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" ~ " '? : . "DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AKP MAKE (HMi I.;|VJJS IN" TilY POSSESSION HAPPY, OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS7N~T?PY ?AVSB." ; ' ' ' VO'L;*5eSVTf BENNETTSVILLE, S. -C., Fll?D?^i^PTEMBER 18, 1903. - - N?145. " ? TALE OF HOKROB, Thirty Thousand Christians Are Butchered by the Turks. THE VILAYET OE MON ASTIR In One Vast Charnel House ofJiecay Inj; Corpses. War Bet ween Bulgaria and Turkey Sure to Come. A dispatch from London says every thing seems to point to new and ter rible developments in Macedonia. On top of the appalling accounts of the results of the Turkish methods of "restoring order" in the vilayet of Monastir comes a threat by thc insur gents to resort to reprisals on thc same scale. The Porte's anxiety to suppress news by expelling newspaper ' ?orrespondent? from thc area of the operations is held to have but one , mcaning.# Tuesday morning's papers comment upon the significance of thc news, first published by the Associa ted.Press, that Russia and Austria are seeking to persuade thc powers to . coerce Bulgaria as showing a belief that war is inevitable. No further news regarding the out break at Beirut has been received herc. A dispatch to the Standard from Constantinople dated Sunday, ' says: "Thc Turks arc much disturb ed by the presence ot thc American warships at Beirut, and are making every effort to have them recalled. In spite of all assertions that thc United States only intends them to be there for the simple protection of the rights of her citizens lt ls quite possible that the despatch of the warships ?nay initiate action leading much further." HE8ULT IN LEBANON FEAIIHD. Thc same correspondent, telegraph ing under Monday's date, on receipt of thc news of thc Beirut outbreak says: "With thc slightest encouragement disorders might result in the whole ol' the Lebanon rising in revolt. Tues day has been foretold as thc date of the arising against thc foreigners and many residents of Constantinople are keeping to their bouses. Personally 1 doubt whether there will bc any thing more than dynamite outrages which are pretty sure tobe attempted, befoie long " ? The Daily Telegraph's correspon denti al. St. Petersburg says bo is as sured on excellent authority that Rus sia, when she submits proposals to the Porte for the pacification of Mace donia contemplates thc dispatch of her Black sea squadron to Turkish waters, where it will make a much longer stay than recently in order to overcome thc Sultan's objections to her reccomendations. The Solia correspondent of the Morning Leader, says by the end of tile week the insurgents will have re ceived a large accession of weapons. Thirty thousand rides are being smug gled to them from all sides, and when these have been received, the real lighting will begin. TU It li S EXTE U SI IN ATI NO. A dispatch from soda, Bulgaria, says all reports from the vilayet of Monastir agree in describing the sit uation as a palling. Between 20,000 and 50,000 Bulgarian inhabitants are believed to have been massacred by thc Turks and every Bulgarian village In the vilayet has been destroyed. The refugees in the mountains and forests are dying of starvation by thousands. At present it is impossi ble to obtain precise ligures. Tlie revolutionary headquarters estimate uhat thirty thousand Bul garian men, women and children have been killed, while at least thc same number of refugees arc slowly perish ing of hunger. In oflleial circles these ligures are regarded as an under-esti mate and oflioials incline to the belief that the number of the massacred ex ceeds 50,000. The Turks arc appar ently determined to exterminate the entire Bulgarian population of thc vilayet in government circles herc thc situation is viewed with increasing alarm, lt is reliably reported that tlie Turkish forces in Macedonia num ber ?100,000. It is considered impos sible that such a force has been as sembled merely to crush thc rebellion. lt is feared that thc sultan is meditat ing an attack on Bulgaria. THOUSANDS nUTC'IIEHKD. The Macedonian organizations are preparing a memorandum to be pre sented to thc representatives of the powers, in which they will declare that the insurgents intend to resort to reprisals for the Turkish atrocities: The memorandum gives detailed in formation of villages destroyed and the massacre of their inhabitants, lt declares that (io,000 men, women and children have been slaughtered and 120 villages burned. In thc list of villages given only two arc in thc vilayet of Adrianople. Others are principally in thc Monastir vilayet. The memorandum repeats the state ment recently issued by the insurgent general stall' at Monastir that the Turks, instead of lighting thc insurg ents have instituted a general massa cre of tlie Christians. Thc organiza tions declare they arc issuing thc present memorandum because they arc no longer to restrain the hands from retaliation and henceforward thc responsibility will rest with the great powers. Mother and Child Drowned. A dispatch from Philadelphia, Pa., says tlie mystery surrounding the find ing of the body ot fi-ycar-old Viola Cordes in tile Allegheny river last Sunday evening was partially cleared Wednesday evening by the Unding of tlie body of tlie child's mother, float ing in the same stream. Prom all accounts it is believed that Mrs. Cor des, who -/as about 24 years old, jumped Into thc river, carrying ber child with her. Mrs. Cordes had t made threats of suicide. MRS. BOYESEN DEAD. A I tinily Mixed Up