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VOL. XXXII EXPLAINS VOTE S«yt Doty oil kOR OroWHI Not . Hurt Contumtrs. TILLMAN’S LETTER Th« ScMtor tn • Reply to * Letter Prom • Citizen of Willis ton, Stat ed Hta ReMons for Voting for a Duty on Ore Claims There Are CORPORATION TAX TAFT SENDS MESSAGE MAKING HIS RECOMMENDATION. U —— - Senator Tillman baa Just received a letter from W. C. Smith, of Wil- lleton, asking the Senator to explain why he voted for a duty on Iron ore This letter la as follows: “WlllUton, May 27th, 1909. Senator B. R. Tillman, Washing ton, D. C.—Dear Senator. Having always been a ‘’Tlllmanlte’* at the LaUot box, I am emboldened to ask if yon have evor stated your reaso.i for voting for a duty on Iron ore and if aucb statement la In prl.v.. that you will pend it to me. I am cartons to know why. Yours truly “W. C. SMITH.” To Which Senator Tillman replied: •'Tour letter of May 27^h has re mained unanswered simply because I have been overwhelmed with work . here, and have spent several days In South Carolina, looking after mat ters at Clemson. and lost one day as I returned by reason of a railroad wreck. "I have never printed anything about my vote on Iron ore, and will very gladly five you an explanation direct. I notice that my old ene mies are making a great howl about my votes up here, while many oth ers who have not been enemies are yelping In chorus, simply because they are ignorant of conditions. The trouble with many editors in South Carolina, Is they take and read the Associated Press dispatches, which are colored in behalf of the Repub lican party, and are garbled and condensed, and give no adequate conception of things as they really happen. The facta in regard to Iron ore are simply these: There Is overwhel ming evidence that there are no In dependent steel or Iron producers The Steel Trust has absolute control nod enjoys a monopoly of the iron and steel business In this country. Tha so-called independent concerns are dominated and controlled by it, though not all owned by it. The Steel Trusts flies prices and the others conform. "There are Immense, well-night Inexhaustible deposits of iron ore in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the Steel Trust oontrols im mense deposits In those States. It also controls, or some of its aub- eldary companies do, large deposits in Cuba. It was brought out in the debate, that eome of the Eastern companies have contracts with the Cuban mine owners, to import not leas than a million tons a year of Cuban ore. and I do not think it worth while to let this come in free when it would make no difference whatever to the conaumera of iron and steel as to the price we would pay for those articles. I believe that the American producers of iron and steel (that Is the Steel Trust main ly), can compete with England, Ger many and Prance in the markets of the world, and that the whole scheme of protection of manufactured steel Is a bare faced robbery of the Amer ican people. No one but an Idiot will Increase the price of anything manufactured of iron, to the Ameri can consumer. If we could reduce the tariff on manufarctured iron we could get cheaper prices, but under existing circumstances the tariff law- bars out the European competitor, who is already handicapped by hav ing the ocean freights to pay, and our people are charged the cost of production in Europe, plus the freight, plus the tariff, and this is the source of Carnegie’s millions. Assuring you of my high apprecia tion of yonr friendship In the past, and hoping to continue to merit your confidence, and support. I am, ‘‘Sincerely yours, ‘‘B. R. TILLMAN. KILLED MULE AND SELF. BtngwUr Tragedy Is Enacted in Horry County. A special dispatch from Conway to The State says: Perhaps the mos: peculiar suicide ever heard of was committed In this county Thursday. Mr. John S. Grainger, a white.farmer about 40 years of age, wfio livef near Green Sea, shot and killed his mule and then turned the gun on himself, dying almost instantly. The facts as reported from Loris by Ulephi'i* ere that Mr. wat^ held a b’H c,' asle for t > >.V bn the" mule owned by Mr. Grainger and a few das ago sent word to Grainger that unless be paid off the hi]: of sale at 6nce he would send for the mule. Grainger. It is reported, sated that Watts would never get the mule and Thursday morning led the anl* mai in tha nearby woods and killed It and. returning to the bouse, shot himself, using tha sama weapon with which ha kllad bis animal. -No causa for ttie suicide other tha above hat yet daveloped. Advocates Amending the Constitution to Give Congress Right to Tax Incomes. Recommending legislation looking to the placing of a two per cent tax on the net income of corporations and also the adoption of an amend ment to the Constitution providing for the imposition of an income tax without an apportionment among the several States, President Taft Wednesday sent to Congress a mes sage embodying his views on the subject. This action followed a protracted spcfci&l meeting of the Cabinet. In hia message the President speaks of the apparent inability of Congress to agree to an inheritance tax, and as regards an income tax he refers to the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Pollock vs. