The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, January 25, 1907, Image 1

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VOL. XXXJf ??00 .SX. QB?AT LIB?RTT, INPIHK OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN TBL Y BO} BENNETTS VILLE, S. C.. FRIDA Y>iJ A N i ! ARY a.6 IN THY CAU??.! MASS OF RUINS Kingston, Jamaica, Desiroyed by Terrible Earthquake. AND HQBKORV Cooacunos of Report is to the Effect That the Death List ls Eaormouf, and That Flames Added to Devastating Work of Sc (ernie Sh&ke. Th6 olly of Klngoton on tho island of JAmaloa, which hada population of about fl foy thousand people, one bait of whom wero oolortd, wa8 devastated ou Monday morning of last week by a j terrible earthquake, which waa follovj ed by a destructive lire, lu whioh snores ot peoplo were roasted alive. A dlspatoh says one terri lio si ock that sent buildings tumbling iuto pllea of blazing ruins, orusbing men, womonvand children to death, coming without an Instant's warning, dehtv'Oy .d a groat part of the city of King alon, Jamaica. From 100 to 1,000 persons, accord ing to varying roports, aro dead in the ruins. Soores, trapped in the debris, woro roasted to death In the flambs that swept over the ruined ol ty. Four moro Shocks quickly followed tho first, and then oame a trembling of the earth that Kradually subsided, but tho great destruction had been caused by the Urse shook. Paulo oame on the heels of the earthquake crash. Mobs, frenzied by foar, ru?hfld through the shaking Mic ol fi for vho suburbs, unheuriirg the orles of anguish and appeals for help from those crushed and dying lu the blazing ruins. The military hospital was among tho buildings that wont down with a crash. Moro than thirty 6oldiera weie burled in tho ruins and wsro roasted to death In the lire that was soon spreading through tho olty. Tho kit&'itHM desi motion oocurrod lu the bushiest* i oci.lt-iiof the city, the central r?rt whore business housfto and dwellings alike foll into plies. As the greater part of the buildings Cf the olty were wooden, tho the spread with incredible rapidity. The fire department was demoralized ant. fora time useless. Ina short time bands of robbers were at vrork, and, with tho Hames roaring around them, ..bopan.piUaKlc.zjRXi.?.kcdbuilding*a? d homes from whioh the oooupants had Hod. Tho negro population added to the wildness of theboeno, as thev seemed orazed with fear and rushed to and fro, screaming frantically and hinder lng those tr ho had recovered thtir wits and sought to aid the injured. Many' had died In the orush of ti e tumbling walls, and many others w; ra killed by being caught In the tangle of live elootrio wires. A dlspatoh from Kingston on Wed nesday said tho oioy was still a smoul dering fire. Evory whore the wounded are lying In agony. The estimates of tho dead are varying and as high as 1,000. In the frenzy that follow, d tho horror, the survivors wero err/ d with fear. The soldiers had to i.-.,. .t, the delirious mobs with tho butts c f their guns to restore a semblance ot order. . Thievos organized Into large banda and In looting the Drinolpnl residence?, resisted the polloo and troops. Groups of marauders were shot down by yoi leys from the military. Many aots of thrilling heroism marked tho rec OUCH. Soores of women and children w&rc dragged from burning timbers under whioh thoy were pinned. The ?tonoh ts described as awful. There ls no fodder for Animais and famine ls Imminent. Money is us) less. The banks havo been burned but tho vaults are supposed to bo safo The misery on all sides is lnde ?crible, Rich and poor aliko are homeless. P/ovlblons of all kinds are urgently noeded. It ls impossible LO say where anybody oan be found. Sir James Ferguson, vloeohalrmin of the Royal Mail Steamship Go > . .pany, ls among the killed. The loss ol life is very great, but tho exact numbers aro not yot known. The dead are burled under tho smouldering ruins. The mercantile community suffered most severely, warehouses falling upon them. M&i.y professional men are dead or Injured. Tho negroes are looting. GhaoUy socnes c.re being witnessed. All thu shops havo boon destroyed, and all th? buildings in and around Kingston arr In ruins. Vory fow of them are sit* to live In. To lllow Dp Sohool. With dynamito two young boys named Hartley and Lawson, it 1H alleged, attempted to blow up the graded sohool building at Ivaniue, Va., la?t Friday, but their plans were dlacoverct. jvist In Lime to prov t.t what might, have resulted lu t> o death of two teachers and nearly loo sohool olilldren. Misses Urowi.ie Miller and Heien Hu fiord, of V^ytho ville, ar? toaohor In tho school. Too aooused boys aro under arrost. TLtir motive has not been loamed. ^ iv hom Exploded, ^F. S.- Whitworth, an operator at tile Sou thorn Exposition Gotton mills just to tho wost of Atlanta, was kill, ed In a peculiar manner Friday mor.-.