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The Marlboro9 Democra .DO IV, ?BBAT lylBBBTT, IKl'ItUC ODS ?O?LB ASO HAK* OUR UVM 1> THY WMMSK? ?APPT OK 00m D*ATH? OLOWOOS 1? TRY OAOfK." VOL. XXXI4 BENNBTTSVlXIiE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1007. Of a Prominent Citizen of Union County by a Negro. GREAT FXCITEMENT. Mr. Clarence C. (?1st Waylaid by n Negro Pullman Porter nt the Hea bonrd Airline Depot and Assassi nat ed.-A Posse ls Hunting the Murderer Down Willi Several Blood Hounds. A dispatch from Carlisle in Union County to The State says Mr. Clar ence C. Gist was killed there Thurs day night near tho Seaboard Air Lino depot hy Arthur Davis, a negro, _WhOm Mr. Gist had arrested at the baso ball grounds Thursday afternoon for boisterous conduct. While being takon to tho guard house Davis made threats, saying that ho would have further trouble with him. After being released on bond lt seemed he hld himself near tho depot and attacked Mr. (?isl while the latter was on hts way to his home. After the shooting the negro made his escape hut the citi zens are determined to effect his cap ture. A special to The Stale from Union Thursday night about ten o'clock stated that there was considerable excitement there over the dastardly assassination of Mr. c: 1st at Carlisle. Parties left Union for Carlisle as soon ns they heard of tho crime to assist In hunting the negro down. Bloodhounds were asked lo he sent from the State penitentiary, but as the first train leaving for Carlisle was over the Southern at 7:10 Fri day morning lt was thought that the dogs would not get there in time to be of service, (.'apt. Griffith would have sent the dogs Thursday night If thoro had boon any possible way. Hounds were secured from Mon roe, N. C. The Monroe dogs are as fino ns can be secured In the South, having been In several very success ful chases, it will he remembered that these dogs were used lu (he cap ture of the four safe crackers near Monroe in 1 002. A message from Carlisle at half past twelve Thursday night staled that no trace bad boen found of Ibo negro Davis. Conditions there are roported easier. No violence bas beon done and lt ls not expected thal the citizens of that town will com mit and rash act in their excitement. Davis is a Pullman porter and has a Pullman pass on hts person. Rail road and Pullman officials and con ductors all over Ibo State have been asked to look for bini and lt is be lloved that, he will ho caught in a few days, If not sooner. ? 'Mr. Gist Was a brother of Presi dent William II. Gist of tho Hank of Carlisle and a nephew of the late Gov. Gist. i,e was an Industrious farmer and was serving as constable for the magistrate at Carlisle when he arrested the negro Davis at tho baseball grounds. Mr. Gist was aboat 2.r, years of ago. Ile married two years ago Miss WilbUrn, daughter of Mr. Stanford Wllbom, a prominent planter of Union county, and who was at ono time county commissioner. Tho negro Davis is about l?? to 2f> years of age; uoiweon foot <"> in ches and f> feet !t inches in height, weight about lim pounds. Ile is very black and has bulging eyes, rat hei red. Five hundred dollars reward ls offered for lils arrest. Davis was arrested on friday and ls In jail to await trial. Ho was found at tho bouse of another u(>" gre, Chalmers Dawkins, who said he had come to hiv house tin* night be fore and asked to be allowed to spend the night. As soon as the officers reached Dawkins, house ho told thom that Davis was in an lip-stairs room, where he was found and arrested. Wade Davis, father of tho murder er; George Davis, his biol her, and George Lyles, his brother-in-law, have also been arrested as accessor ies and locked np. The elder Davis ls a had follow, and has been before the courts several times for sel line, whiskey. Om' (jr two of the last named had pistols on their persons when arrested. Davis claimed that the shooting was accidental, Windi, of course, is all a yarn. Not a word was heard about lynch ing tho prisoners, every body seem ing disposed to 101 tho law take its course. Mr. Cist was assassinated for arresting Davis at the ball ground by order of (ho Intendant of Carlisle. Davis was disorderly al Ibo grounds, and the Intendant (old him lo bo have or leave. This made (be follow mad and ho became more disorderly than ever. Then Mr. Cist was order ed to arrest him, willoh he did and locked him up. In a short lime Davis was (urned out on bond, his father and a while man signing it. Davis Mien went (<. bis father's restaurant and got a pis to!. He way laid Mr. Cist on his wa> homo and idiot him. 'liiere is m doubt about tho guilt of Davis, mid be will be executed accordingly Ofter a fair trial. Tho man at whose house Davis was arrested is a well-to-do ro speetable negro, and he bad no de sire lo conceal Davis. As soon as the officers asked him if he had seen Davis he told them where they could lind him. _ VIA lt (i Hld) VI? lt KM AI NS Of Sir; Confederate Soldiers on (he Battlefield of Antietam. Frank Otto and Arthur Day plow ed Up in Capt. David Smith's orchard on Antietam battlefield, near Sharps burg, tho bodies of six Confederate soldiers lying side by side. The (d(d bing and shoes were intact Until ox posed i?