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The VOL. xxx, 'DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE.' BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. MAY 12,1905. ~~ NO. TO AFRICAN COTTON. Claimed that It Can bc Succ?s . fully Grown There. SOME LARGE CLAIMS. Aa Undertaking Which it Is Said, Shows that Cotton Can Be Grown in Africa as Easily as in This Favored Section of the United States. Direotor of the Mint George E. Roberts has just received a letter from Leigh Hunt, the noted Ameri can capitalist and explorer, who ls engaged in opening up an extensive area in the Soudan to the raising of cotton, In which Mr. Hunt says his experiments in the employment of American negroes In tbe Soudanese cotton fields have been successful. About a year ago, Mr. Hunt took a dozen skilled cotton growers from Tuskegee to Africa for the purpose of testing their value in raising cot ton and his experiment attracted much notice at the time. Hu has de cided now to take over several times as many as in his original experiment. He arrived in New York a few days ago en route to Tuskegee and it was from New York he wrote Mr. Rob erts. Ile expects to reach Washing ton in a short time, on his return from Tuskegee, and as ho and Secre tary Wilson of the department of agriculture are great personal friends, he will doubtless have much to say to the secretary and to the experts In cotton growlug in the department, about the method of cottell raising purhued In the Soudants:: region. Mr. Hunt writes Mr. Rcb?rts not only that he is pleased with the American negroes as < otton growers, but that they themselves are greatly pleased with the climate and sur roundings Into which they have been taken. His object in getting skilled American negroes is nub eutirely on account of their own worth in the growing of cotton, but also to have them teach the Egvptlan natives how to do this work. He will have this in mind in making his selections of the next list of tho. c who arc to ac company him on his return. He de sires to have negroes who have been technically educated in cotton grow ing and he will_avail himself^of tho counsel- oM$6ck~er' "TV 'Washington' in getting men of the right sort. Of this experiment in transporting American negroes to the Soudan, Mr. Hunt says: "Thus far there ls certainly no cause for disappointment. The ne groes in our employ are technically educated men, good workers and their intluence on tue natives is the best. However, lt looks as If the prevailing opinion that the Egyptian fellaheen 'is averse from migrating to the Upper ?ile is wrong If he does take kindly $0 the Soudan, lt meaus that Lord Cromer's dream will lie realized and ~ "the Soudan will become the outlet fur the overtlow of E.; y pt, In which event my colored countrymen must meet a orcoful rival." Mr. Hunt, as the result of the p-'st sears's experience In the Upper Nile country, ls convinced it has great ag rlcultural possibilities. Sugar cane and cotton, he says, are cert aim ies while wheat and barley may ba de pended upon as f?r south as thc Blue Nile. Tobacco is prohibited, although Mr. Hunt thinks the region ideal for tobacco culture. Vegetables do weil, but lt will take time to determine what can be done with fruit ''Our experiments In cotton," Ktys Mr. Hunt, "snow a larger yield per acre then Egypt produces and quality quite up lo tue best Ami rican. He Bldes the Egyptian varieties will do as well as in E.^ypt, if planted early, but early planting involves the question of water at low Nile, which is the problem of thc future Water is ev erything. Tuc railway line connect ing Sheikh Bai glint un the R:d Sea With Darner on ihe Nile will bc com pleted in June, 1900, if no unexpected interruptions occur. Then the door which hitherto has been closed on that great country will swing wide open for the ea of commercial peace, and prosperity, lt is doubtful if the j full me,nun;: of this new chapter in the redemption of tho Soudan is very generally understood." Mr. Hunt lias traveled extensively in the far East and has large interests in Korea. In fact, lie went from Korea about the limo the war was beginning and went lo Egypt in pur suance or an arrangement with tho Soudanese, government to sup rlntend cotton growing on a 11 ge tract be tween Berber ard Suaklu which he bought from the gov, rna.o .t On ac count of Iiis personal familiarity witih the conditions at t hu seat of war, Mr. Huut's ideas on thc subject are valua ble. He sajs the after results of-it will be valuable for all nations but Germany. That country among out side influences, he says, is regarded as second only to tho lt isso Chinese bank in bringing it about. Japan will readily forgive France, for she looks on France as an lion rabie and chivalrous ally of Russia, but she will never forgive the meddling of Ger many. The success of Japanese arms means new and better lifo to Korea -and China, Mr. Hunt balieves. Now that Japau knows lier strength, he Bays, she will give t > her neighbor a strong guiding band, which will mean that "China's supero natural resources and lncomprehensi ole wealth and power of her cheap labor are factors to be reckoned with in the future. With her extensive iron and coal de posits and cheap labor you ein safely count on rapid progress. 