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STATE BANKS Are li a Mist Prosperous Condition Says the EXAMINERS REPORT Many Millions of Ihrllars Now on I Mtwrvrit in ttw* Ilimli ? . A v. orn{t<*8 and < ompnrisoiiN Stiouu by Mr. (Jlles I.. Wilson With Coiulitum I'p to Juno iitt Ur. titles L. Wilson, Stato bank er^ a miner, has completed his report on the 24 0 State banks in this State, -Milling June 23. and has given some interesting comparative 11 gures. His sf.attMncDt of the assets and liabilitiea up to June 23 are as follows: lloMKI rc?t?. CoanH and discounts. $3S,622,607.37 Demand loans 1,401,242.63 Overdrafts 499,793.81 Honda and stocks owned by the bank... 3,730,7 65.97 /tanking house 827,886.92 Furniture and tixtures 412,451.91 Othor real estate ... 353,057.64 Due l'rom bunks and trust companies .. 4,701,1 69.80 Currency 773,739.00 Cold 128,586.50 Silver and othor coin. 277,296.1 1 Checks and cash items 298,604.86 Kx changes for the clearing house .... 44,404.1 1 ti>tbor resources .... 4G.40l.85 Total $02,208,307.48 Liabilities. Capital stock paid in .$ 9,657,040.1G *?urplus fund 2,140,941.91 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid. .. 2,793,936.85 l>?io to banks and trust companies .. 049,902.74 Dividends unpaid . . . 29,94 1.46 Individual deposits subject to check. . . 15,027,970.34 Aavlngs deposits .... 13,133.520.83 Demand certificates of deposits 238,992.26 Timo certificates of deposit 2,290,080.71 * Certified checks . . . . 20,547.56 < Vauiiier's checks .... G7.320.5G P Notes and bills redis counted 1,222. 988.07 IU11b payable, Including certificates for money borrowed .. 4,951,457.01 Other liabilities .... 83,629.02 Total $52,208,307.4 8 Some Comparisons. A. comparative statement with .luno, 1908, and April, 1909, gives *onao figures showing how the finunfc rial interests in South Carolina huve ;iiawii. Those prepared by Mr. WilM?n are: Total resources, 190S.$4 8,694,704.50 Total resources, 1909. 52,208,307.4 8 Increase in one year $ 3,613.602.98 Increase <iv?r April, 1.909 117,732.31 Total loans and discounts, 1 908 $37,679,095.4 4 Total loans and discounts, 1909 4 0,1 13,860.00 f Increase in one yoar$ 2,43 4,7 57.5 6 Increase over April, 1909 1,023.606.09 Total due from hanks, 1908 $ 4,862,130.62 Total due from banks, 1 909 4,701,169.80 Decrease in one year $ 160,960.83 Deer e a s e from April, 1909.. .. 741,566.44 Total cash in vault, < a ao j> i r a o 7 o o o 1 J U & i ^ i i ft) i t) o i) Total cash in vault, 1909 1,522,9.10.58 Docreano i n ono yoar $ 74,442.75 Decrease from April. 1 909 . . . . 18.1,955.63 Total capital stock paid in, 1908 % 9,193,676.67 Total capita) stock paid In, 1909 .. . 9.6G7.04G.16 -? Increase in one yearf 4 63,369.49 Increase from April, 1909 .... 35,685.00 Total surplus and profits, 1908 $ 4,413,907.81 Total surplus and profits, 1909 4,934,878.76 Increase in one yearf 520,970.95 Increase from April, 1909. . . . 69,548.1 0 / *?../ Total Individual deposits, 1908 $29,085,398.24 Total Individual doposits, 1909 30,808,405.72 reporting, 1909 ... 240 Increase in one year 7 No change sinco April, 1909. One State bank has liquidated since April, 1909, and has heen succeeded by a new national bank, .i Ono new State bank has commenced DANIEL ZIMMERMAN A(jKI> HON I) CliKliK FHKKI) FROM T1IK PKNITKNTIAHY. Ilecomineuriutioii of Hoard Approved l by (iovi'i-nor?Affective Scones ut Prison When Beneficiary I/eft. Mr. Daniel Zimmerman, who has served sixteen months or u threeyear sentence for embezzling State l>onds while bond clerk in the ofllce of the State treasury, was granted a full and unconditional pardon by Governor Ansel Friday, who merely adopted the recommendation of the pardon board, which contained an interesting couple of paragraphs on the Zimmerman case, written by Col. \V. A. Clark, the board's secretary. The pardon has been expected, as powerful pressure has been brought to bear on both the governor and the members of the pardon board, who were appealed to by Influential people from all parts of the State. In fact the pardon was expected