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VOL. XXXIV BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 22.1911 NO 42 AFTER THE MEN StHttr fonmi* WiBisUtf Officers •( the Traits Pits'cuttd THAT WOULD STOP THEM Whether the Stars aiiil Strips or the Oil Barrel and the Tobacco Tag is the Emblem of Their Power. V Tn a prepared speech In the senate Thursday Senator Pomer* "e, of Ohio, called upon the attorney general to underttake oriminal proMcution of the officers of Standard Oil and Amer- can Tobacco companies under the re cent decision of the supreme court of the United States in the case of the two corporations. He did not a.sk for action on his resolution instructing the attorney general to be’in the suits giving way to Senator N’elson, who desired to speak on Canadian reciprocity, but he will press for a vote on it in the immediate future. Taking upr cudaels on behalf Of Attorney Cieneral Wickersham, whom Mr. Pomerene had criticised, Sena tor Kenyon declared that the present head of the department of jnslce had chleved more results in his prosecu tion of trusts than any of his prede cessors He said Mr. Wickersham did not require instru tioas from congress to do tiis duty. Senator N’elson created a diversion whrn, applauding Mr .Wtekersham’s work, he declared that the [/resent governor of Ohio, Judson Harmon, when atorney general in President Cleveland's cabinet, had said the Sherman anti-trust law was a deao letter Poth Senators Pomerene and Hitchcock were Immediately on their feet to replv. "That is mere imagination." said the Nebraska senator. "Mr. Harmon was the official who first brought any life Into the 'f w." In his speech Senator Pomerene declared tIn^the Sherman anti-trust law was specific in Its authority to press such a mii* a -ainst conspirators who restrain trade and. further that the interpretation of the statute hv the supreme court of the Cnlted States was clear "With these plain findings of fact and conclusions by 'he court that this statute has been violated what rea son can be triven hv anv sw tti court official for not con'inuing his fight acainst them in order to tiring them to the bar of tustice'’" asked Sena tor Pomerene He added " \ deem' sense of self resnei t requires the gmernment • i'her to enforce this law or to rei'c.al it " The Ohio senator declared that the rulin’ of the supreme <■ Mirt must he followed un quicklv in the most vig orous f shion "or the fml’s of the*;e victories will be lest to the govern ment and to the tieonle The sena'or declared that hv hi = re«olu!on it is proposed to declare to the department of justice in no un certain wav that the congress which made him and clothed him with paw er is cognizant of the fact that the !■ w has 'veeti violated: that the court has so de bared: that for 'J1 years no respe-t has been raid hv those defendants to tire provisions o f ‘‘u’dg’pent of I’on'ress he cught to begin those criminal pro^ecu*Jons and the resolution instructs him to do so In order that the majesty of the nw may be preserved." WHERE COTION GROWS NUMBER OF BALES PRODUCED BY TS L.A9T YEAR. Total for Booth Carolina and the Figures Given for Each of the Counties. THE GROWING COTTON DROUGHT CONDITIONS PARTIAL LY RELIEVED. In this State Especially, Government Says Rains Have Broken Long Dry Spell. ALMOST SOLVED UiriTtliif ib Awfol Norib'Cariiina Bnitil laritf Kjjltiy. STOLE BANKS MONEY WILL PUMP SLOWLY CASHIER KILLS SELF AND AS- UNCOVERING OF MAINE WILL BE REVISE TARIFF SI STAN T IN JAIL. VERY GRADUAL. OF CONFESSION The government's report on cotton The severe drought which has pre- ; Rei/ortccl ( f, at a \ ( .jr ro Tells of the production for 1910, just issued, vailed in the cotton belt was relieved shows that^he total number of 500 j In the more eustern portion, but still' pound bales ginned in South Caro-! continues in the western, according lina' was 1,163,501, compared with >o the weather bureau's bulletin fori 1,099,955 in 1909. In production by i the week ending Tuesday. The hul-j counties, Marlboro leads, with 67,-j letln by states is reported as fob ,343; Ander6on ( with 61,611, comes, lows; next, Spartanbur? thirl, with 56- Virginia, precipitation generally 312, and Orangeburg fourth with deficient; abundant sunshine. 