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Tne "DO TI?OU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IS THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS ULORIOUS IN THY OA USE," VOL. XX/s xi. BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1905. AN ADDRESS In Which Attention is Called to the Cotton Scandal. ISSUED TO MEMBERS Ol the Southern Cotton Association In Reference to the Recent Disclosur es of Fraud Ju the National Ag ricultural Department and Work Accomplished. President Jordan and Secretary Oheatham of the Southern Cotton as sociation Tuesday Issued a statement addressed to tho mombers of the asso ciation calling attention to tho recent disclosures in tho cotton statlstlcil work in the department of agricul ture, dedaring that efforts aro being made to divort attention from the "deficiencies" of tho syBtem Itsolf "to tho thieving propensities of a few un worthy onlcials" and setting forth de mands to be made on congress to re form conditions. The statement fol lows: "To the Members of the Southern Cotton Association: "The mombers of tho association have been apprised through the public press flom day to day of tho work done by the oflloers of the association at Washington. As a result of thoir oharges tho unreliability of the roports of the department of agrlculturo re lating to the cotton crop baa been ful ly dlsolused, and the mal-administra tion of thatldepartment under its pres ent head had been mado evident. "Following these exposures, elTorts aro now being made to divert public attention from tho main issue, which ls, the imperfections of the depart ment, toward an attempted prosecu tion of anybody who can bo found as a scapegoat. Their punishment, oven if it is accomplished, is of second ary importance as compared with tho reformation of the system which has made thoir performances possible, and the purpose of this address ls to secure the co-operation of tho members of this association In inllucnolng in every legitimate way a reformation of the syBtem, . and a reorganization of the department. "The membership of this associa tion, numbering nearly 1,000,000, in cluded tho producers of tho moat valu ahio'.-product of American agriculture. Tho cotton otop of tho United States'; and its by products ls worth between $600,000,000 and $700,000,000 annual ly. It furnishes two-thirds of our an nual traoe balance, and in its produc tion and manufacture employs many million Individu?is. No other product of the United Suates is of greater or Of equal importance. The practical monopoly of cotton which Amerioa enjoys, and tho narrow balance which has existed for years between su lb ciency and scarcity in tho world's cue ton supply, render the cotton market peculiarly and acutely susceptible to the reports of the department, of a? rlculturo regarding the condition and prospects of the cotton crop. "Under the present circumstances a great duty devolves upon the members of the association We are less con cerned with what has been done by a few Individuals and the c nsiqueuces thereof, regrettable as that they may be, than with such reformation of de partmental methods as shall secure for us just and accurate reports In future. Under thc system ab present in vogue, and which promises to he undisturbed unless public attention shall be aroused to thc need of reform, the reports Issued by tho department of agriculture are, in their last analy sis simply the individual opinion of a few olllclals of doubtful experience and honor by which the value of tho cotton orop may be, and has been, affected as much as $75,000,000 In a single day. "No such power should be delegat ed to any Individual, or statistical board, except under conditions which guarantee the most ir corruptible ex pert and intelligent opinion, arrived at by the application cf the most soient!tic methods and safeguarded by the most scientific precautions. It is, therefore, urgently recommended to the members of the Southern Cotton association that through their repre sentatives In congress, and by every other means available to them, they .exert their Influence and that of the association toward securing the im mediate reorganization of tho agricul tural department, especially with re ference to Its reports on tho cotton orop, and that their representatives In congress be requested specifically to demand: (1) The establishment with in the department of agriculture of a bureau, to be known as thc cotton IrtlifciU, charged specially and solely with the duty Ot .". porting upon thc cotton crop and all matters concern ing that staple. (2) tho appointment as thc hoad of that bureau, at an ade quate salary, of a man whose reputa tion and antecedents shall OG beyond reproach, and whose familiarity with cotton cultivation shall bo an addi tlonal guarantee of his fitness. (3) An orgi alsation of the bureau so estab llshud upon thoroughly scientific lines, as will Insure no possible blas ir.lfayor of either buyer or seller, or producer or manufacturer can be pro supposed or asserted. (4) The passage of a law that will be moro specific In Its scope, and under which government employer, can bo prosecuted for giving away or selling valuable Information as has been done In the statistical bureau. "We have no doubt of tho ml Of tho Oflloers of tho department, but lt seems to be as misdirected in this orlscs as lt was In the antecedent por lod. All tho powers and lr.iluence of the department, of the lawyers and of everyman of tho government seams