Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jfe-- ■ ^-^vV ' . ■ ' ~r - -va • *.' \ ■' ^ •, ■ - jaHl 'W&QF ■ rf ••;• ••••*' ~W$£:* r i&4w- BAIUfWELL. 8. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1909 jro.7 A PEN PICTURE By C«M StonQ d Tint* . Id He Oacc bev WHO BECAME GOVERNORS CM. Btorall OlT* B*rly MomoriM of Miles B. Mcftwee*ef, Ben R. TULmjui and Job* Gary Rvaiu, All Httee of Whom W< Elected OoTernore of 8. Oapollna. Col. Pleasant A. Stovall, editor of the Savannah Press, used to work on the,Augusta Chronicle. At that time three young men from* South Caro lina had the habit of dropping into the Chronicle office now and then to see the reporters. Col. Stovall has beeh letting hla memory dwell on those days recently and the result Is the following editorial la The Press: About twenty years ego. la The Chronicle office In Augusta, some Intareating people used to come up at nig&t and chat with the editors. Many of these visitors were from across the river, for Augusta la very largely mgde up of South Carolin ians. and in the course of a day about half of the visitors are from rollna. <=3 'one of these men was a short, hick set. dorld boy. with light, sandy >r reddish hair. He hsd gray eyes ind were a large mustache. If we -emember aright his hair was curly. Be was a modest, quiet newspaper •nan. who ’published the Hampton Guardian. Most of these nelghbor- ng papers Jived by securing adver- :lsemeats from Augusta, and M. B. HcBweeney had^good patronage la hat city.' He was a practical printer, n fact, had begun his career as a jewahoy. His ptper wts always well let up tnd nettly printed. He wss i stickler for having a clean, bright ?rlnt, and his was one of the beet >f the country weeklies which enme 10 the office. Bvery time Mcfiweeney vent to town, which he did about >nee a week, he received a notlee In :he personal column something like :bis: "Mr. M. B. McSweeney. tbs pro- rresslve editor of the Hampton Ouar- llan. Is In the city. The Guardian las a large circulation In ths new jounty. and those who patronise ^he idvertlslng columns of The Ouar- (lan find It a good Investment." "Mac" was really a warm heart- *d, attractive boy, and the newspa- jer craft was very fond of him. He probably had a little farm, owned l horse and buggy and enjoyed life n the quiet, simple way of country jdltor—which, by the way. Is about the most satisfactory way that a nan could live-. Another visitor to the Chronicle office for whom the boys had a great liking was young John Gary Evans. He came over from Edgefield to read law In his uncle's office. John had not begun to take life seriously. He was tall, slender, rather frall-leot- Ing; had small dark eyes, with a verv fine brow. He was popular with everybody. He waa essentially a favorite In society. He possessed a flue, delicate tenor voice, and even la conversation his tones were n aafl then he would write e commu nication to the Chronicle streeslng the rtghte aad recounting the wroage of the Southern farmer. These article were always well writ ten. The maa did not seem to be cultivated Id his manner. He had but one eye and his hair was rarely well brushed. But he evidently had read a great deal and there was lots of vigor and originality In hla pieces. Generally Ixe signed "Parmer” to his articles. They mainly related to South Carolina matters. Next, Cap tain Francis W. Dawson, the edi tor of the Charleston News and Conrler, became attracted by these articles and wrote Ben Tillman, ask ing him to publish them In the News and Courier. He wrote sometimes for that paper, but was not entirely weaned away from the Chronicle, which was really his home paper. Hla brother, George D. Tillman, was member of congress from that dis trict. He wae one of the brainest and most original men who ever rep resented South Carolina in Washing ton. Ben Tillman was a free lance, but his articles set people to think ing. Finally he got the farmers stir red up. They organised a farmers' movement and pretty soon Tillman became a political factor In South Carolina. HU first appearance in a convention was in Columbia In 18K6, when John Peter Richardson waa nominated governor. He was a delegate from Edgefield and favored the nomination of ex-Governor Shep pard, who was from the gams coun ty. IN GOOD SHAPE cijwspuios SHAFT UNVEILED Accwdaf (• Fipra Grrca 0«t Sort Car si in is CONSTANTINOPLE LOVE AP- HAIRS END IN TRAGEDY. lapressire Exercises Held on a Historic Batdefrouxl. Armenian Girl Goee to Mnseulman MANY NEW ENTERPRISES! aad Her Compatriots Threaten to ] Lynch Her Lover. A dispatch from Constantinople OF KING’S MOUNTAIN Who was