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Democrat "DO TUOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE.' VOL XX\ BENNETTSVIXiLE, 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 Ia a Vigorous Attack on the Dispensary, but It Was Killed by a Decisive Vote by the Senators. The galleries and floor of the senate were crowded Widnesday night when the local option bill of Senator Brice of York was brought up. There WUB practically little bebate on tho UH, and it was killed by a vote of 18 to 11. In tho mornli g Senator Brice spoke for the bill, and in the evening Sena tor O. L. Blessa against lt. Senator Mauldln ah o spoke for it. The bill bad been introduced by him, said Senator Brice, to nive the people of South Carolina an oppon un ity of wiping i ut the dispensary, root and branch. Ile said that if the naked devil, had come to earth this would have been thc sort of law he would have framed. Tho law bad been adopt ed as a compromise and now was an iniquity. Instead of being a solution and im provement of the liquor question, said Senator Brice, the dispensary law was retrograde In movement. Let the peo ple Bay what they want. This ls de mocracy. The bill which Senator Brice has Introduced thiB year is practically similar to bis local option measure cf 1904, except that it has no taxation provision. Thia was tacked on last year against Senator Brice's wish. He said In his speech that hordes of negroes around the dispensaries on Saturday afternoons were like "a cfC.wd of carrion" crows around a car cass^1- . - ' 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. The tax would not scaro the counties which really wished to be rid of the diBpersary. Cheroke had voted lt out in spite of the tax. Senator Blease said that he believed that the aerator from York was sin cere in his views on the dispensary law, and in (act believed that he was at one time !n sympathy with it. He alluded to the fact that the Prohibi tionists had advocated the dispensary law after thor Childs bill was defeated ?n 1802. Il tho pnhlbitlonlsts l ad .'helped the anti? prohibitionist s the dispensary lew would never have been passed. If \ stcne Lad beeu given when bread was asked for, it was the prohibitionists who had done it. The argument had been made that the dispensary would have been over thrown if tao people had ever had the opportunity. Senator Blease cited the candidacies of C. C Featherstone and James A. Hoyt, who had both been defeated, and in passing paid a tribute to both. Ic is now a disgrace for the State to sell whiskey, and yot the pro hibition ticket had recommended it. What matter if it was "for mediolnal purposes" the effect is the same In giving t he advantages of the dis pensary law, the sp aker cited the de pravity or barrooms, tho stringent regulations cn dispensers as to selling to minors, keeping open attar hours, etc., and the stamping out of the so cial drink. There is one stench In the nostrils of the pe-: p'e-the so called "social club"-where mon sit and drink and play caris until the w? e small houri, hut this cannot; he laid at the door.? of the dispensary. In defense of the late FI. ll Crum, dispensary eera missioner, bc read from The Evening Record of Columbia an article relating to the dead man's estate. Thc article stated that, al though Mr. Crum was reported to be very rich, he left an estate of * 13.000 and owed from this 83,000. This then was the real fortune ot a man who waa said to have come to the general as sembly a poor mau and died worth $159,000. Why not tell thc truth about these things, a--ked the senator. Pictures hid been drawn of splendid homes builL by those In charge of the dispensary, wlieu in reality some of these hemes were really crowded cit tages. The queutions was too big for lo:a! control. If thc 500 vot?is of New berry decided by a mr.jority of loo to vote out tins dispensary, would this be Justice to the other citizens of the county? ne was sory that, the dispensary in vestigation resolution had not, as ori ginally Intel deel, benn curled out, so that the committee would have re ported by Feb. 1st. lt had been said that this resolution had been dictated by a member of thc State b. ard of directors, hut this Senator Bleasi de nied with great, vigor. "The single question involved." said Senator Mauldln, "ls whotber or not the general assembly it willing to leave the mutter to the people of the counties." He said that the dlspen bary law waa not bein/ attacked aa a whole, and, ;f such a popular institu tion as described hy the senator fr m Newberry, li< was certainly lu no dan ger. A law of this kind would he tho first opportunity for the 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 Tue dispen sary system had had as Its c!ilef rec ommendation that it would reduce drinking, and now Its chief g:ory is Its flnanclE.l success. The State bad literally set ts seal of aprrovs l on t? e system. Lately a friend had asked him: "W:iy not make your mottes road, 'Dum upi ro speroblbo'and 'Aul? mus oplbusqueet paratus splr.tus fm mentlV - The ayes ind naya were demanded and tho vote was as follows on Sena tor Blease's motlou to striko out tho enacting wo.