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Will Be Nominated Bot Will Be Defeat
ed Sorely at ihe Polls.
DEMOCRATS WILL WIN
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That Is the Prediction Made of Next
Year's Campaign by a Republican
Who is Entirely Friendly to Pres
ident Taft, at the White House
Recently.
"President Taft will he^ nominated,
iby acclamation, but he win be de
feated overwhelmingly a{ .the,polish'
:Thi8 prediction, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution, was made on Monday
at the.White House,by a. Republican
who is..altogether friendly to the
President, and. expressed^ the convic
tion held in Washington at this time
by the best informed men of both
parties. '
Three months ago the President
himself would have readily agreed to
the truth of the statement, but today
he takes a decidedly more optimistic
view of his political future. Only a
few weeks ago the President had a
strong, intimation that he would be
renomlnated simply because no one
else in the regular organization
wanted it, and he felt equally certain
he would not be re-elected.
The i fate of the National Progres
sive Republican League, which hos
practically gone to pieces, and the
disintegration of the La Follette or
granizatipn which was backing the
senator from Wisconsin for the
presidential nomination, has made
the way clearer and pia'ner than
ever for. President Taft's rcnomina
tlon by.his.party. ,He,now.-expects to
be renornina.ted, and is beginning ,tp,
take an active interest Qt the. future,
and to entertain hopes.that he has
a fiiflr .fighting chance of re-election..
Frankly, there is more optimism in
tue white house ro-day than at any
time since that disastrous Novem
ber day of last year when the people
of the country let { it he .knowii,
what flhjiy. thought of the Payne-Al-;
drich tejiff 'bill, as; a redemn^on^fif'
Republican ante-election pledges.
From opinions expressed in the cor
ridors of the-executive office, things
are ".looking.-up," and are expected
to continue to improve. ... ..
Republican members of congress
and par.y leaders who have been in
a state of despondency, have been
told to cheer up, and "buck up,"
that there is no telling what ,the
future uay develop, and the demo
cratic louse has not yet completed
its work"', and the...country heard
from ai> to the effect of the demo
cratic program for the revision of the
woolen, steel and cotton schedules,
in fact, the word is goin/g forth that
the right kind of a fight will win in
19L2, ?ud. bring about four more
years o:\Taft. JT
Until a few weeks ago, President
Tjajfi;. made no particular effqr.t. .to
conceai his belief that he was doom
ed to be a one term,^president. The
result of the November elections, the
growing factional division in Repub
lican ninks. the widespread criticism
to which he and his administration
had been, selected in the press, and
the "hcodoo" which seemed to fol
low everything he did, combined to
lr.'.ke hin) believe that he wouk! not
win tbe endorsement of a second
term. . . , ......
At that time he thought he would
be renominated, because he cpold
not for the life of him see why any
other man should . offer. himself for
the sacrifice which seemed inevitably
pendirir. But hope springs eternal
even in a presidential breast, and
while the chief executive formerly
resolved to accept the nomination if
tendered him, because he believed it
hl& duty to lead the forlorn hope, he
now thinks he has a chance.
The great fight President Taft has
made for Canadian reciprocity, in
opposition to the wishes of practical
ly his entire party, and the most de
termined opposition of some of the
most prominent members in it, has
given the country a new impression
of his character and ability. Those
closest to the president insist that
whatever credit the Democrats get
out of the recoprocity agreement if
passed.. will be secondary to that
which will go to President Taft.
It is not to be understood that
the president and his friends arp ev
en yet confident of carrying the elec
tion next fall, but they are hopeful
of doing so. They believe present
prospects point to a fighting chance
for the Republicans. But that means
such a difference in the impressions
held a few weeks ago. that they are
fairly elated. The reception accorded
the President's speech in Chicago
last Saturday on the subject of reci
procity has helped to stimulate them.
They are now watching with great
interes: his efforts to bring about a
favorable alignment in the senate,
where the reciprocity measure has at
last penetrated without -i favorable
report.
Stonewall's Grandson.
In the graduating class of West
Point this year is Thomas J. J.
Christian, a grandson of Gen. Stone
wall Jackson and Wilfred M. Blunt,
a great grandson of Francis Scott
Key, author of "The Star Spangled
Banner."
h * "!TK)N Hit BY DEMOCRAT
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xfMANUPACTURER.
