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p MANY KNUD ..,P W M«eh Property Dootroyed by ‘ a OntrucUva Cyctana. SWEEPS TEXAS TOWN Twfc Know* to B« Dead and « FaUIHleo Are Feared—BalldingB Flattened and Wire Llneo Proetrat- ' > \ ^-Tornado VlsttaKfiMiMippiWip. ^ ^ Thre^ towiia, D^troytof —Ufe and Property la Maay Places. Tyler, Texas, was swept by the most disastrous tornado In Its history . before daylight Friday. Coming from the southwest, the storm swept orer the main residence quarter of .the city, leaving a trail of death add ■jf devastation. The known dead are C. A. Francis, ■gent of the Dallas News, and his : . _***• wd baby and..a negro. Moss Lee. \ Francis’s body was found a bun- yards from his wrecked home. _The body of bis . child waa* found In the street. Mrs. Francis was in the wreckage of the building. Six seriously injured persShs are alleghd liquor firm of Belair DlattH ing Company is in a fashionable res idence of Baltimore, it was brought out at tfiellearing Thursday that the address given at the Washington branch tpf the Belair concern was the same address of Richard A Co., ^480 Pennsylvania avenue. From letter heads of both con cerns it was shown that J. S. Richard, a member of the firm of Richard A Co., was also president of the Belair concern, and then it was shown that Richard is a brother-in-law of M. M. Goodman, the agent of Ullman A Co., who is now under bond on charges of conspiracy to defraud the State. The Belair Company, it appeared, began to do business with the dis pensary after 1805, when Ullman A Co. were put on the blacklist by the Hay committee. It was then stated by Mr. Felder that Goodman bad put in bids for Ullman A Co., the Anchor hu* 1 .. t>ttniT,n * Company, Strauss A Co., ~tT and his wife and four children. One of the children may die. The Frank lins were caught in the wreckage of their home..- - - Wires are down in all directions from Tyler, but reports from far mers are that farm houses along the lines were blown down. It is Img possible to ascerUin tbe loss of life in rdral regions, but it is known tbe tornado swspt everything clean for A- distance of five miles. - Throe miles from ths town tbe wind demolished the home of Irwin Frakklin, severe!/wounding Franklin and hla wife and four children. The tornado iore a path through Tyler 100 feet wide. Buildings, telephone and electric light poles were laid flat In the storm'a path, while great dam age was done In other parts of the city, • CYCLONE IN MISSISSIPPI. Six People JUUed aad Three Small •v<y • . « T6wus Demolished. k :*=V2rct.t- k■>'^WJ£ b, K _ • A dispatch from Me rid an says 3 •mall tarts^OI'Ore practically demol ished by' s tornado Friday. Reports of the number of tbe killed range from--six to ten. with the smaller number probably correct. Mossvllle, Service and Soso art the towns destroyed.— They are all In Jones County-Ahd all are very small being merely a handful of scattered dwellings. - The tornado struck them about n, and in most Instances is report- have carried buildings in Its completely off the lota on which stood. Nearby fields we^e cov ered with wreckage, and the branches of several treea, were littered with small household articles. L. 8. Norrison, a resident of Mose- ville, said that he was out of doors during the blow and was compelled to grasp a wire fence tol^eep -from beiffg blown away. He said the dead at Mossvllle are Alexander Windham and wife, negroes. Near the town he said four white persons had been killed, a man and hla wife and their two children, whose names he did not learn. The seriously injured at Mossvllle are J. W. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Campbell and Minnie Campbell. i Near Service one child of Ike Hol loway is reported teed and also an unknown negro. The tornado wqr accompanied by a torrent of rain which caused a sudden rise In the creeks and washed away several bridges. . . * YOUNG MAN SLAIN. There Was No Immediate Provoca- tlon. But Old Grudge. A. J. Cline, a young lumber deal er, formerly of Bristol, Va., was shot and instantly killed by Luke Ban ner, sixty years old and a wealthy merchant at Banner Elk, N. C. There was no Immediate provocation for the killing, but, it is said, was the result of an old grudge. Cline, it is alleged, was shot down without warn ing. Banner escaped on horseback, and la still at large, though he was seen later near -Montezuma heavily armed and fleeing. A posse is in pursuit. STEPPED ON UVE WIRE. Both Horse aad Led Were In stantly Killed. ,.s At Thompson, Ga., Willie Richgcds the eighteen year -old son of John H. Richards of that county, was kill ed Ip a moat horrible manner Thnrl- day afternoon. Tbo electric wire leading from the electric plant to the Smith ilanufactnrlng Company fell to the ground, and was still on the ground when young Richards; earns up the rogd,,.