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But Sheriff Creech and His Dep iii* ?.?..._;.. ' .". ? fi . ? ; ' ' AD STONED A LADY, And Her Brother Shot thc Culprit ?browxU iho Body, and the Aofry Crowd Tried to lolllct thc Death Penalty on Him at Ojjcc. A dispatch from Savannah, Qa., to Tho State says after passing through a hatr-rlslng experience Deputies Reuben Jacobs and .10 B Morris of Barnwell, S. G., roaohed Sa vannah Friday from B&rnwoll oounty with John Sims, a colored prisoner, who had boen shot through tho body before ho was arrested. Sims was being carried through Savannah to Augusta and thouco will bo takon to the State prison at Columbia. The negro was arrested at Black ville Friday morning for turkey steal? Iff and for throwing bricks at Mrs. .,nilab, a slstorof Mr. Arthur Dewitt. /Wh?n she appeared at the lot, whero the negro was stealing turkeys and vto!d him to leave. Sims ploked up stones and tried to hit ber with them and she Bought safety by orawllng under a house. When Da Witt return ed to the houBO he mounted a horse and went in pursuit and overtook the negro a short distar ce from Blackville and when the latter showed light, D< Witt shot bim through tho rghtj side, the bullet going through the no \ gro's body. ' Deputy Morris sent a telegram in I Sheriff Cree oh at Barn well that Sims had been arrested and that he was Oing to bring the prisoner to Barn well. The negro's wound was hastily dressed and ho was placed aboard thc Southorn train for Barnwell. Arriving at Barnwoll it 'waa f?uuc that an excited mob was In walting nd that sheriff Oroeoh and seven *^rm T?-gfftft&ylPg trouble In keoi oreel, 8houmBrj^v^ th0 tea|I Association and assis? in ?wranf, in this grand work which i.-vjjtm e?iting all classes. Christmas Holiday Exoursion Rates Seaboard Air Line R. Y. Account Christmas holidays th Seaboard wi 1 sell tickets on Dec. 22 23, 24, 25 30th and 31st 1905 and Jan, 1st 1906, limited to Jan. 4th at rato faro and one-third plus 25o, bo tween all points in Southeastern ter ritory including Washington, D. O For studonts and tcaohers tiokc11" will ho ?old ou samo basis Dec. V? tho 24th inclusive, limited to Jau. . t?n?, u? ' v.mm . ? . . ? ifn .(Mj-'iund ttjie apt and .e at it oal d but ward?. had it xx xu-uyiMu. J-.*.?..*. A. 1.11 J on thc -; . the ne Mr, EDT-'o^-^^h?iveTaeen lyrch "ea> ;yQiUQ he had been .arrested and waa ?iiM?g' taken to tho guard house tho negro was shot through thu body by a brother of Mrs. Buist. A deputy sheriff arrived from Barn well two hours later to oarry the ne gro back to Barnwell, where he wa? to be placed in Jail.' Considerable t- ouble was experienced in getting the negro aboard the train boro, as a mob had gathered around tho station and seemed bent on lynching him. The mob followed tho prisoner on the train to B unwell and tho sheriff was un able to leave the train, with the ne gro in tho face of thc mob. --?-? Btolo ? Husband. The Charlotte Observer says tho muai order of things was reversed last Sunday, when MIKS Laura Peroer, the 22-Year-r^l^to^ixt^y.- of Mr. and fflf*^^^ ' ^^P^d on North ??irs. J. (J. Percor, wb ?SaLtole awav 'Caldwell street extensiJTOrp?r"naw^ with young JOrnest TOIML:.""?. mauled tho youth. Tbl" husband io the son of Mr. tv Janes Tomborlln, who wrathy over the matrimonia1 It ls an Interesting story, that MlfiB Percer aud Tomb been spoony for sumo time, 1 to the difference in their ag1 friend? did not regard the s ously. However, Sunday Miss Perocr, who is tho un bead of tho family, took mai ber hand. She secured a tumou by for bim who was to becon1 younger half, and hUd away V South Carolina lino. In the tx) oourse of events Squire Bailes r ed bis fee and pronounced hisblob upon the couple. Upon their Hod, the bride naturally took her hus!, n to her parents' home, where thoyLp side, l o is understood that tho X ents of the husband have not yot? "their wrath cool and the young ife has not yet dared visit bis people^" lillis lilH llrotlu r, j " Mcig Powell, a farmer, 22 yea/ shot and blatantly killed his brtL Thomas Powell, Wednesday, at (meir homo in the country near Amerious, Ga. / The hom?nido ia supposed to have be'?n tho result of a former dlsa . greement