Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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P ? BLISXJ ED THREE TL MASS jOF^RUIN New York's Migni?cent Twenly-Seveo Billion Dollars Capitol wrecked AND ruined Beautiful Structure Goes Up in Fire and Smoke While Many People Look On?The Famous White Granite Structure Notable Exam pie of Fne Architecture, Fire swep:, smoke-stained and ?water drenched, New York state's: magnificent $27,000,000 capitol stands at Albany, N. Y., is a par tial wreck ol flames that started in j the assembly library, burned away the entire we st wing and did damage estimated at $10,000,000 before the fire was declared under control af ter raging more than four hours. It is believed the fire was started "by a fused electric push button be coming electrified. It was discovered by a night watchman and the alarm was soundec at 2:46 o'clock Wed nesday morn .ag. Before the firemen i Teached the massive structure, price-j less documents, books and records; stored in the assembly library had ."been destroyed, other departments were threatened. The imitation oak ceiling of t:he assembly chamber, composed of papier mache, was par tially destroyed as was also the fa mous mllllor. dollar staircase in the west wing. On the third floor, where the flames gained their start, the departments wholly or piirtially destroyed by Are or seriously damaged by water were: The state library, containing four hundred thousand volumes, among them the most valuable genealogical works in the; United States, together with relics, priceless documents, some of them dating hack to. 1776 and irreplaceable. The assembly and senate libraries, stored with thousands of. volumes of law and code books, also a number of documents and manuscripts thai can never bi replaced. The flnar.ee committee room in which were stored drafts of all the appropriaticn and other bills of the present session. The chamber of the president pro tem of the uenate. The lieutenant governor's room, badly damaged .but not wrecked. The sena;e and assembly chambers are soaked with water that has ruined thei? rich furnishings and t?t papier mache ceiling of the latter is v hanging in straggling shreds of half dissolved paper. This ceiling with its handsome adornment is said to have cost a great sum and was one of the show sights of the capitol. On the fourth floor in the west wing the wrecked offices are. Court o2 claims, In which many important legal documents were on file. The bill drafting department. The bureau of weights and meas ures. The state- regent's rooms. The state prison commission. The sta'.e educational department, containing many valuable books of scientific j.nd historical interest. On the second floor the damagec rooms are: The attorney general's office. The stete excise department. On the first floor the damaged de partments Include: | The off.ces of the state treasurer) and state tax commissioner. The state board of charities and the state commissioner of lunacy, j The lover offices of the state edu cational department. Practically all the offices below the third flocr, including the executive chamber, were damaged by smoke and water. An attache of the assembly library returning for some overlooked papers discovered a tiny blaze near his desk. There had ben a complaint filed dur ing the day that an electric switch was out of order and this is supposed to have started the fire. Running out into the corridor the clerk summoned a night watchman and with the assistance of two news-j paper men, efforts were made to put, out the fire, which probably could have been done had a fire extinguish er or a bucket of water been avail able. Lacking these, the flames spread \ until the room, with its inflammable furnishings and papers, was ablaze, j It was ? ometime before the firemen arrived and before they could getj streams playing the flames were rac-j ing toward the state library. The grand western staircase, which was regarded as one of the most beautiful in the world, occupied the, center of the western wing and con sisted of an immense double stairway of sandstone elaborately carved. It! was surmounted by a glazed dome which soon fell. The capitol, a gigantic structure of white g-anite with red capped tow ers, stands perched upen the highest of the several hills upon which the city of Albany is built. It is 3 00 feet north and south by four hundred feet east and west, and covers three acres. The llrst stone in the foundation was laid July 7, 1S69. It was first occupied