Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f KB gt^CT* WATCH MAH, ?st?bltehed April, 1850? 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Alms t at oe thy Country's thy G-od's and Truth's. THE TBUJE SOUTHRON, Established Jane,lS8 Cosolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. Q . WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26. 1905._ New Serie?-Tol. XXIY. No. 40 -KT ?STEEN PUBLISHES COMPANY, S?MTEB, S. I?. TE SHS : $1 50 per at nam-io advance. A o T a s T i s s M s s T : Gae Square 5rsi insertion............$1 CO Srery subsequent icsertica... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will b 3 made at r ed a ced rates. All eommanica tiona which subserve private interests will becsar?ed for as advertiements. ...^Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. 1?WS IH TBE STI?E CAPITAL HOW THE SURPLUS COTTON CAN BE PROFITABLY USED, t - Divorced Man Has Trouble in Remar? rying in South Carolina-South Carolina College Receives Small Bequests. Columbia, April 20.-The myste? rious stranger whose name and iden? tity has been puzzling the Charleston police and hospital authorities has been identified as G. W. "Wooden, a soliciting agent for a New York week? ly with headquarters at Columbia, where he left a wife without support two. weeks ago. He was identified by a fellow agent, H. H. Hamlet, who read the description of the missing mair" in the newspapers. Mr. Wooden had business worries which caused "nim to lose his balance and wander off bot there has been a joyful reunion between him and his wife and he is gradually recovering. He left Co? lumbia on the 7th for Norfolk, but is Stil* at a loss t? know what he did after he telegraphed that day to his firm from Winnsboro until he came to himself on the 10th in Savannah. Mrs. Wooden notified the police here about a week ago that her husband was missing, but if there "was any credit coming for discovering the missing man they preferred not to share it with the newspapers, which . they carefully neglected to use. Here is more heartrending trouble abot t remarrying divorcia persons in this state of no divorces; This time the trouble is generated at the town of St. George, which recently saw oth? er troubles in the nature of a railroad "Wreck, by the refusal of the Rev. M. W. Rankin to marry Dr. Kenyon Mil? lard, a gentleman from Indianapolis, In<L, to Miss Sallie Kenyon, the daugh? ter of the proprietress of the local ho? tel, who met her intended through correspondence. Dr. Millard is cul? tured and 55 years old and has lec? tured in the churches down there, but Mr. Rankin would have none of the marriage ceremonies in his, although the Dr. showed him how his divorced wife had been dead leaving him a di vorced widower. So the couple went to Orangeburg to get the Rev. Mr. lightfoot to tie the knot. From there they* wrii go to Augusta to get it tied harder under a license permit, In support of the argument in fa? vor bf cotton sacks for fertilizers in? stead of burlaps from India, President Geo. A. Wagener, of the Charleston Royal Bagging and Yarn mill, points out the difference between the value of cotton and burlap sacks is 90 cents a ton on the seamless and 50 cents a ton on sewed cotton bags, and he cal? culates that twenty million pounds of cotton would be used annually if these sacks were manufactured of cotton alone, "and if they would use cotton bags for grits, rice, grain, sugar, salt, cement and the like it would easily take two millions bales of-cotton to manufacture these bags." Mr. Wag ener shows that for the year ended the 31st of last December there was imported from India to this country a total of 390,7$5,i>00 yards of burlap on which the duty to the United States government was $23,000. J. Ed Boyer, in whose store the fire started which wiped out half of Co? lumbia's suburb, Brookland, when fif? ty buildings were destroyed entailing a loss of $100,000, will have some damaging evidence to confront at the preliminary tomorrow which Magis? trate Marchant will hold to determine whether Boyer shall be sent to the upper court on the charge of arson. It was given out that the fire was caused by an explosion of a kerosene engine on the first floor of Boyer's electric light plant situated in his store, but witnesses will be put on the stand to show that the fire was first seen on the second story and the manner in which the lights went out suddenly will be cited to show that they were cut off by a switch in? stead of dieing out gradually by the engine running down after the alleged explosion of the kerosene can in the basement. Other evidence as to pur? chases Boyer made will be brought up. But the evidence so far is all cicum- i stantial, and it is extremely doubtful whether there will be a conviction un? less there are important revelations made at the trial, if th* case goes so far. Boyer- has taken his arrest calmly. President Sloan of the South Caro? lina College has received a letter from William Jennings Bryan notifying him that the South Carolina College has been named as one of the twen? ty-five state universities he is directed to name in article 17 of the Philo Sherman Bennett will setting aside $10,000 to be divided equally among such universities. The amount each university will get after inheritance taxes are paid will be $368, the in? terest on which is to be used io pur? chase an annual prize for the best essay discussing the principles of free government; The gift was ?;*cept c : v.'th thanks by the executive com mittee of trustees today. Mr. Bryan says he has so far established such prises in nineteen states. Columbia, April 21.