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/ V OL XIII. ANOTHER DEFEAT I For The Brice Dispensary Bill in the State Senate * FEW SPEECHES MADE The Senator from York Defeated Mis Bill in a Vigorous Attack on the Dispensary, but it Was Killed by a Decisive Vote by the Senators. The nailer 1cs ar.d floor of tHo senate were crowded \V? due>day night when the local option bill of S naior Ilrlce of York w.u- brought up. There was practically Itilc Debate on the hill and it was k lit d by a vot< of 18 to 11. In the mornitg Senator Ihlco spoke for the bid, and in the evening Set ator 0. L. Ideas >. against it. Senator Mauldin aho spoke f >* It. Tl.e bill had been Introduced 1 y h:m, said Surstor lir cc. to glvo t' e people of South g*rollna air o\ per. u iiiy of wiping tCTt the jlspensaiy, ro t and branch. lie said I uat If the nak d devil had come to earth this would have been the sort of law he would have fiamed 'I he law bad been adopted as a cimpiomlse and now was an Iniquity. Instead of being a solution and !m provemcnt o 'the l quor qursti n.said Senator Briee, tl e dispensary law was retrograde In movement. Lot tl e people say whet they want. This is do mocracy. The bill vthich Senator Brlco has Introduced tills year Is practlcallv similar to Ins local option measure if 1904, except that it has no taxation provision. This was tacked on last year agains > Senator Brloe's wish. lie said la his speech that hordes of nocrrnna ? p ww vuuu vliu 3hi ills on Saturday afternot ns were like "a crowd of carrion crows around a ear cass." ? Fighters against thedbpr rsary had been successful when c >ming out bold ly, and the litre Is not. far oiT wheu the system will be broken up. lie declared. The tax would n it scare the counties which really wished to be rid of the dispensary. (Jheroke had vote I It out In spite of the tax. Senator Please said that ho believed that the senator from York was sincere In his views on the dlspei sary law, and in fact bell vo ) that be wa-. at ono time in sympall y with It. Ho alluded to the fact that the Piohibi tionists had advocated the dhpensary law after the C illds bill was defeated in 1892. If the pr< hibltionlsts 1 ad ludped tin anti-prohibitionists tire dispensary law would never base been passed. If a stone hud been given when bread was asked for, it, was the prohibitionists who had done it. Tho argiment had been made that the dispensary would have been over thrown if tile people had ever bad the opportunity. Senator Please cit>ja the candidacies of C. C Featherstoue an 1 James A. Iloyt, who L ad both been defeated, and in passing paid a tribute to both. It is now a disgrace for the State to sell wMhkey, and jet the prohibition ticket had recommended it. What matter if it whs "for medicinal purposes" ti e i fleet is the same In giving the advantages of ttaedisDer.sarv law. Hip. sn j?p?p p pravily of barrooms, the stringent, regulations on ditpr users as to s< Ut to minors, keeping#1 on alter hours, etc., and the MatciTn/Jf out of the social drink. There ? one sir nob In the nostrils of Ihe per p'e?the so called "social club"?where men sit and drluk and play cards until the we small hours hut tills cannot bo laid at the doors of the dlspensaiy. In defense of the late II 11 Crum, dispensary commissioner, he read from The Evening It cord of Columbia an article relating to the dead man's estate. The article stated that, although Mr. Crum was reported to be very rich, In left an estate of $13 000 and owrd from this $3,000. This then was the real fortune of a man who was said to haw come to the general assembly a poor man and died worth 169,000. Wny not till the truth about these hirgar^ ked the senator Pictures had tec n drawn of splendid homes built by those n charge of t e dl-pensary, when innality some of these he met were ruilly crowded c >t tages. The questions was too big f r )o al control. If the 500 voters of New berry decided by a nrnj^riiy of 100 to vote out th s dispensary, would this be Jus! Ice to the other citizens of the county? He was wry that, the d'spensary Investigation resolution bad not, as originally intended, been curled out, so that the committee would have reported by 5b. 1st. It had been said that this resolution had been dictated by a member of the State b ard of directors, hut this Senator Idea S3 denied with great vigor. \ '"The single question Involved." said Senator Mauidln, "is whether or not the general assembly Is willing to leave the matter to the people of the f" ' counties." He said that the dlspen sary law waAnot being attacked as a whole, and, if suoh a popular institution as described by the senator Ir m "Newberry, it was certainly in no danger. A law of this kind would be the lirst opportunity fur the masses to really demonstrate whether or no' they wanu the dlsprnsary. Stuator Mauldln t might government by the peoplo true Jcflersonian Democracy and therefo*e only just Tno dispensary system had had as its chief recommendatlt n that it would reduce drinking, and now Its ohlef glory lilts flnaocia success. The State had literally set its seal of approval on the system. Lately a friend had asked bim: "Wl y not make your motoes read, 'Pum splro spero blto' aud 'Animus oplbusque et paratus splritus frumentl?' The ayes and nays were demanded and the vote was as follows on Senator Bleaso'a motion to strike out the enacting vrord: Aye??Senators Blvens, Blake, Blcaso, O. L ; Blea-e, E. S.; Carpenter, Ghristen&en, Davis, I) nnl8, Douglass, Hay, Manning, MtGjwan, McLeod Raysur, Stackhouse, Talbert, Walker, Williams?IV). Nays?Senators Bbck, Brlce Hardin, llrooks, Brown, Hood, Holllday, Hudson, Mauldin, Mdver, Wells?11. Senators Etird and W. 10. J nnson were paired. The former would have I voted aye, the latter nay. Senators Marshall and l'eurlfoy wcro pilred. The forme r would have voted nay, the latter aye. S nators Von K'>oluluand Warren we-e paired. The forrrer would have voted nay, the latter aye. The ft Mowing senators were absent when the roll was called. Senator^ Bates, Butler, Enrle, Hough, W. J. Johnson TWO MORE JUUUhS By a Big Majority the House Passes a 1 ill Creatir g Them TJio ArinnR' ninnt of the Different Counties ? Proposed bj the Hill KB 1'nnHi tl. I The bill to create two additional; circuits was pasod I y the houae Thursday. The majority In Its favor was 25. (j lite surprising. Theprlncl pal objection came frjmthe fourth circuit, which will have Its name changed without receiving any b:ncllf.u Tl,? V.III ' - - ' ? " ..?jin ^iuviu.s iur ine iouowhig gr< uplngs: F rst CJircult?Charleston, Colleton and Beaufort. Stcond Circuit?Berkeley, Georgetown, Dorchester aed O angelurg. Third Circuit?Hampton, Aiken, Bamberg, Warn well and E gefleld. Fourth Circuit?Clarendon, Florence, Lee Sumter and Williamsburg Fifth Circuit?Chesterfield, Darl ington, Horry, Marlon and Marlbuio. Sixth Circuit?K rshaw, Lexington, Ltlohland and Saluda. Seventh Circuit?Chester, FairHeld, Lancaster and York. K'ghth Circuit?Cherukee, Spartan burg and Union. Ninth Circuit?Abbevil'e, Green wood. Laurens and Newb?rry. Tenth Circuit?Andeisun, Green- < ville, P c.kons and Ojonee. The "special c turf law is repealed by tiie following In the hill: "That ' in no case shall any special court lie < held, but the governor may commission some one learned In the taw to hold a regular term of court when a 1 e rcult Judge is d sabled by sickness." I After considerable discuslcn pro 1 a id con the question canoe to a vole on the motion t.o strikeout the enact- ' lug words. The members were re- ' corded as follows: f Nays?Speaker Smith and Messrs. < Arnold, Baker, Ballentlne, Banks, 1 Bradliam, Brant, Brantley, Brlce, i Bruce, CaBi von, Clifton, Cloy, C>'h < ran, Culler, Davis, DeVore, D ar I Dukes, Edwards, L. B Etheredge, Fishburne, Foster, Eraser, Fo st, Gaston, D. L. Green, Gyles, Hamlin, Harrison, Ilarley, Hemphill, Hey- , ward, IligglnSj Irby, Keenan, LaFitte, L' fton, Lomax, Lyon, Mc- j Cants, McFaddln, McMaster, Morgan, Muses, Nance, Nicholson, Otts, Parker, Prince, Pyait, Uawllnson, Rich- ; SordnM c ..... ? v - 1 ..uuuvin, n v)D, IKil HO IK, OI1C1' | rion, Slnkler, Splvey, Strong, Toole, , Trlbhle, Turner, V.rner, J. M. Wal- , kcr, John J. Watsou and Wnatley.? Total fi7. j Ayes?Messrs Ardrry, Ashley, ! Ha h, Hdamuuard, Hoyd, Colcoek, DesChamps, Evrhardt, Eptlrg, E J. j Ethererige, F>rd, Gause, Gibson, Gra- , ham, Gray, W. MeD. Green, Hall, Herbert, Ktrven, Lmey, Lawson, Lester, Little, Missey, Laban Maul- i dlu, T. J. Mauldin, Miller, Morrison, Ha t rsoa, Pitt man, Poston, Hyatt, It avow, Riley, Sellers, Stoll, W. M. Walker, Webb, Wlmberly, Yeldell.? 42. The following pairs were reoorded: Mr. McColl, aye, with Mr. Whaley, ( naj; Mr. Faust, aye, with Mr. Haskell, nay; Mr. Drowning, nay, with Mr. Nash, aye. Tlic last narped In each of the pairs was absent. , The bill then passed second reading after being amended bv Mr. Elwards < f Spartanburg so that it dots away with special courts. ('fink. (1 by n Ni'Ki'o. At Darlington early Monday evening week ago a y . ung 'ady while go- 1 log from h?*r sig or'H to her father's borne on Change street, or ly a siort jisiuic-, w;ih attacked by a negro, who had hidden behind a 1 irga oik tree. As the laoy approached the I rate sprang from his lair and demanded m >nfty. Tho lady siroamed for help, and, with true courage and hero1 m, end avorcd to rid herself of the hei.d, which she did, but not until the demon had bruised her throat with his heinous tinkers. A nolss in a nearby dwelling is suppo ed als > to have frightened the sooundrel, wh> look to ids heels. A diligent search with bloodhc uns was made, but tire dogs seamed to lose the trail. A similar attack was made on a lady 011 P?.arl street not long ago and the assailant a negr<>, as In this case, became frightened and ran l>ari lit KNflann. Two convicts male & daring ccipe from the peuiieutiary at Huntsville Texas, Thursday. They overpowered i.he engineer and tlreman of a locomolive In the penitentiary yards and steamed from the grounds under tire of the guards. They ran the engine about live miles, when they abandoned It and took to the woods. One i f the prisoners was Hervlng a life sen '/enoe under the charge of murdering Ills father. Holler Exploded. An rxpl< ston of two 20-horgc pjwer steam boilers In the dry house of the GrobS Lumber Manufacturing com? pany occurred at Lexington about closing down time Wednesday afternoon, completely destroying the dry house, and, It Is feared, fatally Injuring Mr. Fred H. Grws, one of the owners of the plant, who was standing near by. Mr. Jaj-psr D. Trice, who opera'es a brickyard near by, was struck by a Hying timber and esc&pirg steam, breaking his right arm and scalding him ttverely, though njt fatally. <?he coi i.I i i JOHANN HOCH The Chicago Bluebeard, Caught in the City of New York. I HAI) PLENTY MONEY. Much, Who It Is Said Has Married About Thirty Women, Was Found In the Boarding House of a Womau to Whom He Had Just Proposed Marriage. Johann Iloob, the Chicago "Bluebeard," who has for weeks been to lght by the Chicago police, who charge him with having caused the deaths of several of the thirty women tie is allege3 to hav" msrrled, was at rested by the police Weill e day night. In a furnished room house at No. 540 West Fortysin nth s'.reat New York City. 