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> I FOUND GUILTY Garlington and Young Are Convicted of Breach of Trust With FRAUDULENT INTENT Cm* Grew Out of the Famout Semiuole Securities Com|Wi;, Through Which Many People in This and Otlier State* Lost a Great Deal of Hard Cash. Tlio Columbia State nays John T k. Garlington and Jas. Stobo Young wore Friday night adjudgod guilty on a chargo of breach of truat with fraudulent intention. This was the fourth count of an Indictment that charged "conspiracy, breach of trust with fraudulent intention of stock, larcony of stock, breach of trust with fraudulent intention of money and larceny of money." The fourth count on which the Jury returned a verdict of guilty alleges breach of trust of money of the Seminole Securities Company amounting to $55,590.77. The jury agreed upon a verdict about 10 o'clock, after spending eight hours in the jury room. The Judge, court ofilcials and defendants wero summoned and the verdict was read about 1 1 o'clock. The two dofondants received the verdict with out show of surprise, and a motion for a new trial was at onco entered by counsel for the defenso. The Judge asked when this motion could bo argued and attorneys for the defense said they would like to confer with their senior counsel before arguing the motion. Judge Prince then announced that the motion would bo argued today, and refused the request of the defense that the bond given for the defend ants' appearance during the trial be . Jieiu ROO(l pciMUUK MtJiJtUllUW, UI1U the two defendants were remanded to Jail shortly after the verdict was read. In the words of the Indictment the fourth count says: "That JJohn Y. Garlington and A? Jas. Stobo Young, late of the coun ty and State aforesaid, on the 15th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, with force and arms at Columbia court house, in the county of Richland and In the State of South Carolina, $55,596 in money lawful currency of the United States, and of denomination and issue to the jurors aforesaid unkonwn of the property of Seminolo Securities Company, a corporation duly incorporatt ed under the laws of the State of South Carolina, then and there beIng found feloniously did steal, take and carry away against the form of the statute in such cases mado and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State." The allegation in the count is that John Y. Garlington, as president of the Seminole Securities Company, used various amounts from the funds aggregating $55,596.77. The checks signed for tho various sums were signed by J. S. Young. When Chas. H. Iliely, an expert accountant, mado an audting of the books of the Sern^ lnolo Securities Company he found the various sums charged to Gar lington and called his attention to It. Garlington then showed him that ho held 75,000 shares of Semi xiole Securities Company stock ana Hiely charged tho $50,000 drawn against this stock, leaving some $24,000, that tho Seminole Company, according to audit, are still indebted to Garllngton, provided Garlington really owned the stock. The members of tho jury who rendered this verdict are: A. C. Kinard, foreman; Geo. B. Reeves, G. iM. IMckart, T. E. Shealoy, J. S. Rowers, J. H. Halthcock, E. J. Vincent, H. E. Bruns, Wade A. LaGrando, Chas. Grimsley, D. T. Ready, W. D. Jordan. * Some Credulous People. The Anderson Mall states that Dr. Stiles says the poor white folk of the South make a regular practice of going barefooted, from the youngest baby to tho oldest grandparent, and that every other one of them / has tuberculosis. And in somo part.3 of tho country there are people who believe that Dr. Stiles is telling tho truth." How to Thaw Water Pipes. When it is not safe or convenient to apply heat to frozen pipes to thaw them, spread a cloth thickly i with unpacked limo, fasten it around tho frozen pipe and throw wator on It. Tho hoat produced as the lime ^ BlakB is groat enough to thaw tho ice. * ? ? Rank Oaflhier Wanted. W. P. Whltaker, cashier of the Hank at Keneeaw, Oa., is being Bought as the result of an alleged Bhortage^in the cashier's accounts of | ten thousand dollars. The discovery of !the shortage followed Whitaker's recent disappearance. ' ... itAi-yi.x /i.... Jf THE COST OF LIVING LOOKS LIKE PltOTECTIVE TARIFF AFTElt ALL TO 1JLAME. Sorno Figures and Comparisons