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-MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, ARC , NO.80 THE LAND STEAL Ex-Secaruy Garfield lak SOMe Sea simal Statements BAUGER SHWN UP Garfield t-onnects Him Directly With a False Afidavit Gotten up in the Who Attempted to Bunce the Who Attempted to Buncoe the Government. Jamem R. Garfield. former secre tary of the interior. was finally ex cused from the witness stand at the Ballinger-Plchot investigation late Thursday afternoon. His anal half hour before the committee furnished the sensation of what had been up to that time a decidedly dull day. Mr. Ga-deld stated that r. Bal linger. after having been commission er of the land office. submitted to him on Septemeber 17. 190S. an aMdavit si.ned by Clarence Cunning ham, containing the statement that the Guggenbeims had no interests whatever in the Cunningham group of coal mines in Alaska. while as % nwatter of fact, the records of a r cent hearing before the senate com n ittee on territories show that prinr t- the making of the affidavit th G-ggenheim syndicate had been giv e,. an option on a half interest in al' the Cunningham claiu~s. Attorney Brandeis. who was ques tioning Mr. Garfeld. fiollowed up' tse declarations by reading from S-eretary Ballinger's report to Pres Pent Taft on September 4. last. con ccrning the Glavia charges. the state nent that Mr. Ballinger had suggest ed to Mr. Cunningham an amend znent to an affdarit made prior to the one which he presented to Soc retary Garfield in September. 1908. and that Mr. Cunningham made the amendment by explaining in detail what he meant yb certain terms used In . former affidavit. .3L. Garfield said Mr. Ballinger. In givIng him the aMdavit left the impression on him that his action was entirely casual and that he had been requested by friends in Seattle to leave it on file or whatever it might be worth. Mr. Brandeis thea called attention to the fact that the name of Mr. Ballinger's law firm was printed on the backing of the afmdavit. The former secretary of the in terior was examined and cross-exam ined as to his administration of the ofce which he gave up to Mr. Bal linger on March 5. 1909. Mr. Gs feld, in explaining what he did in the matter of the withdrawal of lands without specifc provisions by law, declared he was worN.ing in the interests of the people and to pre vent monopolistic control of power sites and consequent etortloaate prices to the consumer. The former secretary took issue with Mr. Ballinger as to certain statements made by the latter In his reply to President Taft regarding the various charges made against him. Mr. Garfield said he could not re call any conference with Mr. Ballin ger regarding the Cunningham coal claims, although Mr. Ballinger said he had immediately conferred with Mr. Garfield after the receipt of Glavis' prs't against the clear list ing of the'Alask.. claims. Mr. Garfield admitted that in urg lng general coal legislation by con gress early in 1908 he had made the statement that he was willing to condone fraudulent entries in Alas ka provids~d the entrymen were com pelled to pay an increased price for the land to the government. BANK CASRIER SKIPS. With Ten Thousand Dolar of the Bank's Money. Savannah has a sensation on hand. James M. Doyle. teller of the Hiber ala bank and first lieutenant in th' Irish Jasper Greens, is short $10. 000 in his account with the bank and is a fugitive from justice. 11 has been found that Doyle. thougl' married, was intimate with a woma: who is now supposed to be in At lanta. He came much exeited o* Friday night, when he found th woman had gone, and said he wa' going to find her. His cash wa: recently checked up and found t be correct. He is believed to ha" taken the money Saturday afternoor late. It was all in large bills. Heavily Fined. The Spartanburg Journal says ir the police court of that city Thurs day morning George Dearman. a well known young man about town was tried on 166 counts of violatin; the whiskey ordinance and was found1 guilty on each count and sentence' to pay a fine of $100 in each ca. or serve 30) days in each cas* I fines aggregated $16.600. while 'n' prison sentence aggregated 4.9S' days. or a little more than 14 years Was Found Dead. At Anderson Paul E. Ayer. twice candidate for Mlayor of the city and brother of Hartwell M. Ayer. of Floren"'. was found dead in his bed at a boarding house Wednesday at noon. 3Mr. Ayer remained in hIs room Tuesday and when he failed to come out Wednesday his landlady called a noific.er who entered his room and found him dead. Two Cruel Brutes. Two men were arrested at San An tonio. Texas. charged with burningt a horse. It is alle~ged they threw kerosene oil over the horse whii they were