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> ifcifrU VOL. YT-gT BARKVTELL, S. C., THURSDAY. MACRH 26, 1908 NO. 80 BRYAN WRITES Atd Thanks Ths Stats Fnr Fight Against Mlsraprnsantatlon. HEAVY DAMAGES GIVEN MOTHER AND LITTLE SON WHO WERE _ WANTS A FREE PRESS ^ Bunit'd by Coming in Contnt t With • Live Wire on the Street* of Florence. ^ J But Thinkti the Will of the Pm. pie in Every Sute Should Have Voice, Not the Wished of a Few Rule or Ruin Newspapers. Shows Up the New York Wb^tBand Its Editorial*. ' * ♦ A dispatch from Floreuee to The Nows hnd Courier says th'» MgRest A- ) Lincoln. Neb., March 13, 1#08 Mr. Wm. E. Goniales. Columbia. S. C. My Dear Mr. Gonzales.. . .1 appre elate the fight which you are making against the misrepresentations in dulged in by ,the New York World and those who echo tneir editorials —It is not for me to discuss the ques- ton, of availability of candidates, have never stated that I was the most available candidate or that I could” poll the most votes. That is not a question upon ahich my Judge ment ought to be ventured or ac cepted. I have simply stated that It is a question for the voters of the party to determine. As a Democrat I have-resented the claim that a few editors should de cide this question for the people. I am a believer in free prees and I recognize the right of any editor, whether his circulation, be .large or small, to state his opinion and his reason for it, but those who read his opinion have a right to give it such weight as they think it deserves. 1 have insisted that the readers ought to know what pecuniary interest the editor has in the questions under discussion. ’ For instance. I asked The World .to state editorially what financial In terests its owner, Mr. Putltrer has in the stocks or bonds of railroads and in the stocks'and bonds of cor porations commonly known as trusts. The World has not seen fit to an swer the question. He is reputed to be interested in s number of cor porations which are affected by leg- lalatlon. and his readers are entitled to know what his interests are. If he has Interests adverse to the In terest of tne public, he is not a dis interested Judge as to candidates or platform. If he baa interests that would be Injuriously affected by legislation needed by the people, then his opin ions are worth no more than theopin- ons of Mr. Harriman or Mr. Rocke feller. I do not deny the right of Harriman, or Morgan, or Rockefel ler, of Pulitzer, to own a paper and present their views to the public, but 1 do contend ,uat in the interest of honesty and fair dealing, the owner of the paper should be known and the interest of the owner in the ques tions frankly stated. The World’s unfairness Is evidenc ed in every editorial. In the first place It ignores entirely the election of 1894. when the Tbemocratlc party waa oyerwhelmingly defeated. This election occurred before I had any Influence In national politics. It oc curred when the party waa being con ducted along the lines laid down by The World.. It is deliberately unfair in ignoring this election and charg ing the defeats of 1896 and 1900 to me, just as it is unfair in ignoring the still worse defeat of 1904, when It was again the party’s adviser. It is simply prophesying when Jt says that I can not carry any States that I lost before, and that some other Democrat can. How does it know? What gift of phophecy bar it? It thought in 1904 that Judge Parker would prove a popular c^ndi date. It demanded his nomination and it advised him each day at t what he shot Id say and do. Whr' evidence can it furnish that it hat more Intelligence today than it had then, or that Us prophecies rest on a firmer foundation? There are several papers in your State which were against me in 1896 and have been aganst me ever since I do not know whether it la because of a difference of opinon aa to what ought to be done,, or whether they are.connected with Intesesta that are hostile to the things which I have been advocating. There are several papers in the United States which are known to be owned, in whole or In part, by the corporate Interests, which they defend, but I would not, make such a charge against the pip ers of your State, becuase T have no knowledge as to the ownership or as to the corporate interesta with which the dWners may be connected, and I verdict* ever awarded by a Florence County jury were recorded,Thursday In the cases of Mrs. Maude Laughlln and her