In | Senator Moses K. Clapp of Minnesota. A dispatch from Washington says Senator Moses E. Clapp. of Minnesota, who is every day becoming moro bitter in his criticism of the recent tariff revision, declares that to oil without forcing that man to few things has the tendency to advance the cost on every necessity. "Yott will hear it said constantly," said Senator Clapp. "with reference to something on which the price has been advanced, 'Oh, that isii i in me tariiT at all. That increase has nothing to do wltli the tariff.' Hut tho fact la that the tariff reaches all along tho line You can't raiso tho cost of living to a man who Is producing something to sell without forcug that man to raiso correspondingly tho price of what ho has to sell. "The new tariff law has cost, and is costing the American people millions on millions of dollars in increased cost of living. And if tho Payne-Aldrich bill had been beaten, those millions would have boon saved to the people. Tho increase in import duties did not affect everything, of course, but when the prlc oh were raised by tho peoplo whose rates had been increased, other people were compelled to raiso their price# in keeping. Tho thing started with the tariff increases, and is increasing the cost of living all along tlie line. "We must have no legislation that will re-enforce tho combinations. Tariffs so adjusted as to protect combinations at homo against competition abroad, must be lowered. The combinations are eliminating competition just as Sherman and Hlaino twenty years ago saw that they would. It 1h now a problem of how to save our market from being controlled by tho domestic combination, just as formerly It was a problem of how to protect it against control by the foreign producer. "A lady In Washington told me of going to a crockery store and pricing a set of dishes. It was thirty dollars and tho tariff bill hadn't been reported yet. Later, when it had become generally known that the revision was bolng made upward rather than downward, she went hack and asked about these same dishes. The price had gone up to serenty-nine dollars. "But," she protested, "it was only fifty dollars a few weeks ago." "But tho tariff is being raised," was the response, "and things like this are going to be higher." "I looked up that description of goods. It wasn't increased in the tariff measure. But the understanding was out that the manufacturers were increasing prices because of tho changes in tho duties; everybody knew that cottons and woolens were going up on that account, and so t>e tendency was to push up tho prices on other things. TOO MANY WIVES. Man Placed in Jail With Woman lie \f? 1 1 ikti i-iiiij .nun ini, George Moseley, a young white man, aged 21, and Miss Sallle Shanall, both recent residents of the Ninety-Six cotton mill village are in Jail at Greenwood on the serious charge of bigamy. They were marled Sunday night in Ninety-Six by a well-known minister there and Monday morning at the instance of several citizens in the village were haled before Judge James Rogers and bound over to appear for trial at the coming Session's Court. It is charged that Moseley has been married twice before, both wtives being alive. He was first married to Miss Maggie Gore at tho Greenwood cotton mill village, about five years ago. It is said this wife is living in Newberry. His second marriage, which he denies, it is alleged was to a Miss Ora Cobb, of Abbeville, and the third was as aforesaid at Ninety-Six. * "Unloaded" Pistol. While playing with an automatic pistol In an effort to get it to work. Rex White accidentally kill d his friend, Archie Holt, Thursday at Kspinola, Fla. White thought tho1 cartridges had been removed from J thr? upon how tlio matter came up and he would vote then as he saw it in the light presented to him. Senator Johnstone of Newberry stated that he is not bound by the compromise and said ho would like to hear something more on the prohibition question before he voted for a State-wide bill. Senator Johnstone said: "I am not so sure as to I whether you would call me a proj hibltlonist or not. I am a temperI ance believer." I Senator Montgomery, a local op-| | tion man personally, stated that he did not feel bound by the compromise and would vote as he saw the matter at the time presented. / DOVE OF PEACE Hovering Over