intoxicated and set fire te the old. The animal being turned loose. dashed thr~ough the streets ablaze. The horse died. Hfardie's fatt er w as one of the witnesses aginst his sont CALS CONVEMlON FARMERS TO MEET TO PLN FOR CAMPAIGN. Fa-mers Propose to See That Legis tors Heed Their Demands In the Future. Prisident Charles S. Barrett of the National Farmers' Union has called a national convention of farm ers at the Coliseum at St. Louis to continue in session from May 3 to % It is to discuss needed natlo.il and State legislation and to estab lish bureaus at different capitals to see that the demands of the farmer are heard, and to devise some means of making the farm more attractive li order that the proposed solution of the economic problems of today "back t. the farm" may be made possible. President Barrett in his call says: "This will be a national mass meet Ing for farmers unparalleled in scope. probably in importance, un doubtedly in attendance. In th- 'his tory of America. I invite not only every member of our organization. but also all agricultural organiza tions and all American farmers with - out regard to location or organiza tion. "Throughout the present session of congress the farmers' union has maintained a legislative bureau at Washington. This bureau is prepar ing a report in which the status of egslation demanded and needed by the farmer is set forth. It will b read at St. Louis. "At no time In the history of the xation has the farmer been the ob ect of more solicitude to thought ul public men. From congress. from every pulpit goes up the cry 'baek to the land!' Expert students of conomics are warning us that un ess the lot of the farmer be im roved, unless more of his number be kept on the farm, we shall son& be depending on foreign nations for some of our food. It is. there fore, at this time that I invite the farmers of~ America to join hani. rain and heart in 4 council whiah hall thresh out issues close to the life of the natioa." President Barrett says headquar ters will be opened at once in St. %ouis. NEGRO PREACHER LYNCHED. 'Parson" Wallace Dragged from His Home and Swung Up. At Gracewood. Miss.. "Parson" Mallace. a negro preacher. was lyn -hed by a mol, early Wednesday. rhich sought revenge for the serious wounding of Patrolman J. W. Slack y the negro late Tuesday nigh?. The egro was badly wounded in his light with the oMeer and when he ell into the hands of the mob, it as necessary to drag him to the elegraph pole to which he was ainged. Slack is said to have gone to the egro's house to dollect a bill which e claImed the negro owed him. It Is alleged that when he spoke to the negro, that he was struck and moked dcwn and in the tussl hich followed, the negro got the fflcers pistol and shot him through the wrist. Several other wounds1 were inflict 4d on the omcer who finally got bold of the pistol and shot the no ro several times. Charles Coleman. nother negro had by this time come o the officer's assistance and the tight was stopped. The negro lay on the porch of hIs ome while a mob gathered and talk d4 of lynching him. Leading elti -ens of the town pursuaded the mob o disperse but they later gathered nd dragged the negro out into the reet and swung him up to the ile. WANTS NECK BROKE. 'hot Two Women Because They Re fuse to MaRny Him. At Marion, Ind., Sanford Love 'lled at the home of 'Danee, Miss .tte Murden. Thursday and shot er twice, once in the rbeast and a the back. She will die. Eight eas ago. Love shot anethat young 'oman. Nora Miller. to whom he was engaged to be marrIed. She ecovered. Miss Murden. after a -arrel with Love. had broken her agagement with him and he shot her rter she returned the~ letters he had rtten her. Love is 28 and Miss 'urden 1S. He surrendered to the .olice. DEATH PACK EXECUTEJD inshand and Wife. Tired of Life. Take Poison Together. Executing a de~sth pact grim and esolut'. Dr. Charles C. Beon. agrd 3 and his wife. Isabell. aged 67. of "hiladelphia, sat opposite each other 't the breakfast table Sunday morn nc and drained two glasses contamn ag poison. dying soon afterwards. hrn the apartment was entered. the 'tor and his wIfe were found seat ed face to face, w~th th-ir he-is iroping. Two notes were left on he table: onle read: "My dear wvife :d I decided that we do n-h wis'i -longer liv'e. We committed sul -ide." Jerked Off Fingers. At Chester Wednesday afternoon ohn J. Peny was the vietimn of a horrily painful accident. He was -inin a buggy and leading a mule near the York county N-na. The nue became frightened and pulled ack vIolently and the first joint of he forefinger of Mr. Pesy's right hand was jerked off. tce1hr with Stndon more than a foot long. -ehing almost to the elbow. Mr. Pear' was brought at once to the i!ty