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REPORT ON ASYLUM.
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V State Hospital for Insane is Shock.
tngly Managed.
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 20.?Charges
v of the grossest violations of the ordijg."
nary rules of sanitation and decency
4 and a stinging arraignment of the
if? board of regents of the State hospital
f. for the insane are contained in the
majority reports of the commission
i appointed to investigate the hospital,
made public here to-day. The regents
of the institution are: W. J.
Gooding, Hampton; J. Perry Glenn,
(Anderson; W. W. Ray, Congaree;
J. H. Taylor, Columbia. The report
shows that on December 13, last,
there were in the institution 1,533
inmates?520 white women, 370
< white men, 321 negro women, 322
negro men.
Without placing the blame on any
particular person, the committee's report
states the evidence shows:
That 15 patients of one ward were
bathed in the same water in a bath
m tub.
That the foulest water closets, cenv
v ters of wide soil pollution, are located
within a few feet of an outdoor
kitchen.
That there are no screens about
these closets.
That the bodies of dead patients
* are buried <jrne on ^top of another
% vin the same'lot, with as little con%
sideration as if they were so many
P dogs.
That cholera hogs and the dead are
kept in the same lot.
That the wards, even of the white
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women, are overrun with vermin and
the patients are allowed to go un- :
kemDt and raeeed.
The report also states that many
attendants are reported illiterate and
brutal,. many cases of brutality bei
ing reported, and that the food served
the patients is badly prepared by j
persons who never learned to cook
and is served in dirty, greasy tin
dishes, and government reports are <
quoted to show that in the South (
Carolina hospital the death rate is <
the highest in the Unuited States,
21.54 per cent., as compared with a
general average of 11 per cent.
It is estimated that it will require i
$350,000 to put the plant in proper
, shape and it is suggested that the
present plant be sold, the land be$
ing worth $400,000, and two plants,
to cast $500,000 each, be erected
the State elsewhere.
A minority report submitted by
three me fibers of the commission, :
disagrees with the main features of. j
the majority report. It holds that
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the lack of funds to put the institution
on a modern basis, due to the
State's heavy indebtedness, is the
principal source of trouble. It states
that the patients, as a rule, are well
cared for, that thee food served is of
good quality and well cooked and
that the management of the State's
farm is systematic and efficient.
The minority report states that it
is unnecessary to create a great debt
for the State in the purchase of new
sites and that the expenditures of
about $50,000 annually for several
years, will meet the requirements
of the situation.
Land Muchly Mortgaged.
Greenville, Jan. 22.?One of the
most unique happenings that has
ever been known in the South, and
possibly in the United States, occurred
yesterday in the office of the register
of deeds when 67 mortgages on
one piece of property were satisfied
and now the land in question is held
by the heirs without strings to it.
warren ounivan, a prominent negro
farmer who lived in Butler township
and died years ago, left his property
to 13 children. These children have
from time to time given mortgages
on their share of the estate and for
the past few years 67 papers have
been held on this property.
She Told Him All.
A good story is going the rounds
about a drummer and a pretty waitress,
says The Cleveland Leader.
Here is what happened, according to
the report.
The dapper little traveling man
glanced at the menu and then looked
at the pretty waitress. "Nice day.
little one," he began.
"Yes, it is," she answered, "and
so was yesterday, and my name is
Ella, and I know I'm a little peach,
and have pretty blue eyes, and I've
been here quite a while and like the
place, and I don't think I'm too nice
a girl to be working in a hotel; if I
did I'd quit my job; and my wages
are satisfactory; and I don't know if
there is a show or dance in town tonight,
and if there is I shall not go
with you, and I'm from the country,
and I'm a respectable girl, and my
brother is cook in this hotel, and he
weighs 200 pounds, and last week he
wiped up this dining room floor with
a fresh $50-a-month traveling man
kwho tried to make a date with me.
Now what'll you have?"
The dapper little traveling man
said he was not very hungry, and a
cup of coffee and some hot cakes!
would do.
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EXPLOSION NEAR MAYESVILLE.
Four Men Hurt, One Fatally, by Accident
in Saw Mill.
Sumter, January 21.?The boiler
at Mr. Sam Boyle's saw mill, about
four miles South of Mayesville, exploded
at 4.15 o'clock Thursday afternoon
and at least one of the victims
is probably fatally injured.
