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9 DO ?l'HOU, Ult KAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS ANI> MAKE OUR LIVES Ilijf&IY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL. XX.Y BENNETTS VILLE, S.O., FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1905. A SOLDIER SHOT. Young Kenneth Kearse, Member of the Bamberg Company SHOT IN THE BREAST. The Shooting is Somewhat of a Mysteri ous Affair. Kearse Says He Was Walking Along on Lower Main Street When He Was Shot Unawares. Kenneth Kearse, a young soldier who ls lu camp at Columbia with the Bamberg Guards, last week, was seri ously shot? In the left side by an un known negro about ll o'clock Thurs day night. The affair ocourrcd at the ooruer of lower Main and Divine streets. The bullet penetrated the ohest oavlty but tho physicians state that there is nothing tn Indicate that it entered the lungs. Tue wouuded man was taken to the Columbia hos pital soon after tho shooting. The following account of the somewhat mysterious affair, is taken from tho Columbia State of last Friday: Kearse and Charlie Marshall, a member of the Richland Volunteers, were coming up Main street from the union station and when they roached tho corner of Main and Divine a ne gro, who it is said was being chased by pcuons In civilian clothes, ran past thom and had not gone far when he ' turned and ilred. Toe neuro was not known to the soldiers, and after the shooting C i appeared mysteriously. Karte'? friend, Matshi-11, took him imm. diatoly to the ellice of Dr. Bl?d, whloh ls only a few blocks away from tho sc-mo of the shooting. When they reached tho ellice of the physician the wounded m;ui was suf ferlng considerably ai d an anodine was administered to alleviate bin pain. Both Koarse and Marshall were un armed when they reached Dr. Itlco't cflloe. At the hospital the physician probed for tho bullet but could not find lt. Later thc patient was salo to be restlrg very well, although suf ferlng from shock. No definite opin ion as to the result of the wound can be given at this time. The ball en tered the oavlty but there ls no trace of hemorrhage nor do tho lungs ap finar to ho y ftpc\te?. Patrolman Ford was on that beat at the timov the shooting occurred. Ile stated that he heard one shot and after an Interval of about a minute three others. Ile was then near the corner of Main and College streets and hurried on down In tho direction from which the shots were coming. At thc corner of Main and Green streets Iv passed a street car cor ductor named Martin who told thc i nicer In answer to his Inquiry that it was some soldi ors shooting at a negro. The policeman ran on to the comer of Main and Divine one block further down. Here he met several negroes who told him that somo soldiers had been shooting at a negro ar.d that they had gone down Divine street. Ford then ran down Divine for three blocks to Lincoln and did not see any br. dy but one man who was coming to ward Main street. Ile was dresse i in civilian olotles and siid he had not seen any soldirs or anybody on that street. When Otlloe.i Ford returned to the corner of Main and Divine the negroes were still there and told h'm thar, the soldiers were coming along Main street and met a negro who was on tho inside of tte pavement next to the fence and that they began to abuse him and he ran out in thc mid dle of the street and opened Ure on the militiamen, These two accounts aro totally different and neither of thom explains tho series of shots heard by the polio? man. Kenneth Koarse is a son of Mr. An drew Kearse, a respected farmer who lives on the Atlant ic Coast Linc about seven miles from Denmark. A tele phone n o sage from Denmark state? that Kenneth [Coarse has always been regarded as a quiet and orderly young man in that community. Duringa part of the last three years he has lived in Columbia, being employed at lirst one thing and then another. Ker fcwbile he worked at thc iJass factory and subs?quent ly in a drug store. Kearse has ail uncle at Denmark who was apprised of the shooting so that, ho could inform the p ...routs at once. Took Ilor Own Iii To. At New York, within live minutes from the time that Charles Marshall, a Wall street broker left his wife ap parently sleeping soundly In bod, the woman wrote her husband a note, tell lng him not to let ti.e world blame hbo for what wi s going to happon, and shot herself, dying before her husband could reach the bedside. Mrs. Marshall was formerly Miss Grace Starr and was highly connected In New York social circles No ciuse for tho suicido was discovered. The tragedy occurred in the Raleigh, a fashionable family apartment hotel, overlooking Central ?ark at Ninety-second str-?ot. A Senator Benterictl. United States Senator Ml theil, con vlcted of using his office of United States senator to further tho law pratlce of the llrm of Mitchel & Tan ncr of Portland, Ore., was sentenc d to pay a line of $1,000 and to fix months penal servitude. Pending a review of t ho case by tho KU promt court of the United States execution of tho sentence will be deferred. Meantime Mitchell will be placed un der ball to the amount of ?2, OOO. Thrco Minors Killed. While a number of mine1** were at, work In tho Bank head mino In Now Mexleo an exposition of dvamlte oo ourrod which wrought awful havoc lr tho mine and killed threo men. Thc bc tl les Of tho men were blown to pelees, not enough being left by which