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n a i~t> iifti a ia iffk a a rft>i i*i <t? i~t? i* r ; Palmetto State News! All the i ailroads of the south gave notice that they would grant reduc- I ed rates, and one fare plus 25 cents j has been granted. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia* Florida, Alabama and Mississippi will send delegates. * I * * Judge Benet Secretly Married. Judge W. C. Benet of Columbia, and Mrs. M. L. Fcrdbitting were married at Salem, N. C., on September 12. The mavigge was not generally known until a few days ago, when simple marriage notices were published* in the state papers. Judge Benet's wife is said to be from the north, and is very wealth}*, * * South Carolina Railroads. The total figures for the income received by railroads in South Carolina for the year ending June 30, 1906, show receipts amounting to about $16,400,000, against $14,S0O,0O0 for the previous year. The gain is considered enormous in lailroad circles and is an indication of the prosperity of j TUG SOUir. anu UI auuiu v^aiuiMia i*# i particular. * s, * Large Oyster Cannery. The labor problem is beii.g solved by a large oyster cannery in Charleston, which is importing Bohemian help to supplement the negro labor. The company has employment for a thousand operatives and last year the experiment with Bohemians proved so successful that the company has de- ( cided to use the same laS>r again. ! The foreigners are brought down from j Baltimore. r ' I ! * kv * Date Set for County Hearing. Mr. James U. Jackson at Augusta, Ga., has received a letter from Governor D. C. Heyward, notifying him that his exeellencey has fixed Tuesday, October 30, as the day for the hearing in the proposed Heyward county matter. The residents of North Augusta are seeking to have a new county formed with that place, as the county seat, and the measiyre now seems in a fair way of going through. * South Carolina State Fair. "Auld Lang Syne" week in South Carolina began Monday with the state fair in Columbia as the center of attraction. Hundreds of former South Carolinians, now residents of other states,?returned for the "Old Homo" celebrations, and others are on their way. The exhibits that make up the state fair are calculated to open the eyes . of those who have not followed closely the recent progress of the Palmetto State in manufactures, agriculture, live stock raising and other industrial pursuits. ** Militia Around the Scaffold. Cpfnmwnder Johnson was hanged at Conway for the murder of Rev. Harmon D. Grainger, a Baptist preacher, who had denounced Johnson for living in adultery with Charlotte Simmons. The woman was convicted also and sent to prison for life. Johnson was a white man of means and in? nrai, rn aHa tn VPS lluence. i\u tmcmyi cue him. Militia was present and guarded the place of execution. ? At Bennettsville Bob Dargan, colored, was hanged for rape. * * ? Sheriff Removed by Governor. Governor Heyward has issued formal papers removing from office Sheriff Limchouse of Dorchester on the true bill found by the county grand jury of charging malfeasance in office. Limehouse is said to have permitted a mob of fifteen men to take a negro, Willie Spain, from the jail and lynch him. Coroner Kisser will, under the law, assume the office of sheriff until Lime house is tried. If convicted another sheriff will be appointed. Limehouse is a Confederate vete? ran, and has a gcod war record. * * 4 a Missionary Conference. The preliminary work to insure the success of the great missionary conference to be held in Columbia, November 6-8, has practically been completed So gratifying have been the results of the labors of the various ix>mmittees that there is no doubt as to the tremendous interest and value of the conference. All de-egates and visitors are assured of a cordial and hospitable welcome and entertainment and one of the most significant and interesting meetings in the history of the Episcopal church in this section. 