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utles Prevent Lynching* HAD STONAl) A LADY, ><?*??ITl?l,MlM?M.?lim?-?lil At brother Shot the Culprit through the Body, and tho Augry Crowd Tried to lolllct the Death Penalty on Hint at Ojjce. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., to Tho Stato sayB after passing through a halr-rlsing exporlenoo, Deputies Reuben Jacobs an? E. E Morris of Barn wc!!. 8. 0., reached Sa vannah Friday from Pv&woll county Wita ^olin t31?ias, ? colored prisoner, who had boen shot through the body before ho was arrested. Sims was being oarrlod through Savannah to Augusta and thence will ho taken to the State prison at Columbia. The negro was arreatod at Black ville Friday, morning for turkey steal ?fjj and for throwing bricks at Mrs.. -jiilst, a slater of Mr. Arthur Dewitt. 'When ?ho appeared at tho lot, wiiere the negro was stealing turkeys and Hold him to leave. Sims ploked up stones and tried to blt ber with them and she sought safety by crawling under a house When Da Witt roturn-* jiu. to the house be mounted a horse and wont in pursuit and overt ok the negro a short dista? cd from B?aokvlHo and when the latter showed light, DiWitt shot bim through tho r'ght side, the bullet going through the no gro's body. Deputy Morris sont a telegram to $Shorlff Orciohat Barn ?.o)l that Sims ' had been arrested and that he was going to bring the prisoner to Barn well. The negro's wound was hastily dressed and ho was placed aboard the Southern train for Barnwell. Arriving at Barnwell lt was found tbat an excited mob was in waiting nd that sheriff Oreeoh and several '^'',rT^^^-ftr1?X.lnK trouble in keep orea, sTioulan)?^^ tbe uJfn Association and assisi in ?mrang in this grand work which ia^aa eliting all classes. Christmas Holiday Excursion Kates Seaboard Ak Line R. Y. Account Christmas holidays the I Seaboard wi 1 soil tickets on Due. 22 j 23, 24,25 3iHh and 31st 1905 and Jan, 1st 190G, limited to Jan. 4th at rato faro and one-third plus 25o, bo tween all points in Southeastern ter ritory including Washington, D. C For students and teachers tiok? will ho sold on same basis Deo. %? the 24th inclusive, limited to Jan. J j noil : fa aj , riii und .' . .\ t '1 ttlo oapt and \'.e at . it cal 'd but wardi. had it x*. .inMi.Miiin wuut, U..UI on the -J tho he Mr, EDpco^*^~II'?ve been lyneh am ^j^?-he had been arrested and was being taken to tho guard house tho negro was shot through the body by a brother of Mrs. llulsb. A deputy :*heiiff arrived from Barn well two hours later to carry the ne gro baok to Barnwell, where he was to be placed In Jail. Considerable t. ouble was exporlenocd in getting the negro aboard toe train bore, as a mob had gathered around the station and seemed bent on lynching him. The mob followed the prisoner on the train to Bun well and tho td iori li was un able to lo&ve the train with tho ne gro in the face, of tho mob. Stole * llunhand. The Oharlotto Observer says the usual order of things was reversed last Sunday, when Miss Laura Peroer, tho fltogffilii^?ft^rjr* Mr. and r-?rS^j'. ".Tercer? wuWd,ou North ?Caldwell street exteuBiJWf0'0. awa? with young Ernest ToBB?rlln..a#nti marx led tho youth. TlJM^1"";" husband is tho son of Mr. aiiB?rs".w, Janes Tomberlin, who wrathy over the matrimonia1 It ls an interesting story. ?SPt?l1 that MIKH Peiccr und Tomb^ft^he beenspeony for some time, I to the difference in their an1 friends did not regard tho s ously. However, Sunday Miss Peroer, who !*. the un head of tho family, tock mat her hand. She scoured a tumou by for him who was to becon1 younger half, and hkd away V South Carolina line. In the nJ oourso of events Squire Bailes r ed his fee and pronouoced hisbles upon tho couple. Ppon tbelY rtrid, the bride naturally took her hus)> n to her parents' home, where thoyun ut] Side. It is understood that the en ts of the husband have nob.. yotT their wrath cool and tho young i[ 'has not yet dared visit bis people^" Killa Ills broth? r, } " 1 Melg Powell, a farmer, 22 yea/ shot and Instantly killed his br(rf. 0\d Thomas Powell, Wednesday, at {?heir home in the country near Amer tous, Ga. - The