Story that Comea from Chicago. A dispatch from La Parto, Ind., says: "Mrs. Jane Stewart Boyesen i of Chicago died Wednesday night at Asheville, N. C., as a result of nerv ous shock following accusations of a theft. The news reached there in a telegram to friends. *W.i??? Mrs. Boyesen was tit a hotel near Spartan burg, S. 0-, the room ot a guest from Augusta, Ga., was robbed of $1100 worth of jewelry. The landlord accused Mrs. Boyesen. She was not in good health and thc charge resulted in her physical col lapse. Before thc end came she in stituted a$00,000 damage suit, against t her accuser in the federal court at Charleston. Mrs. Huyesen had done considerable newspaper work and was a musician of marked ability. She. was a member of tito Daughters of the American Revolution, the Chicago Woman's club and other organiza tions. A dispatch from Chicago says Mrs. Janie Stewart Boyescn/'the Chicago woman who was recently wrongly ac cused or. stealing goods from a moc ?h?iiit in North Carolina, is dying at White Spring, that State, as a result of the nervous shock she sustained at thc time. Mrs. Bovescn has been suffering for thc last four years from ' tuberculosis. Last January she went to Asheville to seek relief. Last week she was staying in White Springs when a robbery occurred. Through a misuddersfcaudlng suspicion fell ou Mrs. Royesen and her apart ments were searched, she sustained a severe nervous shock from which she did not recover. Mrs. Boyesen has been a resident of Chicago for many years, and is prominent in Uorbh side club circles. She lias written many songs and poems. A TERRIBLE DEED. J. K. Stark little John F. AIIKCI iji tho lOxpress OUice. J. E. Stark shot and fatally wounded John IP. Angel Thursday afternoon in tho ofllce of the Southern Express compauy in Jacksonville, Fla., while the latter was protecting the life of lils sister, tlie wife of the man who tired thc shot. Stark had been in Jacksonville several days and this morning wired for his wife to join him. She came at about noon and at 2 o'clock they met in the otllce of the express company, where her brother was eiqployed. The wife suspected tlm'ti her "husband meant tb do ber bodily harm when he endeavored to get to his hotel. She desired to re main near lier brother and declined to go. *'I have brought you herc to kill you," Stark said, (.?nick as a dash Iiis wife seized him as he was endeavor ing to draw his pistol. She pinioned his arms and her cries brought her brother. The pistol was taken from Stark before it was drawn. Words be tween the; two men followed and blows were exchanged. Stark1' went to a pawn shop, where he procured another pistol and returned. He entered the tlie ollice and walked to the cage where Angel was at work with Iiis back turn ed. Resting thc pistol in one of thc small steel holes of the cage he fired, the ball striking Angel in thc back of the liearl and lodging near the brain. Angel fell. Stark looked about him anti started to leave when a brother of Angel appeared and seized him; Tlie brother made an effort to kill Stark with a knife but others interfered and tlie police placed Stark under arrest. Angel is at St. Luke's hospiteal. No hopes are entertained for his recovery, but he will live until morning. The defense that Stark's lawyer will make is that lie was insane, a theory which is generally accepted by those who know him, and who have been with him during the past few days. Stark was formorly auditor of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West road. An^cl was cashier of the South ern Express company. Turning Out Unseals. Hugh H. Price, surveyor treneral of Arizona, IMIS been removed from of fice as a result- of an investigation made by Secretary Hitchcock's.orders into charges preferred against Price and his chief clerk, W. TO. Murphy, of receiving illegal fees for expediting work in that ollice. Krank S. Ingalls of Yuma, Ariz., lias been appointed surveyor general in Price's place. Murphy has been suspended pending inquiry by the civil service commis sion into the charges against him. Ile has sent in his resignation, but it lias not been accepted. Murphy was appointed from (?eorgia and Price from Arizona. Killed hy un Automobile. A fatal automobile accident occurr ed Thursday at Barbe, near Bordeaux France. A car conducted by an American, whose name was given as Martin, said to lie a hotel mau in New York city, and who was accompanied hy a party, of guests, became, deranged arid the vehicle dashed into a ditch. Ono of its occupants, M. Culvilllcr, had Iiis back broken and was killed outright. Martin had a shoulder in jured but the two other occupants of the car escaped uninjured. Fell Tlirbiiirli ii Bridge. Au engine and 14 gravel cars went thrungli a bridge near Hugo on the Arkansas and Choctaw road Thursday killing four of thc crew. The dead are: A. M. Hanna, conductor. C. IJ. Miller, fireman. M. McAllin, engineer. J. T. lilli, brakeman. Tho bridge was new and unfinished. No Delny ol'thc haw Here. Wilford Roschorn, colored, was hanged at Statesvillc, N. C., Thurs day for thc murder of Mis. Dolph Beaver on the 30th of July. Thc coun ty commissioners ordered that thc execution lie private, but thc surging crowd outside the jail yard toro away the canvas and fully 2,000 people wit nessed thc hanging. Roscboro met his fate with.stolld corni,osure. COTTON REPORTS. Each Dinner to Keep a Record of Every Bale Ginned. / ~ WORK OF THE SPECIAL AGEI?T8. Five Statements Aro to Ho For warded to tho CciiHus Depart- . merit DurluR tho Cotton Season. The census department is