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The Marlboro Democrat r M1K> THOU, GREAT LIBHHTY, INSPIRE OUK SOULS AM) MAKE OU H LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OK OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL XXXIlj. BENNETTS VILLE. S. C.. FRIDAY, APRIL li, 1?K)H NO. 14 SHOOTS A NEGRO. Congressman Heflin of Alabama tn a Serious Affray. WAS ON A STREET CAR lu Washington With CoiiRi'i'ssman ^? WHerbce, on his Wu y to Deliver Temperance 'Inlk-Remonstrated With Negro for Drinking on Cur, Threw Him Oft" mut Then Shop Him in lh?> Henel, In :t desperate affray on a Penn sylvania Avenu?4 ear in Washington Friday a negro was shot by Congross inau Thomas J Elotlin ol' Alabama. Thomas Lumby, the negro, was >.hot in tlie head and is in a critical coud lt loll, and Thomas McCreary, a ?New York horse trainer, is suffering from a wound in the leg. Thc sheet iug of McCreary was accidental. Mr. Hellin was arrested and taken Kto the Gili police precinct station, ?fsiiore tlie charge of assault with in teut to kill was placed against him. Later he was released on $.ri,000 hall. Thc shooting occurred shortly after 7o'clock as the car reached the corner f Pennsylvania avenue and lilli street hound for Capitol Hill. Congrssmati neilin, accompanied Ivy Congressman Hdwln .1 lOllerbee, of South Carolina, had hoarded the ? ?ar al 12th street, and l'ennslyvnnia avenue, Mr. Hellin being on hi., way io deliver a temperance lecture at tlx Metropolitan Methodist Kip i SCO pa I Church, 1 1-2 street and olin Marshall Place. Upon hoarding the car. In observed two negro passengers, one of whom was Thomas Lumby, and who was in the act ot taking a drink from ? bottle of whiskey. There wore ? number of passengers, including several ladies. Mr. Hellin says he re monstrated with Lumby and asked him to stop drinking saying: "Don't take thrtt drink there au/) ladies frere and lt ls not right. It is against the law for you to do such a thing lu a street car and 1 hope you will put that bottle away." The ;uher negro, who was sober, attempted to lake the bottle away /rom his friend, but failed. lt is .'9.aid that Lumby became offended at Mr. Ilotlln's remonstrance's and ap plied vile epithets. As the car reach ed ?th street and Pennsylvania ave nue Hellin and Lumby were engaged in a desperate struggle. Mr. Holl?n who is a large powerful man, succeed >?d in throwing Lumby oil" the cai as it came lo a Stop. Most of the occupants of tho car hastily alllghted, including Mr. and Mrs. McCreary The negro fell io the ground on liing pushed tiff the car. .He jose, and, 11 said, began cursing Mr. Hellin again and made a motion l'or his hli> pocket as if lo dray a wea pon, whereupon Mr Heflin tired ul him through the cat window, missing tho neuro and hilting Thomas Mc Creary, who was about 20 feet from the car. Mr Hellin bred once or twice more, one ot the shot:; striking Lumby in Hie bead above the ear. Lumby ran :i SliOH dis! a Ure and fol i An ambulance was railed and he Was taken lo th? lOmerg?hCy Hospital. Tin conductor of the car disappeared and officer George X. Scriven took charge Hie car and ran it to ?Vd street ami i easy1vania avenue. riare Repr?sent?t I vc I lelliu Was escorted by Olllcer Scriven io Un' Cap ito! i lot el, and later was taken lo the p?lice station in a "ab. Ile wa;; mu locked np. Mr McCroary's wound is mil serious, and aller treatment at ?A hospital he returned io bis apart ments. At Hie Linergency Hospital, it was said Lumby though badly wounded and unconscious, has a jfl&',iaie ?? to recover. His skull was ^fractured, but the surgeons were nu ble to ascertain at that Hmo, whether the bullet had entered the head. Mr Hellin explained at tho station his reason for going armed. He is the author of a "jim crow" car law in the District of Columbia, Mid said that since he Introduced the mensure ho has received many letters of a threatening character and secur ed permission from the authorities to go armed. Mr. Hellin represents the fi th Alabama district, in which the Tuskegee Institute, of which llroker T. Washington, b tho head, ls lo oated. * Met His Kate. At Hagan, (?a., Lige Wilson, a ne gro, while running amuele with a iliol gnu, on 'he