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rufoLDIER SHOT7 mSk 0 Kenneth Kearse, Member by Jom|{ |jje Bamberg Company ITH |pT TN 1HE BitE AyT 'resident ithern Qott is Somewhat of a Mysteri;d to Politl Affair. Kearse Says He Was a FarmeiH 'alking Alonjj on Lower Main 1 irie *' Street When He Was escUy of ?rs' day Snot Unawares. y sons Of .. __ to bear *cnnetl1 Keaise, a youn^ soldier m who to is in camp at Columbia with the IS863 befmberK Guards, last week, was seriand exol.jy g^ot, jn ttie \eft side by an unr?f r.nt.filt othe?own ue^r0 a^out 11 o'clock Thurs* >n of tt*? night. The affair cccurfed at he bulbe c< mer of lower Main and Divine ipper ei,e ts. The bullet penetrated the own invest cavity but the physicians state ty ter a& there is nothing to indicate that inique entered the lungs. The wounded at tho,;iu wis taken to the Columbia hrs* -O^Ptyital soon after the shooting- The e bai^iow'in^ account of the somewhat jfactui-yyterlouH affair, Is taken from the th hecj.^jmhia state of last Friday: le con kvse and Charlie Marshall, a select*,, mi,er of the Richland Volunteers, le lot**, jv coming up Main street from the ive s\jULfon Htatinn and when they reached >rs wl^^e corner of Main and Divine a ne TfJgro, who it is said wes being chased iu aOby ponons in civilian clothes, ran past lettsjfcnem ai d had not gone far when he Ool lt|Urn'd and tired. The negro was not UoQ-'known to the soldiers, and *\fter the ^ shooting ( i appeared mysteriously, ter, t k aoe'rt filer d, Maishall, took him ^'^imm diately lo ttie ctlice of Dr. e go? r1c | which is only a few blocks away ;11 at from the ec tie of the shooting, e wh When they reached the olliee of the d- p jhiciau the woundtd man was suf* or & firing con :derably aid an anodlne brtr^osf; dminlst/'red to alleviate his pain, encjf i3oth K'-arsc and Marshall were un>JI armed when they reached Dr. Rice's ' wtllci At the hospital the physician /jZ-'probid for the bullet but could not 11 d it. Later the patient was said ^ to be resting very well, although suf J* feriig from shcck. No definite opinin i s to the result of the wound can lie be given at tlbs time. The ball en* lit tered the cavil y but there is no trace of h- morr. aee nor do the loners an - - r- ? ? O" ? JT p< or to ho t fleet? d. Patrolman Ford was on that beat ft i-hc . iuuc the sbfOtlDg occurred. He 8' ated that he heard o e s ot and a t' r an in ei v >1 of about, a minute thr e o hers. He wu^ th< n near the 1 e rie r of M.iin and College streets and * burrh d on t own in \h- direction from which the s- ots were comlrg At ti e c rner of M tin and Gr< en i treats h pas 'da street car cor duel or named . M .rlln wr.o told the t Ulcer in answer 10 his ir quiry that it was s< me s.ldi err. shooting at a negro. The poltcemau ran on to the corner of Main and Divine rne block further down. Here be met several negroes . who told him that some soldiers bad he n shooting at a negro ar d thai t ey bad gone down Divine street. Ford then ran down Divine for three blocks to L i coin and did not see any b d but one man who was coming toward Main street. He was dresse i in c viiia.ri clothes and S'Ud he had not. stea any soldirs or ,*nybody on that street. When Otlloer Ford returned to the corner of Main and Divine the negroes w? re still there and told him that the soldiers were coming along Main street and met a negro who was on the inside of tl e pavement next ..to t.lin anrl .Hot'- tmu V\q/vom t/. v?iv> ?vuvu uu i vu?*u itijk&y ur^an li\j abuse him and he ran out in the middle of the street and opened tire on the miittiamen. Tntse two accounts are totally different and neither of them explains the series of shots heard by the pollc man. K nneth Kearse is a son of Mr. Andrew K arse, a respected .farmer who lives in the Atlantic Coast Line about seven miles froin Denmark. A tele phone tr e sage f rom Denmark states that Kenneth Kearse has always been regard d as a quiet and orderly yourg man in that community. During a part of the last three years he has lived In Columbia, being employed at first one thiDg and then another. Fur awhile he worked at the glass factory end subsequently in a drug store. Kearse ban an uncle at Denmark who > was appris-. d of the shooting so that he could Inform the parents at once. A Senator Henteued. United StptesS na'or Mlthell,con vie eri of using his office of United States senator to furti er the law pratlce of the firm of Mitc'oel & Tan ner of Portland, Ore., was sentenoid to pay a fine of 81,000 and to six mouths penal servitude. Pending a review of the case by the supremo ccurtoftbe United States execution >f the sentence will be deferred. . + Meantime Mitchell will