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THE JURORS BRIBED Startling Revelations >n a Western Cou't of Justice FOl'R MEMBERS FACED THE CHARGE JucJse Orders Entire Pane! in important Cas; Into the Cnstody of the 5heriff. San Francisco, Special.?Late Wednesday afternoon Superior Court Judge Cook announced from the bench that au attempt had been made to tamper with the jurors in the Botkin case. He declared that he would discharge the Jury tomorrow and begin the trial of the case anew. Acting upon information that four jurors had been bribed to favor the prisoper, Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, Judge Cook ordered the jury into the custody of the sheriff until tomorrow morning when he will formally dismiss the Jury and begin the impanelling of a nnp tt is ftiiespd that beside four Jurors who are said to have been influenced, an attempt was made to bribe a fifth one. Mrs. Boc kin's attorney made a passionate si iech, disclaiming that Mrs. Botki.i. or any one connected with her case, vas implicated. He also said that he would not continue wi.h the present jury. The State's attorney concurred in a motion to discharge the jury. A brief investigation was held by Judge Cook after the Jury left the room. Chief of Police Wittman testified that one of the jurors had followed him to his offce after the noon adjourn men:. yesterday and said that on the previous evening a stranger had called on him and said: "We have secured four jurors for the defense and want a fifth. We will give you $50." The juror told the chief that he turned down the offer, asserting that "I am no such dirty man. I would not take $50 nor $50,000.'' Confirmed Eristow. Washing-ton 9t>eclal.?The state men is made to the McCall investigating committee by Chief Inspector Cochran of the Postofflc-e Department were made public Wednesday. Mr. Cochran confirmed the testimony of Mr. Waters before the committee, that the original list of clerk hire cases was j>re]#.red by Mr. Waters in No ceml>er, after the original Bristow report was written and before it was printed. Mr. Cochran had ordered Water. to prepare this list on an order from Bristow for the purpose of substantiating a statement Mr. Bristow had made in his report that "there were a hundred other such cases involving Congressmen" other than the few he had referred to in his report. Mr. Cochran identified this original list, which Mr. Bartlett. of the committee produced, having retained it when it waa presented c>y Mr. Waters. Mr. Cxhran confirmed Mr. Brlstow's testimony that he (Bristow) had not seen the list of clerk hire and lease <-ases that was prepared for the House rnmmi tt.ee on uostoffices and > I'. roads. Lives and Property Lost. Detroit Spcial?Five lives have been lost and upwards of $3,000,000 damage has been done to property by the floods during the past five -days. Tuesday night the indications are that the en d is in sight, though conditions are still very bad at Grand Rapids and also along the course oi the Saginaw river. At Grand RapIds the river has fallen two feet today. and at Saginaw and Bay City, while no such marked improvement Is to be noted, the fact that much of the ice that blocked the mouth of the river has gone out is taken as a favorable indication. Tonight the Ice gorge went out and the river began falling. Race Trouble Quiet. Houston, Special.?The manager of the lumber mill at Silsbee Tuesday night stated that the race trouble at *n f Viod nniotorl Hnnrr) mncf nf mat ^/viub uau ^utvivu uv uu, *uv/wi, v* The- negroes having fled when war-like demonstrations were made. They had ronslderable friction at that point, several white men being robbed and the homes of the negroes tired. The man. Bullock, who was ambushed and shot by negro footpads, died this afternoon of his wounds. The other two wounded men are getting along well. While a search was made for the negroes who had done the shooting, there was no attempt to molest the; other negroes outside of closing up a blind tiger. Six Chinamen Deported. Jachsonviie. Special.^Six Chinamen who were ordered deported by United States Commissioner Archibald last week, have failed to perfect their apneal within the time specified, and today the commissioner issued to the United StatC3 marshal six writs for deportation. The Chinamen will be taken to 53n Franctseo ana aenvcrea to the master ot a vessel sailing for China. Dismissed From Army. Washington. Special.?The record - - cf the case of Second Lieutenant Jeajj S. Oakes. of the artillery corps, recently tried by courtmartial at Fort Monroe. Va.. on charges of being absent without '.cave and cf conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, has been received at the War Department for review by the Judge Advocate General Davis pending its submission to the President for final action. It is stated that the officer was convicted cf the charges and sentenced to be dismissed. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS Gorman Uses Plain Language About The Administration. Senate. ?rv<? aV.-wlnncrinv .TinsWI rration of the postoffiee appropriation Mil and it was the signal for a revival rf the Democratic demand for an investigation into the charges of rorrup Don in the Pcstoffiic Department. The debate was iuitiated by .Mr. Gorman. who spoke for almost two hours in criticism of the course of the Republican party in the Senate in refusing an inquiry. Mr. Gorman referred to the hasty consideration and report of the bill and asserted that there had been persistent denial of the investigation of the affairs of the Postoffice Department. He urged that it was not yet too late to take steps to prevent "further robbery" and thievery in the Department. I "It is said." he went on, "that Congress must adjourn speedily; that from cue source a request amounting to orders has gone out; that it is inconvenient for one branch of the government to have Congress on its hands; that if there ia delay there are likeiy to be disagreeable inferences from what has already been developed. "We have reached a time when there is much preaching of honesty a.?d highmindedness, but corruption bubbles cut. It came like a fog. and has not yet lifted and we cannot tell whether all the information is yet out." Mr. Gorman referred to the charges made by the Postoffice Department, saying he believed they had been made lor the purpose of diverting attention from the guilty ones who had filched money from the Treasury and abused their trusts. As for himself he was of the opinion that the members had not gone more in the matter than their public duties required. Mr. Gorman called attention to the habit of criticising men engaged in executive worl: and he concluded that this criticism grew out of a well-directed effort to build up a one-man. Czar-like government. "So far. Indeed, had this plan progressed that legislation has come to be practically a farce, all important measures being dictated by the executive. It was coming to be that only an executive order was necessary to get an appropriation. The result is that Congress become;} a mere recording body. "We are told." Le continued, "that having approved the plans of the executive we must adjourn and go home because of the fear of damaging disclosures. The fet."; is so great that we are to be sent away and not to be allowed to do anything." He then referred to some of the pending legislation and included in the list Mr. Foraker's bill for the amendment to the anH-trust law regarding transportation. He referred to Attorney General Knox^s statement regarding this bill, saying that it was not a department measure. "Think of it." said Mr. Gorman. ' Notice is given to Congress that nothing should be done in the way of legislation without consulting the administration." The American people do not want one-man control, Mr. Gorman contended. He hoped that such action would be taken as would prevent one-man control in "the next four years, whosoever might AH the White House. Mr. Gorman c!:r:i with the declaration of the conviction that the Postoffice Department was "honey-combed with corruption and inefficiency." Mr. Penrose, chairman of the committee on postoffices, said that while he had originally favored an investigation, he has now reached the conclusion that none was necessary. | Mr. Penrose challenged the accuracy of Mr. Gorman's statement that extraordinary haste had been exercised by the committee on postoffices in the preparation of the bill. The subject matter of the measure had been receiving attention, he said, since last December. Mr. Lodge sustained Mr. Penrose's statement that there had been no undue haste in brlmging the postoffice bill into the Senate. It was true that the committee had done all in its power to promote an early adjournment. "The party in power," he proceeded. "has deemed it best to bring about an early adjournment If It could be done. So far as I am aware there have been no instructions received from anybody in any quarter. I was not on this side of the chamber that the expression "cuckoo" originated. That word is chargeable to the Senator from Alabama and applied to