The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, January 27, 1905, Image 1

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The Marlboro' Democrat. "DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY. OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE.'* VOL.^QX. BENNETSVILLE, S. C.. FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1904. NO. 25 V RAIN DF SHOT V , Fired Into the Czar's Palace Dur iiig a Religious Rete. POLICEMAN KILLED. AB Officer Explained thc Affair by Say ing that the Bullets Were Fired by a Battery in Reply to a Salute. Czar Displayed Spica- 3 did Nerve. A cablegram from St. Petersburg rays the ceremony of the blessing of the waters tills year was accompanied by an event more mysterious, unpre cedented and extraordinary than any ufforded by the annals of Russian bis tjry. For a Russian sovereign to fall by the hand of au assassin is no new thing in Russian records, but that thc emperor should narrowly escape death by a shot from bis own artillery while he was engaged In a solemn religious lite, surrounded by priests ot his church, is KO difficult to realize as to be almost incredible. Yet this ls what happened Thursday, and tho Russian public ls left wondering and mystified. By the merest chance the Imperial family escaped unhurt, but public opinion ls stunned by what might have been bhe tragic results of thc af fair. The festival of the Epiphany, the. ble>s8iDg of the waters, bad Ju3t con cluded at 1 o'clock Thursday after noon when, simultaneously with thc salute fired from t'je St. Peter and St. Paul fortress, a rain of bullets swept over thc little chapel built over the frozen Neva in frort of the winier palace where Emperor Nicholas and every member of the li i uanoi! family v ere participating lu the service. The missiles went high, entering the win dows of tho splendid row rf sahns along the water iront, from which the empress, the ladies of the court and the members of the diplomatic corps and high dignitaries of Hie state, arm;, and navy wou- witnessing tho glitter ing spectacle below. Fortunately the bullets passed over the heads of all'present, striking the opposite wall and clattering down on the partied tkor Of thc white salon. Evrybody had beeu labming under a nure or less nervous strain because of the strike situation aud Hie wlndo.vs were hastily vacated aud the greatest excitement reigned within the palace Lieut. Fulton, chief of police of St. Petersburg, himself picked up a mis sile in the white ?alon, lt was the 8)z) of a bird's egg. The n dice nhlArVwos 'm?jcuiavc.j H. 11.'b^*. ..._? ...m. - t ut the guaro, who examined the bullet and expressed tho opinion that it bad como from a shrapnel shell, which might have beet fired from the bat tery located on tile Bs orso esplanade, and which replied to the sa nte of thc St. Peter and St. Paul fortress, ex plaining that a gun might have been charged with a leaded cartridge by mistake. In the m antime there was no evi dence outside of wuat occurred. The crowds cf people who form d black l;ncs alorg the quays, the palace bridge, the steps of the Bourse and every other point of vantage in the white Arctic landscape did not betray the slightest excitement. Neither did the imperial party in the chapel be low. Although] liie actual coremony was ended the empirer remained aud accompanied the metropolitan and clergy as tiny circle 1 t ie pavilllon I around ttic chapel to b'ess the gorge ous standards i>r the famous guard regiments assembled there. Then the procession moved back to tho pilace and the original programme was car ried out. The emperor displayed splen did nerve. He did not show a trace of excitement. Ile received the dlplo natts In bis usual cordial, gentle man ner, reviewed tho gan rd regiments on the square behind the p ilace and sub sequently bad luncheon sei ved in the slate dining room. During the roc pt ion Emperor Nicholas grce! ed Ambassador Mc Cor m lek with hi ; ac sustomed cordi di ty and the ambas ador conveyed to ins majesty President Roosevelt's person al greetings and wishes for a happy New Year whle'i the emperor said be wai happv to receive. Winn the cor respondent of tho Associated Press (who was ab ut to go down to the white salon when one of the m issi ls Hew right over bis kiar-) left thc pal ace he stw a bole iu the window of another salon and holes outside In Hie stucco of the masfdvo red building. Additional particulars shjw that tho emperor bad a miraculous escape. There ls in doubt that the missiles came from a gun of the bourse battery which was haded witli grape, not with shrapnel. Stone of ibo bullets ac tually struck tile little open chapel hi which the emperor was standing, cut the stair e fi* one of the staut lards an ! f ilrly riddled the basement windows * to' e pal.:c.:, killing a p iliccman out .n! won idlng an officer and T>ftt. Had thc gun been aim tret the charge nf grape might b?v?^iPed 0llt " 0 vsll0le R " manoir dyriastyTV^06 official account of Thursday's shootai? affair is as fol lows: x "During Hie ceremony o*>U>0 b'eas ing cf the waters t f tho Nev?,7Jt?'UM" day, lu the presence of the emp\rojy as the usual salute was being tltcd/an accident happened, A charge of g/tpe instead of a saluting charge ww/lirei from a gun belonging to one 'of the batteries stationed ne<r t-..? H oise Some bullets struck tho facade of thc winter palaoe near the quay ga:dins, breaking four windows. A policeman belonging bo tho St. Petersburg force was wounded. Accord ng to the Infor mation to hand at present no other accident occurred. Inquiry continues." lt is now stated In official circles that the grape was fired from ono of the guns of thc Seventeenth h.ittery ot tile First Hoist; Aitlllery of the Guard, the mest aristocratic Corps In the Russian anny. It seems that at g in practice on Tuesday a loaded slick was inadvertently left in the gun. MD HOT TALK. Malicious and Common liar ard a 1 ypical Blackguard. Aro the ComjilinaouiH That Goora!