betweon the brothors where in Th< mas i 'ii well received a pistol wound in the arm. This first difficul ty was fcuppressod and only recently ? it^oamo public. Tuesday the Powell hiv>rothers came to ? merlons and upon .cturnlng home late last evening the "ragedy resulted. ll iv t? co Muslim Antaok. At Evansville, Ind.; a swltoh en gine Jumped thc main track on the Il linois Central Friday morning and ploughed Into tho four story building of the Indiana Stove company at Pennsylvania avenue and Sixtn street, It buried tho engineer and ureman in the wrock and their bodies' have not yet been rescued, lt in b'olldved both ? are dead. Told H? orot lu Bicep. Mrs. Jennie "Vinson, who was prom iment iii ci. u roil work and sooloty, at San FtanolBoo, California, while talking In hor Bloop revealed to her husband William Vinson tho fact that she was a bigamist. Ho awaken ed her, and she confess* d that she be had another tiusbahd' living. Friday sued for divorce. They were married five year? ago. f - : ,f::i A STATE'S 'IMBU? To Ono of Ker Mo&t Devoted trlotio ?ons. I UnvelltaR hi Columbi* of tho Stonu menv'j^ro0(ou u? -.vito ?u*t? w, ?or ??lea, tho QX?rtyr liklltor. Almost 'within a stone's throw of theplaoo where he fell mortally wound ed on January 15, 1003 with the shad low of South Carolina's capital and on the widest thoroughfare of tho olfcy of Columbia,'whleh ho loved ad wei', a beautiful monument was unveiled at noon'on Tuesday of last week to the memory of the lato N. C. Gonzales, who nearly three years ago was Bhotj by James H. Tillman, There had been erected a tempor ary stand around the monument for tho accommodation of especially invit ed guests. About this stood a large | orowd of cl Uzona who bad gathered to pay tribute to the deceased Jour nalist, soldier aud cltlzan. Seated upon the stand were mern hors of the Gonzales Monument iwso elation, members of the Lidies' Aux illary association, members of the family of the deceased, local and via itu iK editor*, aud the clergy of tho j oity. Members of the Columbia Chamber ot Commoroe. Knights of Pythias, or ganizations of wbloh be was a mem ber, the Typographical Union and em ployes of tho newspapers of tho oitj attended in a body. Tho exercises were opened with] prayer by Bishop Ellison Oaptrs, Episcopal bishop of tho diooeso of South Carolina, followed by the hymn, "My Daintry, 'Tis of Theo," rendered by a seleoted oholr. After | an?addrc8S by Mr. W. A. Clark, presi dent of the Gonzales Monument 'asso ciation, the monument was formally uovloled. R?v. Samuel M. Smith, pastor of tho First Prosbyteiian ohuroh of UIIB oity, delivered an oration appropriate to the occasion. Then oame the formal delivery of the monument by Mr. Clark to Mayor T. H. Gibbes, who received lt In be half of the oity with a speech of ac ceptance. Tho ceremonies wore olosed with a benediction by Rev. W. 0. Lindsay, pastor of the First BaptlBt elmon of C. lumbla. The monument is a granito shaft, 25 feet high, resting upon a base 20 feot square, giving it a total height of 40 feet. Th,e inscription upon tho west Bido horse monument reads: Ac>rne Guu. Ereoted LoatiT?^latlt?lar Subscription Hay?VWo.-VJ???a?^o? of will sell r'N. G.' GonzalosT^**-^: Born August 5, 1858, Died January 10, 10U3. "Faithful Unto Death." On tho north side is Insorlbed: A Groat Editor, 'j An Eminent Citizen, Au Honest Man, "Without Fear and Without proaob" His Fellow. Citizens Bear This Monument To Perpetrate His Moinory^j The South sido bears tho follow rg lettering : t Four der and First Editor of Tbe State. For Twelve Years He Conducted It With Signal Ability and Conspicu ous Courage; A Potent Voice for Civic Righteous nw\ Au influential Factor in Every move ment For the Welfare of the People. ' 'The measure of success ls not what we get out of Ufo, But what we leave after it." Editorial Deo. 10, 1000. On the east Bide aro these lines, from a poem by J. G. Holland: '?God give us men!. A time like this ? demands Strong minds, great hearts, f uc faith and ready hands, Men whom tho lust of ofllco docs not kill; Men whom thc spoils of ofllco cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who can stand before a dema gogue, And down bis treacherous .flatteries ii without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned men, who live above the fog In public duty and in privato think ing. Foj*while the robMe, with their true -rWe tirnjjvetfds, where a 'argo professions and their lit monia otlceds Honey ai hi selfish strife-lo! Freedom cures coops, j not take , rules the land, and walting preparad lcc alccps. iwhich c??oment stands at tho Intcrsee Wiat-retareSenate and Sumter btreets, tor i?oley aug tue pretty park which sur any substitu> 8tato oapltoif an{1 ls erec_ s -he people of South C irolina, / floris for its construobion hav Choapr^n made from every county in Tizate. Maca*1 Gonzales was an ardent expon ?a *V Cuba Libre, and, before tho isooK i^.American war, volunteered The S,co 1,10 remnant of the Cu omi fnr nf- waa ?PPOintod aide on uat ior or.)r Qen Nun(/( wlth tll0rftllk Tho Tri- \t, and participated in sov tution and ^lth ^Spaniards in Tor only 81.7^ \?r08S tb? j8land" 0 ,otinw ?1,400 were im Fines aggteK^'^ponsboro's most prom'iufBiiW-??? by Judge Ward In superior court for violating the gambling laws. Julius W. (Jone, sec retary and treasurer of the Whito Oak and Proximity mills, and bis brother, Solomon, the president of tho Ameri can Cotton company, wera fined ?600 eaoh, wl.lle Sydney J. Kaufman and W. L. DiiTjy wore flood $200 eaoh. The young men were rocontly playing nnWer in it roar room of thc Ilufllnc building at Greeasboro, N. O., when a policeman, who had learned of tho In oldent, ollmbod a t?l?phone polo on tho opposite side of the street and gaining an unobstructed view of the room and itsoocupants, procured war rants for their arrest and tho ease was called to trial Tuesday Dentil ltoyoslH Itomiuioo. The death of ilfteon-yoar ojd Annio Helfenblne, a student at Mount Do chantal reveals a'pathotlo romance. Tho girl was lovod by John Amslor, a wealthy Oil operator of Bellalro, Ohio, ?nd they married ??crxic months ago. The glrl'H dcslro to Reoure an educa tion, however, impelled her to outer tho somincry at Wheeling W- Va., undor her maiden name, her husband posing as hor unolo. A few C?ys ago, Mrs. Analer, in ranning fcbout too /sominary grounds for exorcise, burst a blood vessel in her throat; death en Knincjv Friday. ?-?v ? ?'.-'? A GOOD WAR BVi)RY. ' - ?' s A Maloo Yunkoo Who Served In tho Contcdcrare Army, "I was up Ju tho northern patt of t'&U?tf the ?th?? ?*?y auvi heard t. Btory willoh Was a ?Ittlo oui or tho ordinary line ot civil war stories I have road about," said a drummer whose territory ls New Ejgland. "I had noticed A funeral In the town, the turnout Of which Indicated that tho dcooascd must havo been a prominent man In his lifo time. "A oltizen said lu answer to my in qulry that tho man had retired from business several years before his death The oltizen added, 'His funeral to day is 'muon larger than lb would have been sOmo years ago. ''Ithen beard the Btory. "When L'nooln called for troops there were fow men In the state nf Maine who opposed coerolon of the .soi.th. Th hi man was an except ion. "Although a New Englander from a colonial family whosa histor/ goes back to the colonial wars, this man was at theoall for troops, what wan known in the North asa oipporheal. He was an r tilo r in tho milita at the timo of L ncoln's oleotlon. Every man in bia command except himself volunteered in answer to Lincoln's proolatnatlan. "He nob only refused to go, bub he bodily oontended that it was an out rago to Oppose tho secession of bho soul hem sbatcs. He was osbraoiscd socially and commercially. His bus iness dwindled away. "During tho s c md year of bho war ho left tho oommunlty No'oody soe m d to e ire whore ho went. "Two years later ho returned. Ho was a physical wreck. Thc feeling in thc oommunlty wasnotqulbo sobibtor as in tho beginning of the war However the mau was not cordially received. "He had not been bre't long when it was lo ir ned that be had been in tho Confed?rate army and was dis charged on acc.mnb of his liability to do duty. This Imformatlon did not tend to lnorcase lils popularity. "He oame Into possession of oonstd crable money scon aftor lils, return, Meanwhile some ot tho shabtertd I remnants of bhe Maine companies be gan to deifb