Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

GIRLS MUliOERED; | FEATURE BLAST ONE ASSAULTED INJURES SIX MINERS | Three Young Girls Killed at Walpole Mine, Near Iron llieir Home in Arkansas. Mountain, Mich., the Place. CNE BODY HORRIBLY MUTILATED MARTIN IS SERIOUSLY INJURED. Father Had Gone to a Circus and on Blast Occurred Late Wednesday Af- AmerW-n's fttnmu* (Ht-nutie*. Look, with horror on Skin Eruptions, Blotches, Soros, Pimples. They don’t have t hem, nor will any one, who uses Bucklen’s Arnica Halve. It glorifies the face. Eczema or Halt. Rheum vanish before it. It cures sore lips, chapped hands, chilblains. Infallible for Piles. Only 2oc at Oherokee Drug store. Don’t worry if j our associates pu^h you to the wall. You wiil li' d the Wail handy as a hr u; * when you get ready to pui-ti back. Spent More Tlu»M *i 1,000. W \\ . R.k»r, < l Piuinvew, Xeb.. writs: M> wfe suffered from lung trout le for fifteen years. SI e tried « I omhcr of doctors arid spent over £1.000 Without relief. Soe »j ■ came v.-rv low and lost nil hope A friend ivcomtm n<i< d Foley’s Honey and I s* - und, thinks to this gieut remedy,'t sav-d her life She en joys beTMT P.alth than she has known in tm years" Refuse sub* 81it uies (’h- r <kee Drug (To, De righteous man h«£ d hard time iu d'S vori’.en s"m« timet he I>el ez lonetioiue iz a gray cwl iu tie day time. Forty Years’ Turture. To he relieved from a torturing dis ease after 40 years’ tenure might well cause tne gratitude of anyone. That is what, De Wirt’s Witch Hazel Httiva ih fur . Haney Geneva, (). He sa.vs- “DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salv- cured me of piles after I had suffered forty years.” (Tares cuts, burns, wounds, skin diseases. Be ware of count, rfeits. Cherokee Dru^ •(To. Many a mmi’s haste to get ahead in the world reeuica only in his get ting a headstone before it is due. llMUirer u, Fall ColUe. Fall colds are liable to hang on all winter leaving the seeds of pneumo nia, bronchitis or consumption. Fo ley’s Honey and Tar cures quickly and prevents serious results. It is old and reliable, tried and tested, safe and sure, contains no opiates and will not constipate. Cherokee Drug Co. The world has little use for a man who does his best only when engaged in doing others. A Dozen TinieH a Mr. Owen Dunn, of Benton Ferry, W. V*., writes: “I have hud kidney and bladder trouble for years, and it became so had that I was obliged to get up at least a dozen times a night. 1 never received any permanent bene fit from any medicine until I took Foley’s Kidney Cure. After using two bottles, I am cured.” Cherokee Drug Co. Ef dey wuz ter take hell out er de Bible de politicians er de country would soon raise it. A Communication. Me. Editok—Allow me to speak a few words in favor of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. I suilcreu for three years with the bronchitis and coulu not sleep at night. I tried several doctors and various patent medicines, buc could get nothing to give me any relief until my wife got a bottle of this valuable medicine, which has completely relieved me. — VV. S. Bjuockman, Bagnell, Mo. This rem edy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Laugh and the world laughs with you—unless you laugh at your own jokes. Never Aftk Advice. When you have u cough or cold don’t atk what is good for it and get some medicine with little or no merit and perhaps dangtrous. Ask fur Foley’s Honey and Tar. the greatest throat and lung remedy, it cures coughs and colds quickly. Cherokee Drug Co. / There is considerable difference be tween having a big head and having the big bead. Mtops the Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. Xo cure, no pay. Price 25 cents. Many people not only cuts up dey shines in dis life, but hopes ter ra>se sand at de resurrection. ‘‘Watch The Kidney*.’ “When they are affected, life is in danger,” bays Dr. Abernetbv, the great English physician. Foley’s Kidney Cure makes sound kidneys. Cherokee Drug Co. Most aristocrats are victims of in verted heredity. The reason why Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur should be in every house, it is indorsed and prescribed by the leading physicians, for such diseases as Eczema, P,mples, Ringworm, Salt Rheum, Dandruff, Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Outs, Burns, Open Sores, and all blood and skin troubles. No home should be without it. For sale by the Cherokee Drug Co. Beauty may be only skin deep, but ugliness is bone and marrow deep. Dickey’s Dyspepsia Cure cures in digestion, sour stomach, heartburn, costiveness, gnawing and burning pains at pit of stomach, sick head ache. Try it. One Lottie will give you relief. H. B. Crawley & Co. Hermits are not the only torpid liver*. Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds and prevents pneu monia. Take no substitutes. Cher okee Drug Co. His Return Home Discovered the 1 Three Dead Bodies of His Daugh- i ters. Wynne, Ark., Oct. 30.