they could bo recognized. Several othert worn injured. \ TOO MANY SICK. The Penitentiary Authorities Say Now Law l'avoru the Counties. Convicts Worked by Counties Until They Break Down and <\ro Then Hont io Stftto Penitent y. The burden of the new law giving county supervisors the uso of convicts sentenced to terms of ten years or less, with the option of turning them over to tho penitentiary authorities whenever they wear out or break down from Uh health, Is failing with increas ing weight on thc penitentiary au thorities, who complain that practi cally all of tho prisoners they get now, except those sent in for long terms, aro either diseased or are otherwise Incapacitated for work; that short term prisoners kept on tbT average chain gang in this sta to are soon broken in health from lack of care and by reason of Improper treatment and aro pent imo tht penitentiary physical wrecks. "Tho now law ls working a terrible cruelty," said Superintendent QrllUth, to the Augusta Chronicle correspon dent recently. "I do not bolievo there is a man in this state physically strong enough to st and ten j ears' service on a chain gang In this state. The chain gang authorities are not ? quipped to caro for the prisoners as they should bo cared for. When the average chain gang prisoner gets wet working in the raiu he ls allowed to sleep through the night In his wet clothes, which is barbarous. Wc never allow a prisoner toi l.iep in wet clothes down here." A majority of tho deaths that occur at. the penitentiary result from tuber culosls, and m a'J y of these cases are contracted ait^r the prisoner reaches Columbia, though some are sent in each j ear freon the chain gangs dying fri m co i sumption. A victim ot this disease rccentl) was A. S. Simp on, a life-termer, sent here four years ago from Abbeville for mu?der SD pion was only 31 years old and contracted the distase 18 months ago. He was a bri !ge bulb der and kill d in io .u in a disputo over the construction of a bridge. Flo was a well behaved prisoner and was apparently a man of someculture. Hts remains were shipped to his widow and two chlldieu at Calhoun. Two of his brothers were frequent visitors to tho penitentiary. Simpson waa at first worked in the hosiery mill, where practically all of the tubercu losis casts originate, but recently he had been working in the cirpenter shop. Two neg i o c I'vK.:. , wno ?b,d witnhi' the past Thirty days, weie brought in from the county gangs; each died within two days aitor bib admission to the penitentiary. In this conni ctl n, a paragraph from Dr. S. E Harmon's last annual re port, will be of much interest: "There were 3U2 pa Mon ta in the hos pital. Ten tl toi. s that number were tieated for minor troubles that did not require being admitted to the hospital. 1 rejort thlrtyouo dcatns this year, all hiing of a chronic nature, with the exception of two or titree, including one suicide. Nine teen died of tuberculosis. The death rate from this disease ca;i b? reduced by isolation, but when we consid r that a largo p r ceut of tho.se that tile from tubcioulosis are admitted to thc Institution already infected you can readily see that the neath rate from this disease will alwaja be large. You will Bee that bevon of the number that died were reocived from tho various chain gangs, in a hopeless condition; one of whom dio.l two days after be ing admitted." lian (1 Klval to tho Hud. Ey the tt rna of her will which was recently Hied at Pittsburg, Pa., Ml.-s Anna M. Gunning leaves the greater part of her estate, valued at ?.r,uo,?O?, to Carl F. Miller, a well known busi ness man whose home ls in Wilkins burg, on condition that ho get a di vorce from h's present wife or that his wife dies Otherwise ho gets noth lng. Miller was a former sweetheart of Miss Gunning, but jilted ber and] married his pre cut wife. M bs Gun ning never married and never forgave. In the will, after making a number of brq lests amounting to $48,000, she say*: The Income of tho remainder is to be glvoo to Carl IT. Miller, provid ing bc ls not living with tho woman h.e married In I8?K), one Jane Wilson. Should slio die, or he be divorced from her, that ls dually divorced, he ls to he given absolutely one-half of thc [principal, and the Interest on thc tither half as long as he lives. If he marries again, ho, can, by will, leave ail to his second wife and children. If he dies, unmarried a second time without children, the ono half or all his share is to be. equally divided be. tween tho children of Wesley Greer. In no case ls tho pres nt wife of Cari E. Miller to bene lit in anything 1 i< ave him, either lu personal or roal e state Should any <>ne contest this will, it ls my earnest ele-dre that the> shall forfeit their 'liare." ii<.nunn Tortured Man. The Chicago p dice believe that, thc death of John fes mer, at the City Hospital In that city an hour after be bad b.on found in a doorway at Asli lai.el av nue and Emily atreot, waa due to to: ture inflicted by men wini attack;,! and robbed him. Teamer, who was a prosperous real estate own er, had oolh ced rent at several placas and was going to his residence, whee bc was attacked by highwaymen. Hi fought tlie robbors, but was we<rsted A blow on tho h ft eye, which left at ugly cut, provod to have knocked bin uicomekm. Ile was dragged Into i ha'lwav, where he was found severa hours lator. Several cuts wore found on Tosmer'i hands and arms Two long gashes which