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"DO THOU LIBERTY^REAT. INSPIRE^OUR SOULS ?KX> Wj^KE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY, OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY O??SE ? -------. - ,_:_:_ . - . " . : BENNETTSYIIil-E, S. C.,' FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1903; 'i 1 . NO. 47. GlVESjllITHOEITY. Chiof Justice Pope Teilt Why He Made Erroneous Declaration. TELEGRAM FROM BUCHANAN Telling Him Something Hud Been Done Which - Had Not Boon Done Oauied ibo Whole - Trouble. To the Editor of The State: Please publish the enclosed letter re ceived by me lrom Chief Justice Pope. A.-S. Douglass. WinnBboro, Sept. 24, 1903. Newberry, S. C., 23d, Sept., 1903. A. S. Douglass. Esq., ; "* Senior Member of the Wlnnsboro Bar, "Winnhboro, S. GT" My. Dear Slr: To allay all mlscon-. st ruction of the acts of two .members of the Wiunsboro bar, 1 enclose you copies of che telegrams of Judge Buch anan and of the letter of Joseph E. McDonald, Esq., to wit: . Copy of telegram of Judge Buch anan, dated Wiunsboro, Sept. 14: "Hon. Y. J. Pope, Spartanbury, S. C., care T R Trlmraier, Clerk of Court. "J. E. McDonald, Esq., wrote you to Newberry Saturday, saying unani mous desire of Wiunsboro bar special term be held third Monday Oct. Reg ular be called ult. O. W. Buchanan." TblB telegram I received on the mornlnlng of Monday, the J4th inst., before I heard the argument of Solici tor Thurmond. Copy of letter of Joseph LO. McDon ald which 1 received on the evening of the Mth instant, on my return to Sa luda, N. C., on the same day I receiv ed Judge Buckanan, telegram, to wit: Wlnnsboro, S. C., 13 Sept., 1903. "Hon. Y. J. Pope., Chlei Justice Su preme Court S. C., Newbery, S. C. "Dear Judge: lt has beeu pu bl ?oh ed in the newspapers that Judge D. A. Townsend has been assigned to hold the term of court for Lexington county, commcucing on the 21st in s.ant, owing to the Inability of Judge Gage, who has been and still is indis posed. Under thc regular assignment, made last December, Judge Townsend would have been thc presiding judge at our term for Fairfield, which also commences the 21st instant-next Monday week. The members of ou. bar are uncertain in the premises whether or not our regular term will be held Inasmuch as it has not been announced whether or not some one will be assigned to hold our court ai tho time mentioned. We have a full ; docket and it will be impossible ti; . have all the cases-disposed, of., at the .-?H^Etilatfcer-rn','..,tn.Uit^j;nndM4au4ji:.0o^ certainty, I think^it ls'thri qnanimpu^ .*:-iwW>i4^?^barJ tl?a't.''* in the ?ve?l Judge Townsend will not be here, the regular term go by default, as lt were, and that we bo allowed to have a special term for four weeks, beginning the third Monday in October. Will you, therefore, kindly let me know who, if any one, will be assigned to -hold our r?gulai ;ermV" "We would prefer the special term. "Yours very truly, "J. E. McDonald." I made or passrd no order on the 14th Inst., but did pass an order on the-ljth Inst., as I recall the date. . "Dmay add add that both Mr. Mc ? Donald and Judge buchanan desire that I make public the respective paper?, addressed by them to me. Very respectfully Your obedient servant, Y. j. Pope. The following copy of a telegram which explains itself was telegraphed The State Thursday night from Wlnnsboro: (Telegram to Chief Justice Pope from J. E. McDonald. Wlnnsboro, S. C., Sept. 15, 1903. To Hon. Y. J. Pope, Saluda, N. C. My letter not intended to convey wish of bar for special term, except in event J ubue Townsend did not hold regular terra. (Signed) J. E. McDonald. Side hy Kitto. The remains of Jas. L. Ferrlere, who was connected with the ofllce of the Associated Press in I'aris and who died suddenly Sunday, and or his wife, who In a fit of distraction took her life soon afterwards, were burled side by side In Bagneux cemetery. The Rev. Dr. Turber rector of the Ameri can church, officiated. A number of newspaper men and friends of the de ceased were present. Many beautiful floral trlhutes were placed on thc. cas kets. No relatives o? cither Mr. or Mrs. Ferrlere have been located. (Joes U|> lor Lille. Kirby Lark and Aleck Land, aged 25 and 17, sons of respectable parents, were con victed In Greenville on Wed nesday of burglary in entering the store of the'Monaghau mill and steal ing a lot of goods. The penalty is life imprisonment. A Queer lOlopemout. James Allen of Allegan, Mich., eloped on Sunday with Mrs. Mayrae Johnson, his mother-in-law. He was married to the daughter a year ago, but lately discovered that he "had made a mistake In not marrying the mother." A Harsh Ito m ody. Because he could not persuade him to abandon his wicked ways, Samuel Thompson, aged 85, of Norwalk, O., shot and killed his son, Leory, aged 51 years, on Saturday night and then blew oil the top of his own head with the gun. To .van Colton Crop. Chas. P. Lane, a chemist sent from Washington to Texas to Investigate the boll weevil, says there are Dis counties in the state In which the cot ton crop is almost a total failure on account of the pest. Ho ?kipped. J. P. Clarke, described as "a Block young mau of 28" Bklpped out of Greenville abiuptlyon Sunday morn ? g, leaving debts to the amount of tvimething like 91,300. THE NEW COTTON CHOP. Tho nulabor of Bales Ginned Vp Co August ?1st. A census report on the quantity of cotton ginned In the United States from the growth of 1003,-up to" arid Including August 31 gives' the follow ing figures: Total commercial bales, 17,587, in cluding 10,991 square bales, 570 round bales of upland crop and.20-, bales of sea island crop. The total gibs In op eration numbered 2,170. These statistics were : collected through a cauvoss of the '32,025 gin neries of the cotton States by 021 lo cal special agents. Ouly 2,170 gin ueries had begun operations up to Sep tember 1, and these had gidn?d but 17,587 commercial bales, or Niles as pressed afc the ginneries, equivalent to 17,302 bales, counting round bales as half bales. This report will Be-Tallow ed by four others for . this season, showing thc quantity ginned rsspec tiVely to October 18, November 18, December 13, and a ilnal r.'