The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, November 28, 1907, Image 1
A BAND OF; ROBBERS.
of Sooth Caroltna.—Po«t-
Ina^ecton Hqpe to Captore
of Three Who Comitted the
•t Seneca and NiaetpStt.
No One Knows Where They Are,
. <
Ths advice is being generally giv
en through the press of the State
warning the public to be on the look
out for yeggmen since the i»ln*ing
of the safes in a merchant’s store at
, Ninety-Six and of the postoffioe at
Senaca last week. The Charleston
Post says:
t The government secret service
men are following trails which they
have struck of the men who blew
_ the Senoca postofflce safe and the
yeggs may yet be bagged in Char-
■ Jeston drifting probably here in hope
getting protection among the
York, Who Are Trying
Yon to Bell Your Cotton to
Sdve Them Prom Loss.
vne or tnwmost desperate attempts
ever made to fob tho cotton planters
of the Booth o^ their hard earned
money Is now being mac^e in New
York by a Ibt of speculative gamblers
led on by Thos. H. Price. ’ A dispatch
frqmNew fork says great pressure
of
r '
large number of strangers who were
there for the festival.
Three men were in the Jobs, and
the reports from Senaca and other
places in the upper part of the state
tell of suspicious characters having
- been seen about the time of the safe
blowing and robbery.
One of these men is rather below
the medium height and is stout,- hav
ing dark hair and a dark complex
ion. ’Another of the. mentis-salA-to
be tall and slender and of lighter
. complexion. The men were between
thirty and thirty-five years of age
and were clean shaven, althongh
they may have since grown hair on
their faces.
A Senaca merchant is reported to
have sold laundry soap to k stranger
on the day of the robbery. Soap is a
very essential part of the equlptment
of the safe blower, as has been told
in reports of their omrattomi. The
edges of the safe door and the com
bination of the lock which is drilled
for the charge of nttroclyeerine are
always skillfully soaped to. deaden
the sound of the explosions.
The postofflce inspectors who are
now at work on the Senaca postofflce
robbery, have just Isued a notice,
psklng the merchants of the small
towns through the State, where the
yeggmen chiefly operate, to closely
scrutinise all men buying laundry
soap, and where arrests are made of
men having tools, dynamite caps,
glycerine.
etc. # - the authorltlee are
asked to wire at once to “The post-
office Inspector in charge. Atlanta,
Oa."
The Postofflce Department has of
each and every postofflce safe blower
who may be arrested, as a further
Incentive to the police authorities to
-et busy and assist In rounding np
this most dangerous class of crimi
nals
years of Immunity from the opera
tions of the yeggmen, which began
' In South Carolina with the Jobs of
the notorious Nolan-McKinley, who*
* ‘ ■ were convicted here and sent to the
Federal prison at Atlanta, this State
Is again to witness another aeries of
safe blowing Jobs, and to ward off
such operations the postal authori-
\ ties are making a special effort to
COTTON BOTHATE.
By the Commiiwtoners of Agriculture
' of Southern Mates.
The third and final day's session
of ths Southern States comlssloners
of agriculture and agricultural work
ers, was held Thursday In Columbia,
at 3 o'clock. The made the follow
ing eatimata for the cottoa crop for
this year:
Alabama.
Arkansas.
Florida..
Georgia
Indian territory..
Kentucky.. • • •.
Louislanna.. .....
Mississippi.. .. -•
Missouri
North Carolina .T ..
Oklahomk..
South Carolina ....
Tennessee .. y ..
Texas, •«
Virglnin.. - • — *
.>1,135,000
. ! 900,000
. . 46,000
. .i.175,000
. . 400,000
8.500
. . 750,000
..1,500,000
60,000
. . 532,*46
J. 435,677
., 1.090,607
. .. 3D6J00
. .*,560>00
16,000
sing brought to hear on’the cotton
irt
M
farmers ot the South to break the
cotton holding movement and force
the cotton on. the market In such
large, quantities that prices will be
■o depressed that the bears ran dose
out their market gamblers by shifting
their losses upon the farmers of the
Booth. ' ' •.
