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She ran to awaken the governess, and not receiving any reply, entered Miss Breymere’s room. The governess was found lying In bed, her fac« black and finger prints on her throat. Life was extinct. On a cot in the room was little Polly Compton, aged three years, unharmed. The maid quickly sum raoned the coachman and when he hridved the sheriff and police of Millbrook were notified. The officers question the maids and servants and the coachman. Frank Schermerborn. They found that Miss Breymere’s hands had bees tied, the big chest containing the silverware had been forced and sev eral of the rooms were in disorder, making it appear as though the tragedy had been part of a burglary Chief of Police Charles J. Me Cabe went to the coachman’s bouse late Thursday afternoon to furthei question him, and not receiving any answer to his summons, went up in to the coachamn’s bed room. The room was dark, and on throwing ^fo^lnds, the chiefs atten- The lltig'jT ' ' courts was but this whlskp> sJ*o WILL STRETCH HEMP A FHtND TRIED AND CONVICTED OF ATBMlHfaNG A fl>—tltnl Toms Wife of • Lexington County Man. Coot Lever, the negro who at tempted to commit criminal assault upon the beautiful young wife of a prominent Lexington county farm er last November, and who narrowly escaped being lynched, will pay the death penalty for his crime on the 25th of February, next. At the trial, which was held at Lexington Wednesday, the^s were four witnesses sworn far the prose cution, the victim and her husband and Constable L. I. Roof and Mr. ft. W. M. Kleser, who made the ar rest, and to whom Lever first con fessed his guilt The pretty victim, who is a woman of intelligence, gen tle and refined, told of the attack in a plain, straight forward manner. 3he was unable to say in positive terms that Lever was the man who attacked her, but stated that she believed that he was the one. Her husband swore to the fact that he rad seen the negro pass along the road where he was at work a few minutes before the crime was at tempted. Constable Roof told of the arrest, as did Mr. Staler. The ludge ruled that the latter could sot tell of the confession made by he negro, since Lever was told that be would be properly protected If be would confess his guilt Lever was the only witness for the defence. He denied that he was onnected witli the affair in any nanner, bat was unable to explain why he was in the vicinity on the lay in question. He told of his ex >erience with the conjure doctor, whom he called L«n Judge, a no rro. He admitted telling the of ficers soon after fill arrest that h* was guilty, and that the doctor wa? he cause of it all, but he said thr eason for his telling this was the ‘act that he was scared. He said hat he was 18 years old and mar rled. At the conclusion of the test! nony Messrs. A. D. Martin and T 3. Sturkie, who had been appointed >y Judge Watts to defend the ne gro, briefly addressed the Jury, tiach of them pleaded for mercy for the negro, stressing the point that the woman was not able to swea* ■■••Jvelv that the defendant was SENATE POLLED GLENN SPRINGS WATER Oi Wife rntiftfi QaeftiN ADOPTED OFFICIALLY BY THE HOUSE FOR DRINKING. FURTHER LEGISLATION At This Time, Taking the Ground That the Com* . promise Made Last Tear on the Liquor Question, Is Still Binding oa Them. The State says the possibility of a complete blocking of further dis pensary legislation loomed up strong ly in the senate when a careful poll of the senate showed at least 20 of the members present were cither for local option or wished to stand by the compromise effected at the last session of the general assembly. While none of the members eon- siders the compromise legally bind ing, it is generally held by them that the compromise is of snflleleilt moral force to cause no llqnor legis lation in the senate this year. Of coarse, there is no telling whst may later turn up but the present status Is largely in favor of a complete standstill on the much-legislated topic. Senator T. T, Williams of Lan caster said that he considered the compromise binding and added* “Tlse why should we have passed the bill providing for an election to be held in the wet counties. Sup pose we had passed a State-wide bill and we local optlonleta had come back this year and wanted to pass some local option er other whiskey measure, what would the prohibit lonists say about us! I look at the present situation in the name light and believe that we should stand by *he compromise.'