The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, February 10, 1905, Image 1

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"DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN TIIY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL xxx, BENNETTSVILIiE, S. C" FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IO, 1905. NO. 7. ANOTHER DEFEAT For The Brice Dispensary Bill in the State Senate FEW SPEECHES MADE. The Senator from York Defeated His Bill in a Vigorous Attack on the Dispensary, bnt it Was Killed by a Decisive Vote by the Senators. The galleries and floor of the senate were crowded Wednesday night when the 'ocal cptlun bill of Senator Brien of York was brought up. There waB practically little bebate on tho bill, and it was killed by a vote of 18 to ll. In tho mor ni t g Senator Brice spoke for the bill, and in tho evening Sena tor O. L. Blesse against it. Senator M auld I n alf o spoke for lt. The bill bad been introduced by him, said Senator Brice, to give tho people of South Carolina an opportun ity of wi plug i ut the dispensary, root and branch. Ile Bald that if Hie naked devil had ame to earth this would have been the sort of law he would have framed. The law had been adopt ed as a compromise and now was an Iniquity. Instead of being a solution and Im provement of the liquor quest I- u, said Senator Brice, the dispensary law was retrograde in movement. Let the peo ple say what they want. This is de mocracy. The bill which Senator Brice has introduced this year is practically similar to his local option measure, c f 1004, except that it has no taxation provision. Tills was tacked on last year against Senator Brice's wish. He said lo lits speech that hordes of negroes around tbe dispersarles on Saturday afternoons were like "a cfC.wd of carrion'crows around a car cass.*-- - ' Fighters against tho dispensary had teen successful when coming out bold ly, and the time is not far off when the system will be broken up, he de clared. Thc tax would not scare the counties which really wished to be rid of the diBpersary. Cheroke had voted it out in spite of the tax. Senator Blease said that lie believed that the aerator from York was sin cere in his views on the dispensary law, ard in fact believer! that lie was at one time lo sympathy with it. He alluded to Hie fact that the Prohibi tionists bad advocated the dispensary law after thc- Childs bill was defeated an 1802. vIf tho pnhlbltlo-ilsts bal 'helped tho anti-prohibitlonijis the dispensary law would .aever ba\e be n passed. If i stone bad been given when bread was asked for, it was Hie prohibitionists who bari done it. The argument had been made that the dispensa ry \sould have been over thrown If tao people bad ever bad the opportunity. Senator Blease cited tbe candidacies of C. C Featherstone and James A. Floyt, who bad bath been defeated, and in passing paid a tributc to both, li is new a disgrace for the State toseh whiskey, and yet the pro hibition ticket bad recommended lt. What matti: if it was "for medicinal purposes" tbe effect is the same In giving the advantages of tbe dis pensary law, the sp aker cited the de pravity or barrooms, tbe stringent regulations cn dispensers as to selling to minors, keeping open aft.*r hours, etc., and the stamping out of the so cial drink. There ls une stecoh In the nostrils of the pe: p'e-the so called "social club"-whore men sit and drink and play caria until tho wi e small hiiur i, but this cannot; ba laid at the door;? of the dispensary. In defense of the late Ii. H Crum, dispensary eera missioner, he read from The Evening Record of Columbia an article relating to the dead man's estato. The article stated that, al though Mr. Crum v.as reported to be very rich, be left an estate of $111.000 and owed from this 8:1,000. This then was the real fortune of a man who was said to bave come to the general as sembly a poor man and died worth ?150,000. Why not tell the truth about these Illings, a--ked the senator. Pictures hid been drawn of splendid homes bulli; by those in charge of the dispensary, wheu in reality some of these hemes were really crowded cot tages. The questions was too b)a, for !o;a! control. If the 500 vot?is of New berry decided by a mr.jorlty of loo to vote out this liispensary, would this be Justice to tho other citizens of the county? Ile was sory that the dispensary In vestigation resolution bad not, as ori ginally Intel ded, boen curled out, so that the committee would have re ported by Fob. 1st. lt bael been said that this rt solution had boen dictated by a member of the State b. ard of directors, but this Senator bloasi de nied with great vigor. "The bindle question luvolvetl." said Senator Mauielin, "ls whether or not the general assembly ii willing to leave the mutter to the people of tiie counties." He said that the dispon nary law was nut being attacked as a whole, and, :f such a popular institu tion as described by the senator fr m Newberry, ii< was certainly in no dan ger. A law of Mils kind would be the llrst opportunity for tho masses to really demonstrate whether or not they want ho dispensary. Senator Mauldln thought government by the people true .Jeffersonian Democracy and therefore only just. Tho dispen sary system had bad aa its o'.ilef rec ommendation that it would reduce drinking, aitd now it* Ohlei g^ory is Its ihiauch.l success. The State had literally set .ta seal of aprrova 1 on ti e system. L: tely a friend had asked him: "Wa.7 not make your motees read, 'Dum upirospero nibo' and 'Ani mus oplbuique?t paratua splr.tus fi ti men tl?' The aye* ind nays were demanded and tho vols was as follows on Sena tor Bleaso's motion to strike out tho ??acting wo:.'d: Ay*f~-8enator? Biveni, Blake-, Bleose, O. L ; Blease, E. S.; Carpen ter, Christensen, Davis, Dennis, Douglass, Hay, Manning, McGowan, McLeod Raysor, Staokhouse, Talbert, Walker, Williams-19. Nays-Senators Block, Brice Hard in, Brooks, Brown, Hood, Holliday, Hudson, Mauldin, Mciver, Wells-ll. Senators Etird and W. E Jonn6on were paired. The former would have voted aye, the lat.ter nay. Senators Marshall and Peurifoy were paired. The former would have voted nay, the latter aye. Senators Von Koolnltz and Warren were paired. Tho former would bave voted nay, the latter aye. The fullowlng senators were absent when the roll was called. Senators Bates, Butler, Earle, Hough, W. J. Johnson TWO MOUE JUDGES By a Big Majority tho House Fasses a Fill Creatirg Them. Tho Arrangement of tho Different Counties as Propoood by tho Bill as Passed. The bill to or?ate two additional circuits was pased by the house Thursday. The majority in Its favor was 25, quite surprising. Theprlnci pal objection came from the fourth circuit, which will have its name changed without receiving any bine tits. The bill provides for the follow ing greupiegs: First Circuit-Charleston, Colleton and Beaufort. Second Circuit-Berkoley, George town, Dorchester and Oranyebu-g. Third Circuit-Hampton, Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell and E IgeQeld. Fourth Circuit-Clarendon, Flor ence, Lee Sumter and Williamsburg. Fifth Circuit-Chesterfield, Darl ington, Horry, Marion and Marlboro. Sixth Circuit-K-rshaw, Lexing ton, Richland and Saluda. Seventh Circuit-Chester, Fair field , Lancaster and York. Eighth Circuit-Cherokee, Spartan burg and Union. Ninth Circuit-Abbeville, Green wood. Laurens and Newberry. Tenth Circuit-Anderson, Green ville, Plckeus and Ocouee. The "special court'1 law is repealed by the following In the bill: "That lu no oase shall any special court be held, but the governor may commis sion some one learned In the law to hold a regular term of court when a circuit judge ls disabled by sickness." After considerable discusi?n pro and con the question came to a vote on the motion to strike out the enact ing words. The members were re corded as follows: Nays-Shaker Smith and Messrs. Arnold, Baker, Balantine, Banks, Bradham, Brant. Brantley, Brice, Bruce, Calli-on, Clifton, Cloy, Co!h ran, Culler, Davis, DeVore, D tar, Dukes, Edwards, L. B. Etherer.'ge, Fishburne, Foster, Fraser, Frost, Gaston, D. L. Green, Gyles, Hamlin, Harrison, Harley, Hemphill, Hey ward, Higgins, Irby, Keenan, La Fittr, Lofton, Lomax, Lyon, Mc Cants, McFaddln, McMaster, Moigan, Moses, Nance, Nicholson, Otts, Par ker, Prince, Pyatt, Rawlinson, Rloh ards, Sanders, Sayo, Seabrook, Shel don, Sinkler, Splvey, Strong, Toole. Trlbble, Turner, Vertier, J. M. Wal ker, John J. Watson and Wuatley. - Total ?7. Ayes-Messrs. Ardroy, Ashley, Ra->s, Heami.'uard, Boyd, Colcock, Dos Ct.'amps, E ir hard t, Epttrg, E J. Btheredge, Ford, Guise, Gibson, Gra ham, Gray, W. MoD. Green, Hall, Herbert, Klrven, Liney, Lawson, Lestor, Little, Massey, Laban Maul d n, T. J. Mauldin, Miller, Morrison, Patterson, Pittman, Posion, Pyatt, R'.aves, Riley, Sellers, Stoll, W. M. Walker, Webb, Wimberly, Yeldell. 42. Tho following palr3 were recorded: Mr. McCall, aye, with Mr. Whaley, naj ; Mr. Faust, aye, with Mr. Has koll, nay; Mr. Browning, nay, with fc'r. Nash, aye. The last named in each of the pain was absent. Tho bill then paTsed second reading after being amended bv Mr. Eiwards of Spartanburg so that lt dots away with special courts. Choked hy a Negro. At Darlington early Monday even ing week ago a young lady while go ing from lier (dater's to her father's home on Orange street, only a short distance, was attacked by a negro, who had hidden behind a large oak tree. As tho lady approached the brute spring from his lair and demand ed money. The lady screamed for help, and, with true courage and nero 1 rn, endeavored to rid herself of the tici.d, which she did, but not until tho demon had bruised her throat with his heinous fingers. A noise in a nearby dwelling is suppo ed also to have frightened the scoundrel, who took to his heels. A diligent search with bloodhouns was made, but the dogs hoemed to lose the trail. A simi lar attack was made on a lady on Pearl street not long ago and the assailant a negro, as in thia case, became fright ened aud ran Du rmi: KHoapo. Two convicts made a daring efcape from the penitentiary at Huntsville Texas, Thursday. They overpowered tlio engineer and fireman of a locomo tive in the penitentiary yards and steamed from the grounds under fire of the guards. They ran the engine about live miles, when they abandon ed lt and took to tho woods. Ono e f thc prisoners was serving a life sen tence under the charge of murdering his father. Boiler Exploded. An explosion of two 20-horsc power steam boilers la the dry house of the Gross Lumber Manufacturing oom* pany occurred a? Lexington about closing down time Wednesday after noon, completely destroying the di y jousn, and, lt ls feared, fatally Injur ing Mr. Fred H. Gross, one of the owners of the plant, who was stand I lng near by. Mr. Jas-per D. Trice, who operates a brickyard near by, vas struck by a Hying