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VOL. 13. A SHARP REPWf By A. B. Williams to the Slanders of Bishop Potter ABOUT THE SOUTH. The Editor Challenges the Slandering j) _ New York Bishop to a Shmr of Hand-* a* to the Moral Condi tiou of his Diocese and the South Generally. Bishop Potter of New York is one of the pet superstitions of this c untry. He Is part of the general New York superstition. Because New York Is big, most of us assume that any man who becomes prominent there must be a very large and great man Indeed. We persistently forget that as many fakirs, humbugs and lightweights rattle and swell around In large places in New York as anywhere else In the world. As for Blsh? p Potter, he has said and done as many silly things as any old genth man we know of. A recent experience of his indicates that ills manners are as bad as his morals in some respects are defective, his Judgment is bad and his arr< gar.ee extreme. Some time ago he undertook to discuss the divorce qu s tlon in a New York newspaper. As we reoollect, he iloundered around tire subject a good deal ar d failed absolutely to make any definite suggestion or to indicate any coherent policy f< r his chuicli or for h glsla* Ion. I t the course of his somewhat flabby and chaotic remarks, however, he said that the absolute abolition of divorce would not do. lie added: "We have an ex ample of what would result from such a measure In South Carolina, whom the law dues not recognize It. Pro hTblllfifc^ divorce Is merely putting concubinage at a premium." This doea not lnr press uh aw a high or a church manlike view. Certainly concubinage is not at a premium anywhere in South Carolina. The editor of the Columbia (S. C.) Stale wrote Bishop Potter a very re spectful lotter, pointing out to him that he had done the homes and ppo plo of the State serious Injustice, re ferrlng him to the bishop and clergy of his own church in that State for evidence and asking him to make care ful Inquiry into the facts and then "takesuCh Bteps as equity an'! Justice may dictate." In reply the editor received a most Insolent letter from Bishop Potter, Indirectly denying that he had used the language attributed to him and describing the editor's letter and artiole on the subject by Judge Benet, enolosed with it, as ''equally unwarranted and impertinent." The editor of the State replied with another respectful letter, In a pt rfect ly proper and deferential way, taking oil the bishop's bide. He pointed out that the offensive paragraph had been published prominently, that Bishop Potter had not seen tit to make any denial or correction of an outrageous and shameful slander against the people of a whole Siate and that his de nl&l suggested in his own letter was as evasive as discourteous. A few days later Bishop Potter printed In the New York Globe a brief statement en the subject, in which he said he had no TilfiffV tn mol/u A U ? v'* j vv uiunt IV/ ^JV/U til V^AI Ulli d I ' /v^^& nded his slander totho pedjej of the whole South, llo Is quoted as saying: "He had simply remarkid that in view of the prevalence of mlso.< gcna tion in the South, the 'pose' of lofty and superior virtue on the part of its peoplts\ any where had in it an element equally comio and pathetic." An accusation like this cannot b sustained or disproved by statistics or amd&vlts. It can be considered only in the light of general and obvious facts. Virtue is nut a thing of sect ions or of couutrles. Toe good are good and the bad are bad everywhese and wherever human nature is, the afftc tions and passions of men and women stray In forbidden paths. O.ie tHny, however, Is certain and plain. V/iat Is that the moral fc.ne is Infinitely oleaner and the social standards are Infinitely higher in South Carolina than In Bishop Potter's diocese. Cer talnly a woman divorced tri m her husband and married to another man in side of twenty four hours wou'd not be received In respectable society anywhere In the South. Yet a woman who did that very thin# is a leader of New York's most exalted society. Nobody knows the secret annals of vice; but every observer who has met and known the people of New York and any Southern State knows that In the South vastly less filth is talked and written than in New York. The natural and Inevitable presumption is thfct lives In the South are very nrich oleaner. The women whose conduot&od conversation are so distinctly loud and bad as to justify definite criticism Is tabooed In every Southern State. Blsh op jrotter cannot say tnat mat is the case even In tlje highest ani theoretically most exclusive society of his own oomm unity. It would be interesting to know where Bishop Potter got his impres slons of the morals of the people ol the South and how he would go about justifying himself tor circulating such a oruel and Injurious charge as that ooncublnage and miscegenation are eneral In this part of the country. The truth is that miscegenation In Its legal sense Is impossible anywhere In the South because It Is forbidden and severely punishable by law. We dc not hesitate to say that the charge that these vices are general or even