* Senator Laney, who is from a stronghold of prohibition, stated that he does not consider the compromise binding, but said he: "Prohibition, that is State-wide prohibition, f» a big question. Chesterfield people are very strong on this question and I have been approached several times in the matter." Senator Hough of Kershaw, hlv county having recently gone dry, te with those who believe that the com promise should hold. "It’s a settled question with me," was his forceful and laconic reply to the question ask ed him. (SniMttAr Smith of Hampton was '"‘o- -the -'"•'•■ixromlse and hkc-j —' -- Tuned Down the Excellent Drinking Water of able Expease to the State. • A large majority of the house rep- frapentatlfes must hare dyupepsia if we Judge by the way they vote on the water question. Despite the efforts of the Richland delegation, the house passed on Wednesday the resolution offered by Representative Sawyer th*L Glenn Springs water be used this year. It will be recall ed that at the last session the dele gation put up a convincing argument for the use of Columbia water and defeated the proposition. „ r, This year, however, the honse re versed Itself and by a vote of 71 to 26 refused to adopt Mr. McMa han’s motion to strike out the enact ing words and passed it, afterwards putting on the clincher. Here Is the vote on the proposition to buy Glenn Springs water Instead of using the water from the $400,000 plant own ed by the city of Columbia and guaranteed by the State board of health to be pure. Those who voted for the Colum bia water were Amick, Ayer, Bow- •rs. Bunch, Carter, Coker, Daniel, Dixon, Duvall, Graham, Griffin, Har mon, McEachern, McMahan, Mann, Mobley, Nicholson, Robertson, San ders, Selbels, Simkins Chas. A. Smith, Spears, Suydam, Vander Horst, Williams—26. Those who voted for Glenn Springs water were Speaker Whaley and Joshua W. Ashley, Melvin J. Ashley, Berg. Bosie, Bos man, Boyd, Brice T. P. Brown, Browning, F. M. Bry an, W. D. Bryan, Cantrell, Car:v, Oarwlle, Coley, Clary, Cosgrove, Dick, Dingle. Hoar, E. C. Edwsrda. Isaac Bdwtrdi, Foster, Fraser, Fulta, Garris, Gasque, W. J. Olfson, Glass cock, Green, Hall, Harris, J. R Harrison, Wade C. Harrison, Hines, Horger. Hughes, Jackson, Ktpler, Lane, Lawson. League, Leland, Len gulek, McKeown, Mars, Mauldin, Moseley, Neeblt, Nlver, Nunnery, Patterson. Psulling, Richards, Rldg- ell. G. M. Riley, W. L. Rifey, Roee- sler, Rucker, Sawyer, Scarborough, B. A. Shuler, Singleton, D. L. Smith. K. P. Smith, M. L. Smith, Stanley, Stubbs, Jared D. Sullivan. P. P. Sul livan. Tobias, Todd, Utsey, Wells, Whaley, Wiggins, O. D. A. Wilson, W. B. Wilson, Jr., WMngo, Wright —71 READS THEM OUT ONLY THREE SAVED “barfe*” Art tok Treated as m TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS WENT DOWN IN SKA WITH SHIP. TAFT SIDES WITH GANG The Southern Pacific Steamship Czarina Wrecked on Her Way to Ban Francisco Wednesday. A Critical Sltnatkm by the Plnchot Incident, Which ta Likely to Have an Important Bear ing in the West on Oongreesmen at Elections. Zack McGee, In hie Washington letter to The State, says this "In surgent" situation grows Interesting, and, from the standpoint of Mr. Taft at least, apparently critical. The an nouncement a day or two ago the? the Republican "whip" in the house had struck the names of the "in surgent" Republicans off the list nf Republican to be notified when a full Republican vote Is wanted in the house has created something of s sensation. The meaning of it was that not only are those who have opposed Speaker Cannon in the house to be deprived of the privilege of dispensing federal lofflces in their districts but that in no respect are they to be longer considered Re publicans. As some of the old llnr» Republicans express It they are to be considered as no better than Dem ocrats. That Mr. Taft is countenancing this determination there is no man ner of doubt. He has placed him self squarely with his