'PL c man gav; tiie name of Henry Battels, liu'i the detectives sav tiny are positive the rcan is Hooh. Mrs. Catherine Kim merle, the landlady, sajs the man was In the house twenty n.luuto wiicn lu asked to he allowed to put 1 some potatoes fur her, and the second day he proposed marriage. I hen she untitled the p.dice and they arre; ted him. At. the station house the roau dcsorlbcd himself as Henry Bartels, f >rt\ Hve years old. Everything the nr an had In his possession was new. Bet ad a new suit, nf <?lnt.hou ni* banc kerchiefs that had been half soaked in cologne, a new raz <r and a now trunk. Besides, the man had six $100 bills, live $5 bills and change in eveey pock 0 of Ills clothing. >1AUltlKD THIRTY WOMEN. II ich is credited with the amazing total of twenty known wives, of wlmm t< n. at lea?t, according to tiio records of tl e police, have died within a short period after thoy were married to the modern Blue Beard. In each of these 3?t es Hoch Is a'lo^e I to have proll ed I irgely by the deaths of iris wives, and in the majority of the cas3s no Hiilllolent explanation of the lea'lis have ever been made. With regard, to the other wives. Hoch deserted them as soon after the a arilage ceremony as it was possible for blm to si cure all the money that the wives had in hand. From all SfC lions of the country r? p r s are 0 urn lug of his having m&rrlid raomen for Lhelr money, and It is ouuhdently as icrted by the police that when the complete record of his victims Is made up it will greatly exceed the number now placed t j bis credit. The names uf the wlyts, so far as known, aud the fate which befell them fellows: 1118 MATRIMONIAL 11KCORD. Anna llock, married in Vienna, 1881, died 1888; Mrs. C. A. Mayer, mirricd in Cniosg ', 1892, died three weeks later; Mrs. II. Irlck, married In Chicago, 1892, died one month later; Mis. S. llauck, married in Peoria, III., 1893, deserted immediately after the ceremony; name unknown, married in Chicago 1891, died two months latei; Mrs. Julia Stelnbreohor, married In Chicago, 1894, died two months later, left $4,000; Mrs. Janet spencer, married In Chicago, 1805, do verted two montli later, lest several hundred dollars Callie Charlotte Andrews, married in Chicago, 1807, do sorted two hours later, loit $500; Mrs. J llus*, married In Wheeling, W Va., 1?97, died ih'ee months later, left $2,500; Mrs. Martih DjIz, married in Chlcag?, 1808, died tVree months later; sister of Mrs. J. II. Schwartz nan, married in Milwaukee, 1899, died three weeks later, left $1200; Mrs. Mary SchuMz, married at Argus, Ind., 1900, b ?th she and daughter disappeared, left $2,000; Mrs. Mary H eker, married In St. Louis, 1901, died a few months later; Mrs. Anna Ilendrickson, married iu Chicago 19(14 rirHui-tr>rl aftoi- ? #?...! r> ? ? > ! vvyvi ur VVA rt iVTT weeks, 1st $1,000; Mrs. Lena Hoch, marrl <1 in Milwaukee, died three weeks later, left $1,5C0; Mrs. Curo line Stricher, marrlod in Philadelphia, 19(i4, deserted after eve week, lost $2o0; Mrs. Marie W ilker, married In Chicago. 1904, died one month later, Lift $25o; M s. Emllle Plsber, married j I i Chicago. 191:6, deserted after one week, lost $760. CALLED FRIEND OF HOLMES. Ab >uo tile man, all of the ro nanoe of tiime centres. He has been partial ly identified as a cloie associate cf the notorious II. II. Holmes, who was Landed In Philadelphia ten years ago wltt a record of twenty murders. In Chicago he. is described as a swindler, a hypnotist, and a marrlnge broker who selected as bis victims elderly women with means upon whom he worked the sobe nes that have given him a i rrquo record in the annals of crime. There is a peculiar white powder in which he (halt that is described by some of his victims who esoaped, but which the police have not been able to got hold of, and whtou, It Is btllov ed, would shed light upon the fate of S2Vcr.il of the wIvls who died so mysteriously within three or four miui outyy null iOilOWCG 11JOD to 110 altar. L tile of the man'# c&'ly life Is Vno vii. lie was horn, It Is said, in Germany, and there is a story of a woman married and deserted there, hefcre he came to the Uulted States, where he entered upon his career in a wholesale murder. (J lleago seems to have been made ids principal headquarters,. Most of hls^vlves were either wooed and won there and taken thence immediately after marriage where they died, or were deserted as soon as they had given over to Ilcch all the money of which they were possessed. Because of 11.c faot that he has lived in a score of places and under half a dozen aliases no connected story cf his operations is to be bad as present. As early as 1804, he was found practicing his peculiar profession in Chicago, where he married Mrs. J. Stelnbrecker. Three weeks after the marriage, Mrs. Hooh died, and on her deathbed she told of the white mcdl* Mian ^VAY, S. C., TI1UR cine which tier husband had administered to her, and expressed the Lar that she had b en poisoned. Renno Leohner a saloonkeeper at No. 394 Laratee street, Chicago, testities tojthis chapter In the lite of the* Bluebeard, and