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John and Rimbert- L. L. mblneb. Burrier: FlrutOhuroh-J, W. Daniel. . Magnolia St-S. D. Balley. Transferred to the Western North arollna Oonforence-J. A. Pooler r 1 I t t d t r a t b n 0 '1 V t p A e a C tl o ri f( cl g 0 h '/.( n HI Ol tl ".I tl bi F 0) ai T ni hi di tc ii w fo HU l'JClt?N UATICD, G M Boyd, .1 A Oampbell, W A ar larko, N. B. Olarkson, A M Ohroitz flt ?rg, R U Dagnall, D D Dintzlor, R f0 Dulile, G M Dukes, G W Catlin, D. , W Jsokson, W W Jonei, N K Mob au rn, lil M Merritt, J J Nevlllo, I J rtr ewborry, T P Phillips, J A Porter, AD r 0 Power, Geo H Pooscr, J M Bog a, J L Silly, A J Stafford, T fe Jib rahnamaker, J A Wood, J J Work. Lq au. hu O?30?n UwAltowuJ Dp * or ?it Fovt Rianon. peoial dispatch from Moorohet my, N. O., says Friday af tomoo vuii. four o'clock Captain Pough, : th Fort Macon Ufo saving static wa . >?>,l-.'i ^.>.'j?* rbi? '.. Mnbraonts, breakwater and large pier Tho breakwater Just la iront t vibe main building baa completely dla Appeared and there ie now over 50 ?et of water, whero only prior t? t was three feet above the high water mark. The large wharf In front of au uuiiOiutf baiiuitiCl uuvii the wale ould not let it settle and Oap ain Pou ?h says this morning ?here lt ivor 60 feet of water where generally tn -n T?>HM, n?-. ???ht to ten feet on an average hi Wi tide. UapuA.u Jfuutfu UAiiod his mon out nd they move everyvuing the) soulrt out ot the station, for fear tho) rould all bo swallowed up. He say? he main building is all Intact no? ut In a dangorous position. He lost all his wood for tho winter that was piled along the breakwater'. He says then was no shook or any thing to at traot his attention except the gradual Battling of the earth. Ho says there aro largo oraoks running on the hills now. The disturbance lastod fully forty minutes, the foundation around thc oart end of the building has settled about tlvo feet. The citizens hore think it was caused by tho gradual heavy current settling against that point of \sho beaoh and had out a sub torrnnian ohannel undor the break water and boaoh. UBACH GRADUALLY KINKING. At tlvo o'oltck this evening the beaoh ls within two feet of the life, station, The beaoh ls now gradually sinking, The doora in tho main building oanuot bo dosed. The boaoh has given a 'ay about ten feet during the day. Tho station and all build lng8 are expeoted to go at any time. HIS ??&K WA8 PITIFUL. 0?taleptle Whlto Tramp Foll Into Uta On mp Firo. The Columbia Record says in agony hom horrible wounds and subleot without warning to cataleptic Ats, Joorgo Edwards, a white tramp, who lays ho is a nativo of Spartauburg, was taken from Southern railway train ST?. 30 ou its arrival hero eat ly Friday norning and plaood in ono of tho wicking rooms at the depot for Boodi ni trsatmont. Dr. Frank T. Kendall, ibo local surgeon of the railway, tind og upon investigation that tho man's njurios had beon reooiv3d before be leoamo a passenger, declined to as lurro obargo of tho oaso. Ho reported io City Pbysiolau O, F. Williams anrl jbo latter had tho unfortunate mau arought to lils oi?loo lu the police pat rol wagon. His wounds were dressed ind ho was sont to his old homo in Spsrtanburg on tho ll o'olook train. Edwards was on hts way from Char leston north. Ha left tho railway sta tion near Blaokylllo and lu one of the umto oatalepMo tits to which ho is mi j.M t fell Into his oauip tire oud re jeivod borrlblo burns on thc right band ind arm, hip and right sida. Passers oy found him and took him to Blade ?III?, whore a kindly phyelolau ap plied llrst aid bandages and suppllod dm with a tlokot to Spartan aurg. B> the timo ho reaohed Co lumbia, turnover, tho pain of his wounds and fevor resultlug from &hem raado him uuablo to proceed further. Ho vas able to walk, however, and titer bia wounds had boen droRsed r/anderod down Gervais street. Op posite tho polloo station fooling that io oould not go much further, lie sroased over to tho state house (rounds and fool swooning on the ?rasa, Passersby found him there, ind aftor restoratives had been ap jllod ho rallied suruolontly to go on to 3p!.rta.nburg, whero ho said thcro were relatives who would oaro for him. EIGHWE?KNOWN DKAD , Town Flooded ?a ltoeult of IJOII/C Continued Kalila. As tho result of 30 hours soaking alu over southern Arizona the mlu ng town of Clifton, with 3,000 peo ile, was swept by a terriilo