and the wound was carefully ded.A une isresting comfortabhr_ MADE A DEAL Letter Left by T. C. Platt Eposes M ieged Political Plot. INVOLVES HARRISON The Communication. Which Has On ly Come to Light Since the iDeati of the Ex-Senator. Charges Ikn jamin Harrison, Late President. With Trickery and Deception. The controversy as to whether President Benjamin Harrison prom ised to appoint the late Senator Thos. C. Platt secretary of the treasury :n return for the support of the New York delegation in the national Re publican convention of 1SSS contin ues. The story of Mr. Platt's declara tion that such a promise was made and broken is itself interestint. William E. Curtis. a newspap r writer. of Washington. says that a short while after the publication of the John Sherman memoirs, in 1S95. Mr. Platt gave him a sealed letter not to be opened until both he. Platt. and President Harrison should be dead. Mr. Curtis says he opened thii letter the morning after Mr. Platt died, that Is Monday morning. The letter he printed in one of the Washington papers. In subEtance it says that at the Republican conven tion of 1888. Stephen B. Elkins. now senator from West Virginia. went to Senator Platt. at the head of the New' York delegation and producing a letter from General Harrison. said that If the New York delegation would vote for Harrison. Mr. Plart would be appointed secretary of the treasury. It further says that for the same conideration. as further payment for his prospective job In the cabinet. Mr. Platt gave his personal check for $150.000 for the election of Harri on, which $150,000. 31r. Platt says. was what turned the election 'in New York for Harrison and elected him. It Is all interesting, being very much like the case of Roosevelt and Harriman. Roosevelt promised Har -1man that If he would raise a large fund to be used in the election in New York he would InvIte him to Washngton to assist in the prepara 'on of his message to congress. And as In the case of Harriman. Platt de clared afterwards that the bargain had been violated. First of all come Mr. Elkins and -lenies that he, in the name of Ge':. Harrison. promised Mr. Platt the place in the cabinet. He says that he did promise that Mr. Pht s':o-i-l be consulted about patronage iv New York. Now comes another a'*egr-i portumous letter, this t:mi from Gen. Harrison. saying that he npv-?r aomised Mr. Platt a cab.net ap citmeat, and that he ner-r 1.d mny idea until after the electir'i that. Mr. Platt wanted such an ap.. .int eat. But J. Sloat Fassett. now a repre sntative from New York in congress. who was associated with Mr. Platt and the New York machine at that time, declares that the alleged post humous letter of Senator Platt Is stubstantally correct, that Mr. Platt was promised the appointment, and hat he himself. Mr. Fassett, went to President Harrison and urged upon him the keeping of the promise. It is generally believed that there was some kind of a deal with Mr. Platt for the New York delegation and that when he produced that $150,000 to eleet Harrison he had some such thIng in view, doubtless believed he would surely get the ap pointment as secretary of the treas ury. but it is thought to have beer a misunderstanding. No such bar enin would have been put in writ Gen Harrison did wrIte a lett'-r during that convention of ISSS to Tom Platt. and sent It by Steve~ El kins. But the cautious Elkins In stead of delivering the letter out right merely read it to Platt and kept It. Exactly what was In It El kins does aot say though he says he has it still. Perhaps he will pro due it. And perhaps he will not. It dep'nds i'pon what is in it. But this is evidence to all of the methods of bargaining and sale used In these Republican conventions. It i not th'e flrst time: nnd it is doubt ful if it will be the last. * JUSTICE OVERTAKES OFFICER. Poice Inspector Tried to Convict an Innocent Man. A dispatch from Kharkoo. Russia, says Iaspector Lagovs~ky, of the Ltt hn pollee departmnent. has been s'on teaed to four years In the peniten tiray for manufacturing evid-nce on which thron innocent students nar rowly escaped courtmnartlal and death for torroists atte'mpts. . .govsky. hoping to secure promotion. coneoet ed terroist proclamations and cIpher correspondence which he conealed in the houses of the students, show ing their connection with the rimies. buried a number of bombs end re volvers In their gardens and as a lImax shot himself in th.e arm to stimulate an attempt on his life. swearing that he had identined one of the students as a perpetrator.