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\ WILSON IS FEARED HIS NOMINATION CAUSES DEPRESSION OF TAFT LESSENS HIS CHANGES ?.? The President 1m Not Baying Anything, but It to Known Ho Was Hoping for u Weaker Opponent, Hut Will ?o Ifto Beat to Win the Hiectfton. The Washington correspondent of the New York World Bays there is littlo cheering and few smiles about the White House. The chief causo of the depressed political atmosphere was the nomination of Wooarow Wilson by the Democracy for President. President Tuft, while he said nothing for publication, had hoped from the beginning that the Democrats would nominate Champ Clark, Underwood or Harmon. In fact, ho had some of his politif?fj 1 f\/l ul uora /liu/inuOA/1 t\1 ati a T lovi H UIDUUOQVU |MUUD U1 V^UUl" palgii figuring on somoono elso than Wilsop or liryan au tho candidato. President Taft dhd his moat enthusiastic supporters fear Woodrow Wilson as a candidate. This statement Was madb to tho correspondent of tho World by a close political friend and adviser of tho 'President. This friend admitted that with the selection of Gov. Wilson tho President's chances are not near so good as they would have been had the ; Democrats nominated some other man. The hupportcrs of tho President figuro that notwithstanding Col. Roosevelt's statement that lie will continue a'J the candidate of tho progressive Republicans he will not bo In, tho raco on November 5, that many of tho men he has seen and is counting on, will support Gov. Wilson and efface themselvos individually as Republicans. These views were strengthened BODiewhut by the receipt of information at tho White House that Gov. Osborn of Michigan had announced ho would support Gov. Wilson. Tho White Houso heard also that the progressive Republican League of Minnesota would support Gov. Wilson. These same supporters of tho Prosw v Ident who are worried now over tho , J outlook are of tho opinion that oven if Col. Roosevelt docs go aheq,d witli his third party movement tho only i votes lie will get will bo from tho Republican party and a few personal followers who will not be of any material help to him, while on tho oilier hand there will bo thousands of Independent and progressive Republican.1 who will support Gov. Wilson. It is fgurGd that as individuals they can do this without impairing their Republicanism and that In the event , of difc itisfaction with the Democratic par*;' they can come back into the fold w ithout causing any loud protest. Anoiher indication that the Presi- , dent's friends are much concerned 1 was indicated when it became known that some of the Taft managers al- , ready have begun gathering para- , phrases from Gov .Wilson's writings , which they will uso in the carppaign , and which they hope will alienate many o ' the foreign votes in the large cities from Gov. Wilson. , The Taft managers are going to ( dig out of Gov. Wilson's writings, , too, everything they can find regard- ] ing religion and make an effort to ? . l. ? , 1,/. Id rtnnnoo/1 t/-? Pa thfll !fn R 11 O W I 1 (l I II IJ I n \/ J / J / 17 p V> VA c W vjj 14, v &t v/ * t x/ vr holding office or taking part in Clov- , ernment affalra. ^ While this undercurrent of fear 13 ] manifesting itself such old party , workers as Representative Redonberg or Illinois, Senator Burnham of Now Hampshire, Representatives Anthony , of Kansas, Bartholdt of Missouri, and ox-Representative Bonnet of New Vork are talking Taft. They ( say there is nothing to It hut Taff , and t at many conservative D^niocrat.s will support the President. The full situation will bo convassed next Monday when the Pr33ident. will confer with tlio sub-committee of nine of the National Committee. Those committeemen will bo house ' guests of the President and will tomain hero until something definite in the nature of a plan of campaign is mapped out. ] t ( Saved by TIerdic Efforts. , Only by heroic effort wa* the life ; / of Miss Minnie Surasky, daughter of < H. Surasky, an Aiken mercnanr., sav- . ed after the young woman, mistaking j it for something else took a big dose < of carbollie acid. The error was dis- 1 covered after a dose had almost to- 1 suited fatally. Physicians fortunate- ; ly conteracted the effects of the puis- j on. The young woman is now out of j danger. j ? ^ Bank Robber is Shot. After shooting F. W. Hileman of the Rome Savings Bank in both arms Friday afternoon and escaping with < several hundred dollars In cash, ; Charles Clark of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was shot and killed in a run- ' ning fight with a posse which had 1 pursued him for several hours In outomobiles. The stolen money wos t recovered. < QUIT ROOSEVELT CAMP PRAISES WILSON ANI) SAYS HE WILL SUPPORT HIM. Michigan