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EXPLAINS VOTE I Says Duty ou Iron Ore Will Not Hurt Consumers. TILLMAN'S LETTER Tb? Scntttor in a Kopty to a Letter From ? Citizen o? WUliston, Stated llis lleason.s for Volinn for a Duty ou Ore?Claims There Ar* No "lndeprudcuts." Senator Tillman has just received u letter from W. C. Smith, of "Wll list on, asking the Senator to explain why lie voted for a duty on iron ore. Tlite letter is aa follows: "WlllLstou, May 27th, 1505. Senator 11. K. Tillman. Wasbingtou, D. C.?Dear Senator. Having always been a "Tlllmanita" at the Lallot box. I am emboldened to ask if you have ever stated your roaso-. for voting lor a duty on iron or? mul if such ??atemeut is In prla*., i bat you u.ii send it to me. I am curious to know why. Youi^a truly. "W. C. SMITH." To which Senator Tillman replied: "Your letter of May 27th has remained uuauswered simply because I have been overwhelmed with work i here, and have spout several days in j South Carolina, looking after matters at Cloinson, and lost one day as I returned by reason of a railroad ! wreck. "I have never printed anything about, my vote on Iron ore. and will j very gladly give you an explanation ! direct. 1 notice that my old enemies are making a great howl about j my votes up hero, while many others who have not been enemies are yelping in chorus, simply because they are Ignorant of conditions. The trouble with many editors in South j o?i.#kitnn i?j thev take and read the |. Associated Press dispatches, which are colored lu behalf of the Repub- I I lean party, uud are garbled and ( condensed, and give no adequate conception of things ae they really happen. The facts In regard to iron ore are . simply these: There is overwhelming evidence that there a-re no in^ dependent steel or iron producers. The Steel Trust has absolute control and enjoys a monopoly of the iron nod steel business In this country. , The oo-called independent concerns are dominated and controlled by it, though not all owned by it. The I Steel Trusts luces prices and the others conform. "There are Immense, trell-night inexhaustible deposits of iron ore In Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the Steel Trust oontrols im ioense deposits In those States. It I v also controls, or some of its subsidary companies do, large deposits I in Cuba. It was brought out in the debate, that some of the Eastern companies have contracts with the Cuban mine owners, to Import wot less than a million tons a year of : Cuban ore, and I do not think it I worth while to let this como in free j when it would make no difference whatever to the consumers of iron and steel as to the price we would I pay for those articles. 1 believe that I the American producers of Iron ;uu1 ! steel I that Is the Steel Trust mainf ly), can compete with England, Germany 'and France in the markets of j the world, and that the whole scheme of protection of manufactured steel is a bare faced robbery of the Amor lean people. No one but an idiot will Increase th*? price of anything manufactured of iron, to the American consumer. If we could reduce ' the tariff on manufarctured iron we could get cheaper prices, but under existing circumstances the tariff law bars out the Kuropean competitor, who is already handicapped by having the ocean freights to pay, and our people are charged the cost of production in Kurope, plus the freight, plus the tariff, and this is I the source of Carnegie's millions. Assuring you of my high appreciation of your friendship in the past, | and hoping to continue to merit your K confidence, and support, I am, R "Rtncerely yours, I "11. R. TILLMAN. Hj Tore Father's Will to Pieces. R Dr. William M. C. Mlllan, an employee in the United States custom house at New Orleans, tore his father's will to pieces when he discovfc ered that it gave more property to him than to his younger brother. This fact was disclosed when the mutilated document, that had been i patched together, was filed in the Civil District Court in New Orleans for probate. The amount of the property involved is about $7,600. } Htticido at Greenville. At Greenville Monday afternoon a negro woman named IJzzle Clark M went into the kitchen of the Blue ' Ridge Hotel and called Henry Brewton out of the room to speak to him. While talking to him she turned her back and drank a dose of carbolic acid, which killed her a few hours later. The women was married, but her