.borfc, which will give the quantity ginned from the growth of 1903. The statis tics by States follow: Alabama, ginneries in operation 243, total commercial bales 1,314, in cluding 1.218 square bales and (J0 round bales, upluud crop; Arkansas, 12 ginneries, total commercial bales 17, all square bales; Florida, 60 gin neries, total commercial bales 582, in cluding 50 square bales, upland crop, and 21 sea island; Georgia, 400 gin neries, total commercial bales 0,283, including 5,922- square bales, 350 round bales and Uve bales sea island; Indiun Territory, 3 ginneries, total bales 4, all square; Louisiana, 117 gin neries, - total commercial bales 448, comprising 443 square bales and 5 round; Mississippi, 141 ginneries, total commercial bales 384, all square; North Carolina, 35 ginneries, total commercial bales 112, all square; South Carolina, 254 ginneries, total commercial bales 1,081, all square; Tennessee, 1 ginnery, total- commer cial, 1 square bale; Texas, 850 gin neries, total commercial bales 0,701, comprising 0,048 square bales and 113 round bales. Kansas, Kentucky, Missuri, Oklahoma and Virginia, no ginneries in operation. WE ATHEE AND GEOFS. Ileportof Station Director Bauer at Columbia orv Them. Station Director J. W. Bauer has issued the following crop report for the week ending September 22: -The week ending?8 A. M. Monday, Snpteraber 21,.had a mean . tempera ?^?^??'4b.4 is ab??jLfcj deg^ temperatures fell to about 50 degrees in the northwestern counties during the latter part of the week. There was much cloudiness early in tho week, while the closing days were gen erally clear. The prevailing winds were fresh to brisk, easterly. General rains occurred early in the week. They weie comparatively light over' the western half of the State aud heavy' to excessive over the eastern half, the amounts ranging from less than au inch in the western to over 7 In chai hi the eas1 ern por tion. The average for the State was 3 80 inches. The rahiR relieved the drought and put the ground In good condition for fall ploughing, and benetitted late corn and late cotton somewhat; also peas ?md sweet potatoes, and started new growth of pastures, but interfered with farm work, particularly haying and rice harvest. Some lowland rice fields were Hooded, causing consider able damage to rice in stacks. Klee harvest made rapid progress where the lields were in tit condition. Late corn improved slightly after the rains, but the weather was too "cool for its rapid development. Fod der pulling is active in the extreme west. Premature opening of cotton was checked by the rains and cooler weather, but much of tlie open cotton was stained and some sprouted in the bolls. Rust continues to spread in the western colindes. Caterpillars are doing damage over limited locali ties. Fruiting has practically ceased and there ls poor prospect for a top crop. Sea island cotton continues dwarfed and has blight in spots, and it is fruiting slowly. Cotton picking was delayed hy thc rainy weather early in the week, hut again became active at the close of the week. In places in the eastern counties picking is nearly half finished, while in the western counties it has only begun. Ila} lng was delayed by the rains and some mown hay damaged. Tho hay crop is poor in places and Is very heavy in other sections. Peas have improved. Poor stands of turnips have been secured. The weather was Ideal for strawberry plants, lt was too cool for truck to como up rapidly. Some oats, rye and barley have been shown. ? I umped Prom a Steamer. When the Algonquin reached Fort Gcofge, Fla., Wednesday morning lt was found that Ernest Bixler, a pro minent insurance mau of Jacksonville, was missing from his stateroom and a note was found with lils clothes say ing that he intended to jump over board. Ile was returning from the Catskills, where he had been to regain his health. Uk was much Improved by his trip and when last seen appeared to be in good spirits. William Starts, his roommate and friend, had taken the trip with him to nurse him and last saw him alive at 5 o'clock Wed nesday morning. Did Not Mourn Long. About the quickest marriage on on record occurred in Columbia. In a hearing before the probate court there on Saturday lt came out that Ardilla Freeman married Wm. Manor, who died March 21, 1902 and was buried tho next day, 22nd. On the 23d Tims. Morris proposed to the widow and she accepted, and they were married the next day, 24th. MARKET IT SLOWLY! That IB the Advice Given the Farmers by Mr. Jordan IN HANDLING THE COTTON CHOP lie Thinks They Should- Take Ad? vantage of the Cotton situa tion and Froteot Their Own Interest. .Hon. ITarvie