by the legislature on Janu ary 7, 1S79. Writers upon architec ture say that the white building with its towers reminds them of the fa SEES A WMEK. BIG PUSH OF BOYS COUPLE, MARRIED TEN YEARS, POSSESS NINETEEN. Thirteen of Tlxis Number, All Boys, Are Living, and Not One is Yet Fii e Years Old. Mr. and Mrs. Frank S*?tt, of Highland, Kan., are seeking a home in Oklahoma with plenty of land. They will need it, for although they have been married not quite ten I yea re they are parents of 19 chil dren, all boys, and 13 of them liv ing. They hold the record for trip lets, having five sets to their credit, and two sets of twins. All tit the 13 boys living are under five yeare. (Recently the Scotts, decidln/c thai they must find more land, went to Al berta, Canada. They were not sat isfied there and returned. On the return trip Mrs. Scott and her 13 children all rode on one first class ticket. At Omaha the crn.Iuctor made a vigorous protest. "Madam, you cannot carry a whole Sunday school along with you on that one ticket," he said, "and you need not tell me those are all yours and under five years of age. You will have to pay for some of i.hem.' Mrs. Scott dug down into her -va lise and brought out the fara.'ly Bi ble, in which was recorded the .laines j and ages of each of the children. The conductor had to give In. The mother and children occupied five double seats in the homeseekers' car and paid for only one. * The names and ages of the chil dren are: Asnbell, Archer an>l Aus- j tin, triplets, four and a half years old; Arthur and Arnold, twins, three and a half; Alan, Almon and Albin, triplets, two and a half; Albert, Albi on, and Adolph, triplets. IS months; Abel and Abner, twins, six ronths. Mrs. Scott is 30 years old and her husband is only a year her senior. EXTENSION IMPROVEMENTS. The Southern Railway Revising It* Roadbed Near Atlanta. Extensive improvements cn the line between Atlanta and Macon, in volving the laying of about twenty miles of passing tracks and revision of grades are to be made at once by the Southern Railway according to announcement given out Tuesday by the. Assistant to the Presidents Tt-e passing tracks will be of latest de rign, known as lap-sidings, which greatly facilitate the movement of trains. These tracks will be placed at intervals of about five miles and each will be long enough to accom modate four trains. This additional trackage will give many of the ad vantages of double tracks and will greatly increase the capacity of this important line over which, in addi tion to the freight and local passen ger service, the through passenger trains of the Southern between Flor ida and the West are handled. Dur ing the last few months the Southern has completed the work of strength ening the bridges on this line and Is now operating its heauiest locomo tives over It. These improvements will add greatly to the facilities for handling both freight and passenger? over this line and will prove of bene fit not only to the territory immedi ately served but to shippers and pas sengers using it for throu;;h com merce and travel The expenditures involved are being undertaken by the Southern Railway Company in the desire to give its patrons vie? best of service and to provide for the great I increase of business that is hoped for iin the future. ? Died in His Sent. When business opened at the pri vate hank of Julius Debrousky in New York Monday the first customer was annoyed that she coulrl get m answer to her questions '.'rom the banker, who sat leaning over a ta ble, seemingly buried in thought He had good reason for his silence. In the banker's abdomen was a bullet wound from which he died. Drew the Line. It was an exceedingly trying exper ience Miss Kate Johnson had Thurs day when she appeared on the street i of South Bethlehem, Pa., ir. a harem skirt. It was the first sight local people had had of this fashion. A j crowd quickly formed and after mob bing her pelted her with stones. Bull Kills a Man. Disregarding the warning that a j .bull in the pasture was vicious Wil I Ham Payne, of Norristown, N. J., was ! gored and trampled to death this ! week. He had declared he could conquer any mad bull. m ^ ,_ Man's Body Found. The body of Walter Byrum, of J Monroe, N. C. who left his home on (January 23, was found in a mill pond J near his home Tuesday morning by ! two hoys who were fishing. The body ! bore no evidences of foul iilay. Broken by Death. At Brockton, Mass., an engage j ment of 53 years between Miss Emi ly Fanny Richmond and Rev. j Charles Lord has been broken Dy tho , death of the former, at the age of j 74 years. mous Taj Mahal, in India. Others j call it a superb reflection of French I architecture. 