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, in which the court held the tax to be unconstitutional unless apportion ed according to population. ‘Tt la,” says the President, "undoubtedly a power which the government ought to have. It might be indispensable to the nation’s life In great crises.” The amendment, therefore, he de clared. was the only proper course. Such an amendment to the Constitu tion, he contended, was preferable to the one proposed of reviving a law judicially declared tp be un constitutional. The ameiidpient which he propos es should be made to the tariff bill provides for the imposition upon all corporations and joint stock com panies for profit, except national banks (otherwise taxed), savings banks and building and loan as sociations, of an excise tax of 2 per cent of the net income of said in corporations. This, it is estimated by him, will bring .an annual revenue of 126,000,000. "This is a tax on privilege and not on property,” he said, "and is within the Federal pow er without -apportionment according to population.” The president points out that another merit to the tax on corpo rations is the Federal supervision, which will give to the government, the stockholders and the public, knowledge of the reel business trans actions and the gains and profits of every corporatiffn in the country. The adoption of the amendment, he says, will make a long step "toward that supervisory control 'of corpo rations which may prevent a fur ther abuse of power.” The message concludes: "I recommend then, first, the adop tion of a joint resolution by two- thirds of both houses, proposing to the States an amendment of the Con stitution granting to the Federal Government the right to levy and collect an income tax without' ap- nornonment among the States, ac cording to population; and, second, th e enactment, as part of the pend ing revenue measure, either as a sub stitute for. o r in addition to, the Inheritance tax, of an excise tax upon all corporations, measures by two per cent of their net income.” The message was referred to the finance committee. BARNWELL. S. C„ THURSDAY, JANE 24, 1909 ACCEPT DESIGNS I TARIFF ROBBED BUYS ANOTHER ROAOl THE AWFUL CRIME D||||| GREENVILLE FIRM AWARDED - CONTRACT Peopli Yearly Plundered of Bil lions for DRIVEN FROM TOWN Because They Tired to Force Social Recognition. At Greenville, Mlsa., efforts of a negro girl to force white women to address her as "Miss" resulted Wednesday night In the hasty depar ture of the family of E. W. Lampton, bishop of the American Methodist Episcopal church. The girl is Bish op Lampton’s daughter. She has vainly insisted that the title be used by saleswomen in stores and By tel ephone operators. On Saturday, after some sharp words addressed to one of the tele phone operators, she said that her father would see that she was spoken to in a respectful manner. Bishop Lampton called on the tele phone manager and demanded that all the young women at the exchange be ordered to address his daughter as Miss Lampton. The manager de clined and made the interview known. An indignation meeting was held by citizens and Bishop Lampton was given five hours to take his family from the city. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. •• Bolt From Clear Sky Strikes Young Lady Near Charlotte. Lightning from a clear sky struck Miks Sallie Underwood. 16 years old, daughter of R. J. Underwood, at Hirer Bend,*N.-C , ■« remote town in a Gaston county. Wednesday, felling her and producing a state of coma from which physicians have been unable to arouse her. The girl was still unconscious at last report. Killed by Lightning. Belton Goff, a well known young white man. 22 years of age and un married, whose home was about seven miles from Camden, was kill-1 ed Wednesday evening by lightning. He waa going from his barn to the house when struck. For Sttvar -Senrice—Historic Scenes Will be Reproduced and Plans of Commission are Carried Out. The commission In charge of the selection of the silver service for the battleship South Carolina decid ed Thursday to award Gorham A Co., of New York, represented by the Gllreath-Durham Co., of Greenville, (the construction Jof the designs. The service will cost $6,000, the amount appropriated and with the exception of a few minor changes the design as originally planed by the commission will be carried out. The designs eubmlfted wer»e very tasteful. There Is a dsign showing the battle of King's Mountain, anoth er showing the reception by Gen. Marion to the British officers when it was claimed that the dinner con sisted of boiled potatoes, another showing Jasper replacing the battle flag and other historical scenes. On the large bowl are the historical words of Pinckney, “Millions for de fense but not one cent for tribute.” Throughout the design the seal of