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VOL XVII. y " AN APPEAL To the Qualified Voters of South Carolina. AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT From tho ('IUsciik ol' Hcvornl Townutiips in tho Upper Furl ol' tho Ktato on a Vital Mat tor. To the Voters of South Carolina: The townships of Dunklin and Oak Lawn in the county of tireenvillo: Cokesbury, Ninety-Six and Cooper in i the county of (1 recti wood; Sullivan in the comity of Laurens, and IluicLtj and Pine drove in the county of Saluda, hereby call to your attention the proposed amendment to Article V 11 Section It of constitution of 18hf>, ! which seeks to destroy the corporate-j existence of the said townships, and respectfully ask that you vote in favor of the said proposed constitutional amendment, tor the reason that it is the only hope to relieve the taxpayers of tlie said townships from the payment of an enormous debt for bonds issued in aid of a railroad which never was built, and for which they have received absolutely no consideration The said bonds were illegally issued in the beginning, as the citizens of said townships respectfully allege and will endeavor to show, and the said indebtedness has been declared null and void by the supreme court of South Carolina, whose decision should lie accepted as linal and conclusive by all loyal citizens of the State, the decision of any other court to the contrary notwithstanding. So then the taxpayers < f these townships claim: (1) That there is no moral consideration for the said indebtedness, inasmuch as the conditions prescribed by the Act upon compliance of which alone t he bonds should lie issued, were never complied with and the people of ilhpvtn t/?VUI?ohl^U lui OA ivwini t'jwl l/? ?v?jv W ?? ui7? I I J/tl i I I t T V-> I I I > I'M iil I lutely no consideration for the said j enormous debt, the principal alone of which amounts in the neighborhood of one hundred thousand dollars, and which has.been drawing Interest at seven per cent, for something like sixteen years. (2) That the said debt does not constitute a legal indebtedness against the said townships if we accept as final the decision of the supreme court of South Carolina,which it is our duty to do. That the decision of the Federal courts upon questions of this kind is not authority binding upon the State courls or the citizens of a State has been frequently decided. In the case of Congarce Construction Co., vs. Columbia Township, reported in 49 S. C., f?3f?. At page 529 the court uses this language: % "Again, it is urged that, Inasmuch as the supreme court of the I'nited States, in the case of FoLsom vs. i Ninety-Six Township, 159 1'. S., <>11, has been called upon to pass upon the same questions as were considered and decided by this court in Floyd vs. Perrin, and has taken a different view from that adopted by this court as to the constitutionality of the statutes there Involved, (our own court in that case having held the bonds invalid) , i this court should now, with a view to securing uniformity of judicial decision, abandon its previous well-considered opinion and adopt the view taken by the supreme court of the United .SUites. While this court fully recognizes the superior authority and binding force of all decisions of that distinguished tribunal in all cases in-1 volvlng the construction of t lie constitution and laws of the United States and is always ready to cheerfully follow and acquiesce in such decisions, yet we do hot recognize the superior authority of that tribunal, or the binding force of its decisions, involving only the construction or validity of our own State constitution and laws. Upon such questions it is * # * 11 v cu/fti'ti /"1111 vr lit nn vie mil m n>olo/l . . will n tt \/i ii \ * \ t k, j UW puw, UIIUIUI|IIII^11/\I iby the ell eta of any foreign tribunal, whether State or federal, no matter how high its rank may be, and tode cide such questions according to our best judgment." The facts are-bricily these: In 1885 the Legislature passed an Act amendIn# an Act to incorporate the CJreen- 1 vilie and Port Iloyal railroad company in certain important particulars, and among this incorporating certain townships along the line of the said proposed railway, and authoii/^d J these townships to subscribe to its ' capital stock upon the terms and con-1 ditlons therein expressed. These con- i ditlons were never complied with, and the records in the oilice of the county commissioners for tlie various conn- j ties will so show. The said bonds; would therefore, be invalid in the! hands of the original parties to whom they were issued. Notwithstanding