Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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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. NO MORE LEAKS Extraordinary Precautions Taken in Preparing the Cotton Report STATESMEN SHUT IN. Convincing Demonstration ol (tic Fast ness of Un Estimate Room (liven Two Southern Reptesentativcs Who Wanted to See How the Work Was Dune. A letter from Washington says Sec retary Wilson ls taking extraordinary precautions against loaks In tho cotton vr port. Ile has had enough of soldai in that oonneotlon, and ls dotormlncd tn at horoaftor no leaks shall occur, if lt takes a oorps of watormon to pro vent it. Ia making roady for tho De cember repjrt he placed the Individual reports from tho various agouts throughout tho country in au iron bi x, and then placed ovor tho box one of tho most trusted e m ploy ees In the department, armed with a large ri volver. The faithful guardian of tho papers remained on duty all night, and until he was relieved on Monday morning by tho Secretary. Tue Seoretary himself took tho ro ports from tho box an 1 deliver* d thom to four men appointed to tabulate and mako the required estimates. Tho mon and tho precious papers were hurried to a room assigned for them, and the doors of the room were securely lock od, and guaided on tho outside by two men, who were ordered to permit no ono to outer or lcavo tho room until ?he work of tho board was completed li fore the boara entered tho room tho telephone connection was soarer) to that no posa b e communication could bo had with the outside world, lfc took Uve hours to make the requir ed calculations, and tho board waa kept In close confinement all that time. A good story is being ol roula ted on It proaontativo Burleson, of Texas, aud Representative Rowle, of Ala h ma, In connection with this last cotton report. Ou Monday thoy visited Secretary Wildon, being mu oh Inter estcd in tho cotton matter. Tho Sec retary politely invited them to remain and witness the method of tabulation, and tho precautions used to proventa leak. The two Representatives gladly wowpted the Invitation and were taken td the tabulation ionm. Arter witnessing ttie work for some time, and hoing deeply Impressed with the way in which it was d me, they thought it was time fer them to go to tho capitol to take their scats at the opening of thc session. They thanked thc Secretary for what* ho had done, donned their uv . coats and prepared to leave, when the j were told that no one could leave nut il the work was completed. T.iey plead and argued, but it was ail In vain, so thoir places in the house re mal ned vacant for three more weary hours. They wore not permitted even to rend a note explaining their situa tlon and could not telephone as the Ins'.ruinent had been disconnected. So lt was that two distinguished Con gressmen from the South were no present at tho lottery for scats, but they woro willing to swear there was no leak in the D wernher outon re port. Representative Lewis, of Georgia, has introduced a resolution looking to .tho adoption of some now method for sheeting and tabulating cotton stat istlos. The resolution provides for the appointment of a committee consist lng Of sovon mombors to take the whole subject into consideration and 'evolvo a system that will make thc reports as reliable as possible. Fit teen Men HiirnoU Fifteen men were burned by an ex plosion in thc I nternational Harvester Company's plant at OJO Hundred and 'Twentieth street and Muskegon i-.ve nue, Chicago one night last week. T. e explosion was eau sod by a workman thrusting a cold bar of stool Into a furnace of molten metal. In tho im mediate vicinity of the furnace at the Mmo Blxty men were working. Tho moro seriously Injured were in the fur* naco pit. Following thc explosion jhaos rolgned In tho fut naco room for .overal minutes, Molten metal was tu ried about the room and tho smoke snd Aro that shot from tho furnace lilied tho room so tho workmen were Iyiablc for sovoriil minutes to lind the nits. With tho groans of their wound m fellows ringi:,g In their ears, they Prc1" >d about helplessly and stumbled over those who had boen prostrated jy tho blast. Fr; m the f .lrnace chlm ney tiie haines shot high Into tito air ..ind could be seon for miles. Colored Woman Killed. A dispatch from Sparbanburg to 'Tho State says Nlcey Tinsley, color id. died Thursday morning from the .M/T?Ots of pistol shot wound received ; lunday at her home on Mr. J. N. (Om irs farm, near Tuck's bridge, throi i niles from the city. Tho woman liv (?d with Ed. Tinsloy, colored, his two young sisters and two young brothers Vn inquest was hold over her remains and the verdict of the Jury was that die came to her death from a gunshot vound, indicted either accidentally or ?Uh suicidal intent. Tho weapon used vas a 32-oallbre pistol. Thero was no evidence adduced at tho lr quest te .how that she was at diff?rence with any of tho family,_ Hound Over. "Little Tom" Sudduth and Tom ' Ohastlne of the Dark Corner section if Greenville county have been bonne] over to court ajid placed In j?11 on thc nhargo of making a murderous assault rn James Christine said to ho Int IT rn dve youth ab Lcbanan on Thanksgl vlng. _ Killed Himself. . At Ndw York Allen KMncdinsl '<iommitted suloldo eaily Sunday nlghl v>y