Executive, One of the uSe\en Little Governors," Refuses to Bolt the Republican Party. A special dlBpatch from Lansing, Mich., says Governor Chas. Osborn, In a statement announces that he Is against a bolt from the Republican party, praises Woodrow Wilson and advises Col. Roosevelt to abandon the third party movement. Osborn was one of the "Seven Little Governors" who urged Roosevelt to run again for President. "With this the Governor announces a determination to oppose those who controlled the Republican National Convention at Chicago and conveys the Idea that he believes Michigan progressives should set about securing control of the party In this Stato and nominate a progressive Stato ticket. The Governor says: "I am of the opinion that there Is no necessity for a new party. The isBiio Is clearly joined for tho peoplo. It 1b Wall Street vs. Wilson. It is even more than that. All of tho evil j forces of America will finally line up with Wall street and Mr. Toft. "Woodrow Wilson, in character, temperament, preparation and fitness, 13 above the high avorage Of American Presidents. He is a Christian, a scholar and a fearless citizen. T hope Col. Hoosevelt will not no a candidate. Republicans can vote for Wilson without leaving their party or bolting. "The real Republican party has no candidate for President thin year. There has been no nomination. The action of the political freebooters at Chicago is not binding upon the Republican party, even if for a moment they are bearing aloft its stolen name. "Col, Roosevelt cannot bo eliminated as a great political force by temporary trickery. Bryan was not eliminated by three honest defeats. Roosevelt Is a stronger factor than Bryan. His candidacy and the work of the progressive Republicans had more to do with compelling the nomination of Wilson than any one thing tho Democrats did. "Wall Street thought it owned both parties. Harvey thought for a moment that Belmont and Wall street through him, owned Wilaon. Wholesome discoveries have been made. Wilson is not owned by anybody. Ho will lead the people against overlords in orderly but earnest fashion. "Fn Michigan progressive Republicans should organize. Michigan Republicans in great majority are progressives. The Democratic machine S ? Vl r. TXTr.11 rtrrtnt i i m nil i^tiu id jwi iiii~ vvu.it ai i cuv pang, as proven by the HarmonChamp Clark vote. Tho final vote of the Democratic delegates from Michigan for Wilson was compulsory. "Michigan progressive Republicans are in good form and position to win. They should, in my opinion, have strong candidates for office all along the lino from Covornor down on the Republican ticket. A drowning man nan bo easily saved If ho has only sunk on?o; ho can bo saved if he sinks twice or thrico and ho may bo saved if ho has been at tho bottom for several hours. "The Republican party has only sunk onco and is worth saving. Tho desperadoes at Chicago throw it into [ho pond of public approval with a hag of stones tied to its neck. It is worth while to drag it out, take off its dead weight and pnnish tho assassins. "Trust tho people to trust In a right cause and trust to their love for and loyalty to tho sturdy Republican party as long as there is a vestige of decent breath In its glorious old body. Around it still shines a halo >f patriotic sorvice, showing most plainly tho wounds of such repudiated leaders as Penrose, Crane and raft, which must ho nursed and eilr3d. I am a progressive Republican and I expect to remain one." > DESERTS TEDDY FOR WILSON. ? Minnesota Progressives Will Work for If is Election. The Minnesota Progressive Republican league will back Woodrow Wil3on, Democrat, in his coming campaign for the presidential eloction, \ccording to Georgo S. Loftus, presilent of the league, in a statement Friday. According to Mr. Loftus, practically all of the members of the executive committo of tho league liave agreed to this plan. "Woodrow Wilson represents our idea of prosressivelsm," said Mr. Loftus. "There s no reason for us to join tho third party movement and neither can wo support President Taft. We will work for Mr. Wilson in tho State." ? ? Three People Were Killed. Life was crushed from the bodies pf Mrs. William White, Miss Gladys Richardson, and Langford Maddlgan, tho latter a chauffer, early Thursday on a country pike near Duluth, Mich., when a touring car in which they were riding skidded from the road, overturned, and pinned its occupants beneath. THREAT OF BLEASE V. ? TO GIVE CHARLESTON METROPOLITAN POLICE IF SHE VOTES FOR JONES Appointed 8tofchart Constable Becaa.se He Had Worked For HJm in His Elections and Would not Remove HAin^?Judge Jones is Warm- ' ly Received and Seemed to Have Crowd. "I want to put a, proposition to you, and you answer