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VOL. XXXIII BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 27,1910 ENDED AT LAST D0NT LIKE them reform NEEDED' ENDS UFE WITH acid GHASTLY CRIME B0LL WEEV1L ™ Tke DUpensary Winding Up Commission Gets Throagh Its Work BILL TAFT SPEAKS OF DEMO CRATS AS YELLOW IXKiS. AND MAKES ITS REPORT The Board Expresses Satisfaction That the State Dispensary Has Been Wound Up and Is Now a Thing of the Past, After Giving * the Details of Their Doings. The commission appointed bj r Gov ernor Ansel under an Act of the legislature to wind up the affair-, of the old State dispensary ha't drafted its final report to the Gov ernor, and is now in the hands of the printer, and will he laid on the desk of the members of the leg islature in a few days. The re port is an -exceedingly, interesting one, and the commission has appar ently, made a fine business show Ing. The total net mon y result is $453,464.56. of which $d'75,000 ha- been paid itno the ■State treasurr, $80,832.80 is on hand in cash, $22, 631.76 due by counties, and $75,- 000 is real estate, tins being th summary of the business from th time the commission asunied chari- on February 16, 1007, up to Jar uary 12 of the present year. And more is to come from overjudgments, amounting to over $200,000. The commission has realized grand total receipts of $974,586.55, o which $56,936.36 is interest earn- by deposits of funds in the banks <r er the tSate at 4 per cent. The to tal amount paid out was $893,753 75, including the $275,000 turne' over to the State treasurer. On mer chandise account a gross profit oi $12,024.86 is shown, while on fapi tal account of $400,000 there is £ net loss of only $4,1 89.76. The supply account shows a n-; loss of $33,286 42. “which loss i accounted for in running the di- pensary several months, using thy- supplies In suppying the various pensaries for goods sold to The "conscience mou.y "from old creditors, who counts on the books.” $39,500, "the attorn per cent comm is* could recover on The lltlga* courts was but this whiskev ai»n " Objects to Minority’s Selection of Members for Committee to Fro bo UBllinger-Pincliot .Row. Z<ich McGee in his -Washington letter to. The State says President Taft not only disapproved of put ting Henry T. Rainey and Ollie James on the committee to inves tigate the interior department but he is hot about it, and he calls the two Democrats "yellow dogs.” A number of newspaper men and oth ers were in the office of ^he presi dent's private secretary when the president walked in. "What -fir the news about the in surgent;-?" asked the president. “You ought to know, Mr. Presi- The Slate Asylum for the Insane is in Bad Condition. SHOULD BE REMODELED HARD PRESSED BANDIT SWAL LOWS A DEADLY POISON. Two Women and One Man Foand Mur dered hi New York’s East Side. - HAS COTTON PLANTERS TOO FRIGHTENED TO FIGHT. MM I Fire Canes fame ■ ■# * 'pp Unknown Man Shoots Jeweler, Prob ably Fatally, and When Pursued Takes Deadly Capsule. — KILLED WITH HAMMER Many Improvements Urged, and the Sanity Arrangements Said to l>o Deplorable and the Institution Very Much Overcrowded—A Ma jority and Minority Report Filed. J Last year the General Assembly I appointed a special commission to in- | \estigate the conditions at the State ) Hospital for the Insane. On this commission were appointed Senators Christensen, Hardin and Hates, and dent,” ropik j one of the correspon- n, -‘P resentat - i ves Carey, Harrison, Jems, you." “Ye clouding, amide m I do not i loaded di They have been calling on ' Sawyer and Dick. The committee J lias been diligenTin its work and re- said the president, his face Days were spent in taking president, “but they can not per- to accept two yellow- dogs, 'ron,-so to play a game with ■e." Th<» committee to in vestigate the* interior department and j ti;e conTlict of is to consist of L ; wo Lemoernts. The question being asked is, “Is j Mr. Taft afraid that Messrs. James! and Raim-y might make political | Secretary Hailinger | * * u <ur Republicans and | r * :in<, c I what I testimony and studies were made of i oilier hospitals for insane. Much of ! the results of this inquiry is placed | before th** people in the reports re- a few days ago. committee is entirely at va in the most essential feature, hould lie done to further al leviate conditions? There are two reports, one signed by Senators Christensen and Hates and Repre sentatives Harrison and Dick. The e'.pn.'il out of tile inv -stigation? i he only possible way they could j oDter report is signed by Senator make political capital would be ft : Hardin a1111 Representatives Sawyer find something discreditable to the | and J - D. Carey. The reports are jJmiui.