homicide is supposed te have b??u tho result of a former dlsa ? grcemont between tho brothors wintro in Thc mas Powoll received a pistol wound in the arm, This first dlflloul ty was hu p pressed and only recently ???incarne publie. Tuesday tho Powell hivrotherB came to Americus and upon leturning home late last evening the ultcd. Hwiton JOriKi'io Amuok. At Evansville, Ind., a switch en gine jumped the main track on the Il linois Contrai Friday Looming and ploughed into tho four story building of the Indiana Stove company at Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street. It burled tho engineer and nreman in tho wreck and their bowles have not yet been rescued. It-Ist?el laved both are dead. Tdd H? orot in Bleep. Mrs. Jennie Vinson, whowasprom imon*, in ol. n roh work ?nd soolotv at San Frariolsoo, California, while talking in hor sloop revealed to her husband William Vinson tho fact that she was a bigamist. Ho awaken ed her, and she confessed that she he had another h?abaho)living. Friday sued for dlvoice. They, were married five years ago. ti ii ? STATEVS TRIBUT] of Her Meit ttevoted and wW???i Unvolih mo.-.t Krcotci'i to -iVio l?ate N. o. ?ot*?lo?, tho ?lurtylr Kditor. '''>?'.' ? AlraOsfc within a stone's throw the place where ho foll mortally wound? cd on January 15, 1903 with the shad? ow of South Carolina's capital and on the widest thoroughfare of tho city of Columbia, which he loved so wei', a beautiful monument was unveiled at noon on Tuesday of last week to the memory of tho lato N. G. Gonzales, who nearly three yoars ago was shot by Jame? H. Tillman, There had been ereotcd a tempor ary stand around tho monument for tho accommodation ot especially Invit ed guests. About this stood a large orowd of citizens who had gathered to pay tribute to the deceased Jour nalist, soldier and dtlzan. Seated upon the stand were m< m bois of the Gonzales Monument asso elation, members of the Ladles' Aux illary association, mc moors of the family ot the deceased, local and vis iting editors, and the clergy of tho city. Members of the Columbia Chamber of Commorco. IC lights of Pythias, or ganizitlnns of which bo was a mem ber, tho Typographical Union and em ployes of tho newspapers of tho oitj attended in a body. Tho exorcises were opened with prayer by Bishop Billson Capers, Episcopal bishop of tho dlooeso of South Carolina, followed by the hymn, "My Country, 'Tis of Theo," rondeiod by a selected choir. After an.addrcss by .Mr. W. A. Clark, presl dent of the Gonzales Monument asno dallon, the monument was formally un violet!. R>>v. Samuel M. Smith, pastor of the First Presbyterian churoh of this city, delivered an oration appropriate to tho occasion. Then came the formal delivery of the monument by Mr. Clark to Mayor T. H. Gibbes, who received it in be half of the olty with a spceoh of ac oeptance. The ceremonies were dosed with a benediction by Rov. W. C. Lindsay pastor of the First Baptist ohuoh of C. lumbla. The monument ls a granite shaft 25 feet high, resting upon a base 20 feet Fquare, giving lt a total height of 40 feet. Tjie inscription upon tho west sido horse monument reads: Ac)nie Gnu. Erected, LeadTSIt?PlftQt^lar Subscription HayoL' vvv.. m\ tiifr Service of will soll r N. G.' Gonzales, Born August 5, 1858, Died January 10, 19u3. "Faithful Uuto Death." On the north side ls inscribed: A Great Editor, An Eminent Citizen, An Honest Man, .Without Fear and Without R3 proaoh" His Fellow Citizens Rear This Monument To Perpetrate His Memory^ The South side bears the follow*r?g lettering : v Four.der and First Editor of The State. I xv j ? For Twelve Years He Oonduoted It With Signal Ability and Conspicu ous Courage ; A Potent Volco for Civic Righteous nesr ; An Influential Faotor lu Every move ment For the Welfare of the People. ' 'The moasure ot success ls not what I w? get out of Ufo, But what we leave after lt." Editorial Deo, 10, 1900. On the east side aro these Unes, from a poem hy J. G. Holland: "Cod give us moid A time like/ this | demands Strong minds, great hearts, fr ue faith and ready hands, Men whom the lust of ofliee does not killi Men whom the spoils of oltlco cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who oah stand before a dema gogue, And down his treacherous flatteries | without winking! Tall men, sun-crOwncd men, who live above the fog In public duty and in privato think ing. Fo^whilo thc tubble, with their truc We onyivetSds, vhere a JargO professions and their lit nonia orlceds loney ai in scllish stalfc--lo! Freedom tires coi'**3?; ? . . , \ iot take irulC8 the land, and walting ?reparati1CC sleeps." yrhich c?a0ment stands at the Intorsec tiat r<rta Sonato and Sumter streets, >r Holey aUJ? the protty park whloh sur ny substitUj 8tat0 oap!toi, and ls erec_ s "he people of South Carolina, ' =tions for its construction hav ihonpRgn made from every county In Tizate. ?agal* Gonzales was an ardent expon \ lrV Guba Libre, and, before tho >OOK nj^Amerioan war, volunteered Tile S,CQ ,n the remnant of tho Cu raf f?i. cJi' was appointed aide on rai ior ox.,f Gm jjUD(S5| wlfcn the rank Tlie Tri- wi ar>d participated insov ttion and x*lth tho Spaniards In >r only S1.7l? T088 th? lalapd vaf/otinV *t.400 wore lm Fines ftK??6?ft" fVpeusboro's most prom^ne?vW./^merT-by Judge Ward In superior court for violating the gambling laws. Julius W. Cone, sec retary and treasurer of the White Oak and Proximity mills, and his brother, Solomon, the president of tho Ameri can Cotton company, wore, lined $500 each, while Sydney J. Kaufman aud W. L. Di tr oy wore fined $200 each. The young men were recently playing poker in a rear roora of tho Hunttio o, C., when a policeman, who had learned of tho in cident, olimbed a telephone rolo on tho opposite side of the street and gaining an unobstructed view of the room and its oocupants, procured war rant? for their arrest and thc oase was called to trial Tuesday. Doath Itoyeala Itwmnnoc. The death of fifbeen-yo.'.r-ojd Annio i lo. roobbie, a student at Mount Do ohautal reveals a pathetic romaneo. The girl was loved by John Amslor, a wealthy oil operator of Bellaire, Ohio, and thev married some months agu. mi.. ..i. . -i_i - 4.. "".....,_ " ..i.A. i im .? uocmu u; m. UM tn t?u uuuuie tlon, however, Impelled her to ontor tho sominory at Wheeling, W? Va., undor hor nalden name, hor husband posing aa her uncle. A few days ago, Mrs. Anster, In running about too seminary grounds,for exercise, burst A blood vessel In her throat; death en? ?ulng> Friday, taluo Ymnlcoo Who Hervel in tho '--;??i-"vv-5,-^ ?.irwy< m hp in tho northern rart of Mno tho other day and heard a story vvhie)) was a little out ot the ordinary lin? ot civil war stories I have read about," said a drummor whose torrltory ls New lowland. "I had noticed a funeral In the town, tho turnout Of whloh Indicated that the deceased must have been a prominent | man in his life time. "A oltizen said In answer to my in quiry that tho man had retired from business several years before his death The citizen added, 'His funeral to day ls muoh larger than it would have boon some years ago. ''I then heard tho story. "When LYnooln oallod for troops there were few men in the stato of Maloo ttho opposed ooerolon of the south. This man was an except ion. "Although a New Englander from a colonial family wtnsa histor/ gus back to the colonial wars, this man was at the call for troups, what was known lo the North asa oipporheai. Ile was an < lllo r in tho milita at the timo of L ncoln's eleotlon. Every man in his command except himself volunteered in answer to L'ncoln's proolamitlan. "Ho not ouly ref med to go, but he bodily .contended that lt was an out rago to Opposo the secession of tho southern states. He was ostraolsod socially and oommorolally. His bus iness dwludled away. "During tho s o md year of tho war he left tho oommuulty Nobody seem- d to o ?.re whore ho went. "Two years later he returned. He was a phy6io*l wreck. Tho feeling in tho community was not quito sobittor as Jn the begiunlng of the war However tho mau was not cordially received. "He had not been bee'e long when lt was loirned that he had been in the Confederate army and was dis charged on aco.iunt of his uablllty to do duty. This tmformatlon did not[ tend to Increase ht* popularity. "He carno Into possession of donald erable money soon aftor his. rotum. Meanwhllo some of tho shattered remnants of the Maine companies be gan to drift home. Most of them were broken In health and most of them were lennlless. "This mau began contributing to the relief of the needv. A milirity of the bemflolalre did not know the source of their help. "After tho war was e Y 3r lt leaked out little by little that the b$nefaotor w.