drinking carbol'c acid. Ile died Shree hours afterwaVds In tho pros . once of his young wife and child. AUMTOBS TO MEET. Meeting To Be Held in Columbia and Will Be Important. Asseeemont ol Property at Truo Mur Koi V<i tun of Vital Iiuportaoo to tho Kutlro Stato. Comptroller General Jones "means business" ia bbo step bo bas taken to ward getting tho tax assessment of property, real as well as personal, lo this state on a market value b ,B?B, In stead of on au uueven protenso of a 00 per cont, basis. The o!roular let ter of instructions, which bo sent out last week to county auditors, assess lng boards and county ( q lalizlog boards dlrcoting that tho law oe strlot ly observed with the beginning of the now year and that property be assoss ed at Its true markot value, has boon followed by a call for a co? ventlon of oounty auditors to meet with the comptroller general for a conference tu decide upon a plan of aotlon to bc pursued evenly and slmllarily through out tho state. Tho step which the comptroller general has tak?.n has caused muoh talk throughout the stato and bas set property holders to bbiuking. Of oourse, it is a sort of rev jlutlonary measure, and while the justice and the sonso of lt has appeal ed to mauy gocd business mon and l)!g property holders regardless of the (aol much of this sort of proporty will be. IT.obed, skill tho thing has Dot been generally understood, and there IB a b ar also that the purpeso of the comp i s lier general to equal zo the properly throughout tho state more nearly will not bo successful under thc depart uro be is making on account of the great proficiency and skill in dividuals aud communities have ac julred by long praotlce and exporlerco il tho matter of tax dodging. ' The erroneous idea appears to have lakon hold In various parts of the stato," Mr. Jones said Wednoaday "that this ls a soborno to In?rese tho taxes. Such ls not tho caso. My ob Jeot Is to got proporty f q ?allzod in this stato and stop this shameful tax dodglngs, There aro some notorios ex ceptions, but genorally speaking the cotton mills and other big property aro being assessed on a genuine 00 per cent, basts, and small property is be ing assessed at from 9 to 100 per cont. Only so much money ls neoded to run the state and oounty government and the higher tho assessment tin greater the yield of monoy of a gi YOU evy, but tho levy may be easily c langed, In other-words, li the as sessment is doubled throughout the state, the levies for stato, couuty and city purposes may be cut in half. The inequality and h Justice of the taxation of proporty In this state has been a shamo and a dhgraco for de cades. DtHpoiiHAi'v MlMt 1'A.y. Thc supreme court of tho United States last week be d tbat the nation al goverment may properly tax the tate liquor dispensaries of South Oar oil na. Tho action in question was instituted by tho stato of South Car olina bo recover $200,000 paid to the rcvenuo ofllcers of tho national gov eminent on acct uat of tho salo of liquors by the stato and county dis pensers under the dlspeusary law o' South Carolina. Tho state took thc position that as the dispensers fold tho liquor without profit they should not be taxed by tho government, i>'.t the tax has been collected since 1893 This is said to have been tie urwi case in which a state unites in on undt rtaking the exercise of its polio power together with tho prosecution of a commercial business. Killen iilH Hon. A speolal from Anderson to The State says L J. Jordana negro who lives on South F.vnt street, killed hit? sou Westoley Jo.din, a youth about 19 years old with a broom stick Th? boy had been unruly and the fallu r started to chastise him using a broom stick for that purpose Ile struck the boy a sharp blow i c oss tho head and the boy sank Into actialr and ?oun be came unconscious and died in a fow minutes J rdan sent f or a phyisolan and was vorklng over bli son's body, trying to rev.vo him wbon tho physi cian arrived. Tno physician says that death result* d from ahemmorrhazs of the brain which wai caused by tin blow. Jordan remained at his homo until thc dei tl y sherill arrived and arrested him and oarrled b m to Jail, lt ls generally believed that Jordan's story of the killing ls correct. I'oittofl'ion Hobbed, The Columbia I ticer d says the post c dice and the store of R L. Ke l & (Jo. of Westville, Koralla w county, was robbed Wodnesday night, suppos edly by two white trampa who had been seen lu tho neighborhood yestcr day. Tho two elli oes and store wore in ono building, Too extont of the loss was not loamed, but some goods and twenty-ilvo coppers, posh" ill money, were ml-slng. Westvlll- ls on tho Southern railroad sixteen mlle from Camdon. Mr. Ball has oifered a roward nod them ls also ono of $50 bj tho government. Won nt Ii nr. Herman II. Vorjohn has been elect ed assessor Lockland, Odo, after meeting with defeat in twenty live ruicoesfilvo contents. Ho is a pl neor resident of that sootlon and IB no* sovonty-ono years old. Tue town ship ls quito strongly Republican, but Mr. Vorjohn antold-llna Demoorat this year was ablo to overot me the adverse majority. Always Ciomi, Did you Over ii o li ec that tOb&COO is always olean. If a man drops a piece of moat, no matter how olean thc door may be, he will either give lt t. plok or pick lt up and lay lt to ono i