4 * * Unveiling of Hampton Statue. The unveiling of the statue to General Wade Hampton in Columbia on November 20 promises to be a great cccassion. General M. C. Butler, General Hampton's comrade in war and colleague in the United States senate, has accepted an invitation to deliver | the unveiling address. General Stephen D. Lee, the ranking survivor ot the Confederacy, and former President Grover Cleveland, who was a great admirer of General Hampton, have been invited to attend the j exercises. The statue, which, when completed, will cost about $30,000, is now being erected on the east side of the capitol grounds. * * * Great Demand for Immigrants. The demand for the immigrants who are coming to Charleston on the steamship Wittekind is much j greater than the supply, ine aeinauu is especially great for servants. Not a few of the cotton mills of the state are asking for labor, but it is not thought that there will be many of this kind of labor to supply. There are applications for SGO men and women and the demand is still growing while there are only 480 on board of the vessel. In the future importation of immigrants, the office of state immigration will only bring over servants, agricultural people and laborers. Arrangements have' all been made for the housing of the aliens pending their stay in the city, preliminary to leaving for their destinations and until the others are placed .\n positions in Charleston. * * Repairing Storm Qameg. A Charleston dispatch says: Large forces of linemen are out, repairing the telephone, telegraph and electric wires which were put out of use in the storm of last Saturday night. Between $00 and 1,(K)0 phcnes were put out of operation and the loss to the wire companies will oe considerable. The damage to property interests generally was not, however, very heavy. Flag staffs, light parapets of buildings, chimney tops, fences, trees and poles went down before the sixtyfour mile wind, while the big storm tide carried additional alarm into the households along the water front where the water rose in the streets, and cut off ingress and egress from the houses. Cisterns and wells have been ruined by the salt water pouring into the places and the removal of this water involves no small cost on many people. A BRIEF FUNERAL SERVICE Held for the Late Mrs. Davis in New York?Body Sent to Richmond. A simple and brief funeral service was held for the late Mrs. Jefferson Davis at the Hotel Majestic in New ~ J ** ** "Dyv*? XT A Cqo rrl n X orK i nursuitv. acv. n. a rector of St. Stephens Episcopal church, officiated. He was assisted by Rev. George S. Baker, chaplain of the Southern Society, and Rev. Henry Lubeck, rector of St. Timothys church. The service was private, only the immediate family, representatives of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and a small number of intimate friends being present. Numerous wreaths covered the casket, one of which was sent by President and Mrs. -Roosevelt. Other floral tributes came from the governors of many southern states and from various societies of which Mrs. Davis was a member. Late in the evening the body was j taken to the Pennsylvania rhilroad ferry at West Twenty-third street and started on the journey to Richmond, j Va. A company of artillery from Gov- j ernor's Island acted as military escort and a squad of mounted police, the band from Governor's Island and carriages containing members of the Davis family, followed the hearse. LUNATICS CROWD BUILDING. Magoon Finds 1,660 Patients in Cuban Asylum in Quarters For Only 4W. Governor Magoon visited the National Insane asylum in Havana Sunday afternoon and discovered a deplorable state of affairs there. One thousand, six hundred and sixty persons of both sexes were crowded into a filthy and dilapidated building with a capacity of 400 persons. They i were sleeping on broken cots, relics of the last American occupation. Congress made an appropriation to enlarge the asylum, but the money was never expended. ROAD'S CAPITAL IS DOUBLED. Chicago and Northwestern to issue $100,000,000 of Stock. Stockholder^ and voting bondholders of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, at the annual meeting, in Chicago, Thursday, authorized the issuance of $100,000,000 stock, doubling the present capitalization. At the same time the directors were given power to issue certificates at whatever time added funds might be necessary. Seven directors wbre rej elected. STRIPED SUIT FOR BURTON. Kansas Senator Will Soon Be Serving Penitentiary Sentence. Joseph Ralph Burton, former United States senator from Kansas, will I begin serving his six months' sentence at fronton, Mo., on Monday. He will be accompanied to Ironton by Mrs. Burton, who