PUBLISHED THBEE Tj
SCORES FELDER
Gov. Blease Has a Letter Exposing That
Geji?eniaQ to the Glare.
TRIED TO CHEAT STATE
The Letter Claims That Felder Of
fered to Form a Conspiracy With
H. H. Evaiy by Which the State
Would be Defrauded Out of a
Large Sum of Money.
A letter which Gov. Blease says
was written by Thomas B. Felder of
Atlanta offering to frame up a $500*,
000 deal with H. H. Evans, former
member of the State dispensary
"board of control, now under indict
ment for conspiracy to defraud, was!
given out Sacurday by Gov. Bleasej
as "his first grain of sand" on the |
dispensary investigation situation.
The following is the letter:
"Dear Hub: I have just returned j
from Peoria, 111. I have framed up]
our company in such a way that we;
will be able :o make all the mone>
out of it by the time your term as|
commissioner expires as we will rea-i
sonably need and you can then retire.
1 want you to think seriously of the
plan which I submit and make an i
appointment as soon as possible, j
either here or elsewhere, and I can I
discuss with you more fully and sat
isfactorily the details. The plan is|
sufficiently feasible to justify our tak
lng your associates in on the ground
floor. It is this: The capital stock
of our company at present is $100,
000, owned by you and I. It is all
paid for and I have the actual cus-j
tody of the stock. Hull, the general
manager of Clark Brothers & Co.,
wants an interest and we may need
him, but not. at present. If we can
get for October, November and De
cember large orders from Carolina, i
can issue $5(>0,000 of preferred stock
of the company, sell it to partieb
?who have already agreed to pur
chase; we can divide the proceeds
from the sale of the preferred and
then do one or two things?sell thw
common and let some new company
run it or rue it ourselves. Meantime
we will have in hand $250,000 eacn,
less such sums as we may have to
p&y to^ others to secure business in
the meantime.
"Now, Hub, I want you to give
this matter your serious considera
tion and cooperation. If you will do
It I will make you a fortune and
that very quickly. Write me when
and where j-ou will meet me upon
receipt of this. We have very little
time 'to pull the scheme together.'
Have been working on the plan sev
eral months and now have It per
fected. I have a brother-in-law In
Indiana, a millionaire, who assisted
me in working out the plans and will
assist me in selling the preferred
stock as soon as we can make a
good showing. He has, as all other
very rich men, accumulated his for
tune by th;) manipulation of stocks.
There is enough in the plan to justi-j
fy us in paying more for business
than any one else can afford, as you
will perceive. Then, too, as Clark!
Brothers & Co. are the largest dis
tillers in the United States, no one
can be criticised for giving them!
large order;;. Whatever is done must'
be speedily done. Can you get your'
associates io meet us here in At-1
lanta or in Augusta right away? |
Now, Hub. don't, dilly-dally about
this, for after months of labor my
plans are mature and we can make a
killing."
This letter was signed "T. B."
The letter was dated "Atlanta,
Ga., October 2, 1905."
T. B. Felder yesterday when told
of the letter that had been given out
by Gov. Biease said that "It was a
forgery." He denied ever visiting]
Peoria, 111., and said that the letter;
had been "faked" up by the gov-i
ernor of Scaith Carolina.
H. H. Evans, when asked as to the
letter, deciared vehemently that hej
had received the letter in question
and many others and that T. B. Fel
der had tried "to frame up" with sev-1
eral of th.? members of the dispen
sary board of control.
Gov. Bl?ase announced the letter
had been obtained after months of
hard work He said he knew the let
ter had been written telling of such
a deal to H. H. Evans and that it was
not until a few days ago that he was
able to secure the original manu
script.
"H. II. Evans told me that this let
ter was from T. P.. Felder. ' This
statement was made by Gov. Blease.
Gov. Blease declares that there is
no doubt but that the letter is in the
same handwriting as that of T. B.
