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3PCBLISBED THREE T3$ ? UY?S ARE LOST SIX BODIES RECOVF^V^ MORE Twenty-Six \ >-?*es Along the Lick ing River Are Swept Away and ?Great Damage Was Done. . A dispatchrfrona Salyersvilie, Ky., ?says six bodies were taken fiom the ] swollen waters of the Licking river | and fearing that, great damage has | .teen done and'that more lives have! ?been tost as & result of a cloudburst; fiear the headwaters of the stream, I rescuing parties have left there for j the mountain regions to the east. The dead are: ? Mrs. John Sheppard. William Con ley. Unidentified dead. :A white man; aged..about 50. Jl white boy. - ?Telephone connection with .the j scene of the cloud burst has been ?ut off. Jit is known that twenty-six houses were washed away. Eastern' Kentucky has been delug ed with heavy rainfialte for practical lyr a week and the storm, which is understood to have been a clouu burst, has put the waters of the al ready swollen Licking, entirely out of its banks. The; wreckage -^as ob served floating past Salyers ille at. daylight and the . work of "oping J liouses and rescuing live stocl, w?sl begun. This resulted in a short | time'ihfrthe finding vof .fomr -bodies. There are no cities or towns of any size above Salyersvilie on the Licking, but there are several moun tain villages and the country is fair ly well populated. The region" is' ?difficult of access and although there \ are no railroads,, wire communica tion is carried on when: conditions are normal. ? Six bodies have been . recovered. They include Mr. and Mrs. Gayheart and child. John Conley and John Weinerman, farmers, are among 4hose -reported, .mif-sing. * . "FAVORITE SOX" DEAD. Sesator Daniel, of Virginia, Passes ? Away at Lynchburg. John W. Daniel, -senior Senator | from Virginia, and for more than j thirty years Virginia's "favorite son," j ?died at the Lynchb?rg Sanitarium at 10.35 o'clock Wednesday night,. Iiis" ?death being due.to a recurrence of paralysis. The immediate cause of ' his death was a cerebral hemor rhage, sustained at noon/in the right! portion of .his brain, involving the fight side. This was in addition t?j the Paralysis, of the left side, which j was sustained last winter, while inj Plorida tpr his health. .The statesman's illness began with =a slight attack of apoplexy, -n-Phila delphia, last October, which kept 3iim from being in his sef.t at the opening of Congress last December. Only once since- that had he appear ?d before an audience, and that was for an informal talk in January. ;:The end came' almost without a struggle." indeed, the family present could not notice the slight, struggle which was noted by-Dr. Waugh. I, HAMILTON: IS ELECTIIOCUTED. He Killed an Affinity Who.Tiled to Shake Him Off. Angelo Hamilton, who. was con "victed. of murdering Mrs. SaUie B. Hlx,. at Lyhchburg, Va., June 13, 1909, was put to death in the lec tric chair in the Virginia state peni- j tentiary at Richmond early Friday. Mrs. Hamilton came 'to Richmond 'with her children to intercede with ?the governor for the commutation of j Hamilton's sentence. The crime for which Hamilton was ?electrocuted was committed in Lyn chbur?. Va.. June 13. 1909. Hamil ton had been infatuated with the ?woman and she had sought to free herself from him. On that night Mrs. Hix went to a dance. Hamil ton fol'owed her to the hall. On the way home Hamilton shot her j several timed. He was 25 year of | .age. j Unknown Negro Murders Texan. 'Intense excitement prevails in the -vicinity of Mount Vernon Texas, ?as the result of the killing of Bob Stanley, of that city; by an unknown negro. Posses have "been searching for the murder all night, but so far j he has succeeded in eluding his'pur-J : suers. Military Prisoner's Fate. Lieut. AdoU Hofrichter, of the . Austrian army, has been sentenced -.to be publicly cashiered and to serve 20 years in prison for sending poison ? capsules to officers in the General Army staff. Capt Mader died from Tthe effects of the posion. Young Lady Drowned. Miss Aimee Creary, the 18?year-,| ? old daughter of H. L. Creary, was | ?drowned while bathing in surf with a party of girl friends at Milon, Fla., Wednesday afternoon. Efforts of i her companions to rescue her were . of no avail. Persistent Suit Causes Fatality. Annoyed by his persistent demand that she become his wife. Miss Rosy Perrino. aged Jo. of Chicago. III., shot and perhaps