the State, (the /palmetto tree and various symbols and scenes are re produced. The company was represented here by Mr. E. J. Dings of New York and D. C. Durham of Greenville. Other firms who had representatives pres ent were Jas. Allan & Co., of Char leston, Chas. F. Sentz, of Columbia, and S. Thos. Thomas and Bro., of Charleston. The South Carolina is expected to go in commission in December, and this service is to be ready to be presented to the battleship about the middle of January, and the serv ice is to consist of the following pieces: One punch bowl and ladle. Twently-four punch cups and plateau. One centre piece and plateau. One water set of four pieces. One tea set and kettle and waiter. Two fruit dishes. Two meat platters. One fish dish. Two selad bowls, with forks and spoons. Two bon-bon dishes. Two compotlers, large, two small. Two vegetable dishes. Two centre dishes. The price to be paid Is $6,000, being the amount appropriated by this State. CONVICTED OF ARSON. Negro Found Guilty at Aiken of Bet ting Fire to a Barn. A dispatch from Aiken says Wednesday night the Jury in the case of the State against Moses Stevens, charged with arson, returned a ver dict of guilty, which carries with it a sentence of death. This case has created a great deal of interest, as this is the second conviction for the burning of the barn of Mrs. M. C. Moseley. About three years ago her barn was burned under suspicious circumstances, and a negro was tried and convicted of the crime of burn ing the building. He is now serving a sentence of twenty years in the State Penitentiary. Last summer the barn on Mrs. Moseley's place was again razed to the ground by fire, In the early part of the night. The burning was again under suspicious circumstanc es. and detectives were put on the case. Stevens was arrested, as was also Henry Clark, another negro. They were held for several weeks, and then released for want of suf ficient evidence to convict. The case was given up for the time being, but later—this spring—evidence cropped out against Stevens, and de tectives were again employed, with the result that Moses Stevens was again arrested. The trial consumed all Tuesday. The main witnesses were the wife and mother-in-law of the defendant, both of whom testified that Moses told them he committed the crime, and that he attempted to commit suicide at the time, by attempting to shoot himself, and then tried to cut his throat, the knife being taken away from him, and then he threw himself against a wall several times. They said he told them he had poured oil on the pea heap in the loft of the barn and set fire to It. because he had gone to Mrs. Moseley to borrow some money, and she refused him, and he did it for revenge. The defence, conducted by W. M. Smoak, Eeq., attempted to show -that these witnesses, as was also George Washngton, father-in- law of the defendant, were prejudic ed because they bad fallen out with him, and were attempting to get bim out of the way. Stevens has not' yet been~seflTetui- ed and it is probable that the case will be appealed. The crime carries the death sentence because of the close proximity of the barn to the residence of Mrs. Moseley. BENEFIT OF TRUSTS Blackberries Cause Death. As a result of eating blackberries picked in a field near Amite, La., two negroes died Wednesday. There la said to be a poisonous insect egg on some of the berries which U .. v Senator Bacon, of Georgia, Gives Home Startling Fact* as to How the Masses of tne People are Field Up and Robbed Under Form of Law. On May 7 in the discussion of the tariff bill Senator A. O. Bacon made an argument which will be the death knell of the tariff system when the people shall once clearly understand it. The senator had shown how in the higher price of goods due to the tariff duties the people are Made to pay $2,000,000,000 a year to enrich favored corporations and Individuals, and the Republican members, excit ed by the fearful arraignment of the tariff that was being made, were ply ing the senator with a rapid fire of questions. But unconcerned thereby, Senator Bacon continued: “In considering the protective tariff senators lose sight of two great questions. One is: What is best in order to raise revenue for the gov ernment? The others is: Who pays this money? The great cotton In dustry of the South, makingl3,000,- 000 bales of cotton, which preserves the balance of trade between this country and Europe, brings into this country every year in gold, or keeps gold from going out of the country through bills of exchange more money nearly twice over than all the gold that is mined in all the mines of all the world each year. “What possible excuse can be giv en that this immense industry shall be required to pile pp here in this chamber, not only for once but for every year, its great proportion of this two thousand million dollars of tariff tax, and say that it shall be distributed without return as a bonus to other parties, who are either unable to live upon the profits of their own business, and who de