opened the arteries of the wrists, were believed te> hive been In llictrd elellberate.ly while the man wai ' In tho power of the bandits. A flo tho r< bberS had taken Tesmer's watel i and 166 from him, they sat him In ai > upright position hi tho doorway ant , left bim to bleed to death from tht ' sovored arteries in his wrists. Soarcl ? for Tesmer's assailants have so fa been unavailing. THE COTTON CROP. The Outlook for Good Prices Is Most Excellent. Tho Farmora Havo Only to Murlee th? Crop Carefully and Prop erly to Koap Prout. Tho farmers of the South have things in their own hands now, and if they will aot with eaoh other they will reap a rloh roward, not only this year, hut for ail years. The cotton situation at this time ls moro favora b!e for high prlco cotton this fall than we have had in years. At the close of tho year 1004 there was no surplus cotton, and bv Sopterrber 1st 12 500,000 bales of tho 13.684,467 bale, made in 1004 will have been c m surr.cd. This will leave about. 1,000, 000 halos to start business on Septem ber 1, 1905. The present year's crop will hardly exo?ed 0,000 000 bales. To that you sd i tho 1,000,000 bules brought over, and you have only 10,? 000.000 bales, about 2 500.000 bales short of the consumption of 1905. To moko moro cotton than indloat ed above we would havctomako more per acre than we haye marie for the past live years, which hardly seems possible if the orop reports are to be relied upon. Aocordlng to the reports wo havo the shortest aoreagothls year and the lowest report, except one, In the Ovo years, la 1903 our acreage was 28,Oi l,800, and we made 9 851, 129, which brought $500.519,230 82, In the crop of 1804 wo bad 30.453,000 aorrs, and made 13 584,457 bales, that brought $(347 406,534.51. These fig ures are Interesting, and wo shall pursue them further. The crop of 1903 was 3,401,380 bale* less than crop of 1904, yet lt, brought moro money by 813,143,079 31. It will thus be seen that lt pays better to raise a mod?r?t ? orop than a vcrv large one. Tho acreage for 1905 is about 20 77!),o:i8, the smallest that we have had In the last live years, ar d with the average for five years multi plied with the acreage of 1905. it makes a crop of about niuo million hale?. Figure from any standpoint you please and you cant ligures over a ten million bale crop, and lt can bp llgured as low as eight million for 1905 with plausible figures. In the fac? of tho above figures, lt ls very plain that if the farmers mar ket the crop intelligently good prioes are bound to provall. Tho present orop is worth ten cents and not a pound of lt should bo sold below that llgure. The thing for tho farmer to do when col ton goos below ton cents is to put lt in a warehouse and wait for arrise, hot do r r^ <v?1st-. nn ton hl^Jti .pnco.us t hat Would do more h- than good. Do not think that because we havo won ono great victory you oan push cotton toa very high prlco. You must rr member that there are other places that can ralso cotton besides the States of tho South. Hut you need not fear competition as long as cotton stays below 12i cents. There is nothing undo- the sun you can clothe man with as cheap as you can with c itton at 124 cents. Properly bandied, cotton will be king again, and will make thc South in time tho richest country In the world So, let us all take courage, and stick together. This can only oe done by a thorough organization of all the business Intore ts of thc South We are all in the sanio boat with the man that makes tho cotton. What .Hirts bim hurts us all. So then let ls get our forces in good shape and vic ory is . ors. Farmers, market your cotton as long as it stays from ten to twclvo and a half cents, but just as soon as it gets below ten cents stop right off and positively refusa to sell until some on will see tit to give you ten cents, which will always como If it can't bo bought for less. If you arc not already a member go at once and join the Southern Cotton Associa tion, which has certainly done a grand work for the South this year. Tho Oil l'lro la Over. Aftor burning for three days and nights the Texas oil tire is over. Work ing under the greatest difficulty and at the imminent peril of their live-; hundreds of workmen threw up em bankments between the burning oil tanks and those not yet on lire, and this in a largo measure, contributed toward stopping the llamos. It was impossible to do anything with thos1 bur ni cg, but sine.o lt ls now believed the further spread of the lire li: pre vented, the oil In tho burning district is nearly exhausted. Three mlllloi barre's of crude oil have b?.en d( Buoy ed, twolve lives lost and property wlp cd away to thc value of $1,500,000 Of the twolve dead ail were negroes Only six of the bodies have been re covered, all of them being charred be yound recognition. HaiuteO tho Monument. Thc Augusta Chronicle says negri soldiers of Savannah and Augusta while parading on ll road street Tues day afternoon, attracted onslderahli attention and won the applause o hundreds of white people, who wit nessed the Incident, respectfully sa luting tho Confederate monument, ll pas?lng tho beautiful shaft. It was i graceful act, and one that was wldol; commented upon on all sides. Th milit ary s ilute, by presenting arm*) as the marble shrift, commomoratln I thc Confer!