-trati .n. if Hailinger has so ' nt, rely af variance In point and nothing to hi-* Vyel^'ow doz" out of it. -redit, not even a I suggestion that there is but one way tiould make capita NEWLY MARRIED HRIDE to g:-t the varying views, and that is by reading both reports, w-hich are very long and volttmous. Without placing the blame on any I a - tieular person, the majority re- Sivking n Divorce Ei-om Her Prein her S|m>u*o. (H<l StH*. A ept-cial dh-patch from Spartan u; g says after giving manieq life k-cs than a month's ti that the evie’noe shows Jut *1 ge ues imrm-tt, \V . Hurnett. Ai.rs. .vt Of Re That fifteen patients of one ward were bathed in the same water‘in a *ath tub.. That th- foulest water closet cey lr „ m t^meTsUvd "con. tre of wide soil wiatlon, w nieh ^n r or.n» t» 1 . -UnuHry 15tli i. a - ^*iil t.i »how tile .. ...'pre- I ttion of Barnwell'* •uie for bt 'tie*i cia«s eiiUiitulninem. toimwing resoluiioiiS were .■cKnimotuly adopted : " herea* die Barnwell County T’eHcber'* AsMiviation ha* by the w ill of Divine Pmvid - nee lost a devoted me-'her -nd cn worker. J K. Chan- Frederlck Boettcher, a Brooklyn jeweler, was sandbagged and fatally shot in his store late Thursday af ternoon by an unknown man, who ended his life by taking a capsule of carbolic acid before he could be locked up. Boettcher identlfled his assailant as a man who come to his store not long ago and looked at some diamond rings. It was on this plea that the stranger entered Thursday presumably with the in tent of robbery. When the jeweler started to come from behind the counter, the strang er pulled a chamois bag, filled with sand and shot, from his coat pocket and struck him a crushing blow on the head. As Boettcher reeled the man fired a shot .which took effect behind the Jeweler's left ear. The shot brought Mrs. Boettcher down from her apartments over the store and the man fled, leaving one re volver in the store and throwing another away as he ran along the street. Hard pressed by the police, who had been attracted by Mrs. Boett cher's screams, the would-be robber was seen to raise his hands to his lips and swallow hastily. In a mo ment more he was under arrest and though apparently suffering, he walked back to the store where Boettcher identified him as his as sailant. The prisoner was taken to the police station and preparations were begun to search him. Here he col lapsed and died before medical as sistance could be summoned. An examination by a surgeon later showed beyond doubt that he swal — - Dill lowecjrifind in neighborhood mill*. Sot’ll h de- iimnd will greatly benefit the country, both In irtureaslug the demand for corn and In siliiiulatlng interest In the lin portant *uhjo«-t of improving and in again bringing to being the old Xa»h- Innetl gii«t mill*, which have now al most disappeared from our stream*.” —Greenville News HKD MISTAKE '-Gil dDtres* I .islen : The Man Wan a Prv*qH*muM Young Italian, and One of the Women Wan His Wife and the Other Was Probably Ills Wife’s Mother—Rob bery Was Motive. A triple murder was revealed In as obscure flat in the heart of New York's Fast Side, at No. 10 and 20 Montgomery street, at dusk Thurs day. Two women and a man ar~ the vietims, and the manner of death was horrible. Gagged with silk handkerchiefs and (heir heads crush ed with a hammer or axe, they were left bleeding and fully dressed on the floor with a whimpering bull terrier as companion fofTho dead. Robbery was the motive, or else it is another case of the Black Hand. Salvatore