1 do not in the least believe in the yellow peril unless it bethe .synonym of progress in China. But why should Hie pros perity of China be sacrificed to satisfy the indecision of thc powers'? Japa nese progress seems to point tc peace rather than war, for there ls little doubt that the future controlling combination of the world will be England, France, Italy and Japan. ?s for the United States, we sha! have our bands full at home looking after our Sooialists unless our repub lic rides safely through the atora that is now gatheriag. The impor tant issue here is simply this: Sba! a few rich men, by and with the con sent of tho Benate, dominate' the United States, or shall President Roosevelt by and with the help ol the people prevail in his fight against corporate greed?" GEN. FITZHUGH LEE. The Northern Papers Speak Hight} of tho Dashing Cavalryman. The death of Fitzhugh Lee is the occasion for the expression of sympa thetic and appreciative opinion in the press of the northern and eastern States. Without exception, as far as we have seen, these papers have gen erously availed themselves of an op portunity to speak magnanimously and justly of the dashing Confederate cavalry leader who recognized no enemy save those under a hostile flag. lt was natural that the attitude of Fitzhugh Lee should appeal strongly to the best sentiment of the north as it did to the best sentiment of thc south. It was the attitude of a gal lant tighter, who does his best and, at the end of the struggle, returns as gallantly to the tasks of peace-tasks made more difficult by defeat and loss. In assuming this courageous position, however, he was not the leader, as one might infer from reading the eu logies of him in the northern press. He followed the lofty precept and ex ampio of his uncle, Robert E Lee, and in this State the course advised by that great chieftain had already been adopted by Gen. Wade Hamp ton, who, indeed, needed no counsel in any path of honor, of courage, or of right conduct. In praising Fitzhugh Lee's attitude, therofore, the praise must be accepted, in principle, for other leaders of the south in war and in peace. The New York Times said of Fitz hugh Lee, the day bodied, but before it knew of his death: "There ls no mau in the south, and no man in the United States, who contributed more than Fitzhugh Lee to form, after the division of the Civil war, a more per fect union" In an appreciation of Lee, the Phil adelphia Public Ledger, after speak ing of the "very important part played by this patriotic man and competent administrator in the era of reconstruc tlon," said: Cleveland acted with great spirit and wisdom in appointing this dis tinguished son of the south and form er Confederate general successively internal revenue collf^t"" in-VlruJMia and consul ^general at Havana;-:>vn? President McKinley must have great credit for his decision to retain this Democrat at the important Havana, post, aud particularly for appointing him to be major general of volunteers during the war with Spain, and finally, military governor of Havana * * * Gen. LUP was thoroughly "reconstructed," like his uncle, the Confederate military leader. Great soldier as was Robert E. Lee, his real greatness-something of that large ness of seul which we attribute toa Washington-shone out conspicuously in bis counsels and practices of peace and good will, and in his performance o"f new duties for the upbuilding of the shattered soutli in a reunited country almost from the day that the war was over. The New York Sim very gracefully .-aid: "Fitzhugh L'ie died a hero of the whole American people. The il lustrions nani; i e bore, typical of the highest and purest American citizen ship, is a proud national possession, lt ls a narr, s a most canonized at tho South, and at tho north it is scarcely :e*s honored, lt seems a far cry bick to Appomattox wiien one reads such sentiments in thc northern press. The State. Paid ihoir Dobts. A meeting of the advisory commit tee which has been in charge since October, 1903, of the affairs of the banking houses of John L. Williams & Sons and J. William Middendorf & Co., of Baltimore and Richmond, was held Wednesday night. After the meeting it was announced that the debts of tho two linns had been paid in full with interest and the com mittee had been dissolved. The two houses had obligations aggregating moro than $12,000,000 at the time of their suspension Had they been forced Into bankruptcy at thc time, tiley would probably have paid twen ty-ti ve cents on tho dollar. But in stead an advisory committee was formed and under the supervision of tlie committee, the two firms have liquidated more than $10,000,000 of their obligations. Tile tinal details of their settlement called for a loan of $;")()().000 on securities that the two linns desired to hold because of their developing values. One lirra with London clients offered to take the whole amount, several New York bouses also made similar tenders and Baltimore financial institutions sub scribed largely to the loan. Scared to Death. The New York American says worry over a friend's jest ls said to bc responsible for the death of Loin Kahn, proprietor of "The Old Home stead," Union avenue and First street, Mount Vernon, N. Y. Kahn, who was torty-two years old, was a prominent lodge man. He had not been sick in twenty years. Saturday Kahn met a friend, who during a joking conversa tlon saith "Another white shirt will finish you." Tnat statement worried Kahn. He a*-ked at least two dozen friends if he looked sick. They said lie did not. That night Kahn was selzerl with pains near the heart. Paralysis 11 the organ was the diagnosis. A iv,,: hours later the hotol man waa dead. President i*<? 