0BANGEB1 ONCE VERY RICH SHE BECAME A RAG-PICKER AND DIED IN POVERTY, f Fatal Duel Betwen Her Father and an English Admirer Blotted Hap piness Out of Her Life. "Mademoiselle," the rag-picker, had a name, though nobody in Ly ons, France, knew It til she was found dead on the floor of her gar ret, dead of starvation and old age combined. Her name was Marguerite Carrel. And to her name there hangs a story. Seventy years ago, in 1840, when Marguerite was 20, the Carrel were I among the silk magnates of Lyons. The silk magnates formed a no billty, an aristocracy as proud in its own way as the old aristocracy ot France had been .before the revolu tion. Marguerite was the Carrels' only daughter. She was extremely beautiful, and before she was 18 had as many admirers as the Lyons silk merchants had grown-up sons. But she would listen to or look at none oi them. And then one day a young Englishman came to Lyons. His name has not survived. He was the heir of an English silk Arm, a firm of importers which haa business dealings with the Duvai firm, a rival of the Carrels. Between the families was a feud as bitter as that between the Montogues and Cuputets. Marguerite Carrel met the young English friend of the Duval house one day and fell in love with him, and he with her. The Englishman was rich and did not care whether Mar guerite came to him with or without a dowry One night Marguerite Carrel ana the Knglishman left Lyons in a post chaise. Their idea vas to drive south to mislead pursuit, to make for Mar seilles, and from there to ship for England. But old Carrel got wind of their flight and followed. Forty miles from Lyons he caught them, and there on the roadside, under Marguerite Car rel's frightened gaze, Carrel and the young Englishman shot one another dead. What happened after that to Marguerite nobody knows for cer tain. She was not seen again till 1870, the year of the war. Then one day an old man who had been helping to carry food, and drink to patients in the hospital recognized in one of the lay sisterr Marguerite Carrel?a woman of HO now?whom he had known and admired as a young man. She was not a nun, but wore the dress of a religions order and the Geneva cross. She did more work than any two other helpers in the hospital. All that the Lyons of the last few years knew about "Mademoiselle was that she was an old woman, bent nearly double, with a witch's no^e and chin. She dressed in bits of sacking and oddments of clothing which the old clothes merchants had discarded. She lived, literally lived, on what she pinked up. AH night she was to be seen prowling up and down the streets of Lyons, peering about for odds and ends, be.gging a bit of sugar here, nicking up a cigar or cigarette end there, on her old feet till 2 and 3 a. m., when in luck getting a copper or two from the people who sat out side the cafes, when out of luck pick ing crusts from the gutter for her breakfast. And early in the morning "Mad emoiselle," the beautiful Marguerite Carrel 70 years ago, was found dead of privation in her garret. Her filthy mattress fell to pieces when the po lice lifed it, and out of a gap in it to the floor rolled $8,000 in gola. DIVINING ROD MEN JAILED. iStauffers Sentenced to Pay Fines and Sent to Prison. Fines and prison sentences were imposed by Judge Orr, sitting spec laly in Federal Court In Scranton, Pa. last week, Abraham G. Stauffer, his son, Oscar A. Stauffer; his namesake, A. S. Stauffer. and William S. Ream, residents of Palmyra, Pa., who plead ed guilty at'the Williamsport session of making fraudulent use of the mails. They conducted a mail order .business by which they sold "divining rods" that were represented to be able to locate different metals by the use of different needles. They also pleaded guilty to selling lascivious , pictures through the mails, and will ! be fined and imprisoned for that. Found Lot of Money. A cat chased a mouse under a foot-stool in the home of Henry Karg, in Fort Plain, N. Y., this week, and then stuck its paw into the hole to try for her prey. When she drew the foot out a $50 bill was sticking to a claw. Later $875 was taken from the stool, which represents the hoard left by Grannie Karg when she di-ed suddenly on Feb. 25. Pipe Blew Out. At Manchester, N. H., the head of a 12-in-*h steam pipe at a power house here blew