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The YOL^IX. "DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1904. NO. 42. GETTING ALAEMED. Bepublican Headquarter? in the West Gloomy an ? Discouraged OVER OUTLOOK III THE EAST, They'Conoced Losa ol New York, and Fear Connecticut and New J wm J Will Go IX mo oral ic Too. A dispatch from Chicago says gloom, mingled with consternation, bas conn over the western Republican head quarters at the news which ct mes from the East that New York state ls practically lost for Roosevelt. All reports agree that the president ls not going to carry hlB own state. Political writers", who have been study lr g the eastern conditions, He publican orators and even the conti dential repr?sentatives of the party managers, are all agreed that New York is almost ce?tain to go for Judge Parker by a plurality which may reach 75 OOO. Tne Republicans, who admit that the state is lost, put the margin at from 15;000 to 25.000. For the president to lose his own state is m questionably a severe blow to the Republican cause. The cam paign managers at Chicago headquar ters are beginning to ask, What next? If New York can bo lined up In the Democratic columns') early In the campaign, the managers are wonder log how about New Jersey, Delaware, Rhede Island and Connecticut, lt ls not to be forgotten that McKinley carried New York by 143.000 four years ago. If that plurality can he wiped out and replaced by a plurality estimated all the way from 15,000 to 75,000, what is to happiii in a state like Delaware, which weut Repuhll can by the narrow margin < f 3,071? SOMK OTU KU STATES. Here also are the pluralities of some other eastern states which are quite certain to participate in any buch wave of Democratic sentiment as ap^^sars to be ?wee^in** over thc Atlantic coast states: Connecticut, 28 570; New Jersey, 50 890; Rhode Island, Ki,972; West Vlrgluia. 21,008; Maryland, 13,011; In diana, 20,479. It has been a precedent unvlolated that the lead of New York is followed hy the states in the immediate vicin ity which are subject to similar lnllu erces. As' New York goes, New Jer sey and the rest of them have a way of going. The Republican managers ceased Reine time ago to make serious claim to Maryland, and even West VlrgiLia has been placed by them in the doubt ful class, which is coming now to be the. Democratic class. The wave of Democratic sentiment, wmcn nus been pr?dr?fedby the far-* ker managers, has put In its appear ance, and the western people have begun to wonder how long it will he before Indiana leaves the doubtful class for the Democratic column, and Illinois Is taken out of the Republi can column and classed as doubtful, lt ls a simple mathe matical calcula tion which has been made hy the Re publican managers here, showing that the campaign ls now far from being a one sided affair. HOW THE GAME LOOKS. The game now lot ks about 1 ke this: Number of votes in the electo ral college required tc elect, 23'.); coll et tied to Alten H. Parker. The solid South (including West Virginia and Maryland,) Ititi; New Yo k. 39: likely to go with New York, New Jen ey 12, Ccnntctlcut 7, Dela ware 3, Rhode Island 4, total 05. Total in the East for larker, 231. The fifteen electoral votes in In diana would more tl an decide the tlectit n in favor of Parker. In addition to the chance for win ning Indiana the Den ocratic maua irpvp fia ve trie chance of carrying two or three of the far western states whi h went Democratic in the last presidential election-Colorado, Mon tana, Nevada and Idaho. Senator Wm. G. Clark, of Montana, Is putting time and money into carry ing MontaLa for Parker, aud believes lt is an even bet pr? position, being willing to back his belief with his monty. Montana and Idaho each have three electoral votes and Colo rado has live. HUYAN A KOItCK. The Parker campaign will undoubt edly make its advai.cc on the West in the near future. The sending of W. J.-Bryan Into Indiana ls regarded as one cf the important moves in this direction. The Republicans are wait ing the attack In the West with son e. degree of apprehen ion, due to the rather unexpected developments iii the R?st. The Republicans in charge of the western headquarters are not over looking the gravity of the situation, and will at once undertake the most energetic measures to check the wave of Democratic sentiment which sf eras to be sweeping In from the Rast. Thc citx-paign will he pushed both in the East and the Wist. The managers here Jeel conlident t hat they will be able to check the Parker movement and turn lt b. ck before it engu'f.s the states which have been regarded as Roosevelt's stronghold. But no effort will he spared and no labor neglected from this time on. The speakers' bureau will put its strongest force into Hie li dd at once. Literature will be sent out by the ton Speakers who have been held In re serve because lt was thought they would not be needed will t e sent into the lield at once. Indiana particular ly will be made a holb :d of aoti\ ly] Additional speaking meetings wm be arranged for Chic; go, and all meat s to rally Republican feelll g will be put into motion a> once. Mont ?'?