11 Ku-Klcctod. Dr. R. P. Pell lias been rc eloctcd president of Converse College by thc lu.ard of trustees. In assuming thc duties of president of this well-known and popular institution for women foi another year bc will pursue his well known policy-that of working foi the success of the college, keening up its high standard of excellence, hold ing in mind at all times everything that tends to the uplifting and devel opment of womanhood. A NOTED THIA I*. The Alleged Lynchers of Eutawville Will Face the Jury. i t t u SI 0 0 a 0 a o C ci P Vi tt a d fi! fi Si o V ti Cl si d w u o; h h P vi A A. Short History of the Cane, That Will bo Hoad With Interest by our Ko adora. The alleged Eutawville lynohers will be put on trial today, and the trial will last several days, as there are a good many witnesses to be examined. This case has excited considerable comment all over the State, and a re view of it no doubt would be read with interest at this time. The so called lynching was the assassination of Keitt Bookhardt by parties un known thc 7 th day of last July. The negro had boen put In jail on the tri vial charge of having exchanged epi thets with Henry Edwards. That night the negro was token from the llimsy structure used for keeping prisoners, and his body was found two days later In Santee river, having Heated and brought to the top a heavy grate bar, which had been tied around his body. The body gave evidence of inhuman treatment at the hands of liends. The ears had been cut off and there weie other marks of violence to show in what manner the murderers had tried to degrade the body of their victim. Gov. Hey ward's attention was directed to the crime by a letter from Mr, J. D. Wiggins, magistrate at Eutawville, who denounced the murder and begged Gov. Heyward to take some action. Accordingly Gov. ney ward requested Solicitor Hildebrand to go to Eutaw ville for the inquest. The Pinkerton Detective agency was also communi cated with and Inspector Demalo was put on the ca>-o. The investigation resulted In the arrest, after three months, of several white men of that section. These men were kept in custody at the penitentiary until the 17th of De cember, when a preliminary hearing was held at St. George. Dorchester county, Magistrate A. E. McCoy presiding. Thc preliminary was held at St. George because that point ls (rn the railroad and was as accessible Eutawville and more accessible than as Monk's Corner. With one exception the prisoners were remanded to jail to await trial. "Piney" Martin was ?1 released, as he had been arrested on tl a warrant, intended for "Penny" a Martin. The others indicated are: D Henry 0. Edwards, who confessed and D is being used as the prosecution wit nesji,?^5^. ?s^ens, the constable in huso custody um negro was on the night of the lynching; J. H. Palmer, policeman at Eutawville; Benny Mar tin, Andrew Martin aud Adger But ler. The latter was released, as noth ing could bi proved against him. Toe crime was supposed to have oc curred in Berkeley county, and the accused were taken to the Berkeley county seat, Mouck's Corner, where they had bien lying in jail since last December until brought to Or angeburg last week. But when the case was called for trial at Mon ok's Corner in January, Solicitor Hilde brand sprang a surprise, ile had had the territory surveyed, and while it is true that lOutawville is In Berkeley county, still the place at which the murder it alleged to bar.; been com mitted is in Orangeburg county. The case was thin transferred to this coun ty in which there was not so much personal feeling and interest, lt is probable that the defendants at torney will make a motion to take the case back to Berkeley county. Henry Kiwanis, who turned State's evidence, and who will be one of the principal witnesses against thc ac cused, was kept in the Penitentiary at Columbia since his arrest until last week, when he was brought to Oran gi burg under guard, lt seems that tho authorities were afraid he would he treated with violence if sent to tlte Berkeley jail and imprisoned with the men he had turned States evi dence against. He admits his con nection with the terrible affair but claims that the above named de fendents were the principle actors in thc bloody drama. E.lwards ls quite a yoong man, and ls from an excellent family, lt will ho left for the jury charged with the duty uf patting on Ute case to say what credence there is to he put in the evidence given by Edwards. The case will lo a hard fought one, as there are ablo lawyers on both sides. The defendants have lawyers from the Berkeley, D irehester and Orangeburg liars lo conduct their case, and they will lie most ably de fended. Solicitor Hildebrand will rep resent the State. He is an aole and very successful official, and will have no stone unturned to convict the ac cused of the crinia he believes them guilty of. If the defendants are guilty we hope, it will be made so plain that no one can doubt it, and ii tiley are Innocent we hope they will have a speedy acquittal. -Times and Demo crat. SavfH a Train. But for tho presence of mind and natural intelligence of .Nannie Gibson, a sixteen year old barefoot mountain girl, a mixed freight and passenger train leaving Asheville Monday