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> rt VOL. 14. THE SAD END Of Robert Keith Dargan, of Darlington Who Deliberately COMMITTED SUICIDE. Mid Brother Said to Have Been Present Whan lis* TnftL tba Dnlanii Ho I ? IIVII IV V?UI% lliv UIOUU* I IV Left a Written Statement of the Cause of the Act. And a Letter. A dispatch from D&rllngbon to The State says Mr. Robert Keith Dargan, formerly president of the Independent OH company and of the Darlington Trust oompany, comrnifced suicide betweed 8 and t) o'clock on Tuesday night , of last week by taking carbolic acid. Mr. Dargan was on th3 streets Tuesday aftornoon and appeared In this usual manner. He had been reticent since the recent trouble of the large oonoerns of which he had been the head, and Tuesday afternoon ho made appointments to meet several gentle men later in the evening, one of these being Mr. W. F. Dargan, who states that Mr. R. K. Dargan told him he would go to Mr. W. F. Dargan's ofllce within an hour from the time they u/nra full/fnt* ??v>i w A dispatch to The State says there were no developments at Darlington Wednesday following the tragic death of Mr. Robert Keith Dargan by his own hand Friday night. The tragedy, and the circumstances leading up to it, were the almost sole topic of con versatlon on tho streets, in stores and ?dices during the entire day. It has been raining all day long and business seems to be almost at a standstill. In almost every protected place can be seen a group of men, all discussing in hushed voices the one subjeot that seems to be on all minds. The coroner'H Inquest, which wjs to haye been held Wednesday morning, was postponed until Thursday morning at 0 o'clock in'order that Mr. Pegram Dargan, the most important witness, would not be required to leave the house of mourning until after the funeral. The circumstances of the sulolde all Indicate that it was most deliberately planned. There has been no testimony ar.d no statement concerning what transpired in the law ctllce where Mr. Dargan took his life has been given out, but the facts, as gathered from reliable men, are that Mr. Pegram Dargan went into the drug store of L R Phillips some time between 1 and 0 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and bought the four ounces of carbolic acid. He was alone and did not go In the direction of the law ottlce when he left. The two brothers, Mr. Pegram Dargan and Mr. Robert Keith Dargan, went to the law otlice of their father opposite the Darlington Guards armory \ 11j i? v. ? ? o .?>? .nj 1 ..?! 1 UU1IU1LIK UOIUIO o u UJUJR auu 1WHCU themselves la. One of them poured out most of the four ounces of add In a Klaus and the rest he poured in a small bowl and mixed about a gill of rye whiskey with It. This concoction was to be used to deaden the pain from the raw acid but only a part of it, if any, was taken, as the bowl, which Is in the possession of the coroner, still contains a small quantity. After a portion had been taken, Mr. Dargan remained In the room with hit, brother until life was extlnot and then notified their cousin, Mr. W. F. Dargan, who in turn quickly oalled Dr. Edwards, but their arrival was too late for human aid. The suicide had left a brief statement which stated that ho had end. d his own life and that his brother had prooured the (here he made a dash) and that he may have mismanaged but he was not a coward, lie also left a letter which was not addressed but is said to have been for his wife. Robert Keith Dargan was born In 1800. He was a son of Mr. PI. Keith Dargan, the dean of the Darlington I bar, a successful lawyer and a man of the highest character, a Confederate soldier who served as an oftlcer of artillery In the corps of Stonewall Jackson. The mother of Mr. R. K. Dargan beRre her marriage was Miss Elizabeth Woods, a sister of Associate Justice C. A. Woods of the supreme oourt. The sutjact of this sketch graduated from WofTord college and was afterwards admitted to the bar and practiced for a short time with his father. After an Interim of retire ment from active business on aocount of a nervous breakdown, he accepted a olerloal position with the Darlington Phosphate oomp&ny and exhibited such a remarkable capaolty for bus! ncss that he was made general manag? er of the oompany. > A Mountain Horror. John and Dave Phipps, young white IJI... nnn. LliltUr Tflnf, 1 1T? men, rettium^ umi being hunted in the mountains along the border of North Carolina and Tennessee Monday night by a posse of fifty armed men, who have sworn to take them deaa or alive. The Phtpps boys are charged with one of the bloodiest murders ever committed in this mountain section, when, according to reports reaching Bristol on Sunday afternoon, they used an axe to obop the body of William Ranklns to pieces, and so wounded with the same weapon Filmore Moreland that he will in all probability die. The trouble occurred at a place called Doevllle and Is said to be largely the result of mean liquor Illicitly distilled in that imme dlate