fatally wounded I Anitonio Rossi. He is in the hospi-l tal and is expected to die. IBS-A;-"W*EEK; COTTON M?LLS CLOSED FRIDAY. Will Cat Off One-Twelfth of Cotton Goods Output. The great curtailment movement among the mills of the Piedmont be gan Friday, July 1st. Mills in North Carolina, South Carolina and Geor gia will close down until the morn ing of the 15th. Out of 3.CDO.0O0 ispindles 2,7500,000 have signified that they would join in the curtail ment which will be at least a month in ?ir during the summer. The move ment will mean a cutting off of from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 pieces of cloth or one-twelfth of the output. Mr. August W. Smith, president of the Woodruff mills, when asked Thursday night about the closing .down of the mills said: .. "There is a loss in every pound of cloth we are putt'in put and we have to curtail to coyer-in part this loss and create a demand Sor our goods. I should say the output will be cut down one-twelfth by che cur tailment which will be done this summer, and which will amount to in all about four weeks' time." r Mr. Jc>hn A. Law, president of the Saxon Mills said: "There will be the largest curtail ment among the cotton mills of .Spartanhurg . county ever known. The price of manufactured goods is put of proportion with the price of cotton. ? A great many of the mills will close down on the first of July and others on" the 25th." BRIDES ONLY FEW HOURS. Married Two Prisoners That Had Re ceived Death Sentences. Two brides were made widows a few hours after the wedding cere monies were performed in the pen itentiary at Vallado'id, Yucatan, says a dispatch from Mexico City, Mexico, when their husbands faced a firing squad selected to execute them in accordance with sentences passed upon them after trial by. the /war ;'department for7 sed':ioii*' and, murder, the accusation growing out of their participation in the recent uprising at Valladolid. F.<r several days'a number of prisoners have been on trial. Three were sentenced to death and executed Thursday aftci noon; three were sentenced to fifteen years and four were sentencd to 13 years and Jour months in prison. Immediately after the death sen tences .were pronounced on the three men' charged ' with murder " two a<*k ed permission to marry before they .were executed. Their requests wer-? granted by the authorities and the young women to whom they were engaged went to the prison at the hour agreed upon for the marriage ceremonies. < CAPITALIST A SUICIDE. Appearance of Mysterious Wife the Cause of Tragedy. As a sequel to the appearance of a woman in Unibntown, Pa., reg istered at a hotel as Mrs. Mad Ros enberg, the man whose name she thus used, committed suicide by fir ing a bullet through his .head. It was not known to his friends that the man had married a second time, but- fche woman declares she became his wife in Pittsburg. Rosenberg was worth about $100,000 and for many years had been a principal stockholder in the Arch Distillery company. Early in the morning of his death Xxe appeared on the streets and discussed business matters with his friends. He was 60 years of age and had been living a retired life for a number of years. TAKES HIS OWX I JFK. Prominent and Wealthy Citizen of Charlotte Suicides, James W. Wadswerth, one of the wealthiest and best known citizens of Charlotte. N. C. committed sui cide Wednesday afternoon, at ::.;10 ociock. T.he weapon used was a ..'12 calibre Colts pistol and death re sulted within two hours after tin shooting. The excessive use of stim ulants and worry over business mat ters were given in a statement issued by the family as the cause for the act. A brother of Mr. Wadsworth, took his life in a Greensboro hotel last year. Di*.?th from Lockjaw. The little S-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Landlord died at the home of her parents in the mill village at Lexington Sunday evening from lockjaw. On las Tuesday the title jirl ran a nail in her foot, but little attention was giv en, the parents thinking of course, that she would soon je well. On Saturday s?e was taken violently ill and Sunday morning lockjaw set in. The little one was the pride of her parents and her death has cast a pall of sorrow over the entire household. Her remains were laid to rest in the Lexington city cemetery Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Three Will Die on Siime Gallows. The four