As December draws near and the
members of the ftlaujboar pool are
confronted with ^fffpf&Vbmty ofT
paying prices at pspptQt ruling in the
South, or even higher prices, for cot-
t°n With which to cover their short
December contracts, they are resort
ing to desperate means In the hope
of extricating themselves from a most
uncomfortable .position. Stories of
the wildest sort have been circulated
freeljL willi-lhe idea of convincing
the banking interests that the cotton
growers, by keeping their crop out
of the market until better prices
could be obtained, have deranged the
entire normal market for foreign ex
change and are adding to the money
stringency from which the country Is
sag—tew ... ■—
In this their efforts have beep en
tirely unavailing. The banking In
terests, knowing the_facta, have re
fused to take this view of the situa
tion.' They are satisfied' that the
trouble Ilea with the exchange mar
ket and not with the cotton market;
that it la_Jthe inability of buyers to
finance purchases that is delaying the
bringing of fresh gold from abroad.
The real trouble responsible for the
threatened equeese in December op
tions in New York is not due to a
speculative long Interest because none
exists; It is due to the tremendou’
short Interest. The bear pool, head-
ed by Theodore H. Price, Is currently
reported to be short more than 300,-
000 bales of the December option.
The fire is supposed to have orig
naled in the-floor. -beneaht an ever-Kgretnirby the clerk's deslt, sald in
terest are the futures brought by the
■pinners and exporters Who need the
cotton for legitimate manufacturing
and exporting. The need of the
hedge “longs' , haa Inspired the cur
rent premium. This also has given
an opportunity to the speculative
shorts to circulate a story that
some thousands of bales were being
to New Yo
■hipped back to New'York Yropi Liv
erpool to cover contracts. ' Tills
re
fer ed a standing rewarfi of 1200 for port, however, mpt a speedy death
through the action of foreign spin
ners in taking every available bale of
spot cotton in the Liverpool market
on the very day after the reshipment
story was started.
Then ths wily Price, who is in a
It is feared that after a conlpiw of trap, makes another move in the
hope of inducing the Soutbenr far-'
men to aid him to get cotton to New
York for the purpose of covering the
short contracts of hla pool, by widely
advertising to deliver currency to the
South In exchange for cotton. As
hla after ia good only to 90 per. cent.
6( the selling price of the cotton, and
aa he announced that the prevailing
New York premium on earrency, now
get next to the a^fe btowem at once, ranging anmnd four per cent., will
Total . .11,412,82$
The total for 1906 was 13,439,734
FOUR MEN KILLED.
By a Boiler Rxplosioa In a Virglnin
Mill.
Four men lost their lives and
another waa probably fatally Injured,
the result of a holler explosion at
Planing Mill No. 3 of the John L.
Roper Company, at Gllmerton, Va.
The dead:
8. E. Ferrell, white, carpenter.
L B. Borey. white, planer.
tt Wilson, colored, carpenter.
% R. B. Frank, colored, fireman.
The explosion > shock the entire
fend the planing mill
have to be paid by the cotton ship
pers, such a move is by no means
benevolent on Mr. Price’s part. It
also shows how badly Mr. Price wants
to get j&ttoo New York for. Deo
ember delivery.
The entire situation, as regards
December cotton, has resolved itself
into a struggle between the Price pool
on the one side and the tremendous
bona fide demand for the actual cot
ton op the other by the mills abd ex
porters. They resisted all the offers
of Price and the other men In the
bear pool to settle on margins, and
now, satisfied that the cotton on their
contracts is required for spinning and
exporting. Price and hla bear asso
ciates appear to realise that their on
ly chance to avert tremendous losses
on their transactions lies In a com-
plete breakdown of the entire holding
movement, thus'forcing the farmers
to sell their crop at rldlculasly low
prices.
It was not long ago that Mr. Price
was speaking disparagingly of what
he termed the New York "‘paper
contracts.” Now that he is heavily
short of these "paper contracts'* he
is surprised to find that the delivery
of actual cotton not only la wanted
bat Is demanded on them. If the
holding movement Is maintained at
Its present strength the Price bear
pool may be compelled to pay the
growers the price to which they are
entitled. It Is the chance of the
Southern growers to make them’pay
on the full basis. What aay the cot
ton farmers of the South to this
challenge of the men who have plun
dered them of millions of dollars in
the years gone by juid who are try
ing their old game again. Will they
surrender and allow themselves plun
dered by Price and his thieving spec-
SEVERAL ESCAPED.
The House Burned Daring the Night,
and the Members of the
hold Were Awakened by the
m<
ing Of a Dog.—Mother and Father
and Three Children Escaped, But
Were Burned to Death.
