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/ I FOUND GUILTY # Garlington and Young Are Convicted of Breach of Trust With TRAUDULENT INTENT Out1 Grew Out of the Fanion* Seminole Securities Company, / Through Which Many People in This and Other States Lost a Great Deal of Hard Cash. The Columbia State Bays John Y Garliugton and Jas. Stobo Young Were Friday night adjudgod guilty on a charge of breach of trust with fraudulent lntoutlon. 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." Tho fourth count on which the Jury returned a verdict of guilty alleges broach 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 th? Jury room. The judge, court ofllcials and defendants were summoned and the verdict was read about 11 o'clock. The two defendants received th? verdict without show of Burprleo, and a motion for a new trial was at onco entered by counsel for tho defense. The Judge asked when this motion could bo argued and attorneys for the defense said they would like to confer with tholr senior counsel before arguing the motion. Judge Prince then announced that tho motion would be argued today, and refused the request of tho defense that the bond given for the defend ants' appearance during the trial be held good ponding sentence, and the two defondunts wore remanded to Jail shortly after the verdict was read. In the words of the Indictment the fourth count says: "That JJohn Y. Garllngton and Stobo Young, late of the county and State aforesaid, on the 15th day of January, In tho year of our Lord ono thousand nine hundred and eight, with force and arms at Columbia court house, in the county of Richland and In thje State of South Carolina, |55,596 In money lawful currency of the United States, end of denomination and Issue to the Jurors aforesaid unkonwn of tho property of Seminolo Securities Company, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the State of South Carolina, then and there bo^ng found feloniously did steal, take and carry away against the form of the statute In such cases made 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 the various sums were eigned by J. S. Young. When Chas. H. Hiely, an expert accountant, made an audtlng of the books of the Seminole Securities Company ho found ^the various sums charged to Garlington and called his attention to It. Oarlingbon then showed him that ho held 75,000 shares of Seminole Securities Company stock and Hiely charged the $50,000 drawn against this stock, leaving some $24,000, that the Seminole Company, according to audit, are still indebted to Garlington, provided Garlington really owned the stock. The members of the jury who rendered this verdict are: A. C. Kinard, foreman; Geo. B. Reeves, G. M. Dlckart, T. E. Shealey, J. S. Bowers, J. H. Halthcock, E. J. Vincent, H. E. Bruns, Wade A. DaGrando, Chas. Grimsley, D. T. Ready, W. I). Jordan. Some Credulous People. The Anderson Mail states that Dr. Stiles says the poor white folk of the South make a regular practice of going barefooted, from the young- | est baby to the oldest grandparent, and that every other ono of them 1 has tuberculosis. And in some parts of the country there are people who believe that Dr. Stiles is tolling the truth." . How to Thaw Water Pipe*. When It Is not Bafe or convenient to apply heat to frozen pipes to thpw them, spread a cloth thickly with unslacked lime, fasten it around tho frozen pipe and throw water on it. The heat produced as the lime s slake is great enough to thaw the ice. ? Hank Cashier Wanted. W. P. Wtytaker, cashier of the Hank at Keneeaw, Ga., Is being sought as tho result of an alleged Bhortag<*ln the cashier's accounts of ten thousand dollars. The discovery of the shortage followed Whitaker's recent disappearance. ^ . -n ? THE COST OF LIVING LOOKS LIKE PROTECTIVE TARIFF AFTER ALL TO BLAME. Soiue Figures and Comparisons 1>> Senator Mown K. Clapp of MiuBMOtS. A dispatch from Washington says Senator Mosoe E. Ciapp, of Minnesota, who Is every day becoming more bitter in his criticism of the recent tariff revision, declares that to ell without forcing that man to few things has the tendouoy to advance the cost on evory necessity. "You will hear It said constantly." SrtiHitor P.lnnn "with rof erenee to something oil which tho prlco hug been advnuced, Oh, thai Isn't in the tariff at all. That increase has nothing to do with the tariff.' But tho fact Is that the tariff reaches all along tho lino You can't raise the cost of living to a man who is producing something to sell without forcng that man to raise correspondingly tho price of what ho haH to sell. "The new tariff law haH cost, and is costing the American people millions on millions of dollars in increased cost of living. And if tho Payne-Aldrich bill had boon beaten, thoso millions would have been saved to the peoplo. The