negroes convicted of the murder of Moterman S. T. Brown, in DeKalb county Ga., on April 2:5. .have been sentenced to hang by Judge Roan, in the DeKalb county jail. It is probable tiiat all will be hung on the same gallows. The ne groes are: Charles Julian. Jim Black and Ed Weaver and Charley Walker. RAN INTO CAR INJURING FOURTEEN OR MORE PASSENGERS. Georgia, Southern and Florida En gine Ran Into Passenger Train, .Overturning Coach Near Valdosta. Crashing into a loaded coach a passenger train of the Georgia' Florida railroad In the yards at Val dosta, Ga., Wednesday a loose e gine of the Georgia Southern and r'lcrida railrf>r<, Jh.ei tK?J rv.icb broke it from the r.-iT?!in!pr of the train- and carried it 60 feet, lurnln it over and injuring fourteen of Uie passengers and trainmen. The loose engine was on one of the branches of a Y track with ch passenger on the other. Among tnosr :njuiel we t* W. T. Staten, Valdosta, shoulder and left side badly hurt, probable internal injury. Mrs. F. R. Daniels and litt, daughter, badly bruised and shock ed, little girl's face cut. ?Mrs. F. S. Martin, Madsion, Fla side and shou'der injured. Andrew Lettley, Pinetta,' Fla., one shoulder and leg broken. Mr. Whittington, Boston, Ga., ear cut and left side.injuded. . Conductor Lofton on passenger train had face cut and throat slash ed. ? . Rev. Mr. Funk, Ohio, badly bruis ed. .- - .' W. M. Henderson, Ray's Mi$, Ga. head and one whole side injured. G. M. Boyd and Dan Thompson both of Valdosta, were badly bruis ed. J. W. West, Valdosta, was cut on the face and his side badly bruised. W. T. Lane, Valdosta, face and neck cut and bad bruises. J. W. West and C. W. Sinclair were sitting together on the side of the coach where the engine struck. They were thrown across the car 'and through .windows to the ground; The coach turned over above them but tJhey had fallen into an excava tion and thus escaped death. BULLETS HIT NINE. One Principal Dead, Other Dying and Bystanders Wounded, One man is" dead, one is dying and seven other persons are In hos pitals with more or less serious wounds as the result of a duel fought on one of the most crowded thour ?oughfares of Cleveland, 0. The' trouble started in a quarel between ? Frank Viena and Antoine Mercurio over the alleged: ill-treatment of his;, wife by Mercurio. The two men were standing in front of a soloun when they drew revolvers and began: firing at each other. A number of persons rushed forward to seperate them, but before the shooting could1 be stopped Viena was dead, Mercurio fatally wounded, and seven stray' bullets had found billets in as many of the bystanders. - m <t ?+ BEARS CHARMED LIFE. Bullet Passes Through His Body Without Fatal Resiilt. Robert Roberts, of Oak Grove, La., believes that he bears a charmed life. He was the guest the other day of his neighbor, Jacob McGahl. To cel ebrate the occasion McGahl decided to have fried chicken for dinner and invited Roberts to help corral a pul let. When the host fired a Win chester rifle the chicken's neck was severed and at the same time his guess was perforated by the bullet on the rebound. The bullet passed entirely through Roberts' body, but in spite of this he ate the chicken dinner and the doctors say he wit! get well. ELEPHANTS ON RAMPAGE. Charge Dwelling But Are Stopped by Stout Maple Tree. Angered by the efforts of train ers to seberate them from two small elephants; two big elephants belong ing to a circus Friday engaged in a wild charge down the main street of Greely. Colo. The elephants, which were chain ed together crashed through a fence into the front yard of a resident, tearing up lawn and shrubbery: They were making straight for Uie house, which would in all probability have been wrecked in the collision, when they were brought to a stop by a stout maple tree on either side of which they atempted to pass. Found in Shark. After a long struggle several men captured a man eating shark 36-feet long, weighing about 1"> tons. In t.he straits of San Del Fuca, be tween Port Cresent and Port Angel es, near Seattle. Wash. In the shark, .they found pieces of bones and a piece of kodac plate. Young Man in Trouble. A dispatch from Laurens to the News and Courier says James Y. Wallace, clerk in the pestoftie. was take Thursday afternoon to Green ville by Deputy Sheriff Major, to be given a hearing before United States Commissioner Magill on a charge of tampering