little son,' Lawrence Laugh lin, both of whom weta. horribly burned by an Al^ctric wire in FNt ence. last August, against the Flor ence Electric Light and Power com pany and thf>Southern Public Servic» Corporation Mrs. Laughlin, who asked $50,000 damages, was award ed $17,000, and Lawrence Laughlin, whose suit was for^ $25,000 damages, obtained a verdict for $8,000. Judge Dantzler promptly overrul ed a motion for a new trial, as he had previously overruled a motion for a non-suit, based on the ground that it had not been proven that the Southern Public Corporation was in any way connected with the Florence Light and Power Company. The cas^ will' be appealed to the Supreme Court. This was ode of th^ biggest cases ever tried in the Court of Com mon Pleas In this county. Mrs. Laugltn la the wife of Mr. George W. Laughlin . of Florence. The injuries for which she has been awarded damages were received on the 19th of .last August, while she was trying to rescue little Lawrence her only son, who had become en- tagled In the street near the corner of Ravenei and Cheeves streets. Both mother and son were so badly in- Senator Tillman Arraigns Presi dent’s Encroachment On LEGISLATIVE POWER. He Says Congress J* Subservient to ♦he President’s Will, and Says He Exercises Too Much Influence on the Other Departments of the Gov ernment. House Declared to be jiired that It became necessary tQ-.hraach Gve'r the tegtttlitueFe and in a amputate Mrs. Laughlin’s right hand and right foot, and the larger por- iiott of .Lawrence’s right hand. * TWO ELEPHANTS AT LARGE Escape from Circus in Florida and Make for Georgia. Chief of Pallce Dampler, of Val- dosta, Ga., received a telegram from the Van Amberg Shows, at White Springs. Fla., stating that two of their elephants and escaped and were headed for Valdosta, where the cir cus wintered. Later reports which hgve reached here say the elephants have been sur rounded nine miles from Geona, Fla., by a.crowd of farmers with guns, and that the big animals were fired upon, the shots only infuriating them and causing them to dash away. Three or four trainers from the circur-are hUTTylng to the scehe to try and capture them. Telegrams from White Springs say the people iu the country through that section are almost terrorized and are organizing in great numbers for a big elephant hunt. • prefer to assumeith&t the differences rences -'\w >v iv.... »V\ wv i are honest differences unless I have ’evidence to the contrary. However, it is only fair to say that these unfriendly editors, howev er honest they may be, are only ao many Individuals, and according to the Democratic theory, they are en titled to such influence only as their fellow-citizens may voluntarily give to thfilr opinionar iHhe voters differ from .these editors ft must bet remem bered* that they have a right to dif fer. end if it should prove that the voters are mistaken in judgment, they can console themselves with the reflection that the editors unfriendly to Me have also been mistaken -in judgment, e» Is shown by the defeat Of 1904, Fatal Explosion. The boiler at the saw mill -of G. W. Moore at Homeland, Ga.. blew tj.p Friday; morning, killing Mr. Moore", the proprietor, instancy, and seriously scalding three other men. Mr. Moore was onb of the wealthiest men In that section of the StateT'—*' I am not asking for any honors at the hands of the Democratic party; I have been honored far beyond any thing that I could claim as a matter of right or as a matter of merit, and I especially appreciate the generous support that has come to me from the Southern States. It has been grat ifying to me to know that my Dem ocracy has been satisfactory to the rank and file of the Democrats of the Touth. as well as to the rank and die of the Democrats of the North. If the Democratic voters believe that I can assist the party by belifp i candidate why should I refuse'; \nd why should I take the advice o i few editors who have never been .Tiendiy rather than the advice of nllllons of Democrats who have been colaborers with me for more than a decade? —»— The policy of the party must be determined by the voters and when [ discuss Democratic pnnicples I dis cuss them with the understanding that 1 have no power to coerce, as I have no disposition to coerce. 