be placed under bail to bliemn our.t of 82,000. ' ^ Many Arrested. TtM >>ndon Dally Mall's Vienna correspondent says the sultan has offered a reward of ?10.000 Tu klsh for the discovery of the c inspirators who arranged f >r the throwing of the bomb at his majesty last Friday. Nearly a the u^and pernors have b'en already arrested on suspicion. An early repe tltion of the attempt on tt e tultan's life is feared and extensive precauv. tlon has been taken to prevent it. v ? v TOO MANY SI< K. The Penitentiary Authorities Say Kew Law Payors the Counties. Convicts Worked l?y Counties Until They Break Down and Are Then Sent to State Penitentiary. The burden of the new law giving county supervisors the use of convicts sentenced to terms of ten years or less, with the option of turning them over to the penitentiary authorities whenever they wear out or break down from ill-health, is failing with increasing weight on the penitentiary authorities, who complain that practically all of the prisoners they get now, except those sent in for long terms, are either diseased or are otherwise incapacitated for work; that short term prisoners kept on the average chain gang in this state are soon broken in health from lack of care and by reason of improper treatment and are sent Into the penitentiary physical wrecks. 4 'Thft nOQ/ 1Q lis la urArlslnif a f ahvIKIa ^ MW "V ?? twiv 10 TTUinill^ Ck IA;i II UIU cruelty," Bald Superintendent GritlUh, to the Augusta Chronicle correspondent recently. 1 *1 do not believe there is a man In this slate physically strong enough to stand ten years' service on a chain gang in this state. The chain gang authorities are not equipped to care for the prisoners as tney should be cared for. When the average chain gaDg prisoner gets wet working in the rain he is allowed to sleep through the night in his wet clothes, which is barbarous. We never allow a prisoner to f hep in wet clothes down here." A mt-jorlty of the deaths that ooour at the penitentiary result from tuberculosis, and many of these cases are contracted after the prisoner reaches Columbia, though some arc sent in each year from the chain gangs dying from consumption. A victim of this disease recently was A. S. Simpson, a life-termer, sent here four years ago from Abbeville for murder. Simpson was only 31 years old and contracted the disease 18 months ago. lie was a bridge builder and killed his man in a dispute over the construction of a bridge. He was a well behaved prisoner and was apparently a man of some culture. His remains were shipped to his widow rtuu uwu unnuren at uainoun. Tvvo uf his brothers were frequent visitors to the penitentiary. Simpson was at tirst worked In the hosiery mill, where practically all of the tuberculosis cases originate, but recently he had been working in the cirps nter shop. Two negro convicts, who died within the past thirty days, were brought In from the county gangs; each died within two days after L?l& ad miss ion to the penitentiary. In thi*- conn? cth n, a paragraph from Dr. S. Ill Harmon's last annual report, will be of much interest: "there were 392 patients in the hospital. Ten times that number were t eated for minor troubles that did not require being admitted to the hospital. I report thirty-one deaths this year, all being of a chronic nature, with the exception of two or three, Including one suicide. Nineteen died of tuberculosis. The death rate from this disease can bj reduced by isolation, but when we consider that a large p r cent of those that die from tuberculosis are admitted to the institution already infected you can readily see that the death rate from his disease will always be large. You will see that seven of the number that died were received from the various chain gangs, in a hopeless condition; one of whom died two days after being admitted " U?t> <1 twivMi to iho Knd. By the term of her will, which was recently filed at Pittsburg, Pa., Mhs Ann* M. Gunning leaves the greater part of her e state, valued at $500,000, to Carl F. Miller, a well known business man whose home Is in wiitina. buiy, on condition that he get a divorce from h s present wife or that nia wife dies Otherwise he gets noth log. Miller was a former sweetheart of Miss Gunning, but jilted her and married his pre- ent wife. Miss Gunning never married and never forgave. In the will, after making a number of be quests amounting to 148,000, she says: The income of the remainder Is to be given to Carl F. Miller, providing he is not living with the woman he married in 1899, one Jane Wilson. Should she die, or he be divorced from her, that Is finally divorced, he Is to be given abhOluttly one-hal' it the principal, and