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Democ -DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AN!) MAR'S OUR LI Y KB i * ?THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY 0AUS?5.? - - fr BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRI DAY^OCTOBER 20. 1005. The Captain and Four of a Schooner's Crew Murdered. MUTINY AND MURDER Four Bodies Thrown Overboard by the Murderers. Three Negroes, thc Remaining Members of the Crew o? thc Schooner Harry A. Ecrwhid, Brought to Southport, N. C. A speolal to tim Wilmington Star from Southport Wednesday night sajs theBOhoouer Blanche H. Klug, Capt, J. W. Taylor, Brunswick, Gi., Sopt. 23, for Pniladelphia,. put In thore Wednesday afternoon, bringing lu Serons three negroT, all that remained of the crew of thc four-mastered schooner Harry A. Borwind, Capt. Bumill, from Mobile, Sept. 23, to .Philadelphia, thc captain, mate, oook and an engineer who did hoisting aboard having bei n murdered iu a ? mutiny at sea and theil b dies thrown overboard. The body of a fourth nu ro of the crew was feu td lying on <*? < k whore ho, too had evidently be u ordered Capt. Taylor of the sein :, r King sighted the Borwind early VS t osdaj morning ab( ut 30 miles elf ti o Cape Fear bar and was attracted to ncr by the manner in which she was belog steered, having several times come vory near runuing down the Klug A near approach to the Uar wind showed that she hu 1 -1- practically abandoned. Capt. Tl. and crew boarded the vessel ano p ueed the three negroes in Irons, bri g th? two vessels oil the bar when one of them was towed in by Wilmington tug.', which have now gone for the otho*- schooner, a gale provailii g on the out8lc'e. Tho Borwind being from a territory against which this city is quarantined for yellow fever, tho three negroos in iron!; aro held in quarantine until ar rangements can be mude for their de tentlon by thc federal authorities, li develops from Ll.estolks of the ne groos brought in irons by tho King that the mutiny a^eas the result ol a quarrel aboard the ship early Tues day morning about sou e e< 1? ;e that was being brewed for breakfast. Toe King was signaled by the B.-rwlnd 'AO mlles(east of Fi y h g Pan llgiiishp ano in response to a signal Capt. Taylor sent lils mato, engineer and others to board the Berwlnd. The decks of the schooner were cov ered with blood, gm. g evidence of a fierce encounter, iii oerth ef tito mate was spotted with blood, ind. eating that he wus buichered in bed. After the board..;g party from the King handcuffed the mutineers on the ship one of the negroes complained the irons were too tight and hurt him. When one of the boarding ciow loos ened thc bracelet on the negro's ann the captive whipped cut a pistol anc. shot one cf his own ciew, the pre sumption baing that the mau klillec had signaled Hie King against me wishes of the three others; The total list of killed is four whites and one negro, the names of none of whom can bu learno ? flu Klug left a pr./' orow aboard he B r wind, which is still t ir the b .r, mr will bo brought in tomorrow morning United Stato Ctmmis:douoi P. Coi her and Deputy Marshall C. (>. Knox left tonight for the quarantine to take charge of the captives. THU IIOHltlllLlC STOKY. He. decks and cabins splotched with blood fruin tho fearful hutol on following the mutiny aboaidsblp ear ly Tuesday mornlt g tff tho N <rth Carolina coast, t o four-master) schooner Harry A. Borwind of Ptill adelphia was towt d into Southport Thursday by Wilmington togs Aboard were tho p ixe crow e>f tin New York soho ni r Blanche H. King, who were wanted ab witnesses a gat us I tho three negroes shackled ano' brought to the Cape Fear quarantlni station ion Wednesday, o?arted v,Ui mutiny and murder. At the pielio-inary Investigation before United States Commissioner! Collier of Wilmington and Pinner eil Southport today tho men who boan; eel theBerwInd told the story of o m dltlons on thc vessel as they found tliem, and the timo prisioners were then Introduced at their own request. They gave their names as It ?bert Sawyer, Henry Scott and Arthur Adams, all c< lored, and under -IO years of age. Sawyer and Adams em ployed counsel and ooth charged thai SCOttkilled r.?io live men uno tho ex ception of Capt. Bumill, who ^disap peared before day Tuesday morning in a manner of which they knew noth ing. Each said bo b!?.w Scott shoot tho mate on the lee side c f the ship, and throw his body overboard. Tuon he killed the engineer ar d went down the Companion-way. Very soon they heard shot" bd)0 4 deck In the galley, and a short whllo thereafter Scott oamo up again, bearing the body of the oook,a small white man,in hlsjarm depositing his binden over the rail. They afterwards bound Scott and wore steering tho vessel as best they could until overbj ulod by tho King. Scott says all tho seamen, four ne groes formed a conspiracy soon after leaving Mobho, Sept. 23, the colored seamen feeling outraged because of short rashlons. Ile said that bc killed no one except the negro seamen found on deck, Ooakley hy name, and that ho killed him lu self defense. (' ;ak loy hit him with a stick, and shot at him while bo was bound. Ito said he saw Ookely shoot the mate and saw Adams kill tho engineer. Ho docs not know how the cook was killed as the cMiuuLhig war. b?loW deck. Scott is a mullattoand ls tho most intelligent of the four; Adams is also a mullatto and claims to