* lng. An 18-inoh section of a large Iron pulley running at a high &p d flew off with a loud report and sp^d straight towards Whitworth, ttrlk og him where ha was standing llity fea away. Whitworth died sovoral ho irs later. He was 62 years old and lcavei a wlfo and elgh; children. over Hundred IJIVCB Loot, Tho islands of Loy Le and Samar, were awopt by a typhoon on January 10. Ono hundred lives wore lest In Leyte. Ilarracks and quartern at. Hait l'as Samar were destroyed. Tun storm was the worst ever known. No carn age to shipping, NOT GUILTY IB TH IO VimuiOl! ?N WU K IJMI? HOIJBH CASH. An Orangeburg Jury Restores Hoi chester's ?her!ft to Hi? High OiHco. . i Sheriff Limohouse was tried last I Friday by au Orangoburg Jury for al lowing a prisoner lo bs taken from him and lynched. After being oat about one hour the jury brought in a ver ?Mot of "rot-. p/uUty," which verdiot restores Mr. Llmehouse to his high; otuoD, he having been suspended by j Gov. Illy ward ponding his trial. Tho faots are so well known as to hardly need repetition, but it will be recalled that on thc 23rd day of Au Kuat, lHOO, a ucgro, Will Spain, madel au attempt to criminally assault) tho little daughter of Mr. L. S. Connor, ono of the best known and most re spaoted mon in Dorchester. Th i negro was captured by a posse, among wo-om w,as the father of the little girl, and taken to Sb. Georges and delivered to tho sher'ff Tala was about 11 o'clock, oh the day of tho ort mo, and just an hour or two later a second posse, composed of a ?core or more of men, came to tho jill and a oomrrltteo ot about 12 ontered and asked tho sher iff for an interview with the nogro, who WAS looked in an Iron oago ou the deoond floor. The sher!ff went for and brought the prisouor down stairs and thc mob took him away aud lynohed him. The sheriff olalmed that he thought that the mob only wanted to question the negro-to hold a sort of preliminary t rial-and tbat he had no idea that they Intended to make way with the prisoner. The sheriff also claimed not to know any of the mon who oompos od tho mob, although they domauded the pi Isoner within four hours after tho do".d was oommitted, and were undoubtedly men from within a rad ius of five milos of the county scat? Governor Hoy ward ri q justed Solic itor Hildebrand to investigate the matter, which ho did, but as the sher iff claimed not to hav?? recognized any of thc mob, and as the jury rendered a verdict to the effeot that the negro, I Will Spain, oame to his death at the hands of mon unknown to them, the jury, no Indictments w?re handed out Agaiust the mob, but at the fall term of the court of gonoral sessions for Doroheater county Solioltor Hilde brand prepared a bil! charging Sheriff Limohouse with orlmlnal oowardlae. The grand jury found a true bill and Gov. Hey\:ard, who had takon deep Interest in the matter, promptly suspended tho sheriff from oilloo, pending his trial. Tho coroner, P, L K zer, was commissioned sheriff and oas so aoted since, but did not want fcbec{*'?o a ud. wrote tho go vernor to appoint some one else in his stead. Orangoburg county was seleoted as the county in which tho case would bo triod, tho tv .so was ioaohed Friday as, soaeduled. Solioltor Hildebrand represented the State again as ably as he did a little less than a year ago when he prosecuted the Eutawvilb lynohers, and Sheriff Limohouse was repre ontod by a brilliant array of tal* ont composed of Messrs. Connor, il lorn and Dennis cf tho Dorchester bar, and Rrtysor & Summers, Wolfe & Ber ry aud Howman & Bowman of the Or angeturg bar. The first witness for tho State was Lawton Limohouse, sou of tho defend ant, and deputy sheriff of Dorchester county? who testified that ho reoeived the prisoner, Will Spain, and looked him in the cell. Said that at requost of parties wno oame to the'jail he turned tho prisoner iver to them for the purpose of holding a preliminary examination and having tho prisoner properly committed; that tho mob overpowered him and his father and to"k thc prisoner from thom, and that the mob was composed of 75 meu, 12 of whom oarrlod the prisoner away on a hand oar on the Southern railway. Dr. A, R. Johnson testified that he waa In thc Jill and that he saw the mob ovorpower tho sheriff and his deputy and take tho prisouor away. Ho saw the s ?erlff try to uso his pis toi, but recogn'zjd nono of tho mob. Dr. Joe P. Johnson testified as to conditions as he found thom when ho went to the jail, aftei the mob had dispersed. L. "Virgil Minus testified that ho was at work In an office near the court I house. He took the testimony at the coroner's lr.quest, but didn't hoar the sheriff say ho know any of tho mob. Miss Sibyl Thomas and Mrs. E. E. Thomas testified as to the sheriff's1 oonvorsatlon with Gov. Hey ward, they being Southern Bell long distance ope rators. Mrs. Thomas testified she hoard Sher,ff Llmehouse tell tho ROV ernor he knew tho members of tho mob. I ko M!nu3 testified AB to tho soaroh and oapturc of tho prisonor and as to delivering him to the sheriff. This was corroborated by Poler Stokes. Dr. J. P, Minus test!lied that he *ent to tiie jill aft'ir tho mob had takon the prisoner, saw the hand oar in the distanoo and told of tho shorlff's menial condition at tho time. A. H. MoCormiok, seorotary and troasuror of the Dorchester Lumber company, of Badham, and who lives at Badham, saw the mob oome by with tho prluoner, know none of thom, and knows that none wero employes of tho Dorohoster LumbOf company. W. F. Jaques and John A. Hires also testified as to oonditlons as they found them on arriving on tho scone, but that they know none of the mob. Tho defocse Introduced no testi mony at all, and consequently their attorneys had no roily. Solicitor Hildebrand made an able arg u mont for the State, whllo Hon. Thomas M. lUysor replied for tho dofonso, being tho only ono of tho brilliant