53,080. The crop, by counties, for North O rolina, light rainfall; 1909 and 1910, figured by 500 some good rains in south partially pound bales, follows; i relieved bv drought. be remembered that Mrs. Hill, whose Two Men Bring Disgrace Upon Then)- Mud and Silt Will be Cleared From selves ami Families by I’alng Various Decks, as the Water Re- Bank's Funds. cedes. Tragedy end Implicates a White Man—The Murder of Mrs. Hill One i , of the Most Rrutai Ever Perpe- ! trated. i The mystery surroundiu .■ the bru- ! tal and mysterious murder of Mrs. Ida Ilili, at .lame/town, N. 0., is said to be on the eve of solution. It will Luther V. Hart, o shier of the! Army engineer offleers at Havana Hank of T arboro, N. C., is dead, and estimate that it will be at least two h. H. Hussey, assistant cashier, is in months after work begins on pump- tail charged with complicity in the ing out tire water In the cofferaa*. misnppli ation of $.>0 ^u0 in bank about the battleship Maine In Havana funds .as u result of a visit to the harbor, before an expert opinion can bank Wednesday morning by J. K. be formed as to whether it was an In- Doiighton, state bank examiner. side or outside explosion that sank Hart died from a self-inflirted pt* 'tie vessel. About four feet of water Jo! wound, and the exposure of Hus- has been pumped out of the coffer- D< ■•critic Bills It Thi Eri fil lUt Be Dtftatd ia tbs Scitlt COALmON IS FORMED Or Being Formed Between the Dob* ocratM end the ProgreMlre Repob- Means to Revise the Wool, Gbttoa and Bteel Schedule at the Session of f'ongreaa. i Counties. 1910. Abbeville .. ,. .. 32,069 | Aiken 35,687 Anderson 61,641 Bamberg 16,800 Barnwell 45,043 Beaufort 8,993 Berkeley 11,178 j Calhoun (2) 20,125 , Charleston . . .... 10,770 ! ('herokee. 14,210 Chester 26,908 Chesterfield 26,424 Clarendon. . ’ 3 6,9 5 4 Colleton 14,390 Darlington .40,587 'Dillon <3l 39,318 Dorchester 13,94 7 Edgefield 25,034 Fairfield 25,143 Florence 34,1 40’ Georgetown 3,413 Greenville 35 281 Greenwood 28,059 Hampton. . .. 16,62 6 i Horry 7,816 Kershaw 21,527 Lancaster 23,053 I.aurens 39,799 T/Ce 26.877 I.exington 12) . .. 21.494 Marion (3) 16,5 85 Marlboro 6 7,3 4 3 Newberry 31,2 89 Oconee 13,8 50 Orangeburg (2).. ..53.980 Pickens 13.780 Richland 14,246 Saluda 1 8.282 Spartanburg 56,31 2 Sumter 33,622 fnion 17,135 Williamsburg . ... 24.264 York 3 9,45 8 WILL BE HANGED. 1909 1 South Carolina, drought broken bv „ , D-nna rntno- tamilv is both prominent and weai- 29,896 K00d ra 'n8, sunshine above normal. ,. f , , . * i a v,. i. , , thy. w s found dead in a room at 3 6,530' Georgia, drought relieved in east , ,. . . , . . „„„ . . , her mothers house about two weeks 48 2V)3 , and south; serious In west; temper- ... . , . . „ , , i , ago with a stocking stuffed down her 22,329 ature above normal; soarcity of wa- 44 ' 9 19, ter threatened. , ne( . k 6!803 ; Florida, temperature above nor-; 11,434 mal; rains well distributed; sunshine 21 *292 | ample. 9,754 i Alabama, temperature nBbve nor- throat and another tied around hei It is rumored that a confession has been secured from a suspected negro and that in this confession a I white man is implicated. A dispatclu ■-rn-J-muGW nrertnlt atl.U''hJi1 fr ° m ? 1 ‘^ I ’ di -G-, wjlk’h is neaf . 11 ,T9T nia L precipita fmr below, alttioneh}- the srene of the awfltl traKP(iy 8avs: 20,830 ( Bome showers in east; sunshine am-' 22,696 P 1 ^- 32,870 , Mississippi, hot and dry, excessive 1 5,749 1 suns hine: insufficient showers. 43.287 Louisiana, little rain in south: 38.910 i drought severe; sunshine and tern 1 0,970 pemture above normal. 