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. n ' “f - / ^ vl *’.;• V r'* T X^T^- ? ^ « ' f. ■■f. "'• e , < - ■ j ■. ZtM-rr - > ' i. ■ » I VOL. XXXIII BARNWELL. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 18 1910, NO 51. IRON ORE DUTY Scutir Tiliaai Ghes Hu Reaswu Ur Vatin Ur tk« Tu IT VERY PLAIN That Um» Tax on Iroa Ore Uoee Not Increase the Price of any Article Made Out of Iron to Conaumer and That the Steel Trust Pays the Duty. In answer to a letter from Mr. W. C. Smith, of Willison, S. C., ask ing him to explain why he voted for a duty on Iron ore, Senator Tillman replied last year as follows: "Your letter of May 27th, has re mained unanswered simply because I have been overwhelmed with work herd, 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 give 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 yi South Carolina, is they take and read the. Associated Press dispatches, which •re colored In behalf of the Repub lican party, and are garbled and condense, an give no adequate con ception of things as they really hap pen. I ‘The facts 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 con trol and enjoys a monopoly of the iron and steel business in this coun try. The so-called independent con cerns are dominated and controlled by it, though not all owned by it. Steel Trusts Axes prices and the others conform. "There are immense, well-nigh Inexhaustible deposits of Iron ore in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, amd the Steel Trust controls im- jnese deposits in those States. It also controls, or some of its subsi- dsry companies do, large deposits in Cuba. D was brought out in the debate, that some of the Eastern companies have contracts with thte Cuban mine owners, to Import not less than a million tons a year of Cuban ore, and 1 don’t think it worth while to let this come in free when it would make no difference what ever to the consumers of iron and i steel as to the price we would pay for these articles. I believe that the American producers of iron and steel (that is the Steel Trust main ly), can compete wirh England. Ger many and France in the markets of the world, and that the whole scheme of protection of manufactured steel is a bare taced 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 manufactured 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, aud 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 your friendship in the past, and hoping to continue to merit your confidence, and support, I am, sin cerely yours, B. R. Tillman. EX PI-ONION IN FACTORY, WANTED HIS MONEY A MOST HORRIBLE CRIME BY FARMER PREACHER. Charged With Murdering Youth for Insurance .Money and Then Netting Fire to the Honae. The supposed murder of a youta to secure $2,500. .Insurance Qn hj| life, the gutting of the Rock Spring hotel, a combination hotel and lodg ing house on the wharf, the arrest of J. C. Holly, about 40 years old, pro prietor of the house, erstwhile preacher of the Sanctification faith, constituted the sensational of a trag ic fire which occurred In Wilming ton, N T . C., says a dispatch to The State. Edward Cromwell, 19 years old, said to have come to Wilmington four months ago from an orphan home in Charleston, and was cook at the ho tel, was found lying on the floor of his room, in his night clothes, nearly an hour after the flrse' was discov ered. Capt. W. P. Monroe, assistant chief of the fire department, who was the first to enter the room, testifled at the coroners InveetlgatloB that the body was lying parallel with the bed, which showed no evidence of having been disturbed, hla feet to ward the head of the bed, thus ex ploding the theory that the youth fell from the be4. The mattress, he testifled, was sat- uruated with kerosene oil and under the head of the dead youth was found a counterpane also saturated with oil. while two large empty oil cans were found In an adjoining room. Other witnesses testified to hearing a noise as If a struggle about midnight in the youth’s room. J. H. bcull testifled that on Mon day, acting as notary public he sign ed certificate of transfer of insurance policy for $2,500 from Cromwell to Holly, the premium on which he was informed was paid by Holly, who had applied foi insurance to the amount of $5,000, the company refusing more than $2,500. This is