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: '?DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAfcl^HJR LIVES IN 'PHY POSSESSION HAPPY, OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." .]??_' . ? :'. VOL. XXVII. BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FMpAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1903. NO. 14. A BRUTAL MURDER Henry Patrick Shoots and Cut? Hi?| '*- : Wife to Death. . ? LITTLE ANNIE'S TESTIMONY. Crazed by Drink, the lu furl uteri Hus? band Accuses His Wire or Un faithfulness and Thon -KillH Hor. : Bennettsville had a shocking mur der on last Tuesday week, the particu lars of which are most revolting. A dispatch to the State says: A ghastly sight met the gaze of | those who went to the home of Henry Patrick, a three-room cottage in the southeastern portion of Bennettsville near the cotton mill Tuesday morning. On the iloor, face downward in a pool of her own blood, lay the dead body of I Mrs. Mary Ellen Patrick with a gun I Bhot wound just under ber left ear and Six gashes made with a knife or razor, across her throat. In another room was part of a bed soaked In blood and two little cbildrcn, a boy of 2 and a | girl of 6, seeming not to realize that their mother had been murdered by their father. There is but one known | eye-witness to the tragedy-that ls| the girl, little Annie May. Her story told at the coroner's inquest today IK as follows: I was in bed with mamma asleep and was waked up by the fuss. Papa was cursing mamma about a j note she wrote to Raleigh Stewart. Kit Cox told him about tue note, he I cursed Kit and told her if she didn't j get out he would cut her brains out | and Kit went out. Mamma was sit -tlng up in bed. She told papa to take I that gun away and be shot her. She | fell down on the bed and got blood on my arm. He told her, "Damn youl and Raleigh Stewart too." ne was cursing every kind of a way anti was standing up by the bed. After he shot her he pulled her out of the bed and dragged ber into another room. Papa and I went to a negro house on Mr. Capel's place. After he shot I Mamma papa told him if he didn't get | up and make a fire for his little girly i to warm he would shoot his old house down. The negro brought papa home and put bim in the porch and be went to sleep. I tried, to go to sleep but I couldn't and Mr. Carpenter came and 1 carried me to his bouse. Raleigh was ] ? here when pa came home last night. Mamma was writing a letter to Ral eigh and gave it to him herself. Pa told him if he didn't get away from here he would shoot his guts out. The collateral evidence gathered from several other witnesses is summed up1 - below..; : * --mrs.'Kit Cox, a woman about 301 years old, who recently came here from Stanley county, North Carolina, was boarding at Patricks. She said I Bhe had heard no threats or fuss but left the house because Patrick was| drinking and slept on the floor in an unoccupied house the rest of the | night. She beard the gun a few min utes after she left Patrick's. Two I young men, Raleigh T. Stewart and Walter S. Carpenter, spent the even ing at Patrick's home and drank with the men and then left again. Car penter swore that while they were there Mrs. Patrick wrote a note and I handed it to Stewart. Stewart after ward handed one to her. The young man left between 9 and 10 o'clock. When Carpenter got home he found Patrick there and they again drank together. Patrick left there between ll and 12., Carpenter's father said the gun fired after 1. Soon afterward I Patrick and his little girl came over and the girl said: "Pa has killed' mamma." Patrick showed Carpenter his hand and it was bloody. Carpen ter sent for the sheriff and he found Patrick lying at his steps in adrunken stupor. He had to be carried to jail I in a buggy and was carried up the steps. He said nothing about thc killing. Stewart denied knowing anything about any note. "1 think that is a mistake," he said. "I did not receive any note." Stewart isa| brother of J. T. Stewart, contractor for the woodwork on A. J. Matheson'sl new residence and is himself at work ? on the building. Patrick ls a well known character here. He has been living until about two months ago on Matheson street, near the depot. He was for a long time employed by the Marlboro Wholesale grocery. He is a I strong, robust man, weighing about | 200. His wife weighed little more t han half of that. Mrs. Patrick was a daughter of John O. Sanders, an old and well known citizen of JJcnnctts vllle. Your correspondent saw Pat rick on Wednesday afternoon and asked him if he had anything to say for publication. He said he was very sorry the accident occurred, but that I it was purely an accident. "I was loading my gun," he said, "and it went off. Mrs. Cox was there when it occurred, and I think Raleigh Stew art was there too. Sheriff Green has | my knife and there is no blood on lt." A Valuable Tree. It is reported by consul general Guenther that a new plant has been discovered in South America that promises to supplant thc sugar cane and sugar beet. This plant is said to contain a large amount of saccharine matter aud a high percentage of natural sugar properties which are easy to extract. It is said to be easy to Cultivate iu oiimatcs like those of tho southern portion of thc United States and according to experimente made by the discoverer, tho director of the agricultural institute of Asun cion, this plant is said to yield a sugar which ls from twenty to thirty times as sweet as ordinary cane or beet sugar. Tho Deadly HotSuppor. At a hot supper in Rock Mills town ship in Anderson county Thursday night Sump Reed and Shug Jones got Into a difficulty, Recd drew his pistol and began shooting. He failed to hit the man