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W#'**'O'"*'V'*'-i' V'*',; 'i' .' . ''' ' " "" ' av The Marlboro ..DO TH, ?BEAT LIBERTY, IN PIUS OUR SOULS AND MAKE ODUL1VES IH THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OU? DEATHS GLORIOOS 1W THY OATlSE. VOL. XXXI4 BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1907. Hb WILL RUN Roosevelt's Boom Launched For a Third Term by Friends AFTER SEEING HIM. Scimtor Bourne, Who IN a Contldnnt Of President Roosevelt, .After a Visit to the White House, Comos Out Openly For a Third Tenn For the Prosont Occupant of tho White House. After holding a conference with tho president at thc White House. Sor.u'.or Bourne caine out Wednes day night In the role of chief pro moter of a third term for Roosevelt by Issuing an authorized statement declaring that it ls tho duty of the American people to "command the President to accept a second elective tomi." A dispatch from Washington says the statement caused a stir in the po litical waters, for it was made public only an hour before the return of Secretary Taft, the President's puta tive candidate. Senator Bourne's statement is ns follows: "In my opinion a great cri sis now confronts this country. The reactionaries are determined If possi sble, to obtain control of the Govern ment, and use it for their own person al advantage and to the detrment of tho people. "True Republican politics, as pro mulgated by Lincoln and enlarged and exempliliod by Roosevelt, are tho rights of man and the absolute so\ erignty of the people. The issue now before the country is: Shall the advo cates of the rights and liberties of the people and the power and of the majesty of the government, or the enemies of both, prevail. The poople must decide. "I know that President Roosevelt is not a candidate to succeed himself. I realize that lie would greatly pre fer that the people select some other person to succeed him in 1008. I am however, convinced that the exigen cies of the situation demonstrate the necessity of the people commanding President Roosevelt to accept ;i num natton for a second elective term. "Tito president, equally willi any other elective oilicer of this Govern ment, is, after all, but the servant of the people. If the people command him to serve a second elective term he certainly must feel it his duty to do so. How could ho do otherwise? Ho can no nunc declino to accept a nomination made by a convention, In structed by tho people, than he could refuse to servo if we were engaged in war with some foreign power and ho was drafted. "No man can put his personal wishes or desires alane the command of the people, and especially no per son who lins been honored as Presi dent Roosevelt luis been by tho Amer ican people." This was a day of political confer ences at the White House. Repre sentativo Parsons, head of the New York County organization, was one of the visitors: He said that ho was for Governor Hughes and would aid him to the limit of his ability. "How about Governor Hughon as presidential candidato?" Mr. Parsons was asked. There was no answer. It. ls believed Parsons went to Hie White House to get the President's O. K. on his Greater New York leg islative reapportionment scheme the same as lie did a year UKO when the President approved a Gerrymander which the courts declared illegal. Friends of the Governor say thal Parson's expressions of loyalty will hold only until after a reappointment plan has been passed when he will again openly espouse the cause of Roosevelt. Representative-elect Langley, of Kentucky, talked with the President Wednesday about political matters lu his state. Mr. Langley, it is un derstood, came lo Washington ut the request of tim President. President Roosevelt has set aside a part of Thursday lo soo Archie Hughes, the Postmaster ol' Columbia, Tenn., whose removal from office has been practically accomplished by the ll. Clay ICvans machine of that state, which is a Roosevelt organization. Tho president will boar Mr. Hughes before milking the order for bis removal final. Mr. Hughes is opposed lo Presi dent Roosevelt succeeding himself. The removal of Hughes, it is said, will pince the President In the posi tion of putting Into Federal o ill ce on ly mon who aro working for his re nominal ion. STANDS I?V TUN NK?ItO Senator Tillman Scores a MIIHSUCIUI oslfs Audience lu Lecture. .lust before the conclusion of bi lecture in tho Academy of Music St Northampton, Mass., Wednesday eve ning, Senator Benjamin lt. Tillman of South Condina, asked for a show of hands from those who believed that tho negro was not the equal of the white man. There was no response. Ile then asked for a similar volo from those who believed In the supremacy of the whites and a few hands wore raised. Tho senator then proceeded to toll the Massachusetts audience wliat he thought Of their vol?', and advised them to study the negro al close range as he had done. The people in tile audience got very mad at tho ^dain talk Senator '1 illinan gave them DIPS I'P 1)13 A I) HODV Dredge in Charleston Harbor Brings Hp Dead Negro. AI Charleston the body of i>. II. Kord, alias Sam Dally, tho negro watchman on the government tu? Little PCO Dee, drowned Oil Monday night, was picked up In the dipper of government dredge NO. 2 Thurs day afternoon In the custom house dock. The find was unexpected