husband lived In Walhalla. BUYS ANOTHER ROAD GBORG1A CKXT1UL IS TRANSPHRRKD TO UAlUiUUA. He Paja Tbrm MflUoas for Stock of the Far Value of Fire Million's at Per Share. The sale of the Central of Georgia Railway to the Illinois Centrul Railway, carrying out plans forecasted more thau a year ago. wus announced Wednesday. The transaction originated in negotiations culminating in November, 11>07, when the entire capital stock ol the Ceutral of Georgia passed into the hands of Will. Nelson Cromwell and John W. Castles. The purchase, It was announced a few months later, was tor K. H. Harriman, whose intention, It was then stated. was to transfer it to the Illinois Central. The price paid by the Illinois Central was cot Riven out. Announcement of the transfer was mode in New York by .John K. Hanson, of Atlanta, president of the Centra! of Georgia. The price paid by >Ir. Harrimun for the stock, to the par value of $."(,000,000, it was stated, was $.1,000,000, or at the rate of $60 p*'r share. The entire capital stock of the Central of G?*orgitt was originally held by the reorganization committee of the Richmond and West Point Terminal Railroad and Ware House Company. In June, 1 907, the stock was sold to Oakleigh Thome, of New York, and Marsden J. Perry, of Providence, it. I , who agreed to retain voting control for at least two years. It was from those gentlemen that Messrs. Cromwell and Castles secured the stock, and they sold it to Mr. Harrimnn. The transfer of the Central of Georgia carries with it the control of two steamship lines, one from Savannah to New York, and the other from Savannah to Boston, operated by the Ocean Steamship Company. The Central of Georgia operates a little over 1,9 00 miles of road. Its system touched that of the Illinois Central at Rirmingham, Ala. <X)NVICTK1> OK ARSON. Negro Kouh?1 Guilty at Aikra of Setting Kirs to a Ram. A dispatch from Aiken nays Wednesday ni?ht the jury in the case of the State aguiust Moses Stevens, charged with arson, returned a verdiet of guilty, which carries with it a sentence of death. This case has created a great deal of interest, sis this is the second conviction for the burning of the barn of Mrs. M. C. Moseley. About three years ago her barn was burned' under suspicious' circumstances, and a negro was triced and convicted of the crime of burning the building. He Is now serving a sentence of twenty years in the State Penitentiary. Last, summer the barn on Mrs. Moseley's place was again razed to the ground by lire, in the early part of the night. The burning was again under suspicious circumstances, and detectives were put on the case. Stevens was arrested, as was aho Henry Clark, another negro. They were held for several weeks, and then released for want of sufficient evidence to convict. The case was given up for the time being, hut later?this spring-?evidence cropped out against Stevens, and detectives were again employed, with the result that. Moses Stevens was again arrested. The* trial consumed all Tuesday. Th?* main witnesses were the wife and mother-in-law of the defendant, both of whom testified that Moses told them ho committed the crime., and that he attempted to commit suicide at the time, by attempting to shoot himself, and then tried to cut his throat, the knife being taken away from him, .and then he threw himself against a wall several times. They said he told them he had poured oil on the pea heap in the loft of the barn and set fire to it, because he had gone to Mrs. Moseley to borrow some money, and she refused him, and he did it for revenge. The defence, conducted by W. M. Smoak, Esq.. attempted to show that these witnesses, as was also George Washngton, father-inlaw of the defendant, were prejudiced because they had fallen out with him, and were attempting to get him out of the way. Stevens has not yet been sentenced and it is probable thnt the case will he appealed. The crime carries the death sentence because of the close proximity of the barn to the residence of Mrs. Moseley. Going for Calhoun. Prosecuting Attorney Henry is laying it heavy on Pat Calhoun in San Francisco graft cases. He says that every nair on uainoun s neaa is gunty and that there is evidence enough against the South Carolinian to sink him into the bottomless pit. * Shipment of Alligator*. A carload of alligators, said to be the largest number ever shipped over a railroad, left New Orleans for Los Angelas Thursday. TARIFF ROBBtU People Yearly Plundered ot billions for BENEFIT OF 1RUS1S I ?? Senator llacon, ot Georgia* Giros Some Startling Facta a* to How the Masses of tue People are HcUl I'p and Kobbcd lader Fotin of Law. On May 7 in the discussion of the tariff bill Senator A. O. Bacon made an argument which will be the death knell of the tariff system whe? the people shall once clearly understand ! it. The senator had shown how in the higher price of good.