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HOUSE KILLS 1 2 RESOLUTION Decides Jfot to Limit Appropria j tions This Yea* to Five Millions ^rwi ?_ MORE LIGHT ON If ATI NKEDS NeAV^BilU to Abolish Tax Com? mission and Hoard of Publit Welfare Offered ColumM i. Jan 11. The House n! Representatives today killed the reso? lution by It re present .ttlvc Bramletl of Qtoenvllle to limit appropriations this year to five million detlara The House to??< the position that more light on ti e state m r?|s should 1? ? had before sn< h action is taken. In the Senat itoi Wi*h in.in, who car? ries a Iwittle nxe. offered new bills lo abolish the tax commflkelon and in a'.toiisb stj; t<- ho.u d of public welfare The work of the lax commission he TAould put to ihe eomptroller g< nernl and a hoard of aaoeaoora appointed by the governor. The Senate ad? journed til Tuesday morning i n the House till Monday night. BOND ISSUE FOR STATE BUILDINGS Bill Introduced to Provide Funds For Permanent Improvements Columbia, t.ian. 14.? ?Repreoenta tlve Thomas S McMillan, of ? har'. s ton. state* that In is preparing to in? troduce a resolution In ihe leglela iure. ti? provide for a bond iaaus for permanent Improvements to state in sfttuttori Mr. McMillan has not worked out the details yet, and II is not know for what imoun- Ifc* bond issue will be proposed. The txjmi issue aba ha-? lahen ?? strong bold on the public. flOV, Cooper urged it In Ins nnminl mes sage. Commlaslons studying the lax question ha\e sugucstcd it. and it Will HkeV meet with little opposition The Idea ii the bond Isens Is that the | permanerf improvements Intended to he of hrnetlf In coming years, would %?e paid for over n period of yeara, the burden not falling all ? n tin pres? ent tax p?n ? \_;.? ? 11-1 ( anthill*. The Charleston delegation Is plan? ning to Introduce In the legislature a! an early date a lull to req dre all car? nivals exhthitlna in their county t'> pay a hish license. This is don.- In the Interest! of the ?it\ of Charleoton. There 's iow an ordinance in the Si ! Hty of Charleston, repairing all car ntvali exhibiting In the *? it>? to pay ? high license. Tu u t Around this, etate members of the Charleston del? egatloa, the showe pitch their tents jnHt outside th<' Bit) limits, thereby escaping Ihe license, and yet drawing Ipatrbaage frtini the pily. The high li? cense for the entire* county will pre ivtnt the carnival* from dodging thin license it i? stau.?'. \<? More Ken Hands. Hcnntoe LightM*y, ?.t Hampton, In? troduced loday Iwo unusual tails af recttng hie county. On? would, it passed, prevent tip- rutting any more near i;??<i>? In hin oounty for the next two years, m would n-a Interfere with Ith? re|iolrlug of roadi nlreaiy In use I or the completion of federal ;<id pro? jects slready Blurted, The oth??r *?i11 ; ef his would authorise the county I supervisor of Hampton la eel I ihe 'poor farm, at n pvlc< 'Indlovcd to bo reasonable, tin- supervisor iu be the Judge of iliiM. ' Senator Crosson, of Lexington coun? ty, has Introduced In 111 <* state -? nute Is bill combining the iwo high schools ;ii aHteebura and Leesvlile, "twin I cities.** The combined districts would IfOrm U ROW high MChool district. th< new board of trustees t<? be formed ot tas memben of the two old boards. The senate yesterday adopted n res? olution permitting ihe Introduction of a toll authorising the nie of ihe pres? ent Charleston High school building, und Ihe use of ihe proceed! <>n erect* , in*; n now plant, genetor Ifoung, of ( harleston, sXplalns that tins bill is ni 11 satt i jr. because the original school : holds d legislative charter. gens tor Wight man, of Raluda, has a bill in f" f ih. legislature, calling Tor a twenty per rent reduction in the salaries of nil count) and elate oin rls Is. tboMsh Truant Ofllcers, genatar Wlghtman also hoe a I :'t lief ore Ihe esnate to , abolish nil truant othVns. and put the Work on sehool trustees, Manilla, Jan. 11.??Admiral Olenvcs With COart inquiry will leave Imiu't row for Vladivostok lo Investigate \ u killing of Lieut. Lontl Ion. Mar on, Jan, IS. Representative Rardney, of Michigan, who, us chair? man Of the hoaSS WO)'! and nouns committee Ii expected to have ? lead Ing ps? t In framing t ?x legislation at Ihe special lernt af congress after Manti ^th came to Marlon today t<> talk o? ? r federal taxation with Mr, i larding. Paris, Jan. il.??Raoul Perot, arho was asked yesterday In head the nea ministry of r^rance }n succession to the on?