home. Most of them I were broken In health and most of them were penniless. "This man beg in contributing to bho rolief of the need v. A iniiority of tho benr Solaire did not know the source of bheir help. "After tho war was tvor lt leaked out little by little that tho benefactor w;s thc man who had been o?traolped. T > tho credit of many fikSaa a??al^d^H^d..t,fl an 'hour he During his fron/.y ho (lt on Di. Napier, who for help would Sherill vo be his right, lb was never ques thoued. Before ho re'ired Lom business he was on one oooaslon visited by a man from the. si ti th who had been the col onei of the Confederate regiment of which he was a member The ex (Jonfederato was down ab bhe heel in every way. "No one knew what happened dur lng Iii? visit in Maine, but a few j earn ago it became known to a few peor, b In bhe vicinity that bbc Maine man helped his old commander to rc'nop his fortune. That man n ibil 1001, was a successful broker and bankor In that city and his silent partner for nearly fifteen years was the Maine Yankee who as a demccrab held a re publican oflloo. "I have traveled all over United States, and mot all sorts of people, bud I have never heard a civil war story that was auything Uko this. My informant Is ab the head of a big industry in Maine, ho told mo that only a few persons knew the facts as I have stated them."-Washington Star. Children Burned to Death, Six ohlldren were burned to death at L'ndsey, Pa., at an early hour Tuesday and William Morgan and wife, tho parentp, with their bwo re maining onildren, barely esoaped wibh their lives. Both fa thor and mother wore badly burned In attempting to save their little ones from their burn lug homo. The mother threw tv/o of the children from an upstairs window, tboreby saving their livej--, and jump ed herself as the roof fell lo. She was badly burned and will probably . oso one foot as bhe reBulb of her inju ries. The fabher ls also badly bumed about the hands and face but not ser itiidy. Tue fire was discovered by a neighbor who hastened to the burn ing house and aroused the sleeping inmates. At that time the wholo roof and roar of the homo wore burn ing. The fire originated from a stove in a t mal) outbuilding adjoining the home of tho family. Morgan came to Llndsoy from West Virginia only a .short limo ago. Mui'dcrt-d and [Hobbed, Physicians have found bhab chloro form was used to kill Mrs. Morrl? Nat tai, tho aged woman who wa? mur dered and robbrd yesferday In her apartments ab Asbury Park, N. J. Her hiibband and her four sons an nounced that $1,000 In cash was se cured from Mrs. Nattai. Tho wo man'? ears were badly lacorabod by hoir assailants who violently toro pair of diamond earrings from her. Just In Timo, Captain Gforgenzn and tho orow of twelve men who were on r.dlef light ship 58 at Nantucket shoals, which sptu?ig a i??k, aro now anio. Tiioy wero resoued by Captain Gibbs and crew of the A'/oleo and were landed at Nov/Hod ford, Mass., at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning. Tho lightship wont down ten minutes after tho crew wero takon < tr. The men wero in an exhausted oondltlort. Another O invention. Har vie Jordan has limned a call for a general convention of farmors, ban kers, merchants and Obliers through oubthoficuth to be hold in Now Orleans January 11th, 12th and 13bb, with r?f?rence tn handling tho crop of lojo and other mattara pro baining to thc cotton asst dation. I/yi.OhO?^ John Groon, colored, was lynched hy members of lils own raco near Memphis, Tenn., on Monday, for as Bauii mg aooiored gin oig&c year? tdd. Ho was takon by them to tho scone of ?sis crime and hanged. I affr 3 3. KitiftU Cintas Tu?i#I? Ta Tan Murphy. > Oupt. CSr'm-h^ Htj?*\f?$ $m Ms Hardy Will Tc ko a LiooK at tho Fatuous Prisoner! The Oo'umbla Slate says that it appears that after all Dan S. Murphy may bo In arrest In Swalnsboro, Ga. Aij bas been published In The State, Mr. Goo. H. Klttrell, of Orangeburg JO un ty has assurances from tho sherill it Swalnsboro that the prisoner ls| very much Uko a photograph of Mur phy, taken while be was In jail In Or ingeburg awaiting trial. Sergt. 0. 