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. A S Snlley Jr 26 auft 07 State House ESTABLISHED Of IS SHOT BY HIS SON lutfge Hargis, Famous Figure in Kentucky Political Annals. DIES WITH BOOTS ON. Beach Hargis, Young Son of the Judge, While Drinking Shoots His Father Five Times in His Own Store.?The Dead Man Was Mixed Up in Many Scrapes and Had Been Tried for Murder. At Jackson, Ky., former County Judge James Hargis, for many years aaember of the State Democratic exe cutive committee, accussed of com fllcity in many killings, and a prom inent figure in the feuds which have disrupted Breathitt County for sever al years, was shot and killed in his ?tore about 3:30 P. M. Thursday by ?J? son, Beach Hargis. The son fired fcre shots in rapid .succession at his father, who fell dead while his clerks were waiting on customers. The exact cause of the murder has aot been learned, but it is supposed *? have been the result of differences which hare existed be tween father and son for some time. The two men are reported to have aad a Bevere quarrel several nights ago, when the father, It is alleged, was compelled to resort to violence to restrain his son. Young Hagris, it Is said, had been drinking heavily of late. He came into the store Thursday afternoon and was apparently under the influ ence of liquor. Judge Hargis, it is said, spoke to his son about drink ing and a quarrel resulted. Father and son stepped behind a counter when the son, after a minute's con versation, drew a revolver and fired five shots. Four took effect, Judge Hargis falling dead. The young lady stenographer and the customers in the store fled. Young Hargis was ar rested and placed In jail. He was raving like a maniac and the officers were compelled to drag him to jail. Judge Hargis had been for years a prominent figure in Kentucky in po litical and criminal circles. He has figured in the Courts in the moun tains for years on account of the murders of Dr. Cox, Attorney Mar cum and "Jim" Cockrill. Judge Har gis was present leader of the Dem ocrats of the 10th district and was regarded as the "boss" of Breathitt County. For years his sway was not oppos ed, but some years ago James B. Marcum had the temerity to oppose Hargis in a law case. From that day he was a marked man. Judge Hargis had been on trial at ?various times for complicity in the murder of Marcum, "Jim" Cockrill -and Dr. Cox, but had been acquitted ?on all of the charges. He was re cently forced to pay a judgment of $$,000 to Mrs. Mircum in connec tion with the death of her husband. Judge Hargis had just disposed of this, the last of these cases in which he had been involved when he paid the judgment of tbe Court. Mrs. Marcum had sued Judge Hargis and others for $1 00,000, alleging that they caused the death of her hus band. The Hargls-Cockrill fued had Its inception In a political contest. The Hargises had long been dominant in Breathitt County, where they con ducted a general store, were engaged in the lumber business and were gen erally active. The brothers, James, Alexander and Elbert, were good business men and acpumulated a for tune. The trouble with the Cockrills arose when the latter opposed the the Hargises at the polls. Feeling ?was bitter, when one day, Benjamin Hargis, a younger brother'of James Hargis, met one of the Cockrill boys In a "blind tiger," near Jackson, and iwas killed by his enemy. tn the fall of 1902, Dr. Cox, the guardian of the Cockrill boys, who lived on the outskirts of Jackson, was shot as he entered his home one night by assassins concealed across the way. John Smith, John Abner and others of the alWal Hargis band were accused of the crime, and in a confession made by one of them Judge Hargis was charged with hav ing hired them to kill Dr. Cox. From this time on the story of the Hargls-Cockrill feud was written in 1 blood. The next to fall was "Jim" j Cockrill, the town marshall. Shortly after the murder of Cockrill, James B. Marcum. the attorney for the Cockrill boys, created a sensation by publicly declaring in Lexington that he was a marked man, and that he had been doomed to death by the Hargis clan. One morning in May, five years ago, Marcum was shot down while standing at the door of the Court House at Jackson talking to Capt. Ewing, the assassin being Curtis Jett, "the wild dog," who had since con fessed his part in this tragedy and who was accused to the other crimes. He and "Tom" White are now serv ing life FP'itrnce if the penitentiary. Judge Hargis will be burled in a cas!;ci costing $100," which he had purchased a month ago. About 4.30 Thursday afternoon /the following message was sent: "Express to-day casket selected by James Hargis as he is dead." ? "Mrs. Judge Jumes Hargis." SG9. MORSE RAN AWAY. Big Trust Magnate Now a Fugi tive From Justice. Wrecked a Big New York Bank of Which He Was President, and Sail ed For Liverpool. A dispatch from New York says that Charles W. Morse, less than five months ago worth $20,000,000, head of the Coastwise ship, and the ice trusts, capitalized at $127,000, 000, and in control of a chain of banks, capitolized at $10,000,000, is a fugitive from justice, having sailed from New York for Liverpool. When this came to light Receiver I Hanna the official of the federal J government, who has charge of in vestigation that the grand jury is making into the bank juggling which led to the failure of the Bank of North America, has attached his Fifth avenue mansion for $243,321. 