Folder. Ho placed the letter by sev
eral letters from T. B. Felde-; and
he said that the handwriting was
the same. Gov. Blease said rhaf tlvj
original Utter was locked up in one
of the vaults of a bank in Columbia.
Gov. Blease said that several other
persons had road the letter and de
clared the handwriting to be the
same as the letters signed by T. B.
Felder.
At the conclusion of the letter the
following signed by A. W. Todd, R.
M. McCown and L. M. Overstrcet
appears: "We. the undersigned,
have read the original of the above
letter and certify that this is an ex
act copy "hereof." R. M. McCown,
secretary of state, and A. W. TodJ
is a member of the house.
H. H. Evans, when asked last
night why he gave the much-desired
[MES A WEEK.
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SOME COOD JOBS
MANY* GOOD PLACES FOR THE
FAITHFUL DEMOCRATS.
Will be Distributed When Congress,
Meets in Extra Session First of
Next Month.
With the near approach otf the as
sembling of the sixty-second congress
the gathering of the office seekers
has given the hotel lobbies at Wash
ington an appearance of old times.
While the extension of the civil ser
vice in late years has greatly reduced
the number of official positions to be
distributed among the faithful, the
new Democratic house will etil] have
at its disposal 500 or more joDs,
many of them of excellei t salary
propositions.
The two best positions are those
of clerk of the bouse and sergeant-:
at-arms. They pay $5,001) each a
year. The doorkeeper's place pays!
$4,500, and is next best on the lisc,!
these being big jobs, and a few more
of the $3,000 and $3,500 class are
filled by party caucus.
There are more good positions un-j
der the clerk of the house than in
any other branch. The journal clerk
draws $4,000, the chief clerk $4,-!
000, the reading clerk '$3,000, tally;
clerk $3,000, parliamentary clerk
$3,000, printing clerk $2,500, dis-l
bursing clerk, $2,500, file clerk $2,-j
750, enrolling clerk $3,000. In ad
dition, there are more than fifty
minor clerks under the clerk of the
house drawing anywhere from $750,
a year to $2,250.
There is another set .of employeb
under the sergeant-at-arms. Thej
deputy makes $2,500 a year, thej
cashier $3,000, and nine or ten morei
who make $712 a year up t.o $2,500.
The house postmastership is a
comfortable berth. It pays $3,000
annually, and there is aii assistant
who gets $2,000. Also there are
twelve messengers to distribute the
mail and receive for their work $1,
200 a year each.
The largest number of employes in
any one branch works under the
doorkeeper. There are no less than
seventy-two of them. The assistant
doorkeeper gets $2,500 a year, while
the assistants and others in that de
partment get paid from $'.'50 a year
up to $2,250.
The superitendent of the house
document room draws $2,500 a year,
and his chief assistant $1,300. Thtre
are about ten other assistants who
are paid $1,200 to $1,400 for their
services. In all there are about sixty
jobs in the house folding room. These
employes fold and send out the
speeches of the individual congress
men. The superintendent of the fold
ing corps gets $2,500 a jrekgtf and thje
others are paid f^ogr^6A<!;)?o $2,000
a year.
The other house emplcves include
ten cloak room attendants, who get
about $1,000 a year each, and there
are twice that many pages who are
on the rolls at $75 a mo.ith during
sessions. *
I
Workmen Find Skeleton.
Workmen installing a heating!
system at Alvah S. Braim-rd's house, ?
near Hazardville, Mass., found a kegj
in an old-fashioned chimney contain
ing a human skeleton. The remains
were those of a child. Nothing was
left but the bones and a few ashes.,
The Brainerd family is at a loss to
: explain the mystery. * !
Causes Sensation.
A sensation has been caused in'
London financial circles by the sui
cide of R. F. Carnegie, manager of i
the Lombard Street branch of Parrs
Bank, Limited, who shot himself at
his residence Friday. The affairs of
: the institution are said to be in per
i feet order. *
Fireman Was Killed.