array of talent to roply to Solioltor Hilde brand, Jud?e Gage's oharge to tho Jury was unusually strong and brilliant. Ho held that if the sheriff brought tho prlsonor hoforo a body of unknown msn and allowod them to take his prisoner from him ho was guilty as oharged in tho Indictment. Judge Gage also took ooo i sion to denounoc mob law and argued that no orlmo oalls for mob rulo. He said the aot under whloh Sheriff Limohouse was tried was enacted subsequently to the OcusUtutlo?ftl omi ventton of 1806 and w\a intended to aid tho sheriff in up h I''lrig tho law. Judge Gage spoke for 20 minutes In a qulok and force tul manner and many say bis oharge was the strongest ever delivered ht? fore an Oraugoburg Jury as regards dignity of the law. The Jury was put about one hour and a half.af ter whioh J?hey rendered tho expected verdlotof "not guilty." Tho Jury was considered an unusually strong one. ? The State used ft number of chal lar ?es and the defense exhausted theirs. Sheriff Llmehonse was accompanied to Orangeburg by 50 or more support ers and thc so were soon tc mingle with the State witnesses freely, and, in faot, the witnesses gave reluctant testimony. Anyway tho oaea waa de cided by the Jury and no one oan say SolloUor Hildebrand and Gov. Hey ward did not do their full duty. The oaso did not attraot unusual attention and tho oourt house was never crowded. Solioltor Hildebrand deBorvos much pralHo for his vigorous prosecution. This la the seoond disagreeable oaso he has presented in Orangoburg on ohange of venue (tho Eutawvlllo lynohera being also tried here), and in both he made masterful fights. Being vindicated, Sheriff Llmehouse will resume his offloo, and he was most warmly congratulated by his large following here when the verdict was announced. B?K ASSOCIATION M ml Intorostlng Moetiiift I" (Jolu ?n ula J?ast Week. The Bar Aasoolatlon had a most interesting meeting In Columbia last week. It waa nodded to rooommend that tho aaiarv or the ohiof justloe of tie supreme court be m<ide 90,000 year and tho salarlos of tho associate Ju&tlcas be rr ano ?5.600. There was much discuss on on the resolution and lt was gonorally agreed that the pres ent salaries aro entirely out of keep :ng a Ith the dignity of the oilloes. THH OFFICIOUS. The following is the list of officers elected : President-J. n. Hudson. Vice presidents, one from eaoh Jud iolal ol rou ll : First T. M.. Riysor; seo ond, G30. H. Bates; third, T. G. Mo Laod; fourth, J. It. Ooggeshall; fifth, N. G. Evans; sixth, A. L. Gaston; seventh, G. P. Sanders; eight, Walter H. nunt; ninth, D'. H. Rutledge, Jr., tenth, R. T. J ay nee. Scoretary-John J. Harle. Treaaurer-W, S, Nelson. First District- T. M. Raysor, L S Weeks and Robert Lido. Seoond District- -Geo. H. hates, n. S. Dowling, J. S. Davis. Third dlatriot-T. G. MoLood, Hugh Hayneaworth, J, H. McLaugh Fourth distrlot-J. R, Coggoshall, Henry Bu?k, T. W. Rouohlor. Fifth distrlot-N, G. Evana. W. H. Sharpe, J. W. Thomas. Sixth distrlot-A. L. Gaston. J. L. Glenn, J. H. Foster. Seventh distrlot-0. P. Sanders, V. E. DePass, H. L. Domar. Eighth distrlot-Walter H, Hunt, li. W. Ables, J. F. Fraser. Ninth distrlot-H II Rutledge, Jr., B, A. Hagood, J. E. Pincknoy. Tenth district-R. T. Jaynes, T. J. Mauldln, J. S. McSwain. Exeoutlve oommlttet-F. Tomp kins, P. A. Wiloox, J. B, Wlngard, John J. Earle, W. S. Nelson. 3 KNKK A L COUNCIL. One from eaoh Judiolai oircult, named in order: D. O. Herbert, T. G. Croft, Charlton DuRant, W. P. Pollock, M. L. Smith, T. G. McLeod, W. S Hall, Jr., D. A. G. Out ai, W. B. G ruber, E. M. Ruokor. Tho pres ident and secretary aie also mem bers. XLKOTED OJf FICKK8. And thu Work Will Now Ho Pushed to On m pict lon. The South Carolina Pabilo Service corporation has advanoed anotbor step In Its progress towards beginning work in tho development of lt? great enterprise The preliminar- meeting required by the statuto to > i hold for tho pur pose of obtaining subscriptions to tho stock and for tho eleotlon of tho boaid c f directors and olfioers was held on Wednesday of last week at the E.listo building, whore tho offices of the company havo boon loosted. The meeting was attended b> a large number of gentlemen Interested In tho enterprise, and tho neoc&sary subscription of 9276,000, required as a preliminary to tho granting of the 3 arter, was promptly made, and the necessary cash paymonts given to the treasurer. Tho following oflloors wero elcoted; Presidont, Joseph J. Timmen; vloa president and general manager, Char les R. Van 10*?ton; seorotary the treas urer, John P. Bonney. The following dlreotors of tho cor poration were oleotod; Joseph J. Tim mes, G. R Van Etton, John P. Don ney, Joseph Hormel, Lawrenoo M. Ploknoy, John 0. Lott, Dow H. Smith Fredorlok W. Schroeder and Robert H. Jennings. Tho iinai step in incorporating and por feeling tho company's plan for bo ginning business will bo taken Jan. 18, when tho formal papers will be tiled on tho expiration of the saUitorv notice, and tho storotary of state will bs asked to Issuo tho oharcor, accord ing to law, All tho directors except Messrs. Plnoknoy and Jennings aro from New Vork, and ropresont the capitalists of that oily wno are Interested in tho onterprlso. Mr. Plnokney ls from Charleston and Mr. Jennings ls from this olty, Tho company Is now fully organizod and roady lo entor upon tho building of tho not work of rall ways