* rollt CHIMU Aro Paying Ono Another in Newspapers. The political situation In the State of Georgia, which has been consider ably worked up during the past few weeks by the exchange of correspon dence tlnough the press between Mr. W. W. O?burne, of Savannah, and Mr. Newt. A. Morris, of Athens, was in tc nd (?ed on Wednesday when Mr. Morris gave out as curdling reply to a farmer letter from Mr. Osborne. The following extracts from the letter will give a fair idea of its severity: SOME LUIUKD TALK. ' Your desertion of your former friends, the betrayal of their conti iences in your i floris to pull your gubernatorial chestnuts cut of the nlre by the sacrifico o? your candid-?te 'or president of the Senate, your mis irable masquerading aa a reformer ind utter want of candor corrobor?t- ' ts your confession that you are a 'bad j nan,' which is consequently accepted vithout further proof. You insinuate hat the Legislature was wrongfully .nd corruptly lashed by corporations uto voting for me for speaker, to thc 1 hame of the state, and I now demand he specific charge and prof of that nsinuation. You insinuate that state j louse ofllcials have been wrongfully ' ind corruptly influenced, and of this . demand the specific charge aud ' >ro of. You insinuate that the Djrao- 1 iratlc party is improperly dominated ' ,nd controlled. 1 demand specific ! ?roof of t h? assertion, I demand t hat ou charge and state specifically when j nd where, and under what clrcura- ' tances and by whom any olllcial in ( he executive, j'idicial or legislative ' epartments of this state have been t:oi gfully or corruptly appn ached or c DQjenccd. I will add ttiat the asso 1 attd ?allwajs has its poii.ical agent, nd that 1 am inform.d you ate =uoh ' .aid political agent, and are constant- 1 y chasing through the lobby of tlie apltol when Its interests are effect d. You charge that when or leforc ' lr. Steed retired from the speaker c hip race in 19u2, and in consideration 11 lad the pledge of myself and oLlicr 1 oen, of supp: rt for the presidency c if tlie Senate in 1?U5. I dony this as j ertion. You have wantonly, and J vithout proof repeated your charges, ' ousequently the only alternativo left ,! ?c is to denounce your assertion as a \ wilful and deliberate Ile, and to brand s ou as a malicious and common Uar." J OSUOKNK niTS BACK. Osborne replied to the above as fol- i JWS: "'XUK> Uoultrio Oboorxcr vciy prop- 1 rly remarked that morris represents l ll that ls bad in Georgi t pol?tica. It \ i titting that he shou.d oe the sp kes- ? aan of those who have so lest their t cuse of honor and shame as to sell t heir political Influence for money, t l"uo:-e I attack are guilty, and they a aiow it. Tney dare not engage me in 1 ontrovcrsy, so they select a typical c lackguard to f-ither their conntor-at- < ack. The charge 1 made was based I pon statements made to me by two c aen who helped write the last card. I have challenged them to deny lt. 1 I m now awaiting their denial. The t tallowing facts are given for the in ormation of the public: On Monday t norning, in a conversation with a re- f loner of an Atlanta daily, Morris t tated he would not answer my ca d. i ...can e I had not answered him. On ? ilond.ay afternoon Morris was sun- t coned to Allanta. t Tuesday there was a conference of .11 the mercenaries, including Lheit ' andldate for president of the ser?ale, < i-ho had boen summoned by wire 1 Fills card is the result. Morris had i o more to do with this card than be t lid with tho one that preceded it. e ["he language used being the purest ? ilackguardism, coming from atypical I ilackguard, and being used for no t ther purpose than to disgust the pub ic with this controversy, ls treated s .y me with tho same contempt In i villon I hold the author. Itiusmuchas e dorris suggests that this ls his last i .ppearancc, I feel the follo wing letter i viii be appropriate to his exit: i " 'Bill Jones, merecnary. Better ome and look alter your hired man, | dorris. I caught him sklrrzish'ng in i idvanco of your Une ana endeavored i 0 make him captive. I pulled him on 1 high plane and assigned him a task, mt he was entirely unused to hhs sur 'G?ndings and fell off. Tlie last I saw if him he was wallowing in the slough md was In i nminent danger of being ttraneled by his own vomit. I am ,nrry. At one time I felt that I could nuke him a useful citi/.eii. In time. If Jud had given me the pawer to w irk i miracle, I might have made a gen tleman of him, though 1 do not claim ihls to he p'sdble, oven if the con tingency I name bad happened." W. W. OsnouNE." Voted Karly,ami Oltcn. In the election contest now being leard in Denver, Cd., one Jos Totter i waiter, testified that on ?lection lay he voted at least forty tiroes. IL taid that slips containing names and idcirosses were given film by men ,vhoin he knew to hA.