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ACTS THE BULLY Senator Bailey Attacks Mr. W. S. Manning in the MAIN SENATE LOBBY Tbf Difficulty Was Caused by a KAu-ciutiMvr Ktorv l'uI?1 isli?'<l in tho 4iv??K.|^r. - Now York Times, of Wliioh Paper Mr. Manning is u Washington Correspondent. The spectacle of a United States Senator, weighing I'-0 pounds, about 45 years of age, attacking a young man weighing just l.r*0 pounds and less than half his age?was the scene enacted in the main lobby of the Senate lato Thursday afternoou, when Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey, of Texas, made a vicious attack on William Sinkler Manning, of the Washington staff of the New York Times. The following particulars of tho affair, which was not very creditable to Senator Bailey, is furnished The News and Courier by "P. H. McG," its Washington correspondent: Becoming angered by a publication in the paper referred to concerning bis connection with the income tax amendment Senator Bailey declared the writer to be a liar. Later on Manning met Senator Bailey in the lobby near the Senate, and assured him that ho was not the author of tho article referred to. Bailey became angry and made a lunge at Manning, catching him by the throat and attempting to cuoko hi in. Manning, however, was game and brone the hold of the Tcxns Senator, who is powerfully built and la also very strong. After breaking the grip that Bailey had on him, Manning got in some good ones, and though at close range, did most of the hitting. He bears no marks of violence on his person tonight, except that his neck is somewhat red and swollen from Bailey's grasp upon him. After the combatants had been separated, and Manning, who had an umbrella in his hand at the time Bailey attacked him, had picked It up off the floor, he said to Bailey, showing him how the umbrella had been bent: "This Is the way you attack a gentreman and ruin a good umbrella." With that Bailey made another frantic effort to knock Manning down! Several Senators then rushed in, and the trouble came to an end. Washington is discussing the affair tonight as it has talked of nothing else in a long time. Tho shame of it is on Bailey, that a United States Senator should so lose control of himself and become 'so angered as to make an assault of this kind. Regardless of the merits of the article in tho New York paper, it is said everywhere that there was not the slightest provocation for the attack on Bailey's part, after Manning had assured him that he was not its author. Mr. Manning is a son of R. I. Manning of Sumter. He came to Washington about a year ago from New York, and became atached to the Washington oflice of the New York Times. Ho is one of tho most gentlemanly young men employed in newspaper work in Washington, and is probably the last person in the world to provoke an assault without cause. However, once in the fight, it was only to be expected that ho would give a good account of himself. He could not do otherwise with such an ancestry as he possesses. Senator Bailey, it is understood, has been endeavoring to have the matter suppressed. DIED ON A TRAIN. Rev. II. A. Connors of Honea Path Dies Suddenly. Rev. R. A. Connors, pastor of the Baptist church at Honea Path, died on tho train between Knoxvillo, Tenn., and Newport, Tenn., Monday morning. Mr. Conner's health had been bad for some time, and ho had been In a sanitarium in Knoxville to recuperate. He did not improve and his wifo and Mh brother went to Knoxville several days ago to bring him home. They started Monday morning and a telegram received brought the news of his death. Mr. Conner had been pastor of the Haptist church at Honea Path for about three years, and was a strong preacher and very popular. He leaves a wife and six children. Entire Family Wiped Out. John Carter, aged 7f>, an old sailor, and three children of Mrs. I.eila Shaw, his daughter, were burned to death early one mornincr a few days ago 'in a fire which destroyed the Shaw homo in Hhlon, Iowa. Carter was helpless with old age. A lamp was overturned in the room and all perished before aid could reach them. iWhen you find a man generous with black paint for others you may be joiro he has whi'.cwaph for himself. BEING WATCHED HECAl'SE HE THREATENED 1>K. HAIRXMJK'S LIFE. For I'rououiK iii? llim Dangerously Insane