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=VOL. XXXI BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1908 THEY WERE HUNG Toland Brothers Pay Death Pen* alty for Awful Crime. TOUCHED' UVE WIRE. YOUNG ELUCTRICIAN MEETS A HORRIBLE DEATH. m ni..| ^ AN ORDERLY CROWD] Of About Four Hundred WitncMed the Execution in the Lexington Jail Yard—Roth Were Hanged From the Same Scaffold.—They Held Firmly to Their Former Story of the Murder. At Lexington on Friday Ned and Brack Toland paid the penalty of death for the murder of Mrs. Paul Elllsor on February 26. They died at a few minutes past twelve o’clock, both being hanged from the same gallows. "I am ready to die and tell everybody to meet me In heaven,” were the parting words of each. To the lust they held to their former y of the crime us they told it on witness stand at Lexington on larch 12. & . The ueghoes met death with scarce* )y a tremor. The eyes of Brack, the younger of the Iwjys. displayed a slight moistness. The cunning, in stinctively criminal Ned shed not a tear and he met death with apparent ly •'s little concern as if it were the most commonplace thing. The boys stood erect while the black caps were being adjusted and very calmly held _ their heads In position for t he sheriff to arrange the ropes about their necks. Ignorant, depraved, they died with- out poaslbly a true realisation of the horrible and atrocious crime which they had commtted. The hundreds who witnessed the execution from housetops, trees, fences, etc., firmly believed that justice was being meted' out to them, but*”not one would have deigned deny them the privilege of feeling that “all is right with God’*’ The trap was sprung at V. R6 a. m.. and in 11 minutes Ned was pro nounced dead and in two mlntutes mote the last bit of life left the body of Brack. They difd strangu lation. As'fhe bodies dropped they swung around for a fe wseconds and th in all was still. Jt was thought that Brack was Vul- ed instantly, his body hanging per fectly motionless, with not a twich of th« hands or feet. Ned’s feet and hands drew up and relaxed repeatedly and he died with a struggle. Fu ,( six minutes had elapsed when Brack showed signs of life and then his fin gers began to twitch and once or twice his feet drew up before his body again became motionless. Dr. E. P. Derrick, country physl- ir> - ^Tsjti. Dr. J. P Drafts of Bnrre, Dr. Etheridge of Leesville and Dr. Methias of Irmo. constantly ex- ed the lodies at at 12.06 Ned pronounced dead. At 12.08 ><ick was pronounced dead. They were allowed to remain suspended In the air until 12.20. when l»oth bodies were cut down and placed in chea,. pine coffins furnished by the county. No one claimed the bodies and at 4 o’clock Sheriff Corley turned them over to Mr. D. D. Clark, coronsr. and Mr. Geo. H. Koon. county supervise*; atH they were taken to the poiters Held and buried without ceremony. * HANGED AT DARLINGTON. Mr. Karnetf L. Wicker While Work- big on a Pole Over In Sumter looses His life on Wednesday. At Sumter Mr. Ernest L. Wicker, electrician of the Sumter Ice, Light and Power company, was instan.ly killed about .2:30 o’clock Wednes day by. coming In contact with a live wire, while at work on the line at the corner of Main and Liberty streets. Mr. Wicker and Dave Lawrence, his assistant lineman, were at work oil the big pfie at the Chandler Clothing company corner, putting in a couple of new transformers and bad almost finished making the connection when the accident occurred. They were seated on the cross bars about twenty feet from the ground. Mr. Wicker having on a safety belt with which he ted strapped him self to the pole. Tne work was al most finished and Lawrence says he and Wicker received a shock at thr same instant as each cut a wire on opposite sides of the pole. The terrible force of the shotfit threw Lawrence violently against the pole, causing a severe bruise on his forehead but fortunately for him contact with the wire was broken when he received the shock. Mr. Wicker remained in contact with the* wire and Lawrence grabwerl him by the sleeve and jerked bis band loose from the wire but he fell face forward across a bar among the wires and although Lawrence mude frantic efforts to push him from the vires with a stick the attempt was futile and the unfortunate young man hung there with a current of 2.300 