Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I "DO THOU, GREAT MBIOTI'Y, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AWI) MAKU OIM? 1,1 VI? IN TIIV J'OSSKSHION HAPPY OR OUR DKAT1IS GLORIOUS IN THY OAUSB, " VOL. XX)^ X B ENN ETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, IABEK 15, 10O5, T NO. 51. NO MORE LEAKS Extraordinary Precautions Taken in Preparing the Cotton Report STATESMAN SHUT IN. Convincing Demonstration ot the Fast ness of tht Estimate Room Given Two Southern Representatives Who Wanted to See ?ow thc Work Was Di ne. A lotter from Washington saysSeo retary Wilson la taking extraordinary precautions against loaks In tho cotton report. He has had enough of soanda) in that connection, and ls dotormined that hereafter no leaks shall occur, if lt takes a corps of watormen to pre vent it. lo making roady for tho De cember report he placod the Individual reports from tho various agents throughout tho country in an iron bt x, and thor; placed ovor tho box ono of tho most trusted employees in the department, armed with a large rt volver. Tho faithful guardian of tho papers remained on duty all night, and until ho was relieved on Monday morning by tho Secretary. The Secretary himself took tho ro ports from tho box an I dellven d them to four mon appointed to tabulate and roako tho required estimates. Tho men and tho pieolous papers wero hurried to a room asslgued for them, and thc doors of the room wero seourcly look od, and guaidod on the outside by two men, who were ordered to p3rmlt no ono to enter or leave tho room until ?he work of the board waa completed li fore Um boara entered too room tho telephone connection was severed to that no poss b o communication could bc had wltb the outside world. Ifc took Uve hours to make thc requir ed calculations, and the board was kept in close conlhiemont all that time? A good story ls being circulated on Il .prosontativo Burleson, of Texas, ?nd Representativo Bowie, of Ala h -m;;, In oonneotlon with this last colton report. Ou Monday they visited Secretary Wildon, being mujh inter ested in tho Otton matter. Th? Sec retary politely Invited them to remain and witness the m )thod of tabulation, and tho precaut ions med to prevent a leak. The two Representatives gladly ,?x!opfred tho invitation and were , taken to tho tabulation rornn. Arter witnessing tho work for t-omo time, and boing deeply imp eased with the , way in whioh lt was d ure, they thought lt was tune for them to go to tho capitol to take their seats at thc opening of tho session. , They thanked thc Secretary for what he had done, donned their cv . coats and prepared to leave, when tin.} wero told that no one could leave nulli the work was completed. They 1 plead and argued, hut it was ail lu vain, so their places In thc house re < mal ned vacant for three more weary I hours. They were not permitted even 1 to tend a note 1 xplainlng their situa 1 tlon and could not telephone as the 1 instrument had been disconnected. Sn l lt waa that two distinguished Ojn- 1 gressmen from the South wero no ! present at tho lottery for seats, but 1 they wero willing to dwear thorc was 1 no leak in the D joemher outon re 1 port. Representative Dowls, of Georgia has introduced a resolution looking bo 1 ,tho adoption of some now method for <colleotlng and tabulating cotton stat istios. Tue resolution provides for the 1 appointment of a committee consist ing Of sovon mombors to take tho whole subject Into consid?ration and 'evolve a system that will make tho ' reports as reliable as possible. Fi I teen Men Humed i Fifteen men were burned by an ex I plosion In the International Harvester s Company's plant at O ?0 Hundred and ? Twentieth street and Muskegon i-.vo I nue, Chicago one night Inst woek. T. e I explosion was caused by a workman ( thrusting a cold bar of stool Into a 1 furnace of moiton metal, in tho im- t mediate vicinity of tho furnace at tho 1 Mmo sixty men were working. Tho 1 more seriously injured wero In tho fur- 1 naco pit. Following thc explosion ohaos reigned in tho furnace room for I .ovoral minutes. Molten metal was 1 uirled about tho room and tho smoke ? md tiro that shot from tho furnace lilied tim room so tho workmen were 1 I^pablc for sovoral minutes to dud tho ?its. With tho groans of their wound- ' m fellows ringi;.g In their ears, they tyco*'" 'tl about helplessly and stumbled over thoso who had boen prostrated ,oy tho blast. Frc m the f.irnacc cnlm ney tho Hames shot high Into tho air .and could be aeon for miles. Odored Woman Killed. A dispatch from. Spartanburg to 'Thc State says Nlcey Tinsley, color id, died Thursday morning from the inflicts of pistol shot wound reoolvftd Munday at her homo on Mr. J. N. (OudcVtf farm, near Tuck's bridge, three i niles from the city. Tho woman liv od with Ed. Tinsley, colored, lils two yot og sisters and two young brothers in inquest was held over her remains and the vordtct of the jury was that dre came to her death from a gunshot vound, Inflicted either accidentally or ?Uh suicidal Intent. Tho weapon used vas a 32-calibre pistol. Thero was no evidence adduced at tho ir quest te ?how that she was at difference with, any of thc family,_ Hound ' >v?r. "Little Tom" Sudduth and Tom < Qhaatino of thc Dark Corner section >t Greenville county have been bound over to court ajid placed in