the failure to comply with the conditions precedent required by the Act, bonds on behalf of these several townships were Issued in an amount varying from ten to twenty thousand dollars to each township. A company was organized for the pretended pur pose of constructing the said road. This <?ompany pretended to be grading the road, and thereby secured from the county commissioners the issue of the said bonds. Shortly thereafter the company failed and left the grade ?.V n r. I i\ > \ 1 * > i e\ AA>vdhl?v? ill an nii'UiiiiMvti; vuiiniuuii, aim i.iii; people have no prospect whatever of ever getting the said road. An action was brought in the State courts for the purpose of testing the validity of these bonds and the State couit decided the Act unconstitutional and the bonds Invalid. (Sec Floyd vs. Porft \ rin, ;u> S. C., page 1.) Thereaftei certain parties, who claimed to b< non-residents and subsequent purchasers for value and without notice (the bonds being invalid in the hands of the original holders, for the reasons above specified) brought their action in the United States court to test the validity of the said bonds, and the United States court refused to follow t he decison of the State court In Floyd vs. Perrin and decided in favor of the said bond holders. That is to say, that the IxjikIs were good In the handy of the non-residents who might have purchased the same for value and without notice of those facts above recited, and which would go to impeach the validity of the said bonds. (This too in face of the fact that the records in the oMioc of the county commissioners for the various counties which records are public records and notice to the world, disclose all of the facts which would go to impeach the validity of the said bonds.) Since then the matter lias been in litigation. until finally Judgments have been obtained against several of these townships upon coupons representing apart only of the accrued interest, and mandates have been Issued by the United States court authorizing a levy and collection of a tax to meet the judgments already obtained, and suits are still pending against some ol the townships; and inasmuch as the lirst instalment, of the principal of the said bonds falls due this year othci suits will surely follow, since it appears that these bonds, or at least a large portion of them (the exact amount we do not know,) have found their way into t he hands of non-residents who can sue In the United States court and thus evade the deci slons of the State court. The debt against Dunklin and Oak Lawn townships, in Greenville Count y, alone amounts in principal and accrued interest to something like t hirty t housand dollars each. The principal of bonds mi behalf of Cokesbury, Ninety-Six and Cooper townships amount to $18,800 The other townships are similarly atfeetcd. You car imagine what an cncormous tax will be required to pay this debt and the number of homes that will have to Ik sold in order to meet tills unjust tax, if some means of escape cannot he devised, it hangs over the property of t lx1 KiliH tovvnshins! xw x lihwL- I'lmul striking terror to the hearts of oui citizenship, shutting out all rays ol hope for the future. Unless relief k had this debt will practically destroy the value or our property, since n< one would care to purchase property or move into a township with such an enormous debt hanging over it. Wt arc advised that the supreme court ol of the United States itself has decided that in cases like this, where the charters of the municipal corporations are repealed, and their corporate agents removed, there would he tu longer in existence anyone upon wlion the Federal courts could lay theii hands in order to enforce the collec lion of the tax provided fur by tin Act, and that the said court is limit eel in Its jurisdiction to enforcing tin machinery provided for by the Art authorizing the levy of the tax; that it cannot itself levy the tax, nor cat it place the said townships in h< hands of a receiver, and that In sue! cases the creditors arc without remedy except to apply to the Legislature foi relief. if this constitutional amendment therefore, is voted, the townships hav ing no longer any legal exlstenc? would have no corporate agent upot whom th- Federal courts could laj their harry/ for the purpose of compel ing the levy of the tax, and we wouk thereby be relieved from the payment of this unjust, Illegal and inquitoui tax which we are called upon to pay and for which there is on considera tlon either legal or moral. We,therefore,ask our fellow citizen! to stand by the decision of the 8tat< court. If