* Good Long Term. At Knsas City. Mo.. WillIam Jack son. rthe negro janitor charged with attacking six youn:; white girls. was convicted in the crimInal court and sentenced to 99 years lmprisonlmett. Ex-Gor. A. H. Burke of North Da kota was foreman of the jury. Burns to Death. Ms. I'. W. Jackson. wife of a wealthy citizen of Electra. Fla.. was burned to death whIle Strhting for CHARGED WITH MURDER THE .LIN WHO 'ESERTED HIS WIFE AND CHILD. Now Under Suspicion of Killing the Young Woman With Whom He Eloped. Dr. J. H. Weeks. of Wagener. who la few years ago deserted his wife and children and want off with a young miliner. who had been work ing at Wagener. is now under sas picion of having put the young wo man he eloped with out of the way by poisoning her. It is a:so thought that he killed a little baby .he err ing woman Scre for him. Weeks is now in the Spartanhurc jai! charged with bigamy. he having married the younL woman he is now thought to have murdered in that county. The people where Weeks lived in Georgia under an assumed name are taking steps to ascertain if Weeks did not poison his wife and baby. If they find that he did, he will be tak-rn over there and tried for murder It seems that after Dr. Hamilton. the name tinder which Weeks pnssed after deserting his wife and child- er and going of with the other woman. drifted back - Georgia and lccated at Mtorgan with his second wife. where he began the practice of medi cine and built up a good business. This is where Weeks was arrested when brought back to the State. After the birth of a child at Mor gan. Mrs. Hamilton died under sus picious circumstances, and also the child, but the people of that place suspected nothing. as his record was unknown to them at that time. But now it seems that there is consider able suspicion about the matter, and the indications are that he poisoned both the mother and child. It is reported that the body is to be exhumed and examined to see if there is any foundation for this sus picion. Under the law Weeks wil! not receive punishment for desert ing -his family, but if it is can be proved that he poisoned his second wife and baby to get rid of them. he will ,get what he deserves if it can be proved. There was $300 reward offered for his arrest, raised in the following manner: The relatives of the first Mrs. Weeks offered $100, the Gov ernor of the State $100. and the Knights of Pythias of Wagener $100! This money will be divided between Mr. J. B. Tyler. the gentleman who recognized him in Morgan, and the Sheriff of that county. SUICIDE BY SHOOOTING. Taft's Brother-in-Law Shot Hiuself With Pistol. Suicide by shooting caused the death of Thomas McK. Laughlin. the assistant treasurer of the Jones & Laughlin Steel company, and a broth er-in-law of President Taft and Mrs. Taft. at Pittsburg Friday. The confirmation of many rumors to this effect was made by Coroner Samuel C. Jamison after a visit to Mr. Laughlin's home in Woodland Road Saturday afternoon. While Mr. Laughlin is reported to have died at ten o'clock Friday morning. the coroner did not receive news of it until 1 p. m. Saturday when the phy sician's certificate of death was re turned. This stated the cause of th death as cerebral appoplexy and was signed by D~r. T. M. McKenna. Persistent calls jaor information from the coroner caused him to in vestigate the case, and after a visit to the Laughlin home he said that the physician's return was techni caily correct, although the cerebral hemorrhaye had been caused by a bullet. Effort had been made to con ceal the fact that Mr. Laughlin had ended his own life because of the pro.minence of the family. RL'N ON BANK ENDS. DeposItors Withdrew Over Two Mil lien Dollars. After a run such as has never been known in Cleveland. Ohio, the depos itors of the Society for Savings re gaIned their equilibrium and Friday afternoon the panie was over. In the two days and a half that the run lasted. $1.250.000 was with drawn at the rate of $1.225 a mis ute*. As the majority of the depot Its affected were small ones, the record made by the bask in handling the withdrawalds is regarded as re markable. Spurred by the cffer of $8.000 in rewards, $I.000 of which is person ally offered by former Gov. Myron T. ilerrick. president of the baik, thouisands of amateur and numbers of professional detectines are spareh lng for the origInators of the ground l.-ss rumo'rs on which the run was It was said that the bank offcers have practib-ily located the source of the canard. * Many Wanted Rlabies. Wednesday was the day they gave babies away in New Orleans A car load of little tots arrived from New York foundling and orphan asy lumn with an eager crowd of claim ants awaItIng their arrival. In ad dition to those who have previonty mad.- scce'ssful claim to a baby. many pressed about -he car in the~ hop.. that there might be same "left ov'er." bunt those who applied in ad vance got every baby in the car. Three Men Killed. At Pittsburg. Pa.. Tnuirsday. three men were kinV-d andi setven we. seriously injured by the collapse of a .'