and tho protruding legs of the negro from tho rising dipper caused consternation among tho negroes on tho boat. A rope was attached to tho body, WhiCh was hauled to the pier, where il was iden ti ftod and later viewed by the coroner and a verdict rendered accordingly. TILLMAN SPEAKS Calls on Audience for Vote as to Negroe's Rank Carnegie'? Musi? Holl, Where Tho Senator 8i>oko in Pittsburg, Polic ed For tho OocnHlon. A Pittsburg, Pa., UB a precaution ary monsure twenty-two detectives and a squad of armed policemen wore stationed lu the Carnogto Music Hall during the address of Senator Benja min R. Tillman, of South Carolina, who discussed the race prohloin be foro tho Park Avenuo Athletic Club, on Wednesday night of inst week. Several exciting Incidents occurred during tho address, hut no trouble re united. There wore ton negroes In the audience which Ulled tho Music Hall to overflowing. Tho audience gave tho Senator closo attention and frequently applauded him at the close of his address, in which he de clared the races in tho South were gradually becoming more opposed to ono another, Senator Tillman called for a vote of the audience as to whether the negro was the equal of the whlto mnn. The entlro audience except the ten negroes, voted In the negative by rising. One man took oxeeptions to Sena tor Tillman's remarks nnd made sev eral lnteuptlons. Senator Tillman made him admit Hint he came from Ru rope and then bitterly denounced Europeans in America who under take to judge questions concerning this country, about which they know absolutely nothing. The Senator did his Interrupter up. In speaking of whether tho negro can be educated, Senator Tillman de clared that Hooker T. Washington was the harbor of refuge and safety to wlilch people flee when other places full and that Mooker T. Wash ington was one negro in ten millions, and was half white at that. Senator Tillman had nine-tenths of tho au dience with him. AGAINST Till?: PRI0S1DKNT. Roosevelt Denounced foi* His Attack Oll Iilthor Leader. The declaration that President Roosevelt is behind the Western mine owners and state authorities nt Colorado and Idaho in an alleged movement to "railroad" Moyer, Hey ward and Pettibone, of the Western F?d?ration of Minors, to the gallows, was appla?dcd vociferously Sunday by Hie Chicago Federation of Labor. In thc most dramatic speech that has been delivered before that body in many years Edward Morgan, a member of the Western Federation, bitterly denounced tho president. His speech was followed by the adoption of resolutions scoring the president for classing Heyward with B. H. llar riman and other capitalists. "God forbid that lt ls true!'" shout ed Morgan, "but lt almost seems that behind the millions of Rookfellor and the Standard Oil company, behind the millions of mine owners, stands the strong right arm of the chief execu tive of the nation, saying: '(Jo to lt. Fall upon your prey like vultures, and I will sit by and grin whllo you gurgle in their blood.' "For seventeen years tho Western Federation of Miners, with their blood blazed the way for organized labor in Hie West. Now, the minc owners, backed hy the stato authori ties, are thirsting for rcvongo. I can see William D. Haywood, the man who refused to bo bought or to bend the knee of implication, forfeiting his life on the gallows for tho loyalty he bore to lils fellows He refused to make peace, refused to clink glasses with tho mino owners, and now they have hatched this conspbicy to gol him by other methods. And they will hang him unless the working class of this country riso up from ocean to ocean and demands that justice be done." FOR NKGRO HCIIOOl,S Philadelphia Gives One Million to Negroes of the South. One million dollars has been given IO the negroes of the .South for the establishment of rudimentary schools by Miss Anna T. Jeunes, a Quakeress >f Philadelphia. The Income of the amount given is to hr used sorely for assistance in the "southern United Slates commun it y, country and rural schools foi tho great class of negroes to whom .ho small rural find community ichools are nlone available." Hooker T. Washington, bend Ol Tuskegee institute, and thc Hollis H FiT/zcll. president of the Hampton S'ormal and Industrial Institute, an lamed as trustees of the fund, hill iel!ber of the Institutions they repi'e ?en! will share in the Rift. Tho deed was executed Thursday ind in ll Hooker Washington am' Hollis Frl/zOll are empowered lo ap polnl a hoard of trustees in connec tion with the fund. The Pennsylvan ia company for insurances on live: md granting annuities, ol" Philadel phia, Will act as fiscal SgCUl for tho i rustees. SMOKF. STACK COLLAPSED, Three Young Women Working in a (?lass Factory Rilled. Three young Women, employed al T. C. Wheaton & Co's factory, in Millville. N. J., were killed by the crushed through a room in Which they weiO working. The dead: Lena Doughty, Lydia Thurston, Sylvia Cal higher. The vO?OClty of the wind was est i mated at iii? miles an hour. The slack crashed through the roof of the plant and into the grinding room oc cupied by several men and I he three young women. All were burled un der tho debris. The crash was hoard for several blocks and workmen from other parts of tho plant went to the rescue. Among the rescuers were George Doughty, whoso daughter was in Ibo