tit I the last meeting of the board, but tho discovery of additional shortage caused postponement of tho caso. Tho first n?'W8 was telephoned to tho penitentiary Immediately after tho governor had acted, by Clerk Rrooks of tho supreme court, a fellow Confederate Veteran of Mr. Zimmerman's, who sympathizes with everybody in trouble, ('apt Roberts of the penitentiary guard made Mr. Zimmerman's heart glad with the first news. Shortly afterward Mrs. Zimmerman arrived and there was a tearful meeting. She waited until the papers were brought down and her husband formally released. As clothes the aged pair drove away in clothes tho aged pair doe away in a carriage to their home. It is thought that the pardoning of Mr. Zimmerman will make a pardon for his accomplice, Mr. T. J. Gibson, easier to secure. Up to this time there have been Indications of much bitterness against Mr Gibson on the art of Mr. Zimmerman's frionds. Mr. Gibson has not yet begun service of his sentence, being out. on bond pending appeal to the supreme court from the circuit court's order refusing him a new trial on alleged after-discovered evidence. * IMMUNE TO POISON. Now Kcligious ('ult Sooks Kites From Deadly Reptiles. Twenty-three persons in the vicinity of Hutchinson, Kan., have joined in snake worship and hold regular services. In which deadly reptiles play an important part. The report of the cult comes from H. M. Grubb, assessor of Government township, who is seeking to have the worshipers arrested. According to his story the snake worshipers make a regular hunt for reptllles, imprison them and when services are held the snakes are allowed to sink their fangs In the arms of believers, who think themselves immune to poison. The assessor reports there are several shriveled arms among the worshipers and a number of children have had narrow escapes from death duo to the bites. KILLED DY EMPLOYEE. Nmv Orleans linker Slain by Man With Axe. 'I have had a little trouble with your husband," said Carl Rortuna, early Thursday morning to Mrs. John O. lOiecht, as he was about to take , bis departure from Knecht's Ttakery in New Orleans, where ho was cmployed. Mrs. Knorht found the mutilated body of Kneoht on the floor of the baking room with a bloody axe nearby, j All the money in the cash drawer of the bakery was missing. The poj liee believe that jealousy, with the young \n ife of Kneeht as the moving principal may have proven a prime factor in the tragedy. Diamond Faker Sent to .lail. Henri Lemoine, who on pretense . of being able to make diamonds, de frauded Sir Julius Wornher of a largo sum of inonoy, was sentenced, at Paris, Franco, this wr>ok, to six years imprisonment and a fine of $600. * Kills IlimMdf and Wife. George Knerer, of 1/Oiidl, Wis., last Wednesday killed his wife by crushing her skull with the butt end of a shotgun. Ho then committed suicide by drowning in a Shallow pool. business since April 28, 1909. Increase in one year$ 1,723,007.48 Decrease from April, 1909 1,789,103.46 Total rediscounts and bills payable, 1908.$ 6M4i.281.99 Total rediscounts and bilks payable, 1909 C.l 74,443.OR Decree so in one year $ 266,836.01 Increase from April, 1909. . . 1,880,119.35 ; Total number brinks i reporting, 1908.. . 233 ? Total numbor bankti A GHOST STORY Mysterious Ooings at Log House On a Farm IN INDIANA Tho AIkmIUhj l'Ucw of Aj;rd Woman uud a Girl?<ViliuK Tlior? Is Said to Drip WttU'P?fount y OlHeer.s Visit Scene ujuI Fiiul 1 hicks in li^ lied. For tulles around the little hamlet of l'elit, wu'ii miles east of l^?tfayotto, lad., tho residents uro in a stale of great excitement over tho strange happenings at the home of Kosanuo Hltenour. An alleged haunted house, dreary and desolate, Infested by evil spirits, who hurl bricks and stones through solid walls without leaving a hob.', throw chunks of dried clay about the rooms from Invisible sources and pour wator through ceilings upon tho heads of unsuspecting persons beneath?those are the conditions that are attracting hundreds of people to tho farm every day. And while several persons