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f nc Marlborc Democrat -s-nn-i-fr-r- -.- ^.-.VT-^T-?,-?- -{ -T L'H?TJ, GREAT LICSUTY, UT?P?IU5 OUU SOU?,$ 4?? MAJ?J LiV?S TS 'V^fjtoWimiijX HAiT? OU O?U DEATHS GLOUlOQd IJS^T TU Y UAUW VOL?XXI. BENNETTS VILLE, 8. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1906, ' -7 il ".??. . NO- 24. IT WOULD DO IT. Friends of the State Dispensary Claim That It WOULD BE PURIFIED B) the Passage ol thc Rayaor'Maniilng Dill by the Leglslafure. Thc Ad? vant?ge of the M?*a*ure Feint ed Out by Hie Columbia Record. Tho OolumblalState in discovering some phases cf the dispensary men tions the faot that while dispensary advooates admit that certain evils have characterized the administra tion of the dispensary they hold that if the RxyBor-Manning bill were to beoouae law everything would boolean and properly conducted and says: "If Huoh could be assured, many who are opposed to the monopoly and opposed to the state engaging In the traillo, would side with the ditpcu sary. They would cmhraoe an oppor tunlty to settle tho question. hut where ls tho guatrantee ? Whero ls this promise more binding than any other made for thlrtoen years? Where ls faot or prece: e it to host alu ii? lt is an opinion au uu?orti? d opinion, against wbiob la arrayed reason ano logic and myriad doubts." In comm juting on the article cf the State tl e Columbia Record say* : "The guarrantee ls In tho provis ions of the bill, which must be observ ed if the dlbpensary ts to continue at all under those provisions enaoted In to law. The terms ot the law them selves will guarrantee boues ty. These will eliminate opportunities for col luslon, graft and other forms of CJI ruptlon. Any elli lal under nub a law who attempted to graft would easily bo doti eleu, because of the publicity required and the general nature ot the business as lt would bo under lt. "This proposition of The S "ate has been made before and bas been re echoed in portions of the state prose as well aB in the legislature Now let us look at some of tho provisions of the law aod see if they do not give to any reasonable man, any mau who de sires to see tho dlspeusary properly oondupted, every possible gu-irr&nteo uf ita thcotlw-ncbB in acoona?.dishing the desired end. "In the fl. st plaoe af ?cr ascertain ing the'amount of stock needed foi the year in i.ny paitlcular, ar.et aftei due adverti?irg fer bids, scaled and dhooted to the state treasures, thc governor will appoint three citizens' who will open the bids and award a oontraot for suppll s for a year, the lowest reaponslble b oner to te award ed the contraot in any particular olast. of supplies. Nouo of these three men will know who the others are until they assemble in Cdumbla. This pro vision was Inserted in the abundance cf caution, notwilbatauding the gov ernor could be relied upon to appoint Incorruptible men WIIOBO knowledge cf each other's appointment before the meeting would make no diffjr enoe. However, as there 1B some di p. post tion on part of Homo unreasonably tb look upon everything and everybody connected with tho dispensary with buspicion.lt was thc UK ht bei.t to dis arm all such at the start-hence thi provision. Now that method ins ins competition In the lb st place, assures the lowest responsible bidder of get ting thc contraot without bdng com pelled to offer lnducjments or olTorlng suoh of his own volition. Suppesing an almost Impossible thing, that the governor should appoint dishonest corrupt men,, the opportunities for collusion are Buch that they amount praotlcally to nothing. Rut suppos lng othorwfse, and that the opportun tuuity is there, they would be quick ly detected in any juggling of prices BO they might get a "rako oh* ' by further provisions of the bill, which will be apparent; as the y aro mention ed. "All liquors must be purchased from a government bondod warehouse This insures age and In a large degree quality. Such liquors are quoted en the market dalley, Juit as cutten and wheat are. The price of any particu lar bonded whiskey today is printed and anybody concerned can easily ac quaint himsolf with it. The prlca being thus lixed and publicly known, and the Ray sor-Manning bill rcquls irg the publication of the bids, amount bought and price paid, lt would be next to Impossible for the buying committee, supp sing lt dis honest, to publicly buy for one price but have an understanding as to what shall bo the real price in carder for them to make something for them selves. Thoy would inevitably be dot ected, unless every man connected with tho dispensary was lu corrupt Cemblnatlon with them, which ls well impossible to conceive. So the pur chasing feature of the business ls ful ly safeguarded, the Aery operation of of tho provisions of the bill giving this guarratuec practically in an ab soluto manner "Buying from a warehe use. to ls a guarrantee that the quality of whls koy bought will bu delivered. Tuc government stamp ls on every barrel as lt enters tho warehouse. T.iat stamp is again placed on it when lt loaves, so that it will be Impossible for the dealer to deteriorate the whin key and send an inferior finality at tho price of a superior. Wo do not see bow a greater guarrantee caa b? given thon in all this. It is an abso lute as it ls possible for human Ingen nit.v to deviso, lt seems to us. .'Wehavo heaid lt said, "but all this loaves out the commissioner. He will ha?o an opportunity io?