0. R>bi rta of tho ponlten M.u-y guard was sent to SwaiuRboro| ibout ten days ago to see If the nun Iq prison thcro was Murphy, as bad seen aDged by the chief of police of Augusta. Sorgb lt berts reported by wire that the mau was not Murphy, illhough lt was singular that the mau ..on v cted of horse stealing at S vains ooro attempted to tako his life when io heard chat an culcer from South Jarollna was coming for bim. ll Hoke a bott le and with a jigged pieoc >f glass made a wound oa his wrist ] 'rom which ho bled profusely and bin xmdition was discovered just in time jo rave his life. Whether lt was from bis emaciated Kondition on aco -unt of this blood let ilrg, or on account of tho chango of Ivo years of out door life upon the lountonanca of one who had beon con ?hied In a coll, Sorgt, lt >berts waa un 'bio to identify the man as Murphy However, on his return to Columbia io did report to Capt. G.lilith, super ntendentof the penitentiary, that he ?usp 'cted the man notwithstanding jho ft Ci that thero was a marked dis ?repauoy in thc hoigl t of the m ,u in irrest at S vainsboro and the height >f tho man in the penitentiary as ihown by tho penitentiary records. Murphy had had several teeth mlBB lng, and the man in j ill at Swalnsboro liad a gold crown In the placo whore these teeth wore missing. Sergt. Rob orts bMng unable to complete the iden tifie ition, Capt. Grilllth had written to tho sberllf at Swalnsboro to send photograph of tho man in prison thero, and this has not yet been done. Thursday Gov. Hayward book the matter up with Capt. G! ri Ul bli and the latter, lustead of going to Washington to attend tho meeting of tho corn mis sion to confer with Mr. Roosevelt in regard bo a Southern Interstate reform atory, deoided to leave at onoo for Swalnsboro and to take a look at the prisoner njmielf. Ho will bo acoom o.^pi?s on a "^mi ! Rarely, one of the ?-.-.>.?? - - '-as -?. sntlary, lu Saved by Dy nv. ? J0- . .. Sometimes, a Haming itt aoc.ompany dynamiting a space thal t! <n Mr ,^jfc cross, Sometimes, a cong r cr.,' Q long, yon leel as il noth b l i' ' ???^ would cure it. Z, ' . ll"??1 ?jN^fcwrites: 'Mv \ J Mr' ..grivated cough, winch IWU?g nights Two physicians,-..^!.: u<?V..iU0h ber; so she took JV^MT ne avid Thurs .?'yf '-y.J.'X ?Tiat but for a miscarriage of jmtica there m'ght have beon others oonvloted in cmnec lon with Din Murphy. Ile is sure thar, the man lu jill ab Swalnsboro ls Dan Mur phy, for his aotions havo indieittu as much. Murphy ls known to havo been in that part of the country anyway. Swalnsboro is .n E2manuel county, Equ ldlBtant from Augusta and Savannah, aud li not on a through line of rail way. A speolal to The State Thursday night from Orangeburg say?: "Thc impression hero is that the penitentiary guard mide a mistake, Murphy's wife's relatives moveo to S walnsboro BCvcral years ago and lb has been reported here several times bhab ho ranged between Swalnsboro and Jaoksonvllle. "lb is ainu reporbfd bhab a party hore had located Murphy ab Swalns boro junb prior to tho blme bhe faot of Murphy'.s being a G ?orgia convict be eline known and bhat this p^rby had he ped to secure the roward. The senti ment here has never changed, Murphy ls still behoved guilty. The statement of hisiieorgla relatives that ho waBin Augusta at the time of the murder of Treasurer Copes has teen proven false, lb ls believed to have been unwise to have commuted the sentence of a man who so richly deserved his death, without making some ( (Torts bo verify the statements made in Murphy's be half at bhe last moment and which could have been disproved without much troublo. " MU. KITTUELl/s STATEMENT. Mr. Klttrell made the following signed statement for The State before ho left home Thursday: Cope, S. C., Deo. 14. 100?*. Tho S i ato, Columbia, S. ?. You ask my reason for believing person at Swalnsboro Dan Murphy. 