the Warring Factions i| Republician Party TRUCE IS DECLARED tk>th Factions in tlu* Republican Fight and Prealdant T?ft Givo Out Statements Showing That War Will bo SuN|M'iidod Until After Investigation Com in it too Chosen. Tha dove of poaca succeeded in jotting reasonably near a porch Friday on tho Hold occupied by the ?r urrl n ir IlitmiKllnnn -? * L .. u^ a?v|/u 1/iiv.uu iav;tiuiin Ul I no qoubo, after that much sought bird had boon repeatedly frightened away from the scene by the clamor of the contending participants. When Representative Hayes, of California, the mediator for the Insurgents, returned to the house after calling upon President Tuft the news circulated rapidly that a truce had been arranged and a more or less permanent peace In the Republican ranks was about to bo announced. This was considered confirmed when a statement issued from the White House and another from Representative Dwight, the Republican whip, announcing the details of the armlstie. The peace promtnciamento proved premature, however, for Representative Hayes, between numerous conferences with his associates, announce! that no agreement had been reached and that the matter would io over until later. At this juncture the insurgents gathered in the room of Representative Rardner, of Massachusetts, lsbued another statement, saying that "an understanding had been reached." The statement, which was given out by Representative Mayes, follows: Insurgents' Statement. "It is true that an understanding has been reached that wo shall attend the caucus about bo bo held for the choioo of the Republican members of the Investigating committee. The question of future conferences, however, is one on which there has been no agreement. Tn fact. I had no authority from my associates to enter into that question. Of course, this agreement, in no way affects the issue as to the present system of control of the house of representatives." Mr. Hayes was asked if the word "wo" used in his statement meant all the insurgents in the house. He replied that it did, and that all of the Insurgents concurred in the statement. The Democrats of the house an- j nounced that they would hold a caucus Saturday night to name the minority meml>ors of the committee to investigate the Rallinger-Pinchot affair. The Democrats insist upon their right to name the minority members of the committee, and if the majority declines to allow it, there is a prospect of a Democratic-RepubUcan-insurgent alliance upon the question. The insurgents say they are contending merely for a fair committee and care not who are its members. President Issues Statement. The following statement was given out by President Taft: "It has been agreed between the regular Republicans and the so-called insurgents represented by Mr. Dwlght on the one hand and Mr. f r? - * 1 njtyes on mo otlier, after conferences with the President, that a caucus should he held to pass upon the question of the committee in the interior department investigation with the assurance that the insurgents, if they came into the caucus, would he treated fairly and that a committee of acknowledged impartiality would be appointed. A further agreement was foreshadowed that the caucuses should he held from time to time, to which all elected as Republicans, should be invited to take up the various measures recommended by the administration as performances on the party pledges, the subject of each caucus to be announced in advance." The statement of Representative Dwight, the Republican whip of the house, concerning the reported understanding between the regulars and insurgents was as follows: "Regulars' " Statement. "The questions of the past have been forgotten. The tariff bill is no longer a matter for discussion. The speakership fight is ended. The question of the rules Is not now an issue. We are confronted with tho problem of redeeming the pledges of the Republican party to the people. "Last Friday thero was a vote in this house which caused a Republican division." Mr. Dwlerht h?r?