Ide, He will never cat lt. Rut let him drop his plug of tobacco on tho ground and no difference how dirty jtho spot was whoro lt foll, ho will j pick it up ?iid giv? it A G&?o??SS HW lpn on hlficoat flleovo or on the bosom of his pantt\and then tako a chow with greater reuWM-hoii ever. THE GRAFTERS Are Stirred Up By Senator Till man's Big Pitchfork. CORRUPTION FUND Seing Inyestigatcd By Hie United States Senate, Senator Tillman Having In troduced a Bill For That Pur pose, Which Pases After Some Discussion. The sui j ob of oarapaign oontrlbu lons hy Insurance companies occupied ho major portion of tho timo of the Jnlted States Senate OP Thursday. It *me up In onuectlon with Mr. Till nan's resolution calling for Investiga tion of national bai k aid In politics md was exploited by tho South Caro ina senator in a speech of some length. .0 was couohed in eharaotorlsfc lan ;uago and attrao ed considerable at cutlou. Tho r?solu lon dino Mug the eoretary of tho treasury to report vhother the reports of the national ?auk ( ss tm I tiers show that the banks lave made campaign contributions In eoent years was adopted at the close if Mr. Tillman's remarks. Outlining hts reasons for tl o in [ dry, Mr. Tillman called attention tc ne reoemmeuditton made ny the ?resident In his annual mosssgo of 904 ant4 1905 for the enaotmcnt of a aw for protection against bribery and orruptlon in connection with oleo lons. II) quited with esp^olal em ?basis too president's remarks con ?ming campaign contributions by orpuratlons, ' Our chief extortive ias taken a very progressive stand to teure purity in elections," ho said, nd added, "tvery good American will ay 'well done' and look for progress long that line. " Ho conceded that tho secretary night not have tin facts wanted but ic thought he ought to have. Incl entally, Mr. Tillman said that he tad been informed that the comptrol ar of thc currency has boen investi atlug tho sub I :ot of blank ourtrlbu lons with the view of instituting le al proceedings Iloforo Mr. Tillman had proceeded ar, Mr. Gallinger, who had Wedaes lav objected to the consideration cf , be resolution at that time, said that in had.done sn nnUT for r,hp. nuninga., .f inspecting it, that ho had doue so ,nd being eutirely sathiiod as to its iroprlety would support the r?solu ion. Continuity Mr. Tillman said that he comptroller has means f getting uformatlou whioh others havo not ,ud added, that If ho would "push In ils probe bc eau mv?ke dbe >veries that ,ro worth while." He added that his easons for r< questing the lnfonna lon ls found in the revelations con emin g the insurance companies, "It tas hem shown by the testimony, or onfesslon of a in? mb ir of this body," ic said, "tnat for ten years the In uranoe corporations havo boan mak i g annual donations to the R"pilbil an party with thc understanding that hey should be protected frcm adverse eg'slatlon at Albany." He went on o siy thauuc.i revelation* wore not igreeable, ''I am the holder of a pm 1) p Hey n ona i f Hie mutuals' ' he said, "aud . dou'tllketo have my dividends cut lown lu order to give Mr. M?Curdy H 5 j,OOO arri h's sisters, lils cousins ind nts aunts $75,OOO aac?i." He expressed d ?bt as to the rlgh; if the federal au .horlttos to take con ,rol of Insurance companies ai d Mr. lalo Interrupted to s ky that ho agr??e vith Mr. Tillman on that point. Mr. halley asked whether tho In u ance company contributions to the opubllean national committee hao icen returoed to tho donors. "1 understood," replied Mr. Till nan, "that tho prosldeut was going ,o havo Mr Cortelyou return them, lut I don't know whetln r ho has done io. I know that 1 have not got my mare. " Mr. Spooner- -ls yours a life pol cy. Mr. Tillman-It is. Mr. Spooner-Then lt ls not yet ti'me to realize on lt. Mr. Tillman replied that lt was div Idensand not the polloy itself that he wanted paid. "These," he said, "wero pitifully imall, while McCurdy has peen get bing fat without doing anything." Mr. Hailey said ho had not supposed that tho president could mike a soeond recommendation on tho subject ol punishing campaign contributors un til the money had been returned "Ah, Mr. Picsldent," responded Mr. Tillniari, ' all the Turveyd ops and Peokgniffs aro not dead yet, al though I would not for a moment be understood as comparing our strenu ous oocupant of tim White House withthoflocharacters. What wc want ls results ?nd those wc do not seem to have procured sb far," Qluting the tostlmony of Senator Piait tit fore the New Y >rk commit tco, Mr. Tillman congratulated that senator upon his stralghtf mardncss. ' Tnore wa? no dodging," ho said, ' and 1 do not lo lleve that a dollar ol the money ( ver stuck to his llngors. " ll1, added bis Conviction, however, that tho contributions had had the elf'Ct of controlling the Now York legislature In tho Interest of thc lb* surauco companies. Mr. Tillman quoted tho c'-larges mado by Judge Parker In tho last campaign connecting tho Republican campaign contributions with the fact that Chairman Cortelyou had recent ly rt tired from tho oilloo of seoretary of tho department < f commerce. He also quoted tho president's reply wb.io1 he said waa "rod bot," and added th? not a dollar had been needed to elci tho prosldont. Notwithstanding th fact, he6A.ld that lt had been show that 81,000,000 had boen ontrlbute.i