will remain in that town until her husband's release. c 7 ILAST SAD TRIBUTE Paid to Memory of Sam Jones at Georgia Capitol WHILE BODY LAY IN STATE Universal Grief of Georgians Shown at the Bier of Beloved Evangelist. Little Orphan Children Guard- ' j ed the Casket. The sorrow of Georgians occasioned by the death of the great Georgia evangelist so suddenly stricken down was given eloquent expression in Atlanta Friday When thousands of Geortn'-n'o cnne on/1 i biUl J K>V?iAO CAXXVA UUUj)iX\tlO UiUU ? XLil solemn step through the corridors of the capitol to take a last look at the features of Rev. Sam Jones. Tnough he claimed Cartersville as his homo, it was peculiarly fliting that this last view of him should have been taaen in the state's capitol and in Atlanta, which was very dear to Mr. Jones' heart. He called Atlanta bis second home, but ail Georgia was proud to boast of him and no man can ever claim a richer share of reverence and devotion from Georgia's people than was his. There was no funeral pomp, just the steady march of mourners, .the last look with tear-bedimmed eyes and the smothered sob which followed almost every form past the bier. It was a solemn, silent crowd. Even the younger members ? and ther5 were many children ? spoke in hushed tones. The corridors on the lower floors were packed. In the second and third floors people craned their necks to gain a glimpse of the pale face of the dead divine. One of the most touching features of the occasion was a group of little orphan girls?sixteen in number, all members of the Methodist Orphans' home ? who acted as guard for the dead. Tliey knew no father, perhaps, but Mr. Jones had been a father to them, just as he had been a father to thousands of unfortunate ones, be they young or old. a .ivotvirtin fpfttnrp nf the dav was IJk UiUiMUV*V *-w-,VW4? W w the tragic death of a woman, Mrs. Osborne, 72 years of age, a life long resident of Atlanta, and a great admirer of the Rev. Sam Jones. She died from an attack of heart disease just after she had taken a last lingering look at the pallid face of the dead evangelist. There was a great gathering about the vault when the remains reached Westview cemetery. It was then near 4 o'clock. The hillsides near the vault were crowded with women and children. Wagons loaded with floral de! signs came in an almost constant stream. The flowers were banked near the vault door. When the body arrived it was given a place immediately in front of the vault door. Immediately ip front of the vault I the casket was brought to a rest The section directly over the face was once more removed, and for the last time friends and relatives were given an opportunity to look upon the illumined face of the dead evangelist / FLAMES TAKE TEN LIVES. Holocaust Occurs In a Boarding House at Birmingham, Ala. Ten men were burned to death, two seriously and perhaps fatally injured 1 hv inmnin.? &nci o, unru iiui t i/j from the second story as the result of a fire- which destroyed the boarding house of Mrs. E. E. Watley in Birmingham, Ala., between 2 and 3 o'clock Friday morning. All the victims, with two exceptions, were street car motormen and conductors. All the dead and injured occupied rooms on the second story of the house. The flames enveloped the entire building when the fire was discovered, and it was with greatest difficulty that the persons on the lower floor made their escape. They saved nothing and every piece of furniture in the house was burned. The fire is thought to have been of incendiary origin. SUIT OVER SLUSH FUND. An Accounting of $170,012 Campaign Boodle is Demanded. An accounting of the sum of $170,' * A - xl. ~ 012, alleged to De ine amount vi me republican campaign fund for last year in Cincinnati, was demanded in a suit filed Thursday by Louis K. Keuez, a former city employe, who says he contributed $15 to the fund. The petition ask? for an accounting and for the distribution among the contributors of $140,000 believed to have been in hand when the campaign expenses were paid. GENTRUDE CAPTURES PLUNGER. Daughter of Horse Breeder Joins Fortunes With a Bookmaker. Miss Gertrude Schorr, daughter of John W. Schorr, the breeder and horseman of Memphis, Tenn., and George Reardon, bookmaker and plunger, were married Friday in Brooklyn, N. Y. Reardon met the young heiress two years ago at the Latonia