widespread In the South is falhe, and in making that assertion we will dc better than Bishop Potter. We will offer good evidence to oonvlct him ol falsehood if he is willing to dare the Issue. We will put on the stand the Protestant Episcopal clergy of the whole South, from bishops to deac3ns They liTfe among the people and know them and have ample opportunity foi ^^^^nowjrng their life. We may assumi ( that some of them, at least, are men who are not afraid to tell the truth In any circumstances or at any cost. For New York, we will take the combined evidence of the clergy,the courts and the newspapers. Like the editor of the State, we invite Bishop Potter to take the evidence, or join us In taking it. If It sustains his accusations, we will confess with shame, but frankly, that he is right. If they contradict him, will he be willing to couf? ss that ho has circulated an outrageous and infamous scandal and slander? We do not care whether he attributes it to Ignorance, recklessness or malice or to a mixture of the three. If he evades a simple and honest teat like this, he will stand oonvlQted of having disgraced himself by a wholesale slan der unworthy of a gentleman and of having brought shame and injury upon his own church, so far as his Jurisdiction extends.?Richmond News Leader. BOMS PLAIN TALK From Northerner on the Shackling of President Davis. To the Editor of the Publlo Ledger: So many letters have appeared In the newspapers lately, pro and con, TO flrQ rr\ I n?v tHn ^ v^w?uiup( vuo uicavuucuv UI Ol'lTOHI* dint Jefferson Davis while a eaptlve that 1 am surprised one salient feature has hitherto esceped comment, and I rely upon your liberal journal to prlut what I now desire to place before the fair minded people of America hearing upon the manacling of the distinguished prisoner of war. The Koman conqueror loaded his captive Kings with chains (some times of gold; but still chains) to grace his triumph. We must go back 2,000 years or near it, to the day when the valiant British Prince Caraotacus, in Chains, graced a triumph In Rome. Cleopatra only saved herself by the asp from glorifying In chains, the triumph of Ootavlus. But this Is ancient hist/try. In modern times, cruel and vindictive as were the British to the fallen lion, Napoleon and although ! they, lu their terror of him, condemn ed him to a living doath yet he was [ never put In chains! It remained for the United States of America, through their duly const! tutcd authorities, to do a thlhg unprecedented in modern times, the chaining, llko a convict, of the lead er of a bravo cause, whose rights or wrongs are not now In question. The brutal treatment of the aged and Infirmed statesmen and soldier by a hired blacksmith (or hired sergeant, or general?it doesn't matter which, to my argument) was a deed which should have brought then, and should bring now, the blush of shame to ev ry man north of Mason and Dixon's line, who countenanced, or who countenances, this outrage against the amenities of honorable warfare, and against the courtesy due to a soldier, statesment and a gentleman, and through him to a brave, though conquered people. Jamks P. Davidson. Philadelphia March 22, 1906. A llritlo ill lit* Heraull. Hccause her husband told her he detected her flirting with a former admirer, Mrs. James Galllon, a brid< of three hours, shot herself at Huntington. W. Va., Tuesday. The c uplc were married, and about midnight went to the home prepared by the groom. Galllon twitted his wife ahout the attention paid ber during the wedding ceremony by an old swietneart or hers. She resented ih'Si pleasantries, and in a lit of anger leaped from her bed and, rushing to a dresr.lrg case drawer, seized Gallion's rev ?lv r. Not thinking she was serious, Gallion w atched her as she placed the mizzle of the weapon be neath her heart. The bullet tore a fearful w und in the woman's side, and the (lash from the gun Bet tire to tier flimsy robe. Mrs. Gallion, who was ab >ut 20 years old, died as she was being taken to a hospital. Deadly Kxloalon. Three men were killed outright and another so badly injured that he died a few hours later by an explosion at the Schaghtlcoko powder mills near Troy, N. Y., Tuesday. The men killed were James White and Charles Colburn of Ha zirdsville, Ojnn., and James Sprague and Albert ll&rtlett, the latter being new employes. The men were at work in the oornlng mill when the explosion occurrtd and the cause Is not known. The bodies of three of the victims were blown to fragments. The fourth victim, White, was found 300 feet away, alive but he could not recover. Gave Up the Fight. t Ilenry L. Woodward, an attorney of New York city, and Charles A Ur< uz, a traveling salesman for the National Supply company of Toledo, Ohio, committed sulolde in their rooms at the llollenden hotel at Cleveland, Ohio, sometime during Tuesday night of last week. The bodies of both men were found Wednesday afternoon. The coroner's verdict In eaoh case gives despondency over domast.in and himinaM as the cause of the suicides. Both men had used a pistol and had sent a bullet Into their heads In almost the same spot, death in each case being instantaneous. May A* Woll (jult, The Washington Post believes that the American people are in earnest and that if the present Republican > administration does not smash the trusts that it will itself be smashed at the next national eleotion. The Columbia State says if that be true, i the O. O. P. might as well go out of business right now. The trusts were ; not born to die by the hand of the party whloh gave them birth and whloh has ever after protected its off ( spring with a Jealous aud fostering | care. Mother and ohlld are mutually i dependent. 