tne Interest on the other half as long as he lives. If he marries again, he, can, by will, leave all to his second wife and ehildr^n if be dies, uumarried a second time, without children, the one half or all his shaie Is to he equally divided between the children of Wesley Greer. In no case Is t e pres nt wife of Carl JF. Miller to hen fit In anyihln^ 1 leave him, either in personal or real estate Should any one contest this vsill, it is my earnest desire that they shall forfeit their ^hara." tiHKl tO iU'ttt The Newberry Observer says "Rev. P. II. E. Derrick and wife were called to the heoside of Mrs. A. E. Gei#er last Tbursd ty. Mrs. Gel^er was the mother of Mrs. I) jrrlok and wifec-f Dr. Prank GeiKtr. she was the mother Of 12 children. Mrs. Geitfer was or the family of Gdtfers that #ave to history the Emily Geltfer wi:o made the daring ride from a point In Newberry county to the contln ntal commander at Orar geburg. Mrs. Gelger was laid to rest in the Sandy Run cemetery on Friday." a. OIL TANKS BURN. Lightning Set One on Fire and Others Quickly Ignited. MEN AND MULES BUEN Sent to Stay Progress of Flames, They Were Hemmed in After Explosion. Two Square Miles of Heavy Smoke and Lurid, Inextinguishable Fire. At Humble, Texa*, covering an area three-quarters of a mile square with a great canopy of smoke C( vering two square miles, the oil tanks of the Tex is Company continue to boil and bubble under the great heat of the burning oil, the tire having burned all night. When it can be extinguished is problematical, certainly not until it has burned all of the oil in eleven b'g tanks whtnh hnH fain ? 1 .. liV/iv* wnv U)(iU (V 11(1 It million u?rrels when lightuing struck them on Sunday afternoon. It Is now known that live negro workmen perished. There are hundieds of homeless people. They were living in tents and shacks in the oil tield and Hod for their lives to the town. All their belongings were destroyed by the lire. During the night there was a heavy downpour of rain, and this covered the ground with a sheet of water coated with a thick Him of oil. Shortly after a big tank began to blaze two hundred workmen with seventy-five mules were hurried to the place to throw up earthen embankments. Suddenly the oil gave an up heaval, bubbled and lifted a great mass of the burning lluld bodily from the tank and the fire was commuulcated to three other tanks. At 4 o'clock Monday morning fire broke out in the steel tanks of the Texas Company at the pumping station, a mile from the original fire. What damage was done cannot be ascertained b cause it is impossible to reach that part of the field. The burning oil caught men and mules and hemmed them in. Some of the men mounted ths mules and got out but at least forty mules balked and were cremated. Five negroes were seen to go down and it is not believed to be possible that they could not escaped. Whilfe all the men have not been accounted for, these five are all that are kuown to have perished. At 10 o'clock the fire was still raging wiib no prospects f<?r immediate con trol. It is believed, however, that the llames will eventually be confined to t*e tankage district.. There wore I 3 000,000 barrels of oil in the storage tanks, all of which will be destroyed. Losses are estimated at $750,000 or more with practically no insurance. Reports of fatalities are not veriliid, although a number of men are reported mbsing. The oonilagration was visible in Houston, seventeen miles away and in Galveston, sixty five mile distant. ISanrttlH Tortured Man. The Chicago police believe that, the death of John Tesmer, at the City Hospital in that city an hour after he had boen found in a doorway at Ashland avenue and Emily street, was due to torture inflicted by men who attacked and robbed him. Tesmer, who was a prosperous real estate owner, had collected rent at several places and was going to his residence, when he was attacked by highwaymen. He fought the robbers, but was worsted, A blow on the left eye, which left an ugly cut, proved to have knocked him UDCon&oicui. Ho was dragged into a hallway, where he was found several hours later. Several cuts were found on Tesmer's hands and arms. Two long gashes, which opened the arteries of the wrists, were believed to have been inflictf d deliberately while the man was in the power of the bandits. After the T( bb jrs had taken Tesmer's watch and 155 from him, they sat him in an upright position In the doorway and 1 ;ft him to bleed to death from the severed arteries In his wrists. Search for Tesmer's assailants have so far been unavailing. The Oil Fire Is Over. After burning for three days and nights the Texas oil fire is over. Working under the