-d: Ayes-Senatori Btvsni, Blake, Bleose, O. L ; Blease, E. S. ; Carpen ter, Christensen, Davis, Dennis, Douglass, Ilay, Manning, McGowan, McLeod Raynor, Stackhouse, Talbert, Walker, Williams-19. Nays-Senators Bleck, Brice Hard in, Brooks, Brown, Hood, Ilulllday, Hudson, Mauldln, Mciver, Wells-ll. Senators Efird and W. E Jnnnson were paired. Tbe funner would have voted aye, the latter nay. Senators Marshall and Peur hoy were paired. The former would have voted nay, the latter aye. Senators Von Koolnitz and Warren were paired. The former would have voted nay, the latter aye. The following 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 I ill Creatir g Thom mo Arrangrinont o? tho DlfToront Counties an Proposed by tho Bill as Passed. The bill to oreato two additional circuits was pased by the house Thursday. The majority in its favor was 25, quite surprising. Theprlncl pal objection came from tho fourth circuit, which will have its name changed without receiving any bine tits. The bill provides for the follow ing grcupiugs: First Circuit-Charleston, Colleton and Beaufort. Second Circuit-Berkeley, George town, Dorchester ard Orangeburg. Third Circuit-Hampton, Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell and E igefield. Fourth Circuit-Clarendon, Flor ence, Lee Sumter and Williamsburg. Fifth Circuit-Chesterfield, Dari Ington, Hurry, Marlon and Marlboro. Sixth Circuit-Kershaw, Lexing ton, Riohland and Saluda. Seventh Circuit-Chester, Fair field, Lancaster and York. Eighth Circuit-Ctierokee, Spartan burg and Union. Ninth Circuit-Abbeville, Green wood. Laurens and Newberry. Tenth Circuit-Anderson, Green ville, Plckens and Ocmee. The "special court'' law ls repealed by the following In the bill: "That in no case shall any special court be held, but the goveroor may commis sion some one learned in the law to hold a regular term of court when a circuit judge is disabled by sickness." After considerable discusi?n pro aud con the question came to a vote on the motion to strikeout the enact ing words. Tho members were re corded as follows: Nays-Speaker Smith and Messrs. Arnold, Baker, Hallentine, Banks, ?radbam, Brant, Brantley, Bric, Bruce, Calli-on, Clifton, Cloy, C.v. h ran, Culler, Davis, DeVore, D >&r, Dukes, Edwards, L. B. EtherecJge, Fishburne, Foster, Fraser, Frost, Gaston, D. L. Green, Gyles, Hamlin, Harrison, Harley, Hemphill, Rey nard, nigglns, Irby, Keenan, La Fittf, Li fton, Lomax, Lyon, Mc Cants, McFaddln, McMaster, Morgan, Moses, Nance, Nicholson, Otts, Bar leer, Prince, Pyatt, Rawlinson, Rich ards, Sanders, Sayo, Seabvojk, Shel dm, Siukler, Spivey, Strong, Toole, Trlbble, Turner, Verner, J. M. Wal ker, John J. Watson and Whatley. - Total 67. Ayes-Messrs. Ardroy, Ashley, Rasp, Beamuuard, lloyd, Colcock, Dos Champs, Eirhardt, Epthg, E J. Kthorcdge, Ford, Guise, Gibson, Gra ham, Gray, W. McD. Green, Hail, Herbert, Klrven, Liney, Lawson, Lester, Little, Massey, Laban Maul dln, T. J. Mauldln, Miller, Morrison, Palt.rsoo, Pittman, Posion, Pyatt, R<avas, lilley, Sellers, Stoll, W. M. Walker, Wcbh, Wimberly, Yeldell. 12. The following pairs were recorded: Mr. McCall, aye, with Mr. Whaley, na] ; Mr. Faust, aye, with Mr. lias kill, nay; Mr. Browning, nay, with y.r. Nash, aye. The last named in each of the palr.n was absent. The hill then passed second reading after being amended bv Mr. Elwards cf Spartanburg so that lt dots away with special courts. Cboked by a Negro. At Darlington early Monday even ing week ago a young lady while go ing from her sister'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 the lady approached the brute sprang from hin lair and demand ed money. The lady screamed for help, and, with true courage and hero i m, endeavored to rid herself of the dcr.d, which she did, but not uutil tho demott had bruised her throat with his heinous lingers. A noise in a nearby dwelling ls suppo ed als ) tn have frightened the scoundrel, who took to his heelH. A diligent search with bloodhound was made, but the dogs seemed to lose the trail. A simi lar attack was made oo a lady on Pearl street not long ago and the assailant a negro, as In this case, became fright ened and ran Danni: KHO&PO. Two convicts made a daring ercape from the penitentiary at Huntsville Texas, Thursday. They overpowered tho engineer and fireman of a locomo tive in the penitentiary yards and steamed from tho grounds under fire of the guards. They ran the engine about live miles, when they abandon ed it and took to the woods. On? t f thc prisoners was serving a life sen tence under thc charge of murdering lils father. Holler 1.7. [liodoil. An explosion of two 20-horse power steam hollers lathe dry house of thc Gross Lumber Manufacturing coni?? pany occurred Lexington about closing down time Wednesday after noon, completely destroying tho di y ?ouso, and, lt tl feared, fatally injur ing Mr. Fred ii, Grohs, one of ti e owners of thu plant, who was stand ing near hy. Mr. Ja.'