-Final prepa? rations are making in good form for the Conference for Education in the South which meets here for a three days' session the latter part of next week and which will witness the greatest educational gathering this' state has known. The program has ; been printed and other preliminary: details announced, except that the list of the northerners who are to be pres- ! ent has not arrived, on account of the. illness of. Secretary Murphy, but this list, which all are eagerly anticitpat ing, is expected to be here in the:| next day or so. A large number of SOuth Carolinians, Xorth Carolinians ! and Georgians and others who have ) notified the local committee of their intention to be present have been as? signed to homes, but hundreds of others, it is expected, will send in their names in the next few days, eleventh ' hour people being so numerous in all spheres of human and other kinds of activity. James Moore, a negro laborer at work on the excavations for the new bank building on Main street, lost his life there in such a strange and un- ' usual manner last night that his fel? low workmen's superstitions have J>een aroused and it has been difficult to get them to work today. Moore was standing beside a six-foot em? bankment when part of it containing bricks gave way and fell against him and although the impact of hardly i more than a cubic yard of the stuff ; he received injuries which resulted in .. his death three hours later. He was tripped by the cave in against a wheel? barrow board walk, the bricks mash- ; iing his head and neck against the! board. ?. i Comptroller General Jones is doing a bit of trust busting on the side by raising the tax returns of the big cor? porations. The raising of the Virgin? ia-Carolina people's return from $1*- ? 000,000 to $3,000,000 has been folow- . ed today by raising the return of Mr. i John D. Rockefeller's Standard On ; concern to $200,000 from $65,000. The ] par value of the stock is put down in j the return at $100 a share and the: capital is placed' at $100,000,000 with ! over $98,000,000 of that paid in. The stock being'quoted in the markets at; $670 a share it is demonstrated that ' the gigantic corporation with its va- ' rious propreties has a market value of over a billion dollars. Columbia, April 20.-Startling rev? elations are coming in rapid succes? sion with regard to the romance of Dr. Kenvo*i Millard, ?he gentleman from India ra, who, in addition to the usual kind of an ass a man of 55 years old is, who has just married a young woman, seems to be in spite of his ex? tensive world travels and thorough education a most useless and reck? less as well as wicked liar and a most transparent old hypocrite through it all. To some he said his divorced wife whom he married 23 years ago, but with whom he lived only a few years because she was a self-confessed de? praved woman, had been dead many years, but he told the Rev. Mr. Rank? in, who refused to perform the cere? mony at St. George that she was not dead. Now he has wired the Hum? boldt county clerk in California: "Was a decree of divorce issued for Mrs. Ada Millard against K. V. Millard December 4th, 1904,' to which he has so far received no reply. In the mean? time he had published in the Orange burg Evening News a statement in which he says: "I am from Indiana and perfectly ignorant of the laws of South Carolina in regard to divorces. Being unhap? pily married over 20 years ago and having lived only a few years with my wife, who, upon her own confession, proved herself to be a most depraved woman, I obtained a divorce for such cause as Christ himself designated. I have not deceived any one and am here to teach people to live as Chris tians in all love and sincerity.- ? a of world-wide reputation and n character is above reproach. It unchristian like to attack in such manner one, who though a strange wishes only to do good and one wi never harmed a living being.'* Being confronted with his ofch< statement that his wife divorced hi he said that sha learned th>_.t he wi going to get a divorce and stepped i ahead of him, Xow the women in Miss Kenyon family have "put the fixings"' on hi] by going through his private lette: while he was in custody at his hoare ing house, and they are said to ha\ discovered some shocking letters i which a Western wife takes him 1 task for having married her 23 yeai ago and takes him to task for bavin a previously and still undivorced wif Then Miss Kenyon's sister and mot! er who made this discovery caused tb bride to be led back to St George. The letter of President George J Wagener. of the Charleston Roy* Bag Manufacturing Company, i which he directs attention to the fa< f?5 the year 1904 nearly a billion yare* of burlaps were brought into th United States from India for makin