-.s the man who had been ostracised. T > the credit of many Wwaa: again adm"?,.^1 .?a an l,our h? a?"* Idiinatio. During his frenzy ho hr\MA rm im mi ft. ? -v .j ? J on Di. Napier, who j)ut for help^vould rlO* f*1 io be his right, lt was never epics tloned. Before he re'ired fiom bu9hois he was on one occasion visited by a man from thc.st uth who had been the col one 1 of the Confederate regiment of whloh he was a member The ex Confederate was down at the heel in every way. "No ono kuew what happenod dur lng hi? visit in Maine, but a few j ears ago lt became known to a few poor la In the violnlty that thc Maine man helped Iiis old commander to rc oup his fortune. That man u etil 1901, was a successful broker and bankor lu that oity and his silent partner for nearly fifteen years was the Malno Yankee who aa a democrat held a re publican Gill JO. "I have traveled all over United States, and mat all sorts of people, bud J, have never heard a civil war story that was anything Uko this. My informautls at the head of a big industry in Maine, ho told me that only a few persona knew the facts as I have stated them."-Washington Star. Children Burned to Death, Six ohlldreu were burned to death at L'ndsry, Pa , at an early hour Tuesday and William Morgan and wife, the parents, wita their two re maining children, barely escaped with their lives. Both fathor and motlier wore badly burned in attempting to save their little ones from their burn lng homo. The mother threw two of the children from an upstairs window, thereby saving their lives, and jump ed herself as the , roof fell tn. She was badly burned and will probably lase one foot as the result of lier Inju ries. The father is also badly burned about the hands and face but cot sor leanly. Tuc fire waa discovered by a neighbor who hastened to tho burn ing house and aroused the sleeping inn ates. At that time the wholu roof and rear of tho homo wero burn ing. Thc Uro originated from a stove In a Email outbuilding adjoining the home of tho family. Morgan came to Lindsey from West Virginia only a ni?ort timo ago. Murelure-tl MIMI it.ihhntl, Physlolans have found that chloro form wasu?ed to kill Mrs. Morrl! Nat tai, tho aged woman who wa? mur derod and robbed yesterday In her apartments at Asbury Park, N. J. Hm- husband and her four HODS an nounced that $1,000 in cash was se cured from Mra. Nattai. Tho wo man's ears wero badly lacorabod by bot assailants who violently toro a pair of diamond earrings from her. ?J 1181 ia Juan. Captain Gforgenzn and tho orow of twelve men who were on relief light ship 68 at Nantucket shoals, whloh sprung a loak, are now safe. Thoy wero rescued by Captain Gibbs ar qrew of the A/oleo and wore landed at Now Bedford, Mass., at 2 o'olook Wednesday morning. Tho lightship went down ten minutes after tho crew were taken e If. The mon wero in an exhausted condition. Another Convention. Harvlo Jordan has issuod a oall for a general convention of f Armors, ban kers, merchants and others through out tho Km tb to be held in Now Orleans January 11th, 12 th and 1$bb, with reference to handling tho orop of lOjo autl other mtttors pre haining to tho cotton asst elation. J iy i, o h o oj. .lohn Oreen, colored, was lynohod by members of his own race near Memphis, Tenn,, on Monday, for as taulting a colored ?;" ' ei. on yT?.T ohb He was takon hy them to ?ne noone of Hs orlme and hanged, {, WMTTO'?BK JO m Mr. Nburg 1 iiioh Mr Cr B. Kittell Claims Tirait U ? ? i.'