they have in view. Dont li or Dr. Woodrow. Dr. James Woodrow, scientist, ed ucator, theologioian, publicist, bank or and business man, died in Colum bia Thursday morning after a linger ing Illness. He was born in Carllslo, England, on May 30, 1828, hoing alon ot a Sootoh olorgymau. His parents oamo to Canada In 1830 and to the United States In 18:i7. WHO IS FOE? Unknown Person Has Attempted to Kill Motlier and Son. M IRKED FO? DEATH Poison, Dynamite and Pire Have Been Used in Attempts to Annihilate a South Georgia Pamily by Some Secret Enemy or Enemies. Markod for death by an unknown foo, Mia. Alloc Futoh and her son. Allen Futoh, aro momentarily expect ing assassination in their home in tho lower part of Thomas county, Ga., says a dispatch to tho Atlanta Jour nal. Niuo times the hidden hand of mysterious death has boon raised against mothor and son, poison, dyna* mite and Ure failing in oaoh lnstanoc to accomplish its fiendish execution. Secrot servlco ofiloors, oounty offi cials, private detectives and thc com bined efforts of tho law, augmented by sympathetic and zealous frlondo, have bsen foiled io their strenuous effortB to doteot the man and the mo tive and todav the terror-strloken and sole inhabitants of the old Futoh bomestoai are oalmly awaiting what they foar mav be complete annihila tion. Recounting their terrible experi ence, young Allon Futoh, the son, twenty-ene years of ago, dramatically exolalraed today: "It is the protection of the Lord that h\-..i savod mo and my mother from death 1" "Yes, it's providence alono," tho mothor interposed. And to those who havo watched the piot thiokon, it seoras apparent that more than humau agencies have boon brought to their assistance to ooun teraot tho execution of nine diaboli cal attempts to take their lives. "Another attempt will be made upon the lives of thnso innocent peo plo," said Hon. Fondrcn Mitchell, member of the Georgia legislature, who has boon omployed as speoial couusol to aid the solicitor of Thomas oounty in running tho assassin to cover. For Boven months a veritable torror reign has ruled over the Futoh homo. When the two members of tho family ?Vere away, poison wo ?ld 'bo plaoed in their food, in tho milk and even in tho well; when they wore at home they were targets for dynamite bombs and the assassin's bullets. Go or stay, their lives have been in peri) slnoo early in last Juno. What violons motive has driven an enemy to such extremes? Ask the trembling woman, and alic only shake? her head. Ask the young son who ro malus constantly by her side and he oauuot answer. "Thoy haven't an enoray in the world, mado so by an aot ct their own," deolares Attornoy Mltoheil. "It's all mystery, deep, weird and up to the present impenetrable. I am moving tioavon and oarth to lind the guilty man. Others aro doing thc same thing. Wo all have theories, but tlie faots are still beyond our roaoh." Tho population of tho lowe half of Thomas oounty Is busily engaged In speoulatirg upon this strange oass, and gopslp bas connected many por sons with tho orlme, in whloh Ro manos, Lovo and Jealousy figure in sensational human interest, but tho evidence ls lacking. On June 4bb, last year, Mrs. Futch and Allen were suddenly salzod with desporate illness. That thoy wore spared seemed almost miraculous. It was boliovcd their illness was duo to acuto indigestion. As a matter of fact they wore poisoned,but lt was not unt 1 the third attempt had boen made that thoy realized a fiendish plot had boen laid for their assassination. The first attempt was made by putting either arsonio or rough on rats in the water bucket and ooffoo pot. On JUDO 10th a second attempt was made, and this time tho mother and son wore again in tho shadow cf death, On July 5th tho chioken at tho noon meul was saturatod with poison, and motlier and son again wore dos* perately ill. July lOJi tho assassin returned and poisoned Mrs. Futoh. The condition of Mrs. Futoh grew constantly moro orltioal, and on July 13 th Dr. Taylor, the family physlolan, Rev. T. A. White, the pastor of the First Baptist ohuroh at Motoalf, and other friends and rolatives were sum moned. There woro twenty-ono porsons in tho houHo on this day and none woro sparod by tho unknown hand that sprinkled poison wholosalo in thc sup per. All twenty-one woio poisoned. Tho physlolan, oallod to savo Mrs. Futoh, almost lost his own life, aud the minister was for hours at the point ( f death. <>uhern, including friends and ser vants, were desperately ill, but all ro covered. On Julv 23 another attompt was mado and Mrs Futoh, Allon and John wore viotims. With tho arrest of L<aura and Ollie Cunningham, negroos omployed on tho Futoh eittato, tho attempts ooasod until January 7th, when tho assassin grew moto hold aud discarded poison and resorted to dynamite. Sunday night, January 7th, tho on erny crawlod under tho house, bored bolos through the lloor under the ben In which Allon Futoh was Blooping, chiseled out a holo with a sharp in-1 atrumont and pushod a dynamito bomb into the room, lighted the fuse and fled. Traoks were found In tho baok yard leading to the woods in the rear of tho bininu. The bomb oxplodod, but again su per-human handi seemed to interpose and tho assassin was follad. ; .