The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, January 17, 1908, Image 1

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!..; VOL. XXXIIij ? ?K> raov, ^^t?mm, .wtP,wt. ow ?ow? W MM OU* IM W IOM?MION ?Arri on own DMTM'O7]O?7O"?9" IN rar c4?n.?S> BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1008 WMRE? M?OP, - BROKER - R?B P R E]S ENTINO jTe# Old Line Companies -ALSO -T?-i_I n_tn. vu DEATH IN RUSH For Seats at Entertainment in a London Hall. TRAMPLED TO DEATH. Sixteen Children Under thc Foot of Excited Mass of Human Hoing*, Who Dcctimo Panic Stricken and Rushed for the Exits of tho Build ings, and Forty Others Moro Or Less Severely Injured. At Barnsley, England, Sixteen children were trampled to death und forty others, several of whom cnn not live, were Injured in a mud rush for hotter seats at an enter tainment given in the public ball there Saturday afternoon. There was a great rush to secure admittance to the entertainment, and when the show opened every seal was taken and tho gallery wns literally packed with children, who filled tho aisles and wero danger ously massed against the lower roll ing. With a view to relieving this crowding in the gallery, the attend ants decided to transfer some of the children to tho body of the house and one of the ushers called out: "Some of you children, come down stairs." Immediately the rush started and within a few seconds hundreds of children were being trampled under foot. Even those who had seats In the gallery, dont less being panic stricken by tho screams and strug gles ?f tho crowds lighting to reach the staircases, joined in the stam pede. The scene was a terrible one, the cries of tho injured and moans of the dying causing tho greatest ex citement among those gathered in the body of the hall. Police and ushers rushed to the hoad of the staircases, which were literally strewn with dead and dying, and by the most- desperate efforts managed to drag scores of the strug gling children to the corridors below. It waS with the greatest difficulty . ni a panic -among tho children ins' ? .v . ? i-i.. . oi me . ..v,vitr' averted, all of these being eventual ly being taken to the street in safe ty, y When the reservo police arrived they found the narrow stairway prac tically blocked with botlies which were crushed In some cases almost beyond recognition. Scores of chil dren wero forced by tho pressure by Hie crowd behind them to scram ble over those that had fallen, wheth er living DI-* dead, anti many of Un injured children were lound later ft) i>e suffering from fractured bones and severe lacerations, caused b> die indescribable manner in which they had been trampled upon. Soon alter the accident ibo ap proacliOB lo tho hall were crowded willi sobbing women searching for i lieir missing children. STOKES HOBBED. Part of the Goods Recovered and Three Negroes Implicated. The stores of half a dozen mer chants at Conway were entered one night last week and $40 or $f>0 worth of goods stolen. Part of the stolen property was found in a sac! underneath the office of Magistrate Jailor Hinton. Three negroes, brothers, were im plicated, two of whom have been ar rested, one was discovered by some small boys, the other came to the jail to see about getting his brother ont. Tho second negro fought hard against arrest and tried to shoot Jailor Bruhton. When searched a quart of whir key and a pistol were found on bim After his trial by the town arid sen tonco to $li> or sixty days, proof o'' bin conviction with the burglary wa found. N ECHO MOB LYNCHES X EC HO Tho Vi? tim Had Sold Them Ticket tt> Fake Show. A message from Seinin, N C., re ports tho lynching at Pine Lovel. Johnson County, of a strange negro at the hnndS of a negro mob. Tho si rangt1 negro, purporting to ho an advance agent Of a 'big show,' faked tho negro residents into what turn ed oui lo ho one-man performance by tho strange darky himself. Cov ering their heads With guano sack H. Hie mob entered the negro's boaid ing house early hO.it morning, and look him forcibly t<> tho woods. Ula hotly was lound at daylight on t h .> Soutln-rn Hallway tracks. His Iden tity has not been established. SWINDLEH CAP?.HT. Man Who Collected Money Vader False Pretenses Hebb 0, A. Thurston, win? operated ia Suinter last summer, ropresontin ; himself as an agent, of the Knights I Honor, anti who gol a good little 'e of money and boat his boat tl bill, been taught In Louisville, K\ In jail lhere, A photograph rston bas been rocelVod i:i by Sheriff uJppersoti for iden? Warrants have been Sworn d Thurston, and when tho authorities are through >o Sumter county courts him. I HEY ARE HELD. Party of Five Alleged Yeggmen Jailed at Lancaster. They Were Found Encamped in tho Wood? Well Annuli mid Supplied With Explosivos. A special dlapatok from Luncnster to The New? and Courier