.i. j i an Murphy. \ 0?pt. Or'fil h, Mr. Kit tr oil skid Mr. Hurdv Will T?ko A LOQ]| at tho FRIUOUH Prisoner.; The OD'umbla Slate says that it appears that after all Dan S. Murphy may be In arrest in Swainsboro, Ga. As bas been published in Tao State, Mr. Geo. B. Kittrell, Of Orangoburg county has assurances from tbe sheriff at SwalnBboro that the prisoner ls very much like a photograph of Mur phy, taken while he was in jail In Or angeburg awaiting trial. Sergt. O. 0. Rrbrrts of the poulton tlary guard was Bent to Swainsboro about ten days ago to see If thc nun In prison thcro was Murphy, as had been a'Dged by the ohlef of police of Augusta. Sjrgt H berts reported by wire that tho man was not Murphy, although lt was singular that the mau conv'cted of horse stealing e* " vaina boro attempted to take his ' ife when ho heard that an ctllcor from South Carolina was coming for him. H brokoa bott le and with a jiggod piece of glass made a wcuud o t his wrist from whi^h ho bled profusely and his condition was discovered just In time to F.avo his life. Whether lt was from his emaciated condition on ace out of this blood lot tlrg, or on account of tho chango of (Ive years of out door life upon thc oountonanca of ono who had been oon (hied in a cell, Sorgt, lt >bcrts was un able to Identify the mau aa Murphy However, on his return to Columbia he did report to Capt. G. i 111 th, super intendent of the penitentiary, that ho suspected the man notwithstanding tho fe Ci that there was a marked dis crepancy in the holgl t of the m ,n in arrest at S valnshoro and tho height of tho man In the penitentiary as shown by tho penitentiary records. Murphy had had several tooth miss lng, aud the man in j Ul at Swainsboro had a gold crown In the placo whore these teeth wore missing. Sergt. Rob erts hoing unable to complete tho iden tifie ttlon, Capt. Grlfilth had written to tho sherlir at Swainsboro to send photograph of the mao in prison there, and this has not yet hoon done. Thursday Gov. Heyward took the matter up with Capt. Grltllth and the latter, Instead of going to Washington to attend tho meeting of tho commis sion to confer with Mr. lt osevelt in regard to a Southern interstate reform atory, deolded to leavo at onco for Swainsboro and to take a look at the prisoner J lim iel f. He will be ace >m no.^uis on ti tomi Hardy, one of the ?-?.< i. .sntlary, lu Saved by Dyn a J0- . ... . . . n thc olty Sometimes, a Haming u aocorapanv dynamiting a space thal V ,n ^f j^,t cross, Sometimes, a coug . "Pty Q long, you lcd as it noth ld cure it. Z, ' writes: ''Mv \ grivated cough, which nights Two physicians lit her; so she took. JV...AT nc s lld Thurs '.: YJ ..n'.?i-uuat but fjr a mb carriage of Jmtlca there m'ght have beon others convicted in o junee ion with I).ui Murphy. He is sure thai the man in j iii at S valnshoro is Dau Mur phy, for his actions li a vc. indie vtta as much. Al in ph y is kLown to have been in that part of tho c >uutry anyway. Svvalnsboro ls .n Emanuel county, tqu tdistant from Augusta and Savamah, aud ii not ou a through lino of rail way. A 8peoial to The State TliuTKday night from Oranueburg says: ''Thc impression hero ls that the penitentiary guard nude a mistake, Murphy's wife's rolatives movett to Swainsboro several years ayo and it has been reported hero several times that ho ranged b. tween Swalusboro and Jacksonville. "It ls also reported that a pa'rty here had located Murphy at Swains boro just prior to the time the fact of Murphy'a helng a Q ;or^la convict be cime known and that this pirty had ht ped 1 o secu re the roward. The seutl uientherc has never changed, Murphy ls still believed guilty The statement of his Georgia reiativis that he was in Augusta at the time of thc murder of Treasurer Copes has teen proven false. It is believed to have boon unwise to have commuted the sentence of a man who so richly deserved his death, without making some ( iTorts to verify the statements made In Murphy's be half at tho last moment and whloh could have been disproved without much trouble. " MK. KITT UKI. I, S STATKMICNT. Mr. Kittrell made the following signed statement for The State before he left home Thursday: Cope, S. C., Deo. 14. 1?CK>. Tho Stato, Columbia, S. C. You ask my reason for behoving por.soti at Swainsboro DAU Murphy. 