ruins. Her hods was quickly nncov Or od, bul lib' was extinct. Miss Thurston was taken out alive, but died shortly afterward, Miss Galla; gber was dead when her body was fourni. The other om ploy 08 escaped injury. KILLED HIMSELF Because His Wife Found Out That He Was LIVING A DUAL LIFE. Besieged by Ills Wife In Tho Homo of Another Woman a Just leo of the Peace at Ridgewood, N. Y., Took a Pistol and Blow Out Ills Brains Kat ber than Paco (he Con sequences of His Sin. Besieged hy his wife, whilo in the home of another woman, Frederick W. Gardner, Justice of the Peace In Ridgewood, X. J., and also Tax Col lector of that town, blew his brains out Wednesday night while tho wo man he hud promised to love ami cherish was hammering on the door. The se)f-destracton of Gardner, who was a rich man and descendant of a distinguished line, was attended by dramatic incidents. In the pre sence of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Fg lin, of Ridgewood avenue, tho man wont to his death. There have been many rumors dur ing the past few months, that Gard ner had become infatuated willi Mrs. Fglin. The police are authority for the statement that he was, but "they do not think Mr. Fglin was aware of tho fact, and believe he treated the .Justice as a friend. Mrs. Gardner, daughter of the late Judge Qunckenbush of Mahwah, N. J., and herself a wealthy woman, IH said to have observed the alleged in fatuation, and to have planned for the trapping of her husband. Wednesday (lardner left his home to make a call. His wife and fifteen year-old son wore in the house. Mrs. Gardner followed him to the home of the Fglins. Gardner entered Ibo house and thc door was shut. Mrs. (lardner waited a little while, then rapped on the door, and called for tho occupants of tho apartment to open it. The de mand was not complied with at once. Mrs. Gardner continued knocking, and suddenly a report of a revolver was heard. The wife of the Justice hoard lt and divined Us course. She almost collapsed outside the door. Qarduor had gone near a window, pulled the pistol, and shot himself dead on the spot. Only one bullet was required. His body plunged to the centre of Hie room and lay 1110 t ionios?. When tho police arrived tho neigh borhood was in an uproar, news of tho tragedy having got abroad. Cor oner Poll was notified, and took charge of the remains, pendine, an Investigation. The pistol ls also in Ids possession, il having been found Ciose to the Justice's hand. Cardner had been a justice throe years. Ile was prominent socially and In a financial way, lils father having left him and two other sons fortunes. Ill GCIOD TH10 DENTIST Strange Effects of Laughing (bis On a Young Lady. Laughing gas had a very strange effect on a young lady in New York one day last week. The girl, who is twenty-two and pretty,, has been undergoing a series of dental operations at the oflleo of Dr. Thomas Taylor, of No. 838 Fast One Hundred and Slxtyfirst street, for several weeks. One ovonlng some nerves had to he killed, and the laughing gas was ad ministered to deaden tho pain. The mom mil the gas took effect Miss Loveu I esk I leaped from tho chair and clasped Or. Taylor about the nbvk with a bug that would do credit to a polar bear. He tried to extricate himself from the embrace in vain. Then lui called for help, and Mrs. Taylor ran in and tried to pry the patient from her husband's neck. She couldn't do ll. and telephoned lo the Bronx Police. The girl when finally lorn from Ibo embrace was carried to the Lebanon Hospital, for the dentist thought she might have gone out of her mind. She had boen acting strntlgoly for several days, he said. FOR PROTECTION OF BIRDS Mr. James Henry Rice .Made Secre tary of Audubon Society. Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., has leen elected secretary of the Stale Audubon society, which the last leg islature chartered, and will at once begin an active canvass of thc slate ippolnttng Kaine wardens and other wise seeing to the enforcement of .he game laws of Ibo state. "Tho game laws of South Carolina are practically a dead let I er today." said Mr. RICO the other day. "They are violated with faithful regularity throughout thc state as lo all sorts of game and fish as well as to Insec tivorous birds which should be pro tected everywhere. H ls Lruc the society's intention to see thal these laws are enforced regardless of How much unpopularity that course brings up on the heads of Hie ofllclllls ol' the society. Oilier states are getting as high as $100,000 a year in license rees and lines, and there is no reason why this state should not get almost thal much. lt ls also the intention ol' the society lo see to the protection of fish In season." COLDEST ABRIL ON R ECORI ? shown by Forty Years* Statistics '?f Charleston Bureau. The coldest April in Hie history Of the Charleston weather bureau, whose records cover a period of near ly forty years, ls now being rounded out with Charleston sim registering a dally loss of six degrees and soven lenlhs. ThO books of Forecaster (?rani's depart mont show I hat 1 bc I emp?rst ure so far this month registers a mean reading of degrees, as against tho next coldest, April, in 1001, whoo tho minimum was 50,2 degrees. The warmest April In Ibo history of the bureau was Iq 1871, when an aver ago of 159.8 dogreos was recorded. SLEEPLESS