- graft In withholding the shipment of any par ticular brand and of sending out others where inducements havo been tffercd and aocopted." This presup poses that there is to bo a dishonest commissioner. Grant that for a mom rnt. All purchases have been made for the year, the commissioner will havo to ship out all supplies during the year. The whh key houses having scoured their oontiaot and their mon ey will be supremely Indifferent whether their got ds are all sent out in January or held until December. A commissioner wh' would att'inpt bo "hold up" any house In U-:at man uer couldn't do so long, or very BUO ciasfully, for detection would soon overtake him. Hut, as said, there ls no fear on part of whiskey houses after tboy havo their coutraots. There will be no reason for them to pay & commissioner or anybody else to rush out their product. So, even with a (lisle nest commissioner In oharge lu ls hedged about so under tho ltaysor Manning bill as to give overy possible guarrantee that ho could not last long In his dishonesty. "We have rather been leaning throughout this article that the tillo tale referred tJ won ld ho bv nature dishonest and wo think wo have shown how their prediction that way would bc curbed and made harmless With honest men and care ought al ways to be tokin to have no other, there ls an ab'olute guarrante. a o :r taluty beyond all douht of the prop-" administration of the state dlspctist - ry. There ls, then, no need for prece dents to give auy assurance. The pro posed law cannot he put Into effect without cirrylug that guarrantee long with lt." _ LYNCHING FOB. ASSAULT How the Wattling l???Bt Jjooke at tin Mutter. Hero ia a recent editorial from the Washington Post, ono of tue most conservative as well as ono of tnt most Influential newspapers any where . "There is considerable human na ture lu this world, and lt think-., ?peaks, and aots the same language in Oolo and lu Geoigia, lu Kansas and kn Miss'8lippi. List Wednesday at Mar>svihe, Ol lo, a negro who had assail.ted a white womau was only ?.aved from mob violence hy the cun ning and the triek of the shei.fT ar.o on the same day. at KOKI dalo, Kan , a negro who han been discovered con cealed under the bed cf a white wom an was actually strung up hy a mob, and world have paid tho penalty with his life. If the police had not geno to the rescue and cut him down. ' Kans vs ls where they encourage che neg to to vote and rehenfc his at tempts to labor. Mississippi ls where they will not allow tho negro to vote but Insist that he shall woik. With thin d florence, Kansas and Mlaslssp pl look upon th? mau and brother precisely alike, in Kansas and In O rio ihc negro 1? a political factor-enure ly so. In Mississippi, and in South Carolina, thc negro is out of polillos -entirely so. "Hut whether North or South, when a negro assaults a white woman > he ( IT. eli on tho community is the ban.e. The rage of the people bt.cm.'s .rei /./, and a way wouid be found to kill nun "chough he wore Immortal," if the mob co lld lay hands on ulm at thc moment lt ls ufeless to speak ot tho law there and then. Wuere the man, North or South, Eist or West, who would have his wire or daughtei detail to the Jury the story of her shaun ? We eau all stand toe tooth ache with admirable and serene phil osophy If it le somebody else's tooth; out the white man dtoi not live, North or South, who would not soon er ly i.ci a thoutand rolf cr?ants than '.hat ids modott daughter should be subjected to the on (Dal of telling thc story of tier shame to a publli morbid .vlth vitiated curiosity. "This is ail very unfortunate; very wrong, perhaps; out it ls superlative ly human, lt is actually and gravely proposed lu one of the states to 1 -gal \? i lynchings. That only evidences the the horror of tba orimo for which most lynchings are thc penalty. "To be entirely frank about lt. thc respectable ni groes- and there are thousands and bens of thousands of them-can do much to stop lynching by a more vigorous and rigid ostraoitm of those of their race gullly of out rages, Let the negroes themselves make it holler for the monsters who bring reprcuc.i on tho wholo rac3. J'hai will do more thau all the lawh you can shake a stick at lo make lynching unfashionable." A CLOtE GALL. A IliiKUy Wheel Torn to IMeoeu by fj'KlitninR. The Walterboro P. ess says a short time ago on the G ?orges' Station road a few miles from Walterboro, ligtulDg st)nek the right front wheel of Dr. lt dolck Ackerman's buggy and tore all thc spikes In the wheel Into splinters except ono, and stripped tht horse of the harness, leaving only the names and traces on the horse. Dr. Ackerman had been out in the country to see a patient am. was ac companied hy Dr. Smith Turner, ol Walterboro. They were on their way back to town when the buggy wheel was struck by llghtnirg about nine o'clock. Tho story as told by both these gmtlcmen, is indeed a thrilling one. lt seems as if they were si unti ed by the stiokc of lightning ano they thought at li rat that their hone had run away. The rain was falling very fast and they hitohed their horse and wein hack up the. road about one half mik to Luther Von's house and told him that they had happened to an acct dent, but did not dream that their buggy had been sttuck hy lightning Drs. Ackerman and Turner spent the night with Mr. Yon, returning to Wakeiboro next