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*ef.?*enfs1t ad* out . .11. ?41 JO OeotractS fer Uirst sseetha, or ndhY to m?oe at toduooi ni<*tfone welch eee wfM be energae |f*sw(< Hln14 not * tolerated. Governor ^ Wilson read a letter from Preelndent Toft regrett* < hie eboence. In which he said: "I have fTOat sympathy with the ohjscts of your meeting, which I an isrsSoad to he for the general nat? ional welfare by uniformity of State legislation upon subjects having nat? ional Interest, which sre not. by the Constitution, entrusted to Congress, and the central Oovernment. I wish for your masting the most successful Issue In substantial results." Oovernor A. J. Pothler, of HhOds Island, responded to the welcoming addresses of Qovernoff Wilson and I Mayor Polsgrove. ot Frankfort, after | which the visiting psrty and several prominent Kentucklans were cut. r talned at luncheon. At the latter session. Qovernor-elect Woodrow WfV ?on. of New Jersey, delivered an ad green on "possibilities of the C.v.i nor's Conference." Tonight Governor and Mrs. Will-1 eon gave a reception at the Govern? or's mansion Tomorrow morning a special train will carry the Governor** go IVrnhnille. where sessions will be held ant I Saturday. Among the| Governors present are: Weeks, Connecticut, Mann. Vir? ginia; Pothler. Rhode Island; Kit< h-| en. North Carolina; Fort. New Jersey; Noel. Mississippi; Harmon, (bit; Brown. Georgia; Draper. Massach. setts; Aasel. South Carolina, and Wlllson. Kentucky. The Governors-elect present are: Wilson. Now Jsrsey; O'Neill. Ala? bama; CfeOlO, Oklahoma, anil PlaUt ed. of Meine. KM II \lil>s W >HK. 1114.IVn (niton Pl??e 4.<mmU It?te Cane Tak ? n up b> Hoard of Itallnmd Coin Columbia, Dec. I - - John G. Pich r.rds. Jr.. who was appointed Satur? day by Governor Ansel to be railroad eomintssloner for the months r? malning unexpln-d of the term or Commissioner Sullivan, who db d Nov#ml?er 2. having been sworn In today, took hoi seat on the gfcjafd With (Vimmimlnn* n I-;.trie and I'aiiKbman and th*? Commission proeeeded 10 bear the railroad wide of the rotton piece goods rate Issue Testimony was tik.n xome time ago for the 131 Segeeg mills ivhb h petitioned for nduetions. Mm prominent t?-o '?? mannfaeturprs, railroad executives and attorneys are attending the pro. # edtri** Daniel hanks, a sailor on the lightship Relief was droa Charleston harbor Wednesdsy by the csplseing of a smsll boat. 'tat Jn?t 681. LI*? KKNTKJtlBlC ONLY IMPOSED lit J(D?H GACffiL Th? HhocUtHg 1H? tails ot M^H BlUlttl t rlmc-~Prc*4dliur JWIgf to Va** Ajik Semcocr Toidi SaVj4fV#era Ittey WrrA l.iK-kj t<> K^srapn.WUH Tlsefr Lite*. v 1 Lexington, Noy. I*.?Four "former employes of the Hj*fW>tok-Wallace k-4fU>oufi w?ir?. swAvrrf?tsVt* rife inxpria 'sAmoa* ^datf/or ' lauMerlas; Paul A. 1 jctr fr^.*\?>wista&*f known. Dr. Derrick was positive, from the congested condition of the lungs and the Mood vessels leading to them, that strangulation was the im? mediate cause of death. The evidence conflicted somewhat as to which of thS four convl jted men shot Paul Williams. The witnesses agreed that three of them, Urown, Wilson and Clark, the negroes, had pistols., Three eye-witnesses, all clr cue employes, laid the guilt on John Wilson. He placed It on Brown. One witness said that two shots were tired. The pistol bullet whbh pierced Paul] Wllllnms' brain was a .32 calibre The two eye-Altnesses both sald| that, when the shot or shots ??re fin d. Williams was crouching in a eorncr of a canvas wagon, begging for his life. James 0, Cabs of Cooper Hill. (in., one of the not? in the v gon. Who was 1 red lighted" after Williams was shot. doolarad that, while the boy was pleading, .lohn Wilson interrupted with "You are p d?n hard on ai niggers dOWBl South'" and tired point blank in hi: fare. After Williams was shot, he was thrown over the side of the canvas wagon. His body fell on the edge of the 11 it i ir. The murderers got out of the wagon and pushed the body off the ear, Drops of blood wars found along the crosstles 500 yardl from when- the body was found. This| corroborates the statements that the body was not thrown directly fr<?m| the wagon to the ground. It is possi? ble that his murderers made sure of I their work by strangling him whih he was lying on the flat ear, shot| thr .ngh the brain. In charging the jury, which brought] in a verdb t of guilty with