morn ing, eastward bound, would in all prob ability have been wrecked at Mud Cut in the Blue Ridge mountains and sev eral lives lost. Nannie Gibson lives close to Mud Cut. That morning s'.ie saw a great pile of rock and earth slide on the track at that place short ly after a spi clal train had passed, and realizing that an engineer of an eastward bound train would be unable . I to see thc slide in time to stop the train and that there was imminent danger of loss of life and property, she picked up a torpedo and running up tlie track some distance placod lt on the rail at thc mouth of the tun nel. Then hurrying back, she found a red Hag, and again started up the track when she heard the engine whistle of thc mixed train. As the train came she waved tho Hag, the en gineer applied tim brakes, and the train came to standstill within less than twenty steps of thc slide. After tlie girl elli ld had told her story the passengers showered upon her coins, amounting to many dollars. WORK OF A MOB. Chicago Strikers Beat and Force Negro Strike Breakers to &UN FOR THEIR LIVES Wherever Negroes ' speared It Wa* the Signal for Furious Assault by Strikers and Sympathizers. One Man Killed During the Day. Scores Wounded. The fighting In Chicago Wednesday n the streets was more fierce than he day before. The strikers and heir sympathizers attacked the non nlon men at every opportunity, as filing them with bricks, stones, lubs, knives and any and every other (Tensive weapon upon whioh they ?uld lay their hands. The fighting occurred In the heart f the business section of tho city, len being shot down within 200 feet f the retail store of Marshall Field io., or clubbed nearly to death at the omer of thc Auditorium hotel, In lain view of hundreds of ladies, who 'ere compelled to run from the mob 3 save their own lives. In many instances men walking long the streets who had no active onnectlon with the strike were un suited by hoodlums, who beat them rst and later accused them of being trike breakers. A notable Instance f this kind was that of Rsv. W. K. Wheeler, pastor of tho Ninth Presby ?rian church who while passing the omer ' of Desplaines and Adams greets on his wa> to the Pennsylvania epot, was attacked by three men, 'ho knocked him down and beat him nmerclfully until the timely arrival f the police saved him from critical ijury. Mr. Wheeler managed to old one of his assailants until the ollce could arrest him. William Mlles, a colored waiter, 'bile at work in a lunch room at .dams and Sangamon streets, a half lile from any former scene of rioting uing the strike, was also a victim of ie strikers' fury, although he had no onnection whatever with the trou le. He was accused of being a strike reaker, was pounded on the head ith a billy, knocked down and tram led u^^r^?s wa3 removed to tho capital, where his lujuries were pro ounced severe. As far as known, but one man was Hied during the day. The Hst of in ired is much greater than that | 'hich lt is possible to obtain. In ?any cases the nonunion men swung I heir clubs with greateffect; knocking len frora their wagons headlong into lie street; in other Instances, when ssailed by mobs, they fired point | lank into the crowds, and it is ? i til ult to see how the members of the lob could escape many broken heads r how all the bullets tired during the ay shuuld have gone wild. TUB DKAD AND INJURED. Charles Heard, struck on the fore ead in the tight near the Auditorium otel. He died of a fractured skull at ne Mercy hospital, where he had sen taken. The Injured: Bruno Germain, N2w York city-1 ead cut. Charles Moody, beat on the head 1th canes by strikers, condition seri as. John Blum, nonunion driver, struck i the side with a brick, one rib bro en. William Miles, colored waiter, head ut with billy, and trampled on. Police Sergeant Barron, thrown rom patrol wagon while responding to | ot call, leg badly wrenched. Martin Carray, nonunion mun head idly cut by billies In the hands of trlkers. W. N. Brown, nonunion teamster, I ruck by a bucket of cement thrown rom twelfth story of building at Ldams and State street; leg broken. Policeman Edward Campton, struck n head with a brick; severely cut. Rev. W. K. Wheeler, beaten tri kens; face and bend out. Henry Shultz, shot in left side onunlon teamsters; not serious. Daniel Cohen, nonunion man struck n head with a club. Willlum Burke, right band lacerat d by brick. William Hill, head and left shoul er cut by stones. A. B. Smith, nonunion man, face ut wltti a stone. Frank Emerson, nonunion man, ight hand smashed by heavy stone. James Smith, nonunion man, struck a the bick by a stone; injuries are Bvere. Albert Mcllvalne, shot In the back, ot experted to live. Lyde McDowell, shot in the left tip. William Bass, shot in the left leg elow the knee. J. Erickson, shot In tho right arm hove the elbow. Louis Fisman, colored, struok on' he head with a brick In a tight at ackson boulevard and Ilalsted street. Williana Davis, colored, nonunion Iriver, head cut. James Butler, colored, nonunion Iriver, arm broken. Andrew Scott, colored, nonunion Iriver, head cut. William Riggs, colored, nonunion Iriver, head cut. Frank Curry, leader of nonunion nen, struck on head by a stone while onducting wagons along Frankllng treet. PIERCE KionT WITH sr,uooKns. A. S. Utely door manager for Mont ornery Ward & Co., attacked by luggers on Oakenwald avenue. Mr. Utely, who has been activa In he interests