party organi zation, and he recognizee that this party organization conalsta In the main of Nelson W. Aldrich and Jo seph O. Cannon. These two xnea have evidently told the president that the salvation of ths Republi can party, and therefore of course that his own political salvation, de pends upon his sllgnlng himself with the regular organisation and that he must assist them in putting down insurrection in the ranks of tb# par ty. And Mr. Taft, wholly wlthont political experience, believes implic itly. it would seem, what these wily and potent schemers tell him. The Plnchot incident is but a part of tb« game directed by Can non and Aldrich. Only Plnchot seems to know something about play himself. An investigation of the land fraud was oending, frauds of »Mch J, Ceos Bay'-e shores Thursday were patrolled by searchers for bodies from the Southern Pacific steam ship Csarlna. Twenty-eight Uvea were lost when the vessel was dasfe- ed by a heavy sea onto the north spit of the Coos Bay bar Wednes day. Only three of the 31 tools aboard were saved. The Cxarina wag bound for San Francisco, fehe left port in the tepth of a gale, but before she had reach ed the open sea, was caught on the treacherous bar—one of the worst on the Pacific coast—and was roll ing helpless, broadside to the sea. The sailors took to the rigging and were swept to their death, one by one. The first assistant engineer, K. H. Kentzell, was driven ashore when s mighty wave tore him from the rigging. As he was tossed toward the land, life savers pulled him to safety. Captain J. Dugan and one of his men swam ashore. A long and futile fight was waged to aid the doomed passengers and crew. The life saving station at tempted again and again to reach the vessel with lines shot from a gun, but the Czarina was just be yond range. So terrific waa the sea that no small boat could have lived for a moment, and every Instant the storm Increased. Marooned helplesaely on the doom ed vessel, those aboard took to the rigging. The decks were under wa ter. only the masts offered refuge. From shore It wag difficult to gee the speckg of humanity eliding to the ropes. Gradually the number diminished. When dswn broke Thursday the vessel was fast break ing up. Pounding on the bar, and constantly buffeted by immense waves. It was dear that she could not last long if the weather did not speedily abate. Her stack had been torn away, and the rigging appear ed to have been wrapped in a snarl, holding here and there a boom or a ■par.. In the crowd that watched on ■bore was C. J. Mills, a prominent Southern Pacific oflldal of San cisco. His d>n, Harold Mills, on the ship. The father coal >thlng except watch the .while hope k nst receivcc Dr. Knapp, of the ^ g. C. pertinent of Agrtaa^^^ Out the Great Vatae Country bjr the Bach Institutions. In an address at-- Wednesday Dr. Seaman A. of the department of made a strong plea for the-estat ment of farm-training schools supplement the State agdcultur colleges. The resultant benefit the community add the country at large would be immense, Dr. Knapp pointed out, because of the increag-* ed production of food supplies sad the better condition of those who produced the nation’s food. ' "At the last census," said Dr. Knapp, "there were 2,000,000 rent ed farms and 10,500,000 laborers on all the farms of the United States. What per cent of the rented farms were well farmed and whaf per cent of the 10,500,000 farmers were real ly good farmers? Poaalbly -k-i cent and 5 per cent were fairly good; 84 per cent get from one-half to one-fourth of what they ahould obtain from ths soil. This loss must not be regarded as ndlvldual; It Is a loss to the State, to the com munity. What does this State pro pose to do about itf The speaker declare mast be divided tnt those who could school of some kind could not leave home to education and who, get their education In oa homes. For su«h as vote some time to study, advocated fbetr at training school, such i ed. "The farm trail both effective ■aid. to dd the t0T mid • not limited the fi tarn economy." Such a school. In Dr. Ki ^ ' -.tilth MS Acres, Bl<;h -Jjand Township* MB Acres, Riuh Lew «SjwhU^jt tiarnwell County, One half la cultivation balance ’ling Station eu