to be devoted to tho attempt to drag net a lot of Irresponsible speculators. That there have been for yearn leaks in the department ia aa well known tc the trade as tho exlstenoo of tho dc partment of Itsolf; but these are In significant as compared with the fun damental mismanagement. At ibis timo, however, thero ls a manifest en deavor to divert attention from the radical error* and deficiencies of the department Itself to tho thiovlng prop ensities of a few unworthy ( ill Mate. Let us not be mislead by any such misdirected energy. Let us reform at tho top and not on the side. Let us root out the offonders, cleanse the per sonnel, chance tho methods and ren novote the department from root to branch. Thon tho oause of cotton and good government will alike be served in Rooseveltian fashion. (Signed) "HARVIK JORDAN, "President Southern Cotton Associa tion. "RICHARD CHKATHAM, ''Secretary." FORGOT TO HANG MURDERER. Man (Jon vi ut ed in 1800. lins Juat 1)10(1 Natural Death. Howard A. Cleveland is dead at the state prison at Thomaston. after hav log bcou confined there slnoo 1809 under sentence of death. For some rea son, never explained, tho sentence was not carried out, nor was it annulled or modified. It seems to havo been forgotten, and (Jloveland llvod on until ho died a natural death. The oaso was one of tho most re markable in this state. It was tho only murder ever oommltted in Orrlngton. The records show that Cleveland was indicted for thc willful and mallolous murder of Warren George. A verdict of guilty was rendered in 1809, Clove land was sentenced to death. Before fixing the day for tho execution, the governor and counsel submitted the following question to the Supreme Court of Maine: "Did tho Jury, by its verdict, lind Cleveland guilty of murder iu the llrst degree?" The Jury bas moroly declared Cleve land guilty of the orlmo whereof he stood indicted. The indictment's in tent was plain, but there was some difference of opinion among the jus tices as to whether tho man had been legally convicted of murder in tho first degree. Then tho oouucil passed an order "that the government be advis ed to stay thc execution of sentenoe until further advised." The oaso then seems to bava been dropped by tho state authorities. Tho sontonoo was never commuted. Just wily no attempt was made to oar ry tho Beutenco into effect does not appear. Slnoo 1814 tho laws had left tho exeoution of the death penalty in a measure to the discretion of the ex ecutive, without limit of time. The responsibility was so great and the sentiment against the death penalty so active that at one period thero was no exeoution in this state for nearly thirty years. In 1870 the death pen alty was abolished altogether. In 1883 tho death penalty for murder was re wd,?.hljHhed. hut, 1001887 lt) was autaiu abolished. A GHOST ?TORY. Tho Pooplo ol a Qooi'Rla Town Very Much lOxerelHOil. A dispatch to tho Atlanta Journal says tho neighborhood known as Roa noke, which Is located about ono mile from Fitzgerald, Ga., is very much ex jiu d over tho appearanoo of a sup posed ghost. It made it appparance for the llrst time last Sunday night io thc 1 amity of H. Sharp. It gave an exhibition that thoroughly alarmed the family. It appeared in the kltohi n and fairly made the house ring with mu do from a dish pan. Mrs. S^arp appeared on the scene and his ghost ship disappeared as if by magic. On leaving the room the music again com menced. This time Mrs. Sharp returned with the samo result. She ttiought to bribe Mr. Ghost 80 she left a piece of money on the table and left the room Again the dish pan dauce.d about and the dishes rattled as though an earth quake had taken place. Mr. Ghost did not accept the price offered for his de parture, but Instead walked about the place. On approaching it, lt dlsap pearod and would bob up at a distance. Shooting at it had no effect whatever. Monday night crowds of people vis ited tho placo from thc neighborhood and the city. Some claimed to have seen it at a distance. From the waist up lt was dressed in white. Al times it seemed lo he floating in the air near the ground. Again lt would lean against a tree or fence. Sometimes it would appear as though approach ing the parties, but before gotting In speaking distance it would disappear to hob up at some other point. It has only visited the Sharp family, hut ls claimed that several neighbors have seen lt. A lady from tho north died in the nc* hborhood about a year ago and he hmband disposed of their houso hold effects and returned to tho north. Among the things sold was tho dish pan that has played tho leading role in this story and han caused tills fami ly much worry and fright. It ls thought by some that this pan should be burled at tho grave of the deceased and then the spirit will confine his ghostshlp to tho graveyard where ho properly belongs. Wild Man Caught. A nude crazy man, who has been hilling in tho woutis alongside thc New Jersey and Now York railroad tracks, south of Hackensack, N. J., for thc last fow days, was captured early Wednesday morning by Con stable Jacob Dunn. Ho had made a wreath of twigs and tied lt around his waist, but lb offered little proteo Mon. His body was a mass of soars from head to foot. Ho was nearly exhausted Tho wild man said ho was John Vincent Gallagher, and that his home was in Hoboken, whero he said his brother William lived In Wil low streot. beyond this Gallagher could tell nothing about his wander ings. Ho nan tho initials J. V. G.' tattooed on his arm. Constablo Dunn found it necessary to got clothes fron people living near whoro Gallagher was captured, in order to dress tin stranger beforo taking him to th? Jail there;_ Killed hy Train. Mr?, muon Carnes, aged 24, wife o: TLnhftrfc flames fchft M?nrhi>at.ei i > I ?)'