^fominenii In tlie ?j litics of the lo.vor wards ol' Denver ind he was^instructed to vote the Demoer&fct? ticket. He agreed I o c ist [.f?ese votes for il each and cast nore than twenty boforo noon. A ter tain route was designated for bis \ork for the forenoon ?nd h-i was nu tinned to ona nge his clothing oe saslnnally, lu tl.e afternoon he said lie east twenty more ballots for which he received fifty cents each. Lifo IS Too Cheap. The State says: "In the celebrat ed case of Nan Patterson, ball In any imcuut was refused tho defendant, even after the prosecution bad failed to make out Its case ii gainst her, ?ntl yet In this State a man who has killed his own son ls released within a work ona paltry bond for$1,500. We need not be surprised that life ls 1 old so cheap by the populace of .SouIii Caro lina when judges put such low esti mates on lt." EXPERT NEEDED Comptroller-General's Report to the General Assembly. VERY ST?OKG PAPEi?. He Waats All Officers Receiving or Dis bursing Public Funds to Have the Same System of book-keeping. The Report Contains Other Valuable Suggestions One of the ablest and hardest work ing officials this state bas had in a de cade is Comptroller-General Jone", head of the.??x department, an un enviable /bsitlon lu view of the tangled ^conditions that have pre vailed for many years on account of poor iWacbluery with which to carry trat tnje tax laws. In his annual re port?e takes hold ot the problems bul ll.ik iTJNTY TAX OFFICIALS. With :Ward to county tax oTn?lals Ztomprolle?'^Jones makes these recom uendations "l. That ?* -fusiform system of jook-keoping be installed tor all ofll :ers charged with receiving or disburs ng pu ul io funds. ''2. Tliat the comptroller general JO empowered to appoint an expert tccountant to visit frequently during ,he year the various county e tild?is iud make examinations of their books. ' 3. That a sufficient sum be ap Dropriated to purchase the necessary jocks and blanks re-e-ulrod In intro luclog a uniform system of bookkeep ng. "4. That an amount sufficient tc? over salary and expenses of an ex -crt account be appropriated. ''5. That the term of office o' uidltor and trea.urer be tixed at four .ears." AS TO COTJMTT F1NANCE3. "Dispensary Fuud.-The present aw requires county bjards to meet mee a month In the auditor's office md divide lhe dispensary profits be iween the bown and county. The taunts auditor ls required to report .be same to the state board of onn ,rol. This , law is pratlcally ignored, or we lind the county auditors, with i few exceptions accept the county measurer's statement cf the dispon twy funds received. I would recom riend that the law be amended requlr ng the county board to meut as above >n the tirst Wednesday of each nontb. "Borrowing Money by Counties. la. witnessing annual, settlements, we ind tno'cuunty audit?r, county super visor aud county treasurer in many nstanee8 ignorant of the amount of uoney borrowed, or they are unable o give any d: finite information as to he exict amount of th;,se funds until di hands make an investigation. The aw relativa to borrowed money for ! ninty or school purposes, sbouid be intended so as to require all notes to ie sigued by the county supervisor md county auditor and countersigned jy the county treasurer before they jecome a legal obligation ag dust the ?jun ty, "Reports of Magistrates.-Magis trates should be required to make a 'lill and complete report monthly to .he county auditor and county treas ire.r, of all tines and Meentes collected md pay the same into the county reasury hefore warrant, is issued by ihe county for t'.eir salary. "Reports of County Treasurers. The county. treasurer should be re mired by law to make a report on th ist aud 15th of each month to thc ;omptroller general, the c mnty sup rvhsor and c linty, superintendent of dueatlon, covering hisent're receipts md disbursements A penalty should je provided for dereliction- of this luty. "(Jounty Supervisor.-Tue supervi sor should, under a heavy penalty, be required to enter on the claim bjok ?very obligation of th? county, show ng In appropriate column its disposi on by the board of county commis iloners. "Supervisor and County Superln tendent of Education.-That a penal ly b3 provldetl by law where the coun ty supervisor or county superinten dent of education shall draw a check upon any fund, unless the rep >rt of the county treasurer shows a balance lo the credit Of that, fund; that a war rant (Ira wu by the county supetvlor or county superintendent of educxtion shalt designate the particular fund uid the ti - o < 1 year to which lt be I >ngs. This ls necessary in order to keep thc spacial fund of the county and schools seoarate and distinct. Fl Hie BUSINESS GAINS. Fire business In South Carolina for 1 Du3 with ligures of 1902, for purpose of eotu paris in : Risk written 1003, 896,045.176; 1902. 890,011,213 8.1; gain 86,930, 9(52 17. Premiums received, 190.1 $1,191, 009.46; 1902, $1,140,867 37; gain $50, 2t)2 09. Average rate. 1903, $1.23: 1902 jj^^H-jitf t '.?-... o.,.^. - la-,. Losses paid, 19?3. $567 571.70; 19G2. 3092 SOO 22; decreas.; 8136,288 52. P, rcentitge of losses paid to prem ium i received, 19?3, 40 8; 1902, 00.8. LIFE BUSINKHB GAINS, . Life busin.'