Six
A heartrending fire accident oc
curred near Titusville, Pa., in which
five children were burned to^death.
Awakened by the barking of hts dog,
Thoq^as W. Zuver, an oil producer,
found his house in flames. With dif
ficulty he saved his wife anff ^elr
baby. Two’ sons escaped from the
second story, but wer^ badly injured.
Five children were burned to death.
The dead:
Emory Zuver, aged 12..
Roland Zuver, kged 11.
Martha M. Zuver, aged 9..
Lettie J. Zuver, aged 7.
NeHie-R: Zuver,-aged 5.
The injured:
Nelson Zuver, aged 14, terribly
burned, will probably die.
Wilbur Zuver, aged 16, painfully
burned almut the hands and face;*
will racovcr. —-
hla death, but he was in excellent
health for a man ~of his years, and
that morning seemed particularly
alert. Only, a few days ago he re
marked to a friend how well he was
feeling, how he always so much
more enjoyed life in the fiill. He
was upder no particular strain this
morning in the court room.
The case he was engaged in was a
small damage suit case of Mrs. Mor-
ant against the* City of Columbia
on (Sccouqt-tof her property being ov
erflowed. —
He excused' himself to his fellow
attorney on the other side. Col. J.
Alien Green, and to the presiding
udge, Col. George Johnstone, and.
heated gas range. When Zuver was
awakened by the dog and sprang
from his bed the flames filled the
sitting room. He forced the window
sash out, calling to his wife to bring
the baby.
Climbing to the porch roof Zuver
met one of the older boys coming
through a window. The boy fell
senseless on the foot and dropped to
the ground. Flames prevented Zuv
er from entering the room and he
dropped unconscious from the roof.
Wilbur, another son, attempted
his usual gracious manner and With*
a smile that he would be out just a
moment.
To Sheriff Coleman, who conduct
ed him to a lounge In the solicitor’s
room, be said he had had a little
trouble with his stomach the night
before, but that he expected to get
relief soon, as some lithia tablets he
had sent out for arrived. In a min
ute or so however, he complained of
its heart, Mid it did not seem to be
working right, and asked that the
doctor be sent for. Jnst as the phy
to save his little brothers, but fail- 8 t C i an Parted into the building he
ed. .Looking through the hallway
he saw his three little sisters sleep
ing aa the flames lapped up the bed
clothes al>out them. Wilbur jumped
cruippled over to one side, gasped
and was gone.
Affalnat this speculative short in- from the window and In the yard
found his mother and the baby part
ly overcome by smoke
Soon after the Are a telegram was
received from Van Buren, Ind., an
nouncing the -death of Mrs. Zuver's
mother, Mrs. Martha
BIG FIGHT ON- " t-TZ
Charleston Blind Tigers Want t»
Break Up Dispensary.
It ^ seems like Gov. Ansel has
stirred up the blind tigers in Char
leston to such an extent that they
propose to go in the courts. The
Post says the service of the many
injunctions during-fhe past week or
so, rsetrainlng dealers from selling
liquor and property owners and
agents from permitting its sale on
their property, is about to result. It
trunderstood, In a big legal battle to
teat the validity of the Carey-Coth-
ran act and the issue of these in?
junctions.
Attorney J. P. K, Bryan has been
engaged by S. P. Schiadressl. one of
the parties enjoined, and it is under
stood that Mf. Bryan is to l»e the
Tefidlng counsel in the - distinguished
array of legal talent which is to at
tack the dispensary law, as it now
stands on the books. _ ,
Mr. Bry^n will appefer for Schiad-
eressi; John D. Cappelmann for the
Charleston Rifle Club; Logan A
Grace for Rlddock & Byrns, and also
for Pat Carroll: Mordecal. Gadsden,
Rutledge and Haygood for the Char
leston Hotel; George Momeler for
the Turnvereln and others. In the
array of counsel will be lawyers re
presenting the owners and agents of
property In which the alleged viola
tiOUB of the dispensary acts -have
taken place.
It is on account of the property
owners and agents that a particular
ly strong fight will be made It Is
said that the owners of property can
not be enjoined legally as they have
been under the services of the papers
recently, and the lawyers having
charge of these property Interest*
Will present a strong case.
HAD NO MONEY.