While They Were Both in France. The Columbia Record says ft sensational aud partially inaccurate story is published in Wednesday's issue of the Augusta Chronicle to the effect that the State Hospital " 1 1 * ? h/\U? ffiio r/l iwl hu I or IIH' lllbiiuo lb iMiUh huauivu the Columbia police in order to protect tin* superintendent, Dr. ltubcoek, from personal violence at the bands of a young physician, who was formerly in the United States navy. The story has a foundation in the fact that the life of Dr. Habcock is said to have been threatened by this young physician, who has for several days been under the surveillance of the Columbia police, but there has been no extraordinary precaution taken to guard the State Hospital for the Insane, and Dr. Babcock bas gone about his usual duties both inside ami outside of the grounds, without any fear or interrupt ion. It will be remembered that last summer this physician, who was for several years a surgeon in the navy, was placed in confinement in Paris and committed to a French asylum for the insane. It happened that Dr. Habcock and Senator Till man wore in France at the time and they interested themselves in the young man's behalf. At the request of the American consul, Dr. Habcock examined the surgeon and regretfully made a report that the surgeon wad dangerously insane and should not be released. Hater the friends of the surgeon brought him to this country and he has since been at his former home in the upper portion of South Carolina. It is said that he now proposes to bring suit against the French government for his confinement and that the certificate given the American consul by Dr. Babcock is considered by the surgeon to be a barrier in the prosecution of his case. He is, of course, no longer in the naval service. When he came to Columbia some days ago and it was learned that he had made threats against Dr. Babcock, the friends of Dr. Babcock, who instructed tho patrolman on the asylum beat to keep a watch out for the surgeon, nnd that is the extent to which the asylum has been guarded by the police, and the story published in the Augusta Chronicle has this much foundation in fact. VEllY CURIOUS CASE. Perplexes Surgeon Who Workjs on Victim of Auto. Ernest Frye, of New York, whose right leg was amputated flv# weeks ago following an automobile accident, is tHo subject of considerable anxiety among physicians in the Flower Hospital because of his complaint that he suffers intense pain in tHo toes of the foot which was amputated and which Hob buried in one of tHo suburbs. Frye declares that he can distinctly feel n severe cramping pain in these toes, the pain being so intense at times as to cause him to shriek. Doctors believe that tHo sensation of pain is communicated to his brain by the nervous cords which ran to his toca and which were severed by tho amputation. The contraction of these injured Inerves, they believe, would give Frye the sensation of pain in hia toos. HALF IIUXDKKI) TO HANG. Were Loaders in (lie Awful Massacre at Adana. Mehemed V gave orders a few days ago for wholesale executions as the result of tho investigations of the royal commission into the massacre at Adana and the adjacent territory. He has already signed 3 5 death warrants and many others are now in preparation. Tho convictions of the new sultan against tho wholesale execution in Constantinople of political offenders has been offset in the cas? of the Adana massacre leaders. In his desire to show the outside world that Christians of his realm will be protected during his reign. FIKNI) HUNG TW1CR. The Hope Broke In Two But They Swung Ilim Agaia. At. PineblufT, Ark., Lavett Davis, a negro charged with attacking a sixteen-year-old white girl, was taken from jail by an unmasked mob of two hundred men and hanged to a telegraph pole in one of the principal streets. Just as the negro was being raised above the street, the rope broke but bo was raised again and left banging. A number of armed deputies were on guard but were overpowered and tho door broken with sledge hammers. TWO MEN SHOT In a Bad Row in Columbia's District of Vice SERIOUS ENCOUNTER Caused l>v Two I Viiitentiarv (itiards Doing Tntublcil by Two Men of Tough Deputation?One of the Participants is Ihully Wounded and May Die From Mix Wounds. A serious row occurred in the r?