—Mary, Sophie and May Gibson, aged 17, 12 and 10 years, respectively, daughters of Thom as Gibson, a prosperous negro farm er, were killed and one of them was the victim of a criminal assault at their home near here Wednesday. The murders occurred while Gib son, the father, was away from home ; attending a circus, leaving the three | girls alone in the house. Upon his return he found the bodies of two of the girls with their heads crushed, while the body of the third lay in the yard terribly mutilated. The girl ha 1 been subjected to the most atrocious indignities. Posses, composed of blacks and whites were formed and David Cross, an old negro, was arrestel. Cross denied all knowledge of the crime, but finally confessed that he had witnessed the killing and said that a negro named Johnson was the guil ty man. AUGUSTA GETS NEXT REUNION. Meeting at Columbus Was Considered Most Successful Yet Held. Columbus, Ga., Oct. 30.—The Gem- gia confederate veterans adjourned Wednesday to meet next year in Au gusta after what is considered ihe most successful state reunion yet held. Following a business session Wed nesday morning came the annual pa rade at noon, which was one of the most Imposing and inspiring sights ever seen in Columbus. M. P. Usina, oi Savannah, was unanimously re elected division secretary. Resolutions were adopted indorsing and commending in high terms the management of the Soldiers’ home in Atlanta, the work of the trustees be ing praised. The legislature was me morialized to pass a bill to perfect the roster of Georgia companies who went out during the war. Five hundred dollars was raised for the Jefferson Davis monument fund. This monument, which will be erect ed in Richmond, will be dedicated in 1904. Several addresses were made on the subject and a great deal of en thusiasm was manifested. it was the unanimous wish of the reunion that the memory of Jefferson Davis should he appropriately honored and that at an early date. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Prince Von Piess has been delegated b> Emperor William to represent him at the opening of the new building of the New York chamber of commerce. After brooding for lu years over the | accidental shooting of a friend, Henrv , Sweet, a farmer living in Bloomfield, Ills., cast of Glenwood, bas killed him self with the same shotgun that had ended the friend’s life. The municipality of Berlin has de cided to devote the new $50,000,000 loan entirely to profit-making enter prises, including $15,000,000 for the erection of gas works and for the con struction of a wholesale meat market. Members of the church club of New York have become affiliated with th 1 actors’ church alliance of America at a joint meeting in this city. Hereto fore the membership for the alliance has included only theatrical folk and clergymen. The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Daily *.iail cables that there is an epidemic of measles on the Kamchat ka peninsula. Ten thousand persons have died of the disease and the popu lation of some of the country villages has been nearly wiped out. Charles M. Schwab, president of the United States Steel corporation, has left the Villaeole, in an automobile to meet the yacht Margurita at Genoa, says a Herald dispatch from Cernob- bio, Italy. He has chartered the yacht and will cruise for some time. At a special meeting of the govern ing committee of the New York Stock Exchange it has been decided to limit to the regular list $26,651,000 6 per cent cumulative preferred stock and $32,858,600 common stock of the Unit ed States Realty and Construction com- pany. The arbitration board in session at Chicago, hearing controversy between the rubber workers and Morgan & Wright, last night made a decision {-ranting the strikers all their demands. The firm will re-instate all the dis charged men, and union men and wo men and the old employes will be giv en the preference and be the last < be paid off In cases where It Is nece. sary to cut down the working force. Seven hundred employes are affected. Philip Lamble, alias Bailey, was ar rested last night In Chicago on suspi cion of having stolen unset diamonds to the value of $8,000 from the firm of Wachter & Weinman, In the Masonic Temple last Wednesday. Members of the diamond firm recognized a photo graph of Lambele as that of a man who had been seen on the sixth floor of the Temple building on the after noon of the roherry. Several detec tives were detailed on the case, and soon learned that Lambele was in Chi cago, after being absent several months in the east. ternoon and Was the Result of a Charge Going Off In the Mine Pre maturely. Iron Mountain, Mich., Oct 30.