. I M ' . ? ? ...... ?*--" w mills, Rock Hill, was struck by a trail on tho Southern road on Tuesday o last week and Instantly killed. Five Persons Killed Outright and Nine Injured ?N A THUNDER STORM On Coney Island. Storm Vluyn Havoc With Peonies' Nerves. Men, Wo men and Children, Terrified, Seek Shelter In Bath House Which Was Struck. During a thunderstorm of terrific Intensity whloh passed over Nov? York Sunday afternoon live persons were struck by lightning and instantly killed and nine woro seriously injured at the Park nay bath house, Oouey Is land. At tho samo time one man was killed and three wore prostrated at Gravesend boaoh. Thoso killed: Goorgo Dunwoodie; BuiTalo; Jaooo Frankel, Manhattan; Hubert F. Wasoh, Bronx Borough; Charles Bennerlo, Brooklyn; llonry Ransweiler, Brooklyn. Tho injured: David Willis, James J. Dunne, Tina Christiansen, Harry Krohn, Clara Thiel, Mary L. Curley, Isaao Raffo and wife, Amelia Schone, Wm. Ransweiler, John Apple, Daniol McCauley, all of Broklyn. Tho Parkway beach was thronged with bathets and Bpeotators. Tho rain dcBoended In torrents and hun dreds of men, women and ohildren sougut shelter under tho big giaut bath hoiue, which is elevated above thc sand on piles. Tho lightning was inoessant aud terrino thunder olaps shook tho bath houso to the terror of thc crowd huddled together beneath lt. A few minutes before 6 o'clock a bolt struok the ilagstaff and grounded In tho very thickest of thc orowd. Mcarly 60 persons wore prostrated and the reBt, screaming with terror, I rushed out Into the storm. Thoso who had remained in the water were also panic striokon and Hod in all di rections, not darlug to enter the bath houso, whloh appeared to be on fire Ambulances woro summoned from all tho nearest hospitals and on their arrival five persons were found dead and nine unconscious under thc bath houso. The bodies of all wore scorch ed. The nine Injured wore removed to a hospital, where lt was said that some probably would die. Many per sons less seriously hurt were taken homo by friends. A slight lire in tho 6y tn'o rah? w:^?ll,<,klv. qxthjautahja^ Henry Ranswellor was struok and killed while sheltering under a tree at Gravesend beaoh and his son William, with John Apple and Daniel McCau ley were rendered unconscious. Light ning struck at various points in the city. A store in Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, was burned and a cir in Sixth avenue, Manhattan, was set on dre, but the ocoupants esoaped un hurt. The electric light and the tel ephone wires in Bellevue hospital were struck several times, extinguish ing all the lights and causing much alarm among the patients. Nett Allowed to Joke. Tho yellow fever Har is to be made to suffer in Charleston, as he is pun ished in other c immunities, tho board of health having Wednesday memor ialized city council to pass an ordl mince meting oui. sevore penalty to thoso who think that there is some* thing funny In Joking about tho lover. There ls no yellow fever or even tho most slightly suspicious c~.-.e, and tho board of health does not propose to have the Jokers Joke about it Tnt rc ls a ola8S of people In ?vary community ready and disposed to joke on mattorw of serious moment, but time ls to bo called on the fever Jokers in Charles ton, for lt ls not, intended that they should bc allowed to Jest about a mat ter of suoh concern to the city. Bhot Dead by Kival. Maurice Franois, a well known young man of Roanoke, Va., while on hts way to visit his tlancec, MIKS Grace Link, In Floyd county, Thurs day, was shot from ambush and killed. He was driving In ? buggy, and was within one milo ol lils desti nation, when two loads cf shot and slug bit him. Ho lived long enough to say that his assassin was John Rich ards, a young school teacher, who was a rival suitor for Miss Link's hand. Richards was seen in the vicinity with a shotgun just before tho murder, and bas not been seen since. A posse ls scouting the county searohlng for Riobard's, and lynching is openly threatened. Both men wore mem bers of well known families. Rich ards was a medical student at the University of Virginia during thc last session. Furor Caneos i'anlo, Sinoo a report of a susnlclous case of fever at Texarkana, Texas, a sort of paidc ls seizing some of tho towns and counties In northeast Texas and shotgun quarantines aro being put into eilect. GregK county bas given orders that trains shall not stop in the county either from thc north or south and that all stations must bo approached with doors looked and windows tightly dose, while all car doors In freight trains must bc scaled whether the oars arc empty or loaded. Tho terror appears to bc spreading , and rallrond oillclals foar serious rc , suits. 