1 nave always felt like sumo ono In au bhorlty was bri bod to give him hts liberty, and If they were and any of thom sent thoy could nob alford to Identify him, so when 1 saw by thc paDers it was nob him I sent his plo lure to sberllf at Swalnsboro and wrote him my fears In the matter. I receiv ed letber Thursday stating that the picture Bent was tho man ho had. I sent tho lotter to governor In morn ing's mall and wired him Thursday night and ask him-to call on W. O Tatum or a letter that would explp ln. G. ll. K ITT K KL I. IIUKP.HY. IDENTIFIED A sproul to The Sav *nnah Morn lng Nows from Swalnsboro saya: I) 0. Murphy alias Frank Smith, bas at la*t bron Identified as the murder er ci County Treasurer Itiberb Copes, aud G. B, Klfcbrol of Copo ls ex? to arrive here for his prisoner tomor row. Smith was arrested in this county last May for horse stealing. He was convicted In O.itober, and has benn serving his time on tho county ohalng&ng An c Arl cor toot hero from South Carolina 10 days ago failed to klontlfy the prisoner but a pholo graph of Smith sont hore by Klttioll mado his poaitlvo identification com plete, As requisition papers have already beon granted Smith will be taken to South Curollna at once. ?ONE TO H IC IC THK MAN. Capt. D. J. Griffith, superintendant of tile State penitentiary, Mr. Geo. Ibm Klttrell, former auditor of () angoburg county, who prosecuted Dan S. Murphy for tho killing of Treasurer Copes, and Corporal Hardy Of the penitentiary guard wont to Swalnsboro, Ga., Thursday to take a look at the man ' Smith" In jail thero Tor horse stealing. Sorgoanb 0. C. Roberts of tho penlbontlary guard was unable, bo fully idenblfy bbc prlsonor as Murphy. Tho following letter was received by tho governor Friday from .the sheriff of lOmanuel county; THE ONLY REMEDY THAT CURES KHE'Jr?!AT!SM TO STAY CURED. 'AT THE JOINTS PROM ti RUBBING DON'T CURE. Rheumatism is an interna. dis enso and requires an internal remedy. I'll HUM AC I DH "a?ts at the Joints from the Inside,'1 and that ls the reason lt Cures after all other remedies have failed. Rheumacido sweeps all the poisonous germs and acids out of the blood .nd "Makes You Well AU Over." Those pains are danger signals, warning you of a disease that, threatens the entire ay stem. Headaches, Pains, Bad Taste in the Month, that "No Account" feeling Indicate that you need REMOVES THE CAUSE OF THE PAIN. T? ,, ...^.i . . Quincy. Mass. July 18, 1905. Cured eO-year-old Mr?. Mary Wei born, of High Point, N. C., after *ho Bobbitt Chemical Co.. Baltimore. Md. had suffered 20 year?. Cured Rev. J. R. Wheeler. 70 years old, a leading near S rs: I was InUl up Inst November with Methodist minister, of Rclsterstown,'Md. Cured John F. Ellno, of Holli Ri..Mj!?ntism In my feet and ankles, but after taking more, after Johns Hopkins Hospital had eompletely failed. Cured Jome? four bottles of KheUmAolde I have not been bothered Wilkes, of Dillon, S. C.. after he had boon In bcd three years and his lefts since. I tried every old kind pf liniment and was were drawn up against hi? back. Better got a bottle from your Druggist under twp doctors, and all I tried had thc same rc- at once. Sample bottle and booklot FREE If you send B oents for posto*?. Suit, until I tot Rhcumacidc. Now. I am pleased to ??!!csforlRT,e?m^Sftst? WuS^iSJi! BOBBITT CHEM?CAL CO., Proprietors, BALTIMORE. Everybody that I recommended lt to has had tho same rosults. Yours very^trid^ ' *T*fa ' t? S 1^ I Quincy Industrial Cooi)crat?veaSocfety. ? il?! 0 S l^dfl^^I 111 LJ6ld.y* '-? Dear Sil : I have Just received a ploture from Mr. G. B. Kltfcroll of Oops, S. O., whloh lie says 1H the p'c ture of D. O. Murphy. If lt ls bi picture, I have tho man. I do not understaud why Mr. ll borts d'd DOI tako bim for I and everybody that has seen tho man and picture knows that lt ls thc same man. SJ tho mat ter seems to bs tn rather bad shape. Yours verv tru'y, J. W. Fields, Sheriff of Em anne1 County. THE END OJ? A DRUNK. <\ Klan I'AYS Dourly fjr 111B Sunday I Fun and I ni position. A white man turned Bitten from Greers seotlon, visited Spartanburg Sunday and scoured a physicians pre script jn to got gome whiskey from the dispensary. Ile then hunted up Mayor Floyd, who has to sign those pre scriptions in order to make them va lid. To tho doctor and to the mayor he related the story, which was to the tilget that his wife was a very sick woman, and that he wanted the whiskey to oarry heme to her. Be fore signing the paper, Mr. Floyd said to the mm, Jf you are fool ing me you'll regret lt." Tais caused the stranger to vociferously and ve hemently repeat his story, and hts anxiety about his