volts strong pulsating through hi? FAVOR BRYAN.! Congressmen in Doubtful States Declare That He Would ENTHUSE THE PEOPLE tee. When taken down he was dead DROWNED HERSELF Because Mm Thought She Had Killed Her Child. Crased by the thought that she might have accidentally killed her son by a mistaken dose of medicine ten months Ago. Mrs. R. L. Poole jumped in the Etowah river and drowned herself Thursday. She lived in Rome. Ga. On Wednesday she was tried for lunacy and found guilty. She resisted going to Jail and was committed to the ctr* of her hus band during the day. While her hus band was not looking she slipped awsy, went to the river snd jumped in. It was found that she had tied her own arms before Jumping into the river to prevent any efforts being mads unconsciously. And Poll More Votes Than Any Other Candidate the Democrats Could Nominate.—They Hay All States v Should Send Instructed Delegates for Bryan to the Democratic'Con vention at Denver.’ ” We , want you to tell the Demo crats of South Carolina that, with one exception, there is not a Demo cratic congressman, who represents a doubtful district west of the Alle ghany mountains who does not feel that the defeat of Bryan at the Den ver convention would imperil Demo cratic success in his district. We want the aid of the South to preserve our political lives, and we do not want the Democrats to wait till the Denver convention but to express themselves now iu no'uncertain terms by instructing their delegates for Bryan. “If Bryan is the nominee, then we will certainly return to congress and other doubtful districts in our States now represented by Republicans will send Democrats. If Bryan is defeat ed for the nomination, rv. i.v of us will as certainly be de:>. ; vl. \Ve keep in close touch with th*- senti ment in our districts, r.y bfeve to. and the is our deliberate judgment.’ Ths Is what Judne h. \V. Shackle ford. a congressman fS i) Missouri, said to Mr. Zack McGhee, the Wash ington correspondent of The Stale one day last week, to which there was hearty and unanimous agreement at an informal conference Mr. McGhee body (or mor, th.n «r. ^ .T"?r B from the Middle M est tSates aj. Con gress hall. There were presmt. be sides Judge Shackleford, Messrs. AS IF BY MAGIC. Blind and Deaf Man Has His Hearing and Sight Restored. At Chicago a supposed deaf and blind mandlcant. who had been •• rested was fined $30 and costs by Judge Wells. As if by magic the man’s hearing and eyesight were re stored and he took $80 from one of sin, Russell of Missouri, Adair of In diana, Ashbrook of Ohio, and Kimball of Kentucky. Mr. McGhee had talked In the af ternoon also with Messrs. Denver of Ohio, and Dixon and Rauch of In diana. They are all of one accord and without reserve In declaring that the defeat of Bryan at Denver. If anything should bring about such an unexpected possibility, would mean disaster to Democratic fiopes not only for the presidential and c ngrcssloiial tickets but for all local tlc!t<*t«. And they each assure him that this is the view entertained by all the Democrat ic congressmen In the States of the Middle West, with the single exrep tlon of Mr. Hammond of Minnesota, who thfnks that Johnson would be stronger In Minnesota than Bryan “If Bryan Is nominated,” sal i one. "then I expect to run and get elected, hut If any movement hostile lo Mr. P.ryan names another man. then I know that there is not a possible chance for me, because Der.utcrata will knife the whole ticket. If any other man should be nominated, even though not hostile to Bryan, the Dem crats would uot come to the i>olls for It is impossible to get up any en thusiasm except for Brynn." “There are five counties !n iny dis trict," said Mr. Ashbhrobk of Ohio. THEY WANT FOOD.! CARING FOR THE LIVING IS A PROBLEM. r The Injured Are l)oing"\\Vll anO-Jtl^ Hundred. Death List Will Not Kxeoctf F our YW»YWi>Vv*>>»V» <• • ^YXYtY*v Practically complete returns fro?*', all portions of Ijoulslkna. Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia show that tttg death list In the wind, rain and elec trical storm of last Friday. Saturday^ and Sunday will not be more than 400. The number of Injured stand at abeut 1,200, with reports Indicat ing that a number of the persons huit in this storm probably will j*e Relief measures have been extend ed by the United States governme it to Hattiesburg, Miss., Purvis and oth er towns In the four States. In ad dition to federal aid the States took prompt measures -for the prompt as sistance of those made homeless by the storm and for Jiospital accommo dations for those injured. A dispatch fron? New Orleans un der date of April 27 says with about 325 newly made graves distributed broadcast over nearly the entire width of Louisiana, Mississippi and Ala bama, the dead In Friday's tornadoes has been mostly cared for at this time, and it was possible with ac- curracy to say that the death list in these States would not exceed 350. The few who may be added to this fatalities are possibly a score of the 200 most seriously wounded in hospi tals throughout the States. The re maining injured number about 1,000 were reported on the road to recov ery. The gravity of the situation cen tered in the problems of the living, namely, hunger and shelter. At least one stricken town was reported to have eaten literally Its last meal at that time and was relying on charity for its supper. Fortunately, the great territory over which the stricken dis tricts were acattered Ibft an oppor- tunlty for the unharmed neighbors in terspersed everywhere throughout these centres of want to furnish relief Hamilton of Iowa. Murphy ol Wactm store quickly and effectively than Gaddy Graham Pays Penalty for Kill Ins Furman Mw»dy. ’"“(fluldy Graham, colored, was hang ed at DwUnyton Friday for the mar- drr of Furman Moody on the nigM ot Nov. If; 19D7. •The hanging took place at n° on and *-h ( “’ e 'a' 0 ™ f 011 persons present. Among those who witnessed the hanging, were ?ho fath er, brother and uncle cf the murder ed man. Just before the drop fell Graham made a statement, admitting that he was guilty of R’eoilng and ly ing. He said that he hated to be hanged foi mnrder, but that he was prepared for the inevitable' On the night of Nov. 18, 1907, ^urman Moody, who had been em ployed as manager on Mr. William son’s plantation, went hunting. While passing by a corn field on the place he heard what-he thought was some one breaking corn. He hailed and was answered, “I am Isaiah Bostict, don’t shoot. 1 surrender." Itnme- dlaTelyhe was fired upon, the wound* causing his death some days after wards In Charleston, whither he had been carried in order to get medical entlon at the hospital. iah Bostick was afterwards ar- and so was Gaddy Graham, ho f-as put in jail to answer to the ibajfge of having killed Moody. It v/jig found that -Bostick was not iu anv way implicated; his name was given Moody by Gaddy in order to deceive him as to who was in the field- ’ Gaddy bad tried to cover hi^ tracks in every way but was caoght and at the trial the testimony of a woman who had gone with him Jn the wagon to.steal the corn corrobo rated other testimony and Gaddy was convicted and sentenced to bo hangod on Friday, May 1, 190I. searched by ^beUoMce and a bank book showing a deposit of $1,452 «as found. “You won’t hftfid the«« caWs which tell of your lost nearing aiid poor eyslght since both have tx'en restored," the court remarked, and the pasteboard was destroyed. THREE SAFES BLOWN* his pockets and counted out the a- mount of , the fine. He was than.these are Repub1iC7inr*two Safe Robbers Made a Good Haul at Hartwell, Ga. Safe robbers visited Hartwell. Ga.. about one o'clock Thursday morning The postoffice was opened and robbed of $60 in money and about $1,000 in stamps. None of the mails were were molested- The safe was blown open with nltro glycerine. The Southern express yffioe was also visited and the safes blown. The express money or ders were tosstd about the place. It is believed about $200 was secured there. BOAT TURNED OVjb-U. Two Men and One Woman Drowned. Get Mr. and Mrs. Nvilliard Stone and Boyd Ward. ntenMrowned in Muske gon like abouTAT"o’clock Wednes day night when their boat was over turned by the high waves. Msis Eth el Stewart clung to the boat and drifted a mile to the shore. All four of the party belonged at Lakeside, a surburb of Muskegon, Mich. 