* ~ - .. viui cu it) IIIB vote on the Norrls amendment, taking the appointment of the Ralllnger-Plnchot Investigating committee j from the hands of Speaker Cannon and placing It with the house Itself. "That was a matter of no consequence and a small object In which the people could have but little Interest. Rut It showed a division In | the party. The next day I saw Preel ONLY THREE SAVED TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS WENT D f DOWN IN SEA WITH SHIP. The Southern Pari Ac SteawNhip Czarina Wrecked on Her Way to |j ban Franc imo Wednesday. Coo? Hay'is ehoroa Thursday wore nu?rnll.wl K. ? ? ... W ^ iiviivu ltj evtkautirH ior 00(1106 from the Southern Pacific steamship Czarina. Twonty-oight Uvea wero lost when the vessel wm dashed by a heavy sea onto tho north spit of tho Coos Bay bar Wodnesday. (July three of the 31 Boula aboard were eared. Tho Czarina was bound for San Francisco. She left port in th? teeth C of a galo, but before she had reach- (j, od tho opou tea, was caught on the ^ troacherous bar?one of tho worst oil tho Pacific coast?and was roll- l>! I ing helpless, broadside to tho sea. St Tho sailors took to the rigging and (j woro swept to their death, on? by ^ one. Tho first assistant englnoer, K. II. Kentzell, was driven ashore when tl a mighty wave tore him from the ct rigging. An ho was tossed toward k the laud, life savors pulled him to cc safety. Captain J. Dugan and one \\ of his men swam ashore. A long and futile fight was waged w to aid tho doomed passengers and ui crow. Tho life saving station at- w i tempted again aud again to roach ),< the vessel with lines shot from a ni gun, but the Czarina was Just be- m yond range. So terrific was tho sea B!1 that 110 small boat could have lived (]i for a moment, aud every lustant the h? storm Increased. Marooned helplessely on the doom- pj ed vessel, those aboard took to the jK rigging. Tho decks were under wa- ,,:i tor, only the masts offered refuge, j From shore It was difficult to see In the specks of humanity clinging to r(, the ropes. Gradually the lumber diminished. When dawn broke aj Thursday the vessel was fast break- w] lng up. Pounding on the bar, and ()f constantly bufTeted by ipimonsr to waves, it was clear that she cou'd |)C not last long If the weather did not speedily abate. Her stack had been ur torn nway, and the rigging appear- ^ ed to havo been wrapped in a snarl, ^h holding here and there a boom or a jej spar. mj In the crowd that watched on shore was C. J. Mills, a prominent yy i Southern Pacific official of San Fran cisco. His tfin, Harold Mills, was se, on the ship. The father could do co nothing except watch the vessel dis- jjl Integrate, while hope lessened. C() The Czarina was 216 feet long, of ^o 7 93 tons, and was built in Sunderland, England, In 1 883. Her hailing an port was San Francisco. She carrled nine officers, twenty-one in the crew, and a few passengers. tr) * * no Six Men Killed. (lo Six are dead and six other work- ha men suffering from frightful burns so as a result of an explosion of gas ge during the night in the new shaft of the Nottingham Colliery of the sa Lehigh and Wilkosbarre Coal Com- St pany, at Plymouth, Pa. The men in were engaged in sinking the shaft, pi At a point several hundred feet ch below the surface they broko into p<> a L'Si nnH U>? o?nl<\ol/?n * ~1 ' , - i,iiv vA|fivi)iuii IUI nt lowed. tit ra WarmchI Her Feet AH Right. CI< Mrs. August Schwartz put a hot flatrion In a sleigh to warm her feet he while carrying farm products to th market, says a dispatch from Beaver In Falls, Pa. When a mile from her CJ; home the flatiron set fire to straw St In the sleigh and she barely had time M to unhitch the horses before the tli flames enveloped the sleigh and its w contents. d< ? ? It Yeggs nt Work. In Five daring yeggmen cracked the Spencer, Miss., postofflce safe Mon- af day morning after overpowering two he policemen. The robbers made the getaway successfully. ca ? ? t F An Indiana representative says $0,0 00 for flowers for the White House is too much. lie falls to roalize that with the present fast pace . of living flowers are considered a necessary of life. . dent, Taft and laid the matter be- ^ fore him. "I told the President that the socalled Insurgents wore represented as being the friends and supporters of the administration and ready to help j,j enact his recommendations into law. pt I assured the President that the reg- Cfl ulnr Republicans of the house were ready to do likewise. We also were aj prepared 10 go into caucus upon any 0> proposition and abide by the result. Were the Insurgents ready to do the HRITIO, "For the pa?t