The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, September 11, 1903, Image 2

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"DO THO?.MBEIITY GREAT/'^ POSSESSION: HAPPY, OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN TIIF^AUBE,'?' !. : il- ?t? ....'?Kt,?'. BENNETTSYILLE, S. C., ERTJi^AY, SEPTEMBER ll, 1903. TERRIBLE WRECK. .-Passenger Train on the Southern Falls Through TreBtle . VERY NEAR YORKVILLE. Bix Mon Kcpmted Killed ami ?Hauy . Moire Seriously Injured. '.Crowds Go to tholr Assistance. A special from Charlotte to the "State says: Passenger train No. 15, northbound, on the South Carolina and Georgia Extension railroad, for merly the Three Cs, now operated by the Southern railway, went through a trestle 50 feet high over Fishing creek, three miles east of York ville, about 11.30 o'clock Thursday; killing six men and injuring 21, Uso o" whom will likely die. Three of the latter are negro passengers. THE DEAD. Engineer Brlckman. Fireman Ered llhyne. PoHtal Clerk Smith and three un known negroes. TUE INJUHED-WHITE. Julius Johnson of Hock Hill, per haps! fatally. ' Vf. L. Slaughter, Hickory Grove, seriously. ' Fred Poag, Lancaster. P..W. Spence, Roddeys. J. N. McLaurin, Bcthume. Mrs. J. C. Boyd, Prcssly, N. C. Mrs. H. B. Buist. Hock Hill. B. F. Willlford, Charlotte. T. C. Hicks, Lancaster, seriously. W. Harry Wylie, Jr., Bock Hill. It. A. Willis, Edgemoor. T. M. Stephenson, Kershaw. -Cunningham, Lancaster. O. V. Hall, Bock Hill. Mrs. Sadie Mccaskill, Kershaw. Two children named Jenkins of -Rock Hill. " Conductor Ed Turner. Baggagemaster Dukes. Flagman Whisonabt. THE TN.1U KED-COLO KED. Billie Beard, Rock Hill. Frank Burris, Sharon. Alex nurry, McConnellsville. All thc bodies have been taken out save those of the engineer and iire man. HOW IT HArTENEl). The train consisted of an engine and three cars.' It left Rock Hill . ' ?^n??'l o'clock with about 40 passen ooarar-vrnon enc-toutu .voaseu e trestle thc entire structure utuji. ..m ears gave way, hurling the engino and cars to the bank of the creek, about 50 feet below. B. E. Wjlllford of Charlotte, who was. slightly injured, displayed rare presence of mind in helping the pas sengers. The timbers of thc bridge were rot ten and to this fact is ascribed the cause of thc wreck. DETAILS OF THE ACCIDENT. Thc State special correspondent writing' from Rock Hill says: Pas senger train No. 15, on thc old Three Cs. Thursday morning broke through the trestle over Fishing creek, about ll miles west of Rock Hill and the ?engine with three cars plunged 45 feet to the bcd of the little stream, killing live men and injuring a num ber of others. Engineer Henry Brickman and Fred Rhyne are supposed to bc under the .demolished engine. Thc postal clerk was killed and his mangled body was pulled from under the rubbish. A darkey by thc name of Burris and another unknown darkey were killed. Julian Johnson, a son of Mr. J. B. Johnson of this place, who was on ids way to Clemson, is seriously, per haps fatally, injured. His forehead is badly cut, his face and head bruised and his ledg Injured. Vernon- Hall, son of Prof. R. W. Hall, who was also on his way to Clemson, had his left thigh dislocated. W. T. Slaughter, Hickory Grove, had his forehead cut and bruised, a rib broken and his left hand frac tured. T. C. Hicks, a drummer, got his leg broken. Mr; Morrow of Blackshurg lias a leg broken. lt. A. Willis, his right lenee injured and mouth, chin and lower lip badly cut. Tobe Burris, a brother of Burris who was killed, has tho right side of his face cut, and is suffering from spinal trouble. Peter Miller has his rigid; leg broken in two places, bis left arru broken and his forehead fractured. Three ladies were on the train, but escaped with slight injuries. They were Mrs. II. B. Buist ol' Bock Hill, Airs. J. C. Boyd of I rede ll county, N. C., and Miss Sudic Mccaskill of Ker shaw. To look at thc wreck it seems like a miracle that any one escaped. In the bed of the creek, now almost dry, in a frightful mass of ruins, lies thc train und trestle, the cars shattered Into splinters, tile engine a wreck, the tim bers of the trestle broken. The bridge was about 45 feet high and something like 400 or 450 feet long. It simply broke thrungli and the timbers are seemingly rotten, save the very heart. Baggage Master D. F. Dukes, it ls understood, saved Iiis life hy jumping fi om thc car after it had started down. A special train from Bock Hill took all of thc physicians of the city to the seme of the wreck and also a trained nurse and a few others, among them I your correspondent. Tlic Yorkvillc people had reached tiie ground, there being many ladies and physicians. THE STOltY FROM YO UK VILLE. Another of thc State's correspon dents special from Yorkvillc says the wreck on the Southern ndlway three miles cast of this place Thursday was most complete and dreadful. Thc Yorkvillc people generally, many ladies nrnongBt thom, went to Cbc $ceno abd rendered-^ all the aid they Could to thc Injured* Crowds of men,;both white and colored, workea manfully In trying to remove the wreck, lt was difficult to.get a Hst of the injured us some were brought here and some taken to Rock Hill. The ladies of our town responded promptly and went to the Parish hotel and helped to prepare beds and cots for the injured and also in minister ing to the sufferers. Those taken tb the Parish hotel are: Mrs. Sa'rah Waldron," Bessemer City, N. C., cut about face and back wrenched; Mrs. H. l). Buist of Winthrop college, cut and bruised; Harry Wylie, Jr., Bock