streets Sunday eve ning, was shot and instantly killed by Tow n Marshal Nat bau Pr?gers the negro (Ired the li rsl ?hot, do clarlllg war on every ?vii 11< man 111 Tatuali County) Ten Were Injured. Ten persons were injured, none seriously, In a trolley car accident at Philadelphia yesterday. DIED AT HIS POST. A MAN ii KATING HIS WA* ON THAIN Shoots mut utils the Coadmtor, Ital ls Shot Also and He Hies lader in .Kail. A special dispatch from Anderson says Conductor C. h. Swink, or freight train No. 2.4, 01' the Ander son branch of the Charleston amt Western Carolina Itallroad, was kill ed hy a while man, named nunnie Brock. Tuesday afternoon ai four o'clock, while his hain was standing in thc yard al Calhoun Falls. M rock was aricslcd and lodged in the Ab beville Jail, M rock is about ?? years ol' am1 ami has the reputation ol' be ing a big bully brock got on Swink's train al Lowndcsvillo in a drunken condition. Ho succeeded in healing his way as far as lattimer, when Swink went in to the coach and collected his tare from lattimer lo Calhoun Falls, brock, it is said, cursed sw lui' very vilely and gol liff thc train near (he Calhoun Falls yard When- Swink's train pulled up io tho station H rock secured a pistol and cursed Mr. Swink again Coilduetoi Swink theil Stl'UCk ll rock and Brook opened lire. 1 le tired only one time, thc bullet penetrating Swink's heart. As Swink Iel! lie pulled his plsiol and ll rod til Brock once or twice, one of the shoi- laking effect. Conductor Swink was a man of amiable disposition and friendly. Ile was lihou! US years old and was from Woodruff, in Spartanburg County, whore his parents now reside. lb was unmarried and had o iv been running on the Anderson branch : ir about sixty days. Ile wa- pop liar with all of bis fellow tra' i nen The body was carried to Woodruff for burial, Brock Dies in .Jail. A dispatch from AbbevPl ; says at Calhoun Falls, in this county., 'lues day' evening' Conductor Swink, el' a freight train ol' the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway, was ? hoi and killed by Bunnie Broil;, a des perate young man residing in thc western pa rt ol' the conni. . Brock was also shot by tile conductor In Ind hip and died alter being lodged In jail here. lt seems thal Brock '.MIS on I lie top of one ol' the car:, ol the Hain ami was in a drunken condition. Ito was ordered to come down by the conductor. Words were passed ami the shooting began. The conductor of the train was shot through the hear; Brock was a very young man. a son of a good rather, hut he is said to lune been a desperate character; IM CK? >V Ks Sl.ow I.V. Senator Tillman Won! Holum to Senate I bis Session. The State says I lie condition Ol Senator ll. lt Tillman is not alarm ing, according lo his physician, bul it is liol though! that he will he ai)|o lo I'etUl'n 1,1 tile Senate lliis session in respouce t<> an Inquiry Br. T ?1, Hunter, Senator Tillman's physi cian wired The Stale at !' 15 WodUOS day evening as follows. "Thor?! ls HOI bing alarming in Sen atm Tillman's condition Left oil anodyne last night for first lune since lie has been sick, and ho. did liol rest as well as he linn been. lb has been somewhat depressed today li has developed no organic symp toms at all His trouble is purely functional. His Improvement has not been as rapid as 1 flrSl expected Don't think h.- w ill be able lo return to the senate Hr.s session.'' lh following was received from The State's Trenton correspondent Wednesdoy afternoon .Senator Tillman is slowly improv ing. Has only been np once and bas very little control of himself while standing, lt ls IhOUglll he is in nee,! ol' a complote rest." MANY MIN F,HS KU. 1, KB in a Wyoming Coal Mine on bas! Saturday. Between .>.. and Vu inen, it devel oped to-dny, losi lheir lives in lwo explosions Saturday and Saturday night in Coal MUK- NO I. of Hie Union Pacific Coal Mine, a' Hanna, Wyo. Tho explosions wen- camed hy ga SOS and coal du I and each was followed hy a Iii-". 