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He Says the Protective Tariff Wall Is
Unnecessary Because of Greater
' Efficiency of Americans.
An attack upon the. protective tar
iff system by an American* manufac
turer, who claimed to have studied
labor and manufacturing conditions
in many countries of the world, held
the close attention of the house of
representatives for two hours Mon
day. Representative William C Red
field, of Brooklyn, a. new Democratic
member, a maaufaourer of machinery
and long connected with export trade,
declared to the house that American
manufacturers are abandoning the
protective principle as unnecessary as
they develop more uclentlflc manage
ment of their own plants as now car
ried on by the m< re advanced Ameri
can manufacturers.
_"The protective tariff has simply
enabled manufacturers to sell at
such high prices that they have not
studied their own conditions closely,"
said iMr. Redfield. "They have relied
on government support rather than
upon close business: management. Its
effect has been to stimulate the devel
opment of plantB until they are now
so large that products must be sold
abroad. In this condition the manu
facturers no longer want to pay the
hf-jh prices necessary for material' un
der a protective- tariff."
Mr. Redfield declared that instead
of foreign labor being cheaper, Amer
ican labor is real'/ the cheapest in
the world; that Irom extensive m
vestigatlon in many parts of the
world he knew that no labor produced
as much production In proportion to
the wages it received as Americans.
He said the American laboring man
only, "wants to be freed from old re
strictions and outgrown systems.''
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(Mr. Redfield attacked the Republi
can system of a >-\riff equal to the
difference in cost ac home.and abroad.
He said It .was impossible to deter
mine this difference in cost, because
of higher qualify of American labor
and-* varying factory conditions,
j. ."Tb^e American tariff board is
.worthless unless empowe. ed to call
for the cost sheets of the factories
engaged in the line of manufacture
it is studying," said Mr. Redfield.
L "Give it that power and see what
a howl gees up from the American
manufacturer?. The truth is that of
ten the American cost of production
is lower."
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FINDS DAUGHTER AT 09.
Father Had Tramped 15,000 Miles to
Locate His Family.
After traveling 15,000 miles,
tramping most of ihe way, <and living
on his pensions from the 'Mexican and'
Civil wars, aid searching for the 14
children from whom he was separated
in the Galveston, (Tex.) flood, in
1900, Frank Schromm accidentally
stumbled into the arms of one of his
daughters in Indianapolis, Ind.
From her he learned that only
four of his 14 children were living.
Schromm is 99 years old, and now
that _'?e has found his relatives he
is th. happiest man in the world.
The reunion came about almost like .a
miracle. The aged man was slowly
walking down the street when a lit
tle child caught held of his hand and
led him to his daughter.
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Evans Case Dropped.
At Newberry Monday morning a
nol pross was entered in the case
against H. H. Evans, a former dis
pensary director, charged with ac
cepting a rebate. Solicitor Cooper
read a letter from Attorney General
Lyon, saying that owing to the death
of G. H. Charles, material evidence
was lost" which he had not been able
to supply.
Mexicans K!U Tennessean.
Information has reached relatives
at Indian 'Mound., Tenn., that Thom
ms Richardson, a Tennessean, aged
twenty-five, who has been serving
with the Mexican revolutionists, was
shot by the Federal troops after his
surrender just before the end of the
war.
Heat Kills Four .
Four deaths were cauped in Chi
cago on Saturday by the heat. There
were deaths at other places also.
The whole country is in the grasp
of a heat wave, which has efised
much suffering.
Asleep on the Track.
John Johnson, a negro, while in
a drunken sleep, lying partly on the
track, was run over and killed Sun
| day night at 11:40 o'clock by car
No. 122. on the Augusta-Aiken line,
at pole No. 1S2, in Fowkes cut.
Another Gasoline Victim.
Joseph Johnson, a colored boy.
was perhaps fatally burned in a fire
at the Columbia . Fruit Company's
store Monday rooming. A gasoline
stove exploded, scattering the flames
over him.
Thirty Russians Drown.
The sinking of an overcrowded
ferry boat on the Volga, near Ug
titcb, Russia, in reported. Thirty
persons were d~owned.
Makes Speech to Ik Graduates of Clem
seo College and Creates
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AN AFFECTING SCENE
The Senator Talks of the Movement
to Establish Clemson College,
Which Has Ever Been Near to Hi3
Heart?Eighty-Seven Young Men
Receive Degrees.