two days confer ?noes hare been In progress and j those who differed from us last Friday are now ready to enter the cancue, and abide by tho decision reach- . ed there." Mr. Dwight was aked If the Insurgents had been given any deflnate assurances as to the treatment they would receive In caucus. "No," he replied, "except that they tl hay? been aesured of fair treatment. M They will not be discriminated w against." | P A STATE Slid) lio<ie Island Serves Formal Notice On North Carolina. IEMAND BOND PAYMENT nth Complacent N'm? One Crcat State ItoniandN That Another threat State Make Payment on Itcpndlat imam U1 llin IV4T4>DNirUrUOD IVriOd Which W?y l>o Fraudulent. State Treasurer Lacy, of North arollna, has received tho formal ?>mand ou tho part of tho State of hodo Island for North Carolina to \y $484,090 of North Carolina ate bonds Issued In tho reconstrucon porlod and later repudiated by u? State as fraudulent, tho bonda du? a gift to Uhodo Inland from 10 bond syndicate. Tho demand lino from General Treasurer VV. A. eld of Khodo Island, and 1b mntersignod by Attorney General r. B. Greenhoutfh. The reply sent by Treasurer Lacy as to the ctYoot that he noted Areasrer Hold's expression that "demand as renewed for payment," but that 3 (Lacy) had been treasurer for no years and this was the llrst do and received. As to the hotels he ild: "Mauy of the bonds Issued irlng the reconstruction era wero *ld fraudulent and Illegal by our iprerno court and were repudiated r tho people, our constitution now ivlng a clause prohibiting their lymont. In order, therefore, that may know whether the bonds you o tu* " **' ? f.mi->uj., i m?Ht? auovo ferrod to It 1h nocessary that you vo them tho date of their Issue, and ko the act of legislation under hieh they were Issued. On receipt thla Information I shall bo glad write you what I understand will i done In this matter." The letter of Ithodo Island's Treason demanding payment enumerates e purposes for which tho bonds ey hold were Issued as follows: fty bonds for construction of Wllingtou & Rutherfordton Railroad; irty bonds for construction of the estorn North Carolina Railway; ronty bonds for Atlantic, Touneso & Ohio Railroad; tlfty bonds for nstructlon of Western North Carets Railway; twenty-five bonds for nstructlon of Wilmington & Tarro Railroad. Treasurer Held states that one, d In soino cases, two coupons have en paid or clipped from each of e bonds. Hut It Is said in the sasury at Raleigh that there has ver been any payment at all. Tho mors of tho bonds are supposed to ,vo cut off tho ismslng coupon for ime possible legal advantage In ttlng up litigation for collection. Governor Kitchln Friday night id that the Indebtedness of tho ato was divided Into four classes 1879 and tho bonds accepted by liode Island come under the fourth ass which wore repudiated by the ople of North Carolina und a clauuo id been put In the State constltu)n forbidding their payment unless titled by a vote of the people. >vernor Kltchln said In part. "For years the holders of theso >nds have been hawking thom about e oountry trying to give foreign ive cut off the missing coupon for reat States like New York aud ates a cop to Hue a ulster State, ichalgan and probably others had 10 opportunity of such gifts and itti a high sense of propriety have icllned them. I will not crlticiso hode Island for I believe when full formation is disclosed It will bo en that her people have been duped i were ours when the fraudulent mds were negotiated." These bonds were Issued by the irpet-bagger legislature of 1 868-69 ormer Governor Glenn declared icy were Issued by a legislature not gaily organized and constituted; ere a part of a plot and consplr:y to defraud the Stato and when aced on the market wero sold for more bagatelle. The State, he doa red, never received any value for lem. * Argued Ills Own Case. Tn Columbia T. T. Cromor, of reenwood county, with a 2)1 bio In s hand, appeared before tho 8U emo court and argued bis own ise. Tie did not use tho laws of io State but quoted the Rihlo for 1 his points. Ho appeared as his ,vn attorney. Stockade Iloss Convicted. At Atlanta, Oa., D. M. Vinlng, the lapected superintendent of the Atmta stockade, and Pet Cornet, a lurd, wero found guilty a few day9 so on charges of assault and bat>ry, growing out of tho alleged brail