-leo Attain Active. The captain of the Ilrltish stoamcr Slbun, reports that when the steamer pa'sed ttie islat d of M?rtir que on Sept. 30, Mont Pelee was in full erup tion. The spectacle was wltnrsscd hy tl o<e on hoaid the Sibun at 2 o'clock In tho morning of the day mentioned, the volcano emitting stupe ndous black clouds and balls of Ute. This accounts or the dust clouds reported to have been seen thioughemt the windward islands. BLOODY BECORD OF MOBBISON. Desperado Whom the Courin Had at Least Twice Acquitted. A special dispatch to The State from Camden says if John Morrison, the desperado who was put to death by a mob in Lancaster county last Saturday night, had lived in the days of the James boys and po sassed the daring and courage which made those men conspicuous, he would have been eligible to a non-commissioned onlcer In that famous bind. There sterns to be no doubt but that be possessed the other qualities to a marked de gree. Little ls known of his Ute before he turned hiB back on the mounta'n fastnesses of bis native State, Norih Carollua, 15 years ago, but his career during this period suggests little of peace and good citizenship on his native heath, tie came across the border bearing the brand of Cain, and the number of his viotlms here veri ties the stigma. 'Ihe facts surrounding the murder which he is said to have done lu North Carolina are not available, but that there was such a crime was a persis tent rumor long before this last d.el brought his name Into prominence. Twelve yean? ago he met a solitary bunter In a York county forest and slew him. This victim was found some days after with a bullet hole through his head, and suspicion rested on John Morrison. He was tried and acquitted on the pli a of self defense. Unfortu nately a gun was found beside the dead mau, and this and the fact that the victim was a colored man were enough for the Jury. c A short while after this he moved i to Kershaw and within Its environs he c gratified his thirst for blood. A kindly t providence saved another colored man, e a neighbor from his bullet. Fancying | that he had a grievance against him, t Morrison proceeded to shoot at him c as his figure was silhouetted against the sky on a nearby hill. This colored man had the courage to prosecute Morrison, but again lt was a case of white man and negro, and he went unpunished. Some time last year a party of ne groes were walking up the track of the railroad on which he lived, and he killed one. He was tried at Camden for the murder and acquitted. He claimed that they were engaged lu singing vulgar songs and were other whe riotous. It ls stated that with his Winchester he elms id the terror ized colored men over the surround ing country until he had exhausted his ammunition. These negroes were so intimidated that they were afraid to testify cg ilnst him on the trial. A short while ago, while he was en gaged in running the pumping engine f JT the tank below Kershaw, he was reported by an engineer for not having water in the tank. After he learned oLthe report be-carrteer-niE-rme" co meet all trains and said openly that he would use lt on any who reported him. His malignity was so patent that, when he refused to leave when told to do so by the rallrcai official?, engineers were afraid to stop at tba tank for water and were In constant dread of the trestle nearby being burned under them. Wben he was notified to leave by the railroad officials he refused to do so for some tim *, and finally when he did go admonished th m ' o send a cof fin with his successor. It ls said that he had planned to kill his successor last Monday but was thwarted. The circumstances sur rounding the killing of his last vlcilm are so fresh In the minds of the peo ple that they need no recounting here. Deal ti ul an 10 n ?I ii err. Mr. I. H. Grlgg, a young man who recen* ly went to lhacksburg from Camde n and an employe of the South ern road, was run over In the yards at Blucksburg by an engine Tuesday night about 10 .'10 o'clock. One leg was entirely cut off and the other badly mutilated. He died from the t-t?ects of the Injury at 5.40 o'clock Wednesday morning. He was acting as "hostil r" in the yard and lc cross ing In fi oat of the engine his foot caught ou a crosstie and before the engine could stop the pondrous ma chine did Its deadly work. Hrs. Ram sen and Caldwell gave the young man every needful attention but to no avail. Ills remains were sent to Camden for burial. No ooe was to bl ame for the sad event but the un fortunate young man himself. The railroad otllcials gave him every at tentiun. * White Man Named. John A. Noland, of Charleston dry goods clerk, was nominated Frlj day afternoon for congress by the Re publicans of the first district to op pose Hon. George S. Legare. The con viiitlon was made up of IS deb gates from Charleston, five from Clarendon, Berkley ar.d Colleton and two from Dorchester. The nomination of No land is a departure from the usu il rule of nominating negroes for the of fice. Noland waa the only white man in the convention. A no i lier Murder. At Dublin, (?a., J. B. Hathaway, superintendent of the county chain gang, was shot and killed Monday motning hy Earle Camp, a prominent young lawyer. Camp's story of the atT.iir is that Hathaway was drinking and attempted to prevent a lady's parsing him on the street. Hie lady cried for help. Camp was riding by on a bicycle and went to her aid. This ai gered Hathaway who struck Camp ano kn< eked him down. While on his knees, Camp says, he pulled his pis tol and fired live times. IO.ch bullet went through Hathaway's Loiy and he was killed al mot. t Instantly. Camp Immediately surrenlcred to the po lice. Solomon Hathaway, brother of the dead m .n, ls said to have declined to ask for an indictment agaiust Camp. _ Not tho Weevil. The bugs which made their appear ance lu the cotton fields of Newton county, Ga., are not the Mexican boll weevil, says State Entomologist Wil liam Newell. Some specimens of them were submitted to him. He slates they be long bo the same genus as the boll weevil but arc distinct from the boll weevil in a number ot characterhitlcs. There ls no record, he says, of their being Injurious to cotton. IN HAYTIAN PBISON. Three Men Are the Victims of Plot J gainst White Bace. THEY MAY BE PUT TO DEATH Unless thc United States Govern mont Interferes and Saves Them. Prisoners Were Formerl jr Bankers. Merchants of New Yolk having 1 ealing! willi the Hay Han govern nent have received a written appeal for help from three white men who lave been confined for nearly a year n a dungeon in Port au Prince, In vhlch they charge that obey are vlo i'rrs of political schemes and probably viii b ?