have made rigid Inquiries they offer no other explanation than to accuse tho old woman and her little granddaughter, who live alone in tho house, of concocting the scheme to keep the old home from being sold by relatives who seek to remove Mrs. j Ritcnour from her dreary, dilapidated surroundings and dispose of the I property. It is only since a recent evening that tin* Kitenonr house has come into the limelight as the abode of ! ghosts. The house and its surround| lugs from an i leal setting for a ghost story and to lie superstitious mind they appeal w ith great force as a fitting rendezvous of spirit forms. Tao house is a mile north of Pottit. Ind, and stands hack from the road in a clump of trees and shrubbery. It Is an old log house, built in 1832, with weather-hoards on two sides. Between the logs is a clay plastering that furnishes the "ghost" with ammunition. For forty-nine years Mrs. Rltenotir has lived in the house. She is 7 5 years old ami since the death of her husband, a civil war veteran, in May. lbOX, she has lived alone with little Itosle Julian, aged 11 years. Itosio Is the daughter of Mrs. Rltenour's daughter, who has been missing for several years, leaving home and never returning. Five other daughters, all married, are living within a few miles of the socalled haunted house. Since the memorable Friday night, ou which the manifestation of material activity of unearthly power was first, noted in the house, many remarkable things have come to pass. Mrs. Rltenour declares that largo stones and bricks have been hurled at her and her grand-daughter by unseen hands, coming through walls without leaving a mark. She says the pelting with Mpncs begins each evening ut 5 o'clock and continues at intervals until mid night, whou all is quiet. Both she and her grand-daughter, nho flays, have been Btruck repeatedly with Btonos and pieces of dried clay, water hft? been poured on thein from the kitehon celling, bricks have been hurled with great force from above the house, crashing into a Htove and tearing it to plecoe. In the yard, she nays, she and the j girl havo boon pelted with corncobs ; without a person being visible except themselves. One brick, covered ylth mess, she says, came into the house the other night and landed on the j bed of her grand-daughter, striking ion the pillow a fow inches from the I trl r! 't/' liopil I f>* ' * I Every flay since Mrs. Ritonour first reported that the house was haunted hundreds of curious people have visited the farm and remained through i tho evening. Many report that, they jsaw the stones como crashing Into the rooms and heard the water splash. Mrs. Emma Ranch, a neighbor, says she was with Mrs. Ritonour and j the little girl the other night and a j large piece of day hit her on the head | and bruised her severely. She says j at the time the aged woman and the 1 alrl wore in front of her. Th?r?? WftH uobody ?lee In the houso, nho said. Rhe alro kbw water come from the celling There Is nothing but an empty loft abovo the living rooms. | Mrs. Francos Moyers, another neighbor, waa also struck on the hip with a stone and slightly Injured. 9he aaya Mrs. Rltenour and the girl could not have thrown the stone. : Roth M i?. Rltenour and hor granddaughter have marks on their bod lee to show that they have been at ruck I by mlftftlleft. For the purpose of "laying" the I ghoftt, a party of I.afayotte men . headed by Noah T. Rogers, deputy ; HherlPf, nnd Perry Moon, mado a trip . to the Rltenour home. They ques, tinned the aged woman and glrlclosely. They looked Into tho beds ooeupled by tho woman and girl nnd ' found lumps of clay concealed bonoath tho corcrH. Mr9. Uauch and Mrs. Meyers, how DROWNED IN SURF YOVXCJ AKil ST.W DUOWNKD ON \ Kl'LLl VAN'S ISLAND. Was Trying to Hc.scuc Miss Ilessto Hoy l?