1 nave always felt Uko aomo ono In au tuorlty was bribed to glvo him his liberty, and If they wore and any of thom sent thoy could not alford to Identify him, so when I saw by (jhe paoers lt was not him I sent his pic ture to sherill at S wainsboro and wroto him my fears In the matter. I receiv ed lotter Thursday stating that the picture sent was tho man he 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 lcttor that would explain. G. B. KlTTKBLL MURPHY IDENTIFIED A special to The Savannah Morn lng News from Swainsboro says: D. C. Murphy alias Prank Smith, has at last bron identified as tho murder er of County Treasurer itibert Copes, and G. Ii. Kiltrol of Copo is ox? to arrive here for his prisoner ton ?or? row. Smith was arrostcd in this county last May for horno stealing. He was convicted In October, and has beon serving his timo on tho county ohalngang An cfiUw to it hero from Soutn Carolina iO days ago failed to ldontify the prisoner but a photo graph of Smith sont hore by Kittrell mado his positivo Identification com plete, As requisition papers have already beon granted Srrlth will be taken to South Carolina at once. ?ONK TO BKK TUR MAN. Gspb. D'. J, Griffith, superintendant of thc Stato penitentiary, Mr. Geo. Hon Kittrell, former auditor of ? angoburg county, who prosecuted Dan 8. Murphy for tho killing of Treasurer Copes, and Corporal Hardy of the penitentiary guard went to r*-i_i_ n _ mi.,..A4?. ? ?...t.i - OWUiimiMiu, Vf a. i xiiuiniia/ tu van.?? ?? look at the man "Smith" in jail thero for horse stealing. Sergeant 0. G. Roberts of tho penitentiary guard was unable to fully identify tho prisoner as Murphy. . in... i*llnm(MM 1"M,. .. rn. A1IO . > i' " > " ' < ' M ?'Wut nf? tho governor Friday from .the Bher??f of 10 manuel o jun ty; RHEUMATISM TO STAY CURED. 9i fRoM ?I RUBBING DON'T CURE. Rheumatism ls an internai dis* ease and requires an Internal remedy. RHEUMACIDB "Otts at the joints from the Inside," and that ls the reason it Cures after alt other remedies have failed. Rheumaclde sweeps all the poisonous germs and acids out of the blood .nd "Makes You Well All Over." Those pains are danger signals, warning you of a disease that threatens the entire system. Headaches, Pains, Bad Taste in the Mouth, that 4 ' Noi-Account feeling Indicate that you need 51 REMOVES THE CAUSE r. i*> . . ~ Quincy. Mass.. July 18,1005. Bobbitt Chemical ^0.. D?ltlmore, Md. THE PAIN. .......... . ..i. i.... n i ..m i HUM i-, (nu. Denr S rs: I was laid up last November with Rheumatism In my feet and ankles, but after taking four bottles of Klicumacldc I have not been bothered since. I tried every old kind of liniment and was under two doctors, and all I tried had thc same re sult, until I ?ot Rhcumacidc. Now, I am pleased to say. lt has not been necessary for me to take ?ny medicine for Rheumatism sine? February laM. Everybody that I recommended lt to has had tho saino rosults. Yours very truly, P. RANAGAN. Manacer. Quincy Industrial Co-operative Society. Cured OO-ya ir-old Mrs. Mary Wetborn. of Hirth Point, N. C., after Ah? had suffered 20 years. Cured Rev. J. R. Wheeler, 70 yoars old, a leading Methodist minister, of Relstcrstown,'Md. Cured John F. Ellne. of Ualti more, after Johns Hopkins Hospital had completely failed. Cured James Wilkes, of nilton, 8. C.. after he had been In bed three years and his legs were drawn up against his back, netter get a bottle from your Druggist at one?. Sample Dotti? and booklet FREE If you send 0 cents for postage. BOBBITT CHEMICAL CO., Proprietors, BALTIMORE. There's Danger in Delay? Dear Sb : I have just rocelved a picture from Mr. G. Ii. luttrell of Oops, S.O., which he says is tho p'o turo of D. C. Murphy. If it is bl picture, I bavo tho man. I do noi ' undorstaud why Mr. Lt lo?rts d'd not tako him for I and everybody that has seen the man and picture knows that it is the same man. SD the mat ter Bcems to ba In rather had shape. 1 Yours verv tru'y, ] J. W. Kidds, , Sheriff of Fimnue1 County. THE END OF A DRUNK. A Mun FAY? Hourly l'.