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>-? .? ":V?'v?-- '??. ' . <v ???.,.. .:.v;,v ,-v..; ? :? .:"...?< ....... :**.-???!.-.? . ?.DO THO?, G?iBAT UB?aTYf ^PIU? Ot7? *QVL* AND MAKIO OU ft WYKS I? THY POSESI?N HAPPY OB OD? DJ3ATHS OLOBIOV? IN THY OAUSJO.'? VOL^XI. BENNETTS VILLE, S. O., FRIDAY, AU Gif ST 17, 19O0. I?enneUsvilleX Chora w Railron ^ Bera ind 'ap nil SOHKOULK. IN EHKKCT AI'KH- 6, 1905. WKST BOUND FKOM JiKNNKT?O'VILLK THAIN THAIN; No. J. No. Lv Bo.unottfivillo 7 05 a m 7 00 |? ul Ly Islay 7 If) ri m 7 15 1, tl? Lv Mnifnlirwt T ?M? ? w ?>" Having Strenuous Times in The County of Cherokee. i KED HOT MEETING The firent Wonder ls that Only One Shot Was Fired and that No One (lot Seriously Hurt. The Trouble . Caused by Blind {?Tiger Whiskey. A dlspatoh from Ge fluey to The Nows and Oourlor says tho county oampalgp In Cherokeo ls waxing warm. Tho meotlug at Maury's Mil) Saturday broke up in riot. It waa al ' most a miracle that soveral peoplr were not killoe!. Tho mooting wa? oalled In Mm morning, and Mr. W. S. Hall, oandldato for thc Senate, was announced as the first speaker, whero as it was scheduled that the candi datos for tho Senate Bbculd speak noxt to laBt. Owing to this agreement Mr. (Hts, who in opposing Mr. Hall, was absent. The meeting went on quiot ly till dinner. A barbeoue was soi ved and whiskey ls said fco have been dla tributed freely by some parties, who, to all appearanooB, were preparing for a fuss. The first speaker In tho afternoon was Mr. Ott?. When lie finished ot? Will Blackwood, a magistrate's cou stable, who had, lt la olalmed, beef< drinking, asked bim a purely personal question, which brought ou words. Blackwood thou.applied an oath to Mr Otts, and his friends look lt up and went between the two. BUok wood's friends rushed up and began to make a fight. Mr. Otts was the coolest mat-, in tho whole orowd and stood his gruund well. The whiskey that had been dis tributed got in its work, however, and the orowd, or a large party of ifc, got in a fighting humor. Every man norn ed to want to fight somebody it mat tercd nob who. Dlreotly things got quiotcd down flornowhat, aud Mr. Otu mounted thc Wagon and made a statement tbr.t ho had expected the row ; that he expect ed lt oh Friday, but the crowd got drunk too soon, and began fighting .among themselves; that he had been warned bctoro lie loft town, and aftoi took him asideand told him that M crowd that is fighth-g him -not Mr. Hall, but his enemies, who are follow ing the campaign to give him trouble -had arranged to raise a row when he got up to speak. He furthermore said that Blackwood was not tho real one who was trying to make trouble for him, but that he was tho mouth piece for auothor. - Blackwood oamo up to the wagon and started fco geo in, when Mr. Otts told him not to get in the wagon. Hi then walked efl and was talking from a distance. When Mr. Otu got oui of the wagon there were different groups trying to keep thc men of di fl erent faobions apart. Shoiifl Tnomas was on tho scene aud was doing a:l he ooold to quiet things, when a fight ooourred bebween two men, who be gan knocking each otiier about, lt was ai? this Juncture that one, wilone name was said to be James Fowler, said to be from Union, drew hlarivolvor and started to shoot. Bystanders knocked his hand up and the shot went ill in tho air. The orowd soatterod and hid behind trees, wagons and anything that was handy. There were at one timo at least a hundred knives opened and ready for use, and tho lact that only one shot waa fired was remark able. MAYOR FIGHTS POLICEMAN. Another lilvoly Horiuiiuajre in Stroit* uouH Oliorokoo County. Anotbor dispatch to The News and Courier from Gaflnoy says tho spirit of mars was loose In Cherokee County on Saturday. The county campaign meeting broko up lu a riot, and that was thought bad enough, buttbafcwas nob all tho excitement for in Gaffney. Saturday night about ten o'clock there was a report of a fight on the streets, and an investigation showed thal Mayor J. Q. Little and Chief of Bo lice Tom Lockhart were fighting. Soon Mr. Worth Little, a brother of the mayor, and Mr. L?ver Little, a son, Joined In, as did O?lcers Cap Le mons and Lloyd Auton. Thc lighting was brisk for some minute*. The won der is that no shooting irons were not used. There were scToral knocked down In the meloe, but none was ser lousl> burt. After everything bad quieted down Mayor Little stood In tho middle of Limestone street and made an address to tho bystanders, tolling them that the trouble was brought on by Chief Lockhart and thc other two eilljcre engaged In tho di Maul ty neglecting their duty to electioneer for .Slier i IT Thomas for re-election, ard his hav lng to put another man, J. M. Hamp ^n, on the police ioioo Lo help them Ho their duty. lt might be sale) herc that Mayor L.ttlc and Sher: IT Thomas are not on good terms and two of the aldermen are candidates, one for sher.fl and one lor clerk of Court. M?yor Little tool* oooaslon to mako a political address, saving that no i fliper should hold of fice too long, and advising the peoph to put out every man holding (.moo In tho Court IIouso. Before saying thai he said that tho policemen had no business engaging In politics. Tho correspondent tay.s the occur renee of Saturday ?nd Saturday nlgut was the talk of Gaffney on Sunday, li Is tue oonoonsiiH of