And His Would Be Robbers Stabbed
Him Fatally, v
Because he had no money or val
uables when held up by two well
.dressed young men at Ohio Sreet
and Dearborn avenue ln_ Chicago on
Thursday night, Henry Baumgarfher
sixteen years old, a messenger, prob-
knlfe by one of the men. While
their victim lay bleeding from a stab
wound in the left breast, both men
escaped.- The police were notified
and the boy was removed to a hospi
Was Arguing a Case ait Bar, Excus
ed Himself for * Moment, Threw
Himself on Lounge and Expired.
Columbia waa^ profoundly .shocked
Wednesday ‘morning of I,ast week
by the sudden death o^lhdge' An
drew. Crawford, the' most eloquent
ember of the JHchlandt bar, who
succumed to an attack of apolexy
while examining a witness in the
circuit court. He expired in Ahe
solictor’s room, just behind the
Judge's stand, within seven minutes
after he suffered the stroke, and
just as his physician, Dr. James H.
McIntosh, was reaching him.'
The distinguished lawyer,
WILL MOVE THE CROPS
United Stated‘Government to laane
One Hundred Mellon Dolhuw la
Certificates of Indebtedness and
Fifty
Bonds as a Means of Affording
lief to Financial Situation.
Secretary Cortelyou Sunday night
made the important announcement
that, as t means of affording relief
CapX. daffy, of the Ooaaty Board,
Macnssea History of the Dispensary
Situation at BHoree.
Capt. J. H. Claffy, manager of ths
County Dispensary, and representa
tive of the board in this county,
makes the following statement Un
Million Dollars of n ——j reference to the opening of a dispen
M » HeMu of Mortl,, ^
9
was
about 59 years old, at the time of thereof as may be nwessarv
h<<x Aao + K <_ a * ... J
COTTON GINNED.
to the financial situation, the treas-
ury would issue 150,000,000 of Pan
ama jponds and 1100,000,090 certi-
cates of indebtedness, or so much
The
Report of the
Census.
Bureau Is-
— sued Last Week. -
The eensus.jbureau recently issued
itg> report? on cotton ginned from
October 18. 1907, to Nov. 14, show
ing a total of 7,311 ,T0Y 'bales, count
ing round bales aa half bales, com
pared with 8, 562,242 bales for 1906
and 7,501,180 for 1905.
The number of round bales includ
ed ia 142,609 for 1907 and 200,866
for 1906 and 209,006 for 1905. Rea
Island Included 42,708 for 1907, 30.-
671 for 1906 and 64,103 for 1906.
The number of active ginneries were
26,571 for 1907, -
Following is the reports by States,
giving running bales, counting the
round as half bales and .excluding
Unters, and number of active gin
neries: Alabama, 761,138 bales,.and
3,370 .ginneries; Arkansas,'' 386,-
770 bales and 2,042 ginneries; Flor
ida, 35,565 bales and 237 ginneries;
Georgia, 1,375,111 bales and 4,439
ginneries; Kentucky, 766 bales and
two ginneries; Louisiana, 349,840
bales and 1,729 ginneries; Mississip
pi, 792,127 bales and 3,398 ginner
ies, Missouri, 15,102 bales and 70
ginneries; New Mexico, 24 bales and
certificates will; run for one year and
bear 3 per cent, interest.
The secretary’s action in coining
to the relief of the financial situation
meets with President Roosevelt’s
hearty approval, and the plan is the
outcome of several White House con?
foresees which have been held within
the past few days when the financial
situation waa under consideFfitlohr \
Secretary Cortelyou saya that the
Panama bonds will afford most sub
stantial relief, is the law provides
that they may be used as a basis for
additional bank circulation. He also
8ta tos that,. the . proceeds from the
sale of the certificates can be made
directly Available at points where'the
need is most urgent amL espe^ially
for the movement of the crops, which
he says “If properly accelerated will
give the gneateet relief and result in
the most immediate financial re
turns.” The Secretary calls attentlSn*
to the attractiveness of the bonds and
certificates as absolutely safe Invest
ments. —
Proposals Asked For.
Secretary Cortelyou - adds that
these relief measures will enable him
to meet public expenditures without
withdrawing for that purpose sny ap
preciable amount of the public mon
eys now deposited in national banks
throughout the country. Two treas
ury circulars one inviting proposals
for the issue of bonds and the other
asking for subscriptions to the certi
ficates will be sent oat under date of
November 18. The bids for the bonds
must be submitted to the treasury on
or before November 30, 1907.