asserts that the man disposed of un estate of 14,000 belonging to his wife Immediately after her death and within a month afterward was again married. WKNT 17NDKK MANY NAMKI. At one periud in his carear Hoch was known as Albert Buschterg. Under that name lie Is alleged to h wo married Mrs. Mary Suhultz, a widow, of Argus, Ind , representing himself , as a wealthy Chicago druggist. Shortly after the marriage the woman and her live-year-old son disappeared, and have never been seen since. Just before her disappearance the husband collected 12,000 insurance on her first husband's life. During the years 1897 and 1898 Hoch furnished at least seven flats in Chicago. lie bought the goods for the llats on the Installment plan, and afterwards t sold them again and d faulted in pay- s ment of the monthly accounts. For this he was arresttd, convicted and N sent to prison f ?r a year. ' Two Milwaukee women al o foil 1 victims to the man. Roth of them h died suddenly after their marriage to him, and. Mrs. J. II. Rchwartzrran, sister of the woman who was known a as Mrs. L?na llccb, d<ic!ares thu.t c Hoch dlsappeartd with $1,200 of hor a S'S'er'8 money immediately alter her t death. Under the name of John Schultz c Hoch Is said to have married Mrs Mary Becker In St. Louis In March, s 1902. The woman lived with him a Q year all but two days, and then died s suddeuly. Hoch collected $500 insur- \ ance and re urned to Chicago. From Cincinnati, Sail F.anclsco, | Wheeling, W. Va., and other places . come reports of the m ill's operatlo 8, ' and all of them tell the same ghastly ^ story of a wedding, followed by a ;i death, the collection of Insurance j. money and a diHappearance. t I)r. Reese, a Chicago physician, c wboatteuoel Mrs Mary Walker-IIock, t another wife of the Bluebeard, says that while he diagnosed the cause of death In this instar.ee ?s uephritis, he has since heard that Hoch gave his u wife a strange white powder that had j not been prescribe d for her, a short 8 time before her death. I, John Mi Klonney, formerly a police- h man in Chicago, wliose, post included t "Holmes Castle," at Sixty third street and Stewart avenue, during the time g that the multi-murderer was conducting operations fhore, iias Identified a ^ photograph of Hoch as that of the ^ Junior partner in Holmes establish- : mei.t. At that time, according to Mc- w Kinney, Hoch was known as "Hatch." j FATAL KOW IN A CIRCUS. ei ri t: Otto Killed for Merely Sneering at R| the Perform era. w 81 During the performance of Reed's Circus at Baldwin, Ala., Wednesday (l night, a free for all tl^ht rmeiirrort In. . tween some of the spectators and the r performers. Between fifteen and ^ twenty shots were tired in a few sec ^ onds and when the smoke had cleared y away it was found that Charles Petef- p son of Franklin had been killed and tl Martin Ashley of Baldwin had been y shct twice through the right arm and a through the left side below the heart, \ tiie latter wound being considered ser (J lous. Both Peterson and Ashley were ^ spectators. So far as can be ascertain ed none of the showmen was hurt. ^ The show people had been drinking ^ during the nay and were in an ugly p mood. Peterson was beaten to death 0 with poles or torn j of the stakes used aJ to hold the guy ropes of the tent, hi* {j( face being terribly mutilated. Hf Two trapize performers were doing ^ the brother act when, it is said, either ^ Peterson or Ashley yelled: "We can ^ do thai 1" The pirformers ilnlshed t| their act and immediately rushed over n to the spectators to get at the men t| who guyed him. They were Joined by other members of the company. Shootlug became general and a panic re- c suited. - h Deputy Slier!ff Dumesnil, with the t assistance of some of the residents of p Baldwin, did some quick work and y succeeded in arresting and jailing 12 s of the 14 performers, Including Mrs. t A. H. Reed, wife of the manager ani p owner of the show. Used escaped h; with one of the employes. Siddel (. With them went the mo ey bag. t llleii of t'OJWOII. k A dlSDatch frc in ftluelciillw tn Tho I f State says Miss Minnie Hutto, abuautiful anl well thought of young lady 1 there, was found In her bed Monday 1 morning at 5 o'clock breathing her v last breath of life. Miss Hutto had t attended services at the Baptist K church both morning and evening as a usual on Sunday. Iler door was ltoked a but one of the sash of her room was ^ raised and the blind open. Her aunt, a Miss Sallie Harizog, with whom she 8 lived, entered the window and found P her just breathing and summoned Dr. L. F Bonner immediately, who found her dying from laudanum poisoning. a Miss Hutto's father and mother are both dead, but she lias a brother and 0 several sisters who are very much v shocked at this suaden end of a sister c they loved so well. Miss Hutto had not been despondent and seemed in 1 the best of humor Sunday. Jumpixl Overboard. n A passenger of the Clyde Steamer c Arapahoe, en route from Jacksonville t to New York, jumped overboard while I v the vessel was In her dock, at Charks- c ton It Is thought, with suicidal Intent. 