fijod and umdreds of Inhabitants have tied to bo mountains for Bafoty. Owing to lis&blo'd wires details are hard to ob ?in, but tho known dead Thursday eaobol 18. Most of tho population ve Mexicans and Italians whose Louses aro inundated. Tho oatastrope began with tho rreaktng of a big reservoir in the nountalns, precipitating a vast flood ii tho Chase crook quarter of Clifton, 'bo prinolpal streot was ruined. It IM along this street that tho fatala lea occured, as the flood engulfed the ooplo without warning. Two imericanB aro known to have perish d, ono being o&nght in tho wrookrgc nd drowned. North and south lifton are swept by the current of tic San Francisco rlvor. A new school building and a acoro f bouses woro washed away. Thc illroad bridge ls tottering. All in urination lu sent out from a I tolo* h ?no Hijo surrounded by water. The teat smelting plant of tho Arizona oppor works at Clifton is said to ave been badly damaged. Tho Arl )t.a aud Niiw Mozioo Railway oompa y will bo a heavy loflor, as Its yards rid shops aro Inundated. Clifton ls In Graham county, Bouth intern Arizona, lt is locatod at io end of a branoh of the Ariz ina nd New Nexloo rallioad and hus a degraph and oxprcss ollloo. It Sis uilt upon the bank of the Rio San ranclsoo, a brandi of tho Suit riv Shot From llnlilml. W. A. Guinn, a prominent attorney id hotel ovvrii\r living at MoOays, cnn , waa shot In tho baok Thursday Igbb. as he wan entering tho gate of ls borne, by unknown parties. Ho r d Friday morning. There is no duo i tb > identity of the assassin. An lamination or surrounding premisos aa made by ollloors and tracks wore und In a dower gardon opposite tho ito or tho Guinn residence. Htolo ? Btroot Our. At Fast Liverpool, Ohio, the pollco o looking for a stranger who stole a rcet oar late Thursday night, ran lt ur milos und oollooted faro from all .isen?ers, and then deoampod. Con* lotor Doltz was at a pump gotting a ink, whon tho tblof stopped aboard d gavo tho starting signal, Tho Hov/ managed tho businoss so well at tho motorman, curtained in on count of the rain, suspootod notlv '.11 < ?f>??.?v*?!? T!?!iae?u Ituoolvetl Ijryudrec.? ol juottors Anent ?fi* \ Senator Tillman Ia the reorient o und rocla pf letters of oomme adatlc ad congratulation on hts recant ul toranoes on tho raoo question'-In th? Vlndy Oltv. The Washington cor res indent of the S par tanbury; Juurua ays with bis regular run ot ma ll thest letters heap in dally, and corro, from all pitts ot tbo U.I fd States home aro fron. Vow York olty, UMo igo and no. gu?? i>uiuiii u< ku?. .JN^ith au.d Wo.?.b. One of these epistles/from t ?Q -i~r>* hf w?o'iini/^" r> (j. % con tains the expression. "Although there liu't muon m?o ot me, 1 wilb, follow j JU and your prlnolplos to bob,." One ot the letters, opened by hh ooretary Saturday morning und po used with interest by the senator, ii (rom "An Old Oonfodorate Soldier.' U letters from ?ho old teten ON an ouch in order nowadays with tin '"W." tillO l?*.t??* WU? qniMirrtfl b,V y1" repr?sentative from Mr. Tillman and is glvon to his friends wno reid thc Journal: , Hon. BonJ. E. Tillman, Washington, D. g. Dor: .Tr;-I wish to forward my oongratulatlona to you upon the fine speech you mado while In C lioago, a d show my appreciation b r onolos lng bo you a bank note from South Carolina, dated November eleventh, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-Thrco. I have hold this note for some time and prizidlt highly, but after reading your Uhloago speech, 1 deolded that I could not put it to a better uss than to present lt to ono of South Carolina's most worthy Hons. The greatest ma jority of tho people of Baltimore with whom I havo como in oontaot, have spoken delightedly of your determina tion and nervo in bringing up the "raco issue," af tor being warned that it mlgbb bring forth dire results. Kindly accopt my congratulations and note. From an old Con federate Sol dior? Sluooroly, Capt. John A. Burgess. No. 600 Fast 22j St., Baltimore, Md. Deoeunber 1, 1906. Aooompaulng the letter was an old faded, tattered paper bill, seventy three years old, and tho legend, bald ly printed on tts faoo, and Bet off with several engravings, ono of thom a picture or General Sumptor, states under dato of Nov. ll, 1833, that ' The Oommeroial Bank of Oolumbla, S. 0., will pay to J. Bryce, or Bear or, Five Dollars. Tbe bill ls unsigned by the president and oashior of the