says a party of five good looking, fairly well dressed while men, suspected of be ing unfe-oraokers, arrested Thursday night near Van Wyck, on the Soa board, were brought to Lancaster on the Southern and lodged in jail. The technical charge against four of them hs that of carrying concealed weapons and against the fifth of vagrancy. Thursday afternoon J. A. Hyatt, a merchant of Vau Wyck, received a 'phone message from Wnxhaw, N. C., to look out for auspicious charac ters. Shortly afterward two stran gers entered his ?lore and bought some eatables. He watched the di rection in which they went and af ter nightfall he and eight of bin neighbors, weli armed, started out < in search of the mon. 1 The suspects, who proved to be ' five in number, were found encamp- I ed about a half mlle from Van Wyck. < They were surrounded and ordered < to surrender, which thoy did without < resistance, Baying afterwards that 1 they thought the woods full of men t and resistance, therefore, useless. Every man, except one, who has on- i ly one arm, had In his possession a I latest Improved revolver. The party ? also had a valise or two filled with i highly oxplosive materials, such as I nitro glycerine, dynamite caps and i also soap. J They declined to stale why they were in Van Wyck, but gav? tho fol- I lowing names und addresses: C. F. 1 Shaw, of Norfolk, Va; Henry S. Hal- t lan, of Atlanta, Ga; James Scanelan, i Charlie Williams. J. T. Leonard, the i three last named refusing to give t any addresses. The one armed man \ is Hallan, who, with another mern- < ber of the party, is said to answer 1 to the description of two men the t post?nico depalment ia looking out <? for. i Immediately upon their arrest In spectors H. T. Gregory and M. O. i Halverstadt we're wired. They ar- t rived Lancaster Thursday night, i They began the Investigation about < io o'clock p. ni. Thursday, which i continued till daylight Friday morn- 1 lng. Tile men nrrfstod a>o not pr?dis i very talkative. When they were brought down stairs in the jail lo be i examined one refused to conn? and had to be brought down by force \ Among the tiling? found were mone\ | hidden away on (he person of each, i Ono had some hidden away in his | ?.oat which he sewed up; and had ' money bidden away in bis under- 1 clothes. About $100 in currency wus | obtained from tho five, knives and i razors were also taken away. A | razor was found on one man which - was hidden in n little sack and tied i around his neck, the sack being un der his clothes, which were removed only with difficulty. Mi*. Gregory seems to know some possibly all, ot" the men, though ho is keeping quiet about it. However when ono niau was brought before him, Frank Shaw, Mr. Gregory re ' cognized bini and said: "Why. Frans 1 I didn't expect to sec- you here." 1 Neither did I expect to see you.' < said Shaw. Shaw is just out of luis ?n since last February, having been sent up for robbing a safe iii a rail- 1 road office at Peaks, Lexington conn . ty. South Carolina. He had promised i Mr. Gregory lo turn over a new leal bul he was lead Into temptation again. They are men of pleasant appeal- ! ance and wear Rood clothes. There ls little doubt about them ticing pro- I fesslonal snfe blowers and that ?ll?> 1 are ?be ones wanted In several pince;- i in this State. Their pictures were I taken Friday willi trouble. Flt ETTY KOOK AGENT. A Miner Caine Near M ur ry in g HI?- 1 Own Sister. A dispatch from Englewood, S. 1) mys Albert Jackson and Miss Minni.' Murt?n discovered just before th. day set for their marriage thal tho were brother and sister, and the. have gone north to northern Minne ;ota to nialio a Bearch for their mot h or, whom they have liol seen sine they were little Children. Jackson is a miner and bas beci in the nlaclt Hills for several year: Miss Horton came to the hills six o seven months ago as n book aient The young woman sold tin? younfi miner some hooks. Jackson fell in love willi lier and a few weeks apo asked her to marry him. She con sonted, and they set a day for tho nuptial?. It came lo light jut liefere Hie date set for the wedding that Miss Hinton's real name was Worthing ton, and Jackson's real name was also Worthington. They bad been adopted when children, taken tho names of their foster parents, and lost track ol'each oilier, neither even knowing the names of the other lill til the developments which Interrupt ed their wedding plans. Severe Storm. A Storni on Ibo lOngllsh cb,ina.'1 along tllC west coasl of Europe ami on tho northern Atiban cut si Infil week caus<s the lost of many small crail. Two native passenger boats foundered off Morocco and forty per son? were drowned. I'afal Mistake."" In Jacksonville. I'la. |Wn young men Who ?V0l*0 cousins gol (heir pj>, IM?X and w.v.i oh Hie bi li porch ..? h.ok for a burglar and in tho search one was mistaken for ibo burglar and was Ahoi and instan y killed !