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arlboro "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS INJTHY OAUSEi" VOL. xx); BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRLDiAY. MAY 5, 1905. _- ils NO. THE EDUCATORS Meet in Annual Convention in the City of Columbia. WARMLY WELCOMED Distinguished Visitors from ail Parts of thc Country Attended the Aleeling. Gov. Heyward Delivered Ad dress of Welcome. President Ogden Given an Ovation. The Conference fur Education in the South met In the Columbia Thea tre Wednesday night, abd the place was crowded wltu distinguished visi tors from tlte north and fro ja various other parts of ti e country. The ad die?8 of welocme was delivered by Governor Hejwaid, whose gtaceful words and graceful manner cuarmea all of his hearers Thc usual annual addrehs was delivered hy P.esh ont Robert 0. Ogden, wno was given the closest attention. Tue urat?r of the evening was Dr. George S. D.nuy, presloeut of Washington and Lee University, who spoke with earnest ness on '*A i^outheru li.ierptetatioti of the Conference for Edueatiuti," and whose remarks weie received with many manifestations of appro val. The Conference was called to order by Mr. E S. Dreher, superintendent of the Columbia scnools ar.d chai mian of the local arrangements comodtteti. He Introduced Governor Hey ward, who delivered the ado re-sot welcume. Mr. Ogcen was given au ovation when became forwurd on the. platfoim to the speaker'.-> stand in front of some fifty leaalug tducaters seated on the theatre stage, In the form of a half moon. Mr. Ogden digressed very little from his pubhshtd speeches, hui in the instar da m whieu lie cid step cutslce his set speech he was grac-.lui and easy auel ready and ip.niaocous. He was trtquentiy interrupted wub applause, part icularly at his mention of the names of J. L. M. Curry ai.u secretary Edgar G&iduer -Murphy and United fatates CernuiissKner Har ris. Mr. Denny was also well received. His earutht and eloquent defence of the movement ana tue actualit y mo tives of those making uo the various boards was heartily applauded. After the exercises m the theatre the visitors were given a recopticn in the hail of the house of representa tives, the co J tur? i ce being invitee hereby the Ooltm?ia o .umber of ..commerce, the legis.ature and the governor. The ha 1 was beautiiu:l> decorated by Columbia ladies With palms, ceder and the like, and thore was a delightful numgiiug ot the rep reseutatlves of the two sections of tue country. The special tialn bearii g the party Df distlt.gulbhed ? ducat ors arrived-in the city over the Seaboar ! several hours late. The cause of tho delay was cong-sted tratlic on tue Pennsyi vania read and ail the way down fron, Richmond time was made up. The ' special was mot at tue North Carolina ilue by a party of Ucl imbiaos, includ ing State Superintendent of Educa tion O. B. Mai tin, Mayor T. II Gibbs, City Supeilutendeuii E. S. Dr-j her, Commissioner of Immigration E J. Watson, Mr. W. E G -i Zilts, ed i toi of The State; Mr. .J. Mt Manari, M> T. S. Bryan, i'iof. G. A. Wauchope and Pr?f. Pattersun Wardlaw. Tue party NHS met at tue d< pit b\ the local memb .rsof the r. oepticn committee; ana w.-.s ca-ried at once t> the homes. Mr. Oi3o*iii and bis part] were taken to Wright's hotel. Tims, in the family party weie: Mr. Roberto. Ogden, It M. Ogden, J. E. Onamcerliu, ll. P. Wango, Ur. Wallace KuutericK, Mr. aod Mrs. F.CJ T. Gates, Dr. J. nes E Russell, all ol New York; John Wilbur, of Haiti more; Mrs. C. W. Me, ot Brooklyn. The lest of the party with their resideuc :s are a foll >w>: Mrs. Robert Aube, New York, N. Y., Mrs. W. C. W ig.it. Mr. and Mr.-, Ernest Hamlin Ab bott, New York; Mrs. Joi.n T. "-1 ian. Rsv. and Mrs. W. C. bitting. Now York; Howard Caldwell. Mr. ar.d Mrs. riicpi.en H.ker, N.w York, N. Y.; Howard Caldwell. Mr. J din Graham Brooks, Cam bridge, Mas .; Dr. .1. W. Bi ie oe K. Rev. and Mis. J. N. Blanchard, Boston, Mass.; Judge A. C. Hask ll. Mr. ano Mr-. II. Bishop, New York, N. V.; Mr,. V\ . V Witsch. Rsv. ana Mrs. S. N. Grottier, Cam , bridge, Mass.; O lumbla hotel. Miss Natalie C otis, New York, N. Y.; Mrs. W. C. Wright. Mr. Edward ll Clement. Boston, Mass.; Dr. lt. A. Lancast r. Dr. Julius lo. Drehor, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. K. H. Walch. Mrs. L. R. Dashiell, Richmond, Va., Mrs. It. W. Ci: !.. s. Dr. ElwardT. Devine, New York N. Y.; Mr. W H. fowriv nd. Dr. und Mrs. A. S. Draper, Albany, N. Y.; Mrs. li. C. HuOglns. Mr. John Emlln, New Yolk, N. Y : Dr. J. Wm. F i n. Dr. Roheit Frisen Washington, D. C.; Colum .ia lintel.^ Mr. A. S. F lss. H, New V rk, N. Y.; Mrs. A. C. Mob.e. Rev. ?ind Mr.. II. B. Prlssell, Dr. A. C. Oiborne. R.v. and Mrs.-Paul R. Kr .t hing ham, Boston, Mats ; Mrs. Gultat Syl van Mr. ar.d Mrs. Anderson Fowler, New York, N. V ; Mrs. W. L. Ai tour Mr. ano M.s. Henry W. Earn am, New Haven, Cnn.; M s. E. W. ll ?b ertson. Mis James W. II ziel ors', New York, N V.; Wrlgh s t?o el. Miss M. W. Hunlin ton, Now York, N. Y.: Jurigti A. C. li isrie.l. Mrs. Arehibild ll ipklns, Washing ton, I). C ; Columbia hotel. Mrs. Caa*. B II wi b, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Miss E. E. M Clint ok. Ml s II ?wi! t, Brooklyn, N. V.; Miss E. E. Mcclintock. Mr. W. H. ih< k, Nev York, N. Y.; Mr. E. il. Taylor. RJV. and Mrs. A. B. Kiasolvlng Brookln, N. Y.; Mrs. J. A. Mectzo. Mr. Dwight Kellogg, New York, N. Y,; Mrs. C. L. Baker. lion, and Mrs. Seth Low, Ne* York, N. Y.; Maj. BonJ. Sloan. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond Lamont, New York, N. Y ; Mrs. AuguBt Kohn. Miss Morris, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Co 'umbla hotel. MM. B. B. Munford, Richmond, Va ; Mrs. R. W. Gibbes. Miss Ellen Mason, Boston Mass.; Mrs. A. G. Morris. Miss lia Mason, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. A. G. Morris. Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Macy, New York, N. Y ; Mrs. J. M. VanMetre. Dr. and Mrs. E. K. Mitchell, Hart ford, Conn.; Mn. D. W. Robinson. Mr?. A. J. Montague, Richmond Va ; M ra. A H. Jeter. ? Dr. and Mrs. S. C. Mitchell, Rich mond, Va.; Mrs. J. A. Willis. Mr. and Mrs. W. U. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.; Dr. B. W. Taylor. M ss L. P. M-Coy, New York, N. Y. ; Wright's hotel. Dr. and Mrs St. Claire McKelway, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mrs. S. L. Miller. Rev. W. N. McVicker, Provldenco, R. I ; Wright's hotel. Miss Nott, Washington, D. C.; Co lumbia hotel. Mr. Geo. F. Peabody, New York, N. Y.-r Mrs G. Li Baker. Mrs. R T. Paine, Boston, Mass.; Mis. R. W. Shand. Rev. Geo. L. Paine, Dorchester, Mass ; Mrs. R. W. Shand. | Dr. L. S Rowe, Philadelphia, Pa ; MTS. A. G. Morris. M ?ss Lydia Redmond, New York, | N Y ; Judge A. C. Haskell. ? Mrs. John R. Saunders. Riohmond, | Va.; Mrs. A. H. Jeter. M s. Geo. F. Seward, New York, | N Y.; Wright's hotel. j M'ss Anna L. Seward, New York, j N. Y.; Wright's hotel. ! Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Schmeltz, ] Hampton, Va.; Columbia, hotel. 1 Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Thorp, Cam- i bridge, Ma-s. ; Mrs. F. H. Weston. 1 Miss Mary Lamar Turpin, Philadel phia, Pa ; E! M. Brayton. Mr. Willie D. Wood, New York, N. Y ; Mrs. John J. Selhels. Mr. James Wood New York, N. Y.; Mr. E. B. Taylor. ' Miss Wcod, New York, N. Y.; Co 1 lumbia hotel. Mr. and Mrs.. Howard O. Wood, f New Yo-k, N. Y. ; Mrs. S. L. Miller. 1 Mrs. Wt.llam Potter Wilson, Phila- ( lelphia, Pi.; E. M. Brayton. . RU--HING WORK ON CANAL. Bight Thousand Mon Now Employed ; on the BI?- Dltoh. j Speaking of the actual physical ; york of building the Panama canal, i Mr. John F. Wallace, chief engineer c "f the Panama commission, hald l Wednesday at Cl i:ago that an or- i ganlzation bad already been formed \ I'mbodylng a total of 8,000 men. O lois numher practically fi,OOO men are ; g.-.god in equipment and construe f tioo work, and 2,000 men are engaged in policing the c mal zene and in saul tary work, and in cleaning up the ? isthmus. This organization will be rapidly increased, and has been in creasing at the rate from 800 to 1,000 ? men a month. Of the total number of men em ploy cl about 10 per cent, are high L( men from thc United Stat s and tue j rest ar.: mechanics, artisans aud labor t rs that have been brought fr?.?m the c nearby South American and Central t American coasts, and from the West j. lud?an islands. There ls a demand L for men expert in the mechanical J r..des; for instance, steam shovel t men, draughtsmen, railway track . foresten, eng'nemen, carpenters, t ?killed in he tvv timber work and in j the construe i >n of dre ?gos and bridges. " Ln addition to thc repair of the reside; ces ?b ut ii,400 that were con struct d by the -French, eight three story hotels are 'e ng constructed at various centers of population, tuc pur- ?j pose being the accommodation, princi *T p;t!ly of the unmarried American men J eng.-.ged in the work. Two of the * hotels are completed. Materiil has 1 bean ordered and arrangements made " for thc remaining six. The h .t ls are J provided with bath rooms and all ' modern nece-isary hotel appliances *j Up to date seven American steam f shovels have been installed, and ten ? more arc on the isthmus in course of c ereetion, or are on tho way there, and r 24 additional shovelers have been asked for from thc commission. Shou'd ic be decided to change the cinal to sea level Mr. Wallace said lt had been estimate! that 14 miles of summit cut will he necessary, and that this would ri quire 100 steam shovels, ab ut 300 engines and train crews and 15 OOO damp cars. The service would necessitite four double track railways for lhn. removal of ma terial, which would have to be hauled 15 miles on an average. Approximate ly :h">0 mik s nf construction track will bc necessary._ bashed to Death. Ten miners were Instantly crushed to deatli Wednesday and terribly mangltd at the Conyngham minc of the delaware and Hudson Company In the northern narr, of Wilkesbarre, Pa; Tile men were being lowered into thc mine and when ?150 from the sur face a rope broke and the cage fell .our hundred feet to the bottom of the shaft. A rescuing party found be bodies of the men at the bottom beneath a mass os debris. ??-.r-.