1 can only persuade, and I have never tried to persuade others to believe except where I have myself believed. You have gs much right to your opinion as to any other editor, and purely your Democracy can not be quekloned when you, unlike some other editors, propose to test the popularity of^. measures ..and of men by the vote of the people. Popular government rests upon the right of the people to rule and every party, if it deserves a place under a popular government, must recognize the right of the voters to rule. Power comes up from the people and not down'to them. . You are on sound Democratic ground when you insist that the destinies of a candidate, like the destinies of a country, must be placed in the hands of those who do the voting, tor to be Democratic we must believe in the capacity ’hi the people to govern themselves, as well as in their right to self-govern ment. *' Again thanking you for your gen erous defend* tof the principles and policies tor which.-T** ”«otrt**v<hng. I mdu Very tifuly yours, . £ W. J. Bryan. Speaker’s Tool. With a caution unusual for him, Senator Tillman recently read a part of his speech in the Senate, in which he denounced Executive, encroach ment on legislative power. With this apparent caution he proceeded to de liver one of the most direct and de nunciatory addresses ever heard in that body. He was given a careful hearing. His speech was based on his resolution instructing the commit tee on finance to inquire whether na tional banks of New York are in the habit of f.urnishing permanent, capi tal for speculative enterprises, 6tc. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Tillman traced what he termed a “swinging of the pendulum’’ from the rggime of Andrew Jackson, when Congress assumed control almost to the,-exclusion of the Presi V i; from legislative influence, to i >s idiuinis- trations which 'foTloWbTT. t hiclf, he declared, witnessed a Kicwih ofJPres- Identlal lowers. The dominating in fluence and control of the Executive degree over the judicial branches of the Government were the most mark ed features oLUie American polity at this time. ”It has taKen,” said Mr. Tillman, “just forty-one years for the pendulum to swing from one extreme to the other.” “Now,” he ^said, “the House of Representatives'has degenerated into 1 i t tie more t han ajrecording machine to do the will of the Speaker and his lieutenants.” Freedom of debate in the old and true sense has disappear ed from the other end of the Cap itol, he added. In the Senate “ser vility and cowardice are the order of the day,” he declared, “and the shadow of the Executive hangs over all and the President's wishes are almost the only law. There is,” he added,<■’‘some show of resistance on matter affecting the multi-millionaires and the great cor porations. The President writes scolding messages and makes Inflam matory speeches appealing to the unthinking and ignorant masses. He has the potent influence of the press at his command; he has used the newspapers and magazines in exploit ing what he calls ‘my politics’ with a skill and daring that compel admir ation. With bated breath Senators denounce his radical ideas in pri vate and oppose in every possible way the measures which he clamors for by the passive resistance of non- action. No one of the dominant par ty dares lift hts voice in opposition or .-denunciation, but .the Executive influence is the only influence in evi dence, while the Senate cowers in si lent resistance. “The cause of this condition,” de clared Mr. Tillman, “la Federal pat ronage.” “The theory that the Senate must ‘advise and consent’ before appoint-, ments are made,” he said, is of llt- Ue or no moment when Senators show such want of courage and self-respect and bow submissively to the orders from the White House. The mem bers of the minority party, of course, were largely Ignored. Appointments iu the South, where the Democracy retains control, are in the hands of referees' who fill the offices for the sole purpose for maintaining ma- chines. The Senators of the domi nant party are afraid to resist the executive will, lest they themselves should fail to obtain the patronage of their States.” They have also, he declared, a dread lest they should be forced Into retirement When clashes have come between the President and Senators or Representatives the people have in almost every instance sided wltu the President, he said. ‘ "The people, poor, simple souls, reading the special pleas and sophis tical excuses of RepubMca.i editors, a»e Hd to think the PrcMiden*. alone Is honest and patriotic.