jill on thc ohargo of making a murderous assault on James Christine said to bo int IT rn dve youth at Lcbanan un Thanksgi ving. _ Killed Illumine. At Ndw York Allen Kllncdlnrits '.iommltted suloldc early Sunday night oy drinking carbolic acid. He died threo hours afterwards in the pres . once of his young wife and eh lid. AUMTO?S TO MEET. Meeting To Be Held ia Columbia and Will Be Important. Agreement ol Property at Truo Mnr kot VA?UO of Vital Importaco to tho IO ii Uro Htato. Comptroller General Jones "means business" In tho step bo baa taken to ward getting the tax assessment of property, real as well as personal, lu this stato on a market value b ,sls, In stead of on au uueven protervo of a 00 per cont, basis. The circular let ter of Instructions, which be sent out last week to county auditors, assess lng boards and county iqializlng boards directing chat tho law oe strlot ly observed with the beginning of the new year and that property bc assoss ed at Its true market value, bas boon followed by a oall for a oo? vention of oounty auditors to moot with the comptroller gonoral for a oonferenoe to deoldo upon a plan of aotlon to be pursued evenly andBlmilarlly through out tho state. The ebtp which UK comptroller general has tak?.n has causod muoh talk throughout the stato and has set property holders to thinking. Of oourse, it ls a sort of rev jlutionary measure, and while the justice and tho sense of lt han appeal nd to many gocd business men and t)!g property holders regardless of the iuct muoh of this sort of property will be . IT oted, shill tho thing bas not beeii ^morally understood, and there ls a ti ar also that the purpose of the comp ridler general to equal /.?. the property throughout tho state more nearly will not bo successful under thc departure be Ismaklug on account of tho great proficiency and skill In dividuals and communities have ac inired by long praotioo and exporlerco o tho matter of tax dodging. ' The erronooiu Idoa appears to baie -aken hold In various parts of the stato," Mr. Jones said Wednosday "that this ls a soborno to lucroso tho taxes. Such ls not tho caso. My ob Jeot ls to got property f q ?allzad In this stato and stop this shameful tax dodglngs, There aro some notorlcs ex ceptions, but genorally speaking the cotton mills and other big property are being assessed on a genuine 60 per cent, basis, and small property ls be ing assessed at from 9 to 100 per coot. O.dy so much money ls needed to run tho state and oiuuty govemmeu's and the hlgbor tho assessment thc creator the yield of monoy of a glvou evy, but the levy may be easily o ianged. In other-words, If the as sessment ls doubled throughout the state, the levies for stato, oounty and city purposes may be cut in half. The inequality and h.Justice of the taxation of proporty In tn is state has been a shame and a dlrgraoj for de cades. DlnpoiiH Arv Unit l\\y. Tho supreme court of tho United States last week he.cl that the nation il govnrment may properly tax the .tate liquor dispensaries of S MU uh Car ilma. Thc action in question was Instituted by tho stato of South Car olina to recover ???O.OOO paid to the revenuo ofllcers of tho national gov irnmont on accc not of the sale ot liquors by the stale and county dis pensers under the dispensary law o' 3 JU th Cand?na. Tho state took thr position that as tho dispensers f-old tho liquor without pr itit they should not bo taxed by the government, hut ?be tax has been collected sln'/j 181)3 This is raid to have hoon cte ur?i case in whlc'1 2. state unites lu on undirtaklng tho exercise of Its polio power together with tho pros, cation of a commercial business. Killed ?UH Hon. A spcolal fro'n Anderson to The Stato says L J. Jjrdan a negro who lives on South Fant street, killed hit jon Westoloy Jo d in, a youth about 11> r-ears old with a broom stick Tin ooy had been unruly and the fatln r itarlod to chastise him using a broom itlck for that purpose Ho struck the joy a sharp blow i c oas tho 1 ead and me boy sank into acnalr and soon be? varne unconscious and died in a few nlnutes J rdan sent f or a phytsol an ind waa vorklrg over bli ROU'S body, trying to rev.vo him when tho phyhi jlan arrived. Tho physician says that leath result* d from ahemmorrhazs of the brain which wat caused by the blow. Jordan remained at his homo until the dei u 1 sheriff arrived and irrestod him and oarrled h m to Jail. It ls generally believed that Jordan's ?tory of the killing ls correct. I'oatolVioo li-.i>ii MI Tho Columbia Rioord says the post r?las and the store of R. L. Ito 1 & (Jo. of Westville, Kershaw county, was robbed Wednesday night, suppos edly by two white tramps who had been Been In tho neighborhood yester day. The two edi ons and store wore In one building, Tuc extent of the loss was not learned, but some goods and twenty-ilvo coppers, posbrilloc money, were ml sing. Westvlll ? ls on tho Southern railroad sixteen mlle from Camdon. Mr. Bell has offered a reward and thero I? also one of $50 by the government. Won Kt Ii ?Sf, Herman H. VorJohn has been elect od assessor Lockland, Odo, after mccllng with defeat in twenty live auooeaslve contests. Ho is a pl neor resident of that aootion and ls no* seventy-ono years old. Tue town ship ls quito strongly Republican, but Mr. VorJohn arnold Una Damoorat this year was able to overee me tho advorse majority. AI WA; H Oiomi. Did you ever notice that tobacco lo always olean. If a man drops a plcco of moat, no matter how olean the Moor may be, ho will olthcr give lt a plok or pick lt up and lay it to one t ldo. Ho will ncvor eat lt. Rut let him drop his plug of tobacco on tho ground and no difference how dirty tho SpOt was where, lt foll, 1)0 will p!'