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k nifvmt kb ii iimil Published Weokly ABBEVILLE. 8. C. Vacationers have no ambition to "come back." Girls in tight skirts?well, the lesa ! /Isaid about them the better. Dealers in evaporated eggs do not ; always succeed in evaporating the j smelL Golf a rich man's game? Non sense! Just look at the number of poor players! No matter what may be said about the weather man, it can not be denied that he is hot 6tuff. It's a heap easier to denounce the bad habits of the other fellow than It is to renounce our own! A man never enjoys his summer vacation so much as when he returns home to get a square meal. Speaking or rerresmng suDjecuj, a motoring party In the Alps was lost the other day In a snow drift The gondoliers of Venice have gone Oit on a strike, leaving the public to >?,ddle Its own canoe, so to speak. According to reports tne Dauoi mw *all In Oregon will be nir.e feet long, And yet women Insist that they want Since a telephone girl is said to have won a prince, lots of girls will prac tice saying "Number, plee-us?" ia dulcet tones. A statistician tells us that the wo men of Paris outnumber the men by 200,000. Now fre know why rich Americans like Paris. What brings the blush of shame to | the Chlcagoan's cheeks is the taunt i AV-A x%? T oto "Vf4r?Vtipan I tuai lub laigeui uou m .uuiw i>..v~.D? can be caught on a pinhook! Since a correspondent has retaliated with some heat, saying that man's garb Is Idiotic, we shall ha ?. to con cede that at least it is slightly inar tistic. Some men are born enemies of man kind, and some develop the habit of getting their hair cut on Saturday aft- i ernoon. Observing the oddly unbecoming costumes affected by aviatrices, one marvels that any girl ever cherishes aspirations to fly. Every time -we hear that a pleasure boat has knocked a hole In a battle ship we are led to wonder why the government doesn't build a fleet of pleasure boats. One thins which Berlin Is certain to do In 1916 Is to dwarf Stockholm In Olympic wds. The ten-to-one ad vantage in population settles that point far in advance. Over four thousand killed them selves in the United States last year. But, still, that left a fairly reaBsrr lng proportion of the population that yet believed life Is worth living. i It is interesting to read that a Housatonic woman dug twenty good sized potatoes and three small ones from one hill a few days ago, but what was her husband doing mean while? ' 4 tN 1 1 Our army hag adopted a new form I of sword which Is aald to be highly effective. We can picture a gallant officer, sword In hand, battling with a gatllng gun at a distance of a mile and a half. r. * A young woman In a New York wa terside resort came near being drowned by her hobble skirt. Still, style Is not worth being a cause If It Is not to have Its martyrs, as well aa Ito -vnfnrlefl A New Jersey man claims that he has perfected an invention -whereby peas can be made to grow by eleo tricity. That may help Bome, but wouldn't it be more effective If he could induce electricity to kill the weeds? The saw fly is cutting the leaves off New England's maples and the spruce bud moth is attacking the balsams, which are needed for pillows and for Christmas trees. Still nobody 1b do- i ing anything to increase the number i of the birds. A man arrested In Chicago for be ing drunk confessed that his wife, a milliner, had sent him out to buy j thread and he had spent the money ; for drink. His wife pleaded to save i him from Jail, on the ground that she j needed him home to do the house- ! work. ' > Great excitement has been caused : in London because the king and queen j went to a vaudeville show. What i they warit now is to get up a con- j Venn on UU mo Aiuentau pi au ji iu?jr wish to be up to date In their amuse- ! ments and want some excitement | which is really worth while. Shoemakers are proverbially 111 shod, : but It would seem as If the men In the ; Pittsburg factory who struck because ' while they turned out 600 bathtubs a day they had none to use themselves had something to complain of. Out in California up-to-date farmers I are catching millions of grasshoppers ; with vacuum cleaners mounted on j light sleds and pushed over the alfal fa. and then drvlne the grasshoDDers ! and Backing them for chicken feed. One has to be swift to keep up with modern progress. Not having a sufficiently vivid im agination to discover one himself, the state geologist of Pennsylvania offers $50 a specimen of the hoop snake. The trouble is that he will not pay the money on hearsay evidence. SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION NEWS THERE ARE OVER 135,000 VOTES RECORDED FOR GOVERNOR IN THIS STATE. TELLS CHAIRMAN OF STATUS Tlll?.?? P ? .1 O I.. PI.. I 111man vjcciiib oui c uI opccu/ tion?From Present Outlook There Will Be a Second Primary?Largest Vote Ever Recorded in State. Columbia.?With the -vote cast so large to arouse protests of illegal vot ing, the total balot for governor hav ing, the total ballot for governor hav 138,314. with many precincts yet to hear from at last report, Cole. L. Blease, governor of South Carolina, on the face of the returns haB a ma jority of 2,296 for renomination over his opponent, Ira B. Jones It was a veritable flood of votes. When the first report ran heavy it was first as cribed to unusually fast work on the part of the managers, but as the bal lots . continued to pile in .the con clusion began to force itself upon the observer that South Carolina had broken its own record by some 15,000 votes in the race for governor. Allegations of illegal methods were not wanting to stire up citizens. Into the office of the state chairman, John Gary Evans, in Spartanburg, there poured, according to dispatches from that city, numbers of telegrams and telephone calls from the up-country. In Spartanburg, when the executive committee meets to tabulate the vote, protest on the result will be pre sented. It will be pointed out that the increase in the vote since the last nYAAilnn Jo A# oil fM?Ar?Arflnn f A cicv. uuu 10 uui ui an fiuput vivu w the increase in population. In Anderson county, which polled a tremendous vote, there were rumors that the executive committee will probably order a recount. The vote for governor, which alone showed any remarkable increase, -a?-j *-11 41 OA BlUUU ab lUllUWB, luere nciug auvui ou more precinctB to hear from: Blease 70,800, Jones 68,004, Duncan 2,018. Blease's majority stood at 2,296. TABLE SHOWING VOTE FOF County Abbeville .. Aiken .. Anderson.. Bamberg .. Barnwell.. Beaufort.. Berkeley .. Calhoun.. . Charleston Cherokee .. Chester.. . Chesterfield Clarendon Qollgton.. . Darlington Dillon Dorchester .. Edgefield.. .. Fairfield.. .. Florence.. .. Georgetown.. Greenville .. Greenwood .. Hampton ... Horry Jasper .. Kershaw.. .. igncaster .. Laurens.. .. Lee Lexington .. Marlon .. Marlboro.. .. Newberry .. Oconee .. .. Orangeburg .. Pickens.. .. 16 16 1,135 16 14 675 20 20 637 22 . 22 729 26 26 2,014 17 17 589 55 50 4,186 22 21 1,407 18 614 h 33 2,110 9 9 270 34 33 1,492 25 24 1,201 33 33 2,212 19 19 1,000 36 36 2,304 10 10 909 14 14 . 1,142 45 45 1,613 32 32 1,987 42 42 1,786 29 29 2,259 Richland Saluda Spartanburg .. . Sumter Union Williamsburg .. York Totals 30 30 3,004 30 2? 1,108 83 83 5,464 25 25 888 19 17 1,689 24 21 868 21 21 2,346 | 70,300 Demand New Count in Aiken. When the Democratic executive committee for Aiken county was call ed to order by County Chairman B. H. Wise to tabulate officially the votes cast at the various boxes In this coun ty and to declare the results, the committee faced the same proposition that the state exceutive committee goes up against when it meets in Co lumbia. H. 14. Casseis of Ellenton appeared to protest the election in this county and demanded a complete re count. He based his protest upon indisputable irregularities. Protests Vote In Five Precincts. The Union county Democratic exe cutive committee met to tabulate the election returns and declare the elec tion. L. G. Southard of Jonesville filed notice of a contest in the vote for governor and demanded that the committee count all the votes cast in that race. He contested the votes polled in the following boxes: Ward 4. Buffalo, Monarch, Lockhart, Kelton and Bibbs, all but the last two being mill precincts. An interesting situa tion seems to exist in the race for sheriff. To Preserve the Primary. Chairman John Oarv Evans arrived in Columbia, and being asked or a statement regarding the tele gram Senator Tillman sent him several days ago dictated the following: "The primary election in South Carolina, while limited to the nomination of candidates of the Democratic party, 3^et the person receiving such nomina tion is practically elected, there being but one party in the state. We have thrown every safeguard around our general election in November. In the race for the United States senate B. R. Tillman, the incumbent, continued to run strongly, with the indications that he would go on in the first ballot. He more than dou bled N. B. Dial's votes and lacked but little of gaining a similar decisive advantage over W. J. Talbert, his other opponent. The vote: Tillman 61,700, Talbert 31,176, Dial 23,563. Tillman's majority. 