—Six miners were seriously injured by a blast in the Walpole mine late yes terday. They are: Captain Ben Martin, seriously. Charles Anderson William Beard, Edward Williams, Charles Sordcn and one unknown person. The blast was premature. FAIR OPENS AT VALDOSTA. Greatest Fair Georgia Has Held In Several Years. Valdosta, Ga., Oct. 30.—If a highly auspicious opening may he taken as augury for the future, the Georgia state fair of 1902 is sure to prove In all re spects a brilliant success. That it would he an artistic success there has at no time been a question, for It is held in Valdosta. With anything like the same attendance which greeted the opening, it is certain to be equal ly successful from a financial stand- i point. Since 8 o’clock Wednesday morning the sound of a hammer has not been heard in the grounds. There is none of the bustle and confusion that so often renders a fair’s opening a thing to he shunned. The valdosta state fair grounds lie about a mile and a half north from the center of the town, the approach be ing through the principal residence streets, lined, as It is. with those beau tiful homes for which it is noted. Tlio park is equipped with a number of large buildings and boasts of perhaps the best half-mile track In the south- em states. Horsemen claim that 't Is the best, and in proof of their claim they cite the fact that on this track the best harness record south of the Ohio river was made Train Kills Julian Burt. Atlanta, Oct. 30.—Julian Burt, a white man 21 years of age, was re over and killed by a Seaboard Air Lin switch engine last night at 11 o’clock no,ar the Bellwood crossing. He and George Andrews were walking dovvr th© track when an outgoing switch en gine ran into both of them. Andrews , was injured about the head and Burt I was killed outright. Andrews was taken to the hospital. The coroner was notified and will investigate the affair this morning. A trolley car conductor stated to the police that carried the two men out Marietta street and put them off at the Beil wood crossing. He said they wer drinking and the man who was kille-i was almost drunk. He left a bottle of whisky on the car when he got off. Washington's Dispensary Fight. Washington. Ga., Oct. 30.—-Prepara tions are being made to open the dis pensary here next Saturday, and an Interesting contest may follow. Those who oppose the dispensary say that the present members of the legislature were elected on an anti-dispensary platform with the assurance that • attempt would be made to open they wore elected, and that the la a would he repealed at once on the opening of the legislature. The dis pensary advocates claim that they are acting according to law and will open for business on the date mentined and remain open until the law Is re pealed. John Way Charged with Abduction. Greensboro, N. C., Oct. 30.—John Way, a young white man, was arrest ed here Wednesday on a peace war rant. Alter he was taken it develop ed that a charge of abduction woulJ be brought against him. He lured from her home the young daughter of Leonard P. Stout, of Proximity, and claims to have married her in an ad Joining county. Lawyers retained I- the girl’s father ascertained that no license was issued in the county men tioned, and they claim that Way went through with a sham marriage form in order to make the young girl think that he was dealing honorably by her. Took His Brother’s Llfs. Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 30.—‘T killed my brother last night and want to sur render,” said Peter Lingold, a farmer residing near Scottsboro, this county. Wednesday, as he walked Into tho sheriff’s office. The two brothers were here Wednesday and witnessed the circus performance, after which they drank a great deal and started for home, and it was on the way that J. P. I An gold was shot to death by his brother. Peter Lingold refused to make any statement further than that they had quarreled and began shoot ing at each other, when his shot took effect, killing his brother instantly. Cowboys Enjoy Roping Contest San Antonio, Tex., 0«t. 30.—The ’Frisco system cowboys beat Texas in the challenge steer roping contest to day, $10,000 first prize; three steers t« a man. Clay MeCon-agill came out nrst and his total time was 2:08 3-5.. His lowest time on one steer was iS* seconds. Jim Hopkins was secon'l in 54% seconds, and J. E. Carroll third, in 52 3-5 seconds. ARBITRATION BOARD ORGAN WORUODAY; General Inspection of Mines and Miners’ Homes Is First. TWEUTY-TWO MILES TO COVER. The F.ntire Party, Consisting of Four General Mining Superintendents and a Number of Newspaper Men Left Today for Forrest City. Scranton. Pa., Oct. 30.