1 Crushed to Doatli. Robert W. Orlawoll, odltor of a weekly publication, who was arrested , recently on a charge of criminal libel, preferred by Representative Joseph 1J. ' Rhlnook of Kentucky, was killed 1 Thursday night In New York by an [ oxpresa train at tho Seventy-second * 8treot station of the subway. Thc * libel ohargo against eriswell grew out of tho publication of an artlolo rellcot lng upon Mr. Rhlnook and censuring f Representatives Nloholas Longworth r nf Ohio for having Introduced MlhS i A Bee Roosevelt to the Ron tucky con f grossman d iring tho visit of tho presi dent's daughter in Cincinnati. SAVES A THAIN Filled With Passengers from Awful Doom and Whoa Offered High Kduoatlon Uer Fearful Love Marries Hov to I'rovent flor ..Qrowln?: Up a Iiady." Little Nannie Gibson, a 15-year-old mountain girl, saved a whole train load of people from being dashed down tho mount?in-Bido in front of her homo In the mountains of North Car olina not far from Asheville. In recognition of this hcrolo aot, the Southern railroad promised her a coUego education. Her mountaineer lover, Unding it out, married her by stealth, in hopes to provont her going. Her futuro is now depending jn a suit for dlvoroo which her father ls bring ing for her. Nannie lives in tho mountains, 20 miles cast of this oity. Tho dream of her life has been to receive an educa* tion and grow up a lady. Its realiza tion bad always seemed to be as far away as the skies. Now it seems to be at hand, and sho has been simply dazed by tho fairy-like prospeot. It all came about ono day whoo Nannie (Uncovered that a la.nd dide had blocked the traok at a sharp curve of tho Southern raliway near her booie. Even as she looked there sounded tho whistle of a passenger train thundering down the mountain. Nannie met the emergenoy by send ing Patty Gibson, her 13-year-old sinter, down the traok to RU ard against thc remote possibility of a wreck from that direction. She chose the post of danger, tunning with all her might to meet the coming train. "When lt drew into sight she frantically Big naled the engineer to stop. He hesitated. But her earnestness WP.s so great that he realized a disas ter was imminent. The airbrakes were applied and tho train brought to a standstill with a sharp J)lt only a few rods from tho blockade. When he saw the danger big Con ductor Weaver anatohed her up in his arms and swore s-ie was tho bravest Kiri in North Carolina. Grateful pas sengers, learning of their narrow es cape showered lier with money. Asa preliminary tributo tho company in a day or two sent her ?25. Tho railway ofttolals, however, rightly surmised that to a girl reared in the freedom of the mountain wilds money meant little. So one of their number was delegated to visit the oabin in the hills to ask Nannie tho momentous question: What did she most desire in tho v/orld. Nannie's littlo faoo, tanned by a southern sun and wind, turned palo. Then her story came ?? "?n ??' hWe'gusnoi teariut ivoiuo, tjueu want money, she didn't want olothes, for her father, with growing pride in his protty daughter, had made sundry trips to Asheville and returned with wonderful "creations" ,of white and unwonted shoes and stooklngs; but she did want au education kand to grow up a lady. The papers are now going thc rounds of the railway cftUlals, with ono favorable recommendation after another, and lt seems as though Na ture's groat wish is to be gratified Tnere ls one serious obstacle lu the way, though it will probably be re mtv. d. Ninnie bas bl en married. Siie had a lov. r, Abi Smith, an open facet1, laughing, careless moun taineer, eight yeats older than she. In almost startling contradiction tc bis burly Rwagger and ince-.sant elga rette smoking ls his gentle, caress!fifi voice and his courteous and kindly manner. To this sturdy mountaineer tho reali/.itlni that Nannie was going to leave for years, probably and that he might lose her, was unbearable. He must marry her and prevent ber going. Il ; sent a friend to town to get a marriage license. Then with the fri? nd for a witness and a magis trate for the ceremony he went to Nannie's home one morning when he knew ber father was away and mar ried her. Little could Nannie haye to say, for in tho absence of her father she knew no law except that of her Impetuous lovor. The enraged father was quick to action. He caused the arrest of Smith and the mun who had procured the license on the ground that Nannie was not of legal age. Ile also began suit to have the marriage sot aside. Upon thc success of this ault will de pend largely whether Nannie Is to get an education, tho ono great dream of her Ufo. Four Rt n Hirth. The Florence Dally Timen says that H. 1' Brown, manager of a large mer oin tilo company at Gourdin, says that bis little town bas been brought into prominence through the agency ol none other than a nogro woman about 2S years old, who Wednesday startled that community by giving birth te four children, all of whom at last ac counts were living. The woman If tho wife of Louis Creen, who is today a much prouder man than a police man In a bran new uniform. Mr, Drown remarked In telling of the var lons remarkable fact, that ls such kept up thc labor question In Gourd it would be effectually std ved. Heut Papers Hack, Lieut. Lally of the Detroit detec tive department has received a mys terious package which contal ncc checks, notes and other Important pa pers aggregating In value about $2f> 000, belonging to tho Crystal Sall Company of St. Clair, Mich. Tin Oftloes of tho company were robbet several weeks ago and the papers stol en, tugethor with what monoy couk be located, lt ls supposed th L? tht burglars found themselves unable t( dispose of tho valuable papers, and deciding to return thom, shipped then to Lally. Tliey havo boon sent to tin Arm In St. Clair. Dcsporatto oauKht. Chas. Long, tho Trenton negro mur derer and outlaw, who for tho pas couple of weeks has boon huntct through the swamps and woods nea Plainfield, N. J., wasoaptured