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ran I |F YOU WEAR P B I different styles e B they have been pick IC R. IH * ~ ? nmCUH AOCEBKD OF MURDER ^ ___ MNWl Doctor doifed with Administering Strychnine. : & Klxtartlk, Mow. Feb. 33.?A w?rV list ektrgiai Dr. Juki R. Hull, of ^Rurol City, with murdering Prof. & T. tatfhaa by strychnine poisonpg wns lined to-night by Justice of < fbe Pepce J. P. Cnrrothers at the re; jpast of prosecuting Attorney Relger. r?. Hull Is In Montgomery City. - 5 Dr. H?U was adrised of the iro. ones of a warrant He aflrmed his tonoihce,.fraying that he had noth? ?bg to'fear. VDr.HuU, who la masrled and has two married children, was the family gfcyeldan of the Proctor fhmfly, of -Vhieh Mrs. Vaughn is a member. He r Ihi a nail hospital at Monroe City, i Rstgi explained his action In legging the warrant without an indictby saying that he had heard that Dr. Hull had sold out his hospital and Intended to leare Monroe ttty. Relger announced that fjpe indictment of another person may NEKS omcs"roov TAFT. Sir HmSaj Btist and H. K. De; ftlftttMfff, mM Wa?h*. is behalf of d P. 8aa''****. ^ttelr arrival here they Jlotth fliffrthfo' dilnf tlon in ConfMl and the matter will be taken ;-;m wttfc'thft President immediately. tdby Pbrry. Mm.. F?b. it?L?Roy ufdltT, of OreenTllle, Mka, lawyer /mm td HeeMd the lit* Senator A. fcA MajLamdn, and |o eery* durlnf the KV9 |W1 Of Hi vMZptTM UiUt DJ ^^M^oa .tho ftfty*tghth ballot and Hi'ldiiMbaboit flMMuk ihMMif ir^iT,T?rrx!r?:r^w- . TT tUwiwnoB, cvnUBiuaf a qcm?9fk which has prevailed during tor* PMaJor J. 6. Hemphill lefTCharlee%md wherehe goee to. imunn the ppeltlnn of editor-in-chief of the fttehmood Tfanee-Dtepatch, after betag connected with the Newt and Oparter for thirty yean. number /'lips at. Xn. Hemphill accompanied ^Ijbt to JRfahmead He was to have { left JChariMlea a week rgo bet the 1 todkpoaHloo at Mrs. Hemphill de? > "Major Hemphill will, however, retin to Charleston h a few weeks', doming beek to Charleston to unite t wtth his fellow Irishmen la the celebration ot 8t Patrick's day. Rich-mood will have no celebration, comparable to that which Charleston will km and Major Hemphill can't stay *wa? At the big banquet of the HiPernlsn Society which celebrates 8t Patrick's day In the evening. Major llsmphlll will speak to the toast of ^ Sooth Carolina." ; N?r York St.?0?o. SUhl. ; |t years old; sod Sammy Williams, aged I. accused of writing Mrs. H. O. HsTemeyer, widow of the president of the American Sugar Reflntog oompanj. a letter demanding $100 on pain of death, were arraigned in court to-day. They ini elilriil that they were merely messengers for a man they did not know, despite the declaration of the presiding magistrate that a hand writing specimen of George Stahl tallied to a dot with the writing in the black hand lettes. They were held for farther examination. OOTWEA UMPS or Slippers, why i if the American Lady Si] ed oyer. Just 'phone, v BRABH i WANTED EXCITEMENT. > That Was Reaioa College Graduate Turaed Burglar. Pittsburg. Pa.. Feb. 24.?"The life of a burglar appealed to me. There's action in it." said Stephen Austin, a college graduate, who upon being arrested to-night, confessed to holding up two drug store proprietors and several pedestrians in the Oakland and East End sections. His crimes had terrorised this section for the past ten days. ^ Marty to-night Austin was trying to adjust a revolver In his hip pocket when it exploded. The accident led to his arrest as a suspicious person and being Questioned, he confessed to a long string of robberies, reciting in detail 1m>w each one was committed. ?? 11 ? * wot jus* uwuic iuobv iraui jobs,'* he Mid, "to keep living. I wee waiting for a bis haul I bad in sight When I oame to pall It off, the plain clothes men were so thick about the place that I had to watt" Austin refuses to name his university, bat says his home is in Indiana, near Terrs Hants. "Stephen Austin is my correct name, but that is not all of it," said the prisoner when urged to disclose his Identity. "I know I'm in a bad fix and I'm ready to take the conns oneness. I'm a crook and 111 do time if necessary, bnt I won't disgrace my ltd > mm 99 DOCMi* AXt steps to learn where his mother Item proved iatttr and nc-marks of identification, or papers in his possession would give a cine. Austin had numerous letters he said were from young women he was to marry. The name had been torn off. The Mock of money