*nd the horse’s teat struck the live wire,' killing both the horse and rider iastanUj; • FAKE WHISKEY FIRMS Whiskey Was Booght From Houses That Never Has Existed. Remarkable Testimony as to Dispen sary Creditors Brought Oat at the Hearing in Columbia On Thursday. It having been established before the dispensary commission that the address give* as headquarters of tttd Richard A Co., the Commonweafth Distilling Company and the Belair Distilling Company, all of which got suciBees from the dispensary, and all of which according to Mr. Felder, be longed to the "Ullman family." it was shown that Goodman In 1903 had put in a bid as president of tbe Commonwealth Company, though in its recent testimony he said he left the Commonwealth Comian^ before that year. The old dispensary law prohibited one concern putting In more than one bid. * The commission paired a judgment finding that on account of overcharg es the Belair concern was indebted to the State in the sum of $10,492 {o which is to be applied the amount of the claim, $6,386.41. But If the Belair concern is a fake concerh what is the judgment worth? To show that it is a fake concern, Fel der said no record of ita charter could be found hi any State; there was no response to a notice sent by registered mall, no one had appeared for the concern and the house could not be found In Baltimore by a col lection agency. During the investi- gatfon Mr. Lyon suspected that, the Belair /Conoern was a protege of Flelschman A Co. He Was oh "the track, but did not get the gakuT Evidence was also produced to show that J. W. Kelly A Co., and King A Co., both of Chattanooga, was one and the same concern and both had put In bids on Silver Spring corn liquor at prices 20 par cent, higher than Kelly A Co. had charg ed other customers outside the State. Tha claim of King A Co. amounte to $6,*95. ' ' * SAME OLD STORY. Nine Men Killed in* a Mine Explo* sion in Kentucky. ’ Nine men are dead and one In h dying condition as the resuit of an explosion of gas in the White ffine at South Carolton three miles north of Central, Ky. Ten men were at work in a shaft 180 feet deep in a room apart from the rest of the mine and three more were in a different part of the mine. > Suddenly they heard a terrific explosion and all Tere hurled to the ground. Recov- 'rlng, they rushed to the rescue of their companions, only to find the room filled with fallen coal, and t> hear the cries of the dying. FORAKER BEATEN IN OHIO. LYON FLINGS LIE At Editor Kootter of tbo Columbia EvofHng Rocord I have “ parties who A WHILE HE IS IN COURT As a Witness, Where He Had.Been • - Summoned .by the Attorney-Gener al to Give His Reasons for Assert* Ing That the Attorney General Has Been Trying to Convict in Dispen- skry Cases with Bought Testimony, During the session of the dispen-. sary commission Thursday after noon, Attorney General Lyon de nounced Mr. George R. Koester, edi tor and manager of the Colombia Record, as “A most infamous and dirty liar. Mr.' Koester, who was present, asked for the protection of the Court, and arose from his chair. The situation was tense and Commis sioner Patton also arose as If to 8t<?p between Lyon and Koester. Mr. Lyon warned Mr. Koester not to approach and dramatically told him he (Lyons) walked the streets of CSfswbM-^dd Roosevelt’s Man Friday Cleans Him Up All Over State. The net result of the Republican primaries held throughout Ohio was for Wm. H. Taft. Four delegates at large and 22 district delegates to ‘.he National Convention In Chicago and a delegate to the State Conven- Mon to be held March 3, which will be unanimously In his fan*, were elected.' Actual voting for delegates to ths State Convention was carried m In but thirty-five out of the total it 88 counties in the State. The Taft delegates In 52 counties having no opposition, their name were sim ply ‘certified as having been elected. POOR, YET RICH. 1 Wealthy Man Dies in a Hovel With -r~^ ' •ihfflO#. .