reeom mendation to BftOTey in the ease of Nichols and ('lark. Judge ?Jage Idl them that, when two or more men I Wars eng iged in a common enterprise the net of ont was the act of all. He said that it did not matter who llred| the fatal shot, but that all wen equally guilty If tio \ wore aiding and| Shotting the crime. The eourt thank ? d .1 n Wingard and Barrett Jones,! lh< two mem ben of the Lexington! bar appointed for the defense, for ttM tl :?? manner in whieh they hadj performed their duty to the accused.! V. J Williams of Athens. Cm.. th< ither of the murdered boy, aas ln| ins eourt room during tin trial. Mr. Williams formerly lived In Columbia I R h< N he has rua ny f| lend) At the often.n sei Ion Garland I Brown and John Wilson, u.thsr |WW charged with the murder of Wil? hams, were allowed |o sign a plea of guilty and wa re seinen? ed to serve tlM i matador of th. ir lives nt hard labor m the stat- Pealtenttary. The Others, charged with minor offene.-;, assault and battery and robbery, en ?11 the ends Thou Alt R, 8. C? SATUJRI TflK HAITIST CONVENTION. enty-flvc HunkiK.sm Men of Elee uric City at Lncrena Wrilneaday Proposed Gift of One Hundred Thousand Dollars and Twenty \ote>*Slte to Nevure Greenville Fe ntule College. Uurcns, Nov. 30.?The time of I th?" ltttptlst State Convention nag I peen taken up today chiefly with th?* routine reports of the stand/?I ing boards on the different phases of the denomination's work, and the real business of the Convention will be transacted when reporU on these reports are made by cam mitte es up dnted tor that purpose. The de EWjfTmfyvt of the State mission jvotflc hd the enlargement of t\he colleges a,ve been the principal thoughts so., far presented to the Convention. President Walter H. Hunt presid? ed, todfey, but was relieved for a part of, the time by Vice President J. D. During the morning session the pro positLor of Anderson regarding L^e ef^abllshment of a girl's college ' there >tt presented by Capt H. II. Wattflhs, QhaArman of the % Anderson ; eornmltt^e, and referred to a spe ctal committee, consisting of the Rev. J&e|fcra.. L. ''J. Bristow, C C. BrowV fayfatyiighi. C. E. Burts and W. J. langston. Tbl? committee held- a session In the afternoon, at the Methodist Church, which was at Je4 by the entire Anderson dele An>?j>d nvany others. There were; lb* party probably 7 5 represent e bualtoesa^men of Anderson. I^^deao^natlons. ?t Wa?ihw again presented the Nation, which. In brief, eon atesA the establishment of a for pftagtgticiollejge at Anderson, wafchj^kadei'son agrees to donate f^p.eO^ and a 20-acre site. V^a^aW UNION PROMOTION. ? Appointed General So?U*Crn DivUdou. LV^oV. i^Annquiice-'j 11^^ bew tfils aft. ndpft thai H. C. Worthen, of New York, has been appointed general superintendent of the Southern di? vision of the Western Union Tele? graph Company, to succeed the late ?. F. Dillon. The appointment is ef? fective December 1. Mr. Worthen has been general In? spector In the office of Belvidere Brooks, general mapager of the Western I'nion. Itemarkahly Itapid Itlsc. New York, Nov. 29.?H. C. Worth? en. the new general superintendent of the Southern division of the Western I'nion Telegraph Company. Is a Southerner by birth, and at the igt of 14 has reached one of the highest positions in the telegraph serviee. He was born in Shelby. x. C, and being left alone by the death of his parents, was raised in the Oxford Orphan Asylum, where he learned telegraphy. When is yean old he staited out for himself, as an oper? ator on the Seaboard Air Line Rail' Way. In 1898 he joined the Western Union forcei as an operator and was stationed in various Western cities. His rise was rapid, and in the recent reorganisation] of the company hi assumed a prominent position in th< traffic department at New York head' quarters. One Cnse Before Recorder. Only one case was up pefore the Recorder Thursday and it did not take long to settle it. Arthur Phil? lips, a colored hack driver, was up <>n the charge of violating the hack ordinance, found guilty and sentenced to pay a line of $2.00, I ?r. Wilfred T. Gr< nfell, the fa? mous missionary surgeon of Labrador who has spent Seventeen years in that country, is spendin? a U w days in Charleston, tered pleai "f guilty also, with tri? exception of Frank Anderson. wh< was nol ti n d. the solicitor reaching flu- decision that no tase rested