-per D. Trice, who operates a brickyard noar by, was struck by a Hying timber and escaping steam, breaking his right arm and scaldinc him sovcroly, though not fatally. JOHANN HOCH The Chicago Bluebeard, Caught in the City of New York. HAD PLENTY MONEY. Hoch, Who It Is Said Has Married About Thirty Women, Was Pound lo the Boarding House of a Woman to Whom He Had Just Proposed Warringe. Johann Ilocb, the Chicago "Blue beard," who bas for weeks been sought by tbe Chicago police, who charge him with baviug caused the deaths of sav oral of the thirty women he ls allego3 to have r^arried, was ai rested by the police We"J^*).-iday night in a furnished room hoiKy . \t No. 648 West Forty seventh str?ev >Jew York City. ? The man ga . ;-riio name of Henry Bartels, but the 3i>_-^ves.Bar they are possltivo the man is. "Roch. Mrs. Catherine Klmmerle, the landlady, says the man was in tbe 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 tho police and they arrested him. At the station house the mau de scribed himself as Henry Bartels, forty-live years old. Everything the man had in his possession was new. lie had a new suit of clothes, six new handkerchiefs that bad been liaif soaked in cologne, a new razor and a new trunk. Besides, the man had six 9100 bills, live ?5 bills aud change in evecy pocket of his clothing. MAUKIED THIRTY WOMEN. Hoch is credited with the amazing j 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 of these ca^es Hoch ls allege l to have protited largely by the deaths of his wives, and in the majority of the cas es no sufficient explanation of the deaths have ever been made. With regard, to the other wives. Hoch deserted them as soon after the marriage ceremony as it was possible for hint to srouro all the money that the wives bad in hand. From all sec tions of the country repr.rta are oom iug of hiH having marrit d momen for their money, and it is confidently as serted by the police that when the completo record of his victims is made uo it will greatly exceed the number now placed to his credit. Tho names of the wives, so far as known, and the fate which befell them follows: niS MATRIMONIAL RECORD. Anna Hook, married in Vienna, 1881, died 1883; Mr3. C. A. Mayer, married in Chicago, 1892, died three weeks later; Mrs. H. Irlck, married In Chicago, 1392, died one month later, Mts. S. Hauck, married in Peoria, 111., 1893, deserted immediate ly afUjr the ceremony; name unknown, married in Chicago 1894, died two mont hs later; Mrs. Julia Steinbrecher, married in Chicago, 1894, died two months later, left 84,000; Mrs. Janet Spencer, married in Chicago, 1895, de serted two month later, lest several hundred dollars; Callie Charlotte An drews, married in Chicago, 1897, de serted two hours later, lost 8500; Mrs. J Hus*, married In Wheeling, W Va., 1S97, died throe months later, left ?2.000; Mrs. Martin Dotz, mar ried in Chicago, 1898, died t'? ree months later; sister of Mrs. J. H. Sch* art/.cuan, married in Milwaukee, 1899. died three weeks later, left il200; Mrs. Mary Schultz, married at Argus, Ind., 1900, b >th she and daughter disappeared, left $2,000; Mrs. Mary B:cker, married In St. Louh, 1901, died a few montbB later; Mrs. Anna Hendrickson, married in C licago, 1904, deserted after a few weeks, hst 81,000; Mrs. Lena Hoch, married In Milwaukee, died three weeks later, left $l,5r0; Mrs. Caro linc Strieder, married in Philadelphia, 1904, deserted after one week, lost $200; Mr-i. Marie Walker, married in Chicago, 1904, died one month later, left82;">0; Mrs. Emilie Fisher, married in Chicago, 1905, deserted after one week, lost $750. CALLED KK1EKD OK HOLMES. About the man, all of tho romance of crime centres. He has been partial ly identltiad as a close assoalatecf thc notorious H. H. Holmes, who was hanged In Philadelphia ten years ago with a record of tweuty murders. In Chicago he is described as a swindler, a hypnotist, and a marriage broker who selected as bis victims elderly wo men with moans upon whom he work ed the scheues that have given him a unique record In the annals of crime. There is a peculiar white powder in which he dealt that ls described by some of his victims who escaped, but which thc police have not been able to get hold of, and whlou, lt Is believ ed, would slied light upon the fate of several of the wives who died so mysteriously within three or four weeks after they had followed Hoob to tito ul tar. Llttl? nf thc man's early life is known. Ho was born, it is said, In Germany, and thore ls a story of a woman married and deserted there, before he came to the United States, whero iie entered upon his career In a wholesale murder. Chicago seems to have been made lils principal headquarters. Most of his wives were either wooed and won there and taken thence immediately after marriage where they died, or were deserted as soon as they bad given over to Hoch all the mouey of which tucy were possessed. Because of the fact that he has llv e:i in