-?hlc Accident. At Columbia, Friday morning, vvhne at work in Tue State's pre s room where a now press ls going up, James Pearson, a negro laborer, wa3 decapitated iu a strange and very sud iden manner. A heavy chain, hung over a piccd pf running shafting, caught in a set screw above, and in bis clothing below and by the time his bo.ly was even with tho shafting tue chain was about his neck. B. f ire any one could start to throw the meter s viLcii his head was torn olT and tossed oin; way and ills body thrown the other. _ I*, cunar Aooltlxiit. At Charleston a vero'ct of acciden tal death was rendered by the coro ner's jury in the case of Rubin John son, who wis killed at tue Standard Fertilizer works. A larg.? cake of fer tilizer fell upon the man's back a few days ago, injuring his spine, which finally caused lils death. Tue cake weighed about 300 pounds. And Stole One and a Half Mil. lion Dollars from A MILWAUKEE BANK, Of Which He Was President, is the Un enviable Record Made by Frank Q. Begilow, a Society Lead* er and Financier of the Middle West. Toe greatest sensation in banking circles In decades followod the an nouncement late Monday afternoon of last week of the arrest of President Frank G. B'gelow of the First Na tional Bauk of Milwaukee, and until last Fall president cf thc American Bankers' Association, charged with having defaulted with $1,500,000 of the funds of his batik. His entire for tune and a large part of the bank funds bad been lost in the collapse ot the Oates wheat pool. Overnight hb iia& been plunged from the highest po ii tl' n attainable in the esteem of his Fellow-hankers, who had honored him with leadership In their national or ganization, to th*> deepest degradation, involving iinprb.onmet, lo s of the ?reat wealth he had amassed, and the ' ?nanclal and ttooial ruin of bli fami ly. Until his fall he and his family bad held a leading placo, not only in the rrost exclusive circles of Milwau kee, but throughout thc Middle West. 1 HOPELESSLY RUINED. Mr. Bigelow was noted for his high | regatd for the business maxims of , Benjamin Franklin, and bince his , iownfall financiers In that city have | pointed cut that ene of his favorite | mutations from Franklin was the ( tame as that which adorned tho let- j :er-heads of the notorious 520 per \ ?eut Franklin Syndicale: "Tue way to wealth is as plain as | ihe road to market." , His ruin is complete and hopeless. , ile has returned 8300,000, all thc \ noney In. his pos-e.-sion, but the ? tmount of the defalcation ls still , tbove 81,200,000, with no prospect \ itiat thia amount can he lessened In t my way. Tho directors of the bank ?ave pledged themselves to fortify the ;ri;fiitof the Institution with Si,?35, 100, replach g the stolen funds, but. 1 ,his act ion was not su ttl ?lent to pre- c rent a run on the bink, i SON'S FUTURE HLASTED. The disgrace i f the banker has af- J Coted his son Gonion Bigelow, who r vas forced to retire from the broker- j .ge firm of Tracy & Company, with iftlocs In Chicago and Nvw York. Th; llssolution of the partnership was an touueed within un hour after the de alcatlon of the. elder Bigelow wa earned. Mr. Bigelow was arrested ' donday afternoon In Milwaukee, and he arrest is momentarily expected of ! Ieury G. G?ll, assistant cashlc r of 5 ,he bank, who has been removed, barged with having been a party to ' he falsillcatlon of the bo ks of the t ?auk. A warrant has ut.eii issued for tis arrest, based upon a complaint Irawn by United Starrs Dlstrict-At ortiey Butterfield charging him, with Hgelow, with the einb zzlement of be iiank's funds in an am uni ea caed , ng $100,00'.), but he has lied, leaving jj to trace. Subpoenas lias al io been is ued for four ot t'ie hana's directors. CHICAGO SENDS AID. At 1 o'ca-cx in tue af toi 110311 a mil ion and a half dollars had been sent o the Milwaukee institution by the 1 ;anks of Chicago, and at t hat hour : 0 II. Hamid, of the Corn Fx marge c ?rational Bank; James D. F.igiu, of \ he First National Bank of Cuicago, I .nd Orson Smith, of the Merchants' ? joan & Trust Company Bank, all lead- r ng financiers of Otiicago, wero In con- ; ultatlon with the directors of the t Tirst National of Milwaukee. They s igreod to render every ail possible in i ?becking a panioamong the depositors, r ind hope to restore perfect contidence. i The effect of the announcement of t 'resident Bigelow's d?falcation could t lot be minimized, however, and a run I ?egan oa the bank, which s ion be- 1 :atnc threatening. At 3 o'clock, when j ,he hank's doors closed, more than two I ihousand persons had leathered in tue 1 ?treels walling to withdraw their de 1 posits. ( ONE MILLION DltAWN Ot!T. ' By that time more than a million 1 lollara had been paid out. One of toe ir.st callers was a business man who presented a check for $100 OOO, repre- | tenting lils entire account. He was rollo wed by the City Treasurer, who Jrew out 83110,000 of city funds, and withdrawals in sun.s from $1,000 to ?10.0U0 quickly followed. The Cham Der of Commerce was one of the lir.it concerns to withdraw Its funds. By bhree o'clock there was a line in front jf the bank extending fur several blocks. Many business men showid their confidence In tho bank by miking de posits while the run was < n, however, ir d while no payments could ba made ifier closing ut ms, deposits equld be received, and In onLr to ta. e advan tage of this unique condition, a hole was cut through ttie Wisconsin street front and deposits were received in that way, after the doors of th hank had been closed, until a late hour Mon day evening. A thal of twenty police men handled thu crowd. BIGELOW FOUND AT Ills HOME. Mr.