> which resign* I Wednesday, declined today lo form ;> cabinet, lie attempted ihe work yesterday but fon oil : discouraging. Ho tried again today to form a cabinet and fatb-d 11 then Informe?! President Mllleraud that hi- would not ilo mo. FLORENCE FAMILY j before, word of it ? mi Hi \ officials .-11?? TRAGEDY reached Florence ?hey Immediately risking officers 111 other Iowiim i?) watch ?>ut for L. 8. Bigham. Ft rat ret ?ort? of the trugedy t-. Ihe fart . 111:11 telephone and telegraph com* blea and had often spoken of them. |estate lands Two years ago While In- was post - muster at Or um In- wai charged with I the 'inn a shortage but then? hid ulwaya IrToreme Thi? matter is being investigated. II seems ihat about I Nr. Clev? land Bigham left the Bighams transferred I.. S. Bigham Committed Suicide ^??nto.n? .?To.? Following K;!lin?4 of Mothe Sister and Two Adopted Children been a ttucstion about this and i". 'their Interest in the estate to the had never been settled, lie also had (late .Mis. .1. iiogau Cain, the only spokcr of certain people who had Imember bf tin- family not on the last night 1 in i ii trying to do him wrong. "Thafcjbond. .i.in. l?;. t< mporarlly In brooding over llnanelal and embltti red hi family Florence sane from dl the til Ii' M 1IIIU I'llHilliriril i ?j iniimj | I rouble.4 |n which an estate worth I visit i" u U'dghboi probuhl; ITa.Ooii was at stake, L. R. 1 minutes Inter und Itlghuih yostcrdn) afternoon, accord- 1 staggering toward Ing i" ti" heal Information and be-1 jumped from his lief, Sho| his mother, his sister, the|Womui1 dmd almost latter's- two adopted children and then sent a bullet, crashing through his own train. The (had are: Mrs. VI, M, Bighorn, Mrs Mnrjorlc \. Illnck, Leo MoCrucken and .lohn Mc I Cruel; ( n and I.. Dig bain. .\l| u > ire evidently killed inntantly exc< >; 'Mrs. lilghanii the man's mother, win lived a tew momenta, and the d o .-a IChild, who dien a' 6 o'olock this morning. The tragedy took place at j the <dd Bigham home, live miles from Pampllco, Florence eoun"y. and 25 inimical ion wi h Pamplb r as impossible tu secure, it until >oday' thai the facts k now u. tlightim's broth r, E ham, hid left tie house with higlgase about in an abstracted manner, family in an automobile ut-3:l6|He did no| have a pistol that I knew o ejoi ?- 'I. returned from a. shorl lofi The pistol he did tin- hilling witli was not morning about l- o'clock we had became ' paid off the hands together and [noticed that my brother was awfully mund Iii;: I depressed. Me would stand up and All the deeda to tin- thousand or I j more acres of land be ar her name. Since lo r death it is stated thai Big ham has been attempting to get a settlement fi ?m her husband, who is a deputy sheriff of this county, but ihe matter .his not been closed. Rev eral pages have bten torn from the. ; house il? iul 20 ! wus mine, it was in my bureau 'ou mi hia mother I drawer when l left tin- house. There (deed books, the indexes Indicating Ihe road. He J was unother pistol somewhere in the that they relate to the Bigham land*, ar, but lb uged house, m m*y mother's room 1 think." .and in more than one case the word ? ?? fi re be i ; i;.-a i The testimony ??i airs. Edmund ing Of the deed:; were recorded in ? hnpp a l t h ? i iod: ! he;. Iloor her. Oth the housi the) bore ih !!,io the hull! blood oil tie vesti;;"? tlon whi h slaughter of l i ?? coroner's Inqti .? ?? i ham test Ified thai h< from the house on) ut i B. nod to drive by lime an l when oi Mrs. I lignum * w i \ idences of md began an In i vcaled the hen. At the . iy Ed mund B!g ?- had bei n aw a \" ? miles from this city. After slaying all within the lm.i< ? at the time, it Is thought, lllgham 'went deep Into the woods surround? ing the place and llred a bullet Into his brain. Win n Iii-; body was found I at noon today hla right hand still Igrasped the piatol, it v. .s ptatcd by the physician, who examined the body, that i Igluim find been d a i more than 11_' hour*. The dead per I sons were all ahoi In leach ease, tin- ballets I bent ? 