for that purpose, that ls, If tho news paper mon may be believed, "and," he e.dded, "they aro about as reliable as any other ola&s. Taey will lie some timos as we do, and < ooaslonally ency get orders that fuoh and such a man Bhall bo fly blown. Tbcn they proceed to plant the microbes, tu*, upon the whole they may be depended upon." He also made reference to the oharge that largo expenditures bad been made by the Demoorats in the Olevelana campaign, saying it would have been fortunate for the Democratic party if Mr. Cleveland had never been elected. ne olosed with an appeal for a thorough investigation, saying that ?uoh a course was necessary to re store the conlldcnce of thc public. Tho senate adjourned until Mon day. STEAMER GOES ABH?RE ami Many of ThoBO Ah turd ol' Mer Woro Drowned. Thirteen lives were lost lu the wreck of tho steamer Luneuberg, which went ashore Wednesday c ff Amherst har bor Magdalen Islands. A dispatch to that offecb was received at Halifax from Moat C;vo, near thc scone of the wreok, by Leslie, Hart and Son, own ers of the steamer. The steamer had a crow of seven teen and probably carried several pas sengers, luoludlug M\ Leslie, a mom b>r of tho Cinadlan parliament and a member of tho lirm whloh owns tho vessel. When the steamer Rbruok there were seventeen persons on board, In c udlng a crew of sixteen and Mr. Laslle. Tao dead: R J. L?slie. Hallifax. H. Meersard, steward of tho Lun enhurg. It. M. McDonald, chief engineer. J. Jose, cook. Ii. Hall, cabin boy. J. M donnell, sailor. Ii V. Dnicebto, sailor. Lophtn Vlnuelt, sailor. Joseph Bourgeoes, sailor. A sailor, whose name was not loamed. Tuc Luncnburg had been running between Piotou and the M igdalon ls lands since last spring. I) iring a high galo Tuesday, which was ao oompanled by blinding snow Hurries, lt ls thought that the steamer went nut of her course in trying to make B nhorst harbor ard brought up on he rooks that He sjmo dlstanco elf shore In that vicinity. The steamer evidently had been ashore tor some time before she was seen. Efforts were made to communicate with hor, tu I tho strong currents that spent around that point and the high seas mado it Impossible to launch a boat. Liter tho weather moderated and live of tho crew came ashore, tho twelve others standiug by the ship. Later tucao attempted to roach shore as thc v. s ids showed signs of breaking up, and all were lest exoept Captain Prldo. _ TraiKOily hi Oily of Mi-xtoo. A dispatch from tho City of Mex ico gives further details of the acci dent lu which James Russoll Parsons, tJolted States consul general, lost his life Wednesday night. The open car riage in which he wan driving with Mrs. Partons and their son was struck b/ an electric oar. Mrs Parsons was sl'ghtly Injured. The hoy escaped without a scratch. The aocldcnt happened while Mr. Par sons and his family wire going to the central station to hld farewell to friends. The coachman tried to eros-, the street car track in front of a rapidly moving car which struck the oarrlage with torrllic force, orushing lt against a trolley post. Mr. P ?r jon's head stiuck the pest, the whole top of lils head hoing taken c If Tim mot noan and driver of the .o. ch disappeared after thc accident ind lia v.*. not yet been arrested. An Out rug, . A. W. Kuinrrley, an Industrie U? colored farmer of the Fork, lost tv\o miles under very peculiar ol ron m star cos some short time ago. He says ho went with a two mule team to haul som jibing from the woods. Ho hitched his two mules on the edge of tho Elisio swamp for some purpose ii.d went down in tho swamp. While he was away some person or persons slipped up to the wagon and set Uro .ill around his mules, burning ono of them to death On the spot and Injur lng the other so had that lt will die. Kcnnerly doc? nob know who did the meanness nor why they did it. lt ls nothing bub an outrage and If the parties who did lt could be caught they should bo severely punished. Thc Times and Democrat. (UHHII iii Cherokee. Saturday afternoon ao Blacksburg United states Commissioner Tresoott and Deputy United States Marshall Ilallman engnged in a di di julty as bo ihe controversy over Cherokee's need of dispensary consbr hies. Trescobt drew a revolver but Hallinan disarmed him. Tresoott was unab'o to get a blow. Hallinan getting soveral effec tive punches, lb is probable that Prescott will be prosectcd for carry ing oocosaled weapons. (JAiigot m tho Aot, Attempts mado last Friday, Satur day, and Sunday and MonrUy nights to wreck passenger trains on the Georgia Southern railroad as Heart pine PA , resulted In a watoh being sot. Tnls resulted In the arrest Wed nesday of Will Born, a negro who was caught in abc act of lay lng a tlo across bho traok. A reward of ?250 has been offered for tho arrest. ?/'al Ind Out ?ml Murdin ed J. M. Harrison, a prosperous farm or near Carlo Ga. was called to his gato Wednesday about dusk and shot twlco In the breast with a idiot gun loaded with buckshot and killed In stantly. Tho murderer up to the pr^fiont timo has not bean apprchon cd. Sheriff Patterson * as summoned and went to the scene of the tragedy but was unable to lind any due to the porson who did tho shooting. Murder ?nd Filingo* An olllclal statement received from Oiossa says that 8,000 porsons have boon kllldd there sinco the beginning of tho troubles. Latest arrivals al J assy, Moldavia, loolare that the kill lugs and plundorings continuo at Odes i sa by dav ac fl sight. r Bia SUM. iBrtnssd Nearly two Mil ollars on Campaign. 