'Dispenser Short. Wednesday afternoon the Aiken boaVd of control of the county dis pensary visited the North Augusta dispensary and caecked up the ac counts of that tBstUntion. finding a shortage of some $490. The dispen sary was ordered Immediately cioaed and will not be again opened until the metier is etralghtened. This is n henry Mow on the thirsty nt Augus te. ' _ - ■ are doubtful, though now Democratic and one Is safely Democratic. With BryaB heading the.ticket. I can easily carry the two do’ilbtful districts and will get a plurality of 2.000. but if Bryan is not named at Denver 1 fear the consequences, though even .hen 1 think I could get a plurality of some thing like t 000 ’’ yr I'enve- of Ohio *s *be first Democrat who has ever represented his district in Congress. He has boon the county chairman of the Demo cratic party in his county and he knows the sentiment among the oe.v ple throughout Ohio. His district is now normally Republican by nearly 5.000. He says with Bryan as the nominee there is an excellent; chance of carrying Ohio for tho Democratic party.. Mr. Hamilton Is the only Democrat from Iowa. “With Bryan as the Dem ocratic nominee,” he said, “and with Taft the Republican nominee (6r president, Allison again nominated for the senate, I believe there is an excellent chance of carrying Iowa. This would not be the case with any other man In place of Bryan, lu the northern part of Iowa, next to Minne sota, there is a nttle i sentiment for Johnson, but the overwhelming senti ment among Iowa Democrats is »e- yond fllL possible doubt for Bryan, und he is a great favorite with Republi cans.” »' • " —- Only two^other* men mentioned Johnson. One of these was Mr. Mur phy of Wisconsin. “We know John son bp In-Wisconsin,” said he. “and the people do not take to him at all. They want Bryan. I. honesMy believe that Bryan could carry Wis consin aganst Taft. Mr district is largely Republican, but party Hues are being broken up. The people want reform and they will vote for the man who they think will give It to them, the three favorites being Roosevelt, LaFollette and Bryan.” All the Itodiana Democrats refer to the three dlstricU ia their State now represented by Republican* who hold would have been possible had the dis aster been confined 19 one place. Cities, little and big, on all sides of the tornado belt made rapid prepara tions to ship supplies and men into the tornado districts. New Orleans started a money subscription and also shipped food to* Amite, the worst damaged town in that State. Amite was the town which reported its food supply practically exhausted. Otherwise the little town was making rapid progress toward rehabilitation, the primary feature of the restoration being the opening of streets by dragging trees, roofs and other wreck age off roadways. The churches, ev ery one of which was wrecked were among the first edifices to rise in he form of temporary pavilions above the ruins. At Purvis, Miss., cook stoves were about the most valuable assets in the community. A few of them had been brought from the wreckage and un der the. direction of the authorities their use was loaned first to ohe fam ily and then to another. Purvis was one of the few communities still re porting fresh lists of injured and dy ing, w.ho were found in the outlying country, some of them in a desperate state from lack of care. These un fortunates were made as comfortable as possible. So far'as known, all were negroes. Superintendent of EMucation T. W. Davis, is i nchar^e'of the relief work at Purvis, said in descirblng the stuation: "What we will do largelv depends upon what is done for us. We our selves have no resources. The debris must be cleared away, the dead stock removed, the injured cared for. We have put on a small froce of workers but will not be able to continue them unless money is rapidly forthcora Ing.” . * • LOST WITH SHIP An Awful Accident Befalls Cruiser of Japanese Navy. FEARFUL EXPLOSION .rv THE PRESS GANG how time Will be spent at . l r . ■■ ■ GAFFNEY, j ) Occurred n the Stock Magazine While 1 tho Vessel Lay at Anchor at Ma- kaiig."'' Atfhdst the Entire Oev^of Young Officers is Believed tg, Have Gone Down With'Their 8h1|R A dspatch from Toklo, .lapaursays the training cruiser Matsushima was sunk off the Pescadores l£landi. Thursday morning by the explosion of a projectile. - The cruisers Itsukhlma and Hashl-- date rescued 30 of the crew. It Is believed that over 200 officers and men. includng the captain of the Matsushima are lost. The cruiser Matsushima has a dis-' placement of 4,277 tons, being about the size'and carrying practically the bame arnament as the United States cruiser Olympia. It