abou IA AV.Ieelf vv... i.......... .. mnvMlno hw til* polloo. Ht* wasoaptured while plow lng* on tho Van Hizo farm, wblol skirts thu dismal swamp, ?Sm O?D IN DEATH A Nft^Vork Broker's Body Is Left ia Mis Hail BEE HE IS FOUND By III? Wife, Who May be Made n ii ? '? Mani ni hy the Shock. The Dead Maa lind Been Robbed of a bin? ond Setting In a Ring #? that he Wore. New york has another murder mys tery. Brought homo in a oovcred ex press wtfgon and dumped in the vesti bule of hi!? house by two express men, tao body of James A. Olary, a real estate broker, wortb $260,000, was found Thursday by bis wife when she returned from a shoping trip. Thc wife stumbled over the oorpse as sbo entered the vestibule and is now on che verge of insanity. Au investigation of the oaso was be gun immediately, with the result that there ls a strong suspicion that Cleary was murdered. Ile wore a two and a hali carat diamond ring, which some one bad tried to tear from bis finger. Gutting ibo Anger, but failing to get the ring, the robber took some instru ment and bent back tho prongs of the ring, stealing the diamond. The oase ls a deep mystery, and a half dozen detsctlves have already been put to work on lt. Coroner's Phy sician IUegelmau beltovosOlary died of alcoholism, but his friends say bc drank but little, and thc doctor bas not yet held an autopsy, and conse quently the police are not willing to accept the alcoholism theory. Tho olroumstanocs surrounding thc return of the body to the Cleary home in the express wagon were partially olearod up, but tho detectives expect that before they get through they will learn enough to show that mur der was committed. Cleary, who was forty-two years old, was in tho real estate business with two brothers at No. 106 Varick street, and lived at No. 1224 Woodycrost avenue, the Brotix. He had made a great' deal of money in the Bronx boom, and is widely kLOwn. Thursday morning he left bis homo as usaal and Mrs. Cleary wont out. .".uv eturnod at 1 o'olock and as she en1 od the vestibule she stumbled Throw's-the outer door jp leb tne~iignu ir. she was horrified to se? the body of hor husband. "What's the matter with you, Jim," she asked, anxiously, dropping to her knees. There was no answer. An odor of whiskey was in the vestibule. She shook the body for a moment and then felt the face, lt was cold. '.Oh, Jim, you're dcadl" she scream ed, rising and rushing from the vesti bule. Tho horror of tho situation had dawned on her, and her shrieks brought tho neighbors to the windows, and In a few moments dozens of them werri at her side, trying to quiet her. A physician was summoned by a nolgh bor, wno thought bbc bad gone insane. Finally some one entered the vestibule, And, seeing the body, understood. Former Police Captain Brown, who lives directly acoss the street, was in ino crowd, and he b;gan an lnvestlg lon at once. It wai learned that au express wagon had backed up to the loor and a child had seen Cleary cir ried up the steps by two men. A search for tho exprosi wagon was hegun at once, with the result that Harry Black, (if No. 58 Sedgwick ave ue, and James Wilson, of No. 2455 Eighth avenue, were found to be thc men who bad carried the hedy up the stoop. At first lt was thought thal these men could tell the story of how Cleary had lost bis life, but after hear ing their stories tho police accepted their ?talements. They both admit ted carrying tho body Into tho vesti bule and leaving lt there, saying that they believed Cloar, was Intoxicated and that they were doing him a kind ness. "We were driving along O^dcn ave nue,"said Black, "whon we saw Cleary sitting on a low stoop lu front of a candy store at No. 1154 Ogdon avo nuo. "I happoned to know bim by sight and thought he ought to bo homo. We looked on it in tho light of a Joke to take him home in an express wagon, so wo lifted him Into our rig and drove to his hous9. "Carrying him up tho steps wc rana thc bell and waited for some one tt answer, but there was no ono at home, and after making him as comfortable as poaslble wo loft, never having thr slightest suspicion that it was any thing but a oase of intoxication." Both men were closoly questioned about the ring but they denied abso ltltely knowing anything about it. They said they hod not noticed If the diamond was In it. or if tho (inger, was Injured when they found him. They said they were positive that ho was not dead when they left him, and that he was broathing heavily, ike an Intoxicated man. Cross-exam ination failed to bring out any furthei Information. Tneir story was partially substan Mated by others who saw Cleary or the candy store stoop, and though! ho was Intoxicated, and tho express men satislled tho police that they hat told all they knew. ______ Olianriolior Foll. At Charleston ono of tho four larg< heavy chancho lera, containing ?bon 50 gas jots with glam* ainui??, foi Thursday afternoon from the dome o the custom house to tho marblo till floor beneath with a mighty eras! causing great consternation among th< oiiloials and olorka in tho building The llxtures were broken and some o tho tiles damagod. Fortunately no om was passing In the lobby at the time Th6 Chandelier WM prch&hly helrl li placo for tho>;o many years by tho gai pipo which had oorrodod and rofuset to bear tho weight any longer. TUMED LOOSE. Aaron Williams, Colored, Who Was Convioted ls Kow Discharged. The l?n? of nn Important ?nd si^nt ?cRiit Uaso In Willoh Lynching WAS Onoo Tlirontonort. A special dispatoh