morning, Neither them nor the horno were hurt, though tho wheel, as stated above, was torn to pieces. I .H ri to Holonoe. At Itoohester, N. Y., Dr. Louis Weigal, tho li rat American authority OD tue lUontgen ray, died Thursday at his homo In that city, as thc direct result of his experimental; work in that oonucotlon. Upton Sinclair Bares New Atro cities of Beef Trust. CONDEMNED STOCK Of Five Million Farms Poured luto the Public A\a kct for People to Eat BY thc Big Packing Mouses of The Armours and Odicr Packers. Tho Reef Trust ls about to bo call ed to account for selling dlseasod and rotten meats. Upton Sinclair, who has been Instrumental lo showing up the methods of tho Reef Trust In "The Jungle," a book he wrote, writes vs follows to the Now York Amer! eau: Kjr decades there has b.ten develop ing lu Ohio go, entirely uurestriotcd and unneeded, a Kystom whereby thc public was made to buy and consume vii t.he diseased and tainted m jab that o? uld ho gathered from the fl?e mil lion fal m i of this couutry. When I ft rat went ti l'^cklngtown 1 found that the system nad reached a stage where the public had bean educated to ignorance-ooo merely as to the practices that existed, but even to the laws concerning thom. I wrote a hoi k to tell thc truth about lt. Toe packers tried to bribe 'nc, and to intimidate rm; they set detecdves after me, and tried to in tinonee my publishers not to bring out the book. Tney tilled tho press with Hes about mo, and even sent to news papers to p event the book's bel?g reviewed. And thou the President read lt; and when he began an Inves tigation they started tho story that ho was Invest fating mo, to get ma terial to attack me. And for months (.hey were able lo make the country believe tuts grotesque yarn. J) Kl V KN TO STOP "uoorOKlNG." And meantime (hey wtre cleaning up In front of his commission. J. go. information from a superintendent at Armour's as to tho precise room in which they "doctored" spoiled ham?; but they bad stopped "dootoring' spoiled barru I A night watohmao for one of the "Big Throe," who is ?1 /lng mo information, writes as follovs: 'They know Just when the two nev, commissioners wore to be out, and < V*a men were working half- thc night getting ready." lu the Armour plant I saw with my own eyes tho doctoring of hams chat were BO putrllkd that I could not foroe myself to remain near them. The hams were on a working tabla, and a man with a foot pump wbiob worked on the principle of a gigantic hypodermic needle dllod them with a chemical which killed the odor. 1 saw skinned hams taken from hams so old that nobody could eat the skin. Without thc skins there ls a sale for them. Tuen the skins were taken and ground in a big mortar and sold as head cheese. Not a oan of smoked or tinned meat that goes out of those packing houses ls free from chemical preservation which must eat into and corrodo- the lining of the ..tomach. POTTKD HAMS MADE OF STALK MUCK. The Armour recipe for potted hams as verified by two former suporintcn .lents, is to take the nubs of mould) smoked beef and grind lt in great hoppers with rind trimmings. 1 know aman who was high up In tho councils of Armour &>Co., at the time of the Spanish-American War, and who ls well known to President Roosevelt, who says, upon his personal knowledge, that ono chemist got $70 000 for testifying that tho process did not destroy tho nutriment in the b cf. This man said that Armour alot.o spent $1,000.000 getting out of the soandal. This company contributed i?O.DOO to the Republican campaign ? fund In IKUt). While 1 am not prepared to say of my own obst r vat lons and knowledge that such horrible conditions exist In New York and other lar^e cities, 1 am mo ally convinced that they do exist In a degree only sej >nd to those In (Jhloago. That the Chicago packers are alarm ed and desperate in their determina tlon to have the Neill-Reynolds re port suppressed ls shown b/ tho faot that they sent a man to try and in 1 tinonee this commission, oom posed of Jamos ll Reynolds, former secretary to Mayor L ;w. and Hilted States Commissioner of Libor Charles P. Neill. 1 violate no ooufldeuoo In say lng that much, for I have lt In a let tor fi om a man who learned of it i rom the B-iof Trust representative ilmself. And now that all these tricks have failed, they put the screws on the poor cattle raisers and Bet them to telegraphing ! Muon cause the cattle raiser has to love the Beef Trust, and to pull its chestnuts out of the lire l*'or years oh? packers have betti beating down tho price of beef on thc noof, ruining the Industry In whole States. They caused forty banks to fall In a single month, lt has been their regular practice to raise prlccb to Induce big shipments, and then lower them, and HCucp lu all the cattle In sight. And it ls these BB mn cattlemen who have often been stuck in (Jhloago without money to get homo by freight, who are now set to telegraphing the Presi dent In behalf of the condemned meat Industry ! I NS l'1C< '? l'Oit IN PAOKERS' EMPLOY, J cst a few facts tp BIIOW how the packers treat these cattlemen. Dr William K. .i q ?es, of C.ilctgo, who was for two years at tho head of the etty inspection in thin city, writes me as follows: *'Qlaiantlncd meat Isthat which has been suspected of disease on tho hoof, hut after slaughter has been found to be good. Tho law provides that this ls to ho sold at auotion. Tho 3hlef