^Blgolow was found i ii bis library with bis wife when the Federal M ir^ shal called to serve the i.arrant tipo-.i him. ' I'll be r- ad y t ? no with you at once," ho said, and af ter kissing his wife and Lidding her an air.ict'.onable farewell left, with the i 111 ter. Mr. Big elow was taken before United Status Commissioner Bloodgood and ball fix ed at v25,O0O, which had not been fur nished at a late hour. He his broken down completely and was a nervous wreck when he was arraigned. UP. had passed through a frig itful ordeal. It ls now learned that his confession t f his embi.zzlemcnt was ma ie at a spec lal meeting of thc directora called Sa., urday evening and which lasted thirty six hours, being prolonged through the night and all day Sunday. CONFESSED TO HIS KUIN. Mr. Blglow was shaken and so nervous wt en he rose to address the directors on Saturday evening that he could not command his voice for sev eral minutes, and graduaPy, through tho members of the directory, spread a feeling of fear and aprrehenslon as they noted his ashen pallor and trem bling limbs. Before he spoke they knew that a crushing blow was about to fall upon the Institution. "Gentlemen," he said at last, "I have a painful statement to make the confession that I have misdirected the funds cr this bank and that an examination of the books? and a com parison of the figures, will show that I am indebted to this institution for moro than 81,450,00. The money has been lost in wheat and stocks. Not a penny of this can be recovered, and I have to offer toward compensat ing the bank are personal securities valued at 8300,000." This confession came upon the directors Uko a thunderbolt. They had apprehended some vague misfor tune, but the announcement that the bank's funds had been drawn upon to th# extent admitted by President Bigelow, was of a character almost be yond comprehension. It was later learned that the total amount would reach a round million and a half, and from that time on the board of direc tors devoted themselves to the gigan tic task of attempting to deal with the condition confronting them. INSISTED ON rUNISUMENT. After thirty-six hours of delibera tion they had reached but one con clusion, and that the necessity for pledging Individual amounts which would more than cover the defalca tion. One of the suggestions made was that the interests of the bank be protected by yermlttlug the president to resign and go to Europe, while the JI rectors made good the amount of the embezzlement, but this proposal met the sturdy opposition of other II rectors who Insisted upon tho pun shment of the defaulter. The above s a sad story. If lt involved the juilty party alone it would not be so lad, but lt involves innocent men and ?omen, the family of tho defaulter. The way of the trancgressor is indeed lard. B'gelow went to bed one night .espected and woke up next morning with the pmspeot of years to be spent n prison, and with that knowledge ;hat.his family will be left penniless when the sacrifices they contemplate mve been made. All because he gambled in wheat and stocks. 11 null to Si'.O Hull Fight. The Spanish Council ot State hav ng authorized the resump: lon of Sun lay bull Ugh ring, on the ground that t ls an art, and that tire matadors, ioreadors, etc., are artists, the natlon il sport was everywhere resumed Sun iay with extraordinary ^eothuslssm. z The occasion was celebrated at Mad Id with a corrida, In which six bulls vere announced to be killed by Loja ita and Mazzantlnito. There was tn enormous demand for tickets, which finally reached incredible irlces. Mai y poor perdons sold their tlothes and furniture to obtain the irlce of admission. Tweuty thousand i; opie crowded the bull ring, and ?0,000, who were unable to enter, teiod outside to listen to the shout* md bsllowlngs. The cuutests lasted wo and one half hours. Six bulls and deven horses were killed. Mazzanti llto, who hitherto had been merely a l'jvillero, acquitted himself with doh skill that he was proclaimed a natacior by his admirers, who carried lim on their shoulders in the arena imid a shower of cigars, fans, and ither tokens of approval. Saved a lilack Ki unit. Speeding frcm an angry mob of 400 viii! e people at Mount Vernon, Ohio, rVcdne;;day, Deputy Sher tl James C. 3bellenba?ger, in au automobile, res ;ued George Copeland, a negro youth, vho had been tracked home hy blooo io linds and arrested on a charge of issaultlrg and murdering Miss Ml anda Bricker, a white woman, aged >5 years. As sxm as word got oui ,hat thc negro had been placed In jail i moo quickly gathered. Tue cower ng and frightened negro was dis ruised by a big overcoat and placed n the bottom of an automobile. One if the sherill's deputies jumped in ind a record run was made to Canter jurg, 12 miles away. There Cope ard was placed lu jail under heavi ,'uard, awaiting the arrival of a train or Columbus. Deputy Sheriff Gra ?am arrived In Columbus with Cope and and the negro was taken to tht .ounty jill. Graham says that Cope and would have been lynched had ht! aot gotten him out of town. A Family Drowned. Elward Axs n, his wife and little ?on were drowned in the Edawah Uiver, near Canton, Gi., on Wedn-s 1 ly. Mr Axson was taking his wlfi iud child for a drive, when the hors' became unruly. Ile reared for som? time and then ran away. The horsi ture through the country at breakneck J paed, Mrs Axs n and her child screaming wildly, and Mr. Axson try ing his utmi st lo slack the speed o the runaway animal. As the horse reached the bridge tbat spans the Etawub river, lt darted to one side then j imped straight Into the stream ,vnd before assistance could be secured toe whole family w s drowned. Tr bodies were dredged out of the stream Mr. Axson is a grandson of R;iv. D; Ax-ion of Savannah. Mr Axs m formerly fron Bos'on. The ilttl boy vhc was drowned was tho only oui of the couple. iii jim Spoke. At Jacksonville, Fla., Memorial Dav was obs rved YVedmsday by a pa ratio of the Confab r.tc Veterans Sous of Veterans, local mill arv, po lice and