against him. The others, who were sentenced to serve a period of three years at hard labor upon the public Worki of the county, ;ir?: Paul Lewis, of Atlanta; Bd White, of Durham, n. Cj Roy Lieh, of Ilaselton, lint.; Have Woods, of Nashville, Tenn, The crime for which the four men will icrve the remainder of their ii\<s in tin- Penitentiary was one of the ntos1 brutal, perhaps, that has ever bet n committed in this state, the details of which are familiar to the reading public. Court adjourned Im? mediately after the sentences were pronounced. oa't at 0? thy Country's, THy God's mi >AY, DECEMBER 3, 191 THE EN6?SH ELECTION. CAMPAIGN PRODUCES MANY KU UPRISES. Balfour Drops Protection?Opposition Leader Throws Over Tariff Reform as Issue>?-Rosebery says Upper . House is Dead. Lund on, ' ,Nov. 30.?Tne present election campaign is one of amazing change. Lord Lansdown''s unex? pected presentation of a scheme for the reform 'Of the house of lords has been surpassed in suddenness by Mr. Halfqur's throwing over tariff reform as an issue of the elections., Lord Kosebery in a speech loday ?t Man? chester said: "The house of lords has ceased to exist; it has surrendered iis powers to the. nation. This is a fact of enor? mous importance." He admitted that it was death-bed repentance, but be contended* that d^ath-bed repentance, if sincere, was vtLlld and valuable. Mr. Balfour's 'idoptioi: of the refer? endum is generally attributed to pres? sure from an influential section of Unionists free traders, led by Lord Cromer, although it is claimed by the bulk of the Unionist party, one* their surprise was over, as a master stroke of skillful electioneering. The oppo? sition leader's change of tactics took the older Conservatives completely aback and caused consternation I among the ardent protectionists. I The Liberals characterize his atti? tude as adtioC slipperlness and oppor | tunism, The "Liberal lea lers, who were sur? prised equally as much .is the eon servatlves have not yet had time to adjust themselves to the changed conditions... David Lloyd George, chancelf^r ot the exchequer, speaking ^tonight, re? iterated thai the cost of a referendum would be*^'d,O*0.OQ0. It wei r mere I device, he said, to put a mo*, e effec? tive wee^a, in t^^hayus oi the [wealthy irlaasea The iiber?J* would lMfcV%rnOft|Vf It h . AUtftwthV^ IlkrtAlt*'- *n\er m.? r**tfcr^ for Ireland, speaking at Bristol, said that Mr. Balfour's proposal of the referendum was delusive, dangerous and unworkable, and calculated to destroy free representative govern? ment. The home secretary, Mr. Churchill, addressed two meetings at Sheffield tonight. He s..ld that no day passed without some Tory leader overthrow? ing some ancient principle of the Tory party. Nothing 'tvas more astonishing in this wonderful election than the panic which had overtaken that once pround and powerful party. Mr. Churchill was again subjected to suffragist disturbances, several un? ruly persons being ejected from the hall. The Ulster movement Is growing apace throughout the province. The Ulstermen have taken strong stand against home rule and the offers of subscriptions to a fund which Is to be devoted to the purpose of organ (sing a regiment and purchasing arms have risen from $50,000 to $120,000 in the past two days. In The .Magistrates Court. .Maggie Raymond was tried In the Magistrate's court Tuesday for steal? ing money from an old negro wo? man by the name of Dinklns, but as there was not sufficient evidence to convict, she was acquitted of the charge. Prank Brown, Abo was arrested about two months ago. for steal? ing cotton from the field of a farm? er down In the Concord section wan released Tuesday after he had paid a tine of $r?0. He has been In Jail ever sime his arrest about twu months ago and on that account Magistrate Wells made the penalty as small as possible. Cyrus Davis and Robert Franklin v.eie in the Magistrates office Tues? day alt? moon trying to recover a four gallon jug of Whiskey which Constable Muldrow had seised from the express office and which tiny claimed had been bought for prsonal Use. Franklin stated thai he was ac customed to drinking whiskey but thai he never drank enough to gef drunk. He stated thai he could drink a quarl ;i day and nol suffer ?I all from the effect and thai he was nc customed to drinking this much every day during the dispensary re? gime. He said that when there was a county dispensary that he made on an average of aboul $l a day and thai he spent about seventy live cents of this for whiskey. Five negro fishermen, of the mos? quito fleet, were drowned off Char? leston hay Monday. The other boats of the Meet weathered the storm. id Troth's." TH?'TRU -?