Jordan, of Georgia, president of the Southern Cotton Growers' Protective Association, has issued the following address to the farmers of the cotton growing States: The cotton producers of the South have long wished to realize good prices for their staple und the opportune time bas now arrived if proper judg ment is exercised in marketing the present maturing crop. To make a successs of any business, a thorough knowledge of every department con nected with lt, and a judicious exer cise of sound Judgment must be dis played. We have now reached the stage in the world's production and use ot cotton where the laws of supply and demand can be fixed and regulat ed upon a legitimate basis. Wc are no longer faced with an enormous sur plus as was the case each year until quite recently, giving the mills and the speculators an opportunity to de press prices by cia'ming the existence of heavy stocks on hand. Since the orientation of the South ern Cotton Growers' association in 1900, strong efforts have been put for ward each year by the members and officers of the associution in each State looking to the adoption of more systematic und business-like methods In sidling the crop. Tlie rapidity with which the great staple crop of the South lu s been rushed on the market in past years hus been ruinous to the producers. An enormous oversupply has b'jen created during a short period of time when no legitimate demand has existed. In the early fall spinners have been in the habit of buying sup plies to Jast for 30 and 00 days only, after which they retire from the mar ket and the producers are then left in the hands of speculators who continue to buy up the crop, making contracts with mills for future deliveries as the staple may be needed for actual con sumption. To force thc sale of a twelve-month's supply of any com modity within the short .space of three or four months will necessarily place thc seller at a great disadvant age in the market. The great object and purpose of our association bas been to, first, place in to activeoperatiqn a scheme by ..which ~s?iiw_?v^4;fhb:'ihi(8 cn?.?-*'~-wUw -in gathered regarding the yield of each year's crop, and put that information Into the hands of the producers, man ufacturers, and the legitimate trade as rapidly and as early In the season as possible. This is now being perfect ed through the co-operation of the United States census and agricultural department at Washington, by the reports of ginners on the one hand, and the reports of fully 9),000 active correspondents through the other. It-may safely be predicted now that the tim.e is near at hand when com mercial reports, often gotten up for selfish purposes, will become a thing of the past, and will exercise but little or no influence upon the crop from the standpoint of a statistical report com manding serious consideration. Our second great aim, equally Im portant as tlie first, is to educate the producers upon the high importance of moving tlie crop slowly. To market oue-tenth of the crop each month, In stead of -one-fourth as has been the rule In the past. If the growers of cotton will co-operate to break up the present bad system by which nearly one-fourth of our cotton crop is con tracted for in Ootober deliveries, a giant stride In the right direction will have been gained. The legitimate market for spot cotton can be and is as easily glutted as with any other farm product. Two important es-cn tials arc necessary toa solution of this problem: make our fall accounts due in October, one-third, January, one third, and the balance April 1st the following year, then begin to raise more supplies ut home and cut the strong baud of the supply merchant which dictates the sale of the most of the crop as fast as gathered. This season the producers occupy the strongest position in the regula tion of prices for tlie crop which- will soon bo ready for market. Supplies for the raw staple have been more completely exhausted within the past year that at any time within the past four decades. The present high prices for spot cotton is due to a scarcity of raw cotton, and a dental of this fact cannot be unloaded on thc shoulders of th-j Brown, Sully "bull" clique. The mills have shut down because they have no cotton to spin, and be cause they cannot find in the market such grades as ure fit for spinning purposes. Stocks are exhausted and the active operation of spindles In this country and in Europe can only be un dertaken after the present crop begins to move to market. This fact ls clear ly emphasized by the activity of mills in pushing their orders Tor new cotton ut this time. This stale of affairs could nut exist if the mills were shut down simply because the present prices were higher than usual. These reports are being sent broadcast over thc the country at this time to de press prices and to enable thc mills to get their supplies at greatly reduced rates. Aside from the exhaustion of sup plier., which can be designated better as a cotton famine, the condition of the present growing crop is not such now as to forecast any hope in thc minds of any one that a much larger yield will be made this year than last. The boll weevil, according to advices Just received, are doing great damage to the crop in 81 counties through the middle and southern portions of Texas while thc boll worm ls ravaging thc crop in northern Texas. East of the Mississippi rust and shedding is seri