0?i^?>'from Many Houroop, the k?rtf?fj Subscription WnsOno Hui fared Thous ?tl Dollars, Aczon 11,1g to a Washington news paper wt loll, with evidence of friend ly handing, printy a long s'atemont about tn?. expenses of Ohaiim?u Cor telyou iui?UiM, the It ipub loan nation al commut?e ubod trie sum < f $1,800, 000 to eltpt R josevelt and Fairbanks, and had in bank when the campaign was ended about $100 000. It ls Btkted that Coal! man Oortel you had 8900.000 less that Chairman llauna hm In lt)JO and n arly 32,000, 000 less than be bad in 1890. It ls also deolarcd to bo a fact tiiat the Demo raiflo naMonul ommittee in 1892, whejn Mt. Glevelaad was elected the second time, had a fund exceeding anything known in American politics before or alec:-tho sum of $1,100, COO. Chairman Cortelyou, according to this artlole, turned over to State om mltteo In New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Massaohuietts, Con nectlcut, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Nev ida tho sum of $700 000. No amount ls tlxod as to the sum ex icnd fd In New York by thc national com mittee through Gov. Oil ll, but lt must havo been largely in excess of $200,000 For literature, it states, the national opmmlttee expended $550, 000; for tho speakers'bureau, $175, 000; for lithographs, advertising, oto., $150,000r for salaries and headquartors expenses, $160,000, and for mlscellan Bous exponaos, $50.000. lt is stated that the money expend ed by Chair m in Gortelycu came from 10.000 different s< urces, about 4 000 contributors being known, leaving about 0.000 unknown, to the chah m in of the national committee. Thc larg . st singlo contributor furnished up ward of $100.000, it is statod, and his Identity was not known to either Cnalrmao Oortelyou or M*r. Miss. Tue article ls lacking in details as to tho identity of corporations and c irporatiun managers that ooutrlbut cd to tho Republican fu ad i- No refer ence whatever is made to contribu tions either from life insurance comp anies or raliway companies, bu li lt ls alleged that In every instance where a contribution was made conditional on some political favor to come tho of fer was nj otcd or tho money return ed. In connection with the Republican campaign fund, tho statement is made that J?Ci8ldent Roostvalt and Chair mau -1'' nKnn will enunciate tO have paSntiu ?,i?w provi luptui, .MJI?> city of contribution, "j political com mittees. Chairman Cortelyou deolined to discuss tho ligures connected with the campaign of 1901, but Intimated that they were "about right." Nw York illy nt rx icu. Three of New York's great high ways, thc river, the undergrtund rail way and street and that clark section known as "Chinatown, each furnished a police mystery last week. Au un known man jumped In front of a train as lt swung Into 137th street and broadway btatlon of the subway. Ills budy was literally ground to pieces. The G il na town mystery was the death of a white woman, Lottie Lane, whoso husband, a Chinaman, died a short time ago. Lottie Lane nad three callers Tuesday night of last week, a Chinaman and a white man and a white woman, During the night these callers summoned a physician and not!lied the p dice that thesr hostess bad fainted. The phj siclan found her dead. The police put the three oallere under arrest. William Dillinger, who said he cam-, dow:? from Yonkers and after d'apos lng of his load of produce started out to eli j )y himself, waa dragged from tho 10 mt river with a fractured uk nil. Mabtd Weber, a 20 year old gitl wan found lying bound, ga^gel and sense less in thc ballway of her house In West Forty-Fifth street where she resided with two girl eorupai. lons. wirril KM Telegraphy! Reports recelvod by thc IJuroau of Fqulpmcnt of tho Navy at Washing ton fri m the c immandant of the na val station at Key West. Commander Beehler state that the win less tel? graph operator tliore received and read without trouble a messago of eight words sent by the station at Go on, a distance of moro than 1,000 geographical miles. This new sta tlon at Colon was equipped for tho government by the De Forest Compa ny. Messages passing between Loan fort, S. C , and Havana, Cuba were beard and read by the station at Now port R. I. at tho same time. These aro extraordinary records, but Rear Admiral M iiinay., the chief of the I urcau, has Instituted a system of dally tests of tho dur?rent stations and lt ls hope before lie retires from the servioe to have this moans of communication is SUCH perfect order that these occasional records shall have become a regular matter. I'm sut i> by Cannibals, Among the passengers who ainvtii al San Francisco from v? us tralla on tho ?Inor S moma were Gap tain Watts and Ghlof Gllicer Ala Stlnson, of thc American ship Susque hanna, which founded shortly after sho loft Nehono, New Caledonia, August 23 Ust, with a cargo of chromo iron for Delaware breakwater. The crew left the ship lu threo boats whloh wore hcadod for tho Solomon Islands. Only one boat landed there. Thc othor two were picked up at sea by a trading schooner. There the men woro kindly treated for a time but linally had to Hy for their lives trnm a H^t of cannibals whit threat/m od their existence Thoy wero sub sequently picked up by a trading vea sol and Joined thc rest of thc crew at I Sydney. NeKro Btonnotl, A dispatch from Gaffney to Tho State says l?