-rate dead, was passed came as a surprise to the spectator along the street. Almost instantl ; the applause began and was omtlnuo ! until after the ompanles had passer Many A rr cn tnt!. 1 Thc London Daily Mall's Vlenn 1 correspondent s ey H the sultan has o 1 fered a reward of ?10,000 Turkish fe 1 the discovery of the conspirators wli 1 arranged f.?r tho throwing of the bom at his majesty last Friday. Nearly s tin maud persons linva been alroad 1 arrested cn suspicion. An early ropi Nliuil (tl Ulli; i-.,,, i m |Mi ?lil UhG . Uli .i.i, lifo Is foarcd and extensive precat tion lias been taken to prevent it. Dismissed* Prof. Andrew Noah Fox of tl Chicago theological seminary lias bec dismissed from tho Institution b oauso of a telegram to Jno. D. Hook' feller asking for some of his "lamil monoy" to endow two professorship OIL TANKS BURN. Lightning Set One on Fire and Others Quickly Ignited. MEN AND MULES BURN Sent to Slav Progress of Flames, They Were Hemmed la After Explosion. Two Square Miles of Heavy Smoke and Lurid, Inex tinguishable Fire. At Humble, Texan, covorlng an area three-quarters of a mlle square with a great canopy of smoke covering two aquaro miles, tho oil tanks of tho Texas Oompany continuo to boll and hubble under tho groat heat of the burning oil, tbe lire having burned all night. Whon it can bc extinguished is prob lematical, certainly not until it has burned all of tho oil In eleven b'g tanks willoh held two and a half million bar rels when lightning struck them on Sunday afternoon. It ls now known that llvo negro workmen perished. There are hun dreds of homeless people. They were living in touts and shacks In tho oil field and il d for their Uv. s to the town. All their belongings wore de stroyed by tho Uro. During the night thero was a beayy downpour of rain, and this covered the ground with a sheet of wator coated with a thick Ulm of oil. Shortly after a b'g tank began to blaze two hundred workmen with sev enty-live mules were hurried to the place to throw up earthen embank ments. Soddenly the oil gave an up bea val, bubbled and lifted a great mass of tho bundill/ Huid bodily from tin tank and the tire was communicated to three other tat.ks. At 4 o'clock Monday morning lire broke ont In the steel tankH of the Texas Companv at the pumping sta Mon, a mile from the original tire What damage was done cannot be as certained b oause lt ls impossible to reach that part of the Hold. The burning oil caught men an?' mules and hemmed them tn. Some ?f tho men mounted tbs mules and got out but at least forty mules balk ed and were oremattd. Five negroes were seen to go down aud lt ls not be hoved to be possible that they could not esoaped. While all the men have not been accounted for, these perished. Ab 10 o'cleck the Are was still raging with PO prospeot3 for immediate con trol. It ls believed, however, that tho Hirnes will eventually be con Hued to t'"'0 tankage district. Thero were 3 000,000 barrels of oil in the storage tanks, all of which ?111 be destroyed. Losses arc estimated at $750,000 or more with practically no insurance. Reports of fatalities are not verified, although a number of men are report ed missing. The conflagration wai visible In Houston, seventeen miles away and In Galveston, sixty live mlle distant. ROB BSD THE POLICE STATION. A I'eoulini* Hnnndt lon . Some Ono Got tho Finns ol* i he Wt ok. A special to The State from Union says there was quite a stir and sensa tion In police circles Monday when lt was discovered that some bold thief had alolen from police headquarters a money box locked lu a private draw er and containing $120.30, tho amount which had been colluded during the week in lines and bonds, ar d tho mys terlous part of it is that neither tho door nor the drawer had been broken into, but unlocked with a key or sorae instrument utilized as Mich. It seems that Chief Austell had seen all tho money safely in the box within the drawer when about 11.30 he added to tho pilo by putting in $2.50, which ho collected from the mother of a little negro, who had been trrestcd for throwing rocks on the streets. Tue money was then about qually divided between bank notes and shyer. After putting thc money in, everything being quiet, ho decided to leave and cautioned tho young po? Hoe clerk, J. L. Perry, to bc careful to ROO that the door was locked, and later whon Sergeant Evans tested the door before going off duty, ho fount! lt looked. Tho police who go on night duty at l a. m. frequently go to police head quarters for water, but on Sunday morning they say that they went but once, and that no one was then with them, nor had anyone acted suspici ously by engaging them In conversa tlon, presumably for the purpose of detracting their attention from the police headquarters. Thc poilce have their suspicions and f I are keeping a strict watch, but Chief Austell in speaking of the matter, other than tt) give out the details of i which the above ls the substance, bad a nothing to say. y One theory ls that as neither thc o c"o >r nor the tira we; was broken Into, but unite ted, as the testimony o KI those whti lirst entered the police headquarters and of Chief Auste l, who ma ie tho discovery S inday mor y I tiing that the money was missing, d I that some of tho keys te p lice headquarters, which are car ried by every policeman and have constantly to be replie d wl'Ji ft new ones, had been found, ur In Some f way secured, which j/ave him, Ol ,r thom, acOt'SS to the building, but the drawer key no one but the chief cvei h I had. tv y J Foll uhf Ii