ously affecting tho plants in all of the old States. Just what would result fruin a orup already three ?. weeks late, by the visit of ah early frost lt ls bard" to predict. These are matters which must to a greater or leBS extent figure In the futue of the crop. Certainly* there ls no sound argument In farmers forcing their cotton on the. market rapidly during the next two months unlesss present prices should prevail. If a heavy, rush of tho staple is made on the markets price* will at once be gin to sag, and the strong present position of the producers greatly weakened. There aro no debts, due in Septem-, bery, and hence no necessity for rapid marketing during that month, yin October if prices should gb down ma-: terlally farmers can store their colton, or part of it, and get assistance from their, local batiks to meet maturing obligations if their merchants are un-, able to back them up in this tight for" fair and better prices than have here-' tofore prevulled. Our cotton is worth ten cents per pound every year, and iii should net that amount to each pro ducer. When supplies are exhausted and tho prices of cotton goods are ad vancing, even higher prices should rule. The old argument that farmers' should be content with eight cent cot ton is a swindle and a delusion. Every farmer who by the Swelt of his brow produces this great staple is fully entitled to and should receive every cent that bis cotton is fairly/ worth according to its legitimate .value. If all the producers In each of the 750 cotton producing counties in the South would get to gether as did the farmers of Troup County,, this State, on August 22 and pass strong resolutions not to (sacrifice their cotton this year by early marketing at re? doced prices, and then stand by those resolution, Southern cotton producers; would once again begin to get on their, feet, and a new era of prosperilty be gin to dawn all over tho South in every line of business. As the olllcial head of our Inter state association I call upon and urge; upon every producer all over the South to take a timi stand for the mainten ance of high prices this season. When the market begins to sag check re-^ ceipts at once. Sell the crop slowly,' and furnish the mills with such sup plies as are needed for spinning pur poses, and do not by usual methods' give to them and the speculators of the; country the whip handle of the situa-: tiou. We bold upon our farms today the key note to the situation. Tue* staple is yet in our possession, lt is wanted by millions of spindles in all. parts of the world, and is demanded' by yet greater millions for clothing among the inhabitants of every civi lized nation uu the globe. Consump tion of cotton has outstripped produc tion, and a knowledge of this facti should maintain prices at a high level, until conditions chang?, which are not" likely to come to pass for many year*^ if ever again. Toe South possess;, monopoly of this great slape, ?, .while millions have beeb--msa&vv. _T ur oy-TjuuenrurLemrrero~vne hands the producers, the latter may now.gVfc" their reward by handling this seas?n\s, crop in accordance with the condi tions surrounding lt. Let there be called meetings of farmers in every county, let there be prompt and deci sive action taken, let a minimum price of not less than 10 cents per pound be fixed in every local market, and then be stadfast with one another and get rid of the yoke which lias for half a century bowed Southern cotton pro ducers under the domination pf gam blers, speculators and foreign spin ners. HAKVIK JORDAN, President Southern Colton Growers' Protective Association." THEY LYNCHED HIM Al'ter a Desperate Fijrh.t With a SlicrlU'H Armed Posse. At Lynchburg, Tenn., Sheriff Geo. R. Davison, attempting.to save the life of a negro early Friday morning, tired into a mob which was assailing the jail, wonning a man whose name is unknow. The sheriff summoned assistance, but he had his aides were overpowered, the jail entered and the much-wanted negro, Allen Small shot to death in the corridor. The mob was composed of about 25 people. Sheriff Davidson was alone at the time. He refused to give up the keys and opened fire from a win dow. He wounded one of thc mob but his identity is nut known. The sheriff then called for the police. Two otlicers and several citizens rushed to the jail, but despite their presence, the mob battered down the wooden door at the foot of the stairs leading to the corridor. The sin-rill"-and posse made a stout resistance, but were unable to prevent the mob from breaking in the iron door at the head of the stairs and en tering the call occupied by the negro, about whose neck they placed a rope. As soon as thc man emerged from the cell, it became apparent that the ne Rrc could not be taken from the jail and hung for fear of being fired on, and lie was shot to death. The mob then made un effort to escape, but the sheriff and his guard captured three of them, and they are lu Jail. One of them, it is said, has made a confession, implicating 13 men in the affair. Small was under arrest on thc charge of assaulting Mrs. Eliza Egglcston and at his preliminary hearing the warrant was amended as to charge a simple case of assault. The negro had waived examination and was walt ing thc action of the grand jury. Convicted Twice. Curtis .lett was convicted at Cyn thiana, Ky., on Tuesday of the mur der of Town Marshal Thomas Cockrill at jackson, Ky., in