bank. Senator Tillman prizes this letter and bill of aute-bellum days very highly. He sbutod that be would have his secretary plaoo the bill in a scrap book for preservation. Although the bill "represents nothing on clod's green earth, nor aught lu the waters toolow," it oumes from an old soldier who ls in sympathy with Mr. Till man and hl? views on the raco problom, and lt is duly apprrolated. THE KLfcCTEIC LINK. South Garfeln? l'ublio Sorvloo d'eu, pnration. Auks fur Charter. Tho South Carolina Publio Ser jico Corporation of Now York and ibis Stfi^e has given notice of stu Ns tlou for a ohnrtor for tho pro^c J cleotrlo and steam railway linc on., O? Ors.ugeburg to Charleston and also to Columbia and Augusta. Tho oorpcr ation wes organ i 7. sd some time ago {n Now York with a capital of ilO.COlj, OOO and with Ohas. R. Van. Fiten aijd otnors of that olby baok of lt. Lat*r a mooting wa i hold In Springfield, in Orf.ugeburg county and it was decid ed to organizo under the lav/a of tble State. Tito uookH of Subsorlptio'j will bo opened In Orangeburg on January 0, 1907, and tho formal application says: "If tho said charter bo granted tho said corporation will be authorized and empowered to condoran land? and other property for its proposed rail road or railway tracks and stations and landings for its proposed K'eam hOF.t buslucbs or system, and for all other corporate purposes of thc taid corporation, as fully set fourth and staled lu tho said otlioe of tho seore tary of state, to which declaration rtf erenca io hereto speoially mp.de as a part o' this notloe, and proposes to condemn lands and other property for ell of its corporal?, purposes, if noces nary, in tho following counties, to wit: Charleston, Berkeloy, DoronestJr, Or angeburg, Richland, Lexington, Salu da, Greenwood, Abbeville, Anndrson, Greenville, Spartanburg, Cherokee, York, Cheater, Fairfield, Union, Now norry, Laurens, Aikon, Colleton and Bamberg, in tho State of South Caro lin t, and Mecklenburg, In thc State rf North Oirolina; and also in the fol lowing towns and cities: Charleston, Oningcburg Columbia, Lexington, Sa hula, Greouwood, Abbevillol Ander ROD, Greenville, Gaffney, Yt.?kvllle Rook Hill, Ciioater, Union, L*tirons Newberry, Aikon and Bamboig, and other olttcB and towns in tho counties vbovo mentioned; and to own, con struot, equip and operate a ra'iway or railway system for 1 mal business In said towuB and cities." The notice is signori by Messrs. J J. Timmes, J. C. LaVIn, J. A.. Bill Goo. Fieok, Jr., J. P, Bonney, Chas lt. Van Ellen, Jno. F. Tlmmoa J no. C. Lott, Jos. A. Craig, Sci Kobo ft, H, Jennings and Lawronoo M Pinokn?y. C?OIIIK to Oklahoma. Througo t*o or throe state agonts Oklahoma land oomplnios have lately been doing some activo canvassing In South Carolina, and have oaused numbers of restless Carolinians to In vest lu Western real estate, In one party, which loft Tuosd ty for Oklaho na to invostigato tho land oifor were ibo following: Mossrs W. P. Balling &on and I). B. Boasnn, of Woodruff 31. B. Clayton, J- C. Klnard and S W. Cnlomen, of IChrhardt's; W. B [browning, of RldgovlUo: S. P. Copo >f Cope, C. A. II (ros a?d J. M. Com nendor, cf Floronoo; J, W. Irwin, of Kingsorae; W. B. Hodges and A. A tfoOord, of Hodges; Mr, Graham iinith, of Chappels_^_ IJoy fr'AtAlly Hitor, At Phenlx, Ala., Louis MoOlain Ivo yaar-old son of Mrs. Guuslo Mo Jlaln, was shot and fatally wounded >y his playmate, Monto Mooro, aged Ix, son of I. H. Moore, ab te t o'olook thursday morning, with a navlor ri le. No ono saw tho shooting, but lt s supposod to havo boon Moldontal L'ho ball ontorod the center of tho loy's forehead, shooting his brains ut. An operation was performed ut phystotans think lt useless. Both amilles are pr omit tout and tho ragody la a great shook. Heroism is generally a tool lah act dth a auooeaatul termination, ( TIED \ND GAGOm A SVU?atKIt ???O?.W.WI? ?l'iNWIflljMSH A NI? VII ION ?OBBHO. He Wa? Driving Home When Sot Up on by an Unknown Party or Parties. Attacked, knocked uuoonsoiona, bound, gagged and robbod ot his cash by an unknown party Thursday night six miles northeast of Union, is what Is said to happened to Wallace Law son) aooordlng to the sensational story told by himself to a press rep osenta tive shortly after bis arrival in Union about 1 o'olook Friday. The following ls the story as rela ted to the Union correspondent. of The State on Friday : "I oame to Union