he was shooting at but one of his bullets lilt Jones' brother, Will Jones, in thc eye and killed him In stantly. Reed fired two shots after killing Jones and then Bald lt was about time for him to bo going and left the house and has not been seen since. All parties arc negroes. QOS If? THE IR DIRTY WORK. A Number of People Were Robbed by _ .Pickpockets. Tue report that the "grafters," fak irs, illm-ilammers, shell workers and pickpockets had - moved on Columbia from the Greensboro, N. C., fair was not an Idle one by any means. Tho Columbia State endeavored to give sufficient warning. Wednesday at the union depot the pickpockets played havoc among the passengers as they crowded each other getting oft the trains, while bearding street cars at the union station, and during the fierce jams on Main street Wednesday night tlie pickpockets found the pleas ure seekers easy prey. Dr. I. M. Hair o' Union was reliev ed of a $2uo d ia fno un stud as he was boarding a street car at tho station. Two boys caught him in me act and pointed out the man to Dr., Hair, who left the car and caught the thiel and held him until a policeman arrived. At the police station by a shrewd move the culprit threw the diamond in a sewer and Hushed it with water. Efforts are being made-to recover it. A thorough search will be made. At the union station a lady friend of Mr. B. W. liolin or Sumter rushed up and said that her purse, contain ing 837, had been snatched in the hur ry of getting off the train. Mr. 13olin replied to his friend to not worry as he had $150 or S17C with him and that she was welcome to all she wanted; then he reached into his trouser pock et and found that his wallet, too, had been stolen. Mr. T. S. Galloway lost all be had as he and his wife were boardiug a street carat thc union sta tion. Mr Mark Stoney of Edge?eld had bis pocket picked at the union station also as he was boarding a street car. They got all he had-$22. Mr. Thos. E. Harmon of Newberry lost all he had with him. Mr. Harmon could not tell when he was touched. All he knew his purse and its contents, $25, disappeared. The most affecting scene of yester day was a very old couple standing off from the crowds at the fair grounds weeping. Every cent they had was gone-not even car rare was left. Their loss was 805. Wednesday night num bers of robberies were reported-vic tims losing large sums of money. Very few watches have been' snatched as the grafters Und lt little trouble to Mud the ready cash in most instances. The police have been active.. Graf ters and (lim-liam mers have been ar rested with all manner of crooked de vices on their persons. One of these bunco games, is worked with two small pocket knives, apparently iden tical, with spring blades. One knife Is worked very readily and the other is a dummy which cannot be opened. There aro a number .of ingenlous.ways to force an average man to net he can open the spring knife, the fliin-il?m mer dexterously substitutes the dum my knife, enforcing the victim to lose his bet. An intelligent looking boy from Marion, who has attended South Carolina college, was done for $35 in this manner yesterday while standing In front of the "hkyscraper." It was estimated from the reports that over $1,000 had been stolen Wednesday by the "grafters." Mr. H. II. Evans, a well known member of the board of directors of the State dispensary, was robbed of a diamond shirt stud Thursday He was caught in the jam in thc main building, a lady being at one side and a gentleman at the other shaking hands with him. A woman got his pin, which is quite a valuable bit of jewelry. Mr. Evans was unable, to stop the thief for there were so many ladies arounu. The woman passed the pin to a male confederate and both were swallowed up in the crowd. Mr. E. W. Wilson, a well known Columbian, had his purse containing $25 filched from his pocket \wiile in a crowd near the race track; Mr. T. L. Johnson of Newberry lost $15 at the fair grounds; Mr. T. M. Davis, a farm er of Lee county was robbed of $30, every cent he had, as he was getting off a street car up town. The llim-ilammer.s found some ready victims durinir the day. The pen knife thimble-riggers caught several victims. Mr. Millege Blackwell, a Columbia carpenter living on Wood row avenue, had a memorable exper ience with a pair of these blacklegs. The Record says thc pickpockets ar rested Wednesday for stealing a dia mond pin from a gentleman from the upcountry waived a preliminary ex amination this morning and were sent to jail. It is supposed that ?me of the pickpockets, fearing detection, as the police were after him he dropped the pin in a sink at the union depot. The police employed plumbers to take up the pipes, but thc pin lias not been found. The pickpockets have employ ed lawyers to defend them. A Faithful Milliliter. Rev. William T. Warrington, one of the oldest ministers in Indiana, has resigned from Hie pastorate of the First Christian Church of Hagertown, on account of continued poor health. Ile has served as minister for almost tifty years. His salary the lirst year was $50. This was increased each year thereafter by $50 until it reach ed the sum of $4.5u0 per year. He then refused to accept any further In crease, althuugh it was urged upon himtodoso. Rev. Mr. Warrington built church edifices at Darlington, Wingate, Thorntown, Antioch, New Salem, Hagerstown, Boston, Ind., and other points. A Hideous Murder. A Special from Littleton, N. C., says: A hideous murder was com mitted on an excursion train from the Weldon fair Wednesday night by an unknown negro and for no apparent cause. While the train Was discharg ing passengers at Summit, this Slate, a negro walked up beside Levy All good, a colored man of