The accident was due to carrying
110 pounds of steam in a boiler that
was supposed to be capable of carrying
only eighty pounds. The governor
refused to act, and when the
pressure ran up an attempt was mafle
to fix it, but while one of the hands
was at work on the governor the explosion
occurred. The boiler was
entirely demolished Dy tne rorce or
the explosion, and fragments of it
were scattered over a space of three
hundred yards.
The following were injured:
Mr. Sam Boyle, badly bruised and
scalded.
Joe Singlton, white, badly scalded
and skull fractured; injuries
probably fatal.
Boss Simpson, white, scalded and
bruised.
Lawrence Lowry, colored, braised
and scalded.
B. J. Hancock, white, slightly
bruised on the arm.
All of the injured except Mr. Hancock,
were employed in the mill. He
was passing the mill and had stopped
only for a few minutes when the
explosion occurred. The wounded
men were immediately taken to Mayesville,
where they received medical
attention and had their wounds
dressed.
Mother and Child Burned.
Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 20.?Roasted
to a crisp the bodies of Mrs. J.
A. Mullis and her three weeks old
infant were discovered in the fireplace
of the woman's home in the
Daniels mill settlement near Lincolnton
late this afternoon by a grocery
salesman.
A few feet away lay the two year
old girl suffocated by the smoke from
her mother's garments. She may
not recover. Mrs. Mullis was subject
to fainting spells, and it is supposed
while nursing her baby she
swooned and fell over against the
grate.
The legislature is behaving very
nicely so far. May the body continue
to do as well.
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JAIL CLOSED TO HIM.
Church Defaulter Amits Shortage
But Warden Will Not Admit him.
Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 21.?William
G. Lilley, former treasurer of the
permanent temperance committee of
the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church and also of the Pittsburg
presbytery, who has been missing
since September 28, appeared at
the Pittsburg jail last night. Mr.
Lilley was found to be short $3,000
in his accounts shortly after his absence,
but no action toward prosecution
had been taken.
At the jail he was refused admittance,
as no information had been
made against him. He had no place
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He made a confession of his short- .
age and was advised to telephone '
Willis A. Boothe, chairman of the le- .
gal committee of the presbytery. Mr.
Boothe took him to his home for the
night.
A special meeting of the presby- ,
tery will be called to take action.
Charged With Firing Jail. 1
Huntington, W. Va., Jan. 20.? !
After being trailed by blood hounds '*
for 20 miles Benice Huffman, Kohn J
Miles and James Skinns were arrested
to-night on a charge of setting 1
fire to the Lincoln county jail and 5
were brought here and lodged in '<
jail. It is charged that the men are 1
members of an organized band which 1
planned the destruction of all pub- 3
lie property in Lincoln county. A i
brother of Huffman is held in jail |]
here accused of being implicated in 1
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tne recent Durnmg 01 tue ljiucum
county court house.
Believing that the associates of
the arrested men are planning to
rescue them by dynamiting the jail, j
Sheriff Harsberger to-night asked for ,
militia. ,
Three companies of the National 1
Guard have been ordered to be In |
readiness for service. ,
! Saved at Death's Door.
The door of death seemed ready to
open for Murray W. Ayers, of Tran- 1
sit Bridge, N. Y., when his life was ]
wonderfully saved. "I was in a .
dreadful condition," he writes, "my
skin was almost yellow; eyes sunken;
tongue coated; emaciated from losing *
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Virulent liver trouble pulling me j
down to death in spite of doctors. .
Then that matchless medicine?Electric
Bitters?cured me. I regained J
the 40 pounds lost and now am well 1
and strong." For all stomach, liver ,
and kidney troubles they're supreme. .
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EXPRESS OFFICE ROBBED.
Burglar Gets Three Gallons of Whiskey
at Hickory Grove.
Hickory Grove, January 21.?En- ,
trance was effected into the Southern
Express office at this station last {
evening by breaking a pane of glass
out of the window. As a result three
gallons of whiskey were removed j
from the office by an unknown party. (
The same offence was committed two j
or three months ago. In this earier ,
case the burglar was caught but not ,
prosecuted. Detectives are here now ,
working on this case but only minor .
clues have been found.
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Men Kill Each Other.