, At Milwaukee the M. Hilty lumber
yard was practically wiped out by1
fire Thursday. The loss is $200,
000, partly insuraced. Fireman Fred
Clark was overcome by ihe cold and
fell from a ladder and was killed. *
letter to Gov. Blease, refused to
make a statement, stating that he
was not being cross-examined.
"Why certainly," he said, "Tom
Felder wrote me several letters of
fering to 'frame up' a big deal. lie
came to Newberry with Hull and 1
told them to put tln ir proposition in
writing. The letter that Gov. Blease
der which I turned down. I swear on
gave out i~ the proposition of Fel
a million stacks of Bibles that Tom
Felder wrote me that letter and if
you will come up to Newberry 1 will
tell you some not stuff about other
deals that they tried to frame up. It
is a bona fide letter and I swear it. I
can prove by living witnesses that
Tom Felder wrote the Iett< r. You
don't know half the inside business
and if you will come up here 1 will
tell you all about it.
Gov. P.lease declared that he had
many letters which would cause sen
sations and that they will be given
out at the proper time.
"Have you any information as to
(he acts of the members of the old
State dispensary winding-up com
mission that would show unfair deal
ings?" he was asked.
"Not so far. I know they are all
honorable men. I have beard ru
mors about them," was the reply.
"Will you sign the measure au
thorizing an investigation of the dis
pensary?"
"I have not yet decided," was the
answer. ;
OKANGKEBU
PROVE FALSE
Mrs. and Miss Hail Accused of Smug-!
gliog Yalaable Necklace.
BAGGAGE IS SEARCHED
The Tip Given Custom House Officials
Turns Out to be Untrue?Over j
Zealous Customs Authorities Find
Minor Undervaluation of Clothing.
The Victims are Very Indignant.**'
The wife and daughter of Joseph j
Hull of Savannah, Ga., one of the'
wealthiest and most influential men |
in the South, were required to dis
robe in their stateroom aboard the
steamship Lusitania at New York on
Friday while a customs inspectress,
acting on a mysterious tip, subse.-:
quently found to be false, made a;
vain search for a diamond necklace
thought to have been purchased
abroad.
The search proving futile, Mrs. j
Hull and the daughter. Miss Eliza;
Lamar Hull, were allowed to proceed :
to their hotel, where another daugh-j
ter, Miss Nina Hull, convalescing
from an attack of typhoid fever, had
preceded them without having been
subjected to search.
The necklace rumor dismissed,
customs inspectors searched the fam i
ily baggage, and, charging underval-j
nation in the case of Mrs. Hull and
Miss Eliza Hull, seized the articles ?
in question. Mother and daughter;
claimed they had acted in good faith,
but their explanations were not con
sidered satisfactory to Collector Loeb
and the articles were seized.
They consist entirely of wearing
apparel and will be held until "the
home value," that is the foreign cost,
plus duty, Is paid.
Joseph Hull, the husband and
father, was on the pier to greet his
wife and daughter, as was a son,
Daniel, a cotton broker in this city.
All were indignant at the proceed
ings and threaten to carry the mat
ter to the courts If necessary.
"We were made to take off even
our stockings," said Mrs. Hull. "Ev
ery stitch of our clothing was
searched and even our hair did not
escape. I consider this treatment an
outrage and I had no idea such a
thing could happen on American
soil."
It was explained for the family
that the report concerning the neck
lace had probably come from Savan
nah, where there was jealousy over
the fact that the Hulls were fortu
nate enough to afford luxuries^ and
finery. As- to the undervaluation j
charges, Daniel Hull said:
"My sister Eliza was the only one \
of the three who had previously;
been abroad, so I and my father senti
wireless to be very cautious and par-!
ticular in making their declarations.
As to the alleged undervaluation, tht;
total can be no more than $150 and
that was due to ignorance of my
mother and sister and was done with
no malicious intent."
"My sister Eliza has a diamond
necklace which she purchased five
years ago in Savannah. A customs
inspector there heard of this and got
the mistaken impression that she
bought the trinket in Paris and was
bringing it with her on this trip. Of
course she had no such jewels."