carried one 12- inch gnd 11 four-nch gun*. “ It was one of the older shps of the Japan^ navy, having been built in 1890 at cost of $1,000,000. The total crew numbered 35u offi cers and men. Admiral Mospiamtsu, commander or the trajning squadron reports that the explosion occurred in the stock magazine of the cruiser at 4:08 o’ clock Thursday morning while the vessel .was anchored at Makang Tho cruiser immedately sank until only the brdge was visible. Efforts! at rescue by boats from the cruisers Hashldate and the Itsukhlma con tinued until 9 a. m., apd 141 men were saved, and at that time the ad- 1 irirl’s report, the cadets saved num lured 58 out of the completemem o'* 300. Tire sons of Baron etiindi;-vice- 1 minister of the foreign office, and of Prince Ograa, field marshal, are among the cadets who It is feared, are lost; also'Captalns Marne, Yosh- moro and Yashlro. The cause of the explosion is unknown. An additional report from Admiral commanider of the squadron, give* the list of dead as 159; 141 navtng been rescued by the crews of other cruisers. All offiers except four went down with the ship. Captains Marne, Vpshlmora am Yashlro are among the drowned. The cruiser was coming to anchor at 4:10 a.'m., whedrwith out warn ing there was a terrific explosion and the cruiser foundered almost Immedi ately. It is supposed the explosion occurred in magazine No. 2. BOLD THIEVES. Bound and Gagged Messengc* liooted the Safe. and Many Interesting Paper* to Be Read. People of Gaffney K^>ect to Make Visitors Have a Good Time, , • • •••■-V»Vv>v.,v, . *>V. .♦ .. 0mm. President E. H. Aull, dTth* BoMth Carolina Preas Association, attended a meeting at OaJfney last ^reek of the subcommittee which was appoint ed to -atfkbge the details of the pro gramme for the annual meeting of the Associaton at Gaffney. June 15- 18. J. E. Norment. C. M. Galloway anfr Wjriam Banks were also of this subcommittee, but were unavoidably absent. $ -President Aull and Mr, Edward DeCamp met and wont ov^f the pro gramme as partially agreed upon at a former meeting of the committee, and President Aull waa requested to put the programme In shape and ar range for its publication. As a result of the conference the following pro gramme Is announced for the annual meeting: * Tuesday Morning, June 10, 10 tFclook. Association called to order in aud itorium of Limestone College by Pres ident E. H. Aull. Prayer by the chaplain, the Rev. W. P. Jacobs D. D. Address of welcome on beholf yf the cRy cf Gaffney, by Prof. H. P. Griffith. • - ' . - - vr- Address of welcome on behalf of Limestone College by Dr. Lee Davis Lodge. Rerponses to addresses of welcome by President E. H. Anil and Secre tary R. L. Freeman. Business Scwsion. Subject, "The Budlness End of a Newspaper Office,” H. L. Watecn, Gu-'iiwood Index. “To What Extent Should News papers Give the Free Use of Their Colunu to Candidaiea." C. W. Wolfe, Kingstree-Records _ “My Esteemed Contemporary," T. tight Huntfrad toHav* HARROWING DETAILS ; . J ; ‘:i . Of • Series of Devastating Tornadoes in China Show That Whole Tana* Were Wiped Out of Rxtsteaea and ' ; ;; ‘"’"’jh Hundreds of lives Were Destroyed. * Thousands Are Homeless and la Want. STORMS. ..Nj.’TS “After a desperate batMa with two robbers, the messenger in charge of the express car of the New York-St. Louis express of the Pennsylvania road, was hound and gagged, towed Into a corner, and left there, while the intruders looted the safe In the car of four bags of currency and gold and then signalled the engineer to stop. When the train slowed down the men jumped off the car and ec- caped. „ T . ~ „ In trying to ascertain the cause of the signal to stop, the train crew found the car door open and the mes senger inside. According to the mes senger's story, he was busily engag ed as the train left the union station .at Pittsburg, Pa., at 10:15 p. ra. Without warning he was attacked, and at Carnegie, eight miles from Pittsburg, the stop signal was given ,and the men got away. * FAMOUS OUTLAW CAUGHT. their seats by smalt majorities:" These are Gilhams, with a majority of 350 over his Democratic opponent, with 1,490 votes fof th*-Prohibition and Socialist candidate*: Chaney, wth 340 majority over the Democrat, and 1 ,- 620 votes for the Prohibition and So cialist candidates, and the late Mr. Brick, who had a majority of 207 over the