'lin- llrsl expiosiori occurred at o'clock killing IK mincis. Including a SUprlhtOndeni and three bosses. T; . Second exploi ion occurred at I ?fie o'ch.ii Saturday night, snuffing hill Hu- lives ol' hom IO to l?? res . Hei ;, inciudhiC: state Min . Inspector D. M. roiio. * BRYAN'S RECORD As a Vote Getter Compared With Other Candidates. WHAT ARE THE FACTS? Thc Columbia State Show? by lit? Results <>f Two Presiden rial Klee? tions That i lu? firent Commoner ls the Strongest Possible * amii? dato tho Democrats ('au Possibly Nominate. The following editorial should bo read by all Democnils: Papable weakness evidences Ihe attempt of the esteemed News and Courier h? contend uguiitsi thc posi tion of Mr. Brynn, as expressed In hts loiter to thc editor ol' The Stato. Anti il seems as if consciousness ol' that weakness is having an injurious oftoct upon the tompcr and inor?is of the South Carolina champion of Hie Now York political programme. Commenting on Mr Bryan's ox pression of pleasure thal Iiis Demo cracy "has been satisfactory to the ra nit and li lo of th Democrats of tho South as well as ii. Mm rank and lile of the Democrats of the North." 'ho Nows and Courier says thal South Carolina gave Judge Parker more votos in 100-1 Dian wore glveh Hryan in 1000. and thal Ccorgki gave Clevelnnd more votos in ism." than Hryan in I s?t;, and continues: "So it would appear from ibo records thal thu rank and file of the Demoenits ot the South aro not hy tiny int-ans sal isllcd with Mr. Hryan. and tho rank and file of the Democrats of thc North have shown Mr. Bryan very clearly that they do not want him and Will not have him." II is scarce ly ingenious to ?ile thc voie of a 1 one-party Southern Slate In a general . election to prov?! or disprove a point Uki- this, but since The News and . Courier bas appealed to theK record, 1 and attempts to mislead its readers, we shall quote tho whole record to ' Its confusion. What are the facts'." In I X!i _> Mr. ! Cleveland was given more votes than Mr. Hryan .u:ot in IX9C in these 1 Slates: Wisconsin, Vermont. Now Hampshire', .Massachusetts, Connecti cut, New York, New Jersey, Dole Ware, llhotl? Island, Maryland. Vir ginia, (ioorghi and Alabama, In ' other words, in 1 ? State... including 1 four in the South, Cleveland received more votes than Ht van; ami in :', ll State-; and territories, including nine 1 Southern Stales. Hryan was given moer voies than Cleveland, llryan's popular vote in I SOO was 0511,000 greater than Cleveland's in i-S02 lt the record appealed tb by tho char leston paper proses anything, wh?i does it prove ' Pl'oCCcdillK lo the record bf the Bryan' vote by States in 1000, and the Parker cole In 190-1, ii (s found (hat Harker :;oi more votes than Hryan in New Y.?'rki New Hampshire, Mussciinsetts. Ithodo Island Dela- i ware. \\ i si Virginia, South Carotina, j (ioorghi ano Mississippi; or thal in niue States, including three Southern Stale-, Havker received mor? vides i ha II Bryn ti while in i h idly nine States) incl uditig len Sont herb, State.-. Bryah was giv?h a greater vote than Harker And Bryan's pop ular Vote in lodu totaled ?. 1!Si0;lilli mox Iliad Harker s in 1901. What does tin' record prove that Is ap pealed lo b> The News ami Courier "io show (hal the rank and tile nf Democrats ?ii Hie South are ubi sat isfied With Mr. Bryan." and thal ihe I ?eniot ? als iii the NOM h will not have him? H proves inst what Mr. Bryan s-'id. and proves that The Nfws andi Co ur itir ls a misleading ii ml ii ii sn fe counselor! Since We have gOUO into the res old . Iel us puisne a little further. Ill I Mn'., even aller tho aw ful humps Democracy received In tho Iheh cur rent Cleveland administration, Bryan had ;: 1 more votes in the electoral College than President Harrison when Cleveland defeated him In I sn::. And 111 I SOO Bi yan had seven more elec toral votes than Cleveland got when as [?resident, ho was defeated by Manson In ISSS. The least liutilboi Of popular vote; received by Bryan was noa ri,> a million greater than was ever given to any Other Demo crat. . in cum. william McKinley, gen erally beloved because ol' his success in allaying sectional animosities, lind abnormally popular because ho was tho maher ol' a brilliant ly Stiecossful war. had a mujeril) over Bryan of SI!