a citizen of South Caroline held any of these bonds he could nol recover. Under the decision of tlx Federal courts a non-resident purchas er for valuable consideration and with out notice can recover, thereby tin justly discriminating against th< citizens of our own State if the said debt Is a just one and should he paid We most earnestly ask our fellow citizens to be sure to vote the prlntet tickets, which will he furnished tlx managers at the next general election ' Constitutional Amendment of Sec tion 11 of Article VII of the Consti lution. relating to Counties and County Government, Yes;" and als< use their influence at the polls to se< that, others vote the same way. "1>< unto others as vou would have othcri d) unto you"' under similar circum stances is all that we ask. Dunklin C. I). Smith, L. T. II Daniel Jesse L. French. Oak Lawn Dr. V. D. Hopkins, W A. McKelvey, Geo. W. Sullivan. Sulllvan-.-?Win. I). Sullivan, It. W [Nichols, John W. Hecks. Cokesbury?Wm. J. Moore, T. J El is, W. II. Moore. Ninety-Six M. II. Coleman, J. 1' Philips, G. II. Taylor. Cooper J. II. Hrooks, It. W. Town send. Pine Grove and Ilulet .). E. Mrun son, W. H. Stevens. Fought to a Finish. A pitched battle was fought Tucs day afternoon in the country fou miles from Grasbeck, Texas, betweei the Thomasons and Ruthcrfords fac tions. The trouble grew out of ren and had been pending for some time The men, two representatives of caol family, met and the shooting followed the tight being at close range. 1) Thompson, Robert Rutherford an< Wm. Rutherford were killed, Wallao Thomason escaping without a scratch lie has surrendered hut refused t< talk about the affair. . ** hf # CONWAY, S. ( I PERISH IN A FIRE. I ; Over Twenty Men Are Burned to Death in Chicago. I ; THEY HAD NO TIME TO ESCAPE | I The Flames Sprea<l from the lluse1 mcnt to the Seventh Story Where the Men Wore Working Kaphlly. By a lire which broke out in Chicago ' shortly before midnight on Tuesday night of last week in the 1 plant of tiie (Jlueose Sugar lie* ' tinery, situated at Taylor street , i and tiie Chicago river, that faci lory was almost entirely destroyed, [ and it is said 20 men lost their lives. J The llames spread so rapidly that a man who was working on the third floor had barely t ime to escape with ins life and it Is not thought by the employes of the concern or by tiie lire- ( ' men that the men in the upper story , > could have avoided death. At mid< night two bodies had been taken ! I from the ruins, but the lire was burning so rapidly that it was impossible ' s to make further search. ' The plant of the retinlng company ' consisted of three buildings, the dry ing house, seven stories in height, tiie l main rctincry, ll stories high, and ani other structure of four stories. The 1 lire started in the drying house, being caused by an explosion. The flames I spread with almost Incredible rapidity, and by the time the tirst of the lire finn:< rt tnnii t Imil -i rrl u#.fl ? !>,? l.n 11,11??.? I "~r v u..?..,K I was ablaze from foundation to roof. ! i It was impossible for tlio llremen to I make any clFcctivc fight against the 1 ' ilames, and in a short, time all the I walls were down and the building , within one-half hour from the time of > the explosion was a mass of debris. ' The tire was so hot that at one time i it was feared that the Taylor st reet I viaduct across which access is had to ( the south side of the city would In- de* stroyed. The Hremen managed to ; save this after a hard struggle. They > ijent every elTort toward saving the ' building of tlie relinery, but so intense was the tire in the drying house * that this caught tire in several places, f and at 22..'lO a. m. it was evident that, * even if it 'could be saved at all, if would be badly damaged. ' Later: The lire was under control i by 1 o'clock and although it was not i possible at that time to form any esJ timate of the loss of life, the sfateI" ments of the men employed in the I drying house were soon conllicting * that the police declared that in their * opinion the loss of life would not lie J more than 10 or 12. Several of tire ) men who made their escape from the > lower part, of the building said that r there were not more than 10 or 12 on * the top Hour, and it is not thought } that there would be any loss of life - among the men employed in any other ' part of the building. t The men employed in the three < lower lloors of the drying house rati i for the doors and windows as soon as * they had knowledge of the fire and all i of them succeeded in reaching the t open air. On the third lloor there r was one man at work, lie w:us