PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MADE JffiT GAT' Today's Election Iadicafle Steady Treed Towards Demccracy. WAAT THE BALLOTS SAY m v > j? Iieraccrats Sweep Kentucky, Win er < toward the Manchus. It is suspected that the regent's brother, .Prince Tai Suan, has left the country, as he has not been seen for three days. He ob tained the month's leave from his post as acting minister of the navy. A private letter from an officer of Yuan Shi Kai's staff says that the rebel leader, Gen. Li Yuen Heng, makes 25 demands, the most impor tant of which is that the imperial household shall proceed to Jehol with the entire court, including the eu nuchs, and shall remain there, receiv ing in return adequate pensions from the new government, which is to be republican. A special secret meeting of the na tional assembly Sunday afternoon de cided to telegraph Yuan Shi Kai, ex plaining the fearfully involved con d'tion of the political situation at Pe king which required the immediate presence of the premier. Otherwise, the assembly would be unable co tide over the difficulties. A member of the assembly explains that this is a fair warning and that if Yuan does not comply another prem ier possibly may be appointed. Con sular reports from Mukden say many Chinese are fleeing into the country, believing the Manchus will retreat and massacre the Chinese inhabitants. Yuan Shi Kai has requested that the fifth division quartered in Shan tung province proceed to Nieko, a lew miles from Hankow. The third Chang Chun Fu division is arriving at Lanchau in detachments of 209. S;> far warm comradeship has been shown between the soldiers of the two divisions. The Peking chamber of com merce has requested the government to provide 4,000 rifles and a suffi cient supply of ammunition to arm the commercial police and consulat employes. There are othere evi dences of anxiety over a possible out break within the city. Robert Gaily, a noted Princeton football player, who if now head of the Young Men's Christian associa tion of Peking, not trusting to the po lice, is organizing a band of 25 Amer icans and Britishers with 100 Chinese volunteers for defense. Both Manchu and Chinese women will be cared for by this body. late Tom L. Johnson, was elected mayor by probably 20,000, while practically the entire Democratic ticket is elected with him. Results in Other States. Returns received up to midnight, from throughout New York State on the Assembly election, indicate that the complexion of that body will be as follows: Republicans, 100; Dem ocrats, 49; Socialists, 1. This would mean a gain of 37 Beats for the Re publicans and give them a majority vi 50. Early returns from the State elec tion in Maryland were inconclusive, as between Arthur P. Gorman, Dem cratic candidate for Governor, and Philip Lee Goldsborough, Republican. On the first meagre returns, Republi can State Chairman Hanna claimed the State for Goldsborough. The first election held in the new State of New Mexico is still in doubt, both Republican and Democratic can delates for Governor claiming elec tion on meagre early returns. In dications point to a Republican Leg islature, which elects two Republican United States Senators. In Rhode Island, early returns In dicated the election of Governor Poihier (Republican) over Louis A. Waterman (Democrat) by an in creased majority. New York State elected a Repub lican assembly, thus depriving Cov ernor Dix (Democrat) o7 the support he has had heretofore from a Legis lature Democratic in both branches. The present New York assembly has a Democratic majority ot 24. The new ly elected assembly will have a Re publican majority of upwards of 30. In New York City (.Manhattan and Bronx) the Tammany strength was materially reduced, but its candidates for judicial and county offices were elected by greatly reduced pluralities. In Brooklyn the fusion judicial and county candidates w< re successful, with perhaps an exception. Clear Democratic Gain. Jos. A. Taggart, a Democrat, was Tuesday elepted to CongiesB from the 2nd Kansas district by a majori ty estimated at 1,200 votes crer his Republican opponent, Ulysses S. Guy er, to fill the unexpire l term of the late Republican chairman, A. C. ?Mitchell. Mitchell car ried the dis trict in 1910 by 3,4:10 over John Caldwell. Democrat. Eight Socialist Mayors. The main featur? in tht municipal ORANGEBURG C0I70NJEEDED Estimated Consumption fei the Coming Year Twenty Miilien Balis SO REPORTS CONSULS These Consular Reports Show That Foreign Countries Will Need the Coming Year About Twelve Mil lion Bales Cotton, Writh Several Countries Yet to Hear From. Estimates of the American consu lar officers abroad of the amount of cotton required by the principal for eign countries for manufacturing pur poses during the cotton year endir.g September 1, 1912, place the amount at 12,518,112 bales of 500 pounds each. These estimates were called for by j the department of state at the re quest of the Governor of Texas who I wanted the information for the con-| fcrence of Governors at New Orleans. The summary, however, is incom plete as a number of countries werel not included for th? reason that es-| timates were not received. The department's information! shows the total foreign demand is as| follows: Country. 