6,961. For attorney general, J. Fraser Ly on, the incumbent, was running well in front, but lacked the necessary majority, and it was apparent that he would have to make a second race j with Thos. J. Peeples of Barnwell. Mr. Lyon was nearly 13,000 votes I ahead of Mr. Peeples, but the voting ' of the other two candidates more I than made this up. The vote stood: Lyon 52,411, Peeples 38,791, John R. Earle 12,200, B. B. Evans 10,823. For State treasurer, S. T. Carter kept up his remarkable run, bringing; his vote up to 72,557, to 41,376 for his opponent, D. W. McLaurin. John G. Richards, Jr., seems likely to go into office for another term as : railroad commissioner without having the trouble of going into a second race. At a late hour Mr. Richards was leading the race by a big margin, and had enough lead, if held, to do away w,ith the necessity of a second race' Mr. Richards' majority over both his opponents is 1,166. Later returns, however, may cut this away. Aside from the large vote cast, a feature of the primary was the over turn in many counties that went to Blease in the last primary. Notable om/-intr thoRA wore OransreburK and I Charleston, especially the later. Orange burg, which went to Blease by a small majority in 1910, gave Jones a majority of almost 1,000. Richland county, where the fight raged hot all the time, gave a ma jority to Blease, but it was far less than that by w.hich the county went to the governor in the last primary. Dorchester went for Jones by a small majority, as did Calhoun, but Dillon swung into the Blease column, along with Marion. Darlington was about the same as Marion. In Flor ence the race was close, with Jones finally getting the advantage Anderson's vast majority was what really turned the scale, on the face of the returns, in favor of Blease. Aiken, which last time went to the' governor strongly, this time gave Mm j a comparatively small majority. In Chester the two candidates got an even break, the vote being ex actly the same. Rgovernor and senator. overnor. u. S. Senator / N a V a o -? / Duncan 1 Tillman Talbert Dial 1,322 38 1,411 694 529 1,783 91 1,627 1,437 804 2,756 46 1,188 1,351 815 684 22 854] 282 156 1,063 17 1,224 761 272 480 11 519| 53 87 478 15 569| 205 141 588 6 369| 83 108 3,475 31 3,739 1,144 1,283 1,180 39 1,616 1,177 502 1,147 28 1,234 626 470 1,201 88 1,612| 317 781 746 20 914 662 273 1,080 40, 1,456 436 673 1,572 27 1,097 an a 78 OO 1,236| 469 oo n 604 079 vuv 1,352 Lid 26 191 1,021 4U 1 748 i* ? o 185 79a 50 821 447 300 1,911 72 2,163 1,111 480 975 12 847 224 111 4,790 138 3,735 1,262 1,701 1.592 25 1,400 990 555 836 27 1,080 101 168 1,433 120 2,214 215 714 246 25 357 17 66 1,026 '37 1,185 776 825 1,496 29 715 - 463 151 1,773 88 1,405 1,151 1,530 759 29 980 622 195 1,961 73 1,966 931 958 1,177 27 1,388 587 132 1,2 88 19 1,466 744 372 1,437 46 1,357 574 1,031 1,545 83 1,917 1,158 620 2,750 21 2,186 470 667 1,297 971 1,501 1,040 1,090 2,867 73 2,872 1,977 1,275 935 60 963 820 397 4,822 105 3,030 1,354 1,364 1,353 20 1,344 584 263 1,267 44 1,267 1,256 430 1,026 29 1,317 418 219 1,936 51 2,099 (1,322 956 35,986 2,018 62,699 31.593 23,601 ^ ' Have Demanded Inveetlgation. The countv Democratic executive committee adopted a resolution de-! manding an investigation of the action of the Charleston police in ejecting a committeeman from one of the polling precincts in the primary. It was this action and other alleged unwarranted acts which led to the mobilizing of the militia of the city In order to afford protection to the committee in count- . ing the votes. The militia were held for some hours at their armories, but their services were not needed, as the trouble did not materialize. No Irregularities in Edgefield. The county Democratic executive committee met and canvassed the re turns of the primary. -The official fig ures show practically no change from those already reported. There will be a second race for the house of repreB- | entatlves by Jerome H. Courtney and I S. T. Williams. For supervisor the second race will be between A. A. Ed- j munds and J. O. Perln, and James De- i Vore and J. N. Griffins will run over ! for county commissioner. There wer? no irregularities or contests to be con- I sidered. File Fraud Charges In Anderson. Charges of fraud in connection wit a the primary election have been filed I with the Anderson county executive j committee by Judge Jones' campaign manager in Anderson county. Every box in the county has been contested and the matter will be heard by the committee. In the petition filed it is alleged that minors, visitors from out of