of Ward Sc Co., since the onomencement of the strike, waa at acked by men who he thinks have leen following him for several days, irhile passing a vavant lot in Oaken ?aid avenue, between Forty-fourth nd Forty-fk h streets. The men :nocked him down and kicked him in a terrible manner about the head and face. He knocked one down with a billy, and the others ran. Thinking he had killed his assailant. Utely went call an ambulance but when it arrived the man had eltber recovered and eonc away, or bad been'carried off by his companions. A hundred colored men imported as strike breakers by the Employing Teaming Company struok today. The negroes complained that they could not protect themselves with- wooden sticks or canes, which were being furnished by the company. The col ored men declared that the canes however stout, could not give protec tion against bricks, stones or similar missiles. The men wanted revolvers. Their request was refused. Ono of the liveliest disturbances of the day occurred within a block of the Auditorium hotel. Shooting was re sorted to by colored nonunion men to day at Harrison street and Wabash avenue. Three wagons, formerly owned by the Edwin F. Daniels Coal Company, were being driven south in Wabash avenue. At the Harrison street crossing a large crowd gathered about the drivers and guards. Sticks, tiling, broken bottles and other mis siles striking the negroes. NEO uo snooTs. One of the odored guards, named Carter, whipped out a revolver and shot at Henry Schultz, who, it is al leged, was aporoachlng Carter.. The bullet struok Schult/, in tho left side. He ran south in Wabash avenue for a block before he fell. The crowd thoroughly enraged at the action of the colored men quickly dosed in up on the non-unionists and beat them thoroughly. A police call was sent in and seventy policemen under In spector Patrick J. Lavin hurried t>o the scene and dispersed the crowd with vigor: Schultz was taken to a hospital Carter was arrested. The bullet Btruck one of Schultz's ribs. " He will recover. The shooting caused much excite ment at the Auditorium. The wo men became hysterical and rushed baok into the hotel. For a time all traillo on Wabash avenue cable and the Indiana avenue electric car line was at a standstill. PICTURESQUE S IO UT. One of the picturesque sights wit nessed today was a procession nf 500 non-union colored teamsters gi. '** from their lodgings to the Employ era' Teaming Company barns, at Franklin street and Jackson boule vard. The negroes were led by a white man, Frank Curry, formerly a street car grlpman, who became a strike bleaker during the city railway strike hore some months ago, and who has recently been active in labor troubles at St. Louis. Crowds fol lowed Curry's novel procession today but tho ?>i'?e'o? the force.of.nonunion compa?'?ed by fifty policemen seemed at fi rat to act, as a deterrent of any untowed proceedings. The proces sion turned into Jackson boulevard from Michigan avenue, where there was an increasing crowd of strike sympathizers, who, with yells of de fiance, began throwing stones and bricks. Police Lieutenant Dillon was struck on the head. He stag gered and would have fallen had nor several of the strike breakers caught and sustained him. Other police and a number of the strike breakers were also hit. The march in Jackson bou levard was stormy, but the barns at Franklin street wero reached without severe injury to any one. Thirty non-union teamsters were at tacked Wednesday by a crowd ol strike sympathizers at Jackson boule vard and Halstead streets. All kind. of missiles were used. The non-uniot: teamsters, armed with stout hlckorj clubs, attempted to tight the mob, but were being overpowered when th< police arrived. William Wrather, i white guard, was severely Injured The police, clubbing right and left rushed the crowd off the streets Five persons were arrested. Only toi of the non union teamsters could bi found, the others having tied. THOUSANDS ATTACK ii KU KOKS Simultantous with the shuotlni near the Auditorium Wednesday af tornoon, another riot was In propres at Michigan avenue and Lake street a mile north on the same boulevard A crowd of ?100 negroes imported fror St. Louis were being escorted fror the railway depot to a lodging house At Lake street and Michigan av? hue a crowd of 11,000 persons attackc the negroes, many of whom wei armed with stones, pieces of coa black jacks, revolvers and stout niel ory canes. When parsons in tl crowd began to throw stones, stitt and bottles, the negroes charged ri peatedly, making fierce use of tl I hickory. Each time, however, tl i crowd increased. Persons in ollie I buildings rushed to the streets ac swelled the gathering. Uaughi in Chicago. Henry G. G?ll, the former assistai cashier of the Frst National bank Milwaukee, was arrested In Ghicai Thursday, according to the inform tlon given out by thc police authoi ties lu Milwaukee. The capture w made by Detective Dennis Sulliva of the Milwaukee police departmei G?ll was walking on 30th street Chicago when a Milwaukee Dillcar ri across him. lt appears that G?ll h been in Chicago for several days, sta lng at a different hotel every night, warrant was Issued for Goll's arrest the same time the warrant wasserv on Frank G. Bigelow, the deraultl banker. Trlort to Kill HtmHOIi. Tom Cox, sentence! to be hang at Nashville, Tenn., for the murr of Policeman Ban F. Dowell, madi desperate