Democrat and 2.L90 for other candidates. These districts, they all declare, will be safely in the Democratic column If Bryan is nomi nated. and as surely Republican if he is not. Messrs Shackleford and Russel dis cussed the situation In Missouri, and they say that If Bryan is nominated Missouri will nqt only come back Into the Democratic column so far as the presidential electors are concerned, but that 15 of the 16 congressmen will be Democrats. There are now 12 Democrats and four Republicans from Mtesourf. "'Congressman Rainey of Illinois says, “I can not speak from personal knowledge as to any other State, but l do know Illinois, he said. “We have a good chance of carrying Illinois if Bryan ia the hom- Inee. With any one else nominated Murphy’ffthere Is absoUrttiy no chance. With Bryan at the head of the ticket, wo* can elect Ifi Democratic congressmen I think we could elect nine 'without him. We now have five.” Mr. Rain ey himself carried hi* dstrict by about 6,000 plurality, eo that Bryan’* defeat would not seriously effect him. He declare* that It wonld have a vital effect upon the Democracy of .fee SUte, which la all for Bryan. * John Harper Surrounded by a I ,n rgc Posse ami Uairtured. A special fron^Topper Hill, Tenn., states that a posse of Tennessee and Georgia citizens and United States of ficers have captured Jn the moun tains of Fannin county, Tennessee, the notorious outlaw Johu Ha.-per Harper murdered Allison England near Blue Ridge over a year ago, He was arrested and incarceratd in Jail in Atlanta February l, 19C8, pending .his appeal to the supreme court for the murder of Sheriff Keith of Murray county, Georgia in July, 1907. Rewards amounting to near ly $900 dollars were out for his ar rest which was accomplished by mak ing him believe that the house in which he was concealed was being burned down. TILLMAN TO RETURN HOME. The Senator Left the Sanltorium on I .AM Saturday. - * Senator Tillman's condition is *4 much improved that he has returned to''hi* home at Trenton, con tinue to rest, remaining quietly at home until, about June 1, when he expect* to *ail for Efirope. Thi* will be good news to the mtny friend* of the Senator, who hope that he will soon be entirely recovered so as he will be able to return to his dutlse In fee Senate, where he ia ao much R. Waring, Charleston Post. Afternoon Sewiion. “The Impress of Environment Upon the Newspaper and Ita Formative In fluence,” J. H. Norment. Miscellaneous business. "4:30 o’clock. Drive around the xi ne i>, city, Including visit to manufactories and tin mines. ng Hession. II:SO O’clock. , “The Great Importance of velopment of our Rural s.” Miss Mary T. Nance, pres ident of the Rural fechool Improve ment Association of South Carolina. Wednesday Morning, June 17, 0 O’clock. Visit to power plant of the Elec trical Power and Manufacturing Company on Broad River in a special train. A general picnic will he served nt the power plant. Night Heaaion. Address. “The Poatoffice Depart ment and the Legitimate Publisher,” Hon. A. L. Lawshe third assistant Postmaster General, Washington, D. C. . , Address, Hon. R.< R. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers' Record, Baltimore, Md. Thursday Morning, June 18, 0:80 f . . . O’clock. ; " “The Technical Construction of a Newspaper Story,” Jss. A. Hoyt, The News and Courier Bureau, Columbia, C. '‘How_ to Prepare Copy,” C. H. Gal loway, the State, Columbia, S. C. The Use of the Telephone By Gath ering the News,” A. H. Carpenter, the Daily Mall, Anderson, S. C. Afternoon Session, 8 O’clock. Historical Symposium,” paper and addresses by Col. T. B. Crews, Her ald, Laurens; N. G. Osteen. Watch man and Southron, Sumter; Jno. W’. Holmes, People, Barnwell; Hugh Wilson, Press and Banner, Abbeville; Miles B. McSweeney. Guardian, Hampton. Miscellaneous business. Election Of officers. —— ^ - Night Session, 10 O’Clock. Banquet, tendered by citizens oL Gaffney* It Is earnestly requested by the citizens of Gaffney that all members, with their families, will reach Gaff ney during Monday and Monday eve ning. The officers of the Association, also, earnestly request that every publisher In South Carolina attend this meeting. The people of Gaffney are very much in earnest in their effort* to make this a niost enjoyable meeting, and when they undertake to do thing they db it. In addition to the