>> tuc other. MANY STARVING. New York Children Without Food to Sustain Life. FUNDS VERY SH0RTQ Report Uie Hebrew and Other Be nevolent Societies.-Contributions Bedueod, and the Worst of tho Wild fi- Abend.-There in Worse Dis?toss Than Has Boen Known in Twenty Year? in New York. Twenty thousand children in tho city of New York are starving, not starving to death, but living on less toed than ii necessary to sustain life. This declaration waa made re cently by Cyrus Sulzberger ot a meeting of the .lowish Communal Institution. Inquiries that have since been made reveal that conditions are DVn worse than ho indicated, that tho Sails on public, charities aro greater than in 20 years and that the con tributions aro less by one-half than ivor before. Tho result is that nil tho maritable organizations aro able to lo is to koop the roofs over the ?mads of the poor, hut not to furnish hem food. Tho d?ficit In funds has so crip )lod relief work that thousands of loedy persons must be turtled empty iwny aud Now York, one? of the vonllhiesl and most charitable oities n the world, is called upon to wit less distressing conditions on all ddes. Leo K. Frankel, secretary of the United Hebrew Charities, declares ils stielet y has nothing to give. , Vmong his people 20.000 children ire being supported, tho offspring of , iblebodiod men who hove been , brown out of work, the children of vidows and those whose parents ore lither dead or do not support them. lo says the budget of the society ls 00 small and is alrady $00.000 ihort, with worse conditions to face ts the winter advances. , Tho Ohidron's Aid siclety ls feed- ( ng fi,000 children daily. All agree . here are thousands who aro never .onehed. Mr. Brace, tho secretary 1 eel a ros |bo distress is general and jot confined lo any ono class. Mr. ( ?Miere, general agent for the Im- , pavement of the Condition of the .'ooh. is equally worried ovo'r pre ~-.. -?- . v . i"-,_v * <H ]le declares that families io xever before sought, aid are now .empelled lo depend solely on Char ly on account of tito lack of em- ? doyment. Continued lack of work viii causo the most dire kind of , lardships as tho winter ?ttlvanc.es. , The municipal lodging houses have , ?ten doubled, but. while the home- ( ess and employed can be lodged, . hey cannot be fed. In such times , he children suffer first. Mr. Bruoro ? ?ays, and should bo provided for im- , Mediately. I ?III VAT IO BAXKHHK mould Bu in Jail says Attorney* Ccneral Jackson. ( "1 have never mot, in a like per ot!, so many men who ought to be n Jail, as in my recent investigation 1 il the affairs of banks that got Into 1 lillicult ?es in tho recent panic," Said VHomey Oonerol Jackson, of New 1 fork, in addressing Ihe annual din ier of ihe Brownsville board of 1 rade, in Brooklyn, Thursday even* ug. ( 'om pt roller Metz. Bird S. Coler, ind Senator McCnrren were among he 200 Brooklyn business men who leard him " Tho lawless methods of those pl ate hankers," Mr. Jackson contin ued, "through deliberate and flag ant violai ions ot tin* I rust reposed in them by depositors, the reckless use of other men's money for the ?noinotion of their own speculations, constitute a chapter In the history if high finance In this city which properly can be conpared only to th? ?porntions of tho Tweed ring. Of the Traction (tang, and which throws a. ??.rent light upon tho question as to who is responsible for tho financial panic of 1007." \i:\V TVNNHIi OPEN. lb* l irst Train Huns Inder ISasI Uiver. The first passenger train passed through the new luniiel under the '.'.ast rivet , lu i ween Manhattan and Brooklyn, shortly before one o'clock Wodnosdov morning, Starting from Ibo Howling (?reen station, on the Manhattan sitie Of tlie river, it reach ed the Borough Hall station In about : i\ minutes. Willi tho starting back of Hie train, thc regular interhor ough service was pul Into operation. II was possible to accommodate bnlj a small pari of the enthusiastic Brooklyn crowd that < ame across the river lo 1 ide in the first train. Other trains, however, followed In quick tuccession. hut as these ran I rom the Hi'onx io Brooklyn, the overflow in tho Bowling Creen station Still bad lo wail. These Hains Vf OVO packed with Brooklyhlles. Killed nt Crossing. Mrs. John lt. ItOlgOl, ol Kendal. x. v., was Instant!) killed, and two children riding Willi her wore injur ed, while crossing Hie Lehigh Valley railroad tracks ii kendal, Their two horses were also killed. They were struck by an extra eugine run ning light. Many Idle .Men. The committee of tho Central Kedorsted i nion which ls Investiga ting the laying off of men by tho national, State and city authorities, reports that Hiero are at present loii.ouo men ont of employment lu New York elly alone. FIRED THE AGENT. Railroad Officials Must Be Care ful How They Talk. How (li? Southern Hu H way Punish* eil on Employee for Discourtesy Towards Its Patrons. "Generally cilizone who have rea son to complain against, the rall? roads or tbo telepwon? or teiegrupft companies do plenty of kicking and Incidan cully roast the railroad com mlesion, protty thoroughly for not requiring better servlco, Instead oC taking the proper course and Imme* dlately notifying the commission In writing, so that the proper remedy may be applied," says the Columbia Record. Not so, however, with five well known trnvellng men who happened to be nt Blackville on?