WONDER Man Claims He Has Not Slept For Thirty Years. Ho Reata tu Hod at Niaht Dut Spends Tho Time in Hooding Hooks and Poners. Most men find lt difficult to get the required eight hours sleep lu every twenty-four. Few aro able to livo and work on less than tho allotted number of hours that should be giv en to rest. One man, however, Wil liam Warner, who resides a few miles from Great Harrington, Mass., comes forward with the startling statement that during the past 30 years ho has not closed his eyes to sleep. He is sixty years of age and in robust health. His physicians can assign no reason for his long period of insomnia. Mr. Warner insists that his statement is true and ls willing to have any and all comers investigate and see for themselves. Mr. Warner was horn in New Marl boro, Mass., a few miles from the place where he now resides. Ho is a farmer and spends his days work ing In tho fields. At night ho goes to bed about midnight, taking books and papers with him. There he reads and rests until dawn appears, when he arises and goes about his duties on the farm. He never sleeps, but goes to bed for the purpose of rest ing his body. Mr. Warner ls a veter an of the Civil war, having served lu Company F, Second artillery. In his younger days he had one romance. The day for his wedding was set and all was in readiness for his marriage, when the brlde-to-bo tied by night and nothing since has been heard of her. For years Mr. Warner lived in the hopes of her re turn and often sat at the window watching for the coming of his sweet heart. Ho is still a bachelor. About 30 years ago be suffered a severe Ill ness and since that time he has not been able to sleep. He was ht the grove near his home when he became unconscious. He remained in this stale for days. When he recovered the past was a blank to him. Ho had forgotten everything that had gone before, but ho could not sleep. He is as young and active as a man of H> years. He stands six feet In his stockings. Warner has made a success of farming and has a largo trade n vegetables and other produce. Within a short distance of his home ls a cometary where his ances tors for several generations are bur- ' led. During the past few years War iuA? ''tis become a believer in spirit ualism. His bed stands at a place ' bedpan seo the gravestones In tho cometary. Ho declares that ho.Oftcm,' converses with the spirit of his dead father. Anything associated with sleep seems to haves terrors ;?.o Warner. He says lu: would try hypnotism to si e 1 if that would cause him to sleep, but 1 he fears that once he closes his eyes in slumber be may never awake. ' Warner is a man who has never tas- 1 tod intoxicating liquors. He buys tea by the case. He keeps his own house. in referring to his trouble 1 Mr. Warner calls it "a scientific ?nan- ; ifestation of power.'' PIHKIH'GS CAUGHT. Believed to be Members of An Or- i gu ni/.ed Hand in New York. A dispatch from Hock Hill says tho city has boen much Interested In tho reports which came here Friday by telephone and persons coming from that section of the capture of three negroes, who, it is said, were caught red banded in an attempt to burn Ibo barn of a Mr. Garrison in Steel Creek, just over the river from l?ete?. There seems to have been a regularly or ganized band of firebugs at work in thal community, there having been several barns burned since January l of this year. The last was that of Mr. Frank ICrwin, which was burned Monday night and entirely destroyed with a number of stock. Mr. Garrison, who lives not far from Kr win's concluded that ho would watch Tuesday night, thinking that an attempt might bo made on his property next Ho did so in company with a neighbor and about midnight their vigil was broken by tho approach of three or more negree mon who came creeping on all fours toward the barn. When Ibo negroes were almost to the barn they were called on to halt and when they broke and ran instead they wert followed liv loads of shot from tho guns ol' Garrison and his friend This failed to stop them, however, tied Mr. Garrison and his partner chimed them with bounds and captured throe. They were later turned over to the sheriff of the coun ty. There aro rumors that one of the negroes bas confessed. I * I'KSl FD HY DIO AT 11. ('?dorado Fuel and Iron Company Looses Many Officers. A strange fatality seems I i hang over Ibo high official circles of I be Colorado Fuel & Iron company at Denver. On the eve of his election lo ibo vice-presidency of Hus company Richard M. Walle died the other day. Ile is only ono of many of the men high In lite service of tho company who have crossed the border Within short periods of one another. George. IO. Gibb, former assistant to tho president of tho company, was killed by overwork. Hearne, once Ute brilliant prosldottt, was removed liv death timi .lohn T. Kohler, general manager of Hie fuel department ls critically ill ?t Trinidad of ptomaine poisoning. BANDIT SPRFADS TFRKOK Held Cp Men nt Bond Ht use ami Hobbed Them. Tho region around DuBois, Wyn., ls being terrorized by Kl bel Burrows, a girl bandit, aged IS years. She bad committed a number of successful hold-ups, some of them In broad day light, timi hits obtalntd largo sums of money. Recently she appeared at a road house, m ado four meit hold up their hands and COU) pol 10(1 the landload to give ter the Contents of the cash drawor. Then sho rode away Oil a swift horse. Hbo robbed a ranchman of $.r>0 at his ranch house and then "touched" a number of travelors. LABOR UNIONS Are Hot After President Roose velt For What He Said About Moyer, Haywood and Petti bone, Miners Who Aro Charged With Murder Out in Idaho. 