locality. All the parties are white and well known in the mountains. He Liked It. About a year ago a Kansas dootoi lost a wallet containing a large sum of money. He offered a liberal reward for Its return, but the party whc found It thought the whole thing was better than the reward. Tht other day the d.otor entered hli ooal htuie, and the first thing h< saw wad his empty wallet, and pro _ I LOCATED AT LAST. Murphy, the Murderer of Treasurer Copes, in the Army. Penitentiary Authorities to Make Inquiries. Brief ltesume of the Crime anil Kscape. The murder of Treasurer Copes, of Orangeburg, in the year 1806, has passed from the memory of the public now, although it created an Immense sensation In the state at the time. It Is recalled at this time by the report, which is more or less well authenticated, that Murphy, white, who was convicted of the crime is now in the Philippines, a private in the army, though what regiment or company he is a member of is not known. A former penitentiary guard told a Columbia Record reporter that a relative of Murphy told him that, now that the wholo thing was over, he would say that Murphy was in the Pnillppines, though his e xact where a bouts In the Islands he did not know. Superintendent Griffith said he had never heard the report until informed of it by a newspaper man, but said he would make some inquiries, though it is hardly probable that anything will come of them, as Murphy most likely is living under an assumed name, and possibly has so ohanged in personal appearance that it would be diilljult to identify him. Treasurer Copes was killed about 1896, having been on a tax oollccting tour through the country. He was shot with a shotgun at a lonely place on the public road some miles from Orangeburg, and for sometime there was no clue whatever to the criminal. Finally, Murphy, a somewhat worthless white man, was arrested and ac cused of the crime. A great deal of the evidence against him was circumstantial, but he was convicted. His case went to the supreme court, was sent back, as the circumstances are recalled, and a second conviction was had. Murphy was sentenced to be hanged. His aged father, however, succeeded in enlisting the services of Mr. M. P. Carroll, a prominent lawyer in Augusta, who secured a great deal of circumstantial evidence going to prove an alibi. Much of this evidence was considered worthless by those who knew the source of it, but oer sonal appeals added to the alleged evidence induced Governor Hllerbe to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. Murphy was during appeal taken to the penitentiary for Bafe keeping previous to final action. The governor visited him in his cell once or twfci. Newspaper men were frequent callers and penitentiary authorities were constantly on the alert and made fre quent endeavors to get Murphy to talk about the crime. Further than deny ids guilt he would say nothing, and either tried t.n annear lmhec.ilfe or was actually a personage on that order, though it was evident that he was a man of such menthl capacity as to be accountable for any crime he may have committed. After the commutation he was put to work about the penitentiary and his life was no different from that of other conviots in the yard. He was placed in a cell in the old building with a white convict named Cullom, sent down from Oconee for highway robbery. Their cell was on the second floor, facing a long portico running around the building. By some means they managed to secret flies and other tools about their persons or in their cell, and after what must have been long and tedious and con stantly interrupted work they were enabled to open the cell door. One dark night about four or five years ago, watohing when the guard was elsewhere they opened the cell door, crawled, likely, to the end of the portico, sliding down one of the supporting columns to the ground. The penitentiary yard is brilliantly lighted by electricity and a very high, smooth brick wall surrounds the building. Notwithstanding this the two men succeeded in escaping the eye of the guards and scaling the walls and securing their liberty. Before leaving one of them, at least, showed that he possessed the sense of humor to some degree. With charcoal written on the walls were sentences like the following: "Sorry to leave you." "God l>e with you till we meet again." "Good bye, we are bound fcr South America - mere were some inner* on a similar order mingled with obsoenlty. Every effort was made to recapture the men, but they successfully eluded detection and never were heard of until a few weeks ago, when the report that Murphy was in the Philippines reaohed Columbia. Penitentiary authorities had forgotten tho circumstance along with everybody else. No Information has ever been received as to Gullom. He may be in the Pacific islands too, but as his crime was not so serious as that of his cell partner, perhaps he did not think it necessary to get so far away from home. Home Clixxl In Them. The State says