moat inspeotor was eon ployed by one of tho paokcrs to buy this meat A ring was made and tho bids wero lo writing and tho moat wau always ob tained at a smell figure. The o def meat inspeotor oould rldo through the yards, plok out the finest beef and quarantine it, and after it was killed got it at his own price for tho pack ers. When it was stated that I would make these bids open, it was intim?t ed that I might como into the 'ring.'" "I suggest that lt is timo for the oattle n en to open their eyes, and not bille ve all they road in Boef Trust telegrama I Lot them send on to Chi cago and learn a little about the Standard Slaughtering Compiuy, whioh kills thcso quarantined oattle, and which ls owned by ?he commis sion men, who are supposed to br? looking out for tho intorcsts of their patrons, but aro lu reality t-elllng them out-having good meat quarantined and Hold to their company at half its value. "N >w.?paper report says that two cattle experts culed on the President and told hlmtnat everything in Pack Ingtown was all right. If they did ohat, they Bald what they knew was false, for there ls not a oattle min lu bhe United States who docs not know mat what I have charged about the Condemned-Meat Industry ls true. The President knows lt too, fur ho bas the report of his Commissioners. * lt Is a business that has growu up with tho truit syBtem of l*rge scale slaughtering aud refrigerator car dla trlbutior ; so that now all tho old, drled-up, diseased and crippled cattle, which formerly were burled in the farmer's back lot, are gathered up. and shipped to the nearest trust f io tory to bo convortod Into some klud of fond. "There ls no seoreoy at all about this. You oan go there to Packing town and see them; you can't go there and fall to soe them, if you know what a Bick cow ls, and are honest enough to admit it. Am mg the hun dreds of letters I have reoelved aboul these matters ls ono from a farmer in Minn sota, who writes: ' OJO day a hog buyer came to my place and said : 'Have yon any sick hogs to sub?' I auswered, Y nearly all my hogs are down with the chol ora.' Ho said: "If they live till I can got them on the oars 1 will pav you a good price for them.' And BC ho did. Sometime after this I mel the hog-buyer, and asked him how h> came out on tue deal. Ho said: 'Two of them died on the way to Chicago, but I came out all right.' " M KAT ritODUCTS AUK TOISON. 1 wonder if theie ls any oouoec lon between that story and the one puo lished In tho San Francisco Examiner of March 23, last, telling how all the Inmates or an orphan asylum In Valle jo were poisoned by a caa of Swift. & Co.'s "Jewel" brand of lavd. JO ghb years ago tho United States Government nuda a practical t?:,t or the products of the condemned meat I industry. It took many thousand or able-bodied m?n and Isolated them lb Cuba, and forood them to eat packing house tinned meat. And the death rate that followed caused a national scandal. Everybody who is on the ''inside" in Oaloago knows that the Boef Trust i.pcnb literally millions o? dollars to hush up the facts, and that it was the worry Incidental to the process which killed old mau P. I). Armour. Tney are making thc same kind of food today -some twenty millions of pounds of boiled-out meat pulp kno wn as "Canned Roast Beef" goes out from Armour & Co.'s alone every year; and Into thc tins go the very same dlsln feotants and dyes, the same gristle and tallow and p itato Il mr, the same pulvei 7. id gullets and oow.i' udders and h lads and sk I us of hog*. A uew.ipaper dispatch says that the demand for meal, la falling elf as a re sult cf my agltatlo i, and that this is oho reason the stuck raising interests aro sending tc'ograms. Tnat is true, ind lt is the ti rat true statement the Beef Trust has sont out in Itb war on me. MAUKICT1NO UN DHU ASSUMKD NAM KS. Mit,? Alice Laney, of toe N itlonal Consumers' Leaguo, writes me that the canned meat trade has fallen off 17 per cent; and on? of tho assistants who ls now at work In Packlngbown states upon the authority of a super intendent \hat Araiour & Co's, busi ness has fallen t ll 30 or 10 per ocnt. and that the big li rms are no longer marketing their goods under their own names, but are sendlntr them oui ubder false labels. Naturally Mr. Armour ls v xed at. seeing lils criminal profits disappear tug, ho J 1 do not think that lt will help him to send telegrams to Brcsl dent Roosevelt, begging him to sup press the truth. If Mr. Armour wants tho American people to continue eat ing his produc?s, t'ne thing for him to do is to let them see a complete threshing out of the charges which have been brought against him, spec fl ?ally and in detail. 