increase in import duties did not affect everything, of course, but when tho prle es were raised by tho peoplo whose rates had been Increased, other peoplo were compelled to raise their prices In keeping. The thing started with the tariff increases, and is increasing the cost of living all along the line. "We must have no legislation that will re-cnforco the 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 Blaine twenty years ago saw that they would. It Is now a problem of how to save our market from being controlled by the 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 nu? of going to a crockery store and pricing a set of dishes. It was thirty dollars and the tariff bill hadn't Iveen reported yet. I^ater, when it had become generally known that the revision was being made upward rather than downward, she went back and asked about these same dishes. The price had gone up to seronty-nlno 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 wore increasing prices bocauso of tho changes in tho duties; everybody knew that cottons and woolens were going up on that account, and so t>o tendency was to push up the prices on other things. * TOO MANY WIVKS. Man Placed In Jail With Woman He Itooently Married. George Moseley, a young white man, aged 21, and Miss Salllo Shanall, both recent residents of the Ninety-Six cotton mill village are In jail at Greenwood on tho serious chargo of bigamy. They were m varied Sunday night in Ninety-Six by a well-known minister thero and Monday morning at tho instance of aovernl piHvmiu in uIIIquo .? V ..V, haled before Judge James Rogers and lxjund over to appear for trial I at the coming Session's Court. It Is chargod that Moseley has been married twice liofore, lK>th wlives being alive. Ho was first married to Miss Maggie Gore at the 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. w "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 Esplnola, Fla. White thought the cartridges had been removed from the pistol. upon how the 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 he would like to hear something more on the prohibition question before he voted fo?? a Stato-wido bill. Senator Johnstone said: "I am not so sure as to whether you would call me a prohibitionist or not. I am a temperi anco believer." I Senator Montgomery, a local op| tlon man personally, stated that he did not feel bound by the compromise and would vote aa he saw the matter at the time presented. I i DOVE OF PEACE Hovering Over the Warring Factions c| Republican Party TRUCE IS DECLARED Both Factions la tlkj Republican Flghl and I'roNidoot Taft Glvo Out Btateiueuts Showing That War Will ho Suspended Until AC tor Investigation Committee Chosen. The dove of peace succeeded In got ting reasonably near a perch Krlday on the field occuplod by the warring Republican factions of the house, after that much-sought bird had been repeatedly frightened away from the scene by the clamor of the contending participants. When Representative llayes, of California, the mediator for tho insurgents, return od to the houso after calling ui>on President Taft tho news circulated rapidly that a truce had boon arranged and a more or lean permanent peace in the Republican ranks was about to be announced. This was considered confirmed when a statement Issued from the White House and another from Representative Dwlght, the Republican whip, announcing the details of the armlstic. The peace pronuneiamento proved premature, however, for Representative Hayes, between numerous conferences with his associates, announced that no agreement had been reached and that the matter would io over until later. At this juncture tho insurgents gathered in tho room of Representative Hardner, of Massachusetts, issued another statement, saying that 'an understanding had been readied." 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 tho caucus about bo bo held for the o.holoo of the Republican members of the investigating committee. Tho question of future conferences, however, is one on which there has been 110 agreement. In fact, I had 110 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 tho word "wo" used in his statement meant all tho Insurgents in the house. He replied that it did, and that all of the insurgents or?noiirr?