wife's onditlon, and his desire to get back to his home seemed to bo real. No sooner had he secured the quart of booze from a dliponsary than he hastened in rear of tho bu'ld lng, un corked it and began drinking freely. After several liberal applications of the "red," he hired a hack and be gan taking In the city. The pollen soon steered him to tho lockup. Wbeoi ho greeted Miyor Floyd Thursday m ming, on charge of drunkenness, he had no talk to make about the sick folks at burnt; but begged the mercy of the ourc. Ills Indisposition was too much for his honor, however, and he was sentenc ed to pay a lino of 925, tho extreme limit. He pdd up au ! left tbc city a sadder, but wiser man.-Spartan burg Herald. Killed With Toy Pistol. At ICnoxvlllo, Tenn., on Thursday, while playing with a tiftoen cent toy pistol Jesse Harbor, soven years old, shot and killed lt >y Walker, his six year-old playmate. Tue pistol ls of a type which has been Introduced Into tho local market for holiday Bales. The boys l.i the neighborhood soon learned that small loaded oartriges could be used and it was thought to be great sport to have a pistol that would shoot. Mrs. Walker, who saw the boys a moment before the tragedy said they wore playing and there was no thought lu the mind of her son to evon hurt his pl ty mite. Steps will takn by the polios to prevent tho sale of these pistols. liiHiuodou Proposed. Representative Bennett of Now York Introduced a bill to out down tho representation of Southern States In congress because of the disfran chisement of the negro vote. Thc bill reduces tho entire r. umber of rep rosentatlvoH from 380 to 366, Tue several States would have their dele gations reduced as follows: Alabama from 0 to f>: Arkansas from; 7 to 6 Flor ida frc ni 3 to 2; Georgia from 11 to 0; Louisiana from 7 to 1; Mississippi from 8 to 3; North Carolina from 10 to 7; South Carolina from 7 to 3; Tonncssee from 10 to H ; rex as from io to 13; Virginia from lu to 7. To Stop ll e /.1I?K? Rear Admiral Sands, suporlnton dent of the Naval Academy, reached the department Friday morning and conferred with Socotary Bonaparte and R.^ar Admiral Uonverss, ohlef of bureau of navigation, rdgardtng the hazing at Annapolis. Too oonfer onco lasted until the cabinet hour, and will bo resumed Friday aftornoon whon the details of the condition of affairs at tho aoademy will be taken up and a plan of campaign mapped out looking to tho absolute abolish ment of hazing In all forms. Mado IJOVO To A Dummy. J. P. Klmbrough is a nativo of Ger? rvbnn ........ ni*.*.*? ...? n ?. - _ ~ J .. . -i man IA;..;;, xenn,, ann T??? <*yyvmw.u to the naval academy by Representa tivo M. R. Patterson of tho Touth Tonnosce district. Relatives say that recent letters from young Klmbrough tell of some of his experiences at An napolis. Ono letter states that a VirnAmot.lnls tuon >K<.^<< (rt fsnv.<\)/t . ? . v? w .* ... v . v.* tl Mnt (UVIMUVI ? ? * ivtvjuuv ava/ parel, and that the young man was toroid to "mako love" to the dummy. RACE SUICIDE LAID 10 Cl UBS )no Woman tn Slxtoon BeooniPB . Mother After Joining. Og* LOUIRO Cadlab, a young Ohio woman bas turned on bor sex wbo be 1 ng to clubs and written dreadful things which she defies oluh women to deny. Sbc piotures the club woman as a destroyer of tho homo In the gen ulne meaning of the word, a woman who comm.ts a raoe r u'cido and on courages uther women to du llkowlse. Tbo averago number of ohildron to married members of the General Fed eration of Womens dubs, she declares, ls two, wbilo tho averago number < f ] children that bier sed the mothers of theso same women three and one half. "The average age of tho member ship of tbo women's clubs in the coun try is thirty-three vears Tho average , agc of the youngest children of tho married members ls cleveu years. A careful Investigation of the member- 1 ship of women's dubs shows that >,u~ Iv one married womon In tl tteen b? comrs a mother after the has aPled herself with women's dubs, only one In forbythree during a period of eight I years bas become the mother of two children after her alliance \vibh the women's clubs." j The college bred woman ls put down as selfish. The author next presents tho following statistics