Out. James R. Cray, editor of the At lanta Journal f.nd H. n. Revll, a rep resent! ve In the (leorgla legisla!un from Morrlwothcr County, had a Ugh at a prominent place on Pe-aohtret street In Atlanta. Thoy wero ?epa rated before damage was dono. Tin light arosoovcr an editorial article ir ttio Journal dealing with Mr. Rovl anda ?potoh In reply. Mr. Rovl drow a pistol, bin)>.Mr. Gray was un ar mod. I* A? I) THE MONK?. Editor ; Williams, of tho News-leader, KTalcoB Public Rtatomont. Oftvn $25 to Ktoot Aiidonio?. Makes Announeomoiittn Ills l**por Ad matting Rumors to Bo Trno. The I following dlspatoh to tho Washington Post from Rlohmond, Va., copoerus an aot of Mr. A. 13. Willi;1 rfta in conuootlon with an elec tion, lit whloh he defends himself for usiogpion ey iii election: In blotter to the public Alfred B. Williams, president and editor of the News-leader, admits that lumors connecting him with tho expenditure of money in tho recent municipil primary aro true. Ile frankly ex plains 'the whole matter, says he is not coiitoious of having dono anything wrong cr illegal, aud feels no regret for hts Action. For a week tho grand Jury has been engaged in probing charges of fraud in the We election, and during the past few days rumor has been busy with tb,e name of Mr. Williams, all? g lng that ho paid $25 to a party worker to aid Col. George Wayne Anderson, a candidato for commonwealth's at torneyj.in tho First precinct of Jeffer son ward. Mr. "vVilliams says in his card, pub lished in thc Nows-Leader recently, that the eleotlon transaction on which these rumors are based was no seoret and waa not Intended to bo. Ile says that he was informed the night before tho election that active work at the tflrst preolnct, Jefferson ward, would carry ly for Col. Anderson, and that there ;-?as a mau who would do the work, but ho would expect to be paid. "I (inmediately said," continued Mr. Williams, "that I would see that ne war? paid if ho did the work, but that O/l. Anderson would not be told aboutit, and would kuow nothing of ib."? Mr. Williams further explains that itt was ^kepo trom Cd. Anderson be cause, " und r the Barkslale law, i vould be neootsary for him to take a rigid oath that ho 'ian not used money in tho oleotlon, or alio ved it to T)e us^d ejicepb for certain specified pur poses. :'Itls his understanding of tin .av?, he pays, that a candidate's friends may di) tilings that the candidates cannot Regally do. He says fu.tuer that after the cleo iou r * - <*\\t hls'.peisoual oheck to the vori*? <tnz;,~ '?us *u .''l-i'-Jer u?r(jtoi?htelu, a p?vveT ' amont,'* tain class. Mr. WMla i:n says he amt a check so that too trans action should bo open and there should bo no appearance of trying U hide anything. There was no talk ur suggestion of bribery or corruptly In lluoi.cing aujb dy, says Mr. Williams, and he does not beltcve a dollar was spout for such a purpose. The writer says the difference be tween buying votes and securing per sonal lnnuenoo in a legitimate way ls clear to him; that ho would not ha v. glven a dollar could lt have purchased votes enough to eltco Col. Anderson. Ile concludei: "If the grand jury, in its wisdom and conscience, st os lit to indict mo, I shall meet the issue without any quibbling or dodgh g play for delay, or rosort to legal technicalities." Tho mater has oreat.ed unbounded Interest because of tho prominence ol Mr. Williams, who has for years taken a leading part lo city affair.., and who has always b.:en forem st in all movements looking to tue upbuild ing of tho city and the purifying of the ballot. Tho Barks'.lale law, which boars on olcctlons, Isas folio .vs; No person shad expend, pay, prom Iso, loan or become pecuniarily liable In any way for any money or other valuable thing In behalf of any can didats for ellice at any election, pri mary, or nominating convention held in this commonwealth. Any person or candidato violating any of the pro visions of this rei sh ell be su bj-?ut to a Uno of not less than $100 or moro than $1,000, or co dined in Jail no. less than ono nor more than twelve months. VIOLATED T111C LAW. At Rlohmond, Va., Wednesday the grand ju/y brought in indict nen s against live men, including Alfred B. Williams, editor, for alleged violation of election laws in the recent Do n > eratic pilmarv tbere. Tue indict ment alleges Mr. Wlillann agre d to pay $25 to one of tho ( t iers indicted for inliuenolng vot<s in b half of a candidate for commonwealth attor ney. All except one, who ls out of town, t;ave $5)0 bind each. Tho cases will bo tili d In September. linnell! ttiH lilt.) Bound, gagged and at the mercy of Mt x cm bandits, B. S. Loomis a San b'ranclsooan, was held a prisoner In the mountains of Cerro de S in Juan, near San Blast, Mexico. A promise f tho payment or a ran om saved his lifo, for lt was the Intention of tho r.-boers to kill him after they had stripped him of all his iffects. Loomis la the superintendent of a ti Ult company at San Blas and ls well known in San Francisco. In telling of bis experience Loom's writes: ' Whllo retund? g frum l'eplo I wa* , held up by bi idlts and robbed of my ? ITeets. 