----v--j Tba bo ??bshook tho house from oel* lar to garret* hurled ??lori Futoh from his h?d and sat the house afire. "1 J OKuod into Allen's room," said Mrs. Fuioh, "and waa blinded by the light an i ?amos, , 1 expected to seo my boy som into fragtaentsj but he was unlulrt. Wa threw water on tho llames iwd saved tho house ?od then 1 was so thankful that we had. boon spared,-jhat I throw my arms around Allen and oded: "Thank * -d; Thank Oodr ' In Jq t^kon for granted by all that the attci?pte are too cunning to bo planned by a negro. "It la {the work of a whito man," sayB Alle.fi. "Why, when I ?ot myself together; Xrom the shook of the dyna mite bomb, I rushed out of tho homo, shooting, td give tho alarm to tho negroea ?who Wore Blooping in the quarters. "To wv astonishmenfi,. tho dogs] wore gone I " We lave three dogs whioh we j keep In >t.'e yard for added protection Ono of tho negroes carno running up about this timo and I told him to hurry i{< the barn and aaddlo my horse, av. I wanted to go to Thomas ville to'got the sheriff and blood hounds. "My horse Waa gono. ' 'Tho horse returned about two boura later and with him oame the dogs." Tho theory advanced is that the assassin . first went to tho barn and mounted Allen's horse, kuowlng the doga wo. ld follow tho norse. "My dogs will follow that horse1 day or ti ght, without question or SUB plolon " Allen says. Tho 1. ..rao was ridden about a quar ter of tv mile away, tied and lett be hind, aud with him, ic is believed, tho dogt waited ouc in the woods. The atiassin, and tho tracks In tho) newly flowed ground dearly estab lishes ibis, returned to the house, crept under the building out his hole j through; tho floor and put the dyna* mite boi?b into the room, lighted tho fuse and dad. The bbmb exploded at 11.23 o'clock Sunday night and within ten minutes the negrO servants and tenants on the place bp.d -boen thoroughly arousod and wire at the home. "Wh :'n I found tho horse and doua gone,"fc^ya Alien, "I ordered one of tho negroes, to hurry to a house q-latter of a mile away, foi more uiihistat'.o. ' 'In a few minutes tho negro came running ba-Jk, badly frightened. Ho told me he had just seen a man on my hor riding through Che woods. "Thi?, man was, beyond queitlon tho assista, who had hurried to the woods rthere ho had left my hoxso. mounteii it'and was cioaping. Traoks the neit diy showed tho negro's staternrtjt to be true. Tho horse re> I j turned alone, with reins gono, in about liours. "*>. ?rtlon omitted NvSth this awful oaso Indlcatea the work to be that of a cunning whito man who is thoroughly familiar with the plaoo so familiar, in faot, that ho oould locate tho exaot position of my bod though ho waa under the house." Tho ninth attempt waa mado last Sunday night, and but for the alert ncaa ot Night Guard Judson Fowell might havo been aucooBaful. 1 FIRED TO KILL HIM. Guard Fowoll wont on duty lasth Sunday night ai, dark. Mrs. Futoh and Allen were in tho house, with shotguns and revolvers in reach, "1 had a presentment," says Mra. Futoh, "thatthere woull be troublo, and I told Judson to watch every thing and investigate the toast noise. I told him not to shoot anyone com ing in at tho front gate, aa John might bo ooming home." Shortly after 8 o'olcok Bowell hoard a noise. Ho was in the roar of the house at tho time, but quickly crawled over the deep sand on his all fours, to the front. He hoard tho latoh of tho gate diop into Its aooket and thou was silhouetted tho form of a man, whether white or blaok Fowell did not know, in the darknena. "I oried to him to 'Halt!' but ho turned and sprang behind a tree," says Fawell. "Tho next moment he atartod to run, and 1 tired point blank and I tired to kill, but miasod tho man as it was dark. Ho got away, but we followed hlatraokB into the woods for some distance." Slnoo Sunday night tho house hr s been constantly guarded, day and night. _ A Uliman. Mounter. Reports from Selouan, south of Mo lilla, where the Moroooau pretonder has his camp, indicato that his follow era, since the appearance of the Sul tan's troops at Tangior, aro growing lukewarm, and that an energotio movomont probably would soon tl nish tho robellion whioh tho pretonder has boen coudnoting for soveral years, Stories of oruelttes with whioh ito tor rorizod the inhabitants aro almost in credible. Those even auspected of disloyalty havo been drugged to So louan In chains and subjected to tor tures. Sometime ago a Kobdana BUS peet waa bound at the mouth of a cannon and blown to pieoes. Another, who had boen obliged to give hospi tality to a snouting party of El Gueb bas troops was tied to a horse ard rldor and at full sneed dragged through the oamp and villages as a warning. _ Arrostod Murdcrera. Miko Smith and his son Gharles, years old, havo boon arrested and will bo tried for murder next woek at] Troy, N. G., on tho ohargo of killing Milton Hunnell, a Ooafodcrate veter an, for his money last ?eek. Hunnell oallod at tho homo of tho Smiths ard exhibited some gold ooins. Whon ho started homo tho Smiths, according to the son's story, planned to kill and rob | him. They followed Hunnell and whon they eaught np with him Ghar les Smith struok him with an axe. They then rifled Bunnell's pookotsand placed tho body an the railroad traok, whore a trahi ran ovor lt. Mike Smith denies participation in the crime. ltoalgnatlon Aoooptod. Govrrnor Ansol transmitted to tho j senato the resignation of Judge H. O. Purdy on Wednesday and asked that I provis;, on be made for the eleotton