25 due by Morse to the bank on promlsory notes long over due. Twice Morse has been before the grand jury where he was subjected to grilling examinations. It is known that ir iletment has been determined upon l*y the jurors, but it is stated by District Attorney Jerome that he knows of no reason why Morse should flee, fearing criminal prose cution. Mrs. Morse, who was dragged through the'scandals attendant upon the Dodge-Morse divorce case that landed Abe Hummel on Blackwell's island, is living alone in the mansion at No. 728 Fifth Avenue. This stands in the name of Morse, and Is said to be worth $750,000. It is already mortgaged for a large amount and has been attached in a suit by R. A.. C. Smith for $155,753.36 in a claim for a conditional sale of five hun dred shares of National Bank of North America stock and also libell ed by the federal government for $243,321.25. ( In the wreck that followed the driving out of Morse from his pres idencies and directorates in banks he controlled, his repudiation by the management of the re-organized ship trust, the dropping out of sight of values of the ice trust stock and the wreck of banks that has follow ed the revelation of banking meth ods that have been criticised, Morse's fortune is believed to have been ; swept away in three months. Reports of Morse's loses followed each other in rapid succession. One of these was that the creditor banks might unite in making him an in- < voluntary bankrupt, thus asorbing the remnants of his fortune. Deputy sheriffs were kept busy serving cop ies of the attachment in the suit brought by Charles A. Hanna, re ceiver for the National Bank of North , America, la New York, against Morse to recover $243,321. Copies of the attachment have been served on officers of the 14 banks in which Morse was supposed to have accounts. A deputy sheriff has seized 6,409 shares of stock of the Furnace Valley Copper, said to be j owned by Morse. Another levied on , stock in the Kingsland Copper Com- ! pany, said to have been owned by \ Morse. A deputy sheriff also has . served a copy of the attachment of . K. A. Wilson, in charge of the Morse . resident in 5th avenue. * . THEY WANT FOOD. Startling Story Told by a New York School Teacher. That many of her pupils come i without breakfast to school, that on occassions several have fainted in the class room from want of food, and that repeated appeals to charity organizations brought nothing more i than long-delayed replies to the ef fect that "an investigation would be made" are among statements made by Mrs. C. T. Tower, principal of pub lic school No. 114, at 73 Oliver street, New York. ? WORKED SOUTHERN FOR PASSES Young White Man Arrested at Green ville on New Charge. J. H. Clark, a young white man, was arrested at Greenville on Thurs day, charged with obtaining passes from the Southern Railway by mak ing false representations. Clarke represented himself as being an en gineer on the Southern, and in this way secured many passes. When ar rested he had two quarterly passes of the New YTork Central on his per son, both of them being made out to, different parties. * DISLOCATED HER JAW. Laughing at a Funny Story Told Her by Her Husband. While Mrs. Mary Lambertson was j at 6upper with her husband, at their I home, Brooklyn, he told her a funny [story. When the point of the story 'was reached. Mrs. Lambertson laugh led so heartily for several minutes that she dislocated her jaw. She was taken to the Seney hospital, where the jaw was reset. * Don't Like the Name. At Violin, S. D., the parents of a new-horn daughter having named' her Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, their, neighbors are indignant und threat-, en violence unless the child's name is changed. * I ORANGEBTJ] HERO MORGAN Ti GOT VERY HOT. Members of the Sanats Gets Ex cited Over an Editorial IN MANNING TIMES. It Was Claimed That Senator Appelt's Paper Had Made Grave Charges Against Some Senators.?Senator Appeit Was Roundly Abused, but He Hit Back and Said He Would Criticise Them When He Saw Pit. There was a red hot time in the State Senate on Friday. Senator Blease of Newberry read the follow ing editorial from the Manning Times, which had been copied in the Mewbebrry Observer. The Manning Times is owned and edited by Sena tor Appeit. Before reading the arti cle Senator Blease said he did not represent any whiskey house, and :herefore the article did not touch him, but he thought the Senate Dught to take notice of the article, ivhich reads as