fertilizer sacks and the like, and o which duty was $23,000, like that : cotton were used in the raanufactur of these sacks there would be an add: tional consumption of 20,000,00 pounds annually and that if the use c cotton sacks were extended still furth er to the grocery and kindred trade the consumption of cotton in thi country alone would be increased b no less than 2,000,000 bales a yea] has been taken up by the South Caro lina Cotton Association, which wi: give it wide circulation through th general association's publicity burea at Atlanta and promote a big mern orial to congress asking that the dut; on burlap be incre?sed so as to en courage this change to cotton, A circular letter was today issue' to the- county presidents of the Soutl Carolina association in which a cop; of the letter was enclosed and askinj advice as to the suggestions outline? above. The letter incidentally call attention to the fact that Charlestoi county, the home of nearly all the bij fertilizer concerns, is prominen among the only seven counties in th? state not yet thoroughly organized. A delegation of association officer: and others interested will go t< Charleston early next week for th< purpose of conferring with the f?rtil izer people to see what can be done t< induce the change to cotton. An out of the ordinary pardon pet! tion involving a phase of the socia side of the negro problem came to th( governor's office today in oehalf o: Isadore Thompson, of Greenville, i well known negro politician, which ii signed by hundreds of the most influ? ential white people of that section in? cluding many women, asking for a ful pardon for Thompson, who was giver a life sentence in July, 1903, for thi murder of another negro named Arch Sullivan, one the ground that Sullivan, after boasting of having wronged Thompson's daughter, went about taunting Thompson, who finally killed him in an outburst of righteous indig? nation. Acting Solictor A. D. Dean and Judge Aldrich endorsed the peti? tion that Thompson deserved not more than a manslaughter sentence but that they could not conscientious? ly recommend a full pardon. The minimum penalty in this state for manslaughter is two years. Thomp? son will therefore not likely get his liberty until the middle of the sum? mer anyway. At the meeting of the State Board of Education which will be held here next Friday so as to give members an opportunity to attend the Confernce for Education in the South, appoint? ment of the new county board will be made and the summer schools will be arranged for. Available for all sum? mer schools, State, county and district, the State superintendent has $9,000 $1,000 from the Peabody fund, $2,000 from escheated estates, $5,000 from the dispensary fund and $1,000 spe? cial appropriation from the legisla? ture. The preliminary hearing before Magistrate Marchant in the Brook? land suburb, across the Congaree, in Lexington county, against the Brook? land merchant, J. E. Boyer, who was accused by the comptroller general in starting the fire which resulted re? cently in burning a fourth of the town, has had its outcome today af? ter much perspiring in a crowded school house where the hearing was conducted, in the dismissal of Boyer. This was expected, inasmuch as the evidence was all circumstantial. There was much thalk against Boyer, whose business methods are not liked, but there was nothing of a substantial na? irne adduced by the evidence. There has been some severe criticism of thc magistrate for allowing Boyer free dom pending the hearing, as arson is bailable only after a preliminary and by a circuit pudge or supreme court justice. But Mr. Marchant says he has been constantly in the custody of a special constable. The magistrate's conduct will likely be brought to the attention of the governor, with the re? quest that he be removed. The papers in the libel suit H. H. Evans of the dispensary directorate is bringing against Editor Moore of the Xew Barnwell Sentinel for making disparging editorial comments against Mr. Evans'-character, will be filed in a few days. The trial of the case is looked forward to with great interest throughout the State. Columbia, April 2?.-Commissioner Watson returned yesterday fom a high? ly important trip to the east. Speak? ing of the results of his visit to your correspondent today he said : "I have been in the East for the past month for the specific purpose of launching a work that has never yet been attempted by any State in the Union, and what we have done has attracted attention not only in New but throughout the Eastern States. Oar efforts have been directed to the securing of investments of northern capital for the fullest development of a rich field of mineral resources as yet merely scatched over, and to the turn? ing of the tide of the most desirable immigration from the congested ceu tres of the East to our 3parcely settled Southland. To this end I have ap? pointed as special representative and attorney of my department in New York city Mr. Raymond L. Griffiss, a former Southerner who is a member of-the law firm of Fetzer & Griffiss, Fifth and Broad streets, and Mr. Francis A. Dugro.a nephew of Justice Dogro of tho New York suprmee court has