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F MUST BE PROBED Every Mm od the Eocampmeet at Aikei Will be Questioned te HND OUT WHO DID IT 1 ^ A Soldier of the First Regiment Charged With Throwing a Stone Out of the Car Window and Hiti ting a Man Standing on the Side of the Track. "In any event you will make a most searching and careful investigation and make a full report to this ofliee at the earliest possible moment. Th,e most scrupulous observance of - every povision of this odev is en\ joined." Thus concludee W. W. Lewis, who is oolor.ei of the First regiment, to Maj. M. J. Walker and the commanding officer of Companies C, K, L and t M of the regiment, in ordering an investigation of the alleged injury to a man near Sally from a rock thrown by one of the soldiers returning from the Aiken encampment. Col. Lewis' orders follows proclamation issued by Governor Ansel, who is commander-in-chief of the National Guard of the State, a few days ago, when the matter was reported to him. When the soldiers were returning from Aiken on August 8 a rock Sfras thrown from one of the windows of the special bearing the troops, inai day Gov. ^hsel received a telegram from J. M. Hawley at Salley, stating that a mepiber of the company on the first train from Aiken, passing through 5$illey that day, had injured one of Mr. Hawley's men with a rock. Gov. Ansel immediately order- ^ ed an investigation and directed a telegram and later a letter, giving all the information he had to Col. W. . W. Uw>6. m "j That Col. Lewis is determined that j the guilty person shall ,b$ found out in this matter is showW^jby the following letter addressed to MaJ. Walker and those commaffeing the four companies mentioned *above: y "It lias been reported to me that 1 when the first section of the military train bearing Second battalion and part of the hospital corps was at or near Sally some person on the c train threw a rock or some missle, eeiously wounded a man working in y the fields. This was on the return r trip from Aiken. t "You are hereby directed at once i to summon before you every man be- v longing to you several commands a and examine each and every one of \ iY>am nndor nnth iiR In hit: knowledge t U*JIV?\/* vv?v?. ? w - v of the incident, requiring him *o i Btate the facts as he kno-vs them or any hearsay testimony that will put jj light on the subject. j "In the event any man refuses to (] appear and testify you will at once n prefer charges against him and for- d ( ward them to this office. In the s event any man refuses to testify at- t Iter appearing you will prefer charges r against him unless he refuses to tes- a tify on the ground that his testi- i fying will incriminate, in which case j you will report that fact to this office t ^ at once. b . ^ "Should you ho ahle to obtain any evidence tending to locate the guilty party you will at once report his ; name and the names and addresses ^ of the witnesses to this office "In any event you will make a most searching investigation and I make a full report to this office at the earliest nossible moment. The ? most scrupulous observance of every 11 provision of this order is enjoined." ^ A* the office of Gov. Anav the a name of the man who was injured has not been received. Secretary Be- a | J thoa has addressed a letter to M>. c I' [ 1 llawley asking him to furnish the I jT^ ^ name of the man who was struck by 1 1 the rock. Mr. Bethea, in behalf of u Gov. Anacl, also requested more de- rj tails, as to when and where the the throwing 4ook place ard au> other information that may throw light w I ' , on the matter. In order to indie* the guiity person in case the inv^s- tl tigation reveals who threw the rock, 11 the name of the person struck will. c: of course, be necessary. . ?. ? 1 'J\. Thug at Work. ? j Fallowing close on the murder last Friday night in 61st street, of Chicago, of Dr. William F. Michaelis, another man was fatally shot by a robber Tuesday night, near the L scene of the dentist's death, leading the police to believe that a desperate thug, operating in that part of the city, committed both crimes as well oi as several minor offenses previously 8t reported. tl 8tot Two Girls. d, At Anniston, Ala., crazed with tl whiskey, Leo Gilbert Tuesday shot tl and almost instantly killed Willie h; Graham. As Lee Graham, a young- in er sister, was supporting the dying tl girl, she too, was shot and perhaps tl fatally Injured. Gilbert was caught h< three hours later while asleep in a hi local foundry plant. ' st STRANGER