of hts successor In the Joint aniombly. r REIBET OF BOARD. What tho HUto plavoiru'?ry DUI l>ur tn? ?i'*at, l?o$.v. To his Excellency;-; 1>. C. Hoyar?, Governor of Sontl? Carolina: Wo have tho honor tb submit to you for your information ano. alao for the General Assembly, this, oar report of tho business done by the dispensary, during tho fiscal year closing Novem ber 30,1000, Tho attaohod statements will sho-v that the total cost of liquors, wines beer, otc, purohaeed during the year amounis tc 32,107,005 00, and tht tdtalsalea amount to $2 585,137. Kt. The total supplies bought, 823,071,80. The net earnings for account of tho 80hool fund for the flaoal y o AV, which have bepn placed to its credit, amount to $23,083.14. Tho small amount of profit placed to tho orodlt of the school fund this year ls acoounted for by the fact, that invoices, amounting to $141,707;30, was taken In stook in 5he riscal year dosing November 30. 1030, and not Charged on the booJts until tho following year, by reason of which ou' not '.profits wora reduced just'this amounjb, or, in other words, *e would haye mad^a ? not profit of 8105.U5?.44. u oder our. precut sys Gem this cannon possibly, coon r. The not profits, that.have toorued to and beau equally divided between oho towns and counties amount to ?662,008.80, making, tho total oarn lugs for the year for'tho nohool fund, oountles andrVtowiis, ?576,076 04. Wo have paid >nto the. Stato treasury Di camber 1,1906, (the begin ning of tho fiscal year,) on aooount of tho Behool fund tho amount of 8150, 000 leaving a bai?noe duo tho Behool fund, ?03,400.94, whioh wc today havo paid in full, making our pay* monts on aooount of school fund for the year 1900 $213,409 04. , On Dsoomber 1, 1905, we found tho dispensary owing the sohool fund 1189,620 80. On assuming tho duties of our office we found about 8200,000 worth of high priced barrel goods, largely in excess of the amount needed by jho dispensary. We employed J. E McDonald, Esq, to look into the mat ter of these purohases and seo if wo were Hablo for the payment of these Koods In nearly every instance we found that the houses whioh had ihlppod these goods to tho dispensary ware willing to take them baok, they paying the freight on tho returned ?oo?a. Aotlng on the advloo o' Attorney McDonald, we returned 1119,249.74 of tho abovo goods, and have used a considerable part of thu balance We inoludo In this report of Mr, MoDonald'o report.in full and respectfully ask that ho bo paid liberally for his services. We aro now installing a rectifying *hd. blending plant, which will v;:c iiocKy do aV*ay -with/tho' v^Cim^ c* jase goods, and which will yield the State a larger profit, ana give more smployment to homo, people, and give oetter satisfaction generally. We are very muon gratified to state ii'iat tho businesi of tbo dispensary oas boon oonduoted with harmony in ill the departments. Wo wish, bow 3vor, to oal) your attention to the fact that $400,000 ls an insufficient M.uum;, to conduct the business of tho dispensary. Wo beg to call your attention to tho very limited time . allotted thc axpert accountants in whioh to ?bech books of the dispensary, whioh IP. thirty days, ?ind suggest tbut the time be increased to forty days, w'.th a compensation of fivo dollar** per day. This will insure ample time in Vilich to do tho work and will secure tho very be3t talent. In conolusion, we most rospcotfulh; refer you to tho rep >rb of tho Leglslh tlva ocmmlttee and tho expert ac countants appointed by tba Gover nor as to the dispensary management, All of whioh Is respectfully submit ted. J, M. Rawlinson, Chairman; Jos. li. Wylie, John Hlaok State Board of Directors. M. n. Mobloy, Clerk. LEARNING A LKSbON. I'rcehlont Koo&ovolt Cordially ll ?tod by tho NcKrooB. Sonator Garmack gave a very strik ing douorlptlon of the President's position relative to the negro as do velopod by the Brownsville affair, when ho sa.d, in his speooh before the Senate Thursday : "There, is no man in this country today, not even tho Sonator from South Carolina, who ls so universally and bitterly hated by tho negroes, as the man who abolished tho lndlanola poste ilise and dined with Booker Washington. All that be has done for the nogro, all tho ovl dcuoes of friendship ho has shown in tbe past, have neon utterly forgotten simply becauso ho has not shown that sympathy with tho. criminal nogro whioh pervades the negro population of this country, from ono cud of it to tho other," The. Charleston Post says that Illustrates forolbly the oharaotor of thc negro, whioh ha? boon formed so largely by the teach logs of Hellish politicians and narrow doctrinaires. President Roosevelt is learning a lesson now whioh will be good for him and good for tho whole country and cspoolally good for the nogro. Tho rejeotion of Roosevelt by tbe negroes after all tbat he has at tempted to do for them will inevita bly result ina readjustment of the standards of judgment whioh thc oountry will apply to tho race. It will bring tho negro to tho test which is applied to tho whito man and he will then appear in bis truo value. What that may bo will depend upon tho nogro himself.. The day of his dwelling upon a plano of artificial ele vation ls about to OIOBO, and he must maintain himself by his own merita or fall. _ Vor fvoo Distribution. So muoh interest hes boon shown In tho Williamson mothod of