July, 1002, and the jury fixed the penalty at death. He, with White, was recently con victed of the murder of Attorney Marcum and sentenced to the peniten tiary for life. A Put lllind Tijccr. * Wade Hampton Sellers, king of tho Columbia blind tigers, ls in trouble. The const iblcs on Wednesday found a lot of hor-Vc that he stored in tho barn of Aldi 'man Collins, without thc alderman's consent. Among the stu ff were 400 pints of corn liquor, 200 half pints of peach and honey and 200 half pints of rye. SW OUT THE GAS. Happy Bride and Groom Had Nar row Escape from Death. PJEY WENT TO SPARTAHB??EO {So Enjoy tho Honeymoon ?nd the ; Groom Was So Happy that Ho Took Gosel! got for a Candle. jp A speoial dispatch from Spartan burg to the Greenville News says a young married couple hailing. from ^fie everlasting hills of North Carolina where the candle light yet holds sway, and nature's gas lies unmolested be 'neath tho rocks and boulders, narrow ly escaped asphyxiation at the Spar tan Iun at au early hour Wednesday 'morning. But for the acute, nostrils pf.Night Clerk Goodlett the corouer inlght have had a job Thursday, aud what scorned to all to be a honey moon to have ended in a double | tragedy. . Between the hours of 2 and 3 Thurs day morning Mr. Goodlett scented .escaping gas about the hotel. He at t?rst -paid but little attention to the smell, thinking lt was probably issu ing from a broken pipe In tho street I .oj a defective meter in the building.' [AB time passed the gas increased and the emcli became more annoying. The night clerk went out to seek the ori gin of the trouble and found that the 'escaping gas had permeated the entire 'building, but as yet it had not reached Tjthything like a dangerous stage, be log only a bit nauseating. v*?The clerk went to theolllce, secured to the room. The key worked andi the door' was opened, and upon the [ bed in slumber that was fast deepen ing with the gas lay the young bride and groom. They were aroused with some effort and informed of their peril. There were no ceremonies and formalities were dLspendsed with. The I jet was examined and was found to | be turnea on full tilt. The groom de nied having blown out the gas, but | theovldence was' acainst him. ?\The couple weut to the theatre and returned to the hotel at about ll 'o'clock.': But for the transom being .b'peti It is not likely.that their danger !w0uld have become known before .morning. Besides a slight headache ^h^y. were not affected. They regis 'te; ed from North Carolina. Their | S?Bes.afevvyithheld for fear the gold 'ot pk or.green goods people will get I ' " hr them. . Flited nMlBsiiiB. r'?^l& in the big Hotel Brunswick | ;were hemmed In by flames, whloh de stroyed the houses Friday morning. Four are known to have perished and six are believed to be dead. Fifteen are missing. Many were awakened from a sound sleep to lind their escape by the halls cut off aud leaped from windows to fall-wounded to sidewalks. Others, strangers to the place, . no| doubt became confused and lost theil lives while making their way through the smoke filled halls. The explosion of a kersene lamp in the kitchen caus ed the fire. The h >u e was well filled for thc season. Among the dead are: Mr. and MrR. Georgo Hardwood of Concord, N. H., who occupied a] room on the second floor. They were found in corridor where they met] death atempting to escape. Dirty Politics. It ls being noted that In his address at Antietam President Roosevelt fail ed even to mention Gen. McClellan, who was in command of the Union force in that battle, while he ,'pald a tribute to Gen. Green, an officer of lower rank, and went out of his way to throw a bonquet at Gov. Murphy of New Jersey, who was a private at that time. The State says "Gen. Greene's son Is the Republican police Commissioner of Greater New York| while Gen. McClellan's son and name Bake is the probably Democratic can didate for mayor of the metropolis. If any one rejoices over this latest "break" of the presidents ls Leader Charles F. Murphy, who is backing Congressman McClellan for the Demo- j eratic nomination." Truuuuro Ship Found. Rumors of the Unding of a treasure ship off Miami Fla., were confirmed Thursday when Capt. Jennings and three of the crew of the wrecking schooner Osceo flied a libel against I the cargo of a sunken ship in the j United States court. With the assist ance of a chart in his possession, Capt. Jenings hos been searching for this | vessel from time to time for many years, lt ls supposed to have gone) ashore In 1835, loaded with ore from the Mexican mines, lt was found in live feet of water near Miama. I ts j cargo, which has only been partly ex amine, has been found to consist of silver ore. Moro Kusoulttles. Thc scandal in the interior depart ment in connection with the adminis tration of affairs In Indian Territory has grown to such proportions already that it rivals that to the postolllce de partment. One Washington corres pondent for a Republican paper pre dicts that it will Kurpasi even that I malodorous affair In magnitude and in | the number and prominence of the of ficials who have a hand In thc steals) about to be uncovered. Six Hundred Turks Killed. According to a telegram received from Kostendil (43 miles from Sofia) OOO Turks were killed In a fight at Kotchanl Sept. 18. The Turkish troops number 7.000. After the light the troops, enraged at their losses, pillaged and burned a number of Bul