26.203 Texas, clear, dry and abnormally 20,522' warm l ra ln much needed 37,942 1 Arkansas drought tiecoming seri- 4,012 j 0118 ! only few scattered liiht show- ■27,521 | or*: sunshine and heat above normal. 27,439 | Tennessee, almost unprecedented 20,1 85 | drought in some localities; some 7,8471 showers east and central portion; 20,461 1 hot sunshine 1 9,256 Kentucky, slight relief to serious 30,569 drought conditions; all crops need 3 2,1 69 rain; heat intense;, wader supply 1 9,962 unusually low. 1 7,027 Missouri, severe drought unbrok- 67,17, en: excessively bet and dry. 2 7,01 T Oklahoma, scattered showers -in "Never before In the history of this section have the people been so etir- red. In the quiet of her mother's home, a w(.orn, heart-weary woman. I caused by the p s« of her he^hand. | w’as attacked by ■banal fiend.. ; -tr.u«- I gled bound and left hanging to her ■ bed. Only a short distance away in ; nearby bedrooms were the children , and relatives who slept on in igno rance of the awful tracedy. Her aged mother is prostrated and the 1 other members of the family are broken hearted, while the entire com munity shares their grief and whis pers wonderingly at the audacity, as well as brutality of the crime. "The story of the tragedy is one of awfulness. The. elegant Ragsd He house, sitting back in its prove of ce dars and ma .’nolins, is Hie place of in terest. The room on the second f’nor facing the front, will ever be a sorrow-bringing spot. Sometime du ring the early mottling hours two brutes, proH.bly one black and one white-skinned, but both black at heart, climbed up the rose arbor ovr. the front porch and entered the open window of Hie room occupied bv Mrs Ida Hill. They were seeking money An automobile containing eight Mrs Hill had re en:\| returned from men, pulled up in front of the Hotel a.journey and it is reported that she Roy, on West Thirty-fifth street, near The Washington correspondent of ,,,,,, , the Atlanta Constitution eays Demo- M V followed when bank officials and Jam already, but work hae now been cratlc tarlff leglB , atlon wll , not ^ Mr Houghton made u hasty investl- Mopped until the government officials doomed to defeat in the upper branch gation of the bank books. arrive probably at-out June 15. Qf congre88 at thl , session, as has Wednesday mo'rnfng Mr. Houghton "Bh the water over the wreck lower- bpen generally f eare( j called at the bank for the purpose fo "r feet, the top and sides of the « of making ills rw.Milar Inspection o, wreck’s afterdeck are beginning to (, oa tIon between Democrats and t tie affairs of the institution. The COII| e into view and the sighting hood 1 ' rc> res8 ' e Re P ubl,c *o* *n tb« aanat* examination was defered until noon, of the after-turret on the port side 8 rap y .u* nK " aP *’ # t 0 ** nd Hart remained at his poet until was just awash. The greater part of T® 11 n e P 8883 *® °| bll, » tor the regular dinner hour. the afterdeck is now cleanly visible | P . 8 on ° . ® woolen, cotton Gohig fcome for dinner, he went : under the water, showing the Co j aD e ron &n stee 8che<lu1 ®®- directly to his room, and a few min- fused masses of wreckage covered Tbi * news became known h«IW utes later his wife was startled to with marine growths. The forward anc * as tb e occasion for Jubilation. hear ifpIsloT shoTT Rfishing'ro'ThC'f part of the"shlp upoir which the-great ■ Senator La Follette of Wlscoasla. room, she found Hart laying across er force of the explosion was exerted 1 ,s tall ' n K the lead in thea« negotla- the bed with a bullet hole through his ie still eubmerged. I tions, and eleven progressiva* have , iii 1 agreed to co-operate with the Dem- When pumping begins in earnest, ... , . . . ; . .. . , i ocrats In the end of securing tariff the first stage of the unwaterlng pro- ,, o . . . ■ , .. . . reductions. Bo the work of a long, to exposj the top deck. This prob ably will loom up as a bank of mud as the water in the harbor Is very muddy and the vessel has been "col lecting'’ deposits for 13 yec.rs. When head. He died two hours later with out h ving regained consciousness. The misapplication, it is believed. ..ill tail lAcee l $5n,o00. Hart h ' recently been involved in numerous business . transactions, and It is be hoved a series of failures was re sponsible for his act. Following the exposure the affairs of the bank were placed In charge of state officials, and they imme- and examining the deck will keep ihe i dlately closed Its doors pending fur ther investigation. The institution lx apitalized at $20,0000. Its depos its aggregate more than $2:00,000. hard s’ mm ,. r will not be fruitless. The administration counts upon enough votes to force through Can adian reeproclty, with the Root amendment to the wood pulp and . . . . , . l!rlnt DaP® 1, provision ellminatad. the upper deck Is out of the water ThlB wU1 be done by the ToU# of ‘ ‘ ^ ^ " I . ' D€mocrat8 ®n d regular Republlcaas. officers busv at loast three or four] u W # hen ^ con ? e8 to the 'W** * davs. The examination of the deck * be } be Progressive Repub- w lll of course be made with the ; H^" 8 will ^insist upon several amend- greatest care. In making an Inven- men !.\ but ’ f 80 «««««•“» ^ found the offleers reached on these, the bill will baaup. ported as an amendment to the Caa- Hart was about 35 years old, and ,ory what is ^ was a member of one of the most must be in a position to swear that a ji a : T) r{ » r i r>ro< .|» v »>«*»♦ prominent families in eastern North i ^ey were actually there when the 7 ^ ' t'aroiina. / I 2,529 east, remainder of State very dry, all 58,847 vegetation suffering. II ''77, ♦ 1 5.649! ROBBERY ON BROADWAY. 1 8,729 * 42 977 1 28,93 6 12.882 OO O O - 32.82 1 SUCCUMBED FROM BEATING. Tale of Barbarous Cruelty Told Coroner’s Inquest. at mud wg* cleared away. For thie rea son, If for no other other, It wlP be ne essary to exclude outsiders. When work on the upper deck Is completed there will be more pump ing and more mud until the water Is lowered to the deck below. In- Eleven of the thirteen progressives have reached the conclusion thsl It would be the pitHuM discretion to sld / in passing tariff bills w“hlrh will offset a reduction in existing' scedute*. The Underwood bill for the revis ion of the woolen schedule is, in the Eight Men Ride Up in Auto, Onl> Six Bode Away. Because she objected to her hue and s selling whiskey, Mrs. Mary ...... ..... . main, setisfactory to them., But they spee.ion of this deck will then be «n-, win In „ Bt that th<5 ^bedul' be dertaken without undue haste. It is believed that the lower down thei Negro Who killed Overseer in New - berry Sentenced. Guilty as to the negro Sam Boozer and not .iiilty as to John (’. Hipp. v as the verdict of tin* jury at New berry Wednesday evening in the case against Boozer and Hipp, charged with murder In the killing by Boo zer to kill Gilliam. The case had ex seer, at Old Town on March 3. A mo’ion for a new trial was made lo B )ozer's counsel and this motion w ill be he rd by Judge Gary at i.aurens n> xt week. Boozer was sentenced to pay the death penalty on the third Friday in August. Hipp. who is one of the largest property owners in New Mary county, v as charged with having in ited Boo- r-T to kill Gilliam. The cas > had e^f Broadway. New York, about one /'clock Thursday morning and th< men all lined up before Ch ,s Sim mons the night clerk. Each of them held a revolver and their leader ordered the clerk to stand back while he explored the e isb drawer of the open safe. There was nothing for the clerk to da and thi Mitruders quickly scooped out $16e in bills Then the men filed out, the last one covering the clerk with his revoher until all were outside. As s on as he w s free the cler . "as to leiveAg.aiu stmr'lv and th#s< black-hearted fellows presumed she had mone> HT her ro ‘in. "Mrs Hill was a light sleeper and ■ o-sibly was awakened when the bur 1 rs entered her room, for a passer by on the road saw a light in