^ night during the month of November. They prov ed a gratifying exception. The par ty were waiting ut Blackville for a Southern Railway trnin, and the train was late, though posted upon the bullotin board as on time. The Southern's tlckot agent and operator was askod for information but de clined to furnish it, his replies to tho traveling men's inquiries being couched in ungracious language and delivered in a most discourteous way. Instead of going their way and grumbling all up and down the divi sion about the arroganco of railroad agents toward a long-suffering pub lic, etc., these gentlemen promptly complained in writing to tho Rail road commission. Each of them signod tho lotter to tho commission. The Railroad commission took the matter up with the Southern at once, and tho following letter recent ly received from Division Superinten dent H. A. Williams, of Columbia, shows that the Southern acted upon the complaint without delay: "Mr. B. E. Cnughman, Chairman, South Carolina Railroad Commis sion, City. 'Dear Slr: "I have your letter, together with complaint of several traveling men of the services performed at Black ville by our ticket agent and opera tor. 1 had Train Master King go lo Blackville and personally investi gate th ls mnttor and apply the prop er remedy to this agont. Tho inves tigation developed the fact that the wires on the Charleston divisi?n were in trouble and were not work ?- . <sauv?;r this could have been explained to these gentlemen, which would have been satisfactory, I am sure; but on account, of no effort having been made on the part of this man nt nil to satisfy these people, I am going lo relieve him from the service. It ls, however, a fact thal the agent could not post the board correctly in account of wiro trouble, und In stead of making an effort to satisfy these people, bc posted the train on time. "Yours truly, "H. A; Williams, Supt." This is not by any means tho first Lime that Superintendent Williams has disciplined his employees for failure to treat tho Southern's pn Irons with courtesy, lt is a known fact that he will gladly entertain and patiently investigate any reasonable complaint that may como from any patron of the road, however, humble the person may be. This is directly in line with the Southern's policy to ward South Carolina, as outlined to Governor Ansel recently by President Kinley. A DIABOLICAL CRIME. Woman is Murdered and Her Babe Left to Be Buried. One of the most diabolical crimes over committed In Gwinn?tt county Ca., was perpetrated in Cater dis trict. and as a result .lohn Hudson and Henry Campbell, two negroes are In jail at Lawrenceville. Ga., charged with murder and arson. Tho house of .lohn Hudson was found to be on tire, and when neigh bors caine in they discovered thc bodies of Hudson's wife and-throe months-old baby in the Hames. Tho bodies were removed from the burning building, and it was seen at once that the woman had been mur dored by a blow on the head. She was also stabbed through tho heart and then also dismembered. The child was not killed, but was left to die in the flames. Coroner H J, Moon was not Hied, and after in vestigating tho ease ordered the ar rest of John Hudson and Henry Cnmpbboll ns the murderers. Sheriff Hrown brought tho two negroes immediately to Lawrence ville and placed them in jail. KILLED HIMSELF. Haiti He Had More Children Thun Ile Could Support. Despondent because of Ills inabil ity to provide for his family. Jos eph H. Sheppard, ol' MUlervillo, N. J., killed himself by firing a bullet into his brain. Sheppard com pl if ll od ollen he had more children than be was able to properly support and several times had threatened to commit suicide. Tills week a seventh child was added to the family and the man became distracted. Wants Hie out Vols. AI ii meeting of the Confederate Veterans and Sons of Veterans of Greenville Thursday night an invi tation was extended to the Confed erate Veterans of tho Stato to hold their next annual reunion In that city. Man and Wife Burned. At Auburn, N. H., James Moulton and his wife, each aged more iban 75, were burned to death in fd fire thal destroyed their homo lnt;^ week. SOLUTION OF MYSTERY Mew Jersey's Lampblack Swamp