Macon, N. C., saying, "Hello, Allgood," and thrust a knife luto his throat, severing all the main artcrhs and wind pipe. Allgood ran Into the car and died in less than ten minutes. Thc murderer made good his escape. Nhormati Monuments, A monument to Gen. Sherman has been unveiled at Washington. There are a few of the 18(i4 style of Sherman monuments still standing in GeorgTa and South Carolina. SEND J?EGEO AWAY. Is tlie Only Baoe Problem Solution Says Bishop Turner. CLAMORING POR AFRICAN HOME. White and Black People Con Never Understand Each Other and Should Not Live Together Hating Each Other \ "This nation or its aggreg \ed peo ple will either have to open up a high way to Africa for- the discontented black man or the negro question will hinder this Government. There will be no peace to tbe United States os long ns the negro question is an issue. I will tell the black man what John Temple Graves thought, but was re luctant to express. Your very exis tence depends upon separation. At present there is no Christian unity, much less civil and political unity. A shameful division prevails." In these strong terms Bishop H. M. Turner, one of thc oldest and ablest colored ministers' In the South, ad dressed himself to a mass meeting of his race at Atlanta recently. His ad dress was in large measure a reply to the Rev. H. S. Bradley, who had op posed the separation of the race. Bishop Turner has for many years ad vocated the movement of the negro to Africa, and bis address, as was ex pected, dealt with the question in plain language. In part he said: DO NOT UNDKU8TAND NKGKO. "The bulk of white men know but little about tho inner feelings and idiosyncrasies of the negro. When they speak about black men emigrat ing to better their conditions they signally, by reason of the fact that it is not a question that concerns them enough to give it deep and protracted thought. 1 know there are many white mp.n who rldft Int? popularity by pretending to know all about the negro, but they only know the igno rant and scullions side of him. lu this country, where white represents God and black the devil, but little thought is giver, to the black man's future. Everything that concerns the negro is whittled down to the present contingencies, and the eternal future which involves and contem plates change, revolution, mutation and destiny of races 1B but little thought of and if thc negro does not think about it himself it will receive but little attention and our statuB as a race, to use the language of the elder Judge Lumpkin, is so ignoble, and the foolish scare-crow of social equality bas become such a hobgoblin with the ignorant masses that we are further apart in-spiritv ajnd syrnpaji?y; than'heaven and belT We are as innorant of each other as races as if we did not live in the same world. The very conditions that surround and confront us forbid a white mau from having any palpable knowledge of the negro, and I could bring a hun dred . illustration's to establish this fact. It was veri (led the other night in Dr. Bradley's address, when he said the negroes were American citizens and did not wish to be scparagated. NO UK AL CITIZENSHIP. "The doctor says the negro is an American citizen. I wish -he were correct. Twelve millions of colored people of the United States would throw their hats heaven higli if this declaration about the citizenship of the negro was a reality or could be established. Surely the doctor has not been apprised of the fact that the conclave in Washington, D. C., called the United States Supreme Court, has issued a legislative decision taking away every vestige of his ci vii rights, and in the recent Alabama case has declared his political rights a nullity, and outside of the right to pay taxes and work the roads he has not a single right that would prompt him to be ti man. 1 woiild not mention thc de gradation this decision or these decis ions (for there are three, of them) have indicted upon the negro in detail, hut it would be tu:i voluminous and do uo good; but I will give $f>OU If any man will show me such a decision from any other Court of last resort in the world. "I beg to ask the doctor if he could have any respect for any man, or any set of men, who would sit quietly un der the condition of things that con front the negro in this country. If lie wants to know what 1 mean, just let him color his face (fur white is not a color) and attempt to be a man and a gentleman for one day, and he will understand the meaning thoroughly. CLAMORING KUH AFHICAN HOM li. "1 have been singled uut in this country as the chief factor In the Afri can emigration movement, and as such I believe that 1 have received all or 100,000 letters, some of them contain ing dozens and dozens of names, who are clamoring for transportation con veniences anti cheap rates from this to the land of our ancestors in order that they may return to Africa with out having to pay their way to New York city, then to Liverpool and then to Africa which they have tu do at present, costlug them more on the cars to New York than white peuple liave to pay from Queenstown, Liver pool, Hamburg and other points to come to New York, Philadelphia, Bos ton, New Orleans and Savannah. "Think of it-557 steamers, besides sailing ships, are hugging tlie shores or Africa the year round irom Europe and not one from tho United States. "A United States Senator from a Southern State said to me some time ago: 'I am opposed to your emigra tion agitation, especially about return ing to Africa in any numbers. You are keeping up an unnecessary excite ment. But lie finally said: 'Remem ber, Turner, 1 am opposed to it as a white man, as your race furnishes Us with cheap and obedient labor, but If I were a negro I will be d-if I