with letter mail, with no intent. ?B?, S. CY, SATURDAY, THE STATE CAMPAIGN 17ENIRY. Schedule of Meetings to Be Held in This State. The itinerary for the campaign is as follows: ? Winnsboro?Saturday, July 2. Lexington?Wednesday, July 6. Saluda?Thursday, July 7. Edgefield?Friday, July 8. Aikeri?Saturday, July 9. Bamberg?Monday, July 11. Barn well?Tuesday, July 12. Hampton?Wednesday, July 13. Beaufort?Thursday, July 14. Walterboro?Friday, July 15 Charleston?Saturday, July 16. St. George?Tuesday, July 19. Orangeburg?Wednesday, July 20. St. Matthews?Thursday, July 21. Manning?Friday, July 22. Moncks Corner?Tuesday, July 26. Georgetown?Wednesday, July 27. Kingstree?Friday, July 29. Florence?Saturday, July * 30. Dillon?Tuesday, August 2. Marion?Wednesday, August 3. Conway?Thursday, August 4. Columbia?Saturday, August 6. Union?Monday, August 8. Spartanburg?Tuesday, August 9. 'Gaffney?Wednesday, August 10. Greenville?Thursday, August 11. Plckens?Friday, August 12. Walhalla?Saturday, August 13. Week on* to attend reunion of Confederates and' "Red Shirts at Spartanburg, if desired, on August 17 and 18. Arderson?Monday, Augus* 22. Abbeville?Wednesday, August 24. Greenwood?Thursday, August 25. Laurens?Friday,-August 26. Newberry?Saturday, August 27. AN APPRECIATION' Of Judge Dantzler Passed By the Anderson Bar. Last Monday the 'Anderson Bar Association passed resolutions on the death of Judge Dantzler. After several speeches! by members of the' Bar and Judge Watts as to Judge Dantzler's fine character and as to his ability as a judge the following resolutions were ordered by the Court spread upon our minutes and the Court adjo'unred until Tuesday morning in respect of the deceased Judge's imemory. The resolutions were: i "Whereas, Hon. Chas. G., Dantzler, of the Circuit* court in this County; state has died since the last session of the Circuit court in this ouCnty; and whereas, we the members of the Anderson Bar Association desire to' place on record our appreciation of1 his services to the state as a Judge! and our testimony of his character as: a man: ? S "Therefore be it resolved: That in! the death of Honorable Chas. G.f Dantzler the State of South Carolina; has lost an able and impartial jurist,; one in, whose judicial, mind was; combined justice, and mercy; and: who in the discharge of his duties' as judge was controlled by the law; as he understood it, and by an earn-i est desire that so far as his decisions! could effect the result, of litigated1 cases before him, right should tri-: umph and justice prevail. Resolved further: That on the sev-: eral occasions when he has presided; as Judge at Anderson, he endear ed himself to the members of the' Bar by his courtesy and patience by his genial manner and his social in tercourse with us. He was a right eous Judge, 'a patriotic citizen, a genial friend, and as such we deplore his death. To his wife and family to whom he was deeply devoted we extend our sympathy. "Dated Anderson, S. C, June 27, 1910. And signed by J. E. Breaz eal, M. L. Bonham. G. H. Geiger, Committee. RIOTOUS SCENES. Police Charge Cnrlists and National ists in Spanish Town. A dispatch from Bilbao, Spain on Thursday says there were further disturbances growing out of the strained relations between the gov ernment of Premier Canaleias and of the Vatican. A crowd composed of Carlists and Nationalists Sur-, rounded the palace of the Governor of the province and shouted: "Down with the Governor!" The police were summoned and charging the demonstrators with, fixed bayonets, wounded a number! of them. The capltol .has been the scene of many civil clashes. In 1 874 it withstood a long seiue by* the Carlists. Auto Ditched. Rev. E. E. Lashly and Ralph Bied ler a hardware man from Fostoria, O.. were instantly killed Friday, and M. A. Stoneburier and James Mc Connell were probably fatally in jured when their automobile jump ed into a ditch near Sandusky. The steering sear got out of order and the chauffeur lost control. Banker Shot by Unknown Man. J. H. Civ ens. president, ol the Bank of Laurel Hill. Fla., and mana ger of the Florida-Alabama Timber combany was shot from ambush on the night of June ."