The graduating exercises of Clem
son Collegei which took place Tues
day, were o'f unusual interest. The
events were the splendid address to
the graduating class by Dr. James K.
Patterson ,of the University of Ken
tucky, the powerful speech of Alan
Johustone to the graduates, the eio
quent short speech of W. D. Evans in
presenting the trustees' medal for
oratory to M. W. Call of Marion,
the remarkable ovation given Sena
tor Tillman when he presented tho
D. K. Norris medal given to the best
all-round man in the graduating class
to A. M. Salley of Orangeburg.
The exercises were most gracefully
presided over by President Ri'ggs,
who seems to bo the right man in
the right place at the head of Clem
son. The graduating class this year
consists of eighty-seven young men,
who go out into the world well
equipped for the battle of life. The
college has closed the :best year in
many respects, in its history. Sen
ator Tillman was present and made
a speech to the graduating class. It
was a great day for Clemson, abound
ing in many pleasing and memorable
incidents.
One of the most notable of these
was the affecting scene when Sena
tor Tillman stod waiting for the ap
plause to subside, covering his face
with his hands to hide the tears, and
in a voice choking with emotion be
gan a characteristic speech, in which
he told of being forbidden by his
physician, to make an address. He
reviewed his career briefly, telling of
the vision he had in 1885 when he
offered resolutions at the grange
meeting in Bennettesville which were
defeated, calling for a department of
agriculture at the univeristy, and of
his subsequent letters advocating, the
establishment of a separate agricul
tural college. He said few men live
to realize their dreams, 'but he had
lived to see more at Clemson and
Winthrop than he had ever dreamed.
There were occasional fl>.she3 of
the old time fire and force in the
senator's address and the audience
listened in rapt attention. Never has
such a ovation been given a man at
Clemson as greeted the senator when
he, seemingly unwillingly 8Jt down.
He stood the fatgue of speaking very
well, and seemed supremely happy.
Senator spoke as follows:
"Ladles and gentlemen: My phy
sician has forbidden me to make a
speech, but I cannot on this occasion
refrain from expressing to you my
sreat pleasure at being here, and,
above all, to return to you thankb
for the heartiness of your welcome.
I shall not take long, but there are
some things I think ought to be
said, and if my strength holds out
I will attempt to say thern. Our
honorable president of the board of
trustees has spoken of Mr. Clemson's
dream and of his vision years ago. I
al6o had a dream and a vision, and
will tell you of it. In 1885, twenty
six years ago. the 5th day of next
August. I attended the joint meeting
of the State Grange' and State Agri
cultural Society 'at Bennettsville, in
Marlboro county. I offered a series
of resolutions there, which were not
adopted by the meetinj,, but the
speech I made on this occasion met
with such a spontaneous outburst, of
approval from the assembled farmers
of the State, that I felt sufficiently
encouraged to march forward along
the line I had marked out.
"That fall I wrote a series of let
ters for the News and Courier, which
was then the leading paper of the
State and reached almost every farm
house. In these articles I advocated
a different education from that which
we had in the State. I urged the
establishment of a separate college,
although the Bennettsville resolu
tion had only demanded that the
Legislature establish a department
in the University of Sdith Carolina
which would be devoted to agricul
ture and mechanical arts and to
which women would ,be 'admitted. I
have see., the time when I would en
joy very much talking to you. I
have addressed thousands and hun
dreds of thousands of my fellow cit
izens in this and other States, and
enjoyed the stimulus of a large au
dience, but my mind will not respond
to my will as it once did.
"I will go on and tell you about my
vision. I dreamed that there ought
to be a college for boys and g:,rls
that would equip them for the battle
of life: a college where the studies
would be not only Latin and Greek
and the. classics, but snch as would
prepare a man to make his bread and
butter. I had a vision not of this
school, but of something like it; not
of Winthrop, but something like it.
I did not dream that this school
would become what it is. I attended
the commencement at "Winthrop last
week and saw 700 young women,
your sisters, your sweethearts. Well,
is there anything more to say? They
were there in fullforce and were the
prettiest thin'gs I ever saw or ever
JRG, S. C, THURSDAY, JUN)
PLAYS GREAT HAVOC
4 STORM STRIKES THE COAST
OF VIRGINIA. '
Some Fifteen People Are Killed and
Much- Property Damage Done by
the Hurricane,
Sweeping out of the southwest
with hurricane velocity, a wind, rain
and electrical storm struck the low
er end of the Virginia peninsula late
Monday afternoon and left a trail of
death .and ruin in its wake.