It was pointed out at the law de
partment of the custom house to
night that federal authorities have
full power to search passengers sus
pected of having dutiable articles
concealed about them, and it was
added that there has never been a
suit brought as the result of such a
search.
Joseph Hull came on here from
Savannah to meet his returning wife
and daughter. He is president of
the Merchants' National bank of that
city, chairman of the board of di
rectors of the Savannah Trust com
pany, a director of the Central rdi
road and president of the Prairie
Phosphate company. He is credit"!:
with having made many millions out
of phosphate properties. *
Robbed Mrs. Bryan.
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan was
robbed at the Majectis Theatre New
York of a handsome seal hand bag,
containing $7? and valuable souve
nirs collected by her and her hus
band in their recent travels, last Sal
urtday afternoon. .Mrs. Stephen B.
Ayres, wife of the Congressman,
whose guests Mr. and Mrs. Bryan
wer? in the Bronx, made the fact
public. *
Divorce in Six Months.
Nevada's popularity as a place for
quick action in divorce cases was in
creased Friday night. The legisla
ture lei down the bars further, notn
'aousos p;.ss<d a bill making a resi
dence of six months the only require
ment in divorce actions. The privi
lege of leaving the state "when nec
essary" will be accorded all who es
tablish their residence (here. *
Rescued Alive.
At Kansas City for fifteen minutes
Thursday Ernest Boldinger, a labor
er, was buried under eight feet of
dirt in a well, but he was rescued
alive and physicians say he suffered
no serious injury. He was at the
bottom of a sixteen-foot well when
the wall caved in. Workmen heard
his cries and dug him out. He was
unconscious. ?
RG, S. C lUESRDAY. M.
WILSON A WINNER
COL. HARVEY POINTS TO HIM AS
WINNING HEAD.
Declares That Only Progressive Dem
ocrat Has a Chance to Carry Ban
ner in Triumphant Campaign.
"Careful diagnosis of the present
temper of the people clearly indi
cates that, if an election were to be
held tomorrow, a Democratic candi
date regarded by the people less pro
gressive than President Taft would
be defeated, and that candidate gen
erally recognized as being more pro
giessive, more liberal, more radical,
If you like, than President Taft
would almost as surely win.''
So declared Col. Harvey of New
York, in regard to the next presi
dential campaign, in the concluding
address at the 99th annual banquet;
of the Hibernian society at Savannah^:
Friday night. Then he said:
"Let the apportionment of respon-l
sibilities be even. The West has tui
nished the party, as well as the op {
position, with the majority, thougn
not the greatest, of its issues. Th'j
South is to enforce harmony and
amalgamation. The East presents
the maD?Woodrow Wilson, thej
highly Americanized Scotch-Irish
man, descended from Ohio, born in
Virginia, developed in Maryland,
married in Georgia and now deliver- j
ing from political bondage the State
of New Jersey." These'"two state
ments from the framework of Col.
Harvey's address on "The Problem,
the Solution and the Man," or, re
duced to plain English, the chance
the Democratic party has of elect
ing a president in 1912. With Gov.
Wilson of New Jersey as the candi
date, Col. Harvey sees the party's
success.
The Hibernian society banquet
was the climax to an unusual cele
bration of St. Patrick's day which
began with a military parade, vari
ous Irish society meetings and
church services. In addition to Col.
Harvey's addresses were made at the
banquet by Michael J. Jordan of Bos
ton, Mass.; Congressman William G.
Brantly of Georgia; Murphy G. Can
dler, railroad commissioner, of Geor
gia; Georgia Supreme Court Justice
Joseph H. Lumpkin; the Rev. Dr.
Charit..; H. Strong of Savannah and
Thos. W. Loyless, editpr of the Au
gusta (Ga.) Chronicle. *
GALLMAN HUGGED GOVERNOR.
Blease Personally Delivered Parole J
to Convict. |
J. W. Gallman, who was paroleo
from th'3 penitentiary by Governor
Blease Thursday, came up to ?