> the air, whoo the crumbled lo dust. Alongside on of tho bodies Were 11 sword, ?maul?is and large buttons, the accoutrements of an (diner. A leg ol' "in- of (he men bad been amputated. A bullet was found In (he skull of one <>i the soldiers. M. w, Snaavely, referring lo a book containing Ibo names ot Confodornlo soldiers burled, ascertained thal the remains wore those of Cid. W. T, milligan, of tho Fifteenth Georgia; lieut. 15. M. Fuller, of the Soul li Carolus Volunteers: D. H. Herring bf Ibo Firs! Nor! h Carolina; ll. Hob bins, of the First McIntosh Bullery; A W. Spralght, of (he Third North Carolina, and W. fe. Willingham, ol Company L, Twelfth South Carol!nfl Volunteers. VERY BAD MAN He ls Wanted in Two States for His Many Crimes. An Officer From Greensboro, Gn., Caine For Him, But Papors Wero Not Right, Tho State Hays William P. Lovett, who ia now in Jail In Bamberg, IB in a had way. Two States aro after him, and between the two ho may Borve a long long time, in prison. Tho crimes of which ho is accused aro tho das tardly kind that make men rejoice to seo punishment meted in return. Those whom he offended were wo men, or, in the eyes of the law, chil dren. Ono of those ho misled, the other two he married. It. E. Bethen, chief of police of Greensboro, (Ja., arrived in Col umbia Sunday with requisition pa pers Issued by tho State of Georgia, dov. Ansel turned the documents ov er to tho attorney general, but Mr. Lyon reported that tho papers bad been made out Improperly. Gov. An sel therefore declined to issue extra dition pupers. Tho warrant upon which Lovett was arrested and Is being bold for the Georgia authorities charges him with seduction. There is a graver charge against bim now, that of big amy. Into the Uvea of three women this man luis come and brought sorrow, it ls probable that before tho Georgia authorities can Ale additional requisition papers, Lovett will have beer arrested under a warrant sworn out In South Caro lina, charging bim with bigamy. Mr. Bethen stated that the ease ls Indeed a sad ono. Lovett was a mill hand and was attentat Ive to the old er of two daughters of Mr. DI.lard, superintendant of the mill at Greens boro, Ga. His attentions were re sented by the parents. To the sur prise of all, Lovett and a younger daughter, aged Ll, were married one night. It was then that the older daughter, herself not 10, declared Lovett to he a seducer. Lovett left the night he was married, some Hine in November last. That the marriage was legal there is no doubt; lt was performed by a minister who signed tho legal certificate. lt ls the custom of the officers when they catch a fugitive to look wise and say nothing of their meth ods of capture, but Mr. Bethen talk ed very sensibly about the matter and said that it was quite easy, only that lt had required a little time. The coton mills, for L.oir own protection and for tho sake of law and order, issue monthly circulars in willoh they describe the new hands employed. In this way Lovett was located. Mr. Bethen sent tho warrant to the chelf of police at Orangeburg and by the latter It was turned over to Sher iff .lohn ll. Dukes, who Investigated at once and found that this same lav ett had been a resident of Orange bur, but after havng married in that city had gone to Bamberg. The war rant was returned to Chief Bethoa, who forwarded it to Sheriff Hunter of Bamberg, and the man was arrest ed under the Georgia warrant so served. Mr. Dothen was unable to get his prisoner, as the solicitor of tho cir cuit n Which the crime was commit ted had not submitted an a III dav i I lo tho effect that tho accused is wanted for titi1 crime specified. Not only can ho be arrested for seduction as charg ed, but he ls also guilty of abduction, for any one marrying a child under 1 fl a ba inst the wishes ol her parents ls guilty of abduction under the stat utes. DILI) FOB IllOlt HONOR. Comely Boarding House Matron ls Brutally Slain by a Boarder. Resisting an attack on her honor al her home in Lambert ville, X. V., Mrs Frank Congilio, .!."> years of age. was shot and killed while Peeing from Michael Thomas, n boarder. 3fi years of age. Thomas was captured in Trenton, X. .1., and is in the Hun lerd?n county jail. Mrs. Congllio was a comely matron and had been conducting a boarding honst; for some years. From tho facts tho woman was able lo give before her death. 11 was i learned Hint Hie had been annoyed hy Thomas" attentions for some lime and that she had repeatedly repulsed bim. On the ?lay of the shooting be returned earlier from wank than usual. Ho fourni Mrs. Congllio busy al lier housework and once more np nroaehed her. Sin? demanded thal bo leave the house at once. Instead te attempted to embrace her. She broke away and Hod lo the stree! 