Each bid should state the amount
of bonds desired by the subscriber,
whether coupon or registered, the
price he is willing to pay and the
place where he desires to make pay
ment. whether at the treasury of the
United Stated or the office of some
of the assistant treasurers at New
York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Bos
ton. Chicago, SL Louis, Cinclnnattl,
New Orleftna or San Francisco. All
bids should be addressed to the sec
retary of the treasury, division of
loans and surrency and the envelopes
containing them should be plainly
marked “bids for Panama Canal
Bends.”
The certificates of Indebtedness
will be issued in denominations of
$50 They will be payable to bearer
will be dated November 20, 1907,
and will bear interest at the rate of
3 per cent, per annum, payable with
the principal sum on and after Nov
ember 20, 1908, on presentation of
the certificates for redemption at the
office of the secretary of the treas-
ury, division of loans and currency.
Subscriptions will be received by
the secretary of the treasury direct
or through the treasurer of tha
one ginnery; North Carolina, 401,852
bales, and 2,603 ginneries; Okla-hj n ited State* and the assistant treas-
homa, 491,274 bales and 924 gin
neries; South Carolina ,847,455
bales and 3,119 ginneries; Tennessee
140.921 bales and 629 ginneries,
Texas. 1,709,583 bales and~3,925 gin
neries, and Virginia, 3,674 bales and
83 ginneries. ‘
The distribution qf the aea Island
cotton for 1907 btVStates Is: Flori
da, 14,492; Geor^m, 22,681; South
Carolina, 5,535.
There were ginned 6,128,562 bales
to November 1, 1907. The statis
tics of this report for November 14
are subject to slight corrections
when checked against the individual
returns of the glnners being trans
mitted by mailr
LOYALTY TO MIKADO.
Secret Canvass of Japanese in Hawaii
to Secure Pledges.
The secret canvass throughout the
Hawaiian Islands, securing signers
to a pledge to the Japanese emperor
of loyalty In event of war continues.
It did not require a plain declare
tlon to acquaint Americans with the
the fact that In event of conflict be
tween this country and Japan, every
Japanese resident of both mainland
and colony could be counted as a ioe
ably was mortallv wounded with a but special messengers are being qgnt. ienuoil anoiner wo
ably waa morUUy wounded to the milkado at regular Intervals.Hitchcock, shot
An address signed by thousands and
couched in flowing language has a!
ready been sent to Japan and anoth
er la In preparation. The first one
stated that “should emergency arise.
viators, or will they fight them lo the | tal. He was revived aad la a falter- we offer ourselves courageously to
last ditch. We huow pour answer, lug voice which every moment threat- tha atate, thus to guard and maintain
and ail we ask of yon Is that you ac- ened to atop forever, told the story the prosperity of our Imperial throne.
and the of the fatal holiup
urer located at New York, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, St.
Louis, Cinclnnattl, New Orleans, and
Sab Francisco, beglning on November
17 and continuing at the discretion of
the secretary of the treasury.
Jn his letter to Secretary Cortel
you approving the treasury plans,
President Roosevelt states that he
has been assured that the leaders in
Congress have under consideration a
currency measure “which will meet
In permanent fashion the needs of
the situation and which I believe will
be -paaaed at an early date after con
gress convenes two weeks hence.”
The president also calls attention
to what la needed most at this time
is that the people should "realise
how fundamentally sound business
conditions In this country are, and
how absurd it Is to permit themselves
to get into a panic and create a
stringency by hoarding their sayings
instead ot trusting perfectly sound
banks.”
’Some time In the, spring of this
year, shortly after the dlspeosury was
closed at Elloree, the cdnnty' board
promised the Rev. J<Jhn a. Brunson
who has always led the fight against
the dispensary, that they wonld not
rwupbis the dispensary as long as he
could show to their satisfaction that
a majority of the citizens of Elloree
were opposed to such action. Num
erous requests had repeatedly been
made, through letters and personal
visits, by many substantial citizens of
Elloree and vicinity that the dispen-
■ary be reopened at that place.
In fact, there was almost a unan
imous demand from the surrounding
country that the dispensary be re
opened. as a great many blind tiger’s
were in existence and doing a flqur-
llshlng business. The fact that a num
ber of blind tigers Infested the El
loree section was reported to the
board, and Capt. Claffy and Mr. J. G.