* John McMillah/aged 86, died Iq a hovel on the outskirts of Chattan ooga, Tenn. Thursday. For years, he lived in apparent poverty. After his death it was discovered that he was worth’ $159,000, which he with him In a basket. - _ was personally responsible for what he said.- The incident grew out of an edi torial In the Record Wednesday af- torfal in the Record Thursday af- brought Into the room while tfite com mission v was In session and the at tention of Mr. Lyon was called to the editorial. Mr. Lyon had Just come Into the room. He at once re quested the commission to summon Mr. Koester. This was agreed to, and Mr. Stevenson, drew up the sum mons, which was signed by Mr. Mc- Sween. The marshal of the commis- sfon was given the patter and within a half hour or so returned with Mr. !iCoester, who had come very willing- iy. He was examined under oath by Mr. Stevenson, the regular counsel for the commission. ' • Mr. Koester Questioned. The official record is in^substance Q. Mr. Koester. the attention of the commission has been drawn to this paragraph in this afternoon’s daily paper as follows: The Record has been asked why it assails Attorney General Lyon and seeks to hamper his attempts to have gratters" punished. The insinua tion in the question Is that the Re cord is in sympathy with the "graf ters." The insinuation is too con temptible to notice. Explanation of the Record’s atti tude toward Mr. Lyon is wanted; IL Is easy to give. If there has been graft the Record, as much as Mr. Lyon or anybody else, .wants It ex posed and the guilty punished, but the methods employed to bring about that desired result should be clean and honorable and command respect. It Is Mr. Lyon’s methods to. which the Record objects.. Wherever the Anglo-Saxon civilaz&tion has spread common maxim of Its Coufth has been that It is better for a thousand guilty men to escape than that one Innocent man should be punished. "Similar in spirit is the Record's belef that it is better that al^.dis pensary grafters should escape than that an attempt should be made to secure convictions twith bought testi mony. And that is the game Mr. Lyon has been playing first as a mem ber of the investigating committee and now as Attorney General. If there were no political phase to the matter he could not hope to secure conviction with bought testimony, and it is only the political phase of the case that keeps his attempts to buy testimony f*x)m meeting the uni versal execration they d< serve.” The commission wishes to know who is responsible for the editorial department of youf’’paper. A. I am. Q. The commission being partly charged with getting this testimony, and the work which Mr. Lyon has done in that line being through the commission, the commission wants to know what information you have about the purchase of testimony? A. Nothing but what has been pub lished. Q. Does what has been published justify the charge that they are buy ing testimony? A. Well, all this ls very sudden. I have not got It at my fingers’ end, but Mr. Hermann, who Is the president of the Augusta Brewing Company, testified that he had paid rebates or commissions and that an order was passed by the old investigating committee ordering payment of his claim, which I l»elleve was the first and the only one paid up to that time. ■ Q. Let us get that straight, That was when Mr. Lyon and another com mittee was investigftlqgjt^e dispen^ sary. Those who composed that c&n- m it tee, I believe, were Mr. Lyou. Mr. Blease. Mr. Christensen, Mr. Splvqy, and some others. Theue gentlemen you charge, together with Mr. Lyon, with havinjg purchased testimony. {Is that tbe basis of your charge: carried 1p arc hase of testimony? A. "^"that is, ottered' to purckaae testi mony, yes. , Q. That is the basis of your charge, that tha old Investigating committee did that? A. That they offered an in ducement for getting testimony. Q. A .want to know this; what evidence have Yon that there baa been ganisatlon of this commission? A. I don’t say there has been a pur chase. - M Q- Do you mean to say there has been an effort to do so? A. I mean to say, if I be correctly posted, that got a right to Infer that if tt> whom claims Were due, or ege that amounts are owing to them by the dispensary, will come forward and give testimony that there claims will be paid. There was » report in the paper this mornifkg of a claim paid on yesterday. Is that the publication you refer to, the publication in the State) this morning? A. Yes, sir. Q: Then you