in this country Is to-day nWMtilmately $8,190.000,000. Ten years ago It was $1,940300.000. This Is a gain of f7SA.0A0.Q00- or tnarorlmiMT SO per cent. Authoritative statistics show that thf 1909 wheal crop was 8.3 bushels per capita, against 8.63 per capita tta tea years ago; the corn crop dropped from 30*9 to 80.9 bushels per ttgith; ^the oats crop from 13.4 to 111 bushels per capita; the hay from 1; tos to V of a ton per oapita; and the numter of food animals, swine, cattle and sheep, fell from. 8.5 to X9" per; capita;:;, t '. In the matter of meats the government returns issued on the 31th of January show, under the head of swine (hogs) that the total supplies in 1909, of 54,000,000 fell to 47,000,900 in 1910, a decrease of nearly 16 per cent. Other cattle. In 1909, 49.000,000, fen to 47,000,000 in 1910. The number of cattle killed under the inspection law in the United States In 1907 was 7,621,717. in isus u Ma mien to 7,325,337; daring the tame period there wot an in- , create in the number of calves killed from 1,763,674 to 2,046.713. The reeeiptt of hogt at the markets fell 13.8 jper cent..from 1908 to 1909. When the panic of 1907 came on many of the farmers in the West told their hogt because food wot too high to feed them and these brooding herds hare not been replaced. In the matter of the production of fruits, the leader and standard (because it keeps longer) apples, in the United 8tater hare fallen from 68.000,000 barrels in 1866 to 31.000,000 barrels in 1909! Here it money, per dollar, decreasing in its purchasing power because of a 30 per cent, increase in volume. Hero is an increasing deficit in the field food crops per capita. Here is a marked decrease in hogs and cattle supply. Here is a decrease in the leader among all the fruits (apples) of approximately 70 per cent On the top of all this is an average tariff of 60 per cent on all foreign food stnffa. As result of all these things?the increased supply of money, the decreased supply of all food stuffs, and the tariff?the prices of beef, pork and its by products, mutton, chickens, eggs, butter and milk, and all other food products?taken on an average?have never been as high as now, barring of course the war " .!? >* " . "... > : 1 ?: FforI lot wear the best, most st spers and PUMPS?SUEI rrite or call, that's all. LAM'S ? nrg'fTH'tfffwHUfiH prices of the 0*8. Is not this the Southern farmer's golden opportuni! ty? The Telegraph has shown in previous articles that in 1860. when the population in Georgia was 1.057,286. there were in this.State 2.036.116 hogs. In 1907. with a population of 2.700.000. there were only 1,599.000 hogs. With the population more than doubled, the number of hogs has been reduced nearly one-half. The Telegraph has shown that, in 1860, there were 299,688 milch cows. In 1907. 308,000?an increase only of 8,312. / That in 1860, there were oxen and other cattle, 706.194. In 1907, 680.000?decrease of 26.194! That in 1860. there were 512,618 sheep. In 1907. 269,000?a decrease of 243.618! j These flan res ere snrnrldne and I yet they are based on actual statistical returns. The Telegraph has shown that in 1890. when Georgia's population was 1,837,853, Georgia farmers owned 1,<27,008 swine. In 1907, when the population had increased to 2.700.000. the swine owned by Georgia farmers decreased to 1.599.000?a Ion of 28,008. That in 1890, the sheep owned by Georgia farmers numbered 411,876. In 1907 they had decreased to 269,000?a Ion of approximately one-half! That in 1890, Georgia owned 354,618 milch cows. In 1907 the number fell to 308,000?a Ion of 46,618. All of these figures are amaslng? but they are collected from the most reliable sources. They call to the farmer with irresistible eloquence and feroe. They cry aloud to them to plant len cotton and more grain; to raise more cattle and hop?not as a patriotic thing, but as a profit-making business. It is the farmer's opportunity. His day has come if he Is wise enough to read the signs of the times and take advantage of it Food is the first and the last of the natural man. All men must eat , Everything doe is secondary. We can go naked and live in the woods as the heathens do. but we must eat It takn a pound of cotton to buy a pound of meat A pound of meat can be raised more cheaply than a pound of cotton. A farmer can eat his meat but he cannot eat his cotton. The money supply has grown fast- , er that the food supply. The farm production for the last four