opinion that tin chief, who ls a nephew of tho mayor, aotod in self-defence and in tho dis ohargo of his duty as did the other policemen who were acting as peace Officers. There ls no town the si/.a o? Gaflnoy with amore obliging Bet >' polloo cllloors. / HELPi?D ALL ROUND A HXO.ll V OF AOXUAti F.XPKUI I?NOK SHOWING HOW An Agricultural I ducation Gave Farm Wotk New Meaning and Kew Joy. M. L Shcnuau, of Ingham County, M'ohioan, hired a young man who had graduated from an 'agricultural cullego and the results were BO won derful and far reaching that wo give placo hero to Mr. Sherman's story, whioh will bo read with Interest by all. We need to be awakened to the valuo of an agricultural education, what it will aooomphliah for us and our ohlldrou. Few of us havo an ad equate conception of the possibilit?s along this lino. Hut liston to Mr. Sherman's story: "For two years I had hired a man who had graduated from our agricultu ral collcgo. Some of my nelghborn called me a fool for paying tho wages he demanded, but I never mado a better Invent mont. His knowledge was my lomon and I squeeznd lt. I bought somo books on farm chemin try, botany, surveying and horticul ture and took practical lessons of my hired help lu these studies. "My hired man honored his profes sion. Ina few weeks.my boy, late ly indH?>rent to farm work, tagged at his heels and begged to help bl^i. My girl trailed after us with her bot any. I stood speechless ono day when she told me what R ?skln said about the clouds. Her flngors were in a book that had tho hired man's ?ame on the Hy- loaf. I looked through it and showed it to my wife. She said if suoh cull ino ?vas agricultural she was glad her daughtor was tindlug lt out. "That summer wo began war on fnnoot posts by studying entomology. My children went wild with outland asm, collecting specimens under the hired man's directions. Booauso he waB watobing for a on vial n moth, Will refused to go with some other boys to the circus, though the year before be oame near running away to join a olrcus company. In Ins threat to do so ho had quoted the fit quent utterance of a neighbor, 'A farmer's lifo ls a dog's life. " Tho life of my educated hlr6d man, by Its vory contrast with a dog's life had savod my boy. "Before summor was over our ohll dren knew tho birds, their ways and haunts, from the bobolink to tho owl. Bj O )tobcr they had set themselves to protect quails and partridges. Ag rJnultural soleuoo had taught tn om thai, IMOUVI bl?(U; ; ., ti wv f . ?Cl..: "Ia the second year of our farm education tho children, gave breathless descriptions of wild fl iwors, ferns and lovely dogwood white with blossoms They were amazed at tho beauty of forest tree Howers. 'Fathor, did you know that the trees In the woods have il mers? Why did you never tells us? Seo tho lovely red and green satin ot the hickory buds, eyer so much preb tier than tulips.' "I was ashamed to confess I bad never considered the Hiles or the trees, bow they grow. My girl had become a lover of treeB. She wade me promise not to destroy her fairy land, tho wood lot, by felling the ma ples, an 1 had intended. "The chemistry of foods Improved our eliot and lessened the work of the kitohen. In connection with some ad vice from the family physician, I sub stituted tho glass of milk for tho mug of older. "1 had tried to forecast thc weath er by the barometer, but concluded that that Instrument was too mercur ial to be reliable. But Mr. Smith seemed to understand its changes Buf Helen ely to keep our hay. out of tin way of long storms. His obiervatlons and raine were another example of thc difference between educated and un od uoatod eyes. "No new buildings wore put up. but under Mr. Smith's directions 1 fixed over our barns and sheds until dryness, ventilation and ?convenience for cleaning were as good as in costly structures. O io result of thone lm provoments was that my boy easily and willingly did the work about sta bles and poultry yardB, whioh lie for merly Bblrkcd. Io harvest time when work was pushing my wife and daughter took pleasure in d dug ebor es, which had been impossible under old conditions. "My farm was saved: that was much. My boy wa? save; that was more. Tho farm had become more at tractive than the circus or tho city. After Mr. Smith went away tho boy worked on the farm and with his books to prepare for a course In the agricultural college, from whioh he graduated three years later." Does not Mr. Sherman's remarka ble experience suggest the solution of that vexed problem. How to keep tho boy on the farm? I think lt docs. Long llvo the farm collegel May lt receive the support whioh Its import ance morita. I.ftiiftlmii rt*y H li'n FHIHO. In a lettor received by Gen. Wilie Jones Wodncsday William La?aban & Son cmpatlep.Hy deny ?fiat there is tho slightest foundation for tho re port th*t they paid for thc repairs oi (Jjn. Jones rcsldonce. Thoy deny thin and all other reports about them and the South Carolina liquor situation and said that the poople of Soutl Carolina soem moro than willing to publish adverse reports about them The firm says: "Haskell's .statemonl as published In "The State'of Aug 2, about you and your house and our uolves Is absolutely false. All other statements they lia ve published about us aro likewise falso. " Holli BtlOt* Mrs H. A. Leaptrot was shot and instantly killed and her