>r 111B Munday I ( Fun and Imposition. I A white man mmed Batten from a GreerH seotlon, visited Spartanburg 1 Sunday and seoured a physicians pre- ' scrip', i in to get gome wh'Bkoy from the | dispense ry. Ho then bunted up Mayor Floyd, who has to sign these pro- f sorlptlons In order to make them va- : lld. ' To tho doctor and to tho mayor he ( related the story, which was to the * t livot that bis wife was a very sick 1 woman, and that be wanted the 1 whiskey to oarry home to her. Be fore signing the paper, Mr. Floyd said to tho min, If,you are fool- 3 lng mc you'll regret lt." Tole caused 1 the stranaer to vociferously and ve- ^ hemontly repeat lils story, and his anxiety about his wife's cmdltlon, * and hts desire to get back to his home J seemed to bo real. No sooner had he secured the quait c of booze from a diiponsary than he hastened lu rear of tho building, un- 1 corked lt and began drinking freely. After several liberal applications of the "red," he hired a hack and bo gan taking In the city. The polio.: soon steered him to tho lookup. When ho greeted Miyor Floyd Thursday m ming, on charge of drunkenness, he liad no talk to make about the sick folks at home ; but begged the morey of the courb. His indisposition was too much for his honor, however, and ho was sentenc ed to pay a lluo of 125, the extreme limit. Hepildupanl left the elby a sadder, but wiser man.-Spirtan burg Herald. Killed With Toy Pistol. At Knoxvlllo, Tonn.,, on Thursday, while playing with a liftoen cent toy pistol Jesse Harber, seven years old, shot and killed K >y Walker, his six year old playmate. Toe pistol is of a typo which has been Introduced Into tho local market for holiday sales. The boys 1J tho neighborhood Boon learned that small loaded oartrlgcs could be used and lb 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 were playing and there was no thought in the mind of her son to even hurt his pUymibc. Sbeps will takn by the polios to prevent tho salo of these pistols. ltouuodon Proposed. Repr?sentative Bennett of New York Introduced a bill to cut down the representation of Southern States in congress because of the disfran chisement of the negro vot; The hill reduc?s tho entire r u Tibor of rep resentatives from 3ii> to 365. TOO several States would have their dele gations reduced as follows: Alabama from t) to 5} Arkansas from; 7 to 5 Flor ida from 3 to 2; Georgia from 11 to (5; Louisiana from 7 to 1; Mississippi from 8 to 3; North Carolina from 10 to 7; South Carolina fr om 7 to 3; Tonnessee from 10 to H; Texas from 10 to 13; Virginia from lo to 7. To Btop Hazing, Hear Admiral Sands, superinten dent of the Naval Academy, reaohod tho department Friday morning and conferred with Secotary Bonaparte and B.'.ar Admiral Converse, ohtef of bureau of navigation, regarding tho hazing at Annapolis. Too confer onco lantod until thc cabinet hour, and will bo resumed Friday afternoon 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. Marlo Iiove To A Dummy. J. P. Klmbrough Is a nativo of Ger man town, Tenn., and was appointed to the naval aoademy by Representa tive M. R. Patterson of tho Tonth Tonnesee district. R dativos say that rcoont letters from young Klmbrough toll of some of his experiences at An napolis. Ono letter states that a broomst'ek waa dressed In female ap parel, and that tuc young man was foio?d to "mako love" to tho dummy. RACK SUICIDE LAID IO CLUBS ?no Woman In Sixtoon BOUU?I?? a Moitun- After Joining. O'gx Louise Cadiab, a young Ohio woman has turned on her BOX who be ng to clubs and written dreadful things which she (lotion olub women to ienv. She pioturea tho club woman is a destroyor of the home in the gen doe meaning of the word, a woman who commas a raoe e u'cldo and on jouragos other women todo likewise. The average number of ohildron to .Hu rled members of the General F?d eration of Womens olubs, she declares, s two, while tho average number ( f children that blerscd the mothers of '..hese same women three and one lalf. "Tho average age of tho member ihlp of thc women's clubs in the coun try is thirty-three years Tho average igo of tho youngest children of the Harried members is eleven years. A lareful Investigation of tho member ddp of women's olubs shows that >?u~ v one married women in tl tteen 'bo urnes a mothor after she has alMed lev ?o?r with women's dubs, only ono ti ?or ty three during a period of eight