follows: The Casus Belli. "The liquor scandals continue to hold interest, and the graft gang are :rying to work up a sentiment against attorney General Lyon because of his laving employed Col T. B. Felder, )f Atlanta, Ga., to assist him. They ;ay, 'Lyon had to go to Georgia to jet help, as though South Carolina lid not have good lawyers,' but such *ot will fool nobody when it is known ;hat the liquor crew have in their ?elations with the winding-up com nlssion of the state dispensary 're .aincd a large number of lawyers in Columbia and other cities, and some )f these are also members of the leg slature, who will probably fight the iroposition of making an aopropria :ion to defray the attorney general's 5xpenses In bringing to justice men ivho have robbed the state. To sen sible men it matters not where the assistance comes from, whether it lomes from Georgia or South Caro ina, but it happens that Col. Fel ler is a South Carolinian, and is re ated to the Felders of Clarendon. I happen to know the man, although I have not seen him since coming here, rle is an able, fearless lawyer and will expose the names of members jf the general assembly who attempt l.o use their relations is attorneys for these liquor concerns to thwart the legislation necessi ry to uphold At torney General L 'on's hands. In formation has already been obtained sufficient to place some men in a| rery undesirable attitude before the people, and if there is any further attempt made to 'tamper with the jury' to defeat an appropriation to sontinue investigation and bring to justice the thieves' the newspaper reading will become mit,hlyl interest ing, and the hypocrisy of some of our patriots' will have its mask torn away, and they will be held up for indignant derission and scorn of a trusting and outraged people." Several Statements. Senator Earle denounced the pub lication in nc uncertain terms. He said he had never represented a whiskey house, nor had he been con nected in any way with the State dispensary commission. He said that such statements as those contained in the article from the Manning Times were "infamous falsehoods" and he demanded that the author of the article specify what senators were referred to. "And any member of the senate," said Senator Earle, "who will publish such statements should be expelled from the senate." Senator Appelt's Statement. Senator Appeit, who had sat with silence under the stream of denun ciation heaped upon him, but whose face had grown red and then white, came to his feet quickly when Senator Earle had concluded his remarks.. He demanded to know if the senatoi from Oconee meant to say that he RG, S. C, TUESDAY, FE WES A SOUVENIR AFTER PUT (Appelt) had stated what was a ' falsehood. Senator Earle said that the Infor mation contained in that article was. false and insulting. Senator Appelt declared that a. "tempest in a teapot" had been stir red up. He said that he wrote the article referred to and was alone re sponsible for its publication. He said that he based that article upon. Information which he regarded an authentic. No names were given to j him by his informants, but he de blared that he was satisfied that the statements contained in the article in so far as they related to members of the general assembly being attor neys for whiskey houses were abso lutely correct. He said that while he was a member of the senate he was also an editor of a newspaper and! fejt priviledged to criticise persons whenever he had information upori A-hich to base such crtticlsnn. He said that if anybody was to be expelled from the senate it should be those senators who represent whiskey houses and who would use their official position to defeat the ends of legislation seeking to give to the attorney general funds with which to prosecute the grafters. He said to Senator Earle he had no right to know from whom he got his information, or what that infor mation was in detail. Represents Two Houses. Senator Weston said that it is a penalty that men in public life pay to be misunderstood by some good men and to be misrepresented by some bad men. He had no apoligles to make to any member of the senate or to any nwspaper man or anybody else for his professional conduct. He had been honored by the people of Richland county for many years and it is for them to say whether his con duct meets with their approbation. He stated that the law firm with which he is connected, Weston & Ay cock, represents two of the liquor houses which have claims pending before the dispensary commission, but no man could say, he declared, that his vote or his actions in tlie senate were influenced by such rela tions. He said that one of the houses he represents placed their claims in his hands bfore the commission was established, the New York and Ken tucky Distilling company. Senator Christensen's Criticism. Rising to a question of personal privilege, Mr. Christensen said: "I too, am an editor and during the sessions of the legislature have