1 Robbed Registered 1 setter. > Arthur R. Whitner, a young man 1 belonging to a prominent family at f Jacksonville, Fia., pleaded guilty in ' the federal oourt Wednesday to taking > 9500 from a registered letter Whitner > was employed in the Jacksonville post* office as night registry olerk, and the 1 laroeny was committed last summer' r He was given a sentence of one years. > imprisonment. 1 fhf CON 11K HEED THE Ei L. 8ome Anecdotes of the Boyhood and College Life of JuiIko I'rlnoo, of iho Ninth Circuit. What a Citizen Haiti Dnrtnit a Term of Court In Barnwell. And now, "May It please Your Honor." Well, those of uh who knew him in his younger days are not surprised that It la now "Judge Prince." The Judge always had a judicial mind and declared when a child that he intended to be a lawyer. II w he conceived that Idea so early in life 1 can't Imagine. He was born eight miles from a Court House, and 1 have no Idea he was ever inddeofone before he was seventeen years of age. But a lawyer he Is, &ud no other man lovi s his profession better than he. 1 know Judge Prince, I think, almost as well as his wife does. We wero born within a mile of each other ?the Judge and I. We played to gether from our infauoy. We huuted together, fished b gether, went swimming in the same "hole," and had our backs blistered more than once. Together we egj ryed all tho sports of the very live country b>y. With our lunob baskets and the blue back speller wc started to sohool the same day; and, on the samo day, and from the samo hat d, we received our diplomas on the same platform. Since J lidl/ft Prinno'a oldnt lnn fro fr Judgeship l have re,"ailed many amusing Incidents of cur boyhood days. The future Julge had a high sense of honor and would light for the right, or what he ojncelved to be right, anywhere and at any time. 1 wonder If he remembers knocking that fellow in the face who pulled Ills pants against the calf of his legs alter he had stood before the blazing tire until the cloth was hot enough to ''burn bad?" In those days the boys wore pantaloons, not these abominable things called kneebrltohcs. And what great tires we had with the lire place extending almost across the end of the house. We warmed our biscuits and meat by sticking them on sharpened sticks and holding In front of the dre, or over red-hot coals. Docs Prince remember pul ing his meat out of the ashes when It si pped off the stick? Future Judges and teachers had to have their lunch, ashes or no ashes. They had been taught at home that hi ikory ashes were good for horses, and the young Judge argued that they might be 1 good for two-legged animals as well I gueis they were. In one of our tlshlng escapedes (and I am not sure but that we ran ( IT without permission that time, as the stream was swollen) we were seated on a tree that leaned over the stream 1 and not more than f< ur or five feet above the water. Cattish were biting ravenously and we wereratoMni/ rapidly. Suddenly something carried the end of Prince's pole undern|ktb the water and tugged at It vic'.ov j*. 1 The young Judge had no Idea of \ #' rendering that pole wltliout a profit. So he threw himself ; gainst It with as much determination as he has ever manifested In the defence of a olient. 1 After a brief struggle tuere appeared above the water a shining, twisting, struggling eel. That was our tint eel and must be "strung" sura. So I'rlnce drew the snake-like thing to him and caught it In his handi, <x pecting me to free the hook from 1 >s mouth and string It. He had soarce ly taken hold of the sllpp ry thing before It liberated Itself from the hook and began to slip ihrongn his hands. That mt ant that In two s conds the great prizj would be back in the water. What did the youthful Nimrod, the future Judge, do? Friends and fellow citizens, he Just nail* d that eel with his teeth, and, with the thing wriinli.g and twisting ab u?