all Pannsly v solans are not incurable boodlers, however strongly the Philadelphia Reoord may uphold the theory. The other day Gapt.' J. R- Brlcker of Warwick, Pa., received an umbrella that was "borrowed," July 4, 1876. Attached to the handle was a note asking that needed repairs be made as the gentlemen in whose possession it had been for 20 years might need it again. A State where men return umbrellas, tvar after the lapse of nearly the third of KRAntnrv punnnt. ha mhnllii bad. A Confederate Monumnnt. The survivors of the Jaokson Grays, a noted company of Confederate Infantry, reoruited in the Pleasant Gro?e;distriot of Norfolk oounty at the breaking out of the civil war, Tueeday unveiled a handsome granite I ' monument erected near Pleasant ! Grove baptist Churoh on the spot 1 where theoompany was drat lined up > fourty-four years ago. I Balls for Philippines. i The steamer Manohuria, having i aboard Seoretary of War Taft, Miss Alioe Roosevelt and a large party of f United States senators r.nd congress rhf con TWELVE KILLED. Wholesale Murder by a Negro on Schooner Olympia. ONE WOMAN ESCAPED Miss Elsie Morgan, After Being Shot and Beaten, Jumps Overboard and Swims to the Shore. The Murderer Captured and lie May Be Lynched bv Crowd. One of the most shocking stories of murder with robbery as a motive in the annals of crime was brought to New Orleans Wednesday by Capt. Hans Holm of the Norwegian fruiter Hratben, which plies between New Orleans and Ilondurancan ports. It was subsequently contirmed by the orticcrs of the fruit steamer Roslna, which came in later in the evening with additional details. The little island of Utllla, lying off the Ilondurancan coast, whose popu lation is an indiscriminate mixture of white, Caymanltes and Carlbs, was the scene of the tragedy In which 12 lives were sacritlced. The captain of the little trading schooner Olympia was about to make a trip to Ru&t&o, Truxlllo and Hell/.3. She had about $1,400 to buy cattle at Truxlllo to sell at iiellze. She carried a crew of four and quite a number of passengers, making the total list of people aboard number 13. Among these were two women and two ohildren. The vessel left ths harbor of Utilla at 11 o'clock Friday night, June 30, and after she had been under way less than an hour everybody was aroused by a shot and ruHhtng on deck found a negro armed with a Winchester rltie shooting down the men, one after another. Tills negro was Robert McGill and, as it afterwards developed, be had stowed himself away aboard with the intention of robbing the captain and then swimming ashore. After he had killed all lut one of them he ordered the last survivor to go below and scuttle the ship. When the unfortunate reappeared on deck and reprn^d, the negro shot him to death. He tl^But the two women, Miss Klsle I^Van and her sister, Mrs Walter ^^&e, in the dory with the Mrs. H^^^six- week old Infant and left ttn^^K, steering for the main land. ^^Khanged his mind about allowlr^^H women to live and killed Mrs. Ij^^Kad her infant. Then he begat^^^^ug at Miss Morgan and woun^^M^the arm. She jump started to swim uacK He tired at her his ammunition evi for he promised her im^^HHS,. harm if she would oome^^^^^Hfe dory. She started back thin oar's length he stru^^^^HKo head with an oar stun^^^^^^Hfaellevlng she was dead he towards the mainback to the is lanc^^^^^^^HT was thrown on the bed^J^^^^^Kves in an exhausted eared that the negro so she hid in the hu^H^^^^Bwo days she suffered froa^^^^HKt and exposure, until fm^^HF<iman 'rom l,er neighborhoj^^Hffescued from starvation. In thq^Hanttme the dory had been wasJRl ashore and there was excitemo. on the island, as It was believed the Olympla had gone down with all hands. When Miss Morgan told her story an immediate search was iDSti tuted for McGlll and the authorities on the mainland were notified. They caught him at El Portvinir, a little town on the road to (Jeiba, and there was quite a demonstration, but he was protected. Iiis life was saved through the presence on the coast of President Bonilla, who was on an in speotlon tour. The Honduranean warship Ta Tumba, which has figured in so many revolutions, was brought Into service and the murderer placed aboard and sent back to the island. IJp to last Sunday he was still alive, though it is firmly believed that he will be tortured to death. The laws of Honduras prohibit capital punishment, but the people will take the case Into their own hands. Miss Elsie Morgan, the only survivor of the terrible experience visited New Orleans three years ago and is a well educated, refined younj woman of 25 years. finder Liook and Key. A dispatch from Washington says the new system of preparing the monthly crop report, devised since the cotton investigation began, was put in force Tuesday. That report was made publlo late Tuesday afternoon and the secretary balleves that the steps taken are perfect. Early in the day Assltant Secretary Hayes, Chief Statistician Hyde and several experts of the department