race track. WON'T ARBITRATE ! Striking .Machinists Decline tne Southern's Offer. ! VOTED ON PROPOSITION Men Were Asked to Return to Work Pending Arbitration of Trouble. Secret Ballot Was Taken in Various Cities. A Washington special says: The committee representing the machinists of the Southern Railway Company, who recently went on strike for an increase in wages, has declined the company's offer of arbitration. The I chance for amicable settlement seems to be at an end and it is understood that the company will employ other mem The machinists went out on October S and the general manager of' the Southern at once addressed a conciliatory circular to the men, stating the terms the company would agree to. This was followed by renewed nego- tiations between the committee representing the machinists and the company, resulting in an offer of arbitration by the company, it is this offer the committee has declined. At each of the fourteen affected cities a secret ballot was taken upon the proposition submitted by General Manager H. B. 3pencer. That vote was known to one man only in each of the towns involved, and after the result had been ascertained by that official the information was transmitted bv wire in cipher to President O'Connell in "Washington. Atlantans involved had no possible opportunity to know how any city in the section of country concerned voted. The vote in Atlanta only was possible to ascertain, as the vote of the other towns was sent direct to Washington. One man alone in Atlanta knows how the Atlanta machinists voted, and that one man declined to discuss the situation in any manner whatever. PANIC AT BARGAIN SALE. Dozen Women Hurt During Crush In a Louisville Store. Twelve persons were injured in a panic in Louisville, Ky., during a bargain sale at a store. Fuily 2,000 persons were in the store, attracted by a cut rate sale of some articles of chinaware of trtvial value. During the rush for the counter in the rear of the establishment where the bargains were on display there was a cry of: "There's a $5 bill on the floor" by some person evidently facetiously inclined. * Several persons bent over to pick up the bill and in the wild scramble that ensued women and children were thrown from their feet and trod on. Others were thrown over and crushed against the counters. A cry of "Thief!" by some woman, whose pocketbook had been snatched, heightened the excitement At this juncture the doors were closed and the i human avalanche stopped. Physicians were hastily summoned and medical aid given. RICH GOLD MINE LOOTED. Robbers Secure Sacks of Ore Valued at $50,000 and Escape. The Hayes-Monette lease on the Mohawk mining property at Goldfleld, Nev., was robbed of $50,000 worth of ore Saturday by a band of robbers whose operations were of the most daring character. Just before daybreak four men drove up to the Hayes-Monette shaft house and jumped from the wagon. Entering the shaft house they ordered the two engineers to throw up their hands and to carry twenty-eight sacks of high grade ore from the shaft house to the wagon. After making the engineers load the wagon the robbers drove off and escaped. RAILROAD IS HEAVILY FINED. New York Central ana i-tuason mvo Company Assessed $108,000. ^iidge Holt, in the United States circuit court at New York Friday, imposed a fine of $308,000 on the New York Central and Hudson River railroad company for granting rebates to Lowell M. Palmer, who has charge of transportation for the American Sugar Refining company. There were six counts, and a fine of $17,000 was imposed in each. Frederick L. Pomeroy, assistant traffic manager of the New York Central, was fined $1,000 on each count; a total of $6,000. BLIZZARD ON THE RAMPAGE. Coat of Snow Given the West by Unprecedented Severe Weather. A general storm of snow prevailed along the eastern slope of the Rocky mounrains from Wyoming to 'New Mexico Sunday. Snow fell in Colorado almost .incessantly for twentyfcur hours. Suburban electric lines operated with difficulty and railroads experienced delay in running. i * -V' v--..w' ' '"* *" . ' ft- t-v' ' i <' ^ I t ? WHILE GUARDS SLEPT Negro Was Taken by Mob and Swung ! Up?Verdict of Coroner's Jury: "Died From an Inch Rope." A Mobile, Ala., special says: Rob- ! ert Clarke, alias Dan Dove, a negro | I from Kansas City, was hanged from a I telegraph pole near