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The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
Big Hiatoh fire.

The Greenville News says fire de-
sbroyed a carload Of matches at the
Southern rail way depot at 8 O'Clock
Wednesday morning. The fire de-
partment had to be called to put out
the flames which were bursting
through the roof when some of the
yard crew discovered what had hap.
pened. The a was standing near
the old freight depot at the time, but
1t was Immediately coupled to an on.
CINE and rolled down the yard to the
Reedy river embankment, where the
fireman began to work with the
flames. For half an hour they poured
a stream Of water into the bursting
matches before the flames we're entire.
ly out. The matches were a total
loss and the carload was valued at
$1,000. The damage to the car was
considerable. Most Of the roof and
woodwork on one md will have to be
replaced and the expense will reach
800. Why the matches should have
taken fire is not known. 1t Is sup
posed that they were jolted in some
way and the flames resulted.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
Shot by n burglar

Burglars that have aroused the
vicinity Of Greenwich, Conn, for the
past few weeks reached q climax
Wednesday morning, when Mrs. A. @.
Morrill,, daughter OF &c. 9. Converse,
chairman Of tho finance committee OF
the United States Steel corporation,
was hit by q bullet fired by q burglar
and seriously If not fatally Injured.
About 3 O'clock Wednesday morning
Mrs. Morrilrs nurse was awakened by
the fash Of q burglars lantern In her
face. She screamed and her cries at.
tracted Mrs. Morrill, and as she en-,
tered the room the burglar fired, the
bullet striking her In tho chin, glanc.
ing down, landing in the shoulder.
The burglar also beat the nurse oyer
the head and shoulders with his re-.
volver. After the shooting he made
his escape. The police found that
an entrance was Effected by forcing
the front door. A man claiming New
York As his home was arrested. The
police believe he Is the burglar. He
gave his name as John Brown and
said that he came to Greenwich to
call on q friend employed at the home
OF Mrs. Morrill,.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
Eound fortune.

An iron pot Containing $4,000 IL
gold coin, the neGost Of which was
115 years old, was found on the farm
OF James Rivers, near Chesterfield, S.
O., by Tyler Teal, a white laborer,
and WIN Ed Wards, a negro, while en-.
gagged recently In digging a ditch,
The pot was carried to a point 2
miles away and buried near a creek
bank. When, two Gays later the
finders went after the pot 1t had mys,
teriously disappeared The negro
charges the white man With having
appropriated the money and hidden
1t from him, while Teal declares the
story Is all a kc and no pot vas UNI
earthed. Edward sticks to his story
and has produced proof OF its genuine
ness. Detective j. ID. Evans, who
has associated with him n Of the
best detectives In the south, who were
employed by the negro, and who have
since been working on the case,
have secured evlderca confirming the
discovery Of the hidden, wealth, but
thus far no trace OF the gold has been
found
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
DcnONnCca Society.

Modern society Is as corrupt as
hell" These wcra the words OF Bishop
Bowman, the venerable member OF the
Evangelical Association, who arose like
d patriarch at the meeting Of the Ohio
conference In Columbus, Onio, Wed
nesday In the midst OF a heated dis.
cussion OF the temperance question
and the hold that the saloon and Cox
element has on the Republican parts
Of the State. Modern society isa3 cor
rupt as hell.' Yes, l said -; l viii say
1t again" declared the Bishop after.
ward. Il mean by that card playing
beer drinking, gambling, dancing
horse racing. These things are the
teachings Of the devil, and what else,
then, than the corruption Of hell. |
dou't mean exactly that all classes OF
society are corrupt, but what Is popu
larly termed as society where the
wealthy and the moderately wealthy
follow the glare Of amusements ana
spend their time In riotous living when
not engaged in making money to dis.
SjDate,
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
HIDDEN TREASURE
La Found I'm Michigan by Two Men
LLst Week.