Jonesville Friday morning and
then went to Lockhart, where hisj
family resides. Gallman was serv-|
in? a fi'teen-year sentence for killing!
Sims Gilmore, in Jonesville, on the
16th of May, 1907.
Gallman says that day before yes
terday afternoon, about three ho'jrs,
before the time for the work at the
penitentiary to close, Governor Bleas*. j
drove down in his carriage and called
for him, and he was brought out to!
the office and the Governor asked him
if he wanted to go home. He tola
him he "sure did" and the Governor
said: "Here is a parole for you."
Gallman says he hugged the Go'
ernor till he hardly knew when to i
let him loose. Gallman said he never,
feit so good in all his life, and he was
shaking hands with his friends and
was happy, indeed. He went down to
Lockhart on the mid-day train, to
join his family, a free, happy man. * i
* m o
READY FOR THE PUMPS.
Wreck of the Maine Will be Inspected
Within Six Weeks.
The dam about the wreck of thei
battleship Maine will be completed1
within a week and pumping will
start, according to an announcement
by Col. Black, of the Maine commis
sion. The battleship will be on dry
ground within six weeks, he says,
ready to be inspected by the official |
commission which is to discover the
exact cause of the explosion.
Col. Black says the divers' reports
indicate that the hull is in very bad
condition. The top of the forward
turret was found buried th's week
in the mild of the harbor. It was
lifted to the surface, intact, but with
I he rivets torn and twisted, showing
the great force of the explosion.
Electric Lamps Cheaper.
As the first direct result of the
no'.ernnieiii's ant:?:ru:-l suit against
the so-called "Electric Lamp Trust,"
the department of justice has receiv
ed intimations that the prices of all
electric bulbs will be red net il s:s 1-3
per cent all over the United States.
By such a cut in present prices?folks
who buy the electric lamps will save
more than $6,000,000 a yetr. 1'h*
department continues to receive
word that the various pools in the
so-called trust are breaking up, in
anticipation of suits. *
Suicides After Five Trials.
At Hartford, Conn., .Mrs. Sarah E.
Ash bell tried four times to kill her
S'if, and on her fifth trial was suc
cessful. Thursday, she tried hang
ing and her husband sat up all nighl
to keep watch over her. While he
d -zed. Mrs. Ash bell drank carbolic
a- id, and the husband woke to find
her dead. *
MICH. 21, 1911.
THE PRESS MEN
Ve Editors Will Visit the City ot New
York Very Early in June.
WILL TRAVEI BY WATER
Ihis Trip Preferred to Editor Foo
she's State Outing?State Press
Association Meets in Columbia?
Executive Committee Passes on
Plans for Annual Convention/
In order to suit the convenience of
Governor Woodrow Wilson, who will
be the chief guest of honor, the dates
of the annual convention of the South
Carolina Press association in Colum
bia this year were changed from May
30 and 31 and June 1, to May 31 and
June 1 and 2, at a meeting of the
executive committee, held Thursday
afternoon in President August Kohn's
office.
Governor Wilson delivers June 1,
at noon, the baccaulaureate address
at the University of North Carolina,
in Chapel Hill, and speaks on the
evening of June 2 to the editors of
this State, in the Columbia theatre.
After his address Dr. Wilson will be
complimented with a reception in
Flinn hall, at the University cf South
Carolina, on which occasion the for
mer Columbian will be greeted In
person by many who knew Woodrow
Wilson the boy during his father's
residence here as a professor in Co
lumbia seminary.
Sentiment being strongly In favor
of a trip to New York by water, the
committee regretfully declined an in
vitation strongly urged upon it to
have the editors, before or after their
meeting in Columbia, take a "Saelug
South Carolina trk>," of two days, In
cluding visits to fie Winnsboro gran
ite quarries, to Winnsboro itself, to
Chester, to Winthrop College and to
the Great Falls hydro-electric plant
of the Southern Power company. It
was deemed impracticable for the as
sociation to undertake both outings
this year.