-; due to the tariff duties the people are made to pay $2.000,000,000 a year to earlch favored corporations and indlvldtuls, and the Republican members, exolted by the fearful arraignment of the tariff that was being made, were plying the senator with a rapid tire of J questions. But unconcerned thereby. Senator Bacon continued: "In considering the protective tariff senators lose sight of two great questions. One is: What is best it) order to raise revenue for the government? The others is: Who pays this money? The great cotton industry of the South, makingl 3,000,- j 000 hales of cotton, which preserves j the balance of trade between this country and Huropc, brings into this country every year in gold, or keeps gold from going out of the country through hills of exchange more j money nearly twice over than all the gold that is mined in all the mines j of all the world each year. "What possible excuse can be givI en that this immense industry shall | be required to pile up here in this chamber, not only for once but for every year, its r??i?t proportion of this two tlit) vi sand million dollars of tariff tax, and say that it shall be distributed without return as a bonus to other parties, who are i either unable to live upon the profits [of their own business, and who demand that the public shall contribute out of their pockets that which is | necessary thus either to reserve them j or to still further enrich them? "Suppose that instead of this indirect way of collecting money aud paying it over to the favored Industries, we, hero sitting in our sovereign law-making capacity wer? to determine, so far as it could be dono under constitutional limitations, that a taji fatherer should be appointed j by tbe law of congress, and that he I should proceed through the country ' to levy and collect this two thousand million dollars, and have it said by this tax gatherer, as he took this tribute from men tolling with brain and muscle, 'this is not for the government, nor a dollar of that will go to the public treasury, it is to be carried to Washington and piled up in front of the secretary's desk in the senate chamber, to be distributed by the senate to private parties to aid them in their private personal buslnehs.' "And after It has been thus collected from the people by the ta?\gatherer and piled up in a great heap in this chamber, suppose that we should then be sarrounded in all these lobbies and hotels with men engaged in other branches of industry, and that they should importune us that this money should be given to them for their private gain, that wo should listen to thein and to their demands, that the Republican senators should hear them In bosom talks in the secret conclave in that marble palace of which 1 have spoken, and to which the senator from Iowa alluded day before yesterday, and according as this one might have political influence, or that one might have power, or that one might excite pity, and thus secure the recommendation of the Republican members of the finance committee in favor of this one, that and the other, this two thousand million of dollars, gold dollars, thus gathered out of the toll of the American people, should be put In bags and handed out to them at the door ci the senate chamber, and they should walk away with it - each on" of them taking in his hand his bag r\f ill 1 II~.? 1 -v~ 1 ,J w I III ^WU'II 11UTT iuii^ nu uiu St bo before the people of the United States would rise up In revolt and overthrow It? Yet. that Is not an overdrawn picture. It Is the Clod's truth as to what In practical effect Ik being done under tho operation of a protective tariff. "The most unwelcome visitor In the world Is the toxgatherer. We have in the United States two kinds of taxgatherers outside of tho internal revenue officers. We have taxgatherers who are at the ports and who gather through duties on imports the taxes that are necessary for the support of the government. Who gathers the other taxes? Who gathers the $2,000,000,000, that I men and women and the Industries of all kinds In this country are required to bring here and pile up In gold dollars before that desk? Who are the taxgatherera? There la not a corner grocery store that sells a FUUK MURDERS COMMITTKI) IN AIKHX IN AIML'1 T1IIHTV DAYH. 11 i Xogrocw Lb Um> County Kill tag Karl CHhor at u Livoly lUite for Triva A il/ *>ii mn?