out Monday, killing one man instantly and severely inur ing eight other persons. Burned to Death. Dr. D. E. Norris, a prominent phy sician and his four children were burned to death when their home was burned near Aurora, Mo., Tuesday. URGr, S. C. {SATURDAY. A BRIBE MONEY Kohlsaat Declares That Lorimer Used Honey in His Election. KNOWS THIS TO BE TRUE But the Venerable Publisher De clined Repeatedly to Tell the In vestigating Committee Where He Got His Information or Who Told Him about Matter. H. H. Kohlsaat, publisher of the Chicago Record-Herald, told the Illi nois Senate investigating committee Wednesday that he knew $100,000 had been used to procure the election of William Lorimer to the United States Senate. He refused to give the committee the source of his information, not withstanding the committee has the power to imprison him because of his refusal. When Mr. Kohlsaat was first called to the stand, he was asked where he obtained hi^ Information on which he wrote an editorial saying $100,000 has .been raised to elect Lorimer. Mr. Kohlsaat declined to answer a number of questions. He said he could not violate a confidence. Attorney Healy put direct ques tions to him asking if his informant had said he was asked for $10,000. "I decline to answer," he said. "Did he say that nine other men had been asked for $10,000 each?" "I refuse to answer." "Is he a resident of Chicago?" "I decline to answer." "Is he alive now?" "He is." "Wouilil you denounce any citizen who takes the stand you have taken here?" asked Senator Burton. "Any man who will violate a con fidence is not worth a snap. I would not let my Court reporter vl^ate a confidence. Wo newspaper man jan violate a confidence. That Is my code of morals." "You hare been demanding this in vestigation and now you refuse to aid us?" "I appreciate the position, but I will not violate.this confidence." The committee then went into ex ecutive conference. Everyone except Mr. Kohlsaat. Attorney Healy and members of the committee"' were or dered out of the room. The questions were again put to j Mr. Kohlsaat. Again he refused ab I solutely to answer. The doors were then reopened and i Mr. Kohlsaat was given a third op | portunity to answer the questions of ; the committee; this he again refused J to do. Mr. Kohlsaat was excused un I til 10 o'clock, Thursday morning, I April 6. j He was Informed by the committee j that its members had agreed that h"? I must answer the questions regarding j the money. LA FOLLETTE FOR PRESIDENT. Wants to Capture the Republican Nomination. A Boston dispatch says Republican politicians are anticipating with con siderable interest the lecture that Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon is to deliver at a local club tomorrow night on "Delegated versus Popular Government." The lecture and the informal conferences to follow, it is understood here, will be the launch ing of Senator La Follette's candi dacy for president. Senator Bourne, who is the founder of the National Progressive Republican League, is understood to have formed a polit ical alliance with Senator La Follette and to have undertaken the task of capturing the New England delega tion to the republican convention of next year. The main plank of the Bourne platform is the Initiative, ref erendum and recall. Committed Suicide. Ruf us I. Hasell, for several years bookkeeper for the wholesale and re tail gTocery firm of Welch & Eason, I Charleston, 'S. C. committed suicide j Monday morning In his office by send J ing a bullet from a new 38-calibre pictol through his temple, no reason j being assigned for the deed. Haseil was in poor health, however. He was unmarried and about 38 years of age. Indian Plague. During the month of February deaths from the plague in India reached the total of 88.49S. The dis ease has become such a fixture in the province that the British India office has almost given up its efforts to stamp it out. Young Robber. A boy in knickerbockers walked into the postoffice at Lake View, near Huffalo, N. Y., Saturday night, and using an axe handle as a weapon, felled Helen and Ella Mayn, sisters of Win. Meyn, the poHtmaster, and robbed them of $500. He then es caped. Negro Must Hni?^. Daniel Duncan, the Charleston ne ?ro convicted of killing a Jew mer chant and his wife, and is under sen tence of death, lost his last card Monday when the supreme court dis missed a petition to rehear the ca^e. LPML 1? 