the Lucedale de- i pot of the Mobile, Jackson and Kan- I sas City railroad by three hundred I masked and unknown men at an early | hour Sunday morning, after being mysteriously spirited from the jail of Jackson county, Mississippi. The negro was arrested late Friday night by a posse who followed him to within two miles of Mobile from Lucedale, where he had attempted to assault two white women and had stolen a horse and shotgun. The negro offered resistance, and was shot in the shoulder. Deputy Sheriff H. W. Hinton of Lucedale took the prisoner from the posse and managed to evade a Mississippi mob bent on lynching him. Hinton placed the negro in the Lucedale jail and with another deputy guarded him until early Sunday morning, when both fell asleep. When they awakened the negro was missing and was subsequently found strung up to a telegraph pole a short distance from the jail. A man who reached Lucedale Sunday morning reports that he ran into a masked and heavily armed mob near town late on Saturday night, and that they forced him to retrace his steps. Thgre is absolutely no clew to the identity of any member of the mob. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that "the deceased came to hi3 death at the ond of an inch rope." PACKERS MAY GO TO ENGLAND To Formulate Big Combine With Capi * - r AAA AAA tai OT $DUU,yUU,VW. The Chicago Evening Post prints a story to the effect that a gigantic combination of packing industries in this country is under way. No person connected in an official capacity at any of the large Chicago packing houses can be found who would confirm the story. The story is to the effect that the combination is to have an aggre-1 gate capital of $500,000,000 and to be | controlled from England. It is de- j clared that the Armour interests are to dominate the consolidation and that it will include the following con- j cerns in Chicago. Armour Packing j Co., Swift & Co.,., Nelson Morris &\ Co., National Packing Co., Schwarzs-; child & Sulzberger and the Cudahyj Packing Co. According to the Post the prolonged stay of 'Sir Thomas Lipton in this country is connected with the alleged consolidation. BOYCOTT LEGALLY SANCTIONED in Decision Rendered By Judge Sitting at Louisville, Ky. Judge Kirby, in the chancery division of th<? circuit court at Louisville, iV/U V i. Ky., rendered a decision which upholds a peaceful boycott. The decision, while not countenancing violencp in any way, declares that the constitution gives every laborer the right to quit work whenever he wishes, whether with or without reason, and that what one man could do alone was not unlawful for a number of men to do jointly. CLUBMAN FOUND DEAD. Wealthy and Well Known Virginian Was Missing Eleven Days. After having been missing for 11 days, E. W. James, a member of clubs of Norfolk, Richmond and Baltimore, and said to be worth $500,000, was found dead in a room of the old James mansion in 'Norfolk, Va. Death occurred over a week ago and was due to asphyxiation. The police are investigating. Twelve Millions in Cuban Treasury. Major Ladd reported to Governor Magoon Saturday that he had finished counting the funds in the Cuban treasury in Havana and found that they totalled a little more than $12,000,000, mostly in American gold. The books balanced exactly. CHINK CUSTOM TURNED DOWN. Chinese Minister Wanted to Quit Job to Mourn For Mother. The Chinese minister at Washington. Sir CheDtung Ldang Cheng, re cently received news of his mother's death in China. In view of the fact that Chinese custom requires that he should retire from official life and be in mourning for a period of three years, the minister telegraphed his resignation immediately upon receipt of the sad intelligence. The government, however, considered it best not to change its diplomatic representation at Washington ac present, and has ordered hira to retain his post. BECOMING A POPULAR PASTIME. Oklahoma Man Kills Wife, Two Daughters, Son and Self. C. B. Keyworth, a well-to-do farmer living 17 miles north of Gage, Oklahoma, Saturday morning shot and killed his wife, two daughters, aged 22 and J8, and a son, aged 20. He then turned the weapon on himself, indicting a mortal wound. Family trouble was responsible. ' * ; pi. a- * - m NATION'S PROBLEM ^? Is Matter of Dealing with Negro, Says Bishop Walden. GUARDIAN AND WARD I' Address of a