timber and escaplr.g steam, breaking his right arm and scaldin? bim soveroly, though not fatally. .JOHANN HOCH The Chicago Bluebeard, Caught in the City of New York. HAD PLENTY MONEY. Hocb, Who It Is Said Has Married About Thirty Women, Was Pound ia the hoarding House of a Woman to Whom He Had Just Proposed Marriage. Johann Hoch, the Chicago "Blue beard," who bas for weeks been sought hy tho Ghictftfo police, who charge bim willi h av lug caused the deaths of sev eral of thr thirty women he is allego i to have rrarrled, was ai rested by tho police WeM**?M?ay night in a furnished room houW. \t No. 546 West Forty seventh stree^>iew York City. - The man ga . ; ?io name ot Henry Bartels, but the 3f>-*JLvea..?3r they are possit!ve the man?s.Hoch. Mrs. Catherine Ktmmorie, the landlady, says the man was in the house twenty minutes when he asked to be allowed to peel some potatoes for her, and the second day he proposed marriage. Then she notified the police and they arrested him. At the station house the man de scribed himself as Henry Bartels, forty-?ve years old. Everything the man had In his possession was new. He had a new suit of clothes, six new handkerchiefs that had been half soaked in cologne, a new razor and a new trunk. Besides, the man had six 3100 bills, live 85 bills and change in eveey pocket of his clothing. MAItHIED THIRTY WOMEN. Hoch is credited with the amazing total of twenty known wives, of whom ten, at least, according to the records of the police, have died within a short period after they were married to the modern Blue Beard. In each ot these iwos Hoch is allege I to have profited largely by the deaths of his wives, and in the majority of the cas es no sulllclent explanation of the deaths have ever been made. With regard, to the ether wives. Hoch deserted them as soon after the marriage ceremony as lt waa possible for bini to srouro all the money that the wives bad In haud. From all sec tions of thc country rep rcs are o lin ing of his having marriid mo ?nen for their money, and it is confidently as serted by the police that when the complete record of his victims is made up it will greatly exceed the number now placed t3 his credit. The names Of the wlyes, so far as known, and the fate which befell them follows: niB MATRIMONIAL RECORD. Anna Hock, married In Vienna, 1881, died 1883; Mrs. C. A. Mayer, married In Chicago, 1892, died three weeks later; Mrs. H. Irlck, married In Chicago, 1892, died one month later, Mis. S. Hauck, married in Peoria, 111., 1893, deserted immediate ly af!.er the ceremony; name unknown, married in Chicago 1894, died two mout hs later; Mrs. Julia Steinbrecher, married in Chicago, 1894, died two mont lis later, left $4,000; Mrs. Janet Spencer, married In Chicago, 1895, de serted two mouth later, lost several hundred dollars; Callie Charlotte An drews, married In Chicago, 1897, de serted two hours later, lost 8500; Mrs. J II uss, married In Wheeling, W. Va., 1897, died three months later, left $2.500; Mrs. Martin Dotz, mar ried In Chicago, 1898, died t'?ree months later; sister of Mrs. J. n. Sch A art xman, married in Milwaukee, 189'.). died three weeks later, left 81200; Mrs. Mary Schultz, married at Argus, Ind., 1900, b ?th she and daughter disappeared, left 82,000; Mrs. Mary B.-cker, married in St. Louis, 1901, riled a few months later; Mrs. Anna Hendrickson, married lu C ?ica^o, I9u4, deserted after a few weeks, list 81,000; Mrs. Lena Hoch, married In Milwaukee, died tbree weeks later, left 81.6C0; Mrs. Caro line Strlcher, married in Philadelphia, 1904, deserted after one week, lost $200; Mrs. Marlo Walker, married in Chicago, 1904, died one month later, ] left 8250; Mrs. Emilie Fisher, married in Chicago, 1905, deserted after one week, lost $750. CALLED FRIEND OK HOLMES. Ab jut the man, all of the romance of crime centres. Ile has been partial ly Identified as a close associate cf the notorious H. H. Holmes, who was hanged lu Philadelphia ten yeara ago with a record of twenty murders. In Chicago he ls described as a swindler, a hypnotist, and a marriage broker who selected as bis victims elderly wo men with means upon whom he work ed the sobe HRS that have given him a unique record In Hie annals of crime. There ls a peculiar white powder In which he dealt that is described by some of lils victims who escaped, but which the police have not been able to get hold of, and whlou, lt ls believ ed, would shed light upon the fate of several of the wives who died so mysteriously within three or four vveeks after they had followed Hoch to tiie altar. Little of thc man's early life ls known. Ho was born, lt ls said, in ?ermany, aud there ls a story of a woman married and deserted there, before he came to the United States, where he entered upon his career in a wholesale murder. Chicago seems to have b?en made his principal headquarters. Most of lils wl.es were either wocod and won Lhere and taken thence immediately after marriage where they died, or were deserted as soon as they bad given over lo Hoch all the money of which tony were possessed. Because or the fact that he has llv c 1 In a ?core of places and under half a dozen aliases no connected htory of his operatic rj is to lie had as present. As early as 1894, he was found practicing his peculiar profession in Chicago, where he married Mrs. J. Stelnbrecker. Three weeks af ter the marriage, Mrs. Hoch died, and on her deathbed she told of the white medl clue which her