yesterday, bring ing my wife and two onlldren. They spent the night with their oousin, Mrs. Lula Barton. I left Union, re turning home about P o'olook. Wallaoe Knox, a frlond, was with mo until we reaohed bis home, flvo miles from hero, after I drove on alone, letting my mule Jog along slowly in the dark. "After going about ono milo farth er, tho drat thing I know I felt a blow on the baok of my head, whloh knook cd me from tho buggy, As I struok the ?round I folt two othor blows on my forohoad, when I beoame unoon 80I0U8. When I reoovored conscious ness, the moon was shining, and 1 was lying aorois tho read with my hands tied bohind mo with a haodkor ohlef from my own pooket, and I was ?agged with another bandkerohlef a White cotton one, which looks like it has never been usod before "This happened in a lonely stretch of woods, a high bank on ono sido, and a patoh of pines on tho othor, When struok I wau humming a hymn and loaning back in my buggy, with tho top baok. .'When I got up I could not move my arms and did not got them untied until 1 had walked a milo to the homo of Mr. J. O. Harris, my father-in law, whero 1 live. "ID tho lot at homo I found the mulo and buggy I had been driving When roleasod I put'my hand in my pookots to seo lt I had lost anything, and found missing two pocketbooks, in my blaok folding on (whioh had my name, weight and height on a card in it and Chicago National Trust comp any on the outside) a 920 bill and a 85 bill, and in the otibor, a double snap pocketbook, I had 82.05 in Bilvor and BOim receipts. Ono of the receipts was from F. M. Adamson Oot. 24 for 816 then a reglBtorod letter reooipt from E'zle for 84.50, and also a waybill of aomo cotton seed-ali made out in my name. My silver watch was left, how Bvor, and when I go the house I found lt was 1 o'olook. "My head was hurting mo torridly then, and after bathing lt, I wenb to bed. This morning my brother-in-law, E W. Harris, oamo with me to tho spot and wo oould lind only two traoks, ono leading to the woods and no sign of anything elsa except where some one had been sitting on the sido of the road. "As to who oould have done it, I have no idea, for so far as I know 1 have no enemies, Rod no ono saw mo th? money c<? the a treats yeator day; though I handled tho puckfltbook wita only tho small change in it. This ls about all I know that I oau think of now." Mr. Lawson ls a young farmer, abont 22 years of ago, tho son of Win. Gilles Ltwson, ir. married and has two llttlo ohlldreu. When spoken to about whan ho left Union, ho 8&id that ho is uot acouutomed to drinking and was perfectly sober, so that thoro seems to bo do reason to think that the affair was all a fauoy. Ho also shows plain ly the mar kn of the bio vs on his h ?ad. FATALLY 8 HO I (Vn "Unloatlotl Gun" Dona Terrlblo Work Near Upurl mi hui /,;. Hattlo Lon Coggins, tho eight year Did daughter cf Mr. A, L. Goggins, ^vno llvos about tlvo miles from Spar banburg on tho White Stone road, was locldcnt&lly shot and killed Thursday fcftornoon by her twin brother, Wm. LI. Coggins. Herman Smith, a nine /ear-old negro boy, was also shot in Dbe face and side of tho head and is o a serious condition. Tho aooldent wau a torrlblc ono and jhe news was received In SpArtanburg with muoh regret, as all parties on ion ed are well known here, Thurs lay afternoon about 3:20 o'olook tho (Wo Coggins children and the nrgro loy was playing with a single-barrel ihotgun, whioh wau nob thought to be oadod. Tho little Oogglus boy was ilaylng with tho gun In tho hall w'th ithor children standing around when ?he gun was in somo manner discharg ed, The gun was loaded with mall shot, but at the clono rango the oad literally tore a hole in the little [irl's breast, going through hor heart loath oamo almost instantly, The oad of Bliotfchon struok thc negro boy ,nd he is in a vory sorious condition f ho recovers ho will probably lose an ye. Mr. Coggins, tho father of tho lit le girl, was in tho Hold when the ac ldont happened, and had to bo sum Qoned. Ito statcu that he was not ac uetomod to leaving tho gun loaded nd did not know how tho cartridge lappened to bo in the gun, CJr?'