The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-04-26
MEMS IN THE sIAIE CAPITAL.

HOW THE SURPLUS COTTON CAN
BE PRoFYTABLY Used.
Divorced Man Has Trouble IN Renar-
ryiIsg Ia South South
eSSoIina College Receives
Small Bequests.
Columbia, April se.-The nyste-
rious stranger whose name and iden-
stity has been pulling the Charleston
police and hospital authorities has
been identified as 6. w Wooden. a
soliciting agent for New York week
with headquarters at Columbia,
where ne left a wife without support
! two weeks ago. He was identified by
fellow agent. H H. Hamlet, who
read the description of the missing
man IN the newspapers. Mr.. Wooden
had business worries which caused
MIN to lose his balance and wander off
but there has been a joyful reunion
between him and his wife and he is.
gradually recovering. He left Co
mmhia on the 7th for Norfolk, but is
stilI at a loss to know what he did
after he telegraphed that day to his
drn from Wlnnsboro until he came.
10 himself on the 1eth in savannah.
MS wooden notified the police here
about a. week ago that her husband
vas missing, but il there was any
credit coming for discovering the
missing man they preferred not to
share It with the newspapers, which
they carefully neglected to use.
Here is more heartrending trouble
about remarrying divorced persons in
this state of no divorces. This time
the trouble is generated at the town
ofSt George, which recently saw oth-
er troubles IN the nature Of railroad
wreck, by the refusal OF the Rev. NJ.
w. Rankin 60 marry DR.. Kenyon Mix
lard a gentleman from indianapolis,
Ind. to Miss Sallie Kenyon, the daugh-
ter Of the proprietress Of the local ho-
tel. who met her intended through
correspondence. DIR. Millard is cul-
tured and SIS years old and has lee
fured in the churches down there, but
Mr. Rankin would have none Of the
marriage ceremonies in his, although
the Dr.. showed him how his divorced
wife had been dead leaving him di-
vorced widower. So the couple went
to orangeburg to get the Rev. Mr..
Iightfeot to tie the knot. From there
they wiz go to Augusta to get it tied
harder under a license permit
In support of the argument in fa-
vor OF cotton sacks for fertilizers in
stead Of burlaps from India, President
Geo. A. WAGNER. Of the Charleston
Royal Bagging and Yarn mill, points
out the difference between the value
oe cotton and burlap sacks is go cents
"a ton on the seamless and SO cents a
ton on sewed cotton bags, and he call
eulates that twenty million pounds or
cotton would be used annually If these
sacks were manufactured Of cotton
alone, Aand If they would use cotton
bags for grits, rice, grain, sugar, salt,
cement and the like it would easily
take two millions bales Of cotton to
manufacture these bags" Mr.. Wag-
ener shows that for the year ended
the 31st of last December there was
imported from India to this country a
total Of 3s0,765,500 yards of burlap
on which the duty to the United States
government was $4,000.
]. Ed Boyer, in whose store the ire
started which wiped out half OF Co
lunbia's suburb, Brookland, when flf-
ty buildings were destroyed entaillng
a loss Of 100000, will have some
DANA ging evidence to confront at the
preliminary tomorrow which Magis-
trate Marchant will hold to determine
whether Boyer shall be sent to the
upper cour1 on the charge Of arson.
It was given out that the fire was
caused by an explosion Of kerosene
engine on the first floor Of Boyer's
electric light plant situated in his
store, but witnesses will be put on
the stand to show that the fire was
drst seen on the second story and the
manner in which the lights went out
suddenly will be cited to show that
they were cut off By switch in
stead Of dieing out gradually by the
engine running down after the alleged
explosion Of the kerosene can in the
basement. Other evidence as to pur-
cnases Boyer made will be brought up.
But the evidence so far is all cicum-