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f \ } "I I WARM TIME. AVeacher Calls a Dispensary Advocate a Liar and MKES A SENSATION. Tl Rev. P. H. E. Derrick Charges Senaar Blease, of Newberry County, With Insulting and Impu*!!!ng the Ministry, and Lying If He DeniedCharg e. a special cnspatcn do me uoiumbia itate from Newberry says an unex jected and seusational dispensary debate took place at Yiung's Grove In ?hat county on Tuesday of last week, when Riv. C. M. Pyod of Prosperity, outraged at statements made by Mr. C. L. Illease who Is State Senator from Newberry concerning the Chris tlan church and ministry, protested 'eloquently. Following this and at the close of tie speaking Mr. Please was halted by toe Rev. P. H. E Derrick, a Lutheran preacher who ciarged him with insulting and impugning the Chi istian 1 ministry. Mr. Derrick 8?ca>ed to be very mad, when he began talking to Mr. Please. On Mr. Piease's denial that he had made certain remarks in his speech, Rev. Mr. Derrick threateningly and llatly contradicted him, renewing the accusatiou. Mr. Please turned to walk away but before he had taken twenty steps Rev. Mr. Derrick shouted after him the words, "and if you deny It you are a liar." Mr. Please took uu nonce 01 ane woros. While denouncing general hypocrisy and corruption in his speech. Mr. Blease said that if all the rascals were turned out of the churches there would uot be a quorum left next Sunday, and that he had never known a preacher who would not take a gambler's money. The whole affair created intense feeling. Mr. A. C. Jones also interrupted Mr. Blease to express his in dtgnation. Aside from the above incident the day was without marked features. All of the speakers acquitted themselves well and were listened to with attention but at no time was there great enthusiasm. Mr. John C. Goggans presided, In troduclng Mr Artuur Kibler as the first speaker. Dr. Geo. B. Cromer and Mr. A. C, Jones followed. A letter was read from Rev. J A. Siign, regretting his inability to be present on account of sickness. Mr. Blease's speech followed, being the only one on the dispensary side. After the incident between Mr. Blease and il3v. Mr. Derrick the crowd called for Rev. Mr. Boyd on the platform, lie responded eloquently for prohibition. The crowd was estimated at about 800. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. In speaking of the occurrences narrated above The News and Courier says: Q ilte a sensation developed at Ycu ig's Grove Tuesday afternooon at a dispensary discussion. In his speech Senator Blease referred to some nro hibitionists as hypocrites, and said: "If you are going to kill the dispensary because it is rotten, why not kill the Churchy If you turn out every rascal in the Church you would not have a quorum Sunday " Here A. C. Jones interrupted, saying that hi :ase had no right to slander the Church. Argument followed, the crowd upholding Mr. Jones. Then Blease repeated it, whereupon someone said: "Talk to us like do cent men or quit." Blease resumed his speech, but the Rev. C. M. Boyd, the Associate lie formed minister here, said: "Mr. Blease, just now you told a lady how to raise sons, not drunkards." Now tell us about the Spartanburg investigation, when you said on the stand, "I w^uld like to have a drink now." Mr. Blease replied: "Yes, I said it. You look like a man who would take a bottle of beer on the sly. When we get up town we will take one together. I can generally read any man." When Blease was notified that Mr. Boyd was a minister, he apologized. Col. Blease tried to continue, but the audience welled, "Boyd! Boydl Boyd!" and Blrode's voice was nrowned when he was i^Mhalf through speaking. The Rev. Mr. Boyd came on the stand. Blease asked him not to personal, as he had been promised the last speech. Then Mr. Boyd said be would not speak, but the crowd yelled for him. He said that what he would have to be personal, when a man said A ? 