it at the August primaries. Whatever yon do, I will be governor anyway for September, October, November, and December, and twenty-one days in January. If you want government by injunction and a metropolitan police force, you voto for Ira 13. Jones, and I'll give it to you." With this audacious threat Gov. Please closed his long awaited address at tlio State campaign meeting held in Charleston Friday night, an address in which he intimated that tiie recent break between him and Jno. P. Grace, mayor ef Charleston, began when he refused to commission as notary public a negro, S. W. Dennett, whom the mayor had recommended. He said further, with reference to charges voiced by the mayor, that graft collected In Charleston had been traced to tlio office of the governor. "No gentleman would Insinuate that I had ever received any graft and any man who says I did is a malicious character thief and a cowardly liar." The governor also declared his intention of standing by Benjamin H. Stothart, chief of tho constabulary in Charleston, against whom graft charges were recently brought "before a legislative investigation committee. More than 1,200 persons, rto women being concluded, were assembled ii I-Ilberniam Hall when tho candidates for governor wore introduced. I These spoke as usual. Tho mooting I opened at G o'clock In tho afternoon and continued until all of tho candidates in the party had been heard. It was an attentative audience, but one quick to express approval or disapproval. Quick also t,o laugh as some of the speakers learned to their discomfiture, when a point put forward in all seriousness tickled, for some reason, the risibilities of tho crowd. TwjiiendouH Demonstration. Tremendous demonstrations were given In honor of both the leading candidates for governor, but ft appeared that applause for Judge Jones . came more generally from over tho house and men long acquainted with Charleston audiences said tho majority opinion among those present ' was in favor of Tories as against Blease. Undeniably, however, tho volume of sound was greater in the pro-Blease outbreaks, as it usually is. Hissing was more freely resorted tc hero than elsewhere 011 t.ho campaign, as an expression of disapproval ( and Gov. IMeaso was the target of a good deal of it. Excellent order pre- ' vailed. An extraordinary number of j policemen in uniform was distributed about the hall and these were prompt in suppressing demonstrations which ^ they deemed improper. An admonitory wave of the hand proved all \ that was necessary In every case. 1 Judge Jones devoted some portion , r\t liic timr> tr> n rnnlv til rtfitnlT In the speech delivered at Bishopville by Gov. Blease. The governor made 1 his usual declaration regarding negroes, lynching and other matters, but gave his attention principally to points of local interest irv iTliai'leston. Some of his most interesting state- < n.ents were made in response to ques- i tiens from the floor. I "What about beer?" asked a voice 1 in the audience. '< "You bring me a glass of it up here i and T can talk about it better," said 1 the governor. t "What about racing?" was another > question. i "Do as you did this year," retorted t Gov. Blease. "Act like men and do c as you please." This question and its ( answer related to the passage by the i last legislature of an act outlawing metropolitan racing in South Oaro- j Una from July 1, 1012. Gov. Blease i spoke after the meeting to an audi- c ence, including a number of women, * in the Irish Volunteers' hall. \ Evokes Further Cheers. < Judge Jones, when tho prolonged i demonstrations which greeted him 1 had subsided, evoked further choers 1 by remarking that courtesy was a ? cardinal characteristic of Charles- I tonians and Charleston gentlemen might be relied on to givo every man their treatment. Ho spoke for some minutes of his purposo in entering the race this year for governor. No man, ho said, had a higher ideal of that office. His own estimation of it hv had illustrated by his action in resigning, that ho might seek the governorship, an office regarded by many persons as equal if not superior in dignity in real power and in permanence as well as in emoluments. He saw his State facing a great ovists and his friends thought he 1 should lead the fight for the restoration of good government. He was actuated by no malice and by no mer* cenary motive but was controlled by a burning desire of rendering hla State good service. Answering the accusation that he was "old", he said li's experience and knowledge were therefore so much the greater. He rapidly outlined his work as a legislator, speaker of the house and member of the supreme court to Indicate what had been his opportunities of acquiring knowledge that would make