I rears has become tho mother of two mlldren after her alliance with the women's clubs." The colli gu bred woman is put down LS selfish. The author next presonts ibo following statistics to show tho jearlrg of the subjoot of race suicide m the modern ohuxoh: With 45,016 Methodist mothers the iverage number of children was 3.218. With 26.234 Episcopal mothers tho iverage uumber of ohildron was 2 3 12. With 42.825 Oathollo mothers thc iverage number of ohildren was 3 3 7. With 21,103 Presbyterian m ?tilers ?he average number of children was U 8. With 29,247 Congregational moth es the avorage number of children vas 2 9 14. With 31,028 Baptist mothers tho .verage number of children was 3 4 0. All tho mothers referred to, the au hor declares, have boen married from ,en to fifteen years. Members of the General Federation if Women's Clubs have gathered sta letica to refute the c.mrges of race ulcldo by Grover Cleveland. MIBS ano Adams, of Hull H jugs, sayh: 'Thoro may be dissipation and over ndulgenoe in devotion to olubs, but ?he figures we arc gathering will re ute the dings made at the club wo nen on tho homo and c did quos lon." Hilled tut? rather Wodnesday night at Hills, Ga., ieorge Glisson, age about 25 years .ld, shot and killed his father, W. C. Blus?n. The young man oamo home, t is alleged, in a drunken condition nd was remonstrated with by his fa ber. The old gentleman retired to ils room and locked the the door, 'roouring a shotgun, George carno lack looking for bis father and Urni ng the door lookod broko it open and ired once, hitting his father in tho tomaoh, wounding him so badly that io died in about an bour. Roalizhig i/hat ho had done, tho young man ll jd rom tho house. Ho was pursued by ds youngor brother, John, who llrcd ,t him, wounding him in the arm. Ieorge has not yot been arrested and ?hon last heard from was at W. C. 'arrlsh's, near his home. A Biff Foo. Recently at St. Louis, ML, Pro late Judgo Crows ontered an rdor allowing Hr. W. E. Fisch?l 4,r>20 for medical services and Incl ontal expenses attending Miss Ellen ano McKee, a millionairess, who died ti Asheville, N. O. Ills olaim was 5,620. Tho amount allowed was iot contested. Dr. Fnohel olalmod 106 f jr attending Miu McKee in St oula from Jamury 2, last, until larch 30; 96,000 for ten dava attend ncc at Ashville; $300 claimed to have mn advanced or account of tho un crtakors bill, and $55 for railroad aro and othor expense. Mut Mon \jr Havoc!, The Cooper bidding, a five-story bruoture, a? Fulton and Bod ford brcets, Brooklyn, was destroyed by re carly Thursday morning. Tho ?on will nXn.0Ad "15" nee ir>.Oi>/iir?j? .? rt coicotlon of the varue of $30,000, wned by Senator Charles Cooper, ftor the Uro was extinguished the ol iee and a member of the Twenty bird regiment guarded tho safe of tho !rooklun Trust com,)onYr h* which 'as between $1,600,000, and $2^000, 00. DU. 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Following the explosion ibaoB rolgned in the furnaoe room for overal minutes. Moiton motal was furled about tho room and tho smoko md Oro that shot from tho furnaoe Ulled tho room so tho workmen were mable for Bevoral mluutes to find the xlts. With thc groans of their wound id follows ringing in their ears, they, ;roupsd about helplessly and stumbled vor those who had been prostrated >y tho blast. From tho furnaoe ohlm ioy the flames shot high into tho air nd oould be seen for milos. Tn? womon ot tho oountry aro de ?lauding that ono of their mn [IVIMI a place OP the p*[ L?t to look aftoj -JOIN TUR Ltidden & Bat?s -Piano Club 100 Pianos, - . 100 Members. _ $287 To club members--for the new sealo $400 Lodden & Dates. Pay $10at first then $8 monthly. No delays. Pianos shipped promptly. Our Guarantee u warranted for a life time." If Interested lu the fairest and best niano proposition ever made, wrlto for booklet "B" which will e plain our duh plan. Do not delay, tho club will soon be lilied. ? - ORGANS - - of tho best puulity $45 up % Upright Pianos I From $225 up. '? g Write Us I for catalog?os and terms. { Malone's ?Music House, 1432 Main Street Almost opposite Mai onie. Tomplo. Count MA, Sv. 0,