Excitement prevails at Northport
owing to the reported finding Of a
treasure of $3.50, 600, suppose to be the
booty OF two robbers who committed
theft In Chicago about the time OF the
great fire.
Last week two aged strangcr3 up
peared In Northport and hired a boat
to take them to North Fox Island,
some miles In the bay. Later they re,
turned to Northport and secured q
quantity OF Bupplics. 1t was learned
that they were provided with maps
and charts.
When the strangers started to re-
turn to the island it is reported that
Jay Spangel, q barber, and Joe Gag
non a blacksmith, followed In q launch
and watched their movements. Soon
after the man who carried the strang
ers to the island returned after tools.
In the meantime It Is reported that
Spangel and Gagnon located the troa.
sure and got It,. Telephone communi.
cation with the island was cut or aud
the story as reported from Northport
by one Of the men Is believed to be
correct.
In the late CO.'S or early los a great
robbery took place in Chicago. IL Is
stated by some that the robbery took
place during the great Chicagl fire. A
large amount Of money was stolen by
two men, who escaped by a small
schooner, but we're pursued By others.
They eluded the vigilance OF their
purSucrs and after several days out
sighted South Fox Island.
1t is believed they buried the trea
sure on North Fox Island, then unin
habited.
A number Of years aftcrward a man
In a Canadian prison died. But before
he died he impaired information OF the
robbery and the location OF the treas.
ure. While In prison he made q chart
OF the island, showing the exact loca.
tIon Of the gold. Before he died he
sent the chart to his wife. The wild
ow married again and to her husband
confided the secret. The husband did
not believe the story and the chart
was lost.
In later years the husband in max.
ing a trip from Mackinaw TO Traverse
City passed the Fox Islands and rolat
ed the story OF the buried treasure to
the sailors. 1t Ia believed that the
sailors, who heard the story, In some
way came possessed OF the chart and
that they sought to unearth the treas
uro.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
Paid "A just Ponalty.

Henry w. Manseer. the O6wego
county farmer hand, who murdered
pretty ~ year old Cora Sweet, was
executed in Audubon, N. Y, prison
at 6:l5 O'Clock Tuesday morning.
Msn3ers crime was the most brutal
.nauseating in the criminal history OF
Oswego county. His victim YVES a
child OF q Wcll.t % do farmer in tho
town OF Serbia. a few miles from the
city Of Oswego. Ga May rs M1nseor
met the girl on her way to Sunday
school, lured her into the woods and
then killed her by pounding her side
into a shapelcSs mass with a stone.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
SENTIMENT CHANGING.
south Carolina for Prohibition and
As.ine Turn.n. Agasnat It.

The Washington Post says it Is q
rather remarkable fact that, although
he Democracy, as a national organiz
ition, has always been opp jssd, to
''sumptuary laws" such as statutory
prohibition Of the liquor trgnlo, the
nost and the best kind of prohibition
s now found in the few States that
ire solidly planted In the Democratic
columns. The Boston Globe notes with
Interest," that while Maine is growing
more and more uneasy about the sys
EN- of prohibition, aud getting reads
for o campaign Of resubmission to the
leople Of the whole question, Georgia
md South Carolina are earnestly tax
ing prohibition. The Globe states that
already In Georgia 1O3 counties have
10 license, % have dlspensaries, and 6
AVE high lic,nse. The effort now is,
says the Globe, to have the legislature
provide a system Of 'State option"
under which the six counties EMO,
would be wiped out. Our Boston con
temporary adds that:
In South Carolina there is a re.
mark. be movement to close up the
iispensaries, aud Senator Tillman Pc
poses to leave the question to the
Democratic primary. The prohibitions
sits in South Carolina, as well as in
Georgia, are coItiient that their cause
will win IL presented to the people.
AT the samo time 1t Ia curious that
the opponents Of prohibition In Maine
md Kansas, where the system has
neen tried, are as con fident that the
people arc ready to vote against a con
,inuanco Of the present regime as the
Georgia and South Carolinan probibi
;ionists are that their case needs only
to be presented to find acceptance at
tho hands Of the people,"
The Post is In receipt Of a very long
and intensely earnest communication
from a South Carolina Domocraj who,
after applying to the liquor trade III
his State all the epithets that used to
be- hurled at the rumsellers ard their
places Of business In Maine sixty years
ago, closes by quoting this stanza from
a song that was sung at temperance
meetings In New England by the
grandparents Of the present genera
ton:
Tell me 1 hate the b0wlp
Hate Is a feeble word;
l loathe, abbor, my very soul,
With strong disgust is stillcd
When | see, or hear, or tell
OF the dark beverage OF hell"
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
Sixty Injured.