11 ii th Ir lemph i lie had I? fi 1 the yn i d. Th? aei Ing at ra nge ho said, and ? any mere de] its usual. With n r l left m children and pi hud be. : I When family, mothe nt 11t* ii As far no <!''.'? brother standing in bn >l her had bei n f< a* i evcru I w e? ks. not appear to be scd yesterday than i go| into the car j to l:o to Pa mpiieo ; and sister and the J \ arlous occupa I ions h l know liiere | ling during Ihe I Bigham and lier two little daughters Ilong hand has been crudely altered who accompanied Mr. lllgham In the (to show that Mrs. Cain was entitled car iwa from tie- boas.- just before I to only a half or B third Interest, as] 'lie shooting, tallied at every point the cose might be, in the certain w h lhat ol Mr. Bighum. tracta referred to. The mutilation oC Then -I" some ?. ? ihe scene of Ithe court house records caused sonm [the hooting lodaj win* were in- jibing of a sensation and the matter I o doubt that Rmille Hlghamlhaa been kept quiet until absolute killing or Ievidence could be secured against L. tS. Bigham. _ the scene 1 -? 1 ? that -Mrs. ?*rom hei clin? h id Hi v. bolcsa li about l'u min-Ithat he had killed himscli From lb oi Lite rho 1 lack was situation at lg i* is llkelj ?.hot Hist. i, in t the er bef nets 1 i \ idem'.. or- ;.t into t lie .?hol he thoi ght ;i at he ihcn ro mi ;? nd t he clean lit l wound the slavei INVESTIGATING AT PAMPLICT Columbia, .lan IT.?There will be om ana coroner's verdict In the case oC the killing of the five members of the itraigh to i day. Inatead of going j?.??.mplh 1 l ?vi nt up iin- roni he lead in j poh Pox worth for u minute, iieiing just j t-ame back we saw mother atng Norn- were ou1 of the yard. I turned and caught the buck ? ???( nccts room with kill d \it :? do tin rushed down<rt|sham family at Pampllco, twenty mH molher , live mih s from Florence. Saturdav af i- on the piaxaa which Uernoon. for two weeks yet, accord. Kitchen and dining mg. to pi0fence advices today. Cotop 'ncr \V. M. Smith of Florence spent Monday at I'a mpiieo, milking a thorough InveeUgsvtion of the stt uatlon. especially in the light of the belief on the part of some citizens that L. S. Bigham, whose body was found in the woods near the home, appar nd th - youngest of the to see I children. The boy's body was \< WM I half way down the step- Indicating ,r j that he was trying to escape, in the ; meantime the other child evidently had made his way Into the yard and shot more than once, although two ;l glimpse of Smile < L. s. Bigham) 1 balls Were round near the back door turning Into the wooda almosi in ti ; v>" :; 1Uli down near a potato bank at | #.nl]y a suic ide, was not the perpe'tra | that h id missed their mark. Tic- ? nm. He had .11 ? right l and toward *n<* lral* of lne kitchen. | tor of the terrible crime, but that today i bout large plat ! used l < Bigham still con tulred r.n unexploded cartridge! I which ii' i ated thai the man reload? ed d ? ? his prgy of slaughter. The nir'inm home is nun than half a it a distant from any nolgh II siring I 'Use. Norn- could be found .. in? had hear any shooting Lhe place, A large crowd gut! red during the day and passed fr m room to room viewing the dead. The sight was n ghastly ono. < ?n a Ihm] in n downstairs room lay Ihe UKcd mother and tie- \oingsl c lit Id, their faces covered with blood, in \in- adjoining room tin- oldest of the children lay on n bed where he died at fi o'clock this morning, and !>? - ? de him the bmiv oi lllgham ^as placed when the senrehora returned with it todti.i Upstairs in the room she usually occupied was the bod) of ' Mrs. Majorie Black, oldest slaicr ol Pighom, it la j on the floor just in front of th- dresser. Until late this afternoon, when the coroner's j>t > completed taking evidence, tin- bodies were undisturbed. The funeral will probably he held tomorrow. The Icoroner's jury will not render a ver? dict until further Investigation has be. 11 made. .