be a British Bubjeot from St. Vincent islands. Ali three of the n groes were held with out bail, and* are ooo ti ned In the Southport J Cfl for tbe federal court In Wilmington In Novembor. Three members of the orewef tho schooner Blanche H. King aro held as witnes ses but will give bond on the arrival bf the vessel owners tomorrow. SIGNIFICANT ETJGG < SHON. Vn m % Prohibition Source In Regard to liquor Law?. A dispatch from Columbia saj s there are strorg Indications tbat tito prohi bit on executive committee will, at thc lair week mooting, name a State ticket with Jose pb A. McCullough for Governor, and Louis J. Bristow for Lieutenant Governor. At tho oonfer onco held hero a few weeks ago both these men Opposed nominations being made, but Thursday's issue of The J Baptist Pross, ed I te 3 at Greenwood, hy Mr. bristow, nominates Mr. Mc j Cullough for Governor, and advocates ( putting out a ticket. It ls slgnllioant that the cdltorla. favors county control of the l'quoi question. "Lit us have a prohibition iaw, but whoro it will not be cnfo;Cid let it not be a force," says tho odltor lal. "Where a majority of men are willing to write their names on a pe- , tltlon asking for the privilege of sell . lng whiskey, the best thing to do ls to allow them to toll it, uucbr string cut regulations.1 ' Tuc editorial also nays. "Beyond the moral question Involved there ls a pollt'cil s.de. Men must l o elected t ottlce who will enforce a law against liquor selling, lu certain counties In this State that seems to bo quito be yond obtaining. A clear test of sen tl mont must be made. Prohibit lou ic impossible nowhere, but it seems lm practicable in somo localities. Uecog nlz ng this fact wc must take lt Into consideration. In a community where public sentiment is not t-utllc.ently strong to elect prohibition olllejrs who will enforce a prohibition law, such a law would bo Ihggrantly violated and would bs practically Inoperative and that fact must not be ignored. Tiiero fore, we say let ns adv. cate a prohtbi tlon law which will cover the entire State, but with a provision that thc county wiilch ls willing to assume the moral responsibility ai.d oiium of soil lng whiskey and the legal responsibil ity of enforcing the law, that such a county may votr upon the question -iud show where lt stands, lt such a county should decide to sell whiskey, then let the Legislature prescribe the manner in which it may be done, and throw around its sale all safeguards and restriction'., possible. "The dispensary ls fast going, and the moral element of cur ol ti zeus must have something to olfor in its stead or de moral//.allon will follow. "We have long been a student of the prohibition question, with parti culler referonce to South Carolina, and our calm judgment, upon mature con ditions, is brielly outlined in the fore going paragraphs. Prohibitionists are being lo ?ked to at this timo and we must e I? -.i thc Stato tho best method of dealing with this vexatious quos tion. But sucli a State prohibition law will not enforce itself. Wa must havt a Governor who will enforce lt, a p.-* hlbitionist." Preparing For Tho Fitir. The Chamber of Commerce of C > lumbla, as has been its custom for st.v eral years, is sparing no efforts to make the approaching State Fair ono Of the most s .COeSSful in its history. With cotton at lue and a wave ol property sweeping the State, it is ex peeled that the attendance will exceed ali farmer years. In anticipation of u large crowd the Columbia Street Rall svay has Increased Its facilities for handling the visitors by double track lng I ts lino from tho Transfer Station, or Capital Square, to tho Union Sta ion, th ance a b sit line encircling the Filr grounds, which is practically a double track all the way, and will af ford and ampio transportation. In addition to tho usual attractions ?f the week, the Chamber of Com mer ca has engaged the Barkoot Carnival Amusement company, which besides a band of its own, lias a varier ? of good clean shows, which will give exhibi tion at the several street corners, along with a number of free attractions. As usual, the theatre management has a splendid c.ird for ?bc week. Those txp ct!ng to visit the Pair, which bogil.i, October 24. ari l desiring t i secure boarding and sleeping ao eommodatlon.- should at onco commun icate with Mr. IC, Ii. Clark, Socrotar? of tho Chamber of Commerce, tit a. v. ti min Cu m AIM. The county jail at Kansas City, K insas, was surrouued Wednesday night by men who insist that Mrs. helle Biggins, her daughter Clarissa, aged 14 years, and lier husband, G.orge Biggins, hold by the coroner's jury for the death of Biggin's ti year old son by a formor wife, should be lynched That the little boy was starved and tortured lo death ls soi-c Ideally charged by tho coroner's jury. Tue boy'* 2 year-old sister was also cruelly treated and is at tho point ol death In ah ispltal. Whiio Mr.