tafease to Be Cleared Up. Her (Husband, With Whom She Is Known to Have Quarreled, Hus ' i Charged With Ile?' Death. Theodore S. Whitmore, of Brook yh, N. Y., lino been formerly charg ed shy tho uew JorBoy courts with tho | nuiijer of hie wifo, Lona Whitmore, vhphTO^dead body was found hulf iUVr(eiged in tho Lampblack swamp, Lt tl?yrlson, u Burburb of Now York, iud Which COHO, until tho identity of ho woman bad been established, vas yiio of tho most eonsatlonal New f?rh;>clty hoe ever known. It took on ./ays of COUSOIOBB work upon the >urt 6f tho ontlro police and detec ive vforce of tho metropolis beforo ho o'oad body was identified as that >f IVL's. Whitmore, hundreds of clows lolnr. run to earth and eeveral iden iflCdiions made. But with tho ono ;reau mystery ns to who tho woman ves (floured away, tho authorities can low/set to work to find hor slayer. Al bough Theodore Whitmore, hor insistid, is in jnil charged with the rim?, yet lt was only by stretching ho ) iw a point or two that ho was leid. Ho was known to have quar oled with his wifo a short timo bo orte her dead body was found Christ in:; lay, and lt was known that oth r m n were paying attention to her. H. t os sure as the police aro that Vhlimoro knows something about ho ?,eath of his wife, they aro Just s certain that he had an accomplice, ut ?ho great question which con ion '/lom is, who is it? Tho pris nor had severul mysterious visitors t tlr.it time of his career, between ?ec.,:?4 and 26, which tho police are rylrig to account for every minute f, but there IB n great dool of spec lutiou as to who these men were. ? IVE KILLED OUTRIGHT. a n Head On Collision Out in Ala bama. A . pedal from Vinegar liend. Ala ?llH of a disastrous wreck on th? lab.ima & Mississippi railroad Erl ay, caused by a head on collision etw .en a passenger train and igg> >g train. Five persons wore il!o'' outright and two wero serlous ,' ii .lured. The dead are: W. Ii. (ftiiv\ merchant, Vinogar Bend; Ins cs C. Busbee, a section fore inn tree negroes, names unknown. i?d of injured Ut ns follows: 'rann- Marks, oiigiiieor ot tho pa^ Bngor train, will die; Henry Hall, roman of the passenger train, sor >usly injured; several negroes slight f injured. Twelve miles wost of Vinegar lend, the road turns sharply and io greater portion of this curvo ls indo up of trestllng that spans a *vlne and a small brook at tho bot . )m. Bunning at fair speed, tho tres snger train took the curve and tres ?e trestle gave way and both en ?me on the opposite end. Before Ingineer Marks could bring his .alu to a stop the trains met head n In the certre of the trestle. Simultaneously with the collision, ie trestle gave way and both ca ines and trains fell to tho bottom, n the logging train were a number f convicts. NECHOES LYNCHED. hoy Assaulted u Fanner and His Wife Murderously. A dispatch from Hawkinsville, Ga. [iys a murderous assault was made n Mr. and Mrs. Martin Livingston t their homo at Goldsboro in the pper part of tho county Thursday ight at 1? o'clock by two negro farm ands on the place. Mr. Livingston was struck on tho ead with a hatchet and his wife's li roa t was cut. Both were danger usly hurt, and at last accounts were ot expected to live. Tho deed was ommitted, it ls supposed, for the inpose of robbery. Sheriff Rogers started at once for he scene, but was notified that the egroes had been captured and shot o death. SCHOONER WRECKED. Uni All But One of Her Crew Pei U h. A dispatch from Norfolk, Ya., says lie schooner that went to pieces off naniond Shoals last week has been lositively identified as the Leonora rom Round Point, Maine, loaded vlth fish scrap, and bound for Ohar eston, S. C. Tho rescued cook re tained consciousness and eonflrmod ho identification. Wreckage wash id ashore bore the name Leonora, ."our bodies were washed ashore luring the day'and one of the crew s still to bo accounted foi'. Tho lile lavers declare that not even a spai >f tho wreck remains to show whoi'i' he vessel struck. ENTOMBED ONE MONTH Hut (be Three Miners .Are Milli Well and Hearty. A dispatch from Ely. Nov., says the BIX inch water pipe through which air is funned lo the three miners thal have been entombed for n month became bent P> tim pros-' sure of rock and earth .it tho 600 foot level and for a limo no air could bo sent lo tho men. Uescurors, by redoubling efforts, roached in a few hours the break and repaired the plpO, The men are still well, but (heir rescue ls yot far off. Dr. .loynes Resigns. Dr. Md ward S. JoynOB who for many yearn has had the chair of modem languages nt tho University of South Carolina 1ms sent In his resignation, Ho ls ono of the most distinguished educators In the South. Rev. Mr. Bristow Writes of Mur ders In This State In THE LAST SIX MONTHS. Bine* July Last Thor? Has Boen One Hundred and Fifty-Eight Murders tn South