1 Tho connnlttoo, consisting of dele gates Ibo wu, Abrahams and Hoary, appointed by tho New York Central Federated Union to call upon Presi dent ItooRcvelt in relation to tho lat ter's attitude toward Moyer, Hay wood and Pettibone, instoad of leav ing for Washington, as expoctod, de cided to abandon their mission. Socretnry Dohm, of tho C. F. b., telegraphed to tho puosltent, from Now York inquiring as to a conven ient Hmo at which he would receive tho committee. Private socrot.nrv Loob explained that the president (lld not desire to soo tho committee per sonally, hut suggested that the C. P. U. seqt to him in writing anything they wished to communicate on the Moyor-I lay wood matter. In this telegram Secretary B?hm stated that some time ago bo had written a lotter to the president, In which the sentiments and Oestres of the C. F. U. had hoon expressed and that no answer had been received. No reply has been received to this last telegram sont, by Secretary llohm Mom hors of the C. F. U., who know of the telegrams that passed between Secretaries Pah m and Leob, that the president expects hts letter to the Chicagc federation, to be accepted as a reply to tho queries and criti cism? of tho C. F. U., also. In commenting upon tho presidents published lotter, prominent Now York labor mon said Thursday that he had overlooked the main ped nt In tho pro test of organized labor. There would not have been the great, agitation by organized labor on the Moycr-Hay wood ease, if lt had not been for tho lawless manner of the arrest and de portation of the acoused men. Lahor would have liaised no protest against the arrest and trial if the constituted authorities had shown a proper re spect for the lognl rights of thc ac nused nt tho time of their nrrest. Tho bolief of the working men of tho country ls that President Itoso velt and those in whom ho con lided shut their eyes to the known facts and not only sanctioned the kidnap ing of Moyer, Haywood and Petti bone, but* ref used them the redress to which frhey, as citizens, were entitled. ' Sixty thousand members of or ganized labor in New York City will ; parado on May 4, as a public rebuke to President Roosevelt for his sec- 1 ijiid atack on Moyer and Haywood. TdrojContral Federated Union has acceptor) the invitation of the Moyer imqVHaywood protest conference cota- ! niltteo,ito parade and lt will take piirt .Ianthe groat demonstration. Labor meetings were held through out mt city nnd nt all of them the ' fiction Of President Roosevelt was de trounced and tho decision taken to 1 parade on May 4 in honor of Moyer mid Haywood, and as a rebuke to J Roosevelt. Every organization that j met, instructed its delegates to the ' 0. F. U., to present their views at the regular meeting of the union next 1 Sunday. In nearly all the big cities of the 1 country similar labor meetings were I held, and the action of President 1 Roosevelt denounced. Labor load- ( ors In Boston, Chicago. Pittsburg, 1 Cleveland, Clncinnattl and Milwaukee 1 were outspoken in their criticism of the president. A dispatch from Mil waukee states that the labor leaders ' there have launched a plan for Bet ting aside a day In May when work will be suspended and a demonstra tion held throughout the country, as a protest against the position of the president. In Chicago a call wns Issued for a public meei lng of pro test to be held May 19 in Grant Park. CARRIN NATION DECLINES The Oller of a Civil War Veteran to Marry Her. The New York World says Mrs. Carrie A. Nation has had a offer of marriage from a Civil War veteran, living In Virginia, and In the current issue of ber newspaper, the Hatchet, she thus tells why she has declined lt: "Lonely and despondent at times because ho hasn't a wife, Thomas Flanagan, of Virginia, wants to mar ry. And he sings his song of "Can't you see I'm lonely? to Mrs. Carrie A. Nation. She received the lotter ot proposal from this ardent admirer on Friday, and wants an early answer so be can arrange his affair. "But he will receive the marble heart. He will get. the frigid mitt. Mrs. Nation says she is wedded to her work ?nd that she can t wed a man. "In his letter Flanagan says he is a government pensioner at $12 a month and bas $27f> In the hank, together with a house and some land. His wife died some time ago, and ever since ho has been lonely, and al times despondent." SERVED HIM RIGHT. Whipped by White Caps for a Seri ous Offence, A band of "White Caps" a few nights ago In a remote section ot Spottsville county, Virginia, tarred and feathered a young married man who ls accused of having betrayed hbi wife's young sister. Tho men of the neighborhood dis guised themselves and captured the accused man al night while he was returning to bis home from a neigh bor's house. He was stripped to the skin and given a severo lashing with hickory whips and then tarred and feathered, The name of those involved have not been obtained. BRIGAN I) IS CAPTURED Ills House of Refuge is Blown to Pieces. The notorious brigand. Stanislaus