Hill, face cut and shoulder badly bruised; B. P. Whisouant,_.Blacks burg, badly Injured internally; Mr. Hicks of Lancaster, a traveling man, thigh broken and other injuries; A. H. Morrow, banker, Blacksburg, thigh broken, severe injuries; Mr Turner, conductor, badly bruised about face and eyes injured. At thc residence of Dr. A. Y. Cart wright is D. jj\ Dukes of St. Georges, express and baggage mcsseuger, who lias severe bruises on both legs, aud two young men who were on their I way to Clemson college, Fred C. Pong and Hazel Cunningham -if Lancaster, but li shaken up and bruised but not seriously. There are several negroes hi town who were bruised and cut but not se riously. lt was a fact of wonderment to all who saw tlie wreckage that this trestle had nut gone down before this time, as some of thc timbers were very rotten. Down on Washington. Thc suffrage league of Boston, a negro organization Wednesday night adopted resolutions declaring: '"Inasmuch ns Booker T. Washing ton has glorified the revised constitu tion of tile South, has minimized the Jim Crow case outrage, has attacked thc wsidom of the fourteenth and fif teenth emendments to the constitu tion; has deprecated the primary im portance of the ballot, has preached to thc colored people silent, .submission to intolerable conditions and makes his people a by-word and laughing stock before the world, he is not a. flt leader for thc colored race and no pre sident who recognizes him as a politi cal leader should receive the colored vote of thc North. "Therefore, since President Roose velt has ?ivc him tlie charge of ap pointments of all negroes of whatever state in the Union, and has made him thc negro adviser as to all .policies affecting colored Americans, in thc interests of our ruco wc call upon President Roosevelt to dispense with Mr. . Washington as our political spokesmen." Kdcape Convict's fcjrimo. ? -.-jouur-T-aurKUj-n mi ii ur, -^a.a-'uiiiu\? ti from a Frisco train W?dnegday after noon uear Cordova, by Jeff Van Horn, ?a convict who escaped from Jefferson I county jail some months ago. The I two quarreled on the thain and used whiskey bottles as weapons. Clarke's hold on a car platform rail was broken by Van Horn, who cut his hands with thc broken glass. The train was run ning rapidly and did not stop to learn Clarke's condition, but he is believed to have been killed. Yan Horn was arrested at Horse Crock after a des perate resistance A Murderous Ijimatic. Aloysius Cavanaugh, 2(1 years old, of Washington Grove, Md., a patient in St. Agnes'sanitarium, near this city, shot and instantly killed his husiness partner, M. IL Guiney of Washington, D. C., this evening, and turning thc revolver, which he had surreptitiously taken to his room in the institution, shot and killed him self. Cavanaugh was under treatment for nervous trouble, and, his patner was in attendance upon him. The sister in charge of tlie sanitarium could give no explanation of the shooting. NOAV Counterfeit Note. Tlie secret service reports the Bos ton, Mass., of a new counterfeit 810 national bank noke. The description of the note is as follows. "On the Me chanics National Hank of New Bed ford, Mass., series 1882, check letter B. charter No. 743, treasurv serial No. A87055A, bank serial No. 117D.1, Bruce, register; Wyman, treasuer of the United States. A good photograph on plain paper, no libre; member seal and panel of hack tinted with thin colors. This note should not deceive any careful handler of money. The negative, however, is a line one." Skull Crushed. At Pensacola, Pla.1, Louis W. Dun ham v as instantly killed Wednesday wliile storing lumber on the Spanish steamer Durango. A large piece of pitch pine had been hoisted on deck and was standing oh end preparatory lo being lowered into the hold when thc chain broke and it fell, crushing Dunham's head into a pulp. All work in the hay ceased immediately and vessels ol' all uationaltics lowered their Hags to half-mast. What It Cunt. Thc cost of thc Richmond street railway strike, to tlip company, to the employes in loss of wages, and to thc state in preserving oilier, aggregates $250,000. One man was killed by soldiers, another by a motorman and scores of persons more or less seri ously inj med during tlie strike. La bor clashes of this kind are mighty bad business. _ Died From Joy. At San Juan, P. I., Jose Marrara, a non-leprous patient who was liberat ed from tlie leper colony as a result ol' thc recent investigation, died Wed nesday of heart disease, superinduced by joy at Iiis release. Thc probing into the leprosy scandal continues to produce unpleasant developments. Tlie public report of thc committee of the executive council investigating the matter will be made next week. An Awful Mistake. During a dramatic performance by amateurs at Bessemer Ala., Wcdns day night, Edwin Nceley, 10 years old, was killed instantly. Tlie play required thc firing of a volley of blank cartridges, buta bullet accidentally in one revolver caused the death. Wade Rogers, one of thc players, sur rendered to the police. A STBONtr PAPER. Edward'M.'shepard's Defence of the South's Suffrage Laws. AN OUTSPOKEN DEMOCRAT. Ho Thinks tho South. Justlilod in Restricting Mio Suffrage ._t in jthe Way that She Docs. -- The' Evening. Post lins sent the letter of* inquiry, printed below, to many prominent northern "Democrats as to their position on the question of negro suffrage. So far thc only an-, swers received have been from Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Edward M. Shep ard. Mr. Cleveland's