making every effort to secure accurate state ments as to thc number of bales of cotton produced each year, and in or der to get this information, says the Columbia State it has been decided to furnish ?inners with books in which they may keep a record of every bale handled by themselves. The depart ment arrived at this decision, upon the suggestion of special agents of tho census department and' upon re quests from glntiers themselves. The books have been printed and will be sent to the agents for gratuitous dis tribution. The gin book should be posted daily and should show a record of every bule limned. This will provide a new and uni fora system of bookkeeping and will facilitate the efforts of the department to keep track of thc pro duction. Upon the accuracy with Which the books are kept this year de pends the success of thc innovation, and if the department ls satislicd with" this year's work the gin books will be published every year. These are blank books, properly ruled, with spaces in which the ginner may record thc number of pounds of seed cotton sent him, the number ot bales and pounds of lint, thc pounds of cotton seed, and finally notes as to thp cost of ginning. In keeping books for the government, the ginner will keep a record which will be valuable In his own business, and at the end of each day his earnings will be right bo fore him. Where a person gins for himself he should, for the purpose of this record, open an account with himself as "cus tomer," and thereby provide a com plete record of all cotton ginned for himself as well as others. Tho work of collecting cotton sta tistics'during thc last ginning season through special agents appointed by the government proved quite satisfac tory both to the producer and to the manufacturer. ' There will he live cot ton reports. this season. The first will show all cotton ginned from Ihr growth of 11)03 up to and includiii;; Aug. 31. The second; will show all cotton ginned from the beginning of the season to Oct. 18; tlie third all cotton ginned during the season up to and including Nov. 18th; the fourth report will Bhow all cotton ginned from the growth of 15)03 up to Decem ber !3th. The Hf th and last report will likely be made during the tirst portion of March, 1904, and will show the total crop of 1003. . Thc information given is held as strictly confidential, and thc opera tions of individual ginncrs are not divulged. Upon thc joint cooperation of tlie cotton growers, ginncrs, and local agents must depend thc success of the census ^office in this inquiry, and its ability to render this great service to the southern people and to all interested in tire cotton staple. Cotton statistics collected through tl?e commercial system, however ac curately compiled, fall short of the de mand of both producer and manufac turer-tirst, in that as they cover thc quantity of cotton marketed between Sept. 1 of one year and Aug. 31 of thc following, they are not statistics of a crop grown in any one year; and sec ond, in the liability to error involved in statistics so compiled. Nothing short of ollicial reports, made sufficiently early to form a basis of prices, will entirely satisfy the cot ton, grower or manufacturer. A cot ton man Tuesday said it Is gratifying to know that the south has the assis tance and cooperation of the govern ment In bringing about the result tiley desire-an undertaking the suc cess of which now depends upon the cotton growers and ginncrs themselves. Realizing that the collection of the data for these reports ls made at a season when tile ginncrs' time ls greatly taxed, and appreciating the necessity for prompt returns, tlie cen sus oillce has located, in each county containing 10 or more ginneries, an agent, who will visit each ginnery in tlie county and secure a report of tlie quantity; of cotton ginned up to cer tain dates, lu undertaking thc fre quent and hurried reports now sought, it is of vital importance that tlie re turns bc made with absolute uniformi ty and that all be received at Wash ington at one timo. Thia result could not be expected from individual requests made by mail of 30,000 ginncrs, at a time when they are engrossed in their ginning work. Furthermore, the census'office must, be kept advised of all changes in the management and operation ol' these establishments, ana secure returns from all new and revived plants. To accomplish such results, i*" becomes necessary for the otllcc to nave local representatives who shall be charged with the duty of keeping in close touch with the ginning industry in cadi county, and of promptly report ing tlie quantity of cotton ginned. Mia DIM Do Man." Judge Audcnreld or Philadelphia was hearing a case, the proceeding in which brought to the front a man named G?sier. A German lawyer rep resented ono of tho litigants and tie persisted In mispronouncing Geslcr's name, calling him Jester. Finally the Judge said: "The gentleman's name is Gesler, not J esler. You surely re member thc- tyrant at whose order William Tell shot the apple from his own son's head?" "Sure I do," said thc German, heartily. "Is dis dc man?" i MADE MAD BY HOLINESS. '-' ., . A Horrible Tragedy Knactcd tn tho >s County ot Anderson: A special dispatch from Anderson to The News and Courier says a hor rible case of infanticide causcd' by re ligious fanaticism occurred, '-Monday night week in Broadway, Township, about six miles from tho city. < John G-raffenreid, a negro, and his wife/ had been attending a "holiness meet ing," and had becomo greatly wrought up over the excitment attending it> They