her ro ■m at midnieht At anv rate i' at’peirs that 1 "b'kly thev 1 st o' k incs w a- 1.aw ter. w ho re ently came *o Arltng- water goes the more difficult will be ton in a remote seeti in of Spartan- the work of clearing the mud away, burg county, from no r Saluda, N. The problem of Inspection also will <’ . was '-o severely beaten by him be made more difficult as the sneces- with a hickory stick that she died sive stages of pumping out progress from the effects of it. according to: as d yllghf will not penetrate into th" finding of the coroner's Jury, the’hull of the vessel and work will which rendered this verdict at the in- have to be done with artificial light. s h ■ was aroused m! hokid her One of her for< ed dow n hep thmat and the o’her tied tighth about her ne. k Mrs Hill was a I rge woman, but she was not well an ' the two men ;>o-siblv did not itixud murder, but quest held by Coroner J S. Turner Tuesday evening. "We. the jury, find according to the c\ idence fjiat Mary Lawter can to her death from a whipping at tie hands of Andy Lawter. her hus band What ran be savwd of the Maine revised also. Then here is a strong feeling upon the part of the progressives that the duties on steel and iron schedule should be materially cut. They are framing up the program of their own and wish to know the extent of. the revision that is contemplated before committing themselves to support any single sehedule. There are now 41 Democrats In th* and what- it is most expedient to do 3? regular Republlcani> mnd with the vessel can only be well de-; , , who are on orcaB , oni in.urg.ntg she Is exposed to , 0 mea< „ ireB and po i lclei propoeed by the regulars. This was the number that demanded recognition from the committee on committees as a sepa- determined when view. Many engineer officers fear she : an never be floated and will have 1 to he taken apart in sections If it is Lawter was at once arrested and decided to save her at all. Other of- grabbed bis own gun from a drawer rather proposed to keep her quieted, and fired five shots to •all the po- Then fiiev took her from the be 1 and lire He was so quick about it that with straps fr m her suit case thev tie got a response from a Broadway bound her One strip bout tier patmlm n before the robbers could waist was 'ighlv buckled to the low crank their automobile and go* start- er rail of the bed at the fo t and her id. Tim patrolman captured the last hands were-.forced ‘-..m ath 'his strap ail. As the whipping flr ( , rs believe she will break and fall rallkB Bulk County. N. C.,|the t0 pipcpf, when the unwaterlng of the cofferdam gets under way. romitted to ><< urred in authorities of that county have Ween notified, nd Lawter will lie held/tere until the sheriff of Folk county comes for him. J TOe witnesses told a tale or bar- rate organization in the Republican two of the men and found in the i>oekets of them a r dl of hills twlc the size of that whirl) the hotel clerk STRUCK A FKKR1S WHEEL. cited Intense interest and the enjirt 100m has been parked during Hie had lost. trial Should there be no Interference * ♦ • with the sentence imposed, the exe- DYNAMITE IN LAMP. 1 ■uitIon of Boozer wilt be th.e first legal « execution in Lhe county In fourteen > ears. ♦ « HELP AGRICULTURAL <N) IS Caused Death of Two Negroes Ligiit- t ing It. Passengers Thrown in a Panic and Women Wanted to .lump. Five dead, four missing and a property loss of nearly $1,000,000 Is the result of a two davs' storm whirl) lias raged iutermitten'lv in New Vctk and vieinitv. The torrential down pour has been a boon to the depleted reservoirs, ten d ys’ supply havlm been a cumulated Is the watershed The lightnin.’ played a ‘.trangn pr. Jik at Clason Point, oh the wound, strik ing a ferris wheel. The big wheel which eirrted • several passengers, was thrown from its axis and stuck fast. The TljtlrtTrtng-bltnitprt the rs* senders and there was a panic. Sev ®ral women r.ttempird to leap froin the wheel, but were restrained. The passengers were taken down on lad ders rigged together. Dynamite and an ignition cap plac- j ed into the lamp used by a negro Purpose of Bill Introduced B.vjeonvict miner, with the evident at . !'I mtit to kill the mu, caused Hie ( ongressnian I^ver, , . , , death of two negroes in :i mine of the Bessemer Coal. Irin and Land Com- iany at ktelle Ellen near Birming ham, Ala . Thursday morning. Both ttx* victims were convi t miners, i Tlie one whose lamp contained the ■ulturnl colleges and experiment si. i exi-loslves had just entered the mine; lions in the several states. The biB , and '^ted his I mp when another •irovides th. t in order to aid in the Tuesday Representative Lever In troduced in the House of Repre'e,, t tivos in Washington a bill to est b- lish agricultural extension dei'art- Mients in conne tlon with the arri- Saloon Keeper Shot Down. Hesitation to obey the commands of two negro hold-up men cost J. H. Norhen, a saloon keeper of Chinn go, his life early Thursday. As he was counting his money after closing up. two negroes entered the saloon and one covered him wiah a revolver. He hesitated when they commanded him to throw up his hinds and was shot through the head. One negro was captured hy a police officer but the other escaped. iiffuston among the people of the United States useful and practical In formation on subjects connected with j igricultjire^ and hmoe economies ■ there shall be established at each’ ’gricuitural college a department to, . fie known as an "Extension Depart ment" and that there shall be appro priated for this purpose $15 000 for each simh department, condition- <d upon the state appropriating a Mke amount for the same purpose. The other Mr'r> was f -t, ne.! in a noose al» uit Iter throat and tied to the 1 on rail of t tie ;■( l aid s'- ' v - I -H while they proceeded to loot tile bouse. One of them must h w s'ruek the woman, for ope eve was id likened and bruised and the eyeball blood ‘d’n». The eiti ware esidently de- firniined tba’ Mrs Hi'.l should no’ make any outcrv and thus arouse the h ’use Thev possibly did not real /e what t hey had d.mo and proliaidy did not know- that in stifling the aroused woman's cries they had choked her to death The attending physician says that she w s evident') dead hef 1 re bein’ strapp« 1 to the bed. Passing dc, vustairs to the din- : ing room, the men g 'tlu red up the family silver and t ed it in two bundles, but after all their efforts wore evidently frightened and made their esc pe. When the awful deed was dis covered the body was rtin w-arm and As a majority of the senate ls46, It onlv requires five of the progressives The army officers In charge of the t0 vote wlth the Democrats to con- work do not expect to satisfy every (r0 | tbat f eleven progressive* one with their work or to get through vote witb the Democrats there will b* , . . . T . without obstacles of any sort g | x more t i, 3n a majority of the sen- Par IMS crue t) n hi part oM.a Thpre alrpa dy Is criticism from those ate p ut lt , B prob able that the two 1 * * e se e , . wbo do not appreciate the task of j Demcratic senators from Loulciana t lev said and once seized a g 1 thp afniy 0 ffl ( -e r8 a r e undertaking and wll , not be ln aecord wlth lhtlr breth . t nuil to kill hiT. hut was res rained ,. ho bp | lpve they are wasting time, ren on th6 bl|li for revlB , on of the va . Mrs Lawter fit)' Ih left him, saiing and 1non< >v because they do not do rlous schedules. This would cut the si ,, wiip.d live on dry bread and wa- evPr vthing with a rush. The offleers ma j orl t y to four, which is a her* expect more criticism when the workin)? . majority but will be effec- pumplng out kiegins, as their .xgork tive. will not he done for the benefit of ^ i 'he sallerv. but for the government f>F REV, of the United States. ti r before she would live with her hu-Aund and take the heatings such •is ho had boon giving her. She went tr, li\e with her sister, Mrs. Lucy Owens, at Arlington, and it was at Per homo tb t she suddenly died Tuesday morning. DAVID HUCK8. IMMIGRANTS IGNORANT. ALLEGE RUN AND DEATH. Beloved Minister Boon Follows to the Grave. Oe,liters Want Receiver for I,ow Lsv Publications. the Do Not Know Essentials of Our Nat ional Government. prisoner approached. The dynamite went off and killed both instantly. Who placed the explosives- into the lamp is not known but it is thought P was done by some miner w ho had ■ along Hi® able of The b >d hound trotrhke with »he--nes>ro. .