1: The man first threw his watch and a then his pistol Into the water and c climbed the rail and followed these v articles. The Immersion In the oold f water soon brought him to his senses I and he offered no objections to the g rtscue by the crew of the vessel, who lowered a life boat and went after s him Immediately upon his rash act. c Fourteen Striker* Killed. At Moscow, Russia, Wednesdiy } evening In a fight between strikers 8 and the soldiers, fourteen persons r were killed. The struggle followed ( an attempt of the strikers to astemble. ? In a public square. Some strikers f pulled revolvers, whereupon the sol- a dlers opened fire and the strikers retreated. c m 1 SDAY, FE13RUAR CAUCHT AT LAST. Young Man Arrested in Charleston for Being a Firebug. HE SET MANY FIRES. The Accused Is a White Boy and Ad* mlts that He Set Several Firea. He Is the Same Boy that Was Nearly Killed by a Tiger Sometime Ago. The mystery of tho many tlrys that >ccurred in Charleston last month vas cleared up by tho arrest of a vhlte boy by tho name of Raymond Jowmaa on Thursday. There hid >oen about llfty tires In Charleston Incc January 1, and people were looming alarmed at the thought th it band of tlrobugs had Invaded the ity. No one for a moment suspect d , white b y of Charleston with being he causo of the tires. 11 jwman is harged with setting tire to c .tt<>n in tie ftost Shore Terminal Company's bed, with trespassing on the premhes f M. Schmancke^s hay and grain lore, with trespassing on the prim>08 of 1?. Rhode's fee l store, and with ttemptlng to rob the safe In the A. ! L ticket oflloo in the Cht.rkstcn lot el. He was arrested at the htv and rain store of C. I) Oorlletnan .& Co., t noon Thursday by Deteotivj John ) Rrcnnan, of the Charleston dcteclve force, and lodged In a cell at the entral station. Bowman admits sot Ing lire to thecotion, hut said that h was by accident through the throwiK away of a clKarettc, act; C ilef I jylo stat d later Thursday after 0011 that the prisoner had practical/ admitted responsibility for the aries of llres that have taken place i Charleston during last month, by rhtch some $.10,000 worth of propery has b en destroyed. It Is said that Bowman was the rst to warn Molony and Carter that heir place was on lire the 11 -si, time, bat lie was amoiiK the tlrst to warn IinaKcr Kent of the tiro at his tabl$. He was seen to leave the rarehouso of M ilony and Carter on ohn stre; t, Just before the Arc start d, by John Molony and the S uthcrn all way watchman. He was about he ArKyle Hotel when the tire there tarted a few days ago, and r'c ntly 'ent to work for Mr Arnold, whos tables were burned Wednesday. Detective Brenn&n had been shad wing Bowman all the morning, foltwlng him into Gartleman's store on Hng street Thursday, and arrested Im at noon. B iwman was identilkd V MpKHr.a finhmannlrn l"?. 1 t ?jv/llUi(?IIVAl.| I V' I' liU I W 11 1 I [olony as the person seen about their laoevS, and Mr. W. B. Wallace, who as charge of the telegraph station at tie Charleston Hotel, identified him i the person caught trying to unick the ticket < fflee safe at about y 'clock one night some weeks ago. The llrst clue that turned the atmtlon of the police to young Bow l&n was given by Mr. Rhode and by [r. Walpole at the Charleston Hotel, ho told if the attempt made by owman to rob the safe. The boy imo Into the otH-ie late one afternoon nd asked the agent to change a live ollar bill Mr. Walpole went to the ife, a small Iron one under the north ounter. which Is u looked by two cys, and after he had tinlshcd using is bunch of keys he threw them on lie desk behind him. Young Bowlan left, and one of the safe keys on lie bunch was found to be missing. Later In the evening Mr. Wallace ift the effljo to get some silver hanged Into hills at the hotel desk, nd when he rcturL?! he looked over he ticket counter and saw young t.iwman trying to unhc-i tho safe, Vhen asked what he was dr lug, ho aid that he was looking for som hlng. Mr. Wallace went for a p > loeman, and when ho had left It is j aid that the hoy jumped oj r i e. ounter arid left the hotel through j ho front entrance. He returned tnc I ey next day, when Mr. Walpole scot I or it. He was seen during the Charleston transfer Cnr\nanc iir?? i?ia! -r" ? / ,i,vl * XA 1,J,U5 '*i lalley and Lobby's store, and the felght of evident worked up by Do active Brennan from infont atloo uthercd first through Mr. Rhode, ud from circumstance s that Molotiy nd Carter thought odd, and from the L 0. L. ticket agent caused the rresfc of Bowman, on the charges peel 113d. In bis omfesdon to the >oltce Bowman practically admitted hi burning of both Molony and Car er's places, and that of Oarlleman. ,nd two other places. When arrested Thursday In the roar f Gartlemau's hay and feed store v he re the fire of Wednesday cccurrd, Bowman said that he had 30ine to ook at the work of the fhe. At Rhode's and Scbmanke's, w lere he v&s warned of! he gave trivial exc ises or his presetoi. Bowman is no nore than sixteen years old, the son >f Mr. Saul Bowman, and live* at 17 tnson stre&t. Some years ago he vas badly bitten by a tiger In a cagt if a show on King street, near Calmun. He was a little fellow th< n ,nd had been permitted to enter the .ige of the tiger, which nit him se wreiy, ana ne was in the Ir tirmaiy tr some time. He Is undent >o 1 to lave been married recently in Auueta. The only motive that oin be as Igned to his 6trange aotlons Is that if robbery, It seeming to be the In entlon of young Bowman to empty >he cish drawers of the p(Oplo win m te excited by tire, and in their ab enoe to avail himself of the opportuilty of robbery. Perhaps some menal weakness has been at the bolt >m >f his actions. The mystery of the hes that have occurred Is now c'< ared iway, and the department and polios ian taks a rest, as also