—The real work of the arbitration commission ap. pointed by President Roosevelt to ad just the differences existing between the coal operators and their employes began today. Briefly stated, the day’s work will consist of a general inspec tion of the inside and outside work ings of coal mines and the homes and surroundings of the workers. All ol the region lying north of here to For rest City, a stretch of 22 miles, will be gone over. This will take up the entire day. Tomorrow and Satur day, the mining region from here south to Wilkesbarre will be looked over. The commission is making this tour so that the members may gain a better idea of mining in order ta more Intelligently understand the testi mony that will be given by experts on the sides of the controversy. No testimony will be taken during the in spection trips. The commission par ty consists of fourteen persons. The entire party, which includes four generaJ mining superintendents and a number of newspaper corre spondents, left the Delaware and Hud. son railroad station for Forest City at 10 o’clock in a special train of Pull man cars, the expense of which is be ing borne by the commissioners. The start was delayed about an hour owing to the very late arrival of the commis sioners in this city last night. Morgan Has Obstacles to Overcome. New York, Oct. 30.—Many technical points have been raised through th.e batth-s of th. Yerkes and Morgan syn dicates to secure control of traction matteis in this city, says a London dispatch to The Tribune. The two American syndicates by attempts to outmaneuver each other have excited a feeling of distrust against foreign Intervention and investment in Metro politan transit projects. There are now three electric tubes in operation in the metropolis, and three are under construction, but little progress has been made during the last two years toward a solution of the problem of electric transit. Mr. Yerkes now has control of the six undertakings. It is evident, declares the correspondent, that the American syndicates, through their efforts to jockey each other, are creating a strong prejudice against themselves. Rockefeller’s Thank Offering. New York, Oct. 30.—Although only six days have elapsed since John D. Rockefeller offered to contribute $500,- 000 to the Teachers’ college, contin gent on tlte raising of $ 540,000 by the college trustees, the efforts of the lat ter have so far succeeded that the suc cess of their canvassing is practically assured. The authorities of the col lege have received pledges for nearly all of the $440,000 which the college must obtain. Mr. Rockefeller’s con tribution to the college was made “as a thank offering to Almighty God for the preservation of his family and household on the occasion of the de struction by fire of his country home at Poeaiitico Hills, N. Y., on the night of Sept. 17, 1902.” Burglars’ Big Haul. New York, Oct. 30.—Burglars have ■ucceded in entering the apartments in a hotel of this city, occupied by J. Lewman and his brother of Louisville, and Judge Van Epps, who was for many years trial Judge in the supreme court in Atlanta. A valuable split- second watch owned by the Lewmans, who own a string of race horses, and money, said to amount to several thousand dollars was secured. It is supposed the burglars chloroformed the Lewmans. Judge Van Epps, who occupied a connecting room, was not aroused, and the property was not missed until several hours later. The burglars are supposed to have climbed the fire escape to effect an entrance. Mrs. Fannie McKane Dead. New York. Oct. 30.—Mrs. Fannie McKane. widow of the former politi cal leader in the old town of Graves end, John Y. McKane, Is dead at her home on tyng Island. She leaves an estate valued at $300,000' * Nightly, during the time her husband was in prison on account of the election frauds, she kept a lamp burning brightly near a window in the parlor of her home in the hope that he would be liberated on a pardon. Gets Life Sentence. Roanoke, Va., Oct. 30.—Sara Hodges, a negro, charged with the murder of William Ruble, a white mine guard, on Crane© creek, West Virginia, during the coal miners’ strike last summer, was found guilty of murder In the first degree In the criminal court at Blue- flehl, with a recommendation that the sentence be life imprisonment in the penitentiary. TO THE VOTERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA Regarding a Proposed Amend ment to Constitution. IMPORTANT STATEMENT. Vot«*rH of tti»- Siato an- Aoki-il to AM in De- NtroyiiiK Corporals Kxtsteiico of Certain ToiviihIiIph whii-h are I Mt^ullv Taxed with an FnorniouK Kailroad Debt. io The Voteks ok South Cakolixa : The townships of Dunklin and Oak Lawn, in the county of Greenville; Cokesbury.Xinety-Six and Cooper, in the county ol Greenwood; Sullivan, in the county of Laurens, and Huiett anci Pine Grove, in tbe county of Sa luda, hereby cull to your attention the proposed amendment to Article VII Section 11 of constitution of lb95, which seeks to destroy the cor porate existence of t n*- said town ships, and respeciiully u-k that you vote iu fav.jr of the said proposed constitutional amendment, for the reason that it is the only hope to re lievo the