?0. as he was pro ceeding on horseback to his home in Laurel Hill. Two charges of buck shot struck him in the arm and leg, but is not likely to prove fatal. There is no clue to thee would-bee assassin. j?lt a. i9i#. BOASTS OF CRIME YOUTHFUL BURGLARS CAUGHT RED-HANDED. Boys Are 17 and 18 Years Old and Come of Respectable. Families.? Had Kit Fnll of Tools. Two well dressed young men, 17 and 18 years old, were caught- before dawn Thursday, leaving one of the prominent apartments in Washing ton, which they admitted they en tered for purposes of robbery. . They were Ely B. Runyon,. who says he is the son of Mrs. Emily E. C. Runyon, a physician of Richmond, Va., and Julian D. Wychard, son of a former newspaper publisher in North Carolina. Each of the youthful burglars was armed with revolvers and they had a complete burglar's kit, including a dark lantern. The flashing of the dark lantern was seen by a police man who made the arrests. A re cent robbery'of'the home of Edward A. Moseley, secretary of the inter state commission, has been traced to the boys. When captured the boys had en tered the office of a physician, and finding nothing they wanted, depart ed to discover a more lucrative field fpr their efforts when the policeman saw their lantern. The two boys said they came to Washington Tuesday night and reg istered at a hotel. Went out.short ly after midnight to operate in a fashionable section of the city. Run yon .boasts of exploits in various cities of the West, saying he had been trained as a burglar by an adept w.ho is now serving time. Wy chard claims that he recently met Runyon in Atlanta, where he had lived, and traveled with him with out knowing his occupation until the two came to Washington. The hoys will be given a hearing in a few days. A TRIE PUZZLE. j Residents of Angusta Bothered by Four Times. Augusta, Ga., is the only city in the country having four differ ent times and all of them in use. It is on the ninetieth meridian, and ;he railroads i Georgia use-Central'' time, while the Carolina roads--en-', meridian or Eastern time. To' try' to avoid confusion the city has a lo cal time of Its own, which is half way between the two. But what really adds to the complicated situ-; tion is. the fact that farmers in the surrounding country nearby all use "sun" time, which is different from all the others. This last named time is controled by the almanac that is' in every. Southern farmer's home,' ' especially that of the colored far mer. A stranger has some difficult and amusing experiences if he stops the' average. Augusta person on streets' and asks the hour. He is probably; told, "It's ten o'cloek by Georgia^ railroad time, 30 minutes to ten. city time and nine o'clock if you are going out into Carolina." If the person asked is a farmer the stranger, if ?he-will wait until the-calculations arid an astronomical observation are niade, probably will] be 'furnished with an answer of, "Well, I reckon stranger, it's about nigh on to half past nine o'clock. HIGHWAYMEN CONVICTED. Four Negroes to Pay Death Penalty for Crime. The four negroes Charles Walker, Jim Black, Charles .Julian and Ed Weaver, charged with the murder of Motorman Brown, in the Druid Hills street car hold-up at Atlanta several weeks ago, were convicted of first degree murder and was sentenced to hang. Although Walker and Weaver had made written confes sions of their guilt and implicated the two other negroes, they swore on the stand in the trial court that the confession was untrue. There is no doubt of the guilt of all the men that have been convicted. Liyes With Stitched Liver. Daniel McGowan left the Johnston Willis hospital at Richmond, Va., last week wit.h three pieces of his liver sewed together. The organ was broken into distinct parts re cently when he was run over by a wagon and it was declared he could not recover. Struck by Lightning. During a severe rain and thunder storm at Johns3li Thursday afternoon two large barns of H. Spain Toiley were struck by lightning and burn ed. The barns being tilled with pro duce, which was all destroyed. A mule and horse belonging to Mi. Toney were also killed. Smallpox Epidemic. Nelson county, Virginia, has ?