1 bomas followed, and. Standing lu be doorway ordered the woman t< onie back. She ran from Hie Infill' ialed man. Then be drew a revolve' nd fired four shots into her body 111 -hort range. All four look effect. Mrs Congllio died n few hours lal ?r in Trenton hospital. Thomas wa; captured Isle in tho same evening in frent?n and placed 111 Jail. WAH IN lill CAM I?. Head of Georgia IlepilhliCnn League Issues Address to Followers. A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., snys Chairman Blodgoll of the stale Re pUblieail League, winch wns formed to fight the present national admin istration, Issued au address to re publicans. Of the South, 111 which be lakes tho administration severely to task for the appointment to office of ..Democrats and lukewarm republi cans," and ames thal no federal of fice-holder bo appointed to the noxt Republican National Convention. THE BROWNSVILLE INQUIRY witness Hmv Negro Moldier Fire Into The Cowan House. I lorbert Elkins, of Brownsville, testifying at tho Brownsville Inves tigation nt Washington said thal ho snw two negro soldiers come up an alley from the harrison and fire into tho Cowan house. He said that others followed and also thal he saw the shooting from tho garrison which appeared to como from the balcony of Co. B. barracks. Later he said that he heard a no gro soldier say that they would conic out tho next night and finish thc town. SOME HOT WORK An Attempted Outrage Calls To gether an Angry Mob. FIVE PEOPLE DEAD Two Negroes Lynched, Ono White Mn? and Two Negroes Killed and Heven Other Persons Injured ns a Result of an Attempt to Capture Would-be Assailant of a Widow, Near Mannssas, Ga. i wo negroes lynched, one white man and two negroes dead, and se ven other persons injured is the re sult of an attempt to capture a ne gro who Monday night, nttompted a criminal assault upon Mrs. Laura Moore, a widow living near Mantissas. Tattnall County. The dead: John Hare, white, farmer. Sim Pndgetl, negro, and daughter, aged seven years. Lynched : Padgett's wife and son. Injured : W. H. Pearson, shot In stomach and ami-, prohahlp fatally. James H. Daniel, shot In eye and may die. Dr. 1). H. Kennedy, seriously. Son of Padgett, seriously. Flem Padgett, slightly. Two daughters of Pagett. Fifteen persons early Tneeday sur rounded the house of Sim Padgett, a negro whom they suspected of har boring another negro who had crim inally assaulted Mrs. Moore, and de manded lo he allowed to search the house. Permission was given, hut when within thirty feet of the house those Inside the building opened lire on the posse, Instantly killing John Hare and seriously wounding Har 'ow Pearson, .lames Daniel ami Dr. i. c. Kennedy. The posse then returned tho fire ''.Hiing Padgett and one of his (laugh ers, aged leih ?o?d wounding two thor girls, aged six and thirteen espcctllvoly, and two of Padgett's ions, aged twenty and twenty-two. Tho posse then retired for rein forcements. The news spread rapid ..' and liv ten o'clock five hundred inned mon wore on the scene and tarted in pursuit of tho negroes, who had escaped. One of them was captured and taken before Mrs. Moore, hut she failed to identify him. The negro, however was identified as tho man who shot Hare, and he was started for lteidsvliie jail, together with Pad gett's wife and son. On the way the odicors were over taken hy about seventy-five, who took the prisoners from them. Tho woman was told to run, and as she did so she was riddled with bullets, ber soil being shot to pieces where he stood. Tho negro who assaulted Mrs. Moore has not. been captured, hut it ls reported that ho is surrounded In a negro house, and that in all probabil ity he has hoon killed. Sheriff 13d wards, with deputies, took all the prisoners from the jail at Rcidsvillo and left with thom to elude the mob, who, it is reported, will attack the jail Groat exe!toment prevails and lt. s feared that other trouble will oc cur. Hare was a native of Monroe, N. C., and leaves a widow and sev eral small children. GIRLS SHIPPIOD IN R?XES. Were Heilig Smuggled Into Hie Coun try From Japan. Six Japanese gil ls, each nailed in a high box wore nearly killed by sul phur fumigation on hoard ibo steam er Can fa al Victoria. Tho girls, said lo bo imported for Immoral purposes, wore consigned to K. Seasookon, a steerage passenger, alleged to be Tnki Kai joro, a procurer, who was deported from San Francisco two years ago. Through exchange of courtesies between Hritish and Amer ican anthorltios the six women and Sesooken were brought to Port Town send, Wash., and will be sent back lo Japan on the Califa. Smallpox broke out on Ibo Calif? during Ibo ship's last previous trip from Hu* Orient, and on reaching Vic toria on the present trip tho entire steeraage was fumignated. The hatches wer?* battened down and a large uuantity of sulphur was Ignited below. In a short lime violent and protracted sneezing was heard in the freight compartment. The compartment was hurriedly opened, odicors of tho ship fearing lia! a pel eat was differing In the sulphur fumes. Their surprise was great when a ehorusofsneer.es Issued ?lom the heavy wooden boxes, while frantic scratching in Ibo oases be tokened great anxiety to escape. On opening the eases an nmond eyed girl appeared in each. Food and waler supply was Ingeniously places in each box, which was ilxod up like a toy room. OM 0 INSIDE TIHO OT HER. Car Starter YOllgUC of Columbia Has Curious Egg. Tho Columbia Record says Mr. Jefferson S. Yongue. car starter ut ibo stre?d railwny transfer station, was surprised, Oil breaking tho ogg beside his breakfast plate, to find I hal lt consisted nf t wo eggs, ono inside tue other. Moth were perfect ly formed. This is a curiosity seldom se, n. The egg caine from a hen on Mr. Yongtio's premises nt 1017 Green street. LOST AT SEA. Two Chicago Men and a Launch Arc Missing. A cable from Valdnz, Alaska, sayf thal W. I.. and O. K. Hail, of Chicago have been lost at sea in a launch, They left