.ss In Loir h Carolina for 1903 with tlgures of 1902 for purpose of c >roparis, n: Risks written, 1903, $19 840 326 00; 1902, $15,803,007.70; gain $4 037, 318.90. Premiums reeclvod, 1903, $2 334, 721.83; 1902, $2,030 180.11 ; gain $304, 241.72. Looses paid, 1903. $905,899 80; 1902, &808.O77 f.?: gain ?7,213 21. Losses Incurred, 1003, $907,960.61; 1902, $970,888.68; gain $08,922 07. INSUUANCE FICKS AND TA X KS. "1 wouid recommend to take cf feet Jan. 1, 190(5, that In lieu of our pres nt license laws and tho require ments for companies to pay taxes to counties, that all Insurance companies lohartored In other ?tates or foreign companies licensed to do business lu this state be required to pay the ful lowing fees: An annual license fee of $250; Gi ng and abstracting annual statement $20; eaob agent annual llcerss fee of $2; 2 1-2 per cent, on gross premiums r?c>-ived in this state payable quar terly. "That the abeve amount collected shall he all taxe3 and licenses required of such insurance companies. That uo county, city or town can impose any additional tax or l?ense fee. "That all Insurance companies chartered under tho laws of this state 3ball be required to pay the following fees: Annual license fee $50; filing and abstracting annual stitcirient $10; each agent, anuual fee of $1. O ie p r ;;ent, on grosi earnings received lu tue s'ate. "That all fracternal Insurance com panics ba required to pay an anuual fee of $5 for tiling and abstracting an nual statement. Undjr this law the state would derive an estimated rov ernie as follows: Annual license fees $35.000; fees f >r annual statements $2,800; foes, igent.s' ai n u al licenses $4 000: 2 1 2 per cent, on gross premiums $102 075; total estimated revente $143,?75. ABTUN IS ni KO INEQUALITY. Comptroller General Jones, in his report, calls attention to the salaries yf-county auditors in the following: (\.n astonishing inrq\ullty exists in .he salaries paid county auditors of ;be several counties of this state, as .xhibited In the following statement: County. Salary. Population. \bbevllle.$ 900 33 075 aiken. 1,200 38,01? Anderson. 1,500 55 089 3amberg. 8uo 17 037 iarnwell . 1,250 35 051 leaufort. 1,200 35.207 berkeley . 825 30,288 ;nar!Oston. 3,200 85,296 Cherokee. 800 21,247 Chester. 1,000 28 455 Jhestcrfield. 700 20,291 Clarendon. 800 27 9(56 Jolleton. 1,000 33.343 .arlington. 900 32,914 >jrche:.ter. 800 15.206 Ddgefield. 1,000 25 2i3 <\tirflald. 1,000 29,333 riorence. 900 28,184 x2orgelown. 1,000 22 498 ireenville. 1.200 52,045 xreen wood. 900 27.900 lampton. 900 23.015 lorry. 750 23,207 ?erbhaw. 900 24 464 ..ancaster. OOO 24 203 laurens. 1,000 36,890 jee. 750 -.oxlngton. 900 27,033 darlon. 900 34 897 darlhoro. 800 25,351 dewberry. 1,000 20,833 lonee. 900 23,121 )raugeburg. 1,200 59,207 Mckees. 075 19,200 Uchland. 2,000 42,740 Saluda. ... 800 . i* ?partanhurg. ...'.. 1.800 - . .-.--vi. (uniter. l,2oo 50,744 ! John. ?00 25 228 V.lliiamsburg_ 900 31,571 forte . 1,300 41,025 WOULD BAISE SALAUIE3. Ti e above statement clearly shows hat thc salaries now fix; d by law are lot based, as required by tho oonstltu ion, "in proportion to the population .nd work required." The salaries lased ou the population would work n Inequality, but when tho popula lou and work required ls taken as he basis, there ls no reason for the ?resent inequality. It ls absolutely lecessary to have well qualified men Of the^o p.sltion; this fact should lot, be disregarded, and In fixing the alarlos the compensation should be uoh an amount as would secure the ?esl bijsine-s talent. TilT compensation of the county auditors and treasurers In tho small est counties should mt be less than i900, and even this amount is small n comparison with the salaries paid or less responsible positions in busl ;ess life. 1 would therefore recommend that ill salaries of county auditors and reasur rs of this state be readjusted md that these ofllcers bc placed upon in equitable basis. The salaries of the county auditors md treasurers in the following coun ties should be placed at $900, the ,he state to pay 3000, and the counties >3J0: ? Hamberg, Berkeley, Cherokee, Jbesterfield, Clarend n, Dorchester, lorry, L e, Oe mee, Piokens, Saluda, Liol an and Williamsburg. That $1,000 be the salaries in the 'oliowirg counties, thc state to pay 5650, and the county $350; Abbeville, Jhester, Darlington, Ed ge field, ITalr ield, Florence, Georgetown, Green woo', Lexington, Laurens, Marion ind Newberry. The Ealary of the county auditor ind treasurer of Spartanburg county ihould rank next to Charleston: Or mgeburg next to Spartanburg. The ioumhs of Anderson, Greenville, Richland, York, Aiken and Sumter ihould bo put upon the sime basis. Poe oilier counties can bo easily ad lusted to those HR m d. lt appears that some of the inequal ities now existing arise from local legislation, although tue oustitutlun prohibits the same. Drowned hy ihial Wave. A cablegram from Christians, Nor way, says fifty-nine persons perished ?'S Mie result of an avalanche of rocks it ?icadal, north of Hergen, Sunday. A mass of rock was suddenly pr?cipi tait d into Loenvand lake from the uelgiihoring bills, pausing an immense wave twenty feet high VAhicih swept the neighboring shores. Houses,people and sattle were swept away by the rush of wator, and lt ls known that iifty-nlue pert.0. s perished. Thus far only four bodies have been recovered. A groat slorm Wednesday stopped tho relief work as the surrounding district ls unable to send help. A Fatal Full. An Investigation Into the sudden d alb of Mr. W. C. Petsch, in Char leston, was held by the coroner, buta verdict was rendered that lt was due to an accident, fallin,: down tho steps of his re.ldcncc. He was found dead in the hallway of his house on Sunday night, and lt was thought that there bad been foul play. Mr. Petsch clerked in a dry goodti store and was unmarried. AMAZING STORY 0 - Of Hypnotism is Told by a Young English Woman. ._ TAILBY IS OUTDONE - In theiSlory of a Qoverness, Who Was Cruelly anrj Shamefully Treated She Say? by a Man She Hated. But Whose Word She Had to Obey. A dispatch from, London England, says through the newspapers that there bas just come to light in that city a tale of hypnotic inlloeneo that is almost beyond belief. The famous ina original Svengali of Geo. DuMau rier'jS storr, "Trilby," seems to ha-'C. been far outdone by one Alfred W v or Sternberg, whichever his name'may be, if the story told hy a pretty girl named Alice Gray ls true. M "Jray is the daughter of a Lon doh incss man in moderate ciroum star The past year has been for he? . unutterable horror, misery anrv^jame. Her health has been ?mattered, her nervous system wreck rd hy, her experiences, and her only prayer is that her friends may protect or r from further cruelty at the hands if tho man from whom she ls power less' o protect herself. Miss Gray returned a year ago last August from Germany, where she had ht-t d traveling as a indy's companion. In jiovember she answered an adver tisement for a lady clerk, which re quested applicants to to call at 15 Ashdown read, Kingston. Ilere she was employed by Alfred White, an be ealldd himself. Ile stipulated that the girl must live In his house with him, . As his wife and children were also living in the house, she made no bj ?otion. Miss Gray found that White's busi ness' was selling sewing machines, Bl .168, music boxes and cheap Jewelry to domestic servants on the install ment plan. From the first day, de clares the girl. White txrrcisid a sttabge and potent influence over her. Uer hand shook when she signed her name to an employment contract, and she trembled when, vor White looked at ker. She loathed the mau. sh-> sayj, yet could disobey lum iunoth-?o ing. - s It had been arranged that she was I to ?0 homo every Sunday, but after r the {hst three Sundays White stripped o thi3' Miss Gray's tdster Kate called t . ;'~*er Beveral times and saw a .lf$r'~ .-???. not right between..the o ?l\ .. .-^.uyer. She told her t is>.^^. . her suspicions, aud soon after Alice hersjlf complained to her I father of White's strange Influence t over her. At this time Alice's mother \ was. dy lng, at their home, and tlie 'j father aud sister d.d not pay the at- a tendon they might otherwise have t to the girl's strange^ story. She oma- h plained again of her unhappiness, but her family gave little heed. e Op March 19 the girl's mother died, rj Inmediately afterward Kate Gray i was sent to" Whites house by ber s father, and brought Alice home with l, her. She stayed at home a week, c White sending daily messages to her, [ asking ber to ernie back to him. They s were brought by his wife, his ellice i boy and others. e Easter Monday, April 3, Miss Gray, and her sister went for a walk. On their way home, not far from their y house, they saw a pony trap, with || White diiving it. He stopped and |< cm Handed Alice Gray to g t in be side him. The girl declares she did \ not want to go; that she hated thc c man and dreaded to put herself again t under his influence; yet she could not j] resist White's command. She got into the trap and White drove away, ig leaving Kate Gray speechless with ? c amazement. Kate ran Into the house and to'.d her father what had happened To gether they went to White's house M and asked for Alice. A big, powt r-1v fully built man came to the cloor and toll them Alice was out driving with White. Tnis man and Gray event-Ie u tily came to blows, and Gray went, i' for the pn?co. A police inspector |t searched tlie house, and found Alice Gray. Pale and trembling she was taken home, and there told her father and sister that she was in the bouse the first time they called, locked in a. closet. She had been threat.ned willi awful things if she cried out, she said. A few days later Alice went to au swer an advertisement for a governess. She disappeared, and from that day, April 8, until October 18 she was ut torly lost to her family. On April 8, Alice says, White met her in tho street, evltl ntly having bten posted in advance by some mys tenous means, on her errand. IL: took her by the arm and marched her oft to lodgings In Hammersmith. A few days later they moved to Brigh ton. Meantime Gray had obtained a warrant for White's arrest, and the latter was nabbed while on a visit to his original place of business in Kings ton. He promised that if the police .would set him free he would tell thom where thc girl was. Gray agreed, and White gave the Brighton address. Gray and the police went there, after settir g White free, but found an empty house, the girl hav lng been spirited away again, to an other part of London. From that timo on. according to the girl, she led a life of horror White, she says, treated her brutally and shamefully. Letters written to ber and forwarded from the Kingston address were rcceivod by White and destroyed. White never left tlie girl alone long and never went out with out tah lng her along. Once, she say.