Sixty passengers we're injured. nine
seriously, by the overturning Of a
trailer attached to q traction car on
the Homestead division Of the Pitts
burg, Pa, Railway company neal the
Glenwood bridge early Wednesday.
The accident was caused by the failure
OF the brakes to work. The car and
trailer were crowded to their fullest
capacity. There Is u steep grade from
the GlcnwOod bridge to Hays Juuc-
tion, where cars branch off for sur.
rounding points, and great caution is
used by mOtormen. The brakes refus-
ed to oct properly Wednesday, how.
ever, and the cars descended the grade
with unusual speed. At Hays juno.
ton there Is a sharp curve. The first
a managed to round She curve, but
the trailer, carrying so passengers,
was thrown from the track. A scene
Of almost indescrlbable confusion fol.
lowed as the upset trailer was dragged
along a considerable distance before
the motor car could be stopped. Every
n OF the passengers was bruised and
injured. It Is expected that all Of the
Injured will ultimately recover.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
Ki!lo0 by Nntfon.

A very sad accident occurred near
Vanccs on Monday week ago, which re-
suited in the death OF Arthur, the
tive-ycar-0ld sou Of Mr.. Julius A. Muir.
ray. Mr.. MurrGy's children were play
ing In his cotton on about two bales
OF newly gathered seed cotton. They
had dug a hole In the midst Of the pile
OF cotton, down to tho floor, when Ar
thur got dowo into 1t, probably 80
make the hole larger, when the cotton
fell on him, ~suffocating him. He was
gotten out as speedily as possible, and
everything possible done to save him.
All proved unavAilinQ.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22

Fired INTO tho Crowd.

At TiaIs many Social Democrats
we're killed or wounded at 10 O'Clock
Tuesday night In a conflict with Cos
sacks at the town hall and nan were
trampled to death In a subsequent
panic. Two Thousand Social Demo-
Gratis had forced an entrance into the
town hall, which was closed owing
to the celebration OF q religious holi,
day. the b~ehcadii.g OF John the Bap.
list. Revolutionary speeches were
made and the chief Of police ordered
the meeting to disperse. Part Of
those present obeyed but the remain
der remained and some revolvers were
Tired. a large forco OF Oossacks
drawn up outside the building then
fired a volley into the crowd, time and
time again killing 80 and wounding
upwards OF 10. In the enSusing pan.
ic mary persons fell and we're tram.
pied to death by their comrades and
the pursuing C~ossacks,
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
IIollO Nirie 10 Go.

A dispatch from Allentown. Pa,
says deciding to spend $500 600 in in.
stalling giritss telephone plants herc
and in Htzleton, tire management OF
the Consolidated Telephone company
deprived more than 100 telephone
girls Of their jobs. They will be out
as soon as the new plants are ready,
December |. The 60 girls got SO
cross about 1t that many left instant.
ly and the service is greatly impaired.
The directors Of tho syndicate say
they are sorry for the girls, but they
calculate on running each girlless OK
cnango at a saving OF $40, 600 a year.
II the trial plants arc as successful
as IL Is believed they will be, the
Rirless system Will be installed In the
entire Consolidated territory, which
includes Scranton, Wilkosbarre and
the ten other largest cities OF Penn.
Slyvania east OF jhe Susquehanna riv.
or. More than 400 girls are employed
In the exchanges.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
SENSATIONAL STORY.
Thirty. nye Americans Reported Lest
on Toso's Ship.

IA SssV
A dispatch from New Orleans to
the Atlanta Constitution says from
Information received here IL 10 believ-
cd that q number of American gun
ners went down In the explosion
which sank Admiral Togo's flagship,
tho Mikasa, and at tho Same time
threw light upon the cause for the
remark, blo Workmanship which do.
wasted the Russian Baltic fact in tho
battle Of the Sea- Of Japan.
Joseph Morgan, Of this oity, brother
Of Charles Morgan, formerly gunner
On Admiral SIMPSONS flagship, Now
York, states that the American gun.
ner j)ined tho Japanese navy and was
a member OF the crew OF tho Mtkasa.
Gunner Charles Morgan 10 said 10 bs
one of the thirty. five American man,
O'-warmen who deserted at Manila and
joined the Japanese navy.
1t mas he who fired the frat shot at
San Juan. Porto RICO, and subssq lent
ly obtained notorlety through Admir-
al Sampson'S opposition to hiH recciv'
ing the rank Of commissioned officer
In the United States pavy.
Morgan's skill as a gunner was cele.
brated In tho navy, and his brother
states that Captain Morrill,, formerly
stationed st the United States navy
yard at New Orleaus, told, him bis
brother deserted at Manila, and, with
thirty-ave comrades, joined the Jap.
anese forces, receiving a salary Of IS
90 a month, with q promise Of a bonus
at the end OF the year.
Heretofore 1t has been claimed that
the Japanese have employed no for
ciRn Fighters, and the fact that Joseph
Morgan has heard nothing from his
brother for over a year, after q fomer
regular correspondence, bears ous the
belief that American gunners were
secured under bond Of secrecy.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
"A Holy Wax.