4 V. ~ 4 U ^ J A lib au in vesbigatiou tuau uu wuutBu a drink and bere teaches a woman how to raise a son, not a drunkard, slander churches and virtually blasphemes Clod. He could not help from speaking. Mr. Boyd's speech was a masterful oration, to which nosynopsh here can do justice. He did not want to say anything today, but had to. When he came here there was no dis pensary, no policeman, no Jill. Now all theBe are here, and the citizens know the state of affaalrs. He ap pealed to thinking men to rid the connty cf a curse. When Ool.fBleaae left the stand he was confronted by the Rev. P. H. E. Derrick, the Lutheran minister, who challenged the statement made In the speech that no minister ever refused bleed money to build a obufoh, Col. Mease said ho referred to Newberry and seemingly showed the whlr>e feather, walking itT. Derrick said: "And you are a liar " DEAD AT THE THROTTLE. Train Spoct i?*Ht Signal** After tiio ICngitieer Was Killed. William F. Stoot, of Harrison, N. J., the tireman of the fast Flying Virginian, tbe Chesapeake aud Ohio railroad through express to St. Louis, which left Jersey City at 5:52 o'clock last evening, saved the lives of his passengers by taking charge of the locomotive after the engineer, Dan Mahoney, had been killed in the cab. When Stoot grasped the throttle and slackened the speed the train had already passed at least two danger signals. The train made Trenton on schedule time last night, but pulled out of that citv with a smoking journal. Mahoney was afraid of that journal and kept a watch ou it as lie sped alorg. To do so he had to lean out of toe cab while lie kept ont hand on the throttle. Once he bent too far forward out of his cab window to get a glimpse of the defective journal and his head was struck by a signal post. Death was probably Instantaneous. The locomoative gathered steam and nif.W'd im inppd It. w?q r>f M?r> big hogback type, and it is, therefore Impossible for the tireman to see the engineer. To Fireman Stoot the tram seemed to have attained the velocity of a cannon ball. lie had hardly a moment's lull in his work of shoveling on coal. As he stopped to mop the perspiration from his brow, a lucky glance through the other side of the cab revealed a red light. "Dan" he yelled, but there was no answer. Another instant a second red light was passed. It was plain that something was wrong and that he and the passengers behind him, as things then stood, were riding to almost certain death. "For God's sake, why don't you blow her up?" he again called to the engineer. "We have passed two red hugs. Check her, Dan, for God's sake." la the lan guagc of railroad men "red bug" means a danger signal. IOvery moment the engine bounded faster until the telegraph poles seem ed to Stoot like lead pencils. After his second warning cry he did not wait for an answer, but began to clamber over Into the engineer's side to investigate. lie found Mahone> dead. IDs lifeless hand wao still on the throttle and his head, wet with blood, rested on the edge of the window. Stoot slowed down the engine. Then he took the train on to West Philadelphia, after putting another man at his own end of the boiler. Nut a passenger nor the conductor knew of the peril of the train. Ma honey lived in Brooklyn, and the body was sent tnere. He was 40 years old. About a year ago his wife was killed in a trolley accident in Newark. Bait an Vol low Fovor. The desperate efforts of the health authorities to prevent the spreading of the typhoid fever epidemic prevalent in Brooklyn have not been successful so fir and the situation is beginning to be quite ritical. It seems that Batch Beach, Bensonhurst and UlmerPark, situated on the Brooklyn beach, extending from the Narrows to Ouney Island, from the center or heart of the disease district. There are various theories concerning the causes of the epidemic. The most plausible is that persons living in the beach district insisted on bathing at the wrong side of the tide, when the water, backed up by the rising tide, was strongly contaminated by the contents of tne numerous sewers emptying into the hay. The infected area is constantly spreading and it is feared that b fore long the epidemic will gain a foothold on the Manhattan side. Should that happen, the result in the overcrowded and unsanitary districts of the East and West sides would be appalling. Up to the pres ent time there have been nearly two thousand case9 of typhoid In New York and about four hundred deatbe caused bv that disease. A. Katul (Quarrel. A fatal quarrel ocoured at Batesburg on Wednesday between Mrs. Laura A. Miller and Mrs. Young Rikard. It seems that Mrs. Rikard