greatest difficulty and at the imminent peril of their lives hundreds of workmen threw up embar kments between the burning oil tanks and those not yet on fire, and this in a large measure, contributed toward stopping the flames. It was imp ssible to do anything with those burnltg, but since it is now believed the further spread of the fire is pre veuteci, tne oil in the burning district is nearly exhausted. Three million barre's of crude oil have been d? stroyed, twelve lives lost and property wiped away to the value of $1,500,000. Of the twelve dead all were negroes. Ouly six of the boiles have been recovered, all of them being charred bcyound recognition. Next (iftrjeoat la South. According to reports brought back from Clemson college by Superintendent Martin, the summer t-chool which has just closed was the largest in the South, with the exception of the one held at Sewanee. The total enrollment will go over 700 and Mr. Martin and other educators who took part feel much enoouraged at thiajnierest In education by the teachers. THE COTTON CROP. A The Outlook for Good Prices Is Most Fxcellent. The Farmers Have Duly to Markc the Crop Carefully ami Properly to Reap Profit. The farmers of the South have things in their own hands now, and if they will act with each other they will reap a rich reward^ not ouly this year, but for all years. The cotton situation at this time is more favora bio for high price cotton this fall than we have had In years. At the close of the year 1904 there was no surplus cotton, and bv S 'pletrber 1st 12,600,000 bales of cho 13,584,457 v? I ? ? J ~ I.. I11AI ?.111 1 1 uaira maue in iwu-t win nave oe^n consumed. This will leave about 1 000, 000 hales to stBrt business on Septt mher 1, 1905. The present year's o op will hardly exceed 9 000 000 bales. To that you ad1 the 1,000,000 b le brought over, and you have only 10,000 000 bales, about 2 500 000 bales short of the consumption of 1905. To make more cotton than Indicated above we would have to make more per acre than we have ma le for the past live years, which hardly seems possible if the crop reports are to be relied upon. According to the reports we have the shortest acreage this year and the lowest report, except one, In the live years. In 1903 our acreage was 28,014,8(50, and we made 9 851. 129, which brought $560,549,230 82, in the crop of 1804 we had 30 453,600 acrrs, and made 13 584,457 bales, that brought $e47 406,534.51. These figures are interesting, and we shall pursue them further. The crop of 1903 was 3,491,386 bales less than crop of 1904, vet h. brought more money by $13,143,679 31. It will thus be seen that It pays better to raise a moderat1 crop than a very large one. The acreage for 1905 Is about 26.779,038, the smallest that we have had In the last live years, and with the average for tive years multi plied with the acreage of 1905. it makes a crop of about nine million bales. Figure from any standpoint, you pleMse and you cant figures over a ten million bale crop, and it can brtigured as low as eight million for 1905 with plausible figures. In the facj of the above figures, It is very plain that if the farmers mar ket the crop intelligently good prices are bound to prevail. The present crop is worth ten cents and not a pound of it should be sold below that figure. The thin# for the farmer to do when cotton goes below ten cents is to put it In a warehouse and wait for a rise, but do not insist on too high a price,as that would do more harm than good. Do not think that because we have won one great victory y< u can push cotton to a very high price. You must remember that there are other places that cau raise cotton besides the States of the South. But you need not fear competition as long as cotton stays below 12A cents. There is nothing under the si n you can clothe man with as cheap as ycu can with c it ton at 12i cents. Properly handled, cottoh will he king again, and will make the S uth In time the richest country in the svorld. So, let us all take courage, and stick together. This can only oe done by a thorough organizat ion of all *v,e business interests of the South W i are all in the same boat with the man that makes the cotton. What hurts him hurts us all. So then let us get our forces in good shape and victory is curs. Farmers, market your cotton as long as it stays from ten to twelve and a half cents, but juntas soon as it gets below ten cents stop right off and positively refuse to sell until some on will see tit to give ycu ten cents, which will always come if it can't be bought for less. If you are not already a member go at once and join the Southern Cotton Associa tion, which has certainly done a grand