sebo 1 cbll lr- n. The Cen f derate monument in Hemming Park and th . gr ;ves In the eeim tories wc decorated willi Howers. The parad formed in front of tho city hall and ma:che i to thc city cemetery, whe an el qent address was delivered by W. J. Brian._ Burned 150 Alon tn Death. The Br.tish steamer Yen Wo was totally d.stroyed by lire at Tunohon Wedneday night, lt ls fearc i 150 Chinese who wore aboard tho lust their livu in tho flames. Prominent Men Charged With thc Killing of Morrison. SENSATION SPRUNG. __________ Many Prominent Citizens of the Town of Kershaw and of Lancaster Charged With the Lynching of Morrison at Kershaw Last October. ? special dispatch from Lancaster bo Th| State says greatly to the sur prise vf all this section several arrests have been made in the case of the lynching which occured at Kershaw, Lhl3 county, last Ootober. The men arrested are the most prominent and nfluential men of Lancaster county. They "Ure: John T. Stevens, manager of the Kershaw Merobantile & Banking Co. Stewart W. Heath, president and nanager of the Heath Supply com pany.. S. W. Weloh, also with the neath supply company and son of the mayor >f Kershaw. Frank Hough, a beer dispenser and nemcer of a prominent family. vTho arrests of the above were made n Chester, where the men had gone in business. Warrants are also out for the fol owlng cliizens of Kershaw: S. L. Jardner, Jr., Burwell Truesdale, lenry J. Gardner, John Holden, Wm. Croxton, Sr., W. E. Belk, Tom Jones, . W. Austin, and others. It ls un lerstood that there are 40 warrants n all,, 16 of the men accused living in be town of Kershaw and the others n the country. Two other white non and a negro are already in Jail on his oharge. Tbe warrants chirg? he parties with complicity in the niching of Morrison at Kershaw in )jtober. Tho warrants were sworn out be ore Magistrate W. P. Caskey several ays ago by H. B. Howie, a Bpeclal elective. The four men named bovo had no notice of the intended rrest, it ls stated, and had gone to theater on persoual business wben the farrants were served. All the par ies against whom warrants have been aken out will be on hand at the pre minvx whloh will be held by Magis rate Oa'skey Friday morning at this 100 lace Io is understood that the elsi-1 D5 f- * M e t<nvr--Kr^hzrri will HUK %nu -^umitas and charter a ope?la, rain and take all who wish to go free D Lancaster to attend the hearing, 'hore is great confidence among the eople of Kershaw that the oharges dil amount to nothing and that tbe ttlzens will soon be at liberty, al though it is intimated in some quar urs that one of the number has tam il State's evidence. The case has been rorked up by Detective Howie and 7. H. Newbold of Chester. There re a large number of atlldavits upon rhich the arrests were made. -THE LYNCHING OF MO1UUS0N. John T. Morrison was lynched on be night of October 2nd, 1904, in lancaster county, near the Kershaw ounty line, four hours af .er be had tiled Will Floyed, another white ian. Floyd was Morrison's fourth ictim. Morrison met Fioyd on the fternoonof the killing and asked him Dr the loan of 10 cents. Floyd told lm he did not have any change, thereupon Morrlsou shot him twice, ne shot taking ell'oct in the right Ide of Floyd's back and tho other triking his arm, breaking it. Morrl an is said to have told Jim Robinson bat he intended to kill Fioyd and his statement was corroborated later y Morrison, who said before being anged that he did not want or need he 10 cents, but asked for it from an nemy in order to raise a fuss with 'loyd, whom he had for three or four eats intended to kill on an old rudge. Tho governor used every possible aoans to prevent Morrison from being ynohed, sending Sheriff Uuuter and eputies from Lancaster tc Kurshaw n a special train, and another special rom Camden bearing a company of .tate militia, was also ordered to th cene but to no avail. The sherill van too late. Just as his train rolled nto the town, tho mob, which han lathered about the guard house, took the prisoner therefrom and dispatched dm to the woods, where he was l rung up with buggy traces and shoi everal times. The murdered man was the ion ol iJbort S. Floyd, a suostantlal citizen iving near Kershaw. Ile was marri?.o md a farmer and was said tu be au xcepticnilly tine young fellow, high y thought of. So great wa? Min in lignation over the murder of iTloyei .nat no lot in Kershaw could bi )ought to bury Morrlsjn and his ho y vas interred in the pauper's plot. THE CASU DISMISSED. The eas :s ag .lust defendants arrost :d in connection wltu the Kershaw ynohing wen; dismissed b, Maglsira e J isky at Lancaster on Friday. The i ilicitor afterward* wlthdrcsv the pros jcuth n of all others for whom war ants had been issued. Thc motion of ,iic solicitor for ttie continuance of S ic preliminary to next Wednesday o. ihe ground that he was not ready wa ir t argued and refused Ne //bold and ?lowie, detectives, wereo&llcd, tmteli? ot appear. The d fendants attonn.