-i' lt up and give lt a oaroless swlpo on hlftcoat sleovo or on tho bosom of his pant\Vm<l tnon l^*k0 a chow with greator reua^K^hon over. THE GRAFTERS Vre Stirred Up By Senator Till man's Big Pitchfork. CORRUPTION FUND teing Inycstigatcd By Ibc United States Senate, Senator Tillman Having In* troduccd a Bill For That Pur? pose, Which Pattes After Some Discussion. Tho sut J ob of campaign oontrlbu ions by insurance companies occupied io major portion of tho timo of the fnltcd States Senate or Thursday. It une up in connection with Mr. Till ian's resolution calling for Investiga ion of national bu: k aid in politics ud was exploited by tho South Caro na sonator in a Bpeech of some long th. b was couohed in ^haraotorlstc lan uage and attrao ed considerable at mtlou. The rt s jiu ion dlrtoMng the !oretary of tho treasury to report bother tho reportH of the national mk </.trainers show that the banks ave made campaign contributions In icent years was adopted at tho close ' Mr. Tillman's remarks. Outlining hts reasons for tl e in jiry, Mr. Tillman callen" attention tc JO rcccmmet'dxtlon made ny the resident In his annual message of )04 an*4 1905 for the enactment of a ,w for protection against bribery aud eruption In connection with cleo ons. 113 quited with cspjolalem oasis too president's remarks oon irnlng campaign contributions by irporatlons. ' Our ohlef extortive ?< taken a very pron rossi ve stand to cure purity in elections," ho said, id adfled, "every good American will ,y 'well done' and look for progress one that line. " Ho oonceded that tho secretary Ight not have tin facts wanted but $ thought he ought to have. Incl mtally, Mr. Tillman said that he id been informed that the comptrol r of the surrenoy has b3en Investi .ting the suhl ;ct of blank oortrlbu ons with the view of instituting lo ll proceedings Iiefore Mr. Tillman had proceeded ,r, Mr. Gallinger, who had Wtdaes iv objected to tho consideration cf ie resolution at that timo, Bald that \ had done sn nn!j? fnr the nnrtvose, ' Inspecting it, that be had done BO id being entirely bath il jd as to its oprlcty would support the rcBolu on. Contlnuh g Mr. Tillman said that ie comptroller has means f netting formation whioh others havo not id added, that if he would "push lu s probe he eau make dh e jverles that 0 worth while." Ile added that his asons for rrquesting the Informa un 1B found In the revelations con rnlng thc insurance ct m panics, "It is hem shown by the testimony, or mfcsslon of a rn? inb?r of this body," ? said, "boat for ten years the In iranoo corporations have baon mak g annual donations to the kVpublt ,n party willi the understanding that my should bo protecled fr?.m adverse g'slatlou at Albany." lie went on 1 s vy that suco, revelation* were not ?reeablc. "'1 am the holder of a tun ll p Hoy ona vt thc mutuals' ' he said, "and do..'blike to nave my dividends ctn iwn In order to ?Ive Mr. MoCurdy 5J.00? and h's slsti rs, lils cousins id ms aunts ?T?.Oi'O oacii." He expressed d ubt as to the right the federal au -borltles to take con ol of insurance companies ai d Mr. alo Interrupted to s ty that he vgreec 1th Mr. Tillman on that point. Mr. Billey asked whether tho In i ance company contributions to the publican national committee hao en returned to tho donors. "I underwood," replied Mr. Till an, "that tbo president wai going I havo Mr Cortelyou return them. it I don't know whetln r bo has di UH I. I know that I have not g.>t my lare. " Mr. Spooner- ls yours a life pol y. Mr. Tillman-It ls. Mr. Spooner-Then lt is not yet me tc realize on lt. Mr. Tillman replied that lt was div o'nsaod nob tho polloy Itself that he anted paid. "Tnese," lie said, ''wero pitifully nail, wbllo MoCurdy has peen goi ng fat without doing anything." Mr. Hailoy sahl ho bad nob Mippofced lat the president could m ike a second commend itl n on tho eubjoot of iinlshlng cimpaign contributors un 1 thc money had boen rot urned "Ah, Mr. Piesldent," responded lr. Tillman, ' all tho Turveyd opn nd PeoksirlTs aro not dead yob, al lough 1 would nob for a moment be nderstood as comparing our strenu us occupant of thu WhPo Houso 1th those Ohor*Ctors. What we want, i results ?.nd those wc do not sflom to avr< procured HO far." (?Joting tho testimony of S.nator '?dtt before the New Y >rk commit io, Mr. Tillman congratuitted that mator upm his stralghtf iwardness. Tnoro wa? no dodging," he said, und I do not b lleve that a dollar ot lie. money ( vor stuck to his lingers." Iii added his Conviction, however, hat tho oontrlMutions had had tho IT cb of controlling the Novr York glslature In thu Interest of tho In I NM i nv companies. Mr. Tillman quoted tho charges ua?o by JurTge Parker in tho iast ampalgn connecting tho Republican ampalgn contributions with thc fact hat Chairman Cortelyou had recent? .. - ? I.. ~ .] *- - ikk nitl?n o<SA?Af?v? y i. i.i M.ii i iwni uiiu vinni. \j i awiuuii jr f the department < f commerce. Ile Iso quoted t ho president's reply whlo' io