supposed to have furnished the motive for the crime that is believed to have been committeed. The most important development was discovered by Dr. W. U. Bell, cor oner, that L. B. Sasser, a druggist, sold to J. C. Holly, proprietor of the hotel, sixteen ounces of Bateman s drops, containing laudanum, etc., at about ten o'clock Tuesday night, and the subsequent finding by the physi cian of the bottle in the hotel with less than a teaspoonful of the drug in it. STRANGER COMMITS 8U1CTDR. Went Off to Himself and Cut His Throat Totally. A man who gave his name as John Shay, went to the mill of the Wil son Lumner company, about four miles below Lake City on the 18th of July and since that time has been working for them; for the last few days he had been suffering from chllla and fever, but did not stop bis work. Tuesay night supposedly about nine o'clock, he went into a atpall atrip, of woods Just in the mr of the mill yard and with a raxor cut his throat from ear to ear. From tne gashes it appears that the first attempt was not so success ful as he desired; the second one, however, severed both the jugular vein and the windpipe. The body was found Wednesday morning about 9 o’clock and an inquest was held over the body. He was given a decent burial by the Wilson Lumber Com pany. He is described as being a man about 5 feet 10 inches high, medium build, with sandy hair, slightly bald and of Irish descent. There were no papers about him to lead to his identity. THE LUMBER TAX St Seuttr TiIImi TelU Wky H« Vtfed Afaiast the hif Steal. RUN DOWN BY A TRAIN. Three Brothers Were Killed and An other Was Hurt. Three boys, all sons of John H. Straignht, of Cowesett, R. I., were killed and a fourth boy, a brother of the oiners were seriously injur ed when ^ New York bound Port land express on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad travel ing at the rate of 60 miles an hour around a sharp turn, ran into the little group. The boys’ ages rang ed from 6 to 15 years. The boys were taking a short cut by the railroad and were in sight of their home when a heavy freight train came in view. They were standing on the Express track watc-h ing the passing of the freight train when they were struck, a curve pre venting the engineer from seeing them in tjme to stop the express. Herbert Straight, who escaped with fere scratches, ran home with blood flowing from wounds in his head and body and it was he who broke the news of the death of the other three boys to the mother. WOULD NAVE HIMSELF. Of Corn Products Refining Co in pan) Kills Two. Two men are dead and seven are badly hurt as the result of &n ex plosion on the sixth floor of the corn house of the Corn Products company at Granite City. 111., at five o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The sixtl) floor was completely wrecked and it was almost half an hour before the men could be taken out. The dead are John Galo, Granite City, and an unidentified man. The explosion was caused, it Is believed, by spontaneous combustion, due to a large amount of dust floating about the corn house. Gov. Patterson Sees Handwriting on the Wall. As an outcome of the recent judi cial election in Tennessee, in which the regular Democratic nominee, which he auported were defeated by independents who had the active aid og the Republican organization. Gov ernor Patterson has issued a state ment expressing a willingness to waive the Democratic nomination for a third term, which he has already received and again test the question of the choice of Democracy in any sort of a primary. Thus he would hope, he says, to save the State to Democracy. The address among other things • says: The pernicious inter-meddling of a Republican President with the af fairs of the Democratic party in our State should he resented and his well laid plan to Republicanize it thwart ed before it is too late. "Those Democrats who are actively aiding and abetting his efforts ex cuse their treason by saying that it is necessary in order to eliminate me from politics. "If this is true, why not bring it about in a way that will restore har mony and not destroy Democratic as cendancy? If the majority of the Democrats are opposed to me as It is claimed, I should not represent them as their candidate for Govern or.” The Governor then offers to enter a new primary and adds: "The only condition 1 make is that the successful nominee shall be sup ported in the November election by all who participate in the primary.’ Dangerous Animals. The efforts of seven men were re quired to make an angry bulldog re lease hi* bold on the face of Samuel, the ihre^-year-old son of Gus Mar- golen of Paris, Ky., Thursday morn ing. It Is probable that the lad will lose the sight of one eye. RUN OVER BY TRAIN. ABANDONED THEIR PLUNDER. Bandits Stop Stage, Kill the Driver snd Steal $1,500. For the second time within a week the New .Ve'ico Mogollon-Siher City Stage was neld up and robbed Sun day, muriei b ing added io the crime. Jose Deminguez, watchful as a result of nis experiences last weea opened fire on the bandits ail th<v shot him dead. The robbers haslily gathered up twelve bars of silver bullion. ihore were no passengers :n tne coach. ’ r be posse was soon chasing tue fleeing bandjts and the mounted olice also took the trail. The passengers found 11 of the 12 bars lying near the road side where the stage coach was robbed. Evi dently thi burden was toe great for the robbirs. The liar they kept is worth aboi'c $1,500. , IT ROBS THE FARMERS Both Staple and Yield Have Proven Disappointing. A Washington dispatch says diffi culty is experienced by cotton grow ers in India with both staple and yield. Many experiments have been made with the object of improving both, reports Consul E. Halderman Dennison, of Bombay, but (hue far, with Indifferent aucceas. Egyptian and other exotic varieties hive been Introduced from time to time, but H»a results have not been encourag- The Senator Says a Duty on Lumber Only Help* the Lumber £fu*t, -Ing Under garden culture the finer *ta- Whlch Has Bought Up All the Timber IjuuIh In the State, and IJuncoes the Farmers and Others. We present below some extracts INDIAN COTTON A FAILURE. BREAK SOLID SOUTH PRESIDENT WANTS TO PATCH UP POLITICAL TKOUBLK. Eur? In •• vatttMtfMii* ■ '• -, FIND OUT WHO DID ——-_l2* SOLI) IT CHEAP. Boy Swapped Diamond Ring for Oue Small White Marble. What is said to be the cheapest price on record for a diamond ring was turned up at Atlanta Sunday by Detective Cowan of the loca police force. Tlie price was one small din gy white marble with nicke all over it. The purchaser was a small negro boy and the seller another urchin if the same race for whom the police are now starching. JFhere is no clue u> the on„in'.'. owner of the gem nor as to '.cw it came into the pos session of me small party of the first part in the swapping transac tion. The value of the stone is ui der $100. Collier Sank. The naval collier Marcellus, lies at tha bottom of the ocean. In lati tude 36, longitude 74.S, having Bunk in ten hours after she waa struck by the ario Norwegian fruit steamer. 8. Ros- di Giorgio, Jaat Tuesday. ? Young Man Killed on C., C. and O Near Spartanburg. Vernon Jolley, 19 years old. son of Stephen Jolley, a well known and highly respected farmer living six miles west of Chester in Spartanburg County, was run over and killed ear ly Thuraday morning on the C.,. C. and O., about one mile above the Chesney depot. He was killed by tbe excursion train which had taken a party to Johnson City, and was re turning to Bostic after putting off the passengers at Spartanburg.' The accident happened at 12.30 a. m, and the body was not discovered un til after sunrise, when Mr. Blackwell, who lives near the scene of the acci dent. happened to he going down the drack. Tragic Death. ii - .At Louisville, Ky., while fciae Lillie Kuuts dislodged her false Ueth. Tarred and Feathered. Frank Schart. a farmer of Cardiff, N. J.. la in a hospital suffering from tbe effects of coal tar and feathers appUfd by threa men with whom ha had « long •landing quarrel. ! " 'f y ■ ’ «<fSi r*,, —r«» -w* ' . -, ,1 m 3* SANK WITH A MINK. • $ Gunner on the South Carolina Had Close Call. A Provincetown, Mass., dispatch says mining practice by the Atlantic fleet has been completed and the ifeet has sailed out into Massachu- The mining parctice nearly resulted in a fatality when Gunner Walter, of the battleship South Carolina, be came entangled In the anchor chaius of one of the mines just as it was going over board and was dragged down with it. For a minute and half he was held under water until he kicked himself loose and