> smallpox epidemic. Fully l.'O cwa'ca are now in i|uurantine in a territory five miles Ions and tree miles wide. No deaths have occurred. Insane Murderer Escapes. Georse B. Warner, who murdered machinery for the Louisville & Nash ville, and was found insane, escaped from the asylum for the insane at Hopkinsville, Ky., Thursday night. STATE A?fOMOBIfE LAWS. Provide for Use of Cars on Country Roads.?Speed Limit. Magistrate B. F. Wilson, of An derson, said the other day that there were many people who owned automobiles and who did not know the state laws regulating them while on the country roadB. It seems to be the impression of most people that they can operate their cars as fast as they want to once out of the city limits, but this is a mistake. Fol lowing are a few Interesting bits of law. from the acts of the general as sembly. "No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reason able' and proper at the time and place, having due regard to the traf fic and use of the highways as to the condition or so as to endanger the life, limb or property of any person or in any. event at aerate greater than fift'en miles an hour." Upon approaching a crossing, bridge, step descent, or a curve a person shall have their machine un der control and. operate it at a rate of speed not greater than six miles an hour, and in no greater than is reasonable and proper, having due regard to conditions. "The driver "of a motor vehicle shall .give notice by blowing a horn, bell or othrwise bo as not to fright en the animals and to use precau tions to insure the safety of persons and property. It is also necessary to bring the car to a stop if it is seen that the horses are frightened. "It is necessary to st?p the car at a signal from one who is in the high way and who ? is; driving ? wild ani mal; The raising of a hand "may be considered a signal to stop."It is al so necesB?ry ' to remain stationary until such an animal could be re moved: ' It is necessary for an au tomobilst to give the right of way to the driver of a horse or a mule and he shall go to the right of he road. ' "Violators of these acts shall be fined'frbm ten to one hundred dolars or'imprisoned not more than thirty days.'" Before operating a car in any county it is n'ece'sary to secure from the clerk of court a certificate saying which is numbered and this number must be placed on the back of the car. The owner's address and a 'brief description of the car must be given. The registration fee is $1. Ten days are allowed an owner in which to. register'his car; .. j ORDERS AGAINST CLUHS. I Temporary Injunction Issued Agu-'i*;' Thiec in Columbia. . :At oClubfa Judge DeVore in the circuit court recently granted thrpe orders on motion of Attorney Gen eral Lyon, requiring th?2e social clubs in the city to show cause be fore him on July 1 why' they should hot be perpetually restrained from the sale of spirituous liq'or--. The o*ders were granted upoi? f.f*' -avi;s made that liquors had been pUrchfS ed at the three places in violence 01 the dispensary law. Those against whom the orders are directed are the Savoy club, sit uated at 1219 1-2 Taylor street, of. which P. W. Bessim|eT and Heyward B. Smith are named as In charge, and J. L. Shull as the property owner;, the Jackson Hub, at 914 Gervais street, L. E. Levin and Everland be ing named as in charge, and S. L.. Sweeney as the property owner; and the third order being directed against G. H. Geiger, Harry Lehman and W?lliam T. Thompson for violation of the dispensary law at 912 Ger vais street, G. H. Geiger being also the owner of the premises. Unless an adequate defense is made to the orders granted a perpetual injunction restraining the use of the premises for the ille gal purposes charged will be passed by the court. Anti-Prizefight (.ill. The Georgia senate Friday morn ing reconsidered its action Wednes day in passing the anti-prize fight bill and amended' it so as to pro hibit all boxing contests to which admission fees are charged and in which contestants are paid for their services. It was put up to a vote and passed. The bill now goes to the house. Gave Bachelor Her Baby. Pretending that she had left her pocketbook in the waiting mom in Manhattan, X. Y.. a young woman asked Martin Stearns, a Brooklyn bachelor, to hold her baby while she hurried back to get the purse. An hour and a half later he was still holding the baby for the woman failed to return. Treasurer Hvts Ten Years. Prison doors closed on John B. Lombard, of Kraminglon. Muss, last week, for a period of not less than tun nor more than fifteen years. He confessed to having forged town notes to the amount of $:'.00.000 in the past ten years, while serving as town treasurer. He is 60 years of Coflin Waited Fifteen Wars. The last wish of Hilary Roberts, a manufacturer of Savannah, Ga.. was fulfilled last week when he was buried in a coffin made by himself 