compelled to make a run for Itis life down , stairs. He hurst through a mass of iiaiiiun nuuii siu ii'illillCU IIKJ HJWUr i doorway and was badly scorched. The i men on the seventh lloor had no / chance whatever for their lives. Sev eral of them left the windows and 1 erawled along the sills in an clTort to i reach a place of safety, hut with the * exception of two men, all those who , attempted to reach safety in this way - made up their minds that it was certain death and went hack into the ? burning building. The two men, i however, determined to take the i chances of a leap and climbing upon t the window ledge, they sprang out inJ to the air. One of them came straight - down for the greater part of the way - but just as lie was within a short dis til nee of the pavement Ids hody swung J around and lie struck the stone walk I at full length. The other man turn* ed over and over and over as lie came - whirling down. Their bodies were 1 horribly crushed and mangled, and it i was Impossible for any of the men who , saw them directly after their jump to - identify them in any way. Four other men jumped from the I windows on the fourth Moor. Those > men were terribly Injured and were 3 taken in police ambulances to the > county hospital. * Natural Adxioty. Mothers regard approaching winter with uneasiness, children take cold so * easily. No disease costs more little lives than croup. It,s attack issosud* den that the sufferer is often beyond human aid before t he doctor arrives. . Such cases yield readily to One Minute Cough Cure Liquiilcs tin; mucus, , allays inflammation, removed danger. Absolutely safe. Acts immediately Curcscoughs, colds, grip, bronchitis, ' all t hroat and lung trouble. K. S. MeMahon, Hampton, (la: "A bad cold * rendered me voiceless just, before an oratorical contest. I intended to with* - draw but t<x>k One Minute Cough Cure. It restored my voice in time to win the medal." Dr. E. Norton. A Orcnt Kvll. r The grand jury of Lancaster coun1 ty, In Its presentment, pointed out a - great evil in the operation of the t courts, showing that criminal pro.se. cut,ions are often begun in court for i the avowed intention of forcing the , payment of debt. This is true all over . the State, but If solicitors would rc1 fuse to nol pros such cases on a monee tary settlement Inslng made, the prac. ticc would l?e greatly lessened. The j courts lose much valuable time in attending to such cases. own < ? 3., THURSDAY, OC'l I RIGADE OF STATE TROOPS Which Will lie Commniulcri by (trig. \ (Jen. Wilie Jones. The State militia now lias a brigade organization for the tirst time since the reorganization or the State troops in 181)8, and also has a brigade general U to command it. The Governor and the Adjutant General met Monday morning of last week and at once the t\ following order establishing the now brigade was issued bearing the signature of the commander-in-chief. (Soneral <)rdcr No. 11. Paragraph 1. The infantry branch of the State now composed of three regiments, having reached that degree of progress and cillcioncy since the reirganizat ion, commenced and comple- n Led by the present administration of 11 the military department. It Is found JJl itnmiuviii'v ....l 1 in wtmuij i vi i>nv: iai 11 t 1111 1v\ I VI11 Id 1IIH." . mcnt of the service that a brigade of / Infantry be at once formed. Paragraph 2. It Is therefore ordered that from and after the promulga- s, t Ion of this order that the lirst, sec- V 3tid and third regiments of infantry ' will compose a brigade to be known as ' "the First Brigade of Infantry, South NV Carolina Volunteer Troops." Paragraph The disposition and N, assignments of companies composing the regiments of said brigade will be ^ duly assigned and notitication of same ' in general orders will be forwarded to NN all commanding otllccrs from these head(|iiartcrs immediately on com pie- t] tion of the annual inspections now in progress. P By order of t he commander-in-cliicf. J. W. Floyd, oilicial: A. & I. Ocnl. .1. I>. Frost, A. A. & l Genl. Shortly after the order creating the. brigade was issued the commandcr-inchief promulgated the following order i , appointing Col VVille .lones, the pop- ' uiar commander of the Second regi-1P inent, as brigadier general of the new command, ? General < trdcr No. 12. In pcrsuanec of (ieneral Order No. 1 I. establishing a brigade of infantry, ^ Uol. Wilie Jones, of tile Second Itegi. inent Infantry, is liereby appointed brigadier general of said brigade and will be obeyed and respected accord* . Ingly. ^ By order of the cominandor-in-chicf. M. It. McSweency, Governor, . .). NV. Floyd, Adjt. & Ins. tion. c. Oillolal: J I). Frost, A. A. & 1. Gen. . CSen. Wilili Jones, the new brigade commander, is t<*> well known In South Carolina to require a detailed ,l account of his personal or military career. He was until Monday the (' ranking regimental commander in the . State militia, with which he has been idcntilied nearly all his life. He is ex- c< tremely popular in military circles ^ throughout the State. When the war with Spain came on Col. Jones went ,l to the front as commander of the Sec- P ond South Carolina Regiment, and re- ri mained in charge of that regiment S( during Its service in Cuba, lie has since been the colonel of the Second South Carolina Regiment of the Vol- . unteer State troops. Ills appoint- 1 ment will .10 doubt give general satisfaction, and the more so as the Held commander of the State troops will lie (.} located at the capital in close touch with the governor, who is commander-in-chief, and the adjutant general's ollicc.?The State. Mth. I>01111 In Dies. After hovering between life aud death since last December, Mrs. Ada (iilbert Dennis, the victim of the most 11 myterious assaults In the history of the District of Columbia, died at the v Garfield hospital in Washington Thursday. With her death the last * hope of the solution of the mystery ; has disappeared. Mrs. Dennis came c here from Gettysburg, Pa., and mar- ? ried Walter Dennis, a Washington ( actor. She was found, December 10, insensible hi her bedroom, her skull " crushed. Various theories were ad- J" vanced as to the motive of the crime, J" but no definite clue was ever obtained. Itobbery was suggested, but rejected as $100 on the table had not been e taken by her assailant. In one of her P semi-rational moments she exclaimed: "Its a woman." Subsequently she made contradictory statements. She never recovered sufllclentlv to talk ? rationally. Five Murders. f; The little mining town of Porches- v tcr, Va., has recently been the scene r of live murders,occurring one Immedl- a ately after the other. John Slayers a killed Mark boston, with whom It Is c said he had differences over a young c lady. The slayer was about to escape t when he was shot and killed by n James boston, Mark's brother, who (J then lied to the mountains. A negro a woman killed her man, putting two ft Winchester bullets into his ixxly. A ^ pistol duel was fought between two wbitc men, one of whom fell dead. Their names arc not known. A Narrow Kscape. Another accident occurred on the 0 Southern not far from Kaslcy on ^ Tuesday afternoon. The Kcnmore k brothers were hauling corn, and as ! they drove across the track, the engine r of passenger No. 12 struck the rear 8 end of the wagon, tearing It to pieces 1 and bruising the young men consider- t ably. One had his collar boue broken. 0 They said the wind was blowing so 41 * ?... - ini<?b uuuy cuuia not near tne train as k It came around the curve. A Peculiar Caio. The city of Spartanburg has a suit r for damages against it which Is some- <\ what peculiar. A man In a more or a less Intoxicated condition was arrest- j ed, locked up in a coll and the next y morning he was found dead, and his n relatives are suing the city on the o claim that death was caused by neg \ lect. 1 ki\tVA\ OBEK ao, 1JK)2. BREAKS OUT AGAIN. Whitman Wants to Prohibit Chairman Jones from Putting a TAME OF HEYWARD ON TICKET. ? 1/ .ikI TIiiih Prevent lllni Kooning lor | Governor. The Mutter Taken t, Into the United HtntoM 11 Court. Whitman, who lias l)een standing " uulidate for Governor for lo these ^ liiny years has broken out In a brand I ew place. A dispatch from Colon to t 'lie State says: G. Walt Whitman / ' as brought action for an injunction t gainst Col. Wille Jones, chairman of p ic State Democratic Committee, re- ' raining them from putting the name r1 T Hon. D. C. Hey ward on the ticket p r governor, lie has also tiled an ininction against the lion. I>. C. Hey- k aid himself rcstiUnintf him from t mining in the general election in No- <? ember as n candidate of the Demo- h ratio party under the guise <>f the n democratic nominee. The matter was t rought up hefore Judge lUtchanan n bile he was here at court which has p ist closed. t Mr. Whitman says in his petition s hat he tiled this pledge within the li rescribed time hy and according to t he rules and regulations of the Hem- s cratlc party in this State. The pro- '1 endings arc supported by the afllda- c< its of S. C. Do Pass, who was then In V is brother's law ofllee, but Is now a t Indent in the South Carolina College, si Further in the petition he snys he as never been a candidate In the t rue meaning of the