his side of the chamber." It also should be brone in mind, he said,, that the charge that a President has said that he wanted to get Congress off his hands was to be traced to a Democratic President, and Mr. Gorman had gotten his Presidents mixed. In the Mouse. Substantial progress was made Wednesday by the House, in the con -*-??mil siaerauuu vi iuc ouuuij *.???? ?..., lift;,-one pages being disposed of. leaving only twenty-one to be read. No amendments of general importance were read. Mr. Bartlett. of Georgia, briefly replied to the statements of Mr. Gill ->tt of Massachusetts, made last Monoay on the negro quest Vm. He said Mr Glllett had lectured the South for c:-rtain alleged outrages and violations of the law. He declared that Massachusetts was not free from the charge of disregard of the law, even though that State mav claim to be more refined than others. He cited an in stance where a mob in Marion. Mass., in 1902, had tarred and feathered .. man and woman, and he said the perpertrators of the outrage had been acquitted and marched through the streets as heroes. He read from sta t'stics of Massachusetts showing the number of the "disgraceful" marriages cf whites with negroes in the city of Boston. If these facts are true. Mr. Bartlett said, "the teachers of the gentleman from Massachusetts and those who believe as he dees, are comin g like chickens, homo to roost.' He did not believe, he declared, tha. the people cf Massachusetts enter tahaed nor ic-echccd the sentiment* .v* Mr. Gillett. While the people o' 1 Massachusetts may hare peculiar r.O I tions as to some things, and may Horn in their convictions, they at 'east have awakened to believe that !he people of the South are entitle?. [ to wor this problem In their own way. "as God shall will it." He add Ml these people would work it out 'with the help of our brethren of the *>orth, if we ea nhave it. but if not. _ ve will work it out without their 1 ' .tip. To such as Mr. Gillett. continued Mr. Bartlett. ' we will say that vov. opinion and criticism meet with th" calm indifference of our con;i >111 ot." rour urowieu Chicago, Special.?Four ' men were drowned in Lake Calumet by the capsizing of their boats while hunting c ducks. The dead: Tunis Slingerland, r Abraham Slingerland, Peter Piersna and John Brandt The men were in two row boats, two men being in each boat. * A very high wind was blowing over the t lake today, and the water was very . rough. The men were seen from the shore to rise in their boats and fire at a flock of ducks that passed over them. C Just as they fired their boats went over j and all four men were thrown into tho water. t f Kept Away by Fog. <j London. By Cable.?Tho Times a prints a dispatch from its correspon- 8 dent at Wei ai Wei whieh says: "Have just returned after a 190-mile cruise ^ and I saw nothing of either the Russian or the Japanese fleets, though the watch reported flash signalling at about 4 o'clock this morning. I was c debarred from running close to Port a Arthur by a heavy fog and I imagine T that the weather is too thick for tne 8 Japanese to remain close to Port Ar- ' " ?- V,a etrcmcrth of the tour, lii View VI C4AC7 ov?V4.Bv Russians in their torpedo boat destroyers." i LABOR WORLD. In Austria a system of factory inspection was created by law twenty years ago. in ISSii. A deputation of the Canadian Order of Railway Clerks has petitioned for an increase in wages. A strike of cigarmukers In Veniee threatens to develop Into a general strike in this trade throughout Italy. Electrical workers of Wilkesbarre. Pa., have decided to ask for an eighthour work day. beginniug April 1. Wages of women workers in Canada have increased in recent years from twenty-five to lifty per cent, more than men. WagvS of coal miners in Canada are three to four times as high as in Belgium. where not more than $1 a day is paid. Steps have been taken looking to the formation of a strong organization of stationary engineers at Montreal, Canada. Chinese laborers in British Columbia canneries have formed a union and demand ?-!."? and $o0 and board instead of S4<). The Oakland (Cal.) Butchers' Union contemplates going into the wholesale :# 11101 nhofv f?l*A U IUV.RUU-VUV lUWiuwvitf ??v not reinstated. 