husband probably fatally wounded Thursday night while sitting on the poroh of their residence near Cherry Valley, Ark. The shooting was dono by three mounted mon who tired from nbc front gato. The flvo Woolb-.ght brothers wo* o arrestod on tho yoarge jO.f complicity. Two years ag.i Loapt ' '"?da member of tho v/oolbrlght DIVOBCK BECOOfl). A MILLION ItUOIU ON MAHUIAOES IN TWL3NTY \HAHH. Con BUB Pepartment Piligently Gath ering Statistics Which President BooBevelt Will Employ, Ono million divorces, it least, wore granted by the court? of this country during the past twenty years. This ls an estimate bv tho oensus bureau, and it is so startling that lt probably will rosult in further important dis cussion of the question of onaotlng a uniform divorce law in tho various States. President Roosevelt, who has dis sussed lu his messages and other pub lic uttoranoes tho geueral subj . ot of legislation bearing upou marriage and li verco and bas expresed himself ttrongly In favor of a uniform divorce aw, direoted somo time ago that the jensus bureau institute an inquiry uto the subjcot of divorce No In restlgatlon luto a soolal or coonomlo iuo8tion mado lu many years is re tarded as more important to the peo >lo of the couutry personally than his one, now just fairly begun by Dlreolor North and his oorps of assis tants. It is expeoted by the JProsi lent that tho statistics gathered by die con?us bureau, together with the egltimato deductions from them, will lemonstrate conclusively the ncoes ilty cf uniform dlvoroe laws, and be ixpeots to uso tho ligures to bring ibjut suoh a result. The quostion has been considered ty tho President with tho ablest law ers of the Senate and House of Ho iresentatives. They havo c..nc.u led iractloally that, at present, thc Ooo ;ress lacks the constitutional p < w - o enact a divorce law whiob woulo . .pplioablo In the States. The Fret lent hopes, therefore, to create b entiment in favor of uniform legisla ion on tho subject by the Legislatur s of tbo various States or to obtain rom tho people, through the Legisla? urea, approval of a constitutional mendmont confering upon tho Con ress authority to regulato by law the :eneral mattel of marriage and llvorce. The statistics to be collected and implied by the oensus bureau will over the twenty-year period from 887 to 1000, Inclusive. A similar in stigation was made in 1880, cover ng a twenty-year period, and the Igures of the two periods are expeoted o provo vcluablo for comparison. In be period of twenty years just pro edlng 1880. 484,083 applications for livoroe were mado to tho oourts and 28,710 of them subsequently were ranted. Figutos airca ly .in the ianda of Director Nor lib, of r>v\ us buicuv,: iv.-.i-ivfij '?ho sVftc?&ftiC bat, in tub past twenty years, the 11 indications for dlvoroe aggregated tearly a million and a half while the | iivorce actually granted numbered , nore than a million. Of courne, ; iveu this alarming total does not in ludo all cases of the infelicity of mar l?ge, but only those whiob reaohed 11 he courts lu spite of the apprcben | < lon of the parlies of public sea dal. The inoulry will bo conducted along uch lines as will make the resultant Igurcs and deductions valuable in the iroparatlon of laws for the regu'ation if marriage and divorce. An effort 11 viii be made to oollect thc statistics | i tactically simultaneously, as in the ?ase of the taking of the population j if the country. ?Special agents will ( ic appointed in all parts of country . ,o examine the records of tho divorce j iourts. In tho United States there \ no nearly 3.000 counties, all of which ? )robab!y have records In their courts if div -ree applications. All details louoerning each oaso will be oolleoted md tabulated with studious oare. ? Articular referenco will be made to | ibe number of children affected by | lie dlvoroe eases and bow they were .fleeted, as these faots, lt is believed, viii bo potent in determining the ao lou of tho Legislatures in the pans .ge of laws. When the investigation shall have icen concluded and thc figures studied larefully with a view to presenting n concrete form the result of the in piiry, the President will transmit ho report to the Congress, probably iccompanicd by a special messag. In bat utteranoe to lils views on tho suh ?otof the action to bc taken tu correct vhat is regarded by sociologists as ?no of the greatest evils of o r time. SEVERAL ARRESTED ''or Throwing I lid I road Siiiki u at an lOxonrslon Train. The Floronoe Times says tho Au (usta excursion train which passed )rangeburg about two o'clock Tuos iay morning roachod Florence about Ive o'clock that morning. The Times lays "this excursion was not aa bad a? io rn o of the past Augusta excursions or fighting and drinking yet there vas lome mischief dono to the train jy outside miscreants. "DJ ioctl ve C. Id Wheeler and Chief ioopman brought two negro youths ind one white boy in for throwing iplkes at tlie train. Tho negroes are Willie and Luther Anderson who were irrested for throwing railroad spikes it tho train at Creston. The whlto nan, lien Hartman was taken up at Drangeburg for tho samo mlsohlof. Plicae parties will bc taken back to hull native counties and dealt with iccordlng to law. "At Harnwell on the second section )f theoxourslon Flagman MOicnaghan was found in an UIXDUSCIOUScondition with a severe gash ovor