COMMITS SUICIDE. ? Went OH to Himself ami Cut llin Throat Totally. A man who gave his name as John Shay, went to the mill of the Wilson Lumoer company, about four miles below Lake City on the 18th of July a*id since that time has been working for them; for the last lew days he had been suffering from chills and fever, but did not stop his work. Tuesay night supposedly about nine o'clock, he went into a small strip of woods just in the rear of the mill yard and with a razor cut his throat from ear to ear. From tne gashes it appears that the first attempt was not so successful as he desired; the second one, however, severed both the jugular vein and the windpipe. The body was found Wednesday morning about 9 o'clock and an inquest was held over t.he body. He was given a decent burial by the Wilson Lumber Company. He is described as being a man about 5 feet 10 inches high, medium build, with sandy hair, slightly bale and of Irish descent. There were no papers about him to lead to his identity. ? ? ? ItliN DOWN BY A Tit A IN. Three IJrothei-s Were Killed and Another Was Hurt. Three boys, all sons of John H. Straignht, of Cowesett, It. I., were killed and a fourth boy, a brother of the others were seriously injured when a New York bound Portland express on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad traveling: at the rate of 60 miles an hour around "a sharp turn, ran into the little group. The boys' ages ranged from 6 to 15 years. The boys were taking a short cut by the railroad and were in sight of their home when a heavy freight train came in view. They were standing on the Express track watching the passing of the freight train when they were struck, a curve preventing the engineer from seeing them in time to stop the express. Herbert Straight, who escaped with severe scratches, ran home with (>lood flowing from wounds in his rieaa anu uouy ana 11 was -ne who broke the news of the death of the ither three boys to the mother. : INDIAN COTTON A FAILURE. EJoth Staple and Yield Have Proven Disappointing. A Washington dispatch says dififi;ulty is experienced by cotton growsrs in India with both staple and deid. Many experiments have been nade with the object of improving : >oth, reports Consul E. Halderman ( )ennison, of Bombay, but thus far, 1 vith indifferent success. Egyptian tnd other exotic varieties hive been ntroduced from time to time, but he results have not been encouragng. Under garden culture the finer sta lies have responded well, but tried n the fields, they have failed to proluce the results they show in their ( lative soils. Future efforts will be levoted to the improvement of the , taple and yield of the native coton. A tree cotton from which great v esults were predicted a few years ' go, has poven disappointing accord- j ng to the consul. It did very wen n garden trials, but when the at- } empt was made to grow it upon a arge scale, failure followed. ? ? .? JUDGE lUCHAKDSON KILLED. Lble Jurist Met Death in Automobile r Accident. J Judge Julius C. Richardson-, Judge I f the 2d judicial circuit, of Ala- 1 a ma, is dead, and E. Winkler aid i Hasgow Stewart, of Greenville, Ala., 1 re injured as the result of an au- > [jmobile accident Tuesday afternoon t bout fifteen miles from iMontgomry, Ala., on the Mobile road. The arty was going to Montgomery from 'ensacola, and the chauffeur was ^ nfamiliar with the road. At a high ate of speed he drove the car to ie centre of a bridge, on which there \ a steep rise. The car sprang forard, fell, crushed one wheel, skid- xf ed and then suddenly stopped, irowing Judge Richardson over the c ood. was rushed to a Montgom- ^ ry hospital in another car. He died uesday evening a few minutes be>re the arrival of hie wife. He was c ne of the best known jurists in 1 labama. k DROVE WITH ONE HAND. n J g ightning Struck the ltasliboAi'd of j] His Muggy. J' After driving with one hand a team ^ f bronchos for forty miles on a d ;ormy night, Alfred Villa delivered n ie body of his dead brother to his S arents near Tuckson, Ariz., Thursay night. While driving through ie storm the buckboard in which ie two boys were riding was struck i: y lighning, killing the yonnger boy i istantly, and paralyzing one side of I ie other. Regaining consciousness, s ie elder b'>y headed the team for 1; ome, driving with his unaffected o and. Several other persons were ii .unned during the same storm. n t MADE BIG HAUL i ? PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN CAUGHT GAMBLING. Thirty Society Women, Alleged to