Carolina, ot Which Eigh ty-Two Woco Committed in Pro hibition Counties and Seventy-six In Dispensary Countios. Rev. Louis J. Bristow, a young Baptist preacher and a strong pro hibitionist, baa beon keeping tho re cord of the murders oommltted in thiB State In the lust six months, and glvos out tho following ou the sub Joct for publication: "Tho appalling frequency of homi cides in South Carolina ls a matter which should give tho ofllcors of tho law and all law-abiding pcoplo oause for serious consideration. Legisla tive, executive and judicial otllcors are confronted with a situation which, if tolerated much longer, will result lu untold evil to the state. Tf necessary, drastic measures should be adopted to put a stop to the reign of riot that ls rampant in South Carolin?. "For a long time I have been giv ing attention to the xnntlor, and I herewith append ligures covoring re ports in tho dully papers for the past six months, from July 1 to December 31, inclusive. "Homicides, 1G 8 : of the dead, whites 79; negroes, 79; of tho slay ers, whites 7 0, negroes 85, unknown 3. It will thus be s.\en that tho number of deaths ls and tho men who did the killings wore almost squally divided also. I have often heard lt. said io answer to nrgumont Against killing that tho large major ity of tho homicides in South Caro lina were ordinary 'nigger killings.' The reports in tho dally papers for ibo last six months aro complete re futation of the claim. "As to the manner of death I find that 121 of the dead wore killed by ?tuns nnd pistol shots; 18 by blows from rocks, 1 'ck and pieces of wooa; ri m cuis, u?o - lil o ws from i.AtJ. Here, too ls a tor rlblo indictment against our people; the deadly weapon-the pistol-is sanded by fat too many men and noys. Pistols aro made and carried for the purpose of shooting men, and that person who habitually carries a pistol ls In his heart already a murderer, with tho posslblo excep tion of certain ofllcors of tho law, who are supposed to go armed. I nelievo lt is true that an Indictment for murder In this state carries with i charge of carrying concealed wea pons; but I have never heard of a case where the accused was convicted Df the charge, or count, relating thereto. "Another matter, and one which I leave to others to account, for; "Of the 158 killings since July 1, 82 wero committed In prohibition counties and 7 6 in counties in which there are dispensaries. Since Octo ber 29, killings have been reported in phohibition counties as follows: York, Saluda, Oconee, Union, Bick ens. Marlboro, Cherokee and Spar enburg, one each; Greenville, New berry. Darlington, two each; Edge field and Marlon, three each. Lan caster, four, and Anderson eleven. "In prohibition countios. Hamp ton, williamsburg, Georgetown and Dorchester, ono each; Charleston and Columbia, two each: Bamberg. Aiken. Orangeburg, Richland, Lau rens, threo each, and Barnwell, four. "1 recite this last paragraph for tho information of those who have desired to compare the homicide re cords of prohibition and dispensary count ios. "My remedy for tho evil of homi cide is for tho legislature to make it. a crime, per 80, to be punished according to the degree of felony in each ease. "To take a human life is an of fense against Cod and human so ciety, exceiit it bo duo process of law. W hen tho Lord gave bis laws to lsreal, he mndo provision for tho manslnyer who killed by accident. But even he was not to go scott free. According to the Mosaic dispensa tion every person guilty of a homi cide suffered U penalty for his of fonse against human lifo and society, whether LllO death blow was given j premeditatedly and wantonly, In heat of passion, or In fear; or whether by error or accident. This was Cod's command; and evey pro vision of tho Mosaic economy en shrined some enduring principio By it some lasting moral lesson was in tended to bo Impressed upon the minds of tin? people. The Institution may bo altered or entirely disappear amid changing social conditions; but I the principle ever remains tho same. "Tho Cities of Refuge provided for by the Mosaic laws wer.- lo give an esylum only to those who killed by accident or error, hut even they had to suffer on indeterminate sentence of confinement in such city until tho death of the high prl^f.v. For all otho? manslayers tho penalty was death. "It. is my conviction, after long and SOriOtIS study of tho matter, that homicide should bo a felony and that punishment should follow upon proof of homicide according to tht! degree of carelessness or wilful ness ol' felony in each case. Wero I a legislature I would introduce into that body noxt. week a bill declaring homicide to bo a felony, and fixing tho punishment for man killing tit from two to fifty years Imprisonment -amuai neneiii LUG ins, i rilo I AL Iv, 3ftUk BuiiaiDp.'' ?.IXLI-T*- ' An