1 William S. Wandby, of Rochester, ] N. Y.t is backed by L\000,000 wage ' workers for United States Commis- s sioner of Labor. In the coal mining industry in Eng- 1 land the average time worked in 11)03 1 was 5.00 days per week, the lowest proportion since 189G. Collieries in Lancashire, England, are still on short time, most of them not running more than four and a half to five days a week. ? Miners in South Wales have resolved to contribute one penny per ( member per lunar month toward a l. parliamentary representation fuud. | PROMINENT PEOPLE. * ?? * M. Bourguerean has been chosen j President of the Society of French Art- } 1sts. 1 t M. Henri Cordier has been chosen >8 President of the Paris Geographical t Society. f Emile Do Quanten, author of the na- ? tional hymn of Finland, is dead at the c age of seventy-six. I The Rev. W. E. Garrison, associate J editor of the Christian Evangelist, lias * been selected President of F.utlor Col- J lege, of Indianapolis. The Earl of Crewe has decided to sell by auction over 7CHX? acres of his landed possessions in Yorkshire and the North Midlands. } Pope Pius X. is a fine piaeisi. and ' one of his favorite amusements is to ? sit down at the piano which he has t installed nf bi-< nrivate .martment and rehearse some of his favorite pieces. | Glenn Brown has been elected an I honorary corresponding member of the j Royal Institute of British Architects d This is an honor that has been con- f ferred on only six other American r architects. d A statue of Louis .Toliet. the French I explorer, will be placed in the little r park in front of the public library E building, at Joliet. III., to coiamem- F orate the memory of the man for c whom the town is named. The Archduke Joseph of Austria, who Is building a splendid palace at Budapest, has always shown great t sympathy with the Hungarians, and c like the late Empress of Austria, soon J mastered their extremely difficult lr.r- f Hon Luis Terragns, the Mexican eat- * tie king, owns nearly a million head of j cattle and nearly as many sheep. Be- * sides looking after his private inter- c ests he finds time to administer the * affairs of Chihuahua, of which he l? ? Clnrornor. guage. Eight Legs From Pine Tree. Ira Preston and Charles Newell cut a pine tree in Sharon. Vt., making six 12-foot logs, and two 10-foot ones. The first log 12 feet from the stump was 26 inches in diameter, the next ones were respectively ?5, 24, 23, 22. 21 and 19 inches in diameter, the two 10-foot logs were 16 and ten in diame ter. the tree making 1.730 feet of !un> ber. EXPRESS HELD UP taring Deed Committed By Band of Train Robbers "HEY SHOOT THE MESSENGER DEAD The Bandits Then Robbed the Car of The Express Company and Escaped in the Darkness. Sacramento. Cal., Special.?Three aasked men held up the Oregon ex* iress. southbound, on the Southern 'aciflc Railway at Copley, near Kesrick, killed W. J. O'Neill, the express uessenger, and carried off the conents of the express box. The train 3 known as No. 15, and stopped at Jopley, a small station, for water. Is the train came to a standstill, hree men jumped on and cut the rain iij two, taking the engine and 'xpress car down the track a short [lstance. They stopped the engine .nd deliberately killed O'Neill by hooting him through the head. The landits then robbed the express car if its contents, but it is not known iow much they obtained. After robbing the car the men cut t loose, and getting on the engine ompelled Engineer Joesink to go ihead. When near Keswick the nen jumped off the engine and disippeared with their plunder. They lave not been captured. Six People Killed. Scranton, Pa.. Special.?Six persons ire known to have been killed, and lve fatally injured, by an explosion n the factory of the Dixon Squib Company, at Priceburg, near here, Thursday. The dead are: Lizzie Bray, Lillian dahan, Priceburg: Breckie Lewis, s'orth Scranton; Lizzie Matthews, )lyphant; George Callahan, Teresa Callahan, Priceburg. Those fatally injured are: Mamie Jilallon, Martha Haybrown, Cassie roultz, Mettie Hevron, Oscar Ayser. Twenty girls are employed in the actory. What caused the explosion s not known, but it is said that one )f the girls threw a squib into a itove, and that the force of the exjlosion was so great that it wrecked he building and set it on Are. The squibs are used in coal mining. The Dickson Squib Company occu)ied only the first floor of the strucure, the Gallahan family having ooms on the second floor. It was lere that the two Callahan children ost their lives. Thomas Callahan, hp father, was at work, and Mrs. Callahan had just left the room when he explosion occurred. The chifIren, aged three years and six nonths, respectively, were playing >n the floor. Both were Instantly tilled. The building caught fire, and the lames comunlcated to the two ad[oin'og buildings, one occupied as a lotel, and the other as a