At this hour it is impossible even
to estimate the number of dead, for
many small craft with their human
freight went down in the storm at
various points along the James river
'and in Hampton Roads.
Conservative estimates place the
dead at not more than 15. None of
the bodies have been recovered as
nothing Is known of the identity of
the missing persons, as most of them
were fishermen from counties along
the James.
Great havoc was wrought in New
port News, houses being unroofed,
trees, wires and telegraph poles
blown down, half a dozen vessels
moored at piers here broke away
and nearly all were damaged.
At the shipyard the submarine
Seel was struck by a schooner and
badly disabled and the same schoon
er rammed a hole In the Old Domin
ion liner Jamestown. , ?
Roofs of shops at Newport News
Shipbuilding yard, also were torn
away and scaffolding around ship's
in course of construction on the
stocks blown, down.
Estimates place the property loss
and damage from the storm at up
wards of $100,000. So many live
wires . fell. in the citythat It
was necssary to cut off all electrical
currents and the entire city was in
total darkness.
expect to see again. It is not often
that a man is allowed to live and to
see his dreams come true and to my
fellow members of board of trustees
and my co-workers In the State is due
my realization of these dreams.
?Now, young men. I had the good
sense' and the good luck to find a
good woman who was willing to hitch
up with me and who has trotted down
the road of life with me ever since.
1I consider my marriage the -greatest
piece of luck I ever had. I want to
say to you that if you will go and do
likewise, you ought to ,be successful,
for there Is nothing in the world so
Inspiring as the love of a good, pure
woman.
"'But I must proceed to do what I
came Out here for, and if Mr. Al
bert QOcMichael Salley will come up
on the rostrum I will award to him
the medal. Mr. Salley, I wish you
would put it on and let us see how
handsome you look. Now turn your
self around, for there are some girls
up yonder who may wish to see you.
In presenting you this medal I want
to have a few words to say about
how you got it and whence It came.
Since I have been here my mind has
been busy thinking about the men
who have helped us plan and work
.tor this college. Three of them are
no more. I speak of the life trus
tees, Col. D. K. Norrls the Hon. R. E.
Bowen 'and Capt. John E. Bradley.
These trustees have ceased their la
bors and have crossed that bourne to
which we are all hastening.
"You are not near enough to it to
realize or consider it as yet, but I
will soon be there and join these
men. Col. D. K. Norris was a man
who loved the college and worked foi
It day and night. While he was a
trustee he helped to plan and build
it, and he as much as any other trus
tee did his full duty to bring about
the results which you see about you.
If you will wear this medal honorably
which I trust and know you will, be
cause I know the county your 'are
from and the breed to which you be
long; I know your family and people
and the stock from which you came;
I hope that you will occupy the hi'sh
est position to which you may aspire.
"And now, young friends. I want
to ask you to take home to your par
ents my greetings, and say to them
that Clemson College has made you
what you are: that it has afforded you
the opportunity to develop your hlgn
est powers. If, in after life, you
will climb to the top of the ladder,
that is all I ask. It is not given to
every man to succeed. All men can't
be senators or governors, but every
man can be a good citizen, good
! husband and a good father. And if
you will remember this and let it be
an inspiration to you to your future
career; that you went to Clemson;
that you at least learned how to obey
orders. Although I have a recol
lection of April Fool's Day. when
j some did not, you will always be
proud of the fart of your years at
Clemson, and if, in after life, when
you have climbed high, it can be said,
here goes a Clemson boy a poor boy
that Clemson has helped to educate
that is all I -i.-.k of vou. I vsk God's
blessing on you all."
killed in Mexican Riots.
A report from Matehula, Mexico,
where miners are on a strike, is that
fourteen men have been killed in a
series of riots. The strike 'at the
Asarco smelter has been ended, the
strikers receding from their demand
for higher wages. The strike
against (he American Smelting and
Refining Company at Velardena is
I still on.
i 15, 1911.
PASSES SENATE
Upper House Adopts Direct Election
Measare With Aotodmeofs.