husband had adminis tered to her, and expressed tho fear that Bhe bad been poisoned. Benno Leohner a saloonkeeper at No. 394 Larabee street, Ohfoago, tea tides to this chapter In the life of the Bluebeard, and asserts that the man disposed of an estate of 84, ooo belong ing to his wife Immediately after her death and within a month afterward was again married. WENT UNDEU MANY NAMES. At one period in his career Hooh waa known as Albert Buschberg. Under that name he is alleged to have married Mrs. Mary Schultz, a widow, of Argus, Ind., representing himself as a wealthy Chicago druggist. Short ly after the marriage the woman and her five-year-old son disappeared, and have uever been seen since. Just be fore her disappearance tho husband colleoted 32,ooo insurance on her first husband's Ute. During the years 1807 and 1808 Hooh furnished at least seven flats in Chicago. He bought the goods tor the flats ou the Installment plan, and afterwards sold them again and defaulted in pay ment of the monthly accounts. For this he was arrested, convicted and sent to prison for a year. Two Milwaukee women also fell victims io the man. Both of them ?led suddenly after their marriage to him, arid Mrs. J. II. Schwartzman, sister of the woman who was known as Mrs. Lena Hocb,' declares that Hooh disappeared with 81,200 of her sister's money immediately after her death. Under the name of John Schultz Hooh ls said to have married Mrs Mary Becker in St. Louis In Maroh, lt 32. Tho woman lived with him a , year all but two days, and then died suddenly. Hoch collected 8500 Insur ance and returned to Chicago. From Cincinnati, San Francisco, Wheeling, W. Va., and other places come reports of the man's operations, and all of them tell the same ghastly story of a wedding, followed by a ? death, the collection of Insurance money and a disappearance. Dr. Reese, a Chicago physiolan, j who attended Mrs Mary Walker-Hook, another wife of the Bluebeard, saya that while he diagnosed the cause of ; death In this Instance as nephritis, he hat since heard that Hoch gave his wife a strange white powder that had not been prescribed for her, a short ; time before her roath. John McKionney, formerly a police man in Chicago, whose post included "Holmes Castle," at Sixty tblrd street and Stewart avenue, during the time that the multi murderer was conduct ing operations there, has identified a photograph of Hoch as that of the Junior partner in Holmes establish ment. At that time, according to Mc Kinney, Hoch was known as "Hatoh." FATAL ROW JLN A CIRCTJ8. Ono Killed for Moroly Siieorln? at tho Performers. During the parformince of Reed's Circus at Baldwin, Alu., Wednesday night, a free for all fight occurred be tween Borne of the spectator} and the performers. Between fifteen and twenty shots were fired In a few seo ouds and when the smoke had cleared away lt was found that Charles Peter son of Franklin had been killed and Martin Ashley or Baldwin had been shct twice through the right arm and through the left side below the heart, the latter wound being considered ser ious. Both Peterson and Ashley wore spectators. So far as can be ascertain ed none of the showmen was hurt. The show people had been drinking during the day and were In an ugly mood. Peterson was beaten to death with poles or mm? of the stakes used to hold the guy ropes of tho tent, his face hoing terribly mutilated. Two trapeze performers were doing the brother act when, it ls sild, either Peter.-.on or Ashley yelled: "We can do that!" The performers tlnlshed their act and Immediately rushed over to the speotatcrs to got at the mon who guyed him. They were joined by other members of tho company. Shoot ing became goneral and a paulo re sulted. Deputy Sheriff Dumesnll, with the assistance of some of the residents of Baldwin, did some quick work and succeeded in arresting and jilling 12 of the 14 performers, Including Mrs. A. H. Reed, wife of the manager and owner of tho show. Ried escaped with ono of the employees, Siddel. With them went the money bag. Died ot' 1'olHon. A dispatch from Blackville to The State says Miss Minnie Hutto, a beau tiful and well thought of young lady there, was found In her bed Monday morning at 5 o'clock breathing her last breath of life. Miss Hutto had attended services at the Baptist church both morning and evening as usual on Sunday. Her door was locked but one of the sash of her room was raised and the blind opon. Her aunt, Miss Sallie Hartz jg, with whom she lived, entered the window and found her Just breathing and summoned Dr. L. F Bouner Immediately, who found her dying from laudanum poisoning. Mlf-s Ilutto's father and mother are both dead, but Bhe has a brother and several alsters who are very much shocked at this sudden end of a sister they loved so well. Miss Hutto had not been despondent and seemed in tho best of humor Sunday. Jumped Overboard. A passenger of the Clydo Steamer Arapahoe, en route from Jacksonville to New York, Jumped overboard while tho vessel was In her dock, at Charles ton lt ls thought, with suicidal Intent. Tim man tlrst threw his watch and then his pistol Into tho water and climbed tho rall and followed these articles. Tho Immersion in the cold water Hoon brought him to lils senses and lie offered no objections to the rescue by the crew of the vessel] who lowered a lifo boat and went after him Immediately upon his rash act. Fonrtcon Striker.