years have been low in comparison with the Increase in other forms of value. Manufacturing enterprises, manufactured materials, stock and bond corporations have more than tripled in value in ten years. The farmers have not kept pace.?Macon Telegraph. ] Paw pager Train Wrecked. Aiken, Feb. 26.?As passenger train No. 26 was passing the freight depot at Aiken at 7:20 to-night, on the outward trip. It was derailed and every coach was thrown from the track. One of the coaches was over turned and would probably, but (or some freight cars, have turned turtle. There were about 20 passengers on the train but not one was injured. It is stated that the wreck was probably caused from a broken rail. About SO yards of track were torn up. The wrecking crew has been at work all day. All trains have been seriously delayed, but later In the j day traffic was transferred across the wrecked area. $160,000 Fire at Wilmington. i Wilmington, N. C., February 27.? Fire of unknown origin to-night de- 1 stroyed one of two ne-v large storage 1 ware houses of the Seaboard Air i Line, with adjoining sheds, contain- 1 ing large amounts of fertilizer con- 1 Stituents. The loss, which is ap- ' proximately $160,000, fully covered 1 by insurance, includes the Armour 1 Fertilizer Works mixing plant, estimated at $75,000; Seaboard Air Line ware house and adjoining sheds, $60,000; six empty box cars. $6,500; i German Kali Works, of Baltimore, < $7,500; D. B. Martin & Co., Rich- : mond, $1,500; John M. Cazaux, Wil- I mington Hoisting Machinery, $3,000; ' other fertilizer account consignees. $2,500; D. L. Gore Co., $2,500. The Norwegian steamer Herman I Wedel Jarisberg. lying at the dock, i was saved by a crew from the revenue cutter Seminole and harbor tugs with only slight damage. 1 % t iiiBSfcL. L ... r-.'riTiViii^i^i^Vii/a - 1. . . LADiESl ylish, and at the same tin )E and OTHERS?for $3 We will send you the g iONS, B IS TILLMAX TO RK8IGX? This la Rumor Hut Is Current in 1 Washington Now. The Washington correspondent of j the Savannah News sends that paper the following nnder date of Feb. 22: "The almost certain resignation of Senator Benjamin R. Tillman from the senate of the United States, as the result of his present illness, has caused a considerable amount of interesting political gossip to be heard here concerning his successor. That there are many persons in South Carclina, who would have no objection to wearing the senatorial toga, if Tillnan resigns, has been apparent for ome time, but naturally has become more pronounced since the serious illness of the senator. "Had Tillman resigned before the legislature adjourned Saturday that body would hare been called upon to name his successor and the new man would hare held on until next December, when congress will reconrene. Now, however, the legislature baring ended its work and gone home it would be for the governor to name the new man should a vacancy occur. 1 "Without discussing the matter 1 with "any* candidate, but Just from c what may be picked up here and 1 there among the 8outh Carolina poll- 1 ticians, who hare been in Washing- 1 ton this lest day or two, it is believed * that the men who would probably 1 be considered by Governor Ansel are t George Johnstone, of Newberry, a 1 member of congress several years ago from the third district; R. Goodwyn Rhett, present mayor of Charleston; Lewis W. Parker, of Greenville, one of the best known cotton c mill presidents in the country, and Josepp A. McCullough, a lawyer of Greenville. In addition to these there Is J. Prater Lyon, now serving his second term as attorney general of South Carolina and former Governor D. C. Heyward. All are good strong men and would no doubt fill the* senatorial chair with credit. "TUi nominee, whoever he might be would go at once into a primary and stpmp the State during the coming suhtmer. * In the list of free-forall candidates would probably be not only some of these already mentioned bujt Representative Lever, the seventh district congressman, it Is believed would also make the race. If this primary should be like those . - V. - - - tnat nave been neia for many years r past there might be at least half a f dosen men to seek the nomination. "While none of the persons named p probably would care to discuss this t matter .now, because Senator Tillman s has not yet resigned, and. In fact, i amy ndt do so, there Is reason to be- C Here thfit few of them would decline i the honor of