grow ing corn that tho E tl wan Fortillzsr oom pan y of Charleston has gotton up a boovlot, giving th* method in da tail, and ls sending this tr merchants for distributions, and will bo glad to send a topy to anyone who may cara for itf rt will drop a postal. JH K'S?S?? "JJ NE: l'AYil I/AUUMFMM AND UI'J'V/U . ITU Tho Company Ha? in i'aid ?ubicrip Uona $300,000 With Which to ' Begin VYo?k. TJio South Carolina Public Service Corporation. Thursday wan granted a ohatter by Soorotary o? Sta to Mc Oown. Tho ice Of ?2,802 60 waa paid by a ' draft on John',. P. Bonney, of No? York, signed by J. J. Timme?;' The corporators aro J. J, Timmea, J, 0. Iis-vln, J. ?. Bell, George Fleck, Jr.; John P. Bonney, Oharas ll. Van ?bten, John io T?nmes, all Of New York; J. C. Lott, J,A. Cr W g, Sol Kobn, H. H. Jennings, di of OraUge* burg, ar)d Ii. MvPJnoknoy, of charles ton. 'fr:i:- 1 '?' .>c Tho purpose of the ?orpo ?, stated lu the charter, ls to l?* * road in Charleston, and from Charleston to Columbia, with privilege of txtondlng it .to : Spartenburg. and: Charlotte, passing through the towns ot Laxlng ton, Sal?d?i Greenwood, Ahbovlllo, Anderson, Greenville, Gaffney, York vlUo, Rook nui, Chester, Union, Laurena, and Nov/borry. Also td build a road from Augusta to Or angeburg via Aiken, and to argutie. Ov5n1..construot, .la>,' equip, build, and operoto railways for.Io0d business lu eaoh-pf tho towna nahied. lt,.is also at?tiid that tho system may. pass through the counties of Oharleston, Borkeloy, Dorchester, Or angeburg, Rloblaud, lexington, Saluda, Greenwood, Abbovllle. Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg, Cherokee, York, Chester, Fairfield, Colon, Lamons, Aiken and Bamborg. The charter also confers the right to build bridgea over rivers; to con struct power plants, telegraph lines, oto. J u addition the .company has tho right to own and operate boat lipos on the 'S'anice, Oongaree and Salud? rivers from Georgetown to Columbia, and. also from Augusta to Savannah, and-/also to northern points. The total length of tho lino pro jected is to ba B25 miles. The con cern is to use as power doo triol ty, gasoline, or steam and with tho ex ception of tho road entering Augusta the road Is to he of standard gauged The minimum capitaletook ls to be 9500,000 and-tho maximum is ten million dollars. The charter confers the right to condemn laud for rights of wey. It I* certified that 50 par cent ci: tho capital sleek h RS been subscribed ind that 10 per oent has been paid in, the. subscriptions amounting to $6j000 per mile of road. The survey is nOt^yet Completed. '? Tho sub?ori'ptlons. ot stock, are iiet down ss follows: J. J.Thy ooo. Tobo p.- =v??ii,|.r:y;: .sfcO'.coj, >ri. ii . Van E&ton 820 00U, J. C.'Lott ?20, OOO, D. S. Smith Sf O', 000, L. M. Plnokney ?10.000, B\ W. Sohroeder 820,000, R. H. Jennings 810.000, Jos. Hormel 810 000, J. C. Levin 810,000 Mr. Tlmmea ls president, Mr. Yan Fitten: is' vloe-proaidont and general manager,. Mr. Bonney lBRCorctary and treasurer. Mr. Van Ebben'? resl denoo is set down as Ouarleston, and the headquarters of the oompany are to bo in Columbia. Tho-papers in the oaso wero pro narfd -by W. L. Glize, Esq., of the Orangeburg Bar, who has aoted as tbe legal advisor of the corporation in South Carolina. He has been the l igai adviser ever since tho en terprise was started several months jgo, Tho big fee paid by the oom pan;- for Its charter lookalike busi ness. '_' . . lOniQCHon. Etyrand (JalUy. At. Anderson !aalt week the jury-lr the case of the sbato va.-AUou E Mer son, ohavg jd with thc murder of T F. Drake, returned a vciuio? ci i?uilt: of murder rrith reoommendat'ou ti morey Friday night, after dollb?:att lng about ono hour. Tho defer.'3an displayed l?telo If any' em :tion whei tho verdict waa read. Thomas Allei of ooumiol for tho dofeoao gave notlo of intention to apply for a now trial bimorson, who was a guard on -th county ohalng?ng, killed T. F. Drak in the homo of tho latter on tho nigh of tho i Uh of last August. Enaorso was In the room with ono of Drake1 daughters, and'Drake-oame in th room on. them vi Uh his pistol in bl hand, . Ile- fired one shot at E-nersor who flrod two shots, tho latter killin Drake instantly. Tho plea waa sell defonso- Emorsonand tho womau ha been Intimate for sovoral years, an Drake had forblddon Emerson to con: to the boqse. ... ' Nino V?otiiY?N. A dispatch from Noafolk, Va., saj nine vlotims-sCveri ohlldren and tvt police men- bitten Saturday by a sUj possd mad dog, whose brain, after misoropio examination, has boen prj nounced by thc government medic exports at Washington to have shovt signs of rabies, aro now in Rlohmon (or Pasteur treatment, having bet sont > /?noo at a oo*t of 81,200 whlc will be d?frayai by public suLsori] tlon KOW hoiug raised in Norfolk. Ti last rdx victima, children rangle from four to cloven years, wero aoi to Richmond thia morning, the obiu ohlldran having gOne on before as precaution._ Found l)oad on Itnllroad Track. Thursday a force of seotlon hain found the body of a dead negro ma at Saxon, a small station thia side i Charleston on tho Northeastern ro? The dead n sui was lying noar . tl track and had a largo gash in his bet and his left leg waa protty badly ma gled. Ho was well dressed but the was nothing found about his cloth by which ho could bo identified, ai lt is not known whethor he was killi hy the traiu or ls the victim of fo pla?. _ - . ?loa Mah Murdered. News reaohes Charlotte, N. C., the atrocious murder cf John Stain or hy bis stepson, Clinton Weaver, the Muddy Crook seoMon of As! County, N. O., the most remoto v age of the State. Weaver, wh Intoxicated,-entered Stamper's rooi whero tho latter lay seriously Ul, a out Stamper's throat from ear to et killing him instant ly. Weaver M arrested. The crime was nnprovc ed. I 'i .... J<K Lead Pipe But Met Water Cistern. THE CO?