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HE'D LED MOB ! U?erflir 81 ate Applaids the Ac;i?a tf B >?ea Pub LyscLiif L . LECrUittS PREACHERS Rather Than ('all Out Militia to Sate Culprit, Coventor Doclares to ^ Thousand of "My Friends," He Would llave Resigned His Ofllce and Heroine Lyncher-in-Cltief. In response to an invitation extended by several friends, Governor Blease made an address on Court ? - n? i.. M,l #1,, nEEavnnnn lio MOUSO Square Siuuruaj' Hivviuwuu ?v fore a thousand people. His subject waa left to the Governor and he spoke for more than one hour, dwelling on many things of interest to the people f the State. He stated that on Friday he was requested by the president of the State Farmers' Union to issue a proclamation, calling upon the farfers of the State to hold their cotton, and also to ask the Governors of the other ! ootton States to issue similar proclamations. This he refused to do, he f" explained, because he is no farmer and does not profess to knovr what is the best for the farmers to do under the circumstances. In his opinr ion, the solution is left with the farmera themselves, and he urges that ther organize and get in position to put a price on their crop. | He called attention to the fact that the lawyers, the doctors, etc., had all organized and agreed upon prices for their services and he thinks the farmers should do likewise. He places the blame of the low price of cotton upon the cotton mill mergers and prophesies that the fergers will Boon cut down the wages of mill employees, after they have finished pulling down the price of cotton. Governor Blease made a plea to the i 'ill people, and to all the people, to secure registration certificates before it is too late. The newspapers are trying, he said, to disfranchise a largo portion of white men by makii.g a registration certificate a ret <,uirement in the primary election, f He stated that he would veto any bill passed by the Legislature making tiny special requirefent, but the danger lies with the Democratic Convention next May, when he will not be in position to look out for the interests of the people. He thinks the Con vention will be asked to adopt a resolution requiring the certificates. For this reason he urges all persons, whether friends of his or not, to register and put themselaes in position to vote, no matter what the Convenetion does. Governor Blease reiterated his position with regard to lynching. He said again that when a negro puts his hands upon the person of a white g'rl, the sooner the negro is put six * feet under the ground the better. He afntoH th'jt rut th*? ntfht nf t h TTr>n?n Path lynching the solicior of this circuit called upon him to order out the militia, and that he told the solicitor he would send two telegrams. "One of these telegrams," said the Governor, "was addressed to Sheriff King here. ^ "In that telegram I told him to hoop In touch with the affairs, and to make a report to me next morning of what was going on. The sheriff received fy telegram and he understood it, for next morning I received a report from him, telling what had ^ transpired." The speaker stated that rathei than use the office of Governor in ordering out troops to defend a negro brute and require these troops to fire on white citizens, he would have re signed from the office to which he had been elected and would have caught the train to Honea Path and led the mod. The Governor then criticised the ministers of the local union, who had ^ drrfted resolutions condemning him, " and everything and everybody connected with the lynching. Ho said that ho knew some preachers in this State to have more negro blood in heir veins than did the negro who ^ was lynched, and that he did not pionose to be dictated to by any preacher or set of preachers. Tie also expressed his belief that there are not twelve men in Anderson County who would bring in a verdict of conviction against any mofber of the mob who did the work; "and if there wero twelve men who would do to and a verdict of guilty was returned, I would wire pardons to those convicted," he Raid. Governor IN ease att acked the newspapers, giving especial attention to "the Columbia State and its editor." He charged that the newspapers are not tellying why and under what circumstances he is extending executive clemency, and he asks that <he public read the accounts of his actions and leave plenty of room in ^ (their minds