/.y Man Hhootn. At Jaokson, (ohio, Elmer MoNeal, , demented coal miner, armed with wo revolvers, Sunday shot lndisorlm tiatoly at passengers in a orowded rolloy oar, instantly killing Harry Vlilto, probably mortally wounding . D. VanAtta, of Nowark, Ohio, aud overoly wounding J. E. Klnnison, uporlntendcub of tho pu hilo sohools t faok?on. MoNe&l w???uaily thrown brough a oar window, lloluadlng tho istols, he went up town pursued by Ulgera and citizens, who shot him brough tho head, mortally wounding ira after a running light, at Main nd Bridge streets. MoNoal was twice patlont at tho Athen? Insano Auy im, but was not violon.1: He was ob known to any of the victims. Elephants Ato loo Muon, AsslJtant Seoretary of the treasury .oynotds ia rid of four big old ephaots whloh bavo boon tho bur sn of bis life for several months, iio oiop'nanta bolong to a showman ho on Importing thom to this ooun y gave thidr value as 82,300. Ap raisers deolarcd the animals were or th 84,000, and thoy wero ized. The animals ate so muoh eyuolds was driven to dispair trying > food them. Finally he leased thom . the showman, ponding tho dtolilon the owe, to havo the owner feed id elephant B. Tho owner has now tiled with the government, ! ANoT?JS? WBKt?K. jfhroo Mon Killed, by Knar Kurt Col Union on ?outnorn. Tbroo killed ?nd sevaaal injured r*> suited from a terrible wieok willoh cc? unod on the main Uno ot tho Soutb rn railway, about 300 yards from tb? itation lo Danville, VA., at au early lour Saturday morning. The dead aro: Engineer G. 0. Kinney, of No 34, a fast passenger tram from Jackson aita to the north, Flagman O. J. Mull, of through, treiguij train No 84 " An unknown man, wi ose bedy was b '-nod and mangled bejond all recog nition. . J. no wrcok resulted from a rear-end jolUsion similar to tl e one in whioh President Spencer, of the Southern railway, lost his life soaroely moro tban a week ago, and nob two hours' ride from the soone of the present dir. aster. Further o m motin g lt ? with the Thanksgiving tragedy is the faot that the engineer of the train, No. 34, who was killed Saturday morning, was. the same man who pulled the tnrottle of the train that plunged into President Spencer's oar. On that oooasion m came out uni or a tobed; today ho died at his post. Tbo wreck occurred at 4 o'oloolc. Tho freight train was Btaudlug on the main line when the passooger crain approaohod from the rear and vlthoui warning, the giant hurled itself on top of che frail oars of the frelg it, crush lng thom with its weight. Fire quickly broke Out and 6 or 8 oars burned rapid/. Kinney and the unknown man wore killed instantly, while Mull, who is said by che railroad authorities to be responsible for the aooldent, died lator in a hospital here, having suffered a severe wound in tho head. The faot that he didn't protect the roar end of the freight, as ho saoun have done as a ll ag man, is said to bi the d'roct oause of tho accldont, though two telegraph opera CD rs arc partially blamed for allowhg the two trains in the blook together. GILLETTE CONFESSES That Ho Killed Ornoo Brown, HIB Swoothoart. Ab Herkimer, N. Y., on Thursday Ohostor Glllotto, chargoi with the brutal murder of Graoo Brown, Ul? sweet heart, whom he betrayed and afterwards deserted, has set at rec all theories in tho mystery by confer t sing that ho killed hor. Tho confession carao to many as a bolt from a cloudless sky, but to at least six people lt is said that tho confession bad previously been made, In a statement made publio today. Gillott lndilT ronty deolares: "I am guilty; I killed Graoo. I struok hor twloo with my tonal? rao quot and then dumped ber body over board in tho lake." Thin ?mme confession, it is said, was made before the vordlot was returned. Gillette ls said to havo oonf isaed to his couasel and others. It ls said that in tbo event GI He t ? o had boon given the mercy of the i court, noeffort wein, avo been mad" j by his counsel to secure a new trial, j as the lawyer who so ably defended tho youthful prisoner know all the time that his client was a bloody aud ' self-confessed murderor. Lawyer Milis, lu the hope of aiding thc boy lu making a strong statement, wt nt to Gllotto's cell r?urlng tho trial and asked for a full recitation of the facts or. that fatof ul af comoon. lb ls said that Glllotto then oonfoss ed muoh to tho surprise and horror of i thc attorney. Jt'lnuuhod Through 'JL'IK III. A theatre train on tho Now York Central and Hudson Uiver railroad, about midnight Friday night plowed through a gang of workmen on the HaWom river bridge of the New York Contrai and Iludsou Ri vor railroad, Instantly killing ono ct tho mon and fatally Injuring another. Tho work men were inst?.!1 lng a Bimini system on tho third rail syBtcm for tho Con trai Eieotrlo trains. The mau klllod was John Kaiser, address uokawn, and the man fatally burt, John Manrngar tou, of 07 East Ono Hundred and Sev enteenth street, The train that struok tho two men did not stop. After thc J aocident became known, all trains wore held up until the foreman of the ! gang had oalled the roll of his men to ascertain if tho others wore safe. McCall St.ro.