rose to the surface. He waa barely alive when pulled aboard a boat by his comrades. f They Lost Him. Henry Washington, a young a^gr- was arrteted at Lnicoln, Ala., on Thursda), and confessed that he hid attempted an assault on a young la dy. Under guard of six deputies, the negro Wt Lincoln at nine o'clock Friday morning, but at noon had not reached Talladega, the destination. ^ ^ . * [J If ’ Fatal Auto Accident Mrs. Mary B. Train, wio gavp her age as seventy years, her noma as San Diego. Cal., and eatimatad her wealth to the millions, waa marripd Chicago Wednesday to James Dibs of man, twenty-three yean of a^a. . ' " from the remarks of Senator Till man in the United States Senate on the lumber schedule: Mr. President, before the lumber schedule pasaes from the atteutton of the Senate, I want to make a brief statement. When it waa In the Senate before, two or three weeks ago, I voted for the amend ment proposed by the Senator from 'Alabama to put lumber and all building materials on the free list. In the discussion 1 remarked that I was in fafor of free lumber. When the Senator from North Dakota offered an amendment, which did not give us free lumber, leaving the duty on whitswood, sycamore and basswood at fifty cents a thous and, 1 voted against it. because it did not give us free lumber. The Senate adjourned Immediately after wards, giving me no opportunity to vote for free lumber. There has been no opportunity to vote for free lum ber. I still think we ought, to have free lumber, and I will give my experience and my reasons for that belief. I know, of course, we can not get it. Twelve years ago, when the Ding- ley bill was on its passage, I voted for a $2 tariff on lumber, and re marked, very muc.h to the disgust of some people and the edification of others, ’if there was to be stealing, I want my share. ’ 1 have found out that I can not get my share; that the conditions of the South are such that the articles and products of the region which are capable of be ing protected are so few in number that if we were to throw around everything down there a high pro tective tariff, we would not get any thing like a proportionate benefit with the New England and manufac turing States of this Union. In regard to this matter of lum ber I have watched the result of the duty. Immediately afterwards our timber landa. which had previously been neglected so there were com paratively small lumbering industries down there, •egan to be in demand t.Vlen from Wisconsin and Michigan and other northern States where lumbering had practically denuded the forests of timber, or were about to finish them up, came into the State and bought up very large tracts of timber at a very small price. They did this all over the South. Large mills were establish ed and the lumber industry began to pick up, showing investment f^of capital and a large export. At the same time the price began to rise, a little faster, apparently, than the industry itself. Now consider for a moment that the people of South Carolina are in about this shape; the State being a triangle, the upper part cutting off like the letter “A’’ is largely the white section of the State. Nearly two thirds of the people, although t is only one-third of the area, live there. They are consumers of lum ber and they have no yellow pine or very little. They have been im porting that lumber from the low er half of the coun'ies next to Ihe sea. In this coast region the lumber industry has taken root and is now very extensively carried on. I notice after three or four years of this introduction of lumber on an extensive scale that the price went steadily up, up, and it very soon became noised abroad. I do not know on what foundation that these lumber men had formed a combina tkm and they would not sell under each other to the consumers in the upper part of the State. Lundber is not a luxury. It is a necessity. It is one of the neces saries of life. When I saw that the farmers, who had to build houses and fences and barns in the whole upper country, were being charged steadily increasing prices for their lumber, I began to change iny opin ion as to whether, I was getting my share of the stealing or not. It look ed like somebody not very far away was getting an unreasonably profit out of our trees, which had cost them a very^small sum of money rel atively. So ray opinion in regard to the benefits of the tariff in our State changed very radically. I believe In the greatest good to the greatest number, and when saw that th*i>eaele who use lumber practically four-fifths of them, were paying an increased price, I decided if I ever got a chance I would take that tariff off. I do not feel that it is my -business here to protect the industry.of lumber .which perhaps involves the Interests of 50,000 good and worthy people, as against the 600,000 equally good and worthy people who have to use lumber, and we would not be saved from an ex orbitanl price, because. 