state that all you published in the paper? A. As to this present commission. Q. Is there any publication that you base your charge on A. No. Q. The publication In the State this morning? A. Yes. , .. Q. ’ Witl* reference to £he Paul Jones Company? A. Yes. The first claim said to be pafd was the Paul Jones Company, which was of exces sive volume, but on account of mat ter behind it. Il ia stated that the payment of the claim was ordered immediately after obtaining testi mony by them. Q. How do you connect Mr. Lyon with that action? A. I don’t know that I rightly connected him with that action; but at the .same time, I considered him as adviser of the commission. g. YOtt don’t hold Mm reapohat- in any way anything you said about myself, I want to make this state ment as having been very active in the prosecution of these claims be fore the commission, that not the slightest inducement has been held oat to any man to come here and furnish eveldhce. The commission passed a rule requiring all claim ants to produce their book's and pro duce the representative thgf con ducted the negotiations with the South Carolina dispensary, which re lated to these sales. And when their books are produced and their agents are produced and examinations .are made, the commission then, without offering any reward, taking these the-bobks, making deductions as they did In the Paul Jones claim of the amounts that their books show to be- overcharges, purging the claims as the evidence demanded, have giv en Judgment for the balance. I am Acquainting with that because un<^er your Ttatemenl**Y8nJ , ‘i wah^to^** perfectly fair, not the commission but to all the parties at interest. . Mr. Koester: I-jnust,.absolutely disavow any Intention to -reflect against any member of the commis sion. Mr. Stevenson: Mr. Chairman*, there Is another suggestion I would like to make,.! Mr. Koester* states that It was the policy of the com mission he was criticising when he made this charge .about the Attorney Qeneral%vT!Ja rammiasidd' krWid Lie for the action of the -eommlaeioe prefer, .to hqye thei.fccitlcism made -Six Burned to Death. Lawrence Haake’s wife and six children, ranging from a new born infant to a girl of 13 years of age, were burned to death Wednesday in their shack at New Llskard, north of Oofealt* Canaria. m • |a purchase of testimony since the or- the policy of your paper or resenting in aujudlcating the Paul Jones claims? Av Not directly. Q. Or that this charge that hd is purchasing testimony at the present time is based on that? I understand you to say that the only basts of your charge at the present time is from this article in the State. Now, you admit that you cannot hold him responsible for that. Then you have no basis for the charge that he is now purchasing testimony? A. No, sir, I can’t say that I draw that in ference. t Mr. Patton: Q Ts that the only source of In formation you have, what you saw in the State? A. That is all I based my article on. Q. You stated that you had infor mation about to-day. Is what you saw in the State to-day all the In formation you have? A. That was all. Q. Answer by question? A. Yes, I said, except as to the old commis sion. * Q. You have no. further informa- tloh of thyrpurcTfase of testimony, except what appears In the State? A. No, sir. Mr. Lyou Enters Discussion. Attorney General Lyon: I wish to make a statement in re gard to this matter. I regret, ex- ceedngly, that it becomes necessary for. me. take -any action or to notice, anything that may be said‘or done by this creature (pointing his finger at Mr. Koester.) Mr. Koester If this be a legal proceeding, I desire that that gentleman be re quired to use proper language. . Mr. Lyon: , I wish say that as far as shown this afternoon that the, man, that wrote that article in the record is a most infamous and dirty liar. Mr. Koester: I ask for the protection of the Court. /.vmk,..., Mr. Lyon: I will be on (ke streets of Colum bia, and you need no protection. I say, Mr. Chairman, that I regret ex ceedingly that I have to notice that charge.. It has come to ray notice that he has written and published in his paper a tissue of infamous aud scurrilous lies. I have not seen fit to notice them, and I would not have noticed this now, but it comes before this commission in an official way. I simply wish to say that he has prov en himself a self-convicted, infam ous liar. And I want to say to you, sir, (indicating