had borrowed a sausage stuffer from Mrs. Miller. Mrs Miller sent her word to send It back. While Mrs. Miller, who was about 60 years old, was sweepeng the piazza, Mrs. lllkard came up and told her she ought not to speak to her as she did. Mrs. Miller then told Mrs. Rikard that her children had been taking her fruit. Mrs. Rikard made some reply, when Mrs. Miller struck her with the broom. At this janture Mrs. Rikard took the broom from Mrs. Miller and belabored her with it, when the old lady fell over dead. Pre mlnm Iiist. The State Fair premium list has just been Issued and shows the prizes offered for the Fair this year. The list is unusually attraotlve and al though it is very early in the season Secretary Love is already receiving applications for space. The indications are that every building will be crowded and that it will be absolutely necessary for the State of South Carolina to ereot a State building next year. FELL FROM-A POLE. I A Promising Young Man Meets With a Feariul loath. Hubert IIaymhwmili of GIoiiihoii, 'OiS, DU'8 From lojurlou Ucoelyod Wliilo I'orformint? Ills Duty. A special dlspat/Ch from Darlington to The State says Mr. Robert Ilaynsworth, a ycuug man of much promise, died there Thursday morning from the effects of Injuries he sustained in falling from an electric light pole Wednesday night. The storm Wednesday afternoon had upset the elec trie light wires aud Wednesday night It was discovered that some of the arc lights were not burning. The engineer. Mr. Hatchel), at the power plant apprised young Ilaynsworth of this fact and the latter started on his round to rc medy the trouble. He was cautioned, however, to phone when he found a wire that needed fixing so the power could be cut off and he did so once or twice but no message was received at the tne point where the sad accident occurred. When found by the ?oast Line night watchman Mr. Ilaynsworth was lying at the foot of an electric light pole between the depot and a nearby shed. His mangled limbs were across the railroad track and his b idy was drawn as If be had suffered lnt?nse c>ngesfinH t\~.n. 1 -i 1 ? I uiuu, viuc jc>; wcv* uuixipieuuiy orusnea, causing the main bone to pn joot through the outer skin and clothing; his forehead also sustained a severe blow In which the skull was slightly fractured, lie bled profusely and was never conscious after the fall. Mr. Hatched says that Mr. Ilaynsworth left the power plant about 9 o'clock and was not found until 10 15. It Is probable that he lay there for over an hour before auy one saw him. Tnera are numerous conjectures as to how this accident occurred, but it is generally believed that voung Ilaynsworth ascended the pole and came in contact with a live wire which caused him to lose his grip and fall, lie must have fallen 25 or 30 ' feet. When found he was moved to toe heme of ids grandmother, Mrs. II. E 1'. Sanders, and a doctor was summoned but to no avail. lie died Thursday morning at b o'clock and will probably be buried Friday at Florence, where his family reside. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mooi ney Ilaynsworth of Florence and a nephew of that city. In 1902 he graduated at Clemson In the electrical department and came immediately to Darlington, where he acceptfd a posl Lion with the Carolina Wat>r ard Light company. He proved himself an t tlloienielectrician and he advanced i rapidly in this line of work. Only a few months prior to his death he was promoted to the position of general superintendent of the electrlct olant there. He was a young man with a bright future and he had a host of i friends in Darlington. Ills untimely i death has cast a gioom over the eui tire town. HuiiKry i'oanantH. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, says the disorders in Andalusia aH a result of the famine are growing alarming. The sacking of farms and the slaughtering of sheep and cattle continue pratloally unchecked. The districts ar< u .d Oarmona, Osuna, Estepa, Utrira, Maron and Jen./, are terrorized by hunger driven peasents. The wealthier residents are fleeing and abandoning tbeir nomes taking refuge in Seville, Cordova and other large cities. The starving peasants continue to invade the towns, olamort ing for f X)d and sometimes looting. It is stated that 4 000 are massed outside Osuna, threatnlng to storm the houses of the rich. Aid from the government and public charity is Inadequate aud distributed slowly. Troops are protecting many towns, but the auohorites hesitate to take severe measures, partly through sympathy r with the distressed and partly through fear lest a wave of violence ; be provoked. It Is estimatad that 1,000,000 are desperately hungry, and , that 100,000 of these are actually starving. 