-,. Big gin's own children wore well fed and kindly trente 1 the two step Children, according to the evidence presented le the grand jury, were literally starved. WAIIIH DaitiftfrrH. James O.LIgon of Charleston has brought suit for 810,000 damages against Corni th Bacon and Hampton K. Lea, merchant*?, because of di faina lion of oharaoti r. In March last? thc defendants bad the plaintiff arrested by a magistrate nuder thc C largo ot obtaining goods under false pretence?, tho chai go having afterwards been dismissed hy Oil cult Judge Memmin? ger. OauSOO by Failure Tho suicide of Loe L eb, trie weal thy Charleston man oil Sunday, is now credited to tho fail uro of the In dependent Cotton OM nilli of Darling ton, a couple of months ago. Ile 'osta good deal of money in tho fail ure, and this ls really what oaused him to lose his mind, lt ls said, rather than the retirement from business, which seemed to grlcvo bim consider ably. BLOODY GRIME. The Murder of Four People on the Olney Farrh REMAINS A MYSTERY. The Mystery is Heightened by Mrs. la? gerick, Who Was Found Conscious With Many Wounds on Her Person Refuse to Divulge 4 Name of Assailant. Orango county ls aroused over a quadruple murder on the Olney farm, iib ut four miles from the contre of Middletown, N. Y. Wednesday the bodies of Mlllls 0. and Frederick li Olney wore found in a wood half a mlle above their home. They had ".en shot to death Friday afternoon ' o body of Alie? Ingorlok, aged niue iiai been found with hor skull crushed In tho cellar of the Olnoy farmhouse and later her mother, Mrs. Martin Ingerlok, living, but with her skull crushed In three places, was found in i horse stall in the barn, two bun ired yards from the house. The absence of tho O neys, who were brothers and old mon, caused uirprlse, not unmix ad with susplolon. No search was made for thom until Saturday morning, when a posse of farmers organized a search, and afc 9 Voloek f.hq victims were found lying with! ? ? f.r. Xi of eaoh other. La.u JL?genok, 18 years old return ed to tho farm at 6 o'clock Friday iveniug. Slie had left tho house early n the morning with thc Olnoy broth jrs, for whom her mother was house <eeper. Tho men rode In a wagon, jarrylng a cn of milk to Pilgrim Cor lera When she arrived home Friday ?venlng she was accompanied by /Vmanda Wheat, ber sister-in law. They found the house olosed, and 1er mother, sister and tho mon were a??t io be found. In terror, Lira. Wheat and tho girl lied to tho Davis farm, adjoining, whero thev asked Daniel Davis to go back with them. Mr. Davis complied and searched the .louse from garret to tho lirst fl>or. He became greatly alarmed, for the household goods were in ouifublon, a trunk and several handbags being burst open and bureau drawers pulled out and tboir contents strown upon thu door. In the cellar, huddled in a ooruer, was the body of Alice. Tho little one l?y upon her face, with hands extend ed above ber head. Tho skull was Brushed. The alarm was given arid neighbors hastened to the scene. Tho Middletown polioe wer? notllled and half a dt/.en detectives drove out. Lanterns wero prooured and a thorough searoh of the premises made. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Ingerlck was found with hor skull broken, in a vacant horse stall in the barn. Al though she had three wounds upon the head, any one of which might be .xpectcd to have Instantly killed her, die appeared to be only partly insen dble. But all attempts to loam from her the details of the tragedy were unavailing. It was believe:! she might know the Identity of her assailant but that she was determinedly shielding him. Alcxnnder Merritt, who took her and thc body of lier daughter Into town, became impresso I with this Idoa Tho woman mada several at tempts to arrango her skirts, and throe times lu the half ht ur's ride raised her head and groined. AU night long Police Chief Brlnkor .ell, with several deputy sherdTi, searched the roads and lanes near thc Dlney farm, but without result. With layllght two hundred men many of ihem armed, joined the searchers The Olney farm lies at the base of a range of densely wooded foot hills, lt jonalobs of ono hundred and Boventy acres, and the brothers had bought tho right to cut cord wood in tho up lands. Ono of the searching partlen penetrated tho woods. Chief Brln Icerhoir and Deputy Sherill Holer Herman led this party, aud Fred Olney, son of Willis C. Gluey, was with him. They had scarcely entered the wood when Ring, tho Olney collie dog, ran out to meet them. He barketl and turned back Into the glade .as if in viting them to follow him. The searchers followed Into the D^rby woods, whore the body of Frederick R. olnoy, the younger brother, wai liscovered. The man lay upon his back, with his hands over his chost A w. und behind the right car showed whore tho bullet had entered. Less than a hundred foot away Willis C. Oiney lay vd th four bullet wounds In his body, one entering the right side and ono passing entirely through tho chest. The wound In Frederick's head boro evidences of having been indicted at close range, and it appeared as If he might have been surprised and fell without a .tnng'e. Tho elder brother seemed to have trlod to escape and was evidently brought down after three bullets had been tired into his bedy. Ono went through thc right arm, another en tered the right groin, a third the l ight chest cavity, passing through, and the fourth through tho throat. Notvldonco that tho bodies had been carried to the spot was found, and His believed tho men were sur prised by an assassin, who followed them, and that they foll almost at tho same moment. Their pockets were turned Inside out and tboir gold watches and all valuables wero miss lng. The autopsy oveloped that tho brothers had been s vin with revolver bullets of heavy calR n. Tno motive fortheorlmels believed to bc robbery, for tho bt?tli?i? ?re known to have had about $700 lu cash hotween