* Killed. At MOBCOW, Russia, Wednesday evening in a tight between strlkeis aud the sold leis, fourteen persons wore rilled. The struggle followed an attempt of tho strikers to assemble In a public square. Some strikers pulled revolvers, whereupon the Bol diera oponed fire and the strikers re treated. CAUGHT AT LAST Young Man Arrested in Charles ton for Being a Firebug. - HE SET MANY FIRES. - The Accused Is a White Boy and Ad mits that He Set Several Fires. He ls the Sane Boy that Was ll Nearly Killed by a Tiger Sometime Ago. The mystery of the many fl ras that occurred ia Charleston last month waa cleared up by the arrest of a whjte boy by the name of Raymond Bodman on Thursday. There had been about ll fty lires in Charleston sin co January 1, and people were be coming alarmed at the thought that a bind of firebug* bad Invaded the city. No one for a moment suspected a white boy of Charleston with being the cause of the Uren. Bowman is charged with setting fire to ootton in the East Shore Terminal Company's shedi with trespassing on the premises of Td. Schmancke's hay and grain store, with trespassing on the prem ise s-f 1?. Rhode's feed store, and with ; attempting to rob the safe in the A. , 0. l?.;tlcket office in the Charleston , HQL ? ; Hf ^waa arrested at the hav and gtr.\\z-Vitore ot C. D. Gartleman & Co., at neon T lursday by Deteotlve John 1 E Brennan, of the Charleston detec- ( tive^orce, and lodged in a cell at the j confirai station. Bowman admits set- 1 Un?&re to the cotton, but said that t:? by accident through the throw- 1 way of a cigarette, atd Clilef f Boyl? stat'.'d later Thursday after- ( noon.that the prisoner had practical- 1 ly) * ?flitted responsibility for the 1 sc of Qres that have taken place in Charleston during last month, by ( whhjh somo $30,000 worth of proper- ] ty bas b:on destroyed. lija said that Bowman was the ' firstJto warn Molony and Carter that 1 theii placa was on tire the ll rsl time, that* he was among the first Vt warn 1 Manager Kent of the fire at his J fitablo. Ho was seen to leave the . wajBhouao of Molony and Carter on Jol.b Btreat, Just before the flro start ed, v John Molony and the Southern rAilf . watchman. Ho was aoout ' vb.1 -tsylc Hotel when the fire there ?t?Ft?uVa few days ago, and recently 1 weni, to work for Mr. Arnold, whose \ stables were burned Wednesday. Detective Brennan had been shad- ; owing Bowman all the morning, fol lowing him into Gartlemau's stote on King street Thursday, and arrested him at noon. Bowman was identified by Messrs. Schmancke, Kin do, and Molony as the person seen sboct their places, and Mr. W. B. Wallace, who bas charge of the telegraph station at the Charleston Hotel, identidad him as the person caught trying to un lock, the ticket offloe safe at about 9 o'clock one night some weeks ago. The first clue that turned the ot- ; tent lon of the police to younj; Bow man was given by Mr. Rhode and by Mr. Walpole at the Charleston Hotel, who told jf the attempt made by Bowman to rob the safe. The boy came Into the office late one afternoon 1 and asked the agent tn change a five dollar bill. Mr. Walpole went to thc safe,' a small Iron one under th? north counter, which is unlooked by two keys, and after he had finished using his bunch of keys he threw them on the desk behind him. Young Bow man left, and one of tho safe keys on the bunch was found to be mls.ung. Later In the evening Mr. Wallace left the r.fflco to get some sliver changed Into bills at the hotel desk, ard when he returced he looked over the ticket counter and saw young Bowman trying to unices the safe. When asked what he was doing, he said that he was looking for t>ome thlng. Mr. Wallace went for a po liceman, and when he had left it is Bald that the boy jumped over the counter and left the hotel through the front entrance. Ile returned the key next day, when Mr. Walpole sent for it. He was scon dui lng the Charleston Transfer Conpany tire, running into Balley and Lobby's store, and the weight of evidence workod up by De tectlve Brennan from information gathered tir?t through Mr. Rhode, and from circumstances that Molony and Carter thought odd, and from the A. C. L. ticket agent caused the arrest of Bowman, on the chames specified, in his confession to the police Bowman practically admitted the burning of both Molony and Car ter's places, and that of Gartleman, and two other places. When arrested Thursday In the rear of Gartleman's hay and feed store where the fire of Wednesday occurr ed, Bowman said that he had come to look at tho work of tho fire. At Rhode's and Schmanke's, where he was warned off he gave trivial exouses for his pr?senos. Bowman ls no' more than sixteen years old, the son of Mr. Saul Howman, and lives at 17 Anson street. Somo years ago he was badly bitten by a tiger in a cage of a show on King street, near Cal houn. He was a little fellow then and had been permitted to enter the cage of tho tiger, which nit him se verely, and ho was In tho lnirmary for some time. Ho ls understood to have been married recently In Au gusta. The only motive that oin be as signed to his strange aol lons is that of robbery, lt seeming to be the in tention of young Bowman lo ompty the oish drawers of the people whom he excited by fire, and lu their ab s?nce to avail himself of the opportu nity of robbery. Perhaps Rome men tal weakness has been at the bottom of bis actions. Tho mystery of the fiies that have occurred ls now o'f ared away, and the department