-at lo death soon unless, hrough publicity, the United States s moved to take action In their be lah. They are J. de la Myre Mory, Jean Baptiste de Pnj baudet and G. Ohlrich 3.. Tippenhauer, the tl rat two Frech nen and the third a German. Under he preceding administration of the sland they had been directors of the National Hank of Hayti, and as such tad been autliorizod by the then min ster of liuance, P. Peine, to bond a rovernment debt, for which they vere to have received a "gratifica ion" or commission. Before the transaction had been om pl tel, the present government, lead 3d hy President A lexus Noitl ame into power, and it ls declared hat he had thc three b inkers arrest d last Nove tuber on a charge of hav ng Issued $200,000 more of the bonds ban was stipulated lo the budget In irder to Inert us ? the amount of their 'gratification." According to the writer of the ap ?eal, all their actions bad been sane Inned by the ll ny ti an senate under he former administration,-but this iau oe weight with President Nord, ?bo, it ls alleged, Instructed the udges of the court of appeals to dis egard the document aud act solely ipon patriotic motives, which means, be letter says, the extinction of the viii tes un the Island. Both the French and German minis ers to Hay tl made an amicable de aand In January last upon that gov inmentthat the hank otllclals be re eased provisionally if for no other eason than the unsanitary condition , f their prison, but the government ? efused to take action on the ground, hat the laws of Haytl prevented any aterference In the case. "We are the victims of Haytlan , olltus," continues the writer; "In , lot, the hatred ls so great, auainst ! Se^WDil? p?O^lenaua^filii?t" all" who ; ave bad anything to do with the , Kmer government that life has bo urne almost impossible for the for , igner In Haytl. "The few geo J Haytlan elements ave been suppressed by the reign of srror of the old president, Nord Inemies of his government are con emned to death wholesale. The ewspapers do not dare say a word lest bey be immediately condemned to rial by military court martial. In I be streets the people are in terror, i e-memberlng the massacre of the mites In 1804, and his public au- ? iences the president speaks openly i gainst the foreigners, who he do lares are responsible for all the mis- i 3itunes cf Haytl. "Dur prison, like all those for the mites, has no water for bathing pur os?s; the rootlets In the rain; there i no hospi'.al; the prisoner must pro Ide his own bedding, furniture and i neals, and mast clean his dungeon, iven foreigners who are detained lending trial are treated In this man ier. Please act quickly because ina ?oiith the criminal c iurt will be eariy to hear our case, and tho Hay lans are In a burry to condemu us .efore intervention ls possible. "American Interests are Imperilled lecause American merchants and the ailroad interests are In danger. Com merce ls at the lowest ebo and all orelgn interests a re trampled upon." * Fatal AcoiUont. A special to The State from Spar anburg says H. Clyde Briggs, a ma ihinist employed by the Pacjlet danutacturlng company, met with a ,rrg!c death Wednesday afternoon. Ie wau pulling the rope on the big lrlvlng wheel, which operates the nachluery of mill No. :i, when he jecamo caught in the rope and was mocked violently against the wheel. Hs head and shoulders were mashed ip considerably and he was killeel iiitrlght. Several workmen were io he machiner; room mar the driving A heel at the time. They were or ;our?e powerless to help the iinfer: u late man. A wife survives Mr. Briggs. The deceased has been em ployed for seven years as machinist by Lhe 1'acolet mills. Will Oppose Patterson. Republicans of the second congres ?'oual di.slric' met at Blackville Fri lay and nominated Rev. Isaac Myers 3f Blackville for congress. Myers ls Ki years old, a graduate of Ola fhn University, a minister of the Metho dist Episcopal church, and was for dx years principal of the Blackville Graded school (colored.) Delaware Hutu. Richard R Kenny, former Senator from Delaware and member of the Heme eratic ?State committee, was at national headquarters Monday and tobi the committee that the factional tight amongst Hie Ii. publicans in Delaware made Delaware safe fe r the Democracy. Kl lc tl a Trump. A loose ll.tige on a ear wheel caused the wr.ck of a Norfolk and Western freight train i'll the New Uiver divis ion Wednesday. Twenty-two cars were pi'ed up lu a deep cut. One white tramp, name unknown, was killed and another was pad ly injured. A Mail Kollow George Tilley, a young married man living fifteen miles from Raleigh, N. C., fatally wounded his mother-in law, Mrs. Lowry, on Sunday and then shot his wife In the breast, and fled. TILLMAN DI8CUSBE8 POLITICS. tie Thinks the Democrats Have a Good