to show the bearing of the subjeot of race suicide on the modern church: With 45,016 Methodist mothers tho average number of children was 3.218. With 26.234 Episcopal mothers the average number of ohildron was 2 3 12. With 42.825 Oatholio mothers thc average number of children was 3 3 7. With 21,103 Presbyterian mothers tho average number of children was 3.1 8. With 20,241 Congregational moth ers the average number of children was 2 0 14. With 31,020 Baptist mothers the average number of chlldrou was 3 4 10. All the mothers roforred to, tho au thor declares, have been married from ten to Hf teen years. Jiembors of thc Qenoral Federation of Women's Clubs have gathered sta tistics to refute the c'.iarges of raoe suicide by Grover Cleveland. Miss j Jane Adams, of null H outs, sayp: "Tnero may be dissipation and over- j indulgence In devotion to olubj, but ' the ligures wo arc gathering will re- i fute the nings made at the club we men on tho homo and c did quos tlon." Kl Hod ?iib *attior~ Wednesday night at Hills, Ga., Gcorgo Glisson, age about 25 years old, shot and killed hi J father, W. C. Glisson. The young man came home, lt ls alleged, In a drunken oondltlon and was remonstrated with by his fa* thor. The old gentleman retlrod to his room and looked the the door. Procuring a shotgun, Georg? carno back looking for bis father and Und ing tho door looked broko lt open and (irod once, hitting bis father In tho stomaoh, wounding him so badly that ho died in about an boor. Realizing what ho had dono, the young man ll id from the house. Ho was pursued by his younger brother, John, who tired at bim, wounding him In the arm. George has not yot been arrested and wbon last heard from was at iV C. Parrish's, near bis home. A Ml/; Feo. Recently at St. Louis, Mi,, Pro bate Judge Crows ontored an order allowing Dr. W. E. Flsohel (4,520 for medical services and Inci dental expenses attending Miss Ellan J ano Mo Koo, a millionairess, wno died In Asheville, N. C. His olalm was $5,620. Tho amount allowed was not contested. Dr. Fisch?l ola!mod (105 f ir attending Miss Maltee In St Louis from Jamury 2, last, until March 30; ?5,000 for ten days attend anco at Ashville; 1300 claimed to have been advanced or aocount of the un dertakers bill, and $55 for railroad faro and other cxpor.s os. M i J I ?lon iy Saved. The Cooper buldlng, a flve-story structure, at Fulton and Bod ford streets, Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire carly Thursday morning. 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Fifteen Men Oumod. Baliteen mon were burned by an 3x plosion in tho International Harvester Company's plant at O.ie Hundred and Twentieth street and Muskegon ave nuo, Chicago one night laat week. The explosion was caused by a workman thrusting a cold bar of steel into a furnace of molten metal. In tho im mediate vicinity of tho furnace at the timo sixty mon wero working. The moro seriously injured wero in tho fur naco pit. Following tho explosion ol?aos reigned In th-.- furnace room for soveral minutes. Moiton metal was hurled about the room and tho smoko and lire that shot from the furnace nilled tho room so tho workmen were unablo for soveral minutes to And the exits. With tho groans of their wound ed fellows ringing tn their oars, they grouped about helplessly and stumbler! ovor those who had been prostrated uy tile uln.it. Kioiu tiiO futti?u? ??il?i noy tho (lames shot high into the air and could be seen for milos. Tn ? ?ornen of the countty are de ? mn niling that ono of their nUml?ag?j| given a place on the prcjjk^flflH r?nl. in inn lr nf IVA* f'^MM?Bl -JOIN THE Cuddell & Bat?s -Piano Club 100 Pianos, - - 100 Members. _ $287 To club members- for tho new scale $100 1 aulden & Hilles. Tay $10 at Inst; then $8 monthly. No delays. Pianos shipped promptly. Our Guarantee "Warranted for a life time." If interested In thc fairest and best plano proposition over made, wrlto tor booklet "B" which will o plain our Club plan? Ho not delay, tho club will soon be lilied. - - ORQANS - - of tho host puality $45 up Upright Pianos From $225 up. * Write Us for catalogues and forms. Malone's Music Hopse, \'V.)2 Main Street Almost opposite Masonic Templo. COUJMIJU, Si O.