from Camden to The Stato says last year the county, especially tho portion Kershaw coun ty bordering Sumter county, was thrown into great excitement on ac count of a reported caso of rapo, which was said to haye been oommltted upon a M rn. Langley, white, by one Aarou Williams, a negro, of tho puro Afri can typo. Vory peoullar clrcum stances surrounded tho oase. Thc oitizons baoame indignant and threat ed lyuoblng, and Aaron Williams un der protection of law was esoorted tc tho penitentiary for safe keeping. The husband of Mrs. Langley com mitted suioldo. Aaron Williams at the February term of court was brought back and placed on trial for tho offense. He wa? without oounsel, and by appoint ment of the court, Hon. W. Ii Trantham, of tho Camden bar con? ducted his defense. Tho jury con victed him upon tho testimony of Mrs. Langley, and he was sentenced to bi hanged. From the testimony de veloped In tho case and tho circum stances connected with the affair, many of tho vory best white people of the county bolleved In the innooence of Aaron Williams, and a petition was gotton up and submitted to GJV. ney we.rd asking for a reprieve until satisfactory proof could be prooured, whioh would establish tho fact that Aaron Williams was not guilty of the charge. Aaron Williams was without money, but he was not without friends and their offerts in his behalf succeeded In having the excoution of tho death sontence stayed, and the case came up before Judge Prince at the April term of court at this point for a new trial on after discovered evidence. Judge Prince from the showing made very promptly granted Aaron a new trial, and his caso was placed on thc docket for trial last week. When the case was called for trial the witnesses for the prosooutlon were not present, Mrs. Langley, it is claimed, having absolutely rofused to appear any more in court to testify against him. She now resides outside ot the Stato. It was impossible to secure a conviction in tho case without tho tcstimcny of Mrs Langley, and as she is now be yond the jurisdiction of the court, and could not bo brought boro against hor will, and she having sent word that she would not como, lt has re sulted practically in the acquittal of Aaron Williams, for he has been dis .'charged. ..without bond from the cus tody of the sheriff. He ls how a free man to go wheresoever ho may desire. After Aaron's couviotlon, tho white people in this community who be lloved in his innocence had the law firm of Clark Sc Von Tresokow to look after the accuded negro's interests. When tho oase was oalled for tria on tho session's side of court lost weeli Messrs. Clark & Von Tresckow de manded a trial for their client, anc the State not hoing in a position t( try lt because of the absence and rc fusal of Mrs. Langley to como here, the attorneys had spread upon tin minutes of court their demand for im mediate trial, and this under tho sta tute entitled Williams either to a tria or his discharge, as he has been con lined In Jail over three terms of court, JuJge Ernest Gary Thursday after noon signed an order which liberate* Aaron Williams from Jail on his owr recognizance under the section of the statutes above referred to. This end* tho case which created so much dis oussion at tho time In the newspaper.-: and the man who bas been living h the shadow of the gallows for nearl) a year ls now freo. This case is om of the best exemplification and J us tl ?oatlon of tho moral plea of lettlm the law take Its course that bas eve come under the observation, know ledge or Information of the writer At tho time of the alleged commis sion of the assault Aaron William came very near hoing the vlotim of ! mob, and a few weeks lator he stoo< up in court, pleaded for mercy am beard the death sentence pror.ou icei upon him. Today ho ls breathing th life of a now man with no restriction on his movements, inclinations o peregrinations. Tho Din'oronoo. Apropos of the recent race riots li New York, The New York Tribuno i 1 frank enough to say : "Weare give ' to oritlolsing the lawlessness which li southern communities leads to rac ! vendettas and wholesale lynohlngs, bu in tho south such outbreaks usuall follow some flagrant crime and aim a 1 punishing known or suspected crlml 1 nals. In Friday's disturbance thl ! excuse as a resort to violence wa * wholloy lacking. On trivial ground* or without any grounds at all, white . attacked blacks and blacks attacko whites. I loth classes seem to hav acted on the merest impulse of rac 1 prejudice and race rancor." lOAllml Out tho MilitI*. At Vlsulia, Cal., it was necessar i to call out thc looal military oompan , Wednesday night in order to protec i private property and roatoro ordci Thc trouble started by three lire ' which wcro accompanied by plllag followed by determined efforts on par ? of citizens to protect their propert i by force of arms. While tho lir b raged, dureront parts of the cit . were in darkness, during which tim I thievos got busy. The total losses b Uro are about ttto.ooo. Country Boy No Fool, j A boy sat on a rall fence enolosln h a corn Held. A ol ty chap passed bj ] sahl: "Your corn looks kind of ye f law, hub." "Yep, that's thc kind w 3 planted," roplled tho bub. "It don i look Uko you will got moro than s half orop," said tho city chap. "Nopi ( wo don't expcot to; tho landlord gel f tho other half," retorted tho younj a stor. Tho strangor hesitated a mt , mont and the ventured: "You ai ) not vory far from a fool, ar* yon. m " boy?" "Nope, not mor'o'n ten foot, \ said the boy, and tho oity ohap move on.