would not leave this country before the sun goes down.' COULD I1UI LD UP A NATION. "When I speak of separation I do not mean that everybody will go, or must go; I ara only contending that there should bea highway made across the Atlantio (only 3,?150 miles from the City Hall of Now York,) for sucn black men and women as are self-re liant, and. have those manhood aspira tions. that God planted In them, and degrading laws will intensify. We are not'clamoring for rich men or men of respectable means. We want smart, energetic and self-reliant men. If Australia could be made one of :the geatest countries on earth by, penal convicts, who could dare say that re spectable colored' men could not' also build up a nation? * "It was also proclaimed the other night that Liberia was a failure and had played out. I know Liberia, I know M?hlen burg Station. I--pre sided over an annual conference there, ordained ministers there, and I am prepared tu say that a liner republic ls not to be found on earth than Lib eria, consisting of 35,000 civilized and 1,500,000 heathen peuple. "In conclusion let rae say that tho negro is the richest mau in the world if be had sense enough Lu know it. We will get that intelligence, how ever, in God's own good time. The American negro, with a few excep t.inns, is the lowest specimen of tbe African tribes. The superior Afri can Bold us Inferior Africans to the white men. We were slaves, hun dreds au d thousands of yeaVs, to. our African masters; but this Juwer type has to' return in numbers, tu civilize and Christianize the higher type, and the white -.an has to help us tu du it and God will see that he does it, pr the natlcm that uwes us furty billion dollars for two hundred years' wurk' performed and services rendered, will commence tu wane and end in broken fragments like the Roman Empire. Vi Grant that the outluuk for the future between the two races appears far more pacido than it did. But God sent the ne gro here through his negative Provi dence, to imbibe civilization and' Christianity frum this giant white race and then redeem the land of his ancestors, and he must do it and will untiinatcly du it." BLIND TIGERS KNOCKED OUT. Constables Stationed at Every Place anti Give Dealers No Chance. Tile Columbia Record says "some time before the fair upeued it wus rumured that an extra force uf con stables would be stationed here dur ing fair week tu luuk after the blind tigers. Thc rumur pruved true, and if any blind tiger is doing any busi ness it is done in the most clandestine way. In fact- it may be stated that the tigers are completely out uf busi ness. Every place where it was known that whiskey was suld had a constable stationed in it. These touk regular "shifts" relieving each other, and. there was no chance for the dealers tu do any business at all. Several of them Thursday afternoon closed their, .doors altogether^except.' thoso-ishioh' happened to have restaurant attach ments: These had to do strictly a restaurant business owing to the con stant presence of a cunstable. In one Main street restaurant a visitor called for a drink in the presence of a con stable, and beinj; informed that he could nut be served he launched out in a general denunciation uf constables. A tight resulted and there were hot times for a few minutes. The visitor was badly handled, though he put up a still scrap. Notwithstanding their cluse watch in the city the constables managed to go uut into the country and capture a large quantity of con traband hidden in the woods. As a chronicler of the sayings and doings of the people the Record s'tates the fact that there is a good deal of kicking among a large class of visitors. Tliev want a drink occasionally at night and they can't unde/stand how they could get it last week aud probably can next, yet must not be served this week. That's the way they talk, but the authorities arc obdurate and are enforcing the law as it has never been done here before." A FOOL AND HIS MONEY. Thc Three Card Game Ployed on Hartford Man. Two strangers who are alleged to have swiudled G. S. Burnham pf Hartford, Conn., out of $5,000 through a three card game, are being sought by thc police authorities here and in other places tonight. Burnham re ported his luss this afternoon. Ile is a well-to-do retired farmer about 05 years old. One of the strangers said his name was Brooks and that he was connected with a bank in Torrington, Conn., while the other represented himself as a southerner, who had come north for the purpose of Unding his sister in Winsted, to whom he was to pay $30,000. Having learned that his sister was dead, thc southerner said he was reckless as to what became of the money. Ile olfered to show Brooks and Burnham how to play the three card game with the result that Burn ham was induced to draw $5,000 from ttie bank and put it in a tin trunk to gether with a roll alleged tu contain $10,000 willoh the southerner placed ns his part of the wager. Burnham was given the key for the trunk and the men drove to West Partford, stop ping at a secluded place in the woods where thc game began. Burnham won, and rccuivihg the trunk started home alone, lt was not until he ar rived home, opened the trunk and found it empty that he realized he had been duped._ Heure, h ?nj; 1'or HIiiiHolf. Thc man who murdered J. Murdock and .Mr?, Miiry Ben verts and seriously wounded lier husband at Port Jarves, M. J.