u/nr \r fr*r tit a flAnth vtwacb. i vyi i uv uvuvii uuin y rai . Halutod (lie Monument. The Augusta Chronicle says negro soldiers of Savannah and Augusta, while parading on Rroad street Tuesday afternoon, attracted considerable attention and won the applause of hundreds of white people, who wit nessed the incident, respectfully saluting the Confederate monument, in passing the beautiful shaft. It was a graceful act, and one that was widely commented upon on all sides. The military salute, by presenting arms, as the marble shaft, commemorath g the Confederate dead, was passed, came as a surprise to the spectator!alor g the street. Almost instantl) the applause began and was continued until after the companies had passed. Fought It Out. James R. Grey, editor of the Atlanta Journal, and II. II. Revil, a rep retentive In the Georgia legislature from Merrlwether County, had a tight at a prominent place on Peach tree street in Atlanta. They were separated before damage was done. The tight arose over an editorial article in the Journal dealing with Mr. Revll and a sperc i in reply. Mr. Revil drew a pistol, but Mr. Gray was uu armed. Improving Old piiraae, An English instructor in a rather comprehensive talk to the wise young woman referred to the period that ex tends "from the cradle to the grave." Then he stopped abruptly. "No" he went on, "that Is an obsolete phrase. There are no moro cradles and soon there will b* no more graves. The modern form should be 'from the bassinet to the crematory."?X. BANK OF CON W/ CAPITAL STOCK, *20,000.00 TOTAL ASiSK'l OFFIC H. O. COLLTNS, President. C. P. QUATTLICHAUM, V-Pkes. Our Hank, being a local institut building of Horry County and for tin suing this policy wo take pleasure in accommodation when consistent with With gratitude for the liberal cordially solicit your future business Respect fn D A.SPIV1 Hobt. P. Scarborough, 11. 1 President. Vice-1 HANK Ob Couwa; Capital Stock Ill 1IiV * i v j jvRobt. B. Scarborough, llal L. Buck, Georgo .). 1 lollirfay, Wo will pay you 5 por cent, iulo isli savings banks to those wishing Try our plan for saving your nicklos these littlo banks and tho interest wo help yon. HOB BHD 'JCHB TOLioa aiAHuJN. A l'( cullar SoiiHAtion. Honm Otto Got tho IMiioh of tho Wflok. A speolal to The Sta ,e fiom Union says there wa? quae a stir and sensation In police circles Monday when it was discovered that some bold thief had stolen from p dice headquarters a money box looked In a private drawer and containing $125.30, the amount which had been collected during the week In tines and bonds, and the mysterious part of It Is that neither tho 1 door nor tho drawer had been broken Into, but unlocked with a key or some instrument utilized as such. It seems that Chief Austell had seen all the money safely In the box within the drawer when about 11 30 ho added to the pile oy putting In $2.50, which he collected from the mother of a little negro, who had been irr<stod for throwing rocks on the streets. T ip money was then about ?qua'ly divided between bank notes and sllyer. After putting the money in, everything being quiet, he decided to leave and cautioned tho young policy clerk, J. L. Terry, to be careful to see that tho door was locked, and , later when Sergeant Evans tested the' door before going otT duty, he found it locked. The police who goon night duty at 1 a. m. fnquently go to police headquarters for water, but on Sunday mornh g they say that they went but once, and that no one was then with them, nor had anyone acted sus^lci oubiy by engaging them In con versa-1 lion, pr'smitvbly for the purpose of clottacting their attention from the police headquarters. The police have their suspicions and are keeping a strict watch, but Chief Austell in speaking of the matter, other than to give out the details of which the above is the substance, had nothing to say. One theory Is that as neither the dour nor the drawer was broken into, but uulicied, as the testimony of those who tirsfc entered the police headquarters and of Chief Austell, who made the discovery Sunday morning that the money was missing, that some of the keys to pj? lice headquarters, which are carried by every policeman and have constantly to be replaced with I new ones, had been found, or in some I way secured, which gave him, or them, access to the building, but the drawer key no one but the chief ever had. |therest| nmunt l I' foe WOMEN I If you are nervous and tired out I j continually you could havo no I ; clearer warning of tho approach of serious female trouble. Do not wait until you suffer un- I ; bearable pain before you seek treat ment. 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