Ben Tillman? The peo ple of Augusta began to talk about him. HU cotton factors said that he was a good farmer, but that his wife was a better farmer. He was a stickler for paying his debts. He was not a large planter, but hU credit was good on cotton row. When he uaed to come to the Chronicle office at night he Invariably brought a pret ty jar of franh butter or a little basket of fruit for hla friend, Pat Walsh. This shows that Ben not only raised cotton, but that he made his own supplies. He had a fine orchard, a good dairy; many peo pie said that the management of hla wife secured these things At any rate, he lived at horns, and he lived well. Now and then ths local col umns of ths Chronicle would print an article like this: "Our popular friend, Captain Ben jamin R. Tillman, of Roper s, has eft upon our table some fine fruit ind fresh eggs. Just from hla fiour- lahlag little Carolina farm. Come again, Captain, the latch string al ways hangs on the outside. Who was Ben Tillman? Well, he waa captain of the cavalry company, or the red shirt 'fellows over In Edgefield. When Governor John B. Gordon, with General Wade Hamp ton, waa lavited to Augusta to open the fair, Ben Tillman brought hla company over from Edgefield to turn out In the parade. The Chronicle ooys remember that during the ex orcises the Ridgefield troopers were j&nked over in an old field and the sun became very hot at midday. They remember Ben Tillman a dash ing across the field on horseback to .*k tbe commander If he might move nls troopers In the ahade, as the men and horses had ridden across the river from Edgefield that morn .ng and needed water /badly. Seventeen Million DolUn Pnt Into Various Bnsineea Ventures Since First of Year—What Each County Has Done Along the New Indus trial Line. A Columbia dlspatqh to The News and Courier says seventeen million dollars la a big amount of money, yet that much has been put into various kinds of business en terprises In South Carolina sines the flrat of the year, according to a statement Issued a few dayi ago by Secretary of State McCowa. The statement shown that charters have been granted to several hundred con cerns, Including mercantile houaes, banks, cotton mills, trust companies, water and light companies, real es tate companies, building and loan as sociations and similar Industrie# to the amount o fover $9,000,000. The net increase of companies already chartered amounted to $8,209,000. Mr. McCown has already collected, to the first of October, $16,000.25 in charter fees, against, to the same date last year, $12,065.10. Several concerns were given the right to change their name. As will be seen from the list of counties, Charleston and Marlon lead In the amount of capital Invested, $1,156,900 and $1,285,000, respect ively. The least amount Invested In a chartered company waa In Saluda county, which was only $5,000. Greenville Is third In the list, with $ t '97,0OO. Laurens romee forth, with $565,000, and Richland fifth with $429,300. The most of the $262,000 Invested In chartered companies In George town was In real estate companies, there having been at leust four char tered within the past month. Col leton was very small, with only $8.- 000. In the Pee Dee section of the Sthte there were several water anrf light companies chartered with large capital. The following statement taken from the records In the efflee of the Secretary of State shows the amount of capital invested is the different counties of the State during the prea- ent year. Charters were granted to companies In the following amounts In the different counties of the State; Abbeville $ Aiken Anderson ree person the Chron- week and IVK S P new sat lette Mr. V as In G or South Carolina or Mlaalaaftp It only needs sufficient provovitloi to assert itself. The influx of a cer tain class of negroes Into the North — we say a "certain class of negroes, because we refuse to placeman ne groes in the category of criminals— Is furnishing this provocation ii Illinois as it has furnished It ii the South since the war. For some years past the negr problem has beeu moving north ward. Springfield and Cairo furnish ed unmistakable mile-stones of it progress. Unfortunately the "negn problem" carries with It the problen ol copiug with certain forms o crime, such as murder and rape And It is inevitable, perhaps—how ever Inexcusable it may be—that th< method of dealing with such crime Is the same in the North as In thi South. Yet, we would sympathize with rather than condemn, the North for the problem which confornts It. It Is a problem not of Its own making: any more than tbe same problem was of