thom. Within a fow days $lf>0 had been paid to thom, and they drow a considerable sum from a Mid dletown bank. Charles Frummell, of Howells, bolow Middletown, paid Willis Olnoy $?4.47 a few da>s ago, and Thomas Ogdon, a mil? dcalor in Middletown, paid the brothers ? hill of $70 on Wednesday morning. FASMBKS' INSTITUTES. To Bo Hehl in ? Nninbor of Counties 'AliiM Year. G'lamxon oollege will hold Farmers' Institutes In those counties desiring them this fall and wlntor, and J. N Harper, director of the Institutes, ha sent out the following Information about lt : The Southern railway has granted %o Clemson oilego tho uso of a our for Father's Institute work. The col leno is goln* to have this car titted up with all of ibo latest appliances for mak lng buttor and the most Improved methods of handling milk. If the farmers wl<h lt and will furnish the milk, they eau seo the utonslls put to prao leal use In soparating the milk, ripening and ohurning the cream, cto. Ia this oar we will have samples of about 20 varieties of corn and will lecture on those varieties that aro best adopted to Southern soils. Wo will have about 30 varlotics of the most improved typoi of cotton. We will also have on exhibition those Inseots that are injurious to the Held and garden products wltb the inseotl oides to be used In destroying and era dicating these injurious Insects. Tue state entomologist will deliver lectur es on the proper method of using tbeso seotloides. We will have diagrams and charts showing the conformation of dalry and beef cattle and will have with us ex perts to deliver leotures upon the breeding, feoding and caro of ali kinds of live stock. Wo will also havo with us a magic lantern and will give illus trated leotures upon a numbor of ag - ricultural subjects. Tboso leotures will give the results of the oxporlenoo of a great numbor of practical farmers and tbe result of experiments being per formed at this college and other agrl cultural colleges over the country. We will havo views showing tho effect of different fertilizers when applied to cotton, corn, wheat, oats and other farm produots. Wo will havo samples of those compounds that go Into the manufacture of fertilizers and will hav J experts to deliver lectures on the value of these compounds when put Into fertilizers. We will have material to show the proper way of making grafts, the prop or methods of pruning fruit and shade trees, the method of retaining grape vines, all of this with thu view of ob taining tho greatest quantity of fruit. lu this car, will also bo on exhibition work of the Clemson college studont In other departments of tho college aside from that of agriculture For example: machines designed and made by the mecchanloal student, and fa brion of all kinds made by tho textile student. 42??& ?*rV'- H*nf* w,m-1 Beoau?e of a peculiar freak of na ture Robert Garwner, a prisoner lu the county Jail at Ohloago, charged with the murder of Agnes Morrison, may escape the death ponai ty. When he was arraigned in court his Attor ney, William Buckner startled the c?urt by turning to Assistant S jatos Attorney Barbour and saying: This is a case where lt wont do you any good to ask for tho death penalty. They can't break this man's neck if they try to hang him and you may lose him altogether by hanglug him and failing to execute the sentence In full." It appears that the prisoner is suffering from ossification of the vertebrae anti tissues of the neck. According to Prof Stevenson of Ruch Medical college only live cases simlllar have came to the notice of the medical profession. Attorney Buckner declares that the hardning of bone and tissue had pro ceeded so far that lt would bo Impos sible to bring any strain upon the pa tient's neck that would bc suflllolently severe to cause any discomfort other than a slight straining of the muscles /V SirAiiKu CUBO. That Mrs. Mary J. Harris, who died at her home in Newark, Satur day night last, had a vision of the death of lier son, who died In Little ton, Col., on September 0, ls hello ved by her relatives. Mrs. Harris, who had been Ul, was much concerned over the condition of her son, who wont to Colorado for pulmonary trouble. On S jptembcr ti the young man died in the night. The news was kept from the sick woman. A few days later the motile told the members of her family that she bad seen her son In death the night before. Efforts were made to remove such an impression, but tito mother would not be c imforb ed, and her own condition grew titead ily worse. Finally tho elector told hor husband he had better break tho news of her son's death to her and re a we her mind. When she was told Mrs. Harris looked np and Bald: "I knew lt all thc time." Deadly Football. Forty-fl ve deaths and hundreds of serious injuries ls the record of foot ball for the last live years, according to a canvass made by Thc New York Horald. Tho result of this was printed Wednesday. In almost evoiy Instance tho death or Injury was duo directly to heavy mass plays, against which. Herald says, I'resident Roosevelt and the country at largo arc protesting so vigorously. Sixteen died as a result of Internal Injuries, four from broken necks, six from concision of the brain, eight from broken backs, throe fjv.r?