-f.oot brick wall. l-ft stand ing as -1w ruIns of a fire which destroyed to.. iN: works onM. Lans and Sons on the south s!. early Tues .M morning. Twenty workmen were buried in the debris, most of whom A CLEAN SWEEP IS WHAT NORTH CAROLINA DEM OCRATS IA)K FOR. In the Cbngyeiv.ional Elections tW Come Off this Fall in the Old North State. The Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer says good news for Deimocrats cones to Wash ington from North Carolina. One of the miost practical of politicians thinks that the eighth. as well as she tenth and fifth will return to theA Democratic camp. In the last election Grant carried the tenth by 6l majority. while Cox the Republican candidate for Gov ernor. get it by only 2,3'. Several of the counties. notably Iluncombe. were torn by party strife. Most of these. it is said. will he healed this time. The warring factions in Bun :ombe promise to do better. The vote in the tenth district. by counties. should be. judging from the estimate of this man: Demo eratic. Rutherford. 460: Buncombe. ">04: and Haywood. 710: and Repub lican. Henderson. 300: Swain, 250: and Cherokee. 2'50: with McDowell. Polk. Transylvania. Jackson. Clay and Macon a stand off. This wo-fli give the Democrats a majority by S00. A merchant from flay xood coun ty. while in Washington the athr day on his way back from New York said that his county would give the Democrats a majo:'iy of 800 :f Gudger happened to be the ca:iGi date. Others sav that G".dger would not be as strong as Cocke in Hay wood. as friends of Crawford do noi eathuse over Gudger. "What about the eigth?" the Democratic prophet was asked. "That will go Democratic. Here is the way I line the counties: Dem ocratic. Stanley. 200; Caharrus. 200: Rowan. SAO: Iredell. SOn: and Ale :hany. 200: an.!. Republican. Wik-. 1.200; and Wataaga, 200: with Ale!r ander. Caldwell and Ashe breaking even. This would give us 1,000 majority." The prospects of carrying ThA Sth have brightened recently fo- there are several very eager Democizts in the field for the nomination. Walt:r MIurphy of Rowan thinks tu-on be can win, and he is a pretty active citizen In a campaign. L. C. Cald well of Iredell is certain of election f he gets th- nomination. R. L. foughton of A'vghany would wager that he can defeat Cowles or any ther Republican if he is honored by his own party. The contest for the nomination is becoming more spirited every day. In the fifth the battle is on. My informant and coach declares that the majiorities will run as follows: emocr-tie. Guilford. 1.000: Cas well. 500: Durham. 400: and Gran ille. 1.200: and. Republican. Surry. 900: and Stokes. 400. with Person. range. Alamance. Forsyth and ockngham quitting even, giving he Democrats about 2.200 to the ood. SEVEN M1NERS KILLED. uffocated by Ga.s in Mine Explosion: One Man Escaped. Seven miners lost their lives in he number five shaft of the Lehigh nd Wilkesbarre Coal Company near ilk.sbarre. Pa.. Saturday night in n explosion of gas. There wer~ S en in the party and one of them as away from the scene of th,' ex losion getting som.a tools and was ot injured. All the dead were suf ocated. The officials have no theory as to he cause of the expfosion. When th.e tdies were brounbt up there were any pathetic scenes around the outh of the shaft where the rela ives and friends of the victims had :thered. Gen.'ral manager liuber aid that the explosion did not cause n-:ch damage. The eighth man in he party l*'ft his fellow workers to get the tools about five minutes he re the explosion oc':urred. Several f the rescuers had narrow escape. from. the fire damp that filled the ine. MILLit)N OF GEIRMS. ound on the Examination of One Lonesome Dollar BilL. A dispatch from Washington says inety-two millions of germs, of all arieties wer-' found on a one dollar ill. nmicroscopleasly examined at the equest of Re'presentative Wiley of Cw Jersey, according to the latter-s stat *ment to the house committee n banking and currency Saturday. his was his argument in support f his bill to provide clean currency or the pIOOple. Among the diseas-', -rculating with this money were mallpox. typhoid and scarlet f.!ver with tuberculosis. Murderer Captured. Members of her own race captured allie WVashington, a ne:ro woman. who stabbd Louzisa King. another ero woman. to death in a terrib)> fight at McVillo. Ga. The negro-S aroucht the woman. to Augusta and urrnered her. She asserts that she ought and used a knife in self-de ense.