garian villages. Killed Himself. J. n. Polnemus committed suicide with a parlor rifle at his homo in Summerville on Wednesday. He was 45 years old old leaves a wife and sev eral children. Bad health is assigned as tho cause. A SMOOTH PAIR CAUGHT. Ono Was a Walter and tho O thor an Ex-Convict. More than 8130,000 stolen, business houses ID every part of the United States victimized, a bank created, a waiter risen from poverty to affluence and an exxon viet again placed behind tho bars-these are the features In the meteoric career of at least one of two men now under arrest in Chicago. Pos to ill ce inspectors made the cap captures. Julius M. Nlsson, known also by a dozen other names and Arthur J. Herbst, said to have many i aliases, are the prisoners. Misson has confessed, but Herbst will not admit that he had any part in the big swindle. ? :Postofflee Inspector . A. ?. Gelmer has complaints against the two num from nearly 200 Individuals and cor porations who have lost amounis' ranging from 825 to 83,000. Ail these have been victimized since June 20, when Nisson opened an office in Chi cago. In previous operations under different names the men are alleged to have secured at least 8130,000 in tac last ll months. This was the mode of procedure, ac cording to the inspectors: Nisson and Herbst would go to a City and open an office, engaged osten sibly in the retailing of metal ware, novelties, machinery or anything which they could secure on credit. They would operate under the name of sume firm well known to the busi ness world and in ordering goods to the value of thousand of dollars would give commercial agency references. After the articles had been received the bogus company would transfer the consignments toa warehouse and theu ship them to New York, where they were disposed of through a "fence" which has baffled the Inspectors for months. When suspicion was aroused thc men would flee to another city. HE FOOLED THEM. A Little Fellow Thought to be tn a Well Turns Up. The Columbia State says there was great excitement at Cayce Thursday, and the people of that suburb turned out en masse to rescue Audley Frlnk from the well in the yard of his father, Mr. L. J. Frlnk, the South ern's agent at that place. Audley and Luther were playing in the yard and tho latter, bearing the bucket fall into the well, ran into the house exclaiming that bis brother had done it. Mrs. Frlnk, seeing nothing^, of Audley, ran to the well. Ovff-* come with .fear that the little fellow, had ..fallen: in, she. ran to the station drowning. The work gang on extra 1321 was at the depot and they ran to the hous? One of the negro' train hands went, down into tho well, the water heh -g found to be over his head. Afte making thorough Investigation he ie1 ported that the child could not be found under the water. By this time all the people of Cayce had heard the shocking news, and whilo.the kind neighbors were extend ing sympathy to the father and mother of the* little fellow, a great exclamation of Joy" went, up, for out from under the house came- Andie vi Hs explained that when the older child, Luther, who is but 5, beau! thc bucket fall into the well where tt had been blown by the wind, and ex claimed to his mother that Audley had done lt, he ran under the house to escape a scolding.^. -Luther did not | see him and reported to their mother the statement that Audloy was in the well. Corset Prevents Awful Death. At Salisbury, N. C., Wednesday, the corset of a mulatto woman, neat ly dressed, who was too drunk to give her name to the police, Ba ved her from an awful death. She arrived from South Carolina and was walking along a steep embankment on the li ne of the Southern railway. She fell several feet, her body struck the end of a cross tie in the bridge connecting tho two sections of the city. She was sus pended there in an upright position for half an hour, supported by a strong corset which had been caught by thc projecting tie. Several trains passai many feet under her while the crowd looked on. The raliway company suc ceeded in placing a rope around her waist, loosening" the bold upon tbe corset and dragging her ashore. She was arrested. Jumped to His Doath. The Charleston Post says Bobert Jones, colored, jumbed from the ex cursion train en rout from Greenville to Charleston Thursday afternoon about eighteen miles out of Columbia and was Instantly killed. Some time after the excursion train pulled out of Columbia Duncan Hill and James Bosemand, who are running the ex cursion, passed through the train and discovered a colored man on the steps beating his way. The stranger was a<ked to come inside thc coach. Fearing that he would be punished he Jumped from the train, which was running at about forty-five miles per hour. His skull waa crushed. His body was placed on the train and carried to Gadsden, where it was identified as that of Bobert Jones. Prison Association. Gov. Beckham of Kentucky has written Gov. Heyward to appoint delegates to thc National Prison as sociation which meets in Louisville Oct. 3. The government has appoint ed Capt D. J. Griffith, the superinten dent of the State prison, and the board of directors as follows: A. K. Sanders, Hagood; M. A. Rowland, Bolling Springs; J no. G. Mobley, Winncsboro. W. D. Mann, Lowndes dalo, and W. B. Love, McC nnellsvllle. Wants a Call. There ls a preacher In Emporia, Kan., who Is probably listening sharp ly for a call now. Ho asked