A dispatch from ST. Petersburg
says a holy war has been proclaimed
In the Caucasian districts az IAN.
sezur and Jebraial, whore Tartars ara
massacfelng the Armenians without
a distinction OF sex or agl. The
country 10 sWarmlng with bands of
'Iartars under the leadership Of their
cn1efs. Many thousand Of Tartar
have crossed the Pcrso.
Russian frontier and joined the In.
surgents In destroying Armenian
villages. At the village OF Minkend,
three hundred Armenians were
slaughtered. Dispatches say that
mutilated children we're thrown to
the dogs and that the few survivors
were forced to submit to Isiamism In
order TO save their lives.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
STEPPED I'M CRIME.
"A BOY Goes TO tho PeDitentiary for
Eighteen Years.

The aresnvi,ic News Gays though
his attorneys pleaded long ard earnest
ly for acquittal on the ground that
Mrs. Brothers had failed to identify
her assailant, 1t took the jury In tina
general sessions court "Wednesday les,
than an hour to declare Rufus Jack.
son, colorec, guilty of attempted orlm.
inal assault.
The crime was committed In q cot
ton fold near Grove Station o yeaI
ago. Mrs. Brothers was picking cot
ton ut the time, and though she sue
ceeded In shaking the negro OF, he
made good his escape aud for severa
days tho boys whereabouts, for he
waa only eighteen years old, were o
mystery. 1t wa not long before one
piece Of oircumstantial evldenos ate,
another led to Jaokson's arrest, anC
when the deputy sheriff brought him
before Mrs. Brothers she identified
him most positively, and he wa.
brought to jail.
A month or two later the negro wa
@uuluUou W DSll DY some magistrate
and 1t was only a short time ago tina
he lost n eye and came near losing
his life In an attempt to enter the
room OF q negro woman In the night
time. 1t Is also said on reliable an,
thOrity that this same Rufus Jackson
while out of Jail under bond wrote al
insulting note to a white woman In
Lauren county. and also Actually as
saulted o half-witted negro girl at the
point Of a pistol.
These latter facts were not allowed
to como into the CASE for they had no
connection with it., but they are No
secrets and go a long way toward max
Ing up Jackson's character. The sta
suite fixes the punishment for attempt,
cd criminal assault at not more than
80 years In the pcnitentiary, and Judge
Dantzler gave him the full limit.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
Must BIO numbered.

The postoflce department. has Is
sued an order which will so into Of,
feet on September 30th requiring all
rural houses to be numbered the
same as the houses In the city. The
orders state that all OF the boxes must
bear the number instead Of the names
OF occupants Of the houses to better
facilitate the rural delivery work.
The carriers have q certain route to
go every day, and he goes the same
way dsily, and the order states that
he will nave To number the first box
OF his route mo. l." and 80 on to
the end Of his route.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
Killed by Blind IiGers.

A dispatch from Jackson, Miss.
says Governor Vardaman received a
letter from District Attorney Brewer
Of the eleventh diatricS notifying him
that a negro named James wills, liv-
Ing In the interior OF Tallahassee
county was taken to the woods by
three white men and shot to death,
he was burned. The negro, it aeems,
had bought some whiakey from one of
the white men and afterwards In
formed on him. The district attor
ney asked the governor to take action
In the cage.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
POISON IN OUR 0 O
Kills Dogs, Rabbits and Othor Ami.
mails I'm Expert Test.

