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VOL. II. . NO. 42. . 1 CAMDEN, S.C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1005. S1.60 Per Year* IS FOR PEACE M. Witte Getting the Russians Paaficated MUCH WORK STILL AHEAD Great Efforts Being Made to Pacify I the Common People and Quiet Them Down. ? ? St. Petersburg, By Cable. ? Cotuit Wittc is continuing negotations with the Zemstvo Constitutionalist party with brighter prospects of at least partial success, lie makes no con cealment of the fact that he regards their support ns being almost vital to the achievement of the tnsk which he is undertaking. The Count is now holding a series of conferences with | Prince Kugeno Tronbetskoy, brother of the late Prince Sergius Troubciskoy and the idol of the party whom the Count wishes to lake the portfolo of education, and wliith Prince I>olgo roukofT. Prof. MiliukoiT and M. btako vich who was summoned from Mos cow and M. Struve, editor of the Os vobojdenie, the organ of "emancipa tion," published in Paris, who arrived here recently after four years exile in the cause of freedom. The eonservtive wing of the party is becoming less iutraiisigcant in its attitude toward Count Witte, although demanding the fulfilment of certain conditions before giving him open sup)?ort. The members insist primar ily on the removal of the "wolves" of the old regime as they term the governois and policy officials of many provinces and cities who are not in I sympathy with the new order of tilings and who arc charged with de libratcly inciting the worst elements of the jKipnlation with the* full conni vance of the police and troops under their control to make attacts u|>on the "intellectuals" and Jews which have filled the country with tales of horror and bloodshed lor the last ten days. This condition, Count Witte is anxious l?eri>onally to meet as lie fully realizes that the obnoxious otlieials are ob stacles in his own path. With the Count's promise to support a demand for a constituent assembly when the national assembly meets in January some are content and a distinct dis position ia manifested on the part of certain leaders to hold up Count Witte 's hands and work with him in the introduction of the new regime. Figures On Cotton Ginned. Washington, Special. ? The census bureau issued a bulletin showing thut up to Nov. 1, i?,483,(>4(> bales of cotton had been ginned in this country. Hound hales are counted as Kalf bales. The (inures are the result of telegra phic reports made by agents of the census bureau from all tho cotton growing States. Owing to tho fact that no report was made on Nov. 1. 1!>04, comparitive statistics are not available. The last, previous report for the present year, showing rosults to October 18, last, gave 4,940,728 hales. Tho figures, according to to day's bulletin, for the various States are as follows: Alabama 815,457; Arkansas 211,113; Florida 48,218; tleorgia 1,302,390; Indian Territory 135,782; Kentucky 30.3; Louisana 231, 240; Mississippi 510,077 ; Missouri 14, 181; No^th Carolina 438,821; Okla homa 144,830; South Carolina 822, 1 40 ; Tennessee 100,247; Texas 1,692, 248 and Virginia 7,479. $r?0,000 Virginia Firo, Suffolk, Special. ? Wodnesdny mor ning at 2 o'clock a disasferous firo broke out in tho little town of Wha leyvillc, Nan^emond county, about ten miles from here, nearly destroying the place. Thirty buildings went up in fmoke and the loss will bo about $50, 000, with not more than $20,000 in surance. The fire started in the livery Atables of Jno. Matthews, and in a few minutes had gained such headway that it was impossible to control the flames until everything in reach had been destroyed. There is no fire protection in the place, and wafer had to bo taken from two streams and wells nearby. Several horses and thousands of dollars' worth of stock were con sumed. Came Togothcr on a Curve. Wilkcsbarre, Pa., Social. ? Five jH'jsons were killed, 10 seriously in jured and a score slightly hurt in a head-on collision between a passenger train and a coal train on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, near Hunt lock's creek, a short distance foru this city. All of the killed were trainmen. The injuries to the passen gers were caused by tbe terriQo force of' the trains coming together, the en gine on the passenger train being forced almost through the baggage car. The passenger train dashed in to the freight on a sharp curve. Ey Wire and Cablo. Count Witte is slowly progressing in his work to establish constitutional government and order in Hussia. William T. Stead, who has just arri ved in Berlino from Hussia, gives his improssions of what he describes as "h ? 