were placed in a room under look and key.and they were not u> oe permitted to oome out until four o'clock In the afternoon. The telepones In the room were disconnected, and & careful scrutiny was kept of the windows to avoid the possibility of a leak through private signals. Poor Old Call. Former Senator Wilkinson Gall, of Florida, hat declared himself as a Roosevelt man and organized a Roosevelt olub at Ortegas, a suburb of Jacksonville. Mr. Gall was a Democratic Senator from Florida for three terms, covering a period of eighteen years. He has little, If any, political Intluenoe left, and It does not matter very much whether he Is for or against Mr. Roosevelt. Ooatly Blaze In Cotton. Fire at an early hour Friday morning destroyed the building of the Gulf Compress company at Meridian, Miss. Over 14,000 bales of cotton were In storage and about 6,000 balec Ml O UT WAY, S. C., THUR CHEATHAM CHARGES Hyde With Being Just as Guilty as Holmes Was. Hn M?vu V V 11 ? ? J - J " "??" ?iu?nni In I*rloe to Turn Attention Away From Hyde. The Atlanta Journal says according to Secretary Richard Cheatham, of the Southern Cotton Association, who made the charge of fraud against the , United States department of agriculture, relating to advance information being given out, Statistician Hyde and liis private secretary are just as guilty of the offense of giving away department secrets as Holmes, the man who /discharged. Mr. Cheatham says further that Secretary Wilson brought the name of Theodore Price into the affair to turn the attention from Hyde. Every effort was made, according to Mr. Cheatham, to bring Theodore Price into the affair, but these elforts failed, and now his belief Is that the department of agrioulture has rung Price into it to shield other favored employes. Secretary Cheatham returned to Atlanta Monday afternoon. Since he first got evidence of the leakage in the department he has been hard at work securing evidence to present to the department of agriculture. Now he has fully convinced the department officials as well as the whole world that the department had been tampered with, that the secrets of the de partmcnt were sold to Wall street speclators, who played the tickers on the advance information received, and and made thousands of dollars. Mr. Cheatham was in charge of a number of the government secret ser vice men, and they went right out after all the necessary evidence. When they got it and turned it over to Secretary Wilson Holmes was promptly fired out, and, in the opinion of Secretary Cheatham, Hyde and his private secretary should go too, for they were Just as much in on the deal as Holmes was. And Mr. Cheatham discovered further that this leakage had been going on for some time. When President Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Assoclatien, returns to the city Mr. Cheatham will present the evidence which he has against Hyde and his secretary, and will re quest President Harvlc Jordan to lay the whole matter in the hands of President Roosevelt. In that event, Mr. Cheatham believes that the in vestlgation will result not only In the further dismissal of Ilyde and his seoretary, but of Secretary Wilson also. In telling of the status of the case Mr. Cheatham said: "We found a terrible state of affairs. You known that Holmes ha* been dismissed for his duplicity in the matter, but, in my opinion, Hyde and his seoretary should also go. The evidence against them is strong, and if Mr. Jordan will take the matter to President Roosevelt, I believe that even Secretary Wilson will be dropped. This thing has been going on for a number of years. After we showed our hand and told what we know there was considerable excitement in the department. And when the report of the secret service agents were made you never Raw such excitement as there was in Washington. "Secretary Wilson lias brought Theodore Price into this thing fur the purpose of shielding Hyde and his sec retary. We did our best to tind some evidence against Price, as we wanted to show, if possible, that he had been getting rich out of speculating on ad vanoe information furnished by officials of the department of agriculture, but we couldn't get enough evidence to connect him with the affair. While we have no love for Price, and while we would have liked the best in the world to have gotten him mixed In this affair, yet we do not think Secretary Wilson has done the fair thing, and believe that he is using it as a blind altogether." A CIomo Call. During a severe thunder storm at Kingstrce Saturday evening lightning struck the offioe of the Peach ltiyer Cypress Mills, of which Mr. P. P. Thorne is the proprietor. At the time a heavy rain was falling and the cilice was crowded with hands from t.ha mill waiting to be paid off. The iluld struck the brick flue, tearing it completely away, tore off the weather boards on one side, knocked four holes through the floor and tumbled the negroes over right and left, burning two them bad ly, but miraoulously all escaping