“ said Mr. Till man.' “They believe religiously that the Senate Is corrupt and the White House debauched and that the poli tics—my politics, which are so ex ploited in the press.—must prevail and become law before any relief can be obtained. Senators who do not agree with the Executive and who refuse to obey his will must be re tired. Congressmen who resist Exec utive dictation- must be replaced by those who will obey “In the mad rush to placate the negro voto we may expect to see be fore- the’ Chicago Convention meets, to quote A great'Nek England paper, ‘‘the President reviewing the re-en listed battalion on the White House green, after which ther‘e~will be lun cheon kt , the Executive manaion.’ The President’s action, in that wgs hasty ahfl ’unjust. Inasmuch a* the innocent were punished along with the guilty, but It Is a pitiable spec- THE COTTON CROP FOR LAST YEAR GOKK OVER ELEVEN MILLION BALKS. The Census KejFort Issued by the Department of Agriculture (live* the Total Figures. The census report issued Faiday shows that the cotton crop grow'u In 1907 aggregated 1 1,261,163 running bales, counting round as half bales and including linters, and showed a total of 27,&77 active ginneries for 1907. This is against 13,305,265 bales in 1906,’ and 10.725.602 in 1905. The statistics include 177,646 bales returned as remaining to be ginned after the tiem of the Maych canvass. The total number of run ning bales as given is equivalent to 11,302,872 of 500 pounds each. The average gross weight of the bales for 1907 is 501.8 pounds. The Item for the crop of 1907 are 10,- 798,596 square bales; 198.549 round bales; 86,793 sea island bales; 198,- 549 ft>und bales; 86,793 sea island bales; linters 276,500 bales. Tne number of running bales by States follows: Alabama '1,.1 26,028; Arkansas 760,162, Florida 57,616, ( Georgia 1,891.900, Kansas 34., Ken tucky 4,205, Louisiana 676,823, Mis sissippi 1.464,207, Missouri 35,- 997, New Mexico 4 47, North Caro lina 648,517, Oklahoma 864,106, South Carolina 1,175,375, T’ennessee 274,636. Texas 2,271.724, Virginia 9,486, Kentucky's total includes lin ters oftestablfshments in Illinois and Virginia. • Tfie linters included 276,500 bales for 1907, 322,064 for 1906 and 230,- 497 for 1905.. Round bales are 198, 549 for 1907, 268,219 for 1906, and 279,836 for 1905. Sea island bales are 86,893 for 1907, 57,550 for 1906, 112,tOO foT' lfrO&r,- * Average gross weight of the bales for 1907. including linters as given, is against 501.9 for 1906; that of the round bales is 246.1 pounds for 1907, compared with 2 45., j for 1906, and the sea island_391.6 pounds for 11*077 compared with 387.2 for I*®*._ • Watson'* Close Estimate. The State says when the govern ment estimate on the cotton crop for 1907 came In ;the estimate made in November by Commissioner Watson's department was compared with the figures issued from Washington and It was found that there was a differ ence of only 13,4 98 bales in the figures on the South Carolina arop and 109,957 on the entire crop of the United States. * tacle all the same to see the mad race for negro votes. “Mr. Roosevelt is .always loud mouthed and even vehement in the proclamation of his own purity of purpose and patriotism. He has ab solute faith in his own infalihllityand is apparently so drunk with power that he unconsciously lapses into the imperial ’we’ and sends cablegrams about ‘me and my people.’ But these things are of small moment—'vaga ries of a noble and impetuous spirit,’ and we could pass them by were it not for the existence of cold-blooded facts fo show Executive responsibil ity for many of the evils which ex ist without dispute.” Paul Morton, as vice-president of the Santa Fe Railroad, said Mr. Till man, “in the rebate cases laid him self open to Indictment and liability to personal punishment, but the Pres ident peremptorily refused to permit Messrs Judson and Harmon to pros ecute him.” Senator Tillman denounced Presi dent Roosevelt for not prosecuting land grafters, and Senator Beveridge interrupted to say that the only dif ference between the President and Senator Tiijman was that the former prosecutes upon evidence and the latter without it. Mr. Beveridge wanted to know why Senator Tillman in his flood of messages has not cov ered the subject. Mr Tillman replied that if Mr. Beveridge “wants me to make more criticisms than I have the Senator Jrom Indiana is a great big glutton.” * Mr. Tillman reviewed the events of the