Have Been Gambling, Pray Oflicor Not to Give Out Names. Consternation was created at Narragansett Pier, R. I., Monday night in the higher society circles of this fashionable summer resort because of the fear that Constable John G. Cross, who conducted the gambling raid at the Narragansett Pier Club Sunday may make public the names of the men and women prominent in society who were on the premises <it the time. Matrons, personally or through emissaries, have besought the officer all day not to give out their names. "To publish t.hese names would give pain and cause unnecessary embarrassment," he said, "but if these people appear in Court tc answer to the summons, it will then be impossible to keep their names from the public, and there will be a good deal of surprise when it is learned that prominent men and women are concerned. And they will have a lot of embarrassing questions to answer." Constable Cross said he was being followed by detectives, whom he believes to be in the employ of the society people against w.hom his action was taken, and he is almost in fear of his life. Although he succeeded in securing his release when 'arraigned in Court to answer to an assault charge, it was on a technicality only, and he is patiently await iivg the next move against him. There were upwards of thirty society'women in the crowd gathered about the romette wheels and other games of chance that he asserted were in the club house at Hie time of the action. Many of them have tried to explain, the constable says, that they had just dropped in to the club for lunch, after leaving the hop at the Casino. He declares that he saw no signs of any lunch and that the majority were gathered about the game boards when he entered. Constable Cross's arrest occurred after he had kept solitary vigilance at the Narragansett Club, a fashionable resort, standing guard for more 1 than nine hours following a midnight 1 raid, which he had conducted against the club. He was placed under arrest on a warrant chaiging him with assault on an employee of the club, and taken to police headquarters. He was immediately bailed out, but in' the meantime he says evidences J of gambling, which he alleges he was 1 guarding disappeared, except for phe articles found in his clothes. He ordered thirty men and women found 1 at the club to appear in Court Aug- * list 22. * s KILLED BY THE TRUSTS. ? Will Quit Tobacco Culture if Prices I Remain Low. The business men of Mullins and he farmers of Marion, Horry and Dillon counties are very much dis- t urbed over the fact that the prices ? af leaf tobacco are so very low. c Should the prices remain as they now c ire, it is a fact beyond a doubt that a he crop will be almost, if not en- c irely, eliminated next year. This s he farmers declare most positively ? will be i bo case, especially if cotton I emains in the teens. The Farmers' Union may takdhold c >f the matter and ask the American n Tobacco Company and tho Imperial d Tobacco Company to give better T >ricos. It is generally believed that t hose two e.ornnrulinn nnnlrnl f)ir> rl irices absolutely. Both concerns 1 lave the nicest and costliest plants v n the Stato at Muilins and it is loped by all that they can see their vay clear to pay a decent price for obacco. ] ? ? ? WHO WILL WIN TilE CUP? + Tory Valuable Prize for llest Ten p Ears of Corn. j A gold and silver trophy cup, valled at $1,000, will be given to the & armer in South Carolina who pro- ^ luces the best ten ears of corn to ie shown at the South Atlantic States ^orn Exposition, which is to be held il n Columbia from Dec. 5 to 8. The l< up wiis given by the American Ag- n iculturist, one of the leading Agri s< ultural papers of the country, l'o A :eep tiie cup one must produce the est ten ears of corn in the State rom year to year. The cup is of a ;raceful design, standing about 3 0 nches. During the past week lefers have been received by President B ludson frcm all sections of Georgia, w Jorth Carolina and Florida. This in- M icates that there will be a large si umber of exhibits sent from these w Itates. ei ? ? w Tender Hearted. tl Rathers than press his fellow cit- *r zens by process of law to pay delinuent taxes, Dallas F. Shroff, of shannon, Pa., sent a load of rabbit hot into his body and died instant- tV y in the chicken house in the rear tl f his home. The tragedy is unique fi n the history of suicides of Leban- ft on county. c< J I j * \ DEADLY WORK OF MANIAC. iliootft Down Two Struiigers Without Any Cause. An awful tragedy took place