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POVERTY. A Book That dight to Make the World Think. E. HUNTER, SOCIAL BEFOBMEB, Arraigns Conditions that Give Ono Hundred ?nd Twouty-flve Thou ?and People Half the Na tion's Wealth. Like a voice crying in the wilder ness of wealth and luxury, Robert Bunter, the young social reformer, has uttered an appeal for the ten mil lion people of the United States who are steeped in proverty. To give effect to the appeal, Mr. Hunter, with bis young and beautiful wife, formerly Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, daughter of Millionaire Anson Phelps Stokes, has abandoned a mansion of wealth and luxury in fashionable Madison avenue and established in Grove Btreet, where sloth and proverty abide on all sides, a home from which be and Mrs. Hunter will be able to devote their efforts toward the alleviation ot the suffering. Not with any flare of trumpets bas Mr. Hunter taken this radical Btep. He and his pretty wife, whom be met a year ago while they were separately ministering to the poor of the slums, had been In their quarters a week be fore the newspapers found them out. They modestly disclaim any purpose to do anything but bear their Just share of any responsibilities that the perilous situation may impose upon all lovers of mankind. Rut already they are actively engaged in a score of practical charitable movements. BIS BCOK ON ''POVERTY." Co-Incident with their removel to No. 88 Grove street, Mr. Hunter's book on "Poverty" was published by the Macmilians. It is thc result of Mr. Hunter's llfteen years of labor among the poor of the nation, and it is a ter . -?VbVe -arraignment of the State, the corporations and the individual em ployers Of labor, whom he charges with joint responsibility for the con ditions that prevail. Startling as is his statement that there are 10,000,'tlOO people in the United States-on -eighth of our pop ulation-sufi, ring from proverty to day, that the scourage or mryikiud consumption-ls epidemic, ?^^??????^ the poor are p-jurer man t wt ; irc*.., ~ not stop there, but predicts, unlessr^r medial measures are adopted, an even worse condition, ending in au ec u omic feudalism worse than the baron ial feudalism of the Middle Ages. Mr. Hunter |dots not especially charge the Trusts with responsibility for the conditions, but the inference wbich he draws is plain. "Poverty" is a boc k which ls bound to create a sensation among thinking people. At thc beginning of his > cok, Mr. Hunter. In a chapter rm general pov erty, defines the geographical limbs of the state of misery with wbich lie proposes to deal. After referring to the slum districts of foreign cit ies, Ire says: CONGLOMERATE POVERTY. "In our American cilios negroes, whites, Chinese, file x ?cans, half breeds, Americans, Irish und others are indiscriminately bous? d together In the same tenements and even in the same rooms. Tue blind, tho crip pled, the consumptive, the aged, the ragged ends of life, tho bai.i.s. t!.e children, the half-statved, uuderelad beginnings In life, all huddled to gether, walting, drifting This is pau perism. T'rere is no mental agony here; they do not work son ; there is no dread; they live miserably, but they do not care." Continuing, the author says: "How many people in tins country are In poverty? ls the Dumber year ly growing larger? Are there each year more and more of the unskilled class pursuing hopelessly the elusive phantom of self-support and indepen dence? ***** i have not the slightest doubt thal, there are In the United States io,ooo,ooo persons in precisely the.-e conditions of pover ty, but I am largely guessing, ai n" there may be as many as tifteen or twenty millions. Hut ought we not to know? * * * * "The number of evictions in any community is a fairly g- o:l mt asure ol the minimum of distress. Ln the year 1903 60,463 families in thc Rorougb of Manhattan were evicted from their homes. This is about l-l per cent, of 'he tjtal number of the families in the borough. "As another indication the mimbi r of pauper burials shou il lie cited. Every one familiar v. ii lt tho poor knows bow desperately they sturggle to give a decent burial to their dea 1, * * * and yet one In every ten per sons who die in New York is buried at public expense In Potter's Field." Summarizing some of the facts which he theo gives Mr. ll unter pre Bents this table: STATIS!ICS OF DISTRESS. 1003-Twenty per cent of the pco. pie of Boston in distress. 1897-Nineteen percent of thc peo ple of New Yor lu distress. 1899-Eighteen por cent of the peo pie of New York In distress. 