< Ills head and face, ran < IT that tiee out Into the ploughed ground where he could dlspatou him. Prlnoe said he didn't mind holding the thing in Ills teeth, but be didn't like the taste it left in his mouth. But the vlo ory was won?the eel was ours, and 1 iiiiinK m&ae a neap lighter the ilogging we got for going to the oreek without permission. No, Prince's college mates are not surprised that he is Judge and they have no fear that the honor and dig nlty of the State will s iffer at his hands. In college he was a hightoned gentleman who despised little meannesms of whatever kind and cherished high ideals. Ills classstanding was always first-class, and his literary society work was superb. Indeed, I doubt whether Wc fiord has ever given to the world a stronger or more persistent debater. With him, to discuss any question with his peers was a delight. Manning Smith used to say that Prince would discuss with anybody the question: Which is the top side of a battercake? and give his opponent ohoice of the sides. Last year Prince was appointed special Judge for a term of Court at Barnwell. The Judge had two or three bumps on his bald head, not such as would annoy or delight phre nologists, but harmless little things the physicians call "wens." With nma J- 41? * -J ov/iug iiivuua tllO J UO{(6 WftS Bitting one afternoon in the office of his hotel. An ardent admirer from the country, armed with a bottle of "Fuss X " walked in and leaned against the clerk's desk. When the conversation lulled the countryman said: "Jedge t'T "What is it, my frlencV" responded the Jur'ge. "Jedge, I laks you." > I "Weil," said the Judge, with some embarrassment, "1 thank you for your good opinion of me. "Yes, Jedge, I laks you?yes, sir, I laks your rutin's; but, Jedge, 1 want to tell you; you air the fus Jedge 1 uver seed with horns on his head." The members of the Bar present enjoyed the Joke Immensely, as did the Judge himself, but when the Judge returned to Anderson he had himself dehorned ? Alumnus in Southern Qhrlstl ?n Advocate. Ml us Mildred Le,e Dead. Miss Mildred Lee, youngest daughter of Qen. Robert E. Lee, died at New Orleans Tuesday night at the reeideuoo of Mrs. William Preiiton Johnston, while on a visit. Her death was due to appoplezy. eMMHaMaanmHnaNMNMMMNPiwM Wmt WAY. S. C., THUR AWFUL TRAGEDY. A Man Shoots a Girl Five Times and Kills Himself. NKAR CONWAY, S. C The Mail Wanted to Marry the Woman and Because She Refused He Shot Her Five Times With a Pistol and Then Shot Himself Also. A special dispatch to The State from Conway Bays one of the most awful and sickening tragedies which has ever oocurred within the borders of this county took place Thursday morning about 7 o'clock, at lloiuewood station, on the Coast Lino railroad, four miles north of Conway. As soon as the news reached this place the correspondent secured a horsa and buggy and went out to the scene? a peaceful looking one-roomed board cabin, surrounded by a small clearing, planted In English peas and strawberries, In the midst of the pine woods. Id the yard, almost in the spot where he fell, lay F. O Sessions, commonly known as "Huddle" Sessions, dead, with a bullet through his brain by his own hand, and on a table within the cabin, was stretched the prostrate form , of He'.le Sessions, a young girl of 18 or 20 years of age, wounded In live places by the hand of the dead man lying outside. She and her mother, Betsy Sessions, lived together alone In the cabin, which is on the land of Mr. George Bray, for whom they worked as day lab>rers. From a'1 that can be gathered, Sessions had been persecuting this woman with his attention for some time paHt, havitg threatened on several occasions to kill her If she would not marry him, although she was the mother of two illegitimate children, the your.ger of whom Is said to be his child. It seems that there was another man In the case, now 11 v iug >n norma or ueorgia, wbo was the favored lover, and who had sent on tickets for her and her mother to come and J >iu him; and they were to have gone Wednesday, aud had their trunks hauled Into Conway, but were unable to leave on account of Rome mistake or irregularity in the tickets. The testimony of the mother, at the coroner's lr.qut.8t, was that she did not know where they were going, nor who was furnishing tho transportation; but that her only Idea was to get away somewhere in order that the life of her child might be spared. The knowl edge of the threats made by the de ceased were, more or less, a matter of common information, and there are ;ome rumors to the effect that they had oven been called to tbe attention of the officials, who, however, had not taken any action, thinking that the women were unnecessarily alarmed ovtr idle words. As neither mother nor daughter have ever been lawfully married, their ho use bore a very unsavory reputation In the o mm unity and no one would have regretted their departure had they gotten away on Wednesday. Just before the hour of the tragedy, the mother went to the home of Mr. Ilray to borrow a pitchfork for her day's work and after she left the house Sts sons, who must have hern concealed In tbe woods, awaiting just such an pportunlty, went up to the cabin, entered, caught the girl, who tried to run, pulled her out on the little piazza and held her with his left hand while ne pulled his revolver of 38 calibre and emptied every chamber Into her body at arm's length. After releasing her, she staggered a few steps and fell in uiu yarn, wnere sue was found, with her two small children crying over her, by those who tirst arrived upon the scene. He then deliberately unbreached his pistol, reloaded all the chambers, and, placing the muzzle Ju*t behind his right temple, fired the shot whioh penetrated the brain, c m lng out on the other side of the head, j ist above