/l Ik ? uu ? ? oiaicIII out. Tho Democrats of the house announced that they would hold a caucus Saturday night to name tho minority members of the committee to investigate tho Rallinger-Pinchot affair. The Democrats insist upon their right to name the minority members of tho committee, nnd if the majority declines to allow it, there is a prospect of a Democratic-Republican-lnsurgent alliance upon th( question. Tho insurgents say thej are contending merely for a fair committee and caro not who are it* members. President Issues Statement, The following statement was giver out by President Taft: "It has boon agreed between th< regular Republicans and the so-cal led Insurgents represented by Mr Dwlght on tho one hand and Mr Hayes on the other, after confer en<ys with the President, that s caucus should be held to pass upoi tho question of the committee in tin interior department investigatioi with the assurance that the insur gents, if they came into the can j cus, would be treated fairly and tha a committee of acknowledged im partiality would be appointed. > further agreement was foreshadow ed that tlie caucuses should he heh from time to time, to which all elect ed as Republicans, should he invit ed to take up the various measuro recommended by the administration as performances on the party pledg es, the subject of each caucus to b announced In advance." The statement of Representativ Dwight, the Republican whip of th house, concerning the roported un derstanding between the regular and insurgents was as follows: "Regulars' " Statement. "The questions of th? past hav been forgotten. The tariff bill I no longer a matter for discussior The speakership fight is ended. Th question of the rules is not now a Isbuo. We are confronted with th problem of redeeming the pledge of the Republican party to the pec pie. "Last Friday there was a vote i this house which caused a Republ can division." Mr. Dwlght hero referred to th vote on tho Norrls amendment, tal ing the appointment of tho Ballinj er-Pinchot investigating committt from tho hands of Speaker Canno and placing it with the house ltsel "That was a matter of no coi i sequence and a small object in whi< tho people could have but little i: > i terest. But It showed a division I the party. The next day I saw Prei ONLY THREE SAVED TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS WENT DOWN IN SEA WITH SHIP. The Southern Pacific HteawahJp Czarina Wrecked on Her Way to ban Francisco Wednesday. Cooe Bay's ahores Thuraday wore patrolled by searchers for bodloe from the Soutberu Pacific atearaship Czarina. Twenty eight Uvea were lobt when the veesol wae dashed by a heavy sea onto tho north aplt of tho Cooo Hay bar Wodneaday. Only three of the 31 souls aboard were saved. The Czarina wan bound for San Francisco. She left port in th? teeth of u Kale, but before she had reached th? open sea, was caught on the treacherous bar?one of the worst i on the Pacific coast?and was roll' lug helpless, broadside to the sea. The sailors took to th? rigging and were swept to their death, oue by one. The first assistant enginoer, K. II. Kentzell, was driven ashore when a mighty wave tore him from th? rigging. An ho was tossed toward th? laud, life savers pulled him to safety. Captain J. Dugan and one of his men swam ashore. A long and futile tlgbt was waged to aid the doomed pasaougers and crow. The life saving station attempted again and again to reach tlie vessel with lines shot from a gun, but the Czarina was Just beyond range. So terrlHo wan the H?a that no small boat oeuld have lived for a moment, and every Instant the storm increased. .Marooned helplossoly on the doomed vessel, those aboard took to th? rigging. The decks were tinder water, only the masts offered refuge. From shore it was difficult to see th? specks of humanity clinging to the ropea. Gradually the number diminished. When dawn broke Thursday the vessel was fast breaking up. Pounding on the bar, aud constantly buffeted by immense waves, it was clear that she cou'd not last long if the weather did not speedily abate. Her stack had boon torn away, and tho rigging appeared to have been wrapped in a snarl, holding here and there a boom or n spar. In the crowd that watched on i snore wiih u. J. Mills, a prominent. Southern Pacific official of San Fran cisco. Ills ifjn, Harold Mills, was on the ship. The father could do nothing except watch the vessel disintegrate, while hope lessened. The Czarina was 216 feet long, of 7 93 tons, and was built In Sunderland, England, In 1883. Her hailing port was San Francisco. She carried nine officers, twenty-one In the crew, and a few passengers. Six Men Killed. Six are dead and six other workmen suffering from frightful burns as a result of an explosion of gas during the night In the new shaft of the Nottingham Colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkeslwirre Coal Company, at Plymouth, Pa. The men were engaged In sinking tho shaft. At a point several hundred feet below the surface they broke into a gas feeder and the explosion fol lowed. ^ Warmed Her Feet All Itight. Mrs. August Schwartz put a hot flatrlon In a sleigh to warm her feet while carrying ffirm products to market, says a dispatch from Beaver ' Falls, Pa. When a mile from her ' home the flatiron set flro to straw in the sleigh and she barely had time 1 to unhitch the horses before the 1 flames enveloped the sleigh and its contents. Yeggs at Work. t Five daring yeggmen cracked the spencer, Miss., postofllce safe Mon^ day morning after overpowering two policemen. The robbers made the ,j getaway successfully. An Indiana representative says s $9,000 for flowers for the White n House is too much. He fails to realize that with the present fast pace e of living flowers are considered a necessary of life. e dent Taft and laid the matter bei fore him. s "I told the President that the socalled insurgents were represented as being the friends and supporters of e the administration and ready to help is enact his recommendations into law. ). 