said was "rod hot," and added th" tot a dollar had been needed to eic? ho president. Notwithstanding th act, ho said that it had been show hat $1,000,000 had boen onbrlbute.t or that purposo, that ls, if thc nows >apor mon may be bel loved, "and," he dded, "they are about as roliablo as any other class. Taey will He some times as we do, and < ooasloually they get orders that f uoli and suoh a man Bhall be fly blown. Then they proceed to plant the mtorohcfl, tut upon the whole they uaay he depended upon." Ho also made reference to the charge that large expenditures bad been made by the Democrats in tho Olevelana campaign, saying lt would have been fortunate for the Demooratlo party if Mr. Cleveland had nover been eleoted. Ile closed with an appeal for a thorough Investigation, saying that such a courso was ncocsoary to re store the oon?denoo of thc public. Tho senate adjourned until Moil* 3av. STEAMER GOES AMORE \nd Many oi Those Ab >r?rd vt' lier Wore Drownod. Thirteen lives were lost in tho wreck >f tho steamer Luneuberg, whioh went ishoro Wednesday ilT Amherst har )or Magdalen Islands. A dispatch a that effect was received at Halifax rom Meat C >vo, near the scene of the vrcok, by Lishe, Hart aad Son, own ?rs of the steamer. The steamer had a crow of seven cen and probably carried several pass engers, Including Mr. Leslie, a moun ter of tho (Hoadian parliament and a number of tho firm whioh owns tho 'essel. When the steamer struck there vere seventeen parsons on board, In udlng a crew of sixteen and Mr. jt?Nlle. Tao dead: it J. Leslie. Hallifax. H. Moersard, steward of tho Lun nhurg. R. M. M:Denald, chief engineer. J. Jose, cook. B. Hill, cabin boy. J. M lOonnell, sailor. E V. Dmoette, sailor. Lophin Vlnuclt, Bailor. Joseph Bjurgeoes, sailor. A sailor, whoso name was not earned. The Lunenburg had been running etwecn Plotou and the Mtgdalon is inda since last spring. I) iring a lgh galo Tuesday, which was ac Dtnpanled by blinding snow Hurries, j is ttiought that the Btoamcr went ut of her course in trying to make l nhorst harbor ar d brought up on Ire rooks that lie sjmo distance tlT ooro in that vicinity. The steamer vldently had been ashoro for some Ime before she was seen. K^rts 'ero made to communicate wltn her, u J tho strong ourrents that spont round that point and the high seas rado it impossible to launch a boat, iitor tho weather moderated and live t tho crew came ashore, the twelvo thorn staudiug by the ship. . Lator *?so attorn ohed to raaob ?boro as thc wSeels showed signs of breaking up, nd all were lest exaept Captain 'ride. _ Tmicody in Ol ty ol' Mi x too. A dispatch from tho City of Mex ;o gives further details of the accl ont In which James Russell Parsons, lotted State?consul genoral, lost his fe Wednesday night. Tho open car lage in which he war driving with irs. Pardons aud their son was truck hf an eleotrlc oar. Mrs arsons was sl'ghtly Injured. The oy escaped without a scratch. The ucldent happened while Mr. Par ms and his family were going to the entrai station to hid farewell to rlends. The coachman tried to cross oe street car track In front of a ipldly moving car which struck thc miago with t?rrido fjrec, crushing ; against a trolley post. Mr. Per m's m ad stiuck the post, the whole ip of his head being takon t IT 'nc mot noan and driver of the >scb disappeared after tho accldont nd havj not yet been arrested. An Outr MK?. A. W. Kenuerley, an Industrie UR alor^d farmor of tho Pork, lost two jules under very peculiar cl ron m Larcas some short time ago. He iys ho went with a two mule team :e haul som ?thing from the woods. 10 bitched lils two mules on the edge f the IO listo swamp for sumo purpose lid w- nt down lu tho swamp. While c was away some person or persons lipped up to tho wagon and sot tire 11 around bis mules, burning one of hem tu death on tho spot ar:d Injur ng thc other so bad that lt will die Ccunerly does not know who did the neanncssnor why thoy did lt. lt i nothing but an outrage and if the arths who did it could ire caught hey should ba severely punished. .'ho Times and Democrat. C'laHh in Cherokee. Saturday afternoon ac Rlackaburg Jolted States Comm'sslonor Trescott nd Deputy United States Marshall lallman engaged In a didi jul ty as to ire controversy over Cherokee's need f dispensary conste liles. Trescott Irow a revel vor but Hallinan dharmod dm. Trescott was unab'o to get a dow. Hallinan getting several etloo ivo punches. It ls probable that Prescott will bo prosoctcd for carry ng coi.coaled weapons. Gailftfit MI tho Aol, Attempts made last Friday, Satur? lay, ano Sunday ano Mond ly nights 0 wreck pasBonger trains on the Georgia Southern railroad as Heart tine Vi , resulted In a watch hoing ?ot. Tul? resulted In the arrest Wed ?ehday of Will horn, a negro who was caught In alic act of lajlng a Mo lornas tho traok. A reward of $250 las been olTerod for tho arrest. (Jailed Out aud Murrin* wi* J. M. Harrison, a prosperous farm er near Carlo Ga. w.~? c\lled to his rate Wednesday about dusk and shot jwlco lu thc breast with a shot gun oadod with buckshot and killed In rtantly. Tho murderer up to tho present timo has not b?on apprchen ed SherilT Patterson *as summoned %r,(\ went to tho Keene of the tragedy but was unable to lind any duo to tire person who did tho shooting. Murder ?nd l'ill?KO. An oHlcial statement recolved from Ddcssa says that 8,000 persons have boon kllldd there slnco the beginning :ef tho troubles. Latost arrivals at 1 assy, Moldavia, icolaro that the kill ings and plundorlngs continuo at Odes ia by day and night. \ v ? P Bid SUM. Corulyo?iriertnsed Nearly two Mil li ? "TollaT on Cnmjmign. It Omiio Hom ninny Houroop, thu li%tM?