1 v as bound and gagged and , then tak'Ui to a narrow canyon to be , killed. I bought the bandits off wltl , a promise to piy thom $200, tho moo . ey to be taken to a c rt Un point on i . certain day. They threaten? d to kill - mo at nigot if 1 edd not ko. p mj promise. I did not keep my promhx and instead of sending the mom y purchased a nile f <r my pnitcotloa." Next Iiftrgost lu Hotiih. ) Ace udlug to reports brought bael t from ciomson coiiogo by Superintend ) ont Martin, the summer school whlel - has just cloied was the largest In th? j South, with tho exception of tho om i li? ld at, Sewaneo. Too total enroll 1 mont will go over 700 and Mr. Mai 1 tin and other ( (locators who took par feol muc i encouraged at thisiintercs in education by tho teaohers. A DEADLY BOMB Intended for the Sultan Kills Twenty-five People But MISSES THE SULTAN. A Panic Was Caused by Explosion Which Occurred In Court Yard of Mosque. lt Is Said That Two Hungarians Are Responsible. A dispatch from Constantinople says the commission appointed to in quire into the attempt on tho Hf a of tbo sultan Thursday has ascertalner1 that tho exploslouof the bomb caused the death of twenty-four persons and wounded llfty-one. In addition lifby live horsos were injured. The prelim inary investigations tend to show thal tno outrago waa committed by two 11 try arians. Tho bomb which was intended tr blow up the sultan fell short and ex ploded about thirty yards disty.mt from His majesty. Tho latter was at the timo on the top step of the Hight lead lng from the mosqm. A panic Im mediately seized tho sultan's entour age and the court dignitaries nigher! up and Implored A Ul ul Hamid to re main In tho mosque. The sultan howover, insisted on going, ai d en tered his carriage with a clanmea* not usually attributed to him, ard picking up the reins drove himself to tho Ylldiz palace amid the cheers o' the admiring offloials. Thc explosion was heard a? far as the Bora quarters The soldiers In the vicinity and several horses were killed, and the ./irrlages were smashed into kindling w md and tho windows of thc pavilion reserved for the diplomatic corps wer broken. IVe pavilion coutalued among >thers, U. Grant Smith, second seer. tary of the A mer Ban legation, wh< was accompanied by Captain Smiley, if the United States army. No our was hurt In the pavillon excepta fov? scratched by ll, lug glass. Thc force of the explosion also damaged tin clock tower in tho court yard of the cosque, Immediately after the sultan har' departed, a detachment of cavalry coarged down the streot parallel wlih the mcsque and from which the bom1, rown in hopes of Unding the uithor of tho attempt,"wno, however lias not yet been di ?oovored. Although' the outrage occurred at 3 p m. the faot that his majesty's life P^Xf?if tn danger did not bicomo generally known until night, when it arr u ltd .vldespread excitement, as lt was the llrst bomb explosion of this character that ever occurred in Constantinople Tho majority of theso killed or In jured were soldiers who were lining ..he road near the mosque. The au thorities are greatly disturbed and uimbio to explain how the would-be regicide passed through the cordon of roops, which always bars tho roads 1 mading to tho mosque, so soon as thc sultan leaves the palace. ANY PORT IN ? Si'ORM. A Doer to Efloap? ? Hound, Ii^ups on Fly i II? Train, A dfler story comes from Thedford, Vt., a small village on thc Passumpdc ? ?vlslon of thc Boston & Maloo rall o.vl. A freight train, northbound, was running easily down a slight grade after leaving Thedford, when the en gineer hoard above the noise of his j locomotive the sharp baying of a hound. As the train neared thc fringe if the wood the engine driver caught i glimpse of a big doc heading straight for the cut. Evidently sho was being ehased by thc hound, and, knowing that she would n3t stop at anything and fearing that ho could not stop Ids train, he oponed the throttle and shot ahead. Ile was trying to get ahead if thc doe, but the animal was too licet of foot, and as the train shot through the cut the terri lied anima! leaped on an open (lat cir. "Keep her going until I can get back to hor," shouted tho fireman. Keep up speed and she wont Jump." Toe engineer opened the throttle another noth and the train was soon b imping along at tho rate of thirty m les an hour, whll i the don kept frantically running up and down the car. Thc engineer put on thc brakes, and procuring a rope the trainmen started t ) capture the dcor alive. A i soon as the now thoroughly torrlllcd animal saw her new danger sho press d for ward over three ll it cars and came up short against a tl ur car with such force that she fell to the Moor. Tbl? was the signal for the would bo cap tors. They had just suoooeded In get ting the rope around tho animals shoulders and were walting fir thc train to c une to a full stop when the deer made a ll nal supremo effort tr escape and leaped between the Hom and flit oar. An Instant later hot neck was broken, SlOVO t<)X|?lo(tn(l. Two dead, two fatally burned atv three otuers seriously Injured ls tlu result of an expl ?sion of a gasollix stove early Weene;.d ty at the home o Levy Titus, a Kosher butcher, Brad dock, Ba. The explosion was causer hy tho overturning of a gasoline stovi on which Mrs. Titus v*as pr* paring breakfast. Thc buming fluid wa Bittered over thc room, cnvtdoplni Mis. Titus and Igniting a live galloi can of oil, standing on thc rear nore' near tho door.. Too dead aro Hai r; Titus and Meyer Titus, twins, aged -, - _ . rm?..,, j i M.*4t?A. >I..I. i'll?. ,,.