with their lives. Mr. Thome, sitting at his desk ten feet away, experienced no shock whatever. A pile of silver on the desk was scattered, the lamp put out and the inkstand upset. The setter dog lying on the floor was stunned and blinded in one eye. By Sunday morning none was the worse for the experience, except the dog, which Is still blind. Fixed trie J nry. A dispatch from Raleigh, N, 0., says J. Rowan R gers and L. P. Sorrell, who are now in jail serving a sentence of 30 days for contempt of ocurt in influencing jurors in favor of President Kllgoof Trinity colledge and B N Duke of the American To bacoo company, during their trial on the charge of malioious libel against T. J. Gattls a Methodist minister Thursday nleaded oulltv In nnon court to embracery. The entire Jury fn the case against Duke and Kll go has been summoned before the grand jury to see if other parties are involved. Xhlrtjr-Nlne Killed. A fire has broken out in the Dorusia coal mine, Prussia, caused by the oareless handling of a lamp by boys. The lamp exploded, igniting the timbers of the shaft whioh burned rapidly. Two hunbred and fifty miners escaped through an air shaft, but 39 were cut off and thter death is regarded as certain. Fooling With * Pistol. George and Wesley Prloe, colored i children aged seven and eight, were \ playlmg with a pistol at Johnston on SDAY, JULY 20, U HEAT VICTIMS. Two Infants Perish in Their Mothers' Arms in Street. TWENTY-ONE DEATHS The Passengers "on a Crowded Elevated Train See a Victim Fall in the Car and Die. Over Fifty Prostra- ^ tions in One Day. According to tho New York Ameri can Monday of last week 4n that city was a day of terrible, overpowing heat whloh rolled up an appalling list of dead and prostrated, was checked and tempered only for a time In the after noon by a violent storm, whlcn Hooded cellars, sowers and Subway, and left a trail of disaster and ruin in its wake. At night it was again Intolerably hot. Nineteen persons, most of them children, were killed by the sun's merciless rays and stilling hu midity. Scores of others were over come, and at midnight new cases were still being reported. First it was the extremely high temperature which assailed the city almost at break of day. At 0 a. m. 70 degrees, and from that time on the mercury kept climbing steadily. The climax came at 2 p. m., when 89 was reached. Hut it was the extraordinary degree of humidity which caused most of the distress. At 8 a. m. the density of the air registered the very high mark of 89. Relief oame in the afternoon when the heavy rainstorm sent the mercury tumbling 10 degrees In less than an houe. The raiufall in that time was 1 20 inches. Lightning also came along with the rain and struck the City Hall lUg stair in Brooklyn, cutting a spiral 1 ribbon from it. The bolt tore the Hag to pieces, Hung down the eagle surmountiog it shocked tlfty persons in the building, besides cutting out I the clectrio switch board and extin- < gulshing all of the lights. I The rain came so suddenly and in i sucli blinding volumes that the streets 1 were speedily converted into running ' streams. For the Urst time in a good many days lower Manhatten received ! a good, refreshing drcnohing. At Kim and Centre streets the s heavy on rush of waters swept back i from the clogged sewers and tilled the 1 adjoining cellars. The back waters t swept down the streets and over the I side walks, and within Uftcen minutes ( there was two feet of water in the I basement of the Criminal Courts ( Building. For a time it seemed as if the engine room would be swamped * and the elevators shut down. At the South Ferry terminal of the Subway the water poured over the curbing and down the entrances in s Niagara like volumes. The sudden cessation of the rain alone saved serl ous trouble. As it was, it took the pumps over an hour to dear the tube. ( But the worst phase of the storm developed at Elm and Duane streets , where fifteen men were entombed in ' the collapse of an excavation under- 1 mined by the heavy rainfall. In New Jersey and various other , sections of outlying and adjoining suburbs lightning struck in several 1 places, but no one was killed. At ( Ellis Island two bolts struck the ad- t ministration building and the last one . tore out ten feet of the roof, besides demolishing the skylights. Yet, despite this disastrous effect, the storm was welcomed as few storms ' have been welcomed this summer. The exoursionists who had left New ' York on Saturday and Sunday and ' had congratulated themselves on the manner in which they had escaped the heat, came back only to find con dltlons worse than those from which 1 they fled. 1 The suffering, of course, was the < keenest on the crowded East Side, it always Is. Yesterday the sidewalks were paeked with suffering, panting 1 men, women and children, In all states of dress and undress, trying to find ! relief, that was not to be found. It 1 was to these sections that the ambulances were kept going most frequently, and it was from