the South's making. Therefore we refrain from referring to tbit Cairo affair as "another Northern outrage:" even though we have, ac often, seen similar affairs in the South referred to as "another South ern outrage." Perhaps our kindred troubles are rapidly bringing us all -to a better understanding ,o/i this point; certainly, neither section har any cause to throw stones at the othir in connection with It. They ar > both, now, simply confronted wfjh s similar problem, or problems; the “crimingj ne(|ro*’ problem—and the problem of puttTng Yovni mob violence, without respect to provo cation or persons—and at any price. ——— i- » i ■ Killed About Lynching. At Cairo, 111., Wednesday Henry Small, a negro shot and killed Wil liam Pope, one of the negro eoldiers discharged from the United States army alter tbe '‘shooting up’ of Brownsville, Texas. Th.e shooting followed an argument over the lynch- tng there last weoa of WU1 James, the negro accused of the murder of tflM Annie felley. Now you have the iges who used to co cle office at least come rut all right, ve 1 had the benefit of ibe prolific worked I r out , , waJ gln^'SVauiJ' between Swansea seven years ago, when two passeng er engines collided. ’"/■Vi^ , and Sweden six or SIX KILLED IN* EARTH SLIDE. Without Warning Hill Ceves Upon Gang of Workmen. In A dispatch from Winston-Salem, -N. C., says six men were almost instant- iy killed and one was seriously in jured there Tuesday morning short- y before 10 o’clock by a landsPde of tons of dirt from the side of an ibutment belug constructed for the aOO-foot bridge across the Salem reek valley, oo the first section of he Southbound Railroad, Tbe dead, all white men. are: Lesso Friesland of Iredell coun ty Carnel Bullln of Stokes county. Carl Dortschmidt, a German. Carl Erner, a German. Franz Lledman, a German. Alfred Llppner, a German. The Injured, man la Oscar Mis© of Norfolk, Va.. badly crushed but will recover. Three others were Injured very slightly. The men were excavating at the sH# of a great hill, workiug with picks and shovels nearly fifty feet below^.the tP.P of the embAnkment when tons of earth broke en masse from tbe mainland and covered tfiem. A few, by dint of terrific struggles, managed to extricte their arms from the maae. and the four-eoore labor ers near by rushed to thetr assis tance. But at once a Mootld crumb ling of thousands of cubic feet of earth abcAg swept the rsecurer* aside In the twinkling of an eye, and burled the seven victims hopelessly. It was nearly an hour before tbe first dead body was recover!, *o deep was the mass o' esrtn wmoh hsd crumbled ,down the embankment. The leat ody was taken out at 1 o’clock. Each waa easily recognis able; the earth had crushed tbe breath from their bodtea without bgturla* them, tetterinf the*. , Bamberg . . Barnwell . . Beaufort . . Berkeley . . Calhoun . . Charleston Cherokee Chester . . Chesterfield Clarendon . Colleton . . Darlington Dorchester 118.500 90,000 133,000 136.000 89.000 37.000 61,425 2 5 00u 1.166,900 265 600 109.Sue 17,*.450 49,000 4 O.Ot'ft 129.900 60 000 227.0( 0 says some tragic love affairs among Moslems have been reported of late. Gen. Habll Pasha unexpectedly en tered the room of his daughter Medlha and was surprised to find her in company with Capt. Meh- medall, a former aide-de-camp of Abdul Hamid. The general Instant ly drew a revolver and fired at Capt. Mehmedail, who died a few hours later. In the Bechlktash quarter of the city a Mussulman named Ismail car ried off a young Armenian girl called Slranushe, the daughter of a hanker. The parents followed to claim their daughter, who, however, stated that she wished to remain with Ismail. The Armenians of the district threatened to lynch the girl, and the Moslems made ready to defend the two lovers. At this point the police Intervened to prevent blood shed, and arrested both Ismail and Slranushe. The latter waa given over to the care of an old Moslem, as she expressed her wish to be con verted to Islamlsm. A third case Is that of Lieut. Mehmed Aga He had two wives, Husna and Fatma. who, during the imprisonment of their husband for a trifling offence, were said to have taken advantage of his absence to a<|mlt other men Into the house. The neighbors of the two women had often to complain of the scan dal, and the lieutenant's wives were twice arrested as a consequence. Hearing of what had taken place, Mehmed Aga, on his discharge from prison, decided to avenge himself. He went bsck to his house, then Inhabited by his wife Husna, and saturated different rooms with pe troleum, afterward setting fire to the place. Mehmed Aga's iwn