>!.. li X lilli?, HMO UlUl'llOl ai d Elsie Titus, agod 3 years, wer fatally burned. Aunthor IlOSlgnftttOn. Announcement was marlo at the de partment of agriculture that M rt Buttha Burch, prlvato seorctary t Former Statistician Hydo, bad rc signed and that tho resignation ha been accepted. SEMTOR TILLMAN Ts Willi?g to Engage in a Joint Dil epnsary Debate. .. ? * * % mo Lacador of Dlpponaary Foro os Not | Averno to Meeting on Stump Champion ofOppouentv. Thc Augusta Chronicle says United States Senator Benjamin Ryan Till man, although not having a great j deal to say nowadays ls nevertheless, baking a great lntorcst in political af fairs. Sonator Tillman was KOCH at his homo in Trenton several days ago by a representative of The Ciironiclo, and readily answered the questions propounded by the newspaper mau. Wben questioned on the movement to voto out the dispensary In hi* own county thc Sonator said: "I have been about very ltttlc and have had no opp jrt?nlby other than attending one picnic in lOdgelield, to ? meet the pooplo. I, therefore, am not posted as to the present trend of thought and .feeding, but those who| have been around und are well In formed, tell mo that lu this county tho sentiment is obai ging very rapid ly. Tho people are constantly asking1 vhat they aro to have after tho dis pen8ary ls abolished, while the effect] >n tho school fund of withdrawing from the county tho money hitherto received from tho stabo dispensary is ;n using a great many people to chango I front. "While I am not eager to uudergo che fatigue of making any speeches,' continued the senator, ill think I ? ould really ci: loy having a j Int dis Mission with any champ,on thc anti dispensary people migut decide upon, .>r, for that matter, any half dc/.m o? them. The people are disgusted wito t ho management of thc state dispen arv, and there is widespread bellet that thero ls corruption somewhere Phis will causo many to vote against the system, who have hitherto beer, its strong friends. "In my recent lotter, I mentirme' -orne figures as to tho til .oil veness o. prohibition, or, rather, its failure lr Maine and Kansas. I huve received fium Washington the last annual re port of commission of internal revenue or tho ll seul year o ding June .10 1906. In lt 1 find tho following fig' u;es: '.Retail dealers in Kansas, 2,862; wholesale honor dealers, 23; brewers, 2; retail dealers in malt liquors, 335; ivholesale dealers In malt liquors, 108 "Ia Maluo tho tlgures aie: Retah liquor dealers, 430; wholesale liquor dealers', 5; brewors, 3; retail dealers in malt liquors, 558*, wholesale dealers In malt Uau?rs,. 22..; "; .,. . 'Wow,' iiinovthtr oTf fielesiatesSSn iiqvio? bc ?cid as a beverage under the law. "In South Carolina tho. tlgures aro: "Retail l'qu ;r dealers, 512; wholesale liquor dealers, 7; brewers, 1; retal) sealers in malt liquors) fys? wholesale dealers in malt liquors, s Senator Tillman here gave bk^flgur ts In tabular form, in ordor to S?.uw the comparison moro clearly: Continuing, he said: "The tlgures .qjuak for themselves, and when any one remembers t hat no man will pay the $25 to the United States govern? ment for ttie permission to retail for fun, lt may be seen how prohibition prohibits. Of course, In South Caro lina, there arc a number of beer prlvi leges, and all dispensaries take out a United States liconse, and these will have to be deducted from thc ligures ..hove gwen In order to show how many blind tigers we havo in this state. "Kansas has possibily 200,000 moro population than South Carolina, while Maine hus about half our population. Any one who is interested c.su work out thc percentages. Thc figures s\ow that there are about twice HS many liquor dealers per capita in Maine as in South Carolina, oven including thc dispensaries, walle in Kansas there are more than live times as many. "I am more than ever oimvinced that there ls political signilicmco, as well as a (let ire to further the cause of temperance In the move to destroy thc dispensary. I shall be glad if at least a doaan counties vote out the dispen sarics tMs summer, because lt will give thc people of those counties a good Ohanoo Lo lind out how far pro hibitlon ,will prohibit hofoio thc real tight a year hence. " Girl Inuit In Coal Mino. Miss Florence 10/erott, of Southe Amboy, had an experience In a cod mino at Freel.'.nd, waloo nearly ended In her doab. With Miss Mabel R.s.l, of Porth Amboy, and a part> of Freeland f rh nels, soe was boeing the mine, woori their lights were ex bing lushed by a sudden draft. In tlu sou fusion Miss Kv:rett became sip iratcd from i.er companions, and go into a blind head, ending into 70 foo*, shaft. Wnen she was groping lui benighted way along the head ing, and was within a couple of fcit of the shaft.? The party, upset by tlu lucid mt, got out of the mino quickly. J UKI RH (?Kill, "There ls nothing lu lifo so swaet as love's young dream,'' sang the poet I know that there ls piquancy in the Cuurshlp aud engagement that has for the youth and the maid a chaim a charm all its own, but I can name one perl id that seems to me to com pate favorably even with that When the days of doubt arc past and the magic wordn IIKVO been spokei that birds them for age, either to weal or woo. Then when hand ant. hand they entor their own home lt raise for themselves a family altai and plant their vino and Hg tree U sin her thorn In old age. I think that thc happiest time.