-, . I KILLS HIS OWN PATftm Jim' Ferguson and file Aged I it I nr. Who Lives od Adjoining- Farms Quarrel Over Line. Abbeville. Nov. 36.?Yesterday af? ternoon at his home near Abbeville, j in this county, Jim Ferguson shot \ and killed *his aged father, John Fer-j guson. Both men are farmers and live on adjoining land. They quar? reled about the dividing line. Young Ferguson was ? brought here today. He claim3 his father was cutting him end he was forced to shoot' to sfxvo his life. The killing took place in the home of the son". 4 RAIII MADE OX EAGLE'S CLUB. Constable Mold row and < biei Brad? ford Sieze A Barrel of Beer and Sixteen Quarts of Liquor. Constable Muldrow and Chief of Police Bradford Wednesday afternoon raided the Eagles* club rooms, siezing one and a half barrels of beer and sixteen quarts of liquor and cordials, besides several bottles of beer. The raid was made about 3 o'clock, after it had been under advisement for some time by the officials, who] had reason to susjpect that liquor") was being illegally stored and sold in the club rooms. When making the search, the officers found several bottles of whiskey and beer in an Ice box behind the counter and other bottles- containing the same stuff up? on a shelf back of the bar. More bottles, and an unopened barrel of beer, were found In a small "well" storage room, and another barrel, he!/ full- of beer *as found In an adjacent room. The raid was conducted very quiet? ly and as soon as the liquor was fouud it was all plied up on the counter and later removed to the "well" storage room * and securely locked away, to remain until further action Is taken in the matter, and It can he remove*! to some other place. [.Immediately after the liquor.; rwaa found, ,Mr. J. Fred Wise, tb^ rna&ajger* {*oY ih* rmn v, as a i r v-f-o ? ??" rmfclV? ful storage and sale of liquor. Mr. J.x Darby White went on his bond, which was $500, and Mr. Wise w:as released from custody. Steps for a preliminary have not yet been vak en, and as the signing of the bond is equivalent to waiving the prelimi? nary hearing, it is doubtful that one will be held. DISSOLUTION OF SUGAR TRUST. Long Expected suit Begun by Fed? eral Gowi i?mt;it. New York, Nov. 28.?Attacking the American Sugar Kef.ning Company, familiarly known as the "Sugar Trust." us a lawless combination, the Fed? eral Qov? mment today tiled its long txpected suit for the dissolution of the corporation. The petition was died by Henry A. Wise, district attorney, In the United states circuit Jourt tor the southern district of New York, and the suit, which is brought under the Sherman anti-trust law, is expected to he one ol the most im? portant actions ever undertaken In j this country. The Gov< rnment's petition is a I length) one. occupying printed pages, and Is a sweeping arraignment ' of the defendant companies. One of the allegation - Is that the late 11. <?. Havemeyer, of New \.?rk, long head of the sugar combine, re? ceived $10,000,000 common stock of tin- National Sugar Refining Company of New Jersey, as a gift at the time the coporation w;is formed to take Into the combine four independent concerns, The Government also alleges that when the American Compan> took over four Phlladelphii companies, In? cluding the Spreckels Sugar Refining Company, Mr. Havemeyer and his brother, Theodore Havemeyer, bought forty-five per cent o? the dock of the Spreckels company and then sold ii at a large profit to the American company, of which both were dl dectors. The high school boys are very anx? ious to go to Marion to ploy the high school team from thai place. Marion has a team that bas no| been de? feated this year and the local boys since tlo ir victory over Laurens, are \er\ anxious to match strength and w it with Marion on their own grid? iron. The team is now waiting to hear from the Marion team as to whctbei- they want them to corns or not. The bicycle riders who formerly rode on the sidewalks in preference to the streets seem to have learned better for few arrests have been made for that offe nse in the past few days. a SOUTH?ON, EmabhstuA June, um Vol. XXXI. No. 29. _ . ', 01 COM DISCOVERED . AMAZJN?; ANNIKM FMINT MADE BY ARCTIC KU Pl/VKUR. M?u-fiu'iit May be startling, Ha/ ^, But Willing to Startle Wor' Awk (run Get Opportunity// >eut Ca*Mi and 4 Regain and Confitk-m*- of HJfe' F /Men. J? A Nerw York, Nov. v y>id I get to the North Pole? ^aps I made a' mistake in thJ <hat 1 did. Per? haps I did n v ?e a mistake. After ?Wture tq I confess that I do not know ax Attely whether I reach \jm, the* rf*ole or not'. This may come an amazing statement, but I am willing to startle the world, if by so doing, I can get on opportunity to present my case. By my case 1 mean ?