occasion to comment on events In the legislature. I have commented in a general way on the situation discussed by the senator from Claren don in his paper and the senator from Richland, who has just taken his seat. "It Is my belief that the senator from Richland has not acted in any way inconsistent with his ideas of what is right and proper. But I disagree with him and have said so and propose to condemn his course again if I think proper. He repre sents some of these liquor houses whose claims are being investigated and some of the ex-State dispensary officials who are under indictment and thinks it proper and right as State senator to oppose in the senate the bill to provide the attorney gen eral with funds to prosecute his clients. I disagree with him and habe so staled elsewhere and wish to put myself on record here." Snator Raysor's Statement. Senator Raysor said that he re gretted that it was necessary for him to raise a question of personal privi lege, but he felt compelled, under the circumstances, to enter his pro test against the charges contained in the newspaper clipping which had been read. i He said he voted against the Otts | resolution because he considered it unwise, but he had publicly proclaim-! ed from the floor of the senate that he would vote to give to the attorney general any amount of money he needed in the prosecution of cases arising from the investigation of the affairs of the Stale dispensary. lie thought that the attorney gen eral should be given all the assist ance necessary in those matter**?in justice to the Ptato and to the men hinder indictment the charges arising from that investigation should be BRUARY 11, 1908. riNG OUT THE FIRE. aired; the authorities ought to go to the bottom of them. He said that he had never repre sented a whiskey house in any claim before the dispensary commission and he does not represent any of the parties who have been indicted as a result of the investigation of the af fairs of the dispensary. He said he had been approached by one man who was formerly connected with the State dispensary and although this man was a lifelong personal friend and he has confidence in his integ rity he refused to consult with him until after the adjournment of the legislature. Senator Sinkler Warms Up. Senator Sinkler also rose to a question of personal priviledge and made some very caustic references to the publication in question. He said that he voted against the Otts resolution because he considered it improper for tht> senate to pass such a resolution when the act of the gen eral assembly of South Carolina is before a court for interpretation. "But," he declared, "if any man imputes to me wrong motives for vot ing as I did on that measure, or charges me with being recreant to my duty to the State, that man hath not a fig leaf to cover his naked in decency and it would be base flat tery to call him a dog." A Further Explanation. Senator Appelt thonght he could clarify the atmosphere to some extent by explaining that this article appear ed long before the Otts resolution was introduced and so far as he knew before that resolution waa ev er contemplated. No reflection was intended upon any member for hav ing voted against that resolution as it would have been quite impossible to cast such reflections in advance of the introduction of the resolution and before the vote was taken. He had simply been given information contained in that article and got the information from a source which could be relied upon. Resolution Offered. Immediately upon the senate re convening at 4 o'clock in the after noon, Senator Smith of Hampton of fered the following resolution: "Whereas, certain allegations have been made Impeaching the honor and actions of members of the senate and house of representatives in re gard to Igislation upon the whiskey question now before the courts, the general assembly and the people of South Carolina. "Be it resolved by the senate, That a committee consisting of two sena tors, to be appointed by the president of the senate, wait upon the author of said charges?the senator from Clarendon?and ask that he appear before the bar of the senate at 8 o'clock, p. m., February 10th instant, and produce the names and evidence in suport of said charges." Stands by His Guns. With reference to this resolution, Senator Appelt said that he consid ered it untimely, uncalled for and un nesessary; that if he were required to appear before the bar of the sen ate he could do so, but that he would 1 only reiterate what he had said at the morning session and no other statement would be made. He dclared that he would riot ma liciously injure any man, and while he wrote the article in question and published it in his newspaper, he felt that no senator not guilty of what was charged in that article had a right to assume that it contained a charge against him. lie said that he felt that it was not only his priviledge but his duty to give to the public through his newspaper such Infor mation as is contained in that article and that he would continue to do so (regardless of what action might be taken by the senate. He said that he had not been giv en the names of any senator with re gard to this matter, therefore if brought before the bar of the sen late he could not give any names. He i read thf article, as it was taken from I the Newberry Observer, and stated I that it contained errors in :he way jof the ommission cf quotation marks. He st.id that the ommission of the quotation marks might have been the fault of hs own office, thi I he did not get an opportunity to read proof on the article and it w.