mand that the public shall contribute out of their pockets that which is necessary thus either to reserve them or to still further enrich them? "Suppose that instead of this In direct way of collecting money and paying it over to the favored indus tries, we, here sitting In our sover eign law-making capacity were to determine, so far as it could be done under constitutional limitations, that a tax gatherer should be appointed by the law of congrese, and that he should proceed through the country to levy and collect this two thou sand million dollars, and have it aaid by this tax gatherer, as he took this tribute from men toiling with brain and muscle, ‘this is not for the gov ernment, nor a dollar of that will go to the public treasury, It is to be carried to Washington and piled up in front of the secretary's desk in the senate chamber, to be dis tributed by the senate to private parties to aid them In their private personal business.’ “And after it has been thus col lected from the people by the tax- gatherer and piled up In a great heap In this chamber, suppose that we should then be surrounded in all these lobbies and hotels with men engaged in other branches of in dustry, and that they should impor tune ua that this money should be given to them for their private gain, *hat we should listen to them and to their demands, that the Republi can senators should hear them in bosom talks in the secret conclave in that marble palace of which I have spoken, and to which the sen ator from Iowa alluded day before yesterday, and according as this one might have political influence, or that one might hav e power, or that one might excite pity, and thus se cure the recommendation of the Re publican members of the finance committee in favor of this one, that and the other, this two thousand mil lion of dollars, gold dollars, thus gathered out of the toll of the Ameri can people, should be put In bags and handed out to them at the door cl the senate chamber, and they should walk away with it—each one of them taking in his hand his hag of ill-gotten gold. How long would it be before the people of the United States would rise up in revolt and overthrow it? Yet that is not an overdrawn picture. It is the God’s truth as to what in practical effect Ls^ being done under the operation of a protective tariff. "The most upw^lcome visitor In the world is the* laxgatherer. We have in the United States two kinds of taxgatherers outside of the inter nal revenue officers. We have tax- gatherers who are at the ports and .who gather 4hrongb duties on im ports the "taxes thaY ire TaScewary for the support of the government. Who gathers the other taxes? Who gathers the $2,000,000,000. that men and wom«n and the Industries of all kinds In this country are required to bring here and pile up in gold dollars before that dealt? Who are the taxgatherers? There is not a corner grocery store th*$ sells a pound of sugar to p poor widow bat what at the time it sells that sugar gets the value of the sugar an4 then collects from, that widow between GEORGIA CENTRAL IS TRANS FERRED TO BARIUM AN. He Pays Three MXUIobs for Stock of the Par Yalae of Five Millions. at geo Per Share. The sale of the Central of Geor gia Railway to the Illinois Centra] Railway, carrying out plans fore casted more than a year ago, waa announced Wednesday. The trans action originated in negotiations ful minating in November, 1907, when the entire capital stock of the Cen tral of Georgia passed Into the hands of Wm. Nelson Cromwell and John W. Castles. The purchase, It waa announced a few months later, waa for E. H. Harrlman, whose intention. It was then stated, was to transfer it to the Illinois Central. The price paid by the Illinois Central was not given out. Announcement of the transfer waa made in New York by John F. Han son, of Atlanta, president of the Central of Georgia. The price paid by Mr. Harrlman for the stock, to the par value of $5,000,000, it was stated, #ias $3,000,000, or at the rate of $60 per share. The entire capital stock of the Central of Georgia was originally held by the reorganisation commit tee of the Richmond and West Point Terminal Railroad and Ware House Company. In June, 1907, the stock was sold to Oaklelgh Thorne, of New York, and Marsden J. Perry, of Providence, R. I., who agreed to retain voting control for at least two years. It was from these gentle men that Messrs. Cromwell and Cas tles secured the stock, and they sold it to Mr. Harrlman. The transfer of the Central of Georgia carries with It the control of two steamship lines, one from Sa vannah to New York, and the other from Savannah to Boston, operated by the Ocean Steamship Company. The Central of Georgia operates a little over 1.900 miles of road. Its system touched that of the Illinois Central at Birmingham, Alt. OP A BLACK FIEND IN GEORGE TOWN COUNTY RAPS THE NEWSPAPERS. "Headlights of Protection" Oy for Free Paper, Says TUlmaa. Immediately upon taking up the tariff bill Thursday the Senate agreed to the amendments previously of fered by