the ranks of the suffering Kist Slders that death and the hospitals gained their largest list of recruits. The deadly rapidity with 1 which babies succumbed was heart rending. Two infants died in the arms of ' their mothers before the seriousness of their condition was realized. Another baby died in the carriage in front of the door, where it had been tempora rlly left standing. In almost every ( instance the end came so swiftly that parents had little or no warning. ( Whereas the children predominated in the list of fatal cases, the grownups praotioally comprise the entire roll of prostrations. Brooklyn suffered equally with Manhattan, and in both boroughs ambulances were kept busy taking the stricken ones to the hospitals. The majority of those overcome in Manhatten went to the Hudson Street Hospital. Tnere almost every oot was filled before night,'and several physicians themselves narrowly escaped falling ex hausted from their exertions, lleat vlotlms fell unconscious on the streets In the Subway and on the elevated trains. John Falvy, formerly a foreman of Fire Department Truck No. 14, located on Kist One Hundred and Twenty Fifth street died In a Third avenue elevated train. Mr. Falvy, who weighed over two hundred pounds had given his seat to an agod woman and a few moments later he fell to the floor. At Thirty-fourth street he was carried to the station, where an ambulance was oalled, but he was dead when the surgeon arrived. He had been In the lire department for 27 years. Probably the most dramatlo lnci )05. His attempt was made only a few blocks above the spot where another man who had been driven insane by the heat tried to kill himself In a similar manner on Sunday night. Kaeslck had been wandering along the wharfs for some hours when he suddenly jumped over the bulkhead between Piers 39 and 40. Then fol lowed a dramatic struggle to bring him to shore by a longshoreman who had seen him make the leap and had dived after him. Finally, when it seemed that the heat craxed man must carry his would be rescuer down with him, Patrolman Ilagati, of the MoDoug&l street station, reached the almost exhausted longshoreman with a rope. Both men wore brought to shore, and Kaeslck was sent to Bellevue Hospital. Not among the least of tluse who suffered intensely from the ovcrcharg ed atmosphere were the cats and d( gs In some sections Jthese animals wen almost entirely exterminated and policemen were frequently called to shoot those which it was foared had gone mad. One of the districts said to have been almost depopulated in this regard Monday was the vicinity covered by the West Forty seventh street police station. BRIBING DISPENSERS To I'iihIi Certain llramlH of Whiskey In Tliiu State. A dispatch from Columbia suvs a special system opening up large possibilities of graft has been r covered by Commissioner Tatumat Lhu whole sale dispensary In Columbia and he has written a letter to the state di rectors calling their attention to the fnctfi and requesting that thoy buy no more whiskey from the houses that have been guilty. It seems that some time there has been a disposition by certain retail dispensers to push certain orands of goods. Orders were constantly comiug in from certain dispensers for these goods while at other dispensaries there was no sale at all for the same goods. About the same time letters began to come in from some of the dispensers stating that these brands of goods contained too many bottles to the case. As a result Commissioner IV tum had nearly every case of goods at the wholesale dispensary opened and found nearly *3,000 worth of certaiz. brands over and above what had been ordered. TJiese extra bottles had been placed in the cases and should the dispenser push tills brand the ex- " tra botties belonged to himself and he < was that much In on its sale. Some of the dispensers were not ?low to see the scheme and took ad < vantage of It. Others eltl or did not I see It or would not, as a result Com I nlssloncr Tatum found them out i He has written the board and here I ifter all cases will bo examined before jhey are shipped out. All tags or I sards or extra bottles that might seem < io be an Inducement to push the salt < if any certain brand will bo removed * L'he state Is In, however, about $3,000 I is a result of the discovery. i LOST ON A YACHT. , Sunk in tlio HiuIhoii ltlvor l>y Nor- * welgian Tramp Steamer. Three lives were lost by the sinking )f the steam yacht Normar.dle, which 1 van run down Wednesday night In the tludsoD river of Dobbs Ferry by tin Nerwegian tramp steamer Volund rhose who perished were Miss Gladys Dodge of New York, a guest aboar the yacht, the captain William Siorj ( of Hyde Dark, N. Y., arid the englicer Stewart Oracle of Hrooklyn rnelr bodies were not recovered. John II. Rudd, who chartered th( ooat, his guest John 10. Greene and Joseph Hannlgan, the deck hand ol the yacht, managed to keep alloat bj dinging to wreckage until they wert picked up by a boat from tho Volund Mr. Hucid made a