left the.meet Monday night und spent a greater part of the hight* praying. Just before daylight Grsffenreld says, his wife awoke him and asked him which he loved best, his wife or his baby, a child about Ki months (rf'agc. She said the Lord was-goiug to take one of them and asked which he would rather give up. Ile says that if it was thc Lora's will he would rather give up thc child. He says tho wo man then got out of bed and took the child in her arm and declared she was going to oller lt as a sacrifice, lie says he was standing by her trying'to get ber quiet, when she suddenly ex claimed: "Herc, Lord, take this child," and threw-it against the wall. His wife then threw her arms around him and tried to choalc him, saying something about holli of them going to Heaven together. They had a scuttle, which awakened the other children, who ran into thc room and took tho child and placed it in a bcd. The woman then jumped out of a wintlow and left the place and went to thc farm of W. Q. Hammond, were she appeared early in thc morn ing, acting in a strange manner, as if demented, and Mr. Hammond secured lier ror fear she w..uld do herself of others harm. She said- something about her husband killed her baby, ?and tliis aroused Mr. Hammond's suspicions, and he phoned Sheriff Green for instructions. The sherill gave instructions to have her husband arrested and this was done Mr. Allen Martin, who was at Mr. Hammond's and the man and Iiis wife were brought here and put in jail. Tiie woman is either raving mad 01 an adept at feigning insanity, and spent the day, rolling on thc llooror try ing to climb thc walls of thc cell, but no word could be gotton from lier. Thc man appeared to be more rational, but is evidently weak minded and talked freely about thc affair, though his story is rambling and disconnected. He does not show any sorrow or remorse over thc deatl of his child. The coroner was away to-day and the inquest has not. ye( been held, but it is believed the above arc About thc facts of the case. THE GAME LAWS. r ' .;. :--i^J y . . if: Complaint is Made that Hali' Growr Hirds Are Killed. There have already been a numbs: of complaints t.iat the game law is be ing violated. It is said that the sum mer has been very propitious to tilt raising of partridges and tho field! are full of young birds which in sorat localities are meeting with wholesale destruction at thc hands of pot limit ers. In view of this fact, it might bi well for the sportsmen'who love sporl for its own sake to become familia with tlie game laws so that they cai prosecute pot hunters and stop tin extermination of fledglings. Following is ii digest of thc gamt law of 1?02: Non-residents required to pay ? license of $2f> to the county treasure of thc county where the visitor ma; lie Tor the privilege of hunting in tin State. Not obtaining said license he fore hunting or shooting, shall b< deemed guilty of misdemeanor, ant on conviction lined not mofe thai $50. Tliis act, does not apply to per sons who kill game on their own land lt is unlawful to kill deer cr tt worry them with dogs between th first day of February and the first da; of September, except in the counties of . Clarendon, Georgetown, Colinton Williamsburg. Marlboro, Kershaw Ilorry, Darlington, Marion and Hork eley, in which counties it shall not b lawful between the tirst day of Feb mary and thc first day of August Fire-hunting is prohibited. It shall not bc lawful between th first day of November to kill any wil turkeys, partridge, quail, woodcoe or pheasant: or between tlie first da of March and the lirst day of Augus any dove: or, at any time during th year, to tire-light any' of the bird named. lt shall not he lawful for any pei son, esccpt upon his own lands, or u{ on thc lands of another with the con sent of the owner thereof, to net c trap a partridge, and it shall bc ur lawful for any person to sell, oller fe sale, or ship or export for sale, an partridge, or quail, or deer, or wit turkeys for the space of live yeai from the approval of this act; provlt cd, that nothing in this act shall pr? vent the importation for sale of un partridge or quail. Any person violai ing this section shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and upon eorivictio shall be punished hy a tine of not c: cecding *:i0, or by imprisonment i the county jail for a term not exceet lng :i? days. Died ol' Hydrophobia. Joseph Alston, a colored hoy, ! years of age, died this morning of li. dropiiohia, at Iiis hume, No. 20ii Asi tori street. The boy was bitten hy dog near his home five days ago. Tl clog was not known to lie mad and fro what could be learned today it do not appear that the vound caused at alarm or received medical attention : the time. A few days ago the hi was taken Uland Dr. La Roach Wilst was called In. He diagnosed thc ca as hodrophohia and applied thc usu treatment, but to no effect, and tl hoy died after suffering in terrible a ony for hours, lt ls not known if t dog was killed. "IHncktlom" l'or Xe-groen. Tho hlaekdom Town Site cornpat of Santa Kee N. M., was Incorpor?t Thursday with a capital stock of $1< OOO. Thc purpose is to establish colony of negroes from thc sou tho States in Chavez county, the name the town to be Iilackdom. THE: 1?|5PT WRECK At Fishing'Ci wk'-Being Investigated v hv^tuff- Commission. WHAT? ofeoF THEM S AYS. . -.: ' . ,' '-\h.< : Mr. GnrrlsVi-Tylp to Soeno Fails to v .. :. ? ^t&V . ' * . Reward.'!!!in With Decision g ; ) T"? IJIOS. Chairman -irris of the railroad eommlssif;??