11 pretty well let loose." Jewish residents of New York have started a movement for the relief of those who suffered by the massacres . is figseia. FIERCE ELECTION CONTEST William Randolph Hearst Contests the New York Election, Charging Fraud By Wholesale. New York, Special. ? Immediately upon the announcement of the result of the election Tuesday, Mr. Hearst gave notice of contest, and evidences of fraud have accumulated rapidly ever since. Atoorney General Mayer stated Thursday night that he had reeeived information of the recovery from the North river of certain ballot boxes used in the election . He said the matter was under investigation. The contest over the mayoralty election, inaugurated by William Ran dolph Hearst, the Municipal Owener ship candidate, developed interestiug and spectular features Thursday. For twelve hours the boxes contain ing nearly 000,000 ballots cast in last Tuesday's election choked the streets in the vicinity of the hcad<juurters of the board of electors in Sixth avenue between Forty-first and Forty-second streets. The ballot boxes Imd been gathered during the night by the police and conveyed in patrol wagons to the election board's headquarters. There the ollicials refused to receive the ballot boxes and the police, acting under a court order signed by Justice Gaynor, compelling the i>oliee authori ties to turn the ballots over to the election board, had nothing to do but remain outside and await the pleas ure of the election ollicials. COMPELLED TO RKCEIVE BOXES A pi aiscd of the situation the at torneys of Mr. Hearst appeared be fore Justice Dickey of the State Su preme Court, and secured from him an order coiu|Klliug Joint If. Voorhis, president of the board of electors, to accept the boxes. The order was ser ved promptly and the ballots then wore receipted for by the election board. Under strong guards the pat rol wagons containing the boxes were driven to various warehouses in this city and Brooklyn, where the ballots were stored subject to the orders of tlio election board. State Attorney General Julius May er had a long and important eonfer ence< with District Attorney Jerome, after which it was announced that the Attorney General 's olliec would re main open until midnight. Superin tendent of Elections Morgan appeared before Messrs. Mayer and Jerome with six of his deputies, and placed evi dence before the prosecuting officials. Another feature of the contest was the announcement by the Citizens' Union that it would join the forces investigating the charges ot fraud and wrong doing at Tuesday's election, its prime object being to secure a new election law in the State ot' New York. PRINTED BOGUS BALLOTS. Mr. Hearst's order was obtained from Justice Gaynor after the cir culation of a story that a printing firm had been turning out large nntn beds of fac simples of the official bal lot and that these were to be marked for McClellan and placed in tin) bal lot boxes in place of the Hearst bal lots to be removed. The moment this rumor reached Hearst headquarters it was decided that the ballot ought not to remain longer in the station houses, and the application of Justice Gaynor was made n* quickly as the papers could bo drawn tip. it was reported tha' many of the ballot boxes in Brooklyn were not properly sealed and that their covers wero merely pasted down making it oossible for any ' ^rson to open the box and close it agitn without detec tion. The law requires that the boxes bo closed with wax. Among the allies aiding Hearst is William M. Ivins, the Republican can didate for mayor in Tuesday's elec tion. Mr. Ivins volunteered his services to Mr. Hearst and the offer was ac cepted. Another attorney acting for Hearst i& Judge John F. Dillon, who was at one time Judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa. A Great Fire in Btrimgham. Birmingham, Special. ? Eire totally destroyed the live-story building on Twentieth street of the Moore Ac Han dley Hardware Company. The build ing was erected' at a cost of $7.