( by firing two loads of buckshot through a dining room window last Friday night is known. Unless his arrest is made soon by New Jersey authorities in whose territory the crime occured, a lynching is threaten ed. It is said the man under suspi cion is one of a crowd searching for the assassin._ As It Should Oe. Tim Columbia Record says for one time the police have put a stop to swindling, gambling games operated by fakirs whu Hocked tn thc city fur the fair. Visitors will generally ap preciate this move, and if any swin dler ls caught violating the ordinance 1 he ought to be sent to thc gang and not given the privilege of paying a tine. Preventing these robbers from plying their trade will mako the fairs much more attactlvo, ^TilANG-E CASE. Took: ^?y?B That ko Might Quaff '.t^^ood from the Bodies. M0$f/HORRIBLE ?ARBATIVE. : . A ll.iiyH Inn Convict Who Can too '???ptfjh?r Put to Death OP toe : -.jifPIoKKed for His Aw .'.' jr. -:t'x ' fut > Crime. f'^i?t?h from St. Petersburg, *Ws the latest Saohalm mail, fi to the minister of the in terip. Contains the following ex trarr ^?ry story: W Niviot 1,118, name Kaserski, hon tf?w, banished to the village of<C Hj eighteen murders lately cott^ i ib the'Island have been tr?cb ij ?b proofs are accumulating th?ti ?-guilty of many more. He adml 5s inability to state Just how m?hr ?n he killed. . "( .ponylet-peasant ?rst attract ed t.lV J i ten Lion of the authorities by tue fy?" \peocy: with which he sold fat tened ?gs. . He raised more than any other] sported settler. At the same tiracjr^ ykoaa continued to vanish in tho neighborhood and Unally a house to; hpiro_search was decided lipon. In the bufi of convict Number 1118, three b?ttiy^pji'taining a dark fluid were fouldrtiWheb questioned, he said he used-Mme'-stuff to grease hlB boots. The otUeJal. thought this a lie and ordem^the convict to drink from one of thei bottles to show that they did not contain poison or explosives. ''?THej^nvict complied with seem ing pleasure and the search continued. Something that looked like a human foot'wpr found in the pig-stye, and, suspicious being aroused, the gover nor differed the garden dug up, with the result that eighteen human skulls w?re^rj^cbvered burled there. "Tl^ieonviot then confessed that he waj| responsible for the numerous disappearances, and, maybe, for the death\pfcroany more persons-he could not remember how many he had killed during-tiic last three or four yeats. He claimed-that his crimes were due to irresistible impulse, a wild passion for drinking-'human blood. He said he could ' riot exist without a botttlc storedf?way in his larder. "Atj the same time the convict was proud -tQ;show that he was not a mur derer-;fpr?gaiu. The money found- on his victims, he had either secretly re turned t?tbeir relatives (which was pr?verj-jbjr.be)., or. kept at the bottom of bis we|f,;from where lt was recovered by'tbHl4w,tborities. . . .''He.cpnfessed, though, tbathe had made'gdod use of their bodies, by cut tlng:tr|?jaa up and feeding his bogs on .th?n^ '^|lt?dnvesttgatlon is still con vvr^in; BuBsla, thc death penalty ls imposed bhly on political criminals, this ferocious monster will be suf fered to live, and the czar's order against corporal punishment, formul ated some two months ago, will like wise favor him. A further report by thc medical autnorities of the penal colony says that convict 1118 is per fectly rational. PASS HIM AROUND. Tho Bankers of the State Warned About One W. R. Morrell. The South Carolina Bankers' asso ciation through Its secretary, Joseph Norwood, of Greenville, ls sending out the following letter received from Emslie Nicholson, of the banking firm of Union: '"Dear Sir:-For thc information of the association it might be well for you to report the following swindler, who, it appears, has been operatiug in this vicinity, and who Induced one of our customers to cash a check for him which proved to be forgery. "His plan of operation is to ap proach a merchant, buy a small bill of goods, and then tender in payment a check drawn by another party to his order, apparently certltied by the bank on which it is drawn. "in the case which occurred here, he gave his name as W. H. Morrell, and presented a card giving his ad dress as Spartanburg and respresent ing that he was with the A. T. T. company. Thc check purported to be drawn by W. A. Dickson on the First National bank of Morristown, Tennes ssee, and was apparently cert! lied by said bank. "The following description of"? Mor rell may be of some service: "Name, W. It. Morrell; residence, Spartanburg, S. C.; nativity, U. S.; occupation, with American Telegraph and Telephone company; criminal oc cupation, forgery; agc, 2f>; height, about six feet; weight, about 170 pounds; complexion, medium dark; color of hair, medium dark; eyes, wore glasses; clean shaven. "From what our customers has been able to learn since the above occur rence, this party has also been operat ing in Spartanburg." Broke 1Kb Wlib's Heart. Mrs. Paarl McDowell, of Yorktown, Ind., died Wednesday night of a broken heart, it ls thought because of the Inexplicable absence of her young husband, Claude McDowell. When a soldier in the Philippines he desert ed, it is alleged, by obtaining a sick furlough in thc name of a dead mate, and, coming to Yorktown, immediate ly married Pearl Stewart. Ile was captured by the federal authorities a few days later and taken to Fort Thomas, Ky., and sentenced for de sertion, lie twice escaped from pri son, each time going to his wife. The .third time he waa captured he served out his sentence. Ile lived happily with Iiis wife until a few months ago, when he mysteriously disappeared. Want to Grow Cotton. Thc belgian cotton interests Is tired of buying cotton from the United States, and a bitter i feeling, because of the Impotency, lias arisen. The feeling, heretofore expressed by tho newspaper and private interests, has taken dctinlte form and tho Bel gian cotton association has now petitioned the government in strong terms. They demand that tho govern ment begin the cultivation