|".. '.dnesday completed and gave out for publica ti on bis report on tho Fishlng^rbek disaster. The report discovers nott tin g new as to the cause or the conseqaences pf thc wreck. It self, but ent^.lnto an elaborate de Tense of tho. liberalities of the statute giving the.: bfjard autliority in such matters an?.rj^tlculing the idea thab tlie board'sh^spectlons.of bridges can be regarded! .is'.?ny sort of a guarantee against.dai^?^. The report in full is as follows: ..' ?';...'* ' Colurn?jtol S. C., Sept. 8, 1003.. To the Uoatjipl^Railroad Commission ers, CoiurrJM,. s. c. Gen tlem?uT??n; accordance with law I went to* Boek Hill and thence to Fishing creekt'to Investigate the re cent disastrous wreck on the. South Carolina and georgia Extension Rail road compauyis tracks at that point, i found tbo"?vreck clearedvaway and burned. Ftp bi thc the best informa tion t-hat I'tfj?td get (without Actual mea'suremeh&)"t,he trestle over Fish ing creek w^yO^?ect high. I found about 150 p|bp1e engaged in the re placement i?;thc destroyed trestle, ?fcourse, ib>yas quite Impossible fur mc to acquire'any thing like accurate or detailed^ntorm?tion after my ar rival two d?ys^after the catastrophe, but I feel that it ls due the board and State as wefl:tx) report just what 1 found. Brt? before 1 do so I wish to refer to thef;provlsions of law which .requires thajt-'in'accidents of this kind the authorities report the facts to the commission|Witbln 24 hours. This was not done. VlLgot ray first in for manion by what is .commonly known as hear say on thq,?y?filng of .September 4th. A. day elated before I could reach the scene so that my visit to thc place of wreck wa's|vdelay.ed until Saturday, September^ 5th. Mit! OAKUIS AT TIIE UHIDOK. Thc newspaper reports of this fear ful occ- , .gb :, wer?} I lound, in tho maine1 1 1 t; that is to say from the stands %I.c,??ualby. I devoted, my eptir' '* H an examl the rer^aJUbJ lng t.. msls. .g ot Hb?~??t?^ec?| corita .?sound timber, but I did dot lind more than two consecutive cross-ties to be worthless, or entirely decayed. A part of the under struc ture I found In a condition of decay. Tho trcstlo lies along a tangent where the spreading of the rails is qujte un usual. And I examined all the track wheels that I saw o nd found them in tact save one which was of thc four under the front of the engine, the (lange on ouc of these was broken off for for about 20 inches and it was pointed out to me by tlie superintendent that the frag ments of this wheel were gathered up about 5.0 feet to the rear of the point where the eugine lay. The remainder of thc trestle witli the cars, which were a total wreck, were bumed bc fore.l reached thc scene, therefore I bad practically no opportunity to ex amine thc timbers in that part of the trestle which went down. I cannot, therefore, with the evidence before me say just what the prime cause of the wreck was,' but I have no hesitancy in saying that If it is a fact that the wreck occurred from a broken Hange, that the trestle in its condition of parbial decay offered less realstcnce- to a derailed engine than it would if it had been sound. I found that the people of Rock Hill, Yorkville and thc county of York generally in a state of intense excitement, a very natural conse quence of such a fearful disaster when you remember that the victims were tho friends and kindred of many of thc best people of the county. I met a great many of the citizens of the county who had visited thc wreck earlier than I, and there was no ex ception to the belief that the sole cause of thc disaster was directly traceable tb the unsound -structure of the bridge. ? INSPECTIONS NATURALLY INEFFICIENT While there is no law looking to the punish mont ol' any transportation company by thc commission for acci dents of this kind, yet there is a clause In the statutes which reads: "Sec. 1030. The commission shall have the general supervision of all railroads and railways in this State operated hy steam, and shall examine the same and keep themselves informed as to their condition and thc manner in which they are.operated, with refer ence to the security and accommoda tion of thc public and the compliance of tho several corporations with thc provisions of their charters and the laws of thc State; and the provisions of this chapter shall apply to all rail roads and railways, and to tho cor porations, trustees, receivers or others owning or operating thc same." Of course, this section ls very general, necessarily. There aro 3,000 miles or railroad in the State. Trestle inspec tion tb 1)0 at all efficient requires a visitation once in every 30 days, some times oftener. Thc proper inspection of a trcstlo requires time and care. If this sect.iou contemplated a guaran tee on our parb against danger from defective construction it would Im possibility oven if no other duties than inspection were assigned us, for thc services of no less than 30 inspec tors arc now employed In this State. As you know it has been tho custom of our commission to visit points where there is complaint and to un dertake ro remedy the complaint. Wc visit the roads once in each year on account of custom more to Investigate depot accommodation than to pass upon thc soundness or unsoundness of trestles or roadways. In fact lb would bo as ridiculous as it would bc farci cal for this board to attempt to guar ~\Vhcro tho anteo tbe public against accidents from defective construction. ; i .There Is but one method of iixing responsibility known to mc aa a legal ized one, and that ja for sufferers to avail themselves of thclrtflght in dam age.