a ?core of places and under half a dozen aliases no connected story of his operations ls to lie bad as present. AH early as 1894, he was fouud practicing his peculiar profession lu Chicago, where he married Mrs. J. Steinbrecher. Three weeks after the marriage, Mrs. Hoch died, and on her deathbed she told of thc white medl cine which her husband had adminis tered to her, and expressed the fear that she had been poisoned. Benno Lechner a saloonkeeper at No. 394 Larabee street, Chicago, tes tifies to this chapter in the lite of the Bluebeard, and asserts that the man disposed of an estate of 14,000 belong ing to his wife Immediately after her death and within a month afterward was again married. WENT UNDER MANY NAMES. At one period in his career Hoon was 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 ber flvo-year-old son disappeared, and have never been seen since. Just be fore her disappearance tho husband collected 12,000 insurance on her first husband's life. During the years 1807 and 1808 Hoch furnished at least seven fiats tn Chicago. He bought the goods for the flats on the Installment plan, and afterwards sold them again and defaulted in pay ment of the monthly accounts. For this ho was arrested, convicted and seut to prison for a year. Two Milwaukee women also foll victims to tbe man. Both of them ?ied suddenly after their marriage to him, add Mrs. J. II. Schwartzrcan, sister of the woman who v/as known as Mrs. Lena Hoch, declares that Hoch disappeared with il,200 of her sister's money Immediately after her death. Under the name of John Schultz Hooh ls said to have married Mrs Mary Booker in St. Louis in Marob, 1002. The 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 physician, whoattenaed Mrs Mary Walker-Hook, another wife of the Bluebeard, says that whilo he diagnosed the causo of death in this Instance as nephritis, he bas since heard that Hoch gave hiR wife a strange white powder that bad not been prescribed for her, a shore time before her t'eath. John McKionuey, formerly a police man in Chicago, whose post included "Holmes Castle," at Sixty third street and Stewart avenue, during tho time that the multi-murderer was conduct ing operations there, bas 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 IN A CIRCUS. Ono Killed for Meroiy Sneorln? itt tho Performers. During the psrformince of Reed's Circus at Baidrvin, Ala., Wednesday, night, a free for all fl?rht occurred be tween some of the spectators and the performers. Between fifteen and twenty shots were tired In a few seo onds aud when tho smoke bad cleared away lt was found that Charles Peter son of Franklin had been killed and Martin Ashley of Baldwin had been shct twice through the right arm and through the left side below the heart, the lattor wound belng 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 rom? of the stakes used to hi dd the guy ropes of tho tent, his face hoing terribly mutilated. Two trapeze pjrforme.rs were doing the brother act when, lt is said, either Peter.-.on or Ashley yelled: "Wo can do that!" The performers finished theil act and immediately rushed over to the spectators 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 Dumesnil, with the assistance of some of the residents of Baldwin, did some quick work and succeeded In arresting and jailing 12 of the 14 performers, including Mrs. A. H. Roed, wife of the mauager and owner of tho HIIOW. It jed esoaped with one of tho employees, Siddel. With them went tile money big. L)iu(l ol' 1'olHon. A dispatch from Blackville to The State says Miss Minnie Uutto, a beau tiful and well thought of young lady thore, 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 lecked but one of the sash of her room was raised and the blind opon. Her aunt, Miss Sallie Ilartzog, with whom she lived, entered the window and found her Just breathing and summoned Dr. L. F Bonner Immediately, who found her dying from laudanum poisoning. Miss Hutto's father and mother are both dead, but she has a brother and several sisters who are very much shocked at this suaden end of a sister they loved so well. Miss Hutto had not been despondent and seemed in tho best of humor Sunday. Jumpeu Overboartl. A passenger of the Clyde Steamer Arapahoo, on route from Jacksonville to New York, Jumped overboard while tho vossel was In her dock, at Charles ton it ls thought, with suicidal intent. Tho man first threw his watch and then his pistol into the water and climbed tho rall and followed these articles. Tho immersion in tho cold water soou brought him to his senses and he offered no objections to the rescue hy the crew of tho vessel, who lowered a life boat and went after him immediately upon his rash act. Fourteen Striker* Killed. At Moscow, Russia, Wednesday evening in a fight between strikeis and the sold leis, fourteen persons were killed. The struggle followed an attempt of the strikers to as ?embie in a publie, square. Somo strikers pulled revolvers, whereupon tho BOI dion opened Arc and the striken re treated. CAUGHT