at vlurphy, N. C., last Saturday night n which two men lost their lives nd another was seriously wounded ind may die. According to the mea<re reports leceived, Lex Hal ties of Vlurphy, while under the influence >f liquor, walked into t.he Jenkins lotel and without warning, opened fire on a group of young men, who were congregated there. Benjamin Hyde, of Cadiz, Ky., was shot and almost in3tantly killed, and J. J. Simpson, of itogersville, Tenn., was shot througn the body and died on Monday about four o'clock. Hugh Johnson, of Marble, N. C., w.ho was, shot and rauiously wounded, has a chance to recover, but bis wounds are said to be dangerous. Hyde, whowas studying for the ministry, and1 J. J. Simpson, were spending their, vacations in .Murphy. Battles was I arrested and is now in jail. F VKi: Al) M inos (JlUi. o ' Nogro Janitor Arrested for Fiendish*1 Attempts. At St. Louis Monday Mrss Lulu Fell 1 hammers reported to the police that she was attacked at a pistol point last Tuesday night by James Bradfield, alias Bradford, a negro, when she went to answer what proved to he a "fake"' advertisement tor an oflice girl. Bradfield was arrested Saturday night while menacing Miss Bessie U.nger, after decoying her by means of an advertisement into the building where he was janitor. According to Miss Fell 1 ha miners, Bradfield held a pistol to her head when she recovered from a faint and made her sign a statement that she visited the office building of her own free will. The statement was found in Bradfield'? pockets and attached to it was a lock of Miss Fejilhammer's hair. KKC10IVKS SKRIOUK INJURY To Save Spectators Aviator Risked His Life. At Asbury Park, N. J., Walter Brookins, the aviator, was badJy hurt while making a landing in his aeroplane in a desperate attempt to avoid injuring a crowd of spectators. Brook ins saw .his machine was likely to strike a group of onlookers and made a quick turn. The machine turned and fell to the ground, strikng several spectators in its descent. Brook ins was picked up badly injured ind several of the spectators were lurt. The machine in its fall turn- | jled amid a crowd of watchers, mosty boys. One youngster was rushed o a hospital where it was reported hat he had sustained a fracture of he skull. Six other youths were less leriously hurt. ( AHAXPOXEl) TIIKIK PJLUXDEK. (audits Stop Stage, Kill the Driver snd Steal $1,500. For the second time within a week he New A'cmco Mogollon-Silver City >tage was neld up and robbed Sun lay, mur lei bving added to the rime. Jose Deininguez, watchful as x l result of his experiences last week, ipened tire on the bandits a-.i 1 they j .hot him dead. The robbers hastily . gathered -up twelve bars of silver t Million. iliove were no passengers n tne coach. ,rhe posse was soon basing tne fleeing bandits and the nounted . olice also took the trail, 'he passengers found 1.1 of the 12 >ars lying near the road side where he stage coach was robbed. Fviently th^ burden was too great for 1 ho robbers. The bar they kept is forth a beer $1,600. ' ? SOLI) IT CHKAV. i ( toy Swapped Diamond Hing for One ( t". ii utktl. % 1-1- ( ftruiHiii *%iuiV' jianmv i What is said to be the cheapest t rice 011 record for a diamond ring t fas turned up at Atlanta Sunday by 1 ietective Cowan of the loca police i arce. The price was one small din- 1 y white marble with nicks all over t The purchaser was a small negro 1 oy and the seller another urchin of t tie same race for whom the police s re now searching. There is no clue t > the origin V: owner of the gem or as to \ew it came into the pi?- 1 3ssion of the small party of the t rst part in the swapping transac- I on. The value of the stone is ui- 1 er $100. I # ^ m c Wire Caused Death. t Mrs. A. B. Metcalf, wife of the s aptist minister at Abbeville, Ala., c as instantly killed by lightning on 1 [onday afternoon. Mrs. Metcalf was 8 tanding in the door of an out house e hen the lightning struck the front * ad of the dwelling and followed a r ire fece a distance of 100 yards to le outhouse where she was stand ??? i Good Prices for Cotton. c At Camilla, Ga., $50,000 was paid a [onday for 600 bales of cotton from t 1? Bush plantation. This wae all a om the 1909 crop. At Leesburg a t irmer sold one bale of new crop Hton for $93. NATURE CURE FOR MANY ILLS. *( German Resort Provides Barefoot Walks, and Sun and Air Baths. Deep among the hills of a locality which shall be nameless, surrounded by shady trees, bright with innumei able wild flowers, a number of airy chalets in