^- It would be, indeed,.a.poor pro tection; to our people if- tho O. K. of this commission should exempt any I railroad from the cue sequences of its ? acts of negligence. j KEELING AMONO YOKK l'KOI'Li:. Bub to return to the matter directly 1 under discussion, I must report to you ! thc feeling of the people lu York 1 county. I found ir. so intense tnat ' none"were willing to dlscucss the eat- 1 astrophe as resulting rro:n any other cause than that of detective construe- ' tion. I visited the Rick rooms of the wounded at Rock ITill and found the patients wounded in this wreck in the care of trained nurses and under the eye of the best medical talent- obtain able, lt was a sight tnat 1 um sure would stir tile deepcsV sympathies of the human heart. I say mothers hy the side of sons lately tho pride 'of their lives but now In thc agony of premature death, wi ves at the sides of stricken husbands and one and all with thc choking conviotion that their loved ones were the victims of infidel ity on the part of a transportation company who had promised safe con duct. THltEE UBCOaniENDATIONS. Of course accidents will happen everywhere und so .serious often as to take the life of some one's loved ones and the consequences will pass from the memory of all Rave *'a loving few." The legislature has not seen fit. to consider this otlice with such favor as to provide us with means to protect the public in thc smallest measure beyond our own services. But wc Owe it to the public to du what wc can to guarantee protec tion. Therefore, I recommend, ilrst, that we employ an expert bridge engineer to inspect carefully the trestles and track Of * thc South Carolina and Georgia Extension Railroad company; second, that we summon to this olllce at the earli est possible date the olllcials of the Southern railway directly charged with this portion of the road, for the purpose of making inquiry of- them Into-the causes of this wreck; third, that we make iuqulry generally into the operation of the Southern railway because of the complaint against them, and because the tendency of their operation appears to minimize local interest in the interest Of what Is coramcnly known as through inter ests. Respectfully submitted, C. W. GAHUIS, Chairman. Fifty Feet Through The Air. While.Barney Oldfield's racing au tomobile.was running, nearly GO miles '?ftlio?r. 'at tbo;j-.6ross-Point track at TJ?troit^TSrioli;; We?ne??iiy af terscbti.. in the ten-mile open eTont, one eftlie front tires on the machine burned through and exploded, throwing the car into thc fence and injuring Frank Shearer, a spectator, so terribly that bodied iu an ambuloncc cn route to thc hospital. The car went 50 feet through the air and Oldfield, who kept his seat, bad a marvelous escape from death. Ile received several cuts about the hedy and had one rib broken. Old field had just time to twist his brake and head for a spot between two trees. Shearer was standing against the fence at this point and the car struck him squarely, breaking both legs in several places and fracturing Iiis skull. He was thrown 75 feet and never re covered consciousness Oldfield had presence of mind to throw himself backward on the fiat deck of the car, which went crashing through a low tree and was completely wrecked. Shearer's brother was standing near him and had a narrow escape. Injunction Itcftisctl. In tho Supreme Court Thursday morning a decision was Hied by Asso ciate Justice Ira B. Jones, refusing an injunction and dismissing the petition of II. A. M. Smith, receiver of the defunct bank of the State, against R. Hi Jennings, State Treasurer. The petition was fur an injunction to pre vent the State Treasurer writing o IT his books thehondsof the hank, which have been carried for thirty years. The bonds were stolen during the war and have never been recovered. The case has been elaborately adjudicated in the courts, the judges of the State sitting on one occasion en bane upon it. It was decided that the bonds were due to thc receiver and felic re ceiver was instructed to apply to the Legislature for authorization ol* their payment. At the last session of the Geueral Assembly, however, an act wus passed instructing the State Treasurer to write thc amount of thc bonds oil his books. Thc application of the receiver of thc bank was for an injunction to pievent the State Treasurer from carrying out thc pro visions of this net. Hour oil liner Issue. Senator Hoar discussed "Problems ol' the Nation" at the annual summer outing of the Essex club of Massachu setts at Bakers' Island Thursday. Discussing thc rr~e problem in the south, the senator said: "1 know, my friends, that there are special difficul ties in this problem as it affects our colored fellow citizens. I know how deeply moved arc thc feelings of our southern brethren. I would not utter toward them a word of reproach. I know hov/ near io their homes and how close to t bob- social and poli tica) life comes tills cloud and shadow. ''1 seo that one. enthusiastic southern gentleman has renewed the proposi tion that we send the ten million ne groes puk of the country. This is totally impracticable. Let us not delude ourselves. .Ve have got this question to meet squarely at home. The negro will stay. The European und the Asiatic will come. You can not turn them out and you cannot keep them out." A ?oath Ship. Bearing the bodies of MOO soldiers, who sacrlilced their lives in the Philippines, tho transport Kilpatrick ls expected hourly at New York from Manila, by way of the Suez canal. The ship bears tho largest number of dead that has yet arrived from