*i.0(K> and the stock \*as valued at $17.:>,000. The two-storv ?tructnro on Avenue A adjoining that of Moore & Handley and recently occupied by the Avon dale Laundry, was also burned, the loss being $10,000. Tue plant of the Philip Carey Manufacturing Company on Avenue A vns totally destroyed with the content*, the loss being esti mated at $12,000. Father and Two Sons Must Face The Gallows. Valdosta, On., Special. ? The sup reme couit of Georgia has affirmed the decisions of the lower court in the case of the Jiawlins men convicted of the murder of the two Carter children near here, J. G. Rawlingw, tho father, and two of his sons, Milton and Jesge, must go to the gallows, while Another son, Leonard, must serve a lifo een Utttt in the penitentiary. ^ THE CHARGES i That the Attorney-General Will Prefer . AGAINST THE CAR LINES Attorney General Moody Makes Statement Regarding Snit to be Filed Aaginst Private Car Line Maintained by Pabst Brewing Co. and Railroads Refunding 12 Per Cent, of Freight Charges for Trans portation. W asliington, Spccial. ? Attorney General Moody made a statement with regard to the iK'tition which will be filed by his direction in the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Wisconsin, brought under the Elkins law to test the le gality of certain commissioners paid by railroads (after the receipt of the published rates) to a private car transit company, controlled by stock holders of the corporation shipping freight in those cars over the rail road's lines. The 'statement folows: "The jietition is against the Mil waukee Refrigerator Transit Com pany; Pere Marquette Railr^d Com pany; Missouri, Kansas & Texas Kail road Company; Erie Railroad Com pany; Chicago, Rock Island & Paci fic Railroad Company; St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company ; the Wisconsin Central Railroad Com pany; the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company and Pabst Hrcwing Com pany. "This case arit.es out of the follow ing state of facts, which have been investigated by thu inter-state Com merce commission and also by private interests adversely affeeteij^ brought to the attention of the Attorney <5en eral ami by him carefully considered. "Conferences have been held be tween the Attorney General and Dis trict Attorney Ruttorficld, of the east ern distriet of Wisconsin, in Chicago and Washington ; and on Friday last, at a conference between the Attorney General, the assistant to thfo Attorney General, Mr. Purdy, Special Assistant District Attorney Pegin, the district attorney, and Spocial Counsel Charles Quarlcs, of the Milwaukee bar, the form of the petition was determined ppon. "It appears that the Pabst lircw ing Company are large shippers of been over the various railroads run ning from Milwaukee. Some of the principal stockholders of that corpo ration organized and own the Milwau kee Refrigerator Transit Company, a corporation operating private cars. To the latter corporation the control of the shipments of the Pabst Brew ing Company was given by an agree ment entered into between the two cor]Kirations named. The various rail roads mentioned as defendants, while receiving as freight money the open and published rates for the transpor tation of commodities, have paid to the transit company, in whose pri vate ears tho been was transported, a commission of about twelve per cent, upon the amount of the freight money collected, with the effect, of course, transportation by the railroad com panies is so much less than the pub lished and open rate. Randolph-Macon Professor Dead. Richmond, Special. ? Dr. A. C. Wight man professor of biology at Randolph-Macon College, died in Asldaml of paralysis, resulting from acute indigestion. $3,000 More Raised in Chicago. Chicago, Special ? Every synagogue in Chicago was crowded by mourners and over $3,000 had been added to ; the fund of $13,000. Senitor Burton Indicted. St. Louis, Special. ? The Federal grand jury convened und returned an indictment against United States Sen itor Hnrton, of Kansas. It is stated that certain features in the former in dictment against Seuiior llur( on, which was puashed, wcru remedied in this new indictment. Money in Demand in New York. New York, Special.? Money on call went to 13 per cent. tLe highest rate for several years. Last Saturday's bank statement showed the surpltm to be almost exhausted and since then large sum* have hern scut from New York to the interior, leaving practi cally nothing to 1*: lent in this mar ket. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw was in New York and it A'as reported thjit he intended to deposit several million dollars of government funds I with the banks to relieve the situu tion but this report could not be con firmed. $80,000 Warehouse Firo. Athens, Ga., Spccial. ? Athens was visited by a disastrious firo Sunday morning which wiped out a largo cot ton warehouse belonging to Deadwiler Company and more than' fifteen hun dred bales of cotton stored there, to gether with $20,000 worth of flax. be longing to tho Aberdeen Linen Mills, of this city. The cause of the lire Is unknown. ENGLISH POOR DESPERATE . Enormous Crowds March to Munici pal Offices, Where Premier Balfour Makes a "Speech of Despair" to Deputation of 