and po ioa oan take a rest, aa also can all th? owners of bay and grain stores. Tbe theory ot spontaneous oom? bustlon bad few supporters, for tho regularity and the frequency of the alarms, together with the finding J'.rumed Into tho crack of a door of the Brown Crockery warehouse on Liberty street Monday morning of excelsior, a stick, and a paper fuse partly burned, made the idea of in cendiarism generally accepted. Deteotlve Brennan, with the co operation of the fire victims and the police deserve the admiration and gratitude of tbe whole olty for the good work that bas discovered the fire bug, and a great load ls lifted from tko minds of the men who are respon sible for the safety of the oity from tbe dang?r of fires. The effeot of the steady alarms and destruction of pro perty bad begun to tell on the nerves of oitiz ?ns, and there now seems lit tle danger of a repetition of the situa tion. The fires muat have been eat by matches, of which there were several In the pcoket of the lad when be was arrested, and he evidently trusted tb his coolness and warning taotios to uuard him from suspicion. The prisoner could not be seen by tbe reporter Thursday, as the police authorities did not wish Bowman to be Interviewed. -Charleston Post. FARMERS BURE TO WIN If They Will Bland Togothor and Sold Their Cotton? Valuable information concerning tbe status and condition of the Egyp tian cotton orop, showing as lt does, the wisdom of southern plantera hold ing their cotton for a higher price, bas Just come to the department of ! commerce and labor from Consul Smyth at Tunstall, England. Tuns tall is in tbe Lancashire cotton spin- ; lng district. Of tue reports con?.rn , ng thc Egyptian cotton and of efforts ( if English spinners to force down the . price of the American crop, Mr. Smyth t-aid in bis dispatch: I "These reports are very dlscourag- ( ng, inasmuch as they foreshadow a ihortage in this year's crop of the ( ?ass of staples that comes into com petition with American cotton. For . ibis reason I do not hesitate to Bay it , would be advisable to warn the south 3rn planters against any move on the part of Lancashire manufacturers to { force sales at low prices lu order to neel the requirements of Buch a de- . Iclency. "The general opinion In Lancashire . is that a plentiful supply of American , cotton can be had on a 'fi penny ba- . >is,' that ls to say, 10 cents per pound. Combinations are being formed to , hold the price at this notch, if possi- ? ble and these combinations intend to ppeiale through agents sent specially Lo Louisiana and all the coolon pro- . Shoing centers of tho South. The troubles among the coito 1 manu fae , lurcrs of the East are expected to aid In the development of this scheme, '. fur they are calculated to have a de pressing effect on the home market In their relation, to supply and demand. "My candid opinion 1B that an enor mous amount of money can be saved Lo our planters by taking this matter up in time, and Invoking the assis tance of the banks or the national treasury, if snh au arrangement can be made to enable tho planters to warehouse their cotton until the pres ent stocks are worked up on this side and the necessities of tba manufac turers compel them to treat on more liberal terms with the growers or their representatives as the case may bu. "The ereotion of new mills in Lan cashire and the effeot whioh their con sumption is likely to have on the mar ket next year lend additional inter est to this subject, and serves to em phasize the views I have taken the liberty to present In this dispatch. Fi'fcencont cotton, or even 12-cent would out a very important figure In the net assets of one year's orop and add materially to the wealth and prosperity of the South." Hm m a to Heidi. A negro named Tilden Davis was bumed to death in his home In Brit ton's Neck Saturday night. Be bad been to Marlon on Saturday and re turned home early in the evening in an intoxicated condition. After say lng a few words to his wife, be weut to sleep on the floor before the fire. His wife and children retired to an other parc of the house and went to sleep, and about ll o'clock were awak ened by the roaring of tire and found the house in flames. She hastily got the children out, and attempted to rescue her husband, but he, in his drunken condition, resisted her ef forts. Failing to get him out, she ran out to call for help, but before any one could reaoh the scene lt was too late for the house was almost duwn. The deceased was a well known and very reliable negro, with only the falling which resulted In his death. Killed Ula Wife. A dispatch from Goeenville to The State says Sheriff Gilreath was notl tied early Thursday morning that a man bad killed bis wife in tho Prince ton neighborhood during Wednesday night. Ile at onoa dispatched Depu ty Sheriff Balleuger to the scene of the orlme. The murder occurred about one half mile from Princeton und nine and a half milos from Uonea Path. Dennis Wood, a white man, tenaut ou a farm, killed his wife who was said to have been half-witted. It is said that Wood beat her first and then shot ber, tho woman only living a few minutes. The couple have four or five children. The man was arrest ed and is now In tho Greenville coun ty Jail. _ Wanted to Rill Ht r. Fraulein Reubkeof tho Court Thea ter, Munich, Barvarla, who ls playing the juvenile lead in Hauptmann's "B?iS'jhmiedo," found on her dressing ubi ; Thursday