1003-Fourteen per cent of the families of Manhattan evicted. Every year 10 per cent of those who die in Manhattan have pauper burials. "On the basis of these figures,'1 he continues, '"it would Beena fair to to estimate that certainly not fewer than 14 per cent of the people in prosperous Limes (1903) and probably not fewer than '?0 per cent in bad times (1897) are in distress." Considering thc causis of non em ployment, into which the author temporarily diverts, ho mikes this Significant observation: "Tho reorganization of Industry Into trust-, causing many thousai tis of men to lose temporarily their i in payment, the Introduction of ni v, maoblnery, having the same effect: tho speeding up of the machines, which exhausts and displaces work men at an early age; excessive hours in many trades and a too plentiful supply of lal or in many Industrial centres, are all causes of non-era ploy mont which >eom more active In this country than abroad." The figures of non employment are then reviewed, In connection with other causes of poverty. Mr. Hunter cites the record of railroad accidents in the United States f-.r tho last ?on years, showing many thousands wert re luccd to abs ?lulo want because of the death or permanent injury ol the head of tho family. And he points out that the majority of th?se acci dents could have boen avoided had the railroads Installed thc necessary safe ty appliances. CONCENTRATION OK WEALTH. Ia & very significant, table lt ls shown that Of the 865,000,000,000 which ls the estimated wealth of the country-833,000,000,000 is possessed Joy 125,000 of the 80,000,000 of our population. Summing up the situation, Mr. Hunter embraces In a single paragraph bis message to the nation: "There are, probably," he says, "in fairly prosperous years no .fewer than 10,000,000 persons In poverty-that is to say underfed, underolothed and poorly housed. Of these, about 4,000,000 persons arc public paupers. Over 2,000,000 working men are un employed from four to six months in the year. About 500,000 male immi grants arrive yearly and seek work in tho very districts where work ls scarcest. "Nearly half tho families in this country are propertyiess. Over 1,700, 000 little children are forced to be come wage-earners when they should still bo school. 3,000,000 women lind it necessary to work and about 2,000,000 are employed in factories, mills, etc. Probably no fewer than 1.000,000 woikersare injured or killed each year while doing their work, and 10,000,000 of tho persons now living will, if the present ratio is kept up, die of this preventable disease-tuber culosis I" What ls to be doae? Mr. Hunter mentions a few remedies: "The factories, the mines, the workshops und the railroads must be forced to cease killing the father, or the boy, or the girl, whoso wages alone suffice to keep the family from poverty; or if the workers must be injured or killed, then the family must at least te fairly compensated, In so far as that be possible. Tene ments may be made fairly sanitary by tue action of the community and thereby much of the breeding of wretched solis and diseased bodies stopped.-New York Amcslcan. THE RURAL CARRIERS Mold a Very Int?resiitiK Meeting In Columbia Thursday. The State Rural Delivery Carriers association held a special meeting in the United States cou t room in Co lumbia Thursday. Tue purj/ose of the meeting was to heir two addi ess es, which were made by Congressman A. F. Lever and Postmaster J. F Ensor of that city, and for the dis cussion of matt M- relaMi g to the Im provement of Ibo free mall delivery service. r Tue membership of the association numbers something over 500, hu' there are many of the cairiers w,. have not yet b'.corae members. This meeting being a called one and occur ring i n Thank giving dav, tho allen dane * was >ixah. Toe following ar> the officers for the present year: President, D C Hayden Orangeburg; vice president, R A. Shgh, S ighs; secretary. H. E R I n, N-tses; treas urer, .las. Harlin m, P.o-peilty. The morning session ope:;ei at 11 :to u'cltck. Dr. E asor was tin lust, speaker, followed by Mr. Lever. They were listened to with closest at te?tl.n. After these speeches there was a discussion by tho members of the association suggesting improve ments of boxes lor mail, style of wagons, etc. A tee, ss for diuuer was taken at 1.30 o'clock. Business was r< sumed at 3 o'clock, lt was agreed that The R. F. D. News, the official organ of the Na tional Rural Letter Carriers' associa li ii, >-hoiil 1 be scot to every member of the State organization, lt was also decided that at the annual meet ing, which ls to be held In Columbia next July, the session should be held for two days i:.stead of one as hereto fore. The dates agreed upon an July 3 and 4. 1905 A committee ol three, consisting i f Messrs. Samu -1 C. Tindale of Ntss s, P. M.. Hut! ot Piedmont and N. O. Pvles of Cdura bin, was appointed to prcseut to the Slate legislature at it Its next ses sion a memorial urgirg the passage ol laws leading to the Improvement ol public and private r< ads traveled by by the free delivery routes. A resolution was ottered by Mr Pyles and unanimously adopted thank ing Dr. Ensor and Congressman Le ver for their excellent addresses, and Maj. Micah Jenkins, oollector of In ti mal revenue for thc use of the court room, and to the press for courtesies extended. The following members of the asso ciation were present: D.C. Haydn, Orang'burg; Jjhn C M oro, Chester; John T. McCrorev, Richburg; P. M. Hull, Piedmont; B J. Martin, D maids; Maxcy H. Ly brand, New Brookland; J. E. B. M; Cartha, Leesville; John C. Drafts, Leesville; Horace D. Crosson, Lees ville; Samue l C. Tindal, Necses; W. A. Sharp, North; W. G. Pete:son. Newberry; B. M. Wolff. Alma; W. B Clark, Laurens, Joseph W. Little, Simpson ville; Hugh E. Polin, Ne(s\s; L. I). Evans, Blaney; Olin V Nurina maker, tr mo; E. L. Wlugard, Lexlng ton: J S3e E. Gardner, Bethuni ; D. it Fletcher, Kershaw; M. C. Rogers, Antioch; N. O. Pylcs, Columbia. Four Wore Drowned. The rowboat of Willi..rn Briggs, ferryman between Pott Huron. Mich., ano Sarnia, Out, overturntd