1 Wounded by Itntitans. A special dispatch from Anderson to The State says Sheriff Nelson R. Green and his deputy, W. N. Scott, received slight wounds at the farmers' barbecue Wednesday afternoon in arresting four young men of the county for disorderly conduct. The meu are A. L. Whitten and three brothers named RiChey. It seems thao these men were miraincr arirt tftllrlnfr Iruirll u at the table and when they were ordered by the sheriff to keep quiet one of them resisted the officer, who was cut across the abdomen. His deputy was also slightly wounded. The men were taken into custody and are in the county jail. Pearls Pound In Ooooanuta. "Pearls are not found in oysters alone." Sometimes, "said a lapidary, they are four d in cocoanuts. I once out a cocoanut pearl. It was the size of a pea, and its quality was good. It resembled an oyster pearl, only It was a little duller, Cocoanut pearls are found in the heart of the nut. It is thought that they are formed by the hardening of the nut's flesh, i They are, so to speak, a kind of i orystalizod tumor or wart. These pearls are rare. They are rarer than oyster pearls. They are also cheaper i than oyster pearls, being less hard and less transparent." ?IFIFTY KILLED hI By Excursion Train Plunging Twenty-five Feet in River. BRAKE BIBNT WOJKK. JVyThe Train Was from Kinston, N, C., on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. All, Except Two of the Unfortunate Victims, Were Colored People. A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says that owing to the inability of Engi neer D. L Reig to ootrol his air brakes, an exclusion train from Kinston, N. C , bound to that city, plunged through au opeu draw in a bridge over the western brato'i of the Elizabeth river at Bruce station, eight miles from Norfolk, Thursday afternoon, and 50 persons, moBtly negroes, were drowned. Up to a late hour Thursday night only seven bodies nad been r?e.nvnrpri from the wreckage. The list of injured so far as oau be ascertained, numbjis nearly 100, though most cf these are sllybtly hurt. A large numer of physicians from Norfolk aud nearby cities went,to the scene. Among the victims, the only white ones were Edward JolllTe, manager of the excur*ion, and Edward Forbes, who assisted him, both of Greenville, N. (J. The Merrlt wreck h g organization Thursday night db patches an expedition from Norfolk to tbo scene for the purpose of raising the sunken cars, wiilch lie in about 25 feet of water. Until the oars are raised, no accurate estimate of the number of tbe dead can be given. The train was composed of an engine and six passenger cars. The engine and two cars went through the draw, leaving the four rear oars on the track. One car was completely submerged and the other partly sub merged. Nothing is visible of the looomoiive not oven the smokestack. It is believed every occupant of the tirst car perished. The dead can be gotten out only by diving under the car. The scone following toe wreck was one of indescribable horror, with the shrieking of men, women and children, who were drowning, struggling out of the partly submerged coach and boating in the river. The passengers who were uninjured immediately started to resoue those imprisoned in the cars. Norfolk and Portsmouth were communicated with and physicians were sent out on a wrecking train. Many people In the neighborhood went to the scene of the wreck and helped in the rescue. The Injured were taken to the track embankment aud were attended there by the physicians. Collins Ferguson, the colored bridge tender of the Atlantic Coast Line, was knocked from the bridge by the impact and killed. Engineer Reig and Fireman Alfred Cooper, colored, escaped by jumping. The wrecked train left Kinstori, N. C., at n mi 1 141 - - - i uuiwk xiiurbucvy morning Willi 1U& colored excursionists for Norfolk, li was due to arrive at Norfolk