Ciiatioe to Win. Hon. Benjamin Ryan Tillman, senior United States senator of South Carolina, spent a half hour In Char lotte Wednesday morning, en route to Chicago, were f n Thursday he will make an address before a big Demo craitc meeting. From Chicago he will make a week's tour of Illinois, speaking one and two times each day. The Charlotte Chronic'e says the senator will return home at the ex piration of the week's tour, and then, If hts throat, which has given him trouble for a year, permits, be will re turn to the West for a longer period of speech making. "1 have not spoken during the campaign yet, but have been working out ot doors and getting all the air and sunshine I can, with a view bo building up my health," said the senator to a re porter. A ruddy glow ls In his cheeks, and a casual observer wou'd put him down as an entirely healthy man. When asked as to the prospects of a Democratic victory he turned to a newsboy and asked for a paper. When the question was repeated, he stated that the chances for a Demo cratic victory wera much brighter since the publication of Parker's let ter of acceptance. "We will surely carry New York, and possibly Connecticut, head-led. "Senator, do you think Parker has a lighting chance?" "lie's is a-of a poor lix If he hasn't," replied tbe senator, earnestly. Continuing, he said: "I think that Parker is an admirable man and that he ls exceedingly popular among the Democrats, while there are plenty o' unbiased R: publicans who will vot for him. Parker is not a genius He ls a good, safe, conservative man, clean-hearted and liberal. Should he be elected, he will govern the country safely and will not try to make a spectacle of himself, like the present gentleman of the white hoi se." Changing suddenly, Smator Till man asked what the Populists would do In North Carolina. "I notice ID The Observer that Watson spoke in the state yesterday," he said. The reporter thought that the Populist vote In the state would have no appreciable elicet on North Caro lina politics. Mr. Tillman asked pointedly if the Populists in the state would vote for Watson or Parker. The senator ls an agreeable gentle man wheu in the proper mood, and this morning, while he waited out side for his train, he chatted pleas antly. A by-stand^r, who lives In South Carolina, told the senator that he was more popular tlian ever before In his state. This interested bim and he said "I am a terrible fellow. I've, S2&.&9. b?*t of f rlend? ' ' r^SruV*^ of enemies-and my enemies certainly do 'CUS?:' me. But," said the senator, "I believe I have got ?ve friends for every one enemy." RAN OFF EMBANKMENT. Two People Were Killed and Kighi Others Were Injured. At New York while speding along In the Bronx early Friday mornirg in automobile containing nine persons went off an embankment at One Hun dred and Sixty-tirst street and Jerome ivenue and two persous are known to bave been killed. The machine fell jnto the New York Central railroad tracks and the wreckage was struck by a southbound train. In the automobile when the acci dent i ccu r red were five wo nen and four mi n. The autjmobile was in cha-ge of Albert Noyes. At Jerome avenue and o.ie Hun dred and Sixty-tir-t street the road way is between 20 and ?10 feet above the railroad tracks. When the big machine plunged downward it struck near the lOUthbouud tracks and the nine persous and the a itomobile were caught by an Inst ming train known as the Crotan local. B-sides the woman killed all tie eight in the automobile were Iniur d; They were taken to Fordham hosplt al, where lt was reported at 1;30 o'cl ck Thursday morning that tt 1 a>t one of those hurt was in a serl i u. condition. Tue name of the woman who was killed cou'd not be learned. At the junction of Jerome and Stdgewick avenue at O.ie Hundred and Sixty-tirst street is an embank ment between 20 and 30 feet high. At the foot of this embankment lie the tracts of the New York Central rall read. The automobile went over the embankment onto the r-ellroad tracks. The Injury and wreckag e of the ma: chine were then struck, lt is said, by a southbound train on the New York Central railroad. The Injured were taken to the Fordham hospital. Where Jerome avenue ends the road way takes a sharp turn and the automobile did not slacken fjr this curve and struck the fence with a ter ri tic crash. Engineer Livingston threw on brakes as soon as possible but not before the wreckage of the car had been carried some distance. Albert Noyes, the chauffeur, ls missing. W i licit Out, Tlie London Dally Telegraph's Nagasaki correspondent, cabling und. r1 dale of September 2f>, says: Teiriblj artillery conflicts are adding to the j horrors of the situation at Port Arthur. On S.ptembei 22and 23the Russians made hortles against posi tions held l?y the K na waga r regiment and desperate fighting ensued. The Japanese force waa practically annlhil aled, only one non-corr, m I sinned oil! cer and eleven men remaining alive out of the 4,000 who went Into the engagement." * Kmi Into Trestle. A passenger train on thc Augusta Southern railroad ran Into a burning trestle near Mitchell, Ga., 51? miles from Augusta, earl] Wednesday and one mun was killed and eight others Injured. The UO foot trestle was en tirely destroyed by the tire and the tender, compartment car and two coaches also were burned. The lojured were taken to Mitchell where physi cians were walting. AU of the bag gage, express and mall were ha ved. The orlg'n of the fire is unknown. VERY CONFIDENT. _________ Democratic Managers Fave Full Fz