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% HOMICIDE AT UNION. Lucas Gall man Shot and Fatally Wounded by John Ray. ' Union, November 7.?Lucas Gallman, a young white man of this city, was shot through the body about . 7:30 o'clock last evening at the home of John Ray, also white, who lived just out of the corporation limits of Union, and died about noon to-day. In his statement made soon after he was wounded Gallman said Ray sent for him and that he went to Ray's house and spent several hours. When he started to leave, he said, Ray called him back and shot him twice without saying a word. The pistol used was a 38 Smith and Wesson, and one shot entered a little to the left of the middle of the waist, passing entirely through the body. The other shot took effect in the back of Gallman's Viao/4 mittino- awflv ft small nnrtion xivau9 V/ubwiug M ?? ? ?..... jj. of the skull. There seems to have been absolutely no quarrel. Gallman so stated, and Ray, who was arrested and lodged in jail immediately after the shooting, declares he knows absolutely nothing of the occurrence, he being drunk at the time An inquest was to have been held this afternoon, but Coroner Hames, / whose wife is at death's door, adjourned the inquest over till next Monday \ Negro Sentenced to Hang. Charlotte, N. C., Nov. 6.?Will Graham, a negro on trial at Concord for criminal assault on Miss Pearl Tucker, a 16-year-old white girl, confessed to-day and was sentenced to hang December 18. The crime was committed a month ago and, owing to fears ft of lynching, a company of State militia has ben on guard at the court house during the trial. Graham was remanded to the penitentiary to-night under guard of the soldiers to await the execution of the sentence. v' To dose Dispensary. Walterboro, November 5.?The county dispensary board of control held a meeting at 11 o'clock yester? >; " day for the purpose of considering ^ the petition to close the county dispensary at Jacksonboro. The petition was presented by the following gentlemen: W. E. Haskell, Jr., Jas. M. Lawton, 6. E. Bisell, Samuel G. Fitzsimmons, M. W. Brown and Her V" mon Bishoff. fCyr C. W. Butler, dispenser at JacksonV: boro, was also present and entered his protest against the closing of the dispensary. C The county board, after hearing the petitioners, decided to close the dispensary January 1, 1909, and to r remain closed as long as conditions ' warranted. Among other things the petition fi says: V v "This institution is patronized mostly by negro laborers from adjoining plantations, wno congregate aivuuu J 7 it? drinking, committing nuisances, fighting and threatening the lives of citizens, to their great terror, and causing such citizens to be greatly apprehensive of their personal safety; so much so that they are actually afraid to take up their winter resii dences at their places of abode in and around Jacksonboro. "The presence of this institution ; at this point causes these negro laborers to leave their work, especially on Saturday at midday, for the purU-s pose of purchasing liquors before the flS-if same closes for the day and for use \> oij Sunday, to the great loss of their employers, to whom their time is now most valuable." r 4 TRADE BOOM BEGINS. Election Result Stimulating to Busi" v ness Conditions. :x New York, November 6.?Brad street's to-morrow will say:Election results and the advent of C : >. more seasonable weather in some sections of the country were helpful ' - to trade this week, and except in parts of the South, where the holding J of cotton interfered, collections also , have shown improvement. In whole/ Bale and manufacturinng lines the tone of business shows most marked ?*'S. improvement. Orders which were conditioned on election results have been' confirmed and many new ones placed, the net result being an enlargement of the volume of business at first hands over recently preceding weeks. Many industrial concerns have announced an increase of capacity and of running time, and cotton ^ : v - - goods for spring and reorders for fall and spring wear woollens, shoes and other lines have been enlarged. Business failures in the United States for the week ending November 5 number 205, against 241 last week, g and 266 in the last week of 1907. - New County Proposed. Florence, November 6.?Mr. Stewart Starr, editor of the Lake City News, of Lake City, passed through -the city this evening going to Columbia to wait upon Governor M. F. Ansel relative to the formation of the new county of Rutledge, which is expected to be formed out of Williamsburg, Florence and Clarendon counties with Lake City as the county seat. Mr. Starr has fortified himself with all of the necessary papers and affidavits and other documents which win fii? with thf? flovernor to-mor- I ... ~ ? row. There are 1,100 names signed to the petitions, and if the election goes Florence County will lose Hannah and Pee Dee townships in their entirety. Mr. Starr will urge upon the Governor the necessity of appointing the commissioners at the very earliest possible date, so that the election can be had and the Legislature confirm the election at its approaching session. Cotton Fire at Chester. Chester, November 6.?Fire on the public weigher's platform at the ^ Southern depot this afternoon partially burned 200 bales of cotton. The damage is about $2,500, which is fully offset by insurance. A truck hand is said to have run over a match I with his truck thus starting the fire, which would have been a very serious fire, indeed, but for the prompt arrival and timely work of the city fire department. r SOLID SOUTH BROKEN. Dispenser of Federal