Valdez a week ago foi Knight's Island, and started without oars, provisions or sall, expecting tc make tho run lu a few hours, bul nevor reached their destination. Tho belief at Valdnz ls that, thoj wero driven to sea by a broak In th( launch's niachlnory. FELL OFF SOME. Not So Much Fertilizer Sold This Year As Last It is Thought That tho Cotton Acre age lu the State Hus Ileon Reduced a lilt tie. It is usually presumed that tho amount of commercial fortllllzer used is nu indication of Hie size of tho cot ton mop, or rather of tho acreage planted In cotton, and if this is truo thc aereago this year is likely to he found much smaller than last year, hut still a groat deal larger than in 1905 and 1004. It was in these two years that tho efforts to reduce acreage were made through thc Southern Cotton Associa tion, hut last year the acreage went, up again in a kind of reaction from the campaign of the year before, and now it seems to have taken a turn again. The amount of fortllllzer sold is determined hy tho amount of tax pnld into the State treasury. The tax ls 25 cents per ton on all fortillizer sold In Sont':. Carolina, the money going to Clemson College, where under the law the fortillizer is analyzed. To date the amount of tax paid this year ls $132,310.01 and tip to the same date in 1 POO the amount of tax waa $143,889.14, which is $11.579.13 more than last year. The amount of tax paid this year represents over flvo hundred thous and tons- 52 9,240 ton to he exact while the amount of tax to this time last year represented 575.550 tons. The total amount of the tax last year was $10 7,1 57.89, which is the largest amount ever paid In on this tax. The tax year ends June 3 0, ac cording to the hooks of Clemson Col lege. From the hooks of the State Treas urer the following figures as to the amount of tin4 tax lu the last seven years are t aken: 1900.$75,21 4.14 1901. 84,073.43 1902. 81,744.94 1901.9S.909.SO 1904. 1 18,974.15 1905. 130,439.08 190G. 1 07,1 57.89 1707 to date.132,110.01 Prom the last report of the Clem son College for 1900, it. is stated that "tim Inspection tax amounted to $104,996.82, and from this was de ducted for unused tags rodeeined$6, 042.79, leaving a net amount re ceived from the Inspection tax of $1 58,350.03, which, added to tho "bal ance on band together with tho In come from other sources amounts to $224,091.07." From this amount is deducted the expenses of analysis. The report ox plains that the apparent discrepancy hot ween the tag tax figures as found In tho college report is due to the difference in thc fiscal years. How ever, most of the fertilizer ls sold in tho sining, so that the difforenco is not very great. NOT 101) SCIENTIST 1)10Al). Sentenced Once to he Hanged, Lived and Became Famous. Dr. Frank L. Janies, a noted scient iest, who was once sentenced to he hanged, died a natural death at his home in St. Louis. Once nu enemy of Hie federal gov ernment, he was afterward Its chief export in the investigation of the "em balm Od heel" scandal during the Spanish-American war. For his ser vices al the Inquiry in Chicago he received $50 a day from Hie same power that once tried to hang him. As scientific editor of the National Druggist and associate editor of the Medical Brief, St. Louis publications, Dr. .lames made his name known to physicians and chemists all over the world during Ibo 10 years of his res id eace (hore. When thc Civil War began he was a young student of chemistry in Mo bile, Ala. lb- invented submarine mines, Which woe planted lu Mobile bay to blow up Federal gunboats. They were so effective that a price was set on .lames' head. He was cap tured and taken to Now Orleans, where (len. H. F. Butler condemned him to death. Through the aid of friends he es caped flinn the New Orleans jail a week before the date std for his hang lng and went to Japan. Seven years later ho roturnod to America, but Hie death sentence was never carried out. His death was due lo erysipelas. A bug (lew Into his left ye ten years ago, blinding him. Physicians ?it the Bethesda Hospital, where he died, hoi love that this may have been tho indirect ca USO of Iiis death. roo MICH l?ll<i. 'Frisco Woman's Husband Made lier Elli it Three Times a Dav. Punk ll) pic three limes a day for a diet, sunploninted by salmon, when slio ititi not like either and preferred striped bass and soups, led Mrs. Fluiior Doe Stetson lo sue her weal thy husband, J. B. stetson, president of n San Frniielsco railroad company, for divorce. Ile not only made her eat t li I ll gs she didn't like, bul sub lected her Io till kinds of slights. Mrs. Stetson said she had to eat her ClirlslllUlH dinner alone, while her husband dined with his daugb (ors, and that she was never Invited to social affairs given by the taller. When he sohl a pair of horses and brougham belonging lo her, he re fused to ('.ive hor the money and she said that the only way she could get what was coining to lier was to take lt out in board. MADE HIM i.io.WE. New Way of Clotting Hld of Objec tionable Minister. Following u sensal Ional driving from his home Wednesday night of Kev. O. Janies, pastor of the Congre gnlionnl church ai Drago!, Mass., thc town is badly splii into factions foi ami against the minister, The Kev. James recently took tilt parish and proceeded roundly to de nounce