*.The. Pour years later Koosevoll dcft'llicd Hie New York World's can (Ilillito Parker, hy I he enormous pi m . (dilt. of 2,5-15(515;. (ince more io de record; We lind i hal Hryan carried eight Slates in i K thal woiil aga Ins) cleveland in ! s's tit Ami In thal .var he carried twelve Slates thal. Harker lord, losing only two thal Harker carried. That w .s ii,si after Hu- hod cleveland ad ministration had given Democracy a Express Safes in Car After Mur dering the Messenger WHILE HE WAS SLEEP ftless?hger \VHs Killed Withoul His Amihrniiig. Keys TH ken From Ills IMekei and (?Ml er Lurked in His <?rlp-Crime Not Discovered l'util Snutu Fe Train Kcuchcd Mud of its Regular Hom*-. Two robbers early Sunday murder ed O. A. Hailey of Kansas City, an express messenger of the YVclls Fargo Express coin pu ny, In the ex press car ol' a westbound Atcbison, Topeka and Santa Fe (rain between Florence and Newton, Kansas, robbed both thc local and through sa fe, i ah - lng at least. $1,000 and osma Jewelry and escaped. Tho bony ot Messenger Hailey was found when tin- (rain reached New ion. It was st retobeo on th.- floor of tb \ eur. lywtg in a pool ot blood. The b :k of the skull was crushed and Ino end of th.- cai in which it was l>hiK was spattered with blood. There was no evidence of any struggle. The indications ar?- that tb,- murder was committed while the messenger was asleep. Hailey was last seen ttllvo al Strong City. Al Peabody some one opened the car door jiu s enough io throw oat a package ol' waybills and then closed it quickly. The custom of the messenger has boen lo go lo sleep soon alter leav ing Florence, and ii is probable be lid this Sunday night. \ftor slaying tlie sh-epinn messenger, thu lobbers lOWOrecj the dead man's bead With his , .oat. took tlie safe keys nom the lead man's pockets "and ransacked thc safes. Then the keys were put : into. Halley's overcoat and lb.- coat yyas folded and put in bis ?rip, whe.ro i it* \Vins foe 1 later. v; i. . : ':>?,i ft'o^/Unvii a( Ihn ? Missouri Pacific crossing fetid of Now \ on. two mon wore soon by tin- on- . ?ineer io jump bun tho train and run | iOUth. Tho south door of the ex- , ?ress car was lound open when Ibo ; rain reached the Newton station ( Ollicers, soon after the murder | md robbery, were scouring the conn ir?. A reward of $1,000 lias boen offered by the Walls-Faro Express .ompu ny tor the apprehension of the robbers, Three mon were a nested ( Monday ai Wichita on suspieiiin. No ithei traces ol tin- robbers has been lound. The murdered man v. as about :'.n years old Ile was only reccntl) mar- i ried. HI.A.MF.K 0H.WOMHt:HO Kol' the ( losing of the Dispensaries in ( 'allioun ( 'ouiii> ? The Orangeburg corresponden? of Tho New: eud Courier Says " a rum or has Kilned circul?t lon thal the cir, ni Orangchurg is responsible for the dispensais tannie in Calhoun. This was l>as on a portion of an article troin the St Mallhow's Correspon dent of 'The News and Colli iel its follows: There are said <<< !>e sumo quio) f"1 Hes ;,t >y?'i l< ii? :he eil.', ol prhngebhiirg with a view bl injuria? ibis community and attracting i ra de io i he tonner city.' ? This correspondent has made dil ?gout search ami inquiry, ' * * > * is nu ?lido to locate any sign Ol' tr?i?e of i he saul "111001 foiees.' except, per haps, 'In' prohibition forces, which, nal ni alb . would like lo see Calhoun mid every other county in thc State lor thai inaner, dry, I'JVCH Cn' pro- j lllbltioli peupl?; so far as is known, have liol been active in (his maller, ind if they were, their efforts would not i.e exerted towards foi mini; any prejudice II ga in st st Matthew's m fa vol <?f Orangeburg." fearful black eye. in 1900 the Ito liubllcans, having the prestige of uiccessful war. and McKinley as , leader, were practically luipi equable, particularly when many Democrats knifed Hi v an Four years lalor a mini cbo;.en as Democratic chieftain ,"1 the ndVlCQ Of New York newspa pers and IO ldeaa- New York and its Interests, was overwhelmingly de feated. 