tho wo men in his congregation on a rec nt Sunday to "please remove what thev called their hats." Tit AIN E0BBEB8 SHOT. One is Killed by un Express Mcsson? ' ?er aud ADO thor Wounded. A dispatch from Portland, Ore., says the Atlantic express on the Ore gon Railroad and Navigation Une Which loftth?re at 8.15 o'clock Thurs day night waa held up by four masked men an hour later near Corbett sta tion, 21 miles east of Portland, One of the robbers was shot and killed by Express 'Messenger Fred Korner and Engineer Ollie Barret was seriously wounded hythe same bullet.. After the shooting the robbers fled without securing any booty. Two of tho high waymen boarded the train at Trout dale, a station 18 miles east of Port land, and af ter'the,train had got -fin der way they crawled over the tender and covered the engineer-and tl reman rri th j revolvers and. toldthew to^top at mlle post 21, which 1B near Corbett station. A? the train slowed down twp more mou appeared. Two of the robbers compelled the engineer to get out of the cab and accompany them to the express car while the others watched the ?rcmar.. The men carried sever al sticks of dynamite and when they came to the baggage car, thinking lt was the express car, threw a Stick at the door. Express Messenger Korner heard the explosion and Immediately ::ecurcd his rifle and opened fire. The bullet pierced the heart of one of the robbers and went through his body, entering tbe left breast of Engineer Barrett, wno was just behind him. Barrett's wound is above the heart and is not necessarily fatal. ?hetiil Story and four deputy sher iffs left Portland on a special ttain tor tihe scene of the robbery. Shortly after their arrival there one of the gang of outlaws was found a. short distance up the track badly wounded from a charge of buckshot which h^ had received ia tho head. . He was placed on board the sheriff's special train. The bandit said that bis name is Jim Conners, and that he ls from Portland, but refuses to make known the names of any of the other bandits or lue direction In which they weut. SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN. ftho Threw Hertleif in Front of a Passing Train. At Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, 22 instant, despondent and disheartened over conditions, some of which, may never be known, Miss Olive Rayl, sis ter of Dr W. L Rayl of Gleiinvilie, whose body was fouud badly crushed and severed into several pieces on the "Lake S'noie tracks, in Gordon Park, early Tuesday, threw herself lo' front of a passing train or lay down on .the opinion cf imo ponce Tuesday-night after a dav spent by the entire detec tive foice in attempting to unravel tue uncertainties which surround the death ot* tbv young woman. The be lief of the police that s tte was not murdered and her body placed upon the track, ls practically substantiat ed by the coroner and a second phy sician who performed the autopsy over the body, neither,' whom Incline to the theory of murder. Notwith standing their belief that the case is one cf suicide; the police are still working on it, and will continue todo so until further effort In that direction seems ?seles*----"v?-._Rayl went to Clev???wiu ' -Ohio, some timo ago, to l&Ko- '"-ork of nursing vith her brother, wno i"??> physician, and entered a tralnin, school for nurses almost immediately I upon her arrival. The only case for self destruction, if the young woman proves to have beeu such, ls a dlsj appointment in a love affair at Wells ville, and this is said lo have been the j cause for Miss Rayl's leaving her home city. A Had Case. Jilted on three occasions by men who had promised to marry her, and having, after each of the first two times, unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, Mary Evakory, a Russian ser vant, 24 years old, made a third and final attempt to end her life on Tues day, 22d Instant, and was found dead with a gae tube In her mouth at the house- where she was employed. Two : years ago tue woman came from Rus sia to marry a man whom she had known in her native land. She fouud I him married, with a family of two I children, and she attempted suicide. She then paid $200 to a "Sohatchen," or Hebrew matrimonial broker, to arrange a marriage, but the intended bridegroom withdrew, and the woman took carbobo acid. Her life was sav ed, however, and when she had saved up anothe-i $200 from her wages she awaiti resorted to the schatchet who found a ?o-m who promised to marry her. The engagement was aunounc- j cd last week, aDd the event c?l?br?t-1 ed with a party. Later * je woman j learned that the man she was going \ to marry had a wife and three chil dren in Russia. She was found dead Tuesday. Thf Month Of Sunshine. October is one of the most regular of the year. The temperature ls equa ble and tlie rainfall ls moderate. It is shown by data prepared by Mr. J. W. Bauer, section director, that the nor mal temperature for a period of 16 ls 04 degrees. The warmest October since the local bureau was established was in lOUt) when the average was 00 degrees. On the 8th of October, 1895, thc themometer registered as hlgu as 02, and on the 29th In 189] tho freezing point was recorded. Oc tober JR a month of light few killing frost being recorded before the first of November. The average amount Of piecipitatlon "was 2.39 inches. The greatest monthly precipitation was .43 inches in 1887, and the least was 742 lu I8!