*dlight district of Columbia last Sunday morning, which resulted in two men being shot. The State says two penitentiary guards and two men of bad reputation became involved in a serious encounter. As a result Kb r Ashford lies in a dangerous condition in the Knowlton infirmary, W. K. Mellette, a penitentiary guard is wounded in the thigh and Lonnie Hall and John White are in arrest. The story given by the police is that llall and Ashford, both of the tough element, had been annoying Mellette and White, who were on a frolic, it appears. The actual encounter is alleged to have occurred on dates street, midway of the block between Lady and dervais. The police were informed that Lonnie Hall knocked Mellette down and appropriated his pistol. Thereupon ho was called by White. Hall knocked White down and some one began shooting. There were three shots, is is stated, and two of these struck Kbor Ashford, who had not mixed up in the melee. The third struck \i i > 11 i?i 11> Ash ford is dangerously hurt, *0110 bullet having entered his left side and ranged upward, loding near the heart. The other wound in the groin is not of such a dangerous nature. Mellette was shot in the hip. There were powder burns on Lonnie Hall's shirt, showing that he must have been close to the mouth of the weapon. Ashford's condition at midnight Sunday n'glit \* a* reported to be a little more hopeful. The bullet has not been located, however. He is a brother of the young man who was a juror in the Sellers trial, and was brought before the bar of the court on the charge of contempt, it being alleged that while drinking he had done some talking about the case. Eber Ashford has never been in any real trouble before, but less than :*0 days ago Detective Fordo found him loafing constantly around a notorious place on Gervais street and warned him that he would he arrested for vagrancy. Ashford was in bad company. Lonnie Hall is a terror. A man short of normal stature by several inches, he is yet one of the most powerful men in the city. He has been in numerous escapades and encounters. The police in Columbia arrested him once on the charge of highway robbery committed In Georgia. At one time Oliicer Fordo attempted to arrest llall and the latter drew a knife. The officer broke bjs night stick over Hall's head and a desperate encounter resulted. There were three policemen in the encounter before Hall was jailed and at that WfiQ phactul nonnoe t Krv ei Li.Ll ,.x/ .. t.ii ?>uii>>v \i uvi VIOO cite; I i*Cl Ul lllftU and iato Lexington county. Mellette lives in Columbia, 1114 Divine street. He was employed as a penitentiary guard about a week ago and Capt. 1). J. Grifllth considered him a good man. He was engaged at the State farm ft Lexington county. Mellette lias a brother on the police force. John White had been a guard at the State farm several years. Prior to that time he had been a guard at the asylum and had been discharged by Dr. Thompson for tip- | pling, taking part of tho whiskey intended for the patients on the ward. He has a good record at the penitentiary and Capt. Criflith was grieved to hear of his trouble. "Ho was a fine guard; humane to prisoners and a man of rare judgment," said Capt. Grifllth. Lonnle Hall tells a different story from that received from tho police. He says that it was not until after White had shot Ashford that he knocked White down and took his pistol away from him. Doth pistols are at the police station. Doth are loaded all around. Therefore, unless a third pistol was used the discharged cartridges were removed and fresh ones placed in their stead. Both of tho pistols at the station are Smith & Wesson .38 calihre, bu one shoots a long and the other a short cartridge. Deserve* Great Credit. Dourer I). O'Kellv n n n tr r r\ r?f 1>o1_ VJ p ?? * * n x'i w l ivui" eigh, N. C., who was born (loaf and dumb and has only ono eye, the other having been removed because of an injury sustained while playing football, has been admitted to the bar. Drowned lTn<ler Automolvile. At Stockton, Cal., Mrs. Warren Jones, wife of a wealthy farmer, and the 3-year-old son of his sister, Mrs. Isaac Robinson, lost their lives in an automobile in two feet of water. ATTRACTS THRONGS MANY PEOPLE EXPECT TO 111 * HELPED BY PBAY1NG To a Small Piece of Bone, Said t< Belong to Saiut ltita, I^ong Sine* Dead. A remarkable scene