'This year New York is boost ing another candidate; making a reg ular campaign III Ills behalf and llgainsl Bryan, bul thal man eau not hope I"' I?' more successful than Parker, or OVOII to gol th?' New York volo. If New York would not give Parker her vote, what chance 1ms a man of the same type coming from the VYesI '.' A year ano Democracy seemed ab solutely hopeless. Todnyi whl' fl lender, un inspirer, thai cali t'-reato enthusiasm, (hat cati reach (he peo ple, thal is known and respected by Ibo pobpIO, there is hope myall ls the only Doinoi at in that C?U8S, and lt ls useless to attempt io blind tho people of South Carolina to thal fact. IMPORTANT RULING HY THK INITK? STATUS SU* I'KK.MK COURT. Another Notable Opiufou Huudcd Donn bj tho Highest Tribunal in Htiilroad Hate Mattet*. In refusing to grant to Attorney Gonorul Young of Minnesota a writ of ha hoot! cot pus releasing him from Hie penalty imposed by the United States circuit court for the district of \ Minnesota on the charge ot con tempt of court in Instituting a pro-1 coeding in a Statt- court for tho cn-1 fortement of the railroad rate law j after thc federal court bad prohibited such a course, and in afllrming the decision of Judge Pritchard of the United Slate-, circuit court for the Western district of North Carolina, discharging from imprisonment das. H. Wood, a ticket agent of the South ern railway al Asheville, after he hadj been sentenced by the Asheville police court to serve a term on thc rock pile on the charge (d' collecting for a ticket on I hat road a greater price Mian was permitted by tho Slate Railroad commission, I he supreme court of the Unilod Slates added another to a serien of decisions which have rendered notable the present term of that court. In both cases tin? right of the Stales to lix tates for railroad trans portation .vas the issue, and both involved conflicts botwoon federal and State courts. The decision in each case was Opposed both to tho States and to their courts. The opinion of the court in boin na SCH Wits announced by Justice Peckham, ami willi tlo- exception of Justice Harlan, all the other members of the court stood behind him in the Announcement of the court s Anding. Justice Harlan read a dissenting ?lunion in tin- Young case in which lie look the view that the suit was practically a proceeding against the State and therefore not permissible under the eleventh amendment lo the constitution. He therefore character ized the opinion as era-making in-thc, History ol' the court, and sahl lt "had the effect of closing tho courts of a state against the State itself and liredlcted that the result would be disastrous. Tho two cases wore so dmiiar (hot both practically were de nied in one opinion. Thc? principal l)ronouncemenl was made in the Minnesota ca .?. KI .Ki "TION CONTESTS. flu' Usual Negroes Arc Working for Ibo Usual 1-Vcs. In speaking of the South Carolina contested cases before Congress tho Washington correspondent of The state says "the usual negroes ure contesting Hie seats of Lever, Legare and Patterson. They aro all here with their attorneys. W. A. Holman? 1). I., linker and M. Rutledge Risers are here for Le?are, ll H. Moss and C M j Kind for Lever, and I) S. Henderson for Rat ters.-m. Rrioleau lias appeared upon the scene and is ready io take his seat on Hu- floor ot Hu- house. Tim election commit tee i^ settling itself lo enjoy Ibo ar gument ol' Lawyer Moor er of Orango onie,, yvlio represents the contestants foi' Lover ami Patterson's seat. Mool er is tho UCgro who last lime said he iiood so high in the l?gal profession in Orangeburg that he could borrow money frblU Mr. I!, liait Moss." ll is lime (bat this farce was called Off. None of these negroes expect to gel any seal in Congress. If they did. not one ol' them would know v. hat to do with ii I'nni/.ler is abo Ul ns much 111 io represent this dis trict in Congres: as one of those "bid eons baboon" Capers seems to Know so inmdi about. Then there is Prioleau, Caper's "hideous baboon." He ii. either (lodging tho penitentiary or running for Congress nearly all i he time. He would make a lovely member, The principal thing these fellows are after is the attorney's fees allowed by Congress. When they get it they are the happiest set of dar kles in South Carolina as long as the money lasts Ititi FALL IX MUCK. nuce Sold I or Thousands Now Sold lor Hundreds. The Columbia Stan- says a small lot on (he south ?do of Lumber Street, about one block from Hie Coveruor's mansion, has .inst been purchased by Mrs. Ca roi ino C. Ml Kl ns from Mr. .1. Il Sams. The price for the lot was $1,350. The attorneys exainlng the nib- say tittil it was Hie loiigcst title Hie;.