house and the houses on either side were homed to the ground, together with Husna and another woman, named Rushena. Governors and Members of Congress of South and North Carolina, With Many Other Prominent Men From the Two State*' Take Pmft In Cer emonies Attending Dedication. A special from King's Mountain, and Courier, battlefield men lived again Thursday the strug- N. C., to The News sayn upon that historic EDITOR SHOCKED TO DEATH. Waycroee Newspaper Man la Killed by Live Wire. At Waycross, Ga , A P. Perham, Jr , elltor of the Waycross Herald, was Instantly killed In an electric storm of violence that swept over that place Wednesday, destroying telephone wires and throwing live wires about the streets. A number of horses, some of them fine animals, met Instant death In coming in contact with the wires, while danger was everywhere. Thai no one met death except Mr. Perham is regarded as surprising. Mr. Perham was on the street near the office of the Southern Express Company when a wire, dangling from a pole, struck him He dropped to the street dead. Mr. Perham was one of the best known men of this section, having been in the news paper business In Waycross for years. DOGS FIND INCENDIARY. Negro Arrested Charged With Bum- uf«nrnt fo ■Giperintendeiit Swearingen, noti gle for American liberty. North and South Carolina vied with each other to do honor to the memory of the heroes of that decisive engagement of the Revolution. Within sight of the graves of those who perished for their country, their deacendants recited the atory of deeds of days gone by. They told of the bloody battles of the war with the mother country, of the privation of the soldiers, of the final guccesa of lib erty and America s freedom. In that mighty conflict King's Mountain play ed an important part—the "turning point of the war,” the spot so sacred to sturdy mountaineers Is rightly called. Ferguson was routed here— the brave British warrior lost ms life here—and the fortune of war was changed. To commemorate the brave deeds of the American soldiers on this bat tlefield, the United States has given a monument. This monument was dedicated at King's Mountain Thurs day. On the very spot of ground where Ferguson was routed, the peo ple of the two Carolinas Joined In paying tribute to those who fell for the cause of liberty. On the sacred soli consecrated by the blood of these men of the Revolution the honor due them waa given. It was a great occasion for the country-side. From early morning people came from the neighboring towns, and from the farms wagons, buggies and every form of vehicle conveyed the crowds to the moun tain. On the side of the hills and for quite a distance around groups were gathered as If at a picnic. The trains brought hundreds, and In their enthusiasm of the occasion many did not hesitate to walk for miles to reach the battle ground. The crowd that packed and surrounded the stands and was stretched In every direction the country around could hardly be estimated. Many of those who came could not get within th° sound of the voices of the speakers. Eight thousand people were probably la the :>■ mediate neighborhood. A distinguished gathering packed the stands provided for the occasion Governor Marlin P. Ansel presided gracefully over the exercises. The Governor of South Carolina, by his pleasing and happy manner, won the hearts of tbe audience. On the stand with the Governor were seated Governor W. W. Kitchen, of North Carolina; Senator Lee 8. Overman and Congressman R. N. Page, of the same State; Senator Smith and Con gressman Finley, of this State; Dr H. N. Snyder and Dr. S. C. Mitchell presidents of Wofford and the Uni versity, respectively, the ladies of 1 -***•!» nt tdj e Amerioan Rev- Jers scattered ore LOOKS FISHY to the younger generations. School children came from Spartanburg aad young collegians from tbe same city. The neighborhood was out In full force and the deecendants of thoee who fought for the Union that waa ACkicaft hsanoce C«w is Tr to be born of that great oonfllct. Altogether the occasion waa one to be long remembered. "Such a day happens but once Id a lifetime," said Governor Ansel. Col Asbury Coward, of Orange burg, called the meeting to order, expressing a few well choeen senti ments as to the nature of the oc casion and the historic significance of the event about to be celebrated. Recounting the historical ahafts erected to the memory of heroic deeds, Go). Coward referred to the eloquent addresses delivered on for mer occasions of this kind on prac tically the same spot. Within aigbt of the new monument waa erected many years ago the first humble