to hear his side. The Governor made it plain that tie intends always to stand by his friends. He stated tha't a person coming to him for any consideration must he one of his friends or fust be endorsed by one of his friends, and he oautioned the people hearing him against putting their names te petition# addressed to him if they did DEATH FROM STORM j DESTRUCTION AND WANT LEFT IN THE WAKE OF WIND. Itain, Sleet and Snow Increases Property Damage and Suffering of the Survivors. Reports received at Chicago Sun* I day night by the Associated Press indicate that cyclonic storms, coming | ' between the abnormally warf period and the following <cold wave, have csused death and widespread destruction in Southern Wisconsin. Eastern Iowa and Illinois Saturday. Fourteen dead, several dying and - i. - -I u ^ scores or injured are reporieu to o? lving in the wake of the storms and suffering because of their terror. Southern Wisconsin was hardest hit, according to early reports. Near Oxfordville, Hock County, five persons are known to be dead and it is reported the list may reach twelve. In the village of Virginia, 111., several were found seriously, perhaps, fatally, and fifty others slightly injured. In Iowa, a 50-degree drop in temperature, accompanied by a driving storm of sleet, tied up traillc many hours. Property loss mounted up rapidly in the path of the cyclonic blizzard. Nearly every public building in Virginia, 111., was demolished, farmers' hofes were wiped out in Wisconsin and the damage was increased by the heavy downpour of rain, sleet and snow. Severe weather conditions are reported all the way from the Rocky Mountain8. In Chicago the wind blew 44 miles an hour, and in Yellowstone Park and at Helena, Mont., thermometer? registered 8 degrees below zero. At least seven lives were lost and scores of persons injured, some fatally, in a tornado which swept Rock County, Wis., at dusk Saturday night. Hundreds ?f thousands of dollars damage was done. Saturday night dozens of families found themselves without a roof and because the flooded roads made travel impossible, were forced to pass the night in the open fields. A cold wave followed the storm and snow and sleet added to the misery. At Orfordville Mrs. John Clowder, 7 0 years old, was killed, as were also a father and two daughters of a family whose surname is Smith, and a Mrs. Breed. At Milton one person, as yet unidentified, is reported dead. A tii>v l^arhon ol <rhf vni t-u r\ P titra V J VI** U v* was killed when her home, juat north of Janesville, was demolished. Footvllle, Magnolia, Pewaukee and other villages also are reported to have suffered severely. MKKTS DEATH <)N KAILS. Whiskey Itottle Near Ikxly Probably Tells Tale. Sim Gilliam, a negro 25 years old, was run over and killed by an engine on the Southern Railway, near Kiblere Bridge, Newberry county, last night. The body was found by the crew of the westbound passenger train Friday morning, the head being crusheh in and the right arm cut off. An empty wiskey bottle was found near the body. It is supposed that Gilliam, having imbibed too freely, went to sleep 011 the track and thus met his death. Coroner Chappell went to the scene and held the inquest the same afternoon, the verdict being in accordance with the above facts. not want these things petitioned to occur. He said that ho know some people who had jut their names on petitions for pardons and that after the pardons had been granted they would stand around 011 the streets and complain. He said that the supervisor of Anderson County had just stated to him that he had two prisoners on the chain gang who wore burdens to the county and were not earning their bread. He promised to send paroles for these fen at once and theroby save the people the expense of keeping up two persons. Governor Blease stated that he intends coining before the people next summer to give an account of what he has done as their Governor, and ask them to reelect him to that high office; that it was true lie worked at a livery stable when a boy and was proud of the fact, all the criticisms of new:-,papers and enemies to the contrary. He had lived a clean life, lie said; had worked up to the office and gratified his ambition; his life had been spent so that he can look any ma nin the face and say he Is good as any man. His ambition now is to serve his friends, and he intends to serve them "by the help of the Alfighty." Refore