word, "hot t.hui 1 c is not averse to tilling the oillce of n ovcruor If elected on the platform of road and liberal Ideas of education." c lie says he has exhausted all the Ights and remedies by appeal to the J late Kxeeutlve Committee, lie now t (links all the candidates for governor t ught to he allowed to run on their t wn merits In the general election and l> 't the people decide who they want h 3 he governor. " s The proceeding before Judge llu- si lianan were based on a number of atll- t avlts, sworn to before W. W. Dixon, a fnited States Commissioner. The alh- e avlts were those of Dr. .1. <?. Going, n 01. James Munro, Dr. Wallace Gulp t nd Capt. J as. K. Hunter. n Most of the allldavits were to the n fTect that they knew Mr. Whitman > lie of age, and a qualified elector, a nat his Democracy Is above par when n )inpared with other members of the r eneral assembly of the State. They S ty they know that Mr. Whitman is v nxious to be governor. Mentally and si liyslcally, they know he is able to o mi for governor, and that he will do n 3, and may make a good executive Ulcer. Then Capt. Jas. K. Hunter says hat Mr- Whitman's pledge was filed, l writing. It was written on a posal card and was mailed by S. C. De- ^ 'ass. Judge liuchanan after hearing ral arguments from all the Union ' ar on the case reversed his decision, j t Is said that Mr. Whitman has car- Q led It to Greenville before Judge irawley: a A Uood Gxainplc. <j Several of the up-country papers e avc recently noted the fact that for- t rer residents In Texas are sendfhg to s his state the weevil Insect which has v wrought millions of dollars' worth of c estructlon the cotton crop In that f tatc. These Insects are sent in !>ot- C les as specimens, but It Is an ex- s eedlngly dangerous practice on ac- r ount of the liability of their Intro- t uction Into this state. A Newl>erry I irmer wno received & i>ottlc or speci- | l rens promptly burned the Insects In r he presence of witnesses, so that If t hey ever liecome an evil in tills state ' e could not be held responsible. His I xample ought to be followed by i vcrylxniy who receive any of the i ests. I * \ Killed l?y a Fall. . Master William Morton Stone, son r f l'rof. Harry II. Stone, of Emory ji lollege, Georgia, was killed almost i istantly Wednesday afternoon by ailing from a fast moving wagon. He fas attempting to alight from the ear of a rapidly moving wagon, Just , t a curve in the road near his homo, nd fell, hitting first on his head v rushing the skull and causing conussion of the brain and internal rup- ? ure of a number of blood vessels, lie j icvcr regained consciousness and lived nly fifteen minutes. Faculty, friends , nd physicians were called in iramcdl- j tely, but could do nothing to save ilm. He was nine years of age. ^ llurntilng of a Hotel. A special says the Tepee hotel at . ''alrvicw, H. C., was destroyed by fire ( arly Thursday. One body has been , aken from the ruins and seven other ^ arsons are said to be fatally injured. t Che tire started near the furnace j oom and the flames shooting up the . talrwa.y quickly cut ofT escape except 1 hrough the windows. The guests on ' tic first floor escaped easily but many f those above were badly hurt, either ?y the flames or by leaping to the [round. j Killed on ItAllroadA. The number of passengers killed in < atlfoad accidents in the United States 1 luring the year ended June JO last, < according to a bulletin Issued by the I ntorstatc commerce commission, was i ;03, and 0,080 were Injured. The i lumber of employees killed was 2,510, ' >f whom 1,507 were trainmen, while i he injured numbered 33,711, of whom i 0,002 were trainmen. it. THE LAW DEFIED. ['wo I'lond* IIkiik<'*I llclnrt' I ho Kjton j of I ho J udfco. Aftor lioinK tried with 1ok.i1 form ml procedure for criminal assault lid murder and given thcdeatti ponaly in cacti case, Jim Wesley and tied Ick 1 tar ton, negroes, were lute Tues- 1 ay afternoon taken from the authorlles and lynched in the public square t Hempstead, Tex., by an Infuriated 10b. The district jud#e asked the #ovcr- si or for troops to accompany the ne- || roes to Hempstead from the jail at (| louston where they were safe. At C1 lie request of a lar#e number of oiti- a ens of Hempstead who signed a writ- a en promise to aid the authorities in 0 revenue# any moli law it is said | ud#e Thompson countermanded ills q equest and the troops did not acconi- :i any the ne#roes. I tar ton was lirst tried. He plead q ulltv to criminal assault and then to ^1 he murder of Mrs. Susan Lewis, a#od q .'1, Sunday, October 12. 