letter is as fol lows: . To the Editor of Thc Evening Post: Sir: Your''letter propounding cer tain questions touching negro suffrage in the south is at hand. 1 am not willing to take from my vacation the time necessary to an swer these questions in a thorough manner-even if i were inclined to enter into the discussion invited by your request. Grover Cleveland. Buzzard's Bay, Mass., July 21. This letter of ex-President Cleve land was sent In reply to the follow ing inquiry: Dear Sir: It is frequently alleged in the southern press that leading northern Democrats are in sympathy with the effort to disfranchise tho ne gro in the south; under color of laws unequally enforced as between whites and'blacks. To test the truth of this assertion, The Evening Post respect fully asks you to give lt for publica tion your opinion upon the following statement of facts: In the case (18.721) tf Jackson W. Giles, appellant, vs. the Board of Reg istrars of Montgomery County, Ala bama, argued before the United States supreme court at the October term of 1002, it was shown that the said board of registrars refused to register quali fied negroes "for no other reason than their race or color." The brief for thc appellant spec!Qed that "more than 5,000 colored persons" in Mont gomery county alone are thus exclud ed from the suffrage, though "quali fied under thc law of thc State of Ala bama and of the United States." Granting thc truth of Wiese state ments and failing intervention'by the supreme court. (1) Has congress any duty in the premises? (2) If the constitutional'guaranties. ano-penttiM?sv?vviaea^fo?^cwni;/^r are. allowed to lapse, wbou' u^ers Can we count upon remaining in vigor? (3) If the negro may be deprived of the suffrage In thc south, how long will it be before the same argument Will be adduced, as Mr. Dos Passes of the "New York bar admits that it may bc, for thc disfranchisement of thc foreign-born voters in the north who are the peculiar strength of the Demo cratic party? By answering these questions at your earliest convenience, you will greatly oblsge. Yours very truly. Editor of The Evening Post. The foregoing was mailed to thc address of thc following gentlemen, in addition to Mr. Cleveland: W. J. Bryan, AltonB. Parker, Rich ard Olney, David B. Hill, Judson Har mon, Edward M. Shepard. Also to th?se northern Democratic representatives: Congressmen Gran ger, Thayer, Sullivan, Hughes, Mc Dermott, Sulzcr, Harrison, Ryan and Badger. The letter was sent, in addition, to Gov. Garvin of Rhode Island, to May or Collins of Boston and also to Mayor Harrison of Chicago and Mayor John son of Cleveland. -Congressman Granger of Rhode Island, so his private secretary wrote, was out of thc country and cauld not reply. Acknowledgment came also from thc private secretaries of Con gressmen Sulzcr and Harrison (if this city, both of whom were out of reacli in tlie weat. All of thc others ad dressed, with the exception of Mr. Shepard, omitted to state their opin ions on thc case submitted. Mr. Shep ard's letter of roply is as follows: YI IC WS OK KDWAltuai. SlIKPAltD. To the Editor of Tlie Evening Post; Sir: I cannot brielly auswer your three questions upon negro suffrage, predicated upon the Giles case. Il l am not-upon this large and difficult question-to be misunderstood, I must write at length. I do not "grant the truth" of unproved statements made by a complaint in equity of which neither thc court in which the suit was brought nor thc supreme court, tu which it was appealed, had juris diction. Tlie courts required no an swer to the complaint and refused to take evidence upon lt-holding that it was judicially immaterial whether the statements of th* bill were true or false-since, even if they were true, the courts could give no relief to thc colored "plaintiff. In this conclusion thc report indicates that all the judg es of tlie supreme court concurred ex cept Judge Brewer and possibly J'.;.lge Brown. Even Judge Harlan, who ex pressed his merely personal opinion that In a proper suit thc colored citi zen might have had relief, declared that in the only suit which he did bring tlie court could not help him. Nor did 1 accept tlie suggestion that the southern press ascribes to north ern Democrats "sympathy with the effort feo disfranchise tho negro in tlie south under color o? laws unequally enforced as between whites and blacks." Have you correctly under stood thc southern press? Has it not been interested over thc condemna tion of negro sn If rage by Secretary Root, Dr. hyman Abbott, and othrr distinguished Republicans? Might not your questions be more proporly addressed to members of the party now in power? Is not their opinion, for tlie time, of more consequence than that of Dcmocrrts? Tlie su preme court, sneaking by Judge Hol mes, while itself refusing thc colored voter any relief slgulllcantly said that, If there had been the political wf?rig he charged, then thc rolief, impart from mere'money damages (confessed ly no adequate reparation), must be given by tbo people of bis State pr by bb? ''legislative 'and -political1 depart ment, bf tbo government of tbe United States." President Roosevelt ls at the bead of such department; and of bis position be. is. amply vconscious. Ho talks of a "square deal" to negro citizens. - He thinks that tiio Impor tance of their recognition justifies the demoralization of the public service at the sou til by negro appointments which are personally-offensive to. nine tenths of those having business with tlie pillees; and this, while -he refuses at thc north to appoint negroes'to places of like relative importance. . lt is tile duty of the president to execute existing laws. Does lie think that there arc laws assuring negro suffrage which Ttvc not, ' but which can be, en forced? It ls bis constitutional duty to recommend new laws when old laws fall. Does ho recommend any such new laws? If so, what are they? And why has he not recommended tbera'before, and why did not .Presi dent McKinley recommend .them? And why, 1 -wunder, were -not-your quesslons addressed to the Republican president or tbe Republican " congress of Republican statesmen after an un satisfactory auswer by thc Republican supreme court? Thc Republican par ty has been coutitiuously in power since March, 18!I7, and has perfectly known thc sou thor u situation, ll has neither done* nor suggested blie doing of anything to right the wrong, if wrong there be- And whynot? I decline, to assume with you thal the supreme court was wrong i ti'tuc Giles case; or that if, as you seem lt; imply, "Constitutional guarantee and penalties* * * ?ire allowed to lapse." that is to sav, allowed by thc refusal of courts, presidents, congresses and public senAiment to enforce them-il is useful to enact other guaranties and penalties the effleacy of which equally depends upon courts, presidents, con gresses, and public sentiment, and which, therefore, would be equally fu tile with those at' present existing. So also' 1 decline to assume that "for cign-boni voters at the north * * * are thc peculiar strength of the Dem ocratic party." 1 prefer, however, to deal with thc substance of thc topic of which you would provoke discussion. 1 believe profoundly in Democratic self-govern ment; and I make no exception against negroes or Filipinos or any racc'or country which lias shown any capacity for any degree of orderly ad ministration. I lia ve always 'hated, and I nate now more than ever, hu man slavery, whether ol'white men oi black or yellow or brown. I abbot tho suggestion recently made by. u distinguished northern clergyman and approved by a distinguished northern newspaper which has warmly suportec? President Roosevelt, that a system ol g^vcrnmcntal.ctimpulsory labor .should south as'-upon at? xuc?.'- I ab hor peonage, and would have every enginery of our governments, State and Federal, applied to punish.and prevent it. I honor tho citizens of Alabama who, os prosecutors, judges and jurors have punished it in that State, and the great majority of white citizens there who haye supported them in their execution of thc law. In my opinion, there rests upon thc president no duty more imperative than to enfore. the Thirteenth amend ment and the legislation enacted un der it. For thc amendment can bc practically enforced. Wot only is il supported by the teachings of thc noble men and women who convinced thc American people of thc crime ol slavery and by the reverence in wbicl: wc hold them, hut by thc nationa conscience enlightened during thc dreadful war with .which God pun ?shed tho nation for the wrong-a na tional conscience dominant in thc public sentimont of white men soutl and north. I believe in the future growth ol the intelligence and strength of character of th? American negro. I consider hi: progress, industrial, intellectual and moral, since he was a slave to be vastly creditable to bira anc full of promise. I admire, anc am grateful for, the labors of thai very true American patriot, Rooke: T. Washington, and of his colored as sociates. lt is not difticult for mc ti cuter into thc feelings of men Uki Prof. Du Hois. 1 should rejoice to sci everywhere accorded td negro intolll genet; and industry and character tin very same esteem and security in poi son and property which would beac corded the same faculties under ? white skin. I believe it, to bc wi? for southern white men, and to tliei [true interest, Lo cheerfully accord tin ballot to tlic negroes who ach le V' industrial success and arc intcliigcn and men of high character. All tin and more like il, I can say. None the less, 1 should regard it a calamitous to tho American nation and, above all, calamitous to tb American negro, if the north were t undertake, through the federal gov ernmeut, to enforce muni the soutl the right of the negro to vole, or ti make a political issue of that right Tuc undertaking means the use o physical force. Can anything h plainer illari this? Iii thc (liles eas the supreme court declared that i would not enforce the right, becaus tlic physical ability of courts was in siifiluicut. The condition of publi sentiment being what it is at th south, the court would have t?ente every election district ?Hid undertake thc supervision of every election. No is this more than saying that judi?la writs arc futile lo compel the whit race in South Carolina or Misslsslp? to turn over the government of them selves and their l?tate to tho blac race. No power can make head wa with sucli an undertaking. Only ur der military law could it attain eve a nominal success, if even that be al tainublc. Our generation rememoci that' a northern army did establls and maintain in the south "carpel bag" governments, with their infamie and lapses towards barbarism. If ai other northern army were to reno the undertaking, we should have th same result. For the problem, it is plain to tb last degree, ls not one of Democrati self-government. 1 would, if I coule have blacks govern themselves. Then fore it Is that I hate the imperialist) scheme carried out by tlic Rep?blica [Continued cm pago 4.] ' THE COTTON 8IT?ATI0N. %J? ab? %M> 2b? ?.' A Ne.w York Br?ker Says tho Farmers ---?rr*--"-*' 'Gan Oontrollt. " .