been commissioned as his assis? tant. In 48 hours after the announce? ment of the fact that we were to have a resident representative in New York city the number of callers at the office was such that it became necessary immediately to open another office at 18 Broad street for the pur? pose of attending to the hundreds of inquiries in the labor branch of the department's "work and for the pur? pose of giving information to small purchasing fan, firs. lu two days time nearly a hundred people were shipped to South Carolina. "During my stay in New York I met aud talked with hundreds of the most influential men, including representa? tives of the German, Hungarian and Holland governmeuts, and a large number of settlers of the most desir? able north European people., as well as New Englanders are in immediate contemplation as a result. Io regard to undeveloped mineral resources the department has gotten into the closest touch with poeple who handle these properties, and I believe that we will accomplish a great work in the near future. "I have made arrangements for the sending of several natives to such countries as Holland, Germany and the Scandinavian peninsular to do active work for us in the next few months. The first of these will sail within ten days, and will carry with them a full supply of literature printed in Dutch "I was somewhat surprised to find that the metropolitan press was deeply interested in the work we have launch? ed in South Carolina on behalf of the middle South, and the heartiest co? operation bas been extended to us. The New York Herald in particular has taken up this work and great re? sults should follow. Among others who have manifested interest in the work we are doing is Mr. William Benbough the famous war correspondent and cartoonist, who with his accomplished wife, the authoress, will visit South Carolina within the next two weeks with a view to preparing a series of magazine articles dealing with the possibillities of the New South. "We have things now thoroughly organized both at home and in the East, and in a fortnight the work in the untouched territory abroad will be put in shape, and then for a month or more my individed attention will be given to the northwest. " Columbia, April 24.-Governor Ter? rell of Georiga has proved Georgia's claim to the Sumter Flying Artillery battle fiag whicb the war department sent to the South Carolina executive. Replying to a letter from Gov. Hey wara, Secretary of War Taft has writ? ten that upon further investigation he has discovered that the flag to the Sumter Flying Artillery of Georgia otherwise known as battery "A," 11th or Sumter Georgia Artillery and not to. the Sumter battery of South Carolina. "The official records show" says the letter, "that the last named organization was discontinued in January, 1865, and therefore could not have lost a flag at Appomatox April 8, 1865." The flag will at once be sent to Gov. Terrell. A Surprise Wedding. Manning, April 20.-Manning so? ciety was taken by surprise this even? ing when Mr. Luther R. McIntosh and Miss Ida Bagnal repaired to the Pres? byterian manse and were quietly mar? ried by the Rev. J. M. Halladay. Only a few special friends were present to witness the interesting event. It was not a case of elopement, but rather a whim of the young people to get married in this way and avoid publicity. Jackson, Miss., April 22.-The jury in the case of Steward Johnson, the negro charged with criminally assault ing Miss Mamie Marsh, a young white woman, this morning returned a ver? dict of acquittal. HOW THE CROPS FARED. - SUMMARY OF THE CONDITIONS FOLLOWING THE FROST. The Damage was Widespread and Se? rious-The Loss on Truck and Fruit Was Very Heavy. Columbia, April 24.-Reports which came in from all of the counties on Saturday as to the damage done fruit and garden and field crops by the cold wave of the beginning of last week fully justify the general summary printed in this correspondence at that time. Peaches and other fruit have not been as generally killed as was thought but the damage to those has been great in every county in the state, estimated at 50 per cent, in the famous peach growing districts. What cotton was up was killed throughout the state and has to be replanted and the stands of corn everywhere were greatly damaged. The damage in the trucking districts was extensive, such tender plants as cucumbers, potatoes, peas and the like being generally kill? ed throughout the state. Field crops, such as cotton and corn, were ad? vanced'hardly far enough for. the re? sult to be great in the end, as there is plenty of time to replant altogether or repair injured stands. The following summary of condi? tions in the various counties in the state, with special regard to damage done fruit, is compiled from a care? ful study of the local newspapers up to Saturday, 'supplemented by what could be gathered from reliable per? sons visiting this city from various sections of the state: Anderson-Fruit killed on low lands together with what cotton and corn that was up; potatoes, beans, toma? toes and the like killed; corn will come out. Abbeville-Peaches not injured, but stands of cotton and corn badly dam? aged; all