Mr. Koester,) that 1 am personally responsible for what I say, and I dare you to resent it. Mr. Koester: Now, Mr. Chairman, in regard to this matter, I have nothing farther to say In regard to this editorial fur-' ther than to say that I did not mean to charge any personal dishonesty on the part of any one of the present commission. It seemed to me a,mat ter of policy that an editor had a right to criticise and condemn. If It was the policy of the commission to withhold the payment of claims until parties came forward and gave testimony implicating others, that It was a wrong policy. I stated It and state It again. Mr. Patton: Who said that was the policy of the commission? A. I In ferred it from thr*action of the com mission. , Mr. Patton: And furthermore we passed judgment yesterday on a claim and nothing was said about that and a half a dozen today. MIL, Koester: I was not aware of Ibat when I wrote that article. I distinctly disavow the Intimation of any disrespect against any member of the commlsalon. It was a matter of public policy, and If that was the policy of the commission .that a claim would not be paid unless par ties came forward and implicated the officials, then that was a wrohg pol icy. One member of this commission I have known for years, Mr. Hender son, and I would not for the world say anything against Mr. Henderson personally. CoK Felder Make* State meat. Col. Felder: Without indicating The* Senate Declines to Follow the House sad Kills the Richards Lien Law Bill. The State Senate by k vote of ten to. seventeen passed a bill on Wed nsday repealing the liin lTw. “The following was the vote Against repeal: Bass, Bates, Blv. ens. Black, Clifton, Graydon, Holf- day, Laney, Otts, Smith—10. For repeal: Appelt, Brookq/Car penter, Christensen, Crouch, Earle, Eflrd, Gibson, Hardin, Harvey, John son, Kelley, Mauldin, McKeithan, Rogers Raysor, Toole—17. The Hydrich bill, prohibiting the mortgaging of crops until they were up, was then taken up and killed by a vote of 16 to 17. Lieutenant Gov ernor McLeod giving the deciding vote .against the bill. - The Lien Law Stands. Ou Thursday the State Senate killed the Richards Lein law bill, having Aral-voted - down all amend- against it in its own proper person and not against the Attorney General and I would like to ask Mr. Koester a few questions. Stevenson Questions Witness. Q. Mr. Koester, the member of the investigating committee to whom you referrer, it was the realizing of Mr. Hermann's account you referred to in your_ paper? A. Yes. Q. Do you mean to charge Mr. Hay, Mr. Blease, Mr. Christensen, Mr. Spivey and Mr. Gaston with buying evidence? A..I don't remember who voted, for.IL or anything of the sort. Q. Mr. Christensen and Mr. Lyon were then on the committee? * A. I drew the inference from the fact that all claims were held up and ordered not paid, but that when Mr. Hermann came and testified that he had done wrong, immediately on his doing that his claim was ordered paid tbe first one. Q. This criticism was directed first at the old investigating com mittee and secondly as this commis sion and their actions? A. Yes. _Q. _But Mr. Lyon was made the sole target? Mr. Patton: There is another In timation made by you. That this commission is being handled by the Attorney General; If you were here, as the other newspaper men are, you would know that this commission is not handled by the Attorney General or by anybody else. Col. Felder: Although Mr. Her mann came here and made the fatt est statement in regard to this mat ter this commisslpjj’has not ordered his claim paid. Mr. Koester: I did not refer to what this comipjasion had done. At the conclusion of this incident members of the commission assured Mr. Koestei’ ih the kindest wa> 1 that he had been tailoring under a mis apprehension in regard to the pro cedure of the commission, and that they invited the fullest scrutiny of their official acts in regard to these claims; that their sessions ifere open to tbe public in considering these matters and that newspaper men were welcome to attend and that others had attended constantly. Mr. Koester was informed that the commission would be glad to have him present to see for himself what the commis sion was doing. With these assur ances the matter was closed and the commission took up other matters, adjourning soon afterwards. • WAS NOT REPEALED. Tin Stmt* Voted to R«pmI Loin Law and Than Changod, ments to carry