stone that the neighborhood reared to tell the story of burled heroes. Then came the uniting of counties In 1855 to have s celebration at ting's Mountain, at which such men as John 8. Preston and the eminent historian, George Bancroft, spoke. Then the State erected a monument, and now cornea the United State# Government and does honor to the dead soldiers. Col. Coward Introduced Governor Ansel as the presiding officer for the occasion, and In feeling words the State’s Chief Executive referred to the sacredness of the ' occasion, the historic commemoration of heroic deeds and valor of men of old days. Dr. 8. C. Mitchell .president of the University of Sotfth Carolina, de livered the Invocatory prayer, ask ing the blessings of God upon those who were taking part m the occa sion. The King’s Mountain Centen- filal Ode. written by Mrs Clara Dar- gan McLean, wax rendered by the *»• dlence. This beautiful lyric had muslo arranged by Prof Llnebach Governor Anael Introduced Presi dent Henry N. Snyder, of Wofford College, who was the orator of the occasion, selected by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Address of Dr. Snyder waa a gera of thought snd oratory, and waa Ms- toned to with the closest attention by all. Dr Snyder's fine appearance and bis eloquent words made his ad dress the subject of enthusiastic ap preciation. Picturing the previous battle before the great American Revolution. Dr. Snyder told of the thrilling struggle for the rights of liberty and finally of the struggle at King's Mountain that turned the aoales of the war. A glorious tribute to the women of the land through whose efforts It Is possible to keep alive the old tradition and the his tory of heroes was found In Dr. Snyder's closing words that had an echoe in tbe leant of ail those within the sound of hla voice. The singing of the National Anthem brought the audience to Its feet, and' while the patriotic music was being played all remained stand ing. The Hon R. N. Page read the speech of the Hon. E. Y. Webb, Con gressman from North Carolna. Mr Page is Congressman from the 7th district. Mr. Webb waa unable to be present on account of Illness In family, and Mr. Page stated that he would be his personal representative by reading the speech that Mr. Webb had prepared. to Sefl Stock Here. BETTER LET IT ALONE laaoraare Comm Is*loner Gives Out Some TriformatloB About iS****** a Big Concern Working This State for Cash That Should Cana# Our People to Think Before Biting. A Columbia dispatch says Inquiry WOMAN COMMITS SITCIDB. two nnlMBassed by the com mission as ono^coneern. An over Judgmeat Of 131.56 Is found agaiast this oombination, this In cluding a proportionate share, $4 5rt0 ef the costs in the courts. Wil liam Laaahan & Sons are charged up with $23,563 46, although their claims against the State was only $5,916.5 4. The commission went back of the dates represented by this firm's accounts In the claims against the State, as did the commission In a number of other cases. Fleiscbmann & Co. and Gerson. Sellgman Company are treated as one concern, and the $70,000 claim is reduced to $45,645.30. This com pany admitted overcharges in aflda- vlts. Clark Brothers & Co., another large claimant, are given $53,780.96 on a claim of $66,383.71. Carolina Glass Claim. The com mission in Its special re port In the cplni of the Carolina Glass Company,find* that "the offic ers of this aoieern entered Into a conspiracy to defraud the State of South Carolina by defeating all com petition In the sale of glassware needed." The commission refers to a bid of the company in September, 1902. to furnldg 60 cars of glass bottles at priced ranging about 10 per cent In exoeig of the prices paid to Flnocus k Oct* nothwrlthatanding the fact that eftflar bide were filed. That also the Fiascos contract, when purchased, w»* $*r the purpose of ■tlffling competition, as all moulds of the Flaccus Crgnpany were turned over to the Carolina Glass Company and the former had no facilities for filling orders. It 1r'also cha--fed that at several quarterly purchagig other competitive bids were suppreqpsd, and the Caro lina Glass Compdny was awarded oontracts that after Deecmber. 