of cotton in thc Congo Free State to take tho place, if possible, of importations from the United States. A HOTEL DISPENSARY. Was Ordered Closed Wednesday by Order of the Governor. In view of thc fact that tho dispen sary law is being so strictly enforced in Columbia, a great deal of comment has been occasioned by. the fact that the "tourist hotel". privilege granted the hotel Jerome was being construed as to allow it to run night and day. As is well known thc hotel is not yet completed and is not ready for busi ness, but the dispensary feature of the hotel was doing a good business. The law distinctly says that only guests of tourist hotels can be served after the usual hours allowed by law, but the "privilege" evidently was open to all, according to the report made by Ohlei Constable Hammett. Colonel Mixon, who has the license, so to speak, did not Intentionally vio late the law and evidently thought that he was in full accord with it, but the authorities having his busi ness called to their attention thought di ?ie re u tl y. He can sell only to boua tide guests of the hotel, and as none such exist now the dispensary will have tb close. The governor, the attorney general and Chairman Williams of the state board of dispensary directors, after consultation Friday'gave out the fol lowing statement to the press: "Upou the report of Chief Consta ble Hammett as to violations ot the dispensary law at the hotel Jerome, Governor Hey ward and Chairman L. J. Williams held a conference Fri day morning to consider tho special privileges granted to hotels. "Chief Hammett reported that the privilege granted to the hotel Jerome was being abused tu the extent that persons who are not guests of the hotel were allowed to uurchase liquors. "Upon this report the governor and Chairman Williams determined that the spirit and Wie letter of the act, allowing tourist hotel' an exemption under the dispensary act should be rigidly observed, and Instructed the Chief Constable to notify the mana ger of the hotel In question, that un less the act was strictly observed that the hotel exemption would be revoked. "The view as expressed at the con ference was that the act contemplated that none other than bona tide guests at the hotel should be allowed the privileges of this exemption, and ex pressed a determination to see that this feature was observed at this and all other hotels of a like nature. "Chief Constable Hammetl reported to the conference that in pursuance of the direction of the governor he noti fied the Hotel Jerome authorities that the law must be obeyed in tue strict est manner, and they expressed most, complete willingness to observe the law, and that they wore not aware ot the faot that any of the servants, or. agents of'the hotel'had violated the law, and expressed a desire to co-ope rate with the state authorities in ob serving the strict letter of the law." -Columbia Record.. WHO OWNS THE RAILROADS. About Two Million People Aro Di rectly Interested in Them. Slason Thompson, head of one of the bureaus of the General Managers' association, recently addressed a letter to the raliway companies asking the question: "Are there a million own ers of railway securities in the United States?" "Thirty-nine of the leading railway com paules of the country responded," said Mr. Thompson recently. "They represent 107,040 miles out of the 202,471 of single track mileage in the United States. They gave the | total member of stockholders on their books as 11)1,387. This is pretty near ly equal to two. "stockholders for every mlle of railway. Applying two to one as the ratio, approximated in the total, would give 400,000 stockholders in round numbers for tho 200,000 miles of railway in the United States as owning 80,024,201,595 of capital stock as reported June 30, 1902. As suming that the ??,109,891,009 founded debt is as widely distributed among bondholders, and the railway ownership would appear to be held in something like 800,000 hands. In one way or another the people of the United States own the railway of the United States and something like 2,000,000 persons through wages, in terest and dividends divide two-thirds o? the gross earnings of $1,729,390, 207, (1901-02) among them and the other third goes for fuel, taxes, sup plies and equipment." Remember This, Girls. A good many girls just launched In to society and on the hunt for hus bands believe that they improve their opportunities by taking and giving many confidences and by getting as close as possible to persons to whom they meet. But in this they make a grievous error. A girl who opens her soul to every man soon linds that men tlee from her as they would a pesti lence. A man has no good use for such a girl and the remarks he makes to his friends concerning lier would almost make a monkey's cars burn. Thc value of contldence, like the value of wheat and potatoes, ls regulated by the supply. A girl must be ex clusive ii she would be highly respect ed and loved. None Whatever. Thc application of the Greensboro goid brick swindlers to the supreme court of thc United States ty bc tak en out of the custody of the authori ties of North Carolina and placed In that of the marshal of the supreme court, on the ground that they fear ed being mobbed in North Carolina, was told of In yesterday's paper. There ls no occasion for surprise in this, for, of course, men who will un dertake to work the gold brick trick will swear Iles, but how much better than the ru filans who swore the lies aro thc lawyers who Inspired them and who drew the allldavlt fur their clients to sign?