\ Ii hough tin- i raged Is n Id to I have occurred at 3:3a o'clock ycatcr Iday afternoon, It was late last night ad so mi I "ing In i ny nlstol. M y a'erc i arrymg T. l >. Garrison il come tiled my but she did not out on the bark L. S. terms up in count; sister, neer. his breast aa if he ha-: it but I did not si? mother died ua In r int?) t In- h< US< . and Hoyl Ilostick 1 the meantime. l i Mrs. Marjorle Illnck a nswer, i t hen v. < n plaaSa ami found .lohn McCraeken, the youngcsl child, dead thsre. My mothi r's cap was also on th ? Iloor just by the back door and there was blood all .-.liar, i believe my mother a nd t he child were i hot on tin piavza and that she tried to gel into the roud for help. It was almost dark, probably two hours after we reached home. Ihat we found Mrs. Black ?iead in her room upstairs. Later some on- found the other child, Leo McCrncken, on n pile of straw b? nind it potato bank out In the yard. He was ntl!i alive. We called Dr. Ponton as soon aa possible, The boy died aboul D o'clock thi.s morn? ing, it is evident th<- boy was run? ning when he wan shot. Mr. lllgham COUld noi say why 'he room of Mrs. Black was not aearched sooner. "It just happened." he said, "that* we i not think about it." i Someone had naked him to iro up? stairs but he jusi did not do It. Mr. Pighnm nlsai declared that his 'brother had been in financial trou '. in lllgham was about i " years <?'d. lie j someone else killed the members of was a (son of the la'e State Senator ,tin Bigham family. This theory is Bigham, w ho served several not generally held, bat there a re rout* in lhe senate, from 1**1 are nee j in the Pampllco community who doubt Pighnm was a civil engi* (the suicide idea. f The n? west development in the only survi\ing members of p*?e is that Mrs. Black, one of the the Pighnm fa ndl.?. now are Rdmund dead women, made her will last Bigham. who lives at the old home, |week, leaving her property to L. S und Dr. Cleveland Bigham, whose Bigham, the dead num. whereabouts (a unknown. Dr. Big- - ham was c u.vic?. d in the George- i The RuUtter Creamery company ex lown county court several years agoipecta to be ready for business by of :!;,? murder of his wife. He was j Monday, January 17th. Practically Benteni i j to three years, imprison- everything is in readlaeaa and the new ment in the penitentiary but before 1 machinery has already been installed, he could he taken to prison jumped j The plain Will be under the efficient his bond and has nbt been heard of [management of Mr. w. R. McDonald since. Th-1 amount of the bond was j who has been associated with tool Pitta $10,000. The state of South Caro- 'Dairy during the past year and prior linn has never bei n able to collect to that had charge of. the Columbia the bond money and the matter Is Creamery Co. Mr. McDonald has had now in the hands of the attorney i a number Of years' experience in the general for settlement, it is under- I dairy and creamery business and stood that lhe Bigham estate is re- 'had charge of several large creamCY* Bponslble fvr ihe money, all nrembera lies in the north before coming south. Of ihe family having signed the bond The Sumter Creamery company should except Mra J. Bogan Cain, who died rather suddenly during the influ? enza epidemic having a h US band and one si U. Afl a possible motive for hi - deed yesterday it may be stated tha '. S. Li* ham lias been suspected prove a valuable aaset to this city for reasons of health, convenience and service. All the banks of Sumter will be closed Wednesday. January 19th, that mutilating Ihe county records for j day being Ix-e's birthday, or a legil of the i holiday. lurpoi of getting hold i At Sumter, S. C. Opens Friday, January 21st The Big Stock of Clothing, Shoes, Dry Goods, Ladies* Ready-to-Wear, Underwear, Hosiery, Hats, etc., of THE BATTERY, at Sumter, was damaged by fire on the 22nd of December. * This tremendous stock of goods will be placed on Sale in the NEW H ARPER STORE, next to J. C. Brown, Opposite the Claremont Hotel, and will be sold entirely, WITH RESERVE, within a v ery short tim^. Thousands, upon Thousands of Dollars worth of High Grade Goods slightly damaged by water and fire will be sold at any price they will bring. The best chance of securing your future needs at a trifling of their real value. . , REMEMBER THE TIME AND PLACE Sale Opens Friday 5 January 21 st In the New Store Opposite the Claremont Hotel THE BATTERY SUMTER, s. c. i