present tiny evils, wit bout regard to the persons he might hit He paid no heed to the resulting storm td' protest. The congregation demanded hit resignation immediately but he sail the latter part of June would sub hint. Wednesday night a largo pa rt > of tho town's people gathered am forced him to leave town, accom nanylng Ids departure with tootlnj horns und jeers. A TAINTED FORTUNE Texas Farmer Getting Rich by Growing Bermuda Onions. This Year's Crop Is Estimated at 1,500. Car Loads and tho Profits to Growers Amount to $1,000,000. What. Texas considorod an experi ment four yoars ago bids fair in the spaco of four years more to bo the principle industry of tho state, out sido of', cotton growing. This ls nothing moro or less than growing Bermuda onions, and for tho quali ty and [quantity of this product the Lone Star state bids fair to soon ex cel the group of islands in the Atlan tic that those onions have made fam ous. Tho state ls now busly engaged in harvesting tho annual crop of muda onions, and this season's out put, which is expected to he; on cars hound for tho north by June 1. will he about 37,500,000 pounds, or about l,r>00 car loads. Considering that this produce soils for between two and a half and three cents a pound, tho value of this now industry to those engaged In lt ls apparent. Four yoars ago tho ground now used for growing onions, was consid ered useless and could he bought for 50 cents or $1 au acre. Today it brings from $150 to $200 an acre, and ls cheap at this price consider ing thnt tue profits of onion growing run from $?100 to $700 per acre a season, tho average yield of an acre per season is about 2 0,000 founds. Tho elonicnt In lue soil of Texas give the onions a peculio davor, and they are sahl to excel even those grown on the Bermuda Islands. The planting season is in October, which ls a de.tghtful time of the year along the Rio Ciando border, ibo season for Irrigating and culti vating ls during tho winter months when there ls just enough coolness in the air to make working out of doors a pleasure. The harvesting time ls In tho spring when all naturi* ls abloom. By June 1 the crop is out of the way. That leaves June, July, August and September to tho onion planter in which to follow his own inclina tions as to pleasure or some other business. Most of the mon who have made comfortable fortunes in rais ing onions spend tho vacation period of four months nt some Northern resort. By doing this they escape the enervating heat of this region In summer. The hoalthglving properties of the onion are well known. The people of Laredo eat onions as tho apple lover eats apples. Any day here children cnn ho seen running around wit,, a big onion In ono hand and a piece Df broad in the other. my take ltrst a bte of bread. Tho combi nation 1 delicious. Laredo is one of the h.n.ithiost towns in Texas and the onions ls said to be me principal oaten ht it. TERRORIZED BY YEOOMEN. One Hilled and Several Injured at Burnell, N. Y. Hornel I, X. Y., was terrorized Fri day morning by a gang of yeggmon. Night Watchman Henry was fatally shot, Night Watchman Kelly badly beaten and others Injured. Three yeggmon were arrested after two of the gang and boen shot. Tho robbers first appeared at a grocery where they blew open the safe. A private residence was next entered, where articles af value were taken. A woman next door put hot head out of a window When shots wore Ired at her, dying glass cutting her. The gang next broke Into the Steuben silk mills. Hoing apprised by Night Watchman Kelly, they beaat him into insensibility. They secured no plunder there. At the street, railways olllc.es they were confronted by Night Watchman Hendy, who was sind fatally. Hy Ibis time the town was aroused. The robbers jumped OU a morning freight, police and posse following on SWitCll engine. One robber j Ulli pod from tho train into tho river and was capt m ed by the police, after a swim of 100 yards. At Canlnsoto,whore tho police mot them, two were wounded with buckshot before giv ing up. 1 {ICM ARK AHLE FORTIT UDE A Mau Watches A Surgeon Cutting O?' Both His Legs. Seldom has the nerve of man been put to Blich a severe lost as in the case of Patrick Creely, and rarely has man displayed such remarkable fortitude on the operating table as did Creely iii tho Methodist hospital, Thursday at Philadelphia. With eye:, wide open and totally in different to the terrible pain ho must, have suffered, Creely stoically watch ed the surgeon amputate both legs, ono at the hip ?od other Just above the knee. When the operation was over Creely thanked the surgeon and at tendants. Ile assured them thal ho would he all right In a few days, and the went to sleep- He awoke later refreshed -and confident of being out ol' the hospital soon. EAR SEVERED BY HAZERS Student Disfigured Because ho Had Worn Sideburns. Captured by Freshman of tho Northwestern university, Chicago, (Miarlos Sanderson, a student of tho Northwestern Preparatorn school, i was. hazed r>>i ?earing sideburns, and now ho ls minus a portion of his left oar and h.s face s disfigured by cuts. The profoSSOro of both schools are Irving to learn tho Identity of tu0 hazers, who will bo dismissed. Sand. .