was presentee at the Church of St. Kita, of Cascia in One Hundred and Forty-liftl street, New York, when the struc ture was packed by several bundrec poisons, while in the street then were several tnousand more unable to gain admission to the conclui ing services of tiie Xovena, or NineDays Devotion. On the alter of the church there is a fragment of a bone, duly authenticated as belonging to St. Rita, "advocate of the hopeless and saint ol tiie impossible,' as her worshippers call her. The annual Novena to the saint in this church and the reverence of the relic are credited witli many marvelous cures and performances in answer to supplications. Many have declared that they have cured themselves or others of physical ailments which bafiled doctors, while others have transferred to the saint's answering their prayers concerning business matters and other tilings in which they sought success. The rector, Father Charles Farina, read a number of letters from those who had prayed to St. Rita. A detroit woman wrote a year ago she came to New York and prayed to St. Rita for a civil service position and soon obtained it. A boarding school girl wrote that her Novena to St. Rita had completely cured her eyes, throat and nose. A man, who said his friends thought lie was going insane liecause of tiu? pains lie suffered in the head, wroic (hat St. Kita cured liim. A young girl relates the marvelous cure of her mother after makiug the second Novena to St. Kita. A man wrote that he had been in business troubles and prayed to f>t. ltita for advice. He then sold one of his grocery stores and prospered immensely in the store ho retained, and gave the "saint of the impossible" full cerdit. A janitor subscribed his thanks for the return of a bunch of keys. Such luige crowds of worshipers now attend the annual Novena to St. Kita of Cascia, that the rector is planning to increase the church's size. MADE FATAL MISTAKE. I'sed Wash I/ye In Itiscuits for Baking Powder. As a result of eating biscuits into which she had, by mistake, put lye instead of baking powder, Mrs. Robert Tarry is dead, and her husband is critically ill at their home in Tottenville, Staten Island. Mr. and Mrs. Tarry kept house for their bachelor son. A few days ago the son went away for a threeday trip, leaving his mother, whose ago is seventy-nine years, and his father, aged seventy-eight years, at home alone. Neighohrs heard groans and poundings coming from the Tarry house and upon entering found the old couple in agony. Doctor# were called in, hut their efforts to relieve Mrs. Tarry were futile as she died shortly afterward, and little hone is held out for her husband. Five unlabelled cans containing white powder were found in the kitchen. Four contained baking powder and one contained caustic soda and this is what was put into the biscuits. SEVEN DKOWNEl) lly the Vpsetting of a (JhhoIIiio Hoat in a Storm. The gasoline lioat Dorris, with ten passengers on board capsized in tlio storm at midnight a few days ago and seven persons are believed to have been drowned. The known dead are: Ed. Mandy, lie If McElroy, Charles Murphy, Eddie Tickle, B. Alexander, Joe Page, negro porter. The boat was returning to Vicksburg, Miss., from one of the saloons on the island. The waves were about four feet high on the lako and it will be impossible tc recover any of the bodit?s until late in the day. KILLED IN WRECK. Collision on New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad. The northbound Norfolk express on tho New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk railroad ran into a freight train standing on n sidling, two miles south of Sallisbury, Md., Wednesday. Edward T. West, engineer of the passenger train, waa killed, and William W. Guthrie, baggagemaster, and W. W. Wright, express messenger, wero slightly injured. All the victims lived at Delmar, Del. Charity always goes farther than it is sent. BANK OF i CON \A/ . ? > s'KH F TOTAL ASSKT8 > DiRBCl O. T. McNeill, J. A. Mcl)e It. CjS. Collins, M. \Y. Collins, I A "Savin^c Hank has recently been < i atitution. Inquire for terms and rat< We wish to thank the public for tl I Mid cordially solicit their future bus 1 D. A. SPIVEY, V.F BANK OF e Conwa' ? 