Thursday in a heavy sea while Briggs, with six passengers, was rowing across the St. C:air river and thc following wen drowned: Alfred Green, engineer. St. Thomas, Ont.; John M. dm oman, fireman, St. Thomas; John Dack, brakeman, St. Thoma?, all of the Pere Marquette railroad, and James Con nel!, barkeeper, Sarina, Ont. Ferry man Briggs, .ioho Dobson, an engi neer i t St. Th unas, and Daniel Fisher, a conductor of Ridgctown, (0 it., savi d thcn^clvcs by hanging to the over! urned beat, Killed ai donison. At Clemson College James Slzemore. colored, died Wednesday night from the < ITccts of a blow on the head with a stick in the ban is of Bill Greeuleaf, chored. The tn ttble between too two "ook place, on Friday, tho loth of November. "James," the head wal ler at the Clemson club hotel, had sold "Hill," a hand at Ciinkscales' liv .try stable, a pair of shoes on which . Bill" fit!lied owed a dollar. This caused had feeling. Bil) cursed Janie.-, because he kopi asking for th i moni y and ' dared" him to come down to thc stable, James went and Bill knocked bim In the head, Uroenleaf has disappeared. Jt mes was ahard ..orking, hunt st, bannies negro, and was well thought of, especially hy the white people win, knew him. Horrible < m -. At Wanenton, Va., three negro children whose mothers locked thorn in the room toget ter, woro burnell to (hath In a Uno which di s Toyed th ee dwelling.!. Thc ti re was of h oen?jary origin, and the belief ls expressed the tho pa, au ts of the Children started the conflagration. ELECTION DECLARED By the State CanvasserB, Who Declaro ? hey Have Ho JURISDICTION IN COK TE SIS. AU of tho Constitutional Amend mumu Were Adopted. Total Voto for State Officer* and Oongreiiainon. The State board of canvassers con cluded Its labors Wednesday by de claring the results of tbe recent eleo Huns. Tuero were two contests from Republican candidates defeated for congress, but these were overruled by the board and the Di mooratlo nomi ness for all offlces voted for were de clared elected. The following wore declared elected State otllcors for the next two years; there having been no opposition tiokct: D. 0. ney ward, KO vernor.61,007 J. T. Sloan, Lieut. Gov. 52,043 J. T. Gintt, secretary of state 51,622 U. X. Gunter, Jr., attorney general.51,834 R II. Jennings, treasurer.51,831 A. W. Jones, comptroller.51,833 O. B. Martin, State superin tendent of education. 51,832 J. D. Frost, adjutant general. 51,835 J. II. Earle, railroad commis ..stoner.51,803 _For the presidential electors, the nine Democrats received 52 863; Re publicans 2,271; T. W. Vaughn, the Socialist candidate from Richland, re ceived 22, and Thomas Watson re ccived one In Spartanburg. _ DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN. Thc following will serve tbe Statt in congress for the next two years, each Democrat lc candidate hiving had a decisive majority: 030. S. Legare ol Charleston, J. O. Patterson of Barn well, Wyatt Aiken of Abbeville, J T. Johnson of Spartanburg, D. E Fin ley of York, J. E. E lerbe/bf Marioi aud A. F. Lever of L'x'ngton. The vote cast lu tb^ sjveral dis tricts ls as follows: J First District---Legare, 6.068; Prio leau, 234; Noland. 346; total. 6,648. Second--Patters ;n, 7,420; Mjers 419; total, 7,842. Third-Aiken, 7,659; Samps Pope, 1; Scott, 142; total, 7 802 Fourth-Johnston, 8 516; Adams. 219; total, 8,735. Fifth--Finley, 7 928; White, 171; total, 8,099. Sixth-Eillerbe, 8 353; Dea?. 376: total, 8,727. S veuth-Lever, 8 726; Jacobs, 503; mattering, 6; total 9 305. The vote for s dlcltor wa3 as follows -there being no opposition to thc D^r.-iocrat ic car.irlatos: First Circuit, P. T. Hildebrand, 5, :>23; second, J E Divis, 6 590; th rd. J. S. Wilson, 6 619; Tourth, J. M Johnson, 5 5!4; tilth, B. Tiramer man, G,0-18; slxtb, J. K Henry, 5,691, seventh, T. S S ase, 8,230; eighth,?J E. R ?ggs, 7 192. CONSTITUTION A L A M KN DM ENTS. All of the proposed constitutional vmcnd.T.cnts were carried. First in Interest is the propo ilion to have th? ' glidature meet every two yean in stead of e ery yeer. Thc vo*e on this was: Yt s.25 635; no, 14,491; total number cast, 39,856. A mere majori ty is required, a two thirds majority being uuuecessary. A great deal of interest has been taken in the effort to amend the con st llu'.ion so that local or special laws may he enacted in reference to the building of roads, the age at which penous are subj ?ot to road duty, and on the question of drainage. This w ll perm't tl e legislative delegation* to make the road and drainage laws conform to the wishes of the people, for thc amendment was adopted by a vote of 26 452 to ll 242. The propo sitien to repeal subdivisions 2 and 0 of section 34 of the constitution was adopted by a vote of 20,000 to 12 024. The subdivision referred to would prevent local legislation on road and drainage and tills merely supple mcnts tho other amendments voted upon. The constitutional amendment to permit Greenville to Increase he. bended indebtedne.