evoning a beautiful bonbon box with a note requesting ber to open the box before going on the stage. The actress was too much occupied to do so until before thu la*it act. When she did open lt an adder d..rtci out and fastened Its fangs In her dress. Fraulein Reubke screamed and fell in a faint and the attendants killed the adder. After some delay tue aotreu was able to M nish the per formance. THE CZAR'S STOEY Of the late Troubles in the Butiian ?itlo?. Given Out The Grand Dake Vladimir, tho Czar'a Uncle and Spokesman, Gives fills Version of the Situation. A. dispatch from St. Petersburg says the Grand Duke Vladimir, undo of Emperor Nicholas and ooiumauder of the Imperial Guard, granted an interview to the Associated Presa at tbe duke's palace in Quay de la Cour, a'"'j lining tbe winter palaoa. The correspondent was received in' the grand duke's private study. "Tho newspapers abroad," suggest ed tho correspondent, "havo made many statements regarding the events ot January 22." *'I know; I have read accounts in the foreign press. I have stojd aghast at the frightful stories of the butch ery of innocent people whloh they have printed. I know they say well Intentioned patriots, with a priest at their head, coming peacefully to place their grievances before bis m<<j?sty were ruthlessly shot down lu the streets; but we know that behind this peaceful procession was an anarchistic and socialistic plot of which tbe over whelming majority cf the workmen were merely innocent tools. We know from examination of the dead and those arrested that some alleged priests were actually revolutionary agitators and students in disguise. We bad to save the oity from a mob. Unfortunately to do so Innocent and guilty suffered alike. But suppose 140,000 men bad reached tbe gates of tbe winter palace, they would have ?one elsewhere and the whole city , would have been delivered over to .tnarchy, riot, bloodshed and llames. Dar duty was the duty of every gov ernment." "They say that. Gorky will be langed," suggested the correspon- , lent. "Nonsense," replied the grand luke. "It 1B asserted that some of the , jroops refused to obey commands" was the next suggestion. "There In no question of the loyalty )f the troops," asserted the grand : luke, "They did their duty. They , ire ready, as I am ready, to die In :he streets for the emperor. A soldier < ivas asked by one workman why he 1 Ired, the questioner saying to bim: ? You'll be a workman soon.' 'Per- i naps,' be replied, 'then y u may be a ? ioldier and know what lt is to obey ? pour oath to do your duty to your ?mperor." "Might I ask your imperial high ness'view of the present situation," said the correspondent. "With this unhappy war upon our shoulden)," said tho grand duke, "we are pussing through a crisis. In the interior there are many elements of discord, but the situation is not so bad as lt is painted. The disorders ab Warsaw, Kleff and elsewhere are largely industrial, produced by trade i'ifcp:t.sslitn and consequent Lick of employ menu 02. aroorj.oti. of thQ-W?r.^ 1 hey.aro not revdl??tionary at base.""* Tben without being asked the grand duke went on: "People speak of a constitution. A constitution would mean the end of Russia, as the state would be gone, anarchy would supervene, and when it ended the empire would be disinte grated. Finland and Poland and per haps other frontier provinces would have broken away. Russia ls not ripe fur a constitution. Go out among tbe peasants who comprise tba vost bulk of the empire's population and try to t xplaln to them government by suffrage. Tbe peasant knows nothing of government; bo doesnoteven know what the word means. Ile knows his emperor. For him tho emperor ls everything. Give tbe peasant a vote and all would be anarchy. Still there ls necessity for reforms, and they will be granted by the autociacy." "Maintaining the principle of au tocraoy, tben, tbe people will have on opportunity to be heard in the gov ernment?" questioned the corres pondent. "Yes," was the reply; "they oin and I am suro they will be given a voice. Of that I am certain," and he repeated the words emphatically, "I am co-tain, " and oontluued even more deliberately. "They will be given the tu ca ns of presenting their needs and grievances direct to tbe sover eign." - With these significant words, fore shadowing porhaps the immediate granting of something In the nature of the zemBkjziboe (land parliament), the grand duke ended the interview. He then turned to Prince Bolaselsky, his aide, instructing him to give the Associated Piess every faolllty for in dependent Investigation. Tho Jury Did Not Uollovo Uer. A miracle, brought about by prayer, waa sworn to in Court Wednesday by Miss Inga Hanson, a former member of the Salvation army, who is on trial In Chicago, charged with perjury In connection with a personal damage suit brought by her against the Chicago City Railway Company. Un der oath Wednesday she testified that the alleged miracle restored her sight, speech and hearing. This remarkable explanation came from tho lips of tho young woman os tho answer to a nhargo that her ailments bad been conceived to further a 850.000 con spiracy, had b jen adroitly simulated through five years of litigation, and had suddenly c ?ase 1. Tho scene of the alleged visitation was in Rich mond, Va., and according to the girl's claims, was produoed by prayer with an Itinerant Methodist missionary who visited her. Miss Hanson lost