-^but There were no signs of a strnir- ♦ ♦ ♦ j gie. Evidently there was no strnv- RESCYED Uy TIME. j'.le, for with ’the exeepf*on-of the : bruised eye Aber-e 4* -no-vv-autul cm the A dispatch from ?t. Louis Mo., -i\s d<" l:iring that ruin, destruction and death have followed In the wake of Lewis’ enterprises, clue to mift- fupresentatt^Tva made to Investors in bis corporations and securities, creiiytors have filed a iietition in United Sr tes circuit court asking for a receiver for all of the proper- Mes of E. G; Lewis, at UnG’ersity ahM* an Injuncttmr re- A dispatch from Pinewood seys the Rev. David Hucks. Methodist minister at that place, died Wednee- At New Orleans Tuesday sixty ap- ! day morning about 9 o’clock after an plicants for entrance into this ooun- iBness of six weeks, from typhoid try Italians, Ruslans, Turks and at-1 fever. His flfteen-ye^t-old son. Ben- most every other nationality—anx-; nie, proceeded him to the grove by ions to swear allegiance to Uncle only five day#. Mi’s. Hucks has also Sam, appeared before the board of (been very sick with fever, but is now naturilization. Some of the candi-■ considered out of danger. This is, dates naively admitted that they were Passengers Taken Off Ship as Flames^ Reach' Deck. Ship Gave Up for I ,ost. Flames menaced the lives of 61 persons on the steamer John Ixiwry drawn smooth' to her fec-j. those who fotind the body were impressed' that . ! the murder must have been c.ommit- CityT Mo. , straining -yndicatp of magazine publishers from exercising authority under the 1 .recent agreement taking over the anarnhiets and polygamists; that they had never heird of the constitution of the United States; that they did ; not know how a congresanrap gets : ted ''nd the body then rdneed on the that burned in the Ohio river op- A dispatch from New York says poslte Smithiand, Ky., early Thurs-i dav. Belt Plays Havoc. Jeff Griffln was instantly killsd, his two young daughters were badly hurt, and Charles Yoeuins, a neigh bor, was probably fatally In j tired by a bolt of llgtnitty. according to in formation re'eived at Americas, Oa., Wednesday 'afternoon. They were sitting on the porch of the Griffln hone,.wbei» lightning struck a near by tree^and then fell among them. Griffln was a wealthy fnrmer , 0 •.4*. rdest towns from Delaware Break water to Montauk 'Point which have been on the outlook for the missin: sloop Vayu since Sunday have re ceived no tidings of the vessel or the no i s eb( >re land all were rescued, partv of flv^ persons on board, and q-bg fl re started near the boilers hopes for their safety have well nigh and was not discovered by the crew .been abandoned. The sloop left B«- until it haM,' gained such headway I yonne, N. J., for a day’s cruise about j tbcre waB no chance ot staying it. A 2 o’clock Saturday. f ew 0 f i bp 30 passengers sustained • * ; minor injuries and sev^r'il of the Severe Storm at Lamar. 1 fit^w of 15 were hurt The steamer During a heavy storm Monday aft-1 was destroyed, ernooa lightning struck a barn and floor. It is an awful storv and the _; neople of Jamestown are still tremh- with the excitement. Neieh- As the flames licked at the| !ine: feet of the scores of frightened peo i hors arp ^^dering where the sorrow , le gathered on the steamer’s dec.v.