Smith, a members of the board, went
to Elloree to look Into the blind tig-
•L situation, and. satisfy themseWee -
as to the reports of the illicit sale of
whiskey in that neighborhood. This
visit gave rise to the report that these
gentlemen had gone to Elloree to
investigate the matter of reopening
the dispensary in that town.
Shortly after returning to Orange-
toirg, Mr. Smith received m letter
from Mr. J. C. Evans, of Elloree, one
of the strongest opponents of the dis
pensary, and during the interview
Mr. Smith, as a member of the coun
ty board, assured Mr. Evans that the
SHOWN or A REPORT.
Statement Compiled by Wseg
for Two Months Shows i
In the Sales la Every
the State Havia« s
There Mast Bs Plenty of
:>iiy Boose at Least.
Dispensary Auditor West has coto-
piled ths statements of tbs eonaty
dispensaries for the month of Oslo*
ber, showing a total aal# of fl68r
210.06. against |2»0,6tl.t4 for Ssp-
tember—an increase of tfl.ltl.St.
Every county In the State having a
dispensary shows an increase la tha
Hales for October over UnptSMtus,
Charleston continues,to show an in*
crease, the Charleston sales growing
- ^
m
•JU
from $46,886.75 In
$62,523.85 In October,
which showed a decrease la- fiifteai
ber from the Augnsf sales, owing la
the discontinuance of tha
pensarles, again shows an
growing Horn $87,586.87 la I
ber to $4»,8$0-56 In October,
has
breakage and the
a seperate statement. The breakage
about a dispensary Is somotklag that
will bear watching, nag tha auditor
seems to be aware of this feet The
stock on hand does not Include steak
in ware houses, but only tha stock la
the dispensaries.
The statemeat for October Is gtv-
en below by counties, along with a
** ff
dispensary would not be reopened If comparative 4
it could be shown that a majority of
the citizens'of Elloree opposed anch
action. Mr. Evan* returned home,
and in a few days forwarded to the
board a petition signed by 87 citizens
who opposed the reopening of the
dispensary.
“The next step taken by the hoard
waa to send 'Capt. Claffy to Elloree
to personally Investigate the matter
and. find out the sentiment of the
people- Capt. Claffy, accompanied by
Mr. T. R. McCants, another member
of the board, proceeded to Elloree to
Carry out Instructions. Capt Claffy
personally Interviewed every citizen
who could be found, with the excep
tion of the Rev. Mr. Brunson and the
Methodist minister, both of whom he
sales, as follows:
Oopgaratlv
Monthly statement of total sales of
the dispensaries In each county tor
months $ September and October,
1907:
October.
Abbeville ....$18,681.11
counted against the dispensary.
“Each man waa asked the question
Are you In favor of or opposed to
reopening the dispensary In Elloree?'*
He took the name of each party and
noted hla reply in writing with the
result that twenty-seven expressed | Lee
themselves as being In favor of and
20 against reopening, 11 were Indif
ferent, and there were 4 who could
not be seen. Capt Claffy atatea that
he is prepared to make an affidavit
as to the result of this canvass should
it be necessary. This showed that
a majority waa not opposed, and waa
the board'a warrant for ordering the
dispensary reopened.”
All of the papers in this matter
were inapected by The News and
Courier correspondent, inn it ia”T
noteworthy fact that out of the 37
who signed the petition in opposition,
13 of them stated to Capt. Claffy that
Aiken.. M8».4f
Berkeley.. .. 10,648.77
Bamberg.. .. 8.618.61
Beaufort.. .. 10,441.1$
Barnwell.. .. 17,880.00
Charleston *. 13438.8$
Chesterfield.. 13,126.38
CoBeton.. .. 6.868.85
Clarendon . , 7,653.40
Cheater .. .. 11,33a.77
Dorchester .. 6,tt3.$0
Fairfield.. .. S.516.66
Florence.. . . 18,874.41
Georgetown.. 18,418.40
Hampton. .. 7,487.8$
Keruhaw.. . . 11,677.8$
. . . . 1,438.11
Lexington .. 7,184.71
Laurens ,. . % IMS?.!*
Orangeburg.. 26.I$0.8S
Richland.. .. 48,800.56
Sumter .. .. 21,488.00
Williamsburg 14,684.88
8.348.88
8,388.81
7.788.88
•.*17.11
1.686.88
14,861.81
48,888.7$
9,083.64
4,984.8$
B.l8t.$6
8,183.
f,
8,948.88
11,71 *.85
12,097.46
8,111.8$
8.863.1$
8.878.78
11.411*61
18,488.88
37.536.87
16.787.88
16,86841
■'I
sm
■' ■ >s2l
m
Total .. . .188,110.06 >90,031.34
Breakage for month of October
1907:
Abbeville County., t T | OO fA
Alma flwhr • tTi$|
■ M
Bamberg County.