\f v Knu niifaKIU.k/vJ ' ??IU\.|I vvuiu; il li o i"OHI U I 1 n 1MM J (1 new record for homicides. Withii thirty-six hours throe negroes havt boon killed in that county, all ii different places, and there being u< connection between them, and on< has been mortally wounded. The ' officers are being kept on the move | One man has been placed in jail I and constables are scouring the couu try for the others. The tlrst of the four occurred or I Saturday afternoon, near Wagner Bill Ounter, colored, killed Aiajoi Gunter, also colored, shooting hin with a pistol. It is said Major Gun ter was trying to shoot Bill Gunter wheu the latter shot hlxu, and it i! said also the parties were drinking Bill Gunter is said to have killoi another negro about four years ago and was acquitted. It was not learn ed whether or not the negro hat. been arrested. At Salley Monday morning, a lit tie negro boy, named Isaiah Hair shot and instantly killed a negri named Will Alt a berry, who is sai( to have been in bed. Hair shoi him with a shot gun, before he goi up, literally shooting his face off It is said that Attaberry gave th? boy some command, telling him thai lit' he didn't do it, he would "ti> him," whereupon the boy said lit would do some ffxing, and immedi ately got a shotgun and fired ai Attaberry, killing him at once. Tht boy was carried to jail by Dr. Sal lev. Attaberry was a full growi man and Hair is a little boy. Tuesday morning Sheriff Kaborr received a telephone message inform lug him that Marsh Watson had kill cd a negro at McNamee's Kaolir Mine, near Hath, whose name coubi not be learned. Constable Husbet loft at oneo to capturo tho na'ro No particulars of this killing could bo learned. Sunday morning, at .Tones' Oros? Road, in McTler township, a negro named Mitchell was shot, and mortal ; ly wounded by another negro named Randy. This shooting occurred a! a negro church, Dear that place, and none of the particulars can bo learn ed. DWVKX FROM TOWN Rectus* TUey Tiird to Force Soci? nr<t)gnkion. At Greenville, Miss., efforts of ; negro girl to force white women t< address her as "Miss" jesultet Wednesday night in the hasty dopur turn of the family of K. W. Rampton bishop of the American Met hod Is Kplscopal church. The girl is Blsh op l*ampton'B daughter. She ha vainly insisted that the tJtle be use* by saleswomen in stores and by tel ephone operators. Oh Saturday, after some shar words addressed u> one of the tele phone operators, she said that he lather would see that she was spoke, to in a respectful manner. Bishop I.ampton called on the tele phone manager and demanded tha all the young women at the exchang be ordered to address his daughte as Miss Rampton. Tho manager di cllned :i rwt f lw> IntAwIm known. An ind1gn.itIon meting wa hold by citizens and Bishop Lampto was given live hours to take hi family from the city. STRUCK IIY LIGHTNING. Bolt From Clear Sky Strikes Youn Lady Near Charlotte. Lightning from a clear sky strue Miss Sallie Underwood, 16 years oW daughter of K. .T. Underwood, a River Bend, X. 0., a remote town i Gaston county, Wednesday, fellin her and producing a state of com trom which physicians have bee unable to arouse her. The girl wa still unconscious at last report. Crushed by Roller. Peter Zuaino, a watchman whos duty it was to walk ahead of steam roller owned by an asphai paving company and warn pedes trains of their danger, Tuesday nigh fell in front of the machine at Nortl avenue and Mnlstead street, in Chi cago, and was crushed to death. pound of sugar to a poor widow bu what at the time it pells that sugn gets the value of the sugar and thei collects from that widow betweei 1 and 2 cents. 