the Governor left the hotel for the Court House he was sercn;.ded by the 1st Regiment Rand; a great crowd had gathered In front of the hotel and when the Governor made his appearance he was greeted with cheers. The band played before the speech was begun and afterwards. The speech was Interspersed with loud cheering and yells for "Cole" and "Our Governor," and it could be easily soen that he was addressing an audience composed of friends and followers. % SHOWS NO MERCY Nercilss Sliofhter tf Chiacse hy the Nuchas at Nrokisg A HORRIBLE PICTURE Great Portion of the City Was *? - - ?? /> ><! f nn<1 Munv Wn? iiurm^u uuu a #UVWX?f w**?va ,? w men and Children, as Well as Men, "Were Massacred by the Blood Thirsty Manchus. A cablegram from Nanking, China, under date of last Friday, said that. city was desolate. The cablegram went on to say that fully a thousand of Its inhabitants lie massacred and numerous business houses and dwell- j ings have been looted and burned. Seventy thousand persons have already fled the city and still others are joining in the exodus. Along the railway leading from the city a great lino of humanity is trudging. It was the hand of the Manchus that brought the devastation. While the Republicans were in camp three miles away, awaiting ammunition and reinforcements, the Manchus began tho work of carnage. Men, women and children were slaughtered. Neither youth nor age was taken Into account, while, the emblem of the revolution marked Its wearers for instant death. Chinamen with white shoes, a sign of mourning among them, or even a white handkerchief, were ruthlessly slain. At historic Nanking, Friday afternoon, the sun set upon a scene of fire, rapine, desolation and butchery unrecorded in modern history. Friday night 12,000 Manchu and Imperial old-style soldiers held Purple Hill, where they are entrenched, while from beneath their stronghold they are driving before them hordes of Chinese out of the city. Innocent uninese, aesuiuie, are neenift 101 iwistricken to the shelter at the rear of the reform forces. The latter, numbering between 20,000 and 30,000, are impotent to check the slaughter or avenge the 3lain, because of their lack of ammunition. Friday night the revolutionists made a demonstration, but did little shooting and there were few fatalities. The main body of the reformers remained in camp three miles distant from the city, awaiting the arrival of ammunition. Reform reinforcements are coming from every direction. They are raw and ragged recruits, but are determined. Foreigners are receiving utmost consideration. When the city gates were opened Friday morning the people thronged toward the country, driven by the Imperialists. Soon afterwards the carnage began. Since the night of November 8, when the first attack was made by the raKola tho Tartar o-onornl Vina tvlpH lo terrorize the inhabitants by wholesale executions. Those whose queue had been cut off were beheaded, but Friday when the order for a general slaughter was given the whole native city was invaded by the Manchu soldiers, who massacred men, women and children. Even the aged and babes in arms were shown no mercy. Thousands of Chinese poured from the gates. At noon it was estimated fully 70,000 persons had fled. Before nightfall 20,000 more, representing every class, had escaped. Meanwhile the 'Manchus scoured the narrow city streets. Houses of wealthy merchants were sacked. Any queueless victinv was behoaded iin^ mediately. The correspondent of the Associated Press saw several women executed and their children stabbed and trampled under foot. The order appeared to be that any one wearing white, which suggested the white badge worn by the reformers, must be killed forthwith. A white pocket handkerchief, worn by the Chinese as a sign of mourning, was the signal for the execution of the wearer. An attempt to estimate the number of innocents and combatants slain would be futile. The Chinaman found wearing foreign clothing immediately fell a victim to his advanced taste, but foreigners were not molested. Their protest against the massacres, however, were laughed at. Correspondents for the Associated Press worked uninterruptedly Within the outer walls of the city. Fires ppr onpup everywhere. A large seclion of the native city was burned. Friday night the Manchu, driven to hay and glutted with blood, watches the flaming city from the height of Purple Mountain and awaits the