AT LAST Young Man Arrested in Charles ton for Being a Firebug. ; f_ j * HE SET MANY FIRES. Thc Accused Is a White Boy and Ad* nits that He Set Several Pires, j He Is the Same Boy that Was , Nearly Killed by a Tiger Sometime Ago. The mystery of tbe many Qr3s that occurred in Charleston last month was cleared up by tho arrest of a whjte boy by tbe name of Raymond Bowman on Thursday. There had been about fifty tires in Charleston simio January 1, and people were be coming alarmed at the thought that a band of firebugs had invaded the city. No one for a moment suspected a white boy of Charleston with being tbe' cause of the fires. Bowman is charged with setting fire to cotton in tho Kast Shore Terminal Company's shed, with trespassing on the premises of 31. Schmancke's hay and grain storr', with trespassing on the prem ises'-'f 1?. Rhode's feed store, and with attempting to rob tbe safe in the A. 0. ?i>;ticket office in the Charleston Ho^ ? r.7- was arrested at the hav and grar^'?tore of C. D. Gartleman & Co., at, DOOM T lursday by Detective John E. Bjehnan, of the Charleston de tee- ' live force, and lodged in a cell at the central station. Bowman admits set tin?f?re to the cotton, but said that it Vt?w by accident through the throw i way of a cigarette, and Chief 1 ! Btat'd later Thursday after- 1 noroltbat the prisoner had practical ly, y dtltted responsibility for the seffejSpf fires that have taken place in Charleston during last month, by 1 which some $30,000 worth of proper ty t?& been destroyed. liga- Bald that Bowman was the tir. co .warn Molony and Carter that their place was on tire the drat time, that'he was among the first to warn Manager Kent of the tire at his stable. He was seen to leave the ; wawtouse of Molony and Carter on J ol tx streat, Just before the fiR?3 start ed, v John Molony and the Southern r.M?r . watohman. Ho was about vb? r,*ylc Hotel when the fire there ?tavied a few days ago, and recently wen^to work for Mr. Arnold, whosa stables were burned Wednesday. Detective Brennan had been shad owing Bowman all the morning, fol lowing him into Gartleman's Bt?ie on King street Thursday, and arrested him at noon. B jwman was identified by Messrs. Schmancke, Rhode, and Molony as the person seen abaft their pla:es, and Mr. W. B. Wallace, who bas charge of the telegraph station at the Charleston Hotel, identified him as the person caught trying to un lock, the ticket ( ffice safe at about U o'olo?k one night some weeks ago. The first clue that turned the at tention of the police to yount; Bow man was gi' an 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 and asked the agent to ohange a five dollar bili. Mr. Walpole went to the su fe," a fcmall iron one under the north counter, which ls unlooked by two keys, and after ho bad tinlshed using hlB bunch of keys he threw them on tho desk behind him. Young Bow man le? b, and one of the safe keys on the bunch waB found to be missing. Later in the evening Mr. Wallace left the effleo to get some silver changed into bills at the hotel desk, ard when he returned he looked over tbe ticket counter and saw young Bowman trying to unlcc* the safe. When asked what ho was doing, he said that he was looking for home thing. Mr. Wallace went for a po liceman, and when he had left it is said that the boy Jumped over the counter and left the hotel through tbe front entrance. Ho returned the key next day, when Mr. Walpole sent for it. He was seen during the Charleston Transfer Conpany tire, tunning into Balley and Lobby's store, and the weight of evldonco worked up by De tectlve Brennan from information gathered firnt through Mr. Rhode, and from circumstances that Molony and Carter thought odd, and from the A. CL. ticket agent caused the arrest of Bowman, on the charges 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 tho fire of Wednesday occurr ed, Bowman said that be had come to look at tho work of tho Uro. At Rhode's and Schmanke's, where he was warned off he gave trivial oxouses for his presence. Bowman ls not morethau sixteen years old, tho son of Mr. Saul Bowman, and lives at 11 Anson street. Somo years ago ho was badly bitten by a tiger in a cage of a show on King street, near Cal houn. Ho was a little fellow then and had been permitted to enter the cago of tho tiger, which nit him se verely, and ho was in the indrmary for some timo. Ho is undor&liood to I have been married recently in Au gusta. The only motive that ctn bo as signed to bis strange aoLlons ls that of robbery, lt seeming to be the In tention of young Bowman to ompty tho cash drawers of the people whom he excited by tiro, and lu their au s^nce to avail hlms.df of the opportu nity of robbery. Perhaps nome men tal woaknesa lias been at the bottom of his actions. Tho mystery of the flies that have occurred is now c'f ared away, and the department and po.toa oan take a rect, aa also can all th? owners of bay and grain stores. The theory ot spontaneous com bustion had few supporters, for the regularity and the frequency of