\s hen made a motion to dismiss, foi ?ni runs II, Urst, that the state f ii ; io produce any testimony whatever; tecond becuise the warrants on which ne defendants were arrested wen ?.vorn cut ; ofore the magistrate ano dgne I by him while beyond his Juris diction in Chesterco int.?. Thc motion ?rasgranted. E. D. Blakcuey, Williams ic Williams, and C. D. Jones repro jenttd tile defendants. Ev^r/thin*. vas quiet and orderly, there being no lemonstrat oa whatovnr. The coun louse was crowded, there hiing not aven standing "room at the door and in tho aisle. it o fi t 1 ri n <1 d t P P fi P t 1 e b c P a a P 1 p b? ci ll t] 3, di hi tl id tl ai ISl fe P< w icc G la gi lt T I ce ar es of 2? ic of ov er ce be su wt th i-w! leo Ai at wi 51 as cn to ar 41 L\ Ti th to ol co wi cr th ia St of 40 wi li! to ri ti ar p.c th tt ce tl ?U nt ta w T m ri 14 gi tc lt nt er 1 I i at THE COTTON CHOP. 7inal Government Report on the Fro duct ot Last Season. louth Carolin? Increased Its Pro auction Over Proceeding Year hy Nearly 40 per Cent. The bureau of the census has just jsued the final report on the cotton rop grown in 1004. Tho statistics jr toorare accompanied by compara ive statistics for the crops of 1900, 901, 1002 and 1903. Six preliminar} sports were issued during the gin' lng season of 1904-6, showing thc uantlty of cotton ginned to specifier! ates. The final report aggregates he quantities included in each of thc .rel I Hilliary statements, and com iletes the sixth consecutive crop yeal or which cotton reports have beer ublfshed by the census bureau. The crop of 1004, as returned bj he gluners, and including linters, !G 3,584,457 bales, of 500 pounds. It xceeds the crop of 1903 by 3,491,38( ales, or 35.4 per ceub. Tho largest rop produced in the United Staten rlor to 1904 was that of 1898, which, ccording to commercial returns, mounted to 11,235,000 bale3 or 15.fi er cont, less than ths crop of 1904 'he average crop for the five year erlod ending with 1903 was 9,892,047 ales, or 25.9 per ctnt. less than the rop of 1004. Among the cotton producing States exas has held the first rank for twen j years. Its production in 1904 was ,134,077 bales. Georgia, with a pro uction of 1,900 151 bales, was second, aving passed Mississippi, which held ie second rank in 1903. Mississippi third and Alabama fourth. With ie exception of Kansas, Arkansa-', id Texas, all the cotton producing tates show larger crops for 1904 than ir any other year in which thene re irts have been 's med. Thc States inch show the most notable increases impared with 10Q3 are Alabama, eurgia, and South Carolina, tie rgest increase being found lu Gepr a, where the crop exceeded that of 103 hy 012,330 bales, or 48 3 percent, he increase In Alabama is 40 5 per nt, in South Carolina 45 7 per caut, id in Texas 27 per cent. The larg temp ever grown In Texai was that 1900, when the State produced 18,870 bales more than in 1904. Tnc creasa tn the combined production Oklahoma and Indian Territory -er 1903 is 72 por cent. The nun-bar of lo^al cotton welgh s who reported to the bureau of the nsus was 1,372. Much care has ?eu tak.'.u by tue bureau of Vie c^n s to secure accurate average hale sights, and the returns have been nipan d with computations made ' Mr. Henry G. Hester, seoretary of o New Orleans^ Cotton Exchange, bo coinpiu d tba .. .rage', weight of mmercial halos, marketed between ?gust 31, 1904, and March 1, 1905, 519 87 pounds, while , the average sight of the bale exported was 6.90. The adoption of thc aver ies compiled by Mr. Hester would of urse result in some variation in the tal number of hales produced. The sea island cottnn crop of 1904 counted to 104,317 hales, equal to ,180,434 gross pounds, an Increase er the crop of 1903 of 44 3 per?ant, his increase is distributed b:tween iree Stat, s which produce tnis cot n-Fir rida, Gaorgia and Sjuth Cir lna. The av :rage crop of sea island tton for the five-year period ending Ith 1?U3 wa3 34 120 844 pouud3. The op of 1994 1s 20.7 per cant greater tan the ?i?o-year av ?rage, and is che rg:\st crop ever grown ia th i Onlted are-*, the next, larges . b;ing the crop 1902, when the production reached 1,413,053 pounds. Thc to:al number of establ'shmeuts hieb ginned some part of thecropof 103 was 30,337, or 92 3 per cent of the tal numuer of gluneries reported, ri ree Skates reported ovar 4 000 ac ve ginneries-Georgia, Mississippi id Texas. The total nuruber or the ;tive ginneries in the Statis men jned was 13,480, or 44.4 per cent of :e total, arni they ginned 50 8 per nt of the total cotton production in ie United States for 1904. The ce? ?s figures sho.v that tho average imber of hales ginned hy act.vj es .blishmcnts was 445, compared ith 338 in 1903, and 358 In 1902. ne cotton ginning Industry is much ore developed west i f the Mississippi ver than cast Of it. Texas, with 1 0 per cent of the number of c t;ou nnerii s, ginned 23 5 p r cent of thc ?tal proiuot, while Giorgia, with J.4 per cent of thc toial ao Jve gin irits ginned bu;. 14.1 per CJIH,. Th op of 1904 was ginned In 830 couu es In sixteen States Of tnesecouo cs 739 w. r.' canvas ed by 0(57 1 cal (enta ot the cou>.u-. nun au, and 99 5 r cent of the total crop .f 1904 wa nned In the territory thus canvass? d. lnet>one counties wera canvass .'; f mail, and lu these were 1 catecl iA active ginneries, which ginned ut one-half of 1 per c nt of the cr ip. tic average ( ate of ti e completion ol ie final Cinv.iss was M ireh 10, 1905. The six preliminary n p uts of the uantity of colt-.n ginned, Issu d b> io bu eau of the census during the ast henson, cover tue quantity of out in ginned to September l, Ojtobei 8, November 14, and D.