>t my case as a geographical dis oveTer, but my case as a man. Much the attainment of the North Pole once meant to me, the sympathy and confidence of my fellow men mean more," In this way Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the Brooklyn explorer, In an article, which will be published in Hampton's Magazine, confesses that he does not .know whether he reached the North Vole or not. The publishers of the article issued a statement tonight, saying ^that nowhere In hit narrative does Dar. Cook either cast any reflec? tion on Peary or question Peary's claims. Dr. Cook, who has been In hiding for over a year, has informed the editors of the magazine publish- >M ing the story that he will -return to the United States with his wife and children December 22, in order to spend Christmas here, w;';Continuing, Dr. Cook says: "FuHy, freely and frankly I shall tell you everything. Teil you every? thing?and lewe the decision with you. If, after reading my story, you say "Cook is sincere and honest; hart crazed by months of isolation and hunger, he believed he reached ' the Pole; he is not a fakir;' then I shall be satisfied.** Dr. c < ok tells^the ?t.<^. i^feis Jjf&-*r j3?&w*Jm ti;Y< ?? what he cCle the over? powering ambition for exploration, until it finally culminated in his ef I fort to reach the Pole. Dr. Cook de? clares that, at the time he convinced I himself that he discovered the Pole I he was half mad. He spent two years I in his quest and during that time en? dured hunger and privation that, he I says, ?would unbalance any mind.. I Dr. Cook says that it would be im I possible for any man to demonstrate I beyond question that he had been I to the North Pole. He characterizes I the region as a region of Insanity, I where one cannot believe the evi? dences gathered before one's eyes. "I have been called the greatest It .r in the world, the most monu? mental tat poster in history," says Dr. Cook. "1 believe that in every unde? sirable way 1 stand unique, the object of such suspicion and vituperation as have assaibal few men." With this realization. l>r. Cook wrote his story and says that to him the honor of discovering the North Pole no longer means anything. The explorer has been working on his ? Story since last August, and says, ao- p cording to the editor of Hampton's Magaaine, "that his iole desire is to make the people of the United States realise just what he v.eat through during his two and a half years in the Arctic fastness, and t> ii ake uldOl set- what processes of thinking?or lack of thinking It was that led him to do the thing, which confirmed to the average mind the worst suspic i< ns against him." Dr. Cook then tells tie story of the days in Copenhagen ami later in NNew York, and of the crisis in his life that led to his Right from New York and his voluntary exile from the United States Dr. Cook and his wife are now in Riirope and the children are now In a convenl In France, Most of the time during bis exile Dr. Cook has In . ii in London Kernhaus and Moffltt have begun their work en Hie sewer line out at Green swamp where they are now (Illing in and excavating lor the in t illation id the end <U th dr line which thej will t did first, for the line will he begun at the outlet and jbullt up towards the city. Major Lee, the city engineer has been busy for tin past few days testing the pipe which the firm has shipped here to tee that it is of proper quality and I fulfills] the conditions of the contract. Mr. Barr i^ in charge of the work [that is now ^oi??K oti. The merchants seem to he very hate in getting their Christmas goods ready for Christmas shoppers, for as yet, only a few stores have any Christmas goods in their show vln dows or on display.