the state and county were allowed to vote. The main point in the petition is that there was much repeating in the county. Walker W. Vlck occupies the re sponsible position of assistant secre tary of the Democratic national com mittee. Much of the work of the sec retary's office falls to his share and he performs it with wisdom and discre tion. f>oim nnunnron ininiinup OZIW bUIMLM AUJUUKIW SENATE YIELDED ON THE GEN ERAL DEFICIENCY BILL AND "STATE CLAIMS'' STRUCK. Only a Few Members Present When the Session Came to a Close. Washington.?Sobered by the em barrassments of an all-night session of filibusters and disagreements, con gress adjusted its differences, invit ed President Taft up to the capitol once more and wrote "finis'' after the proceedings of the Becond session of the Sixty-second congress. The end was marked with a return of harmony. Senator LaFollette, de manding action on the Penrose cam paign fund resolution, found all oppo sition smoothed away in front of him and the resolution passed almost without discussion. Senators Chamberlain, Martin, Swan son and Culberson, after fighting bit terly for the payment of the "state claims," embodied in the general de ficiency bill, yielded to the urgings of their colleagues and permitted the sen ate to yield to the demands of the house, and strike these claims from the bill. In return for this concession, UV TT v T VI , biAV J *VUV*T VU kUV |/? V1 support next winter, when the claims again will be pressed for payment. Th6 president signed the general de ficiency bill, making certain the pay ment of the $1,800,000 deficiency in army pay, the $150,000 for the Gettys burg memorial celebration next j:ar, the $350,000 for extension of customs work and scores of other important payments that hinged on the passage of the bill. A wild outburst of applause greet ed Speaker Clark's announcement of adjournment as his gavel fell In the house. The floor Immediately became an animated scene, members bidding each other goodbye and shaking hands. Old-time political foes buried all differences, and all feuds appar ently were forgotten in the general leave-taking. Just before he announced the ad journment, Speaker Clark addressed the house: "As the hour of adjournment ap proacnes,'' ne saia, me speaKer ae sires to congratulate the house on having reached the end of one of the longest and most laborious sessions on record. -Congress has been actually in session more days since December than any congress that has eveissat The speaker desires to thank all mem bers on both sides of the big aisle, which separates us politically but not as friends or patriots, for the uniform courtesy with which they have treat ed the speaker. I hope that we will all reach home safely, all have enjoyable vacations and will all return, refresh ed and invigorated for our work next winter." Nicaragua is Taxing Resources. Washington.?The navy's resources on the Pacific coast have been drawn upon to such an extent that should further trouble be encountered in Nic aragua beyond the power of the pres ent forces now there or en route to COpe wit.ii, or Biiuuiu ouiuc ui me American lives or interests in other Central or South American countries be jeopardized the army will be called upon to assist the marines. The tenth infantry, now on the Panama canal zone, would be the first to answer the sail. Mail on Sunday Thing of Past. Washington.?If you have been ac customed to going to the postofflce on Sunday and getting your mail, or looking for it at your hotel, take no tice: "Hereafter postoffices of the first an dsecond class shall not be Dpen Sundays for the purpose of de livering mail to the general public, but this provision shall not prevent the prompt delivery of special delivery mail." That is the language of the postoffice appropriation dui wmcn nas just passed congress. Locked in Tombs, Makes Fortune. New York.?Joseph G. Robin, who is ;n the Tombs awaiting sentence on nis conviction for grand larceny in i :onnection with the wrecking of the Northern bank, is said to have made mother fortune through speculation which he carried on while in prison. While in the Tombs and during the daytime, it is reported, he occupied a room in the criminal courts building, which is equipped with a telephone ind typewriter. Here, it is said, he las rebuilt his wrecked fortune. MANY UN IN SUFFRAGE PARADE WOMEN SPEAK FROM SOAP BOX IN OPENING CAMPAIGN FOR BALLOT IN OHIO. A SPECTACULAR PROCESSION Six Thousand Suffragettes Trudge Through the Streets of Columbus. Columbus, Ohio. ? Approximately six thousand women paraded the streets here advocating votes for