The "Seeing South Carolina" trip
was urged by a delegation headed by
Mr. J. Frank Fooshe, editor of the
Winnsboro New6 and Herald, and In
cluding besides Col. Jas. Q Davis,
the Winnsboro banker; Manager J.
C. Thorn of the Winnsboro Granite
corporation, RIon, and Dr. D. B.
Johnson, president, of Winthrop Col
lege, Rock Hill. It was said, among
other things, that the Winnsboro
quarry is the largest commercial un
dertaking in the utilization of mon
umental granite in the world and
the only plant of the kind in the
United States the product of whicn
has an international distribution.
The mechanical plant alone rep
resents an investment of about $300,
000. Mr. Fooshe said that few ol
the editors of the State had any ade
quate idea of the magnitude of the
Southern Power company's opera
tions. Mr. Fooshe credited Col. Da
vis with being the originator, of the
Southern Power company. Dr. John
son said Winthrop earnestly desired
an opportunity of entertaining the
newspaper folk and he would partic
ularly like to give the editors a din
ner, in the great new dining hall of
the college, which comfortably seats
1,200 persons.
Fifty dollars will cover the neces
sary expenses of the New York trip.
The usual rate of $32 from Charles
ton to New York and return, this
including transportation, meals and
berths, has been cut in half for the
editors by the Clyde Steamship com
pany, and for $1.50 per person each
group of four people in the party
will have, at the Woodward hotel in
New York, a suite of two bed rooms,
a sitting room and a bath room. A
club breakfast will cost 7.1 cents.
The visitors will take their lunch
eons and dinners wherever they like,
paying for them what they please.
The party will sail on the first Clyde
boat leaving Charleston northbound
after the adjournment of the conven
tion, which will end on the night of
June 2. Half rates have been se
cured for the editors from a sight
seeing automobile company of New
York.
The committee Informally ex
pressed its appreciation of the ef
forts of Messrs. F. Borron Grier of
Greenwood. Frank B. Gary of Abbe
ville and Howard I'.. Carlisle of Spar
tanburg to put just libel laws upon
I he statiile books of the Stale. Mr.
Grier gave much of his time ami at
tention to preparing the hill and Mr.
Gary in the house ami .Senator Car
lisle bad it passed. Governor Bleasc
has said he will veto this measure.
The addresses and essays by mem
bers were planned, but announce
ment will not be made until the sec
retary, Mr. R. L. Free::;an, hears
from the persons so invited.
it was decided to invite as special
guests this year Messrs. John W.
Holmes of Barr well and Charles Pet
ty of Spartanburg, veteran editors,
who were members of the famous
Wallace bous - in 187G. Col. R. A.
Thompson, surviving member of the
Sec. ssion convention, will al^o be in
vited specially.
Three members were added to the
roll yesterday. Messrs. \V. H. Jones
of Columbia, editor of School News:
McDavId Horton of the Columbia
Record, and Leon M. Green of tiie
Columbia bureau of the Charleston
News and Courier.
The members of the committee
present were: Messrs. August Konn,
COCA-COLA CASE
DR. KEBLER GIVES EVIDENCE
AGAINST THE DRINK.
Serious Witness in Government Suit
Makes Charges Against Beveridgel
and Its Manufacture.
In the hearing of the case of the
United States against a certain num
ber of barrels and kegs of coca-cola
in the federal court at Chattanooga,
Tenn., Wednesday, some of the most
interesting testimony yet brought out
was given by Dr. Lyman F. Kebler,
chief of the drug department of the
bureau of chemistry, Washington, D.
C.
Dr. Kebler is the chemist who;
' made a test of coca-cola and he testi
I fled that coca-cola contains caffeine,
; declaring that to each eight ounce
j glass there were one and one-fourth
; grains of caffeine, which he says is
I poison.