Scaipone, a well-to-do young Italian barber, his wife and a middle-ag* d woman, believed to have been Mrs. Scaipone s mother, are the victims. His failure to ap pear at his shop started an inves tigation. whR-h rr-uRe I in • h covery of the crime. I’olii omen, summoned by the janitor of the apartment, entered the locked flat by way of a Are escape. In the kitchen Scaipone's body was found, it was tied to the door, the fact battered beyond recognition and lying in a great smear of blood. Near his master stood the whining bull dog, cowering and blood spat tered. The animal had paced aim lessly from body to body, snlffin* on|e and then the other, staining tso _.£rimiipn wtlh his foot- id. Dr. Knapp Urges Farmer* to Take Heart and CVimbat Blue Devil’s —and Insert Pest. ~ Bpll weevils have cost the United States untold hundreds of thousand.* of dollars in the destruction of th* cotton crops, but most of It Is tc be charged against the “bluff ’ that the insect puts up, or rather, Hie fear that its approach inspires. According to Dr. Seaman A. Knapp of the department of agriculture, the average cotton planter was defeated before he ever began to fight the pest. Of all the drawliacks that con front the cotton planter. Dr. Knapp is convinced - Tffhf' pessimism Is the SSKsi yv-mi Men and ' Women '« . S r, ntson wtlh his f< WITH ALL IKK worst. He said so plainly and em phatically at Memphis Wednesday In an address on the weevil ahd the eyjls that follow in its train. "The first and most serious of those." h'* said, "is the wave of discouragement and pessimism in ad vance of tho weevil. Many honest but mistaken men affirm in advance of the weevil, that cotton can not be successfully made where the wee- \ il appears. Immediately the bank ors and the merchants withhold credit. Labor is compelled to leave. Thu -Litiners do half work and fre quently abandon a portion of their crop. This frequently results in a loPs of 20 per cent before the wee vil has done any damage.” This '”beaton-in-advance” attitude. Dr. Knapp went on to say, resulted- in the humiliating surrender of planters and their "throwing up of the sponge" In the second year, with tiie result that the weevil Is permitted a free territory In which to ravage and multiply and the crop falls to 25 per cent of its average. "Much of this loss is failure to plant, and to cultivate,” he said, '•v . iliul offftitnm I thanli my good true friends for their generous patron age the past twelve months and pledge my very best ser vice to them in the coming new year. of the Best Horses and Mules that experienced judg ment could seleet and the dollars in hand pay for have been received and handled oy me this season, giving abeo- Jtisfaction in quality and price to every puichaser. \. received % Blaze on Fomth Floor of Ing Forget Fire Fsrng** and Window Rope* and J« Ground Ib U.w, Five IW-lng At Philadelphia flv* persoaa, flear girls and one man, leaped to their death a few day* ago in • PSnie caused ,by a fire in ttie foor- factory building at tQ lor street, near Second and Walnnt streets. Five other* received “ in juries from which tt»*fr vrtll pro|>- ably die, and many more or lea* aerioualy hart. • ,' v The dead are: Morris Peeaen, aged 28 year*, fractured aka!!.* •- * Clara Swart, fall. - Ida Greenburg, burned and ernahed. * Rebecca Kaufman, aert 1» year*. fractured skull. Elizabeth Cbachkln, aged 18 yeara, burned and cruabed. The probably fatally injured are} Rebecca Chachkin, aged 14 years, fractured skull, internal InJarlM and barn*. Hyman Belokfli^ijiir ’ft^frfear*. Both fairs and arms broken and prob» able internal lajurtee. Sarah OOheft* seriously probably laternally injur Philip Kolos, arm and fractured. Unidentified entered i come by smoke and Nearly all of the dead and ly injured woykdd In the 8.30 a. m. to 6p. Persons living away fr will please make appotatments eomlag By so delng (hey will I •f Immediate service and appointments. LANDS FOR SALEr Now Is the time to boy. Land# wRI never be cheaper, and sure to li lu value BUY NOW. MS Aerea, Rieh Land Township, Kara well County, One half is cultivation balaaeo