representing their 8tate t! In the upper house of congress. fa "Should Mr. Lever enter the race c under the conditions named there would ensue a scramble for his seat e In the house with the field open for fa ill comers. The seventh district has d many good men to choose from and any one of half a dosen would make a good, capable representative. It is laid that Commissioner E. J. Watson, of the 8tate department of agricul- u tore, is perhaps better known for his c public work than any other man in s the district and there is a feeling tl that he might make the race a lively m one for his competitors should he e run. "The whole situation is most In- m teresting and while, as stated. Sena- jr tor Tillman has not yet resigned and s may serve out the remainder of his cl term, should he decide to quit and b spend the balance of his life on the fa farm 3outh Carolina would have tome lively politics in the near future." Old Time Negro Killed. 1 Edgefield, Feb. 26.?Andrew Pick- T ens, a highly respected negro of the a community, was found dead on the tl Edgewood plantation this morning, T baring been killed by a falling tree, v which he was cutting. f< Andrew formerly belonged to Gov. o Pickens and acted as one of his pall- m bearers, having performed the same a tad duty to the Governor's daughter, ii Mrs. Douschka Dugas. His father a went to Russia with Mr. Pickens as o body servant. d ' m chi i i ?? le most comfortable? \ .25 and $3.50. Get you oods. amberg, PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Rev. G. P. Watson, of Gaffney. a visiting relatives in the city. ?Mr. R. M. Bruce, of The Herald, ipent Sunday in Branchville with { -elatlves. ?Miss Ethel Kearse. of the Kearse lection, is visiting her sister, Mrs. tV. P. Jones, in the city this week. ?Mr. W. F. Smoak, of Walterx>ro. spent Saturday and Sunday in :he city with his brother, Mr. M. fenoak. ?Miss Hattie Lee Guess, of Dennark, who is very popular and much id mired in Edgefield, is the guest of diss Maxcie Sheppard.?Edgefield Chronicle. ?Mrs. 0. A. Simmons, who has >een visiting relatives in Alabama ind Florida, returned home last Sunlay afternoon. Mrs. P. N. Spann, of )othan, Ala., returned with her, and rill spend some time on a visit to elatives in this city. ?Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Black, of iamberg, have been guests of Col. ind Mrs. F. N. K. Bailey for several days. Dr. Black is State sensor from Bamberg county and came ry Edgefield after the legislature tdjourned Saturday. He has been i member of the senate for several ears and is one of the most influenlal members of that body.?EdgeLeld Advertiser. Flood Threatens Damage. Cleveland, O., Feb. 27.?Hundreds if people have been driven from heir homes at Fremont and other Mints through Northern Ohio by he floods which after thirty hours' teady rain reached their climax toilght. The damage to property will un into many thousands of dollars nd if the situation is not relieved by i cold snap or cessation of the rain t is freely predicted that extreme offering and destitution will follow n the next few days. ' At YonngBtown two of the biggest teel plants in the city are threatened y the rising waters of the Mahoning iver, along the entire valley of which be water has spread over the lowinds, driving the farmers from their tomes. The Sandnsky river Is five set above the danger line at Bucyns and an immense lee gorge has ormed in the heart of the city. The most serions conditions are retorted from Freemont where the own is half nnder water and the tores boarded np by the merchants. * it Akron both the Little and Big tayhaga rivers have left their beds, iany booses are flooded and the enIre fire and police forces of the city 1 ave been ordered oat for emergenies. Practically the whole of Crawford oi.nty is submerged. Up to a late cor to-night there was no immediate 1 anger apprehended in Cleveland. 1 White Man Kills Negro. _______ 1 Chester, Feb. 26.?Otis Hilton, 1 rhite, shot and killed John Beatty, olored, here this afternoon. The 1 layer, who to a hackman, claims 1 bat Beatty drore his horse away from 1 water trough and when remonstratd with palled oat a knife. 1 Beatty has been regarded as a quiet art of negro, while Milton, who is a * oung man of 20 or thereabouts, has 1 erred sereral sentences on the ( haingang, and to considered of tnr- 1 ulent disposition. The coroner will 1 old an inquest to-morrow. 