-> para!y:d:j, two from heart fail ure, one from lockjaw, one from blood poising, ono from hemorrhages and two from merningltls luduced hy spinal injuries suffered in play. The li juries included ten legs and four teen collar bones broken and four skulls fractured. llllloil by Cara. John Turnor was instantly killed at Lumber, Florence county on Monday afternoon by being oaught between two 1 ig cars while thc train was in motion on the tram road of Williams Si McKlthans company, of whloh ho was an employe. Iii.(Milu Lott. Tho appcaronco of a negro football player at a table in a Chicago hotel canned thc hotel to IOHO eight fami lies who wcro boarding there. The management of tho hotel cxorolsod tho right of choosing their guests and tho boarders cverelsed tho right of ohooslng their associates. K A PILE A Missing Aloncy Clerk itt the express Company's Office. ACCUSE!) OF THEFT. bank tibe A oftlce a pao! $100,0 ln $10 bbc ro 920 bl) suo of bank o Pittsbu; entire! usc? Ono Hundred mid One Tlioiisan 1 Hollars QpffiKpe'd to a Cincinnati Raak Is fed to Haye Been Stolon , Edward (i. Cunliffe. lt Who Is Missing. A. dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says tUoT#tartllng discovery was made late Tuesday of last work that thc AdatnsijSkpresH company has boen vic tlmlzett'f?i'tbo extent of $100,000, sup posodlylwrcu^h tho peculation of an employe;*The following ctllolal state ment oM Wo affair is given tbo Associ ated P|fv for publication. 6 p. m., Monday, Got. ?. a Ittsbuig, Pa., delivored to s Express company at their 10 Wood Street, Pittsburg, o of ourreuoy containing Of this amount $80,000 was 11s, $10,000 lu $50 bills and lug $100.000 in $5, $10 and The $100 and $50 bills, is Farmers' Deposit N itional ittsburg and tho H ink of N A., were in the main, ew; some bad boen slightly o $5; $10 and $20 bills were old ?Ujh^?y' 'The package containing this larjR^vv.in of money was conslgnod to a bau?,in Cincinnati, O do. ''Tbi?fjjiackage was received and re ceipted Wor by Elward Gooree Gun Lit j, wbWwasthen acting In tho place of the negular money clerk, who wan ill. "Cunliffe left tho oilloe at the usual time Monday evening and Tuesday raornlng^'when ho failed to rcp irt for duty a hurried examination was made of his department and lt was learned that about $1,000 of funds entrusted to biB qare wero missing. General Agent Aumor, of tho Adams lOtpross compauy?imm3diately called lu detec ti ves anff_ placed tho matter in their hands. Ipjater developments brought to llghblthe faot that tn addition to the $l,o8p missing, tho bank package coutalnl|g tho $100,000 Ind not been recoived^b tho money forwarding of fice at Cul?n station this city. .'Inquiries made at his residence, No. 3i4!iLuoerne streot, Weat JOad, Plttsbuy .at Cunllffoo ar rno^-rf uiniig, add; m r enani(in?? bis olotltes bade his family good bye, saying to his wife that he was going out for the evonlng and nothing fur ther has boon heard from hi m. " A war rant basteen issued charging Cunliffe with larceny. Caught at Ijn?t. P. R. Bellamy, colored has b?en ar rested and lodged In jail for tho al leged promiscuous burning! on the plantations cf Jas. H. Daniel, near Millen, Ga. His arrest hun been kepi very quiet In order to catch the white man who is said to have assisted him lc tho burnings, but it is now under wood that this party has skipped to Cuba. The public will remember that for four or live years past as regu larly as the Christmas holidays rolled I around the community was astound ed by a big lire on Mr. Daniel's plan tatton. Once it waa a large barn and contents. At another timo it was a gin house and many ba'es colton, then the dwelling and outhouses and at lastth** stables and ti (teen ur twen ty head of muies and hur-e:' in all en tailing tho loss of tho lnnneiait amount of almost tifby thousand dollars. i o-.- O h Cai tor lt lin. R road us Westmoreland, the 8-year old son of J. K. Westmoreland, svho lives in tho Western part of Galt .ey, was thc victim ou Saturday afternoon of a very unusual and perhaps fatal accident. Stacey Westmoreland, a larger brother of the boy, was in the aot of shooting a chicken with a 22 rills. Tue bullet from the gun pass ed through tho leg of the c ilckon and striking nome substance on tho ground supposedly a rock, glanced ami struck the little boy, who was at play some distance away. Tile ball entered the obest of the little fellow and ranged upward. Physicians, who were sum moned, found it Impossible to locate the ball and extricate it. The boj ls said to be rooting well, but as to whether or not bc will recover it ls Impossible to say. H e ados is about eight years of ago, while Stacy ls about eighteen. Havotl flor Gillio. A dispatch ffom Columbia says passengers on Wednesday's midday Columbia, Newberry and Laurens train tell a thrilling story o? a little child's miraculous escape from death and of a mother's horoic Intervention. Whllo the train was speeding betweon Little Mountain and Chap?n, a d year old boy, whose name could not be learned, was standing upon a car soat hy au open window when the rapidly moving train lui ohed around a eui ve and hurled tho little fellow headlong through the window. Tho mother, who occupied the scat behind, roached far ovor the Intervening scat and caught tho boy's ankle j ist as lt was disappearlngovert.be sill. Capt J, S- Land of Columbia, who was sitting opp i.slte, quickly rendered aid anti assisted tho v/omon in rescuing the boy? Ilaoliolor rv* a . Cablegrams from Rue?os Ay res says; The new baohclor tax ls a great suc cess, and girls and widows are happy, livery