morrow. * ? l>lo<I in a Little Pond. Thomas Estridge, a white man, about 4 5 years old, committed suicide Friday by drowning, jumping into a pond near the Lancaster cotton mills. A party saw him when he jumped into the water and attempted to rescue him. He was in the last stages of pellagra. He leaves a blind wife. Democrat Succeeds Democrat. Kenneth McKellar, Democratic nominee, was elected to congress as representative from the Tenth Tennessee district to complete the unexpired term of the late Gen. George W. Gordon. PAID LICENSE FEES AMOUNT COLLECTED PROM THE CORPORATIONS. The Report of Comptroller General Jones Shows That They Paid Over One Hundred Thousand Dollars. The domestic and foreign corporation license fees as collected by A. W. Jones, comptroller general, dur ing tne year amounted to ?iu/,724.40. This is an increase of over $50,00 in five years, which goes to show that much new capital has been invested in South Carolina during that period. The fees were collected on an investment of $1 19,695,3 62. The license is one-half of 1 mill. The following amounts have been collected during the past several years: 1905 $63,345.20 1 906 69,298.32 1907 78,382.83 1 908 84,149.71 1 909 89,592.85 1 91 0 96,704.43 1911 107,925.40 The following is a schedule of moneys received during the year by the jcomptroller general from corporations for fees imposed in pur suance of the act of 1 904: From banking corporations?Capital paid in, $10,878,095; license feo, $5,488.42. From cotton mill corporations? Capital paid in, $55,127,900; license fee, $27,568.3 6. From building and loan corporations?Capital paid in, $3,237,201; license fee, $1,71 6. From cottonseed oil mill corporations?Capital paid in, $1,850,255; license fee, $929.1 1. From fertilizer corporations?Capital paid in, $6,632,740: license fee. $3,316.37. From miscellaneous domestic corporations-?Capital paid in, $41,969,518; license fee, $24,023.79. Total domestic corporations?Capital paid in, $119,695,769; license fee, $63,040.05. From foreign corporations?Capital paid in, $14,384,593; license fee, $7,21 0.44. From $100 statutory tax?License fee, $300. Total of all corporations?Capital * paid in, $13 4,080,362; license fee, ! $71,1 60.49. The following is the grand capitulation, showing corporation license fees collected. i Domestic corporations?Capital paid in, $1 19,695,769; fees collected, ' $63,650.05. Foreign corporations?Representing property used, $14,376,093; fees collected, $7,510.44. Public utility corporations?inter- i state receipts, $12,295,142; fees col- 1 lected, $36,763.91. ? Total receipts, $ 1 07,924.40. * POUND I)KAI> IN RIVER. Could Not Tell Whether Man Was White or Black. < A badly decomposed body was found floating down Pee-Dee river , Friday morning, opposite Society ( Hill. The negro ferryman say it as he started across the river and it be- i ing near the Marlboro side, he brought it out to the bank in this county. Coroner T. F. McRae held an inquest Friday afternoon and fho iiirv rAtnrnoH n varHl^t Jhot + >1? deceased, unknown to the jury, came to his death in a manner unknown to the jury. It was the opinion that the body ras that of a young negro ( man. It was clothed in-a suit of blue ; overalls and a pair of fairly good ] lace shoes. The hair had disappeared ] and the skin had slipped from the body. There were some indications that death had been caused by drown- i ing. ] ? ! j HIS MKMOKY COMKS HACK. ( Florida Hotel Owner Finds Himself 1 in New Orleans. t "T am Charles C*. Rybolt and I was one time manager of the Lackawanna , Springs and Hotel company, Clearwater, Fla. I discovered it after . thinking a long, long time." This . discovery appeared to ease the mind of the man who said he was Rybolt, as he lay on a bed in a lodging house in the French quarter at New Orleans Thursday, convalescing from a blow < on the forehead, which lie said he remembered he sustained while in a slponiiiP' nnr vvliinh hnai-Hod of ' -v- | v * ? ?? ?? < ? v> / V/ (IX VI V/ VI CI t? Clearwater several days ago Rybolt , says he remembered nothing until he j regained consciousness In a New Or- . leans hotel. . < ? ? 