attempt to commit suicl in his cell at the county |all th? Wednesday morning by taking poise lils condition is critical in the i treme and the chances are against ! recovery. Cox ls nerhaps Tennesse most noted criminal of recent yea The killing of Policeman Dowell v of a most sensational character ti Cox's trial attracted widespread tentlon. Negro Uoj Klllml. Will Salter, a U-year-old colored b while at work at Hannah brick ya near Glendale, Spartanburg ooun Wednesday afternoon slipped inte mud mill and his legs were cutoff ? his body terribly mutilated. Ile d Wednesday night about midnight. A HOT TIME In thc Negro Baptist State Con vention at Union Friday. THE BLUFF CALLED By Carroll, Who Told the Preachers That They Were Quilty of Dis honest Practices. Carrol's Life Thr?al'ent'u ? *h? Persis ted in uis Charges. "1 will put a bullet hole through you If you repeat your charges In this convention," was the sensational threat sent to Hov. Richard Carroll, a prominent negro educator, by a negro preacher In high circles, both of whom was lo attendance on the negro Bap tist State convention at Union last week. For several months past Carroll has leen orrally and through newspapers raking grave charges against the 1 jharacter of a number of negro Baptist ministers in this State, saying that tome of thc more prominent ones had formed a ring and that collections nade for foreigu missions, education ind orphan work had been diverted nto their own private purses. The inowledge that he was at the conven- ' iion to push his substantiated charges rade those interested employ almost ! ?very means, including threats against iis life, to have him remain silent^ However, he was undaunted, and jhe investigators which he demanded iud helped conduct brought out facts md over 75 other ministers corrobora ted his statements. A striking feature occurred in the convention when, in a wild disordered 1 issemblagc, one prominent delegate lemanded of Carroll to "name them!" ''You are one,*' was the reply. Another preacher immediately ,t aug up and shouted. "Am I one, ;OOV" ?vidently thinking to bluff the ipeaker, who calmly replied: "Yes, rou, toe;'1 and Carroll proceeded to 1 Iraw out a book in which he had the ; lames of everyone implicated. This saussd a storm of confusion and calls: ; 'You need not read any more!" Oarrcdl, who is doing good work for ' legro youths lu Columbia and has the ! lupport of the whites, seems to have 1 ?be special antipathy of many of bis 1 .ace, who sarcastically denounce Kim LS "an ingrate," "the white man's riend" and "scoklng to raise himself ' m the dead bodies of the negro race." ' The whole seas on was a dramatic 1 me, aud the ring is larger than sup- ! )Osed, judging by the violent opposi- ' ion against Carroll. ' After a long session, the following 1 ?csolutions were adopted, which, 1 Clough strongly worded, are really 1 ?eutral in character: i "Whereas, in the recant newspaper LTticles under the signature of Rev. 1 I. Carroll, commented upon in and J >ut of tlie State, the impression has 1 icon mude that the negro Baptist 1 ninisters in S uth Carolina are venal ( md guwraly depraved; and whereas, 1 he public rec gnition given ltev.lt. 1 -'arroll, coupled with the gravity of ' , hu charge-, are calculated todo un- ? old harm to the ministry and cbeck my present looking toward securing tiri und sympathy from those whose Lid and sympathy should be given, be t . ? "Iles.lived, That it may bc true and ully admitted that thore is among us, LS among all other peoples and Cnrls ain organizations, some irregularities, ( mt it is thc exception rather than ?he rule. While we fully deplore and sondemn the irregularities among the 1 ew, wo, in convention assembled. Tiost emphatically deny that such con lition referred bo herein above obtains imong thelgreat majority of our min sters and churches. Be lt further "Resolved, That the "Baptist minis try of Sou til Caroiiu, in character, in tegrity and moral uprightness, com pare favorably with the ministers iverywhere.*' Tho sentiment of the majority of ielogates, including Djdd and Jen kins, editors who had violently op posed Carroll, seems to be that it is best to have corruption exposed and remedied.-The State. HOW IT HAPPENED. Why Wliinki-y for OalVnoy Could Not lin Unloaded in Xlme, It seems that the good people of Gaffney don't drink so much whiskey after all, ana that a short article we clipped from tile Spartanburg Journal a short time ago to the effect that the express messenger did not have time to deliver all the whiskey con signed to Gaffney and had to carry some of it on to Spartanburg and re turn it to OalT:iey thc next day, was misleading. The Gaffney Ledger makes the following explanation of the story, which puts a different phase on lt altogether : "A Ledger repre sentative called upon Mr. Fisher, the local express agent, and asked him about the truth of thc article. Mr. Fisher said that there was a to tal of fourteen packages for Gaffney ; that on account ot a large amount of other cxpres-s, such as tish, cab bage, etc., they did not have time to handle the entire fourteen pack ages of whiskey, and that not more than eight packages were carried hy. We make no concealment of the fact that whlhkey cjmcs to Gaffney. It docs come, and more than we would like to seo come, but it is manifestly unfair to try to leave the impression that the prisent state of affairs Is not an