Mr. Aldrich for the com mittee on finance relating to flint glazed and other surface coated pap ers and calendars, cigar bands, etc., composed of lithograph paper. After disposing with little difficul ty of a number of disputed para graphs in the tariff bill, the Senate began the coislderation of the print paper and wood pulp provisions of the tsriff bill. The subject was in troduced by Senator Aldrich, who, as chairman of the finance committee, proposed an amendment increasing the duty on print paper to $4 a ton. The House reduced it to $2 a ton. Senator Browne offered an amend ment to place print paper on the free list. "These very papers that are ask ing for fre* papers.’" said Mr. Till man, "are the very headlights of protection and they deny me the opportunity to buy this coat or these shoes,” illustrating by pointing to the article of attire. "Yet they want free paper.” Mr. Tillman brought his foot down on the velvet carpet with a resound ing effect as he added that they are humbugs. FIRES ON STEAMER. Russian Warship Opens Fire on British Vessel. A dispatch from Viborg, Finland, says a British steamer has been fired upon by a Russian torpedo boat for approaching too close to the bay on •he Finnish coast, where Emperor Nicholas..and Emperor W’llllam were to meet Thursday. The British steamer in question is the Nothburg. She was hailed and fired upon off Wlrolahti, Island of Blorke. The projectile from the torpedo boat pierced a steampipe and one member of the crew of the English vessel was wounded. Most Give Up Cigarettes. Governor Kitchen, of North Caro lina. granted a pardon to-< Jacob Spivey of Gulford county on condit ion that he abstain frofla smoking cigaretts. Spivey is 16 years old. The charge was trespassing and the sentence wa« six months in the work h&ose: 1 and 2 cents. I think is is approx imately 2 cents, from that purchaser, not for the benefit of the govern ment, but for the benefit of the Sugar trust.” Some time the people will under stand how shamelessly they are being robbed J>y itlfs protective tariff Ini- tben they will ntnash nally damn the party whiat has been Its sponsor and cham pion. Young Lady School Teacher ty Assaulted. A dispatch from Georgetown to The News and Courier says: At four o'clock Friday afternoon word wsa hurriedly' brought to Sheriff Scurry that a criminal assault had juat been committed upon the per son of a young woman school teach er by an unknown negro at Crab Hall, a place situated immediately across Winyah Bay from Georgetown, oa Waccamaw Neck. The young lady boards at the home of Mr. Huck Cains, and while out driving with one of the Cains chil dren, a little girl, she waa dragged from the buggy and carried into the woods by her assailant, who or dered tbs child to flee st the peril of her life. The chlld’e father returned with her to the spot to find the young lady In a terrible plight, and bloody from the fearful struggle which ehe had bravely waged. The man had fled. The sheriff and hla posse is in pur suit with dogs, and numerous par ties of men from the city are scour ing the woods In search of the brute.* • WIND MOVES HOUSE. Home of Farmer Near Scranton Given New Location in Storm. Monday afternoon the Liberty sec tion, about seven miles from Scran ton. waa visited by a heavy wind storm, lightning and some rain. Tha only damage so far as this corre spondent has been able to ascertain, except slight damage to crops, la that Mr. Joeiah Cock field, a son of the lat« Capt. James A. H. Cock- field, a prosperous young farmer, bad hia residence lifted from the blocks and carried some distance away, and the plasts completely torn from the body of the bouse. Mr. Crockfleld was away at the time, and bis wife and young babe, being frightened, went to a near neighbor's house for shelter. Just st this time the ac cident Is a heavy loss, as Mr. Cock- field will be compelled to rebuild, besides the damage to all his house hold goods. ' During the storm lightning strnck the old gin house of the late Cspt. James A. H. Cock- field and demolished the old build ing to s considerable extent. So far this jborreepond|ent has not heard of any injurlee or lives lost. QUEER AGREEMENT PROPOSED. Atlanta Woman Tells of Husband's Proposition. In t suit for divorce on the ground of penury, Mrs. E. L. Douglas. W wealthy Atlanta woman, Monday filed a petition setting forth an agree ment which she alleges her husband asked her to sign. Article "four teenth” of this agreement reads as follows: "Neither party shall under any circumstances speak or act In a dis paraging. petulant or unkind way, to, or of the other under a forfei ture, or penalty of making a humble apology, either public or private, as the offended party shall elect, and also submit to be klseed by the other party one hundred times, or lees, at option of aaid party aa to time or place.” The other articles, numbering twenty-four, covered the financial re lations of the couple in detail. Mrs. Douglas said she refused to sign this agreement. Policeman Acquitted. John O. Darby, chief of police for the town of Batesburg, charged with assault with intent to ravish, was acquitted by the Jury Friday morning, after they had deliberated for thirty minutes. The trial of Mr. Darby has attract*! a great deal of attention, and he was the recipient of many warm congratulations in his acquittal. * Print Paper Taxed. Just before adjournment Friday night the Senate adopted by a vote of 44 to 32 the amendment of the Senate committee w* nance fixing a duty of $4 a ton on print paper, In place of tb# Houee rate of $2 a ton, but tbe other amendments to the wood pulp and print paper schedules bad not been acted open when tbe Senate adjourned , at 7 Velock.' '“'f-- • * • .