healthy male has to pay ? p^rt of bin inoomotothe state beginning /Ith his twentieth birthday unless ho marries, and baohclordorn grows more oxpendtevo with years. A 50 year old baoholor has to pay tho state $850 por annan ur bjcorao a bonedlot. Al tor tho Ilfty-llr8t birthday tho tax de croases. A man of 70 pays only $10 a year for being single, and whoo he it 80 tho baiift takes?? no moro notioo of his family affairs A F WILY AFFAIR. * n Interesting Chapter ti Insurance Polioy HoldTs Uow Homo o?' tito Old Idno Insurance Avo Worked f>r Iii** HnnrlU ol Certain Fa millos. James Hazan Hyde, James W. Alexander, John A. Mo'Jall, George W. Perkins, Riobard A. MoCmdy, Robert II. McCurdy. The New York Amcrloan editorially says tuesr are a few of tho Insuranoi grafters who should be trhd on orltxdcal olmr ges. Commenting on tho uv* sMga blon now going on In N iw %?k of tho Insurance companies* t;?o N >w York American says: "We hope and Lellovo that all tho people < f the Uni ted States are reading day by day tin reports of the Investigation of the methods of thc lifo insurance com panics now In progress. Tho brazen confessions of grafting, looting and p .-dilation made by the hoads of these oompanlos aro so apparent to even thc casual reader that there seems little need to oall attention to them If any man holding a policy In thc Equitable, the N.;w York Lifo or the Mutual Lifo does not discover frcm the testimony of the officials of those companies that ho has been sold a gold brlok, or butchered to make a holiday for tho families of the presidents, he must bo more than blind-he must be insane. Now, mark, these men who have been taking the money painfully scrap ed together by hard working people to furnish a fuud for the support of their wives and children after-death areemlncntly"rtspcctablc."They live in beautiful houses in Morristown, Long Branch, Newport or other charming spots. They aro members >f the "best" society, but for all that they have done things that demends investigation by a Grand Jury. O' all the crimes which Naw York has known there ls none so hearties* aud so cruel as that of which M "/Jail and McCutdy arc confessen gu.Ry. lt ?B high time that what t. y have doue should bo looked at lu i proper light as a crime-a crime b< h.; pun ished by a penitentiary s< I .M C- -and not as a mere matter o." co. , oration linance. Thc money paid into tho insurance companies I* not, In the main, that of rich men. We hoar now and again of people who hold policies for 8500,000 or more; They are the exception The great volume of the insurance j assets of something more than a bil lion dollars is made up of policios of $2,000 or less. Those policies repre sent tho painful savings of hard work ing men, savings on which they can nope to realize nothing, savings laid up to save their wives anti their boye siiouid ta^lP^^ge-sarner'away. Could there be any moro sacred fuud! Could thero beany trust re posed In a man that Bhou'd bo quite so faithfully admlnlstorec. V And yet this is what the heads o? two life Insurance companies did with these finds: T111C NEW YOKK LI KM, John A. McCall, president $100,000 Garwin P. Kinsley, son iu-law, second vioe-presidenb 40,000 John C McCall, secretary, son l i 0U0 Ballard McCall, son 10,000 Ambrose McCall, brother l),000 10. IC. McCall, brother 10,000 Walter Fitzpatrick, brother In-law 7,000 Prank Golan, brotber-ln law 7.600 /Vlbcrt McClave, son-in-law o,000 There are also at leant ten othet ielativesof President McCall who hold minor places that pay thom from $1,200 to $2,00U a year each. T11K MUTUAL UKI'.. President Richard Richard A. Mc Curdy $150,000 R.bt. II. McCurdy, son, general manager, salary 30.00U Robert li. McCurdy, general manager, c ?rnmissions 100,000 11. A. Thebaurd, son-in-law, commissions 1-17,000 (J. A, Gillett;, coudn, connected wltb Texas agency; commissions 7,'>,8J0 IO dis J. M oore, brother-in-law 12.U0U P. Siuyvcsent Pilot, cousin to brother-in-law 15,000 The sbory of boys of nineteen to twenty-one being paid out of the fain ?ly lo.)t salaries of $10,000 to $2U.0U0 is too familiar to recount hero. But what of the man who earns $1,500 a year and pays tho rascally parasites? You, wno may read bhls editorial, may have an insurance policy, baken to keep your wlfo or yt ur child from want If you should die. Does it not com pol jon to scrape and save to mcob tho yearly premium? Don't you once in a whllo lie awake wondering how you arc going to get tho money to keep lt up. Au 1 now, when you find your money, and that of a host of other people Uko you, ls beb.g used to maintain useless clholals, Ml of one family, in luxury, don't you think that lt is timo to act -timo to pub some of these rich and respectfully scoundels in-jaliy What more contemptible lot of ras cals has the world ever known than the men who send agents to gathor In the money of people of slender means and thou use lb for their own protU? If the criminal law ls unable to reach these smooth scoundels, new laws sin uki bo made to seud these mon to tho penitentiary. The mere matter (?f restitution la nothing, They are criminals and should be punished as such. _ KU Ind Two. At Chicago on Wednesday Robert Ncwcome, colored, ran amuck and killed a policeman and a woman and fatally injured a negro. Nowcomu went to tho home of florence Force, colorod, 1255 West Cist street and during a quarrel shot her dead. Rob ert Snow, colored, wont to tho