improvement over the old system. Certainly the consumption of whiskey in this ounty lias been jreducjd- and that materially -and that ls what we were aiming at. Our pro-dispensary friends, however, take every opportu nity to have it appear that thc effort to reduce the consumption of whis key is a failure. Such ls not thc case, and If they wouid be fair they would not try to pervert the facts." ? GREEN GOODS MAN Caught in the Act of Swindling a Gen tleman from Texas. When Reuben With Roll Arrived the Cleric of Aa tor House Scented Game and Notified Police. They caught a green goods man red handed in the Astor house. Iiis name is Nelly Galvin, and the authorities at police headquarters in New York (Jity say he is an all-round crook and old-time pickpocket whose picture has been in the rogues' gallery for years. The "come on" was taken and is now locked up at headquarters. He is Elmer Klahr, part owner of a saloon in Higgins, Lipscomb county, Tex., and was lured here by the usual cir culars. According to Klahr's story he ?ot here on the Baltimore & Ohio rail road, and, in keeping with the direc tions given to him in bis correspon dence with the gang, went to the As tor house. He was taken in tow by the swindlers, and that night they showed .him the sights. They also told bim how lucky he was to be let in on the ground iloor in the deal they were about to put through with him, and made arrangements to show bim samples of the "counterfeit" money in the morning. When Klahr came down from his room he went to the desk and depos ited his roll of money with the clerk. The hotel people suspected at once that he was a "come-on," and notified the postal officials and police head quarters, in accordance with arrange ments that bad been made several tlays ago when a stranger was re lieved of all his cash in the hotel by the gang of which Galvin is the re puted ohief. Klaher, lt seems, was taken to Brooklyn, where some good money was shown to him as a sample of thc mythical counterfeits. He was satis lied with the looks of the good money, and he made a cash payment of 850 to bind the bargain. Then he went back to the Astor house and awaited thc comlug of Galvin to complete the transaction, dist get ting his roll from the clerk. The postal Inspectors and Mccon ville secreted themselves in a room directly across the hall from Klahr's und took turns peeping In. In a lit tle while Galvin came up and was idmitted by the. man from Texas. The sleuths crossed the hall and tried to hear through the keyhole what was said inside, but the conversation was carried on in so low a voice that they jould catch only a word now and then. A f ter . waiting about ton min otes Mcconville tried the door and found it locked. Then be leaned against it bard and burst into thc room, follow id by the postal oftlclals. Galvin stooped low and essayed to butt his way out. Mcconville pounced on dm, threw bim to the floor and sat apon him. The "come-on" did notti ng but open his mouth and stare as f he was looking out through the j?te of his teeth. . When Galvin was searched the $465 n cash was found in his pocket. Klahr admitted that he had just paid iver the money. He said 8450 of it was for the balance due on purchase )t the 83,000 worth of "long green," which was to be Bent to him at his lome, and the remaining $15 for jhe expenses incurred by the gang in ?bowing bim the town. MEETS. HIB ALIVE. Socs to Bury I .un j;- Lost Sister Who lu Not Dead. The New York American says a drama in which one of the principals was confronted by the living form of a sister whose body he supposed was In a hearse he was following to a cem etery, occurred Tuesday at thc Jersey City terminal of tne Barclay street ferry. Conrad Hitter, of No. 21 Liberty street, East New Durham, N.J., was Informed a few days ago that the body of his sister Mary had been in terred in a pauper's grave after she had died, on April 3d, of self-inflicted lujuries in St. Mary's Hospital in Ho boken. The girl had been missing from home since March 24. Ritter Investigated and found that a woman answering the description of his sister had committed suicide and had been buried in the Hudson Coun ty Catholic Cemetery in Jersey City. He had the b >dy exhumed and ar ranged for its interment in Calvary Cemetery, in Queens County. Tuesday all arrangements were com pleted, and Ritter sorrowfully follow ed the hearse. He alighted from his carriage at the ferry entrance, and one of the first persons he saw w&s his sister leaving a boat. He nearly lost his reason, and staggered against the gate, white and speechless. The girl not divining the cause of his agitation, stood horrified, but see ing the hearse and carriage, and not ing her brother's mourning apparel, decided that some misfortune of which she was not aware had occurred to him. When Ritter recovered, the situa tion was explained, and lt developed that Mary had bien taken seriously 111 at a iriend's home in Brooklyn, and was unable to communicate with her brother.,.The body identified as hers has been returned to the Jersey City authorities. Fined Pur Gambling. ; Some of the gentlemanly gamblers bf Covington, Ga., got lt in thc neck thc other day. The grand Jury, at the March term of the court returned about twenty-five true bills against ten prominent citizens of the town and county for gambling at different times within the last several months. By agreement each of the ten persons