his oyo, and ib was not known bow long he had jcen in this condition. When the [train reached Denmark his wounds wcro dressed by a doetor and a speoial jar was taken by tho wounded man until ho readied Florence whore Doc tor Oregg met thc train and went to | work on the wounded man. "MoClenaghan is supposed to havA been blt by somo mlsoreant throwing rooks at tho trait). Tho exoursfon was very orderly i(oing and coming, vory little whiskey was in cvldonoe and a good crowd wont." Shot to Death. At Sheevoport, La., a man was klilod by hts divorced wlfo who In an insane condition went to his house (nd domam;lcd hex children. INSIDE STORY ? " Told of <he Corey Divorce Case Recently Decided. ?TS A VERY SAD ONK Mrs. Corey Knew Nothing ol Uer Hus? [ hand's Intentions to DeBert Her Until He Told Her at a Dinner to Which Ho Had In vited Her. jj I Thoro has perhaps never boon a life with greater oontrast on two sidos and perhaps none more sad In seme rospoots, than tho lives uf William Kills Corey, president of the Unibod States Steel Corporation, and his wife, ..ir former wifo, whioh culminated at [timo, Nevada, on Monday, July 2U, when Mrs. Corey was granted an ibsoluto divoroo from tho millionaire Husband, who had tired of hor, ana ?lvon the custody of hor minor son-. Mrs. Coioy is a woman not only of ittraotlvo appearance, but modest of manner and somewhat magnotio. During the trial of ber caso, which was in no wiso contested by Corey, ind absolutely devoid of any effort at kfonse, she was s\d. Wtun tho faot was announced that ' sho bad gained what Bhe asked-froedom from the nan who wanted to bo free of ber o. orlcd. She Btated that bhe had . n married to Uoroy, a man then of ar less ? lil leuce thau now, In P.tta bu g, on December 1, I88;i, and they lived happily nearly 20 years. His Indifference, with accumulation of wealth, developed and ho ilnally de serted her. Aftor several weeks of Inattention and then desertion, Gorey took ht>r to dlnuor, as bo would havo taken any other woman ac quaintance and oalmly told ber she would have to go; that he was tired af hor and would not live with ber longor. Ho was emphatic, his mind Aaa made up and bo was not to be ibaken. She presents a different picture. After suffering his Inattention and iesertlon, Beolng him the first time Tor weeks at the dinner table In a restaurant, she bogged him to go ?ionio with ber and "talk it over." indifferently he raised his hat as he nut her jp, a cab < and,turning, leiv uer -trever. ^J-^nti lnuiaeni, Vw ng to Mrs. Corey's testimony, was on May 5, 11)05, and uinoe that timo she aas never aeon him. Corey's manner it disposing of her wasdlscuHscd with its attorneys, and the statement was nude at tho trial that there would be io question of alimony, since that nul been arranged between Mrs. Jorey and bis attorney. Perhaps ouecf tho n ost slgnlliaant features of tho trial, a:.d one whioh dieds thought on what preceded it, s tho evidence quoted from Miss iVddlo Corey, lils histor. Asked by counsel If she thought her brother a lt person to havo custody of young ?Ulan Corey, Bhe replied: "Ho is not i proper person for his son to asso nate with. His assoolates and com pantons ate not ii > com panions for a poling man of A Han's age. 1 don't ihlnk any New York man of wealth s lit to have obargo of a hoy of his MJ6," Tho oool deliberation of William lillis Corey in his determination to rid himself of tho tics of matrimony s deplo'.od in the evidence of his ittle son, who said In court, referring io a conversation with his father on the subj:ct of tho divorce. ''He laid that my mother was a good wo man and that my place was at lier dde. Ho told me I was too young to understand the reasons for tho sepa ration." Another feature of tho case was the connection of certain photo graphs with Corey's life In New York, juc of which was Mis:; Gilman, an ac tress, another of Miss Gilman reclin ing on a sofa In her room, showing Dorey's llfosl/? photograph on an easel nearby. Whatever may havo beon behind tho life ourtaln, or may not have been, deductions aro being drawn far and wide, and the case is being point ed to as an Incident of too much monoy and the dfolre for gay life and tiring of the tics of home and wife. Coroy has never uttered, so far as Is known, a single word relative to his wife willoh could ho construed other than an extolling her good points. In. a sense, his son's evidence pictures that: "She ls a good woman." Slnoo thc granting of tho divorce tho story of how Mrs. Corey first found out that Hhe was to bc cast o if has come to light. It was not used In the trial of tho caso. After some weeks of neglect Corey asked his wife to dino with him at a fashionable restaurant, and she eagorly accoptod thc Invitation. Thc meal was appar ently enjoyed by both of them, and Mrs. Corey especially seemed buoyant and bright. Tho various courses had been served and tho dinner all but ended. Over the ou ps of OGIPC the two sat chatting when Corey sudden ly leaned across the table, hooked his wife squarely in the face, and said. "Tins ls to bo our last? dinner, I am going to leavo you tonight. I am tired of you and 1 want you to got a divorce from me." Mrs. Coroy was entirely unprepared fjr the Information. Though she was startled, she maintained har self oontrol, bub tho only rep'y Bhe could or did unaku, was: "You don't know what