women. Mist of them trudged brisk ly over the long line of march under the hot sun, while others in automo biles, gaily decorated with emblems of equal suffrage, followed in a long procession. The parade was the most spectacu lar event 01 me uoiumDus cemenmai. When the procession terminated, it at once disintegrated into a hundred or more crowds addressed by women on soap boxes. A feature of the pa rade had been the soap boxes car ried by many of the marchers. When the march ended these boxes were dis tributed to every corner of the busi ness section. At Memorial hall 3,000 sympathiz ers gathered to listen to speeches. Dr. Anna. Shaw and Fola LaFollette were among the speakers. Among the elaborate floats partici pating were six chariots, sent here from Baltimore, each representing a woman's suffrage state. Hundreds of men carrying yellow pennants and wearing yellow banners with "Votes For Women" stamped on them were in the line of march. Thou sands lined the streets and cheered the women. GIBSON ATTACKED BY CUBAN American Charge d'Affalres Assaulted by a Reporter in Havana. Havana, Cuba.?Hugh S. Gibson, the charge d'affaires of the American legation at Havana, wbile entering a hotel here, was assaulted by a Cuban newspaper reporter. Mr. Gibson was not seriously injured. His assailant was arrested, and the Cuban secretary of < state personally expressed his regret to the charge d'affaires at the occurrence. Mr. Gibson was just entering the hotel at which he habitually dines, when the man, without warning, sprang upon him from behind and knocked him down. When the Ameri can was lying on the ground his as sailant jumped upon him. At this mo ment Edward Bell, the second secre tary of the legation, reached the scene and dragged off the assailant. The police on arriving at the hotel tooK tne man away irom Mr. jueii. dot. Gibson promptly informed the police men they must hold his assailant and telephoned to Chancellor Patterson of the Cuban state department, empha sizing his demand. Chancellor Patter son a short time afterward arrived at the hotel, where the American charge d'affaires was dining and expressed his regret A few minutes later the Cuban secretary of state, Senor San guilly, who had been roused from his bed, arrived at the hotel and express ed the official regret of the Cuban government over the occurrence. Detectives Guard Rockefeller Home. New York.?John D. Rockefeller, jr., in a statement regaramg iauur troubles on his father's estate at Tar rytown, made it known that private detectives had been called to delve into the situation. A detective, with a large force of deputies, has been guarding Mr. Rockefeller's 1,000-acre place for several weeks. About 200 men are employed on the estate, near ly all foreigners. Mr. Rockefeller dis credited reports that it was a black hand warfare. Large Sum Added to Titanic Fund. Gloucester, Mass.?The women's Ti tanic memorial fund was increased several thousand dollars here through the instrumentality of Mrs. John Hays Hammond and other society leaders by means of an outdoor dra matic performance given at the Ham mond summer villa at Lookout Hill. Speaker Clark Wrecked Desk. Washington. ? Repairmen examin ing the furniture of the house dis covered that Speaker Clark, during the last nine months, had used his gavel with such effect that virtually the entire top of the desk was wreck ed. One entire section had been pounded away, leaving a large hole, concealed by the green felt that cov ers the desk. The speaker through out the session made vigorous use of the gavel on all occasions. No speak er since Thomas B. Reed has employ ed the mallet with such freedom. Long Wins Rifle Championship. Seagirt, N. J.?Corporal Cedric M. Long of the Fifth regiment of Massa chusetts. is the champion military ri fleman of the United States. He at tained this honor at the annual rifle tournament here after two days of shooting, during which he surpassed the efforts of more than 100 other competitors, including all the crack shots in the military service of the United States, regular and National Guard. He scored 235 points against 231 for his nearest rival. Lasses Popular as Brides. New York.?Judging by the fre quency of their arrival in large num bers, Scottish lasses are popular as brides in some sections of the Far West. In similar proportion to that on many previous voyages of Anchor liners, 10 per cent .of the 500-odd pas sengers on the steamer Columbia, just in from Glasgow, were young Scotch women, all of the fifty maidens an nouncing themselves bound for vari oils Western states as brides-to-be of prosperous farmers. Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, American minister to Denmark, had a prominent part In the ceremonies, attendant on the dedication of the Danish-American National park at Reblid, Jutland. This park was purchased by an association of Danish citizsns of America of which Dr. Egan Is a vice president, and pre sented to their fatherland. CANAL TOLLS GO TO HAGUE GREAT BRITAIN HAS RENEWED PROTEST AGAINST THE MEASURE. United States Is Informed That Greai Britain Will Appeal Matter to The Hague. Washington.?Great Britain has re affirmed its protest against the Pan ama canal bill. In a note filed with the state department by A. Mitchell Innes, charge of the British embassy, it was stated that if a satisfactory agreement could not be reached Great Britain would appeal to The Hague tribunal for arbitration. The note submitted says Great Brit ain will give careful consideration to both the bill and the message Presi dent Taft sent to congress relating to discrimination in favor of American coastwise shipping in the canal. If after due consideration it Is found that no satisfactory agreement can be reached in the matter Great Britain declares that it will be necessary to appeal to arbitration. Mr. Iifnes was instructed by his government to file the protest and he sent it ,to the state department It stated merely that Great Britain still stands in her previously explained at titude in regard to the Panama bill. The tone of the note makeg. it appear that Great Britain believes it will be necessary to submit the question to arbitration. Mr. Innes, who has been acting as charge of the embassy during the ab sence of Ambassador Bryce, came to Washington recently from the sum mer headquarters of the British em bassy in Maine to remain during the discussion in congress of the bill One state department official de clared he did not believe Great Brit ain had a case to carry before The Hague tribunal. Ottawa, Ont.?Speaking on the Pan ama canal question at a dinner to vis iting British officers and legislators, Sir Wilfrid Laurier said he believed D.lijnU /"** n w n /? 1* o n nvirl AmAi^Aan /H. Oil HO Li, uauauiou auu xxmcx icau ui plomacy would bring about an agree ment satisfactory to all. Pointing to the fact that for more than 100 years difference between Canad aand the United States had been settled without resort to arms, Sir Wilfrid declared that poor arbi tration was better than the most suo cessful war. Taft Goes to Beverly. J Washington.?Within an hour after the adjournment of congress Presi dent Taft was on his private car bound for Beverly and a vacation he expects will be broken but little until December. Tbe white house is prac tically deserted, for Major Thomas L. Rhodes, the president's personal aide, and most of the office employees left with the president Commission Rule For New Orleans. New Orleans.?A commission form of government, including the right oi! initiative and referendum, was adopt- i ed at the special election here by a vote of more than 10 to 1. The offi cial returns were 23,900 for and 2,119 against. Both regular and reformers voted for the new system of govern ment. At the general election in No vember a constitutional amendment will be voted upon, the carrying ol. which will mean that the right of re | call will also be made a feature oj! the commission form of government. 1 General Booth Is Burled. London, England.?Funeral services of the founder of the Salvation Array,! Gen. William Booth, took place at the | Olympia. In accordance with tradi tions of the organization they were' without pomp or symbols or mourn : ing, but were carried out with a mov ing fervor and impressiveness. Thir ty-four thousand persons participated in the functions. Nearly half of them | wore the coats and red jerseys or bon | nets with the red ribbon so familiar on the streets of the cities of the' world where the army is established j WIckersham Passes on 8 Hour Law j Washington.?In an interpretation of the new contract eight-hour laboi law, Attorney General Wickershair has decided that the government maj enter into contracts without restrict ing the hours of labor for purchase of supplies and other articles exempt ed by the act, even though the gov ernment itself occasionally has manu factured these articles. He also heic that no provision of the law becomes effective until Janup-y 1 next. . ' > / J _ . ,-r lurST ELECTION FRAUDS STATE PICTURED AS A "SEETH ING, BOILING CALDRON OF DISCONTENT." WILL INVESTIGATE PRIMARY ., All County Executives Are Instructed to Hold Up Everything in Connec tion With the Primary?Twenty Thousand Illegal