beating of a nogro convict, Ten Inches of Snow. Deaths, accidents and suffering In 1e poorer sections were reported ionday as the result of a ten-inch nowfall 1m the past 72 ours at Htsburg, ' . * . I ????m?mm VERY QUEER CASE THIKI) TO KILL SEVERAL PERSONS TO GET MONEY. Man Is Thought to IIava AduilnUt?fw ed Typhoid Genua and Polaon to Hwope Family and Harvaiita. A far reaching plot at Kantian City, i Vf r\ mi n * v*-x?w. d ?? K 1 ' * * ~ mvti w it ^rvi m VI W unfll by one expeoted to become solo beneflclary of the Swopo millions*, Is declared to have rosultod In the deaths of Thomas H. Swopo, ou October 3, and hl? nephew, Chrlsman Swope, In Decomber. The charge lg made by attorueyg representing the Swope oetate. The l>ody of Col. Swopo was exhumed Tuesday and taken to Independence. An autopsy was hold and the stomach sont to a toxloologlst of national reputation In Chicago to be analyzed in the oxpectation of the discovery of poiHon. Suspicion of murder was aroused at the sudden death of Chrlsman Swope. An autopsy was hold, the Mtomach was removed, and a thorough examination made. The stomach Ih now in Chicago, where it is being analyzed by a commission of eminent chemists and toxlcologists. The plot Is declared to have been planned with deliberation and to have had for Its purpose the extermination of Swopo heirs. Shortly before Christmas Swope'w death, it Ih charged, a man now under surveillance visited the oflleo of a bacteriologist of Kansas City and obtained typhoid germs, November 19. Ills flint visit to the Swopo home In Independence was on Thanksgiving Day. lit wan only a week after this Chrlsman Swope became ill with the contagion. When It was found that Chrlsman Swope would probably recover It Is believed strychnine waa given to him to inako sure of his deat b. The death of Chrlsman Svropo, following so close after the fatal illness of Col. Swo|>e, Immediately aroused th? suspicions of the family. Mrfl. Ix>pran Swope wan taken (lown with typhoid favor oarly In Decemhor. In rapid succession other members of tho family beoatno 111 of the name malady. They follow in chrouologlcal order: Doceinbftr 2, Margaret Swopo. Deceniobr 4, Miss I)lxon, tho governess. A negro servant by tho name of Copplge. Miss Compton, the seamstress. December f>, Stuart Fleming. December 9, Surah Swope, 14 years old. December 11, Stella Swopo. December 2 2, Lucy Leo. The investigation which resulted In those startling disclosures waa largely at the instance of the nursea employed In tho Swopo homo during the illness of Chrlsinan Swope. Tho mai suspected is now under tho espionage, day and night, of five private detectives employed by the Swopes. TIIHICK 111'ItN101 > TO DEATH In Itullding on Jamestown Exposition Grounds. At Norfolk, Va., three persona, two of them children, were burned to (loath In a flto which Wednesday destroyed several smaller buildings on tho Jamestown Exposition grounds. The fire started In th* Baltimore city building, occupied by H. T. Halstead, of Baltimore, as a residence. Tho occupants were asleep when the lire began. Neva and Walter Halstead were suffocated and burned, Leon B. Nlles, pier fireman of tho Virginia railway, asleep In an upper room, was also suffocated. Tho bodies of the three were almost cremated. Nlles was from Warren, N. C. Mrs. Halstead, the mother of tho two children, jumped from a second story window, breaking her right ankle, and severely Injuring her head. J. H. Summerlll, weighmaster of the Virginia railway, a boarder In tho building, was Injured by Jumping from an upper window. . Many Aro Hurt. More deaths have occurred In accidents In coasting and skating In Northern N?w #1..? * * V. ~. .;v, / tiling 1119 past month of snowfall than was caused In the entire State for twenty yenrs. The list of fatalities on the snow and Ice, compiled hv the physical director of the Y. M. C. A. at Montclalr, N. J., numbers fifteen. Three Men Killed. Three men wero killed and a team of horses blown to atoms when the nitroglycerine magazine at Brandons Kerry exploded Wednesday. A house across tho Allegheny river from the magalne was totally wrecked by the force of tho explosion. liTprofiy In Mexican City. The discovery of three cases of leprosy In Pueblo, Mex., has created general alarm, as tt Is found the leases were concealed quite a while. mt % ? *