the left ear. The woman *as wounded in both arms, they being broken between the elbow and should er, once Just below the lef , breast, and twice Just beljw the right breast. She was attended by Dr. II ke Burioughs, the coroner, and Dr. Josephs. Dusenburry, both of Co.)way, and was still alive at 1 o'clock, though there is no chance whatever of her reoovory. A Jury was cmpanoled, before whom a number of witnesses, were ex amlned, both as to the actual facts of the tragedy and also as to the causes and events leading up to it. The shots were heard by. several, all of whom testified to the fact that they immediately surmised what bad hap pened upon bearing the firing. The verdiot of the Jury was that the de ceased came to his death by means of A. nldtnl viinnil Inrtl.ifa/) ' ? r ttv/uiiu tun ivtvu vjy liiILlfH'll . The W( man w&h conscious when the d ctors reached her, and was able to make a statement concerning the shooting. Upon her suggestion a search was made in the pockets of the deceased which revealed a note he had wiitten, making disposition of what little money he had, and provid ing for the payment of certain small debts; and which showed, beyond all question of a doubt, that he went to the house with the fully formed purpise of killing both her and himself. In her statement the woman declared that Se slons had on former oocaaions threatened not only to kill her, but also to make an end of bis own life, and that she had seen notes which he had written in such expectation. He said in the note he left that! he had stood her lies Just as long as he oould; and it was brought out in the testimony that some time ago he had met her in the publio road, and, at the point of a pistol, forced from her a promise of marriage under threat of immediate death?a promise which she had no Intention of carry ing out The scene was certainly a pathetic and bizarre one, with the body of the deceased lying on some boards, his I I SDAY, APRIL 0,19 face .shelter d from the burning nun by an improvised shelter of pine to: s; a few foe' away thequlllaupon wbtoh she had been laid; on the o her side of the house the tlrf around the black Iron washpot fr m w? loh water was being carried to the ph\siuians dress Ing the wound-; the Jury bearing the testimony seated upon the w(/odpile, surrounded by the u ual crowd of gaping, staring spectators, many of whom had gone out from Con way in hu gles and on wheels; add to this 'he repeated moan of the mother. "Oh, I just wanted to get away to save her life." WILL UIVJ6 U8 TROUBLE. What an Englishman Says About the Victorious Japanese. "Even if Japan be victorious In Its conillct with Russia, I can see nothing ahead of the masses of people of thai race but a 1 ffig period of tribulation," said Mr. F. llawdon, of London, Eng land, who Is at the New Wlllard and who has 11 v d In Japan for many yerus says The Washington Post. "It must not be supposed that beoausc the Japanese have displayed ex traordlnary military prowess that they enjoy good economic conditions, or that there has been any great Improve tnent in the status of the common people since the abolition of the feudal system, some thirty-live years ago. The masses still subsist on meals cost ing from 2 to 5 cents, and the man over there who is able to eat a 60ccnt dinner is a grandee of the tirst magnitude. Any very great change for the better Is impossible In a country that has only 148,000 square miles, and a population of at least 45,000,000. Add to this that there is only II per cent of arable laud in Japan, and it is obvious that for the multitude there Is no escape from the grinding poverty and from long hours of poorly paid toil. Modern methods copied irom ine mist Have brought to 1 Japan many newly established Indus tries, but the poor people who cruwd their factories work for wages that 1 the meanest laborer in England or the 1 United States would scorn. 1 "Now with the Increasing hardships that the war entails, thousands cf Japanese after its olose will wish to better their oonditlon by coming to the < United States, and 1 have not the slightest doubt but that they are going ( to orove a source of trouble to your people if some legislation of a restrictive character is not adopted. Wher- I ever they come they will work for 1 smaller wages than Americans or any ' other white men, and this will beget i an agitation such as was had in California against th^Chinese, and prob- I ably result in the same exclusion." Died for Others. At New York iireman Samuel LUlie | was killed and several other lileman | were injured by a cave-in In the sub way at the One-hundred and Sixty- | eight street station, which was burn- | ed Thursday. Lllile and four others had been sent into the tunnel to wet j down the smouldering embers of the , tire when a portion of the roof fell and crushed Ltllte. The others were only slightly hurt. Lillie lost his life in i saving the life of one of his co npunllinn Hnl.h T.llllo a >1 /-I a lU.n.... ? ?W?? UUV4 U UK ill IU 11 nil' e1 Cavanaugh, who were working side by side, saw the cave in as Is started. ( Both were dlreotly underneath the falling mass and both would have been | crushed had not Llllle thrown his who's weight against hii companion, pushing Cavanaugh out of the wa> Just as the mass fell. Llllle wasoruah ed to death In an instant. Will l>o Uiiod Work. Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., was Wednes day chosen as clerk of the South Car olina Historical commissioner after a competitive examination, in which a number entered This office was creat ed at the last session of the legislature and provides a salary of 91,0U0 a year At the last meeting of the commission on account of the number of applicants it was decided to place the mat ter on a competitive basis and Mr , Salley was chosen after a careful ex aminatlon of the pupers. Mr. Salley has been for some time the historical editor of the News and Courier and is well known throughout the state, his 1 ability being unquestioned. Georgia Kail road h Merged, Announcement was officially made In Waycross that the Wadley and Mount Vernon railroad, the Douglas, Augusta & Oulf railroad and the Ocilla, P.ne Bloom & Valdosta railroads had passed Into new hands and that the management will be changed in a short time. The purchasers of the roads are J. E. Wadley, J. S. Bailey and G. G. Parker, all of Way oross, and they have associated with them wealthy parties from Augusta, Douglas and other points along the i lines. It is stated that the new own ers will at once proceed to build a line from Augusta, Ga., and connect with some point on the Gulf of Mexico. Picture Agent Shot. A special from Newton, Miss., says: W. P. Smith, a travelling representative of a portrait company, was shot and Instantly killed by Ray Tucker, a contractor and builder. The tragedy occurred In the outskirts of the town Tm ker was driving when he met the plotuie agent and asserts that Smith was attempting to draw a revolver when he (Tucker) flred. A difficult) had aris n between Smith and Tucker over a picture the latter had ordereo from the agent and whloh Tucker re fused to accept on the ground that it was unsatlafantnrv TSintar <> - A UVnVt TTCMJ Of 1 rested. Smith lived at Meridian Miss. Indicted for KmbczzW-ment. William D. Hall, former postmaster at Orarge Park, Fla., 14 miles from Jacksonville, was indicted by the federal grand Jury Wednesday for embezzlement. He was charged with being short in his accounts to the government. It also developed last week that he was short in his accounts as treasurer of the oity of Orange Park. Harder and Huiolde. At Marshall, 111., William J. Cruse, shot and killed his brotiier-ln-law, Frank Livix, and then committed sul oide. The wife of Cruse had obtained a dlvoroe, charging cruelty. Cruse claimed that the Livix family influenced his wife to leave him. (mil) >05. | UNDER ARREST. J. Morgan Smith and Wife Found in Cincinnati, Ohio. A SERIOUS CHARGE. Thev Arc Indicted Jointly In New York With Nan Patterson, Who Is Charged With the Murder of a Gambler by the Name of Caesar Young. Accused of conspiracy to commit murder, J. Morgan Smith and wife were arrested In Cincinnati, O do, rhursdy on telegraphic request from I) strict Attorney Jerome of New York city. Nan Patterson, the actress who has been twice put on trial for the murder of Caesar Young In New York, is charged in the same connection, new Indictments to this elTect having beeu found in New Y< rk Thursday. For a long time the authorities had been unable to locate Smith aud his wife, the couple having left New York a few months after the murder and before the beginning of the recent mistrial of Nan Pattersou in which Smith's testimony was considered almost vital to the prosecution, Several wcr ks ago a New York detective mot Smith in Montreal, uanana, ana rrom that time until the arrests this (lliacr lias awaited a favorable time fur making the arrest He fo lowed the couple, part of the time as traveling companion over half of the continent, having made friends with Smith, who knew him to be a detective but believed that the offl B.?r was after some other person. Detroit, Cleveland and a number of Cana lian cities were visited. Finally Smith wait to Nashville and L>uis ville in the hope of securing a position with some of the bookmakers in those ilties, leaving his wife in Cleveland. He was unsuc:essful and came to Cincinnati, where his wife met him on Wednesday. Mrs. Smith said she had relatives In Covington, Ky., and she went with tier 1 us band to that city Wednesday to call on these people, who, li jwever, refus d to see the visitors and after wards declared that there was no reationshlp between them. Returning to Cincinnati, Mr. and Mrs. Smith registered at the Grand hotel as II H. Banning and wife. The d? t otive riad k pt in telegraphic communication with New York and had deferred in arrest until it w.is possible to take ooth husband and wife, their separation soon after reaching the United States on returning from Canada having caused the delay. Wednesday night the detective wired to District Aifcornev .T?r, imfo "Smith and Julia arc at the Grand lotel. Wire Instructions." In reply the district attorney Thursday telegraphed: ' Arrest Smkb and wife as fugitives from Justice." The district