Lisa, author of ninny crimea lins boon captured al. Lublin, flvo miles from Warsaw, Poland. Ho was wounded after tho house in winch he had sought rofugo bad boen blown down by artlllory Uro. Lisa whon ho saw that, tho detachment of pol leo was advancing on him, barricaded himself and oponed Uro on tho police, killing sovoral of thom. OPENED FRIDAY The Jamestown Exposition is Now in Full Blast. GOV. ANSEL, STAFF Among tho Karly Arrivais on tho Scone. Harbor is Full of Ships and Hotels Full of Visitors. Gov. anti Mrs. Ansel Showed Many Courtesies. South Well Repre sented at Hie Show. Mr. August Kobo, writing to the News and Courier from the James town Exposition says the show ls go ing to be a surprise to everyone. It is far and way boyound what was ex pected. Tho growth of tho under taking has been wonderful. Most people thought it would be an expo sition that would flurish on tho as sociations around Jamestown and tho social and naval features. Not so. It ls the real thing. It Is not a Chicago exposition but it ls a big thing, big ger than people expect, and it ls beautiful. It ls not ready. A great deal is in place and ready, but the finishing touches aro lacking. South Carolina is hero to-night *o join Virginia in the celebration Inci dent to the formal opening of the Ex position. H promises to bo a truly great event Tho harbor is full of giant battle ships and the hotels are choked with guests, from Governors down tho lino. Governor Ansel and his good wife are being most cordial ly received and handsomely enter tained on all sides. Tho South Carolina contingent ar rived there Friday morning over the Seaboard Air Line and wont to. the Inside Inn, which opened Friday. In the party were: Governor M. A. An sel, Mrs. Ansel, Gen. Wilie Jones, Mrs. Jones, Miss Heaux Jones, Gen. J. C. Boyd, Col Robert P. Hamer, Col. W. N. Mooro, Harnwell; Mrs. Moore, Col. J. (}. Wardlnw, Yorkvllle; Col. F. S. Evans, Greenwood; Col. Geo. Y. Coleman, Charleston; Col. I). O. Her bert, Orangoburg; Capt. W. W. Har ris, Greenville. The South Carolina Commission charged with placing an exhibit hore was also on hand by urgent roquest, and joined Gov. Ansel's party. There were on hand on the part of the coin mission; Chairman Wm. ID. Gonzales, Dr. J. H. Black, .1. Fd Norment, Prof. Krank Evans, Capt John G. Richards, IO. Marion H?cker and August Ko h n, secretary. The entire party was mut on the Portsmouth side by directors of the Exposition Company and taken to their hotel. Col. Elbert H. Aull was Invited to join Governor Ansel's pal ly and joined lt at Columbia. During the afternoon Mr. Sheppard Invited Gov. Ansel and Capt. Con soles to a dinner in their honor, and In the afternoon Governor and Mrs. Ansel wore taken for a drive around the beautiful grounds. Tho commission visited the South Carolina exhibit and was very much idensod. Mr. Paul V. Moore has done exceptional work and was heartily congratulated. The South Carolina display ls further advanced than any tithers and is all right. President Ault came for Hie pur pose of looking after the Press Asso ciation. He bas put the afternoon in In conference with heads of depart ments as to the entertainment of tho South Carolina editors when they roach the Exposition. He will also see the Tidewater Navigation people as to sid?? trips, and the torminal and railroad folks as to handling irs, and hotels as to rates. He finds hotel rates under tho circumstances rea sonable for good accommodations, Ono of tho side trips he ls arranging is a boat ride to Old Jamestown. Col. T. H. Butler, of Gaffney, Col. M. A. Morgan, of Greenville, Col. Geer, of Helton, Col. S. T. McGravey, of Spartanburg, who are members of the Governor's staff, arrived Friday night in time to join the party at Governor Swanson's reception. This is simply to let the home folks know that Carolina is here and thal all are well. Governor Ansel and his party will join in the festivities Sat urday and South Carolina's Governor has been showered with attentions and courtesies. Friday night the whole party attended Governor Swanson's reception. Governor and Mrs. Ansel were in the receiving party. T HR KIO FOI ND DFA1 )' Dlef Willie Asleep From Some Kind Of Poison. Af Danhille, Va., tho dead bodies of John Dnndrldge, Adna Moodo and William Spagglns, and tho uncon scious form of Lillie McCain, all young negroes, between 20 and 2 1 years of age, were found stretched out on the floor and on the bed in tho servants' room of the Rev. W. IL Atwill. When after repeated knocking at the door no response was made the door was battered down. Tho condi tion of tho room Indicated that the party had been ou a drinking and eating frolic the night before, and that the victims had died while as leop during tho night from poison ing. Mystery surrounds the case, and the police have been al work on sev eral clues. Negroes acquainted with tho dead apparently know more of tho cause leading to the deaths than I bey will divulge. They are on the lookout for the husband of one of Die women who had been seperated from him. S HF ATE A QI'A HT. Young Woman of Rayonne Victim of a Strange Feast. Overindulgence in peanuts caused tho death of Miss Rose McCabe. 