-.itio. Congressman MoCall, Rapublloan of Massaohnietts, In an Inte/ view takes a shot at Roosevelt on tho Japaneso question, Ha says lt would be pro oisoly in point for tho president to proproae putting himself at oho head of the army to administer other laws of the United States-tho anti-trust laws for Instanoe. When tho battleships have batted down tho remnants of San Francisco and people havo been put to the sword to give the Japanese right to education tn the schools tho court? will havo been dono away with and the nation taught a now and short art to enforce of laws. Will Not Hau?;. The prison oommisfionors at Atlan ta Thursday morning reoommondod to Governor Terrell a eom mu tatton ui tho Bontonoes of Milton and Jesse Rawlins from death to lifo Imprison meut In the State penitentiary. Tin two boys wero sontenoed to hang in Va'.dosta Friday morning. Their father, J. G. Rawlings, was hanged Tuesday. The father went to bin death protesting that lils sons wero innocent, but tho negro, Alf M inro. sworo to tho last that they aided lu the murder of tho Carter cblldieu, Itnhhod (ho i>OPOt. At Dosoba, Kan., a robber' only Thursday attacked Miss Zina IPok ert, night operator for the Santa Fe, robbed the depot mouoy drawer of a handful of small chango and escaped. MHs Ileokerb was kn oked senseless with a wagon wheel spoke, Her; Assailant was a whit? mau about 26 ycuta of ago. Tue douorlptluu tits that of Leonard D. Connor, a private In Company I, engineer orops, who isoaped from tho federal military pri ion at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Aooidtmtal Auphyxiatn io. Aooldontal asphyxiation ls given as ihe causo of the death at W.sblng fla Friday of John Cropper, a re trod lawyer, who wai prominent in ,he national capital. His v/ifo, who s in New York, ls tho daughter of ihe late Robert Mc Lane, at ono timo ?H?lster to Franco. Mr, Grouper was o years of ago. He was a member .f the Society of tho Olnolnnattt and f theSooioty ot tho War of 1812, BRUTA MHtXMWt* MAi.-?iAlt? O AUil ANJ> H ?UN HY I'O li And lutitilatos Their Bodies In a . Moat Horrible and Fohook?ug Manner Bulls, which is just one mlle bolow Vano?, wee tho scone of A most brut al and horrible murder on last Sun day.aftornoon whan a nfgro by tb* narnu of Emanuel Mallard murderer In a odd blooded manuor two other negroes, Oabb Poroher and Flenrj Porohor, two toothers. It seemi from ?be tosttmony that was brought out before the Coroners Jury Shat was empannelled to hear the oose by Mag* Intrato T. M. Folder, that Mallard and Uabb Poroher, who bad married I Mallard's daughter, ?pent pretty I muoh all of Sunday together ab Mal lard's house on the Bull place. Dur ing the day they took several drinks, and towards evelng they were some what mellow, rind it ia ?bought got h quarrel about a women of the neigh borhood, of whom both wore enam ored, willoh resulted In Mallard mur dering Oabb Porcher with an old axe The bean of the dead man waa near ly severed from his body. Af te committing tue murder Mallard drag <ed tho body to his back yard, whor ie left it and looked himself in hi House. '??iii all occurred about Ave o'olook. Sunday afternoon. When Henrj Porober hoard that his brother Oabl nacl been murdered by Mallard,he wltl ' another negro by the name of Allon White went to Mallard's house to set what was the trouble. When the) reaohed Mallard's place, i J envy Por ebor went up to the house and tappeo on tho door leaving White In thc road at tho gate. Mallard answered fleury Porohor's rap by lc quiring from within tho house who wah thore. Henry Porohor answered that lt was him, and Mallard after saying something about ho would let him In (f bo oamo with no hostile Intent, slipped out the baok door and came around to too porch on which Henry Porober was standing and shot him dead in his tracks without a word of warning. Mallard med an old arm) rnuHket, and nearly shot his second vlot! m'a head off. After being shot Porcher, who