<wle Martin colored, was possibly fatally stabhod by Son John son, ooh rod, iato wednesday night. Injuries severe. Result uncertain. Johnson ls In j Ul to await trial. Both about 16 years of age. HUNG AT LAST. Mrs. Rogers Dies on the Gallows for Her Crime. MUKDERKD HUSBAND. Nhom She Chlorolormed at a Meeting Inj (he Woods While She Was Caress ing Him. Great Efforts Wert Mu Je to Save the Woman. But The* Failed. A dispatch from Windsor, Vt., says WI rs. Mary Rogers was banged at the Vermont State prison at 1:13 o'olock [friday afternoon for tho murder of ter husband, Marcus Rogers at Ron lington, on August 13, 1902. Mrs. [togers was pronounced dead by tho irison otllolals at 1:27 1 2. The execution tock place after the vomau had twice been reprieved on account of appeals made by her coun el and after tho United States Su nenie Court refused to take action in .he caso. Only a comparatively few persons vltnessed the hanging, tho number >elog restricted to tboso permitted to ittend by the laws of Vermont. Mrs. Rogers maintained her oom )Osure to the last and mounted the fallows with a steady stop. Although i deathly pallor overspread her coun icnauce, hardly a mmole quivered as deputy Sheriff Shi if >rd pronounced ibe fatal words, "I now proceed to xecute the sontence of the law and nay God have mere/ on your soul." iVhen the words were pronounced oeputy Sheriff Angus McAuley sprung he trap and the drop fell. The crime for which Mrs. Mary togers waa santenced to death was .!io murder of her hush md, Marcus Ingers, at Bennington, on August 13, ?02. At the time tho crime was com nit ted Mrs. Rigors was only nine ecu. She hed been separated from mr husbaud for some time and was tesl rous of marrying a young man tamed Maui ice Knapp. On the day of tho murder Marc m .ligera went to Bonnington to visit its wife and that night sha arranged o meet him in the woods near the fValloomsaok riv or. While caressing dm she iuduoed him to allow her to >lnd bis hands, and while he wus po.v irlesi ?ho chloroformed hi m. in thin ho was aidod by Leon Borham, a ?alfwitted boy who was the son of ibo woman with whom she boarded. Another woman, Estella Bites, was iresent. A few days after tho murder Mrs. bogers, Parham and thc Bates woman vere arrested. Ferham made a com ilete confession and both ho and Mrs. towers were found guilty of murder n the first degree. Borham was sen enced to imprisonment for lifo and il rs. Rogers was sentenced to the leath gallows. Various attornpts were made to ?ommute Mrs ll >gcrs' sentence but ah ailed. Tho date ?ot, for the executlou vas February 3, 1905 Gov. Boll grant td two reprieves for tho presentation ?f new evidence, but the ourt denied .be pctltlou for a new trial caoh time, md the United States Supreme Court ?efused to consider the case. Certain disclosures regarding soan lal ? in the Vermont State prison at Windsor, where Mrs. Rogers has been ?onlined, have, it is claimed, affected jubilo sentiment. According to testl nony before the prison investigation j immltteo of the L' glsl&turo one ol ibe eonvlets at Windsor had access .o Mrs. Rogers' ooll some time aftor me fir it reprieve was granted. It was illeged that this was part of a con ml racy on thc part of certain prison niel?is to hring about such a oondl tfiou as would further postpone the ex sutton. Mts. Rogers was tho first person .entcnood to death In Vermont with in tho past thirteen years who was ro fused domeney. The last woman to be executed was Mm. Emeline Meeker, at Windsor, on March 30, 1883. o i the march to the gallows Mrs Rogers di dined tho at-slstanco of dop titles. lier step was brm. She mount ed the sot ff >ld unaided and stopped exactly upon the conter of tho trap. Sue sat down in the chair for a mo ment and, when asked If she had any ii Hill sfntement to make she shook her head negatively. Mrs Rigors' body bas been claimed by her mother and sistor, and will bo hurled by thom at Ho: slok Flails, N. Y., where tho mother, Mrs. Josie Cal lahan, resides. Where Aro Tho Hooks. There was a hearing In Columbia tm Friday which ls regarded as sig* nlllcant before tho legislativo com mittee appointed to cheok up oertaln State cllicials. Tho object is to dis oover the four missing cash bo ka from Secretary of State Gantt's oillce covering tranactlons amounting to many thousands of dollars. Those aro tho books about whlob thcro was such a heated controversy at tho last session of the Legislature Tho oom mittco has Information that, these books wcro not burned as was inti mated. Glork Mc'Jown testified Fri day that ho was absout in Florenco when the hooks got lost, and Clerk Mclaurin did not know how tho books got away, acoretary Gantt is sick and his examination along with that of of Glork Means, of tho sink ing fund coin illusion, ls defino ed tm* til thoy can bo examined togothor. AvernKO Wolxlir. Sccetary Hester makes tho actual average weight of 4,262,543 bales of ihe cotton orop ombraolng port re ocipts and ovorland for the threa months from September to November, inclusive, 519.10 against 523.53 pounds por bale last y oar, a decroaso of 4.13. Detailed