1911. CHEAPEN THINGS THE DEMOCRATS PLAN A BIG CUT IN TARIFF DUTIES. The House Will Make Swcping Re ductions on Wool, Cotton and Oth er Necesnities. AH rates of duty in the woolen schedule will be lowered more than 50 per cent. No article in that ached- j ule will he permitted to retain half of the protection now afforded by the Paynr. Aldrich act. A complete mod ification and lowering of the entire list will be made. These predictions are made In letter from Washington to the New York World. The letter goes on to say that all the oppressive rates in the cotton schedule will be heavily cut. Only just and equitable protection will oe allowed to remain. The most ob noxious features of the schedule will be treated with even more severity than the duties applied to woolen goods. This is the prediction made by a leading member of the House Ways and Means Committee, now engaged in arranging some scheme of ta.iff revision. He says It is a perfectly safe assumption that the high places in the cotton schedule will be hit hard and the woolen daties more than cut in twain. Other prominent Democrats believe that rates on tools, farm machinery, paints and other necessaries for the producer will be materially reduced. "The things that the farmer has to buy will be put on the free list," declared a memher of the committee. "We are going to see that the reci procity agreement does not hurt the tiller of the soil." It Is realized by the more conserva tive element that this Is probably go ing too far in the way of prediction. It Is unlikely tbat all those things which the farmer buys will be placed on the free list. There may be heavy shaving of the rates now imposed, but all the great mass or articles comprising such a list of necessities muBt bear some taxation to meet the requirements of revenue. The temper now manifested by a majority of the Ways and Means Committee augurs well for the ef fective downward revision of the tar iff. There is a general disposition to eliminate all the most objection able ditties. It is especially desired to lessen the cost of living. Rates imposed on wearing apparel, farming! implements, food-stuffs and articles of daily use will be liberally lowereo.. The Ways and Means Committee, will meet again Saturday and take up I the subject of tariff revision. The! committee is having serious trouble] agreeing on a course of procedure. One faction would pass at least three J tariff revision bills first, and then take up reciprocity, while the other would reverse this order. Over this point the caucus calleo for Saturday will 3plit when a vig orous demand will be made for k complete revision of certain tariff schedules. Some members of the Ways and Means Committee would pass a reap port! on merit bill and go as far as possible toward providing for the direct election of United Stai.es Senators. SAVED BY FIRE DRILL. j Many Children Are Marched Quietly to Safety. J The value of the fire drill in crowded .buildings was clearly dem onstrated Wednesday afternoon when fire was discovered in public schooi ! No. 43 in New York. Although smoke was drifting througn the building and the odor of burning wood and paper permeated the halls and class rooms, 2,900 little children responded to the fire drill signal and in perfect order marched from the building as taey do several times each week. In ten minutes all were on the street watching the firemen. The blaze did only trifling damage. 'The children were under splendid j I control. Made a Big Haul. Ten thousand dollars in currency was stolen from a mail pouch lh | I transit between Tampa and Clear-, I water, Fla., Monday night. The i theft was discovered when the mail| pouch reached St. Petersburg Tues-j I day morning at 10 o'clock, having: ; been carried by its destination, Clear water. ? ? ? Wilkerson Elected President. Prof. Wilkerson, who has been a ; member of the Colored State College j ever since the inst itution was started, ; was elected president of the collet I yesterday by the trustees. We be lieve he will fill the bill to the satis-1 j faction of all concerned. Lost His Nerve. At Cleveland. Ohio, Wellington ; Davis, a vaudeville juggler, lost his ? nerve when about to be married to I Miss Marie Loplant, his partner in I the act, and jumped through a glass ; door. He is now in the hospital, but ! still unmarried. m ,? ,_ Killed in Wreck. Three persons perished in a wreck ?of the New Foundland mail steamer Bruce, which struck rocks off Scat tori during the night. The steamer I is a total loss. The Bruce was on its ! way to Louisburg, B. C, when the disaster happened. BIBLE STUDENTS MARCH GREAT RELIGIOUS PAGEANTRY IN SPARTAN CITY. Led uy Former Governor M. F. Ansel, Fifteen Hundred Members of Bi ble Classes, Parade. ?Spartanburg had a most remarK able parade on last Wednesda:'. With the streets lined with thousands of spectators, a procession ot fifteen hundred Bible students marched from the Court House, on Magnolia street, to Converse College and back this afternoon. 