peotation of Carrying Ilection. CAMPAIGN GAINS HEADWAY. Judge Parker Thinks tho Telling Work Will Be Put in During . the Last Few Days of the Canvass. A dispatch from New York to the Oharlestoa Post says that the Demo cratic managers have a well grounded confidence in victory at the election to bj held next montti is clearly shown In the tone of the expressions about the campaign headquarters. The belief that Parker and Davis will be eleoted is based upon the mest trustworthy Information that can be obtained at this time as to the temper and Inten tion of the voters in the ten or twelve States outside of the "solid South," In which both parties are fighting hard for supremacy. Toat j Democratic prospects have br en greatly Improved within the past ten days ls evident to any one with Ein eye to see and an ear to hear. This improvement is easily account ed for, first, by the splendid condi tion of the united Democracy In tho State ( f New Yoik; second, t>y the line impressions made apon the country by Judge Parker through his lettei of acceptance and third by the general era of good feel ing in the party, which Judge Parker las created by his successful personal it?orta to conciliate all factions and nlist the hearty support of certain Democratic leaders, who, for one ?use or another, had inclined tu hold iloof and let the campaign take care >f itself. The foremost lndepentent newspa pers of the country, while perhaps lot yet convinced that defeat is in itore for the Republicans, neverthe ess agree that the political tide is .urning ?-.nd that from now on it will let in strongly towards Parker and 3avls. Except in a few Isolated localities di reports point to a collapse of the Populist campaign, which is generally jelieved.to hive been kept alive thus ar hy the free us-? of Republican mon ly. Even in Nebraska, which is appar mtly the stronghold of the third ?arty, indications multiply that Judge ?arker will receive far mere thau the lormal Democratic vote. In Indiana, vhere a great elli rt has been made to nduce wira admirers of Mr. Bryan o vote for Watson, the Populists, vlth the active aid of Ripubllcan or ganization., are making no headway, md lt is believed that Mr. Bryan will nak~ t a strong plea to all hts rlehds tu give ?oy?l support to Juu'g? Parker triat Indiana's vote for the Populist ticket will cut very little igure in she general result. As elec ion day draws near, lt is becoming nore aad more evident that there is o be a souare, stand-up tight between he two great parties. Once and for all may it be said that here ls no friction whatever ab the leadquarters of the national demo racy. Chairman Taggart has made ne trip to Indiana aud will make sev rai more between now and election, udge Parker himself ls In close touch vi th the work of the party managers nd his tact and experience In cam paign werk are proving of great value o thecommtttee. It ls Judge Parker's pinion that the real work of the cam ?a!gn hus but just begun and that Iv.rb g the next live weeks a record ireaking campaign should be waged in very State c assed as "doubtful." He >elieves in short, sharp and united 11 vork all along the line, "with malice! y oward none, and charity for ail." In ill's way, he says, and only in th's vay, can the Democratic parly win he great victory which lt eieserves to vin and which he is confident it will vin. The executive committee of the na tional D mocratic committee held a neeting Tuesday. The committee took ip routine business of the campaign resides a general discussion of condi tions that have been reported since Hie ast meeting. Chairman Mcconville of the speakers bureau, has arranged for two speeches in West Virginia by Wil liam J. Bryan on October 21 and 22. Mr. Bryan will speak In Indiana from October 12 to October 20 and after the two speeches In West Virginia he will speak o i October 24 and 2f> in In diana. * Senator Tillman Will Speak. Senator Tillman of S uth Carolina, is to raise the cry "Rooseveltand the negro" among thc voters of the stock yards district In Chicago. Senator Tillman will visit Chicago between October <? and October ll, and the Democratic State committee already has arranged for a number of speeches to the Packingtown workers. Ever since the packing-house strike the Democrats have had their eyes on the sti ckyards. The importation of more than 2,000 negroes to take the places of the white strikers around the lire of the whites and by assigning Senator Tillman to the stockyards, where there are nearly :i0,000 union men, the Democrats hope to arouse a strong sentiment against President Roosevelt. Terri!) o i o is by Flood*. Half of Watrous, N. M., has been destroyed by a ll ?od and at least twelve persons have been drowned, In chiding three children of J. H. Stevens, Felix Villareal, his wife, two sisters, and a couple of children, and O. 1<\ Porter. J. H. Stevensand his wife escaped. They arc in a critical condition. Many persons were res cued from trees and house tops. The greatest damage was around the june tlon of Mora and Sapslloire creeks. A rock crusher, an iron bridge and much track at Watrous were washed away. Stoppt ?1 Ulm. j Argry because his attempt to force I his undesired attentions upon her and j determined to repulse him at any cost, Mrs. Rosa Barbadl, 22 years old, shot and killed Michael Bago, in East Side, New YorK City. Mrs. Barbadl was taken to the police station carrying her two-year-old baby, which I she had held in her arms when she fired the fatal shot. DIES OF BABIES. Made Up His Mind Do? Bite Would Kill Him and lt Did. - A dispatch from Macon, Ga., to the Atlanta Journal says the physicians at the city hospital are convinced now that the case of Mr. William Tabor, of Housaton county, was hy drophobia. Mr. Tabor died at the hos pital Saturday night, after being In a state of convulsion from 0 o'clock. His brother, who was with h'm, says, bowover, that he thinks nervousness and mental impression bad as muob to do with the death as anything else. ii9 8u.y.s his brother William mad-, up his mind some time ago that the d< g bite would kill him, and he com menced at ot ci to arrange for hh death.