-? when he hal locked ber In a room ?she broke the lock with a screw dr1 ver and hammer she Iud .secreted. Whit [she says, appeared Just as she, was es ?caping from tho room and t ick von I geance on her by beating her, tear ing oft* all her olotaisand slashing her land with a razor. After that she never tried to es oape from him, even though he took her driving in the puny trap, and left her alone In lb while he went Into houses to sell articles. Often, she would see him peering around the corner of a house, stealthily watching her when ho thought sbo did not see him. His wife dlappeared about this time, Miss Gray saj s. She does not knuw what beoamo of ber. A singular feature of the case is thab two letters wore received by Miss Gray's father, both declaring that she was ?well and comfortable. She de clares that she wrote them under White's hypnotic Influence. Her ordeal ended in a long impris onment In a room in a house In Lou bet street, Tooting. Here, she tays, White h oked up all her olothes so that she could not get at them, and on some days would give her no food except a cup of tea. He often threat ened to kill ber, she say?, and always carried a rnz ir in his pocket. At this time be did most of his business b> mall, reldvm leaving the house. After six months of Indefatigable search, Gray and his daughter Kate dually traced White to the hou^ie lu Tooting. He bad fled when the res jue party arrived, and Alice Gray was dragged out of a window. The police ire now trying to And White, whose real name is said to be Sternberg. Miss Gray Is with friends in a little idllagelin Surrey. She and her friends declare that Wblto has spies in this Ittle place who are watching her novements and have made overture1 or her to return to White. This 20th century Sveugall ls de icribed by Mls3 Gray as being a sien 1er man, of middle height, with dark >rown hair and a mustache covering a nou'h that never closed, his teeth ilways showing. H?B eyes are largc md dark and "seemed to flash red vhen be was angry." A BEBIO US CHARGE. riie Railroad Agent at Porry Arrest ed Charged With Fraud. Thc Columbia State of Wennesday ajs W. J. Fooser, agent of the South rn Railway company at Perry, was rrested in Columbia Wednesday ( n lie charge of forgery and fraul. IL s quite a young man, and his father, rho conducts a business at Swansea /as in Columbia valuly trying to get ogether the tangled ends of tbe cung man's business aflilrs. Pooser corns to have lived beyond his means Having had some misgivings as to he way things were being cor ducted 0 the ofll;e at Perry, Mr. Geo. F. isaly, the traveling auditor, checked p the books of that office on the 13th f January and discovered a shortage 1 $300. An investigation of tbl* hortage led to the discovery that 'ooser bad beeu manipulating claim eoe lp ts and had forged tbe signatures f claimants who had been paid by he railroad corn nany. He had ilsapproprlated the money for his. wn use and b.ad_ made, fraudulent en r?es on the hooks. The American Surety company is on 'ooser's bond and the Inspeotor in his territory was notified at once Ia caused a warrant tu be sworn out .'uesday before Magistrate Moorman, nd when Pooser went to Columbia at bed.mauds of the railroad people io was arrested. This ls not the only shorf-.ge' charg d against Pooser. He'was the agent f the Southern Express company at Jerry and ls Indebted to them lu the um of 8471. Ho had obtained this atter sum of money by manipulation ollectlons on packages sent "0. O. )." Tuat parc of his shortages and hortcomings was iuvcst'gittd hy Mr. i\ D. Fant, route agent of the South rn Express company. Pooser will bc arraigned before iHglstrate Mo-ruian and after that bc taken toSalley where the pro iniauary hearing will ba held by Mag strate .1. IL Eldson, the magistrate ..hose jurisdiction is nearest to Perry. Vhlle the Inspector of the surety ompany expresses regret, he fcel.s bat he must push the matter, as us company is largely represented n the sureties of people In public ervine In this State and shoitcomlngs annot be overlooked. Killed by BmulltPi. Ira A. Sanger was slain by Mexican lalf-breed bandits In the mountain vilds of Sinalja, Mexico. Robbery || vas the purpose of tho murder. Mr. ?anger, who was a resideut of Colora lo, nacl been in the northern section | \ if Mexico along the Texas border for .bree years Interested In mining and 'anches. Ills companion In these /entures was George L, Stewart, of Chicago, who has just reached El Pas), Texts, with news of the mur 1er. The victim probably was am niched, Mr. Stewart reported. Mr. sanger was well-to-do, having prop ;rty and Investments worth, accord ng to thc El Paso estimate, between ?40.000 and $80,000. Usually he ctr ried considerable, sums with him, but Mr. Stewart declares he bad buta miall am unt at the time of tho at :ack. Mexican rurales were r.ent out ifter the murderers. Mr. Sanger was .bout 3? yoars old. Still Fighting. Lieut. Gen. Chaffee, chief of staff, received a cable message from Gen. forbin, commanding the Philippines division at Manilla, saying that bc bas received ttie following dispatch from Brig. Gen. Carter, commanding the department of the Vlsaya.", dated Tacloban, January 14: "Lieut. Avery, one P.iillppino scout and two native employees were wounded in action at Dolores R1 ver, on January 10. Private Austin, hospital corps, was wounded, and raino of the con stabulary were killed in an action near Maslog, Samar, on January 8. Lieut. Avery aud Prlvato Austin ar rived here today." The officer re ferred to in tho above dispatch ls First Lieut Morton L. Avery, of tho Philippine Scouts. Wlici Can Answer? The Columbia State says: "We wont to know. Was there evor a post office rebbery lu one of our South Car olina towns where tho robbers failed to gain ingress by means of a hammer secured from "a neighboring black smith shop?" lt ls only a coincidence or do all South Carolina postoffi.:es do blacksmithing "on the side?" Wo aro anxious to secure exaot- information concerning