-s to an amount not to exceed 15 per C:?nt. of the val ue of the property in the county, was passed by a vote of 21 682 to 11, 016. TUE CONTEST HEARD. When the clerks rep >rted that they had completed thc tabulation, tb-' State board entered into the matter of contests. The first of these came from the tlrst district where Mr. Le gare had two opponents, both of whom are of the Republican party. Aaron P. Prloleau, colored, charged with a number of crimes, and J. A. Noland, white, each claims that he c mid havi been eb ctcd. Noland was represented by a negro lawyer named Edwards, whose contention ls that certain boxe should have been counted over. The State ht ard showed that had this been done and all the votes given to Noland the latter could not possibh have been elected. Noland's negro attorney also claimed that the vote? should not have been counted with a representative of the candidate bo;rig tnore. Tho b ard ruled that it hus no Jurisdiction In this case. Priolcau's extravagantc'a'm is that t e would have received ll 800 votes had not his supporters been denied thc rlgbt to vi te. Ho also clalme I thafj some boxes where he would have had a majority were not opened. Prloleau represented himself. The Stat'i beard declared that it has no right to act In this case also, there being n > charge of fraud. Jacob Moorer, a negro lawyer from Orangeburg, represented Jacobi, the Sumter negro who is contesting Ml. Lever's seat. Moor? r attacked th constitutionality of the election laws Th's matter is also beyond the juris diction of tho board of canvassers, RS was pointed out by Mr. B. H trt Moss of Orangeburg, representing Mr. Lover. The State board of canvassers then - fore declared Mr. Legare and Mr. Lever du y elected. mind Tiger Hhot. A dispatch from Charleston to Thc State s:ys King street was a sceno of excitement Tours lay night as a re ?tit of tho dispensary constables searching SohladorossrB establish ment. The constables seized a small quantity of liquor there Thursday af ternoon and they returned to the place Thursday night when the two Schladeressi's opened Uro, which was returned, about 15 to 20 shots being discharge d, but tho only casualty wtu a slight wound lo tho hand of one of the Scbiadercssl's. He ww, arrested but later was balled at the station house. Constables Bateman, Wil liams, Patterson and Wright partici pated in the raid and returned the lire of the owners of the piaoo. Thc raid netted 70 quarts of whiskey brandy stud wine. \ . SERVED HIM BIGHT. ) ! - : ! A R nu mil Brought io lila Benita Dy Shotgun Argument. Lawrence Gadsden, a negro man about twenty-throe years of age, cre ated considerable excitement in the Ruplc neighborhood, got himself filled with bird shot and finally lauded in jail OM Saturday night about 10 o'clock. It seems that Gadsden, who was under the Influence of whiskey, left Orange burg about- 8 o'cluck on Saturday night, going down the old Charleston road toward Bowman. When near Bethel churoh he went to the house of a colored man by the name of Wash. Murphy, who befng absent, Gadsden ran all the women and children out of the house, and finally went on down the road In the direot'.on of Bowman as he originally started. When be reached the place of the late A. J. Kopie, on which now lives Mrs. Ruple, Mr. John Ku plc and his three sisters, Gadsden went in the yard and was hailed by one of the young ladles, who demanded to know what be wanted. Thc fiend did not make any reply, hut walked on around the house, and, after peeping in one of the windows, walked upon the piazza that connects the house proper and the kitchen and dining room, and walked to the room of Mr. Jobn Ruple who was absent, being lu Orangeburg <m business, and opened tbe dour. About this time he told the young ladies, who were alone, that their brother John, who t e had left in Oraugeburg, had sent him to stay there until he came, when he would take him on to Bowman. Mrs Rupie-bad gone to spend the evening with her son Brooks, who lives a abort distance away, and Mr. John Ruple, as already stated, bad not yet come home from Orangeburg, where he bad gone on busioess. Tnis was thc situation of affairs wben Gaels den made bis appearance, and, it is needless to say, that the ycuDg ladies were terribly frightened. When Gads den bad entered the gate and refus?e to answer the challenge as to what hi wanted, one of th" young ladle' slipped out of the front door ant went to the house of John Coulter, t colored man who lives on the Rupli place and works for Mr. John Ruple Another one of the young ladles blev the horn to notify her brother Brook and others of the unusual occurrence lu the meantime John Coulter los no time in responding to the call c the young lad.es for help and soon rc ported ?it tho hrn's^ for duty. Who. be arrived Gadsden had left the piazz and was standing in the yard a shot distance away. He declined to.aoswc Coulter's question as to what h wp rited, and stood his ground uni Coulter went in Mr. John Ruple ro m and got his gun. Wheu Gadi d-iQ .saw this, he m ,de for the gat< nut. tailing to get it open, be ra under the house, and tinally jempe the fence, making for the woods, to lowed by Coulter. They had not pn ceedei far bef re Coult r saw M brooks Ruple, who had been warnt hy tlie blowing of the horn, comlr towards bim, with Gadsden botwet them running for the woods Coult called out to Mr. Brooks uplo shoat Gadsden, at the s* ,?.e'tln shooting at him himself. Gadsden conti i u d to run a\d ma? his escape to the woods, after bili tired at six times, both gunk btli loaded with bird shot. In the meantime scv/.aL I > b arrived on the t-cene and' >lned the hunt tor Gadsden, wht ai d appeared in the woods. .. * ..er sor