'It was perhaps the most Impres sive religious sight ever witnessed in the South, and certainly the most im pressive ever known in South Caro lina. A marked feature of this long parade of Bible students was the va rious classes of men and boys which composed the long line. Headed by members of the Spar tanburg police force, who are also members of various Bible classes, and followed by Ex-Governor Martin F. Ansel and other notable guests, the line was composed of profession al men, college professors, those per sons living in the mill districts, who are members of their Bible classes, and also there were many from the country churches near Spartanburg. Each Bible class marched under its own banner and somo had their bands along, while the orchestra from the Bible class of Bethel Meth odist Church, oi Spartanburg, occu pied seats on a huge wagon. Mounted on this wagon there was also a piano, and while the line was traversing the most crowded business parts of the city, hymnti were sung, making it a most Impressive proces sion and one that will ever linger in the minds of those who witnessed or participated in it. The stores and business concerns of the city were closed in order that the employees could march in this line, openly professing their faith and their religion. The ministers of Spartanburg acted as marshals. The second day of the annual Con vention of the Sunday-school workers now In session will mark an epoch in the history of the Association. Three of the greatest and most en thusiastic meetings were held, be sides the Bible class parade. BOUND FOR THE SENATE. Gov. Blcase Says He Expects to Go Straight There. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says Governoi Blease will be a candidate for the United States Senate. He said today that he Is "going as straight to the United States Senate as a martin to its gourd." Senator Tillman said the other day that he will run again if his healtn permits, but it is doubted by many that he will again be In the rac<\ Governor Blease said recently that he could beat any man except Tillman for the Senate. In the event Senator Tillman Is not a candidate in 1913, Governor Blease will be in the race. Other wise he will be a candidate for the Senatorship later on. That is the way the situation appears today. Governor Blease has received en couraging letters, he states, from all parts of South Carolina. He Is told in the?e letters that he is stronger now politically than ever before. One man wrote him, "Go ahead and give 'em h-." RAINED MUD DOWN Result of Precipitation in Dusty At mosphere. On last Thursday it rained pure mud in Wathena, Kansas. The phe nomenon is accounted for by the fact that a high wind and duststorm from the northwest was prevailing when a light rain began to fall, and the drops of water collected the dust In the at mosphere, turning them into muo. Persons who were outdoors had their clothing spattered and soiled, and the paint upon houses, vehicles and im plements outdoors all showed the ef fects of having received a sprinkling of the mud. A high wind wind still is blowing, with the temperature near freezing. Died From a Fall. Hurled by a giant wave with ter rific force down the companiouway and instantly killed was the fate of Captain Christen Peterson, master of the Danish steamer, Dronning Olga, arriving at Newport News, Va., Wed nesday with the flag at half mast and showing evidence of a hard bat tle at sea. Body in Deep Well. The body of R. Copeland. missing from Morrison, Fla., for months, has been found In a thirty-foot well. All indications poirt to murder, as the skull of the victim was crushed in, and the body covered by debris to shield the crime. It is known that Copeland had considerable money be fore he disappeared so suddenly. Here's the King. Confessing to numerous thefls, Steen Ellingson told the police of Hoqulam, Wash., last week, that he had stolen more than .T.OOO chiokens from hen roosts in that town during the past three years. The lad, to gether with two companions, was ar rested for burglarizing a store. ? rWO CENTS PEB COPY WHO DID DO H? Representative Smith Says Governor Blease Changed the Names. MATTER IS IN A MUDDLE The Members of the Greenville 13d eRation Reopens the Question of Appointing County Assessors, and; Endeavor to Straighten Out the Matter If They Can Do So. A dispatch from Greenville In speaking of the recent discussions that arose over the action of Gov. ?Blease in revoking the commissions of C. G. Drake and J. L. Campbell ait members of the county board of as sessors, and the subsequent alleged statements of the governor's stenog rapher that the names of Bearden Jennings and Mr. Acker had been erased by Representative C. D. Smith, a member of the Green ?