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Greenville, Jan. z~6.?west ijock- .
rey Is dead and T. T. Poole is dying :
is a result of a fight here to-night between
the two men. They are em- ]
ployes of the Woodside and Carolina j
mills. Dockrey attempted to shoot |
Poole and in the struggle Poole man- i
aged to take the gun from Dockery. ]
Dockery then drew his knife. Poole 1
shot Dockery three times and was
stabbed himself through both lungs j
and a great hole was cut in his stom- 1
ach.
Both men boarded with a widow at j
the Carolina mills and as a result of (
a row the other day, when Dockery
attempted to beat the widow's boy,
the men have been at outs. To-night ,
they got together in the snow and ]
Dockery was found dead in a ditch <
and Poole was found at his boarding <
tiouse, where he was carried by a J
companion. ^
Negro Slayer Slain. j
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Magee, Miss., Jan. 21.?Sheriff ]
Hubbard of Simpson county was fa- 1
tally shot and Deputy Sheriffs Moore j
and McCarthy seriously wounded in ^
a desperate encounter near Magee (
:o-day with a negro fugitive who was ?
finally killed by a member of the
sheriff's posse. The negro, charged |
svith hog stealing, had been de- 8
tying arrest. As the officers 1
forced their way into his cabin
be opened fire upon them with
i rifle. Sheriff Hubbard fell, shot in a
the abdomen. Deputy Moore was c
ffiot through the arm and McCarthy i
n the groin. Two loads of buckshot J
from the gun of another deputy en- f
:ered the body of the negro as he
an from the house. His rifle was r
:ben wrested from him by another ?
member of the posse, who crushed
;he negro's skull with the butt of the
weapon.
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Accused of Abducting Girl. ^
Spartanburg, January 20.?Wesley
Fowler, white, who is charged
with abducting a girl child under the ^
age of 16, may also have to answer
the charge of contempt of court. In
a case argued before Judge Shipp for
the possession of Lauretta Rhinehart
Judge Shipp issued an order awarding
the child to E. L. Johnson. Several
days ago the child was taken
from Johnson and Fowler was arrested
and gave bond. Papers have been
3erved on Fowler charging him with
eontempt of court.
TAX NOTICE. '
The treasurer's office will be open for
the collection of State, county,
?1 1 .11 nthn. iovoa tflA
SUiiUUl auu ail Utiles, W*AVO JLivm Vi*v
15 th day of October, 1909, until the
L5th day of March, 1910, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
L 910, until the 31st day of January,
1910, a penalty of 1 per cent, will
3e added to all unpaid taxes. From
:he 1st day of February, 1910, until
ihe 28th ly of February, 1910, a
penalty ? i per cent, will be added
:o all unpaid taxes. From the Ifct
lay of March, 1910, until the 15th
lay of March, 1910, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be added to all unpaid
:axes.
THE LEVY.
For State purposes 5% mills
For county purposes, 3% mills
Constitutional school tax,..3 mills
Total 11% mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14, 7 mills
Binnakers^No. 12, 3 mills lUi
Clear Ponu, No. 19, 2 mills
Colston, No. 18, 2 mills
Cuffie Creek, No. 17, 2 mills
Denmark, No. 21, 6 mills
Shrhardt, No. 22, *.. 4 mills
jovan, No. 11, .. 4 mills
Hampton, No. 3, 2 mills /
Heyward, No. 24 2 mills '
Hopewell, No. 1, 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 1 mill '
Cees, No. 23, 4 mills
Midway, No. 2, 2 mills
)ak Grove, No. 20, 2 mills
)lar, No. 8, 4 mills
5t. Johns, No. 10, 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
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wenty-one and sixty years, except
2onfederat soldiers and sailors, who
ire exempt at fifty years of age, are
iable to a poll tax of one dollar. '
Capitation dog tax, 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of .
ige on or before the 1st day of Janiry,
1909, are liable to a poll tax of
>ne dollar, and all who have not ; * ; y
nade returns to the Auditor are re- *
luested to do so on or before 1st of
anuary, 1910, and thereby save the
>enalty and costs.
I will receive the commutation
oad tax of two ($2.00) dollars fronr
he 15th day of October, 1909, until
he 1st day of March, 1910.
JOHN P. FOLK.
Treasurer Bamberg County.
Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 30, 1909.