*, Bubecrf litton Wns Ono Ilupdrcd Thouaaol Dollar?, Ao:?rffflQg to a Washington news paper willoh, with evidence of friend ly bandung, prints'a long s'atement about the, expenses of Chaiimin Oor telyou )UilUU4, the ll mulvioan nation al committee libed tue bum i f $1,800, 000 to eubt lt losovelt and Fairbanks, and bad lu bank wheu the oampalgn was ended about $100 OOO. lt is nt uteri that (Jiiatrman Oortel you bad $900,000 less that Chairman Ilauna had in 19J0 and n arly $2,000, d00 less Uh an ho had In 1896, lt ls also deolared to bo a fact Mat the Demo ratjlo naMonal c ?mmittee In 1802, when Mt, Cleveland was elected tho second time, bad a fund exceeding anything known lu American politics before or sine--tho sum of $1,100, ?00. Chairman Oortelyou, according to this article, turned over to State CDOI rnittec Ju New York, New .1 ?rsey, Wost Virginia, Massaohuletts, Con icotlout, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin md Nev.ida thc sum of $700.000. Nu vxouut ls fixed as to the sum ex icnd d In New York by the national oom ulttee through ?ov. O Jill, but it must havo been largely lu exoess of B200.000 Fir literature, it states, the ?atlonal opmmlttte expended $550, )00; for the speakers' bureau, $175, )00; for lithographs, advertising, otc, J150,000r for salaries and headquarters jxponscs, $160,000, and for mlscellan urns exponses, $50.000. Hi ls stated that the money expend id by Obalrunu Cortelycu came from 10.000 different sruroes, about 4 000 joutrlbutors bel?g known, leaving ybout (5.000 unknown, to tho ohaiimin )f the national committee. Tho larg st single contributor furnished up yard of $100,000, it is statod, and his doutlty was uofc known to either 3nalrmao Oortelyou or M*r. Rllss. Tuc artlclo ls lao.dng lu details as io tho identity of corporations and : irpjratlon managers that contribu? id to the Republican Hindi? No refor mco whatever ls made to contrlbu ilous either from lifo Insurance oomp mles or railway companies, bu? it is t?c?ed that in every instanco where i ontributlon was mado conditional >n some polltioal favor to come tho of er was ri j oted or thc money return !d. In connection with tho Republican campaign fund, tho statement ls made .hat J'/tBldent Roosevelt and Chair ?au'-'-' ?Ivon will eoonorato to have m?n6u< ?,iaW prov? -lur-tiM, -un ity of contribution, "o political com nlttees. Chairman Cortclyou declined o discuss tho ligures connected with ihe campaign of 1901, but intimated rhat they were "about right." New York MyntericH. Three o? New York's great high vays, thc river, tho undergroiud rall* vay aud street and that dark seotlon mown a3 "Cjinaiown, each furnished , police mystery last week. An un blown mau jumped in front of a train is it swung into 137 Dh street and broadway htatiun of the subway. Us budy was literally ground to llecos. The C doatown mystery was he death of a white woman, Lottie jane, whose husband, a Chinaman, led a short time ago. Lottie Laue ?ad three callers Tuesday night of asl wonk, a Chinaman and a white nan and a white woman. During he night these callers summoned a ihyslolau and nott lied tho police that bear hostess had fainted. The phj lclan found her dead. Trie puilee ?ut the threo callers under arrest. Villlam Halllnger, who said he cam', lown from Yonkers and after dtspo? og of his load of prouuee started Out 0 eli j >y himself, waa dragged from he List river with a fractured skull. AibA Weber, a 20 year old girl was ound lying bound, gagge.l and senna ess lu the hallway of her house in rVest Forty-Flfttl street where she estded with two girl corupan ons. WlrtUt hH IV I? Krnphy. Reports received by thc Bureau of Equipment of tho Navy at Washing ton fr< m the c immandantof ttie na tal station at Key West, Commander Uoehl. r stato that tho wireless tele ;raph operator there recoivod and .ead without trouble a me^sago of light words sent by the station at Co on, a distance of moro than 1,000 geographical miles. This new sta Lion at Colon was (quipped for tho government by tho De Forest Com pa iy. Messages passing between Beau fort, S. ? , and Havana, Cuba were leard and read by the station at Now port R. I. at tho same time. These ire extraordinary records, but Roar Admiral M winey, the chief of the 1 urcau, has Instituted a system of lally tests of the di ff iront stations and lt ls hope before he retires from tdie servise to have this moans of ?ommunloatlon is sucn perfect order that these occasional records shall liave become a regular matter. t*UtBUtt) hy ('ftimllmlH. Among the passengers who M rived at San Francisco from Aus tralia on the liner S moma wore Cap tain Watts and Chief Ollleer Alix 3tluson, of thc American ship Susque hanna, willoh founded shortly after ?ho loft Nehone, New Caledonia, August 23 list, with a cargo of Oh romo iron ror D.dawaro breakwater. Tho orcw left tho ship in threo boats which were headed for tho Solomon Islands. Only ono boat landed there. Thc othor two were picked up at soa by a trading schooner. There