1 have publloh acjuscd Mr. Armour of bribery and oorruptlon, and with criminal negli gence or worse, In tho preparation of the food of an entire nation; and Mr. Armour lias not sued me, though J have dared him again and again to do it. Is Itb c\ase Mr. Armour's shrowd detectives havo found out the names of the men who have promised to go on thc stand and back mo up In case it comes to a light. Monkey amt Parrot Tl mo. Tho Democratic state convention of Tennessee, v?h!ch convened at Nash ville on Tuesday, of last wck, be oame a regular mob. Several lights tock place on the floor, and the police had to bo called in to preserve order. A truce was dually patched up, and thc convention adjourned over to Wednesday. There were throe candi dates for governor -J no. 1. Cox, the Incumbent; Cougressmao M. It. Pat terson and Judge J no. Et Bond. Many Killed III Hint. A dispatch from Bisbee, Arl/, ma Ba: s nows has reached thorn from Cantineo, Mexico, of a bloody race war at tnat place. Too town ls on i",. ..ini ?t???l? aro v.'ith dead and wounded. Tho Ari/.ona rangers and a large possoof OltiziOS of Bisbee have just left for Cananea. A roport ls In circulation that all tho Mexicans employed at W. C. Greene's mines in Mexico aro on striko and that 40 have i boen killed In a riot. ?l?DLY BOMB. i ? ?,;V - Wedding of the Spanish King Marred by a? Explosion. SIX PEEN PERSONS Were Killed and Many Injured, Machine ? Hurled'Prom a Boarding House Into the Cortege, Throwing Proc?s J sion Into Utter Confusion. I 1 Royal Carriage Hit. I A dispatoh from Madrid, Spain, ' says as Klug Alfonso and Princess Victoria were pronouueed mau and 1 wife on Thussday by Cardinal Sancha \ lu tho church of San Jer?nimo, the uowB was s'gnallod to tho walting 1 crowds and all Madrid broke Into ' frautlo demonstrations of joy, while canaoq boomed and ohuroh bells chimed. Entering tho royal ooach the King and Qaeen of Spain started to tlio palace amid scenes of the wild tist enthusiasm, tho throngs shouting ' ' Long live Queen Victoria." TJO pu Olio r,. j doings over the \ marriage had a terribly dramatic ' sequel at 2.:)0 o'clock, when a bomb tnrown from au upper window ex ploded with deadly clTeeb near the j ooaoh occupied by tho King and (.?reen. Providentially Klug Alfonso uuri (?aeon V.etoria escaped by an ' electric wire detUoitng the bomb, but ' at least in persons, most of them bo lng of the personal and military es cort and tho otLer 6 pc ot atora, were kllkd. Many others were injured. The following are tho killed: Uapb. Barros, commanding part of the King's oscorb. Lieut. Roy si eut. 1 L'eut. Prendergast. Six soldiers. Tne marquise of Oolosa. lier daughter. . Don Antonio Calvo, lils nicco, aged ti years. Jose Sola, 70 years of agc. Lub fc'juseea. } Out royal groom, who was leading a horrie drawing tho coaoh oarrying 1 the King and Queeo. Several of those killed ware stand- ' lng on the balcony of thc house from 1 which the bjmb was thrown. Tue explosion occurred just as the 1 royal cUiple were about to enter the palace, Toe route of tho cortege had ' bonn diverted from Arsenal street to 1 Mayi ^reot, owiug to the popular 1 desi Tue procession had just 1 pass rough Mayor street and was 1 r> Uf .'v?''l. luto thc Esplanade ! 'leading ? tho palace, when an esplo- 1 h?'-ur alu.uk the building lu the violul ty, stunning a large number of people ! and throwing the cortege Into lnex- 1 trloablc oonf uslon. Tho royal ooach was brought to a sudden s,top by the shook, oillocrs ar d 1 soldiers ot the esoort falling to the 1 ground about the querry and horse* that had been killed. The r-o earns o? tho terrllled multitude mingled 1 with tho groans of the dying, lt was 1 Immediately seen that thc royal ooach 1 was Utaot except as it had been 1 damaged by Hying splinters. Kini? 1 Alfons.) Immediately alighted and tsslstc Q icon Victoria out of the carriage. They then entered au other coach and were drlvon swift') to the palace. All this happened so qulekly that people away from the lmmodiato viclu ty wore not aware of the tragedy that had boen enacted and continued tj acclaim their sovereigns. Soon, however, there appeared the empty royul coach with two horses missing ano tin; ot'-era spattered with blood several of them bleeding from wound.*. The groom;! and drivers looked deathly palo in their spanglon uniforms. Then came a bjy snouting that tho bomb had been thrown ai tno Klug. Tuc appearance of tht King and t? mon in a coach brought out delirious ovations as thc fact was recognized that the sovereigns had been spared. In thc meantime the scene of the tragedy presented a horrible spectacle ?Itu dead men and horses 'ylng about literally torn to pieces. Intense ex ch?ment p.evalled, thc mob Invading t>he Streets while the forces of tht guards s.-ug.it bo maintain order and olook the approaching streets. Tue oodles were wrapped up in blankets and removed on Utters, while the wounded were carried to hospitals lu imbu lances. The pavement wail cov oreel with blood, and the upper stories of tho buildings nearest were spatter ed with it. The place from which fte bomb wa thrown isa hoarding house. Too chart her from wh cn the missile WAS hurl cd was talton May 22 by a man from Barcelona gtvh.g tim name i f Moral. When thc police surrounded tue house tho man attempted to ll JO but was captured. A imitier man e. captd over tho roofs of houses. According to an otb ?lal statement II ls not known whether ono of more bombs were thrown. Tho statement continues fiat lt is Impossible to av ocrtaln at pei sent thc author of tho outrage, though lb is known that a (Jatalonlan named Manuel Duran took an apartment in the house from which um bomb was thrown May 22, paying lu advance with a f>U0 peseta bill. He was well dressed, of elogant appear once and showed a fondness for Mow ers. frederick W. Whitrldgo, the Amer lom special envoy, wont to the royal palace, where lie was assured that the king and queen were reasonably tran quil considering tho circumstances. Mr. Whitrldgo also called at tho for olgn oilL'.o and on behalf of tho Uni ted States expressod profound sympa thy with tho Spanish