the islands. The completo list shows that less than onc-llfth died from wounds, received In battle. DROUTH OVER COTTON BELT.'' Detailed Iteport l'rom Kacli of tho Cotton ProtlucinK States.. That the people ot this section in terested in the growing crops in the South may judge for themselves' the { indications .upon which the recent de terioration was reported, tho following detail report from the New?! Orleans station ls given below. These reports ire more in detail than the general summary constituting, as they do, the latest advices from the cotton produc ing states. It will thus be seen -that there ls a deteriorating, drouth over the entire cotton belt, as these reports from the dille rent states wRl show: LOUISIANA. . Dry, cool week; low temperature unfavorable for colton, rust and shed ding reported in several parishes and boll worms damaging crop In some places, early cotton opening rapidly and some prematurely, picking con tinues, but is notgcnerul; too cool and dry for sugar cane; rice harvest pro gressing rapidly, yield good; oom be ing gathered. GEORGIA. Drought continues, with -hob days and moderately cool' nights; cotton opening, shedding and rusting badly; picking begun in a few northern coun ties, becoming general io middle and southern; considerable ginned and marketed during week; crop in critical state; fodder pulling nearing comple tion; late corn badly fired; land too dry for fall plowing; pastures and some streams tailing. ALAUAMA. Dry week; first four nights quite cool, temperature more favorable thereafter; cotton rusting, with much shedding, stopped growing and bloom ing in places, considerable open, pick ing becoming general; minor crops generally satisfactory, but rain needed for cotton, late corn and some minor crops, particularly in northern dis trict; considerable early corn gathered yield good; much fodder and hay sav ed. - ARKANSAS. Days warm, bigots cool, total ab sence of rain; ill crops sullerlng for moisture; cotton lost' ground, some complaints of sueeldlng, premature opening, rust, boll worms and sharp shooters, but notgcnerul, beginning to open normally In some sections, needs rain: late corn needs rain bad)y;-con slderable hay and fodder saved in good condition; stock doing well; fruit prospects unchanged. FLORIDA. 'Generally dry over greater portions of northern and western districts, moderate showers in central and heavy Tocal rains in portions of Southern dis-, .trier; ddeajLweek. for cotton to mature; staple- opening rapidly .'""picking - be coming general and being pushed, com plaints of rust and sheddingfeontinue, though prospects are for fair crop! citrus fruits and- minor crops In good condition. TENNESSEE. Dot, dry weather prevailed, with damaging effect on miniatured crops, particularly late corn and cotton and some of theminor erops; fine yield of early eorn assured, late rapidly failing; cotton not maturing well, rather light fruitage, shedding rapidly; to bacco cutting well advanced, late corn needing rain; large quantities line forage secured; turnips and potatoes need rain; apples dropping; too dry for plowing. NOKTh CA 110 LI NA. Week not so warm, with beneficial rains first two days, but central sec tion needs more moisture; conditions favorable for maturing crops and for farm work; corn good; saving fodder nearly over except in west; despite some rust and shedding, cotton is ex cellent, opening everywhere, picking advancing rapidly and ginning begun, good prospect for top crop; curing to bacco approaching completion; late apples poor. SOUTH CAROLINA. Rainfall poorly distributed, western counties suffering from drought: cot ton improved in places, but generally deteriorated, owing to rust and shed ding opening rapidly, some premature ly, in east, where picking is general, just beginning td open in western counties; young corn injured by drought; rice harvest under way, yield variable; much hay saved in prime condition; minor erops need rain. OKLAHOMA. Warm, days, cool nights and lack of precipitation unfavorable for growth: early corn cutting nearing completion; late corn maturing fast; cotton doinu. well and opening, some picking re ported, no shedding; broom corn, hay, alfalfa, sweet potatoes, melons and fruit, fair to good yields; fall plowing well advanced, but ground becoming hard. v TEXAS. Moderate showers in cast coast dis trict and parts of central portion, but general absence of rainfall elsewhere; boll worms mostly disappeared, but cotton suffering from drought in the west and north portions, causing much shedding and retarding fruiting; boll weevil puncturing nearly all new forms in southwest, Central and east por tions; sugar cane doing - well; rice be ing harvested, yield average; sweet potatoes good and ready for usc; much hay and forage saved. MISSISSIPPI. No rainfall; cotton injured by cool weather fore part of week; rust, shed ding arid blight general, serious in south; crop continuos fully three weeks late, well fruited north, some prema ture opening, picking becoming gen eral; pastures, peas and cane good, but needing rain; sonic localities too dry for turnips and fall gardens. A. Desperado Mut'dorctl. A special from Morganton, N. C., says that "Stiver Creek" Sara Pearson, wr ll known to officers of North Caro lina as an alleged dangerous character, was shot and klllecL In a bar at fi o'clock by C. F. Campbell, a deputy sheriff. It ls said Campbell opened fire on Pearson as soon as he saw him, there having been bad blood between rue two for some t'mo. Campbell sur rendered and was placed In jail. BEiYEKS GIVES