AFTER C??STfC TAH
Kansas Senator, Who Formerly Op
posed Sutherland Amendment Se
verely Arraigned for Change of At
titude, Reed Declaring Same Due
to Negro Vote in Kansas. .
The United States Senate passed
Monday ni'ght by a vote of 64 to 24
the resolution providing for the pop
ular election of united States Sen
ators.
The debate on the resolution soon
drifted! into a political affair. Dem
ocratic senators criticised Senator
Bristow's change of attitude. Mr.
Bristo .7 of Kansas, framed the prin
cipal amendment, in the nature of a
substitute to the main proposition,
and he sought to continue the super
vision of senatorial elections in con
gress Instead of delegating it to the
States as proposed by the house res
olution. At the last session the Kan
sas senator voted against an amend
ment offered by Senator Sutherland
of Utah which would have had the
Bame effect as his own provision of
this session. Mr. Bristow said thai
in both instances his attitude had
been decided by his desire to do that
which would most certainly insure
the success of the popular election
resolution Mr. Borah, in charge of
the resolution, spoke in support of it,
and Mr. Bacon opposed the Bristow
amendment.
Mr. Stone of Missouri arraigned
Mr. Bristow as "snatching the amend
ment" from Mr. Sutherland, ait.
'Bristow said he first 'believed the
measure would be stronger without
the provision and now believed It
would be stronger with it.
(MT. Davis of Arkansas arraigned
Mr. Bristow. Referring by name to
Senator Cummins, Clapp and LaFol
lette, he declared "the insurgent
crowd never had been sincere on any
subject they have brought before the
country."
The chair called Mr. Davis to order.
iMr, Cummins denied Mr. Davi?'
statement of an alleged Instance un
true.
Mr. Bristow refuted the charge,
saying that only under great provi
cation "would he pay any attention to
what the senator from Arkansas
said."
Mr. Bacon aroused feeling by de
claring that great interests hnd been
bringing enormous pressure to bear
to -defeat the measure. Senators
Works, Guggenheim and Cummins
arose to refute the allegation. Mr.
Bacon explained that he was imputing
no impropriety to any member.
The direction of the progressives
was scored by Senator Reed of Mis
souri, who declared the conversion.of
Mr. Bristow to Senator Sutherland's
viewpoint was "because of the negro
vote in Kansafe."
''Adoption of the Bristow amend
ment which omitted the house pro
vision transferring supervision of sen
atorial election from congress to the
State legislature was made possible
by Mr. Clark of Arkansas casting the
only Democratic vote for the proposi
tion.
The tie on that ballot would have
been prevented if the vote had hoen
cast with his party, with whom he
later voted on adoption of the resolu
tion.
On the resolution as amended, the
vote was 64 to 24, was six more
than the necessary two-thirds major
ity. Of the 24 negative votes, eight
were cast by Democrats and 16 by
Republicans.
The amended resolution now goes
ir.to conference before the senate and
hoiiPe, and some senators have pre
dicted that the house will refuse to
accept it.
Rapid Growing Squash.
T. M. Ray of Valdosta, Ga., has
on exhibition at one of the grocery
stores in the city a wonder in the
way of a big yellow squash Four
teen days after the bloom appeared
on the vine :he squash weighed
forty-three pounds having averaged
three pounds a day in weight.
?urn the Town.
French Creek, W. Va., a farming
community of 200 souls, was almost
destroyed .by fire. Many families are
encamped in barns and makin'g a
j temporary home with more fortunate
neighbors. The fire was started by
burglars that blew the safe in the
postoffiee.
Value of Cotton.
The cotton crop of 1910 wp^ an
nouncer. 'Monday to be the most val
uable ever produced in the United
States. Estimated in the "ensus bu
reau's ;>-inual bulletin, the crop last
year v, ,a valued at $96'1 1.80,000
j compared wtfjh, $81 2,099,000 for
1900.
Sold for Sixteen Cents.
At Savannah after the regular
close of business Saturday a Une of
2,000 bales of high grade cotton was
sold at a price equivalent to about
16 cents for good -uddling.
HERMIT PASSES AWAY
LIVED IN WOODS OVER FORTY
YEARS
John Caines, the Wild Man of
Cherokee County Dies in Comity
Home.