25 years old, of No. S) Linnet street, May enne, N. Y" Wednesday. Miss Mc Cabe had eaten nearly a quart of peanuts. A short time afterward she com plained of severe pains in her head. A physician was sent for but before his arrival the young woman died. Her death ls the third in fhn fam ily in eight months. Her mother died last August and hor fathor In October. ,_. _ ... ?_4, FOUGHT 'HARD To Keep From Being Hung for Killing a Man. Had to II? Dragged to Tho (.'allows aud He Was Executed Hy Main Force. Uob Watts, a young white man, who was hung at Guntersvlllo, Ala., riiursduy, waa hanged under tragic circumstances. He had become pos lossed of a knife and resisted to tho 2nd. Ammonia was thrown into his -oil and he was thus overcome and iragged to the scaffold by forco, soughing and moaning piteously. Ho ing asked for a statement ho persist ently protested lils innosonce, but did not attempt to throw suspicion on ihyone else. Thc drop foll at 8:20 3 clock. Watts was convicted of tho murder ^f Perd Wlnklos, an old Confodorato soldier, who was killed in the fall of I 904. Winkles had just drawn his pon don money amounting to $3 0 from Lhe state and was on route home when the discharge of a gun, follow 3d by screams, was heard. Friends who hastened to the place found Win nes lying in tho road mortally wounded. Thc dying man said that Watts had shot and robb?d him. Watts was convicted and sentenced :o hang, but an appeal was taken to he supreme court which affirmed the leiitenco. Meanwhile Watts, who had mon taken to the Birmingham Jail ror safo keeping, was pronounced Ill ume and sent to the insano asylum, further reprieves followed until tlx II ff oren t dates had been tlxed for tuc ?xecution. Recently Watts was declared sane iga i 11 and Governor Cromer refused o grant another reprieve. Watts all dong asserted lils Innosonc?. PliOT TO KIDD. Inarch ist S Make Au Attempt On The Life of 1'rinco Albert. At Brussels, Thursday, an anarch st armed with a dagger, a loaded re- 1 'olver and other weapons was arrest- 1 (d in a church where Prince Albert 1 ?f Belgium, nephew of King Leopold, md heir presumptive to the throne, 1 VAS about to visit. One of the allen- t lants of the church accidentally dis- ( evered the man in a confessional 1 ?ox, locked the door, and called the 1 10IIce. Later three other nrarchists 1 loavlly armed, were arrested in the | lcinlty of the church. Two of tho 1 atter admitted that they were 1 '".renell anarchists. The authorities ( ,re convinced that the prisoners had 1 llgaged in a plot to assassinate the 1 nineo. 1 Prince Albert is the son of the ?ito Count of Flanders, brother of c Ling Leopold. He was born April 8, ( 875, and was married October 2,* 1 900, to Princess Elisabeth of Hal- ] aria. On Nov. 9. last, Prince Albert | i'as officially declared the successor 1 f King Leopold as soverign of the 1 !ongo Independent state. \ FOCH MEN MET DEATH n North Carolina by Hoing Swept | Over Falls. Swept over the falls, four men vero drowned in Cape Fear river at luokhom Falls, Chatham county, 30 niles from Raliegh, N. C. The dead: Hans Thorson, of St. Paul, Minn , general foreman of a construction :onipany, erecting a power plant; E. J. Brady, of Moneare, assistant fore nan, and two negro laborers. The tod los have not yet been recoveed. Thorson was to have boen married it Raliegh Sunday and his finance, Ulss Thelma Lindgron, was to have ort St. Paul last week to join him In itultcgh. The men were in a scow trying ivith poles to force it from the river muk with the purpose of reaching a anding. The scow was caught in thc mrrent. and car?bal over the falls. CHARGED WITH MURDER. Woman Gave Poison to Her Father and Mother. At Chicago a warrant charging Mrs Slndek with tho murder of her father find mother, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mette, has been taken out. Mrs. Mott?; died several weeks ago and Frank Mette died on April 6. A chemical analysis has been shown that Mrs. Mette was poisoned by arsenic, and lt ls believed that her husband's death was caused In the same manner. There; is no direct evidence against Mrs. Slndek, but she luis been under suspicion since th?' death of hor mother. Three brothers ol' Mrs. Slndek are now critically HI and it ls believed by the police that she en deavored to poison them. SHOOTS SISTER TO Di.ATII Load From Shot (inn Enters Face Of Thc Girl. At Buckhead, Qa., Arthur Cochran, twelve-year-old son of Mr. William J. Cochran,, accidentally shot and killed his little two-year-old sister, Myra. Thursday morning at nine o' clock. Arthur had been out hunting and unon his return nome he was un breechlng his gun and lt was acci dentally discharged, tho whole load going into Ibo face of his little sister, who was lying on the bed. Tho parents are overcome with grief, this being the only girl In the family and everyone was devoted lo her. So much for tho careless hand ling of firearms, DEUS IS MAD. Says Hie President Has a Had Mem ory or liles. Eugene V. Debs represented the President as saying In unmistakable words that Moyer and Haywood were Implicated in the murder, thus pro nouncing their guilt before their trial. Debs said: he president Is guilty of extraordinary lapso ol memory or of deliberate falsehood. I now Challenge the president to deny his speech, of April Nth. ns meaning Moyer and Haywood lu lils charge more than a year ago. If ho will not mime whom he mount, ho most stand branded from his own nioie'.h witl calumny and