statement today it which he said that as the NormandU was running down stream in the middle of the river, a tramp steamer war seen coming up, head on, about 600 yards away. Tne pilot of the yacht gave onr whistle but the steamer continued to come until within 150 feet of the yachl whou she whistled twice and then swerved to port striking the Normau die amidships. An explosion followed immediately and the yatch went down within five seconds. Coroner Frank Russell of Westchester county visited the wreck of the yacht Weduesdav and found long strands of hair streaming from one of the port holes. Coroner Russell WedncoHq u nlriht. aqiiqoH t\Vio ?frnof /G UVOVIW/ Ui^iiu vwunuu uuu Ml 1 onu v/l JoHtph Ilannlgan, the deck hand, and Issued an order for the arrest of Mr Rudd. Riot lii Havana, Two deaths have resulted from the conflicts at Havana between Cuban artillerymen and oiviltans. The first conflict occurred between artillerymen and polloemen and the toughs who infest the locality. Then the company of soldiers who were sent to restore order mutinied and tired on the Police. General Freye Andrade, secre tary of the interior, is rigidly Inquir ing into the idontity of the official who ordered the company of artillory men to that district and is also en dcavorlng to dud out who is respon sible for the lack of discipline. Down on Tohaooo. "Tae very fumes of burning fcobaooo aro an incentive to Immoral and pernicious conduot," said Mr. Robert L. Reamy, of Baltimore, In an address to the Epwortli Leaguers the other day. "Asmoke laden room" he continued "Is more harmful by far than the smokers Imagine, and it inspires a spirit in those who inhale the smoke which Is the doorstep to sin." GMyo The in a Heat. Give all horses on the place at least a three weeks' vacation in the fields. The grass will bo good for their feet and as a feed will help to get all the old grain out of their system, besides giving them a good rest. Horses that aro worked evor? day BANK OF OO N \A/ A CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSftTi OFFIC 15. O. COLLINS, President. C. P. QUATTLEBAUM, V-Pres. Our Bank, being a local instituti building of llorry County and for the suing this policy wo take pleasure in accommodation when consistent with With gratitude for the liberal j; cordially solicit your future business. Respectful D A. SPIVE Robt. B. Scarborough, II. L President. Viee-l'j BANK OF Conwaj Capital Stock DiREC'] Robt. B. Scarborough, 1 Inl L. Buck, George J. HoUiday, W o will pay you 5 per cent, inter* ish savings banks to those wishing Try our plan for saving your nickles a these little banks and the interest wo ' help yon. THE CATAWBA WRECK. Arrest of (JeorKO Owane ClurKod With Wrcokinit the Train, The arrest of George Owens noar Osceola, S. C., Monday by Sheriff B. A. 11 )rn of Union county and Mr. W. R. Newman of Chester, S. 0., is ex- , pected to result In the olearing up of the mystery that has surrounded the catastrophe which occurred near Catawba Junction early on the morning of September 9 h of last year, when passenger train No. 41 of the Seaboard Air Line was precipitated from a sinking bridge 30 feet to the ground J below, falling with a fearful crash. ^ Only a few minutes later, to add to the terrible confusion that already i prevailed, an extra freight came thundering along and was hurled headlong upon the debris of the passenger train. As a result of the accident tive lives were lost and more ?. than 3f> wero Injured. 1 This doub'.e wreck was said to be J 1ue to a tampered track. Ever since the accident occurred the oflloeis have oeen working on the case. A week or ^ more ago the wife of George Owens, n a tit of jealousy, disclosed the seoret which had been so long sought for. )wens wai at once arrested and is lew behind the bars of Union iounty Jail. The warrant on ? which lie was taken was net / that of train wrecking, but for I the robbery of Mr. B. A. Beaton's itore at Stouts. All the facts have not yet been secured to oonnrct. Owens with the wrecking of No. 41, but the letectlves have the case in hand and j the developments are expected very " shortly. In the meantime Owens refuses to speak and is resting safe and secure behind the bars. Hfiot 11 i in I)oao, Major General Count Shouvaloff, prefect of police of Moscow, Russia, *nd formerly attached to the ministry . of the interior, was assassinated Wed- f oesday while receiving petltious. One of the petitioners drew a revolver and lired three times at the prefect, , Jihn foil riaarl 'Pho auuuaufn w/ao - rested. The assassin, who was dressed as a peasant, has not been idcntlti ed. lie was recently arrested as a <. political suspect, put escaped from the t police station before his examination. I The assassin awaited in the ante- 1 room of the prefecture till the other ] petitioners had been received and then entered the audience room. He , advanced towards Count Shouvaloil ( and tired three shots at close range. ] The bullets passed through the body l of the prefect. 