attorney also sent the following: New York, March 30. Paul Mllllken, Chief of Police, Cincinnati. Arrest and hold for extradition J. Morgan Smith, wanted in New York n a charge of criminal conspiracy. Smith will be found at the Grand iiotel, Fourth street, Cincinnati, where Detective Aiken may also be found. Oillcer Q linn leaves today to s.abllsh Identity and procure requisition papers. The governor's warrant will follow as boon as it is possible to procure It. W. Tkavkrs Jeiiomk, D.s.rlct Attorney. The arrest was quietly made and dmith and wife were taken to police Headquarters, where they made no atBjmpt to deny or oonceal their Identity although both denied any guilt In connection with the cas . They showed signs of nervousness and worry, but both husband and wife expressed an Intention to return to New York without requisition. The couple stated that ihoy had expected to go to New York although they had not anticipated doing so under arrest. The detective who has been following Smith says that Smith went under many aliases in different cities before registering In Cincinnati as II. II. Banning. At Hamilton, Out., Smith called himself Bush, at Montreal be was known as Adams, at Detroit it was Collins and In Cleveland Hoblns)n. Before being locked up, Smith was SPHrnhi>H In hla nnnlrof ? -1 Ail itiu puvnou TTCltJ 1UUUU an (Id watch, some pocket pieces and 12 85 in cash. In his breast p cket were found two envelopes sealed. When Lieut. IL>ppe took the envelopes, Smith made frantlo efforts to get them back but the two envelopes were retained by the police. A dispatch from New York says the grand jury in that city Thursday nanded down indictments against J. Morgan Smith. Julia Smith. hl? wife and Nan Patterson, charging them jointly with conspiracy. 'Itae indictmi nts are bated upon a letter alleged to have be n written by Julia Smith to Cie. er Young in which, it la alleg ed, was & threu and a demand fo money for the Patterson girl. Th s acth n r,y tiie grand jury fob 1 iwed a hearing at th? criminal court building, at wmoh several wltne.-a. s, Including the widow of Caosar Youug tnd Mrs. Young's brothr-lnlaw. Wm. Luce, were examined by Assistant District Attorney Band, w >o conducted the recent trial of Nan Pat-1 terson, charged with Caesar Young's murder, which resulted in a disagree mcnt bv the jury Tne arrest of Smith and his wife ai Cincinnati, according to the New York authorities, will have an imp rtant bearing upon the new trial of the Patterson giri on the obarge of murder set for April 10. at, a previous trial an attempt was male to prove tn& the revolver with which Y>>ung was shot was pu o .as' d by Smith and a - oman the day before the tragedy oo ourred. BANK OF CON W/ CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSE'l OFFH B. O. COLLINS, Pkksioent. C. 1\ QUATTLEBAUM, V-Pres. Our Bank, being a local institul building of Horry County and for tli suing this policy wo take pleasure ii accommodation when consistent with With gratitude for tho liberal cordially solicit your future businesi Respect fi D. A. SPIVE Robt. B. Scarborough, II. President. ViceBANK OI Conwa Capital Stock DIRE( Robt. B. Scarborough, Ilal L. Buck, Georgo J. Holliday, Wo will pay you 5 per cent, intc ish savings banks to those wishin Try our plan for saving your nicklos these little banks and the interest w( help yon. Divided Ammg the Different fchools of the ?tate. Dcficinnoiofl in Couiitlcu M?iln it?? and Itemftimlrr Divided Ac- j ourdlnK to Knrollmnnt. Comptroller General Jones has made an allotment of $110,000 of dispensary profits to the public schools of tho State. The allotment was mad* after tluding out the deficiency lu each county. This deficiency represented the amount each school in the county fell short of $75 In some counties the 3 mill school tax produced revenue sufll lent to pay each school $75, which amount Is calculat ed to run a school three months. It ri quired $9,552 53 to make up these deficiencies and the remainder of the profits recently declared by the dispensary were divided among all of the c >uutles. Cnesterfield's county superintendent of education having failed to respond with the data nec essary, that county was not Included in the distribution but the amount will he made up at subsequent distributions. The toval enrollment In the State as reported is 288,363; and the amount each pupil will receive from this distribution will be 34 1-2 cents. The deficiency money was divided as follows among the 26 counties reporting that the 3 mill school tax did not afford $75 for each and all of the sohools lr these counties: Abbeville, $297.85; Alker, $76 30; IUmberg, $91.04; Iiarnwell, $32; Cherokee, $132 68; Clarendon, $74 82; Colleton, $491 09: Edgefield, $460 24; Florence, $64 63;Georgetown $267 78; Ureenvllle, $91 84; Hampton, $434; Horry, $2,094; Kershaw, $128; Lancaster, $739 80; Laurens, $170 70; Lee, $115 90; Lexington, $282 20; Marion, $212; Marlboro, $150 13; Oconee, $082 10; Orangeburg, $210; Pick ens, $140,10; Saluda, $1,109; Spartanburg, $19 15; Williamsburg, $949 Tee following table gives in the first oolumn the names of the oounties, In the