1 m < Negro Burned to Death. ' i Sellers. Feb. 13.?Last night about 1 1 o'clock a shanty house of the < llghman Lumber Company was dis- 1 t>rered on fire, and in a few moments' 1 be whole structure was in ashes. { lie crisped and burnt body of Harey Gregg, a colored employee, was rand in the debris. The house was ccupied by Gregg and Will Robert- ] in. It is supposed that Gregg, being 1 ell soaked with mean liquor, went i ito the house, made up a large lire i nd went to bed. The house caught \ n the inside, while Gregg wae too 1 rank to get out in time. 1 Ve have a half dozen B ? tl7A fln/l ettrla H www *M?M UVIVIC ^ SERIOUS CHARGE. . ^ Kate Parhaa Held to Aanrar foe > Abduction. Spartanburg. Feb. 28.?Kate Parham. a young widow, was bound over to court to-day by Magistrate A. H. Kirby on the charge of ab ducting Miss Ethel Johnson, the lf? year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson, who on February 11 mfsterlously disappeared from har home at 430 Magnolia street and was Jr9 not heard of until a week later, when she wrote home from St. Louin, j Mo. The bond was fixed at 9300^ which was made good by Lb P. Bpton. Albert E. Hill represented the 'J. prosecution and C. P. Sims the de- m fendant. -J The hearing of the ease to-day hi JS magistrate's court attracted a large crowd. The small court room of Magistrate Kirby could not secern I modate half the people that wouM have liked to have heard the test!- J Miss Johnson testified that Kate ^ja Parham had approached her on ear- li eral occasions and talked with her * ^ about going from place to pines and " J baring lots of friends and lots of 1 money. She said she told her how 3 easy it was to lire an easy life, with -;1 lawyers and doctors and professions! Jjj men as good friends who would new- | er see her want for anything. 8he said the Parham woman tried J to get her to go first to GreenriBe. ^ but that when she refused to an * m /! ther?, fearing her father would get ? her before she could get off, the? "T| agreed to go to Asherille. 1 She said she left for AsberiUe om Iw M the morning of the 15th, and the J Parham woman was to hare joined i her the nest morning. Hoping to % escape the Parham woman, she left 3j Asherille at once for Knoxrilie. At - Sjj Knozrille she secured an emigrants ticket to South Dakota and rode as J far as St Louis on this. At St J Louis she got work with a good M family and there remained until her ' o -J father came for her. .f' j H . j In her testimony, Itlss Johnson S I; aid that Kate Parham often tried to || get her to meet some of her man | friends and to spend the afternoon at j Rock Cliff. She admitted that after , ' many times being persuaded in this way she really did begin to consider , such a life as the Parham women I held out before her. - lightning Starts fire. " During the electrical storm early yesterday morning the BlaekYlUe Knitting Mills was struck and set on "J* lire. The Are occurred about Ms o'clock, at a time when most people 1 were enjoying their morning slsstm The building and contents were n total lose, as well ss a new building only recently occupied and belonging ,/ ? v to mr. W. A. Gyles, rained at about | $<00 or $800. The Knitting Mill, a three story building and machinery was rained 1 at $18,500. Three hundred dosen ^??9 socks and a quantity of yarn, rained at $1,500, making a total of about o $18,000, with only about $$,5*)0 in* su ranee. The mill had lately been running on full time. Mr. Hair, the manaser. htvinf rotten in a fall force of good operative! and til* . mill waa turning out lota of work ftnd vai making money for ita owner. rhe mill will very likely be rebuilt || ind perhaps on a much larger scale. In fact Mr. Greene may add an extensive ice plant in connection wttk the Knitting Mill. This, the only enterprise furnishing employment to to a great number of people, entirely * iependent on their daily labor, and ipending their money with our merchants. will be missed perhaps more than any other one thing in Blackrille. The mill worked some twenty- 73 Ave or thirty people at an average >( about $1,000 per month in wage*, which went into the tills of the mer-' chants of Blackville.?Blackrille [Courier. High Price PKld for Hogs. | Chicago, Feb. 28.?The highest price paid for lire hogs since 1870 ; brought an even $10 a hundred weight at the stock yards to-day. - - _? , M ? ? ? " )izvy?z aeu 01 oop, tTert|Uk| 394 [toundi each, were sold at this price 5j B. L. 8trohm. a farmer, of Cuahup. Indiana. | '. -3