butcher ihop. Both were destroyed. All of the bodies have been taken 'rom the debris. The bodies of the lead employes were so badly burned that it was with great difficulty hat they could be recognized. Georgia Pcouagc Cases, Macon, Ga.. Special.?A Savannah ipecial to The Telegraph says: "Doubting the correctness of news iispatches from New Orleans to the iffect that the United States Circuit ?ourt of Appeals had sustained the dedsion of the lower court in the case it S. M. Clyatt, of Irwin county, :harged with peonage, appealed from ho northern district of Florida, Judge Smory Speer, of the United States 3ourt for the southern district of Geor fla, wired Judge Shelby, who presided tnd received an answer, stating that he bench could not agree and that the asc had been referred to the United states Supreme Court. The news revived by Judge Speer puts a differnt >has upon the question. It remains for he status of the various peonage cases hat are pending. In several States in he South there is deep interest in he outcome of the appeal." Quarantine Declared. Austin, Texas, Special.? Governor janhan issued a proclamation declarng quarantine in effect on the Gulf :oast and along the Rio Grande boric r, effective April l. This proclamaion resulted from a conference of icalth officers of the cities and counies of that territory held here today, t was stated there had been cases of -ellow fever at Laredo and Monterey luring the winter, one of them being bund in March. Dr. Longanet, of Laedo. stated that the patient discovered luring March was now convalescent. )r. Richardson, representing the Maine Hospital Service, stated that the tational government will at once place >hysicians at Mexico points to Issue ertificates. Will Contest. Little Rock. Ark.. Special.?Returns tave been received from 71 out of 75 ounties. and these show that Governor fefferson Davis is entitled to 302 delerates in the State convention. The inmber necessary to nominate is 222. udgf- Wood has conceded that on the ace of the returns he has not enough ounties to win the nomination, but he Hii anrwl to the State convention and :onte8t the vote as returned in a aumler of counties. Big Store Burned. Newark. N. J.. Special.?The Broad itreet store of the Georke Company vas gutted by fire, entailing a loss of IICO.OOO. The store, which is six stories n height, has a frontage of 50 feet on 3road street, with a large ell 200 feet vide on Market street front, and was >revented from spreading by the shut-, ers. The 14-story building of the Pru lential Life Insurance Company stands vithin 100 feet of the Georke store, an' .he fire corps of the building poured relumes of water o:t the .lames from tbove. RAILWAY LOSES BIG SUIT i A Case Where a Lady Was Insulted on the Train. i Greenville. Special.?The court of common pleas has been engaged for three days in hearing a most extraordinary cose, in which the Southern rail- | way is asked to pay $50,000 damages j tc Mrs. Susan L. Franklin of Newberry ui for an alleged insult to her by a pas- n< senger while on a train between Green- tt vim? <111(1 midiiia duui.t a /cat agu. ? i. The jury brought in a verdict for $25,- ; tt 000 in the plaintiffs favor. oi Mrs. Franklin is a comely woman, tt unusually self-possessed on the witness si stand, with readiness and intelligence ol in giving testimony that is surprising rt and uncommon, and apprecating the ic bearing of evidence upon the case in g< hand. Her testimony revealed the fact T that she was married when only 16 t< years old, and has been the mother of three children, one of whom is dead, et Her husband is a policeman in New- ai berry and her occupation is dress mak- fr lng. Mrs. Franklin gave a connected sc account of the trip from Newberry to to Atlanta, stating that on reaching to Greenville she and her little child went * aboard the afternoon train for Atlanta, Cl and that there were only two other UJ passengers inthe car, both of whom gj were men. Soon after the train left here one of these men engaged her in C( conversation, taking a seat by her side, making indecent proposals, putting his tt arm arouna ner waist ana using mum- n terlties against her protest, though she s< endured the upleasant treatment for r( a o.uarter of an hour or more. The ci men were drinking and behaving un- hi seemly but only one of them made approaches to her. e) On the cross examination Mrs. m Franklin said that the conductor was tr In the car the most of the time when l2 the man was annoying and insulting a| her and made no effort to stop his un- Si ruly behavior until she appealed to ai him for protection, when the conduc- ^ tor told the man he must desist or he ^ would put him off the train. The man ti claimed that he was a detective, but s< the conductor said he must behave or else he could not ride any further on Lis train, which put a quietus to the men except that they continued to a: drink and use indecent language, but c< the conductor had removed her to the ?