tax payers of the said town ships from the payment of an enor mous debt for bonds issued in aid of u railroad which was never built, and • or which they have received abso lutely no consideration. The said bonds were illegally issued iu the be ginning. as the citizens of said town ships respectfully allege and will endeavor to show, and the said in- d-bteduess has been declared null and void by the supreme court of .South Carolina, whose decision should be accepted as final and con clusive by all loyal citizens of the State, the decision of auy other court to the contrary notwithstanding. So then, the taxpayers of these town- snips claim : (1) That there is no moral consid eration for the said indebtedness, inasmuch as the conditions pre scribed by the act upon compliance of which alone the bonds should be issued, were never complied with acd the people of these townships have received absolutely no consideration for the said enormous flebt, the prin cipal alone of which amounts in the neighborhood of one hundred thous and do! ara, and which has been drawing * r r t* 1 t ;r v-a p r ’t:,. »r som-! n „ •< yt.- (2) Aiitu fciic !*aiu uebt does not uonstBute a legal indebtedness against the said townships if we accept as final the decision of the supreme court of S .uth Carolina, which it is our duty to do. That the decision of the fed* ral courts upon quest ions of tnis kind is not authority binding upon the State courts of the citizens of a State, has been frequently decided. In the Congaree Construction Com pany vs. Columbia township, reported in DJ S. C., 5115. At page 5119 the court uses this language : ‘‘Again, it is urg'd that, inasmuch as the supreme court of the United -Slates, in the case of Folsom vs, Xinety-Six township. 159 U. S., fill, has been called upon to pass upon the same questions as were con- ■ddered and decided by this court in Floyd vs. Perrin, and has taken a d lie rent view from that adopted by this court as to the constitutionality of the statutes there involved, (our own court in that case having held fhe bonds invalid) this court should now, with a view to securing unifor mity of judicial decision, abandon its previous well considered opinion and adopt the view taken by the supreme court of the United States. While this court fully recognizes the superior authority and biuditg force of all decisions of that distinguished tribunal in all cases involving the construction of the constitution and laws of the United States and is al ways ready to cheerfully follow and acquiesce in such decisions, yet we do not recognize the superior author ity of that tribunal, or the binding force of its decisions, involving only the construction or validity of our own State constitution and laws. Upon such questions it is our sworn duty to pass, untrammeled by the dicta of any foreign tribunal, whether state or federal, no matter how high its rank may be, and to decide such questions according to our best judg ment.” The facts are briefly these: In 1885 the legislature passed an act amending an act to incorporate the Greenville and Port Royal Railroad Company in certain important par ticulars, and among this incorpora ting certain townships along the line of the said proposed railway, and authorized these townships to sub scribe to its capital stock upon the terms and conditions therein ex pressed. These conditions were never complied with, and the records in the office of the county commissioners for the various counties will so show. The said bonds would, therefore, be invalid in the hands of the original parties to whom they were issued. Xotwithstanding the failure to. com ply with the conditions precedent required by the act, bonds on behalf of these several townships were is sued in an amount varying from ten to twenty thousand dollars to each township. A company was organized for the pretended purpose of con structing the said road. This com pany pretended to be grading the road, and thereby secured from the county commissioners the issue of the said bonds. Shortly thereafter the company failed and left the grade in an incomplete conditions, and the people have no prospect whatever of ever getting the said road. An action was brought in the State courts for the purpose of testing the validity of these bonds, and the State court decided the act unconstitu tional and the bonds invalid (See Floyd vs. Perrin, 80 8 O., page 1.) Thereafter certain parties, who claimed to be non-residents and sub sequent purchasers for vilue and without notice, (the bonds being in valid in the hands of the original holders, for the reasons above speci- fi d) brought their action in the United States court to test the vali dity of the said bonds, and the United States court refused to lollow the decision of the State court in Floyd vs. Perrin and decided in favor of the said bond holders. That is to say, that the