500-pound bales. I Australia. 830,000 Belgium. 74.S00J Canada. 135,000 Cnina. 2,300,0001 England.?2,854,512 France.1,410,000 Germany. 1,756,800 Italy. ?525,000 Japan. 1,100,000 Mexico. 160,000 Netherlands. 110,000 Russia. 825,000 Spain. 392,00.0 Switzerland. 45,0001 Total.12,518,112 "?Estimates for England and Italy refer to demands for American cotton | only. Including the normal demands of Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, British-India and all other countries, this amount would be in creased by almost 2,000,000 bales, England and Italy require about 750, 000 bales more than the estimated aDove for thpir total consumption. With these additions the amount will I be approximately 15,268,11 2 bales. If the American consumption were the same as that in 1910, the total amount of cotton needed during this cotton year would be about 20,000, 000 bales, compared with 18,321,000 bales consumed by mills throughout the world in 1910. It is pointed out, however, that the state department's estimate of the needs of China (2,300,000 bales) probably includes a large quantity of cotton consumed by hand looms and which is not taken into account in the census bureau's reports of the world's mill consumption, which shows a consumption for China of on ly 315,000 bales. The consul general at Shanghai re-| ports that there is a temporary de mand for American cotton due to the fact that many domestic producers are holding back their product and about 50,000 bales have been pur chased from the United States. Hel thinks the present disturbance in | China and the consequent money stiess may curtail the consumption. If the present unrest in China con tinues, the American consul general at London says, Lancashire's chief market for cotton pie^e goods will be seriously affected. An element of uncertainty ex-| lets in Italy, the consul general at Ge noa, reports owing to the war with Turkey, as that country is a large im porter of Italian rotton textiles, and prolongation of the war naturally would result in closing that market t-> Italian mills. It is believed, how ever, he adds, that the large Ameri can cotton crop this year will mater k lly reduce, the price of raw mater ial and bring about an increased home demand in Italy which will be sufficient to offset the loss of the trade with Turkey. contests throughout Ohio is the large Socialist vote, eight cities electing So cialist Mayors Tuesday. These cities are Lorain, St. Mary's, .Martin's Ferry, Fostoria, Mount Vei non. Barberton, Salem and Cuyahoga Falls. In Canton it will take the official count to decide whether the Socialist candidate of Turnbull. Democrat, is elected, as unofficially Tunilull wins by three votes. Socialists Sweep Things. A dispatch from Schenectady. N. Y., says, for the first time in the his tory of that county, the Socialists have polled a counting vote, elect ing a mayor, all but one city officer and a majority of the county offices, which will make the common coun cil nnd probably the county board of supervisors Socialistic. Found With Throat Cut. A. S. Cook, a young white man from Monroe, was found dead with his throat cut. on the front of a ne gro house in Charlotte Sunday morning. The jugular vein was sev ered and one hand badly cut, as though he had attempted to ward off a knife thrust. S. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMB; DOES NOT FAVOR PIAN ItLEASE DECLINES TO CALL ON EXTRA SESSION. Says Such an Expense Would Not Be Justified Under the Existing Cir cumstances. In a lengthy letter to Mr. J. J. Evans of Bennettsville, dispatched Tuesday, Governor Blease states in full his reason for not calling an ex tra session of the JState legislature, as requested at a mass meeting of business interests in Bennettsville Monday night. The letter was in reply to the fol lowing telegram received by the gov ernor Tuesday morning from Mr. Evans, stating the situation, and ask ing for a hearing on the matter on the 13th. Here is the telegram: His Excellency, Hon. Cole L. Blease, Columbia, S. C. At a mass meeting of the farmers of Marlboro County resolutions were passed directing the delegation from this county to request you to call the legislature together to con sider a plan of relief for present sit uation. Will it be agreeable