-X, AWFUL EXPLOSION Willoh Carried Instant Perth andi Destruction Over Wide Area. Hom Ar knblo Ao olOonto Duo to Flying j Iron and Hook. Woman Blown Into HWor. Man Soalded, Exploding and (lying high In air, a ] big boiler of tho Now York city sub way tunnel paint near tho North river reoentlj Ecattered jagged iron and in jury for blocks around and left in the ruins behind lt a man scalded almost to death. Braye volunteers answered his calla for help and forced their way to him and out again through heavy steam and rain of minor missiles from the sky. Ile died later in the J. nood Wright hospital. Other men, too, were carried out, two of thom neat death, and there wero other rescues j in stranger places. Ono of these was I of a woman whom tho couousslon lit erally blew into the river, another a motor toat race to a hospital with threo wounded boys. Oae bizarre effect of the blast was the toppling into the river of forty bath houses that floated away, leaving I twoscorc of bathers in a predicament as to clothing and homeward journeys that only night and a deal of charity solved. The physical shook of the ex plosion was felt for a milo around. Its after effeots were folt by tho whole city, lt stopped ail work on the west branoh of the subway, the rcox tunnel under Washington heights. Tho boiler was ono of four in a long sheet iron power houso that furnished light and compressed air for the deep rook work lugs of the uptown Bubway. Tho ex plosion destroyed tho other boilers and much of tho machinery and set back the completion of that section indefinitely. A former accident, a cave-in, had already delayed the work seriously, but lt had been planned to open the subway to Its uttermost limit tn thc fall. Tiie cause of the explosion was not detluttely know, but two men wore placed under arrest. Had the acci dent occurred on a week day, with more than 600 men working in the tunnel, thero might havo been great loss of life. Air would have been shut . ff from the workors. The explosion occurred in what is known as Mc Kabe's power houso, which lies just oast of the New York Oontral traoks. Three years ago McKabc failed and sold out to a man named Hunt, and After that John B. McDonald, tin subway contractor, gained control of che works for the purpose of finishing the long subway tunnel ai, that point The power, house consisted ot a sheet I I iron building the length of three olby lots and running baok a distauoj o 150 feet. ITour tall ohlmneyB rising fifty feet in the air stand at tho cor ners of the building, which contained besides thc compressing plant ano lynamos a batteiy of four eighty | non-epower hollers, and it was one o; diese which blew up. It was just a 4:30 o'clock that toe quiet of ti o Sun tay af LO moon was broken by the ter rille roar of tho buisung boiler. 1 was followed immediately by an up rising cloud of di tuc black smoke borough which pieces of rock, stout ?nd steel shot up as much as 300 fee in the air in all directions. %, ^ The shock was iel o over a mile away where folk on thc oars to aud fron Fort George were almost shaken fron their ? eats by the OonOusslon, Patrol man George Kethman was on dut) near tuc heme, and, instantly realiz mg that a great accident had hap pened, ho telephoned tlrst to police neadquaiters and then to tho J. Hooo WrigLit hospital for ambulances ano an to the waver front. Before him what a second bciore had been a great, irong building was nothing but a broken and twisted mass of smoking ruins, from which came shouts an. screams for help. ''Let me out I Let ene out 1" shrioktd a voico from tut very center of the wreckage "i'm ?oiling to deathl Do anything 1 1 want to diel I want to diel" hy this time a large crowd had gathered near tho smoking ruins, and as tiie agonizing cries broke out afresh scores of faces blanched. Three men jumped forward and pressed ttieit way into the building toward the ioreamlng man. As they disappearec in tho smoko and dust women wlu were prosont called to them to come oack and not to risk their lives in what scorned to b3 vain hope. For awhile nothing was heard ol them, out after several minutes they were seen to emergo from tho steaming clouds bearing in their arms the body of a odored man practically stripped to tho skin. Ho was Josoph Morgan, a tlreman, who had been lu thc pit stoking when the holler exploded. With tho cxoeptlon of sumo shredt of underwtvar Morgan was nakod. Bis bead and body wero scalded in a dozen places whero the boiling steam had caught him, and one arm was stripped of llesh almost to tho bono, jet the man was conscious. His screams only made tho work the harder for his res cuers. He was laid on the ground and after a few minutes was whisked oil to tho J. Hood Wright hospital, where he lingered in agony until carly morning, when he died. Tiie men who braved death to save him were ICdward L. Byrnes, Albert ilildobrand and Andy Marshall. Tneso men im mediately aftor getting Morgan to safoty turned baok again to help the other poor wretches who had boon caught in thc building. Meantime in tho vlolnity of tho accident othor persons had been blt by tho Hying rooks and iron plates and moro or lesa Injured. One of tho worst sufferera was Edward Altonsea, a thlrtecn-year old boy. He was walking along the wow york Oontral tracks whon a piece nf sheet iron tmiriing through tho air fell on his loft foot and severed three of his toes as If out by a knife. Ohargod With Murdor. Will