did not know what hurt him, fell in his tracks on the porch. About this time Mallard saw White standing at the gate and Immediately went to him and sai l he had a gooc notion to kill him too, at the same timo striking at him with tho butt end of tho old musket. He missed White and tho musket atruok th? ground and broke tho ?tock. White, not oarring to share the fato of hlr< friend, beat a hasty retreat down tho road. Mallard then went back to the body of Henry Porohor, willoh he had left- on the porch, and throw it over tho banister. He then dragged ll around to tho baok ot his house and laid it near the body of his first vlo tim- Mallard then seemed to have be one"*' raged aud boat 'tho hoads of murdered mon into jelly with ' of the old musket. How j engaged in t his inhuman i ob kno&n, but pungi1 '*UQQ fhi'nwes- of hla'( > , ma massos ot flesh. { Ho ou. .do 4 p*** 'papO to the nei?b? boring woods, v^ere he remained un til he was assured by somo white men that they would proteot him from tho negroes, whom ho seemed to fear . would do him bodily harm. i l?o was at the ir quest, on Monday and freely admitted that ho had kill ed the two men, but made no statement as to why ho did it. The Dimmer's jury, of whloh Mr. E W. Ayinger, Intendant of Vance, was the foromau, hoard tho oase nd brought lu a vordlot charging Mallard with tho orime, aud he was brought up to Orarigeburg by Messrs: W. G. Gr limb and E. W. Avlnger and com mitted to jail to await his trial for tho terrible orlme of double murder. Tho two negroes who were killed aro said to have been bad fellows, and will be little or no loss to tho com munity. Mallard is said to have been a peaceable, harmless kind of a negro, and what oaused bim to kill ' his son-in-law, Oabb; Porohor, mav never bo known, but as stated above it is generally surmised that the kill lng was caused by a row over a wo man of tho neighborhood. Mallard seems to have a straight road for the gallows. He will bo tried next Jan uary, and tho probabilities are that tie will be promptly ounvloted and hung. Ho is guilty of one of the worst orlmos that has been commit ted lu this oounty.-Orantfoburg Times and Domoorat. I Burned to Death. On Thurs lay Mrs. Ohris Trowel of Olivar, Ga., was raking and burning somo trash and leaves in her yatd, when her dross caught fire. She was alone exce pt her four small children, and started to run to hor husband, who was In his blacksmith shop, some distance from the house, but full bo foro she roached him. She was uo badly burned that she only lived about four hours. Mr. Trowel had band? severely burned trying to save his wife. Every timo wo walk up tho street J ?rs FOO sory,e man who arouses our | curiosity as to how be makes a liv? We Have M Due 25 horse power Talbott, sooond har y boon overhauled. This Engine ia i i great bargain for anyone who ia in tlj We are headquarter? foi anything in irompt attention will be given to ali in jare. Write uflwhon you aro in tho m o i<-.??. pm ?ri?os before placing your o dftlffmht* Q?nnlw fla Early Cabbage Plants Guarat (SUCCESS KARLY JESSEY CHARLESTON WAKEFIELD LARGE TYPS Tho Karlloit WAKEFIELD VhoEftrllofl Cabbage Orowo Sooond Earlies* Hoad Yurt PRICE: Ininti of 1 ta4 m. nt $I.BO perm. Oto Om.? P. O. O. YOUNG'S ISLAND, ?. C. My Spa Cliinrnnton 1 tpift?"?ntoo PUntfl to glvo pnroham jUarnniCC. p?leo to ?ny onatomor who In oin?*1 Ki own In t ho open ?old. on Boftooont, of (louth O.' growing tho InmUost plnutn that r-nn i; foaot In tho Intorlor of (no (lout-hern flint? liuto that eau ho i.. tho (lout-hem flt??T " Mnroh. They will nUtui novoT oolcl withe Imgo Two to Throo wooka aoonor than if /ramon. My T/M-ftcst Ountotiiftra aro tho Marko* Oar<\o tho Hont h. Tholr profit (tnpotiila upon thom lmvln ouaao my plants (?Sr their oropn. I also ?row a full Uno ot other Plant? ann Frai talo Plain.it, Apple, Po*ob, roar,- Plum, Ohowy ? ... ?fccl?itenn? t? port?n?whonuke opeWt? \?/I\y? ('* * ti*** Vf (IV) fot WuwraU* c*t<4**u<* u V" i i laltovod to have been'.blow? to, fcjj* Qilrioy mino Thursday tho result o? tb? explosion o? r ftifci?J?hie lr oftted on the flK?t level ot,M?O Menard or Wo. 8 abaft. Tho mon were tn tu? lowered t.. work ! n & J arre o? pe .T ?st ?* %) io cago waa passing tbe ?ret level, lo? ic tho lurfftoe? the dyamiie atottd tn ?ho magazine exploded, Bonding forth leath ?nd destruction. Absolutely no traoo of the forty men oan bo lound and they wore ev-, 'dently blown to atom? at tho first Mohock. Until an early hour this morning. 