A special to the State from Gaffney
says one of Cherokee county's great
est curiosities is dead. "Wild.John"
Starnes, otherwise known as the Wild
iMan of Cherokee, is no more.
It became known several, days ago
that Starnes was sick and a party
went in search of him, going into the
most secluded portion of the county
where he lived,, and finding him. He
was brought to the county home, near
Gaffney, suffering with pneumonia,
and was kept there until Saturday
night, when he died.
"Wild John" has long been a cur
iosity. Many have gone into the tot
ests in search of him only to be dis
appointed, while there are some few
who have seen and talked with him.
He had been living the life of a
hermit for about forty years. It is
stated that when a young man of
about 20 years, Starnes for some
reason became mentally unbalanced
and took to the woods. He con
structed a hovel of goods boxes, a
very inadequate shelter, and there
he has dwelt for the last 40 years.
Many conjectures, have been In
dulged in as to what caused this
strange action, but it is supposed that
he was disappointed in love, although
it has been rumored that Starnes was
the man who acidentally shot Gen.
Stonewall Jackson and that this un
balanced his mind. He was as shy
?as a deer, hard to (ret a sight of
and harder to talk to. . .
One time, when sick, he was takeu
to the home of a relative, but as
soon a6 he regained his. strength he
hied back to his hovel where. he
barricaded himself and defied those
who wished to take him. Good
homes have been offered him time
and time again, but all to no avail.
He has shunned society. .
When taken to the county farm it
was much against his will, and he
caused no little trouble while" there..
He would not stay in the bed, and as
soon as the attendant's. back was
was turned, would leap out and hud
dle In a corner with his hands clasp
ed and head bowed. He pleaded with
the superintendent of the home with
tears In ? his eyes to let him out
on the ground to die in peace. The
house and its covering seemed to
have affected him.
FELL MORE THAN A MILE.
Monoplane Shoots Down and Roth In
mates Are Killed.
At Johannisthal, Germany, Herr
?Srjhendel, wjl>y>, though ptractlcally
only a beginner, on Tuesday estao
Itshed a German altitude record ot
6,594 feet In an aeroplane, fell that
evening with his mechanic, Voss, and
both were Instantly killed. Sehende!
was trying to eclipse the world's alti
tude record with a passenger.
In a D?rner monoplane Sch'endel
and Voss had reached a height of
6,650 feet, when a cannon was fired
on the aviation field to announce the
end of the day's competition. A mo
ment later the monoplane was seen
to assume a vertical position.
It is believed that Schendel was
trying to (jlide to the earth with his
motor shut oiT. Once he seemed to
have righted the machine, but almost
immediately he again lost control,
and it shot to earth with terrific
speed, landing just outside the avia
tion field, the prow burying itself in
the earth.
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Drought a Rig Price.
The first bale of this year's cotton
crop sold at Hou^tan. Texas, Monday
for $2.0." $4 per pound, the total
total weight being 4 93 po'inds and
the price $1,01.". This was the high
est price ever paid on the Houston
exchange for a hale of cotton. 3.
Jesse Jones, who is not in the cotton
business, was the successful bidder.
He says he does not know yet whn*
he will do with the cotton.
Died a Noble Hero.
While attempting to rescue Samuel
Scribner. fifteen years old, who was
struggling to re?ch the shore, after
saving his eighc-year-old brother
from drowning, Amos Harrington,
forty-two years, was drowned as was
the youth to whom he was trying to
give assistance in a lake nine miles
west of Oregon City. Oregon. Mon
day.
Seized Much Booze.
The largest seizure of liquor ever
h.;.de in th.it :-cction of N-rfh Car
ollrn was made recently tl li<*ridor
sonville, when the police raided a
storeroom on the main business thor
oughfare and seized 10.000 gallons
of liquor. The alleged proprietor
of the place. O. X. Carson, was ar
rested.
Invited to Silver Wedding.
Governor and 'Mrs. Blease have re
ceived an invitation tc attend1 the
silver wedding reception at the white
house, on June 19, the occasion be
ing the 25th anniversary of the wed
ding of Mr. and Mrs. Taft. The
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Taft took
place June 19, 1886.
fW? CENTS PER COPY.