her suit against the street railway company. White flume Bold. A dispatch (rom Spartunburg nays Dongau & Scheftall, and Solomon Seht ftall, wholesale merchants of Savonnnahi havo pu* ceased thc White Stone Llthla Springs property and will at- ?noa begin I m provenu, tts and Innovations looking toward tbe establishing of a modern tourists ho tel In Spartanhurg county. It is understood that the consideration waa 9160,000. A FATAL RIDE. Seven Worner Killed Outright and Two Die Soon. STRUCK BY A TRAIN. The Sleigh In Which the Women Were Riding'Waa Kn >ckcd lato Splutter?. The Driver Tried to Step tho Sleigh, Bat Goold Not Control tbs Hones. A passenger tnin on th? Pittsburg, Shaw:?iu& and Northern Railroad Wednesday nlgh'i crashed Into a sleigh containing thirteen women, killed seven outright and so seriously in jured and mala ed six that two ot them died after hoing removed to tho hospital. Of thc other four, two ?Te In a serious condition. The accident occurred near the city of Arkport, N. Y. The sleigh was one of the three carrying a party from the Uni versellst church, of HorneliavUle, N. Y. The dead: lira. Mary Gillette, Mrs. Charles Thoma?, Mrs. Eogene Shaw, Mrs. Jos. Hallett, Mrs. 0. 0. Graves, Mrs. Bert Moore, Mrs. Coates, Mrs. Fred Green, Mrs. Ruth Patchen. The injured: Mrs. F. Boughton, Mrs. F. B. Rowley, Mrs. Bond, Mrs. Wallace Clark. Members of the Ladles' Aid Society of tbe Unlver&aliat Church went to a farm house near Arkport to spend the afternoon. It was nearly dark when they started on the return trip to HorneliavUle. The occupants of the leading sleigh saw tue train approach ing as they neared the Shawmut cross ing. The driver urged his horses ahead and the sleigh passed over the tracks in Bafety. The women in the first sleigh then attempted to warn those In the one following of the dan? ger and they did succeed In direoting their attention to the rapidly ap proaching train. The driver pulled np his horses, bub he could not oheok the beavy sleigh quickly enough, and when lt came to astandstill the box of the sleigh waa direotly across the railroad track. The pilot of the engine struck the sleigh with great force, reducing lt to splinters and hurling tho women in Elli directions. Every woman on the sleigh was killed or Injured. The other members of the party hurried back to the assistance of their unfortunate companions, andt t?\e train was stopped and backed up.;-w /Si the crossing. The bodies of the dead were placed upon the train and the Injured waro laid upon improvised ots in the bag gage oar. The train then proceeded to Hornellsville. The news of the aooident had been telephoned to the city and hundred? of friends and rela tives of the unfortunate women were awaiting at the station. The dead we.ro at once taken to tho morgue, and' tb?l?jjLr.ed wore placed in ambu lances and tajlBjjfc^the Mercy Hos pital. *v Elisha Quick, driver of \V^%WW?L^ sleigh, waa bailly hurt. He said he tried to stop the sleigh, but could not control the horses. Seriously Hart. A dispatch from Aiken to The State says that two dau ; titers of Mr. R. B. R. Ar mat ron g were seriously hurt In a runaway aooidont Tuesday after noon. The young ladles were driving a pair of horses, ind as they started down' a hill lead ii. g to Coker Spring, owing to the shortness of the tongue, the buggy suddetly lurched forward and frightened tho horses. Tuey broke and ran.fur some distance, finally run ning into a tree s-.nd throwing both the young ladies out. It was thought that one of the young ladles was fa tally hurt, but shu has improved con siderably and ls now considered out of danger. JKatall) Burned. A dispatch from Aiken to The State says a telegram was received there that Mr. Geo. P. .kahley, formerly of Aiken, was burned to death in- the oin ce car attached to the railroad cjimp of W. J. Oliver & Co., at Wyckliffe, Tenn., at 2.30 o'clock j Thursday morning. Mr. Ashley, who was about 27 years of age, had been in the employ of W. J. Oil vor So Go., I and had worked his way up to a re sponsible position with that large Arm of railroad contractors. No fur ther particulars of the tragedy wero given In the telegram. Water Pipes Kxpluded. At Union one morning last week tho hot water pipes in tbe big cook ing range at the borne of Dr. J. H. Hamilton exploded with terrific force, blowing out tho end of the range, sending tho utensils in every direction and plastering some of tho food on the celling, but fortunately not injuring any one. People should thaw out their water pipes when frozen before bullring a fire in the stove. '_ Trklnmon Killed. A special from MoDonough, Ga., says that two persons were killed in a beadon collision between Southern freight trains Nos. 34 and 83 at Mo Donough at an early hour Wednesday morning. The dead are: R. 0. Wilhelm, engineer of No. 34. Calvin Archer, Jr., fireman of No. 34. _ Calhoun County Doomed. The house Thursday night received from the judiolary committee an un favorable report on the bill to create Calhoun county. There waa a minori ty report signed by five members. There wero 14 who signed the un favorable report, so it ls quite piobablo that the new county will not be given birth. Pour Trainmen Killed. A southbound passenger trian and a north bound freight train on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad met in collision Friday near Tallahoma, Tenn., killing four train men and Injuring several passengers, none seriously.