charged with the offense entered a plea of guilty. Judge Roan imposed a line of $200 in each case on one Indict ment, suspending sentence upon the other indictments pending good be havior for twelve months. In this manner the cases were quickly dispos ed of and the a pedal session did not ast more than three hours. FATAL QUARREL Thomas Jones Shot Through the - Heart by Thomas Godfrey, ABOUT A GRAPE VINE. The Men Were Next Door Neighbors, and the Tragedy Resulted from a Dis agreement Over a Very Tri vial Matter. The Slayer is Now in Jail. Spartanburg haa another murder to her credit. A special dispatch from that city to The State says Thomas Jones was shot and Instantly killed in his yard on North Church street Thursday morning by Thomas Godfrey who was taken in charge by the police shortly after the shooting and ls lodged in the county jail. Jones was shot down very near his own doorsteps and in his lot by a neigh bor, Godfrey, whose lot is nearby. At the time of the tragedy Jones was sitting in his front porch awaiting a strc-t car to go to his shop. Godfrey approached from bis (Godfrey's) house and holding out some pieces vf grape vine in his hand, inquired of Jones if he knew them. - Jones replied in the negative, and Godfrey Insisted that he did. This caused Jones to emphatically state, without the superfluous use of oaths, that he did not. Godfrey made some remark to which Jones replied, calling Godfrey a liar. Godfrey drew a 38 calibre pistol and fired one shot at Jones. The ball entered Jones' left breast and plowed to the heart, and in a minute or more the man was dead. Godfrey is an Irishman who has lived in Spartanburg for a number of years. He 1B an aged citizen, and of frail feeble frame and lil health, j He is a skilled workman. He and , Jones have been at outs for a long time and had held no verbal conversa tion with each other. Godfrey, it is said, claims that Jones cut the grape vines in his (God frey's) garden, causing them to die. This was the cause for the shooting down of an unarmed man on his own premises. Jones was a quiet, honest, lndustrous citizen and was a black smith," wood workman and machinist. He.was running a shnp; of his own at tho time he WM killed. Godfrey had no statement for the press. BOLD BANK ROBBERY. Tho Bandits Secure- Between Five and Ton Thousand Dollars. A band of masked robbers rede into the village of Gllbertsville, N. Y., at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning, blew open the modern and supposedly bur glar proof safe in tho private bank of E. C. Brewer, and made good their escape with booty estimated at be tween $5,000 and 810,000. When the startled villagers were awakened by the mutll jd .oar of the explosion and had been halted by the pistol fire of the retreating bandits, they found that the robbers bad completely isola ted Gllbertsville from the outside world by cutting all the telegraph and telephone wires. Efforts to communi cate with neighboring towns were fu tile. The bold attack rivals in the de tails of Its thoroughness, its daring and its success the exploits of the most notorious bandits of the western country. It is believed there were five men in the band. That all were heavily arm ed was shown by the f requenoy of their tire when the villagers arrived near the bank. Thc men first pried open the front door of the bank. Not a light glimmered in the village, and they evidently set about their work leisurely. Two holes wera drilled into the heavy steel doors of the newly In stalled safe, and into these the explo sive, believed to have been nitrogly cerine, was inserted. The explosion which followed wholly wrecked the safe and shattered every window In the bank building. The robbers hasti ly gathered up all the money exposed by the explosion and started on a run just as the first ot the awakened vil lagers reached the scene. Other resi dents quickly came up, but In the meantime the Invaders were making good their escape, tiring as they wont. Donblo Suicido. Tho bodies of R. B. Shaw and his wife, who ho married in Philadelphia live years ago, were found in a field near Blackpool, England, where tim dead c?upie lived. Both had bean shot and there was a pistol beside the bodies. The tragedy unfolds a pitiful Btury. After livo years of happy mar riage, it is alleged, Shaw discovered a fortnight ago that his wife was in volved in an intrigue two years before her marriage. According to thc story, he taxed her with thc offence, and as a result of her admissions he told her to prepare immediately to sail for America, leaving their children at Blackpool. They started on Tuesday, seemingly reconciled; but Shaw's mother was suspicious and caused neighbors to follow them. Shots were heard and the bodies were discovered. Knob was shot through the mouth, the indications being that it was by mutual agreement, the woman having carefully removed her hat and placed it beside her husband's on the grass. A double ticket for New York by the steamet Majestic was found in Snaw's pocket. _ Kubbory and Mordor. At New York tho body of Marie Daccl, forty-ti vd years old, waa found dead in a room of her apartment at 54th street Wednesday morning with a handkerchief stuned down her throat. The woman was evidently strangled for the purpose of ?obbory. Thc police are looking for two men who, it is said by her daughter, visit ed her mother Tuesday. The woman was separated from her husband?