him a good governor. Doubtless he has made some mistakes, being human, In his 22 years of public service, but the criticism of his record which Gov. Bloase ha*l been able to make were plcayunlsh. Ho was proud to know that nothing more serious could be alleged against him than what had been brought out In this campaign. Gov. Dleaso, ho said, had made much of the effect which his Blshopvllle speech would have q(n the chance c Jones for election, but wnat was referred to that speech? Judge Jones referred to his voto for Irby when Irby and Hampton were candidates tor tho United States senate and said that though ho voted for Irby becauso Irby was his life long personal and political Trlend as well as the candidate of his party, ho honored Gen. Hampton highly and said as much In his speech seconding Irhy's nomination. Ho had followed Gen. Hampton in tho reconstruction campaign, had repeatedly introduced him at meetings in I^incastor and held him in the hiirhost veneration. Gov. Blease again had tried to mako it appear that Jones in voting for Y. J. Pope for the supremo bench had insulted Judgo Wallace. This vras absurd, nioro especially as Jixlgo Popo was Jones' lifelong friend, an able jurist and a Confederate veteran, and as Gov. Please himself voted for Popo as against Wallace. As to Divorce. Judgo Jones said of the charge by Cov. Please that ho onco favored divorce for adultery that this was true. Divorce fpr that cause was granted by all civilized countries and by nearly every State in the union except South Carolina. However, the people were so disposed to maintain the peculiar status of South Carolina in this matter that he finally bowed to their will and in the constitutional convention of 1895 he helped to write into the organic law of the State bo it could not readily he changed a provision that divorce should never ho granted in South Carolina for any cause. Judge Jones ridiculed Gov. Plotfso's criticism of him for his vote In the early nineties on a hill to reduce the legal rate of interest. "Gov. Please voted just as T did," ho declared. Put it, was important to Please to put .Tones on the defensive. They must tell lies about him. They knew he Could answer them, but while bo is doing that he will ho consuming his time and so lessening his opportunity , ? ^ ^ Iifa ^ FY ' \ ^ not T} 1 /-.<> n ,J1 ictrvin^ mi: i;ii CIJDI > u ajsamm uiuaou. Taking np his votes in the nineties ov. tho "Jim Crow" ear bills, Judge Tones said that If he was such a great rascal in that matter he at least had 1 excellent company. ITo road a list of ] Charleston legislators of that period who voted as ho did on thoso bills. Among the names read were those of C. S. Bissell, R. C. Barclay, J. F. ricken, TO. W. TTughes ,and James , Simons. Gov. Blease, said the speak- ( ^r, can make much capital in some ; places with a furious tirade about , 'niggers" but ho can not do that with a Charleston audience. , The governor makes much of tho | fact that once or twice Jones voted < )n the same idea of a question with 'Big nigger Wigg from Beaufort," < who was a member of the legislature, < 'But," said Judge Jones, "I could go j Jirough tho records and point out. ] nany occasions on which Gov. Bloaso i roted with this 'nigger Wigg' hut a hat's tho use?" I The TJqiior Question. Judge Jones said the governor had iriticiged him for opposhlng an < imendment exempting Marlboro ] from a liquor law and had tried to s make it appear that tiiis voto was , i gain at local self-government. That ( imendment required a two-thirds rote, which is exactly contrary j :o tlio true theory of local self- . government. Judge Jones said he ( tvould not undertake a defense In do- , ail of his judicial record. TTe was j ontent that this be judged by what- < wor the lawyers of Charleston or ( iny other county would say about it. < I lis assertion that ho was freo, un- < dedged, unbought, and unhuyable i jrouglit forth hearty and genoral hoers. }To had understood, ho said, < hat W. H. Andrews, tho "big boas" / ind tho "logroller" of the Atlantic 1 'oast Lumber Corporation, had prom- l sod Gov. JJlease to deliver to him the i ,'oto of Gebv*, town county, but L. S. i ' Jhrlch, called by enemies "tho un- ( icrupulous Jew," was teaching Mr. ; Andrews a lesson and he would find it t iOt so easy to deliver Georgetown's fote to anybody. ( Gov. TUease had excused his pos- 1 icssion of a free railroad pass while 1 serving in the State senate by saying < 10 paid for it by services as a rail-oad attorney, but tho point was that 1 could not carry such a pass in 1 hose circumstances without violating t :he law. < "In the last State convention," said rudgo Jones, "when the Democrats of j South Carolina wanted that splendid man, Gov. Wilson of New