assis tance of tho woman and was fatally shot hy Newcomc. Ncwcomo then barricaded himself at home and stood ol* two squads o? poiioomon an hour, tiring many shots and killing cllloer John Shine. MuilnouH HioknrH. Thirty-three firemen oi the White bar Uno steamer Oceanic were arrested upon the arrival of tho vessel at Liver pool, ohargod with ojmbinlng to re fuse to obey the masters commend, have boon sontonoed to sevon days Im prisonment SURTO CLERICAL EE ORB. ThoFooplo of Dorchester Huyo l'ait li in Xholr Treasurer. A di ?pat ch from St. Georges to Thc Stato says the reoent suspension bj Gov. Hayward of County Treasure! Whetsell and his refusal to reinstate Mr. Whetsell comes to the people o' Dorchester oounty like a clap of thun der from a cloudless sky. ?y|i very few cn', ptions if any, the people o: the oounty believe that Mr. Whetsell is an honest, and that he has beer guilty of no jrimluatiug oonduot dur lug his men obnney as troasuror of t h county, bug on tho contrary, they foe .Uitlailed that if thrre is any orror lr nts office it is due entirely to clerical mistaken. Y u i rr?- pondont asked Mr. Whet sell 1 nd j for a statement, but Mr. VVh> ts< ii ?aid that unt'd a complot? and 1 jp partial examination of his bookfc and accounts was had he did not car? to make any statement for publioa tion, for ho felt that his contoienot was clear and to prove that this asser tion is oorrect, and that his actions are characterized bv honesty through out, he put up the alleged shortage In omer that bia constituents might not even run tho chance of loslug a penny. Mr. Whetsell did say, however, that the alleged shortage arises from anuu al settlements previous to four yean ago, which annual settlements were made by the thou conpbrollcr general for whom the present omptrollei general was auditing olerk and madt tho Bettleruonts himself and pronouo ed the same all right at the time. Mr. Whetscll's f rlends look upon tht recent occurrences as v >ry unjust to Mr. Whetsell but Mr. Whetsell oaln<? a modest man, d ies not himself us* sud harsh cxpressloas. Tue emsan sus of opinion hero ls that Mr. Whet sell will obtain complete vindication of the whole matter as soon as an im partial Investigation as to the oondi Lion of his off:ci ls hold. Will Not bd ?ono. Sluce the Issuance of tho order by the poste Ul je department that all rur x\ rout mail boxes t lc nhl be num bered not later tban September 30, considerable dissatisfaction has ariser, among many of the smaller oltles o? oho country who have discovered the tfreat injustice it would bring to them ?nd the undue advantage it would give all mall order houses. Advor Using matter and oirculars Ojuld bi sent out by theso houses without knowing the names of tholr patrons, simply by addressing their circulai letters to all cumbers from ono to 130 and they would then feel safe in thinking that oyery patron of a rur al free delivery would reoeivo their printed matter. , Fronoh War Balloone. ino huge iVehaudy uirigime balloon; censtiuoted under the patronage o) tho war o ill oe, at Toulau, France, ha* m a dj its first successful ascent with some chief englueors aud a party of officers, who mado au extensive reoDn naissance of the military defences frc.m Troul to Nancy, near the German ! frontier. The distance oovered wa-, about thirty miles at a rate of twenty ' eight miles por hour. The cfll:en made inspections of the forts and tock ' photographs of them, thus estab'.lsu lng the morita of dirigible ballom for war pur pc ses. Japan'?* Dr bc. Former J a panoso Foreign Mlnlstei ? Okuma, referring to the sudden ex pa?al?n of Japan's linanoe, said thal when the withdrawal of tho troops it completad she will Hud herself con fronted with a debt of $1.250,000,000 tho annual interest on which alone, roughly speaking, will be $75,000,000 or nearly 'twice tho revenue of tin ct unty ten years ago. The pet capita rate 'of taxation befare oho wa; war $2. Now lt is $0. The per capt i.a share In the national debt bcfori .ho war was $0, lt ls now 825. Pity Titi Sn. Churches will sing and sing "Roselie the Perishing," hue when a memb3r, young or old, makes a misstep ano goes wrong, thero ls very llttlo at tempt to rescue. The tendency ls to push them deeper down, rather than rescue them. This l's especially true In regard to-girls or women. They sing "resou'e" but act "pushdown." In tile caso of men lt Isa little better, unless his failure ls in his business Tuen instead of praying for him the) all proy on him. A ItlR Crop. The census bureau has Issued a bul letin showing thc production and dis bribution of the cotton of tho Unite.: .States available between September 1,1004 and September 1 1006, to bi 14,465,994,bales. Of this amount 91 per cent was exported, 30 per cent was used In domestic c msuraptlon. leaving a surpus of 9 p?r c.nib. The domestic consumption inoludes 30,770 bales destroyed by lire. 11 in Paine 8. euro. Tue Savannah News says they may put Tecumseh Sherman In the Hall of Fame, but the fact remains that bib fame rests on two things: that he said "War 13 hell", and Illustrated bl? meant! g pcrfo lyon his march to thc sea. As a part of thc second reason the most prominent was his burning of Columbia. How curious lt is that any body wanto to perpetuate that sort of farno. _ About Hl^lil. The New York Sun says that the best way to lnclucato business, moral ity in tho Insurance business, would he to put some of