-Charlotte Observer. Would Not Kiss Her. A Chicago wife called up the police station and demaned thc arrest of bei husband becauso ho rofuscd to kia? her. Hero ls a conjugal contlngencj that may as well have a legal prece dence first as lust. NEGRO PROBLEM AN ISSUE. Senator^Gorman Bays IC Will Help the Democrats. A dispatch from Washington says thc all absorbing topic in political circles now 1B the speech of Senator Gorman Saturday night in Maryland, when he Opened the Democratic campaign in that state. The speech was an ar raignment of President) Roosevelt and his negro. polioy, and owing to the prominence he gave the negro question in hiB address it ls regarded by the leaders in Washington that is "ls a peacemaker fur the Democratic na tional campaign. The friends of the president here believe that lt is the beginning of a plan to force the negro rorward as the great issue against Roosevelt,'and owing to the reported weakness of the present occupant of White House, as regarded by the po litical wiseacres here, upon this great problem the gauntlet is not gladly ac cepted by tho Republicans, while the Democrats ure not concealing their delight that the issue bas been made. It develops today that it is a well determined plan on the part of na tional Democrats to force the race is sue to the front, nut alone in the south and the close states of Maryland, Dela ware, New Jersey and West Virginia, but also In the larger cities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinos and Iowa, where, they think, lt is possible to stir up the for eign-born voters on the negro ques tion. They also argue that If there is to be any doubt about Kentucky and Missouri, the race issue will make those states surely Democratic. It is not the intention to bring the question prominently forward in the Democratic platform, but to hammer lt home on every Democratic stump. Republicans here take the view, judging from the personalities in Sen ator Gorman's speech, that the Demo crats intend to make this part of their campaign directly personal to Mr. Roosevelt himself, and*, wherever lt is possible, to emphasize the Booker Warmington dinner incident and the Cruin appointment, with "a white man's government for the white man," the campaign cry from one end of the country to the other. Senator Gorman, as the leader of his party in congress, will lose no op portunity during the coming session to develop the issue and campaign ma terial is expected out of renewed dis cussion of the Crum case and the India nula postofllce. The election in Maryland is looked upon by both par ties as an important test of the negro question as a campaign issue. It will will be the ?rst expression by the peo ple of that state on the restricting legislation now in force there, wherein the educational test bars many ne groes from the privileges of the ballot. .gTJ.ji,L8Jilti>JDHTLBB.EN ' --T"* "*."'' r'i-v To Avenge Hts Wife's Refusal to M vo Wit ii II tm. Jesse McClure, an Indiana farm hand, murdered his two sons, aged (ive and seven leaving their bodies in a fence corner. While a mob was forming to capture and lynch him, McClure drove on a run to Marlon, Ind., and gave himself up. Re, has been secreted by the aiithoritlesrwho fear attempted violence. McClure lived near Frankton, and had separated from his wife a year ago, she refusing to live with him and returning with her children to her father's home. At noon one day Mc Clure hired a rig at Elwood and drove to the Kilgore farm, the owner being Mrs. McClure's father. He found the children playing in the front yard and induced them wi uti candy to take a ride with him. He drove a mile up the road, carried the children to a fence corner, and shot them with a revolver. The older one was found dead a few minutes later, and the younger was dying, a piece of thc candy being still in his mouth. McClure tied and was pursued by a crowd or young farmers, bent on vengeance. The alarm was given and ftom all surrounding towns armed pursuers started. McClure succeeded in reaching the jail in safety. Tu the jail turnkey McClure admit ted the murder of his two children, and he said he had killed them because his wife had left bim and refused to live with bim. He said: "When she refused tu see me I de cided to be revenged, and drove down the road to a little clump of trees. My two children were asleep In the buggy. When I stopped, the jolt awoke my little boy, Dee. He looked up to me and said: 'Papa, what are you going to doi". I put my hand over his eyes and took my gun from ray pucket and shut him in the fore head, killing him instantly. '"The shot awoke little Homer, and I took him by the shoulder and fired a shot into his bead. They both fell tc the bottom of the buggy. I drove the horse to the side of the road and lifted both bodies out and placed them on the grass. Then I drove directly to Mariun to the jail, and am herc tu give myself up. "The neighbors will lynch me when they tind out what I have done, 1 dc not care what you do with me. I am ready to die, aud expect to hang fut this crime. All that 1 ask is tu see my dear little ones buried." Dies from Fright. Mrs. John Pittman, of Center, Ga., died from tright at her home Thurs day night. Her husband got up dur ing lite night and went intu tue hui! to get a drink of water. Tho watei bucket was in a chair, and In thc dark Mr. Pittman ran over the chal? and the bucket fell to the tloor witt a gret.t. noise. His wife, awakening with a start, was so frightened at thc noise and at missing her husband fron thc bed that she screamed out at tht top of her voice. Mr. Pittman, rat back into the room only to lind hil wife in a spasm, from the etfect o which she died in a few minuses. ; Two Negroes Hanged. Jim Chambers and Lou Shaw, nc groes, were hanged at Luvcrne, Ala. Friday, for the murder of Willlamsoi \ Champion, another negro, in Marci : last. Sale Arrlngton, an accomplice i turned State's evidence and was re r leased. Tho hanging was In publi - and the military was used to help prc serve order. A SNAKE CHARMEE IB Bitten by: a Hugo Rattlesnake * That He Was Handling.. STRUGGLES WITH REPTILE. 