-.cember 13, 904, and January 10, 1905 Tnt nal report now Issued in Bulletin lt revins tho total quantity gluneti urln>; I r.e seas n. A f at ir? of much interest discuss ri in thin bUllulip ls the growth ol o c > \on si o I 'n :u-try, luiicated in tie iupplt m i'ntal r' port, of tho hnt II reduct ol tho cotton iee! oil mills. Vie unmh r <f these nulls has lu reased from 357 in 1900 ta 715 in 9J4, an ir ero s- of 100 per cent. Tue bulletin just issutd comprises 2 pages of text a:id tables, In ad lt ion to w lion aro pr s h od outline i vps of each of tb principal c ntou roduciug Stitos up m which the crop f 1901 la h i n h c< o tl s. tViui'Uc.roU ?ii? av no. At Q i n y, Mass., Albert T. Spar o, ag? d 3d, son of Councilman Spar o, .ol a'id Instantly killed his wife Elizabeth, Thursday morn.ng anc nen put a bullet through his owe icad with fat?) re-.ult at South Quin y. Jealousy between the couple ii aid to have caused tho shooting. DUNGEON HOB?OES. Kow York Man Cast ia Guatemalan Frison for Six Weeks Describes Terrible Experience*- qt Prisoners. Some Were Flogged to Deatb by His Bide. The following strange story was told to an American and Journal re porter by Harry Coleman, a locomo tive engineer, of No. 3062 Park ave nue, ot bis experience in a Guatema lan prison, where Joseph Darling, an attorney, is now being held for con tempt. Coleman told how he wa9 arrested at the point cf the bayonet for no other reason than that he had broken a contract; how for forty-five days be lay in a dungeon, where be w?s the daily wltneos of prisoners being flogg ed to deatb; and of bow in the end he and a comrade escaped from the coun try after terrible hardship by cutting the telegraph wires to prevent their recapture by the native? constabulary The story told by him ?3 as follows "My only reason for telling this story ls In the hope that something may be done for two fellow Ameri cans. Oae is Darling, the other a man named Hamilton, who has al ready been eighteen months in thr G int?rnala prison without trial and ls dying of consumption. "I can prove what I say through at least six United States Ministers wtv> aided mc and my friend to come back to this country after our escape. "I w?mt to Guatemala Octob?r 3, 1902, under a two-year contiaot with the Guatemala Central Railroad Company. I was encaged to 'run' between Guatemala, Mazzatanago and E-cuiuntla. "Asnear as I can remember itl I was arrested February 25, 1004. I bad become dissatisfied with thc manner in which the railroad com pany was carrying out, its part of the agreement, and i ceded tb leave the c mtry. I was met at the San Jo e shipping station, 75 milts from Gua temala, and marched back to the train I had left a few m meuts before at the point of the bayonet. When I arrived In Guatemala I wa* marched to prison aud thrown into i a filthy cell. 1 was not given a trial, nor informed of the charge against cue, and every effort on my part t communicate with Godfrey Hunter, the'American Com ul, met with de I rlsion. For forty-five days I remain erl there. "The Guatemala prison la a hugf affair, and when I was there abou; 1,200 prisoners wera in the place. 1 and a man man named I ham il ton were the only white men; the rest wen natives. Oar food consisted of rav corn mashed into a pulp and beans.., "r*ic?ej?iV ?ar.7-l???n'-n-.-.";i :. i - tv . ' death/ There are two reservoirs at each end of the prison courtyard and the prisoners were forced to run from one tank .to the other, carrying bucket of water in each hand. A picked number of strong men stoot; at short intervals al--cg the line ol sa'srttat.and they.flogged the prison era with wiApaas they ran by. Som" times they were gtten as much as 200 lasbe*. At one time T w?w six moD dead in thc hospital. "I finally obtained my freedom b> smuggling a letter to the president cf the railroad company, telling him 1 ould finish out my contract. "As to m as I got out, in comparr 1th a friend, who was also in thi mploy of thc railroad, I hired pa?r ul os and secretly left the city at 3 clock the next morning. 1 bari taken the engine out i n one run just as a blind. "For eleven days we walked through the mountainous country, cutting the legranh wires as wo went. Af tm untold hardship we reached the bor der of San Salvadora, where, aftei ? Imming the river we knew we wen lie. Toe next day we reached Aca j? tia In each large city we came ti we obtained aid from the American consul and letters of itroduotion ti ie next one. From San Saivadurt we went to Port Limon, from theret Kingston, Ja:uaica, in the West In ies, and finally to Sautiago, Cuba and navana, in which last place Cm ul G jorge Sp'inger give us clothe: and f. od ana t>ent us to New York. "I hop3 somet dig may be dme fo poor Hamilton, who was only guihi A running over a w; mao acoideutly.' Dies on Duty. In a fire alarm cn the East Side New York City, Wednesday nig> t j^ng Battalion Chief Wieland wa k 1 ed, and one en ! of the block ot I Grand O cuard and Allen streets wa iutted, causing a 1 ss estimated at about 8200,000. Toe fire was mulei I control and Wieland was ascending ; lad er on the Grar.d street sice whet lt slipped and he was plunged throug' a pl ita glass window. Ile was removcv [ to a hospital, where hn died; Wherti Hi. ek (aime In. George Blac&'s tine team of sorrels run away Wednesday morning) say.