the alarms, together with the Anding j im med into the 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. Dstccti vc Brennan, wi th thc ce op?ration of the fire viotlms and the police deserve the admiration and gratitude of the whole olby for the good work that has discovered the fire bug, and a great load is lifted from tte minds of the men who are respon sible for the safety of the olty from the danger of fires. The effeot of the steady alarms and destruction of pro perty bad begun to tell on the nerves of citiz ms, and there now seems lit tle danger of a repetition of the situa tion. The fires must have been eot by matches, of whloh tbero were several In the pcoket of the lad when he was arrested, and he evld'ntly trusted to his o?olnesa and warning tactics to Chard him from suspicion. The prisoner could not be seen by the reporter Thursday, as the police authorities did not wish Bowman to be interviewed. -Charleston Post. FARMERS BURE TO WIN If They Will Stand ToROthor and Hold Their Cotton. Valuable information concerning the status and condition of the Egyp tian cotton orop, showing as lt does, the wisdom of southern planters hold ing their cotton for a higher price, bas )ust come to the department of commerce and laber from Consul Smyth at Tunstall, England. Tuns tall ls in the Lancashire cotton spin ing district Of the reports concern ing the Egyptian cotton and of efforts of English splaners to force down the price of tho American crop, Mr. Smyth said in bis dispatch: "These reports are very dlscourag- ! lng, inasmuch as they foreshadow a shortage in this year's crop of the Blass of staples that comes into com petition with American cotton. For . this reason I do not hesitate to say it would be advisable to warn the south am planters against any move on the part of Lancashire manufacturers to ' force sales at low prices in order to meet tho requirements of such a de ficiency. "The general opinion in Lancashire ls that a plentiful supply of American cotton can be bad on a 'fi penny ba sis,' that is to say, 10 cents per pound. Combinations are being formed to bold the price at this notch, if possi ble and these combinations intend to operate through agent? sont specially to Louisiana and all the cotton pro ducing centers of tho South. The troubles among the cotton manu fae turers of the East are expeoted to aid iu thc development of this scheme, for they are calculated to have a de pressing effect on the home market In their relation to supply and demand. "My candid opinion ls that aa enor mous amount of money can be saved to our planters by taking this matter up In time, and invoking the assis tance of the banks or the national treasury, if such an arrangement can be made to enable the planters to warehouse their cotton until the pres ent stocks are worked up on this side and the necessities of the manufac turers compel them to treat on more liberal terms with the growers or their representatives as the case may bo. "The erection of new mlllB In Lan cashire and the ell jct which 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 tho views I have taken the liberty to present In this dispatch. Flatten cent cotton, or even 12-cont would cut a very Important figure in the net assets of one year's crop and add materially to the wealth and prosperity of tho South." Burned co Ueath. A negro named Tilden Davis was burned to death in his home lu Brit ion's Neck Saturday night. Be had 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, he went to sleep on the floor before the fire. His wife und 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 fire 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. Falling to get him out, she ran out to call for help, but before any one could reaob tho scene it was too late for the house was almost down. The deceased was a well known and very reliable negro, with only the falling which resulted in his death. Killed HIB wiro. A dispatch from Uoeenvillo to The State says Sheriff Gllreath was noti fied early Thursday morning that a ! man had killed his wife in tho Prince ton neighborhood during Wednesday nigiit. ile at onoa dispatched Depu ty Sheriff Ballenger to tho scene of the orlme. The murder occurred about one half mlle from Princeton and niue and a half milos from Honea Path. Dennis Wood, a whit? man, tenant on a farm, killed his wife who was said to have boen half-witted. It' is said that Wood beat her first and tticn shot her, 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 Kill Her. Fraulein Reubkeof the Court Thea ter, Munich, Barvaria, who ls playing the juvonllo lead in Hauptmann's "Bei sch miede," found on her dressing tabla Thursday evonlng a beautiful bonbon box with a note requesting ht r to open the box before going on tlic stage. The actress was too much occupied to do so until before thu last act. Whou she did open lt an adder d . rt ed out and fastened its fangs in her dress. Fraulein Reubke screamed and fell tn a faint and tho attendants killed the adder. After some delay toe aotreiu was able te Malsu the per formance. THE CZAR'S STOBY Of the late Troubles ia the Rumian Cities. Given Out The Grand Dake Vladimir, the Ciar'a j Unala and BnnlrMnian. nivna Hfa j Version of the Situation. A. dispatch from St. Petersburg says the Grand Duke Vladimir, uno'.e of Emperor Nicholas and oommacder of the Imperial Guard, granted an interview to the Associated Press at tbe duke's palace in Quay de la Cour, adj lining tbe winter palace. The correspondent was received in' the grand duke's private study. "Tho newspapers abroad," suggest ed tho correspondent, "have made many state ments regarding the events ot January 22." .