Jersey, to < tx? nominated as a man not subser1 vient to the money power, and while the friends of Jones were doing all they could to bring about this result* Gov. Bleaso and bis friends to a man voted against Wilson, who was the standard boarer of the Democrats of the State." The speaher was discussing the governor s revocation of all commissions of notaries public when a voice la the floor interjected the remark: "Well, he got rid of niggers." "Yes," said Judge Jonej, "there Is a nigger In the woodpile tn nearly everything that Gov. Blease does. Why could he not have dismissed the negroes, and let the white notaries alone?" Judgo Jones ridiculed the constant reference by the governor to "newspaper lies." "Oh," ho said, "how these crooks ahfl criminals do hate newspapers. What honest man fears the press?" Judgo Jones concluded by saying he wanted tho support of tho people of Charleston. Ho believed he would have their help, their good wtll and their friendship. TIo held out his hand to every man who loved his State, whether he wero high or low, and who was willing to join him In his fight for good government. He stood, he said, for county local option or tho liquor question with due enforcement of tho law. "Help me," ho said, "to a decent administration of tho law which ij will have sworn to enforce, and you will got from mo the highest measure of local self-government." Paid for Favor. Gov. Please started out by making a statement regarding the graft charges against hts chief constable in Charleston, Ben TT. Stothart. Tho governor said ho had sought, tho votes of Chnrlestonians for a Sfato offico in tho campaign, of 1 000, 1 002, 1 000, 10OS, and 1010, and in all thoso ho owed much of what support, ho got \~\ Charleston to the Influence and labors of ono man?Stothart. So in 1010 when he was elected governor ho bestowed on Stothart tho host position It was In bis power to glvo him. lie had stood by Stothart because Stothart had stood by him. Ho was standing by him yet and proposed to continue In that course. Those "Who did not like It couldn't help It. He was governor of South Carolina and Intended to be govornor the rest of this yoar, and the next two years. Gov. HJease said that as a legislator he had opposed an effort In which Judge .Tones joined to put Charleston Into "a black holt." Ho had made a speech for tho Citadel at tho age of 22, when it was feared Hen Tillman would ruin tho "dudo factory". This speech, he said, saved tho Institution at Its most perilous moment, according to members of tho board of visitors. He had also allowed an appropriation to enlargo the Citadel, though he had vetoed appropriations for other State colleges. lie credited Representative F M. Bryan aild A. W. Todd of Charleston with doing good work for tho Citadel in tills matter. Judge Jones, tho governor declared, had forgotten to toll ef some votes by him?which were impoitant lo Charleston, lie said ho believed In local self-government, yet ho had voted to impose 011 Charleston the met ropolitau polico system; ho had opposed an amendment offered by Mr. Fatten of Richland 'when they wanted to search private homes, "strike out the injunction feature and guarantee trial by jury in the criminal courts. "Since ho had been on the supremo court," said the governor, "Injunction after injunction had been put on you. Is that local self-government? Rut 1 have given Charleston liberty Df thought and freedom of action. Mnco I have been governor bow many injunctions have been issued, how many women's trunks have been broken open?" "What about high license?" somebody shouted. Favors High License. "That's what you ought to have," said Cov. Dleaso. lie explained that he had told the legislature in a message that tho dlsponsary law ought not to ho forced on Charleston fo. conditions hero were peculiar. Judge loncs, ho said, had been reading a telegram from Judge Memminger which ho had hoped would he read at this meeting. It said Judge Memminger was sick at the time of tho [lorry Court incident. "I hope," said ho governor, "that Judge Memraingread that telegram before ho sign? ? it. IIo signed one. paper that ho lid not read and it kept him off the supreme court bench." The governor said that $t tho time ^f tho Horry court incident Judge Memminger in person talked with h!m over the telenhono and said ho tad 110 court, to hold that week or the text, hut said not a word about bong sick. It was, however, mighty )asy for him to get a sick certificate li d fall back on the pet excuse of :ho trickster lawyer. "Judge Jones," exclaimed the governor, "says ho never represented a railroad. What then was ho doing with a freo pass when he was speaker of tho house?" The familiar chargo by Gov. Hloaso was made that Judge Jones by his rotes on the Jim Crow car bills had shown himself to bo in favor of social equality between whites and blacks. "What about tho races?" inquired \ volco. "Why I used to rido in horse races when I was a boy and if I hadn't been governor I would have come down FATAL TRAIN CRASH f ENGINEER IS KILIiED AND MANY FEOPJLE ARE HURT. ? 