>-- rv/- - .. . ?- ? .' J.'M.' . A*y6r/. -'a' New York cotton broker,' recently presented lils views on the remarks of Secretary-Wilson ahd Gen.-Butler;"! Hasays: ;" Wo will all have.to, recognize tbat statements can be made.under misap prehension , and . that men . as well equipped' both' Intellectually 'and in the matter of-hi formation as Messrs. Butler and Wil&pp. can > occasionally bo mistaken.'^ Mr.1 Wilson seems to have'been unfortunate in the use of term's, j By ipt-.Tcuceishe characterizes as gamblers''tbeim\?n*wbo ar? credited with having put the prfee of; cotton up. .If they, aro.gamblers, then, every shopkeeper j,and ,every merchant bn earth who'buys'anything with a view to .selUng.it for. an advapce.pn, the purchase pVlcb^lsd" gambler.' Cotton is bringing.only wliat^anyfacturers will', pay for;it. Mr. Wilson's/ 'ginn blor^' can .n?^ej any price tb>.y please, 'hutJitTey can coin pel "no one to" buy. AVh?p ri'tallis ris so,'; it js generally thought, 'and:.pcrhaps must be ad mitted, thatVxIstlhg conditions have bro?f?bt about such manipulative tactiqp as ha.ve caused prices of cotton Tor 'fflbure months to reach a higher evei't.Ha'b they would have touched in the^.?bsence or such manipulation. Mut-pycn in this, the suggestion holds good'that no one can be male to buy at a . .higher price than he thinks he can?A?ford to pay. 'j'jThe'high level reached- has acted as uncheck on thc consumption or the supply of cotton in existence, and this haSjjfelhiltied, as Mr.'Wilson says, in the',-}closing br many mills and the shortening of time by many others, etc/^but . as has been pointed out, if every, known bale of .cotton, had been Iii .-the.hands ot'Hue. m-inufacturcrs and ali'or it had been consumed, this condition would have necessarily pre vailed ?i some time during thc season just/'clbsing. It is, therefore, clear that? the so-called corner In cotton cannot be held responsible for the in convenience and hardship imposed on employes by thc closing of the fac tories. "The. amount of available cotton thatr hak been or can bc marketed from, the past crop and old supplies at prices above Di cents is compara tively small, and taking into consid eration the price at which the greater parteof the old crop has been sold, the actual average paid for it by manufac turers would .not exceed a price ab which' it" cou ld bc consumed at. some profit. Of course, the spot prices of todayxould never have been paid for allito? old crop without ruin to the factories unless there had been a cor rcsp griding increase in prices of the lufaetured products.- Hence, it iprosjaois v . - advanced during the coming year, the quota tion* . of today cannot profitably bc paid} for tho coming crop. ''Mr. Butler takes occasion to call attention to the quotations of a cer tain date, ranging around 10 cents for December, January, etc., and says that on that day every planter in the South could have sold the cotton he expects to produco at those prices for future delivery, and that if the plant er has failed to do so it is his own fault. Now, the sale ot every bale of cotton made on the exchauges presup poses actual delivery and whenever more cotton is offered than is desired at the time, a sale cannot bc effected without some sacrifice in price. For illustration, let us say thc next crop will be 11,000,000 bales. Then let us suppose that all thc plantera had of fered their product (amounting to this 11,030,000 bales) for sale on that day, and bad ke;>t offering it until all of lt was sold. The consequence would have been nothing less than a disas trous panic and the crash in quotations that would have resulted can hardly be guessed. In this particular, Mr. Butler seems to have been as unfortu nate in his supposition as Mr. Wilson was in the usc of terms. "The situation now is one in which thc planters could, If they would, put themselves in absolute control. There is no cotton in thc country, and little is available from any source supplies must be procured from the coming crop, and if this crop could be moved to market only as fast as consumers would pay 10c or more for it, that price might be realize:! for practically every bale ol' cotton produced during tile coming year. "The operation of such an econo mic- plan as this can hardly be hoped for, and there will surely be periods in which thc rush of cotton to market will be in excess of actual demands. Thc result must necessarily be some decline in prices; how much, remains to be seen." Killis ll is Own i a lc Eugene Willis of Rome. Ga., drank thc contents of on ounce phial of laud anum late Thursday afteruot n and died Friday hight at 8 o'clock from thc effects or the drug. When phy- j sieians arrived Willis was found uncon scious in Iiis room at thc Central ho- ' tel and all efforts to save his life was or no avail. Willis swallowed thc laudanum by mistake, thinking it was medicine bc had been taking for stern adi trouble. Willis went to Rome a few weeks ago from Athens, Ga., and accepted thc position of head clerk at the dry goods house of Henry Lanham. His wife and three children joined him here last Saturday. Willis was about 119 years of age and al I though nc had been herc utily u short willie, bc was tillite well known. A Narrow Hsoupn. A large boiler in thc chemical establishment of thc Hansen Vinkle company Newark N. J., exploded Thursday, demolishing thc building. Five men wero Injured by thc shock of thc explosion