CHEAP CANDY
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Hree Small Children Kill.d in New
York by Eating Some of It
SHOULD NOT BE EATEN
The Eldest Child Bought e> Candy
Colled Jelly Beans With a Gift
Cent and Gave Some of Them to
Her Little Brother and Sister.
"Now, Lillian, take good care, of
Agnes and Michael till I come hick,"
was .the parting injunction .of Mrs.
Elizabeth (Murray as she left her
home, No.' 595. Second avenue, New
York city^ for church shortly before
eleven o'clock last Sunday morning.;
Eight-year-old Lillian.. kept a
watchful eye for some time on her
sister, aged four, and hrother, two.
The children played around the flat,
but the sound of other children play
ing in the hallway lured them there.
One of the tenants, passing the mer
ry little group, pressed a penny into
Lillian's hand. The other girls and
boys besought her tc. at once to buy
candy with the cash.
Lill'.an consented, but before she
started she led brother and sister
back to their apartment, cautioning
them not to leave till she returned.
In the stare she did, not hesitate to
invest the copper In jelly . beans ,
vari-colored sweet thai is a fair, imh
tation of the common bean. More
of them could be got for a penny
than any other kind of candy.
Returning home Lillian divided the
sweets into three equal parts, piling
them in litle mounds on, the floor.
After they had eaten most ol! the
candy the children decided to put
the rest by for their mother. Then
they started to play again. . About
12:30 Mrs. Murray returned from
church, and entering the parlor she
found the three children on the'
floc.r in convulsions She and ten
ants who had been 'summoned by
her screams applied home remedies.
The children grow worse, hut no
great .alarm was felt as it was s-up^
posed the antidotes ha'd^not ha&
time to take effect. While Mrs. Mur
ray, was scurrying around about tfije
rooms she discovered the ielly .beafi?
and became convinced they were ireA
?ponsible for her children's illness.
An hour later the little ones be^
came unconscious. Then Mrs. Mur
ray sought Patrolman Bligh of the
East Thirty-fifth street station, who
got Dr. Meade from Bellevue Hos
pital. The surgeon said the children
were suffering from ptomaine pois
oning, evidently caused by the candy.
The little patients were hurried tor
the hospital, where they eank stead
ily. At 8 p. m. the mother was sum
moned by telegram.
The doctors had practically aban
doned hope of 3aving the children,
but did not tell the mother how
grave was their condition. But she
seemed to suspect it, and. becanve?
hysterical when she arrived at the
hospital. An hour later it was said
the three were dying.
Analysis is to be made of the con
tents of the children's stomachs and
also of the candy found in. the ba?g
and an investigation is to be made
by the board of health and the po
lice
DEFENDS HER HONOR
A Married Woman Slays a Man W?io
Attacked Her.
Tn defense of her honor, an she
?alleges, Mrs. Michael Lefevre, wife of
a prominent man of South Credle,
Colorado, shot and killed John Zang,
proprietor of the Zang Hotel at that
place about three o'clock Monday af
ternoon. Zang was 55 years old, and
his slayer is twenty years his junior.
Mrs. Lefevre is held in the county
jail charged with murder. Accord
ing to the woman's story, Zar.g call
ed at her home about 2:. 10 o'clock
in the afternoon. He asked for the
woman's husband, and on learning
that he was not at home, seized Mrs.
Lefevre. She took her husband's re
volver and shot Zang in the face.
Signs a Good Bill.
Governor Dix has signed a bill'p'rc
hibiting! the admission of boys under
16 years of age to pool and bllllaf?
rooms or public bowling alleys 'ih
New York. Another bill approval
by him provides for the licensing 'ot
all moving picture operators .
Clemson < 'aduates.
The praduatin class of Clemson
this year numr 1 87, as follows:
Four in metai f, 12 in the tex
tile departme iight in civil en
gineering: 1 mechanical and
electrical enB.. ring |a.nd 4 4 in
agriculture.
Auto Falls in River.
While Dr. Loughead and Jarnos
Clark, of Letcher, S. D., were driving
along the bank of the .Tim river Sat
urday, the earth gave away and the
automobile "was thrown into the
river and both men were drowned.
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Two Drowned 'in'Xtlo'.?.?.
Barney Golden, aged V*., and. Miss
Harriet McGIll, both of Auahte,
were drowned Tuesday when a $0at
In which they were rowing" on the
lake at "Lakewood,*' a pleasure'paVk,
capsized.