>t of (luirU'stun, With Whom llo Was In Hntiling. I In an effort to save the life of | Miss Mosaic Movie, of Charleston, Mr. Fulton Kelsey, of Augusta, Ga., lost his life In the surf at Sullivan's Island Friday. The tragedy occurred at about T? o'clock in the afternoon, and a most unusual circuiu- , stance was that no one was aware of the fact that Mr. Kelsey had been drowned until Miss Moyle regaining consciousness after her rescue, asked where Mr. Kelsey was. Miss Moyle, who was Iti the surf with Mr. Kelsey, narrowly escaped drowning herself, and when rescued was practically unconscious. ller account of the tragedy was therefore very disconnected. It appears that Mr. Kelsey and Miss Moyle were in bathing together, and sonic little distance from any other bathers. It was an unusually strong ebb tide and a high east wind was blowing. The first intimation that any one had that t ho bat iters were in distress was the sight of Miss Movie's outstretched arms projecting from the water. Mr. David liugucniti of Charleston, happened to be fishing in the surf i nearby, and seeing Miss Moyle's arms in the position they were, realized the gravity of the situation an iniIniediatelv went t * > P??r The water was only waist <1???-p whore Miss Boyle wan found, and .Mr. llugnenln had little dillleulty In reaching her and bringing her to the shore. Miss Hovle's condition was <|uite serious when Mr. llugnenln reached her, her face being already discolored and there wue other Indications of strangulation. After reaching the shore Miss Boyle regained consciousness. and although In a state of collapse, cried, "Where Is Mr. Kelsey? Where Is Mr. Kelsey?" It was not known until then that I Mr, Kelsev was in the surf, and efforts were immediately made to locate him, but the body had already gone down and tio trace of It was discovered. ^ As soon as Mr. Tlnguenln was seen hearing Miss Boyle to the beach, Mr. Clarence Rowland and young Mr. Cudworth, of Charleston, Immediately went to his assistance and helped take Miss Boyle to tho cottage of Mrs. Joseph Bignon, where she was staying. While Miss Boyle If getting along very well, she is still In a nervous state, suffering from shock. Miss Boyle was able to state, however that when she and Mr. Kelsey discovered their danger, Mr. Kelsey placed her on his hack and told her to call for help. Miss Boylo Raid that she made several cries, hut that thoy were not heard. The theory in connection with the drowning is that Mr. Kelsey was seized with cramps and was unable to cope with the strong undert r\ nr i Kni V\ I rv? ^ ^ ~ It w tt tiKit iuw n 111 hi nut iw ntm. ji Ih thought probable that Miss Roylo ! was first knocked down by tho undertow and that Mr. Kelsoy went to her assistance; that Mr. Relsoy succeoded in rescuing her and carried her some littl#> distance to the shore, but wan himself stricken and the undertow bore him under. Miss Roylo said that she remembered the break- J era coming over their heads, but j that the water in which they wore standing was only waist deep. ; I FAPS FROM HOSPITAL WINDOW Florence Woman Seriously Injured, ut Richmond. Mrs. TO. J. Bray, of Florence, S. C., a patient at the Old Dominion Hospital in Richmond, Vu., was serlomly injured Friday afternoon by leaping from a second story window while suffering from alleged tem: porary mental abboratlon. Mrs. Bray suffered a broken limb and it ! I ? I .1 Ilw. I U -! I- ~ ? -- im n<iiu iiwu ui iht nus iuu injured. She 1h also suffering from I shock and possibly from Internal I injuries. Mrs. Rray was carried to the hospital soveral days ago. I lor condition Is said to bo serious. Her relatives have been notified of her condition. Signers Meet. In the room vhere the Declaration of Independence was signed in Independence hall in Philadelphia several scores of descendants of the signers gathered Monday. Resolutions were adopted providing for a - e H.. 1 ? I ? _ s iic;i tii iimui iiiK ui iiiw wcii'iy 01 the descendants on October 19 next at Yorktown, Va., to take part In tho 128th anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallls. Teddy will be In tho rare for president In 1912, and ho will bo defeated by a Democrat, who will be sup- | ported by the malefactors of great s wealth" as the lesser of two evils. j over, are willing to make affidavits to tho effect that neither Mrs. ItltenI our nor her daughtor threw tho missiles and water. OFFICER SLAIN Attempted to Seize Alleged Contraband Whiskey. ASSASSIN AT LARGE C. I*. Fluhburae Ls Killed by John \V. Deputy Omstnblo I .1. 