1 think to r? nnrAv innately 2 cents, from that purchasei not for the benefit of the govern ment, but for the benefit of the Suga trust." Some time the people will undei stand how shamelessly they are bein robbed by ttfs protective tariff in qulty, and, then they will sinas it ond eternally damn the part which has i>een its sponsor and chan pton. DIE IN WRECK r Fatal Accident on Southern Rail way Thursday. TRAIN DERAILED Kiinlnr^r \V. H. Turner of Colnmhia t i mihI Fireman .1. Y. Carlalc of Fairi ( Held Killed in (lie Dciailn^ 01 J an Kxti'a KiciKht Train Near | J I Columbia. The derailing of an extra freight, No. 2 75, at Ktyx, a few miles south of Columbia on the Savannah line of the Southern railway Thursday morning about 10 u clock, caused the death of Engineer W. II. TurneJ 1 of Columbia and Fireman .1. Y. Carlisle, a native of Fairlleld, but a ' resident of Columbia, his home being directly opposite that ot Lugineei Turner on east Lau:^! stuet. Jnst how the derailment occurred ' will probably never be known, but it was thought to be due to a de' fective tie or rail caused ou account of the rains. The engine and about IS cars turned over and several ' others left the track. Engineer ) Turner was fatally injured and lived but a short time and Fireman Car' lisle was buried under the werckage, ! his hody not being taken out until several hours .afterwards. As soon as th<i news was received ' in Columbia a relief train was made k up and s?-nt from Columbia to ?he wreck. Here passengers on train No. 13 1 from Augusta were transferred and the remains of Kngineer Tinner carried to Columbia and turned over to Undertaker Van.Metre. Engineer Turner was one of the most popular men in the employ of 1 the Southern. lie is survived by a wife and four children. He was a member of tho Richland lodge of 1 .Masons and of the local order of the ' Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The funeral was heJJ at the residence, 2315 Laurel street, at 1 4:30 o'clock Friday afternon and the interment was made at Elm wood * cemetery with Masonic rumors. 1 The body of .1. Y. Carlisle was taken to Wlnnsboro for burial. Mr. ' Carlisle was a member of the Hrotht . ruooa 01 liocoroonvr; Mivinen and I ' well known throughout th?? Stuto. I llis body was buried under a mass | of debris and was badly mutilated. ; It was necessary for tbe wrecking crew to work several bonis before he could be located and ono of the remarkable discoveries made wbci) * his body was removed was that his watch was uninjured and still running. Almost every part of his body was covered with wreckage but hif 3 watch was uuinjured. His death j was instantaneous. The news of the accident spread quickly and many expressions of sympathy were heard for tbe family of the railroad men who met sudden death. It is the first fatal acs cident on this division in some time. WIND MOVES HOI SK. P k_ Home of Farmer War Hcranton 1 Given Now Location In fttorro. n Monday afternoon the Liberty sec> tion, about seven miles from Scrunt ton, was visited by a heavy wtnri e storm, lightning and some rain. The r oiuy tin mage so inr as tins corre> spondent has been a bio lo ascertain, ,v except slight damiigo to crops, Ih <s that Mr. .loslah Ooekfleld, a son of n tho late Capt. James A. II. Cockh field, a prosperous young farmer, had his residence lifted from the blocks and carried some distance away, and the piazza completely torn from the body of the house. Mr. Crock field was away at the time, and his wife g and young babe, being frightened, went to a near neighbor's house for shelter. .lust at this time the ack cidenf is a heavy loss, as Mr. Cockj field will be compelled to rebuild, t' besides tlie damage to all bis housen hold goods. During the storm lightning struck the old gin house of ^ the late Capt. James A. H. Cockfield and demolished the old build* ing to a considerable extent. So far this correspondent has not beard of any injuries or lives lost. FUCKS ON STKAMFH. e _____________ a ( Russian Warship Flee on llritish Vessel. t h A dispatch from Viborg, Finland, i- ways a llritish steamer has been A red upon by a Russian torpedo boat for - approaching too close to the bay on t the Finnish coast, where Kmperor r Nicholas and Kmperor William were n to meet Thursday. n The llritish steamer in question _ is the Nothburg. She was hailed and fired upon off Wlrolahti, Island of liiorke. r The projectile from the torpedo boat pierced a steam pipe? and one _ member of the crew of the English pj vessel was wounded. I h Though honesty may really be y Of policies the best, i- How often he who steals a kiss To life gives added zest. HI FACTS IN THE CASE l)AMA(;iN(i TESTIMONY thk m?;n lynciikd. They Dividrtl (hi* Moucj and h<d (lie ( lii'? k?