1.") years ago. He was 77 years of TWO CENTS PEK COPY ASSESSORS FIX VALUES STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION TO MEET SOON. Matter of Placing. All Property od Basis of True Valuation WiU Be Discussed. It is anticipated that Comptroller General Jones will announce soon, the date for the meeting of the State board of equalization. The meeting is held during the summer, usually, in the month of June or July, and the work of the board is to act up on the findings of the county boards and to take any action on tax ques tions that is deemed necessary. (The ? most important resolutions that CEme before the board last year was that affecting the assessing of property at full value. This reso lution, introduced by Jeremiah Smith, of Horry, was defeated by a vote of 28 to 8. ' As this is the year for the reas sessment and as the county board have been busy with the. tax' ques tion . in the several counties of the State, the meeting of the board this year is of special interest. It is thought that the tax question will receive more than ordinary consid eration. The tax question has been brought into the campaign very forc ibly this year. The Taxable Property. As shown by the comptroller gen eral's report for the year 1910 the following is the amount of taxable property in South Carolina: Total value of real estate .. .. .. . $136,438,358 Vaiue of personal iproperty.. .: .. 92,684.198 Railroad property_ 271,106,302 State tax, 5%mills.. 1,423,308 For county purposes, taxes;. ........ 960,664 State Board of Assessors The State Board of assessors, con sisting of State officials, assesses railroad and like property. The Southern Express company property in South Carolina last pear was assessed 'at a valuation df $277. 557. The total value of the Pull man cars operated in this State was $140,292; the total valuation of tel ephone and telegraph companies was placed as follows. Western Union,^ $522,427; Alf? natic Postal Telegraph-Cable com pany. '.$108",6J3;'V American ' Tele phone and Telegraph Company of South Carolina, $205,750; Southern Bell Telephone company, $571,848; local companies, $125,665. The actual value of cotton mills as fixed by the State board was $51. 260,505. The actual value of cot ton oil mills was placed at $2,853, 4i8;' ? fThe assessments for fertilizer plants was placed at $3,164,477. The value of railway property was fixed at a little over $44,000.000. BLOWS UP SIXTEEN. Five Men are KiUed and Eleven Arc Injured in Minnesota. .Five men were killed and 11 in jured, two of them probably fatally, by an explosion, which .first wrecked and then set fire to thet saloon of Edward Bushay, five miles of Minne apolis, Minn.,' on the Anoka road. Edward Bushay, proprietor of the place, and George Miller were bo badly burned that they will die. The explosion of a gas tank in the base ment blew the roof from the build i n u. and fire started immediately. la half an hour the building was a. mass of burning wreckage. Ernest Osterchild. a porter, rescued both. Bushay and Miller from death in the fire. DESPERADO CAPTURED. Shot Three Members of Posse Whirl* Sought to Ari'ost Him. Olan Adair, who while barricad ed in the store of John VV. Davis, near Falco, Ala., Thursday nizht, shot three members of a posse after him, was captured later without any trouble and is held at Falco. .1. Ii. Givan. who was fired upon from ambush Thursday night, for which alleged offense Adair was sought, is not seriously injured, nor is either Alex Givan, brother of .the other Givan; B. F. Finley and Geo. Coggswell, the others wounded by Adair in Jiis atembt to avoid arresL . Big Steamer Ablaze. The Merchant and Miners' steam ship, which left P^iiladelphi ? Thurs day afternoon for Boston, returned there Friday, with a serious fire in her forehold. The eighty passengers were safely landed. They Jmced and amused themselves lighthearted ly en the return trip, unaware of the dangerous fire below them and believing thai disarranged machin ery had caused the steamer to put back. Used Hoy as Shield. Officers are searching for John Clark, ased IS, and Mack McGowan, who fought a duel near Hazlehurst, Ga. McGowan was armed with a knife and Clark with a pistol. As Clark fired his pistol, it is charged, McGowan grasped Dudley Brown, a 1-year-old boy, who was a specta tor, and held him between .himself and Clark. Brown was shot in the breast and is reported dying.