out the provlsons of the Hydrlck House bin, which was killed by the Senate Thursday. The Crouch Senate bill similar to the Richards bill has also been killedi Thus the Senate declines to follow the House with result that the session will close with absolutely no change ip the present law. DERELICT SCHOONER 1 Which is Bound for the Port of Miss ing Ships. Somewhere out on the Atlantic, breasting wintry seas and with som^ of her canvas set, is the four-masted schopner Edward J. Berwind, aban doned and beating up the tracks for the Pdrt of Missing Ships. She was sighted at sea on Febru ary 7, by Captain Scott, of the steam er Maravel, now in New York, from Granada. _ * ; The schooner's decks were awash, and there was evidence that the crew had left in haste. It Is possible that they were picked up by passing craft. When sighted the schooner was about 470 miles east of Charleston, S. C., and although water-logged, was making about two knots and heading away from the shore. Her storm foresail was set and the mizzan under two reefs. Her ^head sails had been carried away, and the spanker was in ribbons.' Towing was nof^ ifeaathle on account of the rough .Feather. SERIOUS CHARGE. Senator Blease Said to Have Rap- rasentad i Liquor House. AN AFFIDAVIT READ. Mr. L. W. Parker Swears That s. J, Lanahou lokt Him Thai qi P Hsd Employed Senator Blegee to Re present His Firm Before the State Board of Control.—Blease Read an Affidavit from Lanalian Denying It. Testimony which the Legislative investigating committee of 1906 de clined to bring out was developed by the commission to wind up tha affair^, of the State dispensary at 'Columbia on Thursday .when Messrs. Lewis W. Parker and Ellison A Brayth were put on the stand and related a conversation with Mr.' 8. J. Lanahan, of Baltimore, in 1905, in regard to the employment of a “prominent politician” to represent the Lanahan firm before the State board of control — Mr. Parker said— The Berwind is likely to prove an ugly menace for navigation for she is under fair headway and running through the nights wlthou^ a light displayed. MANY VICTIMS Of Hydrophobia Being Treated in New York City. ^ >1* The New York health authorities admit that there are at least fifty cases of hydrophobia being treated in Ney York. There has been an unusual number of cases of this dis ease in the city for the last two years and while just at present there seems to be a smaller number than usual since the outbreak of the epidemic,*' there are many more cases than were known at any time previous to the epidemic which has been on for two years. FC8ILADE OF SNOWBALLS Causes the Death of an Old Man in New .York, In New York on Wednesday boys returning from school snowballed an old man who tottered along Green wich street. He sank down on the steps of an old house beneath aVus- tlade of snowballs, His tormentors were preparing more missiles when a. policeman appeared and It was learned that the man was dead. He was recognized as Thomas Thonwa, once a wealthy man of good family whose fortune was swept away years ago. Mysterious Shooting. Frank Brettrell, a young real es tate operator, was shot and killed In the apartments of his sister in . the St George hotel, Brooklyn, under circumstances which hive caused thri police and Coroner Brewer to insti- Uute the strkkeat Investigation. INFIRMARY BILL PASSED. 1..4: 1 J '/ t House Endorses Brooks Measure and Sends it on To Governor. In the House Tuesday night Mr. Yeldell called up the bill of Senator Brooks to establish an infirmary for Confederate veterans, the bill having been passed over on third reading Tusday morning. The fight which was made on the bill on second read ing was at once renewed when Mr. Sellers moved to recommit the bill, and' the-Ayes and noes were called and by a vote of 47 to 55 the motibn was lost. The bill was then passed. As the bill has already passed the Senate it becomes a law upon the signature of the Governor. The bill carries an appropriation of $12,000 to establish an Infirmary on the Wal lace land adjoining the State Hospi tal for the Insane. A commission to manage the institution is to be ap pointed. . . ACCIDENT ON A CRUISER. The St. Louis Enters San Francisco After an Explosion. A dispatch from San Francisco says the big cruiser St. Louis went out through the Golden Gate Jeaving in her wake a hospital ward full of scalded and burned sailors and signs of a rigid governmental nvestigation