or.fby being beneath thc debris. They aW?: William Wickle housc, John Winters and Charles Con nelly, Holard Oliver, and Albert Dixon.._. Burned to Death. At Blue Ash, Ohio Thursday Mrs. John Henberson and Mrs. William Shaffer were burned to death. Their chlldrcu narrowly escaped. Tho boll ing over of a pot of coffee extinguish ed the lire In a gasoline stove, but thc Hu ld llowcd unnoticed and an explo sion followed thc lighting of a match. HORRIBLE AFFAIR. Son* of Former Mayor Kills Wifo'B . ?. . . .. Friend and Himself.: HE LOVED HIS VICTIM- MADLY. IIo . implored Her, in His Vv uc ? Presence, to JLeavo Her Husband nnil Flee With Him. Townsend Edsou, son of former mayor of New York, Franklin Edsou, iti his apartments at 29 West Ninety-, second street, Now York, "Wednesday shob and. ipstantly killed 'Mri;:Fannle. Pullen of 073 West-'End, avenue and (tr?en shot anti killed 'Himself. The niurdor iiti? ?sy Felde appear- to'? have" 'ticen, rpr?ni?dltated and followed a dramatic scene in which Edwin called upon.Mrs/Pullen, a close and honored friend of his wife and family, to de sert her husband and children and fly with-him to another State. Mrs. Pul len, "a very handsome woman, is'said to have been the dautthter.of a United States naval ofllcer. . ' The double tragedy brought to thc surface the fact that Edson, who was "comptroller" of St. Michael's Protes tant Episcopal church, had been sus pected of misappropriating funds be longing to the parish, and expert ac countants arc at work on his accounts. It was declared by those related with tho family that Edson was flnaneially distressed because of Wall Street speculations. Whatever may have been the pre cise cause of the tragedy, members or thc Edson family insist that thc man was insane. There arc many indica tions'that Edson was madly in love with Mrs. Pullen. On the body of thc man was found thc following letter: "Mrs. Pullen: Darling, trust John implicity. He will always he a go-be tween and faithful. I know him thoroughly. He will tell you where 1 am walting for you, to seo your sweet face once more beforo I go. I am go ing far, far away, but will die true to you. No matter how long 1 live 1 shall lead a new life, and an honest one, and if I eau ever come back to you with my past cleaned up, I -will, dearest. Oh", my God, let me see and speak 'to you once more. I cannot go until you do. 1 hope and pray.that you put in today's (Sept.) personal. Any way 1 answered it in tomorrow's. I hope you soe it. I cannot sleep. J can only pray and pray that you will come to mu once more, purely you will after alliyou have been to me lu the past. 10 darling, if only to say goodbye. I! shall wait here until you see rae, no matter how long, John will tell you my hotel name. Ask clerk for me." The fellowing "personal" was pub-, lislicd in a morning newspaper Wed nesday: : ^_ "P. Loyal-Nothing in answer to message; be good to me; worried abolit you; send word today; just as true to you as always; with love." Tlie followiug, evidently a reply to I thc foregoing, appeared Wednesday morning: "Fanny-I am loyal and true; can not go till 1 sec you; trust John: he will tell you where 1 am; with love. These, arc believed to be the two| personals referred to. Dr. Peters of St. Michael's church, who knew thc dead mah well, is cm-1 pliatic in his declarations that none' but the most honorable relations ex isted between Edson and Mrs. Pullen. .She was, he said, Edson's "friend ad visor." Mrs. Pullen lived with her husband, John E. Pullen, au auditor at the grand central station, and her two children, Trafton, 16 years old, and Mary, 14 years old. The Edsons were to break up their home Wednesday morning, as a result or an agreement tu sign articles' cf separation, signed the night before. ' The life of tlie couple had not been happy. Edson had been acting in a peculiar manner. For that reason fur niture movers were in the house pack ing up furniture and bric-a-brac. Mrs. Edson spent Tuesday night witli her friend, Mrs. Pullen. She was about to go out Wednesday morning when a note came from Edson, asking that Mrs. Pullen accompany his wife where he was, Edson, his wife. Mrs. Tullen, and Dr. David 0. Edson, a brother of Edson, met in Edson's home. During the conversation in the din*? lng room, Edson, is said to have turd* ed to Mrs. Pullen, and suggested that slie leave her home witli Iii m and go to some other State where they could lie happy. Mrs. Edson was horritied. Mrs. Pullen turned away in disgust. Dr. lOdson, aft'jr sharply relinking his brother, left thc room with Mrs.. Ed son, hut both returned in a few minutes when Edson again .turned to Mrs. Pullen and began to entreat her to elope with him. Mrs. Pullen was horrified at thc suggestion, and pos sessed with fear ot tlie man ran out of thc room. Edsou, however, seemed to recover his self-possession ?and all went into tlie dining room again. A few moments after, Mrs. Edson, who was weak and trembling from thc ordeal, was assisted to another room by Dr. Edson. A moment later, ac cording to Woods, a furniture man working nearby In the hallway, Edson pulled a revolver from his pocket, and pointed it at Mrs. Pullen, shouted: "You must go with me. If you don't elope with mc I'll seo thau you go with mc anyway." In terror, Mrs. Pullen started to run from the rcom. She had gone hut a a few steps when four pistol shots rang out in quick succession. Thc hirst bullet tore Mrs. Pullcn's left cheek, and thc second entered thc right sido of her head. According to Wood, Edson looked at the woman for i moment and then turned the muzzle of the revolver to his head, tiring instantly two shots almost simultaneously. Uoth entered thc head and he fell, his head strik ing and resting on tho feet of Mrs. Pullcn's body. At tho first shot Dr. and Mrs. Ed son rushed to tho room, reaching thcro juBt,a8,Ec]Bon fired: the shot, wb/Ich /en ded lite own .lifo. ? Mrs/ Edson fell tb the floor: io a faint. I TCproncr-Jackson, .