>0. October is a month of .sunshine, the average number of cloudy days being but seven. Shipped as XCgga. Olficcis captured one hundred half pints of whiskey at tho Seaboard depot in Greenwood on Monday. It had neon shipped in a orate, as if lt wero eggs, to a restaurant-keeper named D. E. Bolton. ? COLONY LOGATED. A Cot of Froaoh Canadians to Sett's Near ? ammo rv Ho. A PIGNEEE BAND HAS ARRIVED "... And. Aro Now Engaftod in Bulld . lu? Homes nt the New Settle ment, Others Will Fol low Soon. _ Tho News and Courier, of Thursday, says Mr. Li. Scott Allen,' who is con nected with the land and industrial department of the-Southern Ballway, ' ,h with .headquarters in Washington, arrived In Charleston'' Wednesday morning and-immediately afterwards went up to Summerville. Wednesday night he returned to the city, and is located at the. St. John Hotel. Hls'r^y visit to this section ls In the interest of a colony of French Canadian's; which is to be established on the line 'j of the Southern Railway near Sum- ? morville, and'all of this is a direct re sult from a visit paid by a number of French Canadians last M;;y. . -It will be recalled that early in the spring a party right from the manu- v r faoturlng districts of Massachusetts visited Charleston under the chaperon ago of Mr. Allen, and inspected the - lands here and at Summerville. ' They ., seemed much pleased with conditions and prospects and indicated that they would consider the advisability of j bringing a large number of their cpun- > try m eu, French Canadians, then working in the mills, to the Sunny South, where they could once more I engage in agricultural . pursuits as [Abey desired. r<The flrstof the colonists have, ar rived, the contingent numbering two families, 10 persons in all. The site of the colony is about a mile and a half out of town and Civil Engineer Hale of the Southern railway puu his services at the .disposal of the colon- ? ist? in running the lines for the fences and houses. The contingent is just in advance corps of the many people who will arrive here next month and In November from Canada and New . England. The Southern railway land agents have arranged to bring large numbers of Canadians south, to settle at vari ous points in South Carolina and the Summerville colony will be one of the largest and, most encouraging. Land Agent Scott Allen' of the Southern has the particular colony. in charge, accompanying the pioneers, and will be herc for several days assisting them in their settlement. The Canadians are al! ?'.flne' ?i!*?s of people and the)r ? arri val '.' i riSiSiinAi m a ??n i?-irv?la na ; ii?Jh*?'?jii Wing ror uietown"antf vTcinity"Ttt?~" Canadians will engage extensively in farming and raising cattle. They will build their own 'schools and churches and the colony will be a settlement pf some proportions and importance, ct \ A FIENDISH CRIME. ^ A Bu trey Blown Up With ;Dynamtto and a Man Killed. One of the most fiendish and blood thirsty murders and robberies in the history of Washington county, Pa., occurred Friday afternoon on the Mid dletown road, about 15 miles from Pa. Samuel T. Fergu ?' 0r .'toe Ferguson Construction company of Pittsburg,' was- instantly^, killed and his secretary, Charles Mar tin of Cincinnati, was fatally injured. The two men were driving along i the road in a buggy, carrying (3,600 I in cash with which to pay off some of their men employed on construction work along the line of the Wabash railroad, when suddenly an explosion of dynamite in the roadway literally tore the rig to pieces, killing Fergu son outright and throwing Martin 200 feet, tearing bis left arm almost from the socket. It has been learned that two men supposed to be Poles placed the dynamite in the road for _ the purpose of killing Paymaster Fer guson and had arranged to explode it by mean8of au eleotrlo battery. The I satchel containing the money is miss ing. Two suspects are under arrest In the camp of the construction company near the village, but the farmers of the section, who are scouring the county for traces of the murderers, believe they have one of them .' in abandoned coal mine about a mlle and a half northeast of Middletown. A Train Robbery. The Atlantio express on the Rail road and Navigation company's line was held up and robbed at Corbett,' Oregon, at 10 o'clock. It Is reported that Engineer Barrett was fatally shot. Details of the robbery are very meagre, and it is not unknowu whether the robbers secured any thing or not. The train run to Bridal Veil, BIX miles, where lt was met by an engine from the Dalles, bring ing another engineer. Negro Fireman Killed. Bill Ware, a negro fireman on the through freight from Greenville to Columbia, Friday night fell off tho eugine at the trestle across Saluda river, near Dyson, and was killed. It ls supposed he wai leaning out of tho engine and lost his balance. The engineer did not miss him until he had gone about four miles and his' steam began to get low. Tho train was stopped and run back, but they were unable to find tho negro. Ware's home was near Ninety-Six. Could G Ivo II I m Points. John Temple Graves might l.nterr* view Peg-Leg Williams and get. some". Information as to whether or not tho deportation of tho negroes would be satisfactory to tho Southern whites. Williams undertook to operate, as "a labor agent In Graves' own state. Ho got away alive, but he win never again engage in tho business of mov ing negroes.