you aro say ing." Corey thou beoamc hurt. "Yes I do, 1 havo fully made up my mind, and nothing oan oaango lt. 1 will not live with you any longor and 1 want you to get a divoroo. I will glvo you everything to enablo you to 11 vo luxuriously -overything you need to bo comfortable." Mrs. Corey could contain horsolf no longer, and, showing agitation, said. "Wo will dlsouss the matter when we get homo, Will. Come." Corey had a oab summoned ?ni left tho Vestaurant together. He wont to tbj; ?urblug with hor, assist ed lier to ri >j bab, but did not got in. He poll tin (ted bl3 hat, half smtUi He polite?sta lng, and fy$W: .'This mm ur good-byo. And re nienaber, ). v. Jd not be responiible for your debts tiutll you aro willing to | make this ??oparntlon final by a dlvoroe deoree. ^#byo." And, without walting to hear more from heri .ho turned and walkod away. TfteVo' la no evldonoo to that olf'jot, bui, ?V'.ra. Coroy's money supply was out ell a*nd in this way sho was praotioallY forced Into submission. After abe died iuit for divorce her hind,and p&l&'hor bills. SOAIJDK?V?N A KI?IILKOV UOIIi IN?? OBKMIIOAIJB. "A _ Paused by the Carelcs3neas of Turning on Hamitic Before the Boy Could Hemove. The Augusta norald says an aool lont so horrlblo that lt beggers all lescrlptloh bapponod Thursday, af ber mon at 4 :JU o'clock at the Clearwater Jloachory, In willoh Jaok J. Widener, >he 14 year-old son of Mr. W. H. Widener,- met a horrible death from ?caldlng. At tho bleaohory there are i numbar Of largo kettles known as roars with a oapaoity of thousands of ?ards of ol?fh. Into these kettles the doth runts -in a methodioal manner md goes though a ohemloal prooass, iy havirtQ shearn and chemicals turned m lt through Iron pipes, at stated lu ervals. To prevent the cloth from piling | \ ip and filling tho kettles bofore the apaoity had been reaohed, a boy is :cpt tn each kettle to koop tho o;oth 11 iropcrly wound on ameobanical appa atus,especially prepared for lt. When | ( ho boyunas taxed tho oapaoity f the kettle he comes out and the 11 austio ie turned on. For a long rhlle Iber llttlo sou of Mi. W. H. | j Vldenor has Ulled this position very redltably. Day after day he lias aken Mo place In the various kettles ,nd work-d faithfully at his work, lover dreamlug of any danger. Fri lay afternoon at 4:30 the boy was In 11 ne of J\t kettleB working assiduously, losslbl? lu antlo'.patlon of tho hour |i yhou th? whistles of the bleaohery tfould rejease bim from his work. LlttW)>tiid tho boy know that aa lt ho banya of the olook were moving owarfl the time when the ohemioal iroocishould be turned on that be | \ vas to bti the victim of a horrible an ldont.- The kettle next to the one ri whi :;-! J*ok Widener was v/orklng /a? tl :d With oloth, and Jerry Mid letto 'Se man whose business it lon ot turning the hot steam into it, aado a mistake and sent the hissing austio into the kettle whore the boy ra? working. For four minutes tho boy was in he kettle and when William Vernon, n employe, dragged him out of the wful place, observers say that his jdy from his faoo down was baked lnuost to a orlsp. Physicians were uiokly summoned and everything | ? osslblo was done for tho BU ff ar lng oj ; bis pain was alleviated by thc I 'c so of anesthetics, but death was in vltablo. The child died at 8 o'clock Friday ight, just three hours and a half fter the accident. The suffering I j oy was perfectly conscious up to hU catii, and stated that while ho was ri the kottlo, he realized that he was ylng and that bis body would be hor-1 j ibly dlbilgurcd, but to save his face j ie burled lt In tiie oloth. The acci enb ls one of tho first to happen at he bleachcry and it is groatly de ilored by the olllolals of the company. L'he parents of the cleceasod boy are ilghly regardod at Clearwater and hey have been tho recipients of much ympathy._ Whit? Prisoners Munlorod. | ( H. H. Trawlok and Sam Chandler, vhlto men, conlined In the Angolina lounty Jail, Texas, were found dead n their ell, Thursday morning, the kulls of both men being orushed, and lohn Wilson, held on a minor oharge ind who waa oonflned In the same cell s held charged with having murdered lis ooll mates. Wolle denying that ie oommltted tho orimo Wilson baa ?ade a number of ooi. (hoting stat*: non ta concerning tho tragedy. Ile leolares that at one time during thc light lie disoovered the men fighting md separated them. An earthorn cuspidor found in the cell waa evl lontly the weapon used. It ia be loved tho mon wero killed while they dept._ In i'orll ?lt NI?K?r?. Tho falls of Niagara oamo near Maiming two mon, six women and a oaby as vlotims to its floods Wcdncs lay night. The party was out l>oat lng on tho upper river in a launoh when the propeller .was injured by Jtrlklng a rook. When this occurred the launoh drifted swiftly toward thc Tails. Those aboard the boat throw jut an anchor and lt oaught as tbcv were passing through thc Devil's Half Acre. Then thoy displayod wliito gar ments assignais of distress. Other j lioats put out frcm slioro and rcsoued them._ Fought III tJi.orKl* H?ll. RoprosonUtiv* Whitley, of Doug lass county, and Solicitor Hill, of thc criminal court of Avon county, fought Wodnesday on the floor of the House. They were separated by friends before ?lthor wa? aorloualv hurt. The light ls said to have grown out of remarks mado by Whitley In thc House Tucs iay. The Ho was passed between tho men and li lo? s followed. OhuroO Htruck. Lightning struck the Walnut Grovo fJhuroh Sunday a?id Sunday Soho was dismissed. Carl Stinton was! fatally burned. Kiri lOmerson's finger' and Karl liver?' too were burned efl Ruth Hiss was burned about tho faoo and head. Half a di/.en others wore Boorched. Fatal Fifth.