1'HMmgcr Train Collides Head on With Freight Train in Railrb*d Tartl at Greensboro. At Greensboro, N. 0., Engineer Thomas C. Beach, of Alexandria, Va., was fatally injured, dying later In a hospital, and more than 60 pasengere moro or less seriously hurt when the Southern railway limited train No. 36, Atlanta to Washington, collided head-on with a freight engine in the yards of Greensboro, at 3:40 o'cloek Saturday afternoon. Tbo wrecked train carried between 350 and 400 passengers and is said to have been going at a great speed when Engineer Beach applied the emergency brakes, 150 yards before tho crash. Beach and his fireman both jumped from tho engine. The fireman was not seriously injured. Among the injured were J. Ik Long of Atlanta and JO. D. Brooks of Greenville, S. C. E. T. Llpplncott, the Philadelphia publisher, was a pasenger. The wreck was caused by tho engine of train No. 3G taking an open, switch, throwing it from the north bound track onto tlio southbound. The freight e'ngino was leas than 200 yards from the open switch, and the impact was terrific. The operator declares tHat Engineer Beach disregarded a danger signal. Officials state that the accident was due to an open switch, the responsibility for which has not been determined. Engineer Beach had been in the sorvice 32 years, and this was his first wreck. Ho was the oldest engineer of this division in point of service and among tho veterans of the system. } hero and helped you run Some. I did come down and look at your race track and I found it thp best managed track I ever saw." "But how about tho races next year?" "Why, do liko you did last year. Bo men enough to do as you please." The draco Matter. Gov. Bleaso took up then tho Grace matter. When elected governor, ho said, ho came to Charleston and of ierea a position ou ins sum to nis friend, Ij. C. A. Rossler of that city. Mr. Roessler said: "No, I don't want tho position." But the governor insisted ho must tnke it. Mr. Roessler urged him to give tho place to John P. Grace. The governor said: "I can't do it, because Brace has never been my friend." Mr. Roessler said Mr. Grace hail supported tho governor in his second raco. Mr. Roessler said he Himself had a particular reason for asking that Mr. Grace he appointed. Later IMr. Grace and Mr. Roessler had a conversation with tho governor at the St. John hotel, tho upshot of which was that Mr. Grace was made a lieutenant colonel on the governor's staff. Afterwards, Mr. Grace showed tho govern0! several social attentions, Introducing him at banquets and other affairs, and this, tho governor said, ho appreciated. In February, 1911, however, tho governor received a letter from Mr. Grace urging him to make an exception on his request and commission a negro, S. W. Bennett, as notary public. This was after tho general dismissal of notaries public. The governor replied that it was his policy not to appoint negroes, fljful ho expected to stand by his poll !y. He said that perhaps tho break between Mr. Grace and himself began with this exchange of letters. Gov. rUease said "this guttersnipo commission that havo been crawling on their bellies in tho filth," were going over to Graco "to take the testimony of a man who has attempted t.? buy South Carolina oilicials, for whom a reward of $300 is outstanding and who is afraid to come into this State. If T. 13. Folder is brought before an honest Jury in any county in Souih Carolina and T dont furnish the evidence to convict him of comspiring to bribe State ofhcials, I will resign as governor." ? ? NOKT11 WEST WIT,SON. 4 Senator TjjiFollotte's brother Says He Will Carry It. "Tho World is to be highly commended for its winning tight for Woodrow Wilson," said William T. LaFollette, brother of Senator T,aFolU tte and a leading Wilson supporter o' Wisconsin. "There is no doubt that tho aggressive and Intelligent work of The World was a large factor in tho termination of the contest in favor of Wilson. I firmly believe that tho nomination of Wilton will ploaso practically all of tho Democrats in this part of tho country and that ho will carry Wisconsin, Minno 8ota, tho Dakotas and othor States la the Northwest and bo elected." ? ? Iloo Swarm Kills Man. 1 Prury Bi Badgeley, a wealthy farmor of Pleasant Hill, W. Va., was attacked by a swarm of bees, which fettled in his hair and beard, and stung him to death before medical aid could reach him. ? ' *1 J