mendacity." AWFUL TRAGE Young Man Who Was About to Marry Shot by AN OLD SWEETHEART. After Killing tho Young Nan tho Young Woman, Who lind Just Ar rived in the City, Put tho Wenpou to Her Rody mid Sent ti Boll Through Her Own Heart, Which Killed Her Instantly. An awful tragody was enacted in Oil City, Pa., on Wednosday night of last weok, when T. E. Ross, thirty five years of ago, a clerk iu tho post ?nico, was shot and klllod by Miss iBabell Stroup, 28 yoars old, a former sweatheart, who immediately shot hot-self through tho hoart. Roth vic tims of tho tragody wore of promi nent families. Tho shooting occurred in tho ofllco of Dr. George W. Magee, whoro Miss otroup had called Ross by tolephono while be was dining at li i H homo." Dr. Magee know nothing of tho tragody until ho returned and tho two bodies partly prevented tho ofllco door being opened. Miss Stroup was employed In a hospital In Bradford, Pa., and arrived hero at noon. She went directly to the physician's of fice from which place sbo callod Ross. Three shots were fired at ROBS. Two lodged in the forehead and ono in the heart. Ross was io have mar ried Wednesday night Miss Drusilla Sampson of Oil City, Pa. Thero wore no witnesses to the shooting. Ross was dining at homo with hts family, discussing tho com ing marriage ceremony, when tho telephone rang. His fathor answered tho call and a woman's voice mado inquiry for 'Thad." Mr. Ross callod bis son, and the young man, after answering, picked up his hat and in formed the family he bad to go to tho doctor's ofllco for a fow minutes, but would return ns soon ns ho could. This was tho last time bis parents uaw him alive. What took place In Lho office no ono will over know.. When Dr. Magee returned from undi and opened tho door ho found die dead bodies. In a chair In tho1 iornor.of t ho ollice sat Ross, his head y lag back on thc chair and blood dreaming from a bullet wound In his leek. His forehead wan burned with Hiwder, where a ballot entered his ?rain. Another ball bad pierced his loart. Miss Stroup was lying a fow 'cot away, face downward, whoro her >ody partly blocked tho ofllce door. Rood was flowing from a wound In 1er loft side. Ross bad seated himself in a largo shalr, and apparently ivhllo talking .o the girl, had placed both nu ml s in lis trowsers' pockets. The girl woro ong black kid gloves, but beforo do ng the shooting bad slipped both 1er hands from tho gloves and they lung loose from her wrists. It is diought she walked over to the choir a which Ross was seated, and, shielding the 3 2-calibre revolver Arith her dress, fired tho first shot at ills heart. Wishing to make sure of lier work the girl then fired two moro duds. Standing over ber victim she then idiot herself. The revolver droppod from ber hands and was found near ber body. Miss Stroup was born in this country 2 8 years ago. Roth her parents are dead, and she is survived by one sister and two brothors, who live at Coalhill. Ross was thirty five years old. Ho was employed in the post?nico at Oil City. Ho was a veteran of the Spanish-American war and later served In the Philip pines. Before the shooting Hioso In the building heard no loud talking between the couple. TH Ii BATTLE IS ON Between President Roosevelt and Senator Poraker. Senator Charles Dick, old timo friend and colleague of Senator Vor aker, bas gone to Ohio to personally conduct the fight, of tho Foraker against tho Taft forces. It ls a move that might have been expected, in fact was oxpected as a development of the campaign. Tho interost lies however In tho fact that Senator Dick has mado the Hat announcement, that tho Ohio Re publican machino ls against Roose velt, Roosevelt Ism and any Roosevelt candidate. Thus the issue is square ly made, and lt will be a finish fight for neither the President nor Senator Forakor are in tho habit of giving quarter. Outsiders may look on with inter est and gain considerable instructions therefrom, lt is the first serious and opph spilt In the republican ranks, and tho question that will be sot Hod for the rest of tho campaign will be whether or not the president's per sonality and popularity In lils own party will avail against ono of tho most effective machines in one of tho worse machine ridden states. I ll*} AV Y DELUGE The Downpour in New Orleans Was EM reine. A torrential rain flooded many sect Iocs of New Orleans Thursday and tlie? heavy downpour continued all night. Water was more than a fool deep In purls of Canal street, where Hie Vg stores are located. Water backed up In SOinO sections over tho deep gutters and covered sidewalks. St. Charles avenue tho finest street In New Orleans, was a running river for blocks, many resi dences being completely surrounded. Tho precipitation was estimated at over threo Inches curly Friday with no relief promised until Saturday. WA ' 1 'Ul AR CAME OF RA RI ES That Seem To Threaten a Young Laurens County Farmer. Mr. W. F. Cleveland, a young far mer of tho Huntington soctlon of I,aureus county, ls In Atlanta, at tho Pasteur Institute under troatmont to prevent tho possible dovolopmont of rabies, he having boon exposed to tho : disease by milking n cow whoso calf ! died a few days ago exhibiting ovory - symptom of hydrophobia. Thursday ? the cow wont mad and of courso tho 1 family and frlonds of Mr. Cleveland aro much concornod about him.