* an exohai g?. One ot the horses worth 8250, was badly injured, wear, sorry to stat.; thc Dew buggy, valiie at 8150, w?s smashed to pieces; tia nartie.is was broken In several places, and lt \s to he regretted that a lin dog belonging to Mart Simp on wau run over and liuro by t e team. Black was killed in thc runaway. Arrested tor Mobb Violence, P. H. Baldwin, a whlto man ol Laureo-i county, has b en arrested on tue charge of b:lt g in the party tba molbsd and killed Abe McDaniel, Ool o~cd, lu his house on Saturday nigot. MoDanU l'a two daughter* swear taat they recognized "Tilm as one of the party. Tho negro was a quiet and thrifty mau aud lived on his owr. property. IlnbhorH Arrested. A gang of five white men were ar rested in a car of lumber in Greenville on Monday, charged with having rob bod tlio residence of Mr. Touchstone at Westminster the night before They gave their names and placos of residence-which was probably ficti tious. They were well dre sod and Intelligent, but had thc looks of north ern toughs. And Man} Injured io a Railroad Wreck at Greenville. THE OGDEN SPECIAL Train Wrecked by Running Into a Freight Train in the City Limits of the City > of Greenville. Luckily None of the Ogden Party Were Killed In the Wreck. "While rounding a curve inside the yard limits of the Southern railroad, at Greenville, and rune lag at the es U mated speed of 50 mil. s an hour, the special Pullman train, bearing Robert G. Ogden and one hundred members of the Southern Oonference for Edu cation, crashed into the rear end of a freight train at 7.65 Saturday morn- " - ing, killing four persons and injuring ? a score of others. N me of Mr. Og den's goes s were killed. TUB DEAD. John McL. Cope of Orangeburg, baggage master. J. S. Haynes, colored, Pullman em ploye. Jonn Little, colorei, Pullman em ploye. W. W. Cummings, colored, Pullman employe. TUE INJURED. Dr. H. W. Farn am of Yale unlver -ity, left arm broken, leg injured, ser ious shock. Mrs. Farnam, painful cut over left 3ye and nervju ; shock. t Mrs. J. G. Thorp-? of Boston, face cut on right sirle, bevjre bruises. Dr. Julius D. Dreher of Selwood, former president of Roanoke college, facial wounds and legs bruised. Mr. Robert M. Ogden, sioretary to Mr. O^'den, H?gers on right hand oroken; ugly wound ever right eye. W. C., Kershaw, chief electrician, badly injured, internal. James Hunter, engin .er on special, leg ind aim broken. Baggagemaster J-. S. Downes, New York, facial abrasions. William Maxwell, Columbia, right land painfully gashed. Conductor Edward Acker, Colum ba, facial abrasions and cuts. J. W. McCoy, tourist agent of Penn sylvania railway, bruises ontop and tide ol head. Conduotor of St. James dining oar, contusions on head. And the following colored employes i" the Pullman Oar company: S. T. 5VYW. Walker, W. Mic&enfl"aiiffA.^bot ilolntyre. The combination, baggage and dub car and two diners, together vi th the locomotive and a freight oar, vere piled into a heap and In an in tan t Ure broke out In the cooking end if the diners. Dr. McKelway, Prof. Tarnam, Mrs. Farnam, Mrs. fhorpe, Dr. Dreher and Robert M. Jgden were eating breakfast In the econd diner, which was torn to ileces. Tue door collapsed and the passw-gers were picked up from the track ~ _ The seven sleeprrrg <*.ars behind the liners were left lutact, bun. ?he shock prui g many locks, imprisoning the occupants. Seth L iw and Mrs. ?JQW. Bishop MeYlokar and others were r?s>~ ucl when the doois were smashed jpen with axes. The passengers in he St James were quickly removed, jut the three ojlored men could not be saved. They breathed the ilamis ind died. . When he saw that the crash could not b ; averted, Eaglneer Hunter, of he Ogd< n train, applied the emer gency brakes and jumped. Practically Ul of the baggage, said to ba valued it $12,000, was desi-ro,ed. Io is claim ed that a misunderstanding of orders ed to the accident. The northbound passenger tra-n to New York had >rders to take the siding at Paris, a .vay station, four miles north of Green ville. The ire.gut, whica was being nade up here, was on the main line. As a result of the wreck President Ogden aband med his trip to other ?i iuts and the special left Saturday oigut for the EiS'j, Prot Farnam and Aife remaining at Greenville In a .ospltal. Ao the coroner's Inquest Sat ?rday afternoon tue train dispatcher estiried taat orders tu, the t n'e-ct that tie O .cen special would arnveao 7:15 vere died in the y ard master's c iii ;o and later that auottier order was filed i/iat thc sp.ola! wou.d arrive at 7:65. Yardmaster Riser testified that he rt ceiv.d no orders whatever to that i?eet. Tue muter is being Investi gated and an i ir rt will be made to rix the blame for tue wreck. The scene in t ae morgue at the un ertakiug establishment of Mr. J. F. Mackey was oue which horrified news paper men who are accustomed to see tragedy in m?ny sickening forms. There iay poor Cope, wuo, In turning oo give warning to the engineer, tar ried one moment too late and was o.iught under the eugine. There lay Haynes, who died smoking a ciga rette; there lay Cummings and Little, grewsome, fearsome sight, with their arms uprated as if trying to grasp something with which to raise them selves from the horrid death whioh slowly, relentlessly blotted out thel their lives. Engine No. 110 was one of the best in the Florida service, a magnificent pit ea of machinery. After the wreck it was a mass of ruins. The people of Greenville opened their homes to the passengers of the wrecked train, and entertained them wltha generous hos pitality. _; Dtieu in His Doilroom. A largo swarm of bees belonging to R. L. Kline of Bloomsburg, Pa., has remained m his bedroom all winter and not until spring is well advanced will their quarters be removed to the garden. Kline ls an expeit bee eul in rist, and last fall conceived the idea of having the swarm under his eyes all winter. Inside bis bedroom he built a hive, three sides of whloh are ot glass.*"