UP. Postoffice Scandal Enters Now Period of ?otivity. &RAND JURY STIRS UP TETCSO$,: And Brings In Indictments Agathst a Nambor of Postoflloe Of ficial?, and Blore Are to . Como. George W. -Beavers, the former head of thc salary and allowance dlvi sion.of the postoffice .department at Washington, surrendered/himself In the olllce of United" Statt s Commis sioner^ Hitchcock, in Washington,, ' Tuesday and gave 35,000 bail for his ... appearance before Commissioner Hitchcock on September 15. United States District Attorney - Burnett last week .notified Bea vera's : council that a bench warrant had been ?': ssued for the arrest of Mr. Beavers, and that he would be taken Into cus tody forthwith if he did not Immedia tely surrender himself. The deten dant's lawyers then verbally informed ; the Federal authorities that they would produce their client on Tues-.7 day. Tbe indictment against the. former ; bead of the salary and allowance dlyl- !/ ; sion was returned two months ago in I' Brooklyn, and charges htm with hav ing received a check for $810 from tho - Brandt-Dent Manuf?cturing . Com pany, cf Middletown, Wis, which, It -A is alleged, was paid to him by.the firm as a part commission on a number of , automatic cashiers .furnished the postal department by that firm. After deliberating for several weeks over a mass of documents .submitted by tlie postofllcc inspectors, the Feder al grand jury in Washington city Tuesday returned seven indictments in postal cases, involving six different ' . persons. All thc indictments were kept off the public record and both tho officials of the. district attorney's Dtllce ami'.of tho postotfice.department refused td'divulge names or details of :. the iudlctments until the parbles in-, . dicated are arrested. The identity of . the indicted individuals was thus left a matter of conjecture. It Is expect ed that arrests will occur Wednesdayi .morniug, and that the postotfice de partment will have some announce ment to make during the forenoon? The. grand j ur y's action probably ' marks the beginning of the end of the Investigation that has been in progress since the middle of last March. Voluminous evidence ;has. ' been laid before the grand jury as the result.of..the inquiry, and while the -present leportof 1 the jury; di?;pcsns--A?-'.'. : most of the cases, there;yet remain: ' several to be passed uponi When the v" latter are disposed of, according to Postmaster General Payne tlie in vestigation, so far as the work at ... Washlnj?ton-is concernad, will be at ' an end for all practical purposes. Several of the persons indicted Tues day live outside of Washington. They will be arrested as soon as hench war- . rants can be served. Two other important events occur red Tuesday In the postal Inquiry, licopol Stern the Baltimore contrac tor, who disappeared from Baltimore before he could be arrested on an in dictment returned July 31 last, was : located at Toronto, and thc Jong de layed surrender of George Beavers, the former head of the salary and; allowance division, to the New York authorities took place. The postal officials have been searching for Stern ever since he disappeared arid have - finally received word from thc Cana-^, dian authorities that he is in Toronto. The queston of extradition has been baleen up with the State department. The case has features similar to the Greeoe-Gaynor case. It' was then contended that conspiracy, was not extraditable, hut the State depart ment took the view that .tifo'- acts themselves involved allegedVe'mbezle^ ment and constitute, extraditable"of- . fences. Stern was enacted for con spiracy to defend' the Government. He was charged with receiving-ii'11 prlce for satchels for lebterrcarrlers, including shoulder straps, despite the supply to bim of th?se Btraps at Government expense. In considera tion of the supply of these straps to him, for which he was paid in full, be is charged with paying large sums tb W. C. Long, of that city, arid A.. W. Machen, the deposed head of tbo'freo delivery service. "Murder Will Out." On information furnished by Alice St?yton, colored, of Philadelphia, Pa., Essex Stayton, her husband, was Wednesday committed to prison ac cused of murder. She visited a magis trate's office to ? procure a warrant for her husband's arrest on a charge of assault and battery. While telling lier story she declares Stayer, had shot and killed Abraham Little, his brol.her-inlaw, in March, 1?02, at,,. Grimesland, Pitt county, N. C. When; arraigned for a hearing Stay tori was; asked if bc had killed Little, ne said he had quarreled with tlie man and In self-defense had shot him. He left tho place at once and did not know/ whether Little's wound had-proved fatal. The woman testified that Little died five days after thc shooting. Tlie local author?tes wiuoovnrouniciier; with the authorities of Pitt county, N. C. A Torriblo Accident. . Dr. Edward C. Rushmore of the Tuxedo colony was fatally injured and? Miss Cornelia Herrick of Southamp ton, bis niece, was Instantly killed in an automobile accident at Arden N. Y., on Thursday. The automobile in going up a steep incline thrdo hundred yards from E. II. Harrlrnan's summer residence gave out and thc brake would not work. Thc machine rush ed backwards down tho I hill going down a G0-foot embankment on tho mountain side. . TITK report that Carrie iNatton is. about to make her debut on thc stage"" has filled the camp of tho Thespians with dire consternation. Sho ii to ap pear in a revised dramatization of "Ten Nights in a, Barroom," which is being adapted by liobcri/IOllsworth.