** At Cold Springs, Toxas, In an elco Mon light Friday, K. B, Adams, Dom ooratlo nominee for tax assessor, was Instantly killed. Sam Adams, his brother, fatally shot in the head, and two other men wounded. HE DENIES IT. OALiDWKIili BAYS HASKELL'S STATEMENT IS FALSE. Will Make rath that Ee ?ever Heard of Ianshan Before lu HU life. Willie Caldwell has been heard from and he absolutely denies having mado the statement Gol. John O. Haskell of Columbia says he heard him make about his brother-in law, Cm. Wilie Jones. The following is a quotation (rom Tho Record's report of Colonel Haskell's speeoh at Sllgh's, on July 31, 1900: "Haskell assserted that the dispon sary had corrupted and besmlrohed everybody who had ever been con nected vilth lt; that tho mombersof tho boards of control had gone In poor men and como out rioh, but that none of thom had como out clean. "Mr. Weston: How about Wilie Jones? "Colonel naskoll: I am not oall in;: names, but his own brother-in law says Limaban paid for the im provements of his hourn. Jones is not dod Almighty to r?gul?t? t e af fairs of Richland county." Promptly upon the appearance of tho above, Con. Wlllo Jones denied that Lunahan had paid for the im provement of his house and asked Ool. Haskell to spool fy willah ono of his jrothers-ln law had made the alleged itatemont. Col. Haskell replied that he had leard While Caldwell in conversation rvith some young men in front ot MI ot/ drug store in Columbia assert mat La?aban paid for improvements of WllleJonos's houso. Gan. Jones replied that it was im joHsiblo for Oaldwoll to h&yo made luob a statement, as Caldwell had loft Jolumbla two years before his house vas repaired and had never returned iO Columbia. La?aban promptly denied that he lad over paid for auy Improvements if General Jones's house. Soon as Colonel Haskell's statement vas printed, General Jones wroto a tatement of the case to Mr. Caldwell, vhols in California, and also malice lim sopi?s of the pupers containing oports of tho Sllgh's meeting, aakhn, lim to telegraph upon reoelpt thort if. It takes sumo time for tho mall o got from Columbia to California, mt Friday tho following telegram tame to Gen. Wilie Jones from Mr. Jaldwoll, who had just roooived his otter: Olio, Calif., Aug. 9, 1000. Jon. Wilie Jones: Man making statement about me ells direct falsehood.- Will make atti never heard of La?aban before. WIHUm Tl .flair! wnll. This makes complete the vindica* ion of General Jones from a charge hat nobody over believed. MANY LIV?8 LOST. Jolomilo lUvor Loaves Largo Aro? With Devastation. Twenty fi vj persons are known to lavo been drowned, hundreds we e | * ondered homeless and 8500,000 worth if property was d ?storyed as the re ult of a llood in Tt xas Thursday vben the Colorado River was torced mt of its banks by heavy rains. Tho leath list li growing hourly, and lt1 s belli v.d the worst disaster since ,he Ga'.v ston tl.od has visited Texis V.lief trains are out off, telegraph IJ md telephone wires are down, and me fate of thc inhabitants of sevoral ?olated tawns is unknown. Reports rom the country say loss of life wa? . peat. Tho rush oame without warning, j md Inhabitants at San Angelo and Ballinger wore foroed to deo tors fot. u night clothing. An entire family h named Cook at Ballinger wore drown- ( jd in attempting to leavo their homo Dn an improvised raft whioh struck in obstruction. The Colorado River ls from four to six miles wide in plaoes , md tho tributaries south are out of Danks. Two thousand cattle aro kill sd. Tho Santa Fe track bridges were washoe! out and traill.) ls at Standstill. Persons made homeless Bought refuge in churches. Provisions and clothing were rushed to the scone. Ono man on horsebaok was lost willie trying to warn tho inhabitants. A mother and thrco children at Sui Angelo perished in sight of a scoro of mon, who wero unable to attempt a resouo. Tho mother was in tho up per story of a house in tho bottoms. She was calling for holp whon the Hood oauscd tho small house to totter and collapse. Twelve inches of rain fell all over south Texas last night, oaiulng ah rivers to overflow their bank?. Ballet trains were rushed out, hut wero un able to reaoh their destination. ROBCUO parties In boat? arc going from houso to house taking peoplo from seoond stories and oarrylng the dead to morgues, lt ls estimated that two hundred miles of track wai washed out, Tho death list lnoreases hourly. Telegraph ollleos are beselgod by orowds demanding nows from thc the lloodod dlstrlots. IlO KOHOIItS lt. Many a man would be proud to re semble John 1) Rookofellor as olosely as (loos Dr. James ll. Jackson, of Rockford, 111., but tho Dootor doesn't' Uko to be remlndod in tills way that no isn't a millionaire. Ho appeared in polioo court to-day against Joseph Leonard' Reynold Hean and Lee Pro linger, oharging that they "humiliat ed" him by calling him "John D" on the stroets, whero evorybudy could hear. Tho culprits wore tined moder ately. Af-oil <Joti|>lo HiilOhlOH. William