recent currency crisis and charged Wall street with many mis demeanors. —— —; — “The profits of this nefarious "stock mongering have,” he said, “found their way into the pockets of the very man who with evil results of their fraud manifest pose as ‘saviors’ and ‘and crowned kings’ and are lauded to the skies when they were really trying to save themselves from the disasters which threatened to overwhelm them along with their de luded victims. One of these 'sav iors’ had done more than any ojher of the money kings to deluge the stock market with watered stocks.” A long-review was given by Mr. Beveridge of Democratic politics, and he declared that a conference had been held in Washington for the. purposti’ of coming to a plan for asking for Bryan not to again be a candidate on the’Democratic ticket, but when Mr. Bryan was there, he said, not one of them had the courage to tell him what they had planned to do. This statement called forth denials from Mr. Tillman, Mr. McCleary and Mr, Rainey, all of whom declared that there had niever been any idea of ask- inf Mr. Bryan not to run on the Dem ocratic ticket Yntf-that stories to that effect were mere mjrtks. Men and Beaten on Car tain Islands. HORRIBLE PICTURE By Gen. PJenaer, UW Say* He Ha* Seen Children Beaton Until Their Blood Covered the Ground Around Cocoa Plantations. Plea to Por tugese Goaernmeut to Have It Stopped. * Jj- At Washington a vivid .description of atrocities alleged to be perpetuat ed upon slave laborers on copoa plan tations on the Islands of Principe and Saint Thome, Portugese West Africa, was given In an address on "Children’s Lives In Africa,” by Gen. Joubert Pienaer, of South Af rica, of the International congress on the welfare of the child under the auspices of the National Mother's Congress. # ' »< * “The atrocities I have witnessed in Portuguese West Africa have tak en such I hold upon me," declared Gen. Pienaer, "that I cut myself loose from all my business and leav ing my family thousands of miles away, I have consecrated my life to the freeing of the men and women i:hat are daily being done to death and the little children that I have seen beaten until the blood flowed to the ground.” The speaker said that he had form ed an association with the intention of petitioning the Portuguese gov ernment on behalf of the slaves to, trade and to report the atrocities to the association “This seems to me,” he <ald, “the only effective way of putting a atop to this iniquity." He asked for the support of the Mother’s Congress in his mission of humanity. After stating that “ thk cruelties meted out to those degraded human beings- on the mainland wer* be yond description,” General Pienaer continued: “children are torn from the breasts of mothers and sold as slaves. Slaves in the employ of their task masters are beaten to denlh, men suu women and childrsn are mutilated. Often a native has been done to deith he is. quartered and the different portions of his body are hung on the trees to terrorize the other native^ ^ AWFUL TRAGEDY. JUDGE BUCHANAN SHOT WHILE RIDING ON TRAIN. He is Fatally Wounded and la Taken to a Hospital in Auguata Where He Died. A dispatch from Augusta to Th« News and Courier say* former Judge O. W. Buchanan, of Wlnnsboro. S. C., died there Tuesday at H*30 o’clock as the result of the 22-caUbre rifle wound which he received while sitting in a railway car at Ward’s Station, S. C., Monday afternoon. Judge Buchanan was coming from Wlnnsboro to Augusta and was sit ting. by an open wndow reading a newspaper when without warning the small leaden missile whizzed through the opening and burled It self in his right side, the shot having been fired by some unknown party, the only theory entei ta'nH here be ing that it was a stru/ oullet fired by some person practicing shooting. The wounded man wts brought to this city and an opera’.! m at D». T. R. Wright’s private sanitarium resulted in the successful extraction of the bullet, but the intestines had been pierced in several places. The remains were taken to Winnaboro for interment. Judge Buchanan was to meet a party In Augusta composed of his brothers-ia-iwm, Messrs. James H. Tillman, A. R. Fullar, l^aurena, and his sister-ln-Uw, Mrs. G. A. Bunch. l4e was gitlmcjn a *eat with Judge Lyon,.and as the Vain was leaving Ward's Station, /htrty-flve mile* from Augusta, he exclaim ed that a brick had struck him, arose iron, his seat, and in a few m'nutes later