time he vs as found elise i against a pine, with .ne hi pe, doubt, that his pursuers would pi him, and he would come back: to't roal and make good his escape, this was his hope, he was disappointe as he was discovered uni broug back to the Ituple house. While t party was getting ready to bring bl to Orang iburg, Gadsden made bis < cape, and again reached the woot Ile was pursued by those present, b tiny failed to overtake him, and looked as if he had made good I escape. Dut such was not to be the ca as Gadsden was capturid by Mr. J. Murphy, the beer dispenser at Oraui burg, who was on ids way bon which was not far from tbe Ru; homo. When Mr. Murphy had gott to where the colored man Wash Mi phy lives, he was told by another c o.ed mau, Perry Funches, who li' near Wash Murphy, bow Gadsden h acted there, and said he believed had been killed as he had heard gi eral shots lind in the'direction of fi lluplc's, where Gadsden had gol After hearing this Mr. Murphy pui ed on to the Ruplc home, In front which he found a number of rr standing. After being told of t escape of Gadsden, Mr. Murphy membered s^elug. while parsing' Fi ches' bouse some distance back, a i gro man coming to thc road from l woods. He Immediately turned back a pu.- bed on to where ho saw the neg After pa s og the pla;e a little wi he met a wagon which was bel driven by a negro, who, on bel questioned, denied fleeing any o Just as he passed the wagon Mr. M phy saw a man running fortheswa across a Held. Ho jumped out of buggy and hailed tho mau, tell him if he did not stop he would sh him. Tue man stopp cd and Mr. M phy i cd him and took him back tho Duple home, where he had I the tull) from whom Gads.len had caped, lt was a brave, thing In I Murphy iu capturing Gadsd n as had no weapon of any kind on person. Gadsden Is a large, pow ful negro, and could hive made sh work of Mr. Murphy If he had kne tho. t rue situation. After Mr. Murphy carried Ga isi back lt was decided tn bring him Oran reburg and turn him over Sherill Dukeaj which was d ?ne. 1 only violence offered him after be captured was by Mr. John Duple, v lives Ailh his mother and sisters the I ouse visited hy Gadsden. W he li st saw Gadsden he was FO 6' pcratud that bc bit him a blow or I with a pleco of iron. He was s utile;cd and tho negro was lod saloly lu Jail, whom be now ls A reaching thc j iii Gadsden was ex; Incd and it was found that he been pretty well sprinkled with t shot on different parts of his pen It was also discovered that this not tho first time that the rascal been shot as his back was full of shot scars. He is said to bo a 1 worthless fellow. Ho hal seen Mr. John Ruple town and when he went to the Ri home he knew that nothing but la were there, and there ls no tel what he might have done, bad lt been for the fact that the young dies S?W him when he first enb thc gate and were thus apprizer tho tlend's presence. Mr. Murpl: being congratulated on all sides ibe brave mac nor in which ho cap tured Gadsdou in the face of what night have been great danger. We hope the law will be put to Gadsden bo tbe fullest extent, and that the rascal will be sent to spend several Rimmers on the banks of thc Conga- , ree. It Is Just such no account vaga- 1 bonds as Gadsden that hurts the col- > :>red race lu tho eyes of the world.- i Orangeb'urg Times and Democrat. A SALUDA SENSATION. Fonr White Moa Kc!d for thc Murder of a Negro. "We find that Will Culbreath came to hts death from a pistol shot wouod In the hands of S. D. Glllion and that U. D. Gillon. M. B. Morse and J. Mid Moffett were accessories to the kill ing." This was the verdict of the coro ner's jury at Saluda empaneled to In quire into the cause of thc Degro, Cu'breath's, death and which was reached late Wednesday evening after quite a prolonged session. S D. Glllion, the principal, hasbe:n quite a partisan tor the Moises and against W. L. Henderson and young Free since M. M. Morse's death a few weeks ago. U. D Gi l'on is a sun of S. D. Glllion and M. IS. Morse ls a brother of M. M. Morse, Will Cul breath was the negro who was driving the one horse wagon the night M. M. Morse was killed, and for whose anest the governor was Indued to oller a reward of ?50, but which was with drawn. It ls but Just to Bay -??ry few, If any, believe the negro bad anything to do with M. M. Morse's death and the theory ls that the negro was Im plicated f-o as to discredit his test! mony at the trial of W. L. Hender son, should his testimony be In favor of Henderson and against tho State's case. There is not one iota of te; ti mo ?y connecting the negro with the killing of Morse. Several days ago Cul breath was brought back from Pros perity-whither he went after Morse was killed-by Mr. W. L. Henderson's friends and since that time has been at work for W. W. Henderson, a brother of W. L. Henderson. On Mon day, lt ls understood, a warrant was issued f )r the Culbreath negro on the part of the State and S. D. Glllion was made a spacial constable to exe cute it. A synopsis of the testimony at the inquest tells tue remainder of the story. Edgar nrnderfeon, a 14 year old son of W. W. Henderson, was at work lu the field with the Culbreath nigro. The darkey was plowing and young Henderson wa-? cutting corn stalks. His 12 year old sister happened lo be In the Held with her b.other when Gillion and his party came up. Tin