1 think, those people fenped a combination and pies have responded well, but tried in the fields, they have failed to pro duce the results they show In their native soils. Future eftorta will be devoted to the improvement of tbe staple and yield of the native qqt-. ton. A tree cotton from which great results were predicted a few years ago, has poren disappointing accord ing to the consul. It did very wen in garden trials, but when the at tempt was made to grow it upon a large scale, failure followed. A Jointer IWged With 1V«**tag • H - '' » V " 'f- Out of the Uer Window end UK- ting a Maa Maadtng oa tha of tbe Track. - J&-M US .. £S9| KILLED BY THE TRUSTS. Will Quit Tobacco Culture if Prices Remain Low. The business men of Mullins and the farmers of Marion, Horry and Dillon counties are very much dis turbed over Ihe fact that the prices of leaf tobacco are so very low Should the prices remain as they now- are. it is a fact beyond a doubt that the crop will be almost, If not cu- tlrely, eliminated next year. This the farmers declare most positively will be the case, especially if cotton remains in the teens. The Fanners’ Union may take hold of the matter and ask the American Tobacco Company and the Imperial Tobacco Company to give bktter prices. It is generally believed that these two corporation control the prices absolutely. Both concerns have the nicest and costliest plants in the State at Mullins and it is hoped by all that they can see their way clear to pay a decent price for toliacco. Taft Summon* to Beverly the Repub lican* from Tenne—ee to DtacuM Matter* In that Mate. President Talf and President Had ley of Yale were In conference at I Beverly in regard (o lb** pcruoHue! of the commission which Is to be ap-| pointed to inquire into the proposed regulations of the issues of stock* and bonds by railroads. While Mt. Hadley has not yet defi nitely accepted the tendered position of chairman- of the eommiaelon. he is giving the president all the assist- * "I® ‘"T ® ,r * n t you will ance he can in formulating a plan of moet searching and careful Inrestl- work. and it la believed that even- Lation and make & full report to tMa tually he will take the chairmanship. 0 fflce at the earlleat possible Mievt. Mr. Taft i« strongly urging the mat- The most scrupulous observance of ter upon him. every povlslon of thla Oder la mm* An effort is being made to have I joined." _ "' r * v the commission represent all phrases Thus concludes W. W. Lewis, of the work. The so-called "pro-h, colonel of tbo First* gresslve" sentiment of the republican Maj. M. J. Walkor sad party is to be represented. | n| , ofllcerc of Comwaalss C. K. h aaA President Taft and his poliitcal ad- L( of the regiment. In order!** an vlsers believe that the republican lnve , t |g aUo n of tha alleged lajnry t* party has a good opportunity to car<l a man nMr aally from a rock thrown ry Tennessee this fall and thus make by one of the soldiers returning wuu. a break tn the “Solid South"—one I the Aiken encampment. Col. LeWt** -' p of the president's ambitions. J orders follows proclamation tasnai With this in view Mr. Taft has ln-j b y Governor Ansel, who Is r omman- vlted a number of thj party lenders j dgr-in-chief of the National Guard of in Tennessee to Beverly in order to I t^e Slate, a few dayt ago, wkea tha see if the republicans cannot adjust matter wa , reported to U*. their difference* of the pass and go whan the .oldiers were retnralaf into the coming campaign in bar- from xlken on August t a rock mony thrown from one of the wladowa of The Tenneseeans lunched Friday the special bearing the troops. TkMt with the President. Among them L] a y qot. Ansel received a were Representative Sanders and from J. M. Hawley at Salley, slattri Judge O. M. Henderson. that a member of the company The Republican hope a* viewed fl rit train from Ain— a from Beverley is based on the split through Salley that day, had in the democratic party and the re-1 one of Mr. Hawloy’a men cent overwhelming victory of the In- r0C k. Ansel immediately 4 dependent Judicial ticket, which won an investigation and <f res tad by from 45,000 to 50.000 majority, telegram and later a lettar, addition to a governor, there !