to grant us a hearing next Monday, November 12? (Signed) J. J. Evans. The extra session was desired to take some action looking to an im mediate relief of the present situa tion of lower prices for cotton. The refusal to call the extra session is placed on the grounds of the heavy expense entailed, the fact that mat ters are not in shape now to allow a special session to do the business of the regular session, and that the re sults of any action that might be taken would be of value only to a limited number of famers. MONEY BAGS STOLEN ENROUTE. Disappeared From Mail Between Ra leigh and New York. That a United States mail pouch containing $20,000,\ routed from Ra leigh to New York, disappeared two weeks ago in a manner very similar to a recently reported $20,000 theft of a pouch at Lynchburg, Va., be came known at Greensboro, N. C, on Monday. Beyond admitting that the pouch was lost, officials refused to discuss the matter. It is declared unofficially that the Raleigh pouch disappeared after be ing receipted for by a mail clerk on a train passing Greensboro and also that the clerk in whose custody it was last placed has been suspended from the service pending an investi gation. The pouch was handled by the lo cal postoffice at Greensboro and later transferred to the mail clerk now un der suspension. It is said he remem bered seeing and checking it on a through check under the train shed but that he did not detect its loss un til he reached the end of his run and found himself unable to tally with his entry book. The impression prevails that the disappearance of this as well as the pouch reported lost from Lynchburg can be accounted for by the same per son or party. FOUGHT ARMED ROBBER. Made Good His Boast Wien High waymen Entered Saloon. At Chicago, Charles S. Schultze, a bcker, made good a boast Monday night that he would not be afraid to "tackle an armed robber," and now lies perhaps fatally wounded in a hospital, as a consequence. Schultze had barely spoken the words, when two highwaymen, armed with revolvers, walked into a Went worth avenue saloon and ordered the baker with several other men to hold up his hands. Schultze sprang upon one of the thugs and tried to wrench the weapon from him. In the struggle that followed he was shot twice. Schultbze lives next door to the saloon. His wife heard the shots and running to the place to see if her husband was injured, was knocked down by one of the thugs, both of whom escaped. SHOT IN ATTEMPTING ESCAPE. Woman's Assailant Done to Death in Break for Liberty. Within three, hours Monday after Riley Johnson, negro, attacked a young woman at a farm house near Clarksville, Texas and clubbed her mother into insensibility, when she j responded to her daughter's appeals! for assistance, he was captured by a sheriff's posse and shot to death by bystanders, when terrified by the! threats of lynching, he made a break; for liberty. Johnson was freightenedl from the farm house by the appear-j ance of neighbors. He was captured by a posse of officers and was climb ing aboard a vehicle, to be brought, to Clarksville, when some one shout-! ed to hang him. The negro turned on his captors, but instantly he had freed himself he was shot to death by a crowd of men who had accompan ied the posse. Result Satisfied Bryan. At his home at Lincoln, Neb., Wil liam Jennings Bryan Tuesday night expressed his satisfaction, over what he interpreted from the limited re ports he had received to be a gen eral victory for the Democrat*. ER, 9, 1911. WORK JF FIEND Ab ?pflo Switch Canses Wreck et Pas senger Train at Swansea ENGINEER WAS KILLED Train "Wrecker Causes Passenger To| Crash Into Box Cars, Causing the! Engine to Turn Over, Crushing the Life of the Engineer and Hurting Others. Lawrence Itobinson, celored ,was arrested Monday, charged with the breaking of the switch which caused the wreck of Seaboard passenger train No. 43, at Swansea, early Mon day morning, when Engineer W. Ed ward Pritchard lost his life and Fire man Prince Davis, Express Messen ger H. G. Freeman, and Mail Clerk T. W. Moore were injured. No. 43 ran into an open switch and crashed into eight empty box cars standing on the siding, overturning the engine, express and mail cars, and tearing up the track for a considerable distance. Evidence showed that the switch had been tampered with and blood hounds of Penitentiary Guard John Rohbins were put on the trail and followed it to the house of Lawrence Robinson, colored in the town of Swansea. Robinson was away from home, having gone on a wagon to a mill. The officers soon found him and put him under arrest. He was carried back to Columbia and taken thib afternoon to Lexington and lodg ed in jail. Robinson denies the charge and protests his innocence. He admitted, however,