sovorclgn and people. AflHMHblnateri. A speoial from Washington, (la., S&ySi 4*u ?i o'olu?k Tii?iou?y ?xcruing William t? Bryant, ono of tho most prosperous planters of Wilkes 0 unity, was found lying dead In the front ol his home, near Bessie, Ga., from a gunshot wound In tho side. Thursday night., after an investigation lasting all day, no due had been found, i ( BY H?S OWN HAND. CONGRESSMAN ADAMS, o T PHII* ADISIJFHIA, COMMIT* BU10IDI3. Be Fnded Fis Lifo Bec mae Fe Fad Met With T ones Through f pccula ion. Representative R>borb Adams of Philadelphia died at tho Kmergenoy hospital lu Washington Friday from tho i IT. o', ii of a self in Hided bullet wound. Mr. Adams waa discovered lu .i dying condition In his apartments at tho Metropolitan oH.b ohambers shortly afler 8 o'clock Friday morn ing. Ile wuH sitting iu a ohair. A i m 1 ]ot wound in his im ir h and pistol lying near him mude it olear that he tiad attempted to kill himself. A letter received by Speaker Can ion from Mr. Adams friday morning explained the cause of tim suicide. Mr. Adams said In the lettor that his jebts exoeedod his resources and f iro id him to abandon his cllljlal post Edon. While ho did not Indicate an ntenblon to tako his life, ho ?poko ot tho form of his burial, indioating that rte had then made up lits mtnd to oona ult the act. D lotor Navltt, the or inar, issued a oortlligate of death by mloidc, saying that lt was suoh a ?lear caso no Inquest would be neces jary. Not in years has there come to tho membership of tho lower house of con ?ress such sudden gloom as came wibi) the going out of Mr. Adams. Hut Thursday having charge of the diplo mabie and consular bill lie showed inergy and actlvi y, getting thc bill blip ugh the house with less 'i lotion than usual, but few amendments be ng made to the meisure. When thc louse convened there was an especial y largo membership present and when the c .aplaln referred to thc ieath of the late congressman, mern lers wero visibly alf :cttid. Then carno a scene that has never lad Its parallel in the historic ohim ) ir of the nation's law-mak og body The speaker rose and asked that the louso indulgo him while ho read a lot ter from the dead, a letter rr.;elvc? while the life of Robert Adana w<o gassing away. A silence fed on tin muse that but Thursday WoS tur marged with animation. Following thc reading or the lette Vir. Morrell presented a resolution di .eotlng the seargeant-at-arm^ to muk, ;ne necessary arrangements for thi unoral the expenses to bu paid cu )t tlie contingent fund of thi muse and then as a further mark if respect the house adjourned. Ii if. esentatlvo Adams waa ono of th? nest popular representatives in om {ress, and he has beeu identitlcd with nany mattors of world wldo imper ianco. Tho following is the letter A lam? wrote tho Speaker: Lion. J. G. Cannon: Washington, May :n 11)00. My Dear Mi. Speaker-Tue fae iihat my personal obligations exoeeo ny resources is my only cxcu.>e foi abandoning the responsible position I ooupy In the house. I am willing tc ae burled at Its expont-e, but I at-k lhaii rio committee bo a pp ointed ot memorial services held as 1 have never been In symyathy with tho lat ter custom. With assurances of my high regard. Sincerely >< u?s. Hob rt Adams. "8?W TROW?I ?fJ From CAI- Window While Going om ol' Columbi*. A dispatch from Columbia s^y?i Senator (Jo!e L, biease, of Nowbony, vito ls there as a member of the dib pensary Investigating c ?mmibbee, re lates a roust remarkable oiroumstaucj ,)f his witnessing together with a number of otb TS, the drowning a few 1a>s ago of Osborne Fair, the 10 year old nogro boy whose body was found in tho Oongaree at the L x'.ngton side of the C. N. & L bridge last. Saturday woek, and woo was thought might .lave been dealt foully with by his playmate, Julian Leaphardt. who had gone out with him the afternoon Os oome was missing. Mr. Hleaso says he saw the child drown from the C. N. & L , train af lt was passing the trestle on Hs way mt of Columbia to Newberry. Thu train was half an hour late starting out and WHS passing ovor the bridge it about 6.50 p, m. Leaphardt says Ue left toe hoy at tho It chianti side of the bridge about (5 o'clock, Osborne goh;g on over tho bridge behind two men. Mr. HI ease says lie saw Mun from tile car window sink the last. Linie. Too drowning was also witnessed by F. H, Dominick and R, W, Nichol* of Newberry, hy Dr. Hughes of Lau rens and by Adolph Sayer, who had that (tay boon a wi ti ess before the .nvesligating committee with regard bO thc doalings with thc Augusta brewery. Those on thc train at tirst thought the boy was dodging under the water to avoid the gaze of those on tho train, but on closer observa tion lt. wnu Menu that the boy was drowning. Tnere was no one lu rcaoh >( the boy at the time and none to give assistance. All of which seems to clear his playmate. The body showed no signs of violence. It was not recovered until nearly twenty-four hours after thc drowning. Cloved by K null A dispatch from Greenville says Maj. Jonn Ferguum, aged 65 years, a large plantel and a prominent oltlzm of that section of thc a'jato, was gor ed to deatli Thursday by a bull at bis nome near tho ricken i court house Thursday morning. Atone time he was tho leading merchant of that oliy I Mfcjor Ferguson of late years had re tired to tho old family homnstcad, whoro he occupied his deollning yoars in raising