oan all tha iwners of hay and grain stores. iftalil Y <), 1905. The theory of spontaneous combustion had few supporteis, for the regularity and the frequency of the alarms, together with the tlndlng jtmmed into the crack of a door of the Brown Crockery warehouse on L berty street Monday morning of excelsior, a stick, and a pap r fuse partly burned, made the idea of incendiarism generally accepted. Detective Brcnnan, with the o> ( p ration of the tire victims and the police deserve the admiration and gratitude of the whole city for the good work that has discovered the fire bug, and a great load is liftul from the minds of the men who are responsible for the safety of the city from the danger of Ores. The efTcot of the steady alarms and destruction of property had begun to tell on the nerves of clt'a ns, and there now seems little dang r of a repetition of the situation. The thes must have been fot by matches, of which there were several In the p; cket of the lad when be was arrested, and lie evld ntly trusted to Ills c jclncss and warning tactios to guard him from suspicion. The prisoner could not be seen by the reporter Thursday, as the police authorities did not wish Bowman to bo interviewed. -Charleston Post. FAUMSR3 SOKE TO WIS II They Will Stand Together and Hold Their Cotton, Valuable information concerning the status ani condition of the Kgyptlan cotton crop, showing as It does, tile wisdom of until Horn nl?nto w. mwm vtavttt pioill VCIO I 1UU1 * lng their cHtpri for a higher price, has just come to the department of commerce and labor from Consul Smyth at Tun till, England. Tuns tall Is In the Lancashire cotton spinlog district O, the reports concern tng the Egyptian cotton and of eflorts of English spinners to force down the price of tho American crop, Mr. Smyth Mild In his dispatch: "These rep nts arc very dlsoouragIng, inasmuch as they foreshadow a shortage In this year's crop of the class of staples that comes Into com petition with American cotton. For this reason 1 do not hesitate to say it would be advisable to warn the southern planters against any move on the pirtof Lancashire manufacturers to force hales at low prices In order to meet tho requirements of such a detiolenoy. "The general opinion In Lancashire is that a plentiful supply of American cotton cao he had on a '11 penny I a is,' that Is to say, 10 cents per pound. Combl nations are being formed to bold the price at this botch, If possible and theso combinations intend to operate thr ugh agents sent specially to Louisiana and all the cotton producing centers of the South. The troubles among the ootton manufao Hirers of the East are expected to aid in the development of this scheme, for they are calculated to have a depressing i IT. ct on the home market iu their relation to .supply and demand. "My candid opinion Is that an enor mous amount of money can be saved to our p antcrs by taking this matter up In time, and Invoking the assis Lance of the banks or the national treasury, If such an arrangement can be made to enable the planters to warehouse their ootton until the pres cut suicks are wonted up on this side and the necessities of the manufacturers conpi 1 them to treat on more liberal terms with the growers 0r their representatives as the case may be. "The erection of new mills In Lancashire and the ell ot which their consumption Is likely to have on the market next year lend additional Inter est to this subject, and serves to emphasl/.o the views I have taken the liberty to present In this dlspatoh. Fi t* en cent cotton, or even 12-ceut would cut a very Important liguro In the net assets of one year's crop and add materially to the wealth and prosperity of the South." Huriuid to Death. A negro named Tllden Davis wrs bum d to death In his home In Brit toil's Neck Saturday night. He had been to Marlon on Saturday and returned home early in the evening in an lnt xicatcd condition. After say ing a few words to his wife, he went to sleep on the lljor before the lire. Ills wife and children reared to an01 her pan of the house and wont to sleep, and about 11 o'o ock were awakened by the roartrg of tire and found the house In Mimes. She hastily g t the children out, and attempted to res ue her husband, but he, In his drunken condition, resisted her efforts. Falling to get him out, she ran out to call for help, but before any one could reach the scene It was io> late for the house was almost (\ itun rPhn rlanAftM ~?1' ?? /????. x uv uowao u wtw a Wt'Il known and very reliable negro, with only the failing which reunited in his death. Hilled IIih Wire. A dispatch from Gooenvllle to The State says Sheriff Gllreath was notified early Thursday morning that a man had killed his wife in the Princeton neighborhood during Wednesday night. He at onca dispatched Depu ty Shcr fT Ballenger to the scene of the crime. The murder occurred about one half mile from Prfnceton and nine and a half miles from Honea Path. Dennis Wood, a white._man, tenant on a farm, killed his wife wno was st.id to have been half-witted. It is said that Wood b^at her first and ih?n * hot her, the woman only living a few minutes. The couple have four | in live ciiuurcn. rne man wasarrfNt (1 and is now In the Greenville county jXll. Wanted to Kill Hi r. Frau'ein Reubkeof theOourbThea Lor, Munich, Barvarla, who is playing the Juvenile lead In Ilauptmanu's "Beisohnoicde," found on her dressing table Thursday evening a beautiful boi.ban box with a note requesting her to open the box before going on the stage. The actress was too muoh occupied to do so until bafo e.the last act. When she did open It an adder d irted out and fasten* d its fangs In h r dress. Frauleln Heubk* screamed aud fell in a f tint and tin attendants killed the adder. After some delay tne actress was able to fluUh tha parformanoe. L THE CZXRVS STORY Of the Late Trouble* iu the Ku.sian Cities Given Out ThoGrnnil Duke Ylatliuiir, IhoCi^r's Undo and HpokoHinan, OIto# IIIh Version of the Hit nation. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the Grand Duke Vladimir, unc'e of Kmperor Nicholas and commander of tlie Imperial Guard, granted an Interview to the A soctatvd Press at the duke's pa'ace In tjuay de la Cour, adj luli.g the winter palace. The o ^respondent was received In the grand duke's private study "The newspapers abroad," suggest ed the correspondent, "have made many stab merits regarding the events of January 22." I know; 1 havo read acc unts In the foreign press I havos'oul eghast at the frigh ful stories of the butchery of Innocent people which they have printed. I know they say well lutentloned patrlo.s, with a priest at their head, coming p>acefuily to place their grievances before his m.?j sty wore ruthlessly shot down in toe streets; but we know thatbhini ibis peao/C ul procession was an anarchistic and socialistic piot of which the overwhelming majority < f the workmen were merely Innocent too-s We know from examination of the dead and those arrested that some alleged nrlodt u n.%* - 4 ' r..t^ttuvuui/ revolutionary agitators and Btudenta In disguise. Wo had to save the city from a mob. Unfortunately to do bo Innocent and guilty suffered alike Hut suppose 140,000 men had reached the gites of the winter palace, they would have none elsewhere and the whole city w. uld have been delivered over to anarchy, riot, bloodshed and dames. Our duty was tbe duty of every gov ernmcnt." "They say that Gorky will be banned," suggested tbe correspondent. "Nonsense," replied the grand duke. "It Is assorted that some of the troops refused to obey cr mmands" was the next suggestion. "There is no question of the loyalty of the troops," asset ted the grand duke. "Tney did their duty. They are ready, as I am ready, to die iu the streets for the emperor. A soldier was usked by one workman wiry be tired, the questioner saying to him: You'll lie a workman soon.' '.Perhaps,' lie replied, 'then you may be a soldier and know what it 1st) obey your oath to do your duty to your emperor." "Might I ask your imperial highness' view of the present j^tuatlon," said the correspondent. "With this unhappy war upon our shoulders," said the grand duke, "we are passing through a crisis. In tbo Interior there are many elements of discord, but the situation is not so nad as it is painted. The disorders at. W1 rua ?M? 1/ IaAP *? ^ - uv <1 uinan , AICU iillll BHBWliere ftTfi argsly Industrial, produced by trade depression and consequent lack of employment on account of the war. lhey are not revolutionary at base." Then without being asked the grand duke went on: "People speak of a constitution. A constitution would mean the end of Russia, as the state would be gone, anarchy would supervene, and when it ended the empire would be dislnte grated. Finland and Poland and i erhaps other frontier provinces would have broken away. Russia Is not ripe for a constitution. Go out among the peasants who comprise the vast bu k of the empire's population and try to t xplaiu to them government by suffrage. The peasant knows nothing of governmt nt; lie doesnoteven know wi at ti e word means He knows his emperor. For him the emperor is everything. Give the peasant a vote and all would be anarchy. Still there Is neccs-ity for reforms, and they will be granted by the autocracy." "Maintaining the principle of au t.ocraoy, then, the people will have an opportunity to he heard in tho gov eminent?" questioned the correspondent. "Yes," was the reply; "they can and I am sure they will he given a voice. Of that I am certain," and ho repeated the words emphatically, "I am ce'talo," and contlnu* d even more deliberately. "They will ho given the means of presenting their needs and grievances direct to the sovereign." With these sign (leant words, foreshadowing perhaps the Immediate granting of something In the nature of the zemskjziboe (land parliament), the grand duke ended the Interview. He then turned to PriuOe Rc'aseisky, his aide, Instructing him to give the Associated Pi ess every facility for Independent investigation. The Jury l>til Not tioltevo Her. A miracle, broughtabout by prayer, WitQ atnorn tv? In Onn?? 117,1 ~ J 1 - ?w w in wuiv ncuuusuuy uy Miss lnga Hanson, a former member of the Salvation army, who Is on trial In Chicago, charged with perjury in connection with a personal damage suit brought by her against the Chicago City Railway Company. Under oath Wednesday she testified that the alleged miracle restored her sight, speech and hearing. This remarkable explanation came from the lips ?f the young woman as the answer to a charge that her ailments had been conceived to further a 150 000 conspiracy, had b^cn adroitly simulated through five years of litigation, and had suddenly ceased. The sc.'