30 ? Starting of In dustries at National Expense De precated by Premier. London, By Cable. ? The desperate coiulitiou of the poor of Londou was brought to the notice of Premier Bal four by a remarkable deputation of the wives and other women relatives of the uuempluyed who did not hesi tate to tell the Premier that unless something is speedily dono to lessen their sufferings there would be blood shed. "Don't forget that hungry men are desperate men," said 011c of the speakers, who all had the same tale to tell of husbands out of work and starving wives, and vhildren. Enor mous crowds of women from all parts of London marched through the streets headed by a deputation whiuh Mr. Balfour received at the otliee of the local government board. Only thirty of the women were admitted to the presentee of Mr. Balfour. The Premier was very sympathetic. He acknowledged that the evil was very real, but he had little to suggest in the way of alleviation except 1.11 ex pression of hoj?o that public charity would come to the aid of the unem ployed. He deprecated the socialistic suggestion that industries should be started at the national expense for the benefit of the unemployed as calculated to destroy the springs of eul? rprise and energy ??t the nation. At the close of Mr. Balfour's "speech of despair" a^ I lie del 'gates d<*.ser?bed it, Mrs. Crook-", wife of Williams Crooks, a Labor party mem ber of tluf House of t'ommons, and several other women excitedly invit ed Mr. Balfour to come and live among them for a few mouths. The Premier remarked that he was quite aware that nothing he had said could be other than disapjHtinling. They h:ul his genuine sympathy and he felt most acutely the magnitude of the evil from which they were suffer ing. A mass meeting of the women was held later to hear the report of the delegation. Mr.* Ciooks, M. P., said that Mr. Balfour's reply to the dele gation was unworthy of the Premier of a great country. The mention of Mr. Balfour's name was greeted with n storm of hisses. Havana in Unsanitary Condition. Washington, Special. ? Senator ('id iom, llinois, chairman of the foreign relations committee, called on the President to lodge complaints against tho Cuban government for not keeping its promise to maintain the eily of Havana in a sanitary condition. He said Hint he had been informed by a number of business men that the Cu bans had built no scwerago system sineo the Americans evacuated and American residents fear an epidemic will bo the consequence. Cars Crash in Knoxville. lvnoxville, Special. ? A car loaded with paving material collided with an incoming suburban electric car Friday afternoon oil West Main Avenue, op posite t lie University of Tennessee I campus. Nine persons, all living here were injured. James Varner, motor j man, may die. Among the others hurt are: Mrs. H. 10. L. Mountcastle, vein in throat severed ; and W. 8. Shields, | president City National Bank, cut on head. The accident occurred at the bottom of two hills. It is claimed that tho brakes on tho work oar failed to work. No More Tolls On Little Kanawha Parkcrsburg, Special. ? Tlrj Little Kanawha liver, which has been con i trolled for 40 years by a corporation which exacted toll on all passengers and freight, was Friday turned over to the United S(ritrts under purchase recently made, and from now on will be a free river. New locks and a dam will be built to improve navigation. Killed By Gas Explosion. Detroit, Mich., Special.* ? A news special from Isbpeming, Mich., says three children are dead and thirteen people are injured, omc fatally, as the result of on explosion here Sunday which completely destroyed the Min ers' National Bank. The de^d: Ste ven Goodman, aged 12 years. Alice McGee, aged 10 \tirs. Edward Mc Oratli, aged 12 ,\cais. Jarues F. Mul len wat; futally injured. A gas leak- I age in the basement of the bank build ing \vr\* prmi.irily responsible for the explosion and loss of life. Tho News in Brief. The head presumably of Susan A. Gcarv, t lie suit-case victim, was found in Boston harbor in a hand-bag weighted with shot, exactly as des cribed by the men who admitted dis posing of the body. A supplementary report of the con dition of the Kqutable Life Assurance Society on June 30, 1005, was issued by Sueprintendent of Insurance. Hen dricks, of New York. THE SOUTHERN GROWERS Annual Election of Officers For the Southern Cotton Association. For the jnirjKtsp of ree led in- civil oub-div|8ion, Militia District ami Township officers for the ensuing year meetings arc called to be held at each voting precinct, or the central point, ot the above named sub-division throughout