- He wanted to go somewhere a'.se to live, so be would not injure bis wife and little ones when he became violent. No amount of pursuasion could make bim believe that he would cot become violent sooner or later. There was nothing unusual ab< ut the jog or the bite. It was the same kind if an accident that bas befallen hun beds of men In tbe past, without any ?erious cons quencos, but Mr. Tabor was sure that the bite would cause his ieatb, and he investigated all of his lfe insurance, and arranged all of his ilTairs for hin death. Ills family tried to gat his mind off die subject, but nothing could change lim. They would not cons. nt to let I < dm leave home, but Saturday morn I < ng he had his buggy made ready for i trip to Macon, and he went into the 11 louse and- kissed his family goodby, I < aylng that he was coming to Macon ,o die. Ile came to the city and drove o the olllce of Dr. Moore. 11 The physician had heard nothing I < tbout the case, and could see nothing inusual with the patient, lie inquired ibout the symptoms, and was told hat Mr. Tabor could not endure the ight of wa' er. He offered a glass of I < /ater, and Mr. Tabor drank lt. In |< tautly there was a rumbling ni ise ID he stomach, and great nausea foi jwed. Another glass was offered, and t t the sight of it Mr. Tabor went into t onvulsions. He was sent to the city J os pl Lal, where he remained until ( ightrall before any decided symptoms 1 f hydrophobia were deyeloped. He I ben went into a state of convulsion a di Ich lasted until death relieved him. 1 ^?e father, two brothers and wife of t he deceased were with him In bis last v curs. The remains were Thursday sent o Byron for interment in the family ury lng ground. Tabor was only about 6 years o'd. He was quite active in us i ne-s, and bad been very success He was engaged in saw milling, merchandise and farming. Prior to he bite of the little dog be weighed early 200 pounds, but-n^<0J>ft* tlefib tnt"*' Ul,,:ffloi?" ' " The physicians say that one drop of ls blood after the development of the ?hies or after his death would be suf clent to kill fifty men, if it came In .intact with their blood. It was one f the tirst cases of rabies ever devel ped at the city hospital, and the ody was handled with such extreme ?ire that nc human band was allowed 3 come in contact with it. Lay Across the Tracie. The Charleston Post says word eached the city Tuesday afternoon of he accidential killing Monday night f Flagman C. M. Reeves, on the line f the Southern railway near Langley, t seems that Reeves was sent back rom bis train to Hag a freight train ollowing behind. When a signal for he recall of Reeves brought no r? ponse a brakeman was sent back to o see what was tho matter and after :olmr some distance saw Reeves lying .ero-s the track, 'ihe expected freight -rain was als J In sight and tile brake nan made every effort to reach Reev es and get him off the track but be ore he could get to him the unforun itc mun was under the wheels and lilied. lt is unknown whether teoves was asleep on the track or had ieen overcome by some sudden Illness, i'oung Reeves was a son of Mr. W. i. D. Reeves, of Branchville, and had nany friends who will regret to hear )t hts tragic death. * Will Support Purkiir. The New York labor convention las endorsed Parker and Davis. A ieiegatiun from the Hungarian Demo iratlu league of Greater New York ?ahed on Judge Parker Friday. Morris (Jukor, the spokesman for the delega tion, told Judge Parker the members of the league desired to assure him that the Hungarians in the United Slates are not going to vote the Re publican ticket this year. He said "Tl.ere are 50,000 Hungarians in New York and 70 per cent, of them will vote for Parker and Davis. We may be warlike by nature, but we are out for constitutional government and would rather have you for president with your hand on the constitution than Roosevelt with his band on the sword." They Were Surprised. The minister oi marine announcad In the chamber at Lisbon on Wednes day that a detachment of Portuguese troops, belonging to a column operat ing in Portuguese West Africa against the Cuantiamos, was surprised by the tribesmen while crossing the Cunene river. The detachment, which num bered 499 ottlceis and men, lost 254 killed, including IS otllcerd and 50 wounded. It ls officially announced that Germany will put 8,000 European troops in the Held against the Here ros, in (iarman Southwest Africa, who are neighbors of theCuanhamas. Both tribes are established In the Cuuene district. The Cunene river forms the boundary between German and Portuguese Southwest Africa. Poisoned Uv loo Cream. At Columbia fourteen boarders and two servants were poisoned at Mrs. Mattie J. Wilson's boarding hou-e at 1523 Washington street, recently, by eating Ice cream made from canned pineapple In which too much acid bad been used in the canning process. None will die, but live aro still pain fully ill. Some half dozen who ate i he cream were not affeoted. Still [Others who were indisposed that day I escaped by reason ot eating lightly of tho cream. 