1 Trains Meet in a Fog. > At Dalton, Ca., Engineer P. V. c Rhodes of Atlanta was killed and En- 1 gineer T. L. Hamby of Smyrna, and f Fireman Harney Rridges of Rocky S Face, were injured when two freights t collided head-on near that place i Thursday morning on the Western & c Atlantic railroad. Farmers Holding Cotton. Many counties are making reports * to the State Farmers' union at Co- c lumbia on the cotton holding plan. 1 A score of farmers report that 602 t bales of cotton have been pledged in c Anderson county. i TAFT IS A LOAD RtpobKcais Fear ti Gt lata Ike Next Elecfiea With Bin as CaiUate AFRAID HE WOULD LOOSE I*resident to Re Sidetracked and Hughes to Re Made the Candidate. It is Said in Washington That Such a Movement is on Foot?Among L?oaders. A big potent silent influences within the Republican party are organizing a movement to displace President Taft as the party's presidential candidate, and to substantiate lor him no less person than Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Hughes, says Judson C. Welliver, in The Washington Times. The Hughes proposal is not a boom and it is not intended to be a boom. It is being kept just as quiet as possible. More is talked and known about it in New York than anywhere else, yet it gets no publicity in New York. In New England it is recognized as a well developed propaganda, yet tho public prints know it not. In political circles in the Middle West it is talked, but quietly and under tho rose. The time is not come to give it notoriety. That time may never come; but the people operat the scene-shifting devi,ces believe they will be able before three more months to turn the calcium suddenly on the center of the stage and reveal a new figure there. Fearing that Mr. Taft cannot be elected If nominated, and that Mr. Wilson's nomination can not be prevented, the conservative interests in politics, which in general are nonpartisan, are casting about for a means to secure control through the nomination of a different Republican. A year ago the conservative plan was to let Mr. Taft be nominated, and then bo defeated by Mr. Harmon. That plan has been spoiled by the rise of Mr. Wilson. iMr. Wilson is regarded by the old-time Republicans and the Parker sort of Democrats as no better than Mr. Rryan. so it nas uecome necessary to transfer allegiance back to the Republican party, in the hope of displacing Mr. Taft by some man whom it will be safe to support as against Mr. Wilson. Justice Hughes, all things considered, has appealed as the man most likely to win at both convention and palls. It is calculated that Mr. Taft is now so far broken down under the assaults of tke Progressive schism Bhould develop in the East, he would scon be forced out of serious consideration. And Justice Hughes is the man now being tried out in the larger considerations of strategy and tactics. Can Justice Hughes be induced to permit the use of his name? That is the big question at this moment. The people who are engineering the deaf for him don't care, they would not ask him; they would go ahead and put over their plan and feel secure in the conviction that no man is going to refuse his party's nomination for president. There is, however, a disturbing report that when Mr. Justice Hughes was named for the supreme bench, hn J<1 in cnhcfnnnn nlnriirml It I m cnl P * * UU?/ui,wu\yV 111 llltTVll not to interfere with the future of Mr. Taft. The story?and it is related on such high authority that it will not be denied with a show of confirmatory documents?that when Mr. Hughes was tendered the judicial post he now holds, it was through a letter which in substance said: "Having heard that you intend to withdraw entirely from political activities, the president would be pleased to know whether a tender of x position 011 the supreme bench," etc., etc. That, it is declared by people who issume to have learned the substantial contents of the letter, amounted :o a commitment of Mr. Hughes to <eep out of politics. Accepting the >roffer on that condition, 'Mr. Hughes , it is maintained, Is now ^stopped, in honor, from violating ho implied pledge to "withdraw enirely from political activities." SUGGS A11DUCTK1) A GIKL. Vrrostod in Darlington and Carried Hack <0 Florence. Winston L. 