whch may explain why a warship, fresh from dry dock and the work of reparing, could have an almost fata' accident In her boiler room on the eve of^torget practice. Just as she was about to leave the harbor, some of the boiler tubes blew out, filling the engine room with a cloud of steam and scalding terribly four of the men who were at work there. KILLED TN^WRKCK, that Lanahan In a prior conversation, when Capt. Smyth was not present had said that Hon. Coleman L, Blease was the agent referred to. It Is understood that Mr; Blease, who is now aud has for four years been State Senator from Newberry, and who was candidate for Governor year before last, has an affidavit from Mr. Lanahan denying that Mr. Lanahan made the statement attrib uted to^hlm. He said that he had read it during the campaign last sum mer on the stump at Union, and that it was Published at that time H* showed the original affidavit, which le has kept pinned in his Inside pocket Those familiar with the dispensary investigations will recall that two * years ago the Legislative committee to Investigate tbe dispensary sum moned Mr. Parker to appear and he realted in substance the conversation with Mr. Lanahan, but when pressed by -Mr. Lyon to give the name oY tha prominent politician he declined to do so. As Mr. Parker challenged the power of the commute to make him answer, a case on habeas corpus pro ceedings was brought in the Supreme Court and the Court decided that the committee had the authority to require Mr.- Parker to answer its questions. But the committee decid ed not to exert its authority and Mr. Parker did not answer the question. It has been common knowledge, however, that the* suppressed name of tbe alleged agent of Lanahan was that of Senator Blease, and this knowledge evidently reached Senator Blease himself, as he took the .pre caution to get an affidavit fronr Lan ahan, and it Is fortunate that he did, since Mr. Lanahan died about two weeks ago. The commission to wind up the State dispensary had already summoned Mr. Lanahah. ? When they testified Thursday Mr. Parker and Capt Smyth made it plain that they did so unwillingly and on ly yield**! to recpgnized authority of the""cbmmission,' which has the same authority as the Legislative committee as decided by the Supreme Court. It Is not worth while to say who Messrs. Parker and Smyth are; they ore the leading two cotton mill men In South Carolina, and their char acters and reputations need no bols tering. '* The Lanahan Affidavit. Following is the affidavit read by Senator Blease at the campaign meet ing in Union on August 71, 1906. State of Maryland;-City tof Balti more.—Personally came before me Samuel J. Lanahan, who, being, duly sworn, says that he never told Lewis W Parker, or any other person, that Cole L Blease was In his employ to look after his Interest In the whis key business in South Carolina, and as a matter of, fact, he did not have Cole L. Blease so employed. Augustus W. Bradford, (Notary Seal) Notary Mublic. Mr. Blease also read at the Uniou meeting affidavits from Jodie M. Rawlinson. John Black, Jos. B. Wy lie, H H Evans, John BaD Towill and L» W..Boykin, dated either August 3. 1906, or August 4, 1906, and each of which stated that during the* af fiant’s term of service as director of the State dispensary “Cole L. Blease neither directly or indirectly solicited business or asked that purchases ba__ made from Samuel J. Lanahan or any other person engaged in selling whis key or other articles to the State dis pensary. „ MADE A GOOD HAUL. » ..if-? Misunderstanding of Signals Caused the Death of Two. In a head-on collision between the cherry tree accommodation train and a freight train oiCthe Cxesapn and a halt-from Cresson, Pa., two were fatally injured, six were slight ly hurt, three locomotives were de molished and two baggage ears and four loaded steel cars were wrecked A misunderstanding of algnala. It Is said, was responsible for the arc) dent Five Cracksmen Rob a Missouri Bonk —i of Big Sum. At Richhiil Mo..robbers dynamited the Farmers and Mechanics bank at 12:30 o’clock Saturday morning, de molishing the building and entering . #1 and Clearfield division, about a mite the vaults which they looted of $23,- 000. There were five of the bandits. When lasr*Beefl*"*ther'*were riding north at breakneck speed. Cltlaana of the town heard the terrific sion and harried to the they saw the bank in ruins waa immediately suit I m