Important Ruling by th? Post office Department Subscribers Must Foy Vp Promptly or Their Paper Will Not bo Car ried by tho Malls. Tho Postofflce Departmemt has is sued the following order: A reasonable time will be allowed publishers to secure renewals of sub scriptions, but unless subscriptions aro expressly renewed after the term for which they are paid within the following periods-dalles within 3 months, triweeklies, within 6 months, semiweeklies within nlno months, weeklios within one year-they sholl not be counted in tho legi ti- 1 mate Hst of subscribers, and copies 1 mailed on account thereof shall not 1 bo accepted for mailing ut tho second \ class postage rato of 1 cent a pound, but may bo malled at tho transient second class postage of 1 cont for ! each four ouncos or fraction thoreof, i propnid by stamps affixed. Tho i right of a publisher to oxtend credit for subscription to his publication is not denied or questioned, but his ( compliance or non-compliance with 'J tala regulation will bo taken Into f consideration in determining wheth- t or tho publication ls entitled to trans- , mission at tho second class potage rates. ^ Undor this order all newspapers C will have to come to the cash In ad- ? vance system almost or be heavily 1 fined for violating lt. At present newspapers are circulated free in the counties in which they are publish- > ed and ono cent per pound for pa- r. pera sont out tho county. Under the v above order any publisher that sends j; his pnper to a subscriber who ls in t arrears moro than one year for a ? wookly, nine months for n semi- " weekly, six months for ti trl-weekly, 0 six months for a dally will have to c pay ono cent postage on each paper j sent out by him to such subscriber. ,] This ls a tax that no paper could ? stand and so they will all have to \ come to the cash in advance system, 8 which will bo better for all. The a subscription price to a newspaper In the majority of cases is a very small t amount. Thero aro few subscribers but could pay lt regurlarly and would j. If compelled by tho law to do so. v Tho newMmpor is usually a lonlont ^ creditor and therefore comos last. y This riling of tho postofTlco do- s partmor/ might turn .otjt ?<. ^bo o ? io-. . u;w-??; .?._. '.. >. ?->,??. T press \nd Its subscribers. It willi,* cut off >all dead heads and subscrib- , ors who will not pay, and In couso- fi quenco there will bo very little loss L to tho publishers. They can then nil - publish bettor papers, which would c bonoilt thoso subscribers who nlways pay anyhow. The honest man who % expects to pay for his paper would ? just? ns lenvo pay for it In advance g as any other w.ny. e Thero is not a paper published t that gives almost unlimited time to ^ subscribers but what loses hundreds ( of dollars every year from this source (j alone. (. Tbore ls one ch ss of publications that would suffer, and that ls tho mail order journals, and lt is doubt- ^ less this class the government ls af- ? ter. As the Minneapolis Tribune | says, "The depart men I has been try- Q lng to get rid of carrying periodicals that collect a nominal subscription ^ price once to get in the seeon.. class and aro continued indefinitely free j on the pretex of long credit." Tho country paper will certainly not be injured by the cutting down of tho free circulation of mall order journals. lt ls a pity tho govern ment cannot distinguish between tho two. for the moil order journal ls the chief sinner in this respect, and ls responsible for burdening the malls with tons of matter for tho sole pur pose of carrying advertising. SHOT THEM BOTH. The Murderous Act of n Jealous Young Man. As the result of a tragedy at Mar lon, N. C., which occurred in front of the First National Hank building. James Patterson was killed outright and Alfred Patterson, bis br ?titer, was picked up In the street In a dy ing condition. Tho shooting was done by Graham Finley, a well-known young man of Marion, and was over Miss Patterson a sister of the two mon shot. Fin ley met Miss Tatterson in company with Henry Moore, Iiis rival, as the two were returning from church. Ho demanded that Moore surrender the girl to him and was met willi a prompt refusal. A personal ehcouuted ensued, and the girl's brothers, who wore also returning from church with a party of ladles, appeared on the scene and took their sister's escort's part, whereupon Finley drow his revolver and killed ono of them outright and mortally wounded the other, lie was arrested. and for dastardly or wilful murder, death. "I venture the ascortion that had tho 168 larsons who killed their fellowmen during the last half of last year know positively the penalty for homicide was certainly two, pos sibly fifty, years' Imprisonment, not one-fourth of the number of homi cides would have occurred In this slate. "I know I will bo met with the case of poison who kills unquestion ably In defense of himself, his home or bis family. My reply is, wo us ually have a man of integrity and honor In the governor's chair, in whose banda ls tho "prorogative of pardon. "I stated at Ibo outset that, drastic measures should bo adopted. I re peat lt. Louis J. Bristow. Wllliamaton, Jan. 3, 1908. ??a?!le Shannon of TERRIBLE SUSI Hos Nearly Driven Hor Gr JJ cu Parents Crazy.