the cotton states on the first Saturday in December, 1905. The otlU-crs shall consist of Civil Sub-division, Militia District or Township, 1 'resident. Secretary and Treasurer. Also, from two to five representatives thall be elected, or chosen, at this meeting for the pur pose of attending the count v or par ish meeting which will be Vailed at the County Court House, or theii regular place of meeting, on the sec ond Saturday in Decern Ik* r, which will be the 1Mb day. for the puijxtse of electing county* or parish ofn?M?rs for (lie cusuin?r yenr. These county officers shall, also, consist of 1 'resident, Secretary and treasurer. At these couiitv or parish meetings, which will be held on the Nth day of December, representatives or delegates to the State or Territor ial Convention will be chosen, lor the purpose of meeting at their respect ive capitols on the first Wednesday >? ?January, lOOtJ. Each county or par ish will elect one or three delegates to attend the annual state meetings called to meet at the State Capitols on the first Wedncvdav in Jauuarv. 1?0?, which is the third* day. These State meetings will be heid for the pur|K)se of electing State ? 'Di cers for the ensuing year and inein beis ol tiie Executive Connnittee of the Southern Cotton Association .-is follows: For the Slate of Alabama three. Arkansas two, Florida one, tleorgia three, l^.uisiai.n three. Miss issippi three, .Missouri one. North Caro lina two, SouOi Carolina two, Toiinc.w see one, Texas five, Virginia one, Ken tucky one, Oklahoma one, Indian Territory one. TO COTTON OROWEK AND lU'SI NESS MEN OF T1IK SOCT1I. it li only partial and crude organi zation hurridelv perfected last Febru ary, the Southern Cotton Association has saved millions of dollars for the South in maintaiuini* the price of cot al good (ignres, brought to the bar of Justice certain officials in the United States Department of Agriculture at " ashinutou for manipulating the cot ton reports, started a tidal wave of research ami invest iirat ion into the uses and value of the South V great st;<plo to the spinners and consumers of the world ami built up an organi zation which is todav i eared and res peetc-d throughout the cotton trade of Europe am^ America. If all these things couM bo accom plished in a few months under well nigh insurmountable difficulties, much more can be done in the interest of the growers of the South thro?gh systematic organization in eve it cotton growing country and the loyalty ami support of the cotton produceis and business interests of the South. Each individual is an imjwrtant factor in the creation of an organization pow erful enough to maitain the suprem acy of the South in the future control of the great monopoly which she pos sesses. Knrh individual should feel inspired to contribute his support atr.l influence to this great movement. Each individual should feel it a per sonal and patriotic duty to stand shoulder to shoulder with his neig bors in nn effort to maitain the price of cotton at profitable figures and con tribute to the success of his individual interests and the prosperity of his country. The world's cotton trade is com bined against the producers of cotton. I lie values of their staple which the entire civilized world depends upon for. clothing i? made a daily football to be kicked about at will in the spec ulative exchanges of the country. No product from the soil is more useful to mankind, none receives harsher treatment at the hands of the buying and speculative world. The formers of the South hove solved the problem of its production through individual effort. They can likewise solve the problem of its marketing by full and systematic organization through the Southern Cotton Association. For the Association to be effective it must have the active support and co-Ape ra tion of the groweis in every cotton producing county. It has received the the entire prcs* of the country, the business interests and all other Far mer's Organizations in the South. The specific object of the Associa tion is to regulate the supply of raw cotton to incsf the legitimate demands *?i consumption and maintain the price of the staple ot profitable fi<, ues to t be grower: to encourage pro pel facilities for handling the staple both as to finance and storaue; to seek arid open up wider markets for the consumption of our cotton; to biin# about direct trade regulations with the spinners of the world: to fmnbli the growers correct informa tion ns to Acreage in cotton each year, "ondition of plant during growing sea the yield of cnch crop and its listrihutiou ; the cost of hondling, cost of manufacture, price of cotton ,roods and every phase and detail of the cotton industry. The association will advise cach planter the ninimum value of his staple each year and ad vise and assist hirn in getting its truo worth. The association will place all this information in the hand.? of its member* so ns to keep tliom posted as to ail intelligent understanding of the I value of tlie staple niul the best ways and means to secure practical and profit able results. The past work of the association has proven already its enormous value to the farmers of the South. It pierced, with a ray of sun shine and hope, the dark clouds that hung so threatening over the South last spring. Through its efforts the silver lining is broadening across the horizon each day and the future now looks bright and happy. No man should be a laggard in the great move ment. The consuming world is waiting and watching for an opportunity to pierce a vital spot though Hie protect ing armour which the Association has thrown around the farmers of the South. In the coining elections to be held in all the sub-divisions of the eotton growing counties and parishes in the South on the first Saturday in Decem ber. Jet every man respond to the call of duty and l?e present to enroll the name and elect men, good and true, to represent you at the county or parish meetings called on the second Satur day in December at your county site. Pay your annual dues and let the world understand and know that you, as each individual, will give your sup port and influence to a cause orgauiz edto protect your interest from the dominating hands of those who would willingly keep you as slaves and serfs to multiply their own wealth. Stand up for y??ur firesides and your homes. Protect the great moiioptly you jsts sess from the rapacious grasp of for eigners and grafters, .loin the South ern Cotton Association ami become n factor in the cause of progress, pros peril v and freedom which is now within our grasp. The immediate co operation and sup|?ort of every man is vital to the success of the associa tion. Do not delay, but act promptly with your neighbors. In r.ll civil sub divisions or counties that have not or ganized. bring them into line at the coming annual election the first Sat urday in December. Literature, Con stitutions and by- Laws will be prom ptly furnished on application lo the President or Secretary of your State Divisions or the headquarters, South ern Cotton Association, Atlanta, Ga. Yours trulv. IIARV1E JORDAN, Pres. Southern Cotton Association. Negro's Side Crashed. New Berne, Special.? A very ser ious accident occurred on the yard of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. A young negro named Henry Jenkins, water boy for the Blades Lumber Company, while in the discharge of his duty passed be tween two cars, going to the mill wit I water. l?'or some reason he stopped and the shifting engine backed t< couple other ears, Henry was caught between the bumjHMS. His left sid< was badly ciushed. Murder and Suicide. North . Wilkesboro, Special. ? News eonies from Watauga tlint a man nam ed Joseph Sandeis living near Virgil, whipped his wife and that she left home, going to her brother's house. The husband followed her, waiting for her appearance mid when she came out shot her through the head. She ili.rd instartly. He then went into the woods and killed himself. End of Suit- Case Mystery. Boston, Special?* What u confident ly believed to be tho head of Susanna A. Geary, the dress suit ease victim was recovered in a leather handhait from t ho hotton of tho harbor Sunday. It wan drftffgod to the surface very near the point where Lewis W, Craw ford and Wm. Howord, who linve eon fessed to disposing of the dismember ed body of the girl, said they dropped it fiotn the stern of an Knst Boston ferry boat. The head completes the body of the girl. Saw Tathcr Murder Child Knoxville, Special ? James Winsie?i 1ms been conikncd to jail at Rogers ville, Tcnn., for several weeks on tin charge of having murdered his own child. The evidence against him, which was purely circumstantial, wa* to have been heard this week in court. Winsted's wife, a sufferer from con sumption, while lying on her deatl bed, has just inadd a confession that shy sa?v the crime commit ted, the gir' being ber rtepchild Car Conductor Falls and Dies Under WbeelF. Tampa. Fla., Special. ? 