• robbed J>y it! qulty, andi It aad eteri Fatal Accldtat m Swftmi way Ttiunday. • -• .44 Engineer W. H. Turner of and Fireman J. Y. Cbrliale of flew Killed la the an Extra Freight Train New m Ookanbia, The derailing of an extra freight. No. 276, at Etyx, a few miles south of Columbia on the Saraauk line of the Southern railway Thursday morning about 10 o'clock, caused —^ the death of Engineer W. H. Turner of Columbia and - Fireman J, T. Carlisle, a native of Fairfield, but n resident of Columbia, hla home be ing directly oppoaite that of Engtaaer Turaer on east Laurel street. Juat how the derailment occurred will probably never he known, but It waa thought jto ha due to s 4a» fective tie or rati canned oa aeeount of the rains. The engine and abont 12 cars turned over and several others left the track. Eoglnoor Turner was fatally injured and lived but a short time aad Fireman Car lisle was buried under the werekago, his body not being taken out until several hours afterwards. As soon as the news was rsDQlOd in Columbia a relief train wna made up and sent from Columbia to the wreck. Here passengers on train No. 134 from Augusta were transferred and the remains of Engineer Tomer carried to Colnmbla and turned orar to Undertaker VanMetre. Engineer Turner was one of tho most popular men la tho employ the Southern. He Is. survived by fi wife and four children. He was n member of the lodge Masons and of tho local order of Brotherhood of Locomotive Wm eers. Tbe funeral waa held residence, 2316 Laurel street, at 4:30 o'clock Friday aflbemea and the interment was nisde at Elmwood cemetery with Masonic no tors. The body of J. T. Carlisle was taken to Wlnnsboro for burial. Mr. Carlisle was a member of the Broth erhood of Locomotive Firemen and well known throughout the Btntn. His body was buried under a maos of debris and waa badly mutilated. It was necessary for tbe wracking crew to work several hours before he could bo located and mo of -fbn remarkable discoveries jaade when his body was rtmoved was that kin - watch was uninjured and still run ning- Almost every part of hla body was covered with wreckage bat his watch was unlnjursd. His daath was iBstaataasous., The news of tlm accident spread quickly and many capreasto sympathy were heard for the of the railroad men who mot f'-r It is the first fatal ac cident on this ditiMvh Ik some time. - » Ulin MURDERER CAUGHT. Arrested ia Colambas, Ohio, marts Oat Story. Solomon Shepherd, alias William Thomas, a negro, confessed by ac cident to the Columbus, Ohio, polleo that he is wanted at Durham, N. C., tor murder. He Is hold awaiting word from Durham. Shepherd was pawn ing a watch when th\ police arrested him. He began to deny that he had "killed the man.” After some questionlag as to ~what be meant. Shepherd said he was impli cated in the killing of Englner Holt, on the Seaboard Air Llpe between Winston and Durham last October He said tbe engineers caught him riding the blind baggage and threw him off, whereupon he fired at the engineer. '-m DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Lost While at Sea. On the arrival at Naples Saturday from Genoa of the North German Lloyd steamer Berlin. It was ascer tained that Holland Bennett, of ton. U. S. A., who waa traveling with his wife on their bridal trip, was missing from tha vessel and the be lief prevailed among the passengers tbat be either committed suicide of fell overboard sod was drownsd. Shipment of dlHgstors. A carload of atllgatora. aaid to be the largest number over shipped over a railroad, left Now Orleans tor Los Angeles Thursday. Macon Policeman Kill* a Woman and Himself. - .. .~*y—^ About ope o'clock Thursday morn ing Officer Oscar Absl of tho Hoops police force shot and klUod Emma Raymond, in the red-light district of Macon, Oa. Whether a qnarrei ensued before the double murdaf ar not cannot be aseertalisd as tb* coroner has not arrived op to a Into ,iours. Tho vl o’# aff«'r u sbrooded mystery. 1 he ofllesr was dre*a>-4 la hla uniform at tha time, badge and all. The woman was shot three times la the breast. Abel lived only a short Mao nfldr skobBig twice UMh* head. Killed by . A special from Camden to News and OouHer tho l«th si Belton Goff, a wail known yc n married, wfcosa seven miles from by lightning. tho The Newberry Observer English bran ioi selves on the aad take n them slid* preach nf'