bonds were good in the hands of the non-residents who might have purchased the same for value and without notice of those facts above recited and which would go to impeach the validity of the said bonds. (This too in face of the fact th it the r.'co’vis in the office of the county commissoners for the various counties which records are public records and notice to the world dis close ali of the facta which would go to impeach the validity of the said bonds). Since then the matter has been in litigation, until finally judg ments have been obtained against several of these townships upon coupons representing a part only of the accrued interest, and mandates have been issued by the United States court authorizing a levy and collec tion of a tax to meet the judgments already obtained, and suits are still pending against some of the town ships; and inasmuch as the first in- st.timent of the principal of the said bonds falls due this year other suits will purely follow, since it appears th it these bonds, or at least a large portion of them (the exact amount we do not know) have found their way into the hands of non-residents w’r o can sue in the United States court ind thus evade the decisions of the State court. The debt against Dunklin and Oak Lawn townships, iu Greenville county, alone amounts in principal and ac crued interest to something like thirty thousand dollars each. The principal of bonds on behalf of Cokes- bury, Ninety-Six and Cooper town ships amounts to $18 800. The other 1 townships are similarly affected. You can imagine what an enormous tax will be required to pay this debt, and the number of homes that will have to be sold in order to meet this unjust tax, if some means 'ol escape cannot be devised. It Pangs over ina property of rhe s-Bd townships as a bjack cloud, striking terror to the hearts of our citizenship, shutting out all rays of hope for the future, Unless relief is had this debt will practically destroy the value of our property, since no one would care to purchase property, or move into a township with such an enormous debt hanging over it. We are advised that the supreme court of the United States itself has decided that in cases like this, where the characters of the municipal corporations are repealed, and their corporate agents removed, there would he no longer in existence anyone upon whom the federal courts could lay their hands in order to en force the collection of the tax pro vided for by the act, and that the said court is limited in its jurisdic tion to enforcing the machinery pro vided for by the act authorizing the levy of the tax ; that it cannot itself levy the tax, nor can it place the said townships in the hands of a re ceiver, and, that in such cases the creditors are without remedy except to apply to the legislature for relief. If this constitutional amendment, therefore, is voted, the townships having no longer any legal existence would have no corporate agent upon whom the federal courts could lay their hands for the purpose of com pelling the levy of the tax and we would thereby be relieved from the payment of this unjust, illegal and iniquitous tax which we are called upon to pay. and for which there is no consideration either legal or moral. We, therefore, ask our fellow - citi zens to stand by the deoision of the State court. If a citizen of South Carolina held any of these bonds he could not recover. Under the deci sion of the federal courts a non-resi dent purchaser for valuable consider ation and without notice can recover, thereby unjustly discriminating against the citizens of our own State if the said debt is a just one and should be paid. We most earnestly ask our fellow citizens to be sure to vote the printed tickets, which will be furnished the managers at the next general elec tion, ‘‘Constitutional Amendment of Section 11 of Article VII of the Con stitution, relating to Counties and County Governments, Yes;” and also use their influence at the polls to see that others vote the same way “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” under similar circum stances. is all that we ask. Dunklin—C. D. Smith, L. T. H. Daniel and Jesse L French. Oak Lawn—Dr. V D. nopkins, W. A. M. Kelvry and Geo. W. Sullivan. Sullivan—Wm. D. Sullivan, R. VV. Nichols and John W. Becks. Cokesbury—Wm. J. Moore, T. J. Ellis and W. H Moore. Xinety-Six—M. H. Coleman, J. P. Phillips and G. H. Taylor. Cooper—J. H. Brooks and R. W. Townsend. Pine Grove and Huiett—J. E. Brunson and W. B Stevens. If you desire to relieve those town ships from the payment of a heavy bonded indebtedness, issued iu aid of a railroad which has never been built, and which the State courts have de clared invalid, but which the federal courts are trying to enforce, vote ‘‘Yes, on Constitutional Amendment, Article VII. Section 11. of the Con stitution, relating to Counties and County Government.”