'l'lie juries q a each case on which were several \ e#roes promptly returned verdicts of q he deat h penalty. IMnin# the after- i oon Wesley was put on trial, lie y lead #uilty to assault and then to p lie murder charge, but while the | econd trial was #oin# on a mob broke 7 11 to the court room and attempted to like him, bavin# learned that the lierllT had finally asked for troops, q 'lie mob was dispersed and trial pro- q ceded, the State put tin# throu#h lbs u cstlmony hurriedly in coroboration of a he plea of #uilty. Moth Juries as- H\ l#ned the death penalty. a The oillcers of the court sat about ;i he room awaltin# the comin# of loops when there was a sudden move- p lent 011 the part, of several men in q he room. The sherilT was ovcrpow- a red and Wesley was taken posses- 7 ion of by the mob and hurried away. iMother port ion of the mol> attacked he jnil and I tar ton was surrendered Cl o them without a struggle. The a wo prisoners were hustled to the ^ ubllc square and there executed by ,, anglng. Neither of them had been entenced and District .Judge Thornp* v on had positively refused to permit j, hern to waive the thirty days of grace llowed them by law. It was the gen- ^ ral desire that they die quickly. They re hanging to the arm of a telephone a ole, where only last month a negro c uurdcrer had been strung up by a ^ nob. ,, SherilT Lipscomb was badly hurt y bout the back by the rough treat- j lent of the mob. During the tlrst ush a shot was accidentally 11 red and 4 heritT Sparks of Lee county was \ founded in tin: stomach, though not { erlously. The governor was informed j, f the lynching but as yet has had ) nth lug to say. ^ 1 Sorvol IIIiii Itight. ,, Late Saturday afternoon a negro 1 nan, a stranger in that section, met s negro woman in the public road on t he Greenville side of the Saluda river r nd attempted an assault. The wo- Jl nan screamed and ran and the man r tecame frightened and also lied, e roossing the river to the Anderson G ide. The woman gave the alarm and t , crowd of Infuriated negroes started nit to hunt the man. He wascapturd near Shady Grove church, in tnderson county, and his captors 1 tarted back into Greenville county 1 vit.il him rritr>v niituiprl (Im linm? t if Mr. ,1. M. Cox, a prominent ? armer, on the way, and after Mr. r 'ox had found that the man had not 1 uccccded in Ills designs upon the wo- y nan he made the crowd promise not a rO kill him, hut told them frankly that .1 ic would not care what else they did 0 him. The negroes carried the I nan over into Greenville county to ' .lie scene of his attempted crime. > L'herc lie was fully identitled hy his t ntended victim, and lie also confess- t jd to what he had done. Then he I >vas carried into an old tield and a t mggy trace was applied to ids back < vith great vigor and unction for quite t 1 while, it is said that when the legrocs finished with him the Job was is completely and thoroughly done as f white men had been engaged in it. < ( Created n I'unlc. A panic was created in the male 1 ilcohollc ward at Hclevue Hospital In i New York Thursday when a man, J vho said lie was i'cter N. Gain, 00 f rears of age, a speculator, drew two 18-calibrc revolvers from his pocket ind began tiring in the room. The nan had just been taken to the ward ifter having gone voluntarily to the , losnital. .lust, as he trot, inuldo Mm loor tie suddenly sprang away from ( Jie attendants and, placing his hack | igainst the Wall, shouted: 1 am ( rracy, the outlaw; beware of me; I'll , <ill cveryliody in sight." Then lie lrew the pistols and began to lire. ] There were seventeen patients In the ( vard and they were in the wildest ( Xinfusion until Main w;is overpowered jy ten men. No one was injured, nost of the shots passing through an >pen window. Shooting in Hpartanliurg. Thursday afternoon at the Spartanburg junction a yard conductor, J. 11. Lewis shot Will Austin, yard employe. The wound Is a pistol shot and Is langerous.onc ball entering the negro's body about the waist. Austin is dangerously hurt. Lewis' statement is that lie ordered the negro to go to work ind ho refused with an oath. He then asked the negro if he knew whom lie was talking to, at the same time Austin threw a piece of coal at Lewis, and then started at him with a brakestick. Lewis drew his pistol and tired. NO. 14. NEW CITIZENS. interesting Figures Published by the Immigration Commissioner. THOUSANDS OF THEM COME. lore Tilnn Twice um Many MiiIch iin I'ciiijiIoh I ail ml ml liimt Vi'iir on ('in* SlmrcH. The annual report of the cotnmisloner of immigration was made pubC recently. It shows that of the 18,713 Immigrants who arrived In lie I nltcd Slates during