M. Mothnor, ?god Cl, and wife, aged 63, sought doath Wednes day morning by inhaling gus at their nomo in New York Neighbors, at tracted by tho smell of gas brokodown tho doora in timo to savo their lives, fhoojuple, who aro now under arrest, charged with attempted suicide, ad mitted that thor had entorod into a doath oompn?t. Tlioy said thoy wanted to dlo together as fortune had recent y frowned upon thom and they want d to escapo the poor house. OF J CT LKSt?? GltHAT Sl'?AKKiltf DIU; MIIilAK COMPAKlHONi al. j, j E. Han TB Pleased to Learn by Cor; sons. T he Parablos of C h r i Prove This Faofc. Tho successful public speakers tho world havo been men who liv?' close to naturo and know bow to dravJs thelr Imagery therefrom. Herein lay* the wonderful power of Lincoln. Born in a log cabin, accustomed to tho soones of farm and wood, deep vorscd in the vernacular of those around him, he was I rrealstablo before \ rural audience. Imagine how that uidlenoe of K nlucky stook breeders were oonvulaod when they board Hen ry Olay describe a mulo as "that use ful animal which has noither prldo of moostry nor hope of posterity." John Randolph, thogreat rival of the im aortal Kentuckian, was equally bap. ?y before his constituents, nearly all )f whom wero slavoholdlng farmers, tie illustrated bis arguments by abus ons to tho unfaithful overseer, and in mo or his famous oampaigns described Us opponent as having been lmpprtcd nto the distriot, a staM?n, to un against him. Audiences are al vays Haltered wl.en they hear abus ons to tho calling with whloh they ire /?aonlur, and ho ls the wiso speak ir wbo comprehends this truth. The greatest of all the t?aohors, *\. 'who spa ko as never man spp' . Irew nearly all of his imagen^ tSo torc?a from farm lifo. He was m a farm and knew all ab Imple agriculture of that po icrlod, which consisted 1* rape growing, Intersperse'', ew cereals and small herds JjLWD ,nd sheep. Thus we lind tr/ .nd notable savings oolorc ions to the shepherd,.tA^^^^ h? lost sheep, the han I wers and trees peoi ino. O JG day a groa/ ssembled on a hill o J Jennessarot. They w: udo, dull of undorsi.; lot "nc of thom able "o reaoh them tho te: n lauguage that tb tand. Ghi Pi hoed w uga in story form. h. o have tho facts wi - anadiar interpreted .'ho weaver does not otu lons drawn from tho 111),.,- r.^,H,,4 ames; but he will prie fibX Willig ?I 1U dieu the proaohor talk jj he work of the loom, ft ?1 \W o have the life we kno\ ivld tho great truths ? nihiu-fyiy - :. . y/11 r i ? 11 . omprehend. It was to the multitude on tho hill Ide from a boat that had been pushoo ff tho shore that the odebrated par ble of the sowor was delivered. Prob bly a* ho talked a farmer was sowing 11 he grain in full sight of the spaakei nd tho people. How natural, there ore, to lift forth a hand toward him nd say: "Behold, a sower went forth o sow." Simply, easily and natural y, thc thoughts cf the hearors were ed up from what was commonplace ,nd everyday to what was now and ternal. Jesus recognized that all of ife is a parable. When we oomldor he marvelous application made of ho siroplo peasant life of Galilee, we ire constrained to wonder what tcaoh uga ho would draw from the complex ilvllizatlon of today. Kow eleotrloity vircless telegraphy, steam and the nodern olty, with its wonderful build ngs, would bo made eloquent with rls teaobinga of the higher things of ?ho spirit. It is the oilioo of tho par ible to invest tho material with thc plritual meaning, but no imagery lb o suitable for this purpose as that Irawn from rural scenes and tho sur round inga.of farm lifo. The fate of ?he sown grain teaohes an agricultu -al as woll as a moral lesson. That vhloh fell ou the trampled wayside was lost. So also the portions whloh ell on stony ground and that whloh was choked by tho thorn bushes July the grain which fell on fruitful toil yielded results, and this produced many fold. Tue good farmer under itands that if ho would have good srops ho must use only pure seed and plant lt in the right place. Tho great literature o' tho world likewise owes Us chief o arm to lm ?gory drawn from naturo. H imer de scribes U.ysaes, returning homo after lils long wandorlngs, as Unding his wife, Pcnolope, "spinning among her handmaids." Poor old Macdulf, heart broken over the murder of his wife and children, uses tho illustration moBt familiar to lila Ufo In the exola m&tlon: "They have killed the hen and all her brood at one fell swoop.' Gray's immortal elegy, in almost svory stanza, draws on rural scenery to point his moral and adorn his tale lt ls "the lowing herd wind slowly o'or tho lea," or "drowsy tlnkllngs lull the dlstaut fold," and innumerable other metaphors drawn from tho Holds that lend beauty to this incomparabh product of genius. Take tho farm aud what lt tenches out of our pootry and great would be the loss thereof On thc contrary, but oho pootry sug gestod by those things willoh ho deals into the luart of thc farmer, and great would be tho addition to the charms of his existence. Unless w( are ablo to approolate tho natural boauties around at, to extract senti ment from leaf and grass and lljwor, wo aro reducod to tho lovel of the dumb boasts who know no uso for such things except tu devour thom. Pension Hoard Klootntl. A mooting of the old Oonfodorate veterans was held on Saturday to elect a County Board of Pensions. The