fainted from the shock of his wound. A dispatch from Edgefield sgya establish- misetonarr :*ettle«to»t» to Hhrt- three boy* were out huniiag civilize and Christianize them and to act as a guard over the slave near Ward’s and -one of Miem acci dentally shot In the train with a rifle. It is reported that the boys have been arrested, but no names are given and it is impossible to get authentic In formation ta tir the real facta of the sad tragedy. It i« supposed that % ful investigation will be had and the matter, clarified WANTS THE FACTS. CAN’T DO IT AGAIN. Tillman Aska Pointed Q* ratio ns About Some Bank Transactions. Congressman James Says Corruption Funds Defeated Bryan Twice. Loud Democratic applause greet ed Congressman Jamea while making a speech in the House on Tuesday, when he asserted his belief that in the last two campaigns against Mr. Bryan, “but for the corruption brought bjr the Republicans on the monopolies and trusts of -the country Bryan would have been elected Presi Ident of the United States.” Mr. Bryan, he said, stood for some thing and had convictions and the courage to express them. ‘ “He has never prostituted his garments for money,” he said. “He has never sold the love of the American people for corporation gold.” “The people of the country,” he said, would “in Just time do proper meed and cVedit to the man who draws the naked sword in their de fense and in- their rights,” and he believed that these people, “are go ing to elect for President that grand, that splendid, that matchless Demo crat; W. J. Bryan. DROPS DEAD. While Looking at the Corpse of Drowned Baby- In Dunklin Township, in Green ville County, three miles from Green ville, the 1-year-old child of Joe Say- les, colored, fell into a tub which drowned. The child’s mother had left it alone to go into the house and when she returned it was dead. The news quickly spread through the neighborhood and a-number of people gathered at the house, among them Joe Jordan, the 18-year-old son of Mr. J. B. Jordan. He walked up to the tub, in which the child had been drowned, looked at it and drop ped dead. ^ " Mr. Jordan says his son had a nar row escape from drowning in the salhe manner when a child. The boy had a weak heart and it is supposed that the recollection of his narrow escape when a child and the horror of the negro child's death caused a shock to his system which resulted in his death. r ' Corset Killed Her. At Brigham, Utah, Mrs. Carl Gun- kie laced her corset so tightly that she crushed her heart, causing the blood to shoot to her head. Her husband, hearing her fall, ran to the room and summoned a physician, but Mrs. Oankle was dead before the .doctor arrived. Senator Tillman introduced a res olution calling upon the Senate com mittee on finance to conduct an in vestigation and answer some pointed questions bearing upon financial legislation. Among the questions asked are as to whether the national banks of New York York are in the habit, under the guise of commercial loans, of furnishing permanent capi tal for speculative or other enter prises: whether the Treasury Depart ment bad knoweldge of the loans by the National Bank of North America of New York, which are the subject of a suit by the receiver against C. W. Morse, and of other similar trans actions in other National banks; whether the national banks are en gaged by themselves or through oth er organizations in attempting to control or dictate the legislation of Congress upon the currency ques tions. • SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Three Men, All Prominent, Shot From Convent Grounds. Dr. Glovonnl Grana, a prominent physician; his brother In law, John Oroflno, and a friend, Alfonso Mole, were shot from ambush in Ybor City, Fla., by four men, who had secreted themselves in the grounds of St. Joseph’s Convent. Mole will prob ably die, the others being only slight ly wounded. All are Italians, and the shooting is believed to be the re sult of a Black Hand Plot. Five thousand dollars was demanded from Dr. Grana several weeks ago, and he had also been warded to leave the city. Demands have also been made on other prominent Italians, and much alarm has prevailed in the Italian colony. The police have ar rested five Italians on suspicion. RAN AWAY FROM SCHOOL. Young Boy Killed While Riding Un‘ derneath Express Car. Young Dean, the son of a promi nent citizen of Langley, was killed Tuesday afternoon on the electric