'Suggs, a white man ibout 2 8 years of age, was arrested 11 Darlington Tuesday, charged with ibducting a young white girl who is 1 member of a well known family of Florence. Suggs was taken up on a varrant issued by the mother of tho 'hild, and taken to Florence for a learing. A preliminary was held be'oro 'Magistrate MeClenegan, and Suggs was committed to Jail to await rial. It is stated that Suggs marked into a prominent family in Flor;npe. e ? Dotles IHease's Parole. At Columbia Mayor Gibbes took islue with the governor of South Carilina by refusing to release Bratton < Pettigrew, who was paroled, having >een convicted in the recorder's court i >n a charge of drunkenness. Pettijrew was a frequent offender; * 1 THEY REtlttED FOOD ? i ENTIRE FAMILY STARVES TO PURGE THEIR SOULS. ? i A Father and Mother, Followers ef Self Promulgated Creed, Dies Witfe Their Son. Details of a ghastly suicide cemI act involving a whole family were brought out by the Chicago poljjce following the discovery of the emaciated forms of Herman Detach, his wife Anna and their 12-year-old sea. AH had been dead several days. Followers of a religious creed, selfpromulgated, the parents had forced themselves and their son te do without food to "purge their sinful seuls of lust," until starvation wiped eut the whole family. From physicians examinations, it was evident the boy had been the first to die. On a bed was a black shroud, bearing a note reading: "This gown is for our son Herman wliea ho is dressed for his coftin." Apparently the parents had beentoo weak to put the gown 01 the starved form of the boy when death came, but weakened by hunger, had Iain on the floor near each other, waiting for the death which came several days later for the mother, and a week later, apparently for the fathfather. A long and rambling letter in German criticised churches and church people, and named a Chicago church and pastor. This pastor told the polie that until about four months ago the family attended church each Sunday, always contributing $t. They ceased coining, and when the pastor asked Letsch about it, Letsch, he said shouted, "All right, I'll get out of the church, but a new appearan^oo of God will blast you for It." The rambling letter said no minis ter was to appear at their funerals, the determination to die, is said, ran back for three years and last 'March 17 was the day first selected for their talcing off. An illness of the boy, neighbors said, must have delayed the suicide. The last of the three to die, the father died three days before discovery, physicians said. WAS NOT GAFFNKY PASTOR. Man Arrested in Atlanta Was Net the Itev. W. A. Ferrell. An Atlanta dispatch says aaether person had used his name in an swering an advertisement a few days ago and posing as a "romantic young minister looking for a wife," according to the Rev. W. A. Ferrell, a Methodist minister of Gaffney, S. C., who called on Recorder Nash Rroylea Friday to learn if possible who had imposed on him. "This scamp's prank has gat me into a mess," he told the recorder. "The stor'y has created something of a sensation in my State. My congregation has become stirred up and I have been the target for all manner of guying at the hands of my friends. I can assure you I have been having a lively time of it." The recorder did all he could to help Mr. Ferrell by giving him a letter explaining that he was not the man who was tried in police court under the name of "Rev. W. A. Ferrell." KILLED IN GIN SHAFTING. A Pickens Man Caught and Crashed to Death at Gin. Mr. Riley Porter, of the Mountain View section of Pickens county, was killed Thursday by being caught in a lino shaft at his brother's gin. Mr. Porter was working at the gin at the time of the accident. He went to put a belt on a wheel and his right arm was caught and broken off above his elbow. He was carried twice around the shaft, and received inter nal injuries. He lived about seven hours, and remained conscious until he died. WAS KILLED IN GIN. Two 1 trotli ers Met Death at Different Tomes Same Way. Mr. Wyatt II. Wiggins, a prosperous farmer and a prominent citizen of Coats, N. C., was killed instantly Wednesday, when he was caught on the line-shaft of his gin. Mr. Wiggins was working near the gin and in sonic manner his clothing was caught in the shafting and he was hurried to his death before the ma?' ? ^ A/vtf LI K/\ ofA iV 1? \\: Hf.tr V IK 1 li VlJ VUUIU LKJ S* . 4T* t Tf uvv Wiggins, a brother of the deceased, was killed in Georgia about twenty years ago in exaitly the same manner. A Fatal Pistol Duel. At Monroe, La., in a pistol duel in a drug store Chas. B. Wolfson of Monroe, solicitor for a Cincinnati life insurance company, was shot and killed by Noah Gladden, a physician of that city. A dispute about the business dealings of another representative of the insurance company resulted in ill feeling between the two men.