* Ioctor, lH-ny Rteport. Greatly. e'xaggerate'd and unjust to: the l'n~v'orsity of South Carolina is the story that has been sent out from (Cblumbia that *'o per cent of h steder.ts at the univ.ersity are suffering from hook werm. The phy i'ns to th. uzniv-'rsitt- sa'r that out f 0 suspects examin.'d. only a doze-n mild case's were found. Iloat fromt the Nia The 'l'i St-ites eruiser TPirm' inham put to s.-a Wednesday from Norfolk to pick up a lifeboat from the missing tug Nina. discover FIRES ON THIEF A Young Woman Bravdy Defends Her sdf Against a Burglar SHE HEARS IN HER ROOM The Burglar Said to the Young Wo man as She Woke from a Deep Sleep. "Tou Keep Quiet or I Will Shoot You. but H1e Was Shot by Her. "Keep quiet or I will shoot you. This, says the Charlotte Olserver.I was the greeting that Miss Mabel Cianton received when she awolt to find a man in her room at her h. -m I four miles south of the city -u The Yorkville road Wednesday night. Th.: burglary occurred about 11:30 and only meager details could be 3ccured by telephone. Miss Clanton is the daughter of Mr. J. B. Clanton. a proriient !it izen of the county. She nad r-tired early and awoke to hear a noise in :he room. Upon rising to a half sitting posture. unable in the dark room to ascertain if the midnight intruder was white or black she was greeted by the threat to keep quiet. Retaining her presence of mind Miss Clanton shot In the direction of the voice and the intruder went out f the window. The room was on the second floor and she jumped up at once and went to the window out of which the man had gone. Upon reaching the window she saw the eeing form and shot agaid. She states that she thought she hit the man at the second shot. On some vines toward the rear of Lhe house a hat was found that wa Iropped by the burglar in his flight. "hief Christenbury was called at >nce and in an automobile want to )ne of the county convict camps and >rocured bloodhounds, and a hunt was instituted for the intruder. After the officers had been noti led an Investigation was made in he room where the man had been nd several rings and other pieces )f jewelry were found to be missing. Zo estimate could be made at the ime as to the actual amount of he loss. Every possible effort is eing made to apprehend the guilty nrty. Much excit-ment prevailed mong the few people who were on he streets and heard of the affair. The officers arrived a few min ites after midnight with the hounds. he trip to the camp and return be ng made in an automobile. An in tanT investigation of the supposed at. brought to light the fact that t was no hat at all but the heavy and-bag in which had been placed he several rings and other pieces f jewelry, all of which were re overed. The dogs were taken immediately o the spot and leaped forth towards he adjacent woods. Miss Clanton tated to Chief Christenbury that she as almost positive that she hit the niscreant the second time she shot. ie could not tell, however, whether e was a negro or a white man In he dark ness. When he leaped from the window ~olowing the first dIscharge of the >stol-an automatic .32 calib.er we yelled either In fear or in pain. Leeper Springs. colored, was ar ested the rnext morning as a sus ect. charged with being implicated n breaking Into the Clsnton home. he dogs took up the trail and fo! owed it across the big road about Squarter of a mile to Springs' cab n where they stopped and bayed. he darkey was immediately taken nto custody. He denied all com licity and is hardly believed to have een the principal in the affair. As 0 whether or not he was waIting utside on watch is purely a mat er of surmise. Springs is said to war a good name. GU.ED KNOCKED DOWN. 'our Conviet Prisoners Make Good Their Escapo. On Wednesday at the ilay pit. hree miles from Newbera. N. C.. . R. Wood. a guard, was struck with a brick and knocked senseless y ove of the county convicts. His un was talren from him and four ut of the nine convicts at work nade thAir escape. takir.g the gun ih them. Wood soon recovered. ok the fire remaining convicts back 'o the main force and reported e escape. The convicts w re al olored. most of them having iong ermns to serve. The officers have nade every e!'ort to recapture them.! >t at a late hour it is reported that! 'hey are making toward Wining :on. Wood was only si~ghtly hurt nd was on duty Wednesday after oon. Wofford Suammer School. The meet~ng of the county schoo! mperintend.-nts at C'olumbia Wedi msday endorsed the Wofford CollersI ummnner school, and adopted resolu-! tions urging the district trustens broughout the State to aid ther: each'trs to attend. Strike Settled. The strike of the emlploycs of the renton Street Railway company. or renton. N. J.. which has h,'-n goin g n for the last two days. was settled late Friday afternoon. The settle :nent r'.sulted in the men gettring practically everything that the ask ed for.