1 Death Valley Tragedies. ' Nine men dead and their bones bleaching on the Nevada desert, two unknown men found wandering naked raving mad from thirst and heat while trying to walk from.Los Angeles to Indlo, picked up by a passenger train which he stopped by standing J on the traok; two prospectors, them- 1 selves nearly dead from thirst, finding . the skeleton of one who died on the lesert a year ago. These are some of ( the horrors reported from the desert 1 during the last three weeks. ( Three Ciootl and Just Causes. I There arc three reasons why moth- ' ers prefer One Minu e Cough Cure: First. It Is absolutely harmless; Second, It tastes good- children love it: Third, It cures troughs, Croup and Whooping Cough when other remedies fail. Sola by Dr. E. Norton. Twenty Killed. At Warsaw, Poland, three bloody encounters between troops and strik- \ Ing shoemakers, in which about twen ] ty persons were killed or wounded, oc- i curred Tusday. The Strikers were | marching through the city from house '< to house demanding the lowering of ' rent by 20 per cent. Many proprietors out of fear complied with the de? mands of the strikers. lteraedy Found. In South Africa thousands of oattle j 'lieevery year from a fever caused by ' tne bite of the tsetse fly. Prof. Robert Koch, the eminent bacteriologist, telegraphs from German South Africa that he has discovered In the fly thr infusoria that causes the disease in the oattle. This, it is thought, will result in the perfecting at an early day of a sped lie for the fever. A Smooth Artlol6? When you llnd it necessary to ude DcWitt's Witch Ilazel Salle. It is the purest, and best for Sow, Burns, Bolls, Eczema, Blind, Blcedw, Itching or Protruding Piles. GcBho gen iAV'-J ? 8 ^ t n-wm ' NO. 14. ._-CONWAY^ kV, S. O. SUURPLUS FUND, $20,000. 3, $180,000.00. ^ ^ F.RS- ^ m D. A. SPIVEY, Cash irk. M. W. COLLINS, ASST. Caihiii. on, lias always striven for th? up- i betterment of her citizens. In per- j extending to our customer? ?very * sound banking. atronage recoivod in the past, w? \ ly yours CashIER XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOCOOOlCOSd^ . Buck, Will A. Freeman, J! resident. Cashier. HORRY, r. S, C. |25,000 rOltS; W. R Lewis, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman * sst on yearly deposits. Will furnto open small accounts with tie. nd dimes, and you will find that will pay you on your savings will Professional Cards. ^XlTMcCordT SURGEON DENTIST, MULLINSe S. G. ^UUOEQjnJa Physician and SurV Conway, Si HT SCARBRCfflH| CONWAY, s. c; J| lttorney at law a IIToodVhI Attorney and OounssllM CONWAY. Sj^ Uonwav Mark, v Fresh Meats and Sausago always on hand. Orders aro taken and promptly delivered J every day. Geo. Ii. Marshu J Proprctor. || The Only Way to Cure. To cure a cold when you have no | sough?to cure a cough when you have 10 cold?to cure yourself when you ' lave both?take Kennedy's Laxative floney and Tar. Acts on the tx>wr" Best for coughs, colds, croup, Wli ng-cough, etc. Kennedy's Laxr\ 1 Honey and Tar is the original LaV 1 :,ive Cough Syrup. It contains v \ ipiat.es and cures by strengthening t? lungs, throat and chest, expelling ogr 'rom system by gently moving a bowels, and an Ideal remedy for yoinb. ir old. Once used will be remember id as a sure cure. Sold by ?' ^ Dr. K. Norton. Si Will Be HMaed.A iJjj After having remained the sand beneath ten feet of for five years an effort is now made to rescue the cargo oMp||||| ichooner Minnie B. Bergen, v?|||||p was wrecked near ChlocmooomloflHpiB C. The oargo consists of 200 tonMH|j|g iteel rails, a locomotive and otheWll machinery. Capt. John Whealton, of^H Washington, N. O., will build a wharf Mi lut to the wreck, and by the use of * VI mnd pump remove the sand and save E|| the cargo. |fl| Inillicostlon Unreel. There is no case of Indigestion, Dyspepsia or Stomach Trouble that will ^S| not yield to the digestive and streng- ||| thening influence of Kodol Dyspepsi^^H Jure. This remedy takes the gt|||S|i|| >ff the stomach by digesting ?at and allowing it to rest unn^j^H rrows strong again. Kodol Dyspepsia Jure afTords (prick and permanent re-,. MS lief from Indigestion and all stomaoh^^H .roiiiii/'s. hiilldn un the system and soi^Bi jurifles that disease can not attaoiAgg md gain a foot-hold as when in vcakencd condition. Sold by jjggsE [>r K. Norton. The German Way. The other day a Berlin miller, mEHh ongue loosened in ojnvlvlal compaqjMQE emarked : "All is not SolomoitiMdfi^BB iom that drops from the ISthptii^HH ips." And now for three|])^^H| months in the seclusion of prison B?Kra miller will have opportunity { to jqMjagg the blessing of Amerloan free segji^H?& For, as the State says, evenjuhSoSHH reign of the Great and GoodfrBMHfl^H it is possible to whisper a dqdHnl|^H9 11 vine inspiration without the look-up Billions Hill was agitated And was much debllitaUj&^^HH^Hflg People said he had couaumpHHsHB^^H That was everyone's pnflwBfflffiB When he learned what was Bill made all the doctor's sea Now he is his oj|m^^^,