the last tlsil year were 499,389 males and 182,7 I females. (>f the entire number of rrlvals, Italy supplied 178,.'175, an in- * rease of 42,879 over the number for 901; Austria-11 unwary, 171,HSU, an lcrease of 58,599,and liussia, 107,347, n increase of 22,090. Most European countries showed an lereasc, but there was a falling otT in lie arrivals from Ireland, amounting > 1,422, the total from that country eiiiK 29,138. The (inures concerning .static Immigration show a decrease roin China of H1U, the total being ,949, and an increase from Japan of ,001, the total being 11,270, or 170 er cent. Of the entire number 182,88 were unable to read or write, but 1,002 wore under 1 1 years of ago. Commenting upon this circumstance ommlssloncr Sargent says: "It can e roughly estimated from the foregoig IIgtiros bow elfeetivo in excluding liens would be a reading test, such s that proposed during the recent seslon of congress which would not lie pplled to children under 15 and (lulls over 50." The total number of aliens refused ermlsslon to land was 4,971, or atioiii wo-thirds of l per cent,, of the total rrlvals. Of these 8,041 were paupers, 09 had loathsome diseases, 92 were jnvicts and 129 were contract lalmrrs. Itcforence Is made to the alien ontract labor hill pending in the sente and the commissioner expressed he hope that it may pass during the ext session of congress. Mr. Sargent llnds that the sanguine lew expressed in the last annual reort of the bureau as to the effect of areful examination by the United tales marine hospital surgeons upon he transportations bringing diseased liens to American ports has not been onIIrmod by the experience of the iast year. Speaking of -the enforcenent of the Chinese exclusion laws, 4r. Sargent says many obstacles have. IUUII CHWUIIUTUII. "The chief obsbrticbions," he says, 'bo the etlieient enforcement of tlic aw arises on the one hand from the inscrupulous character of some Amorcan citizens and others who lind a argc profit in smuggling Chinese of lie excluded classes across our land loundarlos, and on the other from the onstant interference of tliosc zealous icrsons in our own country wliose conciousness of tlieir own exalted pur>oses in relation to tiie moral amendnent of the Chinese appears to them .mplc justitlcatlon some times for dlsegard of tiie law and often for the ndeavor to have Its provisions waivd as unimportant in comparison with heir own designs." Horrible Accident. Two men were killed, one was fataly injured and two others were serlousy Injured in the bridge and construeion department of the Pennsylvania iteel Works, at Stcclton, Pa., Wednesday. The dead are: Nelson P. ''ettcrolT, ,'io years; Frank flirt, 27 rears, .lore Lelank, :{7 years, was fatilly injured, and William Miller and fohn Chank were seriously liurt. Shank's liome is at *8hiremanstown, 'a. The other men lived ab Steel ton. 1'he men were painters and were vorking on a row of steel girders, ivelghing about ten tons apiece. The pruer oi> wnicn they were working ell with them and the others piled on /Op of It. KettcrofT was crushed to leath and flirt died soon after l>cing ,aken out of the mass of steel. h'orty Year's Torture. To he relieved from a torturing dis:ase after 40 years' torture might well jause the gratitude of anyone. That s what DeWltt's Witch Hazel Salve lid for C. Haney, Geneva, C). lie says: heWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cured no of piles after 1 had suffered 40 fears." Cures cuts, burns, wounds, >kin diseases. Ileware of counterfeits. Dr. E. Norton. Coughed U|> a Nail. The little :i-year old daughter of L)r. and Mrs. J. 11. Moore of Walhalla, .vho more than a month ago swallow ;d a four penny wire nail, has coughid the nail up. The little one would lave l)cen taken to Atlanta for an >pcration at once had It not been for t/he serious sickness of Mrs. Moore. Except times of serious coughing the mtie K'irl seemed all right, but it was :ause for rejoicing when It was coughed up. Complete Fusion. Secretary W. M. Cain, of the Nebraska Democratic state committee, says that*the fusion of the Democrats and Populists In his state is this year more nearly complete than It ever was before. As a matter of fact, he claims, the Republicans have no certainty of electing more than one of the six congressmen from the state. Biliousness and liver disorders at tills season may be prevented by cleansing the system with DeWitt's Little Early Risers. These famous little pills do not gripe. They move the bowels gently, but copiously, and by reason 01 the tonic properties, give tone and strength to the glands. Dr. E. Norton.