1>. A It mini, a Man Ml Vi>i?i*i Old, Also Wounded in the AIxlo- ! IIU'U. One man dead, another pdobubly ? mortally wounded, and a third at his home where it is feared that he will never be taken alive, is the situation at midnight following a shooting affray at Itavenel at 7:30 o clock Tuesday evening .when Constable IMnckney l-'lshhurn? and J. I). Altinan attempted to prevent John \V. Mi*sservey from taking from the railroad station a keg of whiskey, which was alleged to bo contraband. Fishburno, the dead man. was th? regular constable, and he had called Altinan to his assistance, when MoHservey, standing in his wagon bed, shot them both, using a Smith Ac Wesson revolver. Fishburno was shot in th? breast and died about an hour later, while Altinan was wounded in the abdomen, the bull ranging downward. Physicians h:ivo oeen attending iilm since soon after tlie shooting, and his condition is regarded uh very critical, the intestines, it is said, being perforated. Kishhurno was about 50 years of age, and is survived by a wife and several children. Altaian is nearly SI years of ago, but has a wonderful const itution. Immediately after the shooting Me.sservey left for his home, and up to the last repot, has not been arrested. MRS. THOMAS (ROTS IHVOKCIO. Atlanta Girl Who Married Her Chauffeur Free Again. In spite of attempts to keep it serret, it was learned that Mrs. Silvey Spoor Thomas was granted a verdict of divorce in the Superior Court in Atlanta Monday. It was last September that Miss Spoor, daughter of W. A. Spoor, and prominent in local first, family clrclos, eloped with her chauffeur, Russol J. Thomas. I lor parents pursued the couple, had them detained and carried off tho bride of a few hours. She was spirited to New York and thence to Europe, to escape the search of her youthful husband. The latter has brought suit against h'.s father-in-law for alienating his wife's affections. In a statement signed by Mrs. Thomas she said that young Thomas made love to her, but she repented it. Next he told her that unless she married him ho would k'll her father. She averred that i upon tho day of their elopment, Sep- j tember 28, Thomas' father telephou- I ed her that unless she came to Marietta and rnarrRsl his son. her fathI er would bo killed. She went to the place agreed upon and was very nervous. Tho elder Thomas, she asserts, gave her a tablet, and af ?r swallowing it she claims she did not remember what happened, except in a dazed way. She believes now that she was drugged, and that while in this Htato she went through a marriage ceremony. DOUBLE TBAOEDY. Richmond Barber Commits Murder and Attempts Suicide. Declaring that she should never 1 lea/e Mm again unless they want I together, Mordecal Harvey Taylor, [a harbor, living at No. 1,211 North 2 2-j'l street, Richmond, Vn., Monday shot and killed his wife before two of their smallest children, and then rushed Into an adjoining room and turned tho same revolver on himself, inflici r k a wound in th ? left breast wpich may prove fatal. Tho murder and attempt at su' | cido was the result of a quarrel, which started over the whipping of one of the children hy Taylor. Mrs. Taylor left him Saturday, going to the homo of her sister. Returning later, the quarrel was renewed and Mrs. Taylor threatened to leave a third time. "Well, if you're going to leave me Strain WO nilfitht an well iro together " replied the angry husband, and began shooting. Ho fired four times, one of tho balls penetrated the neck, another the right band and two went into tho back. Iiiqnor in Dry Sections. At a mooting of tho Texas Prowers' Association Tuesday at Galveston a fund of $100,000 was set aside to bo given to a public charity If they could not prove that more liquor Is consumed in the prohibition, or dry, States and sections of tho United States than in the free or wot