-af tor. making - a thorough . examination ott the house,-: said that" the ? evidence showed.' that thc murder and ?uicide were premedi tated, that he-had found - lettor? and oth?r. papers in "Edson'B*p.assesstori which showed that he had a love af fair; . i?" ... . ? . .Mr. Pullen,, the husband of thOmur^ de??d woman who. is a vestryman of St. Michael's church, made a; state ment tonight in which . he branded Edson as a defaulter and forger and said that ho had stolen from the funds of St. Michael's church. Ile also de clared that Edson son had attempted to kill . Mrs. Edson but missed and killed Mrs/ Pullen hy error. Mr., Pullen's statoment/ was not borne put by Coroner's* ' Physician O'liarrton, who found /powder marks on the dead woman's lace, showing thatUhe'pistol, must-have . been :he1d very dose. - / . j ., . .1 Dr.tOyr^s>Edson.:/'aihrotheir-of the .suicide, said that the.' intimations of ?imprbp?rirqlations he'tweori . hist broth er anti Mrs. Pullen were absolutely false. His brofcher,- ho said, had re cently been acting very strangely and had admitted thatdie was involved in linancial difficulties. Ills family, Dr. Edson said, had.be come so alarmed over Iiis mental con dition that arrangements . had been made to have him examined by an alicni.st. The shooting, -Dr. Elson declared, was undoubtedly committed in*a.mo ment of manaiacal frenzy." ADJUTANT GENERAL FROST SubinitH His ilcporfc of the State Troops to tlie War Department. Gen. Freist has forwarded to' the war department lils report of the militia of tiie State tor the year 1?U3 up to tho 1st of September. Tlie re port deals with thc riot calls, with the encampment, and concludes with recommendations as to future eucamp mcnts. . There were but four caNs for the servidos of troops to suppress riots', at M nock's Corner on March 'Kith, at Beaufort on April 22nd, at Chester on Maj 4tb, and at Norway on July 4th, in all of which cases the troops re sponded promptly and prevented trou ble. The account ot the various encamp ments is then followed with a detail ed report from Major P. J. Drew as to number of men attending and ex pense. The report shows, thab the First .regiment had in camp-COO. of ticers and mon; the Second rogimcut ; ?12.; tho Third 545. All of tlicsewere ;c6iiduotec\JriRmpst creditable man vice is due, lie thinly vrecent Dick military law, wb... ...-consider ed the best ever passed. Ile recom mends, however," that, the appropria tion for encampment purposes will be doubled next .year in order that the men might have two weeks in a con centrated camp. . Upon tlie matter of target practice, thu adjutant general suggests that the government hold annual trophy contests at. Savannah or some other good range for the southern troops, and he hopes'to organize rifle teams in this State soon. Target practice has been neglected in South Carolina. In view of thc fact that 24 drills a year are now required by the war de partment and that eaeli company only gets about $150 from thc State, it is recommended that tho government pay each mau $1 per drill with $1 line for absence. This will enable the militia to obtain armories which are badly neceded. The suggestion is al so made that the minimum number is also made each company be 45 instead of 05, and that the government here after provide transportation for caval ry horses. The work of Capt. Leo Foster is highly commended and much good was done the militia by Iiis work. The presence of a company of regulars at Anderson and Camden, under Capt. Bennett, also served as a model to thc men. A Ilcorlles? Son. Judge Dannisof thc circuit court of Baltimore signed an order Thursday removing William T. Tucker as exe cutor of thc estate of his father, thc late Wesley T. Tucker, a leading slice merchant. Tucker, who, in con junction with Iiis motlier, the coexe cutor of thc estate,' had access to thc money and .valuables belonging to thc estate and deposited in a sato in thc .Safe Deposit and Trust company. Of these he ls accused by his mother of abstracting and converting to his own use $5150,000. Tucker has disap peared and is said to bc in Central America. Tucker and his mother he log the only heirs to thc estate she announces that she will take no .further legal steps against him. Rothschild Sentenced. Baron Henri De llothchild appaled in tlie police court at Paris to answer! tlie charge of automobile scorching. Thc case came lip previously before tiic courts, but was postponed. His defense was that lie lias a permit from tlie ministry of the interior, as a doc tor, allowing Iii m to disregard the speed regulations. Ile was neverthe less, sentenced tootie days imprison ment and a line of ten francs. Dies in Ills Cell. Preferring deatli to facing a serious charge, Andrew W. Gorslino, a Long island pity manufactur, has committ ed suicide in his cell in thc Quena county, jail New York, by inhaling illuminating gas. In a will found in his cell Coraline bequeathed all Ills property to lils nephew, who made thc complaint on which Andrew was arrested. Killed on Stage . During a dramatic performance by amateurs ab . Bessemer- Birmingham, Ala., Thursday