the loading men In it In Jail, there 1? plain living and I bard thinking. The same rotredy would bo aluoikOlous In other Unes cf business, and especially aa to public officials. _ . ( H Throo Yt ara. Thc supreme counrt has oonflrmcd the Judgment of the circuit court In thocasc'of Geo W. Murray, oolorod, of Sumter, fjrmeily congressman from thc 7,11 dlstrtot. convicted of forgory and sentenced to tho penitentiary fer thron years. Murray is said to own $00,000 worth of roal estate In Sum ter county._ A M BORO was taken from constables near Hainbrldge, Ga., on Saturday and lynched by members of his own race , for assaulting a young colored womau A HEAD FOUND On a New York Street Wrapped ia a Shirt. A. HORRIBLE MURDER Thc f irearms and the Lower Portions of theltcgs Were I3ound]PackedJa a Suit Case. Qermaa Arrested for Crime Protests Mir lanoctnse. The finding of a man's bead in New York City on Eist E'ghteenth street, near Avenue O. early Thursday re sulted in the discovery of an unusually revolting murder, tho viotlm of which was Thomas F. Corcoran. Corcoran was killed probably Wed nesday night in tho house No. 149 Third avenue. After the picking up of the head the other portions of the body 1 wero found out to pieces in the Third avenue house. The arms below the elbow and the leg i below the knees bad been paoked in & suit oase and portions of arms and legs were hidden in a dot boa hamper in a room occupied by Frederick Hauer, tn elevator runner. Bauer was arrest id. The point at which the head was found is more than a quarter of a mile iway from 119 Tlhrd avenue. The head waB wrapped in the Sunday supplement )f a German newspaper and a blue and white shirt. The murder was discov ered through a story told by George Linolo, who bad a room adjoining Bauer's and who rushed into a polios nation Thursday, saying that he had iain awake for hours listening to nola ns whiob he thought proceeded from Bauer's room, Ile said that late Wednesday night ae heard at least two men quarreling in the ai joining room. He heard a shot md tho sound of some one rahing to che floor. Tuen he went to sleep. About 2:30 o'clock Thursday morning Lanole said he waa awakened by strange noises In the room where the 3hot had been heard, Twloe a man oponed the door and went out, and Lanole, after laying awake listening roi-Bome ti :?o,. aeotaett that SOnno nf tho sounds he beard wore the noises of oones being broken. This suspiolon ? caused him to notify the police. Bauer was found entering his room ny tho polios and said to them: "I found my room like this when I ..woke this morning." He said he nad urought two men to ils room Wednesday night, one a sold ier, Bauer fell asleep while those men balked, he said, and when he ?woke the soldier was gone, leaving the ether's body BS the police found lt. The poll03 found than Bluer's socks, tho right arm ot his undershirt and the right arm of an outerahlrt were covered with blood. A badly ulohod mor was found on the top of a trunk in Bauer's room and i revolver with ono chamber empty was also found in the room, Bauer, who ls 3i) years old, is employed as an elevator man at the Union Square ho tel. Tho police make thc allegation that it wan a ort mo of degeneracy. For tho Schools. The situation regarding profits for ,hesoho.>l.i from the dispensary has been looking a blt anxious and uncer tain for the past several weeks, there being no money forth coning from oho dispensary si nco January, when ?08,070,77 was paid in as aoouriug 'rom sales made in 1904. Wednesday oho state dispensary people turned in a check for to tho statt treasurer for 425,000, the first money to be credi ted to tho sohool fund from sales of this year. They say $26,000 more IB to como in a few days, Whilo the investigating o mmlsslon was sitting nero a check for $2ti,000 was turned in, out this was to be credited to the lispensary fund Itself, tho monoy coming from sales of various kinda and not representing profits at all. List year there was paid into the credit of the sohool fund $236,203,17 and the year beforo $180,002,83. NeK?*o Vetornn. The funeral of : os Ituoker, an ante-bellum negro took place at At lanta Thursday. Ho was a member of Camp Walker, United Confederate Veterans, which followed the body to the grave as an honorary escort. Gon: Clement A. Evans, division command, er of the United Cod federate Voter ans, emulated at tho funeral, and among tho pallbearers were formed Governor Allen D. Candler, Gen. A. J. West, Judgo W. Lowndes Calhoun, Er. Amos For and lt. S. Osborne. Ruckor followed his master, "Sand/" Ruckor, through tho olvil war tn the 33d Goorgia infantry, and has been a familiar tlguro at Confederate reunions for years. lilli tor Utility. In tho case of Alfred B. Williams editor of the Nows-Loadcr at Rich mond who was chat god with violation of the olection law la tho recent Demo cratic state primary, the jury re turned a verdlot of guilty and fixed the amount of tho fine at $100, at the samo time expresslug the billet that Mr. Williams unintentionally, and recommending that tho fine be re mitted. Iiynohed. Shortly after midnight Friday ly mob ot about ono hundred men, sup posed to bo from Trenton, Ky., took Frank beaven, a one-legged negro, from the jail at E kton, Ky., and lyn* ohed him In tho near-by woods. Leay* ell was arrnated on the oharge o? at? tempting to enter tho room ot a young lady at Trenton Saturday night. Ha confessed,