averages aro: Texas 633.50; Louisiana 522 16; Alabama, etc.. 630: Georgia 508; South Carolina 600; North Carolina 631.05; V/irglnla 490; Tonnessoo, otc, including Memphis, St? Louis and overland, 693.7. A TBAttIC DEATH. Mass Head Split Opon by Flying Fragments of a Saw A Resident of Columbia Waa Oper ating Wood Haw for Ul? Son In lexington Coun'jr* Tho State says Mylae D. Blaokmon of Colum' ia was killed in Lexington county Friday morning about ll o' clock by the bursting of aolicdar saw which be was operating lu sawing wo?, The saw was running at its u u u MK h rate of speed v/hu? (or some unknown reason lt (low Into fragments and onoof'.he pl coes struck him full In tbs face, spitting op^n his bead from ohio to orown. Mr. Il lack mon's son and o .hom wbo were near ran quickly to bis a&sl stance and preparations ?tere Ihurrlrdly made to bring the Injured man to the Colum bia hospital. Un was placad .n a ve hicle aud the start for this olty was soon made but before they bad pro ceeded two miles Mr. Blaokmon breathed bis last. He never regained oonsolousness after he was struck. The acoident happened at tho home of his son, about eight miles from tho olty on the old Stato road. Mr. Blaokmon lived in that olty with bis two daughters, Misses Mag gio and Lena Blaokmon, at 6.4 Gor vals street He bas baen working for about two woeks. Yesterday morning they went to work as ujual. Mr. Blackmon was running the saw wh'c icuts tbe wood Into short lengths when without an Instant's warning lt Hew into several pieces. Oaeof them struck bim In tiio face, J .ub on tbe right sido of the noss and sunk itself Into the flesh and bono, laying opon his face and outtlng deep onto bis brain. A doctor was near at hand and was soon called, na saw at once how desperate was the mans condition and know that the only possible hopo lay lo getting him to the hospital. With all the rapidity of a faithful son's eager t IT >rts, arrangements were soon made to bring him to that olty bat he was oven then beyond human aid and before one fourth of tho dis taooe bad beon covered be had sue combed to his nightful inju ries, His body was brought to the olty and placed in the undertaking par lors of Funderburk A, Matteeon, where it was prepared for burial. Coroner Walker of Rtohland county and tho coroner of Lexington both deoldod that no inquest would be necess ary. Mr. Blaokmon was 54 years of age and was born In Lancaster county <joat, in the Blaok Creek neighborhood Ho baa been a resident of Columbia for 15 years. Hals survived by tho one sm, already mentioned, and the two daughters with whom ho lived. He loaves aLo threo brothers, M3ssrs. J. C. and Mint Blaokmon of Lincas ter county Minor Blaokmon of Florida and two sisters, Mrs. Bolle Giblin and Mrs. Nancy tCanonton, both of Lancaster oounty. The ren alu? of Mr. Blaokmon will bo taken to bis for m.iv home In Lin? caster for Interment at 3.30 o'olook Friday afternoon. The funeral will take place on Sunday morning, A Cook Held Dp. Tho Columbia Stato says "the rest dents in the vicinity of Blandlng and Hull streets were startled by a ory for the p dloe about 0 o'olcck Tuesday night and au Invcatigatlon dlsolcsed another alleged attempt to hold up a pedestrian. Four policemen were q olckly on tho scene but a thorough search failed to lind any trace of the shadowy footpad. A oolorcd cook who is said to work at hotel was on his way to his homo in Wavorly, when he w.- s o ?nfronted by a tall white man who, ho says, tried to hold him up but when the colored man gavo the alarm tho white man disappeared by leaping the low fonoo enclosing the campus of the Presbyterian somlnary and run ning through the yard. No tr?oe of him o^uld bo found by tho polios. nig Hoof Kaile. At L ndon, England tho south end of the ii.no. ose roof spanning tho Oharlng Cross m lin line station sud denly collapsed Wednesday afternoon and completely blocked thc lines. A number of workmen and tralnmon were caught in the wrcckKgo. The roof of tho Avenue Theater adjoining tho statlan also collap;od. About thirty Injured persons have already been taken to tho hospital. Ono ot them dlod and thc others are in a critical condition. There aro a num ber of dead among the ruins. Tho Continental expross, Ulled with pas se? i(. ers, was standing outside tho sta tion waiting for tho signal to onter when tho collapse of tho roof occur ed. _ Horrible AooiOumt. Oa last Wednesday morning Mr John C. Funohes, who lives near ltowcsvtlle, mot with a most horrible accident. He was operating a, sugar oane mill, and by some moana h h. coat sleeve on tho right arm was caught in the cogs. Bofore Mr. Furtohwi ould pull tho nlccvo out his arm was drawn in the cogs and crushed to tho elbow. Tho machinery was stopped as soon as posslblo and Mr. Funohes was re* leased from the mill, Later Dr. A. S. Hydrlok, of this city, asaisted by Dr. J. D. S. Fairey, amputated tho arm Just above tho elbow. We ex* toad our sympathy to Mr. Funches and luve that ho will soon bo up again. Isauos a Cull. President nar vio Jordon of the .Southern Cotton association Friday issued a call for & gonoral convention of farmers, bankers, morohants and others throughout the South t ? be held h.t. New Orlennj!i -Tftn. ll, 12 *nd ?3, 1900. The obj ot of the conven tion will bo to discuss tho work of tho association, with roferenoe to organi sation, handling the nrop nf lflOft, trade relations between producers and spinners, extending the market for American cotton and holding the un sold balance of tho present cotton orop for 15 oon ta a wound. Many promi nent speakers from various parto of the country have promised to be pre??"