tender plants killed. Bamberg-Killing frost and ice only slightly damaged stands of cotton; corn bit down but will come again; beans all killed; cotton only half planted. Beaufort-Truck badly damaged and cotton has to be replanted. Berkley-Great damage to cucum? bers, beans and watermelons. Charleston-There was a tempera? ture reading of 36 at Mount Pleasant, but high winds saved crops generally, except cucumbers; cotton is unhurt; at Charleston the damage is estimated at 20 per cent; rain needed generally throughout the county. Colleton-Considerable damage to all crops up; cotton and corn just planted. Clarendon-Beans and figs and cot? ton up, killed; all ?young crops killed or damaged; cotton about half plant? ed. Darlington-Fruit seems unimpair? ed, though corn is yellow. Dorchester-Ice, but no damage of any consequence. Edgefield-Thirty per cent, of fruit and all garden crops killed; cotton killed and corn badly damaged. Fairfield-Fruit only slightly dam? aged; corn damaged; vegetables kill? ed. Florence-Little tobacco has been set; kiling frost, but corn stands still good; extent of damage to fruit can't be told yet; gardens good. Georgetown-Thin ice and white frost, but fruit not much injured, though gardens are badly damaged in some places; only a fourth of a rice crop being planted. . Greenville-Some fruit still left on the trees, but corn will have to be generally replanted; peaches, straw? berries and grapes have been killed, says a report from another section of the county. Hampton-Fruit and tender vege? tables damaged and some corn and cotton killed. Horry-This county seems to have escaped almost entirely. Kershaw-Gardens damaged, but fruit prospects still good. Lancaster-Fruit safe, and corn and cotton up. Lexington-Corn killed to ground, and fear is that fruit has been in? jured more than can now be ascer? tained; garden crops killed; some some corn being replanted. Lee-Fruit not hurt; alL cotton and corn up, killed; damage to gardens slight. Laurens-Thin ice and gardens and fruit badly damaged. Marlon-Cotton and truck killed. Marlborough-Peaches seem to be all right, but cotton that was up will have to be replanted; corn not hurt; some vegetables killed. Newberry-Fruit badly damaged, and all tender plants killed; even plums and apples killed; much corn to be replanted, but cotton not up. Orangeburg-Gardens much injured and some cotton must bc replanted, but corn wai not hurt. A MATTER OF HEALTH POWDER Absolutely Pure m$ HQ MB WWW Pickens-Al! fruit killed and corn badly damaged. Richland-All fruit severely in? jured, and garden crops aliiiosr. wipe<3 out. Spartanburg-Peaches practically all killed; but a fen- apples are left; corn and cotton up, killed. Saluda-Fifty per cent, of the fruit killed, and damage to gardens great cotton and corn planting just com? menced; two other reports says, all fruit killed. ? Sumter-Corn badly damaged, but cotton not up; garden crops nearly all killed; nothing definite can be said about the fruit yet. _ Union-Fruit damaged; garden crops killed. York-Very few peaches survived the freeze, even hickory leaves being killed; cotton nor corn up. Barnwell-Fruit badly injured, and vegetables killed; cotton and corn not up generally. FIRE AT ALCOLU. Fire Started in Planing Mill of D. W, Alderman & Sons' Co., But Was Quickly Extinguished. Alcolu, April 20.-Fire started in the big planing mill of D. W. Alder? man & Sons Company, at 9:30 o'clock last night, and for awhile threatened to become disastrous. * It caught in some dry shavings, but owing to the early hour, and the promptness and efficiency of the fire brigade when the alram sounded, the fire gained but little headway. The night was unusually calm, with no wind, else the entire plant might have been destroyed. The loss is very slight At the Eutaw entrance to Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, stands one of the most remarkable sun dials iii the world- The time in many parts of the world is shown whenever the sun is shining. The base- is of carved bronze. The instrument was presented to the park by Peter Hamilton, who designed and made it entirely of I stone. THE FIRST DOLLAR SAVED IS .THE BEST. The Sumter Banking and Mercan? tile Company, of Sumter, S. C., wfll open a saving department and receive deposits . of one dollar and over OD which 5 per cent, per annum will be allowed, payable quarterly. The way to have a bank account is to start, and you will find it easy enough to keep it growing. Save your pennies and nickles and yon will soon haveMollars. Call and get particulars as to m crest, deposits, etc. Deposits, subject to check solicited. SUMTER BANKING AND MERCAN? TILE COMPANY, Sumter, S. C. Mar 21-tf ? I Colds It should be borne in mind that every cold weakens the lungs, low? ers the vitality and prepares the system for the more serious dis? eases, among which are the two greatest destroyers of human life, pneumonia and consumption. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has won its great popularity by its' prompt cures of this most common ailment. It aids expectoration, re? lieves the lungs and opens the secretions, effecting a speedy and permanent cure. It counteract! any tendency toward pneumonia.