'SUIT ""FOR'PIVE" Mltl?ON8T~ afr. Cairs Claims He mr y Damage From the Associated. Frets. Mr. Walter S. Monteith, o? the Co lumbla bar, ia preparing the summon: and complaint In a suit brought bj Oharles A. Calvo, Jr., formerly pro prietor of the Columola Daily Regis ter, against the Associated P. ess, a corporation chartered under the lawE of the Btate of Illinois, fer breach ol ontract In 1897, with damages set at 15,000,000. With Mr Monteith lt, associated Mr. Charles A. Doughes, of the Washington bar, formerly a practitioner In South Carolina. The case will be tried In New York city it November next The Associated Prest made a contract with Mr. Calvo tc furnish to him exclusively for a period of ninety nine years its morning re port at Columbia, and shortly afte the collapse of the United Press ID 1897, allowed The State, the other dally paper at Columbia, to share tin report with Mr. Calvo's piper, taklnp advantage of an alleged Maw In Mu contract, which, however, can be ptoved to be practically non-ex'stem and in any event not worth a bawbet In law. Ten lawyers who have looked thoroughly into the merits of th? case agree tint there is good cause o? lotion, but some could not afford to advance the money needed to put the case in court and others were identi fied with newspapers that would ba vt to respond in damages. Mr. Frank 3. Tompkins, ?.P able attorney of tht Jolumbia bar, who thoroughly In 'ormed himself on the matter, gave 'Us written statement that he cocsld 3red lt a very strong case and regret ted his Inability to prosecute, it. And mell bright legal minds as ex-Cover ?ors D. II. Chamberlain and Jno. 3ary Evans,, to whom a full wrltteD <tat<?ment of the case was made, con mr In the belief that the plaintiff in lotion will prevail. By the breach Vir. Calvo's extensive business, which )tberwise would have been a heritage )f bli family and endured for all time, ?vas lost. Mr. Calvo would not. hayr ?oid his property for any amount had ;he Associated Press kept its con tact with him, for he would have en oyed ia monopoly of his newspapei erritory and been the state printer or life, to which office he was elected n 1893 by a vote of 90 to 10 in Joint -sse mb ly with no term specitled, and 13 feels satisfied that if the case gets >efore an honest jury he will get a 'erdict for the full amount claimed. !t. Matthews Recorder. * FAMILY HELD FO?l??&DER. leven Persons Accused or Killing s Woman anti a Girl. At Wllkesbarre, Pa., Wednesday norning the bj uer, of Mrs. Bigie. John tenjamln, were exL~_?. ed officially as human bones, This Ls lid to complete the chain of evidence gainst Bigie r Johnsjn, the husbanr ; ls mother, two brothers, two sisters nd brother-in-law, seven in all, who wait trial for murder in thu To randa jail. The confession of B'gle Johnson aide on Friday, bas been further cor oborated by admissions made by fancy Johnson, his thirteen-year-old Ister, who stood watch outside the louse while their mother, Mrs. So thia Mei ritt, and another son, /harles went inside and butchered Iis. Johnson and the child. The girl, it has been learned, es aped from the house aftsr Mrs John on bad been struck down and stun ted. She fl;d and ran forty' or fifty ards down the road. Charles John on runulng after and finally overtak og and killing her. Ho carried the >ody back to the house where the ; notber bad finished killing Mrs b'boson with several blows on the lead with an axe. The blood from the wounds of the mild furnished the first clue to the nurder. lt showed that she had been filled on the road and then carried jock to the bouse, where both bodies were soaked in kerosene and the house then burned to ashes. Nancy Johnson has now told enough to corroborate the confession of ber brother Bigler, while Charles, fright ened by the accusation against him, ls making wild charges against hi? brother Alonze. The moth?r says nothing and sniffs when the detectiv es tell her what thu others have said and try to induce ber to talk. The trial will be placed for the No vember term and the detectives ex pect to be able to send Bigler John son to the gallows and to imprison the others. Nancy Johnson and Alon zo are twins, 13 years old. The other sister ls married and with ber hus band ls suspected of arranging the alibi for Bigler Johnson. Two JutlgCH May Keston. Since the first of the year there has been a great deal of Irregularity lr. regard to the holding of courts on ac count of the illness of s'emo of tin judges. The State says a prominent lawyer stated that be know.-? it to be probable that unless there ll a decided change in the physlca condition ot two of these judges, they will place their resignation in the hands of the governor when the gen eral assembly meets. This will be learned with regret by thc manj friends of these two gentlemen ant jurists, and lt is still hoped that tbej may gain In strength sufficiently tx go on holding their courts. In oas: they should resign this will mak< four places to be filled by the legisla turo at its meeting in January. FiuKimui Kiliott. E. M. Freeland, a tlagman of tht Southern roa 1, aged about 20 years mot a tragic death Tuesday while hi was riding on a box car of thc seotiei of through freight No. 72, north bound, at Arcadia Mills, N. C. III h >ad was struck by the mall bange of the device used to bang mal pouches on for the postal clerks t grab and gather In the car while I train ls lu motion. This banger is ai iron crane protruding from tue post He was knocked from bis perch oi the e u- and thrown a considerable dis tance. He lived for a few hours af tor wards. The body was shipped t> Charlotte, his home, for burial. * STOESSEL BEPORTS. The Brave Russian General Success' folly Defends Port Arthur. TEN THOUSAND JAPS KILLED. Liient. PoRRorkky Descended Upon the JapRiicBo Trenches, and Blew Them Up With Pyroxltn Bombs. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says Emperor Niohoias has at last re ceived Geo. Stoesel's ot?o'.al report of i he desperate four days' assault of the ic siege rs upon Port Arthur, from Sep tember 10 to Sept. 23, from which it ippears that the uuofllcial report, from Chefoo was by no means exagge rated. The Japanese displayed fren zied bravery, but they lost 10,000 men and their only sue ?ess was the capture of two redoubts guarding the waterworks. Tbey prepared for the assault by a general bombardment and then, launched their attacks si multaneously from tbe north and west. Night and day they fought under the cover of a continual bom bardment from their seige guns and ii dally reached the redoubt on the ?orth s'de, but only after the defenses there were completely demolished by mell Ore from the west. The Japanes efforts were directed chic Hy against the commanding posi tion on High mountain, which faces pigeon bay, slightly s-mth of Fort Ktse. The mountain is 500 feet high iud if it bad fallen its possession would have given the Japanese a tre mendous lever against the chain ot .nner defenses. The caroage there was terrible and culminated Septem I ->er 23, when the Japanese succeeded lu reaching and occupying the Russian 'v armored shelter trenches, whence they expected about the next clay to .itorm the summit. Dur??g the night Lieut. Poggorsky of the navy, at the head of a detachment of -volunteers, descended upon the trenches and blew them up with pyroxylin bombs, pro ducing a panic among the besiegers, who lied, leaving the mountain side strewn with dead. The Japanese then abandoned further attempts but after a day or two to recuperate, ac cording to Gen. Stocssel's second dis patch, dated Sept. 30, they resumed che bombardment of the city and outer works, and began to construct zig-z-g approaches, evidently getting nearer from which to lau ach their assault. The loss of the waterworks is not considered vital as there is a fresh wa ter lake and numerous wells as well as a co* ng apparatus within \ he def -'After ,jJoodv " assaults from the 10th to the 2.U? ot September there has been comparative tranquility around the fortress. On the night ot Sept. 24, the Japanese, after being repulsed by Lieut Poggorsky, lied ia panic They are now working very actively and are approaching ny a tunnel and entrenchments. The bombardment was UKI in tai ned both upon the forts and the buildings within the fortress. "We make sorties frequently, driv ing back the enemy. The repulse of the last attack was especially due to Lieut. Po?gorsky, Gen. Kondratenko,. Gol. Irman and Capt. Syohaff. The spirit of the troops is heroic. Wounded men are every day return ing from rae hospitals to the ranks. We pray to God for victory aud i for the health of your majesty." ll curst Bounds a Call. William Randolph Hearst, president of the "National Association of Demo cratic Clubs, has issued an addres to the association urging its members to .'sptclal activity and untiring energy from now until the closing of the polls." The address says t?at lt is the duty of Democrats to "restore the government to the hands of people for whom and by whom the government was created." Reviewing the issues presented in the Democratic platform Mr. Hearst concludes: "Tuess, with a heartily pledge support of the Monroe doctrine, demand that the service of the old soldiers be fairly and gener ously recognized, and a vigorous pro test agaiust the attempt of President Roosevelt to stir up race hatred as an engine of political advancement con stitute thc main features of the latest Democratic platform, worde 1 to meet the especial conditions and emergen cies of the day.'* * . Strange Disoatio. Mrs. Erma Ewing Palmer, the last of the two "ossitled" sisters, died Fri day atSherburne, N. Y., aged 50. Ow ing to a disease of a rheumatic nature i wnlch has bathed the skill of proml ! nent physicians throughout the coun try. Mrs. Palmer had lain motionless . upon her back, totally blind and with i every muscle rigid for the last 27 ?j years. The disease manifested 16 j self within a few days after her mar i ri,ge at the age of 23. Her sister, l Miss Stella Ewing, who died here two ? years ago, was addicted in the same s way. In a Bad Way. r A dispatch from London says at a 1 meeting of the Manchester city coun I ell it was announced that owing to ) the bard times and depression in the ? cotton Industries betwenn 40,000 and 3 50,000 people in the poorer parts of ' - the city were nearly on tho verge of starvation. Similar conditions pre vail in london and other large cities ot thc United Kingdom, where tho 3 winter is expected to be one of the , hardest in many years for the poorer B classes. 1 A White Bruto. At Mt. Tabor, N. C., ono day last J week a white man by tho name of ] Charlie Johnson committed au assault o on a nine-year-old white girl. Feel E> lng ran high and there was talk of a lynching but the officers succeeded In ,, getting Johnson to Whltevllle Jail, a where ho now is. Rumors reached . hero several days ago but lt was hard - to secure detlnlte Information, the o oommunity being remote aud inacces sible,