^p FO?K?. The Negro Kvidenilfy intocdrd le' S(e?l Und P'pej' Les! His IJsleucc in tlie darkness ?od W?s Drown? cd. Woman Pied When Body Appeared, ; Tho Charleston Post toils of A gr?a som? Ond in that ol ty. lt say? tho body of William Campbell, a negro forty-fi vo years of age, a whitewasher .and thief by occupation, was found in tho elstern of an empty house, Np. 330 East, Bay street, Wednesday morning by W, JB. Murray,-' au i oren man. , Indloations are thajj Oampbyi going down into the elstern to lead pip?, found tho wator of a great er depth than ho thoui/hii. lo'iarj big head, and was drowned in tlie terrible darkness of tho death trap. ThYwater in th?.olstejrn was over five feet in depth. Campbell's height was not muoh more than thia. Thero ls no suspicion of four play in the doxth o? the negro. Old man Murray, who bas worked thirty days for Mr, T, G. Main, tho owuorpf the house where Campbell Came to his. miserable end, oharge of wblfeewaahers and cleaners puttiug this house Into condition for renting. Ho found tho door leading into the piazza of the houso open, and later d if covered that tba oistcrn cove* was off. Ho nearly fell Into tho hole himself, as tbe room where the cia tt*rh is, was dark. Murray only i himself by clinging on tb the knob whioh ho held by a lucky ohanoo.1 Of oourao the old man was i nato over the carelessness as ho thought of the w?men or men under him ia leav ing tho door open, ?nd tho cistern cover bil. They all dented knowlodgo of it. Then he took the depth ot tho water with an eve to ole?ntng tho els* tem out, Bown Went the piece of goard housed. lie oame in Contacts with something soft. Tho thing felt like a body. Od man Murray was frightened ho pulled the board out bf tho water, drovo a nail into one end, and pushed down again?. He told the exolted wo men ?bout him to stand back, while be guiled a heavy thing up. A wooly ni'ao. kbj?0'*rad, and further excition Suv,h:? lhb-'b??y Gi rfilllBtu Camp-''> '?<: bell/ The women fled screaming. Old Murray shook Uko a leaf, and oalled for help. Tho find was reported to the coro ner and tue polloo. Deputy Coroner Obnnelley with Policeman Dunoan and /oaly pulled tho body out of the els tern, and lt was sent to tho hospita Joseph Perry, who waa seen with Campbell Wednesday at the house waa arrested as a witness. . From what oould be learned it was ovident that Campbell was trying to steal tho lead of the olstern pump. He had already made way with the outside pnrt of the pine. Murray said, ana yesterday tho pump and /Ino aboiit the ohlmney of the house were stolen. Campbell must have return? ed to the houso Wednesday night, * and making his way through tho I room leading to the passage way bo* cwedn the front part of the house and tho kltohen, tried to get into tho cis tern. In tho darkness hs lifted the pieces of board and heavy stone from over the cistern, squeezed through the narrow hole, and dropped into chilly wat?r almost over his head. The in* quest into his death was held thin afternoon at three o'olook at Roper Hospital. Tue lead for whioh the negro gavo his lifo would have brought him a few oe nts'from a iunk dealer. liobort 13. Imo, . Born Westmoreland: county, Vir ginia, January, 1807. Son of "Light Horse Harry" loo. revolutionary leader. . ?- Entered West Point 1825, appoint ed by Gen. Andrew Jackson. . . Graduated 1820, second in his class. ' Second lieutenant in engineering corps till 1834. Married 1831, Mary Randolph Gus* tis. granddaughter of Martha Wash- - ington. Promoted to captain and staff of ohlef engineer. At battles of Yera ?ruz, Gerro Gordo, Oherubusoo and Ohapultopeo in Mexioan war, earning promotions, Appointed superintendent ot West Point, 1852. Lieutenant colonel of oavalry in Texas Indian campaigns. Suppress* ed John Brown's raid in 1850, Rojeoted-command of United States army in 1801. Beoamc brigadier general in Oon* federate army, 1881; ? Given direction of the Confederate military operations in Maroh, 1802. Surrendered with his army tu Gen eral Grant at Appomattox April 0, 1805. Installed as president of Washing ton college, Loxing ton, Ya., 1805. . Died October 12,1870. Trlort Ulm Twieo. At Danville. Ya., in the Corpora tion court Monday Bettie L. Boswell was granted an absoluto dlvoroo from \ her husband, John L. Boswell, on the i grounds ot cruel treatment and un I faithfulness. Thia makes the second , time Mrs. Boswell'was granted a di vorce. Several years after the first dooroo sha married Boswell upon his promise to do better, hut after a f?w months lt was tho same old story again, sha allegad. , An ?er? Flint Appoint mont. The first appointment made by i Governor Martin F. Aosel was that , of John S, Latlmar, of Greenville, aa I chief eonstablo of the Mtato conatabu* , lav y to succeed ll B. Hammatt, who i resigned soma time avro to accept A . position in tho Internal revenue ser vloo, / I l> . ? ; v . ? . ?