night Edwin Neely, "?0 years old, was killed instantly. The play required thi tiring of a volley of blank cartridges, but a bullet accl dently in one revolver caused death. Wade Bogers, ono of tho players, sur rendered to the police. A; RECORD 1 Heater's A?nuar Eepoft Shows Vi ; oxpectcdly targe Conaumption bf COTTON BY SOUTHERN MILLS. .Great Britain's Takings . Decreased.viv Nearly Two Hundred Thous and Dales During the Past Cotton Year. The totals-rof Secretary Hester's anoual report of the cottoa crop of tho United States were promulgated Sept. l. They show receipts of cotton at all United States ports for tho year 7,724,101, against 7,079,200 last year; overland to uor thorn mills and Canada I,?8:i,33;i,.agiiiii?b 3 ,103,953; southern Consumption taken' direct from the liiterior of the cotton belt 1,920,072, against 1,897,437; making the cotton crop bf thc United States tor 1902-03 amount to 10,727,559 'halos,'against 10^030,?80 last year and 10,383,422 the*Vear berore. Colonel Hester has-., made his usual investigation into tho consumption of the south and has re ceived reports by mail -and telegraph from every mill consuming cotton in the cotton growing states, including woolen mills Uial have used cotton, and thc results show a total or 2, 000,729, but of this 80,057 were taken from ports and included In port receipts. - This shows that the mills of th? south have used up 02^758 bales more than during. 1901-02 and 379,798 more than during 1900-1901, a most re markable showing in face of recent trade conditions, supposed to have been brought about by the abnormal difference between values of the raw material and the manufactured article. '?' Colonel Raster's full report will be issued Friday or thc day after and will contain interestlug-and valuable facts showing the consumption of tho south by states, tho takings and consump tion of northern mills and the world's consumption of American cotton. He will also give tho crop by states and facts in relation to the continuance of thc remarkable increase in the spind les of southern mills. In addition to thc totals of the crop and southern consumption as above, Colonel Hester also gave out the actual crop of the state of Texas, which amounted to 2,830,025 "bales, against 2,992,G49; of Indian Territory, which amounted to 418,453, against 369,894 and of Okla homa, which amounted this year 'to 180,323. aga! pst 130,812 laa,b year, no . also ' gave tho exports for the year ias against 3,085,497, a decrease of : 183,'-. 069;-to France, 785;079, against "715, 909, an increase of 39,710; to Con tinental European ports 3,039,958, against 2,859,344, an inoreaseof 180, 014: to British'North America 123, 077v again 122,201, an increase of 1,- . 419; Mie. total exports foreign, includ ing British North America, amount ing to 0,800,843, against 0,703,071, an increase of 37,772. He stated that Japan and China received of the past crop 135,408 bales against 109,243, a decrease of 33,835. AFFAIRS AT CLEMSON. Thc Dooks Examined and Everything Found in Good Shape. A special to thc State from Clem son says Col. R. W. Simpson, who was herc Thursday with Col. M. L. Donaldson and Maj. A. T. Smyth at a meeting of the finance committee, said that thc board of trustees of , Clemson college had submitted the treasurer's books, accounts and vouch ers, for two, years ending July 1, 1903, to a thorough inspection by the American Audit company with head quarters at Columbia. The certificate by this company is to the effect that the books, records, vouchers and cash account are correct. Prof. John Hamilton, when here at tho farmers' instituto, said it was. thc - largest institute ever held in the ' United States, so far as he knew. He ls the farmers' institute/specialist of che department of agriculture. In this connection the following ex tract from a letter to Dr. P. Hy*Mell from Maj. Henry E. Alvord, chief of the dairy division of thc department of agriculture at Washington, will ka interesting: "I wish to express my special grati fication, not only at being able to per sonally participate in the farmers' in stitute at Clemson college last week (although still regretting thelnability ,to bo there' all the week), but also at thc remarkable success of the insti tute itself. . -v "From quite an extended knowledge of such things, ib is my oplpion that no agricultural college In the country has heretofore held a similar Inptltute upon its premises', of greater impor tance or which could bo regarded as more successful. The more I think of it, the more lt seems to mc to havo been a notable occasion and full of en courgement to the agricultural in terests of South Carolina, and to the college as tho recognized agency for promoting these Interest??. Please av Icept for yourself, Cal. Newman, and j all connected with .the organization, preparation and conduct of the in stitute my hearty congratulations upon your truly remarkable success." A number of old students who fail ed on examinations or who have work to make up are herc and hard at work. Mr. A. Schillettcr, thc popular bursar, has everything In "shipshape" down at tho barracks f?r thc recep tion of the crowd. Most of the new students will arrive Thursday and ?stand examinations until thc 9tb, wheu thc regular class work will be gin. Col. Newman, Prof. Benton and j Judgo Hook have temporary quarters (In thc ' chemical laboratory. Tho ground has been ciarcd preparatory to the erection of tho big agricultural hall. It will bc, lt Is said, the most Inspiring building on tho campus.