Gabo, charged with tho mur der of a man named Pluraley In up per Greenville Gounty In 1800, hat surrendered to tho shorlff. Tho grant! jury at ono timo found "no bim against Gabo, but subsequently roto rn cd a true bill, Gabe will have tt stand trial. YELLOW FEVER t?as Made Its Appearance in the City of New Orleans AND OTHER PLACES. Three Hundred sad Pour People Have * Had It Up To Tuesday la New Or leans Alone, of Which Number Slxty*Two Persons Have Died of the Disease. Yellow fever made its appearauoe In the ol ty of New Orleans last Thurs day, and sinse that time up to Tues day there has been three hundred and four oases. Of this number sixty-two oases have been fatal. The authorl ties aro doing all they can to stop the disease, but up to Tuesday they had not been very successful. There wore twenty-one new oases on that day and Aye deaths. Quarantines everywhere are being drawn tighter. A number of towns in Mississippi and Louisiana are cut ting themselves off from the world and the shotgun quarantines are being rapidly extended. Guards and in spectors are being wn.itipUed and trav- , el ls being made increasingly diflloult. Rven gasoline ls apparently barred from Vicksburg. Many people have left Now Orleans for the interior. While the feeling is constantly growing moro hopeful, there is appar ently no abatement of the excitement aud there is a panicky feeling in the country districts of Louisiana and Mis sissippi. Local business houses are beginning to feel the |eft*eots of the .soare. They aro receiving letters from traveling men telling of the cancella tion of orders In Mtssissipbi and else where because of tho reluctance of the country people to patronize stores whioh reoeivo goods from infected districts. Muoh distress is beginning to appear among the Italian population growing out of the practical expulsion of the .'rult business from Louisiana on ac count of the quarantines, and relief work ls one of the tasks whioh the italian sooletles and oiblzens commit cees will now have to address them selves to. A meetlpg of representa tive Italians has been held and per manent organization formed. A special to the Age-Herald from Meridian, Miss., says: Five Italians vere shot down by the guards of the retention station near Lu r barton Monday morning, two being killed and . liree seriously wounded. Dr. D maid, -tate health oflloer at Hattlesburg, ^ave out the first intimation of the oo curenoo over tho long distanoe tele phone shortly before noon and later na details were obtained from other sources. A case of yellow fever was developed i few days ago among Italian refu gees from New Orleans lu tho suburbs f thc town and the house In which he patient lay 111 was isolated. The > ate health authorities took care of be case>/ftfilltrV<jtto ' |n o^n act with tho sick mSTr**~""*>~*talued Hider, guard at a ca .np p?. ^ for he purpose. Five of these, etyrly Monday morning, made an at temp A lo toipe. Tbe guan s repeatedly cdh&d upon them to liait, but no attention vas paid to the order. The pursuing guards fired a volley it the fugitives, all of them falling ii their tracks. From the best ob cainable information two of the Ital ians were instantly killed by the vol hy and the other throe more or lesa crlously wounded. Lumberton is a own ou the New OiPans and Eastern railroad, about 80 miles northeast of New Orleans and contains the only ?ase of yollow fever thus fardcvoloped in Mississippi. Ilatoliod Out a Itattlor. The Charleston Post says a tiny rattlesnake, hatched from an egg in a glass Jar in tho window of F. Von Oven, on King street, is attraotlng notice from the pedestrians of the street. Tbe rattler's eggs were re ceived by Mr. Von Oven from a friend at Hell Hole Swamp, whioh is filled with rattlers, and for the sake of see ing what would happen, Mr. Von Oven put thc eggs, which are small and Bolf shelled like the turtle egg and of mottlod white oolor, In a big white jar and exposed them to the eua Wednesday. At noon tho young rat tler now In the jar broke sholl and oamo forth. He la about twelve Inohes. long, and the slzo of a slender pen holder, with the diamond marks on lils back, and aslondor squirming ton .mo. Ills head ls disproportionately large, and thc rattler already shows his 1 vicious r.ature by striking at a finger twiddled at him. I Where Aro Thoy? Mrs. W. H. Gook, an aged lady of Monroe, La., and her six-year-old granddaughter, who arrived in At lanta Saturday night, are both mys teriously missing from the Kimball house, where they wore shopping and tho police havo been asked to insti tuto a search for them. Tho eiisap* pearanoo is said to be a strange one, and no clue to it oan be found. Mrs. Cook ls 70 years edd, Sho and her i granddaughter left the Kimball pre sumably for a short stroll on Mouday, and since then nothing has been heard of them. Their baggage and other effcots arc still at the hotel. On arrival in Atlanta, Mrs. Gook, who i en route to Edgefleld, S. G., announced her intention of remaining in Atlanta onlv a day Or two. Tho hotel authori ties aro unable to account for their . absenoo. Wanted Broad. A number of German immigrants who recently passai through Oharies ton to work in a saw mill near Colum bia, have roturned to New York, al leging as tho refusal to work in this i State that they were not given wheat l or rye broad. They were given rice '. and pork which they did not oars for . and upon the refusal ot the mill peo* ) plo to supply bread, they laid down the toola and quit work.