-s possible that certain of the quotation marks SIX MILL TAX. Likely to be Levied for State Pur poses This Year. Q _ This Would Be an Increase of a Mill and a Half Over the Tax of Last Year. The appropriation bill which was presented to the House Friday by the ways and means will carry the levy to five and one-half mills, and per haps to six mills. The levy for 1907 is four and one-half mills, which was not sufficient to raise the appropria tions. The bill as reported will carry $30,000 for the new auditorium building desired by the University of South Carolina; also $43,744 for support and other items, which will bring the appropriation for the Uni versity to $83,569.64, as against $64,038.93 last year. For Winthrop College, the sum of $64,435.22 is given for support, and $2,000 additional for septic tanks, raising the total amount to $78,059. 82 as against $74,563.70 last year. This sum does not include the $24, 000 voted for a new dormitory, nor the $12,500 for practice school, al ready appropriated. For the Citadel, the sum of $30, 000 to repair the recently purchased police station is included, together with the $7,500 due as second pay ment on the purchase, making the total appropriation $62,750, as against $36,750 last year. For the industrial school at Flor ence the sum of $10,000 Is given. For continuing the improvement of the State House grounds the sum of $10,000 is given, the commission having asked for $25,000. The appropriation for the depart ment of immigration is as follows: Salary of commissioner, $1,900; clerk $1,200; expenses, $3,000; sten ographer, $600; handbook, $4,000. Total, $10,700, as against $14.000 last year. There are no other important changes in any of the other State officers except that of Attorney Gen eral. The salary of the assistant Attorney General is raised from $1, 500 to $1,S00, the contingent fund is raised from $200 to $300, the litiga tion fund-is placed at $2,000, and the_stenographer Is given $600, mak ing* a total of $6,725, as against $8, 075 last year. The sum of $1,000 given last year for any prosecutions of State offi cials, and $1,000 for prosecuting the Southern Railway merger suit are not included this year. Attorney General Lyon asked for $5,000 to prosecute the merger suit and requested that he either be giv en a sufficient amount or be not re quired to prosecute the case at all. The amount asked is not given. For water supply the amount is fixed at $3,000, as against $5,000 last year, and thh will likely be in creased on the floor. For interest on State debt the sura of $300,000 is allowed. The amount for pensions is fixed at $250,000, the same as last year, and all other Items are prac tically unchanged, except those not ed above. There are no increases in salaries except small ones already mentioned. The committee on ways and means has spent a great deal of time on the bill, having several meetings a day, and Chairman Banks and Secretary Aull have been about the busiest men in the General Assembly for the lust two weeks. * FATAL TARGET SHOOTING. Young White Man Accidentally Kills Young Colored Man. Will Harper, colored, was accident ally shot and killed near Troy in Abbeville County on Tuesday of last week by Lewis Robinson, a young white man. Harper and Robinson were in the woods together cutting wood, and that Robinson had carried his single-barrel shotgun with him. While in the woods the two began shooting at targets, and afterwards shooting at a piece of timber, which first one and then the other would throw into the air. Harper had shot once, then Robinson tried his luck. His first shot went wild, and in re loading his gun and getting ready for the second shot it was accident ally discharged, the entire load of shot striking Harper in the neck, killing him instantly. * were omitted, but anyway, they did not appear in the clipping from the Newberry paper as he bad written I them. With the quotation marks in serted as he wrote them, the state-, Dients to which such serious excep tions were made appear as coming! from a third party, just as they were given to the senator from Clarendon. Resolution Withdraw n. Upon hearing the statement of the senator from Ciarendon, Senator Smith asked leave to withdraw the resolution and this was done without objection. The question now appears to be a closed issue. However, Senator Sink ler found it necessary to rise again to a question of personal privilege on account of what he characterized , as a grossly inaccurate report of what] he had said at the morning session : in an afternoon paper. It was stated! in that paper that he had referred to Senator Appelt as being lower than a dog, which was Incorrect. . > said Unit he used no sm-h huigu...