Northern Methodist Minister in Cincinnati?But Little Aid Given San Francisco I + Sufferers. ' The negro problem and relief for San Francisco furnished two sensa- x tions for the Methodist ministers of a section of Ohio at their weekly meeting in Cincinnati Monday. As a. .V result, President Roosevelt may be asked by the Cincinnati Methodist Episcopal Ministers' Association to give his attention to an address on. the "race problem," delivered by Bish- ? -: op John M. Walden, if the proposition before the association is adopted. In the course of his address Bishop Walden said: "This country will not fulfill its. . objects until the nation comes to consider its relation with the negro as that of a guardian to a ward. This problem is not a problem of the north. Wl alone, nor of the south alone; it is s i problem of the nation. This nation,. : ; > which is so rich and powerful, must solve the race question itself. Dur- ; ing the days before the war the idea that the negro was to have when, freed his forty acres of land from the government was freely circulated. But when the freedom came no. C forty acres came with it. "There are three things that enter. ' yinto the negro question. The thought of implanting in the colored man the ' ^ idea of industry,- the idea of honesty,. ^ the idea of home-making. The colored " man has been charged with laziness- J|| The northern traveler who goes south. : ;v on/1 />ATYl 00 Unmo is filled with stories l; C?UU WlUVW uvmv ? I .. cf the lazy colored man. he saw about the streets of southern cities. I teli '-M you he saw but few. The colored mail , > will make a good business man. and ^ a good citizen if we only give him . the chance, but the problem is with v us, individually, with the Methodist. '%M Episcopal church, collectively, and V | with the great United States govern; ment in a paternal sense." j The other sensation was an addriaaft V|L : by Rev. Dr. F. M. Larkin of San Francisco, in which he made a bitterkl^ j attack on the Methodists of Ohio, \ for the small amount of money that v 4; j they have co?itributed to the stricken y'A i Methodists of San Francisco. Dr. I*&rj kin said: "Not only have the Ohio MethodK-j-yj ists failed to give money to the earth-? k: ! quake sufferers of our faith, but they' refuse even to hear me, sent here tor. the purpose, present the matter to. 'j:% them in their pulpits. It is a shame, ?i I say, I have sent out letters toy -JM churches all over Ohio begging to bo. allowed to come and tell of the need of the earthquake sufferers of Methodist faith, and out of a hundred of -v^j| my requests for a hearing I got three- , v;invitations. "From San Francisco, my brother ^ ministers write, 'Unless you send n? aid we perish, we cannot preach* to starving people nor tell of the goodness of God 1 in poverty stricken, homes.'" , A-'vi , I ABSCONDER SEEMS TO BE SAFE* j | Uncle Sam Will Hardly Be Able to , Extradite Thieving Banker. v The United States can take no step? to bring about the extradiction of Silveira, the Cuban banker wanted in j Havana, and now said to be in Caraccas, Venezuela. There is no extradi tion treaty between the republic of ' Cuba and Venezuela and the United ^ States cannot interfere in any way in the case according to state department officials. Governor Magoon may ask President Castro of Venezuela to permit Silveira to be taken by Cuban ah- v: , 1l is denend tnonues, uuc Lilt/ UUVWAMV _ ent entirely upon the will of President Castro. \ 4 JAP FIRM INCORPORATED. Located In Atlanta and Will Engage In Rice Business. Q The Southern Rice, Land and Cul- " ture company is the name of a $250,000 corporation, for which New York and Atlanta Japs took out a charter in Atlanta Monday. J * . The incorporators are Walter T, Asamy, Mango Tani and Matthew M. V White of New York, and Matsujiro. Sakuma of Atlanta. The object of the " " I, fA company, as us u<tme ~ buy and operate rice lands. /? " ' Jf ' ' LOST FORTUNE AND SUICIDED^ % London Banker Announced Failure and Threw Himself Before Train. P. MacFayden, head of MacFayden. & Co., bankers, of London, England, \? whose suspension was announced on Monday, committed suicide within an * hour after posting the notice of the failure on the door of the bank, by throwing himself before a train in a c tunnel about half a mile away from his place of business. T t |?sf|? i - -'V,'