*I know, I have read accounts in the foreign press. I have stood aghast at the frightful stories of the butch ery of Innocent people whioh they have printed. I know they say well Intentioned patriots, with a priest at their head, coming peacefully to place their grievances before his mr-j'sty were ruthlessly shot down In the streets; but we know that behind this peaceful procession was an anarchistic and socialistic plot of whioh the over whelming majority cf the workmen were merely innocent tools. We know from examiuatlon of the dead and those arrested that some alleged priests were actually revolutionary agitators and students in disguise. We had to save the oity from a mob. Unfortunately to do BO innocent and guilty suffered alike. But suppose 140,000 men bad reached the gates of the winter palace, they would have gone elsewhere and the whole olty wuuld have been delivered over to anarohy, riot, bloodshed and flameB. Our duty was the duty of every gov ernment." "They say that Gorky will be hanged," suggested the correspon dent. "Nonsense," replied the graud duke. "It is asserted that some of the broopB refused to obey cemmands" was the next suggestion. "There ls no question of tbe loyalty of the troops," asserted the grand duke. "They did their duty. They are ready, as I am ready, to die in the streets for the emperor. A soldier was asked by one workman why he fired, the questioner saying to bim: 'You'll be a workman soon.' 'Per haps,' he replied, 'then you may be a soldier and know what lt is bo obey your oath to do your duty to your emperor." "Might I ask your imperial high ness' view of the present situation," said the correspondent. "With this uubappy war upon our Bboulders," said tho grand duke, "we are prising through a crisis. In the interior there are many elements of discord, but the situaci?n ls not so bad as it is painted. The disorders ab Warsaw, Kleff and elsewhere are largely industrial, produced by brade ufepvession and cons -quent lack of employ meut OVL ajwjin_ruQl iho-war.^ i hey. are riob revcmTtionary at base."-' Then without being asked the grand duke went on: "People speak of a constitution. A constitution would mean the end of Russia, as the abate would be gone, anarohy would supervene, and when lb ended the empire would be disinte grated. Finland and Poland and per haps other frontier provinces would havo broken away. Russia is nob ripe for a constitution. Go out among the peasants who comprise the vast buik of the empire's population and try to c xplaln to them government by suffrage. The peasant knows nothing of government; ho doesnoteven know what the word means. Ile knows his emperor. Poi him tho emperor ls everything. Give the peasant a vote and all would bo anarchy. Still there is necessity for reforms, and they will be granted by the autooiacy." "Maintaining the principle of au tocraoy, then, the people will have an opportunity to be beard in the gov ernment?" questioned the corres pondent. "Yes," was the rep'y; "they can and I am sure they will be given a voice. Of that I am certain," aud he repeated the words emphatically, "I am co-tain, " and oontinued even more deliberately. "They will be given the means of presenting their needs and grievances direct to the sover eign." - With these significant words, fore i shadowing perhaps tho immediate granting of something in the nature of the zemBkjziboe (land parliament), the grand duke ended the interview. He then turned to Prince Belaselsky, his aide, instructing bim bo give the Associated Press every facility for in dependent investigation. Tho Jury l>id Not lloliove Her. A miracle, brought about by prayer, was Bworn bo In Court V.'ednesday by Miss Inga Hanson, a former member of the Salvation army, who is on brlal in Chicago, charged with perjury In connection with a personal damage suit brought by ber against the Chicago City Railway Company. Un der oath Wednesday she beatified that the alleged mlraclo restored her sight, speech and hearing. This remarkable explanation came from the lips of the young woman as tho answer to a charge that her ailments had been conceived bo further a $50,000 con spiracy, had been adroitly simulated through five years ot litigation, and had suddenly o^ased. The scene of the alleged visitation was in Rich mond, Va., and according to the girl's olaims, was produoed by prayer with an Itinerant Methodist