boy says Mr. Gilli n rode up to Will and said: ''Hello, WUP. I have a war rant for you. If you run I'll kill you." Will ran and was limning as hard as he cjuld and fe'.l while running. The girl corrobor itcd E'yer Hender son's testimony and in answer to a question as to what, Will was doing when shot, says, "He was runulng, trying to get out of lt." Both stated that S. D Glllion went to where the negro waa laying after he was shot and said, "Poys, come look at him. He ain't hurt." The girl was frighten d and begin to scream and she says Mr. Gibt n came to her and said, ''Daughter don't be afraid. It alu't nothing. Mr. J. D. Davi-J, ex-auditor of Edgefield county, was swum and said he was on his way home from tc' 0)i and met S. D. .Glllion and Mid Mof fett. Asking them them the news. Gillion leplled ''nothing'1 and then said: "Yes, I have some ne .vs and bad news. I ba've killid Will Cul breath." Gdllon then r ques'.ed that witnesses go to where the m g o was laying and search for a knife or pistol. When witness went to the negro he found no knife or pis'.ol. In answer to a question Mr. Davis said Glllion "told me he went to the field where the negro was plowing and told bim he had a warrant for him. The negro ran off. He got off of his horne and ran after him, and was gaining on him when the negrj turned and put his hand In his pocket. Suppos ing the negro meant to light him he shot him." Other parties testified to senlng the other men handicapped nearby with guns. The evidence showed that the negro waa some 30 yarns from Gillion when shot and was running for life. The bullet entered the back of the head and going through was cut out under the skin In or near the center of the forehead. S. D. Gillion came down Thursday evening and surrendered to the sher iff. Ills son was here also but it is sild he went home. Warrants have been Issued for M. B. Morse and J. Mid Moffett. lt is also stated that warrants will be issued for Dock Mc Kay and two other parties, whose names yi ur correspondent could int learn, ns, lt ls said, they were in the woods when Culbreath was killed and were with Gillion and his party. Mc Kay is a brotucr in-law of the dead man Morse. S. 1?. Gdllon was tried here just after the county was formed for kill ing a Mr. Cogburn in the northwest ern part of the county. .lump' (1 Overboard. "Good-bye, God will take care of me," wiote a young woman whose berth aboard the Old Dominion liner Princess Annie was discovered to have been unucrupied after she look pas sage from New York for Norfolk Wed nesday and who has nev.:r been seen since. On tin; paper in which she up parently bade farewell to her father and to life, was also written a request that her father, F. J. Henkel, bo no titled at 43 Orescent street, Wakefield, Mass. Search was Instituted for the girl and In her statero'im was found her pathetic note. Tho missing young woman, who ls described a, a yinni,; girl budding Into womanhood, took passage at New Yorn for Norfolk, glv mg her name as Miss E iza be th Henkel. That this was her tiue name ippears to be indicated by her note to tier father. Killed ? (Jouplo. Near Philadelphia, Pa., on Wedna*? Jay Frank Say lor, a negro farm hand Uiotand killed Henry Henderson, aged 23 years, and when ho was overtaken by George Henderson, Henry's uncle, Tatally shot him also. In addition he [ired two shots at Ella Scott, whose refusa' to accept his attentions irousod lils Jealousy. Say lor escaped Into a den.se woods and has since evaded capturo._ .Suicided. Adara Weiss, of Chicago, a pn&sen ger on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm IL, committed suicide when the stea mer was two hours out from New Y ork, on Weduoaday. / ANOTESE CALAMITY Visits Thornwell Orphanage. Beni Inory Li m-m il Down. A dispatch from Clinton to Tho State says at six o'clock Tuusday afternoon tho Thornwell orphanage seminary building caught dre in tho roof from a defeotive flue and was burned to the ground. Workmen tad j u-it finished testing a new furnace and tbe building bad been clcsad for tbe day. The lire was discovered early but a3 the town bas ni t yet put in its waterworks the efforts to put out the dames were of no avail. The Are soon reached an 85 foot tower and besame a huge pillar of flames. Efforts were then diverted to the protection of the ! McCormick, a dormitory building on the orphanage campup and the r. c'ta tion hall of the Presbyterian ooiiege, both of which were threatened. B tb buildings ? ere adequately proteoted The "Thornwell Seminary for Or pliant-," which was the name of the burned building, was dedicated in 1883 by Gov. Hugh S. Thomson, whose diath the people are now la meutiug. The building wus In process of con struct ion for 18 months, during which pei lol the labor and other bills wen prompt'y met at the end of each week, though at no time were tbe funds io band sutlloient to pay them a week ii advance. This wa* the main education al structure of the institution and con tained In addition to a large chapel some six class r oms. The loss ls $8, OOO,, with only 81,000 of Insurance, li falls therefore as a heavy blow upot an in titutlon which only a few days ago bal a similar loss, from which it had partially recovered by donations Lo the dining ball of the orphanage help ls needed as never before. The flues from which lt caught have beet, iu