1 assured the President that the roge ular Republicans of the house were n ready to do likewise. We also were o prepared to go into caucus upon any a proposition and abide by the result. 11^-. A. \ 1 * * ' - * * t- w ere ? ue insurgents ready 10 do tne same, n "For the past two (lays confer1 ences have been In progress and those who differed from us last Fri10 day are now ready to enter the cauc ens, and abide by the decision reached there." ?e Mr. Dwight was aked if the torn surgents had been given any deflnate f. assurances as to the treatment they a- would receive in caucus. ;h "No," he replied, "except that thej n- have been assured of fair treatment In Th?y will not be discriminated il- against." ' A STATE SULD Rhode Island Serves Formal Notice On Nortk Carolina. DEMAND BOND PAYMENT With Complacent Xme One (irc?t Htat? Domands That Another (jreat Stale Make Payment on Kcpndlat?h! Honda of the IlecoiiMtrurtioa Period Which May bo Fraudulent. State Troasnror Lacy, of North Carolina, has received tho formal demand on tho part of tho State of Rhodo Inland for North Carolina to pay $484,090 of North Carolina State bonds Issued In tho reconntriiCtion period and later repudiated by tho State as fraudulent, tho bonds being a gift to lthodo Inland from the bond syndicate. Tho demand came from General Treasurer VV. A. Hold of Rhode Island, and Is countersigned by Attorney General W. II. Greonhough. The reply sent by Treasurer Lacy was to the efYoot that he noted Areasurer Reld's oxpression that "demand was renewed for payment," hut that ho (Lacy) had been treasurer for nine years and this was the tlrst demand received. As to the bonds he Bald: "Many of the bonds Issued during the reconstruction era wero held fraudulent and Illegal by our supremo court and were repudiated by the people, our constitution now having a clause prohibiting their payment. In order, therefore, that I may know whether the bonds you mention are among those above referred to It is mieossary that, you give them the date of their Issue, and also the act of legislation under which they were Issued. Ou receipt of tills Information I shall bo glad to write you what I understand will tie done In thin matter." Tho letter of Rhode Island's Troasuror demanding payment enumerates the purposes for which tho bonds they hold woro Issued an follows: Fifty bonds for construction of Wllmington & Rutherfordton Railroad; thirty bonds for construction of the Western North Carolina Railway; : twenty bonds for Atlantic, Tonnes- I see & Ohio Railroad; tlfty bonds for! construction of Western North Carolina Railway; twenty-five bonds for construction of Wilmington & Tarboro Railroad. Treasurer Held states that one, and In some cases, two coupons have been paid or clipped from each of the bonds. Rut It Is said in the treasury at Raleigh that there has never been any paymont at all. The donors of tho bonds are nupposod to have cut ofT the Ismslng coupon for some possible legal advantage In getting up litigation for collection. Governor Kitchin Friday nigbt said that the Indebtedness of tho State was divided Into four classes in 1 879 and tho bonds accepted by Rhode Island come under the fourth class which were repudiated by the people of North Carolina and a clauso had been put In the State constitution forbidding their paymont unless j ratified by a vote of tho people. uovernor Kltchin said in part. "For years the holdors of these bonds have been hawking thorn about the oountry trying to give foreign have cut off the missing coupon for Great States like New York and States a cop to sue a sister State. Michaigan and probably others had the opportunity of such gifts and with a high senso of propriety have declined thorn. I will not criticise Rhode Island for I believe when full Information is disclosed it will bo seen that her people have been duped as were ours when the fraudulent bonds were negotiated." These bonds wore issued by the carpet-bagger legislature of 1808-69 Former Governor Glenn declared they were issued by a legislature not legally organized and constituted; were a part of a plot and conspiracy to defraud the State and wher