16 was impossible toasoei ;aln tue extent of tho damage and oven then there aro a number of wen ?rho have nob been nooounted for? Fir* oroko cut after tbo explosion and tho lamr go mao bo much worse than at drat was believed. HO?OUO parties Immediately oom? tnencod an undoeground seareh for the missler men. Tho heat and jasen caused by tho explosion made it difficult, io has been ascertained ' shat the explosion was caused by a miner who was engaged in cutting a ' itlok of dynamite, dropping somo daming grease from his candle. Gone to ?ho JPev). l(ogbarb Grogoraon, formerly ex? rhatgo toller of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank at Oatoago, of y'dcb Paul O Steniland was prosl lent, pleaded guilty to embezzlement if the funds ot tho bank and was < given an Indeterminate sentenoe In I the penitentiary. Gregeraom is tho . , third official of the bank tobe Bent to prison. . HQ.said In court that ho had ift.keo the. money for tho. purpose of helping a young wo m an build 'upa . business aa a ''beauty^doctor." Missouri has returned to tho solid South, tho Demoorats having olooted the State tloket and twelve ont of ilxtoen Congressmen, Now Jersey was carried by the Re* ' publicans, but tbe Legislature ls sc ions tl tut ed that Senator Dryden may \ fail of rc-elcotlon, In tho Chicago election a negro .was. '.leo'nd minlcipH judge and another a county oomtnlssJoner, An oQioial of the Provisional Gov? - oin mont of Cuba deolared lt would be Impossible for tba Amorlqans to ot away in nine months, Some people are so agreeable that they are dlB8gr?eame. $5,000 9HB9CHNHHHHBI Board at Coat. ?IMW*Atf AMIMN&SS?OUJItS. BEST PIANOS, SUPERIOR ORGANS, tor the Homes or tho Churches at low prices and r>" ?*av terms... .'.,. >..: 'A GOOD HOLIDAY PRKSliINT ', ian bo had, otthcr of a piano or an or ran on easy terms at a special prie? 1 AT MALONE'S Writ? at-once to Malones Music House, Yohimbin, S. O., for cataloga, prio?s?s Urns ? Are You Sick? I If You Havo a Disease F?r Wsloh Tom Ar? Unablo tojFlnd &'|Ouro Writ? '??. W? Har* Been Remarkably 8noe??sfal in Outing Dsep Seated .and ?tutete?** Oases. If you liar? any disease ?fa ?hrosl? s*> ure, no niattor bow nany 4MHH kn failed te cure you cr ho VT Kuan o thar treatment you hare taken, wo want you to writ? na a lotter. Wo are specialists wi tte ?Ter 20 y ?ara oxperioBoo, having boen located in At lanta for. nearly ll ?oars/ where NT? ftvo csUldiuhod a reputation for our ing oiir pa t i ?nt? whioh wo ballera is second to. nene in thia country. Our standing beta professionally ?ad flnan jially, is et Ol? very highest, arad L mm f himt, M< * Cradut?5*j1t*?olh iii Col legs i$M.i^fT*?isi& IM,toct?t?. b.k?ub*, B?a* Me?, fe, fast* ; . tfBettttvoi* --J ???HainMaKWaaMMriawU' voa ?an consult us with perfeet soaxdiato Wo do not resort to olaptra? Methods to ?.our? patients, but oonduofc ?ar orsesho I in a st aighforward wanner. Our Speciality I is throat* diseases ef both asea au* we inen-suok ss Nervosa D?blilty, (serv?u oxhanstion, nor vous prostration, lent vital itv, ?to., Kidney and Bladder Disease Strioture, Rheumatism, Varloosel?, Oasarru of tho di ff ?rest organs, ?aaai?o Blond Poison, Stomach, Bow?l, Llv?r titi Usart Diseases, Plies, Fistula, Balarged Prostat . diseases peculiar to wosa?su ?icu, ?to. 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Address us as follows DR HATHAWAY 4 CO., 8*-B, Inma Building, Atlanta, Cia. or Sale id engine in stook whioh has re v o in first olass condition and will i> LO market for snob, a nia? engin < tho way of maohinory supplies an quiries and orders entrusted t> oa larkot for anything, aad be ?r rdoro elsewhere. .ufHmhu a * ?teed to Satisfy Purchaser j iVv**V ..' ..? w ION AUGUSTA 8K0nf ?TRMMSO TRMOHER I FLAT DUjHSH t FUI A llttlo later Lars;** ai;'. My than ??CCOMI . * OM it SI.2B pur m., 10 nv?r,d ?ver,st*l.o*per m. clal Bxpre?? Rato on Pl?nta I? Very Low. ? Batisfaotlon. or will refond t%*>JPa.ff l,tt,"> lUilMl nt oadi^f .ioa?on. Ttooao pl? ni? ap ? th? utmi ?Wrai ?aeHl pip?' ? ???-'?< 1 . i " i H im. .1, n.l will ni^r?ihM)Or?MH '' ow yoor oma plants in ho? bod? a?4 OOM ncr? n?f the Intorl^r towns and OUfcfl <w ur Karly Oabbaeo: for UM reason they pot tTroM, ?uob as Sun.wrjcrry and ?wo?t i\> nd Aprloot Trees, Fbi BuitbM sad Gtapa /^17?)ATV B,ox ?a UUr\/A i I , YOWNO't letAM&r ?, <?.