tho mon wore kindly treated for a time but llnally had to My foi tholr lives from a set of cannibals who threaten ed their existence Thoy were sub sequently picked up by a trading v?s sol and joined tue rest oi tue crew at Sydney. Negro Mi(,|,|M-(l, A dUpatch from Gaffney to Tho Stato says Essie Martin colored, was possibly fatally stabbod by Son John son, ooh rod, lato Wodnesday night. Injuries severe. Result uncertain. Johnson ia in j ttl to await trial. Both about 15 years ot* age. HUNG AT LAST. Mrs. Rogers Dies on the Gallows for Her Crime. UUUDERED HUSBAJNI). Whom She Chlorolormcd at a Huting In j the Woods While She Was Caress lng tliin. Great Efforts Wert Mu Je to Save the Woman. But They Palled. A dispatch from Windsor, Vt., says Mrs. Mary Rogers was hanged at thc Vermont Stato prison at 1:13 o'clock Friday afternoon for tho m mri or of her husbaud, Marcus Rogers at lien* nlngtun, on August 13, 1002. Mrs. Hogers was pronouuoed dead by tho prison otllolals at 1:27 1 2. The cxeoutlon tock placo after tho womau had twice been reprloved on account of appeals made by her ooun sel aud after the Ualtod States Su preme Court refused to take action in thc case. Oaly a comparatively few persons witnessed the hanging, the number being restricted to those permitted to atlend by the laws of Vermont. Mrs. Rogors maintained her com - posure to the last and mounted the gallows with a steady Btop. Although a deathly pallor cvorsproad ber coun tenance, hardly a mud?lo quivered as Deputy Sheriff Sin IT )rd pronounced the fatal word?, "1 now proceed to execute tho sentence of the law and may God have mercy on your soul." Wnen the words were pronounced Deputy Sheriff Angus MoAuley sprung the trap and thc drop fell. The crime for which Mrs. Mary Rogers was sentenced to death was the murder of herhusbind, Marcus Rogers, at Bennington, on August 13, 11102. At the time the orlmo was com ra lt ted Mrs. Rigors was only nine teen. She hud been separated from her husband for some time and was desirous of marrying a young man namo i Maui Ice Knapp. On the day of the murder Marcm Rigors went to Donnington to vlsi? lils wife and that night sh ; arranged to meet him in the woods near the Walloomsack riv or. While caressing him she induced him to allow her to blud his hands, and while ho was po* artas* ?ho chloroformed lum. In thin sho was aided by Leon "Ferham, a halfwitted boy who was tho son of tho woman with whom sho boarded. Another woman, Estella Bites, was present. A few days after tho murder Mrs. Rogers, Porham and the Bates woman were arrested. Ferham made a oom plete confession and both ho and Mrs. Rogers were found guilty of murder m the lirst degree. Ferham was sen tenocd to imprisonment for lifo and Mrs. Rogers was sentenced to the 1 death gallows. Various attempts were made to commute Mrs R igers' sentence bilbah failed. Tho date set for tho execution was February 3, 1905 Gov. Bell grant- , ed two reprioves for thc presentation of new evidence, but the court denied tho petition for a uew trial oaoh time, and the United States Supreme Court refused to consider the case. Certain disclosures regarding soau dal-? In the Vermont State prism at Windsor, where Mrs. Rogers has been , con ll ned, have, it is claimed, affected public sentiment. According to test! mon y before tho prison investigation committee of the Legislature one ol the coroV'Ctsat Windsor had aocesn io Mrs. Rogers' coll some time after the lint reprieve was granted. It was alleged that tb Is was part of a con ?piracy on thc part of certain prison i lllotals to tiring about such a uondi Mon us would further postpone the ex cu Mon. Mrs. Rogers was the iLst person 4cnteuo?d to death in Vermont with in tho past thirteen years who wasro fused clemency. The last woman to be executed waa M rn. lOmellne Mooker, at Windsor, on March 30, if83. O i tho march to tho gallows Mrs Rogers declined the abSistanos of dop niles. Her step wan firm. Siie mount ed the bot ff dd unaided and stopped exactly upon the center of the trap. Soo sat down in thc chair for a mo ment and, when asked if she had any ll nal st ntement to make she shook hor head negatively. Mrs R)gers' body bas been olalmcd tiy In r mother and slstor, and will bo hurled by them at Ho ?lok Falls, N. Y., where the mother, Mrs. Josio Cal lahan, resides. Where Are Tho Uunkn. There was a hearing in Columbia on Friday willoh ls regarded as sig nltloant before tho legislativo com mlttco appointed to check up certain State c Mel?is. Tho obj ?ct ls to dis cover tho four missing cash bo ks from Secretary of State Gantt's Gill 96 covering trp.nftotlons ?mounting to I many thousands of dollars. Thoso arc tho books about which thoro was such a heated controversy at tho last session of thc Legislature. Tho com mittee has Information that these books were not burned as was Inti mated. Glork Mc'Jown testified Fri day that ho waa absent in Florenco when tho books got lost, and Clerk McLiurln did not know how tho nooks gob away, ?coretary Gantt ls sick and his examination along with that of of Glork Means, of the sink ing fund com nlsslon, ia doforrod un til they oan bo examined togothor. AvornKO Wolcot. Secetary Hester makes tho aotual average weight of 4,252,543 bales of thc cotton crop embracing port re ceipts and overland for tho three months from Soptember to