- and his language had either been misin terpreted or misunderstood. ?! 81.50 PER ANNUM. A RED HOT TIME. Florida Republicans Hold Two Two Strong Conventions. REMARKABLE SCENES Knocking Down and Dragging Out of Delegates Not Least Exciting Feature of Meeting. Two Factions in Session at Same Time, One En dorses Taft. Other Does Not In struct Delegates. The fight for delegates to the Nu tional Republican Convention from the South has commenced between the Roosevelt and the Foraker forces. Florida Republicans stand conspic iously in the lime light as being the first to hold their Convention to se lect delegates to the National Con vention, and it is said that the stren uous and exciting scenes enacted at St Augustine Thursday are merely a forecast of similar scenes in other Southern States, caused by the des perate effort being made by the Anti Roosevelt Republicans for control in the National Convention. The Convention held will go down in history as on* of the most re markable ever held by any political party. It was really two conventions held at the same time in the same hall, the progress of business being frequently interrupted by sensational knock-down and drag-out fights. The office-holders faction was call ed to order by the chairman of the State committee and they proclaimed themselves as the regulars, but they did not succeed In carrying out their prearranged programme. The Taft sentiment was too strong for the leaders to hold In check and strong resolutions were adopted emphati cally endorsing William H. Taft for the Presidency. On the other side the hall the con testing convention took the conser vative action and coose delegates ab solutely untrammelled by any in structions, they being given positive assurance by Joseph N. Stripling, who led the movement, that despite the fact that they were branded as bolters by the Convention, the dele gates they named would certainly be seated In the National Convention. The office-holders' Convention adopt ed resolutions approving the policies of the Roosevelt administration and the conservative manner in which he ha? carried them out, and instructed the delegates to the National Conven tion to support the President's pol icies and the candidate who Is in sympathy with and who will carry out these policies, and then proceed ed to name William H. Taft as such candidate. The Anti-Taft Convention adopted resolutions condemning in strong terms the attempts to influence and control by use of Federal patronage, through governmental office-holders, the selection of delegates to the Na tional Convention in the interest of any Presidential candidate. The office-holders' Convention elect ed as delegates to the National Con vention J. N. Coombs, member of the national committee from Florida; Joseph E. Lee, colored, collector of internal revenue; Henry S. Chubb, received of the United States land office at Gainsville, and M. B. Mac Farlane. collector of customs at Tam pa. Four alternates were also elect ed. The Anti-Taft Convention elected as delegates to the National Conven tion Joseph N. Stripling, former United States attorney; J. Ed V. Haz zard, J. H. Dickerson and R. R. Rob inson, the two later being colored. They also elected four alternates. The Congressional district con ventions of the 1st and 6 th districts of Florida were held by each fac tion immediately after the adjourn ment of the State Convention, and each of these conventions elected del egates to the National Convention and adopted the same resolutions as the State conventions of their re spective factions had already adopt ed. Never has such a sight been wit nessed as was presented In the Con vention hall. The city marshall and a dozen policemen were on duty and were frequently called upon to eject unruly delegates. The Taft delngation had a complete delegation from each county aggre gating 177. Iu the opposite Convention there were two or three counties hot rep resented, but they haV In all about one hundred and fifty delegates who participated. The Taft Convention nominated five Presidential electors, but the opposition Convention dele gated the choice of electors to a State committee named by their Con vention. * EIGHTY-FIVE OPERATIONS Were Performed on Woman Who Finally Succumbed. At Peoria. Ill, Mrs. Martha Ann Davis, aged GO years, died Thursday night after an illness of dropsy. Dur ing this time Mrs. Davis had been operated on 85 times, and 2,000 ;?! ipment of cotton from Infected :cr ncunds of water drawn off at dif ferent operations. Physicians de clare the case in bo one of the most singular of iio kind in medical his