almost dally uso s.uce 1883. Tb? president'of the crphanage has made it a practice to walk around the grounds each night after the retiring hour to see that all was safe. The Ttiornweil orphanage bas many friends. The help of everyone of them will be needed now. J. F. Jacobs. ItcoelptB off i'ostoillon. The auditor for the po steffi ce de partment lias issued his annual report of tbe gross rec ipts and expenses of presidential elliots throughout tbi country for the fiscal year which end ed June 30, 1004. The ligures show that tbe total re ?'iipbs in presidential otu :es In Soutl Carolina were $430 522; that thu sal aries of the postmasters were 671,351; that the exp -hsi s of special deliverj services were S3 425 30; clerk hire. $57, 5i:7; r< uts, lights and fuels, 810, 001, ai d tb cwt ol free delivery 852 070. The figures as to the various pO?t Ol es in the State are as follows. th<i flr;-,fc figures be og the gross re ceipts of the sa aries of the post mas' ers: Abbeville. 85,358 04; 81,700,00. Aiken, 88 001.03 82 000.00. A ders m, $13.232 56; 82 300.00. Bambe'g. $2 000 28; 81,300 00. biruwnl, 83 220 28; 8,400.00. Batesburg, 82.234 SO; 81 ooo oo. Beaufort, 84 181 39; 81.000 00 B rmettsvllle. 85 113 45; 81 000.00 Cimden, $7,359 30: 81,800 00. Charleston, 8113 004 42; $3 300 00 Cheraw, 4.3 022 18; 81.400 00. Chester, 87,t5?. ?2; Si 8JO 00. Clemson Collei. 82,044 00; 81,100. Clinton, 84 007 87; 81 5 10.00. C lumbla, 855 302 03: 83 100 00. Di-llng on, 7 555 87; 81 8)0.00. Di.loo, 83,718.58; 81.3e0.0J. E isley, ?613:52; $300 00 Edge Held, 83,081 04; $1,300.00. Forencc. 87.727 53; $3 800 00. Gttlne , $5 870 42; $1.700,00. G orgeiuwn, 88,600.92; 82.OU0.0?. Greenville, 826 616 IS; 82.600.00. Greenwood. 89 104 26; 82,000 00. Uartsville, 82 433 14; 81.200 00. Hones Path, 81,204.13; 8550 00. Lancaster. 85 801 33: 81.400 00. L ureOB, $6,487 70: 81.700.00. Manning, $2 707.04; 81,100 00. Marlon, 84 551.52; 81 500 00. Newberry, 87,575 34; $1 900 00. Orargeburg, $8.387 04 ; 82.000.00. Pelz r, $3,117 53; 81,400.^ Rick Hill. 811,181.011; $2,100.00. Senect, 82 800 73; 81,200.00 Spartanburg, 823,982.55; 82,000 00. Summe!vide, $1,621.31; 81 500 00 Slimier, 814 108 27; $2,300 00. Un'on, 87,002.51; 81,800 00 Walhalla, $1,7io oo; $w25 oo. Wa1 tetboro. $2 002 25; 81,200 oo. Westminister, $482 00; $275 00. Winnsboro, $3,883 71; 81,500.00. xorkville, 84 258 02; 81,600 00. Murder and Suicide. Mrs. John Kyser late Friday after noon shot and m irtally wounded Miss Nellie Edwards at ber home iu Wood lawn, a suburb of Birmingham and while on a street car returning to the city, shot and iustantly killed herself. Both Mrs. Kyser and Miss Edwards are v.oll known, lt is said that Mrs. Ivyser was jealous < f her husband who, lt ls alleged, was formerly engaged to Miss fi 1 wa rds. Cut Ult* Throat. Elmer Johnson, the man who gave himself up to officers at Jonesboro Ark., a f*;w days ago for a murder committed in Chattanooga, Tenn., sixteen years ago, cut his throat. Thursday morning in his cell, where he was held awaiting the arrival of author!t'es from Chattanooga. Jobn s ?ti ls in a dying condition and is not expected 10 survive the night. Killed His Mitti. W. J. Blank Instil p, an aged whit man of (Oak Hill, 12 miles west of Covington, was si ot and killed by J. A. Scott, a wealthy bach' lor farmer nf that community. Blankinsblp rents land from Soott and lt ls reportod that the two men h ive had difficulties re cent ly over matters pertaining to the division of Blnnkiushlp's crop. Fourteen Minoru Hilled. A Fernie, B. C., dispatch to The Pioneer Press says 14 miners wero killed at tho Carbonado mines near Morrissey Friday afternoon asa result of a terri ties explosion of coal g is. Thc disaster occuned in No. 1 minc, ten ii iles west of Ferule. Thc work of rescue was kept u 1 all afternoon and all the bodies have been recovered. You can't down Atlanta, Julius Brown, of that city, ls out with a card proposing that tho electors of all southern states v. ito for Roosevelt and make his election unanimous. Ho makes the proposition because he says Roosovelt has been unjustly attacked on tho. negro question and about thc Philippines and, In fact, on all public questions. He concludes the card: "He is a good man, hair S lUthero, and we of the South ougtit to be able to trust him."_ G. W. BLACKWELL, aged 55, opera tivo at thc Maple cotton mill at Dil lon, wt.s killed by a train on the Coast Lino while asleep on thc track Thurs day. He was drinking. THE G?INABD COIv?MB Building and Re-Pres ed Brick. Sp Terra Cotta Flue Linings. I'repa for millions. Whiskey I Morphine I Clgaret Habit, I Habit I Habit Cured by Iteelejr I 1329 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 16) Oolu ;n:e solicited. KILFYRE! KILFYR That is exactly what it ls. a B day at the State Fair showing lia fii Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Saw M Droper ty should have them. For sa COLUMBIA SI Cohimbia, 8 O The urtu Southeastern Lim CHARLES! Building Material of all kii "RUBEROID." 1 A WAK ROMANOS That Was Bosun iii Ncwb rn Sumo Forty Years Ago. A war time romance which was be gun in Newbun in 1862 had a har pt ending in New York a few days ago. An account of it is giveu in the New York World: Goff-?imer.