sunny enclosures have been erected. It is said to be the first "nature cure establishment on the Get-man lines to be opened in this country apart from sanatoria. Here one revels in air, sun and "water baths and tne simple, hygienic cures which of late years ha\e at traded so many people abroad, and walks for miles barefoot over the '.gratis, drinking in the iresh air and the sunlight. It is customary to undress and take an air bath on arrival, so one discards their dusty traveling ciothes, and tind^ that running up and down, in the long grass, was quite invigorating and not unbearably cold. , The giow that comes soon after is adequate reward t'oi any discomfort. For those who want a water bath then are let iino the ground several cement troughs, but so bracing is ?ne air that many are refreshed without recourse to water, and, indeed, it is argued that a man is not a water animal. The air bath and rub finished one dresses again, but in loose, light garments, without a starched collar and without shoes or stockings. Hare feet, it must be understood, are at all times the invariable rule. cooked so that true flavor is room, where, though ample and varied, flesh food is entirely excluded from the diet. Fruits, nuts, cereals and vegetables are provided?the last being carefully brought out and the valuable food Dinner is served in a large dining salts retained in the process. Eggs and honey, whole meal bread and home-made butter, milk and lemonade are among the other things provided. Two kinds of sun baths are prescribed. One is ehe natural sun bath, which simply consists of exposing the body to the sun in the inclosures; the other is the cure sun bath, in which the sun's rays are concentrated in a glass roofed inclosure. The latter is claimed to he equal to the Turkish bath in the usual re s-pects, and has the advantage of pure air and the life giving proper ties of the sunlight. It is customary to wrap oneself closely in a blanket after taking the sun bath to facilitate perspiration. The barefoot walking is considered most important and on the green sward?the nearest village is twc miles away?one can enjoy most de lightful rambles. Clay compresses ar eone of the fea tures of the cure. The effect of wet clay in drawing impurities from th< body is said to be great indeed. It if said to be magical in its power of relieving pain and for the treatment of sain troubles. ^ After dinner an air bath is quickly followed by bed ih one of the open . ur cnaiets, as it is es8?nuui to ue uj early in the morning, A nearly bath in the air or thr * open air water bath begins the day. Afterward one runs about in thr ^ open air and takes physical exercises till he is dry and glowing with re iction from the sparkling morning ' air. At 8 o'clock one is almost sorry ' to have to dress for breakfast, ( though the appetite is fierce. After breakfast a long barefooted valk in the sun. On returning it. is v time to take another air bath before 1 lunch. Lunch comes at 1 o'clock, and (] ifter thai^a long siesta, followed by ' ennis, croquet and walks till dinner 0 time. Any person with some ground ' and a high fence could pur. ue this simple course. v i ? lot a Luxury in England. Why are we so far behind other countries in toe use of ice? In the United States in the hot season ice is , regarded as one of the necessities ol ( life. In towns the ice merchant do cf livers a large block every day as Q regularly as the milkman brings milk L, ir the baker bread. All perishable foods are put on ice as a matter of jourse, and an American housewife ivould be bitterly ashamed if her but;er were to appear at table in such a ^ itate that it had to be helped with a ipoon. All manner of delicious dishes tnd beverages, ice creams, frappes, lundaes, are concocted with ice or b 'rozen milk as a principal ingredient, p \nd not merely In the hot weather but h hroughout the year Americans con a sume iced water in fabulous quanti r ies. w It is believed by soma that this ma> i ? one of the causes of the America! c< endency to dyspepsia. But it ha: >een observed that English people Q vho have spent a year or two in the e: Jnited States always regret the ice h ;reanis and the iced water. It ha: a >een stated, too, that the large con {\ lumption of sugar in the various elab irate iced beverages is partly respon ilble for the relatively small con Vlmi a?