Dr. Kebler cited many authorities
I in proof of his statement that caf
feine is a poison and cited a number
, of deaths reported as being caused by
I its use. One of these writers had
reported a eise where four and one
half grains of the drug had produced
death and he declaredd that about
three glassies of coca-cola contained
this amount of caffeine. Dr. Kebler
' testified as to the finding of vermin
and bugs in the vats as the result of
his inspection of the ccca-cola plant
in Atlanta.
He also testified that caramel and
brown sugar were added because ot
; their opaqueness tended to conceal
: impurities in the coca-cola syrup,
i Dr. Rushy, for the government,
testified along the line of the name
of the drink coca-cola and stated that
; no other product bore the name or
either "coca" or "kola."
Governmen. chemists stated that
: coca-cola contained neither coca nor
kola and the effort of the government.
I will be to prove that the drink is
! misbranded. ?
-9 ? ?
PARDONS BY THE GOVERNOR.
Only Three Were Granted by Him on
Lost Saturday.
David Jacobs, a white man, was
convicted in Chesterfield county 20
years ago, with Mary Johnson, tot
poisoning the husband of the woman
and both were sentenced to hang.
Just before the trap was sprung
Governor Tillraan commuted their
sentence. They both came to the
penitentiary. The woman died sev
eral years ago and Jacobs was par
doned today by Governor Blease.
The pardon was recommended by
Superintendent Griffith.
The sentence of George Williams,
who was convicted in Lancaster
county and given three years on the
charge of manslaughter, has been
commuted to two years. He was
convicted in March of 1909 for kill
ing his son Morgan,
j The sentence of Daisy Cook has
; been commuted from six to five years
i and he will leave the penitentiary
tomorrow. Daisy Cook was convicted
' of manslaughter in Hampton county,
in 1-906, for killing Hamp Smith,
and has been at the penitentiary for
; five years. He killed Smith in a gen
eral fight at a tent show.
SWAYED OVER AN ABYSS.
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I For Two Hours Was in Suspense,
Then Fell Six Inches.
While tramping over a field to
make a short cut to his home, in
Sharon, Pa., George Hoven walked
on the boards of an abandoned well
and fell through. He was able to
grab hold of a crossbeam and suc
ceeded in linking his arms about it.
Then he screamed for help, but his
cries were not heard. After clinging
to the support for about two hours
Hoven began to prow weak. The
freezing air was also telling on hi ill
and he was fast lo.-ing his strength.
He offered up a prayer and allowed
his arms to relax. He fell, expecting
to be killed. Instead he dropped only
six inches, as the well had been filled
in with about seven feet of the top.
Two Killed.
A special from Selma. Ala., says:
At Jones' switch, neat here, two chil
dren were killed and .Mrs. C. San
ders and Mrs. V.. 0. Co.-setf, their
mothers, and a third child were in
jured, by being caughl under a pile
of lumber, which fell on them as
they were walking by. *
I'm:;? i] by Women.
One officer fatally wounded, an
other with a linger .shot off and a
third frightened from the scene, is
the result of n battle between three
women on one side at Lons Fork,
near the Pike \ Letcher County
herder, in K. :.! : d:y. Wednesday af
ternoon. *
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Tluee Sons Perish.
Three sous of John Gallaus.
miner, were burned lo death eariy
Friday in a fire thai destroyed the
Gallaus home at lloneybrook, !'a.
The victims were asleep on the sec
ond floor and could not escape. *
William Hanks and \v. E. Gonzales
oT Columbia: Kd II. PeCamp of Gaff
ney and J. ('. Mace of Marion. The
visiting members went out to the Co
lonia in the afternoon and were much
pleased with the headquarters of ti.e
association. Manager Whistler
showed them all over the hotel. ?
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SCORES ?LE?SE
?ie Governor Is Taken to Task for Veto
ing the Commission BilL
BY THE COMMUNITY CLUB
Accused of Prostituting Office ''to
tiie Purpose of Petty Spite and
Peanut Politics," and of the Ambi
tion That Cliarleston Should be
His Political Door Mat.
