor si
An enterprising Atlsnta finn, ! ap ‘
cording toons of the Atlanta papers,
advertised among its sttraotioaa
‘ everything the bride-to-be would
need” nod an Augusta tody wrote
lasted lofai
Robert 0. Dai
of Baltimore, banft
and ran off tof
B. Noyce, a'
it, Md
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