* nmnnnr A n\ lumptiuu ui iu|uui n?tiri ivaun ^ ilnce sugar, as some dietary expert* >elieve, discourages the taste for fer r aented drink.?Ixmdon News. ^ Ixmdon buys glacier ice from Nor vay, and much of it has to be shipper A. !0 miles down to the coast. Now i ' ^ew Yorker has secured an ice con 8 ession from the Chilian government .nd is planning to mine an ice moun aln which stands in an inlet to th< traits of Magelan, and sell the ice t< in he cities in the Argentine. v *>i SB i ?9H IRON ORE DUTY 1 Senator lillman Gixes His Reasons for Voting for{the Tai MAKES IT VERY PLAIN ' I ' That the Tax on Iron Ore l>oes Ncl Increase the Price of any Article Made Out of Iron to Consumer and That the Steel Trust Pays tfie I>uty. t In answer to a letter, from Mr. W. C. Smith, of Willison, S. C., ashing him to explain why he voted for a duty on iron ore, Senator Tillman replied last year as follows: "Your letter of Alav 2Vh. has rp~ mained unanswered simply because^ I^have been overwhelmed with work here, and have spent several d(fy9 in South Carolina, looking after matt ters at Cleinson, and lost one day as I returned by reason of a railroat) wreck. "I have never printed anything about my vote on iron ore, and will very gladly give you an explanation ?' * direct. I notice that my old encr mies are making a gre.at howl about my votes up here, 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 Carolina, is they take and. read the Associated Press dispatches, which are colored in behalf of the Republican party, and are garbled an?l ondense, an give no adequate conception of things as they really happen. "The facts in regard to, iron oro are simply these: There is/)verwhelming evidence that there are no Independent steel or iron producers. Fhe Steel Trust has abscyjtute control and enjoys a monopoly of the iron and steel business in this courtcry. The so-called independent concerns are dominated and controlled by it, though not all owi^ed hy it. Steel Trusts fixes prices and the Dthers conform. "There ure immense, well-nigh inexhaustible deposits of ir^>n ore in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,, and the Steel Trust controls inotnese deposits in those States. It Uso controls, or some of its subsilary companies do, large deposits in 3uba. It was brought out In the debate, that some of the Eastern companies have contracts .with the Uuban mine owners, to import not ess than a million tons a year of 3u-ban ore, and 1 don't think it worth vhile to let this come in free when t would make no difference whatever to the consumers of iron and steel as to the price we would pay or these articles. I believe that he American producers of iron and iteel (that is the Steel Trust mainy), can compete wirli England, Germany and France in the markets of he world, and that the whole scheme >f protection of manufactured steed <j (l hfl ???? r/vl\ Ixovxr f t h/\ A - p ? ?> I V IHVVyll u u IH' I J Ml 1/1V /Xlllff ? can people. No one but an idiot vill increase the price of anything nanufactored of iron, to the Anieri:an consumer. If we couljl reduce he tariff on manufactured, iron we on Id get cheaper prices, twit under xisting circumstances the tariff lav# >ars out tho European competitor, vho is already handicapped by havng^the ocean freights to 4>ay, and uir people are charged the cost of >rodnotion in Europe, . plus fjie reight, plus the tariff, and this is he source of Carnegie's millions, assuring you of my high (ippreciaion of your friendship in f,he past, lid hopn>; to continue to merit your onfidence, and support, I .am, sinerely yours, 13. It. Tillman. KXrj'OKlON IN FACTORY. * % >1' Corn Products Refining Company Kills Two. . . v ?1 j * Two men are dead and seven are adly hurt as the result of an exlosion on the sixth floor of the corn ouse of the Corn Products company t Granite City, 111., at five o'clock uesday afternoon. T.he sixth floor 'as completely wrecked and it was lmost half an hour before the men ouId be taken out. The dead are John Galo, Granite ity, and an unidentified man. The xplosion was caused, it is fielieved, y spontaneous combustion, due to iiiuouni 01 nasi noaung aoout le corn house. ? ? J.Hght Forest Mres, The forest eervlce has called ?n the >'ar Department for aid to fight the ) rest .tires in Montana. Gen. Leon* rd Wood, chief of staff of the army, as directed that a battalion of th? ourteeuth infantry, in maneuvers t American Lake Camp, Ore., be or* sred immediately to Missoula, Monuia, for the work. Thirteen Killed. Thirteen are dead and twelve are i<jured in the North-western Pacific ^ reck at Ignaicio, Cal., according te ^ te figuree just furnished by the die* T itcher's office.