• all th*J«WmaUon ha had to Col. W. to be elected this fait a legislature, Lewis. ‘ Warn ,■■■ ■ » RECEIVES SERIOUS INJURY which will name a successor to Sen ator Frazier. / • A To Save Spectators Aviator Risked Hi* Life. At Asbury Park. N. J.; Wfftter-J- Brookins. the aviator, was badly hurt while making a landing in his aeroplane in a desperate attempt to avoid injuring a crowd of spectator*. Brookins ..aw his machine was like ly to strike a group of onlooker* and made a quick turn. Tbe machine turned an d fell to the ground, strik ing several spectators in its descent. Brookins was picked up badly injured and several of the spectators were hurt. The machine in its fail tune- bled amid a crowd of watcher*, most ly boys. One youngster was rushed to a hospital where it was reported that he kad sustained a fracture of the skull. Six other youths were less seriously hurt. - • INCREASED ACCIDENTS. CKLKHRATK THEIR HIRTHDAY. Senator Tillman and Dr. ISned Together. That Col. Lewis la determtaad that the guilty person shall ba fMttfi dtft in this matter la show* by the fol lowing letter addressed to MaJ. Wal ker and those commanding (be foor Babeoek | companies mentioned above: *tt has been reported to joo when the first section of Thursday was the birthday of two| Ur . jr ^ n « 8 ^ 4 . „ , „ and part of tbo hoopital exceedingly well known South Caro- at or near Sally Some llnlans, Benjamin Ryan Tillman, an train threw* s rock or soqM unique figure in the United Suites seteweiy wounded a maa work!** senate, and Dr. James Woctds Bab*, the fields. Thla waa on Ihe fobor* cock, one of the leading alienists of trip from Aiken. • . . i the country. "Y«Ki are hereby directed at OMh While in many respects vastly dif- to summon before yon every mas be- ferent from each other, the sena/ar I longing to yog several commands and tbe doctor are intimate personal »od examine each aad every one ot friends and have many tastes in com- them under oath as to hia 1 mon. Each In his sphere has ren tiered distinguished service to his state. Tne senator Thursday entered his 64lh year, the doctor h's 55th Dr. Babcock was in a good bCrth him • * ■' Number Killed During First Quarter Eleven Hundred. A considerable Increase In the number of persons killed and Injur ed on the railways of the United States during the months of January, February and'March, 1910, is shown over the corresponding period of last year. The total number killed dur ing the quarter was 1,100 and 21,- 323 were Injured. This was an in crease of 466 killed and 6,110 in- , tired, as compared wibh the corres ponding period laet year. There were 19 killed on electric railways and 669 injured. The figures were made public by the interstate commerce commission from reports submitted by railroads as-required by law. of tha incident, requiring state the facts as he knows any hearsay teatlmony that light on the subject. ^ "In the event any maa refueen to with a large seylum in the North I *99**? *® 4 testify yon wlU at onss when Senator Tillman sought him prefer charges against him and f*r- out and brought him South to take ward them to this office, la the charge of the State Hospital for the event any man refoaee to teattfy at- insane at Columbia and the sound- ter appearing you will prefer e«snrgte ness of this choice haa been amply Uffninst him unleas he refuse# to vindicated by the career of Dr. Bab- tify on the ground that hi* cock since that time. lying will incriminate, la which etas The two friends had planned s | yoo will report that fact ■ jt little dinner last Sunday at Senator once. Tillman's plantation home at Tren- "Should you he able to obtain any ton. as a sort of anticipatory celebra- evidence tending to locate the. tion of th« birthdays* but urgent offl-1 ty party you will at once ■W mi DROVE WITH ONE HAND. agreed lint they would not •nde p - New York, an~Assyrian Use* sal|^ I mR etch other. - , - ^ | Tie only reason wiy we . • ufc .V/ Lightning Struck the Ha*hboard of His Buggy. After driving with one hand a team of broncho* for forty miles on stormy night, Alfred Villa delivered the body of hia dead brother to hia parents near Tuckson, Ariz., Thurs day night. While driving through the storm the buckboard in which the two boys were riding was struck by. lighning, killing the younger boy instantly, and paralyzing onqtjiide of the other. Regainlhff consciousness, the elder hoy headed the team for home, driving with his unaffected hand. Several other persons were stynned during the same storm. '■s le, or 'will be able, to get lumber at a reasonable rate was due to the fact that there were some old field pine second growth left in the up per part of the State and small patches, or small area*, two or three hundred sefes or 500 acres, all through io tbe middle lower region that the lumbermen bad not bought or .could not buy at tbe high prices —I mean the great lumber com pan lea. with their railroads, and all that sort of tnlng, running out Into the swamps. The only reason why the upper-country people could get lum ber at decent prices gras becouae little one horse sawmill, costing tl 500 'or at most $2,000, would go in to these little patches of plae and saw tbe Umber np and furntah the people thla necewary, qg against these great combinations of capital had absorbed our Umber. name and tha names mm! adirifl&i/ of the' witnesses to this oflcT In any event you will most sear oh log Investigation make s full report to this the earliest possible memos moet scrupulous obeerraaee provision of this order is A’ the office of Jov. name of the man wh# wga^ Jim Toler, a negro, was lynched at I has not been received, one o'clock Thursday morning at Al- thea has addressed a letter , ma, Ga , by a mob of over 100 men Haw, ® y ••blog him to fur for having entered the room of two] n .* me of lllw n,t ® w * , ° w ** 1 j - daughters of s prominent plater ofj 1 ^* Bethea, In behalf of Montgomery county Tuesday night, (}ov - An *«l. • Ibo requested more de- cial business kept Dr. Babcock in Columbia that day, but the two din ed together on Thursday. PROMITLV LYNCHER HIM. Negro Entered Girl’s Room sod Then the Next World. while the girls were In bed asleep. tails, as to when aad where tbe It is stated that one of the girls was] throwing ‘uok place a- •! ao> otb- awakened by Toler when he raised er Information that may throw the mosquito netting over the bed on l h® matter. In order to indl;. and that her screams frightened him I*Me away. Search for the negro began tjiello®: wlmwBggur $be.y*A» at once and the next afternoon a | posee of men came upon TolMfiwork- ing in a corn field and aciflEd him of the crime. He confeffed hia guilt and waa tied to a tree akd shot to death CONDITION FAVORABLE. Official Bululetlns Cheerful.—Sleep*] the name of the penes streefc [of course, be necessary. tr—»*•. FIRE AT &ALUDA. Buidiiesa 8ectkm ot the stroyed by Fire. Fire Tuesday night at !*■» Be. M Baled*. N. Ing Well. C., a mountain reeort summer visitors, destroyed entirely i the general merchandise stereq Expressions of encouragement on Thom A Boone^ and S. D. the part of all the watchers by Mayor each valued ft fS.OfiO. William J. Gaynor's bedside ushered a trarehoose and stable in the fourth day of his fight for re- ooo. Saluda baa no fire _ _ covery- An official bulletin at 7.101 and hundreds of white-clad o’clock Friday morning said “Mayor watched the fFtfUriS; Gaynor passed s very good night. He and mill presidents slept eeven hours. He la comforta-thoura* h*id i Me this morning and is la excellent watar/ general conditions. His taapereture Is 100; pulse 70; respiration 16.’* . Fight Forest Ffrfis. The forest service haa called on the War Department for aid to fight the forest Area In Montana. Gen. Leon ard Wood, chief of staff of the army, haa directed that t battalion of tbe Fourteenth Infantry. In maneuvers a - - - w — . w^ ' et American Lake dered liiiiniilleSi Two Two young Independent Order Odd home, sbofct two miles wee. Men, Texas, west drowned In n near tbe hoi Irene Park. Worth, and m -■ i—r* .. » '- ■- y ^ ' . - • . ; p fwmi m ‘J : ’ tens. ‘mm