November, Inclusivo, 519.10 against 523.63 pounds por halo last yoar, u decroaso of 4.18, Data!lcd averages aro: Toxas 633.50; Louisiana 522 10; Alabama, etc., 630; Georgia 508; South Carolina 600; North Carolina 601.05; Virginia 400; Tennessee, otc, including Memphis, St? Louis and overland, 6^3.7. A TE AttIC DEATH. Mans Head Bplit Cpwi by Flying Fragmenta of a Saw A. Resident of Columbia Was Oper? ?MlUK Wood Haw for Ul*Bon In Ijextngton Comry Tho State saya My lan D. Blaokmon of Colum' ia was killed in Lexington couoty Friday morning about ll o' clock by the bursting of schedar saw wimMv ho WM operating in sawing w o', The 0,'v. was running at its tt&uil high rate of speed wh;n for some unknown roason lt flew Into fragmenta and ono of'lie pieaeastruok him full In the faoe, sp itting op >n his bead from ohin to crown. Mr. Blaoknion's son and ornera who were near ran quickly to his assistance ai d preparations viere ihurrirdly m ide to bring tho injured m*D to the Colum bia hospital. Ho was pino 3d m a ve hicle and the start for this olty was soon made but before they had pro ceeded two miles Mr. Blaokmon breathed his last. He never regained consciousness after he was struok. The accident happened at tho home of bis son, about eight miles from the 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 Ger vals street He has baen working for about two weeks. Yesterday morning they went to work as usual. Mr. Blackmon was running the saw wive louts the wood iDto Bhort lengths when without an Instant's warning it flew into several pieces. Oaeof them struck him In tho faoe, J .ul on the right side of the noss and sunk itself Into thc flesh and bone, laying opon his face and outtlng deep onto his brain. A (looter was near at hand and was soon callod. He saw at once how desperate was the mans condition and know that the only pa sible hope lay lo getting him to the hospital. With all the rapidity of a faithful son's eager i ff irts, arrangem?uts were soon mace to bring him to that olly but be was oven then beyond human aid and before one fourth of the dis taooe bad been covered he had suo oumbod to his fiightful inju ries, His body was brought to the olty and planed in tho undertaking par lorn of Funderburk A, Matteson, where lt was prepared for burial. Coroner Walker of Richland county and tho coroner of Lexington both decided that no inquest would bo necess ary. Mr. Blaokmon was 51 yoars of age and was born in Lancaster county i .jeat, in tho Blaok Creek nolghborJio ul no has been a resident ot Columbia . for 15 years. lld ia survived by tho i one s m, already mentioned, and the i two daughters with whom ho lived, i He leaves aLo threo brothers, Missrs. I J. 0. and Mmt Blaokmon of Linens I ter c ninty Minor Biaokmon of Florida and two sisters, Mrs. Belle Grlfllu < and Mrs. Nancy tCauonton, both of i L\ncastcr county. I The ran. alns of Mr. Blaokmon will he taken to his forinjr home in Lin? caster for interment at 3.30 o'olook i Friday afternoon. The funeral will i take place on Sunday morning, A Cook. Hold Ui>. Tho Columbia State says "the resi dents lu the vicinity of Blanding and Bull streets wore startled by a ory for the pjlloe about 0 o'olcoit Tuesday night and au Investigation dlsolcscd another alleged attempt to hold up a pedestrian. Four polloemon were q ?lckly on the scene bul a thorough starch failed to lind any trace of the shadowy footpad. A colored cook who ls said to work at hotel was on his woy to bis home In Waverly, when hew; a o ?if routed by a tall while man who, he says, tried to hold him up but when the colored man gave the alarm tho white man disappeared by leaping the low fenoo enclosing the campus of the Presbyterian seminary and ?U? tiing through the yard. No tr?oe of him o uul be found by tho polioo. Big it ?ol' Falls. At L ndon, K inland tho south end of tho immense roof spanning thc Charing Cross m\ln line station sud denly collapsed Weduebday afternoon and completely blocked thc lines. A number of workmen and trainmen were caught in the wreckage. The roof of tho Avenue Theater adjoining the Stallau also collapsed. About thirty Injured persons have already been taken to tho hospital. Ono of them died and the others aro In a ed Meal condition. There aro a num ber of doad among the ruins. Tho Continental expross, Ulled with pas sengers, was standing oui le tho sta tion waiting for tho signai to ontcr when tho oollapso of tho roof occur ed. _ Horrible Aooiuont. Oa last Wednesday morning Mr John C. Funches, who lives near Rowesville, mot with a most horrible accident. He was operating a, sugar cane mill, and by some means his coat sleeve on the right arm waa caught in the cogs. Bofore Mr. Fur?ohes muid pull tho sleeve out his arm was drawn in the cogs and orusbod to tho elbow. Tho machinery was stopped as soon as poss!bio and Mr. Funohes was re leased from thc mill. Later Dr. A. S. Hydrlok, of this olty, assisted by Dr. J. D. 8. Fal rey i amputated the arm Just above tho blbow. We ex? tond our sympathy t? Mr. Funohes and luve that he will soon bo up again. larmes a Gall. Presldont Harvlo Jordon of the Southern Cotton association Friday Issued a oall for a general oonvontlon of farmers, bankers, merohants and others throughout the South h i be hold at New Orleans, Jan. li, 12 and 13,1000. Tho obj ot of the conven tion will be to diBouss