linc stook. Tue bull which killed him had huon an especial pet and ho had been aocust med to go out in the Hold to feed it with his own hands every morning. This morning no pursued his usual custom, but the usually (K olio animal was enrag ed at something and gored him tc death before asslstanoo could be pro oured, BRYAN THE MAN. WIMi Bli NEXT DEMOCRATIC STAND AHI) BKA HER. . He Is More Popular Now Than Ever and Would fwjop the Country. There seems to bo a general feeling amoUK 1 >om ocr ats all over tho country that William Jennings Bryan is their logical oandldate in the next presi dential election, and lt is predicted by many that he will be nominated by acclamation, if ho will accept thc trust to lead his party a,<aln. A Washington dispatch says De mocratic hopes for thc control of the next hon o of representatives are bo lng superseded or augmented by hopes of oartying the election for president in 1908 Tue disclosures of numerous Urge contributions to the McKinley campaign fund in 18U0 hy tho insur ance companies and other corpora tion? serve to arouse a blt of resent ment against tho republicans. Tba Humorous instances of exponed gr?fido not tend to strougthen the hold that tile G. O. P, has on the people, lt ls becoming a prevalent opinion among large number of people chat the eleotion of 1004 was notan Indication of political strength on the part of the republlcaua, but to c large degree a personal tribute to Theodore ii losevolt. Equally prevalent is the belief that even Roosevelt could not do so well again. The opposition in thc party bo tari IT revision, the sentiment foi which ^rows stronger every day, bodes ill for the party in powfcr. As soon as matccrs begin to look a blt bright and hopeful, pro hcoies be com? au importauo proportion of the political discussion. Thoy are of moro or less l?tt rest to tho general public, depending somewhat upon the reputation and position of the pro ph et. Perhaps no forecaster of the past few weeks ls worthy of more con sideration than is that of Norman E. Mack. li will bo Bryan by acclamation .it toe convention of 1908, " said Mr. VUok, "and 1 should not be surprised if bi? opponent were Theodore Roose velt." lia stated also that he believed that Mr. bryan would sweep the country, ..nd that he was more popular now j .han io 18??. lu speak mg of tho political situa Mon, with particular reference to New YTorK, Mr. Mao? bald: "Hearst will be nominated for governor of New York and will b* elected. Ile will oarry tho state bj 100,000 plurality. Tula posslbdloy ol ula laving to se/vc a termas mayor of Now Yoik Olty will not bu a f oto) lu tbe gubernatorial oampalngn. 1 think, for there seems to bs HttU ikeilnood of the ballot boxes bel r reopened, "DJ 1 think Tammany will be in inc for Hearst V Tammany always th in line, and there will be no dropping of Ileana's maj irlty f jr governor be oaui-o of the mayoralty ugtit last tai ?nd ttie bitterness then engendered. "Alto/ether conditions never were more piopitlous for Democratic suc cess th au they aro now. lu our statt ail ttie (actions arc fusing fast, ano obere is not a ripple of dhcjrd to mar ibo, harmony that prevacles the party Roosevelt's rate bill juggll.ig has hun uhe republioa.i caus* and made pro portlonate capital for the Democrats, and last week's episode will not b without its tlfcct in all the nearing elections, i look for a Democratic ?weep." brother KiW? Urothur. At O'Brien, Fla., Bart MoOall be came infatuated wltti the wife of hit bro,her, 10 J MoUall. Thurs ay night oe vi. lirii his brother's home ano made nolhes to arouse his victim. E McCall went to a window previously opened by Bare and was then shot b> Birt with a shotgun dying almost in stantly. OlUOSrs arrested Bart, who broke down and confessed all, and wab nrought to Live Oik and j tiled. Mrs K I McCall had repelled the advances made ny her brother in-law. Tho Mc calls were farmers._ I,m.im ,?. *i< uni Krem. A Washington spcolal Kays that Senator Lui mer has Just purohased and presented to Mrs. Lat? mor a tirst class pair of thoroughbred Kentucky carnage horses. Experts who have x un i ned them s?y that this pair ls us Hue a one as ever came to Washing cou. Tnese horses were ralsad ano trained in ivoniuckey, in the blue grass region, and present a line ap pearances._ i ,y H ?iii i-i M A ere a tod. Thirteen alleged members of the mob whlcb early M niday morning lyaolied John V. Johnson at Wades boro, N. c., are in jill at that place Friday without privilege of bail, the cnarge hoing murder. Tney aro: John Niven, L.ster Johns in, 'AiVt Luwis, Elmer A Dunn, John Jones, J. P. Niven, (Jiydo Bowman, Joe Meaoham, Obis Martin, B P. Tim mons, BVed Dunn, M ty Uulledgo and howls Adama. Thero are warranU out for live others who have not yet been take iv_ r-'oumi OOAH. Dr. S. lt. Siyer8 of I'ocanontas, Va., aged :io and unmarried, wai found dead in o room of tho Gau t house, Oblongo, on Tuesday, with the artery of his wrist hovered. Papon showing who ho was and 1600 in cash wero found In tho room, lie had rog isterd under an assumed name. Nc cairne ls assigned for thc deed. DociKod Uotnb*. Advices from Kutals, Tranh-Oauoo ala, ?tate thal, two bombs wore thrown Thursday at General Altvhanoft, form er governor general of the provlnco, while bc was driving to the railway station. He was wounded in the tblgb, One bystander was killed by tho ex plosion and three