* and a large attendance ls / ploted, SHOT BY WOMAN A Russian Lieutenant General Assassinated by a Woman. EVENT CASTS GLOOM Over the City of Si Petersburg. Cuan? Wltte's Faith ia the Thinking Classes nnd Hop?B of Carrying Out Liberties Promised by the Czar are Fading. The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Dal'y Telegraph in a dispatch dated Dtcoinber 6, sent by way of Ejdtkuhnen, Eist Prussia, sayB: "L'eut. O n. Sakharoff, former minister of war, was assassinated today. Tho government had deputed Gen. Sakbanff to visit the province of Saratoff for the purpose of quelling fhe agrarian riots there. "A woman belonging to the so called * fl/lng columns" of the revo lutionary movement called at the house of tho gov .""O.T.. of Saratoff at noon today aud asked to see G moral Sakharoff. "She ll rod three revolver Bhots at the general killing him on the spot." Tho tidings reaohed St. Peten burg Wednesday night. Oount Witt? charged Lieut. Gen. Rudlgor, minis ter of war, with tho task of breaking tho nows to Mme Sakharcff. "Tho ovent has oaused a profound Impression in St. Petersburg, owing to fears that the revolutionists here will follow the example thus set. "Tao speotre of a military dictator ship, which has been looming on tho horizon, isBlowly gaining consistency and sharpness of outline. * I ara personally convinced that Oount Wltte's faith in tho good sense and political ttob of the Russian thinking olaases, whloh recently was as llrm as a rook, ls gradually weak ening, and with it his hopes for the carrying out of the liberties promised In tho emperor's manifesto " Tao Tagoblatt's Sb. Petersburg correspondent in a dispatch sent by way of 10/di k?hnen December fl, says: "Tho situation ls visibly growing worse. The critical m imcnb for Oount Wit be ls coming when the llbaral ele menta will demand his resignation A resolution by the agriculturists at M >soow demanding the Immediate dismissal of the present cabinet de notes the beginning of tho movement away from Oount Witto and signs Indicate that this movement will gain in intensity soon." The troops hero have reoolvcd so oret orders to be ready to cope with anticipated anti-Jewish demonstra tions. Tue corresponiont of The Times at db. Petersburg says: "I am informed on excellent authority that a revolt of the Sb. Petorsbu.g garr.son ls cer tain bo occur. "Tho newspapers print harrowing details of bhe whippings by order of Gen. Sakharcff of tue peasants whom ne was sent to paoify." WHY IIB WAS KILI.KD. A dispatch from Sb. Petersburg f says nows of the asBaslnatlon of Lleut/-^ Gen* Sakharoff, former minister /of war, who was shot In the Governor's palace at Saratoff, on Deoomber 6, nad been prcoeodod by the most horrible stories about how Sakharoff had been repressing the aggarien disorders, ll^e corralled peasants with Oossack and * then had them beaten with soldier's whips. The assassin of Sakaroff has nob been idonbliled. Wuen arrested the woman who committed the orlme de clared that she had executed the de cree of (ho terrolsts'seotlon of the so cial revolutionists. F illuwlng ls a desorlpton of Sarha ioff's arrival ab Hovoawchtna, a vil lage of the provlnoo of Haratoff: "He o&mj with Oossacksand arblllr ry. The peasants wore surrounded by Cossacks and Sakharoff addressed them de manding that they surrender their leaders. The village eldor replied, but gave bno gonoral no informablon. The elder was imtn?dlabely beaten until ber lost oonsc outness, "Sakharoff retired'.'tb the court house, leaving tho peasants at tho mercy of tho Oossaoks, most of whom were drunk, and they began torturing tho peasants pulling out their hair and beard and evon tearing pieces pf llesh from their face9. Thlr:y-three peasauts woro thus malbreabed." Can't Assist Kor ja? The bad* nows from his country aboub tho roporbed sulolde of his brobher Yeung Wuan Min whloh was conveyed bo him Wednesday has ?ff .obod bhe health of Yepng. Tehan Min, a Korean minister to Franco and ho was nob ablo to roo'oivo any qn.e today. Iola expeobed that, he .will oall upon Prosidoub Riosevelb and Sooebary of Stato lt, m o and bry to in ibiAnco thom In rsvp? of his ountry which unior the treaties wibh Japan will lose most of lbs independence. In oflljiai circles tho feeling is that lb will nob bs possiblo for bhe govern* m nt of tho Uni bod S oates to Inter vene. lluaetan lied Tap ). A storv of R.isslan red tape ls told by W. T. St ad. Gen. Llnevltoh, while in supreme command ot the Russian army In Manohurla, onoo used a rubber-stamp signature for tho papers whloh he had to sign every day before he ooulddraw forage for his own horses. Tne commissary general returned tho rubber stamp signed papers as out ot ord .rand every day tho general commanding an army of 600,000 won had to mux his autograph to the requisition for his horaoa'oat*._ Went l> mooratlo. The Democrats of Portland, Me., for tho first time In twelve years,' elected their mayor. Nathan OMfford, received 4,Oil, as against 4.420 for the Republican candidate?