.nc of the alleged visitation was in Richmond, Va., and according to the girl's olalms, was productd by prayer with ail itinerant Methodist missionary who visited her. Miss Hanson lost nor suit against the street railway company. White Stone Hold. A dispatch from Spartanburg says Dongan & Scheftall, and Solomon Scht ftall, wholesale merchants of Sivannnah, hive pu e lased the White Stone Ltthla Springs property and will at once begin tmprovem n s and Innovations lo kirg toward the establishing of a modern tourists hotel In Spartanburg county. It Is undcreto d that the consideration was 1150,000. I NO. 44. a "fatal r?e7 Seven Women Killed Outright and Two Die Soon. STRUCK BY A TRAIN. The Sleigh In Which Ihe Women Were Riding .Was Knocked Into Splinter*. The Driver Tried to Stop the Sleigh, But Could Not Control the Morses. A passenger train on the Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad Wednesday night crushed Into a sleigh containing thirteen women, killed seven outright and so seriously Injured and maimed six that two of them died arter being removed to tho hospital. Of tho other four, two are In a serious condition. The accident occurred near the city of Arkport, N. Y. The sleigh was One of the three carrying a party from the Uulver-allst ol uroh, of Ilornellsvillo, N. Y. The dead: Mrs. Mary Gillette, Mrs. Charles Thomas, Mrs. Eugene Shaw, Mrs. Jus Hallett, Mrs. O. C. Graves, Mrs. Llert M tore, Mrs. Coatcs, Mrs. Prcd Green, Mrs. Ruth Patchen. xiu' injured: Mrs JT. Houghton, Mrs. F. R. Rowley, Mrs. Hond, Mrs. Wallace Clark. Members of the Ladles' Aid Society of t-b?? 'inlversallst Church went to a farm house near Arkport to spend the afternoon. It wr.s nearly dark when they started on the return trip to 1 Iornellsvlllo. The occupants of the leading sleigh sav the train approaohIng as they neared the Shawmut crossing. The driver urged his horses ahead and the sle gh passed over the tracks in safety. The women in the first sleigh then attempted to warn those lu the one following of the danger and they did succeed In directing their attention o the rapidly approaching train. The driver pull d up his horses, but he could not check the heavy sleigh quickly enough, aid when it came to astandstill the box of the sleigh was directly across the railroad track. The pilot of the engine struck the s'elgh with great force, reduoiug it to splinters and hur .lng the women In all directions. E rery woman on the sleigh was killed cr injured. The other menbers of the party hurried back to the assistance of their unfortunate coir panlons, and the train was stopped aud backed up to the crossing. The bodies of the dead were placed upon the train and the Injured wero laid upon improvised o >ts In the baggage car. Tue train then proceeded to iJornellsvlllo. The news of the accident had been telephoned to tho city and hundred* of friends and relatives of the unfortunate women wero awaiting at the station. The dead wero at once taken to the iSQrgue, and tho lrjured were placed in ambulances and taken to the Mercy Hos- \ pltal.* KdshaQjlck, driver of the second sleigh, was bakly hurt. He said he tried to stop the sleigh, but could not control the horses. Hcriounly Hurt. A dispatch from Aiken to The State says that two daughters of Mr. it. it. it. Armstrong were seriously hurt In a runaway aooldent Tuesday afternoon. The young ladles were driving a pair of horses, and as they started down a hill leading to Coker Spring, owing to the shortness of the tongue, the buggy suddenly lurched forward and frightened the horses. They broke and ran for seme distance, finally running Into a tree and throwing both the young ladies out. It was thought that one of the young ladles was fatally hurt, but she has Improved considerably and Is now considered out of danger. i< hi ally liurued. A dispatch from Alkeu to The State sajs a telegram was received there that Mr. Geo. P. Ashley, formerly of Aiken, w.ih burned to death in the otllce car attached to the railroad c.mp of W. J. Oliver & Co., at WyokllfTe, Teno., s.t 2.30 o'clock 1'hursday mornlog. Mr. Ashley, who ?a> abo jL 27 years of age, had bsoa in the employ of W. J. Oliver & Go., and had worxed his way up to a responsible position with that large 11 rm of railroad ontraotors. No furtin r part culars of the tragedy wero given In the lelet/ram. Watur I'ipjM Kx(iiuil< (I. At Union one morning last week the hot water pioes In the big oooking range at tne home of Dr. J. II, Hamilton exploded with terriflo forc3, blowing out the end of the range, sending t ie utensils In every direction and plnsteriug some of the food on tbe celling, but#f0u,unately not injuring any one. People should thaw out their wAter pipes when frczm before building a fire in the stove. ________ ___________ Tramii.an Kilted. A special from McDonough, O*., says that two penoaB were killed In a headon collision har.wAAn ? uuumioru freight trains N<?s. 34 and 83 at MoDonougli at an esrly dour Wednesday morning. The d rad arr: it 0. Wllhelm, engineer of No. 34. Calvin Archer. Jr., fireman of No. 34. rklhoun Ocumy Mootued. The house Thurelay night received from the Judiotaiy committee an an* favorable report ui the bill to create Calhoun county. There was a ml nor 1* ty report signer by five members. There were 14 who signed the unfavcrab'e epcrjo It la quite probable that the new couaty wilt not be given birth. Four Trainmen Killed. A southbound passenger trlan and a north bound freight train on the Na>hville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad met In collision Friday near Tallahoma, Tenn , killing four train* men and Injuring several passengers, none seriously. i. i