program Editor Loyless, of the Augusta Chronicle, and Editor Caldwell, of the Charlotte Observer, have accepted invitations to meet with their South Carolina brethren.' “If you are not a member o^ the Association.” say* President Aull “send your name and initiation fee to Treasurer August Kohn, Columbia, 8 C.. and make your arrangements to take a week off, leaving your home <jn Monday, so as to reach Gaffney in time for the opening session Tuesday morning, and have your business so arranged that you can remain away from your desk until the following Monday, so that you may take the trip through the beantlful scenery of Western North Carolina, which trip is being arranged *and the details of which will be announced in a sep arate circular. “We will live togetherm one fut- This part of fee world Jk aot the only plaee where there have been great storms In the last few weeks. China has been visited by devastating tern* pests,' which destroyed many Ihree and doing "much damage to property. A dispatch from Hong Kong says it is now believed that hte death Hat from the tornadoes which swept, oyer the Hankow region will reach up wards of 800 persons. Meagre reports from outlying districts add only har rowing details to the information al ready In hand. Means of communi cation are poor, owing to tha damage by water and high winds. A recent report from Hankow esti mated the death list there at $M. but this does not Include those who perished on numerous foundered ves sels. The violent teiripests which ravaged portions of the southeastern coast left death and destruction in their wake for miles. Small hamlets were almost entirely desroyed and in rural oommunitlea it wilt require many days to estimate the loss of life snd the loss In rail accurately.—r—;—■—*— Many vessel* of the coast ta China sea were unable to weather ths gale*. The fragments of sloops have been driftlag to upoa fee beech ear- ried by the he avy swell. Although there are no definite news from the coast town*, the loss of life D thought to be heavy. J M "M FATAL AOCIDWTT. Killed In Trolley Two large trolley care on fee De- trio t, Jackson ft Chicago railway, a part of the Detriot United Railway system, running from Detriot to Jack- son. collided head on Wednesday af ternoon while running nt about 4S miles an hour, near Ypslllantl. Nina mon were killed and about Sfi mam and women injured, aome of them seriously. Four of the injured are In critical condition. A mistake la orders on the part of Motormaa Fay of the limited car, who waa crushed to death beneath his vestibule. Is si eged to have censed the eolllstoa. *' 1 Decision of the ftopreme Const In Grover Welsh Case. The supreme court has refused ta grant bail to Grover C. Welsh, who Ja now in the Lancaster Jail charged with the killing of Berry B. Mobley. The killing took place lasf; February on a train near Heath Springs and was the outcome of a shooting affray in which Mobley killed Stephen Welsh, brother of v Orover, and Thos Clay bourn. Tha^ attorneys la fealr argument for bail claimed that Mob ley was the aggressor, but this waa denied by the prosecution. * WAS REFUSED BAIL. DEAD IN A CREEK. Must Have Been TJamvn From Bte Hone and Drpwned. Thos. P. Ferguson, a prospero farmer living four miles from Abbe ville was found dead in a small creek at 2 o’clock Wedpesday. Mr. Fergu son had been over to see his moth er and was on his way mule. Upon tha mula home without Its rider, s search mad? and the body was found ia tha creek. It is supposed Mr. Ferguson was thrown into the creek and ren dered unconscious and drowned. 11 Leave Hospital. Thomas McCreecy, who was shot accidentally some time ago by Repre sentative Heflin, has about recovered, * and will soon leave the hospital. tly during the session at Gaffney, ta the limestone College. While these we will be the guests of fee city. Editor DeCamp made that statement at the Isle of Palms last summer and insists on carrying it out. “If you desire transportation for yourself or any member of your fam ily write in ample time to fee presi dent at Newberry, 8. C., or to the secretary at Bennettsville, 8. C., Mak ing by which routs you desire ta apa. aud efforts will be made to aeeuro you necessary transportation. Let us repeat our ytr attend this something at thi* .1 mont section of yogr. years we fireese* and ot fee City of year we -am