| w ' n fal1 timp - Xot nn, >' Tamp? - her nose was smashed into the Ilii- ,own tbis entire se'-tion is dee-i- ly interested and the pevple of ttw . , , his ’ob and a few other things that a he representatives of a i well-regulated citizen Is Inclined to I profess knowledge of. ... j One of the applicants declared that i New Orleans was the capital of the properties and a forGosure on a ''] rnited Ptates and that th ere was op- improved Property of the University ly onp house of fongrmi ani that the Heights Realty and Development orrupi( . d th it H e confess ed, however, that he was Intimately 1 acquainted with the constitution. A former citizen of Turkey stated there were 371 houses In Congress and Indeed, a sad/home, and Mrs.^ Hacks has the prayers and -sympathy of the entire community la her bereave ment. Out of a family of ten, only Mrs. Hucks end her little daafktev, Tflary Elbel, are left. AIT lave to the other world. Vt- . Company. The creditors declare all "f the Lewis corporations are in solvent and that their aggregate in-1 d» btedness amounts to more than $500,000. etable belonging to C. N. OatesrTRF- tweed Lamar and Darlington, burn ing the building with it* contents, which included two fine mules. Dur ing the storm the corn and tobacco crops of a number of farmers in the same eommunitY-were Itteieny torn to shreds. Make Themselves Known. In the House of Representatives at Washington a bill, providing that every newspaper must print in a conspicuous place the name Of the owner or owners, publisher and maneging editor, wa« introduced by Representative Barnhard of Iftdlana. county are moved ns never before. Mrs. Hill was ■) woman of charming personality, beloved and with a wide circle of intimate friends. The Ragsdales are easily among the very h^fit class and for years hive.been known for tnelr sterling worth. ■•■■♦■* Corset Saved Her Life. At Patterson, N. J. a steel rib in Mrs. Annie Noonan’s corset raved fier 'com death, Thursday. Mrs. LizHe Dorandy fired a bullet after her hus band end struck Mrs. Noonan, stand ing across the street. The steel de fected the bullet, making only slight bruises. Acquitted of Murder. H. \Y. McMillan, Southern railway "freight agent at Aiken was Wednes day acquitted of killing Joe Miller, a negro whom he killed at his board- in: house several Weeks ago, shoot ing the n.pgro as he was fleeing. The Jury did not move from their ' seats. •* that a congressman serves as long as he lives. Costs Two Lives. | One man is dead, one is mlftsfng and six others are in a serious con dition as the result of an explosion i in the distillery room of the Albany, i N. Y., Chemical Works, on Van Rennsselaer Island Wednesday after-: I noon. y - We Don’t Blame Him. At Burlington, N. J., Joseph Mil ler tfult the bench in a choe factory following receipt of the news that he is sole heir to a fortune exceeding $250,000, left by Mme. Monchezi, a cousin, who died Intestate in New York a few weeks ago. Storm on Austrian Coast. A dispatch from Trieste, Austria, says a storm of hurricane force luring’ Wednesday night, cauiing many deaths end much damage to shipping. Early Thursday morning the bodies of 20 victims had boon recovered at this point. It is foorod'—- that the fibbing smacka with crowa totalling 40 men, which wero at ana Wednesday night, were lost. Tk« ships in the road were severely damaged. A Greek vessel with Its crew of 12 foundered. Mlaor dam ages to craft are reported from other points on the Odrtatie eon. n- j . Most Have License. To diminish the danger that exists in the operation of motor boats by inexperienced persons, the navy de partment has planned to secure fed eral legislation requiring every own er to take an examination and car ry a license Bomb Causes Fauie. Two hundred Greeks )■ s *vw- story tenement on New York, wero routed from thetr beds end driven In panic to th* 9m ~ escapes early Tuesday by s bomh plosion in « grocery store ,ffvT “ Zivello on the ground floor, plosion shattered the walls, building but did not h tenants. Black hand responsible for th*