( centre of the car, where he had been , seated for some time. On arriving at 3i Atlanta she was taken ill and the cause tl was due to the fright occasioned by the g conduct of this unknown man, resulting in serious consequences owing to her delicate condition at the time. Conductor Roseborough, who was In nt ?ho train whan allseed indig nlties were heaped upon Mrs. Franklin, stated that he had observed the tnan on the seat with Mrs. Franklin Si. and holding her little daughter on his " knee, and he was not aware that the woman being annoyed by his presence as she made no complaint against him, and seemingly they were engaged ^ In an ordinary conversation. Mr. Roseborough assumed that they -were at p ksst acquaintances and it was iw>* his ' C duty to Interfere, but he denied that he t! was in the car for any legth of time v 'and did not observe that Mrs. Franklin ti was at all annoyed until he went M through the train again, when as he si entered the coach he saw that she was fc in the act of leaving the seat. Immedi- cl ately he approached and asked If she p desired to change her seat, when her 01 reply was that the man had been an- p coyance to her, which caused her to make the change. The conductor escorted Mrs. Franklin to the rear of the car and then went back for the child, ^ who was taken to her mother. He told oj the man not to repeat his conduct and If he spoke to Mrs. Franklin again he would be put off the train and left "In ,, the ditch." The man asserted that he bad not done anything wrong, but wa# willing to make an apology if Mrs. ; Franklin was offended and then went A into another coach. Mr. Roseborougn assisted the mother and child off the ? train on reaching Atlanta and the in- . ciuent on the train was not mentioned again. ?( The testimony of other witnesses hal little bearing upon the facts relating w to the alleged insults, and much time s was occupied in efforts to exclude Itn- a proper evidence .from the case. Con- n; ductor Roseborough was supported in n< the main by the flagman, who saw and ai heard a portion of what took place, b< The conductor is known as one of the ci most careful officials in the service of a the Southern and he has been on the h! "Air Line" for upwards of 20 years. si The argument in the case began cm ir Thursday afternoon. 1c State Items. tc Ben. Williams, a well-to-do colored (C ir.an of Anderson county, 64 years of ir age. died Tuesday under distressing S] circumstances. His daughter, aged 24. V* CV U'flV ^ had died or consupmpuuu. UU til V, ???., . to the funeral the father dropped dead of heart disease. He was a good old r< "slavery time" negro. 1C The sheriff of Pasquotank county carried to the penitentiary Wednesday M. F. Stancill, a young white man S] who is to serve eighteen months for vi betrayal under promise of marriage, di Sheriff Roark, of Brunswick, took a c negro to serve five ycar3 for mun- 'i; slaughter, and SherifT Lirus. of Boau- m fort, a negro to serve twenty years for hi murder. V Pope B. Havlrd. the young white man who was shot by John Yar- a borough, white, a week ago. in Saluda c,[ r i county, is fn a serious condition. The -n right arm of the wounded man. which received a large portion of the shot. was amputated c:i Sunday by Dr. C. * P. Mayer, of Newberry. Ya.borough who had been released from custodj or. $GOO bond, when Havird's wound' v-tre not considered serious, has be?" lodged in jail again, to await the rc suit of the wound3. >ALMETTO POINTS GIVEN IN BRIEF Opinion Given. Recently State Superintendent of Edcation 0. B. Martin wrote the attorew general in reference to a section of ic new library law. Section 7 of the brary law provides that "Not more tan 12 schools in any county, in any ie year, created and operated under ic general free school law of the tate, shall be entitled to the benefit* ' this act, and no school district shall ceive any moneys under its provisos. except schools operated under the meral free school law of the State, he schools receiving this benefit shaft ? decided by the county boards.'' Mr. Martin asked that Attorney Genal Gunter define the expression "creed and operating under the