meotltg was called to order by Mr. T. 0. Alborgottl, who prosldod. After stating tho objeot of the meeting he oalled for nominations for ponsion commissioners. Capt. J. A. Petorkin, of Fort Motto, nominated the present pension board, whloh ls oomposod of Messrs G. W. Dannorly, Z M G ram bling, M. F. Antloy and T. 0. Albor gottl, and thoy were elected unani mously, Dr. T, A. Jeffords waa elect od physician and T. 0. Albergottl pension commissioner, The meeting then adjourned, .. .1. ... ...........v, i *v u HI I ?JU |> in Lv Fvorett's 7 30 a m 7 35 pm Lv Irby 7 35 o m 740 p\in ?JV Frosts 7 '10 n ni 7 4? p iii Arrivo Kollook 7 4? a m 7 50 p f? A.rrivo fJhoraw s ] o p m K?ST BOUND FltOM (JJ Hill AW. TRAIN 1'KAIt/ / No. % ? No. I. liv Chora w 6 I fi ]> tn Ly Kollouk 8 IO a m if 40 p iii IJV KroHifl n 20 a in y 48 p ni liv Irby S 30 a ni 9 47 p lit bv Kvcrolt 8 40 a in 'J f>2 plo hv Madolino 8 ?O a m JO 00 p m Lvi?Play 9 00am JO 05 p m Ar^BonooltHvillo 9 ls a m "JO 20'p m Connection H. U AT BKNNRTTSUIM.K-Tho tout h bound fl morning trninB on A. 0. h. connoots wp h Hralu No i. Train No ? conueotH with A. ?O. L. local freight north and BO? th bound. I AT KOLLOOK-Train NOB t ami ss con coct with north and uouth bound 8. A. ti, ruins. I AT CHBKAw-Tjrjtiu No 3 connect? with brtb and uouth H?mul S. A. L. trnln?, ?ld troin No 4 connecta with north bound A. L. tralnH A. .1. MATHESON, V. I>)*?nd On. Man. crt .MQIlRAMi U SURETY MONDS, .. FIDELITY AND C()URT. - 'WNTRAOTnnd FIDKLITY BONDS. "Mioro aro no bolter companies thia bhe BO, ropi OFontcd by tale. JNO. S. MOO H IC Inls Nov. 15,1804. pt'ofc??ional cartis. II. H. NKWTON, JENNINGS IC. OWKNS, NEWTON & OVfteNS, Attorneys at Law, B?SNNBTTSyJLLB, 80. (JA. Offices Over Planters National Bank* Hf* W. BOnoillBIl, Ju . Attorney at Law, ..Borjucff?ville, H. C. Oflioo on Darlington street near Posta) Pelograpb office January, IHOO. J)K. SPJ?R DENTIST. OVVWR IJp-?tnlra in Ortteland BUUdlug, i' h one ?SO. BiojfNfflyyBV'iJLiiiia, H. C. MILTON MOLAUKINT" Attornoy at Law and Probate Judge Oilloo in Court II011 no. ""TWM I'l .?j.,l'l.ilJ|ii>w'wti i.u,jMi, i J lt I tx "THE po y efl "ii .shore and prepared for bbe feast. They beat on tomtoms a..d strange hums. Tne victims were laid in a nrclo on the groimd while tho savages nought brushwood and great logs for bhe lire. "Tuen a strange thing oamo. They jecmed aotually to naako a sort of re? - liri mi ocremony out of this horrible iffalr. They boat their tomtoms and pulled their -hair and uttered their .voirod, gutteral orien. "Tho rt st is too horrible, how thoy oooked their human food, how they danced about their viotdms, how at last that company toro the smoklug uuman flesh to piocos with their nails .-.nd teeth in a mad orgy. The Chief ate flrst, and after dano mg ho allowed 'ida followers to par cake. Thou, at last, when it seemed to me that I Hiirely could stand lb no longer, tho savages formed lu Uno and started to march away. The tide had lljwed in and we were free. "Frantlo to escapo, the frightened sailors who had resound mo, mado haste to pull away. But now we were seen. The savages broke their dne and rushod to tho Oeach. A sooro or more of them entered a canoe and pursued us. We had a lead of several ..undred fathoms, but tnoir oauoe, driven by a soore of savage arms, fairly loaped through tho wator. "Tney gained on us, fast, faster. I turned sick at heart. I hardly had strength to pray. ' Now, this island ls a German pos8i!Siion, though inhabited' chiefly oy oannlbals. Three miles away, across tho bay, thoro was a Gorinaa ttatlon, and for bbl* we bea iud. They gained on u<i more am nure. Wo could hear their savage cries, buo thank G jd, there was a Gorman guu ouat In sight. Tney saw our predica ment. Glanolng to vard tho waraulp I saw a little pulT of smoke ourl ouo from its bow and a four-Inca shell came ricocheting ac roi? tue wator to ward the oan.nlcal canoe, lb missed. Then another came, and this time it lilt squarely and exploded and dealt death and destruction. I oould see bho survivors jumping int) tho water and swimming for tho shore. "TueGjrrm.in welo.)m:d iii, and I oould not thank thom sulllJtently." Now and BiranKO itd?tid Capt. Truebridgo, of tho steamship Northwestern, Wodnes.lay displayed a photograph that he brought from the North, taken by an cihjer of the rovenuo cutter I'jrry, of a newly for mor lying Hf ty niles we*b of Dutch Harbor, directly between the Bogo jloMalands, commonly known aa Uas t'tlo and Firo Islands. The new Island made Ita tlrst appearonoa during Juno -ind ls now DOO feet high. Tho length could not bo ascertained as Perry could not get close enough to make an Accurate measurement. Clouds of stoam arise from its summit and lt ls surrounded by bolling water NoKroHBOs as Tlgora. In speaking of the acuteness of tho I servant problem lu Greenville th6 lothor day, a oltlzen remarked to a reportor of The Nowa that many of tho negro womon wero conducting blind tigers, and that they were abm to support on biro families on tho re venue derived theretrom, and that tho blind tiger was in part at mast re sponsible for the roluotanoo with which negroes consent to wash and cook and for the Joy with whloh they relinquish mob positions. It was stat ed that dally many Oi lers were sent out to whiskey bouses by negro wo men who conduct blind tigers and Ibu the business was Increasing,