-.,,, W08 dragged from an entertainment hali to a sod lided spol on tho campus and there choked and his hands and foot hold while frosh men wielded (he razor. When they saw that they had etti theil* victim the fled._ NOTED INDIAN BANDIT I HOAD Apache Kid's Skull Rests in Phys! chill's Laboratory. , "Apache Kid," tho notorious In I dian bandit, has boon slain and bb i skull now rests In a laboratory of i i Chicago physician. I H I? sahl that the mounted skid . of the outlaw will ho presented t( r Yale University With the suggeslloi that ancruniuni and submit a report CROP LAST YEAR. Cotton Figures Compiled by the National Census Bureau. THE BANNER COUNTY In This State Is Orongoburg, Which ls About tho Third Cotton Pro ducing County in tho Cotton Heit. Tho Total Ciop Is Put Down at 1 ?,305,20? Halos, Which Is n Humper Crop. Tho census bureau of thc deport ment of commerco and labor has just issued a bulletin (No. 76) giv ing the production of cotton by states and territorios, with per cent of qual ity produced in each, forms of the total crop, and rank according to the quantity produced from 1902 to 1900 Including linters and counting round as half bales, the crop of 1900 ls 1 3,3 05.265 bales, compared with 10,725,602 for 1 905 and 13,697,310 for 1904. Tho 1906 crop for Texas exceeds all previous records 4,281, 824 halos, or 31.6 per cent of the country's production. Tho next lar gest contributor is Georgia, with l, 02 6,8 2 4 hales, or 12 per cent. Mis sissippi ranks third, Alahama fourth and South Carolina seventh. The statos of Florida, Georgia, North Car olina, South Carolina and Virginia each produced less cotton in 1906 than in 1905, tho combinod loss amounted to 338.762 bales. South Carolina produced in 1900. in pounds, 4 4 7,565,601; in 1905, 54 7.999,71 6. The sea-Island crop of 1 906, con sisting of 57,550 bales, or 22.281,889 pounds, ls the smallest production since 1892, when the crop was but 15,4 1 8 bales. The production of Sea-islnnd cot ton in this country, s confined at pre sent to fourteen counties In Florida, 2 4 In Georgia and 4 in South Caro lina, or a total of 4 2 counties. South Carolina has 23,902 acres in Sea-island cotton. The failure of this staple in Texas shows that it can only he grown to advantage in cer tain places In South Carolina, Florida and Georgia. The Increased demand for superior staples in recent years is developing hotter upland varlet ios ny seed selection and more careful cultivation. The average price per pound for upland cotton this season ls 10.01 cents, while tho sea-island varieties sold from ll to 30 cents States showing largest per cont of water power for cotton mills arc Florida, 19 per cent; Alahama, 12; Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, each ten. South Carolina produced by coun Iles as follows, in bales in 1906: Abbeville.32,925 Aiken.23,018 Anderson. 50,7 9 1 Hamberg.1 6,1 S6 Barnwell.3 l ,03 l Beaufort.6,04 1 Berkeley.1 2,224 Charleston.7,030 Cherokee.1 2,4 66 Chester.2 3,013 Chesterfield.I 4,994 Clarendon.2 1,09 0 Colleton.ll ,3 2 4 Darlington.24,o 1 3 Dorchester.8,313 Fdgefield. 22,205 Ka lr ti old. 2 3,5 7 8 Florence . . .... 2 2,57 4 Georgetown.1,3 34 Greenville.30,881 (J reen wood. 2 8,0 4 1 Hampton.1 1,343 llbrry.5.997 Kershaw.15,042 Lancaster.19,880 Laurens.36,874 Loo.19,628 Lexington.17,144 .Marou. 3 3,565 Marlboro.to,XL' ? New her ry.34,793 Oconeo.11,876 Ornngoburg.60,319 Plckons.13,501 Richland.1 0.549 Saluda.19.218 Spartanburg. 4 8,328 Sumter. 22,645 Fnlon.15,430 Williamsburg.1 5,463 York. 3 4.7 7 8 lOvery county in South Carolina produces the staple of cotton. George town being the lowest, with only 1.3 4 4 hales. New Mexico, appears in HU? list of slates and territories, in tim produc tion (d' colton In 1 900, for the first time. It shows a production of near Iv 100,0(10 pounds. It ls ahead of Kansas and is expected to pass Vir ginia soon. Tlie average crop for the past five vea rs ls 1 1.7 9 0,5 5 8 bales. Of the total production in 1906 tho territory west of the Mississippi contributed 7. 233,210 bales, or 53.f pm- cent, while the states east eon tributed 0.302,288 bales or 46.8 pei cent, showing that the country west of the Mississippi lias passed that east of the Mississippi, nowlthstand Ing the ravages of the holl-weavil In parts of Texas. The production of Texas, 3 8.2 per cent of the total for the country, compared with 30.5 percent lu 1905, a gain ol' 7.7 per cont. The production of 918.537 bales in Oki ii.ema and Indian territory gives thc now stale a respectable rank among the cotton producing states, belg larger than North Carolina and Tennessee combined. (Illili MUSSING. Barents of Ronnie May Fowler Are Very Much Worried. lt s though! at Greenville thal i 8 year-Old Muy Fowler of Woodside Mill, two milos from that (div. is probably a victim of kidnapers or oas mel a fate equally as distressing. She wore short dresses and is un usually small for her ago. Sunday morning tho girl boarded a car ,', > lng to Sunday school and has not been seen ?by her parents since. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fowler, hoilOVO that she bas been kidnapped or that she bas been enticed away hy some one. ' The police have begun work on the case without, a clew to lead them in any direction. Some of the mon superstitious people In tho city have discovered a connection between thc dlsappearonce of tho child and thc print of a huge black hand found on the pavement In front of a residence on a fashionable street. MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY. Three Men Die. Terrible Experi ences of Shooting Party. Caught In a Mountain Htorni and Af? ter Great Suffering DIo From Ex posure, The London Mail nays a "hunting foray" on the range of mountains in the northern part of County Antrim has been attended with the loss of three lives. Five young men, the sons of farm ers, set out from their homes, about Parkmore, early on Tuesday after noon, and met at a prearranged ren dezvous at the foot of Collin moun tain, which rises 1,700 feet above the Glens of Antrim. Ascending about half way, they became so engrossed in the day's sport that they did not notice a thick cloudy mantle creeping down the mountain sid?;, and soon they became enveloyed. With numerous ravines around, and night approaching, they became wildly alarmed, wandered about for a few hours, and lost their bearings. One of the party, Kielty, seeing, as he thought, a light in thc distance, and thinking it denoted thc small farmstead of a man named Courtney, whom he knew, went off, with one of his companions, White, in that di rection to obtain guidance. They were not seen again alive. The other three, Miller, Smith and Connolly, remained behind together, the last having become exhausted and Ul. Out of thc darkness they heard the voice of Kielty shouting, "Pat's down," and understood that Patrick White had probably fallen into a bog-hole or down a ravine; but Kiel ty did not return. They suffered so greatly from cold during the night that Smith volun teered to attempt to reach Courtney's house and bring assistance. Scarcely able to crawl, Smith eventually reached the farmhouse, but fell in sensible before he could deliver his message. With hot fomentations and such other rough and ready treatment as the cottage allowed, he revived af ter a few hours and told his startling story. Meanwhile Connolly had died in the darkness of the mountain side. His sole companion, Miller, realizing that he could be of no further assis tance to his comrade, marked the place whore his dead body, lay, and with the approach of dawn he also Drawled away. With many rests, he roached Courtney's farm. Courtney himself, having previous ly learned some of the circumstanc es, had sot out at break of day down the mountain to the nearest village postofnee, Martinstown, and tele graphed to Connolly's father. When he returned Miller and Smith had sufficiently revived, and the three went off to find the body of young Connolly, which they carried on an improvised stretcher to the village. Meantime the elder Connolly had organized a search party of a dozen friends. When the old man learned that his son's body had been already recovered he and his friends remov ed the remains to his homo. A large body of police and civilans went up the mountain seeking for Kielty and White. Their bodies were found late in the afternoon in a stream which the melting snow and heavy rains had swollen to a ranging torrent. WANTED A DKINK. A Runaway Horse Wont Into an Au gusta Saloon. The Augusta Herald says wild | commotion reigned supremo for a fow moments Thursday morning at 9 o'clock out on Campholl street, near tho Union depot. A frieghtonod horse dashed madly along the street- with nothing attached to him in tho way of a vehicle, hut the harness straps wore hanging. Just as he reached Cashln's har and restaurant, the horse veered from his course and in a twinkling rushed into the har, putting to dight all who stood anywhere near the path he might pursue. He paused as they reached for the tempting drink, then lied, forgetting everything in their flight for safety. However, the wild career of the horse was slopped when ho reached tho rear end of the saloon. Ho was arrested hy parties in the neighbor hood before he had time to order his drink and au unwelcome customer was led hack to the shelter of the stable from whence he had escaped, while being "hitc hed up" to a buggy. CK TE I, l'A lt ENTS. Half Witted (Hil Confined in Smoke House Dike a Brute. Cue hundred infuriated neighbors rescued Ethel Hedley, a half witted girl about 17 yoars of age, from a smoko house in Which she had boon confined for several weeks hy her par ents, who rosine oil a farm near Her lin, Somerset county, Pa. Tho smoke house prison In which tho girl was kept, was six by eight feet in Size, with but ono wlndoW, Which had bOOll painted over to pre vent the girl from hoing observed by strangers who might be about, th? promises. Whoo food was given the prisoner it was thrown in Upon the door. Thc rescuing party was composed of till lUOSl prominent citizens of Hoi lin George Hedley, tho father, was ar ?.estell and gave bail. FOB NOT I IA VI Xii TAX TAOS. Proceedings Against .ioho Wohltinni Company by Inspector. The Charleston Host says attach mont proceedings were Hied Thur? day lu the olllee of tho clerk of cour and placed into tho bunds of tho stier Iff for service against John Wohlt man Company on \'?