1902, records and closing the transactions fclL creditors and the State dispensary, and in a few Instances some of the creditors complied with this demand and produced their books and rec ords in part at least, for the inspec tion of the commission. The commission also heard oral testimony and received affidavits from members of whiskey concerns. (Vmupiracy Alleged, The commission states that sev eral of the creditors entered into a conspiracy with members of the boards of directors to cheat and de fraud the State, with the assistance of some of the members of the boards, and goods were sold at a price largely In excess of the mar ket value, the officers or agents of the concerns and members of the board making use of the funds In corruption and bribery. It Is also stated that many of the claimants did not comply with the law in that: 1. Ttiey resorted to various devic es to destroy competition. 2. The law as to advertising for bids was so worded as to prevent competition instead of promoting It. 3. That bids submitted upon which awards were made, were ex- horbltant as to prices, with tbq knowledge and consent of the board*. 4. That tba claimants violated the law In maintaining agents and so licitors In tbe State to obtain con tracts for tha purchase of thetr goods. 5*. That in many cases no bonds were furnished on awards given. 6. None of tha claimants filed at the time of making bids an analysis of the liquors for aalen Only Real Values to be Paid. Tbe commisaion rules that the • 77^ ~~lrr&'*A r ^ I/eft Note That Her Home Waa Hell, Body In Creek. £njirta on urg special to The News detaiin. ** has been made to Insurance Coin-, mlssloner McMaster concerlng that United Insurance Company of Chica go, with a claimed capital of $10,- 000,000 and surplus of $40,000,000. The circular of tbe company atates that It proposes to handle fifty-one kinds of Insurance. The company haa not been licensed to do busi ness in South Carolina. It is stated that the company haa an agent in this State at the present time sell ing stock. Mr. McMaster stated that he had no jurisdiction over an agent selling stock for an insurance corn- pay and would not have any au thority over the company until it had been organized and llcenaed to do business in South Carolina. On tbe circulars which, it Is said, are being sent over , the State, is the name of Mr. James A. Cathcart, the well-known Columbia inaurance man, as a member of the advisory board. Mr. Cathcart, when seen gave the reason for the name be ing in the advisory board Hat. He stated that threugfe as old ~ friend of his, an Inauranea man will known and trusted, be had learned of tbe United Insurance Company, he proposed to write fifty-one dif ferent kinds of insurance. The capi tal was to be $10,000,000 and sur plus $40,000,000. In many of tha States the laws forbid an insurance company from writtlng more than one kind of Insurance. This com pany proposed to be made up of a number of subsidiary companies, like tbe United Fire Insurance Company, the United Life Insuranee Compa ny, etc., the bead company to be tbe United Insurance Compaq/. A man by tbe name of Mr. Shaw, who Is well known to Mr. Cathcart, was to have charge of the United Fire Ineuranee Company. Mr. Shaw had considerable correepondence with Mr. Cathcart In reference to his be coming a member of tbe advisory board, and that he .would not be required to subscribe to any of the capital stock. He gave bis consent to the proposed company, in good faith, thinking that . It might be a success. Several days ago a man. of busi ness like appearances, called on Mr. Cathcart at his office. The agent bad a large number of circulars tell ing of the United Insurance Com pany and Its subsidiary companies. In fact, explaining everything per- tatntng to the Unlted Inaurance Com pany. He had a long conversation with Mr. Cathcart and then stated to him that before anyone could become a member of the advisory board that they would have to anb- seribe to a certain amount of the capital stock. Mr. Cathcart stated to the agent that he was willing to subscribe to a certain amount and asked him «Lthe lowest amount that one IDEAS: sengers ragua of terror exists throughout the por tlon of that country controlled by President Zelaya. Government troops are rounding up every persons sus pected of sympathy with the revolu tionists and executing them without trial. More than five hundred men suspected of revolutionary sympa thies have been summarily shot and Jstill the bloody work continues. Residences are ransacked by Zelaya’s soldiers in search of Incriminating letters or evidence, and when resis tance Is offered the houses are de stroyed. Women relatives of revolutionary sympathizers have been subjected to the most horrible Indlgnatles and outrages. Nicaraguan refugees, ar riving on the Isthmus and In Costa Rica declare it Is time for the civi lized powers to forcibly Intervene and put an end to such barbarities and atrositiee, — some of the claimants certain fees and expenses Incurred by the com mission In defending recent suits. It