car line between Langley and Warren vllle, near Aiken. It seems that he slipped off or ran away from school and got on the Augusta-Aiken ex press car. It is supposed that he |Hther fell off ot was shaken off, falling on the track and was then run over- by the carThe men on the express car, it is said, did not know anything about the matter and the boy remained on u the track until the car'bound for Aiken came up a little later. The affair is avery de plorable one. FIGHT A DUEL 1 * 6m. Fock MorttllY wounds too. Smirnoff it Cloio Ringo. PISTOLS WERE* USED. Smirnoff Reflected Upon Brother OP fleer’s Qualities in Memomadm* • on Seige of Port Arthur. Dm! Takes Place in Regimental Riding School in 8L Frteiihi^ OBT Presence of Men and Woi At St. Petersburg, Russia, Lieut- General- Smirnoff was probably fat ally wounded a duel fought Wed nesday morning with Lieut. G«a. Fock. ' - The men were In the riding school of the Chevalier Guard regiment aad fought with pistols, standing oloae to each other when the shots were exchanged. The duel was caused by a memo randum written by Gen Smirnoff oa the seige of Port Arthur, la which he questioned the courage of Gee. Fock.* The latter considered that his hoa- or and reputation waa Involved ead challenged the author of the memo randum. The duel, occurred with the fall knowledge and approbation of the military authorities. It was witoeaa- ed by several .officers of high rank, and It Is even reported that several women wbre present Shortly before 10 o’clock Geae. rqck and Smirnoff appeared at the Idli riding school. Wlthoet saluting they took the placet assigned by their seconds. The duellgGr Were InttFUCted te fire until one or the other wee hit At Fock’s fourth shot Smirnoff green ed and sank wounded in the abde* men above the hip. The word “Are” waa given by Gen. Klrsleff, the Russian authority on duelling. At the third exchange Smirnoff accidentally fired prematurely, bat Fock magnanimously declined te buuui ml a amenceteBS opponent, mnn the fourth end final shots ware then exchanged. The duel will be followed by another between Fock and Gea. Qor- batoffsky who waa criticised by Fock during the court-martial pro ceedings. Gen Smirnoff was acting sommaa- dant of the Port Arthur fortress dar ing the seige and at the time of tte surrender to the Japanese. After hie return to Russia he prepared a se cret report of the defense of Port Ar thur which was the basis of the Indictments on which Gen. Stomal. Gen. Fock and Gen. Relsa were tried for their lives before court tlal. MUST BE DEAD. Hope No Longer Entertained for thn Modern All hope of finding Fred Jeffe. e sailor who was stranded on Indefati gable Island, In the Pacific ocean, has been practically abandoned. The gunboat Yankton, which was seat from Callao to hunt for the missing seaman, haa arrived at Acapulco. Mexico, and the -commanding officer reported to the. navy department that no trace of Jeffa haa been found, which is taken to mean that he Is dead. That Jeffs must have experienced many more hardships than those re lated of Robinson Crusoe, Is evident from the‘nature of the -island upoa which he was stranded. Indefatig able or Santa Crus Island, Is on the equator, entirely uninhabited save by monster turtles and venomous rep tiles of the tropical regions. The searching party believe that Jeffs could not have lived long after he was wrecked, on May 8, 1907. * TRIED TO BURN SELF. Disconsolate Because Hie Yoaag Wide Had Left Him. Because his young bride deserted him, Agossan Teba, of Martina Creek, N. J., piled a lot ot wood under his bed and set fire to it. Then turning on the gas in the room he lay down on the bed and tried to go to sleep. The bed took fire and Teba would have -burned to death but for the ftfttely‘tnlVal of neigh bors who saw the flames and forci bly carried him from the honae. He begged them to leave him alone aad said that he did not care to live. He waa terribly burned and the hos pital physicians say he may not re cover. Legally Hanged. , At La Grange, Ga., Ingrartt 'Cana- dy, a“negro assailant, waa hanged in the jail yard Friday afternoon at 1:16 o’clock. Canady waa convicted at the last November term of court of crminally aasaqjtipg Mrs. Rosa JOBSS' — f ■ -* - - -- Bryan Will Win. Pepreaentktlve Johnson, who la at home at Spartanburg for a few days from Washington, says he believed Mr. Bryan depL, In Jrft, imany Repjiblkana be lieve Mr. Bryafi wUpWwffi next f|