second the number of pupils enrolled In the public schools of each, and In third amount of money eacn received from the fundsof $100,023 08 left after deficiencies had been made up: Abbeville 8,995 $3,120.17 Aiken 8,414 2,918.03 Anderson 13,321 4,020.70 Bamberg 4,287 1,487.00 Barnwell 7,083 2,450.93 Beaufort 4.033 1,398 95 Berkeley 5,452 1,891 17 Charleston 13,378 4,040.52 Cherokee 4,491 1,557 82 Chester 0,318 2,191.57 Clarendon 0,227 2,100.00 Colleton 5,807 2,035.13 Darlington 5 851 2,029 58 Dorchester 2,984 1,035.08 Edgefleld 0,117 2,121 85 Fairfield 7,330 2,544 09 Florence 0 518 2,200 95 Georgetown 3.360 1,104.12 Greenville 12 338 4,297.78 Greenwood 7,394 2,604 80 Hampton 6,035 1,740 63 Horry 0,138 2,129 13 Kershaw 4,079 1,023 04 Lancaster 0 529 2,204 70 Laurens 8,007 2 777 45 Lee 4 611 1,604.70 uuxington 0,711 2,348. 70 ) Marlon 8,411 2,917.69' Marlboro 6,782 2,005.64 Newberry 6 989 2 424 33 Oconee 6 694 2,113 87 Orangeburg ,14,425 5,003 70 Pickens 6 279 1,831.10 Richland 8 873 3,077 86 Saluda 5,361 1,859 60 Spartanburg. >....15 311 5,311.04 Sumter 7,128 2,472 54 Union 6 290 2 181.86 Williamsburg 0,765 2,346 62 York io 21 fi a Ria The (lift Accepted. A Boston dispatch lasthe American b ?ard of oommlsd e** of foreign mm! ins announces tl . tits rudential o- mmlttee h&a accepts. c.. report of the tiub committee recomm* tiding ac eptanoe of tlie gift of $100,000 by J ihn D. Rickefeller, but tinal action <Q the matter had been postponed two weeks. Liter prudential committee ep<>rtod that it had decided to accept the Rockefeller gift. He Tried 'Km. Col. Watterson is telling the readers of the Courier-Journal very inter-sting stories of life In Europe. The Colonel feels c nil lent that the reports about persons making big winnings at Munte Carlo are baseless yarns. The gentlemen conducting 'he gambling establishment are, he lays, eutlrely too wise to permit anything of that sort. The State says the Colonel speaks as one possessing the authority of experience. I. ? - - . -1 ' O / NO. 52. CONWAY. \Y, S. C. SUURI'LUS FUND, $17,000. rs, $140,000.00. JERS: 1). A. SPIVEY, Cashier. M. \V. CO 1.1, INS, Asst. Cashier. tion, has always striven for tlie up0 bettormont of hor citizens. In per? extoiuling to our customers ovory 1 sound banking. patronngo received in tho past, wo 9. illy yours -Y. Cashier. L. Ruck, Will A. Freeman, President. Cashier. ? IIOR11Y, y, S. C. $25,000 pTORS: W. R Lewis, \V. A. Johnson, Will A. F reeman >rcst on yearly deposits. Will furng to open small accounts with us. and dimes, and you will find that 3 will pay you on your savings will Professional Cards. DrWRMcCord SURGEON DENTIST, MULLINS, S. C. Dr. W. E. McCoru, SURGEON DENTIST, Conway, S. C, t?-Ovor Rank of Horry. M- Burroughs, Physician and Surgeon, Conway, 3- CRoom No. 9, Spivey Building. R B. SCARBROUGH OONWAT, 0. ?., ATTORNEY AT LAW TIwoodward7 Attorney and Oounaellor at Law, CONWAY, S. O. | "A w*^av O " * vx. rnisi>. otalyey, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, OONWAT, 8. 0 ^Singlesl Shifiglesr" Send me your orders by mail or call at office of Waccamaw Line of Steamers for best Cypress Shingles made by Shingle Manufacturing Company. T. J. Bell, Agt., Conway, S. C. Conway Market Fresh Meats and Sausago always on hand. Orders are takon and promptly delivered every day. Geo. L. Marsh, Proprietor. Dlfd in His Boat. At Charleston Karl Maass, a German ship carpenter, was found dead In his boat with his head hanging over the gunw&el In the water Wednesday morning at tho foot of Plnokney street. It is supposed that he died of heart disease or apoplexy. He had not long gone down to the wharf and entered his little gasoline launch of his own build when he waa found dead. He had been oumplatning of his heart and it is thought that perhaps the exertion proved too great a strain, causing bis death. He has been In this country only two years. He wes devoted to the water and hit companions were almost entirely seamen. Kxploslou in the Subway. A severe explosion, followed by an outbreak of Are, wtiiou defied all the efforts of the firemen to oompletely extinguish it, occurred Wednesday In an unfinished section of the subway at Broadway and One Hundred and Sixty-seventh street, New York. The road at that point Is 125 feet below the surface. The explosion followed a collision between an empty train Which h?.'I hpftn run '-- "* .uu vuu i*i ucjruna the terminal switch and a flat ear, on which were 14 Italian laborer*. No one was Injured Veteran Of Garibaldi's Army. Col. BVederiok DtFuniak, capitalist arid distinguished citizen, died at hie residence in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday. Col. DeFuniak was born in R >me, Italy, 66 years ago and was a veteran of Garibaldi's army. He was for a long time chief engineer of the Louisville & Nashville railroad and has been connected with railroad building in many parts of the country. He was a member of tbe New York Yaohteinb, of the Oid Southern Yaoht elub and of the Philadelphia Yacht olub. Tub war in the fiast teems to te about over, with Russia ooming out second best It is predicted that peeoe will be oonoluded in six weeks.