* Tons of Bad Eggs. At Rloston. Mass.. !our tons n' megs intended for use in baker'sj akes and pies, have been taken !rre' cold storage ware house on e~n plaInt of Dr. George H. Adams. gov CREW HEARD FROM SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN LOSI BUT WERE SAVED. Schooner Sailed froni Charleston and Vas Wrecked and Lost in Great Storm. The News and Courier says that Cap:. R. P. Quil:in. of :he ,c)ooner Edgar R. Roas has !+4: safe-y land d in [tuevs Ay;r-'s. Sou:b Anerica. is the susta?nce of a t.-:urani re .-ivod in Charb-sion Vednes:day by Messrs. Cohen and \'iMs. The nis say was sent fron lialtimore by Capt. W%. J. Qt:illin. father of the wre-cked sea ca:ain. ald( master of the schooner llerb.ert 1). Maxwell. The schooner Roiss sailed from Charleston on the 22d of last Dec emier. with a cirgu of 23. ) fmet of .-Amber for New York. Nothing was heard of the vessel until Jan. '. when the schooner Minnie Crosby spoke to her in longitude 60. lati tude 39. which is about 800 mies east of Cap May. New Jersey. The captain of the Minnie Crosby wrote ,o the agerts of the Ross. saying that be had spoken to her and supplied her with provisions for twelve days. At that tim- the Ross had lost part of her sails and deckboad. Nothing further was heard from the vessel until January the 22d. when she was reported waterlogged and abandoned In longitude 49. lati tude 39.41. which is about 900 miles east of Cape May. it was believed that all on board had been lost, therefore the news in Charleston on Wednesday announcing the safety >f the popular captain will be learn ed with great pleasure by his many friends along the water front. FIRES ON SLEEPING GUARD. Guard Returns Fire and Shoots Off Convicts Arm. There was an exciting time at Camden. N. C.. Wednesday night. bouit 9:30 o'clock the county jail ras set fire to from the interior and >fore citizens could do more than rescue the four prisoners all the woodwork of the building was burn -d to the ground. The prisoners vere carried to the court house where hey were to remain for the night inder guard of Deputy Sheriff Bail y Cartwr!ght and Charles Ether dge. son of Sheriff Etheridge. Later in the night the guard fell sleep. One of the prisoners. Fred ohnson. who had been sentenced he day before to 12 months on the -cads. grabbed Etheridge's gun and Oot at close range at Cartwright. artwright opened his eyes just in :ie to get a view down the bar el of the gun and when it discharg d ducked his head so that the shot truck his hat. tearing the brim off. e picked up his gun and fired at he negro. filling the negro's right rm with buckshot and alaost ser tring it from his body. GREAT COR~N STATE. ~',uth Carolina Stands at the Head af Them All. Dr. B. T. G.Iloway, chief of the ureau of plant industry of the de >artment of agriculture, the fore nost authority on the subject in the ountry. says that South Carolina s the best corn growing State in he Union. So the doctor told Rep esentative Johnson a short whil' go. "Other Stat-s produce more orn than South Carolina. it is true. ays Mr. Johnson. "but what Doctor Galoway 'meant was that in a1: he great corn contests the contest nts in South Carolina produced nore corn to the acre than those of ~ny other State. not excepting the reat States of the~ Middle West." HELD UP AND SHKOT. FDwo Coal Mine Paymasters Robbed of Money. Two paymasters of coal companIes vere held up Thursday in different ections of Eastern Ohio and were rbbed of sums approximating 5'. 60'. and as a result of the attacks. ~ne man is d'ead and anotier may ie. The country is much excited. ~nd hloodlhounds are in use in an temp~;t to ferret out the hizhway nen. Edward Mc~ann. paymaster of the 3exter Coni Company. and Robert 'omering. and assistant. left Pitts 'rg. Pa.. for the mine of the comn mny at Brilliant. Ohio. They car ied in a satchel $4,"1m0 the weekly ay roll of the mine. This was secur Il hy the robbers. Hardly had th.e exc!t'nment quieted hen ano~hor hoid-up was reported rm Zen, sv-l!.. Georg* ~Eans, aged, 4., paymaster of the Muskingum nai conmpany.. was shot from am 'so. and relieve! of $1.6;A0. the .ekly pay-roll of that cormpany. lNilled by .Auto. At Gary. In'!.. on W -dnesday Al ed P. Milt.'r. secretary of a realty ~orpny of that cit:. was killed: ohn (.-is-i, whose home is at Wil not. Minn.. was seriously hurt Ia an -emtobil acciden:. Dr. E. E. Gei ! a son of JTohn Geisel, and Ora eNi- re, a chauffeur. were the two vho rceiv'ed -nimer Izjuries. Kills Self. Mr. J. J. Rushing. a well-known nan of South Marshville township. . C.. committed suicId about four c-ock Monday. af:.-rnoon At his omr. *o.. wea;,nn m:s.