missionary who visited ber. Miss nanson lost ber suit against tho street railway company. WM to Stone Bold. A dispatch from Spartanburg says Dongau X SoboftaH, aud Solomon Scbtftall, wholesale merchants of Savannnah, have pu-chased the White Stone Llthla Sprlugs property and will at one : begin Improvements and innovations looking toward the establishing of a modern tourlstt he bel In Spartanburg county. It ls understood that the consideration wat 1150,000. A FATAL RIDE. Seven Women Killed Outright and Two Die Soon. STRUCK BY A TRAIN. The Sleigh In Which the Women Were Riding'Was Knicked lato Splinter?. The Driver Tried te Step tho Sleigh, But Could Net Control thc Hertel. A passenger trttn on th? Pittsburg, Sbawmut and Northern Railroad Wednesday nigh'; crashed into a sleigh containing thirteen women, killed seven outright and so seriously in jured and main ed six that two ot them died after hoing removed to the hospital. Of tho other four, two are in a serious condition. The accident occurred near the olty of Arkport, N. T. The sleigh was one of the three carrying a party from the Uni versalist church, of Hornellsville, N. Y. The dead: Mrs. Mary Gillette, Mrs. Charles Thomas, Mrs. Eugene Shaw, Mrs. Jos. Hallett, Mrs. 0. 0. Graves, Mrs. Bert Moore, Mrs. Coates, Mm. 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 the Uni versahst Uhuroh wen', io a farm house- near Arkport to BP and the afternoon. It was nearly dark when they started on the return trip to Hornellbvllle. The occupants of the leading sleigh saw the train approach ing as they neared the Shawmut cross ing. The driver urged his horses ahead and the sleigh passed over the tracks in safety. The women In the first sleigh then attempted to warn lhotse in the one following of the dan? ger and they did succeed in directing their attention to the rapidly ap proaching train. The driver pulled np his horses, bab he could not oheok the heavy sleigh quickly enough, and when it came to astandstill the box of the sleigh was directly across the railroad track. . The pilot of the engine struck the sleigh with great force, reduolng it to splinters and hurling tho women in all directions. Every woman on the sleigh waa killed or Injured. The other members of the party hurried back to the assistance of their unfortunate companions, andk tly?, train was Btopped and baoked .up -w/^rg the Grossing. The bodies of the dead were placed upon the train and the injured wero laid upon improvised oats in the bag gage oar. The train then proceeded to Hornellsville. The news of the acalde -nt had been telephoned to the oity and hundreds of friends and rela tives of the unfortunate women were awaiting at the station. The dead .were at once taken to the morgue, and tne^BjM^were placed in ambu lances and taifeMfei^ho Meroy Hos? pltal. "?v Elisha Quick, driver of Ab&rJ&m&i^^^ sleigh, was bakly 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 thrall two daughters of Mr. H. B. R. Armstrong were seriously hurt in a runaway acoldunt Tuesday after noon. The young ladles were driving a pair of horses, ind as they started down a hill leading to Coker Spring, owing to the shortness of the tongue, the buggy suddenly lurched forward and frightened the horses. Tney broke and ran.fur some c.istance, finally run ning into a tree :.ud throwing both the young ladies out. It was thought that one of the young ladies was fa tally hurt, but she has improved con siderably and ls row considered out of danger. Fatal I) iiurned. A dispatch from Aiken to The State says a telegram waa received there that Mr. Qeo. P. Ashloy, formerly of Aiken, was burned to death in- the utheo car attached to the railroad ci mp of W. J. Oliver & Co., at Wyckliffe, Tenn., at 2.30 o'olook Thursday morning. Mr. Ashley, who was about 27 years of age, had been in the employ of W. J. Oliver & Co., and had worked his way up to a re sponsible position with that large firm of railroad contractors. No fur ther particulars of the tragedy wero given in ibo telegram. Water Pipes Imploded. At Union one morning last week the bot water pipes in tbe big cook, lng range at the home of Dr. J. H. Hamilton exploded with terrific force, blowing out the end of the range, sending the utensils in every direction and plastering some of the food on tho celling, but fortunately not Injuring any one. People should thaw out their water pipes when frozen before building a fire in the stove. i Trainmen Killed. A special from MoOonough, 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 hoar Wednesday morning. The dead are: R. G. Wilhelm, engineer of No. 34. Calvin Aroher, Jr., fireman of No. 34. _ Calhoun Coumy Doomed. The house Thursday night received from the Judiciary oom mi ct co an un favorable report on the bill to create Calhoun county. There waa a minori ty report signed by five members. There were 14 who signed the un favorable report., BO it is quite probable that the new cc un ty wilt not be given birth. Four 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.