these points." We pats. WHAT CAUSED IT? A Boiler Fxploded at the State Home Friday Morning. Legislative Commission lias .Been Appointed to Make Investi* Katton Into the Cause. Toe Columbia, State Bays under very peculiar circumstances one of the boilers at the State house burst Fri day naomi r g at 9 o'clock. The life of James Fudg?, the fireman, was en dangered, but he was not seriously burt. The financial damage will be about il OOO, all of which falls upon tue contracting company as the plant had not been accepted by thc commis sion and was being put through a test for 30 days. The cause of the explosion of the pipas in the boiler was the fact that the water had been allowed to get ?ow. Fireman Fudge, who started up the heat Friday morning, has been employed in that capacity for several years, even when the old boil ers were used, and has had experience enough to ba a safe man. He states that the gauges on the boilers Indi cated that there was water in suffi 3lcnr quantity when he arrived Friday morning and he went to work to build Lhe fires. The first intimation he had >f danger was when the doors of the Ure box were blown open and steam ?amo pouring from the boiler nearest 1 ihe doorway to the boiler room. This 1 loller had heated more rapidly than ? :he others because it is directly under he chimney and tho draught ls 1 itronger. Fudge had a very hard 1 jime getting to a place of safety, as ' ihe doorway was cut off by clouds of 1 iteam. * Mr. U. R. Brooks. Jr., the State 1 ilectr'clan, who ls in charge of the * lealing plant temporarily by order of ' r.o commission In charge of com- 1 doting the Statehouse, waa summon- f id by 'phone. From bis statement of 1 i mdlbions. there is something very I 'range about the matter and on his c eprcsentatlons to the commission, I he legislature adopted a concurrent 1 esolu'lon to appoint a commission to 1 nvrstigate this mat;er. a Mr. Brooks states that when he left 1 he State house the night before the t xul sion, ail the fires in the boiler ? iad bern putout. According to his ustom he made an inspection of the our boilers, trying each gauge on <. very ! o 1er, arid all were found to - ie in good condition and the amount c it water registered In each boiler was c luce gauges. This was also observed t iy two firemen, Harrison and Beck- I) iam, the engineer In charge of con- c tructlon, Mr. Linley, and the steam "? Itter, Mr. Itsagan. r It ls asserted positively that the ? al ves that control the water in the ? auge glasses were open, being left I pen all the time except when repairs 5 retobe made or the glasses to be I leaned. Had ~ there been no warter c n the boilers, the glasses would have ^ bown it with this valve closad. Fri- t lay morning after the accident, it t fas seen that the gauges were still c ull of water, and this wai caused by c he valve being closed. The valves ^ n all cf the gauges were closed bo- t ween the time the engineer lett s Thursday night- *T*ir'Friday scotn og, according to Mr. Brooks' state ment. The extent of the damage ls that Ight sections of one b Her was blown .ut. The three other boilers are In ;ood condition and there will not be my lack of heat. One boiler could leat the entire State house except on ery cold da?s. There was but eight rounds of pressure pf steam on thc .oiler when lt burst.' Mr. Brooks nott led Mr. Linley, the engineer of con duction, aud a careful Inspection was nade. It is charged by Kome that the red pipes were tampered with, letting ba water out of thc boilers during he night. The senate passed the concurrent esolution providing for an examina Jon, and the houso agreed; Mr ['rince, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Fraser vere appointed on the part of the louse. Mr. Morgan was excused as ie is unwell aud Mr. Cothran was sub Muted. Mr. Jesse T. Gantt, custodian )f the State house by virtue of bis of ic as secretary of state, Friday made Jie following statement: "lu Justice to myself 1 desire the itatomeut madi that I have no au ihorlty or control of the boilers or seating apparatus of the State house nveral months ago having advised the regular engineer and fireman to report for duty t') tho commission who are jbarged with tho Installation cf the .jew plant, and to take all orders an directions from them. No complain ir request has bjon made to me by the commission. "Upon the passage of a resolutlo try the house and senate direction that no one except the electrician Interfer? with the heating plant, Capt. Elkln tho engineer, came to me for instruc tions, and 1 advised him not to into fere in any way with the system. "From such information as I ha been able to gather I am couvlnced that the accident this morning w due to no defect in the riant, but the Inefficient attention jf those charge of it." "J. T. GANTT." National Good llnadi) rlir.;. Gov. Hoy ward Wednesday appoint ed the following delegates to the meeting of tho National Good Road convention which met In Jacksonville last week. Mr. F. H. Hyatt of Co lumbla, president of the South Caro lina Good Roads convention; Mr. J. MoBryde of Fl' renee, Cob Richard Singleton of Acton, Supervisor D. Miles of Spnrtanburg, Hon. John Banks of St. Matthews.and Mr. F. Weston of Columbia. In connect! with this meeting object lessons road building was given under th< auspices of the Jacksonville board trade. O.HI'.t it l lllC. In thc city of New York it Js nounced that open gambling has beoi wholly stopped. Indeed, gamble open or under cover, .seem to hav been