sections. < SHOOTS WOMAN AND Til KN llliOWM Ol'T WHAT 1I1CAINS IIK MAY HA VIA HAD. Tho Act of a I'r<*chrr of the "Unknown Tonfttv," Wlutovor That In. A dispatch from Abbeville to Tho News und Courier says the Ilov. Law rtmco Patterson, tho "Unknown Tongue" preacher, who rendored himself famous recently by shooting at Grover Cleveland Fritz, on Cotton Mill Hill, and afterwards defending himself in tho Circuit Court and n?? curing an acquittal. broke Into the quiet of the cotton mill village again Sunday, by .shooting a lady friend of bin and then committing suicide. It seems that for some time, Patterson had been paying attention to a widow by the name of Mrs. Mag Pender. Sunday he called on her and somo dispute nrose between them. Patterson drew his pistol und fired at the woman an she fled, inflicting two flesh wounds, one in the thigh and the other in the calf of the h?g. but nelthed being serious. Ho then placed the point of the revolver in his right ear and flrod. the bullet passing out of the top of the head. Ho died immediately. t*jK?n removing the body, he was found to be armed not only with the pistol, but with a large dirk and other weapons. Patterson had been a Holiness preacher In that place for pome time. Lately he had turned painter and had boon painting houses about town. It is believed that his mind was not. well balanced. Ho was seen wandering about the Seaboard depot about n o'clock Sunday morning, and his ac'ionu recently led people who have eomn i'? contact with him to doubt his sanity. JU PIltATKS SLAIN. AchlnCNO Killed by Smoke by Dut< l? Troops in Hunmtrn. Tho storm met hods of the Dutch in their l^nst Indian possessions, found necessary in doallng with the semi-barbarous natives, with whom piracy continues an Industry, ratlior tiian a crime, wore dramatically Illustrated in the deliberate suffocation to death of 31 AchlnoBo men. women and children by a punitive expedition on the Sumatra coast early in June, according to news brought to Victoria, P. 0., this week hy a Canadian Pacific liner. The victims were supposed to bo the same daring party that a few weeks previously had attacked and plundered a trading Junk of Japoro. killing the majority of its crew. The pirates, pursued by police boats from Singapore, took refuge In a cave in Southern Sumatra, to which they were tracked hy Dutch troops, assisted by local guides, whoso enmity the fugitives had incurred. I Called upon to surrendor, the reply was a shower of spears and shots. Orders were thereupon given that no mercy be shown. Kir ?s woro built KA-SKNATOH IS I>EAI>. and Prominent Forme* Olwi ?t Union. Mr. Glenn D. Peako (lied at his homo ten miles west of Union at an early hour Friday morning. Mr. Peako whh In Union Wodnoaday last and seems to have been taken 111 immediately on returning homo. Horn on Juno 1, 183 0, ho was In his 80th year, and whilo he has always led his active life, for some time past he has been very feeble. Mr. Peaks was an extensive farm-, er,, owning lands In several sections of this county, and in others. Ho has for years been iti the habit of spending a large part of his time on the road, traveling to and from his various farms, a habit ho kept up to the day of his death. CATCHES HOUSE BY HOOP. Driver Adopt* Novel Method of ( hocking Runaway Animal. W. B. Peden, of Peden Brothers, of Spencer, Ind., land owners, took nn unusual and dangerous plan for checking a runaway horse. Tho horse had kicked off the dashhoard of the buggy, and was reaching for the driver when Peden, watching his opportunity, caught the animal i by tho hoof, and, sinking down in tho hod nf t h? Kllornn. 1 -? * * ?c uuRRua me animal's leg to his breast and hold on until It had run for throe block on three legs and stopped. Mr. Pedon was completely exhausted and foil out of the buggy. Fasted Forty-uino Days. Mrs. Lillian O. Hoag, of Lo* Angeles. Cal., has broken all records for fasting, abstaining from food 40 ' days. The highest record previously was that of Prlscilla Orove, a Chicago school teacher, who shunned food for 41 days, a year ago.