Patronage in This State Discusses Election. Wahsington, Nov. 6.?Among those who are giving out statements as to the meaning of things is Hon. John G. Capers of South Carolina. He sees large and luminous rainbows beneath the clouds of Democratic majorities in the resolidified South. Says he today: "The large increase in the Republi- J can vote in the South, especially in j North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia,! and the percentage of white Republican voters in South Carolina means the death knell of the solid South. "It used to be that social ostracism in a way was meted out to any one in the South who was known to be a Republican, but, happily, that spirit is dying out rapidly and now our people see the folly of such narrowness. This is shown by the votes cast in the South ern States on Tuesday. Judge Taft | received more native white votes than were ever cast for a Republican can- J didate for the presidency. This was due in a measure to the more liberal and tolerant spirit now prevailing. "The principal asset of the Democracy of the South has been the negro vote. The politicians have known for years that when the young people of our section realize that negro domination in local affairs did not and would not follow the election of a Republican candidate for president, the doom of the solid south was sealed. And Tuesday's election has sealed the doom. The South is rich in agriculture, minerals, and manufactures, and there is a strong protective tariff sentiment. "This issue will figure prominently in the congressional campaign two years hence, and nowhere wPl it make itself felt more pronouncedly than in the South. This will be shown in the change in congressional delegations. The time has arrived when the South will once again occupy the field she did before the Civil war, that is, there will be a division of political sentiment. The Democratic politicians will no longer be able to check the healthy political growth by the cry of negro domination." SHOT PLAYMATE IN ABDOMEN. 1 Young Son of Dr. John Lunney, of Darlington, Fatally Wounded. Darlington, November 6.?Frank Lunney, the ten-year-old son of Dr. John Lunney, was shot in the abdomen with a load from a shotgun in the hands of Bradus Long at the Long home on Broad street this afternoon, the effects of which will probably be fatal to young Lunney. From the statements made it appears that Long, Lunney and other boys of about the same age were playing together at the Long home. Lunney and others being on the outside of the house and Long on the inside, and that Lunney, or one of his playmates, pointed a cap pistol at Long, who reached for a gun near him, and fired out of the window, striking young Lunney in the stomach. It is not certain whether he fired at Lun ney or at one or tne otners, ana luuney coming in tlie way received the load. The physicians say that the wounds are necessarily fatal, and-that the wounded boy can hardly live through the night. SEVEN PERSONS CREMATED. Man Starts Fire with Coal Oil and Disaster Follows. Swan Lake, Manitoba, November 6.?The home of E. K. Carey, a farmer living a few miles south of here, was destroyed by fire to-day, and Mrs. Carey, five children and a Miss Gillespie, a young school teacher who was staying overnight with the family, perished in the flames. Mr. Carey was so badly injured that he cannot recover. The fire was caused by Carey lighting the kitchen stove with coal oil. The other occupants of the house, who were asleep, were suffocated in their beds. Ray Files Return. Norfolk, Va., November 5.?G. William Ray, a prominent young man from South Carolina, who was recently made defendant in divorce procedings by his youthful wife, now living in the city, to-day filed his aning in this city to-day filed his an swer to the allegations orougnt against him. The divorce action is the sequel to a romantic elopement in Greenville. Ray denies "with all force of human language ahy intimation or allegation that he married the complainant by force or against her will," but, on the contrary, alleges that on February 13, 1907, after a period of most devoted courtship, in which the fondest words of tender affection had been both written and spoken and pursuant to previously arranged plans, met the complainant and was married by the Rev. P. S. Butler. Young Ray further says that after the marriage ceremony was performed, hq took his wife to the home of his cousin, J. E. Ebrod, where they remained for one week, in which time he brought his wife back to the home of her mother in Greenville, where they remained two days and then went back to the home of W. Z. Davis in Greenville. Young Ray says he is fully able to support his wife and that he did support her before she was taken away from him, that he still has both a strong and tender devotion for his wife, who, he believes, loved him devotedly at the time of their marriage and still loves him, and, if removed from the influence of her mother, would again freely join him in the happy union of conjugal love and contentment. Young Kay files his answer as a cross bill and asks the court for the return of his wife. YOUNG MEN! If you want to know why you should become telegraph operators and what school to attend, write to SOUTHERN SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY, Newnan, Ga., for free Catalogue "A." EVERY BOY should read it. Positions positively guaranteed. TRIES TO SHOOT EMPLOYEE. Manager of Midway Show Takes Law Into His Own Hand. Augusta, November 7.?A mild sensation was created on the midway grounds yesterday when R. A. 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