1 With the Deadly Fangs Twice Plant? ed In His Fingor tho Man Ran;Swiftly to tho Hospital. A special' dispatch from Charlotte to the Atlanta Journal says L. C. Crouch, of Winston, N. C., In at the Presbyterian hospital suffering; from dangerous wounds inflloted by a rattle snake, which he was exhibiting at the fair grounds. " 1 Mr. Crouch ls a cripple, and bas a wife and seven children. . A year ago . he started to collecting snakes and other animals and exhibiting them, and has made a good living by this In dustry. Big letters on bis tent de clare that be bas iuslde "ground hogs, guinea pigs, angora rabbitts, Joe, a . four-legged rooster, coon, squirrels^? and rattlesnakes." Crouch ba-? Ave rattlesnakes-two large and three small ones. He bought these within a year from men who captured them In their wild state. Until Friday Crouch had handled all, his snakes with safety, though he realized that the poison had not been extracted fr un the fangs bf two of the large snakes. The largest snake ls over four feet long, and has a number ot rattles. Mr. Crouch took this snake from Its box to show lt to a young man who was ia the tent. The rattler was plainly ia an ugly mood. He was held : at the neck by thc hand of Crouch, but the rear part of bis body described whittl ing curves and clutched the 'forearm of his owner. With a sudden wrench the reptile jerked his bead loose, the veuomus head went up quickly, and then the fangs settled in che middle finger of Crouch's right hand. With a scream Crouch grabbed at the snake with both hands and flung lt away from bim. The snake fell to the ear tl:,but before it could move Crouch, pinned ic down with bis foot resting on the back of the head. Then, recovering his com posure, he had a man to cord his fing-. <?r tightly. At this time the rattler was sing ing a mad song with his tale; his little wicked eyes were shining devlislily, and he was hissing out of his distend ed mouth. When bis finger had been tightly bound Crouch reached down and again seized the snake by the ' back of tho neck. He did not lift bis foot up un til his fingers completely encircled the i neck of the rattler and,he felt that he could ke?p his hold. -Then he. lifted ' * i:the';snit?C^a-&ti&? ! from' which the reptile ? h^"^'beea-^'^"T~: taken. 'Crouch had reckoned .without his host. The rattler seemed possessed of intense strength. His big, sinuous body crept out convulsively and once more the coils were on Crouch's fore aim. The fierce head was pulled again from Crouch's close grip, and rose a foot above the wrist of the owner. Down came the head of the reptile, and the fangs were burled deep in the - forefinger ot the left hand ot Crouch. Crouch's left arm went out. The snake dangled for a moment, holding by its teeth, and then dropped. Crouch gave a yell of terror; forgot care of his reptile, and dashed out of the tent with a look of horror on his face. Both his hands were outstretch ed. Though a cripple, bis speed was as fast as that of a professional sprin ter, and be was soon on'a car bound for town. At the first Bight of a bar-room he bounded from the car, rushed in crying that'he was snake-bitten and asking for whiskey. He disregarded . a small gloss that was handed to him and bought and emptied, at one pull, half a pint of raw spirits. Then he rau to the Presbyterian hospital. By this time both of Crouch's hands were badly swollen; he was vomiting and suffering great agony. Ptiysicans came hurriedly to his aid, and first gave him rapid injections of perman ganate of potassium. His arms were tightly corded for hours, the hands being realeased in order, that the poison might not be confined to too Bmall a portion of the body. Crouch's hands and arms, to the shoulders, are several times their normal size. Ho had sinking spells, and hiB heart be came so badly affected that it was nec essary to inject strychnine repeated ly. He will probably recover. Tho Ambitious Mrs. Dunn. A singular case of domestic infeli city is.recouuted by the Fort Scott Monitor. Ia the morning Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bunu kissed each other affectionately and Mr. Bunn went whistling to his work. When he re I turned ut night he found bis house I empty. His wife had taken all her belongings and had gone home to her mother. No quarrel had ever been had in the family, save for the reason that Mrs. Buuu persisted in taking in washing in order to help pty the fam ily expenses. Mr. Bunu [objected to his wife doing this kind of work. She declarrd that she would work If she wanted to. He forbade her doing any 1 more of lt. She left and refuses to return unless he will consent to her taking in washing. A Bold Thief. 1 Tho Atlanta Journal says ono of the most daring thefts reported in some time occurred Wednesday night, when some thief rode away on a -bioycle which had been ridden by Bicycle Oillcor A. D. Luck, "the sergeant" of thc West End police. Ho left his wheel on Chapel street willie he went inside to serve a subpoena, and when he returned his wheel was gone. 16 was No. 22, of the Dayton make, and belongs to the police department. Killed inn Wreck. A special from Dean Lake, Mo., says that Mrs. Booth Tucker was fat aly injured in the Santa Fe wreck and n died half an hour later. The train i which started from Dean Lake for Marceline with the injured was de I lay ed by the breaking of a truck and 0 has not yet reached Marceline. ' M rr,, ?. Tucker was piomlnent in salvation army work. , . ?'^?'????':-'.VV