The Charleston Community Clnb
at a well attended meeting on Thurs
day night adopted a letter to be sent
to Governor Blease as the official
protest of the club against his veto oil
the commission government bill. This
letter is now released for publication
and is as follows:
"Charleston, S. C, Mch. 6, 1911.
"His Excellency Cole L. Blease, Gov
ernor of South Carolina, Columbia,
5. C.?Dear Sir: By vetoing the
commission government bill you have
seen fit to abuse the powers of i
responsible office, never expected to.
be exploited for private or political
advantage, and arrogate to yourself
the right of limiting the franchise or
the people of Charleston, and of say
ing that our citizens are to have no.
further voice in the choice of their
form of government. You have,
without justification or pretext, other
than the selfish Interests of a small
minority in this city, who have done
you signal service at the polls, un
dertaken to veto ?. permissive, local
option bill, passed by the General
Assembly of the State, at the re
quest of fifteen hundred responsible
citizens of this community, represent
ing over ten million dollars of prop
erty interests. This petition repre
sented the desire of a subs' antial
number of CharIestoriian3, in all
probability a number greater than
gave you their votes last summer,
for a form of government which
would give the people of this city a
larger voice in.their own home gov
ernment and which would make of
the $700,000 to be yearly adminis
tered in this city a business responsi
bility and not a jack pot, or the
waste material of an experimental
laboratory- "Why you have chosen,
In the limelight of your office as
Chief Executive, to abandon even a
professed adherence to the principle
of local option, which you made
I much of in your campaign, and to
I blazen abroad your opposition "m
I toto" to the Democratic principles of
; home rule embodied in the terms of
! the Act you have set aside and ycur
! disapproval of any attempt to safe
guard the public purse, (where It did
\ not contemplate the salving of a pro
\ vate sore,) Is for yourself to under
; stand. The purpose of this com
j municatlon is not to remonstrate
against an act that was partially an
ticipated and is for the present irrc
| vocable. It is only to acquaint you
: with the indignation and censure
? that your autocratic and partisan
conduct has aroused among the cit
: Izens of that city to which for your
own reasons, you pretend to owo
your election. Your utter disregard
of their rights urges either a degree
? of insincerity in your former protes
tations of friendship, which should
I henceforth make your utterances in
this respect less likely to deceive, or
else a frank admission that your
Charleston friends are not so numer
ous or outspoken as you or they or
: the official count would have us be
lieve. We are quite ready to admit
that the form of government we ad
vocate would prove disastrous to the
i political fortunes and ambitions of
your friend3 here. But that fprin of
: government could not be {nlopted
without a vote of the majority of the
citizens of Charleston. You are not
misled, Mr. Governor, it would seem,
by the top-heavy vote of the summer
primaries, and not so confident in the
finality of that verdict of six to one
in your favor. Is it that you thin?c
that under the careful restrictions of
the commission government pri
maries year friends would not fare
so well?
"Your fears are well founded.
However, be assured, most honorable
sir. that torn mission government is
not dead because you have vetoed tho
bill, nor Is the vitality of this move
:r .:! powerless to restore this city to
i plane of political decency. A moral
issno cannot he killed by your li.it.
We know of nothing more effective*
toward bringing the people of Soiuli
Carolina to their senses than the ob
i' et lesson they now have of a digni
fied public office prostituted to the
purposes of petty spite and peanut
politics.
"Otli r cities have waited Ion? for
the coming of their political freedom.
Von will find that the ambition of
?>:ir :.rep!?; for a clean, free city will
outlast yours that Charleston shall
be your political fcot-mat. It sh,.!!
also survive your brief opportunity
to hamper their efforts. You have
confessed to your grievous fear of
fhe majority of the citizens of Char
leston, and you shall find that fear
fuly justified. The campaign butt
of your friendship for Chareston and
Ol Chareston's friendship for you has
been effectively called, and Charles
ton's credit to this extent restored.
This much good has been already
gained. The rest will follow.
.Most unsubmlssively,
Charleston Community Club. *