general ee school law of the State," so thrt hool ofTIcers might have some rule > determine what schools are entitled i the provisions of the law. He aton ished to be advised whoee duty it is i pass upon the applications, and dede whether the schools are operating ader the general free school law or lecial acts. In answer to the superintendent of iucatlon. Attorney General Gunter indered the following opinion: "The schools to receive the benefit of lis act are limited to such as were eated and operated solely under the ?neral free school law. If in the ere;ion or operation of the school in any >spect appeal must be had to any epeal act for authority for such action, owever incidental it may be, that :tool is exempt from the benefit of lis act. The operation of the machin 7 or a SCQOOl, sucn aa uie ayiwmir ient of trustees, levy and collection of ixes, selection of teachers, etc., must ? exclusively under the general school lw, and such feature that finds its uthority in a special act eliminates ich school from the provisions of this :t. "The action of county boards in seating certain schools to receive this., eneflt is conclusive when the restricon as above stated has been ob?rved." Bl| Ginning Plant. Anderson, Special.?The Peoples Oil nd Fertilizer company of this city remtly made a contract for what will e the largest ginnery east of the Mis* ssippi river and one of the largest in le world. It will consist of 16 70-saw Ins and four presses, and all will be *' nder one roof. It will be driven by 150 horse power engine, but elec icity will doubtless be substituted hen the new dam at Hatton's Ford ; built The plant will be in operation 5* the opening of the next cotton seein, and will be one of the sights in lis city of big enterprises. Charge Was Profanity. " Spartanburg, Special.?The county oard of education decided to reinstat^ rof. A. L. a3 principal of tns ampbell schools. The matter was ".oroughly investigated by the boars* ith the result as above stated. ~ U6tees will appeal from this rulings [r. McLeod was recently requested and jbsequently ordered to resign as tha cad of the Campbello school. Tha [large preferred by the trustees wan rofanity. He admitted to swearing at ae time, but held that he made nn ractice of it. South Carolina Brevities. The jury in the case of J. S. and f. Y. Stevens, of Chariesion, uwun* ? the schooner James D. Dewell, ren?red a verdict for damages again* ic Dwell Tuesday night In the snm of .\000. The suit of the Stevens vm rought against the Dewell for daot~ ;os In the sum of $7,000, claiming thfct ten the Clarence caught -fire last prll at Johnson's coal docks the crew, ' the Dewell cut the steamer loo*' om the pier, causing her to drift oat ito the stream and that she turned .:cause the fire department conld renir no assistance. George Bond, colored, lies seriously ounded at his home near Pauline in partanburg county, as the result of pistol shot inflicted by a negro < amed Henry Sims. Sunday aitercon Bond and Sims were drinking ad carousing about Pauline. They ?came involved in a personal dfttilty. as the result of which Sims drew pistol and shot Bond, and then mad? * , hp rieht Is escape, i ne u?u _ do of Bond above the hip and ranged iward, towards the backbone. Up to st night Sims was still a' The Supreme Court in Columbfa has r.nded down an Important decision as i right of cotton mills to issue checks i their employes for use at mill-stores i lieu of money. The case went from partanburg county and was a suit jainst the Spartan Mills, of Spartanrrg. brought by Johnson, Lytle k Co., ho had a number of checks and were fused payment by the mill on the round that they were issued solely ir the convenience of their operatives. E. M. Gillespie, who lives at the old peegle place In West End, Green'.le. Monday afternoon accidentally seharged his shot gun, the load r.ring the ankle of his two and a ilf year old child to shreds and aev al of the shot taking eftect in the p of Mrs. Gillespie. The child's ?t had to he amputated. Governor Heyward Tuesday offered reward of $200 for the arrest and inviction of the parties who shot ' cm ambush and killed J. W. Meetze. i Lexington county, on February 19. Aiken was visited again Monday ight by a bold robber or gang ot >bbers. No clue has teen found ta o rascals. As burglars "scbooped"1' e town last December and entered a residences of W. ,T. Flatt, F. B. *;j Icrsou. L. Eradwcll and Mrs. Ed.vd King, leaving no clue to their nt'.Ly, ro did they Monday night .(I loft no trace; cn!y in this inu::ce but cne place was v'sifed.