'Ibornat Hughes, white, 23 years old, u con ductor on u trolley line running be tween St. Petersburg and Pass Grille, fell between the car and the trailer and the wheels passed over his body. Hughes died soon after being taken to' St. Petersburg. Hughes was from New York, where his parents aro said to be prominent. THAT'S THE AN8WFR. "What makes Peck look so wor ried?" "He'e been contesting his wife's will." "Why, I didn't know his wtfe wns <tfead." "That's lt??ho Isn't,"? Cleveland Leader, IN THE STATE Occurrences of Interest From All Over South Carolina General Cotton Market. Galveston, linn 11 5-16 New Orleans, linn 111-2 Mobile, tinu 11 Savannah. steady 10 15-10 Charleston, linn 10 7-8 Wilmington, linn 10 7-8 Norfolk, linn 11 1-4 Baltimore, nominal 11 ~?-S New York, quiet 11. SO Boston, quiet 11 .SO Philadelphia, tlrin 12.05 .loi'xton, sternly 1 1 51(5 Augusta, steady 11 1-4 Memphis, U 1-2 St. I.ouis, steady 1 1 1*2 liOtiisville. tirm i 1 11-10 Charlotte Cotton Market. These ligures represent prie.s to wagons : (l? hnI middling 111-8 ?Uriet middling' 11 1 - Hi Middling 11 Meeting of the Synod. l'omaria. Sjieeial.? -The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina 'met in it-; Slst annuiil Convention at St. lkaui*s ehureh, near lVniuria, New berry county. Wednesday at 10 o'clock. The attendauee was unusually large and this was a most ! pleasant and profitable convent ion. At the morning serviee the opening liturgy was led by Kev. .'as. 1). Kinard the secretary of the Synod. The an nual sy nodical s-nnon w.is delivered by the president. Itev. M. <>. .1. Kreps. Tlie sermon was a strong, praetieal ap|>lieatiou of the text to the synod in its prest nt session and in the work before it for lie- year. Jllcction of Ofliccrs. I The fleet ion of otllceis lor the next J year resulted as tollows: President, itev. M. O. .1. Kreps. Prosperity: view president, Kev. \\ . I*. Seabrook, New berry; secretary. Itev. .1. H. Kiiiard, I'ameron. Itev. Dr. K. t1. Holland ot (he North Carolina synod, and presi dent of the mission board of the Hnited synod. Itev. J. 1\ Stirewalt, missionary eleet to Japan, Itev. \\ . 1 '? Dorr, and Itev. K. 1<. Lybrand ot the Tennessee synod were received as ad visory members. Itev. K. h. lA'bran presented Ihe ollieial greetings ol the Tennessee vynod whieh was a strong appeal for unity and cooperation. An appropriate response v. as made by tin vice president of the synod, Kev, . Ij. Seabrook. True Bills Against Dispensers. Sport anbury. Special. ? The grand jury iu sessions court returned true bills as to .1. 1*. Thackston, .1. J. Bish op. L. Riedling, II. T. Ferguson and .1. W. Iluseinann. charged with violat ing the dispensary law l'.oeh ol these defendants is a dispenser, tour eon* ducting beer dispensaries and one ? Ferguson ? operating liquor dispen sary No. 1. No action has yet been taken as to Cbas. Smith, former ehoii* man of the county board of control, A. II. Lanl'ord, member of the board. J. \V. H:?rmon. liquor dispenser, and \V. X. Avant of the board of control. Their eases will probably be passed \>n by tho grand jury Intel. A Negro Commits Suicide. Wolhalln, Special. ? William Lov ingood, colored. was found dead near his home hist Saturday marning. The cause of death was suicide. He left his home about midnight and when found he was dead, lie had tied j\ string to one of his feet and (o both triggers oi' his gnu. t)ulv one bantl, however, was discharged and death inurft have been instaneons. Loviu good was a hard working. peaceful negro, but had shown signs of insan ity two or more weeks ago. Has Arm Amputated. Spartanburg, Special.? Mr. llalph Baer of the city while operating a eorn shredding machine on the I arm of J 11. OoHiiell ot Campion Inst week met with an accident whieh cost him his right arm. In some inannev his arm was caught in the machinery and terriblv lacerated, whieh resulted n the amputation of (he member. I jr. H. H. Black of the city perloru.ed the operation. From Anderson to Greenville. Anderson, Special-- A meeting of the stockholders of the Anderson Trac tion oouipany has been called for the 5tb of December for the purpose of increasing the capital stock to 000. "When this if- done the company wiJl extend its lines to Helton and from that point to Greenville by way of "Williamson, Pelzer and Piedmont The interurban line between this city and Greenville has been quietly work ed for som*' time and now dethiite ;? siiraoces urc given that it will be eon Ht i noted. A Paidon A?kcd For. (luv. Hey ward lias been nsked 1o pardon .lolin Martin, a negro who wns convicted ol murder in Beaufort ennn (y in 180f> and was sent to (lie peniten tiary for life on the jury's recommen dation to mercy. Martin was accused of killing a man for the purpose of robbery and with having burned the body. The petition to the governor recites that the evidence was eircnm 1 stantial and that there is grave doubt ' of the negro '? guilt.