5 CAPITAL STOCK ' SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS. SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, II. L. Buck, George ?J. Holiday, We continue to ] ay f) per cent interet it youraccount BOB KUT B. 80ARBOROt'Gf, H. PR KM DENT. A PROFESSIONAL OAR I >8. , - i H. 11. WOODWAKl) ' Attorney and Councelor At Law I CONWAY, S. O. C. K. ST. AM AM), Attorney at Law Oouway, H. C. i R. B. SCAKBROUGH CONWAY, s. a Attorney at Law. W. E. MeCOKD, BURGEON DENTIST. CONWAY, ft. O. Over Bank of Horry H. H. 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DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder > Pills quickly relievo backache, weak back, pains in the groin, .rheumatism, ; urinary disorders, etc. Insist on having DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. Send your name to E. C. Dei Witt & Co., Chicago, for free trial j box. Sold by all druggists. ] CONWAY V Y,S. O # 50,00(1.00 9250,000.00. roas inmott, Jno. C. Spivey, f C. 1*. Qimttlclmum, 1). A. Spivey, organized in connection with our in?s in this department. leir liberal patronage in the past, ness. & Cashier II OUR Y, y y. 8, C. $ ftUOOO loOOO hu U0(j 110 000 TORS W. R. Lewie, W. A. .Johnson, * Will A. Freeman, t on yearly dcj c sits, tiicn\t solicL. BUCK, WILL A. FUEL MAS fiCE Fkefident. .Cashikb M .. .I. ~i"i"T If you expect to get the original Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve, you must be sure it is DeWitt's Carbollz?(l Witch Hazel Salve. DeWitt's is the original?others are imitations. It is good for cuts, burns and bruises, and is especially good for piles. Refuse substitutes. Sold by ill druggists. THE WETS WIN. Dreaclier Calls Alderman a Liar and (lets Slapped. A dispatch from Petersburg, Va., says after the bitterest and hardest fought political campaign in the history of this eitv th<v anti.coinAn , vmv lAti tlOUJV/Uil league of Virginia met a singal defeat, the "wets" winning by a majority of 578 ill a total vote of 1,792. The league made a most aggressive fight, bringing many of its strongest speakers into the field. The fight for the "wets" was made by The Business Men's Association, which relied 011 home speakers and vigorously and successfully stacked the league's importation of hired foreign speakers. The election was marked by the league's usual methods of serving luncheon to the polls, and having women and children singing and praying. Only one breach of peace occurred and that was between two church members, Itev. Sidney Peters, secretary of the Anti-Saloon League, and Wesley G. Andrews, a merchant and a member of the common council. Mr. Andrews challenged Mr. Peters' vote, and hot words ensuing. Mr. Peters passed the lie, it is alleged, either in terms of meaning, and received a slap in the Tace. * GETTING THE BOOZE. (low the Game is Worked Over in Georgia. In a Georgia city a recent traveler, ipproaching the clerk of the best lotel, said: "I would like a room." Responded the clerk: "You want 1 dollar or a dollar and .a half room?" "A dollar and a half room." The guest was given the key to lis room, and nnnn having v.~? . .. ...i6 uccu ihown to it by a bellboy, unlocked he door and found upon the table conspicuously in the middle of the oom a quart of the best whiskey, svhich probably would have cost him ibout a dollar and a half anywhere In America. This he put in his pocket and demurely went his way. ? It seems that some time later the prohibitionists of the city, having gotten wind of this evasive method :>f circumventing? the liquor law, employed a detective to go through the same process. He did so, obtained his whiskey and had the proprietor of the hotel arrested for selling the liqour without a license. In court ho admitted that in the first place ho had not purchased any liquor, and that in the second place he carried away the liquor he fnnmt m?n>> ? .. V, UJ/UU lilt? table ho had hired?whereupon he promptly was arrested for petty larceny. * Flash Light Itlinds. The premature explosion of magnesium powder used in taking a flashlight picture of a carnival in Odd Fellows' hall, at Washington, D. C., this week, so severely burned the photographer, Lee Van Fleet, aged 20 years, of Washington, that he will probably lose his eyesight. * Ijfvo Stock Drowned. Reports received from Tom Green and Concho counties, Texas, say that many cattle and sheep were drowned there In the recent storm. Industry is the watchdog that keeps the wolf from the door.