tho work of tho asaoolatlon, with reference to organi zation, handling the orop of 1000, trade relations between producers and spinners, extending tho market for American cotton and holding the un sold balance o? the prosont -rotten crow for 15 oontsa pound. Many promi nent speakers from various parts of tho country havo promised to be present and a large intendance is already predicted. A Russian Lieutenant General Assassinated by a Woman. EVENT CASTS GLOOM Over the City of St. Petersburg. Corni Witte'? Faith la the Thinking Classes and Hop JU of Carrying Out Liberties Promised by the Czar are Pading. Tho Sb. Petersburg correspondent of The Dal'y Telegraph in a dispatch dated Dicouaber 6, sent by way of E} dtkuhnon, Eist Prussia, sayB: "L'eut. G.n. Sakharoff, former minister of war, was assassinated today. The govcrnmont had deputed Gen, Sakhanff to visit the province of Saratoff for the purpose of q.iolling fhe agrarian riots there "A woman belonging to the so callod * fl/lng columns" of the revo lutionary movement called at tbe house of tho go*,?-n<vr.. of Saratoff at noon today and ask Jd to see G moral Sakharoff. "She fired three revolver shots at the general killing him on the spot." Tho tidings reached St. Peters burg Wednesday night. Oount Witto charged LU-ut. Gen. Rudiger, minis ter of war, with the task of breaking tho nows to Mme Sakharoff. "The event has oaused a profound impression In St. Petersburg, owing to fears that the revolutionists here will follow the example thus set. "Tao spectre ot a military dictator ship, whtoh has been looming on tho horlzm, is slowly gaining consistency and sharpness of outline. ' I am personally convino?d that Oouat Wltte's faith in the good sense and political ttob of tho Russian thinking classes, whloh recently was as firm as a rook, is gradually weak ening, and with lt his hopes for tbe carrying out of the liberties promised in tho emperor's manifesto " Tno Tagoblatt's St. Petersburg correspondent in a dispatch sent by way of E/dikuhnen December I, says: "Tho situation ls visibly growing worse. Tho orltlo&l m >ment for Oount Witto ls coming when tho liberal ele ments will demand hts resignation A resolutlou by the agriculturists at M >soow demanding the immediate iiBmlssal of the present cabinet de notes tho beginning of the movemout iway from Oount Witto and signs indicate that this movement will gain In intensity soon." The troops hero have resolved so oret orders t) bo ready to cope with mtloipated anti-Jewish demonstra tions. Tno oorresponlent of The Times at St. Petent burg says: 'I am informed on excollent authority that a revolt of tho Sb. Petorsbu g yarr.?on is oer tain to occur. "The newspapers print harrowing details of the whippings by order of Gen. Sakharcff of tue peasants whom no was sent to pacify." WHY ins WAS KILLED. A dispatoh from Sb. Petersburg says news of the asaasinatlon of Llout/ Gen* Sakharoff, former minister fit war, who was shot In tho Governor's palace at Sarnoff, on December 6, bad beou proceeded by the most horrible stories about how Sakharoff had been repressing the aggarien disorders. Ho corralled peasants with Oossack and then had them beaten with soldier's whips. The assassin of Sakaroff has not been idenbllled. Wnen arrested the' woman who commlbtod the orime de clared that she had executed the do oroo of tho terrolsts' seoblon of the so cial I evolutionist!!. Fallowing ls a dosorlpton of Sarha rolf's arrival at Uovoamchlna, a vil lage of the proYlnod of Haratoff: ''Die cam i with Cossacks and arbillr ry. The peasants wore surrounded by Oosiaoks and Sakharoff addressed them de manding that they surrender their leadors. The village older replied, but gave tno gonoral no Information. The elder was Immidiately beaten until her lost oonEc.oumoss, "Sakharoff retired .'to the court houso, leaving bbc pcasauts ab the meroy of tho Cossacks, most of whom were drunk, and they began torturing tho peasants pulling out their hair and beard and evon tearing pleoes of flesh from tholr faoes. Thirty-threa peasants woro thus malbreated." Oan't Assist KO?'J? The bad nows from his country aboub tho roporbed suloldo of his brother Young Wnan Min whloh was convoyed bo him Wednesday has ?ff ;obod bho health of Young Tehau Min, a Korean minister to Franco and ho was nob ahlo bo reo.dve any ono boday. lils exp jobed that he will call upou President. KioiCvolb and Sooetary of S teto Riot and bry to In lluonoo thom In favor of his ountry which under tho treaties wibh Japan will lo^e most of lbs independence. Inotllelal olroles tho feeling ir that lb will nob bs possible' for tho govern m nt of the Uni bod S oates to inter vene. Kujelan Hod Tan.). A storv of R.isslan red tapo ls told by W. T, St ad. Gen. Ltnevltoh, while in supremo command of tho Russian army in Manchuria, once used a rubber-stamp signature for the papaw whtoh ho had to sign every v,ny bof'jf? he o >o?d (Uaw forage for bis own horses. The commissary gen oral returned tho rubber stamp signed papers as out of ord .sr and every day tho general uomuntuditig an army of 500,000 men had to atrlx hts autograph to tho requisition tor his horses' oats._ Went I)<unooratio. The Democrats ot Portland, Me., for tho Arab time In twelve years, eleoted their mayor. Nathan Ollfford, received 4,041, as against 4.429 for the Ropubiioan candidate,