-d being a pins il. th,. ba:: going entirely through TA'gi.,!ator% ."n Killed. M.........: in .. narrow hall of a kob~.rt G. Thomps;on shot and killed John Mason. Thompson is a son of DOUBT PEARY Additional Proof Required by Comit tee of His Claim that he REACHED NORTH POLE Until Tihvi is Done Peary WIl Not Be Recipient of Congressional Re. ward.--Congressman Macon Do. clares Himself "Skeptical About Peary's Having Discovered Pole. Until Commander Robert E Peary furnished other proofs that he dis covered the N.. h Pole, no reward will be bestowed upon him, as the result of a practically unanimous vote of the congressional substitute com mittee of the House committee on naval affairs Wednesday. A speech in opposition to the prop osition of honoring Peary was made by Representative Ma.son of Arkan sas, before the committee. Representative Macon declared to the comrnittee that the explorer could not have made the distance he said he did in his dash for the Pole. Mr. Macon said he was "Indignant at the thought of being called upon as a Representative of the American people to confer a high honor upon any one of its citizens in the dark." All legislation by Congress, he said, ought to be open and above board. "I confess that I am exceedingly sceptical about Mr. Peary's ever hai ing discovered the Pole." declared Mr. Macon. "and I am going to pro test against any honor being confer red upon him by Congress until he has establislhed beyond reasonable doubt that he did discover it, and it must be established In the open, and not in the dark." Mr. Macon said he wanted to di rect attention to one "discrepancy In Mr. Peary's story." This was the speed he made from the time Capt. Bartlett left him until he reached the Pole. Mr. Peary said that for five days he made 26.4 'miles per day, but Mr. Macon said this appear ed very singular. In view of the fact that the Peary party had made but 9.06 miles per day up to the time Bartlett left. During this part of his journey. Mr. Macon said, "no white man was with him as a witness, h'a only com panions being his negro valet and four Eskimos. "He claims to have made an aver age of forty-four miles per day on his way back from the pole to Bart lett's camp, and 28.6 miles per day from Bartlett's camp to Cape Colum bIa. "The greatest speed he had made before Bartlett left him was 9.06 miles per day, so Peary must have made nearly three times as great speed after Bartlett left him as he lid before, In order to reach the Pole." Mr. Macon declared that Mr. Peary's own statements showed that he equalled this speed but twice dur. ing the entire journey to the Pole. The first day he started from land he made 26 miles. and on another day made 29 miles in fourteen hours of forced march, "which Mr. Peary has told us was about the limit of human endurance." Mr. Macon quoted .Lieut. Schakie ton. Gen. Greely and other to shor; that "10 to 12 miles per day. or slightly more, perhaps. Is considered the lmit of human endurance trav eling over Polar seas." MAN KILL SELF. After Wife Leaves Policeman Com-' rnits Suicide. ils w,'- -,'ne, his life ocvcked. .rthur 13r.wi-, 'orm:-ly ofth---At 'anta poluce for- buat f1)w lhv'ag at Gilmore. Ga.. decided that life was not worth while and used a revel ver with fatal effect. Going into a bathroom or h'.s home, Wednesday he shot himself through the head with a thirty-eight calibre revolver. The shot was heard and neighbors rushed into the house and entered the bathroom, but were unable to save the man's ''fe. Mr. Brown was formerly a mom her of the police force of Atlanta, and at one time was a secret agent of the U'nited States government. He !s survived by his wife, mother, sis ter. broth'er, and one child. His wIfe quit him some time ago. HAVE PRIVATE PHONE. One Arranged for the President sad His Brother. A private telephone wire from the home of Charles P. Taft. In Cin cinatti to the White House in Wash ington Is being arranged with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, it was learned Friday. The 725 miles of wire will be at the ser vie of Charles P. Taft from 6 p. m. to 6 a.m. No outside heads will man ipuate' the switchboard plugs and no outside ear will hear the personal conversation of the brothers. The wIre, It is said, will cost Mr. Taft $24,000 a year. Going to the Capital. W. E. McGee, the traveling pas senger agent of the Southerr.. was in Rock Hill Thursday making arrange ments with President Johnson for a trip to Washington. D. C.. to be takc en by the senior class at the college. This trip the girls will pay for and thra will be no expense to the col lege. Wants Her to Go on Stage. Mrs. --Jack" Cudjahy, whose hus and tied and cut banker Jere F. LIl 'i Sunday morning at Kansas City, Mo.. when the lat-er was found in the Caidahy home. says she has re eeived a score of offers to go on the ag e u ha elned them alt