mails I'm Expert Test.
To demonstrate the effect. Of i'm.
pure FOODS on the human system.
Professor Eugene Glrard, one Of the
chief chemists Of the International
Stewards Association, which is In
session at the Hotel Rudolf, Atlantic
City, startled the delegates and a
large number Of the outsiders by
showing the ELECTS OF a remarkable
experiment. he has been making
on animals fed with impurities found
in food sold throughout the country.
Prof Girard had on hand a c>llec
tion OF rabbits, guinea pigs and dogs.
Professor Glrard extracted the color.
ing matter used in breads'utrs and
fed a healthy New Foupd,and dog
from day to day on this substance,
mixing Ii with his food. To day the
dog Is thin and emaciatrd and 1t will
have to be killed on Thursday.
O6ner COloring matter that Pro.
fessor Girard fed to guinea pigs aud
rabbits killed the animals in a short
time, The tissues and every organ
was found to be poisoned and dis
colOred.
Professor Girard stated that the
authorizations In the foods sold to- day
are having the same fl Ict on thous,
auds Of persons.
There Is a big exhibit Of pure and
and impure foods IN the grotto of the
Hotel Rudolf, and Professor Girard
explains the methods used In analy-
ling the various produces. The Stew.
ards Association has become 80
strong that many corporations dealing
In food stuff4 make no attempt to
place their goods on the market un,
less obey are first subjected to ali
ANALYSIS by1ts chemists.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
MurNCr And SuInIdn

A special from Tarpon Springs saws
at q O'Clock Wednesday evening G.. E.
Paul, q well kno~n contractor, walk.
into the boarding iiouso OF Hiram
Pent OF that placa, ano as his wife
came to meet him at ths dininp room
paul snot nor down With q double.
barreled shotgun and then ran into
the back yard, shooting himself with
the contents Of the other barrel. Paul
was instantly killed but his wife lived
10 minutes. Paul had been drinking
heavily, 1T is said, for several weeks
NO statements were made by either
party AZ to the cause OF the shooting
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
A FATAL FALL
Through tho Dome of the state
Capitol ut Columbia.

At the State House0tn Columbia Oh
Tuesday OF last week while scribbling'
his name on one Of the iron Orders
between the bases Of the inner and
cutter shells Of tho capitol dome, Wal.
rem III. Scluggs, Jr., the fifteen year
old son of q we'll known travelling
clothing salesman, stopped into one
Of tho two foot squares Of the csiling
protected only by tin, and fell forty
feet Mediterranean On to the marble
floor Of the outer lobby between the
two houses Of the legislature, dashing
out his brains and killing himself In.
stantly.
With him was a companion, p. w.
Bull, who had just finished writing
hts name in the adjoiuing panel.
These two names and that Of @. S.
Rents are scribled In largo white let
ters all over that section of the dome.
When he fell through Scrnggs was
just reaching the first ':g" in his
name, a long white mark extending
down the girder In tho direction OF
the punotured square. :
This Is a dangerous ceiling, but 1t
seems impossible to prevent a miscol.
laneous assortment Of people from,
streaming into the dome, though this
accident will likely result In some &C.
tion being taken along this line On
the day OF the adjournment Of the
last legislature the little daughter OF
w. III. Monckton, a Columbia MGR.
chant, fell shrough one OF these
squares, but was saved by the bal
cony, and though she fell IS feet she
was upiDjurcd.
w. w. Price, now q well known
Washington newspaper correspondent
several years III while working on q
Columbia newspaper fell partially
through n Of theso squares while
spying On a political convention in
session in the hall Of the House Of
REPRESENTATIVES,.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-22
TOO MUCH WHISKY
In Certain Patcnt Medicines to DO
Sold Without Lioense.

A dispatch from Washington says
the commissioner Of internal revenue
Thursday rendered a decision that
will seriously affect a number OF pa.
tent medicines composed largely or
distilled liquors. He has reversed a
ru.eing OF his department. made many
years ago and now decides that the
manufacturers Of these medicines
must take out license as rectifers aud
liquor dealers and that druggists and
others handling them will have to pay
the usual retail liquor dealers license.
The commissioner, in q letter of IN.
structlon to collectors Of internal reye
nue., says that there are a number Of
compounds on the market going un.
der the name of medicines Il. nv
composed chiefly Of distilled sp,rits,
without the addition Of drugs or
medicines in sufljient quantities to
change the character Of the whiskey.
While no statement is made by the
commissioner as to the medicines that
will be affected, 1t is believed tbat
several prominent and highly adver.
tisei medicines will bs affected by the
decision.
In some instances tho medicines
have been found to contain as high as
45 per cent. OF alcohol, and there are
many on the market, 1T Is said, that
contain 25 per cent. Of alcohol. These
medicines are said to have immense
sales in prohibition communities, fig
ures collected In Massachusetts, recent.
ly showing, 1t Is said, that one much.
advertised compound with a high per.
centage OF whiskey had been bought
to the extent Of 300. 900 bottles in one
year In prohibition communitios OF
ono New ENGLAND State