Berkeley County.,
Beaufort County.,
Barnwell County..
47.48
81.86
47.13
..*14.78
they were either In favor of Ihe die- charlertoirCottSty .. .. .... VTVf
CRAZED BY JEALOUSY.
Mad Woman Killed Her Husband
While He Slept. „ .
At New York half erased by jeal
ousy became of her husband's at
tention to another woman, Mra. Lot-
and Instantly
killed her husband, Robert I. Hitch
cock, a compositor,'as he lay *leeft»'[ ducted le eaempiary,
Ing In bad In their home In the
Bronx the other morning, then turn
ing the revolver upon hereelf, Mrs.
Hitchcock inflicted several wounds
In her head-andrbreaut from which
tt iu expected that ahe will dia.
penaary of didn’t care one way or
the other. Dedacting 13 from 37
leaves 24, which is tha total of those
seen by Capt Claffy, who were oppos
ed, and those whom he did not see.
This shows that both sides made a
thorough canvass and neither missed
a man.
As to the election ot a dispenser
for Elloree, the board atatea that
there were three applicants—W. F.
Jones, Henry Harbort and J. W. Ber
ry. Mr. Berry was elected, he t*eing
the only one of the three who resided
In Elloree, and hia endoraements were
considered stronger, that Is, bis pe
tltion was signed by a larger number
of citizens. Mr. J. M. Weeks, who
Ihe office four
teen years, was not an applicant for
the position, as he Is now as bitterly
opposed to the reopening of the dis
pensary aa he was in favor of Its re
tention daring the fight to close it in
the early part of the year.
The county hoard states that U
does not propose to engage in Any
controversy regarding this matter;
that it feels that it has acted proper
ly in acceding to the wishes of tu.se
citizens of Elloree who pref*.* the
legitimate sale of liquor through the
dispensary to the traffic as being car
ried on by blind tigers, and that ail
the papers and other evidence bear
ing on the case can be Inspected by
any parties who are Interested.
The manner in which dispensary
affairs Hi this county have been con
Chesterfield County 115.17
Clarendon County.. .... .. 86.75
Colleton County.. .. .. .. 49.86
Chester County 40.18
Dorchester County 44.8$
Fairfield County.. .. .. .. 88.13
Florence County.. .. v. .. 83.3$
Georgetown County 39.54
Hampton County 67.16
Kershaw County 63.58
Lee County 86.14
Laurens County... T ...... 98.05
Lexington County.. .. .. .. 18.20
Orangeburg County- .. .. .. 134.36
Richland County., 332.8$
Sumter County 71.88
Williamsburg County .. . . .. 66.63
Total.. ..81,»16.83
Stock oa Hand.
Stock on .hand last day of month:
• a • s
Abbeville County ..
Aiken County.. ..
Bamberg County .
Berkeley ppunty..
Beaufort County..
Barnwell Connty
Charleston County.. ..
Chesterfield Connty ..
Clarendon Ob«nt£. . .
Colleton County.P ..
Chester County.. ..
Dorchester County.. ..
Fairfield Connty.
Florence County.... ..
Georgetown Connty ..
Hampton Connty.. ..
Kershaw Cnnnty.. a,.
..$11,603.88
..13,384.18
.. 9488.48
.. 4,820.88
..16,018.76
..32.083.66
..21,278.63
..10,4*0.55
. .11,811.8*
.. 8,23t.6f
.. 6,046.88
.. 8416.86
.. 7,7*8.56
..18,814.66
..18.618.86
.,88,14748
4,518.88
tbs op- Lee Cdnnty..
% • • e
ponents ofjthfs method of regulating
the liquor businees being outspoken
in the praise of the work done by
ear county board, and It la g matter
of great regret that any mlsdbder-
standlng whatever should have oe-
Laurens County.. .
Lexington Ooaauty.
Orangebu
Richland