put entirely out of business, was K vast undertaking that Dlstrlo Attorney Jerome entered upon and seemed almost impossible for him succeed, but. ho bas again Illustr?t tb? truth of the saying that whor there lc a will there li a way. LICHT WANTED On the Changes Made During the Late Campaign That THE TRUST'S MONEY Wai "Freely Contributed to the Republi can Campaign Fund to Bay thc Election. Senator Stone Said the Charge Remained Unanswered. Tho charg?e of impropriety made in connection with the campaigns of 1890 and 1904 were for a time Wed nesday revived and made the subject f discussion in the United States Senate. The question was raised by Mr. Stone In a speech in support of his resolution providing for an inves tigation of the oharges. He used with much freedom the names of President Roosevelt, Judge Parker and Chair man Cortelyou and again traversed the allegations that Mr. Cortelyou had used the information secured by him ?is secretary of commerce and labor to secure money from tbe trusts. Taking up the charges madtfdurlng :he campaign that Mr. Corlelyou had rsed his secret officlaljlnformation as i cabinet officer to secure contribu tions, Mr. Stone said he could neithj till rm nor deny''this terrible indict neut." becausR bp. did not know, "I mly know," he said, "that the'damn nu admission stands that ..he trusta lld supply Mr. Cortelyou campaign unds. Moreover, Mr. Cortelyou has lever mado answer to this charge; ' lt s hard to believe that Mr. Cortelyou, >r that any mau of character, would iros ti tu te official opportunities topar lsan ends so base. I am loath to be love it, and yet a charge so specific LS this and which so deeply concerns he public honor and welfare cannot >o silenced by contemptuously pooh loohlng and ignoring lt." Senator Stone said Mr. Cortelyou 'was clothed with Inquisitorial au hority to spy into the secrets of the rusts and powei also was given to aakc lils discoveries public at the dis retlor. of the president. This man and bis offi cial the president himself Be soted for chairman of the Republican latlonil committee. The clrcum tacceit of thlB appointment were cu lously Big ni?ea nt, if not sinister, and he suspicions Inevitably excited oy hem 1 ave provoked a situation great y to ba regretted. Tnls accusing fact viii not down that the trusts did fill J.r. Ortelyou's campaign coffers to >verfl-> wing.-- Happily we Tiavo the ;om foi ting assurance, vouchsafed both ty Mt. Root and the president, that he triBts had no improper motive in Daking those contributions, and that io Improper means were used to in luce t.'iem. These, indeed, were vir uous trusts, and theirs and Idealistic elf taorlfioing patroitlsui. Thoy corned ail bise expectation of favors io com a, and scouted the very thought ,hat ti??r B^k^$?Lbe used to oor uptC" Ho said UuTsbtMe could not iccept these assurances without <???as"--? ?ion ard that the resolution of" inquiry therefore should be adopted. He also :xpres!,ed tho opinion tbat the presl lent's charges against the Democrat c campaign management should be ln inirt d into. Mr. Stone based his de mand for an inquiry luto the campaign >f 1896 on tho allegations of Thomas ff. Lawson, made in a recent maga dne article. The senator was himself rice obairman of the Democratic na tional committee during the cam paign, but he said that he did not pro wse to testify. Many thousand people ie said believe that election bo have icen bought, and that faot alone would justify an inquiry. SOUTHERN R IS P R RS 12 XT A TI Ob*. Referring incidentally to the bili- , ntroduoed by Mr. Platt of New York to reduce the congressional represen tation of Southern States because of the Imposition of qualification on the right of suffrage, be said: The om ipiracles are not only a crime against Lhe suffrage, but a crime immedlate y f rmed In New York to debauch the electorate subversive of represent ttive government, and to its suppres sion the senator from Nsw York might profitably devoto his solicitous mention.*' Will Retire! Tho Columbia Record says* Gover Qor Hoy ward has made thc formal an nouncement that he will retire from public life after serving his i::cond term as governor. Many Carolinians nad the governor in view for the Cnlted States senatorahlp, though he himself has never suggested in any way that he would be a candidate for that place. The fact tbat his friends desired to honor him with such a po sition is but another evldor.ee of the wide popularity of. the governor and the higa regard in which he ls hold by thu people. A groat many things may happen before another election for senator takes place, but for tho present the people- of the state may congratulate themselves that they have two more years of Heyward, anyway. .> < liad His Way. The Nowbjrry Observer says: "Tho following, which ls vouched for by a Columbia physician, may prove inter esting reading to some who are kiok lng against compulsory vaccination: A mnn at the Gramby mill village iii Columbia refused to be vaccinated and would not permit his family to be, and ivs lt was not compulsory he had his own way about it. Shortly after ward; ho took the smallpox and. died. Just bofore ho died his physician' told him of his condition and said If he want to leave any request ile must do lt quick. His response was that he want> u bis wife and children vaccinat ed at once. His request was carried out; but his wife came near dying too, as tl c vaccination had not had time to art as a preventivo or modifier ot the d lease."