placed on the market wore sold foi a more bagatelle. The State, he do dared, never received any valuo foi them. Argued His Own Case, Tn Columbia T. T. Croiner, ol Greenwood county, with a Bible ir his hand, appeared before tho su preme court and argued his owr case. He did not use the laws ol the State hut quoted the Rlble foi all his points. Ho appeared as hi! own attorney. Stockade Hons Convlotod. At Atlanta, Oa.t D. M. Vinlng, th( suspected superintendent of tho At lanta stockade, and Pet Cornet, i gaurd, wero found guilty a few day ago on charges of assault and bat tery, growing out of tho allegod bra tal beating of a negro convict. Ten Inches of Know. Deaths, accidents and suffering 1 r the poorer sections wore roporte , Monday as the result of & t?n-lPO I snowfall In the past 72 ours I j Pittsburg. % VERY QUEER CASE TRIED TO KILL SEVERAL PERSONS TO OET MONEY. Man Ih Thought to !I?to Administer(Ml Typhoid (iertiiN and Pol hod to Hwope Family and Servant*. A far reaching plot at Kantian City, Mo, suppowd to have been originated by one expeotod to becorno nolo beneflciary of tho Swopo millions, Is declared to have roaultod In tho d cut he of Thomas H. Swopo, ou October 3, and hla nephew, ChrUuian Swope, in December. Tho charge is made K .. ? auuiuv/? representing tho Swope *?tato. The body of Col. Swope was exhumed Tuesday and taken to Independence. An autopsy wan held and the stomach Bent to a torlcologlst of national reputation in Chicago to he analyzed in the expectation of the discovery of poison. Suspicion of murder was aroused at tho sudden death of Chrisman Swope. An autopsy was held, the stomach was removed, and a thorough examination made. Tho stomach is now in Chicago, where it is being analyzed by a commission of eminent chemists and toxicologists. The plot is declared to havo been planned with deliberation and to have had for its purpose the extermination of Swope heirs. Shortly before Christinas Swopo's death, it Is charged, a man now under surveillance visited the ofllce of a bacteriologist of Kansas City and obtained typhoid germs, November 19. Ilis Qrwt visit to the Swope home in Independence wan on Thanksgiving Day. lit was only a week after this Chrlflinan Swope became ill with the contagion. When It was found that Chrisman Swope would probably recover It is believed strychnine was given to him to make sure of his dent h. The death of Chrisman Svrope, following so close after tho fatal illness of Col. Hwojhj, immediately aroused the suspicions of tho family Mrs. Ix*gan Swopo was taken down with typhoid fever early In December. In rapid succession other members of the family became ill of the same malady. They follow in chrouological order: December 2, Margaret Swopo. Decemebr 4, Miss Dixon, tho gor i omens. A negro servant by tho name of Copplge. Mian Compton, tho seamstress, iiocember r>, Stuart Fleming. December 9, Sarah Swope, 14 years old. December 11. Stolla Swopo. Decembor 2 2, Lucy Lee. The Investigation which resulted In those startling disclosures wai largely at the Instance of tho nurses employed lri the Swopo homo during the Illness of Chrlaman Swope. The man susi>ootO(! Is now under tho espionage, day and night, of five private detectives employed by the S wo pes. Til HICK lU'KNKP TO DEATH In Hnilding on Jamestown Expo* sltion Grounds. At Norfolk, Va., three persona, two of them children, were burned to death In a flio which Wednesday destroyed several smallor 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 tho tiro began. Neva and Walter Halstead were i suffocated and burned, Leon E. NUes, pier fireman of tho Virginia railway, asleep in an nnnor rnnm ~ , | W. - v/V.Mt was also suffocated. The bodies of i the three were almost cremated. Niles was from Warren, N. C. 1 Mrs. Halstead, the mother of the two children, jumped from a second story window, breaking her right an. kle, and severely injuring her head, i J. H. Summerill, weighinaster of the Virginia railway, a boarder in the building, was injured by jump tng from an upper window. I ^ ^ ^ Many Are Hurt. More deaths have occurred In ac? ^ eidents in coasting and skating in , Northern New Jersey during the past month of snowfall than was j caused In the entire State for twenf ty years. The list of fatalities on r the snow and ice, compiled by the s physical director of the Y. M. C. A. at Montclair, N. J., numbers fifteen. Three Men Killed. 5 Three men were killed and a team a of horses blown to ntoma whnn c, nttroglycerlno magazine at Drand_ ,ons Ferry exploded Wednesday. A. ? house across the Allegheny river from the magalno was totally wrecked by the forco of the explosion. n Ijffroiiy in Mexican City, d The discovery of three cases of h leprosy in Puoblo, Mex., has created it general alarm, as it is found the | cases were concealed Quits a while*