at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Following this train was another excursion train over the same road bring ing 300 excursionists from Reeky Mount, N. C Preceding tiio wrecked train was still another excursion train carrying some 300 merchants and otners from Augusta, Ga., (Jaarlestou, S. C., and Jacksonville, Fla , bound to Baltimore, Pnlladelplna and New York, fertile puicuaseof fall good This iirsl train arrived at Norfolk at 8.3o o'ol< cx Tnursday morning without acciuent and the Augusta, Jacksonville and Oliarlesion merchants left for the north Thursday night by water. The Rocky Mount excursion ists and the survivors of tbe wreck were brought to Norfolk over the Nor folk and Western. (JrnHtioii Into Trolley. ! At Cincinnati, Ohio, three nrn-n were killed and ten were injured Wednesday night when a fast through ex press from New York to Cincinnati on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern crashed into a Winton Place trolley|car in Winton Place a suburb. All the killed lived in Winton Place. According to some witnesses of the wreck John Drlscoll, gate tender, had let the gate down to allow a freight to pass. The locomotive of the freight emitted heavy oloudsof smoak, preventing the tender from seeing the passenger train bearing down at high speed and he raised the gates, it is said. The locomotive struck the back part of the street car and it was tossed to pieces in all directions. Ijchh Wtiltktiy Used. Mr. John C. Watkins, Clerk of Court of Anderson County, writes as follows to Senator Tillman;" The records in this office show that the ocurt of general sessions for Anderson county during the years 1891 and 1892 there were 108 trials and that during the years 1903 and 1904 there were only oi. in this connec&lon I will add an extract from presentment of the grand jury of Feburary, 1904: "We Ihlnk It is a matter worthy of notice that notwithstanding toe rapid increase of population of cur county, the influx of people from other counties and other States, and the aggregation of so many places of the Industrial enterprises located in our midtt, yet orlme seems to be decreasing. V \ I t \ EANK OF CON W> CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASS IT OFF1 11. CL COLL1XS. Prfpident. O. P. QLATTLIIIAI'M, V-Pres. Our l'ank, being a local institu building of Horry County anil for tl Biting this policy wo tako pleasure ii accommodation when consistent witl With gratitude for the liberal cordially solicit your future busines dlespectf D A SPIV) Robt. H. Scarborough, II. President. ViceHANK Ol Conwa Capital Stock DIREi Robt. 11. Scarborough, I ii.i t . lt.w.i George ?l. Ilolliday, Wo will pay you f> per cent., int ish Bcivinga hanks to those wishii Try our plan f?>r saving your nicklei tlieso Utile banks ami the interest \v help yon. T HE'Hl] i This linnd on a shoo moans BEST for your moiiov call for J . 10 IN Professional Cards. Dr. R. W. McCord, SURGEON DENTIST, MULLINS, S. C. Dr. W. E. McCord, SURGEON DENTIST, Conway, s. C. IteiyOver Bank of Horry. T~y Y_r r> ' a a- * a- oun ougns Physician ancl Surgeon, OonwQ^, S- CiTBTsCARBROljGir CONWAY, S. C., ATTORNEY AT LAW II. H. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONWAY. S. C. G. Fred. St-alvey Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONWA Y, S. C B.'Wo fior d Waitr ATTORNEY AT LAW, Conway, S. C. Office in Spivey Building. Dr. C. 8. Deitz DENTIST & OPTICIAN. Conway, S. C. Room No. 4, Spivey Building ^piKpTMlnsCo^ Fire Insurance. dkokickaok. D. A. Sivoy, President M. W Collins, Secretary. Conwav Market / Fresh Meats and Sausage always on hand. Orders are taken and promptly delivered every day. Geo. L. Marsh, I'ropretor. Shingles! I have opened a Sliingle Yard and can fdl your orders promptly. net l buck. * CONWAY. \V, S. O. SUURPLFS FUNI), $20,000. rs, $180,000.00. CERS: I). A. SPIYKY, Cash if, I?. M. \V. COLLINS, Asst. Cashier, tion, has always striven for the up10 bet torment of her citizens. In peri. extending to our cust< meis every ti sound banking. patronage received in the past, we s. ally yours E_ VO a s h i e: r Ti. Buck, Will A. Freeman, President. Cashier. ? HORRY, y. S, C. $25,000 CTOUS: W. R Lewis, W. A Johnson, ^ ill A. Freeman orcst on yearly deposits. 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