others wero injured Thc would-be assassin esoaped. lind Um Rhino. John Frost H ty nus, agod 68, aw Klith Mao Pnlllps, a schcol girl of 1' wero married at Millbrook, N. Y., ot > Sunday, tho father of the girl oon ' scating, it goes witt out saying tha I Khynus has the rhino. AN AWFUL FATE. A Newly Married Young Couple Burned to Death WHILE THEY SLEPT. All Efforts to Awake Them Palled, and ns.. They Could Not Be Reached 00 Account of the latease Heat They Were Dura* cd to Death. A terrible tragedy occurred near Walhalla at tbree o'olook on last Fri day morning In wblob a young mar- ' ried oouple wore burned to death in their boarding house. The following particulars of tho tragedy HO learn from a dispatch from Walhalla to the Greenville Nows. This dispatob says: Mr. and Mrs. J op Hudson, a young couple, were burned to death at 3 o'clock Friday morning in a lire which destroyed the residence of Louis Gan I ireh, in this plaoa, at whioh Hudson laud his wife were boarding. They ' had been married only a few months. Tho house was a largo two-story itruc mro, near tho residence of Judge Wickilffo, in West U rion, and when Mr. Cantrell awoke almost the entire brut ll jor was enveloped in flames. It seems that the Uro broke out In a blacksmith shop at a little place oall od West U lion, whioh is about two miles from Walhalla. A large two story resldeuoe about thirty yardi iistant caught from sparks from the ??bop and was burned to the ground. Two families occupied this house, die family in the drat story esoaped, but Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hudson, who lived up-stalrd, wore burned to death. Their bodies were taken from the ruins Friday morning only tho trunk! being fouud. When the fire was discovered it was mpossible to reach young Hudson and vife. Rocks were thrown against the windows and every elTort made to arouse them, but they were never seen. In a short time all that waa left of them wore two charred bodies >n the half burned timbers. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson woro from the Salem sec don, but both had been here several /ears. Mrs. Hudson's oharrcd body, with ?Aie limbs bumed off, was found lying )U the bed springs. Tho budy of her ?usband was found lying near the cern er? of tho building, showing that he had risen and had possibly reaohetL&ho ioor. What remained of both borne* van plaocd in a oodla and carried to Mr. Reid's residence. Many visited titic rums of tho old Carey place Sat urday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson were both /oung people, and . were married only bout last Car?simas. Mrs. Hudson vasa daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arch R-.od of Wallalla. The coroners In vestigation, held liter Friday, orought out nothing definite as to ihe origin of the Ure. The kitch in portiou seemed to have burned tlrst. When Mr. Cantrell awoke the ire had made great headway and ono man ran to the foot of the stairway .jailing loudly to tho oouple above. The Uro was then BO far advanced that it was impossible to go or come rom the rooms. WI to lino Away. A d'spatoh from Dawson, Qa., to ?he Augusta Chronicle says Mrs. bailie Farrar, eloped with Riv. J. R. Hankies, a minister of the gmpeland uperlntendent of tho Dawson publio ,chools. On last Thursday, Prof. Han? kins left tue school room, telling his olass, which was standing an examl nation, that he would be baok short iy. Later Mrs. Farrar left home to visit a neighbor and neither party has oeen seeu In Diwsou since. Liter Mr. farrar learned that the couple had doped and went in searoh of them, 'racing them through Mississippi where he lost tbe trail and deoided to return home. Mrs. Farrar was a prom inent soolal leader and Dr. Hankies a xiember cf one of tho best families of bho state. To Cover Or I mo? A well dressed man with marks on lils clothes bearing the name of "J. J. Oakes," was found on the railroad jraoka n"r Ingleside, W. Va. The oead was entirely severed from the body, and from the position of the bod/ and the faot that tho pockets ot the man were empty, the inference lr. that he was murdered and his body placed on the tracie to oovtr up the crime. lUuo t\n(l Or my. At Little Riok, Ark., members of the local Confederate camp united Thursday with those of tho Grand Army of thc R'publlo post In forming an escort in the oarade, marking the observance of national Memorial day. The former Confederate soldiers ap peared In their old uniforms of gray and thc G. A. R members were clad In bluo._ Youllil'ul Murdurur. At Columbus, Ga., Henry Garrison, a 10-)ear old negro boj, shi t and kill ed Fannie Wilson, an ll y jar-old ne uro girl, on the Hatcher place, in Ooattahooohee county T ursday after noon. Tho two ohlldren had quarrel ed and the boy went into a house and got a shot Kim and deliberately shot and killed tho girl. On account of hie age bo may net b . proseouted. Tul kins < Hooke, Cloc'cs are now being made whioh speak tho hours instead of striking them through the ingontous applica tion of tho phonograph. They are' arranged to oall out In various degrees of modulation some loud enough to rouse the soundest sleeper. Ti???? iii ?i-n.'r? ?',>?->/. 1 Rdiert T. Rogers, awaiting his 7 third trial for murder of Jesse Rrown, i was taken from jail at Tallulah, La., on Tuesday night and hanged to a U-'ejraph pole. Tho people got tired Ot tho law's delay and swung Rodger?,