<> sacks of cot > ton seed meal, Which P. W. M a yoi ! Inspector of fertilizers at Charloslo 1 alleged were oxposod for sale ami <H ! not boar tho proper Inspection ta I tags. The penally for this offonco 1 ? $:i a sack, making tho sum allege duo tho Stato ?375. CORPSE FOUND, A Horrible Crime Discovered In New York City. HIDDEN IN A TRUNK Woman lind Polico to Open Trunk Loft by Two Lodgers, Who Hud Left Without Paying Their Kent, mid tho Ilodly Decomposed ?ody of n Greek Minister is Found Within. Hov. Fnthor Kaspar, of tho Armen ian Apostolic Church, of Hoboken, N. J., was murdered in tho city of New Yory somo timo last week. Tho body wa? found Sunday in a trunk, which bad boon left as security for their room rout by two Greeks, who three weeks ago engaged a furnished room of Mrs. Henry Sheror, who oc cupied tho third floor of a tenomont at 333 Wost Thirty-seventh stroot. Tho body was in a kncoling pos ture witli tho bead lion nd against tho knees by a heavy strap that passod over the buck of tho neck and was buckled under the shins. The mur dered man must have been about GO years of ago. He weighed probably 160 pounds, and was about 5 foot 4 inches in hoight. A flowing beard twelve inches long was streaked with gray, but the long and bushy hair was black. An undershirt of bnlbriggan and a cuff on tho right wrist were nil tho body wore, but on top of it had boen thrown three coats of clerical cut, a white laundered shirt, two pairs of black laco shoes, a soft felt hat, two Roman collars and a detatched cuff. The police think it is possible that the body was shipped by express from Chicago and tho authorities of that city have been asked to follow one clew, based on a meal ticket, al so found in the trunk. This tickot was issued by a restaurant at 1,222 Halstead street, West Pullman, Chic ago, and written in ink across it wns Hie finn name "S. Ermoylan Broth ers." Through the word "brothers" sevoral red ink Ines were drawn. Be cause of the condition of the body, the manner of death was not imme diately apparent. Following an au topsy at the mogue two mon were ar reste on suspician. Mrs. Shorer told the coronor that when the two men engaged the room in her horne called themselves John and Paul Sarkis, oach about 3 5 years of age. John was dark and smooth shaven and the woman understood that he conducted a restaurant in the tenderloin. The other resembled his brother, but woro a mustache. Tho men ..ad been visited, she said, by a man wearing a clerical garb, who looked not unlike the murdered man. She thought that this man called at 8 o'clock last Wodnosday morning. No one in the tenement that day heard any unusual noises. Last Wednesday afternoon an ex press wagon brought to the house tho trunk which later, was found to con tain the body. Ono of tho lodgers, with thc aid of a young man, who drove the express, carried tho trunk with considerable difficulty to'tho room. That night Mrs. Sherer asked ber roomors for the rent due. They pointed to the trunk and said it would be found to contain ample se curity for what they owed. Later tho men said that the trunk deliver ed to them was not theirs, but that a mistake had been made. The next morning the roomers left before Mrs. Shorer was up. Tho next day unpleasant odors were detected coming from tho room and to-day, Mrs. Shorer appealed to the police and the trunk was foreod open. The laxly was removed to tho morgue and the police bogan a minute exam ination of its biding place. It was a cheaply built affair and showed, marks of hard usage. Inside 1 io cover was printed a name that look ed like Culseppe Sarkis. On tho out side of the chest was tho name "Er mov?an." Tho autopsy dovoloped that, tho neck and an arm had been brokon. Coroner's Physician Lehane doclared however, that death was duo to suf focation. The eternal organs wore congested and Dr. Lehane gave it as his opinion that the man was thrust Into the trunk whllo alive, and tho cover of the air tight trunk held down until death ensued. Tho condi tion of the organs were found to bo similar to those In cases of asphyxia tion. A dspatoh from Chicago says at the West Pullman address on Hal stead street, the Armenians kept a restaurant until five months ago un der the name of S. Ermoylan Broth ers. Tho Chicago police Sunday night learned that on February 7, a trunk said to answer tho description of that found In the New York board ing bouse was shipped, from Wost Pullman by express to Sarkis Ermoy lan. 426 West Fortieth streot, New York city. It was shipped by n man who gave ..ls name as K. Kenesiam. Lewis B. McDonald, agent for the Adams Fxpress Company nt Wost Pullman snldthat Kenestani told him lhat the trunk contained silks valued at $200. Search was begun at onco for Kenesiam. BA1IV BCRNFD IN CHADLE. Mother Charges an 1'nknown Fnoiny Witli Setting lt On Fire. Frantic with grief over ?he burn ing to death of her 1 H-nionths-old son while she was absent at a groc ery store, Mrs. John Pavett, of Chic ago, accuses an unknown enemy of the crime. When she returned from the store she found tho bilby, which she had left asleep in its crib, envel oped lu flames. Mrs. Paavett declared that a strange man bad been watching her home for moro (han ? month. Tho police think that a burglar dropped a match or the lighted end of a cigarette into the cradlo. ?HF AT STORM IN CAROLIN KS Pacific Island Sahl to Have Reen Swept hy Hurrlcnno A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W. snys report, han reached thoro that a hurricane and tidal wave swopt ov er tho CaroBno Islands on April 3 0. Immonso damage was dono to prop erty and 200 porsons aro roportod killed. J Jj!