-Tin Lady Waa Lost to Sight ember 20, and Since That Has Vanished from Sight aJi Whereabouts Is Unknown. A brother of Miss Sallie Sha] )f Brookland, who lins boon rnis\ from her home since Sunday aft loon, Doc. 29, called at the Statej Ice and stated that, notwithstan< ;he numerous rumors circuit tvithln tho past week, not a sin! dt of authentic information concoi ng his sister's whereabouts had been .eceived. Tim girl's family ls unable to de 5ide whother sho I", doad or allvo. L'ho lust sho was seen, so far as th?: amlly has been able to loam, wt ibout 20 foot from tho Cerviac' stree! ?ridge across -tho Congarce. She vas then coming in tho direction of Columbia. The police oilieors In Col lin bia and Brookland do not think , ho has destroyed herself. ?i* Sallio Shannon was engaged to ? 'ouug man in Brookland and ?>v naniago was to have taken piac?^ * within a few weeks, it is said. It / a known tbnt thoy had a quarrcf. hat Sunday afternoon, aftor whiohv) ho nover returned to her homo. She ttended Sunday school at the^Lutl ran church, where she' taught^, lass, and thoso who saw her goinl ii tho dlroction of tho rivor biidgj lid not observe that she appearei noroso or downcast. Tho keeper of] ho brldgo does not recall having! een the girl cross the bridge that' .fternoon or evening. Mr. Shannon declared with feeling hat his sister was a very modest Hirtstlan girl and had always exhi dted a very deep Intorost in church vork. Sho has been a member of he Lutheran church for about five ?ears. While sho was usually quiet md reserved ip hor manner, she im? losscd n happy, disposition. While vhllo brooding over tho mlsunder tandlng with her lover, they declare lositivoly that nothing in hor life rould show tho least tendency to sui ide. Hor mother is grief stricken over ier disappearance and tho other members of the family have boen lu orrow since the fated Sunday. How vor, they still have a lingering hope hat Sallie will yet bo returned to hem, tho same bright, cheerful girl hat she has over hoon. Thoy look y day and pray by night for nor Otu rn and tho public genorally ls ppealed to to assist lu every way lossiblo to locato her. Tho police ot Columbia have bolloved that she ls u Columbia, but some think she is n Charleston. Othors suspect sui ido. Tho following accurate deso'Ip loii: Sallie Shannon, aged 19; 5 feet 3 nches in height) weight 130 pounds; Ight complexion, rosy cheeks; round ather full face; dark hair and dark ?yobrows; bino eyes; hair pompa lour, usually tied with ribbon bow it back; small mouth; medium nose, onad chin; stood rather erect i>nd valked With a spring to heels; when ast seen was dressed in light shirt valet, sky blue skirt, woro long gray doak and no hat; had two rings on second huger of right hand, one nain, other with sot; pleasant dispo sition, but rather determined; sel lout displayed any temper. Member if Lutheran Church. Was formerly ?mploycd at timokeopor and book keeper in cotton mill, but has pro? Fessed desire to bo trained nurse. Has relatives In Camdon, Chester county, in Columbia and in Missis dppi. Miss Shannon's mother, father, two oidor sisters and threo brothors ire living In Brookland. Any Infor mation concerning her should bo wired to tho Stoto Immediately and me family will be communicated with as soon as any news ls re solved. _ l-l)Vlt FIHIOMION KILLISD By a Palling Wall III New York City Friday. At Now York four ilromon wore killed by falling walls In a confla gration which destroyed tho Parker building, a 12-storv stftiotuio, locat ad on Fourth avenuo between Kigh Leonth and Nineteenth streets. Tv?n ty-slx others were moro or loss ser iously injured by the falling dobrls. Tho Aro was never under control und tinnily bumed itself out hoing with difficulty confined to tho build ing in which lt originated. Tho loss ls estimated at $1,500,000. The fire was ono of tho most spectacular as well as disastrous of rocont. years, hoing marked by heart-rending, scones, sensational escapes anti Hashes of heroic daring. Fire nt Ninety-Six. Ninety-Six was again visited by a very disastrous firo Thursday night. The alarm was sounded about 2.30 o'clock, when P was discovered that. J, c. Hutchison's store was on lire. Tho Hames soon spread to the joining stores of Rev. A. J. Cant and Dr. W. H. Holland, together ' the Nlnoty-Slx telephone exe] tho K, of P. Hall and fixtures, J. McAlbancy's dental ofiAccj W-.,..