< That They Committed a I'oiil Crime to t?et. j Mere is the testimony before Me coroner's jury that investigated tho assassination of Mr. .1. it. Sfto. k that lead to the arre-t and lynching of Frank Samuel and ljuillic Simmons a short tune ago nt or near Smoak s. Hen Minus, a youn.it colored man, tesfhed as follows: "I was staying out there a)i?l w.?s watching Prank Sniiitu'l. Ou Thu'sclay evening I wa-s going home. i hail promised iti> mother to carry mo 111 ft hink from Mr. Soumk's and was going to carry them. I iu*'t , Mr. Huioak cot my way home. L | heard some talk that was hcing talked. and I came hack and tool Mr. Kmoak about it. 1 asked Mr. Huioatt it he was going to the other field next morning, he said he was, and 1 turned and went to my motherin-law s, Charles Dulhe. Told Crank that Aeqtiilla Simmons said he u>uel be at home sure Thursday nigh', that he w.toted to see him on particular business. ! eame down ' he | road and saw Prank Samuel and I Aeqtrili.i Simmons out at the ten< e | talking. I went up close and stopp* d and it was Acquilla Simmons, and Prank said to Arquilla as soon an he got a drink of water he would lie ready to go home or to his own house. lie came out and took op His gun, and they both went to Frank's house. 1 went on behind them. When they got in the yaid Prank said to Acquilla to wait until he got a few mat hoes. I stood up then until Frank came out. 1 th? u got down on my knees. He opened his ox stable and drove the o* out. The ox commenced eating something and be cut him and he went off. Frank and Acquilla went in and kneeled down. They wc i?? counting money. I could hear 't rattling. Frank told Acquilla to go out in the road and see If he could sec; anyobdy. When he came; track I saw Svuiniifl irw?r\?>w Simmons. Samuel ashed Simmon* If ho wont to llrunchville to bring him a pint ol' xx corn, if bo could not got the corn to got .some other kind. Samuel ask?Kl Siramoiis if be has beard anything more about the , beef, be said 11 had been pretty hot, but was rooting down now. In this* time tb*?y walked on out, and Sim, toons said Samuel must come to Charles Simmons that night or soon (the next morning. He came out by me then. 1 went luvck to Air. Smoak ts. Kyjrnk said he would ha what they )ef( in the stable tomorrow. I went and told Air., Smoak | what 1 had seen and that if be would ! go then be would find something. 1 And then I went home. I was about [fifteen puces from them when they , were counting the money. I could not see whether it was silver or green barks. 1 heard the silver rattle; I was outside of the Held when they went in the stable, when they began counting the money 1 wen I closer. I went in at t h?? gate. The/ had been .spending money. I havenot heard anything since that night. I did not know what be infant when he said we will leave this here am) I will fix it tomorrow. They left home about five o'clock the day of | the killing of J. 11. Smoak. The/ i eoerned to be covering .something i up in the stable before they came 1 out." Mr. J. L. Smoak, the father of (be murdered man, testified as follows* "1 hitched up my horse and buggy and went to Wilson's on the testi J mony of !I?-ti .Minus. J came to Smoak's in search of a constabl**. I>icl not find him here; wont to h.? house; .Magistrate and Judge wer* there. The constable came back v>!ta me. We went to ask for help, and fixing a plan to look after parties. A party of men went. In search of Frank Sinnuel. QuilHe Simmons. Willie Stokes and to get stolen goods. Samuel was not at home, wife and mother were there. Some of our party searched the house. I v.^nL into the ox stable. About that tin)#* Mr. Kinney came up. i dug in the stable and found a package In tho presence of Mr. Kinsey. On opening it we found it to be the checks. We made several .arrests. Simmon* was arrested at I'ink Garris'." Two or three colored men testified that they had seen Samuel and Simmons on the late afternoon of the killing with their guns going jm the direction of the place wher*. young Smonk was shot and killed. After Simmons and Samuel were arrested they were turned over to a constable who started for Waltorboro with them. On the way he was overpowered and the two afsnH?in.s taken from him and lynched sis already stated. They Take a I tide. The Newberry Observer says the Knglish sparrows have hit upon a brau new wrinkle; they perch thonvselves on the hands of the city cIocm and take a ride. It te funny to them slide off when the hands approach a vertical position. I