-In this elly, Oct? bjr 6, 1904, Dr. C evtfland Willis Goff, of New York city, to Mrs. Jane Lawson Uimer, of Savannah, Qa., by the Rev William B Tower, pastor of the Washington Square Methodist church. Ry the foregoing announcement, published in the Herald, many friends of a physician well known in bis forty years' practice In this city, will b surprised that an elderly man, long tgo given up as a hopeless bachelor, ba? taken uuto himself a wife. Few will know that it also marks the good story book ending of a war time ro manee, beginning ID Ncwberu, N. C. lu 1802. lt d02s rot lose Its interest oecause Mrs. Goff, herself white"] haired, told it last nrght. Dr. Gi ll, whose olllce ls at No. ll East Sixteenth street, was a joung physician in Rochester when the call to arms came in 1861. Ile enlisted in the Third New York cavalry known as Van Allen CY dry, serving first as quartermaster then rising to the rank of captain, aud later do ng duty as surgeon. Dr. Goff was with the army that occupied Newbern. N. C , in 1802 i There be met Miss Jane Lawson I daughter of a local merchant, and needless to say, a very ardent sympa cbizer of the Scu'.hern cause. Tne young surgeon fell in love with her "I am sure that my treatment of Dr. Goff waa cot lh? kindliest," tald nis wife last night. 'Tn those day*, of course, we could see nothing good 11 the Yankees. Rut be was persis tent." Tnere was a youug Confederate of ficer lu the case at that time. II was James Ula.e.- and he was also In love with Miss Lawson. That mace? Drt Goff's suit impo-slble and be was told so plainly. What he said when ae learned this was not revealed last night, but he continued to urge bis suit, even afttr the war closed. That vas all ended when, a few years af'er the war, Miss Lawson became Mrs. rim -r and moved to Savannah, wlv?re her husband went Into busl ae>8. Dr. Goff returned to New Yoik and began the practice of medicine, lie had many patients, amassed ac m fort able fortune, travelled extensively and in the opinion of his friends was a man whose heart had never been af fected by -'.ny worn m. It ls likJy that the story would have ended here had not Mrs. Ulmer paid a visit to N::w Yurk in October. Mr. Ulmer bad died turee years be tore. There were no children. She was c mfortably well off and liked to i ravel. She did not kuow exactly how if happened, but one day at her hotel she thought of Dr. Goff and wouler ed if he were still living. A dieo ory gave his address ana she called there. Mrs. Goff laughed last night when she came to this part of the story. ' It was the d clor,'' she said. "Of course tm had changed. For that matter both of us were, well, a little older but we were soon chatting about old times during the war. Then;" Mrs Goff hesitated and a chuckle came from her husband.-New York Her ald. _ Ilopon Ol Cuttun Uiitned. The oensus bureau Friday issued a preliminary rrpoit on the quantity of cotton ginned to Nov. 14, 1904.. in 081 counties, fr m which reports have been received to this date, lt shows 20,817 active ginneries against 20,710 for the Barae period in the name coun ties in 1U04 of 8,912 125 running biles against 0,414,058 lu 1903. The last named figures Include 234,720 round bahs for 1004 and 470,020 for 1903. The entire number of counties from which ginning was reported last sea son was 812 When all of the agents should have reported for the present c op there will be published a sum mary distributing hy Stat s the total quantity ginned during the season pri. r to Nov. 14. The entire numbir of active glntierles repot ted prior to Nov. l l, 1903, was 29,606, and the en tire cotton ginned was 7,070,437 run ning bale*. Ry States the reports for tho 081 counties so far reported for the present season prior to Nov. 14, follows: Alabama, 50 c unties, 3,318 active ginneries, 923,979 running l?ales; Arkansas, 00 counties, 2.200 ginutrles, 52lj 192 bales; Piorlda, 15 counties 214 ginneries, 41,012 bales; Georgia, 119 counties, 4,57ginneries, 1,433,907 hales; Indian Territory, 15 counties, 320 ginneries, 207,485 bale ; Kentucky, 1 county, 3 ginneries, 860 bales; Louisiana, ?39 emmies, 1,500 ginneries, 400,974 bales; Mississippi, 08 count'os, 3,733 ginneries, 973,821 bales; Missouri, 7 counties, 50 gin neries, 20,785 bales; North Carolina, 63 oouoties. 3,787 ginneries, 608,782 bales; Oklahoma, 15 counties, 247 ginneries, 190,789 bales; South Caro Una, 39 counties, 3.114 glunerbs, 921,876 bales; Tennessee, 34 coontie*, 050 ginneries, 181,003 bales; Texas, 138 counties, 3 855 ginneries, 2.478, 501 bales; and Virginia, 6 ocuntles, 83 ginnerl-.a, 8 019 bales. Got Two Outlaw?. One outlaw ls dead and another ls In Jail morta'ly wound, as the result af a draperate battle between oattle tneives and oflicrs of tho law nea: Deeth, Nevada, on Monday. BRICK WORKS, IA, ?59. c. eclal Shapes to order. ' Fire Proof red to till orders for toou?ebd^cr;. J AU Drug and Tobacco Habits. ??tit ute, of &. C. mbliv. t?. O. Confidential correspond. El! KILFYRE ! I ! 'ire Killer. Demonstration every e fighting qualities. Ul, Ginnery and any one owning le by JPPLYCO.. > ~hinery Supply Louse of the State e & Cement Co. ON, 8. C. ids. High Grad? Roofing SrVrite for prices. TUB ofllolal figures of the result of the congressional election show that the Republicans In the bouse of repre sentan ves of the F-fty nineth con gress will have the largest majority in the history of congress. 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