- X. iiato to liest. Tho Nowbcrry Observer says "Hov, P, ll. E. Derrick and wifo were called to tho bcr'Hlde of Mrs. A. 10. Uelgei last Thursday, Mrs. delger was thc mothar Of Mrs. Derrick and wife of Dr Frank Geiger. Sho was tho mothoi of 12 Ohildren. Mrs. Geiger was o the family of Geigers that gave U history the Dmlly Geiger wno made tin daring ride from a point in Newborn county to tho continental commando at Orangeburg. Mrs. Geiger was lal* to rest tn the Sandy Run comotory oi Friday." ..>/ WAS WRONG. A Second Estimate of the Cotton ; Acreage by the Department. SOME ?EPO?TS USED. Crop Estimating Board Makes Report to : I Secretary Wilson. Tbe Report Says that Hyde, With Holmes Proinpting|liim, Made?Es tiinate Too Low. Assistant Scoretary Hays Wednes- ? day mudo tho foi.owing report to Seo? . rotary Wildon on tho acreage of cot-. ton in tito s< uthom Stages in 1906, as compp.it?d with that planted in 1904: ' The crop estimating board of the lep&rtment of agriculture has consid ered tho report issued by the bureau of statistics on June 2, relative to the acreage planted in ootton in the southern States in 1906, as compared with that planted lu 1904, and has, concluded: "First. That a new estimate should ba mado on acreago planted, and that ' i.be tlgures in Mr. TI y de's hands when: making ids estimate should be used aa the basis. "$tOonct That. Mr. Hyde with Mr. Holmes at his elbow, prompting him eade the tswmate lower than the . f, eis at his hand from the reports from the seven classes of reporters employed by tito bureau warrantied. "Third. Thc hoard finds, upon oare ful consideration of the reports of all la-ses of correspondents aud agents, that thc acreage planted in cotton bois year, iuclu lng the entire season, mould have beon estimated at 86 1 cr cent, of that planted last year, , qui valent to a nd uotlon in planted acreage as compared with laso year of 14 9 per cent, (inbtsad of 11.4) or 4,731,000 acres, tho estimate of the otat acreage planted this year being' 2(5,999.000 acres. " i he estimated percentage of the il crease in each .of the cotton grow ug States ls as follows: Virginia, \?t North Carolina, 10; South Caro)'.na, 14; Georgia, 14; Ifiorida, 12; Alabama, ll; Mios'ssippl, 1(3; Louisiana, 17; lYxas, 10; Arkansas, 19; Tennessee, 13; Missouri, 16; Oklahoma, 16; In dian Territory, ll. "Tho aycraxes were made for each Stato by each ot the four members of ho board, und tho comparatively., .mall disagreements were harmonized vmn.,i; wholly by averaging, and the above remits are fully agreed to by each and every member of the board. "Respectfully submitted: "VICTOii OLMSTKD, "STKI'IIKN p. E'KSSKNDJCN, "GKOHQK K HOLMES, "W. W. LONG?, "Crop Eibl mating Board." v- "The above Undings and report mat.^ under my supervision have my oitlroNyproval. "W. M. HAYS, 'Assistant Secretary in Charge Bureau oTfcst*tli?tlcs." Approvear Secretary oT^,,riouilure.>? Sixty live YoarflV^fo, A boy anda girl were together six ty.five years ago, near Cross Hill, A lien they carno aoro.*sa terrapin, of the highland kind. While tho young people Sib balking together the boy, vith his henknlfe, cut his initials on ohe underneath front side of the ter apin's shell, and the date. The ter rapin was turned loos?. Only a few wet ks ago this terrapin was found not more than a hundred yards from the same spot, with the initials and date as plain as bhe day bhey were cut on uhe shell, thc bcrrapin having grown very little in tho 02 years that had intervened. The boy of 05 years ago, now a man of more than seventy-five, rcmemuered bim incident and at once reconized ttie letters and ligures as ois own. He ls now a widower. The girl of that dav ls still alive, and ls a vidow. Ile ls still a citizen of the same neighborhood. Soe moved away many j ears ago. The above st'?ry ls vouched forby the Newberry Observer. O lldgC and <i ury. In 1883 a man was ohaiged in Vio borla wi tn having killed another man -vith a sandbag, an l In thofacoof the juoge's summing up, bhe jory brought i i a verdict of not guilty. This an noyed the chief justice, Slr Matthew Hegble, who at once said: "Gentle men of the jury, mind, that is your verdict, not mine. O i your consci ence will rest the stigma of returning suco a disgraceful verdict. Many repetitions of such conduct as yours will make trial by jury a horrible farco and thc City of Victoria a city immorality and crime. Go, I have Kithing more to say to you." And ihen turning to tho prisoner, the bief justice added: "You are dis charged. Go and sandbag some of those jurymen. Toey deserve lt!" ltRtttuBimkeu in tho Ht root. Ten days ago a Dr. Arnold wont to Basin, Wyo., selling eye medlolno. To itti act attention to his wares tho doo tor brought with him a collection of froaks, among them hoing a snake charmer with several boxes of rattle snakes. H aving no stato license, the doctor was arrested, tined $00 and sent 0 jail for a week. Upon being liber ated he found that his freaks had dis appeared, the snako oharmer leaving behind his olhctlon of full grown rattlers. About dusk Arnold went Into tho center of tho town and open ed the doors of tho snako oages, per mitting the twenty llvo big rattlers to esoapo. Arnold then got ont of town on horseback. Tho alarm was spread and a night of terror was spent by tho citizens, who wero afraid to leave their residences because of tho rattlers. Arnold will bo lynched If ho ls caught. Mix Italian? Kuma. Six Italian laborers were killed and force others probably fatally In jured Thursday. They were atruok by a train of tho New York Central [railroad at Trlbsa Hill, N. Y.