Votes Charged. Columbia, S. C.?Charges of fraud, the stuffing of ballot boxes with twen ty thousand illegal votes, the voting of minors and non-residents, and the meeting of the state democratic exe cutive committee here have served to turn South Carolina into a seething, boiling caldron of discontent. Christie Bennett, secretary of the state committee, wired the chairman of every county executive committee in the state and instructed him to hold up everything in connection with the primary. It can mean but one thing and that is the committee wishes to be pre pared to take drastic action if neces sary and they ,want the ballot boxes to remain in the. same shape they were in when the last oallot was .drop ped into them. Contests have been filed all over the otatc aiiu uiauj \jl iuc vuuuij wcvu tive committees have refused to con sider them Those who filed the con tests are arriving in the city and will appeal direct to the state committee. The following is the telegram sent out to county chairmen by order of the chairman of the state committee: "Preserve all ballots, taly sheets, poll lists, club rolls, manager's re ports and all records, manager's re ports and all records until further notice from the state executive com mittee.. (Signed) JOHN GARY EVANS. "Chairman." As the hour fo rthe convening of the state committee drew near, it be came evident that no definite action would be taken at that meeting. Sev eral of the contests to be considered < by the committeemen are not in shape to permit of final action and it is be lieved the committee will transact routine business and adjourn for a suf flcient time for the protestants to pre pare their cases. r Meeting of Virginia Firemen. Roanoke, Va.?The twenty-sixth an nual convention of the Virginia State ^ Firemen's Association closed here at the conclusion of the reel races. The winners were as follows: Hose reel contest (association teams only)? First prizes, custody of association, trumpet, and $100, Luray Fire Com pany. Time 26.49 seconds. . Second prize, $50, Harrisonburg Hose Com pany number '4. Time 29.22 seconds. ) Hose reel contest (open to the world) ?First prize $100, Lexington Fire Company. Time 30 seconds flat Sec ond prize $50, Luray. Time 30.33 sec onds. Have Charged Road Combine. Tampa, Fla.?Congressional inves- ' tigation of ao-called "gentlemen's agreements" under which railroads and steamship lines in the Southeast ern traffic zone'are said to be operat ing will be asked by the board of trade of this city. The board of governors of that body asked the co-operation of commercial bodies in all the port cit ies on the gulf and Atlantic coast and plans to push the matter at the De? cember session of Congress. Predict* a Victory In November. Ellsworth, Maine. ? "The whole country is anxiously awaiting the out nnmo nf the election in Maine." de clared Speaker Champ Clark. "If the Democrats of Maine win In the Sep tember contest, they will point the way to an oevrwhelming Democratic victory in November?a victory so sweeping as to give us a Democratic House, Senate and President." Starts Trouble in Art Circlet. Washington.?President Taft has stirred up dissension in art circles by inviting competition for the tonor of designing the medal to be presented to Capt. Arthur H. Rostron, of the liner Carpathia, who rescued more than 700 survivors of the Titanic. No responses have been received and it is said artists resent the competiton feature on the ground that it tends to commercialize art. The commis sion is not considered highly alluring, as the cost of the medal is not to ex ceed $i,uuu. Does Cuba Want Trouble With U. S.? Washington.?That Enrique Maza, the reporter who attacked Hugh Gib son, the American Charge of the lega tion in Havana was merely a tool in the hands of Cuban plotters who are antagonistic to the United States and who would like to get the Cuban gov ernment into trouble with this coun try, was the opinion expressed here by Senor Martin-Rivero, the Cuban minister. He was of the belief, he said, that Maza had not attacked Mr. Gibson of his own volition but that he had been urged on by others. U'V/.P^nnf nuuocvbu in fbimviiM St. Johnsbury, Vt.?Colonel Roose velt struck up an intermediate acquain tance with the rural sections of north ern Vermont during his automobile campaign through the state. He made five speeches and received such w welcome that he said he thought Ver mont was waking up. Before a lively crowd in the court house square here, Colonel Roosevelt made a speech which brought him cheer after cheer. He assailed his critics and defended the Progressive party.