*ilio county delegation, says Mr. Smitli went before B. M. Shuman, an attor ney, and made affidavit, the substan tial statements of which are given in the following extracts: "Senator Mauldin stated that the stenographer in the governor's of fice told him that I had erased the name of Mr. Acker and substituted that of Mr. Campbell on the board of assessors of Danklin township and also had erased the name of Bearden Jennings and substituted that of C. G. Drake in Cleveland township. "I erased no names, nor were they erased under my directions, but these changes wore made under the direc tion of the governor. "Being the only member of the Greenville delegation that was es pecially friendly to the governor, the governor stated to me on several oc casions while in Columbia during the session of the general assembly that he would make appointments on my recommendation. "He told me to make my fight In the Greenville delegation and If I was downed to come to him and he would take care of me. "In the delegation meetings tne delegation appeared to be controlled by Senator Mauldin, and all the men recommended by me were promptly voted down by the members. In Dunklin township, which was my home township, I especially requested the delegation to recommend She name of J. L. Campbell in the place j of J. D. Wood. The delegation, how ever, recommended the names of Traynham, Cothran and Acker, my recommendation being Cothran and Traynham. In Cleveland township there was no delegation meeting. I was informed that the majority of the delegation recommended Morgan, Hagood and Jennings. The minority, which were Mr. Earle and nyse'f. recommended Hagood, Morgan and Drake. I carried the papers to the governor, who had told me he would appoint my appointees, and there upon Gov. Blease told his secretary to make any changes that I desired. "The appointments made were oy the governor's own orders and the governor knew that he was appoint ing on my recommendation and, not on that of a majority of the Green ville delegation." I Smith is one of the leaders of the j Cotton Farmers' union and has been, j organizing the union. He has aliso I organized the farmers in the legisla ture so that they may legislate in I telligently on matters pertairing to farms. What Gov. Blease Says. Gov. Blease said Thursday that he did not remember the details in con nection with the appointment of the Greenville county board of assessors. He said that the matter had been handled by a stenographer employed by him for several weeks and that she would make a statement Friday. "I will stand by whatever statement she makes," said Gov. Blease. Both Are Gone. W. A. Hawkins Wells Fa::go Ex press messenger on the El Paso and Southwestern railway has mystori ' ously disappeared and officers of the j express company stated tbet $..:I0, I 000 also is missing. The money is j alleged to have .been taken between j N'ogales, Ariz., and Mazatian, Mexico, on March 20, while Hawkins was employed on that run. Tillman Feels Better, j Senator B. Tt. Tillman in response ! to an inquiry as to his health Inspired jby a rumor that he was very unwell ;said Friday that he was feeling en tirely fit. He spent the day in the j fields on his farm at Trenton, and: j says the country life is agreeing with i him so finally that he feels better ev I ery day. He is feeling better than he i has felt for months past. * Queer Death. When a stove exploded in the home of John Teppe, at Sault Ste. Marie, I Mich., flying pieces of the stove tore ; loose the plaster from the vails and jit fell on a two-year-old cllld lying j asleep in bed. Before the child ! was rescued it had been smothered. Killed His Wife. [ At Charleston Susan Deaa was cut by her husband, Alead Deas, Sunday ! night at her home on Hanover street, dying a short time afterwards. The cutting was the result of a quarrel. j Deas was arrested.