Is also ruled by the commission that certain claimants who filed bills In the Federal Court asking for in junction against the commission, In clude the firms of Garrett & Co., Flelechmann A Co.. Wilson Distillery Company, Gallagher & Burton, Jack Cranston Company. The fttHg brought"hip Flelschman, the Wilson Company, the Jack Cran ston Company and Gallagher & Bur ton, were consolidated Into one ac- tion. Into rihloh Garrett 4 Co. after ward Intervened, followed by the Big Springs DlstUMng Company. (Hlman A Co., Anchor Distilling Company, Belalr Distilling Company, Richards ft Co. and the New York and Ken tucky Company. After reviewing the victory ripn Jutant General 'A**** than L_ ca showing that 4,993 men deeerteo from the enlisted force of the regu lar army, General Ainsworth conclud es that only a strict enforcement of severe penaltiee will diminish ma terially the practice of taking "French leave” of the soldiers. He regards as rather alarming the fact that the number of desertions during the last flacal year was greater than in the preceding 12 months. Of the whole number of enlisted men 4.97 per cent deserted during the last fiscal year, while the desertions of the preceding year amounted to 4.69 per cent. General Ainsworth says the abolition of the canteen, the monotony of garrislon life, the Increasing amount of work and study demanded of a soldier, and the ease with which remunerative employ ment can be obtained in civil life in thee# prosperous times are causes of tho evils mentioned. The percentage of desertions among tbe white troops Is about ten times greater than among the col ored mon in the eervlce. Of the men who deeerted daring the y»ar, 1/ 01$ were apprehended and 316 sur rendered. FO LE ON EASY TER The Women in Blech. The mysterious "woman in black” who' committed suicide Wedneeday In the rest room Of en Atlanta de partment etore was identified as Miss Wlllano Cotton, daughter of Mrs. Rebecca D. Cotton. The young wo rn# and I propose7 to decalre again when that I shall not for myself pi any product of the Buck’e Stove 4 Range Co. "I repeat that eo far aa 1 am con cerned, and let the consequence be what they will, I intend while at liberty to declare fo rtbe ifghte guaranteed to me by the organic lawe of my country. I am proud of be ing an American.” Mr. Mitchell said he bad grown ^ up aa an American with a stepmoth er so pool that she coaid not bn/ bread, and related how he had crapt out of bed at night to get his fath-. er's soldier coat to keep him warm. But I want to see the American stand for all the sentiment that U symbolised by the fiif our country,” ho oontlnued, ”1 real liberty.- I don’t beltpve In liberty enunciated by some of o/r courts that men and women have the right to work them selves to death. I don’t believe in the Mb-. frty enunciated by Judge of Chicago, who declarel tutlonal tbe 10-honr lew for and by that act compelled them work, 14 hours g day.” Mr. Mitchell said he benevel present proceedings would, home to the pebpM~. of working In concert, going to oome on our continent the badge of faithfulness to must be tha brand of Impt man, who died from an over-doee of strychnine, _waa said to have been j n ocncluslon in bad health for several mofithr and ' hopi^bdt: t— : despondent claimants have all violated the law, and until 1606, when the contract' but thinks (hat It ahould deal with existing between the State dlspen- petitioners upon equitable principles Alter reviewing tne victory won sary board and this company was and makes such settlement as will by the State of South Carolina, the cancelled this firm maintained a com- be fair and Just. It therefore finds commission calls attention to the plete monopoly df all business for that It should compensate each dal- fact that the fight carried to , the glass and raised ihlces from time to mant for goods actually sold and de-1 United'States Court coet $21,626.17, time much above the fair mgrket Hvered to the State dispensary dur- and co; j prices for Ike good* sold. Also that at ing the whole courts of dealings by that I the time ef thr )vp«te of the m* wtat t*e reel velee ef the foe4«ielee~ae« current regolntten Oooelttng the ua-'after dedaotlat from the dating of{ Naval Cadet Fired. The Secretary of the Navy has approved the recommendation of the tangent of the Naval Academy ftlpmtssal of Cadet John T tenth Carolina. Ninety persona General none fatally, When Sowthl which haa caused seven senger train No. 11, on to leave the Academy and San ef the dtemte* ment may be so eondadrid that clUsen may feel that ne haa not been given Justice and an with every other dtisen.”