- eyer handled the property httv ing Chun ged hands Pt) many tunes, A rather nt brest lng discovery was made by ibo lawyers when looking up the deeds, lt developed thal many years OgO, this little hu. with fi small strip of 'and adjoining, wa? reid for $'H>, 000 In Confed?rale money. WANT BRYAN The West Will Be Solid For His Nomination. NEARLY ALL FOR HIM. liidinnna, North Dakota and Illinois Aro Solid for tho Great Commoner mid Senil Delegations to Nation al Convention fledged to His Nom ination ns the Democratic Standard Rearer. Delegates to the indianna State convention Wednesday afternoon n district meetings selected 20 district delegates to the National Convention al Denver and tho oommmitco cu rules selected tour delegates at ta .'go. A majority of tho delegated will vote nt Denver for the reelection of Thomas Tagart as tho Indiana ineni bor of the national committee. While some of tho district dele gates were not instructed it ts tho present announced intention of all ?>0 delegates to suport tho enndlducy of Willam J. Divan tor the presi dential nomination. Noctli Dakota Unanimous. After three hours' of oratory Tues day afternoon tho North Dakota Dem ocratic convention unanimously a doptod resolutions endorsing Willam .1. Bryan for the presidential nomi nee, and instructing delegates to volo for ft ryan's nomination. The supporters of Gov, Johnson of Minnesota threatened to introduce a second choice resolution, hut the r?solu ton was uot forthcoming. That part of the resolution relating to Mr. Bryan says: "Tho Domocrts of North Dakota, In convention assembled, believing (hat William Jennings H ryan ..repre sents the truest typpo -of AnV-rican citizenship and ts the nat?nif loader of the reform forces of the United States of America resolv? that th? delegates from this conventillo to the national convention are hereby in structed to vole as a unit for tho nomination of William J. Bryan for the president of tho United States." endorsed in. Illinois. Ill a harmonious meeting of the Democrat ie State central committee of Illinois Wednesday. W. .1. Brynn was endorsed for the oresldency In emphatic language. It was decide*.! that the State convention should b* held In Springfield, III., on April 23. The friends of Roger Sullivan, mem ber of the national conimltee, wore in complete control of tho meeting The only point upon which thor? appeared to he a division of senti ment was over tin? manner of select ing delegates to the State convention, in tlih-. tho Sullivan men won their point, defeating the followers of M. K. DUlop of Jacksonville, lil., who wanted to pul through a rule re quiring county conventions to bo held. The resolution endorsing Pry an was adopted hy a vote of 33 to I, .las. ll Donohue Of Bast St. Louis hoing t ho only dissenter. Sullivan voted In Ibo nflirmatlve. CA lt KNTKHS ItUHiMNO. Twenty Persons Hurt in UH Accident at Detroit. At I let roll, Mich., over a score of people were injured lat** Tuesday when an Interurban car on tho AUB Arbor branch of the Detroit United Railway, bound into the city front Jackson, Michigan, was derailed by defective rails near :5 1st street and ploughed across tho brick pavement Into a store building. Tho car was wrecked and the front of the two-story building was de molished. 'Twenty people were taken lo the hospital for treatment and many others sustained minor injur ies. 'Two of the Injured are reported to bo in a serious condition, tine is Mrs. R. llalladay, of Napoelon, Mich., and the other is Mike Rhowlkn, of Detroit. THEY WANT BOOZH. Blown l p Because ll?' Befused to Sell Liquor. , At Cen i er Point, Ind., tho Mndgo business block, containing ti drug I store, shoe store and barber shop, willi the Knights of Pythias hall on the second Moor, was desi roved by dynamite yesterday. Hardly any thing but splinters is lofl (d' thc build ing. The town has no saloons, am! Mr. Trey, a druggist, bas been Importun ed often to tum bis store Inio a Mind llgor, refused, n ls heiloved thai tho liquor sympnthlfcors who wanted tho blind tiger established destroyed tho i 1 utiding Oltt of spite.